Tweed Echo – Issue 1.28 – 19/03/2009

THE TWEED SHIRE

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Council approves full rate hike Ken Sapwell

Tweed residents face another 9.5 per cent rate hike this year after councillors narrowly decided to stick with the council’s seven-year plan.

In a surprise four-three vote on Tuesday, Tweed Shire councillors rejected moves to limit the increase to 6.5 per cent and opted instead to endorse the controversial plan put in place by the administrators three years ago.

The decision means that most projects earmarked for funding under the plan will go ahead as scheduled, including an overdue facelift for the Jack Evans Boat Harbour and major environmental works.

Decision brought forward Senior council staff moved to end speculation about the future of the plan by forcing councillors to show their hand some three months out from the period when the annual budget and rate rises are normally considered.

Corporate services director Troy Green told councillors that staff needed an early indication of their intentions to provide time to formulate the budget for 2009-2010.

He recommended they continue with the implementation of the plan but gave them a choice of three other options involving lesser rate increases, but warned they would all involve curtailing a range of services and projects.

Former Tweed Mayor Warren Polglase immediately moved to limit this year’s increase to 6.5 per cent, saying the council needed to be prudent during tough economic times.

‘A smaller increase allows us to do some of the projects contained in the plan but perhaps not at the same speed,’ he said.

He was backed by mayor Joan van Lieshout and veteran councillor Phil Youngblutt who urged their colleagues to bite the bullet and reduce the proposed rate rise which would see most people paying an extra $64 a year.

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the global downturn would worsen and that many people would be forced to change their lifestyles.

‘We should be holding a workshop to look at ways we can make savings in the organisation,’ she said.

But deputy mayor Barry Longland launched a stong defence of the plan, saying it was irresponsible of councillors to dump it in what would be a ‘short-term populist decision.’

He said the council was faced with a range of increases, including wages and depreciation costs which were outside its control.

‘We risk digging ourselves into a big hole if we start going weak at the knees over this issue,’ he said.

‘No one wants an increase but if we abandon the plan now we could be facing a 20 per cent increase in the future to catch-up.’

He said a report to the council indicated that under a proposed 6.5 per cent increase the council would barely be able to hold its head above water.

Duty to stick to the plan Cr Dot Holdom said councillors had a duty to stay with the plan which would deliver projects the community had indicated they wanted.

Newly elected councillor Kevin Skinner surprised some by breaking ranks and voting with the community councillors including Katie Milne, saying that he did not want important projects such as river bank stability work delayed any further.

Mr Green told the meeting that the council faced a range of expenditure increases and a fall in revenue because of the economic slowdown amounting to a $960,000 shortfall which would absorb around 2.7 per cent of the rate revenue.

This meant that some projects earmarked for the next financial year would have to be axed but the council would address the cuts during its budget deliberations.

McKeown dragging him to the beach most days, KJ took up longboarding to beat the boreKJ McKeown (pictured hanging ten) may only dom of days sweating in the sun.

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Yachties have gone from the teeming maelstrom of Bass Strait to the calming waters of Banora Point where they are feeding their sailing habit with remote control fun.

Almost 15 avid boaties from the Twin Towns Radio Yacht Club held an open day on Tuesday to entice new members as part of Seniors Week celebrations.

Club commodore Richard Harradine, 65, (pictured) said they had seniors come from as far as Brisbane to sail remote control yachts on Lake Kimberley with a view to taking it up as a hobby.

‘So many retired people are looking for something to do and that is what is great about Seniors Week – it gets them out trying new things,’ he said.

Mr Harradine formed the local yacht club five years ago

when he retired and took up remote controlled yachting.

It is one of almost 60 similar clubs in Australia that all compete in state and national radio controlled yacht competitions.

‘I’m now addicted. I go to Palm Beach on Wednesday to sail and Emerald Lakes on Saturday as well as hold races here

Tweed Shire Council will forge ahead with controversial plans to re-brand its image after mayor Joan van Lieshout underwent a conversion.

The council voted 4-3 to pay consultants $45,000 to create a corporate-style identity for the organisation, complete with a new council logo.

Council general manager Mike Rayner described a brand as a visual identity and ‘a promise of a level of quality or service’.

‘For council, as for any organisation, particularly one with such a diverse range of products, services, operations, customers and staff, it is a

Greens councillor Katie Milne said the council should forget the idea because of the high costs likely to be involved in pasting the logo on traffic signs and buildings at a time when everyone else was pulling in their belts.

Cr van Lieshout, who previously rejected the idea of improving council’s image in place of ‘winning the respect of the community’, said she had been Council’s old uncopyrighted logo, now turning up in some odd impressed with other logos in recent travels and believed the places, according to the general manager. council needed an image showcentral requirement that the Mr Rayner said the existing ing ‘it was forward looking.’ organisation has a strong and logo was not copyrighted and Crs Kevin Skinner and Warexplicit brand and be uniquely was now appearing on boxes of ren Polglase also voted against identifiable,’ he said. fruit, taxis and newspapers. the branding.

Win for Hastings Point Son jumps into dad’s surf Hastings Point residents have survived a second attempt to water down planning controls aimed at protecting the character of their seaside village.

A bid by Cr Skinner to rescind a decision at the last council meeting to impose interim restrictions limiting building heights to two storeys

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Mr Harradine used to sail catamarans competitively in Sydney and still exhibits a competitive streak during the local races.

‘We sail to the standard of international rules but if you sail in state or national titles it is like you are racing for cattle stations.’

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on Monday,’ he said.

‘We have sailors in our club who have sailed the Sydney to Hobart yacht race to people in their 70s who are just learning.

‘Each Monday we hold a race that is handicapped, so the learners get a head start and the experienced sailors have something to chase.’

Former long-serving mayor Max Boyd, who championed the plan when he was an administrator, made his first appearance in the council chambers since the new council was elected last September to watch the outcome of the debate.

He said it was a difficult decision facing the council because rate increases brought no joy to anyone.

‘But it had to be done and the councillors who supported it should be congratulated for having the courage to do so,’ a relieved Mr Boyd said.

‘Any lesser increases would have seen the council going

and reducing densities in the northern part of the village failed in a four-three vote on Tuesday.

Cr Skinner won the support of only Crs Phil Youngblutt and Warren Polglase for his move to repeal the new controls until the community was consulted.

out backwards financially and would have prevented a whole range of projects which in some cases people have been waiting for 20 years from going ahead.’

One of the few people remaining in the public gallery to hear the debate, Pottsville pensioner Len Greer, said while he did not like the idea of a big rate increase, he recognised that it was necessary if services were to be improved.

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Kingscliff from this Saturday, March 21, to next Sunday.

‘Longboarding is better when it comes to paddling waves,’ he said.

‘But I really like playing rugby more. I started surfing because dad would take us all the time.’

The longboarding competition has been a mainstay of the Malfunction event since its inception at Kirra when 100 surfers got together to highlight the lost art of traditional surfing.

Malfunction organiser Sean said this year an expanded field of international surfers would be competing alongside local greats such as Ray Gleave.

He said capturing the magic of yesteryear’s longboarding style would be the key to surfing a winner.

‘What the judges are looking for is the length of ride and traditional manoeuvres such as walking the board, hanging five or 10,’ Sean said.

‘We will be looking for someone who can surf all of the board on all of the wave as opposed to doing one perfect maneuver.’

The surf festival celebrates all facets of the surfing lifestyle with bands, an art exhibition, luau dinner and a classic surf car rally.

Most events take place over the weekend of March 28 and 29 and are sprinkled around Cudgen Headland Surf Life Saving Club, with some events also taking place at Salt and Casuarina Beach.

The most physically challenging event will be a stand up paddle competition from Cabarita to Kingscliff on Sunday, March 29.

For those less inclined to surf up a storm, every day there will be a collection of historic surfing photographs on display at the surf club.

To find out more and view a full program of events go to www.malfunction.com.au. www.tweedecho.com.au

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Developer faces cash-flow crunch Luis Feliu

Lawyers for one of the Tweed’s former high-profile development companies, Resort Corp, which went into voluntary administration earlier this month owing more than $300 million, have defended the conduct of its directors.

The Gold Coast-based company, co-owned and run by Paul Brinsmead, the son of former Tweed shire deputy mayor and Tropical Fruit World founder Bob Brinsmead, and his brother-in-law Peter Madrers, was behind multi-million-dollar developments in the Tweed, some of which had a history of controversy, including The Beach resort at Bogangar/Cabarita, Nor Nor East and Soraya at Kingscliff and Santai at Casuarina.

But the global credit crunch has taken its toll on the luxury resort and residential developer.

Last Thursday, a creditors’ meeting organised by appointed administrator David Clout and Associates was held in Brisbane, where it was revealed that 22 companies, including eight family companies or family trusts directed by Resort Corp founders, owed more than $300 million to 371 creditors.

After the meeting, company spokesman Andrew Robinson of Robinson Legal, told The Echo that Mr Brinsmead and Mr Madrers poured between $6 and $9 million of their ‘personal’ money into the company in the past year after ‘the troubles hit’.

Shine scraped off resort plaque for ex-councillors Ken Sapwell A giant plaque lauding the ‘visionary’ achievements of several sacked councillors could be an unintended casualty of Resort Corp’s cash flow crisis.

Resort Corp erected the tribute in the foyer of its contentious three-storey Beach development at Cabarita to honour six pro-development councillors whose efforts they say made the project possible.

But its political connotations have irked some unit owners who have so far been unsuccessful in their appeals to Resort Corp directors and co-owners, Paul Brinsmead and Peter Madrers, to take it down.

The owners say they are now hopeful that the directors’ powers to block its removal will be extinguished under a forced sale of assets to repay debts of around $300 million.

‘A lot of people see it as a slap in the face for the five minority councillors whose names were omitted from the plaque – presumably

‘They could’ve let it go down then, but rather they kicked everything in they’ve got which absolutely wiped them out,’ Mr Robinson said.

‘They tipped all their assets in to pay off creditors and they won’t get anything till the creditors are paid.

‘As traumatic as it’s been for them, they’ve shown rather exceptional conduct as directors by moving quickly and proactively when creditors were not being paid,’ he said.

The 22 companies which have been moved into administration include the flagship Resort Corp Pty Ltd. The group also had plans to build a $500 million resort complex

because they were not so developer-friendly,’ one owner told The Echo this week.

The names on the plaque – identical to another in the foyer of the company’s Santai resort at Casuarina – includes Mr Brinsmead’s father, Bob, re-elected councillor Warren Polglase and former resort manager John Murray.

The plaques praise their ‘great vision, dedication, courage, perseverance and strength’ which helped ‘usher in a exciting new era for the Tweed region.’

They were erected following the council’s sacking in 2005 after an inquiry found that Paul Brinsmead was one of the masterminds behind a Tweed Directions scheme to fund the election campaign of the six councillors.

Inquiry head Maurice Daly found that the scheme had ‘subverted’ democracy.

The Burleigh-based company, which is also behind the exclusive new $210 million Quay West development at Noosa, went into receivership earlier this month owing creditors millions.

A recently released list of political donors to Queensland’s Labor government shows that Resort Corp contributed $15,000 to party coffers.

in Townsville called Saltwater and other North Queensland developments including Santai Airlie Beach and Funnel Bay, but it is unknown whether they will now go ahead.

Mr Robinson said the group’s other projects including a residential project in Noosa Heads would not be affected and he expected staff in the company to retain their jobs.

Mr Brinsmead and Mr Madrers have refused to talk to the media about the issue.

The company and Mr Clout are now working on details of a deed of company arrangement, and Mr Robinson said they hoped to sell company-held assets for the benefit of creditors.

Mr Clout told The Echo that a report was due at the end of this month convening the second meeting of creditors due in April.

The company over the years occasionally fell foul of Tweed residents at Cabarita and Kingscliff over contentious issues with their planned developments such as proposed height limits, use of Crown land and clearing of vegetation.

Gold Coast media reported that the company last year was ‘snowballed’ by Currumbin residents when it announced plans to build a resort which exceeded the three-storey limit. The company later sold the site.

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Murwillumbah High School is set to become the base for most horticultural and aquaculture training in the region, with plans to build a $1.5 million facility for school and TAFE students.

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ering up to Certificate III in aquaculture, horticulture and general agriculture.

To be named the Murwillumbah Agricultural Trade Training Centre, it will feature ponds for aquaculture lessons, specialist horticulture facilities, two classrooms and a possible greenhouse.

The new facility will be built down the back of its Riverview

Street site once some sheds in the area are removed.

Murwillumbah High’s deputy principal Michael McNamara said presently students wishing to access similar training or courses had to travel to Grafton or Wollongbar.

‘It will allow students to get a head start on training. We have found if young people have this level of training behind them

they are far more competent in the labour market,’ he said.

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Richmond MP Justine Elliot said the facility would equip students with the skills needed to compete in the workforce of tomorrow and urged other schools to develop similar topquality proposals for funding.

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Legal aid centre officially opens

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The response to a new community legal centre in Murwillumbah since it opened its doors in November has been overwhelming, according to NSW Attorney-General John Hatzistergos.

The attorney-general told around 40 people attending the official opening of the Tweed office of the Northern Rivers Community Legal Centre (NRCLC), on the corner of King Street and Commercial Road, that appointments for the service had been booked out since November, showing a ‘big need’ for a legal aid service in Murwillumbah.

The centre operates three days a week and isstaffed by two solicitors and a community development officer to provide face-to-face civil law advice, casework and community legal education services. It has been funded by state and federal funding of $150,000 for three years.

Mr Hatzistergos said the service was targeted at women facing domestic violence, people with mental illness, young people at risk, people with disabilities, Indigenous people, the homeless and ex-prisoners.

He said it would greatly improve access to legal services for people of the Tweed Valley and had so far advised and helped people with employment, discrimination, credit and debt problems, motor vehicle accidents, neighbour disputes, victims of crime issues, contracts and wills.

Northern Rivers Community Legal Centre manager Angela Pollard said the service was ‘proud of our first branch office’.

The wholesome, good time social spirit of yesteryear will be revived this weekend with the commencement of the year’s Miss Tweed Ball circuit.

The old time dancing event, which is in its 36th year, is set to kick off with the Tumbulgum Ball on Saturday, March 21 from 8pm.

The Miss Tweed balls involve approximately 12 events held at local halls in areas including Uki and Stokers Siding where judges pick the best attendees to compete in the final ball at Murwillumbah.

Entrants can compete in various age categories including tiny tots for those under nine years old, junior for nine to 14-year-olds and older age groups for the more mature.

Organiser Dorothy Lever said there were plenty of ball fans who go to every event and compete for the crown relentlessly. But those who win have to drop out of the event for a year.

‘There is a lot of old time dancing such as the Pride of Erin as well

Attorney-General John Hatzistergos (right) with the new community legal centre team solicitors Janet McCormack (left) and Tony Barac and community development officer Greta Hunter.

Ms Pollard said that when the centre was based in Lismore, a third of the demand was generated from the Tweed district.

‘I assume as a result that we’ll be pretty busy, particularly with the current financial circumstances.’

Mr Hatzistergos said the the difficult economic climate with high unemployment and mortgage stress accentuated the need for the legal service in a fast-growing area like the Tweed.

For appointments call the Lismore NRCLC office on 6621 1000.

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as new vogue dancing like the swing waltz,’ she said.

Mrs Lever said the chance to dress up was a major attraction to many – particularly the children.

‘The dress code is after five, but you don’t have to wear a long frock. The tiny tots will usually wear dresses with gloves, which is just adorable.’

Copper cables replaced with underground lines Old copper powerlines spanning an environmentally sensitive wetland on the Tweed Coast have been removed to prevent possible lengthy power blackouts.

The cables around the Tweed Coast Road from Cudgen Road to Dianella Drive have been replaced with underground cables as part of a $2 million local power improvement project.

Country Energy’s far north coast boss Richard Wake said the old cables spanned difficult terrain and would have been hard to replace if damaged in a storm.

‘The powerlines are out of harm’s way now and this should ensure a more reliable supply for residents and businesses around Cudgen and Casuarina,’ he said.

‘If the old powerlines were dam-

aged in a storm, flood or due to some other unforseen circumstance, the delay in restoring power could have been lengthy because of the difficulty of terrain.’

Unfortunately the work that started last week caused some traffic delays along the Tweed Coast Road, but Country Energy said staff were unable to work at night due to the terrain.

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Hilltop project’s impact under scrutiny Luis Feliu

Massive developments planned for Cobaki Lakes and Bilambil Heights will not be allowed to progress until a new road network to service the area is operational, Tweed Shire Council has warned.

Concerns over the residential/commercial developments’ potential to congest local roads follow the unveiling earlier this month of a $1.3 billion redevelopment plan for the old Terranora Lakes Country Club site at Bilambil Heights.

The project, to be known as Rise, comes hot on the heels of other huge proposals, the Kings Forest and Cobaki Lakes residential townships, now being considered by the state government.

The proposal for the 184-hectare site, which includes an unused golf course and panoramic, but derelict, hill-top clubhouse, involves homes for around 3,500 people, a retail precinct, schools and tourist accommodation.

The at times troubled site was originally planned to be turned into a six-star resort with a 27hole golf course, plans which lapsed over the years. Over that time, neighbouring residents raised a number of concerns over contentious land clearing and access around the area.

A master plan for the Rise development is to be lodged with the state government by the company, Terranora Group Management (TMG), run by Brisbane-based developer Godfrey Mantle, who has been a longtime owner of the site.

But Tweed Shire Council, which will oversee the construction of each stage of the development, has told the Department of Planning that

An aerial image of the 184-hectare site at Bilambil Heights proposed for a $1.3 billion residential redevelopment.

the project, part of the Bilambil Heights land release area, would only be approved if upgrades and new roads were constructed.

These involve building the Cobaki Parkway from Piggabeen Road to Boyd Street, building a new ‘spine’ road through the site from Marana Street to Cobaki Road and upgrading Cobaki Road from the ‘spine’ road to Cobaki Parkway.

In its submission to the

state planning department, Council planners said the rest of the staged development could only proceed beyond the current road volume limits on Kennedy Drive when the Cobaki Parkway between Boyd Street and Piggabeen Road was ‘continuously constructed’.

‘Development must then progress in a manner that progressively constructs the Scenic Drive diversion from Piggabeen Road southward (i.e. all new development must have

Rise developer’s contractor killed trees A contractor for the developers of the old Terranora Lakes Country Club site at Bilambil Heights faces millions of dollars in fines and a possible jail term after pleading guilty to cutting and poisoning around 1,200 threatened plants on site.

On the same day landowner/developer Terranora Group Management was unveiling plans for its $1.3 billion redevelopment of the site, the contractor faced the NSW Land and Environment Court on a number of charges under the Threatened Species Act, related to the killing of at least seven different species of plants across the Terranora property.

The case has been adjourned for sentencing on May 6.

Under the act, the contractor faces a $1.1 million maximum fine per species killed and $1,100 per specimen or individual plant and/or a jail term.

Community rallies for bashed dad The Pottsville community has rallied around the Arnold family after dad Dallis’s vicious bashing in Byron Bay recently left him in hospital and his young family with no source of income.

Mr Arnold, 31, was bashed outside Byron Bay’s Great Northern Hotel on Saturday, March 7, while celebrating a buck’s night out. He suffered serious head and neck injuries and is expected to remain in Gold Coast Hospital, where

he is slowly waking up from a coma, for several months.

Nicholas Stafford Sharp, 27, has been charged with attempted murder for allegedly stomping on Mr Arnold’s head, using violence to cause fear and intentionally causing grievous bodily harm. He has been remanded in custody in Grafton jail and a bail hearing in Lismore is due on April 7.

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‘The traffic management plan should further demonstrate that the proposed road network provides adequate access to adjoining properties and future land release areas within Bilambil Heights, and that road network design takes into account staging of the development and ultimate capacity for cumulative urban development of the zoned 1(c) land.’

A press release by the Rise developers, Terranora Group Management Pty Ltd (TGM), said that more than a third of the site would remain environmentally protected open space and that development would occur over the next 10 to 12 years.

The site has a chequered history, with the old clubhouse sitting derelict atop one of the best views of the Tweed. In 2001, its owners spruiked for a luxury Sheraton-managed resort complex and golf course on the site.

The firm’s development director Steve MacRae said the decision to build a master planned urban community rather than a resort followed a review of the best use of the land and market considerations.

‘This unrivaled hilltop site, 217m above sea level and 7km from Tweed Heads, provides a perfect position for an urban community which meets the needs of locals, promotes modern design and is sensitive to the environment,’ he said.

He said contributions for the critical new road links, including the Cobaki Road upgrade, Scenic Drive diversion and the Boyd Street interchange with the Tugun Bypass, had to be negotiated.

Construction is expected to start in 2010.

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Raffles, coin tins in local businesses and a barefoot bowls day are planned as fundraisers.

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Curing cancer Murwillumbah filmmaker Harmony Church and the Eungella Hare Krishna community’s wellknown bullock driver and organic gardener, Lagudi, will hit the big screen this weekend at the local Regent Cinema with a very short (three minute) film preceding the features. It documents Lagudi’s successful battle against cancer, which was cured by his healthy raw-food diet. The film runs throughout the weekend.

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Green thumb gardeners are outraged that they will be forced to pay for mulch they presently get for free once the Murwillumbah tip closes in November.

The Uki Garden Club has written to Tweed Shire Council warning that if green waste services are shifted to Stotts Island it will result in illegal dumping.

The group, which represents almost 100 gardeners in the Tweed, has urged the council to keep the tip open or estab-

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Founding member Lyn Reid said hundreds of residents used the free mulch available at the Murwillumbah tip to maintain council verges and supplement impoverished soils.

‘Mulch is an invaluable resource in the replenishment of soils and gardeners in the Tweed use large quantities of it to ensure that both the rich and impoverished soils of the Tweed Valley continue to be productive,’ the letter to council states.

‘Faced with the drive to Stotts Island, many residents are likely to dump their green waste into bushland and over riverbanks, with the resulting spread of weeds into sensitive native areas,’ it warns.

Ms Reid said the Tweed’s garden-loving pensioners would be hardest hit by the closure of the tip.

‘Being on a pension, many of our older members rely on the free mulch,’ she said.

‘Now they will have to drive that extra distance to Stotts Island and pay for the mulch up there. And because that facility is run privately, the mulch is sold off to gardens and nurseries and it runs out so we have to wait ages until more appears.’

The Department of Environment and Climate Change has ordered the council to close the Quarry Road tip in November after the department became concerned with leaching.

Uki Garden Club founding member Lyn Reid in her garden.

Club members fear illegal dumping of green waste if people are forced to pay for mulch. Photo Jeff Dawson

The council’s co-ordinator waste manager Adam Faulkner said the site would be remediated once it closed and used by the council for free storage.

He said a new greenwaste contract was to be signed in December and that the council

would request the successful bidder ensures greenwaste is made available for locals.

‘The contractor who processes the greenwaste, it is up to them to enter commercial agreements with who they choose to,’ he said.

Carole a quiet achiever, for others Roxanne Millar

For as long as Carole van’t Riet (pictured) can remember she has helped others - be it as a young girl in her brownie guide uniform, as a scout leader with her badges or in her current incarnation as a nurse.

The Murwillumbah resident last month celebrated 25 years working at Murwillumbah Nursing Home, but the achievement pales in comparison to her lifetime volunteering to help those less fortunate.

Carole has spent most of her life volunteering on the Tweed – not bad for a 65-year-old who reckons she still has many more years of helping people in front of her.

She has spent 15 years as a member of Quota in Murwillumbah, more than 10 years with View, 18 years with the Tweed Valley Respite Service and launched a visitation centre for children 18 years ago.

‘I like to do what I do very quietly,’ she said.

‘My husband and I came from families that have always given back and we raised our girls the same way. We have always believed that if you have sufficient, then you give back to the community.’

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The mother-of-two moved to Murwillumbah to escape Victoria’s cold winters 30 years ago and landed a job at the Murwillumbah Nursing Home with a promise most job applicants in all industries make but never keep.

‘I remember the director of nursing was lovely but straight up just asked me why she should give me a job,’ said Carole.

‘So I told her I was a good

nurse and that I would stay there until I retire.

‘Back then retirement age was 60. I am now 65 so I’ve bettered that promise over the years.

‘And I’ll be doing it until I don’t enjoy it.’

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Weathering the climate shit storm o Malcolm Turnbull has taken a position on climate change – well, sort Volume 1 #28 March 19, 2009 of and up to a point.

He does not support the government’s emissions trading scheme, at least not in its Tweed’s new council faced a tough call when it was forced to present form or on its current confront a sooner than expected decision over whether to retain timetable. But that doesn’t the seven-year rate plan and go along with another 9.5 per cent mean he’s suddenly become rate increase. a climate change sceptic, no, The plan, containing a series of compounding rate rises which perish the thought. start reducing in size after next year, was devised by the adminHe definitely wants to do istrators, including local government chief Garry Payne whose something but he’s not sure department approved the scheme believed unique to Tweed quite what or when. It’s just Council. The sharp increases were aimed at bringing Tweed coun- that he believes the governcil’s revenue up to speed after it fell behind other councils during ment’s scheme will cost jobs a period in the 1980s when it filled its coffers from joint ventures and won’t save the environand land sales. ment. He, in contrast, wants a But as the catch-up increases reached their peak last year they scheme which will cost nothbegan to hit hip-pocket nerves, turning it into a political hot ing and achieve everything, potato for new councillors and even sparking an unsuccessful and he’s going to continue to court challenge. look for it.

But when crunch time suddenly occurred on Tuesday night, And right after he’s perfectcouncillors were faced with a stark choice that would test their ed clean coal and controlled fortitude. They could scrap the plan and cut the rates, creating nuclear fusion, he’ll be able to a possible financial black hole involving the axing of jobs and announce something, that is dozens of projects due to be delivered mainly to the Tweed if it’s acceptable to the party Heads area following the car park and aquatic centre splurge in room and okay with Barnaby Murwillumbah.

Joyce and Peter Costello, not Or they could risk the wrath of ratepayers and keep the plan to mention various anonyon track. Projects in line for next year include an overhaul of the derelict Jack Evans Boat Harbour, fixing museums where leaking mous donors to the Liberal Party. roofs are ruining valuable artefacts and repairing broken footWe should not, however, paths and roads. hold our collective breath.

Councillors critical of the plan opted for a lesser increase, citing The last even vaguely coherthe economic crisis, but those in favour pointed out that it would ent position Turnbull held on leave the council in a hole which future ratepayers could take climate change was dedicated years to climb out of. It would also mean other projects such as support for an emissions tradstormwater and erosion controls would be mothballed, creating ing scheme, but not yet – not more pressure on natural assets. until 2011 or better still 2012, Although The Echo doesn’t usually endorse rate increases, it was persuaded by the argument that the average $64 increase and that was before the global could easily be absorbed by Rudd’s cash handouts to everyone financial crisis hit. Now, of earning under $80,000. Especially since most of the ratepayers’ course, it will almost certaindollars will be going to help generate jobs through the continuly have to be postponed still ation of a range of labor-intensive projects and the implementa- further, whatever it is that he tion of long overdue services. actually wants to do.

Those who will feel the full brunt of the increases will be high Thus it would seem that income earners living in prime coastal spots where valuations if Turnbull has not become have sky-rocketed with rates rising proportionately – but most a climate change sceptic, he should be in the best position to afford them. has at least become a climate change procrastinator. But Tweed Shire Echo incredibly, the double talk Publisher David Lovejoy which received rapturous apEditor Luis Feliu plause at the Liberal Party’s Advertising Manager Jeff Dawson

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weekend talkfest and even more fulsome (yes, fulsome; check its original meaning) praise from Tony Abbott was also welcomed by the Greens.

Christine Milne said it meant the real climate change debate could now begin.

But the way it is now shaping up it looks less like a debate than what our Prime Minister might describe as a political shit storm. The

Thus it would seem that if Turnbull has not become a climate change sceptic, he has at least become a climate change procrastinator.

by Mungo MacCallum Greens, of course, want serious action, and they want it now. The coalition, on the contrary, wants to do nothing of any moment for as long as possible. The only ground they have in common is the stated conviction that the government’s plan will not save the environment.

And of course they are both right, but at least it’s an acknowledgement that the problem is urgent, and a start has to be made, and surely this, in Penny Wong’s somewhat half-hearted call to arms, is better than nothing.

The five percent reduction target was a huge disappointment to those who had hoped Kevin Rudd was preparing to lead an international crusade, when it was announced last year, but in the present context of looming recession it can be seen as an act of political realism.

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Scrapping this grubby deal made by John Howard to ensure the support of the fanatical senator Brian Harradine was long overdue, and the fact that Rudd was prepared to do it against his personal belief shows a real commitment to the democratic process. Zealots have warned of an electoral backlash, and there is some risk of it, but the government has acted rationally, courageously and correctly and deserves due credit.

Which is more than can be said for The Australian newspaper, which last week expressed shock, horror and outrage that a handful of prisoners released from Guantanamo Bay had actually returned to Afghanistan and were fighting for the Taliban – indeed, one had become a commander.

Gee, you’d think a few years of solitary confinement, abuse and a spot of soft torture would have taught them to love and respect the American way, wouldn’t you. Ungrateful bastards. It just goes to show you can’t negotiate with them.

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There is a strong case for effective action that will not cost a lot of jobs and in any case even the most hidebound economists agree that if climate change is real, the cost of tackling it immediately will be far less than the cost of holding off until things really go bad.

But Rudd, preoccupied with saving the world from what he now calls the global financial cyclone, has effectively removed himself from the

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Wonder wall I am eight-and-a-half years old, I come from Murwillumbah and I go to Murwillumbah Primary School. I am writing about the tropical wall. I love it and I don’t want it repainted.

I always see it on my way to school and I would be really sad if it was painted white.

Isabella

Murwillumbah

Kings Forest problem Tweed Shire is the most rapidly growing area in NSW, blessed with good water supplies, including adequate rainfall and clean rivers, as well as a generally agreeable climate. We still have a beautiful accessible coastline with good surf and white sandy beaches. Much of the area is so far relatively healthy bushland.

Allowing the state planning department, located 900 kilometres away in urban Sydney, to make vital planning decisions for our future makes no sense. A Sydney politician or bureaucrat has absolutely no idea of the local conditions and impact that further residential

Labor cannot evade rail promises so easily Is Laurie Ganter on Justine Elliot’s payroll? He must at least be a member of the Labor Party. In his letter (March 12) he perpetuates the Labor line that locals are just having a ‘feel good nostalgia trip’ by wanting a commuter rail service operating on our idle rail line.

Being a Tweed Heads resident he obviously has a vested interest in the proposed rail link between Murwillumbah and Coolangatta, but his call for a prohibitively expensive rebuild of the existing rail line, starting from Byron Bay, ignores the immediate and urgent need for public transport services beyond his own personal needs, which must include Lismore and other inland towns which are currently almost totally inaccessible without a car.

If the already existing 115-year-old line were to be revitalised, without his suggested costly upgrade, even if and commercial development will have upon our area. The state government likely will approve the ‘concepts’ of both Cobaki Lakes and Kings Forest, without taking into account global warming, endangering koalas and other flora and fauna, acid sulphate soil effect on future built environment, and deleterious effects of placing golf courses in lowlying wetlands.

It’s a shame that debate about the Northern Rivers Greens preference announcement has tended to portray the issue from the perspective of the ALP’s interests, because it’s meant that many relevant points are being missed.

Firstly, we should remember it is the voters who decide how to allocate their preferences,

there’s no obligation to follow the how-to-vote cards. It’s only voting above the line for the Senate where preferences are allocated as determined by the party.

Indeed, Green voters tend to be the most independently minded. At the last state election for instance, a quick look at local preference figures seems to indicate that at most only about 30 per cent of Green voters were preferencing based on the party recommendation, and at the last federal election, where allocating preferences is compulsory for a formal vote, the split of Green preferences between the major parties appears to be within the same range for the electorates in Tasmania, where the party did not recommend preferences, as it was for electorates on the mainland.

The bottom line will be that if Labor doesn’t get Greens

preferences, it will be because the voters themselves don’t feel they’ve earned them, the Greens party will merely be telling their voters to make up their own minds. Of course, Labor doesn’t seem to like the idea of voters thinking for themselves, now do they?

Secondly, the alternative course of action for the Greens would seem to be simply making the preference recommendation to Labor without asking for any concessions in return.

It could be said that far from rejecting negotiations, the Northern Rivers Greens have in fact chosen to open the negotiations with Labor via this decision. This decision means that Labor will now have to sit down at the negotiating table with the Greens in order to gain the preference recommendation, rather than simply receiving it based on some kind of ‘divine right’.

When I was a member of a political party I used to go around repeating the idea that the Greens were just the ‘leftwing’ of the ALP, and I could point to selectively chosen ‘facts’ to prove it. It is of course not true, and it is great to see the Greens demonstrating this clearly and standing up for the community on an issue about public services for our region.

There has of course been years of lobbying, negotiations, and public protest on the issue of sustainable transport services for the Northern Rivers, all falling on the deaf ears of citycentric policy thinking. If the Greens can achieve something through a preference negotiation process than I’m sure the community will welcome it.

Results matter more to the community than which party’s interests are being served.

The major consideration of planning decisions seems to focus on a property owner’s perceived absolute right to do as he sees fit with his real estate. Enabling private property owners to make huge profits is no longer a supportable reason to approve new developments.

It appears that the Sydney government will rubber stamp their OK on at least Cobaki Lakes. Afterwards, Tweed

Council as consent authority will have the power to ensure that any new residential construction needs to meet more than BASIX standards of energy efficiency. In fact, any new residences built at Cobaki Lakes could be built with 24 solar panels, 12 solar deep cell batteries, solar hot water with instant gas backup, rainwater tanks for water supply, built on an appropriate axis taking ad-

vantage of northern exposure and flow-through ventilation, with ceiling fans. A 4-bedroom, 2-bathroom home built to these low-footprint standards costs under $200,000 to build today.

It is no longer a supportable argument that economics prevents building such energy efficient homes. For the small additional cost of installing alternative power – taking ad-

vantage of government grants – builders could proudly advertise their strong support for a sustainable future, rather than seeking to maximise profits by building the usual energy-consuming house.

Kings Forest poses an entirely different problem. The proposed development area has inadequate road access and steep inclines. A signifi-

the commuter train were ‘slow’, it would be safer, faster, and more accessible than the current alternative – hitch hiking.

If Labor can’t even maintain what we already have, what hope do we have, and how long must we wait, for someone to have the vision and funding to create a whole new rail corridor?

It’s a beautiful route, Laurie – hopefully you’ll be able to just sit back and enjoy the scenery.

Marilyn Gough

Murwilllumbah

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cant part of Kings Forest lies in a wetland, where the proposal is to site a golf course fed from treated sewage. A colony of koalas lives within the proposed development area, and allowing the project to move forward will decimate this already threatened and fragile koala family. Some of the females have already not bred for several years due to human incursion, such as logging.

There simply is no logical reason to approve the Kings Forest development. The terrain is rugged in many parts and unsuitable for housing estates. Threatening the area’s koalas, one of our national icons, will likely cause the eventual extinction of north coast koalas within five years.

Building roads in the Kings Forest development will upset the balance of natural habitat for flora and fauna. Tweed does not need another faceless housing estate cum shopping centre cum school grounds in what today is a precious green space of trees that help keep the carbon dioxide in balance as well as providing habitat for animals and welcome undeveloped space between the cane fields and the over-developed Tweed coast.

The main motivation behind state approval for Kings Forest, of course, is money. The developer has already donated $25,000 to the NSW ALP. If the State Planning Office

truly cared about what Tweed residents want for Kings Forest, their staff and politicians would have held open public meetings to listen to us. Instead, it appears we may simply be treated as if our opinions are irrelevant, and thank you very much for obediently paying your GST and stamp duty into the state’s coffers, suckers.

Ronald Wolff

Uki

Climate reality Either those scientists warning of climate change are wrong or the climate change sceptics are wrong. If the former are wrong then no real harm will ensue, but if the latter are wrong, then heaven help our grandchildren and our planet.

Couldn’t have said it better, pinched from Sid Wolifson Chiswick. The future can be bright and rosy, it’s our choice.

Peter Rae

Condong

Logo motive

logo change aims to reflect the specific cultural and business identity of our governing body – the biggest employer in the shire. The present logo, a great general locality identifier, wouldn’t disappear.

Unfortunately, Cr Milne’s March 17 notice of motion requesting information already available, demanding actions already performed and criticising council planning officers exhibits the same attitude.

Kings Forest and Cobaki DAs have a long public history and there are a number of comprehensive reports Cr Milne can access. It’s about time she familiarised herself with these, the EP & A Act, connected policies and directives and council’s code of conduct.

Neophytes Longland and Skinner seem to have got their minds around the processes which have to be followed.

Why can’t Cr Milne?

Barbara Fitzgibbon

Kingscliff

Cr Milne’s letter (March 12) with its concluding unwarranted swipe at council’s professional staff is mischievous.

She’s been so keen to get on stage, that she hasn’t bothered to study the whole script.

The logo replacement suggestion is only one part of a far-ranging Tweed Shire Council corporate relations strategy that will significantly improve public participation opportunities, communication and customer service for all. The

Why Afghanistan?

Rally’s legality questioned ■ I have been following the proposed World Car Rally Championships with interest, and some important questions regarding the use of the Region’s national parks for this event, as alluded to by Dr Fiona McCormick (The Echo, March 5) beg an answer.

I understand that those roads that are proposed to be used are ‘ministerial roads’ and technically not gazetted as part of the national parks, but in the Draft Plan Of Management (POM) for Mooball NP, currently on public exhibition, the stated intent of NPWS is to manage these roads ‘subject to the provisions of the POM, the NP&W Regulation (2002) and the EP&A Act’. Further, a stated aim of national parks generally, under section 30E (2) (e) of the NP&W Act includes ‘provision for sustainable visitor use and enjoyment that is compatible with the conservation of natural and cultural values’.

Try as I might, I can’t see how rally cars travelling at 60 or 70 km/h on roads deemed to be too narrow and steep for horseriders can be viewed as either ‘sustainable’ or ‘compatible’ with conservation objectives.

Given what appears to be a clear contradiction of the

I have difficulty with the official version of why Australia has troops in Afghanistan. I have heard that it has to do with attempting to control al Qaeda which is a terrorist group and the Taliban which is a political group.

However, US president Barack Obama has said (SMH, March 5) ‘The safe havens for If it makes sense to send al Qaeda remain in the frontier troops to Afghanistan, why regions of Pakistan.’ are they not also in Pakistan?

Isn’t it true that al Qaeda are stateless, or more accurately perhaps, could be in any state, and that we are obviously being selective in deciding we can make a mess in Afghanistan more than Pakistan in pursuit of the illusive terrorist wraith?

The whole issue however, reaches the level of black humour when one realises that if plans for a mosque are put before residents of North Sydney, there are enough objections on D SE A the grounds that it is a Moslem E R religion, as the TV program INC The Chaser showed, to see that W NO it may be the exclusion of the religion and its people that is a cause of Islamic terrorism. The causes of terrorism could have a basis in the racial prejudice, and/or exclusion of Islam, by Australian attitudes, so why are

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As for the Taliban, sure they have social mores that do not appeal to ourselves such as the stoning of people for adultery, and offences for the showing of any female skin. But as with clitorectomy in some parts of Africa, these behaviours come from beliefs entrenched in the societies, and positive change cannot come, as we know with the Aborigines, from enforced change by another culture. Sociologists know that there cannot be judgement of another culture from the point of view of one’s own culture. We have no right to be at war with the Taliban.

If the official reasons for Australian troops in Afghanistan make no sense, then there is more likely to be cherrypicking from rumours. They vary from the need to run oil

and gas pipelines through Afghanistan, to the need to remove the Taliban who prohibit poppy growing for heroin, to the spectre of terrorism needs to be constantly held up as a reason for perpetual war on which major western economies are based, to the fact that we are still up the arse of the USA. I can accept the possibility of any or all of the above, but the version that makes most sense to me, and explains all of them, is that Australia is warmongering again.

Geoff Dawe

Uki Letters also received from C Degenhardt, Nobbys Creek, W Sibley, Cawongla, J Standing, Coolangatta, N Orlowski, Terranora, W James, Tugun.

Some of them can be read on our website www.tweedecho. com.au ■

Advertiser, columnist admonished An advertisement for ‘Ibar’ in Tweed Heads appears in The Echo of March 5 on page 24.

This advertisement says: ‘Lap dance the night away with the hottest chicks on the coast’.

Women are women or girls and should be addressed as such, to address them as chicks is derogatory and degrading, and particularly damaging to the self image of many young women and senior girls in our high schools, and there are six large high schools in this area.

It appears that the advertisement is attempting to groom our young women into be-

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THE SMARTEST, EASIEST, GREENEST DECISION YOU’LL EVER MAKE

NP&W Act and a draft POM, lion of taxpayers’ money and is the rally legally permissible agreed to a 10-year contract in a national park? with an option for another 10 Nigel Greenup years. (What!?)

Nunderi The rally has an office in the Tweed Shire Council chambers.

■ Many people are upset about How did this happen when the an international car rally being rally has yet to even submit a foisted upon this region. The DA for the event? letters pages are full of opposiAnd where is their Environtion to the rally for a host of mental Impact Study? Tweed reasons, mainly adverse im- Council boss Mike Rayner pacts on our environment and is on the rally’s board. Why image. doesn’t he come to community Where are the proponents? meetings and explain why we A few misguided ‘spokespeo- the residents and ratepayers ple’ from chambers of com- have only been given a chance merce seem to have taken the to object once the deal is all organisers’ bait that merchants stitched up? will get windfall profits during The ‘consultation’ has conthe event, despite the WA gov- sisted mainly of rally repreernment saying they stopped sentative Gary Upson presentsponsorship because WA didn’t ing us with a done deal. If it’s get much out of it. too late to stop the rally this So who is pushing this thing? year, surely we should insist on Surely not Tourism Australia a trade-off to benefit the whole who are promoting overseas community (like funding for this region as the ‘Green Caul- wildlife carers and money for dron’. I contacted Tourism NSW bicycle/walking tracks for allwho wrote back saying, ‘There year use). is currently no connection beAnd we need to review the tween the organisation of this results of this event before event and Tourism NSW.’ committing to more any time I have learned about a cell in our future. Maybe Mike within NSW Department of Rayner can move on and take Premier and Cabinet called his car rally with him?

Scott Sledge Events NSW, who allegedly Kingscliff have already paid out $6 mil-

ing chicks and the hottest can spend their time dancing with strangers at night. This form of solicitation should be discouraged and not publicly advertised. It is damaging to the community.

Patricia Albanese

Murwillumbah The Echo has been a wonderful breath of fresh air for this region and my family and I look forward to its delivery every week.

Unfortunately I have to get in early to vet The Echo so that my children don’t read Mandy

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the gathering ARTS Pamela Payne will take over the arts pages with our next â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Gatheringâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; feature on March 31.

In the mid-1980s Pamela packed her unďŹ nished PhD into a box in her garage, tossed her university medal (UNSW, Theatre Studies) into her sock drawer, turned her back on academia and started a new life as a Sydney arts journalist and theatre critic.

For well over a decade she covered the Sydney arts scene, writing for the Sydney Morning Herald, the Bulletin magazine and, for ten years, ďŹ lling her own page every week in the Sun Herald.

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Another particular concern throughout the years has been to foster new writing for the theatre, especially work that embraces various art forms.

She left Sydney in 1999 and, after four years travelling with backpacks around South East Asia, she and her husband moved to Murwillumbah.

It was, she says, a very happy choice â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the people, the climate and, according to a recently released NSW Creative Industry report, the place (from Byron to the Tweed) with the highest creative industry growth in the state. Where else could be more exciting to write about the arts?

If you have an item of news about the arts in our area, or a fresh idea youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like us to explore, contact Pamela on 6672 5749 or payneheck@yahoo.com.au

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MCDONALD Lennox Head based artist represented by Tim Olsen Gallery in Sydney, has been shortlisted for the Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW for his portrait below entitled Beyond.

of Mullumbimby is shortlisted for the Sulman Prize (Best subject painting, genre painting or mural project by an Australian artist) for her piece called Far from the city.

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JAMES POWDITCH

son of Bangalow based artist Peter Powditch, is shortlisted for both the Archibald – for his portrait of his father called Peter Powditch is a dead man smoking – and for the Wynne Prize (Best landscape painting of Australian scenery, or figure sculpture) for Made in Australia – Lake Burley Griffin

All artworks will be on exhibition at the Art Gallery NSW until 24 May.

Congratulations to all three artists on their selection.

Dedicated to the serious fun of working with clay Mullumbimby Potters have been in existence as a non-profit pottery association since 1978. Their informal atmosphere is both welcoming and encouraging to any folk who have the interest and time to explore their ability to create and to explore their imagination.

The pottery happens behind the Old Drill Hall on Jubilee Avenue, Mullumbimby near the swimming pool. One of the features of this organisation is the special needs group that is held weekly on Mondays. Carers are welcome. General sessions are on Thursdays from 9am.

Members, once familiar with the organisation, can use the studio at any time except when private classes are in progress. The electric kiln is capable of all temperatures to 1,260C for bisque to stoneware. Both structured classes and informal teaching enables anyone to begin hand building or wheel work from their first visit. Kiln firing and glaze techniques are also shared. The studio has six wheels and adequate space.

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THE ARTISTS celebrated in the book

’A Special Kind Of Vision’ Arts Northern Rivers recently launched the book ’A Special Kind of Vision’ celebrating contemporary Aboriginal art of the Northern Rivers region, at Retrospect Galleries in Byron Bay. According to the group’s CEO Lois Randall the project began back in 2005, ’when well-known Bundjalung artist, Albert (Digby) Moran, convened a regional forum attended by 30 Aboriginal arts practitioners from diverse communities. The forum led to the establishment of an Indigenous Artists Advisory Group, which has worked with Arts Northern Rivers ever since, providing a regional voice for Aboriginal artists and a focus for our strategic work in this area. ’In 2007 the Group played a fundamental role in helping to secure funding for the employment of our Indigenous Arts Development Officer, Frances Belle Parker. And with this appointment came the opportunity to undertake a comprehensive survey of Indigenous artists who live and work in the Northern Rivers region.

Over a period of several months Frances actively sought information on Indigenous artists working in the more remote parts of the region, relying significantly on word of mouth referrals to begin to track them down. ’This inspirational journey into country gave us the opportunity to further develop our Indigenous arts network and, more importantly, to provide local Indigenous arts practitioners with valuable business development tools and resources. For each artist that Frances met with, Arts Northern Rivers created a professional artist’s biography and portfolio, to assist them to gain opportunities to exhibit their work and/or apply for arts funding to support the ongoing development of their practice. ’From the 65 artists surveyed, 26 have been selected for inclusion in A Special Kind of Vision. This stunning publication captures the story of these artists and a moment in time in the chronicle of contemporary Aboriginal art of the Northern Rivers region.’

Copies of the book are now available from Arts Northern Rivers 6628 8120 or Retrospect Galleries 6680 8825, RRP $38.50.

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Television Guide

FRIDAY 20

1. Kate Winslet and Jack Black are one pair of unusual lovers in The Holiday (Prime, Friday 8.30pm). Cameron Diaz and Jude Law are the other. Presumably this information defines the attraction or otherwise of the film.

2. Johnny Depp stars in the original Pirates of the Caribbean (Prime, Saturday 8.40pm), made before the series started putting special effects before story.

3. This is an old magazine print of George Grossmith, who was a big star in the nineteenth century and creator of many Gilbert & Sullivan roles. In Mike Leigh’s brilliant 1999 film Topsy-Turvy Grossmith playing Ko-Ko was played by Martin Savage. No coincidence that in Grossmith, Gilbert and Sullivan: A Salaried Wit (ABC2, Sunday 9pm) Grossmith is brought to life by Simon Butteriss, who also played a small part in Topsy-Turvy.

4.30 GP (PG) Repeat.

5.30 Spicks And Specks (G) Repeat.

6.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Perfect Disasters (PG) 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Darling Buds Of May (PG) 1.30 Spicks And Specks (G) Repeat.

2.00 Monarch Of The Glen (G) Repeat.

3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Message Stick (G) Repeat.

6.30 Can We Help? (G) 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Stateline 8.00 Collectors (G) 8.30 Rebus: Resurrection Man (M,l) 9.40 Vincent (M,v) 10.50 Lateline 11.30 triple j tv With The Doctor Repeat 12.00 Good Game Repeat.

12.30 rage (M) goes on until 5am Saturday.

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5.20 World News in various languages.

6.00 ABC News Breakfast 1.00 The Food Lovers’ Guide To 9.00 Asia Pacific News Australia (G) Repeat.

9.30 Business Today 1.30 Insight 10.00 Kids’ Programs 2.30 Hitler’s Family: In The Shadow 4.30 The New Inventors Repeat.

Of The Dictator (PG) Doco From 5.00 7.30 Select Germany. Repeat.

5.30 Catalyst (G) Repeat.

3.30 Living Black 6.00 Compass (G) Repeat.

6.35 Scrapheap Challenge: The Scrappy 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer Races (G) 5.30 Inspiring Teachers: Tina (G) Repeat.

7.30 Something In the Air (G) Repeat.

8.00 Father Ted (PG) 6.00 Global Village: Alsace (G) Repeat.

8.30 Spectacle: Elvis Costello With...

6.30 World News Australia Elton John (PG) 7.30 The Thirties In Colour: End Of An 9.30 No Heroics (M) Era Doco from UK. 10.00 Soundtrack To My Life: Juliette 8.35 Churchill’s Bodyguard (G) Repeat.

Lewis (M) 9.30 World News Australia 10.30 Crowded House: Farewell To The 10.00 For One Night Only (M,s,v,a) Doco World (PG) from UK. 11.30 London Live (PG) From London’s 10.55 Movie: Summer Rain (MA,s,v 2002) KOKO music venue.

Drama from Spain. Stars Alberto 12.00 Close Amarilla, Maria Ruiz, Victoria Abril.

12.55 Movie: Red Satin (M 2002) Drama from Tunisia. Stars Hiam Abbass, Hend el Fahem.

2.40 WeatherWatch Overnight

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 Morning Show (PG) 11.30 Seven Morning News 12.30 Movie: The Deep End (M 2001) Stars Tilda Swinton, Jonathan Tucker.

2.00 All Saints (M) 3.00 Skin Doctors (PG) 3.30 Larry The Lawnmower 4.00 It’s Academic 4.30 Seven News 5.00 M*A*S*H (G) Repeat.

5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.00 Seven and Prime News 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 7.30 Better Homes And Gardens 8.30 Movie: The Holiday (M 2006) Stars Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Jack Black, Eli Wallach.

11.15 Movie: A Guy Thing (M 2003) Stars Jason Lee, Julia Stiles, Selma Blair.

1.30 Danoz And Guthy-Renker

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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 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) 2.00 Days Of Our Lives (PG) 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) 3.00 Alive And Cooking (G) 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) 3.30 Kids’ Programs 3.00 Infomercial (PG) 4.30 NBN News 3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures (G) 5.00 Airline (G) 4.00 Every Loves Raymond (G) 5.30 Antiques Roadshow (G) 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful (G) 6.00 NBN News 5.00 Ten News 7.00 A Current Affair 6.00 The Simpsons (G) Repeat.

7.30 Friday Night Football Sth Sydney 6.30 Neighbours (G) Repeat.

Rabbitohs v Parramatta Eels.

7.00 The Biggest Loser (PG) 9.30 Friday Night Football Brisbane 7.30 The Simpsons (G) Broncos v Melbourne Storm.

8.30 Medium (M) 9.30 Law & Order (M) 11.30 Movie: Executive Decision (M 1996) 10.30 Law & Order (M) Stars Halle Berry, Oliver Platt.

11.20 2009 Australian Swimming 2.10 The Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) Championships 3.05 Seinfeld (M) 3.30 Entertainment Tonight 1.20 Infomercials (PG) 4.00 Queer Eye For The Straight Guy (PG) 4.00 Guthy Renker Australia (G) 5.00 Religion to 6am (PG).

4.30 Good Morning America

SUNDAY 22

SATURDAY 21

Prime HD program same as above except: 12.00 Movie: Government Girl (PG 1943) Stars Olivia De Havilland 1.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) 2.00 My Restaurant Rules (PG)

5.00 rage (PG) 7.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 rage (G) 3.00 rage (G) Repeat.

10.00 rage: Lupe Fiasco (PG) 5.00 rage: Lupe Fiasco (PG) 11.00 Executive Stress (G) Repeat.

6.05 The New Inventors Repeat.

11.30 The Cook And The Chef Repeat.

6.35 Robin Hood (PG) Repeat.

12.00 Stateline Repeat.

7.20 Rex The Runt (PG) Repeat.

12.30 Australian Story Repeat.

7.30 The Einstein Factor (G) Repeat.

1.00 Foreign Correspondent Repeat.

8.00 At The Movies Repeat.

1.30 Can We Help (G) Repeat.

8.30 Movie: The King Of Marvin 2.00 The Iceberg That Sank The Titanic Gardens (M 1972) Stars Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern.

(G) Repeat.

10.10 Movie: Carrington VC (PG 1954) 3.00 Bowls: Australian open 2009 Stars David Niven, Margaret 4.00 Movie: The Caine Mutiny (G 1954) Stars Humphrey Bogart, Jose Ferrer.

Leighton.

11.50 Close 5.58 ABC News Up-Date 6.00 Totally Frank (PG) Repeat.

6.25 Minuscule: Caterpillar Dream (G) 6.30 Gardening Australia (G) 7.00 ABC News 7.30 New Tricks (PG) Repeat.

8.25 ABC News 8.30 The Bill (PG) 10.05 ABC News 10.10 The Long Firm: Lenny’s Story (M) Crime. Repeat.

11.00 rage (M)

5.00 rage (PG) 6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Insiders And Inside Business 10.30 Offsiders 11.00 Asia Pacific Focus 11.30 Songs Of Praise (G) 12.00 Landline (G) 1.00 Gardening Australia 1.30 Message Stick (G) 2.00 The War Of The World (PG) 3.00 She Stoops To Conquer (G) 3.30 Tiwi Islands Grand Final 6.30 The Einstein Factor Quiz show.

7.00 ABC News 7.30 Rogue Nation: Rights Of Passage (PG) Final.

8.25 ABC News Up-Date 8.30 Agatha Christie: Poirot: Mrs McGinty’s Dead 10.05 Compass (PG) 10.40 In Search Of Mozart (PG) 11.30 Order In The House 12.30 Movie: The Gift Horse (PG 1952) Stars Trevor Howard.

2.20 Movie: Shadow Of The Eagle (PG 1950) Stars Richard Greene.

3.55 Eagle And Evans (M) Comedy.

6.00 Kids’ Programs 5.20 World News in various languages.

1.00 Eugene O’Neill (PG) Doco about US 12.00 Eclipse (PG) 1.00 Seven’s V8 Supercars 2009 Live playwright.

5.30 Sydney Weekender (PG) 3.00 Medieval Imagination (G) Doco.

3.30 Once Upon A Time... Some Like It 6.00 Seven News 6.30 In Search Of The Big Barra With Hot (PG) Doco from France.

Malcolm Douglas (G) 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 5.30 Saving Venice (G) Doco from 7.30 Kath & Kim (PG) Repeat.

Germany.

8.00 The Vicar Of Dibley (PG) Repeat.

8.40 Movie: Pirates Of The Caribbean 6.30 World News Australia – The Curse Of The Black Pearl 7.30 Prototype This (G) US. (M 2003) Stars Johnny Depp, Keira 8.30 Iron Chef (G) Knightley, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey 9.20 RocKwiz (PG) Entertainment.

10.10 Movie: Childstar (M,l,a,s,v 2004) Rush, Zoe Saldana.

Comedy from Canada. Stars Don 11.40 Ripping Yarns (PG) McKellar.

12.20 Heroes Of The Amazon (G) 11.55 SOS (PG) 1.30 Danoz Direct & Guthy Renker 12.55 Bro’ Town: In My Mother’s Den (M) Comedy. NZ. Repeat.

1.20 The Heartbreak Tour (M) 2.20 Weatherwatch Overnight

6.00 Toasted TV & Kids’ Programs 6.00 Infomercials 10.00 Video Hits (PG) 7.30 Kids’ Programs 12.00 Star Wars: The Clone Wars (PG) 12.00 My Boys (PG) 12.30 Australian Rally Championship 12.30 The Hills (PG) 1.30 Meerkat Manor (G) 1.00 Gilmore Girls (PG) 2.00 On The Ball (G) 2.00 Horse Racing Myer Ladies Day. 3.00 The Family (PG) 4.30 Australia’s Greatest Athlete 4.00 The Magic Of David Copperfield 5.30 Antique Roadshow (G) 5.00 Ten News With Sports Tonight 6.00 Evening News 6.00 The Simpsons (G) Repeat.

6.30 Australia’s Funniest Home Videos 6.30 Movie: Home Alone 2 – Lost In (G) New York Y (PG 1992) Stars Macauley 7.30 TBA Yo Culkin, kin, Jo Pesci, Daniel Stern.

8.40 Saturday Lotto 8.50 Movie: vie: Lara Croft Tomb T Raider 9.40 TBA – Cradle Of Life (M 2003) Stars 11.50 Movie: Enemy At The Gates Angelina Butler, ngelina Jolie, Gerard Butl utttller, utl u er Chris ((M 2001) Stars Jude Law, Joseph Barrie, arrie, Noah Taylor.

Fienn Fiennes, Ed Harris, Bob Hoskins.

11.10 009 Australian Swimming MADTV (M) Swimm miin mi ng 2.30 MAD Girlfriends (M) Championships 3.30 Girlf 12.10 Good News Week 4.00 Dan Danoz 1.10 0 Rush 4.30 Guthy Gu Renker 0 Video Hit its U it p Late 2.10 Hits Up 30 Infomercials 2.30 4.00 Religion (PG) .00 Religio giio gio g ion tto o 66am 6aam am ((P PG G))

Prime HD program same as above except: 12.00 Saturday Disney 1.30 Movie: Zenon – Girl In The 21st Century (G 1999) 3.00 Movie: Horse Sense (G 1999) 4.30 Deal Or No Deal 5.00 Better Homes And Gardens ➟ 11.40 Movie: What’s The Worst That Could Happen? (M) 1.30 Movie: Tower Of Terror (PG)

6.25 World News in various languages.

6.00 Religion 7.00 Montreux Jazz Festival 2003: 10.00 Mythbusters (PG) Repeat.

6.30 Creflo A Dollar 70s Rock (G) 7.00 Weekend Sunrise 7.55 Joni Mitchell: Woman Of Heart 11.00 Zucchero: Live In San Siro Milan 10.00 AFL Game Day (PG) And Mind (G) (G) Doco from Italy.

11.00 AFL: The Essence Of The Game (PG) 9.20 Suzanne Vega: Live At Montreux 12.00 Inside Overture 1812 (G) 1.00 V8 Supercars 2004 (G) Repeat.

1.00 Speedweek 5.30 Mercurio’s Menu (G) 10.15 A Little Later: Texas (G) 2.00 FIA World Rally Championship 6.00 Seven News 10.30 triple j tv presents Red Spiders (G) 2009 From Cyprus.

6.30 Sunday Night Live 11.00 Beautiful Noise: Ron Sexsmith (G) 3.00 Football Asia 11.55 London Live (PG) Music. Repeat.

3.30 UEFA Champions League Magazine 7.30 Border Security (PG) 12.30 Red Dwarf (PG) 4.00 Les Murray’s Football Feature 8.00 Triple Zero Heroes (PG) 1.30 Planet Rock Profiles: R.E.M (PG) 5.00 The World Game 8.30 City Homicide (M) 1.55 triple j tv presents Mia Dyson (PG) 6.00 Thalassa: Island Of Saint-Pierre (G) 9.30 Bones (M) 2.25 The Who: Live At The Isle Of Wight 10.30 Infamous Assassinations: Robert Doco from France.

1970 (G) 6.30 World News Australia Kennedy (M) 3.50 RadioHead: Meeting People Is 11.00 24 (M) 7.30 Lost Worlds: The Mummy Who Easy (PG) Came In From The Cold (G) Doco 12.00 Room For Improvement (G) 12.30 Danoz Direct 4.40 dig tv presents WOMADelaide from France.

1.35 Guthy Renker 2006: La Bottine Souriante (G) 8.30 Dateline current affairs.

5.10 Classic Albums: Sex Pistols – Never 9.30 Movie: Kurt Wallander – Blood Ties 5.30 Seven Early News Mind The Bollocks (G) (M 2006) Crime story from Sweden.

6.00 ABC Fora Hosted by Tony Jones.

Stars Krister Henriksson, Johanna 7.00 Artscape (PG) Sallstrom.

7.30 Sunday Arts (G) 11.10 Guerrilla Girl (M) Doco from 8.30 She Stoops To Conquer (G) Colombia.

Prime HD program same as above except: 9.00 Grossmith, Gilbert And Sullivan: A 12.50 Speaking In Tongues (M) Comedy. 10.00 AFL Game Day 11.00 2008 AFL Grand Final Replay 1.00 Movie: Bombardier (PG 1943) 2.30 Salaried Wit (G) 1.20 Weatherwatch Overnight Movie: Powder Town (G 1942) 4.00 Deal Or No Deal 10.00 Artists At Work (M) 4.30 The Great Outdoors 5.30 Harry’s Practice ➟ 10.30 Wild At Heart (PG) 12.00 Dateline NBC 1.00 Final 24 (MA) 2.00 Deal 11.15 Close Or No Deal

Religion 6.00 Reli eli liigi gio ion 7.00 T Totally Wi Wild ld (G) Repeat.

Reep R peeeaat. pea 7.30 Animalia 8.00 Meet The h Press 8.30 State Focus 10.00 Video Hits (G) 12.00 Oprah’s Big Give (PG) 1.00 Don’t Forget The Lyrics (G) 2.00 Infomercial (PG) 2.30 I Fish (G) 3.30 2009 Australian Swimming Championships 4.30 Meerkat Manor (G) 5.00 Ten News 5.30 Out Of The Blue (PG) 6.00 The Simpsons (G) 6.30 The Biggest Loser (G) new series.

7.30 So You Think You Can Dance Australia (PG) 9.30 Rove (M) 10.40 2009 Australian Swimming Championships 11.40 Dexter (MA) 1.50 Infomercials 4.00 Religion to 6am (PG)

6.00 Danoz And Guthy Renker 6 7.00 Today On Sunday 10.00 Wide World Of Sports (G) 11.00 The Sunday Footy Show (G) 12.00 Sunday Roast (PG) 1.00 WWE Afterburn Live.

2.00 Super League Helens v Leeds Rhinos.

4.00 Sunday Football Manly Sea Eagles v Warriors.

6.00 Evening News 6.30 Domestic Blitz (PG) 7.30 60 Minutes 8.30 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (M) 9.30 CSI: Miami (M) 10.30 Underbelly: A Tale Of Two Cities (M) 11.30 Body Of Evidence (M) 12.00 Movie: Moonlight and Valentino (M 1995) Stars Elizabeth Perkins, Whoopi Goldberg, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kathleen Turner, Jon Bon Jovi.

1.00 MADTV (M) 2.00 Girl Friends (M) 2.30 Guthy Renker Australia 3.30 Religion 4.00 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

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6.00 Sunrise 5.20 World News in various languages.

1.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia (G) 9.00 The Morning Show (PG) 11.30 Seven News Repeat.

1.30 Indonesia – A Reporter’s Journey 12.00 Movie: The Stepdaughter (M 2000) Stars Andrea Roth, Lisa Dean Ryan, (M) Part 1.

Jaimz Woolvett, Ciny Pickett.

2.30 Dateline 2.00 All Saints (M) 3.30 Insight 3.00 Skin Doctors (PG) 4.30 The Journal 5.00 The Crew (G) 3.30 Larry The Lawnmower 5.30 Corner Gas (G) 4.00 It’s Acadamic 6.00 Living Black 4.30 Seven News 6.30 World News Australia 5.00 M*A*S*H (G) 7.30 Top Gear (PG) 5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) 8.30 Swift And Shift Couriers (M,l,s,n) 6.00 Seven and Prime News 9.30 World News Australia 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 10.00 The Mighty Boosh: The 7.30 How I Met Your Mother (PG) Nightmares Of Milky Joe (M) 8.00 Scrubs (PG) 8.30 Desperate Housewives (M) Comedy from UK. 9.30 Brothers And Sisters (M) 10.35 Skins (M) Repeat.

11.30 Movie: PTU (MA 2003) Thriller from 10.30 Boston Legal (M) Hong Kong. Stars Simon Yam, Suet 11.30 30 Rock (PG) Lam, Ruby Wong.

12.00 Medical Incredible (PG) 1.05 Movie: Avalon (M 2001) SciFi from 1.00 Danoz Direct Japan. Stars Malgorzata Foremniak, 2.00 Guthy Renker Bartek Swiderski.

5.30 Seven Early News 2.55 WeatherWatch Overnight

6.00 Ten Early News 5.30 Today 7.00 Toasted TV & Kids’ Programs 9.00 Mornings with Kerri-Anne (PG) 9.00 9am With David And & Kim (PG) 11.00 Time/Life (G) 11.00 Ten News 11.30 Danoz (G) 12.00 Dr Phil (M) 12.00 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) 1.00 The View (PG) 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) 2.00 Days of Our Lives (PG) 3.00 Alive And Cooking (G) 3.00 Infomercial (PG) 3.30 Hi-5 3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures (G) 4.00 Everybody Loves Raymond (G) Rpt. 4.00 Lab Rats Challenge 4.30 Afternoon News 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful (G) 5.00 Antique Roadshow (G) 5.00 Ten News 6.00 Evening News 6.00 The Simpsons (G) Repeat.

7.00 A Current Affair 6.30 Neighbours (G) Repeat.

7.30 Two And A Half Men (PG) 7.00 The Biggest Loser (PG) 7.30 So You Think You Can Dance 8.00 Customs (PG) Australia (PG) 8.30 Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities (M) 8.40 Good News Week (M) 8.45 Lotto 9.45 NCIS (M) 9.30 Crime Investigation Australia (M) 10.45 Late News With Sports Tonight 10.40 CSI: NY (M) 11.30 Late Show with David Letterman (PG) 11.30 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 12.30 Everybody Loves Raymond (G) 12.30 Super League Celtic Crusaders v 1.00 Infomercials (PG) Wakefield Trinity Wildcats 4.00 Religion to 6am (PG).

2.00 Guthy Renker Australia 3.00 Religion 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

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.

11.30 Seven News 2.00 Don Matteo (PG) Drama. Italy.

12.00 Movie: Suzanne’s Diary For Repeat.

Nicholas (M 2005) Stars Christina 3.00 Here Comes The Neighbourhood Applegate, Richard Donat.

(G) Repeat.

2.00 All Saints (M) 3.30 Living Black 3.00 Skin Doctors (PG) 4.00 The Journal 3.30 Larry The Lawnmower 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 4.00 It’s All Acadamic 5.30 Corner Gas (G) Comedy.

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

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

6.00 Seven and Prime News 7.30 Insight 8.30 Cutting Edge: Japan’s About-Face 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 7.30 RSPCA Animal Rescue (G) (G) Doco from the US. 8.00 Find My Family (PG) 9.30 World News 8.30 Packed To The Rafters (PG) 10.00 Hot Docs: Wings Of Defeat (PG) 9.30 All Saints (M) Doco from Japan.

10.30 Eli Stone (M) 11.40 Movie: Ode To Joy (MA,s,n 2005) Drama from Poland. Stars Malgorzata 11.30 Carpoolers (PG) New series.

12.00 Van Diemen’s Land By Butterfly (G) Buczkowska, Piotr Glowacki.

1.00 Danoz Direct & Guthy Renker 1.40 The Heart-Makers: The Future Of Transplant Medicine (M) Doco from 5.30 Seven Early News Germany.

2.40 WeatherWatch Overnight

6.00 Ten Early News 5.30 Today 7.00 Toasted TV & Kids’ Programs 9.00 Mornings With Kerri-Anne (PG) 9.00 9am With David And Kim (PG) 11.00 Danoz And Guthy Renker (G) 11.00 Ten News 12.00 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 12.00 Dr Phil (M) 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 Alive And Cooking (G) 3.30 Hi-5 3.00 Infomercial (PG) 4.00 Lab Rats Challenge 3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures (G) 4.00 Everybody Loves Raymond (G) Rpt. 4.30 Afternoon News 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful (G) 5.00 Antique Roadshow (G) 5.00 Ten News 6.00 Evening News 6.00 The Simpsons (G) Repeat.

7.00 A Current Affair 6.30 Neighbours (G) Repeat.

7.30 Wipeout Australia 8.30 Two And A Half Men (M) 7.00 The Biggest Loser (PG) 8.00 Bondi Rescue (PG) 9.00 Two And A Half Men (M) Repeat.

9.30 Aussie Ladette to Lady (M) 8.30 NCIS (M) 10.30 Bridezillas (M) New series.

9.30 Lie To Me (M) Crime series.

10.30 Late News With Sports Tonight 11.30 The Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 11.15 Late Show With David Letterman (PG) 12.30 The Dead Zone (M) 12.00 Will & Grace (PG) 1.30 Guthy Renker 12.30 State Focus 3.00 Religion 1.00 Infomercials (PG) 3.30 Good Morning America 4.00 Religion to 6am (PG) 5.00 Early Morning News

5.20 World News in various languages.

1.00 Movie: Pathway To The Clouds (M) Drama from Brazil. Stars Wagner Moura, Claudia Abreu.

2.30 Tales From A Suitcase: Sarshar, Mehraby And Arif (G) Doco.

3.00 Salam Cafe (PG) Comedy. Repeat.

3.30 Football Stars Of Tomorrow 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour with Jim Lehrer 5.30 Corner Gas (G) Comedy.

6.00 Global Village: The Log Rafters (G) 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Feast India (G) 8.00 Trawlermen (G) Doco from UK. 8.30 Tribe: Penan, Borneo (PG) Doco from UK. 9.30 World News Australia 10.00 Movie: Yolngu Boy (M 2000) Australian drama. Stars Sean Mununggurr, John Sebastian Plakui.

11.35 Movie: The Young Lieutenant (M 2005) Drama from France. Stars Nathalie Baye, Jalil Lespert.

1.35 Weatherwatch Overnight

6.00 Ten Early News 5.30 Today 7.00 Toasted TV & Kids’ Programs 9.00 Mornings With Kerri-Anne (PG) 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) 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 Alive And Cooking (G) 3.00 Infomercial (PG) 3.30 Kids’ Programs 3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures (G) 4.30 NBN News 4.00 Everyone Loves Raymond (G) 5.00 Antiques Roadshow (G).

4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful (G) 6.00 NBN News 5.00 Ten News 7.00 A Current Affair 6.00 The Simpsons (G) Repeat 7.30 The Farmer Wants A Wife (PG) 6.30 Neighbours (G) 8.30 The Mentalist (M) 8.45 Lotto 7.00 The Biggest Loser (PG) 8.00 Guerrilla Gardeners (PG) 9.30 Cold Case (M) New. 8.30 House (M) 10.30 Cold Case (M) Repeat.

9.30 Life (M) 11.30 The AFL Footy Show (M) 10.30 Ten News With Sports Tonight 1.30 Guthy Renker And Danoz 11.15 Late Show With David Letterman (PG) 3.30 Good Morning America 12.00 Will & Grace (PG) 5.00 Early Morning News 12.30 Infomercials 4.00 Religion to 6am (PG)

4.30 GP (PG) Repeat.

5.30 Spicks And Specks (G) Repeat.

6.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Landline Repeat.

12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Poirot (PG) 1.30 The Cook And The Chef (G) Repeat.

2.00 Parkinson (PG) 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Landline Extra (G) Repeat.

6.30 Talking Heads 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 Australian Story (PG) 8.30 Four Corners 9.20 Media Watch 9.35 The Cut (M) 10.35 Lateline and Lateline Business 11.35 Who Killed Stalin? (M) Repeat.

12.25 MDA (M) Repeat.

1.20 Movie: Rachel And The Stranger (PG 1948) Stars Loretta Young, William Holden, Robert Mitchum, Gary Gray.

2.55 The Learning Circle (G) Repeat.

3.25 Bowls: Australian Open 2009 Highlights.

6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 Asia Pacific News 9.30 Business Today 10.00 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Gardening Australia (G) Rpt 5.00 Message Stick (G) Repeat.

5.30 Can We Help? (G) Repeat.

6.00 Collectors (G) Repeat.

6.35 The Re-inventors (G) 7.00 Zoo Days (G) 7.30 Something In The Air (G) Repeat.

8.00 Red Dwarf (PG) Repeat.

8.30 Good Game (PG) Repeat.

9.00 triple j tv With The Doctor 9.30 Code Geass (M) 10.00 Wyclef Jean’s All Star Jam At Carnegie Hall (G) 11.00 triple j tv presents Muph And Plutonic (M) 11.30 Cowboy Bebop: Jupiter Jazz Part 2 (M) Repeat.

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4.30 GP (PG) Repeat.

5.30 Spicks And Specks (PG) Repeat.

6.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Parkinson (PG) Repeat.

12.00 Midday Report 12.30 The Einstein Factor (G) Repeat.

1.00 The New Inventors (G) Repeat.

1.30 Catalyst (G) Repeat.

2.00 Parkinson (PG) 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.05 Time Team (G) 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 Lead Balloon (PG) 8.30 Doctor Who (PG) Repeat.

9.15 Doctor Who: Confidential Cutdown (G) 9.30 Foreign Correspondent 10.05 Artscape: The Art Life 10.35 Lateline and Lateline Business 11.35 Four Corners Repeat.

12.25 Media Watch Repeat.

12.40 Parkinson: Mel Gibson (PG) 1.25 Movie: The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (PG 1939) Stars Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Hara.

3.25 triple j tv With The Doctor (G) Repeat

6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 Asia Pacific News 9.30 Business Today 10.00 Kids’ Programs 4.35 Little Angels (G) Repeat.

5.05 Talking Heads (G) Repeat.

5.35 Sun, Sea And Bargain Spotting 6.35 The Re-Inventors (G) 7.00 Zoo Days (G) 7.30 Something In The Air (G) Repeat.

8.00 Australian Story (PG) Repeat.

8.30 Rose And Maloney (M) Repeat.

9.20 The Bill (PG) Repeat.

10.50 Fireflies (PG) Repeat.

12.15 Close

4.30 GP (PG) Repeat.

5.30 Spicks And Specks (PG) Repeat.

6.00 Kids’ Program 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 National Press Club Address 1.30 Talking Heads (G) Repeat.

2.00 Parkinson (G) 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 The Queen’s Cavalry (G) Repeat.

6.30 The Cook and the Chef (G) 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 The New Inventors (G) 8.30 Spicks And Specks (PG) 9.00 The Gruen Transfer 9.30 Lawrence Leung’s Choose Your Own Adventure: Love (M) 10.00 At the Movies 10.30 Lateline And Lateline Business 11.35 Midsomer Murders (M) Repeat.

1.10 Movie: This Land Of Mine (PG 1943) Stars Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Hara 2.55 The Healer: Brian Dowd/Pink Black And Beautiful (G) 3.25 National Press Club Address Repeat.

6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 Asia Pacific News 9.30 Business Today 10.00 Kids’ Programs 4.30 A Place in Greece (G) Repeat.

4.55 Speed Machines (G) Repeat.

5.45 Time Team (G) Repeat.

6.35 The Re-Inventors (G) 7.00 Zoo Days (G) 7.30 Something In The Air (G) Repeat.

8.00 Body Hits: Summer Shocks (G) 8.30 Jess: My New Face (G) 9.25 Extreme Rescue (PG) 10.20 My Teen’s A Nightmare: I’m Moving Out: Nick & Sally Le Payge (M) 11.05 Dust To Dust: The Promise (PG) repeat 11.30 Close

4.30 GP (PG) Repeat.

5.30 Spicks And Specks (PG) Repeat.

6.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 The War 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Pilot Guides (G) Repeat.

1.30 Collectors (G) Repeat.

2.00 Parkinson (G) 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.10 Grand Designs (G) Repeat.

7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 Catalyst (G) 8.30 Bombora: The Story Of Australian Surfing (G) 9.30 Q&A With Tony Jones 10.25 Lateline And Lateline Business 11.30 Spectacle: Elvis Costello With Elton John (PG) 12.20 Wildside (M) 1.10 Movie: Here We Go Again (G 1942) Stars Jim Jordan, Marian Jordan.

2.35 Movie: Let’s Make Music (G 1940) Bob Crosby, Jean Rogers.

3.55 The Glass House (M) Repeat.

6.00 ABC News Breakfast 5.20 World News in various languages.

9.00 Asia Pacific News 1.00 Geisha Girl (PG) Doco from UK. 9.30 Business Today 2.05 Spacefiles (G) 10.00 Kids’ Programs 2.30 Dateline 4.35 The Einstein Factor (G) Repeat.

3.30 Parent Rescue: Who’s The Boss (G) 5.05 The Cook and the Chef (G) Repeat. 4.00 The Journal 5.35 ABC Fora 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 6.35 The Re-Inventors (G) 5.30 FIFA Futbol Mundial 6.00 Global Village: Veneto (G) 7.30 Something In The Air (G) Repeat.

8.00 Spicks And Specks (PG) Final.

6.30 World News Australia 8.30 The Gruen Transfer 7.35 Inspector Rex (PG) Austria Repeat.

9.00 Lawrence Leunig’s Choose Your 8.30 This Is Civilisation: Save Our Souls Own Adventure: Love (M) (PG) Doco from UK. Explores the 9.30 The Graham Norton Show history of religious art.

10.00 Pulling (M,l,s) Comedy.

9.30 World News Australia 10.25 The Kevin Bishop Show (M) 10.00 Movie: The Bubble (MA 2006) Comedy.

Romance from Israel. Stars Ohad 10.55 Spaced (M,l) Stars Simon Pegg Knoller, Yousef ‘Joe’ Sweid, Daniella 11.20 Ideal: Rats (MA) Repeat.

Wircer, Alon Friedmann, Lior 11.50 Close Ashkenazi.

12.05 Queer As Folk (MA,s,l,a) Repeat.

1.00 Movie: A Loving Father (M 2003) Drama from France. Stars Gerard [s] = Sex [cl] = Coarse language Depardieu, Guillaume Depardieu. [a] = Adult themes [sr] = Sexual references 2.55 Weatherwatch Overnight [n] = Nudity [mp] = Medical

Prime HD program same as above except: 12.00 Movie: The Falcon In Hollywood (PG 1944) 1.00 Blue Heelers (M) 2.00 My Restaurant Rules ➟ 12.00 Dateline 1.00 Urban Legends 1.30 Australia’s Best Backyards

Prime HD program same as above except: 12.00 Movie: The Saint In London (PG 1939) 1.00 Blue Heelers 2.00 My Restaurant Rules ➟ 12.00 This Is Your Laugh (M) 1.00 The Knights Of Prosperity (PG) 1.30 A Country Practice (G)

Prime HD program same as above except: 12.00 Movie: The Falcon Strikes Back (PG 1943) 1.00 Blue Heelers (M) 2.00 My Restaurant Rules (PG) ➟ 12.30 Louis Theroux And Michael Jackson (M) 1.30 A Country Practice (G)

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1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) Repeat.

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

3.00 Alive And Cooking (G) 3.00 Infomercial (PG) 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 NBN News 3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures (G) 4.00 Everyone Loves Raymond (G) 5.00 Antiques Roadshow 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful (G) 6.00 NBN News 5.00 Ten News 7.00 A Current Affair 6.00 The Simpsons (G) Repeat 7.30 Getaway (PG) 8.30 Adults Only 20 To 1 (M) 6.30 Neighbours (G) 7.00 The Biggest Loser (PG) 9.30 The Footy Show (M) 8.00 Bondi Vet (PG) 11.00 Movie: Pale Rider (M) Stars Mark 8.30 Law & Order: S.V.U. (M) Moriarty, Carry Snodgrass.

9.30 Life On Mars (M) 1.20 Human Nature (G) 10.30 Ten News With Sports Tonight 1.30 Guthy Renker Australia 3.30 Good Morning America 11.15 AFL Premiership Season 2009 Richmond v Carlton 5.00 Early Morning News 1.40 Late Show With David Letterman (PG) 2.30 Infomercials (PG) 4.00 Religion to 6am.

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2.00 All Saints (M) 3.00 Child In A Million (PG) 3.30 Larry The Lawnmower kids’ show.

4.00 It’s Acadamic 4.30 Seven and Prime News 5.00 M*A*S*H (G) 5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) games show.

6.00 Seven and Prime News 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 7.30 Ghost Whisperer (PG) 8.30 Grey’s Anatomy (M) 9.30 Private Practice (M) 10.30 Scrubs (PG) 11.30 Beauty And The Geek (PG) 12.30 Danoz & Guthy-Renker 5.30 Seven Early News

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2.00 All Saints (M) 3.00 Child In A Million (PG) 3.30 Larry The Lawnmower kids’ show.

4.00 It’s Acadamic 4.30 Seven and Prime News 5.00 M*A*S*H (G) 5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) games show.

6.00 Seven and Prime News 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 7.30 Australia’s Got Talent Semi-final.

8.30 Criminal Minds (M) 9.30 Beyond The Darklands (M) 10.30 Lost (M) 11.30 Disorderly Conduct Caught On Tape (M) 12.30 Guthy Renker & Danoz 5.30 Seven Early News

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ARIES: Your fiery ruler Mars in liquid Pisces allows your softer side (which tends to get obscured by your modern warrior persona) to shine. Just the ticket for injecting the requisite feeling qualities into those future moves youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re launching into action as the astral calendar flares into Aries.

WITH LILITH

AS THIS WEEKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MARS JOINS MERCURY, URANUS AND THE SUN IN THE SIGN OF SENSITIVITY AND INTUITION, BLIND FREDDIE COULD SENSE THE MOOD OF ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE AS THE PLANET MOVES INTO A NEW EVOLUTIONARY PHASEâ&#x20AC;Ś

Across 1. Take portion of sauerkraut hors dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;oeuvres for writers (7) 5. Rearranged room for two hundred Romans, nothing more, in this African country (7) 9. A toy ďŹ&#x201A;ying machine takes a mannequin up, up and away?

(1,5,9) 10. Extracts IOU from dubious characters but gives nickname (4) 11. Saint out for robust alcoholic drink (5) 12. Even use igloo as a storehouse for grain (4) 15. One of pop singer Freddieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s band may be a visionary (7) 16. Provokes anger when rag seen to be changed (7) 17. Sail had been returned for pretty ďŹ&#x201A;owers (7) 19. I mail it mistakenly to body of citizen soldiers (7) 21. A monk abandons head novice in a state of murderous frenzy (4) 22. Guarantee voucher the Queen left (5) 23. Wash injury, including part of leg (4) 26. Expose Pan, Dora, to top secret crate and let loose

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a multitude of problems (4,7â&#x20AC;&#x2122;1,3) 27. Birdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home led to being snuggled in (7) 28. Tea put in strange device, and was thrown out (7)

Down 1. Gave honours to a wardead, we hear (7) 2. Those who diagnose and solve problems take the trouble to place hooter aboard ship (15) 3. Lover loses ďŹ rst love when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ nished (4) 4. Recast around leading thespian, then disperse in various directions (7) 5. Large tent for Marquis, apparently (7) 6. Thick cord comes from Europe (4) 7. Anxious to start Charlton Heston upsetting Fagin at the small amount left (7,2,3,3) 8. One sour mixture becomes burdensome (7) 13. Electronic message caught up in modem ailment (5) 14. Tiny shrimp is removed from Kris when taken ill (5) 17. Drag headless goon to cavalryman (7) 18. Passed out, but somehow soon wed (7) 19. Academic robes harbour microscopic organism (7) 20. Sounds like Anne next at being attached (7) 24. First, often precious, and lovely gemstone (4) 25. Government levy I placed on form of transport (4) Š Lovatts Publications

TAURUS: With Venus in a grumpy mood, let relationship niggles alone this week while you wind up and say goodbye to whatever has run its course and needs to be finalized. That done, throw a darn good party or celebrate in some ritual way closure and new beginnings.

GEMINI: Longing for light relief from burdensome news, apocalyptic thinking and the emotional overload of recent weeks? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about to appear via an adventurous someone with agreeably forward-thinking ideas and propositions. And with Mars in your professional sector, dress for the success â&#x20AC;&#x201C; because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stalking you.

CANCER: While canny Crabs usually have a wee something tucked away for a rainy day, By the end of the 2007 FIDE World Championship tournament in Mexico City, many pundits believed that Alexander Grischuk was nearing the end of his time as an elite player.

Grischuk finished last in Mexico and his lucrative new hobby of poker seemed to be costing him the study time needed to stay at the top of the chess tree.

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youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll still be chuffed to hear that career prospects look optimistic from next weekend onwards so keep tuned to breaking news. Till then, this could easily be the yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most touchy feely weekâ&#x20AC;Ś LEO: Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make assumptions about anyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capabilities this week â&#x20AC;&#x201C; people might surprise you. Contacts are important right now because any one of them could lead to future opportunities. And forget stubborn, because anything less than flexible is only going to cause frustration to you know who.

VIRGO: As if your worry button wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t already overpressed, Mercury in the sign of intimacy fronts up to aggravate relationships. But you know how mental anxiety affects you physically, so think serious stress releasing strategies this week: reschedule your daily planner, turn the phone off, smell the flowersâ&#x20AC;Ś LIBRA: No use being an ostrich, avoiding bad news

and thinking things will sort themselves out â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re right to maintain a modicum of detachment. Your forteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the balanced perspective, and using it this week to help others keep their spirits up guarantees payback when you need it.

SCORPIO: Mars in your house of love makes you molto smolderoso, and with Scorpio the sign of transformation youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in your element this week â&#x20AC;&#x201C; highly motivated to get life on track. Doom and gloom mindsets wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop you, but do give emotionally charged issues the kid glove treatmentâ&#x20AC;Ś SAGITTARIUS: Commonsense and moderation donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t usually appeal to Sagittarians, who rely on being the lucky sign. This weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cosmic lottery brings good fortune from sharing resources â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and if life does hand you any lemons, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your cue to break out the tequila and call a friend.

CAPRICORN: Everybodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s looking for workable answers to pressing economic questions,

CHESS by Ian Rogers Play at Seagulls Club, Thursdays 6-10pm to the elite Ciudad de Linares draws in the final eight rounds. tournament, which finished in Anand, who turns 40 later Spain last week, seems to have this year, has now flanked his revived Grischukâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s appetite for world title win in October with chess. two dismal tournament results The Russian led the tournament and his humour would not have throughout and only a sluggish been improved by reading Garry finish allowed Vassily Ivanchuk Kasparovâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comments, made in to catch him in the final rounds Anandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s native India, that Anandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and tie for first place. The two time at the chess summit may be winning Grandmasters shared slipping away. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Vishy can fight against anyone 175,000 Euros but Grischukâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s higher tiebreaking score ensured but time,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; said Kasparov. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;He is a that he would receive the first brilliant player but it is very difplace trophy and a ticket to the ficult to compete at 40.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Fortunately Anand can take Grand Slam Final in Bilbao in heart from Ivanchuk, another vetSeptember.

Grischuk, 25, was seeded sev- eran who can still perform at the enth among the eight players com- highest level. Ivanchuk turns 40 peting in Linares but the favou- on Wednesday and yet managed to complete the Linares tournarites fell by the wayside; teenage ment undefeated, winning games sensation Magnus Carlsen spoil- such as the following. ing two easy endgames to fall Linares 2009 back to third place and World White: L Aronian Champion Viswanathan Anand Black: V Ivanchuk finishing even further back after Opening: Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Indian Defence registering eight consecutive 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3

though show me a Capricorn that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t already have a long range plan in place and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll eat my ephemeris. This week Saturn will keep demonstrating what doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work anymore till you come up with something new that does.

AQUARIUS: No, it isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t easy making progressive plans in a spend less, bunker down mindset with continually shifting financial goal posts.

This week people skills are your best asset, so be prepared to take no for an answer if you have to and go back to the drawing board.

PISCES: Mars in Pisces flings inhibitions out the window to make this your week for turning heads. Family dynamics test boundaries, but this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s emotional hot spots are best handled by not taking them too seriously. Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, because theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll always be amusedâ&#x20AC;Ś 0-0 6.Be2 e5 7.Be3 c6 8.d5 Ng4 9.Bg5 f6 9...Qb6 10.0-0! Qxb2 fails to 11.Na4 Qa3 12.Qb3! when Black is in trouble. 10.Bh4 c5 11.0-0 h5 12.Ne1 Nh6 13.f3 Nf7 14.Rb1 Bh6 15.Bf2 Na6 16.a3 b6 17.b4 f5 18.exf5 gxf5 19.f4!?

Bxf4 20.Bxh5 Bd7 21.Rb3 Qg5!? (See diagram) 22.b5? 22.Nd3! Be3 23.Bxe3 Qxe3+ 24.Nf2 Qh6 25.Nce4! fxe4 26.Nxe4 would give White a nasty attack. 22...Nc7 23.Bxf7+?!

Rxf7 24.Ne2 Rg7 25.Nxf4 Qxf4! 26.Bxc5 Qh6! 27.Be3 f4 The game has turned; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I have more than sufficient compensation for the pawn,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; said Ivanchuk. 28.Bc1 Bg4 29.Qd2 Rf8 30.Nd3 Ne8 31.Nxf4 Panic, but on other moves Black slowly builds up. 31...exf4 32.Rxf4 Rxf4 33.Qxf4 Qxf4 34.Bxf4 Rf7! 35.g3 Re7! 36.h3 With the White queenside pawns stuck on light squares, the win is only a matter of time for Black. 36...Bxh3 37.Kf2 Nf6! 38.g4 Bxg4 39.Re3 Ne4+ 40.Ke1 Kf7 41.a4 Nc5 42.Kd2 Rxe3 43.Kxe3 Ke7 0-1 a

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s a hotbed of Tweed industry today, Chinderah has had a long history as the home of hardworking multicultural families toiling to make the area a better place. This history of racial integration and early industry will soon be celebrated in a new book ‘Between River and Sea: A Pictorial History of Kingscliff, Chinderah and Cudgen’ published by the Tweed Heads Historical Society.

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The book, due out in May, explores Chinderah’s heyday from the 1880s when it was an outpost of the burgeoning Cudgen area and actually named Cudgen Wharf to promote its best attribute – a busy port.

It was at this port many local families arrived when thirsting for a brew or embarking on a holiday to Kingscliff – then named Cudgen Headland and considered an off the beaten track destination.

he said. Some of these farmers were hardworking South Sea Islanders who made up most of the cane farming workforce and populated Cudgen and Chinderah, turning it into the place to be between 1880 and 1912. Back in Local historian Robert Longhurst, who researched those days a tram system ran from the port to the new book, said the Cudgen and a racetrack success of cane farming operated over near the in Cudgen drove the current Chinderah Golf popularity of Chinderah Course. until CSR transferred operations to Condong.

‘Then most of the land was ‘It is interesting because many South Sea Islanders sold to smaller farmers,’ Chinderah Tavern held the only liquor licence between Brisbane and Ballina from the 1860s and was located alongside the area’s busiest butchers and shop owners.

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bought land themselves and the area still has quite a Melanesian population with roots back to the old days,’ said Mr Longhurst.

‘A photograph we found for the book actually shows a group of local Red Cross ladies in World War One with one non-European lady in uniform. ‘There are a lot of stories and images around of the two cultures mixing well.’ Many of these Islanders remains are interred in the Chinderah/ Cudgen Cemetery on Tweed Coast Road.

The historic cemetery stands opposite Chinderah’s more modern face – a bustling industrial centre home to timber businesses, mechanics and more.

‘Chinderah has come a long way but if you look at old photographs, nothing much has really changed,’ said Mr Longhurst.

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Action Sands Action Sands Pty Ltd, located in the picturesque Chinderah Bay, operate a major sand quarrying and processing facility. They undertake remedial dredging in the Tweed River at Chinderah, as required and authorised by the relevant NSW State Government authorities and the Tweed

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These products are all purchased largely by local landscape and concrete companies suppliers where smaller quantities may be purchased and delivered.

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MAR 19 – MAR 25

with Hans Lovejoy

Seagulls On Broadway Goes to Ireland

(PU B HJH PS FWFOU UP QSPNPUF Email hans@echo.net.au and it will be included for free.

Remember the gig guide too, the best way to advertise the Tweed’s events.

Enjoy a night of Ireland’s finest this Saturday with this great show starring one of Ireland’s sought after comedians Brian Doyle. Also on the bill is Kathryn Kelly, performer of traditional Irish songs, and the stunning Charmaine Chase Dancers, who perform traditional and contemporary Irish dance.

Brian Doyle has won five prestigious Mo Awards and was also voted Best Comedy Artiste by the Variety Club. Brian is renowned for his political and topical humor delivered in his trade-mark laid-back style. He has supported many overseas stars including Bob Hope, Eartha Kit, Tom Jones and Ingelbert Humperdink.

Kathryn Kelly plays the piano accordion and has a lovely, lilting Irish voice, delivering all the traditional Irish tunes.

Kathryn has been performing her show internationally for the past eight years. The Charmaine Chase Dancers compete in local and major competition including World titles in Ireland, Europe and America, and many of the dancers have had lead roles in productions such as Riverdance and Gael-

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force dance. With innovative choreography and spectacular costumes, The Chase Dancers spread that toe tapping love of Irish culture, music and dance.

This is your chance to enjoy a nigh of Irish culture and fun for only $5 for members. If you love an Irish ditty, you’ll love Seagulls On Broadway Goes To Ireland, Saturday March 21.

The Last Chance Band The Last Chance Band perform at the South Tweed Sports Club on Saturday March 21 from 7.30pm. There’s also a regular jazz jam every Saturday afternoon from 3pm.

Mason Rack Band

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of the lost and the wrapped in a blanket of warm melodic acoustica featuring a banjo, a saw, a piano and brass. When not performing exclusively as Greg Arnold the solo artist, the APRA Songwriter of the Year (1993) is the singer-songwriter behind folk rock institution Things of Stone and Wood.

Soundlounge Currumbin Thursday March 19.

Julie Anthony and Simon Gallaher with Kevin Hocking MD. March 25, Twin Towns Services Club, 10.30am (QLD time / EST). Contact the booking office on 1800 014 014 or (07) 5536 1977 for further details.

Preston Train

Preston Train consists of members of The Smugglers who played regularly on the mason rack at the coolangatta Tweed/Byron and lower Gold 21 Coast. It is twenty years to the hotel sunday year since Terry Perkins, Marcus harmonies produced by Chrys- owns the stage and gets every Rainford, Geoff Loveday and tal and The Cottone Sisters (CC crowd rocking. Neverland, Ian Rowe tramped the boards the Cat, Anarchist Duck) brings Coolangatta 6pm Sunday. of venues in the area. With a cool new depth to the music original Smugglers drummer giving it an un-cliched soul feel Carus Thompson Paul McCallum no longer living with jazzy drum ‘n bassy regand Greg Arnold in the area Dave Bambach gae blues. A unique blend of rounds out the Train on the On My Way is the first single funky, smooth, haunting vocals from Carus’ new solo album skins. Dave has been a regular and poetry, coupled with the on the north coast circuit for Creature Of Habit. Western ebb and flow of the band’s Australian born and bred, Carus some time with acts like Rare soulful, rootsy and relaxed hit the folk-rock highway more Thistle and Shavoo. With an stage presence makes for an al- than ten years ago, and can eclectic mix of covers rangChrystal Lynch and ways enjoyable, often hypnotic ing from acts like Ben Harper, now proudly boast performCC the Cat listening experience. CC the ing over 200 shows every year Donovan Frankenreiter and The Cat has gained the respect and and massive CD sales. He plays Cruel Sea through to classics Chrystal Lynch has been from 10CC, Rolling Stones and developing her distinctive style love of audiences from the East major festivals here and tours Talking Heads. They also throw of music over the last 10 years, Coast to the West of Oz as a throughout Europe and has a great songwriter across a range passionate fan base that any in some funky blues courtesy and more recently, having of genres, a sensational singer D.I.Y folky would be proud of! of acts like Red Hot Chilli Peprelocated from Melbourne in with a huge vocal range, from Greg Arnold’s recent full-length pers, Skunkhour and the Bondi mid 2008, making moves on Cigars as well as a few originals. studio solo album Lost Marie the Gold Coast live music scene a gutsy alto to the sweetness of her high ranges, and as a Court House Hotel Mulis a wonderful collection of with new six piece Chrystal and The Rock. The lush vocal performer from the heart who story songs, celebrating a cast lumbimby Friday March 20.

The most exciting thing to happen to the band is Mason’s new lap slide Weissenborn guitar, the same type used by Ben Harper and Xavier Rudd.

Mason’s shows are spellbinding! He pumps out his music and people can’t help but stare.

He also does this drum thing in the audience, where he plays on the tables, chairs, walls, bar etc, only to return to the stage to duel it out with drummer extraordinaire, Jay Conway. It is a must-see thing! Coolangatta Hotel Sunday March 21.

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production. The show continues on Saturday March 21, Byron funk/blues/swing outfit Friday 27, Saturday 28, FriMr Speaker made a brief foray day April 3 and Saturday 4 at into the local music scene a all 7.30 pm, with one matinee couple of years back, but then on Sunday March 29 at 2 pm. took an extended break due to Seating will be café style and overseas travel, jobs in Sydney patrons are invited to bring and parental responsibility drinks and their own food. Tickbecoming priorities for some of ets ($15, $12 concession) and the lads. They are are now back table bookings are available from their hiatus, however, at Murwillumbah Music Shop fatter and funkier than ever, 6672 5404 or at the door on and plan to have The Rails in the night. For enquiries please Byron jumping this Saturday. ring Rosemary on 6672 1520.

If you miss them there, or have such a blast that you require a repeat dose, they’ll also be at The Beach Hotel on Thursday April 2.

Malfunction Surf

Mr Speaker

Festival March 21-29 Comedian Mick Meredith In early 1998, Mick began performing his strange and unique no-frills brand of comedy anywhere that would have him. With a truckload of oneliners, bizarre observations and a guitar, he will turn any willing grown-up crowd into a bunch of giggling school kids. Tragic tales of married life, scary experiences in parenthood and the ultimate survival in the western suburbs are just some of the topics he twists and bends onstage. Add in an unmeasured cup of song parody, music mayhem and you have the Mick Meredith comedy buffet.

The Gold Coast Arts Centre, Friday March 20 at 8pm.

Featuring art exhibition, vehicle rally, bands, retro boards, professional and amateur surfing, standup paddle surfing, luau dinner, music, movies and more!

On Saturday and Sunday there will be an art exhibition at the Casuarina Conference Centre with free live music at Sandbar+Grill. On Sunday from 10am a Surf Vehicle Rally will be held – classic surf cars take to the streets of the New Tweed Coast and finish up at Sandbar+Grill where they will be on display. The surfing starts on March 25. Saturday March 28: Luau Dinner at Sandbar+Grill from 7pm. www.malfunction.com.au

Tweed Coast Raft Races – March 22 A fun family day of swim and raft races for all ages in the beautiful Pottsville Creek, held in association with Cabarita Beach Surf Lifesaving Club. Turn up and sign on, a great community fundraiser.

Phone 02 6676 1551.

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Allo ‘Allo by the Murwillumbah Theatre Company The Murwillumbah Theatre Company invites you to Allo ‘Allo, a bawdy farcical spoof on war, which opens on Friday March 20, 7.30pm at the Civic Centre.

Based on the long-running TV series of the 80’s, the creators of this also gave us the popular sitcoms ‘Are You Being Served?’ and ‘Dad’s Army’.

It’s set in war–torn France, and ‘Allo ‘Allo tells the story of Renee Artois, a French café owner (played by Brian Meldrum) who is working with the French Resistance. This hilarious comedy has a large cast of outrageous and easily recognizable characters, all from the TV series. Be warned: this is an adults only

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To coincide with the Malfunction festival, local artists this month at Total Art Concepts Gallery include Potts and Troy Archer. Inspired by the nostalgia of surfing heritage, Potts has morphed away from traditional canvas into a wood based medium, and presents a fascinating compilation of

images, provoking memories reminiscent of the ‘coming of age’ for surfing in Australia.

His use of different material brings a fresh approach to this important aspect of Australian

culture. The current exhibit focuses predominantly on his work with serigraph and includes acrylic paint, metallic ink paulownia timber, driftwood and construction ply.

Our other feature artists Troy Archer is heavily influenced by the Folk or Street Art movement that is prominent throughout Japan, Europe and the USA. His pieces this month

represent his observations of the world and the relationships we create within it. The depth of Troy’s art and the boldness and originality of his creative expressions are represented in

soAPboX Mandy Nolan

Swollen Nolan The human body never ceases to be amazing. At 35 plus weeks I am in constant awe of a stomach that seems to stretch and grow beyond what seems humanly possible. My skin is as tight as a drum and now just a few weeks before delivery, I finally have the rock hard abs that have always eluded me.

I have the kind of beer belly that would make the average barfly proud. Being pregnant is surreal. Even with the aid of an ultrasound and the benefit of three previous births it’s still hard to conceptualise that I am growing another person. It feels more like a giant fish flapping around inside of me and might explain my craving for chips. People keep asking me if I have any cravings.

Only for a brand new five bedroom house of my own.

I have just reached the delightful stage of continual discomfort.

Needing to pee every ten minutes, the sensation of a head jammed in the pelvis and a restless night’s sleep disturbed by trips to the toilet and having to wake up to roll over. I believe it is the body’s way of preparing a mother for the sheer psychological torment of parenting. The subjugation of personal need, the loss of self, it’s all there. And then there’s the vaginal trauma they call birth. A world of pain is waiting for me, nature’s very own acid trip. Honestly, if you think about your body turning into share accommodation for nine months and then visualise a violent and graphic eviction, then you have the stuff hallucinations are made of. No tenant I’ve ever met has been forced head first

through a 10cm doorway. It’s Alice Through the Looking Glass, and I’m hoping to find the right mushroom. It’s Birth Plan time. I have big decisions to make, like what essential oil should I burn? As a fourth time mother I know there is no essential oil on this planet that can help. Burn petrol because it’s probably the only smell that I’d notice. I have never asked another woman what helped her labour and had the answer: ‘lavender oil’. Unless lavender can be taken intravenously by the gallon, then forget it. Then there’s the video evidence. At previous births I’ve taken photos.

Not my best angle.

And where do you put the photos afterwards? That last push could make a great screen saver. I have photos of my eldest daughter being born. It’s tempting to add them to her photos on MySpace, I reckon that could be the threat that gets her doing the dishes. Even better, what about the birth video?

I’ve always wondered what you are supposed to do with it. ‘Hey let’s grab a pizza and a few beers, and watch the birth video’. It’s more graphic than SAW. Technology has changed since my eight year old son was born, this time round there’s Youterus-tube. Only problem is, it takes 40 weeks to download.

My favourite idea is to save the birth video for my kids when they turn 21. Just after the speeches, we’ll break out the footage. ‘I have a special birthday video to show’. Cut to the crowning of the head as the crowd sings ‘Happy Birthday…

That’s not just a birth video.

That’s the ultimate non-violent behaviour modification tool.

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TWEED VALLEY JAZZ CLUB PRESENTS

FRIENDS ‘N’ JAZZ Date: Friday 27th March, 2009 at 8.00 pm DST

Venue: Greenhills On Tweed, River St, South Murwillumbah (Blackboard Menu & Bar Service available. No BYO).

ART EXHIBITION featuring Graeme Stevenson FUNDRAISER FOR JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION SUPPORTING LOCAL KIDS.

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this body of work.

Total Art Concepts Gallery is at Shop 14 Azura, Marine Parade in Kingscliff, and If you would like any further information please contact Gal-

Just Add Water Cheryl Nest’s works in watercolour are a joyous reflection

of the love she has for painting.

Her paintings of local scenes include many of the water areas of the Tweed with the boats and yachts that are part of the extensive fishing and recreation industries of the North Coast. Escape Gallery, 1 Brisbane Street, Murwillumbah. March 22-April 29.

Phone 6672 2433.

Tweed River Art Gallery Exhibitions

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Momentum: 18th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial 2008.

From the early 1970’s the Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial has continued to provide audiences with an exciting and vibrant survey exhibition of contemporary fibre textiles.

This is an exciting exhibition of new works that push the boundaries of traditional practice.

Deep Earth – Avital Sheffer.

A touring exhibition that introduces new work by one of our region’s most successful ceramic artists and the winner of the recent Border Art Prize, Avital Sheffer.

Reconstruction: the genesis of available evidence – Lucille Martin.

Using textiles, wooden ornaments, found objects and images, Martin responds to the global diet of over-consumption and consumerism. ‘... a thousand words’.

On display from March 27 to

September 13. This collection of artist prints selected from the Print Archive of the Print Council of Australia illustrates the myriad of stories that artists often draw upon as inspiration for their work.

A life in lithographs.

On display until May 3. A fascinating display of 31 lithographic self portraits by renowned William Robinson selected from his Self-portrait, Farmyard and Parody series, created in Paris in 2004. Tweed River Art Gallery, Mistral Road, Murwillumbah, Phone 6670 2790 or email: tweedart@ tweed.nsw.gov.au

Coming soon Opera in the Park Saturday March 28.

Salt Village is proud to host its fourth annual Opera in the Park. Experience a night of first class entertainment in Salt Central Park as Vavachi Entertainment bring you their acclaimed show Pavarotti Viva! This free open air concert will feature three exciting new talents along with a guest soprano.

Bring along a picnic hamper, friends and a comfortable rug and celebrate the wonderful music that Pavarotti brought to the world. Free community event! Enquiries 1300 225 572 or visit www.saltvillage.com.au/ events.aspx

Youth Week March 28 – April 5 An extensive program of events around the Tweed Shire developed and presented by local youth. Contact Details: Marg Strong, Youth Development Officer, TSC. Phone 6670 2262.

Fifteen Minutes of Fame at Stoker’s

FRI 20 BLITZ SAT 21 STREET CAFÉ MON 23 ROBBIE ROSENLUND

7:30PM - 10:30PM 7:30PM - 10:30PM 12:00PM - 3:00PM

SING & WIN! 1st $1,500 2nd $1,000 3rd $500

Search for a Star competition (contested over 10 weeks: 7 weeks of heats, 2 weeks of semi-finals & Grand Final 3rd May).

Sundays from 4pm in our Waves Lounge.

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OPENING HOURS Sunday: 8:00am - 9:00pm Monday: 9:30am - 9:30pm Tuesday & Wednesday: 10:00am - 10:00pm Thursday: 10:00am - 10:30pm Friday & Saturday: 9:30am - 11:30pm

Two local Stoker’s Siding blokes, Rob and Carl, who like to do a bit for the community, have decided to keep up the fun and entertainment with a proposed monthly talent night at Stoker’s. It’s called Fifteen Minutes of Fame at Stoker’s.

Rob and Carl are keen to provide a venue and PA set-up to encourage local musicians and performers to have a go.

They’re hoping for the widest variety of acts from near and far, young and old, groups and solo, musical and non-musical.

They are undertaking to create a ‘club’ atmosphere where everyone who performs will be supported by an encouraging, quiet and appreciative audience and where the audience gets a timely ‘buzz’. The whole idea is fun and enjoyment, so naturally any crass, boringly tedious and/or offensive acts will get the ‘gong’. As the name says each act will get fifteen minutes to get on, set up and be off with seven available

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time slots.

The first show is Friday April 3, at Stoker’s Siding Hall, 7pm to 10pm, with the first act going on at 7-30pm. Free entry for acts and audience pays $10 each for covering costs. It is anticipated that light refreshments will be available.

If you want to make sure you get a slot, email who you are and what you want to do at fifteenminutesatstokers@gmail. com otherwise just turn up and keep your fingers crossed.

Parissa Bouas and Diaspora Latina Courthouse Hotel, Mullum Friday March 27 8pm, FREE entry.

Saturday 28 March – Stokers Siding Hall, 8pm $12 Tuesday April 21 Winsome Hotel, Lismore. 8pm $10/7 Pull out your dancing shoes and put off your hip replacement -Diaspora Latina cooks; serving up a unique mix of of sensual and rhythmic songs from the ex-Portuguese and Spanish colonies of Latin America and Africa – Cuba, Brazil, Cape Verde, Mexico, Peru…they play songs made famous by the Buena Vista Social Club, Celia Cruz, Cesaria Evora, Gilberto Gil, Susana Baca, Sergio Mendes and more.

Kel’s Jazz Kanaries, Luffley Cafe Murwillumbah Friday March 27.

The Big Joke Comedy Festival Bangalow March 26 to 29 The Big Joke four day comedy festival in Bangalow is hotting up for the third year running.

And this year’s line-up of acts is the biggest in the festival’s history! Festival Director Mandy Nolan takes great pride in bringing these top name acts to her beloved Byron Bay region – Tim Minchin, Arj Barker, Nina Conti and Kitty Flanagan are just some of the headliners.

For more visit www.thebigjoke. com.au

Bluesfest It’s shaping up to be a simply massive year for Bluesfest – quite fittingly for its 20th birthday taking place over the Easter long weekend just five weeks away. Now over 100 artists with 200+ performances on 6 stages over 5 days!

The new list of headliners now includes: Ben Harper and Relentless7, John Butler Trio, Missy Higgins, Jason Mraz, Lu-

cinda Williams, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson, Xavier Rudd, Zappa Plays Zappa, Angelique Kidjo, Paul Kelly, Blind Boys Of Alabama, Drive-By Truckers, Booker T and the DBTs, Eric Bibb , Augie March, Seasick Steve, Tinariwen, James Hunter, Ruthie Foster, Tim Finn, Toni Childs, Tony Joe White, Ayo, Blues Traveler and Fishbone.

See it Easter Long Weekend April 9-13, Byron Bay.

Supanova Supanova, Australia’s premier pop-culture expo, has announced a fun line-up of cult celebrity guests for their first events of 2009, in Brisbane April 4 and 5. Every year, Supanova brings an array of pop-culture stars to Australia to meet fans, pose for photos and sign autographs at weekendlong family events. Stars include Hayden Panetierre, Peter Facinelli, Bonnie Piesse, Eric Roberts, Richard Hatch, Morena Baccarin, Jhonen Vasquez, Dave Willis, Vic Mignogna, Todd McFarlane.

Coolangatta Hotel JIMMYZ Saturday March 28 Saltbar Max Judo Friday March 27 Soundlounge Currumbin Dallas Frasca & The Blackwater Fever (support) & Texas Tea (support) March 27 Abby Dobson April 2 Seagulls Bad Boys Australia Saturday March 28 The Aus Police Mary Duff Thursday April 2 D’Alliance Street Festival Currumbin Saturday May 9 The Gold Coast Arts Centre Comedian Kitty Flanagan Friday March 27 Kingsliff festival – KAFE Fiesta May 2 and 3 South Tweed Sports Club Willy Qua’s super group Quill’s Folly featuring Wil Sargisson (Galapagos Duck) Sat 28 March

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FRIDAY 20

■ AUSTRALIAN TAVERN, M’BAH 9PM LIVE MUSIC ■ CUDGEN LEAGUES CLUB, KINGSCLIFF 5.30PM CHRISSIE WILSON ■ COOLANGATTA SANDS HOTEL 8PM SANDS JAM SESSION WITH THE SMASHED CRABS ■ SOUNDLOUNGE, CURRUMBIN 8PM CARUS THOMPSON & GREG ARNOLD ■ THE SANDS HOTEL COOLANGATTA 8PM JAM NIGHT ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6PM VEENIE’S – SWIZZLE ■ TWIN TOWNS SERVICES CLUB, FROM 1.30PM DENIS WARREN, LONE WOLF ■ BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 9PM SUPER MARIO ■ THE RAILS, BYRON 6.30PM BROADFOOT ■ HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON THE DEVOTED FEW ■ BUDDHA BAR, BYRON 8PM WOMEN OF SOUL WITH MOHINI COX, MELANIE TURNER AND GUESTS ■ LA LA LAND, BYRON KID KENOBI & DANIEL WEBBER ■ LIQUID BYRON, 10PM D’ARCY/ FOXXY ■ COCOMANGAS, BYRON REQUEST FEST ■ RICE RESTAURANT, BRUNSWICK 6PM SHADOW SUNDA ■ MULLUMBIMBY RSL, 7PM JAM NIGHT

■ AUSTRALIAN TAVERN, M’BAH 9PM DOOR 7 ■ CUDGEN LEAGUES CLUB, KINGSCLIFF 7.30PM FREE PAUL MULQUEEN ■ CABARITA BEACH SPORTS CLUB, BOGANGAR 8PM DANNY & STEVE ■ CABARITA BEACH BAR & GRILL 9PM DIZEL ■ CLUB BANORA, BANORA POINT 7.30PM KOMEDY KAPERS ■ COOLANGATTA SANDS HOTEL DJ TRIAL ■ IMPERIAL HOTEL MURWILLUMBAH 8PM MARK EASTON ■ GOLD COAST ARTS CENTRE 8PM COMEDIAN MICK MEREDITH ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH HOTEL 8.30PM ZONE MUSIC ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH CLUB 7.30PM BLITZ ■ MURWILLUMBAH HOTEL, 9PM DJ LEE ■ MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES MEMORIAL CLUB 6.30PM MELLISA COX ■ POTTSVILLE BEACH SPORTS CLUB 7PM THE BAGMAN ■ SALTBAR, KINGSCLIFF, 8.30PM DARREN MARLOW ■ SANDBAR AND GRILL CASUARINA 6PM TANIS ALIA ■ SEAGULLS 7PM, CONNECTIONS BAR THE OSBORNZ ■ SOUTH TWEED SPORTS CLUB 8.30PM RNR DANCING ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 7.30PM THE CHEVROLETS ■ TWIN TOWNS SERVICES CLUB, STAIRWAY

■ TWIN TOWNS SERVICES CLUB, 8PM ABBASOLUTELY FABBAULOUS ■ BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 9.30PM MARTIN MARTINI & BONE PALACE ORCHESTRA WITH THE GRAINS ■ THE RAILS, BYRON 7PM SOUL-D ■ BYRON COMMUNITY CENTRE 7PM SEARCHING FOR MICHAEL PETERSON (SURF FILM) ■ LA LA LAND, BYRON CARL KENNEDY, RYAN RUSHTON + DANIEL WEBBER

SATURDAY 21 ■ CASUARINA CONFERENCE CENTRE 1.30PM MALFUNCTION SURF FESTIVAL FEAT KYM CAMPBELL ■ CABARITA BEACH SPORTS CLUB, BOGANGAR 8PM FATHOM ■ CLUB BANORA, BANORA POINT 8PM BULLAMAKANKA ■ COOLANGATTA TWEED HEADS GOLF CLUB, 7PM COMEDIAN WAYNE NETTLE ■ COOLANGATTA SANDS HOTEL 9PM DJ TOMMY MCCLEMMENTS ■ GOLD COAST ARTS CENTRE, 7PM JAZZ QUARTET ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH CLUB, 7.30PM STREET CAFE ■ MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES MEMORIAL CLUB 6.30PM THE INNOCENT BYSTANDERS ■ MURWILLUMBAH HOTEL 9PM RAY CATT ■ POTTSVILLE BEACH SPORTS CLUB 6.30PM JOE DANIELS ■ SALTBAR, KINGSCLIFF, 8.30PM NOVACAIN

■ SOUTH TWEED SPORTS CLUB, 3PM LIVE JAZZ ■ SOUTH TWEED SPORTS CLUB, 7.30PM THE LAST CHANCE BAND ■ SEAGULLS 7.30PM SEAGULLS ON BROADWAY GOES TO IRELAND ■ SEAGULLS CONNECTIONS BAR 7.30PM BEN GILGEN ■ SHEOAK SHACK, FINGAL HEAD, 7PM SERENE ADDICTION ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB, 7.30PM JAY WESTON ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB, 7.30PM ABBASOLUTELY FABBAULOUS ■ BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 9.30PM GOMA & JUNGLE RHYTHM SECTION ■ THE RAILS, BYRON 6.30PM MR SPEAKER ■ HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON TRIP TRICKS – DOUBLE KICKS ■ RAILWAY PARK 12PM BYRON HARMONY DAY ■ BYRON COMMUNITY CENTRE 4-10PM HARMONY DAY FINALE CONCERT ■ LA LA LAND, BYRON LIVEWIRE ■ HOTEL BRUNSWICK 7.30PM MUD CRAB BOOGIE ■ BRUNSWICK HEADS 11AM KITES AND BIKES FESTIVAL

SUNDAY 22 ■ CABARITA BEACH BAR & GRILL 2PM MATT BUGGY & CARLEY VEAL ■ CLUB BANORA, 12.15PM DEBRA COXX ■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL, 8PM

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MASON RACK BAND ■ COOLANGATTA SANDS HOTEL 4PM SWELL ■ ESCAPE GALLERY, MURWILLUMBAH JUST ADD WATER ART EXHIBITION ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH CLUB 4PM HEAT 4 - SEARCH FOR A STAR ■ NEVERLAND, COOLANGATTA 6PM CHRYSTAL AND THE ROCK AND CC THE CAT ■ POTTSVILLE BEACH SPORTS CLUB, 5PM RICHARD O ■ POTTSVILLE CREEK TWEED COAST RAFT RACES ■ SALTBAR, KINGSCLIFF, 2PM IPSO FACTO ■ SALT VILLAGE 1PM MALFUNCTION SURF FESTIVAL FEATURING THE REAL DEAL ■ SEAGULLS CLUB, 2PM LINE DANCING WITH RUSSELL HINTON ■ SPHINX ROCK CAFE, MT BURRELL, 1- 5PM PEACEBROTHER ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 5PM DAIL PLATZ ■ UKI CAFE 11AM THE TROUBLE WITH TROY ■ VICTORY HOTEL, MOOBALL 1-3PM BILL JACOBI ■ BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 4.30PM ROUND MOUNTAIN GIRLS 8PM DJ NOWAK ■ THE RAILS, BYRON 6PM THRILL BILLY ■ HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON JASON DELPHIN & DUO ■ LA LA LAND, BYRON CAPTAIN

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MONDAY 23 ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH CLUB 12PM ROBBIE ROSENLUND ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 7PM ROBBIE ROSENLUND ■ THE RAILS, BYRON BAY 6.30PM MARK WOLFE

TUESDAY 24 ■ AUSTRALIAN TAVERN, M’BAH 8PM JAM NIGHT ■ SEAGULLS LAKEVIEW LOUNGE ENTERTAINMENT 5.30PM ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 7PM BJ LITTLE

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Sport

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beach buzz what’s happening in the surf Tennis anyone?

Cabarita Beach SLSC Raft Race: It’s off Due to the changes in Surf Life Saving NSW Insurance, the Cabarita Beach SLSC are unable to run their Raft Race this year, an event that they have been hosting for 10 years and have never had an incident.

‘We have not had any problem gaining approval from Surf Life Saving New South Wales in the past,’ said club president Des Anderson. ‘We have exhausted every avenue to come to a reasonable solution with Surf Life Saving New South Wales, however the Insurers will not budge, even though we more than satisfied the water safety requirements and risk management plans.’

TIDE TIMES PHASES OF THE MOON New Moon 27th Mar 2.06 am First Quarter 3rd Apr 12.34 am Full Moon 10th Apr 12.56 am Last Quarter 17th Apr 11.37 pm FRI High 4.03 am 1.3 Sunrise 6.49 am 20th 5.19 pm 1.0 Sunset 6.57 pm Low 11.21 am 0.6 Moonrise 12.31 am 10.30 pm 0.7 Moonset 2.58 pm SAT High 5.12 am 1.4 Sunrise 6.49 am 21st 6.15 pm 1.1 Sunset 6.56 pm Low 12.15 pm 0.5 Moonrise 1.27 am 11.38 pm 0.7 Moonset 3.38 pm SUN High 6.08 am 1.4 Sunrise 6.50 am 22nd 6.57 pm 1.2 Sunset 6.55 pm Low Moonrise 2.23 am 12.57 pm 0.5 Moonset 4.14 pm MON High 6.54 am 1.5 Sunrise 6.50 am 23rd 7.34 pm 1.3 Sunset 6.54 pm Low 12.33 am 0.6 Moonrise 3.20 am 1.33 pm 0.4 Moonset 4.47 pm TUE High 7.34 am 1.5 Sunrise 6.51 am 24th 8.08 pm 1.4 Sunset 6.53 pm Low 1.18 am 0.5 Moonrise 4.16 am 2.04 pm 0.4 Moonset 5.18 am WED High 8.12 am 1.6 Sunrise 6.52 am 25th 8.42 pm 1.5 Sunset 6.51 pm Low 2.00 am 0.5 Moonrise 5.12 am 2.35 pm 0.3 Moonset 5.48 pm THU High 8.50 am 1.6 Sunrise 6.52 am 26th 9.17 pm 1.6 Sunset 6.50 pm Low 2.41 am 0.4 Moonrise 6.09 am 3.05 pm 0.3 Moonset 6.18 pm Eastern Standard Time. Heights in metres.

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

MONTHLY MARKETS 1st Sat Brunswick Heads (02) 6684 4437 1st Sat 8-11am Casuarina Farmers’ Market 0414 777 432 1st Sun Banora Point Farmers’ Market 0417 759 777 1st Sun Byron Bay (02) 6680 9703 1st Sun Pottsville (02) 6676 4555 1st Sun Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714 2nd Sat 2nd Sun 2nd Sun 2nd Sun 2nd Sun 2nd Sun

Kingscliff (02) 6674 0827 The Channon (02) 6688 6433 Chillingham (02) 6679 1284 Lennox Head (02) 6672 2874 Coolangatta (07) 5533 8202 Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714

3rd Sat 8-11am Casuarina Farmers’ Market 0414 777 432 3rd Sat Mullumbimby (02) 6684 3370 3rd Sat Murwillumbah Cottage Markets 0417 759 777 3rd Sun Ballina 6687 4328 3rd Sun Banora Point Farmers’ Market 0417 759 777 3rd Sun Nimbin (02) 6689 0000 3rd Sun Pottsville (02) 6676 4555 3rd Sun Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714 3rd Sun Uki (02) 6679 9026 4th Sat Kingscliff (02) 6674 0827 4th Sun Bangalow (02) 6687 1911 4th Sun (in 5 Sun month) Coolangatta (07) 5533 8202 4th Sun Murwillumbah 0422 565 168 4th Sun Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714 5th Sun 5th Sun

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

FARMERS MARKETS Each Sat Each Thu Each Tue Each Sat

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

New Brighton (02)6684 5390 8am-1pm Uki (02) 6679 5438

Mr Anderson says that the club were given approval by Tweed Shire Council and Waterways based on their public liability insurance covering the Raft Race.

The Insurers are still willing to cover the Open Swim but have now restricted this to 14 and over and have also advised that they will still cover the Junior Board and Swim events as long as they do not exceed 200 metres.

As this event is one of the Club’s major fundraisers and has a history in the area as being a great event, the club is very disappointed with the decision.

‘We understand that some families have probably already built their rafts and have put enormous amounts of effort into doing so. We apologise to these families and hope that they can still use their rafts for recreational purposes at another time,’ said Mr Anderson.

‘We feel that it is a real shame that a fun, safe and community orientated event has to come to an end due to bureaucracy, however this is an indication of changing times.’

For more information about the club or the Raft Race and other events visit: www.cabaslsc.org.au.

SPORT RESULTS BOWLS Burringbar Men Singles Championships : B Bathie defeated R Donnelly A Campbell defeated L Philips.

Singles Championship B Andrews defeated S Wade R Howard defeated K Sharpley.

Saturday MArch 14 T Standfield and S Robson defeated D Dixon and E Roberts, J Dawson and T Giacomini defeated K Sharpley and R Chapman, R Grob won the 3 person challenge against T Allard and R Stevens.

The jackpot did not go off and T Giacomini won the members draw.

Saturday March 28 Division 1 Pennant day. Everyone welcome to come and watch the best bowlers in our district. Game starts 1pm. Social bowls follows pennant at 5pm everyone welcome to come and bowl Burringbar Bushticks Wednesday night bowls washed out.

Sunday played for Brumbil shield against Bangalow 42 bowlers on greens and Bangalow came out winners 73-71. The winning team was D Crough R Dudcran and M Anderson.

Mixed pairs championship draw on the board make arrangements to play anytime soon.

Legacy day at Condong March 29, entry sheet on notice board.

Bowls now at 3pm Friday and Sunday 6pm Wednesday.

Cabarita Beach Men Results. Sat 14/3/09 winners J Richards,R Woodbury and T Cox, cons J Double, P Rannie and S Vincent.

Mon 16/3/09 winners J McCuddle and G Lake, runner up R Maunders and P Craven, cons J Rannie and P Rose.

Pennant trial at Cudgen Saturday, 1pm.

Finals of open singles L Freeman v D Hopps, and open pairs N Ambrose v M Berghofer TBA. Cabarita Beach Women’s Bowls.

Sunday March 22 our visit to Cudgen is still on 9.30start at Cudgen, names on board in club please by Friday.

Our next game after that is April 5th and BBQ 9.30start .Then April 26.

Condong Men Wednesday 11th washed out due to rain. Saturday Condong ladies and men hosted 53 bowlers from Sunshine coast social bowls club all enjoyed a mid day meal by chef Mick Knight and a game of bowls.

Rink winners D Reynolds, T Mul-

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Kicking off the Malfunction Festival this weekend, is the official opening of the Domain Casuarina Beach Resort Art Exhibition on Saturday at 1.30pm.

The exhibition will feature ‘The Original Search Engine’, which showcases a collaboration of works by illustrator Darryl Miller and graphic artist Tony Morris.

On Sunday March 22 at 10am, cool vibes will continue as the Salt Village Surf Vehicle Rally takes to the streets of the Tweed Coast.

The Australian Open is over and now Jelena, Sam, Casey and Rennae are on the way to winning the Fed Cup. What about you? The opportunity is waiting for you to emulate your heroes. No matter at what level you this great game, there are others of your calibre waiting to contest the long five setter in the extreme heat to the end.

Well maybe one set in the cool of the evening, but we can all dream.

Tennis, like love, is all around you – at every location for all ages and for social or competition play.

The Tweed District Tennis Association has seven affiliated Clubs as members.

The Clubs extend from the best views at Terranora, the hub of town at Tweed Heads, the Club Banora Sporting Complex, the country at Murwillumbah and to the coastal villages of Pottsville, Casuarina, and Kingscliff.

All of these clubs have qualified coaches, junior programs, competition and social play for all ages and standards.

Junior play is available in Friday Night Pennants and Saturday morning and afternoon competitions from Division one to Division five.

Open competitions are played on Saturday Afternoon Mixed Five Divisions, Thursday Nights Mens three Divisions, Tuesday Morning Ladies three Divisions, Gold Coast Super-league one Division.

The Saturday Mixed Summer Grand Finals will be played at Tweed Heads Club on March 28 at 1.00pm.

The Thursday Night Mens Grand Finals will be played at Club Banora on March 26 at 7.00pm.

Saturday Mixed Winter commences on May 9 and nomination forms are now available.

Players can be nominated

in a team or as a reserve, and the nomination form must be lodged with a Club no later than Saturday March 28.

Social play is available practically any day/night at the various clubs.

Nobody should be able to think of any excuses – there is a Club, a coach, competition play, social play and other people like you participating to enjoy the companionship and improve their health and fitness.

For information on any of the tennis facilities and programmes available please contact TDTA President Rob Nienhuis 0412 666 678 or Secretary Jeff Inglis 02 6676 0251.

doon, J Knight runnerunner ups B Harlan, V Ryan, P Flack. Other winners B Dunne, J Andrassy, J Parks, W Edwards,R Boiled, D Lukey,. Open Pairs played P Martain, S Reading,def R Fuller, R Kaehier. game 2 M Chillcott, J McDonald def S Massey, K Vardy. Coming Events: Sunday 22nd Riverview hotel V Condong at Condong, Thursday 26 and April 2nd Power play singles start 6pm, April Saturday 4th 40 bowlers to play Harvey Bowls, April Sunday 5th 21 men needed.

Cudgen Leagues Ladies Results for Thursday 12.

Our Div 4 Pennant girls were unlucky to go down to Cabarita Beach who were the overall winners of the Div 4 section. Congratulations to Cabarita Beach Div 2, and Brunswick Heads Div 3 overall winners,well done.

Raffle – Freda Hall. Sun 15th, Social Bowls Club Day results – Winners, M Morris,C Henry, B Henry. Runners up, B Ford, J Ashford, N Ashford. Raffle – Ray Mathews. Congratulations to the winners and to everyone that came to support this great event, the next one will be on Sun 19th April – 09.

Coming up, 1pm – Thursday Ladies Social bowls. Thurs 19th, 1pm -First Round of Club Championship Triples – Marion Hull, Lorraine Sandall, Liz Fleming V’s Judy Martin, Vickii Needs, Margaret Huddy ; Sharon Hinks, Isabel Nipperess, Colleen Wein V’s Lola Taylor, Eilleen Burke, Margaret Trapnell ; Ann Revie, Pat Pieterse, June Tilley V’s Trish McGee, Clarice Blake, Anne Law ; Faye Turner, Joy Ashford, June Wotherspoon V’s Betty Sydneham, Helen Wylie, Maureen Alcorn. Good Luck Everyone. Mon 23rd 1pm – Social Mixed Triples, Everybody welcome. Draw on board for all the District Events.

End of Season Pennant Lunch for all Players and Members, Wed 8th April at Cudgen Leagues Club – Midday.

Cost $15 pp ( three course lunch ) Names to be in by Thurs 2nd April, Payment due on this day to Treasurer Mary Hay. Check board for away events coming up. Members on the sick list, well wishes from all Members. Happy Birthday to all celebrating this week. All welcome, sheet at front desk for all events or phone 0266741816 / 2734.

Kingscliff Ladies Once again the weather caused the cancellation of Social Bowls last Wednesday.

The Open Triples Competition will commence this Friday, the 20th, due to being postponed last week through unforseen circumstances.

Kingscliff Men March 17 Thursday 12th Winners: B Morrow, B Beattie, H Kemp: A Reid, A Brown, T Hills; G Davis, M Rice, B Reaburn; Plate Winners: R Sharman, R Wilkinson, B Ryder: Tuesday 17th Winners: T Dimmock, B Reaburn; Runner Up: B Turner, M Azzopardi; Plate Winner: B McIllhatton, M Rice: Super Challenge Results: Gold Division: Mermaid Beach defeated Kingscliff 3 rinks to 2. Bronze Division: Kingscliff defeated St Lucia 3 rinks to 2.

Draw for Saturday 21st: Bronze Division will play a rain make up game against Manly at Kingscliff. Game commences at 1:00pm NSW time.

Gold Division have played their final game. Summer Nines: March 14 Gold Coast Lawn A defeated Kingscliff A 87 shots to 53. Canungra defeated Kingscliff B 86 shots to 55.

Draw for Saturday 21st March: Kingscliff A play McKenzie Park B and Kingscliff B play McKenzie Park A. Both games are at Kingscliff. Roll up starts at 9:15am. Please check the board for teams. Tweed Valley Shield.

March 16.

Both Kingscliff went down to Coolangatta. The final round will be played next Tuesday at Pottsville.

Congratulations to Michael Turner on winning the Open Singles Final against Greg Barrack. Congratulations also to Greg on making the final. Michael is also in action next Sunday 22nd March when he plays in the semi-finals of the District Singles. Michael will play Gary Mounsey at Broadbeach. We wish Michael all the best.

Open Fours: Round One was played on Tuesday 17th and Wednesday 18th March. Winners should check the board for details of the next round. The Men’s Two Bowls Pairs on Monday 16th March was a great day. Winners on the day were S Gittoes, R Harper; 2nd; H Beswick, Sepravich; 3rd, M Azzopardi, B Turner; 4th, L Ponting, R Hickman; 5th, P Crompton, T Abraham; 6th, D Mahoney, W Gradfield; 7th, J Bessisto, H Calvin; Best all Kingscliff Team, R Parlett, K Banks; 2nd Best All Kingscliff Team, O Simpson, G Barrack; Last game Prize, P Duncan, P Kukums: There will be a Special General Meeting on Thursday April 2, commencing at 10:00am NSW time.

All bowlers are encouraged to attend.

Pottsville Men 13/3/09 Winners: K Soccio, M Comerford, Consolation- J Appleton, F Fielding 14/3/09 Winners: K Boynton, J Buckley, Consolation- l Hogg, W Gruggan Club Championships: Club Triples Final- K Lehfeldt defeatedeated J Rae. Club ‘A‘ Grade Singles- R Scott defeated C Mullins; G Crawley defeated B Wilson; K Lehdeldt defeated S Lofts; W Chatman defeated M Fletcher.

Club members: check the notice board for upcoming events.

A visit from the Noosa Club, Saturday, April 4. Please indicate if you are available.

At a recent Club meeting, Darren Townsend took over the Presidency from Ron Parker who has retired for health reasons.

Bob Mackay has been appointed to the Committee to fill the vacancy.

Pottsville Women Thursday, March 12: Lucky Bowler: S McKenzie. Winning Rink: P Sherwood, J Baxter. Raffle:.

J Fletcher.

Updates: March 17-22 Silver Anniversary celebration week. April 2: Monthly Meeting. April 6: Delegate meeting, Mullum. April 9: Club pairs commence.

April 14: District singles commence.

April 20: Pennant Presentation, Brunswick heads. April 28: District triples commence.

Tuesday afternoon, 1 pm Cards. Tutors available so come along and play Solo, Canasta, Bridge or teach us how to play your game.

Visitor Info: Fri 1.00 pm mixed pairs.

Thurs Women’s Social Bowls 9 am.

For new bowlers, should coaching be required, please contact the club on 6676 1077 and follow the prompts.

DARTS Tweed Valley Darts Association Results of games played on Monday 16th March. A grade results Gulls 13 def Clockwork Orange 2 and Hogan’s Heroes 10 def Jokers 5. A grade point score Jokers 55, Gulls 50, Hogan’s Heroes 46 and Clockwork Orange 29.

B grade results Leftovers 7 def Cgulls 4 and Devils 6 def Sharks 5. B grade point score Devils 41, Leftovers 34, Sharks 29 and Cgulls 28.

FOOTBALL Tweed Valley Kings Youth League TVK 1 v Coomera 5 Reserve Grade TVK 2 v Coomera 1 1st Grade TVK 1 v Coomera 5

GOLF Chinderah Veterans Social Golf Results for Thursday 12/3/09, Stroke (Rainy day) –Winner, Patsy Gordon, net 55, new handy cap 21, Runner up, Coral Rasmussen, net 57 (c/back), new handy cap 24. Ball rundown to net 60.

Results for Monday 16/3/09 Stroke – Winner ‘A’ grade, Barry Delamont, net 56, new handy cap 9, Runner up, Ron Swan, net 57 (c/back), new handy cap 7.

Winner ‘B’ grade, Shirley Featherstone, net 56, new handy cap 17, Runner up, Errol Burley, net 57, new handy cap 17.

Winner ‘C’ grade, David McIlwain, net 57, new handy cap 21, Runner up, Norm Armstrong, net 58 (c/back), new handy cap 20. Ball rundown to net 60 Next event, 4 man Ambrose, 23/3/09 Murwillumbah Golf Club Sunday March 8 Women: J.Rockliff Winner Member R. Rattray N/Pin Monday 9th March Veteran’s Winner R.Green 42 pts Runner up G.Hughes 40pts c.b N/Pin 2nd W.Haigh 8th B.Wedlock 10th A.Collings 14th W.Rowe B.R.D.to 36pts c.b.

Tuesday March 10 Women Ind Stroke: A, Grade J.Pezet 71 nett and J.Smith 72 nett c.b B.Grade E.Crawshaw 69 nett and C.Dickenson 70 nett C.Grade D.Fraser 72 nett and M.Brown 75 nett 1st Nine H.Mackay 33 .5 c,b 2nd Nine P.Smith 34 nett N.pin 2nd G.Shoobridge 8th E.Crawshaw and H.Mackay 10th F.Chadwick 14th C.Fogo and D.Wright b.r.Down to 76 nett c.b Wednesday March 11 Winners: L.Browning 40 pts R.Up P.Berryman 38 pts c.b N/Pin 8th P.Berryman B/R/Down to 30 pts Thur 12th Women Individual Stableford Winner LO.Schirmer 35 pts Runner up J.Rockliff 34 pts N/Pin 2nd M.Reynolds 8th J.Gielis and D.Colter 10th M.Van Den Broek 17th M.Reynlds and J.Baker B/R/Down to 30 pts Friday March 13 Winners Women: D.O;brien 32pts and Members N.Hulyer 42 pts B/R/D/own to 35 pts Saturday March 14 Ind Stableford in 4 Grades A,Grade Winner: R.Balmain 39pts c.b Runner up A.Causley 39 pts B.Grade G.Carroll 41pts Runner up I.Douglas 39pts C.Grade G.Edwards 41 pts c.b Runner up S.Allan 41 pts D.Grade T.Brown 40 pts Runner up S.Steen 38 pts N/ Pin 2nd W.Colefax 8th.G.Bartlett 10th M.Knight 14th.M.Knight B.R.Down to 34 pts c.

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powerful and systematic and plays a significant role in sport expertise development.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; MacDonald says the physical and psychosocial environments of smaller cities and towns may also provide unique advantages for sport development. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Smaller communities provide an environment that allows children a greater amount of independent mobility and physical safety. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;When coupled with an abundance of space to play, these factors may facilitate diverse types of sport participation, a characteristic associated with the acquisition of sport expertise,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; said Mr MacDonald. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Small cities and towns may also contain certain psychosocial features that are conducive to sport expertise development. The intimate nature of smaller cities and towns may provide integrative approaches to sport participation that engage families, schools and communities. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;These smaller populations may also foster more supportive relationships between coaches and athletes and young athletes are likely to develop a positive self-concept and acquire the necessary motivation for sustained involvement in sport.

Study supports learning to swim A recent study supports learn to swim as a potential component of a multi-faceted approach to drowning prevention. The study undertaken by Brenner et al, also highlights that the estimate of the preventative effect is imprecise and reinforces the need for supervision, appropriate fencing and CPR. Michael Morris, Managing Director of the Samuel Morris Foundation says that until now there has been a lack of evidence to support swimming lessons as a proven strategy for drowning prevention in the 0-4 year old age group.

The study has now provided some evidence to support learn to swim lessons as part of the prevention tool kit in this age group.

The authors of the study acknowledge that one limitation of their study was the relatively small sample size but state that in combination with other prevention strategies, such as pool fencing, appropriate adult supervision, and training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, swimming instruction can now be viewed as a potential component of a multifaceted approach to prevention for younger children.

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which the study was published, Dr Frederick Rivara, said that a larger study to examine the effect in this age group is warranted because bringing clarity and resolution to this question is so important in determining policy and potentially preventing death. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Other interventions to prevent drowning are also important, such as pool fencing and supervised swim areas,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; said Dr Rivara. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Swimming lessons should not replace these other strategies nor should they substitute for adult supervision and vigilance. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;However, formal swimming lessons offer an opportunity to make a real difference in communities around the globe to prevent the sound of happy children splashing in the water turning into the wail of an ambulance siren or the sound of a parent crying in grief.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Several organisations, are calling on the government to immediately implement changes to the legislation associated with home pools to introduce mandatory CPR requirements for pool owners, as well as urgently introducing mandatory safety inspections and certification on a regular basis to all pools.

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The research showed that while 57 per cent of the female adolescent population was born in cities with a population less than 500,000, almost 85 per cent of professional female golfers and approximately 80 per cent of professional female soccer players were born in these less dense areas.

Author of the paper, Dany MacDonald from the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s University in Canada says there is an over-representation of female professional athletes born in smaller cities or towns. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The results support the notion that smaller cities and towns provide females with superior opportunities for sport expertise development,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; said Mr MacDonald. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Therefore, the birthplace effect is

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Noticeboard Pottsville picnic Pottsvilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual Family Picnic Day, organised by the Cabarita Beach Surf Life Saving Club, is on this Sunday at Hardy Park. For info call 02 6676 1551.

Ex-service women Tweed/Coolangatta and District Ex-Service Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Association will hold their general meeting on Monday, March 23, at 9.30am (EST) in the Anzac Room, Twin Towns Services Club. Members are reminded of the Birthday Luncheon on Monday, April 27.

View club Murwillumbah Day View Club will hold its next meeting on March 23 at the Murwillumbah Bowls and Sports Club, 9.30am for a 10am start. Nicole Heffernan is the guest speaker. Membership fees are due this month, while $27 will be collected at the meeting for the next bus trip, which has been rescheduled for March 30. A trip to the Hunter Valley is planned for May. Call Pauline on 02 6672 2275.

Free concert Coolangatta Senior Citizensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Centreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s next free concert will be held on March 30 at 2pm (NSW).

Multi-talented performer Bill Alexander will be the entertainment.

BYO lunch or nibbles. Contact the centre at 2 Gerrard Street, Coolangatta on 07 5536 4050.

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Cadets recruitment Murwillumbahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 225 Army Cadet Unit is calling upon local youngsters from 12½ to 17 years of age to enlist during their upcoming recruitment drive. The unit is strongly supported by returned servicemen who recently raised over $1,000 to help cover the costs of some of the life-changing activities the cadets participate in including abseilling, navigation, survival and first aid. Call Captain John Hagan on 0414 755 870 or drop in any Wednesday from 6pm to see the cadets in action.

Garden club Murwillumbah and District Garden Club bus trip to Brisbane, Friday, April 17, leaves Sunnyside at 7:45am and returns 5pm, visiting Golden Circle Factory for morning tea, then to Garden Expo at the Brisbane Showground. Cost $50, lunch at own expense. Bookings at Beverleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on Main Street.

Payment is due Tuesday, April 14, between 9am-11am. For info call Len on 6672 2020.

Trash and treasure Kingscliff Volunteer Coast Guard is holding a trash and treasure car boot sale at the training rooms Rotary Park, starting 8am on Saturday, April 18. To book a site at $15 phone Marg on 0413 293 686.

U3A U3A Tweed Coast Friday Forum, April 3, at Kingscliff Uniting Church Hall at 2pm. Guest speaker Don Riley willl share a special experience about a trip to Peru, where he and Yvonne discovered the Helping Hands Tour.

Cancer Council NSW is offering subsidised massages for $20 to women with breast cancer living in the Tweed Shire who have been diagnosed within the last two years and are currently having active treatment. Massages are available at this subsidised rate until May 2009. To register for the massage program or for more info call the Cancer Council Helpline 02 9334 1497 or 131120 (local call cost). What would you dare to do for menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cancers? Visit www. daredallion.com.au.

Bread and grocery give away at Jack Evans Boat Harbour, Wednesday 12.30pm DST. Please good people can we still have donations of groceries? You really do put a smile on the face of the pensioners. Thank you so much.

Terri 0414 376 057.

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Community meeting

The Cancer Support Groups will be involved with the Relay for Life April 4-5 at the Murwillumbah Showgrounds. Tweed-Murwillumbah Cancer Support Group will not be meeting on the Saturday but other cancer survivors and carers are invited to join the relay activities. Tweed-Brunswick Breast Cancer Support Group will meet Monday, April 6, 10am-noon. The venue is uncertain so contact the TPS office 02 6672 8459 prior to the day. There will be a discussion about Petrea Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s workshop.

Contact Lianne 02 6672 0102.

Fernvale Community Association AGM April 6. All welcome. Call Neil for info on 6677 9125.

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Mental health Tweed Valley Mental Health Carers Network is a support group for families of people with mental illness, offering friendship and sharing experiences and information. The group meets on the first and third Mondays in each month at the Tweed Heads Library, Brett Street (no public holidays). Inquiries 07 5524 4556.

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Backburner Local developer Danny Gillies seems to be copping it from all sides these days with his latest bit of bother occurring on the home front. It appears Danny (the D in PDK) ruffled neighbours’ feathers with a carport built on Crown land at the rear of his gated two-storey pile at Fingal. After a period of inaction from the Lands Department, whose Tweed-based operatives are busy working out how to generate more dollars from Crown land, the local council stepped in to order the building’s removal. Mr Gillies has recently complied with another site remediation order for work on one of his Hastings Point projects which came to a standstill after legal action by residents overturned council’s consent. Mr Gillies is gambling against a trifecta as work continues apace on his 264-unit aged care resort at Hastings Point despite a residents’ appeal against consent set to be heard later this year.

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It’s touted as an event for the kids and kids at heart. The annual Kites and Bikes Festival at Brunswick Heads which promotes affordable family fun is set to draw hundreds from Tweed and Byron shires to the town this weekend. Pictured at an earlier festival are the giant kites called Romeo the Octopus and Sydney the Trilobite. An attempt will be made to smash the world record for the most kites in the air at once (1,655) which was set in Malaysia last year. Saturday is prep day from 11am-4pm when kites will be made and bikes decorated, and the main day is Sunday from 9am-4pm with the parade setting off at 10am. For info call Kim on 0412 316 299.

and two resorts by stealth. They say that the council’s building services unit was unaware that the Department of Planning was still considering the creekside development when it approved the house. The council says plans for the house met required guidelines and that they had ordered the developer to remove some of the fill he had trucked to the site. Walter Elliott denies trying to circumvent normal processes, saying he applied to build the house to use for family holidays.

The council’s compliance staff has also been busy issuing notices to the owners of the local Hastings Point store which was bought by PDK last year but now has another local developer, Alan McIntosh, manning the front counter. They complied with an order to remove an awning built without consent but then copped another after setting up outside tables and chairs without seeking approval. Before selling the resort site to PDK, Mr McIntosh ■ ■ ■ ■ honed his shopkeeping skills as The council will also be receiva newsagent and greengrocer. ing another legal notice, this ■ ■ ■ ■ time from retired accountant The drama at Hastings Point Terry Sharples, who on Monday continues with the council re- lodged an appeal against a Land ceiving a legal notice of its own. and Environment Court judgeBattle-ready residents have ment which put the kibosh on lodged an appeal against its his attempts to scuttle the counapproval of a house and access cil’s seven-year plan. While the road on the site of a controver- judge found the council’s consial and unapproved 57-lot sub- sultation process was flawed, he division in the village. Residents believed it did not intentionally claim developer Walter Elliot set out to mislead the commuHoldings is trying to activate his nity about the true impacts of plans for 55 two-storey houses the rate rises contained in the

plan and that in any case the Minister for Local Government had the power to approve them.

Mr Sharples says he has a new legal team to replace the one bankrolled by long-standing council critic and Chinderah shopping centre champion Stephen Segal, and is confident of a better result. Meantime the council continues to pursue Mr Sharples to pay its $258,000 legal bill arising from their last courtroom confrontation.

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Despite the Council vote on Tuesday endorsing the rate rises (see page 1), some Tweed Heads residents are worried that a long overdue facelift for the Jack Evans Boat Harbour, earmarked for funding under the plan this year, might again be put on hold. Meantime locals are unenthusiastic about the turn of events in the council’s former tourist information centre which advertises itself as Australia’s only adult restaurant, enticing customers to ‘lap dance the night away with the hottest chicks in town’. The restaurant

is across the road from Tweed’s oldest brothel and next door to a projected new information centre, and residents fear plans to turn the park into a family friendly venue are as far away as ever.

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The boot’s on the other foot... former Tweed Shire Council planning chief Noel Hodges joins a long list of former council staffers snapped up by major developers or consultancies who want to profitably use their bureaucratic knowledge – and talent, of course. Mr Hodges, appointed to the top council job by former mayor Warren Polglase and former general manager John Griffin not long before council’s sacking in 2005, is now a consultant to Leda Developments which has plans before the state government for two of the biggest residential subdivisions in the country at Cobaki Lakes and Kings Forest.

The water/sewerage engineer/ town planner spends sometimes up to three days a week in the Leda office.

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