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Murwillumbah High School student Jade Copeland is on a winner as she heads into the straight for her HSC exams with a jockey apprenticeship in her saddle.

Seventeen-year-old Jade will kick off her HSC exams with English this Friday (October 17) and wrap her schooling up on November 6 after sitting her chemistry, biology, ancient history, maths and PE exams.

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Jade who’ll have a weekend off with friends before heading back to the track. ‘There’s always enough time to party but never enough to get where you want,’ Jade said.

Since she was four years old, Jade has been riding horses and after 12 years in the Cabarita Pony Club she landed a job as a track worker with horse trainer Darryl Ward in Murwillumbah.

Juggling school and the horses has not been difficult for Jade, who hits

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Wollumbin Dreaming Festival, held in the foothills of the remnant volcano of Mt Warning is officially extinct, suffering the same fate as two other popular Tweed festivals.

The Wollumbin festival, which was due to run on October 4 and 5, bit the dust after its organising team of volunteers became exhausted and unable to maintain the pace.

Speed on Tweed and the Kingscliff Food Art and Jazz festival followed the same fate. The three festivals attracted thousands of tourists to the shire with volunteers doing the vast majority of the work.

Organiser of the Wollumbin Dreaming Festival, Chana Beck, said this week the committee and organising team were overworked and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;no longer had the stamina to continue this great event, which is now history.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Ms Beck said for seven years the festival had presented the Tweedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only multicultural festival with more than 20 bands, art gallery workshops, Indigenous dance groups, Elders talk, environmental displays and much more. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I worked alongside a very small team of dedicated volunteers up to 80 hours a week prior to the festival and we had limited help,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Ms Beck said.

The not-for-profit festival had minimal financial assistance, including $5,000 from Tweed Shire Council.

Tweed Tourism charged to promote the event, making it hard for the organisers to cover costs, Ms Beck said.

Disappointed that the festival was finished, Ms Beck believed that Tweed Shire Council along with Tweed Tourism and the business chambers were not looking closely enough at how the festivals attracted tourists into the area. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I think the Tweed needs to develop a more effective strategy around attracting tourists and decide if they want festivals to be a part of that strategy. And if they do then they need to give more financial and ongoing support to ensure the events are viable and able to last the distance,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Ms Beck said.

Wollumbin Dreaming Festival was a unique event and a sister festival to the very successful Dreaming Festival at Maleny in the Sunshine Coast hinterland.

Volunteer organiser of the Kingscliff Food Art and Jazz Festival for its last three years, Rose Wright, said the last year of the festival brought in 35,000 people and was the biggest trade day Kingscliff businesses had ever had.

Ms Wright, who now works as the manager of Industry and Destination Development for Australian Regional Tourism Resource Centre at Southern Cross University, said Tweed Shire Council needed to develop a more co-

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Half empty or half full?

Waiting patiently for the Olympic pool to fill last week were (l-r): Nick Byrne, 12, Bill Byrne, 10, Jane Higgins, 10, Matt Thackray, 12, Janet Byrne (swimming mum and secretary of Murwillumbah Swimming Club), Madeleine Carroll, 15, Molly Dittmar, 13, and Chloe Dittmar, 11.

For some it’s half empty but for members of the Murwillumbah Swimming Club the Tweed Aquatic Centre’s Olympic pool is half full.

Patiently the 100-plus mem-

bers are waiting for the pool to reopen after a year without a local water hole.

Last week members had a sneak preview of what they believe will be the training

ground of champions.

The pool will open on Friday, November 28, and the swimming club is anticipating a big splash as they dive into a new era of swimming.

Dreaming festival a volunteers’ nightmare from page 1 ordinated approach to tourism and event management.

‘There are a number of excellent models, Clarence Valley being one, where industry and economic development combined with community based economic development are all integrated,’ she said.

Tweed Tourism boss Phil Villers said there was a strategy in place and council had a des-

ignated event coordinator who worked with festival organisers to secure funding and ensure the events crossed their t’s and dotted their i’s.

Mr Villiers said there were moves afoot to resurrect Speed on Tweed while there were plans for a new festival at Kingscliff.

But Ms Wright believed there was room for improve-

ment with council taking more responsibility to ensure the success and longevity of events.

‘The loss of the Wollumbin Dreaming Festival is very sad considering we have just had the federal ministers for environment and tourism in the heart of the Tweed expounding its natural beauty and heritage as they launch it on to the world stage,’ Ms Wright said.

River Festival set to peak The Tweed River Festival is set to make its biggest splash – and bang – this weekend with highlights such as the Classic Boat Regatta, dragon boat races, swim classic and fireworks spectacular.

Hundreds of residents and visitors are expected to take part in a range of activities along the river and at Jack Evans Boat Harbour.

Lovingly restored classic boats will cruise the Tweed River from 11am on Saturday as part of the Tweed River Classic Boat Regatta. The boats depart from Chinderah for the trip up river to Murwillumbah Rowing Club in Tumbulgum Road, Murwillumbah.

Saturday activities around the Jack Evans Boat Harbour include lantern making workshops from 3pm-5pm, where you can create your own colourful lantern, circus and hip hop workshops, entertainment with bands, circus and drummers so don’t forget your rug or chair for a picnic in the park.

Volunteers are urgently needed to carry lanterns depicting various characters for Saturday’s Lights on the Harbour lantern parade. Parade marshals and canoeists are also urgently needed. To volunteer, call Dianne on 02 6670 2783.

The lantern parade will brighten up the downtown Tweed Heads area on Saturday night, followed by the fireworks spectacular from 7pm and music in the park.

On Sunday, the Kids in Need dragon boat festival is the main

Kirsty Barker came first in the girls under-10 section of the Tweed River Festival Paddle Challenge at Jack Evans Boat Harbour last Saturday.

attraction at the harbour from 8am-4pm and the emergency services family fun day runs there from 11am to 3pm.

The Murwillumbah Tweed River Swim Classic includes three swims (400m, 1.2km and 2.5km) with registration at the

Murwillumbah Rowing Club at 7.30am.

The festival aims to raise awareness about the importance of our local waterways to our lives and lifestyles.

To see the full program visit www.tweed.nsw.gov.au

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work, if all fails she’d like to be a Jade is a realist and has not let large-animal vet.

Once the HSC is over she’ll her school studies suffer.

While she hopes to have a be off and racing as an apprencareer in the horse racing in- tice jockey for Darryl Ward.

‘If she wasn’t doing her HSC dustry and has laid the groundshe’d be riding on Melbourne Cup Day at Murwillumbah Races,’ Darryl said.

While Murwillumbah Races lights up Jade’s face, she has her sights set much higher.

‘I want to ride in the Melbourne Cup, Hong Kong and London. I want to travel. You have to be the best and that’s what I want to be,’ a determined Jade said.

■ The Tweed Shire Echo wishes

all Tweed HSC students the very best for their examinations and a bright and rewarding future.

Holiday-parks feedback wanted Tweed residents are being urged to provide feedback on laws governing holiday parks across NSW, with a discussion paper released for comment.

The Holiday Parks (Longterm Casual Occupation) Act 2002 was introduced to address the unique circumstances that arise when families own vans, which they keep on a rented site for casual use.

Fair Trading Minister Virginia Judge said some families make arrangements with a park owner to keep their van on-site year round so they can use it at times such as Christmas, Easter or school holidays.

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families and provides the park with income outside peak periods,’ she said.

‘Before 2002, there were sometimes disputes because the parties had no clear rights under the law and the Act was introduced to address that situation.’

Ms Judge said the Act spells out the rights and responsibilities of the van owner, as well as the park owner.

‘This includes putting agreements in writing, minimum notice periods to increase site fees or end the agreement, notice of changes to park rules and a dispute resolution system for when things go wrong,’ she said.

Submissions close on October 24, 2008. www.tweedecho.com.au

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New council stirs up hornets nest over Bay Street sale Ken Sapwell

‘Nobody was under the impression that we were about to lose one of the busiest roads in the central business district without any public discussion… there are a lot of people who are outraged over this.’ at Kingscliff for high-rise development?’

Veteran councillor Phil Youngblutt, who won the support of only Greens councillor Katie Milne when he tried to remove the item headed ‘Bay Street, Tweed Heads – Road Closure and Disposal’ from the confidential section, said yesterday he couldn’t understand the secrecy.

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publicising our intent (to close and sell part of the road) to get community feedback,’ he said.

And despite a resolution seeking to publicise plans ‘for the disposal of Bay Street’ which outline potential development options, Mr Rayner said only part of the southern end of the street was earmarked for closure and sale.

‘It’s only a partial road closure and not a full road closure – it’s 30 metres wide and only needs to be two-lanes wide to carry

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Rescue Rhino set to roam Kingscliff Beach

Tweed Coast Holiday Parks business development manager Andrew Illingworth, left, and Cudgen Headland SLSC president Gary Cain with the new all-terrain Rhino quad bike at Kingscliff Beach last week. Photo Luis Feliu

Cudgen Headland Surf Life Saving Club (SLSC) is much more mobile these days thanks to a brand new all-terrain vehicle and the generosity of two organisations.

Tweed Coast Holiday Parks recently contributed $8,500 to the club for the purchase of the Rhino for the Cudgen Headland SLSC, which was matched dollar for dollar by Yamaha Australia.

Cudgen Headland SLSC president Gary Cain received the vehicle recently from Tweed Coast Holiday Parks’ business development

officer Andrew Illingworth.

However, as the beach season had not yet officially started and with renovations underway at the club, the Rhino had to wait for the start of the lifesaving season this month to be put through its paces.

Mr Cain said the club had to use a member’s fourwheel-drive vehicle recently for an emergency callout at the northern end of Kingscliff Beach to help an asthma sufferer after an attack.

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‘I think they’ve gone a bit paranoid about this and have gone a little bit too far. Surely you want people to know.’

Mr Rayner said it was wrong to assume from the minutes that the road closure and sale was a done deal.

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tion that public discussion of the subject ‘would confer a commercial advantage’ on the prospective purchasers.

‘The council report had a whole lot of information regarding probity and the processes we would use and what our commercial position was and they’re matters which should quite appropriately be dealt with as commercial in confidence.’

Deputy mayor Barry Longland said it was a question of accepting Mr Rayner’s advice but he did not believe the council had been wrongly advised.

‘I do believe there was a commercial imperative but I don’t think I can comment any more,’ said the retired federal government auditor.

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The new council has stirred-up a hornets nest over its controversial decision to go behind closed doors to discuss plans to sell part of a street in the Tweed Heads CBD for a multi-story residential development.

Some residents accuse councillors of failing at their very first meeting to honour promises of new levels of transparency following Daly report criticism that the former sacked council considered an excessive number of agenda items in confidential sessions.

Council-watchers got their first inkling of the proposed mega-deal involving the sale of part of Bay Street when they viewed the minutes of last week’s confidential council meeting which authorised several initiatives.

They included advising the Lands Department ‘that approval to close the road is to proceed’ and authorising general manager Mike Rayner ‘to enter into direct negotiations’ with developer Walker Corp and the management of Tweed Centro to ‘obtain value for money’ for the sale.

One of the first to spot the minutes, Save the Jack Evans Boat Harbour committee member Stephanie Deane, said she reacted in ‘shock and disbelief ’.

She said the deal seemed to resurrect a proposal which was killed off following community uproar to sell Bay Street to allow a developer to build two towers which encroached on the foreshores of the harbour.

‘If this is correct, it’s an outrage that we now have a council willing to sell-off our roads to developers for dollars! God help the crown reserves,’ she said.

‘Nobody was under the impression that we were about to lose one of the busiest roads in the central business district without any public discussion… there are a lot of people who are outraged over this.

‘Our new councillors ran on the platform of no more meetings behind closed doors, public consultation and accountability but they appear to have fallen at the first hurdle.’

‘I wonder what [councillor] Dot Holdom would have thought if the council decided to close part of Marine Parade

the small volume of traffic that part of Bay Street carries.

‘The proposal is that this will facilitate commercial activation of Bay Street and the activation of the Jack Evans Boat Harbour without locating any physical structure within the harbour.’

He said any development would be attached to the shopping centre and would comprise a mix of retail, commercial and residential.

Asked about his authorisation to negotiate with developers, he said, ‘Well, there will be very little negotiation until we get feedback and the council resolves whether this is something it wants to pursue or not.’

He denied that his approval to enter talks before council approved any sale was putting the cart before the horse – and said he stood by his recommenda-

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Tweed family aids Cambodian soccer

The Mortimer family with team members affiliated with Happy Football Cambodia after they donated soccer balls.

Vicki Mortimer may have inadvertently just dashed Australia’s chances for the World Cup in 2040 after she and her three teenage children delivered 50 soccer balls to the Happy Foot-

ball Cambodia organisation.

The organisation provides soccer gear and training for poor and homeless youth in Phnom Penh.

Vicki, from Kingscliff, said

that on an earlier visit to Cambodia she delivered some soccer shorts to the group and asked what else they needed.

‘Balls’, was the answer she received.

So on her return to the Tweed she set about the task.

‘We had balls from soccer clubs, Kingscliff and Gold Coast, local primary schools and lots from staff at Centrelink in Tweed Heads South.

‘Fifty balls were delivered by myself and my three teenage children, Ruby, Jordan and Ned, during a training session in Phnom Penh.

‘From this group of kids a Cambodian team will come to Melbourne in December to play in the Homeless World Cup for the first time,’ Vicki said. For more info go to www. happyfootballcambodia.

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Walk to help Ugandan children

Last year’s Gulu Walk group from the Tweed-Gold Coast at Duranbah Beach.

Tweed residents can walk to help the children of Uganda this Saturday, October 18.

Organiser of the Gulu Walk, John Lee of Tweed Heads said the event gave people the opportunity to not only show they care but to join with likemined people to make a difference.

‘Not many people know the plight of the Uganda residents as the events are going unmentioned,’ Mr Lee said.

‘In mid September Uganda rebels made a surprise attack on a village and kidnapped two classrooms full of children.

In the following days, tens of thousands of people fled their homes in fear of the rebels.

‘Imaging the headlines if this happened here – 90 kids stolen and hauled off into the forest to be used as soldiers. The lives of these children go unnoticed and unmentioned by the rest of the world,’ Mr Lee said.

The Gulu Walk is to remind people of the fear and terror that other people live with, he said.

‘In 2005, as many as 40,000 children walked from their rural villages into the town of Gulu and other urban centres to sleep in relative safety and avoid abduction by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) for use

in the country’s 22-year war.

‘Since its inception, Gulu Walk has raised over $1-million for the children of northern Uganda.

‘While there is progress on the ground, peace still eludes the Acholi of northern Uganda and only together can we make a difference in what former UN Under-Secretary General of Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland called “the world’s most neglected humanitarian crisis” and “one of the biggest scandals of our generation,”’ Mr Lee said.

‘Join us on Saturday, October 18 in a global effort to bring peace to northern Uganda joining thousands around the world to raise money for education and rehabilitation to Uganda’s war-affected youth,’ Mr Lee said.

The walk in Tweed Heads will start at 4pm (DST) and leave from Jack Evans Boat Harbour (old caravan park) and then follow the beachfront via Duranbah, Point Danger, Rainbow Bay, Greenmount, Coolangatta Surf Club and then back to the harbour by 5pm.

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Tweed Valley Neighbourhood Watch is leading the field establishing NSW’s first ‘School Watch’ with all eyes on Banora Point High School.

Secretary of Neighbourhood Watch Tweed Valley, Gordon Levenson, is leading the charge against the gatecrashing of private parties, street violence, drug use, sexual assault, use of weapons, threats to school staff and students, school vandalism, property crime and car theft.

Mr Levenson said Neighbourhood Watch, the police, Tweed Shire Council, school staff and students will launch School Watch tomorrow (Friday, October 17) at Banora Point High School in an effort to get crime under control.

Since April the group has been planning the new phase in crime prevention and control.

‘It’s a pilot program including the school students for the first time,’ Mr Levenson said.

‘We are trying to get kids to see that there is another way in life and crime isn’t it,’ he said.

In giving youth a voice Mr Levenson was hopeful they would report crime to the school, the police or to Crime Stoppers if they wanted to remain anonymous.

‘There have been problems at schools with break and enters and we’ve all seen the violence on the streets from children as young as nine,’ he said.

‘When I was a boy I did naughty things but not with knives. They are carrying knives now,’ he said.

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Hastings Point wins inspection Polglase maintains briefing boycott Ken Sapwell

Hastings Point solicitor John O’Reilly slipped under the guard of the new council to secure an inspection of a local marine habitat which residents fear is being destroyed by overdevelopment.

Mr O’Reilly won an on-thespot commitment from councillors at a community access presentation, undermining a long tradition of former councils which refrained from making a decision on public submissions until they were considered behind closed doors.

The councillors, still on an apparent learning curve, gave him verbal assurances they would attend an inspection following an impassioned plea to save a particularly unique marine environment now under threat.

Mr O’Reilly urged the seven councillors to meet local marine biologists and view a presentation of the crisis which was developing in the once pristine waterways around Hastings Point.

‘It’s not a beatup and we’re not greenies. Our views now have the support of the council’s coastal management committee,’ he said.

Mr O’Reilly said 3,500 school students a year visited a marine research centre in a local caravan park setup so they could study a rich environment unique to the waters around Hastings Point.

Poor planning ‘The problem is that right now they are viewing detailed presentations regarding the destruction of the environment through poor planning,’ he said.

‘They are now showcasing destruction rather than the unique beauty of Hastings Point.’

He said a Hastings Point locality plan drawn up six years ago was never ratified by the council and residents were becoming increasingly concerned that development pressures were threatening the imminent destruction of the local Cudgera Creek.

This was backed up by sci-

entific research showing the fragile creek system and the surrounding sea environment was suffering from siltation and acid-sulphate runoff from various sources, including developments.

Mr O’Reilly said after the meeting that he welcomed the new councillors’ willingness to look at the problems at Hastings Point first hand.

‘Hopefully this will turn over a new leaf for both the council and the community,’ said Mr O’Reilly, a member of the town’s residents’ association which has been involved in a long running row with the council while it was under administration.

The association has asked the NSW Court of Appeal to review an approval by the Land and Environment Court for a three-storey retirement centre in the village which is now being marketed as a 5-star luxury resort for the over 55s.

The centre, which comprises seven residential flat buildings with 262 units, will almost double the population of Hastings Point.

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Veteran councillor Warren Polglase has told colleagues he will continue to boycott premeeting briefings by senior staff because he believes they shouldn’t be part of normal council processes.

Cr Polglase, who was mayor

‘I have told them I won’t have a bar of those meetings.’ when the former council was sacked following an inquiry by Maurice Daly, said he didn’t think it was right that councillors should go through the business paper with staff before meetings.

‘If you read through the Daly report it was one of the things that he castigated the former council about,’ said Cr Polglase, who along with Cr Phil Youngblutt did not attend the briefing.

‘I have told them I won’t have a bar of those meetings because I don’t support having council staff present to interrogate them on their reports,’

Sports thieves use wheelie bins for heist Madeleine Doherty

Murwillumbah’s Sportsworld took a hit last week when thieves brazenly broke in, taking off with thousands of dollars worth of gear, all within metres of the police station.

It was a shocking discovery for the owners, Jason and Alison Dittmar, when they arrived at work last Wednesday morning to find almost $10,000 worth their top range of mens’ runners, high performance gear and their computer missing.

But what astounded them more was the sheer audacity of the thieves.

‘I reckon they’ve come in prior to the breakin to get the lay of the land. They’ve had a shopping list and known exactly what they’re after,’ Mr Dittmar said.

‘They’ve used a bar to get through five layers of wall and come out under a desk in the back of the shop away from the security cameras,’ Mr Dittmar said.

He believed the smaller of the thieves came through the hole, using the security sensor light from the neighbouring business to see, then used a very large pair of bolt cutters to cut the padlock on the back door allowing the larger thief to get in.

‘They’ve known where we keep our stock, where the security cameras are and they’ve known it was garbage night,’ he said.

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adding they should learn their job ‘on the floor of the council like everyone else.’

Cr Polglase says it is this decision rather than any suggestion of a sulk over his mayoral loss which saw him miss out on election to any of the 36 seats on a myriad of council committees up for grabs at the first

full-blown council meeting in more than three years.

‘Those committee positions were predetermined before the meeting – it was a waste of time putting my name forward.

‘Afterwards one of them came up to me and said that because I wasn’t at the meeting they didn’t know what committee to put me on.’

He said he rejected his only nomination as an alternative delegate on the museum committee when it was put forward by new mayor Joan van Lieshout because it was just a ‘spur of the moment offer.’

‘They threw me a bone but

it didn’t have any meat on it,’ he complained, saying he would have liked to have regained a spot on his former sports advisory and regional arts committees, ‘but I didn’t get a guernsey.’

But deputy mayor Barry Longland denied the five councillors attending the briefing meeting had conspired to exclude him.

‘It wasn’t a question of people being put on the committees… some people said they would like to be involved in that committee or another as part of a general discussion when we were being taken through the business paper,’ Cr Longland said.

‘The question of nominations was left to when we got to the actual council meeting as everyone saw.

‘We’ve had the business papers containing the committee items since September 30 so people have had plenty of opportunity to express an interest.

‘There was certainly no systematic process to try to exclude anyone.’

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Alison and Jason Dittmar taking stock after thieves broke in, getting away with thousands of dollars’ worth of gear last week.

shop and then loading them with the loot and calmly moving them to their car.

‘So if anyone heard anything, they’d just think it was someone putting out the bins,’ Mr Dittmar said.

The Dittmars have now increased their security but not without a bit of soul searching.

‘Murwillumbah business community is a bit of a family affair and we don’t expect to

be hit like this,’ Mr Dittmar said.

He doesn’t blame the lack of police, saying ‘we are resourced for the size of the population’.

‘The problem is while we are a relatively small community with police numbers to match, it’s not taken into account that we have about 500,000 people sitting next door on the Gold Coast – we’re sitting ducks,’ Mr Dittmar said.

He blames the state govern-

ment for not adjusting police numbers to correspond to the neighbouring population.

Coincidently the previous owner of the sports shop was robbed in exactly the same way three years ago, he said.

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Climate-change dinosaurs offer illusory hope…

Ken Sapwell

Critics may brand Bob Carter and Alan Moran global warming heretics, but most who packed a club auditorium to hear their message last week may well dub them the high priests of hope.

Whatever is happening to our climate, they say, is not caused by human activity and therefore can’t be fixed by human intervention.

It’s just part of the natural climate cycle and global warming is only a myth spread by politicians, film stars, dodgy scientists and Rupert Murdoch.

The 300 people who paid $20 to attend what was billed as ‘Climate change hysteria and the real cost of carbon trading’, went away assured that their power and petrol use won’t change the weather and rising seas won’t swamp their homes anytime soon.

But a quick internet search uncovers a bevy of critics who question their conclusions, scientific expertise and their links with groups reportedly funded by companies involved in the energy industry.

Both Dr Carter and fellow global warming denier, Alan Moran, belong to the rightwing think tank, the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) which is widely reported to receive funding from companies like

Woodside Petroleum, Esso Australia and more than a dozen other energy companies.

Dr Carter is also a founding member of the Australian Environment Foundation, described as a front group set up by the IPA to campaign for weaker environmental laws.

Dr Moran, director of the IPA’s deregulation unit which works to end most government regulation, has argued that because most people travel by car governments should spend more on roads and nothing on public transport.

Director of the left-leaning Australia Institute, Clive Hamilton, has dubbed him one of Australia’s climate change ‘dirty dozen’ along with the

likes of John Howard and Hugh Morgan.

He says one of Moran’s roles was to support the Howard government and the fossil fuel industry with anti-environmental opinions about climate science.

his position and incense his detractors.

Articles include ‘Modern global warming may turn out to be a lot of hot air’, ‘Cool rationality shatters greenhouse hype’, ‘Climate change is not about the weather’, ‘British

Dr Moran has argued that because most people travel by car governments should spend more on roads and nothing on public transport.

Dr Robert Carter, a marine geophysics professor at Queensland’s James Cook University, has published several articles on climate change with titles which pretty well sum up

report the last hurrah of warmaholics’ and ‘There is a problem with global warming – it stopped in 1998’.

The latter article prompted one bemused scientist to fa-

mously challenge him to a bet, offering odds of two to one, that temperatures wouldn’t rise over the next 10 years. It wasn’t taken.

Director of Southern Cross University’s Centre of Regional Climate Change Studies, Graham Jones, said Prof Carter was not a recognised climate change scientist.

‘I don’t know whether he has much credibility left now. He really got slammed by scientists after he appeared on a number of panels before the election to discuss climate change,’ he said.

Prof Jones said the latest Inter-governmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) was unequivocal in finding that

there was a world-wide warming trend.

‘Of course there are elements of truth in what they are saying because it’s not entirely black and white but I think they have overstepped their mark by saying it isn’t occurring.

‘It’s not a credible view in light of the scientific evidence over the last 10 years. There’s a consensus from 1,000 scientists who study climate change from around the world that almost undoubtedly humans are to blame for global warming.’

Prof Jones also rejected Dr Moran’s assertion that technology was not up to reducing CO2 emissions but agreed that a carbon trading scheme may not be the best answer.

He said a carbon tax would be totally transparent, not open to manipulation and more acceptable to the public and industry.

None of this dampened the enthusiastic applause and the warm buzz around the tea and sandwiches at interval after Prof Carter finished a powerpoint presentation claiming the government is failing in its duty if it sticks to its carbon trading plan.

At the end of the night most took up an offer from former Tweed councillor Bob Brinsmead to purchase a copy of a DVD entitled, ‘The great global warming swindle’.

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Human-induced climate change is a medieval-type myth perpetrated by dodgy science and general hysteria, warn two of Australia’s leading global-warming sceptics.

Professor Bob Carter and Dr Alan Moran told 300 people in Tweed Heads that the cost of government attempts to limit CO2 emissions and bring in a carbon trading scheme would cause economic havoc comparable to today’s credit market meltdown.

Prof Carter, a marine geologist from James Cook University and Dr Moran, an energy economist, poured scorn on global warming advocates who they see as being part of a world-wide conspiracy to push a fashionable but unscientifically-proved cause.

Prof Carter says they’re part of a powerful coalition of selfinterest groups, high-profile celebrities, media barons and even scientists who they say spruik ‘warming alarmism’ in an effort to maximise their chances of receiving a research grant.

He told a public meeting organised by the Tweed Heads Chamber of Commerce that while global temperatures had warmed slightly late last century, temperatures had been trending down rather than up during the past six years.

And it was a waste of time to cut CO2 emissions in Australia or world-wide because it would result in no measurable change to our climate but would wreck industries and likely cause widespread power blackouts.

Prof Carter said the world was being swamped with global warming conferences and propaganda espoused by celebrities like Cate Blanchett and Al Gore and media baron Rupert Murdoch while four little-known experts who he named were ignored.

‘How many people do they (celebrities) influence – it’s hundreds of millions of people while the others (named experts) influence only a few thousand,’ he said.

The second reason why people have been conned about global warming lay with the UK-based Institute for Public Policy Research, which he said took an ad agency approach to sell their alarmist message.

‘It’s what I call Frisbee science – they just spin it out there because in the end they are looking at being re-elected,’ Prof Carter said.

But despite what he described as a barrage of propaganda, not everyone was falling for the alarmist predictions, with a recent poll in the US showing that only one per cent of people

put global warming at the top of their list of concerns.

He suggested this should serve as a warning to Australian PM Kevin Rudd who thought he was going to be reelected on the issue.

Dr Moran spoke of the damage to our economy which would occur if Australians, who were among the highest polluters, were forced to reduce CO2 emissions from 16 tonnes per capita to a target of 3.4 tonnes per capita.

The country’s vast smelting industry would be destroyed and there wouldn’t be enough money to go around to compensate it and other industries damaged by an attempt to choke-off CO2 emissions.

He said the proposed carbon trading scheme amounted to a new tax which would undermine our industries, reduce competitiveness and lead to creation of a new and massive bureaucracy.

One reason no new power stations had been built since 2002 was that potential operators knew that they would face a major new tax in a few years time.

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Ms Milne says she will be calling on her colleagues to overturn the four-part resolution at the next council meeting because of fears the council â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;could be getting into deep water.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; The newly elected councillor, who was the only one to oppose the recommendations by general manager Mike Rayner, says she is unhappy with the legal advice provided by council solicitors and wants an independent opinion. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The old council was sacked because it was seen as being too close to developers and here we are going into direct negotia-

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Condong â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;renewable energyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; plant now ready for testing The first of two renewable energy plants built under a joint venture between Delta Electricity and NSW sugar cane farmers has been completed at Condong.

The Condong plant has completed performance testing and was signed over from the contractor to the joint venture. It is now proceeding through a further 60-day test period.

A similar plant at Broadwater, south of Ballina, is expected to be completed this month at an overall cost for the two plants of about $210 million.

A spokesman for the project said the 30-megawatt power stations had been built beside existing sugar mills and will use sugarcane fibre and other certified renewable fuels to generate enough green

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By stockpiling the processed sugarcane, the renewable energy generators can operate year-round supplying energy into the state electricity grid.

The renewable energy generators will also see the phasingout of the traditional sugarcane fires, as the sugarcane crop will be harvested green.

The spokesman said this would cut CO2 emissions by the equivalent of taking 80,000 cars off north coast roads.

An official opening is planned to mark the completion of both plants.

The historic Condong mill has been operating for 128 years and is a source of extra income for the NSW Sugar Milling Cooperative made up of the regionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sugarcane farmers.

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Capitalism not dead, but wounded

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nother week in which so-called free enterprise has proved to be Volume 1 #8 October 16, 2008 very expensive indeed.

The private sector continues to suck insatiably at the public teat and that tingling feeling in your hip pocket is the invisible Remember how for years it was possible to reject the link behand of the market vigorously tween smoking and disease? That was because there was a whole removing your wallet. industry – since called ‘tobacco science’– devoted to challenging It is all too tempting to write the medical evidence. Its purpose was to raise doubts in people’s an epitaph: minds and to make them think that there was a debate going on CAPITALISM. Descended in scientific circles, with the conclusion still unsure. from the line of feudalism, The tobacco companies were willing to invest large sums of conceived by the propertied money on the deceit and public relations companies were happy aristocracy and born of coto implement it. That way big tobacco got another ten years to lonial exploitation and robsell its products unhampered, and as a result countless smokers ber barons. Won many wars died unnecessarily. against the interests of workThe strategy of raising a doubt and suggesting that there was ers and flourished especially a debate among doctors when in fact there was none would in an atmosphere of legislative have failed without the complicity of the mainstream media. anarchy, known to its propoInfluenced by tobacco advertising, and by their own propensity nents as ‘choice’. Eventually for presenting topics in adversarial terms, the media played into murdered and devoured by its the hands of tobacco science and reported the views of discredtwin children, Fear and Greed. ited medical professionals long after it was common knowledge Greatly missed by gamblers, that the ‘research’ paid for by tobacco companies (often behind speculators, stockbrokers, lawinstitutional smokescreens) had predetermined results and were, yers, chief executives and many in another phrase coined at the time, ‘junk science’. other parasites on society.

It’s a curious sidelight to this history that there should be today Tempting, but probably prewhat the media dubs the ‘climate change debate’. The same strat- mature. With a little help from egy is taking place, supported by the same newspapers eager its friends and a great deal from to promote the idea of significant divisions within the scientific unwilling taxpayers, capitalism community. The money this time of course is provided by fossilhas survived many crises in the past and will almost certainly fuel producers, but the same glib personnel are lined up by the weather this one too, in the same PR companies. As George Monbiot revealed in a series fullness of time. But even its of articles for the UK Guardian, certain scientists – that is to say most zealous adherents have people with science degrees, not necessarily current – could be found arguing against the results of medical research in one dec- been forced to admit that the ade and in the next challenging the evidence for climate change. system has suffered a setback.

It is a while since Tony AbThe human respiratory system is complicated enough, and it bott proclaimed: ‘Capitalism is required long, rigorous surveys to detect the effects of smoke just another word for freedom’, inhalation on people’s health. Climate science is even more complicated, covering many disciplines, so the opportunities for and he would be unlikely to repeat the sentence this week unmisrepresentation are greater, and have been enthusiastically less qualified by Kris Kristofferadopted by the new junk science of climate change denial. Atson’s great line: ‘And freedom’s tempts to misrepresent the evidence include distorting timejust another word for nothing lines, selectively quoting statistics and boldly proclaiming ‘facts’, left to lose; nothing ain’t worth which cannot be sustained. Frequently, a small and relatively nothing but it’s free.’ unimportant detail in a scientific paper is seized on as evidence Even John Hewson, who disproving climate change, against the thrust of the paper’s argument. The author is then permanently claimed as a denier, to once likened the economy to his or her chagrin. As always with controversial subjects, the false a rubber sheet (it might bubclaim gets the headline and the follow-up correction is buried in ble up occasionally but there’s no point in trying to push the small type. bubbles down again because But misrepresenting the scientific evidence is only one side of the campaign. Another is misrepresenting the political context of they’ll only appear somewhere

The new ‘tobacco science’

climate change. There’s great play made about ‘31,000 scientists’ signing a petition against the USA joining the Kyoto Convention, but closer examination shows it was a PR stunt and most of the signatories didn’t even have degrees, much less a knowledge of climate science. The websites devoted to climate change denial echo each other’s fraudulent claims, but chasing down the original furphy usually leads you to an oil company’s spruiker.

The science on human-caused climate change is extremely convincing, but even if it were less unequivocal, we should pay heed instead of claiming that remedies might harm the economy.

While money comes and goes in human-scale cycles, planetary warming presents a threat for all of the future. As Professor Garnaut wrote last week, ‘If we fail, the failure of our generation will haunt humanity till the end of time.’

– David Lovejoy, Echo publisher

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else) these days accepts that some kind of regulation is inevitable if the framework is to be preserved.

Of course, the truly demented economic libertarians, the ones who think that the ‘faire’ in laissez faire has something to do with justice, are now trying to blame the left for the mess; stealing their lines directly from the American fundamentalists, they now say it all stems from

the west since some 60 years ago, when the Australian Labor government of Ben Chifley put the proposal to the people and lost office, partly as a result. That it can even be entertained in post-Margaret Thatcher Britain is a measure of how desperate things have become: it is considered necessary to destroy the free market in order to save it.

So where does this leave

The truly demented economic libertarians are now trying to blame the left for the mess; they now say it all stems from misguided attempts to house the poor…

by Mungo MacCallum misguided attempts to house the poor, and indeed true capitalists would never dream of this, or any other, welfare measure. However, they have no problems with a system that indiscriminately and forcefully thrusts loans upon those clearly unable to repay them.

After all, that’s just business and government should never stand in the way of doing business. It should, however, bail business out when business gets into trouble, because after all the business of America is business: what’s good for General Motors is good for the USA. Hence the American taxpayer is to pay some $700 billion for essentially worthless mortgages, so the banks will once again have money with which to tempt the suckers.

In England the taxpayers will fork out even more – some one and a quarter trillion – but at least they’ll have something to show for it: part ownership of the said banks, indeed the greatest obscenity in the capitalist vocabulary: nationalisation. It is a word unspoken in

Australia? Well, a little less fraught than the rest of the western world, at least for the time being. The Australian commitment to a mixed economy dates back to federation and even John Howard was unable to unravel it altogether; he never had the scope or the ferocity of his heroes, Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. Our banks were not allowed to get into the kind of free-for-all that has engulfed their overseas rivals, although they stretched the limits when and wherever they had the chance. Kevin Rudd and Reserve Bank Chairman Glenn Stevens are perfectly right in saying that our big four at least are comparatively well placed.

Stevens is also in a better position than almost any other central banker because Australian interest rates are still high by world standards.

This means that he has a lot more room to cut than most, and thus more opportunity to stimulate the economy when the world recession starts to cross our borders,

as it inevitably will.

On top of that there is Rudd’s infrastructure program, which may take a while to have a material economic effect in its own right, but is still very good psychology. The mere fact that the federal and state governments are going ahead with long term nation building projects is a signal that things remain pretty stable, and this must have a positive influence on business and consumer confidence.

And then, of course, there is China. Like Australia, China will not be immune from the world meltdown; as the Americans in particular stop buying its electronic gadgetry its rate of growth will slow. But Rudd has been told that it is expected to remain around nine per cent, which will still be more than enough to maintain a healthy demand for Australian raw materials. Commodity prices have fallen, and in the wash-up China will end up buying less of our coal and iron ore and paying less for them.

However, this decline will be cushioned by the shrunken Australian dollar.

All in all, we remain the lucky country – certainly a lot better off than most. Of course this won’t stop us whingeing and blaming the government for whatever belt-tightening we undergo. As so often, Labor has come to office at a bad time. But Rudd and his treasurer Wayne Swan have so far been steady and responsible, if a shade uninspiring. And with Malcolm Turnbull in egomaniac demagogue mode, they look better all the time.

As I fly out for a fortnight off at the Ubud Writers Festival in Bali, I reflect again that an Australian passport is just about the most desirable possession in the world, especially in the world as it is at the moment.

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Baseball bats ready for Saturday’s four by-elections

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aturday’s four by-elections will be like an X-ray of the NSW body politic: it will reveal whether the Labor Government is in its death throes and if the Coalition has enough muscle to win the next state election in 2011.

The three Sydney seats up for grabs have daunting doubledigit Labor margins – 34.5 per cent in former Premier Morris Iemma’s seat of Lakemba, 29 per cent in Health Minister Reba Meagher’s seat of Cabramatta and 10.2 per cent in former Deputy Premier John Watkins’ seat of Ryde.

And at Port Macquarie, vacated last month by Independent Robert Oakeshott to claim the federal seat of Lyne and move to Canberra, the Nationals are attempting to recapture a seat which is part of their natural constituency.

A Melbourne Cup field of 11 candidates has nominated at Port Macquarie where the ALP is working hard to create a complex preferences deal which delivers the seat to Independent Peter Besseling, a former Waratahs player, who is Oakeshott’s anointed successor.

Labor is desperate to stop ‘Port’ from returning to the Nationals whose candidate is a local nurse and popular community activist Leslie Williams.

Last weekend’s polls showed Labor’s primary vote in Ryde has imploded to 24 per cent while the Liberals have shot to an election-winning 52 per cent. The North Shore seat seems destined to return to the Liberals who last held it in 1995.

Labor’s real disaster-in-waiting is Cabramatta in the Labor

Letters to the Editor

Early friction in council capers

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Vocal minorities In reference to Mr Alan McIntosh’s comment last week at the Murwillumbah Business Chamber concerning ‘vocal minority groups’. Who do you actually mean, Mr McIntosh?

The vocal developer minority groups who for the last many years have enjoyed the exclusive access to a developer funded council? Who, like you said, do not really represent the community? Who, according to our new mayor, tried desperately to form another prodevelopent alliance to benefit only the members of their exclusive minority group?

Or is it the 47 per cent of our voting community that don’t belong to your way of thinking, Mr McIntosh? Maybe you’re referring to people in our villages and hamlets that make up much of our beautiful shire like Hastings Point who live and love it here?

There seems to be a refreshing cool change coming that seems to have ruffled a few feathers, Mr McIntosh, including our endearing ex-mayor Mr Polglase. Do not worry, Mr Polglase, Mrs van Lieshout seems to have plenty of life experience that will serve her well as new mayor.

Paul Young

Hastings Point

heartland of southwest Sydney which has returned Labor MPs ever since coming into existence in 1981.

‘Grim Reba’ Meagher was gifted the seat by the NSW Labor machine in 1994 following

In a move of mind-numbing stupidity, the machine has chosen another right-wing party hack, 60-something Fairfield City Mayor Nick Lalich, as its candidate.

He made headlines a few

State of Affairs Labor’s real disaster-inwaiting is Cabramatta in the Labor heartland of southwest Sydney.

with Alex Mitchell the assassination of the sitting MP John Newman by an ALP rival. She never faced a single preselection during her 14-year political career and showed her contempt for the electorate by residing in a posh unit at the beachside suburb of Coogee.

years ago by visiting Newman’s convicted assassin, former Fairfield deputy mayor Phuong Ngo, in Long Bay Jail.

And last week it was revealed that his business friends organised a fund-raising lunch which collected tens of thou-

certainly sounds very self assured about being up to the top job, despite offering little to no experience in civic service and/ or public life. But then, she has Jesus Christ and a millionaire spouse to egg her on from the sidelines, just as our PM does.

And things are strangely back to normal ‘round here when you can look forward to more vote siding slanging matches, dummy spits and storm outs – such an entrenched tradition within Australian local government proceedings.

Those upcoming Thursday night council meetings now shape up as excellent fodder for the press and great theatre. Just ripe for someone to write and produce a stage musical about, as it’s the thing these days.

Not me though, as my first two choices for the lead roles – Dot Holdom and Barry

Longland – would probably knock back the offer. And who knows if any of them can sing anyway.

sell the road to allow for highrise developments proposed above Centro Tweed Mall, although council will not provide any details.

Hard to believe isn’t it? Why is this matter confidential, where is the transparency we were promised and why haven’t the public been consulted? It seems to us that nothing has really changed. Mike Rayner and the NSW Lands Department continue to rule the roost and force through whatever developments they require to bolster the state’s sagging coffers, without any regard for the public.

Unless and until our elected councillors stand up for what Brian O’Toole they believe in and truly repreBilambil sent their constituents, we can expect a lot more of the same.

rise development on the Jack Evans Boat Harbour parkland.

Can you believe this? The general manager of Tweed Shire Council, Mike Rayner, must be overjoyed to have a council that will approve plans, cooked up by himself and the previous administrators, the state government and Department of Lands officers, without any consultation with the Tweed public.

It is now time, councillors, to honour your commitment to consult with Tweed residents on major issues that will affect them. Yes, this is a major issue and needs to be discussed with the public.

■ Congratulations to the Tweed Shire Echo and Madeleine Doherty for, at last, some bold and in-depth reporting on the personalities and political leanings of the Tweed’s new mayor and councillors.

After the patchy and sometimes pathetic pieces leading up to their election by our other two locally-based, but foreign-owned newspapers, the Tweed Sun and Daily News, now we know there is already early friction developing between the new Liberal Party mayor, Joan van Lieshout, and the two pro-National Party councillors, Warren Polglase and Phil Youngblutt.

Wait a minute. Didn’t the majority of this district try to vote in a more independent and/or Greens-oriented council? Better luck next time.

‘Newcomer’ Ms van Lieshout

devoted teachers run a tight ship and I think her school is the best this side of the black stump.

They taught my son to read in kindy and he has progressed to level B in his second year. I have nothing but praise for this great little school in the valley at Bilambil. Also, four teachers gave up their free time to take a group of students down to Canberra on a study tour a few weeks ago.

I think teachers are the salt of the earth and perhaps some past students who are now successful might consider a donation to help their old school in its time of need.

Bilambil School

Why the secrecy?

My son came home recently with a message from Carol Bool, the principal of Bilambil Public school, that stated funding had been cut to the school.

I really think this is as low as a government can go.

Ms Bool and her band of www.tweedecho.com.au

Our recently appointed councillors at their first meeting on October 9 behind closed doors and under the guise of ‘confidentiality’ voted overwhelmingly to approve the closure of Bay Street in Tweed, arguably Tweed’s busiest street and to

sands of dollars for his campaign. Among the guests was western Sydney businessman Pat Sergi who appeared in the pages of the Woodward royal commission into drug trafficking 20 years ago.

For the record, Sergi, who is a personal friend of Ports Minister and Fairfield MP Joe Tripodi, was never charged with any offence and remains a blameless citizen.

In a total reversal of past form and a radical change of direction, the Liberals have chosen three candidates from non-Anglo backgrounds to run in the Sydney seats – third generation Italian solicitor Victor Dominello in Ryde, Muslim, first generation Australian and Canterbury councillor Michael Hawatt in Lakemba and Dai Le, a Vietnamese who came to Australia as a boat person and

now works as a highly regarded ABC journalist-producer in Cabramatta.

If Labor loses Ryde and Cabramatta, its parliamentary majority will shrink to five seats.

And if the Nationals win Port Macquarie, the Coalition will have whittled the government’s majority to within striking distance at the next election.

On Saturday, voters will deliver a verdict on the lamentable ex-Iemma Government and whether they are buying Premier Nathan Rees’s colourful promise to have ‘a red hot go’ at fixing the State’s services and economy.

Since 1941, there have been 131 by-elections in NSW and Saturday’s four are going to be among the most dramatic and historic. Even Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will be glued to the TV.

Nicholas Canny

Murwillumbah Your front page article in last week’s Echo, where you wrote about Mayor Joan van Lieshout learning ‘the rules of the Tweed political playground’ was spot on! It now appears that little Warren and little Phil are sulking because they didn’t get their own way and have taken their bat and ball and gone home.

The paternalistic arrogance of both men is breathtaking, and they seem to have severely underestimated the deep mistrust with which they are viewed in the Tweed.

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WET WEATHER ECHOS When the weather is too bad for house to house delivery, 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 Fingal Head: Sheoak Shack Hastings Point: General store, service station Kingscliff: Bowls Club, Library/ Community Centre, two newsagents, Mooball: Pub and cafe Mullumbimby: Echo office

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Since 2006 thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been significant changes in Tweed Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top echelons, with four new directors appointed following retirements.

Ken Sapwell profiles one of the new directors.

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Among the fresh faces at the top is former life-saving champion and father of two, David Oxenham, who takes on a diverse but crucial portfolio as director of the councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s community and natural resources division.

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The project is familiar territory for Mr Oxenham who in his early career spent two years in Derbyshire, England, from 1990, designing a similar plant after more stringent water quality controls were introduced following privatisation of the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s water system.

After finishing there, he teamed up with the Gold Coast City Council for a short time gaining experience in construction engineering before joining Tweed Shire Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s water unit, starting in charge of contracts before making his way to the top.

He was involved in some bigticket sewage treatment augmentation projects along the way including the $18 million Banora Point and $10 million Murwillumbah plant upgrades, and is now planning for future needs.

Mr Oxenham rates the health of our river systems as â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;mediumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; with some areas, including the mid-catchment, under more pressure than others. He says his division is involved in a range of projects to improve the health of waterways in cooperation with landcare groups and the Catchment Management Authority, including riparian plantings and better management of stormwater run-off.

It also looks at ways of improving the health and lifestyles of its residents, from finding rehabilitation care for elderly people discharged from hospitals, sponsoring festivals and activities highlighting our assets and cultural diversity (think banana and river festivals) to liaising with youth and Aboriginal groups.

With responsibilities over such a broad area, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no doubt that councillors will be forced to weigh up advice from Mr Oxenhamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s division on just about every major development application which comes before them.

He stepped into the shoes of retired long-serving director Don Buckley in July following an organisational upheaval which coincided with an extensive change-of-guard in the councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top echelons.

Under the restructure he retains the community services division which has a broadranging agenda, from looking after some of the needs of an ageing population to maintaining libraries, village halls, museums and art galleries.

But out went the old building compliance unit to be replaced by a natural resources unit set up in part to balance protection of our waterways and coastline while trying to ensure thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enough tap water and flush toilets to go around.

Mr Oxenham, who signed on with Tweed councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s water unit 15 years ago, would appear to be a natural choice for the job, given his engineering and management degrees, extensive CV and a natural affinity for water on both a professional and social level.

He began work as a graduate engineer with Queenslandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Water Resources Commission in 1984 about the same time as he was making a name for himself in surf-lifesaving circles as a member of one of the Gold Coastâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest surf clubs.

The long-serving former Northcliffe club captain and vice-president notched up an impressive six Australian titles in the open rescue and resuscitation championships before retiring from competition to tutor the Nippers. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I had to cut short the celebrations of our last win because it happened on the day my daughter was born,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; recalls the now fulltime family man whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s made his home close to his beloved surf club.

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Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wait for your leaders to eas of habitat for koalas, glidsave you, they havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t got the ers, birds, reptiles and frogs courage. Lead by example. that had been identifed as of Peter Rae state biodiversity significance Condong by the Environmental Protection Agency was destroyed to establish the development.

Habitat forgotten I hope that now Joan van Lie- The effects of increased traffic, shout has been appointed as habitat fragmentation and the Tweed Shire mayor that her impacts of introduced predaâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;researchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; efforts are undertak- tors will result in ongoing loss of native species. I recommend en more thoroughly.

As reported widely prior that future research of potento the election, Mrs van Lie- tial projects for Tweed Shire shout has been promoting a Council extend beyond praises light industrial development sung by the proponent.

Scott Hetherington undertaken by Logan City Pottsville Council in South East Queensland as a model for develop- â&#x2013; Letters also received from R Anderson, Pottsville, D Lloyd, Chillingham, R Watson, ment on the Tweed.

What she has neglected to Murwillumbah, J M Jackson, Pottsville, A Janson, Murwillumbah, R Shanahan, include in her reports of the Pottsville, K Gail, Crystal Creek, J Flett, benefits of this project is the Murwillumbah, D Macdonald, Pottsville, G true cost to significant con- McDonald, Terranora, A & D Wood, Kingsservation values. Extensive ar- cliff, P Flanagan, Bogangar. www.tweedecho.com.au

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scale and a seemingly unstoppable population explosion.

The PM is talking about war footing strategies to stem the money crisis.

As far as the environment is concerned, the federal government has done absolutely zilch since coming to office.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been plenty of verbal diarrhoea but not one milligram of carbon has been removed from our skies. We are facing extinction right now.

Anyone who thinks 99 per cent of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s scientists may have got it wrong and are willing to gamble with their childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s survival are fools.

We must be willing to drastically change our lifestyle now.

Planning for global warming But while his competition days in the surf are behind him, Mr Oxenham says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s preparing for some new and perhaps bigger challenges ahead.

Among them is the security and safety of our water supplies in the face of a fast-growing population and climate vagaries induced by global warming.

They include upgrades to the Clarrie Hall Dam and planning for future dams.

It also involves commissioning a $75 million state-ofthe-art water treatment plant at Bray Park in the first half of next year which will provide a quality of drinking water that few other shires enjoy, free of the common giardia and

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WITH LILITH WHILE MIDWEEK FULL MOON IN FEISTY ARIES MIGHT STIR UP ARGUMENTS AND DISPUTES, MERCURY’S FORWARD MOVE ON THURSDAY IN PEACEMAKING LIBRA HELPS EVERYONE BACK INTO ACCORD AND ONTO THE SAME PAGE AGAIN… ARIES: Enthusiastic Aries moon kicks this week off to a brisk start, though when it swells to full on Wednesday insensitivity on your part could upset others. Channel your helpful, kindly side and should apologies be needed, late week’s soothing vibes are calming balm for frayed relationships.

TAURUS: Midweek could be fractious. But it’ll soon blow over,

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GEMINI: This week’s seismic shift in cosmic energies unleashes an avalanche of invitations and offers which are going to require disciplined financial planning and masterly manipulation of your social diary to juggle successfully.

Just as well you have the energy of twins…

CANCER: Fiery midweek Aries full moon can be both heavenly and hellish for the Crab clan. If it’s feeling unsympathetic, stay under the radar and stick close to those who love you till Thursday’s energy surge restores your confident, audacious, flirtatious nature.

LEO: Midweek full moon looks like bringing lingering trust issues and partnership dissatisfactions to the surface for resolution. That sorted, spring winds ruffle your fur with a playful sense of fizzy ferment as your personal wheel of fortune takes a forward turn toward new adventures.

VIRGO: If someone pushes your buttons during pushy midweek full moon, don’t take the bait.

Just wait till Thursday when your planetary ruler moves out of retrograde, communications turn a corner and Virgo personal skills and social life get a full cosmic reboot.

LIBRA: This go-ahead week calls for a balancing act between independence and intimacy, exciting ideas and their practical application. Plus a long, honest look at certain things you’d usually rather sweep under the carpet – but right now the cosmic spotlight’s full on them.

SCORPIO: Midweek full moon pops the pressure valve on something you’ve been steamed up about – not a bad thing if you aim for clarity and understanding where it’s been lacking in friendships or business plans. The end of the week brings resolution – and that deserves a celebration.

SAGITTARIUS: Due to some unfortunate astral confusion Sagittarian judgment won’t be at its best during midweek’s impetuous full moon when your uncensored opinions could cause major discord. Independence is

unquestionably your thing, but right now sensitivity, thoughtfulness and generosity are what will achieve it.

CAPRICORN: Deal with what seems suspiciously like schoolyard behaviour with trademark Capricorn maturity, and you can expect this week to return your work sector to a state of grace, bring career benefits in the shape of new income – and improve your health as well.

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After the first round of the Spanish Championships in Ceuta, all players were asked to give a urine sample for drug testing. Rivas, a grandmaster and the eighth seed, refused and was thrown out of the tournament.

Rivas, 48, no doubt viewed the test as invasive and pointless, given that the drugs being tested for – including, in Spain, alcohol and steroids – have no conceivable benefit for a chessplayer.

Rivas, four-time winner of the Spanish title, becomes the highest ranked player to be penalised for refusing a doping test and may find a two year ban added to his expulsion.

When drug testing for chessplayers was introduced almost a decade ago, grandmasters sometimes refused tests without penalty but in recent years, as the world body FIDE became tougher, only amateurs have continued the civil disobedience

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CHESS by Ian Rogers Play at Seagulls Club, Thursdays 6–10pm practice. For amateurs, hardly Dutch grandmaster Hans Ree, likely to be au fait with the latest who also described the tests as doping rules, it is a no-win situ- nonsense. ation. Around the globe, amaIf Rivas is Ree’s hero, one teurs who agreed to the tests wonders what description he have endured bans for activities would give Viswanathan Anand as innocuous as using an asthma or Vladimir Kramnik if they inhaler during a game. refuse a drug test during their Canberra’s Shaun Press, play- world title match which begins ing for New Guinea at the 2004 today (Tuesday).

Calvia Chess Olympiad, disOf course, whatever their pricovered that refusing even an vate views, neither Anand nor improperly conducted test was Kramnik would risk their career verboten; his appeal was dis- and the million dollar prize fund missed out of hand by a FIDE over such a point of principle. tribunal, the leader of which told So it is left to players such as him later that if he wanted a Rivas (and Press) to be heroes fair hearing he should go the and try to force a change of the Court of Arbitration for Sport in rules, so that players, if tested, Lausanne! are at least tested for substances Press, who after his ordeal which might help their chess. was frequently told by his chess betters that he should just have ■ This week’s game sees David taken the test and shut up, must Smerdon (pictured) warming be rather envious at the response up for the Dresden Olympics by winning the Ryde Open in Rivas is enjoying.

‘Rivas is my hero!’ declared convincing fashion.

ACROSS 1. Everyone in test reaches highest level (7) 5. Pub ruler sounding like a dog (7) 9. Lexicon query holds key to triumph (7) 10. Prisoner’s bacon and eggs cooked Asian style? (4-3) 11. Commendable former Templar loses his head. Why? (9) 12. Hammer into shape or fake it? (5) 13. Perceive what may be common (5) 15. Painstaking in the science room or with promises to pay (9) 17. Let no race upset such broadmindedness (9) 19. Merits listening devices around north (5) 22. Mediterranean country confuses laity (5) 23. Asparagus shoot with herb makes a refreshing flavour (9) 25. Large residence needed for man’s headless lion (7) 26. Trips around Church of England to develop muscle (7) 27. Makes fun of Des fencing in ride (7) 28. About ledger item for return of spacecraft? (2-5)

DOWN 1. Clockwork hearts? (7) 2. Planter not using pot for lamp (7) 3. Every Quartermaster uses inventory products first to kit out (5) 4. Sailor Paul in waterproof covering (9) 5. By supporting coach, changing guard’s hat (5) 6. Horse controller might strengthen (9) 7. Hell uses non-fire materials (7) 8. They blow off steam in guises, apparently (7) 14. Was Eve a threat to worms?

(5,4) 16. Tower watchman certainly no vegetarian (9) 17. Cut back and tried to contain 2000 Romans (7) 18. Got right into leaner student (7) 20. Sounds like Ray meant to get clothing (7) 21. Please come up to expectations (7) 23. Found on beaches, in deserts and aboard ship (5) 24. Cultivate every second organic seed (5)

Last week’s solution

Ryde Open 2008 White: B Mandla Black: D Smerdon Opening: Center Counter 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Nf6 3.d4 Bg4!? 4.Nf3 4.f3 Bf5 5.c4 e6! is one of Smerdon’s favourite gambits. 4...Qxd5 5.c4?! Qh5 5...Bxf3 would also be fine for Black. 6.Be2 Nc6 7.Bf4? 7.Be3 0-0-0 8.Nbd2 is the true test of Black’s opening set-up. 7...0-0-0 8.Nc3 Nxd4! 9.Nxd4 e5 10.Nd5 Otherwise White simply loses a pawn. 10...Bxe2 11.Qxe2 Qxe2+ 12.Nxe2 Nxd5 13.Bxe5 Nb4! 14.0-0? 14.Kf1 was the last chance, although after 14...Nd3 Black is well on top. 14...Re8 15.f4 f6 16.a3 Nc6 17.Bxf6 Rxe2 18.Bc3 Bc5+ 19.Kh1 Bd4 20.Rfe1 Rhe8 0-1

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Television Guide

FRIDAY 17

1. Lynn Cohen as Golda Meir decides to send Mossad assassins after the terrorists who murdered Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games. Steven Spielberg’s Munich (Prime, Friday 8.30pm) cleverly examines the limits of vengeance.

2. It must be blockbuster night on Friday.

Alexander (NBN, 8.30pm), starring Colin Farell, is not as bad as its box office receipts suggest. Oliver Stone always makes interesting movies, and this one examines the limits of conquest.

3. Ten’s blockbuster contribution is King Kong (Saturday 8.35pm), as Peter Jackson invades Jurassic Park territory with panache.

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4.30 GP (PG) Repeat.

7.00 Lateline Repeat.

5.20 World News in various languages. 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.00 Playhouse Disney 11.30 Seven News 5.30 Strictly Dancing (G) Repeat.

7.35 Lateline Business Repeat.

1.00 The Food Lovers’ Guide To 12.00 Movie: A Little Thing Called 6.00 Kids’ Programs 8.00 ABC Fora Australia (G) Repeat.

Murder (M, 2006) Stars Judy Davis, 11.00 The Lion Man (G) Repeat.

9.00 Asia Pacific News 1.30 Insight: Kids and Crime Repeat.

Jonathan Jackson, Ari Cohen.

11.25 Aussie Animal Rescue (G) Repeat.

9.30 The 7.30 Report Repeat.

2.30 The Body Hunters (PG) Repeat.

2.30 Discover Tasmania (G) 12.00 Midday Report 10.00 Kids’ Programs 3.30 Living Black Repeat.

3.00 Masterchef Goes Large (G) 12.30 Rewind (PG) Repeat.

4.30 The New Inventors (G) Repeat.

4.00 The Journal 4.00 It’s Academic 1.30 Spicks And Specks (PG) Repeat.

5.00 7.30 Select 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 4.30 Seven News 2.00 Peking To Paris (PG) Final.

5.35 Catalyst (G) Repeat.

5.30 Eco House Challenge (G) Repeat.

5.00 M*A*S*H (G) 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Compass: A Muslim Education (G) 6.00 Global Village (G) Repeat.

5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) 4.50 RollerCoaster Repeat.

6.30 World News Australia 6.00 Seven and Prime News 6.00 Message Stick (G) Repeat.

6.35 Scrapheap Challenge (G) Repeat.

7.30 End Of The Rainbow (G) Doco on 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 6.30 Can We Help? (G) 7.30 Something In the Air (G) Repeat. gold mining effects in West Africa.

7.00 ABC News 8.00 Basketball: WNBL 2008/09 Live 8.30 As It Happened: The SS (M,a,v) Part 7.30 Better Homes And Gardens (G) 8.30 Movie: Munich (M,v,s,cl, 2005) Stars 7.30 Stateline Bendigo vs Dandenong.

1 of 6. Repeat.

Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Geoffrey 8.00 Collectors (G) 10.00 Soundtrack To My Life (G) Music.

9.30 World News Australia Rush.

8.30 Taggart (M*,v) 10.25 Classic Albums: Def Leppard – 10.05 Matrioshki: Thai Sex Trade (MA,v,cl) 11.50 Movie: Species III (AV,v,h,s, 2004) 9.40 Murphy’s Law (M*,cl,v) Hysteria (M*,cl) drama series.

Stars Robin Dunne, Robert Knepper, 10.30 Lateline 11.20 Close 11.00 Movie: Ordo (M,cl, s,n, 2004) Drama Sunny Mabrey.

11.15 Review With Myles Barlow (MA*,sr) from France.

Repeat.

12.50 Movie: Ants In The Mouth (M,v,a,s, 2.00 Dragons’ Den (G) games show.

3.00 Danoz and Expo 11.45 triple j tv Repeat.

2004) Thriller from Spain.

5.00 Guthy Renker 12.10 Good Game Repeat.

2.30 WeatherWatch Overnight 12.40 rage (M) goes on until 5am Saturday.

6.00 Ten Early News 5.30 Today 7.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Mornings With Kerri-Anne (PG) 8.30 Puzzle Play 11.00 Danoz and Guthy Renker 9.00 9am With David & Kim (PG) 12.00 The View (PG) 11.00 Ten News 1.00 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 12.00 Dr Phil (M) 2.00 Days Of Our Lives (PG) 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) 3.00 Fresh Cooking (G) 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) 3.30 Here’s Humphrey Repeat.

3.00 Infomercial (PG) 4.00 The Shak 3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures (G) 4.30 National News 4.00 Animalia 5.00 Antiques Roadshow (G) Repeat.

4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful (G) 6.00 Evening News 5.00 Ten News 7.00 A Current Affair 6.00 The Simpsons (G) Repeat.

7.30 Wipeout (PG) Repeat.

6.30 Neighbours (G) 8.00 Hole In The Wall (PG) 7.00 Friends (PG) Repeat.

8.30 Movie: Alexander (M,v, 2004) Stars 7.30 Download (PG) series return.

Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie Anthony 8.30 Movie: Nanny McPhee (PG, 2005) Hopkins, Val Kilmer.

Stars Emma Thompson, Colin Firth. 12.20 Movie: Caddyshack II (M,A,cl, 1988) 10.30 Late News With Sports Tonight Stars Jackie Mason, Chevy Chase.

11.30 Late Show With David Letterman 2.10 Movie: Deacons For Defence (AV, 12.30 Movie: The Watcher (M,v,cl,2001) Stars Forest Whitaker, Jonathan Stars Keanu Reeves, James Spader.

Silverman, Ossie Davis 2.15 Video Hits Up Late (PG) Repeat.

4.00 Guthy Renker Australia 2.30 Infomercials 4.30 Good Morning America Prime HD program same as above except: 4.00 Queer Eye For The Straight Guy 12.00 Kevin Hill 12.50 Fast Ed’s Fast Food 1.00 (PG) Movie: Big Shot – Confessions Of A Campus Bookie 5.00 Religion (M,v,n,d, 2002) 2.45 Harry’s Practice 3.15 Get Ed

SUNDAY 19

SATURDAY 18

3.35 The Great Outdoors

5.00 rage (PG) 8.00 rage: Guest Programmers; Anton Newcombe from Brian Jonestown Massacre (G) 9.00 triple j tv With The Doctor 10.00 Songbook: Fran Healy (PG) Repeat 11.00 Black Books: Moo-Ma and Moo-Pa (PG) Repeat.

11.30 The Cook And The Chef (G) Repeat.

12.00 Stateline Repeat.

12.30 Australian Story Repeat.

1.00 Foreign Correspondent Repeat.

1.30 Can We Help? (G) Repeat.

2.00 Hell On Ice (PG) Final.

2.30 Basketball: WNBL 2008/09 4.00 Rumble In The River (G*) Repeat.

5.00 Bowls: Indoor Championships 6.00 My Family (PG) Repeat.

6.30 Gardening Australia (G) 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Rough Diamond (PG) drama series 8.25 ABC News 8.30 The Bill (PG) 10.05 ABC News 10.10 The Ghost Squad (M*,cl,v) Repeat.

11.00 The Brief (PG) Repeat.

12.10 rage (M)

7.00 Kids’ Programs 2.30 Blue Water High (G) Repeat.

2.55 Ace Day Jobs (G) Repeat.

3.00 rage (G) Repeat.

5.00 rage: Guest Programmers (G) 6.05 The New Inventors (G) Repeat.

6.35 Scrapheap Challenge (G) Final.

7.30 The Einstein Factor Repeat.

8.00 At The Movies (G) Repeat.

8.35 Movie: Alfred Hitchcock Season – Frenzy (M*, v,n, 1972) Stars James Stewart, Kim Novak.

10.30 Movie: Northwest Stampede (G, 1948) Stars Joan Leslie, James Craig 11.40 Close

6.00 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (G) 5.20 World News in various languages.

6.30 Kids’ Programs 1.00 The Full Monteverdi (G) 12.30 Banana Kids: All Grown Up (G) Masterpiece in Italian.

1.00 V8 Extra (G) supercars.

2.05 Bergman Island (G) Masterpiece 1.30 Motorsport (G) mini challenge. from Sweden. Repeat.

2.00 Eclipse (PG) music.

3.35 The Chopin Preludes (G) 3.45 Tim Marlow On Highlights Of The 3.15 Movie: Getting Even With Dad (PG,cl,v, 1994) Stars Macaulay Culkin, New Tate Modern (G) Repeat.

Ted Danson.

4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 5.35 Lonely Planet Six Degrees – Perth 5.30 Sydney Weekender (G) 6.00 Seven News (PG) Repeat doco series.

6.30 Movie: Shark Tales (G, 2004) Stars 6.30 World News Australia Will Smith, Jack Black, Angelina Jolie 7.30 Mythbusters (PG) doco series.

8.30 Movie: Fantastic Four (PG,v, 2004) 8.30 Iron Chef (G) Repeat.

Stars Jessica Alba, Chris Evans.

9.20 RocKwiz (PG) entertainment.

10.45 Movie: Walking Tall (M,v,cl,d, 2004) 10.00 No Direction Home: Bob Dylan Stars Dwayne Johnson, Ashley Scott (M,cl) part 1 of 2 doco. Repeat 12.25 Movie: Danger Beneath The Sea 12.00 Nynne (M,cl) drama series from (M,v, 2001) Stars Casper Van Dien, Denmark.

Ron White, Tammy Isbell.

12.45 SOS (PG) 2.15 Danoz , Expo and Guthy Renker 1.50 NEWStopia With Shaun Micallef (M) Comedy series. Repeat.

2.20 Life Support (M,du,a) Repeat.

2.50 WeatherWatch Overnight

6.00 Kids’ Programs 8.30 Video Hits First (G) 10.00 Video Hits (PG) 11.30 Video Hits Presents: XBOX Sounds – The Pussycat Dolls 12.00 Pat Callinan’s 4X4 Adventures (G) 12.30 Avon Descent white water race.

1.00 Escape With ET (G) series return.

2.00 Super X –Australasian Supercross Championship 3.00 Jayco Herald Sun Cycling Tour 5.00 Ten News With Sports Tonight 6.00 The Simpsons (PG) Repeat.

6.30 Movie: Jumanji (PG,v,st, 1995) Stars Robin Williams, Jonathan Hyde, Kirsten Dunst, Bonnie Hunt.

8.35 Movie: King Kong (M,v, 2005) Stars Jack Black, Naomi Watts.

12.20 Everybody Loves Raymond (PG) 12.50 Formula One Grand Prix : Round 17 – China (Qualifying) 1.50 Video Hits Up Late (G) 2.00 Infomercials 4.00 Religion

6.00 Infomercials 7.30 Kids’ Programs 11.00 The Music Jungle (PG) 12.00 Boarding Pass (G) 12.30 Malcolm In The Middle (PG) 1.00 Horse Racing Caulfield Cup – live.

5.00 The Garden Gurus (G) 5.30 Antique Roadshow (G) 6.00 Evening News 6.30 Funniest Home Video Show (G) 7.30 Movie: Monster House (PG, 2006) Stars Mitchel Musso, Ryan Newman 8.40 Saturday Lotto 9.30 Movie: Dukes Of Hazzard (M, 2005) Stars Johnny Knoxville, Jessica Simpson, Willie Nelson.

11.30 Movie: Fearless (M,cl,a, 1993) Stars Jeff Bridges, Rosie Perez.

1.50 Movie: The Yards (M,v,cl,a 2000) Stars Mark Wahlberg, James Caan.

4.00 Danoz and Guthy Renker

6.00 Religion 7.00 Wormwood 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 (PG) motorsport.

2.00 Weighing In (G) double episode.

4.00 Journeys to The Ends Of The Earth (PG,at) Shangri-LA 5.00 Ten News With Sports Tonight 6.00 The Simpsons (PG) Repeat.

6.30 Australian Idol (PG) 7.30 The 22nd Annual Aria Awards (M) 10.00 Californication (MA15+) 10.40 Formula One Grand Prix: Round 17 – China 12.55 Moto GP: Round 17 – Malaysia 3.10 Video Hits Up Late (PG) Repeat.

3.30 Infomercials 4.00 Religion

6.00 Danoz and Guthy Renker 7.00 TVP Direct 7.30 Biomagnetics (G) 8.00 Sunday News 9.00 Wide World Of Sports (G) 11.00 Australasian Safari (PG) 12.00 Speed Machine (G) 12.30 Boarding Pass travel show.

1.00 WWE Afterburn wrestling.

2.00 Malcolm In The Middle (PG) 2.30 Movie: Cat Balllou (G, 1965) Stars Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin, Nat King Cole 4.30 Travel Wild (G) Western Australia 5.00 The Gurus Explore Japan (G) 6.00 Evening News 6.30 Battlefronts (PG) garden makeovers 7.30 60 Minutes 8.30 The Mentalist (M) crime series.

9.30 CSI: Miami (M) all new.

10.30 CSI: NY (M,v) Repeat.

11.30 The Strip (M) 12.30 Movie: Night Shift (M,a,cl, 1982) Stars Henry Winkler, Michael Keaton 2.30 Guthy Renker and Danoz 4.00 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

Prime HD program same as above except: 12.00 Toons At Noon 1.00 Movie: Ready To Run (G, 2000) 3.30 Brainiac - Science Abuse 4.30 Gear 5.00 Better Homes And Gardens 10.45 Movie: Wes Craven’s Dracula 2000 (AV,h,cl, 2000) 12.45 Ultimate Access

6.00 Religion 5.00 rage 7.00 Gimme Some Truth: John Lennon’s 6.25 World News in various languages.

6.30 Creflo A Dollar 6.30 Kids’ Programs Imagine Album (G) Repeat 10.00 Dateline 7.00 Blinky Bill’s Around The World 9.00 Insiders And Inside Business 8.00 Ray Davies (G) Repeat.

11.00 48th Grafton To Inverell Cycle Adventures 10.30 Offsiders 9.00 The Guitar Show with Taj Mahal, Classic 7.30 Weekend Sunrise 11.00 Asia Pacific Focus Martin Taylor, CF Martin Guitars (G) 11.30 National Road Team Series: Tour 10.00 Kockie’s Business Builders (G) 11.30 Songs Of Praise (G) 9.30 Montreux Jazz Festival 2003: The Of Tasmania series return.

12.00 Landline Classics (G) Repeat.

12.00 PAX Rally 2008 cars, bikes, quads 10.30 Sea Change, Tree Change (G) series 1.00 Gardening Australia (G) Repeat.

10.30 triple j tv With The Doctor cross country rally – Portugal. return.

1.30 Message Stick (G*) 11.30 triple j tv presents The Matches (G) 1.00 Speedweek 2.00 Air Australia (PG) Repeat.

12.00 London Live (G) Music. Repeat.

2.00 FIA World Rally Championship ‘08 11.00 Scrubs (PG) Repeat.

11.30 Movie: The Flight Of The Phoenix 3.00 Absolute Wilson (PG) Repeat.

12.30 Red Dwarf (PG) Repeat.

3.00 Football Asia (PG,a, 1965) Stars James Stewart, 5.00 Sunday Arts (G) 1.30 Planet Rock Profiles: The Corrs (G) 3.30 UEFA Champions League Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch 6.00 At The Movies (PG) Repeat.

2.00 Johnny Cash: Behind Prison Walls Magazine Sport.

2.30 Movie: Remember The Titans 6.30 The Einstein Factor (G) 3.00 Joni Mitchell (G) Repeat.

4.00 Les Murray’s Football Feature (PG,v,a, 2000) Stars Ryan Hurst, 7.00 ABC News 4.30 London Live (PG) Music. Repeat.

World Cup qualifier Belgium vs Spain 7.30 Galapagos: Islands That Changed The 5.00 Falcon Beach (PG) Repeat.

Denzel Washington, Donald Faison 5.00 The World Game Football.

World (G) Part 2 of 3 series.

5.00 What Not To Wear (PG) 5.45 A Little Later: Oasis (G) Repeat.

6.00 Thalassa: Giant Squid (G) 8.25 ABC News Update 6.00 Seven News 6.00 London Live (PG) Music. Repeat.

6.30 World News Australia 8.30 The Long Firm (M*,v,cl) crime series. 6.30 Planet Rock Profiles: The Hives (G) 7.30 Who Do You Think You Are? – 6.30 The Outdoor Room With Jamie 10.10 Andrew Olle Media Lecture: Mr Ray 7.00 Artscape Repeat.

Durie (G) France.

Barbara Windsor (PG) doco series.

Martin (G) 7.30 Sunday Arts (G) Repeat.

8.35 First Australians: Freedom For Our 7.00 Kath & Kim, the American Series 11.10 Tempus Fugit (G) Repeat.

7.30 Dancing With The Stars (G) 8.30 How To Eat Your Watermelon In Lifetime (G) part 3 of 7 doco.

11.35 Order In The House parliament.

9.00 Movie: Grease (PG 1978) John White Company – And Enjoy It 9.35 Movie: Kurt Wallander – The 12.35 Movie: Countess Of Monte Cristo (G, Travolta, Olivia Newton-John (M*,s,n) doco on Melvin Van Peebles Tricksters (MA,v,cl,s) Drama from ’48) Stars Sonja Henie, Olga San Juan. 9.55 Flights Of Angels (G) Repeat.

11.10 Air Crash Investigations (PG) Sweden 1.50 Movie: A Double Life (PG, 1948) Stars 10.00 Artists At Work: Pan (M*,cl) Repeat 11.10 Movie: The Overeater (M,cl,s,a, 12.00 Movie: In The Bedroom (M,cl,v, Ronald Colman, Shelley Winters 2001) Stars Tom Wilkinson, Sissy 10.30 Moulin Rouge Girls (PG) Repeat.

2003) Drama from France.

3.30 Movie: Rider From Tucso (PG, 1950) 11.00 Close Spacek, Nick Stahl, Marisa Tomei.

12.45 Swordsmen Of The Passes (M,cl,v) 3.55 Faith Thomas (G*) Repeat.

2.30 Danoz, Expo, Guthy Renker 2.20 Weatherwatch Overnight

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5.20 World News in various languages.

1.00 Living Black (PG) Repeat.

1.30 Bushâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s War (PG) part 3 of 4 doco series. Repeat.

2.40 Deadly Battles Of World War 1 (PG) Repeat.

3.30 Insight Repeat.

4.30 The Journal 5.00 The Crew (G) student video production.

5.30 Corner Gas (G) Comedy. Repeat.

6.00 Global Village colours of France.

6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Top Gear Australia (PG) Part 4 of 8.

8.30 South Park (M,a,v) Repeat.

9.00 Bogan Pride (M,a,s) comedy series.

9.30 World News Australia 10.05 Shameless (M,a,cl,s) Comedy.

10.55 Movie: A Wonderful Night In Split (MA,cl,s, 2004) Drama from Croatia.

12.40 Movie: A Better Tomorrow (MA,v, 1986) Action from Hong Kong.

2.20 WeatherWatch Overnight

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: Hungarian 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 5.30 Corner Gas (G) Comedy. Repeat.

6.00 Global Village (PG) Repeat.

6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Insight: Greed chill of the economic slow-down.

8.30 First Australians (PG) part 4 of 7 doco series.

9.30 World News Australia 10.05 Hot Docs (M) doco from the US. 11.30 Movie: Wrong Side UP (M,a,s, 2005) Romantic comedy from the Czech Republic.

1.30 Vh1 Illustrated (M,cl,a,s,)animated comedy. Repeat.

1.55 WeatherWatch Overnight

7.00 Lateline Repeat.

4.30 GP (PG) Repeat.

7.35 Lateline Business Repeat.

5.30 Spicks And Specks (G) Repeat.

8.00 Landline Extra Repeat.

6.00 Kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Program 8.30 Foreign Correspondent (G) Repeat.

10.30 Behind The News Repeat 9.00 Asia Pacific News 11.00 Naked Science (G) 9.30 The 7.30 Report Repeat.

12.00 Midday Report 10.00 Kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Programs 12.30 National Press Club Address 4.30 Once A Soldier (G) 1.30 Talking Heads (G) Repeat.

5.00 An Island Parish (G) 2.00 Parliament Question Time 5.35 Time Team (G) Repeat.

3.00 Kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Programs 6.35 The People Watchers (G) 4.50 RollerCoaster 6.05 Art Museums Of The World (G) Rpt 7.30 Something In The Air (G) Repeat.

8.00 Sleep Clinic (PG) sleep disorders.

6.30 The Cook And The Chef (G) 8.30 Meet The Natives (PG,n) Final.

7.00 ABC News 9.20 Iconoclasts: Isabella Rossellini And 7.30 The 7.30 Report Dean Kamen (M*,a) 8.00 The New Inventors (G) 10.05 Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll Never Last (PG) Repeat.

8.30 Spicks And Specks (PG) 11.00 Bad Boy Racers (PG) Repeat.

9.00 Stupid Stupid Man (M*,a) 9.30 Summer Heights High (M*,cl) Rpt 11.45 Close 10.00 At The Movies 10.30 Lateline 11.05 Lateline Business 11.30 Rebus (M*,v,at,cl) Repeat.

12.45 Parliament Question Time Repeat.

1.45 Movie: The Set-Up (PG, 1949) Stars Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter.

3.00 From Little Things, Big Things Grow 3.25 National Press Club Address Rpt

5.30 UEA Champions League Live Match 8.00 World News in various languages.

3.30 Stock Squad (PG) Repeat.

4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 5.30 Feast Bazaar (G) Aleppo 6.00 Living Black 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 The Hairy Bikersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Cookbook (G) 8.00 Inside Australia: Rainman Goes To RocKwiz (PG) 8.30 Dateline 9.30 World News Australia 10.05 NEWStopia (M) Comedy 10.35 Movie: Morvern Callar (M,a,cl,s, 2002) Stars Kathleen McDermott, Raife Patrick, Samantha Morton.

12.20 Movie: The Unburied Man (M,a, 2005) Drama from Hungary.

2.30 Weatherwatch Overnight

7.00 Lateline Repeat.

4.30 GP (PG) Repeat.

7.35 Lateline Business Repeat.

5.30 Strictly Dancing (G) Final.

8.00 National Press Club Address 6.00 Kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Programs 9.00 Asia Pacific News 11.00 Monarchy (G) Repeat.

9.30 The 7.30 Report Repeat.

12.00 Midday Report 10.00 Kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Programs 12.30 Parkinson (PG) Repeat.

4.30 The Einstein Factor (G) Repeat.

1.30 The Collectors (G) Repeat.

5.00 The Cook And The Chef (G) Repeat.

2.00 Parliament Question Time (PG) 5.35 ABC Fora 3.00 Kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Programs 6.35 People Watchers (G) 4.50 RollerCoaster 7.30 Something In The Air (G) Repeat.

6.05 Swamp Cats (G) Africaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s big cats.

8.00 Spicks And Specks (PG) Repeat.

7.00 ABC News 8.30 Stupid Stupid Man (PG) Repeat.

7.30 The 7.30 Report 9.00 Summer Heights High (M*,cl) 8.00 Catalyst Repeat 8.30 The Prime Minister Is Missing (PG) 9.30 Review With Myles Barlow 9.35 Chasing Birds (M*,cl) (MA*v,cl) all facets of life.

10.30 Lateline 10.00 The Graham Norton Show (M) 11.05 Lateline Business 11.30 My Name Is Luka (M*,cl) Luka Bloom 10.30 Ideal (M*,cl,du) 11.00 Bromwell High (M*,cl,sr) Repeat.

12.25 Wildside (PG) Repeat.

11.25 Close 1.15 Parliament Question Time 2.20 Movie: Big Combo (PG, 1955) Stars [s] = Sex [cl] = Coarse language Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte. [a] = Adult themes [sr] = Sexual references 3.55 The Glass House (M*,cl) Repeat. [n] = Nudity [mp] = Medical

5.30 UEFA Champions League Live Match 8.00 World News in various languages.

4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 5.30 UEFA Champions League Hour 6.30 World News Australia 7.35 Inspector Rex (PG) crime series from Austria. Repeat.

8.30 The Eagle (M,cl,v,a) drama series from Denmark. Repeat.

9.35 World News Australia 10.10 Movie: Clash Of Egos (M,cl,s, 2006) Comedy from Denmark.

11.45 Queer As Folk (MA,cl,s) Repeat.

12.40 Movie: Boats Out Of Watermelon Rinds (M,cl,2004) Drama from Turkey 2.25 Weatherwatch Overnight

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7.00 Lateline Repeat.

4.30 GP (PG) Repeat.

7.35 Lateline Business Repeat.

5.30 Spicks And Specks (PG) Repeat.

8.00 Four Corners Repeat.

6.00 Kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Programs 8.45 Media Watch Repeat.

10.00 Behind The News 9.00 Asia Pacific News 10.35 Arrows Of Desire (G) Repeat.

9.30 7.30 Report Repeat.

11.00 The Pursuit Of Excellence Repeat.

10.00 Kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Programs 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 The Einstein Factor (G) Quiz show. 4.30 A Place In Slovakia (G) Repeat.

5.00 Talking Heads (G) Repeat.

1.00 The New Inventors (G) Repeat.

5.35 Game Ranger Diaries (G) 1.30 Catalyst (G) Repeat.

6.35 The People Watchers (G) percep2.00 Parliament Question Time tion and manipulation.

3.00 Kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Programs 7.30 Something In The Air (G) Repeat.

4.55 RollerCoaster 8.00 Australian Story Repeat.

6.05 Time Team: Stilton (G) 8.30 Hamish Macbeth (G) Repeat.

7.00 ABC News 9.20 The Bill (PG) Repeat.

7.30 7.30 Report with Kerry Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien 10.55 MDA (M*cl,sr) Repeat.

8.00 Two In The Top End (G) Final.

11.50 Close 8.30 Seed Hunter (PG) chickpea hunt doco 9.30 Foreign Correspondent 10.00 Artscape (PG) 10.30 Lateline 11.05 Lateline Business 11.30 Four Corners Repeat.

12.20 Media Watch Repeat.

12.35 Parliament Question Time 1.40 Movie: Break Of Hearts (PG, 1935) Stars Katherine Hepburn, Charles Boyer, Jean Hersholt.

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6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show (PG) 11.00 Raggs pre-schoolers program 11.30 Seven News 12.00 Movie: Life On Liberty Street (PG,v,a, 2004) Stars Annabeth Gish, Ethan Embry, Wendy Phillips.

2.00 All Saints (M) Repeat.

3.00 Masterchef Goes Large (G) 4.00 Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Academic 4.30 Seven News 5.00 M*A*S*H (G) Repeat.

5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) 6.00 Seven and Prime News 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 7.30 Border Security â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Front Line (PG) 8.00 The Force â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Behind The Line (PG) 8.30 City Homicide (M,v,s) 9.30 Bones (M) 10.30 Out Of The Question (M) 11.00 Louis Theroux And The Brothel (MA,s) 12.15 Auction Squad (G) Repeat.

Prime HD program same as above except: 12.00 Kevin Hill 1.00 Movie: The Stepdaughter (M,v,cl, 2001) 2.45 Harryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Practice 3.15 Get Ed! 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

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7.00 Insiders Repeat.

8.00 Inside Business Repeat.

8.30 Asia Pacific Focus 9.00 Asia Pacific News 9.25 Offsiders Repeat.

10.00 Kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Programs 4.30 Gardening Australia (G) Repeat.

5.00 Message Stick Repeat.

5.35 Can We Help? (G) Repeat.

6.05 Collectors (G) Repeat.

6.35 The People Watchers (G) perception and manipulation.

7.30 Something In The Air (G) Repeat.

8.00 triple j tv 8.30 The Hack Half Hour (M*) 9.00 Good Game 9.30 Death Note (M*,v) drama 10.00 triple j tv presents Ween 10.30 Primal Scream: Riot City Blues 11.20 Close

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4.30 GP (PG) Repeat.

5.30 Spicks And Specks (G) Repeat.

6.00 Kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Programs 11.00 Landline Repeat.

12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Last Frontiers Explorers (PG) Final.

1.30 The Cook And The Chef (G) Repeat 2.00 Parliament Question Time 3.00 Kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Programs 5.00 RollerCoaster 6.00 Landline Extra Repeat.

6.30 Talking Heads: Lisa Gasteen (G) 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 Report with Kerry Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien 8.00 Australian Story 8.30 Four Corners 9.20 Media Watch 9.35 Enough Rope With Andrew Denton 10.35 Lateline 11.10 Lateline Business 11.35 The Monastery (M*,cl) Final.

12.30 Parliament Question Time Repeat.

1.30 Movie: Spirit Of The People (G, 1940) Stars Raymond Massey, Ruth Gordan, Gene Lockhart.

3.25 Bowls: QLD Open 2008 Repeat.

6.00 Ten News 7.00 Kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Programs 9.00 9am With David & Kim 11.00 Ten News 12.00 Dr Phil (PG) Repeat.

1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) Repeat.

2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) 3.00 Infomercials (PG) 3.30 Hueyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cooking Adventures (G) 4.00 Outback 8 Kidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s travel to the Australian Outback.

4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful (G) 5.00 Ten News 6.00 The Simpsons (G) Repeat.

6.30 Neighbours (G) 7.00 Friends (PG) Repeat.

7.30 Australian Idol (PG) 8.30 Good News Week (M) comedy.

9.30 Supernatural (M) 10.30 Late News With Sports Tonight 11.15 Late Show With David Letterman 12.00 Everybody Loves Raymond (PG) Repeat.

12.30 Judge Judy (PG) 1.00 Infomercials 4.00 Religion to 6am.

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show (PG) 11.00 Raggs pre-schoolers program 11.30 Seven News 12.00 Movie: Breaking The Surface (M,v,a, 1996) Stars Mario Lopez, Michael Murphy, Jeffrey Meek.

2.00 All Saints (M) Repeat.

3.00 Masterchef Goes Large (G) 4.00 Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Academic 4.30 Seven News 5.00 M*A*S*H (G) 5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) 6.00 Seven and Prime News 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 7.30 TBA 8.00 Find My Family (PG) 8.30 Packed to the Rafters (PG) 9.30 All Saints (M) 10.30 My Shocking Story (PG) all new.

11.30 Beyond Boiling Point (M) 12.00 Room For Improvement (G) Repeat 12.30 Danoz, Expo and Guthy Renker

6.00 Ten Early News 7.00 Toasted TV & Kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Programs 8.30 Puzzle Play 9.00 9am With David And Kim 11.00 Ten Morning News 11.30 TTN (G) 12.00 Dr Phil (M) 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) Repeat.

2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) Repeat.

3.00 Infomercial (PG) 3.30 Hueyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cooking Adventures (G) 4.00 Totally Wild 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful (G) 5.00 Ten News 6.00 The Simpsons (G) 6.30 Neighbours (G) 7.00 Friends (PG) Repeat.

7.30 The All New Simpsons (PG) Final.

8.00 Kennyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s World (PG) 8.30 NCIS (M) Repeat.

9.30 Rush (M,at) drama.

10.30 Late News With Sports Tonight 11.15 Late Show With David Letterman 12.00 Everybody Loves Raymond (PG) Repeat.

Prime HD program same as above except: 12.30 State Focus Repeat.

12.00 Kevin Hill 1.00 Movie: Below (M,v,cl, 2002) 1.00 Infomercials (PG) 2.45 Harryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Practice 3.15 Get Ed 3.35 The Great Outdoors 10.30 Out Of The Question 11.00 Night 4.00 Religion to 6am.

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 Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Humphrey Repeat.

4.00 Lab Rats Challenge kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; game show.

4.30 National News 5.00 Antiques Roadshow (G) all new.

6.00 Evening News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 Two And A Half Men (PG) Repeat.

8.00 Til Death (PG) all new.

8.30 CSI (M) all new.

8.45 Lotto 9.30 Cold Case (M) all new.

10.30 True CSI (AV) all new.

11.30 Just Shoot Me (PG) 12.00 Shipwrecked (PG) 1.00 The Baron (PG) Repeat.

2.00 Guthy Renker and 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 Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Humphrey Repeat.

4.00 Lab Rats Challenge kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; game show.

4.30 National News 5.00 Antiques Roadshow (G) all new.

6.00 Evening News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 The Chopping Block (PG) all new.

8.30 Two And A Half Men (M,sr) double episode.

9.30 20 to 1 (M) all new.

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

Stalker 12.00 Lost 1.00 Scrubs

SBS Qld program same as above except: 4.30 UEFA Champions League Live Match 7.00 Weatherwatch 8.00 World News in various languages

SBS Qld program same as above except: 4.30 UEFA Champions League Live Match 7.00 Weatherwatch 8.00 World News in various languages

SBS advises viewers that programming between 6pm and 10.30pm nightly is Closed Captioned (CC)

6.00 Ten Early News 7.00 Toasted TV & Kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Programs 8.30 Puzzle Play 9.00 9am With David And Kim 11.00 Ten Morning News 12.00 Dr Phil (M) Repeat.

1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) Repeat.

2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) 3.00 Infomercial (PG) 3.30 Hueyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cooking Adventures (G) 4.00 Totally Wild 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful (G) 5.00 Ten News 6.00 The Simpsons (G) Repeat.

6.30 Neighbours (G) 7.00 Friends (PG) Repeat.

7.30 Jamies Ministry Of Food (PG) 8.30 House (M) 9.30 Life (M) 10.30 Late News With Sports Tonight 11.15 Late Show With David Letterman 12.30 Infomercials (PG) Repeat.

4.00 Religion to 6am.

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 Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Humphrey 4.00 Lab Rats Challenge 4.30 National News 5.00 Antiques Roadshow (G) all new.

6.00 Evening News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 Two And A Half Men (PG) double episode.

8.30 Fringe (M) drama series.

8.45 Lotto 9.30 CSI: NY (M) series return.

10.30 How To Have Sex After Marriage (MA 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

6.00 Ten Early News 7.00 Toasted TV & Kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Programs 8.30 Puzzle Play 9.00 9am With David And Kim 11.00 Ten Morning News 12.00 Dr Phil (M) Repeat.

1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) Repeat.

2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) 3.00 Infomercial (PG) 3.30 Hueyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cooking Adventures (G) 4.00 Totally Wild 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful (G) 5.00 Ten News 6.00 The Simpsons (G) Repeat.

6.30 Neighbours (G) 7.00 Friends (PG) Repeat.

7.30 Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader (G) 8.30 Law & Order: Criminal Intent (M) 9.30 Law & Order: SVU (M) Repeat.

10.30 Late News With Sports Tonight 11.15 Late Show With David Letterman Seven Qld program same as above except: 12.00 Everybody Loves Raymond (G) 6.30 Today Tonight 12.30 Infomercials (PG) Prime HD program same as above except: 12.00 Kevin Hill 1.00 Six Degrees 2.00 Make Me A 4.00 Religion to 6am.

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 Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Humphrey 4.00 The Shak 4.30 National News 5.00 Antiques Roadshow (G) all new.

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 RPA (M,mp) 10.30 Amazing Medical Stories (M,mp) 11.30 Seinfeld (PG) 12.00 Movie: The Cavemanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Valentine (AV15+, 2001) Stars Samuel L Jackson, Aunjanue Ellis.

2.00 Guthy-Renker Australia 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.00 Playhouse Disney 11.30 News 12.00 Movie: Vinegar Hill (M,v,a, 2005) Stars Mary-Louise Parker, Tom Skerrit.

2.00 All Saints (M) 3.00 Masterchef Goes Large (G) 4.00 Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Academic 4.30 Seven & Prime News 5.00 M*A*S*H (G) Repeat.

5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) 6.00 Prime & Seven News 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 7.30 Crash Investigation Unit (PG) 8.00 Medical Emergency (PG) 8.30 Criminal Minds (M,v,a) double episode 10.30 Alan Sugar: The Apprentice (M,cl) 11.50 Billy Connollyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s World Tour Of New Zealand (M,cl,s) Repeat.

12.50 Danoz, Expo and Guthy Renker Seven Qld program same as above except: 6.30 Today Tonight Prime HD program same as above except: 12.00 Kevin Hill 1.00 Movie: The Night We Called It A Day (M,cl,s,v, 2003) 2.45 Harryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Practice 3.15 Get Ed 3.35 The Great Outdoors 10.30 Gear 11.00 Out Of The Question 11.30 Make Me A Supermodel 12.30 Alan Sugar

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.00 Raggs pre-schoolers program.

11.30 Seven News 12.00 Movie: Big Trouble (M,v,s, 2002) Stars Tim Allen, Rene Russo.

2.00 All Saints 3.00 Masterchef Goes Large (G) 4.00 Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Academic 4.30 Seven News 5.00 M*A*S*H (G) Repeat.

5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) 6.00 Prime & Seven News 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 7.30 Make Me A Supermodel (PG) 8.30 The Amazing Race (PG) 9.30 Heroes (M) 10.30 Prison Break (M) 11.30 Scrubs (PG) 12.00 The Loop (PG) 12.30 Sons And Daughters (G) 1.00 Danoz, Expo and Guthy Renker

Supermodel 2.45 Harryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Practice 3.15 Get Ed 3.35 The Great Outdoors 11.30 Heroes 12.30 Earthsea

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Three Times a Lady Boy: W

hen I get on the phone to Tex I’m gushing about how much I love his new album: Tex Perkins and his Ladyboyz: ‘Number 1’s and Number 2’s’.

He snorts back in acknowledgement: ‘you’re our target audience, ladies over 35.’

This sinister reincarnation of some of the worst hits of AM radio is a work of magic. For Tex, dodgy covers are the only way to go.

‘It’s always been something I have done through my career – dodgy ironic versions of questionable songs. I see it as my duty to shine a brighter light on these lyrics.’

And the lyrics are extraordinary. I mean I know them, I could sing along, but I don’t think I’ve ever really stopped and listened. Dr Hook is restraining-order material.

Tex was similarly astounded: ‘They’re singing, when your body’s had too much of me and she’s on the floor... he knows she’s on the floor unconscious and he says, look I am going to have another line and give you another go!’

‘Dr Hook had a few suss concepts for songs, like when you are in love with a beautiful woman you watch your friend, why?

Because they try and shag your friends, this guy is

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wracked with jealousy he can’t enjoy his beautiful woman!’

One of the stunning moments is a falsetto by Jimmy Barnes. It’s beautiful and screech free. Tex does the dark male baritone on You Make me Feel Brand New. ‘It’s an absolute coup to have Barnesy – it’s the first time his falsetto has ever been recorded, it’s worth hearing – he’s known as a

screamer and a belter but he has complete control over his vocals. He’s a true craftsman, he has been really supportive of the whole project, he even appeared in the infomercial.’

It would be true to say, that Barnsey got it.

The whole Ladyboyz project was white shoe from the get go. Tex went all the way. I’m talking white suit. Smoke machine and an info-

Tex Perkins in White Out Twin Towns on Saturday November 1

mercial that kicks arse.

‘We didn’t leave any stone unturned – there are a few things that didn’t happen –we were going to have our own perfume ‘Scent of a Lady Boy’.

So instead we have ladyboy chapsticks.’

Making a tongue-in-cheek album isn’t as easy as it looks.

It still has to stand up as an album.

‘The album isn’t just about going for laughs it had to have a balance – it has to stand up as music as well.

Taking away the laughs I am proud of what I have done with songs, I think we have polished turds, they say you can’t but I think we have, we have polished 18 turds –you know what, now I think these songs are grateful – I think we have rescued them.

We are like DOCS, coming in and rescuing mistreated, neglected and abused songs.

We have given them a new

home and a new life. It must feel good to be out of the clutches of Dr Hook and Toto.’

So with all the shitty songs out there, how do you choose just 18?

‘The most difficult thing was stopping. We had an avalanche of ideas, our strike rate was ridiculous, we did eight songs a day. I’d have a list, we’d dial it up on the internet, we’d do a version – print out the lyrics, we actually recorded 31 songs and some of these songs will appear in the live show like The Lord’s Prayer and we are thinking of releasing the double A side for the Christian market, with My Sweet Lord on the otherside.’

So why a covers album?

‘When Universal suggested a Covers album I was offended because I was working on a solo album at the time. I thought “I’ll give you a covers album, you pricks” and I sent through ‘I’m not In love’, and they said yeah do it.’

Tex Perkins and his Ladyboyz are joined by special guest vocalists at all of the shows and will perform at casinos around the country! It really is a boy band! They perform at Twin Towns at Tweed Heads on Saturday November 1.

It’s gonna be a great show. I wouldn’t miss it. Tickets via phone 1800 014 014 or www. twintowns.com.au

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Grabbing the Bull by the horns ‘Who the hell is that singing!?’

This is the usual response elicited by Andy Bull’s songs. It has been an exciting twelve months for the 23 year old singer, songwriter and piano player who began his musical life as a young child playing on the parlour piano and pump organ his keyboard enthusiast father had collected through his travels in the 1970s. From playing club shows to his hometown crowd in Sydney, signing to Island Records Australia, recording at New York’s legendary Electric Lady Studios and Sydney’s 301 Studios, to touring the country with Little Red and The Holidays.

2008 has been the year where people have had the pleasure to discover the talent and voice of Andy Bull. Andy heads out on his first major Aussie tour and you can catch him on Thursday at The Currumbin Soundlounge.

It’s all in the Genes Brothers Morgan and Nolan Angell are The Genes.

Blessed with talents on the guitar, harmonica and drums and doing vocal harmonies they are joined by drummer Dominic Cutcliff. The Genes have performed on radio, television, have played at the legendary Livid Festival and have appeared three times in

the historical Spiegeltent. With over 300 original songs under their belts they’ve been moving audiences up and down the east coast for 19 years. They have toured with some of the top bands like Midnight Oil; Yothu Yindi; Crowded House; The Cruel Sea; Hoodoo Gurus; Women in Docs, as well as supporting performers Wendy Mathews and Deborah Conway and Neil Murray. They play the Salt Bar on Friday from 8.30pm.

Naughty Dreadful Boys Ever since he got pissed and fell on Missy Higgins at the Aria’s I’ve been a Tim Rogers fan. I love his half cocked swagger, shirt partly tucked, with beer in hand. It just reeks of Oz. Tim was, and is the front man of seminal indie rock outfit You Am I. They return after an uncharacteristically long break from playing in Australia due to US touring commitments and of course the making of the new record ‘Dilettantes.’

The stats read well, most of us know them, 8 records, 3 number 1’s, 9 ARIA’s…32 nominations no less, live music awards, soundtracks and of course 1874 shows all over the globe. ‘They play The Coolangatta Hotel on Thursday.

Chukale for Shearwater Chukale is one of Australia’s finest Afro-Cuban Salsa bands.

In only two years, this Brisbane based band has developed an extensive and enthusiastic following, not only within the Latin Community but also with music and dance enthusiasts from all cultural backgrounds.

Chukale at Shearwater (Mullumbimby) Spring Carnival Saturday and Friday at the Hotel Great Northern

Woodford Folk Festival near her hometown of Brisbane – with the significant advantages of operatic training and a love of musical theatre that remains evident in her effervescent wordplay and striking visual sense. She began to infiltrate national consciousness with a trilogy of EPs from ‘04 to ‘06 – Telegram, Comikaze, Circular Breathing – before Little Eve crashed the upper reaches of the ARIA charts in June ‘07. The album went Gold on the back of four ARIA nominations: Best Female Artist, Best Pop Release, Justin Hamilton at the Coolangatta Hotel Wednesday and Breakthrough Artist for both the album and its frenetic Top 50 single, “Words”. With her road-hardened band practically setting fire to the ARIA stage, Kate’s live performance of the song was the most memorable moment of the show. Kate Miller-Heidke is now one of the most talked about performers in Australian music!! Heralded as one of the ultimate acts to catch live, rarely has an artist left fans and reviewers alike so Kate Miller Heidke at Mullum consistently awestruck. TraversCivic Hall Friday ing a wide landscape of styles, Kate has truly found her feet as Chukale was born in a performer. The combination Brisbane during the summer of her virtuosic voice, theatrical of 2005. An 11 piece Afroartistry and the chemistry of Cuban Salsa band, fronted her band are devastating! She by two vocalists and dancers, performs at the Mullum Civic Tika Roberte and Maygualida Rodriguez, make the band easy Hall on Friday. Doors open at 7.30pm. Tix are $20/25. to identify and hard to forget.

The powerful brass section is Conservatorium trained; Burke Truth, beauty and a Turner and Bob Schultz on gig by the Whitlams Trumpets and Shane Hannan and Mikael Strand on One thing we know about The Trombones, they sail over Whitlams is that when they are the groove laid down by the played on the radio they sell driving rhythm section; young albums. There’s no other explatalents Christo Iconomidis on nation for a band that sells over piano and Carlos Gomez on 350,000 albums from a nonbass. Gustavo Cereijo comhyped, lyric-driven, melodic manding style on Congas dreamworld.. It’s tempting to combined with Alex Osorio’s attribute The Whitlams’ sucon Timbale contributes to the cess to the old adage – ‘good bands cutting-edge. Backing songs, played well’. And if good this ensemble is Brisbane’s resongs are back in fashion, and nowned Latin drummer, Sacha melody is back, and strings Kloostra. Chukale will perform are all over the radio, it’s The as part of Shearwater’s first Whitlams who led the charge Spring Carnival ‘Threads of back in 1997 with the antipoLife’ on Saturday at 1pm, they dean bittersweet symphony, will also present a dance work- ‘No Aphrodisiac’. ‘Torch the shop at 12.30pm. 10am – 4pm Moon’ continues the tradition at the school 349 Leftbank of well-orchestrated songs of Road, Mullumbimby. Entry depth. With lyrics described is free. You can also catch as having a ‘charming cynicism Chukale on Friday night at the and enhanced by an instinct Great Northern Hotel. for poignant melody, The Whitlams have won ‘Best Group’ at the 1998 Aria Awards, as well Baby I’m on Fyah as ‘Song of the Year’ and ‘Best Roots reggae band Fyah Walk Independent Release’ for their third album ‘Eternal Nightcap’. play the Rails on Friday. This Saturday at Mullum Civic will be their first gig locally Hall, doors open 7.30pm, show since sucsessful tours of Far North Queensland, Melbourne at 8pm. Tix are $32/$20. and Tasmania. Armed with their full horn section and a Film Fest at the bunch of new songs be prepared to dance the night away. Goldie

A date with Miss Kate You Am I at the Coolangatta Hotel on Thursday

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Kate Miller-Heidke cut her stage teeth as an annual high-school troubadour at the

Gold Coast Film Fantastic is proud to announce the screening program for the 2008 festival which will be held October 16-19 at Birch Carroll & Coyle Cinemas Pacific Fair. Opening the festival is the hilarious su-

Mandy Nolan

Get Your Butt Online About a year ago I joined Facebook. What a mistake.

Who are these people that seem to have hours upon hours at their disposal to write meaningless drivel?

Wasn’t MySpace enough?

I’m not a fan of inane meaningless chatter face to face. So why engage cyberspace for the kind of boring chat with strangers best reserved for bus stops and bank queues?

What is the fascination with Facebook? If you go outside you’ll see real people, with real faces. You can actually talk to them without downloading their profile. And guess what, an impromptu conversation is also carbon neutral! What’s the deal with Facebook?

Is it just to get laid? Why don’t they just rename it Rootbook? During my morning meditation where I contemplate the higher realms (yes, for me it’s only a five minute session) an idea of pure genius turned up in the inbox I call a brain. Arsebook. Now, all you have to do is post a picture of your arse online at Arsebook and you can talk to all the other arses around the globe. Imagine thousands of arses putting

in arse requests wanting to talk ‘shit’ with you! Imagine scanning down your ‘arse’ friends and checking out just who’s a a hottie and who you’d like to ‘Poke’.

Arsebook could become the ultimate brownnosing networking tool. I imagine a lot of American stockbrokers and bankers feel a bit like they’re already on Arsebook.

The butt is an amazing feature. Rounded and spongey, it’s the ultimate travel cushion. You can tell a lot about someone by their bottom. There’s office bums with poor circulation and flattened flanks. Working man bums with hairy cheeks and a ruddy complexion. There’s the classic shapeless Mum bums and the high cheeked, dimple free derriere of the local yoga teacher. There’s cop arse (you can tell because you can usually spy a bit of a McDonald’s wrapper poking out) and the geek arse, a tight white spotty affair with tufts of hair and horn rimmed glasses.

I even have the perfect catchphrase to sell the concept. Arsebook: Why Don’t You Log On?

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Newsflash: THE TRADITIONAL MELBOURNE CUP DAY MEETING RETURNS THIS YEAR. STAY TUNED FOR DETAILS

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pernatural comedy ‘Ghost Town’ starring Ricky Gervais (The Office) and Greg Kinnear (Little Miss Sunshine). Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais), is a man whose people skills leave much to be desired. When Pincus dies un-

Comedian Syd Heylen Jnr hosts Melbourne Cup at Sandbar and Grill Tuesday November 4

expectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he now has the annoying ability to see ghosts. Even worse, they all want something from him.

Other film program highlights include ‘Penelope’ a magical modern day fairytale starring Reese Witherspoon (Legally Blonde) and Christina Ricci (Speed Racer); UK comedy

The Whitlams at the Mullum Civic Hall on Saturday

Fyah Walk at the Rails on Friday

Andy Bull at Currumbin Soundlounge on Thursday

smash ‘Popcorn’ which will be presented by director Darren Paul Fisher.

Hot off the plane from Comic Con 2008, ‘Mutant Chronicles’ will be the first public showing in the Southern hemisphere of this steam punk action-adventure from producer Edward R. Pressman (The Crow). Starring Thomas Jane (The Mist), Ron Perlman (Hellboy II) and John Malkovich (Con Air). ‘Mutant Chronicles’ is the story of a disparate squad of former enemy soldiers who undertake a suicide mission into the seething heart of the otherworldly mutant scourge who are forcing human extinction.

Airport with special guests.

8pm Eastern Ave Bilinga Qld. Ph 07 5536 8650.

Comedy Back to Cooly

The laughs return to the Coolangatta Hotel this WednesPulling the plug day with the return of favourite Acoustic roots musician Dan Justin Hamilton, who is one Hannaford headlines Unof the most in demand stand plugged in the Basement up comedians working the with indie/ folk rocker Cheray Australian comedy scene today. as support on Thursday at the Justin is a regular on radio Gold Coast Arts Centre. Dan stations across the country. He presents a mix of coastal and can be heard each week on The country roots, featuring guitar, Wil & Lehmo Drive Show with his bottleneck slide, stompbox weekly segment ‘Hammo Time and a welcome dose of Aussie with Justin Hamilton’. bloke. This Coastal Cowboy’s Justin is also the regular music continues to charm audi- movie reviewer for the Perth ences both locally and internaMix FM Breakfast Show, where tionally. Dan has consistently he gets to put his obsession gigged at venues up and down with the silver screen to good the East Coast accompanied by Spankin it at Uki use! Justin also returned to his friends the eccentric Jesse Triple M with his own new Get your whole body percussJohn on Congas/Harp and the Saturday morning radio show, ing with Dance and Drumming sassy backing vocals of Trish aptly named Toast, with Terri workshops with Spankinhide, Whelan. Supporting Dan will Psiakis and Charlie Pickering. at Uki Hall on Sunday and be Cheray, hot off her Australthen again on Sunday NovemConsistently selling out ian Idol success last year, where ber 2, 1pm to 5.30pm. The solo seasons at the Adelaide she became one of the top 24 workshops will be culminatFringe and Melbourne Comedy contestants. ing in a performance at the Festivals, he has been a regular With a background in jazz – Caldera Environment Centre on the Melbourne Comedy Fesshe played the saxophone in dance, Uki Hall, Friday Notival Roadshow for the last five school – Cheray moved onto vember 7. For details, contact years and the support act on singing and percussion when Elliott on 0407 372 554 or email Wil Anderson’s National Tours she fi nished school, joining elliot@talkinthedrum.com.au for the last three years.

Mystic Vibe and playing live Justin started performing gigs for two years. Since then standup in his hometown of Cheray has been working Floyd Vincent and Adelaide in 2000 and very her solo career, writing his Child Brides thaw on quickly established himself as originals and developing her one of the most exciting new out own style. Don’t miss this uptalents on the scene.

A move After a winter hibernation and and-coming artist, along with headliner Dan Hannaford, per- to Melbourne, the Australian bit of time in Asia where we Comedy capital, soon folperformed in Ho Chi Minh City form in the laid-back, acoustic lowed and Justin is now one setting of Unplugged in the Floyd Vincent and The Child Basement – the best Thursday of the busiest stand ups in the Brides are back treading Oz country. boards. They have a new song night out on the coast! Tickets Justin will be supported by about food ‘Duck Fat Toast’ and $7 before 8pm, $10 after 8pm.

Mike Van Acker and Stephen Doors, food & bar open at another about strange books J Whitely. Doors will open at 7:30pm with DVDs screening. on the wall. Extremely mysterious. They perform at The Bands commence at 8:15pm.

8pm, entry is free.

Big Italian wedding Biest Productions proudly presents The Gnocchis and The Cavatellis in the longest running all-interactive comedy wedding on this planet, Joey & Maria’s Comedy Italian Wedding – a dinner show farce in the Paradise Showroom on Saturday from 6pm. It’s one wedding that had an unbelievable reception in cities like Las Vegas, Boston, San Diego, Cleveland, St. Louis, and many more! Join these two wacky families as you dance the Tarantella, witness the vows, and take part in some unconventional surprises. Joey & Maria’s Italian Comedy Wedding is directed by the original director from Dillstar productions to assure the roaring success of this event. Gold Coast Arts Centre in the Paradise Showroom at 6pm. This show is rated PG-13.

Dinner/show tickets $70. Bookings on 07 5588 4000.

Comedy for the Cup The Sandbar and Grill at Casurina present comedian Syd Heylen Jnr as the MC for a day of chic fashion. Celebrate Melbourne Cup 2008 at Sandbar + Grill with a sumptuous three course seafood banquet with perfectly matched wines from Cumulus, and complimentary glass of bubbly on arrival, all in a carnival themed hall with racing live on the big screens, fashion parades, live entertainment and sweeps and lucky door prizes. Tickets are $95 per person and bookings are essential. For tickets and further information please call Sandbar + Grill on 02 6674 9961.

mr Percival’s magic Loop

Every now and then you’ll be at a performance and witness something extraordinary.

Something you and that particular audience share as one of those unforgettable experiences that you never saw coming. It happened the other day. It was the last show as part of the open air concert

at the Mental Health Week Concert for Acceptance day with Mr Percival, the King of Loop. Mr Percival’s shows are earmarked by audience involvement. The show is pretty well shaped by how the crowd responds as he builds his soundtracks. So out crawls this little girl with a hippy name but a face

like Shirley Temple. She joined him on stage for the entire show, singing, helping build loops, and impro-ing. It was astonishing. What was even more amazing than this gorgeous little girl was the fact that Mr Percival just went with it. Most performers, including myself, would have panicked after five minutes and ditched the kid.

Darren (Mr Percival) admits it was like nothing else that had ever happened in a performance.

‘I felt like she was there to remind me of why I started doing the show and that became apparent pretty much straight away because she could sing, she had pitch and tone. When we did the first call and response, and she sang back, I thought this is really beautiful.’

Mr Percival’s show is built before your eyes. It’s astounding to be part of it. You can’t really be an

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observer, because you are part of the soundtrack.

‘It was great to be reminded of how simple everything is – it brought me back home to what I’m doing on stage and that was good. Last night I had a show in a venue here in Sydney I hadn’t worked in before and I did the show and was one of the best ones I have ever done.’

It’s not every day assertive, pitch perfect four year olds crawl onto your stage.

Generally Mr Percival is working with a more tentative and selfconscious audience who need coaxing to participate.

‘Often I am having to force people to join in – how the audience responds really depends on where you do the show. I went to New Zealand for a gig in Auckland, it was a support gig, but there were 700 people there. I opened the show and afterwards the volume of their reaction was louder than I’d ever

experienced. As soon as I put the mic out all of them came back and so I just kept singing with them.’

So what happens when people clam up?

‘There have been a couple of times that weren’t so good – but then it gets really funny – I have been doing the participation later in the gig, I used to start like that, but people said, maybe that’s not such a great way to start! Now I might build a loop and then I ask if anyone can really beat box.’

Mr Percival started out on his selfmade man’s looping journey with a very small audience. He found his feet and his show live on stage.

‘When I started I was consistently working with nine people – I did a residency on a Sunday in Sydney and it really was a workshop with one long set, sometimes people would come and I’d make them all sit together.’

Mr Percival features in several performances at a range of venues at the Mullum Music Festival November 20 – 23, including opening night at the Civic Hall with Tina Harrod, MC Joel Salom, The Blue Huls and Jali Buba Kuyateh. He performs Out of the Loop on Saturday November 22 at the Drill Hall and during the day he will conduct a vocal workshop. He also features again in a concert at the Civic Hall on Sunday November 23.

Tickets are available online at www. mullummusicfestival. com or you can phone 8250 1102. www.tweedecho.com.au

from 1916, is maintained by the Tweed Shire Council and is currently being renovated with the assistance of the skill share organisation TURSA. The group would like to see more young people taking up pottery and welcomes new members. They meet on Wednesdays and Fridays at the old school, and firing sessions take place at regular intervals during the year, usually over a weekend.

At the Show the potters encourage participation, especially by school groups. Their stall is well worth a visit.

found herself reading to one of her grandchildren.

Your arts weekend ■ This Saturday, October 18, the great lantern parade of the Tweed River Festival takes place at 7pm at the Jack Evans Boat Harbour, followed by fireworks. It’s the big event of the festival, and a huge favourite with children.

with Judith White Art at the Kliff judith@tweedecho.com.au Next weekend a little village of

An artist under every rock Tucked away in a quiet glade off the road to Burringbar is a hidden gem of the region’s artistic resources.

It’s the old Fernvale primary school, and for some 30 years it has been home to the cooperative group of Murwillumbah Potters.

At the end of this month they emerge into the full glare of public view for their annual appearance at the Murwillumbah Agricultural Show.

Throughout the Friday and Saturday they’ll man their stall, show their wares and demonstrate the use of the potter’s wheel.

‘Every rock on the Tweed has an artist under it,’ says founding member Ann Lee. ‘But few of us get to put our work in the public eye.’

The Fernvale pottery not only provides a place to work – it offers a range of firing techniques and glazes. There’s a wood-fired kiln and a new gas kiln. A speciality of the place is the salt kiln which creates a particularly striking glaze when salt reacts with the silicon in the clay. There’s even a fire pit for the most ancient technique of all.

‘Different clays need different types of firing,’ says Lee. ‘We cater for individual tastes and we’re the only place for miles to do that.’ Members travel from as far away as Lismore and Mudgeeraba to use the facilities.

The group has a strong self-help tradition. They built their own salt kiln back in 1980, and in 1996 constructed the present wood-fired one.

Fernvale is a practising cooperative rather than a teaching facility, but members like to help each other out and occasionally there are sessions with visiting artists.

Some members have their own studios at home, Lee among them. After three decades as a full-time potter she says she herself is ‘still learning’, and that pretty much sums up the group’s outlook.

The building, which dates

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marquees will appear on the front at Kingscliff for a unique outdoor art event. Art at the Kliff takes place on Sunday October 26 and is described by its organisers as a ‘portable artist in residence program’ where artists can show their work and meet the public.

It’s an initiative of the Burleigh Arts Group, a non-profit cooperative which also stages Art in the Park at Burleigh Heads and Art on the Boardwalk at Hope Island. Artists who join the group will have the opportunity to exhibit at the other venues too.

‘The event encompasses a wide range of art forms from visual, glass, multimedia, photography, sculpture and Indigenous art to performing arts,’ says coordinator Carol Collins. ‘It is a great opportunity for artists to generate interest in their art and promote community engagement in the arts.’

A further Art at the Kliff event will take place on the last Sunday in December. The group is planning to launch a new Kingscliff festival at the beginning of May 2009. Its working title is KAFE – Kingscliff Art, Food and Entertainment fiesta.

Exhibiting artists and volunteers are welcome to join the arts group. For details see the website www.artcompany.com. au or contact Carol on 0400 139 889.

Images of a sunburnt country The strains of chamber music greeted more than 100 guests last Sunday when the Gabrielli Quartet from Barry Singh’s Northern Rivers Symphony Orchestra played at Escape Gallery’s latest exhibition opening in Murwillumbah.

On display until November 19 are works by Gloria Roszkiewicz on the theme The Centre is Red together with Donna Scharam’s Looking through Rainbows.

Roskiewicz, a former businesswoman who has moved to Uki and set up her own studio, works in both paint and glass and cites as her inspiration Dorothea Mackellar’s 1908 poem My Country, which she recently

■ Stokers Siding Pottery turns 30 this month – a good time to visit and see Bob Connery’s latest lustreware and a host of other ceramics, decorative and practical.

■ The new show at Community Printmakers (CPM) on Kyogle Road, under the title Freshly Pressed, consists of work by four artists selected for this year’s mentor program. There are some beautiful prints, and both the renovated space and the new press are clearly working well.

■ Regional Arts Conference Delegates at last weekend’s conference of Regional Arts Australia (RAA) have expressed concern at the Rudd government’s decision to cut $4.3m from support for regional arts in the most recent federal budget.

A total of 950 delegates met in Alice Springs for the organisation’s sixth biennial conference Art at the Heart.

Artists, arts workers and arts volunteers had the opportunity

to gather, discuss, perform and celebrate the arts and cultural achievements of regional Australia.

In an attempt to sweeten the pill of the budget cuts, Peter Garrett’s ministry has announced that federal funding for the program will be ongoing. Previously the regional arts organisation has had to re-apply to be included in the budget process.

‘The arts are essential to the health of local communities,’ said RAA president Suzie Haslehurst. That can be quite literally true. She cited the instance of a play developed in Beaudesert, Queensland which dealt with the issue of road deaths among young people.

Performed widely in the area, and now touring interstate, the play Crash was followed by a sharp fall in fatal accidents.

More generally, RAA aims to ‘promote the development of the arts for the one-in-three Australians who live in regional, rural and remote parts of the country’.

In a partnership with the ABC, the conference saw the launch of Artpost, an interactive website and short video series for TV broadcast showcasing artists working in regional and remote parts of the country.

A book entitled Big Story Country: great arts stories from regional Australia was also launched at the weekend, and 13 people from across Australia received the new national Regional Arts Australia Volunteer Award at a ceremony at the Alice Springs Telegraph Station on Saturday.

The next conference will be held in Launceston in August 2010.

■ In case you’ve missed the banners and posters all over town, panto season is now open with the Murwillumbah Theatre Company’s production of A Roomful of Magic, based on the book by John Marsden, starting this weekend. Tickets from the music shop or at the door.

Clockwise from bottom left: Ann Lee with Byron and Declan Robinson and the wood-fired kiln built by Murwillumbah Potters.

Shirley Featherstone at the potters’ wheel.

One of Heather Matthew’s bee images in CPM’s Freshly Pressed.

Potters Shirley Featherstone, Lorraine Emanuel, Delma Christen, Michael Philp and Ann Lee, with young visitors Byron and Declan Robinson.

The Gabrielli Quartet at Escape Gallery.

Gloria Roszkiewicz, Bob Stainlay and Donna Scharam opening the exhibition at Escape Gallery.

Coming to Kingscliff: Art in the Park.

ART AS HEALING WORKSHOP Facilitator – Lorraine Abernethy.

The workshop is designed as experiential and is suitable for personal and professional development with an emphasis on the journey. Using techniques and mediums such as Mandalas, Dream work, Visualisation, Clay, Sand Play, Movement etc., these will enable the participant to gain further tools and insight in discovering their own healing journey Lorraine Abernethy has had many years of experience working with individuals from all walks of life, from students to professional people.

She also has an ongoing interest working creatively with art in mental health, disabilities and the aged.

Lorraine founded the original, TAFE: Art as Medicine Course. She is an award winning Fine Artist and a practicing Transpersonal Art Therapist.

COURSE COSTS:

WHERE: TIME:

$50 deposit + $275 for the course, materials included.

Classes are small, up to 6 participants and strictly limited.

ABERNETHY STUDIO. 4 Boomerang Street, Kingscliff Tuesday 4th,11th,18th, 25th Nov and 2nd Dec., 9:30 am to 3:30 pm.

Morning tea provided.

Enquiries 02 6674 4019 or email lgabernethy@hotmail.com

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gig guide events and entertainment on the coast FRIDAY 17

SATURDAY 18

■ BURLEIGH BEARS 7.30PM AKASA ■ GOLDCOAST ARTS CENTRE, PARADISE ROOM 7PM DAVID DE VITO ARTS THEATRE 7.30PM HEATH FRANKLIN’S ‘CHOPPER’ ■ SALTBAR, KINGSCLIFF 8.30PM THE GENES ■ SEAGULLS – CONNECTIONS, PIANO BAR 6PM BEN GILGAN LAKEVIEW LOUNGE 9PM LOADED DICE ■ UKI CAFE JAM NIGHT ■ UKI HALL GLO DANCE 8PM WITH TIJUANA CARTEL ■ AIRPORT TAVERN, BILINGA FLOYD VINCENT & THE CHILDBRIDES ■ POTTSVILLE SPORTS CLUB 7PM CLELIA ADAMS ■ MULLUM CIVIC HALL 8PM KATE MILLERHEIDKE ■ BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 9.30PM THE BOURBON PROPHECY ■ BYRON COMMUNITY CENTRE 8PM MARC MITTAG + THE HEADHUNTERS ■ HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON 9PM CHUKALE ■ THE RAILS, BYRON 7PM FYAH WALK ■ LA LA LAND, BYRON STAFFORD BROS, DANIEL WEBBER + RYAN RUSHTON

■ GOLD COAST ARTS CENTRE, PARADISE SHOWROOM 6PM JOEY & MARIA'S ITALIAN WEDDING THE BASEMENT 7PM JAZZ IN THE BASEMENT: WILLY QUA ARTS THEATRE 7.30PM NORTHERN RIVERS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: A FRENCH FANTASY ■ SALTBAR, KINGSCLIFF 8.30PM BIGGER THAN TEXAS ■ SEAGULLS, PIANO BAR 6PM BEN GILGAN CONNECTIONS 9PM KAFENE ■ UKI CAFE GRU VE – REGGAE NIGHT ■ TWEED SPORTS 8.30PM THE CRUISERS ■ SHEOAK SHACK, FINGAL HEAD 7PM KATHRYN JONES ■ MULLUM CIVIC HALL 8PM THE WHITLAMS ■ BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 9PM DIRTY LAUNDRY / DJ NOWAK ■ HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON 9PM BYRON DJS ■ THE RAILS, BYRON 7PM PAUL HASELGROVE + RUSTY STEELE ■ LA LA LAND, BYRON LIVEWIRE

SUNDAY 19 ■ SALTBAR KINGSCLIFF 1PM CHILLED PRESTON ■ SEAGULLS – CONNECTIONS 3PM DEEP CREEK: BOOT SCOOTIN FUN

■ UKI CAFE 10AM–2PM LOREN ■ UKI HALL 1PM SPANKINHIDE DRUM ‘N’ DANCE WORKSHOP ■ SPHINX ROCK CAFE, MT BURRELL 2–6PM DEVA NANDAM, DJ SET ■ CHINDERAH JAM SHED 5PM JAMES T & THE TOMOHAWKS ■ BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 4.30PM ROUND MOUNTAIN GIRLS 8PM DJ EGO ■ THE RAILS, BYRON 6.30PM STIPSKY ■ LA LA LAND, BYRON CAPTAIN KAINE

Body Of Lies

Regardless of what he might be like off-screen (as a Rabbitoh, he’s OK by me), Russell Crowe exhibits no ego as an actor. Here, once more under the direction of Ridley Scott, with whom he MONDAY 20 collaborated on Gladiator and ■ CONRAD JUPITERS 8PM American Gangster (A Good Year is best forgotten), he AKASA ■ SEAGULLS – STARDUST buries any sense of his own star status as the overweight, ROOM 11AM MIKE callously pragmatic CIA TWIGDEN puppeteer controlling his ■ THE RAILS, BYRON agent in Jordan, Leonardo 6.30PM ANNA DiCaprio. The task is to capture WEATHERUP Al-Saleem, head of a terrorist network responsible for blasts TUESDAY 21 in Britain and the Netherlands.

■ GOLD COAST ARTS They plan to lure him from CENTRE VARSITY anonymity by creating a COLLEGE false group of terrorists with ■ SALTBAR, KINGSCLIFF whom Al-Saleem will want 7PM TINIA TUESDAY to make contact. The plot is ■ SEAGULLS – LAKEVIEW much denser than that, but it LOUNGE 5.30PM never gets over-complicated, MICHAEL KING as the similar Syriana tended ■ THE RAILS, BYRON 7PM to and, as is now obligatory SUFFERIN WILLY LEE in the spy genre, technology means of surveillance are WEDNESDAY 22 and prime players. The opening ■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL and closing scenes are aerial 8PM SIT DOWN shots, zooming in and tracking COMEDY CLUB: JUSTIN their subjects from invisible HAMILTON, MIKE VAN heights – sci-fi is reality, so is ACKER, STEPHEN it any wonder we’re paranoid?

WHITELY Scott does not pontificate and makes no attempt to ■ GOLD COAST ARTS whitewash America’s nefarious CENTRE BENOWA practices, preferring to expose STATE SCHOOL the bastardry of both sides.

VARIETY CONCERT ■ SEAGULLS – LAKEVIEW But still, beneath the hard core realism, there is the story LOUNGE 1.15PM DON of an old fashioned hero, WHITAKER ruthless though he may be.

DiCaprio, no longer the baby THURSDAY 23 faced stowaway who went ■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL down with the Titanic, has YOU AM I: LET'S BE lately become adept at filling DREADFUL TOUR roles of some gravitas and, ■ CURRUMBIN RSL – SOUND LOUNGE ANDY BULL ■ GOLD COAST ARTS CENTRE – ARTS THEATRE 7.30PM GUARDIAN ANGELS CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL THE BASEMENT 7.30PM ‘UNPLUGGED IN THE BASEMENT’ DON HANNAFIERD, CHERAY ■ SEAGULLS – LAKEVIEW LOUNGE 5.30PM FAITHFULLYYOURS

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with John Campbell

Fri 17 6.00 Forbidden Kingdom (M) (M15+) 7.50 When did you last see your father?

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7.00 The Bank Job (MA) 9.00 Wall-E (G) Tues 21 6.00 When did you last see your father?

7.30 Forbidden Kingdom (M) 9.20 Wall-E (G)

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as the tool in the hands of an unscrupulous overseer, he does well to portray a man struggling to balance duty with ideals. When he impresses Hani (Mark Strong), the head of the Jordanian secret police, with his knowledge of Arabic, it is not unlike the moment when Peter O’Toole’s Lawrence finds an affinity with Alec Guinness’s Faisal. More twee but not objectionable is the relationship between DiCaprio and a beautiful Iranian nurse (Golshifteh Farahani), obviously included in the mix as a nod to the expectations

of the mainstream – Scott makes big budget movies for big audiences and it’s fair enough that he finds room for the orthodoxy of a boy/ girl romance. Post 9/11, the Middle East and Islamic jihad have too often been reduced to grist for the Hollywood mill and, in dealing with the most confronting issue of our times, no American film has yet got close to Hany Abu-Assad’s extraordinary Paradise Now (2005). Scott has narrowed the gap while, at the same time, creating a piece of gripping populist cinema.

Disaster Movie A movie can’t be all bad if it encourages a spirit of enquiry in the viewer. In my case, I was prompted when I got home to broaden my knowledge by googling Amy Whitehouse. (‘Did you mean Winehouse?’ the screen snootily replied. I guess I did.) The name rang a bell, in the same way that Lara Bingle and Nicole Richie do, but, being of a certain age and disposition, I did not have a clue about who she was or what she did. Now enlightened, I again have a toehold on the zeitgeist – if temporarily. Amy is an English pop star who apparently has

a powerful liking for the grog (shock horror!). She is also one of the first people spoofed in this unspeakably rotten film. After downing a huge jug of some sort of alcoholic concoction, she belches for thirty-seconds nonstop into the face of the guy opposite her. He is meant to be the dreadlocked hero from 10,000 BC, and he has already had his head squelched into an enormous pat of elephant dung. Next he encounters one of the muscle men from Gladiators, whom he defeats with a hefty blow to the

testicles. So, you have it all in the first three minutes – burping, crap and balls. Laugh?

I thought I’d never start. And it gets worse. One puerile sketch after another, meant to be sending up stuff we’ve seen on TV and the big screen over the past twelve months. You tick them off as they are trotted out, with the subtlety that this odious and overdue to be put down franchise exhibits on a regular basis (and I thought the most recent, Epic Movie was crook). Also referred to are No Country for Old Men, Juno, Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, Wanted, Cloverfield and, I’m sure, many many more.

But you need to be watching for them, which I wasn’t after the halfway mark, having left to consult a couple of the young ladies at the cinema box office about who could possibly enjoy this tripe. The girls were also at a loss. ‘Maybe it’s meant for ten year old boys,’ one suggested. ‘Who have had lobotomies,’ the other added.

Which was cruel but fair, I thought. How stuff like this gets made in the first place is beyond me. How it then gets a general release in this country is less unfathomable than it is infuriating.

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eating out guide all the best restaurants and cafés on the coast birdsbayoysterfarm Lakeside Café Fresh Crab & Oyster Dishes

02 6674 9961

Italian And Mediterranean Cuisine Alfresco Family Restaurant Dinner Tuesday – Saturday Dine In Or Takeaway BYO 07 5536 9500 1 Wharf Street, Tweed Heads

Best hat and best dressed Melbourne Cup table will win a bottle of bubbles!

Lunch Wed-Sun Birds Bay West Tweed Bookings essential 07 5599 9972

Barclay Drive, Casuarina Dinner & Bar Open 6 days from 4pm (closed Mondays) Weekends open breakfast/ lunch/dinner Full a la carte breakfast from 7am Lunch from 12 noon Dinner/Bar from 4pm

OLIO RISTORANTE

Join us for Melbourne Cup Day

4 course menu $65 per person Plasma screen set up 12.30pm start Bookings essential Ph 02 6674 4833 dining@fins.com.au

RESTAURANT + LOUNGE BAR 02 6670 5555 Poolside at Domain Santai Resort 9 Dianella Drive, Casuarina Lunch: Tues-Sun from 12 noon Dinner: Tues-Sat 6pm-late Buffet breakfast Saturday & Sunday 7.00am–11.30am Open for lunch on public holidays

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12 Coronation Ave Pottsville Phone: 02 6676 4949

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OPEN 7 DAYS

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Marty & Wendy Waters Shop 1/2 35 Tweed Coast Rd Cabarita Beach

Vietnamese & Thai Restaurant

PH: 02 6672 3088

360 Marine Pde, Labrador (07) 5528 2377

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Eating Out with Victoria Cosford

SIMPLE HEALTHY ALL PURPOSE PASTA SAUCE

THE PASTE THAT PLEASES

From Dolph and Gilly from the Dolphin Juice Cafe

There is a reason for the fact that peanut butter sticks to the roof of your mouth; there is even a term for those people who find the experience intolerable. It’s because of the high protein content in the paste, apparently, which draws moisture from your mouth, and those averse to the phenomenon are known to possess arachibutyrophobia – the very word guaranteed to stick to the roof of your mouth!

I don’t seem to eat much peanut butter these days – and to be sure had forgotten how much I loved it until I tried Elise’s biscuits (or cookies as she in her Canadian way would have it.) Elise Bouchard co-runs Cafe Oska underneath the English Language School in Byron Bay and although she is mainly front-of-house, her chef’s background means she does the odd cooking shift, and is responsible for some of the sweet things to have with coffee there.

I had been drawn to the biscuits in the jar on the counter because they were so large, and when she told me what they were I decided to try one. Apparently the biscuits are fairly typical of the area of

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Quebec where she grew up and of Canada in general; the recipe is one handed down from her mother.

I absolutely adored it: it was rich and buttery and chewy inside with a seam of caramelly butterscotch – interestingly, as she had warned me was the reaction from some customers, it did not adhere to the roof of my mouth (although perhaps in

my greedy enthusiasm I simply did not let it linger long enough there...)

It came as no surprise to learn that peanut butter is one of America’s favourite foods, found in about 75% of American homes and considered by many to be a staple, like bread or milk. A paste made out of peanuts, it has been invented and reinvented many times throughout history, culminating in the product we

know today being launched about a century ago in St Louis.

It contains, by law, a minimum of 90% peanuts, with no artificial sweeteners, colours or preservatives – though some brands will add a stabiliser to keep the peanut butter fresh and its oil from separating. Although the early experiments involved grinding peanuts that had been steamed, it was soon discovered that roasting the nuts resulted in a much tastier product. All you do to make your own is whizz 2 cups of roasted (shelled, naturally) peanuts in a food processor with 1 tablespoon of peanut oil and only add salt if the peanuts are unsalted. Process until the desired consistency is obtained and if you want it crunchy stir through half a cup of chopped roasted peanuts once the processing is completed.

Amusingly, Spam infiltrated the Wikipedia entry for Peanut Butter in the course of my research, resulting in the following sentence under the subheading ‘Health Benefits’: ‘Peanut butter provides protection against cardiovascular disease due to high levels of adam plon’s sperm and fried chicken; it also causes breasts to grow to enormous amounts without causing weight gain’ – so there was little use to be

gained there! Obviously, however, peanut butter provides all the proteins peanuts do alongside the rather too many calories.

I have my own recipe for Peanut Butter Biscuits and despite the similarity of ingredients, I swear mine are not half as good as Elise’s. This could of course be a case of different cooks producing different results using the same method and constituents; at any rate, I am sticking with Elise’s recipe from now on, which she has so generously agreed to share.

ELISE’S PEANUT BUTTER BISCUITS In a food processor combine 1 egg, 120 grams softened butter, 1 teaspoon vanilla essence, 1 cup packed brown sugar and 1 cup crunchy peanut butter – whizz until pale, airy and creamy then transfer to a large bowl. Gradually work in 1 3/4 cups plain flour and 1 teaspoon baking powder and shape into eight large biscuits.

Chill for at least half an hour then bake at 180˚C for about 12 minutes or until the outside is golden and the inside still a little raw. Elise says the secret lies in the hot oven and the importance of the chewy centre. For which I can vouch.

Ingredients 2 tins of tomatoes 1 bunch of basil 6 cloves of garlic Celtic sea salt Crush peel and fine dice the garlic.

Sautee on low heat until golden brown.

Rip the basil off the bunch rustically and throw in the pan whilst stirring, to wilt the basil a little.

Add two cans of tomatoes, stirring, then add celtic sea salt to taste.

Should take under 5 minutes

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Leshay is in it for the long (distance) haul Eve Jeffery

When I was a kid from mid October until just about Easter I would spend my Saturday mornings at the Moorabbin Little Athletics Club in Rowans Road.

The team I competed for was Cheltenham North and when I first started, the uniform was a little bib like concoction; two pieces of square material – one in front and one in back – held together by white cloth tape over the shoulders and tied either side. The height of athletic fashion. These were days long before I pined for adidas.

The Cheltenham North club colours were apple. Apple green and apple red, bisected diagonally across the little square patch.

Obviously no one had heard that the two colours should never be seen unless there was a colour in between and anyone could tell the CheltNorth team from miles away, which was good because they could always find me at a distance as I was never where I was supposed to be.

The very first time I put my bib on, I was queen. ‘Queen Eve Amelia the Goddess of Cheltenham North-ism’. Three foot four tall, little white 100% cotton baggy shorts, little white Bonds T-shirt, little white on white, white painted Dunlop but-I-suspect-they-were-fake runners, over little white knee socks folded and folded and folded and folded again until they looked like ankle socks.

I felt proud and magical and gorgeous!

They would name an athletics track after me one day surely or a toilet block or stall at least.

At the end of the day it was actually a very annoying contraption that invariably slipped

PLAYER PROFILE Name: Leshay Wells Age: 14 Eyes: blue/hazel Favourite colour: purple Birthsign: Taurus Eats: mango Drinks: Milo Last saw: Alvin and the Chipmunks Claim to fame: beat all the girls and boys in her agegroup in the 2008 Gold Coast Airport Marathon 10k run Would love to have dinner with: Craig Mottram, one of Australia’s greatest middle distance runners Leshay Wells on her home turf at the Twin Town Athletics Club in Kingscliff Photo Tree Faerie.

off one shoulder when you ran or jumped, then off the other when you straightened the first and the ties managed to loosen lash in the breeze as one raced and it was really and truly a pain when you put it on half inside out, a future Olympian could almost miss the start of the 60 metres flat before getting it untangled and the green wasn’t so apple but more olive after I spilled half of my lime splice down the front then fell over in the triple jump pit.

By the end of my first season I was more than envious of the St Catherine’s team shirt, a pale blue Bonds with the number patched on the back and their best runner also wore a pair of shoes that caught my attention – was that a little ‘a’ on the side?

I suffered my way grumbling and rumbling through my second Little A’s season flicking and niggling at the shoulder tape of my bib, huff-

ing and puffing and flouncing and glaring at the girls of St Catherine’s.

I was overjoyed when I found out pre-season of my third year that we were to have a new uniform and a Bonds it would be, but I couldn’t imagine how they could get the red and the green diagonal thingy happening.

It was made clear when we arrived at training and were handed our brand new luminous bright orange shirts.

Bright orange!

How the heck was bright orange, red and green? Or was orange the ‘colour in between’ and the other two would arrive later?

By the time I had grown into the under 10s, my hair of blue blackness had faded to dark brownness and I just looked like a big Jaffa!

Those pale blue shirted girls from St Catherine’s would be laughing all the way to the win-

ner’s podium. I was doomed to be an athletic fashion victim of Olympic proportions.

Banora Point athlete Leshay Wells is too busy winning races to care about the colour and style of her shirt.

Leshay is a year nine student at Tweed River High and although she would like to explore the possibilities of a career in athletics, she hasn’t decided what she wants to do yet when she leaves school but she knows what she wants now and that is to run.

Leshay has been competing for 5 years and is a member of both the Twin Towns Little Athletics Club and the Border Striders Running Club.

At little A’s, Leshay usually finds herself striding away ahead of the competition in the 800m, as she did last Saturday, or leaving her rivals behind in the 1500m. Her specialty is anything between 3,000 and 10,000 metres.

JX awards for Tweed swim club The Australian Swimming Coaches and Teachers Association (ASCTA), recently presented awards to several coaches and swimmers in the Tweed Shire.

The aim of the association is to improve professional standards for swimming coaches and teachers through education, accreditation, professional development, and ethical practice.

Local junior swimming coach Michael Tom received a Junior Excellence Achievement Award from the association.

Michael is a coach at the Tweed Heads Swimming Club.

ASCTA’s Junior Excellence programme provides recognition of children who are among the top 30% of Australian registered swimmers in their age group embarked on further developing their swimming prowess.

Nine children from the Tweed Heads Swimming Club, aged eleven to fourteen, were recognised by ASCTA for their success and hard work in the pool.

‘It’s a great achivement for the kids,’ said Mr Tom. ‘They deserve a pat on the back, and this is what the awards are all about really.’

Michael and the kids received their awards during a presentation at the Tweed indoor pool last Monday The Tweed Heads swimming club has a membership of 50 aged from 5 upwards and meets every Monday at 6pm at the Tweed Heads indoor swimming pool where you can register and join on the night.

For more information about the Tweed Heads Swimming Club, contact the club secretary Giovanna Mison on 0409 Junior coach Michael Tom holding his ASCTA Junior Excellence 570 360.

Achievement Award award. Photo Stephen Senise

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At a diminutive 5 foot-ish, Leshay is probably not what is traditionally expected when you think of long and lanky long distance runners but she has a lot of energy in her compact frame and at this year’s the Gold Coast Airport Marathon, Leshay beat both the boys and girls in her age group in the 10km run with an excellent time of 38:14, less than 3 minutes behind a selection of elite national athletes.

Leshay is a determined and single-minded athlete who competes every Saturday morning during the season at the Twins Towns Athletic Club on the Walter Peate Reserve in Kingscliff, and each event is no less important than another.

‘Before a race I usually get nervous,’ said Leshay after her 800m win on Saturday. “But when I’m racing I just concen-

trate on doing the best I can.’

Leshay’s most recent wins were in the 3,000m at NSW Combined High Schools Track and Field event held at Homebush in September and 5km Fun Runs held at Noosa and Main Beach.

Leshay says her favourite meet so far was the 2007 All Schools National Cross Country in Perth, an event which she missed out on this year by half a second. (Half a second!

Wouldn’t ya spew?)

Leshay has a busy schedule of training three or four days a week with the Twin Towns Club and with private coach Brian Chapman, but she just loves to run and thinks nothing of competing in the morning and training in the arvo and she is at home at the track where she says most of her friends are also competitors.

Personally I think she looks very fashionable in her red and black Tweed club shirt and I think she could give those girls of St Catherine’s and this girl from Cheltenham North a run for their money.

For more information about athletic fashion or other things like track and field, visit the website of Little Athletics Australian: www.littleathletics. com.au and for enquiries about the Twin Towns Athletic Club, phone Rick on 6674 5113.

The Echo wants you!

There is an abundance of gifted and talented sports humans in the Tweed Shire and The Echo wants to hear from you (or we would like you to dob in a mate).

If you excel in your chosen sport and compete locally or you play with a local team, we’d love to hear from you and we are leaving no sport untouched.

If you play in the Cudgen Marble Championships, the Fingal Elastic Band Flicking round-robin, the Murwillumbah Marshmellow Eating Master or if you are simply the fastest runner in your street, we want to see your story and photo on our pages.

Of course we also want to see rugby big blokes, cricketing bat brains, surfing water babes and terrific tennisers – no sport is too mainstream for The Echo.

To let us know about your upcoming event or to see your sport stories, results or a profile of your favourite sport in the pages of The Echo, drop us a line and we’ll put you in print.

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A case of recycling the quick and the dead John Campbell

Why do they do it? What is left for them to prove?

News that Lance Armstrong, Bradman on a bicycle and seven times Tour de France winner, is planning a comeback, has met with consternation in the world of sport. His aim, he says, is to give cancer research a higher profile, having survived testicular cancer himself.

It’s an altruistic motive, but really, is there any illness of which we are less aware? By which none of us has been touched in some way?

There must be something else driving him – that unique something that elevated him into a stratosphere reserved for only the greatest of champions.

He may simply love riding and racing, so following his natural bent is fair enough.

The stakes, however, are higher for a man of Armstrong’s status. He will have the best support team available, his preparation will be meticulous and, most important, his voracious desire to win will be there in spades, but – and there is always a but – he is 37 and the young Turks and hardened professionals against whom he’ll be competing for the first time since 2005 will not stand on ceremony if the opportunity

You can’t keep a good man down, unfortunately. Painting by Juan de Flandes, digital bastardry by John Campbell and the Tree Faerie.

arises to leave the old bloke in their wake.

They will be gunning for the Lion King and he could be on a hiding to nothing.

As a fully blown soap opera, sport is littered with the shattered dreams of those whose self belief asked too much of their aging limbs. Only in the arts can performers kid themselves and the adoring mob that they are still the real deal – when prune faced Mick Jag-

ger announces that he and Keef and the boys will embark on yet another blockbuster global tour, stubbornly unmindful of the fact that they have not been relevant since 1972, is it only I who groans with ennui?

Sport shines a harsher light on those who will not depart centre stage and fairytale comebacks, as what’s his name observed, are like Lazarus with a triple bypass.

The Australian cricket selec-

tors, scrambling to come up with a side to play the Indians in 1977 after the mass defections to Kerry Packer’s WSC, brought R.B.Simpson back from the dead to lead a bunch of up and comers and journeymen. Simmo, then 41, scored two tons and was instrumental in the 3-2 series victory.

Wayne Bennett similarly recalled Allan Langer for the deciding Origin clash of 2001.

Alf, wiling away his twilight

representin’: Tweed Shire at the Byron Soccer Sevens The ladies from Southport’s ‘Undecided’ team sloshed around with ‘Stacks’ Forster, right, in the morning and

years with Warrington in the Old Dart, made a mercy dash to Brisbane and inspired the Maroons to their 40-14 caning of the Blues (bastard!).

Both men’s decisions were influenced by the need of the group, but that is unlikely to have been what swayed them most. The majestic Mark Ella, retired at 25, would not be drawn back to Rugby for love or money, suggesting that the determining factor is individual desire, or lack of it.

Kelly Slater and Layne Beachley proved repeatedly that, on a board, it was them first and daylight second, but walked out of the water and gave away competitive surfing, only to be lured back by the swell and the salt air to do it all again – Slater has just won his ninth crown.

But the sport which has witnessed the most dramatic comebacks, notwithstanding its inherent brutality and demoralising consequences of defeat, is boxing. The greatest of them all, Muhammad Ali, endured an enforced lay-off of four years when he was stripped of the heavyweight title for his public opposition to the Vietnam War and refusal to be drafted into the army (‘no Viet Cong ever called me nigger’ is surely one of the quotes of the century), before lacing

on the gloves and, in 1974, reclaiming his belt from George Foreman in Kinshasa’s ‘rumble in the jungle.’

Foreman himself, victim of Ali’s and trainer Angelo Dundee’s ‘rope a dope’ strategy, made an equally impressive return to the ring. After retiring in 1977 at the age of 28, he KO’d Michael Moorer in 1994 to become, at 45, history’s oldest heavyweight champ. But for every Ali and Foreman there are dozens of broken and bruised pugs who only succeeded in making themselves look foolish, something that you suspect Armstrong would be aware of.

So if he does slide back into the lycra – and who could possibly doubt his determination?

– let’s hope that when the peloton makes its triumphant dash down the Champs Élysées, Armstrong is not bringing up the rear, an exile on main street.

TIDE TIMES PHASES OF THE MOON First Quarter 6th Nov 3.04 pm Scorpio Full Moon 13th Nov 5.18 pm Last Quarter 20th Nov 8.32 am New Moon 28th Nov 3.55 am FRI High 10.29 am 1.8 Sunrise 6.06 am 17th 11.07 pm 1.3 Sunset 6.55 pm Low 4.03 am 0.3 Moonrise 9.48 pm 5.06 pm 0.2 Moonset 7.18 am SAT High 11.19 am 1.7 Sunrise 6.05 am 18th Sunset 6.56 pm Low 4.47 am 0.3 Moonrise 10.57 pm 6.05 pm 0.2 Moonset 8.11 am SUN High 12.05 am 1.2 Sunrise 6.04 am 19th 12.15 pm 1.7 Sunset 6.57 pm Low 5.38 am 0.4 Moonrise 7.10 pm 0.3 Moonset 9.12 am MON High 1.10 am 1.1 Sunrise 6.03 am 20th 1.18 pm 1.6 Sunset 6.57 pm Low 6.40 am 0.5 Moonrise 12.01 am 8.22 pm 0.3 Moonset 10.18 am TUE High 2.23 am 1.1 Sunrise 6.02 am 21st 2.28 pm 1.6 Sunset 6.58 pm Low 7.52 am 0.5 Moonrise 12.57 am 9.34 pm 0.3 Moonset 11.26 am WED High 3.39 am 1.1 Sunrise 6.05 am 22nd 3.41 pm 1.5 Sunset 7.14 pm Low 9.10 am 0.6 Moonrise 2.06 am 10.38 pm 0.3 Moonset 12.31 pm THU High 4.46 am 1.2 Sunrise 6.04 am 23rd 4.49 pm 1.5 Sunset 7.15 pm Low 10.26 am 0.5 Moonrise 2.44 am 11.31 pm 0.3 Moonset 1.39 pm Eastern Standard Time. Heights in metres.

Courtesy of NSW Tide Charts, Manly Hydraulics Laboratory, NSW Dept of Commerce

MONTHLY MARKETS

Tumbulgum, right, during the afternoon matches.

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1st Sat Brunswick Heads (02) 6684 4437 1st Sun Murwillumbah Cottage Markets 0417 759 777 1st Sun Banora Point Farmers’ Market 0417 759 777 1st Sun Byron Bay (02) 6680 9703 1st Sun Pottsville (02) 6676 4555 1st Sun Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714 2nd Sat 2nd Sun 2nd Sun 2nd Sun 2nd Sun

Kingscliff (02) 6674 0827 The Channon (02) 6688 6433 Lennox Head (02) 6672 2874 Coolangatta (07) 5533 8202 Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714

3rd Sat Mullumbimby (02) 6684 3370 3rd Sun Murwillumbah Cottage Markets 0417 759 777 3rd Sun Ballina 6687 4328 3rd Sun Banora Point Farmers’ Market 0417 759 777 3rd Sun Nimbin (02) 6689 0000 3rd Sun Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714 3rd Sun Uki (02) 6679 9026

Neither the sprinkling showers nor the downpours could turn the players off their game in the Byron Bay Soccer Sevens on the weekend.

Over 300 competitors in 32 teams were vying for cash prizes in the two day event. Pictured above and right the Uki-Murwillumbah Raso’s put in the hard yards with the eventual winners, the Griffith Uni ‘Grifferoos’.

The Chinderah Sharks, centre, managed a fairly dry game in the first half of their match against the ‘Foreigners but had to content with the torrent after half time.

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4th Sat Kingscliff (02) 6674 0827 4th Sun Bangalow (02) 6687 1911 4th Sun (in 5 Sun month) Coolangatta (07) 5533 8202 4th Sun Murwillumbah 0422 565 168 4th Sun Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714 5th Sun 5th Sun

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

FARMERS MARKETS Each Sat Each Thu

8-11am Bangalow (02) 6687 1137 8-11am Byron Bay (02) 6687 1137

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NCAS needs junior beach buzz netballers for squad Rainbow Nippers Pro Waterman

what’s happening in the surf

North Coast Academy of Sport (NCAS) is seeking talented junior netballers to trial for its Kempsey Macleay RSL Club 2008-09 NCAS Netball squad.

To attend the trials and to be eligible to be chosen in the 2008-09 NCAS Netball squad, athletes must be turning 15, 16, 17 or 18 years in 2009, be a resident on the North Coast and be a current member of a netball association underpinning NCAS. Applicants must have played competitive club netball and hopefully have representative experience in school or association netball and must also be physically fit to play and undertake an intensive development netball program.

Underpinning the Academy program is the support by regional associations of Ballina, Brunswick-Byron, Bellingen, Casino, Coffs Harbour, Grafton, Hastings, Kyogle, Lismore district, Lower Clarence, Macleay, Murwillumbah, Nambucca Valley and Woolgoolga.

Trialists must be a member of one of these associations.

Around 20-24 athletes aged 15-18 years will be selected based on trials held at Southern Cross University in Lismore on Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th October 2008.

Once the final squad is selected, athletes will receive high-level skills coaching, and education sessions in sport psychology, sports medicine, sports nutrition, time manage-

TWEED SHIRE SPORT RESULTS BOWLS Kingscliff Ladies Kingscliff Beach Club is hosting a Pink Ribbon Bowls Day for Breast Canceron Sunday morning October 19.

The event is sponsored by The ProfessionalsKingscliff and runs from 9am to noon with team entry costing $60. No bowling experience is required with many prizes up for grabs and a sausage sizzle after the game.

This is a fun way to experience a game of lawn bowls plus serving a very needy cause.

Bookings can be made at the Kingscliff Beach Club, call 6674 1404 or Peter Hut on 6674 9000.

In social play last week President Dianna presented new bowlers Vicki White and Cathy James with their badges, welcome ladies. There were 54 bowlers with 3 visitors and winners were Joan Porter, Anne Wonka and Fay Robinson; Jean Dalmayer, Elma Wilkinson and Barbara Mirls.

Runners up Margaret Cosgriff, Mary Brown and Sandra Akers.

Thanks to Mary Brown and Kath Thompson for maninng the office.

Birthdays this month for Annette Johnson, Jenny Blyth, Trish Nitschke and Syldia Coombe.

NCAS netballer Karly Moir has represented the Far North Coast for the last two years.

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ment and public speaking.

Kempsey Macleay RSL Club became naming rights sponsors of the NCAS Netball program in July 2006. Their support forms part of Clubs NSW’s state wide commitment to Community Development Support Expenditure legislation.

NCAS provides regionally based talent identification and development programs in 14 sports including basketball, BMX, canoe sprint, cycling, hockey, lawn bowls, netball, rowing, rugby, sailing, softball, surf life saving, tennis and triathlon.

Applications close October 22 and are available from www. ncas.org.au or by phoning the NCAS office on 6620 3073.

Pennant results: Division 2 defeated Paradise Point away for 3.5 pts and overall fnishing equal 2nd with Tweed Heads, Division 5 def Surfers Paradise away for 4 pts and finished 5th overall for the season. Division 7 were to play Tamborine but because of forfeit gained 5pts and finished 4th overall.

Our trophy day is October 29.

Tweed Heads Men Pennant Results: Saturday 11 October.

Division 1 played South Tweed in the 2nd game of the play-offs at Broadbeach but lost 48/64 which meant that their season was over. Well done chaps.

Round 11 Division 2 against Broadbeach lost 51/89.Division 4 against Benowa lost 50/68. Division 6 against Burleigh Heads won 70/42. Division 7 against Twin Towns Services won 60/56 and Division 8 against Paradise Point lost 50/61.

Next Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 October, Divisions 6, 7 and 8 will be playing in the finals playoffs starting at 9am Queensland time. Divisions 6 and 8 will be playing at Tugun and Division 7 at Mudgeeraba. Good luck to all players.

Senior Singles Championships: Qtr-finals: Jim Hammersley d.

Ron Duckworth 25/24; Al Kaln-

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Last Sunday was the official first day of season for the Rainbow Bay SLSC Nippers and Dolphins and the big turnout of kids enjoyed a full morning getting acquainted with the surf and surf safety.

The Nippers, pictured below, gathered to thank Vaughan Penfold who provided a marquee tent for the surf club as well as merchandise for the Nippers bags on the day.

President of the Rainbow Bay SLSC Ray Fien was pleased with the season opener. ‘It was a great turnout for our first day on our beautiful beach,’ said Ray. ‘There is still time to join up and have some good family fun on the beach.’

The Rainbow Bay Nippers meet Sunday mornings from 8.30am and enrolments are still open. If you would like to find out more about sponsoring the club or signing on for Nippers please phone Kylie at the surf club on 07 5536 6737.

The Pro Waterman Professional Surf Instructor and Lifeguard Qualification Program is an intensive program to equip participants with the skills and qualifications to immediately enter the Surf School Industry upon successful completion of all required components. It is designed for those aspiring to be professional surf instructors and or surf, beach or pool lifeguards and who need the qualifications and skills to enter the industry.

The course will offer not only the theoretical skills and knowledge but also the opportunity to get handson practical experience in Surfing Queensland licensed surf schools on the Gold Coast.

The intensive Pro Waterman Program is a 2 weeks course.

The Program is presented

by Jamo Borthwick from the Academy of Surf Sports, Skills and Education, which

is licensed to provide SLSA Awards on behalf of the Australian Lifesaving Academy, Queensland.

Logan Hurford from the College of Surfing will be the presenter for the Surfing Australia Level 1 Surf Coach Award. Both have intimate knowledge, skills and expertise in the surf industry, with both Jamo and Logan owning fully operational Surfing Queensland and Surfing Australia licensed surf schools, as well as both being highly involved with the training and up skilling of people in the surf industry.

The next Program is scheduled to start on November 24 which will enable participants to get trained and qualified in time for the beginning of summer.

For more information phone Jamo Borthwick on 07 5534 118 or visit www.watermanprograms.com

Cudgen Surf Notes Last Sunday 62 members completed their patrol proficiency test at the Cudgen SLSC. The masters surf boat crew attended the North Coast Boat Series held at Wachope-Bonny Hills and contested the Open and Masters divisions with the same crew. On Saturday in round 1 they were 2nd in the Masters and 3rd in the Open, with repeat results in Sunday’s round 2.

Next Sunday the club will have several competitors in the ‘Coolangatta Gold’.

ins d. Roy Nuttall 25/15; Peter Goldsmith d. David Watts 25/23; Graham Richards d. George Mynott 25/8. Semi-finals were to be played Tuesday 14 October.

Social Results: Sun 5 Oct: Green 1: Dorothy & Chas Turner, Adele & Ron Duckworth; r/up: Doreen & George Kendall, Margaret & John Gunton.

Green 2: Ngaire Gibson, Brian Bevan; r/up: Hannah & Sam Ramsay.

Tuesday October 7 winners.

Men: Peter Crerar, Laurie Rea, Max Reiter; r/up: Tom Preston, John Heath, Arthur Jackson.

Ladies: Kath Seiben, Dorothy Evans, Beryl Hiscocks; r/up: Aileen Bolton, Hazel Bardsley, Joy Dodsley, Willi Grant.

Wed 8 Oct: Green 1: Ron Sturrock, Jim Quin + 18; r/up: John LeBoeuf, Gary Hewitt + 12.

Green 2: Bob Chapman, Bill Grose + 17; r/up: Sean Harty, Ken Calvert + 15.

Green 3: Dennis Lusby, George Hanlon + 18 on c/b; r/up: John Moon, John Parker-Smith + 18.

Fri 10 Oct: Green 1: Jon Bosisto, Sam Ramsay, George Hanlon; r/ up: Frank Dawson, Len Harrison, George Brooks.

Green 2: Tom Marling, Jack Blagbrough, Arthur Jackson; r/up: Brian Bitmead, Bill Perry, Ron Duckworth.

Green 3: Eddie Wace, Tom

Reeves, John Craig; r/up: Ron Kickbusch, Ron Taylor.

Tweed Heads Tourers There were a total of 18 players both ladies and men, were in attendance for bowls last Sunday morning. The winners were Andy Lavelle, Christine Humphries and Frank McPhillips.

Next Sunday the Tourers are due to play at Tugun with the game to start at 10.30am NSW time.

The list is on the notice board in the Members Lounge and it is advised that you have to make your own transport arrangements.

Pottsville Women On Thursday, October 9, the Club held its annual Brian Cecil Memorial Day. Carmel Cecil presented a trophy to the winning team.

The Club played triples with two games of 11 ends each which was a pleasant variation from the normal format.

Lucky bowler was Jan Richards with the raffle winners being Heather Woodbridge and Lola Dowling.

The past week has been a very busy one with the club hosting the District Delegates meeting on October 13, Pelican Fours on October 14 and a visit from Bribie Island on October 16.

Friendship afternoon is Tuesday, October 21 and the club will be hosting the District Shield on

Monday, October 27.

For further enquiries, please phone the Pottsville Sports Club on 6676 1077 and follow the prompts.

GOLF Chinderah Veterans Social Golf Thursday 9/10/08 - Stableford Winner ‘A’ grade: Barry Nicholls, 43 points, new h/cap 12. R/up: Peter Walsh, 42 points, new h/ cap 3.

Winner ‘B’ grade: Jack Jefferson, 48 points, new h/cap 23. R/up: Neville Parker, 40 points (c/back), new h/cap 19.

Ball rundown to 38 points (c/ back)

Rohan Small and Jarred Cain will contest the team event with Rohan doing the ski and swim and Jarred in the board and run. Russell Zahn and Chris Carter have entered in the masters individual event.

At home the first round of the club point score in board and swim will be held 10 am.

The following weekend the annual ‘Cudgen Classic’ for competitors aged 10 to 17 years will be held on the Saturday. This prestigious carnival attracts entries from the Sunshine Coast down to Sydney.

Members assistance will be appreciated by our junior club as there is plenty to do on the beach and in water safety.

On Sunday 26, Byron Bay have been awarded a carnival. This is not on the club calendar. Can those attending please notify the club coach, Ken or president Gary if competing.

Also on the 26th, the Old Boys Association will be guest of Cudgen Leagues Club for a social ‘Barefoot Bowls’ morning. Members, partners and supporters are welcome.

Please give names to president Kim 6674 2637 or secretary Keith 6672 2296 by Thursday 23, bus transport will be provided from Murwillumbah.

Cudgen Patrols Saturday 18.10.08 10-3 pm. ‘Seagulls’ Sunday 19.10.08 am ‘Octopusses’ pm ‘Prawns’ Championships commence Monday 20/10/08 - all grades.

Chinderah Veterans Social Golf Monday 13/10/08 - Stroke Winner ‘A’ grade: Bob Holmes, net 55, new h/cap 10. R/up: Ed Franklin, net 56 (c/back), new h/ cap 11.

Winner ‘B’ grade: Yvonne Hawkey, net 51, new h/cap 18.

R/up: Alan Williams, net 55, new h/cap 16.

Winner ‘C’ grade: John Graha, net 58, new h/cap 20. R/up: Pam Andrews, net 60 (c/back), new h/cap 22.

Championships commence 20/10/08 - over four (4) rounds.

DEADLINES FOR SPORT NEWS AND RESULTS The deadline for editorial, photos and sport news is 9am Tuesday, and the deadline for sports results is 9am Wednesday.

email news and photos to: sport@tweedecho.com.au email results to: results@tweedecho.com.au www.tweedecho.com.au

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Noticeboard â&#x2013; Not-for-profit organisations

are welcome to publicise their events or meetings in our community noticeboard. Email to editor@tweedecho.com.au

The Family Centre Courses starting soon at The Family Centre in Tweed Heads South: Say what you mean, mean what you say - starts Oct 21, for women, covering communication skills; DadsRUs â&#x20AC;&#x201C; starts Oct 23, evenings, for fathers â&#x20AC;&#x201C; covering communication, role of fathers, child development; Anger: making it work for you 1 day workshop October 31; Communication Skills SEEKING HEALERS of all modalities, sustainable bus. Sarah-Jane 66803141 AIRPORT TRANSFER business est. 7 yrs providing passenger transfers from Gold Coast Airport & Byron Bay. 3 vehicles, airport operation licence, website, asking $120K. Ph 0401622228

HOLIDAY ACCOM. PETS OK Mullum, lush, pool, spa, for single to family. Louella 0434497774

SHARE ACCOM. ECHO ACCOUNTS POLICY: Ads in this section must be paid by credit card or in person at time of placement.

ECHO ACCOUNTS POLICY: Ads in this section must be paid by credit card or in person at time of placement.

TWEED/BANORA Permanent Flat/Unit.

Female 22yrs to $180. Ph66763916

POSITIONS VACANT WARNING The Department of Fair Trading has warned people to be very careful about responding to advertisements offering work at home. Readers should be wary if asked to pay money upfront for employment opportunities and never send money to a post ofďŹ ce box.

PHONE BOOK DELIVERIES Individuals and community groups wanted to deliver local phone books.

Mid Oct start. Areas from Yelgun to Tweed Heads incl. rural towns. 0419009517 or 0418994956

APPRENTICE CHEF

BUSINESS OPP.

1st or 2nd year or experienced cook Award winning restaurant

Cottage on Coronation Phone Marty 0410 056 058

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Alternative Ethical Eroticaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Putting women back in control of their self image.

An opportunity to be creative, take your own photos, have loads of fun....and get paid for it!

Come and meet the gals in our Byron ofďŹ ce - no obligation, no pressure.

Call Kate for an interview (02) 6680 7755

WORK WANTED

HANDYMAN

MAN WITH UTE Phone Matt 0427172684

TUITION LEAP. Learning Enhancement Advanced Program. Specialised Kinesiology for learning difďŹ culties. Proven results. Reg. Practitioner Sandra Davey. Ph 66846914 GERMAN all levels, qualified native speaker, one-on-one, mini classes. Phone (02) 66803545 AFRICAN DRUMMING for beginners Every Tuesday. 7-9pm Mâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;bah Community Centre, Nullum St. More Info phone Fi on 66791069

Want to work in REAL ESTATE Certificate and Licence North Coast TAFE Ph: 1300 666 182

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FREE RESOURCE BOOK for prompt course enrolment!

Free info sessionâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mon 22nd September 5.30pm Next course 15 October

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MUSICAL NOTES

Nationally recognised Certificate IV + Diploma in Remedial Massage courses

Holistic Massage Centre, 1/14 Jonson Street, Byron Bay. Enquiries 0407 299 258

Happy, healthy, conďŹ dent women wanted (18+) for nude photographic projects. Earn $400+

watersworld@bigpond.com

MASSAGE THERAPY CAREER

Starting 21st October, 2008

Tweed wildlife carer needs a donation of bird and animal cages to house wildlife being nursed for rehabilitation. Can pick up. Call Dinah Morgan on 6676 3136.

WANTED TO RENT

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

Upgrade Course for Cert IV holders to Diploma

Cages wanted

ECHO ACCOUNTS POLICY: Ads in this section must be paid by credit card or in person at time of placement.

WILL PAY CASH

Starting 20th October, 2008

The Richmond-Tweed Regional Library Service would like to advise all members and visitors that as of Saturday, October 25, the Murwillumbah Library will extend its opening hours to open from 9am-3pm.

LADIES ONLY - Sorry Guys!

OLD BELL

Fully government accredited courses

Library hours

POTTSVILLE BEACH mature indep pers reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d for share house. Own bedrm, bthrm, & living room. Private gardens & pool, spacious & light, $190pw. Ph 0407098993 or leave message at 66763608

02 6688 4143 WARNING The Department of Fair Trading has warned people to be very careful about responding to advertisements offering work at home. Readers should be wary if asked to pay money upfront for employment opportunities and never send money to a post ofďŹ ce box.

for Healthy Relationships â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 4 week evening course in Murwillumbah starts Nov 3. Numbers are limited so book early on (07) 5524 8711.

BYRON SOUND LOUNGE rehearsals, recording & PA hire. 0411288101

Your Allphones Franchise opportunity is available in Tweed City.

Please contact Ian Harkin on 0414 210 144 or via email ian@allphones.com.au

PETS ADOPT A CAT from Animal Welfare League NSW. Phone 66844070

ONLY ADULTS BEST BODY MASSAGE. Guaranteed.

0415200866. 9-6pm, Brunswick Hds

The Tweed Shire Echo October 16, 2008 27

Backburner ATTENTION BUYERS $595K TO $985K

twin towns

Cnr Griffith & Stuart Sts. The owners here love the fact that they can walk from their door straight into the world renowned Twin Towns Services Club by the enclosed skyway ... not to mention the walk to everything else convenience!

I specialise in this exceptional building and have never had a better selection of superb apartments on offer here. Two and three bedrooms, all ensuited, all with absolutely stunning views. Come see!

See domain.com.au

OCEAN SHORES SELLING $1.15-1.25M 42 Tongarra Drive.

This property, more like a private estate really, sits high in the best street in Ocean Shores and enjoys breathtaking views. With much use of natural timbers, this quality home just oozes character.

It appears a little paper war has erupted at the Noble Lakeside Park in Kingscliff where some residents have complained of the lack of their much-anticipated copies of The Echo. Park manager, Tweed Shire councillor (and sacked mayor) Warren Polglase told us this week that ‘The Echo has no trouble at all, I think we get 50 or 60 copies, they bring them in on Friday, and they’re all gone!’ He continued, ‘One woman here who carries on about it… came in here on Friday and said, “Warren, are you throwing them out?” and I said, “Nuh, although sometimes I feel like doing that – but you’re just too late picking them up”!’

(Backburner knew the paper was popular but…)

Sandcastles in (open) air: (l-r) architects Wanjira Karanja, Nick Ovens and James Foley with their ■ ■ ■ ■

ocean shores

Here, you are protected from all bad weather and simply soak up the sunshine from the north. The bonus is the self contained in law accommodation with its own entry. A very special home.

See domain.com.au

TWEED HEADS SELLING $1.425-1.6M 21 Quayside Court AND 39 Navigators Way.

anchorage islands

The handful of freehold titled homes on the waterfront in this premium location are very tightly held, so it is amazing to be able to offer you two superb examples.

Both homes have 3 bedrooms plus study/4th and double garaging.

The relatively compact grounds mean you certainly won’t be losing your weekends mowing lawns, there is so much else to do here! Quiet and peaceful yet ultra convenient and many berthing opportunities for boaties too. Lifestyle!

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0414 997 722 or 07 5506 6645 Selling? Call Winston and save yourself thousands $$$

28 October 16, 2008 The Tweed Shire Echo

Tweed Tourism Race Day at Murwillumbah is on this Monday (October 20) so if you want a day out to remember, get yourself to the picturesque racetrack at Tygalgah just outside Murwillumbah. The full TAB meeting features the running of the inaugural Tweed Tourism Cup with a big bag of $100,000 in prize money on offer over seven races. For info call Steve Huggins or Bernie Quinn on (02) 6672 2671.

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We notice with sadness the passing of Edward Michael Ring (or Eddie, as he was affectionately known by many), a true gentleman and stalwart of Murwillumbah and the shire. The 88-year-old former accountant bid farewell to his beloved Tweed at Murwillumbah Hospital last Tuesday, October 7. Eddie was a beacon of integrity and champion of that very same hospital he drew his last breath at, having been a longtime hospital board member and chairman. Quietly spoken with a warm smile, Eddie inspired respect and admiration from the many people he came across. Bravo, Eddie.

sandcastle sculpture on Kingscliff Beach last Friday. The three were part of a team of around 60 architects employed by the Brisbane office of global architectural firm Hassell which was on a team-building retreat in the Tweed. The team-bonding exercise at the beach entailed the use of only sand, water, a beach bucket and spade to sculpt an ‘invisible city’. The firm, which also involves disciplines such as landscape architecture, urban planning and interior design, has 140 staff in its Brisbane office.

you find a dozen fresh eggs left in your driveway with the attached note: ‘G’day. Please have eggs laid yesterday. Occasionally we get your avos that fall off the tree in your backyard (the ones over the fence). They are the nicest avos. Ron, Carol and Ki’. And this is from the avo tree owners: ‘Dear Ron, Carol and Ki – we haven’t met yet but thank you for the best eggs in the world… you make our day! Den, Darcy, Jack, Madi and Bella (the dog)’.

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Attention Andre Rieu groupies, regarding last week’s Backburner announcement. Brian Lack is organising a bus and wants to make it clear he is not organising tickets for the concert! If you are attending the concert in Brisbane on Wednesday December 3 and like the idea of sharing the cost of a bus give him a call on 02 6672 2578.

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And for something completely different, the Tweed-Gold Coast ■ ■ ■ ■ Everyone needs good neigh- Curling Club and the Austrianbours. Life’s not so bad when Australian Club is celebrating

the Austrian National Day this Sunday, October 19 at the curling club’s base in Pines Lane, Elanora (Pacific Highway exit 92). Noon start with folk music and dancing and Austrian tucker. All this fun for free (though lunch costs $9). For info or directions call (07) 5590 9076.

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Some Murwillumbah locals reckon it’s only a matter of time before a pedestrian is seriously hurt at the newish (and only) traffic lights on the pedestrian crossing on Wollumbin Street.

Backburner sources say they have seen quite a few vehicles race through the crossing against a red light. We suspect some think it’s a city-slicking decoration for the busy crossing (and not a real traffic intersection with cars left and right) which they can sneak through. Maybe a CCTV camera could help there...

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Here’s a warning to anyone travelling overseas: check your travel insurance. A couple went on holiday to Honolulu this

month and were having such a good time they extended their stay by two days. The wife took ill and was rushed off by ambulance to hospital for tests and a checkup. She was given the all clear and released from hospital within 24 hours. Unbeknown to the couple, their travel agent had forgotten to remind them to extend their travel insurance to cover the two extra days. Last week the bill arrived from the hospital for… wait for it…$12,000! They are still waiting for bills from the ambulance and the doctors!

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Beware, illegal software users, an alert has gone out to some big local businesses that a computer software giant is cracking down on the pirating of its software. Men in black have been reportedly seen peering through windows of businesses around Tweed Heads South in an effort to catch the pirates red-handed.

Penalties for corporate theft are severe, including large fines, and/or jail plus public floggings for general managers.

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