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Election limbo as recount sought Ken Sapwell and Luis Feliu

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Tahlia’s golden run Madeleine Doherty

Sixteen-year-old Tahlia Rotumah, the first Indigenous female to represent Australia at the Paralympics and Tweed’s own champion is back from Beijing and over the moon. The athletics star from Tweed Heads South, pictured above with her medals, made history as our country’s first Indigenous female Paralympian in Beijing earlier this month and her family and friends are still celebrating. Tahlia competed in the 100 and 200-metre sprints, coming fourth in both races. The young star was born with haemiplegia, which affects her mobility on her right side. But the Aboriginal Australian high-school student has worked through the impairment to become the country’s elite runner in the sports for the disabled.

‘I’m very honored to be part of my country in such a way. I thank my family and friends. They think so highly of me,’ Tahlia told international reporters in China after her first race. ‘I felt like I’ve won a gold medal just being here,’ she said. Media reps in Beijing were charmed by Tahlia, reporting that ‘Natalie Rotumah stood on the stand and covered her mouth with her hands, her face stiff and tense. As her daughter was about to run on a Paralympic track in the Bird’s Nest, the mother prayed that she would run well and not fall.’ Less than 20 metres away, Tahlia, prepared herself for the sprint, loosening up her unsteady right leg. When her name was announced through the speaker, she raised her right arm, supported by a splint, to greet the spectators. continued on page 6

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Confusion continues over the result of the Tweed Shire Council election on September 13 after the shock reversal of an initially widely tipped win for Greens and community-focused candidates, followed by a late bid for a recount of the tight result. The NSW Electoral Commission is due to decide later today (Thursday) whether a recount will go ahead after the number-two Greens candidate Kevin McCready narrowly missed out on being elected to the seventh spot on council following the distribution of preferences. The decision on the recount rests on Mr McCready and his backers coming up with a $19,369 deposit to cover costs. Just over 61 per cent of the first-preference votes were counted on the Tweed after the poll, with the remainder taken to Sydney after the vote for final and preference counting at the commission’s Riverwood tally room last week. The positions after the final count were Katie Milne (Greens) 1, Dot Holdom (community independent and former councillor) 2, former mayor Warren Polglase 3, Joan van Lieshout (Liberals) 4, Barry Longland (Community First group) 5, Kevin Skinner (independent) 6 and former councillor Phil Youngblutt 7. Those positions were confirmed earlier this week after correction of an ‘anomaly’ to counting by the commission. In the final count, Mr Youngblutt had 3,674 votes after preferences against Mr McCready’s 3,626, giving the former councillor a slim margin of 48 votes. That means only 25 votes can tip the scales in Mr McCready’s favour. The Greens candidate and others claim that at some booths, election officials were incorrectly advising voters on the number of boxes voters had to mark above or below the line of the ballot paper. This resulted in votes being exhausted because voters did not number sufficient preferences.

But Tweed’s returning officer Len Sparreboom said officials in charge of polling booths had been told to tell voters seeking advice that they must either vote for at least one above the line or at least four below the line. He confirmed that he had contacted the officials at most polling booths on election day to reaffirm the advice after a candidate had alleged he overheard one official during pre-polling giving a voter incorrect advice. Mr McCready said that in his case over 1,000 votes expected to flow to the Greens from an-

‘If we followed the state or federal system we would have romped it in... it seriously disadvantaged the Greens because of all the votes not distributed’. other candidate were ‘thrown in the garbage’ because people had followed the wrong advice and only preferenced one or two candidates, thereby exhausting those votes. ‘These exhausted votes hugely discriminated against the Greens and Dot Holdom because we had more of a quota to distribute... they (exhausted votes) could’ve come to me but were thrown in the bin instead... they would have put me way ahead of Youngblutt’. He said the Greens had always wanted the local-government election system overhauled to avoid such confusion and make it easier to understand. ‘The optional preferential system, is undemocratic... If we followed the state or federal system we would have romped it in... it seriously disadvantaged the Greens because of all the votes not distributed’. ‘People didn’t know their votes would be binned... the will of the people has been ignored here... it’s pretty serious.’ continued on page 6

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It’s the type of surprise election outcome that would justify the huge headlines: SHOCK RESULT! Some, like Professor Maurice Daly, might think that SHOCK HORROR RESULT wouldn’t be going too far. Horror will surely be one emotion hovering around the former Commissioner’s head – mixed with a fair dash of disbelief and a sense of having been kicked rather sharply in the teeth. Prof Daly, who headed an inquiry which led to the former council’s sacking, found the electorate could have no confidence in some of their elected representatives who he believed were captive to developers. Either the majority of the electorate in the Tweed dwells in caves or doesn’t give two hoots for Prof Daly’s pronouncements, because it not only re-elected Warren Polglase, but put him in the box seat to regain the mayoral robes at the end of the month. In what is now a legendary story among hide-conscious rhinoceros herds, Mr Polglase shrugged off Mr Daly’s damning criticisms about abuse of the electoral system, dusted off his old ‘Independent’ umbrella and romped into third place. What’s more, his old mate Phil Youngblutt, who was also found to have dipped into a secret developer-funded pot but was not fortunate enough to be re-elected to the old prodevelopment council in 2004, has added a black eye to Daly’s wounds by just scraping in this time around. The two council veterans, who in the election run-up copped a bucket from departing Tweed council executive Genevieve Slattery for their ‘crude’ brand of National Partystyle politics, join a council line-up which promises interesting times. In the opposing corner is the green-tinged former councillor Dot Holdom, who has already fired an early warning shot at some of her new colleagues, saying she’ll be watching to ensure the code of conduct is not trampled in the ongoing land rush. ‘If I see what I think is dysfunctionality again in that room there will be hell to pay,’ was the ominous quote from the Kingscliff cafe owner whose pre-election pledge was to ‘hold-em to their promises’. Ms Holdom, who in the immediate aftermath of the election was one of three people who were freely being tipped as the next mayor, also gave developers a spray by warning she wasn’t copping any more abusive calls from them. She is joined by young Green’s candidate Katie Milne

who topped the poll. Together with Cr Holdom they cornered a whopping 36.69 per cent of the primary vote. Their big lead over the rest of the field triggered a flurry

failed to capitalise on the initial landslide. If the campaign vehicle driven by Mr Polglase and Youngblutt was seen as a Holden ute, the Greens were

Whatever the outcome, it appears it will be business as usual on the Tweed. of predictions and pronouncements – all of which ended amid a lot of flying egg. From election guru Antony Green to Mr Polglase’s election strategist Murray Lees, the pundits all said the big swing would inevitably result in the ‘left’ controlling the council for the next four years. But for a range of reasons which will probably never be clear, the other like-minded candidates – apart from Uki resident Barry Longland –

aboard a wobbly tricycle devoid of pedals, running an erratic and disorganised race with very little attention paid to pre-polling or other normal activities. As a result Liberal candidate Joan van Lieshout, whose husband is seeking approval for a controversial rural residential development in the south-west of the shire, and low-profile Chinderah motel owner Kevin Skinner, got in under the wire. Ms Lieshout, who believes

the ‘hand of God’ played a part in her surprise election rather than a saturation campaign which saw her image appearing around every street corner, will support Mr Polglase if the traditional Liberal-National alliance holds up. Mr Skinner, who headed a publicity-and-camera shy team, is also expected to support the former mayor, although earlier this week he was continuing to play his cards close to his chest. Contacted by another newspaper, Mr Skinner said he was not interested in talking about his election to council or his intentions. ‘Just pretend this phone call didn’t happen,’ he was quoted as saying. Whatever the outcome of the mayoral race, it appears it will be business as usual on the Tweed.

Tweed Shire Council’s new faces These are the seven new faces on Tweed Shire Council after being elected this week. However, the NSW Electoral Commission will decide today (Thursday, September 25) whether a recount of the election will take place, which could alter the ﬁnal berth on council. Dot Holdom – Independent, Kingscliff café owner, first elected to council in 2004 but ousted the following year after council was sacked following the Daly inquiry. Mrs Holdom received the biggest personal vote at the council election.

Warren Polglase – Independent, lives at Banora Point, member of the National Party, manager of a residential home park, sacked former mayor after being named in the Daly Report as being too close to developers but claims it was a political witch hunt, campaigned saying he would put a brake on development.

Joan van Lieshout – Liberal Party, lives at Banora Point, married to one of Australia’s wealthiest men who plans to develop a rural residential subdivision called Nightcap Village west of Uki. Mrs van Lieshout has lived in the Tweed for three years and this was her first run at being a councillor.

Katie Milne – The Greens, lives at Tweed Heads, former small business operator who is known for stopping a proposed controversial marina development at Chinderah. The Greens, who topped the poll with 19 per cent of the vote, are committed to fighting plans by the state government to develop Crown reserves.

Phil Youngblutt – Independent, member of the National Party, and former pro-development faction councillor, lives just south of Murwillumbah, fruit-stall owner, president of the Murwillumbah Chamber of Commerce. At 72, he is the oldest councillor and was sacked in 2005 after he and his colleagues were named in the Daly report as being too close to developers.

Kevin Skinner – Independent, Chinderah motel owner, believes the Tweed needs a marina and a destination playground where children can play safely.

Barry Longland – Independent, retired accountant from Uki, president of the Uki Residents Association, has a background in public finance in the federal government and has a strong environment focus.

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School gardens in the spotlight Luis Feliu

Murwillumbah Public School almost scooped the gardening pool when it won three of the four main awards in the inaugural Tweed Shire Council schools garden competition last week. The school’s little green thumbs picked up at least $400 in cash prizes as well as the awards for best large (sustainable) garden, best sustainable project as well as the perpetual trophy for the judges’ choice, the John O’Reilly Memorial Schools Award. During the prize presentation last week at Mur willumbah Civic Centre, judge John Davies, from sponsor Bunnings, said he and council officer Bill Macartney had a daunting task of judging the gardens with 20 schools competing in 12 categories. He said it took the judges three days to get around to inspect all the Tweed school gardens entered and one school’s vegie garden was ‘unfortunately eaten out by chooks’ before the judges arrived. Mr Davies said the judges were most impressed by the initiative and commitment shown by the kids, including serving lemonade from

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Murwillumbah Public School pupils (l-r) Mitchell Everest, Emily White, Aaron Booth and his twin sister Lucy Booth with some of the awards and prizes the school won in Tweed Shire Council’s schools garden competition.

aschool’s lemon tree, a strawberry patch with a ‘strawberry monster’ scarecrow, garden pathways shaped like big feet, worm farms, compost bins, rainforest walks, a ‘sensory’ garden, even a DVD of one project was produced. Council’s recreation services manager Stewart Brawley said that this year council decided to run its annual gardening competition specifically for

schools where there was ‘much more interest than elsewhere’ for such an event. ‘We decided if we could plant a seed into those fertile minds that over the years we’ll see the results in generations to come, rather than preach to the converted’, Mr Brawley said. He said the idea was to encourage schools and children to get involved. Former ABC-TV’s garden-

Cross-border gangs to be targeted Ken Sapwell

Tweed’s two top cops will push for more cross-border co-operation between forces to combat a sharp upsurge in gang-related offences over the past two years. Tweed-Byron police commander Michael Kenny and crime manager Greg Carey told a community meeting of about 200 people on Tuesday night that police were serious in targeting gangs who often frequented Tweed Heads or Coolangatta and used the border to evade police. They also revealed they will start using a new non-association law to stop convicted gang members rejoining their old gangs after they had been dealt with by the courts. Supt Kenny said the law, a revamp of the old consorting law but more regulated and specific in the people it targeted, would be used alongside another initiative which allowed police to impound cars driven by hoons. He made it clear that he would not be abandoning his plan to get police on either side of the border to work more closely to monitor troublespots despite a snub from his Gold Coast counterpart, Supt Jim Keogh. He said he would continue to seek a formal working arrangement to share knowledge and even patrol cars to combat www.tweedecho.com.au

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four known Tweed gangs and other Gold Coast-based gangs ‘who use the border to their advantage’. ‘We need to look at strategies to get rid of that line which is our border and work together to fight crime,’ he said in a warts-and-all appraisal on Tuesday night of the problems confronting his frontline troops and the community.

Gangs named Insp Carey said gangs giving police the most grief were the Kingscliff-based Coomicubs with football team links, the D-Lux boys who were being absorbed by the Coomicubs, the mainly indigenous Dark Night Soljers from Tweed Heads and the post-code group Bilambil HQ which also had football team links. He said the gangs were mainly responsible for a sharp rise in crime on his patch during the past two years, with more youths responsible for car thefts, burglaries, property damage and violent assaults than ever before. Police were aware that motorcycle gangs were recruiting from Tweed youth gangs and although it hadn’t happed yet they feared that turf wars could break out. While Supt Kenny’s push for a cross-border threemonth trial was applauded, Insp Keogh refused a request to send a Queensland repre-

sentative to the meeting on the grounds that ‘it’s not our State’ – appearing to indicate that the bureaucratic-heavy crossborder commission is again snoozing on the job. The public was urged to be more proactive in helping police identify and convict those responsible for crime and antisocial behaviour. Witness statements from people prepared to give evidence in court was the surest way to secure a conviction, and police experience showed it was a misconception that people who spoke up put themselves in actual danger. ‘We are here to engage the eyes and ears of the community – we can do something as a community,’ Supt Kenny said A member of the audience criticised retirees in the crowd, accusing them of opposing badly-needed facilities for young people, including a skateboard park at South Tweed Heads and a youth centre at Pottsville. Southern Cross University academic Maarten Rothengatter applauded the public meeting initiative but has warned that there is no easy fix to the problem. Mr Rothengatter, who specialises in youth crime and deviance, said it was up to the community to become involved and not to ignore the central role that drugs and alcohol played in the problem.

ing guru Peter Cundall would have been pleased, given his passion for promoting gardening for children. Mr Cundall said children who learnt to grow things and look after gardens would also learn to nurture and be creative rather than be destructive. Tumbulgum Public School won best small garden category while St Josephs Primary and Possums Community Preschool won encouragement awards.

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When Tahmeena (Monic Hendrickx) stumbles onto John’s (William McInnes) isolated farm, badly beaten, his instinct is to take her in & keep her hidden. It received the audience award for Best Film at the Brisbane International Film Festival last year.

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As a child, Yolngu girl Frances Djulibing dreamed of being an actress like Marilyn Monroe. She was cast as the second wife Nowalingu in Rolf de Heer’s ﬁlm Ten Canoes, and from then on tried to turn her dream into reality. This is an absorbing documentary giving a fascinating insight into the life of the charming and vivacious Frances.

This tribute concert to Leonard Cohen featuring a star-studded cast was ﬁlmed live at the Sydney Opera House. Following the dramatic opening with Nick Cave singing I’m Your Man, both favourite and lesser known Cohen songs are presented by Rufous Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, Anthony, the McGarrigle Sisters, Teddy Thompson and more.

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Yung Chang’s compelling documentary tells the story of two Chinese teens whose lives are impacted by the construction of the world’s largest hydroelectric power station. The story of these two teenagers is a fascinating one, and provides a metaphor for the rapidly changing face of China.

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Vitus is a highly gifted child who plays the piano like a virtuoso and likes to read the encyclopaedia. He ﬁnds haven in the company of his kind and loving grandfather (Bruno Ganz) who tinkers with fanciful designs in his workshed. A warm inspiring ﬁlm with a strong storyline, and a superb soundtrack, suitable for adults and children aged 12+.

Winner of Best Short Documentary at this year’s Sydney Film Festival. Chicken breeder Mark Tully has a passion to find and breed as many rare chickens as possible. This takes him on the road to country shows and farms along the way searching out particular birds, meeting wonderful characters and exchanging chickens.

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USA . Dir: Tom McCarthy . M . 103 mins Walter Vale (Richard Jenkins) is a tired academic and widower who goes to a New York conference to deliver a paper, but finds on arrival, his apartment is occupied by squatters. The Visitor is a profoundly affecting film. Richard Jenkins portrayal of man reawakened to his own emotions is absolutely compelling.

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A glorious sprawling saga set in India in the time of the British Raj. A courageous group of Indian residents fighting against escalating taxes imposed by the British take up an offer to compete in a cricket match, against a British team, for the right to have their taxes reduced.

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Aquatic centre set to make a big splash The revamped Murwillumbah swimming pool, now known as theTweed Regional Aquatic Centre, will open with a splash in early December. Tweed Shire Council’s manager of recreation services Stewart Brawley this week said the pool might open prior to the official opening in early December depending on the weather and how the work goes. The Tweed Regional Aquatic Centre will be open 12 months of the year and offer the public an outside Olympic pool, a toddlers’ recreation pool, grassed picnic areas and the free water slide that will operate at scheduled times. Inside pools, including the combined diving and 25-metre lap pool, hydrotherapy pool and the learn-to-swim pool, will all be heated and operational all year. The centre cost around $14 million and is regarded as state-of-the-art-cutting-edge art for regional swimming complexes. For families (two adults and two children under 16 years of age) a 12-month membership giving access to the outdoor pools and the diving-lap pool will cost $550. A one-off casual

An artist’s sketch of the layout of the indoor pool complex

Project manager Martin Hood, at the toddlers wading pool in the state-of-the-art aquatic centre, said the complex catered for all the family, with the popular old water slide retained.

use of the centre will be $4.50 per person while a six-month membership for one child under 16 years of age will be $125. For schools hiring the pool for swimming carnivals it will be $200 an hour which is up

$40 per hour on the previous charge in the old complex. Mr Brawley said the draft costs were put out for public comment and brought in three responses and on the whole most were positive about the charges.

Motorists run the gauntlet Stephen Senise

From rocks to water bombs, and pieces of fruit, motorists in Tweed Shire have been the targets of projectile throwing by hooligans in recent months. Tweed/Byron local area commander Superintendent Michael Kenny has cited rock throwing as one of the public safety issues which prompted this week’s public meeting on local crime. ‘Serious consequences can follow from these rock throwing incidents,’ Superintendent Kenny told The Echo. ‘It’s only been good luck, and good judgement on the part of the drivers affected that someone has not been seriously hurt.

‘The potential for harm is right up there with hoon behaviour, drink driving or fighting outside the pub after closing hour.’ The Coast Road from Cudgen to Cabarita had become a notorious snipers’ alley, particular after dusk. But police are now citing some success, particularly at Casuarina, as an example of the way in which police efforts can and do help. ‘It’s been a month since the last incident there,’ Superintendent Kenny said. ‘We’ve worked together with the community, and used good information at our disposal to speak to a number of kids. ‘We positively targeted that area and community over six

months to good effect.’ Occasionally though, some attacks still occur. Last week, while driving in an urban part of the shire, this reporter’s family car succumbed to a rock throwing attack. In front of one of the local high schools, a rock was thrown from behind a phalanx of well drilled students which hit the windscreen plumb centre. Luckily it resulted in nothing more serious than a bewildered eight-year-old in the front passenger seat and a scratch to the vehicle. But it could have been worse. Most disturbing was the coordinated nature of the attack which involved about 10 to 12 students.

Student has doctorate under her belt For Chez Baker, the ingredients for completing a doctorate are hard work, determination – and 75,000 belts. The Terranora-based student of visual arts graduated with a PhD last Saturday at Southern Cross University’s (SCU) Lismore campus after concluding a four-year project using belts as her primary material. Entitled The Seduction of Loss, the project features full sized columns, furniture, panels and a 15m x 5m floor piece, all woven from belts. Chez said the inspiration for her work had come from a casual remark made by her late father while he was alive. ‘My father was a Scotsman and a man of few words, but I remember him telling me once that in the Second World War, prisoners would soak their belts in water and then drink it to regain some of their lost body salts,’ Chez said. ‘I’ve no idea if it’s true, but because it was uncommon for him to share his thoughts, and because it was such an unusual idea it became one of those random moments that I have always remembered when I think of him.

SCU student Chez Baker’s table and chairs made from 75,000 belts.

‘It occurred to me that all second-hand belts hold something of the owner and represent a moment in time, so I decided to do the project on memories using belts as my material.’ The belts, which were sourced from op shops located from Lismore to the Tweed and Gold Coast, have been crafted into a table and chairs to symbolise the table Chez and her father were sitting at when he made his remark, while the columns were constructed to represent ruins and the idea that memories fade over time.

Chez, who hopes to continue with her current part-time interior design work while also looking for employment as a teacher, said her family had been supportive of her studies. ‘I have always loved art, but by doing the course at university I found I pushed myself further and researched new directions and avenues to realize my ideas,’ she said. ‘At one point the belts covered the house and my husband and 14-year-old son had to walk over them for weeks, but they never complained. They were wonderful – and luckily they love my work.’

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Tahlia’s golden run

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Most days you’ll find Sandra Guthrie smiling and chatting in her small cluttered photocopying shop in Murwillumbah. But underlying her cheerful demeanour is a past that is fraught with abuse, neglect and a yearning to be reunited with a brother, Billy Boy, she has not seen since they were babies. This week, after many years of searching, Sandra received a glimmer of hope. A jubilant Sandra now has the ABC’s Can We Help You program on the job looking for Billy Boy. ‘I am so excited. This is the best it’s ever been,’ Sandra said in between photocopying and answering phone calls. Life started for Sandra in England in what can only be described as extremely unfortunate circumstances. As a very small child Sandra was physically and emotionally abused by her mother, abandoned, adopted, abandoned again, separated from her siblings and then taken away from the one person who cherished her – her adoptive grandmother. Finally, at age 13, Sandra was shipped off alone to Australia to live with relatives she had never met. Hoping life had turned a corner Sandra settled in but

She saw her mother, flashed a smile, and then refocused herself on the race. The starting gun was fired, and Tahlia’s mother, father, sisters and aunt exploded into cheering. Tahlia pushed herself ahead, and pulled the race off with a good run. Tahlia’s grandmother Desrae Rotumah, who watched Tahlia compete from her lounge room, said running wasn’t always Tahlia’s sport. ‘She started out as a swimmer but when she swapped over to athletics her talent was recognised in 2005,’ she said. Mrs Rotumah said that her granddaughter never let her disability get in the way of her goals. Tahlia has already clocked up some impressive achievements, winning two silver medals at the Kuala Lumpur FESPIC Games in 2006. She is also a two-time participant at the Underage Championships held in Canberra and in 2007 broke records in the 100m and shotput. But Mrs Rotumah said the focus wasn’t on the medals at Tahlia’s first Paralympics. ‘She just says “Nan, all I can do is try my best” and I told her that’s all anyone can ask.’

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Sandra Guthrie has a new lease on life as she continues her search for the only sibling she remembers, Billy Boy.

as a young vulnerable teenager she soon found herself being sexually abused – again. At 18 years of age Sandra cut the family chains and broke free from the abuse.

But her traumatic childhood and yearning to find her brothers has shadowed her as she married, had her own family and set up a life in Murwillumbah.

Tormented by her past and wanting to reconcile with her family members back in England she began to make inquiries about her siblings when visiting England about 10 years ago. ‘In England I was contacted by a woman who had adopted one of my brothers. Her news was not good. He had died in a motor bike accident when he was 19. He died on the same day that I escaped the abuse in Australia when I was 18 year old. I never knew David,’ an emotional Sandra recalls. ‘I also found out that my mother and father, who had separated when I was very little, had remarried. They both had children and so now I have nine half sisters,’ Sandra said. While she is delighted at her new extended family, Sandra has never given up hope of finding the brother she affectionately calls Billy Boy. ‘Billy Boy is the only sibling I have any memory of. When we were removed from my natural mum because of her cruelty to us, I was adopted and Billy Boy

was fostered by the same people for one year. But when the adopted parents no longer wanted us Billy Boy was sent back to the orphanage and I went to live with my adoptive grandparents illegally,’ she said. But a neighbour dobbed them and the authorities moved in to take Sandra back to the orphanage. Instead the adoptive grandparents sent her to their youngest daughter in Australia. While there are myriad of half siblings in England, there is only one sibling that Sandra has any memory of and that’s Billy Boy. ‘I don’t even know his real name but I remember him clearly,’ she said. ‘He has a distinctive scar on the side of his face and on his shoulder where our mother burnt him when he was a baby.’ Billy Boy would be about 61 years old and, with the Can We Help You program off to England in about three weeks to start series four, Sandra is hopeful her long lost brother will be found.

Election limbo as recount sought Another unsuccessful groupticket candidate, Laurie Ganter, said he received several complaints from booths he had done the rounds at on election day about the lack of information on how to vote or about the candidates standing. Mr Ganter said colleagues told him also that officials had wrongly advised people on how to vote. ‘No information was provided to voters on what a formal vote was before polling day in any media. Why not advise voters in the free papers? How much would a half page cost as part of the overall cost of the election? he said. If there is no recount, all eyes will be focused on who wins the mayoralty at an extraordinary meeting of council expected to be called soon. The Liberals’ Joan van Lieshout told The Echo there were people on both sides of the political equation that had the skills to be the shire’s new mayor. Speaking from Adelaide, Mrs van Lieshout declined to tip who the next mayor would be. ‘I know there is a lot of talk going on between people and I’m hearing a lot but I prefer to wait and see,’ she said. While no one had contacted her about throwing her hat into the mayoral ring Mrs van Lieshout said if her colleagues had confidence in her she would accept the challenge. ‘I think the shire needs very sound skills for the next 12 months and there is a lot of work to be done,’ she said. The initial work included the

council’s financial status, looking at the developments on the table, accommodating the growing population, potential growth, water and sustainability, she said.

Save Cudgen land Regarding the proposal to rezone the Cudgen farming land Mrs van Lieshout said she personally believed the soil was so rich in nutrients that it should be saved and subdivided into hobby farms so the land could become a food bowl for the region. She did not want to see urban sprawl from the coast as on the Gold Coast, preferring village style developments. Mrs van Lieshout said her Christian faith and the ‘Hand of God’ played a part in not just her election but ‘how it turned around’. Mrs Holdom, who topped the poll with a record individual first-preference vote, told The Echo that she felt she had been up against three ‘well recognised brands’ in the Liberals, the Greens and the Nationals (represented by Mr Polglase and Mr Youngblutt). She said if the result remained unchanged, she feared the old faction or bloc-voting pattern of the past two councils would return with a prodevelopment majority of four, lead by Mr Polglase, dominating over the three minority Greens-community groups councillors. Meanwhile, a University of Sydney expert in regional politics says he’s not surprised that voters returned former mayor Warren Polglase af-

Kevin McCready, the Greens’ candidate contemplating a recount…

ter his council was sacked in 2005 following a government inquiry which found the electorate could no longer have confidence it would properly carryout its duties. Dr Richard Stanton says Mr Polglase’s chances would have been buoyed by a protest vote against the government’s decision to remove their democratically elected council. He said the same had occurred at Liverpool and Warringah where councillors who had been sacked were re-elected when they stood as candidates.

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He said there had been a big influx of new residents who were likely to support a Liberal candidate because of familiarity with the Party and a trend by voters to use their own discretion rather than follow howto-vote cards. He said the Tweed ballot paper was so crowded and so confusing with voters having so little information that the donkey vote would have played an important part. ‘There was also a huge noshow among the voters – only 38,000 out of 57,000 actually turned up to vote,’ he said. Dr Stanton said he believed the voting system should be overhauled and simplified to end the confusion. Former Pottsville Residents’ Association president Len Greer said he had been approached by many voters before the election seeking advice about the voting system. ‘There seemed to be more confusion this time around than there has been in previous elections,’ he said. ‘I can’t understand why, if you are electing seven councillors from 39 candidates, that you can’t simply number them from one to seven in order of preference.’ Mr Greer said that he downloaded a four-page document from the Electoral Commission website explaining the voting system but it had been written in such a convoluted way he had become lost by the first page.

‘The voters are saying you can’t sack our council ...if you do that to us we will re-elect them,’ he said. Dr Stanton, who predicted a cliff-hanger in the Tweed, said there were a number of reasons why Green-tinged candidates ■ Poll result a shocker for failed to win a majority after many, page 2 garnering the lion’s share of the ■ Waterloo of the pre-poll, primary vote. page 12

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A big haul from cleaning out the river Shopping trolleys and even a lawn mower were hauled up from the Tweed River floor by a team of divers last Saturday during an annual river cleanup operation. Up to 40 divers and snorkelers from Southern Cross University (SCU), Kirra Dive and Anaconda took to the river last Saturday for the annual PADI Project Aware International Cleanup Day. The cleanup gathered more than 400 kilograms of refuse from a 150-metre stretch of riverbank around the Jack Evans Boat Harbour at Tweed Heads. The haul included eight shopping trolleys (plus a couple more from the riverbank), two large truck tyres, a lawn mower, an illegal mooring block and chain, large lengths of plastic pipe, plastic bags, bottles, cans, fishing rods and large amounts of fishing tackle. SCU diving officer Simon Hartley said that the sheer volume of debris in such a small area suggested there was a long way to go, but the first steps to

raising awareness were being taken. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d encourage divers to pick up and dispose of any cigarette butts, fishing tackle, plastics and any other small items of waste that they find at the water front or underwater,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Mr Hartley said.

SCU diving officer Simon Hartley with some of the huge amount of rubbish collected from the bottom of the Tweed River around Jack Evans Boat Harbour last weekend.

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Pollies spar over skate park Nationals senator Fiona Nash has attacked Richmond MP Justine Elliot in federal parliament over funding for a proposed skate park at Tweed Heads. Ms Nash told the Senate last Wednesday that she would fight to reverse the Rudd Governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision to cancel a $110,000 grant for the project at Tweed Heads south, a joint venture between Tweed clubs (contributing www.tweedecho.com.au

$75,000), Tweed Shire Council ($175,000), the state government ($30,000) and the federal government ($110,000). But Ms Elliot responded yesterday, saying the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;SK8Tweedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; project did not meet the guidelines set for the review of the coalitionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s discredited Regional Partnerships funding program and that during the election campaign, promises were made by the coalition about projects that were never contracted.

The Richmond MP said the Regional Partnerships program was discontinued after a scathing report by the Australian National Audit Office in respect of the previous governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lack of accountability and handling of the program. Ms Elliot said she understood that council would still go ahead with the project to build a skate park at Tweed Heads.

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Speed on Tweed fans lapped it up The Speed on Tweed festival outdid itself this year with 225 classic cars and more than 25,000 people enjoying the spectacle over last weekend. Proud festival organiser Roger Ealand welcomed the drivers on Saturday morning telling them that to drive the wrong way around the track was so serious that drivers would be ‘castrated’. For any female drivers, ‘we can work something out,’ he told the crowd of gathered drivers. The weekend went off without a hitch and car enthusiasts are hopeful the festival will be reborn in a couple of years.

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Proposed phone tower upsets residents Residents of the Koala Beach estate at Pottsville have been heartened by the number of official objections to a proposed mobile-phone tower in their area. Submissions for the public exhibition period for the proposed Optus tower closed recently with over 40 objections lodged with Tweed Shire Council. The submissions came from both residents and interest groups. Resident spokesman Alan Johnston told The Echo the Australian Koala Foundation gave its ‘full support to our efforts’ and Friends of the Koala also lodged an objection. Mr Johnston said many residents did not want council to approve the 30-metre high microwave 3G tower in what they say is high-conservation value habitat on an environmental estate. He said council was not just the approval authority but the landowner as well, and the beneficiary of any lease so it was ‘very much council’s call’

Tw e e d C o u n c i l h a s scrapped plans for a special meeting of the new councillors tomorrow (Friday, September 26) amid the continuing postelection turmoil following calls for a recount. The meeting – the first since the council was sacked more than three years ago – was for

Old rivalries will surface this weekend when members of the Stokers Siding cricket team face-off with Murwillumbah’s Australia Hotel team. And in the true spirit of the friendly contest, it will undoubtedly involve some sledging and a fair bit of drinking. The boys from both cricket

the seven elected representatives to vote on the positions of mayor and deputy mayor. But council administrators were forced to put it on hold because of a 48-hour delay in declaring the election result following calls for a recount from Greens Party number two candidate Kevin McCready.

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Koala Beach residents (l-r) Laurel Fisher, David Quaggin, Christine McGugan, Roger Fisher, Kathie Thomson and Wally Thomson are not happy with a proposal for a mobile-telephone tower for their neighbourhood.

on approving the tower because it was not covered by state environmental-protection law. ‘It is about getting the balance right between develop-

ment and environmental outcomes. This location, this sensitive housing estate, is not the place for such an installation.’ Mr Johnstone said there was

already mobile-phone coverage in Pottsville. ‘It is not coming from a tower at Koala Beach... the public benefit of this DA is only one of further choice,’ he said.

teams are getting together for a reunion without bat and ball. Organiser and ‘captain’ Kenny Paddon (Paddo) has put the word out and the lads are meeting on a level playing ground after a drought of cricket matches. ‘In the early 1970s while downing a few beers at the old Australian Hotel, Stokers’ David Cross, came up with the idea of

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a cricket match between the Stokers lads and the drinking fraternity of Murwillumbah,’ Paddo said. ‘Things began somewhat casually with the only eligibility required for the Aussies was that you had to have drunk at the pub, while for the Stokers membership required they lived there at some time.’ As time progressed rules and competitiveness improved. ‘There was the odd heated moment as the only umpires were fellow batsmen with both sides guilty of letting a snick go through to the keeper,’ Paddo said. One umpire this week admitted to being open to bribes

Planned periodic closures of the Tweed River fire station announced by the state government this week have come under fire. The Tweed River station is one of 33 stations across the state which will be closed on days of low fire risk or when there are not enough staff. Tweed MP Geoff Provest said the closures put the community at risk and ‘the whole concept of a part-time fire sta-

tion is just plain stupid’. Meanwhile, a new recruitment campaign to strengthen the ranks of the NSW Rural Fire Service has been launched, using a television commercial. Minister for Emergency Services Tony Kelly said ‘The ‘Good Fight’ advertisement aimed to attract new recruits while also boosting the camaraderie of the more than 70,000 current members.

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claiming ‘David Cross has never forgiven me for giving him out for a duck.’ The matches moved around the valley and Burringbar was the site of the first match, then Uki and Murwillumbah. In the 1980s, tragedy struck and the Aussie Hotel burnt down. Undeterred, the boys had local potter Laine Langridge create an urn in which ashes from the remains of the hotel were placed. ‘It is still filled with the ashes and was a well sought after trophy,’ Paddo said. Many locals played in the matches and this Saturday, they will reunite for a remembrance day at Paddo’s place.

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A giant planet hoves into view

t used to be said that the Great Wall of China was the only human artefact Volume 1 #5 September 25, 2008 large enough to be seen from the moon. Satellite observations have cast doubt on this idea, but in any case the Great Wall has Many voters are scratching their heads over the final result of the been superseded by a new election which, at the time of going to press yesterday, was still in contender: Malcolm Turnbull’s doubt with a bid for a recount looming. ego. As with every election, candidates on the losing side look for This monstrous construct reasons for their loss and some blame ‘the system’, others their has just devoured the parliacampaign organisation and still others on the media’s often mentary Liberal Party in a poor handling of such important local events, or ‘dirty tricks’ and ceremony Turnbull described smears by the other side. as ‘humbling’ – presumably Most of this is soon forgotten once a working council finds its he meant for the Liberal Party. rhythm, but Tweed shire is a unique case with a history of bloc or He himself has long been imfaction politics dominating, to the detriment of the community it mune to such human weakhas been elected to serve. ness and undoubtedly sees his Many are saying it was obvious during the campaign that votmost recent elevation as just ers wanted a fresh change and a break from the faction-ridden another small step towards the past where voting on all major development issues was split conquest of the universe. between two camps and political infighting was the order of the Even his best friends admit day, rather than reasoned debate on the merits of the proposal that Turnbull can be an abraat hand. sive character, and not always a This hunger for change was evident with the Greens almost predictable one. I had a chance doubling their primary vote since last election and popular com- to study him reasonably closely munity-based candidate and former pro-environment councillor during the republican convenDot Holdom winning a mammoth personal vote. tion of 1999 in the old parliaTogether with the Community First group ticket headed by ment house in Canberra. By Barry Longland made up of a team of resident organisations, the the final day the convention three groups of candidates drew the lion’s share of the overall had disintegrated, just as John vote on September 13. Howard had designed it to; But with a total of seven councillors, the three now appear to there were factions of factions be in a minority and a pro-development faction, represented of factions, none of which by sacked mayor Warren Polglase, his allies Phil Youngblutt and could agree about anything. Kevin Skinner and to some extent the Liberals’ Joan van Lieshout, But as I wrote in The is set to take control as the majority. Australian at the time, there The question also arises if the former sacked mayor Mr Polglase was still one motion which wins the mayoral robes (and the all-important casting vote in a would have been carried by slimmed-down council) and his pro-development faction rules, acclamation if anyone had will the frictions of old resume? proposed it: a declaration that More importantly, the fact that he could be returned as mayor Malcolm Turnbull was a thug, may act as an antagonistic wedge dividing the community, a bully and a general all-round particularly those groups who battled controversial decisions his arsehole. This was in no way a faction made in the past. reflection on his dedication to Has this leopard really changed its spots? We think not, despite the cause, which was generous Mr Polglase telling media during his campaign he wanted to and untiring. But it did rather ‘curb’ development. suggest that he was less than a The shire had a costly state government inquiry after the 2004 team player – a gilt-edged egoelection which found the last council’s majority were puppets of maniac, in fact. developers and the whole council was sacked as a result. Then there is the story of Well, it appears to have been a complete waste of time and the cat, noted by the disgraced money as nothing appears to have changed despite the overCanadian publisher Conrad whelming wish of many for a pro-environment and community- Black in his memoirs and resfocused team of councillors. urrected by Alan Ramsey in

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What’s the point of sacking a council when they can be legally re-elected? The law is an ass in this respect and has to be changed. Obviously bloc-voting is now set to become a painful reality with a voting pattern of 4-3 becoming the norm. The call has come from both sides of politics for a better voting system than the optional preferential one, which is far too complicated for most. The system is open to abuse by those with deep pockets, knowing they can ‘stack’ the above-the-line groupings and even the below-the-line ones to throw up a result favouring their side. Maybe we should scrap below-the-line voting altogether, which would discourage truly independent individuals.

the Sydney Morning Herald at the weekend: it is said that when Turnbull was ditched by a girlfriend in his student days, he took revenge by strangling her cat and leaving it on her doorstep. This may well be a libel, although Turnbull has never taken action over its publication. But the mere fact that many of his colleagues find it utterly convincing goes some way to explaining why

ises, is presumably to give the impression of honesty and consistency, but it is also bad policy. The fact that Turnbull, the self-styled policy wonk, feels compelled to maintain it in the interests of party unity demonstrates just how serious the doubts about his leadership really are. It is worth noting that despite the utter despair about Nelson, Turnbull only got up by a very

Turnbull has made a point of not dumping the policies he inherited from Brendan Nelson, even the really silly ones like the five cent reduction on petrol excise… by Mungo MacCallum they still have their doubts about entrusting him with their future. Turnbull has tried to assuage their fears by playing down his Mr Moneybags image – why, he once lived in a flat, albeit in Double Bay. But his current life style and his portfolio of hugely expensive real estate are not reassuring. While it is true that the Rudd family is also very well off the Prime Minister doesn’t flaunt it and indeed makes a point of mixing with the homeless. So he can get away with it; nobody calls him a silvertail. Few call Turnbull anything else. Turnbull has also made a point of not dumping the policies he inherited from Brendan Nelson, even the really silly ones like the five cent reduction on petrol excise and the $30 a week single pension increase, not to mention a host of other unfunded promises. This, like Rudd’s insistence on honouring all election prom-

small margin and the fact that he got up at all is a testimony to the impotence and irrelevance of Peter Costello. Costello openly backed Nelson, but nearly all his erstwhile followers shifted to Turnbull, pushing him over the line. Costello, like his memoirs, has been remaindered. At least that’s one less worry for Turnbull – if, in fact, he ever saw Costello as a worry, which he probably didn’t. Those who know they were born to win can recognise born losers at forty paces.

eanwhile Kevin Rudd has decamped to the United States to observe the demise of capitalism in its spiritual home. Actually the sight of rugged individualists demanding to be bailed out by taxpayers as soon as they get into trouble will be familiar to him. After all, it was the Australian Country Party, now the Nationals, which first espoused the philosophy of

privatising gain and socialising loss. For many years the farming organisations have demanded and received, special subsidies, protection and relief in times of trouble. There is nothing wrong with this, but we could do without their insistence that they are sturdily independent, unlike the city softies. Similarly George Bush is totally justified in using public money to save failing investment companies, however shonky; while the institutions themselves may have done nothing to deserve salvation, most of the people affected are ordinary citizens who invested directly as customers or indirectly through their insurance companies, retirement funds or whatever. It is hardly their fault that they have been let down by the gung-ho freemarketeers who have always railed against government intervention – until, of course, they needed it. These should now be confined to the public stocks for periods directly proportional to the size of their salary packages and pelted with as much rotten fruit as their former clients can afford. When released, they should be made to write out a thousand times each: ‘I will not criticise public welfare with my own snout in the public trough. Pure capitalism does not work any better than pure socialism. Economic rationalism is not rational. A mixed economy is the only kind that makes sense.’ They could then be re-employed in jobs commensurate with their talents, such as fence posts on rural properties or speed humps in suburban roads. After all, a caring capitalist society has a place for everyone, even the proven failures. Just ask Peter Costello.

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Tweed Shire Echo Publisher David Lovejoy Editor Luis Feliu Associate Editor Madeleine Doherty Advertising Manager Rod Harvey Accounts Manager Simon Haslam Production Manager Ziggi Browning ‘The job of a newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.’ – Finley Peter Dunne 1867–1936 © 2008 Echo Publications Pty Ltd Suite 1, Warina Walk Arcade, Murwillumbah Phone 02 6672 2280 Fax 02 6672 4933 email: editor@tweedecho.com.au Printer: Horton Media Australia Ltd

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Letters and Comment

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ess than two weeks into her job as the Local Government Minister, Barbara Perry has ordered her first inquiry into a local council – Gosford. She was prompted by the state coronial inquest which placed the blame for a Central Coast road collapse which claimed five lives squarely at the council’s doorstep. She has chosen Dick Persson, an old-time Labor warrior who began his working career with the Wran Government, to head the inquiry. He was administrator of Liberal-controlled Warringah Council when it was dismissed by the Carr Government in 2003 and then appointed administrator of the National Party-led Port Macquarie Hastings Council by the Iemma Government in February fol-

lowing an inquiry by Frank Willan, a former Tweed Shire administrator. Persson’s latest lucrative gig comes a few days after the council elections in which the Labor-led Gosford City Council suffered a devastating swing. Although final figures are yet to be announced, the Liberals have been the big winners, picking up 33 per cent of the vote, Labor 16 per cent, and the Greens 14 per cent. Deputy coroner Paul MacMahon blamed the Council for failing to provide the most basic road maintenance, and that its neglect had cost five lives, including three children, when the road collapsed in June last year. It is to be hoped that one of Persson’s focuses will be to explain the transfer of the Old Pacific Highway from the gov-

Letters to the Editor

The age-old lipstick and pigs

Fax: 6672 4933 Email: editor@tweedecho.com.au Deadline: Noon, Tuesday Letters longer than 200 words may be cut; letters already published in other papers will not be considered; pseudonyms not acceptable. Please include your full name, address and phone number.

Organ donation I applaud the initiatives that are included in the Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Bill 2008 that were announced by our Prime Minister today. I am but one of many awaiting a kidney transplant in NSW having been on dialysis at home for over three years. This bill gives many of us hope that there is light at the end of the tunnel. This government has spoken with compassion and seems to understand that for too long many organs that could have been donated have not been due to lack of specially trained staff and coordination with the potential donor family at the time of a potential donor death. These organs have been wasted and the cost of keeping people like myself on dialysis for many years has been enormous. Melissa Darnley

Pottsville Beach

Climate scepticism Re Mungo MacCallum’s article (The Echo, September 11) about ‘The real cost of Global Warming’. The sheer arrogance shown by politicians, left-wing academics and the Greenies is to think that we can make a difference. The Earth is going through what is a natural cycle of heating up and cooling down that has been going on for millions of years. Man’s input is negligible. The old saying, ‘Lies, damned lies and statistics’ is so true of the doom-sayers. They www.tweedecho.com.au

ernment-run Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) to the council in 1995 shortly after the Carr Government came into office. It was a practice called ‘cost shifting’ and it involved the Labor government transferring

bore no direct responsibility for the collapse. Of course not! And when a similar culvert collapsed on the Princes Highway near Bega on the south coast in 2005, the RTA was not required to pass on the

State of Affairs Local Government Minister Barbara Perry has ordered her first inquiry… with Alex Mitchell costly and unwanted responsibilities to local government which was then starved of adequate funds. While Mr MacMahon acknowledged the RTA had inexplicably failed to line the culvert with concrete at the time of its construction in 1983, he said it

memo to Gosford Council or any other council. While Barbara Perry has been quick off the mark to set up an official inquiry into Gosford Council, she hasn’t made any announcements on Auburn Council, which was the subject of an inquiry ordered by her

This letter is in response to a few of Ms Albanese’s inaccurately wild generalisations relating to Obama’s allegedly anti-woman stance (The Echo, September 18). Firstly, ‘lipstick on a pig’ is an age-old expression in politics and was even used by John McCain last year when he criticised a health-care plan put forth by Senator Hillary Clinton. Secondly, the ‘ugly metaphor about pigs’ you refer to was not in reference to Sarah Palin, but the dire need for serious change. Here is Obama’s comment in context,

‘John McCain says he’s about change, too – except for economic policy, health care policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy and Karl Rove-style politics, that’s not change. That’s just calling the same thing something different. You can put lipstick on a pig – it’s still a pig.’ I am most certainly an advocate for having women represented in the political sphere. However, I would never vote for Sarah Palin simply because she is a woman! Here are some of her political views: proguns, pro-wars and invasions, pro-deer hunting, pro-oil drill-

ing in Alaska, anti-sex education in schools, anti-abortion rights (including young girls/ women who are raped or there is incest) um... what else... oh... bans books in public libraries, deeming them ‘immoral’ and she’s not too fond of gay and lesbian rights. Admittedly, politics is a dirty business with much sniping and smearing. I am more interested, however, in listening to the policies of the candidates rather than the reactionary sound bites that the media cleverly offers.

will never win over the majority of thinking people by telling them that Australia is the worst polluter on the planet. They know it’s a lie. We all know the worst polluters are China and India. It’s amazing what can be done juggling figures trying to prove the unprovable.

Pollack’s Blue Poles, which to many looks like someone had kicked over a number of paint tins on a canvas. Perhaps it would be better to arm young binge drinkers with art equipment and they can go ahead and execute ‘works of art’ while in an alcoholic haze. It must be admitted that some of the graffiti attributed to younger people have more artistic merit than much of the crap which some people and institutions pay millions for. This could have a two-fold purpose, providing employment and finance for the younger people.

parents can afford as a typical carnival of a medium sized school usually takes about five hours to conduct which means an outlay of $1,000. It is also unclear whether a cost of $10 for the hire of each lane rope and $2 for the hire of each chair is also required and/or whether children and parents also have to pay the normal pool entry on top of the pool hire. It is understandable that the Tweed Shire Council wants to recoup some of the cost of running the facility but it has to be mindful not to price itself out of reach for most public schools. Schools will either choose not to have swimming as a sport or will try to find a pool elsewhere. That would be a great shame.

Myrna Hughes

Tweed Heads

Art scepticism We wonder just how fair dinkum some of the do-gooders are in their criticism of binge drinking, especially among young people. We agree it is not to be condoned, and genuine efforts to combat it are meritorious. However, when we hear statements such as that voiced on national radio defending the spending of $6.9 million for a Picasso ‘painting’ in Australia, we must question the views. We have a so-called art expert praising the purchase and price paid with the statement that ‘most or much of Picasso’s masterpieces and indeed “great” works of art were done when the artist was severely afflicted by alcohol.’ To put it bluntly, when they were pissed. This included Jackson

Bob Dow

Murwillumbah

Schools and pool It is very good that Murwillumbah is to have a modern aquatic facility for use by the community of the Tweed Shire. However, having looked at the proposed fee schedule for the use of the pools at the centre I am concerned that local public schools will find it difficult to meet the costs of holding swimming carnivals. The sum of $200 an hour is more than many school and

Sarah Blogg

Murwillumbah

predecessor Paul Lynch. The department’s senior investigations officer Paul Terrett uncovered a bizarre finance, planning and management culture during its handling of the construction of a $100 million development known locally as Auburn Central. The council sold part of Queen Street to the developers, Holdmark Developers Pty Ltd, for $1.81 million, which was considerably lower than the council’s own valuation of between $7 million and $9 million. ‘No explanation for the sale of the property for the lower amount could be provided,’ Terrett said. ‘Council’s failure to realise the true value of the asset resulted in a potential loss of $5.19 million in public funds.’ Terrett also remarked: ‘It should be noted that the inves-

tigation revealed that certain council (and other) records relating to the development were missing from files. This hindered the investigation and these files are still missing.’ The sprawling residential/ commercial building with two underground car parks has ongoing fire safety and overcrowding issues, according to the report, which has been sent to the Independent Commission Against Corruption for further consideration. It cleared the developer Mr Sarkis Nassif and his companies of any wrong-doing and placed the blame for the debacle on council officers, not councillors. On the face of it, there’s enough prima facie evidence to call in the administrators. Oh, I forgot to mention, the new minister is the MP for Auburn.

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Developer ethics In response to Rhonda Robinson’s letter re Casuarina Town Centre (The Echo, September 18). The answer to the question, ‘Doesn’t the developer have ethics?’ is ‘No’. That’s the simple answer. I continued overleaf

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Letters and Comment donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know that the letters pages about workers and their fami- dents of Casuarina are being of The Echo provides enough lies then and they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t care urged to write in opposition space to go into further detail. about them now. of the development is not true. Christian Ellis Janet Carpenter The original approved concept Cabarita Banora Point plan for Casuarina included a retail precinct and town Nash backed bad law Casuarina town centre centre, and property owners It may have passed unno- I write to you regarding the in Casuarina have purchased ticed to most people but article which appeared in The their homes with anticipation this month was the second Echo last week (â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Casuarina and expectation that this town anniversary of the estab- residents want open space re- centre will be realised, bringlishment of the Howard tainedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;). ing further opportunities and Governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s WorkChoices The Casuarina Residents activities to the area. Taskforce formed to promote Association (CRA) has disAs the president of the WorkChoices. cussed this issue in some depth Casuarina Residents AssocMembers of this six-person on a number of occasions. The iation, I would urge our memshadowy group included the unanimous view of the resi- bers who have in the past voted Nationalsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Fiona Nash and dents and members of the CRA unanimously in support of the Liberal Margaret May. They is to overwhelmingly support town centre development, and wasted $121 million of tax- the town centre plans. other interested parties, to payersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; money on advertising There are still some issues write formal letters of support these terrible harsh laws. regarding the loss of swale and of the development to the NSW Imagine the difference to northern easement of the de- Minister for Planning and the the lives of local pensioners velopment, and the committee Tweed Shire Council. and the sick if that money was of the CRA is addressing these If there are reservations spent on real service delivery by continued dialogue with the about the outstanding issues instead of being given to blow developer in the hope of com- of the development, please on a failed advertising cam- ing to a negotiated settlement discuss these with your CRA paign. on these outstanding matters. committee team to include in Nash and May didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t care However, to say that the resi- our dialogues with the developer. Rob Bryant

Casuarina

A value on humans Last Friday evening just after 9:30pm, I realised I had made a rather frightening value judgement. Well, frightening for me anyway and based on an incident which occurred in my small cul-de-sac at Pottsville. Each year I have a pair of curlews nest in my front yard. This year after sharing the nesting duties for over a month and

Odd thoughts on an odd election It would appear that the Greens are unhappy with the optional preferential system of voting. If Mr McCready had a problem with the system, why did he say nothing in the week that it looked like he was in? I am curious, is the Byron Echo full of letters complaining about the optional preferential voting system used in the council election there? Or is it only the Tweed that â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;got it wrongâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hope there is an end to this saga soon. The weekly papers cannot keep up with all the twists and turns !

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I would like to comment on the delay in council results in relationship to the state governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proposed use of Crown land including lot 490, 489 and 500. The timing of the election has not given the elected councillors a chance to make comment to the state government. Would the council staff be kind enough to publicise the recommendations made in their submission to the state government â&#x20AC;&#x201C; if there has been a submission made by Lisa Townsend them. Murwillumbah Personally, I feel that the

in all kinds of conditions, the pair became the proud parents of a single chick. Unfortunately two nights after the chick was born, a pair of teenage boys decided to show their bravado and harass this family. The curlew parents retaliated and eventually chased the boys out of the cul-de-sac. Sadly during the ruckus, the chick became detached from its parents. The mum and dad cried out for their chick all night long, as only curlews can, alas to no avail. The chick has not be seen since. I found myself considering which was of greater value in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s market, a juvenile male human (one of over six billion and in plague proportions), or a curlew chick, far rarer and endangered.

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government recommendation is a sell-off of our assets either by lease or sale (and you will never get it back). Brian Ring

Kingscliff So itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s back to the future. I trust Maurice Daly is dusting off his gavel, packing his suitcase.

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Jeremy Cornford

Kingscliff Not the Green victory that had been predicted and proclaimed.

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(Council election candidate)

was obviously quite excited that Tweed was getting an Echo, decided to send me a copy out in the mail. So although it was two weeks late, I was sitting on my porch yesterday morning having a good chuckle at Mr Campbellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s insightful Olympic breakdown â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and well done on getting an Inspector Rex reference in your first edition. Lloyd Fielding Best wishes for the paper Pottsville and, more importantly of course, the sports pages.

As a result of what I witnessed last Friday night, I am deeply concerned that my value system may have changed to such an extent that I currently consider a curlew chick far more valuable than a young human. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure my state of mind is only temporary and will soon revert back to the more traditional pro-human value set.

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here is a television show called Battlefield Detectives which goes back to the site of major battles in history and tries to unearth what happened on such famous fields as Waterloo, Hastings, and the Little Big Horn, to name a few. For election watchers, the exercise of going back over the full set of Tweed Shire Council statistics now available from the Electoral Commission is a comparable exercise. With the final Tweed statistics now to hand, many narratives which were swirling around in the heat of the campaign have congealed and compete for our attention. In this case, there is one so glaring that it demands to be heard above all others. But first we need to recap. Since the election the Tweed has gone about its business more or less convinced that the Greens had won the election hands down and were all but guaranteed two councillors. The assumption was widespread, be it in the media, the street, or across the political spectrum. The assumption about a Green cakewalk was not entirely unreasonable. They were based on the figures

then at hand, and The Greensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; many stunning successes state wide, from Balmain to Byron. The serious flaw was the count, which was ongoing, and which was still in the process of digesting the biggest set of figures, the pre-poll votes. And it is here where The Greensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; vote collapsed. From leading the pack at the close of counting on Saturday night, with about 21 per cent of the vote, The Greens came back to the field with a thud, finish-

staff it for the entire two weeks the two centres were open,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; he said. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;As a candidate, I saw my job during the last two weeks, as fronting for pre-poll. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Polglase team, and mine, were the only campaigns that were there from word go and saw it all the way through. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Dot Holdom, Kevin Skinner and the others eventually joined us to varying degrees, but The Greens were absent altogether.

With good reason, Longland identifies the field of pre-poll as the place where the Battle of the Tweed was determined. ing on 19 per cent and only just managing to stay ahead of the fast-closing Dot Holdom. But, was their poor showing at pre-poll just a statistical quirk, or did it reflect a failing on the campaign hustings? According to successful candidate Barry Longland, who exchanged preferences with The Greens, it was definitely the latter. Like a modern day Napoleon pointing to the map, he outlines where the main battle was fought, won and lost. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The fact is that pre-poll is not just the biggest booth, it is the biggest booth by far, and The Greens simply did not

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;It was disappointing, particularly when you consider that Phil Youngblutt was elected ahead of The Greensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; number two by just 48 votes. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Not staffing pre-poll cost The Greens many, many more votes than that.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; With good reason, Longland identifies the field of pre-poll as the place where the Battle of the Tweed was determined. The figures back him up. Despite being fifth in the overall vote, at pre-poll he managed to punch well above his weight, in raw votes finishing on par with the likes of Dot Holdom, Warren Polglase and

Joan van Lieshout. Tellingly, he finished hundreds of votes ahead of The Greens, who otherwise outpolled him two to one. Certainly, Longland was prepollâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s big winner. He scored a higher component of his total tally from pre-poll than any other candidate, or nearly 19 per cent. Compare this to The Greens who only notched up a tad over 8 per cent, and were statistically tailed-off, a dismal last. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I do need to acknowledge my partner Julia, for helping organise pre-poll. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;We identified it as important, and did the hard work accordingly.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Longlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own success there notwithstanding, the clash for pre-poll ultimately proved a bridge too far in his wider war to deliver council into the hands of progressive forces. Simply put, his ally failed to arrive on this crucial field of battle. Bravely, it might be said, Longland went down fighting, trying to hold on, waiting for the cavalry to arrive. But none came. Battles throughout history have turned on less. Napoleon may have been more philosophical. Câ&#x20AC;&#x2122;est la guerre, he would have said. Such, is war. www.tweedecho.com.au

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Lanterns on the river Don’t be surprised if someone you know becomes obsessed with lantern-making in the next few weeks. Spring is festival season in these parts – and after the Banana Festival and Speed on Tweed, it’s time for the Tweed River Festival. And that means lanterns. Since it began in 2001, the lantern parade at nightfall has been an integral part of the event. This year’s parade will take place on Saturday October 18, from 7pm at Jack Evans Boat Harbour, and it promises to be the most spectacular yet. There will also be fireworks, and entertainment featuring young local talent, including the Chilli Drummers – from Chillingham, of course. ‘It’s the only one of the festivals that’s run directly by Council,’ says the shire’s festivals and events organiser. The lanterns are organised by LightnUp, the Lismore group who also produce that town’s signature lantern show each June. They will bring in the bigger, articulated pieces ready-made, but others are created in a series of workshops around the area in the preceding week. This year there will be eight school workshops and one at the Tweed Respite Centre, and in addition children can come on the day from 3pm to decorate smaller

lanterns. All lantern-makers get to carry their creations in the parade. ‘We also encourage groups of people to join in,’ says Council coordinator Jane Lofthouse. Last year Landcare and Friends of the Hound were among those who took part. ‘It’s a great team-building exercise.’ And it’s a delight for children. As one six-year-old was overheard saying to her friend last year: ‘I love the lantern parade. It’s the best thing that happens all year.’

Daughter of the Tweed The river was an early inspiration for artist Margaret Olley, who sends greetings via the Echo to the Tweed River Art Gallery for its 20th birthday, to be celebrated this Friday evening. ‘It’s one of the most beautiful galleries in Australia,’ she told us this week. ‘The situation is lovely, and the gallery is perfect for it. They all have my very best wishes for the anniversary.’ Olley, one of Australia’s finest and best-loved artists, is also by far the most generous. Last week the Art Gallery of New South Wales announced that she had contributed $1 million to the $16m purchase of Cézanne’s Bords de la Marne, a masterpiece by a painter fundamental to the development of Western art. The Tweed gallery, whose second-phase building Olley opened two years ago, has also been the recipient of her benefaction, with gifts of work by Lawrence Daws, Anna Platten, Robin-Mary Calvert and Vicki Glazier. Olley’s own work – and at 80 she’s still painting prolifically – is renowned for its celebratory quality. She attributes much of her love of light and colour to an ‘idyllic’ childhood spent by the Tweed River from the age of eight. This was also where she developed her love of art. ‘I remember the whole of my

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camera and set off in his wheelchair to take pictures. Now he’s hoping to develop his own nature photo gallery. But he did have a motive when he took his prize-winning picture of a little native robin. Unlimited ‘I wanted to opportunities highlight the biodiversity of Banora Point has its own busy the area – to centre for the community’s get people art practitioners of all ages. Tweed Unlimited Arts Inc is a to take five non-profit group, and its centre minutes out to appreciate in Pioneer Parade is home to four separate groups – pottery, what we have here. It’s one of painting, spinning and weavthe few things ing, and embroidery – as well as Saturday classes for children. that’s free. I see my job as The weekday sessions are for practitioners and are generally contributing to nature and not teaching classes, though Arts and crafts members enjoy helping each increasing Some fine examples of the other. But if you have even a people’s enjoydecorative arts were on show little experience, or just like ment of it.’ at the Murwillumbah Civic trying your hand, call 07 5524 Needham, Centre last Saturday when 6223 and you’ll be put in touch who will the Murwillumbah evening with the relevant group. Most enter again this year, was branch of Country Women’s groups organise visits from surprised at the number of Association (CWA) held its leading artists, and the centre entrants in 2007, and says the annual Craft Fair, now in its has its own gallery – currently quality was ‘brilliant.’ seventh year. It’s amazing what under renovation – where Bookings for Friday’s workshop people can turn into art. Who members’ work is displayed. are essential – call Heather would have thought, for example, that you could recycle used Photos to lift the spirit Tannock on 6672 6143. Even if you miss the workshop, she’ll teabags by working them into This Friday, September 26, provide entry forms, which a beautiful textile collage? That the Tweed Civic Centre will are also available from the was just one item in an outCoolamon Cultural Centre in standing display of needlework host a two-hour workshop for at the stall of the Tweed Valley aspiring entrants in the photo- Murwillumbah. Entries close on graphic competition for people October 24. Embroiderers’ Group. They with a disability, announced in meet on the first and third Classics this weekend Tuesdays each month, 9.30am last week’s Echo. No one should hold back to 1pm, at the Uniting Church A reminder of a couple of for lack of experience. Last in Darlington Drive, Banora significant musical events this year’s inaugural winner, Jeff weekend. Point, and meetings are open Needham, cheerfully admits The concert Four Seasons to visitors and new members. that he had ‘absolutely none.’ He – Spring is on at All Saints Also at the Craft Fair were was just looking for an absorb- Anglican Church in the Murwillumbah Potters, Murwillumbah at 2pm on ing pursuit, so he bought a a self-help group who meet school week seemed to gravitate round the art class,’ she said. Olley has herself been painted by some of Australia’s most famous artists, including William Dobell, who won the Archibald prize with his 1948 portrait of her, and by Jeffrey Smart who portrayed her half a century later in a gallery of the Louvre. But the brilliant colours she loves have never been better captured than in Kevin Connor’s portrait of her at home in her studio. Fittingly, it’s now in the collection of the Tweed gallery, and is hung at present in the Facelift portrait show. The opening of the new shows, including the anniversary exhibition Wish you were here, is at 6.30pm on Friday September 26 and is open to everyone. Among the artists attending are speaker Michael Zavros, James Powditch, Kathleen Vafiadis, Hobie Porter, Michael Cusack, Leonie Lane, Fiona Fell and Bob Connery.

each Friday from 10am at the old Fernvale Primary School just south of town. They have a wood-fired kiln and a recently acquired gas kiln. Beginners are welcome as well as potters of every level of experience. The group has been going for 30 years, and members are happy to share their knowledge. You’ll have another chance to see them at the Murwillumbah Show, or else contact Ann Lee on 6672 3300.

Sunday September 28. Bring $10 and a cushion. At Tweed Civic Centre on the same afternoon, The Lady and the Larrikin – Liza Beamish and Lachlan Baker – perform the concert Celebrate with opera arias, ballads and ballroom dancers. The $20 price includes a glass of bubbly and afternoon tea. Bookings 07 5599 2274. Clockwise from top: Red Robin by Jeff Needham, 2007 winner in the photo competition for people with a disability. Photo courtesy of the artist: Lanterns in the parade at the 2007 Tweed River Festival. Photographs courtesy Tweed Shire Council: Kevin Connor Portrait of Margaret Olley Tweed River Art Gallery Collection:

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Tweed Art & Framing At Tweed Art and Framing the staff are passionate about art. A family run business that has been established for over thirty years, they are extremely knowledgeable and highly qualified. Consisting of an artist, a craftsmen and an arts lecturer the staff are more than happy to assist you with your art supply requirements. The store carries a comprehensive range of paints including acrylics, oils, watercolours and paint brushes. Also papers, canvasses, easels, pastels and pencils. If you can’t find what you’re looking for they will do their best to acquire it for you. For the not so proficient artist they have books, videos and art prints available. When you’ve finished your masterpiece they also offer an onsite custom framing service.

Jabiru Mathew and Jenny are only the fourth owners of Jabiru in 29 years. Along with Jess, they offer the reassuring continuity of personal service that their predecessors established. Jabiru has an extensive range of quality supplies for artists and art alike. This family run business is made up of framing art and crafts. Jabiru, known for its 'artists quality standard' art supplies, can order in products as needed.

That’s passion! Look for the sign on Minjungbal Drive we are at Shop 5, 125 Minjungbal Drive Tweed Heads South or phone us on 07 5524 4894.

The gallery and pottery are housed in an historic building (c.1921) at the centre of the idyllic village of Stokers Siding. Home to internationally acclaimed potter Bob Connery, Stokers Siding Pottery is located just 10 mins from Murwillumbah.

Jabiru supporting local artists – come in and find out more at 43 Wollumbin St, Murwillumbah.

Stokers Siding Pottery is 30 years old in October and welcomes everyone to have a browse and share the history and milestones of this unique gallery. Every week visitors are impressed and surprised by the variety and extensive range available including work from a variety of well known artists from across the North Coast.

Sandy and Patricia offer a wide range of supplies for sewers and crafts people alike. Sewing Pleasure on Main St, Murwillumbah, boasts an impressive 30000 bolts of fabric amongst the vast array of materials. They also have an in-house technician available to service and advise about the range of Janome and Bernina machines, and offer after sales service. Sewing Pleasure have a longarm quilting service. Perfect for all you patch workers. These women know what they are doing and, with an extensive knowledge, are available to assist you with your needs. Customers can enjoy a laugh and a social catch up when shopping at Sewing Pleasure – 78 Main St, Murwillumbah.

Fantazia Need a costume? Whether you’re an actor, a ballet or tap dancer, a jazz or rock singer, a burlesque or street performer, Fantazia has the answer. Fantazia stocks thousands of different fabrics including brocades, chiffons, satins, laces, lycras and tulles. They also stock beads, boas, ribbons, sequins, feathers, felts, flowers, tassels, masks, hats, jewellery findings, and all manner of things haberdashery just to name a few. Check it out. Unit 2, 5 Machinery Drive South Tweed Heads.

43 Wollumbin St, Murwillumbah

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A knitting revival is currently being enjoyed and Jabiru stock a large selection of wools and craft supplies. Classes are also on offer for crochet and folk art/ decorative painting. Lots of options for tapestry, photography, artwork and memorabilia.

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For the more artistically inclined Bob holds workshops teaching the special reduced lustre method that he developed. For 12 years Bob perfected the art of ‘reduced lustre pottery’ which is an ancient technique practised by the potters of the middle-east. Bob has exhibited his ceramics in Japan, where he is so highly regarded that he was given ‘signing rights’ by Grand Tea Master Sen Shoshitsu, effectively guaranteeing the quality of his work. Bob is one of only two Westerners to have been given such an accolade. A visit to Stokers Siding Pottery is an enriching and rewarding experience offering visitors a window into the world of a unique potter. Phone 02 6677 9208.

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The gallery carries functional and decorative pieces by resident potter Bob Connery, plus a wide range of other ceramics, glass, paintings, jewellery, cards and craft items from the very best local artists. Find us 40 mins north of Byron Bay, just 2km off the Tweed Valley Way on a good scenic sealed route to Mt Warning. Open 7 days 9:30am - 5pm

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Television Guide

FRIDAY 26

1. This is James Kerley, host of Taken Out (Ten, weekdays 6pm). We recommend that you gnaw your own head off before watching a millisecond of a show so bad Channel Ten demoted it from the 7pm slot without warning. Repeats of Friends have taken its place which means that Simpsons fans must go howl in outer darkness. 2. It’s a guilty pleasure but Scrapheap Challenge (ABC2, weekdays 6.35pm) is often entertaining as ingenious folk build improbable machines out of scrap. The host is appropriately the actor who played Kryton in Red Dwarf, and he actually looks and sounds better as a mechanoid. 3. The best musical of them all, Warner Bros’ final offering in this field, a hifi soundtrack better than any cinema of the time could handle: can only be My Fair Lady (Prime, Sunday 1.10pm). It had better be the fully restored version.

4.30 GP (PG) Repeat. 5.30 Strictly Dancing (G) Repeat. 6.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 The Lion Man (G) Repeat. 11.25 Aussie Animal Rescue (G) Repeat. 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Rewind (PG) Repeat. 1.30 Spicks And Specks (PG) Repeat. 2.00 Peking To Paris (PG) Repeat. 3.00 Kids’ Programs 4.50 RollerCoaster 6.00 Message Stick (G) Repeat. 6.30 Can We Help? (G) 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Stateline 8.00 Collectors (G) 8.30 Wire In The Blood (M*,v,cl) final. 10.00 Little Miss Jocelyn (PG) 10.25 Lateline 11.05 Double The Fist (M*,v) Repeat. 11.35 triple j tv Repeat. 12.05 Good Game Repeat. 12.35 rage (M) goes on until 5am Saturday.

7.00 Lateline Repeat. 5.20 World News in various languages. 6.00 Sunrise 7.35 Lateline Business Repeat. 1.00 The Food Lovers’ Guide To 9.00 The Morning Show (PG) 8.00 ABC Fora Australia (G) Repeat. 11.00 Playhouse Disney 9.00 Asia Pacific News 1.30 Insight: Insight In America Repeat. 11.30 Seven News 12.00 Movie: Dragonfly (M,h, 2002) Stars 9.30 The 7.30 Report Repeat. 2.30 Hungary 1956: Icons And Kevin Costner, Susanna Thompson 10.00 Kids’ Programs Memories (PG) Repeat. 2.30 Discover Tasmania (G) 4.30 The New Inventors Repeat. 3.30 Living Black Repeat. 3.00 Masterchef Goes Large (G) 5.00 7.30 Select 4.00 The Journal 3.40 Fast Ed’s Fast Food (G) 5.35 Catalyst (G) Repeat. 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 4.00 It’s Academic 6.00 Compass: Sex Or Celibacy (G) Repeat 5.30 Eco House Challenge (G) Repeat. 4.30 Seven News 6.35 Scrapheap Challenge (G) Repeat. 6.00 Global Village Cormorants. 5.00 M*A*S*H (G) 7.30 Something In the Air (G) Repeat. 6.30 World News Australia 5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) 8.00 Father Ted (PG) Final. 7.30 Stuart Sutcliffe: The Lost Beatle 6.00 Seven and Prime News 8.30 Songbook: Squeeze (PG) (PG) Documentary from the UK. 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 9.15 Creature Comforts (G) Repeat. 8.30 What’s Going On: The Life And 7.30 Better Homes And Gardens (G) 9.30 The Graham Norton Show (M*,cl,sr) Death Of Marvin Gaye (M,du,a,s) 9.00 Movie: Meet The Fockers (M,s, 10.00 Classic Albums: Judas Priest (G) 9.30 World News Australia 2004) Stars Ben Stiller, Dustin 10.55 Jane’s Addiction (M*,cl) Repeat. 10.05 Matrioshki: Thai Sex Trade (MA,v,cl) Hoffman, Barbra Streisand. 12.30 Close drama series. 11.05 Movie: Oysters At Nam Kee’s (MA, 11.45 The Benny Hill Show (PG) Repeat. 2002) Drama from the Netherlands. 12.10 Movie: Redemption (AV, 2003)Stars Jamie Foxx, Lynn Whitfield. 1.00 Movie: The Forbidden Chapter 2.00 Danoz and Expo (MA,v, 2005) Drama from Italy. 5.00 Guthy Renker 2.35 WeatherWatch Overnight

SATURDAY 27

Seven Qld program same as above except: 6.30 Today Tonight 11.15 30 Rock Prime HD program same as above except: 12.00 Egypt 1.00 Movie: Turner & Hooch (PG,v, 1989) 2.45 Harry’s Practice 3.15 Yin Yang Yo! 3.35 The Great Outdoors 12.00 Footy Marathon

5.00 rage (PG) 7.00 Kids’ Programs 8.00 rage: Guest Programmer; The 2.30 Blue Water High (G) Repeat. Fratellis (G) 2.55 Ace Day Jobs (G) Repeat. 9.00 triple j tv With The Doctor 3.00 rage (G) Repeat. 10.00 Songbook: Phil Collins (G) Repeat. 5.00 rage: Guest Programmer The 11.00 Black Books (PG) Repeat. Fratellis (G) Repeat. 11.30 The Cook And The Chef (G) Repeat. 6.05 The New Inventors (G) Repeat. 12.00 Stateline Repeat. 6.35 Scrapheap Challenge (G) Repeat. 12.30 Australian Story Repeat. 7.30 The Einstein Factor Repeat. 1.00 Foreign Correspondent Repeat. 8.00 At The Movies (G) Repeat. 1.30 Can We Help? (G) Repeat. 8.30 Movie: Alfred Hitchcock Season; 2.00 Love Is In The Air (PG) Final. The Man Who Knew Too Much (PG, 3.00 A Bear Named Winnie (G) Repeat. 1956) Stars James Stewart, Doris Day 4.30 Rare Chicken Rescue (G) Repeat. 10.30 Movie: Journey Into Fear (G, 1942) 5.00 Bowls: Indoor Championships Stars Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, 6.00 My Family (G) Repeat. Ruth Warwick. 6.30 Gardening Australia (G) 11.40 Close 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Wild At Heart (PG) 8.15 Collectors 8.25 ABC News 8.30 The Bill (PG) 10.05 ABC News 10.10 Taggart (M*,v) Repeat. 11.20 rage (M)

6.00 Saturday Disney (G) 5.20 World News in various languages. 8.00 AFL Grand Final North Melbourne 10.55 America Decides: The First Breakfast. Presidential Debate 2008 9.30 AFL Game Day 12.35 Turkish News 12.30 AFL Premiership Season 2008: 1.00 Sylvia (G) ballet from the UK. Grand Final 2.50 Castrato (PG) masterpiece from the UK 3.55 Living With The Future (G) 6.00 Seven News Architecture. 6.30 Movie: Cars (G, 2006) Stars Owen 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer Wilson, Paul Newman. 5.35 Lonely Planet Six Degrees – Taipei 9.00 Movie: Knight Rider (M, 2008) Stars (PG) Repeat doco series. David Hasselhoff, Justin Bruening. 6.30 World News Australia 11.00 Movie: Predator (M,v,cl, 1987) 7.30 Mythbusters (PG) doco series. Stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl 8.30 Iron Chef (G) Repeat. Weathers, Shane Black. 9.20 RocKwiz (PG) entertainment. 1.05 Movie: The Operators (M,s,v, 10.00 Great Australian Albums (M) Final. 2001) Stars Brion James, Stephen 11.00 Nynne (M,cl) drama series from Tobolowsky, Christa Miller. Denmark. 3.05 Danoz , Expo and Guthy Renker 12.25 SOS (M) 12.45 Newstopia (M,cl) Comedy series. 1.15 Life Support (M,s) Repeat. 1.45 Drawn Together (MA,s) Animated comedy series. Repeat. 2.10 WeatherWatch Overnight

6.00 Today 6.00 Ten Early News 9.00 Mornings With Kerri-Anne (PG) 7.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Danoz and Guthy Renker 8.30 Puzzle Play 12.00 The View (PG) 9.00 9am With David & Kim (PG) 1.00 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 11.00 Ten News 2.00 Days Of Our Lives (PG) 12.00 Dr Phil (PG) 3.00 Fresh Cooking (G) 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) 3.30 Here’s Humphrey Repeat. 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) 4.00 The Shak 3.00 Infomercial (PG) 4.30 National News 3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures (G) 5.00 Antiques Roadshow (G) Repeat. 4.00 Animalia 6.00 Evening News 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful (G) 7.00 A Current Affair 5.00 Ten News 7.30 Rugby League Finals 1st prelimi6.00 Taken Out (PG) dating series. nary final. 6.30 Neighbours (G) 9.45 Movie: Bad Boys II (AV, 2003) Stars 7.00 Friends (PG) Repeat. Martin Lawrence, Will Smith. 7.30 America’s Next Top Model (PG) 8.30 Movie: Domino (M, 2005) Stars Keira 12.40 Movie: Highway (MA15+,v,cl, 2002) Stars Selma Blair, Danny Comden. Knightley, Mickey Rourke. 2.30 Mad TV (M) 11.10 Late News With Sports Tonight 3.30 Guthy Renker Australia 12.10 Late Show With David Letterman 4.30 Good Morning America 1.00 Before The Game – Grand Final Special (PG) 3.10 Video Hits Up Late (PG) 3.30 Infomercials 4.00 Queer Eye For The Straight Guy (PG) 5.00 Religion

6.00 Kids’ Programs 8.30 Video Hits First (G) 10.00 Video Hits (PG) 12.00 Infomercials 1.00 Hook Line & Sinker (PG) Repeat. 1.30 River To Reef (PG) 2.00 Video Hits Presents: Alicia Keys In Concert (G) 3.00 Totally Australia: Finding Culture 4.00 The Truth About Binge Drinking (PG,cl,v,a) Repeat. 5.00 Ten News With Sports Tonight 6.00 The Simpsons (G) Repeat. 6.30 Movie: Curious George (G, 2006) Animated movie. 8.30 Movie: Crackerjack (M,cl,du, 2002) Stars Mick Molloy, Judith Lucy, John Clarke. 10.35 Movie: EDTV (M, 1999) Stars Matthew McConaughey, Jenna Elfman 12.50 Crime Files (M) 1.50 Formula One Grand Prix: Round 15 – Singapore (Qualifying) 2.50 Video Hits Up Late 3.00 Infomercials 4.00 Religion

6.00 Infomercials 7.30 Kids’ Programs 11.00 The Music Jungle (PG) 12.00 Boarding Pass (G) 12.30 Do It Green (G) home make-overs. 1.30 Movie: 55 Days At Peking (G,1963) Stars Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner. 4.50 Neil Diamond (PG) Repeat. 5.00 The Garden Gurus (G) 5.30 Fishing Australia (G) 6.00 Evening News 6.30 Funniest Home Video Show (G) 7.30 Rugby League Finals 2nd preliminary final – live. 9.44 Saturday Lotto 9.45 Movie: Stealth (M,v,cl, 2005) Stars Jamie Foxx, Jessica Biel, Josh Lewis. 12.10 Movie: Outbreak (M,v,cl, 1995) Stars Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Spacey, Morgan Freeman, Donald Sutherland 2.35 Mad TV (M) 3.30 Blue Collar TV (M) 4.00 Danoz and Guthy Renker

NBN Qld program same as above except: 5.00 The Good Life

SUNDAY 28

Prime HD program same as above except: 6.00 Footy Marathon

5.00 rage 6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Insiders And Inside Business 10.30 Offsiders 11.00 Asia Pacific Focus 11.30 Songs Of Praise (G) 12.00 Landline 1.00 Gardening Australia (G) Repeat. 1.30 Message Stick (G) 2.00 Olga: Last Grand Duchess (G) 3.00 MSO Classical Spectacular (G) 5.00 900 Neighbours (PG*) 6.00 At The Movies Repeat. 6.30 The Einstein Factor (G) 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Doctor Who (PG) Final. 8.35 ABC News Update 8.40 Midsomer Murders (M*,v) 10.15 Compass: Losing The Plots (G) 10.45 Doctor Who (G) Repeat. 11.10 Hayley Westenra (G) Repeat. 12.25 Order In The House 1.25 Movie: The Informer (PG, 1935) Stars Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel 3.05 Movie: The Woman On The Beach (PG, 1947) Stars Robert Ryan, Joan Bennett, Charles Bickford.

7.00 John Lennon: Live In New York City (G) Repeat. 8.00 Neil Finn: One Nil Live (G) Repeat. 9.00 The Guitar Show with Ritchie Sambora, Bob Brozman, Ben Harper, Tommy Emmanuel (G) Repeat. 9.30 Classic Albums: U2; The Joshua Tree (G) Final. 10.30 triple j tv With The Doctor Repeat. 11.30 triple j tv presents Grinspoon (PG) 12.00 London Live (G) Music. Repeat. 12.30 Red Dwarf (PG) Repeat. 1.30 Planet Rock Profiles: Nick Cave (PG) 2.00 Alice Cooper: Prime Cuts (G) Repeat 3.00 Deep Purple: Live At Montreux 1996 (G) Repeat. 4.00 Gimme Some Truth: The Making Of John Lennon’s Imagine Album 5.00 Falcon Beach (G) Repeat. 5.45 A Little Later (G) Repeat. 6.00 London Live (PG) Music. Repeat. 6.30 Planet Rock Profiles: The Darkness (G) Repeat. 7.00 Artscape: John Armleder (G) Repeat 7.30 Sticky Bricks (G) Repeat. 8.30 The Archive Project (PG) Repeat. 10.10 Merge (G) Repeat. 10.30 Art House (G) Repeat. 10.55 Close

6.25 World News in various languages. 10.00 Dateline 11.00 Eros Ramazzotti music from Italy 11.30 National Road Team Series: Goulburn to Citi Cycling. 12.30 World Superbike Championships 1.00 Speedweek 3.00 Football Asia 3.30 UEFA Champions League Magazine Sport. 4.00 Les Murray’s Football Feature 5.00 The World Game Football. 6.00 Australian Biography: Ted Egan (PG) 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Who Do You Think You Are? – Moira Stuart (PG) doco series. 8.30 James May’s 20th Century (G) Final 9.05 Movie: Tsotsi (M,v,cl, 2005) Drama from South Africa. 10.45 Movie: Mango Yellow (MA,cl,s,n,s 2004) Drama from Brazil. 12.35 Swordsmen Of The Passes (M,v) 2.10 Weatherwatch Overnight

6.00 Religion 6.30 Home Shopping 7.00 Blinky Bill’s Around The World Adventures Repeat. 7.30 Weekend Sunrise 10.00 Most Daring (PG) Repeat. 11.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 V8 Xtra (G) 12.30 Motorsport Mini Challenge 1.10 Movie: My Fair Lady (G, 1964) Stars Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison. 5.00 Border Patrol (PG) Repeat. 5.30 Sydney Weekender (G) 6.00 Seven News 6.30 The Outdoor Room With Jamie Durie (G) Bali. 7.00 Outback Wildlife Rescue (G) 7.30 Dancing With The Stars (G) 9.15 Private Practice (M,a,s) double episode. 11.15 Seconds From Disaster (PG) Texas oil explosion. 12.15 Movie: Women vs Men (M, 2002) Dayton Callie, Jennifer Coolidge, Ben Donovan. 2.00 Undercover Angels (G) Repeat. 2.30 Danoz, Expo and Guthy Renker

6.00 Religion 7.00 Wormwood series return. 7.30 Totally Wild 8.00 Meet The Press 8.30 State Focus 9.00 Video Hits First (G) 10.00 Video Hits (PG) 12.00 I Fish (G) 1.00 RPM Motorsport. 2.00 Moto GP: Round 15 – Montegi, Japan Live. 4.00 Journeys To The Ends Of The Earth (G) doco on disappearing cultures. 5.00 Ten News With Sports Tonight 6.00 The Simpsons (G) Repeat. 6.30 Thank God You’re Here (PG) Repeat 7.30 Australian Idol (PG) 9.00 Rove (M) 10.10 Dexter (AV15+,cl,v) season finale. 11.20 Formula One Grand Prix: Round 15 – Singapore 1.35 Infomercials 4.00 Religion

6.00 Arrive Alive Cup Rugby League 7.00 TVP Direct 7.30 Biomagnetics (G) 8.00 Sunday News 9.00 Wide World Of Sports (G) 11.00 Sunday Footy Show (G) 12.00 Sunday Roast (PG) 1.00 The Car Show (G) 1.30 Speed Machine Andra 2008 Australian Nationals. 2.00 Gimore Girls (PG) 2.30 WWE Afterburn Wrestling. 4.00 A Century Of Rugby League (G) 5.00 Holidays For Sale (G) 5.30 Antiques Roadshow (G) Walsall. 6.00 Evening News 6.30 Battlefronts (PG) 7.30 60 Minutes 8.30 CSI: Miami (M) 9.30 Crime Investigation Australia (M) 10.40 CSI: NY (M,v) Repeat. 11.30 Movie: The Animal (M,sr, 2001) Stars Bob Schneider, Cloris Leachman, Colleen Haskell. 1.00 A1GP – World Cup Of Motorsport Mugello, Italy. 2.00 Guthy Renker and Danoz 4.00 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

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4.30 GP (PG) Repeat. 7.00 Insiders Repeat. 5.30 Strictly Dancing (G) Repeat. 8.00 Inside Business Repeat. 6.00 Kids’ Programs 8.30 Asia Pacific Focus 11.00 Landline Repeat. 9.00 Asia Pacific News 12.00 Midday Report 9.25 Offsiders Repeat. 12.30 Last Frontiers Explorers (PG) 10.00 Kids’ Programs 1.30 The Cook And The Chef (G) Repeat. 4.30 Gardening Australia (G) Repeat. 2.00 SeaChange (G) Repeat. 5.00 Message Stick Repeat. 3.00 Kids’ Programs 5.35 Can We Help? (G) Repeat. 5.00 RollerCoaster 6.05 Collectors (G) Repeat. 6.35 Scrapheap Challenge (G) Repeat. 6.00 Landline Extra Repeat. 7.30 Something In The Air (G) Repeat. 6.30 Talking Heads: Graeme Clark (G) 8.00 triple j tv 7.00 ABC News 8.30 The Hack Half Hour (M*,v,cl) 7.30 7.30 Report with Kerry O’Brien 9.00 Good Game 8.00 Australian Story 9.30 Death Note (M*,v) 8.30 Four Corners 10.00 triple j tv presents The Wombats 9.20 Media Watch 10.30 Bossa Nova (M*,n) Repeat. 9.35 Enough Rope With Andrew 11.25 Close Denton Guest Nigella Lawson. 10.35 Lateline 11.10 Lateline Business 11.35 Find Me A Family (G) Final. 12.25 Movie: Belle Starr’s Daughter (PG, 1949) Stars George Montgomery, Ruth Roman, Rod Cameron. 1.50 Movie: Return Of The Bad Men (PG, 1948) Stars Randolph Scott, Robert Ryan, Anne Jeffreys. 3.25 Bowls: QLD Open 2008 Repeat.

5.20 World News in various languages. 1.00 Living Black 1.30 For God, Tsar and Fatherland (PG) Repeat. 2.30 Days That Changed The World: Storming Of The Bastille (PG) Final 3.30 Insight: Insight In America Repeat. 4.30 The Journal 5.00 The Crew (G) student video production 5.30 Corner Gas (G) Comedy. Repeat. 6.00 Global Village British Isles. 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Top Gear (PG) 8.30 South Park (M,a,s) 8.55 The Mighty Boosh (M,cl,a) Comedy 9.30 World News Australia part 1 of 8 – series premier. 10.05 Shameless (M,a,du,cl,s) Comedy. 11.00 Movie: The Art Of Dying (MA,cl,v, 2000) Thriller from Spain. 12.45 Movie: Running Out Of Time (M,cl,v, 1999) Drama from Hong Kong 2.25 WeatherWatch Overnight

4.30 GP (PG) Repeat. 7.00 Lateline Repeat. 5.30 Strictly Dancing (G) Repeat. 7.35 Lateline Business Repeat. 6.00 Kids’ Programs 8.00 Four Corners Repeat. 11.00 The Pursuit Of Excellence (G) Repeat 8.45 Media Watch Repeat. 12.00 Midday Report 9.00 Asia Pacific News 12.30 The Einstein Factor (G) Quiz show. 9.30 7.30 Report Repeat. 1.00 The New Inventors (G) Repeat. 10.00 Kids’ Programs 1.30 Catalyst (G) Repeat. 4.30 A Place In Slovakia (G) Repeat. 2.00 SeaChange (PG) Repeat. 5.00 Talking Heads (G) Repeat. 3.00 Kids’ Programs 5.35 Game Ranger Diaries (G) 4.55 RollerCoaster 6.35 Scrapheap Challenge (G) Repeat. 6.05 Time Team: Hooke Court (G) 7.30 Something In The Air (G) Repeat. 7.00 ABC News 8.00 Australian Story Repeat. 7.30 7.30 Report with Kerry O’Brien 8.30 Hamish Macbeth (G) Repeat. 8.00 Two In The Top End (G) 9.20 The Bill (PG) Repeat. 8.30 Life At 1(G*) Repeat. 10.55 MDA (M*cl) Repeat. 9.30 Foreign Correspondent 11.50 Close 10.00 Artscape: Keith Sonnier (G) 10.30 Lateline 11.05 Lateline Business 11.30 Four Corners Repeat. 12.20 Media Watch Repeat. 12.35 Movie: McVicar (M*,cl,n,v, 1980) Stars Roger Daltrey, Adam Faith. 2.25 Movie: Hitler’s Children (PG, 1942) Stars Tim Holt, Bonita Granville. 3.50 Songs Of Praise (G) Final.

5.20 World News in various languages 1.00 The Storm Rages Twice (G) Repeat drama from Lebanon. 2.00 Don Matteo (PG) Drama series from Italy. 3.00 Here Comes The Neighbourhood (G) 3.30 Food Safari: Pakistani 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 5.30 Corner Gas (G) Comedy. Repeat. 6.00 Global Village Papua New Guinea. 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Insight In America: American Dream 8.30 Cutting Edge: From Jail to Jihad (M) 9.30 World News Australia 10.05 Hot Docs (M) doco from Denmark – double episode. 12.10 Movie: The Paper Will Be Blue (M,cl,v, 2006) drama from Romania. 1.50 WeatherWatch Overnight

6.00 Ten News 7.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 9am With David & Kim 12.00 Movie: Barbie In The Diamond 11.00 Ten News Castle (G, 2008) Animated movie. 2.00 Home Improvement (G) Repeat. 12.00 Dr Phil (PG) Repeat. 2.30 Kids’ Programs 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) Repeat. 4.00 It’s Academic 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) 4.30 Seven News 3.00 Infomercials (PG) 5.00 M*A*S*H (G) Repeat. 3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures (G) 5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) 4.00 Outback 8 kid’s travel to the 6.00 Seven and Prime News Australian Outback. 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful (G) 7.30 Border Security – Australia’s Front 5.00 Ten News Line (PG) 6.00 Taken Out (PG) dating series. 8.00 The Force – Behind The Line (PG) 6.30 Neighbours (G) 8.30 City Homicide (M,v,a) 7.00 Friends (PG) Repeat. 9.30 Bones (M) 7.30 Australian Idol (PG) 10.30 Out of the Question New quiz show 8.30 90210 (M)Troubled adolescents. with Glenn Robbins 9.30 Burn Notice (M) 11.00 Boston Legal (M) 10.30 Late News With Sports Tonight 12.00 Auction Squad (G) 11.15 Late Show With David Letterman 1.00 Danoz, Expo and Guthy Renker 12.00 Courting Alex (PG) Repeat. 12.30 Judge Judy (PG) Seven Qld program same as above except: 1.00 Infomercials 6.30 Today Tonight Prime HD program same as above except: 4.00 Religion to 6am. 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.00 Playhouse Disney 11.30 Seven News

12.00 Egypt 12.50 Movie: Remember The Titans (PG,v,a, 2000) 2.45 Harry’s Practice 3.15 Yin Yang Yo! 3.35 The Great Outdoors 10.30 Alias 11.30 Ross Kemp On Gangs 12.30 Commando: On The Front Line 1.30 Urban Legends

6.00 Ten News 7.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 9am With David & Kim 12.00 Movie: L.A. Law – The Movie (PG,a,cl, 2002) Stars Corbin Bernsen, 11.00 Ten News 12.00 Dr Phil (PG) Repeat. Susan Dey, Harry Hamlen. 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) Repeat. 2.00 All Saints (M) 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) 3.00 Home Improvement (G) 3.00 Infomercials (PG) 2.30 Kids’ Programs 3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures (G) 4.00 It’s Academic 4.00 Outback 8 kids’ travel to the 4.30 Seven News Australian Outback. 5.00 M*A*S*H (G) 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful (G) 5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) 5.00 Ten News 6.00 Seven and Prime News 6.00 Taken Out (PG) dating series. 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 6.30 Neighbours (G) 7.30 RSPCA Animal Rescue (G) 7.00 Friends (PG) Repeat. 8.00 Find My Family (PG) 7.30 The All New Simpsons (PG) 8.30 Packed to the Rafters (M) 8.00 The Simpsons (PG) Repeat. 9.30 All Saints (M) 8.30 NCIS (M) new season. 10.30 Make Me A Supermodel (M) 9.30 Rush (M) 11.30 30 Rock (PG) series final. 10.30 Late News With Sports Tonight 12.00 Cavemen (PG) Repeat. 11.15 Late Show With David Letterman 12.30 Danoz, Expo and Guthy Renker 12.00 Courting Alex (PG) Repeat. Seven Qld program same as above except: 12.30 State Focus Repeat. 6.30 Today Tonight Prime HD program same as above except: 1.00 Infomercials 12.00 Egypt 1.00 Movie: Captain Ron (PG,cl,s, 4.00 Religion to 6am. 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show (PG) 11.00 Playhouse Disney 11.30 Seven News

7.00 Lateline Repeat. 4.30 UEFA Champions League 2008/’09 6.00 Sunrise 7.35 Lateline Business Repeat. 9.00 The Morning Show Live Arsenal vs Porto. 8.00 Landline Extra Repeat. 7.00 UEFA Champions League 2008/’09 11.00 Playhouse Disney 8.30 Foreign Correspondent (G) Repeat. Game 2: Zenit St Petersburg vs Real 11.30 News 9.00 Asia Pacific News 12.00 Movie: Jumping Ship (PG,v, 2001) Madrid. 9.30 The 7.30 Report Repeat. 9.00 World News in various languages. Stars Joey Lawrence, Susan Walters. 10.00 Kids’ Programs 4.00 The Journal 2.00 Home Improvement (G) 4.30 Once A Soldier (G) 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 3.00 Kids’ Programs 5.00 Auto Stories (G) Repeat. 5.30 Feast Bazaar: Moroccan (G) Repeat. 4.00 It’s Academic 5.35 Time Team (G) Repeat. 6.00 Living Black 4.30 Seven & Prime News 6.20 Mosaic: Cuba (G) Final. 6.30 World News Australia 5.00 M*A*S*H (G) Repeat. 6.35 Scrapheap Challenge (G) Repeat. 7.30 The Hairy Bikers’ Cookbook (G) 5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) 7.30 Something In The Air (G) Repeat. 8.00 Road Trip Nation Australia (PG) Part 6.00 Prime & Seven News 8.00 Little Angels (G) 7.00 Home And Away (PG,n) 2 of 4. 8.30 Help Me Love My Baby (PG) Final. 7.30 Crash Investigation Unit (PG) 8.30 Dateline 9.20 Iconoclasts: Eddie Vedder and 8.00 Medical Emergency (PG) 9.30 World News Australia Laird Hamilton 10.05 NEWStopia (M) Comedy – new series 8.30 Criminal Minds (M) double episode 10.05 Interview With A Poltergeist (M*,cl) 10.35 Movie: The Man Of The Year 10.30 Alan Sugar: The Apprentice (PG) Repeat. 11.50 Billy Connolly’s World Tour Of New (M,v,cl,a, 2002) Action adventure 11.00 Bad Boy Racers (PG) Repeat. Zealand (M,cl,d) Repeat. from Brazil. 11.45 Close 12.30 Movie: Dragonflies (MA,n,du, 2001) 12.50 Danoz, Expo and Guthy Renker Drama from Norway. 2.25 Weatherwatch Overnight

4.30 GP (PG) Repeat. 5.30 Strictly Dancing (G) Repeat. 6.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Monarchy (G) Repeat. 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Parkinson (G) Repeat. 1.30 Collectors (G) Repeat. 2.00 Grass Roots (PG) Repeat. 3.00 Kids’ Programs 4.50 RollerCoaster 6.05 Rumble In The River (G*) crocs and hippos. 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 Catalyst 8.30 Life At 3: Fighting Fat (G) 9.30 Q & A (PG) 10.30 Lateline 11.05 Lateline Business 11.30 Sound Of The Soul (G) Repeat. 12.50 Wildside (M*,v,cl) 1.40 Movie: Enchanted Cottage (G, 1945) Stars Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall. 3.25 Peter Coppin (G*) Repeat. 3.55 The Glass House (M*,cl) Repeat.

7.00 Lateline Repeat. 4.30 UEFA Champions League 2008/’09 7.35 Lateline Business Repeat. Live Liverpool vs PSV Eindhoven. 8.00 National Press Club Address 7.00 UEFA Champions League 2008/’09 9.00 Asia Pacific News Game 2: Inter Milan vs Werder 9.30 The 7.30 Report Repeat. Bremen. 10.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 World News in various languages. 4.30 The Einstein Factor (G) Repeat. 2.30 Dateline Repeat. 5.00 The Cook And The Chef (G)Repeat. 3.30 Italian News 5.35 ABC Fora 4.00 The Journal 6.35 Scrapheap Challenge (G) Repeat. 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 7.30 Something In The Air (G) Repeat. 5.30 UEFA Champions League Hour 8.00 Spicks And Specks (PG) Repeat. 6.30 World News Australia 8.30 The Hollowmen (M) repeat. 7.35 Inspector Rex (PG) crime series from 9.00 Very Small Business (M*,cl,sr) Austria. Repeat. 9.30 Double The Fist (M*,v) 8.30 The Circuit (M,cl,a) Repeat. 10.00 Peep Show (M*,sr,cl) Repeat. 9.30 World News Australia 10.30 Ideal (MA*,v,cl,du) 10.05 Movie: Brothers (MA, 2004) Drama 11.00 Bromwell High (M*,cl,a) Repeat. from Denmark. 11.25 Close 12.05 Queer As Folk (MA,cl,s) Repeat. 12.55 Movie: Delwende (MA, 2005) Drama from France. 2.30 Weatherwatch Overnight [s] = Sex

Programs are correct at the time of going to press but beware – all stations like tinkering with things at the last minute.

Seven Qld program same as above except: 6.30 Today Tonight Prime HD program same as above except: 12.00 Egypt 1.00 Movie: Model Behavior (PG, 2000) 2.45 Harry’s Practice 3.15 Yin Yang Yo! 3.35 The Great Outdoors 10.30 Gear 11.00 TBA 11.30 Make Me A Supermodel 12.30 Alan Sugar

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Adult themes Nudity Drug use Drug references Violence Could offend Horror

[cl] = Coarse language [sr] = Sexual references [mp] = Medical procedures [st] = Supernatural themes [ie] = Issues about euthanasia

5.30 Today 9.00 Mornings With Kerri-Anne 11.00 Danoz and Guthy Renker 12.00 The View (PG) 1.00 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 2.00 Days Of Our Lives (PG) 3.00 Fresh Cooking (G) 3.30 Here’s Humphrey Repeat. 4.00 Lab Rats Challenge kids’ game show 4.30 National News 5.00 Antiques Roadshow (G) Repeat. 6.00 Evening News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 Wipeout (PG) reality series. 8.30 Two And A Half Men (M,sr) double episode. 9.30 20 to 1 (M) new episodes. 10.30 Survivor: Micronesia (PG). 11.30 Girls Of The Playboy Mansion (M) 12.00 E R (M) Repeat. 1.00 Outrageous Fortune (M,cl) Repeat. 2.00 Guthy Renker Australia 3.00 Danoz (G) 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

1992) 2.45 Harry’s Practice 3.15 Yin Yang Yo! 3.35 The Great Outdoors 10.30 Urban Legends 11.00 Night Stalker 12.00 Lost 1.00 Dr Danger 1.30 Scrubs

4.30 GP (PG) Repeat. 5.30 Strictly Dancing (G) Repeat. 6.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Naked Science (G) 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 National Press Club Address 1.30 Talking Heads (G) Repeat. 2.00 SeaChange (PG) Final. 3.00 Kids’ Programs 4.50 RollerCoaster 6.00 Travel Oz (G*) 6.30 The Cook And The Chef 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 The New Inventors (G) 8.30 Spicks And Specks (PG) 9.00 The Hollowmen (M) Comedy. 9.30 Very Small Business (M*,cl) 10.00 At The Movies 10.30 Lateline 11.05 Lateline Business 11.30 Murphy’s Law (M*,v,cl) Final. 12.25 Movie: Blood On The Moon (PG, 1948) Stars Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Preston. 1.55 Movie: Walk Softly, Stranger (PG, 1950) Stars Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli. 3.25 National Press Club Address Repeat. Completed

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5.30 Today 9.00 Mornings With Kerri-Anne 11.00 Time/Life (G) 11.30 Danoz (G) 12.00 The View (PG) talk show. 1.00 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 2.00 Days Of Our Lives (PG) 3.00 Fresh Cooking (G) 3.30 Here’s Humphrey Repeat. 4.00 Lab Rats Challenge kids’ game show 4.30 National News 5.00 Antiques Roadshow (G) Repeat. 6.00 Evening News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 David Attenborough’s – The Greatest Wildlife Show On Earth (G) 8.30 Movie: The Triangle (M,v,2006) Stars Sam Neill, Eric Stoltz. 8.45 Lotto 10.30 Sensing Murder (M,v) 11.30 Just Shoot Me (PG) 12.00 Shipwrecked (PG) 12.30 Just Shoot Me (PG) 1.00 The Baron (PG) Repeat. 2.00 Guthy Renker and Danoz 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

6.00 Ten Early News 7.00 Toasted TV & Kids’ Programs 8.30 Puzzle Play 9.00 9am With David And Kim 11.00 Ten Morning News 12.00 Dr Phil (PG) Repeat. 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) Repeat. 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) 3.00 Infomercial (PG) 3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures (G) 4.00 Totally Wild 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful (G) 5.00 Ten News 6.00 Taken Out (PG) dating series. 6.30 Neighbours (G) 7.00 Friends (PG) Repeat. 7.30 Bondi Rescue: Bali (PG) 8.00 Kenny’s World (PG) 8.30 House (M) 9.30 Life (M) 10.30 Late News With Sports Tonight 11.15 Late Show With David Letterman 12.00 Courting Alex (PG) Repeat. 12.30 Infomercials (PG) Repeat. 4.00 Religion to 6am.

6.00 Ten Early News 7.00 Toasted TV & Kids’ Programs 12.00 Movie: Catch That Kid (PG,v,a, 2002) 8.30 Puzzle Play 9.00 9am With David And Kim 2.00 Home Improvement 11.00 Ten Morning News 2.30 Kids’ Programs 12.00 Dr Phil (PG) Repeat. 4.00 It’s Academic 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) Repeat. 4.30 Seven News 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) 5.00 M*A*S*H (G) Repeat. 3.00 Infomercial (PG) 5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) 3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures (G) 6.00 Prime & Seven News 4.00 Totally Wild 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful (G) 7.30 Make Me A Supermodel (PG) 5.00 Ten News 8.30 Ghost Whisperer (M,v,h,a) 6.00 Taken Out (PG) dating series. 10.30 Family Guy (M) Final. 6.30 Neighbours (G) 11.00 American Dad (M) Final. 7.00 Friends (PG) Repeat. 11.30 TBA 7.30 Are You Smarter Than A 5th 12.30 Sons And Daughters (G) Grader (G) 1.00 Danoz, Expo and Guthy Renker 8.30 Law & Order: Criminal Intent (M,v) 9.30 Law & Order: SVU (M) Repeat. 10.30 Late News With Sports Tonight Seven Qld program same as above except: 6.30 Today Tonight 11.15 Late Show With David Letterman Prime HD program same as above except: 12.00 Courting Alex (PG) Final. 12.00 Egypt 1.00 Six Degrees 2.00 Make Me A 12.30 Infomercials (PG) Supermodel 2.45 Harry’s Practice 3.15 Yin Yang 4.00 Religion to 6am. Yo! 3.35 The Great Outdoors 10.30 Make Me A 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.00 Playhouse Disney 11.30 News

5.30 Today 9.00 Mornings With Kerri-Anne 11.00 Danoz 12.00 The View (PG) 1.00 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 2.00 Days Of Our Lives (PG) 3.00 Fresh Cooking (G) 3.30 Here’s Humphrey 4.00 Lab Rats Challenge 4.30 National News 5.00 Antiques Roadshow (G) Repeat. 6.00 Evening News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 Two And A Half Men (PG) Repeat. 8.00 Hole In The Wall (PG) 8.30 Fringe (M) drama series. 8.45 Lotto 9.30 Kitchen Nightmares USA (M,cl) 10.30 Balls Of Steel (MA) double episode. 11.30 Just Shoot Me (PG) 12.00 Surfari (PG) 12.30 Twins (PG) 1.00 Mad TV 2.00 Guthy Renker Australia 2.30 Danoz 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

5.30 Today 9.00 Mornings With Kerri-Anne 11.00 Danoz and Guthy Renker 12.00 The View (PG) 1.00 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 2.00 Days Of Our Lives (PG) 3.00 Fresh Cooking (G) 3.30 Here’s Humphrey 4.00 The Shak 4.30 National News 5.00 Antiques Roadshow (G) Repeat. 6.00 Evening News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 Getaway (PG) travel series. 8.30 The Strip (M,v) crime series. 9.30 The Footy Show (M) Final edition. 11.30 Seinfeld (PG) 12.00 Movie: Up ‘n’ Under (M,cl,n, 1998) Stars Gary Olsen, Richard Ridings. 2.00 Guthy-Renker Australia 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

Supermodel 12.30 Urban Legends 1.00 Dr Danger 1.30 Scrubs

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As the Sun sashays into Libra, Mercury hits the last of this year’s retrogrades and though you may know the drill by now, I’ll spell it out… From September 24 to October 14 back up computer files, double check all arrangements and travel plans, make sure you have your keys and don’t take risks… ARIES: This week’s astrally designed for making peace – for dropping differences, forgiving disappointments, making friends and amends, restoring accord where situations are out of synch. If you really want to be understood, then be understanding – the ball’s in your court.

TAURUS: Retro Mercury bugs others but won’t bother you, slowish being your preferred speed. If you’ve been resisting a decision you know you need to make, this week gives you time to think it through. No sweat though – Jupiter, the zodiac’s sugar daddy planet’s looking after you. GEMINI: Don’t schedule too many activities this week because for sure Mercury turning retrograde’s bound to throw some plans into a holding pattern and others onto the back burner. Which gives you the opportunity to reconsider, fine tune and adjust things in your favour. CANCER: If a loved one’s problems have been burdensome this week makes a welcome change from recent responsibilities, so get out and revive your aliveness in the social swim – because Jupiter’s recent shift forward in Capricorn is now having a directly beneficial impact on the Crab clan. LEO: This is a majorly creative time for the Lion tribe with plenty of adventures in the pleasure zone if that’s your thing. The next three weeks aren’t the year’s best for marketing yourself, your prod-

uct or your ideas, but don’t let that stop you from going ahead and achieving miracles. VIRGO: The only retro Mercury glitch likely for Virgos is that no matter how carefully you say something others just mightn’t get it – or vice versa. If existential irritations occur (and when don’t they), make this year’s birthday resolution to be less of a stress cadet. LIBRA: Libra Sun gives you added glow and extra energy for dealing with Mercury retrograde’s changes of heart, mind or finances – so don’t let these interfere with this week’s most enjoyable activities: reinventing the new spring version of last season’s you, writing birthday lists and masterminding appropriate celebrations. SCORPIO: Could your most important relationships conceivably, with just a touch of tweaking, be more harmonious, understanding, adventurous, humorous, sexy and consensual? With Venus in Scorpio and your planetary ruler Mars in the sign of equitable agreements, don’t miss this rare chance for doing just that… SAGITTARIUS: Though unkind astrologers describe Sagittarians

as motor mouths, you can be quiet when you need to – and this week recommends discretion with personal information where difficult relatives, colleagues or friends are concerned. This is a time when speaking your mind isn’t necessarily the wisest idea. CAPRICORN: There’s plenty of love dust in the air right now, with people playful and group activities entertaining. Enjoy what the material world’s got to offer and know that on a more serious note, this week brings a crossroads, a turning point, a personal breakthrough. AQUARIUS: When Mercury’s retrograde don’t accept guesstimates or assumptions where figures, plans and arrangements are concerned – get agreements in hard copy. And while you’re busy brainstorming business and relationship reforms know also this isn’t a time to push. Let changes unfold organically. PISCES: This week’s challenge is finding the balance – of light in the dark, blessings among the challenges, love and fun among life’s worries and troubles. And to not imagine the worst if your calls or emails aren’t returned – there’s probably a very good reason.

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place, the town of Perm. Showing great inner strength, Kosteniuk held her nerve and Play at Seagulls Club, Tweed Heads, Thursdays 6–10pm held off a desperate Hou to give Dividing her time between war zone. As a result, Kosteniuk Russia their first Women’s World Moscow and Miami, and with a received a walkover in the sec- Champion for more than half a young daughter to add to her off- ond round, giving her valuable century. board commitments, Kosteniuk rest days in a demanding three Nalchik 2008 was not rated a chance of upset- week event. White: Hou Yifan Kosteniuk was also able to Black: A Kosteniuk ting the full-time professionals in Nalchik, despite the essen- watch 14-year-old Hou knock Opening: Ruy Lopez tial randomness of knock-out out the tournament’s top rated 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 player, India’s Humpy Koneru, 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 0-0 8.a3 A sophisevents. Kosteniuk, seeded ninth, in a gruelling semi-final, while ticated idea, but followed up very poorly by prepared hard for the Nalchik the Russian had knocked out Hou. 8...d6 9.c3 Bg4 10.d3 Na5 11.Bc2 c5 tournament and combined good Swedish veteran Pia Cramling 12.h3 Bd7 13.d4 Qc7 14.d5?! c4 15.Nbd2 Nb7 16.Nf1 Nc5 17.g4? h5! A well-known fortune and good form on her in quick time. However, in the final Kost- theme which leaves White’s kingside full of road to the title. The good eniuk completely outclassed the holes. 18.N3h2 hxg4 19.hxg4 Qc8 20.f3 21.Ng3 Bg5 22.Nf5? Qd8! 23.Kg2 g6! fortune came higher ranked Hou, winning the Nh7! 24.Ng3 A humble retreat after which Black when 11 play- first game (below) and dominat- takes complete control. 24...Kg7 25.Rh1 ers withdrew, ing the remaining three draws to Rh8 26.Nhf1 Qf6 27.Be3 Bxe3 28.Nxe3 among them secure a 2.5-1.5 victory. Ng5 29.Qe2 Rag8 30.Raf1 Qf4! With ...Kf8 Kosteniuk has only played two and ...f5 in the air, Hou cannot sit and wait. the powerful serious tournaments since the Georgian con31.Rxh8 Rxh8 32.Rh1 Rxh1 33.Nxh1 Nd3! tingent, owing birth of her daughter 17 months Threatening 34...Nxf3! so White is already lost. to the Russian ago and perhaps she also had to 34.Bxd3 cxd3 35.Qf2 d2! 36.Ng3 Nxf3! invasion of overcome off-board distraction 37.Qxf3 Bxg4! 38.Qf2 d1(Q) 39.Nxd1 Bxd1 Georgia and when, the day before her final 40.Qe1 Bf3+ 41.Kg1 f5 42.exf5 gxf5 Nalchik’s pro- world title game, a deadly plane 43.Qf2 Kg6 44.b3 e4 45.c4 bxc4 46.bxc4 ximity to the crash occurred in her birth- Qg5 47.c5 f4 48.cxd6 fxg3 0-1 6685 5212

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Ash Grunwald at the Coolangatta Hotel Ash Grunwald has just released his latest album, Fish Out of Water. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a very different experience for Ash, who this time took a different tack and created a remarkable studio album. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s immensely proud of. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s better than any other album I have ever done so far â&#x20AC;&#x201C; it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sound so great to say that, but its definitely my favourite by far, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s closer to what I have been striving for in terms of the sort of original sound. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a combination of the bluesy riffy thing that is always in my music but the other components are there now that have never been there before. Like, there are beats on every other song and the

songs that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have beats are really moody folky songs.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; For Ash the secret was in collaboration, and working with a producer who knew how to take his time in the Studio and source his sound. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I had a producer for the first time. His name is Pip Norman, aka Count Bounce, from TZU. I met Pip at a songwriting day that our publishers put on called Writers Block. I had never really done that kind of thing before and I was pretty apprehensive about it. I wanted to do a beats thing myself for the next album, because I have been doing it already and when I met Pip I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t realise he was a producer, he got his laptop out and laid

down a beat, and we wrote Fish out of Water, and bang after that I hit him up and asked him to do an album with me. It was cool, we recorded a lot of stuff in his studio inside this shipping container â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and then we went to my house and after that we did 10 days in Sing Sing studios and hired in Tony Espy who did TZUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last album. These are processes I had never gone thru before. I had never gone that extra mile. In the past I had always used analogue gear. I had never spent a month before getting an album right. It was all about the reworking. We had done all the songs in the container, that 10 days in Sing Sing was about getting different amps with different mics and seeing how we could tweak the

sound.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Ash became interested in creating new musical textures, to define his recording as distinct from live performance. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;There is a lot of information in there that you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think you are hearing or picking up. I have learnt so much about those kind of things, you want to keep listening. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll put these little high things on a verse, and you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t notice that you are even hearing it, but they are actually the things that really makes the song shine in a positive light.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; So what happens when the studio album hits the stage? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;A big part of getting experimental is freeing myself from the belief that it has to be

the same as a live gig. The whole reason I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just go in and play live in a studio is that you create the excitement by working and reworking in the studio. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crafting the material sonically that makes it interesting â&#x20AC;&#x201C; what I really love about playing solo at these gigs (although Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have Benny playing junk percussion, like the car door with a hammer), is that my tempo will synchronise to what the audience does if they start dancing â&#x20AC;&#x201C; then I speed up, so in a way the audience is the band really.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Ash Grunwald plays The Coolangatta Hotel on Saturday with support Mick Hart. Doors open at 8pm. Tix are $20.

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Getting your grant There is Something about Nothing

hen I moved to Byron Bay almost two decades ago, I did it to drop out. Not that I’d ever actually engaged in the cut and thrust of the mainstream. I was 22 and found the whole concept of making a decision about my life just far too perplexing. I could barely decide what T-shirt to wear, a life direction was just too much commitment. Instead I moved to a bright purple beach shack with a boyfriend who was later revealed as a smalltime gigolo. (He had the habit of giving me gifts which I later discovered were from the wardrobes of other women. I never twigged, although the name on the receipts on the dry cleaning docket in one of the pockets was a definite giveaway, and the undies never felt quite right.) I remember long days at the beach. Mid week. Like a Wednesday, when I would cross the road and wander over to Main Beach in my kimono and squat down and drink my tea. I remember reading The Magus, I’d put in a few hours, and when the sun got too intense by 11, I’d have a quick nude dip and pop home for a shower and a lie down. My next objective would be to think about lunch and would involve digging out loose change for a vegie burger with peanut sauce down at Ringos, where I sometimes worked. In the afternoon I’d have sex. Sometimes with another person. And then another lie down. Back to the beach for a walk. There were no mobile phones and people didn’t email. I used to talk

face to face with real people who would pop in unannounced (can you imagine?) and plonk themselves at my kitchen table and talk about themselves and their issues for hours and hours, or until the five litres of tea caused a diuretic meltdown. Then I’d watch The Simpsons, a cutting edge new cartoon, and pour a glass of wine and write in my diary, adding to one of the many long diatribes of what I was going to do with my life and my latest pompous revelation about my personal raison d’etre. I’d sit up late, like sometimes past midnight and talk. Smoke joints. Listen to music. Go outside and watch the moon. The next day I’d pop my form back into the DSS where I told them I’d looked for work at The Beach Hotel and The Echo and each day would unfurl much like the next. This is like a dream. The career I never intended to have turned up any way. Now every second of my North Coast life is scheduled. Meetings at coffee shops about new projects, emails to return, school functions to attend, a urine collection diet to avoid, a book week costume to make, a story to write, a fundraiser for native rats with heroin addiction issues... Don’t get me wrong, I love my life, every crowded minute of it. But there are moments when I reminisce with such romanticism back to those long days filled with glorious nothingness. What I wouldn’t do for just a week. Of course, I’d like to be 22 as well. Being young with nothing to do is freedom. Being forty is just plain sad.

Up and coming independent artist Coby Grant headlines Unplugged in the Basement at the Gold Coast Arts Centre with surf/rocker Kym Campbell as support on Thursday September 25. Coby is fresh back from a trip to the USA, where she collaborated with a number of renowned music producers. Since moving from Perth to Melbourne two years ago, Coby has been promoting her music tirelessly around the country. She recorded her first EP in 2007, which she released independently, and is currently promoting new material including an acoustic CD released in January of this year and songs she recorded in the USA. Supporting Coby for the evening will be Kym Campbell, a self-renowned ‘surfie chick’ with a unique vocal style and catchy guitar riffs. Born in America, Kym only began playing the guitar and making music during her first travels to Australia in 2003. Since then she has supported many acoustic rock bands in the United States and is currently promoting her new album So Alive throughout Australia. Girls with guitars channelling genius in a live acoustic setting on Thursday 25 September. Show starts at 8pm.

smooth vocal that makes you want to slide back in your chair and close your eyes and take a well earned drift. She plays Seagulls on Monday morning after the 11am shenanigans.

A Tribute to Tribute On Sunday at 10am at the Gold Coast Parklands tribute bands from all over are gathering together to pay homage to the greats who inspired them. In a way it’s like almost seeing your favourite band, but not quite. There will be The Beatles, Abba, ACDC, Deep Purple and Kylie Minogue – where else would you get a bill like that? Of course there’s a Neil Diamond dude, U2 (Zoo2) Elton John and Bill Joel called Elton Joel and a whole heap more. There is entertaiment for the kiddies which includes a talent contest (who knows, they could be the tribute kids of the future!)

Coby Grant headlines Unplugged in The Basement at the Gold Coast Arts Centre

I love Llew

Vocalist and trombonist, Llew Hird brings his smooth and soulful sound to Jazz in The Basement at the Gold Coast Art’s Centre alongside The Harry Lynn Quartet this Saturday. An experienced performer and travelled, Llew has circumnavigated the globe, spreading his love of music, through England, Europe, Egypt and New Orleans. He has graced the stage for decades, hand in hand with late wife Pam, both his partner in life and in music. Llew’s band, The Hirds, consisting of him and wife Pam My Sweet Lord was a worldwide success. They Everyone loves Elizabeth Lord. travelled extensively performHer career spans several genres ing to sell-out crowds as well including; theatre, (Evita, Jesus as to troops, which earned Pam Christ Superstar) pop/rock, an honorary Purple Heart for (she received a gold record for the band’s efforts. In the 70’s her work with 80’s band Waa Llew began a new band, The Waa Nee) country and jazz. Sydney Stompers, where he Liz has that special kind of introduced his son Karl to the

Feeling Celibate

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remember the first Celibate Rifles gig I went to. I was about 18, squashed up the front in a punk rock haze. Twenty eight years on the Rifles are still at it. It’s a fascinating story, but none more so than front man Damian Lovelock. He’s a yoga teacher, a sports commentator and a front man. Wow. That’s some impressive time management!

‘I like football and I like music more but the reality for me was the Rifles aren’t in a position to be a band full time. People in the band have wives and kids and all that stuff and mortgages so we can’t spend 6 months of the year in America anymore or Europe – we haven’t been in that position for 15 years. The Rifles are a part time thing in a way.’

‘Football is what I do for a living now,’ he says.

The band was never meant to be for anything else except for

Holly Throsby at Currumbin Sound Lounge on Thursday Sep 25 big stage. Throughout the 80’s and 90’s The Stompers toured Europe and the UK, where they received countless standing ovations. Their sound was raw, unbridled and full of passion, making the band one of the most soughtafter jazz groups at the time. Accompanying Llew onstage will be Jazz in the Basement residents The Harry Lynn Quartet. Comprised of Harry Lynn (Piano/keyboards), Peter McLaughlin (Bass), Warren Whittaker (Drums) and Malcolm Wood (trumpet), the quartet has worked together

for 16 years and covers a variety of material from standard songs and famous jazz compositions, to original material composed by Harry. This is a unique opportunity for jazz enthusiasts and lovers of good music alike to enjoy a swinging program of top class jazz, in an intimate, warm, candle-lit setting. 7pm. All tickets are $15. Bookings 5588 4000.

Good Golly Miss Holly Sydney girl Holly Throsby has always been something of an

Damian Lovelock talks to Mandy Nolan their own enjoyment. ‘For us we didn’t start the Rifles because we thought anyone else would like em, we wanted it to be something we wanted to do. We toured the world and enjoyed some level of success and then when circumstances outside of that change, you put something together and you give it a go, and once it peaks you stop but that’s not how it is with the Rifles. ‘A few years ago someone said to me that he thought that the Celibate Rifles were actually a genre unto themselves, out here people say The Rifles they know what you mean.’ So how did a front man become a sports commentator? ‘I made my profile on Triple J. At the height of Rifles popularity they were off the road for a year and my dad was rushed

to hospital and not expected to live and I was drawn into two very fullon court cases. I had no money no income, and I had been on the road for seven years. I was out of touch. I went in to Triple J one day and had no idea how to get a job and I said I’ll get the lunches I’ll do midnight to dawn, and this guys stuck his head out and said do you know anything about soccer? I said I know everything about soccer. He said, the World Youth Cup is starting today do you want to cover it?’ The rest is history. Damian Lovelock’s life is a testament to a bloke who’ll put his hat in the ring and give it a good old fashioned go. ‘I hope thats what goes on my gravestone: “have a f**kin go”.’ Check out the Celibate Rifles at the Coolangatta Hotel on Friday.

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s somehow she didn’t win. Apart from music she is interested in 20th century literature, films about small towns, humour, naive art and dogs. She’s an unusual girl making interesting sounds. Thursday September 25 at the Currumbin Soundlounge at 7.30pm.

hard question... for me you can get any style genre to suit each other. It comes down more to how you want to tell your story, so use any tools necessary.’ I don’t know a lot about you – but I suspect that a number of you are related? Is it different making music with your family? Is that a real Kiwi thing as well? Right to the Kora ‘No this is not a Kiwi thing. For I had a quick email chat with us, writing music as a family Kiwi reggae, hip hop outfit doesn’t really come in to play. I Kora. This is what they had to think the main reason why we’re say. in the same band is trust. Trust as New Zealand seems to be musicians on and off the stage. leading the way in the wide Elizabeth Lord at Seagulls Toni Childs at Twin Towns We all have written with alot of world of dub, why do you think other artist’s and in this band on Monday on Saturday that is? we just like the stuff we’re doing called Saddleback Mountain on ‘NZ has always had a link anomoly. A fiercely independright now. the South Coast of NSW. In the with reggae. Apparently, after ent music maker she stands Kora is made up of 4 brothers last few years Holly has toured Jamaica, NZ still buys more reg- and one brother from anblack braided on that drawgae than any other country. Bob other mother, Dan. Dan and I Australia numerous times and bridge that exists between Marley had a huge influence on started writing tunes together in has played on various tours in mainstream and alternative the Maori culture as well.’ music. She has just released her the UK, Europe, America and Queenstown in 2000 and from How do you get heavy metal to there played in a band called Canada. Last year Holly was second album, recorded in a sit with blues? nominated for an ARIA award tiny house where she birthed Soulcharge. Then I moved to for Best Female Artist here but ‘Change the bpm’s. That’s a the first one. It’s in a place Wellington to do drama school

Conversat ion wit h a Soul Queen

Recently Herald writer Bernard Zuel wrote ‘There are really only two great Australian soul and R&B singers: Renee Geyer and Tina Harrod.’ I asked her what it felt like, to be elevated to such a platform in Australian music. ‘It was embarassing, I mean it’s a good feeling and its’ a strange feeling at the same time, the thing about comparisons that bothers me is that I work with a lot of good singers and it is hard to say one is the best.’ As for sharing the crown with Ms Geyer? ‘We are both coming from different angles, although we are similar in that we both love music and we both love black music!’ Worksongs is a unusual collection of tracks, that seem to sit together like old friends. At first glance, the CD sleeve reveals a Stevie Wonder track, Big Brother, Portishead’s Glory Box and Such A long Way Home, a track she co-wrote with her late partner, the brilliant Jackie Orszaczky. Tina hadn’t necessarily chosen her set list. That’s not how she works. She’s much more fluid. ‘Things like that aren’t planned – I just have a sketch. What I wanted to do was take the band into the studio and record. We were developing a really nice thing together and I wanted to go in there and record it live. We did it all live, vocals, and everything. I did what were the best takes in sometimes the first or second go. Some things didn’t make it onto the album and that was cool.’ Although Jackie didn’t play on the album, he played a big role in advising Tina about

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how to shape Worksongs. ‘I chose the songs based on how the performance backed up. You pick the songs and put them in a compatible order, Jack put the song list together, he was at the session and he was sitting in the control room and saying why do you want to do that again, it was perfect.’ Jackie’s energy was phenomenal and he worked till the end, it was part of the business and life of being Tina Harrod and Jackie Orszaczky. ‘He was very busy finishing off his album and he was also writing an album of brand new material which was in the can, we have a few things to finish and that will be released next May on his birthday. He was very happy working, and he once said, the greatest privilege would be to die on stage mid gig, and he meant that and thats how he meant to go – so he’s not on my album but he’s a part of it and he’ll be a part of whatever I do. He gave me the confidence to fall in love with the bunch of songs and committing to it.’ Of all the songs on the album, it’s the Nick Drake tune that has the most resonance for Tina. ‘River man is close to my heart, I have always loved that song and Jack really loved it too. He arranged it for a local artist here in Sydney for a special gig and I was there and I thought I have to do something with that song and it ended up in the repertoire again thanks to Johnathon Schwartz who said I think you should do this song!’ Tina is currently enjoying a string of gigs and sold out houses. Her career is surging ahead full steam. It would be

and my brother Francis and I started playing together for some money. Then we decided to get our other two brothers from Whakatane (Brad and Stu) and we formed Kora .’ What was it like performing at such a prestigious Festival like WOMAD UK? ‘Amazing. Seeing so many different other styles of music and culture. Meeting Jah Wobble was cool for sure. Big stage, big production..., 40,000 people – we love that stuff. Being part of the whole WOMAD experience was great.’ What are your goals for 2009? ‘To extend the Kora sound out to the world – especially Japan. Kora has a couple of tours throughout Europe this year and more planned for next. Australia is always a great place to go we love the vibe. Just to keep going really...’ They play the Hotel Great Northern on Sunday.

No longer a Lost Childs The unstoppable Toni Childs is back. This year she released a brand new album Keep the Faith! She’s currently on tour captivating audiences with her powerful vocals, charismatic live performances and commanding message. Best known for her heavily R&B influenced Don’t Walk Away, Toni hit the big time in 1988 when her critically acclaimed debut album Union went double platinum in Australia. The same year in the US, she was nominated for three Grammys, including Best New Artist. Living on the island of Kauai, Hawaii, Toni Childs has spent many years recovering from the Graves Disease she was diagnosed with. Overcoming her battle with this rare stress disorder, she is back from her musical exile giving fans so much more

Tina Harrod

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true to say that Ms Harrod’s star is on the rise. ‘I think its a combination of things. I have been getting some positive press and a lot of people have been seeing that because they stop me and tell me and you have extra people coming and I have my regular people that come to my shows – that come to all of Jack’s and my shows.’ In our conversation Tina mentions that she’ll be going into the studio to record some new music in December. ‘I recorded a bunch of tunes I co-wrote with Jack and on my own and we recorded some of them before he died and we were listening to them the other day and we were blown away.’ The release of Worksongs marks a very creative time for Tina. ‘I am having a lot of ideas at the moment and I am really enjoying that – there is a bit of space around me now, and I am getting used to Jack not being here and there is a place for me to breathe and I get to work on the songs...I like to be in my environment when I write, under the mango tree in the backyard, with my cat and my daughter, that’s whre my ideas come.’ Tina Harrod is a featured performer at the Mullum Music Festival, 20 - 23 November. Tickets on sale 7 October. www.mullummusicfestival.com.au

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s than they could have ever expected. This time round, she lays bare her methods of self healing; hoping her own experience will heal others. Twenty years after exploding onto our pop-rock consciousness with her album Union, Toni is back with fresh pop ballads which are set to unite old fans and magnetise new audiences. Her new track Because You’re Beautiful earned her an Emmy Award for Best Lyrics. Her new album Keep the Faith contains that breathy and throaty voice so distinctive on her blockbuster hits, while her storytelling is executed with a cosmic balance of delicacy and power. Toni promises a blend of roots, rock and folk gospel songs that simmer with husky vocals and spine tingling lyrics. She is appearing at Twin Towns on Saturday.

Flag). This story is their culture and is unique to only a handful of Aboriginal communities on Australia’s East Arnhem Land coast. Yilila are committed to their Red Flag culture and to the development of their professional performance, giving all audiences a contemporary insight into the world’s oldest culture. Mullum Civic Hall on Thursday 2 October. Tix are $20 at the door. Show at 8pm.

Music to help babies get born in Ubud To birth a child in a safe, loving and natural environment is the right of every mother and child. In Australia, maternal mortality rates are low but in underdeveloped countries like Indonesia, these rates rise dramatically due to issues such as poverty and malnutrition.

night. Mullum Drill Hall on Friday, doors open 6.30pm. Delicious food and chai will be available.

Franti Tix You might have thought they’d sold out but there are still plenty left. Get your tick to Franti. He’s one of the most moving and politically charged singer/songwriters around. Michael Franti and his band Spearhead return to Australia for a concert tour to celebrate the release of their latest album All Rebel Rockers. Californianborn poet, musician and composer, Franti blends hiphop, funk and reggae together with outspoken political lyrics and is renowned for being a leader in the peace and social justice movement. Come on, admit it, you’re all closet Franti fanatics. Saturday 11 October at Byron High Auditorium. Tix are $49.50 and available from usual Ku outlets.

Sports Club to raise money for the local preschool. You may think kids are no laughing matter – but you’ll definitely think again once you’ve heard what Ellen and I have to say on the subject. Imperfect mothers doing a half arsed job – it’s about the guilt, the mistakes, the challenges of being parent. Robert Grayson adds the much needed male element and comes to the defence of the blokes. 7pm - Saturday evening. Tix are $20.

Funny bastards in the Basement

Standup comedian Steve Allison has been called ‘as Australian as a pair of Dunlop Volleys with Vegemite stains.’ He headlines at the Gold Coast Arts Centre this Friday at 8pm. Steve Allison is a local comedy legend, who has been keeping things fresh on the comedy scene for the last On the Wagon ten years; his profile as one Chuck’s Wagon is a four piece of the Gold Coast’s favourite Sydney band with a rock sound comedians just keeps growing! Cleverly combining quick wit, and a country soul. Front man and driving force Chuck Stokes Aussie humour, snappy oneliners, crazy impressions and formed the band in 2006 to comedy juggling, Steve’s show create an outfit that played is original, full of fun, laughter country rock that actually meant something. Chuck want- and the unexpected. Steve is a regular headliner in comedy ed to go back to the original clubs around the nation and outlaw country men – dudes has performed alongside some like Johnny Cash and Waylon Ellen Briggs at the Burringbar Jennings. Blokes who sang Llew Hird at Gold Coast Arts of the world’s best-known coSports Club on Saturday night about the struggles of life, the Centre on Friday medians including the Fat Pizza mystery of everyday things and team, Col Elliott, Eric Bana, Alexi Sayle (The Young Ones), relationships; you know, Big Lenny Henry and musical legPicture Stuff. Chuck’s Wagon ends Kate Cerebrano, Tommy plays the Tyalgum Hotel on Emmanuel, The Supremes and Saturday from 9pm. Kamahl. The MC for the night The Caxton Street will be Rob Brown and support will be the musical parody Jazz Band comic Dave Eastgate. Tickets The Caxton Street Jazz Band are $15. have been playing together for over 30 years. That’s the Hip Hop dance great thing about Jazz –its action the foundation of a musical relationship that can last Homebase is a mentorshipforever. The Caxton Street Jazz based development initiative Band has been called world of NORPA Dance Action that Kora at the Hotel Great Northern in Byron Bay on Sunday class, and it’s no wonder. This aims to mentor a select group energetic 6 piece takes their of young people who have passion for jazz onto the stage passion for hip hop. The Music from the Tribe Yayasan Bumi Sehat is a non- and makes their performance aprogram encourages participrofit birthing centre in Ubud, electric. They play the Tweed of Jubal pants to build interest in dance Bali that offers free maternal Valley Jazz Club on Sunday Australian Aboriginal culture among their friends and work and natural health care for has always had a rich tradition women and families and relies at the glorious Greenhills towards a dance related project Reception Centre, River involving dance and song. in their home community. So entirely on donations, sponsors Street, Murwillumbah. This is Yilila stand alone as an exif you are between 15 - 24 and and volunteers to survive. Bumi a regular jazz gig that always ceptional group of Aboriginal have a passion for hip hop / Sehat is currently struggling musicians and dancers – their street dance, funk and associto keep up with the increasing happens on the last Friday of each month. The Caxton Street ated dance styles, determinalive performances are filled number of people coming to Jazz Band play from 7.30pm with energy, culture and stuntion to increase your skills in the centre and is hoping to ning singing. Hailing from one build a new clinic and purchase and before that catch Jeff dance then NORPA Dance Smith on the piano accordian of the most remote communi- an ambulance to continue ofAction offer an opportunity for ties in Arnhem Land in the young people with a strong fering these services. ‘Birthing from 6pm. Northern Territory, Yilila bring interest in dance / hip hop Bali’ is a fundraiser night to their sounds to the Byron Shire bring the community together to further develop their skills for the first time. and access mentors for advice, to embrace birth, music and The music of Yilila is based ideas, information or inspiralove while supporting Bumi on songs, dances and stories tion and to take on a leaderSehat to build their new clinic. unheard and unseen by intership role in their community. The evening will feature live Feeling Funny national audiences. With songs music by local artists Murray The Workshop is scheduled for Stand up comedy comes to rooted in traditional Aboriginal, Kyle with Rebekah Ray, Wednesday at the Banora Burringbar this week when I reggae and rock music, Yilila Point Community Centre. It’s Revolove featuring Ellen as join my fellow comedy comlook to the rest of the world free, but you need to apply, well as Simon I Fyah, singer of for inspiration and sounds. Fyah Walk, and friends. Sienna rades, stand up comedian Ellen contact Bernadette Gardiner Briggs and Robert Grayson When they perform, they tell at NORPA Dance Action on Moon will also weave her at the Burringbar District the story of Dhumbala (Red 6622 3279 . Temple Dance throughout the

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MISS SUZY’S SCHOOL OF HARD HOOPS IT’S NOT EVERY DAY that a girl balances upside down in a tight red swimsuit at the markets and deftly spins a hoop on her tanned and muscled thigh. I’m standing with all the other women just looking at her body and wondering just how a girl gets to be that toned and that strong. I think the blokes are thinking that too. Suzy Leigh has a wild street honed sense of humour, she’s a natural with the crowd, she’s flirtatious and fun, but also commanding. That isn’t something that just happens. It’s an onstage credibility that’s earned. Suzy wasn’t always a sharp shootin’ street performer. Once she was just a kooky young girl learning a few tricks to make a buck. ‘I started in community arts in 1992 in North Queensland with a wonderful man called Ian Reece who did a lot of great work in remote areas of the Cape and the Gulf, we were doing circus in a lot of indigenous communities at the time. That was how I got into it, I could juggle about 3 balls and had done a little bit of gymnastics, but when we were touring I started teaching stilt walking and juggling and we would be camped up in remote towns and just practise, so we got better and better. ‘We were employed to live Ian’s dream. We had a ball, and did it for three years, I put together a solo show, I meant to have a year off, I said I need to travel my show for a year and then I’ll come back.’ But things never go quite to plan especially for hoop queens like Suzy Leigh. ‘I travelled down from North

Queensland doing street shows. It got harder and harder and by the time I got to Circular Quay it was traumatic, it takes a bit of bravery! ‘ Suzy saved her dosh and hit the streets of Europe. ‘I was the first solo street performer to perform with hoops, when it first started I had everything: contact juggling, fire, hoops, but in Europe they said we haven’t seen hoops before, why not just do that? So Aussie girls (she credits another visiting hoop technician) bought hoops to European street theatre.’ Girls like Suzy have to keep honing their bag of tricks. ‘I have been playing around with the lassoo lately, I like being challenged, the process of learning is the light at the end of the tunnel, when you start getting a juggling trick you just don’t want to stop, it’s that thrill of realising that things are achievable.’ Suzy presents Suzita at Evolve, her opera singing lightbulb smashing Spanish princess. ‘I am doing a very scary bottle balance, it’s the most challenging act I do, because the glass smashing with the voice doesn’t always work, even if it doesn’t though I still find a way to smash the glass and the wine bottle balance it’s so wobbly, it’s so tense!’ Of course her alter ego Tina Trash will also be making an appearance. Suzy Leigh is a featured performer at Evolve Arts and Music Festival on Saturday 4 October.

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Son Of A Lion This is a remarkable film because it has been made independently, by Australian Benjamin Gilmour, with little more than a camera, the goodwill of the Pashtun people of Pakistan’s harsh North Western Province, and an unwavering determination to portray them as human

beings like you and me, and not barabaric terrorists. As you might expect from something so ‘hand made’ and minimally resourced, its weaknesses are also its strengths – its rough doco feel establishes its veritas, and it is sustained from go to whoa by those two classic ingredients of good story and characters you care about. We rarely see movies that are genuinely concerned with the inhabitants of this volatile part of the world, so when we do it is difficult not to make comparisons – this falls somewhere between the more arty but less ingenuous The Kite Runner (2007) and 2003’s ferocious home-grown critique of the Taliban Osama (which is not about bin Laden). For those hordes hyperventilating at the prospect of sitting in a cinema full of like minded types who believe (while living the lifestyle) that the West is evil personified and everything not the West the apogee

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married man. Forty-something and self absorbed, they are called upon to play roles for which they are inadequately prepared when their father, exhibiting the degenerative signs of Parkinson’s Disease, loses his de facto partner and is forced to vacate the house they had been sharing in a Prozac community in sunny Arizona. Jon and Laura bring him back to the wintry East and find a nursing home for him as they come to grips with their inescapable duty of filial care. It’s an unprepossessing synopsis, but don’t be deterred by it, for writer/director Tamara Jenkins’s deft approach, with a pinch of gallows humour, avoids mawkishness but acknowledges guilt as an ever present player in such situations. Lenny, typically, does not understand at first that he is booked into accommodation from which he will not be checking out, and Philip Bosco’s portrayal of the obstreperous, bewildered and, at the last, helpless figure is all too identifiable. As the siblings, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney have never been better (I wonder if I took to her more than I usually do simply because her hair was dark and not its usual dank blonde?) and, with Bosco, the ensemble’s performance is faultless. I believed them without reservation – the awkwardness of trying to discuss with Lenny, in a crowded diner, arrangements for his funeral is achieved with unforced naturalness and there are moments of silence between Jon and Wendy that you could cut with a knife. Jenkins understands that, despite the old bloke’s sad predicament, it is his children’s rapprochement that matters most and, with it as her true focus, she is able, as it were, to deny death its victory. This lovely movie will get close to the bone of that demographic which is coming to terms with is variable – a tad grainy here, its own and, more immediately, a bit unfocused there, and the its parents’ mortality, speaking performances, because no with a voice that, if sometimes actors are involved, are not as chilly as its locations, is polished – but like I said, that always sympathetic and is a strength too. Niaz Khan non-judgmental. And, lest you Shinwari is every boy and fear being overwhelmed by Sher Alam Miskeen Ustad is gloom, the shrewdly withheld fantastic as the stubborn father, concluding shot is an infusion whose silent prayer at his wife’s of helium. grave is enormously moving – Gilmour is not so rustic that he doesn’t know how to push an emotional button. of honorable tradition and benevolence (you know, the dimwits who authoritatively tell you that George W. Bush and Mohammed Atta planned 9/11 together over dinner at the White House), get down off your horse and drink your milk – this is a coming of age tale, not a polemic. Niaz is an illiterate twelve year-old who works in his widowed father’s gun shop. Encouraged by a couple of educated uncles, he wants to go to school, but Dad, who is particularly hostile to the brainwashing ways of the madrassas, will have no part of it. The clash then is between the rusted on attitudes of the old ways and, for Niaz, the liberating ones of the new. What passing political comment there is comes direct from the mouths of the participants, with whom Gilmour collaborated closely, rather than a scriptwriter. Not unexpectedly, picture quality

The Savages All the world’s a stage… Jon Savage teaches drama in an upstate New York college while working on his thesis concerning the place of humour in Bertolt Brecht. His Sister Wendy, a struggling playwright with a swag of rejected applications for grants from the Guggenheim and other arts bodies, lives alone with her cat Genghis and finds cold comfort in a long term relationship with a

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gig guide events and entertainment on the coast FRIDAY 26 ■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL 8PM $15 CELIBATE RIFLES ■ GCAC – COMEDY IN BASEMENT 8PM STEVE ALLISON, MC ROB BROWN, DAVE EASTGATE ■ SALTBAR KINGSCLIFF 8.30PM ENJUN ■ SEAGULLS – LAKE VIEW LOUNGE 7.30PM SONIIA STAR DUST 8PM MASTERS OF ROCK ■ TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS 8.30PM KEVIN BLOODY WILSON ■ GREENHILLS, MURWILLUMBAH 6PM JEFF SMITH, CAXTON ST JAZZ BAND ■ TWEED RIVER ART GALLERY 6.30PM 20TH BIRTHDAY – WISH YOU WERE HERE ■ LUFFLEY CAFE, MURWILLUMBAH 8PM LIVE JAZZ TRIO: KEL, IZZY & SCRUBBY ■ BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 9.30PM BONJAH ■ THE RAILS, BYRON 7PM THE BOHEMIAN COWBOYS ■ LA LA LAND, BYRON CHARDY + RYAN RUSHTON + DANIEL WEBBER

SATURDAY 27 ■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL 8PM $15 ASH GRUNWALD & MICK HART ■ GCAC 9AM-5PM JAPAN & FRIENDS DAY 8PM THE BOY FROM OZ ■ SALTBAR KINGSCLIFF 8.30PM ROCK WATER ■ SEAGULLS – PIANO BAR 6PM DAVE FERGUSON STARDUST 8PM DOUG PARKINSON CONNECTIONS 9PM BLACK MAGIC ■ TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS 8.30PM TONI CHILDS ■ MURWILLUMBAH SERVICE CLUB 6.30PM CLELIA ADAMS ■ BUDDHA BELLY CAFE, UKI ELANA B WILLIAMS & BAND ■ TYALGUM HOTEL 9PM CHUCK’S WAGON ■ JAZZ IN THE BASEMENT 7PM LLEW HIRD ■ MIAMI TAVERN, GOLD COAST BONJAH ■ BURRINGBAR DISTRICT SPORTS CLUB 7PM STAND UP COMEDY: MANDY NOLAN, ELLEN BRIGGS, ROBERT GRAYSON

■ OLD DRILL HALL, MULLUMBIMBY 6.30PM BIRTHING BALI ■ BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 9.30PM OZ HORNZ ■ THE RAILS, BYRON 6.30PM BETTY BLISSETT ■ LA LA LAND, BYRON LIVEWIRE

SUNDAY 28 ■ SALTBAR KINGSCLIFF 1PM SOULMAN ■ SEAGULLS 3PM TREVOR WHITE ■ TWEED CIVIC CENTRE $20 INCL.CHAMPAGNE THE LADY & THE LARRIKIN, CELEBRATE ■ ALL SAINTS ANGLICAN CHURCH, MURWILLUMBAH 2PM $10 FOUR SEASONS – SPRING CONCERT ■ BUDDHA BELLY CAFE, UKI REGGAE NIGHT ■ THE POTTSVILLE BEACH SPORTS CLUB THE HAVE A GO SHOW WITH PAPA FUNK ■ SPHINX ROCK CAFE 1PM-5PM ELENA B WILLIAMS & FRIENDS ■ PARKLAND, GOLD COAST 10AM-10PM 40 TRIBUTE BANDS ■ SWINGING SAFARI, CNR GOLD COAST H’WAY & MORTON ST 2PM THE WRITER’S SALOON WITH CHRISTINE WILLIAMS ■ BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 4.30PM LISA HUNT 8PM DJ EGO

■ HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON 9.30PM KORA ■ THE RAILS, BYRON 6.30PM METHOD ■ LA LA LAND, BYRON CAPTAIN KAINE NIGHT)

MONDAY 29

■ SEAGULLS – STARDUST 11AM ELIZABETH LORD ■ THE RAILS, BYRON 6.30PM CANDICE CASSAGRAND

TUESDAY 30 ■ SEAGULLS – LAKEVIEW LOUNGE 5.30PM DON WHITAKER ■ TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS 11AM BOB, MAGGIE & TIM ■ THE RAILS, BYRON 6.30PM GUY KACHEL

WEDNESDAY 1 ■ BONARA PT, COMMUNITY CENTRE 10AM-2PM NORPA DANCE ACTION HIP HOP WORKSHOP – FREE. BOOK: 66728001 ■ SEAGULLS – LAKEVIEW LOUNGE 1.15PM DON WHITAKER ■ TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS 11AM ISLANDS IN THE STREAM: THE KENNY & DOLLY STORY

THURSDAY 2 ■ SEAGULLS – LAKEVIEW LOUNGE 5.30PM FAITHFULLY YOURS ■ MULLUMBIMBY CIVIC HALL 8PM YILILA

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BYRON COOKING AND EATINGâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;STEVEN SNOW I started reading this book sitting at Wategoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on a late Saturday afternoon when the last of the sun was burnishing the water and children kicked a football over the damp sand; I finished it some time later at Clarkes Beach. On both occasions I would periodically raise my eyes to surroundings almost identical to some of the photographic plates the book contained. Steven Snow from Fins restaurant â&#x20AC;&#x201C; whose third and latest venue forms part of a streetfront row of shops, eateries and bars at the Salt Village complex in Kingscliff â&#x20AC;&#x201C; has just released his first book, an exquisitely-crafted coffee-table affair exuberant with anecdotes, recipes and photography. Written with the same boyish, downto-earth enthusiasm which exemplifies Steveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s personality, it is a testament to his passion for fish and seafood and his abiding love of the Byron region and its produce. The book is divided into four sections all evocatively titled, beginning with â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Blissed Out On The Verandahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; whose theme is home-cooking, ideally sourcing ingredients from your own garden or environment; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Peace, Love and Red Beansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; which sings the praises of vegetarian food and the

he allows the fish or seafood to shine with minimal tampering and tricked-up technique, together with exotic Portuguese- or Asianinspired dishes requiring steps, stages and elaborate ingredients: the book has it all. His various anecdotes are hugely entertaining as he reminisces about the very first Fins at Brunswick Heads, The simpler recipes I found infinitely more appealing than the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;a bankrupt restaurant with a bad reputationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; he purchased more long-winded complex ones whose prior preparation of pastes, after stints at various other sauces and stocks (all helpfully set establishments in the area, despite the fact the building resembled a out in the back section entitled â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Basicsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;) and too-many ingredients bomb shelter and was considered jinxed by locals. Complimentary make them the reason I would bottles of insect repellant formed rather dine at the restaurant than part of the table settings as an attempt them at home â&#x20AC;&#x201C; not, arm against the mind you, that Steveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s style of writing and explanation of recipes incessant sandflies; one customer who is ever less than clear and easy. couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bring Sensational-sounding dishes himself to eat the I wished to cook immediately include Baked Snapper with Garlic octopus which and Smoked Paprika Crust; Lemon came as part of his Mauritian Sambal Myrtle King Prawns with Riesling tossed it into the and Sour Cream; Beetroot and river below on a Pinot Risotto with King Prawns fishing line and and Ti Tina Apple Pie â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but there came up with a are many more. The sumptuous photography â&#x20AC;&#x201C; courtesy of award- flathead, which he then proceeded to winning photographer Brett Boardman â&#x20AC;&#x201C; naturally helps â&#x20AC;&#x201C; some flaunt throughout the restaurant; a pages you could almost lick. very vinous lunch Steveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s food has always been this saw a table of mix of plain fish cookery, in which versatility of vegetables; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Barefoot On The Beach and Splendour In The Grassâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; which discusses the joys of dining alfresco; and winding up with â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Night Sky and Sparkling Slip-Onsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; where he offers recipes for many of the signature dishes for which over the years Fins has become known.

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customers disrobe entirely. Sunday lunches at that original Fins were legendary, and at the very stylish launch of the book recently I met a couple who for years had had a permanent Sunday booking there, only ever ringing if for some reason they were unable to make it. This is a truly beautiful book and well worth the investment if you are a fan of Fins, or just of seafood cooking, or merely wish to own a gorgeous food-themed tribute to this part of the world. Byron Cooking and Eating Steven Snow Murdoch Books

from Laura Baker, one one one cafe, Byron Bay Ingredients 3 oranges, boiled whole until soft, then cooled 9 eggs 375g almond meal 375g caster sugar 2 tsp baking powder

Method Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Line and grease a 28cm springform tin. Puree the oranges in a food processor or blender, add eggs one at a time, mixing well. Separately mix together the almond meal, sugar and baking powder. In a bowl combine the orange mix and almond mix. Pour into prepared tin and bake for approximately 1 hour, check by inserting a skewer, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ready when it comes out clean. This will be a very moist cake. Cool in tin. Can be served warm. Can be served with a thinned down apricot jam glaze or with a chocolate ganache for jaffa cake.

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I was driving south to Suffolk the other day, approaching Red Devil Park on my right. It was not yet a week since Byron Bay had snatched their unforgettable 25-24 grand final victory over the Grafton Ghosts at that unpretentious venue. I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help myself. On a primitive impulse, I steered the Commie through the open gate. Inside it was as quiet as a mouse, the only sign of life being a duck shepherding her chicks towards the water at the rear of the clubhouse. George C. Scott (delivering his finest performance) found himself in a similar space to me in that great movie â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Pattonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. In Tunisia before the allied invasion of Sicily, the US general instructs the driver of his Jeep to leave the road and directs him to the deserted ruins of Carthage. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The battle was hereâ&#x20AC;Ś â&#x20AC;&#x2122; he reflects. OK, so Red Devil Park and Murwillumbahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Stan Sercombe Oval arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ancient Carthage, but that wonderful scene expresses perfectly the tangible way in which a site can somehow capture what is forever fleeting. An appreciation of that phenomenon is part of every sports fanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s psyche for, deep down, we are all history junkies. We feel the weight of the passing season and, in bidding a fond farewell to each one, we are made acutely aware of the uncompromising nature of ir-

Here today, gone tomorrow, Patton and Hamlet wonder what itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all about. Digital bastardry by John Campbell and the Tree Faerie

reversible time â&#x20AC;&#x201C; at my feet, the stud marks left by the three grades of toiling footballers still dotted the field, but they wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t for long. We have favourite grounds because memory flowers most vividly when prompted by association and, being so attached to those sacred places, we resent any change to them. I was outraged when the Sheridan Stand at the SCG was pulled down but, grudgingly, I am now prepared to concede that its replacement might be just as intimately regarded by later generations. And who would argue against sheltered seating and more dunnies anyway? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just that the newer structures nearly always resemble those

hideous multi-storeyed cruise ships you see barging into Sydney Harbour with their cargo of spastic-souled inmates. Adelaide Oval is a rare example of a ground developed with sensitivity towards its own uniqueness. Nor is it just oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s personal experience that can be conjured. On a freezing Saturday in a distant May, and with everybody else focused on the FA Cup Final, I got the tube to St Johns Wood and walked from there to Lordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to see Middlesex play the touring West Indians. When B.P. Patterson opened the bowling to M.A. Roseberry only three other blokes were there to witness it. Jamaicans, rugged up like me and try-

ing unsuccessfully to conceal a joint the size of a Polish salami. I took in the membersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; pavilion with its famous balconies, old Father Time calling stumps above the wind vane, the nets at the nursery end, and I thought of Truman and Statham, Woodfull and Ponsford, Worrell and Sobers. Didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter that the place was virtually empty â&#x20AC;&#x201C; in fact, it probably made the evocation of yesteryear easier. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The battle was hereâ&#x20AC;Ś â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Same thing happened at Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai, or Bombay as it was still known at the time. A policeman with a Freddie Mercury moustache and a donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t-argue lathi pointed to the library and allowed me to

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their retirement and having a lack of understanding of their current swimming skills. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Grey Medallion program is a really welcome addition to Royal Life Savingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s string of programs to give Australians water safety skills,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Mrs Elliot said. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;For older people, being safe around the water is not just a matter of avoiding accidental drowning but of avoiding a slip or fall on a wet surface.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Professor John Pearn, Royal Life Savingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s National Medical Advisor, said The Grey Medallion recognises the vital role that physical activity plays in improving health and wellbeing. Regular physical activity can reduce the risk of heart attack, improve blood cholesterol, lower blood pressure, and help prevent falls. To encourage participation in aquatic exercise, combat the increasing drowning trend in the over 55â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and provide them with lifesaving skills particularly focused on the aquatic environment; Royal Life Saving developed the Grey Medallion. The Royal Life Saving Grey Medallion program has four very distinct components: 1. Water Safety Knowledge, 2.

Resuscitation and Emergency Care, 3. Aquatic Exercise, 4. Personal Survival and Lifesaving Skills. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;In particular aquatic exercise is an ideal form of physical activity for the over 55â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s because it is a low impact activity that is suitable for active people, as well as those with restricted mobility, such as people suffering from arthritis,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; John Konrads said. Water safety knowledge covers a wide range of aquatic locations such as rivers, lakes, dams, beaches, and swimming pools, as well as, aquatic activities such as boating, fishing and recreating near water. It aims to increase awareness of the dangers and provide strategies to enjoy these environments safely. The resuscitation and emergency care component provides participants with the skills to recognise an emergency, create an action plan for dealing with drowning or cardiac arrest and providing aftercare. The aquatic exercise component provides opportunities to exercise in water and develop or improve swimming skills in a fun and non-threatening

way. Whether the participant is getting reacquainted with the water, wanting to discover the benefits of aquatic exercise, improve swimming skills, or increase fitness levels, this session caters for all needs. The benefits of exercising in water include increased fitness and lung capacity, strengthening of muscles, and improved flexibility and mobility. This session is tailored to cater for a range of abilities. The lifesaving skills component is not just for those that swim at the beach. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Everyone can be a lifesaverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and this component helps develop personal survival techniques, such as sculling, treading water, and floating, basic non-contact rescue skills such as wade and reach rescues, and how to enter and exit the water safely. The development of the Royal Life Saving Grey Medallion program has been supported by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing which recognise that the Grey Medallion program encourages people to remain independent and active as they age, while also reducing drowning rates.

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What a day, what a game, what a result! Lindisfarne U12 Rugby League team created history last week when they won the NSW Open Primary and Independent and Catholic Schools State Rugby League Championship in Sydney, making Lindisfarne the only independent school ever to win the Championship. Eighteen players and 29 of the best supporters one could ever hope for, made the trip to the historic Henson Park in Sydney to take on Holy Trinity from Wagga Wagga. The teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s path to the final game was stellar, the hard fought but relatively dream run included a round 1 where they played in a Gala Day in Casino in June, where they won every game and the final of that day against St James winning by 4 points; round 2 against St Xavierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s from Gunnedah at Glen Innes which they won 20-12; the Quarter Final against St Brigidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s from Branxton at Coffs Harbour winning 20-18; the Semi Final against St Augustineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s from Manly at Kempsey which they again won 30-6 and of course the final: the culmination of a long, arduous and well travelled campaign that the boys were primed and ready for. With the ghosts and memo-

Last year, the families of 6,877 people accumulated an untold debt to the New South Wales Surf Life Savers, as a member of their family was restored to the fold, from the arms of a local SLSC patroller. The New South Wales Surf Life Saving patrolling season will commence this Saturday and conclude on Sunday April 26, 2009 and with the public holiday weekend only days away, SLSCs state wide will be put straight to work keeping our beaches safe. Local club Cudgen is already off to a busy start coordinating â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and sewing caps for â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 300 Nippers as well as the usual pre-season wind up. This year Cudgen will have 13 patrol teams with a total of 127 active members on the line. These members will be

bolstered by the new bronze candidates and a large group of surf rescue certificate members in training. The club balcony reconstruction should be at lock-up stage by the end of this week, when completed the work will provide a much needed expansion to the clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s storage space as well as an area for the junior club and new shower and toilet facilities for the female members. The club would like to thank the Old Boys Association for the donation of a new rowing machine which is sitting pretty in the larger remodeled gym, the club would again like to extend thanks to those who attended the working bee. For more information about the Cudgen SLSC or Nippers info email: cudgenslsc@cudgenslsc.org.au

SPORTS RESULTS

ries of past greats looking on, the future stars of our game put on an absorbing and exciting display of rugby league. The first half was a tight battle with both sides fighting hard for field position and any advantage they could get. Half breaks and determined running was met by desperate and bruising defense dished out equally by both sides.

As you would expect in a grand final, this was a true contest in every sense of the word. Lindisfarne broke the deadlock 5 minutes from the break with a well executed try, taking the lead 4-nil. This lead was challenged as the half time siren sounded with an amazing display of broken field running and support play, with Holy Trinity making

a heart stopping 80 metre run downfield only to be haulted by a last chance, try saving, desperation tackle, Lindisfarne went to the break with a hard earned 4-nil lead. The second half promised plenty and delivered, needing to score first Lindisfarne obliged and posted a converted try to lead 10-nil. A determined Holy Trinity

fought hard and replied soon after, making it a 10-6 ball game. The boys rallied together and displaying the courage and teamwork that got them to this final in the first place, they went on to score three unanswered, converted tries in the last 8 minutes to take out the final 28 - 6. Congratulations to all of the team members who played

so well â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Ethan Ahrens, Liam Beattie, Jack Birchall, Hayden Crouch, Fred Dorrough, Luke Gyory, Chris Hallard, Lachlan Holmes, Nathan Morris, Ryan Nash, Josh Nixon, Adam Pearl, Daniel Perrin, Casey Small, Jordie Spooner, PJ Van Den Berg and Connor Webster and 12 year old Kobi Anand from year 6, who was named player of the match.

8am and tickets $45. Booking sheet out now. A reminder coaching is available every Thursday and Saturday from 9am and Mixed bowls is played Tuesday and Sundays starting 1pm. Pottsville Men Week Ending 21/09/2008 Wednesday September 17 Winners with Lowest Winning Score were B. Brown, T Hefferan and D Smith Winning Rink went to L Swift, A Durrington and G Reading Consolation prize went to D Appleton, F Moore and D Townsend Friday the 19th of September 2008 Winners were F Brady and F Fielding Saturday the September 20 Winners wit Highest Winning Margin were G Booth and K Coyte Winning Rink went L Hendry and F Fielding. The consolation Prize went to G Fergusen and T Fuller REMINDERS. Barefoot Bowls is on every Sunday at 2pm, beginners welcome. For any enquires and bookings for bowls call the Pottsville Beach Sports on 6676 1077

Pottsville Women Thursday September 18: Lucky Bowler: J Afflick. Raffle:J Tuckey. Winning Rink: J Brammer, M Jackson, E Macdonald. Updates: Oct 9: Brian Cecil Shield Day. October 14: Pelican Fours. Oct 21: Friendship afternoon. Tweed Heads Men Pennant Saturday September 20 Div 1 against Tugun 50/65. Div 2 against South Tweed lost 50/65. Div 4 against Helensvale lost 57/63. Div 6 against Musgrave Hill won 83/45. Div 7 against Burleigh Heads drew 54/54. Div 8 against Mermaid Beach won 67/50 Next Round September 27 Div 1 Round 10 home against Musgrave Hill; Round 9. Div 2 home against Tugun; Div 4 home against McKenzie Park; Div 6 away at Robina; Div 7 home against Musgrave Hill and Div 8 home against Helensvale. Social Results: Sunday September 14 Green 1 winners: Fred & Joan Cramer, r/up: George Mynott, Heather Mason. Green 2: Harry Lyon, Joy and Roy Werner, ; r/up: Sylvia and Dennis Lusby; Green 3: Ray and Bev White, Jeanette & Ken Davey; r/up: Bob & Elaine Martingale, Poppy & Bob Graeme.

Tuesday September 16 Winners Men: Olly McCausland, Alan Jones, Sam Ramsay, Jim A. Smith ;r/ up: Tony Laycock, Fred Cramer, Arthur Jackson Ladies: Bev Bitmead, Adele Duckworth, Daisy Matteucci, Judith Webster; r/up: Penelope Collins, Audrey Sargent, Grace Watts, Betty Howell. Wednesday September 17 Winners Green 1: Brian Bitmead, Carlo Campana; r/up: Dennis Lusby, Terry Horton; Green 2: Sean Harty, Ken Calvert; r/up: Brian Neill, Graham Eastes; Green 3: Jack Barnes, Bob Wike, r/up: Bob Chapman, Bill Grose; Green 4: John Heath, Stan Williams; r/up: Bob Trinder, Fred Willis. Friday September 19 winners Green 1: Ken Withington, Tom Reeves, Col Hawkins; r/up: Les Wurth, Bob Cumming, Les Hughes; Green 2: Jeff Walter, Bryan Osborne, Ian Irvine; r/ up: Bob Mcewan, Frank Dawson, George Brooks. Green 3: Tom Marling, Jack Blagbrough, Arthur Jackson, r/ up: Fred Cramer, Frank Parsons, Jim A. Smith. Saturday September 20 winners: Alan Davis, Ted Crofton; r/up: Ray Carter, Arthur Beckman.

Tweed Heads Ladies Spring Medley September 8 Winners: J.Griffin/MHar vey/E. Peacock/V.Gravolyn/J.Blyth (South Tweed) R/U: S.McKenzie/S.Coghlan/C.Pavlov/L. Gardiner/H.Bosisto (Comp) Third: D.Horn./C.Moran/J.Munns/ D.0â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neil/N.Munns (South Tweed) Fourth: D.Cunnington/E.Carter/P. Dearlove/J.Ryan/C.Hawkins (THBC). Wednesday September 10 Winners: Jill Clark/Rolita Quinlan R/U Sylvia Jackson/Dorothy Stewart Pennant September 12 Division 1: Tweed Heads 4 d South Tweed1. Division 2: Tweed Heads 4 d Twin Towns 1. Division 4: Robina 4 d Tweed Heads 1. Division 5: Tweed Heads 4 and Half d Mermaid Beach Half. Division 7: Tweed Heads 4 d Tamborine Mt.1. Division 8: Tweed Heads 4 d Beenleigh 1. Classic pairs will take place on Monday October 6. Aply to the Secretary or Treasurer. Pennant September 16 Division 2: Broadbeach 4 d Tweed Heads 1. Division 4: Tweed Heads 5 d Burleigh 0. Division 5: Tweed Heads 5 d Broadbeach 0. Division 7: Musgrave Hill

4 d Tweed Heads 1. Pennant September 19 Division 1: Musgrave Hill 3 d Tweed Heads 2. Division 2: Tweed Heads 4 d Paradise Point. 1. Division 4: Tugun 4 d Tweed Heads 1. Division 5: Tweed Heads 5 d Surfers Paradise 0. Division 7: Tweed Heads 4 d Kingscliffe 1.Division 8: Tweed Heads 4 d Twin Towns1. GOLF Chinderah Veterans Social Golf Results for Thurs 18/9/08 - Stroke Winner â&#x20AC;&#x153;Aâ&#x20AC;? grade - Geoff Condon - net 56 - new h/cap 12 R/up - Barry Martin - net 57 (c/back) - h/cap 2 Winner â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bâ&#x20AC;? grade - Steve Vienna - net 53 (c/back) - new h/cap 15 R/up - Col Campbell - net 53 - new h/ cap 18 Winner â&#x20AC;&#x153;Câ&#x20AC;? grade - Marcia Eldridge - net 49 - new h/cap 34 R/up - May Ellemor - net 52 - new h/ cap 23 Ball rundown to net 59 (c/back) Murwillumbah Womens 23rd Sept. 08. Individual Stableford. Overall winner in C Grade M Flick, 43 pts. A Grade winner J.Pezet, 34 pts. B Grade winner A Pendergast, 42 pts..

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Phone: 0404 171 031 Nickname: K.O. Most embarrassing moment: Turning up to do a job on the wrong day Favourite Food: Steak and seafood Best Feature: How I care for and look after Wendy, my wonderful partner (crawler) Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d love to: Fly around the world â&#x20AC;&#x201C; in my own Lear Jet Favourite saying: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Tomorrowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Hobbies: Travel â&#x20AC;&#x201C; when thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time Fantasy: To be right, sometimesâ&#x20AC;Ś just joking darling (youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in for it now Kieran) Like to have dinner with: The tax commissioner at a cheap restaurant â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got some advice for him (such as travel directions â&#x20AC;&#x201C; you tell him where to go?) Like most about job: Meeting and having fun with people Favourite pastime: Golf A good night out: Bottle of red wine, a great restaurant and a limo home followed by a massage (etc)

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IRONART Design & Blacksmithing

Wrought iron furniture & fittings

Jim Blower 0418 968 233

ARCHITECTURAL TIMBERS JACK MANTLE

STAIRS

INTERNAL / EXTERNAL OPEN / CLOSED RISERS

0408 740 480 / 02 6684 3378

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DENTISTS BYRON DENTAL SURGERY Mercury-free restorations .......................................................66807774

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DESIGN & DRAFTING BAREFOOT BUILDING DESIGN New homes & additions ..........................Bob Acton 0407 787993 GARDEN DESIGN, FENG SHUI www.simplybeautifulspaces.com.au .Lyn 0428 884329 or 66857756

BUILDERS, HANDYMEN...

TOOLS FOR EVERYONE

Byron Energy Efficient Design & Drafting

Call Richard 6685 4265

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COUGHRAN ELECTRICAL Anthony 0439 624 945 a/h 6680 4173 All antenna installations and repairs and electrical work Friendly U Local U Prompt U Reliable

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GUTTER GUARD SPECIALISTS Installing Aluminium, Stainless Steel and Polyethylene mesh.

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COUGHRAN ELECTRICAL 24 hour service. Lic 154293C .........................0439 624945 or 66804173 CURTIS ELECTRICAL 24 hour service. Lic 79065C ........................................................0427 402399

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0429 038 412

BUSINESS & OFFICE SERVICES

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Service Directory

Lic # 154293C

0419 772 897

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COUGHRAN ELECTRICAL

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Anthony 0439 624 945 a/h 6680 4173

QUALITY GARDEN DESIGN AND MAINTENANCE CONSTRUCTION, RENOVATION AND REFURBISHING UNIQUE AND AFFORDABLE DESIGN SOLUTIONS STYLISH, SUSTAINABLE, CLIENT FOCUSED

0405 295 012

EDIBLE LANDSCAPES

elissa@freshhoneydesigns.com

02 6680 5241 | 0411 204 390

Design | Visual Identity | Web

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creative design solutions a sweet hive of possibilities

various implements available for limited access projects

REMOVALISTS

MOTORING

Genuine 24 hour, 7 days a week service

Call 0427 402 399

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PAINTING

FLORISTS

NEW BRIGHTON PAINTING Quality work Lic 64066C.......Derek Bond 0401 920540 or 66805551

L O C A L / I N T E R S TAT E

BRUNSWICK BOTANICALS Fresh flowers, exotic plants, seedlings & gifts. Deliver anywhere ..66851698

All-Ways Painting

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PICTURE FRAMING

CALL A HUBBY for all your little odd jobs .............................................................. Ami 0421 347320

BILLINUDGEL CUSTOM PICTURE FRAMING 7/1 Wilfred St, Billinudgel .......................66803444

CUSTOM PICTURE FRAMING @ BYRON ART SUPPLIES Premium quality artists canvases MULLUMBIMBY HERBALS NATUROPATHY, Massage, 79 Stuart St ..............................66843002 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; cotton/linen. 3/97 Centennial Cct, Byron Arts & Industry Estate ......................................66808010

HIRE

PLUMBERS

BYRON WEDDING & PARTY HIRE ........www.byronpartyhire.com.au 66855483 or 0439 855483

LANDSCAPING & EXCAVATION

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DRAIN CLEAR SEWER & STORMWATER BLOCKAGES CLEARED USING HIGH PRESSURE WATER JETTA. LIC: L14685

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WINDOW TINTING

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Lic 4838

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GLAZIERS OCEAN SHORES GLASS & SCREENS, Glass splashbacks Lic No 61205C .............................66803333

Wheel Do It Wheel Move It

Licence No. 158031C

SEWAGE MANAGEMENT SPECIALISTS

TWEED SHIRE ECHO SERVICE DIRECTORY Colour display ad: $28 per week Including GST with a minimum 8 week booking, 4 weeks payable in advance.

Sustainable environmental outcomes Drainage, GasďŹ tting & Plumbing 6680 2358 / www.trinesolutions.com.au / 0407 439 805

Line listing: $70 for 12 weeks

PRINTING & GRAPHIC ART

Got any questions? Please call Danielle Francis on (02) 6672 2280

ACCENT COLOR The Copy & Laminating Shop ....................................................................66856236 ACCENT COLOR Web Design & Construction .......................................................................66856236

www.tweedecho.com.au

Classified Ads ECHO CLASSIFIEDS 6672 2280 PHONE ADS Ads may be taken by phone on 6672 2280 8.30am-12pm Wedneday 9am-5pm Monday to Friday Ads canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be taken on the weekend AT OUR OFFICE ClassiďŹ ed ads may also be lodged at our ofďŹ ce: Suite 1, Warina Walk Arcade, Murwillumbah RATES & PAYMENT $13.00 for the ďŹ rst two lines (minimum charge) $4.00 for each extra line (these prices include GST) Cash, cheque or credit card â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mastercard or Visa. Prepayment required for: Garage Sales, Share Accommodation, Short Term Accomodation, Wanted to Rent and Work Wanted classiďŹ cations. DEADLINE 12pm Wednesday for display ads 12pm Wednesday for line ads Account enquiries phone 6684 1777

BULK ECHO DISTRIBUTION - PICK UPS If you live outside our home delivery areas, pick up a copy of your Echo from the following places: Banora Point: Banora Point Shopping Village, Tweed Heights Shops Burringbar: Real estate agent and service station Byron Bay: Echo office, Visitors Centre, newsagent, Community Centre Cabarita Beach: Beach Bar, SLSC and cafe, newsagent Casuarina/Salt: IGA, Salt Bar, bottleshop Chinderah: Art Gallery, pub, newsagent Coolagattta â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Griffith Street and The Esplanade: Three newsagents, Visitor Info Centre, 7-11 Supermarket, Coolangatta Sands and Coolangatta Hotel, Surf Club Condong: Store Crabbes Creek: Store Fingal Head: Sheoak Shack Hastings Point: General store, service station Kingscliff: Kingscliff Surf Club, Bowls Club, two newsagents, Library/Community Centre Mooball: Pub and cafe

Mullumbimby: Echo office Murwillumbah: Echo office, newsagent Main Street and Sunnyside, Visitor Centre Pottsville: Supermarket, bottleshop, newsagent South Tweed Industrial Estate: Casa Del Cafe, Eat Me Cafe Stokers Siding: Store Terranora: Supermarket Tumbulgum: Post Office store Tweed City: Information desk Tweed Heads â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Minjungbal Drive: South Tweed Bowls Club, Tweed Tavern, Community Centre/Library Tweed Heads â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Wharf Street: Ivory Tavern, Hospital main foyer, Tweed Heads Bowls Club, newsagent, Twin Towns, Coolangatta Senior Citizens Club Tyalgum: Store Uki: Store, pub West Tweed: Seagulls, Cellarbrations, Broadwater Village Retirement Park, Spar Supermarket, Kennedy Drive Newsagent

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PUBLIC NOTICES PHOTOS All photos handled by The Echo - all care & no responsibility taken. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; CLASSIFIEDS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Can be booked any time during business hours Monday to Friday by phoning 66722280 Please be very clear about what you want to have printed in your ad. Our Echo staff will read your ad back to you. Please help us by making sure we have correct details and phone numbers. Please also have your credit card ready for ALL ads placed over the telephone. SUBSCRIBE TO THE ECHO If you want to be sure of your copy each week, or if you have a friend whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to have a subscription, why not send them one? $35 per quarter or $125 per year, post incl. Write to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Echoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 6 Village Way, Stuart St, Mullumbimby 2482 including payment in advance.

BLISS BOTANICALS 100% NATURAL SKIN CARE Handmade with all natural ingredients. Great for you or a great gift idea! Avail at: GYPSY LE FAY 7 Park St, Brunswick Heads Shop enquiries: 0417427518

COUNSELLING Susan Allen CMCAPA 66802805

HEALTH

KINESIOLOGY Clear subconscious sabotages. Reprogram patterns and beliefs. De-stress. Restore vibrancy and physical health. Clear allergies. SANDRA DAVEY Reg. Pract. 66846914

CLASSICAL HOMOEOPATHY Dr Sue Haynes PhD Dip Hom Byron Bay Phone 66855883 OMNIA HEALING Indian head massage, Reiki, Tarot, private meditation. Reiki workshop every weekend. New Brighton. 66805098 REMEDIAL MASSAGE now available at Cabarita Barber, Home Brew & Beauty. $40 per hour. Ph 66760866 OSTEOPATH A biodynamic approach to Osteopathy in the cranial ďŹ eld

ANDREW HALL New Brighton, 66802027, Thurs, Fri. Not your usual Osteopathy.

Hatha Yoga with Karen

DEREK HARPER 66803032, derekharper@mac.com

Tuesday â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 8.30am & 6pm Wednesday â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 9am Thursday â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 6pm

TAX DOCTOR!

BRUNSWICK VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTRE

ARE YOU ELECTRO-SENSITIVE? Seeking similar people for MO on large remote acreage. Please leave number, will return your call, Nola 0404876076

ALIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S RUG CENTRE

Specialist rug washing & repairs Quality rugs for sale Cnr Wollongbar & Centennial Cct Byron Arts/Ind Est 6685 7750/0427 469 843

A Talk The place of Nature in the Spiritual Life. Go to details page at www.beingmark.com

Phone 6685 0164

29 September 25, 2008 The Tweed Shire Echo

PSYCHIC CONSULTANT: MEDIUM With over 45+ years of invaluable experience as a Psychic, Consultant, Medium, Counsellor and Advisor for business, personal, career and relationships. I can offer a level of accuracy, a depth of compassion and proven psychic gifts, and I request that you do not reveal your particular enquiry. All sessions by appointment only. 6687 1006 Annabelle.

JEWELLERY by Helen Luna 66844163 www.helenluna.com.au

CASH PAID FOR UNWANTED CARS Local regâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d business 66845296 or 66845403 or 0413120970

CAR BODIES REMOVED FREE $$$s for most. Phone 0418189324, 0438189323

PLANTS FOR SALE Natives & exotics for the home garden and larger landscapes. Great prices & huge range. Come and browse. Ocean Shores end of Coolamon Scenic Drive. Open 7 days. 66805505

COMPOST TOILETS 'ARRY 3COTT s

from $10.50sqm & Bamboo Flooring. For ceilings, walls, doors, etc. Ph 66884188 - sample & brochure www.bambooply.com.au

GARAGE SALES SELL YOUR STUFF! To advertise in this section, please call our Murwillumbah ofďŹ ce on 66722280

Your personal motor vehicle dealer

DONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T BUY A LEMON! Let a professional help you.

Phone 0427 667 177 Licensed professional dealer MD20399

www.autoagent.net.au

BARGAINS 2000 Hyundai Excel auto, 82,700kms, a/c, p/s WLW367 ...............................$5400 â&#x20AC;&#x2122;99 Hyundai Lantra sports wagon, 5spd, 123,067kms, a/c, p/s VRN367 ..........$6250 Toyota Hilux Surf 133kms, auto, a/c, p/s, CD, new tyres, 12 mths rego S/N161 ...$7500 Mitsubishi Pajero 7-seat, 4WD, 4/9 rego, a/c, p/s, bullbar RQB619 ...................$2950 Holden Commodore sedan, 5/9 rego, auto, 184,071kms, a/c, p/s AQ61ER ..........$2000

35 CARS

MASSAGE THERAPY CAREER Nationally recognised Certificate IV + Diploma in Remedial Massage courses Starting 20th October, 2008 Upgrade Course for Cert IV holders to Diploma

Starting 21st October, 2008 Holistic Massage Centre, 1/14 Jonson Street, Byron Bay. Enquiries 0407 299 258

BUS SERVICES

WANTED

BYRON MINIBUS HIRE & CHARTER Great rates for 1 day to 1 week. Phone 0439865544

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TRACTOR REPAIRS

Fully government accredited courses

Please stick this by your phone EMERGENCY ONLY AMBULANCE, FIRE, POLICE ............................ 000 AMBULANCE Kingscliff, Tweed Heads, Murwillumbah .............. 131 233 MURWILLUMBAH HOSPITAL .....................................................6672 1822 EMERGENCY ...............................................................6672 0230 TWEED HEADS HOSPITAL ...................................................07 5536 1133 FIRE BRIGADE Kingscliff .......................................................................6674 1271 Murwillumbah ...............................................................6672 8305 Tweed Heads ...........................................................07 5536 2222 Tweed Rural Fire Service............................................6672 7888 POLICE NON EMERGENCIES 24/7...............................................131 444 Tweed Heads ...........................................................07 5536 0999 Murwillumbah ...............................................................6672 9499 Kingscliff .......................................................................6674 9399 STATE EMERGENCY SERVICE ......................................................................132 500 Banora Point ............................................................07 5524 1349 Murwillumbah ...............................................................6670 2460 Tweed District...............................................................6672 4093 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)............6628 1898 WILDLIFE CARERS TWEED VALLEY ........................................6672 4789 CURRUMBIN SANCTUARY....................................................07 5534 1266 SEA WORLD ............................................................................07 5588 2222

LOCALLY HAND-MADE CUSTOM

BAMBOO PLY

OCTOBER 26. MULLUM CIVIC HALL gypsy@gypsylefay.com

Ronald H Wolff, former ofďŹ cer with Tax Dept is happy to keep you in good tax health incl. GST. For personal and professional tax services call 66794129 Will make house calls.

TRAMPOLINES, REPLACEMENT MATS & parts. 66851624 or 0409851624

COOLAMON GARDENS

CAN YOU DANCE? CELEBRANT

FOR SALE

WILL PAY CASH Either shipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bell or school bell (or other) Any condition Phone Ray 0429 444 616

MOTOR VEHICLES

CAR AUCTIONS Buy at Dealers only through us. Phone David 0414306152 CHOICE MADE, $$$ SAVED.

Rural Machinery Repair Service

TRACTOR REPAIRS Repairs, Parts and Restorations to all Makes and Models, on-site service available. Prepurchase inspections. Tractors sold on consignment for clients. Unwanted tractors removed at no charge

WE HAVE TRACTORS FOR SALE Tractor loader Daedong DK80Câ&#x20AC;&#x201C; 82 hp, 4wd, 925 hrs, a/c cab, FEL, QR, bucket forks auger $37,000 o.n.o.

TRACTOR SAFETY SCHEME Have an approved R.O.P.S. safety frame fitted to your tractor. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cheaper than a funeral. Phone us now. Workshop Charltons Rd, Federal. Phone Bill for service.

02 6688 4143

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Phone for FREE report 1800 428 605 or visit www.moneymakingrealestatesecrets.com

Governments and Corporations are desperate to keep us reliant on non renewable energy because our economy is based on consumerism, not sustainability.

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For more information call owner on 0409 974 877 The Tweed Shire Echo September 25, 2008 30

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Backburner would love to be a fly on the wall as horse trading for the coveted mayoral position gets underway. The two front-runners, Warren Polglase and Joan van Lieshout, will likely need each other’s support if they are to achieve different agendas involving the rezoning of three different parcels of land for separate developments opposed by council planners and the state government. One is 50ha of land zoned special uses-industrial at Chinderah which owner Harry Segal wants to develop as a district shopping centre to rival Pacific Fair. Mrs van Lieshout is publicly supporting the project while Mr Polglase has so far not given it his official backing. The next big card on the table is the controversial push to rezone prime farming land on the Cudgen plateau which Mr Polglase is supporting – but it involves plans by Coles-Meyer to build houses and a supermarket on a 48ha slice which will clash with Segal’s venture. The joker in the pack is Mrs van Lieshout’s wish to get the greenlight to develop a planned 49ha ‘green village’ on land under Mt Warning owned by her husband, Peter, who is the brother of billionaire Super A-Mart founder, John van Lieshout. Her best chance of becoming mayor rests with the three community councillors who may be so peeved about Mr Polglase’s comeback that they would be prepared to give the Liberal Party member a go. But if Mrs van Lieshout is mayor she will be forced to declare a pecuniary interest and abstain from voting on her husband’s project, with the likely result of a three-all deadlock because she will not be in a position to use her casting vote. Backburner reckons that Mr Polglase’s big ace is the certain support of at least two other councillors who could be all he needs to thumb his nose at his

a strong contender to get back in the hot seat. ■ ■ ■ ■

Who said this? ‘Like most people I spoke to on election day, I do not like the preferential voting system... I certainly hope our new council offers voters another chance at a referendum on the ward system of government so we can get rid of preferences once and for all.’ Not Katie Milne, not Kevin McCready but... Kevin Skinner in a sour-grapes letter to the editor of a local daily. Wonder if he’s changed his mind? ■ ■ ■ ■

Sad news: after we published a photo of a lost maltese-shitzu cross called Jessie who disapWhat a porky! The national media was caught with its nose in the trough this week chasing and embellishing the Uki pig story. peared from home in Pottsville recently, owners contacted The Uki businesses were inundated with calls from media Echo to say they had received wanting the exact location of the ‘pig from hell that had a Uki an immediate response and woman bailed up in her house fearing for her life’... or so the could now ‘put closure to the story goes! incident’. Apparently a neighThe Daily Telegraph’s website had the ‘wild pig’, the size of bour had spotted the dog in a a pony complete with the demonic red eyes, gracing its web nearby canal six days after she page while other media raced to the village to get the story. However, the pest animal ranger for the NSW Rural Lands Pro- went missing and called countection Board, Neil Hing, who attended the property in question, cil. The grieving owners said they wouldn’t have known of said it was not an angry pig nor was it the size of a pony. The pig is about 80 kilos, was raised as a pet and released by the outcome had it not been for the Backburner item. RIP, its owners. It then wandered onto the Uki property where the Jessie. residents began to feed it over the last two weeks. ‘Once you start feeding a pig it gets used to it. This pig tried breaking into the house to get to the food. It’s not angry – I was two inches from it, ‘ Mr Hing said. He was due to return to the property on Wednesday to remove the pig with the only question left unanswered : bacon anyone?

nemesis, Prof Maurice Daley, whose inquiry led to his council’s dismissal. Whether Ms van Lieshout supports the Cudgen rezoning or ditches backing for the Chinderah project only time will tell. If she does throw her support behind Mr Polglase’s Lazarus-like comeback as mayor after his council was sacked, it will be interesting to hear how she’ll reconcile her decision with her campaign literature stating it’s time for a fresh, new council.

ably the richest candidate at last weekend’s Tweed Shire Council elections, $25,000 is probably peanuts but that’s the amount he’s supposed to have spent on his campaign. He probably thought it was good value given that he credited his own preferences for getting Phil Youngblutt across the line and elected into the final spot. Otherwise, Mr Segal said, it would have been a Green Council. Well, what’s wrong with that? It’s a democracy and the Greens topped the poll, ■ ■ ■ ■ yet it looks like more of the How much do 1,000 votes same from the dark past with cost? For Harry Segal, argu- sacked mayor Warren Polglase

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On holiday in Sydney last week, our council reporter couldn’t resist the temptation, with the all-important distribution of preferences taking place, to visit the electoral commission’s tally room in the big smoke. He figured he’d be the first on the spot to relay news of the result. When he introduced himself as the Tweed Shire Echo’s reporter, officials were mightily impressed, he tells Backburner, as they thought he had travelled all that way especially to cover the counting (and he wasn’t going to spoil their party). He nearly choked on his tea and scone when he first glimpsed the results when they flashed on the big screen, but he did enable The Echo crew to be the first to hear of the shock reversal of fortunes for the Greens.