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Belongil residents take Welcome, 2018 on Railroad Company Paul Bibby

Byron Bay’s new solar train could be stopped in its tracks within six months if a local residents’ action group wins an upcoming court challenge over an alleged breach of environmental zoning rules. The Belongil Action Group Association (BAGA), most of whose members live near the train’s 3km route, commenced proceedings against the Byron Bay Railroad Company in the Land and Environment Court on December 15. In addition to launching the action, BAGA sought an immediate injunction against the Railroad Company which, if successful, would have forced the train to stop running just days after its grand opening on December 16. However, at a hearing on December 20 chief judge Brian Preston dismissed the injunction application, finding that it would have caused injury to the Railroad Company. Nevertheless, chief judge Preston found that there was a ‘serious question to be tried’ at a hearing in relation to the matter. While a two-day hearing is planned in May, the owners of the multimillion-dollar train operation say it will continue to run. In a statement to The Echo, a spokesperson for the Byron Bay Railroad Company said, ‘We have all relevant approvals and so will fight this claim.’ Meanwhile the president of BAGA, John Johnston, said the group’s members looked forward to their day in court.

‘Chief Judge Preston determined in his judgment that there are substantive issues in this matter, [which] should be considered by the court. ‘He suggested a hearing be expedited,’ Mr Johnson said.

Environmental zoning According to court documents obtained by The Echo, BAGA’s case against the train revolves around a small railway bridge that crosses Belongil Creek. The group argues that, unlike the rest of the 3km track, this section is covered by the W1 Natural Waterways zoning for Belongil Creek under the 2014 Byron Local Environment Plan (LEP). The zoning was put in place by Byron Shire Council some years ago to protect the Belongil Creek ecosystem and some of its recreational uses. Under this zoning, BAGA says, the land cannot be used as a railway and thus the solar train is operating in breach of the law. The Railroad Company disagrees, arguing that the bridge over the creek was used as a railway line in the past and remained in use as a rail line even after the 2004 closure of the Murwillumbah line by virtue of the fact that maintenance and repairs were conducted there. This means that the solar train is part of an ‘existing use’ of the Belongil Creek bridge and so the W1 zoning does not apply to its operation. The Land and Environment Court’s finding in relation to this argument is likely to determine the solar train’s fate. continued on page 2

Dancers from the Bunyarra Cultural Collective welcomed in the new year all over the Shire on Sunday – the first port of call for Delta Kay, Belle Budden and Nickolla Clark was the official Welcome to Country at Falls Festival before they headed to Byron Bay’s Soul Street for a big Jingi Walla! Delta was also up bright and early for the First Sun event at Cape Byron. Photo Tree Faerie

Tales from the Falls front line Eve Jeffery

Regarded as the pioneer of future bass, festival headliner Harley Streten counted down the seconds until midnight in front of 25,000 people on Sunday evening at Falls Festival. Known as Flume, the 26-year-old Sydney lad stood godlike dressed in white, inside a chrome and glass casket looking as happy as Larry as the new year dawned. Earlier in the evening, after that same 25,000 chanted his name over and over, Daryl Braithwaite stepped out to the absolute delight of both new and old fans and the country’s

biggest singalong got underway as he crooned his 90s hits. And on Monday, just as Dune Rats were getting warmed up, the sky split and all the water in heaven came to earth. The crowd was given fair warning by event organisers that there was rain coming, and most chose to ride out the storm enjoying the cool change and getting wet. Others got down and dirty when the deluge caused a small mudslide stage left of the valley, which gave punters a few minutes of slippery good fun before police and security had the area contained and a

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The man accused of murdering local DJ Chris Bradley in Byron Bay on Christmas Day will remain behind bars until the NSW Supreme Court decides whether or not he should be granted bail. Javen O’Neill, 24, faced Lismore Local Court on December 29 after being arrested by detectives the previous day. The arrest occurred as Mr O’Neill stepped off an inbound plane from Sydney at the Ballina/Byron Gateway airport. Mr O’Neill’s appearance at Lismore local court on December 29 was closed to the public and media owing to the court’s limited staffing over

Vanpackers should be welcomed into the Shire and given designated parking areas, rather than being ostracised for the actions of a small minority, a veteran van man says. Duncan Campbell says vanpackers have been unfairly tarred with the same brush following the grisly discovery of human faeces at an unofficial campsite in the centre of Byron Bay. Some residents and business owners have accused the van travellers of ‘invading’ the car park next to Railway Park and say the campers are not only taking up local parking spots, but have turned the site into a ‘toilet’ and a ‘garbage dump’, But Mr Campbell, who claims to be a vanpacking veteran of more than ten years, says the campers are being unfairly maligned. ‘It is a problem, yes, but not a problem that’s exclusive to vanpackers,’ Mr Campbell says. ‘You are just as likely to see someone who’s been out partying all night doing their business on the street as they’re stumbling home to their hotel.’ ‘Basically, at this time of

Vanpacker Duncan Campbell. Photo supplied

year you have ten per cent of people who visit the Shire who make a mess no matter what kind of accommodation they’re in.’ Mr Campbell believes that the vanpackers have been forced to camp in the railway carpark because there is nowhere else for them to go. ‘I don’t think most of them want to be there; it’s not a very nice area, but that’s what happens when you give people no other choice.’ He says instead of ‘directing hatred’ towards those camping in vans, the Shire should embrace them. ‘The first thing is to stop seeing them as the enemy and giving them fines or trying to force them out,’ he says. He also believes designated

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Local DJ Chris Bradley. Photo Facebook

the Christmas period. Meanwhile, police prosecutors have suceesfully elevated the matter to the Supreme Court and Mr O’Neil will remain in custody in the interim. Mr Bradley, who was also known by his DJ name ‘Dad

Bod’, died around 11.30pm on Christmas night at a home on Carlyle Street, Byron Bay. NSW Police Media had previously indicated that they were treating the death as a homicide and that it may have followed ‘an altercation’.

Big Yelgun festival site plans on display – up to 50,000 flagged The NSW government has put plans up for a permanent festival site at the North Byron Parklands, home to Splendour in the Grass and the Falls Festival. The Department of Planning and Environment (DoP) is seeking public feedback on a proposal to make cultural events a permanent fixture at the site. It follows a trial

period of five years, plus a 20-month extension. DoP say that upgrades to the site worth $42 million are proposed and include a conference centre, a permanent ‘golden view’ bar, terracing of the main amphitheatre, improvements to transport infrastructure, and restoration and maintenance of vegetation and habitat.

‘The site would operate 24 hours a day on event days; however, amplified music from the stages would be restricted to 11am till midnight, or till 1am on new years eve.’ To make a submission or view the Environmental Impact Statement for the proposal, visit www.majorprojects.planning.nsw.gov.au/ page/on-exhibition.

Pair charged with child neglect offences

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vanpacking areas should be set aside where vans can park legally for a number of nights and access basic amenities such as toilets and showers. The cost of this would be more than offset by the contribution vanpackers make to the local economy. ‘It costs more money to travel around in a van than to just sit in a hostel or a caravan park,’ he says. ‘You eat out more, you buy more fresh food because you don’t have a refrigerator… you’re constantly contributing to the local economy. ‘And you need to work to get the money for all of that, so a lot of vanpackers end up making a further contribution by working in the local hospitality industry.’

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A man and woman from Boorowa, west of Sydney, have been charged with child neglect offences allegedly committed in Brunswick Heads. Police were called to Fingal Street on Wednesday December 27 where they found a distressed seven-year-old boy allegedly locked in a parked vehicle. Tweed/Byron Local Area Command police officers removed the child from the car

before taking him to hospital, where he received treatment. Police say they were told by witnesses the child was allegedly assaulted by a man a short time earlier. It’s alleged the man dragged and kicked the boy, causing him to fall to the ground. A man and woman were arrested after returning to the vehicle and both were taken to Byron Bay police station. Police allege the boy was also physically as-

saulted by the man at a beach on Tuesday. The 43-year-old man was subsequently charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm, leave child/young person in motor vehicle causing emotional distress, common assault, stalk/intimidate intend fear physical harm and leave young person in motor vehicle thus impairing health. The man was refused bail and appeared in Tweed

Heads Local Court on Thursday December 28, 2017. The 45-year-old woman was charged with leave child/ young person in vehicle causing emotional distress; and leave child/young person in vehicle thus impairing health. The woman was given bail and will appear at Byron Bay Local Court on January 11, 2018. Arrangements are being made for the child’s ongoing care.

Belongil residents take on Railroad Company continued from page 1

Solar train service The solar train service runs between the North Beach precinct, which includes the Byron arts estate and Sunrise Beach community, and the newly constructed station behind Simmo’s garage. The Railroad Company is a not-for-profit organisation created by the owners of Elements of Byron, and they

have spent millions retrofitting an old two-carriage train with solar panels and rebuilding the 3km stretch of track. During the December 20 court hearing, Byron Railroad Company’s director of development, Jeremy Holmes, gave evidence about the financial impact on the company if the train were forced to stop running for a period of time. Mr Holmes said the company would lose $3,500 in

revenue per day or about $116,258 per month. The operation required at least 250,000 single trips a year to remain financially viable, Mr Holmes said.

Prejudice Chief Judge Preston found that, based on this and other evidence, an injunction would cause prejudice to the respondent. BAGA have long objected

to the operation of the train. In addition to their environmental zoning claims, the association says the operation is in breach of the Shire’s coastal erosion policy, and that the train has an unfair impact on the residents whose homes lie along the 3km route. The latter two of these claims are not part of the court action. The matter will return to court for a directions hearing on February 23.

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Saddle Road retirement village mooted Hans Lovejoy

While ‘absolutely opposed’ to rezoning Saddle Road to village or residential, Saddle Road resident Matthew ‘Cleva’ O’Reilly has lodged his own expression of interest (EOI) with Council for a seniors’ affordable housing project on the five-hectare property he manages. It comes in response to an invitation by Council for landowners to submit EOIs for affordable-housing projects. As previously reported, five other landowners lodged a large planning proposal with Council – which has an affordable-housing component – on the picturesque ridgeline between Mullumbimby and Brunswick Heads. Twenty two-bedroom selfcontained villa-style seniors’ dwelling are proposed by Mr O’Reilly, along with a seniors hostel with 40 one-bedrooms. Additional buildings are also proposed, including 12 farmstay cabins for temporary visitor accommodation and ancillary workers’ dwellings. Mr O’Reilly lodged the proposal along with ten other landowners, and acknowledged that ‘it is somewhat a conflicting position,’ given his opposition to rezoning the area. Mr O’Reilly believes his proposal can be achieved through existing legislation and without the need for a Council-led rezoning. He said, ‘All we have proposed is a better way for Council to manage secondary dwellings, dual occupancies, rural visitors’ cabins and group homes in rural areas

Matthew ‘Cleva’ O’Reilly. Photo Tree Faerie

to ensure they are really used for affordable housing and not for high rents and holiday accommodation.’ ‘I still think the ideas in the report are well worth Council’s implementing Shire-wide. In many ways, it is entirely an academic exercise… but I do hope changes in Council affordable-housing policies may flow from our submissions.’

Conditions He said, ‘As conditions of approval, we propose to cap rents at an average of 36 per cent of the average Byron Shire weekly income and will agree to provide an annual report to Council showing the leases, rental rates and lease terms during the previous financial year. ‘We also agree to limit short-term rental of 30 days or less of the farmstay cabins to less than 50 per cent of the total lease nights. The remainder of over 50 per cent will be for temporary lease of between three and 12 months, targeting single-parent families who are homeless or between homes.’ He says that in the last year, his group have been open to negotiating ‘other develop-

ment outcomes on Saddle Road that maintain its rural, agricultural, scenic, cultural and environmental values.’ ‘We even put an alternative proposal to Bruns Eco Village (BEV) and the Borrodales back over a year ago. ‘We proposed rural residential development in clusters around the three existing housing sites on Saddle Road. This would have maintained the bulk of the road in its current state.’ Mr O’Reilly says after his compromise was ‘flatly refused’ by those neighbours, ‘we had no choice but to argue against their all-out urbanisation of Saddle Road.’

Pollution alleged Meanwhile, staff have accused Mr O’Reilly of pollution on the property he manages, an allegation he strongly denies. As reported last week, Mr O’Reilly lodged two code of conduct complaints against mayor Simon Richardson, one of which relates to what he says is a vexatious pursuit of his approved earthworks by compliance staff. Council’s legal services coordinator Ralph James out-

lined in a statement the reasoning for a prevention order on works being carried out. A ‘major pollution event’ was a result of works carried out on the property on December 27, 2017, claimed Mr James, which would ‘likely impact on the environmental values of Simpsons Creek.’ Mr O’Reilly replied, ‘We commissioned a Waterways Assessment, which determined that there were no creeks or waterways on the property. ‘[Staff] are referring to some mud on Gulgan Road, which came off wheel tracks of a truck exiting our property. I was notified of this incident, and can clarify that the mud on the road was a direct result of Byron Council’s prevention notice.’ ‘Council have ordered us to seal all of our roads and undertake additional sediment and erosion control works and we are legally obliged to comply, despite our appeal. Consequently, we are undertaking further sediment and erosion control works to seal the roads starting early January in compliance with Council’s prevention notice. Mr O’Reilly said Mr James’s statement makes ‘no assertion that I have undertaken any “unauthorised activities”,’ nor is there any mention ‘of any illegal vegetation removal which the mayor keeps referring to.’ He added he will be defending Council’s claims and has ‘retained six separate consultants who are producing reports that contradict Council’s position.’

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Correction Renee Simone was named as a musician on last week’s front page story. While she is a musician, she is also the creative director of Soul Street. Also in the photo was Jo Jo, who is a dancer, not creative director.

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Local GP Michael Pelmore retires Aslan Shand

Retiring from medical practice he may be, but wellknown local doctor and musician Michael Pelmore still has much to do. Having discovered the northern rivers as part of the counterculture in 1974, it wasn’t long before he left England and set up home in Mullumbimby. Michael arrived with his family, April and baby son, in 1976 and joined Dr David Miller in practice at the old town clerk’s office in Mullumbimby. When David left and moved north in 1980, Michael was joined by his old mate Dr Giles Taylor with whom he trained in London. They had lived at Meadows Road, Vauxhall, and gave the name of that road to the Meadows Medical Centre. As a key part of the local medical community since his arrival, Michael also worked at the Mullumbimby District Hospital doing inpatient, anaesthetics, obstetrics and emergency work. He delivered about 800 babies. ‘My first babies I delivered are now 41 years old.’ he smiled. ‘I suddenly realised how long I had been here when I was teaching a medical student and a patient came in with her young daughter and said to him “Dr Pelmore delivered my husband.”’ For 41 years Michael has provided continuous medical service to the local community, only finishing his hospital work when the Mullumbimby Hospital closed. He was also chair of MHAG, the

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A not so recent photo of Drs Deborah Tattersal, Ian Kingston, Giles Taylor, Michael Pelmore (AKA Dr Maxwell Pelican) and Peter Bowles. Centre stage is Maxwell Pelican, a statue that accompanied Dr Pelmore when he performed for local primary schools. Photo supplied

group responsible for securing the Mullumbimby Hospital site to remain in community hands.

Awarded OAM In 2014, Michael was awarded an OAM (Order of Australia Medal) for services to the community and medicine. These services included MC work for fundraising nights, musical concerts and performing original songs in the primary schools and preschools in the local area with his alter ego Dr Maxwell Pelican. The two albums of his music for children, involving Dr Pelican, were Get Well Soon and Well, Well, Well. They melded medical themes for healthy lifestyles with catchy jingles. Michael won three Dolphin awards for them. The concerts provided

a lot of fun for the children. In his retirement Michael intends to keep playing music with his dear friend John Bushelle. He is also hoping to write more songs for their band, which is aptly named It’s Probably Us. ‘It’s a great pleasure playing music. That’s what life is all about – making people happy,’ he smiled. Dr Peter Bowles has been a longtime partner and cofounder of the Meadows Medical Centre. He said, ‘We’ve worked together for thirty-one years and it has been an absolute pleasure to work with him’, said Peter. Michael is planning to enjoy his retirement travelling, gardening, kayaking, cycling, playing music and, he hopes, writing some more Dr Pelican songs for his three young grandchildren.

After all, Dr Pelican is the one of the last of the bulk billers! ‘It’s been a privilege living here in Mullumbimby and a wonderful evolution and honour getting to know so many families over four decades’. ‘It is an eclectic, diverse and of course eccentric community. Quite special in a Mullumbimby sort of way. Long may it continue to thrive.’

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Stop Adani group prepares for actvism The northern rivers Stop Adani Group will be heading to the QLD frontline for further collective action against the proposed Adani coal mine on January 13. Organisers are holding a social and info night at the Mullumbimby Commons, located at 91 Main Arm Road, on January 9 from 6.30pm. Organisers say, ‘The Commons is an awesome new community space that promotes collective creativity, learning and custodianship.’ ‘The night will include quality food and chai. We have also organised to project uncut and rare footage and share stories from the blockade camp at Bowen.’ ‘Protecting the Great Artesian Basin is the major environmental issue of our time.

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‘It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of Australians are aware and mobilising on multiple levels. ‘The public’s awareness is greater than on any environmental issue in Australian history. Come and join the local crew stopping Adani

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Local News NAPLAN data shows inequity: AEU NAPLAN data released recently add to the growing body of evidence showing ongoing inequity, claims the Australian Education Union (AEU). AEU federal president Correna Haythorpe said the results showed that students from disadvantaged backgrounds are being denied the means to reach their full potential. ‘Australia’s overall performance on the NAPLAN test has plateaued, while critical gaps in student achievement remain. ‘These results highlight the deep inequity in our school

funding system. Students from low socio-economic backgrounds, Indigenous students and students in rural and remote communities bear the brunt of funding inequities,’ said Ms Haythorpe. ‘When we look at Year Five children, we see achievement gaps of two years or more in reading, writing and numeracy between students whose parents are highly educated and students whose parents have a limited education.’ ‘Those gaps widen as a student progresses through their schooling.’

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New art space for Byron CBD The Byron Bay Gallery has opened its doors in the heart of the CBD, located at 17 Lawson St, upstairs in the Lawson Street Arcade. Curator Tommy Salmon has a selection of artists on display including local Indigenous elder Digby Moran, Michelle Tekani, Lara CarewJones, Rosie Cranshaw (Taiga Rose) as well as his personal photography. Customised framing is also on offer, as well as photography services. Tommy says, ‘I plan to expand the selection of local artists work through the gallery and the website www.byronbaygallery.com, and am putting a call out to artists in the region who may be looking for some representation in town.’

Create awareness He says, ‘The gallery aims to create awareness of the richness and diversity of the surrounding environment, which features in the works on display.’ ‘There’s also a call out to

Curator Tommy Salmon from The Byron Bay Gallery. Photo Jeff Dawson

anyone who may be interested in contributing to a mural on the large wall within the arcade, which would feature the region of the big volcano from the tip of Moreton Island to the national parks south of Yamba, as it would have been. The wall is still open to other mural ideas if you would like to submit them by email.’

Tommy says he has been in the Byron region for the past six years and has been working as a photographer for nearly 20, freelancing since 2009, ‘mainly shooting stories for travel magazines but also doing advertising’. ‘I’ve been working on my second book, which covers the region of the big volcano

we live on. ‘We also support and stock Boomerang Bags – all money from their sale goes towards making more reusable bags in Byron.’ Tommy can be contacted on 0414 749 278 or by email tommythesalmon@gmail. com or web www.byronbaygallery.com.

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A councillor decision at the September 21, 2017 meeting that updated the general manager’s (GM) delegated powers has been questioned by longtime council critic Fast Buck$ aka John Anderson. He says the general manager (GM) now has power over any elected councillor, or at the very least the same powers since the delegations were adopted recently. Staff described changes in the September report as ‘minor changes to the GM’s delegations’, which they claim were ‘in line with recent amendments to the Local Government Act 1993 [LGA]’ Mr Buck$ questioned whether such a change was ‘minor’ given the previous GM’s 2016 delegation policy

only confers ‘power to exercise any function of the council which is excluded from the council’s power of delegation pursuant to s377’ of the LGA. The newly adopted delegations in September list a long schedule of conditions and limitations over three pages and adheres to GM’s powers as defined in the LGA (s377). Subject to the exclusions, the new policy says the GM has delegation of ‘ALL the powers and functions of the council.’

Butler St appeal Mr Buck$ says, ‘The GM definitely did not at the time have the delegated authority to even defend the Butler Street appeal, let alone spend $450k on it.’ ‘Nor did he have the delegated authority to engage big-

city consultants and spend $350k on the Butler Street bypass DA etc.’ The Echo asked outgoing GM Ken Gainger, ‘How is this a minor change to delegations? And – there appears no reference to the recent amendments to the LG Act 1993 within the September staff report that supports this decision. What are they?’

GM replies Mr Gainger replied that as the report’s author and legal services co-ordinator Ralph James was away, he couldn’t ‘give a definitive response’. Yet Mr Gainger did say, ‘My delegations, which were recently updated by Council, reflect the same delegated authority that I had previously, plus additional authority to approve certain tenders up to

$250,000 in value.’ ‘This additional authority reflects changes to the local government legislation authorising this. ‘Previously the GM could only approve tenders under $150,000 in value. ‘With respect to Buck$ – he is misreading the delegation and has been provided with legal advice to this effect. ‘Accordingly, his suggestion that I did not have the delegated authority to defend the bypass appeal is plainly wrong.’ The GM continued, ‘Staff have suggested to him that if he doesn’t accept the advice that he has been given, then he should contact the Office of Local Government and take it up with them.’ Q Fast Buck$’s letter page 16

Sunshine Cycles gets an extension, faces long DA delay Aslan Shand

An electric-bike hire business owner has been given an extension to relocate from council-owned land in the heart of Byron Bay. Sunshine Cycles owner Luke Young was originally given four weeks’ notice to remove his container and says he was prepared to chain himself to the top of his busi-

ness in protest. Yet the human chaining event was averted by the intervention of lawyers on behalf of Mr Young, who have pointed out to Council the tenancy rights of Sunshine Cycles at that location. ‘The Council have said they won’t do anything until January 17,’ Mr Young said. With the possibility of moving to a site near Elements

of Byron resort, Sunshine Cycles submitted a development application (DA) to Council on December 28. However, staff have told Mr Young that it could be several months before the DA is processed. Acting general manager Mr Arnold told The Echo, ‘Byron Shire Council has worked openly and transparently with the owner of Sunshine Cycles, Luke Young,

since August 2016, when he approached Council asking, as a show of support for “startup” businesses, to be given permission to operate from a relocatable pod at the First Sun Caravan Park in Byron Bay’s town centre.’ ‘An external agency subsequently raised concerns that the site Mr Young occupies had not been offered competitively.’

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NORTEC incubators hit the market as original investor ‘shocked at tactics’ Aslan Shand

NORTEC has now listed the Byron Bay small-business incubator site for sale through a local real estate as a ‘very rare opportunity to purchase a substantial holding in an area of low vacancy and high demand.’ The site is offered as vacant possession that is a ‘commercial gem [is] located in the Byron Bay Arts & Industry Estate and comprises a freestanding building of 14 tenancies on a land area of 1,598sqm.’ However, local entrepreneur and self-made millionaire George Lewin is disappointed at the sale of both the Byron and Goonellabah sites and the closure of the Mullumbimby site as he contributed financially towards their development. ‘In the 2011/12 financial year, I donated $25,000 to the Goonellabah small-business incubator and in years prior to that, I contributed $100,000 to CLIC in Mullumbimby’ that NORTEC operated as a small-business development site.

Local entrepreneur George Lewin contributed significant funds to NORTEC’s small-business incubators. NORTEC are now selling them for profit, having evicted small businesses before Christmas. Photo University of Newcastle

‘I contributed the money because I understood that NORTEC was a not-for-profit,’ continued Mr Lewin. ‘I understood that it would be used to support young entrepreneurs. I was one of those in the seventies.’

Triton workbench Mr Lewin invented the Triton workbench and in 1976 appeared on the ABC TV show The Inventors, which launched his invention, and

from that point he was able to create a successful business. ‘It was phenomenal for me and I have a soft spot for inventors, entrepreneurs and young business startups,’ continued Mr Lewin. ‘The sale of these sites is very disappointing to me. I was hoping that these incubators would be sustainably run by NORTEC. I put my money in to help them get there in the hope that they would help others get started

Rainbow Power Company donates solar oven to Timor-Leste Nimbin’s Rainbow Power Company has donated a solar oven to Timor-Leste as a Christmas gift. The oven was handed to former Page MP Janelle Saffin, who has been a long-term supporter of Timor-Leste. ‘This is a wonderful opportunity for Timorese people to have a modern oven that only relies on the sun to power it,’ Ms Saffin said. ‘The Rainbow Power Company has been in operation since 1987 and is a major local success story. ‘Like many from our wonderfully creative region, the Rainbow Power Company was way ahead of the times. Combining sustainable practices and products with sustainable business principles is what our small and medium business sector excels at.’ She said the company had been promoting the use of appropriate technology throughout the Pacific region for more than 30 years.

Cost-effective ‘Solar cookers provide a cost-effective supplement to

in their businesses.’ NORTEC have listed the property as ‘offered to the market as a vacant possession, meaning all the low-rent tenants are out,’ said Eco Minerals director Michael Brechbuhle, one of the businesses thrown off the Byron incubator site over the Christmas period. ‘The projected gross income (for the Byron site) is $218,400 which is a huge amount, roughly three to four times more than the total rent income NORTEC gets now.’

Not responsible Mr Lewin concluded that he ‘was shocked at the tactics NORTEC are using including the time of year they are evicting people. It is not responsible. ‘I am angry at the fact they are taking this approach and they are looking to make a profit from the buildings ‘It is legal but it is not in the spirit of the donations and development of these sites.’ NORTEC has been contacted for comment regarding this issue, but is yet to reply to The Echo.

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they could consider donating a solar oven that he wants to introduce to locals. Mr Hardie has worked on energy policy and a draft law with the former secretary of state for energy, Mr Avelino Coelho, who sees a need and application for this other source of cooking. ‘If it takes off, he would like to introduce our Rainbow Power Company into the Timor-Leste Market,’ Mr Hardie said. Timor-Leste Ambassador to Australia, His Excellency Mr Abel Guterres, thanked the Rainbow Power Company.

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Comment/Local News Tweed’s mega hospital site under scrutiny scliff, long sought-after by developers, could come under threat from the decision. Max Boyd, who led Tweed Council in a long campaign against the rezoning of the Cudgen agricultural area, says the state significant land must be preserved for future generations and not ‘covered by buildings’ as similar land was in QLD and elsewhere.

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Selection for the site of the northern rivers’ biggest ever infrastructure project, the half-billion-dollar-plus Tweed Valley Hospital, is nearing, but it’s feared some of the richest agricultural soil in the shire is at risk if a land parcel on the Tweed coast is chosen. Twenty sites around the Tweed are being considered for the NSW government’s $534 million hospital project, with a decision on the preferred site due early in 2018. But the shire’s former longest-serving mayor has raised concerns that the rich red volcanic soils on the Cudgen plateau behind King-

Decision for 2018 A Health Infrastructure spokesperson told The Echo an announcement on the preferred site would be made following the end of the due diligence process on the sites and is expected in early 2018.

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A warning of West Byron’s massive traffic and environmental impacts Dailan Pugh

Byron Council has given you the Christmas holidays to comment on the developer’s grandiose proposals for more than 1,000 houses and a shopping centre at West Byron, and another 16,000 cars a day choking Ewingsdale Road. The local landholder’s Development Application (DA) for the bulk of the site is on exhibition until February 7, and the Villaworld DA has been re-exhibited until February 21 (these are hidden on Council’s website under the guise of ‘various properties’). Most of the West Byron industrial zone is not included and will probably be combined with the old Sunnybrand site into another mega DA in the near future. The two exhibited DAs propose to create 659 residential lots from as small as 205m2 up to 3,386m2. Within the Low Density Residential areas, both DAs are proposing numerous superlots which, contrary to the rules, are intended for future subdivision into mediumdensity housing or flats. Minimum lot sizes have been flouted in the lowdensity zone with house lots down to 380m2 (450m2 minimum size), and duplex lots down to 525m2 (600m2 minimum size). When subdivision rules are applied to the proposed lots it is apparent the proposals will result in more than 1,000 dwellings (without accounting for secondary dwellings). Ewingsdale Road is the main route into Byron Bay and is increasingly suffering congestion in peak periods.

Traffic increase Traffic is now in excess of 20,000 vehicle trips per day in the off season. The developers are now admitting that their development will result in more than 14,000 daily vehicle trips, though I estimate it will add more than 16,000 vehicle trips per day onto Ewingsdale Road. I have long argued that the zoning of this site was approved by the minister for planning on the patently false premise that it would only result in 6,000 additional vehicle trips per day, and that my repeated attempts to have the Department of Planning and Byron Shire Council acknowl-

Get in to have your say – again – on the West Byron proposal. Even the traffic consultants admit there are no plans to alleviate the existing traffic problems.

‘The Department of Planning has previously flouted the planning rules so the minister could insert the developer’s grandiose scheme into Byron’s Local Environment Plan (LEP)’ edge and redress this since 2011 were unjustly ignored. The developers are denying that all those cars and two additional roundabouts (or traffic lights) will have any significant effect, when they will obviously have major and dramatic effects on the efficiency and ongoing operation of Byron’s main road in contravention of clause 101 of State Environmental Planning Policy (Infrastructure).

Below flood level The proposals involve filling the site to above flood level, with the importation of a million tonnes of fill. There is no indication of where this will come from and no assessment of the impacts of all those trucks on Ewingsdale Road. The site will be filled up to 2.5m above Ewingsdale Road with a 2m or higher sound wall above this. Council is proposing that a 6m wide landscaped mound (and 5m wide path and utilities corridor) will extend into the public road reserve to obscure this massive wall. The wall should be set back from the road and the needed visual buffer put on the developer’s own land, so that we can retain our most important public transport corridor for just that. The proposals are to clear 10.6 ha of native vegetation,

of which 1.8 ha is in environmental protection zones. Villaworld revised their proposal to remove the need to clear in environmental zones, but the local landowners have drains, paths and roads through them, with one area to be cleared for no apparent reason. There are 13 patches of wetlands totalling 2.1 ha proposed for filling that have been identified in the government’s draft State Environment Planning Policy (Coastal Management) as warranting an Environmental Impact Statement, except the SEPP hasn’t been adopted yet. One of these wetlands encompasses habitat for the nationally vulnerable Wallum Sedge Frog. Even though Villaworld are proposing to place 3m of fill over the only known population on their property, they refuse to assess impacts and prepare a Species Impact Statement on the grounds it ‘will be subject to a Bio-banking Assessment Report’. The local landholders remain in denial about the critical importance of the habitat on the site for facilitating essential dispersal of koalas between Tyagarah and Byron Bay, despite all surveys over the past eight years finding koalas or fresh scats on the site.

Plans to clear koala habitat Their intention is to clear two of the 5.5 hectares of koala habitat, fragment the remaining habitat, and put up koala-proof fences – all of which threaten the functioning of this vital link. They think that it’s equivalent to cut down mature koala feed trees and replace them with seedlings that will take decades to be useable. They have even failed to consider their impacts on threatened species in accordance with the new Biodiversity Conservation Act, as legally required. The Department of Planning has previously flouted the planning rules so the minister could insert the developer’s grandiose scheme into Byron’s Local Environment Plan (LEP).

Rules ignored This appears to have emboldened the developers into ignoring their own rules. This may be your last chance. You need to make a submission to say enough is enough. Both DAs need to be withdrawn and made compliant with all legal requirements. Whatever the developers do, Ewingsdale Road will not cope with the traffic increases, and their traffic nightmare should be rejected for past misrepresentation and contravening clause 101 of the Infrastructure SEPP. Q Dailan Pugh is spokesperson for the North East Forest Alliance (NEFA).

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Comment CHESS

by Ian Rogers 2017 saw international chess caught up in power politics. The world body FIDE tried to remove their President Kirsan Iljumzhinov – a man under US sanctions for helping ISIS sell oil to the Syrian government – by claiming Iljumzhinov had resigned, only for Iljumzhinov to survive and end the year stronger than ever with renewed backing by Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Russian Embassies have already swung into action urging Iljumzhinv’s re-election in 2018 – as they did during the last FIDE Presidential campaign in 2014.) Iljumzhinov’s role as a private, deniable Middle Eastern envoy for Putin resulted in two major events being held in controversial locations. In February the Women’s World Knock-out Championship was held in Tehran with Israelis excluded and all participants required to wear a hijab during games, resulting in a number of top players boycotting the event. Iran’s regional rival Saudi Arabia then decided to one-up Iran, by bidding $US2m for the right to hold the World Rapid

North Coast news daily: and Blitz Championship (which has just concluded). FIDE ignored its own statutes, which state that all players must be allowed to compete in a world title event, and gave Riyadh the tournament, although Qataris and Iranians were offered visas only after play had started, and Israelis of course were banned. Chess was also used as a metaphor for just about every political crisis this year: Donald Trump was playing 4D chess, the Catalonia crisis was a slow game of political chess, and the pieces on the Australian political chessboard were misplaced in 2017. By the end of the year it was a relief when the logo for the 2018 title match in London was released, after which discussion could move from politics to sex!

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A year in review under the Echo lens Water selloff

Hans Lovejoy

There’s a saying that those who study history are destined to watch it being repeated, and so too would be the case for news reporting. Last year saw a freshly minted left-leaning councillor majority make decisions of various quality, all affecting the community in different ways. How Greens mayor Simon Richardson abandoned and adopted policy positions in his transition to power is a study in itself. Nine councillors were elected in September 2016 and, by the end of 2017, much of their policy decisions and some of the rollout by staff appear somewhat chaotic and questionable. The year started off with division emerging within the Byron Greens party, with the mayor and former Greens councillor Tom Tabart trading barbs over the mayor’s performance and ability to hold Council staff to account. At the end of 2017, Council’s general manager (GM) Ken Gainger tendered his resignation after five years owing to health reasons. Despite some detractors such as Tabart, his tenure yielded positives. Over previous years, Mr Gainger slashed the number of senior staff and reduced staff salaries, improved operating efficiencies, raised new revenue through paid parking and property sales, saved $300,000 per year in smarter procurement, refinanced loans and paid down debt, slashed Council’s legal costs, and established a new infrastructure fund. Yet ratepayers ended up copping a cumulative 33.5 per cent rate rise in 2017 because of Council’s large infrastructure backlog (ie visitor impacts) and the requirement to meet government benchmarks. Many opposed, including Byron Labor. Not one to shy away from politics, Mr Gainger said in a March press release that state government funding commitments for Byron Shire Council have been ignored and were causing ‘reputational damage.’ Later in the year we learned that one of those commitments – a multimillion-dollar bus interchange for Byron Bay – had little to no public discussion and Transport for NSW (TfNSW) provided plans for it to be on the Butler Street Reserve. An alternative site is yet to be confirmed and this saw much resistance from market stallholders and neighbours.

One of the most absurd proposals by the state government in years was the Lennox Head skijump. It drew protests which prompted Nationals MLC Ben Franklin to intervene and bravely take credit for helping to stop his goverment’s ridiculous idea. The same happened when his government was looking to sell the old Mullumbimby hospital site. Mr Franklin again successfully intervened to let Council manage it as a community asset. It’s what should have happened in the first place. Now that’s quality governance! Photo supplied

March flood event Holiday letting Who could forget the onein-a-hundred-year flood event in late March that saw many homes and properties damaged? The north coast was declared a natural disaster zone in the aftermath of Cyclone Debbie, with the hardest hit areas in Byron Shire being Billinudgel, New Brighton, South Golden Beach and low-lying Ocean Shores areas. There were tragic drownings, homes and cars were submerged, power and roads were cut, livestock lost and emergency services were stretched to the limit. Yet there were plenty of stories of generosity from the community who helped each other clean up and replace essential items. While residents from Lismore and Tweed (both National Party state electorates) were almost immediately eligible for a Disaster Recovery Payment, it took until July for the same one-off payment of $1,000 to be available to Byron Shire residents.

West Byron The contentious West Byron development also dragged on with repeated attempts to submit substandard development applications. There was also remarkable interference from the state government to amend Council’s planning instruments. These amendments suit the developer’s desires. In past years, The Echo has reported the public’s longstanding opposition to West Byron and it was a Council election issue. Local National MLC Ben Franklin, whose government intervened for the development in the first place, said he was concerned with the development.

Also in March, The Echo reported that any compliance with illegal holiday letting had been abandoned by Council. By June, legal action against illegal holiday letting (including Airbnb) was again on the table, with Greens Cr Michael Lyon’s motion being supported (Cr Hunter against). Cr Michael Lyon told The Echo, ‘We intend to obtain records from people such as letting agents and website hosts in order to build the cases and prosecute unlawful shortterm rental.’

Holiday parks On March 15 The Echo reported around 140 Brunswick Heads resident faced the managers of the town’s three caravan parks over unwelcome expansion plans at the Ocean Shores Country Club. By May, deep division and political backflips emerged within local Greens members over a move to put plans of management (PoM) on public exhibition for two of the three holiday parks. Residents had fought a long campaign against different incarnations of managers NSWCHPT, after disgraced Labor planning minster Tony Kelly took control of the assets – and revenue – away from Council in 2006. Yet it appears the Greens councillors folded – their claims that Council were at risk of court action by NSWCHPT were not supported by staff, and the Greens councillors also refused to obtain any legal advice. The move may well lead to Council’s acquiescing over a 20-year encroached-boundary battle and formalise the transfer of ownership of land they once managed to the state government-run NSW Crown Holiday Parks Trust (NSWCHPT).

In May, The Echo reported what little oversight there is for perhaps our most precious resource – groundwater. New licences were up for grabs across NSW, with 42 new groundwater sources being added. Job creation and economic growth appeared to be the driver, yet the cheerful press release by the Department of Primary Industries Water (DPI-Water) failed to mention any environmental safeguards, oversight or potential impacts. Those impacts are unknown locally – Rous County Council’s Drought Management Plan (page 73) says the potential secure yield for greater extraction ‘is not currently known’. Groundwater extraction in Tweed raised community concern after a large-scale extraction operation was proposed by Uki-based Jack Hallam, a former NSW Labor MP.

Mentionables The Chinny Charge made a welcome return in September after a 16-year hiatus. Fundraising efforts by COREM (CommunityOwned Renewable Energy for Mullumbimby) resulted in a 10kW solar PV installation at the Mullumbimby Showgrounds, and follows on from other successful projects. The long-awaited state government Planning North Coast Regional Plan 2036 was unleashed, and will shape the future development from Tweed Heads to Port Macquarie. A modest rise in housing stock for Byron Shire of 3,150 new dwellings by 2036 was announced. Led by the mayor, Council established a lobby group for councils affected by high visitor numbers. A group of locals are attempting to save the old Byron District Hospital site from developers and instead have it placed in community hands. The saga of Cr Alan Hunter’s desire for a self-storage facility on his property in Pinegroves Road, Myocum, had its day in court. He won against Council, which cost around $50,000. A large food hub proposal just outside Bangalow on Lismore Road was loudly objected to, with a Joint Regional Planning panel (JRPP) hearing in August at the Mullum Chambers. The JRPP are yet to make a determination. There’s way more that went on than is listed here; this was just a small summary of what goes on in the Byron bubble.

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Macadamia Castle turns day into night Tourist attraction Macadamia Castle, located two minutes from the Lennox Head exit on the Pacific Highway, has unveiled a new a 15-minute show that gives visitors an insight into what our native animals get up to at night. In a specially built 18-seat theatre from 2pm each day, visitors can meet the Castleâ€™s residentÂ Tawny Frogmouth, Short Eared Possum, Rufus Bettong, Woma Python and Sugar Glider. Macadamia Castle owner Tony Gilding said the new show was all about conservation and education. â€˜Not a lot of people know what goes on in the bush at

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night time, yet a lot of our animals only come out at night,â€™ he said. â€˜They are a critical part of

our biodiversity and the show is all about protecting their habitat and leaving space for them to flourish.

â€˜What weâ€™ve done with this display is reversed a day and night. â€˜They sleep during the night and come out and forage during the day and we bring them out at 2pm for the show. â€˜Our visitors are introduced to the animals one by one and in most cases they can get to touch them and get a picture with them. â€˜Itâ€™s a pretty intimate show.â€™ Mr Gilding said with the challenges presented by the Pacific Highway upgrade, which has resulted in the Castle being off the main highway now, it was important to keep building new attractions to bring visitors.

Bruns Eco Village proponent addresses detractors A proponent of an affordable housing project on Saddle Road has addressed what he says are a â€˜variety of opinions, both informed and uninformed, that have been shared regarding the Bruns Eco Village (BEV) and its role in the Planning Proposal (PP) for Saddle Rd.â€™ â€˜I am one of the land stewards and proponents seeking the appropriate re-zoning of the BEV site,â€™ Kelvin Daly

told The Echo. Â â€˜Our land will be sold exclusively to the future co-op, or community entity, for approximately a third of its value, post re-zoning, and theÂ community entity, comprising the people who will live on BEV, will develop the Eco Village.â€™ â€˜The â€˜zoningâ€™ sought for the BEV site will mean a â€˜standard urban developmentâ€™ will not be able to be undertaken on the site. This PP, which in-

cludes the BEV site and other sites along Saddle Road, is unique in that it proposes, in addition to BEV, significant affordable housing commitments, far in excess of normal affordable housing â€œquotas.â€? â€˜I worry that detractors who say no to any proposal could ignore the genuine affordable housing commitments offered on Saddle Road and thwart Councilâ€™s initiatives to deliver affordable

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Casino agricultural land put to govt for housing A proposal to rezone five agricultural lots at Casino to make way for 46 new residential lots has been submitted to the NSW government to determine whether the project has sufficient merit to proceed. Richmond Valley Council general manager Vaughan Macdonald said the potential development in Lennox Street, Casino, would see 46 new residential allotments ranging in size from 800m2 to 921m2. Mr Macdonald said it would go some way towards meeting the high demand for housing in the area. Although the land was mapped as being regionally significant farmland, Mr Macdonald said an agricultural assessment demonstrated the land was not suitable for agricultural activities for a variety of reasons, including size, location and soil type. He said the site was located within a low-risk flood and bushfire area, and did not contain any items of local environmental heritage, making it a good choice for housing. He said the North Coast Regional Plan 2036 identified that Casino would need an additional 1,550 homes to cope with a population increase.

Richmond Valley Council general managerÂ Vaughan Macdonald.

â€˜Casino currently has about 31.5 hectares of vacant residential-zoned land; however, the majority of this supply is not readily available for immediate release owing to a variety of reasons, ranging from no desire by the owners to develop, to contamination issues, and lack of essential services,â€™ Mr Macdonald said. â€˜With the final stage of Settlers Estate selling out, the town has been left with few options to meet the projected demand. â€˜If successful, this planning proposal will go some way towards meeting the Regional Planâ€™s housing targets with an estimated 46 lots to be created.â€™ Mr Macdonald said re-

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ferring the proposal to the Department of Planning and and Environment, which is known as â€˜The Gatewayâ€™, was the first step in a long process. He said should the DPE give the proposal the green light, it would still need to undergo further studies such as carrying out environmental assessments, engineering and planning assessments and, importantly, undertaking community consultation to enable residents to provide input and feedback. â€˜Council is keen to get the

communityâ€™s input and feedback on the rezoning proposal,â€™ Mr Macdonald said. â€˜As soon as Council hears back from the DPE, and the relevant assessments have been undertaken, the full proposal will be publicly exhibited, and all those with an interest will be invited to have their say.â€™ Consultancy firm Newton Denny Chapelle lodged the proposal on behalf of Ian Barnes, and councillors voted to forward the proposal to the DPE at a recent meeting.

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Opiates, not pot, the road killer The shocking news last week that the driver suspected of causing the horrific triple-fatal crash on the NSW south coast was likely under the influence of methadone throws the NSW police’s drugtesting regime into sharp focus. Methadone and other opitates, whether legally obtained or not, are not tested for under the police’s roadside drug-testing, yet are known to cause driver impairment. In fact, many on methadone have been known to ’nod off ’ or go to sleep at the wheel and crash their cars. Methadone is prescribed to wean heroin users off illegal substances. Not even heroin is tested, although it is a known sleep inducer. Amphetamine users tend to drive for too long without sleep or drive aggressively, but amphetamines are not tested. And the drug of choice of the rich – cocaine – is also not tested for yet has similar effects to speed. But the police tests only target methamphetamine (speed or ice), ecstasy (MDMA) and most controversially, drivers with traces of cannabis (THC). This is just plain wrong. Politicians, especially health and police ministers, should take note: it’s a stupid testing regime and not making our roads safer if some drugs are in and others, known to be more lethal when used by motorists, are out. If anything, evidence suggests cannabis users tend to slow down and be more careful when under that influence, and it’s no surprise why amphetamine is known as ‘speed’. Users behind the wheel can be similar to alcohol-affected ones and should be removed from the road. Police also do not test for tranquiliser-type prescription drugs such as sleeping tablets (benzodiazepines) or codeine-based ones: only in the case of an accident where the driver is suspected of being under the influence of drugs at the time. If road safety is the aim of the testing, why is Australia one of the only countries targeting cannabis users where no levels of impairment are measured? It seems discriminatory and pointless, especially in an age where society is maturing and decriminalising cannabis use for medicinal and recreational use. There is no doubt medicinal cannabis interferes with the testing regime, as even minute traces of THC, the active compound in cannabis, are detected in the saliva tests and we know hemp food such as hemp seed or oil is becoming more popular and consumed regularly in a health-conscious age. However, police maintain it won’t interfere with the tests, but other cannabis experts beg to disagree and the question is yet to be fully resolved. We know the war on drugs is costly and useless, as record illegal-drug seizures attest. And many, including former ice addicts, say if cannabis were decriminalised, ‘ice’ would no longer be the huge problem it is now. But some politicians, police, health bureaucrats and ’big pharma’ (the pharmaceutical industry) are hell-bent on keeping cannabis users on the wrong side of the law. We welcome roadside driver testing where safety of motorists is the end game and impairment-causing drugs such as speed and ice are tested for as well as heroin, cocaine, legal opiates and other driver-impairing drugs. But drivers with methadone in their system are currently undetectable and a lethal danger to other road users. In our own region, we recall the tragic triple fatality at Dyraaba near Casino in 2013 where two young kids and their father were killed when a driver with methadone in his system crashed into their car and was later jailed over the deaths. Unlike amphetamines or opiates, cannabis testing, while no impairment is measured, is causing unrest among our youth and leading them to try other drugs not tested for. It also leads to disrespect for a (bad) law and authority. Guest editorial by Luis Feliu

alcolm Turnbull’s new year resolution is apparently to update his slogan – jobs and growth is so 2017, and thus is ready for a rejig. Not only that, it will be expanded from the traditional three words to four: Let’s keep Australia working. Roll up your sleeves, nose to the grindstone, shoulder to the wheel. There is no time for play and frivolity, arbeit macht frei. Well, that’s probably not quite what he means, but the idea seems to be that only his government can preserve the nation from the mass unemployment that would ensue under the business-averse Bill Shorten. So toil on, as will he, once he finishes his holidays at the harbourside mansion. Last week he did stick his swiftly balding head up to don an alarming shirt for Christmas lunch at the Wayside Chapel and cop a fine for not wearing a lifejacket while moving his new boat from his pier to his beach. And he did record a bland, indeed somewhat soppy, seasonal message for the masses. But by and large, our leader disappeared into the festivities, so it was left to his indefatigable treasurer to fill the vacuum. Scott Morrison has not only re-imaged himself as the defender of Christendom, the warrior king of the church militant in its fight to enhance privilege and discrimination over the secular pagan majority – although that crusade alone would have gained him the headlines he craves. He has also informed the masses that the need for huge tax relief for the wealthy corporations is not just a matter of jobs and growth – it is essential for the very survival of the nation. If it is not implemented,

the cuts finally legislated by Donald Trump in the United States will lead to an immediate exodus of investment from the Americans, leaving us bankrupt and bereft. Actual economists demanding a reality check are understandably sceptical. For starters, American investment in Australia seldom leads to profits remaining in the country: indeed, many if not most of the biggest US-based multinationals pay a derisory amount of tax to Canberra, if indeed they pay any at all. The coffers will hardly be depleted if they depart.

rate rates – even the Poms are moving towards just 17 per cent. Which is, coincidentally or not, precisely the rate companies in Australia, or at least the more scrupulous ones, also pay – that is their effective rate, the real rate. The reason is that over many decades conservative coalition governments have devised exemptions, loopholes, lurks and perks for their patrons, which have meant that 30 per cent was no more than a fantasy – almost no-one pays anything like that figure. Other countries, including the United States, are more

… offering handouts to the wealthy in the hope that some of the largesse trickles down to the masses – does not work, never has and never will. by Mungo MacCallum But even if the understaffed and overworked minions remaining at the Australian Tax Office were able to bring them into line with what is regarded as the norm, there would be no real incentive for them to pack up their bongos and return to Trumpistan. Trump’s cuts, if implemented, would bring the American corporate rate down from 35 per cent to 21 per cent, compared to the local rate of 30 per cent, which Morrison wants to reduce to 25 per cent – so it’s no longer a positive plan for stimulus, it’s just about trying to catch up, says our febrile bean counter. But it’s not quite as simple as that. As the boosters of the Australian Business Council claim that the world is leaving us behind, they point to the fact that many European countries, too, are reducing their corpo-

transparent – more honest, if you like. Trump’s 21 per cent will be something close to the number the Internal Revenue Service will actually receive. So in practice Australia will remain competitive. Indeed, on comparing effective tax rates around the developed world, Australia is in the bottom half of the scale; the average figure across the OECD is about 24 per cent and in Asia – supposedly a home for low tax regimes – it is 21 per cent. So there is not really a problem; but even if there were, there is no reason to believe that tossing a lazy $50 billion or so to the big end of town would do much good for anyone. In instance after instance, in country after country, it has repeatedly been shown that supply-side economics – offering handouts to the wealthy

in the hope that some of the largesse trickles down to the masses – does not work, never has and never will. Morrison’s own treasury boffins estimate that, if everything goes according to plan (which of course it never does) there might be about just one percentage point in growth. There could be a boost in tax revenue, too, although less than half what the cuts would cost. But as for new investment – improbable. And for jobs, let alone wage rises for those who have them – forget it: it just doesn’t happen. Almost all the loot goes into profits for shareholders, so the rich get richer and the poor get very little, if anything. This is precisely the objection being raised to Trump’s tax cuts: he and his cronies will benefit obscenely, thus cementing and increasing the inequality that already plagues his divided and strife-torn nation. But this, it appears, is what Turnbull and Morrison tell us, is the exemplar we must follow: we have no choice. Let’s keep Australia working. In George Orwell’s dystopian satire Animal Farm the archetypal labourer is the horse Boxer, the willing, good-hearted and unfortunately gullible steed whose invariable remedy for all problems is: we must work harder. When Boxer eventually worked himself to a standstill, his reward was to be sent to slaughter and the tannery. No-one is suggesting that Turnbull plans to display the hides of his hard-working Australians on his living room wall, but the slogan still has an ominous ring to it. However, it appears to be the only idea our prime minister and his treasurer have got, so back to the salt mines. Oh, and by the way – have a happy new year.

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Unaffordable housing ‘Look at Mother Nature on the run…’ Neil Young’s words were in my mind as I drove along Saddle Road early one morning. I felt a sinking feeling in my stomach and envisaged the ridgeline filled with McMansions with gravel driveways and carefully clipped hedges where cattle are now grazing. This ridgeline has already been adapted with the arrival of white settlers and should be be used as productive farmland. So when the all the clever words of amended LEPs and DCPs happen and carefully massaged rural land strategies are legislated, what are we going to be left with? I also fear the innovative ideas of the Brunswick Eco Village will be subsumed into yet another West Byron type of development. Chris Cooney Mullumbimby

Seven Mile Beach Though it is disappointing when a carefully penned letter does not make it into the pages of The Echo, at least there is a degree of moderation by editors balancing viewpoints. Recent attacks on Facebook and in The Telegraph against me claiming the Council were acting on my requests to place rocks on Broken Head Road, is a worrying trend toward uninformed and cheap accusation; in this case garnering 400 followers and who stopped Council in its tracks – Lord of the Flies Byron style. For the accusers and those who read The Sunday Telegraph (10 December), I knew nothing of rocks being dumped and access restricted

at the end of Seven Mile Beach Road until it happened. It was a Council decision. I have been a driving force in the Broken Head Protection committee since the mid 80’s attempting to hold back the tide of development. No Club Med on two sites at Broken Head, No Cape Byron International Academy on Seven Mile, the original caravan park saved from development under the Wran government which described it as the ‘Crown Jewel of the North Coast’ before attempting to flog it off. Councillor Anudhi Wentworth (remember her?) sat in front of the bulldozer cutting a road to a back beach for Shirley Maclean to privatise the centre of the Broken Head Reserve. (A Nature Reserve has a higher ecological standing than a national park.) Ongoing militant action for decades with local support has kept this area what it is; but now visitors, both interstate and locals speed their way up Seven Mile Beach Road with no consideration for the wildlife. I have pictures of dead wallabies; there was the 3.5m python that used to lay across the road. You can’t kill native animals on that road unless you are speeding. There are also other recreational users who would like to enjoy a walk or bike in this rare littoral rainforest without harassment by speeding vehicles. Locals have been lobbying Council for more rangers, coordination between agencies and appropriate education for several years. The recent media beat-up and one-sided Murdoch-style campaign on the internet will only do more to destroy the area.

By the way all the ‘free shit in the bush campers’: you probably don’t know that the Broken Head Caravan Park is Arakwal Land, a major victory for the local Aboriginal people and worthy of support. Ian Cohen Broken Head

Disabled parking Quite frankly I am appalled at the growing practice of people flagrantly ignoring clearly marked disabled parking spaces in the Byron Shire. Heaven knows those who are not blessed with full function have it tough enough without the basic assistance of a carpark closer to amenities or the beach being ignored by able-bodied drivers. We as able-bodied community members have a responsibility to help those less fortunate by respecting those spaces set aside for them. If the Byron Shire Council wish to create a new income stream, I would be fully supportive of a crackdown and the issuance of a substantial fines for the selfish individuals who take these spots unfairly. A particular hot spot appears to be on the corner of Middleton and Bay Streets. Then and only then will these dissident individuals perhaps get the message about consideration and respect. David Hollett Brisbane

Code Confusion I refer to Tom Tabart’s recent letter stating wrongly that a couple of years ago I lodged a Code of Conduct complaint against a community volunteer and Council committee member. For the record I have never, in my long local government career, lodged a Code

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of Conduct complaint against anyone. The complaint Tom is referring to was lodged by a former Council employee and as Tom well knows, as GM I have a legal obligation to investigate any such complaints in accordance with strict administration guidelines included in the Code. While the person who was the subject of the complaint was found on investigation to have technically breached the Code, her actions in stepping over the bounds of her responsibilities were borne out of enthusiasm and commitment to her community rather than any disregard for proper process. Her reputation is unsullied and she is still held in high regard by staff and councillors. It is unfortunate that Tom has once again chosen to misrepresent the facts in his quest to regularly express his apparent dislike of the holders of Council GM positions. Tom, I hope your retirement to Drysdale in Victoria is a long and happy one. I will soon be retiring to Bangalow and will continue to be an interested (but quiet) observer of Council affairs. Ken Gainger General Manager Byron Shire Council

Cheer up, slow down, chill out… and ignore all road rules. I have recently encountered a number of vehicle incidents in quick succession. Firstly a ‘20 something’ couple having a cute moment in the middle of the northbound traffic lane of Fletcher Street, while their ‘50 something’ parents looked on adoringly from the middle of the southbound lane. All four seemingly oblivious to this being a busy traffic area and almost offended when I offered the information. On the same day I had to slow to a halt at the end of Middleton Street to allow a semi-naked hipster on a skateboard to complete his imaginary six turn chicane before entering the roundabout onto Lawson Street. I also offered him some of my 40 years of road wisdom but his blank look told me that the music in his ear buds may have been too loud for him to digest it. Thirdly, on the following day, I expressed gratitude for my excellent brakes and quick reflexes when I was cut off by a middle-aged bicycle rider launching from the Tennyson Street footpath straight across Ruskin Street. She did offer a sweet wave and a lovely smile from her un-helmeted head.

Thanks BCH Just prior to Xmas I had an unfortunate accident that resulted in my admission to Byron Central Hospital (BCH). I cannot speak highly enough of everybody’s professionalism (along with a chuckle or two) during that time. How fortunate are we to have this service in the northern rivers Denis Vincent Lees Burringbar

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Paid parking I don’t know if anyone is interested in the opinion of a non-local, but every time I visit Byron, I appreciate Brunswick more. I’ve been to visit this region over the past 25 years. Byron Bay used to be a lovely spot to spend quality time and mellow – great beaches, good walking and great atmosphere. I needed a break, and decided to see for myself what Byron was like these days. I spent two nights in a hostel, and that was enough. As you come into Byron you are greeted with the same old welcome sign ‘cheer up, slow down, chill out’. Problem is you can’t cheer up when you’re stuck in traffic for the next hour, which is forcing you to slow down, and you can’t afford to chill out any more with paid parking everywhere you go. continued on next page

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So I left my car at the hostel, walked in and made my way to the pub for a beer. As I sat and tried not to see all the schoolies strutting around, staying in the expensive accommodation their parents paid for, I started reading the local paper with all the articles for and against paid parking. Was this project supposed to provide more parking for visitors â€“ fail; less traffic jams â€“ fail; nice reasonably priced family holiday â€“ double fail. Then thereâ€™s the shopping. Iâ€™m not much of a shopper, but I used to enjoy ambling around, poking my nose into the lovely cheap boutiques selling crafty nic-nacs, cool hippie duds, and the hair weavers on every corner (I did find the old bead store and Skallywags still going, thankfully). Now itâ€™s mostly expensive outlet stores, tourist traps and pretentious eateries. From the outside, Byron has become a victim of its own hype â€“ no longer a community, but a business. I came here to get away from that. Maybe it would have happened anyway; nothing lasts forever, but weâ€™ll never know. If this is all a result of paid parking, then â€˜careful what you wish forâ€™. So I canâ€™t get out of here fast enough â€“ back to Brunswick, still paradise for now. Please donâ€™t do the same to this lovely second home of mine. I know I donâ€™t live here,

but I leave a little piece of my heart here every time I leave. Iâ€™ll just go back to the crossword and minding my own business now. A Drouyn Coombabah

What is a developer? A little more than ten years ago I was the Northern Territory delegate to the Australian Greens national conference. At that conference it was the NSW Greens who railed against the involvement and influence of property developers in political decision making. The Australian Greensâ€™ policy was subsequently amended to forbid the Greens accepting political donations from property developers. The influence of property developers in NSW politics has been brought clearly into focus over the past decade with ICAC investigations into both Labour, Liberal and National Party members and their associations with property developers. A property developer by any other name is still a property developer. What they have in common is that they make massive profits from the rezoning of rural land to residential land or the approval of development applications for subdivisions. In both cases it is local NSW councils who are the primary decision makers relating to both zoning changes and development approvals. If you wash away the rain-

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bows and sparkles from the Bruns Eco Village development you still have a property developer who bought farmland for $1.2 million and is seeking to rezone that farmland to village zoning and then on sell the re-zoned land for $8 million just a few short years later. Matthew Oâ€™Reilly Saddle Road

Great train robbery The thousands of people who turned out to ride on the first (solar) train service in Byron Bay since the great train robbery almost 14 years ago demonstrate the overwhelming community support for the return of train services to the north coast. When north coast train services were cut in 2004, the same incompetent minister for (no) transport planned to stop the Armidale train service. Fortunately their tenacious local independent MP, Tony Windsor, was not going to allow his electorate to be deprived of a vital transport service. The Armidale train was saved and itâ€™s still running. The uninformed claims that the north coast population, including five million tourists, is not large enough to ensure the viability of regular commuter train service on the Casino to Murwillumbah line is laughable. As is the ridiculous argument that spending tens of millions to rip up the valuable rail line for a bike trail will provide public transport for all. The often repeated claim that providing a train service would be too expensive has been shown to be rubbish. As we see, the cost to the environment and community amenity of not having a train service is massive. Thereâ€™s nothing green or sustainable about championing mega-developments, regardless of how affordable the housing may be, when thereâ€™s no basic infrastructure to support those developments. How much more development and people can be squeezed into Byron Shire and onto our roads before tourists find somewhere more pleasant and affordable to go and the local economy collapses? The Labor Party, and the Liberal/National parties need to tell the north coast community what their plan is to deal with the increasing traffic congestion and toxic emissions from that traffic which, on their own projections, will double in less than a decade. Above all, it is hard to fathom the callous disregard

of politicians for the number of lives lost and devastating injuries sustained in road accidents, especially at this time of year. The horrific state road toll for this Christmas holiday period is almost double that of 2016. Traffic congestion, toxic emissions and lack of safe, sustainable public transport are issues having a needless, detrimental impact on the local environment and community, but it seems all political parties are captive to the corporates, who have power to dictate policy way out of proportion to their numbers, thanks to the millions they donate to political parties. Consequently, political parties are paying lip service to climate change, protecting the environment while allowing the electorate to be over developed and deprived of necessary services. Louise Doran Ocean Shores

Mystical managers How good was that Queensland election result? Well done to the army of volunteers who made it possible for the election of a majority Labor government in Queensland and for delivering such a thrashing to the Liberal/National Party (LNP) in the process. The Labor party is now firmly back in government in all States and Territories except for Tasmania and NSW. The decomposing Turnbull government is firmly in intensive care and on life support after the LNPâ€™s abysmal failure in Queensland and the NSW governments incompetent management of health, big public infrastructure projects and the shocking selloff of public assets. The arrogance of conservative governments is breathtaking; they claim to be some sort of mystical economic managers, yet they canâ€™t even agree on effective energy policy let alone implement it â€“ while ever the knuckle draggers in the coalition rule the roost, we long suffering consumers will continue paying dearly for it. We could have had the much-needed bank royal commission two years ago, with some of its recommendations already implemented;instead we had a paralysed government totally out of its depth and only when threatened with outright rebellion by several MPs, and incredibly, only after gaining permission from the banks themselves did the government grow the balls to do it. Keith Duncan Pimlico

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I refer the the opinion piece/ editorial/pseudo advertisement of The Echo (p 17, 20 December) If You Are On A Holiday Please Donâ€™t Come Again. It is indeed a pity that the Multi Media Mogul from Mullumbimby didnâ€™t bother to check the facts all that well. Governments of both major parties gave very clear advice that anyone entering or attempting to enter Australia via criminal people smugglers and selling off passport documentation etc would be barred from entry. Fairly simple. These illegal attempted arrivals paid criminal Indonesian gangs exorbitant â€˜prices/ faresâ€™, sold off their passports to either conceal, or make attempts to investigate their credentials, even more difficult or impossible. If by chance they had paid a modest fare to Qantas, then disposed of their identification papers after boarding the plane would have been immediately returned to their port of departure. Fairly simple. Currently, far from being imprisoned, they are quite free to move around and so free, in fact, that many are causing all levels of illegalities, making the decision not to allow them into Australia, a breathtakingly correct assessment. But not only are they not imprisoned, the government and the taxpayer are offering substantial financial inducements to return to their country of origin or elsewhere. Until stopped by the current government, illegal arrivals via people smugglers were ending in deaths by drowning exceeding 1,000 over a three-year period, and hitting the taxpayer to the extent of about $100,000 per illegal arrival, per year. This figure probably appears to be a piddling sum to Multi Media Moguls from Mullumbimby whose gross incomes would probably make a Columbian drug cartel boss blush, but to the ordinary taxpayer they are a considerable and only lessen Australiaâ€™s capacity, among other things, to assist locals in need and provide overseas aid. If there is a political party or group out there who can or is prepared show how Australia can afford, financially or ethically, to allow unlimited, unrestricted, illegal entry to our country, bearing in mind that there are upwards of a billion such people, please speak up now or forever hold your piece. Tim Harrington Lennox Head

Like Gerard Haggarty (Letters, December 20) I am not shocked by swearing. My fatherâ€™s approach was quite liberal; we could swear as much as we liked with one caveat â€“ we were never to swear within our motherâ€™s hearing. What is sad as regards swearing is that comedianâ€™s use it as filler (think Billy Connolly, for one). Gary Furnell states that â€˜it quickly becomes apparent the less talented wits (by far the majority because in any human endeavour exceptional is exactly that: exceptional) have packed their monologues with swearing to eke out meagre material and to give their delivery a patina of bravuraâ€™. Somehow, the â€˜comedianâ€™ thinks he/she is being â€˜transgressiveâ€™. Itâ€™s been done before and done to death! Who cares if you know a few swear words!? We want to be entertained rather than be informed about the â€˜comediansâ€™ small vocabulary and therefore commensurately smaller comedic talent. Gary Furnell informs us that Clive James (who, incidentally knows one or two things about language) has written that â€˜laughter is less drawn out of the audience than conceded by the audience who have the eager expectation â€“ since theyâ€™ve paid their money â€“ to enjoy themselves on their night out even if whatâ€™s on offer is less than theyâ€™d hoped.â€™ Hereâ€™s a test for you â€“ take the swearing out of (comedians name here) efforts and ask yourself, â€˜is whatâ€™s left clever and/or funny?â€™ Ariel Schlesingerâ€™s satire piece, peppered with swear words is a wonderful parody of â€˜comediansâ€™. Just note the beautiful irony of â€˜not swearing panders to the most boring in our societyâ€™, â€˜surely itâ€™s time our language becomes more colourfulâ€™ and â€˜anyone who is offended by swearing is offended by Language, by Creativityâ€™ (the two capital letter in the last quote are superb!). He is saying to â€˜comediansâ€™ â€˜get out of the rut youâ€™re in, become original, expand your vocabulary; in short, become funnyâ€™. Is there a charity that providers a Rogetâ€™s Thesaurus to each aspiring â€˜comedianâ€™? J Rose Mullumbimby

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Why many gay men donâ€™t give a stuff about marriage our lives. Jeff came for a brief visit â€“ and he hasnâ€™t left. Yes, we are now a triple (sorry I canâ€™t stand that word â€˜throupleâ€™). Imagine, on the eve of the marriage equality survey â€“ while we were girding our loins against everything the NO camp might throw at us â€“ we realised we actually didnâ€™t give a toss about marriage or what it represents. But we argued for equality because we do believe gay men have the right to be, as the Tele headline writer so eloquently put it â€˜as miserable as the rest of usâ€™.

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The road to marriage equality in Australia has been a long, hard haul. And it hasnâ€™t been made any easier by the fact that many gay men cheering loudly for the YES camp in the streets and on social media are ambivalent, at best, behind closed doors. My partner Wayne and I had a commitment ceremony some 15 years ago. We figured that if we waited for â€˜gay marriageâ€™ to become law many of our nearest and dearest would be dearly departed. And we were right.

Far cry from traditional marriage But because there was no legal standing to our ceremony, we were able to write our own pledges â€“ and we studiously avoided those words â€˜to the exclusion of all othersâ€™. Years ago, when I was editor of a gay newspaper in Sydney, Wayne and I conducted interviews with gay couples to see what made their relationships tick. While love, commitment and communication were at the top of the agenda, what became clear was that the relationships gay men worked out for themselves were a far cry from traditional marriage. Not least was the fact that many

Positive outcomes New partner Jeff and longtime partner Wayne at the marriage equality rally in Byron Bay. Photo Chris Dobney

were not sexually exclusive. Some couples had a â€˜donâ€™t ask, donâ€™t tell policyâ€™, others shared their playmates together, while still others went their separate ways at the sauna and then went home together afterwards. Like many others, Wayne and I maintained an â€˜openâ€™ relationship. (To my mind the â€˜openâ€™ bit is not so much what you do with people outside your primary relationship but the honesty you bring to discussing it with your partner.) And there was an absolute need for honesty: with HIV largely un-

treatable in the 80s and early 90s, hiding the truth from your partner could literally be a death sentence. And so each couple devised their own unique relationship, one that suited their needs, not societyâ€™s. As with our heterosexual peers, many didnâ€™t stand the test of time. But Iâ€™m glad to count among my friends a number whoâ€™ve been together 20 or 30 years and are still happily ensconced. In May, while many gay friends were busy proposing to each other, and politicians were madly arguing the toss, an old friend returned to

And while the survey itself was a trial by fire, the result has encouraged and emboldened many in the LGBTIQ community to come out or to be more open: to hold hands in the street, kiss in public, to expect (at last) to be treated equally and stop trying to â€˜pass as straightâ€™. I hope that the outcome will see young gay kids more comfortable in their own skins, less likely to be bullied at school â€“ and less likely to attempt self-harm or suicide. What I hope I donâ€™t see is society becoming more homogenous. Already we are seeing many young gay men who have few â€“ or no â€“ gay friends. With dating now largely driven by social media apps, the venues and events that provided a safe space for gay men and lesbians

to get together and support one another are dwindling. I like to think that, while we have much in common with our heterosexual friends and peers, we also have something special to offer both broader society and each other: our own culture, developed over many centuries. A perfect example is Tropical Fruits, the Lismore-based LGBTIQ group forged during the difficult AIDS era, which attracts thousands to the town each New Year for a huge celebration, the likes of which Lismore would never see otherwise. The funds generated stay in the town, and the group itself is buying a permanent home, sponsoring an LGBTIQ youth group and funding many other worthwhile activities in the community.

Dream of equality My generation came out during a time when equality was a distant dream â€“ and perhaps that has given us a different perspective on how human relationships can evolve. And while Iâ€™m grateful that Australia has voted to enable all those people who wish to embrace the institution of marriage to do so, personally I wouldnâ€™t want my life any other way. There donâ€™t need to be wedding bells on the horizon to celebrate love and romance.

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I think it was the October Council meeting. I was complaining yet again that staff were concealing important matters by hiding them in the attachments to the agenda, hoping thereby that the councillors and the public wouldn’t notice them. I was blindsided when the mayor interrupted by saying ‘you don’t read the attachments anyway’. I thought to myself that he couldn’t know that and was just gratuitously insulting me. Later I surmised that he had seen things in the attachments which he expected me to complain about and when I didn’t – he concluded that I hadn’t read them, and if so he was right. At the September meeting, for example, the main agenda reported that certain ‘minor’ changes were proposed to the GM’s delegated powers in line with alleged changes to the Local Government Act. I only recently became aware that in fact the attachments contained a very major change indeed: The GM was given the delegated power to do everything that the elected council can legally do, ie unless specifically prohibited by law, resolution or policy.

I think I know exactly why that change was made: I have argued previously the GM was acting way outside his power by defending the Butler Street appeal and by spending $450k doing so. He also spent well over $350k on Sydney consultants to prepare the Butler Street development application, without the consultation from Council specifically giving him that latitude that I believe should have been sought. The September change is therefore in my opinion a belated attempt to patch up this loophole; pity for Ken Gainger it’s not retrospective. From now on though, subject to any prohibitions as mentioned above, he can do whatever he likes without even reporting back to Council and your average elected councillor wouldn’t have a clue that that’s the power they’ve given him… not a clue. Anyway, Simon, it’s your job to read all the documents, not mine. If you were doing your job of protecting the public interest, then I wouldn’t need to be involved at all... Fast Buck$ Coorabell

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The Butler Street Community Network strongly opposes the proposed Byron Shire Council acquisition of the Crown lands, Butler Street Recreation Reserve and its intended development as a bus terminal, 24-hour carpark and central business district (CBD) expansion zone.

Only green space The Butler Street reserve is the only open green recreation space on the western side of the railway tracks in our township. It is bordered by ever increasing residential density and acts both as a wildlife corridor and buffer to the Cumbebin Swamp Nature Reserve. Developing this green open space as a highrise transport infrastructure removes forever this amenity for our residential community and natural environment. Excuses that the Butler Street Reserve is just a hot dustbowl merely highlight the neglect the Crown Reserve Trustees, Byron Shire Council, has shown the reserve over the years, despite many years of lucrative leasing of the reserve

for the Byron market and other activities.

Special place The reserve holds a special place for our Bundjalung community; it has been mapped and the stories have been recorded as central to their marriage ceremonial space. Nobody has consulted the Bundjalung community in this respect. In fact the Byron Shire Council has not consulted a single resident of our community with regard to the acquisition of the reserve and its development as a bus terminal. The proposed bus terminal, car park and CBD development are totally inconsistent with the Plan of Management (POM ) in force and prepared for the reserve in 2002.

The POM acknowledges the limited open space passive recreation areas available in Byron Bay and the high value the community places on this contribution to the recreation and social life of the people of Byron Bay. It is also valued for its scenic qualities, as an area of green open space in the heart of Byron Bay, and is important owing to its proximity to significant environmental sites.

Inappropriate Despite all of this Council as development proponent sees fit to establish a bus terminal directly adjacent to a medium-density residential area of approximately 50 households. This is completely inappropriate land use within

such close proximity of residential areas and lacks appropriate buffers. Exhaust fumes from buses and cars and light and noise pollution impacts have not been considered or addressed owing to a lack of community consultation. The mayor conveniently explains that Transport for NSW has decided to plonk themselves there. Once again, we must politely insist that this is not progress or positive change. This is a regressive proposal for our town, it is destructive, out of character and unnecessary. Save Butler Street Reserve because truly many don’t seem know what they’ve got till it’s gone. Q Paul Jones is the president of the Butler Street Community Network.

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It’s time to plan the urban forest: Let’s grow trees food trees’: four species of Eucalyptus trees but only those ‘equal or greater than three metres in height’. How are the next generation of food tree to grow up to such a size? Where will they grow? In fact where will any young urban tree grow to maturity?

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In our town, from December to January, each Royal Poinciana Delonix regia blooms. The magnificent red flowers cascade over the soft green leaves. In the shade under these lush tropical canopies, I pause and marvel. How are such gorgeous trees parts of our urban forest? What makes a number of trees a forest? What is its function and has it any future?

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Global interest saved the species Poinciana are now main features of treescapes throughout the urban tropics and subtropics. From the 19th century, the trees were planted along important streets in places such as Hawaii and India. Such global interest saved the species, which is now almost extinct in its country of origin, the impoverished Madagascar. In Bangalore, Poinciana were the answer to urban forest planning. The goal was to line the streets and fill the parks with trees that all blossomed throughout the different seasons. The Poinciana dominate the cityscape in summer from April through June. Then as they grow their long dark seed pods, other trees blossom in their turn.

The urban forest When it comes to urban forests, exotic trees are important. Throughout Australia and New Zealand, the plan has been to line the entrance road and the beachfront with Norfolk pines.

What’s left In many places they are still there: large trees offering shade for people and habitat for wildlife. They also have the unexpected ability to absorb air pollution from all the vehicles burning fossil fuels. Apart from the exotic Poinciana, Norfolk pines and other imports,

what Australian trees make up most of the town forests of Byron Bay? Often seen are paperbarks (Meleuluca species). Bottlebrush (Banksia species). Moreton Bay fig/Australian banyan (Ficus macrophylla). Bangalow palms (Archontophoenix cunninghamiana) Sheoaks (Causarina species). Eucalyptus of many sorts. Maybe some of these trees were deliberately planted but many of them seem part of that curious subgroup known as ‘what’s left’. They remain, all that’s left after an initial development phase. They are there after the departure of previous owners who might have planted them or

at least not cut them down. In some public spaces, the trees are regrowth of forgotten origins. Those trees, part of big tracts, such as nature reserves and Arakwal Park, may yet function as part of some ecological landscapes as well as aesthetic or recreational ones.

Caught between past and future But today’s urban trees are caught between a history of deforestation and a future of megadevelopment. Our Shire Council’s ‘significant tree register’ is a list of only ‘koala

People not only in cities but small towns the world over are thinking about tree-nature. They are pondering their streets, development applications and even climate change. They are seeing urban trees as valuable members of the community. Individual trees need security. The urban forest as a whole needs scope to evolve. What about urban forest evolution that includes food trees for other species, including people? What about the trees on the banks of different waterways in and about town? What about the urban beachfront or town entrance points? What about those trees, either by species or age, that are altogether missing from town? What about Urban Forest Masterplans? The Royal Poinciana is here because some people had a few thoughts about trees. Let’s think a bit more before everywhere public becomes a parking lot. Let’s grow trees.

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We expect to see signiﬁcant change to a client’s headache and migraine symptoms within four to ﬁve treatments. If not, we will cease treatment. Bangalow Headache Clinic aims for selfmanagement – not endless ongoing treatments. 72 Byron Street, Bangalow www.bangalowheadacheclinic. com.au 0475 757 510

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We can provide permanent and sustained relief from headache and migraine pain. Phone us for an immediate, obligation-free consultation.

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Debbie Rayﬁeld is a registered nurse and homeopath with over 30 years experience. She specialises in health care for infants, children and women during pregnancy and early motherhood. Short over the counter consultations are free. The Fountain Centre Call 0431168926 or 66856504 103 Jonson Street, Byron Bay www.fountaincentre.com.au North Coast news daily: www.echonetdaily.net.au

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SUMMER THEATRE WORKSHOPS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AT NORPA Kick start the year with creativity and develop your performance skills at NORPA this January. NORPA is offering three exciting theatre workshops for young people aged 8–18 with leading Australian theatre practitioners and educators Barry Lang, Kate Walder (ATYP) and Ajita Cannings (NORPA). Spread across four days (22–25 January), each workshop explores the exciting ways in which NORPA makes theatre — from the physical and dynamic to the bold and downright silly. Take a deep dive into the world of performance, imagination, physical expression and collaborative theatre-making.

The Workshops: When, where and how much? Date: Each workshop runs over 22–25 January Time: 10am–4pm Location: Lismore City Hall Cost: $260 per student / $240 earlybird price if paid by January 7. A limited amount of ﬁnancial hardship scholarships are available. For more information and to book visit www.norpa.org.au or contact Ajita Cannings on education@norpa.org.au.

VARIETYVILLE PRODUCTIONS Two must-see artists of outrageously funny proportions combining their talents into one incredible show for your pleasure!

Starring award-winning, ﬁve-star internationally renowned physical comedian Daniel Oldaker aka Dandyman (La Soireé, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Melb Int Comedy Fest) and the inimitable circus variety star Rani Huszar, Ruby Rubberlegs as seen on ABC’s Live at the Memo, The Sideshow, La Cliqué. Both stars of the international festival circuit have appeared in ﬁlms, on television, in circus tents, in opera houses… and now they come to a theatre near you! Varietyville takes variety to a whole new level. Bite-sized morsels of masterful magic, chaotic clowning, preposterous physical feats, musical mayhem, hilarious hi-jinks and much, much more! ‘Acts of Absurdity And Uncontrolled Laughter – I laughed harder and longer at one act this evening than I have at anything else I have seen this fringe.’ ++++ Clothesline (Charissa McCluskey-Garcia) Fringe World www.varietyville.com

Summer Theatre Workshops FO R YO U N G P EO P L E AT N O R PA

N O RPA are offering three exciting acting workshops for young people ages 8–18 years. Join us for a deep dive into the world of performance, imagination, physical expression and collaborative theatre making. 2 2 –25 JA N UA RY 2 01 8, 1 0A M– 4 P M LISMORE CIT Y HALL | norpa.org.au 22 January 3, 2018 The Byron Shire Echo

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TEAK BALI DAYBEDS Established in 2001 and tucked away on Byron St in Bangalow, Jo Tracey of Vintage Eastern has been quietly selling superb handmade Bali daybeds alongside her beautiful range of antique Chinese furniture and porcelain. She sells daybeds all over Australia from her website yet many local residents are still unaware that they can buy from her direct. Operating from her warehouse premises next door to the police station in Bangalow’s main street, Jo has no staff and very few overheads. As a result she claims to be Australia’s cheapest source for high-grade solid teak Bali daybeds – a claim that is certain to be validated by anyone calling in to view her range. Offering an extensive array of styles and finishes, you’re sure to find the perfect daybed to while away those lazy summer days. Jo works on small margins and moves her daybeds quickly, enabling her to engage her passion for adventure and travel (she flits back and forth to Bali and China regularly on stock replenishment missions). Jo has launched a very special offer to all local residents (January only). Visit her and buy your daybed at Australia’s best price and also receive a free tailor-made mattress and cushions to suit (usually $220).

www.vintageeastern.com

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MACAS The intention at Macas Camping Ground is for people who like camping and who like really good hot showers to have a really good camping experience. Tents, campervans, trailers, and caravans are all welcome. Campﬁres are permitted and encouraged where legal. The property may be explored on foot, including areas of interaction between rainforest and old macadamia farming practices. There are two great dams and some fantastic places to explore or just relax while at Macas. Shady campsites, lots of birdlife, lots of variety, camp kitchen and a laundry. Friendly dogs are welcome, and some rules apply. This is a wildlife-friendly experience. Drive very slowly please to conserve the life and nerves of campers, wildlife, chooks and ducks.

6684 5211 or 6684 5058 www.macascampingground.com

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Vintage Eastern 87 Byron St, Bangalow (Next door to Police Station) PH: 02 6687 2629 Open Wednesday to Sunday www.vintageeastern.com

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Phone 6684 5211 or 6684 5058 macascampingground@gmail.com

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SPAGHETTI SUMMER HOLIDAY CIRCUS WORKSHOPS STEPPERS THE HOT CHICKEN SOCIAL Steppers The Hot Chicken Social is looking forward to an exciting year ahead where they will be producing regular specials alongside their crowd favourites. Specials will include housmade Filipino chicken sausages and a spin on their Southern Fried Chicken – Korean fried chicken. Steppers has something for everyone with the locally sourced Southern fried chicken and ﬁsh, coleslaw, fries and housemade pickles and sauces all being made from quality fresh ingredients that are naturally gluten free. Steppers’ down-to-earth approach to food and hospitality, rooted in the philosophy of Cheer Up, Slow Down and Chill Out, can be enjoyed at your next gathering or event. Pop down and have a chat instore, otherwise contact Steppers via the details below, to discuss catering options!

Eat in, takeaway, delivery, catering 6685 7732 steppershotchicken@gmail.com Follow/Tag/Share Steppers @steppershotchicken 4/48 Jonson Street, Byron Bay

Complete your summer fun bucket list at the circus! Attend one, two or three days of these renowned workshops – and grab a discount when booking all three days.

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Tuesday 16, Wednesday 17 and Thursday 18 January. Spaghetti Circus is based in the Mullumbimby Showgrounds.

has come south for the summer with a brand-new pop-up boutique right next door to Sole Bros in Byron Bay Arts and Industry Estate. Treat yourself head-to-toe with the styles and labels that have made our Gold Coast and Brisbane stores unique – labels you won’t ﬁnd anywhere else in town: Ruby Yaya, Orientique, Valia, Kalypso, plus Zyga’s beautiful cottons and linens from France and Greece. What’s more, we’re located within the studios of the ever-glamorous Vu Cosmetics, so there’s no need to spend your precious holiday hours going from one side of town to the other in search of the compete look. We’ve got everything from fashion to cosmetics (Christmas make-over, anyone?) to the all-important footwear. All in one location. (Oh, and there’s free parking too!) So let us give you a real beauty experience, one that will have you feeling and looking your best, and give you more time to spend with your loved ones these holidays.

Circus workshops for 7–14 years 10am–3pm $60/day or book all three days online for $150 Skills include trampoline, tumbling, stilts, juggling, hoops, balloon twisting, trapeze, cloudswing and more! Junior Workshops 4–6 years 9.30am–12.30pm $40/day or book all three days online for $100 Skills include tumbling, acro-balance, hula hoops, ribbons, juggling, trapeze and a ton of fun games!

Remember to tell your friends and book online at spaghetticircus. com ASAP to secure your place and discount. Spaghetti Circus – homegrown in Mullumbimby for generations, ﬂippin’ awesome for days!

Find us at 1/20 Brigantine St, Byron Bay.

Holiday Circus Workshops 16, 17 & 18 January, 2018

Workshops for 7-14 years 10am - 3pm $60/day or $150 for 3 days Junior Workshops for 4-6 years 9.30am - 12.30pm $40/day or $100 for 3 days

Delivery, Catering and Delivery, Catering andFunctions Functions

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BAY Active INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE FOR WOMEN’S HEALTH North Coast Medical Centre, conveniently located in Byron Bay, is an integrative medical clinic who pioneered combined consultations, where Byron Bay GPs, psychologists, naturopaths, dietitians, exercise physiologist and osteopaths work together to deliver comprehensive medical care. At North Coast Medical Centre you can see a female GP, Dr Bettie Honey, for testing and diagnosis, and a female naturopath, Ayesha Amos, for dietary and supplement advice and naturopathic treatment – all in the one consultation. Menstrual problems – PMS, period pain, heavy bleeding, endometriosis, ﬁbroids Cycle irregularity including polycystic ovary syndrome

Head out to the Arts & Industry Estate to see the girls at BAY Active and treat yourself to 100 per cent guilt-free fashion, basics, active and yoga wear. BAY Active is a women’s lifestyle brand made in GOTS certified organic cotton, bamboo and regenerated fibres. Effortlessly stylish and super comfy basics to offer easy solutions for the daily run about. Made to stand the test of time, the collections offer premium fit and performance for a busy girl on the go. Heading to a yoga or Pilates class, lighthouse walk, gym or racing to pick up the kids, BAY Active has got your back, all in a size range of 6–18.

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Instore you’ll ﬁnd a great selection of other leading brands.

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Preconception healthcare – fertility charting, IVF support Pregnancy and Lactation Support Peri-menopausal changes – hot ﬂushes, night sweats, heavy bleeding, mood, sleep, cognitive changes. Initial consultations are one hour: 15 minutes are combined, followed by 45 minutes with the naturopath.

Phone for an appointment– 6685 8666.

Activewear

New collection of summer dresses made right here in Byron Bay!

• Cloth & Co

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www.bayactive.com.au 13 Banksia Drive Byron Arts & Industry Estate 0412 707 911

Integrative Medicine for Women’s Health North Coast Medical Centre Byron Integrative Health offer you the convenience of combined consultations with a female GP and a Naturopath

Ayesha Amos

Dr Bettie Honey

Grad.Cert.EvidCompMed, Grad.Cert.HigherEd, AdvDipAppSci(Nat), MNHAA

MBChB(SA), DCH(Glasgow), DRANZCOG, FRACGP

(02) 6685 8666

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1/20 Brigantine Street, Byron Bay NSW 2481 North Coast news daily: www.echonetdaily.net.au

Book Online www.northcoastmedicalcentre.com.au

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ESOTERIC GIFTS THAT REALLY SPEAK ‘BYRON’ Soulife is Byron’s complete store for that esoteric gift that really speaks ‘Byron’.

BYTES OF BYRON Dr Leigh Bayliss and Dr Jon Veranese will be here to provide any emergency dental care and are proﬁcient in all aspects of holistic dentistry. Having completed courses with world leaders in their respective ﬁelds, they are positioned at the cutting edge of cosmetic and restorative dentistry and incorporate minimally invasive and maximally aesthetic techniques. Dr Leigh Bayliss will be providing bone grafting and implant placements for missing teeth and dentures at very competitive prices. We at Bytes of Byron understand the oral-systemic connection, which is integral to overall health, in particular the links between gum disease, heart disease and the nutrition. We are pioneers in biological dentistry.

If you haven’t yet discovered this eclectic jewel on Jonson St, get down to the Woolies Plaza and be amazed. Owner Clinton Hart has been curating a sophisticated range of esoteric books at Soulife for the last 25 years and believes it to be now one of the best collections in Australia, including rare and out-of-print titles. Go there for Byron’s biggest range of crystals, now with more than 500 varieties including rare and unusual pieces. Another distinction of Soulife is the ﬁne jewellery, in more than 100 different gemstones. The choicest pieces are set in a super-grade London Silver(958), a cut above regular Sterling Silver and lower-market grades.

We are happy to offer second opinions and staged treatments tailored to suit the budget.

Gifts for all abound with Himalayan salt lamps, singing bowls, smudge sticks, essential oils, candles, incense, art cards, music CDs and 2018 calendars and diaries hard to ﬁnd elsewhere.

Bytes of Byron Dental 1/140 Jonson Street, Byron Bay 6680 8066

Find Soulife open late (past 8pm) every day in the Woolies Plaza, 90 Jonson St. Call 6680 8090.

ESSENTIAL OILS Have been used as powerful natural supplements for thousands of years. Do you experience any of the following: pain/inﬂammation, low energy, stress, anxiety, low moods, irritability, sleep or digestive issues, reduced immunity? Why not join one of our informative workshops where we will show you how you can take your physical and emotional body to a higher level of balance and functioning. Our essential oils are all tested for their absolute purity and potency. Topics range from Everyday Wellness to bringing out the 'best You' to Emotional Balance, Women’s Health, Chakra Balance, Meditation, Emotional Freedom Technique, Spirited Children and Massage. We have been in the wellness industry as practitioners and teachers for more than 35 years. We are passionate about what we do and would like to share our amazing personal results with you.

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SUBSIDISED FEES MAKING LOCAL EDUCATION ACCESSIBLE IN 2018 Now is a great time to consider plans for 2018. If you’re not sure what you want to do or need some career inspiration, consider studying locally with Byron Community College. The college is excited to announce that the following nationally accredited qualifications for 2018 are available with generous subsidies offered under the NSW Government's Smart & Skilled program. Eligibility criteria apply and places are limited. Enrolments are open for: Certificate III in Individual Support (Ageing) CHC33015 Certificate III in Individual Support (Disability) CHC33015 Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care CHC30113 Certificate III Horticulture AHC30716 Certificate III in Permaculture AHC33815 Certificate IV in Permaculture AHC42116 Certificate III in Micro Business Operations BSB30315 Certificate IV in New Small Business BSB42615 Subsided places start from $0 and most courses are Austudy approved, making it more affordable for you to take that step towards your education and career goals.

If you are interested in studying with us give our friendly staff a call on 6684 3374, come in for a chat or visit the website at byroncollege.org.au.

BANG! ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS For the first time ever BANG! Academy of Performing Arts is offering Summer Holiday Workshops for aspiring actors and creators aged 6–18 years! Choose to dip your toe or totally immerse yourself in the art of performance with the options of one, two, three or four days of structured dramatic play. The program is conducted by a range of industry professionals each experienced in their own specific field. There is something for everyone – Acting for Film, Voice and Movement Skills, Theatrical Storytelling and Awesome Drama Games. Workshops run from 9am till 3pm at the majestic A&I Hall in Bangalow, just 10 minutes' drive from Byron Bay. Fees vary from $50 to $80 per day depending on how many days you attend. For more information about facilitators, course content and timetable, or to book for the workshops, visit

www.bangacademyofperformingarts.com.

Make a fresh start in 2018 Kickstart your new career with a vocational course in • Small Business • Visual Arts • Permaculture • Horticulture • Early Childhood Education • Individual Support (Aging & Disability) Fee subsidies and Austudy available for eligable applicants *

PERFORMING ARTS

WORKSHOPS JAN 22, 23, 24 & 25

* criteria apply

02 6684 3374

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SUMMER WORKSHOP

THE CRYSTAL CASTLE With its delightful ambience and exquisite natural splendour, The Crystal Castle is the perfect holiday destination; a place of tranquility and wonder for everyone. And now it’s home to the world’s biggest crystals. Come and see these awesome earthly treasures and be amazed! Stand between the towering Crystal Guardians, or be immersed in the magic and wonder of the Enchanted Cave*.

Dance Dynamics Byron Bay are excited to be running their summer holiday workshop! With special classes run by our inhouse and new exciting teachers, participants will have a great time taking the following subjects for their workshop: ballet, contemporary, jazz/funk/hip-hop, limber, strength, acro, creative choreography and special stage grooming classes. 'We want this workshop to be fun and creative. Many of our students have been working hard all year. The emphasise on this workshop is creativity. All are welcome,' says director Kate Histon. The cost is $170; however, the second earlybird rate applies for payments made before 10th January is $140!

Email info@byrondancedynamics.com.au or pwhone 6680 7250 for enquiries. Instagram @byrondancedynamics

Embark on a magical journey away from the pressures of life, drawing on the power of nature, or participating in some of our wonderful workshops and rituals. You can join our two Daily Experiences at 1.30pm and also the Peace Experience at 3.10pm (included in your entry). The enchanting Shambhala Gardens are ﬁlled with beautiful spots for contemplation and meditation where you can unwind and rediscover peace. Be inspired, relaxed and enrich your spirit. Children can be delighted by the sparkle of thousands of crystals, play in our playground with Fireheart the Dragon, and have their faces painted from 12 till 4pm every day of the holidays. *An optional extra is The Enchanted Cave guided experience: a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to sit inside the world’s largest amethyst crystal cave.

See our website to plan and enhance your day. www.crystalcastle.com.au

Summer Holida y Workshops J a n u a r y 17,18 ,19 BOOK NOW via email i n fo @ by ro n d a n c e d y n a m i c s .c o m .a u Ea r l y B i rd b efo re 10 t h J a n $14 0 (n o r m a l p r i ce $170) 7/ 8 4 – 8 6 C e n t e n n i a l C i r c u i t B y r o n B a y | P h o n e 6 6 8 0 72 5 0

Welcome to the home of the biggest and most beautiful crystals in the world! Open 10:00am to 5:30pm (NSW time) every day of the year, except Good Friday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day 81 Monet Drive, Mullumbimby, NSW, 2482

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LOOKING FOR WHEELS PLUS ACCOMMODATION? Hire a camper van from Byron Adventure Vans – a locally owned business with modern vans that are meticulously clean, reliable and Byron style. The vans have real queensized beds and are equipped with everything you need to hit the road. A great idea for your surﬁng trip or staying at a beachfront camping ground to explore the hinterland, waterfalls, markets and surf spots around Byron – and to experience Byron’s vibrant night life! Whether you’re a local planning an escape, or a backpacker exploring the east coast of Australia, a camper van is an easy, economical, ﬂexible – and fun – way to travel. Available for a returnto-Byron trip or one-way rental to your next destination. Remember, home is where you park it!

Book online at: www.byronvans.com.au or call: 6680 8540 or 0410 630 043.

BYRON DESIGNWORKS ON SALE As a Happy New Year promotion Byron Designworks has gone on sale, starting 3 January and running until 20 January. Floorstock furniture is all reduced to make way for a new container of furniture due at the end of January. With discounts of up to 40 per cent, it is worth having a browse. Cushions and soft furnishings are all reduced by 20 per cent, this includes all the wonderful new styles which have only recently arrived. Gifts and homewares are reduced by a minimum of 15 per cent with end-of-line items now 40 per cent off.

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Heating up Byron Bay’s iconic Jonson Street, pan-Asian restaurant Ryce has officially opened its doors with a mouth-watering menu designed to create a culinary fusion between East and West. Headlined by chef Adam Marino, whose knives have dabbled at Brisbane’s Longtime and The Spirit House (Sunshine Coast), Ryce will pay homage to traditional Asian cuisine with a twist, indulging you with the complex and modern ﬂavours expressed in modern pan-Asian cooking.

Other items on sale are lamps, wall art and rugs. If there is anything left, all remaining Christmas trees and decorations will be 50 per cent off the original price.

Combined with its iconic waterfront location in the hustle of bustle of Byron Bay, Ryce is a place to sit, relax and unwind with friends and satisfy your thirst with a bit of help from their heat-quenching cocktails.

Byron Designworks is looking forward to another great year, and please remember that it is possible to get furniture custom made and to have items shipped around the country.

Betel leaf with pickled oysters, kingﬁsh ceviche and roasted cauliﬂower yellow curry are just a taste of what Ryce has instore for this summer, not to mention its cocktail list, which in itself is a step above the rest.

Byron Designworks 6685 5714

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Ryce â€¢ BYRON BAY Contemporary pan-Asian Restaurant and Bar Located in the heart of Byron Bay on Jonson Street

address / 9/4 Jonson Street Byron Bay BOOK / 6680 9183 / seatme@ryce.com.au

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THE TOP 8 FERMENTED FOODS Get 2018 off to a great start by treating your gut to the beneﬁts of fermented foods. After all, the latest research shows that gut health is linked to mental health as well as physical wellbeing. Different cultures from around the world have been fermenting foods for thousands of years. Traditionally, foods were fermented for preservation but there are also many health beneﬁts as a result of the fermentation process, which encourages essential bacteria and provides a good source of natural probiotics. 'Fermented foods are amazing,' says David Mendes, co-owner of Alive Foods. 'They are powerful healers of digestion and overall health because they are full of [good] bacteria and other great things!'

BYRON PHOTO MAGIC

The top eight fermented foods are:

Summer holiday photos are all covered at Byron Photo Magic – Fujifilm (STILL located in the Plaza on Jonson St even during reconstruction). Established in 1988, your store with everything photographic from printing from all devices, wide-format prints to traditional 35mm processing colour or B/W either printed, scanned and even 'drop boxed' all done instore! As well as a great range of Fujifilm Instax Cameras and film, Polaroid film, GoPro accessories, digital cameras and accessories to cover any photographic request! Having the latest Fujifilm Digital Frontier Photo Lab we are able to print up to 30cmx45cm same day and larger size to A1 next day! Largest range of 35mm film as well secondhand cameras on the north coast – as well as that special battery, memory card, lens, camera bag, filter, flash, tripod, even studio lighting!

And they are all available at Byron Farmers Market every week: yogurt and keﬁr (Nimbin Valley Dairy), sauerkraut and kimchi (Alive Foods), tempeh (Byron Bay Tempeh), pickles (Church Farm), miso (Byron Bay Miso) and kombucha (Rancho Relaxo). All locally produced!

Come in today and see Stephen, Karen or Zac open six days a week or order online 24/7 www.photomagic.com.au.

Byron Farmers Market is held every Thursday 8–11am in Butler Street Reserve and every Saturday 8– 11am behind the Bangalow Pub.

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NINJA DANCE SUMMER SCHOOL Nina Jeftic has recently renamed her studio from Funky Moves to the new studio name Ninja Dance. You can check out on what's on offer in 2018 at her new website www.ninjadancebyronbay.com

SUMMER HOLIDAY FUN Looking for somewhere to have fun over the school holidays? Come to the Cavanbah Centre at Byron Bay to play basketball, futsal, volleyball, netball, badminton. Or maybe you want to stay cool and dance in our air-conditioned dance studio. The courts and function rooms are also available for hire for all events including children’s birthday parties. The Cavanbah Centre is a great place to get ﬁt and have fun with family and friends. Multi-visit passes available.

Contact the Cavanbah Centre for more information 6685 5911 or check our Facebook page for availability.

We are starting the year with our famous Summer School. We have been running this for 14 years and it always delivers top-notch workshops with the best in the industry. The Ninja Dance Summer School will be held on January 9 and 10 for 12–22 years and on the 11th for 7–11 years. Each days costs $90.00. This gives you three workshops per day in the genres of dance that are really fun. Commercial jazz with Mathew Code superstar choreographer and Sammy Ross the coolest hip-hop chick and her sidekick breakdance boy to give boys and girls all the moves. Nina Jeftic, director of Ninja Dance and former director of Funky Moves, will give you the coolest contemporary moves to challenge and stimulate the mind and body. Limited places are available so get in quickly.

Either email me – nina@jeftic.com.au or phone 0408 412 788 or register and pay online – www.ninjadancebyronbay.com. Enrolment for 2018 at Ninja Dance can also be done online. Check us out.

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Property

Property Insider

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So, youâ€™re buying a property with an onsite sewage management system..... In the Byron Shire there are over 3,000 properties that are not connected to main sewer and these will therefore have an onsite sewage management system such as a septic tank, composting toilet or aerated system. There are special regulations that apply to these systems and it is the property ownerâ€™s responsibility to ensure that the system is approved by local council and that it is working properly. On-site systems can be a risk to the health of your family and other community members if they are not properly maintained. They can also cause harm to the environment. To ensure that your system meets the requirements, you will need to obtain two approvals from your local council. The first approval is to install the system. The second approval is to operate the system After you obtain these approvals, the council will carry out regular inspections to make sure the system is working properly. Councils can charge inspection fees for this service. Byron Shire Council has guide available entitled â€˜Information and Assessment

Guide for owners of On-site Sewage Systemsâ€™. There is also an Easy Septic Guide available as a download from the Office of Local Government website. Requirements for new property owners Within two months of the date of property transfer, new owners must apply to Council for an Approval to Operate the existing OSMS. When lodging this application, new owners need to specify details of the existing system and likely usage patterns eg. number of persons using system. Owners need to be aware of the limitations and operating capacity of their system. The continued effectiveness of an on-site sewage system will depend on how well it is operated and maintained. Regular maintenance,

with reduced water use, can extend the life of an OSMS and minimise contamination of our environment. Suggestions for improved maintenance: Understand the basic maintenance requirements of your system. Budget for routine maintenance Employ a qualified person to undertake regular maintenance. Keep records of events such as pump outs and inspections. Conserve water Spread heavy water use activities such as clothes washing, over the week. Replace single flush pan and cistern with dual flush pan and cistern. Install low flow internal taps. Use a front loading washing machine. Repair leaking fittings Suggestions to reduce inputs: Use detergents low in phosphorous and sodium Do not empty paint, petrol, pesticides, fats, oils, food waste down sinks. Nappies, sanitary napkins, paper towels etc block treatment systems, Signs of a failing system may include: For a septic tank: Bad odours Tank overflowing to ground surface Water drains too slowly from the toilet

High sludge levels within the primary tank

(within about 150mm of the inlet pipe or obstructing the flow through the mid baffle). Scum blocking the outflow Surface ponding of wastes or water around the tank or disposal area. For an AWTS (aerated wastewater treatment systme): Water drains too slowly from the toilet Bad smells Silence â€“ the pump is not working There is black effluent in the aerated tank Water backs up into the sink, shower, basin or laundry Pipes gurgle when air bubbles are forced back through the system

whatever home means to you, weâ€™ll help you find it

YELGUN 94 Yelgun Road $1.595 million 5

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Property Opportunity Knocks

Head for the Hills!

By the Channel, Near the Sea

13 Palmer Avenue, Ocean Shores Vacant Land

183 Coopers Lane West, Mullumbimby

736 South Bank Road, Palmers Channel

When opportunity knocks, those who answer reap the rewards! Located in Palmer Avenue, North Ocean Shores, surrounded by a quality neighbourhood with properties of substance, this vacant 1158 square metre block of land will catch the eye of those with a vision to create a masterpiece in tune with its environment. Catch the ocean breezes from the land’s elevated eastern aspect whilst being surround by established trees which create a leafy outlook for the nature lover. Ocean Shores Primary School and South Golden Beach are a short bike ride away, while easy access to the motorway puts you within half an hour’s drive of Tweed Heads and 15 minutes of Byron Bay. Interest in vacant building blocks of land is always fierce. Don’t delay, contact Jason Dittmar today.

A unique opportunity to enjoy your dream lifestyle on just over 5 acres of elevated land with spectacular northerly views and under ten minutes drive to Mullumbimby. The main house has three bedrooms and open plan living onto a large entertaining deck and the view. The top cottage (STCA) maximises the amazing views and has three bedrooms with a covered deck looking out to the distant hills. There is a seasonal creek and tanks storing 90,000+ litres of rainwater. The garden has been managed organically and the owners have created a cook’s dream “food forest” and an abundant fruit orchard for future picking. There is an approved large workshop/shed too! Head for the hills and live the life!

The fact that you can live in the country, in privacy, beside a natural meandering channel that leads to a lake and the main river, and hear the roar of the pounding surf, should have you wanting to know more. There have been many changes in the Clarence in the recent past, but South Bank Road Palmers Channel, mid-way between Yamba and Maclean, has and will retain its quiet appeal for many. The land is alluvial and the property has a registered jetty. Just imagine, if you have had enough of fishing off the jetty and catching enough muddies for a feed, and you want a change of scenery, you can slip the tinnie or kayak and head off to Lake Wooloweyah or back down the Channel. Make sure you inspect to appreciate this gem. It might be the best action you ever take. Bidding expected from $525,000.

By Appointment Open: Contact: Sally Packshaw 0474 153 535 Professionals & Mark Cochrane Mullumbimby

Auction: Friday 2nd February 12.30pm Maclean Services Club Contact: Ken Giese 0429 450 006 LJ Hooker Maclean 6645 2222

View: By appointment. Contact: Jason Dittmar Area Sales Specialist 0477 222 452 Julie-Ann Manahan LREA Licensee/Principal 0411 081 118 Raine & Horne Ocean Shores / Brunswick Heads

$949,000

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Property Rare On The Market

Ready to Welcome You Home

1278 Caniaba Road, McKees Hill

6A Narrogal Court, Ocean Shores

$1,575,000

Found in one of the sought-after areas between Casino and Lismore, Northern NSW, and set on approximately 228 acres. • 3+ bedroom Queenslander home with verandas 3 sides • Horse arena, sand for cutting & stabling x3 • 2 Sheds - 17x17m & 17x8m. Dog kennels • Steel stockyards. Carrying capacity 90-100 breeders • Watered by bore & 4 dams, 1 dam with windmill • Rainfall of approximately 55-60” per year • Approx. 100 acres arable area. 80 acres under Rhodes grass • Mail delivery to gate and choice Schools in Casino & Lismore This type of property doesn’t come onto the market often, secure your inspection today! View: By appointment Contact: Darren Perkins, 0428 660 324 GNF Real Estate Casino

$1,095,000

This easy access 6 acre property located 7 minutes from Mullumbimby has been managed organically and biodynamically by the same owners for the last 28 years. Situated on an elevated ridge with spectacular ocean and mountain views, the panorama takes in Koonyum Range, Mt Chincogan and Montecollum with a vast stretch of Pacific Ocean from Brunswick Heads as far as the Julian Rocks. The charming and generously proportioned architect-designed home has been carefully sited to take full advantage of these amazing vistas from the open plan living areas, the study and the 2 bedrooms. There is also a fully self-contained and council approved, large granny flat and a self-contained elevated 2 bedroom caretakers residence with massive front verandah facing north. Unlimited water and gardens to die for.

Open: Thursdays 4pm Contact: Declan O’Sullivan 0402 338 828 Byron Ballina Property Specialists

Open: By Appointment Contact: Mark Cochrane 0416 142 663 Ruth Russell 0402 855 929 Professionals & Mark Cochrane Mullumbimby

A beautiful private property, sought-after location, a great lifestyle and an income to help support it. We all dream of that perfect small manageable acre on the creek, a home loaded with charm, the self-contained studio and a wonderful array of out buildings and infrastructure. • Charming 3 bed, 1 bath main dwelling with study • 9ft ceilings, timber ﬂoors adding its special character • True North Coast style open plan living with all the modern conveniences • Large entertainment verandah with

TENDER

36-38 South Beach Road, Brunswick Heads

relaxing garden views • Self-contained 2 bedroom studio with open deck and views over the pool • Sparkling inground pool in a tropical palm setting • 2 bay garage and workshop, carport with additional storage and garden sheds • Set on 5,367m2 (1.3 acres approx.) of park-like lawns and gardens with CONTACT Paul Eatwell 0414 466 111 OFFICE Mullumbimby 02 6684 2615

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510 Wilsons Creek Road, Wilsons Creek $1,900,000 $599,000 5 4 4

Freshly renovated throughout, the home hits the mark when it comes to style, delivering a modern up-to-theminute presence and is perfectly suited for both professional couples and young families alike. Showcasing a functional layout, the residence presents an inviting feel and a sense of openness, ideal for endless days of relaxed entertaining and family fun at home. Situated on a generously sized block of 429m2, the property allows for the prospect of adding garage with a granny flat (STCA), for a family member or to be utilised as an extra income stream and is situated only a mere stroll from Waterlily Park and moments from schools, shops and beaches combining a fantastic lifestyle of location with both quality and dimension.

500 The Pocket Road, The Pocket

Lifestyle with Income

‘Rainbow Ridge’ with Views

For Sale by PUBLIC TENDER (Closing 19th Jan 2018)

Absolutely unique beach and river access property. Held in the one family for nearly 100 years! 1,012m2 (two titles), two street frontages, crown land adjoining and all services available. Invitations to tender include contract, planners report, survey and pest and building reports. A character 4 bed beach house with one bathroom plus ensuite is situated overlooking

Simpsons Creek. A brilliant redevelopment site or premier holiday address. Call Mark Cochrane for conﬁdential assistance. PRICE PUBLIC TENDER INSPECT After 8 January 2018 CONTACT Mark Cochrane 0416 142 663

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13 Palmer Avenue, Ocean Shores OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS

37 Byron Street, New Brighton INCOMPARABLE BEACHFRONT ACREAGE

This vacant 1158 sqm block of land will catch the eye of those with a vision to create a masterpiece in tune with its environment. Enjoy the ocean breezes from the elevated eastern aspect whilst being surrounded by established trees with a leafy outlook for the nature lover. Ocean Shores Primary School and South Golden Beach are a short bike ride away, while easy access to the motorway puts you within half an hour’s drive to Tweed Heads & 15 minutes to Byron Bay. Demand is high for vacant building blocks of land so don’t miss this opportunity, call Jason today to arrange your inspection. Price Guide $330,000-$360,000 View By Appointment Agents Jason Di mar | Area Sales Specialist | 0477 222 452 Julie-Ann Manahan LREA Licensee/Principal | 0411 081 118

Spectacular, absolute beachfront acreage on the Byron Coast with your own private access to the stunning white sand and crystal clear waters of New Brighton Beach. • 13 Magniﬁcent acres of park-like oceanfront land • Spring-fed water & irrigation system • Private access to unspoilt New Brighton Beach • 30 Minutes to Gold Coast Airport & 15 minutes to Byron Bay

124 Balemo Drive, Ocean Shores PRIVATE PEACEFUL WATERFRONT SANCTUARY

153 Shara Boulevard, Ocean Shores BYRON COAST CONTEMPORARY WATERFRONT HOME

Sale By Tender Tenders close midday Thursday 1st February 2018 View By Appointment Agents Julie-Ann Manahan LREA Licensee/Principal | 0411 081 118 Jason Di mar | Area Sales Specialist | 0477 222 452

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With uninterrupted views across the lake & national park, this immaculately presented, north facing home invites you to embrace the peace and tranquillity of this never-to-be-built-out location. • Fully landscaped, elevated 917m2 block • 3 Bedrooms including 2 ensuited masters • Quality timber kitchen with dishwasher & corner pantry • Oversized, lined double garage plus side access Price Guide $895,000–$959,000 View By Appointment Agents Julie-Ann Manahan LREA Licensee/Principal | 0411 081 118 Jason Di mar | Area Sales Specialist | 0477 222 452

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‘Starﬁsh’ is one of the premier homes in the much sought-after enclave of South Golden Beach just 75 metres from sand & surf in this unspoilt, highly in-demand village. • 3 Bedrooms complete with ceiling fans • Master with luxurious ensuite • Gourmet Chef’s kitchen with Caesarstone bench tops • Large undercover parking area for multiple vehicles Price Guide View Agents

$1,250,000–$1,350,000 Saturday 12.30pm–1.30pm Julie-Ann Manahan LREA Licensee/Principal | 0411 081 118 Jason Di mar | Area Sales Specialist | 0477 222 452

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This fabulous waterfront Anstey Home offers an enviable coastal lifestyle for one lucky family. Just four years young, this architecturally outstanding property boasts a beautiful location, desirable north-east aspect and sensational water views. • 4 Bedrooms, all complete with large built in robes and ceiling fans • A/C Master with fully fi ed robe & superb ensuite with bath • Elevated ceilings enhancing natural light • Quality screens, blinds & floor coverings throughout • 869m2 block with double gated side access View By Appointment Agents Julie-Ann Manahan LREA Licensee/Principal | 0411 081 118 Jason Di mar | Area Sales Specialist | 0477 222 452

ST JU 12 Beach Avenue, South Golden Beach REST RELAX IN THIS PREMIER BEACHSIDE RETREAT

37 Elizabeth Avenue, South Golden Beach SOUTH GOLDEN BEACH IS CALLING YOUR NAME!

Have you been waiting for the ideal opportunity to buy into the booming, highly sought-after South Golden Beach, property market? Look no further – this is your lucky day! Be among the ﬁrst to inspect this waterfront, brick home packed with potential. • Three bedrooms plus study or 4th bedroom • Air conditioned open plan living and dining area • Screened veranda overlooking Marshalls Creek View Saturday 11.00am–12.00pm Agents Julie-Ann Manahan LREA Licensee/Principal | 0411 081 118 Jason Di mar | Area Sales Specialist | 0477 222 452

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Property Where bush meets beach

The Echo: reaching far more people each week

246 Skinners Shoot Road, Skinners Shoot $1.75 – $1.9 million 3 1 7

The Audited Media Association of Australia has measured the average weekly print distribution for the six months ended 30 September 2016 as: The Byron Shire Echo: 23,190 The Byron Shire News: 15,534

This is where the bush meets the beach! The three bedroom timber home is full of rustic charm and has a large timber deck on the northern side where you can relax in peace with wildlife all around. There are high raked timber lined ceilings and a wood heater in the living room. Plus beautiful stained glass throughout. Having one acre gives you plenty of space for extra options you may desire. There is a large 7m x 14m Colorbond shed plus a double garage with 3 phase power and a workshop which is attached to the frame of the old studio. Skinners Shoot is a desirable location! The property is on a sealed road, with town water connected. It is only moments from the CBD and the beaches of Byron Bay.

Delivered to significantly more homes and businesses across a larger area, The Echo is clearly the more effective place for your print advertising.

THE BYRON SHIRE

Inspect by appointment Open: Contact: Katrina Beohm 0467 001 122 Katrina Beohm Real Estate

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grand proportions with picturesque. You Don’t Have to WaittoTill Walk to station, north rear Positioned between Balmoral Beach and Auction You Know! Taronga Zoo and nearby to Military Road,

We’ll sell TODAY to genuine buyers offering boutique shopping, public transport. at fair price, it’s that simple! Come along and Positioned between Beach have an inspection andBalmoral see if what we and have Taronga Zoo and nearby toisMilitary Road. suits your needs. Gulmarrad arguably the For Sale best value$345,000 real estate in the Clarence Valley. Auction Friday Auction Auction 2ndDetails February 12.30pm For LeaseServices Auction Details Maclean Club, River Room View Open Sat and Wed 1111 to -11.45am View Saturday 11.30am ljhooker.com/A2H2G WEB ID: www.ljhooker.com/JUWF6G Jane Citizen 0411 539 027

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Auction 2nd February 12.30pm For Sale Friday $345,000 Maclean Auction Services $345,000Club, River Room View Open $345,000 Saturday 11 - 11.30am For Lease www.ljhooker.com/JP0F6G View Saturday 11 to 11.45am

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t Ideally positioned across from the Main Taronga Beach. Zoo and nearby to Military Road, tt Relax boutique shopping, public transport. in the ambience of the good sized Positioned between entertaining deck. Balmoral Beach and Taronga Zoo and nearby to Military Road. t Tastefully refurbished. For Sale $345,000 t Land area 550 m2. Auction Auction Details t Ideal to enjoy as it is or redevelop. For Lease Auction Details For Sale $565,000 View Sat and Wed 11 to 11.45am View By Appointment ljhooker.com/A2H2G Jane Citizen 0411 539 027 WEB ID: www.ljhooker.com/JU7F6G

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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. Interested parties must solely rely on their own enquiries.

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Price: P.O.A Contact: Darren Perkins 0428 324 Alli Page 0403 498 660 648

Iconic Bangalow Post OfďŹ ce Building Located in the heart of Bangalow village (Byron Bay Hinterland) is the freestanding Bangalow Post OfďŹ ce commercial building. With the licensed Post OfďŹ ce business forming the anchor for a â€œcollectiveâ€? of small boutique retail businesses, the new owners long term interests are assured. The opportunity to increase returns comes with the possibility of further developing the land which has dual street frontage (subject to council approval). The current rental return has an indicative 5% annual return. A pleasure to inspect. In sound condition with loads of character!

Call the GNF Bangalow Team for your sales and property management needs.

Price: $2.185M Contact: Darren Perkins 0428 660 324

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STUNNING RURAL OUTLOOK

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LISTINGS WANTED

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Price: $4.3M

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Property Perfectly Charming

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16 O’Flynn Street, Lismore Heights 4

$478,000

Stunning Panoramic Views

This post-war bungalowstyle residence has been lovingly restored with an emphasis on preserving the old-world-charm while incorporating modern comforts. Original period features include ornate cornices, hardwood floorboards, sash windows and leadlight French doors. A spacious kitchen with immaculate original cabinetry and benchtops will impress fans of retro styling without disappointing the gourmet chef. There’s loads of cupboards and a modern gas/ electric cast iron stove with double oven for authentic baking with flair. The home has a beautiful flow to it with north-facing living areas and a large covered decking off the back patio. Take in distant views and enjoy gentle breezes with an elevated position while established trees provide shade and privacy. This is a landmark property in a premium location, only minutes to schools, sporting clubs and Lismore CBD and half an hour to Ballina for an easy commuter flight to Sydney or Melbourne. By Appointment Open: Contact: Brett McDonald - 02 6685 6552 Harcourts Byron Bay

Vacant Land

14 Angus Kennedy Cl, Lennox Head Positioned within an established & quiet part of Lennox Head amongst quality ONLY REMAINING vacant residential homes block in Lennox Head, northerly 1 min school bus, 7 min walk Lennox panoramic view Village, 10 min drive Ballina, 20 min Elevated views over ocean, hinterland, Byron Bay Lennox village, along Seven Mile beach AUCTION 13 January on site 10am to Broken Head Serene 1458m2 block on the high side of a private road, backs on to a nature reserve Inspect: By Appt. Contact Agent Coveted NE aspect, enjoys both summer Contact: Lois Buckett 0428 877 399 breezes & winter sun – perfect location to build

Unique Beach Cottage with Potential 4/12 Shelly Beach Road, East Ballina Feel like you are on holidays all year round in this charming cottage Directly opposite Shelly Beach in the popular Belle General Complex High ceilings, hardwood floors, French doors, sun washed living area 3 bedrooms plus additional nursery/ study nooks/dressing room Interchangeable floorplan with multiple living/family spaces

Timber deck overlooks level grassed fully

fenced backyard + SLUG Suit owner occupier or investor wanting

great return or prime holiday let opportunity Price: $695,000 Inspect: By appointment Contact: Angela Proudman 0455 552 093

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Heart of Byron formerly Heart & Halo

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Renovated & Ready to Welcome You Home

4/14 Middleton Street, Byron Bay A well set up kitchen and a cosy alfresco dining area located amongst Byron’s busy and vibrant CBD commercial grid. Stable trading figures indicate a loyal customer base and profitable business. A 5 x 5-year lease in place with modest rent and outgoings.

Current owners operating for 12 years, change due to young family commitments. For Sale: $85,000 Walk In Walk Out Inspect: By appointment Contact: Paul Waters 0412 753 374

Discover the next Byron Bay

6A Narrogal Court, Ocean Shores $599,000

Agnes Water/1770–Surf/Reef/Rainforest

Freshly renovated throughout, the home hits the mark when it comes to style, delivering a modern up-to-the-minute presence and is perfectly suited for both professional couples and young families alike.

5 hrs from Brisbane – Gateway to the Great Barrier Reef – East Coasts most Northern Surf Beach & Australia’s Best Beach 1770 Headland Residential Land adjoining Nat Park – unique land holding from $399,000 & Balinese Style Ocean View Beachside 3 bedroom Villa from $315,000 Call James on 0410 666 549 james@prd1770.com.au Beachfront land in the heart of Agnes from $235,000 & 1ac beachfront $480,000 & lush 4 acres 5mins from the beach $119k & houses on 4ac from $280,000. Call Tim on 0428 565 626 tim@prd1770.com.au

Bed 3 Bath 1 Car 1

Showcasing a functional layout, the residence presents an inviting feel and a sense of openness, ideal for endless days of relaxed entertaining and family fun at home. Situated on a generously sized block of 429m2, the property allows for the prospect of adding garage with a granny ﬂat (STCA), for a family member or to be utilised as an extra income

Open:

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Contact: Declan O’Sullivan 0402 338 828 Byron Ballina Property Specialists

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stream and is situated only a mere stroll from Waterlily Park and moments from schools, shops and beaches combining a fantastic lifestyle of location with both quality and dimension.

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Mullumbimby

Back to Bruns in 2018

$795,000–$840,000

46 Main Arm Road, Character home, ﬁrst time on the market

First time offered for sale by the original owner. This 1950s double brick family home has been in the same family for over 60 years. Original features include sash windows, polished hardwood timber ﬂoors, cornices, 9 foot ceilings and french doors opening out to the front verandah with spectacular views of Mount Chincogan. It contains 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom and a second toilet, a large kitchen constructed using Tasmanian oak timber, large linen cupboard and a separate sunroom/ofﬁce and ceiling fans. The garage is an original sandstock brick garage and it’s double length with a remote controlled door. Fiona Crandell 0431 100 097 George Kprianou 0414 570 200

Fiona Crandell returns to Brunswick Heads as senior property sales agent at the newly opened Elders Real Estate. Fully licensed real estate agent and Auctioneer, Fiona is a trained public speaker and performing artist. With a wealth of experience in local residential and rural property sales, Fiona brings a fresh energy to her new role as well as an impressive record of results. Residing in Brunswick Heads with her young family, Fiona has a deep connection with the local area having grown up in South Golden Beach. Fiona graduated from Mullumbimby High School and has worked as a sales agent since 2010. ‘Being based in such a beautiful new ofﬁce, right in the town where I live, train and socialise means that I will be much more accessible to my clients so that I can deliver better customer service and run my business more efﬁciently. I’ve had a longstanding respectful professional relationship with Dave over the years and we are all really excited about 2018.’

Elders Real Estate, 1/12 Park St, Brunswick Heads, 6685 1206 15 Beachcomber Drive, Byron Bay

Mr Property Services Tweed Billabong – Tweed Heads South

$3,200,000

‘Beachcomber at Tallows’ Fully Furnished & Styled Nestled in one of Byron Bay’s most soughtafter areas, this quintessential abode directly adjacent to Beautiful Tallows ‘Dolphins Beach’ entry will take your breath away. Direct beach access through the nature reserve right out the front door.

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Large main bedroom with ensuite & large walk-in-robe 4 more bedrooms with built-in robes Seperate retreat downstairs with kitchenette, bathroom and deck. Glistening pool area with stylish surrounds Double lockup garage and enough space for 2 more cars in the driveway

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Call Kelvin 0423 028 468 $269,000

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Large kitchen with endless storage space, gas cooktops, integrated dishwasher, large fridge/freezer, stunning stone benchtops and bifold windows that create a servery to the outdoor entertaining.

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The Good Life

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Husk’s spiced rum. Bam bam! By Vivienne Pearson I sit, sipping a spiced rum served with ice in quantities fitting the warm day, a splash of ginger and a zing of cumquat rind. Over the rim of my glass is a view towards a canefield, where the rum started its life. People often enviously assume that my working life is filled with sumptuous food and divine drinks. In the main, they’re wrong (it largely consists of talking and typing), but occasionally my job is worthy of great envy. I am at Husk Distillery, in the Tweed Valley near Tumbulgum. The rum that I am enjoying is the newly released Spiced Bam Bam. The only, minor, note of disappointment is my discovery that the name was inspired not by The Flintstones but by a Caribbean song. My sense of sadness that the next release will not be named after Pebbles is lessened by enjoying discovering the song – by Sister Nancy, the ‘first female dancehall DJ’ – YouTube it. Spiced Bam Bam is different from many other spiced rums in two ways. ‘Many spiced rums on the market are not technically rums; they are spiced spirit-based drinks,’ says Husk Distillery manager Quentin Brival. In other words, they have flavour essences and colour added rather than gaining these from whole botanicals and the barrel ageing process. Husk, a family-owned distillery, makes their rum in the ‘agricole’ style – meaning it is made from sugarcane juice rather than molasses. Much like wine, agricole rum, which is mainly made in French Caribbean islands, captures the ‘terroir’ of where it is grown. The rum starts its life as the sugarcane I am looking at, a plot so small that it needs to be cut by hand. ‘The cane travels from the paddock to the fermenter in around four hours,’ says Harriet Messenger, Husk’s marketing manager and daughter of Husk’s founder, Paul. ‘We only use the first-press juice, and it is as fresh as it could ever be.’ The sugarcane juice is distilled into a white (un-aged) rum. It is then barrel aged, including being infused with a unique collection of

The bucolic surrounds to the Husk Distillery with the special cane plot in the background. A Tumbulgum gum reflected in the new still at Husk Distillery – photo S Haslam

whole botanicals, including roasted wattle seed, native ginger, sun-dried citrus peel, cinnamon and vanilla. The not-so-secret but unexpected addition is sea salt. ‘This accentuates the salt spray winds that fan the distillery from the nearby surf coast,’ says Paul Messenger. It also helps cut through any bitterness. The result is a delightful drink. It is complex, but in a pleasant way (rather than in a way that makes you feel like you should be enjoying it rather than actually enjoying it). In the not-too-distant future, you too could be sitting at the distillery, sipping rum (or Ink Gin, Husk’s best-known offering). Construction on a new still – an impressively beautiful Scottish Forsyth still – along with a cellar door and visitor centre is well underway, with

Husk’s different rums with a view of the sugarcane they are made with – photo Vivienne Pearson hopes to open during the first half of 2018. I am led to believe that, in the Caribbean, rum is sipped at room temperature, slowly over an afternoon. I prefer mine on ice and, sadly, wasn’t able to stay for the whole afternoon. I had pressing talking and typing to do, but these activities were nicely enhanced by the lingering taste of the Spiced Bam Bam. Spiced Bam Bam, available from www.huskdistillers.com or local bottle shops (The Cellar are guaranteed to have the full Husk range).

Alive and wild again By Vivienne Pearson Vicki Veranese is back, refreshed and ready to offer her raw food to all. Boozy tart After closing her Byron Bay retail store, Alchemia, Vicki was in need of rest and rejuvenation. ‘I was burned out but now I’m renewed and finding my niche,’ says Vicki. ‘The joy is back and Alive and Wild has matured along with me.’ Vicki first discovered raw food when diagnosed with Grave’s Disease. And it wasn’t just the health benefits she loved. ‘Raw food is great food porn,’ she laughs. Since learning the ins and out of raw food, she has offered her knowledge and food in various guises and, even now, Alive and Wild is multi-faceted. First up is Pantry Boxes – a collection of nut cheeses, crackers and sweet treats to supplement whatever fresh food you have gathered. ‘You might have all this fantastic produce from the farmers market, but what do you put it on?’ was the question Vicki asked herself when creating the boxes. Then there are picnic platters. For a special occasion, dinner or party, these will meet all your savoury and sweet raw-food needs. Platters can be dips and cracker based, sushi or wrap laden, and/or salad fuelled. If you want to try Vicki’s food, or are simply keen to say hello after not seeing her since Alchemia closed, head to the Byron Artisan Market. Each Saturday evening in Railway Park, Vicki sets up with her commercial-kitchen-grade trailer. ‘It’s my Ken and Barbie trailer fantasy come true!’ she says. You might be fortunate enough to come across Vicki’s catering at events – Temple Byron are among those who recommend her – or you could go on retreat with Vicki to benefit not only from her knowledge of food but her consciousness school. ‘I’ve written a book and have a YouTube channel,’ says Vicki. She also offers an initial range of dental products, developed in

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Alive and Wild platter conjunction with her husband, Jon, a dentist. Jon is also front-oftrailer at the market. ‘He loves it; he understands the food and is great with people,’ Vicki says. Vicki describes her food as being so nutrient rich that you don’t need to eat much. I tried Vicki’s macadamia nut cheese on a selection of crackers, pizza base and onion bread, and she is right – the ‘brie’-sized wedges I cut were overly enthusiastic. I also tried a festive-season perfect dessert – a Boozy Tart. The name is no joke: ‘Normally, when you put brandy in cooking, the alcohol is cooked out,’ Vicki says, with her hearty laugh. ‘But this isn’t cooked!’ Alive and Wild: www.aliveandwild.com. Byron Bay Artisan Markets – every Saturday evening October–Easter, 4–9pm.

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Chocolate Lounge

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The Good Life

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Step up to Steppers By Vivienne Pearson It’s fried chicken but it’s a long way from the ‘K’ Fried Chicken franchise. Not only is it a small business, owned and run by locals; almost all the food is made from scratch onsite using local produce. Call it ‘SFC’ instead – it’s up to you whether the S stands for ‘Steppers’ or ‘Southern’. The food at Steppers – The Hot Chicken Social is Southern style and is delicious. The care behind it shows. Unless you choose to have a burger, the idea is to choose a meat (tenders, drumsticks, wings or fish bits), sides (coleslaw, French fries or Mac&Cheese) and a sauce. There are seven sauces to choose from and all are made onsite from scratch. I’ll leave you to discover them all but my favourite is the lemon aioli (ideal for fish, chicken or fries) and I was amazed to also like the Steppers blue-cheese sauce (not being a natural fan of blue cheese). The Caribbean Killer Habanero is the choice for heat-lovers (I begged for water after just a small dab) and the chipotle aioli provides a warmth-with-flavour option (it is made form a host of ingredients including pineapple, mango, coriander and whole limes). There are vegetarian and vegan options. Sure, not every vegan will want to frequent a place that cooks a lot of chicken, but if a couple or group have differing culinary needs, Steppers will look after the non-meat-eaters with a hot mushroom burger or, for pescatarians, fish bites. Unexpectedly, most of the menu is gluten free. The chicken (and fish) crumb is cornflour based (with a delicious herby spice mix). All sauces, handmade onsite, are also gluten free. Decidedly not gluten free are the Churros, the main sweet option at Steppers. The Spanish influence on this dessert offering was provided by the business owner, Tony Lopez, a well-known local

musician. Fans of these Spanish-style chocolate-sauce-dipped treats will be impressed. The main man on the ground is Sacha Meier, a chef who has owned restaurants on Victoria’s Great Ocean Road and always planned to move to Byron after a visit as a backpacker in his youth. He is fascinated by fermented foods and plans to introduce a fermented chili mash and pineapple vinegar for the ’slaws. He makes his own pickles (grown in Newrybar), onion jam, sauces and churros. His chicken is soaked in buttermilk for 24 hours and he adds his own ‘secret’ mix of herbs and spices. ‘I need it to be interesting,’ Sacha says. ‘Nothing goes to waste. I use the nose-to-tail of the veges!’ Steppers, located near the bus terminal, opened in late November. The space is a great combination of relaxed outdoor tables and indoor bench seating – ideal whether you are looking to catch the sun or escape from it. Or, if don’t want to leave home (or the beach), takeaway and home/beach delivery are available. Steppers, The Hot Chicken Social: 4/84 Jonson Street, Byron Bay. 11.30am–8.30/9.30pm. Ph: 6685 7732, steppers-the-hot-chicken-social.business.site. Phone for delivery.

According to Jennifer Whitfield, buckwheat is a prime ingredient in gluten- and grain-free diets because, despite appearances, it isn’t actually a grain. It is a seed that comes from the rhubarb family. Buckwheat is packed with nutrients such as plant proteins and amino acids. It is an excellent source of iron and magnesium, it is high in rutin and also contains tryptophan, which makes the feelgood hormone serotonin. It’s also a great ingredient for those with gluten and other food allergies. Her $20 buckwheat cookbook is available at www.jenniferwinfield.com/basically-buckwheat.

Good Taste

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BYRON BAY

BALLINA

Fishheads

Ballina RSL Club

Level One Café Special

1 Grant St, Ballina 6681 9500 www.ballinarsl.com.au Open 7 Days Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Snacks

A Flat Bread Pizza & a schooner of Iron Jack Lager or a glass of Long Row Red, White or Sparkling wine or Nine Vines Rosé.... Just $20

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

11am to 8pm daily. We practise the responsible service of alcohol.

1 Jonson St, Byron Bay 6680 7632

Wharf Bar & Restaurant

WATERFRONT DINING Come watch the boats go by and the dolphins play whilst you take in one of our SENSATIONAL SUNSETS

Open 7.30am Daily. Open till late Thurs–Sun Coffee, breakfast, lunch & dinner, functions & weddings. Fully Licensed. 12-24 Fawcett St, Ballina 6686 5259 / 6685 6011

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Success Thai Mon-Fri 12-3pm Dinner 7 days from 5pm. 3/109 Jonson St, Byron Bay 6680 7798 www.facebook.com/ pages/Success-ThaiFood/237359826303469

Slo-mo Joes

BANGALOW

Butcher Baker Coffee / Breakfast / Lunch 7 days from 7am Dinner Friday & Saturday Nights 13 Byron Street, Bangalow 6687 2088

HAPPY HOUR every Friday & Saturday 5–6.30pm $12 tapas share plates and $5 tap beer & cider Offering a relaxed atmosphere in one of Bangalow’s beautiful heritage buildings, Butcher Baker has a fresh local menu, in-house bakery with freshly baked sourdoughs, sweet treats and fantastic local coffee. Fully licensed with Australian local craft beer on tap and a carefully curated wine list. www.butcherbaker.com.au @butcherbakerbangalow

BRUNSWICK HEADS

Bernardi’s Gelato & Espresso Bar

Open 7 days 9am–5pm Salad bar closes 3pm Juice bar closes from 4pm 22 Fingal St, Brunswick Heads 6685 1988

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New Salad Bar offering custom made fresh sandwiches/rolls/wraps. Mouthwatering Jaffle Menu. Free-range meats, gluten free options. Extensive Juice & smoothie Menu Traditional Italian Gelato made in house.

Open every day From 11am till late Corner of Fletcher St and Bay Lane, Byron Bay

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Main Street Open 7 days 11.30am until late Call to make a reservation or for takeaway orders 18 Jonson Street 6680 8832

BEACH FRONT DINING Treat the loved ones to something special these Summer Holidays 6685 6011 functions@fishheadsbyron.com.au www.fishheadsbyron.com.au

SPECIAL $12 LUNCH AND DINNER MENU All your favourites every lunch and dinner Experienced Thai chefs cooking fresh delicious Thai food for you. Fully Licensed and B.Y.O. for wine. Welcome for lunch, dinner and take-away. DAILY HAPPY HOUR FROM 3 TILL 5 PM Slow down & chill out! Immerse yourself in Slo-mo Joes relaxing vibes while you enjoy live music & delicious flavours inspired from around the world. There’s something for everyone; from slow-cooked meats to mouth-watering burgers and nutritious salads. Guaranteed to leave you wanting more!

Gourmet burgers created by chefs Cocktails, wine and beers served all damn day. Group bookings available, please email mainstreetburgerbar@gmail.com for reservations.

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Luscious Foods

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

Trattoria Basiloco

Contemporary and Middle Eastern flavours • Breakfast and lunch • Wood-fired pizzas • Fresh juices • Great coffee www.lusciousfoods.com.au

Mon-Fri 7.30am–3pm Open Friday nights 6–9pm Live music and BYO 1/6 Tasman Way, Byron Arts & Industry Estate BYO & RSVP 6680 8228

Treehouse on Belongil

continued Open Wed to Mon from 5.30pm Closed on Tuesdays See menu, book a table, or order takeaway at www.basilo.co 30 Lawson St, Byron Bay 6680 8818

The Rocks @ Aquarius

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

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

The Italian Byron Bay

The Hideout Cafe

Open 7 days from 6pm The Italian Byron Bay provides a bustling atmospheric Sunday Lunch from midday. restaurant, dishing up contemporary inspired Italian cuisine and some of Byron’s finest Next to the Beach Hotel cocktails and wines. Bay Street 6680 7055 italianatthepacific.com.au

Breakfast and Lunch 7 days a week from 7.30am

St Elmo Dining Room & Bar Mon-Sat: 5pm till late. Sun: 5pm till 10pm. Cnr Fletcher St and Lawson Lane, Byron Bay 6680 7426

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.

Shop 6/13 Lawson Street 6680 9300 FB thehideoutbyronbay insta @thehideoutbyronbay

Fins Salt Village, Kingscliff 6674 4833 dining@fins.com.au Dinner daily 5-10pm. Lunch Fri-Sun 12-3pm. GOOD FOOD GUIDE CHEFS HAT EVERY YEAR SINCE 1998

Fresh Asian street food served in:

ASIAN STREET EATS

At Woolies Plaza next to the bottle shop Open 7 days from 11am till late - BYO Facebook.com/FoxyLuus Instagram.com/foxyluus

A hip art haven by day & A playful den by night Try our mouth-watering loaded Bao sandwiches, bone-broth soups, salads and dumplings

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. 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!

Hidden away in Byron’s iconic ‘Eat street’ Bay Lane, The Hideout Cafe and Bar offers indoor, outdoor and deck dining With a fresh, funky, relaxed vibe, generous serves, cruisey staff and 10am licence, come and find us for ‘Byron’s BEST breakfast’ all day… Takeaway available Vegetarian,Vegan and gluten free options available Kids menu

KINGSCLIFF

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Foxy Luu’s

Wood-fired pizzas & real Italian cuisine with a Sardinian twist Famous for seafood, meats and pasta dishes. We do special events functions.

Celebrating 25 years Fins is the destination restaurant for fine local seafood. Long lazy lunches on our veranda. Afternoon oysters, Champagne and cocktails in our RAW BAR. Intimate fine dining of an evening. Proudly awarded Chef Hats for the past 22 years

LENNOX HEAD

Williams St 50 Pacific Parade, cnr of William St, Lennox Head 0476 892 194 insta @williamst.lennox

Relaxed dining by the beach. Food that celebrates local produce served with a healthy dose of good tunes and good vibes. All welcome. Our opening hours are 6.30am–2.30pm, 7 days for Breakfast + Lunch Thursday, Friday, Saturday for dinner. Sunday Tapas & Happy Hour Specials till sundown

MULLUMBIMBY

Finn Poke Restaurant Open 7 days 11am till 8pm Fri & Sat 11am till 8.30pm Shop 5, 8 Fletcher Street, Byron Bay 02 6685 8156 Take away available

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that even after 22 years you don’t lose sight of. ‘The analogy I use a lot is surfing: you get to the point when you can surf, and it’s about how you are using the waves – small waves one day, big the other; if you aren't in sync with that then you are in trouble. As a comedian it’s about being in sync with your conditions and sometimes, like surfing, you just get dumped on your head. It’s part of it, it’s what we signed up to. We are doing something for a living that we have attempted to master and in the end it is something that is unmasterable! There is something about being a comedian, something in us; the reason you pursue it is you are trying to get something right. There are moments when you are onstage when you are as good as anyone.

Wil In Progress HOW DOES A COMEDIAN WORK UP NEW MATERIAL FOR THEIR FESTIVAL SHOW? EVERY YEAR COMEDIANS AROUND THE COUNTRY ARE BUSY TRYING TO COME UP WITH THEIR LATEST SHOW, CHALLENGED BY THE FACT THAT VERY OFTEN THE FIRST TIME YOU GET TO PRESENT YOUR MATERIAL IS THE FIRST NIGHT OF YOUR RUN. WITH COMEDY, IT’S THE LIVE AUDIENCE THAT SHAPES YOUR WORK SO VERY OFTEN THE BEST SHOW, OR THE SHOW YOU ARE HAPPY WITH, DOESN’T HAPPY UNTIL THE END.

‘The people who are really good produce that more often than not. For most of us who have been comedians long enough, at some stage, even for a minute or two, you are the best comedian in the world; you can perform the way no-one else on the planet could be at that moment – that is what we chase. The annoying or maybe great thing about comedy is the idea you can get to that idea where it’s perfect.’ In Work In Progress Wil is working up his latest show, his first full-narrative show that focuses on a personal story. The story was in June last year when Anderson was arrested after an ‘incident’ on a flight from Sydney to Wagga Wagga. He was on his way to a gig. He certainly didn’t expect to end up at a police station. ‘It’s an occasion when something funny did literally happen to me on the way to the gig. ‘The funny thing also, and I guess why it has become a show, and I was pretty convinced that literally it had all been a confusion; there had been a series of my actions that they (the flight attendants) had assigned to one group of things – misinterpretation.’ The incident hit the news and the ‘massive misunderstanding’ caused embarrassment for the airline and for Anderson. Stereotypes about comedians being problematic probably fed into the situation and Anderson says, ‘The weird thing is I’m not that person. It came as a surprise to everyone. I flew for an hour, and now I have an hour of material! It literally landed on my lap!’ To hear more about Wil’s ‘disruptive’ flight experience, and to be part of his developing a show about being arrested and escorted from a regional flight, then catch Work in Progress on Wed 10, Thursday 11, Friday 12 and Saturday 13 June at 7pm at the Brunswick Picture House. For tickets go to brunswickpicturehouse.com Book early. Will sell out.

Wil Anderson, host of the ABC’s Gruen and one of Australia’s finest comedians has a dynamic way of developing his show – he does it with his trial audiences in a show he calls A Work in Progress. He is coming to the Brunswick Picture House for four nights to hone his latest work, offering a unique opportunity to see a worldclass comedian in an intimate environment as well as a chance for audiences to observe how he shapes his material. ‘Traditionally I’ve done the Work in Progress shows in Canberra,’ says Wil. ‘I like doing them every night. For me to write a show, I conceive it as a whole piece, doing them night after night, rather than taking a bit and rolling it around the clubs; it gives a better idea of how things are going and I like being in the same space. If it works one night and it doesn't work the next night because you are in a different venue or place, you don't know whether it was your material or the change of space.’ As successful and as confident as comedians are, every show is haunted with the shadow of the crash. Of course as time goes on this happens ‘Eclectic, smart and hilarious…’ Herald Sun less and less, but it’s something Anderson says Adult $40 | Concession $35

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New Years Revolution In a few weeks I’m 50. And let me tell you it’s not ageing I regret. It’s the fact nothing’s changed. The world I shook my fist at three decades ago as an anarchist socialist feminist marxist radical environmentalist continues to revolve around violence, greed, exploitation, cruelty, injustice and murder. Apparently yelling at the system doesn’t have any effect, except to have you listed on a ‘persons of interest’ list. All that fist shaking, those drunken arguments about subverting the dominant paradigm, the years holding placards and

screaming at ‘the man’, all for nought. ‘The man’ just put his feet up, probably on oppressed black people or some disenfranchised indigenous nation that he was currently using as his quarry and poured himself another beer. It’s a bit disappointing. We really should have done better. When I was 20 I could blame my parents. They were shareholders in the big first-world whitey privilege pie. I could blame ‘old’ people because they were the global sociopaths who had us on this insane trajectory of climate armageddon. But now I’m 50, I’m one of them. I’m old people. I’m part of the generation that snuffed the planet. Certainly not with my coal mines, or my plastic plants. With my apathy. I didn’t have to bake it but I’ve had my share of the pie. Like most of the people I know, I’ve got fat rolls from too many serves of the privilege pie. But I’m becoming privilege-pie intolerant. I don’t know about you but I’m still not comfortable with the idea of having children in a world with no future. At 50 I’m still a feminist for the same reasons I was a feminist 30 years ago. Women and children still die from male violence. Men die from male violence too. Men are so into the whole violence thing they made it an event and called it War. Apparently we are in our most ‘peaceful’ years on the planet, but well over a million people have died in conflicts in the last 10 years. This is what we call peace. Even more poor souls wander the globe as the world’s unwanted and displaced people. Eighty per cent of the world lives on less that $2.50 per day. We have lost 1.3 million square kilometres of forest since 1990. Every year there are between 200 and 2,000 species extinctions. In ten years’ time that could be us. These are the things we try not to think about when we blow out

live music MUSIC OF THE CARPENTERS as well as her own cabaret show We’ve Only Just Begun: The Music of the Carpenters, which is currently in a national tour of Australia. Angela Lumicisi, We’ve Only Just Begun The Music of the Carpenters | 18+

FRIDAY AT THE BALLINA RSL TRIBUTE TO THE BIG O LEGENDS OF ROCK’N’ROLL Glenn Douglas and Issi Dye bring the music of rock legends Roy Orbison and the Everly Bros to life with their combined tribute show. Direct from Melbourne, the show includes songs such as Crying, Only the Lonely, Pretty Woman, Blue Bayou… also Till I Kissed Ya, Walk Right Back, Bye Bye Love, Wake up Little Susie, and many more #1 hits!

EXPERIENCE THE MUSIC OF THE CARPENTERS WITH ANGELA LUMICISI Angela Lumicisi has had a long and Thursday at the Ballina RSL. $20. | varied career performing on both 18+ | Doors: 7.30pm – Show: 8pm | national and international stages. She Adults: $30 trained in classical singing at the Melba Conservatorium of Music, which has given her the ability to perform in opera, musical theatre, jazz and cabaret. She most recently finished a twoyear season with the Australasian production of Wicked the musical, which she understudied the role of Madame Morrible performing in the Auckland, Manila, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth productions. Other theatre credits include Titania in Midsummer Nights Dream, the Melbourne Premiere as Lady Macbeth in Macbeth: the Contemporary Rock Opera as well as the return season in Brisbane, Dotty in Act a Lady, Scotty in Merrily We Roll Along,Charlotte in Flora the Red Menace, Mehitabels Cohorts Archy and Mehitabel, Celeste Saturday Night, Rhoda in New Brain, Soprano in Meraviglia, Sylviane in The Merry Widow and Cio Cio San in Madame Butterfly. Angela has also performed in many cabarets, most recently Sleepless Cabaret

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candles or wish each other happy new year. This year when I make my birthday wish, it’s not going to be for a new car or a botox budget, it’s going to be for a revolution. A gift for everyone. However, I’m not sure how you even have a revolution. Obviously I don’t want violence, so you can forget the former models of system subversion. I want a nice revolution, where people suddenly decide to be fair and just. And polite. I think if you’re creating social unrest there’s no reason to be rude. Kindness can be powerful too. In the ‘nice’ revolution countries such as Australia open their borders to refugees, and billionaires distribute their wealth, corporations pay tax, indigenous people are given back their lands. And we do radical stuff such as grow our own food and not stockpile it in giant warehouses and refrigerated rooms while the rest of the world starves. I’d like a revolution where we don’t use plastic, and we have solar farms on every street, on every roof, and we feed the grid like a hungry orphan… free. In the revolution we’d stop sending ships filled with coal through the Great Barrier Reef, stop cutting down forest for agriculture. In the revolution we’d get rid of party politics and just have individuals who give a shit. In the revolu ion we’d get rid of our economic system and we’d trade goodwill. We’d just have to make it through the looting years, where people who had too much would fear losing their stuff, and people with not much stuff would become obsessed with getting stuff. In the end they would realise that the making of, and getting of and fighting for stuff is what has us currently stuffed. Anyway, just letting you know: if you’re in the mood for revolution, I’m ready. Just not today, I’m stuffed.

ANIMAL SUPPORTS BEAUTY Byron Bay-based South American folk / funk artist Animal Ventura was lucky enough to be chosen as the support for the The Beautiful Girls on their national 15th anniversary tour, which kicked off in December. Animal Ventura is the moniker for Brazilian artist Fernando Aragones. He exploded onto the international scene in 2009 and has toured with The Presets, Art vs Science, Uncle Jed and Ann Vriend (among others). He’s also been a festival regular, performing at the likes of Christchurch Arts Festival, Queenstown Adventure Film Festival and the Australian Open of Surfing. Animal Ventura has just released his new single Animal, taken from his debut album Forrest St, which was recorded in the US in 2016 with renowned producer Pat Van Dyke. He fuses South American funk with the folk sounds of coastal Australia, and the 8-track release showcases Animal Ventura’s smooth vocals and includes the song Same As, which was a finalist on the Unsigned Only International Songwriting Competition, where he was award an honourable mention in the folk category. If you’re a fan of Buena Visa Social Club, Stevie Wonder or Fat Freddy’s Drop, you’ll enjoy the musical delights of Animal Ventura. He supports The Beautiful Girls at the Hotel Great Northern on Friday.

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ENTERTAINMENT LIVE MUSIC CNTD ZORBA GYPSY PARTY!

The Zorba Party is a gypsy dance and world music collective like no other, featuring musical acts and other live performances that take audiences on a 3–4-hour journey across the nomadic trails of planet Earth. Zorba Productions have worked hard since 2012 to bring a unique mix of world and gypsy music and dance to one big party. The vision and delivery of world travel through sound and dance has attracted thousands of people over a few years to experience, express, share and enjoy one space with so much diversity. Be ready for a contagiously danceable ride travelling from the desert tents and Bedouin music of the Middle East’s little-known tribes to ancient Hebrew prayers, Eastern European tunes, Spanish Andalusia melodies and intoxicating beats. Zorba Party excites all the senses with music and dance performances and a colourful dance party environment that includes dancers, musicians, lush decor, lighting and audience participation. Their soul-stirring gypsy melodies, contagious grooves and quirky beats keep hips shaking and feet jumping. The next Zorba Gypsy Party is at the Durrumbul Hall on Saturday 13 Jan 2018, 6pm till midnight. For tickets go to stickytickets.com.au and search for Zorba gypsy party.

IRISH MUSIC ON ICE Breaking Trad is made up of Dónal Murphy (accordion), Niall Murphy (fiddle) and Mike Galvin (guitar/vocals,) all awardwinning players who between them have toured extensively around the world, performing at major festivals and music venues and touring with some of the biggest names in several different music genres including Four Men and a Dog, Cara Dillon, De Dannan, dance star Michael Flatley and many more. Their music has been described as ‘dazzling’, ‘unorthodox and unique’, and ‘high octane’. They will be joined by the renowned singer and bodhran player Gino Lupari as their special guest, making this band even more formidable. Breaking Trad are reviving Irish music. With a fresh and modern twist with powerhouse tunes and exquisite vocals, they will leave you wanting more! Book now at www.clubmullum.com and save $5 per person on admission. Thursday at Mullum Ex-Services.

NUDGE NUDGE SOLD OUT The Cunning Stunts sold-out Sunday event Nudge Nudge Wink Wink is raising money for the Cabarita Youth Service (CYS). The CYS, based on the Tweed coast of northern NSW, run programs after school and during school holidays to empower young people, connect families and strengthen community. Its focus on providing a safe friendly environment and support for disconnected youth is important for our region. Focused on encouraging positive participation in the community, January’s event is raising money for their new initiative – Community Connections – a collaboration between Kingscliff TAFE, Northern Rivers Connect and community-minded local employers. The Community Connections program connects local youth with local employers to provide opportunities in training and actual employment experience. Operating since 2009, the CYS is a non-profit organisation that receives no government assistance or funding. 2018’s first Nudge Nudge Wink Wink will have you smiling and dancing from start to finish with our awesome lineup of new and returning guests: DJ Norm de Plume, DJ Dale Stephen, DJ Teesha and Lord Sut! – all donating their time and playing their beautiful beats as we connect, FUNdraise, and celebrate at this party with a conscience. Having donated $11,500 from their December 2017 event and raising close to $96,000 thus far for local charities across 21 events, Cunning Stunts Nudge Nudge Wink Wink FUNdraising events continue to raise the bar. Billinudgel Hotel Sunday 7th Jan

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Live like a queen Christina Covington is an ayurvedic lifestyle consultant, counsellor, healer and medicine woman. She is a successful businesswoman, mentor and mother of two. She is passionate about encouraging the embrace of life as a sensual, abundant activated queen. She will be conducting sessions at the upcoming Starlight Festival of Healing. Christina, what does it mean to be an ayurvedic lifestyle consultant? Ayurveda is translated to mean the science of life. Ayurveda is a rich ancient understanding of how to navigate life by addressing what we digest in our body, mind and soul. As a lifestyle consultant I guide people on the path of a conscious choice to connect with the whole you. Ayurveda teaches the most holistic healer lives within yourself and ayurveda provides simple tools to assist you to remember and reconnect with this inner healer. What is the role of a medicine woman in western society? This is a huge question, an article in itself. I have just been reading a novel on the

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birth of the alphabet and the disconnection of the feminine. With the invention of the written word we were taken from nature and intuition to left-brain linear thinking. One of the roles of the medicine woman today, which every woman has in her in her own unique way, is to guide her to remember and reignite the deep connection and resonance with nature, and trust her intuition, her inner knowing. As a medicine woman today, if we try to imitate others’ medicine we become plastic and we have enough plastic in the world; we have the courage to stand in honour of our own unique medicine and create real space for others to discover and shine in theirs. What are the issues that people most commonly come to you for guidance for? Mostly women who want to change their habits and patterns in their life. Mental and emotional wellbeing as woman move into menopause. Modern-day women’s health and relationship issues to create a balance between work, children, relationships and the self to shine radiantly in who they are.

What is the advice that you like to impart? Through simple daily practices and the connection to nature and learning to understand feelings as energy we can radiate our own unique self and in that hold space for other women to do the same as we are all mirrors of the feminine. What will you be sharing at Starlight? A sacred oasis for women – a sacred practice for women who want to awaken to source, who feel the pain of separation from each other, true nature and source, who know there is something bigger than themselves. Through bringing in presence, embodiment practice, respectful touch, ritual, listening, being heard, movement. Starlight Festival of Healing runs from Thursday through till Monday at the Bangalow A&I Hall & surrounding pavilions. Price: $20 admission. 4-day pass $50. Locals 2-for-1 day 4 & 5 January. www.starlightfestival.com.au

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THE NIGHTCATS! Rick Estrin and the Nightcats is an American electric blues and swing revival combo coming to Bluesfest this year. Rick stepped up with leadership of the band when Little Charlie stepped aside as the band leader. ‘It’s been about ten years now,’ says Rick. ‘The name of the band had to change, but my role in the band didn’t change that much. I always fronted the band and wrote the songs and sang the songs, but Little Charlie was the band leader. He started the band and he also took care of the business. So that’s some of the headaches that I have inherited!’ Rick has been with the band since he first started playing. ‘I was born in San Francisco, and I grew up there. I moved to Chicago when I was about 20 years old, and I just kept going back and forth between Chicago and San Francisco. In 1976 I moved to Sacramento, California, and started playing with Little Charlie.’ So what can Blues fans expect from Rick Estrin and the Nightcats this year? ‘They can expect to hear some good music, deep music that’s coming from all directions. I mean, we’re nominally a blues band, but we play… we’ve got a variety of influences, and they all surface at different times in the set. The other thing about us is we have a good time when we play. We have a ball and we entertain people. We’re not just standing there like serious artists. Although we are serious artists. We are also serious about entertainment.’ Rick Estrin and the Nightcats play Bluesfest this year. For tickets and program info go to bluesfest.com.au.

COONEY & DRAKE Brisbane singer/songwriters Tom Cooney and Angharad Drake are thrilled to announce that they’re teaming up for a series of tour dates that will see them touring the east coast in the new year. Tom Cooney’s most recent offering Futurerpoof is arresting, raw and stunning in its honesty. At times lilting and delicate and at other moments hollow and desolate, the album is a time stamp filled with both sorrow and light that has garnered rapturous praise to date. ‘Cooney’s gift for clear-cut, often pastoral imagery and wide-open atmosphere makes Futurerpoof well worth poring over.’ – Rolling Stone Angharad Drake is a young songwriter on her way to big things. Her debut album Ghost boasts a collection of hauntingly beautiful and pared-back melodies teamed with subtle but emotive lyrics. Brunswick Picture House on Sunday at 4pm. All tix are $12 | Children under 12 FREE

RISING APPALACHIA Catch the debut Byron performance of Rising Appalachia (USA) following their inaugural Australian shows at Woodford Folk Festival. Supported by Matiu the Huki (NZ) and our very own Murray Kyle. A night of sacred song to celebrate the new year! Rising Appalachia brings to the stage a collection of sounds, stories, and songs steeped in tradition, and a devotion to world culture. Intertwining a deep reverence for folk music and a passion for justice, they have made it their life’s work to sing songs that speak to something ancient yet surging with relevance. Whether playing at Red Rocks or in rail cars, at Italian street fairs or to Bulgarian herbalists, this fiercely independent band has blazed a unique and colourful path across the globe. Friday at the Byron Theatre with a Sunday event at a venue TBA.

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BOYES AND SANSONE Multi-award-winning New Orleans musician, Johnny Sansone, joins Australia’s First Lady of the Blues, Fiona Boyes, at the Brewery this Sunday. Johnny Sansone has been a fixture in the New Orleans music scene since 1990. He is a regular member of the Voice of the Wetlands All-Stars, a super-group made up of New Orleans musical royalty, including Dr John, Tab Benoit, Cyril Neville, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, Anders Osborne, George Porter Jnr, and Waylon Thibodeaux. An acclaimed harmonica player, he is an eleven-time winner of New Orleans Off Beat music awards for Best Harmonica, Best Artist, Best Album, and Best Band. Sansone also won the 2012 USA Blues Music Award for Song of the Year, and was nominated for a Grammy in 2001. After attending the wake of Zydeco pioneer Clifton Chenier, Sansone took up the accordion and is now recognised as a master of the instrument. He is also an accomplished guitarist and vocalist who plays a mixture of New Orleans funk, blues, soul, and swamp-pop. Sansone has released 11 award-winning albums and regularly tours in North America and Europe. Over the past decade guitarist, vocalist, and band leader Fiona Boyes has enjoyed a stellar rise to international acclaim in the blues scene. Her most recent CD Professin’ the Blues reached #1 on numerous charts here and overseas and recently won the 2017 Acoustic Blues Album of the Year at the USA Blues Blast Music Awards. Blues Blast magazine has a voting base of more than 37,000 blues fans and critics. The CD also finished in the top five albums at the 2017 USA Blues Music Awards, along with a top-five finish for Fiona as Acoustic Blues Artist of the Year. No other Australian artist has ever been nominated for these US awards, widely regarded as the Grammys of the blues. In all, this brings Fiona to a total of seven final-five BMA finishes for Traditional Acoustic Artist, Contemporary Female Artist, Contemporary Album, Traditional Album, and the Koko Taylor Award. Fiona tours regularly in Australia, Europe, and North America. You can check out Fiona and Johnny at the Byron Bay Brewery for a free show in the Beer Garden on Sunday from 2pm.

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Taking a bite of chocolate yoga To a chocolate-loving woman like me, chocolate yoga sounds like the only way you would get me remotely interested in yoga. Sjha’ra is facilitating chocolate yoga at this year’s Starlight Festival of Healing. Okay, so what is chocolate yoga? Well, like our name suggests, we mix the two things we all love the most: chocolate and yoga. There’s a magical synergistic effect when we combine cacao ceremony

with our daily spiritual practice, yoga. It takes it to a whole new dimension! How does cacao differ from cocoa and why is it so spiritually significant? They both come from the same source, the Cacao plant. But they are vastly different. While cacao is chocolate that remains closest to its pure, more natural superfood form, cocoa on the other hand is heavily processed and at much higher temperatures, which

effectively destroys most of the beneficial nutrients and certainly the medicinal and spiritual properties. Not all cacao is created equally either. Don’t assume because it’s organic, raw, Fair Trade cacao bought from a health-food shop that it will have a high vibration suitable for spiritual purposes. What I’ve learnt from visiting cacao farms around the world in my search for a pure ‘ceremonial-grade cacao’ is that it needs to be specifically prepared and produced. There are so many stages and steps to creating high-quality, high-vibration cacao. These range from origin and bean variety through to pre-harvest, harvest and post-harvest processing right through to the honouring of the land, the spirit of the plant and the connection of the people. Not to mention how it is prepared by the ceremonialist! The cacao shaman whom we worked with called ceremonial-grade cacao the ‘forgotten plant medicine’. In ancient times the spiritual elite within the Mayan, Aztec and Olmec cultures used it as a facilitator to lift the veils to the other realms, in order to bring back wisdom and power. It was known as the heart medicine, and the food of the gods. This is why I love to work with the sacred earth medicine of cacao – so I can assist people to journey deeply into their own hearts and feel their connection to our earth mother and the great spirit.

How does cacao help facilitate mind/ body connection? Mind/body connection is always there. It doesn’t need facilitating as such as it never goes away. But cacao does have powerful mind-focusing, heart-opening and musclerelaxing effects. So it can help us to remember and feel this connection. Perfect for yoga and meditation. What will the chocolate yoga session at The Starlight Festival involve? I will be offering a magic mix of cacao ceremony and kundalini yoga, so we can experience and embody profound ways to weave sacred ceremony into our yoga practice. Our journey starts with an honouring ceremony: we will drink the cacao (as a hot chocolate), invoking the cacao deva and call for her medicine ways to bless our yoga practice. Then feel for yourself the depth and heart-opening presence of the cacao as we move through a kundalini yoga practice. A potent blend of asana, meditation, pranayama, mantra, mudra and dance will really get the energy moving for a fresh new year! Starlight Festival of Healing runs from Thursday through till Monday at the Bangalow A&I Hall & surrounding pavilions. Price: $20 admission. 4-day pass $50. Locals 2-for-1 day 4 & 5 January. www.starlightfestival.com.au

culture REHEARSING FOR HEAVEN New Zealand native Tony Backhouse founded Sydney’s foremost a cappella gospel choir, Cafe of the Gate of Salvation, in 1986. He arranged, composed and still writes music for the choir he directed for 21 years. He also founded the Honeybees choir and has sung with the reclusive male a cappella group the Heavenly Light Quartet since 1996. Tony has run more than 2,000 vocal workshops on four continents, for the public, festivals, schools, churches, organisations and corporate training events. He continues to record and arrange vocals with artists around the world, and lead tours to black churches and choirs in the USA bi-annually. He returns to Australia in January to teach at his 19th Summersong Music Camp, and inspire singers of all levels in his infamously fun and uplifting workshop. Tony presents his a cappella workshop, Rehearsing for Heaven, at Byron Region Community College in Mullumbimby on Saturday 13 January at 1–4pm. Admission from 12.40; no bookings necessary; cash payment on arrival $35, or $30 for Summersong graduates.

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JIMEOIN THE RIDICULOUS From the ridiculous to the hilarious… come and see Jimeoin’s new show as he takes you into the brain of one the world’s best standup comedians and masters of observational humour. Jimeoin is acclaimed as one of the hottest standup comics of this generation – a true comedy master. A prolific writer with an exceptional audience rapport, he is known and loved for his brilliantly funny wit and charming observations on the absurdities of everyday life. Jimeoin's regular appearances at the Melbourne Comedy Festival and his widely successful Australian tours attract sellout advance bookings, often with extra shows added owing to demand. Internationally, Jimeoin has toured to great acclaim from New York to New Zealand, Aspen to Amsterdam, the Middle East to the Far East. He regularly tours the UK and Ireland, has performed in

Europe as well as at Montreal’s Just For Laughs Festival, and is both an alumnus and one of the biggest comedy acts each year at the world’s biggest arts festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Friday 12 Jan at the Ballina RSL. Show 8.30pm. Adults: $44

ROOTS RAGA REGGAE – MT FESTIVAL Roots Raga Reggae is a world music event aimed at supporting world music artists and raising funds for the Heart of Fukushima project. It will be entirely live acoustic world and classical music with Indigenous elders such as Lewis Walker coming to open the ceremony. The event itself will be family friendly and strictly alcohol and drug free; with South Indian catering, yoga, dance and musical workshops from midday and running until about 11pm in the hired venue (continuing later with a private afterparty in

Mt Jerusalem until dawn for a special sunrise musical raga). It will feature sacred world and Indian classical music artists with international guests and upcoming classical masters popping in after Woodford Folk Festival. The event is organised and hosted by Indian slide artist Shivam Rath and will also feature the music of Shen Flindell of Brisbane’s Sangeet Mela. Other featured artists are Bart Stenhouse with flamenco guitar, Georgia Shine on cello, Sarita McHarg on sitar and vocals, yoga workshops with Murray Kyle and featured international performers Tahir Qawwal, Taro Terahara, Tetsuya Kaneko, Yuki Kaneko, Yogeshwari Giri, Mico Sundari and Saikat Bhattacharya on sitar. The day features yoga and workshops, mountains, music and gathering. Saturday at Kohinur Hall. Tickets $30 with local and family concessions available. To book and to get more info go to aumbience.net. Starts at 12pm and goes through until 11pm.

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stars WITH LILITH

AT THIS WEEK’S EVOLUTIONARY CROSSROADS, WE RELEASE HOARY HABITS AND TIRED IDEAS AS THE NEW YEAR GIVES SAME OLD/ SAME OLD THE FLICK. WITH A FLOURISH…

ARIES: As random emotions ricochet dramatically and people act erratically, your best friends this week are the c-words: Calm Controlled Confidence. So say No to pressuring situations. Stay engaged without taking things personally. Have high aspirations without expectations. Uranus heading direct in your sign reminds you to focus on the larger lesson, bigger picture, greater gain. TAURUS: Cycles of change like this week’s often carry an overdose of complex emotions, to which the current astral emphasis in no-nonsense, do-itright Capricorn favours practical tactical responses. Meanwhile, enjoy this season of completion, adjustment and renewed inspiration for redesigning your life to an abundant garden of prosperity.

GEMINI: Following the season of unreason’s grand finale dissolving the old year in a celebration of hope, January opens a fresh page on relationship energetics, introducing a shift towards deepening connections. For the next three years, personal relationships flourish from the hard yards spent on planning towards shared goals. CANCER: After the new year kick-off with full moon in your sign, you might feel inclined to cling close to home, peace and quiet. If for any reason home’s inharmonious this week then find your happy place: whether that’s a state of mind, a trusted friend, walk by the sea or moodsoothing book… LEO: As mood swings seesaw, people’s sensitivities are highly triggerable this week, so stick wherever possible with the eventempered and easygoing. Midweek Leo moon sees you raring to get stuck into some creative magic, and as Uranus the Rearranger changes pace, ways where you could benefit from doing the same become apparent. VIRGO: A constellation of supportive planets brings this week into pleasing, Virgo-friendly alignment which frees up resources and engages you with a wider sphere of influence. And also inspires you to keep personal impact and emissions positive: to practise steadier and more constant demonstrations of love.

LIBRA: If you’re feeling nesty this week, family and close homies make the perfect cruising-intonew-year companions. 2018’s full moon startup in Libra’s public sector has you blending Venusian charm in the career arena with professional efficiency in your domestic life for this week’s success story. SCORPIO: With the old year history, take whatever slow moments of downtime are necessary for a decluttering heart/mind detox in readiness for your excellent new year adventure featuring Jupiter moving mountains in Scorpio. And be advised this week’s conversational exchanges will need even more than your usual caution.

SAGITTARIUS: As the year ignited with an explosive emotional-release full moon, your domestic sector may be in need of special attention and extra understanding. But with Uranus headed direct in your astral house of happiness and Saturn decamped from your sign, nothing much can rain on this week’s sunny Sagittarian parade. CAPRICORN: Sun, Saturn, Pluto and Venus in Capricorn corner make this your powerful personal leadership and drive time for organising, well… just about everything. Though if others start making pointed remarks about your takecharge attitude getting a bit overpowering, go write a list. Yes of course you already have – and now refine it. AQUARIUS: With your sponsor planet Uranus winding up its retro cycle in the sign of impulsive energy, this week’s very much about endings and new beginnings. It comes with the usual accompaniment of subterranean percolations, so communications can go awry. Savvy Aquirkians will share less rather than more till conditions settle. PISCES: Festive follies, relentless merrymaking, general dingbattery, aprèsholiday mop-ups… After all that the more efficiently organised you are, the more successful your year promises to be: more on that next week.

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AUSTEN TAYSHUS

HOW TO BE A ROCKSTAR Tessa Waters has spent the last couple of years shaking her stuff with enthusiasm, if not grace, in her dance-themed WOMANz show… and now she’s encouraging children to do the same. From invisible hula-hooping to crimping, Tessa Waters celebrates the ridiculousness of the human form and gets laughs from waggling whatever body parts the kids suggest. To the same end there is, of course, also a section on farts, that ever-faithful staple of any children’s comedy show! Saturday at 12pm at the Brunswick Picture House. Adult $15 | Concession $12 | Child $10 | Family of 4 $40

LAZY SWIMMERS On the back of the release of their debut album Not Punk, Per Se. Lazertits are jumping in a van with their besties Swim Team for a tour up the east coast. Hot off supporting the likes of Spiderbait, Waax, The Courtneys, Sonny and the Sunsets, and Screaming Females, this dynamic duo of femme fun is set to sway and bump the Brunswick Picture House. Lazertits and Swim Team released two singles together as a split 7” double A side. The two tracks Lil Sister and Positively Hopeless topped the AMRAP radio charts, tag teaming in first place for four consecutive weeks; both accompanying film clips featured in the prestigious ‘wild one’ segment on Rage. Brunswick Picture House on Saturday from 7pm. All tix $20. brunswickpicturehouse.com

his tongue. He’s the closest thing the Australian comedy scene has to its very own Bill Hicks. Topical, dangerous, irreverent… he’s the High Priest of Satire, unflappable and relentless. Every Austen show is unique. He has the ability to weave current politics, what’s happening in the room, philosophy, anthropology, religion and of course sport, and let’s not forget the pope, into one gag. Tayshus is a man of controversy. There is no subject he won’t dissect. Uncomfortable, confronting, but always illuminating, an Austen Tayshus show is both comic and cleansing. He doesn’t need you to like him. In fact he’d probably prefer that you didn’t. Austen Tayshus headlines at the Byron Services Club on Monday with Mandy Nolan as MC and support. Doors 7pm. Show 8pm. Tickets $20/25 at the club or online at mandynolan.com.au.

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THE BIG MAN OF COMEDY’S BYRON PILGRIMAGE Every January Austen Tayshus, the legendary white pointer of Australian comedy, makes his way to Byron Bay. It’s his favourite show of the year. ‘It’s a smart crowd,’ he says. And he’s right. Not everyone is going to ‘get’ a Tayshus show. But Byron, he reckons, does. And that he believes is the point. Austen likes to make people think. Push them to the brink of their comfort zones. And sometimes way over the edge. It’s why he’s such a fierce figure in the Aussie comedy scene, a scene where many comics and promoters are terrified of him. Austen, aka Sandy Gutman, doesn’t play safe. He doesn’t suck up to venue owners. And he certainly doesn’t stroke the ego of other performers or promoters. In a landscape where comedy tends to lose its edge because of the corporate need to be mainstream and to be commercially successful, Austen Tayshus still doesn’t give a rat’s. He is a lone wolf. Smarter, funnier, and more experienced than anyone else in Aussie comedy. But be warned. He’s also a lot more dangerous. A Tayshus show is not for the faint hearted! There are few comics with the tenacity and killer instinct of Austen Tayshus. The comedy superstar who first came into being in 1981 has the ability to take a room hostage just with

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BY JOHN CAMPBELL

JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE At this time of year, you’re better off to just lower your expectations, go with the flow and try to remember that ‘fun for all the family’ need not necessarily be a nightmare. The original Jumanji (1995) passed me by, so I am in no position to make a comparison, but this one is a beauty (if you like that sort of thing). Four high school students are put on detention. While fulfilling their tasks, they find an old video game and start playing it. The magic box zaps them onto the game’s jungle island and in doing so it turns them into different people. Spencer, the white nerd, becomes a hulking Afro-American (Dwayne Johnson), Fridge, the coloured footy star, finds himself as a wise-cracking hysteric (Kevin Hart), Martha the brainy girl becomes an outgoing hornbag (Karen Gillan) and, best of all, Bethany, the love-me-do chick who cannot live without her phone, is transformed into a middle-aged, overweight bloke (Jack Black). What they must do to return to their real lives is find an enormous green jewel and replace it in the rocky outcrop from where it was pinched. Naturally, the island is crawling with outrageously mean and scary bad guys who are hell bent on stopping them. The action is fast and loud and non-stop, while the humour is loaded with slapstick gags as well witty one-liners – Johnson’s delivery is appreciably restrained as a counter to Hart’s high-rev blather. But what is most enjoyable is the manner in which the actors portray the split personalities of their characters. Black is especially good as the girl in the man’s body – ‘her’ first experience of peeing with a penis is a hoot, without being needlessly vulgar. Of course, that is the movie’s most important theme for its young audience to absorb – that it’s important to accept the differentness of others. A surfeit of CGI (enough is never enough, these days) tends to diminish the effect of the brilliant climax, but nobody is there for the subtlety.

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DOWNSIZING Alexander Payne’s latest offering is a peculiar movie that never seems to be sure whether it wants to be a scathing diatribe, a kinky satire or a sweet romance. It moves from one to the other without warning, but the end result is nevertheless provocative and heart-warming – in a cheesy way. In the not-too-distant future, scientists have discovered a way to deal with the planet’s pressing problem of over-population by shrinking people to a tiny size. Sadly, Payne is probably right in his assumption that humanity would prefer to go to such an extreme rather than change its ways in attempting to avert environmental catastrophe. Paul and his wife Audrey (Matt Damon, Kirstin Wiig) book their place in the brave new world of Leisureland but something unforeseen mars the dream. It’s not until Paul takes up with his neighbour, Dusan (Christoph Waltz, as perfectly suited to playing the louche eccentric as Damon is to being your Average Joe), that the film starts to look at cracks in the mini-Utopia. After a psychedelic party at Dusan’s, Paul meets Ngoc Lan Tran (Hong Chau), a Vietnamese woman who has come to clean Dusan’s apartment. That there would be an underclass in this perfect world had not occurred to Paul. The scenes that feature those who have converted to smallness mixing with the big people are well done, but it’s hard not to snigger and think that nobody in their right mind would do such a thing, no matter how cheap housing was in Lilliput. Predictably, the PC vigilantes have taken Payne to task for what they see as the caricature of Tran, but having worked with Vietnamese I think she is a delight. A visual joke about Little Tommy contracting syphilis is on the icky side, however, and the sight of Paul massaging the stump of what is left of Tran’s leg is too comical to be tender. But if the tone of the film is uncertain, its moral is clear – our ultimate reward lies in helping others, not seeking a fool’s paradise.

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SUNDAY 7 Q HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON BAY THE SWAMPS Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY POMANIANCS

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Q FRESH, BYRON BAY 4PM SLIM PICKENS Q THE STICKY WICKET BAR, BYRON BAY 7PM UPSTAIRS DJ SUNDAY SESH Q TREEHOUSE, BYRON BAY 12PM SUNDAY SESSION DJ DANGEROUS COBRA AND EVA J Q BALLINA RSL BOARDWALK 7PM MENTAL AS ANYTHING Q CHERRY STREET SPORTS CLUB, BALLINA 11.30AM SMOKEHOUSE COUNTRY MUSIC CLUB Q WHARF BAR, BALLINA 3PM B-TOWN COLLECTIVE DJS Q BANGALOW A&I HALL STARLIGHT FESTIVAL Q BRUNSWICK PICTURE HOUSE 9AM HOMEMADE JAM 11AM & 2PM REEFUP! 4PM TOM COONEY & EMMA RUSSACK

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MONDAY 8 Q HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON BAY DAN CLARK Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY KENT EASTWOOD Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY 8.30PM 4’20 SOUND REGGAE NIGHT Q BYRON SERVICES CLUB 8PM AUSTEN TAYSHUS MC MANDY NOLAN Q WOODY’S SURF SHACK, BYRON BAY 8PM REGGAE AFTERPARTY Q B-SPACE, BALLINA 5PM JAM NIGHT Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS 12.30PM CROWD DJ 4PM RUSSELL HINTON – LINE DANCING 7PM MARK WILSON’S DANCE NIGHT

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Q TORAKINA CAFE, BRUNSWICK Q HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, HEADS 12PM ELENA B BYRON BAY MARSHALL WILLIAMS OKELL Q MIDDLE PUB, MULLUMBIMBY Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY 3PM JAM JAMIE ASHFORTH Q POINCIANA, MULLUMBIMBY Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY 11AM SUNDAZE WITH 7PM DU’EAST DUO 9PM DJ RESIDENT DJ SAMMY 2 TOWELS Q THE BILLINUDGEL HOTEL, Q BYRON BAY BREWERY 7.30PM NUDGE NUDGE, WINK WINK MUSICAL BINGO 2PM DJS NORM DE PLUME, Q HALL UNDER BYRON GYM SANI, TEESHA, DALE 6.45PM NO LIGHTS NO STEPHEN & LORD SUT LYCRA Q CLUB LENNOX 4PM Q WOODY’S SURF SHACK, FRIENDLY ENEMIES BYRON BAY 9PM YEWSDAY LIVE DJS Q LENNOX HOTEL 2.30PM RAKU OGAIA 7.30PM JASON Q BANGALOW HOTEL 7PM OPEN MIC DANIELS

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WEDNESDAY 10 Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY 7PM JOSH LEE HAMILTON 9PM DJ Q BYRON BAY BREWERY 7.30PM OPEN MIC WITH HARRY NICHOLS Q THE STICKY WICKET BAR, BYRON BAY LUKE MORRIS 7PM UPSTAIRS LOCAL DJ BEAT Q BANGALOW BOWLING CLUB 6.30PM SWING Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS 12.30PM ELEPHANT ROCK 4PM THE HEMIS 7.30PM PPR EXPRESS

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LEGENDARY OFFROAD TYRES

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

AVIATION

artisanair.com.au

PLEASE CALL AIR CONDITIONING & REFRIGERATION

6680 9394 AU 37088

Lic 246545C

INSTALL, MAINTENANCE, SERVICE & REPAIRS ALL MAKES AND MODELS OVER 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE

TIGER MOTH ADVENTURE FLIGHTS BYRON BAY

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CALL US NOW 0448 875 008

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14 Manns Road, Mullumbimby

Affordable bathroom renovations are our speciality. From a simple makeover, to a total transformation, we deliver on our guarantee of workmanship and price.

Call Kane

6684 2783

Lic: 299433C ARC: AU40492

alfred schnitger electrician and refrigeration mechanic

0422 143 358 abn: 630 282 248 06 licence no: 282 193C allexelectricalandair@gmail.com

COOLMAN AIR CONDITIONING 23 years experience. Lic 178464C AU30147 ..............0412 641753 RAINBOW REGION AIR CONDITIONING ARC AU36141. Lic No. 264313C.....................0487 264137 ARTISAN AIR www.artisanair.com.au â€˜Chill Outâ€™ AU37088 Lic 246545C Supplying Daikin Air Conditioners to the Northern Rivers ...................................................66809394

ANTENNAS & INSTALLATION

tigermothbyronbay@gmail.com

BATHROOM RENOVATIONS

AU43045 enquiries@kiteairconditioning.com.au L003353

Mullumbimby Refrigeration & Airconditioning Services

0488 924 242

tigermothbyronbay.com.au

0410 534 081

All aspects of plumbing: Gas Fitting, Drainage, Construction, Renovations. 15+ years experience. Free quotes. Licence # 289899C

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â€˘ New digital antennas â€˘ Reception problems * â€˘ Extra TV outlets â€˘ Phone sockets â€˘ Pensioner discounts

NO FIX NO CHARGE For fast service call

0402 022 111

David Levine iwireantennas.com.au

*conditions apply

ANTENNAS PLUS

COMPASS CURTAINS

20 years and going strong! Custom made curtains, blinds and decor items

Barbara Wilson

0435 954 212

We come to you, wherever you are: Byron, Lismore, TheÂ Clarence and beyondâ€Ś compassinteriors@optusnet.com.au

BRICKLAYING BRICK/BLOCK LAYING Contractors. Lic 291958C. Phone Mark ........................................0409 444268

BUILDING TRADES â€˘ DEPT OF FAIR TRADING: A licence is required for all residential building work where the reasonable market cost of the work to be done (labour and materials) exceeds $5000 (including GST).

YOUR DIGITAL AND PROGRAMMING SOLUTIONS â€˘ Set top box installation and programming â€˘ Surround sound design and installation â€˘ All TV, telephone & electrical installations Call Norm now on

Friendly & Reliable

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

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Award Winning Builders • Renovations • Extensions • New Homes Darren Paxton

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0412 497 637

1300 095 393

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• RELIABLE TRADESMAN • JOBS UP TO $5000 • DECKS & PERGOLAS • TIMBER SCREENS & DOORS • GARAGE CONVERSIONS SERVICING THE BYRON SHIRE

CALL BRETT 0414 542 019

DECK REPAIRS, BUILDING & MAINTENANCE ..........................................................0403 793834

DENTISTS BANGALOW DENTAL In the Medical Centre Complex, Bangalow ......................................66872766 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 BRUNSWICK HOLISTIC DENTAL CENTRE.......................................................................66851264

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

www.byroneco.com.au

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

BUILDER – JOHN McGAURAN Personalised Service. 20 yrs exp. Lic 170208C .............0415 793242 FABRICA JOINERY Quality kitchens/timber doors/windows. Lic 244652C .........................66808162

Call Sam on

BUILDER CARPENTER Extensions, renos, new homes, insurance, all jobs. Lic 19953 .......... 0403 458177

0434 539 979

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

DIGITAL FABRICATION

BUILDER Renovations, maintenance, 30yrs exp. mchughdesign.com.au Lic 29792C....0408 663420

Window Cleaning Professionals

EXTENSIONS & RENOVATIONS Excellent quality. Builder: Levi Alexander Lic 189611C ..0402 434154

P/L

THE DECK DOCTOR Sanding & refinishing, cable balustrading. Free quotes. Richard ...0407 821690

• Window Cleaning • Screens & Tracks • Pressure Washing • House •Roof • Paths • Solar

CARPENTER All jobs. Michael Dow. Lic 147675C .................................... 66291169 or 0412 967677

BUSH REGENERATION & WEED CONTROL

FULL CIRCLE REFINISHING Timber & deck oiling, coating, stripping. Fast free quotes .....0419 789600

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

DINGO DEMOLITIONS & ASBESTOS REMOVAL ................................. 66834008 or 0407 728998

CARPENTER/JOINER Lic 39791 Decks, studios, pergolas etc Paul Varendorff ..66845035 or 0414 842602

DECKS, PATIOS & EXTENSIONS

Call Glenn or Tracey 0403 428 232 or 6680 9901

COMPUTER CONTROLLED CUTTING SERVICES (CNC), wood, plastic and foam . Dave 0429 003683

DRIVEWAY MAINTENANCE

email: impresswindowcleaning@gmail.com Reliable • Friendly • Professional • Fully Insured • Free Quotes • Affordable Rates Locally Owned and Operated • Quality Work with Over 10 Years Experience

CARPARK & DRIVEWAY MAINTENANCE CONCRETE EDGING

Quality Exterior Refinishing

Native bush regeneration, tree planting and weed control. Fully insured and qualified with more than 12 years’ local experience. Free property assessments and quotes.

Pressure cleaning Roof cleaning

Call Ross Faithfull 0409 157 695 a/h 6687 2943 e: faithfullrossco@gmail.com

0418 156 909 Call Steven Butturini

Phone Oliver 0419 789 600 WEED CONTROL SPECIALIST Management plans drawn up........................................0418 110714

CARPENTRY & JOINERY

Full Circle

fullcirclerefinishing.com

20 Year+s Exp.

Calmer Organic Cleaning End of lease & bond cleans, spring cleans & one off cleans, production, event & party cleans, sale cleans & home detailing

SPECIALISING IN PRESTIGIOUS PROPERTIES

• Fully insured & police cleared • ABN 13 761 054 921 •

TLC

Truck Mounted Machine

CARPET CLEANING

TENDER LOVING CARE Specialising in household carpet cleaning Speedy Drying

Kevin & Margaret Bower

FRANCHISE OF THE YEAR!

Carpet and upholstery cleaning, urine extraction, rust removal, heavy traffic areas, deodorising and sanitation. Far North Coast NSW John & Teresa

0408 232 066

CLEAN AS IT’S BEEN TEAM Home, Bond back, anytime, references ...................................66882372 DONE & DUSTED CLEANING Going the extra mile, professional, dependable...............0498 731447 DETAILED STEAM CLEANING Natural products. Bathrooms, kitchens, spring cleans .0410 723601 AIRBNB HOSTING SERVICES Cleaning, linen, restocking, bookings.............................0410 630042 BYRON & BEYOND CLEANING Brunswick to Ballina & inland towns from $35ph........0451 102239 GREEN ROCKET CLEANERS Excellent service, reliable, efficient. Home. Bond. Builders Clean..0405 437431 CLEAN AS A WHISTLE Consistently good work. Home and office ..............................................0403 585741 HOLIDAY CLEANERS AVAILABLE NOW! Domestic, AirBnB, last-minute. Local, exp & reliable .0421 360961

Cleans deeply, dries in 1-2 hours

EARTHMOVING PLANT HIRE Roadworks incl Driveways, Carparks & General Excavation 35 years in local area • Free quotes

Phone Jeremy 0409 146 052

Philip Toovey

All Mac Repairs, Upgrades, Service, Data Recovery, Internet Set-up, Hardware Sales, Insurance Claims

0409 799 909

SaulMordaunt@macdoc.net.au

0411 562 111 s

Apple Certified Support

Specialising in driveway construction & maintenance

• Tip trucks 3 to 12 tonne • Excavator 5 to 21 tonne • Driveways • Roads • Acreage clearing • House pads • Drainage • Carparks • Bush rocks • Rock walls • Competitive rates

0431 122 057 Personal tech support for bamboozled ed bip bipeds www.mygeekmate.com.au | mark@digiflip.com.au ip co c

A con Any consumer digital device Any digital project at home An ny di

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various implements available for limited access projects

EARTHMOVING & PLANT HIRE

Whether Whe er y you need a tech mentor, advice or just support m I’m here to help

APEX CARPET CLEANING www.apexcarpetcleaning.com.au......................... Nathan 0412 926441

BLACKS CHIMNEY SWEEPING & REPAIRS AHHA member, insured. 3rd generation .....66771905

EARTHMOVING & EXCAVATION

TINY EARTHWOR

Commercial / Domestic / Insurance

CHIMNEY SWEEPING

Jai – 0467 482 948

COMPUTER SERVICES

(02) 6684 1001

Green & Clean

Specialising in Asphalt Driveways, Subdivisions, Earthworks, Carparks and all Maintenance!

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CARPET CLEANING

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

purely support, advice & tech mentorship

CHIROPRACTIC

0410 056 228 / 0427 663 678

STEVE BROWN EARTHMOVING Specialising in road repairs & driveways

BAY FAMILY CHIROPRACTIC Peter Wuehr 17 Bangalow Rd Byron Bay ..............................66855282

Rock walls, clearing, house shed and tank pads.

WAVE OF LIFE NETWORK CHIRO (lowforce) 8/9 Fletcher St, Byron Bay. Andrew Badman...66858553 MICHAEL SCHWAGER 108 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby ...................................................66841962

Augers – hole boring. All general earthworks, excavators, positrack, bobcat, roller and tipper hire.

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

Ph: 6684 0160 Mob: 0439 840 160

BYRON BAY CHIROPRACTIC CENTRE Bruce Campbell. 1/12 Tasman Way, A&I Estate ....66858159 RENT-A-GEEK Mobile PC Repair (Byron Shire) ....................................................................66844335 CAPE BYRON HOLISTIC CHIROPRACTIC Shane Eade. 6/14 Middleton St .....................0467 660323 WORKRIGHT COMPUTER SUPPORT Mobile service. For Home & Business .................0422 804449

CLEANING

ACTION WINDOW & PRESSURE CLEANING

• House washing • High pressure or soft wash • Window cleaning • Driveways, paths & roofs • Gutters & ﬂyscreens • Water efﬁcient • Free quotes Phone Joe or Helen 6687 4655 or 0412 495750

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CONCRETING & PAVING

Specialising in road works, land clearing, retaining walls and general earthworks. Augers and rock grab available.

SALISBURY CONCRETING

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

DARYL 0418 234 302 OR 02 6680 1793

Lic.136717c

DISCOVER CHIROPRACTIC Saturdays too! online bookings: discover-chiropractic.com ..66808400

5.5 TONNE EXCAVATOR, POSITRACK & TIPPER HIRE

EXPERIENCED OPERATORS | FREE QUOTES 0432 299 283 NORTHERN RIVERS TRENCHING 65hp chain trencher, mini excavator, cable locating...0402 716857 BANGALOW MINI DIGGER SERVICE Exp operator 1.8 tonne multiple attachments .....0413 878978

JASON COOTE CONCRETING All concreting work, form work, steel fixing Lic 261424C ......0421 957506 BYRON BAY BOBCAT & TIPPER HIRE Driveways, rubbish removal. Ian.......................0412 853479 PLATINUM CONCRETE 20 years experience. Free quotes. Lic 225874C. Justin ..............0458 773788 CHOPPY’S BOBCAT & TIPPER HIRE Fully insured. Stump grinder, augurs avail. Col Barton ..0418 991747

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Service Directory ELECTRICIANS

GARDEN DESIGN GARDEN DESIGN, FENG SHUI www.simplybeautifulspaces.com.au...........................Lyn 0428 884329

24 HOUR SERVICE AH

GAS SUPPLIERS

02 66 804 173 All Jobs Small or Large

Domestic Commercial

Lic: 154293c

0439 624 945

netdaily.net.au

North Coast news daily:

GARDEN & PROPERTY MAINTENANCE

Free Delivery Reliable

DOMESTIC COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL

Locally Owned Est 18 years

No Rental

www.brunswickvalleygas.com

6680 1575 or 0408 760 609

JAMIE 0408 809 817

GLAZIERS

licence no. 201775c

ELECTRICAL Steve Nicholls ph: 0455 445 343 lic: EC28753

SECURITY, DATA, TV Tim Nicholls ph: 0468 384 203 lic: 000102498

nichollselectrical@outlook.com

ACREAGE SPECIALIST (NO JOB TOO BIG) domestic/commercial lawns • edges and hedges • green waste removal or can be mulched on site FULLY INSURED • FREE QUOTES 100% satisfaction guaranteed!

0497 413 344 • www.charlibearlawncare.com

Byron Gardening 0458 267 777

Lic. 211410C

• Structural landscaping • Hedging • Planting, turf laying, and all aspects of garden maintenance 0434 329 111 | byrongardening.com.au

COUGHRAN ELECTRICAL 24 hour service, Lic 154293C .......................... 0439 624945 or 66804173

Luke McDermott

RONNIE SPINKS Everything electrical. Lic 27673 .........................................................0429 802355

• Acreage & Residential Lawnmowing • Property Maintenance & Gardening Services • Rubbish Removals, Storm Cleanup • Light Chainsawing • Brushcutting/Edging • Hedging/Blowing

BYRON BAY ELECTRICAL Geoff Bensley. Lic EC 34079 ...................................................0427 857824 CIRCUITS PLUS For everything electrical. Friendly & professional. Lic 201844C.............0422 668582 JP ELECTRICAL Level 2 ASP Under-g/O-head lines, Pwr poles, Solar. Lic 133082C ........0432 289705 CHRIS APPEL. Ocean Shores. Lic EC 22349.....................................................................0422 607444 JIM LABELLE ELECTRICAL O.Shores, Mullum, Byron, Brunswick. Lic 176417C..............0415 126028

0429 994 189 info@slashmesilly.com.au www.slashmesilly.com.au

SPINKS ELECTRICAL Lic 284939C..................................................................Call Mitch 0421 843477

Paola Landscapes Pty Ltd

NEW ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGIES Electrician & solar. Level 2 ASP meters u’g. Lic 219161C...0419 556639

Garden Clean Ups Gutter Cleaning Lawn Maintenance Irrigation & Repairs Hedge Trimming Planting & Lawn Edging Turf Laying Full Garden Maintenance Servicing Residential, Commercial and Government PLEASE CALL MATTHEW PAOLA 0431 871 245

BLUE BEE ELECTRICAL 25 years experience. Lic 189508C. Call Dave ............................0429 033801

FENCING

POOLSAFE GLASS FENCING

24/7 EMERGENCY GLASS 0415 660 801 6685 8588 Mirrors • Security doors and screens Shower screens • Commercial glazing BYRON GLASS & ALUMINIUM Home, Shop & Office. 24 hr/7 days. Lic 313329C ..............66808123

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

www.spotlessgutters.com.au

0405 922 839 or AH 6684 1778 ABN 180 623 364 42 JTC Gutter Cleaning www.rightasrainservices.com.au Pressure/window ..................0402 384682 GUTTERING & DOWNPIPES Leaf Guard. Lic 60414C. Darryl Patterson .........................0414 889453 THF SERVICES GUTTER CLEANING and home maintenance .......................................0402 019625

HANDYPERSONS A TO Z HANDYMAN SERVICES Tip runs, pressure cleaning, gardening, odd jobs ....Andre 66847553 or 0439 495247 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 THE HANDYMAN CAN All home maintenance, repairs, painting, odd jobs etc .............0427 110953 RELIABLE HANDYMAN SERVICES Michael ...........................................66844970 or 0405 325569

GLASS & ALUMINIUM POOL FENCING PROFESSIONALS 0499 178 297 psgfencingnsw@gmail.com

Frameless and Semi-Frameless

• Acreage Mowing Specialist • Irrigation • Landscaping • Rubbish Removal Byron Shire – Ballina Shire • Fully Licensed & Insured

Contact Vadi: 0404

978 383

byronlawnranger@gmail.com

www.byronlawnranger.com

Counselling, Dentists, Osteopathy, Physiotherapy MULLUMBIMBY COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CENTRE 60 Stuart St...............................66841511

Byron and Beyond FENCING

ACUPUNCTURE & COSMETIC MEDICINE Dr Adam Osborne ...........................................66857366

0416 424 256

MULLUMBIMBY HERBALS Naturopathy, Ayurveda, Massage, Herbs. .............................66843002

BYRON & BEYOND FENCING Any fence, any time, prompt quotes....... 66804766 or 0416 424256

MASSAGE Present, nurturing and loving. Female therapist. Ocean Shores....................0429 535304

EDL FENCING Installations & repairs. Prompt service ............................. 66771852 or 0432 107262

The Floor Sander NEW AND OLD FLOORS AND DECKING • Non-toxic ﬁnishes • Free quotes

Richard Neylan 0407 821 690 Email richardneylan1@bigpond.com

NJH FLOOR SANDING Eco oils, hard wax oils & water-based finishes. Nathan .............0420 215716

FLOORING

• • • • •

Property maintenance All Mowing jobs Landscaping Pressure cleaning Tip runs

0407 065 849 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

NICK’S MOWING Lawns, edges, hedges, local & reliable. Mullum, Bruns, O.Shores.......0402 487213 A GREEN EARTH Garden restoration, maintenance, tree & rubbish removal ................0405 716552 TIP RUNS & RUBBISH REMOVALS 4m3 trailer..............................................................0408 210772

LICENCE NO:175956C ABN: 03 113 342 699

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

Garage Doors & Openers

KITCHENS

SHAUN LEMURA KITCHENS Byron 20 yrs+ exp Lic 290290C www.slbyronbay.com ...0499 771769 D HINGED Kitchens & Joinery. Lic 283553C. www.hinged.com.au ....................... Dave 0409 843689

BIO GARDENS Horticulturist for all your gardening needs. Reasonable rates ...............0459 175729 ABOVEBOARD KITCHENS, BATHROOMS & ALTERATIONS Lic 80677C ...................0415 661814 STRONGARM LANDSCAPING & GARDEN MAINTENANCE Acreage mowing..............0402 917519

QUALITY GARAGE DOORS TO SUIT ALL BUDGETS

HIRE

A-Z Lawns & acreage, trees & hedges, clean ups & tip runs, all gutters ..........................0405 625697 MULLUM HIRE Builders, party and much more ........................www.mullumhire.com.au 66843003 A.C.E. LAWNMOWING & GARDENING Best rates, reliable, guaranteed.............Sam 0438 655763 BYRON HIRE Building & home handyman equipment hire ........ www.byronhire.com.au 66856228 LEAF IT TO US Acreage mowing, 72” mowers, gardening/property maint. specialists ...0402 487213

FINISHED FLOORS Premium service at a quality price. 7 days. ..........................Danny 0403 646852 MOW JOES Lawn & property maintenance, ride-on mowing. Fully insured ..........Steve 0407 065849

GARAGE DOORS

HEALTH • OTHER HEALTH RELATED SECTIONS IN THIS SERVICE DIRECTORY: Acupuncture, Chiropractic,

GLASS POOL FENCING

FLOOR SANDING & POLISHING

HANDYMAN All services and areas. Reliable and friendly. $35/hour.............................0403 793834

AAA LAWNMOWING Reliable. Please phone Ray..........................................................0468 814547

LANDSCAPE DESIGN

PRESTIGE ACREAGE CARE Acreage mowing specialist ...............................................0490 023964 BEAU JARDIN We design & build beautiful gardens www.beaujardin.com.au Lic 177274C ...0417 054443 GRASSROOTS PROPERTY CARE Garden maintenance. Acreage & residential mowing .0434 637804 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT Garden Design & Property Planning. Andrew Pawsey ..........0478 519804

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Service Directory LANDSCAPING

OSTEOPATHY

PHOTOGRAPHY

Tree Faerie Fotos

OSTEOPATHY at Mullumbimby Comprehensive Health Centre

â€˘ Sand â€˘ Soils â€˘ Gravels â€˘ Pots & statues â€˘ Lots, lots more

1176 Myocum Rd, Mullumbimby (just past golf course)

6684 2323 / 0418 663 983

Professional â€˘ Commercial â€˘ Personal

Dr. Matthew Fourro (Osteo) Dr. Egbert Weber (Osteo)

30+ years experience in commercial photography and photojournalism

60 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby | 02 6626 7900

www.treefaeriefotos.com â€˘ 0417 427 518

NORTH COAST OSTEOPATHY Jodie Jacobs. Mon, Wed, Fri..............................................66857517

Specialising in: â€˘ Retaining Walls â€˘ Pool Surrounds â€˘ Block Work â€˘ Paving â€˘ TurďŹ ng â€˘ Stonework

0405 594 288

20 Years Experience

NEW ERS OWN

Kim Snellgrove, Cally Oâ€™Hara ................................................................................................66872330

â€˘ DEPARTMENT OF FAIR TRADING INFO: When dealing with home owners, painters are required NICK EDMOND Physiotherapy & Acupuncture. Open Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday 466 Main Arm Road, Mullumbimby.....................................................................................66845288 to quote a licence number only for external work valued over $5000.

ALL-WAYS PAINTING BYRON BAY

Soil Mulch Gravel Cracker Dust Road base

â€˘ Domestic & Commercial â€˘ Servicing all areas â€˘ Workmanship guaranteed â€˘ Attention to detail

Bulk and bagged fire wood Call for delivery prices and we will do a deal

0438 784 226 â€˘ 6685 4154

0266 804555

landscaping supplies

PHYSIOTHERAPY BANGALOW PHYSIOTHERAPY Manual therapies, acupuncture, mat/reformer Pilates classes.

PAINTING

Established 2008 ~ Lic No: 247282c

Lic No 189144C

Shaun Savage Landscapes

DR DEAN HARDY Osteopath B.Clin.Sci, Master Osteopathy lennoxheadquarters.com...0412 786399

ANTHONY Dâ€™ORSOGNA Physiotherapy, acupuncture, hydrotherapy Suffolk Park 1 Bryce St ... 66853511 CONTINENCE / PELVIC FLOOR Janelle Angel ..................Bangalow 66872337 & Mâ€™bah 66723818 PETRA KARNI Physio, Craniosacral, Alexander Technique. Byron. Open Saturdays.......0403 226858 OCEAN SHORES PHYSIOTHERAPY Manual therapies, dry needling, custom orthotics, shock wave therapy, real time ultrasound. Nigel Pitman, Ilse V Oostenbrugge, Steve Clifford.......66803499 EWINGSDALE PHYSIO Renata Tenta. Matrix Rhythm Therapy, home visits avail................66847838 PETER FARRELL Cold laser, manual therapy & exercise, Mullumbimby ..............................66843385

18 Lucky Lane Billinudgel Industrial Estate

INSPIRING MOVEMENT Kerrie Hart Feldenkrais method, physiotherapy.....................0499 200622

PICTURE FRAMING QualiďŹ ed Structural Landscaper

Lic 308722C

Landscape Design | Construction | Retaining Walls | Pergolas | Paving QUALITY PAINTING SERVICES

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

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

CALL 0431 550 401

info@geckolandscapesolutions.com.au | geckolandscapesolutions.com.au

SUBTROPICALLANDSCAPES.COM.AU 20 years exp. Lic 231789C ................................0405 122456

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BUSH ROCKS All sizes / mossy, can deliver. Ron ...................................... 66298208 or 0429 398208

LAUNDRY / LINEN DELIVERY SERVICES

LAUNDRY

FAST TURNAROUND â€“ AIR BNB â€˘ Self serve / service wash â€˘ New front loaders & dryers â€˘ Domestic & commercial services

Mullum Wash House â€“ 0439 001 545 Bangalow Wash House â€“ 0412 302 246 OPEN EVERY DAY

BILLINUDGEL CUSTOM PICTURE FRAMING 7/1 Wilfred St, Billinudgel ........................66803444 MULLUM PICTURE FRAMERS Stuart St rear lane behind Mitre 10 ............................0403 734791

PLASTERING

PLASTERING CONTRACTOR DOMESTIC & COMMERCIAL

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451 186 / 6680 4660

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Mark Wopling

ABN 31 490 733 798 LIC 203196C

Painting & Decorating Accredited

Located: 17 Lawson St, Byron Bay | Open 7 days 11am-6pm Art / Photography / Customised picture framing & Mirrors Phone: Tommy 0414 749 278 Instagram: @byronbaygallery

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DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION www.varendorfflandscapes.com Lic 39791 ...6845035 or 0414 842602 LEMONTREELANDSCAPES.COM.AU Liam. Lic No 277154C .........................................0423 700853

Lic 167371C

EST 2004 | LIC 212479C

â€˘ LANDSCAPE DESIGN â€˘ PAVING â€˘ RETAINING WALLS â€˘ PERGOLAS â€˘ IRRIGATION & DRAINAGE â€˘ DECKS

YVES DE WILDE

24 years experience

QUALIFIED â€˘ INSURED â€˘ LOCAL â€˘ FREE QUOTES

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

PLUMBERS

The ďŹ nishing touch to your home

Mob: 0409 451 518

mwoplingpainting@hotmail.com

AD PAINTING by John Hand. Lic 13246C ................................................ 0413 185399 or 66841249 BAY AREA PAINTING Lic No 289979C. Free quotes .......................................................0405 609598 ROOF PAINTING Repair, clean, repaint metal roofs from $1950. Lic 237105C ..............0414 587884

PEST CONTROL

NEED A PLUMBER? DRAINER? GASFITTER?

Chay 0429 805 081 20 YEARS LOCAL SERVICE

Licence No. 207479C

Dylan 0409 785 584 E: otr.creativelandscaping@gmail.com

Professional Linen Hire AirBnB â€˘ Holiday Accomm â€˘ Business Delivered Daily Mon-Sat 8.30-5pm

Professional Property Protection you can Trust

www.linenontherun.com.au

0455 333 393

LAWNMOWER REPAIRS TYAGARAH MOWER REPAIRS 69 McAuleys Lane, Mullumbimby .................................0488 094025

LIGHTING

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

6685 4490 or AH on 0414 769 018

www.sanctuarypest.com.au

02 6681 6555 Free quotes on active termites Environmentally safe

YOUR PEST & TERMITE SPECIALISTS www.allpestsolutions.com.au

Lighting Showroom Open 9am â€“ 5pm Mon â€“ Fri Unit 5, 21-23 Tasman Way, Byron A+I Estate Free on-site consultancy 6680 7007 creativelightingsolutions.com.au

CREATIVE LIGHTING SOLUTIONS

All Plumbing Blocked drains GasďŹ tting Solar Hot Water

0404 053 857

Lic. No. 206913C

98 Ballina Street, Lennox Head

JARRAH DAVIDSON Plumbing, draining, gas fitting & roofing. Lic 187712C................0438 668025 BILL CONNORS All plumbing/draining. Lic #1051 .................................. 66801403 or 0414 801403 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 SERVICESâ€Ś (NO JOB TOO SMALL)â€Ś Lic 234528C. ....... Call Adam 0466 992483 BLOCKED DRAINS Drain camera, no dig repairs. Drain Pipe King. Lic 237124C ...................66770004

LOCKSMITH

THE PEST MAN EXTRAORDINAIRE Second opinion / alternative views. 50 yrs exp .....0418 110714 LPC PLUMBING Plumbing, draining, gas fitting. Sth Golden Bch. Lic 289868C. Luke ....0401 633222 BRUNSWICK BYRON PEST CONTROL................................................................................66842018 COLIN J WILLIAMS PLUMBING & GAS Lic L7990. Water specialist. Mullum/Byron .....0434 273726

MOBILE LOCKSMITH SERVICE Automotive car keys & lock installation/repair .............0412 764148 RAYMOND LYNCH PEST MANAGEMENT General pests & termites ..............................0418 850601 ZEN PLUMBING Water, drainage, gas fitting, 24hr emergency, maint. Lic 306198C.....0420 797619

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Service Directory PODIATRY

TREE SERVICES

MULLUMBIMBY PODIATRY Laser Clinic. For all your podiatry needs ..............................66742933 NORTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT

PRINTING & COPYING SERVICES PRINTWORKS Traditional / Digital art@mullumprintworks.com.au .................................66843633

REMOVALISTS

NEWT

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

CHOPPY CHOP TREE SERVICES The Fully Insured Professionals

• Stump Grinding • Bobcat • Cherrypicker • Crane Truck • 18” Chipper

TRINE SOLUTIONS Local waste specialists. Plumbers, drainers & gas fitters. Lic 138031C .. 0407 439805

SEWING & ALTERATIONS

Andy’s Move & More

Calls always returned

netdaily.net.au

North Coast news daily:

Mark Linder Qualiﬁed Arborist 0408 202 184 choppychoptrees@bigpond.com

SEWING Repairs & alterations. Byron Bay & all areas. Phone Jan ..................................0427 570812 SANDIE’S SEWING Bulk garment manufacture. Est 20 years ........................................0409 060393

SOLAR INSTALLATION

0429 149 533 Est 2006

Pioneers of the solar industry

SHIRE REMOVALS & FREIGHT CO

Serving Northern NSW since 1998

Call us on 6679 7228

From Middle Pocket to Middle Earth – just give us a ring

Your local, qualiﬁed team. m 0428 320 262 Specialists in standalone & e sunbeamsolar@bigpond.com grid interact system designs.

• Freight services to Brisbane weekly • Carriers of ﬁne art • Furniture removal • E-bay pick up & delivery

Electric Lic 124600c

6681 4912 / 0409 917646

LdS Silviculture Specialising in all aspects of tree work including milling services

Eddy 0477 Karl 0423

LEAPFROG REMOVALS

720 200 396 508

HART TREE SERVICES 18” chipper bobcat cranetruck stump grinding, cherry . 66849137 or 0427347380

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

SUMMERLAND TREE SERVICES ............................................. Call Tim 66877677 or 0417 698227

0432 334 200 02 6680 8170

PETER GRAY Dip Arb. AQF5. Consulting arborist ...........................................................0414 186161

leapfrogremovals@yahoo.com.au

TALLOW TREE SERVICES Removal, free quote & full insurance .....................................0401 208797 A VERY HANDY MAN TREE SERVICES Happy to help. Andrew ......................................0412 558890

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MARTINO TREE SERVICES ..............................................................................Martino 0435 019524

The expert in solar efﬁciency

/2&$/ 6<'1(< *2/' &2$67 %5,6%$1( 0(/%2851(

02 6684 2198

Call 1300 18 20 50 www.saegroup.com.au

TXHULHV#PXOOXPELPE\UHPRYDOV FRP DX

MAN WITH A VAN/TRUCK Reasonable rates. Phone Don ............................................0414 282813

Electrical License # QLD: 72258 | NSW: 227562C

THE PALM DOCTOR Specialising in pruning & palm removal. Prompt & reliable..........0421 508044 OUT ON A LIMB Tree removal, chipping, stump grinding. Free quotes .........................0402 191316

UPHOLSTERY BANGALOW UPHOLSTERY Now at Billinudgel. Re-covering specialists.............................66805255

BENNY CAN MOVE IT! .................................................................................................0402 199999

BYRON BAY UPHOLSTERY Soft furnishings & outdoor................................................0403 713303

CAPE BYRON REMOVALS Local. Brisbane-Melbourne weekly. Since 1989...................0413 505893

MIEKOBAGS CUSTOM CANVAS Boat, ute, tonneau covers & repairs ...........................0423 640529

ROOFING

VALUERS

DOMESTIC • INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL

MONTYS METAL

ROOFING Licence NSW: 30715C Licence QLD: 1227049

BYRON BAY VALUERS NSW & QLD reg’d. Chartered Valuers ................... 0431 245460 or 66857010

VETERINARY SURGEONS

Metal Rooﬁng Installations • Guttering Downpipes • Fascia • Skylights • Whirlybird Patios • Repairs • Leaf Guard

Not all solar systems are created equal…

Craig Montgomery – 0418 870 362 Email: montysmetalrooﬁng@gmail.com www.montysmetalrooﬁng.com.au

LIC: 223489C

ZAC MACTAGGART METAL ROOFING PTY LTD

Patrick - 0425 256 802

0411 683 003 BYRON COAST ROOFING PTY LTD Lic 252098C Guttering, leaf guard, cladding, etc ..0422 248936 ROOF PAINTING & REPAIRS Free quotes. Lic 1134084. Joe .........................................0414 587884

73 Station St, Mullumbimby

6680 8200 or 0418 108 181 IN IN H

(opp. Council chambers)

RUBBISH REMOVAL

6684 3003

OCEAN SHORES SKIPS Mini skip specialists ......................................... 0412 161564 or 66841232 BYRON SKIPS & RUBBISH REMOVAL 2, 3, 4 & 6 m3 bins available ..............................0450 300360

MULLUM POOL SHOP Water testing, eco products, mobile service, repairs................0418 666839

TIP-EASY TIPPING SKIPS & TRAILER HIRE 3.5m3 skips, 10x5 & 7x5 caged box trailers ... 0438 470484

Dirty Tiles & Grout?

SCRAP METAL MERCHANTS

Buying: • Scrap metal • Aluminium • Copper • Brass • Lead • Car Batteries Next to Tyagarah Service Station

Paciﬁc Highway, Tyagarah 6684 2351

WATER TANKS & TANK CLEANING

...forget pointless scrubbing

BYRON CASH FOR SCRAP @ BRUNSWICK BYRON AUTO WRECKERS

$399

FULLY Water puriﬁcation systems INST ALLED IN YOUR Rainwater Filters HOME Whole house ﬁltration systems

Phone Chris 0414 229 114

TILING

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

FREE T avail fo OW

r cars – unwanted cash for som paid e

9 TILE, GROUT & STONE CLEANING & SEALING 9 SILICONE 9 GROUT COLOURING 9 RE-GROUTING 9 EPOXY GROUT 9 GLASS RESTORATION 9 SLIPPERY TILES 9 LEAKY SHOWERS MEMBER

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 NSW Lic. L10007 QLD Lic. 13395

Professional Water Tank Cleaning Installation and maintenance of water filters for rural and suburban properties h your Deal wit erator local op

Call Ben on 0456 606 911 www.groutpro.com.au

FRANCHISE OF THE YEAR!

SEPTIC SYSTEMS

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for home, commercial and rural properties

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

ff Drop owashing steel, es and h c a m in ers dry

The Water Filter Experts

SWIMMING POOLS

ALL ROOF CLEANING Experienced, insured & fast free quotes. Call ..............................0419 789600

FREfoEr all

WATER FILTERS

www.junoenergy.com.au licence number: 255292C

Ƈ NEW ROOFS Ƈ RE ROOFS Ƈ INSULATED ROOF PANELS Ƈ Ƈ FASCIA & GUTTERS Ƈ REPAIRS & MAINTENANCE Ƈ WWW.ZACMACTAGGARTMETALROOFING.COM.AU

Contact Juno Energy, your household and commercial solar installation specialists. Authorised Northern Rivers LG solar/battery dealer and Sonnen battery dealer.

MULLUM VET CLINIC Richard Gregory, Erin Tottenham, Bec Patison. 24 hrs 7 days ..........66843818

Far North Coast NSW John & Teresa

0408 232 066

TILE & GROUT CLEANING

Servicing the Far North Coast for 20 years. Free quotes. Experienced local technicians. ChemDry’s patented cleaning systems.

WINTER SPECIAL:

Every 5th m2 FREE

TILER/STONEMASON/WATERPROOFER Lic 24418C. Phone Karl ...................................66804103 MD TILING SOLUTIONS Wall & floor tiling, water proofing. Lic 286371C .....................0406 858290 PHI TILING / WATERPROOFING Free quotes. Helpful advice. Lic No 179306C ..................66851237

WE CLEAN WATER TANKS

•

Call Peter BYRON SHIRE

0487 777 247 www.pristinewater.com.au

WATER FILTERS SUPPLY AND SERVICE

WATER TANK CLEANING/WATER TANKS Concrete tank repairs. All areas .. 66888055 or 0407 002833 SCRUBBED Tank cleaning, repairs & liner installs. Call Matt & Nick....... 0411 425678 or 66884478

WELDING WELDING & FAB Structural, aluminium, general & repairs. Trade qualified. Rod..........0408 410545

WINDOW TINTING

COST EFFECTIVE LEAKING SHOWER REPAIR Lic 286371C ......................................0406 858290 SUNRISE W. T. NO BUBBLES, NO TROUBLES Cars, homes & offices ..........................0412 158478

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Classifieds INDEX Childcare................................ 59

ECHO CLASSIFIEDS – 6684 1777

Death Notices ........................ 60

CLASSIFIED AD BOOKINGS

DEADLINE TUES 12PM

For Sale ................................. 59

PHONE ADS

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

Birthdays ................................ 60

Garage Sales......................... 60 Halls For Hire......................... 59 Health Notices ....................... 59 House Sit ............................... 60 Houses For Sale .................... 60

6684 1777 AT THE ECHO HEAD OFFICE

Ads may be taken by phone on

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

Village Way, Stuart St, Mullumbimby

RATES & PAYMENT LINE ADS: $17.00 for the first two lines $5.00 for each extra line

Items under $100 .................. 60

EMAIL ADS

Land For Sale ........................ 60

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

DISPLAY ADS (with a border): $12.50 per column centimetre

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

These prices include GST.

Life Celebrations .................... 60 Motor Vehicles ....................... 60 Musical Notes ........................ 60

CLASSIFIEDS THAT WORK ALL WEEK!

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

$17 for two lines is the minimum charge.

Positions Vacant .................... 60 Professional Services ............ 59 Public Notices ........................ 59 Share Accommodation .......... 60 Social Escorts........................ 61 To Lease ................................ 60 To Let ..................................... 60 Tradework .............................. 59 Tree Services ......................... 59

IKEA - SAVE MONEY & TIME We shop and deliver from $50. Deliver on Sun pm. Assembly extra. www.shopdropassemble.com.au BRUNSWICK PICTURE HOUSE CAFE Open every Sunday for homemade jam & 1 hour before show times

COSTUME HIRE, PROPS, SUITS & ACCESSORIES

Tuition .................................... 60

Open Thurs 4–6.30pm, Sat 10.30am–1pm or by appointment

Wanted .................................. 60

TAYLORS PROPS

Wanted To Rent ..................... 60 Work Wanted ......................... 60

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

PUBLIC NOTICES

BYRON ARTISAN MARKET This Saturday 4–9 pm

RAILWAY PARK, BYRON BAY

www.byroncentre.com.au Are you doing it tough?

FOOD RELIEF BAGS will be available

THIS THURSDAY from 9 till 11am at The Hub Baptist Ocean Shores Cnr Rajah Rd and Bindaree Way (next to Target, enter via kids play area)

For anyone who ﬁnds themselves in need of food assistance.

www.thehubbaptist.org

EVERYONE READS The Byron Shire Echo www.echo.net.au

BYRON DESERVES BETTER DAVID LOVEJOY’S BOOKS Between Dark and Dark a memoir; Moral Victories, the biography of chess player Savielly Tartakower; Heresy, an historical novel.

ALL JUST $10 EACH Available from The Echo office reception

tattooedbyronvegan.com.au

BRUNSWICK HEADS MARKETS Saturday 6th January

MEMORIAL PARK, BRUNSWICK HEADS Phone 6628 4495 No dogs please

Tony Backhouse A Cappella Workshop for all levels Black gospel & related styles Saturday 13th January 1-4pm Byron Region Community College, Mullum (Behind Post Office, Air Con) No pre-bookings, cash at the door $35 or $30 for Summersong grads www.tonybackhouse.com

LOCALS SPECIAL! BRUNSWICK HEADS CHRISTMAS CARNIVAL BANNER PARK Every Sunday until 21st January from 7pm

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BUY 1 RIDE

MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN OUR COMMUNITY

Learn to make delicious plant-based recipes

GET 1 FREE

Ocean Shores

VEGAN MUNCH

cooking demonstrations

BUY 1 RIDE GET 1 FREE

No concession cards required. Just come along, pick up a bag, stay for a cuppa and a chat.

1 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby Phone 6684 2978

HEADS UP – THERE ARE ONLY 255 SHOPPING DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS

CHILDCARE BABY-SITTING I love looking after children and I am a great cook, $15/hr. Phone 0424025271

PROF. SERVICES

DENTURES

LOOK GOOD FEEL GOOD Free consultation. SANDRO 66805002

AUTISM

Assessment & treatment of children, adolescents & adults

Carl Moore Psychology Reg no. PSY0001057399 Medicare rebates available

Thur & Fri | 6684 6336

KINESIOLOGY

DR ARPANA (retired GP) offering SCENAR for pain treatments at The Health Lodge. M & Th (am). 66856445 & at Suffolk Tues & Fri (am) 0428853352 STRONG HANDS MASSAGE Comb. remedial shiatsu and polarity. Crabbes Creek & outcalls. Cornelia 0427301251 THAI MASSAGE With male, 1hr $50, Brunswick Heads. Ph Nui 0413710742

Simple and effective solutions Anxiety, Cravings, Fears & Trauma. Maureen Bracken 0402205352

TWO WINGS PSYCHOLOGY

…feel the difference

SUZANNE BOURCHIER psychologist 02 6685 5670

(Acupuncturist) Women’s Health Children, Cosmetic Acutonics® (Fri & Sat)

COMMODES FOR HIRE Vintage wood or cane bedside commodes $10 per week. Text 0447853891 for photos/details ADAGIO THERAPEUTIC MASSAGE Clarkes Bch, Byron Bay. Remedial, Deep Tissue, Trigger Point Therapy, Relaxation, Aroma Touch. Joshua 0423703623 So long and thanks for all the ﬁsh. Dr Pelican

Study Kinesiology

Nationally accred Diploma HLT52415 Free Introductory evening 6 to 8pm Byron Jan 17 & 31, Coolangatta Jan 24. Byron Kinesiology Centre / KSA 66857991 www.wellness.net.au

VINYASA FLOW

Integrated Yoga practice with Consta. Yellow Church, Mullum. Mon & Wed 7–8am, Tues & Thurs 9.30–11am, Fri 6.45am–7.45am. Ph 0401438679 www.mullumbimbyoga.com

HYPNOTHERAPY & NLP

HALLS FOR HIRE

www.wendypurdey.com.au

Treating all your health care needs. STOP SMOKING NOW! Concerts, forums, weddings, exhibitions, functions, etc. www.mullumcivic.com

FREE

0488 609 774

6680 2630 27 years experience

Martin Frank PHYSIOTHERAPIST 20 Shirley St, Byron Bay

6685 8532

BRENT VERCO

CHIROPRACTOR MULLUM CHIROPRACTIC 6684 1028

MON TUE WED THU FRI PM & SAT AM

Dr David King

(Chinese Medicine) Pain conditions Mental/emotional disturbances & general (Mon-Thurs)

14 PARK STREET, BRUNSWICK HEADS | 02 6685 1088 | BAYSIDEACUPUNCTURE.COM

ACUPUNCTURE CHINESE HERBAL MEDICINE MASSAGE ACUTONICS®

FREE QUOTES

TREE PRUNING • TREE SURGERY / REMOVALS • QUALIFIED ARBORISTS 12” CHIPPER • STUMP GRINDING • CHERRY PICKER • FULLY INSURED

Nick Andrews 0439 849 332

Tallow TREE SERVICES

PROFESSIONAL TREE CARE • • • • •

REMOVALS PALMS TREE SURGERY FREE QUOTES FULLY INSURED

• • • • •

STUMP GRINDING TREE REPORTS DA APPLICATIONS CRANE HIRE CHERRY PICKER

6687 2750 - 0401 208 797 FOR SALE

BRIDGLANDS

Buy and sell good quality used furniture Ph 66842511

ARCHIBALD’S CHEAP QUARRY PRODUCTS

Road base, gravel, blue metal and metal dust. ALL SIZE DELIVERIES. Phone 66845517, 0418481617

BAMBOO PLY

Beneﬁts include increased vitality, better health, wealth, self esteem and conﬁdence. Call today enjoy being

Fund BAYSIDE ACUPUNCTURE Health Rebates & AND HERBAL MEDICINE Hicaps Available

Becky Martin

ALOHA HEALING WITH NAOMI Strength with intuitive depth. Deep tissue & Kahuna 23yrs exp. 0417212540

BEAUTIFUL RELAXING DEEP TISSUE MASSAGE Treat Yourself. Call now 0410395368

Mon–Fri 9am–5pm

HEALTH

COLONICS

Offering colonic hydrotherapy, sauna and naturopathy at our beachside clinic. Call or text 0458633869 www.byronbaydetoxretreats.com.au

LUXURIOUS MASSAGE strong sensitive hands for deep release & relaxation. 2 hrs of bliss $150. Call Ross 0421399465

HYPNOSIS & EFT

NICK HART

TREE SERVICES

6684 9137 • 0427 347 380

Prepayment is required for all ads.

Clear subconscious sabotages. Reprogram patterns and beliefs. Restore vibrancy and physical health. De-stress. Ph 66846914 SANDRA DAVEY, Reg. Pract.

0402 364 852

Fully insured • Free quotes

Cash, cheque, Mastercard or Visa

MBVFC AGM Monday January 22nd 2018 7pm info@mbvfc.com.au for more info

6684 4421

• Affordable tree services • Professional tree care • 18" chipper (crane truck)

Only Adults ............................ 61 Pets ........................................ 60

• FULLY INSURED • PROFESSIONAL SERVICE • FREE QUOTES

COMPOST TOILETS

bookings@mullumcivic.com

STARTING AT $960 Green Building Centre 0427701653

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

SCAFFOLDING Erect, hire & sales. Aluminium, steel & mobile. 0427774450

TRADEWORK

3EPTIC 7ASTE 2EMOVAL

3UMMERLAND %NVIRONMENTAL

4HE ,IQUID 7ASTE 3PECIALISTS

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

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

TREE SERVICES

SUMMERLAND TREE SERVICES • Cherry Picker • Wood Chipper • Stump Grinder • Tree Surgeon • Fully Insured

Mulch Supplies

Byron Bay & Surrounding Areas

6687 7677 Mobile 0417 698 227

MIELE WASHERS

Dryers and dishwashers available at Bridglands Mullumbimby. 66842511

CLEARANCE SALE

CLEM’S CARGO NEW YEAR SALE Up to 40% off selected items. Jan 4-21 Open 10-4pm, Thurs-Mon. 38 Tweed St, Brunswick Heads

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

Matt 0427 172 684

NATIVE PLANTS FOOD PLANTS

The Largest range of native plants in the Byron Shire. Tubestock to Semi-advanced

MULLUM CREEK NURSERY

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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Classifieds ITEMS UNDER $100 SURFBOARD Mt Woodgee 6'4 Tri-Fin w Traction Tail-pad. Good $95. 0409579671

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

GARAGE SALES BYRON FLEA MARKET @ Byron Youth Activity Centre (YAC), 1 Gilmore Cres, 2nd Saturday of each month 8am-1pm. Food, entertainment, vintage & pre-loved bargains. Next market on 13th January. Stalls or rug space avail 0490026840 SABINAâ€™S FAB SUMMER SALE BRUNS Sat not before 8 at 43 Fingal St. Vintage, great clothes, collectables, rugs & more MOVING SALE CHEAP CHEAP Homewares, DIY, vintage, furniture. 9 Nana St, Brunswick Hds. Sat 6am NTH O.S 11 Hardy Ave. Sat 8am. Good quality stuff all must go moving sale!

POSITIONS VACANT Ocean Shores 3brÂ 2bth $580 4br 2bth $650 5br 3bth $780

Brunswick Heads 3br 1bth $750

Mullumbimby 3br 1 bth $550 3br 2bth $580 4br 3bth $1100

Middle Pocket 4br 2bth $680

Commercial

Rare shop space available in the centre of Brunswick Heads 103m2 Ideal for beauty, medical, dental, massage, professional. Contact office for details. L.J. Hooker Brunswick Heads 6685 0177 5/16 The Terrace, Brunswick Heads

NORTH O.SHORES 14 Palmer Ave, Sat 8am. Furn, clothes, h/hold, good bargains

Tip Runs & Rubbish Removal 0408 210 772

Bangalow

Managing Bangalow and Hinterland Free Honest Appraisals BANGALOW

3 bed, 2 bath $700 pw 4 bed, 3 bath, pool $850 pw

NASHUA

2 bed, 1 bath furnished $550pw

ROSEBANK

MOTOR VEHICLES

CASH PAID FOR UNWANTED CARS Local regâ€™d business 66845296 or 66845403

BARGAINS

............................................................................... AUTO 2015 TOYOTA YARIS. 43618km 5dr hatch immaculate like new. SN1923 .......$11495 AUTO 2004 SUBARU OUTBACK. 185101km AWD wagon fantastic condition. SN2712 .....$7495 2003 MITSUBISHI LANCER 5spd manual sedan Registration till july 2018. SN3236 ............. $3495 AUTO 2005 HYUNDAI TERRACAN.151237km low km 7 seater family 4wd. SN1946. ............. $8490 AUTO 09 MAZDA BT50 TURBO DIESEL. 141874km Dualcab trayback 6mths rego SN1679. ......$13995 2004 MITSUBISHI PAJERO GLX MANUAL.192138km 7 seater 4wd. SN0106 ............................... $8990

BARGAINS

ballinacarcentre.com.au

16 ENDEAVOUR CLOSE, BALLINA

Ballina Car Centre

DLN 19950

6686 5586 / 0418 676 274

HOUSES FOR SALE LENNOX large sunny airy 3br & soundproof studio home, ensuite, WIR, built ins, fans, screened patio, large open plan living/dining, mod kitchen, lots storage, solar, 4 min to Village, beach, lake, 5 min walk to Epic Village. $759K. 0414715958

LAND FOR SALE 2 ACRES land, close to Lismore, Good house site, exc view $150K. 0476304018

HOUSE SIT SEEKING PERM ON-SITE house sit/caretaker position. Exp/refs See aussiehousesitters.com.au/s/lapso Ben 0438636966

SHARE ACCOM. SUNRISE large room, 3br townhouse. $200pw incl bills. Ph 66856760

TO LET BANGALOW SELF-STORAGE Hi-tech security. 66872333 STORAGE From $105/mth. Bangalow. Ph 66872833

LOCAL REMOVAL

& backloads to Brisbane. Friendly, with 10 years local exp. 0409917646 O.SHORES 3br house. $580pw. Walk to Bruns river. Avail mid-Jan. 0449235707 ROSEBANK cabin, quiet, forest, suit sgl quiet worker $210pw. Phone 0429882058

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Under the reign of the repugnant Sepp ‘I am not a crook’ Blatter, FIFA awarded the 2022 fete to Qatar, where stadiums are now being erected using the virtual slave labour of ‘guest workers’ for matches that are to be played in forty-degree heat before

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13:24 09:25 13:17 09:20 Moon High tide, set height (m) 0441 0838,1.87; 2047,1.32 0542 0929,1.95; 2141,1.31 0647 1018,1.98; 2231,1.30 0754 1107,1.96; 2323,1.28 1154,1.89 0901 1005 0015,1.26; 1241,1.77 1107 0110,1.23; 1327,1.63 1205 0211,1.22; 1415,1.48 1301 0318,1.23; 1506,1.34 1356 0429,1.27; 1604,1.23 1450 0533,1.35; 1707,1.17 1543 0627,1.43; 1809,1.14 1635 0713,1.51; 1902,1.15 1727 0753,1.58; 1948,1.16 1816 0831,1.63; 2029,1.19 1904 0907,1.68; 2106,1.21 1949 0943,1.70; 2143,1.22 2031 1017,1.71; 2218,1.23 2111 1052,1.70; 2256,1.24 2149 1126,1.67; 2334,1.24 2225 1200,1.63 2300 0016,1.24; 1236,1.57 2336 0104,1.24; 1315,1.49 0200,1.26; 1402,1.40 0013 0305,1.30; 1500,1.32 0053 0417,1.38; 1610,1.25 0137 0529,1.49; 1726,1.23 0226 0633,1.63; 1839,1.24 0321 0731,1.77; 1943,1.27 0423 0825,1.88; 2039,1.32 0528 0915,1.95; 2130,1.36

Astronomical data and tides

Low tide, height (m) 0143,0.09; 1500,0.25 0231,0.06; 1554,0.19 0320,0.05; 1645,0.16 0410,0.09,1734,0.17 0500,0.16; 1824,0.21 0552,0.26; 1912,0.27 0647,0.38; 2000,0.33 0748,0.50; 2050,0.38 0859,0.60; 2142,0.41 1016,0.65; 2235,0.41 1132,0.65; 2327,0.40 1239,0.61 0014,0.38; 1332,0.54 0057,0.34; 1417,0.48 0135,0.31; 1457,0.43 0211,0.29; 1532,0.39 0245,0.27; 1606,0.36 0320,0.26; 1640,0.35 0355,0.27; 1713,0.34 0432,0.30; 1747,0.35 0511,0.34; 1823,0.36 0553,0.41; 1901,0.37 0641,0.48; 1945,0.39 0739,0.55; 2034,0.39 0851,0.61; 2130,0.38 1015,0.62; 2232,0.35 1140,0.57; 2334,0.30 1255,0.47 0033,0.23; 1358,0.36 0129,0.16; 1451,0.26 0220,0.11; 1540,0.20

Times are Eastern Standard Daylight Savings Time. 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 Bureau of Meteorology.

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crowds that are only likely to be at capacity for the final. The oodles of money that greased the deal is not likely to ever be determined accurately – suffice to say that the far-from-transparent transactions of Blatter and his cronies made the Medici look like schoolyard novices. Australia’s superior bid, on which we spent bucketloads of dough that might have gone to little Johnny and Jenny’s junior clubs, garnered one vote of support – our own. What utter mugs we made of ourselves. At this point, it’s only fair that I fess up to the fact (if it wasn’t painfully obvious) that I am not a connoisseur of the round-ball game. As a rugby league tragic, I find it hard to get excited about a contest that can run for ninety minutes (or more with extra time), only to end in a 0–0 draw. It’s why, I suspect, soccer has never blitzed the US market, where punters (rightfully, in my view) expect more bang for their buck. And if I hear one more disciple of soccer browbeat me with the line that it is the ‘world game’ I’ll vomit. You could just as easily say that, so ubiquitous are its golden arches, McDonald’s is the ‘world food’. But that doesn’t mean it’s any good. Call me a Neanderthal,

ful of soccer fixtures that I have attended was way back in 1974. I caught the tube to Stamford Bridge and paid a scalper ten pounds to see Chelsea host Manchester United.

Olive oil is as slippery as FIFA, but not as smelly.

but I like the idea that there are defiant pockets of cultural differences were Aussie Rules, the two Rugbies, Gridiron and Gaelic football have been able to withstand the steamroller of soccer’s globalisation. Our boys have made it to the World Cup after a hairy qualifying passage that saw us run third in our group (behind Japan and the Saudis) before scraping home against homeless Syria and then putting the might of Honduras to

the sword. As champions of Asia, you might have reasonably expected the Socceroos to make it without the angst, especially given the enormous pool of talent that is displayed in school and Saturday arvo kids’ competitions. Between such youthful potential and the A-League, however, there appears to be a serious disconnect – and let’s face it, Tim Cahill can’t go on heading winners forever. The first of only a hand-

As a young Aussie abroad, I was dead keen on experiencing what I had seen so much of on black-and-white TV. United won 3–1, but what has stuck in my memory is the language of the crowd – I had never heard ‘fucking’ spoken so loudly, so often. A few years later I saw Johan Cruyff ’s Holland beat England 2–0 at Wembley, and what I remember most from this occasion was the cold of that February night and how I just wanted to get back to the warmth of my bedsitter in Cricklewood. The Dutch, so powerful in the modern era, will not be participating in Russia, nor will the Italians. Can you imagine the dummy spits in Milan and Rome when news filtered through that Australia would be one of the thirty-two finalists but not the Azzurri? Oh such juicy Schadenfreude! My own version of the Jules Rimet Trophy is in the shape of a bottle. I keep olive oil in it – the stuff is as slippery as FIFA, but not as smelly.

Cudgen Headland SLSC set to host Country Champs After three years at South West Rocks, the Envirobank Country SLSC Championships will be moving to a new home from 2019 at Kingscliff Beach, hosted by the Cudgen Headland club. Cudgen Headland will host both the 2019 and 2020 editions of the event. The decision ends a 15year absence from far north coast beaches with the last Country Champs to be held in the region taking place at Kingscliff back in 2003. Since that time Byron Bay and Cudgen Headland have emerged as two of the strongest clubs in country NSW, engaging in some titanic struggles in recent seasons with the latter actually ending Byron’s incredible championship winning streak at South West Rocks in 2017. The prospect of the two rivals clashing in home waters is one to savour, although by the time the competition

the local economy with an estimated 1,500 competitors, officials, and supporters expected to make the journey,’ he said.

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Big crowds are expected to hit Kingscliff Beach when Cudgen hosts the Country Championships in 2019. Photo supplied

rolls around there will certainly be some fresh challengers for the title. Surf Life Saving NSW surf sport manager Rob Pidgeon said Cudgen Headland mounted a compelling case during the bidding process. ‘They have a fantastic beach at Kingscliff and the redevelopment on the foreshore will give the opportu-

nity for spectators to enjoy the atmosphere of the championships,’ said Mr Pidgeon. ‘We are excited to be in partnership with the Cudgen Headland SLSC and acknowledge the essential support provided by Tweed Shire Council in delivering this important event for our members, and we are confident it will give a boost to

For the first time NSW will be sending two teams to the annual Interstate Championships after a country team was endorsed to travel to next month’s event in South Australia. Twelve lucky athletes were ultimately selected for this historic squad with athletes having to register for a club outside the Hunter-Illawarra corridor and be an open competitor to be eligible for selection. Eight Cudgen club members have made the squad: Luke Chaffer, Claudia Crawford, Joshua Jones, Steine Lofts, Angus Macphail, Jayden Mandall, Hayley Smith and Sarah Wilson.

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Quick bowler Levi has contributed to the all-round effort that has put Byron Bay’s second XI in contention to win the 2017/18 Coastal League. Photo Charly Hicks

Lennox Head’s Mikey McDonagh took an event win in May at the season-opening Subway Surf Series at Bells Beach to set up a successful year. Photo Bennett/WSL

Matilda Vial from Mullumbimby won silver medals in four U/10 events at the Regional Athletics Carnival held in Ashmore (Qld) in February. Photo supplied

Shores United soccer club had a great year, but it was the seventh division seniors who stole the show by winning the 2017 grandfinal. Photo Simone Prendergast The Mullumbimby Giants had three wins from four starts to kick off their comeback year, helped by Louis ‘the fly’ Earl. Photo John Campbell

The Byron Bay FC Great Northern Rams had a strong year winning the premiership, the ANZAC Cup and progressing to the sixth round of the FFA Cup. Photo Dogwhistle

Hundreds of students from Coorabell, Goonengerry, Main Arm Upper, Byron Bay SLSC’s Matilda Shirley won the Newrybar, The Pocket and Wilsons Creek public schools competed in 2017 NSW Junior Life Saver of the Year award. the small schools cross-country carnival in May. Photo Aslan Shand Photo supplied

Locals make top 10 but Aussie women dominate surfing in 2017 Bede Durbidge and Josh Kerr retired and Lennox Head’s Stu Kennedy, along with Jack Freestone and Ethan Ewing, were relegated to the QS, while rumours are that Mick Fanning will retire some time next year. The future is not looking so bright as the Australian men had the worst year ever on the QS with Wade Carmichael the only new Australian face on tour, with a solid fourth spot on the rankings.

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The World Surfing League wrapped up a massive year with John John Florence and Tyler Wright winning backto-back World Titles. Griffin Colapinto and Johanne Defay won the World Qualifying Series, Taylor Jensen and Honolua Blomfield won the Longboard World Titles, and the 2017 Big Wave World Tour is still going with a waiting period until 28 February at the Nazaré Challenge for the men and Mavericks Challenge for both men and women, which will decide the men’s and women’s World Big Wave champions. Kelly Slater and Ian Gouveia were awarded Wildcards for the 2018 Championship Tour with Slater missing five events with a broken foot

Olympic surfing Byron Bay’s Matt Wilkinson finished fifth in the world for 2017. Photo Cestari/WSL

and Gouveia just missing out by one spot to retain his CT place after a third place at Pipeline. On the women’s side Aus-

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tralia is still dominating with the top three Wright, Gilmore, and Fitzgibbons, ruling women’s surfing. In the men’s we had four

of the top ten with Julian Wilson, Byron Bay’s Matt Wilkison, Owen Wright and Joel Parkinson in third, fifth, sixth and ninth respectively.

The International Surfing Association announced an agreement with the World Surf League on the qualification principles for surfing in the 2020 Olympics Games in Tokyo. In principle, the agreement will see up to 18 of the 40 places at the Games

reserved for WSL Championship Tour surfers (10 men and eight women), with the remaining 22 places determined at the 2019 and 2020 ISA World Surfing Games, the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, and a single slot (each for men and women) for the host nation Japan. With the support of the WSL, the ISA eligibility rules for Olympic participation will require surfers to make themselves available for their national teams to compete in the ISA World Surfing Games in 2019 and 2020 and, if selected by their national federation, to participate. The final decision on the complete process is subject to the approval of the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee at its meeting in February 2018.

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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.

Low-cost or free 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. Free Food Relief Bags for anyone doing it tough, every Thursday 9–11am at The Hub Ocean Shores, cnr Rajah Rd and Bindaree Way. No ID or Concession Card required. NILs referral service also available. Check Facebook page The Hub Baptist Ocean Shores for details. C3 Care Byron Bay Food Care – log on to www.c3byronbay. com to see if you are eligible, or call 6680 8872.

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.

Alateen Meeting Alateen Meeting every Thursday at 5–6pm. Do you have a parent, close friend or relative with a drinking problem? Alateen can help. For 8–16-yearolds meet St Cuthbert’s Anglican Church Hall, 13 Powell Street, corner of Florence Street Tweed Heads. Al-Anon family groups for older members at the same time and place. 1300 ALANON 1300 252 666 www.al-anon.org.au

ed breast and gynaecological cancers is most welcome to attend. Enquiries Linda 0413 668 828.

Free support service. Carl Moore, registered psychologist. By appointment grief.loss.bereavement.byron@gmail.com 0401 081 713.

Baby Bounce session Mullumbimby – Tuesday 11.30am, Brunswick Heads – Friday 10.30am, Byron Bay – Friday 10am. Storytime for toddlers and pre-school children Mullumbimby – Friday 10.30am, Brunswick Heads – Monday 10.30am, Byron Bay – Tuesday 10.30am.

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Byron Community No Interest Loans Scheme (NILS) is a not-for-profit community program providing people on low incomes with safe, fair interestfree loans of up to $1,000 for purchasing essential goods and services. Contact the Byron Community Centre to find out more.

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Volunteer drivers needed in the Lismore region for patient transport program. A day, a week or a month – all help welcome. Contact Hannah 1800 620 420.

Food Box closing Food Box will close after Thursday 21 December until 25 January 2018.

Housie returns The family favourite Brunswick Housie Tent will open for five weeks this summer, kicking off on Monday 11

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.

Brunswick Valley Historical Society Inc Museum corner of Myocum and Stuart Sts Mullumbimby, open Tuesdays and Fridays 10–12 and market Saturdays 9–1. Discover your local history, join our team – 6684 4367. Bangalow Heritage House Museum & Cafe Open Monday 12–4.30pm, and Tuesday–Friday 7.30am–4.30pm. Cnr Ashton & Deacon Sts Bangalow. Available for event hire and welcome all groups and visitors. Phone 6687 2183.

Voluntary euthanasia options are discussed at meetings held quarterly on the Gold Coast. For more information phone Elaine 07 5580 8215.

Bay Singers meet Wednesdays at Byron Community Centre, 10.30–11.30am. Enquiries 0425 363 589, kim@kimbanffy. com.au. Singchronicity Choir meets Thursdays at Ocean Shores 6.45pm8.45pm. Eclectic and catchy repertoire. Ph 0425 363 589. Mullum’s Biggest Little Town Choir meets weekly at the Uniting Church Hall, Dalley Street, Thursdays at 6.30pm. Newcomers welcome. Raise the Roof Choir: Gospel, bluegrass & more. 1–3pm Tuesdays, Suffolk Park Hall. 6–8pm Tuesdays, Bruns Uniting Hall. Weekly Uki & Channon sessions. Info@ raisetheroofsinging.com 0417 277 211.

Drug support groups

Byron Bay Library is hosting free activities for kids these holidays. Wednesday 10 January, 10.30am: Fabulous Felt. Make your own wallet. Five and up. Bookings required: 6685 8540. Wednesday 17 January, 10.30am: Make a birdhouse. Aged five and up. Bookings required: 6685 8540. Week of 22–27 January: BIG games with GIANT chess, TOWERING Connect-4, GARGANTUAN dominos and ENORMOUS checkers. All ages. One Vision Productions (12–24): Concrete Indigenous art, Monday, January 8,15, 22, 10–3pm; Mural, graphic art and jewellery making 10–3pm Tuesday, January 9, 16, 23; DJ and electronic music production, Thursday, 11, 18, 25, 5–7pm; Friday night live jam on January 12, 19, 26 5–8pm.

Leukaemia Foundation

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.

Choirs

Free kids’ activities

Woodchop from Wednesday 17 till Saturday 20 January. Free entertainment. Further info 6680 1170.

Quota Club

End-of-life choices

Email copy marked ‘On The Horizon’ to editor@echo.net.au.

Woodchop Festival

Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays 5–7pm. $6.00, all welcome. Enquiries Linda 0449 825 108. Coaching available.

Museums

DEADLINE NOON FRIDAY

Festival of the Fish & Chips at Banner Park, Brunswick Heads – Family fireworks 9pm Saturday 13 January.

Bruns tennis

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

December and calling the numbers until 14 January, 7–10pm. Closing some Mondays and Tuesdays – see the calendar in the tent or the Brunswick Housie Facebook page. Extra volunteers needed.

Fish & Chips Festival

South Golden Shores Community Centre every Monday at 10.30. Phone 0435 780 017. Bangalow Bowlo Sundays at 3pm. All welcome. Enquiries Margot 0412 394 932.

Contact Improvisation Saturdays in Mullumbimby 10–12 noon at St Martin’s, Church Hall, Stuart St Mullumbimby. All level of dancers welcome. Enquiries 0402 059 564.

On The Horizon

Breast Cancer 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.

Social Table Tennis

Lions Club

Byron Breast Cancer Support Group meets every 3rd Wednesday 12–2pm at NSW Cancer Council rooms 8/130 Jonson St, Byron Bay. Anyone experiencing/

Senior social table tennis at Bangalow Bowling Club Sundays 2–4pm. All levels welcomed. Call Margot 0412 394 932. Tuesday Ladies Group of Riverside Tennis Club welcomes new players 9.30am every Tuesday next to Heritage Park, Mullumbimby, for social tennis, fun and friendship. Info: Barbara 6684 8058.

Budgeting Support

www.wisdom.yoga or phone Kris 0435 300 743.

Byron Language Exchange Club is a free conversation meet up held twice a month in Byron Bay. Contact Paola info@ clacademy.com.au, and don’t forget to mention the language you want to practise. Volunteers welcome.

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. 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. Crystal Meth Anonymous is a fellowship of people for whom all drugs (but especially crystal meth) had become a problem. Meeting held Thursday 6pm, Presbyterian Church Hall, 13 Ruskin Street, Byron Bay. Call 0478 061 479 or visit: www.crystalmeth.org.au.

Social sporting groups

Library fun

Byron FLEA

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. Mullum Magic Toastmasters meet every 2nd, 4th and 5th Monday Presbyterian Church Hall, 101 Stuart Street Mullumbimby 7–9 pm. Contact Megan 0424 002 636 or Bruce 0418 515 991.

Meditation Buddhist meditation teaching and practice now at the living Yoga Sanga, first floor, 63 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby, 6–7.30pm, Mondays. Contact Mishaela, 0438 858 842 or mishaele@si.org.au. Dzogchen Meditation and Study Group 1st and 3rd Saturdays each month at Mullumbimby Civic Hall. Contact Didi 0408 008 769 for more info. Byron Mindfulness-Insight Meditation Sangha & Pairoj Brahma 7pm–9pm Tuesdays at The Yurt, Temple Byron www. templebyron.com. No fees. Andrew 0426 119 171, Pairoj 0423 241 916. Buddhist meditation and conversation with John Allan, Mondays 6.30–8.30 pm, The Yurt, Temple Byron. No fees. John 0428 991 189. Byron yoga philosophy club Free meditation classes Monday, 7.45pm, Ananta Yoga Studio (above Byron Music) 2B/144 Jonson Street, Byron Bay. Go to

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

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.

Rainbow Dragons Rainbow Dragons Abreast (RDA) welcomes breast cancer survivors for a paddle at Lake Ainsworth, Lennox

$500 GRANTS DEC 2017 The Lions Club of Brunswick Mullumbimby are offering

MONTHLY GRANTS up to $500 These grants can be applied for by any Not-For-Proﬁt organisation or group which supports our local community within the Byron Shire (except Bangalow who have their own Lions Club) i.e. Church groups, health groups, local charities, service groups, any humanitarian purposes. These grants will be offered every month. Contact the Lions Club of Brunswick Mullumbimby PO Box 12 Mullumbimby Email: clairejharris999@gmail.com An application will be sent to you. Applications must be received by Wednesday 31 JAN 2018.

Two $500 grants were awarded for November

Byron FLEA at the YAC (1 Gilmore Crescent) 2nd Saturday of every month from 8am till 1pm. Free stalls for young people. Call Berri 0490 026 840.

The Mullumbimby Adult Learning & Pottery Assoc. The Mullumbimby Tennis Club for score boards

Please note: This section is intended for the benefit of non-profit community groups, not for invitations to free events to be followed up by paid workshops.

Unsuccessful applications do not carry forward, a new application is required.

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Any questions phone Tony Cornell 6680 2011 Joan Towers 0400 484 419 or Claire Harris 6680 3707

Head, on Sundays 7.30 for 8am start. Info Marian 6688 4058, mazzerati2010@ gmail.com.

expectant and new parents and carers. Gold coin contribution. Bookings essential. Linda 0411 985 557

Potters & Sculptors

Op shops

Mullumbimby Potters & Sculptors at the Community Art 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, 2 Jubilee Ave, Mullumbimby. Enquiries: mullum. potters@yahoo.com.au.

Interested women are welcome Wednesdays and Thursdays 9am–1pm and the second Monday evening of each month 5–7pm in the Bangalow CWA rooms for craft and friendship. Rooms are open daily Monday–Saturday 9am–noon.

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. Mullumbimby Anglican Op Shop opens Monday to Friday 9am–4.15pm, Saturday 9am–12.15pm. Volunteers needed, enq to shop 6684 4718. Mullumbimby Seventh-Day Adventist Op Shop opens Monday – Thursday 10am–3.30pm, Friday 9am – 2pm and third Sunday of the month 10am–2pm. Companion Animals Welfare Inc (CAWI) op shop Brunswick Heads (next to supermarket) open Mon– Fri 10am–5pm, Sat 9am–2pm.

Baby massage

Volunteers sought

At the Mullumbimby & District Neighbourhood Centre. Friday mornings, weekly, baby massage classes for

Volunteer for Northern Rivers Volunteering, representing more than 100 community organisations. 6621 7397.

CWA Bangalow

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Cryptic Clues

Quick Clues

ACROSS

1. Top yarn – indiscriminate search for refuge (3,4,2,1,5) 9. Again, put down the racial group – it’s a team event! (5,4) 10. Concerning the cop? Killed, said the gangster (5) 11. Six south, ten north – amazing sight! (6) 12. Unusual pill case for pimento (8) 13. Drug mate returns computer (6) 15. Inquire about strange rite for star symbol? (8) 18. Sack Gippsland town – everything must go, make an offer! (4,4) 19. Spies follow path of inactivity (6) 21. King of clowns involves 499 lines in traffic jam! (8) 23. Obama confused about the East? Just one cell! (6) 26. Rule for backward New Guinea? That’s right, … (5) 27. … excuse to restrict beer (9) 28. Rodent back tooth decayed? Calm down, you’re creating a disturbance! (4,4,3,4)

1. Proverb suggesting that if you’re in trouble, you can’t be too choosy about looking for help (3,4,2,1,5) 9. Contest involving teams of runners (5,4) 10. American gangster slang for killed (5) 11. Insight, glimpse of the future (6) 12. Pimento (8) 13. Portable computer (6) 15. Star shaped symbol (8) 18. Opportunity for a huge discount or bargain (4,4) 19. Stability, stagnation (6) 21. Immovable traffic jam (8) 23. Single celled organism (6) 26. Rule, term of sovereignty (5) 27. Excuse, explanation (9) 28. Proverb exhorting calm & acceptance of prevailing circumstances (4,4,3,4)

DOWN

1. Coming, appearance (7) 2. Shouts, screams (5) 3. Paradoxes, contradictions in terms (9) 4. Subterfuge, snare (4) 5. Unnecessary, superfluous (8) 6. Caledonians (5) DOWN 7. Out of bounds, not decent (3-6) 1. Appearance of a real competitor (7) 8. Around Wednesday (3-4) 2. Shouts? Affirmative ... about two 14. Damnation, ruin (9) litres! (5) 16. Unrehearsed, ad lib (9) 3. Paradoxes found in ring with two 17. Powered by a galvanic process (8) unknowns, idiots! (9) 18. Worked put, calculated (7) 4. Back bit of carriage (4) 20. Least fresh (7) 5. Don’t require as much, it’s 22. Cruise ship (5) unnecessary (8) 24. Muse of lyric poetry (5) 6. Taxes bed on board (5) 25. State (French) (4) 7. Offends? That’s out of bounds! 3-6) 8. Ease, they say, for Wednesday (3-4) Last week’s solution N211 R E M A D E O U T S I D E R 14. Pride into ruin and damnation (9) E I O H N P A U 16. Old rhythm about, unprepared (9) A D N A U S E A M A I M E D D S B A A R N E 17. Choose Charlesworth – he’s M A K E L O V E N O T W A R thrilling! (8) Y E I A T S 18. Worked out number 500 (7) L O C U S E S S E N T I A L H S E O E 20. Story in South Street – it’s the most I P R O T E C T O R P E N C E hackneyed (7) S I N P A P 22. Queue right for Queen Elizabeth, C R I M E D O E S N T P A Y perhaps (5) I B A I N D O H L O O T S M E T E O R I T E 24. Time to muse (5) L Y S E S R N A 25. It’s me, said King Louis (4) S U S P E N S E

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