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Brunswick warms up for annual chop champs Brunswick Heads will be hosting the annual Festival of the Fish ’n’ Chips, which attracts champion axe-wielders from across Australia and from overseas. To get things warmed up, the festival will stage a family fireworks display in Banner Park at 9pm on Saturday January 9. From Wednesday January 13 to

Sunday 17 the 56th annual woodchop carnival will see the chips flying. Some 80 axemen, women and juniors will contest the 34 events. They are coming from all of the eastern states and WA, New Zealand and Canada. To foster the family atmosphere, women, junior boys and girls compete in single and mixed continued on page 2

Blazing through his fourth decade in the music industry, king of parody Weird Al Yankovic had the Falls crowd, most young enough to be his children, singing along during his seven-costume-change set. See more photos on page 30 and online at www.echo.net.au/byron-falls-spreads-good-vibe. Photo Tree Faerie treefaeriefotos.com

Organisers of the the third annual Falls Music and Arts Festival over the New Year holiday break have declared it one of the best they’ve held at the North Byron Parklands venue. The festival hosted a mix of international and national acts including UK band The Wombats bringing in the New Year, Bloc Party, Foals, Paul Kelly and The Merri Souls and Disclosure, who closed the festival. The sunshine-filled days helped put most of the 16,000-plus young punters in a good mood, with police praising their good behaviour and many commenting on the event’s relaxed, friendly atmosphere. Organisers said, ‘The new sys-

tem of patrons being able to camp next to their cars was also given the thumbs-up and had the positive effect of patrons taking their camping gear with them rather than leaving it in the campgrounds. There were no major police incidents and the number of people seeking help from medical services was down 50 per cent from the previous year.’ The festival’s emergency first aid director Stephen Barnes said the medical team of 20 staff ‘managed the lowest number of injuries in the history of The Falls Byron and our doctors, nurses and paramedics thoroughly enjoyed their time working at such a wonderful event’.

Director of the festival, Brandon Saul, praised the army of over 500 volunteers helping make the event run smoothly and give it its ‘good vibe’. ‘Everyone commented on how friendly, polite and cooperative the patrons were and that it made this year’s Falls Music and Arts Festival Byron a great experience,’ he said. ‘We were thrilled to host such a successful event in perfect conditions.’ The Parklands’ general manager, Mat Morris, congratulated festival patrons for ‘embracing the new recycling system. We saw record levels of recycling,’ he said.

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Dumped rubbish costs Vinnies $200,000 Vinnies will be forced to spend around $200,000 removing dumped items from outside its shops after the holiday period unless people clean up their act. Lismore Central Council executive officer Michael Timbrell, who oversees stores from Tweed Heads to Port Macquarie, said illegal dumping was particularly bad during January.

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continued from page 1 events alongside the men and veteran men. The festival will be presenting two Australian woodchop titles – the Australian 375mm Standing Block and 275mm Underhand Championships. Defending title holders Chris Owen (Grafton NSW) and Brent Rees (WA) will be competing. Once again Brad De Losa (Lithgow) and Jason Wyn-

yard (NZ) will be competing, having recently returned from Poland. There Jason won the Single competition in the Stihl Timbersports Championships for the seventh time. Brad and Mitch Argent (Qld) were part of the five-man team that won the Team Championships in a record 47.22 seconds. The women will be represented by Jodie Beutel, the Women’s Champion of

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are forced to spend on waste management each year is crucial money that should instead be going to people experiencing severe disadvantage in the local community,’ Mr Timbrell said. ‘Dropping off donations during business hours is always encouraged, and if you are in doubt about a particular item, please contact your local Vinnies shop.’

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Filmmakers across the country are salivating at the prospect of seeing their work on the big screen as Flickerfest celebrates 25 years of Australian shorts. Flickerfest will screen the best of shorts from Australia and around the globe with an A-list shortfilm program. The festival is also celebrating 18 years in the northern rivers screening at a new home at the Mullum Civic Hall. Flickerfest screens for ten days at Bondi Beach from January 8 to 17 before going on a 50-plus-venue national tour from January to May, with Byron Shire being the first stop. As Mullumbimby residents, Flickerfest director Bronwyn Kidd and Flickerfest production and tour manager Shane Rennie are thrilled to be bringing the festival home to their own town. Flickerfest and Byron All Shorts runs from January 22 to 24 with a glam opening night party followed by the Best of International Shorts

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Champions 2015 and Overall Handicap Points winner 2015 Jillian Stratton, both defending their titles. The Brunswick Heads woodchop carnival is regarded as the biggest carnival outside the Sydney and Brisbane shows. Descendants of many of the original organisers, competitors, volunteers and supporters continue to come each year. There is no admission cost to the carnival and organisers encourage people to drop in and witness a few events. In addition to the chips flying, the fish part of the festival occurs on Sunday January 10, when the Lions Club stages a junior fishing competition. Registration runs 6am–10am and the weigh-in is at 1pm sharp. More details from 0428 117 259. Find out more at www. bhwoodchop.com.

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Mellow NYE crossover in the Bay Byron Shire generally ushered in the New Year in a well-behaved fashion, with reports of happy crowds at the Falls Festival and at NYE events in Byron Bay. Byron Community Centre, with support from Byron Shire Council, Falls Festival, The Farm, Liquor Accord and HLO, organised Soul Street in Byron Bay as a family event. Jonson Street was closed from the Rails to the Lawson Street roundabout and was populated by an array of bands and circus acts, stalls and children decorating the street with chalk images. Those who weathered NYE well then went on to the salute the sun up at the lighthouse, an event sponsored by Crystal Castle.

Well behaved Police said an estimated 10,000 people visited the Soul Street area and the town overall was very well behaved. Inspector Greg Jago from the Tweed/Byron Local Area Command said it was quiet though there were a number of alcohol confiscations and tip-outs across the spectrum of age and gender.

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Looking for their contact lenses or a bit of downward dog? The First Sun event held at the Cape Byron Lighthouse on January 1 attracted about 400 people to watch the first sun of 2016 emerge – even though it was a fairly cloudy affair. Lots of yoga and the Bunyarra Dancers helped get the sun up over the horizon. Photo David Young davidyoung.com.au

‘We had additional police from Sydney, about 90 overall,’ Insp Jago said. ‘There was one arrest for assault and we had three incidents of offensive behaviour and four drug detections. Nothing too dramatic.’ Insp Jago said that alcohol-free streets in Byron Bay had certainly made a difference to the atmosphere in

town. ‘From the harm-minimisation process to reducing alcohol-related offences, the police are very happy with the event.’ Surf Life Saving NSW said things were very quiet on the far north coast with the wet weather possibly keeping people away from the beaches. There were four rescues in Byron Bay over the new year

period but a spokesperson said generally SLSNSW were really happy with how the festive period has been, with life savers saying the safety message is getting across as people are swimming between the flags. Surf Life Saving Australia is now conducting its annual fundraising drive: www. sls.com.au.

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the state will receive funding from the 2016 Regional Flagship Events Program, which is administered by Destination NSW.

$14b spend ‘Regional NSW welcomed more than 53 million international and domestic visitors who spent over $14 billion just last financial year,’ Mr Ayres said. ‘Positioning NSW as Australia’s number one tourism and events destination is one of the NSW government’s key

priorities and the Regional Flagship Events Program helps us to achieve this by creating additional exposure for our fantastic state.’ The Regional Flagship Events Program provides successful events with annual funding of either $10,000 or triennial funding of $20,000 per year for three years. Funded events are expected to have the ‘strong support’ of the local council. For further information on the program visit www. destinationnsw.com.au/rfep.

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Bruns Housie at end of its long run? Eve Jeffery

Next week might be the last time an iconic family activity will run in Brunswick Heads. For about 30 years the Brunswick Valley Volunteer Rescue Association (VRA) has spent the warmer months preparing and then manning the Housie Shed in Banner Park on the banks of the Brunswick River. This summer the VRA will call the numbers that cross the bingo boards in their last season organising the muchloved and anticipated community activity. The VRA volunteers have run this event for the festival committee as a major fundraiser to keep the squad going. However, it has been the same group of devoted folk

VRA president John Wraight and VRA road captain Sue Biggar will call numbers for the last time this year at the Housie Shed in Brunswick Heads.

year after year and they just can’t keep on going. ‘Last year we advised the committee we could no longer run it’, says VRA secretary Phillip Walsh. ‘We said we would help any new organisation learn

the ropes but there have been no takers. We agreed to run it this one last year.’ Mr Walsh says the actual running of the Housie Shed is only part of the task. ‘It starts in October with the scouring of shops for

bargains for the pick-a-prize, sorting and cataloguing and then in November the erection of the tent, cages, lighting and seating. ‘Then it all needs to come down again after Australia Day. It takes more than 1,500 hours of volunteers’, their families’ and friends’ time in total.’ Mr Walsh says the service will miss the funds that the event provides and they will have to look elsewhere for financial help. ‘We make over $15,000 a season which is about half the money we need to run the squad each year’, he said. ‘We will need to find some major sponsors for the years ahead.’ The Housie Shed will be open from 7 to 10pm until January 16.

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Cannabis users to protest at MP’s office Darren Coyne

North coast cannabis users will be protesting outside Lismore MP Thomas George’s office later this month as part of their continued opposition to roadside drug testing for cannabis. The gathering is expected to ask Mr George to speak with National Party leader Troy Grant about the impacts the roadside testing regime is having in the region. At a similar protest last month, about 50 people gathered outside the Lismore courthouse, while more than 50 people appeared before a magistrate inside the court, charged with drug driving. Opponents argue that the roadside testing regime detects the presence of Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), but does not test for actual driver impairment. They say THC remains in a person’s system for days, if not weeks, whereas other drugs such as amphetamines disappear quickly. As a result, a person who may have smoked a joint days before driving can still be detected, potentially losing their

A protest against drug-driving laws outside the Lismore courthouse last month. Photo Darren Coyne

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Echonetdaily has reported previously that the actual testing devices being used by police have on a number of occasions resulted in ‘false positives’, meaning drugs are being detected when the person has not indulged. Nimbin Hemp Embassy president Michael Balderstone said the peaceful protest outside Mr George’s office would be held on Monday January 25 at 11am. In a letter to Mr George, Mr Balderstone said he did not expect any trouble, but would rather be asking Mr George to take a letter and a

book to Mr Grant, who is also the police minister. ‘As you know there are many, many daily cannabis users on the north coast who have been smoking for years and have totally fine driving records,’ Mr Balderstone wrote in his letter. ‘And in countries and the 23 American states with legal cannabis, driving has not been shown to be a problem. ‘In fact the opposite, Thomas, with early statistics

showing a fall in car accidents in those states, along with a sharp drop in suicides and opioid overdose deaths, and arrests of course.’ Mr Balderstone said cannabis users were not against drug testing completely. ‘We are all for stopping impaired drivers but this is not about impairment,’ he said. ‘Drivers are being busted after having a pipe a day or even two or three before. ‘Some people are clearly changing their drug habits for the worse because as you know all other drugs are out of your system very quickly compared to cannabis, which your body wants to hold on to ,it seems.’ Mr Balderstone also said the so-called random tests are not random at all. Once a driver has returned a positive reading, their car is flagged by police, meaning the chance of their being pulled over again increases.

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California dreaming: is there a right to be a beach? Mary Gardner

California is still setting trends on its beaches and coasts. Okay, the Beach Boys are still playing in Monterey in early January but look behind the scenes. Dedicated surfers are taking direct action and helping set policies all along the coast. Their Surfrider Foundation promotes ‘managed landward retreat’ and avoiding ‘shoreline armouring’. They paddle out in protest at sandbagging on beaches. To inform the

public, their website offers cutting-edge technical publications about these issues. In pressing situations, the California Coastal Commission may permit a rock wall for a set time period. But in addition to the building costs, the owners also pay mitigation fees. Everyone understands that such works mean the beach will be lost. The argument is how to best calculate a comprehensive penalty rate. Surfrider staff member Chad Nelsen did a PhD investigating this problem.

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Nelsen explains that an ‘armoured’ sandy beach is lost in three ways. First, the back of the beach is lost and cannot grow inland as required. Next is the seaward loss, as the sandy area inevitably narrows. Finally, the adjacent beach areas are also considered as losses, exacerbated by the construction.

Beach value The fee calculations consider the value and loss of ‘consumer surplus’. This is an economic label which requires a bit of double thinking. The surplus is what purchasers are willing to pay over what they actually pay. The American dollar value of this figure is calculated per beach visit and ranges from $12.60 at Cabrillo-Long Beach to $90.58 in San Diego. Nelsen considers how the formula for current calculations is missing values for ‘ecosystem services’. This is an actual cash figure set for the work a beach does. A shore’s job description includes direct and indirect tasks. The first is ‘providing nursery areas for fish, turtles, seabirds… [growing] bait and food organisms…[and offering] scenic vistas and recreation opportunities’. Indirect work is about sand: ‘sediment storage and transport, providing functional links between land and sea’. It is also about seawater: ‘buffering against waves

A seawall in Ventura County, California. Photo Surfrider Foundation

and extreme events such as storms, responding to sea level rise’. The task list goes on. The beach breaks down organic materials and various pollutants. It filters and purifies fresh water and storm runoff. It stores water in dune aquifers. Finally it also must ‘maintain biodiversity and genetic resources’. To think the beaches are also managing a kind of filing system for present and future generations of animals and plants! Another value is its existence: ‘right of existence and value of existence of a beach, even if never visited’. Perhaps a beach itself doesn’t seem lovable, as are koalas or dolphins. But where would these animals be without

their habitats and the people who support these places? So existence value is calculated to include residents and tourists. It also includes those who simply stay at home and believe in sandy beaches.

Byron’s plan This year in Byron Shire, we face the politics and calculations of a Coastal Zone Management Plan. These Californian trends offer a mixed bag. Is everything about money? If so, penalty fees for destroying beaches are brave attempts to meet neoconservative economic thinking head on: ‘if you want it so bad, pay up in full’. It seems stronger than the whitewash calculations used here by our council.

For those who understand interrelationships best in terms of dollars, full costing of beach losses makes ominous sense. Nelsen adds that a beach also has ‘bequest’ value: a tangible worth to future generations. So penalty fees could be even larger and extend for years. Planned retreat begins to look like a bargain. On top of that, rehabilitating the shore can earn a community blue carbon dollars. The precious contrast with the highly developed Gold Coast will increase tourism values and make even more dollars. Linking sandy beaches with renewed wetlands can increase the value of flood mitigation. Improving prospects for wildlife and fish can increase the value of local food security. Money grows in the sand. Finally, those who think in terms of larger GDP and ever-rising economic growth always insist there are opportunities in disasters. Look at Chile where in 2010 the 8.8 earthquake and tsunami devastated the coast. Some of the ‘armoured’ walls sank into the sea, but others were destroyed as forces of nature uplifted the very bedrock. Suddenly large sandy beaches reappeared. Within a few years, coastal plants and marine animals were re-establishing themselves there, working free and adding value.

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The first-ever Taste of Love Festival featuring an international, national and local lineup of presenters on the topics of sex, love and consciousness is planned for February 19–21 in Byron Bay. Byron locals Marion Ellyard and Russell Collins plan to bring together a range of presenters from around the world offering sessions exploring various aspects of sexuality, love, relating, consciousness, sacredness and a diverse range of related topics.

‘This is a whole new approach to this work, where we are very mindful to balance the presentations around love, relating and conscious sexuality in a way that is meaningful and approachable for anyone, no matter their background or previous knowledge,’ Ms Ellyard said. ‘It is important to us that this event offers a safe and fun way for people to approach this material, especially within the constructs of their pre-existing relation-

ships. This work is all about strengthening and deepening relationships.’

Men’s issues Mr Collins comes to the Taste of Love team having guided travellers and pilgrims on ‘sacred journeys’ through remote parts of the Himalayas. He has a particular interest in men’s issues and healthy masculinity in relating. ‘It is very important to me that we use this festival as an opportunity to deepen the

conversation around healthy masculinity in love, relating and sexuality, as well as how that looks in roles of responsibility,’ he said. The festival will feature well-known speakers such as Margot Anand, Yella and Samuel Cremer. It is being held at the Byron Bay Community Centre with a full program of over 30 sessions as well as a masquerade ball on Saturday night. See the full program at www.tasteoflove.com.au.

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Forestry trashes habitat, EPA toothless Luis Feliu

State environmental groups are outraged over the failure by the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) to prosecute the state’s forestry agency for illegally bulldozing and destroying threatened wildlife habitat at Whian Whian north of Lismore in 2013. The NSW Forestry Corporation had refused to pay fines of $11,000 for destroying threatened wildlife habitat during a controversial logging operation on private property, but the failure to prosecute has incensed members of the North East Forest Alliance (NEFA) and the Nature Conservation Council.

Inquiry needed Both groups are calling for an independent inquiry into the management and regulation of NSW State Forests as a result of the inaction. They want the whole issue and the relationship between the two government agencies investigated after the revelation that the EPA took so long to act that they missed the deadline for prosecuting. The conservation council’s chief executive Kate Smolski said the ‘Forestry Corporation’s willful disregard of the law and the EPA’s incompetence at enforcing it have resulted in another serious environmental offence going unpunished. ‘The Whian Whian fiasco shows the Forestry Corporation regards forest protections laws as optional, and the EPA is often careless and tardy in its prosecution of breaches,’ Ms Smolski said.

Logging road was bulldozed through a koala exclusion zone. Photo Dailan Pugh

‘The EPA’s lax enforcement of threatened species and pollution laws enables the Forestry Corporation to continue its environmentally destructive behaviour. ‘This incident reinforces a widespread perception that the EPA is ineffective and captured by the industries it is supposed to regulate. ‘The Baird government should establish an independent review of the Forestry Corporation’s compliance with environmental laws, and which can recommend reforms to significantly improve its performance. Any inquiry should also examine the performance of the EPA and its relationship with the Forestry Corporation. ‘We are facing an extinction crisis in NSW. There are almost 1,000 species on the endangered list, including 60 per cent of native mammals. ‘If we allow the Forestry Corporation to continue to trash our forests the way it has for decades, the consequences for our native wildlife will be catastrophic,’ Ms Smolski said. NEFA spokesperson Dailan Pugh told Echonetdaily

that Premier Baird must intervene ‘to provide justice to communities traumatised by the Forestry Corporation’s construction of an illegal road under the watch of the EPA and police guard’.

No stop-work Mr Pugh said that on September 22, 2013, at the Whian Whian property, NEFA found that the Forestry Corporation had marked the route of a proposed road through eight high-use koala trees and over 63 threatened plants and so requested the EPA issue a stop-work order. ‘Instead the EPA spent the next two days wandering around the area with the Forestry Corporation and two botanists planning a new route,’ Mr Pugh said. ‘On September 25, 2013, while the community protested, under police guard the Forestry Corporation bulldozed a road through what were required to be 20-metre exclusions around two koala high-use trees and 24 threatened plants, most of which had been identified before the road was bulldozed through. ‘These breaches are of the

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worst kind because they were intentional breaches of legal requirements. The EPA knew what the Forestry Corporation were about to do and did nothing to stop them. ‘The EPA had a two-year window of opportunity from becoming aware of the offences to taking legal action for this deliberate act of environmental vandalism, and then they waited until this time had almost expired on September 11, 2015, before issuing two penalty notices, each with a $5,500 fine, and an official caution. ‘The Forestry Corporation stated they intended to vigorously dispute the fines on the grounds that their intent “was discussed with EPA staff onsite during the operation”. ‘Now that the Forestry Corporation is refusing to pay the EPA’s token fines, the EPA say they can’t make them because the two years available for legal action over the offences has expired.’

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No-one plans to grow up homeless Paul Spooner

I have often wondered, ‘What’s the story behind a homeless guy sitting on Jonson Street?’ He’s the guy who writes signs berating politicians and asks for a few spare coins. What separates you and me from that guy on the street? Not much, really. Noone plans to grow up a homeless person. Homelessness by most measures is a mix of personal tragedy and governmental failure. On any given night in Australia one in 200 people are homeless, according to ABS figures. That’s around 120,000 people. These are folk sleeping out, in supported accommodation, staying with friends on couches, in boarding houses or staying in severely overcrowded dwellings. This is not the picture most have of the ‘lucky country’.

People are homeless because of domestic violence, financial difficulties, and the housing crisis. Twenty-seven per cent are under 18 years old. Twenty per cent of rough sleepers in NSW are on the north coast. This when government funding for homeless services has been cut by 18 per cent. Last week the Tweed Valley Women’s Service was shut down. Last year the Byron Youth House and the Byron Emergency Accommodation Program were defunded. The changing nature of homeless support is no better demonstrated than with the Fletcher Street Cottage in Byron Bay, which was established in 2010 as a day house for the homeless – a partnership between the Byron Community Centre, Salvation Army, St Vincent de Paul and Byron Shire Council. It serviced the daily needs of around 70 homeless people – a shower, a

wash, a cup of tea. It closed its doors in March due to a lack of funding. It has now been turned into a surf shop. Figures do not reveal the pain, suffering and hardship experienced by those doing it tough. If a person is not suffering a mental health issue when they become homeless they most probably will be after being on the streets. Life is not easy for the destitute. The homeless face other complex personal issues such as suicide, palliative care, and substance abuse. The homeless are not immune to the pressures of living in a tourist town. One local family camping in a caravan park were forced to move because the fees became too expensive over the holiday season. Local services are reporting an increasing number of homeless women with children forced to live in cars. There is hope for those

who need support. The creation of a local housing hub through the Byron Community Centre has seen people housed and assisted recently. But as governments decrease the social safety net budget we as a community need to do more. We need to step in where governments have abandoned those in need. It’s the right and just thing to do. So, the next time you pass a homeless person on the street, don’t dismiss them. He or she is a part of our community and needs to be respected and assisted. Who knows – one day the shoe may be on the other foot. Paul Spooner is a Byron Shire councillor and general manager of the Byron Community Centre. Learn more about the Byron Safety Net Appeal at byroncentre.com.au/ safetynet.

Lucky rescue for brand new kookaburra This little kookaburra was rescued by Geoff and Peter, tourists from Sydney. It was found on the ground under a very tall Bangalow palm outside their holiday rental in Byron Bay. They could see the nest, and the parent birds flying in and out, but it was too high to reach. They picked up the kookaburra and put it in a warm place on the deck, where the mother continuously came down to feed it. Neighbours watching the drama loaned a ladder but the nest was just too high. They called WIRES for help. The rescuer placed a temporary nest for the chick lower down in a nearby tree. Early the following day, the rescuer returned with a builder and long ladder and pole, but it was still not enough to reach the nest. At that point, the chick was brought into care until a way could be found to reunite it with its family. Essential Energy were

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One size fits all? If you want something to read in the silly season, there are far more attractive options – such as the back of a cereal packet – than the NSW planning department’s discussion paper on making medium density housing a form of complying development across the state. However it is good to be aware of what grand notions the planners have on your behalf. One of the planners’ former brain explosions was the Local Environmental Plan (LEP) templates to allow each council to squirm in a straitjacket which might not fit local needs, particularly in terms of environmental protection. Another in 2006 was regional strategies which aim to limit growth where necessary. Remember those? That went out the window in Byron Shire when the West Byron developments got the nod. Yet still the planners seek your feedback, and you can bet the savvy developers and the Property Council of Australia will be having their say. This discussion paper is on a proposal ‘to make it easier to build dual occupancies, manor homes and townhouses or terraces if they meet set design and building standards. At the moment there is no consistent statewide planning policy for medium density housing which has created a gap, known as the “missing middle”.‘ Frankly, I never noticed anything missing. If the proposal got up it would mean fast-tracking for ‘one and two storey dual occupancies, manor homes, townhouses and terraces that comply with set rules’. The devil is in the detail of the ‘set rules’ and in avoiding the need for a development application to come before councillors if there is public concern. There is also the issue of density, expressed in three scenarios, ranging from dual occupancies on a 400m2 lot up to three to ten dwellings on a single lot size of 600m2, which sounds like a developer’s wet dream and a neighbour’s nightmare. Another problematical proposal is that all these complying developments be allowed to go up to 8.5m (two storeys). There’s a definition of complying development here: http:// bit.ly/ComplyNSW. You can read the discussion paper at www.planning.nsw. gov.au/proposals and comment upon it until January 31. There is definitely a case to be made for allowing dual occupancies and other ‘infill’ residential land uses at a time when household sizes are getting smaller and our ageing population is increasing. We can look at the example of the de facto communes here in the 1970s, later regularised as multiple occupancies, which brought new life and enterprise to the region. Yet does a one-size-fits-all approach ensure good planning and proper consultation? Should environmental safeguards be jeopardised to satisfy the rush to build? Michael McDonald

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n many parts of the world constituted by trade union officials,’ declared Dyson Heydon, ‘there is room for louts, thugs, bullies, thieves, perjurers, those who threaten violence, errant fiduciaries and organisers of boycotts.’ And no doubt there is; but with very minor changes of the last part of the terminology, the same strictures apply to the business community – indeed, even to Heydon’s own legal profession. In fact, it would be hard to find any group within the Australian populace free of the strictures Heydon elaborates. Certainly he has identified a few (45, to be precise) of the alleged miscreants who warrant further investigation and may or may not face charges as a result – although it must be noted that only 27 are actually unions or their officials; the rest were companies and those associated with them and other entities. It sounds like a reasonable bag, until you remember that the whole process took some $80 million and two full years of intensive investigation unearthing and grilling some 500 suspects. Given that level of zealotry, it is hardly surprising that Heydon gathered a few in his net. But of course Heydon went further: unions were ‘riddled with widespread and deep-seated misconduct… It would be utterly naïve to think that what has been uncovered is anything other than the small tip of an enormous iceberg.’ And of course the learned judge knows a thing or two about naivety. He involved himself with a Liberal Party fundraiser, and then assumed that his own assertion of integrity would dispel any taint of bias. And of course he displays an arrogant affectation in declining to soil his hands on the internet, leaving his emails to a lackey.

He has now gone for the headlines with a bravura display of invective and innuendo, but his suggestion that the entire trade union movement is irretrievably corrupt needs a little more than rhetoric to sustain it. Even Malcolm Turnbull admits that there are a lot of honest and worthy unionists. But that has not and will not prevent him from flying in, boots and all, to make the most of its politics. He will go to an election with it, he thunders. Which was, of course, the whole idea: Abbott’s plan was to demonise the union movement and, in the process, strike down Labor’s leaders, Julia Gillard and Bill Shorten, making the latter unelectable.

Given that level of zealotry, it is hardly surprising that Heydon gathered a few in his net. by Mungo MacCallum As it happens, Shorten has already made himself pretty much unelectable, but Turnbull is determined to sink the slipper in: ‘Mr Shorten has got to answer for this,’ he threatened within minutes after releasing Heydon’s report. But answer for what? Heydon cleared Shorten of all wrongdoing; there was a somewhat limp slap on the wrist, but nothing at all substantial. But of course, Turnbull and more particularly the Murdoch press regard this as a test: will Shorten roll over to the government’s demands for legislation, whatever they might turn out to be, or will he be damned forever as a union puppet? Shorten was conveniently (perhaps too conveniently) on a scheduled break, and his deputy Tanya Plibersek has simply reiterated the old line that Labor has no tolerance for bad behaviour, from anyone. The unions, led by

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Shorten will need a better strategy than bluster. And his first task is to decide when he needs to apply it. The government has signalled that its own first foray will be to revive the bill to reconstitute the Australian Building and Construction Commission, which was abolished by Labor in 2012. It was given another run by the government of Tony Abbott, but rejected by the senate. If it goes down again, it becomes a double dissolution trigger for an election in the first half of the year. Turnbull already has two triggers, the abolition of the Clean Energy Corporation and the establishment of the Registered Organisations Commission, another anti-union measure: but neither is nearly as sexy as bringing back the ABCC, a policeman on the beat against the louts, thugs, bullies, thieves and perjurers.

Labor and the Greens will presumably continue to oppose it, and the more numerate crossbenchers, who realise that their best hope of survival is a double dissolution rather than a normal half senate election, may easily do likewise. Turnbull has said he regards it as an election issue, and the temptation to go fast and hard may be irresistible. So what, if anything, can Shorten do about it? The only suggestion to date is an unlikely unity ticket from Bob Hawke and Jacqui Lambie for Labor to disaffiliate from the CFMEU. But for Shorten to follow that advice would be an admission of surrender, and apart from that, it might easily release a vengeful backlash from the political and financial giant. He has gone just as far as he sensibly can, proposing stronger measures for the governance of unions and, indeed, for all corporate institutions. Many of the crossbenchers would like Turnbull to follow the same path – why limit the reforms to the building industry? But the prime minister seems determined to focus on the immediate target, which makes it a lot easier to wedge Labor. Shorten, he insists, must declare total war on the unions – or at least on their leadership. Nothing else will absolve him of guilt by association. Shorten, of course, will not do it – it is against both his selfinterest and his lifelong beliefs. Unionism, like politics, is an honourable calling and the fact that it can be besmirched at various times and places does not mean it should be rejected, let alone totally demolished. He is right, of course: just look at Jamie Briggs and Mal Brough, to name but two recent miscreants. But that is another story, and one Malcolm Turnbull most emphatically does not want to talk about.

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Letters CBD nightmare This pay parking in Byron CBD is a bloody nightmare! Firstly, Byron CBD is the only commercial centre in the shire that charges, so it unfairly discriminates against the retailers and visitors to Byron CBD. Secondly, all other towns in the shire mostly have twohour parking in their CBD, giving visitors time to shop and eat. Byron only has onehour parking near the shops, which means many people trying to shop and eat cop a fine. Thirdly, if you park for an hour to shop, then move your car a few places so you can eat, you cop a fine because you are still in the same parking ‘zone’. You can’t simply pay again and recharge your ticket or move a few places away. You have to vacate your parking space and drive a block or two and find another parking space in another zone. Noone is informed of this and over 200 have already been unfairly fined. Other residents and I who have registered and paid their annual $50 fee are not being issued with a ticket when we park; instead we are being instructed to put coins in the meter. Hundreds of people are being unfairly fined. These visitors are our guests and the lifeblood of our town. Paid parking is an uncivilised and unimaginative way of raising revenue, and a PR disaster for the Byron lifestyle, so important for the success of our town.

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Falls noise I’m 10km away (as the crow flies) in Upper Burringbar and we can hear the thumping up here! Turn it down. Don’t you festival organisers have environmental standards to adhere to, and do you also want to contribute to a generation of people with hearing loss? Serena V Dolinska Upper Burringbar

Green waste dream Thanks to Nina Bishop (Letters, December 30) for engaging with my recent critique of the council’s green

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Q Helena Norberg-Hodge and her colleagues argued in last week’s Echo that we must radically change the current economic system and move to localisation if we are to prevent disastrous climate change and democratic disintegration. However, while the authors appear to believe the vast bulk of climate scientists that set out the impact of CO2 emissions on the planet, they don’t appear to pay any attention to the vast bulk of economists who argue that free trade and open markets are the best way to cut poverty, reduce oppression, increase freedom and promote innovation. In fact to bolster their case they don’t mention any of the positive changes in recent decades that have been achieved across the world as a result of open markets. These include hundreds of millions of people escaping poverty, massive cuts in maternal and child deaths,

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quite well. We sympathise with businesses that have suffered as a result and hope the problem is rectified quickly. Helen O’Brien Brisbane

Wildlife rights I am (not for the first time) defending the rights of the echidnas, wallabies, and snakes who live in the nature reserve at Brunswick Heads. This is a protected place – a haven in a fiercely intrusive world – where horses and dogs and other introduced animals are not allowed. Especially dogs.

Q Pursuing a localisation agenda is a great policy initiative as outlined in The Echo’s December 30 article ‘Climate change or system change? The real challenge’. This is a policy direction I, along with many in this region, heartily support. What was not so clearly articulated was the necessary and complementary policies that need to exist beside localisation if we are to have any hope of saving the planet and ourselves along with it.

As Naomi Klein so clearly articulated in her recent writings and at this year’s Festival of Dangerous Ideas: ‘We do know that responses to climate change that continue to put the entire burden on individual consumers are doomed to fail.’ And herein lies the rub for Australian politics. Back in 2009 the Greens voted with the then opposition Liberal and National parties to defeat Labor’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. This effectively put big-picture environmental protection in Australia back a decade. A decade we could not afford to waste. Now in 2015 the Greens have once again voted with the Liberal and National parties against tax transparency measures that will continue the gross inequality between what ordinary folk pay in taxes as compared to the large corporations.

People will only support measures that limit carbon production if they know it is balanced with policies of equality and fairness. Those with less wealth should not be asked to carry the biggest burden. My real concern is that the Greens will now support the Liberal and National parties in lifting the GST. If we are to have any hope of saving our lifestyles and our planet we must ensure we not only act locally; we must act nationally and globally. A fairer and just world will save the planet, not good intentions or localisation slogans. The Greens need to wise up. They need to stop being a party of convenience. They need to work with Labor to support good policy on the big picture issues (as well as within local communities) or I for one fear it will be too late. Cr Paul Spooner Byron Bay

For walkers into this safe space, please keep in mind that animals communicate by a sense of smell more than by sight. Your dog may be a member of the family, may never hurt another being, but dog’s urine and poo are definite forms of communication, ‘I am here!’, and being carnivorous, their scent indubitably more assertive than herbivores, pronouncing them to be predators. Some of our native animals, cute, threatened, diminishing, are so gentle they may be incurably affected by fear. A wildlife carers manual (Dooley, C. Macropology,

2004, p.19) states: ‘Stress is a macropod’s number one enemy and the thing that causes most macropods to die.’ The causes of fear are numerous, but ‘closeness to things their instincts tell them are predators, eg dogs’ is one within everyone’s ability to reduce. Echidnas and other native animals in reserves may suffer similar effects from fear, or internal injuries from a ‘play’ with a friendly dog. So, even though Fido or Rover or cute little Cinnamon may not dig up an echidna’s burrow (even though it is in a dog’s nature to be a dog), even though

your one, two or even three dogs (three dogs!) may be on leads and never encounter a native animal face to face, be aware, be sensitive, be a custodian. Our undefended natives may not need to meet them face to face to be permanently affected. Keep your dogs and horses to the allocated areas. Please. Teeya Blatt Brunswick Heads

the much greater empowerment of women, far fewer deaths from war, advances in wind and solar energy, and large increases in the number of democratic countries. Nor do they explain how their model will achieve a world of peace, progress and happiness and avoid the poverty and oppression of previous planned economies. Garth Luke Mullumbimby

Hunter DA response I note with concern the multiple inaccuracies about our storage business from Graham Mathews in his letter to the editor, printed in the last

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Carlsen’s best game was the by Ian Rogers epic struggle against China’s risPlay at Byron Services Club, Mon 7pm ing star Li Chao, former winner of Canberra’s Doeberl Cup. World Champion Magnus Carlsen finished 2015 with a flourish, winning the Qatar Open after a playoff with Chinese Olympic Champion and defending titleholder Yu Yangyi. Carlsen playing in the Qatar Open was a coup for organiser GM Mohammed Al Modiakhi; the first time a reigning World Champion had competed in an open tournament since 1971. Carlsen’s participation, facilitated by a giant appearance fee In the diagram, Li (Black) is in grave danger, with plus all expenses in Doha for his the obvious 24...N6xd5 walking into checkmate entire family, helped lure other after 25.e6 Qf6 26.Nxg6+ Ke8 27.Qg8+ Bf8 28.Rh8. However, Li comes up with a counterworld class players to Qatar. Australia’s Moulthun Ly made attacking idea of genius, a queen sacrifice which Carlsen admitted he had not seen. 24...Nc4!! the journey, and finished only 25.Nxg6+ Ke8 26.e6 a3!! Remarkable – givhalf a point below the level ing away a queen with check. 27.exf7+ Kd7! required to secure his second At first sight Black’s attack is just bluff, given Grandmaster ‘norm’ – three are that White can play 28.bxa3 Rxa3+ 29.Kb1. However, here the true beauty of Li’s idea needed for the GM title. After a shaky start, Carlsen was becomes apparent; Black continues 29...Bc2+!! the dominant player in Qatar, 30.Bxc2 Ra1+!!, sacrificing the house but forcthough in the final round Yu ing checkmate after 31.Kxa1 Bxc3+ 32.Kb1 Sadly for Li, there is a refutation, and caught Carlsen with a marathon Na3!. Carlsen finds it. 28.Ne5+!! Bxe5 29.Qxf5+ six hour win against Wesley So. Kc7 30.Qxe5+! Nxe5 31.Bxb3 By now Li Carlsen, however, has not lost has run out of attacking pieces and the rest is a playoff since 2007(!) and duly silence. 31...axb2+ 32.Kxb2 Nbd3+ 33.Kb1 demolished the exhausted Yu 2-0. Nxc1 34.Rxc1 Kc8 35.dxc6 bxc6 36.f4 1-0

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Letters edition of The Echo. Firstly, Mathews is not a ‘long-suffering neighbour’ and he doesn’t ‘live next to Alan’ but instead is an occasional weekend visitor in the short street of seven houses. We have never been a ‘StorMan Franchised ministorage operation’. Our storage units have not been purchased from any franchise, or other storage business – so his rant about some other business and their impact on their environment has no relevance in this issue at all. In respect to the claim of excessive legal costs: Council has reported the cost of the court to ratify our agreement was nil. How does that now become an enormous expense? Mathews’s imagination seems to have run wild in his personal pursuit of me. Besides all the rhetoric it seems his concern is increased traffic to the street. So let’s explore that. We have recorded the traffic to the storage business – as requested by Council. Over a 14-day period there were eight vehicle movements – that’s less than one a day. That is not a serious traffic impact. Especially when the RTA Guide to Traffic Developments (Sec 3.2) for dwellings (and permissible on the

hear about issues firsthand and realise how much more there is to the conflict than the facile headlines and slogans relied upon by Mr Smith and others. I also hope the bishop asks equally tough questions of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas. After months of Islamic State committing horrific violence in the Middle East and North Africa against Christians and other minorities, Palestinian Christians report that a large number of Muslims in the Palestinian territories and Israel have become radicalised and are threatening and assailing them. Anti-Christian hostility by Palestinian Muslims has boiled beneath the surface for years and is now openly manifested in the form of physical attacks, incendiary religious speeches and inflammatory billboards. These are matters which former Patriarch Michel Sabbah, quoted by Mr Smith, dares not mention. He knows he can safely criticise democratic Israel, but with Christians comprising less than two per cent of the Palestinian population in the West Bank and Gaza, criticising the Palestinian Authority, Hamas or Islamic clerics can

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storage site) without public transport access is nine vehicle movements per day. Storage is one of the greenest and least impacting businesses we could have on the farm. If it’s so bad living next to me, why have two other neighbours written letters to the editor of this paper saying exactly the opposite? It is incredible to see such persistent hostility from three to four neighbours, and the amount of airtime this issue gets in this paper. It’s just storage units. Perhaps Mathews would

be much less confused if he concerned himself less with the council processes and more with the impacting traffic, or is it not impacting enough? Alan Hunter Myocum

Christians in peril Gareth Smith (Letters, December 30) expressed the hope that when the Bishop of Lismore visits Israel, the West Bank and Gaza in the coming months, he will ask the Israeli authorities tough questions. I share this hope because it’s the only way the bishop will

have dire consequences. The silence is being broken, however, by courageous Palestinian religious leaders such as Rami Fellemon, a Palestinian Christian and director of Jerusalem Evangelistic Outreach, and Palestinian writers Bassam Eid and Khaled Abu Toameh. I hope the Bishop of Lismore has the opportunity to speak to them. It might help

him understand why Israel has been home to Christian communities which have grown over the last 65 years (from 34,000 to 140,000) and why Christian communities are in catastrophic decline everywhere else in the Middle East. Vic Alhadeff Chief executive officer NSW Jewish Board of Deputies

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The Id versus the Superego: Trump v Sanders for 2016? Phillip Frazer

Donald Trump has made and lost several fortunes building hotels, apartment buildings, skyscrapers, golf courses, and casinos in New York and a dozen other cities around the world. Last year he stunned the Republican Party – and anyone who cares about American politics – by polling 20 points ahead of his nearest rival for his party’s nomination to be its candidate for president. Trump has practice being top dog, and not just in the real estate business he inherited – he has also run professional wrestling and beauty pageants on TV, and he was the bully boss on a reality TV show The Apprentice which was dedicated to glorifying … Donald Trump. Over 50 years spent spruiking himself as America’s toughest, smartest, winningest, and all-round bestest baron of business, he reckons he can run anything better than the people currently running the thing, including running the USA and, by extension, the world. And he’ll run the United States, which he believes is the best country in the world at doing everything, without much concern for those airyfairy non-business concepts like democracy, the common good, equality, the Constitution, laws, or even merit. This guy’s put the Id back into ideology. But – while all of this bombast, braggadocio, and bullshit doesn’t sketch the outline of a coherent political program, let alone a worldview, it has given the pompadoured pied piper hordes of followers who once believed in the American dream but now find themselves in a festering nightmare. Trump, who not only scorns policy and principle, but also laughs at the idea of coherent speech, barks and dog whistles across the airwaves about making America great again and his supporters feel the nightmare receding and the dream reappearing, just around the corner, somewhere, over the rainbow. These are white middle and sub-middle class citizens who have either never had much financial success or have lost it. They’re looking for someone to blame and someone to save them. For blaming, Trump offers them immigrants (par-

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The voter statistics maths There are 126 million likely voters in the US, of whom only 15 per cent or so turn out to vote in the primaries, which brings the tally down to 18.45 million, half of whom are Democrats, so 9.2 million Republicans, and Trump might get 40 per cent of their votes = 2.9 million then subtract ten per cent for landline bias – most polls don’t reach people who only have a mobile phone, and they are significantly more liberal – leaves 2.6 million which is 1.2 per cent of voting-age Americans.

ticularly Spanish-speaking ones) and Muslims, who collectively crash-bombed those twin towers of Manhattan real estate and keep fighting us (ie America) over our oil that’s inexplicably under their sand. For salvation he offers them Trump.

Trump’s chances So how worried should we be? Here’s one reason to keep calm: The election is still 11 months away, and all these Trumpsters amount to about 40 per cent of eligible voters in the upcoming Republican primaries – not the election itself – which amounts to fewer than three million Americans, or about one per cent of the population. (See the coloured box for the maths.) So far, I guestimate that about 40,000 people have pressed the Trump button in roughly 100 telephone polls – each of which typically calls 1,000 people – and of course no actual votes of any kind have yet been conducted. And here’s a reason to be un-calm: The guy now closing in on Trump for the Republican nomination is Texas senator Ted Cruz, who’s a fundamentalist of the ‘dominionist’ variety of christianity. He says god has chosen him to have dominion over the US (god’s chosen country of course) until god himself takes over. Recently, Cruz made a

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video of how he makes his fave food, machine-gun bacon, which involves wrapping a rasher around the barrel of an automatic weapon and firing off a dozen rounds, till the bacon sizzles. Cruz also advocates returning gold as the basis for valuing the US dollar, eliminating the IRS (America’s federal tax authority), opposes gay pride parades (forget about gay marriage), and believes government support for individuals creates dependency.

Surprise Sanders Coming third among Republicans is Marco Rubio, whose parents, like Cruz’s, left Cuba after the 1959 revolution. Rubio believes life begins at conception so abortion is murder, we should freeze all federal spending except defence at 2008 levels, ban gay marriage, cut corporate taxes, privatise more education, and ignore global warming because ‘you can’t change the weather’. Meanwhile, there are two Democratic Party contenders and the biggest story of this whole election so far is that Senator Bernie Sanders, the only member of the US Congress to call himself a socialist, is trailing Hillary Clinton by less than Obama was this time in the 2008 race, and he could well beat her in the Iowa primary on February 1 and/or in New Hampshire on the 9th. Polls of all American voters

predict Sanders would beat Trump by 13 per cent in next November’s presidential election – versus Clinton’s seven per cent. If you’d taken a poll a year ago about the likelihood of 2016 being between Sanders and Trump, the winner would’ve been No Takers. You might wonder why the Republican Party doesn’t just refuse to spend any of its campaign funds on Trump. Well, Trump has at least $3 billion of his own money, and if he stumbles, his replacement will be effectively chosen by kingmaker brothers David and Charles Koch, who are worth closer to $30 billion (from daddy’s oil and gas fortune) – they say they’ll spend $1 billion to make sure their chosen Republican beats Hillary Clinton. That’s more than either the Democratic or Republican parties have to back their candidate. Clinton, who is the Democratic Party establishment’s candidate, has been given $100 million thus far, four of her top five donors being Wall Street banks Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorganChase, and Morgan Stanley. Bernie Sanders is a 73-yearold secular Jew. A senator from Vermont, he has been lecturing friends and strangers forever about what’s right, ethical, and moral – he’s offering America a superego since it doesn’t have one, so naturally he refuses to take big corporate money. Instead, he has collected $80 million from 2.7 million individual contributions averaging $29, which is the largest pool of supporters to back any presidential candidate ever, beating Obama’s records in 2008 and 2012. And the election year has just begun.

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Lois Buckett and Mark Kinneally from Lois Buckett Real Estate have a 2 bed unit at 1/6 Marlyn Street East Lismore, walking distance to Southern Cross University.

a property under $300,000 anywhere in the shire Kylie Charlton from Raine and Horne Ocean Shores/Brunswick Heads says her best

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pealing community facilities inclusive of a lap pool, deluxe barbecue areas and a magnificent community shared vegetable garden.’ Apartments are currently selling off the plan from $260,000. HAVE ANYTHING TO LET US KNOW ABOUT? Any new faces? Career milestones? Exceptional results? Market observations? Have you had anything quirky or unusual happen to you out in the field? Email propertyinsider@echo.net.au.

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Paul Banister from First National Byron Bay says the Byron Bay market has increased in value so significantly over recent years

that it is difficult to find any home under $500,000. Paul does have 302m2 block of land for sale in the Oasis Resort. The Oasis Resort allows various options: you can live in your new home, you can permanently rent it or you can holiday let. The resort has direct access to Tallow Beach.

Properties in the $200,000s are more common in Lismore and its environs.

It’s on the market for $209,000 and currently rented for $225 per week. In fact outside the gravitational pull of Byron, there is a lot of choice under $500,000 in Lismore and when you consider that Lismore is only just llitle more than a 30 minute drive to the coast at Evans Head, it does get one thinking.

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Property Insider asked the agents in the area to share the properties they thought offered best value at under $500,000. Not surprisingly the closer to Byron Bay, the less on offer.

buy is a 2-bedroom apartment in the Shores Lodge complex for only $279,000. The complex is designed for the over-50s owner-occupier.

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Ocean Shores would still seem to offer the most choice if you are looking to buy under $500,000. There are 3-bedroom homes on the market in the $400,000 – $500,000 price range. While you almost never see

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36 Goonengerry Road, Goonengerry Expansive, Uplifting Spectacular!!

9/1 Rajah Road, Ocean Shores 50 Fabulous Darling!!

14 Beach Avenue, South Golden Beach Stunning Beachside Home Boasting The Very Finest Of Seaside Living!

Breathtaking hinterland views, all the way to the National Parks of Nightcap Ranges & Minyon Falls! Half acre property with 3 separate dwellings. Each with privacy & outdoor entertaining area. • Reverse cycle air-conditioning • Solar power plus solar hot water • New carpet throughout • Separately metered electricity for the main house and 2nd dwelling • Just 25 minutes to Byron Bay and Lismore. Mullumbimby is only 10 minutes away

Located in the award winning ‘Shores Lodge’ complex, it’s speciﬁcally designed for the over 50s owner/occupier. • Double length automatic garage, plus bonus shelving • Kitchen as new absolutely immaculate • Open plan lounge/dining & kitchen area • Communal common room and barbeque area • Chair lift access from the garage level • Bathroom with wide shower & hand-rail • Ceiling fans throughout • Owner/Occupier ensures pride in residence

Light, breezy & elevated, this open and spacious home captures coastal breezes, and a pleasant nature-ﬁlled outlook, all while being in one of the most sought-after locations: South Golden Beach! • Easy level stroll to beach and local shop • 9ft ceilings, increased feeling of space • Split-level contemporary layout • Side access to backyard • Just 25 minutes to Coolanga a and 15 minutes to Byron Bay

View Saturday 2.30pm – 3.30pm Agent Julie-Ann Manahan LREA Licensee/Principal 0411 081 118

View By Appointment Agent Kylie Charlton Area Sales Manager 0428 440 740

View By Appointment Auction On Site Saturday 3pm 13th February, 2016 Agent Julie-Ann Manahan LREA Licensee/Principal 0411 081 118

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â€˘ Entry level to this prime beachside location â€˘ 4XLHW VWUHHW ZLWK YHU\ OLWWOH WUDIĂ€ F â€˘ Private east facing backyard â€˘ Easy stroll to beach and shops â€˘ Excellent investment in beachside Suffolk Park Open: By Appointment Enquiries: Sharon McInnes 0408 659 649 Open: Saturday, 9 January 10.00â€“10.30am Enquiries: Paul Banister 0438 856 552, Su Reynolds 6685 8466

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Property â€˜Barefootâ€™ at Lennox

Elevated Paterson Lane

Brunswick lifestyle & income

1/53 Pacific Parade, Lennox Head

36 Paterson Lane, Byron Bay

16 Tweed Street, Brunswick Heads

Price $795,000

Hereâ€™s your perfect opportunity to purchase a fully furnished beachfront unit, complete with your own private pool! Located on highly desired Pacific Parade & right across from Seven Mile Beach, this unit epitomises coastal chic! Purchase & move straight in or keep as a holiday investment â€“ the choice is yours. Currently a popular holiday rental with income figures & full inventory available on request. Features include: â€˘ private inground pool with timber entertaining area â€˘ 3 beds all with built in robes (options to change room configuration) â€˘ side north facing patio area accessed from 2nd bedroom â€˘ open plan kitchen/living area with new stone benchtops, modern appliances & direct access to pool area. Stylish, washed timber plantation shutters feature throughout property & lend to the coastal theme. Only a short stroll to the many cafes & restaurants on offer in Lennox. Inspect: Contact agent Contact: Lois 0428 877 399 or Mark 0429 868 001 Lois Buckett Real Estate

Price $1,790,000

$910,000

Situated in the highly sought-after Paterson Lane, where very few properties come up for sale â€“ this home has the prime position. The moment you walk in you feel at home. The house features timber floors, high ornate ceilings and French doors leading from the lounge to sunroom. There areÂ 3 bedrooms on the ground floor and a large yoga room/ work space/master suiteÂ on the top floor opening out to balconies on either side. Set in lush green surroundings creating a sense of privacy, while enjoying the views to the ocean and hinterland over a carpet of native vegetation. Great access to Clarkes Beach and town in one direction and the Top ShopÂ cafeÂ only 200m stroll down theÂ laneway.

Investment opportunity in the heart of Brunswick Heads. Golden opportunity to purchase 3 incomes on the one block. 1 x top storey, 3 bedroom, 1 bathroom unit with front and rear decks. 1 x ground floor, 2 bedroom unit. 1 x commercial lease. Amazing position with local shops, cafes, the river and beaches, all within minutes of the doorstep. Suited to an investor or a developer looking for a low maintenance portfolio addition / super fund investment. Or simply move in and enjoy the fabled Brunswick lifestyle. Land size: 470 sqm. Current annual rent return of $37,959.00, but even as is, that should be $45k+. Long-term tenants in place. Donâ€™t miss out on this rare opportunity.

Contact: Byron Bay Property Sales 12 Lawson Street, Byron Bay. 6685 8575

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Property FOR SALE

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BYRON BAY BAY LANE GEM – BIG STUDIO PLUS

HUGE COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL 31 Charles Street, Iluka NSW

AUCTION onsite 11am 16th January 2016 • Development potential next to IGA complex • Large commercial corner block • Existing 1 bedroom plus S/O cottage or offices • Great investment opportunity to grow with Iluka

• Situated in primo Byron Bay location in sought-after Bay Lane. • Magniﬁcent investment with gross rental earnings of $44,000 in 2015. • Total area of 67m2 including 18m2 private outdoor terrace on title and security undercover carpark (14m2). • Excellent aircon, large hot water supply. • Bonus 1.8 kw solar system connected to the apartment. • All furnishings included along with TV & wi-ﬁ router.

• No management fees, unlike other apartments, self-managed with top-rating Airbnb account. • One minute from Main Beach. • Hip cafes & bars at the doorstep.

$439,000 Contact Ed 0418 660 063

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Bangalow

100 ACRES PRIME AGRICULTURAL LAND

RUSTIC COTTAGE – FARMLET ACRES

SLEEP CREEK VALLEY LOCATION

SCENIC FRONTAGE TO STONY CREEK

• First time offered in well over 100 years • Rich frost free paddocks • Dotted with pockets of remnant rainforest • Panoramic 180 degree easterly vistas • Solid original timber farmhouse • Pump from crystal clear Stony Creek • Short scenic drive to Bangalow & Byron Bay beaches

• Idyllic hobby farm lifestyle on 6 acres • Just minutes to Byron & Bangalow • Location, location – Sleepy Creek Valley • Original cottage with wraparound verandah • Ideal DUAL OCCUPANCY site • Established landscaped grounds & gardens • Stunning tropical oasis pool and setting

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AUCTION 13th February

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Property Character home in town

Coastal lifestyle location

Stunning beachside home

61 Kingsley Street, Byron Bay 6/114 Bangalow Road, Byron Bay 14 Beach Avenue, South Golden Beach AUCTION if not sold before... Contact agent for price $650,000 – $700,000 4 2 2 3 2 1 4 2 2

This character filled 4 bedroom, 2 living area home is positioned in one of Byron Bay’s most highly desired addresses. Built in 1927 the home has retained many original features whilst enjoying modern updates. Set on 1012m2 (quarter acre), a north facing back yard with sealed rear lane access allows for possible development or subdivision potential. The ‘Golden Grid’ is the ultimate lifestyle location where you can walk to the CBD, Top Shop, schools and beaches. Features: 4 bedrooms, home office, loft and front formal lounge. Open plan kitchen, dining and living flowing onto a large deck. Timber paneling, picture rails, high ceilings, timber floors and 1.5kw solar panels plus solar hot water.

Spacious, modern and architecturally designed this townhouse will impress. Set in an highly sought after location where a 2 minute walk will have you at the popular Roadhouse Café, or in less than 10 minutes you can stroll to Tallow Beach for a surf. Byron Bay’s CBD and schools are also an easy walk or bike ride away. Surrounded by established tropical gardens, the home features; 3 bedrooms, the main has an ensuite, WIR and large covered balcony. Open plan kitchen, meals and lounge flowing onto private outdoor dining area. Modern kitchen, timber floors and light coastal decor. Back veranda overlooking easy care yard and gardens. Remote lock up garage.

Open: By appointment Contact: James Young or Su Reynolds 6685 8466 First National Byron Bay

Open: By appointment Contact: Su Reynolds 6685 8466 First National Byron Bay

Open: By appointment Contact: Julie-Ann Manahan LREA Licensee/Principal. 0411 081 118 Raine & Horne Northern Rivers Group 6680 5000

7/2 Cemetery Road, Byron Bay

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Light, breezy & elevated, this open & spacious home captures coastal breezes, and a pleasant nature-filled outlook, all while being in one of the most sought-after locations and just a short level stroll to the beach! • 9ft ceilings, increased feeling of space • Side access to fully fenced backyard • Modern kitchen with electric oven, gas cooktop, plus plenty of cupboard & storage space • Quiet, peaceful location, minutes’ stroll to the beach • Bright, light & airy, with ample storage • Ceiling fans, down lights • Double garage with internal access • A HUGE bonus is the fully self-contained downstairs area, ideal accommodation for family or extra rental income • Just 25 minutes to Coolangatta and 15 minutes to Byron Bay

Immaculate and freshly renovated Prime position with leafy aspect Small well-maintained complex

Dual Occupancy Potential (STCA) 7.59 Hectares of Cabinet Timber & green paddocks with elevated view

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HABITAT North Beach is a fresh take on village life. Located at North Beach, Byron Bay, this mixed-use development combines architecturally designed live-work housing, commercial and community facilities (including a 25 metre lap pool) for those looking to achieve the perfect work/life balance. The commercial precinct (currently on the market) offers a range of retail, cafĂŠ, RIÄ†FH VWXGLR DQG SURIHVVLRQDO VHUYLFH VSDFHV (QMR\ WKH EHQHÄ†WV RI ELJ FLW\ LQIUDVWUXFWXUH LQFOXGLQJ IXOO DFFHVV WR $XVWUDOLDĂ¨V new broadband network, within a relaxed, modern village â€“ only a short stroll to the beach. www.habitatbyronbay.com

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Property 1 7 F I N G A L S T R E E T, B RU N S W I C K H E A D S

AUCTION Sat January 9th at 1pm BRAND NEW APARTMENTS – CENTRE OF BRUNSWICK HEADS 22 Fingal Street, Brunswick Heads NSW 2483 Two brand new properties for Auction in sought-after Brunswick Heads. One first-floor apartment featuring two bedrooms, an open plan kitchen with a balcony for entertaining and dining. The ground-floor apartment features one bedroom, kitchen / dining / lounge combined, with a private courtyard. Within walking distance of all that Brunswick Heads has to offer. Boutique shopping, sublime beaches, the magnificent river, and some of the Shire’s best dining options. These apartments are sure to enhance your lifestyle. - Prime location close to shops, schools, cafes, beaches and parks

First ﬂoor apartment: - 2 bedrooms with built-ins - North facing balcony - Open plan kitchen including a brand new fridge & dishwasher. - Main bathroom + an ensuite - Internal laundry with brand new washing machine + dryer. - Open plan living taking in the coastal breeze.

- Secure parking for cars of rear lane + storage Ground ﬂoor apartment: - 1 bedroom with built-ins - Private courtyard - Large lounge / dining / kitchen including a brand dishwasher. - Main bathroom + internal laundry. - Ceiling fans + louvres.

Contact: Ofﬁce 02 6685 1206

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0431 100 097

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HOME FOR PRIVATE SALE • Immaculately restored original 1905 home on 2.5 acres • House extended and renovated with 6 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 separate living spaces, separate toilet and laundry

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Bangalow Road, Bangalow

• Swimming pool • Potential Granny ﬂat partly converted • Huge 2 car garage easily converted to separate studio and extra 3 garage spaces • Mature citrus orchard and vege gardens

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FIRST NATIONAL BYRON BAY 5/64 Broken Head Road, Byron Bay. Sat 10-10.30am 2/6 Electra Close, Byron Bay. Sat 10-10.30am 46 Broken Head Road, Newrybar. Sat 10-10.30am 7/41 Redgum Place, Suffolk Park. Sat 10-10.30am 33 Redgum Place, Suffolk Park. Sat 11-11.30am 8 Blackbutt Place, Byron Bay. Sat 11-11.30am 6/114 Bangalow Road, Byron Bay. Sat 11-11.30am 9 Sansom Street, Bangalow. Sat 11-11.30am 505 Ridgewood Road, Rosebank. Sat 11-11.30am 46 Fowlers Lane, Bangalow. Sat 12-12.30pm 2/16 Oodgeroo Gardens, Byron Bay. Sat 12-12.30pm 271 Goremans Road, Eureka. Sat 12-12.30pm 33 Plantation Drive, Ewingsdale. Sat 12-12.30pm 25 Bottlebrush Crescent, Suffolk Park. Sat 1-1.30pm 142 Parkway Drive, Ewingsdale. Sat 1-1.30pm 10 Armstrong Street, Suffolk Park, Sat 2-2.30pm 155 Broken Head Road, Suffolk Park. Sat 2-2.30pm 147 The Channon Road, The Channon. Sat 2.30-3.00pm 2 General Stubbs Drive, Rosebank. Sat 4-4.30pm

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Country living at its best! This is an opportunity to secure 17 acres of ideal land for running either cattle or horses. There are many outstanding features about this property, a very spacious family home is located in an elevated position with four bedrooms, main with ensuite, three large living areas and store room. The home has a north facing aspect overlooking paddocks and gardens. There is ample water supply on the property comprising two spring fed dams with solar powered pump and 2 x 10,000 gall tanks. In addition there is a massive shed approximately 230m2 with steel frame, metal exterior and 3 phase power. Close to the beautiful beaches of Brunswick Heads and all essential amenities.

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Food with a view Vivienne Pearson

January is a special time of the year. The hubbub and rush of the festive season is over and there is a lull before the year’s banalities set in. January is a time for relaxation, reflection and planning. There’s nothing like a wide-ranging, beautiful view to help put your life in perspective and gain a bigger picture of the joys and trials you are facing. And what better way to enjoy a good view than with a delicious meal? In this region, so blessed with both gourmet delights and abundant beauty, food with a view is surprisingly hard to track down.

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What better way to enjoy a good view than with a delicious meal? Beach views are the pot of gold at the end of the foodwith-a-view rainbow. Car parking is a hot topic in Byron at the moment and, sadly, it is cars that get between a few great places and their beach views. Luckily, there are some that avoid this problem. Beef+Beach, at the Lennox Hotel, uses height to ensure the sea view is uninterrupted. Beach Byron Bay sits

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pretty overlooking Clarkes Beach, especially if you book early and specify a deck-edge table. Conversely, you’re better off a couple of tables back from the edge at Byron’s Beach Hotel, which is set just high enough to minimise traffic in favour of a nice watery eyeline. For a special occasion, The Restaurant at Rae’s (at Wategos Beach) successfully takes an angled approach to minimise views of the cars. One of the best sea views around is available via function bookings only – the Surf Life Saving Club at Byron’s Main Beach has nothing but a walking path between its spacious deck and the beach. And, speaking of decks, we’ll see how the Ocean Shores Country Club manages to tackle the carpark issue with their plans for a new sea-view eating area. Though the sea may dominate tourism brochures, hinterland views are the hidden gem of the region. Though less sought out, hinterland views can be sweeping, stunning and mesmerising. And there are fewer carparks! The only vehicle visible in the lovely hinterland views from the back deck at the Coast Restaurant at the Ocean Shores Country Club is the odd golf cart. The Lotus Cafe at Crystal Castle has

Top: Beach Byron Bay enjoys an unrivalled view over the bay (photo Grant McIntyre). Right: The cafe at the Crystal Castle has sensational hinterland views. Below: Enjoy beach views with your steak at Beef+Beach, Lennox Head.

a truly stunning view and enough tables that you won’t feel rushed to move on. For some sunset light over Mount Chincogan, head to the far back corner of the upstairs verandah of the Middle Pub in Mullum. If the festive season has ended with your having overextended your eatingout budget, try a picnic with a view. The Ocean Shores lookout has a shiny barbecue at the top of the road or, for a far better, almost-360-degree

view, take a stroll through a shady glade to the real lookout, which has a bench seat and space for a picnic blanket. The Pat Morton lookout at Lennox Point has fewer amenities but sweeping views from Byron to Ballina, as well as the odd hangglider. At the Cape Byron Lighthouse, supplement your picnic with a coffee or icecream from the cafe before commandeering a wooden picnic table or bench seat under the verandah of the old

lighthouse-keeper cottages. If the festive season has ended with your having overextended your waistline, head to one of these view spots and eschew actual food by supping on the fresh air and allowing your eyes to feast on the view. Q Have we missed a great spot for food with a view in Byron Shire? Let us know in the comments section of this story on Echonetdaily – echo.net.au/food-with-a-view.

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Sunday 27 December 3 and 10 January from 8am Adult $19.90 Child 12 Years and Under $9.90 Under 5 Years Free

Bangalow Dining Rooms

Enjoy our balcony restaurant, intimate dining room and generous bistro food in the pub. With reasonable prices our menu reflects the wonderful local and fresh produce of the region. SMH GOOD PUB Large groups welcome. FOOD GUIDE We also offer off-site catering. 2013 AND 2014 www.bangalowdining.com

Bangalow Hotel Open 7 days Lunch: 12 – 3pm Dinner 5.30 – 9pm All day bistro menu

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The Green Bistro at Club Byron Lunch: 11.30am–2.30pm, Dinner: from 5.30pm, Tuesday to Sunday (closed Mondays) 18–20 Marvell Street 6685 6202

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Basiloco

Wood fired pizzas and pastas take away and delivery

Ristorante Pizzeria Mon, Wed–Fri from 6pm, Sat & Sun from 12pm for lunch Closed Tuesday

Come and experience the best Italian/Mediterranean cuisine, made with the best local products, plus Byron’s best wood fired pizza. Kids meals $9 from.

32 Lawson Street 6680 8818 info@basilo.co

We do weddings and special event functions. Visit and book at www.basilo.co

Summer Menu’s Out Now!

The Rocks @ Aquarius Breakfast/Lunch 7 days from 7.30am 16 Lawson St, Byron Bay Reservations 6685 7663 therocksbyronbay.com.au

Success Thai Mon-Fri 12-3pm Dinner 7 days from 5pm. 3/109 Jonson St, Byron Bay 6680 7798

Come and enjoy the quintessential Byron Bay dining experience, with head chef Patrick Hobbs and his team. From beautiful breakfasts to lazy lunches, The Rocks @ Aquarius is the perfect summer setting. From deliciously fresh banana, raspberry, yogurt and granola cup, to our huge AQ signature breakfast, there is sure to be something that tantalises your tastebuds. We also have a selection of freshly squeezed juices and locally sourced coffee from the Byron Bay Coffee Company to awaken the senses! Visit www.therocksbyronbay.com.au for details and new menus.

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SPECIAL $10 LUNCH AND DINNER MENU All your favourites every lunch and dinner Experienced Thai chefs cooking fresh delicious Thai food for you. Fully Licensed and B.Y.O. for wine. Welcome for lunch, dinner and take-away. www.facebook.com/pages/Success-ThaiFood/237359826303469

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Luscious Foods Mon-Fri 7.30amâ€“3pm 1/6 Tasman Way, Byron Arts & Industry Estate BYO & RSVP 6680 8228

Open 7 days 9am till after midnight Shop 1 Woolworths Plaza 90-96 Jonson Street 6685 5700 www.legendpizza.com.au

Fishheads Open seven days 7:30am till late Coffee, breakfast, lunch, dinner, functions and weddings. Fully licensed.

â€˘ Breakfast and lunch â€˘ Wood-fired pizzas â€˘ Fresh juices â€˘ Great coffee

1 Jonson St, Byron Bay 6680 7632

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Muoiâ€™s Feast

Open for Breakfast

Lunch and Dinner 7 days Wategos Beach, Byron Bay 6685 5366 raes@wategos.com.au

Dinner: Mon-Sat 11 Fletcher St, Byron Bay Bookings Essential 6685 7557

Saturday and Sunday 7am till 10am

REPUBLIK Open for lunch Thurs- Sat 12-3pm 95 Jonson St, Byron Bay republikbyronbay.com 6685 5009 hello@republikbyronbay.com

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

Republik presents a stylish comfortable environment, offering a warm and hospitable welcome to the whole community. The menu includes a range of contemporary dishes based on global influences.

Kids eat free every Monday

New summer menu out now! Share plates, mains, desserts and famous Treehouse wood-fired pizza. Our kitchen is open all day and night. Presenting incredible original music in Byronâ€™s most intimate atmosphere. Check our website or Facebook for the gig guide. facebook.com/treehouse.belongil treehouseonbelongil.com

Full Cocktail & Wine Bar. Extensive Menu Includes Tapas, Mains, Desserts and Famous Woodfired Pizzas. 25 Childe St, Byron Bay 6680 9452

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Italian at the PaciďŹ c provides a bustling atmospheric restaurant, dishing up contemporary inspired Italian cuisine and some of Byronâ€™s finest cocktails and wines.

Happy Chilli Garden

Open Wednesday-Sunday Dine-in or Takeaway 5:30pm 6684 2209 Mullumbimby Bowling Club

Coolamon TreeÂ Bistro

Hong Kong chef specialising in Chinese and Malay foods

Open 7 days 12pm till late Byron St (opp Aldi) Byron Bay P 6680 9191 F 6676 4869 M 0403 516793 happychilligarden@hotmail.com

Mullumbimby Ex-Services Club Lunch every day from 11.30am Dinner Tuesâ€“Sun from 5.30pm 58 Dalley Street Mullumbimby

Dinner Special $18 - Includes a wine or beer Fully licensed Dine In / Takeaway / Home Delivery Available

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Peaceful dining by our tranquil rainforest

77â€“97 Broken Head Road, Byron Bay

Open seven days: breakfast, lunch & dinner

Coast Restaurant Open 7 days from 11am, restaurant menu and all-day bar snacks.

Thursday Farmers Market Dinner 2 courses $49 per person

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Savour your experience!

St Elmo Dining Room & Bar

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Muoiâ€™s Feast has created a strong following since opening in 2003. Winning numerous awards for its international cuisine, the Asian section of the menu is the predominant favourite. Enjoy for dinner.

Proudly awarded â€˜Most Sustainable Seafood Restaurantâ€™ 2015.Â This year we celebrate 25 years of serving the finest local seafood.Â Join us in the sea breeze on our veranda for a lazy long lunch or intimate candle lit dinner.

Extended Summer Hours Lunch every day from 27 Dec till 10 Jan The team behind Fins have just opened their new POP UP Restaurant The BUTCHERâ€™S BBQ. Located next door to our fine diner, The Butcherâ€™s BBQ offers a share style menu with â€˜smallsâ€™ and â€˜bigsâ€™ cooked on the grill (from $8-$38), communal tables, a cracking cocktail bar, boutique wine list and Gin Bar. This concept is only here for a short time. Extended Summer hours. Lunch every day from 27 Dec till 10 Jan

Experience the real taste of Thailand. Using local produce, local staff. Free courtesy bus provided for pick up and drop off! 20 yearsâ€™ experience in the art of Thai cooking.

Lunch specials starting from $8 Cuisine that everyone can enjoy â€“ mum, dad, the kids and grandparents. Perfect for corporate and private events.

Franciscoâ€™s Table is a roaming restaurant popping at different locations around the Byron Shire. The Roaming Restaurant up philosophy behind Franciscoâ€™s cooking is honesty TOP 10 0416 057 705 and simplicity. His food is inspired, amongst many POP-UPS francisco.food@gmail.com things, by the amazing local produce that is sourced NSW SMH from a wide community of growers and farmers. At www.facebook.com/ Good Food Franciscoâ€™s Table you will share a table loaded with Guide 2015 FranciscosTable delectable dishes with friends and fellow food lovers. Also available for functions, parties and weddings.

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Dinner every evening 5.30-9.30pm

Here the curry pastes are freshly pounded to leave your palate dumbfounded.

5/2 Fletcher St, Byron Bay 6685 5151

Here the ambrosial meals are cooked to order and the scrumptious cocktails and mocktails thrust you into a land of wonderful tales.

Hogâ€™s Breath Cafe

Hogâ€™s Breath Cafeâ€™s menu just got better with some mouth-watering new steaks, salad, pasta and an abundance of delicious dessert selections. As usual, the diverse menu also offers chicken, seafood, snacks, burgers, ribs, kidâ€™s meals, a range of Lite Options, plus their famous Prime Rib Steak â€“ slow cooked for up to 18 hours for maximum flavour and tenderness. Kids eat free Mon â€“ Wed nights and you can grab lunch for just $9.90, so thereâ€™s something to please the whole family.

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Monday night $15 Burgers & BeerÂ Tuesday nights all Pizzas $15 Wednesday night - $10 Schnitzels Dine in or takeaway Large groups and events welcome.

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St Elmo is a place where you can enjoy great company, first-class food, sophisticated cocktails and an extensive wine list. St Elmo is plating up modern Spanish cuisine to be enjoyed amongst friends and family. Our menus change regularly and feature daily specials.

Mon-Sat: 4pm til late. Sun: 4pm til 10pm. Cnr Fletcher St and Lawson Lane, Byron Bay 6680 7426

Open 7 Days, 11.30am-2.30pm Dinner from 5.30pm 9/4 Jonson St, Byron Bay 6685 5320 www.hogsbreath.com.au

FRESH PIZZA â€“ BYRON STYLE Check us out on

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Spice It Up Thai Restaurant

Italian at the Pacific Open for Dinner & Cocktails 7 days from 6pm till late Next to the Beach Hotel Bay Street 6680 7055 italianatthepaciďŹ c.com.au

The Butcherâ€™s BBQ

Eat in or take away, licensed, family friendly Outdoor dining area, easy parking, Open 7 days a week, 11am till late.

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Legend Pizza

Contemporary and Middle Eastern flavours

The Restaurant @ Raeâ€™s

An award-winning Japanese fusion cuisine Sushi bar, tapas, main meals and delicious chefâ€™s specials

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Come hang out at the Famous Little Shop of Smiles!Â Good Vibes, Abundant, Alive & Awesome NEW Menu. Raw, Vegan, Local, Organic Grab & Go Made to Order BREAKFASTS, LUNCHES, Delectable RAW DESSERTS & ICE CREAMS. and Paleo. Gluten, Dairy Sublime Superfood GREEN SMOOTHIES, Iced Drinks & and Sugar free. COLD PRESSED JUICES.Â 2/3 Marvell St Open 7 days, 7am till 4pm The BEST CHAI EVER, Organic COFFEE & SUPERFOOD www.nakedtreaties.com.au hotties all on our own fluffy ALMOND Mylk. GOODNESS never tasted SO GOOD! Insta #nakedtreaties

O-Sushi â€“ Since 2004

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OCEAN SHORES

Dinner Mon-Sun Lunch on weekdays Closed Tuesdays Shop 3/17 Lawson Arcade Phone orders welcome 6680 8443

The only exclusively Vietnamese restaurant in town, this intimate space spilling out into a courtyard offers up fabulous dishes packed full of herbs, spices and varied textures. The traditionally light and healthy style of cuisine ensures the freshness and natural tastes of food are preserved as much as possible. Itâ€™s a popular spot so bookings are recommended.

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Photos by Eve Jeffery. 1. Waiting for midnight, an epic audience loved The Wombats through to 2016. 2. Getting his sweat on, The Wombats’ Tord Øverland Knudsen. 3. Festival highlight Gary Clarke Jr. 4. Mr & Mrs Australia. 5. Weird Al’s ode to Yoda. 6. Locals lasses Ellie & Ashleigh. 7. Parade nature sprites. 8. Ever awesome Vika Bull. 9. Little May’s Annie Hamilton. 10. Paul Kelly led the Merri Soul Sessions. 11. Nimbin locals hanging out with Coffs cops. 12. Bubble maestro Shep Huntely. 13. Pressure up and down with Hilltop Hoods. 14. Beautiful dancing Brazilian parade goddess. 15. The last of the goon squad. Read more about this year’s Falls Byron Festival in Echonetdaily – go to www.echo.net.au/byron-falls-spreads-good-vibe.

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AUSTEN TAYSHUS:

ON MALCOLM TURNBULL, HECKLERS AND FAVOURITE POPES

THE YEAR 2015 MARKED 35 YEARS IN THE BUSINESS FOR STA N D U P C O M E D I A N A N D S AT I R I S T A U S T E N TAY S H U S . THERE ARE COMEDIANS ON THE CIRCUIT WHO HAVEN’ T E V E N B E E N A L I V E T H AT LO N G . But the big man behind the Ray Bans isn’t tiring. ‘I am loving it more and more,’ he says. ‘I have done around 100 shows this year. I have travelled widely throughout Australia and upset just a few more than 765 people.’ That’s probably conservative. An Austen Tayshus show isn’t for the faint-hearted. He pushes his crowds to the brink of their comfort zones, and in some cases he drives them screaming to the bottom. It’s something he’s become famous for. He’s topical, passionate, and he’s not up there to give you warm fuzzies. He wants his crowds to think, to dissect the zeitgeist. And yes, he ALWAYS get hecklers. ‘I provoke the crowd, so I expect hecklers. But if you are heckling at my show, be prepared for me to crush you to the point where you will be screaming for Jack Kevorkian (American euthanasia activist), the Armenian Dr Death. I do push people’s buttons, but so like the Gypsy Jokers, and in the end we expect casualties at all shows.

‘The Subaru Outback commercials have reinvigorated my career. They have had more than a million hits on YouTube. Any sponsors who have similar interest in my longevity please call my agent without delay. Unlike my hero Richard Di Natale, anything goes.’ So now in his 36th year, what advice does Austen have for emerging comics in 2016? ‘Like Cary Grant, I don’t like giving advice to other entertainers, but I do believe in reading constantly. Current affairs, good literature, biography etc. Maintain your curiosity.’ So what is the perfect crowd for Tayshus? ‘A perfect crowd is loose, hip and out for a laugh.The more switched on the better. Not a Geraldton crowd. That is the dumbest town on the planet.’ And his take on the latest PM? ‘Malcolm Turnbull was at Sydney University at the same time as I was. He was doing Arts Law and I was smoking marijuana and great hashish.

‘Being a standup comic gives one a huge amount of freedom and a modicum of responsibility. My shows are very interactive and I love fucking with people. After all it is fairly innocuous. I often get people overreacting, unnecessarily, because it’s just a show. It’s not Anzac Day!’

‘I see Malcolm around from time to time now and I think that anything would be better than Tony the Fuck! Time will tell if he will make a great leader and my only advice to him is to be kind to the battlers, and give everyone a fair go. Malcolm is pretty straight, but if he could chill a bit and smoke some weed he would probably kick arse.’

Our cultural identity and the notion of what it means to be Australian has always been the core of Austen’s comedic rant. Ironically his satirical Australiana is what he is perhaps most well known for, causing crowds to think that somehow he celebrates good oldfashioned Aussie jingoism; in fact its quite the opposite it. It’s exactly what he’s out to annihilate. Subaru recently took the big fella on board for their Outback model. Even more ironic considering the Armani suit-wearing Austen is not an Outback sort of guy. He’s definitely inner-city chic. But tongue in cheek, or should I say tongue in chic, is what what he does best.

And his favourite pope? ‘The best pope was Jean Paul II because he let the Jews off the hook. Christianity did us a lot of harm and he changed the world dramatically for us. A powerful imam could do some good now too by being sensible. Where would the world be without the Jews? No Bob Dylan for a start. And definitely no Austen Tayshus.’ Austen Tayshus performs at the Byron Services Club on Monday with Mandy Nolan. Tickets are $25 at the club or can be booked by calling 6619 0529.

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S H A K E Y G R A V E S I S T H E S TA G E N A M E OF TEXAS-BASED ‘HOBO FOLK’ SINGER/SONGWRITER AND MUSICIAN ALEJANDRO ROSE-GARCIA . It was something he came up with when he was a little drunk, and it kind of stuck. ‘There was a thing in America when I was a little kid: you would do a camp-out like you and your father, like the boy scouts but a quasiracist version called Indian Guide. I never did it but I had friends who did it. You choose a name or you get given one; I named myself Shakey Graves at a music festival and carried a guitar around introducing myself to people like that. It was weird because it kind of stuck.’ A teen actor, Rose-Garcia appeared in several movies including Shorts, Material Girls and Spy Kids 3. ‘I grew up acting; it’s something I adore doing,’ says Rose- Garcia, who grew up with a family ethos that encouraged him to follow his heart. ‘I didn’t get into either of them (music or acting) for money. It’s nice to eat food and be appreciated for your work, but that is secondary to passion. If I were flipping burgers I would still be playing music, or acting!’

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Welcome to Byron Bay! The once hippy- but now hipsterinfested coastal town marketed here and internationally as the embodiment of a place that embodies the ethos of personal freedom. And yes, it is free, sort of. Well it used to be. We still have freedom, but well, this is embarrassing. You can have our Byron freedom, if you can afford it. If you want to experience this amazing freedom it will cost you $3 an hour. But then youâ€™ll have to move your car so other people can come and experience the same $3 hourly freedom. From 23 December residents and visitors to the Byron Shire now have to pay for the privilege of parking in

a town that is already overpriced, under-serviced and over-utilised. Poor beloved Byron looks like she needs a good wipe down with a Chux cloth. The goddess turned hooker needs some nurtureâ€Ś fill her potholes, tend to her parks, build a toilet that doesnâ€™t feel like youâ€™re pissing in a giant Tardis-shaped bedpan. Stop milking Byronâ€™s diminishing resources for more cash. Paid parking is a joke. It doesnâ€™t actually create â€˜moreâ€™ parking. It just creates a new level of compliance and over-regulation. Which doesnâ€™t make the experience of going to Byron very enjoyable. In fact, it makes me anxious and angry. Somehow I

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FREEDOM! JUST $3 AN HOUR donâ€™t think that aligns with the Byron freedom vibe. In the end it just creates another reason NOT to go to Byron Bay. A few days after Christmas I decided to take the kids to the movies. I was prepared for the worst: apocalyptic traffic scenes necessitating the need to top up Rescue Remedy stores in the glove box and a mindfulness CD on repeat. I had done my breathing. I had let go of expectations. I was ready. What I encountered was unexpected. It was like a ghost town. $3 hour parking spots littered the streets. I had a choice of around 30 spots right across from the cinema. The retailers I

spoke to were in shock. Where were the people? These should have been their busiest days. Could paid parking really send everyone packing?

In a tantric town should we really expect people to achieve their business in just one hour? And here was my conundrum. How do you watch a movie with one-hour parking? Of course I could park in the Woolies carpark â€“ that probably houses the allocated â€˜free cinema parkingâ€™ but there wasnâ€™t any because every other bastard who wasnâ€™t going to the cinema had parked there. So I was forced to take an hourly spot and leave on the hour to move the car. I had to leave the cinema twice.

THE VOICE OF KARISE EDEN KARISE EDEN TOOK OUT THE G O N G F O R T H E V O I C E AT A G E 2 0 . S H E â€™ D P R E V I O U S LY EXPERIENCED PROFOUND MOMENTS OF LOW SELF-ESTEEM T H AT S AW H E R L E AV I N G S C H O O L AT AG E 1 2 A N D H O M E AT 1 3 .

So how does Karise reconcile the Cinderella effect of the life life she has now in comparison to where she came from?

The clear winner, it seemed unbelievable that a girl whose life had been so hard could suddenly be so good.

Reflecting on her time on The Voice, choosing Seal as her mentor and coach was a no-brainer.

In the course of a single screening, Star Wars turned into Car Wars. Of course as a local I have the option to go online and pay my $50 annual fee. With three cars in our household thatâ€™s $150. That seems like a hefty price to pay to see two films a year, and go to the fish shop. As a local most of my stops in Byron are less than 10 minutes and involve picking up one of the kids or something I have bought. The other day I paid $3 to find out the fish shop was shut. As a local resident Iâ€™ve already got the shits. When it comes to infrastructure, the Byron Shire has a bloody raw deal. The jewel in the crown of Aussie tourism, youâ€™d think as local residents weâ€™d be enjoying the booty â€“ amazing

roads, incredible walkways and bikeways, a beachfront water parkâ€Ś but no, we ainâ€™t got shit. As ratepayers you start to wonder what the fuck you are actually paying for and why you seem to be continually paying for more and more of this over-supply of absolutely crappy NOTHING. I donâ€™t want to pay $150 to park somewhere I think as a local resident you should be able to park free. Resident parking should be free. We live here. We are not on holidays. We are not sleeping in our Wicked Vans. We are not spending three hours having lunch and cruising the shops. We are going to work. We are buying bread. We are going to the doctor. We are getting our chakras aligned. So now I do what everyone else does. I park at The Farm, and I hitch in.

â€˜You know, when I am home alone at night I just sit down and think Fuck â€“ one minute I am sleeping at a bus stop and the next minute I am sleeping at the Hilton. When there is nothing else to believe in, believe in positivity, something could really upset me â€“ thatâ€™s why I push for my album to be called the Things I Have Done. The sun comes through my window; that pretty much wraps it all up. When I was writing, I went through so much that one morning I got up and sat on my bed and put my head in my hands and went oh wow.â€™

Fast forward to 2016, where after finding her voice, Karise has found her â€˜To be honest I really felt like his voice was 20 years more mature than feet, writing and recording for Universal Music and performing to crowds mine and it was in the direction I am heading vocally, so I thought I who just canâ€™t get enough of her powerful music. could learn something from him if he were to coach me. The other Her first album was the expected My Journey â€“ hits from the The Voice, coaches were very talented but for me trying to make a decision but now creativity is very much on her terms. musically myselfâ€Ś Delta has the most amazing voice, but I didnâ€™t want to head vocally in her direction. In the end, I love Sealâ€™s husky, â€˜I guess now Universal gave me the time to write the music that resonated with me personally more, they tend to push those artists to be airy voice.â€™ Kariseâ€™s shows have what she calls â€˜a theatre vibeâ€™.

Her latest album Things I Have Done reflects on her rather extraordinary life story. â€˜Itâ€™s a long, gruelling process but itâ€™s a very rewarding process. Out of the 60 songs I wrote, we brought 30 to the table, then out of those 30 I agreed for those to be road-tested in a trio I did so I got a good test of what was going to run.â€™

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WILD MARMALADE AT THE BYRON BREWERY ON SATURDAY

SHAKEY GRAVES FOR BLUESFEST

Unlike most people’s parents, Rose-Garcia’s encouraged authenticity rather than hard economics.

‘They have always been creative magic-bean people who make something out of nothing. You would rather create your own job than work for someone else. There are millions of ways to do that: write a play, start a restaurant, draw a poster. My mother has always been an actress, playwright and director, and was a lecturer at one point; dad was a technical guy managing stage. I was raised along those lines. ‘I was taught the process. I grew up learning about how to come up with a concept and rehearse and stage-test it. In the end, putting on a show is important to me as opposed to just stepping on stage.’

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WHEN SEA GYPSIES

The Sea Gypsies are a pirategypsy-circus band made up of scallywags performing a visual and auditory feast of original songs, pirate anthems, swinging rhythms and gypsy jazz tunes with circus arts and tap-dancing to ice the cake. With support from Rosie MissChief, DaniDoo Butterfly, Whiskey TroublePants (USA) and an electro swing set by DJ Cyprian. Step into the rabbit hole. Friday at the Brewery’s beergarden. 8–11pm, free entry!

Shakey Graves is looking forward to making his debut steps onto Bluesfest stages this year. ‘It feels insane to step out on a big stage. Anything past 2,000 or 2,500 feels like a million people. It’s impossible to tell whether its 8,000 or more!’ Shakey Graves is one of the featured acts you will want to discover at Bluesfest this coming Easter long weekend. For tickets and program information go to bluesfest.com.au.

More than music that jumps out of the box, when the drone of the didgeridoo meets the fire of the drum and the passion of the guitar then there is no box. Saturday at the Byron Brewery with Felicity Lawless. 7.30pm. Free.

KASEY CHAMBERS LIVE

By the time she was in her late teens she was fronting the band and writing some of the songs. The incredible Kasey Chambers is at the Ballina RSL on Thursday.

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Kasey Chambers shrugs, wrapping her hands around her coffee cup – the same hands that have received 29 music awards and raised three children. The same hands that pulled crayfish spines from their knuckles on Australia’s southern coast and hunted foxes under the Nullarbor’s endless blue sky. Born in Mt Gambier in South Australia, Kasey grew up in a home environment where listening to and performing country and roots music was a way of life. It had to rub off – and it did – just as in later years, living on the Nullarbor Plain and travelling all over Australia with her family, the young Kasey got an education like no other. She spent her childhood absorbing the music of Hank Williams, Emmylou Harris,

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As a songwriter Rose-Garcia, aka Shakey Graves, admits he can be a harsh editor. ‘I would rather something not be released than released prematurely. A lot of stuff is a work in progress. My big question is when is a song done; it’s done when you finally record it, when you put it in a frame and then it will change around a bit. I try to have all the songs lure you into the next one and make you miss the one before it. Everything can be an individual piece and you. The old format used to be multi-track. I always like using tape because there are limitations to it; there are only so many tracks that you can lose track in digital and lose sight of it. Eight track is pretty well perfect, four track is more fun; simplicity often reeks of purity.’

In a world where nearly everything is ordered and rehearsed, Wild Marmalade deliver a wholehearted journey into the present moment with a kind of reckless abandon that defies categorisation. Uplifting, inspired, human-powered dance music unparalleled in the world today.

Johnny Cash and other country greats loved by her parents. It was in the family’s revered Dead Ringer Band with dad Bill, mum Di and older brother Nash that 10-yearold Kasey got her first real taste of being on stage.

THE SEA GYPSIES AT THE BYRON BREWERY ON FRIDAY

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Wild Marmalade are the pioneers of the didgeridooand-drum dance concept that is now a global phenomenon. Formed on the streets in Byron Bay in the late 90s they have gone on to tour the world many times over with a strong following, particularly in Europe and Japan. Cirque du Soleil composer Benoit Jutras described seeing a Wild Marmalade street show in Copenhagen as ‘… the most uplifting, energetic live performance I saw in my life… A unique experience’.

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Joining forces with Tijuana Cartel’s astonishing flamenco guitarist Paul George, Wild Marmalade’s power duo of didgeridoo and drums reach a new dimension with this potent and melodically rich collaboration. With an ethos of free-play improvisation the trio create waves of energy that take the audience under their dance spell.

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Now in its eighth year The Ultimate Bee Gees show takes you on the journey Barry, Robin & Maurice experienced with their magic harmonies and melodic tunes that dominated the music charts for 50 years. Get your dancing shoes on as these boys bring homage to one of the greatest bands of all time, The Bee Gees. This is a night of pure entertainment and not to missed as The Ultimate Bee Gees soar through all the greatest hits. Ballina RSL on Saturday at 8pm. Tix at the club.

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RAWLINGS MUSIC

Like many who write songs, Luka Bloom’s orchestra of choice is the guitar. What makes his career a little different is his constant search for a new voice within the guitar.

Dave Rawlings Machine play in support of the recently released and critically acclaimed album Nashville Obsolete, which features seven original compositions written by Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings. The Machine live band will feature Dave and Gillian, as well as Willie Watson, Punch Brother Paul Kowert and incredible fiddler Brittany Haas. Dave Rawlings and his show at the A&I Hall in Bangalow on 13 and 14 February. Tix On Sale NOW at www.redsquaremusic.com.au.

DAVID ADES LIFE IN A DAY

David Ades is a legend of Australian saxophone. His majestic phrases, searing tone and glorious melodies dismiss any notions of right or wrong. His playing epitomises honesty, singularity and courage. David tragically lost his battle with lung cancer in November 2013. Incredibly, only weeks before he died, Ades recorded an album of new material in New York. That album has now been released through Lionsharecords.

DAVID ADES: A LIFE IN A DAY AT THE BANGALOW BOWLO THURSDAY 15 JANUARY David’s close friends Zac Hurren (Brisbane) and Julien Wilson (Melbourne), respective winners of the National Jazz Award in 1994 and 2009, are touring Australia in January to pay tribute to Ades and his music. Zac and Julien will be performing at the following venues with local rhythm sections, all of whom had previous musical connections with David. Friday 15 January 8pm at The Bangalow Bowlo with Sam Maguire on bass and Greg Sheehan on drums. Tix at bangalowbowlo.com.au.

CULTURE BASKING IN STARLIGHT The Starlight Festival attracts men and women of all ages and is a family-friendly event that welcomes all. With renowned practitioners and specialists across a variety of fields including massage, yoga, natural products, beauty, sustainable goods, soulful food, healing, music and much more, there is no better opportunity to be inspired and enlightened. All housed under one roof, all you need to do is come along and enjoy the uplifting and inspirational environment.

You can visit more than 40 stallholders, participate in interactive workshops or take in the wisdom and expertise of our keynote speakers. If you are looking for a weekend to unwind and reconnect with your inner self, come along, bring your family and friends, and be a part of this vibrant and uplifting community at The Starlight Festival 2016. When: 7–10 January at the Bangalow A&I Hall Price: $20 admission. 2-day pass $30. Locals 2-for-1 days, Thursday 7 & Friday 8 January. Tickets online or at the door. www.starlightfestival.com.au

The guitar is the landscape on which the song is created, and he is forever probing that landscape for new inspiration. No effects, no gadgets. Time, effort and a whole lot of love bring forth new voicings within the instrument, and bit by bit the songs come to life. And eventually they fly, bringing Luka with them to be heard in Byron Bay, San Francisco, Hamburg, or even Doolin. Luka Bloom has the power to bring audiences to a hush as his poetic lyrics bounce over melodies TAHIR QAWWAL AND BHAIRAVI DEVI PLAYING DEVOTIONAL MUSIC AT THE LOTUS TEAHOUSE ON SUNDAY in a beautiful, captivating way. The same artist can rouse the spirit of the audience to the ceiling when Tahir has learnt from some of the sophisticated melodies and he changes the tempo. Luka’s greatest artists in Qawwali and rhythmic tabla beats with rare Indian classical music, and he leads live performances are summed emotion and passion. this group of talented accompanists up in his own words: ‘Every gig The Lotus Teahouse at is precious. Whether the Spa in to perform a range of softer Inspired by the poetic works of Starseed Gardens (Byron Lisdoonvarna, Carre in Amsterdam, traditional devotional styles. mystics such as Bulleh Shah, Amir Bay) hosts renowned vocalist or the Enmore Theatre in Sydney, Khusurow and Rumi, Sufi music Sufi Soul Sangeet inspires and harmonium player Tahir the privilege is the same, as is the expresses a deep longing for audiences to remember the depth Qawwal, performing with his commitment to the gig’. divine union. Sufi Soul Sangeet of tradition and the art of expression beloved partner Bhairavi Devi, bring to life the devotional music tabla player Shen Flindell and Byron Theatre Saturday 5 March. at the heart of Sufi music. Sunday of India and Pakistan, skilfully Tickets at byroncentre.com.au or 7pm, $15, Starseed Gardens, 130 amazing Japanese bansuri weaving together sweetly book 6685 6807. Yagers Lane, Byron Bay. player Taro Terahara.

SUFI SOUL SANGEET AT THE LOTUS TEAHOUSE

BRAND NEW STUNTS! NEVER BEFORE SEEN IN BYRON BAY! Inspired by the great thinkers of the past and present in the field of psychological persuasion and mind reading, The Space Cowboy performs some of the most direct and precise thought-reading demonstrations that can be found in the world today. The holder of 38 Guinness World Records he is also leading the frontier of extreme performance. Experience his death-defying stunts of sword swallowing and much more pushing the boundaries of what is physically possible. His bizarre demonstrations highlight the incredible power of the human mind and the physical body, and are so unusual they have baffled doctors and scientists around the globe.

Witness The Space Cowboy extract images from people’s minds, bend spoons in their hands, See him swallow a 60cm glass neon tube and hear his heartbeat as his skin glows from the inside. You are invited to bring your own cutlery for The Space Cowboy to bend with no apparent physical force in your hand! Making headlines around the world and with multiple television appearances The Space Cowboy is one act you surely want to catch LIVE. This is your chance! January 17 at 8pm at the Byron Centre. Tix on sale now at byroncentre.com.au.

OBSERVING OUR BELOVED COASTLINE Coast – Line is an exhibition of new work by local Byron Bay artist Jan Rae. Jan has been exhibiting her artwork for many years in Byron Bay, Sydney, Brisbane and Buenos Aires.

JAN RAE’S SHIFTING SANDS – HER EXHIBITION COAST – LINE ON SHOW AT THE LONE GOAT GALLERY IN BYRON 15–27 JANUARY She is a long-term local Byron resident and is well known for her mural work and tango paintings. She is currently undertaking a Masters degree in Fine Art at UNSW Sydney, and this is her first show in Byron since 2012. Of her work she says, ‘my artwork is an enquiry into the nature of erosion and the constantly evolving meeting place between

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TAURUS: The present cosmic weather’s excellent for taking stock, establishing priorities and setting your internal compass for the coming year. With Mercury and Jupiter in an energetic slowdown, progress could be patchy and results slow to show up, but ideas and plans properly planted should start sprouting by the end of the month.

GEMINI: Your ruler Mercury retrograde for most of January provides a welcome respite for recycling old habits into new strategies that are more effective, supportive and above all enjoyable. Use the present impetus in your zone of talents and abilities to suss out the savviest avenues for achieving your ambitions du jour.

ARIES: With your boss planet Mars in Scorpio plating up

s r a t S with Lilith According to divine design, Mercury retrograde’s the time to apply rewords: as in reviewing, reshaping and reﬁning plans and ambitions in readiness for when the year really gets into gear later in January…

trust issues, this could be the week for an unsentimental cull of faux friends from loyal supporters. Also writing a list of things that make you happy. And another one of the things you do every day. Then comparing lists, and adjusting accordingly.

CANCER: The intensity of this week’s emotions and events won’t go unnoticed or unfelt by your sensitive selves. Work with this rather than against for good results later in January. Feeling resistant? Put it to work for you resisting the pressure of financial outlays or upfront payments that overstretch your economic elastic.

LEO: If misunderstandings or incorrect intel initiate a push-pull tug of war over who’s boss and of what, recheck your data and details – because even when you think you’re right the potential for error during Mercury retrograde can reach epidemic proportions. This week’s major no-no? Overthinking and overdoing it. Relax, majesties.

SAGITTARIUS: This week’s volcanic dynamics (resulting from misinformation and misunderstandings) require your finest adaptive talents. Smart Archers (ie all of you) will think creative rather than abrasive, and avoid confrontations. When midweek moon joins Venus in your sign, that irrepressible Sagittarian humour lightens the weightier aspects of Jupiter’s retrograde retreat.

CAPRICORN: With Mercury retro in Capricorn for most of January, people and equipment could be infuriatingly unreliable, and it’s very easy to make mistakes. You’ll be cheeky, resourceful, stubborn and argumentative, so keep in mind that while knowledge is knowing what to say, wisdom is knowing when to say it. And to whom…

VIRGO: Your sponsor planet Mercury on holidays in a fellow earth sign is the perfect opportunity for what Virgos do better than anyone: sorting, organising and categorising. When you’ve had enough of that, show your love this week in tangible demonstrations: by lending a hand, giving a hug, going the extra mile to assist. LIBRA: While this week triggers rogue emotions, it also stimulates exciting revelations about how to gracefully navigate changes and transitions. As the year settles into its stride, take plenty of time to reconnect with your personal dreams – what you’d truly, deeply most love to do this year, not just what’s affordable.

SCORPIO: Not-so-welcome news this week is that with Mercury and Jupiter retrograding friendships can cool, group plans atrophy and enthusiasms lose their oomph. But all that’s more than compensated for by Mars in Scorpio pumping you with oodles of impetus to navigate some very necessary, deep and meaningful course corrections.

AQUARIUS: Exercise your ability to see the big picture this week, rather than getting hung up on particular bits of it. Pull together and combine different, even seemingly contradictory, strands of your life and work into a cohesive, cooperative unit. Do your Aquirkian best to be socially smooth, cruisy and soothing…

PISCES: While this week charges up emotions, it also slings a host of new ideas and innovative concepts into your mind. Don’t ignore these valuable prompts; make a note of them for acting on down the track. And while you’re busy mastering the material world, don’t neglect its splendid potential for some very perky pleasures.

FROM KUALA LUMPUR TO MULLUMBIMBY Catch the wild and wondrous Jonathan Atherton in his last show before he heads back home to Kuala Lumpur, the place the one-time Brisbane boy now calls home. A love of language and culture pervades his work, giving him a unique ability to get on the inside in his storytelling.

The child of a foreign correspondent, Atherton grew up in New York, surrounded by children of diplomats, a multi-racial, multicultural melting pot that blooded

a comedic wit unlike any other. There is nothing quite like the Jonathan Atherton experience. Wild, passionate, lateral thinking – like the bastard love child of Bill Hicks and Robin Williams. All darkness and light and lots and lots of laughs. Saturday 16 January at the Mullumbimby Ex-Services with Mandy Nolan as MC and Greg Sullivan as support, 8pm. $25, can be booked on 6619 0529, tix at the club beforehand or on the door on the night!

THE LONG STORY OF MAKING A SHORT

T H I S Y E A R T H E AC A D E M Y AWA R D -ACC R E D I T E D A N D BA F TA- R E CO G N I S E D F L I C K E R F E ST C E L E B R AT E S 2 5 Y E A R S A S A U ST R A L I A’S L E A D I N G TO U R I N G S H O RT- F I L M F E ST I VA L . Premiering at Bondi Pavilion this week is the short film Nan and a Whole Lot of Trouble produced and made locally by Lois Randall. This 11-minute short drama was developed through the Exchange program, an initiative of Screen Australia’s Indigenous department, written by Sue McPherson and directed by Dena Curtis. Shot at the church in Wardell, around Lismore and a property out near Dunoon, Randall believes that although short, the film attempts to tackle complex tensions around culture, tradition and identity. ‘I think it’s quite a bold little film,’ says Randall, ‘as it tackles controversial questions around cultural identity, particularly for people of mixed race – Anglo/European and Indigenous, it’s a comedy, when people are in grief – it shows how we often revert to our childhood selves. It’s this lovely comedy between these two older women, sisters who have just lost their brother. It tackles questions around each individual’s right to take what they want and deal with grief.’ The film is centred around the cultural taboos around death, which become complicated when the sisters inherit an album that features ‘mourning photography’. ‘This is the tradition,’ says Lois, ‘of keeping photos of the deceased, going back generations. It was widely practised – particularly by people who couldn’t afford a portrait of someone; they had one taken after they died. It was particularly common in Irish Catholic communities.

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‘Nan is the main character. She inherits this album that has been passed down from the Irish side of her family and her sister just can’t cope with it because it goes against Aboriginal cultural taboos of naming the deceased and what people will think. The writer Sue McPherson’s whole reason was to explore the idea that a lot of Aboriginal people have diverse cultural heritage and they should be able to choose what feels right for them. Sue is Indigenous South Sea Islander and Irish.’ Casting was perhaps the most complex part of the film. ‘We tried to cast the role of Nan. We tried initially to find an experienced actor, but couldn’t find anyone who was available. We auditioned quite a lot of non-actors, including people locally, and Dena had seen a documentary that had Noelene Shearer, who played Nan. She is the real thing, of Irish and Aboriginal heritage; she is from Brewarrina. ‘This is the first drama that Noelene has acted in, she is so brave. She travelled on her own all the way here. We cast Pamela Young, an experienced actor, as Aunty Min, the other sister, also in her 70s, and she has brilliant comic timing, and for the 15-year-old grand-daughter we auditioned a lot of non-actors, and in the end we were thrilled to give the role to Amber Rose Atkinison; she is Gumbayngirr girl from around Grafton who grew up in Lismore. ‘The casting is so important, the whole film depends on it. It was hair-raising that we didn’t have the cast confirmed until the week before filming!

‘We had to keep looking and looking. We also employed Roy Gordon, who is a local Aboriginal actor from LIsmore. He plays the brother who has died. We had to create the mourning photographs, so all of those people are local people. We worked with Mary Torrens, who did all the extras casting for Gods of Wheat Street. ‘The amount of work to set this film up was the same for a TV series or a feature, but you shoot it in a week and all of a sudden it’s over!’ This is the first film for Randall’s Production Company Magpie Pictures. ‘I love the creative process,’ she says. ‘The thing that was quite unusual on this one was that almost the entire crew were women. The camera department was all women. Only 17 per cent of feature films are directed and shot by women. It wasn’t intentional though; it just happened!’ Nan and a Whole Lot of Trouble will screen as part of the Best of Australian Shorts at Flickerfest. Mullum Civic Hall, 22–24 January with the Best of Australian Shorts, Best of International Shorts and Short Laughs Comedy programs. This is one-off chance to see these amazing shorts before they continue their journey around the world; curated from the Flickerfest competition screenings at Bondi; expect to experience the best in short filmmaking Australia and the world has on offer. All Info: www.iQ.org.au.

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The art of the newspaper cartoonist is sadly unappreciated. To capture the world every day in four frames and not many more words is a rare talent and over the years those gifted with it have provided insight and humour – solace, even – for countless readers in all languages. Characters such as Dagwood, Bristow and Hagar the Horrible developed binding relationships with their followers, but perhaps the most famous of them all is Charlie ‘good grief’ Brown. Created by Charles M Schultz in 1950, the trials and tribulations of selfdoubting but indefatigable Charlie still resonate, so Steve Martino’s adaptation of them to the big screen was (by this punter, at least) keenly anticipated. Schultz’s drawings were minimalist in style and Martino has stuck true to those simple lines, but his team of animators has gone to great lengths to create, with wonderfully vivid colours, Charlie’s Saturday Evening Post town and environs – the kids playing ice-hockey is one of many visual treats. The gang come to life off the page – Linus, Lucy with her pavement stall dispensing psychiatric help, Pig-Pen, Patti, Schroeder playing Beethoven on his tiny grand piano and, of course, Charlie’s dog Snoopy. They are all voiced by youngsters (Charlie’s Noah Schnapp is eleven years old), which contributes immensely to the movie’s authenticity, but Martino is somewhat let down by a messy screenplay that is not quite able to merge the two threads of his story. Charlie is smitten by a cute new girl at school and, in his hesitant way, he will try anything to gain her attention. Snoopy, as in the strip, spends much of the time sitting atop his kennel beavering away at his typewriter, writing the great novel about his duels with the WWI flying ace, the Red Baron (I so hoped that the Royal Guardsmen’s earworm hit from the 60s would be included in the soundtrack).

I would have preferred to spend more time with Everyman Charlie, but that’s only a minor criticism. A life-affirming, humanist movie, forgiving and quietly funny.

It’s perhaps too flippant to say that this is about a woman who got rich by selling a lot of mops. Any film can be deconstructed to a banal base – but by the same token it can also be overblown into a quasiHomeric tale of triumph over impossible odds. Which is the case when Hollywood goes into bat for ‘the Great American Dream’. Caressed by the saccharine voice-over of her dead grandmother, we meet the inventive child who will grow up to be our heroine Joy (Jennifer Lawrence). Because overstatement is the only language that this type of movie speaks, the kid announces that to fulfil her dreams she needs ‘no prince’. Good for her. Joy then goes on to have a failed marriage to Tony (Édgar Ramírez), the most likeable character involved in her ascent of ambition’s slippery slope, while being a mother of two and stressed focal point of her de rigueur dysfunctional family. For the first half-hour the narrative is guided largely by the soundtrack, as songs by Cream, the Bee Gees and Frank and Nancy Sinatra spell out for us the important points we are to understand, but eventually the plot kicks in and, though never surprising, it is well constructed and intriguing in a ‘how bad can it get for poor Joy’ way. Lawrence holds it together superbly as, around her, Robert De Niro, playing her charmless father with weary conviction, Isabella Rossellini as his pantomime lover and Joy’s reluctant backer, and Bradley Cooper impersonating Bradley Cooper, do little more than go through the motions. If it weren’t for Ramírez and a lovely performance from Dascha Polanco as Joy’s loyal friend Jackie, it would be hard to care for any of them. David O Russell’s insistence on depicting the plebs as dimwitted addicts of TV soapies is annoyingly dismissive and, if you still didn’t get the point, the last scene, in which an African-American woman presents her invention to Joy while hubby holds the baby is typical of a lecturing approach to affirmative action. Overrated.

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ENTERTAINMENT THURSDAY 7 GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL, BYRON OOZ RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON 7PM THE BARLEYSHAKES BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 8PM DANIEL CHAMPAGNE 10PM CAPTAIN CAINE BYRON FRESH 7PM ANDY JANS-BROWN BYRON THEATRE 7PM ENERGY TUNE-UP WITH LEE HARRIS WOODY’S SURF SHACK, BYRON 9PM DJ PEBBLES TREEHOUSE, BELONGIL 7.30PM ADAM HARPAZ BANGALOW A&I HALL 10AM STARLIGHT FESTIVAL BRUNSWICK HOTEL 7PM KYLE LIONHART BALLINA TWILIGHT MARKET 4PM GARY HARVEY BALLINA RSL 8.30PM KASEY CHAMBERS LADY LISMORE’S LOFT 7PM BEN WILSON 8PM THE SCRIMSHAW FOUR 9PM THE BUTTON COLLECTIVE TATTS HOTEL, LISMORE 7PM JAZZ WITH LIORA CLAFF, GLENN KELLETT, JULIAN SMITH CHINDERAH TAVERN 6PM HOLY MAJOR PHOENIX RISING, NIMBIN 1PM THE FLOWER POT MEN STANTHORPE ANANDA MELA FESTIVAL

FRIDAY 8 GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL, BYRON DUNE RATS, SKEGSS RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON 7PM THE HOMBRES BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 5PM TUFFY 8PM TASMAN JUDE 10PM DJ JAY WALKER BYRON ARTISAN MARKET 4PM JESSE MORRIS BYRON BREWERY 8PM THE SEA GYPSIES BYRON FRESH 7PM PARISSA BOUAS DUO GINGER PIG, BYRON 8PM GROOVE DJ WOODY’S SURF SHACK, BYRON 9PM LIVE MUSIC TREEHOUSE, BELONGIL 7.30PM TORA BANGALOW A&I HALL 10AM STARLIGHT FESTIVAL BANGALOW HOTEL 7.30PM STEVEN LOVELIGHT

BRUNSWICK HOTEL 7PM WANDERING EYES DUO OCEAN SHORES COUNTRY CLUB 6.30PM CAVO & PIGEON BOY WHARF BAR, BALLINA 5.30PM ROB DEMASI BALLINA RSL 8PM 50 YEARS OF LEGENDS 8.30PM LISA HUNT BAND ELTHAM HOTEL 6PM CHRIS ARONSTEN SHEOAK SHACK, FINGAL HEAD 7PM NICOLE BROPHY SALTBAR, KINGSCLIFF 8.30PM JON J BRADLEY HAVEN, MURWILLUMBAH MATT STILLERT PHOENIX RISING, NIMBIN 1PM YOLANDA MOYLE 5.30PM BROMMERS NIMBIN BUSH THEATRE 7.30PM AWAKE RAPPVILLE HOTEL 7PM OLDTIME/BLUEGRASS PICKING WITH WATLING & BATES CABARITA BEACH SPORTS CLUB ADAM BROWN TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS MIRUSIA IN CONCERT STANTHORPE ANANDA MELA FESTIVAL

SATURDAY 9 GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL, BYRON TIJUANA CARTEL RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON 7PM DAWN PATROL BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 9PM DJ DISCROW BYRON BEACHSIDE MARKET 8AM BELLA FONTES & PAT TIERNEY BYRON ARTISAN MARKET 4PM MICK MCHUGH BYRON BREWERY 7.30PM WILD MARMALADE + PAUL GEORGE & FELICITY LAWLESS BYRON FRESH 7PM THE WHISKY DROP BYRON THEATRE 5.30PM & 8PM THE SPACE COWBOY LIVE! CAFE OSKA, BYRON 7PM PALM WINE AMBASSADORS DOUBLE BASSMENT, BYRON POSTBLUE, HUNCH + SUNROSE MISS MARGARITA, BYRON 10.30PM DJ CHRIS BRADLEY & FRIENDS WOODY’S SURF SHACK, BYRON 9PM DJ ADRIAN

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gig guide p: 6684 1777 f: 6684 1719 e: gigs@echo.net.au w: echo.net.au/gig-guide BRANDELLO TREEHOUSE, BELONGIL 7.30PM JORDAN MCROBBIE BAND BANGALOW A&I HALL 10AM STARLIGHT FESTIVAL BANGALOW HOTEL 7.30PM DR BAZ BRUNSWICK HOTEL 7PM THE FIRETREE LULU’S, MULLUMBIMBY 11AM THE YOUNG MURPHIES FEDERAL HALL 8PM PRIDE CLUB LENNOX 8PM ACID BLEED LENNOX HOTEL 9PM MESCALITO BLUES BALLINA BOWLING CLUB 5.30PM LEIGH JAMES BALLINA RSL 730PM JOCK BARNES 8PM ULTIMATE BEE GEES HOLIDAY SHOW WHARF BAR, BALLINA 7PM STU BLACK ELTHAM HOTEL 1PM ROMANIACS ALSTONVILLE FARMERS MARKET 9AM JAMES PALMER MARY G’S, LISMORE PUSH SHEOAK SHACK, FINGAL HEAD 2PM VELSHUR 7PM NICOLE BROPHY RIVERVIEW HOTEL, MURWILLUMBAH 7.30PM MILAN MARTIN PHOENIX RISING, NIMBIN 1PM SMILES & INK NIMBIN HOTEL 8PM SOULA IVORY TAVERN, TWEED HEADS 7PM THE PIGEON BOYS TRIO COOLANGATTA SANDS HOTEL 8.30PM MATT ROGERS YAMBA GOLF CLUB 7PM DOPPELFEST 4 WITH WORLD WAR XXXIV, SOY DIVISION, FIREARMS, SPACE MONKEY, WHITE SYMPHONY STANTHORPE ANANDA MELA FESTIVAL

SUNDAY 10 GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL, BYRON THEE OH SEES

RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON 7PM MEN FROM EARTH BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 4.30PM EPIC 8PM SNEAKY SUNDAY BYRON BREWERY 3PM GROOVE DJS BYRON FRESH 7PM JONATHAN BYRON GOLF CLUB 4PM GREG LYON & THE HIP OPERATION BYRON THEATRE 5.30PM & 8PM THE SPACE COWBOY LIVE! GINGER PIG, BYRON 3PM LIVE MUSIC STARSEED GARDENS LOTUS TEA HOUSE, BYRON 7PM TAHIR QAWWAL TREEHOUSE, BELONGIL 2.30PM DJ EVA J & DJ GUNZ BANGALOW A&I HALL 10AM STARLIGHT FESTIVAL BANGALOW HOTEL 3PM SUNDAZE SESSIONS BRUNSWICK HOTEL 4PM JON TOOGOOD MIDDLE PUB, MULLUMBIMBY 2PM JOHN FOG’S OPEN MIC JAM CLUB LENNOX 4PM ROB CSOKAS LENNOX HOTEL 5PM DAN CLARK WHARF BAR, BALLINA 3PM NICK CUNNINGHAM ELTHAM HOTEL 1PM GUY KACHEL ALSTONVILLE PLATEAU MARKET 8AM WENDY FORD 10AM RAYNER MULLER 12PM JUDD BRENNAND CHILLINGHAM MARKETS 10AM FAVOURITE SON KINGSCLIFF BEACH HOTEL 3PM BULLHORN CHINDERAH TAVERN 2.30PM AVERAGE JOES PHOENIX RISING, NIMBIN 10AM SONIC BLISS 1PM CARLIE FAIRBURN & YOSI CHOPEN COOLANGATTA SANDS HOTEL 4PM RITCHIE LANGFORD STANTHORPE ANANDA

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TUESDAY 12 GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL, BYRON MARSHALL O’KELL RAILWAY HOTEL 7PM TIM STOKES BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 8PM BILL JACOBI 10PM DJ LONGTIME BLUE LOTUS, BYRON 7.30PM DJ DAKINI & MADHU

HONEY BYRON BREWERY 7.30PM MUSICAL BINGO BYRON FRESH 7PM JOCK BARNES WOODY’S SURF SHACK, BYRON 9PM LIVE DJ BANGALOW HOTEL 7.30PM BRACKETS OPEN MIC PHOENIX RISING, NIMBIN 1PM CRUISE BROTHERS

WEDNESDAY 13 GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL, BYRON FRENZAL RHOMB RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON 7PM MATT STILLERT BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 8PM CHEYNNE MURPHY 10PM DJ HELMY BYRON BREWERY 7.30PM OPEN MIC BYRON FRESH 7PM SARAH GRANT GINGER PIG, BYRON 7PM OPEN MIC WOODY’S SURF SHACK, BYRON 9PM DJ NERY BALLINA HOTEL 6PM OPEN MIC PHOENIX RISING, NIMBIN 1PM BROMMERS

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Wednesday 6 January, 7pm Tickets: Full $25

Energy Tune-Up with Lee Harris Thursday 7 January, 7pm Tickets: Adult $69. Registration essential www.leeharrisenergy.com

The Space Cowboy Live!

Sat 9 & Sun 10, Sat 16 & Sun 17 Jan 5.30 & 8pm Tickets: Full $25 | Conc $20 | U15 $15 | Family (4) $65

Playing Along with Sam

presented by 6 Degrees & The Harbour Agency

Monday 18 January, 11am Tickets: Full $25 | Child $25 | Family (4) $80

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Workshops, Training, Conferences & Functions

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Box ofﬁce hours: 10 am – 1.30 pm

Facilities: Wi-ﬁ, Projector, Whiteboard, Air-con Phone 6685 6807

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January

Online Echo subscribers – win 2 tickets to see The Space Cowboy on Saturday 9th Jan courtesy of The Byron Theatre To enter the draw to win, simply email your name and postcode to e.comps@echo.net.au with subject line ‘Space Cowboy’.

Wednesday 6 January, 11am Tickets: Full $15 | Conc $13 | Family (2+2) $50

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SHOW DATES:

JAN 9 & 10, 16 & 17 AT 5.30PM AND 8PM AT BYRON THEATRE Bookings: Byron Theatre Box Ofﬁce: 6685 6807 or www.byroncentre.com.au

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SERVICE DIRECTORY RATES, PAYMENT & DEADLINE

ANTENNAS & INSTALLATION

DEADLINE: For additions and changes to the Service Directory is 12pm Friday LINE ADS: $90 for 3 months or $310 for 1 year prepaid DISPLAY ADS: $63 per week for colour display ad. Minimum 8 week booking 4 weeks prepaid. Please supply display ads 85mm wide, 28mm high. New display ads will be placed at end of section. Ads appear every day in Service Directory pages on Echonetdaily at www.echonetdaily.net.au

ACCOUNTS & BOOKINGS: 6684 1777

0439 624 945

INDEX Accountants ......................................38 Acupuncture .....................................38 Air Conditioning & Refrigeration 38 Antennas & Installation ..............38 Appliance Repair ............................38 Architects............................................38 Audio Production ...........................38 Audio Visual & IT .............................38 Bathroom Renovations ...............38 Blinds, Awnings, Curtains, Shutters.38 Bricklaying .........................................38 Building Trades ................................38 Bush Regeneration ........................38 Business Brokers .............................38 Carpet Cleaning...............................38 Chiropractic .......................................38 Cleaning ..............................................39 Clotheslines .......................................39 Computer Services.........................39 Concreting & Paving .....................39 Counselling........................................39 Decks, Patios & Extensions ........39 Dentists................................................39 Design & Drafting...........................39 Driveway Maintenance................39 Earthmoving & Excavation ........39 Electricians.........................................39 Fencing ................................................40 Flooring ...............................................40 Floor Sanding & Polishing .........40 Garage Doors .............................................40 Garden & Property Maintenance .40 Garden Design .................................40 Gas Suppliers.......................................40 Glaziers ................................................40 Guttering ............................................40 Hair & Beauty....................................40 Handypersons ..................................40 Health ...................................................40 Hire ........................................................40 Hot Water Systems .........................40

02 66 804 173

IWIRE

Interior Design .................................40 Ironing..................................................40 Kitchens ...............................................40 Landscape Design ..........................40 Landscaping .....................................40 Lawnmower Repairs .....................40 Lighting ...............................................41 Locksmith ...........................................41 Mobile Mechanic ............................41 Motoring .............................................41 Osteopathy ........................................41 Painting ...............................................41 Pest Control .......................................41 Photography .....................................41 Physiotherapy ..................................41 Picture Framing ...............................41 Plastering ...........................................41 Plumbers .............................................41 Printer Toners & Cartridges .......41 Printing & Copying Services .....41 Removalists .......................................41 Roofing ................................................42 Rubbish Removal............................42 Scrap Metal Merchants ................42 Septic Systems .................................42 Sewing & Alterations ..........................42 Solar Installation ............................42 Steel Fabrication .............................42 Swimming Pools .............................42 Tiling .....................................................42 Travel ....................................................42 Tree Services .....................................42 Upholstery .........................................42 Valuers .................................................42 Veterinary Surgeons .....................42 Video Production ...........................42 Visa Advice .........................................42 Water Filters ......................................42 Water Tanks & Tank Cleaning ...42 Window Tinting ...............................42

ACCOUNTANTS

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ANTENNAS

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Servicing Byron Bay & surrounding areas

0438 139 938

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ORANGE STAR

*conditions apply

ANTENNAS PLUS Call Norm now on

Ph 6686 7911 Fax 6686 9047 admin@bbtimbers.com.au www.bbtimbers.com.au 110 Teven Road, Ballina

Creative Carpentry

Decks, pergolas, verandahs, balconies, big & small renos and all other carpentry needs

0427 196 962

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NAZARETH CARPENTRY RELIABLE TRADESMAN â€˘ JOBS UP TO $5000

DECKS â€˘ PERGOLAS â€˘ TIMBER WINDOWS & DOORS â€˘ GARAGE CONVERSIONS SERVICING THE BYRON SHIRE

APPLIANCE REPAIR DIGITAL ELECTRONICS REPAIR & SERVICE TV. Audio. Antennas .........66843575 or 0414 922786

CALL BRETT 0414 542 019

BYRON ELECTRONICS Repairs to TV/Audio. 1/25 Brigantine Street, Byron Bay.................66857610

ARCHITECTS

troppo

architecture + urban design E byron@troppo.com.au www.troppo.com.au ABN 37 732 043 868

darwin townsville adelaide perth byron bay sydney

FRANK STEWART ARCHITECT Reg. 6075. www.frankstewart.com.au ...........................66856984 OCEANARC ARCHITECTS Reg. 6042 www.oceanarc.com.au .............................................66855001

DINGO DEMOLITIONS & ASBESTOS REMOVAL ................................66834008 or 0407 728998 CARPENTER All jobs. Michael Dow. Lic 147675C ...................................66291169 or 0412 967677 BUILDER â€“ JOHN McGAURAN Personalised Service. 20 yrs exp. Lic 170208C............0415 793242 CARPENTRY/JOINERY Renos, kitchens, bthrms, small jobs. Lic 157823C. Paul .... 0423 658885 or 66845273 BRICKLAYER Quality work, reasonable quotes. Lic 164155C..................0423 474419 or 66849102 FABRICA JOINERY Quality kitchens/timber doors/windows. Lic 244652C.........................66808162

AARDVARC ARCHITECTS www.aardvarc.com.au Northern NSW & SE Queensland......0410 444187

CARPENTER Insured & qualified. Homes, extensions, decks, free quotes. Lic 231104C......... 0431 674377 MICHAEL FRANCK ARCHITECT Reg 2454 www.keyturn.com.au .................................0414 660810 rbacarpentry.com.au New & reno work, decks & pergolas. Lic No 243918C ..............0407 330326

AUDIO PRODUCTION

BRICKLAYING, RENDERING, SWIMMING POOLS 30 years exp. Lic 170432C .............0423 378573

AUDIO VISUAL & IT

IPS PTY LTD All facets of residential construction: integratedpropertyservicing.com.au .0437 819087

MOBILE IT â€“ HIFI â€“ A/V â€“ home technology support www.tech-rescue.com.au ......0419 996606

BUSH REGENERATION

BUILDER CARPENTER Extensions, renos, new homes, insurance, all jobs. Lic 19953Q ...... 0403 458177 AUDIO & VIDEO RECORDING & Live production, crystalgrid.com.au .........................0421 661910 CARPENTER Extensions, renos, studios, decks. Samuel Commerford Lic 266052C........0405 479528

BATHROOM RENOVATIONS BLUEDOLPHINBATHROOMS.COM.AU Lic 105283C ..................................................0405 148536

AFFORDABLE TAX RETURNS FROM $110 BAS ~ BOOKKEEPING ~ REGISTERED TAX AGENT

BLINDS, AWNINGS, CURTAINS, SHUTTERS

and Company tax returns. LBB Tax Services ....................................................................0423 763053

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ACCOUNTANT â€“ MARTIN McCARTHY ...............................................................................66874026

Gail Rundle 0401 884 231 â€˘ Fingal Street, Brunswick Heads ACCOUNTANT Paul Mayberry .............................................................................................66847415 TAX RETURNS from $110 Individuals & $180 Small Business, Accounting/Bookkeeping, GST, BAS. Quickbooks, MYOB, Xero, etc. Rentals, Capital Gains. Partnership, Trust

BUSINESS BROKERS BBL BUSINESS SALES www.bblbusinesssales.com.au .........................................Paul 0403 584646

CARPET CLEANING

TLC

BOOKKEEPING MYOB Reckon online, ATO Reg. Annette ...............................................0419 627506 ACCOUNTANT BANGALOW + BYRON BAY The office accountants & business advisers ...66872960

ACUPUNCTURE CHINESE HERBAL MEDICINE M Collis .................................................66842559

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BRICKLAYING

ACUPUNCTUREâ€“TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE. Mary-Ellen Young.................0403 477972

AIR CONDITIONING & REFRIGERATION

â€œChill Outâ€? Lic AU37088 Lic 246545C

Fully Licensed Technicians Best Local Installers Best Quality Products

6680 9394

COOLMAN AIR CONDITIONING 23 years experience. Lic 178464C AU30147 .............0412 641753 RAINBOW REGION AIR CONDITIONING ARC AU36141 ...............................................0487 264137

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FRANCHISE OF THE YEAR!

ALL TYPES BRICK/BLOCK LAYING Licence no. 60801C. 40 years exp. Paul ................0423 852559 BRICK & BLOCK LAYING Lic 173697C Quality work. Any size job. gurobob@hotmail.com ...0431 792260

BUILDING TRADES

ARCHITECTURAL TIMBERS

(02) 6684 1001

Green & Clean

Carpet and upholstery cleaning, urine extraction, rust removal, heavy traffic areas, deodorising and sanitation.

BRICK / BLOCK LAYING Contractors. Lic 21474C...........................................................0409 444268

JACK MANTLE

CARPET CLEANING

Kevin & Margaret Bower

3K )5(( 0 4 216,7(

ACUPUNCTURE Chinese herbs, 27 years experience. Mullumbimby. Debbie ................0412 242919

Truck Mounted Machine

TENDER LOVING CARE Specialising in household carpet cleaning Speedy Drying

ACUPUNCTURE www.marlenefarry.com Facial rejuvenation, general practice ................66842400

GINKGO TREE Womenâ€™s Clinic. Charity Carleton. Coorabell.................................................66847910

12 years local experience. Fully insured TAFE qualified bush regenerators For a free property assessment call Ross Faithfull 0409157695 and a/h 02-66872943

â€˘ Local tree planting and weed control specialist â€˘ Restoring degraded bushland and creek banks â€˘ Converting camphor laurel dominated forest to rainforest â€˘ Turning paddocks and bare areas into rainforest â€˘ We can help increase biodiversity, improve water quality and offset your carbon footprint

faithfullrossco@gmail.com www.eastcoastbushregeneration.com

BOOKKEEPING Get your business in Harmony with Rose. Hospitality specialist ...........0416 036519

ACUPUNCTURE

â€˘ Fencing â€˘ Decking â€˘ Structural Pine & Hardwood â€˘ Landscaping Timber â€˘ Logs & Sleepers â€˘ Lattice â€“ Privacy Screens â€˘ Alternative Treated timbers for Vegie Gardens & Playgrounds

Lic. No. 270262C

North Coast news daily:

Lic. 266174C

Service Directory

Far North Coast NSW John & Teresa

0408 232 066

Cleans deeply, dries in 1-2 hours Commercial / Domestic / Insurance

APEX CARPET CLEANING www.apexcarpetcleaning.com.au ........................ Nathan 0412 926441 CARPET, UPHOLSTERY & more. No chemicals. www.mintsteamclean.com.....................66808097

STAIRS

INTERNAL / EXTERNAL OPEN / CLOSED RISERS

0408 740 480 / 07 5590 5696

AMORE CARPET & UPHOLSTERY CLEANING ..............................................................0429 726999

CHIROPRACTIC BAY FAMILY CHIROPRACTIC Peter Wuehr 17 Bangalow Rd Byron Bay .............................66855282 WAVE OF LIFE NETWORK CHIRO (lowforce) 8/9 Fletcher St, Byron Bay. Andrew Badman .66858553

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Service Directory MICHAEL SCHWAGER & SHAUN CASHMAN Chiropractors 108 Stuart St, Mullum ........66841962

COMPUTER SERVICES

MULLUM CHIROPRACTIC Massage, chiropractic & fitness. 110 Dalley St........................66841028

DRIVEWAY MAINTENANCE

BYRON BAY CHIROPRACTIC CENTRE Bruce Campbell. 1/12 Tasman Way, A&I Estate ...66858159

CARPARK & DRIVEWAY MAINTENANCE CONCRETE EDGING

CAPE BYRON HOLISTIC CHIROPRACTIC Shane Eade. 6/14 Middleton St ....................0467 660323

CLEANING

0418 156 909

ACTION WINDOW & PRESSURE CLEANING

Call Steven Butturini

• House washing • High pressure or soft wash • Window cleaning • Driveways, paths & roofs • Gutters & ﬂyscreens • Water efﬁcient • Free quotes Phone Joe or Helen 6684 4018 or 0412 495 750

Education

61 Stuart Street phone 02 6684 6235 Mullumbimby www.mullummac.com

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All Mac Repairs, Upgrades, Service, Data Recovery, Internet Set-up, Hardware Sales, Insurance Claims SaulMordaunt@macdoc.net.au

0411 562 111 s

Apple Certified Support

RENT-A-GEEK Mobile PC Repair (Byron Shire) ....................................................................66844335 NERDWORKS Computer repairs, mobile technician ...............................66846276 or 0413 379514

RAZZLE DAZZLE

WORKRIGHT COMPUTER SUPPORT (Mobile) for small business Byron Shire Daniel ...0422 804449

Professional Window Cleaning • Byron Bay Residential • Retail • Commercial OHS, insured, police clearance cert.

SALISBURY CONCRETING

Over 25 yrs local experience. All forms of concreting. • Residential Civil Industrial. • Resurfacing and rejuvenation of existing concrete. • Steel ﬁxing & formwork.

Byron Eco Window Cleaning and Pressure Washing

DARYL 0418 234 302 OR 02 6680 1793

Environmentally Friendly, WIndows, Screens, Housewashing, Gutters, Paths and Driveways. FREE QUOTES. happy to work weekends!

STEVE BAKER Concreting. Excavator hire. Lic 143161C ................................................0412 272564

Call Glenn or Tracey 0403 428 232 or 6680 9901 email: impresswindowcleaning@gmail.com Reliable • Friendly • Professional • Fully Insured • Free Quotes • Affordable Rates Locally Owned and Operated • Quality Work with Over 10 Years Experience

Specialising in driveway construction & maintenance • Tip trucks 3 to 12 tonne • Excavator • Driveways • Roads • Clearing • House pads • Drainage • Carparks • Bush rocks • Rock walls

Training & assessment: earthmoving plant & forklift – nationally recognised qualiﬁcations

0410 056 228 / 0427 663 678

PLATINUM CONCRETE 20 years experience. Jobs under $5000 ............... Justin Myers 0458 773788 BYRON BAY BOBCAT & MINI EXCAVATOR All areas ..............................................Ian 0412 853479 HOWAT BROTHERS CONCRETING Patios, driveways, paths. Lic 285736C ....................0466 155157 EXCAVATOR & TIPPER HIRE Honest & reliable .............................................................0431 678130

COUNSELLING PETER FOX Couple Therapy & Marriage Intensives. coupletherapyaustralia.com ...............66840469 JULIA BODKIN Psychotherapist/ SE trauma/ mediation – globalspiritevents.com .......0403 652067

DECKS, PATIOS & EXTENSIONS

0499 206 036

EARTHMOVING & PLANT HIRE

vz FLANAGAN & SONS CONCRETING Lic 155456C. ............................................Ph Andrew 66841424 JASON COOTE CONCRETING All concreting work, form work, steel fixing Lic 261424C.....0421 957506 A NORTHERN RIVERS TRENCHING 65HP chain trencher, 1.7 tonne excavator, tipper.0402 716857

Window Cleaning Professionals

Residential & Holiday Accommodation marlo@scrubupcleaning.com

TINY EARTHWOR

Reliable Affordable Fully Insured

Environmentally friendly home cleaning throughout the Northern Rivers. Rates start at $55/2hrs.

0416886202 friendlygreenperfectlyclean@gmail.com www.northernriversgreencleans.com/

CLEAN AS IT’S BEEN TEAM Home, Bond back, anytime, references..................................66882372

The Deck Doctor

Sanding and Reﬁnishing, Repairs and Maintenance, Internal Floors Richard Neylan richardneylan1@bigpond.com 0407 821 690 • www.facebook.com/DeckDoctor65

MINI EXCAVATOR / POSITRAC COMBO & tipper hire. Ph Andrew.........0401 968173 or 66841424 BRENDAN POWELL Earthmoving, landscaping, design & construction........................0404 988222 BANGALOW MINI DIGGER SERVICE Exp operator 1.8 tonne multiple attachments....0413 878978

ELECTRICIANS 24 HOUR SERVICE

0439 624 945

Domestic Commercial

BYRON BAY FLOOR SANDING For a free quote phone Chris ....................................... 0408 536565\

02 66 804 173 All Jobs Small or Large

Lic: 154293c

Call Samuel on 6680 9123 or 0434 539 979. Byron Local for over 30 years.

ALL JOBS BIG AND SMALL 30 years in local area • Free quotes Phone Dick 6687 8418 / 0412 831 944

various implements available for limited access projects Lic.136717c

0400 479 811

EARTHMOVING ROADWORKS • PLANT HIRE

Philip Toovey 0409 799 909 ph/fax 02 6684 3208

CONCRETING & PAVING

dgrant@razzledazzlewindows.biz • www.razzledazzlewindows.biz

Jai – 0467 482 948

EARTHMOVING & EXCAVATION

ZANEY PRODUCTIONS Apple Computer Services .........................................................0403 398272

Daz Grant

'ULYHZD\ 3RWKROH 6SHFLDOLVW Specialising in Asphalt Driveways, Subdivisions, Earthworks, Carparks and all Maintenance!

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20 Year+s Exp.

DOMESTIC COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL

DECKS AND PERGOLAS Hardwood, pine, composites. Byron/Gold Coast. Robbie ........0409 244424 FULL CIRCLE REFINISHING Oiled timber & deck maintenance (new business) ...........0419 789600

DONE & DUSTED CLEANING Going the extra mile, professional, dependable .............0498 731447 BUILDER/CARPENTER Decks, pergolas, small jobs. Hourly rate. Lic 123672C .............Stu 66802224

JAMIE 0408 809 817

DETAILED CLEANING Natural products. Please call 8am-6pm......................................0410 723601

licence no. 201775c

DOWNUNDER CLEANING Bond / exit cleaning specialists ...........................................0438 015037

DENTISTS

FULL CIRCLE Window & Pressure cleaning. Call Oliver (new business)..........................0419 789600 BRUNSWICK HOLISTIC DENTAL CENTRE ......................................................................66851264 BYRON HOME CLEANING Brunswick to Ballina & inland towns. $30ph ..............Holly 0451 102239 BANGALOW DENTAL In the Medical Centre Complex, Bangalow .....................................66872766 IPS PTY LTD All types of cleaning – integratedpropertyservicing.com.au ....................0408 446145 SHORES DENTAL Dr Shaun Goh & Dr Richard Conn. Rajah Rd, Ocean Shores....................66803477 GREEN ROCKET CLEANERS Bond clean, Builders clean, Window cleaning...................0405 437431 HOUSEKEEPING/Cleaner reliable, exp in home beautification/organisation inc laundry ..0490 030433 GAVIN STUART & MARTIN ACKLAND Banora Seaview Dental, Banora Point

0458 267 777

Lic. 211410C

BRUNS VALLEY CLEAN TEAM Reliable, efficient, attention to detail.................... Cass 0457 198245 30 mins north of Ewingsdale. Open Sat. early & late appointments ..............................07 55234090 HOLISTIC CLEANING Mullumbimby town. Thorough & reliable. Call Dwari .................0435 836947 LITTLE LANE DENTAL, MULLUMBIMBY ...........................................................................66842816

CLOTHESLINES

MICHAEL LEACH 100 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby ............................................................66842644

Northern Rivers Clotheslines & Letterboxes

DESIGN & DRAFTING

WE CAN REPAIR OR REWIRE YOUR OLD LINE

DAVID ROBINSON DESIGN DRAFTING All Council & construction requirements .....0419 880048

• SALES • INSTALLATION • REPAIRS

BYRON ENERGY EFFICIENT DESIGN & DRAFTING www.beedad.com.au...............0423 531448

Contact Greg on 0403 555 690 or 6687 4442

AARDVARC www.aardvarc.com.au Northern NSW & Southeast Queensland ..........0410 444187

North Coast news daily: www.echonetdaily.net.au

BAREFOOT BUILDING DESIGN www.barefootbuildingdesign.com .........Bob Acton 0407 787993

ELECTRICAL PHONE TV

Lic. No.

212742C Friendly & helpful Clean & tidy On time Over 30 years experience Rapid response 24/7 service

Please call Blair Rankin on

0432 331 633 for details

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Service Directory ELECTRICIANS (continued)

electrical

SERVICES PTY LTD

1300 639 843

Lic No. 262667C

‘We will not compromise on your safety’

ELECTRICAL INSTALLS AND UPGRADES APPLIANCE INSTALLS AND REPAIRS AIR-CONDITIONING INSTALLS AND SERVICES

netdaily.net.au

North Coast news daily:

BRUNSWICK VALLEY DOOR CENTRE

GARAGE DOOR SPECIALIST • Sales • Service • Repairs

bvdc.com.au bvdc@bigpond.com 0418 171 285 02 6684 5529

GARDEN & PROPERTY MAINTENANCE

COUGHRAN ELECTRICAL 24 hour service, Lic 154293C .........................0439 624945 or 66804173 RONNIE SPINKS Everything electrical. Lic 27673 ........................................................0429 802355

GLAZIERS OCEAN SHORES GLASS AND SCREENS Glass splashbacks Lic No 61205C .........................66803333 ALL GLASS BYRON BAY Shower screens & mirrors ............................................................66857200

GUTTERING Gutter guard Gutter cleaning Locally owned Fully insured Free quotes Call Junior for friendly, genuine advice and service.

www.spotlessgutters.com.au

BYRON BAY ELECTRICAL Geoff Bensley. Lic EC 34079 ..................................................0427 857824

0405 922 839 or AH 6684 1778 ABN 180 623 364 42

CIRCUITS PLUS For everything electrical. Friendly & professional. Lic 201844C ...........0422 668582

BLUE MTN GUTTERMESH Do it well, do it once ...........................................................0418 662285 NEW GUTTERING Guttermesh, downpipes etc. Lic 26850C ..........................................0418 662285 GUTTERING & DOWNPIPES Guttermesh, Metal Roofing Lic 60414C Darryl Patterson ...0414 889453

SUNSHINE ELECTRICAL SERVICES NSW Competetively Priced. Quality Work. Lic 116938C .0416 043414 JP ELECTRICAL All electrical + Level 2 service provider. Lic 133082C ...........................0432 289705 CHRIS APPEL. Ocean Shores. Lic EC 22349 ....................................................................0422 607444

Acreage & Residential Mowing | Gardening Landscaping | Property Maintenance Brush Cutting | Tip Runs | Fully Insured

JIM LABELLE ELECTRICAL O.Shores, Mullum, Byron, Brunswick. Lic 176417C.............0415 126028 RIC VESSIERE ELECTRICAL Lic 223948C Quality work, affordable rates .....0407 588181 or 66771195

0430 297 101 / 6684 5437

SOMERS ELECTRICAL Prompt & reliable. Bruns, O.Shores, Mullum & Byron Lic 283345C .0438 350650

info@byronbaymowing.com.au www.byronbaymowing.com.au

SPINKS ELECTRICAL Lic 284939C ................................................................ Call Mitch 0421 843477 LIGHTHOUSE ELECTRICAL BYRON BAY Your friendly electrician Lic 233440C ............0450 631183

FENCING

POOLSAFE GLASS FENCING

FARM PICK UP PRICES Soft Leaf Buffalo A grade $8/m2

• Prices are GST inclusive • Pick up Ex-Farm – forklift loaded • Cut fresh: require half day advanced notice • DELIVERY EXTRA 7am-4pm Monday to Friday

6684 7380

GLASS & ALUMINIUM POOL FENCING PROFESSIONALS 0499 178 297 psgfencingnsw@gmail.com BEDNARZ, H & W, FENCING Specialise in pool, Colorbond & timber fencing .............0417 491136 BYRON & BEYOND FENCING Any fence, any time, prompt quotes .....66804766 or 0416 424256

PSG FENCING All types. Friendly & professional. Quality work. Matt ............................0401 259882 EDL FENCING Installations & repairs. Prompt service.............................66771852 or 0432 107262

fully insured

FLOORING • COMPLETE FLOORING SOLUTIONS • TIMBER BAMBOO LAMINATE VINYL • PORCELAIN & CERAMIC TILES • CARPET • FLOORSANDING • DOMESTIC & COMMERCIAL

acreage mowing acreage mowing

&& maintanence maintenance

• acreage mowing • brush cutting / edging • light chainsaw work • weed control • tip runs • green waste removal

0427 176 771

BYRON BAY FLOOR SANDING

CALL Y TOM TODA FOR A FREE QUOTE

ACREAGE MOWING Professional, Friendly & Reliable. Fully Insured.

0478 191 833

www.oceanﬂoors.net.au

MULLUM.MOWING@gmail.com. Ride-on, large lawns & acreage. Ph Peter...............0423 756394 GUTTERS CLEANED Solar panel cleaning, all areas, free quotes, fully insured ..66841778 or 0405 922839 A TO Z GARDEN SERVICES Lawns, acreage, hedges, clear ups, gutters, tip runs ..........0405 625697 A.C.E. LAWNMOWING Best rates, reliable, guaranteed ...............Sam 0438 655763 or 66859754 ABSOLUTE GARDEN WASTE REMOVAL OR WHATEVER Large trailer. Free quotes ......66804704 LEAF IT TO US Acreage mowing, 72” mowers, gardening/property maint. specialists ..0402 487213 MOW JOES Lawn & garden maintenance, ride-on mowing. Fully insured ..............Joe 0407 065849 NICK’S MOWING Lawns, edges, hedges, local & reliable. Mullum, Bruns, O.Shores .....0418 792279 SPECIALIST WEED CONTROL CONTRACTORS/CONSULTANTS ...............................0418 110714 NORTHERN RIVERS MOWING Acreage specialist. For prompt attention call Geoff......0428 544190 A GREEN EARTH Garden restoration, maintenance, tree & rubbish removal ...............0405 716552 TIP RUNS & RUBBISH REMOVAL 4m3 trailer ...............................................................0408 210772 ALL TERRAIN MOWING Steep slopes, long grass, residential, acreage, local, reliable ..0419 225124 SLASHING 100hp 7ft slasher. Shirewide ........................................................................0408 778159 ACREAGE BRUSHCUTTING & CLEARING Thick grasses, saplings, lantana, woody weeds ... 0412 705962 ACREAGE MOWING, landscaping, all aspects of property maintenance. Ph Luke .........0407 981636 CHEAP CLIPPINGS Lawns & edges..................................................................... Adam 0419 260654 ACREAGE MOWING Cheap rates! 60 inch zero turn mower. Fully-insured. Julian .........0401 350156 POLLEN GARDENS Gardens & lawns, plant-outs. Organic principles. Dip. Hort. Dave ..0438 783645 ALUMSDEN LAWN CARE Qualified Greenkeeper, mowing & edges..............................0410 378375

ECO TIMBER FLOORS Sanding, polishing & repairs..............................................Trent 0432 501721

GARDEN DESIGN

• Free Quotes • Quality Workmanship • Supply & Install Boral Solid Timber Floors • Locally Owned And Operated • Specialty Timber Finishes • All Eco-Friendly Coatings

0408 536 565 proud member of TIMBER FLOOR SPECIALIST

SERVICING ALL AREAS

0420 528 373

NJH FLOOR SANDING Eco wax, oils & water base finishes............................... Nathan 0420 215716 GARDEN DESIGN, FENG SHUI www.simplybeautifulspaces.com.au ......................... Lyn 0428 884329 DESIGN & PLANS Lic no. 39791 www.varendorfflandscapes.com.........66845035 or 0414 842602 THE FLOOR SANDER Non-toxic finishes. Free quotes. Ph Richard .................................0407 821690 GARDEN MAKEOVERS Design, restoration & plant supply ........... John 66841126 or 0431 745475

GARAGE DOORS

GAS SUPPLIERS

LICENCE NO:175956C ABN: 03 113 342 699

Free Delivery No Rental

QUALITY GARAGE DOORS TO SUIT ALL BUDGETS

7 Stinson Street, Ballina Ph: 02 6686 4238 W: www.cmgd.com.au E: info@cmgd.com.au

Garage Doors & Openers

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HANDYPERSONS

PROPER JOB BOB For All Your Property Maintenance Needs Fo * Pressure Cleaning * Rubbish Removal * Property Detailing

Call Bob on 0424 982 935 A TO Z HANDYMAN SERVICES Tip runs, pressure cleaning, gardening, odd jobs ...Andre 66847553 or 0439 495247 CAPE BYRON PROPERTY MAINTENANCE Thomas Scott. Lic 275094C .....................0418 600576 MULLUM HANDYMAN Maintenance, repairs, painting, tip runs, gardening ...............0424 954388 A.S.A.P. HANDYMAN Carpentry, plaster, paint, bathrooms, studios, maintenance ......0405 625697 RELIABLE HANDYMAN SERVICES Michael ...........................................66844970 or 0405 325569 HANDY ANDY Carpentry, plastering, welding ........................................66884324 or 0476 600956 AWESOME REPAIRS Professional, commercial & domestic. Wayne ..............................0423 218417

• OTHER HEALTH RELATED SECTIONS IN THIS SERVICE DIRECTORY: Acupuncture, Chiropractic, Counselling, Dentists, Osteopathy, Physiotherapy MULLUMBIMBY MEDICAL CENTRE 60 Stuart St ............................................................66841511 ACUPUNCTURE & COSMETIC MEDICINE Dr Adam Osborne...........................................66857366 MULLUMBIMBY HERBALS Naturopathy, Ayurveda, Massage, Herbs. .............................66843002 MULLUMBIMBY SKIN CLINIC 58 Stuart Street .................................................................66844400 MUDITA CLINIC Ayurveda, Counselling, Mindfulness. www.muditaclinic.com .................66846090 CRANIOSACRAL BALANCING Najma Ahern, Practitioner, Tutor & Trainer ....................0402 230449

HIRE

12/70 Centennial Cct, Byron Bay | 6685 5503

FLOOR SANDING & POLISHING

ALLURE BODY WAXING Suffolk Park ............................................................................0403 417508

HEALTH

byronbaybrushfencing.com.au New & repairs ................................................Dave 0419 692155

Flooring by Wallaces

HAIR & BEAUTY

Reliable

Locally Owned Est 18 years

www.brunswickvalleygas.com

6680 1575 or 0408 760 609

MULLUM HIRE Builders, party and much more .......................www.mullumhire.com.au 66843003 BYRON HIRE Building & home handyman equipment hire ....... www.byronhire.com.au 66856228 SOUND, LIGHTING & VIDEO equipment hire & installation, crystalgrid.com.au ..........0421 661910

HOT WATER SYSTEMS TWEED COAST ELECTRICAL Hot Water Specialists. Lic 214073C ...................................0432 728946

INTERIOR DESIGN KATE PLATT Interior Designs, www.kateplatt.com................................0411 888416 or 66807606

IRONING THE IRONING LADY Suffolk Park. $25 per hour. Angela................................................0414 719680 IRONING Mullum, Brunswick, Ocean Shores. Phone Kate .............................................0421 360961

KITCHENS SHAUN LEMURA KITCHENS Byron 17yrs+ qual. exp. www.slbyronbay.com...............0499 771769 ALL GLASS BYRON BAY Splashbacks .................................................................................66857200 C & C KITCHENS Kitchens & Bathrooms. Quality at affordable prices .................................66872275 D HINGED Kitchens & Joinery – www.hinged.com.au ..................................................0409 843689

LANDSCAPE DESIGN BEAU JARDIN Landscape Design & Documentation, Horticultural Consultation...........0417 054443

LANDSCAPING

• Sand • Soils • Gravels • Pots & statues • Lots, lots more

1176 Myocum Rd, Mullumbimby (just past golf course)

6684 2323 / 0418 663 983

SUBTROPICALLANDSCAPES.COM.AU 20 years exp. Lic 231789C................................0405 122456 BUSH ROCKS All sizes / mossy, can deliver. Ron .....................................66298208 or 0429 398208 VARENDORFF LANDSCAPES varendorfflandscapes.com Lic 39791 ..... 66845035 or 0414 842602 IPS Paving, concreting, retaining walls, fencing: integratedpropertyservicing.com.au .. 0437 819087 RAPHIS PALMS 2.5m hedging and privacy ...................................................................0421 866600 LEMONTREELANDSCAPES.COM.AU Design & construction. Lic 277154C ...................0423 700853

LAWNMOWER REPAIRS TYAGARAH MOWER REPAIRS Pacific Hwy (next to Bruns Wreckers), Tyagarah ..........0488 094025

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Service Directory MULLUM BACK SHED (PICTURE) FRAMERS Stuart St Lane behind Mitre 10 ..........0403 734791

MULLUM MOWERS & MACHINERY REPAIRS Mullumbimby Industrial Estate ...........0423 204218

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CREATIVE LIGHTING SOLUTIONS ONS LOCKSMITH

Licence No 97474

MOBILE LOCKSMITH SERVICE Automotive car keys & lock installation/repair ............0412 764148

MOBILE MECHANIC

Painter and Decorator Over 30 years experience for a friendly hassle free job

0412 794 364

â€˘ Paint tile roofs â€˘ Repaint tin roofs â€˘ Repoint & rebed tiles â€˘ High-pressure cleaning â€˘ 10 year warranty on paint & workmanship â€˘ Interior/Exterior â€˘ Credit cards accepted

0401 821 204 mickshomeimprovements.com.au Lic 268018C

â€˘ Mechanical repairs & maintenance â€˘ Hydraulics / hydrostatics â€˘ Services â€˘ Ride-on mowers â€˘ Small engines â€˘ Earthmoving equipmentâ€˘ Auxilary equipment â€˘ Vessels and yachts

MOTORING Windscreens & Air Conditioning â€œWhere else would you take a leak?â€?

Serving Byron Shire Lot 4 Wilfred Street, Billinudgel â€˘ 6680 2444

AD PAINTING by John Hand. Lic 13246C ...............................................0413 185399 or 66841249 KELVIN & ROBERT TEALE Painters & decorators. Lic R65919 ..............0400 349027 or 0438 842731 BYRON PAINTING Immediate starts, great rates. Lic 239832C .....................................0427 669806 STRAIGHT LINE PAINTING Free quotes. Lic 11843C .....................................................0421 865737

PEST CONTROL Lic: AU29498

Bayside Radiators

PLASTERING CONTRACTOR DOMESTIC & COMMERCIAL

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DQQH P ZDUZLFN#JPDLO FRP COL JENKINS PLASTER Gyprock, renovations, repairs. No job too small .....................0401 078733 GLENN WATERS For the finish you canâ€™t see. Lic 58928C...............................................0427 908129

PLUMBERS

Micks Roof Restorations

Protecting homes for over 15 years NO INTEREST FINANCE â€“ FREE WHIRLY BIRDS

Mobile Diesel Mechanic / Marine Engineer 0416 164 638 earthandmarine@gmail.com

PLASTERING

NEED A PLUMBER? DRAINER? GASFITTER?

Chay 6680 5081 0429 805 081 Byron Shire

Licence No. 207479C

Lic 167371C

BYRON MOWER Bâ€™cutter, châ€™saw, all small engine repairs. Pickup & delivery................0429 707286

Plumbing & Gas Services REPAIRS & NEW INSTALLATIONS All jobs welcome â€“ Friendly service â€“ Free quotes JIM 0477 480 359 RICK 0431 425 955 Lic. 220544C

Professional Property Protection you can Trust

â€˘ Targeted treatments for all pests with â€œno sprayâ€? cockroach treatments â€˘ If you have found live termites, do not disturb them and call us for advice! No cost for quoting on active termites Relax, when safety, reputation and experience matters, we are the experts

6685 4490 or AH on 0414 769 018

www.sanctuarypest.com.au

Lic. 1131942

JARRAH DAVIDSON Plumbing, draining, gas fitting & roofing. Lic 187712C ..............0438 668025 BILL CONNORS All plumbing/draining. Lic #1051..................................66801403 or 0414 801403 I LOVE PLUMBING Call Steve Lic 148904C ....................................................................0412 916140 HRH PLUMBING Providing a prompt, reliable & efficient service. Lic 220755C ...........0402 652017

â€˘ Tyres â€˘ Batteries â€˘ Wheel Alignments MULLUMBIMBY TYRE SERVICE Dalley Street, Mullumbimby 6684 2016

DART PLUMBING Plumbing, roofing, gas. Byron Bay. Lic 1175539C.............................0421 334515

LEGENDARY OFFROAD TYRES

MARK STRATTON All plumbing & emergency. Sewer drain camera/locator. Lic 57803C ...0419 019035 ADM PLUMBING SERVICESâ€Ś (NO JOB TOO SMALL)â€Ś Lic 234528C. ......Call Adam 0466 992483 ED RIORDAN PLUMBING Ballina to Byron. Lic L6966...................................................0417 343480

MECHANICAL REPAIRS, WARREN SIMMONS Byron Bay .................................................66858500

BLOCKED DRAINS Drain camera, leak detection. Tap King. Lic 237124C ......................0427 217500

OSTEOPATHY

02 6681 6555 Free quotes on active termites Environmentally safe

YOUR PEST & TERMITE SPECIALISTS

Sue Broadbent, Toby Mills, Andre Kleinbaum, Emily Pepper Clinic open for Osteopathy and Massage Monday â€“ Saturday 2/32 Mullumbimbi Street, Brunswick Heads. Tel 02 6685 1126

OSTEOPATHY at Mullumbimby Comprehensive Health Centre

Dr. Matthew Fourro (Osteo) Dr. Egbert Weber (Osteo) 60 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby | 02 6626 7900

EMERGENCY PLUMBING All aspects. Prompt & prof. O.Shores. Lic 284496C ...............0417 053708 ROB BOOTH All plumbing, blocked drains, repairs & maintenance. Lic 121906C ..........0410 469765

PRINTER TONERS & CARTRIDGES

www.allpestsolutions.com.au

â€˘ Safe â€˘ Natural â€˘ Effective â€˘ Guaranteed 6684 2006

11 797

0404 4

THE PEST MAN EXTRAORDINAIRE ..............................................................................0418 110714

PRINTING & COPYING SERVICES

PHOTOGRAPHY

PRINTWORKS Traditional / Digital art@mullumprintworks.com.au.................................66843633

NORTH COAST OSTEOPATHY Jodie Jacobs & Alison Daniel. Mon-Fri ...............................66857517 OSTEOPATH SINCE 1975 Old school, Lennox Head. Michael Petrie ...................................66874410 DR DEAN HARDY Osteopath B.Clin.Sci, Master Osteopathy lennoxheadquarters.com..0412 786399

Professional â€˘ Commercial â€˘ Personal

PAINTING

30+ years experience in commercial photography and photojournalism

BYRON BAY

0438 784 226 â€˘ 6685 4154

YVES DE WILDE

Lic No 189144C

ALL-WAYS PAINTING â€˘ Domestic & Commercial â€˘ Servicing all areas â€˘ Workmanship guaranteed â€˘ Attention to detail

QUALITY PAINTING SERVICES

X FINALIST OF THE MASTER PAINTERS OF AUSTRALIA AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE X ENVIRO FRIENDLY PAINTING www.duluxaccredited.com.au

0415 952 494 X 6680 7573 X www.yvesdewilde.com.au LIC 114372C

North Coast news daily: www.echonetdaily.net.au

Tree Faerie Fotos www.treefaeriefotos.com â€˘ 0417 427 518 MELINDA ANDREAS Studio or on location. www.byronbayphotos.com.......................0421 582286

PHYSIOTHERAPY BANGALOW PHYSIOTHERAPY Manual therapies, acupuncture, pilates. Liz Thomas, Cally Oâ€™Hara ......................................................................................................66872330 NICK EDMOND Physiotherapy, acupuncture. Open Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday Corner Dalley & Burringbar Sts, Mullumbimby ....................................................................66843255 ANTHONY Dâ€™ORSOGNA Physiotherapy, acupuncture, hydrotherapy Suffolk Park 1 Bryce St.. 66853511 CLAUDIA MIRDITA Craniosacral therapy, physiotherapy....................................................66857222 CONTINENCE / PELVIC FLOOR Janelle Angel .................Bangalow 66872337 & Mâ€™bah 66723818 PETRA KARNI Physiotherapy, Craniosacral, Alexander Technique. Byron..........................66807207 OCEAN SHORES PHYSIOTHERAPY Manual therapies, dry needling, custom orthotics, real time ultrasound. Nigel Pitman, Alex Margan, Millie Shield ..........................................66803499 EWINGSDALE PHYSIO Renata Tenta. Flexi-Bar Training. Real Time Ultrasound .................66847838 PETER FARRELL Physiotherapist, manual therapy & exercise, Mullumbimby ...................66843385 MARTINA DUEL Craniosacral, physio, dry needling, manual therapies. Mullum...........0432 322998 LIBBIE NELSON PHYSIO â€“ Acupuncture, yoga & therapy, BFL, Herbs, CS Byron Bay....0416 369698

PICTURE FRAMING BILLINUDGEL CUSTOM PICTURE FRAMING 7/1 Wilfred St, Billinudgel .......................66803444

REMOVALISTS

BEYOND BYRON REMOVALS Ready for work within & beyond Byron Brisbane Sydney backloading For careful service & great rates

phone 66801158 or 0408 004719

Andyâ€™s Move & More

Small and Medium Moves, Tip Runs & Deliveries, 1 or 2 Men at Low Prices to Most Areas Based from Byron Bay & Mullumbimby Calls always returned

0429 149 533 Est 2006

SHIRE REMOVALS & FREIGHT CO

From Middle Pocket to Middle Earth â€“ just give us a ring

â€˘ Freight services to Brisbane weekly â€˘ Carriers of ďŹ ne art â€˘ Furniture removal â€˘ E-bay pick up & delivery

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SHE TILES Female Wall & Floor Tiler _ over 10 years experience

BYRON BAY’S LOCAL REMOVALIST MOVING THE SHIRE FOR OVER 10 YEARS

Call Louise 0478 698 186

Lic. No. 216827C Because a woman understands excellence

leapfrogremovals@yahoo.com.au

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LIGHTHOUSE REMOVALS

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The Water Filter Experts for home, commercial and rural properties

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WATER FILTERS

6680 8200 or 0418 108 181

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042050 5395

REGISTERED MIGRATION AGENT Rebecca@byronbaymigrationagency.com.au .........0487 458047

Our unique restoration process will make your dirty tile & grout look

free boxes and a 10% discount

(02) 6684 5395

VISA ADVICE

...forget pointless scrubbing

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CAMERA CREW, LIGHTING, screens, projectors & editing, crystalgrid.com.au.............0421 661910

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For tips & testimonials

Friendly Staff No weekend surcharge

VIDEO PRODUCTION

Kitchens, bathrooms, laundries, tile repairs & waterproofing Leaking showers repaired & sealed NO JOB TOO SMALL • Free quotes & consultations

0432 334 200 02 6680 8170

Difﬁcult Driveway ???

VITALITY VETCARE Bangalow. Megan Kearney .................................................................66870675

TILING

LEAPFROG REMOVALS

Call Ben on 0456 606 911

Wat puriﬁcation systems Water Hom Home • Rural • Commercial Servicing S your needs

www.groutpro.com.au

TXHULHV#PXOOXPELPE\UHPRYDOV FRP DX

MAN WITH A VAN/TRUCK Reasonable rates. Phone Don ...........................................0414 282813 LOCAL AFFORDABLE Brisbane to Sydney, 20yrs exp. travellingbenny@gmail.com ....0402 199999

Flooring by Wallaces

R 4 ROOFING AUSTRALIA Servicing Northern Rivers. Lic 252098C.................. Adam 0422 248936

PORCELAIN & CERAMIC TILES

ALL ROOF CLEANING Experienced roof & pressure cleaning, free quotes .....................0419 789600

12/70 Centennial Cct, Byron Bay | 6685 5503

ROOFING ROB BOOTH Roofing, repair & maintenance, pressure cleaning, gutters, Lic 121906C..0410 469765

RUBBISH REMOVAL

OCEAN SHORES SKIPS Mini skip specialists ........................................0412 161564 or 66841232

WATER TANKS & TANK CLEANING WATER TANK CLEANING/WATER TANKS Concrete tank repairs. All areas .66888055 or 0407 002833 SMART RAINWATER SOLUTIONS Tank installation, cleaning, repair etc......................0418 662285

MONTHLY MARKETS

TIP RUNS & RUBBISH REMOVAL 4m3 trailer ...............................................................0408 210772

1st SAT Bruns Heads 1st SAT Murwillumbah

GREEN WASTE REMOVAL & TIP RUNS .................................................0427 176771 or 66840201

SCRAP METAL MERCHANTS

E ll FRoE ff for a

Drop washing steel, es and machin ers dry

@ BRUNSWICK BYRON AUTO WRECKERS Buying: • Scrap metal • Aluminium • Copper • Brass • Lead • Car Batteries Next to Tyagarah Service Station

ATAS A10923

Paciﬁc Highway, Tyagarah 6684 2351

FREE T avail fo OW

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SEPTIC SYSTEMS

TREE SERVICES

6688 6433 0419 369 609 6628 1568

JIM’S TREE & STUMP REMOVAL

3rd SAT Mullumbimby 3rd SAT Murwillumbah

6684 3370 0417 759 777

• Qualiﬁed Arborist • Tree Pruning • Tree Removal • Stump Removal • Mulching • Fully Insured • Same Day Response

M 0418 754 149 P 07 5523 9930 NSW Lic. L10007 QLD Lic. 13395

TRINE SOLUTIONS Plumbing, draining & gasfitting. Lic 138031C .....................................66802358

SEWING & ALTERATIONS SEWING REPAIRS & ALTERATIONS Byron Bay & all areas. Phone Jan ............................66849398 • Diploma Arboriculture • Fully Insured • Prompt, Professional Service • Right Advice, Right Price

Ringo 0468 957 564

STEEL FABRICATION

HART TREE SERVICES 15” chipper bobcat cranetruck stump grinding EWP....66849137 or 0427347380 SUMMERLAND TREE SERVICES .............................................Call Tim 66877677 or 0417 698227 NORTHERN TREE CARE Consulting arborist, tree surgery ...........................................0414 186161 BYRON TREE SERVICES Qualified, insured. Call Alex ..................................................0402 364852 TALLOW TREE SERVICES Removal, free quote & full insurance ....................................0401 208797 A VERY HANDY MAN TREE SERVICES Happy to help. Andrew.....................................0412 558890 OUT ON A LIMB Tree removal, chipping, stump grinding. Free Quotes ............... Lucas 0402 191316 AJ’S TREE & GARDEN SERVICES Lopping, edging, limbs. www.ajpenrithlawns.com ... 0438 217665

MAXWELL STEEL FABRICATION...................................................................................0403 455301

UPHOLSTERY

ATTENTION POOL OWNERS • All pool requirements • Professional advice • Water testing • Friendly service • Pool servicing

BANGALOW UPHOLSTERY Now at Billinudgel. Re-covering specialists ............................66805255 BYRON BAY UPHOLSTERY Soft furnishings & outdoor ........................66853745 or 0403 713303 CURTAIN MAKING & UPHOLSTERY Phone Rebecca ....................................................0466 251722

VALUERS

73 Station St, Mullumbimby

BYRON BAY VALUERS NSW & QLD reg’d. Chartered Valuers ..................0431 245460 or 66857010 NR VALUATIONS 25 years local exp. www.nrvaluations.com.au...................................0428 694041

6684 3003

VETERINARY SURGEONS

(opp. Council chambers)

MULLUMBIMBY POOL SHOP Water tesing, Eco products, mobile servicing Lic 39126 ...66844846 MULLUM VET CLINIC Richard Gregory, Erin Tottenham, Bec Patison. 24 hrs 7 days.........66843818

42 January 6, 2016 The Byron Shire Echo

3rd SUN Uki 0487 329 150 3rd SUN Lismore Car Boot 6628 7333 3rd SUN Ballina 6687 4328 Third quarter January 2

16:30

4th SUN Bangalow 4th SUN Nimbin

6687 1911 0458 506 000

5th SUN Lennox Head 5th SUN Nimbin

0419 369 609 0458 506 000

SATURDAYS Byron Artisan Market 4-9pm

6685 6807

FARMERS MARKETS Each TUE New Brighton Each TUE Organic Lismore Each WED 7-11am M’bah Each THU 8-11am Byron Each FRI 7-11am Mullum Each SAT 8-11am Bangalow Each SAT 8am-1pm Uki

6677 1345 6628 1084 6684 7834 6687 1137 6677 1345 6687 1137 6679 5530

JANUARY 2016

New moon January 10 12:30 First quarter January 17 10:26 Full moon January 24 14:45 Day of Sun Sun Moon Moon High tide, month rise set rise set height (m) 1 F 0551 1947 1152 0200,1.32; 1347,1.43 2 S 0551 1947 0015 1242 0250,1.33; 1439,1.34 3 S 0552 1947 0049 1333 0345,1.36; 1541,1.27 4 M 0553 1947 0124 1425 0442,1.40; 1647,1.24 5 T 0553 1947 0200 1517 0536,1.47; 1751,1.24 6 W 0554 1948 0239 1611 0624,1.55; 1846,1.26 7 T 0555 1948 0322 1705 0709,1.63; 1934,1.30 8 F 0556 1948 0409 1759 0750,1.71; 2019,1.34 9 S 0556 1948 0500 1852 0831,1.79; 2102,1.38 10 S 0557 1948 0556 1944 0914,1.86; 2145,1.42 11 M 0558 1948 0655 2033 0956,1.89; 2230,1.45 12 T 0559 1948 0756 2119 1040,1.90; 2317,1.48 1126,1.87 13 W 0600 1948 0858 2203 14 T 0600 1948 1001 2246 0006,1.49; 1213,1.79 15 F 0601 1948 1103 2327 0058,1.50; 1303,1.68 16 S 0602 1948 1205 0152,1.51; 1400,1.56 17 S 0603 1947 1308 0009 0252,1.51; 1502,1.44 18 M 0604 1947 1410 0052 0355,1.56; 1615,1.35 19 T 0605 1947 1511 0137 0500,1.61; 1730,1.31 20 W 0605 1947 1612 0224 0601,1.68; 1837,1.32 21 T 0606 1947 1710 0316 0658,1.75; 1936,1.35 22 F 0607 1946 1805 0410 0750,1.81; 2028,1.38 23 S 0608 1946 1855 0506 0838,1.84; 2114,1.41 24 S 0609 1946 1942 0603 0922,1.84; 2156,1.42 25 M 0610 1945 2024 0649 1002,1.82; 2235,1.42 26 T 0611 1945 2103 0755 1040,1.77; 2314,1.42 27 W 0611 1944 2139 0849 1116,1.70; 2350,1.41 28 T 0612 1944 2214 0942 1152,1.61 29 F 0613 1944 2248 1033 0029,1.40; 1228,1.52 30 S 0614 1943 2322 1125 0109,1.39; 1307,1.42 31 S 0615 1943 2357 1216 0154,1.38; 1353,1.33

Astronomical data and tides

Installing, maintaining and repairing onsite sewerage management systems in Tweed & Byron Shires for over 25 years.

SWIMMING POOLS

6685 6807 6628 7333

2nd SUN The Channon 2nd SUN Lennox Head 2nd SUN Alstonville

131 546

SOLAR INSTALLATION

1st SUN Byron Bay 1st SUN Lismore Car Boot

6628 4495 0417 759 777

2nd SAT Flea, Byron YAC 0490 026 840

SEWERAGE MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONALS

STITCH: For all your sewing needs. Ocean Shores & surrounds. Ph Lindi .......................0432 340113

WINDOW TINTING SUNRISE W. T. NO BUBBLES, NO TROUBLES Cars, homes & offices .........................0412 158478

TRAVEL

BYRON SKIPS & RUBBISH REMOVAL 2, 3, 4 & 6 m3 bins available .............................0450 300360

BYRON CASH FOR SCRAP

$379

FULLY INSTALLE IN YOURD HOME

Phone Chris 0414 229 114

METAL ROOFING Guttermesh, guttering, downpipes. Lic 60414C. Darryl Patterson ....0414 889453 TILER/STONEMASON/WATERPROOFER Lic 24418C. Phone Karl ...................................66804103 TILER Shower leaks, wall & floor tiling, 45 years experience. Lic R91906. Phone Bob ...0410 428919 TILER Bathroom repairs, walls & floors. Lic 75915. Andy ...............................................0419 478248 BEST SKIPS BANGALOW 2m3, 3m3, 4m3, 6m3 & 8m3 bins ...................0417 458149 or 66871544

netdaily.net.au

North Coast news daily:

Low tide, height (m) 0744,0.62; 2024,0.53 0842,0.74; 2111,0.56 0950,0.75; 2203,0.58 1101,0.72; 2256,0.58 1206,0.66; 2346,0.56 1301,0.58 0032,0.54; 1348,0.49 0116,0.50; 1430,0.40 0159,0.46; 1510,0.33 0241,0.43; 1550,0.26 0325,0.40; 1631,0.22 0412,0.39; 1715,0.21 0500.0.40; 1759,0.22 0552,0.43; 1845,0.26 0648,0.47; 1934,0.32 0749,0.52; 2027,0.38 0858,0.56; 2124,0.43 1015,0.56; 2225,0.47 1132,0.52; 2326,0.48 1243,0.45 0025,0.47; 1342,0.38 0118,0.45; 1432,0.32 0208.0.43; 1516,0.28 0254,0.42; 1557,0.28 0337,0.43; 1634,0.29 0417,0.45; 1709,0.33 0458,0.49; 1743,0.33 0537,0.53; 1815,0.42 0619,0.59; 1850,0.48 0704,0.64; 1928,0.53 0757,0.69; 2011,0.58

Times have been adjusted for Daylight Saving. Time lags: Ballina Boat Dock: 15 min; Byron Bay: nil; Brunswick River Hwy Bridge: high 30 min, low 1 hr; Mullumbimby: 1 hr 10 min; Billinudgel: 3 hr 55 min; Chinderah: high 1 hr 15 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.

Byron Shire Echo archives: www.echo.net.au/byron-echo

Classifieds INDEX Agistment ..................................... Annual General Meetings ....... 43 Birthdays ................................ 45 Businesses For Sale .............. 44 Car Service ............................. 44

CLASSIFIED AD BOOKINGS

DEADLINE

PHONE ADS

Display ads: 12pm TUESDAY Line ads: 12pm TUESDAY

For Sale ................................... 44

6684 1777 AT THE ECHO HEAD OFFICE

Funeral Notices ....................... 45

Ads can be lodged in person at the Mullum Echo office:

Garage Sales .......................... 44

Village Way, Stuart St, Mullumbimby

RATES & PAYMENT

EMAIL ADS

$17.00 for the first two lines

Display classies (box ads): adcopy@echo.net.au Line classies: classifieds@echo.net.au

$5.00 for each extra line

Childcare ................................ 43

Halls For Hire .......................... 44 Health Notices ........................ 43 Holiday Accommodation ........ 44 House Sit ................................ 44 Lost & Found .......................... 45 Motor Vehicles ........................ 44

Ads may be taken by phone on

Ad bookings only taken during business hours: Monday to Friday, 9am–5pm. Ads can’t be taken on the weekend. Account enquiries phone 6684 1777.

Publication day is Wednesday, booking deadlines are the day before publication.

$17 for two lines is the minimum charge.

Pets......................................... 45 Positions Vacant ..................... 45 Professional Services ............. 43 Public Notices......................... 43 Removalists ............................. 44 Share Accommodation ........... 44 Short Term Accommodation .. 44 Social Escorts ........................ 45 Thank You ................................ 43

POP-UP SHOP LUCY FALCONER DESIGNS Hand-painted up-cycled furniture, interiors & art. 7 Wilfred St, Billinudgel 11th–24th Jan. Open 10am-4pm www.lucyfalconer.com/furniture Ph 0403808176

BYRON BEACHSIDE MARKET

To Let ...................................... 44

Saturday 9 January 2016 8am–4pm

Tractor Repairs ........................ 44

www.byronmarkets.com.au

To Lease ................................. 45

Tradework ............................... 44 Tree Services .......................... 44 Tuition ..................................... 45 Wanted .................................... 44 Wanted To Rent...................... 45 Work Wanted.......................... 45

DISCLAIMER Advertisements placed in The Byron Shire Echo do not reﬂect the views or opinions of the editorial staff. The Byron Shire Echo does not make any representations as to the accuracy or suitability of any content or information contained in advertising material nor does publication constitute in any way an endorsement by The Byron Shire Echo of the content or representations contained therein. The Byron Shire Echo does not accept any liability for the representations or promises made in paid advertisements or for any loss or damage arising from reliance on such content, representations or promises.

PUBLIC NOTICES

Tantric Astrology

Experiential workshop Jan 16th & 17th Jaya Shiva & 3 Faces of Shakti with Nova magazine astro-therapist Daniel Sowelu www.sacredlawﬁrm.com.au 0448870022

The Channon Craft Market THIS SUNDAY

6688 6433

Open Thurs 4–6.30pm, Sat 10am–1pm, and by appointment

TAYLORS PROPS 1 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby Phone 6684 2978

LOCALS SPECIAL! BRUNSWICK HEADS CHRISTMAS CARNIVAL BANNER PARK Every Sunday until 17th January from 7pm

MUNGO AND JENNY thank everybody at Ocean Shores Shopping Centre, Rosalind and the other RN nurse, Gaga Cafe and Ocean Shores Medical Centre for taking care until the ambos came. And to Mullum Hospital, usual efﬁcient service. We are both recovering very nicely thank you. We hope not make a habit of it.

HAWAIIAN BODYWORK Working through the layers of your whole being. 15ys exp. Brigitte 0402503603 TREAT YOURSELF! Relaxing deep tissue, remedial. Byron. Ph Kate 0410395368

TOXIC & TIRED?

Byron Herbal Thai Massage

Just one block from Byron’s main beach Come C ome and and d enjoy enj njoy our ou ur gorgeous gorge eou us air ai conditioned cond ndit dittioned d retreat rettreatt above the Cardamom Pod vegetarian in Byron’s CBD Phone for bookings or drop in anytime Shop 10, 7 Lawson St, Byron Bay Ph: 6680 8890

byronherbalthaimassage.com.au

AGMs

DENTURES

LOOK GOOD FEEL GOOD Free consultation. SANDRO 66805002

EATING & BODY IMAGE ISSUES

BUY 1 RIDE GET 1 FREE

Assessment & treatment of children, adolescents & adults

Carl Moore Psychology Reg no. PSY0001057399 Medicare rebates available

Fridays | 6684 6336

North Coast news daily: www.echonetdaily.net.au

DR ANTHONY EDWARDS GP

Available Monday - Friday BRUNSWICK HEADS MEDICAL CENTRE

14 Mullumbimbi St Ph: 6684 1742

Remedial Massage Reﬂexology Energetic Facial Release Aged and Oncology Innermost Harmony Massage bitly.com/innermostH 0437 866 424

Yasmin Lang Health Funds - Mobile Service

BAYSIDE ACUPUNCTURE & HERBAL MEDICINE Health Fund Rebates & Hicaps Available Dr Eeka King

(Chinese Medicine) Certified Acutonics® Teacher

Dr David King (Chinese Medicine)

Pain conditions Women’s Health, Mental/emotional fertility & Pregnancy Acutonics® for Children disturbances & general 14 Park Street, Brunswick Heads | 02 6685 1088 | baysideacupuncture.com ACUPUNCTURE CHINESE HERBAL MEDICINE MASSAGE ACUTONICS®

award winning fusion suffolk park community hall corner alcorn street and clifford street bangalow studio and head ofﬁce 72 byron street, bangalow (parking at rear)

private sessions available

call 6687 2031 or visit www.yogalates.com.au

certiﬁcate teacher training courses monday

10am - 11.30am 10am - 11.30am 6pm - 7.30pm

Yogalates : mat work Yogalates : prenatal Yogalates : mat work

suffolk park bangalow suffolk park

tuesday

9.30am - 11am 6pm - 7.30pm

Yogalates/Pilates : mat work Yogalates/Pilates : mat work

bangalow bangalow

wednesday 6pm - 7.30pm

stretch with core stability

suffolk park

thursday

9.30am - 11am

Yogalates/Pranayama meditation bangalow

friday

10am - 11.30am

stretch with core stability

suffolk park

saturday

8am - 9.30am

stretch and strengthen

suffolk park/bangalow

health rebates available special: unlimited classes for 3 months $199 award winning DVDs available at our studios

Introduction to Kahuna Bodywork

Clear subconscious sabotages. Reprogram patterns and beliefs. Restore vibrancy and physical health. De-stress. Mullumbimby Ph 66846914 or Byron (at The Health Lodge) 66856445 SANDRA DAVEY, Reg. Pract.

NORTHERN RIVERS EASY RIDERS INC AGM 12 noon Wed Jan 13, 2016 at Bangalow Showgrounds. All welcome

PROF. SERVICES

MON TUE WED THU FRI PM & SAT AM

KINESIOLOGY

*Two for one on full price tickets only.

MULLUMBIMBY Brunswick Valley FC Monday January 25, 6.30pm at Mullum Ex-Services Club. info@MBVFC.com.au

MULLUM CHIROPRACTIC

netdaily

The locals love it and we love them backs...

from $59hr

BRING A FRIEND TWO FOR * FOR FREE ONE ENTRYI Learn Yoga URS & FR Enjoy a Soundbath TH Have a Shamanic Journey Listen to live music + much more

CHIROPRACTOR 6684 1028

Detox, feel light, clear & vital. Guaranteed! Colonic hydrotherapy, naturopathy, Chineitsang. Natalie 0458633869 www.byronbaydetoxretreats.com.au

Contact Liz Swain 0448 040 432 easwain@bigpond.com

STARLIGHTFESTIVAL.COM.AU

COSTUME HIRE, PROPS, SUITS & ACCESSORIES

THANK YOU

ALOHA HEALING WITH NAOMI Strength with intuitive depth. Deep tissue & Kahuna 22yrs exp. 0417212540

Auditions for tenors and basses for Chamber Choir.

JAN 7TH-10TH A&I HALL BANGALOW

BRENT VERCO

THE BYRON SHIRE

Prepayment is required for all ads.

Healing Traditional Thai massage

STARLIGHT FESTIVAL

JAN 14 - 17 10AM - 12PM $40 please contact Jan 0409 583 977

Echo Classies also appear online in Echonetdaily – echo.net.au/classified-ads

Cash, cheque, Mastercard or Visa

NANNY/BABYSITTING Final year Early Childhood Education student. Very exp babysitter and early childhood educator with great references. Ph 0406015245

SONG DYNASTY MUSIC

Master Gyrokinesis workshop/classes

These prices include GST.

CHILDCARE

The best market in the country!

2/27 Brigantine St, Byron Bay.

CLASSIFIEDS THAT WORK ALL WEEK!

Musical Notes......................... 45 Only Adults .............................. 45

Movement Zone

ECHO CLASSIFIEDS – 6684 1777

ECHO CLASSIFIEDS • 66841777

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Quit Cigarettes

IN 60 MINUTES Ph Ingrid 66803827 TRADITIONAL THAI MASSAGE $50 Brunswick Heads. Ph Phim 0449063629

LOMI LOMI HALOA

Hawaiian Temple Bodywork 2.5-3 hour transformational sessions Sapphire 0438928465

Study Kinesiology Begin a meaningful career in Natural Health FREE Intro eve Jan 20 FREE Workshop Jan 30 Diploma in Kinesiology HLT52415 begins Feb 20/21. Self-care study options. Study with Parijat Wismer and her team at Byron Kinesiology Centre, Kinesiology Schools Aust. campus. Nationally & Internat. accred. training Call us now 6685 7991 www.wellness.net.au

Upper Main Arm, 16-17th Jan 2016 Kahuna Bodywork (Lomi Ka’aleleau) is a flowing and dynamic form of massage-like therapy. During this introductory weekend we will be focusing on the martial-art style practice of Ka’aleleau - a sequence of movements that underpin Kahuna Bodywork and allow the practitioner to develop a deeper understanding of Self, as well as developing the focus, sensitivity, balance and motion that is applied in the performance of Kahuna Bodywork. Bookings essential. Workshop cost: $350 camping, $380 shared dorm (Includes all food,training and equipment)

For enquiries or booking college@kahunasciences.edu.au (02) 6684 4883

The Byron Shire Echo January 6, 2016 43

CLASSES RESUME Saturday, January 16th – 10AM

S U F F O L K PA R K CO M M U N I T Y H A L L Safe, beneficial, authentic yoga PART TIME ONE DAY A WEEK 9 MONTH YOGA TEACHER TRAINING Begins March 2nd

Deeply integrate the practice of yoga into your life this year. Practice! Transform! Teach your Passion!

Welcomes New Yoga Teachers

Susanna & Victor

Victor

Sharon

Lindy Lou

Julia

Christina

Susanna

Daniel

Victor

Grace

Daniel

Grace

Hatha Vinyasa Hatha Yoga Hatha Yoga Yoga for Healthy Minds Hatha Vinyasa Yoga from the Heart

Slow Gentle Yoga

Sharon

Restorative Yoga

½ Hour 1 Hour 1½ Hour Home Visits

Slow Gentle Yoga Slow Gentle Yoga

Sharon

Restorative Yoga & Meditation

Upstairs Byron Surf Club 0448 807 798 Mon-Sat

Slow Gentle Yoga

MASTER HYPNOTHERAPIST NEUROLINGUISTIC PROGRAMMER & LIFE COACH PH 6680 2630

Anything is possible www.wendypurdey.com.au

MOBILE MASSAGE

$50 $80 $115 $120 (1hr)

Yoga classes $18 5 class pass $80 Unlimited Passes Available

Slow Gentle Yoga

HYPNOSIS & EFT

Successful solutions for any problem

Simple and effective solutions Anxiety, Cravings, Fears & Trauma. Maureen Bracken 0402205352 DR ARPANA O’BRIEN Working at the Health Lodge – Byron Integrated Medicine. Ph 66856445

See timetable & more info:

GinkgoTreeByronBay.com The Old Church, Coorabell. 6684 7910

3EPTIC 7ASTE 2EMOVAL

3UMMERLAND %NVIRONMENTAL

4HE ,IQUID 7ASTE 3PECIALISTS

s 3EPTIC TANK CLEANING s 'REASE TRAP SERVICING s /ILY ,IQUIDS s 0ORTABLE TOILET HIRE s HOUR SERVICE

MOSQUITO NETS

LP RECORDS: good condition, no op shop crap! Ph Matt 0401955052

BAR FRIDGES good condition $99. Glen Villa Resort, 80 Butler St, Byron Bay

BYRON FLEA MARKET @ Byron Youth Activity Centre (YAC), 1 Gilmore Cres, 2nd Saturday of each month 8am–1pm. Food, entertainment, vintage & pre-loved bargains. Next market on 9 Jan. Stalls or rug space avail 0490026840

100% cotton, all sizes, locals discounts. Ph 66843191 www.1001nets.net

COMPOST TOILETS

STARTING AT $960 Green Building Centre 0427701653

GARAGE SALES

FREE

Kids craft and face painting. Great coffee, food and live music.

re 1 Gilmo

Bay , Byron rescent

anuar th aJm-1pm y 9 8 ay p-cycled, homema d d d, u r ve r, live entertainmen e o l t e ibles re orn llect , p s c & co offee id es lc u ea iq

facebook.com/ByronFlea

NICK HART

TREE SERVICES

6684 9137 • 0427 347 380

A VERY HANDY MAN

TREE SERVICES

Gyrokinesis Pretraining.

Covering all aspects of tree work and tree stump removal (stump grinding)

The method is a movement method that gently works the entire body, opening energy pathways, stimulating the nervous system, increasing range of motion and creating functional strength through rhythmic, flowing movement sequences. JAN. 13-18TH cost: $900 times: 10am - 4:30pm

Experienced climber • Insured • Licensed FREE QUOTES HAPPY TO HELP

Call Andrew Wilson 0412 558 890

After hours & emergency service available

NARNIA NURSERY

Lilly Pillys, Grevilleas, Cordylines, Gardenias, Flaxes & much more. www.narnianursery.com.au 0419771514

TEA TREE MULCH FINE & MED CHOP & COMPOST $30/m + delivery. 0424163784

BAMBOO PLY

from $10.50sqm & Bamboo Flooring. For ceilings, walls, doors, etc. Ph 66884188 • sample & brochure. www.bambooply.com.au WASHING MACHINE automatic $180, fridge $170, delivery. Phone 0413589388 PLAYSTATION 3 500GB 1 controller, GTAV and a bunch of other good games. $150. Phone 0418958467 DOUBLE MATTRESS good condition $95. Pick-up only. Lennox. 0438312723

FIREWOOD DELIVERIES ALL YEAR ROUND • FULLY INSURED • PROFESSIONAL SERVICE • FREE QUOTES

6684 4421 0402 323 910

44 January 6, 2016 The Byron Shire Echo

Supplying commercial, wood ﬁred bakeries, pizza restaurants and residential, combustion stoves, open ﬁres, pot belly, kindling. Various load sizes from 4’x 6’ to 4 ton tipper. PRICES STARTING FROM $95. VOLUME DISCOUNTS.

Matt 0427 172 684

MOVING SALE 32 Kingsford Dr, Bruns Heads. Sat 8-12. H’hold items, washing machine, desks, bookshelves & more

MOTOR VEHICLES

CASH PAID FOR UNWANTED CARS

Local reg’d business 66845296 or 66845403 or 0413120970

BARGAINS 2005 Mitsubishi Colt auto 5 dr hatch. Fantastic condition. SN2666........................$5990 2001 Hyundai Accent 5spd manual. Ideal 1st car. SN3783.................................... $3250 2002 Toyota Camry auto wagon. Will have 6mths rego. SN1801 ...................$3995 1997 Nissan Pathﬁnder dual fuel auto. Great value 4x4. SN3407 ..............................$4990 2014 Toyota Hiace commuter manual 20934km 12 seater or setup as a camper. SN8832 ...$44750 2005 Holden VZ Commodore wagon auto always popular wagon. SN 3010 .................$5990

BARGAINS

ballinacarcentre.com.au

16 ENDEAVOUR CLOSE, BALLINA

Ballina Car Centre

DLN 19950

6686 5586 / 0418 676 274

CAR SERVICE

BSW MOTORS

OCEAN SHORES 66 Helen St. Sat 7am. All sorts of things STORAGE SHED CLEAROUT relocated OS. Loads of treasured stuff, sofa, brass bed, furniture, bric-a-brac. Everything must go! Shed 1 Summerland Mini Storage, 27 Bugam Pl, Bangalow. Sat & Sun 9-1pm. SMS only +358400843689 OCEAN SHORES 6/2 Durroon Crt. Sat 8am-1pm. Pop-up fashion shop of new ladies clothing, priced from $5 LENNOX HEAD 28 Henderson Dr, Sat from 8am. Clothes, books & h’hold items BRUNS Harbour Lodge Hotel, 6 Old Paciﬁc Hwy, Sat from 8am. H’hold items, hotel contents. Sz 4-8 girls clothes, trendy small womens clothes, shoes. Bargains!!! MULLUM 10 Coolamon Ave. Quality sale. Tools, toys, furn & more. Sat 8am-1pm YELLOW CHURCH YOGA 9 Myocum St, Mullum, Sat 9th, 8.30am. Chaise longue, timber furniture, clothes dryer, household items & more. Diana 0407455212

Tip Runs & Rubbish Removal 0408 210 772

MYOCUM 1br self-cont home, open-plan. Peaceful retreat for sgl/cpl $145 per night. Weekly rate avail. Ph Katy 0402368050 S PARK BCHSIDE lge airy upstairs 1br apart, fully self-cont, full kitchen, v quiet & private. Avail 10 Jan–1 Feb. $450pw, 200m to bch, shops & trans. 0400341745

SHORT TERM ACCOM. BYRON close to town, room in beautiful apt, pool, tennis court, furn, $300pw twin share or cpl, $195pw single. 0402923144

HOUSE SIT EXP HOUSESITTER to care for your home & pets. Great refs. 0417574019

SHARE ACCOM. ANNERLEY BRISBANE pref fem aged 17–25 to share with 1 fem. Fully-furn unit with ensuite. Need to move in by 22nd Jan. $175pw + bond. Ph 0407842394

TO LET BANGALOW rural s-c studio, f-f, suit single. $250pw includes elec & water, horses ok. Phone 66871364 BANGALOW RENT-A-SHED Modern & Secure from $130 p/m Elders Real Estate 66871500 STORAGE From $100/mth. Bangalow. Ph 66872833 BANGALOW SELF-STORAGE Hi-tech security. 66872333 BALLINA SELF-STORAGE UNITS Secure from $16pw. Ph 66867011 BYRON SELF-STORAGE UNITS Clean & secure. Ph 1300762618

Pre-purchase inspection from $40! Pink slips, service + repair. 10 Bonanza Dr, Billinudgel. 66804999

TYAGARAH furn studio, amazing views, avail end Jan, $275pw suit single quiet fem pref. Ph Erica 0412724293 aft 9am

TRACTOR REPAIRS

O.SHORES 1 br self-cont furn ﬂat. Quiet private location. Pref sgl working female. No pets, n/s $280pw inclusive. 66802111

TRACTOR REPAIRS

Rural Machinery Repair Service old-school repairs, parts & restorations to all makes and models onsite service available workshop 72 Charltons Road Federal

6688 4143 0448 881 942

TREE SERVICES

Fully insured • Free quotes

please contact Dana 0395 338 400 or Jan 0409 583 977

FOR SALE

OLD MOTORBIKE any make, any year, any cond. Will pick up. 0427109195

Stalls available. Lotte 0490 026 840

9 Myocum St, Mullumbimby

www.gyrotonicmelbourne.com.au

WANTED

Mobile 0417 698 227

• Affordable tree services • Professional tree care • 15” chipper (crane truck)

2/27 Brigantine St, Byron Bay Hosting master trainer Dana Rader

6687 7677

HALLS FOR HIRE

yellowchurchyoga.com dianaewing@bigpond.com Diana Ewing 0407 455 212

Movement Zone

Road base, gravel, blue metal and metal dust. ALL SIZE DELIVERIES. Phone 66845517, 0418481617 DINING CHAIRS X 6 Parker-style. Very good cond. Recently re-upholstered. $220 the lot. Pick-up only. Lennox 0438312723

Byron Bay & Surrounding Areas

15 years experience

TRADEWORK

Yoga & Pilates Shiatsu & Massage Experienced teachers Amazing venue

Mulch Supplies

ARCHIBALD’S CHEAP QUARRY PRODUCTS

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Somatic Practice

(02) 6685 5138 9 Fletcher St, Byron Bay

• Cherry Picker • Wood Chipper • Stump Grinder • Tree Surgeon • Fully Insured

Avail Tues - Fri

Body Based

Individual and Couple Therapy Supervision and Coaching

SUMMERLAND TREE SERVICES

SCREEN PRINTING CAROUSEL 4-colour, 4-station, heavy-duty steel construction. Built back when they made things to last. In good working condition. $1250. Phone 0418958467

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Psychotherapy

Dip.Som.Psych, Clinical PACFA Reg.

6687 2750 - 0401 208 797

has recently relocated her practice from Brisbane to Coorabell

COORABELL HALL WEDDINGS, GIGS, CLASSES 66871307 www.coorabellhall.net

Julie Wells Anne Mannix

BIG SALE 6 Midgenberry Pl, Suffolk Park. Sat 7-11am. Bikes, surfboards, men’s & women’s clothes & much more

STUMP GRINDING TREE REPORTS DA APPLICATIONS CRANE HIRE CHERRY PICKER

Charity Carleton

Qualified Swedish masseuse $60 p/h in studio or $20 call out fee Relaxation, deep tissue, trigger pointing GIFT Vouchers Available call Lisa on 0409 078 004

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WATEGOS BEACH 23 Brownell Dr. Sat from 10am. Ladies fashion, bric-a-brac, homewares, CDs, hair products & more

TREE SERVICES

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Flo Fenton, Senior Yoga Teacher

Tel: 02 6685 9910 Mob: 0418 441 437 flo@intouchyogabyronbay.com intouchyogabyronbay.com

Tallow

MOVING SALE 50 Main Arm Rd. Sat 8am. Desk, futon lounge, h’hold goods

Chinese tractor repairs are no problem to us

BUSINESS FOR SALE

Lifestyle Business Est over 25 years 3 days per wk. Hire and laundering of commercial mats to a wide range of business in the Byron, Ballina and Tweed Shires with signiﬁcant growth potential.

O.SHORES granny ﬂat, f/f, kitchenette, open-plan, private, back deck with outside shower & ocean view. N/s, refs. $280pw + 2 weeks bond, bill incl. Ph 0403908852

New Brighton 5br 2bth $680 Billinudgel 1br $220 Mullumbimby 3br 2bth $520 4br 2bth $550 L.J. Hooker Brunswick Heads 6685 0177 5/16 The Terrace, Brunswick Heads

New Brighton

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Ocean Shores $200pw, Wheelchair accessible 1 bed unit *conditions apply 6 Strand Ave, New Brighton 6680 1594 eldersnewbrighton.com.au

$169,000 asking price. Includes mats, van, plant and equipment. Call Peter 0406 474 024.

REMOVALISTS ANDY’S MOVE & MORE Small & med moves, tip runs. 1 or 2 men at low prices. Byron & Mullum based. Ph 0429149533 BIG & SMALL REMOVAL JOBS Local, affordable, reliable & quick Ph 66845510 or 0402199999

HOLIDAY ACCOM. Magnificent Holidays in Byron Bay! We offer you to stay in our warm house near the beach in Byron Bay. It is an accommodation for 6 people: 2 bedrooms (4 beds), 1 kitchen, 1 bathroom, 1 shower, living room, office, covered terrace with sitting table, small garden with beautiful flowers that will inspire you every day. $2500pp per week. Sacha 0438632548

Bangalow

Landlords – We have qualiﬁed tenants looking for properties in Bangalow & surrounding areas. Please phone us TODAY for an honest appraisal. Goonengerry Rd, Goonengerry – $925 Resort style living, ocean views, glorious pool, multi level, sweeping decks, 2 bed up, 2/3 bed down, 2 bath, sauna. Avail early Jan.

Booyong Road, Nashua – $430

Character farmhouse set on large block, 2 bed, 2 sunrooms, 2 bath, sep dining/lounge, enclosed front porch, carport. Pets neg. Avail NOW.

Byron Street, Bangalow – $495

Workers cottage, 2 bed, high ceilings, slow combustion stove, walk to everything, nice backyard, pets neg. Avail 11 Jan. For more available rental properties go to www.eldersbangalow.com.au

19a Byron Street, Bangalow

02 6687 1500

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SUNRISE 2br fully-furn, self-cont apt. Suit wkg cpl/sgl. $500pw incl bills/WiFI. Bond & refs req. Avail 10/1. Ph 0421428520 STH GOLDEN BCH 2br furn house. Walk to bch, avail 15/1, $430pw. 0411583376 SUFFOLK BEACHSIDE 2br, 1 bath unit. Close shops/bus. Long lease, $450pw plus bond. Ph Brian 0478156032 SUFFOLK PARK new beautifully presented 1br, s-c private detached own entrance, off-street parking, pool. Suit quiet prof n/s person. Long lease, refs. $380pw inc bills. Phone 0407906127 NEWRYBAR charming 1br studio with outdoor thatched gazebo. Suit quiet sgl n/s person. Avail now. $450pw incl bills & WiFi. Ph 0438446287 MULLUM 4br house, rural, close to town. Fresh paint, large yard, pref no pets. $500pw. Phone 0413491842

WANTED TO RENT VERY PRIVATE WRITER – n/s, d/f, exc refs. Needs 1-2br, fully s-c, private cottage, by 10/1/16. L/T. 0466995485 pm MATURE COUPLE & 2 well-behaved dogs looking for 3-4br house, prefer unfurn with fully fenced yard from early Feb while looking to buy. Please call Penny 0406953002 THREE BEDROOM HOUSE for myself & 2 daughters in Bruns, Mullum, Sunrise, Bangalow, Sth Ocean Shores or rural inland. Excellent refs, reliable income, responsible family. Martina 0427025051 SECURE GARAGE IN BRUNS to store my little sports car. Simon 0447843585

TO LEASE BEAUTIFUL TREATMENT ROOM Avail Tues, Sat & Sun $80/day, $45/half day. Mullum. Ph 66849458, 0435078551 FUNKY CO-CREATIVE STUDIO 12 Centennial Cct, Byron Industrial Est. Desk & Ofﬁces $35 – $100pw All rates: http://theworkpod.co Phone 0457350504 BYRON creative work / ofﬁce space, $87pw incl elect & net. 0431674377

POSITIONS VACANT

OCEAN SHORES PRESCHOOL Cert III Educator. Temp position for Term 1. Thurs, Fri 8.30am-3.30pm. Must be energetic, organised, computer literate and able to demonstrate independent planning ability. Closes 8/1/16 ospreschool@live.com.au THE NEW RE/MAX COASTAL OFFICE requires experienced real estate staff for sales & holiday & permanent rental admin – matt.towner@remax.com.au laine.towner@remax.com.au 66853297

mudhoney Senior colourist /stylist required for busy salon Great team to work with and excellent pay + commissions. If you are talented and want to work in a fun and happy environment please email mudhoneysalon@mac.com or call jess on 0411 291 215

We are seeking an outstanding individual for an exciting, challenging role with one of Byron’s most-loved events.

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER

12-month appointment, part time. For position description and application details go to www.nrwc.org.au. Applications close 20 January.

BLUE OLIVE DELI requires casual exp hospitality assistant. 20+ hrs per week, incl weekends. Apply with resume

GOOD DRIVERS WANTED NOW Shifts avail for taxi, coach & hire cars. Full training provided. Min 12 month Aust Licence Required. Email: info@byronbaytaxis.com

FOAM FOOD & WINE LENNOX HEAD We’re looking for someone who loves food, wine & hospitality to join our team in a full-or part-time ﬂoor position. If you have the ability and skills to deliver professional friendly service in a busy environment we’d love to hear from you. Email: info@foamlennox.com

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

FABRICATOR We are looking for an employee with exp in metalwork to assist building a 4x4 truck. Must keep a tidy work place and enjoy working on trucks. 2 days pw 11am-3pm. $30ph. Tax ﬁle no. required. Ocean Shores. 0427121555

BARISTA POSITION on offer. Flexible hours. Great local long-term team. Busy friendly cafe in Mullum. Ph 0401747670

WORK WANTED

FLOOR SUPERVISOR REQUIRED Kinoko Japanese Restaurant is seeking a full-time experienced floor supervisor. The right applicant must have a proven 2 years experience in a similar role in a restaurant setting, possess strong leadership & managerial skills and be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment. No travellers Email resume to asafleibo@gmail.com OFFICE/ ACCOUNTS MANAGER We’re growing rapidly looking for an experienced full-time person who has strong bookkeeping, office management and customer service skills (preferably in the service sector). For more information: www.psychwire.org/careers. Please send a cover letter and resume to Steve. Email: hr@psychwire.org

CHEFS

Experienced chefs required for fast-paced kitchen located in Newrybar. Full time. Must have own reliable transport. Email CV to Bret Cameron at kitchen@harvestcafe.com.au

BYRON BAY BARISTA SCHOOL $99 Barista Course. Ph 0417760599 OCEAN SHORES PRESCHOOL Cert III Additional needs support worker. Mon–Wed, 11-3pm. Must be energetic, computer literate, able to demonstrate independent planning ability. ospreschool@live.com.au Closes 8/1/16

CASUAL WAIT STAFF REQUIRED St Elmo Dining Byron Bay are looking for hard-working, dedicated hospitality professionals to join their casual ﬂoor team. Please email all interest to: st.elmodining@bigpond.com

Full-time Head Chef position available JOHNNY’S RESTAURANT EVANS HEAD

COBBLE STONE CREATIONS $65/sqm Landscaping, garden maint, ceramic tiling, paving, pressure cleaning, rubbish removal etc. Whatacountry. 0432401334

FUNERAL NOTICES

TAYLOR , LLOMA ESTELLE Loved wife of the late John Paul Taylor. Much loved mother of Paulette, John, Raymond, Racheal, Little John, and James. Loved Grandmother of Amanda-Jane, Robert, Danielle (dec), Cerise, Darren, Joshua, Zacchary, Zephyr, Oscar, Melissa and Sherona. Loved Great-Grandmother of Mya, Malia, Riley, Harry, Jack and Chance. Lloma will be sadly missed by all family and friends. Relatives and friends are invited to attend a funeral service to be held at St Martins Anglican Church, Stuart Street, Mullumbimby on FRIDAY (January 8, 2016) commencing at 9.30am for 10.00am followed by burial at the Mullumbimby Cemetery.

MICHAEL CURRIE FUNERALS

AIRBnB SUPPORT

References avail. Take out the stress. Ph Christine now 0402576453 EXPERIENCED HORTICULTURIST for all aspects of gardening. Ph 0429020215 LOCAL REMOVALIST Happy to move big, small & in between. Ph 0402199999

LOST & FOUND STOLEN SURFBOARDS from Shirley Lane night of Sun 3rd. 1 x Fluro Green 6ft 4in - gas mask graphics, Paddy written on back and 1 x White Zaks 6ft 6in swallow tail. Ph 0428869466 with any details

OFF

POTS

PLANTS Showroom Items SALE ENDS SUNDAY 24TH JAN

For enquiries phone

Katrina 0416 246 588

2 GREVILLEA ST, ARTS & INDUSTRY ESTATE, BYRON BAY

Required for established business at Byron/ Mullum Farmers’ Markets starting in next 2-3 weeks. Early starts. Own vehicle preferred. 16 hours per week, opportunity to do more markets. Call Michael 0435 646 365

Store Manager – Santos Mullumbimby Outstanding opportunity for the right candidate with this iconic and ethical Byron Shire business. Strong communication skills, computer systems expertise and management experience essential. Applications close January 31. Australian residents only. Please send resume to: paul@santosorganics.com.au

CASUAL ROOM ATTENDANTS

Gaia Retreat & Spa is currently seeking enthusiastic Room $WWHQGDQWV WR MRLQ RXU G\QDPLF WHDP b 'HVLUHG TXDOLWLHV LQFOXGH • Attention to detail essential with a thorough work ethic; ȧ 0XVW EH DEOH WR WDNH GLUHFWLRQ DQG EH ˊ H[LEOH ZLWK ZRUN KRXUV • Able to work weekends. If you are looking for a long-term commitment in a great working environment apply NOW.

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OPEN 7 DAYS PH: 6685 6990 www.leisurescapes.com.au @leisurescapesbyronbay

IRONING SERVICE

Make 2016 the year that you never have to iron again. Suffolk Park $25/hr. Angela 0414719680

Passed away peacefully at home on Saturday 2nd January, 2016, aged 70.

Beloved Son of Coral & Jim (dec’d). Cherished Husband of Penny and loving Father of James and Lauren. Proud “Pa” of Milarnie and Lawson.

Loved and sadly missed Relatives and friends are invited to attend Keith’s funeral service to be held at Parkview Funeral Home, 21 Kalinga Street, Ballina on Friday 8th January 2016 commencing at 2.00pm. Parkview Funeral Home – Ballina 1800 809 336

PETS

ONLY ADULTS

4-STAR DOG CARE Federal acres. 24/7 attention from $34 per day. 0419390498

BYRON BAY BEACH BABES Male and female party strippers, lingerie waitresses, exotic dancers. 7 days fr 4pm. Ph 0497641199 www.byronbaybeachbabes.com

HAPPY NEW YEAR

EXQUISITE Be impressed with my hot body and warm hands. Tweed area. 0498073208

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Max

Max is hoping hoping that 2016 2 with bring with it a loving home where he will be spoilt and happy. He’s a beautiful blue grey kitten who will blind you with his stunning good looks and playful character. He has other siblings too that are just as cute so please pop in and feel free to fall in love. Make 2016 the year that you make a difference to our cats and kittens needing furever homes. Visit the Cat Adoption Centre at 124 Dalley Street, Mullumbimby.

OPEN: Tues 2.30–4.30pm Thurs 3–5pm Sat 10am–12 noon Call AWL 6684 4070

YES, WE STOCK FIDDLE LEAF FIGS

Market Stall Operator

KING, Keith James

INCREASE YOUR CAPACITY FOR PLEASURE & CONNECTION Exquisite tantra massage & tuition for men, women & couples. 0425347477 www.tantrabyronbay.com TOUCH OF JUSTINE Luscious Bodywork & Sensual Touch Hot, ﬁt, bi, 34yo. Couples welcome. Wed and Thurs only. 0407013347 www.touchofjustine.com HOT LIKE HONEY, SWEET LIKE CHOCOLATE Delicious Caribbean full-body experience. Bi-Curious Women see www.bit.ly/ drippinghoney Lismore Sat/Sun. Phone 0407013347 SOFT HANDS WARM OIL Sensual touch. Mature & discreet. Byron. 0407264343

Freya is currently being fostered on property with lots of other dogs, cattle, children and chickens and loves it. She’s a super affectionate young dog who’s comfortable living on acreage. Freya doesn’t like being on a lead or being in a suburban situation, so you need to be happy just exercising her on your property. She’s comfortable being left on her own and will just curl up and go to sleep. She loves to chase a ball, but only if you want to throw it, otherwise she’s happy simply being your companion. If you can give Freya a permanent loving home please contact Companion Animal Welfare – Lissie 0488 415 444. Visit www.cawi.org.au or our Facebook page to see our other dogs who would love to ﬁnd a home.

SOCIAL ESCORTS OUTCALLS 0451579023 BALLINA EXCLUSIVE 34 Piper Dr. New owner, new staff. Open 7 days 10am till late. Outcalls available. Enq 66816038 BYRON AREA OUTCALLS. Phone 0421401775 SEXY ESCORT Outcalls only. 0478109345 EXOTIC FEM BOY GAY ESCORT Stunning looks, size 8 yoga body, requests welcome, outcalls only. 0458614548 LEYLA model, stunning brunette, size 8, D-bust. Charlotte, Isla Fisher look-a-like. Summer, size 6, classy blue-eyed blonde. Jazz, affectionate brunette, F-bust. Phoenix, size 8, D-bust, surﬁe stunner. Sharm 21, Elle look-a-like. 66816038

PETS PETS FOR LIFE ANIMAL SHELTER

HOUSE CLEANING by honest reliable local lady, 20 years exp. Ph 0403527546

TUITION

Charli

FRENCH • ITALIAN • GERMAN Eva 66846760 www.languagetuitionbyron.com.au CHINESE KUNG-FU First class free Byron Primary School hall, Teen/Adult Mon & Thurs 6-7.30pm, Kids Tues 6-7pm. 0421555062 Pottsville Primary, Kids Tues 5.30-6.30 0477755133 VOICEJAM SINGING & HEALING Weekly groups Ocean Shores & Bangalow. Private tuition all ages. Julia 0412201736 www.voicejam.com.au

MUSICAL NOTES MICHAEL’S GUITAR STUDIO For all your music needs. We are open through the holidays. Ph 66841800 PIANO TUNER Restorer, repairer & retailer since 1981. Ph Dr Fred Cole 0412216019 or www.specialtypianos.com.au GUITAR REPAIRS Ocean Shores. Phone 0455033360

BIRTHDAYS DOUG Happy 60th Birthday to you!

What you can’t see is LUCY’s wonderfully colourful coat, a tortie/ brindle. Lucy was very keen to jump in front of the camera, to get a long-overdue chance to put out her message. She is a quiet young girl, who sadly has been with us for quite a while now. Just as well that cats can’t count the days! Lucy prefers a one-to-one relationship, and is undemanding. She just needs to be in her own home, where she will show just how beautiful she is. Why not start the new year with a lot more colour and fun in your life – just adopt Lucy.

All cats are desexed, vaccinated and microchipped. Please make an appointment 0403 533 589 Billinudgel petsforlifeanimalshelter.net

Charli is a 9-month-old desexed female staffy x. She has a sweet nature and loves other dogs, children and just about everyone. If you can give Charli a permanent, loving home please contact the Friends of the Pound Rehoming Centre on 07 5524 8590 or Pam on 0421 017 461. Visit friendsofthepound.com to view other dogs and cats looking for a home.

It’s raining cats & dogs! Well, almost... Every year many thousand unwanted cats and dogs are born to pets that haven’t been desexed. And sadly, most end up being put down. So please...

desex your pets!

QUALIFIED TANTRIC EGO MASSEUSE

Don’t let your sense of inadequacy get the better of you! Tantric Ego Massage has been proven to relieve mediocrity and restore connection to the God and Goddess residing within. Be stroked and pandered to your heart’s content. Mobile service in Byron Shire, we bring ourselves down to your level.

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Sport

netdaily.net.au

North Coast news daily:

Burleigh Heads open for single fin business Growing to legendary status, the second weekend of January is now well known as the time for the Burleigh Boardriders Single Fin Festival. The natural amphitheatre that is Burleigh Heads is lined with thousands of people checking surfing, not pro-surfing but awesome 1970s style surfing on surfboards more than 35 years old, and just how they used to be with one single fin. The 19th Burleigh Boardriders Single Fin Festival will start this Friday and is the first surfing event of the year. Surfers will be competing on vintage single fin boards which must have been made no later than 1981 – some of the boards surfed are of late 1960s and early 70s vintage. Over the years surfers have travelled from Western Australia, Victoria, NSW, all the way up the east coast of Australia to the Sunshine Coast to compete in this iconic event. The Festival begins at the Burleigh Bears Leagues Club, with the Annual Charity Luncheon. Nathan ‘Carnage’ Corbett, internationally renowned Mutai boxer,

Legends in and on the water, classic vintage boards will grace the waves along with some surfing legends of the human kind when surfers hit Burleigh for the Boardriders Single Fin Festival starting this Friday. Photo Tree Faerie

will be joined by rugby union and rugby league international Michael O’Connor, along with legendary surfer, shaper, and skipper Tony ‘Doris’ Eltherington, best known for his rescue of the South African surfer who was found after nearly two days in the ocean. Alan ‘Robo’

Robinson, former jockey and TV personality will be the MC. Most of the local pro surfers attend and there will be a sports memorabilia auction and comedy on the day. Saturday and Sunday will see the Burleigh Boardriders Single Fin Classic take place at the iconic

Big Bash League could go regional next summer SYDNEY [AAP]

Cricket Australia (CA) is considering taking Big Bash League (BBL) games to regional centres as soon as next summer, in a bid to begin expansion of the competition. Rounds would also be added to the tournament to accommodate the moved matches, as CA looks to build on the overwhelming success of this summer’s competition, which is already attracting higher attendances than Test matches by almost 9,000 fans per day. However, they are concerned about over-saturating the market, and will therefore experiment by taking games to regional hubs in coming years, before adding new teams. ‘It’s the evolution of the Big Bash, we’re five years in now and we’ve achieved some great results in that period,’ Anthony Everard, the head of the BBL, said. ‘We are inclined to have a soft launch in some respects. We may take existing BBL games and play those in regional centres. ‘If we were to do that though, it wouldn’t come at a cost of the major metro markets, so that would have to be new incremental content. That is something that we

are looking at for the short to medium term.’ Crowds of almost 28,000 per match have well exceeded the organisers’ predictions for this summer, while average attendances in Brisbane, Perth, Hobart and Melbourne are higher than any single-day Test crowd at the same venues this summer. Hobart even drew more fans to their match against the Sydney Thunder than they did in the entire three days of their Test between Australia and the West Indies in December. However, while Everard says they will not act on impulse in adding new teams rashly, it is believed the most likely option would be to add them after the 2017/18 season when the current broadcast deal ends. Given one of the fundamental aims of the BBL is to expose new fans to the game, Everard says the most likely option would be to

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take matches to Canberra, Geelong and the Gold Coast before considering their addition to the competition. ‘Historically we’ve done a great job servicing our major metro centres with Test matches and ODIs, but there are a lot of parts of Australia that haven’t had exposure to elite cricket. ‘I think BBL by its very nature provides a great opportunity to be more flexible in our scheduling to try to accommodate that.’ Expansion of the competition through the means of additional matches and teams could prove problematic to keep within its current school-holiday window, but Everard believes it is still possible. ‘Before Christmas we had a double-header on the east coast that actually worked really well,’ he said. ‘On Saturday night we had the double-header using the Perth timeslot to our advantage. With more than 100,000 people attending games, TV ratings were still strong with over a million people still watching both games. That was a really big tick.’ The original franchisebased BBL launched in 2011/12 with 28 regular season matches, before expanding to 32 in the following season.

Burleigh Heads Point break where some of the best surfers take on Burleigh on the old boards. Surfers who have competed in the event include Mick Fanning, Joel Parkinson, Jack Freestone, Bede Durbidge, Dave Rastovich, Wayne Rabbit Bartholomew, Gary

Elkerton, musician Ash Grunwald, Jockey Damien Oliver, footballer Andrew Johns, celebrity Chef Peter Evans, and a host of others. There is a field of hot locals to contend with. Last year Burleigh boardrider Thomas Woods took victory for the second time and the top 100 ranked surfer will be back this year to defend his title. There will be 96 competitors. There are no cash prizes, just the glory of being the champion, and a classic Dick Van Straalen single fin made especially for the event winner. It is a carnival atmosphere, great surfing, displays of surf-craft from a bygone era, and live music with the Hanlon Brothers Saturday and TripleJ Favourites ‘Babe Rainbow’ feature special guest Dave Rastovich on Burleigh Point on Sunday. This is family-friendly fun for young and old. To enter the event go to the Surfing Queensland website: https:// www.surfingaustralia.com/states/ qld/events/2016-burleigh-boardriders-single-fin-festival-presentedby-billabong.

Afghans warned against celebratory gunfire KABUL [AP]

Let the celebrations begin – but quietly. Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry has warned against celebratory gunfire after the upcoming South Asia soccer final against India, hoping to avoid a repeat of the raucous celebrations that followed the national team’s victory in 2013. Afghanistan will defend their title against India on

Sunday in an eagerly awaited match seen as a point of pride in the war-ravaged country. Afghanistan, who defeated

Sri Lanka 5–0 to advance to the finals, are expected to beat India, who overcame Maldives 4–1. The match will be played at Trivandrum International Stadium in Kerala, India, but Afghans can watch on a number of large screens set up around the capital and other cities. The championship is held every two years. India beat Afghanistan in 2011.

This week in how scary can kids get… LONDON [PAA]

UK children consuming body weight in sugar. Revelations some British children are consuming their body weight in sugar each year have prompted a government campaign urging parents to make healthier food choices. Public Health England (PHE) has released television, digital and outdoor advertising for the Change4Life campaign, accompanied by a free phone app that allows users to scan the barcode of products and learn how much sugar they contain in grams or cubes. Children aged between four and 10 eat around 22kg of sugar every year, or the average weight of a five-yearold, according to PHE. In 2013, almost a third of

the country’s five-year-olds and almost half of its eightyear-olds had tooth decay, but the campaign also highlights other sugar-related health risks such as diabetes and obesity. ‘Children are having too much sugar – three times the maximum recommended amount’, says PHE chief nutritionist Dr Alison Tedstone . ‘This can lead to painful tooth decay, weight gain and

obesity, which can also affect children’s wellbeing as they are more likely to be bullied, have low self-esteem and miss school.’ Obesity costs the NHS 5.1 billion each year – a figure that is projected to almost double by 2050. Dr Tedstone added: ‘Children aged five shouldn’t have more than 19 grams of sugar per day – that’s five cubes – but it’s very easy to have more.’

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Community at work Mullumbimby Neighbourhood Centre. Info: Leanne 0409 818 643.

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Connect Up Mullumbimby & District Neighbourhood Centre is hosting Koori Murri Goori Connect Up, a time to reflect on sharing experiences of doing creative work, energising oneself. For info call Robin 0459 962 428.

#StartupByron #StartupByron Un-Networking meets the first Thursday of every month, focused on connecting anyone interested in startups or small biz. See http:// www.startinno.com/events/2015/5/7/ startupbyron-un-networking.

Respite Service Byron Shire Respite Service Inc delivers high-quality respite care to a broad range of clients throughout the Byron, Ballina and Lismore shires. Donations welcome: Ph 6685 1921, email fundraiser@byronrespite.com.au, website: www.byronrespite.com.au.

Cuppa Tea Choir Mullumbimby & District Neighbourhood Centre and Dynasty Music present Cuppa Tea Choir directed by Janet Swain on Tuesday mornings at the Neighbourhood Centre, 55 Dalley St, Mullum from 10.30am.

Junior chess club The Mullum junior chess club meets after school until 4.45pm Tuesdays in room F4 at Mullumbimby High School. All ages, all standards, encouragement and professional coaching. Ph Mike 6684 6281.

Bridge club Brunswick Valley Bridge Club meets at the Brunswick Heads Bowling Club Mondays and Saturdays 12.30 for 12.45pm start. Visitors welcome. If you need a partner please ring Phyllis Keyte on 6684 1103.

Mamas’ Support Group The Byron Mamas’ Support Group meets at Red Tent Yoga, Byron industrial estate, during term time. More info on Facebook.

ESL classes Free English as a Second Language classes in Mullumbimby, suitable for beginners to advanced learners. More info call 0421 796 529 or 6674 7267.

Meditation Tuesday Insight Meditation with Radha Nicholson, Ellen Davison and others. Weekly at The Yurt Temple Byron, 7.15–9pm. All welcome. Evening supported by dana (donation). Buddhist meditation teaching and practice now at the Living Yoga Sanga, first floor, 63 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby, 6–7.30pm, Mondays. Contact Mishaela on 0438 858 842 or mishaela@si.org.au. Dzogchen Study Group – 4th Saturday of each month at Brunswick Heads Community Centre. Contact Katie 0417 798 726 or qld@shenpenaustralia. org for more info. One-hour guided meditation 12–1pm, Wednesday and Thursday. All levels welcome – www. yogapeace.com.au.

Landcare Bangalow Land and Rivercare working bee every Saturday 8.30–10.30am. See www.bangalowlandcare.org.au or call Liz 6687 1309.

Museums Brunswick Valley Historical Society Inc Museum at corner of Myocum & Stuart Sts Mullumbimby open every Friday 10am–12 noon and market Saturdays 9am–1pm. Discover your local history. Bangalow Museum & Tea Room open Wednesday–Friday, 10am–3pm, cnr of Ashton & Deacon

Even our political overlords read The Echo! Sts, Bangalow. Volunteers sought – please contact the museum 6687 2183.

Bangalow CWA Bangalow CWA invites women of all ages to join us for craft and friendship on Wednesdays from 9.30am to 2pm or the 2nd Monday of every month 5-7pm. Phone Di 0412 376 034 for further info.

Learn ukulele Tuesdays at the Mullumbimby & District Neighbourhood Centre come join Neighbourhood Ukes and learn ukulele 9.45am. Then join our local Cuppa Tea Choir from 10.30am.

Craft group The Uniting Craft & Social Group meets every Monday 9.30am–2.30pm at the Uniting Church in Carlyle Street, Byron Bay. Come and chat, enjoy a cuppa, the company and your craft. Bring lunch and whatever else you need. All welcome. Do you prefer patchwork and quilting? Come along on Monday evening same place at 6pm. Enquiries Tilly 6685 5985.

Library fun Baby Bounce session Mullumbimby – Tuesday 11.30am, Brunswick Heads – Friday 10.30am, Byron Bay – Friday 10am. Storytime for toddlers and preschool children Mullumbimby – Friday 10.30am, Brunswick Heads – Monday 10.30am, Byron Bay – Tuesday 10.30am.

Bush School Each Thursday during term time the Brunswick Bush School takes kids 6–13 years out into the bush to learn, grow and connect with each other. Facebook: Brunswick Bush School and email: brunsbushschool@gmail.com.

Drug support groups Call Alcoholics Anonymous 1800 423 431 or 0401 945 671 – 30 meetings a week in the shire – www.aa.org.au. Are you concerned about the alcohol or drug use of someone close to you? Support meetings every Tuesday 7–9pm Byron Bay, upstairs at 75 Jonson Street (stairs beside Westpac bank). Phone Jane 0410 494 933. Narcotics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem. We are recovering addicts who meet regularly to help each other stay clean. For information and meetings call 6680 7280. Are you concerned about somebody else’s drinking? Al-Anon Family Groups meetings held Fridays 2pm. Uniting Church Bangalow – 1300 252 666 www.al-anon.alateen.org/australia

Seniors Groove A weekly activity day for seniors each Tuesday at the Byron Community Centre with drumming circle at 10.30am, followed by chair yoga at noon. Entry by donation.

U3A discussion group U3A over-50 discussion group Thursdays 10am in Mullumbimby ExServices Club.

Bay Singers The Bay Singers (BB Community Choir) meets Mondays 10.30–11.30am at the Community Centre each week. More info: easwain@bigpond.com.

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Quota Club Quota Club of Brunswick Valley meets every 1st Thursday of the month at the Ocean Shores Country Club at 6pm. Ph 0439 733 763 for more info.

Spanish conversation A Spanish conversation group meets every Monday evening in Mullumbimby in order to improve language skills and cultural knowledge. Phone Paco 6684 0242.

Men’s Groups Complete Men has regular fortnightly men’s groups on different nights in both Byron and Mullum. Call Tim Fisk 0422 508 533.

End-of-life choices Voluntary euthanasia options are discussed at meetings held quarterly on the Gold Coast. Phone Elaine 55808215

Repair Cafe Mullumbimby’s Repair Cafe at the Mullumbimby campus of Byron Community College in Burringbar Street on Saturdays 9am till 12 noon. Volunteers will be there to help you fix things that might otherwise end up in the tip, or to advise how it might be done.

Rainbow Dragons Rainbow Dragons Abreast (RDA) welcomes breast cancer survivors for a paddle at Lake Ainsworth, Lennox Head, on Sundays 7.30 for 8am start. Info Marian 6688 4058, mazzerati2010@gmail.com.

Op shops Uniting Church Op Shop, Dalley St, Mullumbimby – open each Saturday 8am–12 noon. Byron Bay Anglican Op Shop opens Monday to Friday 9am–1pm. Volunteers needed. Enq Jeni: 6685 7816 or 0439 344 281. Anglican Church Mullumbimby Op Shop opens Monday to Friday 9am– 4.30pm, Saturday 9.30am–12.30pm. Volunteers needed, enq Liz 6684 2622 nights. Mullumbimby Seventh-Day Adventist Op Shop opens Monday – Thursday 10am-3.30pm, Friday 9am – 2pm and third Sunday of the month 10am-2pm.

Lions Club Interested in making new friends and helping our community? Lions Club of Brunswick Mullumbimby meets 1st & 3rd Tuesdays at 7pm Ocean Shores Country Club. More information President Joan Towers 0400 484 419.

Free Yoga Nidra Every Tuesday in Ocean Shores, 2–2.45pm. Contact Heidi 0426 977 575.

Low-cost food Food Box Thursdays 9.30–11.30am at Uniting Church, Mullumbimby. If you have any sort of Centrelink card you may purchase cheap food, obtain free veges, and enjoy a cuppa. C3 Care Byron Bay Food Care – log on to www.c3byronbay.com to see if you are eligible, or call 6680 8872.

Carers’ support Mullumbimby Mental Health Carers’ Support Group for family members and friends who have a loved one with a mental health issue. Meeting on 4th Thursday of each month 9.30am at the

Byron Cavanbah Toastmasters practise public speaking and leadership through our community-run course. Meetings coaching in communication and self-development run on 1st and 3rd Mondays, 6.40pm at Byron Services Club, Byron Bay; www.byronbaytoastmasters.org. MullumMagic Toastmasters meet 2nd, 4th and 5th Mondays at 7pm, Presbyterian Church Hall in Mullum. Please call Satisha 0402 134 390 for more info.

Bangalow CWA Bangalow CWA invites anyone who is interested in learning how to knit, crochet or embroider to join us on Wednesdays 9am–2pm or the second Monday of every month 5–7pm. Rooms 6687 0617 or Di Campbell 6685 4694.

Shores. Call 0413 779 223 for details.

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Free sky tour Join Marie and Philip for a special night sky tour . See constellations, star clusters, nebula and maybe a galaxy.. Fri-Sun Jan 8–10 in Ocean

This Saturday 8am–1pm Byron Youth Service holds its monthly Flea Market at the YAC (1 Gilmore Crescent). Stalls or rug space available, call Lotte 0490 026 840.

Lone Goat Gallery Magpie – Minyunbal Yugambeh Man Dulgunu ‘From the Heart’ sacred artwork exhibition until 13 January.

CoDA Co-dependents Anonymous (CoDA) is a worldwide network of groups of men and women learning how to develop and maintain healthy and fulfilling relationships. For more information visit www.codependentsanonymous.org.au or phone 9281 3330.

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Live music from Hide The Potato with dance caller, last Sunday of every month 2.30–4.30pm at Brunswick Heads RSL Hall. Visit Hide The Potato on Facebook or call Court 6685 0072. Next bushdance October 25.

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Liberation Larder Volunteers needed for new dinner service every Mon from 4.45 - 6.45pm. The charity collects, cooks and distributes nutritious food to over 550 people per week in the Byron Shire. There is also a variety of other roles. Please contact Helen Hamilton on 0439 409 655 or visit www.liberationlarder.org. au or our Facebook page.

Byron Flea Fun community market held at the YAC (Gilmore Crescent) on the second Saturday of the month 8am–1pm. Secondhand, antiques, vintage clothes, free children’s activities.

Nature Walk A two hour walk with Eugene around the Brunswick river talking about the flora and fauna of the area, identifying edible plants of our region, 9.30 sharp every Thursday morning leaving from the Mullumbimby & District Neighbourhood centre. Must wear closed shoes, hat, sun/insect screen

ManTime Calling all fellas who as a boy or man went on a Pathways, Making Men or Men2B Rite of Passage camp: weekly Monday night men’s group 7–9.30pm at the CWA Hall Mullum. Email mantime.mullum@gmail.com or call Karim 0403 755 192.

Town Choir Mullum’s Biggest Little Town Choir meets weekly at the Timber Slab factory, Jubilee Ave, Thursdays at 6.30pm. Newcomers welcome.

Gnosis Introductory classes into the Gnostic Mysteries on every Monday night in Byron. Phone 0412 020 234.

Al-Anon Al-Anon Family Groups met weekly at Bangalow Fridays 2pm. 1300 252 666 www.al-anon.alateen.org/australia

Carers Community Group Presented by Womens Health Forum 2nd Thursday of each month 1-2.30pm Ewingsdale Hall. Info: Yasmin 0437 886 424, whfcareresgroup@gmail.com.

Sex & Love Addicts Anon Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous is peer-support group of men and women for whom sex and/or romance have become a problem. For details of weekly meetings, phone 0452 074 974 or visit www.slaa.org.au.

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1. Young impersonators grab bookmaker, they inform us (9) 6. Hot, feverish love in a hut (5) 9. Agitator is, perhaps, a prisoner (7) 10. Transcendental double unknown. A double unknown? That shows panache! (7) 11. Single mad lady, unhappily (5) 12. Imaginative thought leading to agendas – what we would like 4 and 5 to be! (9) 13. I have right to return to the fountain (5) 14. Note about number, number 99 – son, they’ll help you remember! (9) 17. Snack money went astray? About turn! (6,3) 18. Cold, thin scrub (5) 19. Alert slave of a Russian river? (9) 22. Send message to English mother, 49 (5) 24. Middle Easterner is god-priest (7) 25. Six, three and fifty: a corrosive brew (7) 26. Very soft ingredient for sauce – positively mawkish! (5) 27. Musing on the past, I cast long shadows (9)

1. 6. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 17.

DOWN 1. Settles son in traps (5) 2. You and I on a single way over the headland – that’s an oddity! (9) 3. Do queue – 4 and 5 are expected to stick to it (5,4) 4. Level post back with specialist born in spring – we picked her… (15) 5. … and all her colleagues. Angry private harbours hate with two courses (15) 6. The first Mrs Hawke, a mix of green and brown (5) 7. Glass vessels – Russian, perhaps, rises top hold one (5) 8. Idle Sontag goes around and round at the table (4,5) 13. Strange sect imbibes a pick-me-up; that’s shaky science! (9) 15. Her actors perform for musicians (9) 16. Information technology with hesitation at first instance no good – try repeating! (9) 20. Break up the fight (5) 21. Young antelope retreats – it’s thin, anyway (5) 23. Call back about singular fragrant flower (5)

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Printed publication, usually daily (9) Shack, run-down dwelling place (5) Agitator, one who causes trouble (7) Verve, panache, showiness (7) Unhappily, mournfully (5) Optimists, believers in a perfect world (9) Famous fountain in Rome (5) Devices to aid memory (9) Variety of kernels used roasted or salted but not raw (6,3) Hygienic, unsoiled (5) Alert, on the lookout (9) Messages sent via the internet (5) Citizen of Tel Aviv (7) Sulphuric acid (7) Overly sentimental, mawkish (5) Hankering for the past (9)

DOWN 1. Shelters, homes for birds (5) 2. Strange behaviour, eccentricity (9) 3. The agenda or code laid down by a political group (5,4) 4. Member of an elected legislature (15) 5. Agents, often those elected to public office (15) 6. Greenish brown colour; also a nutbearing shrub (5) 7. Glass containers used by chemists (5) 8. Revolving tray for serving food (4,5) 13. Science concerned with the movement of the earth’s crust (9) 15. Formal group of musicians (9) 16. Repeating, processing by rote (9) 20. Remnant, small piece (5) 21. Thin, attenuated (5) 23. Shrub with fragrant white, pink and purple blossoms (5)

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Backlash One New Year over, another about to roll up. Chinese New Year Day of Red Monkey Year is on Monday February 8. â€˜Monkey is a smart, naughty, wily and vigilant animal,â€™ according to our impeccable sources which we just googled. Also given to throwing excrement, we would guess, so watch out. It is also the 4,713th year on the Chinese calendar and until the recent spurt of western imperialism China dominated world trade for about 700 years. Oh, and the weather has dominated the planet for around 4.5 billion years â€“ itâ€™s also likely to be up to some monkey-style tricks in 2016. Q Q Q Q

Given the USâ€™s dominant influence in world affairs, its presidential elections should be of some concern to all of us, especially as the candidates for the Republican nomination are a bunch of crazies led by Donald Trump, who has Adolf Hitlerâ€™s playbook down pat. To paraphrase Hunter S Thompson, who was apparently writing about the music business, the presidential election circus is â€˜a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. Thereâ€™s also a negative side.â€™ Journalist Phillip Frazer, whoâ€™s followed 14 elections to date, ten of them from up close in the land of free, gives us a glimpse at the weirdness on page 17. Q Q Q Q

The NSW planning department, which has our best interests at heart â€“ or was that Meritonâ€™s? â€“ has thrown up a discussion paper on fasttracking medium-density development across the state.

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One scenario would make it possible for ten two-storey dwellings to go up on a lot size of 600m2 at the nod of a private certifier. Michael McDonald takes a look at some of the detail on page 10 and suggests it might be in your best interests to do so as well before comments close off at the end of this month.

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While the state government doesnâ€™t allow local councils to impose a bed tax to raise revenue for the ratepayerfunded resources visitors use, surely they wouldnâ€™t mind an impost on man buns, or as the cognoscenti say, â€˜munsâ€™. The rapid insurge of hipsters into our shire, driving the few remaining hippies and rednecks to the brink of extinction, would be a fine source of funds for our council. There could be a scale of fees, enforced by our kindly rangers, depending on the size of the mun and the absurdity

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