Tweed Echo – Issue 3.05 – 30/09/2010

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Volume 3 #05 Thursday, September 30, 2010

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Govt rejects police bid for prime land Ken Sapwell

Controversial plans to establish a police station on prime agricultural land near Kingscliff have hit a major hurdle. The Department of Planning has given the $4.5 million project the thumbs down because of concerns it will alienate and fragment farming land which has been classed as having state and regional significance. Tweed Council’s chief planner Vince Connell says he has now written to consultants acting for the police force, the United Services Group (USG), suggesting they withdraw an application to subdivide the land. Mr Connell said he’d given the USG until October 8 to respond but has advised them the council ‘is not in a position to approve the application unless the state government gives its concurrence’.

‘Only feasible location’ The police had claimed that the 1.5-hectare site at Cudgen was the only feasible location for the proposed Kingscliff West station and did not require council consent because it was classed as an emergency facility. But this claim has been challenged by the Kingscliff Ratepayers’ and Progress Association (see sidebar). The setback is the latest in a saga of failed attempts to rezone farmland east of Old Bogangar Road for urban development since the Anglican Church failed to build a school on a nearby block 12 years ago. Police had asked the council to go against its Local Environment Plan which prohibits subdivisions of less than 10ha to create a 1.5ha allotment from a 39ha block owned by the Kingscliff Land Company. ‘The subdivision provides the minimum area necessary for the construc-

tion and operation of the station, and provides sufficient land for the continuation of the existing agricultural land use of the newly created adjoining lot,’ USG say. The application is being watched closely by other emergency services who have been searching for a floodfree site to consolidate their operations in a so-called super-centre close to the geographic centre of the shire. Former long-serving mayor Max Boyd, who was part of a study team which resulted in the Cudgen plateau being classified as agricultural land of state significance, said he was not surprised the government had not given its concurrence. ‘The land is recognised as being in the top ten per cent of agricultural land in Australia and has been given the highest possible level of protection,’ he said. The Kingscliff Land Company (KLC) purchased the 39ha parcel in a joint venture with Coles Myer for $4.5 million in 2004 but has since been unsuccessful in two attempts to rezone the land for houses and a retail centre. The first bid came unstuck when the council was sacked in disgrace in 2005 and the second failed in a narrow 4-3 vote in May last year. KLC director, former Tweed National Party MP Don Beck, told The Echo in July the site was an ideal location for the police station, being floodfree and at the crossroads of the shire. He said he did not believe KLC’s holding warranted its state significance classification. The purchase attracted media attention when mortgage documents revealed KLC entered into a conditional arrangement with then sitting councillor Lynne Beck and her two sisters to pay an extra $5 million if the land was rezoned before November last year.

Veteran triathlete proves too good One of the competitors in last Sunday’s second annual Kingscliff Triathlon in action along Marine Parade. Photo Jeff ‘Head Down Bum Up’ Dawson

Hundreds of people competed in and just as many watched the second Kingscliff Triathlon last Sunday, won by four-time Australian triathlete and Olympian Craig Walton from the Gold Coast. The 34-year-old had returned from a three-year retirement to compete in the event and won by seven minutes. Walton competed in the race as preparation for next month’s Noosa

A residents’ group thinks it has found two sites more suitable for a proposed new police headquarters building than protected farmland at Cudgen. The Kingscliff Ratepayers’ and Progress Association says police should be looking at two sites at Chinderah instead of eyeing part of Cudgen’s red-soil plateau for their new headquarter building. The association said Chinderah had long been identified as the pre-

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Skinner’s ‘green’ boast rings hollow Ken Sapwell

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the Department of Planning, and not the council. ‘They’re the consent authority and we shouldn’t be trying to trying to infiltrate the process,’ he told last week’s council meeting. Cr Longland said he supported the idea of a review because the council had a unique chance to ensure that the shire’s two newest towns could be developed using sustainable planning principles. ‘We will be making decisions over the next 10 to 15 years about the type of development taking place and this would be a valuable tool that could guide us into the future,’ he said.

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the flood-prone Old Bogangar Road to reach towns to the south. ‘We are delighted the state government has continued to protect this valuable farm land,’ she said. Mrs Murray said one of the Chinderah locations was a disused RTA-owned site at on the eastern side of the motorway and a nearby Gales-owned parcel where council’s sewage treatment plant once stood.

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Rally set to roar off to Coffs Harbour Luis Feliu

The controversial world rally is set to be relocated to Coffs Harbour from Tweed and Kyogle shires next year, with an announcement confirming the preferred 2011 location due today, Thursday. Speculation the rally would be shifted from the Tweed had mounted since last Friday when Tweed Shire Council held an ‘emergency’ extraordinary meeting to gauge support from councillors for the event staying in the Northern Rivers. But that meeting backfired for the pro-rally councillors Warren Polglase, Dot Holdom, Phil Youngblutt and new mayor Kevin Skinner who instigated it, as the narrow 4-3 vote expressing support for the rally only serving to highlight a community divided on the issue. The meeting followed comments by Rally Australia chairman Alan Evans that a contingency plan was in place to relocate the Australian leg of the rally to Coffs Harbour after Coffs Harbour City Council had expressed interest in staging it next year. Continued opposition to the rally being run in worldheritage country in Tweed and Kyogle shires has forced organ-

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Shire’s first town planner farewelled

Children enjoy their trees

Fingal Head Public School students Zeke Wilkinson, Bijang Slabb and Lydia O’Neil sit under the shade of a leafy local tree to draw their favourite tree in the playground last week. Students at the school recently took part in an art exhibition organised by Fingal Head Coast Care group highlighting the children’s favourite trees in the area. Photo Jeff ‘Barking’ Dawson

A requiem mass will be held today (Thursday) for Tweed Council’s first town planner, Peter Border, who died suddenly last week from a heart attack aged 78. Mr Border (pictured right) was well known throughout the shire, working as shire engineer from 1969 to his retirement in 1994. He was also appointed as the council’s first planner when the State government brought in a new planning Act in 1979. He oversaw much of the shire’s development, including civic centres at Tweed Heads and Murwillumbah, and embarked on long-running program to replace the shire’s old wooden bridges. During his 25-year stint on council he accumulated an im-

pressive collection of awards and served as president of the NSW local Government Engineers Association and State president of the Institute of Municipal Engineering Australia (IMEA). He was made first emeritus member of the IMEA, reflecting the esteem in which the popular engineer was held.

Mr Border was active in church and community projects and was twice elected president of the Murwillumbah Rotary Club. Council general manager and contemporary Mike Rayner said he was saddened by his unexpected death. ‘He was a dominant and influential officer within Council and was responsible for establishing much of the infrastructure and culture that carries on throughout the organisation today,’ Mr Rayner said. ‘He was widely respected, always the gentleman and a very giving and caring person’. The service will begin in the Sacred Heart Catholic Church starting at 11am with a private funeral to follow.

Mysterious death rankles Banora Point residents Kate McIntosh

Banora Point residents say they still have no answers after the mysterious death of a 62-yearold woman found in her vehicle on Fraser Drive more than a month ago. Strike Force Talmo, comprising detectives from Tweed Byron Local Area Command, are currently investigating the circumstances leading up to the woman’s death. Police have declined to com-

ment on the cause of death. Residents told The Echo the incident raised safety concerns for the neighbourhood and said they wanted details of the women’s death made public to put an end to speculation. The Banora Point resident was found in her vehicle on Fraser Drive at about 8.30pm on August 17. A police spokeswoman said a motorist who located the woman attempted to resuscitate her. Police and ambulance

officers at the scene also assisted, but the woman passed away. Concerned residents said detectives had been doorknocking in the area and making enquiries about the woman’s movements. However, one couple said they only became aware there had been a death in their street after they were contacted by friends in Sydney who heard about the incident on the radio.

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Grace and poise Sixteen-year-old Claire Hamilton of Burleigh Heads poses backstage just before taking on her role as the Snow Queen in Nutcracker, a production by the Fiona Munroe Dance Company at Murwillumbah Civic Centre last Friday. Photo Luis Feliu

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Koala warning ‘ignored’ in assessment Luis Feliu

A draft habitat study which warned about the plight of the Tweed’s dwindling koala population had been kept secret by Tweed Council while the state government assessed the controversial township of Kings Forest which it recently approved. Despite the warning, the state planning department claims impacts on the local koala population from the proposed township can be managed, but conservationists say it will be too little too late. The approval for the 4,500home project, announced onsite by planning minister

agement, which the advisory group was working toward, would need to ‘actively and aggressively engage population protection, management and recovery as the security for the remaining source populations is vital’. But it appears that warning has fallen on deaf ears, according to Greens Cr Katie Milne, who said she was assured a senior planning department official had been told of the preliminary findings and its possible bearing on the Kings Forest assessment process underway at the time. But planning minister Tony Kelly, asked why those findings were not taken into account,

proved in the meantime, but it was a risk they were willing to take’. Her motion, at the July council meeting, failed to get a seconder. It also called for an option of a moratorium on development in koala-sensitive areas. The dire warning by Dr Phillips was contained in a council media release but Cr Milne said ‘it would have had far greater impact if people had known more of the details’. ‘If the koalas are stuffed in other areas along the coast, then it would be more important than ever to to preserve the Kings Forest koalas. It was a very clear matter of urgency given the dramatic decline of the koalas, scientists don’t often use words such as an “aggressive approach is needed”’. ‘Why not use the Koala Beach planning controls (a ban on dogs which kill koalas) for the Cudgen paddock and eastern site of the Kings Forest site? So how is council then going to monitor the dogs there? Council hasn’t enough resources for compliance, we struggle to do that now, so by not banning dogs, the development will burden council a lot more with staff having to run around and chase them.’

early draft version of a planned council study into koala habitat which was not due to be completed for a further 12 months. ‘It also included no additional information that had not already been considered by the department in its assessment of the Kings Forest proposal, which was, by the time the draft study was received from council, substantially completed. ‘At any rate, Council requested that the information contained in the draft study be kept confidential,’ the minister said.

Cr Dot Holdom is council’s representative on the Tweed Coast Koala Advisory Group. Some Koala campaigners worry that on Dot’s watch it is the koalas that are being hung out to dry.

Tony Kelly earlier this month, caught koala campaigners by surprise as they expected a wide-ranging habitat study of the last few koalas remaining along the Tweed Coast, including the Kings Forest site, to be included in any assessment of the huge residential project. About a month before, a snapshot of the study into the Tweed’s dwindling koala population by an independent ecologist was presented to council’s Tweed Coast koala advisory group warning that ‘aggressive’ protection measures need to be taken to protect the few koalas, around 150, left along the Tweed Coast. But the study is yet to be finalised by the group, made up of six community members/ koala campaigners, two council staff, Cr Dot Holdom, and a representative from the state Department of Environment Climate Change and Water (DECCW), which funded the study. The group is expected to make recommendations to council after it receives the final study in around two weeks. In his progress report on the study, Dr Stephen Phillips, of Biolink, said the long-term viability of the Tweed Coast koalas was in ‘real jeopardy’ and advised that the proposed shire-wide koala plan of manwww.tweedecho.com.au

told The Echo the department’s assessment of the Kings Forest project included the preparation of a koala plan of management by renowned koala expert, Dr Frank Carrick, ‘which indicates that impacts on the local koala population can be appropriately managed’.

No studies done But Cr Milne is unconvinced, saying she failed to see how the department could be aware of the new information on the dwindling koala numbers ‘as no large area studies have been done for the Tweed for the last 14 years’. She said the department should have heeded the warning in the progress report given by Dr Phillips to the advisory group, but it was kept confidential by council. Mr Kelly said council ‘at any rate’ had requested the information contained in the draft study be kept confidential’. But Cr Milne said ‘confidentiality was a position I thought was very risky with the imminent approval for Kings Forest’. She said she had ‘begged’ councillors ‘to get over their fears for the sake of trying to put pressure on to delay Kings Forest for the final habitat report’ and that ‘we would all regret if Kings Forest gets ap-

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Former Tweed mayor Warren Polglase helped secure a new two-year contract for council supremo Mike Rayner (pictured) before he was deposed in last week’s mayoral elections. The veteran councillor used his mayoral powers in July to bring forward a notice of motion to extend Mr Rayner’s present five-year contract for a further two years when it expires on May 19 next year. The council voted 5-2 to approve the deal during a confidential session but details have only just begun to emerge because the mayoral minute was not listed as an item for consideration in the council agenda. Under the contract, the sometimes controversial general manager will start his twoyear term on the salary he’s earning when his old contract expires, an annual package of around $265,000 according to latest budget figures. Cr Polglase yesterday denied that he tried to cover up the contract by not listing it when it was first dealt with on July 20 and a second time when the council met the following month to stitch up the deal after an administrative bungle. ‘I can’t recall why it didn’t make it onto the list,’ said Cr Polglase, whose 12-month reign as mayor ended when

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his factional ally, Kevin Skinner, broke ranks and launched a successfully challenge. ‘We weren’t attempting to hide it from public and we weren’t trying to rush it through before the mayoral elections.’ He said the matter didn’t make the list a second time because it was only realised that councillors needed to affix the seal on the deal well after the business paper had been printed, but the decision was later made public in the meeting minutes. The minutes show that Cr Dot Holdom seconded the mayoral minute to approve a new contract 10 months before the current contract expired but the move was opposed by another former mayor, Joan van Lieshout, and Greens councillor Katie Milne. Cr Polglase said the general manager was entitled to be informed about whether his old contract would be renewed as least nine months

before it expired. ‘We did a very comprehensive review of the general manager’s contract involving the full council and people from the Local Government and Shires Association before doing a pro-forma assessment and we decided to renew his contract,’ he said. ‘He’s undergone a performance review and met all the benchmarks – he’s passed with flying colours and there was no reason not to renew the contract.’ The long serving water engineer scored the top job in 2006 after his predecessor John Griffin departed midcontract several months after the council was sacked amid cash-for-votes allegations with Cr Polglase at the helm. He’s been involved in a number of controversial ventures, including a planned turf farm at Chinderah which was torpedoed by a resident and has also championed a costly legal battle to stop millionaire Harry Segal from establishing a town centre on his land at Kingscliff. He came under fire for pushing for an early decision on the sale of part of Bay Street in Tweed Heads despite the fact the developer is still refusing to make his plans public and accepted an invitation to join the board of Rally Australia despite claims it would create a conflict of interest. www.tweedecho.com.au

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Abbott reaches a new and dangerous low Volume 3 #05

September 30, 2010

Coastal unrest rolls on Now the federal independents are supporting Labor, we are told regional issues are on the radar. This seems to consist chiefly of farming and broadband concerns, but the other problem the feds will have to come to grips with is coastal management, an issue now more than ever vital for the Tweed with the recent erosion at Kingscliff Beach highlighting the problem. And despite preliminary reports, the federal Department of Climate Change (www.climatechange.gov.au) still has a way to go on planning. A government report, ‘Climate Change Risks to Australia’s Coast’, last year identified ‘between 157,000 and 247,600 existing residential buildings at risk of inundation with a sea-level rise of 1.1 metres. This analysis included storm tide estimates (for a 1-in100 year event) for NSW, Victoria and Tasmania and a high tide event for others.’ The report also noted the current value of existing residential buildings at risk of inundation is ‘up to $63 billion (2008 replacement value). The analysis did not take account of existing coastal protection, such as seawalls. ‘Erosion due to higher sea levels is also a key risk for coastal areas. Nationally, there are around 39,000 residential buildings located within 110 metres of “soft”, potentially erodible shorelines.’ Since then, the NSW government has adopted coastal management plans – see www.environment.nsw.gov.au/coasts/ coastalerosionmgmt.htm – along with putting up the Coastal Protection and Other Legislation Amendment Bill which ‘includes amendments to the Local Government Act to allow councils to levy an annual coastal protection service charge outside rate pegging. Councils would be required to levy this charge on landowners for long-term coastal protection works (eg. seawalls), where the works were constructed by the landowners. The Local Government and Shires Associations of NSW has ‘conditionally welcomed’ changes to the Coastal Protection and Other Legislation Amendment Bill, but said a more proactive and long-term strategy is needed to deal with coastal erosion. Association president Cr Genia McCaffery said, ‘The Coastal Panel now has three representatives from Local Government, and its charter now gives it the potential to assist councils in addressing complex, contentious coastal planning issues. The early draft of the Bill gave landowners an unfettered right to repeatedly protect their own properties, with no consideration of the longerterm effects or impacts on their neighbours. ‘Now, thanks to the Associations’ submission, emergency works to protect properties are now subject to a process of approval through obtaining a council certificate and must be consistent with their council’s Coastal Zone Management Plan. Penalty provisions have also been significantly strengthened, as have council powers to issue notices to direct that illegal or inappropriate works are removed. ‘The LGSA would like the state government to commit to providing comprehensive information and data to assist councils all along the NSW coast to confidently plan for the future, particularly in relation to sea level rise.’ How Tweed and other councils’ coastal zone management plans and the state government bill will mesh is uncertain. According to the federal government, all levels of government are meant to work together on the coastal problem. It remains to be seen if the interests of residents, environmental protection and infrastructure can be satisfied at all. The answers most likely lie with the courts’ interpretation of coastal legislation. In NSW, class 4 actions in the Land and Environment Court to planning approvals in possible inundation areas could be on the cards, and it’s not likely to be a pretty sight. Developers, councils and residents would all like certainty but in the realm of climate change, certainty is not necessarily an option. – Michael McDonald

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ast week I noted that one immediate consequence of the hung parliament was that all bets were off – everything was up for grabs. I was referring, of course, to policy; as Julia Gillard pointed out, circumstances have changed somewhat since she made her election promises. Even to get through stage A – passage by the House of Representatives – she needs the support of at least four crossbenchers, all of whom have insisted that they will treat every piece of legislation on its merits and vote as independents. The four nominally supporting her government have also set other terms and conditions which will have implications for policy, most obviously in the field of climate change but in other areas as well. Clearly this will mean compromise and modification on a number of fronts. And Gillard, by admitting as much last week, was doing no more than stating the obvious. When it comes to Labor’s election platform, all bets are indeed off. What I did not mean, or expect, was that the normal processes of parliament would also be abandoned without any serious attempt at explanation or justification. I assumed, for instance, that written agreements between the parties would be honoured and that the longstanding conventions would be upheld – that decent and civilised behaviour would prevail. And for this naiveté and optimism I must now apologise. Tony Abbott’s decision to shred the solemn undertaking he gave to abide by the agenda for parliamentary reform has set a new and dangerous low which may result in the system disintegrating into something perilously close to anarchy.

The reason the rural independents insisted that both sides of politics sign the agreement before indicating which of them would have their support was precisely to prevent this happening; to lock both government and opposition into the reform process, to make it genuinely bipartisan. It was always obvious that the provision for pairing the speaker would give the gov-

could go with either side, thus making pairing impossible. But the original idea was perfectly sound: although the opposition started by suggesting it would breach the Constitution, the Solicitor-General was adamant that it would not; if the parties chose to come to an agreement, it would be perfectly okay. Ah, said Tony Abbott, so it would only be an informal arrangement, not written into

Abbott has now made it clear that his lust for power is absolute; he will stop at nothing. by Mungo MacCallum ernment an advantage, but this was more than adequately countered by other provisions which favoured the opposition and the backbenchers. Overall the package was both sensible and balanced. And of course Abbott has said he will definitely stick with the rest of it – the bits that give him an edge. But on the speakership, the government is on its own. The proposal by Rob Oakeshott is simple enough: the speaker does not have a deliberative vote, so by appointing one of its own as speaker, as is the convention, the government effectively loses one of its numbers, which in a parliament as tight as the present one can be crucial. The idea was that the opposition should therefore appoint the deputy speaker, who would also forfeit his vote, thereby evening things up. Oakeshott then confused things by nominating himself for the job, which was unworkable: as an independent his vote

the legislation; oh dear no, we couldn’t have that. Matters of governance are far too important to be left to an informal arrangement. So all bets are off. But wait a minute. Like many other conventions of government the entire system of pairing, which has been in existence since federation, is an informal arrangement. It is simply a fair and practical means of ensuring that the numbers in the House, which are determined by the electorate, remain unaffected when members – either government or opposition – are unavoidably absent. The proposal to extend the arrangement to include the speaker may be an innovation, but it is hardly revolutionary. If Abbott is serious, he must be prepared to abolish the idea of pairing altogether – and in fact, that seems to be precisely the situation. The new opposition whip, Warren Entsch, says from now on even ministers making overseas trips will not be automatically paired. He will

have to be satisfied that the trip is on official business and in the national interest: ‘I guess every case will be treated on its merits, and in any case there is a lot of time when the parliament is not sitting.’ True; so will the rest of the world please rearrange things so as to make sure events and meetings that could involve Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Wayne Swan, Stephen Smith and the rest of them only take place while the Australian parliament is in recess. And as for backbenchers, well, forget it. In the past they have asked for pairs for all sorts of reasons, but now only crises such as serious illness, bereavement or childbirth (women only) will qualify. Or that’s the current line from Tony Abbott’s ferocious opposition. In the end it is likely that commonsense will prevail; after all, to have the place run with a modicum of civilisation and decency is as much in the interests of most opposition members as those of the government. But Abbott has now made it clear that his lust for power is absolute; he will stop at nothing. And he is inviting equally brutal payback. Labor’s unedifying attempt to bribe Alex Somlyay with the deputy speakership in exchange for the same guarantee as has been given by the independents – no support for votes of no confidence or to deny supply – ended in tears after Abbott’s enforcers paid him a visit. But by throwing the rule book out of the window, Abbott has indeed ushered in a new paradigm, which he may live to regret. By the way, paradigm is an anagram of pig drama. In this context, it seems entirely appropriate.

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Saga of the fig From faraway Canberra I am watching with great interest the battle to save the fig tree at the rear of the Chinderah Tavern at the edge of the Tweed River. For nearly ten years that noble tree was not only a feature of my playground but the tree itself was a playground. Four small boys could sit comfortably in the crown of the tree where the branches joined the trunk – that’s if one chose not to climb further. My father was the publican at Chinderah from 1938-1948 and, apart from the river, the tree was one of the few points of interest which Chinderah could boast in those days. It was a central gathering point and feature for the handful of young boys who lived in Chinderah at the time. It was also by far the tallest object any of us had seen sixty-odd years ago. I therefore applaud the action taken by conscientious local residents to save this majestic antique and the stand of your newspaper on the issue. Keep up the fight and preserve that great old fig. Eric Walsh

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Water supply In light of the approval of Kings Forest by the state government (houseblock sizes smaller than existing regulations, no banning of cats and dogs, destruction of koala habitat and corridors) the question of water supply to service these developments rears its head. The council will be attending a water workshop to discuss these matters. I requested that the Community Working Group (CWG) members who advised the council on these issues of water augmentation and demand management be allowed to attend, but this was not allowed due to council confidentiality. So I ask the Tweed Council, both councillors and members of the Water Department, these questions: 1. What happened to the CWG’s recommendations? They asked that an independent review be carried out before the council voted on the options, and I understand this will probably be on October 19. 2. What happened when Leda proposed to implement dual reticulation at Kings Forest and Cobaki as a major water saving (in line with NSW government recommendation for all new developments and implemented in the adjoining shires of SE Queensland and Rouse)? Why didn’t the council negotiate and meet them partway on costs? www.tweedecho.com.au

No pass mark for the Tweed’s new mayor It was with great interest that I attended the extraordinary meeting of Tweed Shire Council last Friday to debate whether the controversial WRC event should be encouraged to return to our region. After suffering the usual insults from Cr Youngblutt (leading to one woman rushing out of the chamber before she vomited in disgust), I and three others were able to address the meeting: this heralds a welcome return of democracy, as does the fact that standing orders preventing councillors from having their say were also temporarily suspended. We were therefore hopeful that the new mayor would live up to his rhetoric of supporting our pristine environment. Unfortunately he buckled at the last moment and this led to the narrow victory for Cr Polglase’s motion to support the WRC return. One wonders what may have happened

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3. Beside a recommendation for household 5,000 litre water tanks and BASIX (state regulations anyway), what water saving programs for future population growth has the council actually implemented? 4. In light of the amount spent to date on the Byrrill Creek area (over $500,000), the highest riparian conservation status within the Tweed, why is the Byrrill Creek Dam still a choice of water options? Note that at the recent Border Ranges Biodiversity Workshop, run by council, Shane Ruming from DECCW, Coffs Harbour, used Byrrill Creek as a shining example of a priority area implementation project for connectivity, climate change and flora and fauna refuge and habitat. Joanna Gardner

Byrrill Creek CWG Member

Old/new tech There is talk as though water tanks are a backward looking technology. The ‘more advanced’ technology of centralised water filtration plants are obliged to poison – to poison water with chlorine and other chemicals that are not synergistically tested before it is pumped to households. Here is an obvious example of so-called advanced technology being actually very backward in terms of safeguarding the health of human beings. Technology is the physical manifestation of the belief that nature is imperfect or inadequate. All technology is earth-harmful, even rubbing two sticks together to make fire. Therefore, generally speaking, the older a technology, the more sustainable it is. Water tank use is commonsense collection of water off a

during the fire drill which interceded between the debate and the vote? Who pushed the button and what was said in private during that interval? Either way it doesn’t really matter, as the real decision will be made in Paris the day before this letter is published. Why are all major decisions affecting our area made elsewhere? I really sympathise with the councillors who spoke out about this very issue during the debate: we should have had a properly conducted DA process which we could all have debated in March last year.

and shoots himself in the foot pristine environment’. Just two hours after being by calling back the rally – on voted in, however, he voted barely his second day on the against Cr Milne’s motion for job! You can say what you like an independent review on about the rally but I defy anysustainability at the proposed one to say it is ‘green’ or ‘ecoKings Forest housing estate friendly’. and also voted against council Personally I like Cr Skinfunding Cr Milne to attend a ner but let’s not kid ourselves stormwater harvesting work- – he’s the developer’s buddy. shop. Does he think that sup- Those who take the time to porting a dam at Byrrill Creek attend council meetings will is ‘protecting this lovely envi- soon see his true colours. I reronment’? Wouldn’t investing call hearing him earlier this in stormwater harvesting be year protesting against susa greener option to provide tainable development on the water for a bigger population grounds that it would hurt the in the Tweed? developers’ pockets and disDon’t forget it was only courage them from investing. a week ago that Cr Skinner Now he has raised the bar voted against protecting the for himself we will be there Jeremy Cornford 116-year-old fig tree at Chin- to point out every time he has Kingscliff derah Tavern with an Interim forgotten his ‘green dream.’ Heritage Order. As if all these Menkit Prince Q Newly elected mayor Kevin aren’t bad enough he goes on Uki Skinner wasted no time putting his foot in his mouth. Our smiling new mayor told the media that he had a green Baby Swim Classes dream to ‘protect this lovely

After only the previous day dedicating his mayoralty to preserving the ‘pristine environment’ of the Tweed, Skinner proceeded to vote in favour of any council attempt to retain the rally in the Tweed. There’s also a serious question as to whether Skinner should have voted on the issue at all, given that as a local motel owner he would appear to have both an actual and perceived pecuniary interest under council’s Code of Conduct. Me, I’m waiting for the day when Skinner and Kristina Keneally appear on the same Dr Fiona McCormick platform together and someBurringbar body pulls the wrong string!

Q If last week’s extraordinary Tweed Council meeting on the World Rally showed anything (apart from a plaintive ‘look at me’ wail from no-longer mayor, Warren Polglase), it was who pulls the strings of new mayor, Kevin Skinner.

huge roof area in the Tweed Shire that is an asset going begging – it is not used. It is not the taxing of water from watercourses, but the use of technology already invented and largely in place. The jury remains out as to whether sludge at the bottom of a water tank is a mini-ecosystem naturally working to purify water or whether it harbours organisms harmful to human health. Science could examine water tank sludge rather than opt for constant new technological solutions as though technology is God. Geoff Dawe

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Caldera Art Congratulations to Crs Kevin Skinner and Barry Longland for gaining their turn at the helm of the good ship Tweed Shire. We hope that Kevin’s comments concerning the environment will translate into on-ground, real-time advances in the way we live and impinge on our environment. Beyond the conservation of the ‘pristine environment,’ the ideal of sustainability (or shrinking our ecological and carbon footprints) requires a fair-dinkum change in our consumerist/exploitative way of life; change will have to come from the grass roots up and from the top down. One broad-brush model that could provide a ‘new paradigm’ is UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere program and the central idea of a local Biosphere Reserve for the shield volcano Border Ranges bioregion. The reserve plan could piggyback on the ‘Border Ranges Rainforest Biodiversity Management Plan’ recently published by the Commonwealth, NSW and

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Queensland governments. The Caldera could act as a greenbelt (buffer and lungs) to soften and slow the rapid, relentless and exponential growth of South East Queensland. Local examples of sustainability should include a shift towards an organic/biologically based water supply and household byproducts recycling strategy, employing onsite collection and storage, greywater treatment and waterless composting closets, using appropriate rain gardens, vegetable plots and orchard plants. Onsite and local renewable energy production, more modest and more sustainable housing and urban development using bicycles electric and public transport are ideas that are consistent with a Biosphere Reserve. There are no sustainability or conservation problems that would not benefit from smaller human populations. Increased population does not necessarily generate greater wealth and must decrease reserves of natural resources and impinge on our quality of life. The third strand of a Biosphere Reserve plan would be increased respect for and recognition of indigenous culture and continuing attempts towards reconciliation. The Caldera Environment Centre will promote these ideas at the Caldera Artfest at the Civic Centre this Friday to Monday (October 1-4). We encourage the public to consider the Caldera as a phenomenon of evolution, an amazing work of art that is consistently changing through time. The Caldera is the backdrop against which we play out our brief lives. Love it or lose it.

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A demographic revolution is underway throughout the world. Today, world-wide, there are around 600 million persons aged 60 years and over; this total will double by 2025 and will reach virtually two billion by 2050 – the vast majority of them in the developing world. In our fast ageing world, older people will increasingly play a critical role – through volunteer work, transmitting

experience and knowledge, helping their families with caring for dependent and sick individuals (of all ages) is caring responsibilities and increasing their participation in mostly done by older people (particularly older women); the paid labour force. the average number of minutes per day spent in providing such care increases exponentially with the carers’ age: 201 Already now, older persons make major contributions to minutes if the carer is in the age group society. For instance, throughout Africa 65-74 and 318 minutes if aged 75-84; “Older people are a human – and elsewhere – millions of adult AIDS compared to only 50 minutes if the carer treasure and a precious patients are cared for at home by their parents. On their death, orphaned children capital for our countries is in the age group 30-49 (Durán H, Fundación BBVA, 2002). left behind (currently, 14 million under the and our cultures.” age of 15 in African countries alone) are Ministry of Health, Chad Such contributions to development can mainly looked after by their grandparents. only be ensured if older persons enjoy adequate levels of health, for which appropriate policies It is not only in developing countries that older persons’ need to be in place. role in development is critical. In Spain for example,

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Television Guide

FRIDAY 1

1.Toby Maguire is back as Peter Parker who is Spidey in Spiderman 3 (NBN, Friday, 8.30pm), showing off more of his dark side in an otherwise unmemorable sequel. 2. Annabel Langbein (ABC1, Saturday, 6pm) is a Kiwi cook who gives very clear instructions for making yummy food. See her excellent lemon curd recipe at www. annabel-langbein.com. 3. The gorgeous Audrey Hepburn stars as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s (ABC1, Sunday really Monday, 12.20am), the movie of the eponymous 1958 novella by Truman Capote. Memorable quote: ‘I am gonna march you over to the zoo and feed you to the yak.’

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ABC 1

ABC 2

4.30 Shortland Street 5.00 Something In The Air 5.30 The New Inventors 6.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Penguin Island 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 Waking The Dead (M) 10.10 Lateline 10.55 Star Stories (M) Simon Cowell 11.20 The Gruen Transfer (M) 11.50 rage (M)

5.30 The Cook And The Chef 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 Kids’ Programs

ABC 3 6.05am to 4.30pm Kids’ Programs 4.40 My Goldfish Is Evil 5.05 Erky Perky 5.20 The Pinky & Perky Show 5.35 Stoked 6.00 Dance Academy 6.30 In Real Life 6.55 News On 3 7.05 Richard Hammond’s Blast Lab 7.35 The Tribe (G*) 8.30 Heartbreak High 9.00 Close

1.05 Zoo Days 1.35 Close

ABC NEWS 24 4.00 ABC News 4.05 The Quarters 4.20 The Drum 5.00 ABC News 5.15 The Quarters 5.30 Newsline 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 ABC News 9.30 Australia Network News 10.00 ABC News 10.30 Business Today 11.00 ABC News 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Landline Extra 1.30 ABC News 2.00 Midday Report 2.30 One Plus One 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.30 Contact Sport 6.00 ABC News 6.05 The Drum 6.45 The Quarters 7.00 ABC News 7.30 One Plus One 8.00 ABC News 8.30 Australian Story 9.00 The World 10.00 Four Corners 10.45 Media Watch 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Foreign Correspondent 12.00 ABC News 12.05 The Drum 12.45 The Quarters 1.00 BBC World News 1.30 Australian Story 2.00 BBC World News 2.30 Foreign Correspondent 3.00 Lateline 3.40 Media Watch

ABC 2

5.00 rage (PG) 11.00 Poh’s Kitchen 11.30 Message Stick (G*) 12.00 Stateline 12.30 Australian Story 1.00 Foreign Correspondent 1.30 Can We Help? 2.00 Trek: Spy On The Wildebeest 3.00 Rugby Union Shute Shield LIVE – Grand final 5.00 Bowls Queensland Open: Mens Pairs Final 6.00 Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook 6.30 Gardening Australia 7.00 ABC News 7.30 New Tricks 8.30 The Bill (M) 9.20 Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow (M) Birmingham 10.05 Ashes To Ashes (M) 11.00 rage (M) 2.00 DAYLIGHT SAVING BEGINS Turn clocks forward one hour

ABC 3 6.05am to 4.30pm Kids’ Programs 5.00 Trapped! 5.25 My Goldfish Is Evil 5.50 Pat And Stan 6.00 The Twisted Whiskers Show 6.30 Escape From Scorpion Island 7.00 Rush TV 7.25 Good Game: SP 7.45 The Tribe 9.05 Close

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SBS 1

6.00 Fabulous Beekman Boys 6.30 Scrapheap Challenge 7.20 The Daily Show 7.40 The Colbert Report 8.00 Wallace And Gromit 8.30 Life On Mars (M) 9.30 Breaking Bad (M) 10.20 Seven Ages Of Rock Stadium Rock 11.10 Wyclef Jean’s All Star Jam At Carnegie Hall 12.10 Planet Rock Profiles The Streets 12.35 The Royal Today

ABC 1

SATURDAY 2

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Kids’ Program At The Movies Wild At Heart Hope Springs Movie: The Beguiled (M 1971) Clint Eastwood 10.15 Movie: Forever And A Day (PG 1943) Frank Lloyd 12.00 Once A Soldier 12.30 1 Giant Leap 12.55 South Side Story (PG*) Armani Army 1.25 Sleep Clinic (M) 2.00 Close DAYLIGHT SAVING BEGINS Turn clocks forward one hour

ABC NEWS 24 4.00 ABC News 4.05 The Quarters 4.15 The Drum 5.05 Q&A 6.00 Stateline 6.30 Behind The News 7.00 ABC News 7.45 Contact Sport 8.00 ABC News 8.45 The Quarters 9.00 ABC News 9.45 The Quarters 10.00 One Plus One 10.30 Stateline 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Stateline 12.00 ABC News 12.30 7.30 Select 1.00 Big Ideas 2.00 Four Corners 2.45 Media Watch 3.00 Stateline 3.30 Foreign Correspondent 4.00 ABC News 4.30 Behind The News 5.00 ABC News 5.30 One Plus One 6.00 ABC News 6.30 Australian Story 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 Select 8.00 Q&A 9.00 The World 9.30 Foreign Correspondent 10.00 ABC News 10.30 Landline Extra 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Australian Story 12.00 Big Ideas 1.00 Stateline 2.00 BBC World News 2.30 Stateline 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 Stateline

ARIES: It’s always easier to see other peoples’ faults than our own, so comfortably obscured by blind spots. Since whatever you focus on expands, treat this week as the product of your designer mind and see how quickly this affects outer circumstances – for better or worse. TAURUS: This week’s Venus wants you looking your best – everyone else will be. And if you’ve been too flat chat with worldly concerns to pay attention to your up close and personal life, planetary emphasis in the sign of togetherness puts the heart department back on the Tauran agenda. GEMINI: Your special Gemini talents – versatility, social mobility and intrepid scene-surfing – come into their own this week, though any hint of insincerity could

PRIME

6.00 Sunrise 4.45 UEFA Europa League LIVE 7.05 UEFA Europa League Delayed 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Seven Morning News 9.10 World News 12.00 Movie: Life Is Ruff (G 2005) 1.30 Insight Kyle Massey, Kay Panabaker 2.30 Real Top Guns 2.00 Kids’ Programs 3.00 Living Black 4.00 It’s Academic 3.30 Letters And Numbers 4.30 Seven News 4.00 The Journal 5.00 M*A*S*H 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 5.30 Global Village Bhutan 6.00 Prime News 6.00 Letters And Numbers 6.30 Seven News 6.30 World News Australia 7.00 Home And Away 7.30 Rituals Latin America 7.30 Better Homes And Gardens 8.30 Convoy War for the Atlantic 8.30 Movie: Wild Hogs (M 2007) 9.30 World News Australia Tim Allen, John Travolta 10.00 Man Hunters (M) 10.55 Movie: The Mother (MA 2003) 10.30 Movie: The Mummy (M 1999) Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz UK drama. Stars Daniel Craig, 1.00 Home Shopping Anne Reid, Anna Wilson-Jones 12.50 Movie: Cleopatra (M 2003) Argentinian comedy. Stars Norma Aleandro, Natalia

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SBS 2 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News 6.00 Global Village 6.30 Taste Takes Off 7.00 Cooking In The Danger Zone: South Korea 7.30 Syrian School 8.30 Law And Disorder: Allan Keesing

9.30 Movie: Salaam Namaste (M 2005) Bollywood. Stars Saif Ali Khan, Preity Zinta, Tania Zaetta 12.15 Movie: Il Mare (PG 2000) South Korean romance. Stars Lee Jeung-Jae, Jeon Ji-Hyeon 2.00 Weatherwatch

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 Kitchen Time 2.30 Movie: Ski Patrol (PG 1990) George Lopez, Leslie Jordan 4.30 Murphy Brown 5.00 Best Dish 6.00 Movie: Lilo & Stitch 2 (G 2005) Animation 7.30 The Wild & Dangerous Kimberley Coast With Malcolm Douglas 8.30 Escape To The Country 9.45 60 Minute Makeover 10.45 How Not To Decorate

11.45 Movie: Look Back In Anger (M B&W 1959) Richard Burton, Claire Bloom 1.45 AFL Grand Final: Collingwood v St Kilda 5.00 Leyland Brothers

SBS 1

6.00 6.00 6.30 7.30 8.30

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PRIME

5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News

6.00 Saturday Club 1.00 Nureyev From Russia with love 7.00 Weekend Sunrise 2.40 Le Sacre Du Printemps Ballet 9.00 Kids’ Programs 3.20 The Chopin Etudes 12.00 AFL Grand Final Replay LIVE – 3.30 Glenn Gould Composer Collingwood v St Kilda 4.30 Newshour 6.00 Seven News 5.30 Mythbusters 6.30 Australia Smashes Guinness 6.30 World News Australia World Records 7.30 Monster Moves 7.00 Movie: The Pacifier (PG 2005) 8.30 Iron Chef Vin Diesel, Lauren Graham, 9.20 RocKwiz Faith Ford, Brittany Snow 10.00 Movie: Anthony Zimmer (M 9.00 Movie: The Mummy – Tomb 2005) French thriller. Stars Yvan Of The Dragon Emperor (M Attal, Sophie Marceau 2008) Brendan Fraser, Jet Li 11.35 SOS: Cashback 11.25 Movie: Meatballs 4 (M 1992) 12.35 Speaking In Tongues Corey Feldman, Jack Nance 1.05 Knot At Home (M) Stories of 1.20 Home Shopping survival 2.00 DAYLIGHT SAVING BEGINS 1.40 Weatherwatch Turn clocks forward one hour 2.00 DAYLIGHT SAVING BEGINS Turn clocks forward one hour 7 TWO

SBS 2 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 The Squiz 6.30 At The Table With Daniel Boulud 7.00 UEFA Europa League 8.30 Voyages Of Discovery Circumnavigation 9.30 Movie: Murk (MAV 2005) Danish thriller. Stars Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Nicolas Bro 11.40 Movie: The Other Side Of The Bed (MA 2002) Spanish comedy. Stars Paz Vega, Ernesto Alterio 1.35 Weatherwatch

turn off valuable allies. Midweek Gemini moon has your organizational skills peaking and that’s when you’ll be at your most productive. CANCER: Focusing on eliminating unhealthy financial habits will be more efficient and effective this week than trying to pre-plan or micromanage an uncertain future. If late week Cancer moon unsettles your sense of security, don’t for a second underestimate your own extraordinary resourcefulness. LEO: Try not to overreact if discord hits your domestic sector this week. Or people change their minds. Join them by changing yours – flexing your mental muscles in new directions and rather than offering the usual set menu, creating more spontaneous dishes of the day.

6.00 Kids Programs 7.30 Home And Away Catch-Up 9.30 Better Homes And Gardens 11.00 The Great Outdoors 12.00 Monster House 1.00 Quit Targa West

2.00 Movie: Young Winston (G 1972) Simon Ward, Peter Cellier, Ronald Hines 5.00 The Great Australian Doorstep 5.30 Man About The House 6.00 Love Thy Neighbour 6.30 Doctor Finlay 7.30 Heartbeat 8.30 Cracker (M)

10.40 Movie: Secret Smile (MA 2005) David Tennant, Kate Ashfield 1.30 Quit Targa West 2.30 2001 Australian Open Tennis: Agassi v Rafter 5.30 AFL Grand Final: Collingwood v St Kilda Replay

VIRGO: Mars in your sign likes to take charge and that’s okay as long as you’re forgiving along with it… This week’s surprisingly playful and entertaining, or could be if you can willingly engage with challenges to the status quo as the personal planets give treasured friendships a workout. Don’t expect key players in your life to behave like saints – do you? LIBRA: This week’s Libran dance is, as always, the ballet of balancing light, dark, blessings, challenges, love, fun, worries and troubles. The spirit’s willing, but the flesh has its own agenda when sensible intentions meet spring temptations, so best just bless the present and pass the party hats. SCORPIO: Take-charge Mars in your sign at worst makes you self willed and stubborn,

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TEN

NBN

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

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 Kids’ Programs 4.30 News 5.00 Antiques Roadshow 5.30 Hot Seat

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 Jamie Does Athens 8.30 NCIS (M) 9.30 Law & Order: SVU (MA) 10.30 Go Girls (M) 11.30 Ten Late News 12.00 Sports Tonight 12.30 Cycling UCI Road World Championships Highlights

6.00 7.00 7.30 8.00 8.30

NBN News A Current Affair Customs RBT Movie: Spiderman 3 (M 2007) Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst 11.30 Movie: True Crime (M 1999) Clint Eastwood, Isaiah Washington, Denis Leary 1.50 Movie: Dr Jekyll And Sister Hyde (M 1972) Ralph Bates, Martine Beswick

3.35 Entertainment Tonight 4.00 Danoz 1.30 Before The Game 2.30 The Late Show 4.30 Good Morning America 3.30 Infomercials 5.00 Religion

ONE HD 6.00 This Week In Baseball 6.30 Sports Unlimited 7.30 IRC Series Sailing 8.00 UCI Road World Championship Cycling 9.00 Bundesliga Football 10.00 Serie A Football 10.30 Golf Central

11.00 Great North City Games Athletics Australia v Britain 12.00 IAAF Athletix 12.30 UCI Road World Championship Cycling LIVE from Geelong 5.30 Ryder Cup Golf LIVE 9.30 Sports Tonight 10.00 Ryder Cup Golf continues

GO!

6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 ET 11.00 TMZ 11.30 Get Smart 12.00 Here’s Lucy 12.30 Seinfeld 1.00 Star Trek 2.00 Charlie’s Angels 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 The Nanny 4.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Movie: Scooby-Doo And The Witch’s Ghost (G 1999) Scott Innes, Mary Kay Bergman

7.30 Movie: We Are Marshall (PG 2006) Matthew McConaughey, Matthew Fox 10.10 Movie: Mask Of Zorro (M 1998) Catherine Zeta Jones, Antonio Banderas

3.30 Omnisport 4.00 Serie A Football

1.00 Sex Shop (MA) 1.30 Star Trek 2.30 Charlie’s Angels 3.30 Green Acres 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Get Smart 5.30 The Flintstones

TEN

NBN

6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.00 Hit List TV 11.30 6.00 Danoz 7.00 Weekend Today Saturday Landed Music 9.00 Kid’s Programs

12.00 Cycling UCI Road World 12.30 Epson Cup Horse Racing LIVE Championships: Women – LIVE 4.30 The Garden Gurus from Geelong 5.00 Postcards Australia 5.00 Ten News 5.30 Home Cooked! 5.30 Sports Tonight 6.00 NBN News 6.00 The Simpsons 6.30 Australia’s Funniest Videos 6.30 Movie: Mrs Doubtfire (PG 7.30 Movie: Kung Fu Panda (PG 1993) Robin Williams, Sally 2008) Jack Black, Dustin Field, Pierce Brosnan Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Jackie 9.00 Movie: Wall Street (M 1987) Chan Michael Douglas, Charlie and 8.40 Lotto Martin Sheen, John C McGinley 9.30 Movie: Rush Hour (M 1998) 11.35 Movie: Fatal Attraction (M Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, 1987) Michael Douglas, Glenn Elizabeth Pena Close, Anne Archer 11.30 Movie: Hard To Kill (AV 1990) 1.45 Video Hits Steven Seagal, Kelly Le Brock, 2.00 DAYLIGHT SAVING BEGINS Bill Sadler Turn clocks forward one hour 1.30 DAYLIGHT SAVING BEGINS 3.00 Infomercials 4.00 Religion Turn clocks forward one hour 2.30 Spyforce

ONE HD 6.00 NASCAR Nationwide Series 7.00 NASCAR Sprint Cup 8.00 UCI Road World Championship Cycling Highlights

9.00 National Football League 11.00 NFL Total Access 12.00 UCI Road World Championship Cycling Highlights 2.50 MotoGP Qualifying LIVE 4.00 World Rally Championship 4.30 Ryder Cup Golf LIVE 4.30 UCI Road World Championship Cycling Highlights 5.30 Bundesliga Football

at best attracts what you want through love and confidence rather than power broking. Your magnetic and healing abilities are strong at the moment, though conditions apply. One condition anyway, and that’s integrity. SAGITTARIUS: With frisky spring pheromones in the wind only the fast and the even faster can keep up with you. Yes, emotional weather’s cyclonic, but as Sagittarian soul poet Rilke wrote: No feeling is final... Limit multitasking this week and focus on one thing at a time. CAPRICORN: For Capricorns who haven’t accepted Pluto’s demotion from planetary status, the dark planet moving forward in your sign lightens your existential load. So explore any delightful diversions or

3.30 Skippy 4.00 Infomercials

GO! 6.00 Kids’ Programs 3.00 Seinfeld 4.00 Hogan’s Heroes 5.00 Green Acres 5.30 The Nanny 6.30 Movie: She’s The Man (PG 2006) Andy Fickman, Amanda Bynes

8.30 Movie: The Matrix Revolutions (M 2003) The Wachowski Brothers, Keanu Reeves, Carrie Anne Moss 11.00 Movie: Final Cut (M 2004) Robin Williams, Mira Sorvino 1.00 Starsky & Hutch (M) 3.00 Get Smart 4.00 Hogan’s Heroes 5.00 Top Cat 5.30 The Flintstones

entertaining follies crossing your path this week because right now it’s worth welcoming whatever light relief’s available. AQUARIUS: The mixed offerings in this week’s cosmic shopping trolley favour shopping, beauty treatments and artistic expression, but not abstinence, fidelity, honesty or marketing your ideas. Though will contrary Aquarians let that stop them from going right ahead and achieving miracles? Didn’t think so. PISCES: Mars and Venus are in a very sexy connection this week, but troublesome cross-currents are also operating. If you’re experiencing an ambivalent, love-hate affair with your current circumstances, use this seasonal attack of divine discontent to fuel the changes you know you need.

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SUNDAY 3

ABC 1

ABC 2

4.00 rage 6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Insiders 10.00 Inside Business 10.30 Offsiders

6.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Francesco’s Mediterranean Voyage Badlands 6.30 A Quiet Word With Bill Bailey 7.00 Art Nation 7.30 Mr Prince Producer Hal Prince 8.15 Kyle Riabko Canadian musician 9.00 Chasing Shadows (M) 9.30 Absolutely Fabulous 10.00 The Office (M) 10.30 Gimme, Gimme, Gimme (M) 11.00 Live At The Basement The Ray Mann Three 12.00 Erasure At The BBC 12.55 Beautiful Noise British Sea Power 2.00 Close

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 The Four Alps 3.30 Glass Artist Philip Glass 5.30 Art Nation 6.00 At The Movies 6.30 Mother And Son 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The Ocean’s Supermum The Australian sea lion 8.30 Stephen Fry Live At The Sydney Opera House (M) 10.00 Compass Home, Later On 10.30 The Sculpture Diaries 11.20 Order In The House 12.20 Movie: Breakfast At Tiffany’s (G 1961) Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard 2.15 Movie: Here We Go Again (G 1942) Jim and Marian Jordan 3.30 Talking Heads David Campbell 4.00 First Tuesday Book Club

ABC NEWS 24

6.05am to 3.10pm Kids’ Programs 3.40 Dead Gorgeous 4.30 Class Of The Titans 4.55 Iron Man 5.15 Good Game: SP 5.35 Rush TV 6.00 Spliced! 6.20 Total Drama Action 6.45 Escape From Scorpion Island 7.15 Blue Water High 7.40 The Latest Buzz 8.05 The Sleepover Club 8.30 Heartbreak High 9.00 Close

4.00 Stateline 5.00 Big Ideas 6.00 Stateline 6.30 Behind The News 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Talking Heads: Keith Payne 8.00 ABC News 9.00 Insiders 10.00 ABC News 10.30 Stateline 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Stateline 12.00 ABC News 12.30 Offsiders 1.00 Big Ideas 2.00 Landline 3.00 Stateline 3.30 Asia Pacific Focus 4.00 ABC News 4.30 Behind The News 5.00 ABC News 5.30 Inside Business 6.00 ABC News 6.30 Foreign Correspondent 7.00 ABC News 7.30 One Plus One 8.00 Insiders 9.00 The World 9.30 Asia Pacific Focus 10.00 ABC News 10.30 Message Stick (G*) 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Compass 12.00 Big Ideas 2.00 BBC World News 2.30 Stateline 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 Stateline

ABC 1

ABC 2

ABC 3

SBS 1

6.00 Religion 7.00 Weekend Sunrise

10.30 UEFA Europa League 11.00 Les Murray’s Football Feature 12.00 UEFA Champions League 12.30 Speedweek 1.30 World Superbike Championships Italy 2.00 Silk Way Rally 2.55 When Borat Came To Town 4.00 Living Black 5.00 Cycling Central 6.00 Thalassa 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Lost Worlds America before Columbus 8.30 Dateline 9.30 Mad Men 10.25 The Deadlys 2010 12.00 Movie: Obaba (M 2005) Spanish drama. Stars Barbara Lennie, Pilar Lopez de Ayala 1.55 Weatherwatch

11.00 V8 Xtra 12.00 Motosport: Mini Challenge 12.30 Muscle Car Masters 1.30 TBA 3.00 Movie: One Fine Day (PG 1996) Michelle Pfeiffer, George Clooney, Mae Whitman 5.30 Sydney Weekender 6.00 Seven News 6.30 Sunday Night 7.30 The X Factor 9.00 Bones (M) 10.00 Castle (M) 11.00 Air Crash Investigations

SBS 2 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 6.00 ADbc 6.30 Cooking In The Danger Zone: China 7.00 Food Trip 7.30 Ninja Warrior 8.00 Unbeatable Banzuke

8.30 Everest: Doctors In The Death Zone 9.30 Movie: A Secret (M 2007) French drama. Stars Cécile De France, Patrick Bruel, Mathieu Amalric 11.25 Movie: Darling (M 2007) Swedish drama. Stars Michelle Meadows, Tanja Lorentzon 1.05 Weatherwatch

SBS 1

MONDAY 4

4.30 Shortland Street 5.00 Something In 5.30 The Cook And The Chef 6.00 ABC 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News The Air 5.30 The New Inventors News Breakfast 9.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 1.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Collectors 6.30 Scrapheap Challenge 7.10 6.00 Kids’ Programs Australia The Daily Show Global Edition 7.35 The 1.30 Dateline 11.00 Landline Colbert Report Global Edition 8.00 The 2.30 Insight 12.00 Midday Report Goodies 8.30 Good Game 12.30 The Memoirs Of Sherlock 3.30 Letters And Numbers

Holmes 1.30 Planet Food 2.00 Waterloo Road 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Travel Oz 6.30 Talking Heads Anh Do 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: Gambling House (PG 1950) Victor Mature, Terry Moore, William Bendix 3.00 Bowls Queensland Open: Mens Pairs Final 4.00 The Cook And The Chef

ABC 3 6.05am to 4.00pm Kids’ Programs 4.25 News On 3 4.30 Pat And Stan 4.40 My Goldfish Is Evil 5.05 Erky Perky 5.20 The Pinky & Perky Show 5.30 Stoked 6.00 Dance Academy 6.30 In Real Life 6.55 News On 3 7.05 Richard Hammond’s Blast Lab 7.35 The Tribe (G*) 8.30 Heartbreak High 9.00 Close

9.00 Pure Pwnage (M) 9.35 Sanctuary (M) 10.15 Torchwood (M) 11.15 Blade Of The Immortal (M) 11.30 London Live Hard-Fi, Klaxons, Amy McDonald, Kanye West 12.00 Soundtrack To My Life Chris Rea 12.30 I’m From Rolling Stone (M) 1.00 The Royal Today 1.30 The Real Good Life 1.50 Close

ABC NEWS 24 4.00 ABC News 4.05 Big Ideas 5.00 ABC News 5.15 The Quarters 5.30 Asia Pacific Focus 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 ABC News 9.30 Australia Network News 10.00 ABC News 10.30 Business Today 11.00 ABC News 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Inside Business 1.00 ABC News 2.00 Midday Report 2.30 7.30 Select 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.30 Contact Sport 5.45 The World This Week 6.00 ABC News 6.05 The Drum 6.45 The Quarters 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 ABC News 8.30 Lateline Business 9.00 The World 10.00 ABC News 10.30 Newsline 11.00 ABC News 11.25 The 7.30 Report 12.00 ABC News 12.05 The Drum 12.45 The Quarters 1.00 BBC World News 1.30 Newsline 2.00 BBC World News 2.30 The 7.30 Report 3.00 Lateline 3.35 Lateline Business

ABC 1

TUESDAY 5

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 Architects Of Change 1.30 The Einstein Factor 2.00 Waterloo Road 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 The Genius Of Design Blueprint for war 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 Foreign Correspondent 8.30 Seven Ages Of Britain 9.35 QI (M) 10.05 First Tuesday Book Club 10.35 Lateline 11.10 Lateline Business 11.40 Four Corners 12.25 Media Watch 12.40 The Chaser’s War On Everything (M) 1.10 Movie: Sabrina (PG 1954) Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart 3.00 Big Ideas 4.00 Good Game

ABC 3 6.05am to 3.00pm Kids’ Programs 3.05 Spellbinder 3.30 Round The Twist 4.00 Dead Gorgeous 4.25 News On 3 4.30 Pat And Stan 4.40 My Goldfish Is Evil 5.05 Erky Perky 5.20 The Pinky & Perky Show 5.30 Stocked 6.00 Dance Academy 6.30 In Real Life 6.55 News On 3 7.05 Richard Hammond’s Blast Lab 7.35 The Tribe (G*) 8.30 Heartbreak High 9.00 Close

ABC 2 5.30 The Cook And The Chef 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Dolce Vito Dream restaurant 6.30 Scrapheap Challenge 7.20 The Daily Show 7.40 The Colbert Report 8.00 The Old Guys 8.30 Criminal Justice (M) 9.30 Deadwood (MA) 10.30 Teachers (M) 11.30 Billable Hours (M) 12.00 The Beast (M) 12.40 The Royal Today 1.00 The Real Good Life 1.30 Close

ABC NEWS 24 4.00 ABC News 4.05 The Quarters 4.20 The Drum 5.00 ABC News 5.15 The Quarters 5.30 Newsline 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 ABC News 9.30 Australia Network News 10.00 ABC News 10.30 Business Today 11.00 ABC News 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Australian Story 1.00 ABC News 2.00 Midday Report 2.30 Talking Heads 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.30 7.30 Select 6.00 ABC News 6.05 The Drum 6.45 The Quarters 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 ABC News 8.30 Lateline Business 9.00 The World 10.00 ABC News 10.30 Newsline 11.00 ABC News 11.25 The 7.30 Report 12.00 ABC News 12.05 The Drum 12.45 The Quarters 1.00 BBC World News 1.30 Newsline 2.00 BBC World News 2.30 The 7.30 Report 3.00 Lateline 3.35 Lateline Business

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PRIME

5.00 Weatherwatch 7.00 World News

4.00 The Journal 4.30 Futbol Mundial 5.00 The Crew 5.30 Living Black 6.00 Letters And Numbers 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Mythbusters 8.30 Man v Wild Moab Desert 9.30 World News Australia 10.00 Shameless (MA) 11.00 La La Land (M) 11.30 The World Game 12.30 Living Black 1.00 Movie: Divergence (MAV 2005) Cantonese thriller. Stars Aaron Kwok, Ekin Cheng 2.50 Weatherwatch

SBS 2 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News 6.00 Living Black 6.30 Eating Art

7.00 At The Table With Biba Caggiano 7.30 The Elegant Universe 8.30 The Odyssey Of Life 9.30 The World Game 10.30 Movie: Tears Of The Black Tiger (MAV 2001) Thai western. Stars Suwinit Panjamawat, Supakorn Kitsuwon 12.15 Weatherwatch

SBS 1

8.00 Meet The Press 8.30 Kids’ Programs 12.00 Cycling UCI Road World Championships: Men – LIVE from Geelong 5.00 Ten News 5.30 Sports Tonight 6.00 The Simpsons 6.30 Modern Family 7.30 Learn India Hamish & Andy 8.30 Offspring (M) 9.30 Good News Week Special (M) 11.00 The Games Project Special 12.00 Commonwealth Games 12.00 Room For Improvement 12.30 Opening Ceremony LIVE Home Shopping 5.30 Seven News 4.00 Moto GP Japan 5.00 125cc & Moto2 Motorcycle Racing Japan 5.30 Religion

7 TWO

8.05 Kids’ Programs 12.00 Movie: The Legend Of Johnny Lingo (PG 2003) George Henare, Rawiri Paratene 1.50 Movie: Under The Yum Yum Tree (PG 1963) Jack Lemmon, Carol Lynley

4.05 Movie: Whatever It Takes (PG 2000) Jodi Lynn O’Keefe, James Franco 6.00 Playing Tricks 6.30 Movie: Alice In Wonderland (G 1999) Whoopi Goldberg, Martin Short 9.00 The Xtra Factor 10.00 Movie: A Lot Like Love (M 2005) Ashton Kutcher, Amanda Peet 12.15 The Passion Of Spain 1.10 1995 Australian Open Tennis: Sampras v Courier 5.00 Home Shopping

PRIME 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Seven Morning News 12.00 Movie: Love’s Enduring Promise (PG 2004) Katherine Heigl, Dale Midkiff, January Jones, Logan Bartholemew 2.00 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.00 M*A*S*H 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.00 Prime News 6.30 Seven News 7.00 Home And Away 7.30 The X Factor 8.30 The Event (M) 9.30 Covert Affairs (M) 10.30 10 Years Younger In 10 Days 11.00 Hollywood’s Baddest Boyfriends (M) 12.00 The Gibb River Road And Beyond

9.30 Movie: My Brother Is An Only Child (M 2007) Italian drama. Stars Riccardo Scamarcio, Claudio Botosso 11.20 Movie: Rosenstrasse (M 2003) German drama. Stars Katja Riemann, Maria Schrader 1.40 Weatherwatch

2.30 Infomercials 3.30 Religion 4.00 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

GO! 6.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 The Hills 12.30 Eclipse Music TV 1.00 Ballistyx Snowboard Show 1.30 Here’s Lucy 2.30 Hogan’s Heroes 3.30 Green Acres 4.30 The Nanny 5.30 Wipeout 6.30 Top Gear 7.30 The Big Bang Theory 8.30 The Middle

9.30 Movie: Man Of The House (M 2005) Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Archer 11.30 South Park (M) 12.00 Bad Lads Army (M) 1.10 Bridezillas (M) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 The Avengers 5.00 Here’s Lucy

NBN

TEN 6.00 Good Morning Delhi 9.00 Ten News 10.00 The Circle 12.00 Malcolm In The Middle 1.00 Commonwealth Games LIVE from Delhi 5.00 Ten News 6.00 Commonwealth Games continues 4.00 Religion

5.30 Today 9.00 Kerri-Anne 11.00 Time/Life 11.30 Infomercial 12.00 Ellen Degeneres Show

1.00 2.00 3.00 3.30 4.30 5.00 5.30 6.00 7.00 7.30 8.25 8.30

The View Days Of Our Lives Alive And Cooking Kids’ Programs Afternoon News Antiques Roadshow Hot Seat Evening News A Current Affair Two And A Half Men Lotto Movie: The Da Vinci Code (M 2006) Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Jean Reno 11.30 Til Death 12.00 Movie: Pluto Nash (M 2001) Eddie Murphy, Rosario Dawson, Randy Quaid 1.50 Alicia Keys 2.00 Infomercials 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

1.00 Home Shopping 5.30 Seven News

7 TWO

GO!

6.00 Kids Time 9.00 Home & Away 9.30 Shortland Street 10.00 Coronation Street 10.30 Emmerdale 11.00 All My Children 12.00 Kitchen Time 2.00 TBA 4.30 Murphy Brown 5.00 Best Dish… 6.00 Head Of The Class 6.30 Growing Pains 7.00 George & Mildred 7.30 Heartbeat 8.30 The Xtra Factor 9.30 October Road 10.30 Mistresses (M) 11.35 The Prisoner 12.35 The World Around Us: The Passion Of Spain 1.35 1991 Australian Open Tennis: Lendl v Becker 5.00 Home Shopping

6.00 Good Morning Delhi 9.00 National Football League 12.00 World Rally Championship 12.30 Ryder Cup Golf Closing Ceremony 1.00 Commonwealth Games LIVE 4.00 Serie A Football

6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ 11.30 Get Smart 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 Hellcats 8.30 The Vampire Diaries (M) 9.30 Ladette To Lady USA (MA) 10.30 Gossip Girl (M) 11.30 South Park (MA) 12.00 The Vampire Diaries (M) 1.00 Gossip Girl (M) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Get Smart 5.30 The Flintstones

PRIME

TEN

ONE HD

6.00 Good Morning Delhi 6.00 Sunrise 1.00 Movie: Whisky Romeo 9.00 Ten News 9.00 The Morning Show Zulu (PG 2004) Argentinian 10.00 The Circle 11.30 Seven Morning News drama. Stars Enrique Pyneiro, 12.00 Movie: Dr Doolittle 3 (G 2006) 12.00 Malcolm In The Middle Mercedes Moran 1.00 Commonwealth Games LIVE Kyla Pratt, Kristen Wilson 2.50 Like James Dean from Delhi 2.00 Kids’ Programs 3.00 Living Black 5.00 Ten News 4.30 Seven News 3.30 Letters And Numbers 6.00 Commonwealth Games 5.00 M*A*S*H 4.00 The Journal continues 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 4.30 Newshour 4.00 Religion 6.00 Prime News 5.30 Global Village 6.30 Seven News 6.00 Letters And Numbers 7.00 Home And Away 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Four Weddings 7.30 Insight 8.30 Packed To The Rafters 8.30 Welcome To Lagos 9.30 Parenthood (M) 9.30 World News Australia 10.30 Keeping Up With The 10.00 Hot Docs: Harlan – Hitler’s Kardashians (M) Other Filmmaker 11.00 Dawn Porter (MA) 11.55 Movie: Relatives (PG 2006) 12.00 The Gibb River Road And Hungarian drama. Stars Sandor Beyond Csanyi, Ildiko Toth 1.00 Home Shopping 1.55 The Black Road (M) Aceh 5.30 Seven News 2.55 Weatherwatch

5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News 6.00 Global Village 6.30 At The Table With Norman Van Aken 7.00 Eating Art 7.30 The Normans 8.30 Hitler’s Bodyguard

6.00 Arrive Alive Cup 7.00 Weekend Today 10.00 Sunday Roast 11.00 The Sunday Footy Show 12.00 NRL Grand Final Day LIVE – NSW Cup 2.00 NRL Grand Final Day LIVE – Toyota Cup 4.00 NBN News 4.30 NRL Grand Final LIVE – Sydney Roosters v St George Illawarra Dragons 7.30 60 Minutes 8.30 Movie: Rush Hour 3 (M 2002) Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Max von Sydow 10.30 The Boss Is Coming To Dinner 11.30 Cops LAC (M) 12.30 Super League

ONE HD 6.00 Bundesliga Football 7.15 Serie A Football 9.00 UCI Road World Championship Cycling LIVE 1.15 125cc Motorcycle Racing LIVE 3.00 Moto2 Motorcycle Racing LIVE 4.10 Sports Tonight 4.30 MotoGP LIVE 6.15 World Rally Championship 6.45 Sports Tonight 7.30 The Making Of… 8.00 Sports Tonight 9.30 Ryder Cup Golf LIVE 4.00 NASCAR Nationwide Series

5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News

SBS 2

NBN

TEN 6.00 Religion 7.00 Kids’ Programs

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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 Kids’ Programs 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 Survivor: Nicaragua 10.00 20 To 1 (M) 11.00 How To Have Sex After Marriage (MA) 12.00 Balls Of Steel (MA) 12.30 Entertainment Tonight 1.00 Skippy 1.30 Infomercials 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

GO!

ONE HD

6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 ET 11.00 TMZ 11.30 Get Smart 12.00 Here’s Lucy 12.30 Seinfeld 1.30 The Hills 2.00 Hellcats 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 The Nanny 4.00 Kids’ Programs 6.30 Total Wipeout UK 7.30 Drop Dead Diva 8.30 The Big Bang Theory 9.00 The Inbetweeners (MA)

6.00 Good Morning Delhi 9.00 National Football League 12.00 NASCAR Sprint Cup Highlights 1.00 Commonwealth Games LIVE 4.00 MotoGP Japan 5.00 Bundesliga Football

11.30 South Park (MA) 12.00 Star Trek 1.00 Drop Dead Diva 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Get Smart 5.30 The Flintstones

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 11.50 Kitchen Time 2.30 TBA 4.30 Murphy Brown 5.00 Best Dish… 6.00 Head Of The Class 6.30 Growing Pains 7.00 George & Mildred 7.30 Fawlty Towers 8.10 The Vicar Of Dibley 8.45 Benidorm (M) 9.15 Not Going Out (M) 9.50 Louis Theroux (M) 11.00 The Sopranos (MA) 1.10 The Professionals (M) 2.00 2002 Australian Open Tennis: Hingis v Capriati 5.00 Home Shopping

NBN 5.30 Today 9.00 Kerri-Anne 11.00 Danoz

9.30 Movie: Resident Evil – Apocalypse (M 2004) Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Oded Fehr

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ABC 1

ABC 2

WEDNESDAY 6

4.30 Shortland Street 5.00 Something In The Air

5.30 Gardening Australia 6.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Big Ideas 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 National Press Club Address 1.30 Talking Heads 2.00 Waterloo Road 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 James Martin’s Champagne 6.30 Poh’s Kitchen 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 Strictly Speaking 8.30 Spicks And Specks 9.00 The IT Crowd 9.30 United States Of Tara (M) 10.00 At The Movies 10.30 Lateline 11.05 Lateline Business 11.30 The Last Enemy (M) 12.30 Movie: Birth Of The Blues (G 1941) Bing Crosby, Mary Martin 2.00 Big Ideas 3.00 National Press Club 4.00 Catalyst

5.30 6.00 9.00 6.00 6.30 7.20 7.40 8.00 8.30

The Cook And The Chef ABC News Breakfast Kids’ Programs Stop. Rewind Scrapheap Challenge The Daily Show The Colbert Report Good Morning Kalimantan Seven Ages Of Pregnancy 15 to 40 year olds 9.30 Requiem For Detroit? (M) 10.30 Fakes 11.15 American Shopper 12.15 A Place In Slovakia 12.40 The Royal Today 1.00 The Real Good Life 1.30 Close

ABC NEWS 24

6.05am to 3.00pm Kids’ Programs 3.35 Round The Twist 4.00 Dead Gorgeous 4.25 News On 3 4.30 Pat And Stan 4.40 My Goldfish Is Evil 5.05 Erky Perky 5.20 The Pinky & Perky Show 5.30 Stoked 6.00 Dance Academy 6.30 In Real Life 6.55 News On 3 7.05 Richard Hammond’s Blast Lab 7.35 The Tribe (G*) 8.30 Sweat 9.00 Close

4.00 ABC News 4.05 The Quarters 4.20 The Drum 5.00 ABC News 5.15 The Quarters 5.30 Newsline 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 ABC News 9.30 Australia Network News 10.00 ABC News 10.30 Business Today 11.00 ABC News 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 National Press Club 1.30 ABC News 2.00 Midday Report 2.30 Message Stick (G*) 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.30 Stateline Select 6.00 ABC News 6.05 The Drum 6.45 The Quarters 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 ABC News 8.30 Lateline Business 9.00 The World 10.00 ABC News 10.30 Newsline 11.00 ABC News 11.25 The 7.30 Report 12.00 ABC News 12.05 The Drum 12.45 The Quarters 1.00 BBC World News 1.30 Newsline 2.00 BBC World News 2.30 The 7.30 Report 3.00 Lateline 3.35 Lateline Business

ABC 1

ABC 2

ABC 3

SBS 1

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show

1.00 Movie: Springtime In A Small Town (PG 2002) Mandarin drama. Stars Jingfan Hu, Jun Wu, Bai Qing Xin 3.00 Classical Destinations London & Halle 3.30 Letters And Numbers 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Global Village 6.00 Letters And Numbers 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Inspector Rex (PG) 8.30 Anna Pihl (M) 9.30 World News Australia 10.00 Movie: Rescue Dawn (MA 2006) US action/adventure. Stars Zach Grenier, Marshall Bell, Christian Bale 12.15 Movie: Countdown (MAV 2004) Russian action/adventure. Stars Aleksei Makarov, Louise Lombard 2.10 Weatherwatch

11.30 Seven Morning News 12.00 Movie: Wedding Daze (G 2004) John Larroquette, Karen Valentine, Kelly Overton 2.00 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.00 M*A*S*H 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.00 Prime News 6.30 Seven News 7.00 Home And Away 7.30 Border Security 8.00 The Force 8.30 City Homicide (M) 10.30 Breakout (M) M) 11.40 Suburban Secrets (M) ment 12.00 Room For Improvement

SBS 2 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News 6.00 Global Village 6.30 Made In Spain 7.00 At The Table With… 7.30 Dateline

8.30 The Deadlys 2010 10.05 Movie: Blamako (M 2006) French drama. Stars Aissa Maiga, Tiecoura Traore 12.05 Movie: Flanders (MAV 2006) French drama. Stars Adelaide Leroux, Samuel Boidin 1.40 Weatherwatch

THURSDAY 7

ABC 3 6.05am to 3.00pm Kids’ Programs 3.05 Spellbinder 3.35 Round The Twist 4.00 Dead Gorgeous 4.25 News On 3 4.30 Pat And Stan 4.40 My Goldfish Is Evil 5.05 Erky Perky 5.20 The Pinky & Perky Show 5.35 Stoked 6.00 Dance Academy 6.30 In Real Life 6.55 News On 3 7.05 Richard Hammond’s Blast Lab 7.35 The Tribe (G*) 8.30 Sweat 9.00 Close

Mungo’s Crossword

Cryptic Clues ACROSS 1. Sold an unusual insert in “Small Balls,” groundbreaking 20th century novel (4,3,6) 9. Morning, part of the range (5) 10. Temperature fall and fall on journey by public transport (5,4) 11. Beat back malediction about nothing – it’s a place for sport! (4,6)

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6.00 Poh’s Kitchen 6.30 Scrapheap Challenge 7.20 The Daily Show 7.40 The Colbert Report 8.00 Spicks And Specks 8.30 Kids In The Hall (M) 9.00 Horne And Corden (M) 9.30 Gary: Tank Commander (M) 10.00 Harry And Paul (M) 10.30 Tracey Ullman’s State Of The Union (M) 11.00 Little Miss Jocelyn 11.30 John Safran’s Race Relations

Australia 1.30 Dead Tired 2.30 Dateline 3.30 Letters And Numbers 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Global Village 6.00 Letters And Numbers 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Food Safari 8.00 Luke Nguyen’s Vietnam 8.30 Supersizers Go The Eighties 9.30 World News Australia 12.00 Ideal (M) 12.30 Roman’s Empire (M) 10.00 Movie: Operation Valkyrie 1.00 The Royal Today 1.30 The Real Good (M 2004) German drama. Stars Life 2.00 Close Sebastian Koch, Axel Milberg 11.45 Movie: The Forced March (MA 2003) Russian war drama. Stars Vladimir Volga, Olga Chursina, 4.00 ABC News 4.05 The Quarters 4.20 Fyodor Smirnov The Drum 5.00 ABC News 5.15 The 1.45 Weatherwatch

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 11.50 Kitchen Time

2.30 Movie: Bingo (PG 1991) Cindy Williams, Joe Guzaldo, Janet Wright, Suzie Plakson 4.30 Murphy Brown 5.00 Best Dish… 6.00 Head Of The Class 6.30 Growing Pains 7.00 George & Mildred 7.30 The Royal 8.30 McCallum (M) 10.40 Wycliffe (M) 11.45 The Professionals (M) 1.00 The World Around Us: Where The Volcanos Roared 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Leyland Brothers World 5.00 Home Shopping

PRIME 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show

11.30 Seven Morning News 12.00 Movie: Right On Track (G 2003) Beverley Mitchell, Jon Robert Lindstrom, Brie Larson 2.00 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.00 M*A*S*H 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.00 Prime News 6.30 Seven News 7.00 Home And Away 7.30 The Amazing Race 8.30 Criminal Minds (M) 9.30 How I Met Your Mother 10.30 Parking Wars 11.00 Scrubs 11.30 Stag (M) 12.00 One Antarctic Summer 1.00 Home Shopping 5.30 Seven News

Quarters 5.30 Newsline 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 ABC News 9.30 Australia Network News 10.00 ABC News 10.30 Business Today 11.00 ABC News 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Catalyst 1.30 ABC News 2.00 Midday Report 2.30 Compass 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.30 Landline Extra 6.00 ABC News 6.05 The Drum 6.45 The Quarters 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 ABC News 8.30 Lateline Business 9.00 The World 10.00 ABC News 10.30 Newsline 11.00 ABC News 11.25 The 7.30 Report 12.00 ABC News 12.05 The Drum 12.45 The Quarters 1.00 BBC World News 1.30 Newsline 2.00 BBC World News 2.30 The 7.30 Report 3.00 Lateline 3.35 Lateline Business

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 11.55 Kitchen Time 2.30 Movie: Double Teamed (G 2002) Poppi Monroe, Annie McElwain 4.30 Murphy Brown 5.00 Best Dish… 6.00 Head Of The Class 6.30 Growing Pains

From The Week

SBS 2

10.00 Movie: Dark Blue Almost Black (MA 2006) Spanish drama. Stars Quim Gutierrez, Hector Colome 11.20 Movie: Harry’s Daughters (M 2005) Swedish drama. Stars Lena Endre, Amanda Ooms, Jørgen Langhelle 1.10 Weatherwatch

21. Monitor of Emerald City, as Fleet Street christened Paul Keating (6,2,2) 24. A dish devoured at the pigs (9) 25. Pub suitable for the weight conscious? (5) 26. Murray, skinflint, talented, saint, produces the book and the musical (3,10)

French sausage (10) 15. Red-headed fixer produces a potent cocktail (5,4) 18. Raise a miniscule amount about a knight? Greek noblemen, actually (7) 19. Sinful hunger for Gardner grain (7) 22. Foreign Office caught Gore concerning the meeting point (5) 23. Not properly shut. So?

11.40 The Professionals (M) 12.45 2003 Australian Open Tennis: El Aynaoui v Roddick 5.00 Home Shopping

Keating after he touched the queen (6,2,2) 24. Type of pasta (9) 25. Part of the neighbourhood (5) 26. Novel by Victor Hugo, later a musical (3,10)

DOWN 1, 5 across. Cult novel by Kurt Vonnegut (14,4) 2. Swedish inventor of dynamite (5) 3. Speak clearly and fluently (10) 4. Side tracks, diversions (7) DOWN 5. Greek shipping magnate who 1, 5 across. Merriment in married Jackie Kennedy (7) small dwelling – V’s cult Quick Clues 6. Sea eagle (4) novel! (14,4) ACROSS 2. The good French rise 1. Novel by D H Lawrence 7. Table napkin (9) 8. Loony tunes cartoon character, for the sought-after (4,3,6) the fastest mouse in all Mexico prize (5) 9. Extent, range (5) (6,8) 3. Say clearly: “Unite by 10. Rail journey (5,4) joints” (10) 11. Augusta, St Andrews 13. Type of Italian sausage (10) 15. Cocktail based on scotch 4. Goes around, but stops or Royal Sydney (4,5) whiskey (5,4) pleasure trips (7) 12. See 1 down 5. Aristotle riding donkey 14. Sea or river dwelling 18. Ancient Greek noblemen (7) 19. Greed, cupidity (7) is a very successful Greek reptiles (7) 22. Pertaining to the point where (7) 16. Tersely, soon (7) 12. See 1 down 6. Dingo loses one sea17. The stone which led to rays of light converge (5) 14. Hawksbill and Loggerhead, eagle (4) the translation of Linear 23. So, therefore (4) for instance (7) 7. Struggle with abstainer B (7) 16. Soon, in a stunted sort of in dry surroundings – get 19. Popular design way (7) a napkin! (9) movement of the 1920s 17. Stood abstainer a really 8. Deep, sleazy song (3,4) special stone (7) 19. Business organization follows about “the fastest mouse 20. Semi-precious quartz in all Mexico”! (6,8) (4) dubious trade style (3,4) 13. Mushroom wrapped 21. Name given by the 20. Stone working with two around a little bit, and the British press to Paul Solution next week axes (4)

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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 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Afternoon News 5.00 Antiques Roadshow 5.30 Hot Seat 6. Evening News 6.00 7 7.00 A Current Affair 7 7.30 The Block 8 8.25 Lotto 8 8.30 The Boss Is Coming To Dinner 9.30 RPA 110.30 Embarrassing Bodies (M) 11.30 Til Death 12.00 Eclipse Music TV 12.30 20/20 1.30 Infomercials

GO! ONE HD 6.00 Good Morning Delhi 9.00 National Football League 12.00 125cc & Moto2 Motorcycle Racing Highlights 12.30 Golf Central 1.00 Commonwealth Games LIVE 4.00 NASCAR Sprint Cup Highlights 5.00 NFL Total Access

TEN 6.00 Good Morning Delhi 9.00 Ten News 10.00 The Circle 12.00 Malcolm In The Middle 1.00 Commonwealth Games LIVE from Delhi 5.00 Ten News 6.00 Commonwealth Games continues 4.00 Religion

6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ 11.30 Get Smart 12.00 Here’s Lucy 12.30 Seinfeld 1.00 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 2.00 Drop Dead Diva 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 The Nanny 4.00 Kids’ Programs 6.30 Total Wipeout UK 7.30 Wipeout USA 8.30 Two And A Half Men (M) 9.00 The Inbetweeners (MA) 9.30 Spartacus – Blood And Sand (AV) 10.30 Dark Blue (M) 11.30 South Park (MA) 12.00 Starsky & Hutch (M) 1.00 Spartacus – Blood And Sand (AV) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Get Smart 5.30 The Flintstones

NBN 5.30 Today 9.00 Kerri-Anne

11.00 Infomercials 12.00 Ellen Degeneres Show 1.00 The View 2.00 Days Of Our Lives 3.00 Alive And Cooking 3.30 HI-5 4.00 Pyramid 4.30 Afternoon News 5.00 Antiques Roadshow 5.30 Hot Seat 6.00 Evening News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 Getaway 8.30 Cops LAC (M) 9.30 Crime Scene Investigation (M) 10.45 CSI: NY (M) 11.45 Til Death 12.10 The Baron 1.00 Entertainment Tonight 1.30 Skippy 2.00 Infomercials 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

7 TWO

7.00 Movie: Camp Rock (G 2008) Demi Lovato, Joe Jonas 9.00 Movie: Rain Man (M 1988) Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise

NBN 5.30 Today 9.00 Kerri-Anne 11.00 Danoz

3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

7 TWO

ABC NEWS 24

5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News 6.00 Global Village: Bhutan 6.30 Food Trip 7.00 Made In Spain 7.30 Insight 8.30 Images Of Conflict

TEN 6.00 Good Morning Delhi 9.00 Ten News 10.00 The Circle 12.00 Malcolm In The Middle 1.00 Commonwealth Games LIVE from Delhi 5.00 Ten News 6.00 Com Commonwealth Games contin iinnues continues 4.00 Religi giion g Religion

12.30 Home Shopping 5.30 Seven News wss

SBS 1

4.30 Shortland Street 5.00 Something In 5.30 The Cook And The Chef 6.00 ABC 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News The Air 5.30 Gardening Australia News Breakfast 9.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To

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tion of paintings, sculpture, photography and films at the Murwillumbah Civic Centre from October 1 - 4. More than 120 entries submitted for the fourday exhibition, which covers a wide range of mediums from traditional oil paintings to contemporary sculptures, with each artwork depicting some aspect of the stunning flora, fauna, landscape and environmental sustainability of the Mt Warning Wollumbin Caldera. The exhibition’s over-riding aim is to educate people about the unique biodiversity and geography of the region, as well as foster an understanding of the need for conservation and sustainable practices. Embracing the theme with enthusiasm, several entrants have adopted an innova-

Amy Meredith A journey is a fitting way to describe the last two years for synth-rock act Amy Meredith. From shaping their sound in a rehearsal room in Sydney’s Sutherland Shire to industry showcases in Hollywood, the band has enjoyed a rapid ascent. Amy Meredith was born after singer, keyboardist and songwriter Christian Lo Russo found common musical ground with local guitarists Joel Chapman and Cam Laing and bassist Wade Osborn. Enlisting drummer Kosta Theodosis, the quartet found their feet in synth-driven melodic rock that would evolve over the years but retain a core sound all their own. After just two shows and half a dozen songs penned, the band found themselves pursued by major record labels and jetting to the US to showcase their wares. After returning home the band left the label, released a self-titled EP and retreated from the spotlight to focus on song writing. Amy Meredith cut their debut album Restless at Grove Studios on the NSW Central Coast.The result is an accomplished set that showcases the band’s ear for great pop hooks and their ability to traverse styles, yet still have a heart and soul all their own. Solid synth lines, pounding rhythms and gorgeous guitar melodies combine brilliantly, while thoughtful arrangements ensure the

Triple J radio play under their belt, continuing national community radio play, recognition by Amrap as a fresh, emerging talent, as well as a bunch of select upcoming East Coast gigs supporting the release of their fourth album, this band is creating quite a buzz. Based around the catchy and prolific songwriting of Mark Boulle, the band features Elodie Mayberry on violin and cello, Daren Williams on bass, Matthew Brown on drums and percussion, Neil Macleod on clarinet and flute, Steve Keyse on sax and keys, with Boulle on guitars, vocals, harmonica and more. See the Haba Dudes at Fingal’s Sheoak Shack on Saturday, October 2 at 7pm.

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North Coast Time

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setting is never cluttered.They are now touring in conjunction with the release of their album Restless. See Amy Meredith at Coolangatta Hotel on Saturday, October 2 at 8pm.

Boy & Bear In their biggest tour yet, Sydney five-piece Boy & Bear are set to wow audiences with their dulcet tones and unique sound as they celebrate the release of their third single Blood To Gold. It’s been a whirlwind year for Boy & Bear, who first hypnotised listeners across the radio waves in February 2009 with their single Mexican Mavis, propelling them into the spotlight. Boy & Bear have found themselves in the spotlight. The single caught the attention of music fans and industry figures, earning the quintet the Triple J Unearthed gong and a spot on the Homebake stage. See Boy & Bear at Currumbin Soundlounge on Friday, October 1 at 7.30pm.

North Coast Time duo David and Tamara Stoneman are an alternative retro-acoustic, country surf rock group. Their songs represent the essence of life on the north coast and reflect the laid-back surfing lifestyle made famous by movies such as Morning of the Earth and Glass Love. Songs like Barefoot In The Sand and North Coast Time relay a message of stripping life back to simple pleasures. Other songs including Summer Dawn and Country State of Mind present a ‘Dylanish’ philosophic critique of our modern existence, while instrumental songs such as High on a Cool Wave are reminiscent of early 1960s surf instrumentals. North Coast Time will be playing its laid-back surf folk songs at the newly renamed Marty’s Place at Cabarita, formerly the Cabarita Cottage, on Friday, October 1 at 7.30pm. To coincide with the gig, North Coast Time has released an acoustic version of their new song Feel for the Stranger on their myspace site.

Mason Rack Originally from Southport, Mason Rack was raised on a diet of jazz, rock and and surfing and began performing at the tender of age of six. He now counts Tom Waits, Tex Perkins, Jeff Buckley, Ben Harper, Violent Femmes, and Dave Matthews among his influences. Rack is supported on stage by drummer Joel ‘ThunderFoot’ Purkess and bassist Ross Prior. Together with his band, outstanding vocals, guitar playing and awesome stage presence, Rack continues to deliver high impact performances to audiences everywhere. See the Mason Rack Band at Billy’s Beach House , Surfers Paradise on Sunday, October 3 at 1pm.

Haba Dudes The Gold Coast-based Haba Dudes deliver a unique blend of socially conscious indie folk music. With

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The Caldera Artfest will showcase northern NSW’s stunning landscapes and biodiversity in an exhibi-

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tive approach, including former Tweed Naturally Art winner, Barry Henderson, who has submitted a coffin bearing replicas of threatened local fauna. While at just 14 years old, Rhiannon Atchison is the event’s youngest-ever entrant. Artfest has its official opening at the Murwillumbah Civic Centre on Friday, October 1 at 5pm. Highlights include an opening address by Tony Duke, CEO of Arts Northern Rivers, as well as the presentation of the annual Max Boyd Art Prize and Tyalgum, Festival Prize. The exhibition will run from 9am to 5pm each day until Monday, October 4. Entry is free. For more details visit calderaart.org.au.

A crowd favourite at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Best of British is more than dry sarcasm and mere innuendo. Featuring the quick wit and clever talents of Britain’s favourite stand up comedians, Jeff Green and Bob Franklin, these two comedic legends will ensure a riotous night of whirlwind improvisation and inspired lunacy. Renowned for his razor-sharp observations and brilliantly astute wisecracks on life, love and relationships, Green has been hailed as a comedic genius, with the Herald writing ‘It’s the twinkle in his eye that lets Jeff Green get away with murder.’ Franklin may be a man of few words, but those few

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words are hilarious. Known for his short, bizarre and hilarious poetry readings, Franklin was a regular on comedy shows such as Jimeoin, Thank God You’re Here and Stand Up. Emceed by local funny man Fred Lang, Best of British is a fantastic opportunity to see this comedic duo live and unscripted. The Best of British comedy show is at the Gold Coast Arts Centre on Friday, October 1 at 8pm.

Their catchy songs and classic hits have made The Radiators a household name in Australia. But, little did anyone realise back in 1978 that more than 30 years on the band would still be together and producing quality music with no signs of slowing down. Travelling thousands upon thousands of kilometres across the length and breadth of this vast country, The Radiators have carved a niche in the annals of Aussie rock history. They have headlined and shared the stage with other great Aussie acts such as AC/DC, Rose Tattoo, Dragon and INXS. In 2004 the Radiators released their 25th anniversary album, a compilation of their most popular singles. While this album sold well and had chart success, the boys were keen to push the envelope. In 2008 their controversial single Gimme Head debuted at number 25 on the ARIA Club Charts, quickly climbing to number nine in the first five days. Despite the rigours of touring and the passing of years the spark and energy of the Radiators has not diminished. They continue to tour extensively, playing an average of 150 gigs a year, and delight the legions of fans both young and old. The Radiators

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play Cabarita Beach Sports Club on Saturday, October 2 at 7.30pm.

Nitestar Nitestar are a four-piece band comprising Dazzamatazz on bass/vocals, Mister D on lead guitar/ vocals, Star Vox on lead vocals/keys/guitar and Stardog on drums/vocals. Nitestar combine a carefully selected showcase of rock artists such as Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, David Bowie, AC/DC, Queen, Aerosmith, through to Oasis, The Clash, The Cult, The Angels, Black Crowes, Guns N Roses, Foo Fighters, Live, Grinspoon, Powderfinger, Nickelback, U2 and many more classic rock tunes. Together Nitestar pump out a great authentic retro rock sound with blistering female vocals, delivering a N‘S solid selection of songs that everyone can enjoy. BARRY HENDERSO D AN E, OV AB Y, ENTR With a strong focus on audience participation and rock enterCHISON’S, AT ON NN IA RH tainment, Nitestar deliver a great musical experience. See Nitestar RIGHT, IN THE play at Bilambil Sports Club on Friday, October 1 at 8pm. TFEST AT

The Tweed Links Music Club Concert Enjoy an afternoon of entertainment in the main auditorium with the Tweed Links Quartet and Allan Grant Dancers. Featuring special guest artist Debbie Tanna (soprano), supported by Edna and Evan Williams (piano/organ duo), Christopher King (young vocalist), Barry Martin (mirimba), Michael Bellinger (tenor) and compered by Bob Green. The Tweed Links Music Club Concert is at Coolangatta Tweed Heads Golf Club on Sunday, October 3 at 2pm (NSW time). Admission is $6 for members or $10 for visitors.

GETTING YOUR DUCKLINGS ACROSS THE ROAD

eat sugar because you’ll get diabetes, or fat, or cancer or both, don’t make friends with weirdos on Facebook in case they stalk you then meet you at a train station and murder you. Don’t put buttons or foreign objects in your mouth because you’ll choke. Teenage girls Where before I’d looked around and seen take note, that also goes for penises. Don’t get a cosy room, I suddenly saw sharp corners, immunised, you could end up with a disability. poisonous chemicals, gaping doors and Get immunised, because you could end up finger mashing cupboards. with a disability or a nasty case of Byron Shire The world is not a safe place. I am reminded of this driving to Ballina the other day. On the Whooping Cough, or dead from diphtheria horizon I see three tiny shapes moving onto or tetanus or polio. Bang on the backsteps the bitumen. A mother duck has decided before you walk down because brown snakes that 11am on a rainy Saturday is a great time live under the house. to cross the Pacific Highway. A little brown mother waddles in the wake of two fluffy little Don’t eat unwashed lettuce because you’ll get ducklings. In the middle of this 100 kilometre botulism. Don’t talk on the mobile for too long per hour death trap this story book scene because you’ll get a brain tumour. Don’t lick unfolds. I hit the brake. If I ran over a mother leaking batteries. Don’t ride your bike. Don’t duck and her ducklings I didn’t think I’d ever swim in estuaries, there’s some weird fleshcome out of counselling. eating bacteria. Don’t hit your brother with a Jesus, is there a DOCS for ducks? What the hell cricket bat. Don’t get in the car with stoners. was she thinking? You don’t take your babies across a road. Surely whatever is on the other Don’t hitch hike, you could get picked up by some out of control psychopath. If you are side is not worth being mowed down by an approaching vehicle! She makes it across. This driving don’t pick up hitch hikers, they could time. be out of control psychopaths. I am so moved by the fragility of life that I start Don’t take drugs like I did. Don’t drink. Don’t to cry. My daughter looks at me like I’m nuts. smoke. And you know what, don’t drive, I probably am. If I run over the ducks I cry. If there’s nowhere really worth going anyway. I don’t run over the ducks I cry. I think that I Just stay at home. With me. Until you’re forty. am that mother duck, and every day I must And no one wants you. It will be just you and send my most precious beings into a world which may not return them. When I send my your Mum. There’s nothing creepy about that. kids down the street to get a bottle of milk I can’t get the ducklings out of my head. I’m I warn them about creepy paedophiles with worrying about them every day. I can’t sleep fluffy puppies, to be careful crossing the road, for thinking of all the mothers who don’t and don’t use the Mullumbimby pedestrian get their ducklings across the road. It’s the crossing because it is more dangerous than absolute powerlessness of it that frightens me. jay walking. It’s 3am. I’m in an insomniac stupor. I get in I tell them not to lick the receivers of public telephones because they’re covered in the car. I drive to Ballina. I wait. Mother Duck hepatitis, that you don’t sit on a public toilet emerges from the grass with her babies. I bag seat because someone else’s wee could touch them. Chuck them in the boot and drive them your bum or you could get their bum germs home. I lock them in the bathroom. They’re and get herpes or festering bum sores. Don’t safe. I fall asleep. I wake to a scream of a child drink water in plastic bottles that have been wandering to the loo for a morning pee: ‘Mum in the sun because you’ll get cancer, don’t eat margarine because you’ll go blind, don’t I’ve been attacked... by a duck!’

Being a parent is terrifiying. The moment my cervix dilated 10cm and a brand new human being emerged, I opened the door to a world of anxiety that I never knew existed.

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A 10-year veteran of live stages from Byron Bay Bluesfest to the Montreux Jazz Festival, Ash Grunwald’s fifth studio album mixes electronica and blues to produce a funky, heavy, rootsy

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soul beat. It’s another highlight in Grunwald’s career, which has seen the surfing enthusiast score four ARIA nominations, as well as reaching the finals in the Memphis International Blues Competition. Born to an African mother and Australian father, Grunwald grew up listening to classic bluesmen like Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson and then later BB King, James Brown and Jimi Hendrix. This melting pot of blues and soul provided inspiration for what would become his signature eclectic style. While group work brought success Grunwald was drawn to the solo acoustic side of things. The raw energy of his live shows has seen him become a festival favourite and he continues to tour widely, showcasing his unique one man band style of blues. Ash Grunwald plays Hotel Great Northern at Byron Bay on Friday, October 1.

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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.

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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.

major Australian blues festivals, firmly establishing themselves on the local scene. Tyalgum Hotel’s Big Blues Mini Festival is on Sunday, October 3 at 2pm.

Animal Action Day The annual Animal Action Day is once again leading the charge to raise awareness, appreciation and respect for all animals and the environment. The free community day, which began on the Gold Coast in 2007, was created by animal lover and AA Xpose Media Director/ Photojournalist Aldwyn Altuney, after seeing the graphic Earthlings DVD about people’s abuse of animals over time. The idea is to encourage people to take action for animals – whether it be reporting cases of animal cruelty to animal welfare organisations, having your pet desexed, buying free range eggs or signing petitions against inhumane practices such as whaling. The action-packed weekend features live music, vegan food, stalls, speakers, animal themed films and documentaries and an owner-pet look-alike competition. Performers include Miami oneman band playing acoustic roots, blues and reggae Mattie Barker, Byron Bay blues performer Craig Telfer, Palm Beach folk soul singer/ guitarist Kate Leopold, SlyJacks Delta, Currumbin R ‘n’ B

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folk slide guitarist Nyje and DJ elemental Guy Sohm. Animal Action Day runs over the weekend from October 2-3 from 10am to 5pm each day at Gecko House and Winders Park, 139 Duringan Street, Currumbin. The official after party will take place at Currumbin RSL on Sunday, October 3 from 6pm. A Tweed Shire Council community facility Entry is free. Special guest, Cherokee Indian, 1 OCTOBER - 28 NOVEMBER Bobby Runningfox $OO ZHOFRPH WR DWWHQG RIILFLDO RSHQLQJ DW SP RQ )ULGD\ 2FWREHU '67

will finish the evenY Zhongjian: Midway ing with inspirartional A AT UNIT DEYA DOY A Wollongong City Gallery touring exhibition AY, D R U T A S and powerful perforFESTIVAL consisting of 14 artists from China and 2 OCTOBER mances and messages Australia featuring painting, sculpture, installation and with support from his son Eagle video production Dancer. All proceeds from the event go towards Save Chatter: Robert Ryan China’s Tigers to Re-wild and breed the critically endangered Paintings which offer aerial views resembling south china tigers. tapestries from a distance, yet up close layers

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Head to Tyalgum Hotel this weekend to enjoy a big Sunday lineup of premier blues entertainment. On the bill is Lil’ Fi, one of the original roots music performers on the festival circuit today. She is a dynamic entertainer with a unique songwriting style. Visual arts play a big part in Lil’ Fi’s music and she has been known to play stand up drums draped in feather boas and flowers. Lil’ Fi has been the convener of the Ladies Sing The Blues Festival in Brisbane for 10 years and also a co-founder of the Flannelettes, a 10-piece a capella group. She is also a co-founder of the East Coast Queen Bees, a band comprising Australia’s finest women blues musicians and programmed the blues venue at Woodford Folk Festival from 1997 to 2001. Also performing is blues singer and guitarist Mark Easton, as well as dynamic three-piece The Hipshooters. The electric blues rock band have been playing stinging guitar solos with solid rock, smooth funk and groove beats since forming in New Zealand in 1993. They combine upbeat, original songs with popular standards from Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix and high charged R ‘n’ B flavours. Now based in Brisbane the Hipshooters tour all the

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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 from September 18. 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.

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The 2010 Unity Festival The 2010 unity festival promises to be a celebration of music, food, dance and art as showcased by members of Tweed Shire’s multicultural community. The festival features live music, dance performances, arts and craft, workshops and children’s activities. A history display will outline how culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities arrived in the Tweed. The Earth Council Embassy are also offering three workshops – Sound Healing, Remedial Yoga and a presentation on the Earth Council framework, while Anthony Pike will conduct two workshops on the meaning of Indigenous music, song and ceremony and the transmission of knowledge in an oral culture. The event will showcase cultural dance performances by the Ukerabah clan group, Filipino dancers, the Tweed South Sea Island Dance Group, the Australia Indonesia Arts Alliance Dancers,

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The Tweed Echo has the most comprehensive entertainment gig guide in the area. For your free listing, email gigs@tweedecho. com.au or phone us on (02) 6672 2280. Deadline is noon Tuesday prior to Thursday’s publication. as well as Indian classical dance. The main stage features a full line-up of entertainment, with the so-called Bjork of Down Under, Deya Dova, headlining the event. Originating from the Nullarbor desert in South Australia, she is notably one of the very few self produced female electronica artists. Fusing a bright and energetic mix of dance, world, electronica and indie pop, Deya Dova’s exotic sound is tied to her extraordinary vocal talent and draws from indigenous influences from around the world, as well as her own ancestry. Other acts include No Mans Land, a seven-piece Burringbar band fusing Australian bush, colonial and folk music; Segue, an acoustic duo playing warm jazz and blues with a little country and pop, Tweed songstress Zardi and Hello Africa, a lively introduction to the culture and lifestyle of African people, with performers are from West Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Guinea and Gambia. Soul Fire and Mohini Cox is headed by Stokers Siding singer and songwriter Chana Waters who has supported a wide range of national and international acts including the Black Sorrows and Suzie Quatro. Waters is truly multicultural with Dutch, Jewish, Italian, German and American Indian Cherokee ancestory. She writes about her personal life experience and is able to create powerful songs, radiating energy and charisma. Blending ancient wisdom with contemporary grooves that soothe, Djambouki is another act not to be missed act. The Unity Festival is a not for profit organisation dedicated to producing an inclusive and unique event that creates opportunities for greater social interaction between the many diverse communities of the Tweed and Byron Shires. The festival is on Saturday, October 2 at Murwillumbah Showground from 12 noon to 10pm. Tickets are $15 online or $20 at the gate. Camping is also available at the showgrounds. For more information visit www.unityfestival. com.au.

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Rogers lands a three kilo jack Tweed Byron veterans awarded

David Solano

I couldn’t wait for the weekend to arrive as I was keen as mustard to give the wild bass of the Tweed another crack. My neighbor Steve and I headed down to Brays Park weir and we were not alone. A couple of tinnies arrived just on day break with electrics and a fellow in each boat. Steve had rigged a 54lb thrust electric onto the back of my other yak so I tied mine off next to him and we took

bank I cast at the same snag that I lost my good lure on last week and lo and behold on the third cast a bass hit the lure just as it was bouncing through the fork of a submerged tree. I was ready for it this time and managed to pull in a 37cm Australian bass. He went crazy and headed straight for cover, but with heavier 8lb leader, I turned his head and brought him in and that was it. Hundreds of casts and two fish. Not that successful really, but hey: a hell of a lot of fun. PS – I have had a few calls from people reading this column and I have to say I love it. Any fishing info is gospel to me. Gary Rogers had bragging rights last week as he landed a whopping 3kg mangrove jack in the vicinity of Tumbulgum. He also got onto a few legal bream. Well done mate. PPS – A old friend of mine The latest cohort of Tweed Byron District Bowls Veterans were awarded their badges recently found me. Hello to Dale Taylor, by district president Anne Mackay. These ladies have all reached the age of 80 years and are still another fisherman. bowling.

a short cut bypassing the two boats and getting to the snag I wanted to fish first. I had about five casts at it – there was a big submerged tree in the middle of the river – and could not get a touch. I paddled on over to the shore and when I looked around, Steve was working the snag and proceeded to catch the first fish of the day, a nice 32cm wild bass. Steve was using an atomic hardz shallow diver. I had on Q If you have any fishing news Congratulations to Patsy Pilcher, Edna Gallard, Di Lobb, Noela Bonnor, Yvonne Corcoran, Margaa lucky craft surface lure, black you would like to share with ret Dobie, Anne Laws, Dorothy Hardie and Shirley Moore. with silver strips.Over on the David, phone 0415 747 969.

Pythons create village hiss-tory

The Uki Pythons Under 13 football team created local history recently by winning both the minor premiership in FFNC U13 Division 2 North and scoring a resounding victory in the Grand Final. The Protect Pythons went undefeated for the season finishing minor premiers on top of the table with 14 wins, scoring 74 goals and conceding only 5 goals. The only hiccup along the way was losing the major semi

to Tumbulgum Rangers which they avenged by reversing the result on Grand Final day. Captained by Rosie Elliot who led from the front, the Pythons beat the Rangers 2-0 in an exciting tussle at Burringbar. Reece Middleton scored in the first 15 minutes and the Pythons took a 1-0 lead. Liam Cunynghame sealed the win with a sizzling strike midway through the second half for the sweetest victory of all.

For the Pythons it was third time lucky after being runners up in 2008 and a finalist in 2009. Credit for their success must go to their hard working defenders, backs Liam Dooley and Sacha Martin, sweeper Bhima ‘Everywhere Man’ Heffernan and fantastic goal keeper Bradley Scholl who only let five goals in all season. The Python depth in attack was well served by their tireless toilsome engine room of midfielders Blake Arnold, Syan Arane, Dillon Adams, Adam Walker and long range and free kick specialist Biku ‘Lethal Weapon’ Wernick. The team has been coached by ex-Newcastle league footballer Steve Moss and stage managed by cricket tragic Paul Harris. The Pythons took on teams from Tintenbar to Tumbulgum and beat them all and were well supported by their fans, families, sponsors, club and the Uki community. These legends have become the toast of the town and the pride of the small village club achieving a feat not recorded by any other team in the club.

SPORT RESULTS

Cabarita Beach Women 23.09 Thursday Night Bowls - Winners Danny Vegter and Mal Terara 28.09 Social Bowls - Winning Rink - Sue Goods, Joan Double, Valerie Dudley, Betty Campbell. Consolation - John Andrews, Tom Quayle, Ron Lee, Ken Ross. Raffles - Margaret Rae, Fran Brady, Judy Schmidt. Monthly Raffle - Sue Goode. Condong Cane Toads Winners: H Fuller, B Smith, R Fuller. Condong Ladies Consistency E.Hunt def., M.Stanfield. Social results: P.Flack, B.Smith. M.Dobie def. J.Glasby, K.Cusack and H.Fuller. J.Timmins and M.Hinde def. M.Sweetnam and M.Wilkins. Winning rink P.Flacks team. Comp winner May Wilkins.

Condong Men Thursday night MSW Bowls Club Challenge Gold against Condong. A win for Pottsville Singles. Pott 16 vs. Con 31, Pairs Pott 18 vs. Con 8. Fours Pott 19 vs. Con 15. Club challenge Blue division played at Ballina. Singles Ball 31Con 25, Pairs Con 22- Ball 12, Fours Con 30- Ball 4. B grade triples played G Moss, R Fredericks, G Palmer def R Gerdes, D Benge, W Thelan. Cudgen Leagues Ladies Thurs 23rd. Friendship – (2 losses out of hat ) R Wickbold, F Brady, J Tuckey, Val Edwards ; 1st rnd Mystery margin ( + 5 ) Byron Bay – V Bederidge, J Meirel, T Hillard, Kim Quinell ; 2nd rnd mystery margin ( +3 ) Kingscliff – B Davies, W

Python’s captain Rosie Elliot

BOWLS Cabarita Results 25th September: Winners: E. Stenner, I Creelman, and V. Dudley Runners Up: E Kolbee, K Evans and R Lee. Results 27th September: Winners: B Turner and K Liddington Runners Up: Julian Richards and Steve Pickett. Consolation: David Crow and Brian Burger. Club Selected Fours 1st Semi Final S Anderson, C Shepherd, A Thorpe and Woody 24 Defeated P .Schofield, B Venner, A Jones and R Woodbury 14. Club Challenge 7s: Cabarita Silver 4 Def Brunswick Heads 2. Cabarita Blue 6 Def Pottsville 0.

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Butler, Margaret Mc Crindle, M Brown ; Runners up – 2 wins + second highest margin ( +19 ) Mullumbimby – Rene Thompson, B Reglin, K Freeman, Betty Croft ; Winners – 2 wins + highest margin ( +24 ) Cabarita – Barbara Minto, Glyns Cartwright, G Coustley, Joy Lake. Ann Revie & Liz Fleming winners of the Club Selected Pairs Final played last Friday –runners up Rosalie Lowe & Michelle Van Runt. Cudgen Men Mixed Four’s: J. McGill, H. Wylie, P. McGill & B. Murray over came S. Archbold, T. McGee, B. Hall & K. Hanson in a very close contest 20 to 19 on the 21st end. President Single’s: F. Pieterse defeat K. Foran & D. Lowe defeat V. Schiemer Consistency Single’s G. Ellen defeated B. Murray. Winner’s of the Saturday cash: T. Conlon & S. Archbold. Kingscliff Men Results: Round 8 in Pennants: Div 2 defeated Mermaid Beach 76 shots to 50. Div 3 defeated Musgrave Hill 61 shot to 57. Div 5 went down to Paradise Point 76 shots to 54. Div 8 went down to Broadbeach 77 shots to 55. Social Bowls Results: Thursday 23rd Winners: A Curnow, J Quinn, S Jamieson; K Taylor, B Gentle, G Trad; P Atkinson, K Styles, R Heales. Plate Winners: J Bonnett, G Douglas, D Roughley. Saturday 25th September: Winners: J Mirls, B McIllhatton, M Rice. Plate Winners: S Kemp, A Reid, D Roughley. Tuesday 28th: Winners: N Bradbrook, T King. Runners Up: J Munn, B Munn. Plate Winners: J Waide, O Simpson. Pottsville Ladies Thursday 23rd Winners: H.W.M J.Kent & P. Thorburn. Runners Up: L.W.S. L. Johns & H. Woodbridge. Lucky Bowler: R. Booth. Tweed Byron District Women District Gala Day Winners - Robyn Creedon, Margaret Overall, Valerie Dudley, Joy Lake (Cabarita). Runner-ups (Tied) - Joan Highfield, Rosemary Morris, Mary Chisholm, Daphne Edwards (Murwillumbah)Barbara Minto, Glenys Cartwright, Gwen Coustley, Clare Hill (Cabarita) Tweed Heads Ladies Tuesday Ladies 4s: H. Bardsley, J. Dodsley, W. Grant def. R. Laycock, E. McGrath, M. Marquis. M. Croghan, F. Hewitt, J. Fisher, D. Kendall def. C. Davis, B. Graham, B. Jacobsen, E. Bartrims. P. Clarke, A. Duckworth def. Y. Waddington, J. Hoffman. Thursday Ladies 4s: S. Price, P. Clarke, N. Dowling, P. Henderson, def. C. Davis, B. Rodger, D. Evans, S. Asser. E. Simpson, A. Harris, C. Hawkins def. B. LeBoeuf, D. Kendall, S. Goldsmith. J. Patton, S. Jackson, J. Withington, D. Turner def. L. Turner, N. Matheson, S. Hambleton,

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M. Gwynne. N. Craig, Y. Waddington, A. Nash, V. Robinson def. D. Cramb, J. Clark, J. Roche, K. Sieben. B. Makin, A. Plowright, def. J. Ryan, P. Dealove. G. McCarthy, D. Duncan, M. Kelly, B. Bitmead, def. G. Spencer, E. Elford, B. Casrey, J. Pearce. Thursday ladies Graded and Drawn 4s J. Lyons, P. Collins, J. Gilroy, B. Cooper def. D. Stewart, J. Hoffmann, J. Green, M. Picking. L. Spencer, M. Crane, M. Baxter, P. Reedy, def. G. Evans, M. Cooper, M. Higgins, L Robins.V. Young, F. Hewitt, B. Bryant, K. Henshaw def. G. Darcy, L. A. French, J. Ware, P. Houghton. N. Wise, N. Bell, P. Southern, A. Ebsworth, def. L. Rayward, F. Martin, S. Iles, H. Ramsay. Tweed Heads Men Results from Round 8 – 25 September Div 1: v Burleigh Heads lost 58/63 [2/14] Div 2: v Mudgeeraba 81/43 [16/0] Div 4: v Twin Towns lost 48/54 [4/12] Div 7: v Woongoolba lost 61/64 [2/14] Div 8: v South Tweed 89/47 [16/0] Div 9: v Tugun won 65/45 [16/0] Championships: B Grade Pairs – Round 3 Quarter-finals: Peter Newman, Col Fishlock d. Gary Hewitt, Arthur Collins 19/14; John Cunningham, Ron Duckworth d. Ted Crofton [reconstituted], Leigh Tynan 24/19; Laurie Rea, Frank McPhillips d. Jason Neville, Jim A. Smith 32/7; John Reardon, John Parker-Smith d. Dylan Cooper, David Taylor 24/8 Social Results: Sun 19 Sept Green 1: Pat & John Mann; r/up: Bernice & Jim Bryant. Green 2: Ray Carter, Colleen Graver, Adele & Ron Duckworth; r/ up: June McWhirter, Clem Jones, Joan & Vince Leather. Tues 21 Sept – Winners: Men – Laurie Rea, George Kendall, Max Reiter, Vince Leather; r/up: Ian Read, Arthur Jackson, Ken Scott. Winners Ladies: Christine Cragg, Marjorie Crane, Betty Bradley, Christine Hawkins; r/up: Ruth Reiter, Pam Govett, Dorothy Turner. Fri 24 Sept: Green 1: John Moon, Norm Picking, Mal Rae; r/up: John Easter, John Craig, Terry Horton. Green 2: Bill Hagen, Tom Armour; r/up: Greg Nolan, Bill Dangerfield, Arthur Jackson. Green 3: John Asser, Stan Loeber, Ron Sturrock; r/up: Jack Barnes, Don Shoobert, Graham Simpson. Sat 25 Sept: Green 1: Francis Hewitt, Pat & Norm Clarke; r/up: Vern Eves, Heather Mason.Green 2: Arthur Beckman, Ernie Robins; r/up: Brian Irby, Fred McIntyre. DARTS Tweed Valley Results September 27: A Grade Jokers 9 def Gulls 6, Blues 13 def Cgulls 2 and Hogan’s Heroes 8 def Lions 7. B Grade Devils 8 def Duck Offs 3, Tigers 8 def We’re Back 3 and Leftovers 6 def Sharks 5. Point Score. A Grade Jokers 126, Gulls 98, Blues 91, Hogan’s Heroes 87, Lions 58 and Cgulls 38,

B Grade Devils 78, Tigers 72, We’re Back 63, Leftovers 62, Duck Offs 49 and Sharks 36. GOLF Chinderah Seniors Social Results for Thursday 23/9/10 - Stableford Winner A grade Bob O’Callaghan 34 points(c/back). New h/cap 8. Runner up Stan Archbold 34 points. New h/cap 7 Winner B grade Bob Sladden 41 points. New h/cap 16. R/up Larry Perdikis 40 points. New h/cap 18. Winner C grade Patsy Gordon 41 points. ew h/cap 20. Runner-up Derek Cranch 39 points - new h/cap 26. Ball rundown to 36 points. Next event 30/9/10 - Stroke Results for Monday 27/9/10 - Ambrose Winners - Barry Martin Mel Brodie Marcia Edmund Kath Gordon - net 46 6/8 R/up - Frank Aaron Terry Watson Graham Jackson Bill Herbison - net 48 1/8 3rd - Ray Brettell Phil Hall Mike Lawson - net 49 4/8 Ball rundown to net 50 4/8. Murwillumbah Wednesday 22nd September Individual Stableford Winner L.McCormack 42 nett c.b R.Up R.Rattray 42 pts Veterans L.McCormack 43 pts c.b N.Pin 2nd J.Hawkins 10th C.Clothier B.R.D to 35 pts Friday 24th Winner W.Quantrill 37 pts B.R.D 35 pts Saturday 25th Final Of the CLUB Championships over 72 Holes Club Champion W.Colefax 299 c.b B.Grade J.Moen 335 C.Grade S.Derepas 344 D.Grade j.Djordevic 376 Junior L.Anderson 319 Junior Vet K.P’Grady 325 & Senior Vet E.Kerr 338 . SHOOTING Murwillumbah Pistol Club 22-Sept-10; Air Pistol - D Dowling 600, J Lumsden 590. 25-Sept-10; Sports Pistol - J Blair 598, L Allen 594, D Gazzard 592, N Davis 586, D Stebbing 582, G Andronicus 564, J Hoctor 551, P Norris 550, S Stebbing 543, A Uren 534, M Rohrick 516, P Schlunke 494, A Dennison 462. Centre Fire - J Duckworth 585, J Lumsden 568. Membership enquires ring ANITA on 6672 5716. Murwillumbah Rifle Club Fullbore: Conditions were good at 300 yards with some mirage. Best off rifle scorers were W.Shoobridge 100.13 and D.Hawkins in scope class with 116. Scores: W.Shoobridge 100.13, 0, 100.13; D.Phippard 98.9, 1, 99.9; S.Dolan 95.11, 3, 98.11; B.Barrett 85, 9, 94. Visitor: J.Duncan 99.6. Scope: D.Hawkins 116, 4, 120; P.Weeks 113, 7, 120; B.Chittick 115, 5, 120; J.Dight 111, 8, 119; A.Glover 107, 11, 118; M.Sforcina 105, 13, 118. Smallbore: 50 metres: Doug Hawkins had best off rifle score of 395. R.Couch 384, 23, 407; C.Freeman 389, 12, 401; J.Malek 385, 16, 401; M.Sforcina 393, 7, 400; D.Hawkins 395, 5, 400; G.Johnson 380, 16, 396; W.Shoobridge 387, 9, 396; A.Glover 390, 5, 395; G.Bush 377, 15, 392; T.Lamb 374, 16, 390; A.Price 355, 35, 390.

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BELLINI RESTAURANT experienced wait staff required. Ph Marty 0404641463 CHEF - CASUAL Up market cafe on Tweed coast, mainly days, must be qualiďŹ ed. Ph 66764949 COOK part time 20-30hrs pw. Quick, adaptable person with good prep skills & knowledge of basic cooking & baking. Resume: homeatmaviseskitchen.com.au

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Noticeboard Kids clay workshops The popular claymation school holiday activities return to the Richmond-Tweed Regional Library branches next Wednesday and Thursday, October 6 and 7 at Tweed Heads (10am-noon), Murwillumbah (4pm-6pm) and Kingscliff (1pm3pm). Claymation is a technique used to make animation movies using figures made of clay-like material, as in the popular Wallace and Grommit movies. Cost of the workshops is $5, which includes the activity and pizza, and tickets can be bought at the three libraries. The workshops are suitable for children aged nine years and up. For info call (Murwillumbah library) 02 6670 2427, Tweed Heads on 07 5569 3150 and Kingscliff on 02 6674 1607.

Garden club Tweed Coast Garden Association’s next meeting is on October 12 from 1.30pm at the Cabarita Community Hall. Members please bring something for the trading table and your entries for the benching. This is our 8th birthday and members from other gardens clubs are welcome. Guest speaker is John Pumpers from ‘Frog Prints’. Entry is $2, for info call 02 6676 4402.

Guiding One hundred years of girl guiding in Australia will be celebrated with a luncheon at the home of Anne Biddulph, Banora Point, on Wednesday, October 20, at 10.15am. All ladies who have been involved in guiding in any way welcome to attend. Colour party, flag raising and campfire songs. RSVP Oct 6 to Pat on 02 6674 4622, Anne 07 5524 1454 or Deslie on 02 6685 8755.

Helping families Could you help a family with young children? Would you enjoy sharing your parenting experience with new parents and families? Do you have a couple of hours each week to spare? Do you know someone who may be interested? The Family Centre is looking for people from all walks of life that have an interest in. For further information call Yvonne, Volunteer Home Visiting Service Coordinator on 07 5524 8711.

Prostate cancer A naturopath and a professor will speak at next meeting of Prostate Awareness, Twin Towns Tweed Coast, on Friday, October 1, at Tweed City Shopping centre in the Community Hall, doors open at 9am, meeting starts 10am, all welcome. For info call Ross on 07 5599 7576 or visit www. prostateawarenessaustralia.com

Stamp club Twin Towns Stamp Club will meet Monday, October 4, at 7.30pm at the HACCC hall, Heffron Street, South Tweed Heads, visitors welcome, for info call 0755 987629.

Ride to work October 13, Civic Centre Park, Murwillumbah from 6.30am to 8.30am for a free breakfast and giveaways. Organised by Wollumbin Bicycle User Group.

Family history Tweed Gold Coast Family History and Heritage Association’s monthly get-together October 5 at Sth Tweed Sports Club, Minjungbal Dr, Sth Tweed Heads commencing at 1.30pm.Guest speaker: David Larkin, on ‘Irish Genealogy and History, National Manuscripts and Printed Works’. Visitors welcome, for info call Noelene on 07 5599 8939.

Kingscliff bowls Kingscliff Bowls Club Members are advised that the annual general meeting of the Kingscliff Bowls

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Club Ltd will be held in the Club on Sunday, November 7, at 9.30am.

Quota club Tweed/ Coolangatta Quota Club presents Heavenly DayliliesGarden Party 10am Wednesday, September 29, (new date due to wet weather). Entry $3 (includes tea/coffee and lucky door ticket. Talk and display on day lilies and bromeliads. For info call Michele 07 5590 7197 or Barb 02 6674 3276.

Organ donations Donate life: Organ and tissue donation talks, Murwillumbah Public Library, Kingscliff Public Library, September 30, 2-3pm. Mary Campbell, clinical nurse specialist in organ and tissue donation, will visit the library to discuss the facts about organ and tissue donation which will include experiences from both donor and recipient families. To attend, call Kingscliff Library 02 6674 1607.

Book sale Friends of the Library Kingscliff will conduct their next book sale on Saturday, October 9, from 9am-11.45am. Many thanks for the many books already donated for the sale. Further donations may be left at the library in Turnock Street, Kingscliff. For info call Larry on 02 6674 1607.

Ovarian cancer walk In Australia, ovarian cancer claims the life of one woman every 10 hours.The Robbie Sammel Ovarian Cancer Awareness Walk on Saturday, October 16, from Kingscliff to Fingal Head, a 15km return circuit, aims to raise funds to help make life without ovarian cancer a reality. Visit www. robbieswalk.com to register or contact Mim on 0415 603 531 or email robbieswalk@gmail.com.

Spring fair Tyalgum will be hosting a Spring Fair on Sunday, October 3. See the artistry which abounds the charming country village, country crafts, home-made gifts, jewellery, clothing, paintings, live music. 10am-4pm, Coolman street, Tyalgum.

AOOB Twin Towns branch’s next monthly meeting will be held on Friday, October 1, at South Tweed Sports Club, Tweed Heads South at 2pm in the Secret Garden Room. Guest speaker will be Jardine from Camp Quality. All members and intending members are invited to attend.

remnants, sweets, pre-loved clothing, odds and sods and books. BBQ, light refreshments and the PCYC band will be playing. Donations may be left at the gift shop, in the hospital foyer or phone Russell on 026674 3077 for collection.

Walking groups Murwillumbah on the Move walking group meets at the Information Centre (Budd Park) at 7.20am every Wednesday and Saturday. Enjoyable walks around town. Call 6672 1660 or just turn up. New Kingscliff Thursday morning walk will start Thursday, September 16, and every Thursday after that. Meet 7am at the Ed Parker Rotary Park (near the bridge on Sutherland St) Kingscliff. For info call Lesley on 0421 573 639. Twin Towns Runners and Walkers meet every Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 6pm Coolangatta beach front (opposite McDonalds). All ages, all levels of fitness. Fun and free, for info visit www.ttscrunnersandwalkers.org.

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

Twin Towns Evening VIEW Club meets at 6.30pm on the second Wednesday of each month at Tweed Heads Bowls Club. For info call Barbara 07 5523 1057. Twin Towns Day VIEW Club meets on the first Thursday of the month at South Tweed Sports Club, for info call Freda on 07 5524 1357. Coolangatta/Tweed VIEW Club next luncheon meeting Thursday, October 21, in the Horizons Room, South Tweed Sports Club at 11am for 11.30am start. Guest speaker will be Christine Lonie from Red Cross Telecross. Visitors welcome. For info call Margaret on 07 5534 7115 before 5pm on Monday 18.

Parenting program

Mental health

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Tweed Valley Mental Health Carers Network meetings coming up: Mondays, October 18 and November 1. Note: No meeting on October 4 (Labour Day in NSW). Families and friends of people with mental illness are welcome to share friendship, information and experiences with other carers from 10am at the Tweed Heads Library, Brett Street. Volunteer members help, for info call 07 5598 6372.

New vogue dancing Learn to dance new vogue, Thursday 1.30pm-2.30pm, no partner required. New vogue dancing on Thursday morning 9am, Friday and Saturday evening 7pm, dance to live music. Coolangatta Senior Citizens Centre, Gerrard St, Coolangatta, call 07 5596 4050 for info.

Knitters Wrap with Love: knitters needed to make squares for rugs to go to charities worldwide. Phone Barbara (Mur’bah) 02 6672 1660, or Judi (Tweed Coast) 02 6674 2968.

Mullumbimby Community Gardens will hold an environmental day on October 10, 2010 (10/10/10) from 9am to 5pm with a biochar and biodiesel demonstration. If you want to be involved call Dolph on 0407 032112 or visit www.biocharproject.org.

Riding for the Disabled Tweed Valley Centre needs helpers for Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday mornings during school terms. Horse skills useful but not essential, training provided. For info call 0419 437 217.

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U3A Twin Towns welcomes new members, new courses opening in digital photography, French, astrology, astronomy and belly dancing and maybe a zumba class. For info call 07 5534 7333 before noon Mon-Fri.

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The Voice Weavers Choir is looking for talented guys and girls. If you like to sing come along on a thursday evening from 6.30pm. We meet in the C’gatta/Tweed Heads area. For info call Mary 0418 668 259 or Jan 07 5536 1078.

more info on free introductory lessons, call the club on 02 6672 2064.

A popular parenting program to strengthen family relationships, this 3-week course aims at helping parents to stop poor behaviour, start positive behaviour and understand the nature of discipline and emotion coaching. Wednesdays, September 8, 15, 22 from 6pm-8pm at the Pottsville Beach Neighbourhood Centre. For info call Angela at PBNC on 02 6676 4555.

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and Murwillumbah Wednesday playgroups from 9.30am-11.3am. For info call 07 5524 8711 or visit www. thefamilycentre.org.

A cappella choir Voice Weavers Southern Gold Coast A cappella Choir welcomes new members. We meet every Thursday night between 6.30pm-8.30pm at St Peters Church hall on Dutton and Lanham Streets, Coolangatta. For info call Mary on 0418 668 259.

Volunteering

Tweed Valley Huffers ’n’ Puffers and Dicky Tickers Support Group is a new group formed to support all those in the community with heart and lung problems. We meet every second Thursday of the month at Condong Bowls Club at 11am. For info call Di at 092 6672 4330 or Ron at 6676 2294.

Looking for a way to gain work experience, meet friends and/or contribute to your community? Volunteering could be your answer! Each week NORTEC Volunteering has approximately 200 volunteer positions available through community organisations in our region. For info on vacancies visit www.nortecltd. com.au or call 02 6672 8288.

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Family centre

Tweed Hospital Auxiliary annual fete on Saturday, October 9, at the Civic Centre, Brett St., Tweed Heads. Doors open at 8am. Stalls include: babywear, soft toys, cakes, craft,

The Family Centre is taking bookings now for a range of parenting and self-help courses. Numbers are limited. Playgroups places also available in our Cabarita Tuesday

The Kingscliff Beach Babes Community Playgroup meets every Tuesday morning at 24 Kingscliff St, Kingscliff, for craft, songs, stories and free-play. All children 0-5 years and their caregivers are welcome. For info call Chantal 6674 2856.

Croquet Tweed Heads Croquet play days are Monday 9am and on Thursday and Saturday from 9.30am. We also conduct golf croquet sessions on Tuesday from 2.30pm and on Thursday and Saturday from 1pm. All welcome to come and try. Phone 07 5599 1611 for more info or just come to the lawns at 39 Recreation Street, Tweed Heads on any play day. Coolangatta Croquet Club, Lanham St. invites you to a free lesson at 9.30am any Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday or 1pm Sunday. Murwillumbah Croquet Club play days are: Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday. For

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

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Exit International For information on end of life choices and to find out when the next meeting will be held please call Elaine 0421 796 713. To attend the meetings you must be a member so ask Elaine how to join if you are interested.

Historical society Tweed Heads Historical Society’s monthly meeting will be on Tuesday, September 21, at 10am in the Old Court House , Pioneer Park, Kennedy Drive, West Tweed Heads. Guest speaker Faye O’ Keefe will talk on memories of her life in n Kingscliff com me, e for info in nffo from 1941. Visitors welcome, call 07 5536 8625.

Lifeball Lifeball is an exercise sport spor sp ortt similar simi si miila larr to to walk wa l ing pace netball but played at a walking by senior men and women. Come and have a try. Sessions held every Tuesday 9.30am-11.30am at Tweed Supersports Centre, Chinderah, $5 per person. Contact Jill (02) 66740636 or George (07) 55244558

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

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

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

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

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

Toastmasters Toa Beco a popular, confident public Become tune listening skills and sspeaker, sp ea have h ha ve a laugh as well. Join MurwilToastmasters every other llumbah lu um Thursday for dinner and friendship Thu ((allll ages). Call Marg 02 6677 9575 or Phil 02 6677 9388.

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

Nashos Tweed Valley-Murwilumbah Nashos meet every month on the third Tuesday at 10.15am at the Murwillumbah Services Club (next on Sep 21). New members welcome, call Peter on 07 5590 5467 or Keith on 07 5524 5679. Gold Coast South-Twin Towns branch will hold its next general meeting on Sunday, November 21, at 10am in the Anzac Room of The Twin Towns Services Club. New members welcome, for info call Ian on 07 5536 4450.

Third quarter October 1 13:52 New moon October 8 05:44 First quarter October 15 08:27 Full moon October 23 12:36 Third quarter October 30 23:46 Day of Sun Sun Moon Moon High tide, Low tide, month rise set rise set height (m) height (m) 1 F 0525 1746 0007 1038 0123,1.10; 1340,1.49 0700,0.61; 2041,0.48 2 S 0524 1747 0057 1141 0241,1.11; 1453,1.52 0815,0.61; 2149,0.41

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Tweed council’ general manager Mike Rayner is set to rule the roost for a further two years following a secretive decision in July to extend his contract for a further two years when it expires next May. Because of a yet-to-be-explained omission, it passed without the normal headlines heralding the event. Council’s first GM and Mr Rayner’s predecessor, John Griffin, was famously dubbed the ‘Rolls Royce’ of general managers by colourful councillor Tom Hogan when he was appointed on a wage which exceeded the PM’s at the time. Mr Rayner’s salary under his new contract is also not to be sniffed at, coming in at an estimated $264,931.

self, said residents are frustrated by the department’s decision to remove planning powers of local councils to approve projects of state significance, including marinas, livestock plants, tourism developments and apartments and office blocks worth more than $100 million, with no right to appeal. The Total Environment Centre’s Jeff Smith says the department agreed to fund the report ‘Reconnecting the Community With the Planning System’, following rising disenchantment from councils and residents. He said public forums along the coast expressed ‘an extremely high degree of dissatisfaction with community consultation opportunities under Part 3A.’ Let’s hope Tweed MP Geoff Provest and his coalition counterparts stick to their promise to scrap that part of the law which takes vital planning issues out of the locals’ hands, and supports a ban on developer party donations.

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Mr Rayner was appointed in May 2006, having served as acting general manager since November 2005 following Dr Griffin’s sudden departure. In comparison with neighbouring councils, Mr Rayner comes out the clear leader of the executive pack. His counterpart in Lismore took home $229,265 in 2008/09, even though the shire is in the same state administrative band as Tweed, but has a population about half the size (around 36,000). Similarly, Byron Shire’s general manager earned $168,677. That shire has a population of just 29,000. Neighbouring Kyogle’s general manager comes out at the bottom of the rich list, with a salary package of $154,606. However, there is no beating that of the Gold Coast City Council’s Dale Dickson, who commands a salary of $415,000. Q Q Q Q

Nimbin residents recently protested at the over-use of police drug-sniffer dogs in the colourful village which they say is driving tourists and business off. Backburner is not surprised, given the local area commander’s vow to give the hippy village, a huge magnet for international and national tourists, a newer, cleaner image makeover when he took charge some years ago.

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This painting by Beaudesert-based professional botanical artist Janet Hauser of an ancient Antarctic beech, a species which still survives along the Tweed caldera’s rim, is one of her two entries in the second annual Caldera Artfest for which judging takes place tomorrow, Friday, October 1. The event for sculptors, painters, photographers and artists promotes the region’s biodiversity values and unique landscapes. The exhibition will be held at the Murwillumbah Civic Centre from tomorrow till Monday, October 4 and finalists will be exhibited at the Northern Rivers Community Gallery, Ballina, and be in the running for $8,000 in prize money.

The federal police were recently given approval for a 24-kennel police dog-training complex at an industrial estate near Murwillumbah, not too far up the road from Nimbin.

tually just mayor Brown pushing his own agenda and getting way too much media coverage? Add that to the lukewarm 4:3 supporting vote for the rally by Tweed Shire Council on Friday Q Q Q Q and it looks as though almost A resident living on one of the no one in the Kyogle/Tweed will stages of the controversial world miss the rally if it goes.’ rally last year has written to the Q Q Q Q organisers of the rally overseas It will come as no surprise to and in Oz to let them know Ky- locals that communities across ogle mayor and avid rally sup- NSW are so disillusioned with porter Ross Brown was ‘uncer- the planning system that they emoniously dumped’ as mayor don’t think it’s even worthwhile this week. The local asked them, becoming involved. A study, ‘Is it possible that the “battle” to ironically commissioned by the retain the rally in Kyogle was ac- NSW Planning Department it-

Tweed lonely hearts take note, Backburner hears that the Stokers Siding monthly ‘Fifteen Minutes of Fame’ event is the place to meet other singles. And you thought everyone was doing it online these days. The event showcases local music, with the next show on tomorrow, Friday (October 1) at Stokers Siding Hall from 7pm. The night’s entertainment includes soliloquies and poetry by Albi Hempel, as well as original song performances by Nick Wheeler, Aidon Aakelas and Rob Fitches. Q Q Q Q

Last week’s potentially toxic chlorine gas leak from council’s new state-of-the-art $76 million Bray Park water treatment plant which forced the evacuation of residents sparked a few wry comments from readers who noticed the emergency came soon after council won two major awards from the peak professional body for engineers in Australia. Must’ve had some nitrous oxide (laughing gas) in there as well.

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CONTRACT CLEANER Paul says: I’ve been a member of BNI for 3 years. BNI has helped my business grow, and can help your business. However we do not have a contract cleaner in our group. If we did, we would be referring business to you! So if you are a contract cleaner in the Tweed, Tweed Coast, Coolangatta region then I’d love you to call Belinda Dinsey from our membership committee on 0488 590 117. She will arrange an obligation-free visit to our meetings so that you can see how we do business ... for you.

24 September 30, 2010 The Tweed Shire Echo

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