Tweed Echo – Issue 2.23 – 18/02/2010

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Last-minute sabotage to Cobaki objections

Mural reaches halfway point

Ken Sapwell

Marty, one of the mural painters, and NORTEC placement officer Anna Rotondo admire the work showing a baby nesting Marble Frogmouth. Photo Jeff ‘Tagger’ Dawson

The halfway mark has been reached in the long and winding road to complete the colourful Treasures of the Tweed mural on the Murwillumbah levee wall. The panoramic mural depicts the shire’s unique flora and fauna, much of which is in danger of disappearing, including the Giant Barred Frog, Powerful Owl, Regent Bower Bird and the Richmond Birdwing Butterfly. Vulnerable koalas will also soon be part of the big picture. Since September last year, about 17 participants of the Work for the Dole scheme have been working on the Commercial Road mural running along the western side of the Tweed River bank. An initiative of Tweed Shire Council, the 700-metre long project will, when completed, become a pictorial representation of the rare and endangered flora and fauna of the Tweed

Valley and Mount Warning Caldera. Local artist David Adams has supervised the project for over two years now in collaboration with council, Tweed Landcare, the previous job-service provider, and now with NORTEC, which won the contract last year. He told The Echo how it worked, from the design stage conceived by him through to the research, drawing, layout, the numbered grid format and the eventual painting. ‘We’re nearly halfway there, with 320 metres already done. I teach the boys and show them all the different processes that go into painting, layering, the final touches. The ones that excel help me, and the others do things like washing the brushes and prepping the wall,’ David said. NORTEC placement officer Anna Rotondo said ‘everyone can do something’. ‘It’s also a lot about building teamwork and communication skills, increasing confidence and developing

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Chief planner Vince Connell said in the submission that the council’s own development control plans should not be over-ridden, before listing wideranging planning and engineering concerns with the proposed codes. He said they should be brought into line with the council’s development control plans to ensure the proper provision of community and social services and the creation of footpaths and cycleways that were not shown on plans. Under the proposed codes, engineering standards for roads, footpaths, cycleways and lot sizes were much lower than council’s minimum standards, he said, and sewer lines could be built under private property instead of under roads or easements. In urging council to back his submission at Tuesday’s meeting, he said the codes were likely to create confusion, conflict and enforcement problems and should have a range of requirements such as mandatory rainwater tanks to maximise rainwater re-use. continued on page 2

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social skills. Quite often they’re reluctant at the start but being part of a group and finally doing something makes them take ownership of something,’ Anna said. In inclement weather, it’s back to the dry NORTEC office where they can ‘draw up ahead of what we’re doing, and watch educational DVDs’, David said. He said the biggest challenge lay in ‘the fact it’s a long strip, it’s not just a rectangle. Getting it so that it flows from up close and from afar, and fits in with the environment, so that it works for all people, even young people.’ David said the response from the community had been very enthusiastic. ‘They love it! We’ve had a great response from passers-by. Every day, without a doubt, people stop and admire the work and make positive comments, residents come over and comment on it. It’s really satisfying work,’ he said.

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A packed public gallery erupted in cheers when Tweed councillors voted narrowly to endorse a raft of concerns by senior planners over watered-down development controls for new towns at Cobaki Lakes and Kings Forest. But their elation was short-lived. Council voted 4-3 to send a submission to the Department of Planning objecting to its decision to allow billionaire developer Bob Ell to override the council’s own development controls in creating the two satellite cities. Crs Barry Longland, Katie Milne, Kevin Skinner and Joan van Lieshout also managed to include a request to the state government to conduct an independent review of the impacts of the mega developments before it gives them a final green light. But in an unexpected twist just minutes before the meeting was closed to the public, the 14-page submission by chief planner Vince Connell was put on ice after Cr Skinner performed a surprise back-flip and signed a rescission motion blocking the move. A small group of spectators who’d stayed to the end groaned in disbelief when public officer Neal Baldwin revealed that a rescission motion had been formally lodged, with mayor Warren Polglase and Dot Holdom also adding their signatures. The shock move will leave the submission in limbo until next month’s council meeting where it appears certain to be binned in a 4-3 vote with the support of deputy mayor Phil Youngblutt, who was the other councillor to oppose it. The tactic, which is certain to spark a public furore, creates a risk that the Planning Minister will sign off on the two projects without being aware of

the widespread concerns by senior planning and engineering staff. The ditched submission also included community concerns about plans to turn the two green field sites into homes for 22,000 people living in housing styles not seen in the shire before, including zero-setback dwellings and detached dwellings on blocks less than 450 square metres. Residents expressed fears the proposed developments were too dense, not environmentally friendly, could not be supported by existing infrastructure, may create adverse social issues and that a $20,000 cap on developer contributions was insufficient to meet infrastructure costs.

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Kingscliff preschool leads the way Luis Feliu

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Kingscliff Mini School students, l-r, Kihiro Zhang, Mollie Tucker, Charlotte Butcher and Khaden Williams with NSW Community Services Minister Linda Burney at the school last Friday.

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how recent increased funding for state preschools was being used and she gave a big thumbs up, saying the school had innovative programs, ‘fantastic’ teachers and students. Earlier the minister visited the Tweed Hospital to learn more about the Aboriginal Fathers’ Project and Family Support Worker, Goori Project, run by the Bugalwena Aboriginal Health Service, which is also funded by her department. The little school with a big vision has been running for 25 years in its present location in Kingscliff Street. School director Sharon Martin said the school, which had operated from the local church hall for 10 years before that, prided itself in its environmental and cultural diversity learning programs which had received positive feedback from other local schools. The preschool has up to 26 children a day and three teachers plus the director. Ms Burney marvelled at the school’s landscaped playground, complete with vegie garden, rainwater tank, a ‘fairy’ garden, compost bin and worm farm ad well as a small amphitheatre for ‘performing’.

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The move to scuttle the submission followed an often fiery meeting marked by angry exchanges which first erupted when councillors refused to allow Cr Milne to put forward a series of questions about the two developments to staff. Her questions focussed on roads and other infrastructure planned for the two towns and the financial and social implications for existing ratepayers if new bridges, roads and even a dam had to be built to accommodate them. Cr Milne, who had last month been directed to put the questions up as a notice of motion after general manager Mike Rayner ruled they were too complex, failed to win majority support. Later in the meeting she clashed with Cr Holdom after the Kingscliff-based councillor

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moved to restrict councillors to five questions a meeting and impose a three-minute limit on the time they can speak in debates. ‘What is your problem?’ asked Cr Milne, who accused Cr Holdom of trying to limit freedom of speech and stifle democracy. ‘This is another clampdown by you on the democratic process… you are trying to make our code of meeting practice stricter and more draconian than any other in the state,’ said Cr Milne in a rare outburst. ‘If you can’t handle coming in here just once a month and having a decent discussion I question your level of commitment to the council. I find it very sad and I don’t know where you are coming from anymore.’ Cr Holdom did not respond. ■ See Editorial, page 6

training day scheduled for this Sunday, February 21, she is hoping to attract people willing to become involved in the organisation. ‘There’s definitely more road-kill these days, but it’s not just road-kill. We’re building up areas which are destroying animals’ habitats, we’re taking their food. People are building barbed wire fences around their properties and using a lot more fruit netting these days,’ she said. ‘This is how animals become trapped, and in this regard, I have a plea to the public’, Connie continued. ‘If people could just put a plain wire on the top strand of their fences instead of a barbed one, that would reduce about 90 per cent of our entanglements. ‘As for the fruit netting, while we’re not asking people not to use it, they can make sure the netting is taut. Also, ensure it’s white so that it is much better visually for the animals,’ she said. The orientation and training day runs from 9am to 4pm (DST) at the Banora Point Community Centre, with morning and afternoon tea provided. For further information call 02 6672 4789. www.tweedecho.com.au

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Deputy PM opens new SCU campus Ken Sapwell

Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard says Southern Cross University’s (SCU) new Gold Coast campus will help redress a social imbalance by helping to educate students from battling families. ‘In this country today a student from a poor family is far less likely to go to uni than one from a well-off family,’ she said before opening the new $20 million complex on Tuesday. ‘It’s not a difference based on merit but how we have organised our schools and universities. We can change that and we’re determined to change that,’ she pledged. Earlier the university’s vice chancellor, Peter Lee, revealed the Tweed region had one of the lowest university take-up rates in the country of just 18 per cent. The campus, across the border in the airport suburb of Bilinga, will offer courses in business, health sciences, education, law, tourism, environmental science, indigenous studies and creative and performing arts. SCU will still retain its Tweed Heads campus which opened eight years ago. Key features of the building include a student services hub

By 2012, the campus is expected tol be home to about 2000 students and more than 130 staff. Ms Gillard and Mrs Elliot later visited Tweed Heads Public School to see the progress of Building the Education Revolution (BER) projects. The s cho ol re ceive d $125,000 under National School Pride (NSP) program for school refurbishment, and $2.35 million under Primary Schools for the 21st Century (P21) for a new school hall and covered outdoor learning centre. Ms Gillard said that if it was Deputy PM and Education Minister Julia Gillard (right) and up to the Liberal Party, not one Richmond MP Justine Elliott after the unveiling of the plaque yesterday marking the official opening of the new SCU campus. of the 90 Tweed-area schools would have received ‘this much and a fourth-floor high-tech contributed more than $7.7 needed funding, having voted million for the foundation against the legislation in the library. The federal government building at the campus. Parliament’.

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Proposed phone towers hit hurdles Plans by telecommunications giant Optus to establish mobile phone towers at Uki and Koala Beach have hit major hurdles. Tweed council this week rejected outright an application to erect a 30-metre tower in a nature reserve at Koala Beach on environmental grounds and again deferred a decision on a similar tower on a hill at Uki. The council has told the

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Couple’s vegie garden ripped out Luis Feliu

Seventy-nine-year-old Kingscliff resident Anne Law said she cried for days after her beloved vegie garden which helped feed her and her partner was ripped out by her landlord recently. Anne and her partner Brian Smart, who live at the Drifters Holiday Village in Kingscliff, have tended the small garden plot on park land behind their relocatable home for a number of years to supplement their weekly groceries. Anne has lived at the park for 20 years and was allowed to have the vegie patch by a previous owner for the past 14 years and it had flourished in that time. But the current park owner, Reg Church, after seeing Brian using a hand-held hose to water the garden every now and then, warned them late last year to stop using the tap water which he said he was paying for and to use the park’s bore water instead. ‘But we can’t use the bore water, there are warning signs around here telling us not to drink the bore water so we didn’t use it for the vegie garden as we had many leafy vegetables there and it would only kill them,’ Anne said. ‘We grew silverbeet, beans, potatoes, tomatoes and passionfruit, we only waterered the garden occasionally using a

Brian Smart and Anne Law at the site behind their park home, which was once a small vegie plot used to supplement their weekly food basket. Photo Luis Feliu

hand-held hose. We grew those vegetables to supplement our food because as pensioners we can’t afford the increasing fruit and vegetable prices.’ ‘It was like a bomb hit me when the new owner pulled it out, I would burst into tears all the time after that,’ she said. Brian, 79, who photographed the owner ripping the garden out, said it was a heartless action and unnecessary. ‘The previous owner let us use the space after he cut a small tree out from there and there was no problem using a little bit of the park water with

a hand-held hose as sprinklers are not allowed, but the new owner didn’t like us using tap water,’ he said. ‘He told us he was paying the water bill but that water is for general use and part and parcel of our rent. ‘When he finished pulling the garden out, he stuck everything into plastic garbage bags and did not even offer us our vegetables back, just threw them out.’ he said. Park owner Reg Church refused to return repeated calls from The Echo seeking his commaent.

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Gallery helps visitors assess war relics Luis Feliu

Around 80 Tweed-area people learnt a little more about the history of their war relics and memorabilia last week during a visit to the Tweed River Art Gallery by Australian War Memorial curators and historians. Of the more unusual family treasures brought in for the ‘Bring In Your Memorabilia’ event last Thursday was a World War I German range finder used by artillery to home in on enemy positions. Assistant curator with the military history section at the war memorial in Canberra, Michael Kelly, said a local man brought in the range finder, which had been owned by one of his relatives who obtained it during that war. Pottsville resident Steve Matthews (pictured) brought in a leather belt adorned with military badges from his mother’s stepfather who collected the badges through two world wars. ‘The belt has all sorts of badges, from the UK, Canada, South Africa, the US, Russia and I wasn’t sure exactly what they all represented so I brought it along for them to have a look at,’ Mr Matthews said. Mr Kelly said most people

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Illegal fence given deadline Ken Sapwell

Developer Walter Elliott Holdings has been given two weeks to seek retrospective approval for an unauthorised fence which threatens wildlife and blocks access to fishing and swimming spots along a Hastings Point creek. Councillors this week set a March 1 deadline for the developer to remove or lodge a development application for the several kilometres of chicken and barbed-wire fencing after staff had recommended a fourweek limit. Chief planner Vince Connell said an inspection revealed part of the fence, erected to stop people trespassing over the 18-hectare site, was built over an environmental protection zone. ‘Fencing in this zone can only be considered permissible if it is ancillary to a lawful use carried out on the site,’ he said. Councillors were given a late submission by Hastings Point Progress Association president Julie Boyd telling them that residents had lodged numerous complaints about the fence. It abuts the backyard of dozens of homes along Creek Street and creates a vast no-man’s land which ends just metres from the

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bank of Christies Creek. ‘There are now two fences around the property. A secure boundary chicken wire-type enclosure which acts as a flood debris barrier, endangering surrounding homes, and an internal barbed wire fence which continues to injure wildlife, particularly in the protection zones along the western and eastern boundaries,’ she said. ‘This was a clean and safe environment which has been made dangerous by this illegal barbed wire fencing. ‘Tourists and locals who have floated up the estuaries from the bridge on a strong incoming tide have been trapped and hurt by old barbed wire while attempting to land. Foreshore access has been totally restricted, especially in flooding or high tides. ‘This property has been the subject of concern to the local community since 1984 and documents and photographic evidence of illegal operations have been provided to Council over an extended period of time. ‘Council’s failure to act to remedy these issues will lead to further court action in the event that adjoining residences are affected by flooding, rain events, extreme tidal movements and or sea level rises.’

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Greedy bastards rort govt scheme ony Abbott was Health Minister for three years, and over that period he Volume 2 #23 February 18, 2010 was warned constantly of the deficiencies of the public hospital system. If warnings from the health officials were not enough, there Tweed residents concerned about the future shape of the shire were almost daily stories in the with the massive townships of Cobaki Lakes and Kings Forest set media of endless waits and into be approved by the state government are justified in feeling tolerable crowding in emergenthey have been sold down the river by four councillors. cy departments, women being In an amazing turn of events at the council meeting on Tuesforced to give birth in toilets, day, councillors had just about endorsed senior planners’ recompatients being sent home to die mendation objecting to watered-down development controls for because there was no room in billionaire Bob Ell’s two massive developments when one of them the wards. had a sudden change of mind over the tea break and backflipped The minister was told that on his decision. massive reforms and huge inIf our planners are ignored, the developer will have a better jections of money were needchance to override council’s own development controls, which ed; but Abbott’s response, or had stood the test of time for years and protected the shire from that of his government, was inappropriate and shoddy overdevelopment. to float the idea of a comBut that’s exactly what the boots-and-all pro-development monwealth takeover and then mayor Warren Polglase and his anti-community sidekicks Dot abandon it, and to actually Holdom, Phil Youngblutt and now, Kevin Skinner, are helping to reduce commonwealth fundencourage. One has to ask what induced Cr Skinner to suddenly ing as a proportion of the total. change his mind and sign a rescission motion which no doubt And people died – lots of them. will be backed by the above develop-at-all-costs councillors. So should Abbott have been The four councillors initially backing their planners’ submission sacked? Does he have blood on had also managed to include a request to the state government his hands? Did John Howard to conduct an independent review of the impacts of the big defail the people of Australia by velopments before approving them. It was such a vital call, given failing to dismiss him? Well, that the impacts, with tens of thousands of extra residents and yes, if you apply the same logic homes, will be far reaching for the whole shire. as Abbott is now seeking to apThe will of the people at the last election was overwhelmingly ply to Peter Garrett. for a green-based community council, but through politics and There is no doubt that the fate, the former disgraced mayor, sacked by the state governinsulation plan was something ment for being a puppet of the developers, has regained the of a shemozzle. It was basically chair, frustrating all those who did not want to see a return to the a good idea, but rushing it out bad old days. on a massive scale as part of We may as well give the running of the shire over to developthe economic stimulus packers, that’s exactly what Crs Polglase, Holdom, Youngblutt and age meant that there was not, Skinner seem to be doing by rejecting sensible planning advice and could not be, adequate on such monumental developments. preparation and supervision. An outraged public should pressure these councillors to stick Inevitably the smarties and the with the planners’ advice, after all they are the experts. Councilshonks clambered on board lors should reconsider their stand – if it’s not too late and the and there was a lot of rorting government has not yet signed off on it – and send the submisand a lot of corners cut that sion express-post to the planning minister’s office. should not have been. But it The delayed submission also contains an appeal from council was hardly Garrett’s responplanners for an extension of time to make their submission on sibility to check every job in a project involving lakes in the Cobaki development. This also person. The laws in every state should be supported. and territory demand that emVery worrying also is the fact Cr Polglase did not declare any ployers provide a safe workconflict of interest in these developments, even though Mr Ell place for their employees, but had donated $80,000 some years ago to fund a controversial Garrett was not the employer; pro-development team campaign, which he was part of. Surely the blame for the faulty instal-

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this constitutes a perceived conflict of interest and he should abstain further from voting on the developments, if only to avoid a ‘climate of corruption’.

lations and for the deaths of the employees goes directly to the installers who ignored established safety standards. Many of them should not have been in the industry at all, they were blow-ins and flyby-nighters attracted by the flood of work generated by the government rebate, but again, it is hardly reasonable to blame Garrett, or even his department, for not weeding them

For a member of John Howard’s last government to invoke the doctrine of ministerial responsibility at all is the sheerest hypocrisy. by Mungo MacCallum out; the industry sets its own standards and when the law is broken the states have the task of policing it. In hindsight, it can be said that Garrett might have reacted more quickly when the cracks started to appear; but the people who were truly negligent and incompetent were greedy bastards who sent young men into the ceiling without taking proper precautions or giving them sufficient training. For Abbott to blame Garrett is sheer opportunism, and in any case, for a member of John Howard’s last government to invoke the Westminster convention and the doctrine of ministerial responsibility at all is the sheerest hypocrisy. he first fortnight of the parliamentary session ended as it should have started, with Rudd’s annual report on closing the gap between indigenous Australians and the rest, and it was grim reading. There has been progress, but it has been pitifully slow and at least

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Tweed Shire Echo Publisher David Lovejoy Editor Luis Feliu Advertising Manager Paul Goeldner Accounts Manager Simon Haslam Production Manager Ziggi Browning ‘The job of a newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.’ – Finley Peter Dunne 1867–1936 © 2010 Echo Publications Pty Ltd Suite 1, Warina Walk Arcade, Murwillumbah Phone 02 6672 2280 Fax 02 6672 4933 email: editor@tweedecho.com.au Printer: Horton Media Australia Ltd

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brought the League, the media and the federal government on board, and on Saturday Rudd and several of his ministers were at Skilled Park on the Gold Coast to see Campbell’s Indigenous All Stars win a thriller against the NRL All Stars led by Kangaroo captain Darren Lockyer. Rudd said it was all about indigenous pride, and he was right. But all Australians should be proud that we are at last back on track for true reconciliation. There is a lot to do, but at least there is now genuine goodwill and a measure of empathy on both sides of politics. In this area at least we can report genuine progress. nd the most extraordinary news of the week came out of the Federal Court, where the Australian Wheat Board is being sued by a number of its shareholders for failing to disclose the payments it made during what became known as the ‘wheat for weapons affair’. For months before the Royal Commission conducted by Terence Cole, AWB officials insisted that they had no idea the money they were paying to Jordanian trucking company Alia was in fact going straight to Iraq, in contravention of United Nations sanctions. But the AWB’s outline of submissions filed in the Federal Court case admits that it knew the fees were to be remitted by Alia to the Iraqi State Company for Water Transport. In spite of the recommendations of the Cole Commission, none of the AWB officials who appeared before it have ever faced prosecution. Now it appears that a few of them should be hauled back before the court to explain why they should not be charged with perjury, if nothing else.

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lion for pre- and post-natal health care may help, but the problems seem to go deeper than money. Some Aboriginal leaders think reinstating the Racial Discrimination Act, suspended by John Howard for his Northern Territory intervention, is vital; others argue that the intervention has already been watered down too far. The political debate among indigenous Australians is a good thing in itself, and a sign that they see themselves as part of the wider society. And there are other reasons to hope the despondency of the Howard years is at last starting to lift. The Rugby League at the weekend was an unqualified success. The inspiration came from Preston Campbell, a Kamilaroi man from Tingha who is now the brilliant fullback for the Titans, who had a vision of an indigenous team to showcase the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stars of the game. An enthusiastic and well-mounted campaign

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Saving the Hatton fig tree

Senior police in state of denial

My name is Michael Harley now living in Brisbane and I am a great grandson of William Hatton. I lived on the Tweed a great deal of my life. I was most disturbed by your article the other day regarding the Hatton fig tree at Byangum. I have been in contact with Ian Kite of the Tweed Shire Council regarding cutting down the tree. It is not set in stone and pressure in the form of letters or emails about the historic value of saving the fig tree at Byangum planted by Harry Hatton in 1898 may bring pressure on the council to save the tree. The Hattons settled at Byangum around 1869 and were one of several early pioneering families on the Tweed River District as the area was known then. They were cedar getters,

In your lead article last week (‘Crime rates at tolerable level’) senior police officers were reported as saying there are no youth gangs in the Tweed area. It seems obvious these officers are living in sheltered world. Unlike the police, local MP Geoff Provest regularly attends Neighbourhood Watch meetings where reports of local crime are discussed and analysed. In addition to the tragic suicide that occurred recently in West Tweed, as a result of gang activity, there have been numerous reports of similar activity around Kingscliff. Last weekend a local resident was knocked unconscious in Marine Parade by a bottle thrown by a mali-

post masters, and ran several boats from Byangum to Tweed Heads and Byangum to Murwillumbah carrying passengers, and delivered milk and cream from the south arm of the Tweed River to the newly opened Norco Butter Factory at Murwillumbah. The tree came about in 1898, when Harry Hatton was driving his horse and sulky to Dunbible to fetch a midwife as his wife was in the late stages of labour. He pulled out a small tree from the side of the road, to urge the horse into going faster over about 20km of gravel road. The following day, after a healthy son was born, he stuck the small tree in a stump opposite his blacksmith’s shop. It took root and developed into the magnificent tree we see

today. The stump in the foreground of a painting of Harry’s blacksmith’s shop could well be the stump into which he planted the sapling Our local history of the Tweed is being swept under the carpet by the council. The coast has parks for tourists but there is nothing about the early pioneers of the Tweed River to save for the future generations. If the tree has to be cut down, and by that I mean after several years of TLC being spent on the tree, a cloned (by tissue culture) copy should be taken from the tree and planted just behind the tree now standing and a memorial park to the pioneering families of Byangum should be erected. Michael Harley

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Chinderah I recently read of the fish kill in the Cudgen Creek at Kingscliff. Sadly it was caused by heavy rain washing sulphur into the creek. I understand little can be done to stop nature but why will we allow the council to cause a fish kill while developing the northern end of Ozone Street? For the road to

Brisbane A few weeks ago I wrote to each of the councillors and asked whether they considered themselves to be a climate change skeptic or propobe built to plan, the creek along nent. Other than Cr Milne, no the side will be narrowed and one even acknowledged my concreted. Question: What will email. happen to the fish, prawns and Given their ‘Button-Ze-Lip’ crabs in this creek? Answer: attitude and distaste for transall killed not by nature but by parency, I guess I shouldn’t be council. This seems a conflict surprised. After all, there are after reading of council suppos- plenty of examples: a) No, rateedly caring for nature, always payers are not entitled to know talking of nature walks, nature how much money our councilareas, and nature streets. Along lors spend on their expense accomes a developer with money counts; b) No, councillors are and nature can be played with forbidden to discuss anything to suit that developer. Not on. in public unless it is already

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public; c) No, there will not be any questions in Question Time unless it is endorsed by a majority vote. (Where do they keep getting these gems? North Korea? Zimbabwe?) And so here’s another one to add to the ‘None-of-yourbusiness’ pile: d) No, voters are not entitled to know the convictions of elected representatives, even though those convictions have direct bearing on how policies are shaped – everything from the management of natural resources to planning and development. According to Cr Longland, the most Tweed citizens are en-

titled is to interpret their voting patterns and hazard a guess. Oh, there was one Yes… when they recommended themselves for a 55 per cent increase in their allowance. This was not done to feather their own nests, you understand. No, this is for the benefit of those who will follow in their footsteps. Pity – their claim may have a ring of credibility had it occurred during their last few months of office. Tweed Council provides rich pickings for a ‘Yes, Mayor’ series, don’t you think? Jules Lewin

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Nanette Schafer

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Water consultation seen as ‘just a sham’ Last evening I attended a community working group meeting for the Tweed Shire Water Augmentation Project. I was a guest speaker as an affected property owner at Byrrill Creek and spoke on the social implications of living 300 metres downstream from the dam wall and the effect it would have on myself and family. I travelled from Brisbane to make this presentation. We had to wait outside for 10 minutes, we were given five minutes to speak and the whole process of the meeting was very unpleasant. Our council representative Cr Dot Holdom was the timekeeper for the meeting to make sure speakers spoke for their allotted time of five minutes. Not once did she raise her eyes from the stopwatch to show respect that she was at least appearing to listen to what I had to say on the social impacts of the proposed construction of a dam in such an environmentally sensitive area. How does a councillor get a job as a timekeeper, no notes were taken, and she could not

Neville Jennings

Options a ‘Clayton’s consultation’ and a farce. I was one of the invited speakers to their meeting on February 15, specifically on social impacts. My topic was the ‘Effects on residents at Byrrill Creek who would be inundated by the proposed dam’. I had gone to a lot of trouble collecting statements from seven people and was stopped midsentence by Cr Dot Holdom’s ‘time’s up’, when I still had two more to read and I was reading it as fast as I could. How can five minutes rightfully explain the impact that a proposed dam would permanently have on 15 residents’ homes and lives? When asking for a time extension it was not allowed, yet afterwards the CWG debated for at least 10 minutes, which should have been allocated to the speakers to let them have a fair say. I found the meeting process lacked protocol, consideraMalcom Bailey tion to the speakers, and it was Byrrill Creek downright rude. So much for community consultation! I consider the community conJenny Pearson sultation of the CWG on Water Byrrill Creek

even look me in the eye, except for ‘time is up!’ When I purchased my dream home, land and waterfall frontage, all fully council compliant, I was ‘over the moon’. All searches came back and there were no requirements from the proposed purchase and a certificate of non-action was issued by council. Even when speaking to David Oxenham, manager of water services, over five years ago he assured me that under current plans my property would not be affected by future dam resumptions. However, the proposed dam buffer zone has now been increased to 250 metres and technically I am now in what I call ‘no man’s land’. No person would consider buying my home, if for some reason I had to sell, or consider securing finance over my property. If this is Tweed Shire’s idea of a community consultation, then I think it is ‘just a sham’.

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This road is called Ozone Street.

with gang activity that led to destruction of a new picnic area. There was no apparent follow up or feedback from police. At Neighbourhood Watch meetings I have heard of citizens reporting gang activity to police and being asked, ‘What do you want us to do about it?’ Despite this, there is empathy for the work done by police. We see them rushing off to attend motor vehicle accidents, robberies and cases of domestic violence. There are simply not enough police on the beat. It is intolerable that senior officers remain in a state of denial about gang activity in this area.

Are their opinions their own business?

We have our own ‘Sustainable Street’ I read with interest about a ‘Sustainable Street’ in Murwillumbah. We have been doing that sort of thing for a number of years. On the side of an unused road we have guavas (native and cherry), paw paws, mangoes, citrus, mulberries, passionfruit, pecan nut trees, also native flora such as scrub oaks, elkhorns, staghorns, and several native orchids, and all council wants to do is bulldoze them down to return it to a road, just to service a 2ha property.

cious gang member. Local residents are constantly reporting such incidents to police. When I personally made a mobile call about late night activity at Jack Bayliss reserve, Kingscliff Police told me that they had paperwork to complete. Half an hour later I reported an increase in gang violence at the same location just a few hundred metres north of the police station and once again the paperwork defence was used. Gang members were still in the picnic area at 6am the next morning surrounded by cans and broken bottles. Recently police were provided with licence plate details and a description of a car associated

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‘Initially we wanted to get our little street operating as a community – we wanted to get back to grassroots,’ Ms Blackwell said. ‘We live in a town but it can be a village. We all know our neighbours but we don’t live in each others’ pockets,’ she said. Interested residents meet once a month at a bench under a shady jacaranda tree to discuss joint and individual projects to reduce water and energy consumption, swap vegetables, eggs, unwanted goods and talk about practical environmental improvements, such as car pooling. ‘Through our meetings, we have identified common goals, including a bushland restoration project in a nearby reserve,’ Ms Blackwell said. Over the last few months, Dan Walton has initiated a monthly project to improve environmental outcomes. One month, residents painted gutters with stormwater messages, while another,

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they set daily targets for water (150 litres per person per day) and energy consumption (less than five kilowatts per person per day). Through the Bush Futures program, Mr Walton also helped residents at access a State Government grant to plant sustainable street trees, including oranges and lemon myrtles. ‘This program offers residents practical ways to restore local biodiversity, improve household water and energy efficiency as well as organic gardening and ethical shopping workshops,’ Mr Walton said. ‘We’re hoping residents of other streets in Tweed and Byron will be inspired by the hard work, enthusiasm and practical example of Murwillumbah Street,’ he said. Once chosen, the successful streets will participate in series of Council led workshops and community activities including the

planting of community fruit trees, painting stormwater messages on gutters, energy and water efficiency workshops and culminating in a community feast using locally sourced ingredients. Participants will also get the opportunity to provide ideas and suggestions on activities and outcomes they’d like to see for their street. If you think your street would benefit from this exciting grass-roots initiative, download the information package including the application form at www.tweed.nsw.gov.au/ sustainability The closing date for applications is 1 March 2010. People without internet access can call Dan Walton, Tweed Council Sustainability Officer on 02 6670 2555. The Sustainable Streets program is funded by the Tweed-Byron Urban Bush Futures grant - a local government partnership under the NSW Government Urban Sustainability Program.

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Since May of 2009 the size of the Samba-Blisstas has grown to over 60 members, who now spread themselves out over three main teams, in over three Shires. These are the Lismore Blisstas, the Bangalow based Blisstas, and the Kingscliff Blisstas. The three Samba-Blissta teams will be coming together for a major practise session this Wednesday from 7pm that will turn Kingscliff into a Carnaval for a few hours! If you’re inspired and would like to jump in and try your sense of rhythm out, $5 gets you a shaker and you can join in with the Blisstas at the Kingscliff Community Hall from 7pm. New members are always welcome, so try a drop-in class at anytime or go online and book yourself in for the next six week course in June 2010. See www.carnavaldrumming.com for more. Don’t worry if you miss this one – they are there every Wednesday night at the Kingscliff Community Hall from 7pm.

Tahlia McGahey At the age of 8 Tahlia McGahey took first place at an Eisteddfod (festival of music and poetry) and from that day on she decided singing and music was going to be her life. With influences such as Tanya Tucker and Linda Ronstadt, her style was inevitably to include country. In 2006, Tahlia teamed up with Flying Burrito Brothers member John Beland to produced her debut album. ‘She wrote it all, straight from the heart of a twenty one year old woman,’ John said, ‘with the talent, maturity and honesty, stunning well beyond

her years. I am proud to have produced her debut CD and honored to have gotten to know Tahlia. This young artist had her head on straight and a passion for music that is as real and true as any top artist I have ever worked with. If I ever saw a star in the making this kid is it.’ See her perform this Friday at the Terranora Tavern from 8pm.

The McClymonts With exquisite three-part harmonies, soaring vocals and stunning onstage presence, it’s not surprising that The McClymonts have taken the Australian music scene’s collective breath away. See them at Twin Towns, Saturday.

joined by special guest Karen Brown on vocals at Luffley Café, Murwillumbah. Karen will be performing a combination jazz, blues and funk numbers.

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Broadfoot Like salmon on a mating rampage, Broadfoot head upstream to the fabulous verandah of the Riverview Hotel, Murwillumbah to reel out an afternoon’s worth of music this Sunday from 2pm.

Light Activation After a year of solo shows, guitarist and singer Richard Bell is re-assembling his three piece outfit Light Activation at the Sphinx Rock Cafe this Sunday THE MCCLYMONTS, TWIN TOWNS CLUBS & from 2pm. also be performing live from RESORTS, SATURDAY 5pm, followed closely by Movie Carus Thompson Extra Tropfest, broadcasted live and Leena from Sydney onto Circle on Carus will be saying farewell Cavill’s Mega Screen. To Oz for a while with this acoustic tour, accompanied by old touring accomplice Bedge on piano, violin and mandolin. Special guest is Leena, who Ladies Down Under has just signed with EMI. Friday at The Soundlounge from Murwillumbah Theatre Company’s lighthearted comedy, 7.30pm Ladies Down Under by British The Jazz Kanaries playwright Amanda Whittington will premiere this week. This Friday February 19, The The play follows the fortunes Jazz Kanaries trio will be

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soAP boX TO SURF OR NOT TO SURF???

Mandy Nolan

It’s only 10am but it’s already a scorcher. I’ve just pulled up at The Pass. I can’t believe there’s a carspace. Thanks to The Secret, I now manifest parking. If only I could manifest a council permit, and then I wouldn’t get so many fines. I unhitch my pointy nose swallowtailed tri-fin, and jog towards the pounding surf. I’m wearing a white bikini. I have an amazing tan, and I have abs. I drop the board, jump on and paddle out. There’s a ferocious break today, I turn the board and straddle it, bobbing alongside

my fellow surfers waiting for the perfect wave. It arrives, and I join my 30 or so surfing comrades in paddling into the swell. Only a few of us will be granted entry. The rest will have to pull out. In one fluid motion I’m up. The tri-fin is cutting through, I’m climbing the face and then dropping down, doubling back and then I’m deep in the barrel. I surf the wave to shore. I shake my dreadlocks and then paddle back out for another. Bullshit. I’m not built for surfing. This is a body meant for shopping. Surfing is a fantasy. In reality I’m

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trying to get my boogie board out past the first break, it’s flipped up and now I have a bleeding nose. I don’t surf, not because I don’t want to, but because I’m not a surfer dude. Surfers are subculture. Unfortunately it’s become incredibly popular and now thousands of people who should never have taken off their shirts are now waxing their malibus for a weekend ride.

than his ability. In my opinion there’s just too many people out there under the delusion that they can surf, or that one day they’ll be able to. It’s hard to hear I know, but forget it.

Surfing is for people who can’t speak properly. You know, mumblers who struggle to construct a sentence, but stick ‘em on a bit of fibreglass and they are poetry. Surfing has There’s a huge debate about how been marketed like it’s as easy as to make the surf safe. I say, get riding a bike. And it is. If the bike rid of most of the dickheads who has no wheels, is out of control can’t surf and who will never be and being ridden into the path able to surf, but like the buzz of of an oncoming truck. Surfing is strapping a board to their car. That dangerous. It’s sexy because it’s frees up space for all our talented dangerous. Stick an accountant grommets and the crusty old on a malibu and you have hacks. Only those who are called by the ocean should surf. It would murdered the mystique. People who surf were born to surf. make swimming at The Pass a lot They don’t need lessons. The sea safer. I don’t want to be mowed down by a middle-aged man with calls them. It’s their place. Frankly a board that will always be bigger I couldn’t think of anything worse.

of four fish packers from Hull (or ‘Ull’) who won a packet on the races and are now following the dream of a lifetime by holidaying ‘Down Under’. In the great land of Oz these four fearless ladies find there’s more to life than money and fish – not only do they travel to a new land but each lady begins to explore the undiscovered country within, as each experiences some life changing moments. Tickets are $15 and $12 concession and table bookings are available from Murwillumbah Music Shop (02 6672 5404) and at the door. Everyone is invited to dress up in their best Aussie gear with

prizes to be awarded for the most original on the opening and final nights. Seating will be theatre restaurant style with patrons invited to bring drinks and food. Please note that no pizza orders will be taken, but on opening and final nights there will be a sausage sizzle with tea, coffee and cake at interval run by Mt Warning AM Rotary. For further information please contact Rosemary on 02 66721520. Opening night is 7.30pm on Friday February 19 at the Murwillumbah Civic Centre, then February 20, 26, 27, March 5 and 6 at 7.30pm and Sunday February 28 at 2pm.

Oh, I can. Scuba diving. There’s just no room in the surf for the thousands of puffy fleshed whitey wannabes. They should just put their helmets on and go back to playing World of Warcraft in their undies. If they want pickies carving up the waves for their Facebook, then they should just photoshop their head onto Kelly Slater’s body. If they want to make heaps of money and pull chicks, then take up golf. You can put P plates on ‘em, and make ‘em wear helmets, but basically you’re just protecting them from the out of control idiots like me who will never ever be able to control a board or be at one with the ocean. Surfing is not my place. Put me in a library and watch out! I can’t read a wave, but man, I can read a book! My alternative practice for surf safety would be to put mums on the beach. They could enforce

the ‘only one person on the trampoline at a time’ rule on the ocean. ‘One person on a wave at a time. You’ve had your turn, now bugger off home fatty!’ So many people surf now, it’s kind of lost its edge. It’s as common as handball. Surfing needs an edge. It’s like the tattooing thing. Used to be only tattoo type people get tattoos. Now my fricking mother has one. Tattoos used to mean something – like you were a slut or had been to jail. But now all it means is that you got a tattoo. All those people in jail must be sitting there not knowing how to define themselves as a subculture anymore. To all those out there clogging up the arteries of our best waves, my advice is buy a surf mat and ride the foam. Or better still, avoid the sun and don’t wee in your wetsuit when you can Wii in your loungeroom!

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STARS

Mungo’s Crossword

WITH LILITH

ARIES: While you’re not short on outgoing energy, this week’s about inward agendas – like finding the real feelings behind that brave Aries front. Trusted friends could give you valid feedback: if you can’t hear it without getting agitated, well, that’s what professionals are for.

Quick Clues

Cryptic Clues

ACROSS 1. Blooming subject for 12 (10) 5. Poems, honouring someone or something (4) 9. Famous, indeed notorious, Italian painter 16th-17th century (10) 10. Non-clerical, secular (4) 12. Famous impressionist who painted Starry Night (7,3,4) 14. Take back, retrieve (6) 15. Estimator for insurance claims (8) 17. Australian spiny anteaters (8) 19. Organ traditionally associated with ill-temper and spite (6) 22. Residence of 12 in the town of Arles (3,6,5) 24. Mountain range between Europe and Asia (4) 25. What 12 cut off (3,4,3) 26. Chief, headman (4) 27. Retainers, hangers-on (10)

ACROSS 1. Source of oil famously depicted by 12 (10) 6. Interminably modest verse (5) 9. Artist’s vehicle – Gardner, the viceroy and X (10) 10. Non clerical, the French in charge (4) 12. Richards grips new coin, astonished about nitrogen high –that’s artistic genius! (7,3,4) 14. Get back one held by old president (6) 15. Insurance worker for idiots? So right (8) 17. Can hides strange and prickly beasts (8) 19. Organ sighted around the place (6) 22. The Scream, by circle who occupy 12’s residence (3,6,5) 24. Mountain rustic loses head (4) 25. Father lies about 12’s missing appendage (3,4,3) 26. Chief of Gestapo follows scent (4) 27. Retainers hang in depressions (10)

DOWN 1. Dismiss, retrench (4) 2. Tending, caring for (7) 3. Illegitimate offspring (4,8) 4. Carts, carriages (6) 5. Deposit again (of money) (8) 7. Mythical winged monsters (7) 8. Artificial sugar substitute (10) 11. Describing alcoholic spirit of less than standard potency (12) 13. Proverbial characteristic of successful gardener (5,5) 16. Manicurist’s tool (4-4) 18. Noises made by donkeys (3-4) 20. In the direction of the rising sun (7) 21. A dozen (6) 23. Greek god of love (4)

Last week’s solution

DOWN 1. Dispose of plunder (4) 2. Looking after naked French sister in band (7) 3. Even rich doll gets involved with bastards (4,8) 4. Shake sides of carriages (6) 5. Spend again, on check waistcoat (8) 7. Monsters produce 500 terrible groans (7) 8. Rich cane, as crushed, is sweet (10) 11. Mildly alcoholic expert ring hides among malnourished (12) 13. Good at cultivating, but an inexperienced at procuring free transport (5,5) 16. Buffer for secure record (4-4) 18. Ass calls for cuts around Environmental Health Australia (3-4)) 20. Festival to the North? No, in another direction (7) 21. 55, in very small number (6) 23. Love? It’s just backpain (4) Mungo’s Crossword first published in The Week.

TAURUS: You could be called on to administer emotional first aid for someone in distress this week. But when the weekend moon’s in Taurus along with a planetary gathering in the sign of sensuous delights, you owe yourself a pleasure getaway or just some enjoyable do-nothing time. GEMINI: This week’s people are doing lots of your favourite thing: talking, though less your preferred goss swapping than about deep and meaningful issues, fears and feelings. The present star scenario’s certainly a mystery dance, a hocus pocus polka to keep you on your toes…

In years past, the book Modern Chess Openings was considered the chessplayer’s bible. In a single volume, MCO covered virtually all main opening lines, and gave a rudimentary assessment at the end of each variation. First published in 1911, MCO has gone through 15 editions, the latest in 2008, and numerous editors, including Australia’s M E Goldstein. Then in the 1980s MCO began to be superseded by rivals BCO (Batsford Chess Openings) and later NCO (Nunn’s Chess Openings)

The Sun and Venus joining Jupiter and Uranus, planets of love, luck and change in fluid Pisces makes this week like the Leunig cartoon bloke saying he doesn’t see the point of life, and a woman explaining: It’s not pointy, its round and soft CANCER: Sure, magic could happen this week but that would definitely require your cooperation in holding a positive vision and not indulging in dystopian gloom. Whatever, a very delightful weekend’s coming up of the touchy feely, close and cuddly kind you Cancerians love. LEO: If you have your eye on someone or something, this week you’ll have to initiate the first move. And if you can let minor inconsistencies slide, you’ll enjoy the way this richly intuitive week infiltrates your defenses, making it easier to reach agreement where that’s been lacking. VIRGO: Your Virgo personality’s a grounding counterpoint to the viral mind changing and soul waffling of others falling madly in love with the nearest person or cause. But bleeding hearts and TV tears aside, this week’s golden moments are the up close and intimate kind.

LIBRA: Precision thinking isn’t a feature of this week in which logic won’t work and feelings rule. If you have trouble accessing information, just get up to speed as best you can – small advances will accumulate to quite significant progress by the end of the week. SCORPIO: This week’s planetary potpourri has a strong spiritual impact with major healing potential. Forgiving yourself and others for what’s happened in the past dissolves old tensions and dismantles emotional barricades to create breakthroughs, giving your communication renewed confidence, authority, depth and resonance. SAGITTARIUS: The Venerable Buddhist monk Adrienne Howley regards the coupling of assumption with expectation as a potent partnership for disaster, and this week’s a minefield of mixed signals and misunderstandings. But however tempting independence seems, be mindful that right now your

CHESS by Ian Rogers

Play at Seagulls Club, Thurs 6-10pm as well as Chess Informant’s lan- to sacrifice depth for breadth, but guageless Encyclopaedia. the explanations in FCO are first More recently, explanatory class – I picked up some tips in opening books have taken over – a openings which I had never fully logical development, since players understood. like to know why opening moves As with all opening books, are played as much as what should FCO will leave you to your own be played. resources just when the game is However, fitting explanations getting interesting, but at least you about all modern openings into will have some idea of what you a single volume was thought should be doing. to be impossible; that is, until This week’s game, described as Dutch Grandmaster Paul van der flawless by many pundits, features Sterren’s Fundamental Anand finding a new opening idea Chess Openings (FCO) as late as move 17 and inflicting a was released in 2009. rare defeat on Kramnik: the sort of Van der Sterren, my game which shows the huge gap former neighbour in between mortals and the gods. Amsterdam, took a Wijk aan Zee 2010 decade to complete his White: V Anand tome, the first genuine Black: V Kramnik successor to Reuben Fine’s Opening: Petroff’s Defence 1940s classic Ideas Behind 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.d4 d5 6.Bd3 Nc6 7.0-0 Be7 8.c4 Nb4 the Chess Openings. 9.Be2 0-0 10.Nc3 Bf5 11.a3 Nxc3 12.bxc3 With the explosion Nc6 13.Re1 Re8 14.cxd5 Qxd5 15.Bf4 Rac8 of opening theory, it has 16.h3 Anand demonstrates his game against Kramnik. been necessary for FCO ‘We are following a well-trodden path,’ said

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strength lies in numbers. CAPRICORN: Emotional manipulation’s at play this week and your challenge is to outfox it without incurring recriminations or fallout – which may require a change of tactics on your part involving more flexibility and spontaneity. If you’re thinking that means less control, you’re not wrong. AQUARIUS: This fertile time provides the ideal climate for a personal growth spurt, so if postponed plans start tugging at your attention, follow their prompt. And since this week’s also very receptive to your original style and innovative take, don’t be backward about coming forward. PISCES: Would you like the good news first? Nah, let’s start with the brilliant news, which is an abundance of planets in Pisces showering you with beauty, bounty, booty and a major confidence boost. Love’s in the air, so do what you can to keep it there. Anand. ‘Nine times out of ten Kramnik is going to equalise with his Petroff but that doesn’t mean you don’t try for something.’ Five years earlier, Anand had found a similar ‘something’ against Kramnik when he tested 16.Qc1!? and after 16...Na5?! 17.c4! Qe4?? 18.Bd1! Qd3 19.Re3! Qxc4 20.Re5 1-0, Anand scored his fastest win against Kramnik. 16...Be4 17.Qc1!? Na5 18.Qe3 Bf8?! Too passive. After 18...Bd6 19.c4 Bxf4 20.Qxf4 Qf5 White does not have much. 19.c4! Qd8 After 19...Nxc4? 20.Bxc4 Qxc4 21.Nd2 White wins. 20.Ne5 Bf5 21.Qc3 b6 22.Rad1 Qf6 22...Qd6 would have been met by 23.c5! 23.Qg3 Nc6 24.Ng4! ‘Black’s play was based on the trick that if I play 24.Bf3 he has 24...Nxe5 25.Bxe5 Bd6!,’ explained Anand. 24...Qg6 25.d5 Na5 26.Bxc7 Bc2 27.Rc1 Nb3 28.Rxc2!! Qxc2 29.Nh6+! 29.Nf6+ Kh8 30.Nxe8 Rxe8 is not so clear. 29...Kh8 30.Nxf7+ Kg8 31.Nh6+ Kh8 32.Nf7+ Kg8 33.Nh6+ Kh8 34.Be5!! Just before Kramnik could claim a draw by repetition. In return for his sacrifice, Anand has total control over the position. 34...Qg6 35.Bg4! Rxc4 36.Qxb3 Rxe5 37.Rxe5 Rc1+ 38.Kh2! Bd6 39.f4 Bxe5 40.fxe5 gxh6 ‘If 40...Qxh6 then I play 41.Qf3! and it’s mate or I just swap queens,’ Anand explained. 41.Qe3! Qb1 42.d6 Rh1+ 43.Kg3 Re1 44.Qf4 Rf1 45.Bf3! 1-0

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FRIDAY 19

1. The wonderful Abigail Breslin and Ryan Reynolds star in Definitely, Maybe (Prime, Friday, 8.30pm), a nostalgic trip to life before marriage. 2. As sewerage is always a gripping issue on the north coast, we thought it appropriate to mention Flushed Away (Prime, Saturday, 6.30pm). Here, Roddy (voiced by Hugh Jackman) hangs on for dear life in a troubled underworld. 3. Leonardo Di Caprio becomes increasingly disturbed in The Beach (TEN, Sunday, 10.30pm), which goes to show that a seachange is not always what it’s cracked up to be, especially if inhabited by nutters.

ABC 1

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5.00 World News And Weatherwatch 6.45 UEFA Europa League LIVE – Atletico Madrid v Galatasaray 9.15 World News 2.30 Darwin’s Lost Paradise 3.30 Going Bush 4.00 Classical Destinations Rome & Naples 4.30 The Journal 5.00 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 6.00 Global Village 6.30 World News 7.30 James May’s Big Ideas 8.30 As It Happened (PG) Hitler’s bodyguard 9.30 World News Australia 10.00 Vixen Academy (M) 10.40 Movie: Ardor (MA 2002) South Korean drama. Stars Jong-won Lee, Yoon-jin Kim 12.40 Movie: Oculto (MA 2005) Spanish drama. Stars Laia Marull, Angie Cepeda 2.45 Weatherwatch

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Seven Morning News 12.00 Movie: How To Make An American Quilt (M 1995) Winona Ryder, Claire Danes, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn 2.30 The Golden Girls 3.00 10 Years Younger In 10 Days 3.30 Kids’ Programs 5.00 M*A*S*H 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.00 Prime News 6.30 Seven News 7.00 Home And Away 7.30 Better Homes And Gardens 8.30 Movie: Definitely, Maybe (PG 2008) The daughter of a Manhattanite going through a divorce asks him about his life before marriage. Stars Ryan Reynolds, Isla Fisher, Derek Luke 11.00 Movie: A Guy Thing (M 2003) Jason Lee, Julia Stiles, Selma Blair 1.00 2010 NAB Cup St Kilda v Collingwood 3.00 Infomercials

11.00 Catalyst 11.30 The New Inventors 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Poirot (PG) 1.30 Monarch Of The Glen 2.30 Spicks And Specks 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.05 Meerkat Manor 6.30 Can We Help? 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Stateline 8.00 Sleuth 101 8.30 Silent Witness (M) 10.15 Moving Wallpaper (M) 10.40 Lateline 11.25 The Graham Norton Show (M) Dawn French, Michael Palin, Rod Stewart 12.05 rage (M)

ABC 2 5.30 Can We Help? 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 The Real Good Life 6.30 Scrapheap Challenge 7.30 The Colbert Report 8.05 Father Ted (PG) 8.30 Boy Meets Girl (PG) 9.30 Breaking Bad (M) 10.20 BBC Electric Proms (M) Oasis 11.20 Live From Abbey Road (M) The Kills, Sara Bareilles, The Fratellis 12.10 Soundtrack To My Life Randy Newman 12.45 The People Watchers

SBS 2 5.00am to 6.00pm World News and Weatherwatch

ABC 2 6.00 6.00 6.30 7.35 8.30

Kids’ Programs At The Movies Wild At Heart Hamish Macbeth Movie: To Kill A Mockingbird (PG B&W 1962) A lawyer in a racially divided Alabama town in the 1930s defends a young black man accused of raping a white woman. Stars Gregory Peck 10.35 Movie: Made For Each Other (PG B&W 1939) Carole Lombard 12.10 Extreme Rescue 1.00 Baby Be Mine (M) 2.05 Close

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6.30 World News Australia 7.30 UEFA Champions League Highlights 8.30 UEFA Europa League Panathinaikos v Roma 10.00 Movie: Shadows Of Time (M 2004) German love story spanning 60 years beginning as children in India. Stars Tannishtha Chatterjee, Prashant Narayanan, Tillotama Shome 11.55 Movie: Koma (MAV 2004) Cantonese thriller. Stars Lee Sinje, Andy Hui 1.25 Weatherwatch

ABC 1 5.00 rage (PG) 11.00 Poh’s Kitchen 11.30 Message Stick (G*) 12.00 Stateline 12.30 Australian Story 1.00 WNBL Basketball Elimination final 3.00 WNBL Basketball LIVE – Semi final 5.00 Bombora (PG) The story of Australian surfing from 1967 to present including the 1980s cultural change 6.00 Nigella Express 6.30 Gardening Australia Includes how Aboriginal people manage plant resources sustainably 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Bed Of Roses (PG) 8.25 ABC News 8.30 The Bill (PG) 9.15 Blue Murder (PG) 10.25 ABC News Update 10.30 Dalziel And Pasco (M) 12.15 rage (M)

6.00 Kids Time 9.00 Sons & Daughters 9.30 Home & Away 10.00 Upstairs, Downstairs 11.00 Headland 12.00 Body Beautiful 12.30 Style By Jury 1.00 All My Children 2.00 Shortland Street 2.30 Emmerdale 3.30 Kitchen Time 6.00 ALF 6.30 Full House 7.00 Benny Hill Show

7.30 Airline USA 8.30 Escape To The Country 9.30 60 Minute Makeover 10.30 How Not To Decorate (M) 11.30 Australia’s Greatest Athlete (PG) 12.30 The Master 1.30 AFL

SBS 1

PRIME

World News And Weatherwatch Opera: The Full Monteverdi The Horses Of The Louvre The Question Mark Inside Every Picture Tells A Story The Tempest 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 5.30 Absolute Zero (G) 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Monster Moves 8.30 Iron Chef 9.20 Rockwiz (PG) 10.00 Movie: Blueprint (M 2003) German drama. Stars Frank Potente, Ulrich Thomsen, Snaer Gudnason, Justus von Dohnányi 12.00 SOS (M) 12.55 NEWStopia (M) 1.25 Matrioshki Thai Sex Trade (MA) 2.15 Weatherwatch

6.00 Kids’ Programs 7.00 Weekend Sunrise 9.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 Home Improvement 12.30 V8 Supercars 4.30 Australia’s Greatest Athlete 5.30 Sydney Weekender 6.00 Seven News 6.30 Movie: Flushed Away (G 2006) Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Ian McKellen 8.15 Movie: Raising Helen (PG 2004) Kate Hudson, John Corbett, Joan Cusack 10.40 Movie: Predator (M 1987) Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Elpidia Carrillo, Bill Duke 12.40 Movie: Assassination Tango (M 2003) A professional hitman finds another side to life when in Argentina. Stars Robert Duvall, Ruven Blades, Kathy Baker, Luciana Pedraza 3.00 Infomercials

5.00 1.00 2.05 3.05 4.00

SBS 2

7 TWO

5.00am to 6.00pm World News and Weatherwatch

6.30 7.30 8.30 9.40

World News Australia Don Matteo (PG) Unit One (M) Movie: Dark Blue Almost Black (MA 2006) Spanish drama about a young man whose plans for the future are put on hold when his father has a stroke. Stars Quim Gutlerrez, Hector Colome, Antonio de la Torre 11.30 Movie: Rule No.1 (MA 2004) Danish drama about two sisters who try to reconcile their differences. Stars Susanne Juhasz, Mira Wanting 1.05 Weatherwatch

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4.30 Shortland Street 5.00 Something In The Air 5.30 The Einstein Factor 6.00 Kids’ Programs

1.30 Coach Trip 2.00 Close

SATURDAY 20

1

6.00 AFL Flashback Classics 8.30 Harry’s Practice 9.00 Movie: 5th Ave Girl (G B&W 1939) Ginger Rogers, James Ellison 10.40 Movie: Honeymoon (G B&W 1947) Shirley Temple, Franchot Tone 12.15 Movie: Meredith Willson’s The Music Man (G 2003) Matthew Broderick, Kristin Chenoweth 2.50 Home & Away Catch-Up 5.00 Discover Tasmania 5.30 Better Homes And Gardens 6.30 Michael Palin’s New Europe 7.30 Heartbeat 8.30 A Touch Of Frost (M) 10.30 10 Years Younger In 10 Days 11.30 Monster House (PG) 12.30 The Master 1.30 AFL

TEN

GO!

1.00 Infomercials 5.00 Religion

ONE HD 6.00 WGC Accenture Match Play Golf Championship LIVE from Arizona 10.00 College Basketball 12.00 NBA Basketball 2.45 NBA Doubleheader Basketball 5.15 Slamball 6.15 Omnisport

6.30 7.00 7.30 9.30

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9.30 Movie: Godsend (M 2004) A grieving couple agree to clone their son who died in an accident. Stars Robert De Niro, Cameron Bright, Greg Kinnear, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos 11.30 Frasier 12.00 Seinfeld 12.30 TMZ 1.00 Charlie’s Angels 2.00 Movie: Blurred (M 2002) Evan Clarry, Tony Brockman 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Partridge Family 5.30 Flintstones

TEN

NBN

6.00 Netball Test Diamonds Tour – LIVE 6.00 Infomercials from the UK – England v Australia 7.00 Winter Olympic Games 2010 LIVE 8.00 Kids’ Programs from Vancouver 10.00 Hit List TV 2.00 Blue Diamond Stakes Day Horse 12.00 Landed Music Racing LIVE 12.30 Out Of The Blue 5.30 Antiques Roadshow 1.00 Escape With ET 6.00 NBN News 1.30 Saving Babies 6.30 Australia’s Funniest Home Videos 2.00 Life Is Wild 7.30 Winter Olympic Games 2010 3.00 It’s Me Or The Dog Highlights 3.30 The Biggest Loser 8.40 Lotto 5.00 Ten News 10.30 Movie: The Perfect Storm (M 2000) 5.30 Sports Tonight Based on a true story about a group 6.00 Malcolm In The Middle of men onboard their fishing boat in 6.30 Movie: Never Been Kissed (PG 1999) the middle of the most destructive Drew Barrymore, David Arquette, storm in modern history. Stars George Michael Vartan, John C Reilly Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane 8.35 Movie: X-Men (M 2000) Hugh 1.05 Movie: Firecreek (M 1968) The folk Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, of a small western town stand up for Halle Berry their rights. Stars Jimmy Stewart, Henry 10.45 AFL Pre-Season Sydney v Carlton Fonda, Inger Stevens 3.05 The Baron 4.00 Infomercials 12.45 Hell’s Kitchen 1.45 Video Hits 2.00 Infomercials 4.00 Religion

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ONE HD 6.00 WGC Accenture Match Play Golf Championship – LIVE 10.00 America’s Cup Sailing Highlights 11.00 Transworld Sport 12.00 Road To Delhi 12.30 ATP World Tour Tennis 1.00 TNA Xplosion 2.00 NAB Cup AFL Hawthorn v Richmond 4.00 Netball Diamonds Tour Test Australia v England

6.00 6.30 7.00 7.30

Omnisport Escape With ET Sports Tonight NAB Cup AFL LIVE Sydney v Carlton

10.00 UFC (M) 11.55 Sports Soup 12.30 NASCAR Sprint Cup 1.30 Omnisport 2.00 WGC Accenture Match Play Golf Championship – LIVE

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World Rally Championships Sweden The Sport Of Kings NBA Basketball Sports Tonight

6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ 11.30 The Partridge Family 12.00 Frasier 12.30 Seinfeld 1.00 Dog The Bounty Hunter 2.00 Charlie’s Angels 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 The Nanny 4.00 Kids’ Programs 5.00 I Dream Of Jeannie 5.30 Bewitched 6.00 The Flintstones 6.30 The Jetsons 7.00 Get Smart 7.30 Frasier 8.00 Seinfeld 8.30 Black Adder III (PG)

10.00 Sports Soup 11.00 NBA Basketball 12.30 Sports Tonight Late 1.00 Omnisport 1.30 Boxing A2Z 2.30 BMX Road Fools 3.30 Mecum Auto Auction 4.30 ASP Season Surfing Rip Curl Pro Search Chile 2007 5.30 Omnisport

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NBN

6.00 Early News 5.30 Today 7.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Winter Olympic Games 2010 LIVE 9.00 9am Summertime from Vancouver 10.00 The Circle 2.15 One Day Series Cricket Australia v 11.00 Ten News West Indies – LIVE from MCG 12.00 Dr Phil (PG) 6.00 NBN News 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) 6.30 Cricket continues 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 10.00 Winter Olympic Games 2010 3.00 The Biggest Loser Highlights 3.30 Dharma & Greg 12.30 Movie: Extreme Measures (M 1966) 4.00 Huey’s Cooking Adventures An emergency room doctor is haunted 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful by the disappearance of a strange 5.00 Ten News patient’s records and the trail leads to 6.00 The Simpsons a doctor whose experimental surgeries 6.30 Neighbours allow spinal cord victims to walk again. 7.00 The 7pm Project Stars Hugh Grant, Sarah Jessica Parker, 7.30 The Biggest Loser Gene Hackman 9.00 NCIS (M) 3.00 The Avengers 4.00 Infomercial 4.30 Good Morning America 10.00 White Collar (M) 11.00 Ten Late News 11.30 Sports Tonight 12.00 The Late Show With David Letterman

6.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 Get Smart 2.00 Seinfeld 3.00 Frasier 4.00 Hogan’s Heroes 5.00 Green Acres 5.30 The Nanny 6.30 Get Smart 7.30 Hogan’s Heroes 8.30 Seinfeld

9.30 Movie: Mars Attacks! (M 1996) Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Pierce Brosnan, Annette Bening 11.30 Reno 911 (M) 12.00 Movie: Cleopatra Jones & The Casino Of Gold (M 1975) Tamara Dobson, Stella Stevens 2.00 Green Acres 2.30 Get Smart 3.00 Hogan’s Heroes 4.00 Frasier 5.00 The Jetsons 5.30 Marine Boy

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SBS 1

ABC 1

5.00 rage 6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Insiders 10.00 6.25 World News Inside Business 10.30 Offsiders 11.00 Asia Pacific 10.00 A Fork In The Road Hungary Focus 11.30 Songs Of Praise 12.00 Landline 11.00 Walk Like A Man (PG)

SUNDAY 21

1.00 1.30 2.00 3.00 5.00 5.30 6.00 6.30 7.00 7.30 8.50

Gardening Australia Message Stick (G*) Born To Be King Prince Charles at 60 WNBL Basketball LIVE – Semi final Connected By Light Art Nation At The Movies Collectors ABC News Doctor Who Monty Python (M) Almost The Truth – The Lawyer’s Cut 9.50 Compass: The Almighty Dollar 10.20 The Genius Of Photography 11.20 Movie: A Man For All Seasons (G 1966) Paul Scofield 1.15 Movie: Forget Me Not (G B&W 1937) Benjamino Gigil, Joan Gardner 2.25 Movie: Annabel Takes A Tour (G B&W 1938) Lucille Ball, Jack Oakie 3.30 Talking Heads 4.00 Songs Of Praise

ABC 2 6.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Sleuth 101 6.30 Artscape 7.00 Art Nation 7.30 Simon Schama’s Power Of Art: Caravaggio 8.20 Damon And Jamie’s Excellent Adventure 9.30 Cold Feet (M) 10.25 The Forsyte Saga (M)

11.20 Montreux Jazz Festival 2003 (PG) Jethro Tull, Yes 12.15 The Guitar Show Steve Morse, Buddy Miller, Slava Grigoryan, Peter Blyton 12.40 WOMADelaide 2006 Coco Mbassi 1.10 The Unforgettable Nat King Cole 2.15 Close

12.00 Australian Track Cycling Championships From Adelaide 1.00 Speedweek 3.00 UEFA Europa League 5.00 The World Game 6.00 Thalassa 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Lost Worlds Unsinkable Titanic 8.30 Dateline 9.30 The Love Of Money (G) The age of risk 10.30 Movie: Napola (MA 2004) German drama about an idealistic young boxer who becomes disillusioned with the Third Reich during his training. Stars Max Riemelt, Tom Schilling, Joachim Bissmeier 12.30 Movie: Joint Security Area (MAV 2000) South Korean thriller. Stars Lee Young-ae, Lee Byung-heon 2.30 Weatherwatch

SBS 2 5.00am to 6.00pm World News and Weatherwatch

6.30 World News Australia 7.30 The World Game 8.30 Clara Sheller (PG) Looking for Prince Charming 9.30 Movie: Manual Of Love 2 (M 2007) Italian romantic comedy. Stars Carlo Verdone, Monica Bellucci 11.35 Movie: The Giraffe’s Neck (PG 2004) French drama. Stars Sandrine Bonnaire, Claude Rich 1.10 Weatherwatch

SBS 1

MONDAY 22

ABC 1 4.30 Shortland Street 5.00 Something In The Air 5.30 The Einstein Factor 6.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Landline 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes 1.30 The Cook And The Chef 2.00 Parliament Question Time 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Travel Oz 6.30 Talking Heads Harry M Miller 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 Australian Story 8.30 Four Corners 9.20 Media Watch 9.35 Q&A 10.35 Lateline 11.10 Lateline Business 11.35 Fakes (M) 12.25 Parliament Question Time 1.30 Movie: Big Combo (PG 1955) Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte 2.55 Gagadju (G*) Timeless Land 3.30 The Navigators Baudin v Flinders

ABC 2 5.30 Can We Help? 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Collectors 6.30 Scrapheap Challenge 7.30 The Colbert Report 8.00 Important Things With Demetri Martin 8.30 Good Game

9.05 I’m From Rolling Stone 9.30 Doctor Who 11.00 London Live Hot Chip

TUESDAY 23

11.30 Death Note (M) 12.00 Modern Toss (MA) 12.25 Rex The Runt 12.45 The People Watchers 1.30 Coach Trip 2.00 Close

5.20 1.00 1.30 2.30 3.30

World News and Weatherwatch Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia The Torture Hunter Dateline Baby Boom To Bust Grey tsunami – global ageing 4.30 The Journal 5.00 The Crew 5.30 Futbol Mundial 6.00 Global Village 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Mythbusters (PG) 8.35 Man Vs Wild Patagonian Andes adventure 9.30 World News 10.00 The Fixer (M) 10.55 Entourage (M) 11.20 Wilfred (MA) Comedy series 12.20 Movie: Grave Of The Fireflies (M 1988) Japanese animation adapted from a 1967 semi-autobiographic novel 2.00 Weatherwatch

SBS 2 5.00am to 6.00pm World News and Weatherwatch

6.30 7.30 8.30 9.00

World News Australia Dateline Little Mosque On The Prairie (G) Movie: Summer Rain (MA 2006) Spanish drama. Stars Alberto Amarilla, Maria Ruiz, Victoria Abril 11.00 Movie: The House Of Sand (MA 2005) Brazillian drama spanning three generations. Stars Fernanda Montenegro, Fernanda Torres, Ruy Guerra 1.00 Weatherwatch

ABC 1

SBS 1

4.30 Shortland Street 5.00 Something In The Air 5.30 The Einstein Factor 6.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Trek 1.30 The Einstein Factor 2.00 Parliament Question Time 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Ancient Megastructures The Alhambra 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 Foreign Correspondent 8.30 Kevin McCleod’s Grand Tour Greece 9.30 QI: Future 10.00 Artscape Kronos Quartet in conversation 10.30 Lateline 11.05 Lateline Business 11.35 Four Corners 12.20 Media Watch 12.35 The Chaser’s War On Everything (PG) 1.00 Parliament Question Time 2.00 Poirot (PG) 2.55 Big Ideas 3.55 Good Game (M)

5.20 World News And Weatherwatch 1.00 Movie: The Cuckoo (M 2002) Russian comedy. Stars Anni-Kristiina Juuso, Ville Haapasalo, Viktor Bychkov 2.45 Spacefiles: The Universe Unveiled 3.00 If Only 3.30 Going Bush 4.00 Wine Lovers’ Guide To Australia 4.30 The Journal 5.00 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 6.00 Global Village 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Insight Fixing mental health 8.30 Big Love (M) 9.30 World News Australia 10.00 Hot Docs: Rough Aunties – Saving Children’s Lives (M) British doco about protecting children in Durban, South Africa 12.00 Movie: Warchild (MA 2006) German drama. Stars Labina Mitevska, Senad Basic, Zdenko Jelcic 1.45 Weatherwatch

ABC 2 5.30 Can We Help? 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 A Place In Greece 6.30 Scrapheap Challenge 7.30 The Colbert Report

8.00 The Young Ones 8.40 Durham County (M) 9.30 The Wire (MA) 10.30 Party Animals (M) 11.30 The Librarians (M) 12.00 Heartland 12.45 The People Watchers 1.30 Coach Trip 2.00 Close

SBS 2 5.00am to 6.00pm World News and Weatherwatch

6.30 World News Australia 7.30 The Super Comet (PG) What would happen today if a comet hit the earth 8.30 Little Mosque On The Prairie (G) 9.00 Movie: Shadows (MA 2007) Macedonian thriller. Stars Borce Navec, Vesna Stanojevska 11.10 Movie: Climates (MA 2006) Turkish drama. Stars Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Nazan Kýrýlmýp 1.00 Weatherwatch

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PRIME 6.00 Religion 7.00 Weekend Sunrise

NBN

6.00 Religion 7.00 Kids’ Programs 8.00 Meet The Press 8.30 Infomercials 9.30 River To Reef

5.00 Winter Olympic Games 2010 LIVE 10.00 Kochie’s Business Builders from Vancouver 10.00 Hit List TV 10.30 Bush Doctors 3.00 International Women’s Twenty20 12.00 Pat Callinan’s 4x4 Adventures 11.00 According To Jim Cricket Australia v New Zealand – LIVE 1.00 Movie: Glitter (PG 2001) Mariah Carey, 11.30 Ironman Series 2010 from Hobart Max Beesley, Ann Magnuson 1.30 V8 Supercars Abu Dhabi 5.00 Animal Emergency 3.00 It’s Me Or The Dog 4.30 Australia’s Greatest Athlete 5.30 Antiques Roadshow 4.00 Meerkat Manor 5.30 Mercurio’s Menu 6.00 NBN News 4.30 Boys Weekend 6.00 Seven News 6.30 Twenty20 Cricket Australia v West 5.00 Ten News 6.30 Sunday Night Indies LIVE from Hobart 5.30 Sports Tonight 7.30 Border Security – Australia’s Front 9.30 Winter Olympic Games 2010 6.00 The Simpsons (PG) Line (PG) Highlights 6.30 The Biggest Loser: Couples (PG) 8.00 Air Ways 12.00 Movie: Last Orders (M 2001) 7.30 Talkin’ Bout Your Generation (PG) 8.30 Bones (M) Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay, David 8.30 The Good Wife (M) 9.30 Castle (M) Hemmings 9.30 House (M) 10.30 Scrubs (PG) 2.00 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo 11.00 Air Crash Investigations 12.00 Hot Auctions 10.30 Movie: The Beach (AV15+ 2000) A 2.30 Infomercials 12.30 Infomercials 5.30 Seven News map leading to paradise is found in a 3.30 Religion seedy Bangkok hotel. Stars Leonardo Di 4.00 Good Morning America Caprio, Virginie Ledoyen, Robert Carlyle 5.00 Early Morning News 12.50 Cops (M)

7 TWO

6.00 AFL Grand Final Classic 8.30 Ironman Series 10.20 Kids’ Programs 12.00 Harry’s Practice 12.30 Movie: Government Girl (G B&W 1943) Olivia De Havilland, Sonny Tufts, Anne Shirley 2.30 Movie: Return To Halloweentown (PG 2006) Summer Bishil, Katie Cockrell, Kellie Cockrell

4.10 Movie: Johnny Kapahala – Back On Board (G 2007) Brandon Baker, Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa, Mary Page Keller 6.00 Movie: The Road To El Dorado (G 2000) Animation 7.45 King Of The Hill (PG) 8.45 Movie: Margery & Gladys (M 2003) Penelope Keith, June Brown, Roger Lloyd Pack 10.45 Movie: Personal Velocity (MA 2002) Kyra Sedgwick, Parker Posey 12.30 Leyland Brothers World 1.50 AFL

1.30 Infomercials 3.30 Netball Diamonds Test Tour – LIVE England v Australia 5.30 Religion

ONE HD 6.00 WGC Accenture Match Play Golf Championship LIVE from Arizona 10.00 Bundesliga Football 12.00 Beach Volleyball 12.30 I Fish 1.00 World Series Sprintcars

2.00 Ultimate Fighting Championship LIVE 5.00 NASCAR Nationwide Series 7.30 Sports Tonight 8.00 World Rally Championships 9.00 MotoGP Classics 10.00 Pro Series Drag Racing 11.00 Ultimate Fighting Championship Rpt

2.00 WGC Accenture Match Play Golf Championship LIVE from Arizona 5.30 Omnisport

TEN

PRIME 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Seven Morning News 12.00 Movie: Imagine Me & You (M 2006) Piper Perabo, Lena Headey, Matthew Goode, Darren Boyd, Anthony Head 2.00 Surgery Saved My Life 3.00 10 Years Younger In 10 Days 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.00 M*A*S*H 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.00 Prime News 6.30 Seven News 7.00 Home And Away 7.30 My Kitchen Rules 8.30 Desperate Housewives (M) 9.30 Brothers & Sisters (M) 10.30 Royal Pains (M) 11.30 30 Rock (M) 12.00 Blue Heelers (M) 1.00 Infomercials 5.30 Seven News

11.50 Ramsay’s Boiling Point (MA) 12.20 Movie: The Saint Takes Over (PG B&W 1940) George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Jonathan Hale 1.45 AFL

ONE HD 6.00 WGC Accenture Match Play Championship Golf LIVE from Arizona 10.00 Slamball 11.00 Sports Unlimited 12.00 TNA Xplosion 1.00 NAB Cup AFL Sydney v Carlton 3.00 Omnisport 3.30 Xtreme Paintball 4.00 Tread BMX 4.30 Transworld Sport 5.30 Netball Diamonds Test Tour (Rpt) 7.30 Magic Of The FA Cup 8.30 Bundesliga Football Highlights 9.30 Sports Tonight 10.00 World Football News 11.00 Serie A Football 1.00 Sports Soup 1.30 Sports Tonight Late 1.45 Omnisport 2.15 Boxing A2Z 3.15 BMX Road Fools 4.10 Mecum Auto Auction 5.05 ASP Season Surfing Billabong Pro South Africa 2007

TEN

PRIME 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Seven Morning News 12.00 Movie: Sacrifices Of The Heart (M 2007) Melissa Gilbert, Ken Howard 2.00 Surgery Saved My Life 3.00 10 Years Younger In 10 Days 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.00 M*A*S*H 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.00 Prime News 6.30 Seven News 7.00 Home And Away 7.30 My Kitchen Rules 8.30 Grey’s Anatomy (M) 9.30 Brothers & Sisters (M) 10.30 Ghost Whisperer (PG) 11.30 Samantha Who? (PG) 12.00 Blue Heelers (M) 1.00 Infomercials 5.30 Seven News

6.00 Ten Early News 7.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Ten News 10.00 The Circle 12.00 Dr Phil (PG) 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 The Biggest Loser 4.00 Huey’s Cooking Adventures 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News 6.00 The Simpsons 6.30 Neighbours (PG) 7.00 The 7pm Project (PG) 7.30 The Biggest Loser (PG) 8.00 Bondi Rescue 8.30 NCIS (M) 9.30 NCIS: Los Angeles (M) 10.30 Late News With Sports Tonight 11.15 The Late Show With David Letterman 12.00 Army Wives (M) 1.00 Infomercials 4.00 Religion

7 TWO 6.00 Kids Time 9.00 Sons & Daughters 9.30 Home & Away 10.00 Upstairs, Downstairs 11.00 Headland 12.00 Body Beautiful 12.30 Style By Jury 1.00 All My Children 2.00 Shortland Street 2.30 Coronation Street 3.00 Emmerdale 3.30 Kitchen Time 6.00 Alf

6.30 Full House 7.00 The Benny Hill Show 7.30 Ugly Betty 8.30 24 (M) 9.30 The Sopranos (MA) 10.30 Band Of Brothers (M) 11.45 Cops, Cars And Superstars (M) 12.10 Pelican’s Progress (G) 1.00 Room For Improvement 1.30 AFL

1.00 Fuju Face Of Summer 1.30 Movie: Superman III (PG 1983) Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure 4.00 Green Acres 5.00 The Nanny 5.30 Wipeout 7.30 The Big Bang Theory

8.30 Movie: Bewitched (PG 2005) Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell, Shirley Maclaine 10.30 Movie: Caddyshack (M 1980) Harold Ramis, Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield 12.30 Big Bang Theory 1.30 Movie: Fair Game (M 1995) William Baldwin, Cindy Crawford 3.30 Charlie’s Angels 4.30 Green Acres 5.30 Nanny

NBN

6.00 Ten Early News 5.30 Today 7.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Winter Olympic Games 2010 LIVE 9.00 Ten News from Vancouver 10.00 The Circle 2.00 Days Of Our Lives 12.00 Dr Phil (M) 3.00 Hi-5 1.00 The Oprah Windrey Show 4.00 The Shak 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 4.30 Afternoon News 3.00 The Biggest Loser 5.00 Antiques Roadshow 3.30 Dharma & Greg 5.30 Hot Seat 4.00 Huey’s Cooking Adventures 6.00 Evening News 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 7.00 A Current Affair 5.00 Ten News 7.30 Two And A Half Men (PG) 6.00 The Simpsons 8.00 The Big Bang Theory (PG) 6.30 Neighbours (G) 8.25 Lotto 7.00 The 7pm Project 8.30 The Mentalist (M) 7.30 The Biggest Loser 9.30 Winter Olympic Games 2010 8.30 Good News Week (M) Highlights 10.00 Ross Noble’s Australian Trip 12.30 Ballistyx Snowboard Show 11.00 Late News With Sports Tonight 1.00 WWE Afterburn (M) 11.45 The Late Show With David Letterman 2.00 Infomercials 12.30 The Poker Star 3.00 Religion 1.30 Infomercials 3.30 Good Morning America 4.00 Religion 5.00 Early Morning News

7 TWO 6.00 Kids Time 9.00 Sons & Daughters 9.30 Home & Away 10.00 Upstairs, Downstairs 11.00 Headland 12.00 Body Beautiful 12.30 Style By Jury 1.00 All My Children 2.00 Shortland Street 2.30 Coronation Street 3.00 Emmerdale 3.30 Kitchen Time 6.00 Alf 6.30 Full House 7.00 The Benny Hill Show 7.30 Heartbeat 8.30 Judge John Deed (M) 10.30 Infamous Assassinations (M) Ronald Regan 11.00 Forensic Investigators (M)

GO! 6.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 The Hills 11.30 The Partridge Family 12.00 Charlie’s Angels

ONE HD 6.00 The Sport Of Kings 6.30 Bundesliga Football 8.30 Andra Pro Series Drag Racing 9.30 Real NBA 10.00 College Basketball 12.00 Twenty20 IPL Cricket 2009 3.00 Omnisport 3.30 Xtreme Paintball 4.00 Tread BMX 4.30 Sports Unlimited 5.30 ATP World Tour Tennis 6.00 Omnisport 6.30 Serie A Football Highlights 7.30 The Fast World Of Danica Patrick 8.00 NASCAR Sprint Cup Highlights 9.00 24/7 Jimmie Johnson’s Race To Daytona 9.30 Sports Tonight 10.00 The Pro Shop 11.00 NASCAR Nationwide Series 12.00 TNA Xplosion 1.00 Sports Tonight Late 1.15 Omnisport 1.45 College Basketball 3.45 Boxing A2Z 4.45 ASP Season Surfing Boost Mobile Pro USA 2007 5.45 Omnisport

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GO! 6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.30 I Dream Of Jeannie 10.00 Bewitched 10.30 Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ 11.30 The Partridge Family 12.00 Frasier 12.30 Seinfeld 1.00 The Big Bang Theory 2.00 Charlie’s Angels 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 The Nanny 4.00 Kids’ Programs 5.00 I Dream Of Jeannie 5.30 Bewitched 6.00 The Flintstones 6.30 The Jetsons 7.00 Get Smart 7.30 Frasier 8.00 Seinfeld 8.30 Vampire Diaries (M) 9.30 Nip/ Tuck (MA) 10.30 Dante’s Cove (MA) 11.30 Frasier 12.00 Seinfeld 12.30 TMZ 1.00 Vampire Diaries (M) 2.00 Nip/Tuck (MA) 3.00 Dante’s Cove (MA) 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Partridge Family 5.30 Flintstones.

NBN 5.30 Today 9.00 Winter Olympic Games 2010 LIVE from Vancouver 12.00 Ellen Degeneres Show 1.00 The View 2.00 Days Of Our Lives 3.00 Alive And Cooking 3.30 Hi-5 4.00 The Shak 4.30 Afternoon News 5.00 Antiques Roadshow 5.30 Hot Seat 6.00 Evening News 6.30 Twenty20 Cricket Australia v West Indies LIVE from SCG 9.30 Winter Olympic Games Highlights 12.00 Ballistyx Snowboard Show 12.30 20/20 1.30 Infomercials 3.00 Religion 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

GO! 6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ 11.30 The Partridge Family 12.00 Frasier 12.30 Seinfeld 1.00 The Hills 2.00 Charlie’s Angels 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 The Nanny 4.00 Kids’ Programs 5.00 I Dream Of Jeannie 5.30 Bewitched 6.00 The Flintstones 6.30 The Jetsons 7.00 Get Smart 7.30 Frasier 8.00 Seinfeld

8.30 Movie: My Best Friend’s Wedding (M 1997) Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Cameron Diaz 10.30 Movie: See Jane Date (PG 2003) Antonio Sabata Jr, Charisma Carpenter 12.30 TMZ 1.00 Charlie’s Angels 2.00 Movie: Picking Up And Dropping Off (PG 2003) Amanda Delmer, Scott Wolf 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 The Partridge Family 5.30 The Flintstones

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ABC 1

SBS 1

4.30 Shortland Street 5.00 Something In The Air 5.30 The Einstein Factor 6.00 Kids’ Programs

5.00 World News 6.30 UEFA Champions League LIVE – Stuttgart v Barcelona 9.00 World News 3.00 Here Comes The Neighbourhood 3.30 Taxi School (G) 4.00 A Fork In Australia 4.30 The Journal 5.00 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 6.00 Global Village 6.30 World News Australia 7.35 Rex In Rome (PG) 8.30 The Killing (M) Danish drama series 9.30 World News 10.05 The Killing (M) Danish drama series 11.15 Movie: Dear Wendy (MA 2005) British/ Danish/French/German drama about a group of pacifist youths in America’s south who form a gun club called The Dandies. Stars Jamie Bell, Bill Pullman, Michael Angarano 1.05 Movie: Everybody Is A Killer (M 2004) French black comedy about murdering the town bully. Stars Samuel Le Bihan, François Berléand, Nadia Farès 2.35 Weatherwatch

12.00 Midday Report 12.30 National Press Club Address 1.30 Talking Heads 2.00 Parliament Question Time 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.05 Cheese Slices 6.30 Poh’s Kitchen 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 The New Inventors 8.30 Spicks And Specks Scott Carne, Florence Welch, Meshel Lawrie, Dave Callan 9.00 Hungry Beast 9.30 The IT Crowd (M) 9.55 At The Movies 10.25 Lateline 11.00 Lateline Business 11.30 Life On Mars (M) 12.25 Parliament Question Time 1.25 Big Ideas 2.25 Movie: Storm Over Wyoming (PG B&W 1950) Bill Kennedy, Tim Holt 3.25 National Press Club Address

ABC 2 5.30 Can We Help? 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 How Do They Do It? 6.30 Scrapheap Challenge 7.30 The Colbert Report

PRIME

SBS 2 5.00am to 6.00pm World News and Weatherwatch

11.25 The Madness Of Modern Families 12.00 My Teen’s A Nightmare (M) 12.45 The People Watchers 1.30 Coach Trip 2.00 Close

6.30 World News Australia 7.35 Fixing Mental Health 8.35 UEFA Champions League Olympiacos v Bordeaux 10.10 UEFA Champions League Stuttgart v Barcelona 11.40 Tales From A Suitcase (G) 12.10 Weatherwatch

ABC 1

SBS 1

8.00 The Rat Pack 8.30 Eataholics (G) 9.30 The Roxy Music Story (MA) 10.30 Stephen Fry (MA)

THURSDAY 25

5.00 World News 6.30 UEFA Champions League LIVE – CSKA 12.00 Midday Report Moscow v Sevilla 12.30 Jeeves And Wooster 9.00 World News 1.30 Collectors 2.30 Dateline 2.00 Parliament Question Time 3.30 Australian Biography June Dally3.00 Kids’ Programs Watkins 6.10 Grand Designs Revisited Birmingham 4.00 Feast Bazaar: Marrakech 7.00 ABC News 4.30 The Journal 7.30 The 7.30 Report 5.00 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 8.00 Catalyst 6.00 Global Village 8.30 The Neanderthal Code (M) 6.30 World News Australia 9.25 Whatever Happened To Brenda 7.30 Gourmet Farmer Hean? (M) Whose fight to save 8.00 Oz And James’s Big Wine Adventure Tasmania’s Lake Pedder led to her dis8.30 Secrets And Lives appearance in 1972 9.00 Designer People 10.20 Lateline 9.30 World News Australia 10.55 Lateline Business 10.00 UEFA Champions League Hour 11.25 Spectacle Lou Reed & Julian Schnabel 11.00 Queer As Folk (MA) 12.20 Parliament Question Time 11.55 Movie: True Blue (MA 2005) Greek 1.20 Movie: Casbah (PG B&W 1948) Peter drama. Stars Rania Oikonomidou, Lorre Yorgos Nanouris, Maria Egglezakis 2.55 Talking Stick (G*) Youth 1.50 Weatherwatch 3.25 Agony Aunts With Clive Robertson 3.55 Can We Help?

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12.30 Infomercials 5.30 Seven News

7 TWO 6.00 Kids Time 9.00 Sons & Daughters 9.30 Home & Away 10.00 Upstairs, Downstairs 11.00 Headland 12.00 Body Beautiful 12.30 Style By Jury 1.00 All My Children (M) 2.00 Shortland Street 2.30 Coronation Street 3.00 Emmerdale 3.30 Kitchen Time 6.00 Alf 6.30 Full House 7.00 The Benny Hill Show

7.30 I Survived A Japanese Game Show 8.30 Lost (M) 9.30 Mercy (M) 10.30 Kings (M) 12.20 Dirty Sexy Money (M) 1.10 Leyland Brothers World 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 The Real Seachange 4.30 Kidspeak 5.00 Wind In The Willows

TEN

5.00am to 6.00pm World News and Weatherwatch

6.30 World News Australia 7.30 As It Happened (PG) The Farewell File Vladimir Vetrov, the spy of the century 8.30 UEFA Champions League Inter Milan v Chelsea 10.00 The Fight (PG) Heavyweight boxing 11.00 Olympia: Myth And Truth (PG) Fitting out a contemporary top athlete with equipment used in the original Olympic Games 11.50 Weatherwatch

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Seven Morning News 12.00 Movie: Romy And Michele’s High School Reunion (M 1996) Mira Sorvino, Lisa Kudrow, Janeane Garofalo 2.00 Surgery Saved My Life 3.00 10 Years Younger In 10 Days 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.00 M*A*S*H 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.00 Prime News 6.30 Seven News 7.00 Home And Away 7.30 The White Room (PG) 8.30 Cougar Town (M) 9.00 How I Met Your Mother 9.30 Thank God You’re Here 10.30 Family Guy (M) 12.00 Blue Heelers (M) 1.00 Infomercials 5.30 Seven News

ONE HD 6.00 Omnisport 6.15 Series A Football 9.00 TNA Xplosion 10.00 College Basketball 12.00 NBA Basketball 2.30 Beach Volleyball 3.00 Omnisport 3.30 Xtreme Paintball 4.00 Tread BMX

4.30 Netball Diamonds Tour Test Repeat 6.30 Twenty20 IPL 2009 Cricket 9.30 Sports Tonight 10.00 MVP US Sport 10.30 NBA Basketball 12.30 Real NBA 1.00 Sports Tonight Late 1.15 Omnisport 1.45 Boxing A2Z 2.40 BMX Road Fools 3.40 Mecum Auto Auction 4.35 ASP Season Surfing Quiksilver Pro France 2007 5.30 The Pro Shop

8.30 Stargate Atlantis (M) 9.30 Heroes (M) 10.30 Eli Stone (M) 11.20 Australia’s Greatest Athlete 12.10 Movie: If You Knew Susie (PG B&W 1948) Eddie Cantor, Joan Davis 1.45 AFL Frantic Finishes

5.30 Today 9.00 Winter Olympic Games 2010 LIVE from Vancouver 12.00 Ellen Degeneres Show 1.00 The View 2.00 Days Of Our Lives 3.00 Alive And Cooking 3.30 Hi-5 4.00 The Shak 4.30 Afternoon News 5.00 Antiques Roadshow 5.30 Hot Seat 6.00 Evening News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 Two And A Half Men 8.00 Customs 8.25 Lotto 8.30 RPA (PG) 9.30 Winter Olympic Games Highlights 12.30 Ballistyx Showboard Show 1.00 Entertainment Tonight 1.30 Infomercials 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

GO! 6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ 11.30 Partridge Family 12.00 Seinfeld 1.00 Cashmere Mafia (M) 2.00 Charlie’s Angels 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 The Nanny 4.00 Kids’ Programs 5.00 I Dream Of Jeannie 5.30 Bewitched 6.00 The Flintstones 6.30 The Jetsons 7.00 Get Smart 7.30 Frasier 8.00 Seinfeld 8.30 Fringe (M) 9.30 Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (M) 10.30 Nightmares & Dreamscapes (M) 11.30 Seinfeld 12.30 TMZ 1.00 Fringe (M) 2.00 The Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (M) 3.00 Nightmares & Dreamscapes (M) 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 The Partridge Family 5.30 The Flintstones

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6.00 Ten Early News 5.30 Today 7.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Winter Olympic Games 2010 LIVE 9.00 Ten News from Vancouver 10.00 The Circle 3.30 Hi-5 12.00 Dr Phil (PG) 4.00 The Shak 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) 4.30 Afternoon News 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 5.00 Antiques Roadshow 3.00 The Biggest Loser 5.30 Hot Seat 3.30 Dharma & Greg 6.00 Evening News 4.00 Huey’s Cooking Adventures 7.00 A Current Affair 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 7.30 Getaway 5.00 Ten News 8.30 Adults Only 20 To 1 (M) 6.00 The Simpsons 9.30 Winter Olympic 6.30 Neighbours (PG) Games 2010 7.00 The 7pm Project (PG) Highlights 7.30 The Biggest Loser (PG) 12.20 Ballistyx Showboard 8.00 So You Think You Can Dance Show 9.00 Law & Order: SVU (M) 1.00 The 10.00 Medium (M) Avengers 11.00 Late News With Sports Tonight 2.00 Infomercials 11.45 The Late Show With David Letterman 3.30 Good Morning 12.30 Numb3rs (M) America 1.30 Infomercials 4.00 Religion 5.00 Early Morning News

7 TWO 6.00 Kids Time 9.00 Sons & Daughters 9.30 Home & Away 10.00 Upstairs, Downstairs 11.00 Moonlighting 12.00 Body Beautiful 12.30 Style By Jury 1.00 All My Children (M) 2.00 Shortland Street 2.30 Coronation Street 3.00 Emmerdale 3.30 Kitchen Time 6.00 Alf 6.30 Full House 7.00 The Benny Hill Show 7.30 Fifth Gear

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5.30 Can We Help? 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Poh’s Kitchen 6.30 Scrapheap Challenge 7.30 The Colbert Report

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Seven Morning News 12.00 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (M) 2.00 Surgery Saved My Life (M) 3.00 10 Years Younger In 10 Days 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.00 M*A*S*H 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.00 Prime News 6.30 Seven News 7.00 Home And Away 7.30 RSPCA Animal Rescue 8.00 ICU 8.30 Criminal Minds (M) 9.30 Gangs Of Oz (M) 10.30 Highway Patrol 11.00 SCU: Serious Crash Unit 11.30 Lost (M)

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6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.30 I Dream Of Jeannie 10.00 Bewitched 10.30 Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ 11.30 The Partridge Family 12.00 Frasier 12.30 Seinfeld 1.00 The Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (M) 2.00 Charlie’s Angels 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 The Nanny 4.00 Kids’ Programs 5.00 I Dream Of Jeannie 5.30 Bewitched 6.00 The Flintstones 6.30 The Jetsons 7.00 Get Smart 7.30 The Big Bang Theory (PG) 8.30 ER (M) 10.30 Gossip Girl (M) 11.30 Frasier 12.00 Seinfeld 12.30 TMZ 1.00 ER (M) 3.00 Gossip Girl (M) 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 The Partridge Family 5.30 The Flintstones

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Their aim is to produce the best newspaper in the Tweed Shire, the one you most like to read over your morning coffee. The Tweed Shire Echo was first published 75 weeks ago and we reckon for most of those weeks we have achieved our goal. There’s no confusion in this paper. It is clearly laid out, and its standpoint is also clear: solidly behind shire residents, not shire wreckers. Incisive reporting means that The Echo sets the political agenda and creates strong reader involvement. Just check out the letters pages! If you have a local business and would like to see The Echo’s credibility working for you, call Paul on 6672 2280.

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An Evening with Bob Ansett Business Entrepreneur When: 25 March 2010 Where: Twin Towns Clubs & Resorts Stars – Level 5 Time:

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Tickets are available from Twin Towns Booking Office 1800 014 014 or from Rotary Direct - Sheila or Shari (Rotarians Coolangatta/Tweed) in the Surekil Pest Control office, Suite 4/38 Griffith Street, Coolangatta. Entertainment by Stephen Michaels on keyboard With Maggie-Anne Leybourne as MC and Guest Speaker Bob Ansett.

Don’t miss this great opportunity to hear one of Australia’s most respected businessmen talk about the Budget Rent-A-Car System and how he developed a dynamic enterprise! All proceeds will be donated to Careflight (Air Ambulance), Tweed Valley Early Childhood Intervention (Children with Special Needs) and other local Rotary Charities.

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hat do a lawyer, a massage therapist, an electrician, a home-schooling mum, a retired accountant, successful business owners, a Gold Coast meter maid, school kids, a paramedic, stayat-home mums, a builder, a professor and a nurse have in common? This diverse group of people all live in The Ecovillage at Currumbin. They come from all walks of life and cultures; from different age groups and backgrounds. One thing they all agree on is that life in The Ecovillage is definitely worth sharing. ‘We live here and we love it,’ says resident Fay, so we want to share our experiences, many and varied as they are, with people who want to hear good news stories.’ These Ecovillage residents have formed a group to invite the general public on a walking tour of the pristine final precinct of The Ecovillage called ‘The Highlands’. On the walk, they’ll share some of their environmental living experiences and offer a morning tea made mostly from produce from their own gardens. ‘The range of good news is great,’ adds Fay. ‘I haven’t had a power bill and am in credit with my energy supplier by $150. That’s surely good news with the cost of power rising

more and more.’ Residents also feel that they are contributing in a positive way to solve the problem of global climate change by living at The Ecovillage. ‘We are completely water self-sufficient,’ says Anthony Goodwin, who owns a home in the village with his wife Denise. ‘We have amazing recreation facilities to play in, close to home. We make our own power from the sun and yet we’re not living like hippies.’ Amanda Quennell, mum to two-year-old Eva and a nurse, lives in a house that her husband designed. Amanda says, ‘I certainly want to share this and I feel it shows a responsible attitude to assist people with a decision that they may have contemplated but feel confused to make.’ ‘The Highlands area offers remnant rainforest, views of the ocean, small so lucky. Walks, bird watching, piccreeks to sit by,’ says Lynne O’Hehir, nics. There’s so much open space and a resident with a rammed earth beauty.’ home. ‘This is our backyard. We are The Ecovillage Highlands Walk is

on Sunday February 28 from 9am. the case of inclement weather. The walk will take about half an hour. Register your interest for a spot on Wheelchair options are organised. the walk with Michelle on 07 5598 7355 Alternative activities are planned in or email fay@theecovillage.com.au.

Building approvals moving in right direction The Housing Industry Association said last week that building approvals grew by 2.2 per cent in December 2009. The December quarter was a remarkable 34.9 per cent stronger than a year earlier in a positive sign that the new home building recovery is well underway. HIA Senior Economist Ben Phillips said that growth in building approvals was led by continued strength in private sector detached housing which grew by a seasonally adjusted 3.1 per cent. Private sector ‘Other dwelling’ approvals continued to claw back ground following a disastrous 2008/09, growing by 9.1 per cent. ‘The recovery in building approvals now appears broad-based with all states and territories recording solid gains over the last quarter of 2009. The strong growth over the last quarter in

New South Wales and Queensland, the two recent laggards, is most pleasing,’ said Mr Phillips. ‘The strong result in approvals is no doubt driven by the combined impacts of the federal government’s social housing stimulus, low interest rates through 2009, and the last wave of the first home buyer boost approvals filtering through.’ The strength of the final quarter masks the reality that 2009 was a very weak year for the housing industry. Over the entire year, only 144,992 dwellings were approved, down 2.1 per cent over 2008 and well below the 190,000 dwellings required to satisfy Australia’s growing population. Victoria outperformed the rest of the states with strong growth of 17.5 per cent over 2009. Both the territories also performed

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well. Queensland had a disastrous year, sliding 22.7 per cent to just 28,515 dwelling approvals. The number of seasonally adjusted residential dwelling approvals increased in December by 11.1 per cent in Victoria, 4 per cent in Queensland, 0.1 per cent in South Australia, 1.3 per cent in Western Australia, and 22 per cent in Tasmania. Approvals fell by 12.7 per cent in New South Wales. The trend number of approvals increased by 10.9 per cent in the Northern Territory and by 4.9 per cent in the Australian Capital Territory.

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REVITALISING MASSAGE Gentle or Deep Tissue, Ocean Shores qualiďŹ ed. Nina 66802349, 0409393352

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POOL TABLE BARGAIN 8x4 Italian slate, 6 turned legs, needs a re-cloth otherwise exc cond. $700 ono. Ph 0416166341

BYRON BAY Skin Cancer Clinic

PROF SERVICES

LOCALLY HANDMADE JEWELLERY

PROTECT YOUR MEMORIES VHS to DVD transfers, also Super 8 & other formats, from $30. 0412524378

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EVENTS

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HOUSES FOR SALE OCEAN SHORES huge ocean views, executive 4br home, 2 bathrm, DLUG $712,000 www.diysell.com.au ID: P19537 Phone 66284127, 0418221294 MORTGAGE BROKER Buyers agent property advice & the best ďŹ nance deals & service around. Beat the banks. Michael Murray 0428555501

LAND FOR SALE

TIMBER, pine, treated pine, hardwood, mouldings, sleepers, fencing, Koppers logs, ply, MDF, lattice, made to order. Brims Builders Hardware, Billinudgel 02 66801718, Sth Tweed 07 55236002

MYOCUM rare 2.5 acre hillside, beautiful valley views, in well established, park like MO community - ďŹ nance avail $440,000 66843143. www.house-for-sale.com.au

WANTED

PROPERTY FOR SALE

BOBCAT OR FARM MACHINES Ph 0407032112

DUPLEX - 1 PRE SOLD Pottsville. Builder or owner/investor required. Phone 0411422855

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Too much STUFF? Time to clear it out with a garage sale. Ph us on 66722280 to advertise here. COMBINED FAMILY SALE 477 Tumbulgum Rd, Mur’bah. Sun 7am www.lrhartley.com/garagesales

MOTOR VEHICLES

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

BARGAINS 2001 Mitsubishi Lancer Auto A/C P/S 59062kms. Immaculate. AJU83X ........ 1999 Holden Frontera 4WD Wagon. Auto A/C P/S Log Books. WIF364 .......$7,750 Holden SS Crewman 5.7 6-speed. 93,079kms, lovely cond, log books.AZ07GJ .. $23,000 1999 Pulsar Plus 5-speed A/C P/S CD, 92016kms. 1 of 2 in stock. AHD12P ....$5,850 Ford Festiva Automatic 4 door hatch A/C P/S CD 8/2010 rego. SN373 .........$2,850

35 CARS UNDER $10,000

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SHARE ACCOM. ECHO ACCOUNTS POLICY: Ads in this section must be paid by credit card or in person at time of placement. POTTSVILLE fully-furn room, own bthrm, $140pw + elect. Ph 0433161191

TO LET UKI self-cont modern studio space, with views, $150pw + electricity, refs essential. Phone 66795083

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MOTOR BIKES

GRANNY FLAT small house or unit for single 52 yo male self employed muso. Please help, phone 0427578266

BOLWELL SCOOTER 125cc, 2007, 3900km, Nov rego, $2500. 66850269

POSITIONS VACANT

BUSINESS OPP. WARNING The Department of Fair Trading has warned people to be very careful about responding to advertisements offering work at home. Readers should be wary if asked to pay money upfront for employment opportunities and never send money to a post ofďŹ ce box. SKIP BIN TRUCK plus 16 bins. Good opportunity to enter rubbish removal business. $45,000. Interested parties phone 0407886772

CLEANERS URGENTLY WANTED Plenty of long term consistent work Tweed, Banora, Bilambil, Kingscliff & surround areas. Flex hrs, can work school hours Mon-Fri. Housework & ironing in private homes. Earn from $20$40ph. Exp cleaning in your home essential + car & phone. Ph 92495539 or apply online: www.absolutedomestics.com.au/jobs MODELS 18+ years required. Nude female for Picture and People magazines. No experience required. All shapes and sizes. Backpackers welcome. Good money. Professional accredited ACP photographer. Ph 0413627846 CARETAKER required for premises close to Murwillumbah, free accommodation in return for light duties. Phone Joe 0432023056 for more information CARER NEEDED 1 or 2 nights per week to help male quad, no experience needed. Burringbar. Ph 66771989

PROPERTY WANTED

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Free Positions Vacant Ads The Tweed Echo is offering FREE ADS to Positions Vacant advertisers. Send us your listing of up to 50 words before Wednesday midday. Fax your listing to 02 6672 4933 or email it to adcopy@tweedecho.com.au

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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FUNERAL NOTCES Ellem. Kevin Stanley (E.T.) Passed away peacefully on Friday 12th February, 2010. Aged 72 years. Loving father to Peter, Terry and Jacki. Loving step-father to Christine and Jeffrey. Loving Grandfather and Poppy to all his grandchildren and great grandchildren. He will be sadly missed by all. Privately cremated. Heritage Funerals Wes & Ashley Heritage Ph: 1800 088 484

PETS ADOPT A CAT from Animal Welfare League NSW. Phone 66844070

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Water meeting Another public meeting on the shire’s water-supply options will be held at Uki Hall on Saturday, February 27, at 2pm. There will be some guest speakers on environmental issues and a short film and slide show. The Environment Defenders Office from Lismore will advise on legislative requirements on the dam options and help write submissions, which close on March 26. Come along and have your say.

VIEW clubs Twin Towns Day View Club meets on the first Thursday of every month at the South Tweed Sports Club, 4 Minjungbal Drive. Call Freda on 07 5524 1357. A trading table will operate this month and new members welcome. Murwillumbah Day VIEW Club’s next meeting Feb 22 at Murwillumbah Bowls Club, 9.30am-10am. Cost of lunch $14.50. A cent auction will be held, so unwrapped gifts appreciated. For info call Shirley on 6679 1324 or Mary 6672 1840. Coolangatta/Tweed VIEW Club’s next luncheon meeting and AGM will be held on Thursday, February 18, in the Horizons Room, South Tweed Sports Club at 11am for 11.30am DST. Visitors welcome. For bookings call Margaret on 07 5534 7115 before 5pm Monday, Feb 15.

Food giveaway Free food giveaway for struggling pensioners on Wednesday 12.30pm DST at iBar Tweed Heads. More non perishable food donations are desperately needed as our queue gets longer every week. It is sad when the end of the queue arrives and there is nothing left. Please help us keep the pensioners eating. Terri 0414 376 057

Ex-servicewomen Tweed/Coolangatta and District Ex-Servicewomen’s Association will hold its general meeting on Monday, February 22, at 10.30am (DST) in the Anzac Room, Twin Towns Services Club. A ‘meet and greet morning tea’ will follow.

Pebbles is a young, desexed female, DMH Torti who is in foster care with Friends of the Pound. She is a good looking girl, very affectionate and good with other cats. If you can give her a permanent, loving home please contact Trudi on 07 5524 8590. Visit www.friendsofthepound. com to view other dogs and cats looking for permanent homes.

ONLY ADULTS TRAVELLING LADY WANTED for approx 1 week every month to 2 months to work from private situation on Fraser Coast. Ph 0741946801 or 0413116300 Mon-Fri 9am-5pm please SENSUAL, SEXY, TANTALISING, full body rub. Total stress relief in intimate environment. Tweed Heads 0410254976 STAFF required for new massage & peep show centre. Phone Warren 0415746443

EARN BIG BUCK$ Good working environment with female staff must be 18–65 yrs old

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Music club Tweed Links Music Club, enjoy an afternoon of entertainment at Coolangatta Tweed Heads Golf Club, Sunday, March 7, 2pm (DST). Dancing, singing, quartet and a variety instrumental group. $5 for club members, $10 non-members,

no bookings necessary. For info call Elaine on 07 5590 7870.

Toastmasters. Visitors welcome. For info call Frank 07 5599 9528.

Parenting program

Community garden

Pottsville Beach Neighbourhood Centre (PBNC) and Parents and Teachers present 1-2-3 Magic, a popular parenting program, for carers of children 2-12yrs, to strengthen family relationships. All sessions free. Wednesday, March 17, 24 and 31, 6pm-8pm, PBNC, 12a Elizabeth Street, Pottsville Beach. Bookings essential, call Angela on 02 6676 4555 or email admin@pottsbnc.ngo.org.au no later than Friday, March 12.

Committed people with time available for non-profit committee for a community garden. First meeting Saturday, March 6, at 2pm. For info call David on 02 6672 7014.

Science fiction Science fiction fans interested in forming a group to discus this subject, call Felix Jenkins 02 6674 2023.

Prayer day World day of Prayer for Cameroon, West Africa, Friday, March 5, to be held at Uniting Church, Kingscliff, 24 Kingscliff Street, Kingscliff, from 10am, followed by morning tea. All welcome. For info call 02 6674 2074.

Dance night The Tumbulgum community is inviting one and all to a great night of old-time and new vogue dancing at Tumbulgum Hall this Saturday, February 20, at 8pm. Door prize, lucky spots, raffles and supper. Music by Trilogy. Adults $8, 13-17yrs $4.

Mental health Mental Health carers meetings for next month: Mondays March 2 and 16. Families and friends of people with mental illness are welcome to share friendship, information and experiences with other carers from 10am on the first and third Mondays in each month at the Tweed Heads Library, Brett Street (no public holidays). Knowledgeable volunteer members of the Tweed Valley Mental Health Carers Network assist. Inquiries (07) 5524 4556.

Exit meeting Exit International meeting on end of life choices. Friday, March 12. Phone Elaine on 07 5535 1151.

Probus club Banora Point Probus Club meeting at South Tweed Sports Club, February 22, 10.30am. Guest speaker Valda Edwards from Tweed Valley

EMERGENCY NUMBERS Please stick this by your phone EMERGENCY ONLY AMBULANCE, FIRE, POLICE............... 000 AMBULANCE Kingscliff, Tweed Heads, Murwillumbah .... 131 233 MURWILLUMBAH HOSPITAL ............................02 6672 1822 EMERGENCY ....................................02 6672 0230 TWEED HEADS HOSPITAL ...............................07 5536 1133 FIRE BRIGADE Kingscliff..........................................02 6674 1271 Murwillumbah ....................................02 6672 8305 Tweed Heads .....................................07 5536 2222 Tweed Rural Fire Service.......................02 6672 7888 POLICE NON EMERGENCIES 24/7 ............................ 131 444 Tweed Heads ..................................... Murwillumbah .................................... Kingscliff.......................................... STATE EMERGENCY SERVICE ................................ 132 500 Tweed Heads ..................................... Murwillumbah ....................................02 6676 7355 LIFELINE .......................................................... 131 114 GOLD COAST HELICOPTER RESCUE SERVICE ..... TWEED COAST AIR SEA RESCUE...................... DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 24 hour crisis line .............1800 656 463 ANIMAL WELFARE (RSPCA) .............................07 5536 5135 NSW Wildlife Information & Rescue Service (WIRES) . WILDLIFE CARERS TWEED VALLEY ................... CURRUMBIN SANCTUARY ...............................07 5534 1266 SEA WORLD ................................................07 5588 2222

WONFA We Ought Never Feel Alone (WONFA) variety morning on March 2 featuring soloist Robyn Green and ‘The Early History of Cudgen and Chinderah’ with Felicia Cecil from 11am at Kingscliff Uniting Church, 24 Kingscliff St. Lunch will follow, donation $5. RSVP to Estelle 6676 2577 by March 1.

Lifeball Lifeball is an exercise sport similar to netball but played at a walking pace by senior men and women. Come and have a try. Sessions held every Tuesday 9.30am-11.30am at Tweed Supersports Centre, Chinderah, $5 per person. Contact Jill 02 6674 0636 or George 07 5524 4558

P’ville community Pottsville Community Association meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 23, at the Pottsville Community Hall, at 7.45pm. New members welcome. For info call Helen 02 6676 2549.

Family centre The Family Centre is taking bookings now for the following courses. Numbers are limited so book early on (07) 5524 8711. ParentSpace: birth to 3 years, Tuesday Feb 23, 10am-1.30am, Hush little baby sleep and settling; Engaging Adolescents Tuesdays, Mar 2-16, 9.30am-12.30pm, 3-week course provides parents with a model for how to coach teenagers and to hold difficult conversations; Young Mums To Be, Fridays, Feb 19-Mar 25, 10am-12.30pm; 123 Magic, discipline approach for parents of 2-12s, Thursdays Mar 18-Apr 1, 10am-12pm; Anger and Parenting: being the parent you want to be, Fri March 19, one-day workshop;

Healthier Relationships, one-day workshops, Communication, Sat Mar 13, Negotiation Sat Mar 27. Detailed info on all our courses at www.thefamilycentre.org

Free concert Free concert at Coolangatta Senior Citizens Centre, Monday, February 22, 2pm (DST) featuring multitalented David Mitchell. BYO lunch/ nibbles, tea/coffee available $1.50 per bottomless cup. For info call 07 5536 4050 or visit the centre at 2 Gerrard St, Coolangatta.

U3A U3A Twin Towns would like to welcome new and existing members to a year of learning, sharing and making friends. Courses include astronomy, astrology, painting, digital photograph, Australian history, Japanese conversation. Starting March 16, illustrations and cartooning. For info call 07 5599 2249 between 10am-1pm (DST).

Family night Global Care family food and fun night every third Saturday (next one Feb 20) at Christian Outreach Centre, Prince Street, Murwillumbah. Entry $5 for family $2.50 for singles includes tea and entertainment. All welcome. Also free sausage sizzle every third Saturday at Murwillumbah markets. For info call Glenn on 0422 741558.

Red Cross Tweed Heads Red Cross Branch will resume monthly meetings on 2nd Friday of each month in the community room at Tweed City Shopping Centre, commencing with morning tea at 9.30am. Visitors welcome, form info call Joyce on 07 5524 1277.

Cleanup day People wishing to have fun in the fresh air with their neighbours, friends and family cleaning up Kingscliff on Clean Up Australia Day, meet at the Cudgen Creek Boat Ramp, Faulks Park, Marine Parade, Kingscliff on Sunday, March 7, any time between 8am and 11am.

MONTHLY MARKETS

Third quarter February 6

Every Sat 6-11am Farmers Market – Currumbin Wildlife Sactuary 0417 759 777

First quarter February 22 11:43

1st Sat Brunswick Heads (02) 6628 4495 1st Sat 8-11am Casuarina Farmers’ Market 0414 777 432 1st Sun Banora Point Farmers’ Market 0417 759 777 1st Sun Byron Bay (02) 6680 9703 1st Sun Pottsville (02) 6676 4555 1st Sun Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714 2nd Sat 2nd Sun 2nd Sun 2nd Sun 2nd Sun 2nd Sun

Kingscliff (02) 6674 0827 The Channon (02) 6688 6433 Chillingham 0437 041 023 Lennox Head (02) 6672 2874 Coolangatta (07) 5533 8202 Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714

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

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

FARMERS MARKETS Each Sat Each Thu Each Tue Each Sat

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

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

New moon Full moon Day of Sun month rise 1

10:49

February 14 13:52 March 1

03:38

Sun Moon Moon set rise set

Bags and certificates provided. BYO gloves. Visit www.cleanupaustraliaday.org.au/?Kingscliff or call 02 6674 2856 for info.

Lifeball Lifeball is an exercise sport similar to netball but played at a walking pace by senior men and women. Come and have a try. Sessions held every Tuesday 9.30am-11.30am at Tweed Supersports Centre, Chinderah. For info call Jill on 02 6674 0636 or George 07 5524 4558.

Rock ‘n’ roll dancing Women wanted for rock ‘n’ roll lessons and dancing, first session free. Men also welcome. Wednesdays 1.30pm-3pm (DST), Coolangatta Seniors Centre, 2 Gerrard St, Coolangatta, phone 07 5536 4050.

Pensioners food relief Food giveaway for struggling pensioners on again Wednesdays at the iBar, Tweed Heads, 12.30pm (DST). Let’s hope the new year will soon bring the storehouse to fruition. Until then can we please have food donations to keep the pensioners eating. Thank you to all who help, very much appreciated. Terri 0414 376 057

Friday food giveaway Food giveway for aged pensioner card holders, at new time 10-30am to 1pm (DST) Fridays only. At the ibar, Wharf St, Tweed Heads. Thanks to all who have donated packet and tined food but more needed. For info call Lorraine on 0755 998612 or Thelma on 07 5536 3037.

Garden club Murwillumbah Garden Club’s annual general meeting will be held Monday, February 28, at 7pm in the Jessie Macmillan Hall, Wollumbin Street, Murwillumbah. All meetings will now be held at 7pm not 7.30pm. Bus Trip to Queensland Dahlia Society show at Mount Couther and a visit to factory outlets off airport road on Saturday, March 20, cost $25 per head bus only. For info call Len on 6672 2020 or Steve on 6672 2273.

FEBRUARY 2010 Astronomical data and tides High tide, height (m)

Low tide, height (m)

M 0616 1942 2058 0809 ; 2316,1.58 0416,0.23;

2

T 0617 1941 2134 0916

3

W 0618 1941 2209 1021 0005,1.6; 1218,1.68 0607,0.31; 1836,0.27

0511,0.25; 1753,0.16

4

T 0618 1940 2246 1125 1255,1.59; 1308,1.49 0705,0.40; 1918,0.38

5

F 0619 1939 2326 1228 0146,1.57; 1401,1.31 0808,0.50; 2003,0.50

6

S 0620 1939

7

S 0621 1938 0009 1429 0345,1.50; 1620,1.08 1038,0.61; 2157,0.65

8

M 0622 1937 0056 1525 0451,1.49; 1742,1.07 1155,0.59; 2305,0.67

9

T 0623 1937 0146 1617 0556,1.51; 1845,1.12

1330 0242,1.53; 1503,1.16 0918,0.57; 2055,0.59

1256,0.54

10 W 0623 1936 0239 1703 0651,1.55; 1933,1.18 0007,0.64; 1342,0.49 11 T 0624 1935 0334 1744 0736,1.60; 2012,1.25 0100,0.59; 1419,0.44 12 F 0625 1934 0429 1821 0815,1.64; 2046,1.30 0144,0.54; 1453,0.39 13 S 0626 1934 0524 1854 0755,1.68; 2031,1.22 0222,0.49; 1443,0.40 14 S 0626 1933 0617 1925 0924,1.68; 2151,1.39 0259,0.46; 1553,0.34 15 M 0627 1932 0710 1954 0957,1.67; 2222,1.43 0334,0.44; 1621,0.33 16 T 0628 1931 0802 2022 1029,1.63; 2255,1.46 0411,0.44; 1649,0.34 17 W 0629 1930 0855 2051 1101,1.57; 2329,1.48 0449,0.45; 1718,0.37 18 T 0629 1929 0948 2122

1136,1.49

0529,0.47; 1747,0.41

19 F 0630 1928 1044 2155 0005,1.50; 1213,1.40 0612,0.51; 1819,0.46 20 S 0631 1927 1142 2233 0045,1.49;1255,1.30 0700,0.56; 1857,0.52 21 S 0632 1927 1242 2317 0131,1.49; 1347,1.20 0756,0.60; 1943,0.58 22 M 0632 1926 1343

0228,1.48; 1456,1.13 0907,0.61; 2044,0.63

23 T 0633 1925 1444 0008 0325,1.50; 1622,1.11 1031,0.58; 2202,0.63 24 W 0634 1924 1543 0106 0449,1.57; 1745,1.17 1148,0.49; 2320,0.57 25 T 0634 1923 1636 0211 0558,1.68; 1850,1.27

1250,0.37

26 F 0635 1922 1725 0321 ; 1944,1.39 0026,0.47; 1344,0.25 27 S 0636 1921 1808 0432 ; 2032,1.51 0125,0.36; 1430,0.16 28 S 0636 1920 1848 0542 ; 2118,1.61 ; 1515,0.11 All times are Daylight Savings Time. Time lags: Ballina Boat Dock: 15 min; Byron Bay: nil; Brunswick River Highway Bridge: high 30 min, low 1 hr; Mullumbimby: 1 hr 10 min; Billinudgel: 3 hr 55 min; Chinderah: high 1 hr 30 min, low 2 hr; Terranora Inlet: high 2 hr 10 min, low 2 hr 25 min; Murwillumbah: high 2 hr 30 min, low 2 hr 50 min. Tides in bold indicate high tide of 1.7m or more and low tide of 0.3m or less. Data courtesy of the National Tidal Centre.

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Noticeboard GUITAR AMP REPAIRS, all pro audio & custom modifications. Ph 0421800963 www.thorphillipsaudio.com PEAVEY 16 channel powered desk with built in SX & heavy duty case, $400 ono. Phone 66845180

FUNERAL NOTCES Ellem. Kevin Stanley (E.T.) Passed away peacefully on Friday 12th February, 2010. Aged 72 years. Loving father to Peter, Terry and Jacki. Loving step-father to Christine and Jeffrey. Loving Grandfather and Poppy to all his grandchildren and great grandchildren. He will be sadly missed by all. Privately cremated. Heritage Funerals Wes & Ashley Heritage Ph: 1800 088 484

PETS ADOPT A CAT from Animal Welfare League NSW. Phone 66844070

Burmese Brown Pure Bred Brown Kitten – Available now Desexed, chipped, vacc & reg breeder.

0429 867 993 6672 2447

Pebbles

Water meeting Another public meeting on the shire’s water-supply options will be held at Uki Hall on Saturday, February 27, at 2pm. There will be some guest speakers on environmental issues and a short film and slide show. The Environment Defenders Office from Lismore will advise on legislative requirements on the dam options and help write submissions, which close on March 26. Come along and have your say.

VIEW clubs Twin Towns Day View Club meets on the first Thursday of every month at the South Tweed Sports Club, 4 Minjungbal Drive. Call Freda on 07 5524 1357. A trading table will operate this month and new members welcome. Murwillumbah Day VIEW Club’s next meeting Feb 22 at Murwillumbah Bowls Club, 9.30am-10am. Cost of lunch $14.50. A cent auction will be held, so unwrapped gifts appreciated. For info call Shirley on 6679 1324 or Mary 6672 1840. Coolangatta/Tweed VIEW Club’s next luncheon meeting and AGM will be held on Thursday, February 18, in the Horizons Room, South Tweed Sports Club at 11am for 11.30am DST. Visitors welcome. For bookings call Margaret on 07 5534 7115 before 5pm Monday, Feb 15.

Food giveaway Free food giveaway for struggling pensioners on Wednesday 12.30pm DST at iBar Tweed Heads. More non perishable food donations are desperately needed as our queue gets longer every week. It is sad when the end of the queue arrives and there is nothing left. Please help us keep the pensioners eating. Terri 0414 376 057

Ex-servicewomen Tweed/Coolangatta and District Ex-Servicewomen’s Association will hold its general meeting on Monday, February 22, at 10.30am (DST) in the Anzac Room, Twin Towns Services Club. A ‘meet and greet morning tea’ will follow.

Pebbles is a young, desexed female, DMH Torti who is in foster care with Friends of the Pound. She is a good looking girl, very affectionate and good with other cats. If you can give her a permanent, loving home please contact Trudi on 07 5524 8590. Visit www.friendsofthepound. com to view other dogs and cats looking for permanent homes.

ONLY ADULTS TRAVELLING LADY WANTED for approx 1 week every month to 2 months to work from private situation on Fraser Coast. Ph 0741946801 or 0413116300 Mon-Fri 9am-5pm please SENSUAL, SEXY, TANTALISING, full body rub. Total stress relief in intimate environment. Tweed Heads 0410254976 STAFF required for new massage & peep show centre. Phone Warren 0415746443

EARN BIG BUCK$ Good working environment with female staff must be 18–65 yrs old

02 6674 5020 www.tweedecho.com.au

Music club Tweed Links Music Club, enjoy an afternoon of entertainment at Coolangatta Tweed Heads Golf Club, Sunday, March 7, 2pm (DST). Dancing, singing, quartet and a variety instrumental group. $5 for club members, $10 non-members,

no bookings necessary. For info call Elaine on 07 5590 7870.

Toastmasters. Visitors welcome. For info call Frank 07 5599 9528.

Parenting program

Community garden

Pottsville Beach Neighbourhood Centre (PBNC) and Parents and Teachers present 1-2-3 Magic, a popular parenting program, for carers of children 2-12yrs, to strengthen family relationships. All sessions free. Wednesday, March 17, 24 and 31, 6pm-8pm, PBNC, 12a Elizabeth Street, Pottsville Beach. Bookings essential, call Angela on 02 6676 4555 or email admin@pottsbnc.ngo.org.au no later than Friday, March 12.

Committed people with time available for non-profit committee for a community garden. First meeting Saturday, March 6, at 2pm. For info call David on 02 6672 7014.

Science fiction Science fiction fans interested in forming a group to discus this subject, call Felix Jenkins 02 6674 2023.

Prayer day World day of Prayer for Cameroon, West Africa, Friday, March 5, to be held at Uniting Church, Kingscliff, 24 Kingscliff Street, Kingscliff, from 10am, followed by morning tea. All welcome. For info call 02 6674 2074.

Dance night The Tumbulgum community is inviting one and all to a great night of old-time and new vogue dancing at Tumbulgum Hall this Saturday, February 20, at 8pm. Door prize, lucky spots, raffles and supper. Music by Trilogy. Adults $8, 13-17yrs $4.

Mental health Mental Health carers meetings for next month: Mondays March 2 and 16. Families and friends of people with mental illness are welcome to share friendship, information and experiences with other carers from 10am on the first and third Mondays in each month at the Tweed Heads Library, Brett Street (no public holidays). Knowledgeable volunteer members of the Tweed Valley Mental Health Carers Network assist. Inquiries (07) 5524 4556.

Exit meeting Exit International meeting on end of life choices. Friday, March 12. Phone Elaine on 07 5535 1151.

Probus club Banora Point Probus Club meeting at South Tweed Sports Club, February 22, 10.30am. Guest speaker Valda Edwards from Tweed Valley

EMERGENCY NUMBERS Please stick this by your phone EMERGENCY ONLY AMBULANCE, FIRE, POLICE............... 000 AMBULANCE Kingscliff, Tweed Heads, Murwillumbah .... 131 233 MURWILLUMBAH HOSPITAL ............................02 6672 1822 EMERGENCY ....................................02 6672 0230 TWEED HEADS HOSPITAL ...............................07 5536 1133 FIRE BRIGADE Kingscliff..........................................02 6674 1271 Murwillumbah ....................................02 6672 8305 Tweed Heads .....................................07 5536 2222 Tweed Rural Fire Service.......................02 6672 7888 POLICE NON EMERGENCIES 24/7 ............................ 131 444 Tweed Heads .....................................07 5536 0999 Murwillumbah ....................................02 6672 9499 Kingscliff..........................................02 6674 9399 STATE EMERGENCY SERVICE ................................ 132 500 Tweed Heads .....................................07 5524 1349 Murwillumbah ....................................02 6676 7355 LIFELINE .......................................................... 131 114 GOLD COAST HELICOPTER RESCUE SERVICE .....07 5598 0222 TWEED COAST AIR SEA RESCUE......................07 5536 9333 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 24 hour crisis line .............1800 656 463 ANIMAL WELFARE (RSPCA) .............................07 5536 5135 NSW Wildlife Information & Rescue Service (WIRES) .02 6628 1898 WILDLIFE CARERS TWEED VALLEY ...................02 6672 4789 CURRUMBIN SANCTUARY ...............................07 5534 1266 SEA WORLD ................................................07 5588 2222

WONFA We Ought Never Feel Alone (WONFA) variety morning on March 2 featuring soloist Robyn Green and ‘The Early History of Cudgen and Chinderah’ with Felicia Cecil from 11am at Kingscliff Uniting Church, 24 Kingscliff St. Lunch will follow, donation $5. RSVP to Estelle 6676 2577 by March 1.

Lifeball Lifeball is an exercise sport similar to netball but played at a walking pace by senior men and women. Come and have a try. Sessions held every Tuesday 9.30am-11.30am at Tweed Supersports Centre, Chinderah, $5 per person. Contact Jill 02 6674 0636 or George 07 5524 4558

P’ville community Pottsville Community Association meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 23, at the Pottsville Community Hall, at 7.45pm. New members welcome. For info call Helen 02 6676 2549.

Family centre The Family Centre is taking bookings now for the following courses. Numbers are limited so book early on (07) 5524 8711. ParentSpace: birth to 3 years, Tuesday Feb 23, 10am-1.30am, Hush little baby sleep and settling; Engaging Adolescents Tuesdays, Mar 2-16, 9.30am-12.30pm, 3-week course provides parents with a model for how to coach teenagers and to hold difficult conversations; Young Mums To Be, Fridays, Feb 19-Mar 25, 10am-12.30pm; 123 Magic, discipline approach for parents of 2-12s, Thursdays Mar 18-Apr 1, 10am-12pm; Anger and Parenting: being the parent you want to be, Fri March 19, one-day workshop;

Healthier Relationships, one-day workshops, Communication, Sat Mar 13, Negotiation Sat Mar 27. Detailed info on all our courses at www.thefamilycentre.org

Free concert Free concert at Coolangatta Senior Citizens Centre, Monday, February 22, 2pm (DST) featuring multitalented David Mitchell. BYO lunch/ nibbles, tea/coffee available $1.50 per bottomless cup. For info call 07 5536 4050 or visit the centre at 2 Gerrard St, Coolangatta.

U3A U3A Twin Towns would like to welcome new and existing members to a year of learning, sharing and making friends. Courses include astronomy, astrology, painting, digital photograph, Australian history, Japanese conversation. Starting March 16, illustrations and cartooning. For info call 07 5599 2249 between 10am-1pm (DST).

Family night Global Care family food and fun night every third Saturday (next one Feb 20) at Christian Outreach Centre, Prince Street, Murwillumbah. Entry $5 for family $2.50 for singles includes tea and entertainment. All welcome. Also free sausage sizzle every third Saturday at Murwillumbah markets. For info call Glenn on 0422 741558.

Red Cross Tweed Heads Red Cross Branch will resume monthly meetings on 2nd Friday of each month in the community room at Tweed City Shopping Centre, commencing with morning tea at 9.30am. Visitors welcome, form info call Joyce on 07 5524 1277.

Cleanup day People wishing to have fun in the fresh air with their neighbours, friends and family cleaning up Kingscliff on Clean Up Australia Day, meet at the Cudgen Creek Boat Ramp, Faulks Park, Marine Parade, Kingscliff on Sunday, March 7, any time between 8am and 11am.

MONTHLY MARKETS

Third quarter February 6

Every Sat 6-11am Farmers Market – Currumbin Wildlife Sactuary 0417 759 777

First quarter February 22 11:43

1st Sat Brunswick Heads (02) 6628 4495 1st Sat 8-11am Casuarina Farmers’ Market 0414 777 432 1st Sun Banora Point Farmers’ Market 0417 759 777 1st Sun Byron Bay (02) 6680 9703 1st Sun Pottsville (02) 6676 4555 1st Sun Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714 2nd Sat 2nd Sun 2nd Sun 2nd Sun 2nd Sun 2nd Sun

Kingscliff (02) 6674 0827 The Channon (02) 6688 6433 Chillingham 0437 041 023 Lennox Head (02) 6672 2874 Coolangatta (07) 5533 8202 Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714

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

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

FARMERS MARKETS Each Sat Each Thu Each Tue Each Sat

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

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

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Lifeball Lifeball is an exercise sport similar to netball but played at a walking pace by senior men and women. Come and have a try. Sessions held every Tuesday 9.30am-11.30am at Tweed Supersports Centre, Chinderah. For info call Jill on 02 6674 0636 or George 07 5524 4558.

Rock ‘n’ roll dancing Women wanted for rock ‘n’ roll lessons and dancing, first session free. Men also welcome. Wednesdays 1.30pm-3pm (DST), Coolangatta Seniors Centre, 2 Gerrard St, Coolangatta, phone 07 5536 4050.

Pensioners food relief Food giveaway for struggling pensioners on again Wednesdays at the iBar, Tweed Heads, 12.30pm (DST). Let’s hope the new year will soon bring the storehouse to fruition. Until then can we please have food donations to keep the pensioners eating. Thank you to all who help, very much appreciated. Terri 0414 376 057

Friday food giveaway Food giveway for aged pensioner card holders, at new time 10-30am to 1pm (DST) Fridays only. At the ibar, Wharf St, Tweed Heads. Thanks to all who have donated packet and tined food but more needed. For info call Lorraine on 0755 998612 or Thelma on 07 5536 3037.

Garden club Murwillumbah Garden Club’s annual general meeting will be held Monday, February 28, at 7pm in the Jessie Macmillan Hall, Wollumbin Street, Murwillumbah. All meetings will now be held at 7pm not 7.30pm. Bus Trip to Queensland Dahlia Society show at Mount Couther and a visit to factory outlets off airport road on Saturday, March 20, cost $25 per head bus only. For info call Len on 6672 2020 or Steve on 6672 2273.

FEBRUARY 2010 Astronomical data and tides High tide, height (m)

Low tide, height (m)

M 0616 1942 2058 0809 1041,1.97; 2316,1.58 0416,0.23; 1711,0.09 1129,1.85

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T 0617 1941 2134 0916

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W 0618 1941 2209 1021 0005,1.6; 1218,1.68 0607,0.31; 1836,0.27

0511,0.25; 1753,0.16

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T 0618 1940 2246 1125 1255,1.59; 1308,1.49 0705,0.40; 1918,0.38

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F 0619 1939 2326 1228 0146,1.57; 1401,1.31 0808,0.50; 2003,0.50

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S 0620 1939

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S 0621 1938 0009 1429 0345,1.50; 1620,1.08 1038,0.61; 2157,0.65

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M 0622 1937 0056 1525 0451,1.49; 1742,1.07 1155,0.59; 2305,0.67

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T 0623 1937 0146 1617 0556,1.51; 1845,1.12

1330 0242,1.53; 1503,1.16 0918,0.57; 2055,0.59

1256,0.54

10 W 0623 1936 0239 1703 0651,1.55; 1933,1.18 0007,0.64; 1342,0.49 11 T 0624 1935 0334 1744 0736,1.60; 2012,1.25 0100,0.59; 1419,0.44 12 F 0625 1934 0429 1821 0815,1.64; 2046,1.30 0144,0.54; 1453,0.39 13 S 0626 1934 0524 1854 0755,1.68; 2031,1.22 0222,0.49; 1443,0.40 14 S 0626 1933 0617 1925 0924,1.68; 2151,1.39 0259,0.46; 1553,0.34 15 M 0627 1932 0710 1954 0957,1.67; 2222,1.43 0334,0.44; 1621,0.33 16 T 0628 1931 0802 2022 1029,1.63; 2255,1.46 0411,0.44; 1649,0.34 17 W 0629 1930 0855 2051 1101,1.57; 2329,1.48 0449,0.45; 1718,0.37 18 T 0629 1929 0948 2122

1136,1.49

0529,0.47; 1747,0.41

19 F 0630 1928 1044 2155 0005,1.50; 1213,1.40 0612,0.51; 1819,0.46 20 S 0631 1927 1142 2233 0045,1.49;1255,1.30 0700,0.56; 1857,0.52 21 S 0632 1927 1242 2317 0131,1.49; 1347,1.20 0756,0.60; 1943,0.58 22 M 0632 1926 1343

0228,1.48; 1456,1.13 0907,0.61; 2044,0.63

23 T 0633 1925 1444 0008 0325,1.50; 1622,1.11 1031,0.58; 2202,0.63 24 W 0634 1924 1543 0106 0449,1.57; 1745,1.17 1148,0.49; 2320,0.57 25 T 0634 1923 1636 0211 0558,1.68; 1850,1.27

1250,0.37

26 F 0635 1922 1725 0321 0659,1.80; 1944,1.39 0026,0.47; 1344,0.25 27 S 0636 1921 1808 0432 0752,1.90; 2032,1.51 0125,0.36; 1430,0.16 28 S 0636 1920 1848 0542 0844,1.95; 2118,1.61 0219,0.27; 1515,0.11 All times are Daylight Savings Time. Time lags: Ballina Boat Dock: 15 min; Byron Bay: nil; Brunswick River Highway Bridge: high 30 min, low 1 hr; Mullumbimby: 1 hr 10 min; Billinudgel: 3 hr 55 min; Chinderah: high 1 hr 30 min, low 2 hr; Terranora Inlet: high 2 hr 10 min, low 2 hr 25 min; Murwillumbah: high 2 hr 30 min, low 2 hr 50 min. Tides in bold indicate high tide of 1.7m or more and low tide of 0.3m or less. Data courtesy of the National Tidal Centre.

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Backburner Apparently slighted by police claims they were non-existent last week, gangs of juvenile delinquents set out to prove them wrong by mounting three separate rampages through the usual trouble-spots. Just days after the state’s top cops told ABC TV and The Echo that the Tweed didn’t have any youth gangs, a mob of up to 40 youths attacked a 21-year-old man and knocked him unconscious in the main street. In the next few days it was the turn of South Tweed Heads, where juvenile groups caused extensive damage to the local public school, council’s indoor pool and a home and stole from cars, including five inside Steve ‘Sandman’ Machell shows O-week participants how to be a secured-complex car park the ‘model’ students at the new Gold Coast campus of Southern Cross University (SCU) near Coolangatta airport on Tuesday, as following night.

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We give police credit for their early capture of some of the alleged juvenile culprits, but Backburner questions claims by the state’s second highest cop, David Owens, and local Superintendent Jeff Loy that youth gangs don’t exist on the Tweed. Less than two years ago, in an effort to persuade the public not to be frightened of reporting gang activity, our then local top police openly named the gangs giving them the most grief, including the Kingscliffbased Coomicubs, said to have football team links, the D-Lux boys who were being absorbed by the Coomicubs, the mainly indigenous Dark Night Soljers from South Tweed Heads and the postcode group Bilambil HQ which also had football team links. They were blamed for a sharp rise in crime in the Tweed during the past two years, with more youths responsible for car thefts, burglaries, property damage and violent assaults than ever before. â– â– â– â–

Tweed Heads Library is hosting a touring exhibition till March 3 which celebrates the life and work of the late Professor Fred Hollows. The exhibition In Fred’s Footsteps uses pictures and stories to outline his life and achievements and the con-

orientation (O-week) got underway. Events for students included live music, sports fixtures, treasure hunts, sand sculptures, free relaxation classes as well as vital academic support sessions. Activities run till March 12. For the full orientation program visit www.scu.edu.au/orientation. Photo Jeff ‘The Pits’ Dawson

tinuing work of the Fred Hollows Foundation. The passionate ophthalmologist became known for his work helping restore the eyesight of people in developing countries and his drive to improve indigenous health here in Australia. He lost his battle with cancer in 1993, aged 63. â– â– â– â–

Diana Eriksen in a letter to the editor apologises to council general manager Mike Rayner for calling him ‘pigheaded’ last week over his refusal to concede that sitting on the rally board was a conflict of interest. Backburner does not believe an apology is called for (pigheaded, adj. obstinate, stubborn) but you can read her apology at our website, www.tweedecho.com.au. â– â– â– â–

We had to laugh. The publishers of the local daily recently issued a challenge to the region’s employers to put on 100 apprentices before the end of the month. It would be a very noble thing indeed, if the group hadn’t sacked scores of experienced staff this past year, and is

now using a pool of local, unpaid volunteers to provide copy to fill the pages instead. â– â– â– â–

Tweed’s chief tourism spruiker Phil Villiers must regret his throwaway line bagging Nimbin after it provided a platform for the champions of Aquarius to hijack his audacious plan to invite president Barack Obama to the Tweed. National media loved Phil’s itinerary, including visits to the big avocado and Mavis’ Kitchen (twice – for brekkie and lunch) and a specific embargo on Nimbin. (‘I wouldn’t send him to Nimbin, that would be a bad idea,’ the SMH quoted him as saying.) Nimbin immediately retaliated with an invitation of their own, mobilising the support of millionaire adventurer Dick Smith and Lismore mayor Jenny Dowell. Phil’s nimble counterpart, Hemp Embassy legend Michael Balderstone, says it’s a no-contest between the two venues: staid and boring vs colourful and vibrant. Undeterred by the counterbid and buoyed by the publicity, Mr Villiers is forging ahead, dashing

off a refined itinerary to be sent on to the White House, with the added incentive of a surfing lesson from local champ Mick Fanning. â– â– â– â–

Residents of Noble Lakeside Park at Kingscliff opposed to a controversial plan to slap more housing in it by partly filling in their lovely (manmade) lake are adamant that trees along a shady and popular walk were chopped down to make way for the access to the proposed 45 new homes, despite denials by the park’s employed gardener in last week’s Echo. The official line from the park, which is managed by our very own Tweed mayor Warren Polglase, is that the trees were thinned for safety reasons after they were damaged by the big storm last May, but locals say the ‘thinning’ went too far, with healthy trees also cut down, some more recently. They have also been encouraged by a recent visit to the park by former mayor Joan van Lieshout and husband Peter to see for themselves. During their tour, residents said they noticed several trees on the lake’s edge which appeared to have been poisoned. â– â– â– â–

Last week we publicised the good things residents of the top end of Murwillumbah Street (now better known as ‘sustainability street’) are doing in growing and sharing food and creating a friendly village environment. Now they’re backing a local cane toad muster in Murwillumbah next Thursday, February 25, 6.30pm-8.30pm. Interested people are asked to bring a torch and meet under the big jacaranda tree at the front of No.180. Cane toads pose a threat to local native wildlife and are poisonous to predators such as snakes and birds. At the muster you can learn about their impact, how to create a native frog-friendly backyard and how to safely catch and handle the toads. For info call Claire on 02 6670 2199 or csotweed@ tweed.nsw.gov.au

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Fresh vegetables, fruit, meats, bakery, dairy produce, nuts and a good cup of locally grown coffee. Free market hamper draw 10am on the first Tuesday of the month. Greg Sheehan performing 9.30am March 2. New Brighton Farmers Market on every Tuesday 8am-11am, rain or shine, New Brighton Oval. Phone 6684 5390.

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