Tweed Echo – Issue 3.17 – 23/12/2010

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The Annual Reading of the Credits The Echo was produced by the following people this year (apologies for omissions): Jane Boyle, Ziggi Browning, Penny Bagshaw, Anara Carroll, Angela Cornell, Kim Cousins, Jeff Dawson, Jodie Dicostanzo, Janice Dutton, Luis Feliu, Felicity Gaze, Paul Goeldner, Alison Harman, Simon Haslam, Gordon Haynes, Michael Hidden, Eve Jeffery, Tasman Lindsay, Wendy Lovejoy, Emma Keenan, Kate McIntosh, Tania Phillips, Brefney Ruhl, Ken Sapwell, Dave Solano, Peta Stenhouse, Mel Tongmar.

Cabarita holiday park plans on display

Controversial plans for a holiday park and residential development at Cabarita South are on display at Tweed Council civic centres at Tweed Heads and Murwillumbah and librarThe next edition will be out on January 13. ies at Tweed Heads, Kingscliff A happy holiday season to everyone! and Murwillumbah. Our Babylon cover is entitled ‘Tweed Shire Council allows completion of The Rise. Citizens lament’. The Tweed Coast HoliIllustration by Stephen Axelsen, channelling Gustave DorĂŠ (see above). day Park Reserve Trust

(TCHPRT), in conjunction with NSW Land and Property Management Authority (LPMA), has released a precinct plan for public exhibition. Comment on the plan closes on February 28. LPMA Crown Lands division general manager Graham Harding said the precinct plan

was not the final development plan, with trust chairman and Tweed mayor Kevin Skinner saying planning was in the early stages. Comments can be submitted at www.lpma.nsw.gov.au or to: Cabarita South Community Consultation, PO Box 1059, Tweed Heads NSW 2485.

A Thank You, an announcement, and good wishes for the future in our beautiful region from the Northern Rivers Guardians Northern Rivers Guardians (NRG), formerly known as No Rally Group, oers our heartfelt thanks to everyone in the community who supported our campaign for a rally free valley in 2009-10, and the current Save Byrrill Creek campaign. These causes have drawn together a diverse group of people who are committed to preserving the environmental and community values of the Northern Rivers region. NRG is pleased to announce our oďŹƒcial change of name to Northern Rivers Guardians. We will continue to work together with the community to support appropriate and sustainable development, community involvement in local decisions, and a safe and peaceful life for people and wildlife. Current projects: We’ve just had our second big win, with the NSW State Government stepping in to prevent the internationally signiďŹ cant Byrrill Creek from being dammed. We’re now working to protect this wildlife corridor permanently, support community involvement in planning decisions, and ensure that developments like Kings Forest and Cobaki are as sustainable as possible.

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Cabarita surf rescue a brothers’ act Kate McIntosh

 A surf rescue at Cabarita Beach turned into a family act last week after two brothers came to the aid of two swimmers in trouble. Brett and Troy Draman were instrumental in the double rescue at their home beach last Wednesday. The pair, who are volunteer lifeguards at Cabarita Beach Surf Lifesaving Club, were both on duty when a mother and daughter got in trouble after being caught in a strong rip in rough swells 400 metres north of the clubhouse. Brett, 18, paddled out about 200 metres on a rescue board to reach the younger of the women, while 17-year-old Troy was a crewman on the rescue boat that eventually brought the woman ashore. A surfer in the area, mean-

Cabarita brothers Brett and Troy Draman helped rescue a woman caught in strong currents. Photo Jeff Dawson

while, helped bring the woman’s mother to safety. Brett first became aware of the incident after seeing an elder member sprinting along the beach. He immediately grabbed a rescue board and headed out to assist the woman, staying with her until the rescue team

arrived on the scene. It’s not the first time Brett, a Tweed Shire Council lifeguard based at Pottsville, has been called upon to use his training. Earlier this year, he came to the aid of a kite surfer, who got in trouble in rough seas on the beach at Salt after losing his board.

Brett, who joined the Nippers when he was nine years old, has been a volunteer lifeguard since he was 14. Younger brothers Hayden, 15, and Nathan, 14, have followed in his footsteps and are also volunteer lifeguards for the Cabarita club. Club president Patrick Raftery said the quick response time of members on the day helped avert a tragedy. He said the club’s newly constructed deck had provided an important vantage point in which to assess the situation. ‘If we had not been able to see along the beach valuable time may have been lost with a terrible result for the swimmers in trouble.’ The club recently opened the deck following a lengthy battle with Tweed Shire Council over car parking levies.

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Anti-dam activists celebrate government ban Luis Feliu

Anti-dam protesters are quietly confident the NSW government’s ban on the controversial Byrrill Creek dam will hold, despite Tweed mayor Kevin Skinner declaring it was not yet dead in the water. NSW Water Minister Phillip Costa has upheld a prohibition on a dam at Byrrill Creek in the state’s new water sharing plan for the Tweed, ending weeks of speculation on whether the dam would be allowed. Mayor Skinner, who used his casting vote twice to push through the dam option, told The Echo yesterday that council officers were weighing up the implications of the report and had requested further information from the state. He said he didn’t expect the issue to be ready for the next council meeting on January 18 and that ‘hopefully something can still be achieved’. Council’s natural resources director David Oxenham said this week council was trying to ‘understand the plan in its entirety as well as the implica-

tions for future water sources including the proposed Byrrill Creek Dam’. But Save Byrrill Creek campaign spokeswoman Joanna Gardner said any move to push on with the dam would be ‘political suicide’ given the government’s stand on the issue. The anti-dam group last Saturday had planned to launch the next stage of their campaign and a new website (savebyrrillcreek.com) when they heard the news and celebrated the decision.

‘Massive outcry’ against dam decision Ms Gardner, who received a personal letter from Mr Costa announcing the ban, thanked the water minister for heeding the ‘massive outcry from the community’ against the dam decision. Ms Gardner was also grateful to the more than 7,000 people who signed petitions presented to parliament and council. In his letter, Mr Costa said the decision was based on ‘the high environmental and world

heritage values of the Byrrill Creek area, and the availability of other water supply options for Tweed Shire’. Ms Gardner said she felt ‘a great sense of relief ’ with the decision. Greens Cr Katie Milne also thanked the minister for recognising the ‘irreplaceable’ environmental values of Byrrill Creek and the ‘logic of the less damaging option’. Cr Milne said the community had also asked the minister to review council’s water conservation strategy as a matter of urgency due to massive new developments soon underway in the Tweed. ‘Council’s reports show that implementing dual reticulation (ie. for gardens and toilets only) at Cobaki and Kings Forest would negate the need for further damming in this planning horizon,’ she said. She said ‘a truckload of DAs for the first three stages of Cobaki (approx. 1,000 lots) have arrived at Council following the approval of the Cobaki concept plan earlier this month. ‘There is a big question

mark over whether council’s requested 5,000 litre rainwater tanks have even been included,’ she said. NSW Water Commissioner David Harriss said the gazettal of the Tweed River Area Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources and three other coastal water plans would ‘contribute to healthy, diverse and productive water sources’. The plans outline how water will be shared between users and the environment over the next ten years. ‘The plans will provide a secure and sustainable water supply for all users and improve the health of our riverine and groundwater dependent ecosystems by addressing current needs, future requirements and setting aside environmental water,’ Mr Harriss said. The Tweed River plan applies to all the unregulated rivers and creeks within the Tweed, Cudgen, Cudgera and Mooball catchments, as well as to alluvial groundwater. Copies of the water sharing plans can be obtained from www.water.nsw.gov.au.

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Ten-year vision for shire adopted Ken Sapwell

Tweed Shire Council has adopted a strategic community plan which staff say will create a 10-year vision for the fastgrowing shire. The plan, drawn-up following a wide-ranging consultation process which included an online forum, telephone surveys and information sessions, will provide a new planning framework for the future. Corporate services chief Troy Green says the state government initiative tries to incorporate residents’ aspirations and priorities for the shire and

encourages councils and the public to work closer together. ‘Sustainable development, public transport, safe and healthy communities and protecting the viability of agriculture were among the key issues that emerged regularly during the process,’ he said in a report to the council. But Greens Party councillor Katie Milne criticised the report, saying it played down

the fact that the community overwhelmingly made preservation of the environment and sustainable development their top priorities. ‘There are too many words devoted to the process the council went through and too few dealing with the real issues and how it proposes to achieve the goals which the community want,’ said Cr Milne, who also questioned why part of the

report was confidential. She later won narrow support for a mechanism to address some of residents’ major concerns, including a possible population cap, development of more sustainable industries and better protection and recognition of the shire’s iconic landscape. The initiative was opposed by Crs Dot Holdom, Warren Polglase and Phil Youngblutt.

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Tweed Shire’s peak environmental group has been warned to stay out of politics if it wants to keep a $3,000 council grant to help fund its annual World Environment Day festival. Members of the Caldera Environment Centre were summoned to a closed-door meeting of councillors for a please-explain after Cr Dot Holdom initiated a funding freeze amid claims the centre had not invited councillors to last year’s festival. Long-serving co-ordinator Paul Hopkins says it was soon apparent that Cr Holdom was also concerned about an email issued by a new community lobby group called Community Voice which was not linked to the centre. The email, containing advice on strategies to boost the chances of independent candidates, had appeared briefly on the centre’s website as part of an ‘information exchange’ but had since been taken down. ‘We are not engaged in covert or overt political activities and we’ve assured councillors of this,’ Mr Hopkins said this week. ‘Our mission statement is purely pro-environment and we act as a forum for environmental issues. We have apologised for any upset and will make sure that councillors receive a formal invitation to the next festival in June.’ But Mr Hopkins’s assur-

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ances failed to soothe mayor Kevin Skinner, who angrily accused the centre of meddling in politics when a report on the meeting was tabled at last week’s council meeting. ‘I believe it’s a politically biased group from things I’ve seen so far and I have to be certain it has no political motivation before I support them,’ said Cr Skinner, whose pro-Byrrill Creek dam view is at odds with the centre’s no-dam stance. Greens Party councillor Katie Milne and Liberal Party

councillor Joan van Lieshout criticised the secrecy surrounding how the issue was dealt with, saying it should occur in a more open forum to provide some transparency. ‘If you have criticisms of a group they should be made known and put out in the open,’ Cr Milne said, adding that she ‘had a problem’ with the report about the meeting’s outcome by council boss Mike Rayner. She said the meeting was ‘a huge precedent’ and that coun-

cil’s demands that the centre stay politically neutral was hypocritical considering the council was actively involved in next year’s state election (see sidebar, left). In his report Mr Rayner said, ‘There was mutual agreement at the workshop that the festival was a beneficial and successful event that was supported by the community.’ ‘There was also agreement that if council was to continue funding the festival, then the organisers needed to ensure‌ it was politically neutral and not used as an opportunity by some groups to campaign against council, other government bodies or political organisations.’ Cr Holdom, who initially called on the centre to be excluded from 11 organisations sharing  in festival grants totalling $57,500 until members fronted them ‘to sort out a few things’, came under fire in Parliament last month over allegations she made politically motivated complaints against others. The Kingscliff-based councillor sparked loud murmuring in the public gallery when she wound up the debate by declaring: ‘Bugger politics – I’m here for the people.’ Under changes to the media policy initiated by the current council, councillors are forbidden to disclose any information relating to the meeting, including details of allegations made by any of the councillors.

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The award presentation for the 10th Border Art Prize at the Tweed River Art Gallery earlier this month drew a large crowd of around 450 keen artists, art lovers, friends and supporters with a Tweed artist taking second prize in the popular competition. Byron Shire artist Emma Gale won first prize of $3000 with her painting titled ‘Redfaced panda’. Judge, Sydney artist James Powditch, said he was ‘drawn in’ by the painting’s ‘spontaneity and its economy of brushstrokes’.. Tweed artist Suzanne Healy won seocnd prize of $1500 with her collage titled ‘Summer holiday – let’s boogie’

with third prize of $500 won by Meredith Crowe, also from Byron Shire, with her painting ‘Tyagarah Turf Farm after rain’. The Border Art Prize, open to artists from northern NSW and southeast Queensland, attracts a huge display of diverse artwork by professional, amateur and emerging artists, and for many people it is the first time their artwork has been shown publicly. Tweed artist, life-drawing teacher, gallery supporter and arts patron Shirley Kennedy each year offers encouragement awards to the total value of $1,500 which are announced during the Border Art Prize.

The main (two) $500 encouragement prizes were awarded to Gold Coast and Lismore artists with five other $100 awards given to Tweed and regional artists. During its first weekend, almost 1,000 people had viewed the exhibition. The Border Art Prize is on show at the gallery until Sunday, January 23. Also on exhibition till then is Sewing Circle: Belinda Smith and Out of the Box: work by 26 New Zealand printmakers. The gallery will be closed to the public on Christmas Day and every Monday and Tuesday. For further info visit www. tweed.nsw.gov.au/tweedart.

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bad week in a tough year, gloated Dennis Shanahan in the Volume 3 #17 December 23, 2010 Weekend Australian, promising that things can only get worse for Julia Gillard and her government. Tweed MP Geoff Provest made a good point recently in response And indeed they may: there to the failure of a NSW Police Force bid to rezone a 1.5-hectare is still a lot of unfinished busiblock of land at Kingscliff’s prime Cudgen plateau for an emerness, and quite a bit yet to be gency services centre, describing the police plan as akin to ‘tearing started. Labor is once again beup notes and flushing them down the toilet’. hind in the polls, more trouble The state government declared the site at Cudgen, which the is looming with the miners, the police chose for the $4.5 million station, was protected farmland, irrigators, and the state govand that’s where the issue should rest. ernments, and of course the Mr Provest said the decision meant that the police had spent politics of what should be the $200,000 pursuing a failed development application, further delay- side issue of boat people keep ing a new police station which had been promised four years ago. getting worse. The parcel of land owned by the Kingsliff Land Company has a And even when the govchequered history with proposals to break down the agricultural ernment manages to produce zoning there for housing and other development, moves which something positive it gets little have been strongly resisted by the state government, a fact of credit: the best the critics can which the police minister and others should have been fully aware. find to say about Wayne Swan’s The planning department has a long memory of this and other banking reforms is that they blocks of much fought-over land on the rich Cudgen farming plaare better than nothing, but not teau with various developers, churches and local politicians with much. But: Labor is still in govvested interests all vying to break down the prime-land zoning. ernment, and despite the best Yet somehow this history, and the fact the 40-hectare threshhold efforts of The Australian seems subdivison rule is still in place, was conveniently forgotten in this likely to remain so. Which expensive quest to bypass council and head straight to the state leaves our national daily all the government for approval. Blind Freddie could have seen it was a more time and space to devote lost cause and a complete waste of taxpayers’ money. to the real issue: itself. The weekend paper used Understanding conflict of interest more than five broadsheet pagHastings Point residents have every right to complain about Cr Phil es to give its readers the mesYoungblutt refusing to step aside on the vote over the village’s loc- sage: We’re always right and ality plan, passed this month but with a rescission lodged by him everyone else (but especially and two others. His brother is employed and paid by a developer the Fairfax press) is always who is pushing for three storeys in the village, yet despite having wrong – about everything, indeclared an earlier perceived non-pecuniary interest over issues cluding but not only Wikileaks, related to the developer, he feels he can still vote on the village Kevin Rudd, and of course cliplan, which limits heights to two storeys. mate change. Cr Youngblutt says he now has no ‘direct’ pecuniary interest Ah yes, climate change. in the latest issue, the locality plan. This is utter balderdash; the Editor-in-chief Chris Mitchell fact the developer pays his brother is a huge conflict in anything insists that he really believes related to that developer’s interest in Hastings Point and he should in it, but given that his paper forthwith step aside from any further vote on the issue. has once again become a haven for sceptics, deniers and downright nutters, his affirmaTweed Shire Echo tion has all the conviction of Publisher David Lovejoy Editor Luis Feliu Advertising Manager Angela Cornell Galileo’s enforced admission Accounts Manager Simon Haslam that the earth is the unmoving Production Manager Ziggi Browning centre of creation. © 2010 Echo Publications Pty Ltd PO Box 545, Murwillumbah 2484 But at least Mitchell is cerPhone 02 6672 2280 tain about that: he follows email: editor@tweedecho.com.au the doctrine of the medieval Printer: Horton Media Australia Ltd

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nd that’s quite enough politics for 2010. On to something more cheerful. If the Australian cricket team were run on the same lines as the Australian Labor Party, Ricky Ponting would never

on the burning deck/ Whence all but he had fled/ And a staggering piece of insight/ Kept running around in his head./ When the flame of truth hits the ship of state/ And the tides of time are turning/ They tend to bucket the captain/ But the ship is what is burning.’ And the reason test cricket is in danger of smouldering away altogether is a simple one: greed. The greed of the

Nowadays there is little real money in test cricket: like chess, it is too complex, too studied and above all too long. by Mungo MacCallum have led it into the Perth Test. After Adelaide, the judgement of the pollsters, the focus groups and the factional bosses was clear: the team had lost its way and the only solution was a change of leadership. No matter that no one really wanted the job, or was better qualified than Ponting to take it: a fresh face was the obvious and only answer. Well, no; not only would the switch have been unsettling and divisive, but there is no reason to believe that it would have made things any better. Like Kevin Rudd, Ponting has his weaknesses; as Rudd was no Gough Whitlam or Bob Hawke, Ponting is no Richie Benaud or Ian Chappell. But he doesn’t have a bad record, and no matter what the mass media commentariat likes to think, he is generally well regarded by the public. The problem is not the leader, but the whole institution of cricket. As the great Bruce Petty put it in a memorable cartoon about the Liberal Party many years ago: ‘The boy stood

administrators, the television networks and, let us not forget, the players themselves. Nowadays there is little real money in test cricket: like chess, it is too complex, too studied and above all too long. For a while a simpler substitute was found in the one day, fifty over, pyjama version – draughts, perhaps. And now we have gone all the way down to snakes and ladders: the mindless hit and giggle of 20/20. It’s easy, over before dinner and immensely profitable; what’s not to like? Well, all of the above. The skills needed for test cricket are rapidly being lost, players are being worn out both physically and mentally and the great tradition of over a century trashed in the name of a quick buck. But there is a solution which could, if anyone had the courage to implement it, solve the problem: simply quarantine the various versions of the game. Test players should not be allowed to play 20/20 until they are ready to retire from the real

thing. To some extent that is already happening, and it should not be beyond the wit of the gin-soaked old farts (as Ian Botham once described them) who run the sport to formalise the arrangement. It would not mean that test players would miss out on the 20/20 pot of gold; they could sign contracts in advance, auctioning off the years when tests become simply too strenuous. But in the meantime they would have to concentrate on developing the true skills of the game; the ability to build an innings or bowl in long spells and to temper attack and defence. All the best Australian teams have been built around this formula, particularly as it applies to the bowling attack; the most effective quicks have been noted for their endurance as well as their mastery of tactics and technique. But even more so it applies to the spinners. Australia has seldom fielded a truly great team that did not include a classical wrist spinner. But these days the selectors run through the tweakers like drowning men grasping at straws when they should be looking to find and groom another Clarrie Grimmett, Bill O’Reilly, Richie Benaud or Shane Warne. And there is at least one credible candidate: Steve Smith, at present squandering his talents on 50/50 and 20/20. He would be the ideal test case for the quarantining program and it should be tried forthwith. At present Australian cricket is looking a bit like the New South Wales state government. And compliments of the season to everyone, including all those mentioned in this and previous columns. Once again: Bah, humbug.

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Hastings Point: so much more to life than money Q Thank you to all the council-

lors who voted in favour of the Tweed Shire town planners, Hastos residents and supporters in regards to locality plans for Hastings Point at Tuesday’s council meeting. The outcome of that is that four councillors voted for the benefit of all, and the future, and the other three voted on the side of developers who are just looking after themselves. Steven Hing

Hastings Point Q The Hastings Point Progress

Association and broader community would like to thank most sincerely the four councillors who upheld the Hastings Point DCP last week. As people across the Tweed are aware, Hastings Point has been under threat from a range of sources over many years and it has taken an immense effort by the community, including massive personal time, energy and financial sacrifice by local residents over more than 12 years, supported by other residents from across the Tweed, to achieve this outcome. Special thanks particularly go to council planning staff

of a community’s commitment, cooperation and persistence. It is an example of progressive policy making, community consultation and environmental conscience. Four enlightened councillors voted in favour of the plan; three anti-environment councillors voted against it, and, unbelievably, mayor Skinner took it one step further and requested a rescission motion. Neither the planet nor ratepayers can tolerate the expense and stress caused by such ignorant and destructive decision making. Time and Julie Boyd patience are running out. Hastings Point Karen Stuart Hastings Point Q Hastings Point is a unique, beautiful seaside village of Q Like Mr Polglase, who said great environmental signifi- he would ‘curb development’ cance. After a long, passion- to get his councillor gig, ate battle, a protective locality mayor Skinner said he would plan was finally passed at the protect the environment when December council meeting. taking office as mayor. Most The community, consult- knew both would not change ants, planners and supportive although they dreamed they councillors are to be congratu- might. lated for such a deeply conSkinner’s record now speaks sidered, responsible and intel- for itself. Skinner has failed at every calling – and done what ligent result. It is an outstanding example his campaign backers have

who not only listened carefully to everyone during community consultation sessions, but were prepared to pay attention to the detail which has eluded community success against bureaucratic dysfunction in the past. This decision will give heart to those who are prepared to work fulltime, for no pay, to support their communities. We can only say thank you sincerely to those who value the health of community over individual greed. Those who don’t, need to realise there is so much more to life than money.

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expected of him, or rather instructed him. Three hits and you’re out Skinner. You went against Tweed council planners to choose the worst option at Pottsville Industrial Estate and rewarded a developer after he cleared land illegally. You went against Tweed council planners for the worst option for water supply with the big dam at the community’s expense. You went against the Tweed council planners to vote against the Hastings Point community and its beautiful environment – even filing a

rescission motion with your two stooger mates. We love the intelligence, Kev. Some of mayor Skinner’s comments: ‘A man’s house is his castle and he should be able to build what he wants.’ ‘Let’s choose the big dam, because if the state government is going to knock it back, it may as well be the big one.’ Or: ‘I’m not supporting World Environment Day and the volunteer work of the Caldera Environment Centre because it is a political group.’ Ironically stated after Kev did his big grandstanding blurb

about the work of TEDC – a National Party group of old-timers completely out of touch. Quite frankly, Kev, you are a laughing stock. Most people would be in stitches if the fallout from your decisions wasn’t so serious. Time to get less angry, start thinking and pull your head out of the proverbial or should we say your backers’ proverbials. Good Riddance, Kev – your days are numbered! Jason King

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Letters Rebirth of the gods Every Christmas I walk through the shopping centres hearing Christmas carols relating to how Jesus was born on Christmas Day. Also children are being taught the same line in schools. However, his actual birth date is not known. Most scholars generally assume the year of his birth to be between 6 and 4 BC/BCE. The Bible does not specify a date or month. In 45 BCE December 25 was established in the Julian calendar as the winter solstice of Europe. The event is seen as the reversal of the Sun’s ebbing presence in the sky or the time of year that the duration of daylight hours begins to increase in the northern hemisphere. This was interpreted by

ancient cultures as being the time of the birth or rebirth of sun gods. The astronomical event controlled the mating of animals, sowing of crops and metering of winter reserves between harvests. The ancient Romans celebrated the birth of Mithras (the undefeated sun god) on December 25. With the growing popularity of Christianity during the latter years of the Roman Empire, Jesus of Nazareth, the Christian Deity God incarnate, was given recognition previously given to Mithras. Thus began the tradition that Jesus was born on December 25. Roman influence was widespread across Europe, and so the Christ tradition expanded.

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principles of preserving the environmental beauty of the region. This caravan park will be bigger than the town of Uki! Don’t allow our children’s love of nature and care for the dunes to be crushed by the heartless actions of corporate decision makers. I strongly object to the placement of the proposed caravan park at Cabarita Beach. Faye Nash

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Pottsville dio reveal the belief that people outside the Tweed Shire do not Up the garden path have the right to sign a petition Four hundred students over against the proposed Byrrill the past three years have been Creek dam. led up the proverbial garden Pro Byrrill Creek dam counpath straight to the proposed cillors are reminded under caravan park in Cabarita Tweed Shire Council charter South. they are to properly manage, Teachers, parents and Dune- protect and conserve the envicare volunteers have worked ronment in a manner consistent in good faith and under the with the principles of ecologiauspices of the Tweed Shire cally sustainable development. Council to educate the stuThe fact is these councillors dents of Bogangar Primary chose to ignore all advice and School about the importance have chosen this dam option of coastal dunes and involve which is adjacent to national/ them in the regeneration of the world heritage areas. To date there are a total of South Banksia forest – particularly adjacent to their school on 67 threatened species recorded, ‘Goanna Track.’ 24 of which come under the To destroy the trees they Commonwealth EPBC Act. This is the list prior to a forhave planted to create a cement city of over 200 caravan sites mal full catchment EIS so the not only belittles the contri- list will grow further. This is far bution they have made to the from the lone frog some would environment but contradicts have you believe. There are sigthe Tweed Shire Council’s nificant registered cultural sites

Polgase’s  pressure on the iBar to comply with regulations, which eventuated in its closure. It is commonly known that where there is prostitution, legal or illegal, organised crime is close by, they are hand in glove. Take the Netherlands for example: they promoted legal prostitution as a women’s liberation victory, yet as time passes they have great concern over international crime organisations that have infiltrated the prostitution and drug trade, increased trafficking of women, and dismay over the Netherlands being a sex tourist and drug destination. Prostitution in the 21st century has become a multibillion dollar global industry that preys on girls and young women, who are often not able to make informed decisions. Is this the industry we want to develop in the Tweed Shire? We as residents and our councillors must continue to work together to preserve the integrity and family values of L Smith our beautiful Tweed Shire. Tweed Heads Mikah Fausch Bogangar

that have yet to be determined of regional, state and national significance. Our world heritage areas come under Article 11 of the World Heritage Convention and are matters of national environmental significance. This dam site is the vital link to the national/world heritage areas. Council does not own these areas and in fact all citizens of our nation and the world have the right to sign such a petition against this proposed dam which will have a significant impact on protected species and a national/world heritage area. We do not have the right to wipe species and values off this planet. Councillors are reminded Traveston dam made it on to the national/world stage, including the scientific world. This dam certainly should not be about providing amenity/windfalls for developers/ vested interests. This is particularly so when there are far more viable cost effective options.

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Chinderah waterway still under threat Q After 16 months of fighting to get another access option that wouldn’t destroy the natural waterway or remove all the trees at Ozone Street, Chinderah, finally there was a new access DA put in by the developers and it was not going to destroy the waterway or the trees. Instead of traffic going all the way through Chinderah village it was going to be right next to blocks of land that needed the access. This was the common sense route that should have been the only option from

the start. But now the people who didn’t want to know before and were quite ok for all that traffic to go all the way through Chinderah and didn’t want to help us in our fight suddenly find that the new access is near them and have jumped up and down saying ‘how dangerous it would be and how loud the traffic would be.’ Dot Holdom even said she could hear the traffic from her home in Kingscliff. Funny, this is the same traffic as on the first DA but that would have been more noisy

and dangerous because it would have been at speed and not slowing down to turn on to the new access road. But it has all been deferred for now. No one cared that the same noisy, dangerous traffic was going to go right through Chinderah before and destroy an acid sulfate risk waterway entering the Tweed River, remove all the trees, even the ‘protected’ ones, and put a road for all this noisy dangerous traffic right behind, and I mean a couple of metres away

from the caravan homes, 34 of them, bordering this road, and six of the seven councillors approved it. Now that it’s going to affect only five caravans on another park they decide it’s too dangerous and it’s deferred. Seems like a case of ‘Not In My Backyard’ from our new protesters! On another note it was a great decision for Hastings Point; shame on the three councillors who voted against it.

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cost shifting and buck passing. With Greens representation maybe there is a chance that one doesn’t have to be at the extreme end of the poverty scale to be considered poor enough to be eligible for such basic health needs as a pair of spectacles.

ing local businesses. Although not residents of the park, they continue to pay rent 365 days a year and are a source of guaranteed income for the council. LTCs are more aware of the council’s KBHP redevelopment plans than many of the travelling public and possibly the general public. They are the last line of defence, trying to highlight the planned appalling erosion of an Australian icon, the beachside caravan park. The council intends to remove all LTCs thereby removing any dissent regarding their redevelopment plans. The council says it is driven by ‘economic imperatives’ but slashing the amount of accommodation for the travelling/ holidaying public by over 60 per cent does not make economic sense and the local businesses will not thank them. So what exactly is their agenda?

gently required. We won’t get another shot at this. Kristina kills koalas – please, help us stop her. 7,000 signatures in support of the koalas at Kings Forest would go a long way to solving the water situation as well. Who do you think the water is required for? Got it in one. The koalas don’t drink much.

optical health care. Included in the services available to me were government-funded spectacles. When I went for my regular two yearly eye test a week ago, I was told I needed stronger reading and long distance glasses but that I do not quality for government-funded spectacles in NSW because I have too much money in the bank! It seems that anything above $500 per person renders one to be above the poverty line, and that a pair of $225 ‘budget’ spectacles is affordable to a low income earner. With the NSW state election fast approaching, I am seriously considering my voting options. The only political party which seems to have a policy and vision for a universal public health care system for all Australians is The Greens. They believe that governments are responsible for ensuring that all people have access to the resources and opportunities essential for good health, and that the interests of patients must be placed ahead of disputes over federal, state and local government responsibilities. If elected they would reform the current state/federal funding model which leads to

Lyn Dickinson

Pottsville

Long Term Casual Tweed Council’s proposed redevelopment of Kingscliff Beach Holiday Park (KBHP), a public van park located on Crown land on Kingscliff ’s foreshore, will slash the available caravanning and camping sites from 178 to 30. Do casual tourists visiting Kingscliff realise this? They will be forced to park on roadsides when they discover the complete lack of facilities for them in Kingscliff, or perhaps they’ll just keep driving until they find somewhere more hospitable. Of the 178 sites, 77 are Long Term Casual (LTC) vans owned by people who spend all their holidays plus many weekends in Kingscliff. This group creates an economic infusion by using and supporting local businesses and also encouraging friends and family to holiday in the area, further benefit-

Jennifer White

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Worth saving Could I please urge everybody who helped stop Byrrill Creek dam and the rally to turn their energies urgently to the koala situation on the Tweed. Our coastal koalas are worth trying to save also. Please everybody, help is ur-

Lynda Mack

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Lisa Townsend

Murwillumbah

Value of letters I would like to comment on many things but they can wait till next year. At this time, I’ll keep it to a subject that we should all be thankful for and that is the existence of The Echo itself. On behalf of all letter writers I’d like to say thank you for printing the number of letters to the editor that you do. I read them all. It is one very important way of knowing the opinions of many others. Whether we all agree or not is of minor importance compared to your paper’s policy of encouraging freedom of expression. I know that there are a lot of astute people out there. Merry Christmas to all. Alan Davis

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r e m Sum s y a d Holi THE OASIS FAMILY AQUATIC CENTRE TENPIN BOWLING The gallery carries functional and decorative pieces by resident potter Bob Connery, plus a wide range of other ceramics, glass, paintings, jewellery, cards and craft items from the very best local artists. Open 7 days 9:30am - 5pm

tel: 02 6677 9208 info@stokerspottery.com.au

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The Oasis Family Aquatic Centre offers a wide range of activities for the family during the school holidays. Six giant inatable pool features and our kids’ water play park provide safe fun for children of all ages. Free BBQs and manicured lawns complete the family picnic scenario while the well stocked kiosk has ample refreshments to whet any appetite. The pools themselves cater for leisure and serious swimmers alike, with lanes for lap swimmers and open areas available all day from 5.30am. QualiďŹ ed and registered swimming tuition is also available through Aqua Bubs and Waterdragons ‘Infants to Internationals’ swim program. Drop in for a swim, a play or just a great coffee. Club Banora Complex, Leisure Drive, Banora Point. Phone 07 5523 1781, www. waterdragons.com.au.

Get out of the rain or out of the sun – come Tenpin Bowling for summer fun! Glow-in-the-dark, cosmic bowling for people of all ages. Special lightweight bowling balls and bumper bowling for even the smallest of kids and that means fun for the whole family to enjoy! Friday and Saturday nights we have the lights out and prizes to give away. Book a lane now! Coolangatta-Tweed Tenpin’s new season of bowling leagues for both social and competitive bowlers will be starting soon. Bowling in a league is a fantastic way to meet new people, it’s a great way to exercise and you can enjoy the fun-ďŹ lled atmosphere in our friendly centre. We’re sure you’ll love what league bowling has to offer. Come in and see us and we’ll ďŹ nd a team for you. Drop by at 55 Wharf St, Tweed Heads, ph: 07 5536 1606.

CURRUMBIN WILDLIFE SANCTUARY

Tropical Fruit World provides a unique experience that indulges all the senses! Growing over 500 varieties of tropical fruits from around the world, visitors can discover rare exotic fruits such as the chocolate pudding fruit, champagne fruit or chewing gum tree. Of course, there are always summer favourites like mangos and lychees, too! Admission includes a guided tractor tour and fruit tasting show, as well as boat and train rides. Visit the fauna park to pet and feed farm animal friends as well as kangaroos and emus. The shopping is a tropical paradise of surprises too, and the Rainforest Cafe boasts delicious desserts and drinks, lunches and great coffee. Open daily from 10am until 4.30pm. Adults $37, children: $20, Family Pass (2A+2C): $85, (2A+3C): $99. Duranbah Road, Duranbah, phone 02 6677 7222, www.tropicalfruitworld.com.au.

includes amazing Australian wildlife encounters, Aboriginal performances, entry to Green Challenge Adventure Park and Wildlife Hospital precinct. Famous for its wild Lorikeet Feeding, where else can you see an amazing Free-ight Bird Show, feed Kangaroos, encounter one of Australia’s largest Saltwater Crocodiles, see Aboriginal didgeridoo and dance performances, have close encounters with deadly snakes plus much more – including the Green Challenge Adventure Park, an exhilarating 65 challenge tree-tops ropes course The new Currumbin Wildlife Hospital provides a free community service caring for more than 5,000 sick, injured and orphaned wildlife as well as vital conservation research. Discover us at 28 Tomewin St, Currumbin or visit www.cws.org.au.

TROPICAL FRUIT WORLD

Oasis Pools Family Aquatic Centre Club Banora Complex Leisure Drive Banora Point Phone 07 5523 1781 Incorporating our Registered Swim Education programs from ‘infants to internationals’ AQUA-BUBS Learn to swim centre – intensive swimming program during January – book NOW WATERDRAGONS swim squads All instructors Austswim or higher qualiďŹ ed

FAMILY FUN Inatable water features Huge kids play pool Manicured lawns Shaded areas BBQs Patrolled safe waterpark NYE by the pool with ďŹ reworks Web: www.waterdragons.com.au www.aquabubs.net Email: andrew@waterdragons.com.au

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SURF WORLD GOLD COAST Surf World Gold Coast is Queensland’s only museum dedicated to surďŹ ng heritage and beach culture. The exhibition includes an extensive collection of surfboards highlighting the evolution of design and technology from 1915 to today, amazing photography depicting early surf scenes, art work including surf movie posters and album covers, cinematography and other memorabilia. Learn about the history of Queensland surďŹ ng and beach culture and check out contemporary art works and the gallery of latest photos showcasing today’s surďŹ ng champions. Located on Tomewin St, Currumbin. Phone 07 5525 6380, or go to www. surfworldgoldcoast.com.

STOKERS SIDING POTTERY At Stokers Siding Pottery you’ll ďŹ nd three hidden treasures in one building. Stokers Siding Pottery has its great collection of functional and decorative pieces. Then there’s Vintage Soul with it’s offerings of crafts, curios, collectables, retrobilia, hand-made and art jewellery. Or if it’s quirky blog-shop type atmosphere you’re looking for the Studio Of Mae is the place for you with its unique fabric wall stickers, canvas printing gifts, and much more – www. lovemae.com.au. Love Mae is open 10am-4pm Monday to Saturday. Phone 02 6677 9208.

(WAREHOUSE) New shipment just arrived! Ottomans, traditional Jaipur yoga mats, Goa recycled timber beds, teak bench seats, coffee tables, tikka boxes, Kerala water pots, traditional children’s panahari desks, and lots more for great Christmas ideas or something special for you, laybys are welcome. Geudaun is a new and unique shopping experience. Open every day from 10am to 5pm, at 2/4 Brigantine St, Arts and Industrial Estate. Visit www.geudaun.com.

.@D9<I -C89 8:KFIP At the Timber Slab Factory we have been handcrafting breathtaking one-of-a-kind pieces for over 25 years, turning salvaged exotic and local timbers into exquisite furniture and home wares. Just out of Mullumbimby, next to the high school, with ample free parking, take the stress out of Christmas shopping. Wander through our gallery for a pleasurable shopping experience. There are lots of ideas for Christmas presents from stocking ďŹ llers to house ďŹ llers: ďŹ ne furniture, carvings, mirrors, sculptures, ceramics, Lutherie timbers – build a guitar in the New Year – and E x o t i c

of course, those beautiful timber slabs. Located near the high school on Jubilee Ave. Visit www. timberslabfactory.com. au, ph: 6684 3661.

1?8K #J E@D8C I<8D@E> Scott Alexander King is a teacher, public speaker, animal psychic and ‘Zoomancer’ – an individual that examines the habits and appearance of animals to help explain or reveal the future path of other people. Why not drop by Scott’s new shop, ‘Animal Dreaming’ – home of his bestselling books, oracle cards and CDs. Animal Dreaming stocks the ďŹ nest range of Madagascan

crystals, Lemurian crystals, plush toy animals, music, meditative CDs, books, oracle cards, original jewellery, original art by Sharon Mcleod and other leading inspirational artists, stationery and gifts. We also have a lovely workshop space that’s available for hourly or daily hire at very reasonable rates. Drop us a line to ďŹ nd out about Scott’s forthcoming workshops, retreats, seminars, courses, shamanic healings and readings. Ask, too, about his monthly Shamanic Circles – as well as Lucy Cavendish’s monthly ‘White Magic Circle’. Located at 109 Jonson St, Byron Bay. Phone 6680 9899 or visit our online shop at www. animaldreamingonline. com.

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Mendip Silks has introduced Australia’s ďŹ rst 100 per cent pure bamboo quilt, with the ďŹ lling and outer made from 100 per cent bamboo ďŹ bre. Bamboo ďŹ bre has natural antibacterial and anti-microbial properties. The world’s most environmentally sustainable plant is grown without using irrigation, fertilisers or pesticides, in unpolluted regions of China, producing 35 per cent more oxygen than an equivalent stand of trees. The quilts have been independently certiďŹ ed as being free of all harmful substances. Available in Byron Bay. Contact us at 03 9381 4487 or visit www. mendipsilks.com.au.

*I<J9PK<I@8E FFBJ?FG Located just over the bridge in Murwillumbah, the Presbyterian Church Bookshop stocks a range of Christian books, gifts, cards, music and videos on consignment from Koorong. Stock is rotated every four to six weeks and special orders are welcome. It is staffed by volunteers; proďŹ ts raised go towards funding the High Schools Scripture teacher in Murwillumbah. Between now and Christmas the shop will be open on Thursday evenings until 7.30. Browse their range of boxed Christmas cards, 2011 calendars and diaries, gift ideas, serious and not so serious books. 16 Wollumbin Street, Murwillumbah. Ph 6672 2226

FE¢K .<CC '8D8 Don’t Tell Mama in Bangalow stock a diverse range of eco-friendly clothing from casual to formal wear, including wedding suits. The wedding suits are

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particularly suitable for beach weddings or summer cocktails and are available in either a hemp/yak hair or hemp/cotton blend. Other luxurious and eco-friendly fashion is available in hemp, bamboo, raw silk, beechwood, organic cotton and summerweight merino wool. There’s also a great range of handbags and local hemp oil body products. Don’t forget a great range of gifts for kids or even a summer hammock for mum and dad. Main St Bangalow between the service station and the ďŹ re station, ph: 02 6687 2553.

-N<<K *8G@CCFE Sweet Papillon is the stockist for the latest hip resort wear label ‘One Season’ which offers the perfect holiday wardrobe. Sweet Papillon also carries Sydney label Venetia Elaine for feminine stylish clothing. And our own label featuring hand-embroidered pretty dresses and tops in brilliant bright colours. We also offer beautiful hand-crafted jewellery using semi-precious stones with precious metals. Open 7 days, located at 31a Fletcher Street, Byron Bay. Ph: 6685 7700 or visit www.sweetpapillon.com.au.

FC@E "<8E<P TREAT YOURSELF! The Colin Heaney showroom is a delight to the senses. “The most beautiful shop I have ever been in!� has been the feedback from many customers. A divine kaftan for a special lady, sexy swimwear for beach babes, a goblet for the King of the family, a silk scarf for aunties...Christmas shopping is magical in the Colin Heaney boutique. Festive season special offers on glass and clothing. Located at 1A/81 Centennial Circuit, Arts and Industry Estate, Byron Bay. Phone 02 6685 7796, www.colinheaney.com.

Christian books, cards and gifts Presbyterian Bookshop Murwillumbah Books, bibles, cards, music, movies and calendars. • Hours: Monday-Friday 9am-3pm Closing 24th December, re-opening 4th January, 2011

We stock books Special orders welcome

16 Wollumbin Street, Murwillumbah 02 6672 2226 A ministry of the Murwillumbah Presbyterian Church Services: 9am and 6.30pm Sunday

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Tattoo think ink

Innocent Ink

Microdermal Anchors, Piercing Removal. So come in and see the crew at Innocent Ink today! Find us at shop 5, 1 Machinery Drive, Tweed Heads South. Phone 07 5523 0055.

Our floor space has more than doubled! The new South Tweed It’s been announced across Heads studio is open Europe and the USA that seven days a week till our convention on the Gold late, showcasing some of Coast is ‘by far the best Australia’s best work! We tattoo event in the Southern are here to help create your Hemisphere’. thoughts and ideas into Once again, we’ve secured becoming your next Tattoo...a the most talented tattoo piece of body art work and artists from around the world the best thing is ...it’s all including Brandon Bond, yours! Nikko Hurtado, Nick Baxter Body Piercing available and more. These amazing WE’RE BACK! seven days a week. Walk-ins artists will also be hosting The 2010 Event was HUGE, accepted! their own tattoo seminars and and thanks to you, the Surf Scarification, Branding, ’n’ Ink Australia 2011 Tattoo workshops. Convention is set to be We’re also excited to announce that in 2011 we even bigger. are holding the nationwide Grand Finale of the Miss Pin-Up Australia Pageant, brought to you by Boogie Bop Dames! So come along Friday, Saturday and Sunday, January 21st-23rd 2011 to the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre. Visit www. tattoosurfnink. com for all the event details.

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Modern Primitive Tattoo Studio TATTOOS AND PIERCING Mention this article for a 10 per cent discount on your next tattoo! Buck: Owner/tattooist/ piercer for over 10 years. Mullumbimby-born, one of the Doyle family from Possum Shoot. Rick: Tattoo artist for 30+ years. Cody: Tattoo artist for 8+ years. 100 per cent guaranteed work. We are experts in all styles. There are thousands of designs to choose from, or bring in your own. We are PTAA Members and are NSW Council accredited and QLD Dept of Health accredited. We use hi-tech hospital grade sterilisation. Highly competitive prices – gift vouchers available! Open 7 days – 13 Bay Street, Tweed Heads, phone: 07 5599 3966.

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Nimbin Ink Thinking Ink? Think Nimbin Ink! With creative designs and one-of-a-kinds, including piercing. Come and talk to the Nimbin Ink crew about what you want and with all their artistic flair they’ll create your next tattoo. Located in Cullen Street Nimbin, phone 02 6689 0376.

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Mr Rental

NORTHERN RIVERS GARDEN & LAWN MAINTENANCE Does your house need a new look for spring? Old couch

For a free quote call today Competitively priced lawn mowing and maintenance Yard cleanup, tree planting, weed spraying Landscaping, regeneration inc fertilisation & soil improvements We will beat any quote guaranteed so call today!

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Install in the morning and swim in the afternoon Concrete plunge pools fully manufactured off site – deliver, fill, then swim Order now to be swimming this SUMMER!

saggy? Bed lumpy and bumpy? Dining table not big enough to fit you all? Or are you about to sell your house and need to fill it up for sale? Mr Rental Tweed has all your furniture needs taken care of from leather lounges to beds to dining suites and even outdoor furniture. Long and short term rentals are available and we can tailor a package to suit your needs. If it’s you that needs the makeover we can help with that also with our range of treadmills, exercise bikes, cross trainers and rowers. Don’t Buy! Just RENT! Mr Rental offers FREE 24 hour delivery and installation, easy payments, 24 hour service guarantee and flexible terms. Mr Rental also rents LCD TVs, fridges, washers, laptops and Apple iMac and Macbooks. Call the team at Mr Rental Tweed on 07 5524 1500 to arrange quick delivery to get fit and fitted out for spring. Visit 1B, 11-13 Greenway Drive, Tweed Heads South. Ph: 07 5524 1500 / 1800 880 778 or email us at tweed@mrrental. com.au.

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A caring environmentalist wants to take care of your backyard with friendly local rates. Spruce up your garden this Christmas holidays. I'll make your property look impressive for loved ones and friends with knowledge of local plant species and exotic harmful weeds, and many other skills necessary to improve or maintain your garden. Benefits of an attractive native garden and a clean lawn include the prevention of soil erosion, attracting native fauna, helping to ensure survival of native species, creating tranquillity and improving market value. Phone 02 6676 1970, 0422 580 871.

A concrete swimming pool that can be installed in just one day! Believe it or not, Australian Plunge pools have a product that can do just that. With backyards getting smaller, Australian Plunge Pools offer a compact, stylish and environmentally friendly product that will modernise a garden and create a distinctive design element that will connect the home with the entertaining areas at an unbeatable price. Alternatively the pools can be utilised indoors to maximise all year usage. If you require a pool for the children by day and a romantic spa by night, the pool can be custom designed to suit your needs with additional seating, spa jets, variable depth (up to 2.1m) and heating provision. So if your needs are small and you want to save time, money and space, call now to arrange a quote for your site. For further information contact 1300 989 042. www.australianplungepools.com.au

Storybook Designer Homes Storybook Homes is an Australia-wide business with over 2000 designs for high character homes. The Northern NSW franchise is owned and operated by Michael and Lorelle Kingsbury, recently returned to the Northern Rivers area after successfully establishing a Storybook Homes franchise in Tasmania. 'Storybook are true designer homes and we offer an individual design approach for our clients, with options in materials, style/feel, participation and of course budget. Our delightful gable style homes are designed to sit perfectly on level sites and to step majestically down the steepest slopes creating an aspect of connection with the land'. Whether modern or traditional, rural or coastal, studio or manor, we will provide a package matching your requirements in a home. For a free no obligation meeting to discover the options, please call us on 02 6674 8744.

Storybook Designer Homes Traditional, Contemporary, Classic

Storybook is a designer homes company dedicated to imaginative and innovative architecture. Whether modern or traditional, rural or coastal, studio or manor, we will provide a package matching your requirements in a home.

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Television Guide What a wasteland Christmas television viewing generally is. Among the better offerings are: 1. The Australian movie Hey Hey It’s Esther Bluberger (Prime, Friday Dec 24, 8.30pm), in which a young teenager learns to break free of conformity, as they do. 2. Kung Fu Panda Holiday (ABC1, Saturday Dec 25, 6pm) has not only kung fu and a panda but also a holiday. 3. Doctor Who’s A Christmas Carol (ABC1, Sunday Dec 26, 7.30pm) sets out to prove that Santa is science fiction, just as Charles Dickens was an interstellar traveller with a penchant for maudlin fiction. By this stage you will have eaten too much cake, and will long for a time machine.

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4.30 Shortland Street 5.00 Something 5.30 Talking Heads: Neil Balnaves In The Air 5.30 The Einstein Factor 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 Kids’ 6.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 The New Programs Inventors 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 6.00 The Best Of Mr Bean Movie: It’s A Wonderful Life (PG 1946) 7.00 Absolutely Fabulous US drama 2.15 River Cottage Gone Christmas Fishing! 3.00 Kids’ Programs 7.25 Ten Minute Tales

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6.00 Ten Early News 7.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Ten News 10.00 The Circle 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Infomercial 4.00 Huey’s Kitchen 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Seven Morning News 12.00 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.30 Deal Or No Deal

6.00 Kids Time 8.30 Sons & Daughters 9.00 Home & Away 9.30 Shortland St 10.00 Coronation St 10.30 Emmerdale 11.00 Hollyoaks 12.00 All My Children 1.00 Kitchen Time 2.30 Movie: A Grandpa For Christmas (PG 2007) US comedy

5.30 Today 9.00 Kerri-Anne 10.00 Kids’ Programs 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 Til Death 4.00 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Afternoon News 5.30 Hot Seat

Music Man (G 2003) US comedy 3.00 Sanchez 5.00 Leyland Brothers World Home Shopping 5.30 Movie: Twas The Night… (G 2001) US comedy 6.00 Today 9.00 Alive & Cooking 9.30 The Zoo 10.00 The Nanny 10.30 Friends 6.00 Wagon Train 7.00 The Virginian 11.00 Murder, She Wrote 12.00 Movie: A Boyfriend For Christmas (G 2004) 8.30 McHale’s Navy 9.00 NBC Today US romantic comedy 2.00 Wife Swap 11.00 Last Chance Learners 12.00 USA 3.00 McLeod’s Daughters 4.00 Quincy ME 1.00 Airwolf 2.00 Magnum Neighbours At War 4.30 How Clean Is PI 3.00 The Rockford Files 5.00 The Your House 5.00 The Ellen Degeneres A Team Show

1.10 Movie: Friday After Next (MA 2002) US comedy 2.50 Mad TV 3.45 Danoz 4.15 Movie: A Carol Christmas (PG 2003) US comedy

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Letters And Numbers 6.00 The Simpsons World News Australia 6.30 Jamie’s Family Tropic Of Cancer Christmas As It Happened: Blitz 7.00 The 7pm Project Street 7.30 The Simpsons 9.30 World News Australia 8.30 Talkin’ ’Bout Your 10.05 Movie: Monkey Magic Generation (M 2007) Japanese action 9.40 Movie: The Core (M 12.15 Movie: 7 Dwarves (PG 2003) UK action 2004) German comedy 12.05 The Late Show 2.00 Weatherwatch 1.00 Mass For You At Home 1.30 Christmas Candlelight Service From The Crystal 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News Cathedral 6.00 Global Village 2.30 Infomercials 5.00 Religion 6.30 Sarah Wiener In Italy 7.30 The History Of Singapore 6.00 Bundesliga Football 8.00 FIFA 8.30 Welcome To Lagos Club World Cup Football Highlights Nigeria 9.30 Movie: Maiko Haaaan!!! 8.30 Equitana 10.30 Manly Surf 11.00 Overtime (PG 2007) Japanese 12.00 NBA Basketball LIVE comedy 5.15 Omnisport 5.30 National Football 11.45 Movie: Godzilla – Final League 8.00 NBA Basketball 12.00 NFL Wars (M 2004) Japanese Total Access 1.00 NBL Basketball 3.00 cult Arsenal Football

8.00 Robbie The Reindeer 8.30 The Royle Family 9.30 Graham Norton Show 10.15 The Office Specials (M)

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4.00 ABC News 4.05 The Quarters 4.20 The Drum 5.00 ABC News 5.15 The Quarters 5.30 The 7.30 Report 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 ABC News 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Landline Extra 1.00 ABC News 2.00 Midday Report 2.30 One Plus One 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.30 Dispatches 2010 6.00 ABC News 6.05 The Drum 6.45 The Quarters 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Contact Sport 8.00 ABC News 8.30 One Plus One 9.00 The World 10.00 Moving Forward, Looking Back: The Year In Politics 10.45 The Quarters 11.00 ABC News 11.05 The Drum 11.45 The Quarters 12.00 ABC News 2.00 Weatherwatch 12.05 Big Ideas 1.00 BBC News 1.30 Australian Network News 2.00 BBC World News 2.30 Australia Network News 3.00 Big Ideas

ABC 3 6.05am to 4.40pm Kids’Programs 4.50 Kid Vs Kat 5.15 The Twisted Whiskers Show 5.35 League Of Super Evil 6.00 A Very Barry Christmas 6.45 Figaro Pho 6.50 The Fourth King 7.15 Robbie The Reindeer 7.45 Bernard 7.50 The Pinky & Perky Christmas Show 8.05 The Show Queen 9.00 Close

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6.00 Monster Garage 7.00 That ’70s Show 7.30 The Boneyard 8.30 Ax Men (M) 9.30 Movie: Two For The Money (M 2005) US drama

6.00 The Nanny 6.30 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 7.30 Movie: Rebel Without A Cause (PG 1955) US cult classic 9.45 Movie: Cool Hand Luke (M 1967) US drama

12.00 Quincy ME 1.00 Wagon Train 2.00 Magnum PI 3.00 The Rockford 12.10 Conan (M) 1.10 Movie: Protocol Files 5.00 The A Team (PG 1984) US comedy 3.00 Movie: Rebel Without A Cause 5.00 Murder, She Wrote

GO! 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 Charlie’s Angels 2.00 Wipeout USA 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 Kids’ Programs

6.00 Movie: Tom & Jerry (G 2008) Animation 7.00 Movie: Big Fish (PG 2003) US adventure 9.40 Movie: Bam Margera (MA 2008) US comedy 11.30 Movie: Eight Crazy Nights (M 2002) Animation 1.00 Star Trek 3.00 Charlie’s Angels 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Get Smart 5.30 The Flintstones

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6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.00 Hit List TV 12.00 Celebrate Christmas 1.00 Movie: Miracle On 34th Street (G 1994) US drama 3.05 Movie: The Grinch (G 2000) US comedy 5.00 Ten News 5.30 Movie: Garfield 2 (G 2006) US comedy

7.30 Christmas Specials 9.00 Saturday Disney 11.00 Kids’ Programs 2.00 Movie: Street Football (C 2006) Animation 3.40 Movie: Eloise At Christmastime (G 2003) UK comedy 5.30 The Outdoor Room

6.00 Christmas Specials 7.15 Movie: Easy Living (PG 1949) US comedy 8.45 Movie: Dance, Girl, Dance (G 1940) US comedy 10.30 Movie: The Big Street (PG 1942) US comedy 12.15 Movie: George White’s Scandals (G 1945) US musical 2.10 Movie: It’s A Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (G 2002) Animation 3.55 Movie: Millions (PG 2004) US comedy

6.00 Religion 6.30 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Movie: A Christmas Story (G 1983) Animation 1.00 Till Death 1.30 Carols By Candlelight 2.00 Movie: The Year Without Santa Claus (PG 2006) US comedy

6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Mythbusters 8.30 Iron Chef 11.30 Sydney Symphony With Human 9.20 RocKwiz Christmas Special Nature 1.00 Sun, Sea & Bargain 10.50 Movie: Asterix At The Spotting 2.05 Close Olympic Games (PG 2008) French action

6.00 Seven News 6.30 No Leave, No Life 7.00 Movie: Anne Of Green Gables The Continuing Story (PG 2000) Canadian 6.00 Love Thy Neighbour 6.30 Silent Night A Simple drama Melody 11.30 Movie: Adventures 7.10 One Foot In The Grave Of Priscilla Queen Of 8.40 The Philanthropist (M) The Desert (M 1994) 10.30 The Knock (M) Australian comedy Dispatches 2010 6.30 Stateline Select 2004) French sci-fi 4.15 Weatherwatch 1.45 Video Hits 2.00 Infomercials 4.00 9.55 Christmas At The Riviera (M)

7.00 Movie: Back To The Future Part III (PG 1990) US adventure 9.15 Outrageous Fortune (MA) 11.15 Movie: The Blues Brothers (M 1980) US 4.00 ABC News 4.05 The Quarters 1.00 SOS 2.05 Drawn Together (M) comedy 4.15 The Drum 5.05 Big Ideas 6.00 2.30 Movie: Immortal Ad Vitam (MAV

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This week’s big-impact full moon solstice lunar eclipse adds extra pressure to pre-xmas tension, but PXT finally fades as Mercury climbs on board the New Year pleasure express.

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6.00 Prime News 6.30 Seven News 7.00 How I Met Your Mother 6.00 Evening News 7.30 Better Homes & Gardens 4.30 Carols In The Domain 7.00 Keeping Up Appearances 7.00 A Current Affair 8.30 Movie: Hey Hey It’s 8.00 One Foot In The Grave 7.30 Skrek The Halls Esther Blueburger (MA 9.20 Escape To The Country 8.00 Carols By Candlelight 2008) Australian comedy 10.35 60 Minute Makeover LIVE 10.35 Movie: The Ice Harvest 11.35 How Not To Decorate 12.35 10.45 Movie: This Christmas (AV 2005) US comedy 1992 Aust Open Tennis: McEnroe v (PG 2008) US comedy 12.20 Movie: Meredith Willson’s The

5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 1.00 Opera: La Bohème 2.55 The Gospel According To Giotto 4.05 Following Fryderyk Chopin 4.30 Newshour 5.30 The Legends Of Santa

Religion 10.45 Peter And The Wolf 11.20 The 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Contact Sport State Within (M) 12.20 rage (M) 8.00 ABC News 8.45 The Quarters 9.00 ABC News 9.45 The Quarters 10.00 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News One Plus One 10.30 Stateline Summer 6.00 Here Comes The 6.00 Liverpool Football 9.00 Transworld Sport 10.00 National Neighbourhood 6.05am to 4.30pm Kids’ Programs 11.00 ABC News 11.30 The World This 5.00 The Latest Buzz 5.25 The Pinky Week 12.00 ABC News 12.30 7.30 6.30 Sarah Wiener’s Culinary Football League 12.30 NFL Total Access 1.30 America’s Game 2.30 & Perky Christmas Show 5.40 A Very Select 1.00 Big Ideas 2.00 Four Corners Adventures MVP 3.00 NBL Basketball 5.00 Manly Barry Christmas 6.30 Kung Fu Panda 2.45 The Quarters 3.00 Stateline Select 7.00 At The Table With… Surf 5.30 Ironwoman Series – Coolum Holiday 7.00 Robbie The Reindeer 3.30 Foreign Correspondent 4.00 ABC 7.30 A History Of Britain 7.25 Kid Vs Kat 7.50 Oggy And News 4.30 Stateline Summer 5.00 ABC 9.45 Movie: Secret Agents (M 6.30 The WWE Experience 7.30 Race Of Champions Nations Cup Motorsport The Cockroaches 8.10 The Twisted News 5.30 One Plus One 6.00 ABC 2004) French thriller 9.30 Australian Rally Championship Whiskers Show 8.35 The Fourth King News 6.30 Australian Story Classic 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 Select 8.00 Star Of 11.40 Movie: Anthony Zimmer 10.30 MotoGP Classic 11.30 Isle Of 9.00 Close (M 2005) Danish thriller Bethlehem: Behind The Myth 9.00 ABC Man Tourist Trophy 12.30 Sportscar News 9.30 Landline Extra 10.00 ABC 1.15 Weatherwatch Series Highlights 1.30 Ironman Series News 10.30 Contact Sport 11.00 ABC – Coolum 3.30 Serie A Football 5.30 News 11.30 Foreign Correspondent Tread BMX 12.00 Big Ideas 1.00 BBC World News 1.30 Stateline Select 2.00 Four Corners 2.45 The Quarters 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 Stateline Summer

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5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 1.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia 1.30 Inspector Rex 3.15 Even Pigeons Go To Heaven 3.30 Letters And Numbers 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Global Village

6.00 Scared Shrekless 6.30 The Gruffalo 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Carols From St Mary’s Cathedral 8.30 A Very Special Christmas (M) 9.30 Nan’s Christmas Carol (M) 10.20 Christmas Lights 10.45 World Champion Santa

5.00 rage (PG) 10.00 A Very Specky 6.00 Kids’ Program Christmas 11.00 Christmas Midnight 6.00 Father Ted Christmas Mass From Rome 12.55 San Francisco 6.55 Outnumbered Ballet: Nutcracker 2.30 Clash Of The Christmas Santas 4.05 Sydney Symphony With 7.35 A Very Specky Christmas Human Nature 5.35 Creature Comforts 8.35 Extras Christmas 2007

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ARIES: Best recipe while retro Mercury’s playing xmas grinch? Letting go needing to be right. Or even in control of anything in the coming fortnight but the way you behave. Don’t lock into one-way thinking, enjoy whatever presents itself and begin the new year with a light heart. TAURUS: Your trademark patience gets a workout this week, but the x-event’s only as stressful as you make it. Venus insists on giving yourself some lookgood, feel-good pampering next week to celebrate the planet rebooting itself with a refreshing sense of confidence in the coming year. GEMINI: Early week full moon lunar eclipse in Gemini right on the solstice marks a turning point in realizing

what you’ve outgrown during the last six months. And your cosmic captain Mercury moving forward on December 30 offers an invitation to some ultraindulgent new year frolics. CANCER: This week’s full moon lunar eclipse triggers a lot of emotional energy to initiate permanent changes in a major relationship. And while the seasonal countdown inevitably gets testy and contentious, by Thursday 30th the thrill factor returns for a warm and wonderful end of year finale. LEO: The solstice sun sees you less affected by crosscurrents and complications than other signs, and Leo moon suggests you’d shine hosting xmas at home - avoiding as always too many chefs in the xmas kitchen. New year

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6.00 NBN News 6.30 Australia’s Funniest Home Videos 7.30 Movie: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (PG 1989) US comedy 8.40 Lotto 9.30 Movie: The Marriage Of Figaro (M 2009) Australian comedy

1.40 Grey’s Anatomy (M) 3.35 Home 11.40 Airline USA 12.10 2009 Aust Open Tennis: Nadal v Verdasco Shopping 11.30 Queen’s Christmas Message 11.40 Movie: A Love Song For Bobby Long (M 2004) US drama 2.00 Movie: 6.00 Wagon Train 7.00 The Virginian 6.00 Movie: A Boyfriend For Michael (PG 1996) US comedy 4.00 8.30 McHale’s Navy 9.00 Last Chance Christmas (G 2004) US romance Infomercials Learners 10.00 NBC Today 12.00 8.00 Movie: The Holly And The Ivy Quincy ME 1.00 Airwolf 2.00 Magnum (G 1953) UK drama 9.45 Movie: The PI 3.00 The Rockford Files 5.00 The Long Long Trailer (G 1954) UK comedy 6.00 Kids’ Programs 2.30 Green Acres 12.00 Movie: Mutiny On The Buses 3.00 Married With Children 4.00 Just A Team (PG 1972) UK comedy 1.50 Movie: Shoot Me 5.30 The Dukes Of Hazzard 6.00 Fifth Gear Snow Wonder (PG 2005) US drama 6.30 Engineering Disasters 6.30 Movie: Nancy Drew (PG 7.30 Air Crash Investigations 3.55 Movie: A Christmas Visitor (PG 2007) US comedy 2002) US drama 6.00 The Nanny

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8.30 Mega Disasters 9.30 The Universe 10.30 Movie: Basic (AV 2003) US drama

6.30 Life In Cold Blood 7.30 Black Adder’s Christmas Carol 8.30 Little Britain Abroad (M) 12.30 Quincy ME 1.30 McHale’s Navy 2.00 Magnum PI 3.00 The Rockford 9.45 CSI: Miami (M) 10.45 CSI: New York (M) Files 5.00 The A Team

aspects are strong and responsible but definitely amenable to gallivanting. VIRGO: Yuletide frivolity always comes with the odd inconvenience, unexpected upset and extra expense, but what would the season of unreason be without xmas hiccups and family squabbles? Your planetary ruler Mercury at December’s end kisses everything better to celebrate the new year in fine festive togetherness. LIBRA: The coming fortnight challenges Libran equilibrium (doesn’t everything?) as the festive menu offers the odd surprise, but as you know attitude is paramount and charm gets better results than demands. As hectic end of year rhythms level out to a bearable tempo, so will you… SCORPIO: A time of complex emotions,

11.40 Conan (M) 12.35 The Nanny 1.00 Black Adder 2.00 Little Britain Abroad (M) 3.15 Movie: Meet Me In St Louis (G 1944) US drama 5.30 Rainbow Country

‘tis the season when feather ruffling inevitably occurs, so let peace on earth begin with you. Venus ensures you’re at your most charismatic, and teamed up with new year’s eve Scorpio moon, she’s so in the mood for hanky panky. SAGITTARIUS: Mercury backtracking into Sagittarius carries an astral potential for forgetfulness: Doh! moments of keys locked in cars and mislaid credit cards, so check all arrangements – if you remember. But it’s only a passing blip, with memory and merriment happily restored before new year’s eve gets under way. CAPRICORN: To make up for getting short-changed in the end of year present department, Capricorns have the best stars for the next fortnight. Midweek sun joining Capricorn Mars brings admirers

8.30 Movie: Pink Panther (PG 2006) US comedy

10.30 South Park (M/MA) 12.00 The Dukes Of Hazzard 1.00 Starsky & Hutch (M) 2.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 Married With Children 4.30 The Flintstones 5.00 Gilligan’s Island 5.30 Green Acres

out of the woodwork, plenty of personal kudos and some excitingly hot prospects for new year. AQUARIUS: Cancelled plans, broken promises, communication breakdowns, changed arrangements, so what? So many more opportunities to be creative with whatever lands on your plate. Minimize festive stress by a) prioritizing, b) dropping non-essentials, unnecessary complications and other peoples’ angst, and c) starting right now. PISCES: Avoid emotional excess at all costs in the coming fortnight, because at this time of year even miniscule differences of opinion can go nuclear. But it’s only temporary, because life and love come alive and thrive again in time for soul-reviving new year celebrations.

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5.00 rage 6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.00 6.00 Kids’ Programs Surfing The Menu 9.30 Mountain With 6.00 First Tuesday Book Club Griff Rhys Jones 10.30 Beachcomber 7.00 Bush Slam Cooryong Cottage 11.30 Songs Of Praise 7.30 Movie: To Kill A Mockingbird (PG 1962) 12.00 Best Of Landline 1.00 Best Of US drama Gardening Australia 1.30 Message Stick (G*) 2.00 Travel Oz 2.30 From 9.35 Absolutely Fabulous The Heart: The Kimberley 3.00 The 10.05 Extras (M) Atlantics Live At Freshwater 3.35 Bon 10.35 Gimme, Gimme, Gimme (M) Jovi 5.00 Doctor Who At The Proms 11.05 Jeff Tweedy Sunken Treasure 6.00 Joanna Lumley In The Live In The Pacific Northwest (M) 12.40 Land Of The Northern Songbirds Live In Concert 2.20 Close Lights

7.00 ABC News 7.30 Doctor Who’s A Christmas Carol 8.30 Skellig 10.10 Grumpy Guide To Christmas 11.10 Ballet Shoes 12.35 Movie: British Intelligence (PG 1940) US romantic thriller 1.40 Movie: Mademoiselle Fifi (PG 1944) US drama 2.50 Movie: I Walked With A Zombie (PG 1943) US thriller 4.00 First Tuesday Book Club

ABC 3 6.05am to 4.05pm Kids’ Programs 4.30 Escape From Scorpion Island 5.00 Dead Gorgeous 5.30 Prank Patrol International 6.00 Dani’s House 6.30 My Life As A Popat 6.55 Kaitangata Twitch 7.20 The Latest Buzz 7.45 The Wannabes 8.10 The Sleepover Club 8.35 Degrassi: The Next Generation 9.00 Close

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TEN 6.00 Religion 7.00 Kids’ Programs 8.00 Fishin’ Trip 8.30 The Hit Rater. Com 9.00 The Benchwarmers Oz Made 10.00 Hit List TV 12.00 Pat Callinan 4x4 Adventures 1.00 Escape With ET 2.00 Ironman Series – Hawaii 3.00 Hit List TV 3.30 From The Ground Up 4.30 Everybody Hates Chris 5.00 Ten News 5.30 Sports Tonight

6.00 Thalassa 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Who Do You Think You Are? Paul Mercurio 8.30 Heartbreak Science 9.30 Warriors: Richard The Lionheart (M) 10.30 Movie: Love Is All (M 2007) Dutch romantic comedy 4.00 Four Corners 4.45 The Quarters 5.00 Big Ideas 6.00 Dispatches 2010 12.40 Movie: Uranya (M 2006) Greek comedy 6.30 Stateline Select 7.00 ABC News

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7.30 Talking Heads 8.00 ABC News 8.30 7.30 Select 9.30 The World This Week 10.00 ABC News 10.30 Stateline Summer 11.00 ABC News 11.30 One Plus One 12.00 ABC News 12.30 Contact Sport 1.00 Big Ideas 2.00 Moving Forward, Looking Back: The Year In Politics 2.45 The Quarters 3.00 Stateline Select 3.30 Australian Story Classic 4.00 ABC News 4.30 Stateline Summer 5.00 ABC News 5.30 Landline Extra 6.00 ABC News 6.30 Foreign Correspondent 7.00 ABC News 7.30 One Plus One 8.00 Solo 9.00 ABC News 9.30 Dispatches 2010 10.00 ABC News 10.30 The World This Week 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Foreign Correspondent 12.00 Big Ideas 1.00 BBC World News 1.30 Stateline Select 2.00 Big Ideas 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 Stateline Summer

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4.30 Shortland Street 5.00 Something 5.30 Talking Heads: Deni Hines In The Air 5.30 The Einstein Factor 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 Kids’ 6.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 Midday Programs Report 12.30 The Forsyte Saga 1.30 6.00 James Martin’s Once A Soldier 2.00 The Bill 3.00 Kids’ Champagne Programs 6.25 Scrapheap Challenge

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SBS 1 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.35 World News 10.30 Football Asia 11.00 Les Murray’s Football Feature 12.00 FIFA Futbol Mundial 12.30 Speedweek 2.00 André Rieu My Music My Life 3.30 Wild Things 4.00 Wiseguys 5.00 Cycling Central

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6.00 The Simpsons 6.30 Rules Of Engagement 7.30 Modern Family 8.00 The Simpsons 8.30 Movie: Titanic (M 1997) US drama 12.10 Cops (M) 12.40 Video Hits 1.00 Infomercial 4.00 Religion

ONE HD 6.00 ATP Champions Tour Tennis

6.30 NBA Basketball LIVE 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 11.30 NFL Christmas Match LIVE 6.00 ADbc 2.45 Omnisport 3.00 IRC Series Sailing 6.30 The Hairy Bikers’ Food 4.00 I Fish 4.30 NBA Basketball 8.30 Tour Of Britain Sports Tonight 7.30 Ninja Warrior 9.00 Movie: Match Point (M 8.00 Unbeatable Banzuke 2005) US drama 8.30 Survival Stories From 11.15 World Skins Golf 1.15 Omnisport Argentina 1.45 Australian Rally Championship 9.30 Movie: The Singer (PG 2.45 XPD Adventure Race 2006) French romance 3.15 Movie: First Ascent (PG 11.30 Movie: Tais-Toi! (M 2003) 2006) US adventure French comedy 4.10 Red Bull Air Race 1.10 Weatherwatch

5.00 National Football League LIVE

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To The Edge Of The World 7.30 Border Patrol 8.00 Coastwatch 8.30 Bones (M) 9.30 Movie: Species (MA 1995) US action

7.30 Bargain Hunt 8.00 10 Years Younger 8.30 Escape To The Country 9.45 Great British Journeys

11.00 Escape To The Sun 11.40 Extreme Health Farm (M) 12.45 2001 Aust Open Tennis: Clement v Grosjean 11.30 The First 48 (M) 12.30 Home 5.00 Home Shopping Shopping 5.30 Seven News

7MATE 6.00 Wagon Train 7.00 Australia’s Greatest Athlete 11.00 Beach Patrol 12.00 Movie: Baywatch (PG 1995) US drama 2.00 Magnum PI 3.00 The Rockford Files 4.00 Baywatch 5.00 The A Team

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6.00 Religion 6.30 Movie: An Elephant Called Slowly (G 1970) UK comedy 8.30 Movie: Elizabeth Of Ladymead (G 1948) UK drama 10.30 The Nanny 11.00 Movie: Agatha Christie’s Murder On The Orient Express (PG 1974) UK crime 1.35 Movie: Call Of The Wild (PG 1972) UK adventure 3.45 Movie: The Wings Of Eagles (G 1957) US western 6.00 The Nanny 6.30 Birds Of A Feather 7.10 Bless This House 7.45 Allo Allo

6.00 Monster Garage 7.00 That ’70s Show 7.30 Gene Simmons Family Jewels 8.30 Movie: Smokey And The 8.30 Movie: Man On Fire (M Bandit III (M 1983) US 2004) US drama action 11.20 Movie: The Wings Of Eagles 10.30 Boston Legal (M) 1.30 Bless This House 2.00 Home

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6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Ten News 10.00 The Circle 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Infomercial 4.00 Huey’s Kitchen 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Seven Morning News 12.00 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.30 Deal Or No Deal

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5.00 Weatherwa Weatherwatch w tch 5.05 5.05World World News 6.00 Ki Kids’ Programs 9.00 Ten News 1.00 Movie: Tom Thumb (PG 10.00 The Circle 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show 2.00 Ready 2001) French fantasy 2.35 Institute Of The Dream 2.45 The Steady Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Luminary 3.00 Classical Destinations: Infomercial 4.00 Huey’s Kitchen 4.30 Finlandia 3.30 Letters And Numbers The Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour 5.30 News 6.00 The Simpsons Global Village

6.00 My Family 7.15 The Daily Show 6.30 Wallace And Gromit 7.35 The Colbert Report 7.00 ABC News 6.00 Letters And Numbers 8.00 The Goodies 7.30 The 7.30 Report 6.30 World News Australia 8.30 Jack Osbourne (M) 8.00 Poh’s Kitchen 7.30 Did Cooking Make Us 9.30 The Whitest Kids U 8.30 Museum Of Life Human? Know 9.35 Kevin McCloud’s Grand 8.30 House Of Food 9.55 Like A Version Tour Greece Obsessives 11.00 Hyperdrive 11.30 The Kevin 10.25 Late Edition News Bishop Show (M) 11.50 Lawrence 9.30 World News Australia 10.35 To The Manor Bowen (M) Leung’s Choose Your Own Adventure 10.05 Hot Docs: Bhutto 11.20 Underdog (M) 12.10 The (M) 12.20 London Live 12.50 The Pakistan prime minister Chaser’s War On Everything (M) People Watchers 1.45 Close Benazir Bhutto 12.40 Movie: Last Train From 12.15 Movie: Wonderful Town Gun Hill (M 1959) US (M 2007) Thai drama drama 4.00 ABC News 4.05 Big Ideas 5.00 1.55 Weatherwatch 2.15 Movie: The Last Days Of ABC News 5.15 The Quarters 5.30 The Pompeii (PG 1935) US 7.30 Report 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 ABC News 12.00 Midday Report 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News drama 4.00 Talking Heads: Janine Shepherd 12.30 Australian Story Classic 1.00 6.00 Global Village ABC News 2.00 Midday Report 2.30 6.30 Taste Takes Off 7.30 Select 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.30 7.30 Lost Worlds Secret Files 6.05am to 4.40pm Kids’ Programs Stateline Summer 6.00 ABC News of the Inquisition 6.45 The Quarters 7.00 ABC News 5.05 CJ The DJ 5.15 Grizzly Tales For 8.30 Berlin: Dangerous Ideas 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 ABC News Gruesome Kids 5.35 League Of Super 9.30 Movie: Shaolin Soccer Evil 6.00 Total Drama World Tour 6.30 8.30 Dispatches 2010 9.00 The World (PG 2001) Hong Kong 9.30 Foreign Correspondent 10.00 Prank Patrol International 6.50 Good martial arts ABC News 10.30 One Plus One 11.00 Game: SP 7.10 What Do You Know? 11.25 Movie: Phileine Says ABC News 11.30 The 7.30 Report 12.00 7.35 M.I. High 8.10 Jeopardy 8.35 Sorry (MA 2003) Dutch Degrassi: The Next Generation 9.00 Big Ideas 1.00 BBC News 1.30 Australia romantic comedy Network News 2.00 BBC World News Close

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2.30 Australia Network News 3.00 1.05 Weatherwatch Big Ideas

6.30 Jamie’s Thirty Minute Meals 7.00 The 7pm Project 7.30 Talking’ ’Bout Your Generation 8.30 NCIS: Los Angeles (M) 9.30 Lie To Me (M) 10.30 Outrageous Fortune (MA) 11.30 Ten Late News With Sports Tonight 12.00 The Late Show 1.00 Infomercials 4.00 Religion

ONE HD 6.00 World Skins Golf 8.00 NASCAR Nationwide Season’s Best 9.00 NASCAR Sprint Cup Season’s Best 10.00 America’s Game 11.00 Red Bull X Fighters 12.00 Surfsho’ 1.00 Race Of Champions Nations Cup Motorsport 3.00 Omnisport 3.30 Ironman Series – Coolum 5.30 Australian Senior Open Golf 6.30 Pat Callinan’s 4x4 Adventures 7.30 NBA Primetime 9.30 Sports Tonight 10.00 Arsenal Football 1.00 Sports Tonight Late 1.15 Omnisport 1.45 World Rally Championship 2.45 IRC Series Sailing

3.15 Movie: The Sharp End (M 2007) US documentary 4.10 Red Bull Air Race Highlights 5.05 Berlin Marathon

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GO! 6.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 The Hills 1.00 Eclipse Music TV 1.30 Here’s Lucy 2.30 Green Acres 3.30 The Dukes Of Hazzard 4.30 Star Trek: Original Series 5.30 Wipeout

6.30 Top Gear 7.30 The Big Bang Theory 8.00 Two And A Half Men 8.30 Movie: xXx (M 2002) US action

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7.30 Two And A Half Men 8.25 Lotto 8.30 The Mentalist (M) 9.30 CSI (M) 10.30 Embarrassing Bodies (M) 11.25 Movie: Jesse Stone – Sea Change (M 2007) US drama 1.00 Deadly Surf 1.30 Entertainment Tonight 2.00 Infomercials 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

GO! 6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ 11.30 Get Smart 12.00 Here’s Lucy 12.30 Seinfeld 1.00 The Dukes Of Hazzard 2.00 Wipeout 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 Kids’ Programs

6.00 Total Wipeout UK 7.00 Movie: Hoodwinked! (G 2005) Animation 8.30 Pretty Little Liars (M) 9.30 Ladette To Lady (M) 10.30 Two And A Half Men

11.00 Gossip Girl (M) 12.00 Pretty Little Liars (M) 1.00 Ladette To Lady (M) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Get Smart Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 5.30 The Flintstones Adventures In Rainbow Country 5.30 Today

4.10 Red Re Bull Air Race 5.05 Cape To Cape Mountain M Bike Challenge

4.30 Shortland Street 5.00 Something 5.30 Talking Heads: John And ndd Ros In The Air 5.30 The Einstein Factor 6.00 Moriarty (G*) 6.00 ABC News Breakfast Kids’ Programs 12.00 Midday Report 9.00 Kids’ Programs 12.30 Time Team 1.20 Gavin Stamp’s 6.00 James Martin’s Orient Express 2.00 The Bill 3.00 Kids’ Champagne Programs 6.25 Scrapheap Challenge

12.00 Movie: Killer Instinct (M 2003) US drama 1.50 Skippy 2.20 The Script 2.30 Infomercials 3.30 Religion 4.00 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

6.00 Kids Time 9.30 Shortland St 5.30 Today 9.00 Kids’ Programs 10.00 Coronation St 10.30 Emmerdale 10.00 Ashes 4th Test Cricket 11.00 Hollyoaks 12.00 All My Children LIVE – Australia v England 1.00 Kitchen Time 2.30 Movie: The 12.30 The Cricket Show 3 Worlds Of Gulliver (PG 1960) US 1.00 Cricket continues adventure 4.30 Murphy Brown 5.00 6.00 NBN News Head Of The Class 5.30 Growing Pains 7.00 A Current Affair

6.00 Prime News 6.30 Seven News 6.00 Wallace And Gromit 6.00 Letters And Numbers 7.00 How I Met Your Mother 7.15 The Daily Show 6.00 The Simpsons 6.00 A House In Florida 7.00 ABC News 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Animal Squad 7.40 The Colbert Report 6.30 Bargain Hunt 7.30 The 7.30 Report 7.30 William Shatner’s Weird 6.30 Jamie’s Thirty Minute 8.00 ICU 8.05 Absolutely Fabulous Meals 7.00 Men Behaving Badly 8.00 Family Confidential The Or What? 8.30 Criminal Minds (M) 8.35 Skippy (G*) 7.00 The 7pm Project 7.30 Heartbeat Barnes 8.30 Man v Wild 9.30 Outlaw (M) 9.35 Peep Show (M) 7.30 Glee 8.30 Jonathan Creek (M) 8.30 Stephen Fry In America 10.00 Red Dwarf Special 2009 9.30 World News Australia 10.30 Journey To The Edge Of 9.40 Maisie Raine (M) 8.30 Melbourne International 9.35 Willie’s Chocolate 10.30 Teachers (M) 11.30 Being Erica 10.00 Shameless (MA) The Universe Comedy Festival (M) Revolution (M) 12.15 London Live: Keane 12.45 11.00 Entourage (M) 11.30 The World 11.30 Parks And Recreation (M) 10.45 The Philanthropist (M) 11.45 Game 10.30 Outrageous Fortune (M) 12.00 Grey’s Anatomy (M) 1.00 Home Last Man Standing (M) 12.45 2004 10.25 Late Edition News The People Watchers 1.30 Close Australian Open Tennis: Safin v Agassi 12.30 Movie: Killing Cabos 11.30 Late News & Sports Tonight Shopping 5.30 Seven News 10.35 Dirt Game 4.00 Leyland Brothers World 5.00 12.15 The Late Show 1.00 Infomercials (MA 2004) Mexican 11.35 Blue Murder (M) 12.45 The Home Shopping 4.00 Religion comedy Clinic (M) 4.00 ABC News 4.05 Big Ideas 5.00 1.35 Movie: Terror (PG 1963) ABC News 5.15 The Quarters 5.30 7.30 2.20 Weatherwatch 6.00 Wagon Train 7.00 The Virginian US drama 8.30 McHale’s Navy 9.00 NBC Today Select 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 2.55 Movie: Youth Runs Wild ABC News 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 6.00 National Football 10.00 NBC Meet The Press 11.00 Gene 6.00 Today 9.00 Alive & Cooking (PG 1944) US drama One Plus One 1.00 ABC News 2.00 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News Simmons Family Jewels 12.00 Quincy 9.30 The Zoo 10.00 The Nanny 10.30 League LIVE 4.00 The Cook And The Chef Midday Report 2.30 Talking Heads 6.00 Global Village ME 1.00 Airwolf 2.00 Magnum PI 3.00 Friends 11.00 Murder, She Wrote 12.00 11.20 Sports Unlimited The Rockford Files 4.00 Baywatch 5.00 Movie: Carry On Screaming (PG 1966) 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.30 7.30 Select 6.30 Sarah Wiener’s Culinary 12.20 National Football UK comedy 2.00 Life In Cold Blood 6.00 ABC News 6.45 The Quarters 7.00 The A Team League LIVE Adventures 3.00 McLeod’s Daughters 4.00 The 3.30 Omnisport 4.00 ATP Champions 6.00 Monster Garage 6.05am to 4.40pm Kids’ Programs ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 7.00 At The Table With… View 5.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show Tour Tennis 4.30 Real NBA 5.00 Eddie’s 7.00 That ’70s Show 5.05 CJ The DJ 5.15 Grizzly Tales For ABC News 8.30 Dispatches 2010 9.00 7.30 Why Are Thin People 6.00 The Nanny Day 6.00 National Football League 7.30 Whacked Out Sports Gruesome Kids 5.35 League Of Super The World 9.30 7.30 Select 10.00 ABC Not Fat? 6.30 Friends 8.30 Ironman Series – Hawaii 9.30 8.30 Family Guy (M) Evil 6.00 Total Drama World Tour 6.30 News 10.30 One Plus One 11.00 ABC 8.30 Why Do We Dream? 7.00 The Zoo Sports Tonight 10.00 Fore Inventors 9.00 American Dad Prank Patrol 6.50 Good Game: SP 7.10 News 11.30 The 7.30 Report 12.00 Big 9.30 The World Game 7.30 Animal Emergency Only 11.00 World Skins Golf 1.00 9.30 The Shield (M) What Do You Know? 7.35 M.I. High Ideas 1.00 BBC News 1.30 Australia 10.30 Movie: Empire Of Sports Tonight Late 1.15 Omnisport 11.30 The Sopranos (MA) 12.30 8.00 Airport 8.10 Jeopardy 8.35 Degrassi: The Next Network News 2.00 BBC World News (MA 1978) Passion 2.30 Australia Network News ws 3.00 3 0 3.0 1.45 Finke Fin Desert Rally 2.45 IRC Series Big Joe’s Place 1.00 Airwolf 2.00 8.30 Movie: The Perfect Generation 9.00 Close Japane n se hor orrro or ror o Japanese horror Big Ideas Sailing Storm (M 2000) US action Magnum PI 3.00 The Rockford Files 12.20 Weatherwatch Weatherw watc tch tc 11.30 Southland (M) 12.30 Friends 3.15 Movie: King Lines (PG 4.00 Baywatch 5.00 The A Team 1.00 Murder, She Wrote 2.00 Home 2007) US adventure

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8.30 The Mentalist (M) 9.30 Movie: The Bone Collector (M 1999) US drama

11.00 South Park (MA) 11.30 Watchmen: Complete Motion Comic (AV) 12.00 Star Trek: Original Series 1.00 Nightmares & Dreamscapes (M) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 The Hills 12.00 Lost (M) 2.00 Magnum PI 3.00 Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 Rainbow 5.00 Here’s Lucy The Rockford Files 4.00 Baywatch 5.00 Country 5.30 Today The A Team

5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 1.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia 1.30 Eurovision Song Contest Junior 3.30 Letters And Numbers 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Futbol Mundial 5.00 The Crew 5.30 Global Village

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6.00 Religion 7.00 Weekend Sunrise 6.00 Kids’ Programs 8.30 Movie: 6.00 Infomercials 7.00 Weekend Today 10.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 Hamilton Parachute Battalion (PG 1941) US 10.00 The Ashes 4th Test Island Race Week drama 10.10 Movie: Obliging Young Cricket LIVE Lady (G 1941) US comedy 11.45 12.30 The Cricket Show 12.30 Sydney-Hobart Yacht Movie: All Dogs Go To Heaven 2 Race LIVE 1.00 Cricket continues 2.15 Danger Down Under 3.15 Home (G 1996) Animation 1.30 Movie: 6.00 NBN News Improvement 3.40 Movie: The Lizzie Butterflies Are Free (PG 1972) US 6.30 Random Acts Of McGuire Movie (G 2003) US comedy comedy 3.50 Movie: Masquerade Kindness (PG 1965) UK adventure 6.00 Love 5.30 New Zealand On A Plate 7.00 Motorway Patrol Thy Neighbour 6.30 All Creatures 6.00 Seven News 7.30 60 Minutes 6.30 Billy Connolly’s Journey Great And Small

PRIME 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Seven Morning News 12.00 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.30 Deal Or No Deal

6.00 Prime News 6.30 Seven News 7.00 How I Met Your Mother 7.30 Minute To Win It 8.30 I Shouldn’t Be Alive (M) 9.30 Most Shocking Top 20 10.30 Scrubs 11.00 That ’70s Show 11.30 Parks And Recreation (M) 12.00 Mercy (M) 1.00 Home Shopping 5.30 Seven News

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6.00 Kids Time 9.30 Shortland St 10.00 5.30 Today 9.00 Kids’ Programs Coronation St 10.30 Emmerdale 11.00 10.00 Ashes 4th Test Cricket Hollyoaks 12.00 All My Children 1.00 LIVE – Australia v England Kitchen Time 2.30 Movie: The Outlaws 12.30 The Cricket Show Is Coming (G 1965) US comedy 4.30 1.00 Cricket continues Murphy Brown 5.00 Head Of The Class 6.00 NBN News 5.30 Growing Pains 7.00 A Current Affair

6.00 A House In Florida 6.30 Bargain Hunt 7.00 Men Behaving Badly 7.30 Some Mothers Do ’ave ’em 8.10 Are You Being Served? 8.50 To The Manor Born 9.30 Porridge

7.30 The Big Bang Theory 8.00 Top Gear 9.30 Survivor: Nicaragua 12.30 Entertainment Tonight 1.00 Deadly Surf 1.30 Infomercials 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

10.10 Movie: Murphy’s Romance (PG 1985) US comedy 12.30 The 6.00 Wagon Train 7.00 The Virginian Professionals (M) 1.30 2005 Australian 6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 8.30 McHale’s Navy 9.00 NBC Today Open Tennis: Davenport v Molik 4.00 Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ 11.00 Beach Patrol 12.00 Quincy ME Leyland Brothers 5.00 Home Shopping 11.30 Get Smart 12.00 Here’s Lucy 1.00 Airwolf 2.00 Magnum PI 3.00 12.30 Seinfeld 1.00 Charlie’s Angels The Rockford Files 4.00 Baywatch 5.00 2.00 Total Wipeout UK 3.00 Just Shoot The A Team 6.00 Today 9.00 Alive & Cooking Me 3.30 Kids’ Programs 9.30 The Zoo 10.00 The Nanny 10.30 6.30 Total Wipeout UK 6.00 Monster Garage Friends 11.00 Murder, She Wrote 12.00 7.30 Movie: The Wedding 7.00 That ’70s Show 7.30 How I Met Your Mother Movie: Steptoe And Son Ride Again Planner (PG 2001) US (PG 1973) UK comedy 2.00 Getaway 8.00 Scrubs comedy 3.00 McLeod’s Daughters 4.00 David 8.30 Family Guy (M) 9.40 Movie: Tomcats (MA Attenborough’s Life In Cold Blood 5.00 9.00 American Dad 2001) US comedy The Ellen Degeneres Show 9.30 My Name Is Earl 11.40 South Park (MA) 12.00 Seinfeld 6.00 The Nanny 12.30 Community 1.00 Charlie’s 10.00 Punk’d (M) 6.30 Friends Angels 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just 10.30 Russell Brand’s 7.00 The Zoo Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Get Smart Ponderland (M) 5.30 The Flintstones 11.00 Nitro Circus (M) 11.30 Strikeforce 7.30 Secret Millionaire (M) 12.00 Quincy ME 1.00 Airwolf 2.00 8.30 Law & Order (M) Magnum PI 3.00 The Rockford Files 9.30 The Closer (M) 10.30 The Big C (MA) 11.00 Weeds 4.00 Baywatch 5.00 The A Team (M) 11.30 Friends 12.00 Law & Order (MA) 1.00 The Closer (M) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 Adventures In Rainbow Country 5.30 Today

7MATE

GO!

GEM

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WEDNESDAY 29

4.30 Shortland Street 5.00 Something 5.30 Talking Heads: Ray Martin In The Air 5.30 The Einstein Factor 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 Kids’ 6.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 Midday Programs Report 12.30 Pilot Guides 1.30 The 6.00 James Martin’s Wild Gourmets 2.00 The Bill 3.00 Kids’ Champagne Programs 6.25 Scrapheap Challenge

6.00 My Family 6.30 Wallace And Gromit 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 QI 8.30 The Trophy Room 9.00 Outnumbered 9.35 Summer Heights High (M) 10.00 Review With Myles Barlow (M) 10.30 Late Edition News

SBS 1

TEN

PRIME

5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 1.00 Movie: Himalaya (PG 1999) French drama 3.00 Classical Destinations: St Petersburg 3.30 Letters And Numbers 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Global Village

6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Ten News 10.00 The Circle 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Infomercial 4.00 Huey’s Kitchen 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Seven Morning News 12.00 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.30 Deal Or No Deal

6.00 Letters And Numbers 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Rex In Rome 8.30 East West 101 (M) 9.30 World News Australia 10.05 Movie: Unconscious (M 2004) Spanish comedy 11.10 The Secret Lives Of Sleepwalkers (M) 12.05 The Re-Inventors 12.30 The 12.00 Movie: Agata And The People Watchers 1.20 Close Storm (M 2004) Italian comedy 7.15 The Daily Show 7.35 The Colbert Report 8.00 Jail Birds 8.30 Make It Funky! 10.20 Shrink Rap (M) Chris Langham

ABC NEWS 24

2.10 Weatherwatch 10.45 Custer’s Last Stand (M) 11.35 4.00 ABC News 4.05 Big Ideas 5.00 Grand Designs ABC News 5.15 The Quarters 5.30 The 12.25 Movie: The Body 7.30 Report 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News Snatcher (PG 1945) US 9.00 ABC News 12.00 Midday Report 6.00 Global Village drama 12.30 Foreign Correspondent 1.00 6.30 Made In Spain ABC News 2.00 Midday Report 2.30 7.00 Sarah Wiener’s Culinary 1.55 Movie: The Most Stateline 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.30 Dangerous Game (PG Adventures Landline Extra 6.00 ABC News 6.45 7.30 The Berlusconi Show 1932) US thriller 3.00 National Press Club Address 4.00 The Quarters 7.00 ABC News 7.30 8.30 Forced To Marry (M) The 7.30 Report 8.00 ABC News 8.30 Catalyst 9.30 Movie: It’s Hard To Be Stateline 9.00 The World 9.30 Landline Nice (M 2007) Bosnian Extra 10.00 ABC News 10.30 One Plus drama One 11.00 ABC News 11.30 The 7.30 6.05am to 4.40pm Kids’ Programs Report 12.00 ABC News 12.05 Big 11.15 Movie: A Song For Martin 5.05 CJ The DJ 5.15 Grizzly Tales For (M 2000) Swedish drama Ideas 1.00 BBC News 1.30 Australia Gruesome Kids 5.30 League Of Super Network News 2.00 BBC World News 1.15 Weatherwatch Evil 6.00 Total Drama World Tour 6.30 2.30 Australia Network News 3.00 Prank Patrol 6.50 Good Game: SP 7.10 Big Ideas What Do You Know? 7.35 M.I. High 8.10 Jeopardy 8.35 Degrassi: The Next Generation 9.00 Close

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THURSDAY 30

4.30 Shortland Street 5.00 Something 5.30 Talking Heads: Father Bob In The Air 5.30 The Einstein Factor 6.00 Maguire 6.00 ABC News Breakfast Kids’ Programs 12.00 Midday Report 9.00 Kids’ Programs 12.30 Robin Hood 1.30 Echo Beach 6.00 James Martin’s (M) 2.00 The Bill 3.00 Kids’ Programs Champagne

6.00 My Family 6.30 Wallace And Gromit 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 Sleek Geeks 8.30 The Deep (M) 10.05 Star Stories (MA) 10.30 Late Edition News 10.40 Movie: Emma (M 1996) US romantic comedy 12.30 Movie: The Lost Patrol (G 1934) US war adventure 1.40 Movie: The Brighton Strangler (PG 1945) US drama 2.50 Movie: The Ghost Ship (PG 1943) US drama 4.00 Can We Help?

ABC 3 6.05am to 4.40pm Kids’ Programs 5.05 CJ The DJ 5.15 Grizzly Tales For Gruesome Kids 5.30 League Of Super Evil 6.00 Total Drama World Tour 6.30 Prank Patrol International 6.50 Good Game: SP 7.10 What Do You Know? 7.35 M.I. High 8.10 Jeopardy 8.35 Degrassi: The Next Generation 9.00 Close

6.25 Scrapheap Challenge 7.15 The Daily Show 7.35 The Colbert Report 8.00 The Young Ones 8.30 Ricky Gervais Live 10.15 Father Ted 10.40 Peep Show (M) 11.05 Inside The Actors Studio: Daniel Radcliffe 12.55 Planet Rock Profiles: John Legend 12.20 The People Watchers 1.05 Close

ABC NEWS 24 4.00 ABC News 4.05 Big Ideas 5.00 ABC News 5.15 The Quarters 5.30 The 7.30 Report 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 ABC News 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Catalyst 1.30 ABC News 2.00 Midday Report 2.30 Stateline Select 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.30 The World This Week 6.00 ABC News 6.45 The Quarters 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 ABC News 8.30 Landline Extra 9.00 The World 9.30 The World This Week 10.00 ABC News 10.30 One Plus One 11.00 ABC News 11.30 The 7.30 Report 12.00 ABC News 12.05 Big Ideas 1.00 BBC News 1.30 Australia Network News 2.00 BBC World News 2.30 Australia Network News 3.00 Big Ideas

6.00 Prime News 6.30 Seven News 7.00 How I Met Your Mother 7.30 Medical Emergency 8.00 Under The Hammer 8.30 Criminal Minds (M) 9.30 City Homicide (M)

7MATE

11.30 Ten Late News With Sports 8.30 McHale’s Navy 9.00 NBC Today Tonight 12.00 The Late Show 1.00 11.00 Beach Patrol 12.00 Quincy ME Infomercials 4.00 Religion 1.00 Airwolf 2.00 Magnum PI 3.00 The Rockford Files 4.00 Baywatch 5.00 The A Team 6.00 World Skins Golf 8.00 NASCAR 6.00 Monster Garage Nationwide Season’s Best 9.00 7.00 That ’70s Show NASCAR Sprint Cup Season’s Best 7.30 How I Met Your Mother 10.00 America’s Game 11.00 NFL 8.00 Scrubs Total Access 8.30 Family Guy (M)

ONE HD

12.00 NBA Basketball LIVE

2.30 World Tour Beach Volleyball 3.00 Omnisport 3.30 Sports Unlimited 4.30 ASP World Tour Surfing 5.30 Action Wednesday 6.30 Pro Bull Riding 7.30 Sports Tonight

8.00 NBL Basketball LIVE 10.00 MVP 10.30 NBA Basketball 12.30 Sports Tonight Late 12.45 Harley Davidson Forty-Eight 1.15 Omnisport 1.45 National Football League 4.10 Red Bull Air Race Highlights 5.05 New York Marathon

Cryptic Clues ACROSS 1. Lincoln holds the line with wealthy dwarf king (8) 5. Myself and son follow that woman – a celestial messenger! (6) 10. Unite mob, displaced, back in one defeat – a dictator! (6,9) 11. Frighten the maiden – she

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6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Ten News 10.00 The Circle 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Infomercial 4.00 Huey’s Kitchen 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Seven Morning News 12.00 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.30 Deal Or No Deal

can get the blues (7) 12 Foolish dictator with nothing, just a twitch (7) 13. For the farmer, Fairweather comes after the city of the Taj, right? (8) 15. Doctor taken in drink; proceed casually (5) 18 A puppet hit! (5) 20. Pollywogs get north and south after a little bit (8)

11.30 The Bill Engvall Show 12.00 Deadly Surf 12.30 20/20 1.30 Infomercials 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

GO! 6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ 11.30 Get Smart 12.00 Here’s Lucy 12.30 Seinfeld 1.00 Charlie’s Angels (M) 2.00 Star Trek: Original Series 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 Kids’ Programs

6.30 Total Wipeout UK 7.30 Top Gear 8.30 The Big Bang Theory 9.00 Two And A Half Men 9.30 Movie: Batman Returns (M 1992) US drama

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6.00 Prime News 6.30 Seven News 7.00 How I Met Your Mother 7.30 Beat The Star 8.30 Movie: Unbreakable (M 2000) US drama 10.45 30 Rock

NBN

6.00 Kids Time 9.30 Shortland St 10.00 5.30 Today 9.00 Kids’ Programs Coronation St 10.30 Emmerdale 11.00 10.00 Ashes 4th Test Cricket Hollyoaks 12.00 All My Children 1.00 LIVE – Australia v England Kitchen Time 2.30 Movie: Delirious 12.30 The Cricket Show (PG 1991) US comedy 4.30 Murphy 1.00 Cricket continues Brown 5.00 Head Of The Class 5.30 6.00 NBN News Growing Pains 7.00 A Current Affair

6.00 The Simpsons 6.00 A House In Florida 6.30 Jamie’s Thirty Minute 6.30 Bargain Hunt Meals 7.00 The Colour Of Magic 7.00 The 7pm Project 11.00 Movie: It’s My Turn (PG 7.30 Bondi Vet 1980) US comedy 11.15 That ’70s Show 11.45 Everest ER 8.30 Law & Order: SVU (M) 1.00 Home Shopping 5.30 Seven News 1.00 2003 Australian Open Tennis: Williams v Williams 4.00 Leyland 10.30 Outrageous Fortune (M)

7MATE

11.30 Ten Late News With Sports Tonight 12.00 The Late Show 1.00 6.00 Wagon Train 7.00 The Virginian Infomercials 4.00 Religion 8.30 McHale’s Navy 9.00 NBC Today 11.00 Beach Patrol 12.00 Quincy ME 2.00 Weatherwatch 1.00 Airwolf 2.00 Magnum PI (M) 3.00 6.00 Arsenal Football 9.00 NASCAR The Rockford Files 4.00 Baywatch 5.00 Sprint Cup Season’s Best 10.00 The A Team 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News America’s Game 11.00 National 6.00 Monster Garage Football League 1.30 NBL Basketball 8.00 That ’70s Show 6.00 Global Village 3.30 Omnisport 4.00 ATP Champions 8.30 Stargate Atlantis (M) 6.30 Taste Takes Off Tour Tennis 4.30 Liverpool Football 7.30 The Hidden Face Of Fear 7.30 Red Bull X Fighters 8.30 The WWE 11.30 Strikeforce (M) 12.00 Quincy ME 1.00 Airwolf 2.00 Magnum PI (M) 8.30 Once Upon A Time… Experience 9.30 Sports Tonight 10.00 3.00 The Rockford Files 4.00 Baywatch Notorious UFC 102 12.00 Sports Tonight Late 5.00 The A Team 9.30 Movie: Paper Castles 12.15 MVP 12.45 Omnisport 1.15 (MA 2009) Spanish drama World Tour Beach Volleyball 1.45 11.15 Movie: Shadows (MA National Football League 4.10 Red 2007) Macedonian thriller Bull Air Race Highlights 5.05 Escape 1.30 Weatherwatch From Alcatraz Triathlon

ONE HD

SBS 2

DOWN 1. Office of monastic head? Sounds rather like Aunty! (6) 2. Ring the vehicle – people want to jump on it! (4,5) 3. This drink is unfortunately nastier (7) 4. Strange looking beast arrived and left (5) 6. Insert a tenor in Beethoven’s third symphony – turn it blue! (7) 7. Chinese communist drops an article – how wet (5) 8. The road has its irritations, but when we’re in them, we’re laughing (8) 9. Attributed, like autographed (8)

7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 Two And A Half Men 8.00 Customs 8.25 Lotto 8.30 CSI: Miami (M) 9.30 CSI: NY (M) 10.30 Cold Case (M)

12.00 Starsky & Hutch (M) 1.00 Charlie’s Angels (M) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 11.30 Friends 12.00 Getaway 1.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Get Murder, She Wrote 2.00 Home Smart 5.30 The Flintstones Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 Rainbow Country 5.30 Today

SBS 1

23. Orderly Grundy leads the French in the old city (7) 25. Idiot grasps the magnitude of the old courts (7) 26. Produced a dictator, haven’t I? (4,3,8) 27. Holds a thousand files (6) 28. Tweed bar makes a comfortable resting place for the night (8)

GEM

6.00 Today 9.00 Alive & Cooking 9.30 The Zoo 10.00 The Nanny 10.30 Friends 11.00 Murder, She Wrote 12.00 Movie: Snow Job (PG 1972) US drama 2.00 Secret Millionaire 3.00 McLeod’s Daughters 4.00 The View 5.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show

6.00 The Nanny 6.30 Friends 9.00 American Dad 7.00 The Zoo 9.30 The Drew Carey Show 7.30 Wife Swap USA 10.30 Chappelle’s Show (MA) 8.30 Movie: Made Of Honour 11.00 It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia (M 2007) US romantic (M) 11.30 Strikeforce (M) 12.00 Quincy comedy ME 1.00 Airwolf 2.00 Home Shopping 10.30 The Big C (MA) 4.00 Baywatch 5.00 The A Team 11.00 Weeds (MA)

5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 1.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia 1.30 Don Matteo 2.30 Rex In Rome 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 Luke Nguyen’s Vietnam 8.00 Gourmet Farmer 8.30 Food Additives 9.30 World News Australia 10.05 Movie: The Assassination of Richard Nixon (MA 2004) US drama 11.45 Movie: The 13 Roses (MAV 2007) Spanish drama

NBN

6.00 A House In Florida 6.00 The Simpsons 6.30 Bargain Hunt 6.30 Jamie’s Thirty Minute 7.00 Men Behaving Badly Meals 7.30 Heartbeat 7.00 The 7pm Project 7.30 Modern Family 11.30 The First 48 (M) 12.30 Home 8.30 Pie In The Sky 9.40 Wycliffe (M) 8.00 Raising Hope Shopping 5.30 Seven News 11.30 The Professionals (M) 12.30 8.30 NCIS: Los Angeles (M) Airline USA 1.30 Harry’s Practice 2.00 9.30 White Collar (M) 10.30 Outrageous Fortune (M) 6.00 Wagon Train 7.00 The Virginian Leyland Brothers 3.00 Home Shopping

Brothers World 5.00 Home Shopping

GEM 6.00 Today 9.00 Alive & Cooking 9.30 The Zoo 10.00 The Nanny 10.30 Friends 11.00 Murder, She Wrote 12.00 Movie: Confessions Of A Young Bride (PG 2005) US comedy 2.00 Wife Swap USA 3.00 McLeod’s Daughters 4.00 The View 5.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show

6.00 The Nanny 6.30 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 7.30 Neighbours At War 8.00 How Clean Is Your House 8.30 The Mentalist (M) 9.30 Amazing Medical Stories (M) 10.30 Embarrassing Bodies (M)

7.30 Two And A Half Men (M) 9.40 Movie: Newcastle (M 2008) Aust surfing drama 11.50 Movie: Rollerball (M 2002) US action 2.00 Infomercials 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

GO! 6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ 11.30 Get Smart 12.00 Here’s Lucy 12.30 Seinfeld 1.00 Charlie’s Angels 2.00 Here Comes The Newlyweds 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 Kids’ Programs

6.30 Total Wipeout UK 7.30 Movie: The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants (PG 2005) US comedy 10.00 Movie: The Jacket (AV 2005) US drama 12.10 Here Comes The Newlyweds 1.10 Charlie’s Angels 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Get Smart 5.30 The Flintstones

11.30 Movie: Confessions Of A Young Bride 1.30 Friends 2.00 Home Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 Adventures In Rainbow Country 5.30 Today

Please note that TV stations like to tinker with things at the last minute and sometimes make changes after this guide has gone to print.

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6.00 Kids Time 9.30 Shortland St 10.00 5.30 Today 9.00 Kids’ Programs Coronation St 10.30 Emmerdale 11.00 10.00 Ashes 4th Test Cricket Hollyoaks 12.00 All My Children 1.00 LIVE – Australia v England Kitchen Time 2.30 Movie: The Last 12.30 The Cricket Show Escape (PG 1970) US WWII drama 4.30 1.00 Cricket continues Murphy Brown 5.00 Head Of The Class 6.00 NBN News 5.30 Growing Pains

14. Imprison the alien – it’s a universal protocol (8) 16. Confused two notes with unknown bubble – what the devil?( 9) 17. Wearing, but still very decent (8) 19. H, at the peak (7) 21. See the Russian river – a portion, anyway (7) 22. Move up, while a hundred die (6) 24. Australian train a West African republic (5) 25. Tina’s performance venue (5)

27. Grips, holds firmly (6) 28. Sleeping place cushioned with liquid (8)

DOWN 1. Office of monastic head (6) 2. Popular or fashionable cause which people wish to join (4,5) 3. Pine-flavoured Greek wine (7) 4. Bactrian or dromedary (5) 6. Literature or art dealing with sexual love (7) 7. Wet, damp (5) 8. Units of needlework (8) 9. Allotted, attributed (8) 14. The world wide web (8) 16. The devil, Lucifer (9) 17. Playing the game, fair and decent (8) Quick Clues 19. The peak of an elevation in the ACROSS 1. Dwarf king; ruler of the landscape (7) 21. Watch, notice (7) Nibelungs (8) 22. Climb, go up (6) 5. Messenger of the 24. West African republic (5) Greek gods (6) 25. Playing field, oval (5) 10. Italian dictator, founder of fascism (6,9) Last week’s solution 11. Female ranch hand (7) 12. Stupid, asinine (7) 13. Dealing with agricultural issues, especially land (8) 15. Stroll, walk without a clear destination (5) 18. Hit, strike with fist (5) 20. The larvae of frogs (8) 23. Even, well-ordered (7) 25. Criminal courts of the middle ages (7) 26. Tyrannical Russian czar (4,3,8)

CHESS

by Ian Rogers Play at Seagulls Club, Thurs 6-10pm The Australian Masters, a round-robin invitational tournament hosted in Melbourne, has become an institution for almost a quarter of a century. Almost every top Australian player has competed in the Masters, which has sometimes changed format and name but not changed the general rule, established in the early 1990s, that if Solomon plays, Solomon wins. This week Stephen Solomon added an eighth Australian Masters title to his collection, with a dominant performance which left the Queenslander two points clear of a classy field. The other star of the 2010 Masters was 13-year-old Bobby Cheng, who finished outright second and missed securing his first International Master result by just half a point. This week’s game sees Cheng demolish veteran Erik Teichmann, a player who was one win away from securing his International Master title but faded to finish in a tie for third.

Melbourne AUS Masters 2010 White: B Cheng Black: E Teichmann Opening: Nimzowitsch 1.d4 Nc6!? A Teichmann speciality which Cheng tackles head-on. 2.d5 Ne5 3.e4 e6 3...Ng6!? 4.f4 e5 is sharper. 4.f4 Ng6 5.dxe6!? fxe6 6.Nf3 Bc5 7.Nc3 d6!? Varying from 7...Nh6 which had brought Teichmann success in an earlier Australian Masters. 8.Na4! Bb4+ 9.Bd2 Bxd2+ 10.Qxd2 N8e7 11.g3 b6?! 12.Nc3 0-0 13.h4! Black is completely without counterplay, so Cheng now sets about pushing his opponent’s pieces off the edge of the board. 13...Nc6 14.Bg2 Bb7 15.h5 Nh8 16.h6 g6 17.0-0-0 Qe7 18.g4 Nf7 19.g5 a6 (See diagram) 20.Nd5!! exd5 21.exd5 Na7? Only 21...Nce5 keeps him in the game, although after 22.fxe5 Nxe5 23.Rhe1 Black is suffering. 22.Rde1 Qd7 23.Bh3 Qa4 24.Qc3! Qxf4+ 25.Kb1 Nxh6 Desperation, but 25...Ne5 26.Be6+ Kh8 27.Nxe5 dxe5 28.Qxc7 is also hopeless. 26.Be6+ Rf7 26… Nf7 27.Rxh7 Kxh7 28.Rh1+ and mates. 27.gxh6 1-0 a

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ABC 2

4.30 Shortland Street 5.00 Something 5.30 Talking Heads: Fiona McIntosh In The Air 5.30 The Einstein Factor 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 Kids’ 6.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 The New Programs Inventors 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 6.00 James Martin’s Movie: The Adventures Of Baron Champagne Munchausen (PG 1989) UK action 2.35 6.25 Scrapheap Challenge Creature Comforts 3.00 Kids’ Programs 7.15 Nobel Peace Prize

TEN

PRIME

6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Ten News 10.00 The Circle 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Infomercial 4.00 Huey’s Kitchen 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Seven Morning News 12.00 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.30 Deal Or No Deal

Letters And Numbers World News Australia Tropic Of Cancer Dinner For One Love’s Harvest Raspberries 11.25 Movie: Cape Fear (M 1962) US drama 1.10 People Watchers 9.30 World News Australia 2.00 Close 10.05 Movie: The Dinner 11.10 Being Human (M) 12.10 rage (M) Guest (PG 2007) French comedy 6.00 My Family 6.30 Shamwari 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2010 9.30 Margot

FRIDAY 31

SBS 1 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 1.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia 1.30 Don Matteo 2.30 Rex In Rome 3.30 Letters And Numbers 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Global Village

ABC 3

6.05am to 4.40pm Kids’ Programs 5.05 CJ The DJ 5.15 Grizzly Tales From Gruesome Kids 5.35 League Of Super Evil 6.00 Total Drama World Tour 6.25 Prank Patrol International 6.50 Good Game SP 7.10 What Do You Know? 7.35 MI High 8.10 Jeopardy 8.35 Degrassi: The Next Generation 9.00 Close

Concert 2010 8.30 Graham Norton Show 9.30 Movie: Quadrophenia (MA 1979) UK drama

ABC NEWS 24

4.00 ABC News 4.05 Big Ideas 5.00 ABC News 5.15 The Quarters 5.30 The 7.30 Report 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 ABC News 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Landline Extra 1.00 ABC News 2.00 Midday Report 2.30 One Plus One 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.15 Moving Forward, Looking Back: The Year In Politics 6.00 ABC News 6.05 The Drum 6.45 The Quarters 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Contact Sport 8.00 ABC News 8.30 One Plus One 9.00 The World 10.00 ABC News 10.30 Dispatches 2010 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Landline Extra 12.00 ABC News 12.05 Big Ideas 1.00 BBC News 1.30 Australian Network News 2.00 BBC World News 2.30 Australian Network News 3.00 Big Ideas

6.00 6.30 7.30 8.30 9.00

6.00 6.30 7.00 7.30 8.30 Movie: Patricia Cornwell 6.00 A House In Florida 6.30 Bargain Hunt – The Front (M 2010) US 7.00 Ghost Whisperer mystery 8.30 Escape To The Country 10.30 Movie: The Truth About Cats & Dogs (M 1996) US 9.45 60 Minute Makeover 10.45 How Not To Decorate 2.30 comedy

ONE HD

SBS 2

8.00 NBL Basketball LIVE – Gold Coast Blaze v Perth Wildcats

comedy 3.00 Home Shopping

7MATE 6.00 Wagon Train 7.00 The Virginian 8.30 McHale’s Navy 9.00 NBC Today 11.00 Beach Patrol 12.00 Quincy ME 1.00 Airwolf 2.00 Magnum PI 3.00 The Rockford Files 4.00 Baywatch 5.00 The A Team

6.00 Fifth Gear 7.00 That ’70s Show 7.30 Operation Repo 8.30 Ax Men (M) 9.30 Movie: Iron Eagle (M 1986) US action

10.00 NBA Basketball 12.00 Omninsport 12.30 Arsenal Football 3.30 World Heli Challenge 4.00 Red Bull Air Race 5.00 ITU World 12.00 Quincy ME 1.00 Airwolf 2.00 Championship Triathlon Magnum PI 3.00 The Rockford Files 4.00 Baywatch 5.00 The A Team

ABC 1

ABC 2

SATURDAY 1

6.30 Best Of Gardening Australia 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Bed Of Roses 8.30 Midsomer Murders (M) 10.10 Graham Norton Show (M) 11.10 The State Within (M) 12.10 rage (M)

ABC 3 6.05am to 4.40pm Kids’ Programs 5.15 Escape From Scorpion Island 5.45 League Of Super Evil 6.15 Total Drama World Tour 6.35 Outback 8 7.00 Totally Wild Antarctica Special 7.25 Good Game SP 7.45 The Tribe 9.10 Close

Please note that TV stations like to tinker with things at the last minute and sometimes make changes after this guide has gone to print.

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SUNDAY 2

5.00 rage 6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Surfing The Menu 9.30 Mountain With Griff Rhys Jones 10.30 Beachcomber Cottage 11.30 Songs Of Praise 12.00 Best Of Landline 1.00 Best Of Gardening Australia 1.30 Message Stick (G*) 2.00 Travel Oz 2.30 From The Heart 3.00 The Jazz Baroness 4.20 Morrison Plays Schifrin 5.30 Doctor Who

6.30 Robbie The Reindeer 7.00 ABC News 7.30 South Pacific Ocean of islands 8.30 Movie: Strictly Ballroom (PG 1992) Australian comedy 10.05 Iconoclasts Sean Penn and Jon Krakauer 10.50 Filth (MA) 12.20 Movie: Magnificent Obsession (PG 1935) US drama 2.10 Movie: Forever And A Day (PG 1943) US drama 4.00 First Tuesday Book Club

ABC 3 6.05am to 4.05pm Kids’ Programs 4.30 Escape From Scorpion Island 5.00 Dead Gorgeous 5.30 Prank Patrol International 6.00 Dani’s House 6.30 My Life As A Popat 6.55 Kaitangata Twitch 7.20 The Latest Buzz 7.45 The Wannabes 8.10 The Sleepover Club 8.35 Degrassi: The Next Generation 9.00 Close

11.00 Hamish Macbeth 11.50 The Last Enemy (M) 1.15 Radio 1’s Big Weekend: Calvin Harris 1.50 Close

ABC NEWS 24 4.00 Four Corners 4.45 The Quarters 5.00 Big Ideas 6.00 Dispatches 2010 6.30 Stateline Select 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Talking Heads 8.00 ABC News 8.30 7.30 Select 9.30 The World This Week 10.00 ABC News 10.30 Stateline Summer 11.00 ABC News 11.30 One Plus One 12.00 ABC News 12.30 Contact Sport 1.00 Big Ideas 2.00 Landline 3.00 Stateline Select 3.30 Australian Story Classic 4.00 ABC News 4.30 Stateline Summer 5.00 ABC News 5.30 Landline Extra 6.00 ABC News 6.30 Foreign Correspondent 7.00 ABC News 7.30 One Plus One 8.00 The Car That Ate China 9.00 ABC News 9.30 Dispatches 2010 10.00 ABC News 10.30 The World This Week 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Australian Story Classic 12.00 Big Ideas 1.00 BBC World News 1.30 Stateline Select 2.00 Big Ideas 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 Stateline Summer

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6.00 The Nanny 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 Kids’ Programs 6.30 Friends 6.00 Movie: Moonwalker (PG 7.00 The Zoo 1988) US action 7.30 Movie: Singin’ In The Rain 8.00 Movie: Can’t Stop The (G 1952) US musical Music (PG 1980) US 9.40 Movie: Jailhouse Rock comedy (PG 1957) US musical 10.30 Movie: Thank God It’s drama Friday (M 1978) US 11.35 Friends 12.00 Murder, She Wrote comedy 1.00 Movie: Singin’ In The Rain 2.55

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6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.00 Hit List TV 12.00 Movie: The Librarian – Quest For The Spear (PG 2004) US action 2.00 Movie: Just Visiting (PG 2001) US comedy 3.30 From The Ground Up 4.30 Everybody Hates Chris 5.00 Ten News 5.30 Sports Tonight

6.00 Annual Rose Parade 7.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Saturday Disney 11.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 Australian International Equestrian 2.00 Movie: The Muppets’ Wizard Of Oz (G 2005) Animation 4.00 JK Rowling: A Year In The Life 5.00 What’s Up Down Under 5.30 The Outdoor Room

6.00 Kids’Programs 8.30 Better Homes And Gardens 9.30 The Great Outdoors 10.30 Monster House 11.30 Big J’s Place 12.10 Movie: The Notorious Landlady (PG 1962) US comedy 2.50 Movie: Von Richthofen And Brown (PG 1971) US war action 5.00 Destination New Zealand 5.30 Man About The House

6.00 Danoz 7.00 Weekend Today 9.00 Saturday Kerri-Anne 10.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 Fishing Australia 1.30 Sting Symphonicity Tour Behind The Scenes 2.00 Movie: Gidget Goes Hawaiian (G 1961) US comedy 4.00 Discover Downunder 4.30 30 Minute Menu 5.00 Random Acts Of Kindness

6.00 Love Thy Neighbour 6.30 Born And Bred 7.30 Heartbeat 8.40 The Curse Of King Tut’s Tomb (M)

6.00 NBN News 6.30 Australia’s Funniest Home Videos 7.30 The Cube 8.30 Movie: A Few Good Men (M 1992) US drama 8.40 Lotto

6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Mythbusters 9.15 New Years Day Concert From Austria 11.45 SOS (M) 12.45 Great Australian

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6.00 The Simpsons 6.30 Movie: Apollo 13 (PG 1995) US true story 9.20 Hopman Cup Tennis Australia v Belgium

Albums: Diorama by silverchair 1.45 Drawn Together (M) 2.15 Weatherwatch 12.00 Cops (M) 1.00 Infomercials 4.00 ABC News 4.05 Big Ideas 6.00 4.00 Religion Dispatches 2010 6.30 Stateline Select 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Contact Sport 8.00 ABC News 8.45 The Quarters 9.00 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News 6.00 Spirit Of The Equestrian 6.30 ABC News 9.30 Landline Extra 10.00 6.00 Here Comes The National Football League 9.00 NFL One Plus One 10.30 Stateline Summer Neighbourhood Total Access 10.00 America’s Game 11.00 ABC News 11.30 The World This 6.30 Sarah Wiener In Italy Week 12.00 ABC News 12.30 7.30 7.30 Buena Vista Social Club 11.00 NBA Basketball 1.00 NBL Select 1.00 Big Ideas 2.00 Four Corners 9.30 Movie: Jean De Florette Basketball 5.00 Omnisport 5.30 Sports Tonight 2.45 The Quarters 3.00 Stateline Select (PG 1986) French drama 6.00 Hopman Cup Tennis LIVE 3.30 Foreign Correspondent 4.00 ABC 11.40 Movie: Jet Lag (M 2002) News 4.30 Stateline Summer 5.00 ABC French romantic comedy 12.00 The WWE Experience 1.00 Real NBA 1.30 Red Bull X Fighters 2.30 News 5.30 One Plus One 6.00 ABC 1.10 Weatherwatch Windsurfing Movie 3.30 Omnisport W News 6.30 Australian Story Classic 7.00 4.00 4.0 PGA Tour Of Australiasia Golf ABC News 7.30 7.30 Select 8.00 Labor In Power 9.00 ABC News 9.30 Landline Extra 10.00 ABC News 10.30 Contact Sport 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Foreign Correspondent 12.00 Big Ideas 1.00 BBC World News 1.30 Stateline Select ct 2.00 Four Corners 2.45 The Quarters arters 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 Stateline elinee Summer

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12.10 Movie: That’s Entertainment (G 1974) US musical 2.40 Deadly Surf 3.05 Entertainment Tonight 3.30 6.00 Today 9.00 Alive & Cooking Skippy 4.00 Danoz 4.30 Movie: A 9.30 The Zoo 10.00 The Nanny 10.30 Carol Christmas (PG 2003) US comedy Friends 11.00 Murder, She Wrote 12.00 All Creatures Great & Small 2.00 Neighbours At War 2.30 How Clean Is 6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 Your House 3.00 McLeod’s Daughters Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ 4.00 The View 5.00 The Ellen Degeneres 11.30 Get Smart 12.00 Here’s Lucy Show 12.30 Seinfeld 1.00 Charlie’s Angels

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Aust Open Tennis: Safin v Hewitt

Movie: Jailhouse Rock 4.50 Katie 12.20 Jamiroquai 12.50 Live At The Noonan 5.00 Adventures In Rainbow Chapel 3.30 Seinfeld 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Get Smart 5.30 Country 5.30 The Garden Gurus The Flintstones

1.35 Weatherwatch

5.00 rage (PG) 11.00 2010: Moving 6.00 Kids’ Program Forward, Looking Back – The Year 6.00 The Man Inside Dame In Politics 12.00 Message Stick (G*) Edna 12.30 Best Of Australian Story 1.00 6.55 Scrapheap Challenge Movie: Rear Window (PG 1954) Alfred 8.35 Movie: To Catch A Thief Hitchcock (G 1955) Alfred Hitchcock 3.00 W-League Football LIVE – 10.15 Movie: Family Plot (PG Sydney FC v Brisbane Roar 1976) US comedy 5.00 NSW Open Bowls 12.15 The Solomon Treasures 1.10 6.00 Kylie Kwong My China Sun, Sea & Bargain Spotting 2.15 Close

NBN 5.30 Today 9.00 Kerri-Anne 11.00 Infomercials 12.00 Camelot 1.00 The Three Little Pigs 2.00 Days Of Our Lives 3.00 Alive And Cooking 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Afternoon News 5.30 Hot Seat

6.00 Evening News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 2010 – The Way It Was 8.40 New Years Eve LIVE from Sydney 9.00 Fireworks LIVE 9.15 New Years Eve Party Zone Leyland Brothers World 3.30 2005 11.55 Video Hits Presents New Years 12.30 Movie: Barbershop (M 2002) US 11.40 New Years Eve LIVE 6.00 The Simpsons 6.30 Jamie’s Thirty Minute Meals 7.00 The 7pm Project 7.30 The Simpsons 8.30 Movie: Braveheart (M 1995) US action

Eve (M) 2.00 Infomercials 5.00 Religion 11.35 Classic Albums: Duran Duran Rio 12.35 Arctic Monkeys At The Apollo 2.00 No Way, Get F*#ked, F*#k Off 3.00 6.00 Liverpool Football 9.00 NASCAR Weatherwatch Sprint Cup 10.00 America’s Game 11.00 NBA Basketball LIVE 4.15 Omnisport 4.30 Ironwoman 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News Series – Coolum 5.30 Red Bull Fighters 6.30 NFL Total Access 7.30 MVP 6.00 Global Village

6.30 Sarah Wiener In Italy 7.30 More Than A Fiesta 8.00 China 21 Confucius can cook 8.30 Leonard Cohen Live at the Isle of Wight 9.45 Movie: The Magic Kitchen (PG 2004) Japanese comedy 11.35 Movie: Bon Voyage (M 2003) French drama

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6.00 Kids Time 8.30 Sons & Daughters 9.00 Home & Away 9.30 Shortland St 10.00 Coronation St 10.30 Emmerdale 11.00 Hollyoaks 12.00 All My Children 1.00 Kitchen Time 2.30 Prime News Movie: Sibling Rivalry (PG 1990) US Seven News How I Met Your Mother comedy 4.30 Murphy Brown 5.00 Better Homes & Gardens Head Of The Class 5.30 Growing Pains

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5.00 Weatherwatch 6.35 World News 10.30 Football ootba Asia 11.00 Les Murray’s Football Feature 12.30 Speedweek 2.00 The Love Of Money 3.00 Equator 4.00 Breaking Boundaries 5.00 Cycling Central 5.30 Dakar Rally Highlights

6.00 Religion 7.00 Kids’ Programs 8.00 Fishin’ Trip 8.30 The Hit Rater. Com 9.00 The Benchwarmers Oz Made 10.00 Hit List TV 12.00 Pat Callinan 4x4 Adventures 1.00 Escape With ET 2.00 Ironman Series – Portsea 5.00 Ten News 5.30 Sports Tonight

6.00 Thalassa 6.00 The Simpsons 6.30 World News Australia 6.30 Rules Of Engagement 7.30 Who Do You Think You 7.30 Modern Family Are? Georgie Parker 8.00 The Simpsons 8.30 Skin Deep 9.30 Warriors: Shogun (MAV) 8.30 Just For Laughs (M) Best Of Britain 10.30 Movie: Don’t Say A Word 9.30 Hopman Cup Tennis (G 2003) Bollywood Serbia v Kazakhstan 1.30 Movie: Thirty-Five 2.00 Infomercials 4.00 Religion Something (M 2005) French comedy 3.25 Weatherwatch

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12.20 Movie: Anonymous Rex (M 2004) US action 2.05 Grey’s Anatomy (M) 4.00 Home Shopping

7MATE 6.00 Wagon Train 7.00 The Virginian 8.30 McHale’s Navy 9.00 Operation Repo 10.00 NBC Today 12.00 Quincy ME 1.00 Airwolf 2.00 Magnum PI 3.00 The Rockford Files 4.00 Baywatch 5.00 The A Team

6.00 Fifth Gear 6.30 Engineering Disasters 7.30 Air Crash Investigations 8.30 Mega Disasters 9.30 The Universe

11.20 Movie: Any Which Way You Can (M 1980) US action 1.35 Movie: 6.00 All Creatures Great & Small 8.00 The Accidental Tourist (PG 1988) US Movie: The Black Stallion (G 1979) drama 4.00 Infomercials US adventure 10.30 The Nanny 11.00 Movie: Baxter! (PG 1973) UK drama 1.05 Movie: A Fine Madness (PG 6.00 Kids’ Programs 3.00 Green Acres 1966) US drama 3.05 Movie: Parrish 3.30 Star Trek: Original Series 5.30 The (PG 1961) US drama 6.00 The Nanny Unnatural History

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6.30 David Attenborough’s 6.30 Movie: Chasing Liberty Life In Cold Blood (PG 2004) US romantic 7.30 Movie: The Wizard Of Oz comedy (G 1939) US adventure 8.55 Movie: The Island (M 9.40 CSI: Miami (M) 2005) US action 10.40 CSI: New York (M) 10.55 Star Trek: Original Series 1.55

11.35 Movie: Parrish 2.10 Movie: A Movie: Spinning Boris (M 2003) US Fine Madness 4.00 Movie: Baxter! comedy 4.00 Get Smart 5.00 Kids’ programs 12.30 Airwolf 1.30 McHale’s Navy 2.00 Magnum PI 3.00 The Rockford Files 4.00 Baywatch 5.00 The A Team

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6.00 Religion 7.00 Weekend Sunrise 6.00 Kids’ Programs 7.40 Movie: 10.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 My Wife Roughshod (PG 1949) US action 9.30 And Kids Movie: Nutcracker (G 1986) UK ballet 12.40 Movie: West Side Story 11.20 Movie: The Untamed Breed (PG 1948) Western 1.10 Movie: Apache (PG 1961) US musical 4.00 Cirque Du Soleil: Corteo (PG 1954) Western 3.00 Elvis Special 3.30 Movie: Clambake (G 1967) US 5.30 New Zealand On A Plate comedy 6.00 Love Thy Neighbour 6.30 6.00 Seven News 6.30 Billy Connolly’s Journey All Creatures Great And Small

7.30 Bargain Hunt To The Edge Of The 8.00 10 Years Younger World 8.30 Escape To The Country 7.30 Border Patrol 9.45 Great British Journeys 8.00 Coastwatch 11.00 Escape To The Sun 11.40 Club 8.30 Bones (M) 9.30 Movie: Derailed (M 2005) Reps Aftersun (M) 12.45 2007 Aust Open Tennis: Nadal v Murray 5.00 US drama

11.30 The First 48 (M) 12.30 Home Shopping 5.30 Seven News

6.00 NBL Basketball 8.00 ASP World Surfing Tour 9.00 Cliff Diving 9.30 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News Kitesurfing 10.00 Ironman Series 6.00 Wagon Train 7.00 The Virginian Catch Up 6.00 ADbc 8.30 McHale’s Navy 9.00 Movie: 2.00 Ironman Series LIVE Mosquito Squadron (PG 1970) WWII 6.30 The Hairy Bikers’ Food – Portsea drama 11.00 Movie: Red River (PG Tour Of Britain 5.00 World Tour Beach Volleyball 5.30 1948) Western 2.00 Magnum PI 3.00 7.30 Ninja Warrior Sports Tonight The Rockford Files 4.00 Baywatch 5.00 8.00 Unbeatable Banzuke According To Jim 5.30 Whacked Out 6.00 NBL Basketball LIVE 8.30 Alchemists Turn To Sports – Melbourne Tigers v Cooking Ferran Adrià

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12.10 2005 Aust Open Tennis: Federer v Safin 5.00 Leyland Brothers World

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NBN 6.00 Infomercials 7.00 Weekend Today 10.00 Surfsport 11.00 Jack Newton Celebrity Classic 12.00 Gilligan’s Island 12.30 F Troop 1.00 Wildfire 2.00 Survivor: Nicaragua 5.00 Random Acts Of Kindness

6.00 NBN News 6.30 The Enforcers 7.00 RBT 7.30 Best Of 60 Minutes 8.30 The Mentalist (M) 9.30 CSI: Miami (M) 11.20 Movie: Mindhunters (AV 2004) US action 1.30 The Baron 2.30 Infomercials 3.30 Religion 4.00 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

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6.00 Religion 6.30 Movie: The Winslow Boy (G 1950) UK drama 8.50 Movie: The Magic Box (G 1951) UK biography 11.00 Movie: Henry VIII & His Six Wives (PG 1972) UK drama 1.30 The Nanny 2.00 Birds Of A Feather 2.30 Bless This House 3.00 Allo Allo 3.35 Movie: The Sea Chase (PG 1955) WWII drama 6.00 The Nanny 6.30 Birds Of A Feather 7.10 Bless This House 7.45 Allo Allo

6.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 The Hills 12.30 Cribs 1.30 Here’s Lucy 2.30 Green Acres 3.30 The Dukes Of Hazzard 4.30 Privileged 5.30 Wipeout

6.30 Top Gear 7.30 The Big Bang Theory 8.00 Two And A Half Men 8.30 Movie: xXx – The Next Level (M 2005) US action

10.40 South Park (MA) 11.10 Watchmen: Complete Motion Comic 8.30 Movie: The Devil’s Own (AV) 11.35 Fur TV (MA) 12.00 Privileged (M 1997) US drama 1.00 Nightmares & Dreamscapes (M) 10.50 Without A Trace (M) 11.50 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 The Dukes Movie: The Sea Chase 2.00 Home Of Hazzard 5.00 Here’s Lucy Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 Adventures In Rainbow Country 11.30 30 Rock 12.00 Lost (M) 2.00 5.30 Today Magnum PI 3.00 The Rockford Files 4.00 Baywatch 5.00 McHale’s Navy 5.30 Deal Or No Deal

6.30 The Drew Carey Show Adelaide 36ers 9.30 Movie: Manon des Sources (PG 1986) French 8.00 Hopman Cup Tennis LIVE 7.00 That ’70s Show 7.30 Gene Simmons Family – Serbia v Kazakhstan drama Jewels 2.00 Omnisport 2.30 Race Of 11.30 Movie: Everybody 8.30 Movie: Fletch (M 1985) Famous (M 2000) Belgian Champions Motorsport 4.30 MVP 5.00 National Football US comedy comedy League LIVE 10.30 Boston Legal (M) 1.15 Weatherwatch

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Boutique Books The Book Club Boutique's motto is Books, Booze and BoogieWoogie and it’s unique every time, with Salena Godden as the resident poet and host, composing and performing something completely new at each event. Every event is themed and this is no square affair; there is dancing, merriment and mingling over cocktails, plus different DJs and live music and this event will feature local performance poetry by Daevid Allen, Ilona Harker and Frank Coorie and music by Melania Jack at the Sheoak Shack Thursday December 23.

Brothers in R 'n' R and Waves Enjoy the last weekend of Rock 'n' Roll Sundays at Currumbin RSL with the Beach Brothers, who have proven to be a popular favourite at the Club. Covering a huge range, their music includes classics from the Beachboys, the Beatles, Queen, the Eagles, ELO, the Bee Gees and the list goes on. See them at the Currumbin RSL Sunday December 26.

Chasing Butterflies With three ARIA Gold-selling albums under their belts and over 200,000 catalogue sales, there’s a lot of expectation on what The Butterfly Effect will do next, but as always the bands are aiming well beyond their own benchmark. As they did with Begins Here, Imago and Final Conversation Of Kings, The Butterfly Effect are taking to their fourth album with a sense of absolute creative freedom and fluttering into Twin Towns on Friday.

Calling all Captains Formed by Nick Waters, the 'guitar slinging singer', Captain Wow are an energy packed show party band. Nick is joined on vocals and flute by Katie Baines, and singing teacher Benita Stubbs on vocals, with drummer percussionist extraordinaire Timo Sutinen banging, rattling and shaking anything he can lay his busy hands on. Captain Wow's sense of fun weaves in and out of each set that they play, but never compromises the delivery of any song, they choose to cover, whether it’s an acoustic roots tune or a 70s disco classic. Answer the call at the Currumbin RSL on Friday December 31.

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sonic celebration. Arrested Development is a music group that respects women, promotes family, spirituality and male responsibility; all of the members have a deep belief in using music to help those who are in need. This two time Grammy Award Winning group has been devoted to nudging folks in the direction of freedom and evolution for over 19 years. Get arrested at the Coolangatta Hotel on Wednesday January 5.

Rapskallion Straight out of Brunswick’s bohemia come Rapskallion dressed in their decrepit finery with a glint in their eye and a dagger in their teeth. Formed four years ago, by a raggle taggle band of renegade Melbourne musicians and and two circus performers, Rapskallion have entertained audiences all around Australia and Europe with their unique fusion of contemporary vaudeville and raucous dance tunes. Their music encompasses a variety of genres, varying from sea shanties, furious tangos and light-hearted waltzes. Be rapt at the Sheoak Shack Thursday January 6 and the Soundlounge on Friday. RAPSKALLION AT THE AY SHEOAK SHACK THURSD E TH D AN 6 RY UA JAN DAY 7 SOUNDLOUNGE ON FRI

Jumping Over the Lazy Dog The Quick Brown Fox (James Higgins) will take you through to the big countdown with his four piece band delivering original gospel, blues, soul, funk and reggae flavours and showcasing the songs from his new EP Where Does Your Apple Grow? The Fox and his compadres will also take you on a journey through their interpretations of classic Motown, reggae, disco, dance and funk tunes. This is sure to be a night of musicality, high energy dancing and uplifting soul at the Sheoak Shack on Friday December 31.

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add another dollar to world debt. I heard on the radio that retailers are in a state of panic because people aren’t shopping. A spokesman has come out and declared that people need to spend more. Hello. People are drowning in credit card debt, we are all living well and truly beyond our means... how can we possibly need to spend more? If retailers are going bust due to slow Christmas sales then maybe they need to hit up their greedy landlords and ask them to lower the rent, rather then putting pressure on Joe Average to rack up another few grand on his Amex. At Christmas time I can’t afford to buy people what I’d really like There are just far too many shops. How can we possibly need to give them, so basically it’s just a piece of useless shit, wrapped or even bother to want all that stuff? I am sure when Mary and up to make me appear generous and to absolve my gift giving Joseph first conceptualised Christmas with their off the wall plan guilt. This year I’m just done with adding to other people’s clutto give birth in a barn, they had no intention of it becoming a ter. And I’ll admit I’m pretty well done with them adding to mine. retail bonanza. Who would have thought that some pregnant teenager with a thing for authority figures who ended up setI’ve put out a strict NO PRESENTS warning. Or at least a NO BOUGHT PRESENTS. Whatever I give this year, I’ve made with my tling for a tradie with no more than a donkey to his name would have spawned not only the son of God, but also the biggest own two hands. I’ve knocked up a one-legged coffee table, a goon sack that I’ve knitted, a teddy bear cover for a recycled hot day on the retail calendar? If they were around now, Coca-Cola water bottle, and I’ve hand stitched the kids’ odd socks into pup- would have them employed as marketing gurus. pets. In the past I’ve always thought that people who resorted We’re all so over-indulged. When I was a kid getting a present to craft were a few paddlepop sticks short of a teapot stand. used to mean something. Christmas meant two gifts under I don’t need anything. If you are going to give me something, it the tree. Not 200. For me it was usually something like a Bible better be funny. I’m living in a four bedroom house with seven and a Barbie. It was my mother’s plan for religious and gender people. We have no built-ins or storage spaces. We are literally indoctrination. Except for my birthday, these were the only gifts drowning in fruit bowls and buddhas. My entire house is full of I received all year. gifts. Which is lovely, but they’re not what I would have chosen. Those two gifts would see me through all year. I made Barbie Consequently my home is so eclectic it looks like an op shop. act out the Bible stories. She made a startling Virgin Mary, riding I’ve tried garage sale-ing the shit, but it’s embarrassing when the in to Bethelem on Brian, my fox terrier, wearing only a tutu. She friend who gave it to you turns up. ‘Whoops! How did this get gave birth to baby Jesus in the stereo cabinet that housed my here?’ Mum’s Glen Campbell collection. There’s a few campaigns out I’ve even tried leaving excess items in my garage untended. It’s there, like ‘Donate what you would have spent to Lifeline.’ I took open to the street. I’ve had three brand new vases sitting there it a step further. I’ve actually bought the few Christmas presents for six months. Right out in public view. No one has stolen them. I’ve got for the kids from Lifeline. Ironically, they’re exactly the That’s how ugly they are. same as the shit I donated after my garage sale a few months We are opulent first worlders and, let’s face it, apart from the odd back, except they’re slightly more expensive. Bury those middle class values that centre around needless consumption. Do somepersonal values audit, most of us don’t need a thing. In the face of global meltdown due to our penchant for overconsumption it thing for your planet and your bank balance and have a good seems immoral to indulge in a shopping frenzy. I don’t intend to old fashioned Hippy Christmas.

This year I’m not buying anyone anything. I’m not a tightarse, I love buying people presents. For their birthdays. But Christmas time it’s just ridiculous. I obviously can’t spend $100 on every family member, friend and acquaintance, so I usually have a $20 budget. So it’s wow, a BBQ tong set! Or a box of shortbread for the gluten intolerant or a Santa’s Little Helper G String for my stepdad. It’s just a hoot when he gets pissed and wears it with his Santa hat.

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A French Butler Called Smith This Gold Coast based world music band have been performing their high energy Latin, funk, instrumental fusion over a two year period to ever increasing audiences on Australia's east coast. Their multi-layered sounds of Latin, gypsy, world-roots and funk rise to ecstatically captivating levels. They are all consuming to watch, and it is impossible to keep your feet still once you are within the energy realms of their music. See the Butler at the Currumbin Soundlounge Friday January 7.

Be Kaffene-ated Kaffene are a sultry, soulful and dynamic classic rock, rhythm and blues, funk and pop duo that have been performing at Currumbin RSL for many years and have cemented themselves as firm favourites. This effervescent act is the product of generations of music. The years of experience in the music industry is apparent in their performances. The huge sound of Kaffene is driven by soaring lead vocals and harmonies, brilliant guitar work and the latest in digital audio technology and they are coming to the Currumbin RSL on Sunday January 9.

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we are going for anything... it is not easy to put on an event like Bluesfest, and we all certainly do it for the love of creating such an amazing event, first and foremost, I like how Bill Haurittz from Woodfordia describes Festival Directors – he calls us ‘cultural activists’. I think that description is something I like to live with. Peter, it’s a huge coup getting Bob Dylan this year. What You put out all these feelers for acts and you just don’t does it mean for Bluesfest? know who’s going to say yes, and when it starts coming in With Bob Dylan, Grace Jones, BB King, Elvis Costello, Gurrumul the shape of the festival takes place – this seems like the and a host of others coming in 2011, Bluesfest continues to year where they’re all saying YES – but what happens as a present the truly great artists of the world every Easter in our promoter when you just can’t get your wishlist? wonderful home. And to cement our reputation worldwide as Every year we say that the best Bluesfest is the one that does one of the planet’s great arts and cultural events, and guess not happen – for every artist you see on a stage – chances are what, we still have more than half of our artists to announce, we have had a parley with 10 more. But we always take the including some incredible people from all over the world. position that it’s a little like fishing. You need to be patient, and Why do you think an old bloke with a voice like an unoiled to have some good bait, and then you will hook a monster door has such an incredible resonance with the Byron every now and then, and the one who got away this year Shire and the broader public? What do you think he might just take the bait in a year or two. So nothing ventured, represents ? nothing gained. Bob Dylan represents the conscience of the world. Particularly Why Grace Jones? (Grace is the latest addition to the to both those who are actually aware as well as those who Bluesfest 2011 bill) are ignorant of their own conscience – and then there’s the Because she is the funniest, scariest, most incredible lady on rest of us... somewhere in the middle... I was asked by my son the planet – and she will have you in the palm of her hand the to name a top ten of Dylan’s songs – I couldn’t even get a list whole performance... and she also has the sexiest butt of any within a top 50. There are around 60 plus of his compositions 60-year-old on the planet! which I would need to list... go on just try... and then when Do you think the new site has created a larger canvas for I told my 20-year-old some of them, he apologised for not you to re-invent Bluesfest? knowing who wrote them – as he already knew so many of them. This is why Bob Dylan I am not reinventing Bluesfest – just going with my feelings represents, along with The with what feels right to present – and remembering two Beatles, the finest artists of things – there are only two kinds of music – good and bad – the 20th century. His music everything else is just subjective. is timeless – he will be How is the new site coming along? remembered like Beethoven It’s all good – we have been doing lots of bush regeneration and Tchiakovsky a hundred work and weed eradication, improving drainage on the event years from now. site fields, and adding in low voltage lighting on the walkways As a promoter and booker, around the site, which are very beautiful as well. how do you feel about What is it about Bluesfest that sets it apart from other the way Bluesfest 2011 is music events? shaping up? It’s a good time for us. Our site Well, we are about presenting a creative environment where artists can create at their highest levels and the public can be is coming along beautifully, our ticket sales are better than the benefactor of that creativity. Sounds like promoter speak, doesn’t it? However, it is the truth. We are also not about being ever in our history – in fact the biggest, but we are definitely about being the best. we are sold out or are selling What are you really looking forward to at Bluesfest next out of many of our available year? ticket types already – and we have once again a great Look out, this is a question I could go on about for ages. Try artist bill to present. We are this. Raul Malo – former lead singer of the Mavericks with one for the first time totally using of the best voices in the business, kind of Texas, rock, country locals for site presentation with more than a little Tex Mex Music thrown in. Funky Meters and management, and they – The bedrock New Orleans Funk group. Kasey Chambers are showing they create at – it will be over 10 years since Bluesfest first discovered her world’s best levels and the after hearing her sing with the family band on the steps on sun still manages to come up the Bruns Pub. We still present her every second year and every day... we never exchange contracts; her word is good enough for it couldn’t be any better. me and mine for her. John Legend – just nominated for five Is it nervewracking? How do Grammys for his new album, Wake Up, this man is a conscious soul music artist. Think Marvin Gaye – really not to be missed. you manage the constant Trinity Rootys – New Zealand’s finest band of the past 10 years anxiety? Does your mind on their first ever Australian performance. Just incredible. ever shut off? They put out two independent CD releases in the early part Yes... No... Yes... No... Actually, hang on, when you are living of the last decade; both went platinum in NZ and then they broke up. 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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. 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. Perfect Christmas gift ideas for your friends and family... a gift voucher for dining in Australia’s most awarded regional restaurant Fins. Personally signed copies of Steven Snow’s best seller cook book Byron Cooking and Eating also available.

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CAFÉ D’BAR GALLERY 275 BOUNDARY ST, COOLANGATTA 07 5536 2500 OPEN EVERY DAY COMMUNITY PRINTMAKERS MURWILLUMBAH (CPM INC) 33-35 KYOGLE ROAD BRAY PARK, MURWILLUMBAH 02 6672 8276 CAROLYN JOHN STUDIO 02 6674 4072 OPEN DAILY EXCEPT THURSDAY CURIOUS ART GALLERY 94A CHINDERAH BAY DRIVE, CHINDERAH 02 6674 5340 OPEN: 10AM-5PM WED-SAT, SUNDAY 12PM-5PM GALLERY VISION U4B/18 STUART ST, TWEED HEADS 07 5536 1699 KENITA’S DECORATIVE ARTS 15 COOLMAN ST TYALGUM 02 6679 3339 OPEN 10AM-4PM 6 DAYS (CLOSED WED) MINJUNGBAL ABORIGINAL CULTURAL CENTRE CNR KIRKWOOD ROAD & DUFFY STREET, SOUTH TWEED HEADS 07 5524 2109 OPEN: 9AM-4PM EVERY DAY EXCEPT WEEKENDS SHEOAK SHACK GALLERY CAFÉ 64 FINGAL RD, FINGAL HEAD

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07 5523 1130 OPEN WED-THURS: 11AM-5PM, FRI-SAT: 11AM-10:30PM, SUN 9:30AM-5PM STOKERS SIDING POTTERY 224 STOKERS ROAD, STOKERS SIDING, TWEED VALLEY 02 6677 9208 OPEN 7 DAYS FROM 9:30AM-5PM SHELENA RUSSELL GALLERIES 36 GRIFFITH ST, COOLANGATTA 07 5536 6559 OPEN: MON-FRI 10-5PM, SAT 10AM-2PM, SUN 10-12.30PM SEAN SCOTT PHOTOGRAPHY SHOP 3, 110 MARINE PARADE, REFLECTIONS TOWER TWO, COOLANGATTA 07 5599 1150 OPEN: MON-SUN 6.30AM-5PM TUMBULGUM GALLERY 110 RIVERSIDE DR, TUMBULGUM 02 6676 6234 OPEN 11AM-4PM WED-SUN THE WAY OF DESIGN GALLERY 2/792 PACIFIC PARADE, CURRUMBIN BEACH 07 5534 1530 OPEN: TUES-SAT 9.30AM-2.30PM TWEED RIVER ART GALLERY 2 MISTRAL RD (CORNER OF TWEED VALLEY WAY), MURWILLUMBAH 02 6670 2790 OPEN WED-SUN 10AM-5PM

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MONDAY 3 TWEED Q KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS CLUB 12 NOON DAVID BARRY Q T WEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6.30PM DICK BARNS

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WEDNESDAY 5 TWEED Q CLUB BANORA 6PM SHANDELL Q ELTHAM HOTEL 6:30PM ‘NOT QUITE FOLK’ JAM NIGHT Q T WEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6.30PM CRAIG SHAW

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Service Directory ACCOUNTS & BOOKINGS: 02 6672 2280 ACCOUNTANTS

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CARPENTRY

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02 6674 1509 / 0402 191 370

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LANDSCAPING & EXCAVATION

PLUMBING

BASALT BUSHROCK Highgrade. Rock walls. Cheap prices ................................. Rolly 0408 860 543 BRENDON POWELL Bobcat, excavator, tipper & auger. All jobs..................................0404 988 222 FENCING & RETAINING WALLS BSA Licensed. Free quotes. Any area ......................0411 594 314

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SELF STORAGE

PRINTER TONERS & CARTRIGES

TINY EARTHWOR Philip Toovey 0409 799 909 ph/fax 02 6684 3208 various implements available for limited access projects

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Professional Painting & Decorating Specialising in: Customer Service, Residential Homes, Interiors & Exteriors

Joel Watson 0404 202 415 Fully insured

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RUBBISH REMOVAL OCEAN SHORES SKIPS Mini skip specialist.................................................................0412 161 564

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COVERING THE TWEED AND GOLD COAST New customers – 10% DISCOUNT

FREECALL 1800 991 322 PLASTERING

Solar Power Systems y & Electrical ecttriiccal 1.5kw system

$12,000 (fully installed)

0412 693 189

Call Darren Email: drmelectrical@bigpond.com

TILING CERAMIC TILER Lic 161050C. Robbie ..........................................................................0409 368 046 RON: WALL/FLOOR TILER Waterproofing. Lic 1089627.............................................0407 374 013

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TREE SERVICES POWER CLEAR TREE SERVICES Murwillumbah & Tweed .........................................02 6672 8954

Tree pruning & removal

FREE PICK UP All scrap metal, white goods, farm machinery 7$ ACCESS s ,OCAL TOWING SERVICE Lic 06105 NSW

WEDDING SERVICES

Ph/Fx 02 6677 9443 Mob 0421 251 477

TAILORED CEREMONIES BY WILL ALLAN................................ will.allan@me.com 07 5590 9757

SCREENPRINTING

Brendan Houghton

WINDOW TINTING SUNRISE WINDOW TINTING 30 years experience. Cars, homes, etc .........................0412 158 478

WINDOW TINTING

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Your local installer dealing in Sharp Solar Modules, Australian made Latronic Inverters and Century/Yuasa batteries. Specialists in Standalone and Grid Interact Solar Power Systems.

www.tweedskips.com.au

COWBOYS CAR REMOVALS TERMITE & PEST CONTROL SPECIALISTS

Lic. Electrical Contractors

P: 02 6679 7228 E: sunbeamsolar@bigpond.com www.sunbeamsolar.com.au

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Classifieds

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THE TWEED

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PUBLIC NOTICES

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ARCHETYPAL VOICES Voice Dialogue and Big Mind Sat Jan 29 – Sun Jan 30

MISHKA MASSAGE positive & sensitive. Deep tissue work, relaxation. Byron/ Mullum. Dip Rem. Ana 0413608927

SWEET, SPICY, FRUITY remedial aroma therapy massage. Ph 0431787552 From the former owner and creator of KIVA SPA comes HAVEN SPA & BATHHOUSE Oxygenated spa, negative ion sauna, Eminence Organics, body scrubs and wraps with vichy showers, very affordable spa parties & girls parties. Clean & professional with top customer SERVICE s WWW HAVENSPA COM AU Phone 07 55130855 SEXUAL HEALTH SERVICE Free STI/HIV checkups Clinics Murwillumbah & Tweed For appointment phone 0755066850

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- HONEST & RELIABLE Best rates & service in the Shire. Phone Matt 0427172684

WANTED 2ND HAND aluminium bronze glass sliding doors 2400 x 2100. 0402779376

Call Monique 0410 502 778

MOTOR VEHICLES

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CAR BODIES REMOVED FREE

BANORA POINT very large room, unfurn, off street parking, close to all amenities $155pw. Ph 0409486455

$$$s for most. Phone 0418189324, 0438189323

TO LET

HOLDEN ACCLAIM 98 s/w, racks, reg 4/11, mech A1 $3900 neg. Ph 66874090

LARGE HOUSE, 20 min to Uki on rural property in rainforest area. Terms negotiable for bush regenerator/s, horticulturist or handyperson as some work available onsite. Refs ess $400/wk. OR EMAIL JOGREEN NRG COM AU

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P: 6677 1697 M: 0414 186 161

35 CARS UNDER $10,000

FOR SALE

16 ENDEAVOUR CLOSE, BALLINA

MAG WHEELS 17� ultra light racing, tyres with 70% tread, new $1700, sell $550. Ph Jay 0421485217

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Ballina Car Centre

6686 5586

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

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

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TEACH ENGLISH OVERSEAS

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FREE RESOURCE BOOK for prompt course enrolment!

Free info session – 4 & 10 January Next course 12–16 January 5/1 Carlyle St, Byron Bay

1300 558 890

Gemma, a Rotti x Shepherd, is a 6 yr old, d/s fem. She’s a friendly girl who’s elderly owners can no longer care for her. She gets on well w/ cats & bigger dogs, but is happiest as an only dog. Gemma loves people & will be a very loyal companion. If you can offer her a caring home, contact Yolana at the FOP Adoption Info Booth on 07 5524 8590 or a/h on 02 6674 5110, www.friendsofthepound. com to view other animals looking for permanent homes. MERRY XMAS!

ONLY ADULTS TOUCH OF JUSTINE Luscious massage & sensual touch. Indulge ALL your senses. Wed-Fri, 10am-6pm. Ph or txt 0407013347

ALEXIOU, Artemissia Avalon Passed away peacefully into the loving hands of God on 13 December, 2010. Relatives & friends are warmly invited to attend Artemissia’s funeral service to be held at the All Saints Anglican Church, 26-30 Byangum Road, Murwillumbah on Thursday 23rd December, commencing at 11am.

Good working environment with female staff must be 18–65 yrs old

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02 6674 5020

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MERCEDES BENZ WAGON 23OTE 85 mechanically good, $2600. 66840082

FOR ALL YOUR PROFESSIONAL TREE CARE NEEDS!

ADOPT A CAT from Animal Welfare League NSW. Phone 66844070

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TREE SERVICES

WORK WANTED

GUITAR AMP REPAIRS, all pro audio & custom modiďŹ cations. Ph 07 55454831 www.thorphillipsaudio.com

Internationally approved with Yoga Alliance One day per week, Wednesday/Friday, Suffolk Park March-December Cost $2,950 02 6685 9910 www.intouchyogabyronbay.com

DIGGER MAN

JAZZ PIANO, DOUBLE BASS & DRUM TRIO FOR HIRE Well rehearsed & accomplished players. Phone 0412732465

MUSICAL NOTES

Yoga Teacher Training with Flo Fenton

Excavator & tipper hire. 0427172684

MODELS 18+ years required. Nude female for Picture and People magazines. No experience required. All shapes and sizes. Backpackers welcome. Good money. Professional accredited ACP photographer. Ph 0413627846

FUNERAL NOTICES

6679 1427 0447 326 713

All services bulk billed Open 8am to 5pm Monday to Friday

HEALTH

FIREWOOD DELIVERIES

For information and consultation phone Ali @ Murwillumbah Massage Centre

TRADEWORK

BURLESQUE/CABARET performer avail for all occasions. Phone 0432260927

also available at Hammer & Hand, Ti Tree Pl, Byron A&I Tweed River Gallery, Murwillumbah Tumbulgum Gallery, Tumbulgum

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PROF SERVICES

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WHOLESALE FRUIT & VEGETABLE BUSINESS FOR SALE

CHAVUTTI THIRUMAL MASSAGE

www.voicedialogue.net ph 6684 7158 or 0410 740 420

Phone 6680 2300

LOCALLY HANDMADE JEWELLERY

MOBILE CATERING SERVICE ongoing clients, all equipment on trailer p/t for cple + room for expansion. Great earner. $20,000 neg. Ph 66725367

Alison Rahn qualiďŹ ed sex therapist www.alisonrahn.com.au 0432599812

FOR HIRE

Ocean Shores Health

BAMBOO PLY from $10.50sqm & Bamboo Flooring. For ceilings, walls, doors, etc. Ph 66884188 - sample & brochure www.bambooply.com.au

BUSINESS FOR SALE

Sexual Counselling

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Moon High tide, set height (m) 0513 0850,1.84; 2128,1.32 0615 0934,1.89; 2214,1.34 0720 1020,1.92; 2301,1.37 0826 1107,1.90; 2351,1.38 1155,1.84 0931 1036 0043,1.40; 1245,1.74 1140 0137,1.43; 1339,1.60 1243 0235,1.46; 1438,1.46 1346 0335,1.51; 1545,1.34 1450 0436,1.57; 1659,1.26 1554 0537,1.64; 1810,1.23 20:03

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January 12

22:32

Full moon

January 20

08:21

Third quarter January 26

23:57

Low tide, height (m) 0215,0.45; 1533,0.26 0300,0.42; 1616,0.21 0348,0.40; 1701,0.19 0438,0.40; 1746,0.19 0530,0.42; 1834,0.21 0627,0.45; 1922,0.26 0727,0.49; 2012,0.32 0833,0.53; 2103,0.38 0948,0.55; 2159,0.43 1107,0.53; 2256,0.47 1221,0.47; 2353,0.48

JANUARY 2011 Astronomical data and tides

Day of Sun Sun Moon Moon High tide, Low tide, month rise set rise set height (m) height (m) 1 S 0551 1947 0240 1657 0634,1.71; 1913,1.24 1325,0.40 2 S 0551 1947 0332 1756 0729,1.77; 2008,1.26 0047,0.48; 1417,0.33 3 M 0552 1947 0427 1850 0817,1.81; 2055,1.29 0138,0.47; 1503,0.29 4 T 0553 1947 0526 1939 0902,1.83; 2138,1.31 0225,0.46; 1545,0.28 5 W 0554 1947 0624 2021 0944,1.81; 2218,1.32 0309,0.46; 1623,0.28 6 T 0554 1948 0722 2059 1021,1.78; 2257,1.32 0350,0.47; 1700,0.30 7 F 0555 1948 0818 2133 1058,1.72; 2334,1.32 0430,0.49; 1733,0.34 8 S 0556 1948 0913 2204 1132,1.64 0510,0.53; 1806,0.38 9 S 0557 1948 1005 2234 0012,1.32; 1207,1.55 0550,0.57; 1839,0.42 10 M 0557 1948 1057 2303 0051,1.33; 1244,1.46 0635,0.61; 1914,0.46 11 T 0558 1948 1148 2333 0134,1.34; 1325,1.35 0724,0.66; 1952,0.51 12 W 0559 1948 1241 0223,1.35; 1415,1.25 0822,0.70; 2036,0.56 13 T 0600 1948 1335 0005 0316,1.37; 1515,1.17 0930,0.71; 2129,0.59 14 F 0601 1948 1431 0040 0413,1.41; 1629,1.12 1047,0.69; 2226,0.60 15 S 0601 1948 1528 0119 0511,1.47; 1741,1.13 1200,0.62; 2325,0.59 16 S 0602 1948 1627 0205 0606,1.56; 1844,1.17 1258,0.53 17 M 0603 1947 1725 0257 0657,1.66; 1936,1.23 0019,0.55; 1346,0.42 18 T 0604 1947 1820 0355 0745,1.77; 2024,1.30 0109,0.49; 1431,0.31 19 W 0605 1947 1911 0459 0832,1.87; 2110,1.37 0159,0.42; 1515,0.21 20 T 0606 1947 1957 0607 0918,1.94; 2156,1.44 0246,0.35; 1558,0.15 21 F 0606 1947 2039 0715 1005,1.97; 2242,1.49 0337,0.31; 1640,0.11 22 S 0607 1946 2118 0822 1052,1.93; 2330,1.53 0428,0.29; 1723,0.12 1140,1.84 23 S 0608 1946 2156 0929 0520,0.30; 1807,0.17 24 M 0609 1946 2233 1034 0019,1.56; 1230,1.70 0617,0.35; 1852,0.25 25 T 0610 1945 2312 1139 0111,1.41; 1322,1.53 0716,0.41; 1938,0.34 26 W 0611 1945 2354 1244 0206,1.57; 1420,1.36 0823,0.48; 2029,0.44 27 T 0612 1944 1348 0307,1.56; 1530,1.22 0939,0.53; 2127,0.52 28 F 0612 1944 0039 1450 0413,1.57; 1649,1.15 1100,0.54; 2232,0.57 29 S 0613 1943 0128 1550 0520,1.59; 1806,1.15 1216,0.50; 2338,0.57 30 S 0614 1943 0222 1645 0623,1.64; 1909,1.19 1318,0.44 31 M 0615 1942 0318 1735 0718,1.68; 1959,1.25 0037,0.56; 1407,0.38 All times Eastern Daylight Saving. Time lags: Ballina Boat Dock: 15 min; Byron Bay: nil; Brunswick River Highway Bridge: high 30 min, low 1 hr; Mullumbimby: 1 hr 10 min; Billinudgel: 3 hr 55 min; Chinderah: high 1 hr 30 min, low 2 hr; Terranora Inlet: high 2 hr 10 min, low 2 hr 25 min; Murwillumbah: high 2 hr 30 min, low 2 hr 50 min. Tides in bold indicate high tide of 1.7m or more and low tide of 0.3m or less. Data courtesy of the National Tidal Centre.

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Yamba Angourie – Far North Coast – NSW T H E N O R T H C O A S T ’ S R E A L E S TAT E G U I D E

NBN delivers for new homeowners, says RDC The Residential Development Council has welcomed the announcement that new developments with 100 premises or more will be prioritised for the rollout of the National Broadband Network. Under the policy, developers will continue to be responsible for installing pit and pipe infrastructure, while NBN Co will cover the cost of installing fibre infrastructure into communities and new homes. Residential Development Council Executive Director, Caryn Kakas, says the announcement is a big win for buyers of new homes in greenfield developments and apartment buildings. ‘This means that homeowners on the urban fringe won’t be hit with a $3000 charge nor will regional Australians face a cost of up to $5000 to pay for the delivery of the National Broadband Network into their communities,’ Kakas says. ‘The Residential Development Council has been working constructively with the Federal Government and NBN Co for some time in order to get things right and it’s great to see that there will be no additional costs to consumers for the installation of broadband.

‘This is a win for common sense and ensures that new communities can participate fully in the vast range of social and economic benefits which access to broadband brings. ‘The strategic decision to ensure new development sites are provided with fibre from day one is a sound one. It is fundamental that, where possible, housing being delivered at scale can be included up-front instead of taxpayers taking on the additional cost of retrofitting for fibre over the next decade. ‘This approach, which is being done concurrently with the rollout across the country, means that the needs of both established

and new housing will be met. ‘Another important component is that NBN Co has released pit and pipe specifications and guidelines, which will provide the industry with some muchneeded certainty. ‘The last piece of the puzzle for the development industry is to have a national set of standards – the modern day equivalent of a single rail gauge – which would include NBN Co’s set of guidelines. ‘It is vital that the communications industry provide one national standard that all state and local governments can rely upon when ensuring fibre is delivered into new estates.’

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Backburner Mayor Kevin Skinner complained this week that the council had been left ‘in the dark’ by the state government over its controversial push to build a dam on Byrrill Creek, with protesters given more information than council staff, with a letter from the water minister announcing a ban on any new dam. The mayor may also want some light shone on what ministerial sources think of his faction’s relentless drive, against all expert advice, for the new dam. Q Q Q Q

Backburner has been told that the mayor was ‘barking up the wrong tree’ and ‘grasping at straws’ if he thought the dam could still go ahead after the latest state government decision, and that he had gone in ‘half cocked’ in suggesting to media that another department could overrule the decision. When Cr Skinner used his casting vote twice to push the contentious plan through recently, he was surely fully aware the prohibition on dams in the draft state water sharing plan could be upheld at any time. He was never ‘in the dark’ about that. Q Q Q Q

Tweed amateur fisherman Steve is proud of this nice trevally he caught, drawing the attention of local girl Emma who admired the catch. Echo fishing columnist Dave Solano says early morning fishing in the Tweed River is really the only option ‘if you’re serious about your fishing’ as by around 9am the river is full of leisure craft. ‘So you can imagine it’s pretty scary for the fish with all those propellers wizzing around and naturally the bite shuts down,’ he said.

Elliot was ordered to remove barbed wire from his fences, and not take part in the vote. Cr Youngblutt, who declared a ‘perceived non-pecuniary interest’ and left the room when the project was discussed in the past, said because he had ‘no direct pecuniary interest’ he didn’t have to give up his vote. ‘It’s up to the individual,’ he declared. When reminded that Cr Joan van Lieshout declared an interest in issues her family was involved in, he retorted: ‘Well, she Q Q Q Q The residents have lodged code goes over the top… but I’m not’. Q Q Q Q of conduct complaints against Phil Youngblutt whose support Richmond MP Justine Elliot in is crucial if the rescission has reply to Echo questions on the any hope of succeeding. Phil’s WikiLeaks affair said she had young brother, Athol, is an ‘always supported transparency on-site caretaker for developer in government, including the Walter Elliot Holdings which publication of information that is pushing for three storeys at has been lawfully obtained and Hastings Point. They think Phil that is in the public interest’. But should do as he has done twice the MP says that as the matter already this year, when Mr had been referred to the AustraHastings Point residents are busy trying to foil a counterattack by three councillors opposed to their hard-fought victory for a two-storey height limit in their town. It would be unkind to suggest mayor Kevin Skinner is hoping one of the councillors supporting the decision will choke on a wishbone, but it would allow him to use his notorious casting vote to overturn it when his rescission motion is debated next month.

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Dave says that during the festive season he tries to ‘hide from the crowd and head into the shallows of the upper reaches of the Tweed’. The trevally ‘seem to be everywhere at the moment’ and he suggests if you’re after a big one, try Jack Evans Boat Harbour, the south entrance at the end of the pylon. ‘Sometimes it takes a while so be prepared to cast 100 or so times, it’s worth the effort when you hook onto one. If the pylon is too difficult the shore line is just as good.’ Photo Dave Solano

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Obsession with secrecy knows no bounds. The council code of conduct panel has asked a complainant to sign a confidentiality clause pledging to keep mum about any information which may arise from the investigation into the complaint. Huh? The complainant had never heard of such a demand and is refusing to sign the clause on the grounds the same terms do not apply to councillors, staff or the conduct review panel itself Q Q Q Q

Anti-raterise crusader Terry Sharples has ensured council staff will have a not-so-happy New Year after the High Court

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