Tweed Echo – Issue 1.21 – 29/01/2009

THE TWEED SHIRE Volume 1 #21 Thursday, January 29, 2009 Advertising and news enquiries: Phone: (02) 6672 2280 Fax: (02) 6672 4933 editor@tweedecho.com.au adcopy@tweedecho.com.au www.tweedecho.com.au

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Oz Day shows a rainbow of diversity

Bypass tunnel rusting away Ken Sapwell

A road tunnel built as part of the $540 million Tugun bypass project is showing alarming signs of acid corrosion just seven months after being opened.

The walls of the 333-metre-long tunnel contain visual evidence of iron staining and leakage which some fear could undermine the tunnel’s longterm integrity and leave NSW taxpayers with a multi-million dollar repair bill.

Tweed’s bypass watchdog and researcher, Lindy Smith, says high levels of sulphuric acid eating into the tunnel’s iron framework is part of a chemical cocktail also posing a major environmental threat to the Cobaki broadwater.

Tweed Australia Day ambassador Donnie Sutherland and 15-year-old Community Service Award winner Caitlin McGibbon-Goode put on their brightest happy faces for The Echo photographer after Caitlin was presented with her community service award by Donnie at Uki Sports Club on Monday. In the background Tweed Australia Day committee chairman Don Beck gets ready to announce the next award.

Thirty-one Tweed residents originating from all corners of the world became some of the country’s newest citizens after a naturalisation ceremony at Uki on Australia Day. The new Australians, young and old, came from the Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States, South Africa, Thailand, New Zealand, the Philippines, Russia, India, Canada and Cyprus.

Tweed mayor Joan van Lieshout, who conducted the citizenship ceremony, wished the newest Australians well after pledging their allegiance to their newly-adopted country and they were all congratulated afterwards by family and friends.

Cr van Lieshout noted the multicultural backgrounds of each, say-

ing Australians ‘respected diversity’ and that the country’s heritage was made richer by people from other countries.

‘We are all migrants,’ she declared.

A crowd of well over 400 people, including local political representatives,

‘Battery acid’

Sutherland, OAM, summed up what he thought it meant to be an Aussie when he kicked off his address by asking the crowd to turn to the person next to them and ‘say g’day’, a gesture which won instant rapport with the crowd.

‘We are all migrants.’ braved the sporadic rain to attend the official Tweed Shire Council Australia Day celebrations at the Uki Sports Club grounds, while hundreds more attended other celebrations in towns and villages throughout the shire on Monday.

Tweed’s Australia Day ambassador, multi-media celebrity Donnie

The former host of the long-running TV music show Sounds said Australia Day ‘celebrates the diversity of our rich country’ and was a time when ‘our national spirit comes to mind’, especially the spirit of volunteerism in all its many forms, from emergency services to Olympic Games. continued on page 2

Ms Smith says the results of test monitoring she obtained from the NSW government reveal the tunnel is sitting in a bath of acid-contaminated groundwater comparable in strength to battery acid.

[Water with a Ph level of seven is considered neutral. A Ph level of six is 10 times more acidic, a Ph level of five is 100 times more acidic and so on until a Ph level of one is 100,000 times more acidic. Monitoring of bypass runoff shows levels between one and two at some points.]

The high sulphuric acid levels arising from disturbance of acid-sulphate soils during construction have also unleashed huge loads of iron precipitate containing arsenic and zinc which are released by natural processes when flushed into estuaries.

She says tests show levels of these elements along the shores of the

broadwater already exceed those at two other acid-sulphate hot-spots in Australia now subject to highly expensive remediation programs.

They are at East Trinity in Cairns and Sterling in Western Australia where the scale of the environmental hazard was considered big enough to pose a public health risk and require ongoing management.

Longterm investigation Her findings have prompted Tweed Shire Council to support an independent investigation into the longterm risks created by bypass runoff to the local marine and estuarine environment.

The council this week authorised its river committee head, Tom Alletson, and acid-sulphate soil experts Robert Quirk and Southern Cross University’s Professor Leigh Sullivan to design a process to monitor water discharges into the broadwater and its longterm ecological impacts.

Ms Smith, who’s been studying the results of tests provided by the Queensland Department of Main Roads to the NSW government since work began three years ago, has applauded council’s decision.

‘The tests confirm that the NSW government’s initial opposition to the project was not misplaced,’ said Ms Smith. (See story page 2.)

‘There are huge discrepancies between the figures in Queensland Main Roads’ final construction compliance report (CCR) and those provided from various monitoring points,’ she says.

‘In most cases the CCR’s figures underplay the levels of acid sulphates and iron precipitates and I see this as an effort by Queensland Main Roads continued on page 2

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Adrian is a well known regular at the Uki Aussie Day event and prides himself in making the tastiest brew, flavoured by the wood-fired smoke.

Adrian stood before a sign proclaiming his mantra for the day: I’ve done my share of this world’s work I’ve done my share of toiling I hope you boys that follow on Will keep the billy boiling.

Tradition was the order of the day at the celebrations with musical entertainment by young pianist Ayesha Gough and singer Ian Holston, who mixed old tunes and Aussie crowd favourites such as ‘I Like Aeroplane Jelly’ and ‘I Like to Have a Beer with Duncan’ with traditionals like ‘Waltzing Matilda’ and ‘On the Road to The Echo can testify to the quality of Adrian Bryant’s traditionGundagai’. ally brewed tea, which was absolutely refreshing.

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a route through NSW on the basis of a strict monitoring The NSW government for years program. opposed the construction of Ms Smith says the results of the Tugun bypass because the monitoring indicate that of the environmental damthe NSW government’s worst age likely to be unleashed by fears have been realised. disturbing millions of tonnes of The project has often tested acid sulphate soils on the site. the relationship between NSW In March 2004 the NSW and Queensland, with NSW Roads Minister informed once demanding that Queenshis federal counterpart that land pay a $235,000 land tax the potential environmental bill for homes it bought in NSW impacts of the bypass on the to make way for the bypass.

NSW side of the border were NSW reversed its decision ‘insurmountable’, sparking a after Queensland attacked it cross-border war of words. as outrageous and refused to The project suffered a further pay, claiming that NSW had not setback later the same year paid a cent towards construcwhen an environmental impact tion costs of a road which also study concluded that the benefited motorists from their longer term impacts included state. acidification of waterways beThe NSW government has cause of acid soil disturbances. also been accused of pocketing But according to Lindy a payment of around $400,000 Smith, NSW finally capitulated from the Queensland governin the face of a campaign by ment intended to buy a nature big business and other vested zone to compensate for the interests to allow Queensland environmental impacts of the Main Roads to proceed with bypass.

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to protect their own backsides.

‘Nevertheless, the CCR’s show that the levels grossly exceed all pre-construction estimates in the tunnel area.

‘Only an independent monitoring program will reveal the full extent of the environmental damage likely to be visited upon the lower Tweed estuary.

‘It will also give experts an insight into the extent of the damage to the tunnel through acid corrosion before the NSW government is obliged to take over control and ongoing maintenance by 2018.’

Tweed Nationals MP Geoff Provest says the Tweed was supposed to get a new habitat area, involving a 19-hectare tract near Cabarita, to make up for the land clearing required for the bypass’ construction.

‘The agreement to buy this compensatory habitat was set out in a September 2005 document, Tugun Bypass Compensatory Habitat, endorsed by both State governments,’ he told the NSW Parliament.

‘Contracts were exchanged in early 2006 for settlement in early 2007 but the NSW government has now reneged on the deal and the money intended for our local environment has ended up in their coffers in Sydney.

‘The irony is that Labor was dragged kicking and screaming into allowing the construction of the bypass. It made much of the environmental impact of the new road, but has now turned out itself to be the environmental villain.’

Oz Day celebrations from page 1 He said multiculturalism in Australia was such a successful bond for its citizens ‘which you wouldn’t find anywhere in the world’.

Mr Sutherland then presented the official Tweed Australia Day awards announced

by Tweed Australia Day committee chairman Don Beck to: Noela Gresham (Citizen of the Year), Caitlin McGibbon-Goode (Young Achiever in Community Service), Ryan Walker (Academic Achievement Year 12), Kingscliff High School Art Department (Arts and Cultural Achievement

for Group), Jessica Henshaw (Sporting Achievement Award for Junior), Daniel Bulmer (Sporting Achievement Award for Adult), Lindisfarne Anglican Grammar School Under 12 Rugby League Squad (Sporting Achievement Award for Team), 100th Anniversary Tyalgum Diggers Sports and Rodeo (Community Event of the Year) and Bill Brodie (Volunteer of the Year).

Cricket matches, barbecue breakfasts, billy tea and damper, novelty events and traditional Aussie music marked many of the celebrations. www.tweedecho.com.au

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Art influenced by spiritual beliefs Eve Jeffery

The Tweed River Art Gallery has a lot of air up there. Opening today (Thursday), Zom Osborne’s exhibition ‘In-Between’ explores humanity in physical, psychological and spiritual transition. Zom’s subjects are all falling through air from one state to another In-Between moments of stability.

‘We are creatures of the earth, but in these works we see human figures moving through the element of air,’ says Zom who is showing 15 pieces.

‘While necessary for life, air is not a resting place. These figures are ungrounded and in a state of flux.’

Zom, who has Native American ancestors, comes from a heritage of deep spiritual beliefs but the nature of her childhood meant that she was raised outside that heritage, which caused a conflict of experience. Zom says she had an innate feeling of be-

More than 2,400 public submissions received in response to the discussion paper on the future of the ABC and SBS are now available online.

Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, said the ‘great wealth of commentary made to this public consultation is a testament to the passion Australians have for the ABC and SBS. ‘These submissions will help shape our national broadcast-

Artist Zom Osborne looking back and forward, checks out the air In-Between both places at her exhibition at the Tweed River Art Gallery.

ing surrounded by Spirit and the negation of that feeling by her culture moved her as an adult to explore the realms disowned by the western culture of her upbringing.

‘When we come to a point in our life where we are facing something truly new, it is necessarily unknown. It is a time when we cannot look into our past for answers. This could be

Effluent discharge fears raised Ken Sapwell

Tweed Shire Council has balked at giving a green light to a $30 million overhaul of its ageing sewerage treatment plants at Banora Point and Tweed Heads West following concerns about the impacts of ongoing discharges into the Terranora Inlet.

It has deferred a final decision until its next meeting on February 17 to allow councillors time to absorb a wealth of background documentation and to attend a workshop to explore other possible options.

Greens councillor Katie Milne urged a cautious approach, saying the two projects would have significant impacts on the river system and its ecology but councillors had been given just five days to study extensive reports.

A report to the meeting said the 1970s-built Tweed Heads West plant was failing to meet effluent quality guidelines, while the Banora Point plant, built 30 years ago, was operating at top capacity but

meeting guidelines apart from the phosphorous levels being discharged.

The council’s chief planner, Vince Connell, said the upgrades were in line with a preferred option identified during an extensive environmental impact statement and would enable the plants to treat effluent to a quality suitable for domestic non-potable re-use.

The council would continue to investigate options for effluent re-use and implement any identified as viable.

As part of the upgrade work the council will provide funding to undertake a rehabilitation program for the Terranora and Cobaki catchments, including riparian buffer and stormwater works, to limit stormwater runoff.

‘In brief, effluent quality will be improved while quantity will increase,’ Mr Connell told the council.

‘It is considered that the impacts can be managed so that they are within acceptable limits.’

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Group supports the upgrade of the two plants but is strongly opposed to disposing of more treated effluent into local waterways.

Secretary Richard Murray says until sewage can be suitably treated for dry land reuse, his group believed that effluent should be discharged via an ocean discharge pipe attached to the Tweed River sand bypass platform despite the higher costs.

He says a key part of the proposed upgrade is council claims that effluent will be treated to a much higher standard.

‘While flow will increase by 52 per cent, the council claims total nutrient load will decrease, with total nitrogen reducing by 30 per cent and phosphorous by 60 per cent,’ Mr Murray claims.

‘But the nutrient data presented in the workshop Comparisons Schedule at the Community Reference Group meeting of July 2003 shows that the discharge of sewage effluent nitrogen will almost double.’

Parents urged to keep schooling receipts Parents of Tweed school children are being urged to keep their receipts for education expenses as they prepare for the new school year this week.

Richmond MP Justine Elliot said the back-to-school period was often a really expensive one coming off the back of Christmas and the holidays, and that parents should make the most of the benefits available under the Rudd Government’s $4.4 billion Education Tax Refund (ETR).

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of all those expenses associated with getting the kids ready to go for the new school year,’ Ms Elliot said.

She said the refund would provide parents with muchneeded help for education expenses, with refunds of up to $375 per primary school student and $750 per secondary school student.

Eligible expenses for the refund include: laptops, home computers and associated costs, home internet connections, printers, education software, trade tools for use at

school, school text books and stationery.

Parents entitled to Family Tax Benefit (FTB) Part A for children in primary or secondary school for the relevant financial year are eligible for the refund.

Parents will then be able to claim 50 per cent of these expenses through their tax return at the end of the financial year. For those who are not required to complete an income tax return, a separate form will be available from the Australian Taxation Office.

a transition from childhood to adolescence, maidenhood to motherhood or the major shift to menopause. These are shifts on a physical level, but physical changes can also be symbolic of transitions of the psyche and the soul and these leaps are needed for healing and change.’

‘In-Between’ starts today and will continue until March 22. For more information about gallery times and exhibitions visit: www.tweed.nsw. gov.au/artgallery or phone 02 6670 2790.

ers over the next decade and ensure their future strength and independence as they continue to play a central role in Australia’s emerging digital landscape,’ Senator Conroy said.

The Rudd Government announced the public consultation with the release of a discussion paper, ‘ABC and SBS: Towards a Digital Future’, in October 2008.

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Osprey mystery takes flight Eve Jeffery

The Tweed Osprey Group suffer from empty nest syndrome every year and they quite like it.

Since 1994 when the group began, they have watched avidly from May to November during the osprey breeding season awaiting the time when the offspring from up to 25 nest sites take the first fledgling flaps into the wind.

What is a concern for the group and other raptor conservationists is the decline in the number of fledged chicks, this year reaching the lowest

point since counting started 14 years ago.

Of the 25 locations between Tweed Heads and Brunswick Heads, there were 18 recorded active sites in the 2008 breeding season and of those there were only six fledglings – a seventh died in the nest, probably due to stress from encroaching development.

Faye Hill from Stokers Siding is the coordinator for the group and feels that we all need to keep a watchful eye while at the same time keeping away.

‘We need to keep a good distance from the nests,’ she said.

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been in busy areas for a long time do seem more tolerant of disruption, but you can’t always count on that. It’s difficult to know what is going on in an osprey nest, so keeping watch from afar is the best way to find out what is happening inside.’

Faye also wants people to be aware of the danger to this fish eater of stray fishing lines which get caught around their feet and taken back to the nest.

‘A few years ago we had a pair that bred two chicks and

one day we found one of the babies dangling over the side.’

Faye is ever hopeful about the future of the local osprey and is sure there must be further sites that have not been found. ‘I am going to organise getting a canoe to travel the waterways and check for nest sites,’ she said.

If you have sighted a nest, especially if it has chicks, the group would love to hear from you to add the sites to their records. For more information contact Faye on 02 6677 9095. Faye Hill scours the sky for osprey activity. Photo Tree Faerie

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Growth stall feared if developer levies cut Tweed Shire Council’s chief planner Vince Connell has warned that Tweed development could stall if the NSW government persists with plans to slash developer contributions.

Mr Connell says if developers don’t pay their fair share of infrastructure costs the shortfall can only be met by an increase in rates.

‘This is widely seen to be inequitable and impractical, particularly for councils with rapid and substantial growth,’ he says in a report to this week’s council meeting.

‘It is unlikely there would be the political will to substantially raise rates in advance to enable development of greenfield release areas to proceed. Consequently the development of these areas would be stalled.

‘Brownfield development could continue, but in the absence of section 94 contributions existing amenities would rapidly become over-used with a corresponding loss of service and amenity to existing and new residents.’

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Greens councillor Katie Milne has come under fire for suggesting general manager Mike Rayner had a conflict of interest in canvassing the possibility of a public holiday during the upcoming Repco car rally.

Cr Milne told this week’s meeting she was concerned Mr Rayner had put forward a request from organisers for a holiday on September 4 to coincide with the event and a resurrected Speed on Tweed when he was a member of the rally board.

‘It’s an extraordinary motion and only proposes an option for a public holiday for one event and I think it’s showing favouritism,’ she said, adding that other events such as Environment Day and Harmony Day should have also been considered for a guernsey. www.tweedecho.com.au

Mr Rayner, in a rare reprimand of a councillor, told Cr Milne her comments were inappropriate considering it was the council who decided he should take a seat on the board to maximise the rally’s benefits.

He said the report in the business paper only recommended that the council seek community feedback before deciding whether to declare a holiday and whether it should be shirewide or confined to either south of Barneys Point Bridge or Murwillumbah.

Cr Dot Holdom also weighed in, describing Cr Milne’s suggestions as abhorrent and a slight against the general manager.

Cr Milne sparked applause from the public gallery when she said she had a right to express her views without coming under verbal attack.

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Choir leader Parissa Bouas (above) wants singers to join the Murwillumbah Community Choir which meets every Wednesday at 7pm at the Autumn Club near Murwillumbah Library in Tumbulgum Road.

Parissa reckons singing in a choir is definitely good for your health as well as being fun and inexpensive.

The singer with wellknown Northern Rivers band The Hottentots says itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that time of the year again when many

local choirs start up and sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s calling on Murwillumbah or Tweed Valley residents who enjoy singing to come along and have some fun on Wednesday evenings.

Parissa travels across the country singing at festivals, teaching at music camps and leading choirs. She conducted the Woodford Festival Millennium Fire Event Choir of 700 voices and this year she will lead the National Folk Festival Choir in Canberra. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;What I love about choirs, is that they are a social outlet for the voice. You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to be an individually great singer or have a beautiful voice to be in my choir, but you can enjoy the amazing vibe that singing with other people brings,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; she said.

For more info on the choir call Parissa on 0421 330 766.

Rally against Bay Street sale plan A rally to protest against plans to sell part of Bay Street to a development consortium will be held in Chris Cunningham Park this Saturday ahead of the February 13 deadline for public submissions.

Organiser Stephanie Deane says the rally will probably be the last opportunity for residents to understand the impacts of the proposed closure of two of the four lanes of Bay Streetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eastern end to allow

Centro to extend its shopping centre.

She says she is hoping that the councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chief engineer, Patrick Knight, will attend to answer questions about the proposed sale and development.

She says residents feel that they have no option but to reject the proposed sell-off because no one has satisfactorily explained why Centro needs such a large area of public land for their proposed high rise.

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;It has also never been explained why, if Centro is the only tenderer, plans are being kept secret,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; she said. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Without being able to view plans or artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; impressions, how do residents know that Centro will create a stepped down al fresco area that is sympathetic and complements its surrounds, and not just another badly designed high-rise?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; The rally will start in the Bay Street car park at 10.30am.

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Climbing mountains is Valerie’s peak passion er’s head off. Sometimes just after a single fall of rocks, there are enough rocks lying around to construct a stone chalet.

‘You have to cross the corridor as fast as possible. It only takes a few minutes, but they are very anxious minutes indeed. My guide told me after we had crossed the corridor that he alone had seen six people killed on that part of the climb. I am sure that most guides have seen deaths there.’

Valerie said that on that first climb, she was afraid on only one occasion. ‘That was when I had to leap across a deep crevasse, after crossing a thin and

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Valerie Skinner has been fascinated by mountains most of her adult life, ever since she skied the slopes of the Australian alps in her early 20s.

But it was only when she moved to France in 1989 when diplomat husband John retired that Valerie took a keener interest in mountain climbing, hiking long distances at high altitudes. The couple made their home both in France and Kingscliff where they spend several months of the year.

The view from the balcony of their chalet in the French Alps looks directly across to the perenially snow-capped Massif du Mont Blanc so it wasn’t long before Valerie was dreaming of climbing its summit.

Following the philosophy of her late father, she didn’t start off with lower or less difficult summits but instead attacked the highest summit in the region, climbing Mont Blanc (4,810 metres) for the first time in 1993, aged 55.

It wasn’t long either before Valerie was climbing up some of the world’s tallest mountains, a feat in itself for a woman then in her 50s – and over the next 15 years she managed to reach the summit of several famous mountaineering peaks including The Matterhorn (4,478m) and The Eiger (3,970m) in the Swiss Alps.

She also came very close to reaching the summit of peaks feared by mountain climbers the world over, including Aconcagua (6,960m) in Argentina (highest peak in South America), Mount Cook (3,754m) in New Zealand and Mera Peak (6,476m) in Nepal – but had to turn back when extreme weather conditions or illness made the climbs too perilous.

The excitement and adventure of her 29 major mountain climbs in those 15 years is detailed in her book published last year called Mountains My Passion. The last climb detailed was in July last year, at the age of 70 when she climbed to the

Valerie Skinner on the last steep ridge before reaching the summit of The Eiger in the Swiss Alps last year. The photo was taken by her French guide Alexandre Périnet.

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Valerie told The Echo how it all started.

‘It wasn’t until 1989, during our last posting in Algiers, that we began to visit the Alps

newly acquired techniques added a new dimension to my growing passion.’

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Show us the plans Few people would disagree that the facade of Tweed Centroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shopping centre facing Bay Street and the park opposite is one of Tweed Headsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; biggest eyesores.

With its loading docks, bunker-like car parks and boxy architecture, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no wonder locals have dubbed it the Berlin Wall. Most would like to see the wall torn down and replaced by a welldesigned development, possibly incorporating a shaded al fresco area which blends and harmonises with harbour parkland across the road.

But none of the extensive documentation released by Tweed Shire Council explains why two lanes of a four-lane road need to be sold to Centro and its joint venture partner, Walker Corp, to facilitate the so-called â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;commercial activationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; of Bay Street.

Residents who believe the deal will involve the loss of existing parkland also say there is nothing to indicate that the joint venture partners will create anything that matches the widely held vision for the site.

So far the partners, either through hopeless PR or contempt, have refused to take the public into their confidence. They have said nothing publicly to indicate they have any plans for the site except a high-rise development which may be no more aesthetically pleasing than the graffiti-daubed wall which now exists.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been no vision statement, no detailed plans publicly released â&#x20AC;&#x201C; not even an artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impression. Instead residents have been asked to make a submission based on unscaled drawings which donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t show any linkages to the park. The schematic drawings are devoid of any design features and could just as easily be depicting a cardboard box as a building. Crucially, the partners have not explained why they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t contain the redevelopment within their property and why they need to acquire councilowned land for the project.

Commercial-in-confidence provisions surrounding the proposed deal also prevent residents from knowing how much ratepayers would benefit from the proposed deal, or why tenders for the sale are not being called.

With so many important questions remaining unanswered, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no wonder residents are treating the whole deal with suspicion and their submissions are overwhelmingly opposed to it.

If Centro is serious about wanting to reverse the flood of negative sentiment, it needs to be far more transparent and produce plans for the site and provide some guarantees that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not simply planning to on-sell to the highest bidder. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Ken Sapwell, Council Reporter

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alcolm Turnbullâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grand plan for cutting carbon emissions made pretty good headlines at the weekend; the papers saw it as a political gamble, but they appeared to take it seriously.

They should not have: the giveaway line may have been left to the end, but it was plain enough: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Those Australians who are quite convinced that by 2020 the global warming thesis will have been disproved will nonetheless be pleased to live in a country with a healthier, more sustainable, more productive, greener landscape.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; In other words, the policy is not actually about climate change at all. It is about appealing to as many people as possible, irrespective of credibility. It is about a miracle solution which will involve no pain to anyone but will please everyone. It is, in short, yet another political fix of the kind John Howard tried so unsuccessfully for so long.

But Howard at least never really pretended to be a true believer. Turnbull does, but adds somewhat nervously that this is not the point: itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about risk management, not belief.

And that is indeed the nub of his strategy. The only problem is that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about managing the political risk, not the risk of climate change.

The Turnbull plan has three, or possibly five, components; reports of his speech to the Young Liberals do not make it entirely clear. However he does have a target: he reckons his painless formula will cut carbon emissions by 150 million tonnes a year by 2020, a figure which he says compares favourably with Laborâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s target of a 15 percent cut and indeed

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it does â&#x20AC;&#x201C; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s close to a staggering 27 percent. But the leap of faith required to see it coming from Turnbullâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vague and uncosted suggestions is even more staggering.

Turnbull wants to build a couple of new coal-fired power stations, but with total carbon capture. How and when this is to be achieved is not clear. He wants to invest heavily in alternative energy: geo-

it would undergo a process called pyrolysis â&#x20AC;&#x201C; superheating without the presence of oxygen. This would separate the carbon from the rest of the waste. In theory the rest of the waste could still be used as a clean fuel, albeit a highly inefficient one, and we would be left with a big pile of charcoal.

Now charcoal is useful stuff.

It can be made into artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Not one of Turnbullâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ideas contains any real carrot or stick aimed at reducing the overall use of carbon fuelsâ&#x20AC;Ś

by Mungo MacCallum thermal, solar and tidal. Well good, but this is hardly new, as is his proposal to plant lots more trees.

And he wants to make buildings more energy efficient.

Again good, and it should be done with new buildings, as the Rudd government has already proposed. It can also be done by retrofitting existing homes, but with the big commercial buildings â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the real energy guzzlers â&#x20AC;&#x201C; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot more difficult. Indeed the only real solution is simply to turn off their power. Given what goes on in many of them this might not be a bad idea but it is hardly likely to be what Turnbull has in mind.

But Turnbullâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s central idea is almost as radical: a huge change to farming practices.

At present, he says, too much farm waste is allowed to lie and rot, releasing harmful emissions. He wants it gathered up and taken to huge yet-to-be-built plants where

materials or anti-diarrhoea tablets, or of course it can be ground up with sulphur and saltpetre to make gunpowder.

But mostly (and even in gunpowder) it is just burned. Instead, Turnbull says, it should be returned to the soil, to grow new crops and restart the whole cycle. In that case, you might ask, why take it out in the first place? Many farmers already plough the waste matter back into the ground as green manure. It makes a far more complete fertiliser than charcoal, which would still have to be supplemented with synthetics.

And this is without taking into account the enormous cost and effort required for the Turnbull revolution, not to mention the difficulty of convincing traditional farmers to take part in it. And note that not one of Turnbullâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ideas contains any real carrot or stick aimed at reducing the overall use of carbon fu-

els, which must surely be the point of the exercise.

This is why Kevin Ruddâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s government, following the advice of the experts and the example of other countries which are serious about climate change, sees an Emissions Trading Scheme as the only comprehensive solution: by making carbon emissions more expensive, it encourages the search for alternatives.

Thus if Turnbullâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ideas indeed prove under examination to be worthwhile, they would be taken up; they would become economic imperatives.

You might have believed that this market-based approach would appeal to Turnbull, leader of the party of free enterprise. But in fact he dismisses the very idea of an ETS as â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ineffectual, bureaucratic and sterileâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. And he still wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say whether he will support the government scheme in parliament when the bills are presented later this year. The whole thing looks very like a stunt, a caper to persuade gullible greenies that deep down, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on their side while equally gullible sceptics can be reassured that deep down, he thinks itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all bullshit; an archetypal example of Malcolm in the middle reaching out to embrace all extremes.

But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worked: it has certainly taken the attention away from Ruddâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worthy but boring schemes to save jobs in the construction industry and move the unavoidable unemployed into paid retraining.

Rudd may be concentrating on the bread, but Turnbull is providing the circuses. And on the Australia Day long weekend, isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t that what we want?

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More wash from jet boats I would like to disperse the myths that are being written to various papers in regards to the Jet Boat tours of Tweed River.

The proposed scenic cruise Pena Jet Boat Rides Pty Ltd has applied for is only for slow sight-seeing tours on the Tweed River. At no stage has there been any mention of thrill rides in the Tweed River as per the articles being reported. This would be ridiculous.

The boat was built as a universal vessel, not just for the rides into the ocean but for boating everywhere.

The motors used in the boat are not V8 fuel guzzlers. They are the most fuel-efficient diesel motors on the market and are very quiet compared to other boats. The boat does not have propellers. It is run by water propulsion; that is why it is called a jet boat.

The proposed scenic tours on the Tweed River are not to be done seven mornings a week, they were proposed for

two to four days a week in the late morning to take customers to the town of Tumbulgum for a look around and then lunch at the hotel.

If these people took the time to call us and ask questions they would find out the truth.

I believe the broader public is a lot smarter than these associations think they are and can work out what is lies and truth.

tions from Burleigh Heads to Kingscliff, Lennox Head and Sydney’s Manly Beach, there may be widespread support for this term as each of these communities was invaded by hooligans masquerading as nationalists.

These ignorant xenophobes have misrepresented the symbolism of the Australian flag and Australia Day for their own base purposes, shamefully drawing upon the slogan of ‘Aussie Pride’. Council workers on Tuesday morning would no doubt replace that with ‘Aussie Shame’ as they clean up the detritus of the barbarian invasions.

Perhaps what we need is a new flag that recognises and celebrates our diversity and a new date for Australia Day when that flag is launched. We could then produce bumper Steven Hing stickers along these lines: ‘If Hastings Point you don’t love our diversity, then leave!’

rather than merely talk. They give a little of their spare time to the Murwillumbah Scouts.

More youngsters in Murwillumbah would like to join in scouting – the waiting lists prove it. The problem is that there are not enough adults to lead and provide support.

Can you help? Maybe you would like to work with young people direct by becoming an adult leader. Or perhaps you feel that you are more suited to help with administrative work, fund raising or one of other supporting jobs that need doing?

If there is a way you could help the scouts please telephone me on 6679 1006 after 6pm.

Mr Regrettable Mr Polglase says he sees the new councillors lacking in a lot of local government knowledge and feels the latest decision on height limits at Hastings Point as regrettable.

It’s regrettable that Mr Polglase’s knowledge has taught him not to consider DAs on legal merit.

It’s regrettable that Mr Polglase ignores Council’s Code of Conduct, experts and Council planners.

It’s regrettable that it has taken 12 years for law to be applied in Hastings Point.

It’s regrettable that Mr Polglase and his pro-development colleagues have contributed to this delay.

It’s regrettable that Mr Polglase’s wish to see people prosper is just for the few at the expense of the many.

It’s regrettable that developers have acquired a false sense of security to risk building while in Court.

It’s regrettable that Mr Polglase tries to save them when they lose under the charade that they were acting in Good Faith.

It’s regrettable that Mr Polglase can vote when he refuses briefing from community and council staff.

It’s regrettable that Mr Polglase will not curb development as reported he would.

It’s regrettable that the ageold saying ‘leopards never change their spots’ is so true.

For the special places of the Tweed, Mr Polglase, you’re just more of the old and regrettable.

Thank God for Joan, Barry, Katie and Dot!

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Refuge for scoundrels Australian of the Year Professor Mick Dodson has called for a national conversation on the date and significance of Australia Day – suggesting that some Indigenous people prefer the term Invasion Day for January 26.

Following the events of last Monday at coastal loca-

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Scouting call There are some people who are always willing to say that young people are not what they were and that things are going to the dogs.

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based on the results of a survey of what residents and visitors want for the Tweed.

I was pleased to read that the FIA have started carbon offset research. Now I would like to know whereabouts in the third world these projects are actually being implemented. Third world countries have a reputation for corrupt bureaucrats – perhaps they would like ‘fast buck’ tourism there?

Judith McAndrew

Chillingham

We do not need reminding that the rules are not adequately enforced. Why should we assume that Hel-a-Va ride will abide by them?

On January 22, a man sustained horrific injuries when run over by a speedboat whilst swimming in Tallebudgera Creek.

Accidents do happen, despite regulation. Why should swimmers, kayakers and other ‘tortoises’ have a Hel-a-va time fearing what could happen to them? When reading your quote ‘the Tweed is a big place that we can share with everybody’ I imagined that you were sharing free ‘ferry’ rides.

In fact, the only sharing with be of the noise and other miscellaneous pollutants. Unlike most of the people sharing the river, Hel-a-Va is running for profit. The survey made it very clear, and TSC know, that the community and visitors do not want ‘fast buck’ tourism.

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I also noticed that all vehicles parked next to vans/tents were registered in Queensland – that perfect place. So, unable to find enough area I was forced to transfer the festivities to a backyard in Pottsville.

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Tweed Shire Counci l appears a threatened takeover of its to have fended off water assets valued at $1 billion.

An independent inquiry into supplies and regional water sewerag ed that the Tweed e service has recomm endremains as a entity. stand-alone Its findings have been hailed eral manager, Mike Rayner, by council’s genas the Tweed – but not everyon ‘good news’ for 2). e agrees (see page ‘It means that the council manage, own will continue and sewerage services operate our water supply to and ,’ said Mr Rayner.

The inquiry, initiated by then Water and now Premier Ministe tions to improv , Nathan Rees, examined r ope the organisational local water utilities structure of ages during drough to overcome supply shortIt found that ts. the Tweed – along with seven other council just s in the state main as stand-a – should relone The remainder utilities. would form neighbouring alliances with councils or operate umbrella of newly established waterunder the Valerie Skinner tions. , a Kingscliff corpora- Swiss retiree who started Alps last year.

Mr Rayner, in mounta The 70-year-old is pictured climbin in climbing late in life, ing the report’s a memo to councillors follow- summit. She was accomp inches her way anied by her g up via the release this month, Wall of Death up the spectac 37-year-old French Mitteleg the possible because so warned ular but treache consequences guide Alexand gi Ridge, the easterly and rous Eiger if the governm of mountaineering dramas many mountaineers have failed to adopt re Périnet, who second most died attemp the inquiry’s stand-a featured in a ent next week’s dangerous route in the took this picture. ting gripping ABC mendation followin Echo we profi lone recomto the The north face TV documentary it. The tragic conquest of le Valerie and g the public of The Eiger the process. her exciting consultation is called the exploits as told this week called The Beckoni Eiger via its north face in It the 1930s and says in her new book ng Silence with ‘If options other the current other British climber Mountains My than those recomm pact on the ability drought has had little the report are Joe Simpson.

Passion. imended in of the council ultimate In The submission to its consum to supply and sewerag ly adopted Tweed’s water supply notes water of the ers. e services latest data has that a recent analysis ‘In all, over the gated with the be required within required the last 25 years restricti Richmond Valleycould be aggre- been downgrade its council the potential loss impose yield next to resulting in the ons have litres from 27,000 the council 10 years, and d for a total of asset The council argued ownership,’ he told them. which occurred on one period of four months of per year which will supportto 13,750 mega include the is looking at two options that some 94,000 raising of the occasion from which a against remova populat 2002 until Februar and sewerage ion people. existing struction of a l of water dam and cony 2003,’ the council October services from ‘This revised new dam on sion said. its control in mission to the yield has been ’s submis- interim council-owned a subinquiry, saying adopted on an at Byrrill Creek. land basis ‘Histori and inefficiencies it cally the Tweed Long-serving and lead to higher would create has future followin will be reassessed in the district water former council been very reliable near g the water costs. lor Max Boyd and the council supply management strategy completion of a demand said the report’s findings placed to handle were a is well forward plannin and an assessm the effects of g of the council tribute to the ent of cli- staff climate change.’ mate change,’ it says. . ’s engineering It also notes that additional dam ‘It means that storage will the council remains as master

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Murray Lees signs away his freedom beside his bride Geraldine O’Flynn (left). Bridesmaid Karen Embrey and celebrant Jim Jenkins look on. Photo Luis Feliu

It was classic Nationals territory at historic Murwillumbah Showground’s Branding Rail last Friday night for the first big social bash of 2009.

The occasion was the marriage of Tweed Nationals chairman Murray Lees to his longtime sweetheart Geraldine O’Flynn.

The local business chamber vice president tied the prover-

bial knot with the love of his life, who is a researcher at Southern Cross University, Tweed Campus, before a hearty crowd of family and friends from far and wide.

Nats Grafton MP Steve Cansdell acted as MC, funny man and – if needed – bouncer, for those savvy with his pugilist past (and the man pulled no punches with his gags either).

Tweed mayor Joan van Lieshout (a local Liberal Party light) reportedly enjoyed the Aussie flavour, with loads of fresh local prawns, lamb chops and of course, cold beer.

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Mark Byrne

There is an increasing realisation among the scientific and policy communities that the climate change conference in Copenhagen this December may be the last chance to avoid a global climate catastrophe.

There is no evidence so far that we’re likely to get an outcome from that meeting that will reduce emissions quickly enough to avoid dangerous impacts.

But would that be entirely a bad thing?

The best possible outcome from Copenhagen is an agreement to limit global emissions to 450 parts per million (the current level is 385). This target implies odds of around 50:50 of avoiding serious species loss, human displacement, increased disease and death, loss of fresh water and agricultural production, and so on.

However, numerous scientists are coming to the view that even 450 ppm is much too high, and that we may have already passed the point – 350 ppm, according to NASA’s James Hansen – at which the world’s climate can be successfully stabilised.

If they are right, then no matter what happens in Copenhagen, our kids will inherit a world that is much wilder, poorer and more dangerous than the one we have had the luxury of inhabiting, and trashing, over the past half century or so.

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no danger. Over the billions of years of its evolution, our current indiscretions represent but a momentary skip in its neareternal heartbeat. Civilisations may rise and fall and species emerge and die out, but nature rules.

That’s one way of looking at it. Some of an apocalyptic mindset relish the prospect of a climate catastrophe, reasoning that the earth will finally be purged of the wicked, wicked ways of the human tribes, and believing that it will usher in a new dawn of purity and hope.

Whatever one thinks of human civilisations, we have no moral right to take millions of other species along with us if and when we bite the dust.

We have a responsibility to every other species, from the humblest amoeba to the Blue Whale, as well as to future generations of humans, to try to leave the earth as livable as when we entered it.

We each have our own responses to crises, whether real or imaginary – denial, insurance, risky behaviour, shopping till we drop. Personally, the prospect of a climatic tipping point triggering a collapse of the global ecosystem makes me much more conscious of seeing the precious beauty in every day, every moment, every encounter.

No longer will we be able to take so much of the world around us for granted. That calm sunset, that dewy flower, that sweet corn: savour them now, because tomorrow…

The Japanese have a term

for this outlook on life: wabi sabi. Wabi refers to rustic simplicity and imperfection, sabi to the fleeting nature of life. An appreciation of wabi sabi can lead to a melancholic outlook on life – more accepting than depressed, but far from the heroic boosterism and manic consumerism so prevalent today.

When I lived in Japan in the 1980s, the evening news would report excitedly on the northern march of the first flowering during spring of the sakura or cherry blossom. The trees only flower for a couple of weeks, and some aficionados would travel the length of the archipelago, from subtropical Kyushu in the south to icy Hokkaido in the north, to savour the event for as long as possible.

For most Japanese, though, the sakura season is the archetypal example of how quickly life and beauty arise and pass away. That’s a good reason to celebrate it, not to work out how to grow varieties that flower for longer in various climates or to make plastic replicas. Recently, like many other plants all over the world, sakura have been flowering earlier in different parts of the country in response to rising temperatures.

I wonder what natural events we will be watching the comings and goings of, a generation from now.

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0414 997 722 or 07 5506 6645 Are you selling? Call Winston and save yourself thousands $$$ David Smerdon has secured one of the greatest results ever by an Australian player in winning the Queenstown Classic in New Zealand on Saturday.

The Queenstown Classic was the strongest and richest tournament ever held in this region, with a $NZ50,000 prize fund, including a record $NZ10,000 first prize, and attracted ten Grandmasters and four Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Grandmasters, although the tournament sponsor and New Zealandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best player Murray Chandler â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the winner of the first Queenstown tournament â&#x20AC;&#x201C; was forced to withdraw before the first round due to ill-health.

In Chandlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s absence the European Grandmaster visitors were expected to dominate in Queenstown but they had no answer to David Smerdon, who was born and bred in Brisbane and now lives in Canberra.

In an impressive performance which has taken him to the brink of the ranking requirement needed to secure the Grandmaster title, Smerdon drew a topsy-turvy

CHESS by Ian Rogers Play at Seagulls Club, Thursdays 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10pm game against the top seed Viktor Mikhalevski and then routed the second, third and fourth seeds in consecutive rounds.

Since taking his job with Treasury at the start of 2008 Smerdon has doubted that he would ever recapture the form which saw him win the 2007 Bangkok Open and perform well in Europe. However, his Queenstown result is a new high and a real challenge to Australian number one Zhao Zong Yuan.

The other Australian star in Queenstown has been ACT junior Andrew Brown.

New heights for David Smerdon Brown, 16, had finished only third in the Australian Junior Johansen and added a series of Championships in Adelaide ear- notable scalps which gave him a lier this month but his perfor- wholly unexpected International mance at the Queenstown Classic Master result. has been sensational.

Three such results plus a strong Outranked by every opponent world ranking are needed to he faced in Queenstown, Brown secure the International Master started the event by defeating title so Brown still has a long way veteran Australian GM Darryl to go. However the talent which

was evident when Brown first competed in the 2001 Australian U/12 Championships as an eightyear-old, and now combined with maturity, hard work and a strong will-to-win, has produced a new star.

Queenstown 2009 White: D Smerdon Black: E Rozentalis Opening: Alekhineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Defence 1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 d6 4.c4 Nb6 5.exd6 cxd6 6.Nc3 g6 7.Bd3!? A system developed and used by Australian GM Darryl Johansen with phenomenal success because typical responses (such as that tried by Rozentalis) leave Black passively placed. 7...Nc6?! 8.d5 Ne5 9.Nge2 Bg7 10.0-0 a5?! Pseudo-active. 10...0-0 11.b3 Bg4 is a better try. 11.Be3 0-0 12.b3 a4 13.Bc2! axb3 14.axb3 Rxa1 15.Qxa1 Ng4 16.Bd4 e5 17.dxe6 Bxd4 18.Nxd4 fxe6 19.h3! Nxf2!? A desperate bid for freedom since 19...Nf6 20.Qa7! leaves Black tied up and his position riddled with weaknesses. 20.Nde2!! d5! The knight cannot be saved in view of 20...Qh4 21.Qe1!. 21.Rxf2 Rxf2 22.Kxf2 d4 23.Ne4! d3 24.Bxd3 Qxd3 25.Qe5! The point behind Smerdonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s play.

Rozentalis has regained his sacrificed piece but Whiteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s queen controls the board. 25...Bd7 25...

Qxb3 26.Qd6! also gives White a decisive attack.

26.Nf4! Qc2+ 27.Kg1 Qxb3 28.Nxe6 Bxe6 29.Qxe6+ Kf8 30.Nd6 Qd1+ 31.Kh2 Qf1 32.Qe8+ Kg7 33.Qe7+ Kg8 34.Qd8+ 1-0

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5)& '".*-: #&)*/% 5)& #64*/&44 The Family Centre has been quietly working with families in the Tweed Shire for 20 years. Over the years the service has continued to expand to provide a broad range of family support and relationship education services.

‘The Family Centre is a place where you can take a bit of

time to reflect on what you and your family do well, and discover some new skills and strategies to create more caring, respectful relationships as parents and partners,’ says Community Programs Manager Colleen Dowd.

For further information contact The Family Centre on 07 5524 8711.

Pilates, Fitball, Yoga & much, much more!

‘Most families face some challenging times – there are a whole range of stresses that families deal with, from feeling isolated, to coping with changes within the family,

Is your new year’s resolution to get fit and healthy?

The People at the Physio Fit Studio in South Kingscliff can help and support you!

Pilates, Fitball and Yoga classes now at the to understanding children’s development and behaviour, as well as personal issues that parents are dealing with that affect the family – and this is when family support and relationship education can be particularly helpful.’

Classes suitable for everyone no matter what your gender, fitness level or age 22 Snapper Ave, South Kingscliff Phone: 02 6674 4142

parenting and relationship courses and workshops. The Family Centre’s trained staff are friendly and bring a wealth of experience to supporting families to make the changes they want in their lives.

More and more families are in a situation where they don’t have extended family networks close to them that can provide much needed practical and emotional support.

Each term the centre puts out a new course program (see advertisement). We offer courses for men, women, children and young people, as well as courses that the whole family can attend.

The Family Centre can meet a range of needs such as family support, the volunteer home visiting service for parents of under 3’s, playgroups,

There are also specific courses that address family violence, child safety and workshops on anger and depression.

You can now do Pilates and a range of other exercise classes, instructed by physiotherapist Frauke Tyack. There is no joining fee, no membership contract and you only pay for the block(s) of classes you want to sign up for. Class sizes are kept small to maximize your personal supervision. Frauke Tyack can ensure you learn the correct exercise techniques right from the start so you exercise safely.

‘Our Pilates classes are suitable for everyone at any level of fitness’. The central aim of Pilates is to strengthen condition the core muscles to improve stability, posture and coordination.

We also offer other exercise classes tailored to specific needs. Classes are designed specificially for pregnant ladies and new mums. The studio also offers a Pilates class for Teenage girls, a Stretch&Relax class and a quite challenging Fitball class.

Because Frauke is a qualified physiotherapist, you can claim the already low cost of your assessment and any of the classes from your private health fund. The Studio truly provides a friendly and inviting

Before you begin your classes, she will check your body’s alignment and stability and get to know your strengths, weaknesses and any restrictions you may have so that she can focus on achieving your goals and strengthen the muscles you really need.

happy children, caring families, strong community

term one 20 09 course program P5 Parenting Education Course

Tuesdays 3 February – 17 March 10.00am - 12.30pm, $35 7-week positive parenting education and information course for parents with a focus on children under 12, topics include: how we parent and why, discipline, effective listening.

123 Magic NEW

Wednesdays 11 March – 25 March 10.00am – 12.00pm, $15 3-week course explores a down-toearth, child-friendly and effective discipline approach that encourages good behaviour for children 2-12 yrs.

Location: Kingscliff Uniting Church Hall.

ParentSpace: Birth to 3 years NEW

Wednesdays 10.00am–11.30am, $5 per forum Parenting information presented & shared in a friendly atmosphere.

Fortnightly discussion topics or parentchild play sessions.

4 February Puzzle Fun - come and play with your 1 - 5 year olds and promote learning skills 18 February Toilet Learning - topic 4 March Language Development - topic - from babe to fluency 18 March Brain Development - topic - huge changes occur 0-3yrs, how can you help?

1 April Story Fun - come share some

story fun with your 2-5 year olds: art, craft & props.

Creating Change NEW

Thursdays 5 February – 12 March 12.30pm – 2.00pm, $30 per family 6-week course to help with the profound impact domestic violence has on women and children including anxiety, depression, self-blame, anger and withdrawal.

Groups for women and children talk through these feelings and beliefs to create change.

Anger & Parenting: being the parent you want to be

Friday 20 March 9.30am - 3.30pm, $15 1-day workshop content includes: identify what anger is and what it does, identify what triggers your anger in your relationships with your children and explore ways to reduce and manage your anger when faced with challenging behaviours.

Self Care for Parents

Thursday 2 April 9.30am - 2.30pm, $15 inc lunch 1-day workshop designed to assist parents to develop positive self-care strategies to enhance their parental experience. A day of fun and healing experiences to celebrate the joys & difficulties of parenting.

Single Parents Workshop NEW Friday 3 April 9.30-2.30pm, $15 inc lunch

1-day workshop for parents who are raising children by themselves without the regular support of a partner or expartner. Explore and share strategies and information.

Living with Teenagers

Wednesdays 18 March – 1 April, 9.30am – 12.30pm, $15 3-week course for parents/carers of 12 - 16 year olds exploring strategies to enhance parenting of teenagers. Run in partnership with Reconnect.

Location: Tweed Coast

Self-Esteem for Women

Family Centre Playgroups

Pathways to Change

All groups 9.30am – 11.30am, no cost Kingscliff: Monday Cabarita: Tuesday Murwillumbah: Wednesday Banora Point: Thursday Supporting families to identify and learn creative ways of playing with their children. School term only.

Beyond Loss and Grief for Adults Mondays 2 & 23 February 9.00 am - 2.30pm, $30 inc lunch This 2-day workshop will assist you to review the range of change and loss events in life. Explore the many different responses to loss and grief; map out your own story of change; realise inner resources and create new ways of letting go and moving forward.

Loss and Grief for Children and Young People Wednesdays 11 March - 1 April

BOOKINGS ARE ESSENTIAL For further information on any of our courses or workshops please contact :

The Family Centre (07) 5524 8711 www.thefamilycentre.org.au

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1.30pm – 4.00pm, $20 A 4 week creative course for 10-15 year olds using art, music and storytelling to explore change and loss, realise inner resources and create new ways of letting go and moving forward.

Wednesdays 11 February – 1 April 12.30-2.30pm, $40 8-week course covering personal development, self awareness, relationships and power, setting and maintaining boundaries, communication and conflict.

Tuesdays 17 February – 7 April 5.00pm - 7.30pm, $40 8-week self awareness & self development group for men. Designed to assist men with parenting, maintaining healthy relationships & making positive life choices.

Anger: Making it work for you

Friday 20 February 9.30am - 3.30pm, $15 inc lunch 1-day workshop content includes: identify what anger is and what it does, identify what triggers your anger and ways to make it work for you and your relationships.

Healthier Relationships: Communication

Saturday 28 February 9.30am - 3.30pm, $15 inc lunch One of the Healthier Relationships workshops for men and women - attend both workshops or just one.

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Stresses on healthy relating, roadblocks to communication, listening, assertiveness, managing emotions.

Healthier Relationships: Managing Conflict

Saturday 14 March 9.30am - 3.30pm, $15 inc lunch One of the Healthier Relationships workshops for men and women – attend both workshops or just one. How we handle conflict, strategies for communication in conflict situations, exploring helpful and unhelpful thinking when in conflict.

Walking the Blues Away

Friday 27 March 9.00am - 4.00pm, $15 Walking the Blues Away is for women, men, young people and support workers. Walking has a positive effect on how we think and feel. 2 hrs of leisurely beach walking, a shared lunch and conversations. Meet other people and learn self awareness skills and techniques that can help make life worth living.

Parents & Prams Walking Group NEW

Tuesdays 9.45am-11.15am, no cost Get fit, discover your area by foot and meet new friends while walking. For parents with bubs - all fitness levels, abilities, and ages. Kingscliff and Rainbow Bay locations. Attend weekly or fortnightly.

Ability to pay course fees will not restrict your access to the courses we offer. If you are unable to pay course fees please talk with our intake worker or the course facilitators. The Family Centre is committed to providing equal access to all the courses we offer. Course fees cover part of the cost of refreshments & resources provided for course participants. All courses are run at our South Tweed training rooms unless noted otherwise. Child minding is available at South Tweed.

www.tweedecho.com.au

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We sell and specialise in hot water services, Solar, heat pump, gas and electric.

Getting the right style of hot water service can save you a lot of money. It is very likely your old electric hot water may make you a candidate for big rebates that will pay for you to update to a new solar hot water service. (This includes rental properties). place for people to come and enjoy exercising with others who have similar goals.

For further information, or to book in for an assessment, please call Frauke Tyack on 04 00 023 412.

The Studio is located at 22 Snapper Ave, South Kingscliff.

Loades Hi, we are the Smiths and we are the owners of ‘Loades Murwillumbah Butchery’, located at 132 Main St, Murwillumbah. I should really say we are the new owners as we have just taken over from the lovely Mick & Mary Loades and their two sons, Kevin and Joseph. We are very fortunate that this talented group of butchers is staying on our staff and teaching us the trade. Mick is the sonin-law of Bill Ahrens, a well known (now retired) butcher in the area. Kevin and Joseph are 5th Generation butchers.

Now back to us. Who are we?

We are Lee, Peter and our three children, Hayden, who attends Mt St Patrick College, and Jorja and Robert who are still in preschool.

We are 6th generation farmers who originated from the Hunter Valley and moved to

the North Coast in ‘45.

We, as a family, believe in diversification and that is why we bought our Butcher shop.

We breed our own beef, on our property at Kunghur, (west of Mur-bah) to sell in our Butchery. I guess you could say ‘It’s grown locally, by locals, for locals’.

The Outdoorism bunch For us it’s a dream come true to work in an industry we love so much. We both come from a long line of local families and we love Murwillumbah and the lifestyle. We have three children and all of our family can often be seen in the shop helping, loitering or stocktaking (slave labour).

Ours is a family run store which is able to service many locals – the camper, traveller worker, adventurer and anyone else who pops in for a chat.

Tony has been involved in Scouting as a leader for the last 13 years and all our kids Sophie, Liam and Kieran – have also been through the scouting movement.

Replacing an electrical hot water service?

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By the way, you can have solar hot water service without putting panels on your roof.

Call us and we will explain how. Now is the time to act. It is likely that some rebates will be reassessed this year.

We have been in business for nearly eleven years and have gained a lot of experience.

Hundreds of people have purchased solar from us and have received rebates to cover the purchase costs. Now is the time to act. Start your year by lowering your overheads go solar. Do it!

We have a bathroom showroom with many products on display. Inside All Home Products you will find laundry units, cook tops,

Shop 1, 132 Main Street, Murwillumbah Phone: 02 6672 1944

The friendly family butchery

Outdoor Bunch Meet the Ryder/ Rowe family; Pat and Bob, grand daughter Sophie, the brawn Tony, son Kiri, the brains Cathy, maintenance man Liam, Flora and Frank.

Come in and meet us at

OUTDOORISM on Main Street, Murwillumbah.

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Andersons Treasure Store The Anderson family’s involvement with jewellery in Murwillumbah began in 1945, when Clarrie Anderson entered into a partnership with his brother in-law Arthur Giovanelli. It wasn’t long before Clarrie opened a smaller jewellery store a few doors down named Anderson’s Treasure Store, which moved into Giovanelli’s premises when Arthur left the business.

Clarrie’s wife Mollie ran the store with him, and son Lawrence joined the business in 1960, followed by his wife Rina in 1966. So it came as no surprise when their son, Peter, became involved after finishing school. After being in the business for 17 years, Peter now travels to 13 other jewellery stores to perform regular valuations.

After several awards for customer service, Rina attributes the success of the business to its core values. ‘I think our specialty is personal service.

We are a family business and we believe it is important to

trust your jeweller.’

Lawrence and Rina also hold VIP nights where customers can hear guest speakers and meet original artists who will sign their pieces, to further reward their loyal customers.

The couple have had the joy of serving second and third generation customers.

Summerland Energy Efficient Products This family maintained business started with the partnership of Jamie and Samantha 18 months ago. Jamie’s 15 years experience as a roofer/ plumber has held him in good stead in installing solar hot water systems. Together they head Summerland Energy Efficient Products with assistance from their extended family of seven. Even their 6 and 4 year olds help out with the brochure folding.

The family service offered here is backed by many testimonials given by satisfied cus-

Caltex Banora Point was opened in 1993 by Tony and Paula Nash. Some fifteen years later, the business still remains under the same ownership and sons, Jason and Matthew have also joined the family business on a part time basis, between studies.

Tony and Paula have seen many changes in the Tweed/ Banora Point area and changed their business style to suit the lifestyle that the area is renowned for. We have always tried to personalize the service station through our great local staff, and make our customers’ experience easy and friendly. Sponsorship and support are integral to our business, and we appreciate the loyalty we share with residents and business people.

Tony and Paula Nash have also owned BP Chinderah for five years and are currently improving its facilities.

This locally owned business is synonymous with boats, fishing, picnicking and river activities – and has a reputation for its great pies. We use the same formula at Chinderah – local friendly staff providing a family atmosphere.

For 64 years service has been the secret of our success.

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Television Guide

SATURDAY 31

FRIDAY 30

1. The best program this week is on SBS at the ungodly hour of 1.05am Saturday morning. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown was Pedro Almodovar’s passport to international recognition and it is still a wonderfully entertaining film.

2. Humphrey Bogart gives a superb performance in The Caine Mutiny (ABC2, Saturday 8.35pm) as a paranoid navy captain.

3. Ricky Gervais has a great riff about public service documentaries being solely about Hitler and sharks. He could have added dinosaurs, and SBS has been obliging with The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs (final on Sunday, 7.30pm). Bill Oddie does his best to scare you with images like this T Rex chomping on a mini.

4.30 GP (PG) Repeat.

5.30 Spicks And Specks (G) Repeat.

6.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 I Can Jump Puddles (PG) Repeat.

1.30 Opal Fever (G) Repeat.

2.00 Monarch Of The Glen (G) Repeat.

3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.05 Pilot Guides (G) Germany.

7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 Kylie Kwong: Shandong (G) cuisine journey through China.

8.30 Trial And Retribution (M,v,cl) crime series.

9.40 The Complete Guide To Parenting (M,s,cl) Repeat.

10.05 ABC News 10.15 Man Stroke Woman (M,cl,sr) Repeat 10.45 rage (M) goes on until 5am Saturday.

5.00 rage (PG) 10.00 rage: Special – rage goes Retro (G) 11.00 Outback House (PG) Repeat.

12.00 Dynasties: The Zeccola Family 12.30 The Best Of Australian Story: The Girl Least Likely Repeat.

1.00 Movie: Crack-Up (PG, 1946) Stars Pat O’Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall, Wallace Ford.

2.30 Basketball: WNBL 2008/09: Adelaide vs Dandenong highlights.

4.00 Football: Women’s International Australia vs Italy Live.

5.55 ABC News Up-Date 6.00 Totally Frank (PG) Repeat.

6.30 Gardening Australia (G) 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Rain Shadow (PG) Final.

8.25 ABC News 8.30 The Bill (PG) 10.05 ABC News 10.10 Last Detective (M,v,at) Repeat.

11.20 rage (M)

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6.00 ABC News Breakfast 5.20 World News in various languages.

9.00 Asia Pacific News 1.00 The Food Lovers’ Guide To 9.30 Business Today Australia (G) Repeat.

10.00 Kids’ Programs 1.30 Everest: Doctors In The Death 4.30 Saturday (PG) Zone (PG) Part 1 of 2 doco. Repeat.

5.00 Travel Oz (G) Final.

2.30 The Long March (PG) Part 1 of 2 5.30 From The Heart (G) Repeat. doco. Repeat.

6.00 Compass: Raising The Flag (G) 3.30 Blaktrax (G) Part 1 of 5 music series.

Repeat.

Repeat.

6.35 Coach Trip (G) 4.00 The Journal 7.00 Zoo Days (G) 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 7.30 Something In the Air (G) Repeat.

5.30 The Clipperton Expedition: Booby 8.00 Basketball: WNBL 2008/09; Island (G) Pt 3 of 6 Repeat.

Adelaide vs Dandenong Live.

6.00 Global Village: Exccentriiiks (G) 10.00 Soundtrack To My Life: Chris Rea 6.30 World News Australia (PG) 7.30 Fairy Tales Exposed (PG) Pied Piper.

8.35 Churchill’s Bodyguard (G) Repeat.

10.30 Planet Rock Profiles: The Kaiser 9.30 World News Australia Chiefs (M*,cl) 10.55 Freshmen On Campus (PG) Repeat. 10.00 Secret Museums. (MA,cl,s) doco 11.20 London Live (PG) Repeat. from Belgium on erotic art.

11.50 Close 11.05 Movie: Manual Of Love (M, 2005) romantic comedy from Italy.

1.05 Movie: Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown (M,cl,a,s, 1988) comedy from Spain.

2.40 WeatherWatch Overnight

7.00 Kids’ Programs 3.00 rage (G) Repeat.

5.00 rage: Special; rage goes Retro (G) Repeat.

6.05 Creature Comforts (PG) Repeat.

6.35 Robin Hood (PG) Repeat.

7.20 Rex The Runt (PG) Repeat.

7.30 Classic Albums: Paul Simon – Graceland (G) Repeat.

8.35 Movie: The Caine Mutiny (G, 1954) Stars Humphrey Bogart, Jose Ferrer.

10.40 Movie: Out Of The Past (PG, 1947) Stars Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming.

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6.00 Sunrise 9.00 Kids’ Programs 10.00 Hannah Montana (G) 10.30 Seven Morning News 11.00 The Woman Who Can’t Stop Lying 12.00 Movie: The Diary Of Anne Frank (PG, 1980) Stars Melissa Gilbert, Maximilian Schell, Joan Plowright.

2.30 According To Jim (PG) 3.00 Tennis: Australian Open 2009 – Day 12 Live.

6.00 Prime & Seven News 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 7.30 Tennis: Australian Open 2009 – Day 12 Live.

9.30 Movie: Open Water (M,cl,n, 2003) Stars Daniel Travis, Estelle Lau, John Charles, Saul Stein.

11.05 Disorderly Conduct Caught On Tape (PG,v) 12.05 Movie: Quigley Down Under (M,v, 1990) Stars Tom Selleck, Ben Mendelsohn, Alan Rickman.

5.30 Today 6.00 Ten Early News 9.00 Mornings with Kerri-Anne 7.00 Kids’ Programs Summer Series (PG) Repeat.

9.00 9am With David And & Kim (PG) 10.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Ten News 11.00 Danoz and Guthy Renker 12.00 Dr Phil (PG) Repeat.

1.00 The View (PG) talk show.

1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) 2.00 Days Of Our Lives (PG) 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) 3.00 Summer Fresh (G) food series.

3.00 Infomercial (PG) 3.30 One Day Cricket Series – Australia 3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures (G) vs South Africa Live.

4.00 It’s Me Or The Dog (G) 7.00 Evening News 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful (G) 7.30 One Day Cricket Series – Australia 5.00 Ten News vs South Africa Live.

6.00 The Simpsons (G) Repeat.

11.15 Movie: Passenger 57 (M,v,cl, 1992) 6.30 Neighbours (G) Repeat.

7.00 Friends (PG) Repeat.

Stars Wesley Snipes, Elizabeth 7.30 The Simpsons (PG) double episode.

Hurley, Bruce Greenwood.

8.30 Law & Order (M) double episode. 12.50 Movie: Backbeat (M,cl,s, 1993) Stars 10.25 Orange Roughies (M,cl,v) Stephen Dorff, Sheryl Lee, Ian Hart.

11.25 Late News With Sports Tonight 2.40 Entertainment Tonight (M) 12.30 Late Show with David Letterman (PG) 3.05 Mad TV 1.30 Infomercials (PG) 4.00 Guthy Renker Australia (G) 4.00 Queer Eye For The Straight Guy (PG) 4.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Religion to 6am (PG).

Seven QLD same as above except: 11.00 Movie: The Diary Of Anne Frank (PG, 1980) 1.30 Hot Auctions 2.00 Tennis: Australian Open 2009 Day 12 5.00 According To Jim 5.30 Deal or No Deal 6.30 Today Tonight Prime HD program same as above except: 9.30 Movie: Igby Goes Down (MA,cl, 2002) 11.10 Final 24: Janis Joplin

NBN QLD program same as above except: 1.00 Days Of Our Lives 2.00 Summer Fresh 2.30 One Day Cricket Series – Australia vs South Africa 6.00 NBN News 6.30 One Day Cricket Series – Australia vs South Africa 10.15 Movie: Taking Lives (M,v,cl,s, 2004) 12.50 Movie: Backbeat (M,cl,s, 1993) 1.40 King Of Queens All cricket on NBN this summer will be broadcast in HD

6.00 Kids’ Programs 5.20 World News in various languages.

6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.00 Video Hits (PG) 1.00 The Tail Of The Magic Flute (G) 11.00 Backyard Science 11.30 Tribe: The New Tomorrow 12.00 Star Wars: The Clone Wars (PG) Ballet from Germany. Repeat.

2.00 Prokofiev: The Unfinished Diary 12.05 Britannia High (PG) double episode. 12.30 Pat Callinan’s 4X4 Adventures (G) 2.00 Movie: The Poof Point (G, 2001) 1.00 Video Hits Presents: Australia Day Masterpiece from Canada. (PG) Stars Mark Curry, Dawnn Lewis, At The House (G) 3.00 Claudio Capatondi: Sculptor (G) Raquel Lee, Tahj Mowry.

2.00 Saving Seals (G) Masterpiece from Italy.

3.50 According To Jim (PG) 3.00 The Family (PG,cl) 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 4.20 Seconds From Disaster: Space 4.00 Escape With ET (G) 5.30 Singles Club (G) Part 1 of 5 doco.

Shuttle Challenge (PG) 5.00 Ten News With Sports Tonight Repeat.

6.00 The Simpsons (PG) Repeat.

6.00 Classic Destinations (G) Rome and 5.30 Border Patrol (PG) Repeat.

6.00 Seven News 6.30 Movie: Mr Deeds (PG,cl,v, 2002) Naples.

6.30 Coastwatch (PG) maritime police.

Stars Adam Sandler, Winona Ryder, 6.30 World News Australia 7.00 Tennis: Australian Open 2009 – Peter Gallagher, John Turturro.

7.30 Mythbusters (PG) doco series.

Day 13 Finals intro. Live.

8.30 Biggest Loser Sneak Peek (PG) 8.30 Iron Chef (G) Repeat.

11.00 24: Redemption 8:00pm – 10.00pm 8.35 Movie: The Italian Job (M,cl,v,2003) 9.20 RocKwiz (PG) entertainment.

(M,v,a) Stars Mark Wahlberg, Charlize 10.00 Movie: Love Is In The Air (M,d,cl,s 2005) comedy from France.

1.00 Danoz Direct Theron, Donald Sutherland.

11.50 SOS (PG) 2.00 Guthy Renker 10.50 Rush (M) Repeat.

12.50 bro’ Town: Zeelander (M,a,cl,s) com- 5.30 Seven Early News 11.50 America’s Next Top Model (PG) edy series. Repeat. double episode. Season finale.

1.15 Nighty Night (MA,s) Comedy.

1.50 Infomercials 2.20 Video Hits Up-Late (PG) Repeat.

2.30 Infomercials 1.50 Weatherwatch Overnight 4.00 Religion to 6am (PG)

6.00 Infomercials 7.30 Kids’ Programs 10.30 Movie: Scooby Doo! Pirates Ahoy (G, 2006) Animated film.

12.00 Boarding Pass Travel Show.

12.30 The Hills (PG) 1.00 The Gilmore Girls (PG) 2.00 Movie: How The West Was Won (G, 1962) Stars Gregory Peck, Henry Fonda, James Stewart, John Wayne.

5.00 Australia’s Greatest Athlete series premier.

6.00 Evening News 6.30 Funniest Home Video Show – Summer Series (G) Repeat.

7.30 Movie: Prince Charming (PG, 2001) Stars Christina Applegate, Billy Connolly, Sean Maguire.

8.40 Saturday Lotto 10.00 McLeod’s Daughters (M) 12.00 Movie: Helter Skelter (AV15+,2004) Stars Jeremy Davies, Clea DuVall, Eric Dane, Allison Smith.

2.00 Movie: The Face Of Fu Manchu (PG,v,cl, 1965) Stars Christopher Lee, Nigel Green, Karin Dor. 3.50 Pink (M) Music.

4.00 Danoz 4.30 Guthy Renker

SUNDAY 1

Seven QLD same as above except: 6.30 Tennis: Australian Open 2009 – Day 13 10.00 Coastwatch 10.30 Hot Auctions Prime HD program same as above except: 11.00 Movie: Darkness (M,h,cl,a 2004)

5.00 rage 7.00 Blind Boys Of Alabama: Live In 6.30 Kids’ Programs Concert (G) Repeat.

8.00 The Who: Live At The Isle Of Wight 9.00 Q&A debating the big issues. Rpt. 1970 (G,cl) Repeat.

10.00 Inventions From The Shed (G) Final.

9.25 Paul Kelly: Live Apples (G) Repeat.

10.30 Judah And Mohammad (PG) Rpt. 10.20 INXS: Live Baby Live (G) Repeat.

11.30 Songs Of Praise (G) Repeat.

12.00 London Live (PG) Music. Repeat.

12.00 Landline (G) 12.30 Red Dwarf (G) double episode.

1.00 Best Of Gardening Australia (G) 1.30 Planet Rock Profiles: The Bravery 1.30 Message Stick (G) Repeat.

2.00 Drive-In Movie Memories (PG) Rpt. (PG) Repeat.

3.00 Graeme Murphy’s Swan Lake (PG) 1.55 jtv Live: Something For Kate Repeat.

AWOL / Jet / silverchair’s One 5.15 Frocks Off (G) dance.

Night Stand (G) Repeat.

5.30 Woodlawn Cemetery: Art Eternal 4.50 A Little Later: Faithless (G) Repeat.

6.05 Kidnapped (PG) Repeat.

5.10 Classic Albums: Pink Floyd – Dark 7.00 ABC News Side Of The Moon (G) Repeat.

7.30 Cherub Of The Mist (G) Red Pandas 6.00 21 Years Of Compass: Death Of A 8.25 ABC News Up-Date Missionary (PG) Repeat.

8.30 Stepfather Of The Bride (M,cl,s,dr) 7.05 The Museum (G) Repeat.

10.05 Compass (G) Sudanese refugees.

7.35 Wild At Heart (PG) Repeat.

10.40 I Am The Violin (G) Ida Haendel.

8.30 What Price Fame?: Fan-Tasia (M,cl) 11.35 Movie: The Guinea Pig (PG, 1948) Repeat.

Stars Richard Attenborough, Sheila Sim 9.20 Festival: Folk Music At Newport 1.10 Movie: The Richest Girl In The 1963–1966 (G) Repeat.

World (G, 1934) Stars Miriam 11.00 Montreux Jazz Festival 2003: Hopkins, Joel McRae, Fay Wray.

Black Superstars Of Music (G) Final.

2.25 Movie; Arizona Ranger (PG, 1948) 11.55 Close Stars Tim Holt, Jack Holt, Nan Leslie.

3.25 Psychic Investigators (PG) Repeat.

3.55 Hell On Ice (PG) Repeat.

6.25 World News in various languages.

10.00 Insight Summer Season: Finding Courage. Repeat.

11.00 Iron Chef (G) Repeat.

11.50 Cocktails (G) entertainment.

12.00 Cycling: Tour Down Under 1.00 Speedweek 2.00 Cycling: Tour Down Under Stage 6 Live – Final Stage.

3.00 Football Asia 3.30 FIFA Futbol Mundial 4.00 Les Murray’s Football Feature 5.00 The World Game football.

6.00 Thalassa – Grey Nomads in Morocco 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs (PG) Final.

8.30 Nuremberg: Rudolf Hess (PG) doco from the UK. 9.35 Speer And Hitler: Spandau – The Punishment (PG) Final.

11.15 Movie: Little Otik (MA,h,n, 2000) black comedy from the Czech Republic.

1.30 If The Dead Could Speak (M,n,cl,v) Drama series from Argentina. Rpt. 2.30 Weatherwatch Overnight

6.00 Religion 6.30 Creflo A Dollar 7.00 Flipper And Lopaka kids’ program.

7.30 Weekend Sunrise 10.00 Kochie’s Business Builders (G) 10.30 According To Jim (PG) 11.00 Miracles From The Wildside (G) Rpt. 12.00 2009 Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain Iron Man Series Round 2. Gold Coast.

2.00 Earth Ride (G) water’s journey.

3.00 Home Improvement (G) 3.30 Rolex Spirit Of Yachting Sydney – Hobart yacht race.

4.00 Tennis: Australian Open 2009 – Day 14 – Finals mixed doubles. Live.

6.00 Seven News 6.30 Outback Wildlife Rescue (G) 7.00 Tennis: Australian Open 2009 – Finals – Day 14 Intro. Live.

7.30 Tennis: Australian Open 2009 – Finals – Day 14 Men’s finals. Live.

10.30 Movie: Behind Enemy Lines (M,v,cl, 2001) Stars Owen Wilson, Gene Hackman, David Keith.

12.30 Lost Special (M) 1.30 In The Footsteps Of The Pharaohs Seven QLD same as above except: 3.00 Tennis: Australian Open 2009 – Day 14 5.00 Home Improvement 5.30 Rolex Spirit Of Yachting 9.30 Hot Property.

6.00 Religion 6.00 Danoz And Guthy Renker 7.00 Totally Wild (G) Repeat.

7.00 Today 7.30 Animalia 8.30 Great Ocean Adventures (G) 8.00 State Focus (G) 10.00 Biomagnetics (G) 8.30 Video Hits (PG) 10.30 Going Places (PG) 10.00 Video Hits (PG) 11.00 A1GP – World Cup Of Motorsport 12.00 Australian Fishing Championship Taupo, NZ. 1.00 Australian Speedway Motorcycle 12.00 Speed Machine Willowbank Raceway Championships 12.30 Jack Of All Trades (G) 2.00 37th Country Music Awards Of 1.00 WWE Afterburn wrestling.

Australia (PG) 2.00 Movie: Colt .45 (PG,v, 1950) Stars 4.00 Will And Grace (PG) double episode.

Randolph Scott, Lloyd Bridges.

5.00 Ten News With Sports Tonight 3.30 One Day Cricket Series – Australia 6.00 Out Of The Blue (G) Repeat. vs NZ Live.

6.30 The Biggest Loser (G) new series.

7.00 Evening News 7.30 So You Think You Can Dance 7.30 One Day Cricket Series – Australia Australia (PG) new series vs NZ Live.

11.15 Movie: Money Train (AV15+, cl, 1995) 9.00 Movie: Election (M,cl,d,s,1999) Stars Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson.

Stars Reese Witherspoon, Matthew 1.15 At The Movies (PG) Broderick, Chris Klein.

11.05 The Daily Show With Jon Stewart – 1.30 I Dream Of Jeannie (G) Repeat.

2.00 Guthy Renker Australia Global Edition (MA15+) comedy.

3.30 Religion 11.35 The Office (PG) 4.00 Good Morning America 12.05 Taken Out (G) 5.00 Early Morning News 12.35 Out Of The Blue (M,v,a) NBN QLD program same as above except: 1.00 Infomercials 2.00 Seinfeld 2.30 1 Day Cricket Series – Australia 4.00 Religion to 6am (PG) vs NZ 6.00 NBN News 6.30 1 Day Cricket Series – Australia vs NZ 10.15 Movie: Money Train (AV15+, cl, 1995) 12.15 Two And A Half Men All cricket on NBN this summer will be broadcast in HD

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MONDAY 2

4.30 GP (PG) Repeat.

5.30 Spicks And Specks (G) Repeat.

6.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Best Of Landline Repeat.

12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Poirot (PG) 1.30 Surfing The Menu (G) Repeat.

2.00 Parkinson (G) Repeat.

3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.05 Born To Be King: Prince Charles at 60 (G) 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 Choir Of Hard Knocks (PG) Repeat.

9.00 1983: The Brink Of Apocalypse (PG) Cold War players.

10.15 Lateline and Lateline Business 10.30 ABC News 11.20 Munich: The Real Assassins (M,v) Repeat.

12.10 MDA (M,at) drama. Repeat.

1.05 Movie: Fort Algiers (PG, 1953) Stars Yvonne De Carlo, Raymond Burr.

2.25 Movie: Follow Me Quietly (PG, 1949) Stars William Lundigan, Dorothy Patrick, Jeff Corey.

3.25 Bowls: NSW Open 2008 - Men’s Semifinal Repeat.

5.30 Today 6.00 Ten Early News 9.00 Mornings with Kerri-Anne (PG) 7.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Time/Life (G) 9.00 9am With David And Kim (PG) 10.00 Superbowl XLIII Pittsburgh Steelers 11.30 Danoz (G) 12.00 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) vs Arizona Cardinals 2.30 Everybody Loves Raymond (G) Rpt 1.00 The View (PG) talk show.

3.00 Infomercial (PG) 2.00 Days Of Our Lives (PG) 3.30 The Biggest Loser (G) Repeat.

3.00 Summer Fresh (G) Repeat.

4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful (G) 3.30 Kids’ Programs 5.00 Ten News 4.30 Afternoon News 6.00 The Simpsons (G) Repeat.

5.00 The Zoo (G) 6.30 Neighbours (G) 5.30 Antique Roadshow (G) Worcester 7.00 The Biggest Loser (PG) Cathedral.

7.30 So You Think You Can Dance 6.00 Evening News Australia (PG) 7.00 A Current Affair 8.30 Movie: The Devil Wears Prada 7.30 Two And A Half Men (PG) (PG, 2006) Stars Meryl Streep, Anne 8.00 The Big Bang Theory (PG) Hathaway, Stanley Tucci.

8.30 Movie: Terminator 3 – Rise of the 10.40 Late News With Sports Tonight Machines (M, 2003) Stars Arnold 11.25 Late Show With David Letterman (PG) Schwarzenegger, Claire Danes.

12.25 Taken Out (G) entertainment.

8.45 Lotto 12.55 Army Wives (PG) 10.50 The Moment of Truth (M) 1.55 Video Hits Up-Late 11.45 Just Shoot Me (PG) 2.00 Infomercials 12.10 E R (M) Repeat.

4.00 Religion to 6am (PG) 1.05 McLeod’s Daughters (PG) Repeat.

12.00 Malcolm Douglas Special: One Wet Season 2.00 Guthy Renker Australia 1.00 Deal Or No Deal 1.25 Blue Heelers 2.20 3.00 Religion My Restaurant Rules 3.15 Power Rangers 3.40 3.30 Good Morning America Powerpuff Girls 4.05 Yin Yang Yo! 10.30 Final 24: 5.00 Early Morning News Keith Moon 11.30 Urban Legends 12.00 Gear

5.20 World News in various languages.

6.00 ABC News Breakfast 6.00 Sunrise 1.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia (G) 9.00 The Morning Show series return.

9.00 Asia Pacific News Repeat.

9.30 Business Today 11.00 Raggs kids’ show.

1.30 Grey Gardens (PG) Repeat doco 10.00 Kids’ Programs 11.30 Seven News from the US. 4.30 Gardening Australia (G) Rpt 12.00 Movie: Trail to Hope Rose (M,v, 3.10 Postcard (PG) no dialogue.

5.00 Message Stick (G*) Repeat.

2004) Stars Lou Diamond Phillips, 3.25 Sugar Town: The Bridegrooms (G) 5.30 Croc Country (G) Repeat.

Lee Majors, Ernest Borgnine.

Repeat doco from Greece.

6.00 Walking With Cavemen (G) Repeat.

2.00 Shark (M) legal drama.

4.30 The Journal 6.35 Coach Trip (G) 3.00 The Ex-Wives Club (PG) new series.

5.00 The Crew (G) student video production 4.00 Go Go Stop 7.00 Zoo Days (G) 5.30 Corner Gas (G) comedy series.

7.30 Something In The Air (G) Repeat.

4.30 Seven News 6.00 Global Village (G) Umbria.

8.00 Red Dwarf (PG) Repeat.

5.00 M*A*S*H (G) Repeat. Series return.

6.30 World News Australia 8.30 Good Game Shocks The 80s (PG) 5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) series return.

7.30 Top Gear (PG) Repeat.

6.00 Seven and Prime News 8.30 South Park (PG,a,cl) 9.00 Mind, Body And Kick Ass Moves 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 9.00 Drawn Together (MA,s) animated (PG) Final.

7.30 TBA comedy series.

9.30 Code Geass (M,v) 8.30 TBA 10.00 Jane’s Addiction: Three Days (M,cl) 9.30 World News Australia 9.30 Brothers & Sisters (M) new season.

10.00 Pizza (M,a,cl) comedy series.

Repeat.

10.30 Boston Legal (M) new season.

10.30 Skins (MA,d,s,n) repeat drama series. 11.30 30 Rock (PG) New season 11.40 Cowboy Bebop (M,v) Repeat.

11.25 Movie: The Princess Blade (MA,v, 12.00 Last Comic Standing (M) 12.05 Close 2001) Action adventure from Japan. 1.00 Danoz Direct 1.05 Movie: Foon (M,cl,s,v, 2005) Musical 2.00 Guthy Renker from France.

5.30 Seven Early News 2.350 WeatherWatch Overnight Prime HD program same as above except:

TUESDAY 3

12.30 Dr Danger 1.00 TBA

4.30 GP (PG) Repeat.

6.00 ABC News Breakfast 5.30 Spicks And Specks (PG) Repeat.

9.00 Asia Pacific News 6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.30 Business Today 12.00 Midday Report 10.00 Kids’ Programs 12.30 Capitalist Drive (PG) Repeat.

4.30 Little Angels (G) Repeat.

1.30 Surfing The Menu (G) Repeat.

5.00 Kylie Kwong (G) Final.

2.00 Parliament Question Time 5.35 Sun, Sea And Bargain Spotting 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Wagging School (G) 6.10 Time Team Special (G) Repeat.

6.05 Under The Hammer (G) Repeat.

7.00 ABC News 6.35 Coach Trip (G) 7.30 The 7.30 Report 7.00 Zoo Days (G) 8.00 Lead Balloon (PG) 7.30 Something In The Air (G) Repeat.

8.30 Doctor Who (PG) double episode.

8.05 Father Ted (PG) Final.

9.35 Bastard Boys (M,cl,du) Final.

8.30 Hamish Macbeth (G) Final.

10.35 Lateline and Lateline Business 9.20 The Bill (PG) Repeat.

11.40 Shrink Rap: Robin Williams (PG) 10.55 MDA (M,at) Repeat.

Repeat.

11.50 Close 12.25 Changi: Seeing Is Believing (M,v,at) Repeat.

1.25 Parliament Question Time 2.25 Movie: Behind The Headlines (PG, 1937) Stars Lee Tracy, Diana Gibson.

3.25 Triple j tv With The Doctor (G)

5.20 World News in various languages 6.00 Sunrise 1.00 The Storm Rages Twice (G) Repeat 9.00 The Morning Show (PG) drama from Lebanon.

11.00 Raggs kids’ show.

1.55 Don Matteo (PG) Drama series from 11.30 Seven News Italy. Repeat.

12.00 Packed To The Rafters (PG,s,n) 3.00 Here Comes The Neighbourhood Repeat of last season’s finale.

(G) Repeat.

1.00 All Saints (M) Repeat finale.

3.30 Everybody Loves A Wedding (G) Rpt 2.00 Shark (M) legal series.

4.00 The Journal 3.00 Ex-Wives Club (PG) 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 4.00 Go Go Stop kids’ show.

5.30 Corner Gas (G) comedy series.

4.30 Seven and Prime News 6.00 Global Village: Exccentriiiks (G) 5.00 M*A*S*H (G) Repeat.

6.30 World News Australia 5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) games show.

7.30 Can Dogs Smell Cancer? (PG) 6.00 Seven and Prime News Repeat doco from the UK. 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 8.30 Blood And Guts: History of Surgery 7.30 RSPCA Animal Rescue (G) New – Bloody Beginnings (MA) Final.

8.00 Find My Family (PG) new season.

9.30 World News 8.30 Packed To The Rafters (PG,n,s,v) New 10.00 Hot Docs (M,s,a) double episode.

9.30 All Saints (M,a) new season.

11.25 Movie: Machuca (M,cl,a,v, 2004) 10.30 Eli Stone (PG) new season.

Stars Ernesto Malbran, Matias Quer. 11.30 Dirty Sexy Money (M) series return.

1.30 The Lost Year In Iraq (M,v,a) Repeat 12.30 Guthy Renker doco from the US. 1.00 Danoz Direct 2.30 WeatherWatch Overnight Prime HD program same as above except:

WEDNESDAY 4

12.00 Malcolm Douglas Special: Men Of The Desert 1.00 Deal Or No Deal 1.25 Blue Heelers 2.20 My Restaurant Rules 3.15 Power Rangers 3.40 Powerpuff Girls 4.05 Yin Yang Yo! 10.30 Medical Incredible 11.30 Louis Theroux: Gambling In La Vegas 12.30 Inside Al Qaeda 12.30 Australia’s Strangest Home Improvements

5.20 World News in various languages.

6.00 ABC News Breakfast 4.30 GP (PG) Repeat.

6.00 Sunrise 1.00 Movie: Travellers And Magicians 9.00 Asia Pacific News 5.30 Spicks And Specks (PG) Repeat.

9.00 The Morning Show (PG) (PG, 2003) drama from Australia & 9.30 Business Today 6.00 Kids’ Program 11.00 Raggs kids’ show.

Bhutan.

10.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 Midday Report 11.30 Seven News 3.00 Salam Cafe (PG) Repeat.

12.30 National Press Club Address Repeat 4.30 Dynasties (G) Repeat.

12.00 TBA 3.30 Football Star Of Tomorrow Repeat. 2.00 Shark (M) legal series.

5.00 A Seaside Parish (G) Final.

1.30 Surfing The Menu (PG) Repeat.

5.35 Time Team (G) Repeat.

4.00 The Journal 2.00 Parliament Question Time (G) 3.00 Ex-Wives Club (PG) 6.35 Coach Trip (G) 4.30 Newshour with Jim Lehrer 3.00 Kids’ Programs 4.00 Go Go Stop kids’ show.

7.00 Zoo Days (G) Britain’s largest zoos 5.30 Corner Gas (G) Comedy.

6.00 Art Museums Of The World (G) 4.30 Seven and Prime News 7.30 Something In The Air (G) Repeat.

6.00 Global Village: Exccentriiiks Repeat.

5.00 M*A*S*H (G) Repeat.

8.05 1 Giant Leap: What About Me? (G) 6.30 World News Australia 6.30 Nigella Express (G) Final.

5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) games show.

8.30 Eataholics: Addicted To Meat And 7.30 Food Safari: Jewish (G) Final.

7.00 ABC News 6.00 Seven and Prime News Potatoes (M*,cl) 8.00 Tales From The Palaces (G) doco 7.30 The 7.30 Report 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 9.30 An Alien History of Planet Earth (PG) series on palaces of the UK. Repeat.

8.00 The New Inventors (G) 7.30 TBA 8.30 Spicks And Specks (PG) 11.15 Teens Hooked On Porn (M,cl,sr) Rpt. 8.30 Long Way Down: Chinteche, 8.30 Criminal Minds (M) Series return.

Malawi, Botswana (M,a,cl) part 9 of 9.30 24: 8:00am – 10:00am (M) 2hr new 12.10 Close 9.00 Chandon Pictures (M,cl) comedy 10 doco on a world motorcycle trip. series. season premier.

9.30 World News Australia 9.35 Seven Periods With Mr Gormsby 11.20 Disorderly Conduct Caught On 10.00 Movie: Everybody Is A Killer (M,sr,cl) Final.

Tape (M) (M,,cl,s,v, 2004) Black comedy from 12.30 Guthy Renker 10.00 The Robinsons (M,sr) Final.

France.

10.30 Lateline And Lateline Business 1.00 Danoz 11.30 Movie: Dealer (MA,cl,d, 2003) Drama 5.30 Seven Early News 11.35 To The Ends Of The Earth: Close from Hungary.

Quarters (M,v,s) William Golding Seven QLD program same as above except: 1.55 Weatherwatch Overnight novels adapted for TV series.

6.30 Today Tonight.

1.00 Parliament Question Time.

Prime HD program same as above except: 12.30 Survival In The Bush With Malcolm Douglas 2.00 Movie: Casbah (PG, 1948) Stars Peter – Part 1 1.00 Deal Or No Deal 1.25 Blue Heelers Lorre, Yvonne De Carlo, Tony Martin 2.20 My Restaurant Rules 3.15 Power Rangers 3.25 National Press Club Address 12.00 Powerpuff Girls 4.05 Yin Yang Yo! 11.20 Repeat.

TBA 12.20 Final 24: Keith Moon 1.20 Australia’s

THURSDAY 5

Strangest Home Improvements

4.30 GP (PG) Repeat.

5.30 Spicks And Specks (PG) Repeat.

6.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Guru Greg (G) Repeat.

1.30 Surfing The Menu (G) Repeat.

2.00 Parliament Question Time (G) 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.05 Planet Earth: Ocean Deep (G) Final.

7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 Everest ER (G) Final.

8.35 The Unteachables (M*,cl) Final.

9.00 Chandon Pictures (M,cl) comedy series.

9.30 Who Killed Dr Bogle And Mrs Chandler (PG) Repeat.

10.25 Lateline And Lateline Business 11.30 Live From Abbey Road with The Subways, Gnarls Barkley, Berbie Hancock (M*,cl) 12.20 Wildside (PG) Repeat.

1.10 Parliament Question Time 2.15 Movie: Playmates (G, 1941) Stars Kay Kyser, John Barrymore, Lupe Velez 3.55 The Glass House (M,sr,cl) Programs are correct at the time of going to press but beware – all stations like tinkering with things at the last minute.

5.30 World News in various languages.

1.00 TV Around The World: Venezuela (PG) doco series from France.

1.30 Blizzard: Race To The Pole (PG) doco series from the UK. Repeat.

2.30 Forgiving Dr Mengele (PG) Repeat.

3.30 If Only (G) Repeat.

4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 5.30 FIFA Futbol Mundial 6.00 Global Village: Exccentriiiks 6.30 World News Australia 7.35 Rex In Rome (PG) crime series from Italy.

8.30 Carla Cametti PD (M,cl,v,) drama series.

9.30 World News Australia 10.00 Movie: Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (MA,s,v, 2005) Drama from South Korea.

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

12.55 Clara Sheller (M,cl) drama series from France. Repeat. [cl] = Coarse language [sr] = Sexual references 1.55 Weatherwatch Overnight

6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 Asia Pacific News 9.30 Business Today 10.00 Kids’ Programs 4.30 The Pinnaroo Surfer (G) Repeat.

4.40 Speed Machines (G) Repeat.

5.30 Naked Science (G) Repeat.

6.35 Coach Trip (G) 7.00 Zoo Days (G) Britain’s largest zoos 7.30 Something In The Air (G) Repeat.

8.00 Spicks And Specks (PG) Final.

8.30 Chandon Pictures (M,cl,at) comedy 8.55 Seven Periods With Mr Gormsby (M,sr,cl) Final.

9.30 Roman’s Empire (M*,sr) family drama.

10.00 Headcases (M*,sr) satirical look at the worlds celebrity and politics.

10.25 The Peter Serafinowicz Show (M,sr) Repeat.

11.05 Kung Faux (M,cl,v,sr) Final.

11.30 The Book Group (M,cl,s) Repeat.

11.55 Close [s] [a] [n] [du] [dr] [v] [*] [h]

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Sex Adult themes Nudity [mp] = Medical Drug use procedures Drug references [st] = Supernatural themes Violence [ie] = Issues about Could offend euthanasia Horror

5.30 Today 6.00 Ten Early News 9.00 Mornings With Kerri-Anne (PG) 7.00 Toasted TV & Kids’ Programs 11.00 Danoz And Guthy Renker (G) 9.00 9am With David And Kim (PG) 12.00 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 11.00 Ten News 1.00 The View (PG) talk show.

12.00 Dr Phil (PG,du,at) Repeat.

2.00 Days Of Our Lives (PG) 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) Repeat.

3.00 Summer Fresh (G) cooking.

2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) Repeat.

3.30 Hi-5 (G) 3.00 Infomercial (PG) 4.00 The Shak 3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures (G) 4.30 Afternoon News 4.00 It’s Me Or The Dog (G) Repeat.

5.00 The Zoo (G) 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful (G) 5.30 Antiques Roadshow Winchester 5.00 Ten News College.

6.00 The Simpsons (G) Repeat 6.00 Evening News 6.30 Neighbours (G) 7.00 A Current Affair 7.00 The Biggest Loser (PG) 7.30 Wipeout Australia (PG) all new.

8.00 Bondi Rescue (PG) series return.

8.30 Two and a Half Men (M) Double 8.30 NCIS (M,v,a) series return. episode 9.30 Lie To Me (M) crime series premier.

9.30 Premier Special Event: The Allan 10.30 Late News With Sports Tonight Border Medal Australian cricket.

11.15 Late Show With David Letterman (PG) 11.30 Seinfeld (PG) 12.00 Taken Out (G) Entertainment.

12.30 State Focus Repeat.

12.00 E R (M) 1.00 The Baron (PG) Repeat.

1.00 Infomercials (PG) 2.00 Guthy Renker 4.00 Religion to 6am (PG) 3.00 Religion 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

5.30 Today 6.00 Ten Early News 9.00 Mornings With Kerri-Anne (PG) 7.00 Toasted TV & Kids’ Programs 10.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 9am With David And Kim (PG) 11.00 Danoz and Bio-Magnetics (G) 11.00 Ten News 12.00 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 12.00 Dr Phil (PG) Repeat.

1.00 The View (PG) talk show.

1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) Repeat.

2.00 Days Of Our Lives (PG) 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) Repeat.

3.00 Summer Fresh (G) summer dishes.

3.00 Infomercial (PG) 3.30 Kids’ Programs 3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures (G) 4.30 NBN News 4.00 It’s Me Or The Dog (G) Repeat.

5.00 The Zoo (G) 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful (G) 5.30 Antiques Roadshow Winchester 5.00 Ten News College Compilation.

6.00 The Simpsons (G) Repeat 6.00 NBN News 6.30 Neighbours (G) 7.00 A Current Affair 7.00 The Biggest Loser (PG) 7.30 Domestic Blitz (PG) all new.

7.30 So You Think You Can Dance (PG) 8.30 The Mentalist (M) 9.00 House (M) double episode.

8.45 Lotto 10.00 Life (M) series return.

11.00 Ten News With Sports Tonight 9.30 Flashpoint (M) 11.45 Late Show With David Letterman (PG) 10.30 Cold Case (M) 11.30 Just Shoot Me (PG) 12.45 Infomercials 12.00 The Dead Zone (M) 1.15 Video Hits Up-Late (M) 1.00 The Avengers (PG) Repeat.

1.30 Infomercials 2.00 Guthy Renker And Danoz 4.00 Religion to 6am (PG) 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News << Apologies for all the blanks in Prime’s schedule. As we went to press Channels 7 & 9 were playing chicken with each other, seeing who could hold off the longest before announcing their programs. Channel 7 won, viewers didn’t.

5.30 Today 6.00 Ten Early News 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 Mornings With Kerri-Anne (PG) 7.00 Toasted TV & Kids’ Programs 9.00 The Morning Show (PG) 10.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 9am With David And Kim (PG) 11.00 Raggs kids’ show.

11.00 Danoz and Guthy Renker (G) 11.00 Ten News 11.30 Seven News 12.00 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 12.00 Dr Phil (PG) Repeat.

12.00 Grey’s Anatomy (M) 2hr encore.

1.00 The View (PG) talk show.

1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) Repeat.

2.00 Shark (M) legal series.

2.00 Days Of Our Lives (PG) 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) Repeat.

3.00 Ex-Wives Club (PG) 3.00 Summer Fresh (G) Repeat.

3.00 Infomercial (PG) 4.00 Go Go Stop kids’ show.

3.30 Kids’ Programs 3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures (G) 4.30 Seven and Prime News 4.30 NBN News 4.00 It’s Me Or The Dog (G) Repeat.

5.00 M*A*S*H (G) Repeat.

5.00 The Zoo (G) 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful (G) 5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) games show.

5.30 Antiques Roadshow Morpeth.

5.00 Ten News 6.00 Seven and Prime News 6.00 NBN News 6.00 The Simpsons (G) Repeat 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 Ghost Whisperer (PG, a) New season 6.30 Neighbours (G) 7.30 Getaway (PG) 7.00 The Biggest Loser (PG) 8.30 TBA 8.30 Kitchen Nightmares USA (MA) 8.00 Bondi Vet (PG) series premiere.

9.30 TBA 8.30 Law & Order: S.V.U. (M) new series. 10.30 Amazing Medical Stories (M) 10.30 Scrubs (PG) New season 9.30 Life On Mars (M) new series 11.00 Beauty And The Geek (PG) all new 11.30 Seinfeld (PG) 10.30 Ten News With Sports Tonight 12.30 Danoz And Guthy-Renker 12.00 Movie: Joe Versus The Volcano 11.15 Late Show With David Letterman (PG) (PG,cl, 1990) Stars Tom Hanks, Meg Seven QLD program same as above except: 6.30 Today Tonight.

12.00 Taken Out (G) entertainment.

Ryan, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack.

Prime HD program same as above except: 12.30 Infomercials (PG) 1.50 At The Movies (PG) 12.30 Survival In The Bush With Malcolm Douglas 4.00 Religion to 6am.

2.00 Guthy Renker Australia – Part 2 1.00 Deal Or No Deal 1.25 Blue Heelers 3.30 Good Morning America 2.20 My Restaurant Rules 3.15 Power Rangers 5.00 Early Morning News 12.00 Powerpuff Girls 4.05 Yin Yang Yo! 10.30 Movie: Coming Soon (MA,s, 1999) 12.00 Movie: New Port South (M,a,v,cl, 2001) 1.35 Australia’s Strangest Home Improvements

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

Most Prime programs between 6.30pm and 11.30pm (approx) nightly are Closed Captioned (CC)

All Ten programs between 5pm and 11pm (approx) nightly are Closed Captioned (CC)

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P: 02 6684 1777 F: 02 6684 1719 adcopy@tweedecho.com.au Editor: Hans Lovejoy hans@echo.net.au www.tweedecho.com.au

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that has a commitment to comedy and keeping a smile on your dial. Last year comedian Mandy Nolan launched a regular room that is hell bent on harnessing humour. Mandy with Hans Lovejoy is a standup comedian with 20 years experience. She has toured with Bob Downe, Puppetry of the Penis, supported Jam Nights and Dave Hughes, Wil Anderson Open Mics and even Ertha Kitt. In her Musos looking for a jam? You early years Mandy even can find it at the Coolangatta scored an opening spot Hotel every Wednesday with Cabarita Beach Bar alongside the legendary house band Remedy. Starts Whoopi Goldberg. It was & Grill at 8pm. Mullumbimby RSL an amazing experience Friday is Black Neon Shadhas a jam night from 7.30pm for Mandy to meet one of ows and support at 9pm, on Thursdays. The Buddha her comedy heros but she Saturday is Soul Man and Bar, Byron Bay from 7.30pm t paddison and in admits that for once she was cl Sunday is Andy Burke from has an Open Mike night also rendered speechless! mandy nolan at 2pm. on Thursdays. South Tweed ‘I recall being taken backstage and rrumbin RSL cu Sports Club holds a jazz jam to meet Whoopi after the show. shakers.

Neverland on from 3pm - 6.30pm every I just sat there smiling like a Splinter room on thursday Sunday: Jam Factory in the Saturday afternoon. Other goof and said ‘You’re really for reregular weekly gigs include funny’ about 10 times. I don’t Mind hearsal Live original music featuring the Downbeat Jazz Band at sinin a pet think she’ll ever forget it!’ acoustic artists Gareth Van crema- Sydney headliner Clint Padthe Greenmount Beach Club Dagger, Sean Hazel Eyes and cerely claim to torium, dison joins Mandy on stage as on Wednesdays from 7pm, the rich melodic metal band drawing this month’s feature for Side and the The Harry Lynn Jazz Splinter In The Mind grace the have deSplitting Comedy. Clint is one veloped further Quartet at The Gold Coast Neverland stage this Sunday of Australia’s finest standup their ‘own’ inspiraArts Centre from 7pm Saturfrom 7pm. comedians. Winner of the 2001 sound mixing tion from the Inspired by a vast range of days.

Comedy Cup and the 2004 empty spaces genres and musicians, Splinter shades of metal, Sphinx Rock Cafe alternative rock, and the hairs that Australia Day Comedy Comin the Mind come together petition, Clint is a unique and stood up on the and create something moving up-tempo roots, With a swag of new music, classical piano and back of their necks. engaging comedian who has when you hear their melodic singer/guitarist Jessie Vintila performed all over the world guitar delivered The band is now and dramatic music. This five returns to Sphinx Rock Cafe – including the acclaimed with a tight, expresperfectly poised piece, formed early/mid 2008 on Sunday Febuary 1. ForComedy Cafe in Amsterdam, to take giant leaps in 2009 offer an original sound derived sive rhythm section. The merly of Two Colour MounAnthony Robbins Seminars songs are refreshing, genuine and become known as a truly from a unique blend of influtain, she has been likened to in Fiji, tours across Australia and performed with an emoinnovative and original Australences.

Classical piano drives Michelle Shocked and Sinead with Puppetry of the Penis and tional honesty that is felt by ian band. the rich, dark melodies, while O’Connor. Jessie keeps her even entertaining the troops the listener. There is maturity shows interesting with a range a smooth, powerful groove Funny Guy for throughout the Middle East. in the lyrical content, raw and from the acoustic and electric of songs and banter that has Clint has featured on the passionate.

There is skill in guitars, the bass and the drums audiences in tears and in Side Splitting at Comedy Channel (Foxtel), the the song-writing, seemingly give Splinter in the Mind their stitches. Touching, emotional, Currumbin RSL Qantas and Jetstar in-flight beyond the band’s time spent exceptional and emotive piss taking and earnest, she The laughs continue at Curentertainment program and is together.

Like most bands, musical style.

Throw into the connects to an audience in a rumbin RSL, the riverside club a regular live performer in Sydunique and endearing way. Her mix the haunting ambience of Splinter in the Mind started

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violin also graced the recent Pete Murray album. She kicks off at 3pm. Omnipresence is a four piece group based in Byron Bay. They create a blissed out vibe that will shift you through a few genres and inner gears, with guitars, mandolin, divine harmony vocals, flute and percussion. They start at 1pm. The two acts are friends and may well combine for a big finale.

didjeridoo, violin, soaring vocal harmonies and an assortment of chimes, bells

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from humble beginnings and testimony to the band’s mystery and intrigue, found

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ney Comedy Clubs and most of the major venues across the country. Clint also performs at popular events such as the Sydney Royal Easter Show, Sydney on Sale and The Great Escape.

2005 National Raw finalist Ellen Briggs joins the two funny buggers as support act. A Mullumbimby Mum, Ellen has the offhanded charm of a Fiona O’Loughlin as she recalls some of her parenting disasters. Her attitude is summed up in one corker of a line: ‘People assume when you have children that you like them.’ Karma got the best of Ellen, because she had twins!

Enjoy standup comedy at Side Spllitting Comedy at the Currumbin RSL on Thursday February 5 from 7.30pm. $15 members/ $18 non members.

Bookings essential 07 5534 7999.

Bob Barnard and Friends South Tweed Sports Club is proud to present a legend of Australian jazz – Bob Barnard.

Barnard grew up in a musical family and started on cornet with a local brass band when he was twelve. Introduced to jazz by his father, Bob was a founding member of brother Len’s South City Stompers in 1948. He moved to Sydney permanently in June 1962, as a member of the Graeme Bell All Stars, and remained with them until mid-1967. Bob formed his own jazz band in 1974, touring throughout Australia, Asia, Europe, and the US. The band held long residencies at some of Sydney’s popular hotels,

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call the good old fashioned love tap. Just enough to bring her round. If she burns your steak, or makes your undies go all poofy pink in the laundry, or maybe if she Mandy Nolan refuses to wash the car, then it’s OK to give her a bit of a slap. Now there are rules for whacking your missus.

They’re only to be hit on These days hitting your OK to hit your wife if she is the hand or legs. You can’t disobedient. Or maybe even bruise em. But you can poke wife is a social no-no, but thanks to Samir Abu Hamza, just because you’re bored. ‘em, or squeeze ‘em, or give Not hard of course. You can’t em a good flesh-ripping a Melbourne based Islamic pick up a brick. You can’t cleric it may be making a Chinese burn. A hard pinch even use the family goat. comeback. Samir told his on the arse is sure to bring Just a bit of what we used to a tear to the eye of any male followers that it is

Samir’s Greatest Hits

bob bernard at south tweed sports club on saturday particularly the Orient in the Rocks area. He is a regularly featured guest at festivals and concerts in the US, Britain, and Europe, and has recorded with top American, European, and English jazzmen. Saturday night, South Tweed Sports Club, 7.30pm. With Bob on the night will be Bernice Haydock – Piano, Bob Mair – Drums, Paul Williams – Clarinet/sax, Derek Capewell – Bass. Don’t forget the jazz jam earlier on Saturdays at 3pm.

Dave Grant

ans in the industry blasting audiences everywhere with his rapid-fire delivery and sharp wit. Dave’s fans hail the world over having performed to audiences both nationally and internationally at a multitude of well known events such as the Melbourne Comedy Festival, Sydney Comedy Store, The Improv (Los Angeles), Powerstation (Auckland) and Village Gate Comedy (New York).

Support is Fiona McGarry, MC is Mark McConville. Friday 30 Jan 30 - 8pm at the Gold Coast Arts Centre.

Unlucky Thursday Red Cup Party What is it about the Red Cup that gets people so excited?

Is it because it knows how to party? Pay homage to the Red Cup at Unlucky’s Red Cup Party! All drinks served in the

aberrant chattel-box. I’m with the Samir man, I know we girls can be downright annoying, and sometimes the only way we’ll come into line is when we’ve had a bit of a whack on the nose with a newspaper. What Mr Hamza neglected to mention was that it’s also wise to positively reinforce good wifely behaviour. Like when she irons your socks or appliques your initials around the skid marks of your jocks – throw her a bone. Maybe pat her on the head and take her for

a walk, or let her come into the house. But don’t under any circumstances let her get on the couch.

She’ll think she has equal power to you and before you know it she’ll be ringing the domestic violence help line and taking out an AVO bringing down legal welts on your wife-beatin’ ass.

Samir also told his followers that there is no such thing as rape within marriage, so if the lady wearing your ring doesn’t want to do the wild thing, then you can just give her a bit of action anyway.

wonderful red things! Along with the locals Tim Denning, Action DJs Tim Collins and the infamous Sammy Prosser dancing. Thursday January 29 at Elsewhere.

and Lick It present Gucci Soundsystem, touring for the first time in Australia! Getting amongst the action will also be resident DJ Audun, Ladyboy and Giv. Friday January 30.

Electronic Boogie Show

Motion:theory

Ben Abrahams sets the pace with some fine underground Gucci Soundsystem (AKA Ben house magic, dipped in acid, Rymer AKA Ben Fat Trucker) is coated with punk and cooked not just a DJ/producer with a with old-school electronic hip name synonymous with high hop beats. Rhys Llewellyn end fashion, or just the man joins him this motion:theory behind The Rapture’s latest Saturday at elsewhere to song No Sex for Ben. He is also mix up some tunes that will the man behind the hugely keep you dancing until the sun successful club night in London comes up! Saturday January Druzzis and has worked with 31. the likes of James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem), 2 many DJ’s, The Royale Sunday Scott Pullen, a DJ with 20 Rapture, Erol Alkan and Opyears experience in the internatimo. This Friday elsewhere

That dark and secret bit of lady land is always available to the landlord for on the spot inspections. No notice required. He doesn’t even need a key, why he can just bang the door down.

What woman doesn’t love a little forceful entry after a hard day cleaning and looking after kids? Samir Abu Hamza’s comments just go to prove one unshakeable fact, that some men, regardless of religion, race or creed are just born morons. He’s the poster boy for stupidity. tional club and festival circuit and founder of The Groove Academy, is guaranteed to provide outstanding entertainment for anyone with an ear for great music! Scott is joined

by Royale Sunday’s musical director, Giv who knows how to work the crowd into a frenzy on the dancefloor. Sunday February 1. Elsewhere is at 23 Cavill Avenue Surfers Paradise.

Phone 07 5592 6880.

The Digger Revell Show First appearing on television in 1959, over the past four decades Digger has captivated crowds and appeared on at least 60 National TV shows ranging from Bandstand to all the Johnny O’Keefe shows

reggie watts and mandy nolan at mullumbimby civic hall on sunday

After more than 15 years in the industry, Dave Grant is a highly soughtafter performer on both the corporate scene and the comedy circuit. Always professional, always fresh, and above all, always funny, Dave is one of the busiest comedi-

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Remember the gig guide too, the best way to advertise the Tweed’s events. www.tweedecho.com.au

Mondays & Fridays from 9:30am

Book our Function Room for your next event • Barefoot Bowls Fridays from 5pm-7pm Tu and Sundays from 9.30am-12 noon • Little Nippers Kids Room now open • Free courtesy bus Fridays and Saturdays from 4pm until late

Marine Pde, Kingscliff

Phone: 02 6674 1404 Fax: 02 6674 0089 www.kingscliffbeachclub.com.au

Trivia

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OPENING HOURS Sunday: 8:00am - 10:30pm Monday - Thursday: 9:00am - 10:30pm Friday & Saturday: 9:00am - 11:30pm The Tweed Shire Echo January 29, 2009 21

The Rainbow, Jenny Jenny, My Prayer, The World’s gone Crazy, Let’s hear it for the Working Man and a score of others.

Scott Pullen, a DJ with 20 years experience in the interna- With longevity as an entertainer which many artists strive tional club and festival circuit for but very few exceed the and founder of The Groove distance, Digger is best rememAcademy, is guaranteed to provide outstanding entertain- bered for a stellar succession of memorable performances ment for anyone with an ear for great music! Scott is joined in cabaret – Digger Revell and The Denvermen, The Digger

by Royale Sunday’s musical Revell International Review, director, Giv who knows how to work the crowd into a frenzy Digger & The Australians, The Jolson Story in Song, The Digon the dancefloor. Sunday February 1. Elsewhere is at 23 ger Revell Show. See him at the Cavill Avenue Surfers Paradise. Tweed Heads Bowls Club on Saturday from 7.30pm.

Phone 07 5592 6880.

Royale Sunday with Scott Pullen + Giv

TWEED RIVER ART GALLERY ON DISPLAY UNTIL 3 MAY A life in lithographs: William Robinson A fascinating display of self portraits by one of Australia’s most renowned artists.

Supported by The University of Queensland Art Museum & Philip Bacon Galleries

FROM 29 JANUARY - 22 MARCH In-Between: Zom Osborne Paintings and drawings exploring humanity

FROM 5 FEBRUARY - 15 MARCH Special Event: GREAT COLLECTIONS

MIYAKE DESIGN STUDIO, Tokyo, Japan.

Issey MIYAKE, designer Minaret dress, 1995 Polyester 137.0 length, 98.0 cm diameter Image courtesy Powerhouse Museum

A Museums & Galleries NSW touring exhibition, drawn from the magnificent collections of NSW eight premier institutions

All are welcome to attend official opening on Fri 13 Feb at 6.30pm FREE ADMISSION Cnr Tweed Valley Way & Mistral Rd Murwillumbah NSW 2484 Ph: 02 6670 2790 Gallery/Café open Wed to Sun 10am - 5pm (DST)

Relaxed Family Atmosphere Friday 30th 9pm

BLACK NEON SHADOWS with support Saturday 31st 7.30pm

The Digger Revell Show

Saritah’s at The Soundlounge

First appearing on television in 1959, over the past four decades Digger Revell has captivated crowds and appeared on at least 60 National TV shows ranging from Bandstand to all the Johnny O’Keefe shows and more. He has had three Number 1 chart topping records and fifteen hits in the Top Ten. His first hit recording, I’m Building Castles in the Air with his talented backing group, The Denvermen, was released in 1962, and followed up with a multitude of awesome hits such as My Little Rocker’s turned Surfie, Somewhere Over

Saritah’s songs combine lyrics that are at once global and personal, political and spiritual, with music that incorporates many influences from around the globe. From soul through folk to roots and world beats, Saritah has clearly crafted her own unique style, which has a sincere, raw energy, and whether solo or with a band, is performed with such passion as to captivate the listener, young or old. She has toured extensively overseas as well as having supported such artists as The John Butler Trio, The Cat Empire, Lior, The Beautiful Girls, Ember Swift [CAN], Eugene Hideaway-Bridges [USA] and Ash Grunwald amongst many others. South-Korean born and WA-based, Saritah’s music is a fresh burst of strong spirit and groove that is bound to uplift and inspire. See her, Georgia Potter and Jac Stone at The Soundlounge on Friday.

SOUL MAN Sunday 1st 2pm

ANDY BURKE

Monday Night Steak Special* $10 Wednesday Night Schnitzel Special* $10 *Conditions apply.

PLUS

nd splinter in the mi ay nd su at neverland on saritah at the soundlounge on friday

Reggie Watts FREE Courtesy Bus

NEW

from Kingscliff to Pottsville (24 hours notice is appreciated)

menu and cocktail list

Call 02 6676 0033 for bookings

Pandanus Parade Cabarita Beach

the digger revell show at tweed heads bowls club on saturday

02 6676 0033

CLUB MEMBER WON $1,237,000

TINO’S DAGOS teak night T N A R h&S RESTAU – $10 Fis nights 0.

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FREE Supervised Kids Club Fri-Sun from 5.30pm

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FISHO’S FRESH SEAFOOD RAFFLE 7pm

‘HAPPY HOUR’

Mon-Fri 4.30-6.30pm (Our club recognises RSA policies)

CLUB FACILITIES

Indoor and outdoor pool table, ATM, beer garden, Keno and TAB. Courtesy Bus available Fri/Sun. Phone club for details.

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Reggie Watts will perform his amazing and indescribable show that melds music and comedy. He has sold out all nine shows in Sydney, and received rave reviews. This is his only regional show on this inaugural visit to Australia. Mandy Nolan will be the opening act.

Tickets are $25 and on sale now at Mullum Bookshop, Fairy Floss on Jonson street in Byron, or at the door, if not sold out.

Doors open at 7pm for dining from Open Table. Sunday night, 8pm sharp, at Mullum Civic Hall.

ard Scott will be representing Tweed Byron District in next month’s Australian Open Triples event being held in Shepparton Victoria. This will be the first time that any bowlers from this district have won Pottsville Beach through to qualifying rounds Sports Club and are currently placed in the last 64 teams in Australia.

It pays to play Keno at this Congratulations to the players club. A club member beand we wish them good luck. came Keno’s first millionaire Since the inception of the new for 2009, winning just over $1,200,000.00. A Pottsville resi- D’Agostino’s Bistro, patrons dent for the past 22 years and a are enjoying the quality and good club member for over 10 service which is being provided. Some of the specialities years, he was ecstatic with his are: Tuesday nights, Steak and win. Taking 100 ten (10) spot games every Saturday eventu- Fish Night $10, Wednesday, ally paid dividends. Well done. Roast Night from $8.50.

Since the big win, club patrons Dominic and his crew have transformed this club into a and visitors have been trying their luck at Keno, trying to win dining experience with quality food and great prices. Open that elusive 10 spot jackpot.

Tuesday-Sunday lunch 12-2pm Club bowling members Kris Lehfeldt, Rod Wilson and Rich- and dinner 5.30-8.30pm.

Coming soon Topp Twins The multiple award-winning, yodelling, comedian entertainers who have developed a cult following in New Zealand and star in their own prime-time TV series, bring you a unique night of world-class comedy and music to Seagulls on Friday February 6.

James Blundell Celebrating the release of his much-anticipated Portrait of a Man, the gorgeous country swooner is joined by the talented Peter Denahy and the voice of McLeod’s Daughters, Bec LaVelle. See him Saturday February 14, 8.30pm (DST) at Seagulls.

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gig guide

local events and entertainment

THURSAY 29 ■ CUDGEN LEAGUES CLUB, KINGSCLIFF 7.30PM RUSSELL SPROUT ■ CLUB BANORA 4.30PM GLENN BRACE ■ ELSEWHERE, SURFERS PARADISE UNLUCKY THURSDAY RED CUP PARTY ■ LA LA LAND, BYRON BAY, DANIEL WEBBER ■ LIQUID BAR, BYRON BAY, D’ARCY & FOXXY ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6.30PM VEENIE’S VARIETY NIGHT FEATURING UPSTAGE ■ TWIN TOWNS SERVICES CLUB, FROM 1.30PM DENIS WARREN, LONE WOLF, FROGS ON TOAST, PETE DAVIS, JOHN WHYTE ■ THE BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY 9.30PM POLAROID FAME + CHEYNNE MURPHY

FRIDAY 30 ■ CUDGEN LEAGUES CLUB, KINGSCLIFF 7.30PM GRAHAM DEAN ■ CABARITA BEACH SPORTS CLUB, BOGANGAR 8PM, THE CONSERVATIVES ■ CABARITA BEACH BAR & GRILL 9PM BLACK NEON SHADOWS AND SUPPORT ■ CLUB BANORA, BANORA POINT 7.30PM TRIBUTE TO CONNIE FRANCIS & FRIENDS ■ CURRUMBIN RSL, 7PM SUGARFIX

■ ELSEWHERE, SURFERS PARADISE ELECTRONIC BOOGIE SHOW W/ GUCCI SOUND SYSTEM (UK/DFA) + AUDUN + LADYBOY + GIV ■ GOLD COAST ARTS CENTRE, 8PM COMEDIAN DAVE GRANT ■ HOTEL BRUNSWICK, BRUNSWICK HEADS 7.30PM FORD BROS ■ HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON, THE QUIET EXCITEMENT + THE HUSSY HICKS ■ HOTEL MURWILLUMBAH, 9PM DJ LEE ■ IMPERIAL HOTEL MUR’BAH 8PM LIVE ENTERTAINMENT ■ IVORY TAVERN, TWEED HEADS 9PM LIVE ENTERTAINMENT ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH HOTEL 8.30PM THE PAINTED CROWS ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH CLUB, 7.30PM BEN GILGEN ■ LA LA LAND, BYRON BAY, FOLEY & GENERIK + DAN WEBBER ■ LIQUID BAR, BYRON BAY, ELECTRO FUNK, DJ ALDO, DJ NAVIN, DJ SLINKY ■ MUR’BAH SERVICES MEMORIAL CLUB 6.30PM BO JENKINS ■ OCEAN SHORES COUNTRY CLUB 6.30PM RICHARD BRENT ■ POTTSVILLE BEACH SPORTS CLUB, 7PM TREVOR RIX ■ SALTBAR, KINGSCLIFF, 8.30PM PAPA FUNK ■ SEAGULLS, CONNECTIONS LOUNGE, 7PM MR INTERNATIONALS

■ SOUNDLOUNGE, CURRUMBIN 7.30PM SARITAH & GEORGIA POTTER + JAC STONE ■ THE BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY RAGGA JUMP ■ THE RAILS, BYRON BAY 7PM GROOVE FOUNDATION ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 7.30PM JUST THE TICKET ■ TWIN TOWNS SERVICES CLUB, FROM 1.30PM SWIZZLE, FROGS ON TOAST, LINE DANCING WITH RUSSELL HINTON, DENIS WARREN, STEVEN MICHAEL

SATURDAY 31 ■ BYRON BOWLING CLUB, 8PM BLACK TOP CIRCUS ■ CABARITA BEACH SPORTS CLUB, BOGANGAR 8PM, THE RETRO PARTY WITH THE ANGRY PENGUINS ■ CABARITA BEACH BAR & GRILL 7.30PM SOULMAN ■ CLUB BANORA, BANORA POINT 4.30PM GLENN BRACE, DEEP CREEK ■ COOLANGATTA TWEED HEADS GOLF CLUB, 7PM MARK WILDE ■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL, 8PM RSVP SINGLES PARTY ■ CURRUMBIN RSL, 7PM STREET CAFE ■ ELSEWHERE, SURFERS PARADISE MOTION:THEORY W/ RHYS LLEWELLYN + BEN ABRAHAMS ■ GOLD COAST ARTS CENTRE, 7PM THE HARRY LYNN JAZZ QUARTET (WEEKLY GIG),

BEVERLY WALTON ■ GREENMOUNT BEACH CLUB, COOLANGATTA 7PM LIVE MUSIC ■ HOTEL BRUNSWICK, B HEADS 7.30PM WAITING FOR BRIAN ■ HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, FUNKOARS ■ HOTEL MURWILLUMBAH, 9PM FAT ALBERT ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH CLUB 7.30PM CRAIG SHAW ■ LA LA LAND, BYRON BAY LIVEWIRE ■ MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES MEMORIAL CLUB 6.30PM DENNIS DEAN ■ POTTSVILLE BEACH SPORTS CLUB, 6.30PM GEOFF DUTTON ■ SALTBAR, KINGSCLIFF, 8.30PM THE GENES ■ SOUTH TWEED SPORTS CLUB, 3PM - 6.30PM LIVE JAZZ (WEEKLY FREE GIG) 7.30PM BOB BARNARD & FRIENDS ■ SEAGULLS, CONNECTIONS LOUNGE, 7PM AGENT 77 ■ SEAGULLS PIANO BAR 4PM ALEXANDER ■ SHEOAK SHACK, FINGAL HEAD, 7PM SCOTTY FAIRCLOUGH ■ THE BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY 9.30PM SUPERSTARLOOPS ■ THE BUDDHA BAR, BYRON BAY 7.30PM THE MATTY DEVITT BAND ALBUM LAUNCH ■ THE BYRON COMMUNITY CENTRE 7.30PM, CAFE HARMONY ■ THE RAILS, BYRON BAY, BENJALU

GIG GUIDE DEADLINE 12pm tuesday hans@echo.net.au

■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB, 7.30-11PM DIGGER REVELL SHOW ■ TWIN TOWNS SERVICES CLUB, FROM 1.30PM RUSSELL SPROUT, EAR CANDY, FROGS ON TOAST, HARRY LYNN, GOOD VIBRATIONS, DENIS WARREN ■ UKI CAFE, 6PM BILL JACOBI

SUNDAY 1 ■ BYRON MARKET, GROOVE FOUNDATION ■ CABARITA BEACH BAR & GRILL ANDY BURKE 2PM ■ CLUB BANORA, LIVE ENTERTAINMENT 11AM ■ CURRUMBIN RSL, 1.30PM CRAIG SHAW ■ ELSEWHERE, SURFERS PARADISE ROYALE SUNDAY W/ SCOTT PULLEN (SYD) + GIV ■ HOTEL BRUNSWICK, BRUNSWICK HEADS 3PM BY-PASS 7PM LEIGH JAMES ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH HOTEL 1PM PETE MEREDITH ■ LA LA LAND, BYRON CAPTAIN KAINE ■ MULLUM CIVIC HALL 8PM REGGIE WATTS & MANDY NOLAN ■ NEVERLAND, COOLANGATTA 7PM GARETH VAN DAGGER, SEAN HAZEL EYES AND SPLINTER IN THE MIND ■ POTTSVILLE BEACH SPORTS CLUB,5PM GEOFF RAYNER ■ SALTBAR, KINGSCLIFF, 1PM BLIND LEMON

■ SEAGULLS CLUB, 3PM LINE DANCING (WEEKLY GIG) ■ SPHINX ROCK CAFE, MT BURRELL, 1- 5PM JESSIE VINTILA, OMNIPRESENCE ■ THE BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY 4.30 FYAH WALK, 8PM DJ CAPTAIN KAINE ■ THE BUDDHA BAR, BYRON BAY 3PM SPOT THE DINGO ■ THE RAILS, BYRON BAY 6PM THE BLUE RHYTHM KINGS ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 5PM DON WHITAKER ■ VICTORY HOTEL, MOOBALL 1-3PM BROADFOOT

MONDAY 2 ■ THE RAILS, BYRON BAY 6.30PM STU HARCOURT ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH CLUB 12PM DAVID BARRY

TUESDAY 3 ■ THE RAILS, BYRON BAY BRIAN WATT ■ THE BUDDHA BAR, BYRON BAY. 8PM ANTHONY GEORGE ACOUSTIC

WEDNESDAY 4 ■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL, 8PM JAM NIGHT WITH HOUSE BAND REMEDY (REGULAR WEEKLY GIG) ■ GREENMOUNT BEACH CLUB 7PM DOWNBEAT JAZZ BAND (REGULAR WEEKLY GIG) ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6PM LIVE ENTERTAINMENT

ph. 6672 2280 fax. 6672 4933

eating out guide to all the best restaurants and cafés in the northern rivers 02 6674 9961

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

OPEN 8 NIGHTS A WEEK!

Dine-in Takeaway Home Delivery

FLAMINGOES CAFÉ

Tweed River Art Gallery

cnr Tweed Valley Way and Mistral Road Murwillumbah NSW Open Wed-Sun 10am-5pm Phone 02 6672 5088

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

MT WARNING HOTEL BISTRO OPEN DAILY 1497 Kyogle Rd, Uki Ph: 02 6679 5111 OPEN 7 DAYS 10am–Late

Evenings: Monday-Saturday (Tapas/cocktail bar from 5pm) Lunch: Friday, Saturday, Sunday 12-3

Australian Gourmet Traveller, March 2008

Open 7 days from 6pm till late

Live it I Love it

Beach Hotel, Byron Bay Bookings 66 807 055

GREAT VALUE FAMILY BUFFET Gollan Drive Tweed Heads West 2485

07 5587 9000

WORLDS BEST PIZZAS

Cottage on Coronation

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Modern Australian Cuisine Bush Tucker Winners of 2008 BEX Restaurant of the Year Award

12 Coronation Ave Pottsville Phone: 02 6676 4949

Cottage at Cabba

OPEN 7 DAYS

BAR & RESTAURANT

BYO

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

PH: 02 6672 3088

360 Marine Pde, Labrador (07) 5528 2377

OPEN 7 DAYS & NIGHTS

NAM YENG Vietnamese & Thai Restaurant

`The best restaurant in town.

Not to be missed.’

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Bookings essential Ph 02 6674 4833 dining@fins.com.au Salt Village Kingscliff

6685 6029 6685 5011 6685 3101 Suffolk Park (behind the pub) NEW BYRON STORE OPENING EARLY 2009

91 MAIN ST MURWILLUMBAH 02 6672 5492

7 Wharf St Murwillumbah Yolanda Nutter Michael Sopena 0407 078 408 0439 489 623

Open 7 days • 8am - 4pm Friday & Saturday Nights Fully Licensed 2 Rowlands Creek Road, Uki NSW 2484 ph: 02 6679 5351 ph/fax: 02 6679 5851

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Australia Day sports honours was given, the style meister award, if there was one, would definitely go to wellknown Murwillumbah soccer coach Joe Scholl who displayed his cricketing style during the friendly cricket match at Uki Sports Club grounds. (See Backburner) Left, Lindisfarne under 12 rugby league squad and below, style meister Joe Scholl.

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Picturered right, Pottsville Bowls Club’s Edna Macdonald recieving an award for her contribution to bowls from president Robyn Booth.

TIDE TIMES PHASES OF THE MOON Last Quarter 17th Feb 7.37 am New Moon 25th Feb 11.35 am First Quarter 4th Mar 5.46 pm Pisces Full Moon 11th Mar 12.38 pm FRI High 11.29 am 1.6 Sunrise 6.15 am 30th Sunset 7.43 pm Low 5.12 am 0.5 Moonrise 9.30 am 5.56 pm 0.3 Moonset 9.45 pm SAT High 12.07 am 1.4 Sunrise 6.15 am 31st 12.09 pm 1.5 Sunset 7.42 pm Low 5.58 am 0.5 Moonrise 10.26 am 6.30 pm 0.4 Moonset 10.15 pm 6.16 am SUN High 12.50 am 1.4 Sunrise 1st 12.53 pm 1.4 Sunset 7.42 pm Low 6.50 am 0.5 Moonrise 11.25 am 7.08 pm 0.4 Moonset 10.48 pm MON High 1.37 am 1.5 Sunrise 6.17 am 2nd 1.46 pm 1.3 Sunset 7.41 pm Low 7.51 am 0.6 Moonrise 12.26 pm 7.52 pm 0.5 Moonset 11.25 pm TUE High 2.33 am 1.5 Sunrise 6.18 am 3rd 2.55 pm 1.2 Sunset 7.40 pm Low 9.03 am 0.6 Moonrise 1.31 pm 8.47 pm 0.5 Moonset WED High 3.38 am 1.5 Sunrise 6.19 am 4th 4.17 pm 1.1 Sunset 7.40 pm Low 10.26 am 0.5 Moonrise 2.38 pm 9.56 pm 0.5 Moonset 12.09 am THU High 4.49 am 1.6 Sunrise 6.20 am 5th 5.40 pm 1.1 Sunset 7.39 pm Low 11.47 am 0.4 Moonrise 3.45 pm 11.11 pm 0.5 Moonset 1.00 am Eastern Standard Time. Heights in metres.

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Across the shire athletes and supporters were applauded for their efforts in the annual round of Australia Day sport awards.

At the Tweed Australia Day awards in Uki on Monday Lindisfarne students received two awards, the first for Outstanding Athlete – Daniel Bulmer and the second for the Sports Team of the Year – Lindisfarne Anglican Grammar School under 12 rugby league squad who were all smiles after receiving an Australia Day

award at Uki on Monday.

The other major sport award went to Jessica Henshaw for Junior Sporting Achievement.

Pottsville Women’s Bowls Club had their annual presentation of Australia Day Medals for Sport and the other Achievements.

Edna Macdonald received an award for her contribution to bowls and the Pottsville club from president Robyn Booth.

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unhappy with – attend this meeting to have your say. (for all members) Mon 9th Feb – 09, 9.30 Delegates meeting, Mur-bah. Sun 15th Feb – 09, 9.30am –Sun Social Bowls Club Day with a beautiful BBQ lunch recommences, Cost $10 pp, mufti dress. All welcome.

Tues 3rd March – 09, District Championship entries close. Happy Birthday to all celebrating this week.

Look forward to seeing members and visitors at our Club. Bookings – 02 6674 1816 / 2734. Happy Bowling Everyone.

Kingscliff Ladies Wednesday 21 January, are: Winners: S. Pround / A. Wonka / M. Lincoln Def. S. Coombe / M. Neilson / A. McNamara Runners-Up: D. Abraham / C. Henry / L. Willoughby Nomination forms are now available for the Fours Competition commencing Friday the 30 January, and Singles scheduled for Friday 6 February.

Please contact Games Controller Laurel Willoughby should you require further information.

Remember –Kingfisher Triples –Monday the 16 February At last Wednesday’s General Meeting a cheque for $2,000 (raised from our Christmas Raffle) was presented to St. John’s Ambulance Regional Officer Fay Gleave, for the purchase of an Oxyviva Back-Pack.

Well done ladies.

Kingscliff Men Thursday 22 Winners: K Pritchard, K Berger, G Pritchard J. D. Thompson, B Morrow, D Beattie, H Kemp, R Parlett, B Mullins and G Searle. Plate Winners: A Curnow, G Hallett, J Quinn, S Jamieson Saturday 24 Winners: P McKirdy, R Maltby, B Hayhoe K Dawson, G Barrack, P Crompton B Morrow, W Ritzau, A Brown Plate Winners: L Gillespie, R Payne, D Gleave Winners of the Open Singles played on Saturday 24th January: M Turner, G Barrack, T Wonka, M Penfold, J Quinn, B Turner.

Open Singles matches to be played on Saturday 31st January are M Azzopardi v R James, P Lewis v L Murphy, G Barrack v K Liddington, M Turner v G Hallett, M Penfold v V Lewis, J Dunn v T Wonka, J Quinn v I Smith. Roll up commences at 9:00am Super League: Bronze Division will play

BOWLS Condong Men Wednesday 21 36 bowlers on a very warm day. Winners being J Walsh, R Brown, R Shoobridge runner/ups E Hunt, P Houghton, T Houghton. Meat trays J B Meats S Munro, H Ross, B McEwan C Mummery.

Thursday nights power play singles was washed out half way through and will be played 6pm Tuesday night. Saturday24th 24 bowlers . Winnners S Reading, P Messing second G Miller, P Ayres.

Vouchers for club S Reading , K Vardy.

Condong Cane Toads Sunday 25th Cane toads hosted Kevin Leslighter Day . Over 80 Bowlers and guests enjoyed a game of bowls and bbq before the rain started to come down.The 3 wooden spoons went to Monque. Goose, Tony,for being winners.

Runners/up Faye , Morry, Ronnie, Brian.

Winners of rafell B McBurney, Debbie, T Wilson, T McCollum, B Scott. All had a great day. Sunday 1st is the old mates day at Koygle bus leaves Condong 7am sharp . Our next game will be on February 8th and Kingscliff will visit us.

Cudgen Leagues Ladies Congratulations to the winners of Rnd 1 Club Championship fours –Ann Revie, Pat Pieterse, Isabel Nipperess, Colleen Wein def Sharon Hinks, Betty Sydneham, Helen Wylie, Maureen Alcorn.

Marion Hull, Yvonne Corcoran, Lorraine Sandall, Liz Fleming def Judy Martin, Vickii Needs, Joy Ashford, June Wotherspoon. Thurs 22nd, Ladies Social results – Winners, Rnk4, Ann Revie, Yvonne Corcoran, Isabel Nipperess, Colleen Wein. (Club Fours.) Raffle – June Wotherspoon. Congratulations Everyone.

Coming events – Club Championship Fours to play at 1pm today – Marion Hull, Yvonne Corcoran, Lorraine Sandall, Liz Fleming V’s Lola Taylor, Eilleen Burke, Val Andrews, Margaret Trapnell.

Good luck girls. Thurs Ladies Social arrive 12.30 for 1pm start. Everybody welcome. Please note Thurs Ladies Social will commence at 9.30am during the pennant season,starting on Feb 10th.

Mon 2nd Feb, 1pm –WEAKING Group visit (International) 28 Mixed Bowlers app. (Club Uniform please) All welcome.

Tues 3rd Feb, 9.30am –Quarterly General Meeting, is there anything you are

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at Kingscliff against Indooroopilly on Saturday 31st January commencing 2:00pm NSW time. Gold Division will play on Sunday 1st February at Booval against the Booval Swifts. Game commences at 11:00am NSW time. Please check the board for teams.

Summer Nines commence on Saturday 7th February. Please check the board for teams.

Pottsville Men Week Ending 26/01/2009 Wednesday the 21 Winners with Lowest Winning Margin: –D Clark, N Armour and T Fuller. Winning Rink: –D Lee, G Crawley and J Buckley, Consolation Prize: –B Brown, A Thorpe and B Parr Friday the 23 Winners with Highest Winning Score: –M Comerford, B Moore and H Woodbridge Saturday the 24 Winners with Highest Winning Score: –B Brown, B Laybutt, Winning Rink: –D Appleton and B Kent, Consolation: –W Gruggen, K McGuiness and M Fletcher Australia Day 2009 The Annual Shirts V Skirts Day went off at Pottsville Beach Sports on Australia Day. Bowls commenced at 9:30 am preceded by the raising of the Australian Flag and the Flag representing the New South Wales Rural Fire Service, who were the recipients of the days fund raising efforts.

The morning tea break was called and traditional home cooked damper and Anzac biscuits and a lunch of a snags and onion B-B-Q ably cooked, with thanks, by representatives of the Tweed Coast Rural Fire Service was enjoyed later in the day.

Those receiving awards were the winners on the day. Recipients of the Australia day awards were Kris Lehfeldt (Achievement in Sport), John Buckley (Contribution to the Sport and the Club) and Clubman of the Year went to a well deserved Bruce Campbell.

Reinders: ‘Barefoot Bowls’ every Sunday at 2.00pm, beginners welcome.

For enquires and bookings for bowls call the Pottsville Beach Sports on 6676 1077 and follow the prompts. Don’t forget if you strike the answering machine, to give clearly your name, the day and date for which you are booking and

your preferred position. If you are a visitor, a contact phone number would be appreciated, we would hate for anyone to be disappointed.

Pottsville Women Thursday, January 22: President Robyn warmly welcomed back B Hollingsworth, J Costello and V Hardy.

Lucky Bowler: V Scott. Winning Rink: K Soccio, A Mackay, R Booth, V Scott, W Fielding. Raffles: P Austin, D Donges.

Updates: Feb 9: Delegates meeting, M’bah. Feb 10 Pennants Commence.

Feb 26 Club 4’s entries close. Please check your Pelican Post for all updates on visiting groups and clubs.

Tuesday morning mixed bowls – mufti.

Come along for a morning of enjoyment.

Visitor Info: Fri 1.00 pm mixed pairs.

Thurs Women’s Social Bowls 9 am. Order lunch and enjoy our warm and friendly club. For new bowlers, should coaching be required, please contact the club on 6676 1077 and follow the prompts.

GOLF Chinderah Veterans Social Golf Results for Thursday 22/1/09 –Stroke Winner ‘A’ grade –Bob Holmes –net 57 –new h/cap 9, Runner up –Brian Brown –net 58 –new h/cap 10.

Winner ‘B’ grade –Lock Olsen –net 57 –new h/cap 15, Runner up –Mal Saggus –net 58 –new h/cap 15.

Winner ‘C’ grade –John Foster –net 51 –new h/cap 22, Runner up –Daphne Douglas –net 52 –new h/cap 27 Ball rundown to net 60 (c/back).

Next event Thursday 29 –Stableford Results for Monday 26/1/09 –Stroke and Monthly Medal Winner Monthly Medal –Bob Dickie Winner ‘A’ grade –Bob Dickie –net 56 –new h/cap 4, Runner up –Bob Holmes –net 58 –new h/cap 8.

Winner ‘B’ grade –Bruce Jones –net 59 –new h/cap 14, Runner up –Alan Andrews –net 61 –new h/cap 19 Winner ‘C’ grade –John Mulligan –net 62 –new h/cap 20, Runner up –Chica Gallagher –net 66 –new h/cap 20.

Putting contest –25 putts –Ed Franklin Ball rundown to net 62 Next event –Monday 2–Stableford Murwillumbah Golf Club Sunday 18th Jan Women’s Winner M.Parkes 36 pts Member R.Rattray 33pts N/Pin 2nd P.Whitford Monday

19th Jan Winner R.Masiar 40 pts, Runner up W.Haigh 39 pts N/Pin 2nd B.Polley 5th R.Masiar 10th B.Connolly 17th R.Johnson B.R.D.to 36 pts c.b Wednesday 21st Jan Winners J.Neil and M.Lackey 52 pts R.Up C.Varela and R.Brims 49 pts c.b Veteran R.Brims 49 pts N/Pin 2nd M.Thomas 17th K.Bullen B/R/Down to 45 pts c.b Saturday 24th Jan 2009 Ind Stab Winner A.Grade c.Evesson 43 ptd R.Up A.Grade T.Boorman 41 pts Winner B.Grade S.Derepas 42 pts c.b, Runner up B.Grade J,Hoffmann 42 pts Winner C.Grade K.Lansley 37 pts c.b, Runner up C.Grade G.Watts 37 pts Winner D.Grade A.Dick 42 pts R.Up C.Grade F.Dick 40 pts N/Pins 2nd J.Hopkins 5th S.Walton 10th.

D.Carpenter 17th K.Tisdell B.R.Down to 36 pts c.b SHOOTING Murwillumbah Pistol Club Week ended 24th January, 2009: Air Pistol – Men – D Gazzard 631 A Uren 594 P Faulkner 588 R Rees 586 D Dowling 581J Lumsden 580 A Gazzard 577 J Curtis 555 A Bobowski 501 J Bliss 507.

Ladies – P Faulkner 402 A Gazzard 395 E Bartrim 388. Standard Pistol – R Fleming 585 S Nash 581 W Gray 577 D Gazzard 575 A Berry 560 A Bobowski 533 A Uren 520 J Duckworth 520 A Gazzard 516 H Gray 513 G Callaghan 490 M Fleming 476 P Cusack 437. Rifle No. 5 – M Walters 607 R Walters 602 A Gregory 600 L Shepard 600 E Machielson 598 H Walters 594 T Walters 592 G Callaghan 590 SURF LIFE SAVING Cudgen Nominated Time Swim 1 Russel Zahn, 2 Murray Fitzpatrick and 3 Chris Carter.

Handicap Board 1 Jan HGielis, 2 Jo Colja and 3 Chris O’Callaghan

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U3A Tweed Coast branch. A warm welcome is extended to members and the public to attend a Friday Forum on February 6 at 2pm at Kingscliff Uniting Church. Our guest speaker is Danielle Davis from Wires Northern Rivers who will present The Secret Life of Birds. Afternoon tea will be served, cost $2.

Family history Tweed Gold Coast Family History and Heritage will hold its next meeting on Tuesday, February 3, in Sth Tweed Sports Club Minjungbal Dr, Sth Tweed Heads at 1.30pm (NSW time). Guest speaker will be Anne Swain from Qld Family History Society, visitors are welcome to attend with tea/coffee following meeting. For info call Noelene Magrath 07 5599 8939.

PCYC open day The Tweed Heads PCYC is conducting an open day on Saturday, January 31, to showcase its range of activities and facilities. The club has something for everyone catering for toddlers to seniors.

Our day of free activities includes: 10-11.30am: gymnastics and kindy gym; 12-1 pm: basketball clinic

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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.

PERSON WANTED 1 day per month on average for general garden maintenance (no mowing) and gutter cleaning. Phone 66721287 ACCOUNT REP Any job experience is required to carry out the job. You must have computer skills & speak English ďŹ&#x201A;uently. Earn up to $3000 monthly. Email terrylane2111164@gmail.com

PAPER DELIVERY BANORA

Due to continued expansion of our paper, The Echo has a position for contractor(s) to insert, fold and deliver The Tweed Shire Echo to BANORA POINT and surrounding areas.

Receiving the paper Thurs morning, you will complete house delivery by dark on Thursday, but in rainy conditions or unusual circumstances delivery may stretch over to Friday or Saturday. This is a contract position offering good renumeration. It requires an ABN, starts soon, and would suit very reliable persons/couples with a reliable vehicle.

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and sign up; 1-2pm: boxing for fitness classes plus from 10am-12pm various martial arts displays and from 12-2pm hip hop dance and badminton. In addition, the club also offers after school care and vacation care, band nights, equipped band practice room and music programs, weights gym and Sunday markets. The centre is at the corner of Florence and Adelaide Streets, Tweed Heads, ph 07 5599 1714.

Bread giveaway The free bread and grocery giveaway is staying in Tweed Heads on a Wednesday at 12.30pm DST at Jack Evans Boat Harbour but organiser Terri Bradley said there was a desperate need for a bakery willing to donate leftover bread and pensioners are urged to bring their bags along as usual and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;hopefully we can keep it going nowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Also groceries are still needed so please dig deep. Call Terri on 07 5523 3096 or mobile 0414 376 057.

Support for parents Do you have a young baby and/ or toddler? Looking for some support? Our trained volunteers and support workers provide practical parenting support to parents and carers living in the Tweed Shire who are caring for at least

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The Echo has a position for contractor(s) to insert and deliver The Tweed Shire Echo to MURWILLUMBAH CBD. Receiving the paper Thurs morning, you will complete commercial delivery by midday Thursday. This is a contract position offering good renumeration. It requires an ABN, starts soon, and would suit very reliable persons/couples with a reliable vehicle. It would be a distinct advantage to live in Murwillumbah.

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one child 0-3 years of age. The Volunteer Home Visiting Service is a service that provides volunteers to support parents and carers in their home on a weekly basis.

Contact The Family Centre on 07 5524 8711.

Garden club Tweed Coast Garden Assoc. will hold its first meeting for 2009 on Feb 10 at the Cabarita Community hall starting at 1.30pm. A fun auction will be held so bring all your unwanted items for auction with proceeds to the club. Trading table will not be operating. Flower of the month is Frangipanis in a saucer and the floral art theme will be exhibitors own choice. Visitors and new members welcome. Phone Dennis or Kathy on 02 6676 4402.

Scouts Registration day, Saturday, January 31, 10am-12pm, Brunswick Heads Scout Hall, South Beach Road. For youths and adults interested in joining the largest youth movement in the world for fun and adventure. Existing members register on the day.

Spiritual gathering Saturday, February 7, 1pm.

M/bah Red Cross Hall Knox Park.

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EMERGENCY NUMBERS Please stick this by your phone EMERGENCY ONLY AMBULANCE, FIRE, POLICE.................... 000 AMBULANCE Kingscliff, Tweed Heads, Murwillumbah ......... 131 233 MURWILLUMBAH HOSPITAL .................................... 6672 1822 EMERGENCY ............................................ 6672 0230 TWEED HEADS HOSPITAL ....................................07 5536 1133 FIRE BRIGADE Kingscliff ................................................. 6674 1271 Murwillumbah ........................................... 6672 8305 Tweed Heads .........................................07 5536 2222 Tweed Rural Fire Service .............................. 6672 7888 POLICE NON EMERGENCIES 24/7 ................................ 131 444 Tweed Heads .........................................07 5536 0999 Murwillumbah ........................................... 6672 9499 Kingscliff ................................................. 6674 9399 STATE EMERGENCY SERVICE ..................................... 132 500 Banora Point..........................................07 5524 1349 Murwillumbah ........................................... 6670 2460 Tweed District ........................................... 6672 4093 LIFELINE ............................................................... 131 114 GOLD COAST HELICOPTER RESCUE SERVICE ..........07 5598 0222 TWEED COAST AIR SEA RESCUE...........................07 5536 9333 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 24 hour crisis line ..................1800 656 463 ANIMAL WELFARE (RSPCA) ..................................07 5536 5135 NSW Wildlife Information & Rescue Service (WIRES)........ 6628 1898 WILDLIFE CARERS TWEED VALLEY ........................... 6672 4789 CURRUMBIN SANCTUARY ....................................07 5534 1266 SEA WORLD .....................................................07 5588 2222

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business with a clear head, and politically itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to argue against that. But abstinence didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop those whose breath smelled most strongly of ginger starring in a dreary string of procedural mix-ups. Only the ever-cheery Phil Youngblutt managed to inject a laugh and end a meandering debate over what a proposed zero tolerance policy for graffiti artists actually meant by suggesting they be should be shot. He was joking, of course.

The big crowd at the Uki Sports Club on Australia Day was spared a rendition of possibly one of the daggiest pop hits in recent history, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Puppy Loveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; by Donnie Osmond and instead heard a more down to earth treatise of what it means to be an Aussie by TV and radio celebrity Donnie Sutherland â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the Tweedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Australia Day Ambassador this year. The real reason Osmond, the former American teen heart throb, didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t appear was because he was never invited. You see, we got the two Donnies mixed up â&#x20AC;&#x201C; not that too many people, thankfully, noticed.

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From Monday, for the next five months, motorists using Tweed Valley Way at Murwillumbah can expect some traffic delays as Tweed Shire Council upgrades an essential water trunk main. The work will be carried out from Railway Street to between Buchanan Street and Quarry Road and motorists are encouraged to use alternative routes where possible.

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Donnie Sutherland, OAM, a former DJ and TV pop-music show host, showed the Tweed crowd he still has the gift of the gab â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and the pulling power with the girls. When Richmond MP Justine Elliot mentioned in her address that she was a big fan of Donnieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in her younger days, charming Donnie fulfilled one of her long-lost dreams, leaving his seat to give the blushing pollie a big kiss, proving heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still Mr Smooth. â&#x2013; â&#x2013; â&#x2013; â&#x2013;

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Well-known Murwillumbah soccer coach Joe Scholl is a bit of an all-rounder and showed his deft hand with the willow during an Australia Day fun cricket match at Uki Sports Club on Monday. After telling the Echo photographer he could go on to the field and snap away, Joe went in to bat and proceeded to slam â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;em hard and high, including one that whizzed past the photographerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lens at a fast rate of knots. Now that wouldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve made a good photo. (Backburnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty sure Joe didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t aim at the camera.} â&#x2013; â&#x2013; â&#x2013; â&#x2013;

Ker-ching! Tweed Shire Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s solicitors, Marsdens, have toted up their bill for fending off Terry Sharplesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attempt to sink the councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seven-

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Despite its growth, Murwillumbah is still a country town at heart as Kyna Truesdale, 17, of Bray Park, showed recently when she rode her horse Elegant Allure (â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;El for shortâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;) into the CBD so she could show her off to her friends in town.

year-plan, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been calculated down to the last cent at $258,712.18. It reveals forensic accountants were thrown into the fray at a cost of $22,804.10 to help senior counsel, Mr C. Leggat ($104,830) win his case.

The paperwork must have been horrendous, judging by the photocopying and colour copying costs of $9,973.79.

The council wants to duck the bill for the 10-day case, voting 5-2 to ask a judge to pin it on the retired accountant who gave staff so much grief.

ren Polglase, who predicted everyone would ignore the high-handed edict, endured a low-carb ginger beer while chastened staff and most councillors drank the fullstrength variety. Dot Holdom, who normally likes a tipple except when sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s driving, drank milk as an example to the onein-42 drink-drivers out there.

Only three councillors stand by their rights, but whether peer pressure will turn the trio into temporary teetotallers or the rest will tire of the taste of ginger beer provides an interâ&#x2013; â&#x2013; â&#x2013; â&#x2013; While all councillors took esting indicator of who wields umbrage at rookie Mayor the most influence.

Joan van Lieshoutâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unilateral â&#x2013; â&#x2013; â&#x2013; â&#x2013; booze-ban during council Cr van Lieshout, who coldinner breaks, most now seem leagues believe tends to overto be toeing the line. Even a estimate her powers, says she suddenly diet-conscious War- wants councillors to tackle

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The Sydney Morning Herald debacle we mentioned here last week has resulted in thousands of Tweed readers receiving spasmodic deliveries.

It appears the paperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s highly paid decision-makers failed to factor in the one-hour time difference when it decided to print a northern edition in Queensland instead of flying them up from Sydney. As a result they arrive too late for delivery. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s uncertain whether they plan to adjust the timing of the print run or simply wait for the end of daylight saving.

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Further to our piece on those cute geckoes giving an Echo reader a hard time with their daily little ablutions. Another reader has suggested using fly spray on them but Backburner is just not into gecko death squads. We strongly recommend tender loving care (a little bread crumbs, some water) to woo the little critters away from any sensitive areas.

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