Tweed Echo – Issue 2.36 – 20/05/2010

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Milne dumped in shock move Ken Sapwell

Tweed Shire Council has terminated Greens councillor Katie Milne’s appointment to its Aboriginal Advisory Committee (AAC) in a shock move believed linked to her outspoken comments on planning issues. Councillors voted 4-3 to axe her as a delegate to the AAC following a mayoral minute which was tabled after the start of this week’s meeting urging them to take the unprecedented action. Mayor Warren Polglase failed to give any explanation for the shakeup, saying only that councillors had discussed ‘the operation, performance and proper functioning of the ACC’ at a closed-door meeting last Thursday.

Mayor’s view ‘It is my view which I believe is shared by the majority of councillors, that the ACC is not performing in a way that can deliver council’s objectives in supporting the Tweed’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community,’ he said in a brief mayoral minute . He then successfully urged the council to rescind the appointments of Cr Milne and Dot Holdom as delegates to the ACC and elect new ones. Cr Holdom, who along with Cr Milne was appointed as a delegate following the election of the new council in September 2008, was immediately re-installed while former mayor Joan van Lieshout was made an alternative delegate. Cr van Lieshout’s appointment is certain to re-ignite tensions among Aborigines which surfaced after she refused during her 12-month term as

mayor to read out a statement traditional at the start of council meetings acknowledging their presence and their connection with the land and waterways. The councillors who voted to dump Cr Milne – Crs Holdom, Polglase, Lieshout and Phil Youngblutt – also offered no explanation for their radical decision apart from referring to a need to follow certain planning processes. But the three who voted against the move appeared perplexed by the popular councillor’s sudden removal despite claims it had been discussed at last week’s secret meeting. It has also bewildered members of the AAC who said they believed they had a good working relationship with Cr Milne . Cr Kevin Skinner said the reasons put forward for her termination were ‘very vague’ and called for the status quo to remain until he could ascertain exactly what the problem may be. Cr Barry Longland said he also believed that no changes should be made until he was able to canvas others in a bid to understand exactly what problems had occurred to precipitate a change of delegates. But Cr Milne was more blunt, saying she had no doubt it was related to several planning issues she had raised with the AAC which she believed relevant to indigenous cultural and heritage matters. They included suggestion that the AAC should make submissions to the new LEP and request the council to carry out a cultural heritage assessment before it goes ahead with plans to turn Arkinstall Park into a regional sports centre.

Lupus sufferer on a wing and a prayer Erin-Louise Povey, known as the ‘Lupus Butterfly,’ at Barneys Point Bridge earlier this week on her way south to raise awareness of lupus disease. Photo Jeff Dawson Luis Feliu

The ‘Lupus Butterfly’ travelled through the Tweed earlier this week to raise awareness about lupus and the one in 700 Australians living with the little-known disease. Erin-Louise Povey, 26, of Sydney, who was diagnosed with lupus about two years ago, is driving the campaign with her bridge-to-bridge challenge, aiming to walk from Brisbane Story Bridge to Sydney Harbour Bridge. She left Brisbane on May 9 and walked through Tweed Heads on Monday. One of her supporters, Cabarita local Kelly Davidson, told The Echo that Erin’s walk provided a great opportunity for people to learn more about lupus, how it affected sufferers, their friends and family, the path to diagnosis and where they could go for information, counselling and support. Kelly, 30, also a lupus sufferer, joined Erin on part of her walk from continued on page 2 Tweed to Byron on Tuesday.

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Waterway unsafe, ugly say residents Tania Phillips

A Banora Point waterway has been labelled a danger and eyesore by angry residents. John Sydenham (pictured beside the waterway), who has lived in the area for the past seven years, said the Riversdale Avenue waterway had become very overgrown with weeds and was full of rubbish. ‘It’s so overgrown that I keep expecting Humphrey Bogart and the African Queen to come up the waterway! ‘But seriously, we counted seven trolleys in there. It is covered in a noxious weed and its getting dangerous,’ he said. Mr Sydenham pointed out there was so much grass and the weeds were so thick that a child might now try to walk on it and fall in the water. He said the waterway, which feeds down into Vintage Lakes, had always been ‘pristine’ until two years ago and was now steadily getting worse.

Fee on surf club could be waived

Tweed Council appears set to back down over its demands that the Cabarita Surf Life Saving Club pays nearly $106,000 0 # 1 , # , ' # " ( ( (' in road and parking contri2 3 4 ' 5 ' ' ( ' ' ' butions as a condition of ap 4 6 && ' ' ' "7 ' ( proving a new deck on its club house. Councillors debated either dropping the fees or asking the club to contribute half the amount under a deferred payment system. But the options bogged down in discussions about the terms of the club’s liquor licence and plans to double the contributions from next month under If you don’t receive The Echo at home or the weather revised section 94 plans which is too bad for house to house delivery, pick up a could dramatically increase the copy of your Echo from the following places: club’s liabilities. Banora Point: Banora Point Mooball: Moo Moo Stitches The council decided to defer Shopping Village, Chris’ Paradise Mount Burrell: Store a decision on the controversial Fruit Shop, Tweed Heights Mullumbimby: Echo office charges until the next council Shopping Centre IGA, Zaraffa’s Murwillumbah: Echo office, Bulk Coffee in Banora Central meeting while the various isWhole Foods, Caldera Environment Bilambil Heights: Stores sues are discussed at a closed Centre, Magic Mountain Health Burringbar: Real estate agent and Foods door workshop. service station Pottsville: IGA Supermarket, Meanwhile, a local resident Byron Bay: Echo office, bottleshop, newsagent, fruit claims charging the volunteerCommunity Centre, newsagent, market run club the fee was a ‘scam’ Visitors Centre South Tweed Industrial Estate: Cabarita Beach: Beach Bar, SLSC 5-Star Machinery Drive, Casa Del because a local tavern was and cafe, newsagent, bottleshop Cafe, East Coast Bulk Food, Eat Me given a concession on its deCasuarina/Salt: IGA, Salt Bar, Cafe velopment. bottleshop South Tweed: Dry Dock Road An unnamed resident quoted Chillingham: Store convenience store, South Tweed in the local press this week said Bowls Club and Sports Club, Chinderah: Art Gallery, pub, Tweed/Coolangatta Golf Club, the profit-driven Tumbulgum newsagent Tweed City – Echo stand, Tweed Coolangattta: 7-11 Supermarket, Tavern was allowed to build its Tavern Atlantis Rising Astral Trading, patio extension without having Stokers Siding: Store Border Sub News, Coolangatta to pay for extra parking yet the Hotel, Coolangatta Senior Citizens Terranora: Supermarket, store Club, Surf Club, Twin Towns, surf club’s deck allowed for a lifeTumbulgum: Post Office store Zenergy Health Foods, saving function and any profit it Tweed Heads – Wharf Street: Condong: Store Bakery, Community Centre/Library, made was ploughed back into Crabbes Creek: General Store Hospital main foyer, Ivory Tavern, life-saving equipment. newsagent, Tweed Heads Bowls Fingal Head: Sheoak Shack Council dismissed the claim, Club, Twin Towns Hastings Point: General store, with a spokesperson saying Tyalgum: Store service station council’s contribution plan reUki: Store, pub Kingscliff: Bowls Club, Library/ Community Centre, two West Tweed: Seagulls, quiring payments from develnewsagents, Rings Realty, Echo Cellarbrations, Broadwater Village opers for off-site car parking stand at Health Food Store in Retirement Park, Spar Supermarket, was apparently only applied shopping mall Panorama Newsagent to ‘business centres such as If you miss your printed copy of The Echo get it online at Murwillumbah, Tweed Heads, www.tweedecho.com.au Cabarita, etc’.

A Tweed Shire Council spokesperson said council was currently removing the noxious weed salvina from Vintage Lakes with a floating harvester. Council was also working closely with Far North Coast Weeds to see how best to control the other weeds in the

Vintage Lakes and surrounding drain areas ‘within its current budget’. But at this stage there is no specific planned weed removal from the Riversdale Avenue waterway itself. ‘However, grasses and weeds that have grown along the rock revetting above the water level

are planned to be removed over the coming months,’ the spokesperson said. ‘The council has been made aware of several trolleys that have been dumped in the waterway and is planning to remove them when a council crew is next scheduled to be in the Banora Point area.’

Six years on, still no train in sight

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Last Sunday marked six years since a train has run on the Murwillumbah-Casino line and Trains On Our Tracks (TOOT) members took their protest to local disused lines. On Tuesday, June 29, they plan a rail forum involving government representatives and community leaders is to address the issue a rail service. See more at www.toot.org.au. Photo Jeff ‘Puffed and Tanked’ Dawson

Cr Milne dumped in shock move (from page 1) She believed the final straw followed a recent AAC meeting which voted unanimously to condemn a council decision to concrete a natural waterway at Chinderah to clear the way for a new industrial estate after she alerted them to the plan. The AAC asked the council to write to the relevant Minister urging him to protect the creek and its fish breeding grounds which the Aboriginal community saw as a valuable asset and a natural food source. But in another twist, the AAC’s request was vetoed at this week’s meeting on the advice of the council’s executive management team comprising general manager Mike Rayner and his four directors. ‘While noting the AAC’s concerns, it would be inappropriate to take any action outside of the planning process,’ the executive team said

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in a terse statement, putting the kybosh on the submission. The AAC’s concerns echo those of hundreds of residents in nearby caravan parks who were not informed of council’s controversial plans to replace the waterway with underground pipes to make way for an access road pending submissions from other agencies, including Fisheries. They became even more disturbed following Cr Longland‘s admission he was not au fait with the site before he voted and a warning to residents from Cr Holdom not to take their concerns to the media. A founding member of the AAC since its inception in 1996, Jackie McDonald, said yesterday that Cr Milne’s sacking came as a shock. She said she was not aware of any moves to unseat her and was mystified by the events.

‘We’ve had no problems with her as council’s delegate and feel she’s made a valuable contribution by supporting our aspirations and providing us with advice. I can see no reason to be concerned about her role,’ Ms McDonald said. Cr Milne said the Aboriginal community deserved to know what was happening to one of their traditional fishing spots which provided fish and mud crabs for their cooking pots. ‘They are being alienated from their land and rivers which are very important to them,’ she said. Her removal follows a series of complaints against her for releasing information to the media and her role in taking court action in a failed bid to stop last year’s car rally and subsequent fundraising events to cover legal costs. ■See Editorial, page 10

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Council rejects bid for new ‘super brothel’

Museum model goes on exhibition A model of the new Tweed River Regional Museum building proposed for the Flagstaff Hill site near the NSW-Queensland border is now on display. The metre-long, 1:100 scale model was commissioned by Tweed Shire Council from a concept developed by architect Paul Berkemeier. The Tweed Heads Historical Society will use the model for public consultation and fundraising. A council spokesperson said council was preparing a development application for the building and funding for the project was yet to be secured, with a $5 million shortfall currently to complete it. The spokesperson said the arrival of the model had pleased museum volunteers, as it brought the vision for a landmark new museum on the picturesque Flagstaff Hill a step closer. Tweed mayor Warren

Polglase praised the museum’s 69 active volunteers for their ‘dedication and persistence’, saying National Volunteer Week was a timely reminder of their contribution ‘and indeed the thousands of volunteers across the Tweed who go about their work every day’. A volunteer spokesperson said the proposed museum would, in conjunction with the improvements already underway at the Murwillumbah museum site, be a showcase for Tweed Shire’s historical collection and research centre. It will also be able to cater for state and national travelling exhibitions currently unavailable to the Tweed because the current museum buildings were unsuitable. The model can be viewed at the Tweed Heads Museum (the old court house) in Pioneer Park, Kennedy Drive, West Tweed Heads, and admission is free.

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Tweed Council has set the stage for another expensive legal stoush after taking the moral high ground to knockback a so-called super brothel on an industrial estate at South Tweed Heads. The council voted 5-2 to reject an application by Ms Susan Stewart to convert an industrial unit in Enterprise Avenue into a brothel operating 24 hours a day. Chief planner Vince Connell said the brothel satisfied planning requirements and would generally be compatible with the existing industrial development and local environment. He said the council had received 23 objections to the proposal which raised legitimate concerns, but none were considered significant enough to warrant refusal. ‘In respect of the many moral issues raised in the submis-

Volunteers at the Tweed River Regional Museum (left to right) Norma Bailey, Ruth Aberdeen, Immy McKiernan and Robyn Bensley view the newly arrived model of the new museum building proposed for the Flagstaff Hill site. The arrival of the much-anticipated model coincided with National Volunteer Week last week. Photo Jeff Dawson

Former Tweed councillor claims public ‘misled on LEP’ Ken Sapwell

Former Tweed councillor Henry James has been told to put up or shut up over claims that Tweed Shire Council had misled the public in its consultation process for a new shirewide Local Environment Plan (LEP). In an official complaint, Mr James accused council staff of giving written and verbal advice urging the public to focus on how the LEP impacted on their own property, rather than the broader implications involved in the radical planning overhaul. He told council chief Mike Rayner he had a firsthand report of an officer discouraging the public from making submissions about the broader impacts of the draft LEP, telling them to just focus on issues closer to their own backyard. He said similar advice had been given in the council’s official user guide which told

ratepayers: ‘It’s open for you to express views as they relate specifically to your property… keep in mind we also consult with community groups regarding [issues such as] sustainability, transport and water.’ Mr James, who last month revealed the draft would increase height limits in villages and towns and more than halve the land under environmental protection, said he believed It ‘improper and quite possibly unlawful to discourage members of the public’ from expressing broader concerns.

‘Inaccurate’ Mr Rayner said staff had denied telling the public that submissions should ignore the wider implications and believed that suggestions they had acted improperly and possibly unlawfully were ‘inaccurate and a misrepresentation.’ ‘They consider it possible some people may have misinterpreted their advice of the

importance of making individual submissions, and not just relying on a signatory to a broader petition,’ he said. ‘Unless you are able to provide me with more detailed specific evidence such as which staff, which venue, which day the alleged advice was provided, I am not able to take any further action.’ Mr Rayner said he also disagreed that the public had been given incorrect written advice after reviewing the material provided in the guide. ‘I do not share your view that the exhibition material limits, restricts or discourages individuals from making comment on broader planning issues. All information provided by staff has been provided in good faith to assist members of the public.’ Mr James, who was the first Greens Party councillor to be elected on the Tweed, sounded an alarm about the changes in the LEP after being commis-

sioned by his party to decipher complex documents contained in the blueprint. He says both the council and the government have played down the significance of some of the changes, with council claiming the LEP 2010 was ‘merely a transcription of the current LEP’ into a new onesize-fits-all template imposed by the state government.

Claims confirmed Council’s chief planner Vince Connell last month confirmed his claims that the new LEP would jettison hard-won controls over building heights and illegal land-clearing operations. He acknowledged the draft LEP would increase densities and raise building heights from three storeys to four in villages, reduce the amount of land under environmental protection from 13,600ha to just 5,600ha and lessen protection for native vegetation. The Tweed Heads Residents

sions, it is considered that to refuse the proposal on purely these grounds would be difficult to sustain should the matter be pursued in the Land and Environment Court,’ he warned. Only Crs Kevin Skinner and Dot Holdom supported the brothel, saying to refuse it would invite a court challenge. ‘To refuse this on moral grounds will see us ending up in court and we will get belted and the brothel will go ahead anyway,’ Cr Holdom said. ‘I won’t have sex workers sullied as deviants and there are hundreds of illegal brothels in the Tweed and across Australia which no one worries about.’ Mayor Warren Polglase denied it was being knocked back on moral grounds before drafting a range of planning considerations, including the potential for an adverse impact in the vicinity and creating an unacceptable cumulative impact.

Dob a vandal

Association has also complained about the adequacy of the consultation process for the draft Tweed Heads LEP which was put on public exhibition at the same time. The association was forced to issue fliers contradicting claims it said were made by Planning Minister Tony Kelly and contained in council’s user guide that changes in building heights and densities for the town were not significant. An association spokesman said the town would be bookended by high-rise buildings under the LEP which would increase building heights on the town’s southern approaches from four storeys to 22 storeys. He said the plans were such a dramatic departure from the community-endorsed Tweed Heads master plan that the council should have held at least one public meeting to try to provide some level of justification. ■ See Editorial, page 10

Chocolates, flowers and cash rewards of up to $5,000 will be offered to residents who dobin people vandalising council property. The radical scheme was adopted by council on Tuesday night in a bid to curb the growing cost of fixing damaged property and cleaning graffiti from walls. People will be eligible for cash rewards for information leading to a conviction, starting with a $500 reward for damage up to $1,000 to a $5,000 reward for damage exceeding $20,000. Where a prosecution fails, tipsters will be eligible for a ‘discretionary reward’ of a bunch of flowers or a box of chocolates. The scheme has been successfully trialled in Gosford and even though it will create another cost, staff maintain ‘it will be money well spent’ given the high level of graffiti occurring in the shire.

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Govt ‘hypocrisy’ on planning delays The controversial regional planning panels appointed by the state government have again come under flak for taking much longer to process development applications (DAs) than councils. Greens spokesperson for planning Sylvia Hale slammed the state planning minister’s double standards on planning delays, saying Planning Minister Tony Kelly did not deny when asked in parliament that on average it took a local council 74 days to assess a development application compared to the 114 day average for the Joint Regional Planning Panels (JRPPs).

‘Nor did the minister deny that it was taking some panels more than 240 days to assess development applications and that this is likely to blow out even further,’ Ms Hale said ‘The minister’s justification for the panels taking so long was that larger development proposals were more complex, and therefore took longer to assess than smaller applications. ‘On the face of it that is a quite reasonable response, but no such excuse from the Minister or his predecessors was ever forthcoming when the government wanted to trash local government for planning delays. ‘It is sheer hypocrisy to seek

to justify delays by panels when the government’s whole rewriting of the Environmental Assessment and Planning Act and its stripping of planning powers from local councils was based on assertions about how long it was taking local councils to process development applications. ‘The now deeply discredited Part 3A of the Planning Act was predicated almost entirely on doing away with delays and reducing “red tape.” Clearly that has not happened. ‘The time taken to process an application is no indication of efficiency. Most delays occur because applicants fail to pro-

vide all the relevant information in a timely and adequate manner. ‘The JRPP process has made the planning process more opaque… there is increasing community unease about the process in which allows the interests of developers whose projects exceed $10 million in value, to take precedence over community interests. ‘The planning panels encounter the same problems that local councils did when they assessed larger developments, but the panels have none of the virtues of local government, namely accountability and responsibility to residents.’

The boat that John built – for as little as $65

Avid boatie John Crompton with his recycled soft-drink bottle catamaran costing just $65 all up and weighing in at a mere 37kg. Photo Jeff ‘Hit the Bottle’ Dawson Luis Feliu

Tweed Heads resident John Crompton is a bit of tinkerer when it comes to messing around with boats, so he couldn’t resist a challenge to build a boat under $100

weighing less than 50kg. In fact, John managed to build a three-metre catamaran entirely out of recycled plastic drink bottles, plastic piping and second-hand bits and pieces for all just $65.40 and weighing only 37kg.

Now he’s looking forward to testing it on water against his challenger’s recycled creation on May 30 on the Tweed River. John, a maintenance manager, used a security screen door salvaged from the tip for the catamaran’s platform, cut the bottoms off the plastic bottles, glued and taped them together for the pontoons or keels, and used bike tyre valves on the bottles so he could inflate them and make the boat buoyant. He also used a blowdrier borrowed from his wife Annette to dry the glue. The challenge came about recently after his builder mate from Melbourne saw a recycled-paper tinny which John had made last year in his shed. ‘It was one of those challenges, just to see if it could be done, and my mate’s boat is almost complete but he wouldn’t tell me what it was made of,’ John told The Echo. ‘We’ll launch them at Jack Evans Boat Harbour, opposite the Centro car park, on May 30 around high-tide mid morning, it’ll be the first time we test them.’ John’s late father Rodney taught him to design and build boats. John designed and built his first canoe when he was just 11 years old and has been building them ever since. ‘Dad used to build motor torpedo boats during the sec-

ond world war and he taught me how to move a little tender using an oar to scull so instead of two rudders I use this old oar so if there’s no wind you can still get going. ‘The most expensive thing was the galvanised turnbuckle which cost me $11, but a stainless steel one would’ve cost me over $60, fair dinkum, and I used rope instead of stainless steel for the forestays,’ John said. ‘I also made it so I can easily take it apart and use an old pram to cart it around.’

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where many Buddhists live. The film follows the 2001 passing of one of the greatest Tibetan mediators of our time, Master Lama Konchog. His shy and devoted disciple of 21 years, Tenzin Zopa, was unexpectedly appointed by the Dalai Lama to search for the late master’s reincarnation. Assisted by abstract clues from astrology and dream interpre-

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Deidre Currie, left, and Lyn Vermeesch at Razorback Lookout, Tweed Heads, a site known to local Aboriginal people as Joongurranahreean: Where The Pelican Played. The women say many Tweed locals are unaware the site is the centre of a Dreaming Story dating back thousands of years. Photo Luis Feliu

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Two Tweed women have come up with a novel idea to keep Aboriginal culture alive. Deidre Currie’s Tweed connection goes back to Bungaree and she is often called upon to perform her ‘Welcome to Country’ at various shire functions and events. She has been teaching culture and performing for over 10 years and is passionate about bringing people together. As an ex-school teacher, Lyn Vermeesch feels strongly about the need for improvement in ‘Aboriginal Studies’, saying there are many protocols to be abided and cultural sensitivity is essential. Lyn and Deidre, united by their desire to keep our local Aboriginal culture alive and kicking, or at least ‘shaking a leg’, have put together an educational package that not only teaches the local Dreaming

stories, art, songs and dances but introduces an indigenous element to many subject areas including numeracy, literacy and science. It reflects the richness and diversity of Aboriginal culture thoughout the curriculum. Lyn says the lessons start with ‘Yanbelilla’, the true story of some children kidnapped in the 1850s and taken nearly 1,000 kilometres north to a prison camp. They escape and their traditional skills and knowledge of bush tucker, bush medicine and sacred practices help them survive the long walk home. Their return is celebrated with a huge corroboree. ‘Students can experience the fortunes and hardships through playing the board game, “Yanbelilla”, which means to “go home”’, Deidre said. ‘The winner of the game gets to pretend

to play the didjeridoo and lead the dancers of the corroboree.’ Further activity-based lessons include painting, boomerang throwing and the making of string dilly bags. The game package includes board/banner, lesson plans, seed dice, painted rock counters, string dilly bag, three Dreaming story posters and activity stencils. An extra to the game includes a 1.8-metre long, red, black and yellow goanna banner which Lyn says when hung ‘makes the classroom more friendly to Goori kids or can be laid on the floor for hopscotch’. She said schools could arrange for the teaching of the whole package of seven lessons or just one lesson. They also want to add a DVD to the package and would love to talk to anyone who could help (email yanbelilla10@ gmail.com).

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The rise and rise of Julia Gillard he weirdest news story of TV chats with Tony Abbott re- Australian was trotting out as ignorance and apathy, 255 of the week has been Kevin semble those of a long-married typical of their group were re- America’s most reputable sciRudd’s promise that, if re- couple who may have their dis- vealed as an insignificant mi- entists published a plea for a Volume 2 #36 May 20, 2010 elected this year, he will serve agreements, but would never nority. But this did not, and has return to rational discussion: out the full three years of his say anything really nasty to each not, stopped its commentators the problem, they claimed, was from insisting that the whole too urgent and important to be other. next term. But the most remarkable idea has been an unqualified left to be hijacked by extremWell golly gosh and stuff ists and demagogues. Australia’s me up a dead bear’s bum. Did confirmation of Gillard’s politi- disaster. As Council planners begin sifting through submissions to the draft The idea, yes; but not its insti- own chief scientist, Penny Sackanyone seriously imagine oth- cal saleability is her treatment Tweed LEP, you’d have to wonder how many were from people by that bastion of the right, The gator and administering minis- ett, issued her own call for the erwise? fully aware of the radical changes proposed. Rudd’s program has always Australian. The national daily ter, who is still seen as one of the government to show leadership Those who only absorbed council’s so-called user friendly guide been a long term one: many of has conducted a series of cam- saving graces in a government and commitment. to the new LEP would have easily come away with the impression But the most telling criticism his pet projects will not come to paigns against the Rudd gov- to whose destruction the Murthat it was more or less steady as it goes for the next 10 years. fruition for nearly a decade. In ernment, but none have been so doch press is dedicated. One of Rudd’s procrastination came It wasn’t until former councillor Henry James and a handful of from China, where Professor spite of the silly rumours that he others cracked the technical complexities that we learnt that the Pan Jiahua, described as a leadsees The Lodge as a mere stagtruth was somewhat different. ing adviser to the Politburo, ing post on his way to the top Her supporters point to the Long-fought controls to retain three-storey height limits in the said Rudd’s decision had the job with the United Nations, he fact that unlike Rudd, Gillard is shire’s villages had suddenly been jettisoned in favour of four stoeffect of discouraging developwill be quite as hard to extract admired even by the conservative reys and the amount of land under environmental protection had from his current position as any ing nations from implementing been slashed by more than nearly two thirds. measures to contain emissions. of his predecessors. When he commentariat… These changes have more or less been foisted on the council Australia was already doing does go, it will be kicking and because of a new one-size-fits-all template for LEPs which have much less than China about screaming – which was the real been dreamt up by a government notorious for watering down the point of the question which led by Mungo MacCallum the problem, and the message planning powers of local councils. it was sending to the developing to his pledge. But instead of highlighting the major changes contained in the The current upsurge of sup- unremitting as those against its of them, but not the only one; world was: ‘If even an industriaLEP, council bureaucrats tried to play them down and discourage lised country like Australia can’t port for Julia Gillard has been economic stimulus programs, which is one of the catches. people from making submissions about the wider implications for driven at least partly by Rudd’s in particular the home insulaUnlike the coalition, Labor do it, how can we?’ Quite. water, transport services and sustainability, according to critics. And to conclude on a more plunge in the opinion polls, tion scheme and the Building has a front bench of considerThe Tweed Heads Ratepayers Association has also complained which was in turn a result of his Education Revolution. But able competence and ambition. positive note: the formation of about the consultation process for the Tweed Heads LEP which it serial retreat from previously there has been a key difference. Gillard is obviously the front the National Congress of Aussays attempts to turn their town into a replica of Surfers Paradise held policy positions. No-one In the first case, right from the runner, but Wayne Swan, Ste- tralia’s First Peoples, the reprewith high-rise buildings book-ending the town. The association – well, no-one who can count start the paper has demanded phen Smith and Lindsay Tan- sentative body which will resays there is nothing in the documentation highlighting the sig– is seriously suggesting that he the sacking of the responsible ner wouldn’t mind a crack at place the Aboriginal and Torres nificant changes in the new LEP or anything attempting to justify will face a challenge before the minister, Peter Garrett. But the prize, and further back in Strait Islander Commission as them. It believes the council should have called a public meeting election, but there is a school in the second case, there has the field Craig Emerson, Tony a national indigenous forum, to explain why the 2004 master plan had been ditched. of thought developing the idea been no suggestion that Gillard Burke, Greg Combet and Bill is a sign that the great issue of The council’s track record on community consultation has not Shorten have their aspirations. reconciliation is still on the govthat he will be eased out shortly should fall on her sword. been good. It came under fire over its now stalled plans to sell off The paper’s attack on the BER In the case of the latter group, ernment’s agenda. thereafter. part of Bay Street to a developer when it failed to reveal that an exUnlike ATSIC the new body This relies on the perception has been obsessive, at times bor- the longer a change of leaderisting area of park would be removed or to disclose the developer’s that Rudd’s ascendancy is now dering on the psychotic; even ship is delayed the better. Rudd will be at arms length from concept plans. irrevocably damaged; he will after the audit which said the will have to fall much further government and its structure Accountant Terry Sharples convinced a judge that the consulta- never regain the public’s con- BER had largely succeeded in its before there is any real risk of ensures that it cannot be taken tion process for big rate hikes in the council’s seven-year plan was fidence, and that it would be basic aims of providing employ- rebellion. Alan Jones will just over by a political clique; it recflawed and misleading, but alas for any cash-strapped ratepayers, it smart to make the transition ment and improving education have to wait. ognises that individual delegates didn’t alter the minister’s determinations. The worries about Rudd’s can only represent their own before the voters really turn infrastructure, The Australian’s One way of restoring confidence in the process and head off against him. And given Gillard’s hit squad continued its frenzied public standing crystallised tribal groups (or nations) and future criticisms is to revert to the practice of holding public meet- unquestioned popularity – her assaults on every aspect of the around the deferral of the ETS, cannot presume to speak for the ings where council staff are available to answer questions and fan base now encompasses right scheme, insisting that it was and last week brought more evi- Aboriginal people as a whole, possibly hose down any concerns in an open forum. and left, old and young, rich widely loathed and despised by dence that this was not only a any more that the president of, While such meetings can provide a platform for nutters, they panicky political overreaction, say Portugal, can claim to repreand poor, gay and straight – it parents and schools alike. also provide a valuable forum for staff to defuse conspiracy theoIn fact the audit declared that but a seriously bad idea. As the sent the whole of Europe. would be sensible to exploit her ries, inform the public in a normal jargon-free way and to get early sooner rather than later. But in both a concrete and 95 per cent of school principals sceptics, led by the industryfeedback on issues troubling the majority. It must be more cost Her supporters point to the were happy with the results – subsidised propagandists of a symbolic sense, NCAFP will effective than using staff to field individual inquiries. fact that unlike Rudd, Gillard is nineteen in every twenty. You’d the Institute of Public Affairs fill the vacuum the abolition admired even by the conserva- be lucky to get that sort of con- and their funereal mouthpiece of ATSIC has left, and return a tive commentariat; Alan Jones sensus about the pope being a John Roskam, were trium- voice to our indigenous populaThey’re at it again: Crs Polglase, Holdom, Youngblutt and van is an aficionado, and her weekly catholic. The malcontents The phantly claiming victory for tion. That’s the good news. Lieshout, acting like a pack of school bullies, have kicked Greens Cr Katie Milne off council’s Aboriginal Advisory Committee (AAC) HER SHED Interiors without a valid reason, leading to the suspicion she has been new showroom opening May 20 targeted because she upset the developer alliance. UÊÊ"«« ÀÌÕ ÌÞÊÌ Ê Ü Ê iÜÊ>ÀV ÌiVÌÊ`ià } i`Ê at the Byron Bay A&I Estate Led by the mayor, the ‘let’s get Katie’ gang failed to offer any real `Õ« iÝÊ>ÌÊ-i>LÀiiâiÊ ÃÌ>ÌiÊ* ÌÌÃÛ i SEMINYAK bedding is explanation for this unprecedented action but, as Cr Milne said, UÊÊ "«« ÀÌÕ ÌÞÊpre V ÃÌÀÕVÌ ÊqÊ" Ê Þ available again, come to our it was no doubt related to her outspokenness in the committee UÊÊ iÛ>Ìi`Ê ÀÌ Ê>ëiVÌÊÜ Ì Êv>À É ÊÛ iÜà on planning issues relevant to indigenous cultural and heritage UÊÊ > ÌÊLiÊLÕ ÌÊ ÕÌÊvÀ ÊÌ iÊ ÀÌ matters. A recent AAC meeting voted unanimously to condemn a council decision to concrete a waterway in Ozone Street at ChinUÊÊÎÊLi`À ÃÊÓÊL>Ì À ÃÊ` ÕL iÊ}>À>}iÊ For further information derah to clear the way for a new industrial estate and for council to `iV ÃÊ> `ÊÃÌÞ i and details you can contact urge the relevant Minister to protect the creek and its fish breeding Kerrie on 0410 615 626 UÊÊ ÛiÊ ÊORÊ ÛiÃÌÊ ÊÞ ÕÀÊvÕÌÕÀiÊ grounds, a request vetoed by general manager Mike Rayner and e: kerrie@hershed.com.au $450,000 approx w: hershed.com.au his four directors. www.hershed.com.au/collections Cr Milne said the Aboriginal community deserved to know what For details and plans phone owner on 04 1142 2855 to view the current collection was happening to one of their traditional fishing spots yet a majority of councillors and council staff seem to be doing everything Bill McCullochs they can to muzzle her. 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Magic Mandy After the headline the first thing I read each week in The Echo is Mandy’s column. Please let her know she is a winner. She makes me laugh, hits the spot and always has something worthwhile to say about current events or life in general. The most recent column about teenage girls is so spot on it makes one want to weep. She’s a keeper; don’t let her go. Thanks Mandy. Barbara Dobinson

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More Kings Forests The Reserve Bank indicated the reason for their recent interest rate increases was to slow real estate house prices. One of the reasons house prices have been rising is the shortage of houses. The fact is the green movement has objected to any development, whether it be new dams, new power stations, or new housing subdivisions. A recent writer to this paper claimed koalas have been detected in Kings Forest. I may say Kings Forest has been a privately owned pine plantation for decades, and been bulldozed more than once. Yes, we do need to be environmentally aware, but new housing will, and must go ahead, and I think we should get off the backs of Gold Coasters moving here to live. Many of us wouldn’t have a job without travelling there, across the border. Kings Forest should have been up and running years ago. John Douglas Fihelly

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Marvellous Murwillumbah Recently my partner and I revisited Murwillumbah after 10 years of not having seen it at all. We ended up staying at the youth hostel on the river and were so surprised at the

Mining industry must pay their fair share ■ I am surprised by the focus of coverage about the government’s budget and Tony Abbott’s reply. Everyone is so focused on the economy, that we will again have a budget surplus in three years’ time and that we will have a new tax on mining that means that we will get a fair share of the money foreign companies are making from our minerals. Why has there been so little discussion about the social aspects of the budget and reply? The government has announced major funding in health care which will help address the critical doctor shortages now projected for the Tweed area, given more funding to mental health, more funding to environment

wonderful place it turned out to be. Not only was it in a great location but it also is managed by a great character called Tassie and his offsider Lucky, the ancient waterdragon. It was just marvellous staying at that cosy hostel and rediscovering Murwillumbah with its excellent Caldera Environment Centre and all these unique murals everywhere. We wish the green councillor on Tweed Shire Council the best of luck in her efforts to preserve the natural assets of this amazing region. Gaby Luft

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Thanks to NRG In reply to Menkit Prince and any other No Rally Group (NRG) people that I might have offended with my ‘where the bloody hell are you?’ letter, I am so sorry, it wasn’t directed at your group but others who promised help and haven’t given it. In fact the NRG people are the only ones who have helped us, and our group are very grateful for your support. Yes, we formed a group, and have written to every federal and state minister, we had a petition read at the Legislative Assembly of NSW by Geoff

programs, and a significant increase in superannuation. Further, the government has now introduced their paid parental leave legislation. This is surely wonderful for all Australians, particularly those who live on the Tweed. And what has been the response from Mr Abbott – ‘we will block, we will block, we will block’. Surely we live in a society and not an economy. J Maundrell

Murwillumbah ■ Every small business owner in the Tweed should be concerned at federal opposition leader Tony Abbott’s intention to block the super profits tax on mining companies in the senate. If that that happens

Provest, letters to the papers, etc, and our very small group of mainly pensioners send a monthly contribution to Katie’s legal bill. I did retire here to enjoy a ‘comfort zone’ but with an environment and waterway about to be destroyed I’m in no way apathetic about environmental destruction. I also used the quote about ‘For evil to flourish all it takes is for good people to do nothing’ on all my letters to ministers, so we all do feel the same about our environment being destroyed, and only age and health prevent many of us doing more. As for Katie Milne she has our 100 per cent support as the only councillor who truly cares about our environment. We have done talks at council’s access meetings so we are on the same page, and I hope you accept my apology for inadvertently offending you. And we all need to get involved in the fight to save this beautiful area from becoming a concrete jungle. Lynda Mack

Chinderah

Fiery heroism Robert McKenzie, you were already my hero, your actions in the Boyd Street fire confirm this.

small business will not get a cut in their tax from 30 per cent to 28 per cent as the reduction is dependent on the mining tax being passed in the senate. The chief executive of the Council of Small Business Australia, Jaye Radisich, had this to say on May 9: ‘We expressed our concern on Sunday that the small business tax cuts might fall mercy to the senate as they rely on the passage of the resource super tax. We don’t want that concern to become a reality.’ Tony Abbott is prepared to deny a tax cut to the hard working small business people of Australia for the mere sake of it. Not only is this bad economic policy from Mr Abbott but he has no alternative poli-

Rudd government. I say that because the mums and dads of Australia have not been left out, with an extra $2.2 billion given for primary health care, $417 million for after-hours GP services plus $523 million to train more nurses. I am sure these measures will be welcomed by all Aussie parents and also the seniors in our community, you never know when you or a loved one will fall ill. As well, Kevin Rudd and his team have kept the economy ticking over despite the GFC Paddy Dwyer with the economic stimulus Murwillumbah package, which at the end of the day has been beneficial for ■ It’s good to see that treasurer all Aussies. Sue Hatzfeld Wayne Swan has given a good solid budget on behalf of the Murwillumbah

Years ago when Robert was a child, he saved baby birds from being slaughtered by cruel children and my brave boy was acknowledged in the newspapers. When a fuel line ruptured and diesel flooded on to the exhaust of a huge crane truck, Robert stood by my side and poured water on the red hot exhaust, saving the driver and myself from the imminent explosion. You have again lived up to our pioneer family’s ancient McKenzie motto, Luceo Non Uro, ‘shine, not burn.’ Robert’s great great uncle Kenneth McKenzie, pioneer of Currumbin, was awarded the Royal Humane Society of Australasia medal in 1923 for saving the lives of three drowning trawlermen from their shipwreck at Palm Beach. His great great grandfather James MacKenzie was awarded the tribal name Wollumbin. James befriended the local Aborigines and shared Wollumbin for fifty years. Your forefathers would be as proud of you as I am. Grateful that the elderly lady, the brave mother and daughter and my son survived.

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cies to put on the table except for cutting 6,000 jobs in the public service, which means less service provision across the board and the reintroduction of ‘WorkChoices’ under another name. Federal MP Justine Elliott as part of Kevin Rudd’s team has seen Australia emerge relatively unscathed from the GFC through the economic stimulus package which saved jobs and kept the economy stable. Measures which Tony Abbott and the Coalition opposed from day one.

I recently wrote to Mike Rayner, General Manager of Tweed Shire Council, and complained that one of the councillors (only one) has been deleting my mail without reading over the last nine months. I asked if there was anything in the code of conduct requiring councillors to reply to constituents. I also mentioned how extremely rude I found it that this particular councillor deleted my mail without even reading it and requested an explanation. I received a mailed letter in reply from Neil Baldwin, TSC Public Officer, saying there isn’t anything wrong with councillors not replying to our mail because we should be addressing all email to tsc@tweed.nsw. gov.au for it to be regarded as ‘official correspondence.’ Not a word of explanation as to why she was deleting without reading. I can understand councillors may be too busy to reply, or that exchange email accounts may be defaulted to ‘Never send a response,’ but to delete without reading shows a total lack of interest in what the community is thinking and is totally lacking in basic manners. Of course, by writing to tsc@ James McKenzie. tweed.nsw.gov.au we can NEVMt Wollumbin ER know if councillors are de-

leting or reading our mail or not! It is just one more loophole to let them off the hook. It irks me that this particular councillor, who fancies herself as ‘Woman of the Year,’ is the one who turns to the gallery at council meetings and, in a supercilious tone, tells us how good she is at listening to the community – argh puke! Menkit Prince

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mains. Even though there has been past maintenance of the pipes to our homes and businesses, there may be a new health concern for water users, if this detached material is not removed. Tweed Shire Council is about to consider public submissions towards their new Drinking Water Policy. In that policy I would expect meaningful public reporting on the maintenance/replacement of Tweed’s leaking water mains, reservoirs, fire hydrants, and registered metered hydrants, which have the capacity to infect our water supply. Tweed residents’ trust in our water supply is paramount, particularly when public health may be at risk. Water distribution systems in nearby Gold Coast will soon be maintained by a newly formed authority. Submissions to Tweed’s Draft Management Plan for 2010/2013 close on May 24, 2010. Richard W Murray

Tweed Heads Environment Group Inc

Retrenching whalers If you want to stop whaling, it is quite simple, really. Find the whalers something else to do to earn a living. Or financially compensate them for retraining into different fields like the following. Their mother ships could be used as abattoirs in places like the Port of Wyndham in the top end of Western Australia, seeing two of the biggest cattle stations in the world are parked nearby. Wyndham used to have a land based ab-

Community rally resistance is empowering Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt. It also runs deep behind the furrows on the brows of rally promoters, Alan Evans, Toni Zuschke, Phil Villiers et al. It is the terrible fate, the awful occupational hazard of boosters, spin doctors and liars in general to believe their own propaganda and never know why reality comes from behind and slams them so hard. If the first Repco rally is unrecognised as a PR disaster for the organisers, how much worse does it have to get for next time to be a wake up call? Be assured that we who worked so well to spike the wheels of the first rally will neither be intimidated nor deterred by your bluster. The promoters ought to know that the rally will certainly come up against community resistance again if they are unable to learn from the past. From where I am looking the rally promoters have everything to lose and the resistance everything to gain in this contest. The No Rally rally in Uki on the last day of racing last year was a wonderfully empowering event. Great community spirit was manifest on

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attoir some years ago. As for the harpoon ships, send them to the coast of Somalia (where the pirates haven’t even the decency of flying the Jolly Roger) and warn the pirates that the Japs are on the way to hunt them down with their harpoons. I reckon Advertisement

the streets, free and uplifting. It’s so good for the heart to be standing together with folk in common cause and proud to be acting as if tomorrow matters. The promoters need to know our motivations run deeper than confounding a weekend hoonfest. Stop the rally and there is a good chance we will also stop the dam. Surrender to the rally and we surrender to the dam. For the Earth!

4. It didn’t infringe on National Parks or any other areas of high conservation value. 5. Visitors to the festival didn’t drive there at breakneck speeds. 6. Organisers of the event didn’t have to tell lies to win their community’s support. 7. The festival didn’t require backroom secret deals. 8. It brought loads of real tourists to the area. 9. No animals were in danger of stress myopathy from overhead helicopters and extreme noise. 10. The festival wasn’t held during the breeding season of many rare and endangered species, and 11. It certainly didn’t divide the community like the Repco rally did. Now that I have answered Toni’s questions maybe she’ll have the good grace to answer some of mine. 1. Why, after all the promises and months of delay, was Rally Australia not able to lodge a DA with local councils? 2. How many people are still employed in jobs created by the Repco rally? 3. Why were the local Tweed Valley Aboriginal people not consulted about the impact

on cultural heritage? 4. Why was Dr Steven Phillips only asked to do an ecological report based on a single running of the event, when organisers planned for it to run every second year for at least 10 years? 5. How can a socio-economic impact assessment be considered independent when the only information it contained came from Rally Australia? 6. Where are the thousands of trees that organisers promised to plant as a carbon offset? 7. We were promised that rally drivers would have to obey normal road rules in liaison stages, yet photographic evidence of rally drivers overtaking on double lines on blind corners was ignored by police. Why? 8. We were promised overseas tourists would flood the Tweed after the event spending millions of dollars… where are all these tourists? It’s been noted, Toni, how quick you were to jump into the media when it was falsely claimed that the majority of Tweed residents wanted the return of the rally according to a poll run in the Snooze. Where are you now that the same poll

piracy will become unpopular after they see what a whaling harpoon can do in redecorating their vessel. The whalers Tania Phillips could turn this into a tourism venture, as in coastal passenger Murwillumbah mentor Peter services to fill in time, etc, etc. Crittle (pictured) is continuNeville C Thompson ing his life-long love of rugby Banora Point union, not in the lofty position as head of the game in NSW or Australia, but back on the playing field, back in trenches. ‘I’m told I’m the oldest rugby union coach [of a registered club] in Australia,’ said the former Wallaby, aged 71, who lives at Crabbes Creek in the south of the shire. But age is obviously no barrier to Peter, who knows the sport backwards, frontwards and everywhere in between. He should, he played 15 tests between 1962 and 1967, is a well-known and successful coach and a past president of the NSW and Australian Rugby Union among other achievements in the sport. In 2004 he was honoured as an officer of the Order of Australia in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for his rugby achievements. Peter, a former barrister who started playing rugby aged seven and admits to a life-long obsession with the sport, is heading the charge to reinstate rugby in Murwillumbah. ‘I’m a willing captive of the sport and I don’t want to escape,’ he joked of his return to coaching after years in the administration of the sport. The Murwillumbah team, which is playing in the Far – www.getup.org.au North Coast villages competi-

tion, has had an inauspicious start with three losses and a draw, but everyone has to start somewhere, or in the case of Murwillumbah Rugby Union, restart somewhere. ‘The president of the Far North Coast zone rang me up and told me they were getting a Murwillumbah Club together and was I interested?’ said Peter, who retired to the Tweed Valley a few years ago after first buying a holiday property in Byron Bay in 1979. ‘And I said I wouldn’t mind getting back to coaching’. So the Murwillumbah Rugby Club was reborn, almost 100

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Peacebus ■ As reported in the Snooze recently, apparently some prorally supporters and Madam Zuschke wondered why environmentalists and people opposed to the rally didn’t protest against the festival held in Nimbin. Is Toni Zuschke really as stupid as this sounded? Surely not, but in case she is, let me explain. 1. The Nimbin festival didn’t require 12 NSW environmental protection and other laws to be overriden. 2. It brought real money into the community. 3. It didn’t cause any environmental damage.

shows 75 per cent against the return of the rally? By answering the above questions we might start to have real public consultation. These questions were never answered by anyone from Rally Australia and until they are, we will continue to oppose the rally from coming here. Julie Whitney

Tyalgum ■ So the Repco car rally is set to return to the Tweed next year. And why shouldn’t it? Last week rally chairman Alan Evans stated that 87,000 people attended last year’s event. Unbelievable! That’s more than the Gold Coast Indie, the Wintersun and also the Byron Blues Festival. In fact it’s almost double the entire Tweed Shire population. Wow! It must have been something to see! 87,000 people converging on Murwillumbah for a car race, too bad I missed that. But what I did notice was the 500 people who stayed for the after-race award presentations. The other 86,500 race fans must have left early to beat the traffic.

Terry Seabrook

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years after it disbanded. ‘I thought it was worthwhile getting involved, the town (which once had a proud union tradition) hasn’t had a club since 1914. ‘The club originally formed in 1896 but they couldn’t reform after the first World War because most of the team was killed fighting on the Western front,’ he said. Finally, Murwillumbah is back doing battle on the rugby field, playing against Iluka, Yamba, Evans River, Bangalow, Mullumbimby, Kyogle and Byron Bay. ■ Match report, page 22

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WATT THE ??!! What has happened to the humble light bulb? The innocuous incandescent has been earmarked as a contributor to greenhouse gases, and has been exterminated. You can’t find a 80 cent bulb anywhere anymore. From a visual perspective, the old fashioned lightbulb was a far superior design to these new eco friendly compact fluorescents. They look a bit like an electric colon. They’re ugly. It just doesn’t rival the classic lightbulb. Andy Warhol would turn in his pop art grave. That fragile glass bubble filled with argon gas created light by employing just a wafer thin wire of tungsten to channel the magic. Sure it required 75 per cent more energy to power the same amount of light, but those old school bulbs were dirt cheap to buy. Now the only light bulb available is $10 for a two pack. It’s a very effective way of curbing energy use. Every time I go to the supermarket I think do I really need a light in the toilet? At my house it’s now: do it in the daylight, take a candle or buy the braille toilet paper. How do people on Centrelink benefits afford light bulbs anymore? They’re so expensive, it must have little old ladies having to choose between eating and seeing. Fortunately most older people go to bed by 5pm so living without light is not such a problem. I’ve been trying to cut back spending for the last six months so in our household living in the light has become a privilege rather than a right. At my house, people only get light bulbs on their birthday. You’ve never seen true joy until you’ve watched your teenager unwrap an eco friendly bulb. More useful than an iPod. It’s

not just the expense, or how unattractive they are shape wise, it’s the two choices you get: ‘can’t see at all’ and ‘can see too much’. Sure they use less energy, but that’s because they create inferior light. You certainly lose the ambience around the house when your place is lit like a Woolies deli. You’d want to be in a long term relationship, because there ain’t no romance in the deathly blue glare of a CFL. It would be like having sex in the meat department. If you’ve never had depression issues in the past you’ll be pleased to know that ten minutes in a room lit by a CFL is all it takes to want to top yourself. You’ll be a poet in no time. I think Sylvia Plath must have had fluoros – that’s why she sought solace in the soft blue flame of the oven. There’s just no ambience in a fluoro. I’m aware that the consumer is supposed to see a marked reduction in their energy use and thus have a lowered electricity bill. I’ve been using the eco-bulbs for over a year and my bills haven’t varied a bit. (Although that could be because we’ve been using the on-light on Zoe’s hair iron to illuminate the hallway). Wow, does that mean if Shearwater had used low wattage bulbs, they wouldn’t be ten million bucks in debt? People may have noticed a small drop in their bills, so isn’t it fortuitous that Country Energy have been permitted to hike their fees! It would be undemocratic to see a saving passed on to the consumer when it can go back to big business. As of July 1, electricity bills will go up by 30 per cent. These low wattage bulbs are a crock. Sure they don’t use as much energy, but they’re full of mercury – doesn’t that end up in landfill later down the track? Aren’t we just doing the environmental equivalent of borrowing from Pavitar to pay Premal? (That’s the Byron Shire version of Peter to pay Paul). I’m jack of the whole thing. Forget electricity, I say go the candle. The lights aren’t on baby, but that doesn’t mean that nobody’s home.

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BYRON ■BEACH HOTEL, 9PM THE SOUL SHAKERS ■THE RAILS, 6.30PM LET’S BE FRANK ■HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, SUPERMASSIVE ■BYRON BAY BREWERY BUDDHA BAR 6.30PM SOMERSAULT ■BYRON COMMUNITY THEATRE 7.30PM ‘CABARET’ BY BYRON BAY THEATRE CO. ■O SUSHI, 6PM BLACKBIRDS ■TREEHOUSE, BELONGIL 6PM CHRIS MILLER ■LA LA LAND, BUZZ & OH! ■LIQUID, 8PM-3AM DJ WHOEVER

FRIDAY 21 TWEED ■BILAMBIL SPORTS CLUB 8PM HAYLEY YOUNG ■CABARITA BEACH BAR & GRILL, 8.30PM BROADFOOT ■CABARITA COTTAGE 7PM NORTH COAST TIME ■CUDGEN LEAGUES CLUB 7.30PM MARK MCQUIRE ■CABARITA BEACH SPORTS CLUB 8PM INNOCENT BYSTANDERS ■CLUB BANORA, BANORA POINT 7.30PM JASON DELPIN ■IMPERIAL HOTEL, M’BAH 8PM MACHINERY DRIVE ■KINGSCLIFF BEACH HOTEL, 9.30PM PAUL ATKINS ■LUFFLEY CAFE, M’BAH 7PM TIFFANY RAE & SMOOTH GROOVE ■MURWILLUMBAH HOTEL 6PM BEN WILSON 9PM DJ HERVE ■MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES MEMORIAL CLUB 6.30PM DELISH ■POTTSVILLE BEACH SPORTS CLUB 7PM BRENDA LEE HEATHCOTE ■RAINFOREST CAFE, UKI, 6.30PM REGGAE DJ ■SALT BAR, KINGSCIFF, 7PM PRESTON TRAIN ■SEAGULLS CLUB, 9.30PM WILEY REED ■SOUNDLOUNGE 8PM HARRY MANX ■TWEED TAVERN (THE ROUND HOUSE), MURWILLUMBAH 8PM DJ CONNECTION AND DUTCH ■TWIN TOWNS CLUBS & RESORTS 11AM LIVE MUSIC ■TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 12PM MICHAEL 7PM STREET CAFE BAND ■UKI HALL, 7PM UKITOPIA ARTS COLLECTIVE PRESENTS ‘CABARET 360’

BYRON ■BEACH HOTEL, 5PM THE KOOKABROTHERS 9PM RED BANTOO ■THE RAILS, 6.30PM SIMON WRIGHT & THE ECLECTIC ■HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, SAMPOLOGY ■BYRON BAY BREWERY BUDDHA BAR 6.30PM UNDERTOW ■BYRON BAY COMMUNITY CENTRE 7.30PM BYRON BAY THEATRE CO. PRESENT ‘CABARET’ ■DENDY, SYDNEY TRAVELLING FILM FESTIVAL ■RETROSPECT GALLERY, 6PM RETROISM OPENING PARTY ■BYRON ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE 7.30PM THE LUCKY DIP VARIETY SHOW ■STILL@THE CENTRE BYRON 6PM BRIGIT HENSTORF EXHIBITON OPENING ■LA LA LAND, HELENA RYAN RUSHTON & DANIEL WEBBER ■LIQUID, 8PM FRIDAY NIGHT LOVE’ DJS: ELIXZA | JD | DAVE C | DEE DEE ■COCOMANGAS, DJ QC + DJ KRISTIN ■HOTEL BRUNSWICK 7.30PM PHIL & GAZ DUO MICK SATURDAY MCHUGH BANDLAS 22

TWEED â– CABARITA BEACH SPORTS CLUB 8PM CLIFFY â– CABARITA BEACH BAR & GRILL, 8.30PM FAT ALBERT â– CLUB BANORA, BANORA POINT 8PM SHANDELL â– CHINDERAH TAVERN 3PM DAVID TONKS â– KINGSCLIFF BEACH HOTEL, 8.30PM JOHN BRADLEY â– KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS CLUB, 7.30PM HAPPY DAZE KARAOKE â– MURWILLUMBAH HOTEL 9.30PM TRAGIX â– MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES MEMORIAL CLUB 6.30PM TREVOR HERD â– MURWILLUMBAH SHOWGROUNDS 5.30PM THE GALA OPEN AIR VARIETY CONCERT â– POTTSVILLE BEACH SPORTS CLUB 6PM ALICE ANDERSON â– SALTBAR BEACHBAR AND BISTRO, KINGSCLIFF, 8.30PM SOULMAN â– SHEOAK SHACK, FINGAL HEAD 7PM BILL JACOBI

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â– SOUTH TWEED SPORTS CLUB 3PM LIVE JAZZ 7.30PM COOL CHANGE 9PM NOEL PARLANE â– TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 7.30PM LEGENDS GREG DOOLAN â– TWIN TOWNS CLUBS & RESORTS 10AM FREE LIVE ENTERTAINMENT 8.30PM LEE KERNAGHAN PLANET COUNTRY TOUR

GOLD COAST â– BURLEIGH HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6.30PM DOWN BEAT JAZZ BAND â– COOLANGATTA HOTEL 9PM DJ DAVE MAY / DJ LEE ROY â– COOLANGATTA SANDS HOTEL 9PM BRETT GANNON â– CURRUMBIN RSL 7PM TWO 4 NOW â– ELSEWHERE BAR, GOLD COAST, SECRET LOVE HEROES â– GOLD COAST ARTS CENTRE 8PM FOSTER AND ALLEN â– KIRRA BEACH HOTEL 7PM, LIVE MUSIC, KARAOKE â– NORTH BURLEIGH SURF CLUB, 7PM LIVE DJ â– MIAMI SHARK BAR, MIAMI 9POM BURNING BROOKLYN â– NEVERLAND BAR, COOLANGATTA 8PM YOLANDA BE COOL & DCUP â– PEACE YOGA BURLEIGH HEADS, 7.30PM IN THE PRESENCE OF GONGS â– TUGUN COMMUNITY CENTRE, 2PM, 7.30PM THEATRE PRODUCTION: OUTSIDE EDGE

BYRON ■BEACH HOTEL, 9.30PM DIRTY LAUNDRY ■THE RAILS, 6.30PM FAT TUESDAY ■HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, DAN KELLY & HIS DREAM BAND ■BYRON BAY BREWERY BUDDHA BAR 6.30PM PARISSA BOUAS AND DIASPORA LATINA ■DENDY, SYDNEY TRAVELLING FILM FESTIVAL ■BYRON COMMUNITY CENTRE 7.30PM BYRON BAY THEATRE CO. PRESENT ‘CABARET’ ■BYRON BAY BOWLING CLUB 7.30PM AFRICAN LEAF TRIVIA NIGHT ■LA LA LAND, MILES JUNIOR & EASY P ■LIQUID, 8PM - 3AM H2O ADAM J TAYLOR | DEEGS | CAPTAIN KAINE ■COCOMANGAS, DJ QC + DJ CARL WALKER ■HOTEL BRUNSWICK 7.30PM THE CREW

SUNDAY 23 TWEED

BREAKAWAYS â– ELSEWHERE BAR, 8PM ROYALE SUNDAY â– IVORY TAVERN, TWEED HEADS 3PM BLUESVILLE STATION â– KIRRA SPORTS CLUB 3PM KARAOKE â– LE MONDE KIRRA 1.30PM HARII BANDU â– NORTH KIRRA SURF LIFESAVING CLUB 2PM LIVE JAZZ â– SOUTHERN CROSS TAVERN, BELINGA 2PM FASHION ZOMBIES â– SURF CLUB COOLANGATTA, 2PM SHAYNE CRUMP â– TUGUN BOWLS CLUB, 2PM ASH PERRO

BYRON ■BEACH HOTEL, 1PM DJS ARI + SOUL’D + NOWAK ■THE RAILS, 6PM KIM CAMPBELL ■HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, KARL SMITH ■BYRON BAY BREWERY BUDDHA BAR 6.30PM LEIGH JAMES ■DENDY, BYRON SYDNEY TRAVELLING FILM FESTIVAL ■BYRON COMMUNITY CENTRE 5PM BYRON BAY THEATRE CO. PRESENT ‘CABARET’ ■LA LA LAND, CAPTAIN KAINE & DISCO HOOKERS ■HOTEL BRUNSWICK 4-8PM ‘SUNDAY SESSIONS’ LIVE MUSIC WITH MASON RACK

MONDAY 24 TWEED â– KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS CLUB 12PM CRAIG SHAW â– TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6.30PM BJ LITTLE â– TWIN TOWNS SERVICES CLUB 11AM FREE LIVE ENTERTAINMENT

BYRON â– BEACH HOTEL 8.30PM ANDY BURKE â– THE RAILS, 6.30PM ANNA WEATHERUP â– HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, WAYNE EVANS â– BYRON BAY BREWERY BUDDHA BAR 5.30PM LIVE MUSIC

TUESDAY 25 TWEED â– MURWILLUMBAH HOTEL 7PM JAM NIGHT â– TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6.30PM CRAIG SHAW â– TWIN TOWNS CLUBS & RESORTS 8.30PM LIVE MUSIC

BYRON

■BEACH HOTEL, 8.30PM SHINE ■CHINDERAH TAVERN, 2PM PAUL ■THE RAILS, 6.30PM TIM STOKES ATKINS ■CLUB BANORA, 11.30AM GEORGE ■HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, HARRY HEALY HARVEY PRESENTS CRAIG ■BYRON BAY BREWERY BUDDHA GILES 12.30PM GLENN BRACE BAR 6.30PM OPEN MIC WITH ■CABARITA BEACH BAR AND GRILL MATTY DEVITT 2PM, WAYNE VITALE ■IMPERIAL HOTEL, M’BAH 1PM MR ■COCOMANGAS, TIGHTARSE TUESDAY TROY ■POTTSVILLE BEACH SPORTS CLUB WEDNESDAY 26 4PM DAVE CAVANGH ■RIVERVIEW HOTEL, M’BAH 2PM TWEED BILL JACOBI ■SPHINX ROCK CAFE, MT BURRELL ■TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 2PM JAN MARIE 6.30PM DON WHITAKER ■TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 5PM ■CLUB BANORA 6PM CHRIS DAVE CLAYTON PALMER ■TWIN TOWNS CLUBS & RESORTS ■TWIN TOWNS CLUBS & RESORTS 12.30PM LIVE ENTERTAINMENT 11AM THE SWING BAND

GOLD COAST

GOLD COAST

â– BURLEIGH BEARS LEAGUES CLUB 2.30PM ZEPHYRS MK11 â– COOLANGATTA HOTEL 2PM PEKO 7PM PUNCHLINE DUO â– COOLANGATTA SANDS HOTEL 4PM COREY HARGRAVES â– CURRUMBIN RSL 1.30PM THE

■COOLANGATTA HOTEL 8PM ATHOL BIRNIE ■GOLD COAST ARTS CENTRE 8PM DEEP BLUE ORCHESTRA – THE DREAM ■GREENMOUNT BEACH CLUB 7PM DOWNBEAT JAZZ

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DAVID LADLEY EXHIBITION AT D’BAR GALLERY UNTIL THE END OF MAY

Preston Train Preston Train feature local musicians that have been playing together on and off over the last 20 years. Lead vocals features Terry Perkins, bass guitar – Geoff Loveday, guitars – Marcus Rainford and Ian Rowe with Dave Bambach on drums. The band’s repertoire consists of interpretations from the likes of the Bondi Cigars, Robben Ford, Donovan Frankenreiter, Ben Harper through to the likes of the Foo Fighters, the Cruel Sea and the Rolling Stones. Catch the 'Train' at the Saltbar this Friday May 21 and they will play their first show at the Pottsville Sports Club Saturday May 29 from 7.30pm.

Bill Jacobi 'Music has taken me all over the world and brought me together with amazing people

both musicians and otherwise,' says Bill. 'Music still continues to be a sanctuary and a refuge as well as a source of great inspiration.' Bill performs mainly solo with an acoustic guitar and stomp box and his latest CD Times Like These with his band Method is available at shows. 'A few years ago I built myself a solar passive, mud rendered strawbale house in the foothills of Mt. Warning. Another reason I call myself one of the luckiest men alive.' Sheoak Shack, Fingal Head 7pm Saturday.

Shut Your Goblet Currumbin RSL kicks off D'Alliance Festival with a world class bill at the regular comedy night, Side Splitting Laughs. Headlining on Thursday May 27 is Elliot Goblet,

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one of Australia's most original and best loved comedians. As the master of deadpan, his style has been described as 'mentally altered', 'offbeat but on target', 'slapstick in reverse' and 'realism coated with the ridiculous'. Goblet is best known for around 60 appearances as a guest stand up comedian on shows like Hey Hey It’s Saturday, Tonight Live, The Midday Show and The Big Gig. He has also done guest appearances on celebrity TV game shows, Burke’s Backyard, Neighbours and The Footy Show, as well as starring in lots of corporate videos and TV commercials in Australia and New Zealand. MC for the night is Joel Salom. An international comedian/ circus performer, Joel has MC'd Spiegeltents in San Francisco and most recently pulled full houses at Portugal's Circus Festival. Dynamic, inventive and engaging, Joel Salom is one of the country's most awesome talents. From his robot dog Erik, to laser juggling, ping pong balls out the mouth and his constant pants dropping, you just don't know what to expect. Mandy Nolan will be performing in the role of support, performing a longer set than usual. Her passionate politically incorrect rants and her offhand self deprecatory confidence has her fast becoming a favourite on the Coast. Book early – the shows have sold out the last couple of times! Tickets are

$15/18 and are available at the Currumbin RSL. Doors open 6.30pm for a 7.30pm start time. For further information visit www.currumbinrsl.com.au or call the club on 07 5534 7999.

HARRY MANX, SOUNDLOUNGE 8PM FRIDAY MAY 21

D’Alliance Festival Throughout the daytime on May 29, the 2010 D’Alliance Fringe Festival will showcase local and national performers. The free Saturday Carnivale from 10am to 4pm includes circus acts, visual arts, comedy, film, theatre, street performance and an endless stream of musical talent. This part of the festival will finish at 4pm, and the event will then be ticketed from 6pm to 10pm. The night time garden show 'Phoenix the Wanderer' is a one hour multimedia spectacular. Featuring a contemporary folk tale, this beautiful simple story with a positive environmental message is told by a live storyteller accompanied by visual graphic art, animation, ambient lighting, sand sculpture, a pyrotechnics display and fire dancers. Interspersed throughout the story is a selection of the Gold Coast’s finest musicians playing their own original music, composed specifically for the show and woven lyrically and musically into the storytelling itself. The 35-piece Gold Coast Youth Chamber Orchestra will be accompanying the

TWEED VALLEY JAZZ CLUB PRESENTS

THE HARRY LYNN TRAD BAND Early Band: IAN FORD – piano solo from 6.00pm

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Coolangatta Showcase on the Beach 07 5536 5455 Byron Bay Woolies Plaza, Jonson St 02 6685 7103 www.osushi.com.au

CUDGEN

Cudgen Leagues Club

CURRUMBIN

Alleys

KINGSCLIFF

Fins

FINGAL HEAD

Phone: 02 6674 1816 Wommin Bay Road, Kingscliff www.cudgenleagues. com.au

Sheoak Shack

Currumbin RSL Club Currumbin Creek Road, Currumbin Open 7 days lunch and dinner 07 5534 7999 www.currumbin.com.au

Salt Village, Kingscliff 02 6674 4833 dining@fins.com.au Dinner 7 days Lunch Fri, Sat & Sun

Nam Yeng

The Gallery Café combines art with fresh food and wine. Enjoy having lunch at the beautifully appointed licensed café with indoor and outdoor seating and cnr Tweed Valley Way magnificent panoramic views over the Tweed River and Mistral Road, and Border Ranges. View the art and treat yourself to Murwillumbah delicious cakes and great coffee. A fabulous venue for Open Wed-Sun 10am-5pm special events, office parties and wedding receptions. 02 6672 5088 Group bookings essential.

Tweed River Art Gallery

Winner of Best Sushi Bar in NSW region 2008. Eat in or takeaway. Licensed. Open 7 days 11am till late. O-Sushi is a modern Japanese restaurant guided by a philosophy that incorporates traditional values of providing the best possible service combined with fresh wholesome food.

The Tweed Tavern (Round House)

Sea Breeze Bistro open Tues-Sun 12- 2pm, 6 -8pm Tuesday and Wednesday lunches $6 Thursday and Sunday Roast Night $8 Friday nights from the specials board – warm salads to great steaks, cooked to order with a choice of sauces Dinner for two: The cheapest on the coast! Only $32.50: includes a choice of two main meals and a 750ml bottle of wine. Enjoy contemporary dining where award winning chefs transform quality fresh, local produce into sumptuous meals and cater to varying dietary requirements. With over 30 years international experience including 16 years as executive chef at Seaworld Nara Resort, Executive Chef Jiri Solnicka joins the team. Check our website for great weekly specials. Winner – Best Club Restaurant QLD 2007, 2008 & 2009 (Clubs Queensland Awards).

31 Bray St Murwillumbah Ph: 02 6672 1023 Cnr Pacific Highway and Murwillumbah turnoff

Cafe Lazumba 14 Bay St Tweed Heads 07 5536 1811

Cafe Laz mba

Fins San Sebastian Sessions with local, organic DJ Sunday May 16 from 5pm. $59 per person includes two tapas and two drinks, celebrating the launch of our new tapas menu! Bookings essential. Did you know, Fins is also open just for drinks from 5pm till late daily?

If you are looking for delicious food, coffee or romantic sunset cocktail on the riverbank, the Sheoak Shack is the beach shack for you with a funky laid back daytime vibe or a party atmosphere with live music on Saturday nights. This gallery/cafe showcases the work of high quality local artists and is available for private functions… more Byron than Byron, in sleepy Fingal Head.

storyteller with some timeless classical pieces, selected specifically for this performance by conductor Ben Singh. Some of the featured artists in this production include members of local acts Tijuana Cartel, Kwerkshoppe, A French Butler Called Smith, Igloo and Wunluv alongside other local talents Andrea Soler, Loustar, Mark Duckworth and more. This ‘utopia for the senses’ will appeal to children and adults

BILL JACOBI MAY 22 THE SHEOAK SHACK MAY 23 THE RIVERVIEW HOTEL MURWILLUMBAH

Mount Warning Hotel

Penny Byrne Gitmo Bay souvenirs

ON DISPLAY UNTIL 20 JUNE

Michelle Dawson Sleeping Sphinx (detail)

Time Travel: reimagining the past An exhibition by some of Australia’s most intriguing contemporary artists inspired by world history and our relatively short Anglo-Australian ‘past’ After Moonrise: Sarah Harvey This ongoing body of work explores the fictional world of rabbits inspired by the novel Watership Down by Richard Adams Artists by artists: works from the collection Showcasing a selection of portraits and self portraits from the Collection CPM 1992-2008 Showcasing acquired works on paper from CPM between 1992 - 2008 Until 13 June - Operation Art 50 artworks by school students created for sick children and their families Until 11 July - Printer’s Proofs: from the Fred Genis Collection PUBLIC PROGRAM

Sat 22 May 11am Floortalk: After moonrise with artist Sarah Harvey Sun 6 Jun 11am Floortalk: Time Travel with Gallery Director, S Muddiman Sat 13 Jun 11am Operation Art craft activity for children 5 years + FREE FREE ADMISSION Open Wed-Sun 10am-5pm 2 Mistral Rd Murwillumbah NSW 2484 02 6670 2790 www.tweed.nsw.gov.au/artgallery

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BABAREKI BEADS ECO JEWELLERY STUDIO 4, THE OLD BUTTER FACTORY, KYOGLE ROAD, UKI PHONE: 02 6679 7316 CAFÉ D’BAR GALLERY 275 BOUNDARY ST, COOLANGATTA PHONE: 07 5536 2500 OPEN EVERY DAY. COMMUNITY PRINTMAKERS MURWILLUMBAH (CPM INC) 33-35 KYOGLE ROAD BRAY PARK, MURWILLUMBAH PHONE: 02 6672 8276 CURRENT EXHIBITION: HEATHER MATTHEW: REFUGE(E) CURIOUS ART GALLERY 20 CHINDERAH BAY DRIVE CHINDERAH PHONE 02 6674 5340 OPEN: 10AM-5PM WEDNESDAY SATURDAY, SUNDAY 12PM - 5PM MINJUNGBAL ABORIGINAL CULTURAL CENTRE CNR KIRKWOOD ROAD & DUFFY STREET, SOUTH TWEED HEADS PHONE: 07 5524 2109 OPEN: 9-4PM EVERY DAY EXCEPT WEEKENDS SHEOAK SHACK GALLERY CAFE 64 FINGAL RD, FINGAL HEAD PHONE: 07 5523 1130 OPEN WED-THURS: 11AM-5PM, FRISAT: 11AM-10:30PM, SUN 9:30AM-

One of the region’s great old country pubs. Delicious food, bistro open for lunch everyday from 12-2pm, dinner Thursday to Sunday from 6-8pm. Children’s playground, relaxing beer garden. Curry night on Thursday, raffles and member’s draw on Friday, punter’s draw on Saturday and on Sunday there is a delicious roast.

Open 7 days 10am till late Bistro open daily 1497 Kyogle Rd, Uki 02 6679 5111

5PM STOKERS SIDING POTTERY 224 STOKERS ROAD, STOKERS SIDING, TWEED VALLEY PHONE: 02 6677 9208 OPEN 7 DAYS FROM 9:30AM -5PM SHELENA RUSSELL GALLERIES 36 GRIFFITH ST, COOLANGATTA PHONE: 07 5536 6559 OPEN: MON-FRI 10 -5PM, SAT 10-2PM, SUN 10-12.30PM SEAN SCOTT PHOTOGRAPHY SHOP 3, 110 MARINE PARADE, REFLECTIONS TOWER TWO, COOLANGATTA PHONE: 07 5599 1150 OPEN: MON-SUN 6.30AM- 5PM TUMBULGUM GALLERY 110 RIVERSIDE DR, TUMBULGUM PHONE: 02 6676 6234 OPEN 11AM-4PM WED-SUN THE WAY OF DESIGN GALLERY 2/792 PACIFIC PARADE, CURRUMBIN BEACH PHONE: 07 5534 1530 OPEN: TUES-SAT: 9.30AM -2.30PM. TWEED RIVER ART GALLERY 2 MISTRAL RD (CORNER OF TWEED VALLEY WAY), MURWILLUMBAH PHONE 02 6670 2790 OPEN WED-SUN 10AM–5PM.

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Lasagne and salad $795 Homestyle traditional beef, Thai chicken and pumpkin ricotta

Mt Warning Hotel

IN YOUR AREA

A Tweed Shire Council community facility

Sandwiches only $250 each available every Tuesday and Wednesday (selected varieties)

Terranora Tavern Bar and Bistro is the newest and most vibrant venue in the Tweed. The bistro is family orientated with Kids Eat Free on Monday nights and plenty of value for money meals. The fantastic outlook, overseeing the Gold Coast from Coolangatta to Surfers Paradise, provides an experience that is unparalleled in the Tweed. Come in and try our extensive menu and we’re sure you’ll be back for more!

alike, offering a magical hour of entertainment which will live on in their hearts long after the event. The evening will also feature performances by Juzzie Smith, Mr Om and A French Butler Called Smith finishing up the night. A single adult ticket is $23 and a family pass is $55, if you buy it online in advance and there is every chance this event could sell out so it's recommend getting tickets in advance to avoid disappoint-

Tweed River Art Gallery

Newly appointed chefs Brendan McDonald and Sarah Everett provide the freshest food made from local ingredients. Brendan has cooked feasts for presidents and olympians in his 20 year career. Sarah is a familiar face; she has worked at Twin Towns and the M’bah Services Club. The new team adds to the existing talents of Kelly Channells in the kitchen. Catch resident DJs on Fridays, from 8pm. Excellent TAB facilities, food and live entertainment at the Tweed Tavern. Functions catered for.

Terranora Tavern

2-14 Henry Lawson Drive Terranora 07 5590 5416 Open 7 days Lunch from 12 noon Dinner from 5.30pm info@terranoratavern. com.au

GOOD FOOD GUIDE CHEFS HAT EVERY YEAR SINCE 1998

64 Fingal Rd, Fingal Head Ph 07 5523 1130 Wed & Thurs 11am-5pm, Fri & Sat 11am-10pm & Sun 9.30am-5pm www.sheoakshack.com

Shop 2, 7 Wharf St, Murwillumbah Open 5pm 6 days (closed Sundays) Catering available BYO phone 6672 3088

Only serving the freshest ingredients. Authentic Vietnamese and Thai style food in the heart of Murwillumbah. Winner of the 2009 BEX (Business Excellence Award). Prices are very reasonable, entrees start from $8, mains from $12.50. House specialty – Red Duck Curry, Tamarind Prawns and home made delicious desserts. For something different, try our Vietnamese coffee.

MURWILLUMBAH

O-Sushi

Nam Yeng Viet/ Thai Restaurant

ment. For more information and to buy tickets online visit Currumbin RSL’s website www. currumbinrsl.com.au

David Ladley exhibition Despite most art exhibitions looking neat and controlled, the background to the production of works of art can be just the opposite. In this case it was absolute chaos! David was painting out in the country in Victoria some time ago, and on the way home was suddenly engulfed in smoke as flames in a bushfire leapt across the road in front of the car and blazed on up the hill. He had to travel 50kms around the fire to get back home later that night. But like they say the entertainment business, the show must go on. The exhibition at the Café D’Bar Gallery is on until May 30 so make sure you don’t miss it. They make fabulous coffee there too. Open every day.

TWEED HEADS

CASUARINA COOLANGATTA

Australian cuisine created by chef Greg Pieper. Greg uses produce sourced locally in the Tweed region and was awarded the prestigious ‘chef’s hat’ – the toque – by the SMH Good Food Guide 2009/2010. Poolside at Santai Resort, Located at Casuarina, next to the spectacular lagoons 9 Dianella Drive, Casuarina and tropical gardens of Santai resort, Bamboo is a hidden treasure. 02 6670 5555

Bamboo Restaurant & Lounge Bar

Here you will find some of the best local dining on offer. Restaurant owners take note: Good Taste provides you with the chance to tell your customers more about your business with ample room for that extra information that may not fit in a small advertisment. Great introductory rates are on offer, call 02 6672 2280 to find out more.

UKI

GOODTASTE

The Echo’s guide to

begin at 7.30pm with doors opening at 7pm. With last year’s event a sell-out and two nights of auditions undertaken, the 2010 Cabaret 360 event is proving to be another brilliant night of entertainment. Tickets are $25/$20 and must be purchased in advance from the Uki Café Uki, Crystal Treasures Murwillumbah and online at www.ukitopiaartscollective. com. Tea, coffee and cakes are available. For more information go to www.ukitopiaartscollective.com or phone Natascha on 6679 7316.

Outside Edge Theatre production

'Outside Edge' is a comedy theatre production about cricket. Set in the English countryside, the play continues this week. The performances are at the Tugun Community Centre on Coolangata Road, about 1km south of Tugun. There are eleven performances altogether over three weekends, with evening performances on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7.30pm, and a Saturday matinee at 2pm on May 22. There is cabaret style seating in the theatre and Cabaret 360 people may bring there own On May 21, the Uki Hall Ukitopia Arts Collective will stage drinks and nibbles. Price is $12, with a concession ticket at $10. their second annual Cabaret 360. Directed by Hamilton Bar- For bookings call Mandy on 07 5593 9174. nett, the two hour show will

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Television Guide 1. Christian Bale is one of the better Batmen, as he shows in Batman Begins (NBN, Friday. 9.40pm), adding a film noir frisson to the caped crusader’s efforts, only outdarkened by Ledger’s Joker in The Dark Knight. 2. Abigail Breslin is her usual beguiling self in Nim’s Island (Prime, Saturday, 6.30pm), a pleasant adventure for children but not one of the best. Contains traces of CGI. 3. Antonio Banderas is the ballroom dance teacher in Take The Lead (GO!, Sunday, 8.30pm), a sort of To Sir With Love without Sidney Poitier and Lulu’s theme song. In search of weird comedy? Psychoville on ABC1 on Fridays at 9.30pm.

FRIDAY 21

ABC 1 4.30 Shortland Street 5.00 Something In The Air 5.30 The Einstein Factor 6.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Catalyst 11.30 The New Inventors 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Enough Rope With Andrew Denton 1.30 Rough Diamond 2.30 Spicks And Specks 3.00 Kids’ Programs 5.00 Women’s Asian Cup Football LIVE – Korea Rep v Australia 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Stateline 8.00 Collectors 8.30 Waking The Dead (M) 10.15 Ladies Of Letters 10.40 Lateline 11.20 The Graham Norton Show 12.10 rage (M)

8.30 Being Erica 9.15 Love Soup (M) 9.45 Bonekickers (M) 10.45 Later… With Jools Holland Stereophonics, Ellie Goulding, Wild Beasts, Maxwell, Diana Krall, The Unthanks 11.45 Songbook Duran Duran 12.35 Planet Rock Profiles Black Eyed Peas 1.05 Little Angels 1.35 Coach Trip 2.00 Close

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SATURDAY 22

ABC 2 6.00 6.00 6.30 7.30 8.15 8.30

Kids’ Programs At The Movies Heartland Robin Hood Mr Bean Movie: Joe Kidd (M 1972) Clint Eastwood 10.00 Movie: Hoodwink (M 1981) True story of an Australian con artist. Stars John Hargreaves, Judy Davis 11.30 The Oldest Living Tasmanian The Huon Pine 12.00 Seed Hunter 1.00 Murder Or Mutiny (M) 2.00 Close

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6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Lost Worlds Ghengis Khan and the Mongols 8.30 Giro d’Italia Cycling Highlights 9.00 Movie: Infernal Affairs (M 2002) Cantonese action. Stars Tony Leung, Andy Lau, Anthony Wong 10.45 Movie: Atomik Circus (MAV 2004) French/British/German sci-fi/comedy. Stars Jean-Pierre Marielle, Vanessa Paradis 12.20 Weatherwatch

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10.00 Movie: Behind The Rising Sun (PG 1943) Robert Ryan, Tom Neal, Margo and J Carrol Naish 12.00 Beyond Tomorrow 1.00 All My Children 2.00 Shortland Street 2.30 Coronation Street 3.00 Emmerdale 3.30 Kitchen Time 6.00 Make Me A Supermodel 7.00 Delish 7.30 Ghost Whisperer 8.30 Escape To The Country 9.45 60 Minute Makeover 10.45 Last Comic Standing (M) 12.30 Leyland Brothers World 1.30 AFL Flashback Classics

Saturday Club Weekend Sunrise Kids’ Programs V8 Xtra V8 Supercars TBA What’s Up Down Under Guide To The Good Life Sydney Weekender Seven News Movie: Movie: Nim’s Island (PG 2008) Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster 8.30 Movie: You Only Live Twice (PG 1967) Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Mie Hama, Tetsuro Tanba 10.50 Movie: The River Wild (M 1994) A white water rafting guide takes her young son and workaholic husband on a river trip. Stars Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon, Joseph Mazzello 1.00 Infomercials

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5.00am to 6.00pm World News and Weatherwatch

World News Australia Stockinger (PG) Unit One (M) Movie: The Piano Teacher (MA 2001) French drama about a woman who teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory by day. Stars Isabelle Huppert, Benoît Magimel, Annie Girardot 12.10 Movie: Volaverunt (MA 1999) Spanish drama set in 1802 about the Duchess of Alba. Stars Penelope Cruz, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Jordi Mollà 1.50 Weatherwatch

6.00 Friday Night Footy Encore Geelong v Collingwood 8.30 Harry’s Practice 9.00 Movie: Solomon And Sheba (PG 1959) Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida 12.10 Movie: Rocky II (PG 1979) Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young 2.45 Home & Away Catch-Up 5.00 The Great Australian Doorstep 5.30 Better Homes And Gardens 6.30 The World Around Us 7.30 Heartbeat 8.30 A Touch Of Frost (M) 10.00 Minder 11.10 Monster House 12.10 Leyland Brothers World 1.00 Room For Improvement 1.30 AFL

magnetize lucky breaks in your direction. So don’t hang about waiting for invitations – take the initiative, make the first move, reach out and call. CANCER: Like the Buddha advises, this fleeting life’s over soon enough so why waste even a second of it being cantankerous? End of week Venus moving into Cancer restores your joie de vivre, wit and warmth, deluging you with offers and then who’s the popular Crabster? LEO: This week’s zeitgeist’s a little on the low side, so if your regal decrees and majestic expectations aren’t meeting with the success you feel they merit, midweek Leo moon might find you in need of ego stoking and mane stroking. Ask nicely (no roaring), and you’ll

6.00 Oneasia Tour Golf 9.30 Golf Central 10.00 Major League Baseball – LIVE 1.00 MVP 1.30 ATP World Tour Tennis 2.00 British Touring Car Championship 3.00 Omnisport 3.30 AFL Premiership Season – Western Bulldogs v Sydney 6.00 Omnisport 6.30 IAAF Athletix Magazine 7.00 Sports Tonight 7.30 Endless Winter 9.30 Andra Pro Series Drag Racing 10.30 Australian Rally Championship 11.30 UFC 12.00 Sports Tonight Late 12.30 Red Bull Air Race Highlights 1.30 ITU World Championship Triathlon 2.30 Major League Baseball 5.00 Oneasia Tour Golf

6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ 11.30 Married With Children 12.00 Frasier 12.30 Seinfeld 1.00 Wife Swap USA 2.00 Starsky & Hutch (M) 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 The Nanny 4.00 Kids’ Programs 6.30 Total Wipeout UK 7.30 Movie: Daffy Duck’s Fantastic Island (G 1974) 9.00 Black Adder The Third (PG) 9.45 ’Allo ’Allo (PG) 10.30 Movie: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (AV 2003) Marcus Nispel, Jessica Biel, Jonathon Tucker 12.30 Eclipse Music TV (M) 1.00 Movie: Murder At 1600 (M 1997) Wesley Snipes, Alan Alda, Diane Lane 3.00 The Avengers 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Married With Children 5.30 The Flintstones

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6.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Infomercials 7.00 Weekend Today Saturday 10.00 Hit List TV 12.00 Landed Music 9.00 Saturday Kerri-Anne 10.00 Kid’s Programs 12.30 Out Of The Blue 1.00 The Barefoot Investor 2.30 Movie: The Blue Butterfly (G 2004) The mother of a terminally ill boy 1.30 Hook Line & Sinker 2.00 AFL Premiership Season LIVE – ensures her son’s dream is achieved. Stars William Hurt, Pascale Bussieres, Fremantle v Sydney 5.00 Ten News Marc Donate 4.30 Talk To The Animals 5.30 Sports Tonight 6.00 Malcolm In The Middle 5.00 Antiques Roadshow 5.30 Postcards International 6.30 Monk (PG) 8.30 Movie: Eragon (PG 2006) An orphaned 6.00 NBN News 6.30 Australia’s Funniest Home Videos farm boy becomes the keeper of the last dragon egg. Stars Edward Speleers, 7.30 Movie: Must Love Dogs (PG 2005) Diane Lane, John Cusack Jeremy Irons, Sienna Guillory 10.35 AFL Premiership Season Essendon v 8.40 Lotto 9.30 Movie: Hitch (M 2005) Will Smith, Eva Richmond 1.05 Infomercials Mendes 12.00 Movie: Main Event (M 1979) Barbara 2.05 Video Hits Up Late 2.30 Infomercials Streisand, Ryan O’Neil, Paul Sand 4.00 Religion 2.00 Movie: Jack (M 2003) Stockard Channing, Anton Yelchin 4.00 Infomercials

ONE HD

6.00 Oneasia Tour Golf 9.30 IAAF Athletix Magazine 10.00 NBA Tip Off

5.00 Omnisport 5.30 Sports Tonight 6.00 MVP 6.30 Before The Game

7.00 Championship Netball Pulse v Tactix 9.25 ATP World Tour Tennis 10.00 MotoGP Qualifying France 11.10 AFL Premiership Season Essendon v Richmond 3.10 Bundesliga Football 4.10 Serie A Football 5.00 British Touring Car Championship

VIRGO: The current astral climate suggests helpful advice is best kept to yourself, so if you’d rather not have your head bitten off don’t cast those pearls of Virgo wisdom before this week’s philistines. Take a break from rescuing others and give yourself some serious nurturing. LIBRA: This week’s demands could stretch the Libran comfort zone, but doesn’t that have the bracing effect of making you very creative, very quickly? Plus a mentor who could help maximise your talents without getting caught in the sticky web of debt is hovering close by. SCORPIO: Money grumbles and tough truths could render even you zodiac warriors

GO! 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

11.00 NBA Basketball Playoffs LIVE 2.00 AFL Premiership Season LIVE – Fremantle v Sydney

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6.00 Ten Early News 5.30 Today 9.00 Kerri-Anne 11.00 Infomercials 12.00 Ellen Degeneres Show 7.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 The View 9.00 Ten News 2.00 Days Of Our Lives 10.00 The Circle 3.00 Alive And Cooking 12.00 Dr Phil (M) 3.30 Hi-5 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) 4.00 Pyramid 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 4.30 News 3.00 Judge Judy 5.00 Antiques Roadshow 3.30 Infomercial 5.30 Hot Seat 4.00 Huey’s Kitchen 6.00 NBN News 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 7.00 A Current Affair 5.00 Ten News 7.30 Friday Night Football LIVE – 6.00 The Simpsons Newcastle Knights v Wests Tigers 6.30 Neighbours 9.40 Movie: Batman Begins (M 2005) 7.00 The 7pm Project Christian Bale, Katie Holmes, Liam 7.30 Masterchef Australia Neeson 9.00 NCIS (M) 12.30 Nightline 10.00 Numb3rs (M) 1.00 Movie: Love Me Or Leave Me (PG 11.00 Ten Late News 1955) Doris Day, James Cagney 11.30 Sports Tonight 12.00 The Late Show With David Letterman 3.30 Entertainment Tonight 4.00 Infomercial 1.00 Friday Night Lights 4.30 Good Morning America 2.00 Infomercials 5.00 Religion

6.00 Kids Time 9.00 Sons & Daughters 9.30 Home & Away

SBS 1 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 1.00 Trip To Asia Berlin Philharmonic 3.00 Empire Of The Word 3.55 Living With The Future 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Road To The FIFA World Cup 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Monster Moves 8.30 Eurovision A-Z 9.45 Rockwiz (PG) 10.30 Movie: The Stone Council (MA 2006) French thriller about a woman’s attempt to save her adopted son from a bizarre cult. Stars Monica Bellucci, Catherine Deneuve, Moritz Bleibtreu 12.15 SOS Short films 1.15 Swordsmen Of The Passes (M) Chinese drama series 2.50 Weatherwatch

ARIES: If you find this week’s news destabilizing, discuss it with someone you trust rather than significant others. If you don’t, then thank your lucky stars, count your blessings, throw on your party hat and go celebrate. Just don’t risk hasty decisions or rash money moves. TAURUS: While downsizing is the current WITH LILITH imperative, letting go rather than getting This week’s tetchy astral more is secretly daunting for Taurans. Make up tempo calls for optimism and for any feelings of lack this week with some satisfying pampering: there’s an absolute determination in the face host of comforting autumn sense pleasures to of sobering global realities – choose from. finding creative, celebratory GEMINI: With numbers crunching all over antidotes to existential the place this week networking will lift your gloom and doom… spirits, rearrange your state of mind and

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6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Seven Morning News 12.00 Movie: Dying Young (M 1991) A young woman helps a dying young man to find joy in life. Stars Julia Roberts, Campbell Scott, Ellen Burstyn 2.30 The Golden Girls 3.00 Medical Emergency 3.30 The Fairies 4.00 It’s Academic 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 Better Homes And Gardens 8.30 Ghost Whisperer 9.30 AFL Premiership Season Geelong v Collingwood 1.00 Infomercials

SBS 2

6.30 7.30 8.30 9.55

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5.00am to 6.00pm World News and Weatherwatch

ABC 1 5.00 rage (PG) 10.00 rage Guest Programmer Operator Please 11.00 Poh’s Kitchen 11.30 Message Stick (G*) Pemulwuy 12.00 Stateline 12.30 Australian Story 1.00 Foreign Correspondent 1.30 The Oldest Living Tasmanian 2.00 Pilot Guides Zambia and Malawi 3.00 Rugby Union Shute Shield LIVE – Eastern Suburbs v Southern Districts 5.00 International Test Bowls Highlights 6.00 Nigella Feasts 6.30 Gardening Australia 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Doc Martin 8.30 The Bill (PG) 9.15 ABC News Update 9.20 Midsomer Murders (M) 11.00 Silent Witness (M) 11.55 rage (M)

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5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 1.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia 1.30 Insight 2.30 Return Of The Bible Plagues 3.30 Living Black 4.00 Countdown To Eurovision 4.30 The Journal 5.00 Newshour 6.00 Global Village 6.30 World News 7.30 The Hottest Place On Earth Danakil 8.30 Iran And The West (M) 9.30 World News Australia 10.00 A Lady’s Guide To Brothels (MA) 11.10 Movie: Hardcore (MAV 2004) Greek drama. Stars Omiros Poulakis, Ioannis Papzissis 12.50 Movie: Almost Brothers (MA 2004) Brazilian drama. Stars Caco Ciocler, Flavio Bauraqui 2.40 Weatherwatch

ABC 2 5.30 Talking Heads: Adam Shand 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 The Urban Chef 6.30 Dirty Jobs 7.10 The Daily Show 7.35 The Colbert Report 8.00 Mr Bean

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6.30 Movie: Monster House (PG 2006) Mitchel Musso, Ryan Newman 8.30 Movie: Hellboy (M 2004) Ron Perlman, John Hurt, Selma Blair 11.00 Seinfeld 11.30 Reno 911 (M)

12.00 Movie: The Big Cube (PG 1969) Tito Davison, Lana Turner, George Chakiris 2.00 Get Smart 3.00 Hogan’s Heroes 4.00 Frasier 5.00 The Jetsons 5.30 Marine Boy

vulnerable to other people’s agendas, so slip on the psychic self-defense suit and fire off a quick request for invisible assistance to this week’s birthday person St. John of Nepomuk, patron saint of bridge builders… SAGITTARIUS: You want rewarding and enjoyable work that feeds your passion, so decide this week what it is that currently excites you – then how to organize the natural skills and abilities you most love using in a way that supports your doing more of it. CAPRICORN: The general dense energy could benefit from a hit of spritz, so let your fun loving side out for some exercise. Despite the odd squabble and glitch, fixable by applying kindness and common sense, this week’s

receptive to and extremely appreciative of your practical talents. AQUARIUS: Any job, relationship, circumstance or habit pattern you’re unhappy with causes toxic resentment, so either give your attitude to whatever’s unsatisfactory in your life a radical makeover this week, or else change the situation. Doesn’t apply to you? Take a closer look, Waterpourers… PISCES: Mightn’t be what you want, but this week offers what you need. Yeah right, I need this? you’re thinking. You do, and being grateful even in adverse circumstances is so admirable it can’t help but press the cosmic Abundance Button. Don’t believe me? Try it and see.

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SUNDAY 23

5.00 rage 6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Insiders 10.00 4.00 UEFA Champions League Final LIVE – Inside Business 10.30 Offsiders 11.00 Asia Pacific Bayern Munich v Inter Milan Focus 11.30 Songs Of Praise 12.00 Landline 1.00 7.00 World News Gardening Australia 1.30 Message Stick 10.30 A Fork In The Road Hong Kong

2.00 Travel Oz 2.30 Athens The truth about democracy 3.30 New York And Paris 4.25 Karsh Is History 5.20 Possessions 5.30 Art Nation 6.00 At The Movies 6.30 Treks In A Wild World Canada 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Doctor Who 8.35 Foyle’s War (M) 10.10 Compass (G*) Catholic Australia and the Second Vatican Council 10.55 Scene By Scene Films of Asia Pacific 11.50 Dame Elisabeth Murdoch In Conversation 12.20 Movie: Joan Of Paris (G 1942) Paul Henried, Michele Morgan 1.55 Movie: Playmates (G B&W 1941) Kay Kyser, John Barrymore 3.30 Talking Heads Glenn Murcutt 4.00 First Tuesday Book Club

6.00 Religion 7.00 Weekend Sunrise 10.00 AFL Game Day 11.00 The Most Extreme Crazy collectors 11.00 Three Tales Of Two Cities 12.00 Movie: Support Your Local 11.30 UCI BMX Supercross World Cup Gunfighter (PG 1971) James Garner, 12.00 Australian BMX Championships Suzanne Pleshette, Jack Elan 12.30 World Superbike Championships 2.00 AFL Premiership Season Carlton v 1.00 Speedweek Hawthorn 2.00 Giro d’Italia Cycling 5.00 Destination New Zealand 3.00 Football Asia 5.30 Mercurio’s Menu 3.30 Futbol Mundial 6.00 Seven News 4.00 UEFA Champions League Final Replay 6.30 Sunday Night 5.00 The World Game 7.30 Border Security – Australia’s Front 6.00 Road To The FIFA World Cup Line (PG) 6.30 World News Australia 8.00 The Force – Behind The Line (PG) 7.30 Lost Worlds Iceland’s volcano 8.30 Bones (M) 8.30 Dateline 9.30 Castle (M) 9.30 First Australians 10.30 Scrubs (PG) 11.20 Movie: The 13 Roses (MAV 2007) 11.00 30 Rock (PG) Spanish historical drama. Stars Pilar 12.00 Room For Improvement 12.30 Infomercials 5.30 Seven News López de Ayala, Verónica Sánchez 1.35 Movie: Osama (M 2003) Afghani drama. Stars Marina Golbahari, Arif Herati 6.00 AFL Grand Final Classic 8.30 Kids’ Programs 3.05 Weatherwatch

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ABC 2 6.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Women’s Asian Cup Football LIVE – China PR v Australia 8.00 Walt Whitman Poet 9.40 Cold Feet (M) 10.30 Brideshead Revisited (G) 11.30 Live At The Basement Loudon Wainwright III 12.30 Stereophonics (MA) 2.10 Close

SBS 2 5.00am to 6.00pm World News and Weatherwatch

6.30 7.30 8.30 9.30

World News Australia The World Game Insiders Guide To Happiness (M) Movie: The Valet (M 2006) French comedy. Gad Elmaleh, Daniel Auteuil

11.00 Movie: Wintersleepers (M 1997) German drama. Stars Heino Ferch, Ulrich Matthes 1.00 Weatherwatch

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SBS 1

MONDAY 24

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

5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 11.00 Landline 1.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia 12.00 Midday Report 1.30 Humanimal Dolphins 12.30 The Return Of Sherlock Holmes (M) 2.30 Dateline 1.30 The Cook And The Chef 3.30 Insight 2.00 Parliament Question Time 4.30 The Journal 3.00 Kids’ Programs 5.00 The Crew 6.00 Travel Oz Great festivals of Australia 5.30 Futbol Mundial 6.30 Talking Heads Paula Constant 6.00 Living Black 7.00 ABC News 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 The 7.30 Report 7.30 Mythbusters 8.00 Australian Story 8.35 Man Vs Wild Kimberley, Australia 8.30 Four Corners 9.30 World News 9.20 Media Watch 10.00 South Park (M) 9.35 Q&A 10.30 Entourage (M) 10.35 Lateline 11.00 Movie: Initial D (M 2005) Cantonese 11.10 Lateline Business action. Stars Takumi Fujiwara, Ryousuke 11.35 Sin City Law (M) Takahashi 12.30 Parliament Question Time 12.55 Movie: The Magic Blade (M 1976) 1.30 Movie: Flying Leathernecks (PG 1951) Mandarin action adventure. Stars Ti John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Don Taylor Long, Lo Lieh 3.25 International Test Bowls Australia v 2.40 Weatherwatch England Highlights

ABC 2 5.30 Talking Heads: Mitch Dowd 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Collectors 6.30 Dirty Jobs 7.10 The Daily Show 7.35 The Colbert Report 8.00 Important Things 8.30 Good Game 9.00 I Rock: Band On The Run (M) 9.30 Sanctuary (M)

10.30 The League Of Gentlemen (M) 11.00 triple j tv presents Sarah Blasko 11.30 Death Note (M) 12.00 It’s Adam And Shelley (M) 12.30 No Heroics (M) 1.05 Little Angels 1.35 Coach Trip 2.00 Close

SBS 2 5.00am to 6.00pm World News and Weatherwatch

6.30 7.30 8.30 9.00

World News Australia Dateline Giro d’Italia Cycling Highlights Movie: Blueprint (M 2003) German drama about a woman who is the clone of her mother. Stars Franka Potente, Ulrich Thomsen 10.55 Movie: Reconstruction (M 2003) Danish romance. Stars Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Maria Bonnevie 12.35 Weatherwatch

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ABC 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 World’s Worst Disasters 1.30 The Einstein Factor 2.00 Parliament Question Time 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Time Team 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Foreign Correspondent 8.30 Rick Stein’s Far Eastern Odyssey Bali and Sri Lanka 9.35 QI 10.05 Artscape William Robinson 10.35 Lateline 11.10 Lateline Business 11.35 Four Corners 12.25 Media Watch 12.40 The Chaser’s War On Everything (M) 1.05 Parliament Question Time 2.05 Poirot (PG) 3.00 Big Ideas 4.00 Good Game (M)

ABC 2 5.30 Talking Heads: Tim Costello 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Dynasties: The McGulgan Family 6.30 Dirty Jobs 7.10 The Daily Show 7.35 The Colbert Report 8.00 Outnumbered 8.30 The Street (M)

9.30 The Wire (MA) 10.30 Ashes To Ashes (M) 11.30 Fear, Stress And Anger (M) 12.00 Heartland 12.45 A Little Later Coldplay 1.05 Little Angels 1.35 Coach Trip 2.00 Close

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12.00 Movie: Benny & Joon (PG 1993) Johnny Depp, Mary Stuart Masterson 1.50 Movie: Mermaids (PG 1990) Cher, Winona Ryder 4.10 Ballet: Nutcracker (G 1986) Yekaterina Maksimova, Vladimir Vasilyev 6.00 Discover Tasmania 6.30 Movie: Mousehunt (PG 1997) Nathan Lane, Lee Evans 8.30 World War II Lost Films: Edge Of The Abyss / End Game (M)

10.30 Movie: Crimson Tide (M 1995) Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman 1.00 Room For Improvement 1.30 AFL Flashback Classic 3.45 Auction Squad 4.40 Hot Property 5.00 Home Shopping

6.00 Kids Time 9.00 Sons & Daughters 9.30 Home & Away 10.00 Movie: Home Is Where The Hart Is (PG 1987) Leslie Nielsen, Eric Christmas, Ted Stidder 12.00 Beyond Tomorrow 1.00 All My Children 2.00 Shortland Street 2.30 Coronation Street 3.00 Emmerdale 3.30 Kitchen Time 6.00 Australia’s Got Talent 7.00 Samantha Who? 7.30 Heartbeat 9.35 Rosemary & Thyme 10.40 Infamous Assassinations: Lord Louis Mountbatten (M) 11.15 World War II Lost Film: Glory And Guts (M) 12.20 Empire (M) 1.10 Room For Improvement 1.30 AFL 3.45 Auction Squad 4.40 Hot Property 5.00 Home Shopping

SBS 1

PRIME 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Seven Morning News 12.00 Movie: Love’s Unending Legacy (PG 2007) Erin Cottrell, Dale Midkiff, Victor Browne, Samantha Smith 2.00 All Saints (M) 3.00 Medical Emergency 3.30 The Fairies 4.00 It’s Academic 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 Australia’s Got Talent 9.00 Grey’s Anatomy (M) 10.00 Private Practice (M) 11.00 Serial Killers (M) 12.00 Hot Property

SBS 2 5.00am to 6.00pm World News and Weatherwatch

6.30 7.30 8.30 9.00

World News Australia Absolute Zero Giro d’Italia Cycling Highlights Movie: The Mermaid (MA 2007) Russian comedy. Stars Masha Shalaeva, Evgeny Tsyganov, Maria Sakova 11.05 Movie: Good Girl (M 2005) French romantic comedy. Stars Emmanuelle Devos, Bruno Todeschini 12.50 Weatherwatch

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GO! 6.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 The Hills 11.30 Eclipse Music TV 12.00 Charlie’s Angels 1.00 The Partridge Family 1.30 Movie: The Long Ships (PG 1963) Jack Cardiff, Richard Widmark 4.00 Green Acres 5.00 The Nanny 5.30 Wipeout 6.30 Top Gear 7.40 The Big Bang Theory

TEN 6.00 Ten Early News 7.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Ten News 10.00 The Circle 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Infomercial 4.00 Huey’s Kitchen 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News 6.00 The Simpsons 6.30 Neighbours 7.00 The 7pm Project 7.30 Masterchef Australia 8.30 Good News Week (M) 10.00 Glee 11.00 Late News With Sports Tonight 11.45 The Late Show With David Letterman 12.30 Saving Grace (M)

11.30 Beat Squad 12.00 This Rugged Coast 1.00 1.30 Infomercials 4.00 Religion Infomercials 5.30 Seven News

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12.30 Infomercials 5.30 Seven News

NBN 6.00 Infomercials 7.00 Weekend Today 10.00 Wide World Of Sports 11.00 The Sunday Footy Show 12.00 Sunday Roast 1.00 Men In Trees 3.00 Survivor: Heroes Vs Villians 4.00 Sunday Football St George Illawarra Dragons v Canberra Raiders 6.00 NBN News 6.30 Customs 7.00 Send In The Dogs 7.30 60 Minutes 8.30 Underbelly: The Golden Mile (M) 9.30 Australian Families Of Crime (AV) Melbourne’s Kath Pettingill 10.30 V (M) 11.30 Embarrassing Illnesses 12.30 Super League 2.00 Skippy 2.30 Infomercials 3.30 Religion 4.00 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

6.00 Oneasia Tour Golf 9.00 AFL Premiership Season – Essendon v Richmond 11.30 Warren Miller’s Endless Winter 1.30 TNA Xplosion 2.30 Championship Netball – LIVE Thunderbirds v Firebirds 4.30 I Fish 5.00 Omnisport 5.30 British Touring Car Championship 6.30 Sports Tonight 6.45 125cc Motorcycle Racing LIVE from France 8.00 Moto2 Motorcycle Racing LIVE from France 9.10 Sports Tonight 9.30 MotoGP LIVE from France 11.15 Red Bull X Fighters 1.15 Omnisport 1.45 College Basketball 3.15 Transworld Sport 4.15 Drive 4.45 Omnisport 5.00 Oneasia Tour Golf

PRIME 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Seven Morning News 12.00 Movie: Mom At Sixteen (M 2005) Danielle Panabaker, Mercedes Ruehl, Jane Krakowski, Colin Ferguson 2.00 All Saints (M) 3.00 Medical Emergency 3.30 The Fairies 4.00 It’s Academic 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 Zoo 8.00 Find My Family 8.30 Desperate Housewives (M) 9.30 Brothers & Susters (M) 10.30 Trauma (M)

Weatherwatch World News Eurovision Song Contest Junior 2009 Blue, Karma, Tiger Graffiti Living Black Wine Lovers’ Guide To Australia The Journal Newshour Global Village World News Australia Insight Lani’s Story A young Aboriginal woman’s journey from victim to victor 9.30 World News Australia 10.00 Hot Docs: My Father’s Country (M) 11.00 Movie: Blackout (M 2007) Philippino thriller about a single father who, after an alcohol-induced blackout, fears he may be responsible for his neighbour’s missing daughter. Stars Robin Padilla, Iza Calzado, JM Reyes 12.35 The Wehrmacht (M) 1.40 Weatherwatch

5.00 5.05 1.00 3.15 3.30 4.00 4.30 5.00 6.00 6.30 7.30 8.30

TEN 6.00 Religion 7.00 Kids’ Programs 8.00 Meet The Press 8.30 The Hit Rater.com 9.00 The Benchwarmers Oz Made 10.00 Hit List TV 12.00 One Tree Hill 1.00 Out Of The Blue 1.30 iFish 2.30 Championship Netball Firebirds v Thunderbirds 4.30 Road To Delhi 5.00 Ten News 5.30 Sports Tonight 6.00 The Simpsons 6.30 Merlin 7.30 Masterchef Australia 8.30 The Good Wife (M) 9.30 House (M) 10.30 MotoGP France 1.15 Road To Delhi 1.45 Video Hits Up Late 2.00 Infomercials 4.00 Religion

ONE HD 6.30 Oneasia Tour Golf 9.00 ATP World Tour Tennis 9.30 Sports Unlimited 10.30 NBA Tip Off 11.00 NBA Basketball Playoffs LIVE 2.00 MotoGP 3.00 Omnisport 3.30 ITU World Championship Triathlon 4.30 IAAF Athletix Magazine 5.00 Championship Netball LIVE – Steel v Magic 7.00 Sports Tonight 7.30 One Week At A Time

8.30 Championship Netball LIVE – Swifts v Fever 10.30 NBA Basketball Playoffs 12.45 Sports Tonight Late 1.00 One Week At A Time 2.00 Australian Championship Athletics 3.00 Omnisport 3.30 TNA Xplosion 4.30 Drive 5.45 Omnisport 5.00 Oneasia Tour Golf

TEN

8.30 Movie: Take The Lead (PG 2006) Antonio Banderas, Alfre Woodard 11.00 Movie: Jiminy Glick In Lalawood (M 2004) Martin Short, Jan Hooks 1.00 Green Acres 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Charlie’s Angels 5.00 The Partridge Family 5.30 The Nanny

NBN 5.30 Today 9.00 Kerri-Anne 11.00 Time/Life

11.30 Infomercial 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 Pyramid 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 (PG) 8.00 The Big Bang Theory (PG) 8.25 Lotto 8.30 The Mentalist (M) 9.30 CSI: Miami (M) 11.30 Nightline 12.00 Super League 2.00 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 Married With Children 12.00 Frasier 12.30 Seinfeld 1.00 Green Acres 2.00 Starsky & Hutch 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 The Nanny 4.00 Kids’ Programs 6.30 Total Wipeout UK 7.30 Wife Swap USA

8.30 Movie: The Gathering (M 2007) Part 1. Stars Peter Gallagher, Peter Fonda 10.30 Nip-Tuck (MA) 11.30 South Park (M) 12.00 Starsky & Hutch (M) 1.00 Nip/Tuck (MA) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Married With Children 5.30 The Flintstones

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6.00 Ten Early News 7.00 Kids’ Programs

5.30 Today 9.00 Kerri-Anne

9.00 Ten News 10.00 The Circle 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Infomercial 4.00 Huey’s Kitchen 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News 6.00 The Simpsons 6.30 Neighbours 7.00 The 7pm Project 7.30 Masterchef Australia 8.00 Modern Family (PG) 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 Sex And The City (MA)

11.00 Infomercials 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 Pyramid 4.30 Afternoon News 5.00 Antiques Roadshow 5.30 Hot Seat 6.00 Evening News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 Top Gear 8.40 Survivor: Heroes Vs Villains Finale 11.30 Nightline 12.00 WWE Afterburn 1.00 Entertainment Tonight 1.30 Infomercials 3.00 Religion 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

1.30 Infomercials 4.00 Religion

7 TWO 6.00 Kids Time 9.00 Sons & Daughters 9.30 Home & Away

10.00 Movie: The End Of The Affair (PG 1955) Deborah Kerr, Van Johnson, John Mills 12.10 Battle Of The Choirs 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 Ugly Betty 7.30 Ugly Betty 8.30 24 (M) 9.30 Lost (M) 11.20 Disorderly Conduct Caught On Tape (M) 12.10 Leyland Brothers World 1.00 Room For Improvement 1.30 AFL Flashback Classic 3.45 Auction Squad 4.40 Hot Property 5.00 Home Shopping

ONE HD 6.00 Transworld Sport 7.00 British Touring Car Championship 8.00 TNA Xplosion 9.00 Major League Baseball LIVE 12.00 This Week In Baseball 12.30 AFL Premiership Season – Essendon v Richmond 3.00 One Week At A Time 4.00 Omnisport 4.30 Beach Volleyball 5.30 125cc Motorcycle Racing 6.30 Moto2 Motorcycle Racing 7.30 MotoGP 8.30 NASCAR Sprint Cup 9.30 Sports Tonight 10.00 Johnny Lewis Boxing Classics 11.00 Golf Central 11.30 WRC Shakedown 12.00 Sports Tonight Late 12.15 Red Bull Air Race 1.15 Omnisport 1.45 Major League Baseball 4.15 Drive 4.45 Omnisport 5.00 Oneasia Tour Golf

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GO! 6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ 11.30 Married With Children 12.00 Frasier 12.30 Seinfeld 1.00 Movie: The Gathering (M 2007) Part 1 Peter Gallagher, Peter Fonda 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 The Nanny 4.00 Kids’ Programs 5.30 Bewitched 6.00 The Flintstones 6.30 Total Wipeout UK 7.30 The Middle 8.00 The New Adventures Of Old Christine 8.30 Seinfeld 9.00 Community 9.30 The Inbetweeners (MA) 10.00 South Park (MA) 11.00 Reno 911 (M) 11.30 South Park (M) 12.00 Community 12.30 The Inbetweeners (MA) 1.00 Seinfeld 1.30 The New Adventures Of Old Christine 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Married With Children 5.30 The Flintstones

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ABC 1

SBS 1

4.30 Shortland Street 5.00 Something In The Air

5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 1.00 Lionel Rose Australia’s first Aboriginal boxing champion 2.00 River Of No Return Ramingining in North East Arnhem Land 3.00 The Nest 4.00 A Fork In Africa Cape Town 4.30 The Journal 5.00 Newshour 6.00 Global Village 6.30 World News Australia 7.35 Inspector Rex (PG) 8.30 Desperately Seeking Doctors 9.30 World News 10.00 The Killing (M) 11.05 Movie: By The Pricking Of My Thumbs (PG 2005) French mystery. Stars Catherine Frot, Andre Dussolier 12.55 Australian Biography Noel Tovey (M) 1.30 Movie: Samaritan Girl (M 2004) South Korean drama. Stars Lee Eol, Gwak Ji-min, Seo Min-jung 3.15 Weatherwatch

5.30 The Einstein Factor 6.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 National Press Club Address 1.30 Talking Heads 2.00 Parliament Question Time 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 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 9.00 Lowdown (M) 9.30 Psychoville (M) Dawn French 10.00 At The Movies 10.30 Lateline 11.05 Lateline Business 11.30 Spooks (M) 12.25 Parliament Question Time 1.25 Movie: Journey Into Fear (G B&W 1942) Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten 2.30 Big Ideas 3.30 National Press Club Address

ABC 2

8.00 Video Killed The Radio Star 8.30 Blood, Sweat And Takeaways (M) 9.30 The Human Power Station 10.30 Millionaires’ Mission (M) 11.35 Spendaholics Miriam Isherwood 12.30 A Place In Slovakia 1.05 Little Angels 1.35 Coach Trip 2.00 Close

6.30 7.30 8.35 9.05

World News Australia Insight Giro d’Italia Cycling Highlights Movie: Yella (M 2007) German drama. Stars Nina Hoss, Devid Striesow 10.40 Movie: Takva – A Man’s Fear Of God (M 2006) Turkish drama about a man thrown into the modern world. Stars Erkan Can, Güvan Kiraç 12.25 Weatherwatch

THURSDAY 27

5.30 Talking Heads: Graeme Blundell 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 Kids’ Programs

6.00 Women’s Asian Cup Football LIVE Semifinal 8.30 Lowdown (M) 9.00 Psychoville (M) 9.30 The Graham Norton Show 10.15 Gavin And Stacey 11.15 Very Small Business 11.45 How Not To Live Your Life (M) 12.15 Ideal (M) 12.45 Hyperdrive: Weekend Off 1.15 Little Angels 1.45 Coach Trip 2.00 Close

Play at Seagulls Club, Thurs 6-10pm Viswanathan Anand (pictured below) has retained his world title after a nail-biting finish against Veselin Topalov in Sofia. ‘This was the most intense match I have ever played,’ admitted Anand after edging out Topalov 6.5-5.5 with a victory with the black pieces in the twelfth and final game. Playing on his opponent’s home territory was thought to have been a real handicap for Anand but the Indian, remarkably, managed to shut out any off-board distractions and concentrate on the games. The final match game below secured the title and 1.2m Euro prize. Sofia World Championship, Game 12 White: V Topalov Black: V Anand Opening: Queen’s Gambit Declined 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 Be7 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bh4 0-0 7.e3 Ne4!? The Lasker variation, solid but boring. 8.Bxe7 Qxe7 9.Rc1 c6 10.Be2 Nxc3 11.Rxc3 dxc4 12.Bxc4 Nd7 13.0-0 b6 14.Bd3 c5 15.Be4 Rb8 16.Qc2 Nf6!? A new twist, going for active piece play. 17.dxc5 Nxe4 18.Qxe4 bxc5 19.Qc2 Bb7 20.Nd2 Rfd8 21.f3 Ba6 22.Rf2 Rd7 23.g3 Rbd8 24.Kg2 Bd3 25.Qc1 Ba6 A tacit offer to draw by repeating moves but Topalov will have none of it. 26.Ra3?! Bb7 27.Nb3 Rc7 28.Na5 Ba8 29.Nc4 e5 30.e4 f5! 31.exf5 Missing Anand’s retreat on move 34. 31.Nd2

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10.00 Movie: Phffft! (PG 1954) A couple deal with divorce. Stars Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, Jack Carson 12.00 Battle Of The Choirs 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 I Survived A Japanese Game Show 7.30 Ghost Whisperer 8.30 Stargate Atlantis (M) 10.30 Gary Unmarried 11.00 Lost: The End (M) 1.15 Dirty Sexy Money (M) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Auction Squad 5.00 Home Shopping

TEN

NBN

6.00 Ten Early News 7.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Ten News 10.00 The Circle 12.00 Dr Phil (M) 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Infomercial 4.00 Huey’s Kitchen 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News 6.00 The Simpsons 6.30 Neighbours (G) 7.00 The 7pm Project 7.30 Masterchef Australia 9.00 Lie To Me (M) 10.00 Law & Order (M) 11.00 Late News With Sports Tonight 11.45 The Late Show With David Letterman 12.30 The Shield (MA) 1.30 Infomercials 4.00 Religion

7.00 Championship Netball Thunderbirds v Firebirds 9.00 IAAF Athletix Magazine 9.30 WRC Shakedown 10.00 NBA Tip Off 11.00 NBA Basketball Playoffs 2.00 Major League Baseball 4.45 ATP World Tour Tennis 5.15 Sports Unlimited 6.15 Omnisport 6.30 Andra Pro Series Drag Racing 7.30 Pro Bull Riding 8.30 TNA Xplosion 9.30 Sports Tonight 10.00 MVP 10.30 UFC 11.00 NBA Basketball Playoffs 1.00 Sports Tonight Late 1.15 US Open Golf 2009 Highlights 2.15 Golf Central 2.45 Major League Baseball

PRIME

TEN

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Seven Morning News 12.00 Movie: Random Encounter (M 1998) A chance meeting leads to intrigue and murder. Stars Elizabeth Berkley, Joel Wynman, Frank Schorpion 2.00 All Saints (M) 3.00 Medical Emergency 3.30 The Fairies 4.00 It’s Academic 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 Matty Johns Show 8.30 Criminal Minds (M) 9.30 The Amazing Race Double episode 11.30 Flashforward (M) 12.30 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 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Infomercial 4.00 Huey’s Kitchen 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 Masterchef Australia 8.00 Glee 9.00 Law & Order: SVU (M) 10.00 Medium (M) 11.00 Late News With Sports Tonight 11.45 The Late Show With David Letterman 12.30 Buffy The Vampire Slayer (M) 1.30 Infomercials 4.00 Religion

7 TWO 6.00 Kids Time 9.00 Sons & Daughters 9.30 Home & Away

6.30 7.30 8.30 9.00

World News Australia As It Happened Lucio Urtubia Giro d’Italia Cycling Highlights Movie: King’s Game (M 2004) Danish thriller. Stars Anders W Bertelsen, Soeren Pilmark, Nastja Arcel 10.50 Movie: Sweet Mud (MA 2006) Israeli drama. Stars Tomer Steinhof, Ronit Yudkevitz, Shai Avivi 12.40 Weatherwatch

was necessary, with White slightly worse. 31...e4! 32.fxe4? 32.Kg1 was the last chance. 32...Qxe4+ 33.Kh3 Rd4 34.Ne3 Qe8! 35.g4 h5! 36.Kh4! g5+! 37.fxg6 Qxg6 38.Qf1! ‘I thought I was mating him but he kept finding resources,’ Anand confessed. 38...Rxg4+ 39.Kh3 Re7! 40.Rf8+ ‘I nearly had a heart attack when I saw 40...Kh7 41.Rh8+! but fortunately I am still winning,’ said Anand. 40...Kg7! 41.Nf5+ Alas for Topalov, 41.Rxa8 loses to 41...Rxe3+! 42.Rxe3 Rh4+! 43.Kxh4 Qg4 checkmate! 41...Kh7! 42.Rg3 Rxg3+ 43.hxg3 Qg4+ 44.Kh2 Re2+ 45.Kg1 Rg2+ 46.Qxg2 Bxg2 47.Kxg2 Both players realised that 47.Rf7+ Kg6! 48.Rg7+ Kxf5 49.Rxg4 hxg4! 50.Kxg2 Ke4 51Kf2 Kd3! leads to an easy endgame win for Black. 47...Qe2+ 48.Kh3 c4 49.a4 a5 50.Rf6 Kg8! 51.Nh6+ Kg7 By now the local fans were slowly filing out of the venue; they knew their man was doomed. 52.Rb6 Qe4 53.Kh2 Kh7! 54.Rd6 Qe5 55.Nf7 Qxb2+ 56.Kh3 Qg7 0-1

10.00 Movie: Road To Bali (G 1952) Two men sign on for work as divers. Stars Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour 12.00 Battle Of The Choirs 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 I Survived A Japanese Game Show 7.30 Airline USA 8.30 Prime Suspect (M) 12.30 Leyland Brothers World 1.30 AFL Flashback Classic 3.45 Auction Squad 4.40 Hot Property 5.00 Home Shopping

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From The Week

5.30 Today 9.00 Kerri-Anne 11.00 Infomercials 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 Pyramid 4.30 Afternoon News 5.00 Antiques Roadshow 5.30 Hot Seat 6.00 Evening News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 Getaway 8.30 Sea Patrol (M) 9.30 The NRL Footy Show 11.00 Nightline 11.30 The AFL Footy Show 1.30 Entertainment Tonight 2.00 Infomercials 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

GO!

6.00 Major League Baseball LIVE 8.30 This Week In Baseball 9.00 Major League Baseball LIVE 12.00 Transworld Sport 1.00 Championship Netball – Fever v Swifts 3.00 Omnisport 3.30 AFL Premiership Season – Essendon v Richmond 6.00 Omnisport 6.30 ATP World Tour Tennis 7.00 MVP 7.30 Thursday Night Live 9.30 Sports Tonight 10.00 UFC 11.00 Golf Central 11.30 NASCAR Sprint Cup Highlights12.30 Sports Tonight Late 12.45 Omnisport 1.15 Major League Baseball 3.45 Sports Unlimited 4.45 Omnisport 5.00 Major League Baseball LIVE

produces hallucination (5 24. Eastern strong mad fiend – Persian nobleman(7) 25 Supply base, needed by defence force belonging to us … (7) 26 … for lament, for instance, in cathedral city (5) 27. Toff, and one who brings precipitation? It’s bleeding obvious (2-7)

6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ 11.30 Married With Children 12.00 Community 12.30 Seinfeld 1.00 The Middle 1.30 The New Adventures Of Old Christine 2.00 Starsky & Hutch (M) 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 The Nanny 4.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 The Flintstones 6.30 Total Wipeout UK 7.30 Chuck 8.30 Fringe (M) 9.30 Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (M) 10.30 V (M) 11.30 South Park (MA) 12.00 Fringe (M) 1.00 Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (M) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Married With Children 5.30 The Flintstones

NBN

ONE HD

DOWN 1. Eliminate leisure – about right (5) 2. Commonly drunk, Eastern workers secure casual help (9) 3. Alien rises in battle over old cutback, but it’s only a game (5-4) 4. Sign covering abandoned a number (5) mine (French); it’s what 5 is Cryptic Clues 12 Ocean cruiser addict (9) meant to achieve! (15) ACROSS 13. Ernie uses daughter in 5. Farcical, I’m Basil Fawlty 1. One less weed wild in the turn (5) – but more likely to be Alps (9) 14. Silly about mum, in a Jacob or Iphigenaia! (11,4) 6. Moral matters and the others distinctive style (9) 6. Mistake old student for take in hot individual (5) 17. Dictator retreats in one Flynn (5) 9. Got changed, had a beer and defeat .. hesitation (9) 7. If this sanctuary included was embarrassed about the 18. They steer the firm, and the East, it would be time (7) back gender (5) paradise (5) 10. Vehicle, a vehicle, a vehicle 19. Eccentric to copulate in two 8. Shortens agreements (9) (7) different ways (9) 13. The best swords hold 11. Merman swaps hands to do 22. Drug in a small weight back a violent outbreak (9)

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11.00 Infomercials 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 Pyramid 4.30 Afternoon News 5.00 Antiques Roadshow 5.30 Hot Seat 6.00 Evening News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 State Of Origin Football LIVE – New South Wales v Queensland 10.14 Lotto 10.15 Movie: Blades Of Glory (M 2007) Will Ferrell, Jon Heder, Will Arnett 12.15 Nightline 12.45 Eclipse Music TV (M) 1.30 Infomercials 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

GO!

SBS 1

SBS 2

5.30 Today 9.00 Kerri-Anne

ONE HD 6.00 Golf Central 6.30 I Fish

Weatherwatch World News The Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia Anthrax War Dateline Old Country New Country WA’s Kimberley region 4.00 Feast Greece 4.30 The Journal 5.00 Newshour 6.00 Global Village 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Italian Food Safari 8.00 Costa’s Garden Odyssey 8.30 Equator 9.30 World News Australia 10.05 Movie: Beauty In Trouble (MA 2006) Czech drama. Stars Ana Geislerova, Roman Luknar, Emilia Vasaryova 12.00 Embedded With The Murri Mob (M) 1.00 Movie: Raja (MA 2004) French drama. Stars Pascal Greggory, Majat Benssallem 3.00 Weatherwatch

5.00 5.05 1.00 1.30 2.30 3.30

5.00am to 6.00pm World News and Weatherwatch

ABC 2

Ian Rogers

6.00 Kids Time 9.00 Sons & Daughters 9.30 Home & Away

5.00am to 6.00pm World News and Weatherwatch

ABC 1 4.30 Shortland Street 5.00 Something In The Air 5.30 The Einstein Factor 6.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 How The Earth Was Made 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Jeeves And Wooster 1.30 Collectors 2.00 Parliament Question Time 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Grand Designs Revisited 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 Catalyst 8.30 Voyage To The Planets Saturn 9.30 The American Future 10.25 Lateline 11.00 Lateline Business 11.25 Live From Abbey Road Counting Crows, Melody Gardot, Hockey 12.20 Parliament Question Time 1.20 Movie: The Brighton Strangler (PG 1945) John Loder, June Duprez 2.30 Movie: She Couldn’t Say No (G 1954) Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons 3.55 Can We Help?

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5.30 Talking Heads: Deborah and Cedric Lee 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 How Do They Do It? 6.30 Dirty Jobs 7.10 The Daily Show 7.35 The Colbert Report

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PRIME 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Seven Morning News 12.00 Lost (M) Prelude to tonight’s series finale 2.00 All Saints (M) 3.00 Medical Emergency 3.30 The Fairies 4.00 It’s Academic 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 Dog Squad 8.00 Surf Patrol 8.30 Lost (M) The End 10.40 Most Shocking (M) 11.00 Movie: Transporter 2 (M 2005) Jason Statham, Amber Valetta, Keith David 12.35 Infomercials 5.30 Seven News

6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.30 I Dream Of Jeannie 10.00 Bewitched 10.30 Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ 11.30 Married With Children 12.00 Community 12.30 Seinfeld 1.00 Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (M) 2.00 V (M) 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 Total Wipeout UK 7.30 Top Gear 8.40 The Big Bang Theory 9.30 ER (M) 10.30 Gossip Girl (M) 11.30 South Park (MA) 12.00 ER (M) 1.00 Gossip Girl (M) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Married With Children 5.30 The Flintstones

15. First class crazy, a gear up – nuts! (9) 16. XAT, a necessary evil (3,6) 20. Steal a weapon (5) 21. Miss Darling or Mrs Murdoch (5) 23. Municipal chief a mother? Rene’s back! (5)

27. Blindingly obvious, needing no consideration (2-7)

DOWN 1. Rub out, delete (5) 2. Very large mammals (9) 3. Team sport played in a pool (5-4) 4. Freedom from obligation, compensation for loss (15) 5. Innocent victim killed to appease Quick Clues the gods (11,4) 6. First name of actor Flynn (5) ACROSS 1. Flowering plant found in 7. Shelter, sanctuary (5) 8. Shrinks, shortens (9) Switzerland (9) 13. Relating to the Syrian capital (9) 6. Moral precept (5) 15. Nut native to Australia (9) 9. Changed, modified (7) 16. Annual statement required by 10. Mobile home (7) 11. Alcohol commonly used Treasury (3,6) 20. Long barrelled firearm (5) as anaesthetic (5) 12. Injecting drug addict (9) 21. Heroine of Barrie’s ’Peter Pan’ 13. Australian wild dog (5) (5) 14. In a distinctive style of 23. Chief municipal officer (5) speech or language (9) Last week’s solution 17. World War II Italian dictator (9) 18. Those who steer rowing boats (5) 19. Eccentric, nutcase (9) 22. Reverie, fantasy (5) 24. Style of Arabic nobleman, especially in Persia or Turkey (7) 25. Arsenal, storehouse for weapons (7) 26. Mournful poem, lament for the dead (5)

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Sport

Bullies in the Tweed River

Bangalow wins first Beard-Hill

Introducing David Solano who is a local lad, an avid angler and a friendly fisherman. David will periodically add his experience with a line and hook to the sports pages of The Echo.

fish school up, is also the placewhere the bull sharks school up! I’ll tell you the story. I arrived at the Condong sugar mill at 3am and paddled my yak up to the hot water outlet in front of the mill. I could see some guys working above but they couldn’t see me, therefore unable to tell me a school of sharks had been circulating the pipe area for a few hours.

Second cast I hooked a nice schoolie and had great fun reeling it in, but just as I was about to net it there was a big splash and the drag went crazy then stopped and I reeled in a half jewfish. As it became light the guys above warned me about the sharks, ‘Yeah I know’, I said, and held up my half fish. Good stuff.

Bangalow hosted the new Village team from Murwillumbah on Saturday, playing for the inaugural Beard-Hill Cup. This event is in honour of Murwillumbah’s foundation player and president and ex Bangalow forward Nigel Beard, and Bangalow’s foundation player and tireless club man Dan Hill. It was a sponsors’ day and a great crowd showed up to cheer on the local lads. Murwillumbah was looking for their first win of the season and came out showing they meant business, surprising Bangalow with their physicality. Bangalow responded and gained enough field position for half back Kerry Jennings to slot three penalties in the first half, but it was Murwillumbah that exploited poor defence in the backs to score two tries out wide. At the break the visitors were up 10-9 and were looking the goods. Bangalow controlled most of the second half, moving the ball well with support and turning Murwillumbah’s big forwards around. Ten minutes into the break, Dick Collins scored a converted try off a nice ball from fly half Nick Hornery, galvanising the backs who began to run with much more purpose. Both teams had opportunities to push forward but it was Murwillumbah that came within one point with five minutes left at 15-16. At full time the score showed Bangalow won 23-15 after pommy Jim cleverly

A.Ruddell, B.Blackburn, A.Standaloft. Consolation – Green 1 – R.Woodbury, P.Sherwood, J.Tuckey. Green 3 – J.Atkins, V.Phillips, S.Phillips. Raffles – Ron Lee, Pam Sherwood, Marilyn Cheshire. 18.05.10 Social Bowls – Winners – Ian McGlashan, Roma Woodbury, Jim Paterson. Consolation – Margart Watson, Molly Hatcliffe, Margaret Rae. Raffles – Margaret Hunter, Maria Andrews. 18.05.10 Club Open Pairs Final – Congratulations to Winners Barbara Cox and Jocelyn Simpson. Runner Ups – Pam Kennedy and Florence Bosher. 25.05.10 Social Bowls Paddle Pop Draw 9.15am start of play. 01.06.10 Charity Day incorporating Cancer Day. Open to all. BBQ lunch. Small trading table. Green Fees $6.00. Come along and support this worthy Charity.Social Bowls Tuesdays 9.15am. Visitors warmly welcomed. Ladies invited to play Saturdays 1pm. Phone Club 6676 2951. Coaching – Free Saturdays from 9.30 am. Barefoot Bowls Sundays 2.30 - 4.30pm. Condong Ladies No results for 18/5/10 due to the District Pairs. Tues 25/5/10 there will be social bowls, as well as Club Championship Triples –check the sheet for draw.Wed 26/5/10 is our Cancer Council afternoon tea and mixed bowls, 1.30pm play, all green fees will be donated, so please come along and support the day. Entries are open for our Sugar Triples Day 21/6/10, so please get your teams in so you don’t miss. Congratulations to our Div 4 Pennant team, winning the Tweed/Byron district flag for 2010. Unfortunately we didn’t fair so well in the 4 day Zone playoff held at Cudgen last week, however just making it to Zone was a fantastic achievement for such a small club,well done ladies. Condong Men Wednesday 12/5/10 36 bowlers played. Winners J Walsh, R Dusi, R Shoobridge, runner/ups S Munro, B McLennan, R Peterson. Raffle winners N Smith, S Keen, R Pilon, S Keen. Thursday 3 bowl pairs shoot 14 teams turned up to play . Winners G Cox, J Andrassy $50 each 2nd $25 each G Palmer, D Lucan. Jackpot next week $225. This game will be moving to Friday afternoon as from next week 1/30 pm start. names

on board in club please. Saturday 15th Pennant results Div 1 Condong 6 Murwillumbah 0 Div 3 Condong 6 Ocean shores 0 Div 4 Cudgen 5 Condong 1 Div 5 Condong 6 Byron Bay 0 Div 7 Condong 6 Cudgen 0. Well done lads. Next week pennants Div 1 Condong at Pottsville Div 3 Condong home play Brunswick heads Div 4 Condong home to Cabarita, Div 5 Condong to Cudgen, Div 7 Condong to Murwillumbah. Coming events Sunday 23 rd Saints and Sinners day, Thursday 27th May Round Robin starts at Condong club. Sunday 30th Canetoads social bowls. Cudgen Leagues Ladies We had an eventful, exciting and some great displays of beautiful bowling last week, but most of all Cudgen Leagues successfully hosted the Grade 4, 2010 NSWWBA Group A Pennant Play – offs. Results of the 2010 NSWWBA Group A Pennant Play–offs. At Cabarita Beach – Grade 1 – Winners, Port Macquarie City (15 pts) Runners–up, Tuncurry (14 pts) Grade 2 – Winners, Southwest Rocks (24 pts) Runners–up, Tuncurry Forster Sports (23.5) Grade 3 – Winners, Ocean Shores (28 pts) Runners–up Port Mcquarie City (18.5 pts) At Cudgen Leagues – Grade 4 – Winners, Kempsey Macleay RSL (B) (23.5 pts) Runners–up, Gloucester (23 pts) Congratulations to all the Winners and good luck and good bowling in the 2010 State Pennant Finals to be played at the Entrance from 15th to 19th August. Congratulations to Ocean Shores Winners of Grade 3, well done. Coming up, Thurs ladies social 12.30 for 1pm start. Thurs 20th 8.30am Dis Champ/ ship Pairs rounds 3 & 4 – Bangalow. Next Sun (23rd) 9.15am Social Sun Mixed Mufti bowls & lnch Cost $10 pp, all welcome. Mon 24th 8.30am Mullumbimby Gala Day. Mon 24th 1pm Social Mixed Triples (mufti) Tues 25th 8.30am Dis Champ/ship Pairs Final – Mur–bah. Date for Diary 9.30 Committee Meeting. All welcome, sheet in foyer. Phone 02 6674 1816/2734. Cudgen Leagues Men Mon 10/5/10 Winners–G.Border, D.Bennett, A.BennettWed 12/5/10 Winners– T.King, D.Gleave, D.Lowe, A.Reid. Losing Rink R.Corney, J.Krisman, T.Pototnik, B.Blake

Sat. 15/5/10 Winners J.Krizman, J.Holt Losing Rink V.Shiemer, M.Ryan, w.Shardlow, B.Blake Pennants Cudgen Division 4 won 5–1 ,73–64, against Condong. Div 5 down 6–0, 64–48 to Bruns.Heads and Div. 7 down 6–0 , 66–49 to Condong. Teams for next week on the notice board. Kingscliff Ladies Wednesday 12th May,2010. Winners were on Rink 15 J.Dalmayer/R.Wallace/B.Grove, on Rink 21 I.Hockey/E.Haydon/J.Mitchell, on Rink 16 M.Lincoln/S.Akers. Raffle Winners were 1st prize J.Kemp 2nd. C.Guest. The list is on the Board Downstairs for ladies to Play Pennants. Kingscliff Men Results the Men’s Open Triples: Friday 14th May: K Banks, G Barrack, I Taylor d H Hockey, I Smith, K Liddington; P Crompton, G Searle, J North d B Harris, J Ritchie, O Simpson. In the Semi– Finals played on Saturday 15th May, K Banks, G Barrack, I Taylor d B Morrow, C Lane, B Raeburn; P Crompton, G Searle, J North d L Rootsey, P Murphy, M Richards. In the Final played on Sunday 15th May, K Banks, G Barrack, I Taylor d P Crompton, G Searle, J North. Congratulations to Ken, Greg and Ian and to all the bowlers who competed. The standard throughout was very high and the spirit in which the games were played was excellent. Social Bowls Results: Thursday 13th May: Winners: B Deal, J Turner, R Graham; P Atkinson, J Dalmayer, R Heales, B Goldstone; A Brown, A Reid, T Hills. Plate winners: R Ellis, R Sharpe, B Ford. Saturday 15th May: Winners: R Graham, J Julius, F McNamara, P Atkinson, A Reid, S Cupitt; Plate Winners: A Brown, W Ritzau, B Morrow. Tuesday 11th May: Winners: J Ritchie, M Richards. Runners Up: B Lamb, M Howarde. Plate Winners: K Banks, T Hills. Coming Up: The draw for the B Grade Singles is on the board. First games are called for Saturday 29th May and Sunday 30th May. Nominations for the B Grade Pairs are now open. Bowlers are also asked to place their names on the Pennants availability list on the board. Monday 24th May: Kingscliff Men’s Prestige Two Bowls Triple’s. Three games of 21 ends with a prize pool

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I chat with everyone I run into while fishing the Tweed River. As I exclusively fish with soft plastics and hardbodied lures it’s good to find out how the bait fishos are going. Everybody I spoke to on the weekend found it tough going and like me, were catching a variety of small fish. In fact I seem to catch the same flathead over and over, – a 37cm fish – maybe ten times. I also caught a lot of small bream with a couple of legals thrown in. Catching these bream on plastics requires a lot of patience. I used a 1/40 oz weighted TT jighead with a gulp banana prawn in the 2.5cm size. I would let the lure slowly sink to the bottom then I’d leave it there, just like bait. After a couple of minutes I’d start to get bites and if I was quick enough I’d set the hooks and pull him in. Cobaki Lakes is where we were and what a spot it is, floating around there on your own in a kayak doesn’t get much better. Last May I started to catch some nice school jew in the river and I am keen to give it another crack this month. I do have a slight problem though. The place where the jew-

SPORT RESULTS BOWLS Burringbar Men Weekend May 15–16 Mens pennant side had good win 5–2 against Pottsville. On very quick greens the Burringbar bowlers held their nerve to record their first away win for many seasons. Next week we play Cabarita at Cabarita.Either meet at club 11.30am or be at Cabarita at 12 noon.One change Frank Moore out Steve Robson back from holidays. In club competition Jim Boyle, Ken Nilon and Ted Allard def Lex Philip, Kevin Sharpley and James Boyle in thriller 19/18. KG due to odd numbers bowled half a game with Ted Allards team. Sunday District Reserve Singles first round at Burringbar saw Ray Chapman def Frank Fielding and Simon Bell def D Clark. The quarter and semi finals to be played next Sunday 23rd at Condong. In the top half of the draw at Condong Graeme Davis lost his first round while Ross Stevens won his first round but lost to Dave Perez in the afternoon. Cabarita Beach Men 5/5/10 Winners R Tonkin & J Hay r/up A Collins & T Willemsen cons R Watkins & P Schofield. 8/5/10 Social Sat Winners V Brill & Woody cons M Watson,R Creedon & L Oliver. Pennant – 8/5/10 – Div 2 Cabarita 67 def Brunswick Hds 49. Div 4 Cabarita 67 def Cudgen 62. Div 6 Cabarita 73 def Pottsville 46. Div 7 Mullumbimby 87 def Cabarita 35. Pennant 5/5/10 Sat social winners V Brill, P Meyers, L Clarke & M Cox. Cons C Morgan & L McLeod.15/5/10 Div 2 Cabarita 85 def Murwillumbah 41. Div4 Pottsville 57 def Cabarita 42. Div 6 Cabarita 84 def Bangalow 57. Div 7 Ocean Shores 57 def Cabarita 52. 17/5/10 Winners P Craven & R Maunders r/up B Newman & Buddha cons B Laybutt & A Latif. Cabarita Beach Women 14.05.10 Group A Zone Pennant Play Offs – Congratulations to Ocean Shores, winning team in Grade 3 division. 16.05.10 Visit In – Southport Workers’ Club – An overcast bleak afternoon could not deter bowlers from having a great afternoon of good bowls. Winners – Green 1 – J.Kirk, A.South, M.Kirk.Green 3 – D.Standaloft,

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Saturday’s action at Bangalow. Photo Jeff ‘Out-of-line’ Dawson.

chipped, regathered and scored a converted try after a Murwillumbah mistake. If their kicker had been on target, the game may have turned out differently. With the best scrum in the competition, a hardened forward pack and a quick skilful backline, Murwillumbah showed they will be a force once they start gelling. Bangalow showed promising signs at times, but again poor

discipline and mistakes at vital moments kept the visitors in the game. Best for Bangalow was breakaway Simon Leighton, number 8 Griff, half Kerry Jennings and tight head prop Dan Hill. This weekend Bangalow is on the road taking on top of the table Yamba in last year’s grand final replay. Thanks again to the social committee for putting on a great day.

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Kath Robinson, Maureen Blagbrough, Nita Dowling. Wed 12 May – Random Rink Draw Green 1: David Nelson, Bernie Walsh; r/up: Jim Cowen, Bill Finney. Green 2: Jim Croghan, Peter Goldsmith; r/up: Clem Jones, Brian Scrase. Green 3: Paul Chircop, John Parker–Smith on c/b; r/up: Jack Maloney, Ian Irvine. Green 4: Stan Loeber, Ivan Mackay; r/up: Ron Hottinger, George Brooks. Fri 14 May: Green 1: Bob Trinder, Laurie Cooper, Gordon Holthouse; r/up: Laurie Rea, Jim Croghan, Vince Leather.. Green 2: Bern Jacobson, Fred Sayer, Max Morris on c/b; r/up: Bob Chapman, Robert Young, Ron Parker. Green 3: Roger Bell, Ian Irvine; r/up: Col Moses, Frank Parsons. Sat 15 May AA&TT Saturday Jackpot Green 1: Ian McLean, Con Impellizzeri; r/up: Lydia George, Peter Taylor. Green 2: Stan Williams, Les Morrison; r/up: Roy Barwick, Jim Quin. Green 3:: Karl & Karen Figura; r/ up: Brian Irby, Tony Goad.The Jackpot was won by Ian McLean and Con Impellizzeri. Tweed Heads Tourers Bowls last Sunday was conducted on the Indoor green and the morning winners were Ngaire Matheson and Ian Wildman. Next Sunday the schedule has again been altered and the Tourers will be playing at home on the Indoor Complex and the list is on the notice board.

DARTS Tweed Valley Results of games played 17/05/10 A Grade Jokers 9 def Gulls 6, Blues 10 def Hogan’s Heroes 5 and Cgulls had the friendly game against Sharks. B Grade Tigers 11 def Misfits 0, Devils 7 def We’re Back 4 and Lions 8 def Leftovers 3. Point Score subject to confirmation A Grade Jokers 114, Blues 106, Gulls 76, Hogan’s Heroes 71 and Cgulls 28. B Grade Tigers 83, Sharks 79, We’re Back 71, Devils 70, Lions 54, Leftovers 48 and Misfits 25. Ron Dunn from Blues threw 180 on the night. Don’t forget Memorial Day is on May 3o at Condong Bowling Club, all welcome $20 for the day includes Mixed Doubles, Men’s and Ladies Doubles and Men’s and Ladies Singles as well as a BBQ lunch. GOLF Chinderah Seniors Social Results for Thurs 13/5/10 Stroke Winner A grade Bob Holmes net 57 new h/cap 7. R/up Gus Pearson net 58 new h/cap 9 Winner B grade Gary Turner net 55 new h/cap 16, R/up Warren Jarman net 56 new h/cap 18 Winner C grade Eileen Hurley net 56 (c/back) new h/cap 22, R/up Jan Kennedy net 56 new h/cap 20. Ball rundown to net 60. Results for Mon 17/5/10 Stableford Winner A grade Bob Magee 40 points new h/cap 7. R/up John Deering 39 points new h/cap 12 Winner B grade

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EXCAVATOR BOBCAT & WATER TRUCK

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LANDSCAPING & EXCAVATION BASALT BUSHROCK Highgrade. Rock walls. Cheap prices ..................................Rolly 0408 860543

SOLAR SYSTEMS

Joe Perez & Associates

TREE SERVICES POWER CLEAR TREE SERVICES Murwillumbah & Tweed ..........................................02 66728954

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02 6672 2280 9am-12pm Wednesday 9am-5pm Monday to Friday Ads not taken on the weekend

AT OUR OFFICE Suite 1, Warina Walk Arcade, Corner of Brisbane St & Murwillumbah St, Murwillumbah

DEADLINE 12pm Wednesday

LINE CLASSIFIEDS RATES $15.00 for the first two lines (minimum charge) $5.00 for each extra line

DISPLAY CLASSIFIEDS RATES Black & white 4cm x 1 column $35.20 (minimum charge) Colour 12cm x 2 columns $265 – premium position – 1 only

PAYMENT Cash, cheque or credit card – Mastercard or Visa Prepayment required for: Garage Sales, Share Accommodation, Short Term Accommodation, Wanted to Rent and Work Wanted classifications Account enquiries: 02 6684 1777

BALINESE GRASS ROOFING $1 per 3 metre stick. 0400854854 FRIDGE, WASHING MACHINE near new, new tables & chairs, futon, display cabinet etc, etc. Ph 0400854854 Byron

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ANTIQUE FAIR Opening Next Friday night 21st May 6pm-9pm Entry $10 per person. All items on display are for sale. Sat 22nd 8am-4pm Sun 23rd 9.30am2.30pm. Quality China, Clocks, Furniture, Chandeliers, Militaria, Toys, Music Memorabilia, Lamps, Jewellery. Tweed Heads Civic and Cultural Centre Cnr Brett St and Pacific Hwy Tweed Heads NSW. General Entry $5. 0409 471 394 moetdog01@live.com

Classical Ayurvedic Therapies, Consultations & Products.

SUBARU OUTBACK ‘05 3L, auto, all power, gold/tan, 185,200km, rego Apr 11, great cond, $17,200 ono. 0421247709

SACRED EARTH HEALING Experiential workshop connecting personal healing with Earth energies, past lives & nature spirits. Sat May 22 9 to 1 (next 19 June), Mt Warning. Allan 0432047432

EVENTS

VIPASSANA As taught by S. N. Goenka Develop peace, harmony & happiness. Residential meditation course by donation Ballina 3 days, 17-20 June for students who have previously completed a 10 day course. Ron 66856616 or apply online: www.passaddhi.dhamma.org/

HEALTH SEXUAL HEALTH SERVICE Free STI/HIV checkups Clinics Murwillumbah & Tweed For appointment phone 0755066850

SOUNDS OF YOGA Two day workshop 12-13 June An integrated program of Hatha Yoga combined with chanting & meditation which opens the heart to bliss through a direct experience of our true nature, with Consta (asana & meditation) & Armando (indian ute & drum) & Ambika (vocals & harmonium) Cost $200. Phone Consta 0401438679

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Kate Chase BAppSc, Grad Dip Relationship Therapy Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner

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CATTLEDOG X LAB 3yo, desexed female. Free to good home. Great kids dog, gentle & loyal. Ph Julia 0416825318

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NANA’S CAR IS FOR SALE! Holden Viva white 2006 135000k’s 10 mth reg auto,exc cond, $9900 neg 66882307 CHEVY CAPRICE s-w ‘81 one of a kind, reg 7/10, p’slip 1/11, $4200. 0425215328

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MINI PONY stallion ‘Harley’ looking for new home with girlfriends, stands 33� high great nature, lovely pony $600 66844880

MOTOR VEHICLES

College & Clinic

Until 30th June 2010. At Coolangatta & Byron Bay Special Student Clinic Deals every Saturday (by prior booking only). t t t info@ayurvedahouse.com.au www.ayurvedahouse.com.au

2BR FLAT carport, Murwillumbah $250pw + $1000 bond. Ph 66727012

No degree or experience required. Cert III & IV in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Recruitment service & Job Guarantee!

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TOYOTA CAMRY VIENTA ‘95 man, exc condition, new radiator, 2 new tyres 200,000km must sell, excellent car, $5700 or reasonable offer. Ph 0411352399 LANCER SE 90, 5 door, air-con, man, good cond, $1200 ono. 0408122515 ‘01 MAZDA 121 METRO manual, 160000 km, reg 8/10 lady owner, economical & reliable $5900 ono. Phone 66777304,

BARGAINS 1998 Holden Astra 5 speed Hatch A/C P/S 148,097 Kms FA751 ..................$4450 1996 Ford Festina Hatch Auto, A/C P/S Very tidy with low kms UCE192 ............. $4500

Hyundai Excel ‘98 5spd A/C P/S CD Hatch VBR471 ........................................ $2750

Subaru Outback 5spd Wagon A/C P/S Good service books, white TBS700 ....... $8250

1999 Mitsubishi L300. Tradesman’s Van 5spd A/C P/S S/N 445 ............................ $5250

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Next course 26-30 May 5/1 Carlyle St, Byron Bay

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ONLY ADULTS

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

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The Family Centre is a community based not-for-proďŹ t organisation established in 1988. We provide a range of family support and family relationship education services in the Tweed Shire.

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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 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

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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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We are seeking a suitably qualiďŹ ed and experienced male worker to join our Community Projects Team to provide a range of services to men. Salary packaging is available and other above award conditions apply. Applicants will be required to undertake a criminal record check and a working with children check. Please download an Information Package at www.thefamilycentre.org.au Applications close 4pm Monday May 31, 2010. The Family Centre considers being a man is a genuine occupational qualiďŹ cation for this position under s 31 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW).

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CAREER IN CHILDCARE Would you like to become a carer and work from home? Free training & ďŹ nancial support is provided, to enable you to provide accredited high quality care in a home environment. You will be supported by the largest scheme in NSW. Flexible hours. Childcare beneďŹ t available. Phone Northern Rivers Family Day Care for more info on 07 5536 1865.

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GARAGE dbl lockup 6 x 6m, in at pack, pick up Uki, $4500 ono. 0428593402 BRAND NEW Nokia 6x, 32 MB iPhone, brand new, $750. 0416062754

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POOL TABLE pub size, mahog ďŹ nish, all acc, mint cond, $780 ono. 0412738592

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‘Animals are such agreeable friends – they h ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.’

Men and Family Relationships Worker – 21 hrs pw

SECOND HAND BUILDING MATERIALS French doors, windows, w/boards, c.iron, internal doors, kitchen w/elec upright stove, sink, basin. Large patio. Mullumbimby Ph Sam 0411725500

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LIVESTOCK

BANGALOW self cont 1br unit $270pw Phone 0431688468, 0423637246

TRAVEL – WORK – ADVENTURE!

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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

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PUBLIC NOTICES

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EMERGENCY NUMBERS Please stick this by your phone AMBULANCE, FIRE, POLICE .............................................................. 000 AMBULANCE Mullumbimby & Byron Bay .................................131 233 BRUNSWICK VALLEY RESCUE Sea & road rescue...................6685 1999 BRUNSWICK MARINE RADIO TOWER ...................................6685 0148 MULLUMBIMBY HOSPITAL ......................................................6684 2266 BYRON BAY HOSPITAL ............................................................6685 6200 POLICE Brunswick Heads .......................................................6685 1277 Mullumbimby ..............................................................6684 2144 Byron Bay ...................................................................6685 9499 Bangalow ....................................................................6687 1404 STATE EMERGENCY SERVICE Storm & tempest damage, flooding.6684 3444 AIDS Confidential testing & information (ACON) ................................6622 1555 AL-ANON Help for family & friends of alcoholics .......... 6685 9690, 6680 4429 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 24 hours....................................6686 8599 ANIMAL RESCUE (DOGS & CATS) .........................................6628 1358 LIFELINE .........................................................................................131 114 MENSLINE 7pm–11pm nightly (phone counselling & referral for men)..6622 2240 NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS Meets daily ....................................6680 7280 NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE ..................................................6684 1286 NORTHERN RIVERS GAMBLING SERVICE ...........................6687 2520 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 24 hour crisis line ...............................1800 656 463 GAMBLERS’ ANONYMOUS Meet 7.30pm Tuesdays at Byron Hospital Group Room, Shirly St, Byron Bay......................0405 087 529 NORTHERN RIVERS WILDLIFE CARERS...............................6628 1866 KOALA HOTLINE........................................................6622 1233 GEORGE THE SNAKE MAN.................................................0407 965 092 NSW Wildlife Information & Rescue Service (WIRES)..........6628 1898

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Noticeboard Family history Tweed Gold Coast Family History ory and Heritage Association’s monthly onthly get-together on June 1 at Sth Tweed Sports Club, Minjungbal Drive, South Tweed Heads from 1.30pm. pm. Guest speaker Frank Skinner will ill talkk on the Crawford family. Afternoon oon tea available, visitors welcome, for info call Noelene on 07 5599 8939. 39.

Workplace safety WorkCover NSW is holding a freee workshop next week to help local al businesses improve safety and become more productive. The workshop, entitled ‘Workplace safety essentials, Slips, Trips and Falls’ will be held at Murwillumbah Civic Centre, on Wednesday, May 26, from 9.30am-11.30am. Bookings essential, visit www.workcover.nsw.gov.au/ healthandsafety/smallbusiness or call 131 050.

Family centre The Family Centre is taking bookings now for the following courses. Numbers are limited so book early on (07) 5524 8711. Detailed info on all our courses at www.thefamilycentre.org. ParentSpace: birth to 3 years, Fridays 10 – 11.30am, 21 May - Language Development & 18 June – Social and Emotional Development; Anger: making it work for you 1-day workshop Friday May 28; The Hurt Child: understanding responding connecting 1-day workshop Monday June 7; Self Care for Parents 1-day workshop on positive self care strategies Friday June 17; Anger and Parenting: being the parent you want to be 1-day workshop Friday July 2.

Rotary art show Rotary Club of Tweed Heads South will hold its 5th annual art show on July 24-25 10am-3pm at Tweed Heads civic centre, Brett Street, Tweed Heads. Major prize $1000, artist demonstrations, official opening party and awards July 23, 7pm-9pm. Tickets $20. For info call Margaret on 02 6674 1941 or visit www.tweedheadssouth. rotary-site.org

Hospital auxiliary Tweed Hospital Auxiliary fashion parade on May 31 at the Tweed civic centre. For info/tickets call gift shop on 07 5506 7867. We are also looking for a new treasurer, call Helen on 02 6676 2549 for info. New members welcome, call Merle on 07 5536 1441.

Garden club Murwillumbah and District Garden Club’s next meeting has a guest speaker from local nursery, Monday May 24, 7pm at the Jessie Macmillan Hall, Wollumbin Street, Murwillumbah. All welcome, info call Len 6672 2020 or Steven 6672 2273.

Childcare workshops Child psychologist and author Louise Porter (Children are People Too) will deliver two free workshops for parents and teachers at Mt Warning Community Preschool, 120 Glenock Road, Uki, May 22-23, from 9am-3pm. Bookings essential, call 02 6679 5313 or email: mtwarningpreschool@ bigpond.com

U3A U3A Twin Towns holds classes each day for men and women in Coolangatta, Tugun and Tweed Heads. Tomorrow, Friday, May 21, 10amnoon we are holding a big morning tea in aid of the Cancer Council at St Peter’s Church Hall, cnr Dutton and Lanham Streets, Coolangatta, entry a gold coin. For info call 07 5599 2249, Mon-Fri, 9am-noon. U3A Tweed Coast group meets in the Kingscliff Library on 2nd and 4th Tues 9.30am-11.30am, for info call Annette on 07 5599 3928. Current afairs discussion group Roy on 0427 947 413, meets at Cudgen Leagues

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Museum meeting Friends of the Tweed River Regional Museum AGM on Thursday, Th June 3, 2010 at 6pm at the Coolamon Centre, Tumbulgum Road, Murwillumbah, for info call Kirsty on 02 6670 2493.

Variety concerts Tweed Links Music Club concert, Sunday, June 6, at 2pm, Coolangatta Tweed Heads Golf Club, Soorley Street, Tweed Heads South. Tweed Links Quartet and Allan Grant Dancers, special guest artist Andrea Szabo (vocalist) and others. Entry $6 for golf club members, $10 visitors. Forminfo call Elaine on 07 5590 7870. Coolangatta Senior Citizens Centre concert on Monday, May 31, at 1pm, featuring Bill Alexander, covering Mario Lanza and Pavarotti to George Formby with ukelele. BYO lunch/ nibbles, tea/coffee available. To book call 07 5536 4050 or call into the Centre at 2 Gerrard Street, Coolangatta.

Stokers workshop Stokers Siding residents are invited to a community planning workshop on Sunday, May 23, from 10am-1pm at the Stokers Siding Hall, BYO picnic.

Old and gold Brunswick Heads Public School has sites available for this years ‘Old ‘N’ Gold Festival on Saturday, June 12, at $25 each. To book call the school on 02 6685 1204.

Alcoholics anonymous Murwillumbah meetings: Tuesday, 10am, Community Centre, Knox Park; Thursday, 7.30pm, Baptist Church, Eveleigh Street; Friday, 7pm, Uniting Church, Main Street. Info line 24-hour 07 5591 2062.

Probus clubs Murwillumbah Probus Club meets at 10am on May 17 at the bowls club. Guest speaker is Burringbar cheesemaker Sue Harnett. Bookings for the May 28 Brisbane River tour have closed with 14 members signed up for the trip. Banora Point Probus Club meeting May 26 at South Tweed Sports Club 10.30am. Guest speaker is gardening expert Dennis Anspach. New members and visitors welcome. For info call Barbara 07 5513 1229. Kingscliff Mixed Probus Club meets the first Wednesday of each month at 10am at the Uniting Church Hall, Kingscliff. Outings every 3rd Wednesday of the month.

pensioner welcome. More donations pen needed. Call Terri 0414 376 057. nee Friday: Frida for aged pensioners, at the Ibar, Fridays 9-30am-1pm. Call Thelma on 07 5536 3037 for donating food.

1.30pm-3pm (DST), Coolangatta Seniors Centre, 2 Gerrard St, Coolangatta, phone 07 5536 4050.

to Friday 9.30am-3.30pm. For info call Malcolm or Georgina on 07 5524 4963.

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Held every Sunday at the Tweed Heads PCYC, corner of Florence and Adelaide Streets, running from early in the morning to around lunchtime. For more info call 07 5599 1714.

Computer Association Tweed Seniors meets at 10.30am on the third Wednesday of each month at Seagulls. Learn computer skills from other seniors. Joining days are on the second Thursday of each month at Seagulls. For info call Noelene on 07 5599 8939 (Mon-Fri 9-5). All welcome.

Kings Kingscliff Country Women’s Association meets the 2nd Tuesday of sociat at Cudge Leagues Club, the month m Wommin W omm Bay Road, Kingscliff at 9.30am. New members welcomed 9.30am call 02 6674 3724.

Ex-servicewomen Ex-se Tweed/Coolanagatta and District Ex-Service Women’s Association next meeting May 24, 9.30am, in the Anzac Room, Twin Towns Services Club. For info call Hilary on 07 5536 8054.

Croquet clubs Tweed Heads Croquet play days are Monday 9am and Thursday and Saturday 9.30am, all welcome to come and try. Phone 07 5599 1611 for more information or come to the lawns at 39 Recreation Street, Tweed Heads on play days. Murwillumbah Croquet Club play days are: Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday. For more info on free introductory lessons, call the club on 02 6672 2064.

Mental health 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). Tweed Valley Mental Health Carers Network volunteers assist, for info call 07 5524 4556.

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) 66740636 or George (07) 55244558

Family night Global Care family food and fun night every third Saturday 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.

Scrapbooking Scrapbooking group 4Her meets every Wednesday at 10am at Christian Outreach Centre, Prince Street, Murwillumbah. All welcome, bring your own photos, classes available, morning tea provided. For info call Elaine on 6672 1571.

Exit International Meetings on end of life choices. For info call Elaine on 07 5535 1151.

Bereavement support

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The Bereavement Support Group offers support to address grief issues that may arise for individuals who have recently experienced the loss of someone close to them. The support group is one each Thursday till June 10. For info call Tweed Palliative Support office on 02 6672 8459.

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

VIEW club Murwillumbah Day VIEW Club next meeting May 24 at Murwillumbah Bowls Club at 10am. Info Shirley 6679 1324.

Pensioner food Are you a struggling pensioner? Then there is free food at the iBar, Wharf St, Tweed Heads on a Wednesday at 12.30pm. Any

Hospital Auxiliary Tweed Hospital Auxiliary meetings are held on the first Monday of every month in the Islander Room in the Tweed Civic Centre. New members welcome. For info call Merle on 07 5536 1441.

Rock ‘n’ roll dancing Women wanted for rock ‘n’ roll lessons and dancing, first session free. Men also welcome. Wednesdays

Free meals Delicious free meals prepared by Sri Govinda Dham are served every second Tuesday at the Murwillumbah Community Centre from 11.45am12.30pm. All welcome. For info call Prema Das on 6679 5541.

Volunteering Looking for a way to gain work experience, meet friends and/or contribute to your community? Each week NORTEC Volunteering has around 200 volunteer positions available through community organisations in our region. The ‘five most wanted’ vacancies this week include: Tweed Heads, dressmaker/ sewing; set construction; Tweed Shire, bus attendant; Murwillumbah, sales assistants; Pottsville, canteen assistant. For enquiries regarding these or any of the volunteer vacancies listed in our region visit www. nortecltd.com.au or call 02 6672 8288.

Landcare volunteers Friends of Wollumbin (FOW) Landcare group are looking for more people to help with the Byangum Community Tweed Riverbank Restoration Project. Volunteers meet the first Saturday of the month from 8am to 1pm to plant trees on the banks of the Tweed River on Kyogle Road, one kilometre south of Byangum Bridge. For further info call Marcia on 6672 8146 or email podge@netspace.net.au.

Kids helpline When kids face a crisis, Kids Helpline is there to help, Australia’s only telephone and online counselling service specifically for children and young people aged 5 to 25 years. For info call 1800 55 1800 (free call) or go to www.kidshelpline.com.au.

Community exchange Tweed Shire Community Exchange. Tweed Shire’s newest economy. Website: www.tweedshire.info. Email: ur@machinerydrive.com. Mobile/SMS: 0424 670787. People helping people. The exhange is a network of people helping people. Get help, buy things, sell things and help others without paying cash.

Parent support The Family Centre’s trained volunteers and support workers provide practical parenting support to parents and carers living in the Tweed Shire who are caring for at least one child 0-3 years of age. For info call 07 5524 871.

Walking group Murwillumbah on the Move walking group meets at the Information Centre (Budd Park) carpark at 7.20am in June, July and August (note change of time from 6.50am the rest of the year). Enjoyable walks for all levels of fitness around town every Wednesday and Saturday. Everyone welcome. Call 6672 1660 for more details or just turn up.

Bargain shop The Uniting Church Bargain Shop helps the Blair Athol Supported Accommodation and Assistance Program. Pre-loved clothing, bric-abrac, small household items, linen, books and luggage as well as new greeting cards and wrapping paper available. At 2/3 Machinery Drive, Tweed Heads South, from Monday

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

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

Breast screening BreastScreen NSW Tweed Heads Clinic at The Tweed Hospital offers free screening mammograms all year round. After hours appointments are also available on Thursday nights and Saturdays. All women over the age of 40 are eligible, however women aged 50 to 69 are particularly encouraged to receive two yearly mammograms. Appointments can be made by phoning 13 20 50.

teaching and discussion, followed by refreshments. All welcome and no prior experience necessary. Class fee $10. For info call 07 5535 1140 or visit info@goldcoastmeditation.org

Meditation groups Every Monday evening, 7pm-9pm at Kingscliff Holistic Centre, For info call 6674 4866.

Pottsville meet Pottsville Community Association has deferred the May meeting, next meeting will be June 29 at 7.45pm. New members welcome. For info call Helen 02 6676 2549.

Exercise classes A community-based exercise class at Tweed Community Health Centre for ‘mature age’ people, no uniforms, no commitments, no coordination required! Move to music and increase your fitness in a fun environment. Fridays 8.15am (DST), Allan Millard Room, Tweed Heads Hospital. For more info call Jules on 0407 077 132.

Historical society Tweed Heads Historical Society and Museum open Tues, Thurs, Fri 11am4pm Sunday 1pm-4pm, Pioneer Park, Kennedy Drive, West Tweed Heads. For info call 07 5536 8625.

Nashos Tweed Valley-Murwillumbah Nashos meet every month on the third Tuesday at 10-15am at the Murwillumbah Services Club. New members welcome, call Peter on 07 5590 5467 or Keith on 07 5524 5679. Next meeting May 18.

Community calendar

Tent on the beach

Tweed Shire Council online community calendar of events lets you know what’s on. Available for event organisers, community groups, resident and ratepayer groups and others to promote their local events. Visit www.tweed.nsw.gov.au/Events/ WhatsOnCommunity.aspx.

Are you looking for a place to meet Christians out of the church building, then come along to tent on the Beach at Coolangatta beachfront bbq area, next to surf club, every Sunday 10-3pm. Info call Corinne 0434 671 101.

Meditation Buddhism drop-in classes in Murwillumbah for guided meditations,

Reiki Reiki share/healing group regular meetings for further info please contact David on 66 727 014.

MAY 2010

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adult choir ever assembled in the Tweed Valley. A total of 120 singers from the Murwillumbah Philharmonic, Chillingham Voices and Brisbane’s Musica Antiqua Collegii were accompanied by Queensland’s Sinfonia Orchestra. Professional soloists Eleanor Varnes Holland and Cassandra Seidermann were a huge hit with the audience, which included mayor Warren Polglase and his wife Karlene. Local choir members were thrilled to be taking part. ‘It’s a great feeling to be part of making this wonderful music with so many other people,’ said one. ‘It’s like flying’.

Well known Murwillumbah optometrist Les Jacobi has called it a day after 23 years seeing eye to eye with the locals. Les, who started the practice from scratch, told The Echo that because of this long attachment, it became ‘sort of your baby’ so he was happy to on sell it on to a family-oriented couple. Les, respected for his high standards by patients and peers alike, deserves the break after undergoing a few operations himself over the past few years. No doubt he’s looking forward to spending more time with his extended family and Backburner wishes ■■■■him all the best. Could we be seeing a new era of police ■■■■and community cooperation? Tweed police On local ABC radio last week Nats candi- last week arrested and charged a 17-yeardate Tania Murdock had a go at MP Justine old teenager after seizing a firearm from a Elliot for her full page Echo ad attacking house in Jacaranda Avenue, Tweed Heads Tony Abbott’s record as health minister. West, as a result of a public tip-off. DetecMurdock questioned whether it constituted tive Inspector Shane Diehm told media proper use of an MP’s printing and com- that it was ‘great that members of the public munication entitlements. The north coast feel comfortable coming forward and sharNats are hardly blameless in this respect ing information with us’ and ‘even better with former Richmond MP Charles Blunt when that information leads to an arrest (1984-1990) embroiling himself in contro- and a dangerous weapon being taken off versy for spending $278,922 of his ‘postal the streets’. Police and the Safer Communiallowance’ on self-promotional mailouts. ties Alliance have been urging the public ■■■■to report all crime in order to have proper Last Sunday’s Three Choirs Festival at All statistics to help the cause for more police, Saints church in Murwillumbah was such and it seems the call is being heeded. a success that it’s now hoped to make it an ■■■■annual event. The 300-seat hall was packed Backburner apologises to IMC boss Mike to hear Vivaldi’s Gloria sung by the biggest Cahill for stuffing up an item last week

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