Tweed Echo – Issue 2.44 – 15/07/2010

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Volume 2 #44 Thursday, July 15, 2010 Advertising and news enquiries: Phone: (02) 6672 2280 editor@tweedecho.com.au adcopy@tweedecho.com.au www.tweedecho.com.au

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Speed on Tweed off to good start

Giant Bilambil projects get the green light Ken Sapwell

Planning minister Tony Kelly has given the green light to two major residential projects in the Bilambil area during a flying visit to Tweed Heads that caught councillors and residents by surprise. Mr Kelly arrived unheralded last Thursday to announce concept plan approval for 1,600 new homes at Bilambil Heights and the go-ahead for a 52-lot subdivision at Bilambil village which will more than double its population.

Concerns skirted He skirted contact with councillors and residents wanting to discuss concerns with the projects and met instead with developer Godfrey Mantle’s team on a hilltop to announce concept plan approval for the Brisbane millionaire’s $140 million Bilambil Heights project. Approval to redevelop the 187ha site formerly owned by the bankrupted Terranora Lakes country club and golf course ends nearly two decades of wrangling over plans for the prime hilltop location which boasts 360 degree views. It includes 1,604 residential dwellings, a 200-bed nursing home, 10,000 square metres of retail and commercial space and nearly 40ha of open space and conservation lands.

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The Echo observed signs of illegal squatting on a visit to the site this week, with bedding, used furniture and other debris strewn around the disused former country club. Mr Kelly rejected a push by the land owner, Terranora Group Management (TGM), to increase building heights to eight storeys after the council objected to what it said would be a development more suited to the Gold Coast. A spokesman for TGM says the approval clears the way for the site to ‘be redeveloped as an exciting new master-planned residential and retirement living community.’ But while the minister’s concession to limit heights pleased some councillors, his subdivision approval for a disused quarry in the tiny village of Bilambil has angered local residents concerned that too many lots were being crammed onto the site. The approval clears the way for small 475sqm house blocks despite submissions from council and residents to increase them to at least 600sqm and to substantially reduce the number of lots. They were also concerned about narrow street layouts and inadequate footpaths, as It seems if you have a Ferrari you can park it in the foyer of Mantra at Salt. Or more likely they well as the lack of infrastruc- had brought Ian Maudsley’s 1982 308 GTSi into reception for the official launch of this year’s ture to service a population in- Speed on Tweed festival of classic cars and cubic inches (see story, right). With Maudsley in the red coupé is Speed on Tweed committee member and Murwillumbah crease in Bilambil village from continued on page 2 Chamber of Commerce president, Toni Zuschke. Photo Jeff ‘Magnum PI’ Dawson

Speed on Tweed festival is revving up for another year of racing action following the event’s official launch at Kingscliff on Tuesday. Organisers are hoping to attract some of the finest all-Australian racing cars, with up to 200 vehicles from various eras expected to contest the annual street races in Murwillumbah. Competing cars will also join in a traditional street parade, with the town’s main street to be closed off in the evenings to cater for festival-goers and vehicle displays. The popular event came close to shutting down two years ago after failing to secure a major sponsorship deal, but was revived during last year’s controversial world rally. This year’s event takes its theme from the so-called ‘Australian Specials’, which dominated the race tracks of Australia from the 1950s to 70s. Unable to afford the costs of running professionally built imported sports cars local racing enthusiasts improvised and built their own cars from scratch. Organising committee chairman Bill Larkin hopes this year’s event with its mix of fast-paced racing action, historic vintage cars and well known racing identities will help draw some 15,000 spectators. ‘Every year we strive to make Speed on Tweed something different and special and I’m continued on page 2

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Target shooting is one of Australia’s oldest organised sports so it’s no surprise that the littleknown Murwillumbah Rifle Club has been around for about 100 years. The club, which operates from a rifle range on a private property at Dunbible near Murwillumbah, has a steady membership of over 100 shooters, drawing keen marksmen not only from Tweed but across northern NSW and southeast Queensland. Club secretary Winston Shoobridge, a Burringbar banana grower, is keen to swell the club’s membership ranks further. He told The Echo that membership of rifle clubs throughout Australia had suffered as a result of the Port Arthur massacre in 1996 which sparked a crackdown on gun ownership. However, he remains confident more people would joinup once realising it was a social sport and satisfying pastime for the whole family. ‘We still battle on and there’s still much interest in target shooting. Generally, it’s a sport you can do from your teenage years to an 80-year-old, in fact most of your life,’ he said. Indeed, the club has a few father-son duos and seasoned, lifelong marksmen such as 86-year-old veteran Geoff Burfoot of Tyalgum, who said he started using a gun as a fouryear-old when he would ‘rest the rifle between my big toe and the back verandah and shoot at a stump near the clothesline’.

Geoff Burfoot (back), from Tyalgum, Jason Waugh (centre) from Brisbane, and Ron Millingen (front) from the Gold Coast, take a breather as The Echo’s camera takes aim at them during a practice shoot at Murwillumbah Rifle Club. Photo Luis Feliu

Geoff, a former patrol/district officer in Papua New Guinea, proudly declares: ‘I’ve still got that rifle’. Youngsters can be licensed to shoot from as young as 14 years of age, but safety remains the club’s highest priority. Winston said the club runs a fullbore and smallbore program and ‘tries to cater for everyone’ including shot guns and military firearms shooting. Member Jason Waugh, 37, who lives in Brisbane, says the reason he joined the Murwillumbah club was because it was friendly and not overly competitive. ‘We’re competing to a degree but it’s really enjoyable,’ he said. To join or for more info call Winston on 02 6677 1424.

Speed on Tweed ready to go (from p1) sure the appearance of many Australian Specials will make 2010 one of the most memorable,’ he said. Proceeds from this year’s event will be used to assist Life Education, an organisation which delivers drug and health programs to school children throughout NSW, including 5479 in the Tweed Shire last year.

The festival is a not-for-profit event run by the Rotary Club of Murwillumbah and Rally Australia. More than $300,000 has been donated to local charities since it began in 2002. The South Coast Automotive Group has secured naming rights to this year’s event which takes place September 10-12. Tickets are expected to go on sale shortly.

Giant Bilambil projects get the green light (from p1) 55 to about 175 people after the project is finished. Long-time resident Michele Fay said she was disappointed that the minister had only reduced the number of residential blocks from 50 to 48 but made no other substantial concessions despite the high level of concern. ‘I’ve tried on numerous occasions since February to meet with the minister to discuss residents’ concerns and I was dismayed he flew in to make the announcement without any further consultation,’ she said. ‘I thought I may have had an opportunity to talk to him when his office contacted me last week to clarify what I wanted to raise at a meeting – but it seems from his hit and run visit he didn’t want to take any of it on board.’ She said residents were also concerned that a range of other objections to the project raised by councillors failed to reach the minister’s office because of an oversight by council plan-

ners which they had since apologised for. Mr Kelly said the subdivision would create a residential hub, contribute to better water quality in Bilambil Creek and set aside a public reserve to be replanted with subtropical rainforest species. He said modifications to the design would ensure it was sensitive to the surrounding village character and rural-residential land uses, with future applications for construction to be considered against the surrounding character of the village. Mr Kelly said the two projects heralded a wave of new residential developments on the Tweed which would require 19,000 new houses by 2031 to keep pace with projected population increases. Development of Bilambil Heights would be restricted until the developer agreed to help with improving Kennedy Drive and to undertake local road and intersection upgrades.

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Sand pump plan to aid erosion crisis Ken Sapwell

Tweed mayor Warren Polglase is seeking urgent government approval to pump sand from the Tweed River as part of a radical plan to stem erosion on Kingscliff Beach (right). Cr Polglase said up to 250,000 cubic metres of sand needed to be pumped through a pipeline to fix the growing erosion threat now endangering a public road and parkland near the town’s southern end. He said it was important that government agencies expedited the necessary approvals to ensure the beach was in a reasonable condition when the town hosted the NSW Surf Life Saving championships next March. He said engineering staff had ruled out a cheaper option of pumping the sand from the nearby Cudgen Creek be-

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cause it would only yield about an eighth of the total amount needed to fix the erosion crisis. ‘I have no idea of the cost at this stage – we are just trying to expedite approvals to protect public assets and make sure the beach is in good shape for the championships,’ he said.

The council already faces a $500,000 bill to stop any more of the park and vegetated dunal areas on the northern side of the river break wall disappearing into the sea and has pledged $80,000 towards the cost of hosting the championships.

Council’s natural resource management coordinator Jane Lofthouse said the ‘erosion cell’ causing the problems near the break wall had now moved north and more erosion was occurring closer to the Cudgen Headland Surf Life Saving Club.

Council opens up on high level planning talks Ken Sapwell

Tweed Shire Mayor Warren Polglase has revealed he and senior staff met with Planning Minister Tony Kelly in Sydney recently for top-level talks on a wide range of mostly development-related issues. ‘We were mainly there to discuss our concerns about the government’s $20,000 cap on developer contributions,’ he said. ‘We got a good hearing and I think the government may be ready to reconsider the section 94 levies – we and other fast-growing councils disadvantaged by the arbitrary cap don’t believe it makes any dif-

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ference to house prices.’ The talks follow last month’s council meeting which voted unanimously to send a strong message to Mr Kelly protesting against the cap and other contentious government planning policies. The council warned the minister it may impose a freeze on developments worth billions of dollars rather than raise rates to cover the shortfall to pay for roads and other infrastructure to service them. They include Bob Ell’s Cobaki Lakes and Kings Forest developments and other multi residential projects at Terranora and Bilambil which are currently being assessed by the

Planning Department. Cr Polglase told the meeting that the non-indexed $20,000 cap per house lot which the government recently imposed would create an intolerable financial burden on existing ratepayers, leading to rate rises of more than 50 per cent. ‘This may seem to be a windfall for the big developers of the massive urban release areas in the shire, but the government’s actions are likely to have the opposite effect,’ he said. ‘It is unlikely that any council, including the Tweed, would raise their annual rates to fund the infrastructure as the premier has suggested. ‘In the absence of a rate rise

to meet the funding gap, the infrastructure would not be provided and these projects will flounder. with land developers going out of business.’ He said the government actions undermined 20 years of strategic planning, putting at risk plans to increase the population from around 85,000 to 125,000 over the next 20 years.

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JEBH fill: council to explain Ken Sapwell

Tweed Council’s chief engineer Patrick Knight will attempt to hose down concerns about infilling of the Jack Evans boat harbour by inviting leading critics to an on-site inspection later this week. Save Jack Evans Boat Harbour committee secretary Stephanie Deane says she is looking forward to getting an explanation for the land reclamation work despite earlier assurances no infilling would occur. Ms Deane, whose home overlooks the harbour, raised the alarm when she saw council contractors involved in the $7 million revamp of the harbour start dumping rubble into the harbour two weeks ago. The council is maintaining that the infill is mostly to create an indented beach and that the harbour foreshore line ‘had not materially changed’ since the original concept plan was exhibited and adopted by council in 2006. But Ms Deane says this doesn’t explain why Mayor Warren Polglase and other councillors were unaware of the infilling despite a huge public outcry against similar infill works in an earlier plan in late 2006. The then Lands Minister

Infill or indented beach? Photo Jeff ‘Land Grab’ Dawson

Tony Kelly and local MPs rushed to douse the uproar by giving public undertakings through the media that no infilling of the harbour would be occurring. Ms Deane this week unearthed a similar assurance from general manager Mike Rayner in response to concerns that a public display of the current plans seemed to indicate that infilling would occur. After explaining that two panels in the display related to earlier plans and were included as ‘background information’, Mr Rayner wrote: ‘Unfortunately these panels may have formed the basis for some concern to the current design proposal which does not specify any infill, commercial development or other major buildings as part of council’s intended work.’ Mr Rayner declined to com-

ment on the letter, but Ms Deane says it indicates that he did not know about the infill or was trying to disguise it from residents. ‘I still have serious concerns the work could be to accommodate plans yet to be released by the Lands Department to build a cultural centre on the harbour’s northern eastern side,’ she said. ‘I don’t question that at least one of the council documents contained a map showing the extent of the foreshore alterations but I do question why my organisation and other groups who took interest in the plans failed to pick it up. ‘The trouble is there are reams of documents, maps and glossy brochures relating to the redevelopment and issues of public concern can easily become buried in all the detail.’

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Night bus run to be trialled Farewell to Olga Vidler, Kate McIntosh

A proposed late night bus service connecting Coolangatta and Tweed region is part of a fresh push to cleanup the troubled image of the southern Gold Coast town, which has been plagued by incidents of violence and antisocial behaviour. The $70,000 trial service initiated by Gold Coast City Council will also benefit late night revellers from across the border. Although the precise route has yet to be determined, Bilambil Heights and Kingscliff are currently under consideration.

Numbers split The Tweed was included in the proposed service route after data provided by local licensed venues from mandatory licence scans identified that patron numbers were split evenly between the Tweed region and southern Gold Coast. Division 14 Councillor Chris Robbins, who this week met with senior police, representatives from licensed premises and Gold Coast City Council transport and community safety officers to discuss the plan, said the service could be up

and running within the next month. She also plans to meet with Tweed Police in coming weeks to gauge their support. The plan comes as Tweed residents were this week slugged with a 2.7 per cent increase in taxi fares. Under statewide pricing changes, which took affect on July 12, the average taxi fare will rise by 47 cents in rural areas and 66 cents in urban centres. Cr Robbins said the initiative was part of a raft of crossborder measures to address safety concerns in the area including additional CCTV cameras, the Department of Transport funded marshalled taxi rank in Griffith Street and the Coolheads Project, which provides a variety of youth oriented activities in Goodwin Park each fortnight. ‘There is no magic solution but rather a combination of programs and initiatives that should go some way towards addressing any incidents of late night street violence,’ she said. The southern Gold Coast town, which has been dubbed ‘Coolanghetto’ has earned a reputation as a late night no-

go zone after a series of high profile bashings in recent years including a brutal attack which left an 18-year-old Cabarita man in a wheelchair and an unprovoked assault on an offduty police officer. The problems were highlighted recently on A Current Affair and Today Tonight. Cr Robbins said the service would help get young, intoxicated party-goers off the street and home safely after a night out. ‘I am determined to get this up and running as it will help provide part of the solution to the negative perceptions and safety concerns in the precinct,’ said Cr Robbins.

Reputation concern ‘We’re [Gold Coast City Council] concerned about the reputation of Coolangatta. Overall that reputation is suffering and we want to ensure that we are able to get kids home safely, but also improve Coolangatta for the better of the economy, so that people will want to come and stay.’ The service, which will be operated by TransLink, will initially run on Saturday out of Coolangatta at midnight, 2am and 3am.

environmental champion Scores of mourners attended the funeral service on Monday of former schoolteacher and environmental champion Olga Vidler who died suddenly at her Fingal home last week aged 71. The Murwillumbah-born history and English teacher taught thousands of Tweed River high school students and organised major school musical events. Olga was still active in school affairs having recently accepted an invitation to organise the school’s 50th anniversary celebrations next year. But she was probably better known in the wider community for her role in saving the Fingal peninsula from being turned into a high-rise tourist resort under a development proposal by a $2 company, Ocean Blue Resorts, in the mid-80s.

She said the group would work to ensure politicians remained accountable. ‘For too long, politicians from the major parties have acted as though they are not accountable to the communities they have been elected to represent,’ said Dr McCormick. ‘Community Voice will only recommend candidates who have proven through their past actions that they truly care about everyone in the community having a fair go and effective representation at all levels of government.’ Dr McCormick said the group, which comprises a wide range of local people,

actively involved in community issues, would identify suitable candidates and help them connect to potential supporter bases. Candidates supportive of open dialogue, environmental responsibility and community diversity would be given preference, said Dr McCormick. ‘Behaving responsibly towards each other and the natural environment are also core values of our organisation, and we will use these values as a benchmark when assessing candidates,’ she said. The Community Voice launch takes place at 11am on Friday at the Kennedy Drive boat ramp, Tweed Heads.

The campaign by the Fingal Defenders Group stopped the development and triggered an ICAC inquiry which shone a spotlight onto the controversial development and a string of other dodgy land deals where land speculators, mid-

dle-men and two local councillors stood to make quick profits. A long-time member of the Fingal Progress Association and dune care group, she was awarded an OAM for services to her local community.

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Community mourns soldier fallen in Afghanistan Kate McIntosh

Murwillumbah soldier Private Nathan Bewes tragically killed in Afghanistan last week has been remembered by friends and family as a person of unwavering courage, humour and compassion. The 23-year-old former Mount Saint Patrick’s College student was killed by a roadside bomb while on patrol in the remote Chora Valley in Oruzgan Province on July 9. Pte Bewes, from the Brisbane-based 6th Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment, was serving with Men-

toring Task Force 1. He is survived by his father, Gary, mother, Kaye and sister, Stephanie, who all remain in the Murwillumbah area. A statement released by his family said the army was Pte Bewes’ lifelong passion, which had been inspired by the family’s history of military and community service. ‘It was all he wanted to do,’ the statement reads. ‘When he was on leave from Afghanistan in June all he could talk about was getting back to the deployment and his mates.’ Pte Bewes joined the Mur-

willumbah-based 225 Army Cadet Unit when he was 13. His cadet captain Chris Chrisostomos said his young charge distinguished himself early on, making rank as a cadet officer – the most senior cadet rank – by the time he was 15. ‘He wasn’t the rowdiest person you’d ever meet, he was more of a quiet achiever,’ said Mr Chrisostomos. Pte Bewes, who went on to join the army in 2005, was on his second deployment to Afghanistan and had also served in East Timor. Mr Chrisostomos said news

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‘He always made me laugh and I have never loved anyone so much,’ she said. ‘I will miss my Bewesy for the rest of my life.’ Pte Bewes was farewelled by his mates and defence force personnel at a service held at

the Tarin Kowt military base overnight Monday. His body is expected to be returned to Murwillumbah within coming days. At the time of going to press a funeral date had yet to be set.

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of his death had shocked the tight-knit community. ‘His family are very community minded, always have been. It’s a small town, people grow up together, play sport together,’ he said. Mr Chrisostomos, who kept in touch with the young soldier over the years and remains a family friend said he will remember Pte Bewes as he saw him last at a Murwillumbah Anzac Day parade ‘looking tall and proud’. Mr Bewes is the sixth Australian to die in Afghanistan in little over a month, with the rising death toll sparking renewed debate on Australia’s role in the long-running conflict. However, Mr Chrisostomos said although Pte Bewes’ death was a tragic loss it should be remembered that he understood the risks involved and was there doing something he believed in. ‘People will say it’s a terrible waste to go so young, but Nathan was there because he chose to be, he believed in what he was doing and that’s the path he chose to folllow,’ he said. In a moving statement Private Bewes’s partner of three years Alice Walsh paid tribute to her ‘soul mate’ and ‘best friend’.

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Festival a career stepping stone Tania Phillips

The Murwillumbah Festival of Performing Arts may be due to wrap up today (july 15) at the Civic Centre but plans are already underway for the event’s 80th birthday celebrations. ‘We are planning some really exciting events for next year,’ said event president Arthur Holmes. Mr Holmes said many of the event’s big winners over the years had gone on to enjoy major international success, hinting that he hoped that some would be back for next year’s major event. ‘We are already looking for major sponsors and volunteers for next year.’ Despite being one of the area’s longest running events, the music festival, which celebrates the best of music, dance and drama in the Tweed Valley and around the country, continues to grow. ‘Many people see this as the friendly festival and come back every year,’ Mr Holmes said. That popularity saw the event, which already stretches for more than three weeks, extended by two days. ‘It was due to end on July 13 but we had so many dance entrants that we had to extend by two days,’ he said. The extension had posed a

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TRIBAL RUGS... Winners of the JJ Richards Memorial Scholarship section at the Murwillumbah Festival of Performing Arts, pictured from left to right Brooke Newman, Courtney Macmillan, Maggie Dixon-Best and Georgina Martin. Photo supplied

small problem with a dance adjudicator due back home on July 13. However, internationally recognised choreographer, Christopher Horsey, a former winner of the event, stepped in to finish the dance judging, flying from Sydney to the Gold Coast to lend his support. A winner of the Fred Astaire International Tap Championship held at the Waldorf Astoria in New York, Christopher has performed in the Frank

Sinatra Concert and alongside Stevie Wonder in ‘Quincy Jones, 50 years In The Business’. He also created the role of Tip for the ‘Hot Shoe Shuffle’ show, which toured Australia, UK, Japan and New Zealand. Not bad for a Gold Coast boy who cut his teeth on the Murwillumbah Festival stage at the Civic Centre. Mr Holmes said people did not always realise the calibre of entertainers that came through the festival, many of whom,

like Chris Horsey, go on to perform all over the world. Although it all wraps up today, things are not quite over for the year with an awards night concert still to be held on August 8. The event, hosted by the Murwillumbah Rotary, will feature some of the top competitors from the event. Among the headliners for the event will be Australia’s Got Talent star Nobel Lakev from Burringbar, who was one of this year’s top dancers.

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Timor-Leste a horribly cynical choice Volume 2 #44

July 15, 2010

‘Reasonable concerns’ The only people who can genuinely object to new people arriving in Australia are those who came here in the first place forty thousand years ago. They did not object quickly or strongly enough when the original fleet of British convicts arrived a while later, but every other mob who has come here since has made up for that oversight by complaining about new immigrants just as soon as they settled in themselves. It’s no wonder that for a long time Sydney’s shores were dominated by guns pointing out at the threatening ocean. We don’t like new arrivals. It is in this context that we should view the unholy terror that is generated in the breasts of politicians, radio shock jocks and Murdoch journalists by the handful of asylum seekers who attempt to arrive by sea. It doesn’t matter that they comprise only a tiny fraction of the total number of people who come here without proper documents. Unlike arrivals by aircraft, these people come in groups in highly photogenic leaky boats, and they come from places like Afghanistan and Iraq, so they reek of menace. Julia Gillard has apparently decided that persuading the country that this trickle of humanity constitutes no kind of threat will take too long with an election looming, so she has dubbed uninformed nonsense about asylum seekers ‘reasonable concerns.’ Now once again, as in the worst days of Howard, we are locked into a vicious game of who can be nastier to defenceless people. It plays into the hands of those who portray a humanitarian problem as a crisis of border control. If the prime minister herself cannot resist the forces of unreason, it is certain that Tony Abbott will drop as far into the gutter as the cynical right-wing commentators would like, and the only winners will be religious and racist bigots. Here are some of the facts you won’t get from the fear and loathing crowd. Asylum seekers make up one per cent of our immigration program. When boat people are examined it turns out that 90 per cent are genuine refugees. The figure for those who arrive by air is 40 per cent. At the current rate of arrivals it would take 20 years – twenty years – just to fill the MCG. Some crisis. – David Lovejoy

Tweed Shire Echo Publisher David Lovejoy Editor Luis Feliu Advertising Manager Angela Cornell Accounts Manager Simon Haslam Production Manager Ziggi Browning ‘The job of a newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.’ – Finley Peter Dunne 1867–1936 © 2010 Echo Publications Pty Ltd PO Box 545, Murwillumbah 2484 Phone 02 6672 2280 email: editor@tweedecho.com.au Printer: Horton Media Australia Ltd

regional processing centre for asylum seekers, based in a country which is a signatory to the United Nations Convention on Refugees and run by, or at least under the auspices of, the United Nations High Commission – what a good idea. It would remove the need for makeshift UNHCR offices throughout the region and end the perception that some applicants in some places received preferential treatment. And it would kill off the people smuggling rackets; if all asylum seekers had to go through the same gate, wherever they came from or however they arrived, there would be no advantage in risking the desperate and perilous journey by boat. The camps in places like Indonesia and Malaysia could not be emptied overnight, but an orderly system could be set up whereby they would be filtered through the single processing centre as opportunities for resettlement became available. Countries willing to accept successful applicants could cooperate on quotas and plan ahead to make ready the necessary facilities. Altogether a win-win situation. And where to put the centre? That’s a no-brainer. Obviously the biggest and richest country in the region, which would be the one paying most of the cost anyway: Australia. And this, of course, is where the logic breaks down. The whole point of Julia Gillard’s proposal is to keep the bastards out – offshore processing. The official explanation is that they cannot be allowed into Australia because that would give them access to the Australian legal system, and the possibility of justice, clearly an unthinkable concept in

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the current climate. But the real reason is much simpler: the anxious voters of Lindsay wouldn’t like it. And this doesn’t mean that they’re racists or rednecks; good heavens no. What it does mean is that they’re extremely ill-informed, and it would be too much trouble for sensible and decent people to persuade them otherwise. We’ll just let the real racists and rednecks

more than an ugly and brutal political fix, and a seriously botched one at that – a sort of stuffed-up version of whatever it takes. It may or may not get Gillard through to the election, but it will give her, and the rest of us, an awful hangover on the morning after. Her chosen minder for the campaign, the admired and admirable Labor elder John Faulkner,

The whole proposal must be seen as no more than an ugly and brutal political fix, and a seriously botched one at that. by Mungo MacCallum encourage them to swell the ranks. And by golly we’ll look tough while we’re doing it. The picture of Julia Gillard and the local member, David Bradbury, dolled up in flak jackets in a patrol boat in Darwin Harbour, which they had visited for that sole purpose, must surely rank as one of the silliest and most depressing of the year to date. And to get back to the story: having rejected the largest and richest country in the region as the preferred site, where should we look next? Well, obviously to the smallest and poorest, or at least a close contender for the position. Timor-Leste is a horribly cynical choice, and still would be even if the negotiations had been sensibly handled and the government and populace had shown themselves willing. Since they are clearly not, and any future consultation will have to take the form of bullying and bribery, the whole proposal must be seen as no

must already be wondering if he made the right choice in staying on. ll tribes need their elders, and the Labor tribe does more than most. The party depends on its history and tradition and the continuity they give its day to day operations. Although the ALP calls itself a progressive party, it is often reluctant to embrace change, and only does so when the new directions get the imprimatur of those seen as the real guardians of the party’s soul. Thus the departure of three of the party’s most revered figures at the next election would be a critical event. Julia Gillard saw the problem, and was able to persuade the most esteemed of them, John Faulkner, to hang around for a bit longer, albeit as a backbencher rather than a senior minister. But Bob McMullan, snubbed by Kevin Rudd in spite of being the most experienced of

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all of them, and Lindsay Tanner, once himself a real leadership prospect, are out of the place. Apart from Faulkner, this leaves only Simon Crean and Kim Carr as survivors of a previous Labor era; both have proved their ability and both are steeped in Labor lore, but neither commands the respect given unstintingly to Faulkner by all the factions. It should not be forgotten that when Paul Keating lost the 1996 election, Faulkner was Gough Whitlam’s choice as his successor; Whitlam’s idea was that the party should install an interim leader until a seat in the House of Representatives could be found for the New South Wales senator. This was, of course, fantasy: apart from Kim Beazley’s obvious qualifications for the job, the party was not yet ready to give the leadership to a figure from the left. But it is a measure of Faulkner’s standing that it could even be discussed. Whitlam himself, of course, like all Labor’s other former leaders, is a tribal elder himself, but his retirement from parliament means that he can act only as a distant commentator. Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, Beazley and even Mark Latham frequently perform a similar task and it is a useful one, but the caucus needs resident elders of its own. Crean, Carr and Faulkner are there to fill the roles; after a decent interval Kevin Rudd, if he perseveres in parliament, will no doubt join them. That will make four people who are still serious about policy rather than just polling. As we used to say about Anzac Day parades, the ranks are thinner but the faces are still proud. And the party marches on.

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Strange growth at JEBH being formed on the northern shoreline of the Jack Evans Boat Harbour, all at the cost of public amenity and culture. Whether the council has constructed these infill works in accordance with the Review of Environment Factors dated April 2009 is yet to be examined. Our community needs to write to council about these concerning matters.

I am very surprised that council’s engineering and operations has used the 2006 publicly exhibited concept plan adopted by council to justify the distance of infill now being dumped from the northern shoreline of Jack Evans Boat Harbour, particularly when a later plan was available. Even if council had used the final draft of the Aspect Studio’s construction implementation plan (December 2008), most observers including myself and at least three reported councillors cannot reconcile the distance of polluting infill extending from the existing northern shoreline of the harbour. Others do not agree with council’s statement that, ‘The adopted foreshore line has not materially changed since the original concept plan was publicly exhibited and adopted by council in 2006.’ The harbour’s northern beach covered by areas of fill will be protected concrete/rock revetment walls in deeper water. Of public concern is leaching of infill sediment below the inadequate construction boomline placed near adjoining beds of seagrass. The new infill area is part of a previously advertised scheme for the sale of commercial development land now

Q The infilling of the northern shoreline of the harbour continues, on Friday 9th they were infilling up to the bend in the harbour near the Coral Street corner. Our mayor tells us that the fill is creating a headland for the beach on the northern side of the harbour. Surely a headland does not need to extend hundreds of metres away from where the beach is located. In 2004 two panels of background information went on display with the Aspect Studio’s plan for the area. It was the two panels that revealed the reclamation of the entire northern shoreline of the harbour – up to where the rock wall crosses the harbour. Also earmarked for development

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We are in a unique position in the Tweed Valley. We have world-heritage rainforests, organic farmers and a wealth of dynamic sustainable businesses and a majority of Green voters. If Murwillumbah were a federal electorate, I would be in Canberra. We have a challenge though. We share the electorate of Richmond with Tweed Heads. The Greens vote in Tweed Heads is about seven per cent. To improve this vote, I’m offering to go out and meet any group of people that wants to grill me over Greens policy: emissions trading, nuclear energy, refugees. If you are a member of a group, please get me invited to answer your questions. We are also calling for donations. Unlike the two major parties we do not accept money from corporations. We believe that corporate donations lead to tame politicians: thus, no action from the ALP on climate change, tax reform or universal education. A small donation of $10 or more from our supporters would make an enormous difference to our election funds. Please donate through www. joe4richmond.org or mail to PO Box 625, Mullumbimby 2482.

Thank you, Mandy Nolan, for your article in the July 1 Tweed Echo. You have put into words so clearly and finely what I have so muddle-headedly been thinking for sometime. Your words have inspired this 60-year-old grandmother of teenagers. I know that I will give my granddaughters a copy of your column. I hope that they too will find your ideas inspirational and that it may help them and those they mix with to see the dupe that is the cult of celebrity and then to see the real heroes. We need to acknowledge our stories and get real.

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was the crown land in Coral Street. Both the harbour and the crown land were identified for commercial purposes. This is still the case. The current Draft Development Control Plan has both the harbour and crown land marked for commercial development. These plans were driven by the Masterplan Taskforce in 2004, headed by Neville Newell who was our Labor state member and chairman of the taskforce. When I had a meeting with Mr Newell in 2006, I was told that, ‘the door was closed on discussion’ and he labelled me a whinger! Seems I was justified in whingeing. Several councillors told me they had no idea there was a need for infill, and one told me that you needed to be an engineer to understand the plans. Who is it that briefs the councillors on these important issues? Is it the same person who briefed them on the Bay Street highrise fiasco? I wonder why councillors aren’t given the true picture about these developments? And I wonder why residents are clearly misled by deceptive plans! Stephanie Deane

Secretary, JEBH Committee representatives. How representative will this panel be? If the Tweed Link were interactive and more engaging, a letters to the Link page could elicit the response that the far more expensive and complicated panel system will entail. Letters to the Link could be more genuinely representative of residents and make the paper more interesting and more relevant. Council-sponsored public meetings and representative committees have worked well in the past and are more real and worthwhile than ‘virtual’ consultation manipulated by bureaucrats. Make your submissions now.

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to be widespread. Very recently independent ecologists have provided ample evidence in Doubleduke and Yabbra state forests where koala habitat has been destroyed. The on-going exploitation of Clouds Creek State Forest has decimated koala numbers by 80 per cent over a decade. Friends of the Koala applauds SEPL for seeking Forest Stewardship Council certification, but it does not bode well that they think they can get it without them and their suppliers making some significant changes to the way they do business. Lorraine Vass

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Tweed Futures future At the next council meeting on Tuesday, July 20, it looks like the issue of Tweed Futures will be on the agenda. Tweed Futures was implemented in 2004 as a 20-year plan aimed to balance the environment, economy, and social issues. At the time there was a steering committee that consulted with the community and did surveys. They found that the community valued the environment and were concerned how it would be in ten years’ time at the rate of development, overpopulation and cost of housing. Nothing has changed and we still need TSC to address these issues but it appears that the implementation of Tweed Futures has slipped by the wayside. We have the lowest household in-

come in NSW with 43 per cent on the dole (27 per cent is state average). There is pressure to create more jobs for young people and with it more infrastructure, more development. While Tweed Shire is home to more biodiversity than even Kakadu, two thirds of species are at risk of extinction. Councillors are the guardians of our unique ecological treasures but are under a lot of pressure to develop the economy and the environment. If we are to protect our biodiversity, which is what makes our area so unique, we need sustainability at the forefront. Environment should come first, ahead of economy and must include the full spectrum of living creatures – plant and animal – that make up natural ecology. Environment should not be reduced simply to clean air and water for humans. 2010 is the Year of Biodiversity. We need to build a new relationship with the planet that includes all inhabitants. We are all interconnected and interdependent, therefore all creatures must be respected, not just humans. Please be at the next council meeting to let councillors know how important it is that we be involved with all their decisions in the future of the Tweed and that they create a steering committee to implement the longterm vision of strategies outlined in Tweed Futures. Menkit Prince

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Television Guide 1. Brian Cox stars in Red Eye (Prime, Friday, 8.30pm) in which an assassin terrifies plane passengers even more than the onboard food. 2. It is already past the day Michael J Fox arrives in the future in Back To The Future (TEN, Saturday, 8.30pm) and the future is not all as it was made out to be. Not a flying skateboard in sight. 3. It is not a good idea to kidnap a mob boss by mistake, as the protagonists find out in the Mexican comedy Killing Cabos (SBS2, Sunday, 9.30pm).

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4.30 Shortland Street 5.00 Something In The Air

5.30 The New Inventors 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 East Of Everything 2.30 Spicks And Specks 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Meerkat Manor 6.30 Can We Help? 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Stateline 8.00 Collectors 8.30 Trial And Retribution (M) 10.05 30 Seconds (M) 10.35 Lateline 11.15 The Gruen Transfer (M) 11.50 rage (M)

ABC 2 5.30 Message Stick (G*) 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Three Hungry Boys

6.30 Dirty Jobs 7.10 The Daily Show 7.35 The Colbert Report 8.00 Mr Bean 8.30 Being Human (M) 9.30 Spectacle (M) Bruce Springsteen 10.15 Moving Wallpaper (M) 10.40 Songbook 11.25 Like A Version (M) Basement Birds 11.30 Nelly Furtado Loose, The Tour 12.35 Planet Rock Profiles (G*) Kaiser Chiefs 1.05 Red Dwarf 1.35 Zoo Days 2.00 Close

5.00 rage (PG) 11.00 Poh’s Kitchen 11.30 Message Stick (G*) Uncle Max Hamilton 12.00 Stateline 12.30 Australian Story 1.00 Foreign Correspondent 1.30 Can We Help? 2.00 Pilot Guides Volcanos: Ring of Fire 3.00 Rugby Union Shute Shield LIVE – Warringah v Manly 5.00 World Cup Bowls Women’s final 6.00 Planet Food Singapore 6.30 Gardening Australia 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Doc Martin 8.30 The Bill (M) 9.15 ABC News Update 9.20 Midsomer Murders (M) 11.00 Silent Witness (M) 11.55 rage (M)

Kids’ Program At The Movies Heartland Robin Hood Mr Bean Movie: Dating The Enemy (M 1996) Guy Pearce, Claudia Karvan, Matt Day 10.10 Movie: The Picture Show Man (G 1977) Adventures of a showman travelling the Aussie back roads unreeling silent films to country townsfolk. Stars John Meillon 11.45 Jess My new face 1.00 Victoria’s Empire (G*) 2.00 Close

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As universal tremors of unrest unite some and polarize others, this week’s Virgo/Cancer transits make half the people supercritical while the other half are extra sensitive… Ouch!

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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 9.00 Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution 10.00 Numb3rs (M) 11.00 Ten Late News 11.30 Sports Tonight 12.00 The Late Show With David Letterman 1.00 Medium (M) 2.00 Infomercials 5.00 Religion

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7.30 Warren Miller’s Friday Feature Journey

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SBS S BS 2 Weatherwatch World News World News Australia FIFA World Cup Review Show Movie: Demonlover (MAV 2002) French thriller. Stars Connie Nielsen, Charles Berling 11.30 Movie: Idiot Love (MA 2004) Spanish comedy. Stars Santi Millán, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo 1.10 Weatherwatch

6 00 Friday 6.00 Fri Night Footy Encore – Adelaide v Geelong 8.30 Movie: Son Of Paleface (PG 1952) Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Roy Rogers 10.30 Movie: H.E. Double Hockey Sticks (PG 1999) Tyler Labine, Donald Adams, Scott Augustine 12.20 Movie: The Competition (PG 1980) Richard Dreyfuss, Amy Irving, Lee Remick 2.45 Home & Away CatchUp 5.00 Hooked On Fishing 5.30 Better Homes And Gardens 6.30 Dr Finlay 7.30 Heartbeat 8.30 A Touch Of Frost (M) 10.40 Minder 11.40 Monster House 12.30 The World Around Us: In The Footsteps of the Pharoahs 1.30 AFL Flashbacks

necessary for avoiding social faux pas, so keep your inner editor switched to alert. CANCER: This week’s invigorating spin on the merger developing between your inner and outer selves arrives with plenty of personal push for positive endings – so long as you’re prepared to relinquish old emotional habits and explore new perspectives, new living arrangements, new moves… LEO: As Mercury joins the midweek Leo moonlight shining on your majesty holding forth with a vuvuzela fanfare of vivid opinions, keep in mind that all negotiations benefit from a personal touch this week; that others won’t respond well to pressure, will need support, appreciation and understanding.

11.30 Movie: Darkness Falls (M 2003) Jonathonn Liebseman, Chaney Kley

9.30 Andra Pro Series Drag Racing 10.30 UFC 83 12.30 Sports Tonight Late 1.00 Major League Baseball

6.00 Saturday Club 7.00 Weekend Sunrise 9.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 V8 Xtra 12.30 Motorsport Fujitsu Series 1.30 Beauty And The Geek Australia 2.40 Movie: Antz (PS 1998) Animation 4.30 What’s Up Downunder 5.00 Guide To The Good Life 5.30 Sydney Weekender 6.00 Seven News 6.30 Movie: The Wild (G 2006) Animation 8.20 Movie: Octopussy (PG 1983) Roger Moore, Maud Adams, Louis Jourdan, Kristina Wayborn 11.05 M Movie: Commando (AV 1985) Arnold Sc Schwarzenegger, Alyssa Milano, Rae Da Dawn Chong 12.55 M Movie: Ghost Voyage (M 2008) A gr group of recently deceased sinners fifind themselves on a ship with one last fin cch h chance for redemption. Stars Antonio SSabato a Jr, Deanna Russo, Nicholas Irons 22.40 2.4 40 In Infomercials

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12.00 Ellen Degeneres Show 1.00 The View 2.00 Days Of Our Lives 3.00 Alive And Cooking 3.30 Magical Tales 4.00 Pyramid 4.30 News 5.00 Antiques Roadshow 5.30 Hot Seat 6.00 NBN News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 Friday Night Football LIVE – St George Illawarra Dragons v South Sydney Rabbitohs 9.30 Friday Night Football Brisbane Broncos v Gold Coast Titans 11.30 Til Death 12.00 British Open Golf Highlights 1.00 Movie: Mayerline (PG 1968) Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve 3.30 Entertainment Tonight 4.00 Infomercial 4.30 Good Morning America

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6.00 Golf Central 6.30 ATP World Tour Tennis 7.00 Australian Short Course Swimming Championships 8.30 Road To Delhi 9.00 Major League Baseball LIVE 3.00 Omnisport 3.30 TNA Xplosion 4.30 Football Stars Of Tomorrow 5.00 IAAF Athletix 5.30 MVP 6.00 Australian Short Course Swimming Championships

Weatherwatch World News Tour De France Update World News San Remo Song Festival Francisco Goya Tim Marlo Meets Jung Chang Frank Bridge Variations Newshour Rough Science Tour De France Highlights World News Australia Monster Moves Iron Chef High Altitude Man against mountain: Graham Bell takes on the Arctic Arrctic Circle Race and two woo ru gby starss go g for a rugby marathon skii in in Sw SSwitzerland witzerl rllaand n 10.00 LIVE 0.00 Tour De France LIV IV VE – Ro RRodez dez to Re Revel 2.00 Weatherwatch Weatherwaatch cch h

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ARIES: While objectivity mightn’t come easily, this week needs Aries focusing on long range preparations for their future. With all the intense changes happening, it’s especially important to make your home and work bases places of fun and comfort, love and creativity. TAURUS: Mars and Venus in a Taurusfriendly earth sign favor local and/or home projects. Avoid arguments, foster public relations and you could net this week’s popularity vote for your calming, harmonizing effect in the family circle, the commercial world, among friends… GEMINI: Your ruler Mercury in extrovert Leo attracts plenty of vivid new friends to your orbit this week, along with some unexpected shake ups. Tact, sensitivity and diplomacy will definitely be

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Weatherwatch 6.00 Sunrise World News 9.00 The Morning Show Tour De France Update 11.30 Seven Morning News World News 12.00 Movie: Johnson Family Vacation (PG The Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia 2003) Cedric The Entertainer, Vanessa L Astroboy In Roboland Williams, Shannon Elizabeth Cracking The Colour Code 2.00 Kids’ Programs Short Stories 4.00 It’s Academic Classical Destinations Bonn and 4.30 Seven News Berlin 5.00 M*A*S*H 4.30 The Journal 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 5.00 Newshour 6.00 Prime News 6.00 Tour De France Highlights 6.30 Seven News 6.30 World News Australia 7.00 Home And Away 7.30 Coast Cornwall and the Isles Of Scilly 7.30 Better Homes And Gardens 8.30 Nuremberg: Nazis On Trial (M) 8.30 Movie: Red Eye (M 2005) An airline Herman Goering passenger reveals to the woman next 9.30 World News Australia to him that he is on an assassination 10.00 Tour De France LIVE – Bourg-de-Péage mission. Stars Rachel McAdams, Cillian to Mende Murphy, Brian Cox 2.00 Weatherwatch 10.15 Scrubs 11.15 AFL Premiership Season Adelaide v Geelong 2.30 Infomercials 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.40 World News 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Cities Of Light The rise and fall of 6.00 Kids Time 8.30 Sons & Daughters 9.00 Home Islamic Spain & Away 9.30 Shortland Street 10.00 Coronation 8.30 Tour De France Highlights Street 10.30 Emmerdale 11.00 All My Children 9.00 Movie: Lust, Caution (MA 2007) 12.00 Martha Stewart Show 1.00 Kitchen Time Mandarin espionage thriller about 2.30 Movie: Don’t Look Under The Bed a young woman in World War II (PG 1999) Erin Chambers, Eric Hodges Shanghai. Stars Tony Leung Chiu Wai, II, Jake Sakson Wei Tang, Joan Chen 4.30 Alf 5.00 Hot Property 5.30 Full House 6.00 The Amazing Race 7.00 Airline USA 7.30 Ghost 11.40 Movie: Arahan (M 2004) South Whisperer 8.30 Escape To The Country 9.45 60 Korean action adventure. Stars Ryu Minute Makeover 10.45 Inside Maximum Security Seung-beom, Yoon So-yi (M) 11.40 Lost: The End (M) 1.30 AFL 1.40 Weatherwatch

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3.20 Skippy 4.00 Infomercials

2.00 AFL Premiership Season Collingwood v St Kilda 5.00 Australian Short Course Swimming Championships 6.30 Before The Game 7.30 Looking For Manchester 8.30 MVP 8.50 Finke Desert Race 9.50 MotoGP Qualifying Germany 11.10 AFL Premiership Season Western Bulldogs v Port Adelaide

6.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 Get Smart 2.00 Here’s Lucy 3.00 Seinfeld 4.00 Hogan’s Heroes 5.00 Green Acres 5.30 The Nanny

1.40 All Star Game Baseball 4.35 Des Moines World Cup Triathlon 5.30 Omnisport

VIRGO: Venus, Mars, Saturn and end of week moon in Virgo bring the world to your doorstep: invitations, compliments, popular attention, rave reviews. Making it easier to see how everyone changes at their own pace, in their own time, along their own learning curve. Just like you. LIBRA: Don’t be surprised if it’s not all peace, love and bean sprouts at Villa Libra this week when Venus in the sign of critical, analytical perfectionistas could start bitching about the party glass half empty. Better revisualize that cosmic cornucopia frothing with a Moet of positive possibilities... SCORPIO: The best way of utilizing this life-shifting week would be discussing important issues with loved ones rather

GO! 6.30 Movie: Daddy Day Camp (PG 2007) Cuba Gooding Jr, Lochlyn Munro 8.30 Movie: Stormbreaker (M 2006) Geoffrey Sax, Alex Pettyfer, Stephen Frey, Ewan Macgregor 10.30 Movie: Ballistic (M 2002) Antonio Banderas, Lucy Liu, Talisa Soto 12.30 Seinfeld 1.30 Get Smart 2.30 Hogan’s Heroes 3.30 Here’s Lucy 4.30 Green Acres 5.00 The Jetsons 5.30 Marine Boy

than rocketing round on full throttle. Also be cautious of enabling strays: as in roving ideas which end up costing more than they’re worth or citizens unwilling to contribute. SAGITTARIUS: Transforming restlessness into positive action will boomerang back all sorts of interesting offers and unexpected opportunities this week, which rewards exposing your tender centre and focusing on some of those little things that mean a lot: special gifts, thoughtful words, nurturing treats. CAPRICORN: This week has high frustration levels and explosive potential, but arguing only sticks another brick in the wall. Mounting expenses highlight what you need to get rid of, whether that’s excess weight,

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outdated stuff, limiting beliefs, toxic debt, unnecessary habits, negative attitudes or unsupportive connections. AQUARIUS: With your life’s jumbo jet on the tarmac for refueling and running repairs, this week asks for an in-depth review of assets and resources. Family finances could do with attention, unrealistic expectations require reality checks, and new ways of increasing income need pursuing. PISCES: With relationship changes centre stage, this week benefits from showing loyalty towards those who support you. Every act of care for family, friendship or your own creativity becomes increasingly rewarding as it demonstrates how what you choose to nurture is an investment in your future.

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

2.00 Travel Oz 2.30 Broadside 17th century sea battles 3.30 Infinite Space Architecture of John Lautner 5.00 IOU: Robin Boyd 5.30 Art Nation 6.00 At The Movies 6.30 Treks In A Wild World Best Canadian treks 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Doctor Who 8.35 Little Dorrit (M) 10.20 Compass Christianity: A History 11.05 Art Of Spain The Moorish South 12.00 Movie: The Most Dangerous Game (PG 1932) Joel McCrea, Fay Wray 1.10 Movie: Johnny Angel (PG 1945) George Raft, Claire Trevor 2.30 Primal Instincts 3.30 Talking Heads Forbes Carlile 4.00 First Tuesday Book Club

ABC 2 6.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 The Wild Gourmets 6.30 Jennifer Byrne Presents Christopher Hitchens

7.00 Art Nation 7.30 Learning From Light 9.05 Monumental Vision In India 9.30 Cold Feet (M) 10.30 Brideshead Revisited 11.30 Jeff Tweedy (M) Sunken Treasure: Live in the Pacific Northwest 1.05 Beautiful Noise Sisters Euclid 2.10 Close

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11.00 Landline 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 The Return Of Sherlock Holmes 1.30 The Cook And The Chef 2.00 Waterloo Road 2.45 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Travel Oz 6.30 Talking Heads Jim Frazier 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 Australian Story 8.30 Four Corners 9.20 Media Watch 9.35 Q&A 10.35 Lateline 11.10 Lateline Business 11.35 The War Second World War 12.30 The Clinic (M) 1.25 Movie: Go Chase Yourself (G 1938) Joe Penner, Lucille Ball, June Travis 2.40 Artists At Work 3.25 World Cup Bowls Women’s final

SBS 2 Weatherwatch World News World News Robert F Kennedy The Trials Of J Robert Oppenheimer Movie: Killing Cabos (MA 2004) Mexican comedy about a man who accidentally kidnaps a Mexican mob boss. Stars Tony Dalton, Joaquin Cosio, Kristoff Razcinsky 10.40 The T-Shirt (M) 11.15 Movie: Willenbrock (MA 2005) German drama. Stars Axel Prahl, Inka Friedrich, Dagmar Manzel 1.10 Weatherwatch

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11.10 Radio 1’s Big Weekend 2009 Kasabian 11.45 Death Note (M)

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6.00 AFL Grand Final Classic 8.30 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Harry’s Practice 11.30 Movie: Lost Horizon (G 1973) Liv Ullman, Peter Finch, Sally Kellerman

2.40 Movie: Harry And Walter Go To New York (G 1976) James Caan, Diane Keaton, Michael Caine 5.00 Packed To The Rafters 6.00 Samantha Who? 6.30 Breaking The Magician’s Code

7.30 Movie: Matilda (PG 1996) Danny DeVito, Mara Wilson, Rhea Perlman 9.40 City Homicide (M) 10.40 Holby Blue (M) 11.40 Movie: Breakout (M 1975) Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Robert Duvall 1.30 AFL Footy Flashback 3.45 Australian Ark 4.40 Medical Rookies 5.00 Home Shopping

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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 Australian Rally Championship South Australia 1.00 Out Of The Blue 2.00 Ambition To Meaning 3.00 Fuels Of The Future 4.00 Landed Music 4.30 Discover Downunder 5.00 Ten News 5.30 Sports Tonight 6.00 The Simpsons 6.30 Merlin 7.30 Masterchef Australia 8.30 Hawke (M) Prime Minister Bob Hawke 10.30 Hawke: The Interview 11.00 MotoGP Germany

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 Movie: Charro! (PG 1969) Elvis Presley, Ina Balin, Victor French 3.00 Men In Trees 4.00 Sunday Football Sydney Roosters v Canterbury Bulldogs 6.00 NBN News 6.30 RBT 7.00 Send In The Dogs 7.30 60 Minutes 8.30 CSI (M) 9.30 Cold Case (M) 11.30 Afterlife (M) 12.30 British Open Golf Highlights 1.30 Super League 2.30 Infomercials

1.45 Video Hits 2.00 Infomercials 4.00 Religion

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GO! 6.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Marine Boy 11.30 Scooby-Doo Show 12.00 The Hills 12.30 Eclipse Music TV 1.00 The Partridge Family 1.30 Here’s Lucy 2.30 Hogan’s Heroes 3.30 Green Acres 4.30 The Nanny 5.30 Wipeout Australia 6.30 Top Gear 7.40 The Big Bang Theory 8.30 Two And A Half Men (M)

2.00 Football Melbourne Victory v Argentina’s Boca Juniors 4.00 Omnisport 4.30 I Fish 5.00 Australian Short Course Swimming Championships LIVE 6.30 Sports Tonight 6.45 125cc Motorcycle Racing LIVE – Germany 9.10 Sports Tonight 9.30 MotoGP LIVE – Germany 11.15 Andra Pro Series Drag Racing 12.15 World Rally Championship 1.15 Omnisport 1.30 Tread BMX

2.00 Grand-Am Sportscar Series LIVE

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 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Great Debate (M) 10.00 Outrageous Fortune (M) 11.00 Late News With Sports Tonight 11.45 The Late Show With David Letterman 12.30 Burn Notice (M)

1.00 Infomercials 5.30 Seven News

1.30 Infomercials 4.00 Religion

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6.00 Kids Time 8.30 Sons & Daughters 9.00 Home & Away 9.30 Shortland Street 10.00 Coronation Street 10.30 Emmerdale 11.00 All My Children 12.00 The Martha Stewart Show 1.00 Kitchen Time 2.30 Movie: White Water Summer (PG 1987) Kevin Bacon, Sean Astin 4.30 Alf 5.00 Hot Property 5.30 Full House 6.00 The Amazing Race 7.00 Murphy Brown 7.30 Heartbeat 8.30 Kingdom 9.40 Fromelles – The Final Chapter 10.40 Holby Blue (M) 11.40 Infamous Assassinations: Pope John Paul (M) 12.15 The Prisoner 1.10 Room For Improvement 1.30 AFL 3.50 Australian Ark 4.40 Medical Rookies 5.00 Home Shopping

6.00 Major League Baseball – LIVE 9.00 Australian Short Course Swimming Championships 10.30 ASP World Tour Surfing 11.30 AFL Premiership Season – Collingwood v St Kilda 2.00 MotoGP 3.00 Omnisport 3.30 ATP World Tour Tennis 4.00 Major League Baseball 6.30 Spirit Of Yachting 7.00 Isle Of Man TT Review 9.00 Sports Tonight 9.30 One Week At A Time 10.40 America’s Game 11.40 Sports Tonight Late 11.55 FA Cup Classics 12.25 One Week At A Time 1.35 Omnisport 2.05 Twenty20 IPL Cricket Memorable Match 4.55 Des Moines World Cup Triathlon 5.50 AFL Premiership Season – Western Bulldogs v Port Adelaide

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Seven Morning News 12.00 Movie: My Boss’s Daughter (M 2003) Athron Kutcher, Terence Stamp, Tara Reid, Molly Shannon, Carmen Electra 2.00 All Saints (M) 3.00 Find My Family 3.30 All For Kids 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 Minute To Win It 8.30 Packed To The Rafters 9.30 Ghost Whisperer 10.30 Australia Versus 11.30 Alan Sugar: The Apprentice (M) 1.00 Infomercials 5.30 Seven News

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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 Magical Tales 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 8.00 The Big Bang Theory 8.25 Lotto 8.30 Rescue Special Ops (M) 9.30 CSI: Miami (M) 11.30 Til Death 12.00 British Open Golf Highlights 1.00 Super League 2.00 Infomercials 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

GO! 6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ 11.30 Married With Children 12.00 Here’s Lucy 12.30 Seinfeld 1.00 Green Acres 2.00 Hogan’s Heroes 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 Community 9.00 The Inbetweeners (MA)

9.30 Movie: Barely Legal (MA 2005) Erik Von Detton, Tony Denman, Daniel Farber, Sarah Jane Potts, Amy Smart 11.30 South Park (MA) 12.00 Nip/Tuck (MA) 1.00 Wife Swap USA 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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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 Magical Tales 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 9.00 The Very Best Of The Paul Hogan Show 10.00 Adults Only 20 To 1 (M) 11.00 Kitchen Nightmares USA (MA) 12.00 WWE Afterburn 1.00 Enertainment Tonight 1.30 Infomercials 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

ONE HD 6.00 AFL Premiership Season – Western Bulldogs v Port Adelaide 8.20 One Week At A Time 9.30 This Week In Baseball 10.00 Major League Baseball 1.00 TNA Xplosion 1.55 Sports Unlimited 2.50 Omnisport 3.20 One Week At A Time 4.30 Andra Pro Series Drag Racing 5.30 125cc Motorcycle Racing 6.30 Moto2 Motorcycle Racing 7.30 MotoGP 8.30 Le Mans 24 Hour Official Film 2010 9.30 Sports Tonight 10.00 Johnny Lewis Boxing Classics 11.00 Golf Central 11.30 Sports Tonight Late 11.45 Rally World 12.15 NASCAR Nationwide Series 1.15 Omnisport 1.45 Major League Baseball 4.15 Tread BMX 4.45 British Touring Car Championship 5.45 Omnisport

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5.30 Today 9.00 Kerri-Anne

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4.30 Alf 5.00 Hot Property 5.30 Full House 6.00 The Amazing Race 7.00 Murphy Brown 7.30 That ’70s Show 9.30 Gary Unmarried 10.30 The Sopranos (MA) 12.40 My Own Worst Enemy (M) 1.30 AFL 3.40 Australian Ark 4.40 Medical Rookies 5.00 Home Shopping

9.30 Movie: Walk Hard – The Dewy Cox Story (MA 2007) John C Reilly, Jenna Fischer, Raymond J Barry

6.00 Ten Early News 7.00 Kids’ Programs

6.00 Kids Time 8.30 Sons & Daughters 9.00 Home & Away 9.30 Shortland Street 10.00 Coronation Street 10.30 Emmerdale 11.00 All My Children 12.00 The Martha Stewart Show 1.00 Kitchen Time

2.30 Movie: Seems Like Old Times (PG 1980) Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn, Charles Grodin, Robert Guillaume

3.30 Religion 4.00 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

6.00 Australian Short Course Swimming Championships 7.30 Warren Miller’s Journey 9.30 NASCAR Nationwide Series – LIVE from Illinois 1.00 Red Bull Air Race Highlights

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Seven Morning News 12.00 Movie: McBride – Requiem (M 2006) John Larroquette, Matt Lutz, Marta Dubois 2.00 All Saints (M) 3.00 Find My Family 3.30 All For Kids 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 Border Security 8.00 The Force: RBT 8.30 Criminal Minds (M) 10.30 Hung (MA) 12.00 Seven News Special Fromelles – The Final Chapter

PRIME

4.30 Shortland Street 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.00 Something In The Air 5.05 World News 5.30 The New Inventors 7.30 Tour De France Update 6.00 Kids’ Programs 7.45 World News 12.00 Midday Report 1.00 Movie: Blueprint (M 2003) German 12.30 World’s Worst Disasters drama about a woman who is the clone 1.30 The Einstein Factor of her gifted painist mother struggling 2.00 Waterloo Road to find her own identity. Stars Franka 3.00 Kids’ Programs Potente, Ulrich Thomsen 6.00 Three Men In More Than One Boat 3.00 Help 7.00 ABC News 3.30 Singles Club 7.30 The 7.30 Report 4.00 Risking It All 8.00 Foreign Correspondent 4.30 The Journal 8.30 Greatest Cities Of The World Hong 5.00 Newshour Kong 6.00 Tour De France Highlights 9.30 QI 6.30 World News Australia 10.00 Artscape Hannah Gadsby 7.30 Why Do Viruses Kill? 10.30 Lateline 8.30 On Thin Ice (M) 11.05 Lateline Business 9.30 World News Australia 11.35 Four Corners 10.00 Tour De France LIVE – Bagnères-de12.20 Media Watch Luchon to Pau 12.35 The Chaser’s War On Everything (MA) 2.00 Weatherwatch 1.05 Movie: The Private Life Of Don Juan (PG 1934) Douglas Fairbanks Snr 2.30 Remembering Alex Buzo (M) 5.00 Weatherwatch 3.00 Big Ideas 4.00 Good Game 6.40 World News 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Liberal Rule Hearts and Minds 8.30 Tour De France Highlights 5.30 Message Stick (G*) 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 Movie: Nobody Knows (M 2004) 9.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Landscape Of The Wynne Japanese drama about four children 6.30 Dirty Jobs 7.10 The Daily Show 7.35 The Colbert Report 8.00 Outnumbered 8.30 The Street sheltered from the outside world. (M) 9.30 The Wire (MA) Stars Yuya Yagira, Momoko Shimizu, 10.30 Teachers (M) Ayu Kitaura 11.30 Billable Hours (M) 11.30 Movie: Carnage (M 2002) French 12.00 Heartland drama. Stars Chiara Mastroianni, 12.45 A Little Later Radiohead Angela Molina, Clovis Cornillac 1.05 Red Dwarf 1.35 Zoo Days 2.00 Close 1.45 Weatherwatch

SBS 2

12.30 Infomercials 5.30 Seven News

PRIME

12.10 Soundtrack To My Life: Belinda Carlisle 12.30 Afro Samurai (MA) 1.05 Red Dwarf 1.35 Zoo Days 2.00 Close

ABC 2

TUESDAY 20

SBS 1 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 7.30 Tour De France Update 7.45 World News 1.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia 1.30 Inside The Vatican 2.20 Handmade 2.30 Dateline 3.30 Public Enemy No.1: Carbon 4.30 The Journal 5.00 The Crew 5.30 Futbol Mundial 6.00 Tour De France Highlights 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Mythbusters 8.30 Man v Wild Sierra Nevada 9.20 Gotcha (M) 9.30 World News Australia 10.00 Tour De France LIVE – Pamiers to Bagnères-de-Luchon 2.00 Weatherwatch

Weatherwatch World News World News Australia Battle Of The Brains (M) Tour De France Highlights Movie: Twice Upon A Time (M 2006) French comedy about the darlings of 1970s French cinema who are forced to reunite after 30 years apart. Stars Charlotte Rampling, Jean Rochefort, James Thiérrée 10.35 Movie: Respiro – Grazia’s Island (M 2002) Italian drama. Stars Valeria Golino, Veronica D’agostino 12.15 Weatherwatch

5.30 Message Stick (G*) 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Collectors 6.30 Dirty Jobs 7.10 The Daily Show Global Edition 7.35 The Colbert Report Global Edition 8.00 10 Items Or Less 8.30 Good Game 9.00 Lunch Monkeys 9.30 Sanctuary (M) 10.15 Torchwood (M)

6.00 Religion 7.00 Weekend Sunrise 10.00 AFL Game Day 11.00 Movie: The Nude Bomb (PG 1980) Don Adams, Sylvia Kristel, Rhonda Fleming 1.00 AFL Premiership Season Sydney v Carlton 4.00 Home Improvement 4.30 Trinny & Susannah 5.30 Mercurio’s Menu 6.00 Seven News 6.30 Dancing With The Stars 8.30 Bones (M) 9.30 Castle (M) 10.30 Scrubs 11.30 Russell Brand’s Ponderland (M) 12.00 AFL Premiership Season North Melbourne v Richmond

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5.00 5.05 6.30 7.30 8.30 9.30

ABC 1 4.30 Shortland Street 5.00 Something In The Air 5.30 The New Inventors 6.00 Kids’ Programs

PRIME

5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 7.30 Tour De France Update 7.45 World News 11.00 Tales From A Suitcase 11.30 Tour Of Toowoomba Cycling 12.30 World Superbike Championships Czech Republic 1.00 Speedweek 3.00 Football Asia 3.30 Futbol Mundial 4.00 FIFA World Cup Grand Final 6.00 Tour De France Highlights 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Who Do You Think You Are? David Mitchell 8.30 Dateline 9.30 High Altitude Fire and ice 10.00 Tour De France LIVE – Revel to Ax 3 Domaines 2.00 Weatherwatch

GO! 6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ 11.30 Married With Children 12.00 Here’s Lucy 12.30 Seinfeld 1.00 The Hills 2.00 Wife Swap USA 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 The Nanny 4.00 Kids’ Programs 6.30 Total Wipeout UK 7.30 The Bachelor 8.30 Seinfeld

9.30 Movie: The Dukes Of Hazzard – The Beginning (MA 2007) Jonathan Bennett, Randy Wayne, April Scott 11.30 South Park (MA) 12.00 Hell’s Kitchen (MA) 1.00 Seinfeld 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

WEDNESDAY 21

4.30 Shortland Street 5.00 Something In The Air

5.30 The New Inventors 6.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 National Press Club Address 1.30 Talking Heads 2.00 Waterloo Road (M) 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 The Gruen Transfer 9.30 United States Of Tara (M) 10.00 At The Movies 10.30 Lateline 11.05 Lateline Business 11.30 Spooks (M) 12.25 Movie: The Locket (PG 1946) Robert Mitchum, Laraine Day, Brian Aherne 1.55 Warrior In Chains Roger Knox 2.25 Big Ideas 3.25 National Press Club Address

SBS 1

PRIME

TEN

NBN

Weatherwatch World News Tour De France Update World News Movie: Copacabana (M 2004) Brazilian comedy. Stars Marco Nanini, Laura Cardoso, Myrian Pires 2.40 Tougher Yet (M) 3.00 Nest 3.30 Inspiring Teachers 4.00 A Fork In Africa Zanzibar 4.30 The Journal 5.00 Newshour 6.00 Tour De France Highlights 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Inspector Rex (PG) 8.30 Unexplained Glastonbury 9.30 World News Australia 10.00 Movie: The Far Side Of The Moon (M 2003) French Canadian drama. Stars Robert LePage, Celine Bonnier 11.50 Movie: Ferpect Crime (MAV 2004) Spanish black comedy. Stars Guillermo Toledo, Monica Cervera 1.40 Weatherwatch

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Seven Morning News 12.00 Movie: TBA 2.00 All Saints (M) 3.00 Find My Family 3.30 All For Kids 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 World’s Strictest Parents 8.30 City Homicide (M) 9.30 The Suspects (M) True Australian thrillers 10.30 Wormwood Scrubs (MA) Behind locked doors of one of Europe’s largest prisons 11.30 Most Shocking (M)

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 (G) 7.00 The 7pm Project 7.30 Masterchef Australia 8.30 Lie To Me (M) 9.30 Law & Order (M) 10.30 Late News With Sports Tonight 11.15 The Late Show With David Letterman 12.00 Numb3rs (M) 1.00 Sex And The City (M)

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 Magical Tales 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 Hey Hey It’s Saturday 8.25 Lotto 9.30 20 To 1 (M) Megastars with megabucks 10.30 Embarrassing Bodies (M) 11.30 Til Death 12.00 Eclipse Music TV 12.30 20/20 1.30 Infomercials 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

5.00 5.05 7.30 7.45 1.00

SBS 2

ABC 2 5.30 Message Stick (G*) 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

8.00 E2 Transport Aviation 8.30 The Undercover Princes 9.30 The British In Bed 10.15 1983: The Brink Of Apocalypse 11.30 Eataholics 12.30 A Place In Slovakia 1.05 Red Dwarf 1.35 Zoo Days 2.00 Close

5.00 Weatherwatch 6.40 World News

6.30 7.30 8.30 9.00

World News Australia Dateline Tour De France Highlights Movie: Life Is A Miracle (M 2004) French/Serbian drama/comedy. Stars Slavko Stimac, Natasa Solak 11.40 Movie: In The Battlefields (M 2004) Lebanese drama. Stars Marianne Feghali, Aouni Kawass 1.20 Weatherwatch

ABC 1

THURSDAY 22

1.30 Infomercials 4.00 Religion

7 TWO 6.00 Kids Time 8.30 Sons & Daughters 9.00 Home & Away 9.30 Shortland Street 10.00 Coronation Street 10.30 Emmerdale 11.00 All My Children 12.00 The Martha Stewart Show 1.00 Kitchen Time 2.30 Movie: Peggy Sue Got Married (PG 1986) Kathleen Turner, Barry Miller, Joan Allen, Jim Carrey, Nicolas Cage 4.30 Alf 5.00 Hot Property 5.30 Full House 6.00 The Amazing Race 7.00 Murphy Brown 7.30 Beauty And The Geek US 8.30 Knight Rider (M) 9.30 Reaper (M) 10.30 The Riches (M) 11.30 The Black Donnellys (M) 12.30 The Jonathan Ross Show (M) 1.20 This Rugged Coast 2.15 Home Shopping 4.00 Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia 5.00 Home Shopping

SBS 1

4.30 Shortland Street 5.00 Something In The Air

SBS 2

ABC 2

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From The Week

13. Health ban applies to no good kimonos (2,7) ACROSS 14. Rodent reported to supply 1. Roundabout overwhelmed by sexual craving – it could be the coolant for facial feature (10) 16. Lean agenda (4) start of a plague! (6) 19. Stalk and stop (4) 4. Send back after urge to 20. Clothing for careless acquire small cooking aid (8) 9. Confused verse covers page shadow treasurers … (6, 4) 22. … but shadow treasurer of service (7) tops, says Spooner; he’s been 11. Gore correct, OK? (7) 12. Embroidery about … about played by Ronald Colman and Gary Cooper! (4,5) entertainment (5)

Cryptic Clues

9.30 Movie: Into The Blue (M 2005) Paul Walker, Jessica Alba, Scott Caan

6.00 Ten Early News 5.30 Today 7.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Kerri-Anne 9.00 Ten News 11.00 Infomercials 10.00 The Circle 12.00 Ellen Degeneres Show 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 The View 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show 2.00 Days Of Our Lives 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Alive And Cooking 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Magical Tales 3.30 Infomercial 4.00 Pyramid 4.00 Huey’s Kitchen 4.30 Afternoon News 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 Antiques Roadshow 5.00 Ten News 5.30 Hot Seat 6.00 The Simpsons 6.00 Evening News 6.30 Neighbours (PG) 7.00 A Current Affair 7.00 The 7pm Project (PG) 7.30 Getaway 7.30 Masterchef Australia 8.30 Sea Patrol (M) 8.30 Rush (M) 9.30 The NRL Footy Show 9.30 Law & Order: SVU (M) 11.00 The AFL Footy Show 10.30 Late News With Sports Tonight 1.00 Entertainment Tonight 11.15 The Late Show With David Letterman 1.30 Skippy 12.00 Buffy (M) 2.00 Infomercials 1.00 Sex And The City (MA) 3.30 Good Morning America 1.30 Infomercials 4.00 Religion 5.00 Early Morning News

7 TWO 6.00 Kids Time 8.30 Sons & Daughters 9.00 Home & Away 9.30 Shortland Street 10.00 Coronation Street 10.30 Emmerdale 11.00 All My Children 12.00 The Martha Stewart Show 1.00 Kitchen Time 2.30 Movie: How To Commit Marriage (PG 1969) Bob Hope, Leslie Nielson 4.30 Alf 5.00 Hot Property 5.30 Full House 6.00 The Amazing Race 7.00 Movie: Holes (PG 2003) Shia Labeouf, Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight 9.30 Movie: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (PG 1969) George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas 12.30 Eli Stone 1.30 AFL 3.30 This Rugged Coast 4.40 Medical Rookies 5.00 Home Shopping

Mungo’s Crossword

GO! 6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ 11.30 Married With Children 12.00 Here’s Lucy 12.30 Seinfeld 1.00 Eastwick (M) 2.00 The Bachelor 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 The Nanny 4.00 Kids’ Programs 6.30 Total Wipeout UK 7.30 Seinfeld 8.30 The Bachelorette

TEN

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Seven Morning News 12.00 Movie: Desolation Canyon (M 2006) Patrick Duffy, Stacy Keach, David Rees Snell 2.00 All Saints (M) 3.00 Find My Family 3.30 All For Kids 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 How I Met Your Mother (M) 9.30 Cougar Town (M) 10.30 True Beauty 11.30 American Dad 12.00 The Mole

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PRIME

5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News

5.30 The New Inventors 7.30 Tour De France Update 6.00 Kids’ Programs 7.45 World News 11.00 How The Earth Was Made 1.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia 12.00 Midday Report 1.30 Return Of The Bible Plagues 12.30 Jeeves And Woosters 2.30 Dateline 1.30 Collectors 3.30 Road Trip Nation Australia 2.00 Waterloo Road 4.00 Feast Greece 3.00 Kids’ Programs 4.30 The Journal 6.00 Grand Designs Revisited 5.00 Newshour 7.00 ABC News 6.00 Tour De France Highlights 7.30 The 7.30 Report 6.30 World News Australia 8.00 Catalyst 7.30 My Family Feast The Balinese 8.30 The Making Of Modern Australia 8.00 Oz And James Drink To Britain Parenting and childhood over the past 8.30 Supersizers Go… Seventies 60 years 9.30 World News Australia 9.30 A Good Man Farmer Chris Rohrlach 10.00 Tour De France LIVE – Pau to Col du 10.30 Lateline Tourmalet 11.05 Lateline Business 2.00 Weatherwatch 11.30 Live From Abbey Road Mika, Bloc Party, La Roux 12.20 Movie: Blue Collar (M 1978) Harvey 5.00 Weatherwatch Keitel, Richard Pryor 6.40 World News 2.20 Movie: Death Drums Along The River 6.30 World News Australia (PG 1962) Richard Todd, Jeremy Lloyd 7.30 Waiting For A Heartbeat 3.55 Can We Help? 8.30 Tour De France Highlights 9.00 Movie: Fermet’s Room (M 2007) Spanish thriller about four mathematicians who are invited to a country 5.30 Message Stick (G*) 6.00 ABC News Breakfast location on the pretext of solving 9.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Poh’s Kitchen 6.30 Dirty mathetmatical riddles. Stars Federico Jobs 7.10 The Daily Show 7.35 The Colbert Report Luppi, Eljo Sauras, Luis Homar 8.00 Spicks And Specks 8.30 The Gruen Transfer 10.35 Movie: The Young Lieutenant (M 9.00 The Armstrong And Miller Show (M) 9.30 Review With Myles Barlow 10.00 The Catherine 2005) French drama about a young Tate Show (M) 10.30 Clone 11.00 Creature police graduate who leaves his lowComforts 11.30 Massive (M) 12.00 Ideal (MA) crime town to take up a post in Paris. 12.30 Pulling (M) 1.05 Red Dwarf 1.35 Zoo Days Stars Robert LePage, Celine Bonnier 2.00 Close 12.40 Weatherwatch

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12.30 Infomercials 5.30 Seven News

6.00 Major League Baseball LIVE 8.30 Transworld Sport 9.30 Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships 10.30 Championship Netball Grand Final 1.00 ITU World Cup Triathlon 3.00 Omnisport 3.30 Major League Baseball 6.00 Omnisport 6.30 Rally World 7.00 MVP 7.30 Thursday Night Live 9.30 Sports Tonight 10.00 UFC Unleashed 10.55 Golf Central 11.25 Sports Tonight Late 11.40 TNA Xplosion 12.35 Grand-Am Sportscar Series 3.05 Omnisport 3.35 Tread BMX 4.00 ITU World Championship Triathlon

GO! 6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ 11.30 Married With Children 12.00 Here’s Lucy 12.30 Seinfeld 1.00 The Bachelorette 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

10.30 Movie: Stealth (M 2005) A renegade computerised-plane has its own ideas. Stars Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel 12.40 Eclipse Music TV 1.10 Total Wipeout UK 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Married With Children 5.30 The Flintstones

23. Subject to irrational century (5) 25. Experience one drug, crazy! (7) 26. Victims of an octopus’s weapons! (7) 27. Wildly curse, say, the city of Archimedes (8) 28. Bible endures, and condemns (6)

Quick Clues

DOWN 1. Prophet raves: “I cut Elvis!” (9) 2. Time in a container, an artificial division (5) 3. The Americans, they say, include a hundred unbelievers (8) 5. Piss rag spells make fabulous footwear (5,8) 6. Royalty in lurk raised panic (6) 7. Enchanted ring hold back French in the name of a Venetian nobleman (9) 8. Relabel jape about alien (5) 10. Unexpected bliss seen with farming tools – practical, quite unlike 5! (8,5) 15. Northerner claims to spread defamation (9) 17. Try dative and ablative as examples; they could set precedents (4,5)

ACROSS 1. Migratory grasshopper (6) 4. Small kitchen hourglass , normally runs for three minutes (8) 9. Religious service held in the evening (7) 11. Okay, fine (7) 12. Special entertainment or celebration (5) 13. Ban on cigarettes, pipes, etc (2,7) 14. Small rodent valued for its fur (10 16. Agenda, schedule (4) 19. Stalk, trunk (4) 20 Long-sleeved, loosefitting garments (6,4) 22. 1924 adventure novel by P C Wren (4,5) 23. Subject, theme (5) 25. Experience, endure (7) 26. Dupes, victims (7) 27. Town in south-eastern Sicily (8) 28. Explosions (6)

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18. Sounds like a girl working in a brothel! Unreal! (8) 21. A rotten cigar – a fungus (6) 22. Royal navy songs? (5) 24. Utters entreaties, and hunts for food (5)

DOWN 1. Old testament prophet, also book (9) 2. Social division, especially among Hindus (5) 3. Doubters, unbelievers (8) 5. Magic footwear worn by Cinderella (5,8) 6. Panic, extreme fear (6) 7. Grandee or nobleman, originally from Venice (9) 8. Label again (5) 10 Practical footwear, especially for rough country (8,5) 15. Citizen of Reykjavik (9) 17. Important court hearings that may set legal precedents (4,5) 18. Not rational, supernatural (8) 21. Fruiting fungus, type of mushroom (6) 22. Musical genre invented by black Americans (5) 24. Stalks, hunts for food (5)

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Her humour is sharp, honest, sometimes self-depreciating, somewhat outrageous, but never cruel or pretentious. THIRSTY MERC, SATURDAY JULY 17 Frequently irreverent, it speaks Side Splitting AT THE COOLANGATTA HOTEL. to a diverse audience with no Comedy – Rangas for set demographic, no gender, race or religion, occupation Rangas’ fundraiser or tribe. It even crosses state On Wednesday July 21, Side borders and mediums (Mandy Splitting Comedy is raising funds for Rainforest Rescue and also writes and paints). She’s a regular at the Melbourne the plight of orangutans and Comedy Festival, toured the their habitat. country opening for Puppetry It is a sad and confronting situation: five football fields of of the Penis and Bob Downe, pristine rainforest is destroyed and shared the bill with Arj Barker, Akmal, Wil Anderson every minute in Indonesia and a whole heap more. (that’s 300 an hour!). On averAccording to the most critical age fifty orangutans are killed every week during this destruc- comic on the circuit, Austen Tayshus: ‘She’s the funniest tion. Orphaned orangutans woman in Australia.’ overcrowd sanctuaries and Mandy Nolan will be hosting are sold on the black market tempo rockabilly. What ever LOREN AT SONGWRITERS Terra Comedy at the Terranoas pets. The palm oil industry you wanna call it, The DeVON THE SONGLINE, THE UKI ra Tavern, Thursday July 22. is what drives this insanity illes have roots deep in that HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, This provides new and visiting so we can have our creature SATURDAY early American sound, when comics the chance to have five comforts, such as potato chips, hollow-body guitars and fat minutes on the open mic. The confectionary, cosmetics, soaps gas guzzlin’ Cadillacs roamed show is free and kicks off at shampoos and conditioners. the streets. They have released Orangutans are facing extinc7.30pm. Dinner bookings are seven full length albums and tion and have no voice. Let available on 07 5590 5416 and have toured relentlessly, both us be the voice and speak up the kitchen is open until 9pm. nationally and internationally. for these beautiful, intelligent Supported by James T and The primates. Mandy Nolan is Tomahawks. July 16 at the donating her time and has Soundlounge, Currumbin. invited three of her favourite red headed comics to join in on Loose Talk, Splash a riotous ranga-raising night. Exhibition spaces for and The Beach Profits from all ticket sales will local artists go to Rainforest Rescue. Help Brothers The Tweed River Art Gallery stop redheads from becoming This Friday night at the Curis proud to announce two extinct by supporting Rainrumbin RSL you can catch dedicated exhibition spaces forest Rescue in their bid to Loose Talk, who draw on a for local artists. Currently on protect orangutans. July 21, wide range of tasteful, high Currumbin RSL. display are Gold Coast artists energy, classic and contempoHaya Cohen from Mudgeeraba, rary rock. Splash perform on Terra Comedy Virginia Miller from Benowa Saturday, and have a unique Stand up comedy comes to the and Sonya Peters who is based Songwriters on the Thirsty Merc sound inspired by harmonies, Terranora Tavern in the form in Burleigh Heads. Thirsty Merc shot onto the Songline #2 exceptional guitar work and of an Open Mic with comedian Also ‘Select & Save’ displays colAustralian scene with two Uki proves once again that the latest digital audio technol- extraordinaire at the helm, laborative works by well known hit singles Wasting Time and ogy. On Sunday afternoon, the Mandy Nolan. Coast dwellers there’s great entertainment to artists from the Northern Rivers Emancipate Myself from their Beach Brothers will be drawbe had out in them thar hills. have come to love Nolan as the region: Lyndall Adams, who debut EP titled First Work. The This Saturday is an evening of self-titled full-length followed, ing from their huge repertoire, MC of Currumbin RSL’s popular up until recently resided at including classics from the Side Splitting Comedy Nights Songwriters on the Songline. cracking the Top 20 on the Wooloyeyah, and Fiona Fell Beachboys, The Beatles, Queen, and in Byron Bay – where Loren will be headlining, and from Bangalow. The gallery and Aussie LP charts in 2004 and the Eagles, E.L.O and the Bee she lives – Nolan’s jokes are he is supported by the audacafé are open from 10am to generating the hits In The SumGees. part of the local vernacular. cious Ivy Lucille and guitarist 5pm Wednesday to Sunday. mertime, My Completeness and Jerome Williams. Someday, Someday. They are PETE CORNELIUS AND Loren has had some great back with a brand new single, THE DEVILLES, JULY 16 AT THE SOUNDLOUNGE, words said about him, as exem- album and tour. The album CURRUMBIN Mousetrap Heart was recorded p plified here: ‘Loren writes the in Los Angeles with super kkind of music that when you producer Matt Wallace (Faith lilisten to it you somehow feel No More, Maroon 5). Joining li you’re getting a massage. like the band is Northern Rivers A sweet, gentle voice accomguitarist Matt Smith (from The p panied by relaxed melodically Strides). Singer Rai says ‘We’ve p plucked guitar written by a always dug Matt’s playing, he’s man with a heart of gold. I’ve 1S STOKERS HALL a terrific guy, and having him TH T FRID AY OF MON watched Loren play… and am record with us on this new always inspired by how effort- album has been seamless.’ 0p 7-1 m less the music is.’ John Butler. See them Saturday July 17 at Tickets can be purchased from the Coolangatta Hotel. the Uki Cafe, Crystal Treasures Pete Cornelius and in Murwillumbah or on line at the DeVilles www.ukitopiaartscollective. fif com. Some say it’s vintage R&B, m te co en ail. miin The Uki Holy Trinity Church, west coast jump blues, tough utesatstokers@gm Kyogle Road, Uki. Saturday Texan shuffles, hearty soul drivin’ sparse ballads and up from 7pm.

15 M i n u t e s Of Fame $12

LOCAL MUSIC

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

Alleys

FINGAL HEAD

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

Sheoak Shack

Fins

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

Salt Village, Kingscliff 02 6674 4833 dining@fins.com.au Dinner 7 days Lunch Fri, Sat & Sun GOOD FOOD GUIDE CHEFS HAT EVERY YEAR SINCE 1998

Shop 7 Bells Blvd, Salt Village Kingscliff Ph 02 66 742 022 Dine in or take away Dinner 7 days from 5.30pm Lunch Fri - Sun Fully licensed www.mahsuri.com.au

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.

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.

Nam Yeng Viet/ Thai Restaurant

Nam Yeng

Enjoy contemporary dining in a relaxed atmosphere with waterfront views, professional, friendly staff and award winning chefs.

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.

Winner – best Club Restaurant QLD 2007, 2008 and 2009 (Clubs Queensland Awards).

San Sebastian Sessions Every Sunday night from 5pm $59 includes 2 tapa and 2 drinks Bookings essential. Did you know Fins is also open in the bar just for drinks every night from 5pm til late! Email dining@fins.com.au to receive our monthly newsletter and updates on all events at Fins.

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.

Tweed River Art Gallery

Three courses only $14.95 – members or $18.95 non members – every weekday lunch.

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.

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

Warm up this winter with tasty Thai food delivered to your door, or come dine with us any night of the week. We use only the freshest, premium local produce and all our meals are house made with love. Functions catered for up to 60, corporate or private. House specialities: Massaman lamb curry with potatoes and Ped Yang roasted BBQ duck stirfried with Asian greens. Delivering Kingscliff to Casuarina Thurs-Sun.

Cafe Lazumba 14 Bay St Tweed Heads 07 5536 1811

Cafe Laz mba Mount Warning Hotel

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

soAP boX echo GOODTASTE guide

Sandwiches only $250 each available every Tuesday and Wednesday (selected varieties) Lasagne and salad $795 Homestyle traditional beef, Thai chicken and pumpkin ricotta

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.

WEATHER IS HERE, WISH YOU WERE BEAUTIFUL...

Mandy Nolan

I'm awake. On my holidays. It's 7.32am. By all accounts a sleep-in. The 16 month old suckling on my breasts suddenly rolls over and yells 'DADA'. Another day has begun. I have been looking forward to our week long family holiday in Noosa for the last six months. My partner has a lip herpes that is so big it's not only got its own postcode it's got an Olympics team. I have a cold. I haven't had a cold in two and a half years. I'm up half the night blowing my nose and coughing. Every time I cough I wake the baby. I finally get her to sleep and I cough again. It's like an evil curse. I don't sleep. I am desperate for coffee. They can't make coffee in Queensland. It's always a disappointment. Either it's too weak, or too milky, or it's not hot, or they've burnt the beans or boiled the milk so there's a skin clogging the mouthpiece of the takeaway container like bovine phlegm. There's this nagging feeling that things aren't right – a feint watermark of dissatisfaction on the part of my brain that registers pleasure. I'm in fricking Noosa and they can't make a coffee to save themselves.

How am I supposed to enjoy myself? All that stupid gold chain beige pantsuit wearing bravado is for naught if you can't make a simple coffee. I live in Mullumbimby for god's sake, home of Crocs with socks.

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MURWILLUMBAH KINGSCLIFF

Cudgen Leagues Club

Mahsuri Thai

Winner of Best Sushi Bar in NSW region 2008. Eat in or takeaway. Licensed. Open 7 days 11am till late.

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TWEED HEADS

COOLANGATTA CUDGEN

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

KINGSCLIFF

CURRUMBIN

O-Sushi

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

We fuck up footwear, but we can do caffeine. It's one of the reasons I left Queensland. It was the only way I could get a decent coffee. Why do you think Kevin Rudd moved to Canberra? Noosa is weird. Someone should tell people that you don't wear lipstick to the beach. Or $800 shoes. Or giant red Speedos with no elastic, particularly when your balls have sagged. And that's just the ladies. Noosa makes me want to behave badly. I want to swear in front of my children and drive on the wrong side of the road. Hang on, I already do. It's raining. So we go to the movies. I get sprung lying to the woman at the cinema. 'He's 15' I keep saying. I have stuck waxing remnants to my son's cheeks as a faux beard. 'He's a dwarf' I exclaim. 'This is discrimination! He's my husband'. I almost had us through, but he blew his cover at the candy bar. 'Mum, can I get a choc top?' 'We're from Mullumbimby, everyone calls their wife Mum there!'

What's with 3D films anyway? The world is in 3D, it's not that special. Poverty is in 3D. So is global warming. You want to see things in 3D, you tosser, then go to the park. Open your door. Get out of bed. I like my films like my pizza: flat. I don't want shit coming out at me when I'm in a chair. They just put films in 3D when the script sucks. Like we won't notice. Hey, worked with Avatar. I'm walking across the road. Someone wolf whistles. For crying out loud, I've barely slept. I haven't washed my hair. I'm in tracksuit pants. They must be desperate. I mean who sees a woman, gets a sudden penis tingle followed by an uncontrollable urge to force air through their lips in a shrill whistle? What are they, kettles? Budgies? Wolves? (I'm no David Attenborough, but in 42 years on this planet I've never heard a wolf whistle. I suppose if men started growling every time a hot woman walked by they'd be arrested).

So I let them have it. 'Sexist pig.' I realise I've insulted a 15 year old boy. He wasn't whistling We don't get to see the Russell at me. It was directed at my 11 year old daughter. Freaking Brand movie. So I have to weirdo. I've said it before, and take the kids to something appropriate. I hate appropriate I'll say it again. Straight people movies. They're like appropriate scare me! This holiday thing is stressful. I don't do change lives. Boring. Toy Story 43 or something. In 3D. I hate 3D. The well. 11.32pm. I give up and drive over the border to Tweed glasses give me a headache. for a coffee. Perfect. I take them off and I feel like I It's sad, I know. I drink decaf. need a visit to Fred Hollows.

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With three shires covered, The Tweed Echo has the most comprehensive entertainment gig guide in the area. For your free listing, email gigs@echo.net.au or phone us on (02) 6672 2280. Deadline is noon Tuesday prior to Thursday’s publication.

IN YOUR AREA CAFÉ D’BAR GALLERY 275 BOUNDARY ST, COOLANGATTA 07 5536 2500 OPEN EVERY DAY COMMUNITY PRINTMAKERS MURWILLUMBAH (CPM INC) 33-35 KYOGLE ROAD BRAY PARK, MURWILLUMBAH 02 6672 8276 CURRENT EXHIBITION: HEATHER MATTHEW: REFUGE(E) CURIOUS ART GALLERY 20 CHINDERAH BAY DRIVE CHINDERAH 02 6674 5340 OPEN: 10AM-5PM WED - SAT, SUNDAY 12PM - 5PM MINJUNGBAL ABORIGINAL CULTURAL CENTRE CNR KIRKWOOD ROAD & DUFFY STREET, SOUTH

TWEED HEADS 07 5524 2109 OPEN: 9-4PM EVERY DAY EXCEPT W/ ENDS SHEOAK SHACK GALLERY CAFE 64 FINGAL RD, FINGAL HEAD 07 5523 1130 OPEN WED-THURS: 11AM-5PM, FRI- SAT: 11AM-10:30PM, SUN 9:30AM-5PM STOKERS SIDING POTTERY 224 STOKERS ROAD, STOKERS SIDING, TWEED VALLEY 02 6677 9208 OPEN 7 DAYS FROM 9:30AM -5PM SHELENA RUSSELL GALLERIES 36 GRIFFITH ST, COOLANGATTA 07 5536 6559 OPEN: MON-FRI 10 -5PM, SAT 10A-2PM, SUN 10-12.30PM SEAN SCOTT PHOTOGRAPHY

SHOP 3, 110 MARINE PARADE, REFLECTIONS TOWER TWO, COOLANGATTA 07 5599 1150 OPEN: MON-SUN 6.30AM- 5PM

AMC Tweed 6 Cinemas Tweed City Shopping Centre, 54 Minjungbal Drive, South Tweed Heads 07 5523 3321 www.amcmovies. com.au

Murwillumbah Regent Cinema 5 Brisbane St, Murwillumbah 02 6672 8265 www. cinemaregent.com

BCC, Coolangatta Coolangatta Shopping Resort Griffith St (Cnr Warner St) Coolangatta 07 5536 9300

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TUMBULGUM GALLERY 110 RIVERSIDE DR, TUMBULGUM 02 6676 6234 OPEN 11AM-4PM WED-SUN THE WAY OF DESIGN GALLERY 2/792 PACIFIC PARADE, CURRUMBIN BEACH 07 5534 1530 OPEN: TUES-SAT: 9.30AM -2.30PM TWEED RIVER ART GALLERY 2 MISTRAL RD (CORNER OF TWEED VALLEY WAY), MURWILLUMBAH 02 6670 2790 OPEN WED-SUN 10AM–5PM

THURSDAY 15 TWEED Q CLUB BANORA, 6PM SYD Q CUDGEN LEAGUES CLUB 5.30PM MACCA Q MURWILLUMBAH CIVIC CENTRE MURWILLUMBAH FESTIVAL OF PERFORMING ARTS Q T WIN TOWNS CLUBS & RESORTS 11AM LIVE MUSIC

GOLD COAST Q BURLEIGH BEARS LEAGUES CLUB 6PM JAHBUTU Q COOLANGATTA HOTEL 8PM UNIVERSE STUDENT NIGHT FEAT. SPARKZ DUO & DJ FREQ - E Q GOLD COAST ARTS CENTRE, 7PM UNPLUGGED IN THE BASEMENT – TAYLOR Q KIRRA SPORTS CLUB, 7.30PM OPEN MIC NIGHT

BYRON Q BEACH HOTEL, 8.30PM SOMERSAULT Q THE RAILS, 6.30PM ASA BROOMHALL Q HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, THIRSTY MERC WITH PORCELAIN Q LA LA LAND, AND OH! + BUZZ Q BYRON BAY BREWERY 7PM BARRELHOUSE Q LIQUID, 10PM-3AM PSYCHOTROPIC WITH BYRON’S BEST PSYTRANCE DJ’S Q COCOMANGAS, THIRSTY THURSDAY Q THE PETIT SNAIL, 7PM MICKS SASHIMI BAND Q BAYSIDE TRADITIONAL THAI, MATT CONNOLLY Q 5/12 BAYSHORE DR A & I EST 7PM MAHAHATA BATS, CUPIDS BULLET

Q ELSEWHERE BAR, 10PM ELECTRIC BOOGIE SHOW Q IVORY TAVERN 8PM DJ Q THE ELEPHANT ROCK CAFE, CURRUMBIN 7PM TIM STOKES Q GOLD COAST ARTS CENTRE 8PM COMEDY IN THE BASEMENT - TROY KINNE Q NEVERLAND BAR, COOLANGATTA, 9PM JACK’S HARLOT Q NORTH BURLEIGH SURF CLUB, 8PM BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Q SOUNDLOUNGE, CURRUMBIN RSL 8PM PETE CORNELIUS AND THE DEVILLES Q TUGUN BOWLS CLUB, 8PM LIVE MUSIC

Q IVORY TAVERN 8PM DJ Q GOLD COAST ARTS CENTRE 8PM JAZZ IN THE BASEMENT – MELISSA WESTERN’S MINX QUARTET, QUEENSLAND BALLET – SWAN LAKE Q KIRRA BEACH HOTEL 7PM KARAOKE Q NEVERLAND BAR, COOLANGATTA, 9PM MALFUNKE AND WONGO Q BYRON Q BEACH HOTEL, 9.30PM OUTLOOK Q HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BRITTLE Q THE RAILS, 6.30PM JIMMY WILLING AND THE REAL GONE HICKUPS Q BYRON COMMUNITY CENTRE 8PM GYAN & SUPERFRAGILISTICALLY ALBUM LAUNCH Q LA LA LAND, EASY P + MILES JUNIOR Q BYRON BAY BREWERY 7PM THE CHRIS COOK BAND Q LIQUID, 10PM-3AM H2O DJS ADAM J TAYLOR | DEEGS | CAPTAIN KAINE Q COCOMANGAS, DJ QC, DJ CARL WALKER Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK, 7.30PM BACK TO BASICS HOT ROD RUN Q MULLUMBIMBY RSL 8.15PM ATMOSPHERE Q MULLUM FLICKS 7.30PM THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES Q LULU’S CAFE MULLUMBIMBY 11AM WAZ PORTER

BYRON Q BEACH HOTEL, 5PM BEACHY FRIDAYS WITH THE KOOKABROTHERS 9PM THE YOUNG HERETICS WITH COMIC SANS & SIREN LINES Q HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, YOUNGER DRYAS Q THE RAILS, 6.30PM THE GRAINS Q LA LA LAND, JIMMY 2 SOX, RYAN RUSHTON + DANIEL WEBBER Q BYRON BAY BREWERY 6.30PM BONDI CIGARS Q COORABELL HALL, 8PM TOMEE Q LIQUID FRIDAY NIGHT LOVE 10PM-3AM ELIXZA | DAVE C | DEE DEE Q COCOMANGAS, DJ KRISTEN Q THE TREE HOUSE, TAYLOR Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK BACK TO BASICS HOT ROD RUN 7.30PM LEGEND BANDSATURDAY LAS

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BYRON Q BEACH HOTEL, 4.30PM LATE FOR WOODSTOCK 8PM DJ SLINKY Q HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, TYSON FAULKNER Q THE RAILS, 6PM RHYS CRIMMIN Q ORIENT EXPRESS, 6PM TOMMEE Q BYRON BAY BREWERY 5.30PM GLENY RAE VIRUS Q LA LA LAND, CAPTAIN KAINE + STU LISTER Q BAYSIDE TRADITIONAL THAI, TOMMEE Q CHAMELEON GLOBAL CAFE, 6PM TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC Q BELONGIL BEACH CAFE 12.30PM MICK’S SASHIMI BAND Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 2-6PM BACK TO BASICS HOT ROD RUN FOSSIL ROCK 7PM BIG MUSIC Q MULLUMBIMBY RSL NOON COUNTRY MUSIC CLUB Q MULLUM FLICKS 7.30PM THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES

MONDAY 19 TWEED Q KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS CLUB 12PM GREG & LAURA DOOLAN Q T WEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6.30PM PETER JOHNSON Q T WIN TOWNS SERVICES CLUB 11AM FREE LIVE ENTERTAINMENT

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Q CABARITA BEACH SPORTS CLUB FRIDAY 16 7.30PM JON J BRADLEY Q CLUB BANORA, BANORA TWEED POINT 8PM MARK DIVOLA Q BILAMBIL SPORTS CLUB 8PM Q CHINDERAH TAVERN 3PM BILL JONNY CARR JACOBI Q CABARITA BEACH BAR & GRILL, Q IMPERIAL HOTEL, M’BAH 8.30PM BLIND LEMON 7.30PM KARAOKE Q CUDGEN LEAGUES CLUB Q KINGSCLIFF BEACH HOTEL, 7.30PM PAUL MULQUEEN 8.30PM MARK WELLS Q CABARITA BEACH SPORTS Q KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS CLUB 7.30PM UNCLE JUNIOR CLUB 7.30PM HAPPY DAZE Q CLUB BANORA, BANORA KARAOKE POINT 7.30PM GAVIN Q MURWILLUMBAH HOTEL DONIGER 9.30PM DJ MCLOVIN Q IMPERIAL HOTEL, M’BAH 8PM Q MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES CORY HARGRAVES MEMORIAL CLUB 6.30PM NO Q KINGSCLIFF BEACH HOTEL, SECRETS 9.30PM PETE MEREDITH Q POTTSVILLE BEACH SPORTS Q LUFFLEY CAFE 6:30PM KEL & CLUB 6PM RICHARD O THE JAZZ CANARIES Q SALTBAR BEACHBAR AND Q MURWILLUMBAH HOTEL 9PM BISTRO, KINGSCLIFF, 8.30PM DJ SAM BLACK PEARL Q MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES Q SOUTH TWEED SPORTS CLUB MEMORIAL CLUB 6.30PM 3PM SATURDAY JAZZ 7.30PM SURFS UP THE ROCKIN’ BODGIES Q POTTSVILLE BEACH SPORTS Q T WEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB CLUB 7PM JUST FRIENDS 7.30PM TOBY TYLER & THE Q SALT BAR, KINGSCIFF, 7PM COUNTRY BOYS MIRROR WORLD Q T WIN TOWNS CLUBS & Q T WEED TAVERN (THE ROUND RESORTS 10AM FREE LIVE HOUSE), MURWILLUMBAH ENTERTAINMENT 8PM DJ CONNECTION AND Q UKI ANGLICAN HOLY TRINITY DUTCH CHURCH, 7PM SONGWRITERS Q T WIN TOWNS CLUBS & ON THE SONGLINE RESORTS 11AM RICK PRICE GOLD COAST Q T WEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB Q BURLEIGH HEADS BOWLS 12PM DON WHITAKER 7PM CLUB 6.30PM ROKKS DUDES OF DOO WOP Q BURLEIGH BEARS LEAGUES GOLD COAST CLUB 7.30PM THE STREET Q BURLEIGH HEADS BOWLS Q COOLANGATTA HOTEL PM DJ CLUB 6.30PM JOE PHILLIPS FREQ - E (PUBLIC BAR) & Q BURLEIGH BEARS LEAGUES LEEROY (CUDDY’S BAR) 9PM CLUB 7.30PM SIMPLY 2 THIRSTY MERC Q COOLANGATTA HOTEL 3PM Q COOLANGATTA SANDS HOTEL JEZZA 9PM DJ FREQ - E 9PM THE CHAD, DJ JACKSON (PUBLIC BAR) & DJ JIMMY Z & Q COOLANGATTA AND TWEED BRENNO (CUDDY’S BAR) HEADS GOLF CLUB 7PM JEFF Q COOLANGATTA SANDS HOTEL DUTTON 9PM , FATHOM, DJ TALLIE Q CURRUMBIN RSL 7PM SPLASH Q CURRUMBIN RSL 7PM LOOSE Q ELSEWHERE BAR, GOLD COAST, DJS TALK

Q SURF CLUB COOLANGATTA, 2PM CRAIG TAYLOR Q TUGUN BOWLS CLUB, 2PM LIVE MUSIC Q TITANIUM BAR, SURFERS PARADISE, THE BONDI CIGARS

BYRON

SUNDAY 18 TWEED Q CHINDERAH TAVERN, 2PM PAUL ATKINS Q CLUB BANORA, 11.30AM DANIELLE & MELANIE 12.30PM GLENN BRACE Q CABARITA BEACH BAR AND GRILL 2PM HAMISH DUTTON Q POTTSVILLE BEACH SPORTS CLUB 4PM ABBIGAYLE Q RIVERVIEW HOTEL, M’BAH 2PM BILL JACOBI Q THE ROUNDHOUSE TAVERN, M’BAH 3PM SUNDAY LIVE MUSIC Q SPHINX ROCK CAFE, MT BURRELL 1PM BLUESVEIN Q T WEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 5PM DICK BARNS Q T WIN TOWNS CLUBS & RESORTS 2PM LIVE MUSIC

GOLD COAST Q BURLEIGH BEARS LEAGUES CLUB 6PM THE CHEVROLETS Q BURLEIGH HEADS BOWLS CLUB 1PM LIVE MUSIC Q COOLANGATTA HOTEL 2PM SIMON MEOLA 7PM REMEDY DUO Q CURRUMBIN RSL 1.30PM, BEACH BROTHERS Q ELSEWHERE BAR, 8PM ROYALE SUNDAY Q IVORY TAVERN, TWEED HEADS 1PM SMASHED CRABS Q KIRRA SPORTS CLUB 3PM KARAOKE Q LE MONDE KIRRA 1.30PM MICK MCHUGH Q NORTH KIRRA SURF LIFE SAVING CLUB, COOLANGATTA 2PM RED WINE AND CHEESY GRIN JAZZ BAND

Q THE RAILS, 6.30PM NEIL ANDERSON Q THE HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, DAN HANNAFORD

TUESDAY 20 TWEED Q MURWILLUMBAH HOTEL 7PM JAM NIGHT Q T WEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6.30PM MICHAEL KING Q T WIN TOWNS CLUBS & RESORTS 11AM CRAIG BERRY PRESENTS THE AMERICAN SONGBOOK 8.30PM LIVE MUSIC Q Q BYRON Q HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, HARRY HEALY Q THE RAILS, 6.30PM MR JON J BRADLEY Q BYRON BAY COMMUNITY CENTRE AMALA KIRTAN CONCERT Q BANGALOW HOTEL 7.30PM BRACKETS JAM NIGHT

WEDNESDAY 21 TWEED Q CLUB BANORA, TWEED HEADS, 6PM ROBERT KEITH Q T WEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6.30PM LIVE MUSIC Q T WIN TOWNS CLUBS & RESORTS 11AM LUCKY STARR

GOLD COAST Q COOLANGATTA HOTEL 8PM SOLOIST Q CURRUMBIN RSL 7PM SIDE SPLITTING COMEDY Q GREENMOUNT BEACH CLUB 7PM DOWNBEAT JAZZ

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Sport

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Hot and cold gents go down to Kyogle Story & photo Geoff Campbell

Gents Captain Phil Brown claiming the ball in a line out during the game away against Kyogle on Saturday

SPORT RESULTS BOWLS

Cabarita Beach Men 7/7/10 Winners B Clacher & P Glancy, r/up B Griffiths & R Mills cons J Cook & W Blackwood. 10/7/10 Sat Social Winners M Fletcher,C Blasckley & M Morgan cons B Overall,J Darling & B Barnes. 12/7/10 Winners M Morgan & J Stewart r/up N Simpson & B Davey cons P Newman & Buddha. Mens Pairs semi finals P Schofield & I Turnbull def B Rae & N Ambrose. E Carsley & G Goode def B Creedon & K Ross.

Cabarita Beach Women 08.07.10 Under & Over Fours – Windy overcast conditions didn’t stop the ladies from enjoying this special event. Winners – Karen Galard, Joan Bartlett, Joy Marie Quirke, Glenys Johnston (Ocean Shores) 2nd. – Jan Appleton, Merle Jackson, Georgie Moore, Lola Dowling (Pottsville) 3rd. – Nancy Dodds, Margaret Watson, Yvonne Hackey, Joy Lake (Cabarita). Encouragement Award – Marion Hinde, May Wilkins, Kay Cusack, Mary Anne Sweetman (Condong) . Raffles – Mary Anne Sweetman, Lorraine Glancy, Merle Jackson, Judy Jones, Michelle

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Unable to follow up a great effort last week The Gentlemen of Murwillumbah were beaten by a confident second placed Kyogle Cockies 10-45 at Kyogle on a drizzling afternoon last Saturday. The Gents began proceedings with some powerful forward play which had the Cockies feathers ruffled, as a result Gents prop Phil Lees scored a five pointer which was converted. A tight Kyogle pack were unable to crack their opponents game until well into the first half with The Gentlemen’s front row having one of the best starts of the season eventually a lapse in defence saw the Cockies go in for a try and the honours were even at the break for oranges. The second stanza began with some very physical forward clashes causing coach Peter Crittle to make full use of his bench to try to keep the Cockies at bay. The KyoMantell, Nancy Dodds. 13.07.10 Social Bowls – Winning Rink – John Andrews, Les Clarke, Col Blackley, Richard Fisher. Consolation – Nancy Dodds, Margaret Hunter, Dorothy Paterson. Raffles – Marlene Ainsworth, Lisa Morris, Lorna King. Social Bowls – Tuesdays 9.15am. Ladies Saturdays 1.00pm. Phone 6676 2951. Coaching free Saturdays. Barefoot Bowls – Sunday 2.30pm to 4.30pm. Condong Cane Toads Sunday 11th cane toads hosted 36 members from the Brisbane Firebrigade clubs. All 58 bowlers enjoyed bowls and BBQ lunch winning rinks M Davy, B Taylor, A Lynn, r/ups B Hunt, P Rannie, J Rannie.; Raffle prizes M Childs, B Dunne, J Cummins, D Anderson. Condong Men Wednesday 7/7/10 30 bowlers winners C Mummery, T Morris, T Crossingham

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gle backs finally began to see much more ball and full use was made of it enabling them to draw away from The Gents. Leigh Wood at fullback for The Gentlemen had another fine game, his tactical kicking particularly outstanding, Glen Ratjens the Gents veteran halfback put in another crafty performance and Dane ‘Snake’ Viant was everywhere with stints on the wing and in the centres, Alan ‘Big Al’ Whittaker terrorised the Kyogle pack when on the park The Gentlemen would be lamenting the fact that in the final 15 minutes there were far too many dropped balls some casual defence which resulted in the score blowing out to the final 45-10 not a true indication how well The Gents played at times. However the Cockies persistence paid off and their win was just reward. Next Saturday The Gentlemen are at home playing Evans River which promises to be a hard fought clash – a win is vital to The Gents. r/ups R Turner, S Munro, R Peterson. Raffle winners R Thompson, C Sager, R Thompson. Champion ships must be played on or before dates Open singles 3 round 25/7 4 round 3 1/7 Final 8/8. Open pairs 3 round 17/7 4 round 24/7 Final 1/8. Saturday 10th 14 social bowlers , Raffle winners M Smith, R Thompson. Open pairs (sub) D Reynolds, C Pawlak def Turtle, D Benge, P Martain, S Reading, def D Smith, B Rhoweder. R Nelson, D Cowan def M Hood, G Moss.P Ayres, B Clifford, def W Chislom, S Knight,S Keen, R Gerdes, def M Bennett, M Knight. Open singles Massey def P Pluis, W Clifford def B Wicks, S Massey def B Ayres. T Martain def B Rhoweder. Cudgen Leagues Ladies Thurs 8th ladies social results, winners Rnk7, Pat Pieterse & Liz Fleming. Raffle – Helen Wylie. Cudgen Leagues Men Mon Mixes Mufti 5/7/10 Winners C.Wilson, D.Starr, F.Clinton Wed. Mens Mufti 7/7/10 Winners V.Schiemer, M.Ryan, F.McConnell. Losing Rink G,Border, G.Whelan Sat. Mens Whites 10/7/10 Winners Coog, P.Smith, J.Holt. Losing Rink R.Matthrews, N.Hoskinson, T.Grimes Championships Major Pairs: F.Pieterse, J.Hazell 17 def Coog, B.Bell 13. R.Corney , N.Bradbrook 25 def G.Border, G.Whelan 16 Major Triples Final: K.Hansen, R.McIntosh, S.Archbold 19 def G.Border, V.Schiemer, M.Ryan 18 Kingscliff Ladies Wed. July 7th 2010. Charity Day, The Big Raffle Winners were 1st prize Steve Brown, 2nd W.Anderson, 3rd Ray (Grumpy)Sharpe, 4th Joan Hansen, Cake Raffle. C.Freshwater, 2nd. Madonna She. Social Bowls. Winners on the Day M . Co s g r i f f / P. J a m e s / J. H a n s o n . B.Davies/B.Massey/ M.Atkinson, Runners up J.Greenbank/B.Jack/A.McNamara. Kingscliff Men Results of the B Grade Pairs played last week: W Ritzou, L Morris d D Miller, H DeVries and went through to the final by defeating B Henry, B Butler in the semi-final. They will now play the winner of J Julius, L Murphey v T Wonka, L Rootsey. Social Bowls Results: Thursday 8th July: Winners: J Cook, T Sanders, K Bryant; J McDonald, K Groves, R Hayes; B Massey, D Roughley, N Peacock. Plate Winners: B Jack, R Cavanaugh, B Butler. Saturday 10th July: Winners: B Knox, D Adams, I Thompson; B Davis, J Davies, B Clarke; N Orme, F McNamara, J Julius,

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Changes in the NSW Firearms Legislation means it is now possible for any individual over the age of 12, with the correct paperwork filled out, to attend a range day to have a try with one of the clubs rifles. For more info, visit: www. qldrifle.com.

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Athletes proven to live longer Another stinger on the Tweed Athletes tend to live longer than the general population, a new study has found. The study featuring in the July 2010 issue of The Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport (JSAMS), published by Sports Medicine Australia, examined the mortality and longevity of elite athletes to understand the association between exercise training and survival rates. Results showed elite endurance athletes, like distance runners and cross country skiers, and elite mixed sports athletes who perform both endurance and power activities such as soccer, ice hockey, basketball and short-to moderate term events in track and field, are more likely to live longer than the general population. Elite power athletes, for example rugby players, baseballers, weightlifters, wrestlers, boxers and track and field throwers, may survive longer, similar to,

or shorter than the general population depending on the type of sport and if they have used performance substances. Author of the study, Masaru Teramoto says the study highlights how long term vigorous exercise training is associated with an increased survival rate within a specific group of athletes. ‘The study showed that endurance and mixed-sports athletes tend to survive longer than the general population,’ said Mr Teramoto.‘Lower cardiovascular disease mortality among these athletes seems to play a major role in their better survival rates. ‘A possible explanation for this is that as they perform greater amounts of physical activity and possess a higher level of physical fitness. These attributes work as additional benefits of reducing all-cause mortality,’ said Mr Teramoto.

Sports Medicine Australia Chief Executive Officer Nello Marino, said that the general population can learn from the behaviour of these athletes. ‘The study highlights the importance of physical activity, no matter the extent, in everyone’s daily lives,’ said Mr Marino. ‘Physical activity performed at moderate intensity is associated with the reduced risk of all-cause mortality in the general population. It helps to prevent cardiovascular disease, hypertension and some types of cancers, eg. colon, breast and lung cancers. ‘It also reduces the risk of obesity and promotes maintaining a healthy body weight. ‘For optimal health, you should aim to do a combination of moderate and vigorous activities for at least 30 minutes on most days, preferably every day,’ said Mr Marino.

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Fishing in the Tweed is a little strange at the moment. I fished in the Australian Bream Tournament (ABT) on the weekend and quite a few of the bigger boats raced up Tumbulgum way, fishing the banks from the sugar mill back to the bridge. The main catch of the day was bass, of a similar size as the one I caught at the beginning of the year up the river, above the Bray’s Park Weir. I didn’t get to fish the banks, as the pro I was with headed

to the oyster leases behind Seagulls, paying particular attention to the crab boat parked there. Apparently the bass were caught on a variety of lures and softies. They won’t be around for long so give them a crack, they are a great fighting fish. In the tournament I ended up 15th out of 49, so I was quite pleased with my effort. Recently I mentioned the shark incident at Condong Sugar Mill. Well, a guy came in where I work and told my boss about another sharky story.

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FENCING BEDNARZ, H & W, FENCING Specialise in pool, colourbond & timber fencing ...........07 55904540 FENCING & RETAINING WALLS BSA Licensed. Free quotes. Any area .......................0411 594314 FRONTLINE FENCING & LATTICE Pool, Colourbond & Lattice. Lic 212208c ..................07 55241842 NORTHERN RIVERS FENCING All fences, will beat any quote ...................................0421 755978

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Classifieds

CLASSIFIEDS 02 6672 2280 PHONE ADS

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PO Box 545 Murwillumbah 2484

Ads may be taken by phone 9am-12pm Wednesday 9am-5pm Monday to Friday Ads not taken on the weekend

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

PUBLIC NOTICES

ECHO ECHO DOUBLE DEAL Double your exposure. Your ad will appear in over 40,000 newspapers weekly. Ask us about our great deals when you advertise in both THE TWEED SHIRE ECHO & THE BYRON SHIRE ECHO Phone 02 66722280 or 02 66841777

PHOTOS All photos handled by The Echo - all care & no responsibility taken. – CLASSIFIEDS – Can be booked any time during business hours Monday to Friday by phoning 66722280 Please be very clear about what you want to have printed in your ad. Our Echo staff will read your ad back to you. Please help us by making sure we have correct details and phone numbers. Please also have your credit card ready for ALL ads placed over the telephone. SUBSCRIBE TO THE ECHO If you want to be sure of your copy each week, or if you have a friend who’d like to have a subscription, why not send them one? $35 per quarter or $125 per year, post incl. Write to ‘The Echo’ 6 Village Way, Stuart St, Mullumbimby 2482 including payment in advance.

Lucky Bear THE WHOLE CULINARY GARDEN WORKSHOPS In mature permaculture acre at Seed Savers, Byron Bay Harvest and prepare lunch from the garden with Michel and Jude Fanton Sat 17th Fruits - 100s of rare and common Sat 24th Edible leaves - salads, dozen spinaches Sat 31st Family Day; learn to grow and harvest lunch Photos facebook.com/seedsaversnetwork. $56 to $90 per day. 0432 420 294; 6685 7560

DEEPER JOURNEYS Develop your Intuition, Dive in, Reconnect Journey deeply into the Heart-Cave within Explore your Gifts, Learn new Healing Tools Meditate, Share and experience Support,

Connection with new Friends 6 Mondays 19th July 6 – 8.30pm ph Lin 6684 7877, 0404 066 707 $150/$120 conc

In the Supreme Court of New South Wales Equity Division. After 14 days from the publication of this notice, an application for probate of the will dates 30 May 1983 of NOEL BYWATER late of Kingscliff in the state of New South Wales, deceased, will be made by The Trust Company Limited CAN: 004 027 249 (formally known as The UnionFidelity Trustee Company of Australia Limited) the executor named in the said will. Creditors are required to send particulars of their claims upon his estate to The Trust Company (legal services) PTY LTD CAN 003 284 437, 35 Clarence Street Sydney NSW 2000.

STOCKED UP FOR WINTER THE RUG SHOP Bangalow 66872424 WOMEN TENNIS PLAYERS WANTED Sth Tweed Tuesdays. Kathy 0408011001 LEARN TAROT The quick and easy way. Two Fridays 23 & 30 July, only $150. Ph 0438982688

SEXUAL HEALTH SERVICE Free STI/HIV checkups Clinics Murwillumbah & Tweed For appointment phone 0755066850 REVITALISING MASSAGE Gentle or deep tissue, hot rock special, Ocean Shores, qualiďŹ ed. Nina 66802349, 0409393352 COOL WINTER AIR MAKING YOUR SKIN DRY & THIRSTY? Treat yourself to a complimentary pampering at a time that suites you in your own home. Contact Celeste for a free skin care analysis & treatment. 0434207444 EXTATIC DANCE Murbah every Tues 6-8pm Red Cross Hall. Phone 66795359 MISHKA MASSAGE positive & sensitive, deep tissue work, relaxation, in-house Mullum or mobile. Ph Ana 0413608927

Yoga Teacher Training‘TasteTest’ Sat 24/7, 10-4.30pm Suffolk Comm Hall $60. This 1 day workshop will provide a ‘taste’ of style & content of the Intouch Yoga Level One Teacher Trainings held as both: s MTH INTENSIVE OPTION /CT .OV s DAY PW OPTION -ARCH $EC In Suffolk Park with Flo Fenton & other senior teachers. For details www. intouchyogabyronbay.com Bookings essential 66859910 o@intouchyogabyronbay.com REVITALISING MASSAGE Gentle or deep tissue, hot rock special, Ocean Shores, qualiďŹ ed. Nina 66802349, 0409393352 COOL WINTER AIR MAKING YOUR SKIN DRY & THIRSTY? Treat yourself to a complimentary pampering at a time that suits you in your own home. Contact Celeste for a free skin care analysis & treatment. 0434207444 ECSTATIC DANCE Murbah every Tues 6-8pm Red Cross Hall. Phone 66795359 SEXUAL HEALTH SERVICE Free STI/HIV checkups Clinics Murwillumbah & Tweed For appointment phone 0755066850

Sexual Counselling Alison Rahn qualiďŹ ed sex therapist www.alisonrahn.com.au 0432599812 QUIT SMOKING IN 60 MINUTES How? Ask Ingrid phone 66803827

FOR HIRE

EARTH HEALING WORKSHOP Below Mt Warning Magical site to explore earth energies & raising human conciousness,Sat 24 July, 9.30am-1pm. Ph Allan 0432047432

EVENT & PARTY HIRE Audio & lighting. 0418676534 or s MDAFNIS BIGPOND NET AU

PROF. SERVICES

TRADEWORK

Immigration Advice Australian visas. Ph 66859643 Paul Laufenberg MMIA, Ass. Jur. MARN9790430. www.howtomigrate.com

HEALTH

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

relationship counselling family mediation co-parenting coaching tel: 0402 207 137 www.KateChase.com.au

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DIGGER MAN Excavator & tipper hire. 0427172684

TREE SERVICES

Hart Tree Lopping Professional care, specialising in dangerous & difďŹ cult trees. Chipping & grinding. 66849137, 0427347380

FOR SALE LOCALLY HANDMADE JEWELLERY

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SUZUKI VITARA 4wd ‘93 11mth reg $4500 ono JEEP CHEROKEE 4wd ‘96 9 mth reg $3200 ono both in good cond. Ph 0411458661 NISSAN NAVARA ‘98 diesel ute 4x4, steel tray $7500. Phone 0432406408 SUZUKI SWIFT ‘98 man, 10 mths rego, good cond, $2950 ono. 0421445561

MULLUM great hse, lge light 3x1 sunny deck, beautiful outlook, peaceful singing birds, 6 min from town, all mod cons, gorgeous home, $450pw. 66845415 MURWILLUMBAH 2 bedrm at + carport $250pw & $1000 bond. 66727494 ah

TO LEASE INDUSTRIAL UNIT Byron A&I Est, 120sqm incl mezzanine. $320pw. Ph 66847609 or 0412221576

NEW SOLAR HOT WATER SYSTEM $695 Phone 66794210

1986 TOYOTA CORONA Avanti auto sedan, rego Sept $1200. Ph 66727714

INDUSTRIAL UNIT Byron A&I Est, 120sqm incl mezzanine. $320pw. Ph 66847609 or 0412221576

MOBILITY SCOOTER luxury model, 4 wheel suspension, new March 2010 $3650, never used, sell $2150, could deliver. Phone 0420411021

2003 AU2 FORD WAGON 167,000km, $6000, ‘97 EL sedan 160,000km, 2nd owner, $4000. Ph 66882476

POSITIONS VACANT

LEDACRAFT 15 inch thickness planer, 2 speed powerfeed sgl phase, $700. Drill Press $150. Radial Arm Docking Saw with bench, $600. Ph 0431187332

‘02 HONDA CRV Sports great cond, lady driver, well looked after never off road, garaged, new Pirelli tyres, stereo, & battery, auto, sunroof, roof racks 110274 km, $16800. Phone 66804840

WARDROBES 2 lg deco style, teak ďŹ nish, will separate, $600 the pair. Can email pics. Ph 0431187332 or AH 66226356

CAR BODIES REMOVED FREE

ROOF RACKS heavy duty steel & alloy to suit PC or ‘80 series Land Cruiser, awning & work light $650 ono. Ph 0439422827

$$$s for most. Phone 0418189324, 0438189323

POOL TABLE pub size, mahog ďŹ nish, all acc, mint cond, $850 ono. 0422323026 TV LG, 28â€? = 70cm, vgc has remote, $180 ono. 15â€? LCD Sony monitor, $70 ono. Transformer 240-110v, 100w & 1800w. Phone 66843143

BARGAINS 1997 Mitsubishi Magna wagon auto, A/C, P/S, good service history BG29UO ........... $2950 1998 Hyundai Lantra wagon auto, A/C, P/S, 2011 rego, 178091kms UMX283 ....... $4550 1999 Daewoo Nubira sedan 5 sp A/C P/S 129079kms, nice car AGNO8F .................. $3950

AUCTION Furniture incl large old pine dresser, farm utilities. 704 Byrrill Crk Rd Sat 17/07/10 View 12.30 Auction 1-3 Items to be removed on purch Cash only

Mitsubishi Triton Turbo Diesel Dual cab, 4wd & canopy,A/C, P/S S/N424 ................ $5150

3 METRE ALUMINIUM PUNT $500. Phone 0401401051

35 CARS UNDER $10,000

NEW SOLAR HOT WATER SYSTEM $695. Phone 66794210

BAMBOO PLY from $10.50sqm & Bamboo Flooring. For ceilings, walls, doors, etc. Ph 66884188 - sample & brochure www.bambooply.com.au TIMBER, pine, treated pine, hardwood, mouldings, sleepers, fencing, Koppers logs, ply, MDF, lattice, made to order. Brims Builders Hardware, Billinudgel 02 66801718, Sth Tweed 07 55236002

FABRICMAN in Murwillumbah for 2 weeks only with his upholstery curtains, rugs and manchester. At Sunnyside Mall, outside in the old video shop. Ready made backed curtains 60% off. Lots of budget shoes. Buy 2 pairs and get second pair half price. Huge range. Lots of close-out stock.

GARAGE SALES FOR ALL YOUR PROFESSIONAL TREE CARE NEEDS!

‘05 HONDA ACCORD Euro, auto, 85000 km, full service history, 10 months reg $16750 ono must sell. Ph 0434088815

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

Clutter Overload? Time to clear it out with a garage sale. Ph us on 66722280 to advertise here.

MOTOR VEHICLES

1998 5 speed Subaru Outback wagon A/C, P/S, CD, white TVS100 ...................... $7950

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Ballina Car Centre

6686 5586

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WARNING The Department of Fair Trading has warned people to be very careful about responding to advertisements offering work at home. Readers should be wary if asked to pay money upfront for employment opportunities and never send money to a post ofďŹ ce box.

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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CARAVANS

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30FT TWIN AXLE full length, annex, $7000, plus 16ft, $2800. Ph 66882476

Mavis Kitchen at: 64 Mt Warning Road

BUSINESS FOR SALE BARGAIN - $35,000 ONO Est local retail business ‘gift & home wares’. Busy shopping area, prime position. Must sell, all offers considered. Phone 66805000

PROPERTY FOR SALE OWNER MOVING OVERSEAS Immediate sale, top end renovator. See property sect in this week’s Byron Echo

HOLIDAY ACCOM. NEW BRIGHTON on river, one minute walk to beach, non smokers only, pets ok, from $100 per night. 0417427518

SHORT TERM ACCOM. ECHO ACCOUNTS POLICY: Ads in this section must be paid by credit card or in person at time of placement. NEW BRIGHTON short term to 27 July on river, fully self contained, f-furn space, double bedroom + large lounge, non smokers only, one minute walk to beach, pets ok. 0417427518

SHARE ACCOM. ECHO ACCOUNTS POLICY: Ads in this section must be paid by credit card or in person at time of placement. POTTSVILLE BEACH mature working person, share 1 other, lge, light, spacious home with pool, own bdr, bthrm, living room, $170pw + bond/exp. 66763608 POTTSVILLE fully-furn room, own bthrm, $140pw + elect. Ph 0433161191

LOOKING FOR A BREATH OF FRESH AIR THIS WINTER? ‌Come work in the snow.

Snowy Gums Chalet, located in the heart of the ski area in Perisher Valley is seeking an experienced and enthusiastic sous chef, waitress and housekeeper/admin to join our great team. Great perks include full accommodation and meals provided, good wages, great fun and access to the snow. To apply please email manager@snowygums.com.au with your resume and why you think you’d be great for the job.

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

FREE RESOURCE BOOK for prompt course enrolment!

Free info session – 19 July Next course 21-25 July 5/1 Carlyle St, Byron Bay

1300 558 890

TO LET

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in their area at an upcoming community consultation session being held in Murwillumbah next Tuesday (July 20) from 3pm at the Services Memorial Club. The forum has been organised by Nationals Member for Lismore Thomas George, whose electorate includes Murwillumbah. NSW Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Rural Health Jenny Gardiner and key local health stakeholders are expected to attend. Mr George said residents who could not attend the meeting could still have their say by contacting his office or visiting www.startthechange.com.au/healthreform.

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Our guest speaker will be Gwyn Broomhill talking of the pioneer Arnold family and Fingal lighthouse. Visitors are most welcome. Inquiries phone 07 5536 8625.

Exit International For information on end of life choices come to our meeting and learn about your options. Tweed/ Coolangatta Golf Club, Tuesday, July 20 at 10.30am. For more information ring Elaine 0421 796 713.

Starting a Probus Club There will be an expression of interest meeting to start a Probus club for semi-retired and retired people at The Point, Tweed Coast Road, Hastings Point on July 20 from 10 to 12 with free morning tea. RSVP before July 16 for catering purposes. Phone Christine on 0422 293 360 or Julie 02 6676 4641.

Twin Towns Day View Club Club meets on the first Thursday of every month at the South Tweed Sports Club, 4 Minjungbal Drive. New members welcome. Join us for lunch and a day of friendship and fun. Cost $20. Ring Freda on 07 55241 357 for bookings and apologies.

Food distribution Are you a struggling pensioner? Then come to the iBar, Wharf Street, Tweed Heads on Wednesdays at 12.30pm for some food to help you out. Are there any kind people who can donate

non-perishable food to help the pensioners out please? If anyone knows of a dry place we can operate at when we have to move next month please let me know. Also if you know of anyone with a warehouse, on a bus route, suitable for a storehouse for the food, please give me a call. Terri 0414 376 057.

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time it hits it,’ Andy said. ‘Most flathead are lost off normal jig heads because they just chew the leader off, but with ‘Spines’ they’re hooked on the tail of the plastic most strikes.’ Spurred on by their wives, Andy and Dave decided to patent the lure. They have also created a website to promote their invention in the hopes that it will help fishing enthusiasts such as themselves avoid the frustration of so many ‘short strikes’. For Andy, the invention is not about instant riches, but more a labour of love borne out

of ‘necessity being the mother of invention’ after so many lost lures and the big ones that got away. Fishing, the most popular pastime in Australia, is a big part of the couple’s life but Andy reckons ‘women always outfish men’. Sue interjects, saying ‘we’re more patient’, adding that women also have the ‘touch’. The lures are already in around more than 70 stores throughout Australia and word-of-mouth is promoting them even further. To check them out visit www. spinesfishing.com.au

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There will be a fundraiser at Cudgen Leagues Club, Wommin Bay Road, Cudgen, on Friday 16th from 6pm-11pm. Gold coin donation entry. Entertainer Keith Hudson will be hosting our karaoke night. Lots of raffles, kids’ games, fun for all the family. Inquiries Robyn Tait-Watego 0447 616 702.

Free concert A free concert will be held on Monday, July 26 at 1pm at Coolangatta Senior Citizens Centre and all visitors are welcome. This month’s concert will feature the multi-talented professional musician Roger Munsie. Roger plays many instruments and a great range of songs from yesterday and today, including vocals, in his versatile professional presentation. BYO lunch/nibbles. Tea/ coffee available. For bookings phone 07 5536 4050 or call into the centre at 4 Gerrard Street, Coolangatta.

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Backburner Security surrounding planning minister Tony Kelly’s lightning visit to the Tweed last week was closer to a presidential cloak and dagger operation than anything seen before. The media were not notified of his arrival until 20 minutes beforehand and councillors only informed afterwards. Residents didn’t get a look-in. ‘He was like Casper,’ said mayor Warren Polglase. ‘Normally you would expect him to at least call in to say hello.’ But he said he did not consider it a snub. ‘We were lucky enough to have one and a half hours with him last week.’ The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) highlights Q Q Q Q

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Incidentally The Echo has long received every press release churned out by Tony Kelly’s spin machine, but strangely we missed out on the alert issued just before the minister lobbed to announce starts to projects which have upset some of the local inhabitants. Minders say it’s an inexplicable glitch but we’ve got reason to believe we were temporarily cut out of the loop after emerging as prime suspects in the debacle of his last secretive visit when protesters stopped his car demanding a revision of local Aboriginal history. Backburner can place hand on heart to say our correspondents did not tip off the protesters – but they know who did! A crate of Chardonnay could possibly loosen their lips. Q Q Q Q

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A Tweed woman was left redfaced recently after she bumped into an old flame at Panorama Plaza at West Tweed while on a quick lunch break. Flustered by the unexpected encounter she attempted to make a hasty getaway. Casting a lingering glance in the rear view mirror as she drove off she spotted her ex frantically waving behind. And no, he wasn’t trying to reignite the romance… just trying to alert her to the fact that her lunch, which she’d absentmindedly left on the car roof, had gone under the wheel. It

a serious issue with a humorous picture. The once abundant coastal emu, much like Tweed’s threatened koala colonies, survives in ever-diminishing habitat corridors. Under increasing threat from vehicles and predation by foxes and wild dogs, the emu is today found only between Red Rock, south of Grafton, and Evans Head. The NPWS believes numbers have shrunk by up to 60 per cent in the last decade.

brings whole new meaning to tournament victories during the phrase ‘hungry for love’. his professional career and is Q Q Q Q now an ambassador for the A recent encounter has one sport. The event promises a Banora Point resident ponder- unique opportunity for Tweed ing the absurdities of modern and Gold Coast residents to day communication. While experience first hand the anshopping at Coles supermarket cient Japanese art of sumo. The in Tweed Heads she bumped event kicks off at 11am at the into a former classmate. She Tallebudgera Recreation Censmiled and greeted the woman tre, 1525 Gold Coast Highway, only to be given the cold shoul- Palm Beach. der in return. Imagine her surQ Q Q Q prise then when a Facebook There have been strange hap‘Friend’ request landed in her penings afoot recently in seainbox the following day from side village Hastings Point, the same classmate. Go figure! according to residents. Early Q Q Q Q morning risers up to watch the The most unusual event of the World Cup final on Monday week must surely go to the Na- were startled to see a white tional Sumo Championships van speeding through town which will take place this Sun- knocking over wheelie bins day (July 18) on the Gold Coast. and leaving a trail of rubbish in Both male and female athletes its path. Later that same mornfrom interstate Australia and ing residents reported having guests from Tonga, New Zea- a surfboard and several other land and Japan will meet at the smaller items stolen overnight Gold Coast to battle it out for from outside their houses. One sumo supremacy in various resident told The Echo she had weight divisions. In a major previously witnessed gangs of coup for organisers former thieves targeting village resisumo champion Akebono will dences, with a van later arrivbe a special guest. Weighing ing to collect stolen items from in at an impressive 233kg, the a designated drop-off point. Hawaiian native racked up 11 Meanwhile in a separate inci-

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dent last week an unidentified truck exiting Creek Street ran over a pedestrian refuge, took out a give way sign and delayed traffic travelling in both directions. The driver was seen getting out of the truck and removing the signs from the truck’s undercarriage. The give way sign has yet to be replaced, with residents saying its absence poses a potential traffic hazard. Q Q Q Q

When Lata Modi first moved to the Gold Coast she was so desperate to maintain a connection to her homeland that she rang everyone with an Indian surname in the local phone book. The former kindergarten principal and mum-of-two, who migrated to Australia from Kanpur in northern India 27 years ago, has been delivering lively presentations on Indian culture to Gold Coast schools for about 15 years. She is hoping to expand south of the border and has asked Tweed schools or community organisations interested in learning about Indian culture to get in touch. Her talks incorporate Indian cuisine tasting, national dress and, religion and language. Ms Modi can be contacted on 07 5534 4925. Q Q Q Q

The man who once famously described Julia Gillard as ‘deliberately barren’ is due to make an appearance in the Tweed. Liberal Senator Bill Heffernan was scheduled to attend a Business Breakfast and a Open Farmers Forum Lunch today (July 15) at Murwillumbah Golf Club to discuss issues affecting farming communities and support Liberal federal candidate for Richmond Joan Van Lieshout. The outspoken senator, who earned the ire of the nation’s feminists in 2007 after publicly questioning the then ALP deputy’s leadership credentials because she was childless, must surely be eating his words now.

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