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Developer ‘wants to privatise beachfront’ Residents in one of the Tweed’s new coastal townships are at loggerheads over a developer’s push to wipe out hundreds of beachfront parking spaces as part of rejigged plans for a supermarket and retail complex. Casuarina estate founder Don O’Rorke has split the community by attempting to waive a condition imposed under a 1998 court agreement requiring a beachfront esplanade to provide visitor parking for more than 300 cars.

Bob Taylor, a member of the association’s executive, says there’s no reason apart from the loss of potential profits that the developer can’t still build his retail centre while retaining car parking paces along the beach. ‘We all want a supermarket but many feel that they don’t want to be raped for the privilege,’ said Mr Taylor, who emphasised he was not speaking on behalf of the association . Another resident, Bob Dagworthy, says the foreshore reserves, vacant building sites and the nar-

‘We are angry that some bureaucrat in Sydney is prepared to put profits before people.’ Tweed Shire Council is insisting the developer stick to the agreed development control plan but some residents fear the government may overrule the council and create the potential for a multi-million dollar windfall for the developer. Mr O’Rorke has the backing of Casuarina Residents Association president Rob Bryant who is telling members their shopping centre won’t go ahead if the developer can’t relocate most of the parking spaces to the site of the proposed Coles supermarket beside the Coast Road. But many longterm residents dispute the claim and say there’s already an urgent need for more beachfront parking to cater for the hundreds of visitors who flock to the estate’s patrolled beaches each weekend.

row streets leading to the beach are already packed with visitors’ cars at weekends, even though it’s still winter. ‘I’ve lived at Bondi where people are parking up to three kilometres away from the beach because there’s not enough public car parking spaces close to the beach,’ he said. ‘If we lose the beachfront spaces visitors will be parking in the streets, at the supermarket car park and along the Coast Road, and it will get worse when Kings Forest comes on line.’ The issue has proved a volatile topic on the association’s agenda for more than a year, triggering several stormy meetings, walkouts and resignations. Earlier this year councillors overruled their planners’ advice and adopted a compromise plan

allowing Mr O’Rorke to build a retail centre much bigger than originally planned and relocate it from the beachfront to the Coast Road. Under the compromise Mr O’Rorke was given a large chunk of council-owned land being used as a natural stormwater swale which residents estimate has a commercial value of at least $25 million. Mr Taylor says the developer stands to benefit from a potential windfall many times that amount if he can convince the government, which is the final consent authority, to waive beachfront parking. Mr Bryant says his association agrees with the plan because it will conserve open space but residents say this appears a hypocritical stand considering the association supported the removal of most of the swale. They say they have finally decided to speak out following a letter from the department of planning’s deputy director general, Richard Pearson, signalling his support for the developer’s plans. ‘We are angry that some bureaucrat in Sydney is prepared to put profits before people and ride roughshod over the wishes of what I would say is a sizeable majority and ignore the needs of people visiting the beach,’ Mr Taylor said. Tweed council’s waterways committee chairman Cr Kevin Skinner predicted an angry backlash from the wider community if

Keen snapper thanks his nana

Cameron Jung sits in a folding chair to promote his self-portrait (foreground), which features in the Olive Cotton portraiture award exhibition opening tomorrow at the Tweed River Art Gallery. Photo Jeff ‘I Have The Angles’ Dawson Roxanne Millar

Never underestimate the power of your nana. That is the warning by amateur photographer Cameron Jung, whose nana took him hostage over dinner to force him to enter a continued on page 2 local photographic competition.

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At the age of about 10, Wal Elliott turfed his parents out of the family garden and started lovingly tending it himself. With the enthusiasm shown by any child obsessed with a new pursuit, he laboriously mowed the lawns and planted a delicious vegie garden. Half a century or so later, Wal is now the president of the Twin Towns and District Garden Club and has planted about 600 plants in his garden already this year. ‘I am not a real particular person about reading books about gardening,’ he said. ‘I am interested in it for my own benefit.’ This month marks the 30th anniversary of the Twin Towns and District Garden Club, but incredibly Elliott isn’t the most fanatical member. Ninety-four-year-old Nell Jeffrey gets that title. Nell was there when the club was first formed by staff working at the old Hillcrest Nursery on Sexton Hill at Banora Point. ‘She is sharp as a tack and was well-known in the club for her ability to identify plants. Bring anything in and she can tell you what it is,’ said Wal. ‘She has trouble getting around now, but as usual came along to our 30th birth-

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Lifelong gardener Wal Elliott is the Twin Towns and District Garden Club’s president green thumb. Photo Jeff ‘Camellian’ Dawson

day celebration on Monday.’ Wal has been a member of the garden club since he moved to the Tweed 14 years ago and has watched as modern life has derailed the popularity of gardening. The club was once the second biggest club in Australia, but will be lucky to register 200 members this year. ‘People aren’t gardening like they used to. In the days of old

it was the domain of womenfolk, but now the women go to work and come to gardening when they have retired,’ he said. ‘Our average age at the club is probably beyond 70.’ The club’s 30th birthday celebration was attended by various civic leaders at Tweed Heads Civic Centre on Monday this week. Its best-known activity is its

annual flower show, which it started in 1994. Members are currently putting the finishing touches on their entries for the 16th flower show, to be held at the Tweed Heads Civic Centre on September 19, from 8.30am-3pm when a whopping 450 or so exhibits will light up the room. New members are always welcome. For more details call Wal on 07 5523 1016.

Keen snapper thanks his nana tomorrow (Friday, August 14) and features 101 works from across Australia. Cameron, 24, from Tweed Heads, never imagined his photograph would ever be seen by other people’s eyes. He is completely self-taught and took up photography four years ago to relieve his boredom, exercise his creative side and get him out of the house. ‘I am really self critical and my grandma had been telling me about the Olive Cotton award for a while, but I never thought my stuff was worth entering,’ he said. ‘My family has always been on at me. This one night my nana invited me to dinner and wouldn’t let me leave until I signed the paperwork to enter! ‘She has a lot of faith in me and I am very grateful to her for making me enter. It’s further than I ever imagined I would get with photography.’ The photograph he entered is a moody self-portrait that

he shot for fun and to try out ‘something new’. Cameron, who works in retail, spends most of his time snapping whatever and whenever he can. ‘I am really obsessed. It started as something to do and then I guess I got addicted. ‘I had dropped out of uni for the second time and figured I needed a hobby. I’d always been a bit of a nerd and like to play with expensive toys, so I hit on photography. ‘It is a great hobby because I’ve found it enables me to do things that I used to enjoy as a kid, like bushwalking. And it is something you don’t have to rely on other people for.’ Having tapped into his natural talent he is now hoping to return to uni to study photography and journalism next year. ‘The market tends to be very saturated with people who think they can take photographs,’ he said. ‘The only way I can see mak-

Concert to honour performing arts festival award winners The best performers in the Tweed will show off their skills this month at a special awards concert held to honour winners from the Murwillumbah Festival of Performing Arts. The festival’s most awarded dancers, musicians and public speakers will all join together for the annual awards and pre-

sentation concert on August 17. Held at the Murwillumbah Civic Centre, the concert features more than 20 performances including ballet, tap dancing, piano solos and speech. Tickets are $7 for adults, $5 for pensioners and children and $15 for families. Doors open 7pm for a 7.30pm start.

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ing a career out of it is to combine it with something, and I love writing so I want to do a journalism course.’ For now he is excited to see his work on the wall of a gallery and will be inviting his nana along to check it out. Portraits selected for the Olive Cotton award will be on display at the Tweed River Regional Art Gallery from tomorrow (Friday) to September 27. Photographer Doug Spowart will discuss the works at a special floor talk at the gallery on Sunday, August 16, from 11am.

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the government caved in to the developer’s demands. ‘It’s a real test of local democracy – in my mind what the developer is proposing amounts to a de facto privatisation of the beachfront.’ Kingscliff Residents Association president Kim Holdom said members voted unanimously last week to endorse the retention of beachfront parking. Mr Bryant said yesterday he believed there was already enough beachfront parking and any more would only encourage visitors to drive through their town, endangering children who played on the roads. ■ See Editorial, page 6

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Mayor fronts Senate with her vision Ken Sapwell

Mayor Joan van Lieshout has riled colleagues by using a senate inquiry to unveil a radical vision for the Tweed which is at odds with council and government planning strategies She has told a senate select committee hearing into farming practices that she believes the Tweed can ‘set the pace for initiatives’ that would allow development and food production to co-exist. The outspoken mayor says she has created a vision in which dozens of self-contained eco villages are dotted throughout the shire, protected farming land at Cudgen is turned into small holdings and a town centre is built at Chinderah. Cr van Lieshout fronted the committee in March but colleagues only learnt about her unheralded appearance in recent weeks, fuelling further disquiet about her performance which culminated in complaints to the council’s conduct review panel last month. Her fellow councillors are disturbed that her vision flies in the face of previous planning decisions and champions the proliferation of develop-

ments similar to her husband Peter’s controversial Nightcap village venture near Uki. But Cr van Lieshout rejected criticism that she fronted the committee without council authorisation, saying she was invited to appear by chairman by fellow Liberal Bill Heffernan to air her own thoughts about how the Tweed could become a food bowl.

Many challenges She told the committee that as the newly elected mayor she recognised the council faced many challenges, particularly from developers who wanted to carve up land now used for farming. ‘We have had a lot of issues regarding development and we have a lot of people knocking at the door, we have a huge number of developers that want to develop but have been squeezed for different reasons,’ she said. ‘I personally believe that we can set the pace in the future for the nation on green initiatives in which development also encompasses food production. ‘I see an enormous opportunity for Tweed shire in par-

ticular to embark on a food production vision that encompasses development and also encourages industry that allows us not only to supply the region but also south-east Queensland initially.’ ‘We [the council] are embarking now on how we would like to see the shire and are seriously looking at village-type development that allows you to live, work and play in one area. ‘We would rather see development that creates a village type atmosphere down the coast about every five kilometres and in the country areas about every 15 kilometres, with villages having all their own facilities.’

Push to rezone Cr van Lieshout also spoke of the push to rezone the soilrich Cudgen plateau for a supermarket, saying that Cudgen should be retained for farming activities and any future supermarket should be located at Chinderah. But she appeared to raise eyebrows among committee members when she suggested the minimum lot size be reduced from 100 acres to five

Mum bounces back for charity walk Roxanne Millar

There isn’t much that gets in the way of a long walk for Dulguigan mother Jennie Cupitt. Just 12 days after giving birth to daughter Alice in 2008, she walked the annual 8.4km Mullum to Bruns charity walk as her husband Matthew ran the 10km leg. This year, nine weeks pregnant with her second child, she will brave the lengthy walk again with little Alice in tow. ‘Alice has been walking for about a month now, so we might even let her walk it, but only a tiny bit,’ said Jennie. ‘It is quite funny that people think it is amazing that I walked last year and that people think I am really into it. My husband thinks I should exercise more! ‘I should actually run it this year, but I’m just not fit enough.’ The Mullum to Bruns is a 10km run or 8.4km walk from Mullumbimby to Brunswick Heads and will be held this Sunday, August 16. More than 800 people entered the first Mullum to Bruns last year, with more than 80 people from the Tweed Shire taking part. Jennie said she wasn’t into pounding the pavement like her husband who runs with the Murwillumbah Volleys and enters half marathons for fun. In fact, she didn’t even intend on joining last year’s Mullum to Bruns, which raises money for Oxfam and local charities. www.tweedecho.com.au

to ‘encourage small growers to grow small crops’. Committee deputy, Kerry O’Brien, said he struggled to understand how smaller lots would be productive ‘in any serious economic sense’, and advised her to speak to some of the farming community on the Sunshine Coast who are being priced out by development. ‘The more you put in small lots, the more you create the opportunity for the lifestyle inhabitant rather than the productive inhabitant,’ the Tasmanian Labor Party Senator told her. ‘That is the reason that in Tasmania the argument is going on about the size of subdividable rural blocks, because there is a feeling that you are losing productive land if you cut them up too small because they become lifestyle blocks rather than productive blocks.’ Cr van Lieshout sidestepped questions about whether her vision was shared by the wider community and admitted she had no figures or research at this stage to support her views that smaller lots would be viable. She said a researcher at Southern Cross University was to give her some notes to support her argument but she had been unable to contact her.

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‘I decided only two days before that I felt right to do it,’ she said. ‘We took it slowly and Alice slept the whole way in her pram.’ The Cupitts have marked many a milestone with a gruelling trek. Their honeymoon 18-months-ago was spent trekking Cradle Mountain in Tasmania. The newlyweds spent six days hiking in the wilderness, covering 86km. Incredibly, Jennie was 14 weeks pregnant then too. ‘The first day was the hardest

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Smile, you’re on security camera Luis Feliu

Murwillumbah’s state of the art closed-circuit television (CCTV) network which is set to improve security in the heart of the town was officially launched last Friday at a special Murwillumbah District Business Chamber breakfast meeting. The $191,000 system comprising 29 fixed cameras and a mobile unit, funded jointly by Tweed Shire Council and the federal government, was launched amid much backslapping and thanks to all the people involved in the threeyear-long quest to get the cameras up and running. Chamber president Toni Zuschke said the cameras would not necessarily prevent crime but act as a deterrent and the chamber was now able to proceed with other projects such as riverbank and street tree lighting program ‘knowing they won’t be vandalised or at least the perpetrators could be caught on camera’. ‘Officially big brother is watching us,’ Ms Zuschke told one of the biggest chamber breakfast crowds this year. ‘This will make it a great place to come out at night and bring families into the CBD, particularly in the summer evenings to enjoy the pubs, clubs, cafes and eateries’. Tweed-Byron police com-

(l-r) Tweed Shire Council’s director of technology and corporate services Troy Green, TweedByron police commander Superintendent Michael Kenny, Richmond MP Justine Elliot and Murwillumbah and District Business Chamber president Toni Zuschke at the Murwillumbah police station monitor of the CCTV camera network now operating in the town.

mander, Superintendent Michael Kenny, said the cameras would make people feel much safer and help police and community ‘work togethet to stop violence, crime and fear’. ‘It’s not a silver bullet, but something in our toolkit to help investigate and combat crime, Supt Kenny said. He said he was very pleased the cameras had become operational in time for the upcoming world rally’s three-day super special stages near the CBD for the Speed on Tweed event be-

cause the event would significantly increase the number of people in town. Richmond MP Justine Elliot described the project as ‘a community victory’ because all levels of government and the community worked together on it and had made a huge difference to the security of Murwilumbah’s CBD, its business and community. ‘I’m a big supporter of this project, and as a former police officer I know how effective it is for crime prevention,’ she said.

The system of high-definition cameras allow police to read even the print on T-shirts of people in the street. Repco Rally manager Gary Upson quipped that the cameras were ‘that good’ that organisers may even contract the CCTV network to film the super special rally stages around Murwillumbah’s CBD. Mr Upson said there was a lot of business support for the event but some businesses ‘did not want to go public’ over their support.

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Rally ‘could upset breeding cycle’ Luis Feliu

Next month’s controversial world rally through Tweed and Kyogle Shires could seriously threaten endangered plant and animal species along the route, according to two independent environment assessments. Ecologists Dr Stephen Ambrose and Mark Graham found the rally had the potential to disrupt the breeding cycle and erode the habitat of the giant barred frog, Fleay’s barred frog, eastern bristlebird and spotted-tailed quoll, all threatened species. They also rejected the assessment commissioned by rally organisers which they say failed to consider the impact on 34 migratory species known to occur within five kilometres of the rally circuit. The reports have sparked another call for Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett to step in but rally organisers were quick to dismiss the latest two assessments. Greens North Coast MLC Ian Cohen said Mr Garrett should look closely at the two independent environmental reports and that the rally organisers’ environmental study did not take into account that the event would be held during the breeding season of animals in the rally area. ‘These animals are obviously going to be on the move during the breeding season and the

she was extremely concerned about the threat to the World Heritage status of Tweed and Federal environment minister Peter Garrett told The Echo his Kyogle. department was looking at the two latest reports. ‘This rally, and all the othA spokesman for the minister said the department was er things that we don’t do to reviewing the reports as quickly as possible. preserve this landscape and MINI LAMB T ‘Discussions were held between officers from the department S environment, risk the loss of and the event organisers earlier this year about the proposed RUMP ROA arlic this World Heritage status, as ith g rally and at that time the proponent advised that it believed Seasoned w wrapped happened recently in Dresry a there would be no significant impacts on nationally protected m & rose den Germany. I can’t see how etta matters,’ the spokesman said. in flat Panc something like this would not ‘Under national environment law, it is the proponent’s put us on the red list straight responsibility to refer any actions or projects that significantly EACH away. We are sending in roarimpact on nationally protected matters.’ ing, terrifying extreme maoriginal report didn’t take that the event due to start on Sep- chines, on the ground and in RESTAURANT QUALITY MEAT TO YOU the air, right on breeding seatember 3. into account,’ he said. 2/26 Minjungbal Drive, Tweed Heads South But the chairman of the son, into this World Heritage Repco Rally Australia’s ecoPh: 07 5524 1311 logical study by Dr Steven rally’s organising committee, environment.’ Phillips, undertaken earlier Garry Connelly, defended its this year, found the rally would assessment by Dr Phillips, sayYour Regional have little impact on endan- ing the respected ecologist’s Employment gered or threatened species team ‘went over every metre & Training and organisers say they will put of every competition area and Services Provider protection measures in place, produced a 400-page peer-resuch as helicopter flyovers to viewed report’. MURWILLUMBAH 50 Main Street Ph. (02) 6672 6712 scare away koalas before the Mr Connolly said the 13Need Staff? Email: tursa.murwillumbah@tursa.com.au page reviews were ‘unsuprace, to minimise impacts. KINGSCLIFF Shop 6A, 1st Floor, Kingscliff Shopping Need Work? The two assessments com- ported, poorly informed and Village, 28 Pearl Street Ph. (02) 6674 0699 missioned by communities unscientific’ saying they ‘underEmail: tursa.kingscliff@tursa.com.au call 1800 670 914 around the rally route follow mined work to stage the most SOUTH TWEED HEADS 6/81 Minjungbal Drive, Ph. (07) 5523 4825 Email: tursa.tweed@tursa.com.au a damning report by senior environmentally-accountable Need Training? COOLANGATTA Shop 1, 82 Griffith Street council staff last month which rally in the world’. call 1800 266 425 Ph: (07) 55 361433 Email: tursa.coolangatta@tursa.com.au Cr Katie Milne said that Mr raised concerns about the impacts including risks to koalas Garrett has not initiated a fedwww.tursa.com.au and other fauna during their eral assessment of the rally but the new reports ‘now confirm peak breeding season. CONVENIENT OFFICES IN: t Ballina t Bellingen t Brunswick Heads That report, pinpointing this stance should be revisited’ t Byron Bay t Casino t Coffs Harbour t Coolangatta t Grafton NO dozens of flaws in the rally or- as ‘government actions have t Kingscliff t Kyogle t Lismore t Maclean t Mullumbimby t Murwillumbah t Nambucca Heads t Nerang t Oxenford ganisers’ report, has been sent not been in keeping with tak- FEES! t Robina t Southport t South Tweed Heads t Yamba t Woolgoolga to the state government which ing our World Heritage status pushed through special legis- seriously at all’. The Greens councillor said lation to smooth the way for

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A big turnout of residents at Cabarita last weekend protest against what they say is the overdevelopment of their village. Photo Jo Kennett

Residents have hit out at what they say is the proposed overdevelopment of the Tweed Shire, holding protest meetings over the weekend at Cabarita and Bilambil. Hundreds of residents voiced their concerns at meetings on a proposed Woolworths development in Cabarita and a 52-home village planned for Bilambil. Cabarita Beach residents turned out on Sunday with protest signs against the $16m four-storey shopping centre being considered by the NSW Planning Department. www.tweedecho.com.au

They argued the proposal by WA-based Stockland Pty Ltd is an overdevelopment of the site, does not fit with the town’s character and could destroy local business. Organisers of the protest also relaunched a petition that already has 700 signatures and will be sent to NSW Planning Minister Kristina Keneally. Bilambil residents expressed similar concerns at a community meeting on Saturday about a development planned by Jackson International on the site of an old quarry on the corner of Urliup and Hogan Roads.

Bilambil Progress Association president Coral Clarke said: ‘Any development proposed must fit into the character and culture of the village. ‘We want quality housing and residents who will appreciate how special the area is.’ Yesterday (Wednesday) they were due to meet with a Tweed Shire Council officer to discuss the health of nearby waterways, which residents fear will be ruined by the development. Today (Thursday) a community meeting with Jackson International will be held at the Bilambil Hall from 6pm.

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Climate action mired in politics t last weekend’s wonderful Byron Bay Writers Festival, politics once Volume 1 #49 August 13, 2009 again became a central topic. But the burning issue was not the unlikely popularity of Kevin Rudd nor the predictable travails of Malcolm Turnbull, but The development of Casuarina estate has tested the mettle of council planners since the late 1990s when the original landowner the far more substantial matter of climate change. Speaker after took Tweed Council to court and obtained approval for a master speaker expressed frustration plan for the coastal township. and disappointment at the lack The teething problems continued after Queensland-based developer Consolidated Properties bought the land with approval of action, and their arguments were overwhelmingly endorsed in 2000 and proposed its own up-market boutique beachtown. In by enthusiastic audiences. that plan for the staged development, a number of beach esplaWell, they would say that nades for public use were earmarked, but over the years the plans at the Byron Writers Festival, have been rehashed and there now appears to be a lot less public wouldn’t they? But despite the beach parking than originally proposed. well funded campaign to conThe developer now wants to relocate parking spaces from a vince the populace that the proposed esplanade extension to its planned town centre, rather science is not yet settled (The than extend the beach esplanade. Council planners have blocked Australian in particular has bethe push, saying the loss of the extra esplanade will reduce public beachfront parking and that it was, after all, part of the original ap- come a gathering place for hired proved master plan. The town centre proposal is also controversial guns and loonies) the concern extends a lot further than the and seen by some residents as a landgrab, which will knock out a havens of northern New South large swathe of public reserve in the form of a drainage swale. Despite its fairly long beach frontage, Casuarina is not a US-style Wales. Even in the midst of the ecogated community and even though the project was inspired nomic downturn public support by similar estates, public access to the beach is very much an for an emissions trading system Australian birthright and a strong element of our culture. Indeed, Queensland developer Don O’Rorke, who heads the company, told has remained fairly solid; polling in June showed 65 percent national media years ago that they had planned an ‘open place’ in favour, a majority of nearly with lots of public parking to encourage the wider community to two to one. The public is apparvisit the modern estate ‘so it doesn’t become some precious icon that sits by itself’. Well, that may haunt him yet as there’s very much ently ahead of the politicians in realising that global warma danger of this happening with less public access available. The local residents’ association, which usually backs the developing is not just another item on er’s bidding, has done so again, saying councillors (who voted with the electoral agenda, it is a clear the planners) had insisted on ‘putting concrete ahead of parkland’ and present danger which demands an urgent and decisive by not giving the developer his wish, thereby putting the town response. centre at risk. That’s mischievous hypocrisy, given the association Where most of our politicians backed the removal of most of the swale for the town centre, used have failed us – and to date the by residents to walk their dogs or ride their bikes. The move not to Rudd government is no excepextend the esplanade heightens the suspicion it’s all about privatistion – is that they have insisted ing the beachfront by stealth, which is totally unacceptable. on treating climate change not as a grim physical reality but as a Tweed Shire Echo political problem which can be Publisher David Lovejoy fixed with a political solution. Editor Luis Feliu And political solutions invariAdvertising Manager Angela Cornell Accounts Manager Simon Haslam ably involve delay, negotiation Production Manager Ziggi Browning and eventual compromise. ‘The job of a newspaper is to comfort the afﬂicted and afﬂict Thus the government’s apthe comfortable.’ – Finley Peter Dunne 1867–1936 proach has appeared to be that © 2009 Echo Publications Pty Ltd yes, climate change is a worry; it Suite 1, Warina Walk Arcade, Murwillumbah Phone 02 6672 2280 Fax 02 6672 4933 threatens drastic changes to the email: editor@tweedecho.com.au weather which will include fire, Printer: Horton Media Australia Ltd flood, drought, famine, pesti-

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lence and death on a huge scale. It will almost certainly lead to huge waves of climate refugees which could precipitate wars on a scale which could threaten the survival of human civilisation. Clearly something needs to be done. But hey, let’s not get carried away. There are other interests involved, like our national advantages as a major coal producer. And after all, the shareholders in the mines and the

the cost and disruption will be. Malcolm Turnbull claims to be concerned about our children being burdened with debt from Rudd’s stimulus packages; he’s certainly not doing them any favours by delaying action on climate change. And would an increase, even a big increase, in electricity bills really be so devastating anyway? History suggests not. In the last decade the price of oil actually trebled, before peaking

The refusal to decouple the legislation for renewable energy quotas from the emissions trading scheme is bloody-mindedness, pure and simple. by Mungo MacCallum smelters and the generators all have rights too. So we’ll have to strike a balance. And the balance in its present form means doing not much until it’s too late, and the opposition won’t even accept this gesture. The infuriating part is that most of the angst is unnecessary. Sure, cutting down on the carbon–emitting fossil fuels will cause some short term pain and expense (and I say ‘will’, not ‘would’, because sooner or later it’s going to happen whether we like it or not). Electricity bills will rise, though not to a catastrophic extent, and some jobs would be lost. But costs will be easily manageable in an economy like Australia’s, and at the same time new opportunities will be created in more sustainable industries. The oil companies realise this: at least one is already heavily involved in the production of solar cells. And the real point, emphasised in reports by Nicholas Stern in England and Ross Garnaut in Australia, is that the longer we procrastinate, the greater

(temporarily) in 2008. And we whinged about the cost of filling up the Holden, but we coped: in fact, as you might recall, the economy went through an unprecedented boom. It would be overly optimistic to assume that the next big energy transition will be quite such an easy ride, but it is certainly overly pessimistic to predict the plummeting in living standards for which the opposition is apparently hoping. But this assumes that rational argument will triumph over the politics of the situation which is in itself a pretty sanguine belief. The coalition, of course, is hopelessly confused about it all but in the end will probably pass Rudd’s scheme; if it doesn’t it will not only be inviting terrible defeat at a double-dissolution election, but will also have repudiated and humiliated its leader. Malcolm Turnbull is already in enough trouble; rejection on such a key issue would certainly make him unelectable. But the Rudd government is far from blameless. It has

already muddled and watered down the key recommendations of Ross Garnaut’s 2008 report, which was never all that vigorous to begin with. Now it seems determined to play politics with what is left. The refusal to decouple the legislation for renewable energy quotas from the emissions trading scheme is bloody-mindedness, pure and simple. It is essential to start reducing the power companies’ reliance on coal and oil as quickly as possible. The renewable energy act would require them to get at least twenty per cent of their energy from renewables – solar, wind, tide, geothermal, whatever – by 2020. This is a thoroughly useful and desirable measure in its own right and in spite of Penny Wong’s rhetoric it has nothing whatsoever to do with emissions trading. She is using the issue as a wedge, which may or may not be smart politics, but it is lousy policy. The opposition is willing, even eager, to pass the renewable energy act, and it should be encouraged to do so. But worryingly, this is only one example of what seems to be a less than dedicated approach to climate change. Rudd’s economic stimulus package could have been a great opportunity to encourage a move to renewables, through direct grants and improved infrastructure. Instead almost all the infrastructure money went to upgrading roads, rail and ports to facilitate the export of coal to fuel the power stations of India and China. And when it came to boosting consumer spending, what did he do? Well, he ran down the subsidy for domestic solar power and gave us each $900 to buy a plasma television set. So much for the greatest moral, social and economic challenge of our generation. We expected better.

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Big icon for Tweed I see that the Big Prawn at Ballina faces extinction at the hands of a demolition team. But all is not lost. In fitting tribute to their kind, I propose that the Tweed continues the ‘big’ tradition by constructing a giant monument of a developer on the forecourt of the Murwillumbah Civic Centre. In true European tradition, the statue would be the centrepiece of a water feature with water gushing, cherub-style, from the developer’s nether region over the heads of a cluster of grovelling ratepayers seeking shelter from the torrent under the big man’s lunchalot paunch. Who said big has to be boring? Jeremy Cornford

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Past mistakes Great to see Cr Skinner stating that ‘it’s a wake-up call for everyone to learn from past mistakes’ in relation to the harm that has been done to the Tweed River. A reactive rather than proactive approach is the basis of many of the problems we face these days. We continue to have to wait until often-irretrievable environmental damage is done before bureaucracies even accept there’s a problem. Failure to act to prevent damage enables all kinds of sins to be perpetrated. However, it’s a shame he failed to extend his support of our waterways to Cudgera Creek and Hastings Point during recent DA application considerations, where damage to the estuary by development, including damage to the riparian zones, is a major consideration, and the community has been forced into litigation. The Daly Inquiry made the same assertion about learning

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Rally chief ‘inverts the truth’ Gary Connelly’s weird statements about those who oppose the rally to ABC North Coast FM this week blew me away. To claim that the mythical 87 per cent who support it are being bullied and intimidated by some implied lunatic fringe not only stretches the imagination, but is in fact an inversion of the truth. I know that many individuals and businesses who oppose the rally, especially in Murwillumbah, are loath to say so publicly for fear of the

consequences. And I know that those who oppose it are ordinary people who want peace and justice in their lives. Connelly’s claims only highlight the deep divisions this event is creating in the community, a harm which is hard to measure but nonetheless deep. And I sincerely believe that if those who support it were aware that the legislation passed to allow it overrides 12 laws, they would see the common threat to the rights

of everyone in NSW, and, like many of those to whom I have spoken, change their minds. The thought of expressing my dissent when thousands of rally supporters hit town is intimidating, believe me. But for those like me who feel completely rorted at finding that our rights are only as good as the government of the day, it’s just not negotiable. Injustice has become law, and resistance has become duty. Surreal but true.

from past mistakes, particuWhat on earth were Mr larly in relation to conflict of Boyd’s motives in this unneinterest. cessary tirade against the curJulie Boyd rent mayor? While an admiHastings Point nistrator, did Mr Boyd know of or partake in any of the secret Attack on mayor dealings and meetings with It seems the imposed freedom Repco rally organisers and Mr of speech gag has now ensured Rayner that were reportedly the Tweed’s duly elected mayor taking place for the previous and councillors are forced to two years? join the mute council employIf not, does Mr Boyd think ees, restricted by a culture of he should have been privy to intimidation that is creeping the plans and future direction further into our community, that Mr Rayner was planning almost like a cancer. for the district? And with some A week or so ago, the for- Green credentials do you, Mr mer Tweed mayor and admi- Boyd, consider the rally an apnistrator, Max Boyd, was inter- propriate event for this special viewed on North Coast ABC part of the world? radio morning program by the These are questions the comshow’s host Tony Johnston. munity must have answered. If What followed was an it’s all right for some to attack unwarranted, ill-founded, our community representatimean and personal attack on ves, who are unable to respond the current mayor, Joan van without having to front a shonLieshout. ky standards committee, then I Mr Boyd’s lashing out at the urge others in the community mayor’s inexperience was de- to fight back and expose these plorable. This woman has been individuals who are destroying elected to the position less than our once harmonious commuone year and has had to deal nities. with more controversy than They haven’t managed to gag Boyd did in decades. the general public yet, but who Mr Boyd showed self-prai- is to say their lawyers aren’t se yet little humility, more looking into it. Paul Taylor concerned with showering Murwillumbah accolades on the current general manager, Mr Rayner (a Boyd appointee, remember), Born idiot and yet his failure to consider To the person who came hurdiscussing the obvious conflict tling around a bend on Coroof interest was not at all unex- nation Drive, Pottsville, late Sunday afternoon August 9, pected.

riding a motorbike on the footpath, I’d like to ask you this. Did you go to school and study to be an idiot or were you born that way? PS. I’d be happy to discuss the matter with you, any time, any place.

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for all of us to see that our economically driven world, which puts unnatural order before natural knowledge, has got us into our current financial and social mess. Chapter 28 of Agenda 21 specifically calls for each community to formulate its own Local Agenda 21: ‘Each local authority should enter into a dialogue with its citizens, local organisations, and private enterprises and adopt “a local Agenda 21.” Through consultation and consensus-building, local authorities would learn from citizens and from local, civic, community, business and industrial organisations and acquire the information needed for formulating the best strategies.’ (Agenda 21, Chapter 28, sec 1,3.) This tactic may sound reasonable until you realise that

the dedicated ‘stakeholder group’ that organises and oversees local transformation is not elected by the public. And the people selected to represent the ‘citizens’ in your community will not represent your interests. The chosen ‘partners’, professional staff, and working groups are implementing a new system of governance without asking your opinion. (The recent special legislation to allow the Repco rally to go ahead without any checks or balances carried out by local government is a case in point.) They probably don’t even want you to know what they are doing until the regulatory framework is well under way. You may read in your local paper about ‘visioning’, working groups, such as CETS, Total Quality Management, and continued overleaf

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Thin end of the wedge Local Agenda 21 is a program that allegedly provides a framework for implementing sustainable development at the local level. Local governments around the world purport to pursue sustainability through UN programs, such as Agenda 21. In reality, it means global organisation of local communities and their resources. This global control, which manipulates humanity by using greed and fear, is using such local bodies as CETS (Caldera Economic Transitions Strategy), a program with which I was happy to be involved. However, being suspicious of the motives of a globally driven sustainability program advocated by the United Nations, I dug below the surface. The fact that the word ‘Economic’ instead of ‘Ecological’ is used, first caused me to investigate further. (Economy, from the Greek language, means ‘order of the house’; ecology means ‘knowledge of the house’.) I think it is plain

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Local News/Letters Ansett offers high-flying recession advice Entrepreneur Bob Ansett predicts higher interest rates will be the next crisis to hit small business. The founder of Budget Rent A Car said high interest rates are one of the few problems that Australians are yet to see during this resession, but one that we won’t dodge. ‘What is different in this downturn is we haven’t had soaring interest rates, but sometime in the future it will hit us and we want to be ready when it happens,’ he said. This week Mr Ansett will be sharing his experiences surviving five recessions and downturns during his 25-year international business career. He will be speaking at a sold-out John Hurd’s Business Excellence Breakfast tomorrow (Friday, August 14) at the Tweed Heads Bowls Club and has plenty of advice for small firms on the Tweed. ‘In particular, a downturn is an opportunity to reassess your business and look at in a fresh light. It is a good time to

go back to basics and examine each component of your business,’ he said. ‘When things improve you will be doing things better and getting more of the business available.’ Born in Australia to the founder of Ansett Airlines, Sir Reginald Ansett, Bob spent 20 years in America, returning to Australia to launch Budget Rent A Car. President of the North Melbourne Football Club from 1980 to 1992, he now lives in Noosa and makes his living on the corporate speaking circuit. ‘I find that during a downturn there is a lot of demand. A lot of young people have never experienced an economic downturn before and are curious to listen to someone in the business who has dealt with it in the past. ‘It gives me a really nice balance of being commercially active and speaking to so many organisations and learning a great deal.’ For info call 07 5524 1273.

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With her car racing licence and royal honour, Kristy McAndrew is proof that scouts isn’t all about camping trips, tying knots and using a compass. The Murwillumbah 18-yearold was last week made a Queen’s Scout, the highest youth achievement in Scouting. To become a Queen’s Scout, candidates must complete a series of challenges in the four areas of leadership, personal growth, adventurous activities and community involvement. Kristy worked on her challenges for three years and managed to include getting her car racing licence in one of them. ‘I used getting the licence and racing at different events as part of my learning pursuit,’ she said. ‘A lot of the things you do generally are an expansion of things you are already doing or things you want to do. ‘All of it was challenging. There wasn’t one particular part that was harder than another.’

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Kristy was awarded her Queen’s Scout badge last week by NSW Governor, Professor Marie Bashir, during the governor’s visit to the Northern Rivers. She is unable to go to the official ceremony next month because she will be racing in Speed on Tweed.

She said she hopes to become a Scout leader to prove Scouting isn’t just for boys. ‘Scouts has been for girls and boys since 1985. It is a great organisation. You get out, meet lots of people and travel. ‘I’ve just been to Perth for a venture, which is like a jamboree.’

How to do public schooling The results of the blanket testing in schools were published in Queensland last week. One newspaper led into its article with ‘State High Schools were trounced by their private counterparts’, revealing the true purpose of the testing program. It has little to do with learning. It is about the dismantling of public education in Australia. It’s about punishing pupils, teachers and schools. It’s a fear-based educational notion and despoils the altruistic purpose of the educational revolution.

Finland leads the world in testing undertaken by the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) and it has a different view of schooling from what we have in Australia. Visiting Australia from Finland recently, Professor Jouni Valijarvi pointed out why. He listed the following: 1. Primary schooling starts at age 7. 2. Average class size of 18-20. 3. No tracking or streaming. 4. Homogenous schooling – no competition between schools. 5. No system of national or school-level testing. 6. Inspec-

tion system abolished in the 90s re-introduced. 7. National curriculum with enormous freedom to select from it. 8. Only two to three per cent of schools are private. Professor Valijarvi stressed that its teachers are highly valued and trusted. Only about 13 per cent of applicants to enter the profession are accepted. They form a powerful group of professionals within the country. We are not Finnished are we?

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supply. In dry weather it has to be purchased. I regularly bring home containers of water to stretch the supply. And if they are going to bring in their own water (because I have none) why not use that truck to water the road and eliminate the problem before it occurs? I think it is just another example of the rally organisers having absolutely no idea of how we live in these rural areas. Not to mention total selfishness in regard to the consideration of others.

assure those who have already booked their tickets for Tyalgum, as well as those who plan to do so, that the rally will not have any negative impact on their enjoyment of the music on offer at Tyalgum. Repco Rally Australia general manager, Gary Upson, has stated that ‘The festival should suffer no interference, as all rally activities should be completed and out of the area by 5.30pm. No helicopters or rally vehicles should be in the Tyalgum area after 5.30pm Friday or on Saturday or Sunday.’ The Tyalgum Festival program commences 8pm on Friday evening and concludes on Sunday afternoon. Availability of local accommodation in and around Tyalgum may, however, be affected by rally attendees and I would encourage Tyalgum Festival patrons to confirm their accommodation as soon as possible.

partnership between churches, welfare and social service agencies, and other community groups. These are clues that, behind the scenes, the plan is moving forward. Beware of the wolf in sheep’s clothing and don’t allow them to pull the wool over your eyes. Chris Degenhardt

Nobbys Creek

Rally dust I received an email recently from Sam Pearce of Rally Australia after trying to get an answer for weeks in relation to road watering. I live on the rally route and every time a car passes at any time a cloud of dust descends over my house. The response (which shows a total disregard for residents) was that they would come after the event and hose down the roof. Where will the water come from for this? I am on tank water and rely on rain for water 8 August 13, 2009 The Tweed Shire Echo

‘My dad has been racing a few years and so I decided to get my licence. We have a Datsun 1000 historic sports sedan and we’ve taken it to the Bathurst Hill Climb Championships,’ she said. ‘It is just fun. Starting off it can be scary, but I have good reflexes so I find it really easy.’

Wendy Curtis

Reserve Creek

The music goes on There has been much debate concerning the Repco Rally to be held September 3-6. As coordinator of the annual Tyalgum Festival of Classical Music, I have been contacted by individuals expressing concern that the rally dates coincide with the Tyalgum Festival. The purpose of my letter is to

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Television Guide 1. Apart from Andie McDowell, seen here snogging Hugh Grant, the casting is impeccable in Four Weddings And A Funeral (Prime, Friday, 8.30pm), a 1994 romantic comedy written by Richard Curtis of Vicar Of Dibley fame, and worth watching for the reading of W H Auden’s ‘Funeral Blues’ alone. 2. Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn are gorgeous as usual in Charade (ABC2, Saturday, 8.30pm), one of the best comedy thrillers of the 1960s. 3. Cameron Diaz trials an unusual hair gel in There’s Something About Mary (TEN, Sunday, 9.50pm), a screwball comedy which is definitely not for the easily offended.

SATURDAY 15

FRIDAY 14

TWO 4.30 Seachange (PG) 5.30 Can We Help? (G) Rpt. 6.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Planet Earth (G) 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Jane Ayre (PG) 1.30 Spicks And Specks (PG) Rpt. 2.00 Monarch Of The Glen (G) Rpt. 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Message Stick (G) Rpt. 6.30 Can We Help? (G) 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Stateline (G) 8.00 Collectors (G) 8.30 George Gently (M) 10.00 Sensitive Skin (PG) 10.30 Lateline 11.15 triple j tv With The Doctor Rpt 11.40 Good Game Rpt. 12.10 rage (M)

5.00 rage (PG) 11.00 Jam And Jerusalem (PG) 11.30 The Cook And The Chef 12.00 Stateline 12.30 Australian Story 1.00 Foreign Correspondent 1.30 Can We Help? (G) 2.00 Big Cat Diary (G) 2.30 South Side Story (PG) 3.00 Rugby Union: Shute Shield 2009 5.00 Bowls: Perth International 2009 Australia v England – Mens Singles. 6.00 Planet Food: Morocco 6.30 Gardening Australia (G) 7.00 ABC News 7.30 East Of Everything (PG) 8.25 ABC News 8.30 The Bill (M) 10.00 ABC News 10.10 Foyle’s War (M) Rpt. 11.45 rage (M)

5.20 World News in various languages. 7.15 Weatherwatch 7.25 World News in various languages. 1.00 The Food Lovers Guide To Australia 1.30 Two Men And Two Babies (PG) 2.30 After Maeve (PG) 3.30 Stock Squad (G) 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 5.30 Andre Rieu: The Fairy Tale (G) 6.00 Global Village: Val d’Aosta/ Piemonte (G) 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Buffalo Bill (PG) 8.30 As It Happened (PG) 9.30 World News Australia 10.00 Best Undressed (MA) 11.00 Movie: Carmen (MA) Drama from Spain. Stars Paz Vega, Leonardo Sbaraglia. 1.05 Movie: Come Drink With Me (MA 1966) Action from Hong Kong) Stars Cheng Pei-Pei, Yueh Hua. 2.45 Weatherwatch

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 Morning Show (PG) 11.30 Seven Morning News 12.00 Movie: My Boss’s Daughter (M 2003) Stars Ashton Kutcher, Terence Stamp, Tara Reid. 2.00 I Can Make You Thin (G) 3.00 New Idea TV (G) 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.00 M*A*S*H (G) 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.00 Seven and Prime News 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 7.30 Better Homes And Gardens (PG) 8.30 Movie: Four Weddings And A Funeral (M 1994) Stars Hugh Grant, Andie Macdowell, James Fleet, Simon Callow. 10.30 2009 AFL Premiership Season Hawthorn v Adelaide. 2.00 Danoz And Guthy-Renker

5.20 World News in various languages. 7.15 Weatherwatch 7.30 World News in various languages. 1.00 Eldorado (PG) Masterpiece from France. High octane dance. 1.50 Workshop For Peace (G) 2.50 The Chopin Etudes (G) 3.00 The Wonderful World Of Albert Kahn: The Soldier’s Story (PG) UK. 4.00 Marimekko: An Outsider’s View (G) Finland. 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 5.30 Who Do You Think You Are? Amanda Redman (PG) 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Mythbusters (PG) 8.30 The Squiz (PG) 9.00 RocKwiz (PG) 9.50 Movie: Secret Agents (M 2004) France. Stars Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci, Andre Dussolier. 11.45 Hit The Floor (PG) 12.00 SOS (MA) 1.00 Cooking In The Danger Zone: Tonga & Fiji (PG) 1.30 A Fighting Chance (PG) 2.00 12th IAAF Athletics 2009 5.00 Weatherwatch

6.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 Eclipse (PG) 1.00 V8 Xtra (G) 1.30 Motorsport From Sandown. 2.30 Magnum P.I. (PG) 3.30 House Call (PG) 4.00 Deal Or No Deal (G) 5.00 Guide To The Good Life (G) 5.30 Sydney Weekender (G) 6.00 Seven News 6.30 The Great Outdoors (G) 7.30 Movie: Madagascar (PG 2005) Stars Ben Stiller, Chris Rock. 9.20 Movie: Walking Tall (M 2004) Stars ‘The Rock’ Johnson, Johnny Knoxville, Neal McDonough, Kristen WIlson, Ashley Scott. 11.10 Movie: The Mexican (M 2001) Stars Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts. 2.00 Danoz & Guthy Renker

SUNDAY 16

5.00 rage (PG) 6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Insiders 10.00 Inside Business 10.30 Offsiders 11.00 Asia Pacific Focus 11.30 Songs Of Praise 12.00 Landline (G) 1.00 Gardening Australia 1.30 Message Stick (G) 2.00 Weapons Races (G)

6.10 World News in various languages. 7.15 12th IAAF Athletics 2009 7.30 World News in various languages. 3.00 Na Kamalei: The Men Of Hula 10.00 Iron Chef America (G) (PG) 10.50 Spacefiles (G) 4.00 Art Museums Of The World: Museum Of Versailles (G) Rpt. 11.00 Elvis Presley (G) 12.00 Cycling: Tour Of Gippsland 4.30 Monumental Vision (G) 2009 5.00 Sunday Arts 1.00 Speedweek 6.00 At The Movies 3.00 Football Asia 6.30 The Einstein Factor 3.30 Futbol Mundial 7.00 ABC News 4.00 Les Murray’s Football Feature 7.30 Stephen Fry in America (PG) 5.00 The World Game 8.35 The Last Enemy (M) 9.35 Compass: Mazel Tov, Mazel Tov! 6.00 Cooking In The Danger Zone (PG) 6.30 World News Australia 10.05 Grossmith, Gilbert And 7.30 Who Do You Think Your Are? Sullivan: A Salaried Wit (G) Jerry Springer 11.05 The ABC Of Dance 4 Film (G) 8.30 Dateline 11.35 Sharpe’s Challenge 9.30 Journos: Mark Davis (PG) 1.25 Order In The House 10.00 Movie: Australian Rules (M 2.40 Movie: Seven Days’ Leave (G 2002) Australia. Stars Luke 1942) Stars Victor Mature, Lucille Carroll, Nathan Phillips. Ball, Harold Peary. 11.40 Irinka & Sandrinka (PG) France. 4.00 The Pet Show (G) 12.00 Vietnam Minefield (M) 1.00 Cooking In The Danger Zone (PG) 1.30 Alive And Kicking (PG) 2.00 12th IAAF Athletics 2009

Prime HD program same as above except: 12.00 Popstars (G) 1.30 Harry’s Practice (G) 2.00 The Great Outdoors (G) 3.00 Kid’s Programs 4.00 New Idea TV ➟

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Today 6.00 ABC News 5.00am to 6.00pm Mornings with Kerri-Anne (PG) 9.00 Business Today World News Danoz And Guthy Renker 9.30 Asia Pacific In Various Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) News Languages The View (PG) talk show. 10.00 Kids’ Programs Days Of Our Lives (PG) 4.30 The New 6.30 World News Alive And Cooking (G) Inventors Rpt. 7.30 Empire Of The Kids’ Programs 5.00 7.30 Select Mongols (G) This Afternoon 5.30 Body Hits (G) 8.30 112 Emergency Antiques Roadshow 6.00 Compass: My 9.00 Movie: Journey Hot Seat Brother, Balibo From The Fall NBN News And Me (G) (M 2006) Drama A Current Affair 6.30 Scrapheap from US. Stars Friday Night Football Challenge Kieu Chinh, North Queensland v Bulldogs. 7.20 Mr Bean Diem Lien, Long 9.30 Friday Night Football 7.30 The Royal Nguyen, South Sydney v Gold Coast. Today Nguyen Thai 11.30 Late News 8.00 The Worst Week Nguyen. 12.00 Movie: Second String (M 2002) Of My Life: 10.55 Movie: Love Is Stars Gil Belloes, Jon voight, Monday In The Air (M Doug Flutie. 8.30 Torchwood (M) 2005) Comedy 2.00 MAD TV (M) 9.20 Boy Meets Girl from France. 3.00 Seinfeld (PG) 10.10 Later... With Stars Marion 4.00 Guthy Renker Jools Holland Cotillard, 11.10 London Live Vincent Elbaz, 11.40 The Graham Gilles Lellouche, Norton Show Elsa Kikoine. (M) 12.35 Weatherwatch 12.10 Close

6.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Infomercials 9.00 Totally Wild 7.00 Today On Saturday 9.30 I Got A Rocket 9.00 Kids’ Programs 10.00 Video Hits (PG) 1.00 The Snow Show (G) 12.00 Test Drive (PG) 1.30 Bewitched (G) 12.30 Infomercial (PG) 2.00 Movie: Arthur2 – On The Rocks 1.30 Hook Line & Sinker (PG) (PG) 2.00 AFL Premiership Season 2009 4.00 Discover Downunder (G) Collingwood v Richmond. 4.30 Talk To The Animals (G) 5.00 Ten News 5.00 Fishing Australia (PG) 5.30 Sports Tonight (PG) 5.30 Postcards (G) 6.00 Futurama (PG) 6.00 Evening News 6.30 Australia’s Funniest Home 6.30 The Simpsons (PG) Videos 7.30 AFL Premiership Season 2009 7.30 Movie: My Best Friends Sydney v Geelong. Wedding (PG) Stars Julia Roberts, 11.00 Good News Week (M) Cameron Diaz, Dermot Mulroney. 12.00 Movie: Team America – World Police (MA15+) Stars Trey Parker, 8.40 Saturday Lotto 9.45 Movie: Rumour Has It (M) Stars Matt Stone. Kevin Costner, Shirley MacLaine. 1.50 Infomercials 11.40 Movie: Roger Dodger (M 2002) 4.00 Religion Stars Campbell Scott, Jesse Eisenberg, Isabella Rossellini. [s] = Sex [cl] = Coarse language [a] = Adult themes [sr] = Sexual references 1.40 Movie: Daleks – Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (PG 1966) Stars Peter [n] = Nudity [mp] = Medical Cushing, Bernard Cribbins, Jill [du] = Drug use procedures Prime HD program same as above except: Curzon. [dr] = Drug references [st] = Supernatural 12.00 Movie: The Replacements (G) 1.30 themes [v] = Violence 3.15 MAD TV (M) Galiators 3.00 Movie: The Diary Of Anne [*] = Could offend [ie] = Issues about 4.05 Danoz Frank 5.00 Harry’s Practice (G) 5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) ➟

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7.00 Kids’ Programs 3.00 rage (G) 6.05 The New Inventors 6.35 Heartland 7.20 Rex The Hunt 7.30 The Einstein Factor 8.00 At The Movies Rpt. 8.30 Movie: Charade (PG 1963) Stars Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn. 10.20 Movie: Second Chorus (PG 1940) Stars Fred Astaire, Burgess Meredith. 11.50 Close

5.00am to 6.00pm World News In Various Languages 6.30 World News 7.30 12th IAAF World Championships From Berlin. 10.30 Movie: Body To Body (M 2002) Thriller from France. Stars Emmanuelle Seigne, Philippe Torreton. 1.00 WeatherWatch Overnight 2.00 12th IAAF World Championships From Berlin.

6.00 Major League Baseball 7.15 NASCAR 8.15 AFL 2009 Adelaide v Collingwood 10.30 Beach Volleyball 11.00 Sports Unlimited 12.00 Red Bull Air Race 2.00 Omnisport 2.30 Motorsport 3.30 Athletix 4.00 Major League Baseball 6.30 Transworld Sport 7.30 Motorsport 9.30 Sports Tonight 10.00 Poker 11.00 BMX Road Fools 12.00 Extreme Paintball 12.30 Sports Tonight 1.00 Omnisport 1.30 NASCAR 4.45 Motorsport 6.00 City2Surf 7.30 Triathlon From London 8.30 K1 Fast Driver 9.00 Major League Baseball 12.00 NASCAR 2.00 AFL 2009 Richmond v Collingwod 5.00 Omnisport 5.30 Mecum Auction 6.30 PowerBoating 7.00 Before The Game 7.30 AFL 2009 Sydney v Geelong 11.00 UFC Wired 12.00 Major League Baseball 2.30 DTM German Touring Cars 3.30 NASCAR From Michigan

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6.00 Religious Programs 6.00 Religion 7.00 Weekend Sunrise 7.00 Totally Wild 10.00 AFL Game Day (PG) 7.30 Animalia 11.00 Magnum P.I. (PG) 8.00 Meet The Press 12.00 The Most Extreme: Psychics (G) 8.30 State Focus (G) 1.00 2009 AFL Premiership Season 9.00 Video Hits (PG) Melbourne v Fremantle. 12.00 Australian Superbike 4.00 The Animal Extractors (G) Championship 5.00 The Real Seachange (PG) 1.00 Next Wave (PG) 5.30 Mercurio’s Menu (G) 1.30 The Biggest Loser (PG) 6.00 Seven News 3.00 It’s Me Or The Dog (G) 6.30 Dancing With The Stars (G) 3.30 MeerKat Manor (G) 8.30 Bones (M) 4.00 River To Reef (G) 9.30 Bones (M) 4.30 Discover Downunder (G) 10.30 Las Vegas (M) 5.00 Ten News 11.30 Infamous Asassinations (M) 5.30 Out Of The Blue (PG) 12.00 2009 AFL Premiership Season 6.00 The Simpsons (PG) Port Adelaide v Carlton 6.30 Australian Idol (PG) Auditions. 3.00 Brand Developers, Danoz & 8.40 Rove (M) Guthy Renker 9.50 Movie: There’s Something 5.30 Seven Early News About Mary (M) Stars Ben Stiller, Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon. 11.20 Moto GP From Czech Republic. 1.35 Infomercial 4.00 Religion

6.00 Arrive Alive Cup Endeavour College v Kiama High. 7.00 Today 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 Football Stars Of Tomorrow 2.30 Super League Wigan Warriors v Warrington Wolves. 4.00 Sunday Rugby League Brisbane v Penrith. 6.00 Evening News 6.30 Domestic Blitz 7.30 60 Minutes 8.30 Rescue Special Ops (M) 9.30 CSI: Miami (M) 10.30 CSI: Miami (M) 11.30 Psychic Detectives (PG) 12.00 Footy Classified (M) 2.00 Seinfeld (PG) 2.30 Guthy Renker Australia 3.30 Religion 4.00 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

Prime HD program same as above except: ➟ 12.00 Movie: Farewell, My Love (MA 1999) Stars Gabrielle Fitzpatrick, Philip Rhys 1.30 I Can Make You Thin

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7.00 Classic Albums: Def Leppard – Hysteria (G) 8.00 Zoo Days (G) 8.55 Little Angels (G) 9.25 Scrapheap Challenge 11.00 Beautiful Noise 12.00 Soundtrack To My Life: Marc Almond (G) 12.30 Red Dwarf (PG) 1.30 Planet Rock Profiles (G) 2.00 jtv Live

3.00 The Cure: Trilogy 4.00 Radio 1’s Big Weekend 5.00 US ‘83 Festival 6.00 ABC Fora 7.00 Artscape 7.30 Sunday Arts 8.30 Morin Khuur: The Soul Of The Mongolian Horseman 9.25 Singing On The Violin: Claude Chalhoub 10.20 Composer Tunes: Guiseppe Verdi 10.30 Fanny Hill (M) 12.10 Close

5.00am to 6.00pm World News In Various Languages 6.00 12th IAAF World Championships From Berlin. 6.30 World News 7.30 12th IAAF World Championships From Berlin. 10.00 Movie: C(r)ook (M 2004) Black comedy from Germany. Stars Henry Hubchen, Corinna Harfouch. 11.50 WeatherWatch Overnight 2.00 12th IAAF World Championships From Berlin.

6.00 NASCAR 8.00 AFL 2009 Richmond V Collingwood 10.00 Major League Baseball 1.00 I Fish 1.30 Triathlon Escape From Alcatraz 3.30 Omnisport 4.00 Transworld Sport 5.00 World’s Strongest Man 6.00 Powerboating 6.30 Tread BMX 7.00 Slamball 7.30 Sports Tonight 8.30 Le Mans 24 Hour 2009 9.30 Isle Of Man Tourist Trophy 11.20 Moto GP 12.30 Motorcycle Racing 1.35 Omnisport 2.00 Poker 3.00 Major League Baseball 5.30 Powerboating

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TUESDAY 18

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TWO 4.30 Seachange (G) 5.20 World News in various 5.30 Can We Help? (G) Rpt. languages. 6.00 Kids’ Programs 7.00 2009 Ashes Update 11.00 Landline 7.15 12th IAAF Athletics 2009 12.00 Midday Report 7.30 World News in various 12.30 Poirot (PG) languages. 1.30 The Cook And The Chef (G) Rpt. 1.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia 2.00 Parliament Question Time 1.30 The Boys From Baghdad High The Senate (M) 3.00 Kids’ Programs 2.30 Datline 6.00 Landline Extra 3.30 As Seen On TV: The K-Tel Story. 6.30 Talking Heads (G) Canada. 7.00 ABC News 4.30 The Journal 7.30 The 7.30 Report 5.00 The Crew (G) 8.00 Australian Story (PG) 5.30 Corner Gas (G) 8.30 Four Corners 6.00 Global Village (G) 9.20 Media Watch 6.30 World News Australia 9.35 Ashes To Ashes (M) 7.30 Top Gear (G) 10.30 Lateline & Lateline Business 8.30 South Park (M) 11.35 The Unteachables (M) 9.00 Flight Of The Conchords (PG) 12.25 MDA (M) 9.30 World News Australia 1.20 Parliament Question Time 10.00 Jump! The World’s Greatest House Of Representatives Streakers (M) Canada. 2.20 The Lost Tribe (PG) 11.00 Vietnam Nurses (M) 3.25 Bowls: Perth International 12.00 Movie: Scratch (MA 2003) 2009 Australia v England. Mens Denmark. Stars Stephanie Leon, Singles. Nicolas Dufour. 1.30 Alive And Kicking (PG) 2.00 12th IAAF Athletics 2009 4.30 Police Rescue (PG) Rpt. 5.30 Can We Help (G) Rpt. 6.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Buildings That Shaped Britain 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 The Einstein Factor (G) Rpt. 1.00 The New Inventors (G) Rpt. 1.30 Whatever! The Science Of Teens (PG) Rpt. 2.00 Parliament Questiontime: The House Of Representatives 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.10 Finding The Fallen 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 Foreign Correspondent 8.30 Tony Robinson’s Crime And Punishment: Guilty As Charred (PG) 9.25 Tracey Ullman’s State Of The Union (M) 10.00 Artscape (G) 10.30 Lateline and Lateline Business 11.30 Four Corners Rpt. 12.20 Media Watch Rpt. 12.35 Foyle’s War (M) 2.10 Parliament Question Time: The Senate 3.25 triple j tv With The Doctor (G)

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show (PG) 11.30 Seven News 12.00 TBA 2.00 All Saints (M) 3.00 New Idea TV (G) 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.00 M*A*S*H (G) 5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) 6.00 Seven and Prime News 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 7.30 TBA (PG) 8.30 City Homicide (M) 9.30 TBA 10.30 Boston Legal (M) 11.30 Its Always Sunny In Philadelphia (M) 12.00 Saved (M) 1.00 Danoz Direct & Guthy Renker 5.30 Seven Early News

6.00 Ten Early News 7.00 Toasted TV & Kids’ Programs 9.00 9am With David And Kim (PG) 11.00 Ten News 12.00 Dr Phil (M) 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) 3.00 Infomercial 3.30 Friends (PG) 4.00 Huey’s Cooking Adventures (G) 4.30 The Bold & The eautiful (G) 5.00 Ten News 6.00 The Simpsons (G) Rpt. 6.30 Neighbours (G) Rpt. 7.00 The 7PM Project (PG) 7.30 Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? (PG) 8.30 Good News Week (M) 9.40 Dexter (M) 10.45 Late News With Sports Tonight 11.30 Late Show with David Letterman (PG) 12.30 Flight Of The Conchords (PG) 1.00 Infomercials (PG) 4.00 Religion to 6am (PG)

Prime HD program same as above except: 12.00 Dr Danger (PG) 12.25 The Rich List (G) 1.15 Harry’s Practice 1.40 Deal Or Not Deal (G) 3.00 Kid’s Programs 4.00 New Idea TV ➟ 12.00 TBA 1.00 Dateline NBC

6.00 World News in various languages 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show (PG) 11.30 Seven News 12.00 Movie: McBride – 7.15 12th IAAF Athletics 2009 Here Murder Marty? (M) Stars John 7.25 World News in various languages. Anybody Larroquette, Marta Dubois, Matt Lutz. 1.00 Strange Culture (M) USA. 2.00 All Saints (M) 2.30 Tales From A Suitcase (G) 3.00 New Idea TV (PG) 3.00 Here Comes The Neighbourhood 3.30 Kids’ Programs 3.30 Short Stories (PG) 4.30 Seven News 4.00 The Journal 5.00 M*A*S*H (G) 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) 5.30 Corner Gas (G) 6.00 Seven and Prime News 6.00 Global Village (G) 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Air Ways (PG) 7.30 Insight 8.00 Surf Patrol (G) 8.30 East West 101 (M) 8.30 Packed To The Rafters (PG) 9.30 World News Australia 9.30 All Saints (M) 10.00 Hot Docs: Forbidden Lie$ (M) 10.30 10 Years Younger in 10 Days (PG) 11.50 Homemade History (G) 11.00 Gavin & Stacey (M) 12.00 Movie: Tony Takitani (PG 2004) 11.30 The Real Wedding Crashers (PG) Japan. Stars Issei Ogata, Rie 12.30 New Image (G) Miyazawa, Shinohara Takahumi. 1.00 Danoz Direct & Guthy Renker 2.00 12th IAAF Athletics 2009 4.30 UEFA Champions League 2009/2010 Playoffs Prime HD program same as above except:

6.00 Ten Early News 7.00 Toasted TV & Kids’ Programs 9.00 9am With David And Kim (PG) 11.00 Ten News 12.00 Dr Phil (M) 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) 3.00 Infomercial 3.30 Friends (G) 4.00 Huey’s Cooking Adventures (PG) 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful (G) 5.00 Ten News 6.00 The Simpsons (G) Rpt. 6.30 Neighbours (G) Rpt. 7.00 The 7PM Program (PG) 7.30 Talkin’ ‘bout your generation (PG) 8.30 NCIS (M) 9.30 NCIS (M) 10.30 Late News With Sports Tonight 11.15 Late Show With David Letterman (PG) 12.00 Californication (MA15+) 12.00 Movie: Brubaker (M 1980) 2.15 The Great Outdoors 3.00 Kid’s Programs 4.00 New 12.30 State Focus Idea TV ➟ 12.30 Dateline NBC 1.30 A Country 1.00 Infomercials (PG) Practice (PG) 4.00 Religion to 6am (PG) Most Prime programs between 6.30pm and 11.30pm (approx) nightly are Closed Captioned (CC)

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

4.30 SeaChange: The Official Story 7.00 UEFA Champions League 2009/2010 Playoffs (PG) Rpt. 9.00 12th IAAF Athletics 2009 5.30 Can We Help? (G) Rpt. 9.15 Weather Watch and Music 6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.20 World News in various 11.00 Exposed (G) languages. 12.00 Midday Report 4.00 The Journal 12.30 National Press Club Address 4.30 Newshour with Jim Lehrer 1.30 Talking Heads (G) Rpt. 5.30 Corner Gas (PG) 2.00 Parliament Question Time 6.00 Global Village (PG) House Of Reps 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.30 World News Australia 6.00 Travel Oz (G) 7.30 Food Safari (G) 6.30 The Cook and the Chef (G) 8.00 James May’s 20th Century: Big 7.00 ABC News City, Bright Lights (PG) 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.30 The Machine That Made Us (G) 9.30 World News Australia 8.00 The New Inventors (G) 10.00 The Accursed Kings – The She8.30 Spicks And Specks (PG) Wolf Of France (M) Mini-series 9.00 The Librarians (M) from France. 9.30 United States Of Tara (M) 10.00 At the Movies 11.45 Your ID Papers (G) 10.30 Lateline And Lateline Business 12.00 Movie: The Triad Zone (M 2004) Hong Kong. Stars Andy Lau, 11.40 The Commander (M) 12.30 The Sideshow With Paul Jackie Cheung. McDermott (PG) Rpt. 1.30 Alive And Kicking (PG) 2.00 12th IAAF Athletics 2009 1.35 Parliament Question Time 4.30 UEFA Champions League The Senate 2009/2010 Playoffs 2.55 Talking Heads 3.25 National Press Club Address

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show (PG) 11.30 Seven News 12.00 Movie: Vinegar Hill (M 2005) Stars Mary Louise Parker, Tim Guinee, Tom Skerrit. 2.00 All Saints (M) 3.00 New Idea TV 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Seven and Prime News 5.00 M*A*S*H (G) 5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) 6.30 Seven and Prime News 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 7.30 World’s Strictest Parents (PG) 8.30 Criminal Minds (M) 9.30 My Name Is Earl (PG) 10.00 Scrubs (PG) 10.30 Family Guy (M) 11.00 American Dad (M) 11.30 Louis Theroux (M) 12.30 Brand Developers 1.00 Danoz Direct & Guthy Renker 5.30 Seven Early News

4.30 SeaChange (PG) Rpt. 5.30 Can We Help? (G) Rpt. 6.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Medicine Men Go Wild (PG) 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 National Press Club Address 1.30 Collectors (G) Rpt. 2.00 Parliament Question Time The Senate 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 World’s Greenest Homes 6.50 Australia’s Heritage 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 Whatever! The Science Of Teens 8.30 Web Warriors 9.30 Q&A 10.25 Lateline And Lateline Business 11.30 Live At The Basement: David Campbell (G) 12.25 Wildside (M) 1.15 Parliament Question Time House Of Reps 2.15 Movie: Dangerous Corner (PG 1935) Stars Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Nagel. 3.25 Stories From A Children’s Hospital (PG) 3.55 The Glass House (M, R)

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 Morning Show (PG) 11.30 Seven Morning News 12.00 Movie: Love’s Enduring Promise (PG) Stars Kathrine Heigl, Dale Midkiff, January Jones. 2.00 All Saints (M) 3.00 New Idea TV (G) 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.00 M*A*S*H (G) Rpt. 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.00 Seven and Prime News 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 7.30 The Amazing Race (PG) 8.30 TV Burb (M) 9.00 Double Take (M) 9.30 True Beauty (M) 10.30 Family Guy (M) 11.00 American Dad (M) 11.30 That 70’s Show (R) 12.00 Room For Improvement (R) 12.30 Brand Developers

5.00 UEFA Champions League 2009/2010 Playoffs 7.00 12th IAAF Athletics 2009 7.15 Weatherwatch 7.30 World News in various languages. 2.00 The Journal 2.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 3.30 Futbol Mundial 4.00 Global Village: Nievre 4.30 World News Australia 5.30 2009 Ashes 5th Test Day 1 8.00 World News 8.30 2009 Ashes 5th Test Day 1 1.00 12th IAAF Athletics 2009 3.30 Weatherwatch

5.30 Today 9.00 Mornings with Kerri-Anne (PG) 11.00 Time/Life (G) 11.30 Danoz (G) 12.00 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 1.00 The View (PG) 2.00 Days of Our Lives (PG) 3.00 Alive And Cooking (G) 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Afternoon News 5.00 Antiques Roadshow (G) 5.30 Hot Seat (G) 6.00 Evening News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 Two And A Half Men (PG) 8.00 The Big Bang Theory (PG) 8.30 The Farmer Wants A Wife (PG) 8.45 Lotto 9.30 Drop Dead Diva (PG) 10.30 Embarrassing Illnesses (PG) 11.30 Late News 12.00 Young Lions (M) 1.00 Entertainment Tonight 1.30 Guthy Renker

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No significant movements in the heavens this week, which makes a welcome cosmic pause for Venus in stay-at-home Cancer and Mercury in analytical Virgo to integrate the recent personal and world changes ARIES: A perfect week for developing new ways to make your mind your friend and ally instead of working against you. Start by asking it what in your life needs either redesigning or leaving behind – attitudes, aspirations or associates. Then request the most user-friendly methods of achieving that. TAURUS: If Jupiter retrograde in your career zone doesn’t produce any solid results this week, just keep on trucking with your usual determination till the right resources and opportunities arrive. Clear a space for them by getting rid of the very many things you no longer need. GEMINI: Don’t act on assumptions this week, especially the one that you know what’s going on. There’s a lot of changing and rearranging happening behind the cosmic curtain, so check with others for their latest updates rather than second guessing where they’re at.

A hoodoo lasting more than half a century has been broken this week, following David Smerdon’s victory in the Australasian Match of the Decade. The first match between Australia and New Zealand’s top players was held in Auckland in 1952, with the two living legends Cecil Purdy and Ortvin Sarapu tying 5-5 before NZ’s Sarapu prevailed in a blitz playoff. The rivalry was renewed in 1986 when each country’s sole Grandmaster, Murray Chandler and myself, met in a match divided between Wellington and Auckland. Again New Zealand triumphed, Chandler winning by a comfortable 3-1 margin. Last week, a new contest in Auckland finally saw Australia in the ascendancy, with Australia’s newest Grandmaster David Smerdon defeating New Zealand’s rising star Puchen Wang 4-2. In a contest which drew plenty of spectators, both at Auckland Grammar School and online, Smerdon, 24, showed the form which has taken him to five tournament titles already in 2009,

CANCER: All energy collects the same kind back, like a copy machine printing out and returning whatever you present it with. Rather than focusing on problems or lack it’s more rewarding this week to thank the universe for what you’ve already got, thereby attracting more of it. LEO: This fabulous week showers you with bounty. Others adore your enterprising spirit, general knowledge and undeniable sass, but don’t get so caught up in royal performances that you power steer right over people who could be valuable links in your chain of support. VIRGO: Over love struggles, budget adjustments and complaining friends? Tired of being reasonable and responsible? That makes it time to do something fun and indulgent that makes you feel good about yourself, after which some concerns will drop away and you’ll approach the rest with a refreshed attitude.

LIBRA: A week when Libran flair and artistry gets the personal and professional recognition it deserves. While there’s no shortage of vibrant socializing, your leading lady Venus in the sign of the pleaser is likely to have her happiest and most significant moments at home. SCORPIO: This week has a lot going for it, including considerable appreciation for your efforts that you weren’t aware of. So exercise your natural talent for skillful negotiating, tread gently, speak from the heart and others will willingly give more than you ask for. SAGITTARIUS: You’re definitely this week’s ray of sunshine and it’s looking like time to wave the wand of manifestation, vacuum that magic carpet and get ready to ride… Biggest ask right now is staying focused and not scattering your energy in a dozen different directions.

CHESS by Ian Rogers Play at Seagulls Club, Thurs 6-10pm winning the first and last games Auckland Match 2009 White: P Wang while drawing the other four. Smerdon’s victory was even Black: D Smerdon more convincing than the score Opening: Sicilian Dragon would suggest, with 19-year-old 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 g6 Wang unable to create serious 5.Nc3 Risky play – the Dragon variation is a strange winning chances in any game. choice for a player one point ahead with two Like Smerdon, in 2007 Wang to play. was a young chess professional 6.Be3 Bg7 7.f3 Nc6 8.Qd2 0-0 9.Bc4 Bd7 searching for a Grandmaster title 10.0-0-0 Rc8 11.Bb3 Ne5 12.h4 but, just as Smerdon was lured 12.Kb1 is more usual nowadays. away from life as a chess profes- 12...h5 13.Bg5 Rc5 14.g4 hxg4 15.f4 Nc6?! sional by the prospect of a job Extremely risky – 15...Nc4 is the critical test of in Treasury in Canberra, Wang White’s play. decided to accept a scholarship at 16.e5! Nh5!? 17.Nd5 the University of Texas in Dallas, On 17.exd6! Wang feared 17...Rxg5!? but then 18.dxe7! Qxe7 19.Rhe1! should leave White with leaving New Zealand’s hunt for some advantage. a second Grandmaster on hold. 17...Rxd5! 18.Bxd5 dxe5 19.Nb3? UTD is renowned for its chess Now Black takes over the initiative. After 19.Nxc6 program but academic pressures Bxc6 20.fxe5 Qc7 the main battle lies ahead. have given Wang little time for 19...Qc7! 20.fxe5 Qxe5 21.c3 Bf5 22.Rhe1 chess study and play until recent- Qc7 23.Bxc6 Qxc6 24.Bxe7 (See diagram) ly, when the northern hemisphere 24...Qa4! 25.Nd4! 25.Bxf8 Qxa2 would lead to disaster for White. university holidays began. The following game, the fifth, 25...Bxd4! 26.b3?! was the key game of the match Right idea, wrong move order. After 26.Bxf8! Nf4! Black may have nothing better than 27... and sees both players living on 27.b3! Nd3+ 28.Qxd3 Qxa2 29.Re2 Qa1+ 30.Kd2 Qxd1+ the edge. 31.Kxd1 Bxd3 32.Re8 Bf6 with a likely draw.

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CAPRICORN: Trust and acceptance are this week’s biggies: trusting yourself and accepting others. Having been a steady rock in recent turbulent times ensures you plenty of backup, so investigate the pleasures of delegation – it’s so much more fun than doing everything yourself. AQUARIUS: This week earths you to the point you could actually get around to making calls, answering emails and attending to all those practical catchups you’ve been procrastinating about... Amazing! All it asks in return is that you stay objective, flexible and negotiable. PISCES: While this week sees you deeply involved in helping others, it requires an equally passionate commitment to yourself – to your own emotional health, creativity, joy and life force. Don’t neglect doing the things you love, or invest in anything suspect just to help a friend. 26...Bxc3?! Too conservative. 26...Qa5!! 27.Kb2 (27.cxd4 Rc8+) 27...Bg7 28.Bxf8 Bxf8 would leave Black well on top. 27.Qxc3 Qf4+ 28.Kb2 Rc8 29.Rd8+ Rxd8 30.Bxd8 Be6 31.Rd1 Kh7 32.Bg5 Qf3 33.Rd3 Qf2+ 34.Rd2 Qf3 35.Qc5 Wang is still dreaming of a win, which would equalise the match score, but Smerdon gives him no chance. 35...g3 36.Qf8 Bd5 37.Qh6+ Kg8 38.Be3 Qf5 39.Bd4 f6 40.Qe3 Qe4 41.Qc3 g2 42.Bxa7 Nf4 43.Qxf6 Nd3+ 44.Kc3 Nf4 45.Kb2 Nd3+ 46.Kc3 Nf4 47.Qg5 Kh7 48.Bd4 Ne6 49.Qe7+ Kh6 50.Qf6 Qf3+! The exchange of queens ends White’s last hopes of a win. 51.Qxf3 Bxf3 52.Bb6 Nf4 53.Rd8 Nd5+ 54.Rxd5! Bxd5 55.Kd2 Kh5 56.Ke1 Kxh4 57.Kf2 Kg4 58.Kg1 Kf3 59.b4 Bxa2 60.Bc5 b5 61.Bf8 Bd5 Draw Agreed a

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ACROSS 1. Next to, adjacent (6) 4. Type of coffee (8) 10 Legendary Italian traveller (5,4) 11. Funny, amusing (5) 12. Loss of memory (7) 13. Type of very large ﬁsh (7) 14. Adversary, foe (5) 15. Best of King Arthur’s knights (8) 18. Dish of oatmeal eaten for breakfast (8) 20 Stick, wand (5) 23. Author of Lolita (7) 25. Widow, especially of a nobleman (7) 26. Amphibious mammal (5) 27. Bitter, resentful (9) 28. Feign illness to escape work (8) 29. Strikes out, overwhelms (6)

ACROSS 1. Next to second rate team on radio (6) 4. Telepathy with festering sores – have a drink (8) 10. Drive back policeman, and ring, see the traveller! (5,4) 11. Penny bun – how amusing (5) 12. Confused chaps, incontinent and memory loss (7) 13. Santamaria’s agent, a very big ﬁsh (7) 14. Hostile old you holds back troops (5) 15. Knight to frequently make the cut, by report (10) 18. Pressure, or high pressure band, produces lagging (8) 20. Refuse to declare club (5) 23. Author takes the lead back holding strange book (7) 25. Act to bet on The Widow (7) 26. Animal decapitates cad (5) 27. Wake up shortly after service; ﬁrm but bitter (9) 28. Pretend to be ill and hang around after mother (8) 29 Strikes out at small parasites (6)

DOWN 1. Bewailed, lamented (8) 2. Hypodermic needle (7) 3. One who forecasts disaster (9) 5. Enforced marriage (7,7) 6. Contest for cowboys (5) 7. Sign of the Zodiac (7) 8. Those who lubricate (6) 9. Blameless dissolution of marriage (2-5, 7) 16. Scope, space to expand (5-4) 17. Commits, gives responsibility (8) 19. Circling around another body (7) 22. Craft used for towing bigger ships (7) 24 Islam’s sacred book (5)

Last week’s solution

DOWN 1. Extinct bird found in rising Alpha Cygnis. Loudly mourned (8) 2. Scorch around unknown radius, giving the needle (7) 3. Leo follows party chant, the pessimist (9) 5. Twinned dogs hug wildly, an unplanned union (7,7) 6. Resistance to poetry zero at cowboy carnival (5) 7. Sign of southern association X (7) 8. Steam engines take lid off for some of those who service them (6) 9. Correct service, and princess takes broken cover for rent – it could follow 5 down (2-5,7) 16. Spin bowler with low back ﬁnds space to move (5-4) 17. Commits, certain about territory and way back (8) 19. Piece spoken about in roundabout manner (7) 21. Vessel holds German with grain; it’s a tower of strength! (7) 22. Scoring well? Do tell! (6) 24. Knockout service in holy book (5)

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Bertie Blackman is the grand-daughter of esteemed Australian artist Charles Blackman. Driven, individual, kooky, it seems talent has it’s own wellspring in the Blackman family. Bertie is relentless. She reckons there’s not going to be a day off until October. ‘I am no-life-Bertie at the moment. I’ve been in full production rehearsal for the last five days, and I have a film that is being premiered tomorrow night. Bertie’s latest album is called Secrets and Lies and is produced by Lee Groves a UK producer who is now based in Sydney. It was music made in heaven for Ms Blackman. ‘He has worked or produced stuff with Goldfrapp, Gwen Steffani and Depeche Mode amongst other things. He had his way of working and doing production was very different and it was an adjustment – the last record was rock ‘n’ roll, this was a real production on each song. Actually it was a lovely way to work, quite nurturing really – the songs get their own feeling and they’re not recorded with another song splashing into them. I also wrote while I was recording, I always do, it usually takes me a while to warm into it, I’ll hear songs that I haven’t heard, my manager has to tell me to stop. It’s a very prolific time for me.’ Bertie plays the Coolangatta Hotel on Sunday at 8pm.

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Yabba Cabba Do Hanging out for something to do at Cabarita this weekend? Well check in at the Cabarita Beach Sports Club on Friday with Playgiarhythm when three seasoned musicians play a huge variety of styles, genres and songs. The repertoire includes Alice in Chains, Artic Monkeys, Audioslave, Beastie Boys, Ben Harper and Kings of Leon. Then on Saturday it’s Ashley Robertson. With a proven track record of ‘keeping the crowd pumped’, Ashley has venues booked months in advance. Ashley performs an extensive song list from the beginning of rock in the 60s up to today’s modern music.

Ring of Confidence How do you tell a story in four minutes? It’s not easy. And try doing it without words. Harder still. Although, listen to Decoder Ring and the Sydney outfit makes this seemingly daunting task appear as a dream. An edgy yet upbeat, propulsive technicolour dream, that is. Then there’s the cinematic tone. It’s hard to escape mention of cinema when it comes to Decoder Ring, creating – as the outfit did – the exquisite accompaniment

to the acclaimed Australian film Somersault (2004), which also became the group’s breakthrough release. Decoder Ring is thought of as cinematic because it truly is – a group which creates the sort of music that paints landscapes. Like sitting in a dark room watching a favourite cult film, you’re enveloped; senses overwhelmed. And there’s the riff. Edgy yet upbeat. And as technicolour as it gets. Decoder Ring are something to see, when they play the SoundLounge at Currumbin RSL on Friday August 21.

Diamond in the Rough Direct from Las Vegas, Bobby Bruce stars as Neil Diamond in

Nearly Neil, an international tribute to the incredible Neil Diamond, Live in the Stardust Room at Seagulls on Friday August 21 at 8pm. The show is a celebration of the music of the legendary jazz singer, complete with his five-piece Solitary Man Band. The critically-acclaimed Bobby Bruce brings you a sensational show full of Neil Diamond classics such as Crunchy Granola Suite, Holy, Holy, Love on the Rocks, Desiree, Girl You’ll Be a Woman Soon and Sweet Caroline. ‘ Bobby Bruce has travelled the world for over eleven years with ‘Nearly Neil’, entertaining screaming fans. Tickets: $18 members, $20 non-

members. Book online at www. seagullsclub.com.au or call 07 5587 9033.

ARTS What The Butler Saw! Murwillumbah Theatre Company are just a few short weeks away from mounting their next production, a staging of the brilliant, witty comedy/ farce by internationally recognised playwright, Joe Orton. Opening Friday August 28 at 7.30pm at the Civic Centre, this will be a show you don’t want to miss. Orton was famed for dying in a spectacular fashion after a lover’s tiff with his

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HEARING VOICES If James Joyce had worn an i-pod he would never have been able to write Ulysses. This stream of consciousness masterpiece is testament to the rambling incoherent genius of one’s inner monologue. For hundreds of pages he slips from thought to thought… a random inner narrative featuring subconscious musings about life, sex and the universe. The i-pod creates constant interference, the inner voice’s only hope is to give up and sing along. ‘And I still haven’t found what I’m looking for…‘ What happens to us when we mute our inner auditor? Will we remember to pick up the chicken after work? Or is that children… Will we call mum and wish her Happy Birthday for yesterday and remember to go online to order dust bags for the stupid vacuum cleaner? Will we come up with an idea for a novel about the alternate universe that exists in the belly button, or marvel at the size of our arse on the security camera while justifing why you really deserve those $200 shoes, and shit chips taste good, better do my tax return and is that strange lump on my foot toe cancer? Didn’t Bob Marley die of toe cancer? Mafia. No. Conspiracy of some sort, seems unlikely but then reggae can be annoying. My nose is cold. Did I buy batteries? Hope the kids don’t find my vibrator. Think I left it on the table. Bloody hell, I forgot to put the bin out. Is it yellow lid day? Put it out anyway. Did they have wheelie bins in the bible? Jesus could miracle them out and stay in bed… We stop having all these

thoughts simultaneously as we bludgeon our personal chat rooms with the i-pod. I’m not a fan of me-music. Music is meant to be shared, not stuffed in your ear like a tiny tampon. Plug yourself in and you have turned off, musically anethesised and resistant to thought. I’ll admit it, the inner monologue can be annoying. It’s like a constant reminder of what a mindless moron you really are. It’s like the fluff filter in the clothes dryer, leaving you holding a handful of metaphysical lint going, where the freaking hell did that come from? Listening to that voice, that constant mental flickering is a bit like channel surfing. Generally there’s nothing you want to watch, but you can’t stop doing it. It’s the personal narrator that mediation teachers try and duct tape, that wicked personal commentator constantly twittering your reality with subversive thoughts. The inner voice refuses be crossexamined ‘What are you thinking.’ ‘Nothing’. Nothing is a lie. An active healthy overstimulated mind is noisy. It’s just too embarrassing, to answer truthfully. ‘I was thinking about how I needed to buy zucchini.’ That doesn’t go down well when you’re making love. If we were totally truthful about what we were thinking no one would ever be going down again. The i-pod stops you noticing. It stops silence getting in. It stops you thinking. It’s where you create. The inner monologue is our emotional and spiritual GPS, a bizarre non linear navigation program for life. Shut it out and you’ll get lost. Open your ears and your mind won’t fallow.

Tweed River Art Gallery A Tweed Shire Council community facility

14 AUGUST - 27 SEPTEMBER

All are welcome to attend opening at 5pm on Saturday 15 August Olive Cotton Award 2009

The 5th Olive Cotton Award national prize for excellence in photographic portraiture will be judged by acclaimed freelance photographer Dean Sewell Times of change: John Walters

Recontextualising crafted objects by transforming their materiality and exploring a variety of installation strategies From 5 August

Lay of the land: works from the collection

Presenting works from the collection that explore aspects of the Australian landscape From 21 August Ronato Grome Metamorphic Matt - Blue (detail)

New acquisitions to the collection

Showcasing selected works acquired over the last 18 months

PUBLIC PROGRAM Sun 16 Aug 11am Floortalk: Olive Cotton Award 2009 with Doug Spowart Fri 18 Sept Foundation & Friends 21st birthday party: Bookings Essential - $15 FREE ADMISSION 2 Mistral Rd Murwillumbah NSW 2484 02 6670 2790 www.tweed.nsw.gov.au/artgallery

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BOBBY BRUCE NEARLY NEIL boyfriend, and his short and productive life he courted constant controversy. Until his death, he was hailed as one of Britians most promising new playwrights. This production will be directed by local resident, Ken Horler, who along with John Bell and Richard Wherret, a cofounder of Nimrod Theatre Company. What the Butler Saw was Orton’s past play and is accepted as a comedy classic of English literature. The plot of What the Butler Saw contains enough twists and turns, mishaps and changes of fortune, coincidences and lunatic logic to furnish three or four conventional comedies. What the Butler Saw continues Saturday August 29, Friday September 4, Saturday September 5, Friday September 11 and Saturday September 12 all at 7.30pm. There is one matinee on Sunday September 6 at 2pm. Tickets – $15 and $12 concession – and table bookings are available from Murwillumbah Music Shop (02 6672 5404). Seating will be café style and patrons are invited to bring drinks and their own food. Please note that no pizza orders will be taken prior to the performance. More info: Rosemary 02 6672 1520.

BERTIE BLACKMAN

Here and Rove. Choolburra is joined by comedian Mark McConville as support and Mandy Nolan as MC. The big girl has some brand new material to let loose on her unsuspecting minions! Be there on Thursday August 20 with doors open at 7pm and show from 7.30pm. Currumbin RSL. Show is just $15 for members and $18 for non members. Tix are available at the club.

COMING SOON Classical Music in the great outdoors Lovers of classical music will be in their element in the picturesque surrounds of the Tyalgum Showgrounds for the Tyalgum Festival of Classical Music. It’s beautiful music in a beautiful place. Mark September Friday 4 - Sunday 6 in your diary!

dance, music and yarning from a performer who has excelled in various disciplines. Sean Choolburra is without a doubt, Australia’s hottest and deadliest indigenous comedian. He wowed crowds at the Melbourne Comedy Festival with the Age raving that he: ‘Tells stories of his life that hilariously incorporate music and dance’. Sean shares his observations with charm, cheek and charisma, a style that has naturally developed into his own brand of contemporary black comedy. In 2007 he hosted the Deadly Funnies final at the Melbourne Town Hall. He is in constant demand as an MC/Comic on the corporate circuit, has toured extensively and recently performed at the Darwin festival, the Adelaide Fringe Festival, the Woodford Folk Festival and the Croc Festival. Television appearances include the NRL Footy Show and Network 10’s Thank God You’re

Choolburra a Thriller Standup comedian Sean Choolburra pays his respects to Michael Jackson with some text book Thriller moves at Side Splitting Comedy at the Currumbin RSL on Thursday August 20. For the last few years Sean has combined his comedic skills with his professional dance training to pull off some impressive Jacksonesque moments. It’s what makes Sean’s comedy so wonderful – it’s not just standup, it’s

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gig guide THURSDAY 13 ■ CLUB BANORA 4PM MICHELLE BENSON ■ CUDGEN LEAGUES CLUB, KINGSCLIFF 5.30PM GEOFF DUTTON ■ GOLD COAST ARTS CENTRE 7.30PM UNPLUGGED IN THE BASEMENT – LE BELLE ■ SEAGULLS LAKEVIEW LOUNGE 6PM BJ LITTLE ■ SANDS HOTEL, COOLANGATTA 8PM PHIL EIZENBERG 9PM R’N’B WITH DJ G-WIZARD ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 5PM CENTRAL SOUND MACHINE ■ TWIN TOWNS 1PM PETE DAVIS1.30PM DENIS WARREN 5PM LONE WOLF 6.30PM PATTI 8.30PM CENTRAL SOUND MACHINE ■ LA LA LAND, BYRON BENZI ■ BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 9PM BERTIE BLACKMAN WITH HUNGRY KIDS OF HUNGRY & KIMBRA ■ THE RAILS, BYRON 6.30PM BLOOD TYPE COFFEE ■ HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON DOWNHILLS HOME ■ SATORI, BYRON 6.30PM TM STOKES SONGWRITER SHOWCASE ■ ORIENT EXPRESS,BYRON 6.30PM SASHIMI ■ MULLUMBIMBY RSL 7PM JAM NIGHT

FRIDAY 14 ■ MURWILLUMBAH & DISTRICT TWEED VALLEY BANANA FESTIVAL ■ MURWILLUMBAH CIVIC CENTRE 7PM FASHION PARADE ■ CUDGEN LEAGUES CLUB, KINGSCLIFF 7.30PM PAUL ANTHONY ■ CABARITA BEACH SPORTS CLUB,

local events and entertainment BOGANGAR 8PM PLAYGIARHYTHM ■ CABARITA BEACH BAR AND GRILL 8.30PM THE ANGRY PENGUINS ■ CLUB BANORA 7.30PM TOOHEYS TALENT SEARCH HEAT 5 ■ CURRUMBIN RSL 7PM SHOEBOX ■ GOLD COAST ARTS CENTRE 8PM COMEDY IN THE BASEMENT – MICKEY D ■ IMPERIAL HOTEL, MURWILLUMBAH 8PM SOULMAN ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH HOTEL 8.30PM LEIGH JAMES ■ MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES MEMORIAL CLUB 6.30PM BO JENKINS ■ MURWILLUMBAH HOTEL 9PM DJ HERVE ■ NEVER LAND BAR, COOLANGATTA FLAMINGO CRASH, MOVE, VINYL ASSASSIN DJS AND DJ MALFUNKSHUN ■ POTTSVILLE BEACH SPORTS CLUB 7PM BRENDA LEE HEATHCOTE ■ SALT BAR, SALT VILLAGE 9.30PM ZAC DICKERSON ■ SEAGULLS 8.30PM TRIBUTE TO THE STARS ■ SANDS HOTEL, COOLANGATTA 9PM BEN WILLIS 10PM DJ CLARK KENT ■ TWIN TOWNS 11AM LINE DANCING WITH RUSSELL HINTON 5PM ALTERNATING ARTISTS 7PM GLENN BRACE 9.30PM CENTRAL SOUND ■ BILAMBIL SPORTS CLUB TUFF ■ SOUTH TWEED SPORTS CLUB 8PM CLUB ROCK ■ LA LA LAND, BYRON DANIEL WEBBER + RYAN RUSHTON ■ BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 9.30PM NCEIA SHOWCASE NIGHT FEATURING DANIEL PINKERTON, CANDICE CASAGRANDE, ROB BRUCE & SUJITOKO ■ RAILS, BYRON 7PM THE SOUL SHAKERS

■ HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON UNCLE JUNIOR ■ HOTEL BRUNSWICK 7.30PM BIG MUSIC ■ URBAN JAZZ @ BANG THAI 7PM KIRK LORANGE AND JIM KELLY ■ BANGALOW HOTEL 7PM 19 TWENTIES ■ COURT HOUSE HOTEL, MULLUM SOMERSAULT

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■ MURWILLUMBAH & DISTRICT TWEED VALLEY BANANA FESTIVAL ■ CLUB BANORA 4PM MICHELLE BENSON 8PM STUART DAVEY ■ CABARITA BEACH SPORTS CLUB, BOGANGAR 8PM ASHLEY ROBERTSON ■ COOLANGATTA AND TWEED HEADS GOLF CLUB 6PM JUNGLE VIBES ■ GOLD COAST ARTS CENTRE 8PM JAZZ IN THE BASEMENT: ELLY HOYT ■ MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES MEMORIAL CLUB 6.30PM CLYDE BROOKS ■ MURWILLUMBAH HOTEL 9PM DJ CRAIGO ■ NEVER LAND BAR, COOLANGATTA THOMAS J ■ POTTSVILLE BEACH SPORTS CLUB 7.30PM FATHOM 4-PIECE LIVE ACOUSTIC ROCK ■ SALT BAR, SALT VILLAGE 9.30PM FREE RADICALS ■ SEAGULLS LAKEVIEW 8.30PM TRIBUTE TO THE STARS ■ SOUTH TWEED SPORTS CLUB 7.30PM ELVIS TRIBUTE SHOW ■ COOLANGATTA SANDS HOTEL 9PM PAUL ATKINS 10PM DJ TOMMY MACK FEATURING TIMMY TRUMPET

■ TWIN TOWNS 10AM HARRY LYNN 2PM RUSSELL SPROUT 5.30PM ALTERNATING ARTISTS 6.30PM GOOD VIBRATIONS 8.30PM CENTRAL SOUND MACHINE ■ LA LA LAND, BYRON LIVEWIRE ■ BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 9.30PM DIRTY LAUNDRY WITH DJ NOWAK ■ THE RAILS, BYRON 6.30PM 19 TWENTYS ■ HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON SHIKA MASSIE ■ ARTS FACTORY, BYRON 12PM SHOWCASE & OPEN DAY, TALENT QUEST, COCKATOO PAUL ■ HOTEL BRUNSWICK 7.30PM JOYISM ■ BANGALOW HOTEL 6.30PM KAISHA ■ LULU’S CAFE MULLUMBIMBY 11AM LOU BRADLEY ■ MULLUMBIMBY RSL 8.15PM WALLY & THE GATORS ■ DURRUMBUL HALL 4PM BACK TO THE GARDEN: WOODSTOCK 40TH ANNIVERSARY ■ DRILL HALL, MULLUM FLICKS:6PM THE CHOIR & FILLED WITH WATER ■ MULLUMBIMBY BOWLS CLUB BROADFOOT ■ GREEN FROG CAFE, ROSEBANK 10.30AM YESHE

SUNDAY 16 ■ MURWILLUMBAH & DISTRICT TWEED VALLEY BANANA FESTIVAL ■ CURRUMBIN RSL 1.30PM THE JAZZ BAND ■ CABARITA BEACH BAR AND GRILL 1PM SOLOIST ■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL 8PM BERTIE BLACKMAN ■ THE AUTUMN CLUB, MURWILLUMBAH 2.30PM CHILLINGHAM VOICES LED BY HARLIE AXFORD

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■ NEVER LAND BAR, COOLANGATTA EIFFEL TOUR ART VS SCIENCE ■ POTTSVILLE BEACH SPORTS CLUB 4PM PAUL ANTHONY ■ SALT BAR, SALT VILLAGE 1PM TREVOR RIX ■ SEAGULLS CLUB 2PM LINE DANCING ■ SPHINX ROCK CAFE, MT BURRELL 1PM SARAH GRANT & HARRY NICHOLS ■ COOLANGATTA SANDS HOTEL 5PM MUSGRAVE HILL DUO ■ TWIN TOWNS 12.30PM ROBERT KEITH 1.45PM 4PM OWEN HOGAN + PETE DAVIS 6.30PM VOICE & CONGAS 7.30PM CENTRAL SOUND MACHINE ■ CLUB BANORA 11AM IAN B MACLEOD 12.15PM TRACE ■ LA LA LAND, BYRON CAPTAIN KAINE ■ BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 4.30PM MATT HANLEY & THE MAINTENANCE MEN 8PM DJ GOODIE ■ THE RAILS, BYRON 6PM JOEL SARUKULA ■ HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON BRIAN WATT ■ HOTEL BRUNSWICK 3PM ROUND MOUNTAIN GIRLS 7PM MICK MCHUGH ■ MULLUMBIMBY RSL 12 NOON COUNTRY MUSIC CLUB ■ YUMYUM TREE NEW BRIGHTON 11AM ANDY HOLM ■ DRILL HALL, MULLUMBIMBY MULLUM FLICKS 6PM THE CHOIR & FILLED WITH WATER

MONDAY 17 ■ TWIN TOWNS 4PM LLOYD SANIEL 1PM WALTER WILLIAMS 7.30PM SPIN 7PM DANCE CLUB ■ MURWILLUMBAH & DISTRICT TWEED VALLEY BANANA FESTIVAL

■ THE RAILS, BYRON 6.30PM JAY HOWIE ■ HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON WAYNE EVANS

TUESDAY 18 ■ TWIN TOWNS 1PM LINE DANCING W RUSSELL HINTON 6.30PM ROCKING TUESDAYS 5 & 8.30PM ALTERNATING ARTISTS 6.30PM PATTI ■ SEAGULLS LAKEVIEW 6PM MICHAEL KING ■ CUDGEN LEAGUES CLUB JAYNE HENRY ■ MURWILLUMBAH & DISTRICT TWEED VALLEY BANANA FESTIVAL ■ BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 9PM MICK MCHUGH ■ THE RAILS, BYRON 6.30PM NICK & LIESL ■ HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON HARRY HEALY ■ BUDDHA BAR, BYRON DR SKETCHY

WEDNESDAY 19 ■ CURRUMBIN RSL 6.30PM DAN HANNAFORD ■ TWIN TOWNS SERVICES CLUB 10.30AM SUE REID 1PM PAUL LINDENBERG 2PM STEVEN MICHAEL 6.30PM ALTERNATING ARTISTS 8.30PM CENTRAL SOUND MACHINE ■ CLUB BANORA 11AM DON COSTA ■ SEAGULLS LAKEVIEW 1.30PM DON WHITAKER ■ MURWILLUMBAH & DISTRICT TWEED VALLEY BANANA FESTIVAL

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Girls set to take on the boys at Kirra Surfstock The Gold Coast’s next Stephanie Gilmore – Coolangatta Twin sisters Brodie and Amiya Doyle – are set to take on the guys in the Kirra Surfstock Junior Teams competition held during the Kirra Surfstock Festival in November. At Tuesday’s Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary launch, the 15-year-old sisters were excited about the prospects of an all girls team versus the guys after their recent success at the Queensland State Junior titles. Brodie Doyle captured her first state title the U16 girls on the weekend at Maroochydore

and her twin sister Amiya was runner-up in the U18 opting to compete in the older age group. The girls are following in the footsteps of fellow Snapper Surfrider club member, two times World champion Stephanie Gilmore. Both Doyle sisters will represent Queensland in the Nationals to be held the month before the Kirra Surfstock Junior team’s event on Saturday, November 7. ‘We can’t wait to take on the Boys,’ said a confident Brodie Doyle. The U18 Queensland State

Junior boys champion Jack Freestone of Tugun, will lead his club the Kirra Surfriders who will host the one day team’s event. At least 16 clubs will submit six-man (20 years and under) teams from Noosa to Ballina to contest in what’s shaping up to be the cutting edge comp of the festival. The local Alley boardrider club fresh from a win at the recent Sarcoma teams challenge was on hand represented by Queensland junior team member Hayden Welch who won a major grom event in Bali this

year and was joined by Alley super grommets Will and Jake Morrison. The Kirra Surfstock announcement follows in the wake of Gold Coast Council works to remove 20,000 cubic metres of sand and restore the once famous Kirra Point and reef thanks to a 1.5 million offer from the Queensland State Government as a result of the community’s concern culminating at the Australia Day 09 Paddle out rally at Kirra. The community concern for Kirra and other Gold Coast and Tweed Coast beaches

has now persuaded both the Queensland and New South Wales governments to work together to achieve a better outcome in terms of delivering sand without causing devastation. Last week saw a major shift of government policy when the New South Wales Minister of lands Tony Kelly met with the Queensland Minster of Sustainability and Climate Change Kate Jones at Kirra to discuss and agree on sensible options for the coast including back pumping for the Tweed, using multiple sandpump-

ing outlets and allowing flexibility of the 25-year contract to pump sand to ensure the mistakes of the past are not repeated in the future. The Surfrider Foundation of Australia will host its annual conference during the weekend of the festival at Southern Cross University on the Tweed/Gold Coast border and the Surf World Surf Museum will have its grand opening on the Saturday night. For more information about the november festival, check out the kirraSurfstock.com.au webpage.

SPORT RESULTS

8th, Liz Fleming def Ann Revie, June Wotherspoon def Joy Ashford. June is to play Liz in the final at a date to be announced. Sharon and Tom are happy with their Friday Morning Mixed Mufti Bowls, the lucky winners for last Friday Rnk 3, B and P Betton. Raffle – J Lee. Coming up – Thurs Ladies Social 12.30 /1pm start. Everybody welcome. Friday14th – Mixed Social Pairs, Triples, mufti, 9am M’tea / 9.30 start, (Everybody welcome) Sun Social Bowls Club Day with a beautiful BBQ Lunch will be on this Sunday 16th, Cost $10 pp 9.15 / 9.30 start, all welcome. Nomination Sheets on board for Club Selected Events - 3 Bowl Pairs, play on or before Thurs 3rd Sep – 1st Oct (21ends) 2 – Bowl Triples, play on or before 8th Oct – 22nd Oct (21 ends) Fours, Play on or before Thurs 5th Nov – 19th Nov (18 ends) Check board for away events coming up. Bookings 02 6674 1816 / 2734. Cudgen Leagues Men Sat. 1/8/09 $30-00 Winners T.King, T.Grimes, G.Tobin Sat. 8/8/09 $30-00 Winners N.Downing, G.Murphy Wed. 5/8/09 Mens Mufti. $45-00 winners G.Whelan, L.Crombie, J.McDonald $15-00 Losing Rink, Hh.Kemp, R.Biettie, GMassey Peter, Trev ,Ken Round Robin $90-00 Sponsors. Winners --Teams T.Potocnik, R.Corney, J.Krizman. Individual T.King. Sponsor T.King kindly presented his winnings to hard working N.Hoskinson. Nice touch Trev. The amended bowls programme has been formulated for next season. Kingscliff Ladies The results for the 5 August Social Bowls were: Winners M. McCrindle/Y. Sharp/D. Greenwell - Runners-up B. Mirls/M. Sykes/D. Anthony. Raffle Winners were N. Craven, D. Harris, Y. Sharp. The Consistency Singles saw D. Jones Def. J. Maass - A. Wonka Def. C. Smith. The Final of this competition will be played on Sunday the 16 August, at 10am, and should be an exciting game. Do not forget that the 26th August is President’s Day.The next monthly meetin is Wednesday the 19th. Kingscliff Men Results of President’s Singles played last week. O Simpson d V Lewis, R Armour d J Bonett, J Ritchie d K Dawson, B Harris d P Murphy. Games called for Sunday 16th August: T Hills v K Banks, D Roughly v G Barrack, F McNamara v W Blackwood, H Hockey v C Lane. Roll up at 9:00am. Results of the first round of Pennants: Division 1: South Tweed68 d Kingscliff 50; Division 2: Kingscliff 75 d Tugun 38; Division 5: Kingscliff 69 d Beenleigh 54; Division 7: v Broadbeach 76 d Kingscliff 51: Draw for Saturday 15th August: Division 1: Kingscliff v Tugun at Tugun. Division 2: Kingscliff v Musgrave Hill at Musgrave Hill. Division 5: Kingscliff v Tambourine Mt at Kingscliff. Division 7: Kingscliff v Burleigh at Kingscliff; Please check the board for teams. Social Bowls Results: Thursday 6th August: Winners: B Harris, M Azzopardi, I Smith; A Simpson, T Dimmock, D Gleave; B Walker, S Kemp, C Withey: Plate Winners: F Coombe, D Fines, C Lacey: Saturday 1st August: Winners: W Blackwood, J Quinn, S Jamieson, P Jones; H Moores, A Simpson, N Whittaker; D Clark, R Norris, A Clark: Plate Winners: I Smith, P Murphy, G Barrack, M

Turner: Thank you to all who supported the Jeans for Genes Day Charity Bowls. Congrats to Helen and her team on organising such a great event. Pottsville Men Results Wednesday 5/08/2009 Winning Rink: - Kev. Hall, Trevor Wignall and Ray Daunt Consolation: - Ron Appleton, John Gouge and Richard Scott. Saturday 8/08/2009 Winners of the Winners: - Bob Verrills and Greg Verrills. Winners of the Losers: - Roy Dudley and Warren Whitney. Jackpot Prize of $180 went off on Saturday the winners were Dennis Appleton, David Gibbon and Les Hendry congratulations guys. Club Championship Results Kris Lehfeldt has backed up his win in the Club Open Singles championship, partnering with Greg Sawtell they defeated Tony Baxter and Terry Fuller in the final of the Club Open Pairs Tournament on Saturday. Congratulations Kris and Greg. Congratulations to Brett Le Strange Novice Champion for 2009 and Runner up Shane Lofts. The team of Richard Scott, Barry Shephard, Rod Wilson and Kris Lehfeldt took out the Open Fours Championship with a win over Martin Fletcher, Bert Dickson, Roy Dudley and Bob Shaw congratulations to all. The Open Triples Club Championship went to Jim Gill, Kris Lehfeldt and Rod Wilson defeating Garry Booth, Doug Moir and John Rae. The B Grade Singles went to Martin Fletcher over Warren Chatman in a close event. The B Grade Pairs was won by Warwick Gruggen and Doug Grant Mitchell with Garry Minnards and Darren Townsend creditable Runners Up. Congratulations to Merle Jackson, Brian Jackson, Frank Fielding and Wendy Fielding Mixed Fours Champions for 2009 having defeated Tony Baxter, Marie Comerford, Judy Baxter and Kris Lehfeldt in the final. With the final of the Mixed Pairs left to play this will bring to an end all championships for this year Reminders Barefoot Bowls every Sunday at 2.00pm, beginners welcome. For enquires and bookings for bowls call the Pottsville Beach Sports on 6676 1077 and follow the prompts. Tweed Heads Men Pennant Season: Results Round 1: Div 1 lost to Mermaid Beach 55/61; Div 2 beat Mudgeeraba 74/60; Div 4 lost to McKenzie Park 59/60; Div 7 lost to Burleigh Heads 45/69; Div 8 beat Burleigh Heads 90/37; Div 9 lost to Canungra 47/55. Round 2 games: Div 1 home to Beenleigh; Div 2 away at Helensvale; Div 4 home to Burleigh Heads; Div 7 home to Helensvale; Div 8 home to Mudgeeraba; Div 9 away at Tugun. Championships: Open 2 bowl Triples: One semi-final played last week. Jim Bryant, John Wyper, Tony Willemsen d. Frank Birkin, Dennis Freeman, Eddie Hewitt 25/21. Other semi-final to be played 16 August and the Final on Sunday 23 August. Men’s Senior Singles: Quarter-finals scheduled for play last Tuesday. Social Results: Sun 2 Aug Green 1: Adrienne and Robbie Boyes, Ann and Bill duddy; r/up: Elaine and

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Super Fabs v Crickets Bogangar Blue Wrens v Red Backs 11/12 Super Stars V Bogangar Hot Shots V Girl Zone Intermediate All at 1pm Spice Girls V Southern Cross Stars Cabba Crew V The Storm Get Smart Goal Getters have the bye All at 2.30 Open Cougars V Flamin Devils Ladybeetles V Newbies Warratahs V Tigers SHOOTING Murwillumbah Pistol Club A reminder to licenced shooters that there will be a Zone Shoot August 29 and 30. We hope to see you there. Enquiries to Anita 02 6672 5716. For regular Saturday shoots, members are reminded to be on the Range 20 minutes before the scheduled match to assist in preparations. Scores for 8 August 2009 Standard Pistol: A Gracie 602, J Gracie 592, R Cavanagh 568, D Gazzard 559, J Blair 557, C Dennis 555, S Stebbing 545, J Duckworth 543, G O’Flynn 591, A Unwin 538, D Stebbing 535, D Dowling 534, L Blair 521, A Uren 519, R Fleming 517, A Stevens 514, A Gazzard 503, J Clough 502, D Cusack 489. Air Pistol Open: A Gazzard 590, S Stebbing 575, P Hulme 571, R Smith 569, L Allen 557.Ladies Air: A Gazzard 407, S Stebbing 388, W Green 368.

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Food giveaway for struggling pensioners on Wednesday at 12.30pm at the iBar. Donations are most welcome from all you kind people. We could not do this without your help. Terri 0414 376 057.

Tweed Valley Justices of the Peace have a desk at Tweed Centro each Tuesday 10am-2pm. Also at Tweed City Shopping Centre each Thursday from 10am-2pm and 5pm-7pm. For info call Margaret on 07 5599 2975.

Girl Guides The Annual Guiding Get Together is to be held at the home of Anne Biddulph, 64 Laura Street, Banora Point on Wednesday, October 14, at 11am. All persons who have been associated with Guiding at any time either past or present, local or interstate are invited to come along. For info call Anne on 07 5524 1454.

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). For info call 07 5524 4556.

Free concert Coolangatta Senior Citizens Centre on Monday, August 31, 1pm. This monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s concert will feature the fabulous voice of Brendan Rose singing many popular songs with a little bit of country that you will know and can sing along with.

Toastmasters A terrific way to become a popular, confident public speaker, tune listening skills and have a laugh as well. Join Murwillumbah Toastmasters every other Thursday for dinner and friendship (all ages). Call Marg 02 6677 9575 or Phil 02 6677 9388.

Landcare meeting Tweed Landcare will hold its regular meeting at Murwillumbah RSL at 6pm on Monday, August 17.

Nashos Tweed Valley-Murwillumbah National Servicemens Association NSW meets every 3rd Tuesday of the month, at 10.15am, August 18 is the next meeting. For info call Ron or Barb Morse on 07 5523 3599 or 0402 994697.

Are you looking for a great way to gain work experience or make friends in your area while contributing to your community? Volunteering could be the answer. There are hundreds of positions to choose from listed with community organisations in our area. This weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Five Most Wantedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; vacancies are: Murwillumbah, musician/ singer to entertain residents of a nursing home; Fingal Head, nursery work; Bilambil, canteen assistant; Kirra, cook to make homemade sweet and savoury morning and afternoon teas for respite centre; Tweed Heads, therapies assistant to take nursing home residents for walks. For more information on these or other volunteer positions call 02 6672 8288 or visit www.nortecltd.com.au.

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Murwillumbah Probus Club meets at 10am on August 17 at the bowls club. Membersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; guests welcome. Call 02 6672 3388. Guest speaker is Chris Lonie, Tweed Valley Co-ordinator of the Red Cross Telecross Service.

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The Family Centre is taking bookings now for the following courses. Numbers are limited so book early on (07) 5524 8711: DadSkills, Tuesdays fortnightly, August 11 and 25 August, September 8 and 22, 5pm-7.30pm 5 session fortnightly program for fathers in or out of residence with children; Parenting Happy Children, Wednesdays, September 9 and 30, 10am-12pm, Information sessions provided in Kingscliff and focused on children under 12; Anger and Parenting, Friday, August 28, 9.30am-3.30pm; Family Centre Playgroups 9.30am11.30am places available now at Kingscliff on Mondays or Banora Point on Thursdays.

Tweed Heads Historical Society and TRR Museum (Tweed Heads) will hold their monthly general meeting on Tuesday, August 18, commencing 10am in the Old Court House, Pioneer Park, Kennedy Drive, West Tweed Heads. Visitors welcome. For info call 07 5536 8625.

Festival service The Annual Harvest Festival service, which is always held in conjunction with the Tweed Banana Festival, will be held at All Saints Anglican Church, Murwillumbah, this Sunday, August 16, from 9am. Festival Queen candidates will attend and the Philharmonic Society will peform. All welcome. For info call Chris Goudkamp on 02 6672 3117.

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BEAUTIFUL FABRIC from the South of France, variety of patterns, approx 200m. suit marketstall / decorator / dressmaker, $3000 the lot. Isabelle 0403075674

TOYOTA COROLLA CONQUEST 1999 1.8L, 5 speed, 171,000km, 8 months rego, new tyres, econ, serviced, great cond, $7500 ono. Phone 0416652234 CLASSIC 1985 Jeep Cherokee (FSJ) duel fuel, great Pirelli tyres, good condition, $4000 ono. 0417834017

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GARAGE SALES ECHO ACCOUNTS POLICY: Ads in this section must be paid by credit card or in person at time of placement.

SICK of CLUTTER? Time to clear it out with a garage sale. Ph us on 66722280 to advertise here. MASSIVE MOVING SALE 15 & 16 Aug, Daybeds, corner suites, dining furniture, tool boxes plus lots more - all has to go. 500 Tweed Valley Way, Sth Mâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;bah BURRINGBAR 8 Gumly Close, Sat & Sun 8am, clothes, books, interesting furniture, kids things & more.

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If you can give them a caring, secure home please contact Trudi 07 5599 7541 or the Friends of the Pound Adoption Information Booth on 07 5524 8590. Visit www.friendsofthepound.com to view the many other homeless dogs and cats available.

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HAIRDRESSING SALON great location in the heart of Byron established over 15 years $37,000. Phone 0412837381

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WORK WANTED ECHO ACCOUNTS POLICY: Ads in this section must be paid by credit card or in person at time of placement. DECKS & PERGOLAS & all carpentry needs. Ph for free quote 0427196962

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The Banana Festival preview pic (right) reminds Backburner that Tweed Shire Council has left the festival off its whizz-bang new community calendar. The online device that is supposed to list every going on in the Tweed, from markets to festivals, has no listing for the Banana Festival. It is even missing from the ‘Coming Events’ part of the council’s homepage. Weird, considering it is one of the biggest events in the Tweed and is even promoted on the permanent signage when entering Murwillumbah. Maybe the council is taking its new secrecy policy too far? ■ ■ ■ ■

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Echo reader Chantal wrote in last week to say she was horrified, yet not surprised, to see that one of the local weeklies (the ugly one wrapped in food ads) is running a colouringin competition unashamedly marketing the world rally to kiddies. Her two daughters used their colour pencils to come up with a picture of suffering wildlife that the promoters probably wouldn’t like. ■ ■ ■ ■

Protocol of Wy The Wy Protocol for Global Cooling The cooling of the global atmosphere by water evaporation, a natural process millions of years old, is being reduced by the current activities of humanity on earth. Thin films of oils, fats, smog, particles, resins, solvents, decomposing plastics and unburnt fuel oils are settling upon the surfaces of the world’s ocean and waters, thereby reducing evaporation. With less cooling evaporation, the ocean surface warms and the atmosphere becomes warmer and dryer, resulting in fewer clouds, thereby lessening reflection of light and heat. With fewer clouds there is an increase of light and heat entering the lower atmosphere, heating the air and suspended smog particles and the polluted ocean services, thus creating dryer environments. A dryer atmosphere with less cloud formation results in less rain, more droughts, poorer crops and more famines. Forest clearing and vegetation removal and increasing urbanisation reduces evaporation. On warmer oceans, strong winds may disperse the pollution films resulting in areas of warmer humid air inducing intense storms and cyclones (example, Gulf of Mexico area). Ocean pollution films affecting water evaporation and global cooling should be fully examined with the greatest of urgency. The Principality of Wy respectfully invites thinking people to request the governments of the world to support and act upon the WY Protocol for Global Cooling. This is a new approach to a perceived global warming problem.

THE COOL SOLUTION IS LESS POLLUTION

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www.principalityofwy.com 24 August 13, 2009 The Tweed Shire Echo

The Point gets desperate: the infamous development at Hastings Point is now resorting to offering free flights to anyone interested in buying an apartment there and getting a guided tour of the project. Some locals are encouraging friends or rellies who may want to visit the area to take up the offer for a free trip and check out the apartments themselves. ■ ■ ■ ■

Walker Group property developers have assured council boss Mike Rayner that they’re steaming ahead with plans to erect a multi-storey building on part of Bay Street, but say their architects are ‘behind schedule’ in finalising ‘revised’ plans some 10 months after the council authorised road sell-off negotiations. In reply to a question from Greens councillor Katie Milne, Mr Rayner says Walker indicated that once they got their act

Banana Festival queen candidates Jess Hitchens and Amanda Cook get into the vibe with band members (l-r) Liam White and Dropkick from Middle Finger Minority and Zac Watts and Robert Mudge from The Ill-Nation. The young bands are as far from Banana Jim as you could imagine with their dirty rock vibe, but punk musicians will have a place at this year’s Banana Festival. This Saturday, seven bands from Brisbane to Lismore will perform at The Wanted Alternate Music Festival at the Murwillumbah Civic Centre. The new show replaces the usual battle of the bands competition. Bands start at 6.30pm. Tickets are $10. The Banana Festival kicks off tomorrow (Friday) with a fashion parade at the Murwillumbah Civic Centre from 7pm. For more information see our feature on pages 10-11 and the website www.bananafestival.org.

together and consulted with the community, they would report back to the council with the results. Sceptics say it will have to be something special to justify the sale of part of a busy street in the Tweed Heads CBD. ■ ■ ■ ■

Tweed Palliative Care will benefit to the tune of $3,500 thanks to local Rotarians and the Northern Rivers Bottle and Collectors Club who put on the recent collectors exhibition and trading fair, which helped raise the funds for the volunteers who look after our terminally ill. ■ ■ ■ ■

Perhaps mayor Joan van Lieshout was invoking childhood memories when she gave her views to a senate hearing (see page 3) about smaller lots at Cudgen. ‘A five-acre lot allows a small Chinese man to grow lettuce which can supply a huge area,’ she told a senate commit-

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Backburner understands that the mayor’s committee appearance was one of the complaints to the council’s conduct review panel by her fellow councillors. But maybe they’ll have to be careful how far they take it considering the dire warning by committee chair, Liberal hard-nut Bill Heffernan: ‘Witnesses are protected by parliamentary privilege. It is unlawful for anyone to threaten or disadvantage a witness on ac-

count of evidence given. Such action may be treated by the Senate as contempt.’ ■ ■ ■ ■

The brains behind Condong’s cogeneration sugar mill have admitted they got a bit ahead of themselves a few years back in announcing the end of cane fires in the Tweed. The past few weeks has seen plenty of black ash in the skies as local crops have been burnt. And why? The operations manager at Condong tells Backburner it is because the crops being harvested are sprawled and twisted and that local farmers decided to burn them to avoid damaging their future yield. All we know is it has been forcing some motorists to do a double take – smoke from a crop being burnt next to the Melaleuca Funeral Centre last week unfortunately looked like it was coming from the crematorium!

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