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One hundred years young
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Large rural seniors development for Bangalow secretly knocked back Hans Lovejoy
Residents have alerted The Echo to a large-scale disability seniors housing proposal on isolated farmland on Rifle Range Road, Bangalow, which was recently considered by the NSW planning department under a largely unknown policy called a Site Compatibility Certificate (SCC). Council staff have raised concerns over the process while questions from The Echo to the NSW planning minister have been dodged. The proposal is set on nearly 40 hectares, and would comprise 338
dwellings and 664 beds, cafe and workshops at a cost of $85m. The property owner is Legate Pty Ltd; a company search shows the director is Barry Richard Wain, who resides in the Sydney harbourside suburb of Darling Point. And while the proposal was recently refused by the planning department, the process under which it was considered has been questioned by surrounding residents – a Site Compatibility Certificate allows the developer to work through the proposal in secret with the planning department before Council or the
public are made aware. According to the Department of Planning’s website, the SCC process was ‘introduced as a new safeguard in two state environmental planning policies.’ The department says a moratorium was placed after ‘rising concerns’ about ‘overly large and inappropriate seniors living developments on rural land adjoining urban areas or rural villages.’ A press release from 2009 says, ‘Developers were using a provision in the State Environmental Planning Policy (SEPP), allowing such continued on page 2
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Big field for Byron Shire Council race The 2016 council election has a larger lineup than 2012, and includes four current councillors and a swag of new faces. There are eight groups and two independent councillors to choose from, and six choices for mayor. Of note is the retirement from public life of conservative councillors Di Woods, Chris Cubis and Sol Ibrahim, while current conservative councillors Rose Wanchap and Alan Hunter are seeking the mayoral position. All five held the balance of power in the 2012–16 term.
Cath Westall celebrated her 100th birthday last Friday with fellow Shores Lodge centenarian Edna Lewis, her brother Clive Smith and friends, neighbours and staff. Photo Jeff ‘Yes Please, I Love Cake’ Dawson
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Current Greens mayor Simon Richardson is seeking re-election for the top job; he spent the last four years without a majority after the early defection of Cr Wanchap from the Greens. Current leftleaning councillors Basil Cameron (Our Sustainable Future) and Paul Spooner (Country Labor) are also running for mayor. Jack Sugarman is also having another crack at the
top job of mayor, having previously promised to abolish Byron Shire Council if elected. New faces include James Wright, Byron Bay chamber of commerce president and realtor Gail Fuller, and Cate Coorey from Byron Residents Group. Independents include Matthew Hartley and George Graham. Current councillor and mayoral candidate Basil Cameron heads Group A, Our Sustainable Future. His group includes Ash Stennett, who is active within the Mullumbimby Chamber of Commerce. Main Arm resident and architect Malcolm Price is third, and Judith D’Abbs, otherwise known as Judy MacDonald, is fourth on the ticket. Cr Cameron said in his pitch for mayor: ‘Our Shire faces major challenges in a rapidly changing world. ‘[These include] development pressures, climate change, protecting our biodiversity, wild coast and heritage, supporting rural communities and local economies, building continued on page 14
Our Sustainable Future: Malcolm Price, Judith D’Abbs, Cr Basil Cameron and Ash Stennett. Photo supplied
Open Studio Weekend! Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 August, 10am–4pm.
Visit me – Richard Jones at Rainforest Ceramics – on the Mud Trail. 1,000 new ceramic pieces on display, including hundreds of ten-dollar bargains. Every item saves forest via Rainforest Trust. We hope to save 1,000 acres this weekend. Free jar of homemade organic Davidson’s plum jam for every purchaser of $100 worth of ceramics. Free organic herbal tea for every visitor! Rainforest Ceramics 56 Gittoes Lane, Possum Creek. To get there from Bangalow: Take Lismore Rd, turn right at Friday Hut Rd, after four mins first left 500 metres on the right. From Coolamon Scenic Drive: Six minutes along Friday Hut Rd, over Possum Creek, 2nd right. rainforest ceramics CREDIT CARDS OK E: richard@rainforestceramics.com Shop: www.rainforestceramics.com
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Bangalow’s music fest hits right note
Internationally renowned bass baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes rehearsing with Kristian Chong on piano and the Orava Quartet. The group were preparing for Saturday afternoon’s performance, Poetic Inspirations, at the Southern Cross Soloists’ Bangalow Music Festival. Photo Jeff ‘Strings Attached’ Dawson
Endangered loggerhead turtles hatch at Tyagarah It’s been a long wait but 128 endangered Loggerhead turtles have finally hatched at a nest in the Tyagarah Nature Reserve. National Parks and Wildlife Service staff along with the Department of Primary Industries Fisheries have been monitoring the
nest since it was first discovered by a member of the public in January. Given a nest usually contains 80 to 100 hatchlings and the endangered status of the Loggerhead turtle, NPWS and DPI Fisheries are encouraged by the suc-
cessful outcome. NPWS area manager Sue Walker said it was important that all nests in NSW were monitored as much as possible. ‘They go through such a challenging life to be able to breed, so reporting turtle tracks and nests is imperative
for keeping records in our wildlife database and it contributes to knowledge supporting the survival of these marine reptiles,’ she said. NPWS urges the community to to report any nesting turtles to the NPWS Byron Bay office on 6620 9300.
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When asked, the planning minister Mark Speakman declined to answer and instead his staff handballed the question to bureaucrats at the Department of Planning and Environment. Their spokesperson did not answer the question either but instead told The Echo the Site Compatibility Certificate (SCC) is under review as part of a broader SEPP review. Nevertheless, residents Sue Franklin and Simon Field both expressed concern that such a large-scale development and rezoning of farmland should be considered by the NSW department of planning behind closed doors. Ms Franklin said she came to hear about the proposal by chance after speaking with a neighbour. Mr Field says he also became concerned after researching other areas of regional NSW where similar projects had been proposed. ‘This development would
non Burt, said under the SEPP the state department provides councils with 21 days from when a developer lodges a request for an SCC. ‘While they do not happen Council’s director of sustainable often, it’s simply not enough time to review and consider environment, Shannon Burt the potential development increase the population of through the SCC process. and let the community know ‘The locals were just like about it,’ she said. Bangalow by 35 per cent in one hit, have a negative im- us – they were outraged but She says the 21 days also inpact on community, life, they proved powerless.’ cludes being processed by the Mr Field added that the state and forwarding the docuservices, road safety and local environment such as our Grafton-based planning de- ments to the relevant council. partment staff and Byron Shire thriving koala population. ‘Being in a regional loca‘My main concern though Council planners were very tion, we can lose a week with is I have read cases where the helpful and he was advised the post,’ says Ms Burt. issuance of an SCC provides when the SCC was refused. ‘Plus in this instance, the ‘I remain concerned a re- timeframe did not allow for a strong indicator that some sort of major development is vised plan will be submitted, the proposal to be reported to and such a development will a Council meeting or advise achievable on the farmland. ‘The minutes from an have disastrous longstanding the community.’ Ashfield Council meeting, for effects on the community of ‘The state planning deexample, say that the devel- Bangalow without any com- partment are currently reoper refers to the SCC as the munity consultation. viewing the SEPP and we ‘I am keen to garner com- have provided this feedback. sign the development should munity understanding and go ahead. ‘When considering signifi‘I also spoke to Paul Deans, support against it and other cant developments, Council a farmer in Maitland, and the similar ones across the Shire, and the community need advice they got from the le- and seek more openness and more time,’ said Ms Burt. gal sources, and I understand transparency.’ Byron Shire Council staff local planners, was that once did not support the SCC rean SCC is issued it becomes a quest for the seniors houschallenge to stop the developing development at Bangalow ment. The final DA may allow due to size, scale, design and Meanwhile senior staff the potential impact it would 100 units as opposed to 200. ‘His advice was for us to have called upon the state have on regionally significant government to change the farmland. stop the SCC if we can.’ ‘Another example of the process surrounding the Site ‘Fortunately this time, the SCC was in a quaint village Compatibility Certificate. state department agreed. But near Coffs Harbour, where the Council’s director of sus- the SCC process needs to land was zoned rural and went tainable environment, Shan- change,’ Ms Burt confirmed. Byron Shire Echo archives: www.echo.net.au/byron-echo
‘When considering significant developments, Council and the community need more time’
Not enough time to process: staff
Local News Double the tourism money on cards: minister that increased visitor numbers did not change Byron for the worse. He welcomed the increased funding for professional development within the local industry and the opportunity to ensure the state tourism campaigns aligned to local priorities.
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NSW minister for trade, tourism and major events Stuart Ayres visited Byron Bay last Friday and told Destination Byron’s annual tourism symposium that the NSW government had a goal of doubling overnight visitor expenditure by 2020. In the year ending March 2016, more than 6.3 million domestic and international visitors came to the northern rivers, representing a rise of more than ten per cent on the previous year’s figures. These visitors stayed for more than 11 million nights, and contributed $1.8 billion to the local visitor economy, Mr Ayres said.
‘More to do’ Mr Ayres said that while the overall growth in regional tourism over the last four years ‘had been fantastic’, there was ‘still more to do’. ‘The NSW government has a goal of doubling overnight visitor expenditure by 2020, and we know that regional tourism is an important driver in meeting this target’, he said. The northern rivers and Byron Bay, which he said had ‘cemented their place as one of Australia’s most successful tourism destinations’, fall within the newly established North Coast Destination Network, one of six in NSW. The network covers the region from north of Newcastle to the Tweed border, including Lord Howe Island. The NSW north coast is the third largest tourism drawcard in Australia after Sydney and Melbourne. Mr Ayres said that under the new tourism model the destination networks will talk to Destination NSW to ensure that state tourism campaigns, ‘are reflective of the local tourism offering’.
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David Jones, marketing manager of Elements of Byron, and NSW tourism minister Stuart Ayres at the Destination Byron tourism symposium. Photo Jeff ‘Trinkets’ Dawson
‘The new destination networks will improve industry engagement and the development of visitor experiences and products. Destination NSW will provide destination networks with operational funding, guaranteed for four years. Working closely with industry, destination networks will develop visitor experiences and tourism product; and promote destinations and industry profes-
sional development’, he said. The inaugural tourism symposium was held at the newly established Elements of Byron resort in Byron Bay and was attended by local tourism industry operators. Other speakers included CEO of QLD Airports Chris Mills. David Jones, marketing manager of Elements of Byron and member of Destination Byron, said that Byron was well placed to ensure
‘We find that visitors to our region are increasingly more environmentally engaged, higher yielding and, importantly, are seeking what I’d call a “reconnection” to something lost in the cities’, Mr Jones said. ‘By ensuring that state tourism campaigns reflect the right message about Byron and the north coast, we can ensure that the community as a whole continues to benefit from this important industry.’ Mayor Simon Richardson said, ‘While we welcome tourism when it is sustainable and respectful of the community and environment, increased visitor numbers also require increased investment from the state government in local infrastructure to ensure that the visitor experience remains a positive one.’
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A space that began its life as a response to a war has over the last century become a gathering place for art, craft, music, food, dance, theatre, storytelling, fitness and Mullumbimby’s Biggest Little Choir. Built during World War I as an army training facility, the Mullumbimby Drill Hall has had a varied life. As a military facility it was home to the Mullumbimby Platoon of 41st Battalion, the Mullumbimby Light Horse Unit and the Returned Soldiers’ Defence Corps during World War II. Between the wars it was used by cadets, the boy scouts, a gymnastics group and a citizens’ band. Postwar it was back to being used by the scouts, the cadets and from 1945 to 1950 by the Intermediate High School, for manual arts. In 1977 the Drill Hall became the home of the Mullumbimby District Cultural Centre (MDCC), which soon formed a working relationship with the Pacific Players, an amateur dramatic group established in the 1950s. The
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hall changed hands from the defence department to Byron Shire Council and by the late 1980s the now cultural complex housed MDCC, Pacific Players, Mullumbimby Adult Learning Association (MALA), and a pottery group. In 1994 a studio was built onsite. By this time the MDCC had become an incorporated group with two constituent groups: the
drama group now called the Drill Hall Theatre Company and MALA, including the potters. Next week this facility reaches centenarian status and it has been given a wonderful makeover as a 100th birthday present. With support from Council and theatre company funds, the hall has now been air-conditioned, and there is an agreement with COREM to install
a 12kWh PV system on the roof. So, it’s time to party! On Sunday August 28, the community is invited to join in the celebrations. With the official opening at 11am there will be a full program of events from a marble competition to drama. The cake will be cut at around 3.15pm and visitors are invited to attend in period costume.
Eco village presentation draws large crowd On Saturday and Sunday the Bruns Eco Village information day filled the Mullum Civic Hall with more than 600 people interested in the concept and the Village Development Program (VDP). Registrations for the VDP close at the end of the month. For more info, go to brunsecovillage.com.au. Pictured L–R are Alice Moffat, Skai Daly, Wroth Wall, Kelvin Daly, David Jacobson, Blair Bettie, Jimmi James Wright, Shane Sylvanspring and John Stewart. Photo Jeff Dawson
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A man found in possession of more than 200 restaurantgrade oysters from a Brunswick River farm has been convicted and fined $1,000 in the Mullumbimby Local Court recently. It was the result of a joint campaign by three NSW government agencies to deter and detect oyster and seafood theft on the north coast. The agencies are NSW DPI, NSW Food Authority and NSW Police Force. DPI director of fisheries compliance, Patrick Tully,
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said the 39-year-old Murwillumbah man was planning to sell them on the black market. DPI biosecurity and food safety director of compliance Peter Day said, ‘The blackmarket oyster trade poses a health risk to consumers, who are urged to be sure the seafood they purchase is from a reputable retailer.’ Anyone who suspects illegal activity should call the Fishers Watch number on 1800 043 536 or report online at www.dpi.fisheries.nsw.au/ compliance.
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Belongil court cases ‘resolved’ In news just to hand Byron Shire Council has announced that two Supreme Court litigation cases against Council have been resolved. The first case was instigated by a group of Belongil property owners, the second by separate Belongil property owners. ‘In the first proceeding, the group of Belongil property owners claimed to have suffered significant financial loss and diminution in value of their properties as a result of Council’s historical acts, decisions and omissions relating to the works in front of the Jonson Street carpark and generally in relation to coastal matters,’ Council noted in a media release. ‘In the
second proceeding, Belongil property owners claimed to have incurred significant financial loss and diminution in value of their properties as a result of Council’s acts, decisions and omissions during the 2009 storm event. ‘Both proceedings were defended on behalf of Byron Shire Council by its insurer, who also negotiated the resolution in conjunction with Council. Council and its ratepayers were not required to financially contribute to the settlement. ‘The resolution of the proceedings did not involve any admissions or findings of liability against Council. As part of the resolution, Byron Shire
Council has agreed to allow the property owners to retain any existing protective works adjacent to the Belongil properties in their current form.’ Byron Shire Council’s legal services coordinator Ralph James said that should the property owners wish to maintain, upgrade or replace the existing protective works, they are required to follow the usual approval process. ‘The agreement allows the landowners time to submit applications to undertake lawful protective works at their own cost. ‘Whether the landowners decide to apply to undertake works is a matter for them,’ he said.
Boot scootin’ in Ocean Shores This weekend’s Bush Dance at the Ocean Shores Community Centre will bring the community together for one heck of a hoedown. The event aims to build community and ownership of the community centre. Local bluegrass band Thrillbilly Stomp will call the dancing in and as the band
say, ‘It is not uncommon to see the dance floor being shared by little kids, teenagers, young adults, mums and dads, grandmas and grandpas, and even great-grandmas and -grandpas at a Thrillbilly Stomp gig.’ The event will host a kid zone – with a Lego station, children’s games, perfor-
mance by a local children’s theatre group and a singalong with instruments. The food zone will include local catering businesses and the event is BYO. The event kicks off from 5pm on Saturday August 20 and everyone is encouraged to dress up in their creative country-themed threads.
Bruns set for eco-inspired art Sea Table Art Trail is a marine conservation event being held around the town of Brunswick Heads on August 20 from 11am till 3pm. Artist and co-organiser Ben McCorquodale says, ‘Some of the Byron Shire’s best artists are banding together to blitz the riverside picnic tables with ocean-themed
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Family event ‘There will be musicians doing busking sets scattered around the trail of picnic tables, as well as beach cleanups taking place, and a large communal plastic-free picnic
sponsored by Santos that the community can take part in and also bring a plastic free plate to contribute. ‘This event is a great opportunity for the community to enjoy the showcase of artistic and musical talent, while also learning about the ocean and getting inspired to protect it.’
Mullum school warms up winter Mullumbimby Public School will be holding its Winter Fair on Saturday August 20, from 11am till 3pm, at the school grounds on Morrison Avenue. With a Winter Wonderland theme, the Fair will feature ‘an awesome sustainably created life-size igloo, fun winter games and a snow machine (sponsored by Tony Carsburg Holden)’.
‘Fun for the whole family – kids can enjoy five rides and numerous stalls and games. Spaghetti Circus will be there to perform and run a workshop area, while sports lovers can get involved with the PGA inflatable hitting bay run by a certified PGA professional from Ocean Shores Country Club. The Brunswick Valley Bulldogs Junior
AFL Club will also have some fun activities for the kids. ‘For the little ones, there’ll be a petting zoo and toddlers’ jumping castle, while adults can sit back, relax and enjoy great food, barista-made coffee, sweet treats and entertainment,’ organisers say. For the full program visit www.mullumbimb-p. schools.nsw.edu.au.
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Potters open up the Mud Trail to public More than 30 ceramic artists on the far north coast will open their studios to the public on Saturday and Sunday August 20 and 21 for the annual North Coast Mud Trail. Now in its fourth year, the trail is part of a nationwide open-studios weekend, hosted by The Australian Ceramics Association. It’s a chance for the public to participate in workshops, see demonstrations, listen to artist talks, and purchase original ceramics from the region’s potters. There are 19 studios in the Byron, Lismore, Ballina and Tweed Shires. Visit www. northcoastmudtrail.com.au for more information. Entry to all studios is free.
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rived home about 3.30pm to find Lakota, Llama’s son, trying to fight the blaze. ‘It was a devastating loss to Llama and her two children Lakota and Venus,’ said a family friend. ‘Llama has lived in the house for nearly 20 years and her doors have always been open to family and friends. So many people over the years received support and shelter there; it was a house filled with love and warmth.’ The majority of the home’s contents
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were destroyed in the fire, including both children’s belongings and all furniture and Llama’s sewing equipment used in her costume-design business. Additionally she lost all her hand-made designer costumes which were used at events such as the Tipi Forest at Splendour In The Grass. The crowdfunding site is at http://bit.ly/llamahelp and there will also be a fundraiser event on Friday September 16 at Durrumbul Hall.
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Students from Mullumbimby Shearwater Steiner School and visiting Chinese students joined forces last Wednesday to clean up Main Beach in Byron Bay. The group removed more than ten full bags of rubbish, including plastic bottles, soft drink cans, and small plastic fragments. The beach cleanup was being held as part of a weeklong study tour focused on environmental sustainability. Twenty-two students and educators have travelled from Ealing International College and attached school to Dalian Maritime University in Dalian, China, to participate in the study tour coordinated by local social enterprise Mandarin Pathways and travel company Aoliday. ‘The fact that this Chinese youth study tour is primarily focused on environmental sustainability makes it a first of its kind in NSW, and possibly
in Australia,’ said Katie Grubb, founder and managing director of Mandarin Pathways. ‘Chinese youth don’t get to experience nature like our local youth do, so it’s a chance for them to reconnect and learn sustainability skills to take back home with them.’
Local non-profits, Clean Coast Collective and Wild Search, helped coordinate the beach cleanup. The students took the bags of rubbish back to the Shearwater Steiner School so they could count and record it for the Australian Marine Debris
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Move over, Ewingsdale Seniors – a new proposal is on its way next door. The corner parcel of land that sits on McGettigans Lane and Ewingsdale Road has been put forward as a proposed medical centre with a day theatre, accommodation (12 units), cafe and around 62 car spaces. The proposal for the 5,497m2 block has been submitted by Brunsmed Pty Ltd. A company search shows the shareholders as Gary, John and Joel Wertheimer, all of whom live around Melbourne. And as public comment
closed July 27, The Echo asked staff if public exhibition could be extended for another two weeks. The Echo is yet to receive a reply. Council staff raised concerns over the lack of a traffic mitigation traffic study and its bulk, scale and height; however, a development application lodged this month claims to have addressed concerns. Within the the detailed and well presented 328-page plan, the latest DA concludes that as the application is ‘generally compliant with Council’s controls’ consent should be granted. ‘Traffic impacts may be
a significant constraining factor for development on McGettigans Lane’, Council’s manager of development assessment and compliance, Wayne Bertram, wrote in response to a meeting held between staff and the developer’s representatives in March.
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The cafe would need to demonstrate that its primary focus is to serve patrons and staff of the hospital as opposed to the retail sale of meals and beverages to the general public, passing traffic and the development of a general dining venue. In relation to traffic impact near the site Mr Bertram also said, ‘Recent traffic studies undertaken for other developments at the western end of Ewingsdale Road have shown that the roundabout at McGettigans Lane will be required prior to any further significant development occurring.
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Brian Latham - Builder/Farmer
Scott Cantrill - Farmer/Teacher
Wally Halvorsen - Small business owner
I moved to the North Coast in 1979 when land at Wategos seemed an outrageous price of $50,000. I purchased a derelict home in Lismore that I restored as close to the original as possible which was historically the first midwife hospital in Lismore. I settled in Ocean Shores and started my own building business employing 10 carpenters, 2 apprentices and contractors and suppliers. I was fortunate enough to build award winning homes.
BA Dip Ed UNSW (Geography/Politics) Army:Educatin Officer at Townsville and Bandiana. Teaching: Sydney Boys High and Byron Bay High School
I grew up in Sydney and at 20, I joined the NSW Fire Brigade where I attained the rank of Senior Fireman. At the age of 30 I purchased a plant nursery with my parents in Coffs Harbour where I met my wife, and from there spent a total of 15 years in tourism running caravan parks. In 1995 we moved to Byron Bay with our two small children to run the Suffolk Park caravan park for Byron council. After a 1 year stint with The Terrace c/van park at Brunswick heads I moved into Property maintenance in 2001. I currently employ my son Tom, and 2 Contractors that form Ironbark Property Maintenance. After 21 years of residency and working in Byron I consider this to be home. I have witnessed many mayors starting with Dr Kingston and many and varied mayors and Councillors since then. Most have had good intentions but some used their position as a stepping stone to bolster their political future. I have seen the progress needed blocked by past councils that in my judgement have deferred, stalled and impeded the basic need of the workers of this town, being able to acquire housing at an affordable price due to locking up the housing land in the Shire. My wants are to supply the basics to working people within this Shire. In essence I have winged and moaned about Council and Councillors over the last 21 years and now its time to put up or shut up, so I am now prepared to give 4 years of my life to my community to make a difference for my children and their children in this Shire. I am part of The Middle Ground because I respect the fact Rose had the gumption to step back from a group where you had to follow party lines regardless of your views when fully informed of the facts about an issue. Past Councils have given too much to the legal fraternity through hard line party values and my belief is negotiation not litigation. If you want to know the facts, get out and research it, don’t trust someone else to inform you. That is exactly what Rose has done in her last term and that is one of the reasons I am part of her team. I can eat with beggars and dine with Kings but I feel more comfortable eating lunch with workers!!
In 2011 I retired and purchased a farm in Mullumbimby overlooked by Mt. Chincogan. Although I still love building my new passion is as caretaker of the land. My partner and I have made a conscious decision to work in partnership with our environment to create a respectful lifestyle that is functional and versatile. Our farm supports many ecosystems including grasses, wood lands, wetlands and rainforests. Under the principals of Holistic Management our herd is frequently rotated through the paddock. The impact of the cattle actively aerates, fertilizes and improves the soil, helping to create a biological succession of living organisms, plants and creatures great and small. We have a small paddock to plate business providing an alternative to conventional beef that is healthier for you and the environment, chemical and hormone free, valuing sustainable and ethical farming practices, lower water and energy use, lower food kilometers and increased care and respect for land and animals. Being caretakers of the land I feel that at State and Federal level the farming community should be rewarded for their efforts. Our shire has grown and is changing and our biggest need is affordable housing. I have an extended family and grandchildren and want to help them into a home on the land we share and care for. Kelvin Daly who is the Land Steward/Conceptualiser of the Bruns Eco Village is presenting an option to address the housing shortage. I see that future subdivisions could follow similar planning utilizing renewable energy, storm water reuse, permaculture gardens, rainwater systems. This is a way to address the need to house our children and their children and keep our culture. I believe there is a little bit of hippy in all of us.
I represented UNSW in Rugby League and athletics. My pet event was the Decathlon. I served as an Officer in the Australian Army first as a parachutist for 3 years then as an education Officer.. I have owned and managed various businesses around Sydney and taught at Sydney Boys High School where I also coached sport. I first came to this area for surfing throughout the 80s and 90s and moved to the area permanently in 1999. I have always taken a keen interest in local politics and recently have decided to become more directly involved. I am a strong believer in: Human Rights - It is the right of everyone to enjoy a safe, healthy and friendly shire. I believe in forest regeneration, animal rights and that it is every land owners responsibility to eradicate invasive species and regenerate the original natural environment where possible.. I believe in education access for children from the lower socio-economic demographic and support new business, public transport and affordable housing. I would like to see work towards providing a good road system and encourage public transport where possible. I think our local halls are an important part of our community and I support the maintenance and improvement of public facilities throughout the shire. I support new recycling initiatives, rubbish in particular since there are so many visitors to our local area. I strongly support current planning laws, especially in relation to heights. I expect all planning laws to reflect the will and character of the local population. I support all initiatives to encourage our young and old in sports and recreation. Council needs to make sure proper change and toilet facilities are available at busy tourist and recreational areas. I will endeavor to work with other councilors to provide the best services to the people of the Byron Shire….”Where else in the world?”
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Ministers take leave of their census
Volume 31 #10
August 17, 2016
Vote like it counts Your mission, if you should choose to accept it, is to familiarise yourself with the Byron Shire Council candidates over the next three weeks and make your vote count on September 10. Vote like the health of the Shire depends upon it. It’s a big field of runners for punters to choose nine councillors from – see details front page and pages 14–15. Some have form, some struggle when the going gets slippery and some are rank outsiders and unknowns. But there’s no excuse – other than bone idleness – for not knowing what’s going on. Read your newspapers, go to the meet-the-candidates events, check out their web pages and, hell, go wild and interrogate them yourself. It’s a good way to find out, to paraphrase Clint Eastwood’s character the Outlaw Josey Wales, who’s pissing down your back and telling you it’s raining. All the mayoral candidates have form. Simon Richardson is the personable Green who, in the wake of the vigilant Jan Barham, may have tried too hard to be all things to all people, and there were plenty of issues in his basket for ratepayers to get annoyed about. Rose Wanchap, well – she changed horses mid-stream and we all got wet. She runs under a Middle Ground banner while Alan Hunter is aiming for a Shire In Balance. It’s a mythical demographic just like The Silent Majority. Hunter is probably more likely to pick up a large swag of the votes that former councillor Ross Tucker had a stranglehold on. He owns a farm, which is a big plus for some, and was preselected by the Nationals to run for the federal seat of Richmond in 2010. He picked up 17,146 primary votes against Justine Elliott’s 31,679, albeit in a 15.8 per cent swing against the Nats. Our Sustainable Future’s Basil Cameron and Country Labor’s Paul Spooner are both bright men who can sustain a line of logic beyond just ‘I don’t like it’, which is handy when dealing with planning regulations. Labor’s overseasdetention-in-hellholes policy might weigh against Spooner for those who wish to take national issues into account. Jack Sugarman is the perennial joker in the pack, but if you want Byron Shire abolished, he’s your man. Seven hundred and thirty people were convinced he was last time around. As for councillor candidates, you have 29 to choose from. Why, you could pick and choose from each group voting ticket and the two independents to find the best and brightest or simply to avoid the dead wood and showponies. If you vote ‘below the line’ you control where your preferences go. Democracy is not really a game, but it can be intriguing getting your head around all its subtleties and, after all, you’re paying for it. It’s certainly more relevant to a well-functioning society than finding Pikachu in Burringbar Street while playing PoGo. – Michael McDonald
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hen you’re hot you’re hot, and when you’re not,
you’re not. Our prime minister was hardly responsible for the fact that the Australian Bureau of Statistics site crashed (or, the boffins insist, was pulled down) on census night. Only the very partisan and very silly are saying that it was his fault. But that’s not the point: he will still have to wear the blame for what has been an embarrassing blooper which not only may have derailed the census, but also will set back the public’s confidence in all forms of electronic commerce – what price internet voting for elections? Forget it. And while they’re at it, the detractors have enough ammunition to make their case that Turnbull is not only accident prone, but careless. The ABS, like so many government agencies, has suffered severe budget cuts since the last census in 2011, and that has meant the forced retrenchment of many senior staff people. So perhaps the bureau has had to cut a few corners; but that is the government’s fault. Then there is the demonstrable fact that the succession of very junior ministers nominally in charge of the preparations for the census have been negligent, if not downright incompetent; Turnbull should have been more committed to keeping them on the job. But of course he was busy; he had an election to fight. And that was his fault too. The buck has to stop somewhere, and in the end it inevitably lands in the prime minister’s suite. This may not have mattered so much if Turnbull and his colleagues had been able to react quickly (nimbly, agilely) and to get their stories straight. As it is, we still don’t
quite know what went wrong, other than the insistence that it involved ‘a confluence’ of mishaps – or, to use the technical term, a clusterfuck. Self-evidently the bureau was underprepared; but was it the ABS’s own fault, or was it their technical provider, the IBM company? Was there in fact a real hack attack, and if so, where did it come from? And most importantly, has it meant that the census is buggered – that too many respondents will either have had their worst suspicions about cyber-security confirmed, or are simply pissed off about having
The buck has to stop somewhere, and in the end it inevitably lands in the prime minister’s suite. by Mungo MacCallum to wait around and have decided to give it all a miss? Turnbull says he is very angry and disappointed about it all and that there will be serious consequences, but in the meantime all he can do is set up yet another internal review, in which it is unlikely at best that many beans will be spilled. But that will not be the end of it – if the damage is too great and census irrevocably marred, it will either mean that the whole exercise will have to be abandoned at a cost of some $300 million, or restarted at much the same privileged price. And this will indeed have to be Turnbull’s choice – this time there is no way he can duckshove the blame to bureaucrats and consultants. Embarrassing at best; but that is not the real problem, which is that we are now starting to see a pattern: unready and sometimes over-hasty decisions which either implode,
exaggerated scuttlebutt; obviously the inmates were deliberately cutting themselves up and setting themselves on fire because they wanted to be with him on the mainland. And we couldn’t have a royal commission into that bit of detention, because it was a matter for the sovereign government of Nauru. This was obviously bullshit, and seen to be bullshit. As well as denial and procrastination, the Turnbull mob were seen to be both hypocritical and silly. The decision to rissole Kevin Rudd from contention for the United Nations secretary-general’s job was hugely divisive and whatever its merits gave the impression of being spiteful and partisan. And it was unnecessary; if Rudd was so unsuitable, then his rejection could have been handled by the United Nations with no harm done to Turnbull. Once again our putative leader was accused of being a puppet of the hard right.
And then, when the banks refused to pass on the Reserve Bank’s interest rates cuts in full he invited them to an annual confab convened by a committee run by a majority of his own supporters. The bankers agreed enthusiastically, proving that the whole business was a sham and fraud. Turnbull was thus seen as a patsy for them as well. And right on cue along came Ausgrid and the rejection of its purchase – not only by the sinister forces of Beijing but also the avowedly capitalist megamoguls of Hong Kong. This, said Turnbull bravely, showed that it had absolutely nothing to do with anti-Chinese prejudice or xenophobia, let alone the concerns of Pauline Hanson, Nick Xenophon or, for that matter, Barnaby Joyce – it was all about national security, but unfortunately he couldn’t tell us how or why. And on that note of bemusement and confusion, the voters were urged to return to the serious business of getting back to their computers in the hope that the ABS site would allow them to complete their census – if any of them still wanted to. The political amateurism of Malcolm Turnbull and his government is turning out not to be a series of aberrations, but systematic. We can no longer hope that now, with the election out of the way and won – just – that things will improve: that our revivified prime minister will finally deliver stability and certainty, and perhaps even a measure of genuine reform. Comparisons with his last three hapless predecessors are now routine, and none of them lasted a full term as prime minister. And time is not on his side. When you’re hot, you’re hot, and when you’re not, you’re Malcolm Turnbull.
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or if they muddle on, end up puzzling and dismaying the electors. The Royal Commission into the Northern Territory was a commendable idea but a stuffup when it came to implementation. And then we were faced with at least equally serious allegations of abuse in Nauru, emanating not from the despised protectors of human rights but from the reports of the custodians themselves. Of course Peter Dutton, a man who should not be allowed in a civilised country, let alone in the Australian cabinet, immediately dismissed them as
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Well done, Duncan I’d like to acknowledge outgoing councillor Duncan Dey for his hard work and unfailing support of our precious environment. When issues are clouded in spin, Duncan has an unerring knack of applying common sense to bring them back down to ground. I appreciated his letters to The Echo explaining complex situations in everyday language using reason and logic with a sense of the absurd. Thank you, Duncan, for your dedication to the beauty and wellbeing of our Shire. Deborah Lilly Mullumbimby
Farewell, Midget I noted with sadness last week of the passing of Midget Farrelly, our first world surfing champion.
I recall a day at Sydney’s Palm Beach in the 1960s. I’d lost my board and faced a long swim in. There were no leg ropes back then. The only other surfer out was much further down the beach but paddled in and got my board. As he came closer I recognised him. It was Farrelly. The world champion had retrieved an ordinary grom’s board and brought it out to him. To use that hackneyed surfing phrase, I truly was stoked. A small kindness, yet in the true spirit of what surfing is all about. That day is as sharp in my memory as if it happened yesterday. Something and someone never to be forgotten. A great champion and a humble man. Vale, Midget. Tom Roach Skennars Head
Rural impacts The Main Arm Rural Residents Association (MARRA) commends Byron Council planners for excising Main Arm and The Pocket(s) in the revised Byron Rural Land Use Strategy (BRLUS), areas originally identified for 740 new dwellings. Councillors were asked last week to approve the final strategy which staff had comprehensively revised following public exhibition, having responded positively to objections from both the community and the Department of Planning and the Environment (DPE) and other government agencies. However, throughout the whole rushed process, the gang of five has had a tin ear and demonstrated basic planning incompetence. Last Thursday these conservative councillors treated the community with contempt,
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ignored the sensible recommendations made by planning staff and defied explicit directions from the DPE, DPI and OEH to approve key changes that needed to be made in order for the BRLUS to be signed off by the State! The gang of five came up with muddled, ill-informed amendments, made a mockery of ‘process’ and managed to recreate the original flawed draft. Randomly throwing ten new properties into the mix was a final farcical move as was Cr Hunter’s Byron Farmland Variation amendment. The strategy is now in limbo, a costly, contradictory and unclear planning document that smacks of self-interest and is doomed to failure. Let us hope that our new bunch of councillors will reintroduce some vision, intelligence and informed decision making into our council. Judy MacDonald President, MARRA
community. Unfortunately this is not what is proposed for the site. The site is 65 acres of good quality farming land on the Lismore–Bangalow road. The application proposes to cover some 37,000sqm with massive sheds. Three of the larger sheds are each approximately six times the size of the current Eden’s Co-operative structure across the road! Initially the buildings are mostly for ‘manufacturing’ (anticipated growth could see up to 300 employees onsite) but once the farming land is converted to industrial and commercial it will be lost to agricultural practices forever. I believe it is a gross misuse of the rural zone (RU1 Primary Production). The traffic impact in and out of Bangalow would be far greater than is identified in the application. There are no bypasses around the town so the majority of extra vehicles, including delivery trucks, would need to travel through town, either along the residential Granuaille Road or
Bangalow pressure Bangalow is facing unprecedented pressure with a large industrial/commercial development proposed for the town. The developer has submitted an application of a size and scale which, if approved, would see the character of Bangalow changed forever. To make matters more distressing, the staged development is estimated to cost in excess of $23 million, which takes the approval process out of the control of our local council and hands it over to a state government planning panel. The idea of a low-key ‘food hub’ where local producers can manufacture and distribute their products would definitely be supported by the
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Bangalow’s (much-loved) main street. When it comes to our economic future, our rural land may well be Byron Shire’s greatest asset. Good quality agricultural land for growing crops and trees needs protecting – not rendered useless by inappropriate development. Let’s hope the regional planning panel assessing the proposal has the foresight to refuse the application. Sue Taylor Bangalow
Some chances There is as much chance of this mayor creating affordable housing as there is of a threelegged wombat winning the pole vault in Rio. There is as much chance of any current party group developing an alternative to doubling tourist numbers as there is of a senile koala mastering calculus. There is as much chance of sane, sensible leadership under Richardson or Spooner as there is of a kangaroo, found dead on the roadside continued on next page
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continued from page 11 by seven hungry dingoes, going on to write an opera. Ain’t gonna happen. We can get a lift in employment without more mass tourism by developing health industry opportunities, especially in rural areas. We can go further with education, much further, which is why I am advancing residential colleges for university students and academics, and the businesses around them. We can in fact include Ocean Shores in a better planned future, and not just ignore the north. We can actually get decent planning decisions; I hear excellent proposals every week. We can get people homes to live in by enforcing the bloody law, and shutting down the holiday-let shambles in residential areas. We can reduce rates, and costs to homeowners. Yes, as a great man famously said, we can. Oh, come on, you know I want you to vote for me, and I’ll be passionate, disciplined, diligent, open-minded, and above all, do my duty. This area, and this country, have given me everything. It is my gratitude that drives me to serve you, my community. Matthew Hartley Byron Bay
No satisfaction
Bovine Excrement! – I was disappointed such a window was not available when ticking the boxes on the Community Satisfaction Survey. In an admirable display of concern for the community, Cr Basil Cameron (Our Sustainable Future party) advocates the recently closed Mullumbimby hospital be recycled for aged care or lowincome housing. ‘If we want to stop the site from being sold to developers, then we need to make sure the state government, which controls the site, understands how strongly the community feels about the site and our vision.’ (Echo, June 22) At the beginning of the current term of office, councillors and the community were advised that, as the financial situation was worse than suspected, the plan of previous councils to sell the Roundhouse site to developers should be adopted and implemented immediately. If the finances could not be brought to a manageable level, councillors and top management could be replaced with an administrator and Council possibly amalgamated with another. The community questions the commitment of the coun-
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cillors who trusted and heeded such advice without query, which led to no expense being spared or legal stone unturned to achieve that outcome. Basil’s vision invokes a strong sense of déjà vu for the community, especially with the added legal involvement we had in the Roundhouse site. Surely a worthwhile community benefit could have been achieved with Council negotiating an accommodation partnership with an organisation similar to North Coast Community Housing. Safe houses or emergency accommodation for victims of domestic violence could have been established with the aid of the relevant government departments. Establishment costs to Council, community and service providers would have been minimal. Unfortunately public relations kudos would also be minimal. John Youdan Ocean Shores
perience bondage without machinery. Traditional Australian Indigenous people did not feel enslaved despite mostly eschewing machinery. Moreover, tribal, pre-literate peoples did not work as many hours as the civilised. It is, for example, common for some civilised, modern households to work 16-hour days! The ability to improve one’s mind and enjoy life does not suddenly occur with the advent of machinery. A working life can be enjoyed provided it is not arduous and there is no reason why a human mind cannot be stimulated by humane work. Reduction in arduousness is dependent on people using human smarts to minimally but adequately supply food, clothing and shelter, rather than particularly, machinery. The reason why many of the civilised feel enslaved is that they demand excessive stuff in the hope it will bring happiness. After 10,000 years of civilisations, the civilised are still to remember that contentment comes primarily from within. It is related to the sociability that the civilised have turned their backs on, in favour of materialism and an obsessive concern for the economic. Geoff Dawe Uki
Making money
Further to Dr Liz Elliot’s fine article on money creation (Echo, July 27), all money these days is loaned into ex-
netdaily.net.au istence. A simple equation ‘Loan made = Loan repaid’ is do-able. But interest is charged, making the equation ‘Loan made = Loan repaid + Interest’, which is not do-able. The interest is never created; it has to be paid out of the loan. Thus the loan itself is not repayable. To keep the scam going, more loans are made so the interest can be paid. But the non-do-ability doesn’t go away. We, including governments and councils, just go deeper into debt. Who gets the interest? The 0.1 per cent of super-rich humans who own the banks and run governments and corporations at our expense. In 1912, the original Australian Commonwealth Bank created genuine money, against bitter opposition, by charging only half a per cent interest – the era of the Lucky Country. Thus Australians did not go further into debt to the Bank of England during WWI. And in peacetime Australians benefited from, and were grateful to, this genuine money system. You can read about Governor Dennison Miller and the colourful King O’Malley in The story of the Commonwealth Bank by D J Amos, or The Money Trick by Colin Barclay-Smith. Politicians can understand this issue, as they did 100 years ago. It’s already been done; it can be done again. David Hall Ocean Shores
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Byron Shire… …another ‘Paradise Lost’? Last Friday, the Baird NSW government announced a goal of doubling the tourism intake of Byron Shire in just four years.
That’s another 1,000,000 people per year. In addition, new urban subdivisions already passed by Council will see 1,800 new dwellings built across the Shire in the near future. And now, the highly contentious Rural Land Use Strategy, recently passed by the pro-development faction of councillors will see thousands more dwellings across our beautiful hinterland. Are you okay with all that? Community Action Network wants to know why we the people of Byron Shire have not been asked by the state government how we feel about their tourism plan and the impact on our community and its already struggling infrastructure. Are they too intent on imposing their own vision for Byron, without consulting us who live here? C.A.N is being contacted by people who are distressed by what is going on in their once-peaceful Shire. Many developments and enterprises are being undertaken by people who are here to make a buck, often not residents, let alone on the electoral roll. C.A.N is not saying “Stop all Development!”
We are asking for sane and sustainable development
and a healthy local economy that supports businesses, tradespeople and artisans who are part of our community, and not fly-by-nighters.
We need to stand united to protect the natural assets of Byron Shire, and preserve our culture of coast and country. We now need ethical and visionary councillors coming together to make commonsense decisions on behalf of the community. C.A.N will publish our list of Preferred Candidates prior to the election. WHAT YOU CAN DO: • Attend the Mullum Residents Association ‘Meet the Candidates’ at Mullum RSL Thursday 18th August at 6:30pm. • Become a C.A.N Supporter. Make a donation! • Get involved! Talk to your friends!
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Big field lines up for Byron Shire Council race continued from page 1 resilience through clean local food and energy production, planning for liveable and inclusive neighbourhoods. Our council has to work hand in hand with the community for a sustainable future. ‘More than ever we need leadership that listens and actively consults rather than confronts. Leadership that promotes transparency rather than secrecy. ‘Standards of governance must lift in the new council to strengthen our ability to deliver the support, infrastructure and services we need for a sustainable future. As Chair of the Finance Committee since 2010, I have played a strong hand in moving Council’s finances from pre-
carious to “fit for the future”. It’s our future and together we can make it sustainable with strong, experienced and effective leadership.’
Group B – The Greens Current mayor Simon Richardson is again vying for the top job, and has a ticket of three fellow candidates. Second on the list is Santos Health Foods manager Michael Lyon, third is Mullumbimby chamber of commerce secretary Jeannette Martin and pitched fourth is school teacher and journalist Sarah Ndiaye. Cr Richardson said, ‘Each candidate brings strong Green credentials to the team, with long histories of com-
MEET THE CANDIDATES Q & A - 23 August An opportunity for the community to meet and ask questions of the candidates for the local council elections on 10 September. All residents and business people welcome to attend free on the night, although questions can be accepted only from people who have registered online.
Businesses & residents are invited to register their attendance and email their written questions of candidates at www.byronbaychamber.com.au (by 5pm Monday 22 August). • Welcome & introduction of candidates. • Opening address by each candidate maximum of 2 minutes each • Only emailed questions will be addressed to the candidates. Please make a note of your name on your question • Only one question per person • Each candidate will be permitted 2 minutes to answer the question. • Closing address by each of the candidates - maximum of 2 minutes each e: info@byronbaychamber.com.au Tuesday 23 August Byron Bay Community Centre Theatre Starts 5.30pm sharp Media Partner THE BYRON SHIRE
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Group D – The Middle Ground
Group B – The Greens
munity involvement across important local issues including anti-CSG, chemical and plastic-free Byron, affordable housing, youth training and development, small business development, and affordable housing.’ ‘The combination of professional experience, community-leading experience and rich personal experience ensures that our team will embrace the responsibility of being a councillor with humility, sensitivity and intelligence.’ ‘For committed, talented and positive community leaders, who can steer Byron Shire towards a future that embraces the challenges of change, while preserving the uniqueness of our community, look no further than the Green Team in 2016.’
Group C – Country Labor Seeking a second term on Council, Cr Paul Spooner, from Byron Bay, will also be standing as mayor.
His ticket includes author and educator Jan Hackett (Byron Bay) and school teacher and principal William Constable (Mullumbimby). They are followed by SCU student of politics and government, Joe Dawson (Ocean Shores), former ALP adviser Monika Wheeler (Bangalow) and United Voice union organiser Peter Doherty (Bangalow). Cr Spooner told The Echo: ‘I want to lead a constructive council that makes the best decisions for our community. I will provide a sensible alternative for the Shire’s top job.’ ‘People can have confidence that the Shire’s finances will be professionally managed, that the roads will be fixed and their rates will go towards maintaining the community facilities and infrastructure our community needs. ‘I want to ensure that locals can afford to live in decent housing while maintaining secure employment in our region. We live in one of the best places in the world and I
Group C – Country Labor
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want to support, promote and protect our wonderful community and its north coast lifestyle. ‘As a progressive mayor I will deliver better planning policies, greater investment in renewable energy, effective communication and improved transport options. I will ensure that our environment is in safe hands and the diversity of our community is respected. I ask you to join with me to create a caring, inclusive and vibrant Byron Shire together.’
Group D – The Middle Ground Current councillor and mayoral candidate Rose Wanchap is again running for council, having been elected on a Greens ticket in 2012. She quit the party early in Council’s term. She brings three others – Brian Latham (Mullum Rural Co-op), Scott Cantrill from Byron Bay, and also from Byron Bay is number four on the ticket, Walter Halvorsen. According to Group D’s advertisement, ‘It’s time for a new type of politics. Time for the left and the right to come to the centre. We need to find the Middle Ground. Our Shire faces a number of challenges that our elected councillors will need to have the courage and foresight to address. Not just the growing concerns around climate change, pesticide proliferation and water degradation but our economy is also on dangerous ground.’ The group’s website www. themiddleground.com.au
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Group E – James Wright Young newcomer to politics is James Wright, who lives in Mullumbimby. He also ran for the senate in the recent federal election. James Wright recently stood as an independent candidate for the Australian Senate in the July 2nd Federal Election. His platform was centred on democratic reform and the use of technology to enable a greater level of participation by all members of the community. ‘Local government is the ideal place to explore and enable this upgrade to our democratic process. Why should we wait every four years to have our say as a community?’ says James. ‘If elected we make a firm commitment to use new technology platforms such as FLUX and Udemi to allow the people of Byron Shire to make up their mind on issues and have a voice on an ongoing basis.’ ‘We stand as a group united with a clear single focus and goal to make the Byron Shire a leading example not only nationally by globally for its support services for those living without a home and the creation of new affordable housing communities.’ Second on Group E is Coorabell resident Liam Munday. Liam Munday stood as an NSW independent candidate for the senate in a heartfelt quest to promote the concept of Ubuntu, an African
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Council Election 2016 term for unity, harmony and prosperity for all. Third is Blair Beattie, also from Coorabell. Blair is a local business owner (Goddess of Babylon) and was one of the main organisers for the recent Freedom Summit festival, held last October. Bradley Wodiske from Byron Bay is number four, and previously ran on outgoing councillor Sol Ibrahim’s ticket in 2012. Bradley stands again this council election ‘dissatisfied and unhappy with the decisions made by Mr Ibrahim in his term as councillor’. Bradley stood with Mr Ibrahim on the foundation of a platform of consultative and transparent governance and leadership. He does not feel these were followed and stands with James in his team to ensure Byron sees the return of a green and progressive majority. James Wright’s website is www.ejameswright.com.
Group F – Gail Fuller
Gail Fuller of Group F
Byron Bay realtor and chamber of commerce president Gail Fuller leads an all-women team, with photographer and freelance designer Cerise Gollogly running second. Ocean Shores resident Leah Kapral is third and Kirsty Harland, who is fourth, works with Gail at Byron Coastal Real Estate. Gail Fuller’s website is byroncoastalrealestate.com.au.
Group G – Byron Shire in Balance Current councillor Alan Hunter is also putting his hand up for mayor. Cr Hunter previously won a seat on Council
on Cr Woods’s ticket and is a National Party member. Second on Cr Hunter’s ticket is Marc Patten, a retired police officer and president of Shores United Soccer Club. Third is fellow Ocean Shores resident Tina Petroff and fourth is Brian Grant, who is from Byron Bay. Cr Hunter’s statement reads: ‘New team to put Byron Shire back in balance.’ Mr Hunter says the team aims to balance opportunity with the obligations that come from living in such a unique location. ‘The opportunities for the Shire are endless but we need to remain focused on building community capacity and not tearing it down. ‘We can do so much for measurable outcomes such as jobs, visitor numbers, established environmental benchmarks and community social expectations. But we also have an obligation to respect our environment, as well as our financial capacity and social diversity to capitalise on our international profile, regional strength and local talent for the benefit of all residents.’ Mr Hunter says his team is best placed to deliver on these outcomes through a mix of a proven track record on Council and community involvement on the ground. ‘In the last four years we have worked hard to reduce Council’s debt by over $20 million, increased our annual infrastructure spend by ten times, developed masterplans for our towns, upgraded our parks and sporting facilities, improved business confidence and much more. ‘But this hasn’t been easy to achieve with a faction within Council determined to scuttle any attempts to get on with a responsible attitude to managing the Shire. Council has been deemed fit for the future because difficult decisions have finally been made, debt has been reduced and an opportunity has been offered on a way forward for a sustainable future. ‘This is why my team is best placed to continue this work for the benefit of the shire.’
party machine, blob.’ His previous profile is at echo.net.au/matthew-hartleyindependent-candidate-ballina.
Independent Jack Sugarman
Group H – Community Byron
Group H – Community Byron Catherine Coorey is president of the Byron Residents’ Group and heads up Community Byron. Second on the ticket is architect, permaculture student and design consultant Ben Mallinson from Mullumbimby. Third is scientist, ecologist and environmentalist Caitlin Weatherstone from Suffolk Park. Fourth is locally born and raised Byron Rogers, who is a former police officer and is currently studying building and construction. He’s also secretary of the Byron Bay Malibu Club. Cate Coorey says her team is made up of all first-time candidates, who bring a ‘new and vibrant energy to the Council fray. ‘It’s no accident that Byron is special and unique,’ says Ms Coorey. ‘It’s the result of a vigilant and defiant community protecting what we value and nurturing it. Byron is a welcoming place, but increasingly we are being squeezed by demands placed on us by outside forces. ‘Our group will make community wishes and the environment the top priorities in the whole Shire. We support sensible development and we are interested to hear what people can give to this place, not what they can get from it.’ Their website is at www. communitybyron.com.
Independent Matthew Hartley
into a group voting ticket. No vested interests or political affiliations. ‘We need transparency and common sense in all decision making. Social justice should be high on the agenda. ‘Wealth and stealth are a constant threat to community values. Councillors should represent the community first. ‘I don’t plan to make any promises but to consider all proposals on their merit in relation to community, environment and sustainable practices. We have a great opportunity in this shire to set the standard for the nation in the way we progress into the future. ‘Born in Bangalow and first moved to Byron Bay 50 years ago. ‘High school in Mullum-
bimby and then moved for study and work. Returned to Byron Bay in 1991 and loved living here ever since. This is a great shire to live in and we have a great responsibility as we face increasing pressure from outside.’
Independent Matthew Hartley Matthew Hartley from Byron Bay is again running as an independent councillor, having previously ran for state and federal parliament. In the 2015 state election, Mr Hartley said the top three issues for him were: 3) our future direction, 2) our corrupt malaise, and 1) our ability to achieve change. ‘Vote independent, or instead of a widely known representative, you’ll get just another brown paper bag,
Jack Sugarman is running for mayor, but not as a councillor. He has also previously run as a councillor. His brief description of himself from the 2012 election reads: ‘A frustrated older Australian having watched rates going up and services decline.’ He went on to say that his vision is to ‘merge Ocean Shores and the north with Tweed Council, and Ballina, Byron, Lismore and Rous combined and administered in Goonellabah.’ His previous profile is at echo.net.au/jack-sugarman.
Independent Jack Sugarman
Independent George Graham
Independent George Graham
Group G – Byron Shire In Balance
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The Galileo gambit and other stories: the three main tactics of climate denial In TheConversation.com Stephan Lewandowsky examines ‘conspiratorial mumbo jumbo’
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he recently elected One Nation senator from Queensland, Malcolm Roberts, fervently rejects the established scientific fact that human greenhouse gas emissions cause climate change, invoking a fairly familiar trope of paranoid theories to propound this belief. Roberts variously claims that the United Nations is trying to impose world government on us through climate policy, and that CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology are corrupt institutions that, one presumes, have fabricated the climate extremes that we increasingly observe all over the world.
Conspiracism In the world of Malcolm Roberts, these agencies are marionettes of a ‘cabal’ of ‘the major banking families in the world’. Given the parallels with certain strands of anti-Jewish sentiment, it’s perhaps an unfortunate coincidence that Roberts has reportedly relied on a notorious Holocaust denier to support this theory. It might be tempting to dismiss his utterances as conspiratorial ramblings. But they can teach us a great deal about the psychology of science denial. They also provide us with a broad spectrum of diagnostics to spot pseudoscience posing as science.
One Nation’s Pauline Hanson with fellow senator Malcolm Roberts during her election-night function in Ipswich. AAP Image/Dan Peled
This conspiratorial mumbo jumbo inevitably arises when people deny facts that are supported by an overwhelming body of evidence and are no longer the subject of genuine debate in the scientific community, having already been tested thoroughly. As evidence mounts, there comes a point at which inconvenient scientific findings can only be explained away by recourse to huge, nebulous and nefarious agendas such as the World Government or Stalinism. First, the appeal to a conspiracy among scientists, bankers and governments is never just a slip of the tongue but a pervasive and necessary ingredient of the denial of well-established science. The tobacco industry referred to medical research on lung cancer as being conducted by an ‘oligopolistic cartel’ that ‘manufactures alleged evidence’. Some people accuse the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of creating and
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spreading AIDS, and much anti-vaccination content on the web is suffused with conspiratorial allegations of totalitarianism. This conspiratorial mumbo jumbo inevitably arises when people deny facts that are supported by an overwhelming body of evidence and are no longer the subject of genuine debate in the scientific community, having already been tested thoroughly. As evidence mounts, there comes a point at which inconvenient scientific findings can only be explained away by recourse to huge, nebulous and nefarious agendas such as the World Government or Stalinism. If you are addicted to nicotine but terrified of the effort required to give up smoking, it might be comforting instead to accuse medical researchers of being oligopolists (whatever that means). Likewise, if you are a former coal miner, like Malcolm Roberts, it is perhaps easier to accuse climate scientists of colluding to create a world government (whatever that is) than to accept the need to take coal out of our economy. There is now ample research showing the link between science denial and conspiracism. This link is supported by independent studies from around the world.
Everyone’s authority: the scientist Galileo Galilei (1564–642), from a painting by Giusto Sustermans.
Indeed, the link is so established that conspiracist language is one of the best diagnostic tools you can use to spot pseudoscience and science denial.
The Galileo gambit How else can science dissenters attempt to justify their contrarian position? Another tactic is to appeal to heroic historical dissenters, the usual hero of choice being Galileo Galilei, who overturned the orthodoxy that everything revolves around the Earth. This appeal is so common in pseudoscientific quackery that it is known as the Galileo gambit. The essence of this argument is: ‘They laughed at Galileo, and he was right. They laugh at me, therefore I am right.’ A primary logical difficulty with this argument is that plenty of people are laughed at because their positions are absurd. Being dismissed by scientists doesn’t automatically entitle you to a Nobel prize. Another logical difficulty with this argument is that it implies that no scientific opinion can ever be valid unless it is rejected by the vast majority of scientists. Earth must be flat because no scientist other than a Googling Galileo in Gnowangerup says so. Tobacco must be good for you because only tobaccoindustry operatives believe
it. And climate change must be a hoax because only the heroic Malcolm Roberts and his Galileo Movement have seen through the conspiracy. Yes, Senator-elect Roberts is the project leader of the Galileo Movement, which denies the scientific consensus on climate change, favouring instead the opinions of a pair of retired engineers and the radio personality Alan Jones. Any invocation of Galileo’s name in the context of purported scientific dissent is a red flag that you’re being fed pseudoscience and denial. The rejection of wellestablished science is often couched in sciency-sounding terms. The word ‘evidence’ has assumed a particular prominence in pseudoscientific circles, perhaps because it sounds respectable and evokes images of Hercule Poirot tenaciously investigating dastardly deeds.
Sounding scientific Since being elected, Roberts has again aired his claim that there is ‘no empirical evidence’ for climate change. But ‘show us the evidence’ has become the war cry of all forms of science denial, from anti-vaccination activists to creationists, despite the existence of abundant evidence already. This co-opting of the language of science is a useful
rhetorical device. Appealing to evidence (or a lack thereof) seems reasonable enough at first glance. Who wouldn’t want evidence, after all? It is only once you know the genuine state of the science that such appeals are revealed to be specious. Literally thousands of peer-reviewed scientific articles and the national scientific academies of 80 countries support the pervasive scientific consensus on climate change. Or, as the environmental writer George Monbiot has put it: ‘It is hard to convey just how selective you have to be to dismiss the evidence for climate change. You must climb over a mountain of evidence to pick up a crumb: a crumb which then disintegrates in the palm of your hand. You must ignore an entire canon of science, the statements of the world’s most eminent scientific institutions and thousands of papers published in the foremost scientific journals.’
Misleading Accordingly, my colleagues and I recently showed that in a blind test – the gold standard of experimental research – contrarian talking points about climate indicators were uniformly judged to be misleading and fraudulent by expert statisticians and data analysts. Conspiracism, the Galileo gambit and the use of sciency-sounding language to mislead are the three principal characteristics of science denial. Whenever one or more of them is present, you can be confident you’re listening to a debate about politics or ideology, not science. Q Stephan Lewandowsky is a cognitive scientist, currently Chair of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Bristol, and also Australian Professorial Fellow for the Cognitive Science Laboratories at the University of Western Australia. His research examines people’s memory and decision making, with particular emphasis on how people respond to corrections of misinformation. Stephan Lewandowsky receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Royal Society, and the Psychonomic Society.
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The Saturday Bluegrass And Food! lineup features: • Bluegrass 5-piece The Stetson Family whose high lonesome country-folk reached US chart status with ‘tales of love gone wrong, snakehandling preachers and wandering down life’s crooked highway’.
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Staffed entirely by volunteers, with the support of the local community, all funds support local arts and cultural initiatives in the northern rivers such as: arts in local schools, original music artists bursaries, and the Bangalow Theatre Company.
• Known for their breezy, sunshine-filled hillbilly harmonies of death, and for their strong affiliation to public radio, firearms and printing, The Cartridge Family bring their three-part harmonies and two-part jokes to town. • Kick yer shoes off, put yer hoe down, and hang on to yer britches with 2016 Golden Guitar nominees for Bluegrass single of the year, The Hillbilly Goats.
So hoot ’n’ scoot on down to Bangalow for a weekend of great music and sheer good ole- fashioned fun.
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kicks-off on Friday night at the Bangalow A&I Hall, 6–10pm, followed by a stellar Saturday lineup of Bluegrass musicians, a barbecue cook-off, a pickers competition and familyfriendly entertainment at the Bangalow Showgrounds.
• Games for the kids – $2 each hosted by local schools to assist in raising money to fund artsin-schools programs.
Food available for purchase $10 per tasting plate. Tickets on sale now at Eventbrite * Eventbrite booking fee applies.
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and wine, including: Stone & Wood Pacific and Garden Ale, Beard & Brau Red Tail Amber Ale and Margot Pale Ale, Moonshine Coffee Cherry Ale, and Top Shed Cream Ale.
Old-Time Variety Show (MA15+)
• BBQ Cook-Off – $1,500 first prize in this Australasian BBQ Alliance-accredited competition. This will see amateurs, chefs and professionals competing for their chance to win.
Taste some of the best low ’n’ slow smoked meats around, with some old favourites: • Bangalow Historical Society serving traditional scones cream and jam • Grumpy’s Ginger Beer and Moovin Juice for cold refreshing drinks • Moonshine Coffee and Bangalow Coffee Company for a hot cuppa • Classic Kettle Corn to enjoy with the music lineup • Memphis-style dry rub barbecue ribs from the local area Bangalow BBQ Ribs team.
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The Doll House Hair and Beauty has been operating in Brunswick Heads for five years now, specialising in the best ammonia-free colour and organic hair products to give your hair the treatment it deserves. Jessica and Jodie are both local girls with a passion for making people feel like a million dollars without having to spend a fortune doing so. We also have facial waxing and tinting services on hand to complete your new look. Visiting our salon will make you look and feel amazing. Phone us to make an appointment or call in and see us. We would love to hear from you. 6685 0448 1/1a Park Street, Brunswick Head.
JUDY’S PAMPER YOURSELF If you want to indulge in first-class facial treatment in a secluded, peaceful, air-conditioned atmosphere in the heart of Byron Bay, call Judy. Judy offers a range of facials, waxing and organic anti-ageing skin care products. She provides intensive moisture and skin hydration for all types of skin, including teenage skin problems, keeping skin looking healthy and younger. For more information call 6685 5870.
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At Mullumbimby Dental Centre, each of our patients experiences unparalleled care in our tranquil and relaxing environment. Each of our four surgeries overlooks peaceful tropical gardens, and our practice has been built to provide the ultimate comfort and care for our patients. We have invested in the finest dental technology and equipment to support the delivery of our state-of-the-art dental treatments. At Mullumbimby Dental Centre our dentists have a keen focus on patient education and strive to help each of your family members achieve optimal oral health.
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indirect employment in many areas of our community.’ Property Insider will report next week on the issues raised at the information days.
The Bruns Eco Village information days held on the weekend
Continuing Professional Development
According their recent newsletter and website there have been more than 700 expressions of interest in the village. The Bruns Eco Village has been almost three years in conception. Those involved wanted to challenge the success=ownership model. ‘The Bruns Eco Village approach is an alternative ownership model where you can rent and invest simultaneously. This is an opportunity to divest from financial institutions that continue to invest in unsustainable industries and
The Real Estate Institute of NSW has developed the CPD Toolbox Series to help agents access a broad range of accurate and specific training. an opportunity to ethically All real estate agents in NSW invest in a not-for-profit are required to complete community-run eco village 12 compulsory Continuing that benefits many and Professional Development provides an attractive return (CPD) points each year. to its investors. The CPD Toolbox Series gives ‘The village we are creating you access to a broad range will be a multi-use site with an of high-quality, accurate and integrated combination of: agency-specific training. All you need to do is choose the • residential clusters course that suits your needs. • an educational facility and workshop space There are many online course • a light commercial / options which make it easy for industrial area agents in regional locations. • a wellness facility and Courses currently on offer vary • a food-producing and from three to 12 points. You renewable-energy precinct. can check out the Institute’s website for more details. It will provide direct and
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Another record-breaking auction result in New City Rd, Mullumbimby 24 New City Rd, Mullumbimby, went to auction on the weekend and sold for $900,000, $115,000 above reserve. The last result in the street was the record-breaking sale of number 12 for $758,000. ‘This result just shows that the market is still extraordinarily strong,’ says Tara Torkkola from First National and coselling agent Gary Brazenor from Great Real Estate. ‘There was a high level of interest in the home from the outset. This property had a lot of charm and wide appeal. It was the perfect family home but also a great investment with a potential $900/week rental Left Gary Brazenor (l) and Tara Torkkola (r) with vendors of potential from the home and New City Road. Right: Tara Torkkola puts up the SOLD sign. self-contained granny flat.’
HAVE ANYTHING TO LET US KNOW ABOUT?
Byron house prices might be among some of the most expensive in the country but we have a way to go to match the $1.55m price tag of the 89sqm one-bedroom, one-bathroom home in Palm Beach in Sydney that is currently on the market.
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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• 4 bedrooms & ensuite + flat • Direct canal front, big frontage • Formal lounge with fire place • Open-plan living/dining • Large kitchen with coolroom • Great investment & return
Price $769,000 View By Appointment Contact Peter Browning 0411 801 795
LJ Hooker Brunswick Heads 02 6685 0177
ljhooker.com.au All information contained herein is gathered from sources we consider to be reliable. However we cannot guarantee or give any warranty about the information provided and interested parties must solely rely on their own enquiries.
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Great Home in Bangalow
10 Wood Crescent, Coopers Shoot 1 Marblewood Place, Bangalow 3 4 6 Price after auction $2.95–$3.1M 3 2 2
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Exclusive and highly sought after, Coopers Shoot is truly a top destination for the purchase of a luxury home. Unsurpassed lavish living is evident from the moment you arrive at this impressive, private home on 1.5 glorious acres overlooking paradise. With nearly 500 square meters of living space over three tiers, each and every detail has been highly considered. Words cannot describe the luxurious feel this property presents. Each bedroom has its own ensuite bathroom, so you and your guests can feel like they are on holiday in their own hotel suite every day. In fact, they won’t want to leave, why would you? Beautifully landscaped and maintained, the grounds surrounding the home provide a private oasis in this highly desirable location. Properties in this area and of this quality do not come up often. Unfortunately, the owner’s situation has changed which now requires the property to be sold. Please do not hesitate to inspect this unique property.
Located only moments from the heart of Bangalow village on a 669m2 (approx) corner block, this home is ready for you to move straight into. An abundance of glass, in particular the expansive floor to ceiling feature window in the entry foyer, captures the scenic rural outlook from all angles. Open plan dining and living space flows to multiple indoor/ outdoor living options & bedrooms are extremely generous and all have their own private timber deck area. Beautiful timber flooring, an abundance of natural light, high ceilings and square cut cornices make this home very appealing to the most discerning buyers. Spacious front yard has room for pool (STCA). Call Lois now to arrange an inspection.
Located just 30 metres to the pristine sands and crystal clear waters of South Golden Beach, this award winning architectural design by Gabriel Poole Homes is simply stunning. Offering the ultimate beachside escape, the property is conveniently located in this unspoilt, sleepy seaside town, yet is only a short distance to Byron Bay and all it has to offer. This property has been described as ‘The best kept secret in the Byron Bay region’, and it’s easy to see why, ‘Moonbeach’ is quite simply, its own slice of heaven on earth. The only thing missing is you!
Inspect: By appointment Contact: Janice Maple 0401 026 359 / 6687 1500 Elders Bangalow
Inspect: Saturday 20 August 2.00pm Contact: Lois Buckett 0428 877 399 Lois Buckett Real Estate
Inspect: Wednesday 5.30 – 6.00pm, Saturday12.00 – 1.00pm Contact: Julie-Ann Manahan, 0411 081 118 / 6680 5000 Raine & Horne Ocean Shores
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This substantial quality home is situated on 15 low-maintenance acres in the Byron hinterland. Enjoying complete privacy with regenerated rainforest, views to the Nightcap Ranges and so many features, this property holds a lot of appeal. The generous open-plan living area, with high ceilings and timber floors, is spacious and light, with access to verandas on three sides. A large pavilion-style deck is a perfect place to entertain family and friends over those balmy summer months. Five double bedrooms, all with built-ins, ensuite and walk-in robe to master, fifth bedroom ideal for teenage/guest accommodation with its own living room, bathroom and separate access. This property has several foot trails to enjoy the peaceful environment of the regenerated rainforest. Double lockup garage with internal access is a blessing for those wet days. A choice of town or tank water and a 9.5-metre in-ground saltwater pool completes the picture! Ideally located in desirable Friday Hut Road, only 5 minutes drive to Bangalow.
Set within the idyllic gardens of its large lot, this beautifully restored home showcases an exquisite renovation yet gracefully preserves details of its era-defining heritage. The property includes space and privacy with its multiple living zones featuring polished timber floors and high ceilings and the alfresco setting looking out onto beautifully manicured gardens. There is a stone crafted kitchen equipped with gas cooktop and meals bar, the bedrooms are generously proportioned and light filled, with the master bedroom showcasing exquisite period detail. It has a spacious full bathroom plus internal laundry with guest WC. There is a well-appointed guest quarters separate from main residence, double carport with rear entry and an additional storage room. It features dual street access within moments of Mullumbimby’s village centre, supermarkets and schools.
Eagleview embodies the rural lifestyle, offering privacy and breathtaking hinterland views. With a desirable northerly aspect, the house features wraparound balconies. The perfect place to enjoy the commanding views. With 570m2 under roof plus a separate granny flat, this 5 bedroom brick home provides ample space for family living. Every room has independent ground-floor access via french doors. Relax by the pool or take a stroll across the rolling acreage. There are also 2 horse shelters, 3 fully fenced paddocks, deluxe chook pen and an organic vegetable garden. There is potential to create a secondary dwelling with a Dual Occupancy title (STCA). 15 minutes to Ballina, 20 minutes to Lennox Head and 25 minutes to Byron Bay.
Inspect: By appointment Contact: Duncan Lorimer 0400 844 412 / 6687 1500 Elders Bangalow
Auction: Saturday August 20 2016 at 10.30am Inspect: Wednesday August 17, 1.00 – 1.30pm Contact: Tim Miller 0411 757 425, McGrath Byron Bay
Inspect: By appointment Contact: Denzil Lloyd 0481 864 049 or Gary Brazenor 0423 777 237 Great Real Estate
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Specialising in selling ‘Unique Estates’ in the Byron Shire hinterland and with over 15 years of industry experience, Gary will maximise your results through strong branding and targeted marketing. After trying other agents in the area without success, we turned to Gary at Unique Estates. We found their marketing approach to be far superior to the competition and Gary’s attention to detail and genuine enthusiasm to keep us informed of all developments was commendable. Adam & Elaine - June 2016
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This exquisitely presented 2-bedroom unit offers a carefree lifestyle only moments from the beach & lake. Masterbuilt & with quality inclusions, this property is immaculate throughout. The private sun-drenched northfacing courtyard has been transformed into a secluded oasis with easycare gardens & flows from the tiled covered patio area. Other features include: modern kitchen with large bench space and breakfast bar, contemporary & spacious ensuite and bathroom & an o/sized SLUG with remote door & internal access. This property is perfect for a young family, grey nomads or investors looking for a permanent or holiday rental. There is nothing to be done at this property except move in! With a fabulous location and a short, flat walk to everything Lennox has to offer, don’t delay calling Lois to arrange an inspection on 0428 877 399. Inspect: By appointment Contact: Lois Buckett 0428 877 399, Lois Buckett Real Estate
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Sunnycrest Farm is nestled amongst the green rolling hills of the Byron Bay hinterland near the popular village of Bangalow. Situated on around 10 acres, this timber Queenslander oozes charm and character. Large shady wraparound verandas provide ample outdoor entertaining and relaxation options while a large in-ground pool and tennis court provide the ideal additions to any family/holiday home. Inside, the country kitchen boasts stainless-steel tops and a large marble island bench. The dining and living rooms connect and share a large wood-burning fireplace. There are currently 6 bedrooms over two levels with an additional living space on the ground floor. The master suite has an ensuite and walk-in robe and opens onto a private deck and permanently heated spa set among stunning tropical gardens. Located just 2 minutes drive from the main street of Bangalow and only 10 minutes from Byron Bay.
On the eastern edge of Bangalow, this picturesque lifestyle haven comprises a sleekly appointed homestead and 6. 5 acres of parklike grounds with a postcard-pretty creek. It’s a fine property within a 10 minute drive of Byron Bay. Single-level layout provides superb open plan living areas bathed in ambient light and features high cathedral ceilings and an impressive entertaining balcony enjoying a beautiful outlook. There is a well-equipped gourmet kitchen and outdoor barbecue facilities. The private master suite boasts a walk-in robe and lavish ensuite, a bedroom wing with stylish bathroom and study. There is also a self-contained studio, double garage and security gate entry. The property is set on near level land, complete with a pony paddock, vegetable patch and chickens, a tranquil waterhole perfect for a refreshing swim and space to plant an orchard. Walk to Bangalow Village restaurants, markets, and Bangalow Primary School.
Inspect: By appointment Contact: Nicolette van Wijngaarden 0411 144 877 Unique Estates
Auction: Saturday September 3, 2016 at 11.00am Inspect: Saturday 11.00 – 11.30am Contact: Greg Price 0412 871 500, McGrath Byron Bay
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View Wednesday 5.30 – 6.00pm Saturday 12.00 – 1.00pm Agent Julie-Ann Manahan LREA Licensee/Principal 0411 081 118
Located just 30 metres to the pristine sands and crystal clear waters of South Golden Beach, this award winning architectural design by Gabriel Pool Home is simply stunning. Offering the ultimate beachside escape, the property is conveniently located in this unspoilt, sleepy seaside town, yet is only a short distance to Byron Bay and all it has to offer.
View Saturday 1.15 – 2.15pm Agent Julie-Ann Manahan LREA Licensee/Principal 0411 081 118
Set amongst stunning tropical gardens, this peaceful haven offers you a multitude of options, whether you’re seeking a home plus income or need to accommodate a large family. Tuscan inspired solid hardwood kitchen, generous 3 metre covered deck provides an enchanting, lush tropical se ing for alfresco entertaining or to simply relax and enjoy the serenity. A host of birdlife regularly comes to visit, including king parrots, black cockatoos and kookaburras and all within a level 5 min stroll to the beach.
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Luxurious & Contemporary Living 200 North Creek Rd, Lennox Head
Calculating the cost of buying a house The cost of buying a house is likely to be one of the largest sums of money you will spend, but what about all those extra expenses that might not have crossed your mind? Buying property is a big step, whether you are a first-time buyer or onto your fourth purchase. While you will be well aware of how expensive it is to buy a home, you may not have thought through all of the smaller costs. It’s not just your mortgage that you will need to keep on top of; among the additional costs that need to be covered are legal fees, pest and building inspection fees, search fees, government charges (such as stamp duty), moving costs and insurance. To help you through the property-buying process you will need a solicitor to legally transfer ownership of the property you are buying and handle all legal aspects of your purchase, otherwise known as conveyancing. At Stuart Garrett Lawyers we offer you affordable conveyancing with premium service. With our flat-fee conveyancing, you will be charged a fixed professional fee for our services, which we will advise at the start of the conveyancing process. Our flat-fee conveyancing service gives you greater peace of mind for one of life’s largest transactions. info@stuartgarrettlawyers.com.au 2/47 Tweed Coast Road, Cabarita Beach (next to the newsagency) – 02 6676 0247 3/130 Jonson Street, Byron Bay (next to Services Club)
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Flawless & private property with lavish appointments Elevated 180 degree ocean views, situated on 1,823m2 Chef’s kitchen – marble benches, butler’s pantry – stunning! 5 living areas incl rumpus & cinema room, ducted A/C I/G pool, ent area + s/contained kitchen barbecue area + appliances
You will feel every beat of our quaint seaside town Brunswick Heads, from this ideally located unit. It’s on the first floor of the regency building with an east facing balcony for the morning sun & breeze, a leisurely walk down stairs to the town centre where you can enjoy the fabulous boutique shops, restaurants, cafes and the famous Brunswick Heads Hotel. You are just a stone’s throw from the river, beach, Torakina beach, parks & great timber footbridge that links you to the surf club and patrolled beach. A very sought-after location & with 2 bedrooms, a single lockup garage, first-floor location this unit will suit a buyer looking to move in and live. With the low body corporate it is a great investment and would be a very desirable holiday property for the astute investor. To inspect call me Peter Browning. Inspect: Saturday 11.00 – 11.30am Contact: Peter Browning 0411 801 795 LJ Hooker Brunswick Heads
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2/11 Range Street, East Ballina
Keep your advertising money in our community! Advertising in The Echo means you are ‘shopping local’. Unlike the other ‘local’ paper, The Echo is 100 per cent locally owned. Your money stays in this wonderful community. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has signed a deal to take over all the newspapers of APN Limited, the company that owns the Byron Shire News, the Northern Star and the Ballina Advocate. The money that you spend on your advertising in these newspapers goes overseas. Compared to the Byron News, advertising in The Echo means your ad is being delivered to more than 7,000 extra households in your market area each week – that means a lot more people will be reading your ad.
BANGALOW 856 Bangalow Road On the edge of Bangalow, this lifestyle haven comprises six park-like acres. Open plan living areas flow to entertaining decks overlooking postcard pretty Tinderbox Creek. Handy studio, usable level paddocks and swim holes, this property is minutes drive to Byron’s beaches.
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Variety is the fruit of life Story & photos by Vivienne Pearson With spring almost in sight, it’s time to turn your thoughts to luscious fruits. Two people who have exotic fruit firmly in their sights all year round are John and Lyndall Picone. You might recognise their smiling faces from local farmers markets. If you’ve missed their colourful stall, you can either wait until October (once most fruit starts ripening) or you could visit them at their farm! A tour of Picone Exotics, located near Mullumbimby, will leave your mind blown and your taste buds tingling.
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John and Lyndall Picone. John shows a cacao pod. It is not a farming model that lends itself to selling to big restaurants, combined with his use of energy within the such as NOMA Australia, who recently orchard. ‘One guy called it Intentional Farming, approached Picone. John loves the local but I don’t have a name for it,’ says John. He markets, and especially his regulars who know simply applies intuitive ideas learned through to come early, and he supplies local restaurants martial arts and meditation. He only waters such as Harvest and Fleet. It is a farming model when a tree is first planted and uses almost no that makes for a great tour. I ended my visit fertiliser. with sticky hands, inspired taste buds and a Though John’s and Lyndall’s first careers small bounty of fruit to take home. were in graphic design, growing food is firmly I happily lost track of the myriad types of in John’s heritage. ‘My father could almost fruit I was seeing and tasting, but was struck by grow veges on concrete,’ says John of his years seeing cacao and pepper grow and John tells in suburban Sydney. An early memory, from me these don’t normally grow in this climate. formative years on the Sicilian Island of Lipari, is He attributes his success to the rich basalt soil of his grandmother yelling at him to get down from the apricot tree. Though John’s apricot trees are not yet big enough to climb, John is certainly totally at home within his exotic orchard. Q Picone Exotics are at New Brighton, Byron and Mullum farmers markets from the first week of October. Tours can be booked by emailing piconeexotics@gmail.com or as part of a larger tour via tastebyronbay.com.
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Among turmeric’s claimed benefits is the regeneration of brain stem cells, which is why we have no hesitation in also recommending the Turmeric Margaritas at Fleet in Brunswick Heads: the more you drink the smarter you seem, at least to yourself.
Curcumin is the main active ingredient in turmeric. It has powerful antiinflammatory effects and is a very strong antioxidant. Pictured here is the turmeric-and-coconut-milk drink incarnating as a Golden Milk turmeric latte at Poinciana Cafe in Mullumbimby.
Picone Exotics has grown over the past seven years from being an empty piece of land – albeit it with stunning views – to a picturesque orchard containing small numbers of more than 200 varieties of fruit-bearing plants.
Roll out the barrel Some of The Echo crew were treated to a fun tour of the Byron home of Stone & Wood brewing recently. While one of the most interesting bits was our pseudo-scientific tasting of the actual beers, the tours, which are open all year to members of the general public, impart a wealth of information on different hops and brewing techniques. While the growing national popularity of the local brew has seen them establish a second plant in Murwillumbah, the old bottling line (producing a paltry 1,000 bottles an hour on a good day) is still in existence, and the Byron birthplace of the brewery itself is used to brew limited releases as well as housing the pilot brewery for experimental batches.
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While some of The Echo crew who had tried the pilot brew at The Rails were initially taken aback by the Gose, a rare German beer style
Brewery located at Boronia Place, Byron Arts and Industry Estate. Book tours at www.stoneandwood.com.au/byronbrewery.
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ON WATEGO’S
Authentic Indian Restaurant
Red +White Wines and Restaurant at Rae’s invites you to join them for a musical afternoon with Luke and Sebastian.
CHEF SPECIALS EVERY NIGHT • EXCITING NEW MENU
Sunday 21 August, 12.30pm
10% off for seniors every day • Catering available for parties • Vegan and gluten free food available • Complimentary papadams if pre-booked!
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WOOD FIRED PIZZA
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THE BEST WOOD FIRED PIZZA IN THE BAY
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Thu / Fri / Sat 5.30pm–9pm Pick up: 1/6 Tasman Way, Byron Arts & Industry Estate
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BALLINA
BYRON BAY
Ballina RSL Club
‘A Taste of Asia’ Buffet
Success Thai
River St, Ballina Phone 6681 9500 www.ballinarsl.com.au Open 7 Days Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Snacks
Thursday 18 & Saturday 20 August from 6pm - Spinnakers Adult $23.50, Child 12/U $12, Child Under 5 Free Elvis to the Max (Thursday) and The Beards Farewell Tour (Saturday)
Mon-Fri 12-3pm Dinner 7 days from 5pm. 3/109 Jonson St, Byron Bay 6680 7798
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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
BRUNSWICK HEADS
Brunswick Burger & Fish Bar
NOW OPEN UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Open 7 days. Monday to Thursday 11am–7pm Friday to Sunday 11am–8pm
Open 7 days 10 The Terrace Brunswick Heads 6685 1210
The Pacific Bistro &
Pacific Bistro
FUNCTION CENTRE
www. brunswickbowlingclub. com.
Old Pacific Highway Brunswick Heads Phone 6685 1328
All Burgers $12 Kids menu $5 $10 Lunch Special Mon–Fri, nothing over $20 Weekend roasts Specialising in Chargrilled steaks, great seafood, handmade pasta. Enjoy a family dining atmosphere with a kids menu available. Function bookings available
Open seven days 7:30am till late Coffee, breakfast, lunch, dinner, functions and weddings. Fully licensed.
Wed-Mon 5.30pm, Closed Tue We do special events functions Kids meals starting from $9 30 Lawson Street 6680 8818
The Rocks @ Aquarius
Naked Treaties RAW Bar
Come hang out at the Famous Little Shop of Smiles! 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. 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
A range of menu packages for your SPECIAL EVENT
Luscious Foods
Contemporary and Middle Eastern flavours
Phone 6680 7632 functions@fishheadsbyron.com.au www.facebook.com/Fishheadsbyron.com www.fishheadsbyron.com.au
1/6 Tasman Way, Byron Arts & Industry Estate BYO & RSVP 6680 8228 www.lusciousfoods.com.au
• Breakfast and lunch • Wood-fired pizzas • Fresh juices • Great coffee Pizza deliveries now available Thursday, Friday, Saturday nights to Sunrise, Arts & Industry Estate and Ewingsdale
TUESDAYS | 6pm MEAT & VOUCHER RAFFLE WEDNESDAYS | 5.30pm–close BYO VINYL THURSDAYS | 6pm MEAT & VOUCHER RAFFLE FRIDAYS | 4-6pm HAPPY HOUR SATURDAYS | from 6pm THE MONTHLY MUSO SUNDAYS | SUNDAY ROAST lunch & dinner
The Restaurant @ Rae’s
Lunch and Dinner 7 days
thegreenbistrobyronbay.com.au info@thegreenbistrobyronbay.com.au Functions and catering available
18 Jonson Street 6680 8832
Mon-Fri 7.30am–3pm
6–8 Marine Pde, Wategos Beach, Byron Bay Bookings essential 6685 5366 contact@raes.com.au raes.com.au
VIP Club specials. Not a member? Join at www.basilo.co
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Monday - tap beer $4, pizzas 2x1 Wednesday - all pizzas $10 till 6.30pm Thursday - Sardinian night: menus starting from $29 Friday - drinks 2x1 till 6.30pm Saturday - drinks 2x1 till 6.30pm Sunday - Happy hour: calamari and tap beer $16
restaurant & bar
Now home delivery service available
Breakfast/Lunch 7 days from 7am 16 Lawson St, Byron Bay Reservations 6685 7663 therocksbyronbay.com.au
The Rocks @ Aquarius has been beautifully renovated, and boasts a wide array of locally sourced brekky dishes, Byron Bay Coffee and fresh juices and smoothies to enliven the senses and prepare you for the day ahead. Late riser? Join us for lunch 12–2pm, when you can grab a selection of burgers, salads, fresh rolls or one of our daily $10 specials! Here at The Rocks, we are a fully licensed cafe, which means you can enjoy an ice-cold beer, a sumptuous wine or a handcrafted cocktail with your meal!
Graze Restaurant & Lounge
Delicious new winter lunch menu. $20 lunch meals.
At Elements of Byron Resort. 144 Bayshore Drive
Overlooking the pool and fire pit. Fiercely seasonal local produce. Open for breakfast, lunch & dinner.
6639 1550
Pizza Paradiso Open 7 days from 5pm Suffolk Park Village Centre 6685 3101 Facebook, Instagram pizzaparadisobyronbay.com
All from the beautiful new deck at the Cape Cafe. Light refreshments, great organic coffee, In the Pink gelato, cold drinks, delicious local treats. The most amazing views in Byron.
Open 7 days a week from 11.30am Group menu available (Bookings required)
at Club Byron Lunch: 11.30am–2.30pm, Dinner: from 5.30pm, Tuesday to Sunday (closed Mondays) 18–20 Marvell Street 6685 6202
Wood fired pizzas
THE BEST VIEW IN TOWN. Relax. Enjoy. Whale watch.
Fully Licensed Burger Bar
The Green Bistro
Done and served by Italians
Open 7 days Mon–Fri 9am–4pm Sat–Sun 8am–5pm 0413 419 435
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. It’s a popular spot so bookings are recommended.
$5 STONE AND WOOD TAP BEER EVERY FRIDAY HAPPY HOUR 4–6PM: BURGER + CHIPS + BEER = $19 Group bookings for up to 50 people available. Please email mainstreetburgerbar@gmail.com. FOLLOW US #mainstreet_burgerbar www.mainstreetburgerbar.com
1 Jonson St, Byron Bay 6680 7632
Basiloco Ristorante Pizzeria
CAPE CAFE at Cape Byron Lighthouse
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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Fishheads
Dinner Mon-Sun Lunch on weekdays Closed Tuesdays Shop 3/17 Lawson Arcade Phone orders welcome 6680 8443
SPECIAL $10 LUNCH AND DINNER MENU
Artisan pizzas, delicious pastas, craft beers, wines and cocktails.
Live local music Fridays & Saturdays
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Lunch Thurs–Sat 12–3pm Dinner every night 95 Jonson St, Byron Bay republikbyronbay.com 6685 5009 hello@republikbyronbay.com
Treehouse on Belongil Full Cocktail & Wine Bar. Extensive Menu Includes Tapas, Mains, Desserts and Famous Woodfired Pizzas. 25 Childe St, Byron Bay 6680 9452
Beachfront Dining Fresh Local Produce Seafood Degustation
Kids eat free 5–7pm Monday–Thursday 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.
Small & large group bookings and functions welcome 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 Byron’s most intimate atmosphere. Check our website or Facebook for the gig guide. facebook.com/treehouse.belongil treehouseonbelongil.com
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
Italian at the PaciďŹ c provides a bustling atmospheric restaurant, dishing up contemporary inspired Italian cuisine and some of Byron’s finest cocktails and wines.
Happy Chilli Garden Open 7 days 12pm till late Byron St (opp Aldi) Byron Bay P 6680 9191 F 6676 4869 M 0403 516 793 happychilligarden@hotmail.com
Hong Kong chef specialising in Chinese and Malay foods Fully licensed Dine In / Takeaway / Home Delivery Available
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Byron at Byron
Peaceful dining by our tranquil rainforest
77–97 Broken Head Road, Byron Bay
Open seven days: breakfast, lunch & dinner
6639 2111 thebyronatbyron.com.au
St Elmo Dining Room & Bar Mon-Sat: 4pm til late. Sun: 4pm til 10pm. Cnr Fletcher St and Lawson Lane, Byron Bay 6680 7426
Spice It Up Thai Restaurant
Thursday Farmers Market Dinner 2 courses $52 per person
Open Wednesday–Sunday Dine-in or Takeaway– from 5.30pm 6684 2209 Mullumbimby Bowling Club
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.
at Byron Bay Golf Club 62 Broken Head Road 6685 6470 thedeckatbyron.com Lunch & Dinner Open Wed to Sunday
Warung Bagus 3/14 Bay St (opposite the surf club) 7.30am–7pm every day Dine-in and takeaway BYO
Hog’s Breath Cafe Open 7 Days, 11.30am-2.30pm Dinner from 5.30pm 9/4 Jonson St, Byron Bay 6685 5320 www.hogsbreath.com.au
Legend Pizza Open 7 days 9am till after midnight Shop 1 Woolworths Plaza 90-96 Jonson Street 6685 5700 www.legendpizza.com.au
Cafe Novella Open 7am–4pm Sun– Wed, 7am–late Fri–Sat BYO & takeaway Bay Street opp Main Beach & Surf Club For bookings: 6685 7348
Targa Cafe • Restaurant • Bar 11 Marvell Street
Byron Bay 6680 9960 targabyronbay.com targabyronbay@gmail.com
Organic artisan chocolate, brownies and fudge made on site, made by hand with love and integrity using the finest and purest, ethically sourced Open 7 days Mon–Thurs 7am–5.30pm, ingredients Wonderful award-winning coffee, chocolate and Fri, Sat 7am–8.30pm brownies. Sun 8am-2pm 53 Stuart St, Mullumbimby Hot and cold and iced cacao drinks and delicious paleo ice creams. 0406 422 465
Great Food, Stunning Views Affordable, Innovative Locally Sourced Produce Simply Delicious Food Functions & Weddings hello@thedeckatbyron.com
Your local food delivery service! Byron Bay Delivering from Ewingsdale to Suffolk Park NEW WINTER HOURS 5–8pm 7 DAYS
Salt Village, Kingscliff 6674 4833 dining@fins.com.au Dinner Wed–Mon from 5pm. Closed Tues. Lunch Fri–Sun.
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Deliciously Italian Pasta, gnocchi, & risotto Wed & Thurs KIDS EAT FREE (1 kids meal with each adult main – up to 12 yrs) Dine in only
Yaman Open seven days 8am to 9pm 62 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby 6684 3778 0431 428 108 www.yamancatering.com.au
FRESH PIZZA BYRON STYLE
Traditional Yemen Food Choose from our delicious plates and experience the tastes of one of the oldest surviving distinct cultures in the world today.
Check us out on
facebook.com/byron.legendpizza Scan code for our menu! BYO Home delivery 7 days Established 1992 Dinner Friday and Saturday nights all through Winter Heaters on the deck and throws to keep you cosy Fresh Mediterranean inspired dishes Breakfast/lunch/tapas/dinner Takeaway and weekend deliveries Date night Friday - 2 mains & chefs choice of entrée for just $40 every Friday night
NEWRYBAR Harvest sprawls across three lovingly restored buildings featuring a restaurant, deli and bakery in the historic village of Newrybar in the Byron Bay hinterland. 18-22 Old Pacific Highway Lunch 7 days from 12pm Newrybar NSW 2479 Dinner 7 nights from 6pm Breakfast weekends from 8am 6687 2644 Harvest Deli open from 8am with weekday breakfast available - Deli takeaway coffee from 7am harvestcafe.com.au Harvest is available for events, weddings and catering
Harvest
OCEAN SHORES Coast Restaurant Open 7 days from 11am, restaurant menu and all-day bar snacks.
Modern European Breakfast/Lunch: 7 days from 7am Dinner: Tues-Sat from 5.30pm Bar: From 10am, with or without food Coffee: Genovese, all day Venue: available for events up to 60 guests Wi-Fi
Located in the Ocean Shores Country Club 6680 1809
The Flavours of Byron Delivered to your door!
DECK WINTER HOURS Deck open from 10am Monday–Wednesday Open for Breakfast from 8am Thursday–Sunday
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Celebration cakes Personal catering services Event co-ordination and management
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The Italian Joint
Hog’s Breath Cafe’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, kid’s meals, a range of Lite Options, plus their famous Prime Rib Steak – slow cooked for up to 18 hours for maximum flavour and tenderness. Kids eat free Mon – Wed nights and you can grab lunch for just $9.90, so there’s something to please the whole family.
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CHER’S BB UT
Station St, Mullumbimby Poincianamullum.com Open 7 days from 8am BAR Thurs - Sat DINNER Fri & Sat BOOK 6684 4036
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Poinciana
Indonesian-inspired cuisine in a casual setting on the beachfront. All-day breakfasts, nasi-campur style buffet lunch, snacks and desserts, coffee, smoothies, juices and cakes. Indoor/outdoor seating with sea views.
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Puremelt Chocolate Lounge
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The Deck
Experience the real taste of Thailand. Using local produce, local staff. Free courtesy bus provided for pick up and drop off!
Butcher’s BBQ Salt Village, Kingscliff 6674 4833 dining@fins.com.au Dinner Wed–Mon from 5pm. Closed Tues. Lunch Fri–Sun. GOOD FOOD GUIDE CHEFS HAT EVERY YEAR SINCE 1998
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Proudly awarded ‘Most Sustainable Seafood Restaurant’ 2015. This year we celebrate 25 years of serving the finest local seafood.
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Divine Catering for all your home dinner party catering needs. Call Manfred 0417 551 312
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for more info visit our website: www.divinecateringbyron.com.au
‘Euphoria of Spice’ event celebrating the Taste of Tweed food festival. Sun 10 July, 6pm. 4-course menu $89. The team behind Fins have just opened their new POP-UP Restaurant The BUTCHER’S BBQ. Located next door to Fins, The Butcher’s BBQ offers a share-style menu priced between $8 and $38. It’s meaty, cheerful and produce driven! WE HAVE A SET ‘FEED ME’ MENU AVAIL FOR $35 P/PERSON. This POP-UP is here for a limited time.
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ISSUE# 31.10
August 17–24, 2016 Editor : Mandy Nolan Editorial/gigs : gigs@echo.net.au Copy deadline: 5pm each Friday Advertising : adcopy@echo.net.au P : 02 6684 1777 W : echo.net.au/entertainment
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ALL YOUR NORTH COAST ENTERTAINMENT
THE HILLBILLY GOATS
THE STETSON FAMILY
BRING ON THE BLUEGRASS!
With an old-time variety show scheduled for Friday night, a barbecue cook-off that starts in the evening and culminates on the Saturday, a pickers comp, games for the kids and a top lineup on the Saturday Stage. The Echo spoke with a couple of the bands performing on the day.
HILLBILLY GOATS Kick yer shoes off, put yer hoe down, and hang on to yer britches with 2016 Golden Guitar nominees for Bluegrass single of the year The Hillbilly Goats. Mahney Wearne spoke with The Echo. What first attracted you to Appalachian music? It was a love and passion for bluegrass music that set us on our journey deep into Appalachian history. Once we discovered the roots of bluegrass stemmed back to early immigrants from Ireland, Scotland and Africa predominantly, we found a new love. A love of researching stories and hunting through archives to find music that should be rebirthed and retold to new generations. Stringband mountain music was created by these immigrants’ being so isolated and influencing each other over the centuries with their rhythms, tunes and instruments. When the music came out of the mountains in the 1920s, it began to evolve into hillbilly, country and western, bluegrass, rock and roll and even certain strains of the blues. How do you guys incorporate Appalachian Mountain music into your live set? We twist traditional, old-time folk music into our own style, which is highly energetic, and present it onstage with colourful costumes and a whole lot of stories about the history of the songs. Fast and furious fiddle and harmonica with banjo, bones, double bass and a bit of Appalachian foot percussion (tap dancing). What is it do you think that has seen so many people flocking to bluegrass? Is it part of the bespoke trend do you think? I personally feel that music has become so electronic that for us we’re really passionate about taking it back full circle to the roots. People love to see real instruments with real harmonies and that’s what you get with bluegrass and old-timey music. The rhythms and the pace of this music put audiences into a really happy, feelgood space. How can you be sad when there’s banjo and fiddle? This music is insidious!
How was it recording your new album with Nash Chambers?
Working with Nash was a great experience for us as he grew up on the old-time country roots music. He has an understanding of how it was played and recorded all those years ago and he’s all about ‘the vibe’ and keeping it real. We didn’t use click tracks – all the recording was done in live takes and the percussion was all random bits and pieces that were lying around the studio – garbage cans, rusty cymbals and even an old horn from a Sydney double-decker bus! Nash is a fantastic producer and his influence has helped us to create a record that we’re really proud of and that saw us as finalists in the 2016 Golden Guitars for Bluegrass Single of the Year. You were nominees for a 2016 Golden Guitar for Rabbit in a Log as Bluegrass Single of the Year. Tell me a little about the song. Rabbit in a Log is an old hunting tune that was bluegrassed initially by Bill Monroe and Doc Watson. What should we expect from your show? Kick yer shoes off, put yer hoe down and hang on to yer britches! The Goats deliver this old-time music with passion and energy, interspersing stories and song to present a fun, family-friendly, feelgood show! Goat Boy plays three instruments at once – drums with his feet, harmonica in his mouth and strings in his hands! It truly is a visual feast!
THE STETSON FAMILY Bluegrass five-piece The Stetson Family, who are high lonesome country folk, reached US chart status with tales of love gone wrong, snakehandling preachers and wandering down life’s crooked highway. Nadine Budge spoke with The Echo. How would you describe your approach to music? Three of the five members of The Stetson Family have played music together in various forms since the heady glam-pop 80s in Schizo Scherzo when it was all about synthesisers, makeup and mullets, touring with Farnsy and playing with The Eurythmics and The Monkeys. We’ve individually traversed genres since then, until nine years ago after seeing O Brother Where Art Thou we all fell in love with the music, took up banjo and dobro and started writing our own style of mountain music. Three albums later (the latest, True North, spending seven months on charts in the USA) we’ve found our Americana-Bluegrassy groove!
THIS WEEKEND SEES THE THIRD ANNUAL BANGALOW BBQ & BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL HIT THE BANGALOW A&I HALL AND SHOWGROUNDS . What song are you most enjoying playing on stage at the moment? Run Daddy Run is our favourite to play at the moment – a dark tale of what happens when mumma’s not happy and sends daddy headin’ for the hills. How do your three-part harmonies add to the musicality? Can you always sing like that with people, or does it help to have their voice tonally different from yours in some way? The natural harmonies of frontperson Nad Budge and John Bartholomeusz is what brought them together back in the 80s. Harmonies are a really important part of The Stetson Family sound and give us all a huge buzz when we get the four parts happening. Luckily our voices are tonally different so we can hit the bottoms, mids and highs. Harmonies are our soul food! Who are the musicians who have influenced you? Our musical influences are varied and certainly not all traditional, ranging from The Carter Family of old through to Emmylou Harris, Old Crow Medicine Show and Lucinda Williams. It’s all part of ‘newgrass’, which is a blend of traditional style and contemporary influences. What should we expect for your live set at Bangalow BBQ and Bluegrass Festival? We love to take the audience on a journey down life’s crooked highway, have them dancing in the aisles through to crying in their beers with songs of murder, mayhem and tales of the human heart.
THE CARTRIDGE FAMILY Known for their breezy, sunshine-filled hillbilly harmonies of death, and for their strong affiliation to public radio, firearms and printing, The Cartridge Family bring their three-part harmonies and two-part jokes to town. Sussanah Espie spoke with The Echo. Tell me about the Cartridge Family? The Cartridge Family was born out of an iconic radio show called Twang, which airs on Melbourne’s Triple R FM every Saturday afternoon. Three or four times a year they put on a show called Grand Ole Twang (à la Grand Ole Opry) which is two hours of live music in a theatre, featuring touring artists from both Australia and abroad.
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What the hell happened to the Census? For the next four years the government will be using the data of a handful of people without computers who actually triumphed over electronic citizens when the online platform spat the dummy. That’s right; all future planning will now be done with the average citizen being 82-yearold Iris with two dogs, a dead husband and zero work hours. Instead of schools and parks, nursing homes will be springing up on every street corner. Contrary to the belief of conspirators, and there are many, the census is not the government’s
attempt at securing all your data for private sale. That arena has already been cornered by corporations. We give that data freely to Woolies and Coles and our online shopping sites every time we swipe our loyalty or credit cards. Information collected by the ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics) is actually vital in creating a profile of Australian life, establishing how much we work, our ethnicity, our education, our housing situation etc. The information gathered helps create profiles of our community so government can plan for schools and roads and basic infrastructure.
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THE SENSELESS In fact, Annabel Crabb’s The Wife Drought was written pretty well entirely using the data from a previous census. In that book she proved that women still do most of the housework and the childcare. (Oh surprise, surprise.) Even women CEOs did more around the house than their lazyarse husbands.
This kind of information is vital. When I throw a tantrum and sulk about how hard I work, I now have evidence to show that my plight is part of a much larger pattern of female martyrdom. It doesn’t change things, but when you are on your hands and knees scrubbing out the bins it’s nice to know that behind every gate in the street there is another woman wondering what the fuck
happened to her life.
The government has been counting its citizens for years. Jesus was born on census night. Their online platforms were in the form of donkeys that were employed to return them to their place of birth. Fortunately we’ve upgraded our technology a little. But in comparison I think the donkey beat the internet this year.
The powers that be tell us that the online census was hacked so they closed it down, but one suspects the architects of the website underestimated the impact of most of Australia going online at the same time to visit the site. When has technology ever worked smoothly the first time? The questions in the Census
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might seem invasive, but I think if it’s going to be a useful tool for profiling the community then we should add a few more, to give a more rounded picture of who we actually are. I want the government to know that I am more than my house, my husband, my kids and my job. So as we now have a bit of extra time to submit let’s add a few more questions… such as: Are You Happy? How often do you call your mother? Do you have any tattoos? Do you use a breadboard instead of a plate? Do you remove all your pubic hair? Where do you like to be kissed? Do you cry in movies? When driving how often do you employ the middle finger as a one-finger
salute to oncoming drivers? Have you let yourself go? Is life as exciting and rewarding as you thought it would be? Do you do yoga? If you answer Yes, do you secretly look around the class to check that you are the bendiest? Do you have a problem with a mosque in your area? How would you feel if Muslims took over your school canteen? Do you still look good naked? Do you still read? This would create a more threedimensional character for future planning. ‘The average Australian citizen for 2016 is a 35-year-old hipster running a cafe in Byron Bay serving food on breadboards; he only calls his mother for money for essential items such as beard trimmers and yoga retreats. He likes to be kissed in that sweet spot behind his ear, and yes, he does look good naked. In fact he’s online naked now.’ So instead of worrying about what we tell the government, let’s tell them bloody everything.
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BRING ON THE BLUEGRASS!
CONT. FROM p29 All the members of the Cartridge Family were members of the Grand Ole Twang house band, and we had so much fun together that we decided it was time to get ourselves a gig so we could see each other more often. That was about five years ago. The original inspiration musically was The Carter Family and country music of that era, so the material goes way back. And these days we play a lot of originals with a definite comedy bent penned by our bass player and singer Rusty Berther, who was one half of the Scared Weird Little Guys for more than 20 years. I don’t remember a Cartridge Family gig where I haven’t cried with laughter. I’m getting very good at singing and laughing (and crying) at the same time. Your Pozible campaign raised your target in 24 hours. Tell me a bit about AmericanFest in Nashville and why you want to play there. The response to my Pozible campaign has been amazing, and it’s still rising! Every September Nashville plays host to Americanafest. This year it’ll be happening over 20–25 September. The event brings together fans and music industry professionals alike, offering six days of celebration through seminars, panels and networking opportunities by day, and raw, intimate showcases each night. I have been asked to join the Sounds Australia contingent of singer/songwriters who will play shows at some of Nashville’s most iconic venues during the festival. I am arriving a week before the festival to meet with industry professionals and friends I’ve made over the years who reside in Nashville. I’ve been there before, many years ago, for the first time with my old band Git in 2002 and then again when I went to Memphis to represent Melbourne in the International Blues Challenge in 2008. Being surrounded by so much incredible music day after day was such a creative shot in the arm, but it was also an enormous boost to my confidence to have my performances and songs received so warmly in the place where the music I play was born. I just can’t wait to get back there to be immersed and inspired. Why do you think we’ve had such a spike in our appetite for Americana and Bluegrass? What does it offer the listener that straight-up folk or country don’t? As far as I’m concerned they are all one and the same; folk, country and bluegrass all fall under the banner of Americana. It’s a pretty vague term. What song are you most enjoying playing at the moment? Have just started playing one of my songs on electric guitar with my band The Last Word; they’re pretty fun. What should we expect for your performance at Bluegrass Festival? Hilarity, heavenly harmony, ho-down fiddle and a little bit of colourful language Friday: Old-Time Variety Show at the Bangalow A&I Hall from 6pm with Saturday’s 10am–5pm full day of barbecue meat, craft beer, music, food and fun. For more information and tickets go to bbqBluegrass.com.au.
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Experience the beautiful music of local community choir, Lighthouse Voices, led by Parissa Bouas from The Hottentots at the Ewingsdale Hall on Saturday 27 August. The Bella Fontes feature the musical and theatrical genius of Nadia Sunde (vocals/ guitar/percussion), Andrea Soler (vocals/guitar/ukulele), Parissa Bouas (vocals/drums/percussion/ kazoozaphone) and James Ross (vocals/guitar). This multi-talented team of enthusiasm experts bring their love of world music, audiences and each other to the fore in this exciting ensemble. The setlist is crafted from the best of vintage Calypsonian music, (Harry Belafonte being the hero!), contemporary songs (performed in a Calypso feel) and original compositions from an multiawarded songwriting quartet. A runaway success at recent Woodford, Bleach and Wintermoon festivals! Not to be missed! Doors open and delicious Brazilian food available from 6pm. Show starts 7pm. Tickets at door: $20/ $18 concession. Book online: www. stickytickets.com.au/38478
KATHRYN & STEVE’S AWARD-WINNING LITTLE GYPSY
Golden Guitar recipient Steve Passfield and award-winning songwriter Kathryn Jones were recently honoured at the Australian Celtic Music Awards and the Triquetra Awards held during the Australian Celtic Festival in Glen Innes. Passfield, a seasoned musician/producer, was gracious in his acceptance of the Triquetra Ambassador award. With tours to Europe, Germany and most recently New Caledonia for St Patricks celebrations, Steve is a perfect recipient of this coveted award, which pays honour to those who carry on the Celtic tradition through music, dance or performance by actively weaving it into the fabric of modern
COMMUNITY CHOIR THE BELLA FONTES SING UP A STORM AT THE EWINGSDALE HALL ON SATURDAY 27 AUGUST
CHRIS FISHER RECENTLY RETURNED FROM GIGS IN BERLIN AND THE UK WITH MONKEY & THE FISH. CHRIS FISHER WILL BE PRESENTING HIS SONGS AND SOME FAVOURITE CLASSICS IN SOLO MODE AT THE BANGALOW HOTEL SATURDAY 20 AUGUST FROM 7.30, INCLUDING THE RECENTLY RELEASED SINGLE CHANGE IS GOOD. Australian society. He also received the gong for Celtic Producer of the Year in the Australian Celtic Music Awards with the infectious album he produced for northern rivers songwriter Kathryn Jones. Jones embraced the luck of the Irish on the night as she joyously accepted the Wendy Watts Best New Celtic Talent award. Their nominated song, Gypsy on the Wrong Side of the World, was written for the album by Steve, after discovering Kathryn’s European roots and her restless gypsy soul. She really is a Gypsy influenced by those Celts who moved east to places such as Romania and Turkey. At the Ballina RSL on Friday.
GANGGAJANG FOR CITY HALL
Rock band GANGgajang will be playing at Lismore City Hall on Friday 9 September. GANGgajang have been around since late 1984 when they released their first single Gimme Some Loving after getting together via the
THIS MONTH AT MISS AMBER & STUKULELE’S UKE NIGHT YOU CAN REQUEST OR PERFORM YOUR FAVOURITE SONGS FROM THE PAST FIVE YEARS. IF YOU ARE ON THE MAILING LIST AT WWW.UKEMULLUM.COM YOU WILL RECEIVE THE LINK TO THE MASSIVE ARCHIVE OF TUNES. THURSDAY 25 AUGUST. COME ALONG WITH OR WITHOUT A FOUR-STRINGED FRIEND AND FEEL THE LOVE OF AN IMPROMPTU COMMUNITY SING ALONG. ADULTS $10, KIDS UNDER 15 $2.50 FROM 6.30PM, CLUB MULLUM IN THE EX-SERVICES. ABC TV show Sweet and Sour. By mid-1985 their official lineup was complete, and what a lineup it was: ex-Riptide Cal, ex-Angels Chris and Buzz, ex-Alien Geoff and brand-new unheard-of-before guitarist Robbie, with Kay Bee on backing vocals. Their debut self-titled album was released, featuring the singles Sounds of Then (This is Australia), Gimme Some Loving, Giver of Life, House of Cards, and The Bigger They Are, and they were on their way. More albums and compilations followed: GangAGAIN, Lingo, The Essential, Oceans and Deserts, This is Australia… and their wonderful DVD (all four hours of
it!) The Complete GANGgajang. These singles climbed the charts to become part of the music revolution reinventing the Australian sound: a sound based on our stories, our places. GANGgajang is now regarded as one of the all-time classic Australian albums, while Sounds of Then (This Is Australia) has reached near mythical status and continues to connect with new generations of Australian music fans to this day. Lismore City Hall. Doors 7.30pm. 18+. Tickets $30 in advance, $35 at the door if available. On sale now from NORPA Box Office. www.norpa.org.au/events/ ganggajang-circles-in-the-sand-tour/
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Declaring that their pro-beard movement has achieved all it can through the medium of live performance, The Beards will be calling an end to their hard-touring ways and have announced a huge Farewell Tour. While the band have stated that they will continue to actively propagate a pro-beard agenda, they will be hanging up their touring hat indefinitely, and fans in all states and territories will have one last chance to get a dose of pro-beard activist rock. For those who don’t know the Beards, the concept is simple: They are a rock band that exclusively perform songs about just one subject: Beards. Saturday at the Ballina RSL at 8.30pm. $30
BLOOD SWEAT AND BEERS
The Blood Sweat and Beers concert is a four-part show featuring a blistering two hours plus with members from AC/DC, The Angels, Screaming Jets and Rose Tattoo. This assault features the cream of rock’n’roll outfits. These music industry legends have performed to millions of people, had dozens of hit singles in the ARIA charts, sold millions of albums and been inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame. This concert features classic Bon Scott AC/DC songs bettered only by AC/DC themselves, a set of
The Angels and Screaming Jets favourites featuring members of these iconic bands, and to bring it home a blistering set of Rose Tattoo classics fronted by the great man himself Angry Anderson. Ballina RSL on Saturday 3 September. Doors 8pm Show 8.45pm. Tickets at the venue.
TORA RETURNS In a country that boasts an ever-growing and internationally acclaimed electronic music scene, Tora have earned their place as one of Australia’s most promising young acts. For the last six months, the boys from Byron Bay have been touring in northern-hemispheric summer, performing at Glastonbury, Fusion Festival, and more than 70 other festivals and headline shows across Europe, America, Mexico and Canada. They have now returned to Australia to start writing their debut album, and support RÜFÜS / RÜFÜS DU SOL on their Australiawide tour. This will then be followed by their national Australian headline tour in August. Tora’s music has been described as a ‘blend of ambient harmonies, layered rhythms and pulsing soundscapes’, which has had them compared to Little Dragon and James Blake. Tora’s soothing three-part vocals are prominent on most of the tracks released to date but are not always the feature as the instrumental sections often tell the story.
Byron Community Centre, 27 August.
DANCING FOR THE LIGHT Two dance floors, tipi, bonfire, visual sensory wonderland and delicious food. Find yourself at the eighth edition of Lightbody, an all-ages community dance celebration! Featuring the tunes of DJs Nick Taylor and Magu, Slinky, Asaf and Short Circuit. This dance event is historically known for its mesmerising visual art installations. Zakay Glass, Coda Installations and Crystal Grid Productions will transport you to an enchanting and mesmerising world of wonderment and discovery. The weaving of sound and visualisation is an intricate art and these world-class designers are leaders in their field. Enjoy a delicious and healthy feast or turmeric chai around the bonfire. Gluten-free and vegan options available thanks to the Dosa Deli. This event supports and hosts local DJs, production companies and artists. Lightbody is about keeping the heart and soul of community alive and connected. It’s an open invitation to express through movement, art and being together. Come dance! $25 contribution. Saturday 6pm– 12am, Durrumbul Hall.
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TRALALA BLIP ARE A LISMORE-BASED MIXEDA B I L I T I E S M U S I C A L E N S E M B L E I N V O LV E D W I T H U R B A N T H E AT R E P R O J E C T S A N D N O R P A F O R T H E R E - I M AG I N E D MY R A D I O H E A RT .
A few of the band members spoke with The Echo about their creative endeavours. How did the band get together?
Kaossilator Pro, Novation Launch Pad Zac Mifsud: Yamaha Tenori-On, Frostwave SpaceBeam and Boss distortion pedal.
Randolf: I started running workshops out of Lismore in early 2008 for differently abled artists who wanted to learn how to make electronic music. Tralala Blip evolved out of those workshops.
Randolf Reimann: Ableton Live, DSI Tempest drum machine, Moog Mother 32. Analogic TT-303 and other things, many other things.
Were you all playing instruments when you started or is that something you have picked up along the way?
Zac: Oceans Of Love. It’s on our latest album.
What’s your favourite song to perform on stage?
Mat: Soccer In Space. Randolf: When Tralala Blip started, everyone was borrowing stuff from my personal collection of gadgets Lydian: Dogboy Soldier and Almost Red. We wrote Almost Red at ZKM for Next City Sounds. and instruments but, over the years, the members of Tralala Blip has accumulated their own instruments. What about touring to places such as Germany? How was that? What is the best thing about being in the band? Mat: Germany was amazing. We did a residency Lydian: Touring overseas, putting out vinyl and at ZKM in Karlsruhe. ZKM has incredible exhibitions cassettes and CDs and having our music on iTunes. using all sorts of digital technology. It was mindMathew: Doing shows such as My Radio Heart blowing. Also, snow fights in the Black Forest were a obviously. I get to do illustrations for all Tralala Blip lot of fun. recordings. Collaborating with artists from all over Lydian: Playing in Poland at Unsound was awesome the world. too. People love us in Europe. Zac: We played at the 4ZZZ Radio station carpark Zac: Germany was really good. But I did miss my and then the Sydney Opera House and we will play girlfriend. in Dubbo Jail in October. I get to play my songs in all different places. What should we expect for your performance with Tell me who the members are and what they play? My Radio Heart? Phoebe Rose: Homemade square-wave synth, toy Darth Vader mask and Critter and Guitari Kaleidoloop sampler.
Mat: expect to be surprised. It is very original work. You will be in different worlds simultaneously and our music is one of a kind.
Mathew Daymond: Korg MS-20 and Buchla Music Easel
Lydian: Expect love.
Lydian Dunbar: Roland TR-8 drum computer, Korg
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CANCER: Home is the Crab clan’s safe nesting place. If late-week full moon’s changing conditions feel threatening to the comfort zone’s security, settle any sense of uncertainty via some in-depth attention to fiscal administrivia. Get paperwork, debts and insurance payments sorted over the coming fortnight before retrograde Mercury complicates operations.
LEO: As your birthday month in the sun progresses, perhaps you’re considering rejigging certain commitments. They’re best approached by stepping off centre stage and away from habitual thinking to view things from the perspective of other people’s needs and feelings. While emotions may erupt and overflow, ideas also ignite for harmonious outcomes.
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LIBRA: With Venus whispering sweet reason in one ear and pushy Mars blasting away in the other, this week’s balancing act is between facts and feelings. But it’s conducted in a climate of nice surprises, exciting eyeopeners and new opportunities, so do the Libran thing: listen to your intuition and follow its prompts.
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PISCES: Pisceans are suckers for a sob story. Sure, you want to believe the best of people, but editing others to fit what you want to see actually robs them of their entirety. Looking honestly at what’s there, in all its mysterious variety, provides this week with a truer, more workable picture.
Getting dressed every morning I‌ see my father, the man I’ve spent 33 years trying not to be. I love‌ swimming through fields of jellyfish. Honestly. Try it. Lawyer. Micro-finance enthusiast. Writer. And I despair‌ at how ignorant, venal and selfnow comedian. Is there nothing a dad can’t righteous I am. do? Mark Swivel launches his new show Dad. When I dance‌ people tend to give me lots of Joke. at the Mullumbimby Ex-Services this space and a towel. Saturday. My dream of being a‌ test cricketer was Becoming a dad was‌ something I thought thwarted by poor coaching. would stop one day (an endless process of My mother always said‌ You’ll never be a test humiliation. There’s no ointment for it.) cricketer, ever. Dads should be able to‌ dress themselves, If I could change one thing‌ I would have under supervision. played 23 tests for Australia (well any test-playing If I had another crack at anything it would nation that would have me). be‌ my first 17 sexual experiences. When I am in IKEA‌ I can’t wait to get to the I really regret‌ most of the above. ice-cream part. I think God‌ was watching. Until the sixth when My advice should‌ be taken down to the river she saw a pattern and changed the channel. and drowned like an unwanted cat. Mr Spicer
our neighbour used to do that and it’s stayed with me. As kitten murderers go he was an exceptionally nice man.  Find out what moves the man who moved to Mullum. Mullumbimby Ex-Services Club, Saturday at 7.30pm. Tix $10 at the door or online via www.trybooking.com/216331.
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GETTING STUCK IN THE MUD C L A I R E AT K I N S I S O N E O F T H E F O U N D I N G M E M B E R S O F T H E N O RT H COA ST M U D T R A I L , A N D T H E H A N DS BEHIND PINKY & MAURICE CERAMICS, A C E R A M I C ST U D I O S P E C I A L I S I N G I N P O RC E L A I N I N SO U T H G O L D E N B E AC H .
Claire is also the assistant editor of The Journal of Australian Ceramics, Australia’s most widely read contemporary ceramics magazine.
Claire spoke with The Echo about the Mud Trail, an exciting new project that takes the community into the studios of our local potters. Why did you come up with the Mud Trail? The average home is full of mass-produced cheap ceramic imports, so it comes as a surprise to many people that potters still exist, let alone that your neighbour might be one! So the idea for an annual national event celebrating Australian ceramics was born. The Australian Ceramics Open Studios was dreamed up by Vicki Grima in 2013. Vicki is the editor of The Journal of Australian Ceramics, and the executive officer of The Australian Ceramics Association, an association that represents more than 1,000 Australian potters. In August every year hundreds of potters around the country open their studio doors to the public. We came up with the The Mud Trail as a local response to that national event. On the Mud Trail our potters share their passion, skills and knowledge with the community. The community get their hands dirty; some reconsider the way they think about ceramics; and for others it’s a complete epiphany and the beginning of a relationship with clay! Do we have much of a community of potters? Potters belong to ancient craft tradition, and with that comes the particular cameraderie that artists experience when they’re part of a tribe. We belong to a big muddy national family. There are 140 studios opening across the country this year, and 19 of those are on the North Coast Mud Trail. We make up more than 10 per cent of the national open studios, so we’re fortunate to have such a vibrant ceramic community here. There are still many more potters in our hills and towns who won’t be opening their studios, but they make a huge contribution to the community throughout the year as studio potters, artists, gallery owners, and as lecturers in ceramics at our TAFEs and universities. Besides coordinating the Mud Trail each year, the north coast community gets together for ceramic conferences, firings, workshops, exhibitions and retreats, and social media also play a huge role in keeping us connected with the world’s ceramic community. What areas do you cover?
RICHARD JONES
RICHARD JONES’ CERAMICS FOR THE RAINFOREST T H E R E M AY B E N OT H I N G ‘C R E AT I V E ’ ABOUT POLITICS, BUT IN RETIREMENT GREENS MP RICHARD JONES HAS F O U N D H I S C R E AT I V E S I D E .
No longer pushing the Greens agenda at the political coalface, Jones is now a Possum Creek potter, engaging in his own alchemy, turning clay into beautiful works of art. This MP turned potter has a dream…this weekend he hopes to sell enough of his plates, bowls and cups at the Open Studio event to save one thousand acres of rainforest.
Still passionate about achieving environmental outcomes, Jones is hoping that his rainforest ceramics will help save one thousand acres of real rainforest. For some time now Richard has been donating part of the proceeds of the sales of his pottery to the Rainforest Trust which has already conserved millions of acres in Sumatra, South America, Africa and Australia.
The trail keeps growing, and this year you can find potters in their backyard studios, on the beach, or potting in dairy bails throughout the Ballina, Byron, Tweed and Lismore shires. There are open studios from Bagotville in the south to Nunderi near Murwillumbah in the north.
CLAIRE ATKINS How diverse is the work of the potters being visited? Across the 19 studios visitors can meet emerging ceramic artists producing contemporary sculpture, to potters with more than 40 years’ experience throwing and slipcasting functional ware. Potters like to set things on fire too, and each artist approaches firing in a variety of ways. Visitors can see work produced through reduction gas firing, oxidation firing, saggar firing, woodfiring, and there will be demonstrations in the dramatic and fiery spectacle that is raku firing! What should people expect on the Mud Trail? How long does it take? Do they get to make something? With 19 studios to visit, I strongly suggest studying the event program so you can time your travel and not miss out on workshops and demonstrations. There’s so much to do. Visitors can make a pinch pot, have a go on the wheel, be part of a community arts project, create porcelain creatures, decorate a handmade bowl or plate, see wheel-throwing demonstrations, raku firings and listen to artist talks. And let’s be honest, it’s a great excuse to go and have stickybeak at an artist’s joint too! Event programs are available from local cafes, galleries and on our website! Plan your weekend and download the event program at www. northcoastmudtrail.com.au, or pick up a mud map in galleries and cafes from Ballina to Murwillumbah. Follow The North Coast Mud Trail on Facebook. Entry to all studios is free. Saturday and Sunday 10am–4pm. Enquiries: 0409 937 718 or 6684 9194. www.northcoastmudtrail.com.au, www.facebook.com/ NorthCoastMudTrail.
Richard has hundreds of ten dollar pieces as well as more expensive ones. He can be found at 56 Gittoes Lane from 10am to 4pm this weekend. Will his dream come true? We’ll know on Sunday night.
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CULTURE
ONE OF THE PIECES ON SHOW AT THE OCEAN SHORES ART EXPO THEMED WITH ‘WHAT MATTERS?’ LAUNCHING WITH A BIG PARTY ON FRIDAY 26 AUGUST AT OCEAN SHORES PUBLIC SCHOOL
THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MORON Edwyna and Douggie are shipwrecked on this crazy island, captured by natives and sold to the maniacal Doctor Moron. Moron is an unprecedented hybrid film of a high-energy, full-tilt, completely original rock musical performed live before a live audience. The singing and dancing are amazing. The film is a visual and audio treat that blows people’s minds. What the audience experience when they this see this unique film is the live show on the ‘steroids’ of state-of-the-art film production technology. Following its successful screening at The Star Court for The Knitting Nannas, Doc Moron returns to the north coast for two special film-screening events – Bangalow Bowling Club, Friday at 7,30pm and Mullumbimby Civic Memorial Hall, Saturday at 6.30pm (fundraiser for The Mullumbimby & District Neighbourhood Centre).
Tickets at www. theislandofdoctormoron.com. Some tickets may be available at the door. Enquiries: 0427 660 401.
ART ABOUT WHAT MATTERS If you want to see the most innovative art in the region, don’t miss the Ocean Shores Art Expo. This exciting show boasts a number of new and emerging artists with unusual imaginative flair. And many established artists use the event to try out new ideas. At the Launch Party on Friday 26 August visitors will get to see works on the theme ‘What Matters?’ while sipping a wine, snacking on delectables, hanging out with local artists and listening to talented musicians. With more than 230 art pieces on display at the Ocean Shores Public School auditorium over the weekend of 26–28 August from 10am till 4pm. Visit www.osartexpo.com for more information.
ENTERTAINMENT COMEDY OF KINNE
This month sees Troy Kinne headline at the Big Gig Comedy Club at the Ballina RSL. Troy is often recognised from his performance on The Search for Australia’s Funniest Man DVD featured with FHM magazine in January 2006, But more recently as star of his own sketch comedy TV show KINNE on 7Mate. After his standup comedy debut, Troy won almost every young comic competition in the country, among which was the You Gotta Be Joking competition at the Comics Lounge in Melbourne. This win saw Troy receive the prize of a trip to New York to attend the American Institute of Comedy. Troy has since performed at a number of wellknown clubs in the US, including Caroline’s on Broadway, Stand Up New York, Gotham Comedy Club, the Laugh Factory, The Hollywood Comedy Store and The Comedy Cellar. He is joined by support act, Melbourne’s ramshackle raconteur and rock-comedy Lothario, Ryan Coffey. This musical comedy genius burst onto the scene as a national finalist in the 2008 Raw Comedy Competition.
TROY KINNE HEADLINES THE BIG GIG COMEDY CLUB AT THE BALLINA RSL ON THURSDAY 25 AUGUST His unique style has quickly gained him notoriety around Australia and abroad as one of the most exciting and inventive comedians to come out of the Melbourne scene in recent years. MC is the wisecracking mum of twins, and one half of the very successful Women Like Us comedy machine, Ellen Briggs. Thursday 25 August, 8pm. Free.
POLYESTER PRINCE AT THE PICTURE HOUSE
Bob Downe, the Prince of Polyester and Murwillumbah’s original perfect party animal is set to grace the Brunswick Picture for the House stage this month m now famous and highly acclaimed Cabaret weekend. As Cheeky Cabar most loved one of Australia’s Aust enduring comedy and endur characters, Bob Downe character promises to have the promise audience in stitches as audienc couples a signature he coup cheeky irreverence and razor-sharp wit with a razor-sh likability. warm innate in It’s hard not to fall in love with his madcap character as he glides and jives his way wa through an eclectic array arra of feelgood, high-energy show tunes and hilarious, laugh-out-loud l Unequivocally lauded standup. Uneq as Australi Australia’s greatest MC, Bob Downe will lead the charge on what is shaping up to be a standout cabaret THE LEGENDARY BOB DOWNE FEATURES AT CHEEKY weekend. CABARET AT THE BRUNSWICK PICTURE HOUSE
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A SCENE FROM THE PATRICK PEARSE MOTEL PRESENTED BY THE BALLINA PLAYERS AT THE PLAYERS THEATRE 9–18 SEPTEMBER. GRAINNE (BROOK LACY) AND NIAMH (JAIME SHEEHAN) FIGHT OVER THE FUR COAT WHILE DERMOD (DANIEL RICHARDS) AND FINTAN (MIKE SHEEHAN) LOOK ON WITH CONCERN Watch on and let your jaw drop wide as this multifarious clique of circus stars, tricksters, celebrities and extraordinary entertainers come from far and wide to present yet another not-to-be-forgotten Cheeky Cabaret weekend at The Brunswick Picture House. Friday and Saturday at 7pm.
Directed by Sue Belsham, The Patrick Pearse Motel will be staged at the Players Theatre from September 9 till 18, Thursdays to Saturdays 8pm, Sundays 2pm. Book online at www.ballinaplayers. com.au or at Just Funkin Music, 6686 2440 (a booking fee applies).
ART ON THE SEA TABLE LONE GOAT IN THE PAN Sea Table Art Trail is a marine conservation event being held around Brunswick Heads on Saturday August 20 from 11am till 3pm. Some of Byron Shire’s best artists are banding together to blitz the riverside picnic tables with ocean-themed murals that inspire people to help keep our oceans clean and protect what we love. There will be live musicians doing busking sets scattered around the trail of picnic tables, as well as beach cleanups taking place, and a large communal plastic-free picnic sponsored by Santos that the community can take part in and also bring a plastic-free plate to contribute. This event is a great opportunity for the community to enjoy the showcase of artistic and musical talent, while also learning about the ocean and getting inspired to protect it.
CHECK IN TO THE PATRICK PEARSE HOTEL The play The Patrick Pearse Motel has all the elements of hilarious farce. The two-bedroom set is arranged to make the most of the farcical situations and sight gags, giving scope for complications and confusion and simultaneous action. This hysterical bedroom farce will have audiences wondering how it will all end.
The artworks in this year’s PAN (Practising Artists Network) exhibition represent each artist’s interpretation of the poem Byron Bay – Winter by renowned Australian poet Robert Gray. A broad range of materials and media are utilised in the exhibition, which reflects the creative diversity of the artists within PAN. Opening Friday at 6pm.
WINTER FAIR FOR MULLUMBIMBY A few months ago the Mullumbimby Public School’s Winter Fair got rained out. So just before we turn the page to spring, they will be holding the Winter Fair this Saturday from 11am till 3pm, at the school grounds. With a Winter Wonderland theme, the fair will feature an awesome, sustainably created life-size igloo, fun winter games and a snow machine. Fun for the whole family: Kids can enjoy five rides and numerous stalls and games. Spaghetti Circus will be there to perform and run a workshop area, while sports lovers can get involved with the PGA inflatable hitting bay run by a certified PGA professional of Ocean Shores Country Club. The Brunswick Valley Bulldogs Junior AFL Club will also have some fun activities for the kids.
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Full program on our website: www.afnorthcoast.org.au
5 ďŹ lms over 3 days Fri 26 - Sat 27 - Sun 28 August Adults - $15 Concession - $13 (AFmembers, students and seniors) Child 13 and Under - $10 Festival Pass 5 films Adults - $65 non-members (save $10) Concession - $55 (save $10) AF members - $50 (save $15)
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ENTERTAINMENT There are fantastic raffle and auction prizes to be won including cash, music festival tickets, dinner vouchers, accommodation, attractions, activities and vouchers for local businesses. For the little ones, there’ll be a petting zoo and toddlers’ jumping castle.
cinema Reviews BY JOHN CAMPBELL
Adults can sit back relax and enjoy great food, barista-made coffee, sweet treats and entertainment. LYDIA LASSILA IS THE SUBJECT OF Live music performances on THE WILL TO FLY, A SPECTACULAR the day by local artists include FILM ABOUT AN AERIAL SKIER Miss Amber & Stukulele, Manoa, WHO ATTEMPTS TO FULFIL Tranzporters Family Band and HER GREATEST DREAMS. more. The school is this year SCREENING AT THE DRILL HALL also launching their first ever IN MULLUMBIMBY ON FRIDAY 26 Sustainable Snowman Competition. Community members, students AUGUST. from local schools and community groups are invited to join in the competition and build a snowman from completely sustainable and recycled materials. For registration details and major prize information The Will To Fly is the story of visit the school’s website. Olympic champion Lydia Lassila who, as a young mum against For all information and the on all odds, competing in one of day program please visit www. mullumbimb-p.schools.nsw.edu.au. the most dangerous sports in the world, dares to reach for an almost impossible dream. After winning the gold medal at her third Olympic Games in 2010, The stage is awash with bodies tumbling, lifting and clutching. Then, Lydia became a mother; she then returned to aerial skiing out of the darkness and gnawed by intent on becoming the first nostalgia, the Greek hero Ulysses woman to perform the most appears after twenty long years of complex acrobatic manoeuvre, an war and wanderings. Will he reach his faithful wife Penelope before she ambitious benchmark she set for succumbs to her suitors? Il Ritorno is herself as a young rookie, and one a ground-breaking new work fusing that had only been achieved by male aerialists. The Will to Fly is the Circa’s world-renowned strippeddesire to stay true to your heart, to back acrobatics with baroque chase your ambition and to fulfil opera. Over 80 taut minutes, it your greatest dreams. retells Claudio Monteverdi’s classic opera Il Ritorno D’Ulisse in Patria, Screening Friday at the Drill Hall intermingling it with folk song and at 7.30pm. Presented by Travelling new compositions. At the core of Flicks. Tickets $17/15 at the Mullum Il Ritorno is the hunger to return bookshop or travellingflicks@ home – saturated with loss and war, gmail.com. powered by longing and haunted by the past. Commissioned by the Brisbane Festival, Il Ritorno is created by circus visionary Yaron Lifschitz The Alliance Française North Coast in collaboration with composer is presenting another exciting and arranger Quincy Grant and is three-day French Film Festival performed by an outstanding cast of over 26–28 August at the Ballina singers and accompanists. Fair Cinemas.
BAD MOMS
THE WOMAN WHO FLIES
IL RITORNO
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL
Wednesday 31 August, Thursday 1 and Friday 2 September, 7.30pm. NORPA at Lismore City Hall, $22–50. Tickets: 1300 066 772 or www.norpa. org.au. Bar and diner open from 6pm. All ages welcome but best suited for 12 years + | Running time 75 mins. Join the cast for a Q&A after the Wednesday night performance.
SUNDAY FUN FOR FAMILIES
Upper Coopers Creek Primary School will be celebrating its fantastic community with a Family Fun Day this Sunday 11am–4pm. Nestled in a delightful valley out near Minyon Falls, the event is a chance to showcase this vibrant and creative small school to the wider community by offering a great day out for families across the region. With lots of games and activities planned for all, highlights will include free aerial circus, felt-making workshops and a jumping castle. There will be great food on offer and a secondhand books and treasure stall. Live music will fill the afternoon as the Fill Inns host an open stage for ArtWomb alongside a collaborative canvas and sketching for all to enjoy. Come along for a relaxed, fun and affordable day for the whole family.
On Friday at 5pm the opening night movie will be Un plus Une (One plus One), a romantic comedy by the famous director Claude Lelouch. The movie stars great actors such as Jean Dujardin, Christophe Lambert and Elsa Zylberstein. At 2pm on Saturday 27 the Festival continues with another comedy, Blind Date (Un peu, beaucoup, aveuglément), starring Clovis Cornillac and Mélanie Bernier. This film won the audience award at the 19th Annual COLCOA French Film Festival in LA and the Best First Film Award at the 2015 Cabourg Film Festival. At 5pm on Saturday the fabulous Noémie Lvovsky and Kyan Khojandi star in Rosalie Blum. This drama/comedy, with its themes of fraternity, love and the need for human connection, has inspired audiences around the world. On Sunday another two great movies screen at 2pm and 5pm. Microbe et Gasoil (rated M) follows the antics of two wonderful characters as they spend their summer holidays in a unique way. At 5pm Marguerite is the French version of the story of Florence Foster Jenkins, the wealthy ‘chanteuse’ who dreams of fame. Splendid satire!
THE LEGEND OF BARNEY THOMSON
Barney Thomson (Robert Carlyle) has not been with a bird since Shakin’ Stevens was number one on the charts. At the Glasgow barbers salon where he is meant to cut hair, nobody will get in his chair because he is such a bad-tempered, abusive ‘piece of shite’. But is his miserable grey existence enough to turn him into a serial killer? Maybe yes, maybe no, as a chain of surreal events put Barney in the frame as the prime suspect in the investigation of unsolved murders that include ghastly body mutilations and amputations. Holdall (Ray Winstone), the Sassenach detective who is a fish out of water north of the border, is convinced that Barney is his man, but he can’t nail him, much to the chagrin of his tetchy superior, Inspector Robertson (Ashley Jensen). Barney doesn’t help his own cause by taking a number of ill-considered options when in a jam, and matters are further complicated for him when he resorts to seeking help from his mother Cemolina (Emma Thomson), who has indulged in some bizarre activities of her own. In his first gig as a feature-length director, Carlyle has come up with a comedy as dour and dark as only the Scots, you’d have to think, are capable of producing. The dialogue is sometimes incomprehensible – subtitles will be essential if it is ever screened in America – but never to the point that you don’t understand what is going on. Best of all, the superb cast are clearly having the time of their lives. Carlyle is in his element as the angry little man who doesn’t get on with the world, Winstone playing the jaded, frustrated Cockney cop, does his usual shtick, and it is great to see Tom Courtenay as Superintendent McManaman. But it’s Thomson who steals the show. Barely recognisable at first, her accent sounds perfect as Cemolina’s crudity is laid on with a trowel. Beaucoup de thanks to the Pighouse for providing this as an alternative to Suicide Squad – I loved it.
If you were to compile a textbook on how to write a screenplay by numbers, this boisterous frippery would be among the first entries. It’s not bad, but if you don’t belong to the demographic at which it is aimed – ie put-upon, stressed, time-poor mothers – you might not get off on it as much as that target audience. It succeeded brilliantly with the ladies surrounding me (certainly it was better received than the very ordinary Ab Fab), so who am I to judge? Amy (Mila Kunis) is flat chat 24/7, working long underpaid hours while looking after her two kids (Oona Laurence is terrific as the bespectacled daughter who is shattered when omitted from the school soccer team) – not that her gorgeous looks are ever affected. She hits the wall when splitting up with her deadbeat husband and decides to put herself first for a change. Pursuing this radical lifestyle change, she finds allies in the tizzy Kikki (Christen Bell) and Carla (Kathryn Hahn), a hard-drinking broad with, of course, a heart of gold. There is a devilishly handsome and kind widower in the mix (California is obviously teeming with these eligible blokes, and they always seem to be raising a cute little girl)… What? You think he and Amy will get together?… The antagonist is Gwendolyn (Christina Applegate), a rich-bitch Nurse Ratchet type who is head of the PTA. The story follows its well-worn path as Amy challenges Gwendolyn’s presidency. The expletive-loaded humour is more or less Seth Rogen in skirts, including a discussion about penises that had my neighbours rolling in the aisles (what is it about knobs, anyway?). The movie stays afloat because, despite yourself, you really do want Amy to stick it up Gwendolyn, and you never doubt that it will happen. As a vehicle for the empowerment of women, it goes only so far – the sisters can do it for themselves, alright, but there is a nagging doubt that Amy’s more satisfying achievement will be to snare the widowed Mr Right. “An inspiring story of what it takes to achieve the impossible” NADIA COMANECI
LYDIA LASSILA
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FRIDAY 26 AUGUST – Drill Hall Mullumbimby 6.30pm Soup, chai, cakes. Film 7.30pm Tickets $17/$15 at Mullum Bookshop or Email travellingflicks@gmail.com
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THURSDAY 18 GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL, BYRON WALLFLOWER MEADOWS RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON 7PM DIRTY CHANNEL DUO BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 9PM VICTORIANA GAYE BAND STICKY WICKET, BYRON 9.30PM JAKE PAYNE WOODY’S SURF SHACK, BYRON 8PM DJ NERY MASONIC CENTRE, BYRON 1PM A JOURNEY INTO THE DREAMING WITH JAMES COWAN TREEHOUSE, BELONGIL 7.30PM PHIL & TILLEY BANGALOW BOWLING CLUB 7PM ROCK’N’ROLL DANCING LENNOX HOTEL 9PM JAM BALLINA RSL 8PM ELVIS TO THE MAX WITH MAX PELLICANO SCU UNIBAR, LISMORE 8.30PM NATIONAL CAMPUS BAND COMP FEATURING WHARVES, THE MANGO GOOD BOYS, LADYSLUG, MT PYJAMA, LAST LIVING PHANTASMS
FRIDAY 19 GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL, BYRON A LITTLE PROVINCE, ALL STRINGS ATTACHED, J MAN & THE PIGS RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON 7PM SOUL’D
BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 5PM LEIGH JAMES 9PM ELLA HOOPER & GENA ROSE BRUCE STICKY WICKET, BYRON 9PM LOCAL DJS 9.30PM NICOLE BROPHY WOODY’S SURF SHACK, BYRON 9PM LIVE MUSIC LONE GOAT GALLERY, BYRON 6PM PAN EXHIBITION OPENING SUN BISTRO, SUNRISE 5PM TESS LATU PIZZA PARADISO, SUFFOLK PARK 6.30PM LUKE BENNETT BANGALOW A&I HALL 6PM BANGALOW BLUEGRASS OLD TIME VARIETY SHOW BANGALOW HOTEL 7.30PM JEZ BANGALOW BOWLING CLUB 7.30PM THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MORON BRUNSWICK HOTEL 7PM BIG MUSIC BRUNSWICK PICTURE HOUSE 7PM CHEEKY CABARET WITH SPECIAL GUEST BOB DOWNE ST MARTIN’S, MULLUMBIMBY 6.30PM HOUSE OF BLISS & HEARTS ON FIRE COMMUNITY CHANTING MIDDLE PUB, MULLUMBIMBY 8PM KRAZYOKEE LENNOX HOTEL 10PM OCCAROCK BALLINA RSL BOARDWALK 8.30PM KATHRYN JONES & STEVE PASSFIELD WHARF BAR, BALLINA 7.30PM
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GUY KACHEL ELTHAM HOTEL 6PM ANDY BUCKLE KINGSCLIFF BOWLING CLUB STEPHEN LOVELIGHT KINGSCLIFF HOTEL 7PM BENNY D WILLIAMS SALTBAR, KINGSCLIFF 8.30PM JASON DELPHIN RIVERVIEW HOTEL, MURWILLUMBAH 7.30PM BILL JACOBI THE CHANNON TAVERN 7.30PM RUFF SCALES TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS 8.30PM ELVIS TO THE MAX TWIN TOWNS JUNIORS, TWEED HEADS 5PM DAVE CAVANAGH COOLANGATTA SANDS HOTEL 8.30PM KOFOA MCCOY CURRUMBIN CREEK TAVERN 8PM DEJA VUDU + STONE WITCHES + LEAVINGS + UVERSEU
SATURDAY 20 GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL, BYRON THE PINHEADS, AMYL & THE SNIFFERS, PANDEMIC RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON 7PM SUNSET JUNKIES BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 9PM SAMMY 2 TOWELS STICKY WICKET, BYRON 9PM LOCAL DJS 9.30PM NICK SAXON WOODY’S SURF SHACK, BYRON 9PM DJ JAMIE TREEHOUSE, BELONGIL 7.30PM THE GOLDEN MILE KULCHAJAM, BYRON A&I 4PM GROOVE WITH DJS MAGU, LEOCH, ANTON LEAF, MR HA! YES!, JOEL JACKSON, BLACK KARNIVALE PIZZA PARADISO, SUFFOLK PARK 6.30PM THE DETECTIVES BANGALOW SHOWGROUNDS 10AM BBQ & BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL BANGALOW HOTEL 7.30PM CHRIS FISHER BRUNSWICK HEADS 11AM SEA TABLE ART TRAIL BRUNSWICK HOTEL 7PM CHRIS FLASKAS BRUNSWICK PICTURE HOUSE
7PM CHEEKY CABARET WITH SPECIAL GUEST BOB DOWNE SOUNDSHELL, BRUNSWICK HEADS 10PM CENSUS AFTERPARTY WITH DJS BUDGET CUTZ AND INCOMPETENT MINISTERZ LULU’S, MULLUMBIMBY 11AM SAM BUCKINGHAM MULLUMBIMBY MARKET 8AM LOU BRADLEY MULLUMBIMBY PUBLIC SCHOOL 11AM WINTER FAIR WITH MISS AMBER & STUKULELE, MANOA, TRANZPORTERS FAMILY BAND & MORE DURRUMBUL HALL 6PM LIGHTBODY 8 WITH DJS NICK TAYLOR, MAGU, SLINKY, SHORT CIRCUIT, ASAF MULLUMBIMBY CIVIC HALL 6.30PM THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MORON MULLUMBIMBY EX-SERVICES CLUB 7.30PM COMEDY WITH MARK SWIVEL POINCIANA, MULLUMBIMBY 6PM JESSE MORRIS BAND OCEAN SHORES COMMUNITY CENTRE 5PM BUSH DANCE WITH THRILLBILLY STOMP CRABBES CREEK HALL 6.30PM LAST CAB TO DARWIN BALLINA–MURWILLUMBAH 10AM NORTH COAST MUD TRAIL BALLINA RSL 8.30PM THE BEARDS BALLINA RSL BOWLING CLUB 5.30PM GLENN MASSEY WHARF BAR, BALLINA 7.30PM LUKE YEAMAN LISMORE CITY HALL 6PM MY RADIO HEART LISMORE WORKERS CLUB 7.30PM TROMBONE KELLIE & THE MUDDY ROADERS TATTS HOTEL, LISMORE 8PM THE HUMANS OF LISMORE, HDM, ATOMIC MONKEY CHUNKS MARY G’S, LISMORE TONY FALLON PROJECT SHEOAK SHACK, FINGAL HEAD 2PM CHRIS FLASKAS MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES
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GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL, BYRON GARRETT KATO RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON 7PM MANOA BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 7.30PM REGGAE WOODY’S SURF SHACK, BYRON 9PM DJ OVAL B-SPACE, BALLINA 5PM JAM TATTS HOTEL, LISMORE 7.30PM THE COD SQUAD SOUNDLOUNGE, CURRUMBIN STEEL PULSE
TUESDAY 23 GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL, BYRON DAN CLARK RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON 7PM CHRIS ARONSTEN BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 8PM MUSICAL BINGO BYRON THEATRE 5.30PM MEET THE CANDIDATES Q&A BYRON PUBLIC SCHOOL 7.15PM NO LIGHTS NO LYCRA WOODY’S SURF SHACK, BYRON 8PM DJ ANTIBAD & DJ ASH BARLOW BANGALOW HOTEL 7.30PM BRACKETS OPEN MIC ST JOHN’S, MULLUMBIMBY 7PM TEMPLE ECSTATIC DANCE LISMORE WORKERS CLUB 7.30PM EMMA HODGES & THE SOUL COLLECTORS, MICHAEL ALVEY & THE RAILWAY SLEEPERS
WEDNESDAY 24 GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL, BYRON STEEL PULSE RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON 7PM HAYLEY GRACE BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 7.30PM REVENANT STICKY WICKET, BYRON 9PM JASON DELPHIN BYRON BOWLO MUSICAL TRIVIA WOODY’S SURF SHACK, BYRON 9PM DJ JAMIE BRUNSWICK PICTURE HOUSE 7PM AWAKE: THE LIFE OF YOGANANDA COURT HOUSE HOTEL, MULLUMBIMBY 6.30PM NEW POLITICS IN THE PUB WITH PROFESSOR STUART B HILL BALLINA HOTEL 6PM OPEN MIC
THIS SAT 20 AUG-7:30PM BOOK NOW
Australian National Theatre Live Screening: LIBERTY EQUALITY FRATERNITY by Geoffrey Atherden presented by Byron Theatre
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Sunday 28 August, 3pm Tickets: Full $25 | Conc $23 | Group of 10+ $10
MISS AMBER & STUKULELE’S STUKULELE’
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Friday 2 to Sunday 4 September By registration only: www.tangonut.com
THE BEGINNING & THE END Presented by Deborah Conway & Willy Zygier Thursday 8 September, 7pm Tickets: Full $38
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Saturday 27 August, 8.30pm Tickets: Full $25 | Student U18 $18
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INDEX Accountants ..................................... 37 Acupuncture .................................... 37 Air Conditioning & Refrigeration37 Antennas & Installation ............. 37 Appliance Repair ........................... 37 Architects........................................... 37 Audio Production .......................... 37 Audio Visual & IT ............................ 37 Bathroom Renovations .............. 37 Blinds, Awnings, Curtains, Shutters 37 Bricklaying ........................................ 37 Building Trades ............................... 37 Bush Regen & Weed Control .... 37 Carpet Cleaning.............................. 37 Chiropractic ...................................... 37 Cleaning ............................................. 37 Computer Services........................ 38 Concreting & Paving .................... 38 Concrete Grinding & Polishing . 38 Counselling....................................... 38 Decks, Patios & Extensions ....... 38 Dentists............................................... 38 Design & Drafting.......................... 38 Driveway Maintenance............... 38 Earthmoving & Excavation ....... 38 Electricians........................................ 38 Fencing ............................................... 39 Flooring .............................................. 39 Floor Sanding & Polishing ........ 39 Garage Doors ............................................39 Garden & Property Maintenance 39 Garden Design ................................ 39 Gas Suppliers...................................... 39 Glaziers ............................................... 39 Guttering ........................................... 39 Hair & Beauty................................... 39 Handypersons ................................. 39 Health .................................................. 39 Hire ....................................................... 39 Hot Water Systems ........................ 39 Interior Design ................................ 39 Ironing................................................. 39
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0438 139 938
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ANTENNAS
• RELIABLE TRADESMAN • JOBS UP TO $5000 • DECKS & PERGOLAS • TIMBER SCREENS & DOORS • GARAGE CONVERSIONS
For fast service call
CALL BRETT 0414 542 019
IWIRE
Kitchens .............................................. 40 Landscape Design ......................... 40 Landscaping .................................... 40 Laundry Services ........................... 40 Lawnmower Repairs .................... 40 Lighting .............................................. 40 Locksmith .......................................... 40 Mobile Mechanic ........................... 40 Motoring ............................................ 40 Osteopathy ....................................... 40 Painting .............................................. 40 Pest Control ...................................... 40 Photography .................................... 40 Physiotherapy ................................. 40 Picture Framing .............................. 40 Plastering .......................................... 40 Plumbers ............................................ 40 Printer Toners & Cartridges ...... 41 Printing & Copying Services .... 41 Removalists ...................................... 41 Roofing ............................................... 41 Rubbish Removal........................... 41 Scrap Metal Merchants ............... 41 Septic Systems ................................ 41 Solar Installation ........................... 41 Swimming Pools ............................ 41 Tiling .................................................... 41 Town Planning ................................ 41 Tractor Repairs................................ 41 Tree Services .................................... 41 Upholstery ........................................ 41 Valuers ................................................ 41 Veterinary Surgeons .................... 41 Video Production .......................... 41 Visa Advice ........................................ 41 Water Filters ..................................... 41 Water Tanks & Tank Cleaning .. 41 Window Tinting .............................. 41
Dukewood Homes
Servicing Byron Bay & surrounding areas
• New digital antennas • Reception problems * • Extra TV outlets • Phone sockets • Pensioner discounts
NO FIX NO CHARGE
SERVICING THE BYRON SHIRE
0402 022 111
David Levine iwireantennas.com.au
ORANGE STAR
*conditions apply
ANTENNAS PLUS YOUR DIGITAL AND PROGRAMMING SOLUTIONS
Friendly & Reliable
• Set top box installation and programming • Surround sound design and installation • All TV, telephone & electrical installations
Creative Carpentry
Decks, pergolas, verandahs, balconies, big & small renos and all other carpentry & building needs
0427 196 962
orangestar02@gmail.com
DIGITAL ELECTRONICS REPAIR & SERVICE TV. Audio. Antennas .......... 66843575 or 0414 922786
DINGO DEMOLITIONS & ASBESTOS REMOVAL ................................. 66834008 or 0407 728998 CARPENTER All jobs. Michael Dow. Lic 147675C .................................... 66291169 or 0412 967677 BUILDER – JOHN McGAURAN Personalised Service. 20 yrs exp. Lic 170208C .............0415 793242 BRICKLAYER Quality work, reasonable quotes. Lic 164155C................... 0423 474419 or 66849102 FABRICA JOINERY Quality kitchens/timber doors/windows. Lic 244652C .........................66808162 CARPENTER Insured & qualified. Homes, extensions, decks, free quotes. Lic 231104C .......... 0431 674377 rbacarpentry.com.au New & reno work, decks & pergolas. Lic No 243918C ...............0407 330326 BUILDER CARPENTER Extensions, renos, new homes, insurance, all jobs. Lic 19953Q ........ 0403 458177 CARPENTER Extensions, renos, studios, decks. Samuel Commerford Lic 266052C........0405 479528 BUILDER/CARPENTER Quality work with 40 years experience. HIA Lic 501442...........0410 442188
ARCHITECTS
BUSH REGENERATION & WEED CONTROL
Call Norm now on
0422 668 582
JP DIGITAL ANTENNAS Reception problems, new antennas, extra TV points, all areas .....0432 289705 BYRON ANTENNA SERVICE Call me first for fast service. Richard ..................................0401 190960
ANTIQUES / RESTORATION FURNITURE RESTORATION Old/antique, 40+ yrs exp. erwinfurniturerestoration.com ...0412 528454
APPLIANCE REPAIR
FRANK STEWART ARCHITECT Reg. 6075. www.frankstewart.com.au............................66856984 OCEANARC ARCHITECTS Reg. 6042 www.oceanarc.com.au ..............................................66855001 MICHAEL FRANCK ARCHITECT Reg 2454 www.keyturn.com.au..................................0414 660810 TROPPO ARCHITECTS www.troppo.com.au, e: byron@troppo.com.au ........................0412 571348
AUDIO PRODUCTION AUDIO & VIDEO RECORDING & Live production, crystalgrid.com.au ..........................0421 661910
P/L Native bush regeneration, tree planting and weed control. Fully insured and qualified with more than 12 years’ local experience. Free property assessments and quotes. Call Ross Faithfull 0409 157 695 a/h 6687 2943   e: faithfullrossco@gmail.com
AUDIO VISUAL & IT
WEED CONTROL SPECIALIST Bindii in lawns ...............................................................0418 110714 MOBILE IT – HIFI – A/V – home technology support www.tech-rescue.com.au........0419 996606 ECO EAST Ecological Assessments and Bush Regeneration ................0477 779847 or 0423 725422
CARPET CLEANING
BATHROOM RENOVATIONS BLUEDOLPHINBATHROOMS.COM.AU Lic 105283C ..................................................0405 148536
BLINDS, AWNINGS, CURTAINS, SHUTTERS
TLC
FRANCHISE OF THE YEAR!
Individual Tax Returns from $110
and Company tax returns. LBB Tax Services.....................................................................1300 981135 ACCOUNTANT – MARTIN McCARTHY ...............................................................................66874026 ACCOUNTANT BANGALOW + BYRON BAY The Office Accountants & Business Advisors ...66872960 BOOKKEEPING GST, BAS, ATO Reg’d. Annette ................................................................0419 627506 PROFESSIONAL BOOKKEEPER Phone Mark.................................................................0475 125478
CHIROPRACTIC
BRICKLAYING
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ACUPUNCTURE
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BUILDING TRADES
ACUPUNCTURE www.marlenefarry.com Facial rejuvenation, general practice.................66842400
AIR CONDITIONING & REFRIGERATION
“Chill Out� 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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STAIRS
INTERNAL / EXTERNAL OPEN / CLOSED RISERS
0408 740 480 / 07 5590 5696
Ph 6686 7911 Fax 6686 9047 admin@bbtimbers.com.au www.bbtimbers.com.au 110 Teven Road, Ballina
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 MICHAEL SCHWAGER & SHAUN CASHMAN Chiropractors 108 Stuart St, Mullum .........66841962 MULLUM CHIROPRACTIC Massage, chiropractic & fitness. 110 Dalley St .........................66841028 BYRON BAY CHIROPRACTIC CENTRE Bruce Campbell. 1/12 Tasman Way, A&I Estate ....66858159 CAPE BYRON HOLISTIC CHIROPRACTIC Shane Eade. 6/14 Middleton St .....................0467 660323
CLEANING
ACTION WINDOW & PRESSURE CLEANING
ACUPUNCTURE CHINESE HERBAL MEDICINE M Collis..................................................66842559 ACUPUNCTURE–TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE. Mary-Ellen Young .................0403 477972
Commercial / Domestic / Insurance
APEX CARPET CLEANING www.apexcarpetcleaning.com.au......................... Nathan 0412 926441 CARPET, UPHOLSTERY & more. No chemicals. www.mintsteamclean.com .....................66808097 AMORE CARPET & UPHOLSTERY CLEANING Eco-friendly ..........................................0429 726999
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EQUANIMITY SOLUTIONS Bring balance to your books ...............................................0448 103212
Green & Clean Cleans deeply, dries in 1-2 hours
0408 232 066
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GST, BAS. Quickbooks, MYOB, Xero, etc. Rentals, Capital Gains. Partnership, Trust
(02) 6684 1001
Carpet and upholstery cleaning, urine extraction, rust removal, heavy traffic areas, deodorising and sanitation. Far North Coast NSW John & Teresa
TAX RETURNS from $110 Individuals & $200 Small Business, Accounting/Bookkeeping,
CARPET CLEANING
Kevin & Margaret Bower
MAXIMISE YOUR TAX RETURN REFUND
ACCOUNTANT Paul Mayberry..............................................................................................66847415
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Lic. 266174C
SERVICE DIRECTORY RATES, PAYMENT & DEADLINE
Lic. No. 270262C
Service Directory
• Fencing • Decking • Structural Pine & Hardwood • Landscaping Timber • Logs & Sleepers • Lattice – Privacy Screens • Alternative Treated timbers for Vegie Gardens & Playgrounds
• House washing • High pressure or soft wash • Window cleaning • Driveways, paths & roofs • Gutters & yscreens • Water efďŹ cient • Free quotes Phone Joe or Helen 6684 4018 or 0412 495 750
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Service Directory CLEANING (continued) FREE QUOTES FREECALL 1800 683 838 MOBILE 0419 677 991 cmhwindows@gmail.com COMMERCIAL, DOMESTIC, SHOPS & REAL ESTATE FULLY INSURED
Not your average TECH shop
DESIGN & DRAFTING
#Computers #Accessories #Repairs #Support #Gadgets
BAREFOOT BUILDING DESIGN www.barefootbuildingdesign.com..........Bob Acton 0407 787993
1/29 Brigantine St, Byron Bay A&I Estate 6680 8324 techie2481.com.au
WorkRight Computer Support
DRIVEWAY MAINTENANCE CARPARK & DRIVEWAY MAINTENANCE CONCRETE EDGING
0418 156 909
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Personal tuition for: computers- web- iPad- iPhone
call mb 0409 211 041
WEB & GRAPHIC DESIGN WORDPRESS
Quality Exterior Refinishing
fullcirclerefinishing.com
PRESSURE CLEANING
Driveway, Pathways, Gutters, Roof. Housewash. MOBILE AUTO Decks. Pool Areas. DETAILING Carparks, and all Standard Wash to Full Detail surfaces
Body Corporate Commercial & Industrial
FOR PROMPT AND SUPERIOR SERVICE CALL MIKE 0449 175 732
info@rockservices.com.au www.rockservices.com.au ACN 169 810 762
Calmer Organic Cleaning End of lease & bond cleans, spring cleans & one off cleans, production, event & party cleans, sale cleans & home detailing
0411 567 844
SPECIALISING IN PRESTIGIOUS PROPERTIES
• Fully insured & police cleared • ABN 13 761 054 921 •
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RENT-A-GEEK Mobile PC Repair (Byron Shire) ....................................................................66844335 NERDWORKS Computer repairs, mobile technician ................................ 66846276 or 0413 379514 SAGARO MOBILE MAC SERVICES 24 years Mac experience ..........................................0435 353674
CONCRETE GRINDING & POLISHING
BYRON CONCRETE GRINDING & POLISHING Free quotes Ph: Chris 0408 536 565
DARYL 0418 234 302 OR 02 6680 1793
• We treat and restore new and existing glass • Reduce cleaning time by up to 90% • Lifetime warranty on glass • No need for harsh chemical cleaners • FREE no obligation quote
0405 986 246 | andrea@ezicleen.com.au | www.ezicleen.com.au CLEAN AS IT’S BEEN TEAM Home, Bond back, anytime, references ...................................66882372 DONE & DUSTED CLEANING Going the extra mile, professional, dependable...............0498 731447 DETAILED CLEANING Natural products. Please call 8am-6pm ......................................0410 723601 BYRON SHIRE DOMESTIC CLEANING SERVICE ............................................................0421 360961 BYRON HOME CLEANING Brunswick to Ballina & inland towns $35ph. Holly..............0451 102239
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Jai – 0467 482 948
EARTHMOVING & EXCAVATION
EARTHMOVING PLANT HIRE
Roadworks incl Driveways, Carparks & General Excavation 35 years in local area • Free quotes Phone Dick 6687 8418 & 0412 831 944 Dan 0423 877 102
TINY EARTHWOR Philip Toovey 0409 799 909 ph/fax 02 6684 3208
various implements available for limited access projects
Specialising in driveway construction & maintenance • Tip trucks 3 to 12 tonne • Excavator • Driveways • Roads • Clearing • House pads • Drainage • Carparks • Bush rocks • Rock walls
SALISBURY CONCRETING
Over 25 yrs local experience. All forms of concreting. • Residential Civil Industrial. • Resurfacing and rejuvenation of existing concrete. • Steel ďŹ xing & formwork.
Specialising in Asphalt Driveways, Subdivisions, Earthworks, Carparks and all Maintenance!
EARTHMOVING & PLANT HIRE
CONCRETING & PAVING
Training & assessment: earthmoving plant & forklift – nationally recognised qualiďŹ cations
FLANAGAN & SONS CONCRETING Lic 155456C. .............................................Ph Andrew 66841424 JASON COOTE CONCRETING All concreting work, form work, steel fixing Lic 261424C ......0421 957506 PLATINUM CONCRETE 20 years experience. Jobs under $5000. Lic 225874C. Justin .....0458 773788
COUNSELLING
IS YOUR SHOWER SCREEN STAINED – CAN'T GET IT CLEAN
EZICLEEN... THE DIFFERENCE IS CLEAR
Mob: 0413 028 111
Lic.136717c
Phone Oliver 0419 789 600
20 Year+s Exp.
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www.simplywebworks.com.au/education
email: impresswindowcleaning@gmail.com Reliable • Friendly • Professional • Fully Insured • Free Quotes • Affordable Rates Locally Owned and Operated • Quality Work with Over 10 Years Experience
Pressure cleaning Roof cleaning
Call Steven Butturini
confused by technology? We can HELP!
Call Glenn or Tracey 0403 428 232 or 6680 9901
Cars, Utes, Trucks, – interior car detailing, fabric and leather protection
BYRON ENERGY EFFICIENT DESIGN & DRAFTING www.beedad.com.au ...............0423 531448 UTOPIAN DESIGN & DRAFTING www.utopian-design.com .............................................66770151
www.workrightcomputersupport.com.au
Window Cleaning Professionals
Full Circle
DAVID ROBINSON DESIGN DRAFTING All Council & construction requirements ......0419 880048
PC Mobile IT Support in Byron Shire Pricing and more info visit: e! No call out fe Mobile 0422 804 449
Byron Eco Window Cleaning & Pressure Washing WINTER Environmentally Conscious. Specialising in Windows & Screens, SPECIALS House Washing, Gutters, Roofs, Solar Panels, Driveways‌ FREE QUOTES Call Sam on 6680 9123 or 0434 539 979
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PETER FOX Couple Therapy & Marriage Intensives. coupletherapyaustralia.com................66840469
0410 056 228 / 0427 663 678
STEVE BROWN EARTHMOVING Specialising in road repairs & driveways Rock walls, clearing, house shed and tank pads. Augers – hole boring. All general earthworks, excavators, positrack, bobcat, roller and tipper hire.
Ph: 6684 0160 Mob: 0439 840 160
LIMITED ACCESS EXCAVATION
JULIA BODKIN Psychotherapist/ SE trauma/ mediation – globalspiritevents.com ........0403 652067
Quotes within 48 hours • Locally owned and operated
DECKS, PATIOS & EXTENSIONS
Byron Bay and surrounds
The Deck Doctor
Sanding and ReďŹ nishing, Repairs and Maintenance, Internal Floors Richard Neylan richardneylan1@bigpond.com 0407 821 690 • www.facebook.com/DeckDoctor65
Adam Ryan – Kanga / Dingo work
0431 033 791
adambyronbay@hotmail.com
EXCAVATORS. ROLLERS. GRADERS. TRUCK HIRE. !"#$ %%
0418 665 905
PROFESSIONAL LOCAL CLEANER Excellent references. Good rates. Shirewide ..Krissy 0410 860330
Mark Stibbard
TIMBER MAINTENANCE
ECO-CLEANER Non-toxic cleaning with beautiful results. 7 years exp. Tessa .................0449 173056
All deck and timber: stripping, sanding, oiling, varnishing & painting
EVEN STEVEN’LL DO IT Detail clean top to bottom ......................................................0448 004182
COMPUTER SERVICES
Full Circle
Phone Oliver 0419 789 600 fullcirclereďŹ nishing.com
DECKS AND PERGOLAS Hardwood, pine, composites. Byron/Gold Coast. Robbie .........0409 244424
A NORTHERN RIVERS TRENCHING 65HP chain trencher, 1.7 tonne excavator, tipper ..0402 716857 BRENDON POWELL Earthmoving, landscaping, design & construction ........................0404 988222 BANGALOW MINI DIGGER SERVICE Exp operator 1.8 tonne multiple attachments .....0413 878978 R & J FIELD EARTHMOVING & BOBCAT HIRE All areas. Adam .....................................0423 101206 BACKHOE FOR HIRE Septics, trenching, electrical, drainage, roads .......66845260 or 0428 845091
DECK & TIMBER SOLUTIONS Free quotes. See localsearch.com.au for business profile ... 0410 062493 DIGGER, TRUCK, AUGER HIRE 20+ years experience. Good rates ...............................0402 652017 BYRON BAY FLOOR SANDING For a free quote phone Chris .........................................0408 536565 BRUNSWICK BOBCAT HIRE Good rates, very experienced operator Ilan......................0414 300012
ELECTRICIANS
BRUNSWICK HOLISTIC DENTAL CENTRE .......................................................................66851264
Education
61 Stuart Street phone 02 6684 6235 www.mullummac.com Mullumbimby
SHORES DENTAL Dr Shaun Goh & Dr Richard Conn. Rajah Rd, Ocean Shores .....................66803477 GAVIN STUART & MARTIN ACKLAND Banora Seaview Dental, Banora Point 30 mins north of Ewingsdale. Open Sat. early & late appointments ................................07 55234090 LITTLE LANE DENTAL, MULLUMBIMBY ...........................................................................66842816 MICHAEL LEACH 100 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby .............................................................66842644
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24 HOUR SERVICE
BANGALOW DENTAL In the Medical Centre Complex, Bangalow ......................................66872766
0439 624 945
AH
Domestic Commercial
02 66 804 173 All Jobs Small or Large
Lic: 154293c
DENTISTS
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FLOOR SANDING & POLISHING
DOMESTIC COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL JAMIE 0408 809 817 licence no. 201775c
0458 267 777
Lic. 211410C
BYRON BAY FLOOR SANDING • 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
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
VOLTMASTER
All electrical services for the the best prices Call your local electrician
Chris 0402 249 609
AW1241324
chrisvelectrical@gmail.com
NEW ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGIES Ph:
0419 556 639 Lic. 219161C
TIMBER FLOOR SPECIALIST
SERVICING ALL AREAS
Supply, design and install residential and commercial solar on and off grid, electrical renovations, new builds.
GARDEN DESIGN, FENG SHUI www.simplybeautifulspaces.com.au...........................Lyn 0428 884329 GARDEN MAKEOVERS Design, restoration & plant supply .............John 66841126 or 0431 745475 AUTHENTIC EX-KYOTO DESIGNER 17yrs+ exp. Consults, creates, maintains..............0427 423723
GAS SUPPLIERS Free Delivery
Locally Owned Est 18 years
No Rental Reliable
www.brunswickvalleygas.com
6680 1575 or 0408 760 609 GLAZIERS
0420 528 373
The Floor Sander NEW AND OLD FLOORS AND DECKING
24/7 EMERGENCY GLASS 0415 660 801
6685 8588
Mirrors • Security doors and screens Shower screens • Commercial glazing
Richard Neylan 0407 821 690
OCEAN SHORES GLASS AND SCREENS Glass splashbacks Lic No 61205C ..........................66803333 ALL GLASS BYRON BAY Shower screens & mirrors .............................................................66857200
ECO TIMBER FLOORS Sanding, polishing & repairs ..............................................Trent 0432 501721
GUTTERING
Email richardneylan1@bigpond.com
Electrical, Solar & Batteries
GARDEN DESIGN
www.oceanfloors.net.au
• Non-toxic finishes • Free quotes
lic 75692
TIP RUNS & RUBBISH REMOVALS 4m3 trailer..............................................................0408 210772 ACREAGE MOWING Cheap rates! 60 inch zero turn mower. Fully-insured. Julian...........0401 350156 JC LAWNS Tree & rubbish removal, tip runs, high pressure cleaning .............................0412 215232 AGED / CENTRELINK DISCOUNT Lawns, gardens, rubbish removal. Mark ...................0421 932945 GARDEN MAINTENANCE & MAKEOVERS Great rates, free quotes. Steve ....................0488 063646 BIO GARDENS Horticulturist for all your gardening needs. Reasonable rates ...............0459 175729
NJH FLOOR SANDING Eco wax, oils & water base finishes ................................ Nathan 0420 215716
GARAGE DOORS
Divert your existing unused solar power to your hot water.
LICENCE NO:175956C ABN: 03 113 342 699
Gutter guard Gutter cleaning Locally owned Fully insured Free quotes Call Junior for friendly, genuine advice and service.
www.spotlessgutters.com.au ELECTRICAL Steve Nicholls ph: 0455 445 343 lic: EC28753
SECURITY, DATA, TV Tim Nicholls ph: 0468 384 203 lic: 000102498
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
HAIR & BEAUTY HANDYPERSONS
COUGHRAN ELECTRICAL 24 hour service, Lic 154293C .......................... 0439 624945 or 66804173
PROPER JOB BOB
RONNIE SPINKS Everything electrical. Lic 27673 .........................................................0429 802355 BYRON BAY ELECTRICAL Geoff Bensley. Lic EC 34079 ...................................................0427 857824
For AllYour YourProperty Property Maintenance Needs For All Maintenance & Repair Work
CIRCUITS PLUS For everything electrical. Friendly & professional. Lic 201844C.............0422 668582 CHRIS APPEL. Ocean Shores. Lic EC 22349.....................................................................0422 607444
GARDEN & PROPERTY MAINTENANCE
RIC VESSIERE ELECTRICAL Lic 223948C. Quality work ..........................0407 588181 or 66771195 SOMERS ELECTRICAL Prompt & reliable. Bruns, O.Shores, Mullum & Byron Lic 283345C ...0438 350650 SPINKS ELECTRICAL Lic 284939C..................................................................Call Mitch 0421 843477 LIGHTHOUSE ELECTRICAL BYRON BAY Your friendly electrician Lic 233440C .............0450 631183 ELECTRIC BOOGALOO 24 hour local sparkie. Level 2 Lic 141097C ...............................1800 763911 Acreage & Residential Mowing | Gardening Landscaping | Property Maintenance Brush Cutting | Tip Runs | Fully Insured
POOLSAFE GLASS FENCING GLASS & ALUMINIUM POOL FENCING PROFESSIONALS 0499 178 297 psgfencingnsw@gmail.com NSW Lic# 204620C
www.jimsfencing.net
Same Day Response Major Credit Cards Welcome
Call
• Steel • Pool • Colorbond ® • Gates • Paling • Modular Walls • Feature Fencing
0430 297 101 / 6684 5437 info@byronbaymowing.com.au www.byronbaymowing.com.au
Paola Landscapes Pty Ltd Garden Clean Ups Gutter Cleaning Lawn Maintenance Irrigation & Repairs Planting & Lawn Edging Hedge Trimming Turf Laying Full Garden Maintenance Servicing Residential, Commercial and Government PLEASE CALL MATTHEW PAOLA 0431 871 245
131 546
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
FARM PICK UP PRICES Soft Leaf Buffalo A grade $8/m2 – B grade $5/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
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-Z Lawns & acreage, trees & hedges, clean ups & tip runs, all gutters ..........................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 • COMPLETE FLOORING SOLUTIONS MOW JOES Lawn & garden maintenance, ride-on mowing. Fully insured ...............Joe 0407 065849 • TIMBER BAMBOO LAMINATE VINYL • PORCELAIN & CERAMIC TILES • CARPET NICK’S MOWING Lawns, edges, hedges, local & reliable. Mullum, Bruns, O.Shores.......0418 792279 • FLOORSANDING • DOMESTIC & COMMERCIAL A GREEN EARTH Garden restoration, maintenance, tree & rubbish removal ................0405 716552 ALL TERRAIN MOWING Steep slopes, long grass, residential, acreage, local, reliable ...0419 225124 ACREAGE MOWING, landscaping, all aspects of property maintenance. Ph Luke ..........0407 981636 FLOATING FLOORING SPECIALISTS Timber & vinyl, residential/commercial ...............0415 454476 ALUMSDEN LAWN CARE Qualified Greenkeeper, mowing & edges ..............................0410 378375
FLOORING
Flooring by Wallaces
12/70 Centennial Cct, Byron Bay | 6685 5503
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Pressure*cleaning * Pressure• Cleaning Rubbish Removal * Property Detailing • Small excavation work
Call Bob on 0424 982 935
JIM LABELLE ELECTRICAL O.Shores, Mullum, Byron, Brunswick. Lic 176417C..............0415 126028
FENCING
GUTTERING & DOWNPIPES Guttermesh, Metal Roofing Lic 60414C Darryl Patterson..... 0414 889453 GUTTER MESH SPECIALISTS Pro gutter guard installs; tin & tile + gutter cleans ........0419 789600
HOLISTIC BEAUTOLOGY 1 Goolara Crt, Ocean Shores. Julie – Beauty Therapist ...........0488 728980
nichollselectrical@outlook.com
JP ELECTRICAL All electrical + Level 2 service provider. Lic 133082C ............................0432 289705
0405 922 839 or AH 6684 1778 ABN 180 623 364 42
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. All renos, carpentry, plastering, painting, studios & bathrooms .......................0405 625697 HANDY ANDY Carpentry, plastering, welding ......................................... 66884324 or 0476 600956 AWESOME REPAIRS Professional, commercial & domestic. Wayne...............................0423 218417 HANDYMAN CARPENTER FB Greg’s Handyman Service Byron Bay ...............................0414 109595 THE HANDYMAN CAN All home maintenance, repairs, painting, odd jobs etc .............0427 110953 EXPERIENCED, RELIABLE, DILIGENT All handyman & electrical. Lic No 5426752 ......0417 629849 YOUR HANDYMAN No job too small or too big. Qualified & Lic 203206C......................0424 158585
HEALTH • 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 CRANIOSACRAL BALANCING Najma Ahern, Practitioner, Tutor & Trainer .....................0402 230449
HIRE
Crane Hire
K ee pi ng it local
!
www.byronbaycranehire.com – 0418 665 213 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 DAKINI SPACE ALCHEMY Feng Shui – Interior Design – Property Styling....................0434 356864
IRONING THE IRONING LADY Suffolk Park. $28 per hour. Angela.................................................0414 719680
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KITCHENS
02 6681 6555
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
• Tyres • Batteries • Wheel Alignments MULLUMBIMBY TYRE SERVICE Dalley Street, Mullumbimby 6684 2016
YOUR PEST & TERMITE SPECIALISTS www.allpestsolutions.com.au
OSTEOPATHY
Garden Design Property Planning Vegetation Management Plans Development Applications
Obligation free consultation call Andrew 0478 519 804 30 years experience
Free quotes on active termites Environmentally safe
MECHANICAL REPAIRS, WARREN SIMMONS Byron Bay ..................................................66858500
ANDREW PAWSEY Landscape Architect
LEGENDARY OFFROAD TYRES
www.andrewpawsey.com
Sue Broadbent, Toby Mills, Andre Kleinbaum, Amelia Rocco Clinic open for Osteopathy and Massage Monday – Saturday 2/32 Mullumbimbi Street, Brunswick Heads. Tel 02 6685 1126
BEAU JARDIN Landscape Design & Documentation, Horticultural Consultation............0417 054443
LANDSCAPING
PHOTOGRAPHY
OSTEOPATHY at Mullumbimby Comprehensive Health Centre
Dr. Matthew Fourro (Osteo) Dr. Egbert Weber (Osteo)
• Sand • Soils • Gravels • Pots & statues • Lots, lots more
1176 Myocum Rd, Mullumbimby (just past golf course)
6684 2323 / 0418 663 983
Shaun Savage Landscapes
THE PEST MAN EXTRAORDINAIRE Second opinion / alternative views .......................0418 110714 BRUNSWICK BYRON PEST CONTROL................................................................................66842018 RAYMOND LYNCH PEST MANAGEMENT General pests & termites ..............................0418 850601
60 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby | 02 6626 7900
Tree Faerie Fotos
Professional • Commercial • Personal 30+ years experience in commercial photography and photojournalism
www.treefaeriefotos.com • 0417 427 518 NORTH COAST OSTEOPATHY Jodie Jacobs. Mon, Wed, 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 WHITE GOAT PHOTO STUDIO Product & Portrait. Byron A&I Est. Enquiries................0421 582286
PHYSIOTHERAPY
PAINTING
Established 2008 ~ Lic No: 247282c
BANGALOW PHYSIOTHERAPY Manual therapies, acupuncture, pilates. Specialising in: • Retaining Walls • Pool Surrounds • DEPARTMENT OF FAIR TRADING INFO: When dealing with home owners, painters are required Liz Thomas, Cally O’Hara, Kim Snellgrove .............................................................................66872330 to quote a licence number only for external work valued over $5000. • Block Work • Paving • TurďŹ ng • Stonework NICK EDMOND Physiotherapy, acupuncture. Open Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday Corner Dalley & Burringbar Sts, Mullumbimby.....................................................................66843255 20 Years Experience ANTHONY D’ORSOGNA Physiotherapy, acupuncture, hydrotherapy Suffolk Park 1 Bryce St ... 66853511 CLAUDIA MIRDITA Craniosacral therapy, physiotherapy ....................................................66857222 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE • Domestic & Commercial • Servicing all areas CONTINENCE / PELVIC FLOOR Janelle Angel ..................Bangalow 66872337 & M’bah 66723818 REPLICA ROCK SPECIALIST • Workmanship guaranteed PETRA KARNI Physiotherapy, Craniosacral, Alexander Technique. Byron ..........................66807207 GARDEN DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION AND MAKE OVERS • Attention to detail OCEAN SHORES PHYSIOTHERAPY Manual therapies, dry needling, custom orthotics, TREE LOPPING AND PRUNING real time ultrasound. Nigel Pitman, Alex Margan, Lachlan Dewar .......................................66803499 IRRIGATION + RETAINING WALLS + MUCH MORE EWINGSDALE PHYSIO Renata Tenta. Matrix Rhythm Therapy, home visits avail................66847838 FULLY INSURED, HOLDER OF 17 TICKETS AND LICENCES PETER FARRELL Physiotherapist, manual therapy & exercise, Mullumbimby ....................66843385 PE TER BL AND 0428 480 191 MARTINA DUEL Craniosacral, physio, dry needling, manual therapies. Mullum............0432 322998 STICK ANDSTONEL ANDSC APING.COM.AU LIBBIE NELSON PHYSIO – Acupuncture, yoga & therapy, BFL, Herbs, CS Byron Bay .....0416 369698 SUBTROPICALLANDSCAPES.COM.AU 20 years exp. Lic 231789C ................................0405 122456 TROY EADY Holdsworth House Medical Practice, Byron Bay...............................................66807211 BUSH ROCKS All sizes / mossy, can deliver. Ron ...................................... 66298208 or 0429 398208
0405 594 288
BYRON BAY
0438 784 226 • 6685 4154
Lic No 189144C
ALL-WAYS PAINTING
www.varendorfflandscapes.com Lic 39791...................................... 66845035 or 0414 842602
PICTURE FRAMING
LEMONTREELANDSCAPES.COM.AU Design & construction. Lic 277154C ....................0423 700853
BILLINUDGEL CUSTOM PICTURE FRAMING 7/1 Wilfred St, Billinudgel ........................66803444
PAVING Since 1984. Free quotes, pools, driveways. Lic 154706C. Val .............................0422 659901 PRIMAL LANDSCAPES & CONSTRUCTION Structural landscaping. Lic 295404C.........0449 846152
YVES DE WILDE
QUALITY PAINTING SERVICES
X FINALIST OF THE MASTER PAINTERS OF AUSTRALIA AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE X ENVIRO FRIENDLY PAINTING
LAUNDRY SERVICES
LAUNDRY
www.duluxaccredited.com.au
FAST TURNAROUND – AIR BNB
X 6680 7573 0415 952 494 X www.yvesdewilde.com.au LIC 114372C
• Self serve / service wash • New front loaders & dryers • Domestic & commercial services
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Lighting Showroom Open 9am – 5pm Mon – Fri Unit 5, 21-23 Tasman Way, Byron A+I Estate Free on-site consultancy 6680 7007 creativelightingsolutions.com.au
Licence No 97474
Painter and Decorator Over 30 years experience for a friendly hassle free job
MOBILE LOCKSMITH SERVICE Automotive car keys & lock installation/repair .............0412 764148
Byron Shire
INTERIOR/EXTERIOR • PLASTER REPAIRS CLEAN & TIDY • ALWAYS ON TIME • ALL AREAS Mobile: 0421 938 104 – 465 Uralba Road, Uralba
ABN 48867459605
NEIL A McINTOSH
LOCKSMITH MOBILE MECHANIC
AD PAINTING by John Hand. Lic 13246C ................................................ 0413 185399 or 66841249 KELVIN & ROBERT TEALE Painters & decorators. Lic R65919 ................0400 349027 or 0438 842731 EARTH & MARINE Diesel Mechanic, repairs & maint, hydraulics, small/large engines, vessels.0416 164638 BAY AREA PAINTING Lic No 289979C. Free quotes........................................................0405 609598
MOTORING
PEST CONTROL
Bayside Radiators
Lic: AU29498
PLUMBERS
0412 794 364
PAINTER
CREATIVE LIGHTING SOLUTIONS
COL JENKINS PLASTER Gyprock, renovations, repairs. No job too small ......................0401 078733 GYPROCK PLASTERING SERVICE New homes, extensions, renos, 40 yrs exp. Dave ......0457 117654
Licence No. 207479C
LIGHTING
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Chay 6680 5081 0429 805 081
ALAN MALONE
MULLUM MOWERS & MACHINERY REPAIRS Mullumbimby Industrial Estate............0423 204218
Serving Byron Shire
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Lot 4 Wilfred Street, Billinudgel • 6680 2444
DOMESTIC & COMMERCIAL
Professional Property Protection you can Trust
• Targeted treatments for all pests with “no sprayâ€? cockroach treatments • 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
• Fully licensed & insured • General residential & commercial maintenance • Renovations & extensions
• Drainage • Rain water tanks • Hot water system installation & service • LPG gas fitting & service
Call Luke 0488 730 888
OBLIGATION
Licence No: 249240C ABN: 162 408 139 FREE QUOTES!
CONNECT www.lcplumbing.com.au
ENQUIRE luke_cowan@hotmail.com
All Plumbing Blocked drains GasďŹ tting Solar Hot Water
0404 053 857
Lic. No. 206913C
LAWNMOWER REPAIRS
Lic 167371C
OPEN EVERY DAY
Windscreens & Air Conditioning
PLASTERING CONTRACTOR
anne.m.warwick@gmail.com
Mullum Wash House – 0439 001 545 Bangalow Wash House – 0412 302 246
“Where else would you take a leak?�
PLASTERING
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JARRAH DAVIDSON Plumbing, draining, gas fitting & roofing. Lic 187712C................0438 668025 BYRON SKIPS & RUBBISH REMOVAL 2, 3, 4 & 6 m3 bins available ..............................0450 300360 BILL CONNORS All plumbing/draining. Lic #1051 .................................. 66801403 or 0414 801403 TIP RUNS & RUBBISH REMOVAL 4m3 trailer................................................................0408 210772 I LOVE PLUMBING Call Steve Lic 148904C .....................................................................0412 916140 AGED / CENTRELINK DISCOUNT Lawns, gardens, rubbish removal. Mark ...................0421 932945 HRH PLUMBING Providing a prompt, reliable & efficient service. Lic 220755C ............0402 652017 DART PLUMBING Plumbing, roofing, gas. Byron Bay. Lic 1175539C..............................0421 334515 MARK STRATTON All plumbing & emergency. Sewer drain camera/locator. Lic 57803C ....0419 019035 ADM PLUMBING SERVICES… (NO JOB TOO SMALL)… Lic 234528C. ....... Call Adam 0466 992483 ED RIORDAN PLUMBING Ballina to Byron. Lic L6966....................................................0417 343480 BLOCKED DRAINS Drain camera, no dig repairs. Drain Pipe King. Lic 237124C ..............0427 217500 TILER/STONEMASON/WATERPROOFER Lic 24418C. Phone Karl ...................................66804103 @ BRUNSWICK BYRON AUTO WRECKERS FREE EMERGENCY PLUMBING All aspects. Prompt & prof. O.Shores. Lic 284496C.................0417 053708 E Buying: • Scrap metal • Aluminium E R TILER Shower leaks, wall & floor tiling, 45 years experience. Lic R91906. Phone Bob.....0410 428919 F ff for all • Copper • Brass • Lead • Car Batteries a TOW LPC PLUMBING Plumbing, draining, gas fitting. Sth Golden Bch. Lic 289868C. Luke ....0401 633222 vail for Drop owashing cars – unwanted steel, es and MATT WILSON PLUMBING Lic 10704. All plumbing, draining, gas fitting. Free quotes ..0408 665672 ca sh paid Next to Tyagarah Service Station achin
Flooring by Wallaces
SCRAP METAL MERCHANTS
BYRON CASH FOR SCRAP m
PRINTER TONERS & CARTRIDGES
dryers
Pacific Highway, Tyagarah 6684 2351
for som
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PORCELAIN & CERAMIC TILES
12/70 Centennial Cct, Byron Bay | 6685 5503
TOWN PLANNING
JOE DAVIDSON Qualified & experienced consultant, DAs, planning advice ....................0402 405555
SEPTIC SYSTEMS
TRACTOR REPAIRS
SEWERAGE MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONALS Installing, maintaining and repairing onsite sewerage management systems in Tweed & Byron Shires for over 25 years.
M 0418 754 149 P 07 5523 9930
PRINTING & COPYING SERVICES
NSW Lic. L10007 QLD Lic. 13395
PRINTWORKS Traditional / Digital art@mullumprintworks.com.au .................................66843633 TRINE SOLUTIONS Plumbing, draining & gasfitting. Lic 138031C ......................................66802358
REMOVALISTS
LPC PLUMBING Septic Systems Installed ......................................................................0401 633222
SOLAR INSTALLATION
BEYOND BYRON REMOVALS Ready for work within & beyond Byron Brisbane Sydney backloading For careful service & great rates
m 0428 320 262 e sunbeamsolar@bigpond.com w sunbeamsolar.com.au
phone 66801158 or 0408 004719
TRACTOR REPAIRS RURAL MACHINERY REPAIR SERVICE DIESEL ENGINE TECHNICIANS REPAIRS TO ALL MAKES AND MODELS
PHONE BILL: 6688 4143 – 0407 435 259 TREE SERVICES
JIM’S TREE & STUMP REMOVAL • Qualified Arborist • Tree Pruning • Tree Removal • Stump Removal • Mulching • Fully Insured • Same Day Response
131 546
Andy’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
HART TREE SERVICES 15” chipper bobcat cranetruck stump grinding EWP ..... 66849137 or 0427347380
From Middle Pocket to Middle Earth – just give us a ring
SUMMERLAND TREE SERVICES ............................................. Call Tim 66877677 or 0417 698227
• Freight services to Brisbane weekly • Carriers of fine art • Furniture removal • E-bay pick up & delivery
PETER GRAY Dip Arb. AQF5. Consulting arborist ...........................................................0414 186161
The expert in solar efficiency
6683 4829 / 0409 917646 Call 1300 18 20 50
LEAPFROG REMOVALS
SWIMMING POOLS
leapfrogremovals@yahoo.com.au
For tips & testimonials
Friendly Staff No weekend surcharge
search “Lighthouse Removals”
YouTube
Difficult Driveway ???
ATTENTION POOL OWNERS
NR VALUATIONS 25 years local exp. www.nrvaluations.com.au ...................................0428 694041
6684 3003
VETERINARY SURGEONS
(opp. Council chambers)
www.lighthouseremovals.com.au
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02 6684 2198
MULLUM VET CLINIC Richard Gregory, Erin Tottenham, Bec Patison. 24 hrs 7 days ..........66843818 VITALITY VETCARE Bangalow. Megan Kearney ..................................................................66870675
VIDEO PRODUCTION CAMERA CREW, LIGHTING, screens, projectors & editing, crystalgrid.com.au..............0421 661910
VISA ADVICE WATER FILTERS
SHE TILES
ROOFING DOMESTIC • INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL
Licence NSW: 30715C Licence QLD: 1227049
www.thepoolgurus.com.au Laurence Cook 0404 092 729
TILING
MAN WITH A VAN/TRUCK Reasonable rates. Phone Don ............................................0414 282813 LOCAL AFFORDABLE Brisbane to Sydney, 20yrs exp. travellingbenny@gmail.com .....0402 199999
ROOFING
Providing complete pool services • maintenance • pumps & filters • salt chlorinators • automatic cleaners • renovations • energy saving pumps
MULLUM POOL SHOP Water testing, eco products, mobile service, repairs................0418 666839 REGISTERED MIGRATION AGENT Rebecca@byronbaymigrationagency.com.au .........0487 458047
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VALUERS
73 Station St, Mullumbimby
free boxes and a 10% discount
042050 5395
BYRON BAY UPHOLSTERY Soft furnishings & outdoor......................... 66853745 or 0403 713303
BYRON BAY VALUERS NSW & QLD reg’d. Chartered Valuers ................... 0431 245460 or 66857010
LIGHTHOUSE REMOVALS
(02) 6684 5395
BANGALOW UPHOLSTERY Now at Billinudgel. Re-covering specialists.............................66805255
• All pool requirements • Professional advice • Water testing • Friendly service • Pool servicing
Plus Check our website for how to get
No Problem !!!
A VERY HANDY MAN TREE SERVICES Happy to help. Andrew ......................................0412 558890
UPHOLSTERY
Electrical License # QLD: 72258 | NSW: 227562C
0432 334 200 02 6680 8170
TALLOW TREE SERVICES Removal, free quote & full insurance .....................................0401 208797 OUT ON A LIMB Tree removal, chipping, stump grinding. Free Quotes ................ Lucas 0402 191316
www.saegroup.com.au
BYRON BAY’S LOCAL REMOVALIST MOVING THE SHIRE FOR OVER 10 YEARS
BYRON TREE SERVICES Qualified, insured. Call Alex ...................................................0402 364852
Metal Roofing Installations • Guttering Downpipes • Fascia • Skylights • Whirlybird Patios • Repairs • Leaf Guard
Craig Montgomery – 0418 870 362
Kitchens, bathrooms, laundries, tile repairs & waterproofing Leaking showers repaired & sealed NO JOB TOO SMALL • Free quotes & consultations
Dirty Tiles & Grout? ...forget pointless scrubbing
Our unique restoration process will make your dirty tile & grout look
BRAND NEW again... GUARANTEED!!!
Lic 297467C
9 Tile, Grout & Stone Cleaning & Sealing 9 Silicone 9 Grout Colouring 9 Re-Grouting 9 Epoxy Grout 9 Glass Restoration 9 Slippery Tiles & More
0432 643 345
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Free Quote
IN IN H
$379 Water purification systems INSTFUALLLLEY IN YOURD Fridge / Shower Filters HOME Whole house filtration systems
Phone Chris 0414 229 114
WATER TANKS & TANK CLEANING WATER TANK CLEANING/WATER TANKS Concrete tank repairs. All areas .. 66888055 or 0407 002833
RUBBISH REMOVAL BEST SKIPS BANGALOW 2m3, 3m3, 4m3, 6m3 & 8m3 bins .................... 0417 458149 or 66871544 OCEAN SHORES SKIPS Mini skip specialists ......................................... 0412 161564 or 66841232
6680 8200 or 0418 108 181
Lic. No. 216827C Because a woman understands excellence
Metal Roofing Guttering Leaf Guard Roof Restoration
BYRON COAST ROOFING PTY LTD Lic 252098C Guttering, leaf guard, cladding, etc ..0422 248936 ALL ROOF CLEANING Experienced roof & gutter cleaning + gutter guard install .........0419 789600
for home, commercial and rural properties
Call Louise 0478 698 186
Email: montysmetalroofing@gmail.com www.montysmetalroofing.com.au
Leon Condie
The Water Filter Experts
Female Wall & Floor Tiler _ over 10 years experience
Call Ben on 0456 606 911 www.groutpro.com.au
WINDOW TINTING SUNRISE W. T. NO BUBBLES, NO TROUBLES Cars, homes & offices ..........................0412 158478
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Classifieds INDEX Businesses For Sale .............. 43 Childcare ................................ 42 Death Notices.......................... 44
ECHO CLASSIFIEDS – 6684 1777 CLASSIFIED AD BOOKINGS
DEADLINE
Funeral Notices ....................... 44
PHONE ADS
Garage Sales ......................... 43
Ads may be taken by phone on
Display ads: 12pm TUESDAY Line ads: 12pm TUESDAY
For Sale .................................. 43
Halls For Hire ......................... 43 Health Notices ........................ 42 Holiday Accommodation ........ 43
6684 1777 AT THE ECHO HEAD OFFICE
Publication day is Wednesday, booking deadlines are the day before publication.
Ads can be lodged in person at the Mullum Echo office:
Village Way, Stuart St, Mullumbimby
RATES & PAYMENT
In Memoriam .......................... 44
EMAIL ADS
$17.00 for the first two lines
Items Under $100 ................... 43
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House Sit ................................ 43
Motor Vehicles ........................ 43 Musical Notes......................... 44 Only Adults .............................. 45 Pets......................................... 44 Positions Vacant ..................... 44 Professional Services ............. 42 Property For Sale .................... 43 Public Notices......................... 42 Readings ................................. 42 Removalists ............................. 43 R.I.P. Pets ................................ 44
www.byroncentre.com.au
Social Escorts ........................ 45 To Lease ................................. 44 To Let ...................................... 43 Tradework ............................... 43 Tree Services ......................... 43 Wanted .................................... 43 Wanted To Rent...................... 44 Work Wanted......................... 44
Mullumbimby
Market this Saturday 8am–2pm
LOU BRADLEY PLAYING LIVE Great local crafts, produce and coffee. Come and enjoy the vibe. No Dogs Please! Cnr of Stuart & Myocum Sts.
6684 3370
COSTUME HIRE, PROPS, SUITS & ACCESSORIES Open Thurs 4–6.30pm, Sat 10am–1pm, and by appointment
TAYLORS PROPS
Inside the Byron Bay Golf Club. Bring this ad in for a
$15 stylecut.
Ph 0497 042 650 Expires 21 Sept.
PROPOSAL TO UPGRADE A MOBILE PHONE BASE STATION AT Off St Helena Road, Mcleods Shoot
NBN Co plans to upgrade a telecommunications facility at (Lot 1, DP441480) St Helena Road, Mcleods Shoot NSW 2479 (RFNSA No. 2481001). 1. The proposal consists of the replacement of three (3) existing panel antennas with the installation of four (4) new panel antennas at a height of approximately 27.6m on the existing lattice tower; the relocation of three (3) existing remote radio units (RRUs) and the installation of six (6) RRUs below the proposed panel antennas on the existing lattice tower; the replacement of two (2) existing remote access units (RAUs) with the installation of three (3) new RAUs behind the existing microwave dish at a height of approximately 25.74m on the existing lattice tower; the installation of one (1) outdoor cabinet to be installed on the existing concrete slab; the installation of one (1) equipment shelter, to be installed on a new concrete slab within the existing compound; and ancillary maintenance works, including the installation of mounts, feeders and works within the existing equipment shelter. 2. NBN Co regards the proposed installation as a Lowimpact Facility under the Telecommunications (Low-impact Facilities) Determination 1997 ("The Determination") based on the description above. 3. Further information can be obtained from Duncan Lowis on behalf of NBN Co, (03) 9696 4009, dlowis@kaw.net.au and at http://www.rfnsa.com.au/2481001 4. Written submissions should be sent to KAW Consulting Pty Ltd Level 2, 95 Coventry Street South Melbourne VIC 3205 by Thursday 1st September 2016.
42 August 17, 2016 The Byron Shire Echo
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6687 7677 Mobile 0417 698 227
Sanfred 3-station boot-mount carrier. Bought new from Supercheap Auto for $129 used once. $80. 0414719680 HONDA TILLER S220 home & market garden necessity, excellent condition $500. 0412614719
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PROPERTY FOR SALE MULLUM Approved MO share, off-grid, 5 acres, house + massive studio with rental, amazing views $525,000. 0428132297
REMOVALISTS BIG & SMALL REMOVAL JOBS Local, affordable, reliable & quick Ph 66845510 or 0402199999
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6687 2479
ANDY’S MOVE & MORE Small & med moves, tip runs. 1 or 2 men at low prices. Byron & Mullum based. Ph 0429149533
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WANTED OLD MOTORBIKE any make, any year, any cond. Will pick up. 0427109195
TRAVELLING COMPANION 53yo woman seeks travel companion, male or female of similar age, to drive to Uluru and back, 5th to 30th Sept. I will supply car & all petrol. You will need to pay for own camping fees & food. Call Susan on 0427035121
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SUFFOLK 1br flat above main house. Own access, balcony, lge br, 2 sink bathroom, kitchen + microwave, dbl hotplate & yard with lawn. No smokers or pets. Rent + bills sgl $355; cpl $375. 0432966061
Beautifully furnished – 3 dbl bedrms, 2 bathrms – Air con – all utilities, wide wraparound verandas, set in a lovely garden. A few mins walk from spectacular beach, best bakery in Byron, shops, cafes DQG D WHUULÀ F SXE 5 min drive to the centre of Byron. $750pw + elect until Dec 12. M 0407 466 461
SUFFOLK fully-furn, self-cont studio with private courtyard, peaceful, n/s, no pets, WiFi, $350pw inclusive. Ph 0418275198
Tubestock to Semi-advanced
BYRON BAY FIREWOOD
Call after 4pm 0418 792 279 Sale price $69,000
FURNISHED 2 bedroom apartment Ocean Shores, overlooking rainforest, near shops. Available 2–4 months. $400pw. Ph Barbara 0412060316
The Largest range of native plants in the Byron Shire. 110 Yankee Ck Rd, via Wilsons Ck Rd Mullumbimby 6684 1703 Open Wed–Fri 10am–4pm, Sat 9am–1pm www.mcnativenursery.com.au
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STH GOLDEN BEACH 2br, wood house + deck to rainforest b’yard, walk beach. $450pw inc. 11/9-6/11/16. 0411583376
LP RECORDS: good condition, no op shop crap! Ph Matt 0401955052
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Ocean Shores Brunswick Heads Mullumbimby Pottsville
MULLUM self-cont, fully-furn studio, linen etc incl, $350pw. Avail now. 0415932965
BAMBOO PLY
from $10.50sqm & Bamboo Flooring. For ceilings, walls, doors, etc. Ph 66884188 • sample & brochure. www.bambooply.com.au
LAWN MOWING RUN FOR SALE
Local reg’d business 66845296 or 66845403 or 0413120970
Road base, gravel, blue metal and metal dust. ALL SIZE DELIVERIES. Phone 66845517, 0418481617
0488 609 774
3EPTIC 7ASTE 2EMOVAL
GIANT GARAGE SALE MULLUM Sat 8am, Qual toys, new & used. Great for Pre-school & Christmas. Bike, whitegoods, designer, ladies & toddler clothes, h’wares. 14 Coolamon Ave.
ARCHIBALD’S CHEAP QUARRY PRODUCTS
bookings@mullumcivic.com
TRADEWORK
BIKE CARRIER
Buy and sell good quality used furniture Ph 66842511
$30/m + delivery. 0424163784
Concerts, forums, weddings, exhibitions, functions, etc. www.mullumcivic.com
NORTH OCEAN SHORES 6 Kallaroo Circuit, Saturday 8–2pm. Goodies galore!
Dryers and dishwashers available at Bridglands Mullumbimby. 66842511
BRENT VERCO
CHIROPRACTOR
WASHING MACHINE automatic $180, fridge $170, delivery. Phone 0413589388
GARAGE SALES MYOCUM 58 Kingsvale Rd. Moving OS. Huge! Collectable/vintage furn, china, glass. Womens designer & retro clothes. Desert art, office, h/hold etc. 8-12 Sat only MYOCUM 149 Manse Rd, Sat. everything must go, lots of household stuff SUFFOLK PK 5 Hazelwood Cl, Sat 8am. Huge h/hold downsizing sale, all sorts
MAZDA 3 2010 auto, 12 mths rego, 73,000km, 1 female owner, log books, great cond, $14,250 ono. 0411844134 1999 BMW 528i TOURING Auto, silver, spacious wagon, 223,000km, 2 months rego – affordable luxury, $5500 neg. Ph 0413634948
BARGAINS 2004 Toyota Echo auto 56911km 5 Door hatch SN1479 ................................. $4990 2014 Nissan Pulsar ST auto 39748km. Immaculate very low km SN6796. $13990 2003 Hyundai Elantra manual 147110km. Ideal 1st car low km SN2497 .......... $3990 2004 Chrysler Voyager auto 94487km very low km family 7 seater van SN0001 2007 Nissan XTrail ST-S auto 165053km Fantastic condition SN5868.......... $10490
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BUSINESS FOR SALE
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New Brighton
GRANDMA from England seeks house sit in Mullum/Byron, Nov 2016 to Feb/March 2017. In Australia for birth of grandchild, refs avail. oshiadrury17@gmail.com
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HOUSE SITTER Reliable, mature, clean, tidy local employed professional. Your home cared for; your privacy respected. Excellent with pets, plants, lawns. One week or longer only. Ph 0427882488
$300pw, Unit, 2 bed, incl. water, lawns & gardens
THE POCKET
$300pw, Furnished Flat, 1 bed, beautiful bush aspect. incl. power, water & gas
6 Strand Ave, New Brighton 6680 1594 eldersnewbrighton.com.au
MATURE WOMAN experienced and responsible to lovingly care for your home & pets. Exc refs. Ph Megan 0488081089
SHARE ACCOM. MULLUM lovely old home, private garden, close to town, furnished, $210pw incl bills. No pets. Luke 0404062615
Bangalow
Landlords – we have qualified tenants looking for properties in Bangalow and surrounding areas. Please phone us TODAY for an honest appraisal.
BANGALOW own room. Luxury short or long-term. Cheap tariff. 0415523693
For more available rental properties go to
OCEAN SHORES modern house, unfurn room, own bathroom/toilet. For n/s worker $180pw. Ph 0437011066
19a Byron Street, Bangalow
www.eldersbangalow.com.au
02 6687 1500
MULLUM room in relaxed, n/s household, $160pw plus bond, WiFi, handy to everything. Fem pref. Ph 0413023631 BYRON CBD beautifully renovated room. Awesome house, f/f, TV, fridge, WiFi, $340pw couple. 0410515093 BRUNSWICK HEADS furn room, lovely old house, leafy, fem pref, $190pw incl all bills & WiFi. Greg 0415099761 SUNRISE room share in beautiful, quiet house, twin $160pw each, $220pw sgl. Bills incl. Pref female(s). Ph 0402923144 OCEAN SHORES large unfurn room with deck. Private creek & nature reserve. $200pw. Phone 0403607410
TO LET
BANGALOW Office or Retail Space Approx 38sqm. High ceilings lighting, beautiful teak timber flooring. Street frontage, small window space/display. Call for more details!
EUREKA
$460PW
Neat & tidy 3 bed 2 bath home located on beautiful rural setting. Verandah, dishwasher, gas cooking, freshly painted & wood fireplace. Available now. Pets neg.
6687 2479
bangalow realestate.com.au
BANGALOW SELF-STORAGE Hi-tech security. 66872333 STORAGE From $100/mth. Bangalow. Ph 66872833
Brunswick Heads
MULLUM 3br house $650pw & 2br unit, $350pw. On 1 acre property near hospital. Pets neg. scott@bremercleaning.com.au
Ocean Shores
ONLINE BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY Organic and high quality products niche market, simple to run, fun. Drop-ship. 30K + stock #1 in google groundgrocer.com/business-4-sale
BANGALOW 4br, 2 bthrm, DLUG, private home, $690pw. 66803555, 0437816128
ECHO CLASSIFIEDS • 66841777 •
BANGALOW RENT-A-SHED Modern & Secure from $130 p/m Elders Real Estate 66871500
BYRON SELF-STORAGE UNITS Clean & secure. Ph 1300762618
Bedsit $175 $3br 2bth 2car $550 5br 3bth 2car $650
Mullumbimby 2br 1bth $430 L.J. Hooker Brunswick Heads 6685 0177 5/16 The Terrace, Brunswick Heads
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BALLINA SELF-STORAGE UNITS Secure from $16pw. Ph 66867011 BANGALOW gorgeous self-cont cabin, suitable for 1 mature working person, avail 1/9, n/s, no pets $350pw. 66871030 BANGALOW cute self-contained studio/ cabin with lockable garage. Suit working n/s, d/f, female, no pets. $230pw incl elec, water. Bond & ref req. Ph 0410187712 HUONBROOK lovely 4br house on acres, creek, 25 min Mullum. Commercial stove, also suit yoga groups etc. 6 month lease. $550pw. Ph 0428237465
WANTED TO RENT WOMAN 50YO seeks cabin/studio longterm. Working, no kids/pets, n/s, pref unfurn, Byron Shire/Kingscliff/Pottsville. Up to $250pw or work exchange if higher. Exc refs. Ph 0490608131 or 66845426 COUPLE 29/40 seek cabin/studio/shed etc. Working, no pets/kids. 0402502330 See: glenntodd.net/echo/ MATURE WOMAN seeks long-term home. Brunswick to Burringbar area & surrounds. Gold star refs. Ph 0407622147
ITALIAN JOINT MULLUM looking for exp waitperson avail nights, RSA essential. Email resume info@otheritalianjoint.com MASSEUSE REQUIRED reliable & friendly for Gentlemen’s Relaxation Centre. 18+. Training provided for the right applicant. Gold Coast. 0418185791 GOOD DRIVERS WANTED NOW Shifts avail for taxis & hire cars. Training provided. Min 12 month Aust Licence required. Email: info@byronbaytaxis.com EVENING WAITER restaurant service, 3-4 nights (Tues-Sat). Email CV targabyronbay@gmail.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 photographer. Ph 0413627846 EXPERIENCED GARDENER 3-5 days pw for local gardening and mowing business, pref long experience with zero turn mowers, hedging & brushcutting. Call between 6pm-9pm. 0402487213
PRACTITIONER POSITIONS AVAIL for psychologists, counsellors, exercise physiologists, speech pathologists etc established central Byron integrative health clinic. Alongside osteopaths, dieticians, myotherapists. info@tonicosteopathy.com
EXPERIENCED CHEF Regular hours avail for an experienced chef who enjoys working in a small team with lots of customer contact. Casual beachfront vibe, great team. Includes weekends & evenings. Apply with resume, references accounts@cafenovella.com.au
CLEANING POSITION – BYRON Experience preferred, good rates & conditions. Ph 66809244 9am-5pm
NEED A RESUME? From $40. Jacleen 0403130165
FULL-TIME CHEF young enthusiastic chef to work in busy Asian restaurant, Byron. Asian exp preferred but not necessary. Email: enniswill@yahoo.co.uk
Front desk staff
for busy Byron backpackers. Must be able to commit to 6 months. E-mail: peggy@nomadsworld.com
GODDESSES – LEARN THE ART OF SENSUAL / TANTRIC MASSAGE Earn big $$. Call Magdalen 0490466413 CLEANER P/T with attention to detail & accommodation cleaning experience for 5-star resort near Bangalow. References, ABN & car required. Prefer no travellers. Ph 0411881717 and leave msg LOVE FILM? Got skills & free time to dedicate over the next 10 weeks? Join the Byron Bay Film Festival team www. bbff.com.au/volunteers
TUITION FRENCH • ITALIAN • GERMAN Eva 66846760 www.languagetuitionbyron.com.au CLASE CONVERSACION ESPANOL Para practicar y compartir en forma activa este hermoso idioma. Pia 0434485584 FRENCH CONVERSATION for adults & children with Sylvie at Lennox Head. 0423960520 or 66875407 MATHS TUITION Qualified teacher, 25 years experience. Grade 4 to HSC. Andrew 0413294982
MUSICAL NOTES QUALITY PIANOS for sale, and expert piano tuning. Ph Fred Cole 0412216019
DEATH NOTICES
WORK WANTED EXPERIENCED HORTICULTURIST for all aspects of gardening. Ph 0429020215
Coco Hamel October 30, 1978 – August 8, 2016
WORKING COUPLE seek studio in Byron, excellent refs avail. 0421245847 CHRISTIAN MAN seeks house, cabin, studio, caravan, unit, flat, or share home with other Christians. 0429489364 COMMUNITY WORKER 36yo seeks cabin/studio long-term in Byron Shire, up to $270pw. Exc refs. Ph 0411807078 WOMAN 52 graphic artist, seeks longterm, quiet, pref separate 1br or larger. Long time Byron resident, clean, reliable, n/s, d/f. Ph 0408908960
TO LEASE
Please email resume to sarah@italianatthepacific.com.au
ITALIAN REQUIRES A CHEF DE PARTIE.
POSITIONS VACANT
MUST BE ENTHUSIASTIC, HARDWORKING AND A GREAT TEAM PLAYER.
Applicant must have solid retail experience, be a good communicator, and a neat and organized worker. Ideally will also have some experience with paints and finishes and an interest in green building and renovating. Some heavy lifting involved. Email deb@painted-earth.com.au
CASUAL CHEF We have an exciting opportunity in a tourism/retail environment. Includes some weekend work. Please email resume and relevant references to info@ macadamiacastle.com.au
CASUAL CAFE STAFF
We have an exciting opportunity in a tourism/retail environment. Would suit a junior/school leaver. Includes some weekend work. Please email resume and relevant references to info@macadamiacastle.com.au
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by Ian Rogers The Baku Chess Olympiad is little more than a fortnight away, and despite a field of 180 countries, the Open Olympiad seems like a four-horse race. In the absence of triple gold medallist Armenia, whose players felt that it would not be safe to travel to Azerbaijan – a country with which Armenia is at war – Russia, China, the USA and Azerbaijan itself are expected to occupy the top placings. Russia, as usual, will be top seed, but not having won the Open Olympiad since 2002 and with Vladimir Kramnik under a health cloud, success is far from certain. China, the defending Olympic champion, has strengthened its team by including the previously banned Li Chao, having sufficiently humiliated the rebellious top 20 player by forcing him to play for his old Beijing team for the next five years. The USA now has Italy’s Fabiano Caruana – thanks to a million dollar deal – and Wesley So of the Philippines joining Hikaru Nakamura to create a top three all among the world’s top 10. However, a question mark New moon First quarter Full moon Third quarter Day of Sun Sun month rise set 1 M 0629 1715 2 T 0628 1716 3 W 0627 1716 4 T 0626 1717 5 F 0626 1717 6 S 0625 1718 7 S 0624 1719 8 M 0623 1719 9 T 0623 1720 10 W 0622 1720 11 T 0621 1721 12 F 0620 1721 13 S 0619 1722 14 S 0618 1722 15 M 0617 1723 16 T 0616 1723 17 W 0615 1724 18 T 0614 1724 19 F 0613 1725 20 S 0612 1725 21 S 0611 1726 22 M 0610 1726 23 T 0609 1727 24 W 0608 1727 25 T 0607 1728 26 F 0606 1728 27 S 0605 1729 28 S 0604 1729 29 M 0603 1730 30 T 0602 1730 31 W 0601 1731
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hangs over the US team’s reserve players – Ray Robson and Sam Shankland – leaving the possibility that Nakamura, Caruana, and So will be overworked and fade at the finish. Azerbaijan recruited the disgruntled German GM Arkadij Naiditsch (as well as some world class trainers) and has placed him on board five in a well-funded effort to win a first Open Olympiad team medal on home ground. Australia, with a three Grandmaster team, is seeded 45th, our highest starting rank for many years. The Women’s Olympiad sees China in Russia’s position: top seed as usual but regularly the bridesmaid since their last team gold in 2004. Russia, seeded second, is looking for a fourth consecutive gold, having ‘stolen’ Katerina Lagno from the Ukraine. Australia is ranked 52nd in the field of 139 with much hanging on the performance of Olympiad debutantes Heather Richards and Alex Jule. The two Queenslanders are featured in the latest issue of 50 Moves magazine, with strong views on the status of women’s chess in Australia.
AUGUST 2016
August 3 06:33 August 11 04:20 August 18 19:26 August 25 13:40 Moon Moon High tide, rise set height (m) 0441 1542 0702,1.19; 1932,1.76 0534 1642 0751,1.22; 2015,1.76 0622 1740 0835,1.23; 2056,1.74 0705 1838 0916,1.24; 2133,1.67 0745 1934 0955,1.25; 2208,1.59 0822 2028 1033,1.24; 2241,1.49 0857 2121 1112,1.23; 2315,1.39 0932 2213 1153,1.22; 2351,1.28 1006 2304 1240,1.20 1042 2355 0033,1.18; 1336,1.20 1119 0126,1.08; 1444,1.22 1200 0047 0233,1.02; 1552,1.26 1243 0139 0346,1.00; 1652,1.34 1330 0230 0454,1.01; 1744,1.43 1422 0322 0549,1.06; 1829,1.52 1518 0412 0638,1.12; 1911,1.60 1616 0500 0723,1.18; 1951,1.67 1717 0547 0806,1.25; 2031,1.71 1819 0631 0850,1.31; 2112,1.72 1922 0715 0935,1.36; 2154,1.68 2026 0757 1022,1.39; 2237,1.59 2129 0839 1111,1.40; 2323,1.46 2233 0922 1203,1.40 2336 1007 0013,1.32; 1302,1.39 1054 0112,1.18; 1409,1.40 0038 1145 0224,1.07; 1523,1.42 0138 1239 0345,1.03; 1634,1.47 0235 1335 0501,1.04; 1737,1.54 0328 1433 0603,1.09; 1830,1.59 0417 1530 0653,1.15; 1915,1.61 0501 1628 0736,1.20; 1954,1.61
Astronomical data and tides
Times are Eastern Standard. 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.
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Low tide, height (m) 0114,0.34; 1243,0.26 0200,0.28; 1330,0.24 0241,0.25; 1415,0.23 0319,0.25; 1456,0.26 0355,0.26; 1535,0.30 0430,0.29; 1615,0.36 0502,0.33; 1656,0.44 0535,0.36; 1741,0.51 0612,0.40; 1836,0.59 0654,0.43; 1944,0.64 0745,0.46; 2101,0.65 0843,0.47; 2222,0.62 0943.0.46; 2329,0.55 1040,0.42 0017,0.46; 1131,0.36 0058,0.37; 1218,0.30 0136,0.29; 1302,0.23 0213,0.21; 1346,0.18 0250,0.16; 1431,0.15 0330,0.13; 1518,0.16 0410,0.12; 1608,0.21 0453,0.15; 1701,0.28 0538.0.20; 1800,0.37 0627,0.26; 1912,0.45 0723,0.32; 2035,0.49 0828,0.36; 2202,0.47 0936,0.36; 2316,0.41 1044,0.34 0014,0.34; 1144,0.29 0010,0.27; 1234,0.25 0138,1.23; 1319,0.22
Alan Atkins proved his pedigree when he won the over-65 National Surfing Championship in Coffs Harbour last week. The surfing veteran has lived in Byron Bay for 20 years, and has another nine national tiltles to his name as well as 12 major placings. There was a good shoulder-high swell running into Coffs for the heats, but it had started to fade for the finals last Thursday, he said. In the big event Alan fell off a few waves after a good early ride, but he was able to pick up a bigger wave in the last minutes of the final to snatch victory.
‘You have to fight to the very end, unitl you hear the final siren. You just never know,’ he said. Alan has been competing in the National Titles since 1979 and first paddled out as a 10–year–old in Lorne, Victoria, tiding a board close to 10 feet long. For 20 years he was the chief executive for Surfing Australia. This kept him off the competitive circuit, but since retiring he has dived right back in. ‘It has been a great time to be invovled with surfing because the equipement is developing all the time. The design of the boards just keeps
on improving,’ he said. Alan’s boards are designed and shaped by Brett Munro, who operates out of the Byron industrial estate.
Malibu Club winners Alan is a member of the Byron Bay Malibu Club and does most of his surfing at Wategos and The Pass. Fellow club member Nigel Canterbury from Emerald Beach was crowned over– 40s Longboard Champion, while Jye Whyatt picked up an award for the Best Nose Ride, as well as winning the Junior National Logger Title.
Sunburnt surfers shock Bankers While a certain vicarious pleasure can be gained from cheering on our publicly funded elite athletes in Rio, back in Byron Shire the home-grown champs of the Shand Series live the full gamut of sporting emotions and go home with real grass stains on their pants. On Sunday the doughty country folk of Left Bank, match hardened by constant clannish infighting in the hills west of Mullum, took on the freewheeling libertines of Suffolk Park, the sunburned Swingers. The Bankers won the toss and asked the Swingers to bat with Lomath Oval a pretty picture but kind of fluffy and slow, just like a Kardashian. The Bankers got the best of the early exchanges, fab Phil (2/7) and Simon (2/11) showing that time erodes power, but not necessarily skill. With the Swingers wobbling at 3/15 Owen (35no) showed everyone who was top dog, and warhorse Wortho (36no) latched onto the late overs like a shellback on a lymph node. Blake (2/6) did well but the talented Azza and grizzled veteran Brian hung around long enough to bunt and bash the total to a credible 151.
The Bankers’ batting lineup is as long as the virtual queue on the census website and Scruff (35no) and the inform Leon had them showing record profits early. Fearless Chi’s dipping donkeydrops copped some stick early but he broke the opening stand and then Wortho (2/15) and Scotty (2/12) started ripping chunks off the innings like sharks hitting a whale carcass. The Swingers started to
believe, Jossco, Rocket Rod and Jamie all claiming scalps as the feared Bankers’ batting dissolved like a disprin in a glass of Coke leaving the Swingers winners by 40 runs and the reigning champs wondering what hit them. Next week, so long as the chronicler has read the hallucinogens menu correctly, the Geckos meet the Byron Full-Tossers to determine the makeup of the finals.
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Bluedogs win 11–0 as they chase premiership The Bangalow Bluedogs’ Women’s Premier League team won its fourth straight minor premiership trophy over the weekend, and are looking the goods to win the grand final again for the fourth consecutive year. The core of the team have been playing together now for a few years and have been able to nurture and develop juniors along the way. This has given the team continued success, manager Paul Hanigan said. ‘The club has a very strong junior base so mixing the young girls in with elite players such as Jade Bianchetti and Hollie Jarrett to provide the necessary mentoring has been pivotal to the team’s success. ‘Both Jade and Hollie have won major zone awards over their careers and will surely go down as some of the greatest players to compete in our zone,’ he said.
Over the weekend the team played two games. On Friday night they played away on a wet and greasy pitch beating Alstonville 4–2 and then backed up on Sunday afternoon overpowering Byron Bay 11–o. In the Lismore game Hollie Jarrett and Maillagh Parker scored four goals and Laani Winkler-Harding, Miranda Sochacki and Kendell Brazendale all scored one each. ‘Byron Bay were playing with a depleted side due to injuries sustained during the game,’ Paul said. The Bluedogs expect to play a home final before the grand final on September 11. The biggest threat to Bangalow premiership hopes is the Lismore Thistles. The season got off to a good start for Bluedogs, who won the Female Summer Youth League and Callan McMillan Shield, two pre-season competitions.
Bangalow Bluedog Hollie Jarrett goes shoulder-to-shoulder with a Byron Ram on Sunday afternoon. Photo Maralyn Hanigan
Magpies clinch a ‘nail-bitter’ It was a tough, hard-fought contest but the Byron Magpies AFL side clinched a nailbiting 8-point victory over a determined Ballina team on Saturday afternoon. A crowd of more than 100 were treated to a ‘nail-biter’ and the game was a case of ‘winning ugly’, Magpies ruckman Michael Young said after his side notched up a tally of 9.7.61 to the Ballina Bombers’ 7.11.53. At three-quarter time there were just three points in the game with the Magpies leading 7.5.47 to the Bombers 6.8.44. The match had the true intensity of finals football with both clubs showing in-
tent, with heat in every contest right from the opening. The game was largely a tense battle of the defences dominated proceedings. ‘The Bombers were impressive for much of the match and can consider themselves unlucky in not pulling off an upset,’ Young said. But Byron was good enough to absorb the pressure and they found a winning edge after creating something special in the dying stages. Goal scorers for Byron included: Kieran Atkin 3, Will McBride 3, Zeke Hower 1, Brett Porter 1, Dave Smith 1. For the Bombers S Thorsen and T Mclean kicked
two goals while J Leeds, R Walton and R Fajerman got one each. The result means the Magpies are the first side through to the 2016 AFL Northern Rivers Grand Final to be played at Cavanbah Sports Centre on Saturday 27 August. In the other preliminary final played on the weeknd the Tweed Tigers (16.13.109) overpowerd the Lismore Swans (4.10.34). The Ballina Bombers get a second chance to make the Grand Final when they take on Tweed Coast at Fripp Oval, Ballina, in the preliminary final on Saturday afternoon.
Wyte wins Champ round at Teven
Horseback gymnastics Four horse-vaulting clubs competed at the Byron Bay Equestrian Centre on Sunday as part of their preparation for upcoming state titles. Best described as ‘gymnastics and dancing on horseback’, the origins of vaulting can be traced to the ancient Roman games, where acrobats displayed their skills
on cantering horses. Byron Bay team members Maleka Mitchell and Gabrielle Orrock (pictured) used the event as a chance to master their skills ahead of the the NSW State Championships coming up this weekend at Mount Hunter. ‘We were so excited to be hosting this event, with such a high calibre of competitors,’
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Tesse Ferguson, manager of Byron Bay Equestrian Centre, said. ‘We know our audience will be in awe at the skill of these competitors and the beauty and grace of the horses they perform on.’ Clubs attending included Fassifern, Ella Springs and the Kingfisher Vaulters. Photo Jeff Dawson
Bill Wyte won the Men’s Division Stroke competition held last Saturday morning at Teven Golf Club. The event was the 2nd of four rounds for the 2016 Club Championship. Results: Bill Wayte (Net 52), John Harbisher (Net 55), David Fowler (Net 56), Roger Myles (Net 57), Rex Nixon (Net 57), Stuart McDonald (Net 58), John Mathias (Net 58). NTPs: 4th Ian McDuff, 8th Rex Nixon, 14th Bill Wayte. This weekend’s 9-hole Stableford starts at 6.15am.
Ian McDuff pushed through with his putt on Saturday.
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AWL Stall Animal Welfare League street stall Friday 19 August 8.30am–1.30pm at the taxi rank, corner of Burringbar & Stuart Streets, Mullumbimby. Cakes, plants, books, bric-a-brac and more. Please come along and support this worthwhile cause.
day. Admission by gold coin donation.
U3A Ballina/Byron Diane Hughes art appreciation session on 23/08/16 at 10am in the RSL meeting room, Mullumbimby. Visitors welcome. Enquiries 6680 7350.
Op shop sale Mullumbimby Uniting Church Op Shop – All baby and child clothing slashed to 50 cents per item for the next two Saturdays 8am–12 noon. Great bargains and morning tea provided.
Dunecare Day The Green and Clean Awareness Team’s monthly Dunecare Day Sunday 21 August 9am–12 noon, meeting in front of the Beach Cafe at Clarkes Beach. Enquiries Udo 0413 173 786 or Veda 6685 7991.
Mullum market
Cancer Action Group AGM
Mullumbimby Community Market Saturday 8am–2pm, cnr of Stuart and Myocum Streets, Mullumbimby. Lou Bradley playing live. No dogs, please.
Brunswick Valley Cancer Action Group AGM at 23 Fern St, Mullumbimby, 3pm Thursday 25 August. Jenny Batson (publicity officer) 0428 842 552.
Spring Quilt Show
Mullum Winter Fair
Lismore Workers Club, Keen Street Lismore, 2, 3, 4 September, 9.30am–6pm Friday and Saturday, 9.30am–3pm Sun-
Mullumbimby Public School’s Winter Fair is scheduled to take place on Saturday 20 August 11am–3pm.
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Practising Artists Network (PAN) Group Show 19–31 August, opening Friday 19 August at 6pm. The artworks represent each artist’s interpretation of the poem Byron Bay – Winter by renowned Australian poet Robert Gray.
U3A Brunswick Valley Tues 23 August 10am–12, Uniting Church Hall, Fingal St, Brunswick Heads. Ron Taylor will speak and show photos about his journey through Germany and other countries. Visitors welcome. Phone 6685 1732.
A Tale of Two Cities
Historical Society AGM
ADFAS Byron Bay presents Constantinople and Istanbul: A Tale of Two Cities, an informative and illustrated lecture by Sue Rollins, Monday 22 August 2016 at the A&I Hall, Bangalow, at 6.30pm. Doors open at 6pm. Guests welcome ($25 includes welcome drink and supper).
Bangalow Historical Society AGM on Monday 29 August at 1pm at Heritage House Museum, Bangalow. Enquiries 6687 2183.
Byron Sophia Byron Sophia Philosophical Group: A Journey into the Dreaming – James Cowan will be reading from his latest book The Cedar Forest, Thursday 18 August, 1–3pm, at Masonic Centre, Byron Bay. Info: Celia 6684 3623.
Coorabell Time Capsule 25-year-old time capsule to be opened on 26 August, 1.30pm – Past, Present and Future celebrations for Coorabell Public School’s 125th anniversary. All families and community members warmly invited.
Art Expo Ocean Shores Art Expo opening night is on Friday 26 August. Book the date now to come and have fun at Ocean Shores Primary School with ‘What Matters?’
Tax help Tax return doing your head in? Mullumbimby & District Neighbourhood Centre is offering Tax Help. Help is free at the centre every Tuesday by appointment through to September. Call 6684 1286 to make an appointment.
The Activists' Think Tank NGARA Institute PRESENTS
NEW POLITICS IN THE PUB This month’s discussion:
EMERITUS PROFESSOR Dismantling STUART B HILL Western Sydney University Neoliberalism. What you and I can do.
Wed 24th August 6.30pm
At the Court House Hotel, Mullumbimby Entry $10 suggested donation. Live music by Darpan. Delicious, healthy Courthouse meals available from 5.30pm.
Newrybar fireworks Newrybar Public School annual fireworks and bonfire spectacular Saturday 27 August, gates open at 4pm.
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Neighbourhood Centre Mullumbimby & District Neighbourhood Centre is open Monday–Thursday 9am– 4pm and offers a range of services and activities. Everyone is welcome to come and enjoy art, music, games, great food and more. Call reception on 6684 1286 and discover what is on offer.
BCC Seniors Activities Byron Community Centre’s Tuesday Seniors’ Activities are back on their regular schedule: 10.30am Elder Beats Drumming $10; 11.30am Morning Tea; 12 noon Chair Yoga $5. The Bay Community Singers Choir will be resuming its Monday class at 10.30am from 2 May, cost is $10.
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.
Meditation Bay Insight Meditation with Radha Nicholson and friends Tuesdays at Suffolk Park Hall, 7.30–9pm. All welcome. Please bring a cushion. 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 Meditation Group – 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month at Brunswick Heads Community Centre. Contact Katie 0417 798 726 or qld@shenpenaustralia.org for more info. Mindfulness Meditation with Pairoj Brahma, Melli O’Brien and Heather Albrecht Every Tuesday 7.15–9pm at the yurt, Temple Byron (www.templebyron.com). No fees, contact 0423 241 916, 401 359 559. www.themindfulnesssummit.com.
No-interest loans Byron Community No Interest Loans Scheme (NILS) is a not-for-profit community program providing people on low incomes with safe, fair interest-free loans of up to $1,000 for purchasing essential goods and services. Contact the Byron Community Centre to find out more.
Budgeting Support Money Matters is a free service helping people identify where their money is going, how best to save and, most importantly, how to get on top of bills! Contact the Byron Community Centre to
make an appointment; private sessions run every Monday afternoon.
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.
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.
Op shops
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 Tuesday-Friday 10am-3pm, Cnr Ashton & Deacon Sts Bangalow. Volunteers sought, please contact the museum 6687 2183.
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. Education Care Projects – Kenya Op Shop, 81-83 Burringbar St, Mullumbimby 9.30–4 Mon-Fri.
Drug support groups
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Call Alcoholics Anonymous 1800 423 431 or 0401 945 671 – 30 meetings a week in the shire – www.aa.org.au. Are you experiencing difficulties and challenges because of the alcohol or drug use of someone close to you? Learn coping skills and gain support from others. Confidential meetings in Byron Bay 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of the month, 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
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.
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.
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 Mullumbimby Neighbourhood Centre. Info: Leanne 0409 818 643.
Toastmasters Byron Cavanbah Toastmasters 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 every 2nd, 4th and 5th Monday in Mullumbimby 7–9 pm. Contact Ashni 0439 843 657 or Mani on 0488 433 047.
CoDA
Voluntary euthanasia options are discussed at meetings held quarterly on the Gold Coast. Phone Elaine 55808215
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.
Rainbow Dragons Abreast
Liberation Larder
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.
The charity that collects, cooks and distributes over 450 meals per week across the Byron Shire needs volunteers. There are a variety of roles. For information ring on 0435 879 778 or visit our Facebook page or iberationlarder.org.au.
End-of-life choices
Repair Cafe Mullumbimby’s Repair Cafe at the Mullumbimby campus of Byron Community College in Burringbar Street on Saturdays
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Byron FLEA Byron FLEA at the YAC (1 Gilmore Crescent) 2nd Saturday of every month from
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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.
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.
Potters & Sculptors Mullumbimby Potters & Sculptors The Community Art Gallery (Gallery at the Drill Hall) is open every Tues & Thurs 10am–2pm and on the 3rd Saturday of the month (Mullum Market Day) 10am–4pm. Pottery and sculpture crafted by local artisans for sale. The Drill Hall Complex, 2 Jubilee Ave, Mullumbimby. Enquiries: mullum.potters@yahoo.com.au
Mystery talks The Mysteries of Life and Death: A series of talks and meditations based in the ancient gnostic mysteries, Friday evenings in Byron Bay. Free of charge. Gnostic Society 0412 020 234.
CWA Bangalow Interested women are welcome to join our vibrant group on Wednesdays and Thursdays 9am–1pm and the second Monday evening of each month 5–7pm in the Bangalow CWA rooms for craft, friendship and community support. Rooms are open daily Monday–Saturday 9am–noon.
Mullum CWA The Mullumbimby Branch CWA handicraft group meets 9am–12pm each 1st, 3rd and 4th Wednesday of the month in the CWA rooms, Tincogan Street. Classes in crochet, knitting, sewing and embroidery. Enquiries Margaret 6684 2956.
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1. Inexperienced, callow (5) 4. Spoke forcefully, orated (9) 9. Traditional weekend meal in Australia (5,4) 10. Representation, working image (5) 11. Easy targets (4,2,1,6) 14. Entering, going inside (4) 15. Virgin country, untouched land (10) 18. Estrangement, turning away (10) 19. Operatic song (4) 21. Become composed and confident, achieve mastery or understanding (3,2,8) 24. Coarse, unrefined (5) 25. Veto for membership of an exclusive club (9) 27. Dismantle, destroy (4,5) 28. Pluck, courage (5)
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Backlash Twenty-three days and counting… We now know who all the runners are for the council election on September 10 and you can find out more about the 36 councillor candidates and six mayoral candidates for Byron Shire through these pages, at our online site echo.net.au/ council-elections-2016 and at the upcoming meet-the-candidates events. No doubt the Greens will be hoping for no bizarre defections this time around; their candidates look pretty reliable from their histories. The NSW Electoral Commission explains the arcane science of proportional representation at http:// bit.ly/proprepcouncil. Q Q Q Q
You will have heard that Mullum SEED, Mullum Chamber of Commerce and Mullum Cares have joined together to raise funds to install a filtered drinking water fountain and bottle refill station on the corner of Stuart and Burringbar Streets, outside Santos Organics. Council has agreed to install and maintain the station. The group is three-quarters of the way to raising the $6,000 needed. Donations are tax deductible and can be made online at mullumbimby.org. au/water, where you can also see more about the project, or in person at Mullum Mac or Stewart’s Menswear. Any donation over $30 will receive a 750ml ‘Mullum Cares’ water bottle courtesy of the chamber of commerce. Q Q Q Q
Our On The Horizon and Regular As Clockwork sections are always chockas each week, so it’s time to point out that we won’t be accepting entries for free events which are pointers to individuals
Tyagarah tiger moth pilot Bev Jeffery had an up-in-the-air experience of a different kind over the weekend when two male pythons had an ‘arm’ wrestle on her second-storey roof. One can surmise that a damsel was waiting in the wings to receive the affections of the winning bloke and will soon lay a clutch of eggs to hatch this summer.
‘wellness, health and spiritual techniques. Mostly we’ll be sticking to group activities such as school fetes, markets and dunecare days. Q Q Q Q
Tiny homes are all the rage, at least among people who don’t have truckloads of stuff, and locally the 2016 Tiny Homes Design Competition is open until September 1 in association with Sustainable House Day. There are three categories you can enter: Tiny Homes – A Pocket Neighbourhood, A Tiny Home and A Teeny Tiny Home. There is over $5,000 in cash and prizes to be won. To enter and find out more visit www. sustainablehousedaynr.org.
brainstormed Tofu Scramble Bay, Clogged Arteries Bay, and Keep the Doctor At Bay. According to Australian Geographic, ‘Eggs and Bacon Bay
in Tasmania is rumoured to be the place where Lady Jane Franklin, the 18th century governor’s wife, enjoyed, yes, eggs and bacon.’
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Animal rights group PETA’s request that Tasmania’s Huon Valley Council change the name of Eggs and Bacon Bay to Apple and Cherry Bay, in order to encourage better dietary choices, got taken a bit too seriously by some commentators, especially those addicted to bacon. PETA also
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