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Hastings Point ‘under threat’ Ken Sapwell
Hastings Point residents have hit another hurdle in their long battle to secure a two-storey height limit and density controls to protect their small village from overdevelopment and avert what they see as an ecological disaster. In a surprise decision, councillors last week decided against adopting a development control plan (DCP) to limit building heights and densities in the village until they were briefed on the history of the long-running saga. Residents now fear the delay leaves the door open for a rush of applications for residential flat buildings, including a revised application for a seven-unit project in Young Street which they stopped after going to the Land and Environment Court three months ago. Council planners recommended that the DCP, which reduces densities and height limits from three storeys to two, be adopted while they work on a more detailed locality plan to finetune planning controls. It followed a report by independent urban design consultants who found that existing controls did not go far enough to protect the village’s unique character. The consultants, Ruker Urban Design, also urged the council to extend the controls to the northern part of the village which the former administrators had excluded from the DCP for reasons yet to be explained. The council’s new chief planner, Vince Connell, suggested the council adopt the DCP for the southern part of the village and prepare a draft DCP to extend the controls to the northern
part ‘ to provide more definable planning controls.’ But a bid by deputy mayor Barry Longland and Greens councillor Katie Milne to bring in the blanket controls was torpedoed by other councillors who called for a closed-door workshop to obtain more information. Cr Milne said the community had been through ‘hell and high-water’ over several years trying to stop overdevelopment and further delays in bringing in the DCP would open the door to more DA’s and subsequent court cases. But Cr Warren Polglase successfully moved to defer a decision, saying there were conflicting views about the proposed DCP and councillors needed a detailed briefing about the new controls which had the potential to spark a ‘civil war.’ Cr Kevin Skinner said that as a landowner he found it hard to understand why a majority of people in the village would want their land down-zoned. Cr Holdom said she did not feel ‘comfortable that we have sufficient information to make an informed decision.’ Earlier, in an address to the council, planning consultant Mike Allen urged councillors to rescind the DCP which he said amounted to a downzoning and controls which didn’t exist in villages elsewhere. ‘I believe the (Ruker) report to council has been unduly influenced by disproportionate weight being given by a vocal minority from without the area,’ he said. The report was commissioned by the former administrators before moving to end 12 years of controversial
Joe’s incredible journey takes off Madeleine Doherty
Murwillumbah High School HSC student Joe Miller has been on a journey – an artistic journey. Joe’s body of work for his HSC art major is made up of five paintings that he developed and worked on for months. This week the many hours of hard work paid off. His artwork was recommended by the NSW Department of Education marking team for transportation to the Exhibitions Selection Centre in Sydney to be part of the selection pool for the 2009 Art Express exhibitions. Aproximately 800 HSC bodies of work are set aside each year after marking to form a selection of highly ranked works from which a range of exhibitions can be developed Selections will not be finalised until continued on page 3 late November.
For Joe it was hard work but more importantly a labour of love. ‘I find art to be like therapy, and with many harsh issues going on within my reality art is always a constant, a method of escapism to calm the mind. I treat art as a love, a psychological healer and because of this my work becomes highly personal and conceptually sophisticated,’ Joe said. The artwork as a whole (five canvases) is a massive piece full of many different mediums and many contrasting and vibrant visual features. ‘The canvases work together to make one, and separately as a series. This has been done on purpose so that each canvas displays and can be seen to show uniquely different characteristics as one person never has one personality but rather many unique attributes that together make
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Battle of Hastings
Locals’ long fight to retain their village lifestyle Ken Sapwell
Hastings Point may be the smallest coastal village in the Tweed, but locals say it’s got some big problems. The town’s progress association believes a development onslaught is slowly killing off two creeks whose outflows are vital in sustaining a unique and exotic marine environment they fear is in danger of collapse. Now, after a 12-year campaign involving ongoing legal battles, a nude Youtube video protest and accusations which have been referred to the ICAC, they are finally seeing a light at the end of what they say has been a very long and dark tunnel. A team of urban design consultants appointed by the former administrators and new chief planner Vince Connell has supported their push for a locality plan that reduces densities and building heights to two storeys. But they were forced to watch in dismay from a packed public gallery last week when their new council again delayed the building controls in a 5-2 decision which triggered applause from developers and their consultants. Some councillors indicated they may oppose the recom-
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mended controls but others said they needed more time to study the reports. Association president and local electrician Garry Thorpe says he remains hopeful the council won’t ignore the expert advice and will agree to implement their long-awaited locality plan which has been thwarted by a series of inexplicable delays and council backflips since it was first mooted 1996 (see timetable opposite). Mr Thorpe says exasperated residents have watched
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as building heights have been limited to two-storeys in other villages while theirs has been left exposed to developments which are at odds with its village character and threaten to further degrade the fragile marine ecosystems. He says discontent with the ongoing delays came to a head last year when the administrators controversially approved a three-storey ‘aged care facility’ comprising 262 residential units metres from Cudgera Creek which is now being marketed as an over-50s luxury resort. They believe the project is inconsistent with the village’s family beach-house character and could prove the final nail for a marine environment whose diversity they say rivals that of the Great Barrier Reef. The residents are now funding a costly ongoing legal battle to try to stop the resort now under construction on the Coast Road on land sold by local developer Alan McIntosh and
are fearful that stalled planning controls leaves the door open for a 58-lot subdivision north of the creek. Mr Thorpe says Hastings Point was earmarked for twostoreys along with Fingal and Pottsville back in 1996 and almost became a reality in 2004 when the former council
running mate, watched from the public gallery. (Coincidentally, Mr Lawrie, who decided against contesting the recent elections, and the Hastings Point landowner were among those in the public gallery last week to watch the latest chapter of the saga unfold.) Things appeared to get back on track when the administrators appointed after the council’s sacking again moved, in June 2005, to bring in a twostorey limit, but according to residents, a series of events that are subject of allegations has continued to frustrate the process until recently. In May the following year, the administrators caused a storm when it approved the ‘aged-care facility’, with some residents complaining they were unaware of the development application until it was given the green light. Residents grew more upset when administrators earlier this year approved a threestorey unit block next door to the resort development, saying they were legally bound to consider the application.
‘These inappropriate developments are a garrotte being tightened around the neck of Hastings Point and are threatening to destroy one of the last Edens of ecosystems remaining on the Coast.’ voted 6-5 to amend the shire’s LEP 2000 to bring in the new limits. But the move was thwarted when a rescission motion was lodged and a councillor changed his vote. Former councillor Gavin Lawrie made headlines when he explained he ‘made a mistake’ when he first voted for the rezoning, before changing his crucial vote a week later while Mr McIntosh, his pre-election
The approval followed calls in the NSW Parliament for an investigation into alleged unethical conduct by a former council planner and revelations by administrator, Garry Payne, that he had referred eight pages of detailed allegations to the Independent Commission Against Corruption. Local marine biologist Ted Brambleby says developments upstream and the rush of new approvals in the village itself
are posing a serious threat to one of the most unique marine environments on the East Coast. He says volcanic lava flows had created a labyrinth of underwater caves and canyons only metres offshore which supported a huge variety of tropical and semi-tropical marine life ‘more prolific than anything on the Great Barrier Reef.’ ‘Because it is underwater most people cannot appreciate the beauty and diversity of this marine wonderland on our doorstep,’ he says. He said big residential developments upstream and others being approved for the village are disturbing acid sulphate soils that contaminate the creek after heavy rain, triggering unprecedented fish kills. ‘The increasing amounts of sediments and nutrients being carried by the creeks is also slowly smothering the reef and killing the marine life,’ he says. ‘These inappropriate developments are a garrotte being tightened around the neck of Hastings Point and are threatening to destroy one of the last Edens of ecosystems remaining on the Coast.’ He said he established a Marine Environment Centre to showcase the wide variety of starfish, sea urchins, crabs, shellfish and forests of tube worms on the reef, but it was now documenting their destruction. As yet a promise by Lands Minister Tony Kelly to declare the reef a protected tidal zone to stop frequent pillaging of certain species had not been fulfilled. ‘Unless we put a stop to all of the over-exploitation of this fragile ecosystem it will be a real case of Paradise Lost,’ he warned .
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Tweed Tourism has plans afoot to make the Tweed Valley a tourist magnet. As the world’s financial roller coaster ride continues, Tweed’s Tourism general manager Phil Villiers said the Tweed was taking advantage of the situation. ‘With Australians putting overseas holidays on hold and petrol prices falling, tourist operators are actively working to capture the Tweed traditional niche, the “drive” market’, Mr Villiers said this week. The Domain Group, based on the Tweed Coast, was promoting a $1,000 holiday to the area, hoping to lure those families that will benefit from the federal government’s bail out plan. The recently launched ‘Tweed Naturally’ strategy was also expected to push the valley into the international spotlight and with the Aussie dollar
falling against the US dollar, Australia was set to become a more attractive and affordable holiday destination, he said. There were also a couple of television shows planned for the Tweed but Mr Villiers remained tight-lipped on any detail. At the grassroots level Mr Villiers said Tweed Tourism would be meeting with the newly elected Tweed Shire Council to discuss funding. At present the council funds Tweed Tourism, handing over $320,000 to run the shire’s two tourist information centres (at Murwillumbah and Tweed Heads) plus $120,000 for marketing. Mr Villiers said the council had been ‘incredibly supportive’ of tourism and once the new council had found its feet there would be discussions on funding.
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Battle of Hastings
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The proposed site in Young Street of a three-storey seven-unit multi-dwelling adjacent to Cudgera Creek, which was originally approved by Tweed Shire Council more than a year ago. A court later knocked it back because of its cumulative impact following a challenge by residents. Now developer PDK has resubmitted its development application and it’s to be dealt with at the next Council meeting. Residents fear it will slip under the wire following the Council’s delay in adopting a recommended DCP.
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measures multi-dwelling housing comprising three or more storeys and/or three or more dwellings are not suitable for Hastings Point’, the report said. The report concluded that any failure to introduce blanket controls over the entire village would be injudicious and further erode its village character. Mr Connell, in his report to the council, said: ‘It is impe-
rative for council to provide a clearer direction on the preferred form of housing development in this area.’. Mr Connell referred to an upcoming appeal by the Hastings Point Progress Association against a Land and Environment Court approval of a three-storey 262-unit ‘aged care facility’ which is now being marketed as a residential resort for the over-50s. Association lawyer and
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Hastings Point ‘under threat’
delays by advertising their intention to bring in tighter controls for the village south of Cudgera Creek. The report noted that the village ‘had a pristine natural commercial pressure to lease the space to other commercial environment and a low-scale built form’ with most builinterest, the report said. dings limited to one and two ‘Continued delay to this project will most likely see Twin storeys. ‘It is imperative that planTowns concede to commercial ning for the settlement ensures realities, resulting in Tweed Tourism being asked to vacate that the coastal and natural assets which make it so unique the premises, leaving Tweed are protected and enhanced,’ Heads without a visitor inforit said. mation centre,’ it said. Greens councillor Katie Milne ‘Multi-dwelling building tywas the only one to oppose pes need to be avoided until a the development, saying while locality plan has been develoshe supported the concept she ped which addresses the visual believed it should be located sensitivity of the settlement’s anywhere in the vicinity, but estuaries and the visual characnot necessarily in the park. ter of the settlement along the ‘It can be signposted if Coast Road. necessary. I think it’s comple‘Such buildings would only tely unwise to put so much be suitable for Hastings Point infrastructure into this tiny, subject to urban design site little park. If the park is to be and building design controls shaded it should be by trees,’ within a locality plan. she said. ‘Without these strategic
Tourism centre approved for Boat Harbour park Tweed Shire Council has approved construction of a stand-alone tourist information centre on land within the Jack Evans Boat Harbour precinct at a cost of $490,000 if it can secure government funding. The centre will be erected next door to a restaurant which once served as the shire’s information centre before the government in 2001 upped the rent, forcing Tweed Tourism to vacate the premises. A report to the council said since then Tweed Tourism had been forced to move to several different locations, including a kiosk in a shopping centre and its current location in the Twin Towns resort in Wharf Street. The resort had provided the space free of charge, but the club was under increasing
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changes his mind and supports a rescission motion to scrap the two-storey limit. 2005 – Following council’s sacking, the administrators try again to initiate a two-storey amendment through the LEP. 2006 – Amendment rescinded while an aged care facility comprising 262 units known as The Point is determined. 2007 – Prior to approval of The Point, the director general of the NSW Department of Planning and Minister Frank Sartor recommend that the amendment be exhibited, saying it was consistent with coastal policy. 2008 – In April a councilcommissioned urban design consultant states that current controls are inappropriate and recommends two-storeys, two dwellings per development for all of Hastings Point until a locality plan is implemented. 2008 – In October council planners recommend implementation of tighter controls, including a two-storey limit. Councillors put decision on hold.
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This is a history of knockbacks suffered by the community in their efforts to tighten planning controls in Hastings Point with the aim of retaining its village character and protecting the environment: 1996 – Council resolves to initiate and evaluate a twostorey height limit for Fingal, Pottsville and Hastings Point for the upcoming Tweed 2000 LEP. 2000 – Fingal and Pottsville win two-storey limits but Hastings Point, although smaller, is ignored. 2000 – Hastings Point Progress Association requests the council to implement twostoreys but no action is taken. 2002 – Council planning director publicly promises a locality plan for Hastings Point. The association lodges with council its own draft locality plan calling for reduced heights and development controls to protect the village’s character and its environment. 2004 – The council votes to implement two storeys. 2004 – One week later, a pro-development councillor
spokesperson John O’Reilly said he was disappointed by the delay but remained hopeful councillors would adopt a DCP for the whole village once they understood the full history of the community’s push and studied the consultant’s report. Mr O’Reilly said claims the DCP represented a down-zoning were a developers’ myth to confuse people and win the support of the new councillors. ‘We have the overwhelming community support which is apparent by a survey by the consultants which showed that 76 people out of 85 were opposed to residential flat buildings and a three-storey height control,’ he said. ‘At this stage the association has the support of the NSW Planning Department, the council’s planning department, its own consultants as well as an overwhelming majority of the community. ‘To not adopt the consultant’s full recommendations would yet again advocate unlawful development at a time when three inappropriately large developments are currently under determination. ‘What we have in Hastings Point at the moment are antiquated planning controls which allow a few greedy individuals to try to dictate a result for all with no concern for the consequences.’
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Stop work and save Murwillumbah Hospital! That’s the war cry going out from Tweed mums this week. Health authorities have the mother of all fights on their hands as Murwillumbah mums call for local businesses to stop work in November to help save Murwillumbah Hospital. At the centre of the campaign is the Mums and Bubs, a group that formed earlier this year after state government funding for the maternity unit at Murwillumbah Hospital came under threat. Campaign organiser Harmony Church is urging local Murwillumbah businesses to help save Murwillumbah Hospital by stopping work for an hour on Friday, November 21 to attend the launch of the group’s calendar. Ms Church was spurred into action when the maternity unit was downgraded forcing women from Murwillumbah and surrounding areas to drive to the Tweed for maternity services. ‘We were all outraged. So we (seven mums) came up with the idea to develop a calendar to raise funds and awareness about the maternity unit,’ Ms
Harmony Church with her bub, Helen, laying it bare for the survival of Murwillumbah Hospital. The picture is one of the photos featuring in the calendar that will be sold for $15 to raise money for the hospital.
Church said this week. The campaign, The Save the Murwillumbah Maternity Unit, was launched via Facebook, but not without ruffling a few feathers first. ‘We were unaware that we had to seek hospital approval to raise money for the hospital,’
Ms Church said. To overcome the furore the Mums and Bubs joined the Murwillumbah Hospital Support Committee and consequently led the public rally of 6,000 people in July this year to save hospital services. The mums continued to
work on the calendar with the idea of using the hospital for the photo shoot. But the group’s involvement in the rally came back to bite them on the proverbial. Chairman of the Hospital Support Committee Ian Ross said the Mums and Bubs group had been banned from using the hospital for the photo shoot. ‘Their crime – being involved in the rally to save the hospital,’ an incredulous Mr Ross said. Undeterred the mothers have upped the ante, with Ms Church, a local filmmaker, producing a short film on the history of the Murwillumbah Maternity Unit. Ms Church’s research for her film unearthed vital information pointing to a mothers’ group as the backbone to building of the hospital in 1904. ‘The committee of women later succumbed to state control,’ Ms Church said. The film also gives background into the history of the region and why the maternity unit is being downgraded, Ms Church said. The film and the calendar will be launched at the Escape Gallery, Brisbane Street, Murwillumbah on Friday, November 21, at 2pm.
Burringbar cheesemakers chalk up a winner Luis Feliu
Burringbar mums Deb Allard and Sue Harnett were originally ‘city girls who married farmers’ but are now firmly entrenched in rural life and known as ‘The Cheese Ladies’. The two recently launched a venture called Tweed Valley Whey Farmhouse Cheeses producing and retailing a variety of fresh homemade cheeses and have not looked back since establishing their business and factory at Mooball. They make a range of cream and cottage cheese, fresh ricotta, fetta, brie, camembert (‘which we call Cam and Bert’) labna (yoghurt cheese) and yoghurt with no additives. The milk is provided by the Harnett family dairy farm at Burringbar, which has been in the family for four generations and is one of the few remaining working dairies in the shire with a milking herd of 100 head of Friesian and Swiss brown cows. As volunteers with the Burringbar Hall committee, the two have been longtime friends and both have school-aged children. The idea for the venture came to them after they had watched a Landline program on cheesemaking and thought ‘wouldn’t it be great to make our own cheese?’ Sue said it was very hard to make an income just from milk
‘The Cheese Ladies’, Deb Allard (right) and Sue Harnett in their cheese factory at Mooball.
alone on the family dairy farm ‘so we decided if we wanted to stay in the industry, which we do, we had to diversify’. The women had a local friend who reared goats and also wanted to learn how to make cheese so the three travelled to Mt Tamborine for a cheesemaking course ‘and we just absolutely loved it’, said Sue. ‘We decided to make our own cheese at home from then on so we didn’t forget what we had learnt,’ she said. ‘Deb and I did the courses in Brisbane getting our hands on every book available to study cheeses and safe food aspects. ‘Our hubbies (Rob and Jim)
built the factory and it went from there, we’ve now been going since April. ‘We both sell the cheeses at Casuarina and the New Brighton markets every fortnight, which we love. With milk there is no feedback: even if you sell the best milk it doesn’t matter but with cheese people come back and tell you how much they enjoyed it and share it with friends so it makes the whole process worthwhile,’ Sue said. ‘Before we used to invite friends to share our cheese now it’s even better with the general public getting our fresh produce.’ Deb’s dad Doug Moore is the ‘celebrity chef ’ for the business
and often helps out at the markets, making haloumi (cooked cheese) for sale. Deb said the markets ‘where we get all sorts of feedback’ helped them increase production. ‘People love it because they’re eating cheese which they can’t buy in supermarkets. It’s fresh, local and has no additives – it’s food your grandmother recognises’. The two women attended a meeting last week with several other regional cheesemakers to form the North Coast Cheese Board which is looking to market their cheeses far and wide. For further info call Deb on 0404 812 011. www.tweedecho.com.au
Council lets developer off the hook
Green grants on offer
Ken Sapwell
Tweed’s commercial building owners are being urged to apply for federal funding to reduce their buildings’ energy consumption. Tweed MP Justine Elliot this week called on local commercial building owners to take advantage of the new $90 million Green Building Fund which offers dollar-for-dollar support up to $500,000. The Green Building Fund will help tackle climate change by reducing the energy consumed in the operation of commercial office buildings. ‘The Green Building Fund is aimed at owners of existing commercial office buildings, and will support retro-fitting and retro-commissioning projects that reduce energy con-
Melbourne-based development company Metricon has escaped prosecution for the alleged illegal dumping of thousands of tonnes of soil on prime agricultural land in Murwillumbah. Tweed Shire Council has voted 5-2 to let the company off the hook if it removes the two-metre high pile of excess fill which covers more than three football fields on farmland next to its $23 million Barnby Street subdivision. Under a compromise deal put forward by former mayor Warren Polglase, the company must spread some of the soil over its subdivision and seek development approval to cart the rest away. Council planning staff had originally suggested the Council initiate legal proceedings against Metricon but put forward a late alternative option to Thursday’s meeting after Cr Polglase revealed he planned to broker a settlement which avoided legal action. Chief planner Vince Connell said in a report to the meeting that around 20,000 square metres of soil from the 96-block subdivision had been dumped on a low lying cane paddock on the flood plain adjoining the Rous River. ‘Placement of fill in this location is unlawful and is furthermore presumptuous and pre-
Large earthmoving machines and mounds of soil abound on site in the early construction phase for Metricon’s $23 million 96-lot subdivision at Murwillumbah. Tweed Shire Council resolved this week not to prosecute the developer for unauthorised stockpiling of a large amount of soil on prime agricultural land next to the subdivision.
mature without development consent,’ he said. Mr Connell said the Council had issued the developer with a stopwork order in relation to the fill on September 22 and met with representatives four days later but nothing was resolved. They were given until September 29 to respond to Council’s demands but despite verbal acknowledgement that the stockpiling was unauthorised, Council had still not received
a satisfactory response. Deputy Mayor Barry Longland and Greens councillor Katie Milne moved that Council take legal action, saying it was a clear case of a developer working without the proper approvals. Cr Longland said the Council needed to send a strong message to developers that it will not tolerate illegal activities. But other councillors supported Cr Polglase’s amendment which avoided legal
action, with Mayor Joan van Lieshout saying she believed the Council was getting involved in too many legal proceedings and should be looking for negotiated settlements. Cr Dot Holdom also supported the amendment, saying although she ‘philosophically’ supported throwing the book at the developer, it was not her money. ‘I must work in the interest of residents and the future of this shire,’ she said.
Milne fails in bid for open debate Ken Sapwell
Greens councillor Katie Milne (pictured) says she’s disappointed but undeterred by her colleagues’ lack of support for a raft of motions and amendments she attempted to move at last week’s Council meeting. Cr Milne, who attracted the highest personal vote of any candidate in the recent elections, was out of step with fellow councillors on a range of issues right from the start of the four-hour meeting when she unsuccessfully tried to bring confidential items out into the public arena. It continued to the end when she sought to ‘suspend’ an earlier closed-door decision authorising general manager Mike Rayner to negotiate with a developer over the sale of part of Bay Street for a multi-storey residential development above the Tweed Centro shopping centre. Mayor Joan van Lieshout, on the advice of senior staff, ruled the motion out of order. Cr Milne said afterwards she disputed the ruling and would be seeking a written clarification. ‘I was told in the meeting www.tweedecho.com.au
that I was not allowed to speak on this ruling or to defend my interpretation and I find this very undemocratic,’ she said. ‘I would like to put this on a list of issues to be discussed for possible change to the code of conduct.’ Cr Milne said senior Council staff had indicated before the meeting that there may be a problem with the motion. ‘But I felt reassured after my conversation with the general manager that we could deal with the motion in the meeting if we had to, rather than trying to change it at the last minute for the business papers. ‘It was not indicated to me that I would not be able to amend the motion if I had to, nor would I be able to speak
on it or that the motion would be so completely thrown out the window without opportunity for redress.’ A Council spokesman confirmed that Cr Milne had spoken to staff about the wording of her motion but was ‘reluctant’ to accept suggested changes which may have allowed it to be considered at the meeting. Cr Milne also hit out at Council’s decision to keep secret details of the closure and sale of part of Bay Street, saying the width of the road reserve to be sold had not been disclosed in the Council’s Tweed Link publication. ‘One would think that this was an essential fact,’ she said, before disclosing that the area to be sold would extend 21.5m across the 30m road reserve, extending a couple of metres past the median strip to consume several paperbark trees. She said if she had been successful in bringing out details of the proposed development it would have been limited to three pages from a ‘very thick’ confidential document which did not disclose the area of road to be sold. Cr Milne said councillors were ‘very rushed and under
pressure’ in authorising a draft of the sell-off proposal for the public exhibition in the Tweed Link. ‘It took two weeks before the advertisement was presented to us and then we were expected to approve the advertisement in one day in the middle of a very hectic schedule and with the deadline for publication that day,’ she said. ‘I have withdrawn my endorsement for this public notice.’
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Missing sponge cake no bar to success
Bundy boy takes the cake
Madeleine Doherty
Mystery and intrigue surrounded the 108th Tweed River Agricultural Show when one of the sponge cake entries suspiciously disappeared. For years, Peter Lloyd-Jones of Bundaberg has been successfully entering his cakes in the Tweed Show but this year there was a rat in the ranks. Pavilion steward Robin Ross said Mr Lloyd-Jones had used Australia Post’s Express Post service to send his six cakes to the show this year. But one sponge did not arrive. Mrs Ross was not impressed and was determined to get to the bottom of the missing sponge saying there would be an inquiry. Mr Lloyd-Jones said, ‘I sent the cakes by Australia Post express mail and five out of the six cakes made it. I’ll be asking for my money back,.’ All eyes are on Australia Post for any telltale signs of incriminating cake crumbs. But the show must go on and it did with Mr Lloyd-Jones scooping the pools with his remaining five cakes in the plum pudding, fruitcake and sponge sections. But he wasn’t the only one to excel. Mu r w i l lu mb a h’s L i s a McCrone walked away a winner taking out first place with her sultana cake, butter cake, patty cakes, novelty miniature cake, lamingtons and her cranberry eggnog cake. Debbie Nolan, also of Murwillumbah, took out, for the fifth year in a row, the Lisa
Cakemaker Peter Lloyd-Jones. Photo Eve Wheeler Winners are grinners and Lisa McCrone was no exception when she took out six first places in the cake competition at the Tweed River Agricultural Show last weekend.
McCrone Best Decorated Novelty prize with her pirate ship. Both women volunteer their services working in the pavilion organising the entries but they were adamant that there was no funny business when it came to the judging. The judging is shrouded in secrecy by a man who refuses to be photographed or named. His identity is yet another mystery surrounding the show. The pavilion was full of the aroma of pikelets and pickles, jams, beers, nuts, fruit and vegies, herb baskets, chook and quail eggs. Next door all creatures great
and small cooed and squealed with ducks, roosters, Chinese chooks, pigs, sheep, goats, turkeys, pheasants, rabbits, guinea pigs and pups with young and old cramming to get a first hand view. Outside the woodchoppers and the rides competed for the crowds, which just kept on coming over the two days.
Fairy floss and hot dogs fuelled the hungry crowds while many perused the fine handicrafts and photography displays. Pronounced the best show ever, it finished with a spectacular sky show of fireworks and succeeded in showcasing the talent and idiosyncrasies of the Tweed Valley.
Peter Lloyd-Jones knows how to bake and has ribbons from agricultural shows around the world to prove it. Mr Lloyd-Jones of Bundaberg was a big winner at the Tweed Agricultural Show in the cake section taking out first prizes in three sections. His baking horizons are not restricted by borders and a couple of years ago, after researching on the internet, he packed up his fruit cake and sent it off to the agricultural show in London, Ontario, in Canada. ‘I took out first prize for the fruit cake and received a ribbon back in the mail,’ Mr Lloyd-Jones said. His interest in cake making for agricultural shows began in 1984 in Bundaberg when
he decided it was time a man showed he could bake as well as a woman. He started with coconut ice and graduated to cakes. The sponge cake is his deadly weapon, taking out first prizes at shows around Australia. ‘It’s a ginger sponge made by using Buderim ginger,’ he said. But Mr Lloyd-Jones was not revealing the recipe only to say the sponge recipe was given to him by a woman. ‘I mucked around with it for a while and included the ginger,’ he said. With the year winding up Mr Lloyd-Jones will be hanging up his apron for a while. ‘Next year I might have a crack at the Sydney Royal Easter Show,’ he said.
Echo photographer Jeff Dawson covered the show on the weekend. Right: This year’s Murwillumbah Show Girl, Teigan Jones. Left: Axemen get to work in the woodchop competition. Below: There was plenty of entertainment for both horses and their riders. More of Jeff ’s pictures are in our online photogallery at www.tweedecho.com.au
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The house (and garden) that Jack built Rees’s chances… Luis Feliu
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Politicians in retirement usually turn their thoughts to writing their biographies – but not our Jack Hallam. When asked if he was writing his memoirs, the 66-yearold former state agriculture minister, now a Uki resident, simply shrugged and said ‘Nup, because I’ll do an English garden’. Mr Hallam, who entered parliament as a 29-year-old rice farmer from the Riverina in 1973 and retired almost 19 years later, bought a 10-acre property near Uki six years ago and set about to convert the former grazing block into his dream retirement home and English garden. ‘I’ve planted quite a few trees including English oaks, elms, magnolias and maples, but mixed in with these and to complement them I’ve also planted eucalypts, lilli pillis, grevilleas, gymeas and Mt Warning lillies, with the aim of attracting many birds,’ he said. Mr Hallam has also planted a citrus orchard, teaks, nine varieties of figs and other native and exotic species. For several years locals have watched the progress on his vision – the designer north-facing home complete
After the swift and dramatic implosion of Premier Morris Iemma and several senior Cabinet ministers, enter stage left Nathan Rees, a 40-year-old honours graduate in English literature and an elite endurance athlete. The new premier, who only entered parliament 18 months ago, has 10 valuable years’ experience working on the inside of government as a senior policy adviser. He says that in this earlier career he was able to observe firsthand the mistakes that previous premiers were making. He is the first Labor leader since the 1930s to emerge from the Left of the party. Every leader from Bill McKell in 1939 to Iemma in 2005 has come from the formal Right, except perhaps Neville Wran who was nonaligned. Factional groupings are a biological phenomenon in all political parties in democratic systems and have been since the Whigs and Tories of 18th century Westminster. Left and Right are labels ostensibly denoting an ideological position. In reality, they are not descriptive – you won’t find a ‘blue collar’ in the Left, for example! Factions are constantly organising group positions on issues coming before parliament and, in the branches, influencing preselection of future candidates for parliament.
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with large lap pool and stunning views of Mt Warning overlooking the valley where Rolands and Chowan Creeks converge – and the acres of garden taking shape and form. ‘I love it here, I do my laps every day and have a walk as well as work on the garden... it keeps me fit. ‘I love the climate, latitude 28, which is particularly significant because it’s subtropical... there’s 100 inches
of yearly rainfall in this valley right here, it’s one of the highest rainfalls in Australia. ‘What excites me around here is how you can get things growing very quickly, a tree can grow up in two to three years whereas out west you had to wait a decade. ‘The rapid growth, particularly if you mulch and fertilise, is phenomenal.’ Mr Hallam’s political career saw him made Agriculture Minister in the Wran
and Unsworth Governments from 1980 to 1988, and Leader of the Government in the Upper House. He retired in 1991 aged 49, despite being re-elected to the Legislative Council (Upper House) for another eightyear term. ‘Eighteen and a half years in politics is long enough... I decided to get out because I didn’t want to spend my 50s in politics after having spent my 30s and 40s there.’
It is in the branches that the NSW Left have been recruiting talent for 30 years while the Right have been selecting a lot of hacks. Thus, when the strategic analytical intelligence of Labor (and believe me it does exist and is controlled by the Right) reviewed the political meltdown of the late Morris Iemma and looked to the future – one, two, three elections ahead – they could not find a ‘general’ in their ranks. So they turned to a new boy hungry for the job who had already made it clear that he knows running the state of NSW is about efficient management and financial rectitude, pure and simple. They needed a Premier capable of running the state while preparing simultaneously for a probably classic Sun Tze The Art of War strategic retreat – protect as many troops (seats) as possible at the state election in March 2011 and plan for a vigorous comeback in 2015. Labor has ruled NSW for the greater part of the 20th century. Rees will only be 50 in 10 years’ time and very experienced. A marathon runner is indeed needed. Liberal Leader Barry O’Farrell, who clearly put personal ambition above the public interest when he withdrew his support for Iemma’s electricity privatisation plan, couldn’t lose the next election – or could he?
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The flying cane toad – living near you Margo Sutton
Indian Mynas (Acridotheres tristis)were introduced into Melbourne’s market gardens in 1862 to control insect pests in market gardens. (They failed.) They soon spread around Australia, and there are now feral colonies all around the country. The Indian Myna is intelligent and aggressive, and it successfully competes with our native species for food and nesting sites. These Mynas nest in hollows, ousting and killing native birds, even frightening off large species like kookaburras, and mammals such as sugar gliders. As 42 per cent of Australian mammals use tree hollows, this is a big problem. Tree hollows are scarce anyway – they are harvested for firewood and landclearing, and are ‘limblopped’ in established urban areas.When Indian Mynas colonise an area they take over the nesting and roosting sites available to hollow-dependent birds such as rosellas, lorikeets, parrots and threatened species like the Glossy Black Cockatoo and the Brown Treecreeper. The Mynas prefer to live in human habitats – suburbs, parks and disturbed rural landscapes – and are now often the predominant bird in urban areas all along the east coast from Cairns to Melbourne. Globally, Indian Mynas are a widely recognised serious threat to biodiversity. In 2000 the species was listed among 100 of the World’s Most Alien Invasive Species by the World Conservation Union, along with the fox, cane toad and feral pig. In 2004, the Indian Myna was voted the Pest of Australia in the ABC WildWatch Australia survey. The native Australian Noisy Miner (Manorina melanocephala) is sometimes mistaken for the Indian Myna, but is a honeyeater, and has a light grey to grey-brown body and black crown and cheeks. It feeds mainly on nectar, fruits and occasionally insects and makes cup-shaped nests in trees.
The Indian Myna has a cocoa-brown body, black head and throat, yellow around its eyes, a yellow bill and yellow legs, and eats anything it can find, mainly foraging on the ground, and nests in house eaves and tree hollows. The two have similarities – they are both noisy, bossy birds who live in social groups, they are both around the same size (2228cm) and they both have yellow skin around their eyes. The Miner can be territorial round the garden, but it does not pose the same threat to other birds as the Indian Myna and is a protected species. The Indian Myna does major damage to soft fruit crops such as bananas and papaya and when they nest in roof spaces and other cavities can let bird mites into houses, causing asthma and hayfever and nasty bites.
Tweed and Byron Shire councils have launched a joint Indian Myna control program and are calling for community cooperation. ‘We need your help to find where the Indian Mynas roost at night,’ says Council’s Indian Myna Project officer Pamela Gray. ‘They sleep in groups at night. Roosts can be identified by looking for groups of Mynas just before dusk. These groups can vary in size from just a few, to many hundreds of birds. Typical roost sites include dense trees, palms and sometimes buildings. If you regularly see Indian Mynas at near dusk then you are probably near a night-time roost site. ‘We need to undertake monthly counts at known roosting sites, as this will allow us to measure the success
Roo meat not so appetising We are being urged to ‘save the planet, eat skippy’ but is this really a sound idea? First of all, a fully-grown 60kg kangaroo yields only 10kg of meat, 3kg of which is human-grade. Compare this to a two-year-old cow that yields 200kg of meat or a three-tosix-month-old lamb that yields 20kg of human-grade meat. Kangaroos are slow breeders and can stop breeding during a drought (especially Red Kangaroos which are being killed three times faster than they are breeding and their average age is only two years old when they
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or otherwise of applied control methods, and we really need the help of the community to do this,’ explained Pamela. ‘This is the first step in Council’s new Indian Myna control program. Once we have identified roosts and have done a population count, we will call for people who want to undertake trapping the birds. We will provide volunteers with any training necessary.’ In the past, Council has asked for help in reporting sightings of this pest bird and these reports have been invaluable in the development of the Indian Myna control program, and Byron and Tweed councils thank all those who have taken part. ‘Right now we are specifically looking for reports of night-time roosting sights,’ Pamela said. Please discuss control options and techniques with the control officer before trying to get rid of the the birds. Mynas learn very quickly – one failed attempt to trap or shoot them will teach the whole flock to avoid traps or shooters. If you know of any nighttime roosting sites (or if you think you live near one), or if you are interested in helping with Indian Myna monitoring, please contact the Tweed and Byron Shire Council’s Indian Myna Project Officer 6670 2778 or email indianmyna@ tweed.nsw.gov.au.
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Coalition procrastinates in crisis Volume 1 #11
November 6, 2008
Save Hastings Point Hastings Point is without a doubt one of the Tweed’s most precious jewels, yet greed and irresponsibility in the shape of overdevelopment and poor management of the small attractive coastal village is rapidly killing it off. The latest coffin-nail was last week’s decision by a majority of the shire’s councillors yet again to delay the adoption of a long-anticipated development control plan (DCP) for the village, which would protect its unique character and natural charms from developers’ overkill by limiting densities and building heights to two storeys. Once again greedy developers and their mates are exerting pressure on Tweed Shire Council to ignore such a plan, which they see as affecting their future big profits. Councillors cannot any longer ignore the plight of the residents there, or indeed the wider Tweed community, which clearly indicated at the recent election that the environment and community must come first before individual or corporate profits. It is almost a decade since nearby coastal villages Fingal Head and Pottsville were given two-storey limits, and the argument by one pro-development councillor that such a limit amounted to ‘downsizing’ is pathetic if not laughable (he must be talking about profits). Two storeys has not affected the individual property-market values at those villages; quite the contrary, the natural environment and low-scale built form there is the magnet that attracts people in the first place, and prices show both villages have gone very much upmarket as a result – most likely because they retain their original attractive character and low-key flavour. Take a drive along the Coast Road through Hastings Point and the bulk and scale of the latest big-dollar development (not surprisingly currently tied up in the Land and Environment Court), will shock many who love the seaside village just the way it is. The initial land clearing at the site near a fragile estuarine system upset locals (a non-seethrough fence now hides much of the scarred land) but the neighbouring residents’ objections via frontgarden protest signs are an even starker reminder that the locals are under siege. The site in question used be a family style caravan/holiday park before it was onsold at a handsome profit to developers wanting to make even bigger profits by pushing the envelope for a threestorey height limit to accommodate what they called an ‘agedcare facility’ of 262 residential units – which was controversially approved by the shire’s administrators last year. And guess what? That development is now being marketed as an over-50s luxury resort, slickly called ‘The Point’! This is a kick in the face to all Tweed residents who care for their coastal environment and locals are rightly asking ‘what’s the point?’ This shifty, backdoor way of getting such a mega development through the consent channels must stop. A development control plan would be a big help in this by not giving greedy developers unreasonable expectations of what they can build. The Echo has recently run reports on how Cudgera Creek’s fragile marine ecosystems are being slowly choked and killed by overdevelopment as well as pictures of locally-nesting ospreys and holidaying families attracted by the natural recreational opportunities in and around the estuary at Hastings Point. By not adopting the DCP for the village, Hastings Point as we know it faces extinction. Tweed Shire Council must stand up for the community and resist pressure from developers and their mates. Locals are sick of the slashing and burning and poisoning of the environment all along the coast in recent years, especially the dune areas, in order to maximise a landowners’ profits (through uninterrupted ocean views). The so-called ‘Battle of Hastings’ is the line in the sand in the wider war to protect the Tweed’s most valuable asset, its beautiful environment. There is no turning back.
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n 1972 the Labor Party under Gough Whitlam campaigned with the inspirational slogan ‘It’s Time’. The coalition was stuck for a reply; finally the best they could come up with to justify another prolongation of their 23 years in power was the risibly negative ‘Not Yet’, and of course they lost. But a generation later the lesson has still not sunk in. ‘Not Yet’ remains the basis of Liberal-National policy on the most important issue of our time, climate change. Malcolm Turnbull, Julie Bishop, Andrew Robb and their spokesmen in the Murdoch press (or should that be the other way round?) now claim to accept the science and reject the flat-earther denialism which was the coalition’s position under John Howard. But they still manage to find excuse after excuse to postpone taking any action whatsoever, as they have for the whole of the year. Well over twelve months ago Kevin Rudd came up with a coherent timetable: an inquiry headed by Ross Garnaut, to be followed by a green paper outlining his general plan, then the release of Treasury modelling, then a detailed white paper, and finally legislation presaging the implementation of emissions trading in 2010. By Canberra standards this was fast tracking, but it needed to be: Howard had already wasted a decade and the predictions of the scientists (well, all but the three sceptics constantly quoted by The Australian) were becoming ever more dire. Right from the start it was much too speedy for the coalition. Brendan Nelson’s view was that we should wait for the rest of the world before even taking an in-principle
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decision to act. Turnbull was a little more lively, but wanted to postpone action until at least 2011. And he wasn’t going to commit to anything on the strength of the Garnaut report, or the green paper. We should wait for the Treasury modelling. Well, now we’ve got it, so it’s time – to procrastinate yet again. The modelling is encouraging. Overall it says that the costs to industry of prompt
like Howard, seems incapable of facing the reality: this is not a political problem which can be handled with spin and rhetoric but a phenomenon in the real world. Other loiterers have questioned the basis of the modelling: Treasury relied on certain assumptions about the future which may turn out to be wrong. Well yes, they may, but you have to start somewhere. Treasury chose to assume that
Turnbull, like Howard, seems incapable of facing the reality: this is not a political problem which can be handled with spin and rhetoric… by Mungo MacCallum action will be minimal, in spite of all the cries of doom and destruction from the lobbyists and rent-seekers. Moreover, the costs to the overall economy will be easily borne; indeed, they will amount to no more than a whisker, as Wayne Swan put it. But of course, the longer we delay, the higher the economic cost will become, without even considering the environmental impact. This was obviously not what Turnbull wanted to hear, so he didn’t; he simply reacted. The modelling, he suggested, was outdated and irrelevant because it didn’t take into account the subprime mortgage meltdown and the ensuing financial crisis. Well, no, it didn’t. The modelling covered nearly a century. Between now and 2100 there will no doubt be many crises of one kind and another. But they will make no difference either to the fact of climate change nor to the cost of ignoring it. Turnbull,
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confronted with a crisis people will choose to act more or less rationally. They did not factor in deliberate perversity of the kind shown by their critics. Certainly modelling which involves human reactions will never be foolproof, but it’s all we’ve got. The alternative proposed by the sceptics is a blind guess based on ignorance, prejudice and populism – or, in the case of the industries which will be most affected, naked self-interest. These obviously include coal production, power generation, aluminium refining and cement manufacturing, all of which have resolutely failed to reform their wasteful and polluting ways in spite of a decade of warnings. They refuse to accept Treasury’s assurance of survival under an emissions trading scheme and continue to threaten to move offshore, to Asia where there certainly won’t be any such thing in 2010.
It is a measure of the gullibility of the populace that some people actually believe them. Colliers are going to cart the coal mines off to China, power generators will run their cables from the Philippines, aluminium refiners will desert their plants and supply sources and emigrate to India and the cement manufacturers will relocate their quarries and factories to Vietnam. The opposition and Murdoch press are actually offering credulity and support to this fantasy as evidence of the need to do nothing for as long as possible. It is time they got fair dinkum. Either they believe in climate change or they don’t. If they don’t, then let them say so: it will identify them as pigignorant knuckle-draggers whose views can be dismissed henceforth, but at least we’ll know where we stand. However, if they want to be part of the solution rather than part of the problem, then let’s get on with it. It may already be too late to avoid some serious consequences; it certainly will be unless we acknowledge the situation is urgent and becoming more so. The frog is well and truly in the pot and the water is getting steadily hotter. If we want to stop it from coming to the boil we have to act now. It’s Time. The report that lame duck President George Bush asked Kevin Rudd to explain to him what the G20 is has been called a diplomatic scandal, but it could have been much worse. To count up to G20, Dubya only needed to remove his shoes and socks. If it had been the G21 he would have had to take off his trousers as well. Now that really would have been an embarrassment.
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inda Burney, the first Aboriginal to be elected to the NSW Parliament, has been handed the ‘poisoned chalice’ portfolio, the Department of Community Services which has the responsibility of caring for children at risk in homes where violence, grog, addiction and sexual abuse is taking place. In NSW, these dysfunctional homes mainly belong to white folk and the majority of DOCS cases involve white kids. This year’s annual report from NSW Ombudsman Bruce Barbour contains the horrific statistic that the number of children who died while known to DOCS has risen to a sickening 156. In other words, every week in 2007-08 three children who were officially on DOCS’s radar died. This careless loss
of 156 tiny lives in one of the richest nations on earth is an indictment of the department and the government. Only the fourth Aboriginal elected to parliament anywhere in Australia, Burney had been director-general of the NSW Department of Aboriginal Affairs from 2000 and stepped down to win the Labor heartland seat of Canterbury, home of the Bulldogs. In her historic inaugural speech to parliament she told MPs: ‘I am a member of the mighty Wiradjuri Aboriginal nation. Wiradjuri country embraces the Lachlan, Macquarie and Murrumbidgee rivers. The Wiradjuri, like the Eora, were the first of the inland nations to experience the brutality of British occupation. ‘The mighty Wiradjuri leader, Windradyne, and his war-
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A righteous man Nice letter, Gavin Lawrie (October 30), some great quotes from the bible. You sure are one righteous man: weak sentencing by the courts, single mothers, terrible stuff. Is there anything in the good book about the ‘greedy ones’? If Australia abandons secularism, Christian values and ethics would play a big part in lawmaking, including the laws governing the way we do business. Where would Metricon do business – in China or the Philippines maybe? If collusion and nepotism were illegal, what would happen to Resort Corp? Personally I think Australian society has lost its sense of community. We act as individual, materialistic beings who only care about themselves and money. So it’s good to see that in the face of adversity North Coast communities have rallied together. Remember what Resort Corp/developer-funded councillors tried to do to the Caba Surf Club? That’s a good story – Caba won! The Hastings Point community are putting up a good fight against the PDK/Alan MacIntosh alliance, who have big plans for Hastings. Gavin Lawrie was at last week’s meeting between council developers PDK/Alan Macintosh and Hastings Point residents. This begs the question, ‘Have you got a financial interest in the overdevelopment of Hastings Point or were you just there to give the developers some moral guidance?’ I suppose a man with your background and influence could www.tweedecho.com.au
riors’ resistance were so fierce that martial law was declared in Bathurst in 1823. It is estimated that two-thirds of the Wiradjuri were dead after that four months of martial law. Many of the most brutal recorded mas-
Referring to the Ombudsman’s report on child deaths, she told parliament: ‘The Ombudsman has highlighted many issues that the department agrees must be addressed if we are to strengthen protec-
State of Affairs Every week in 200708 three children who were officially on DOCS’s radar died.
with Alex Mitchell sacres in the colony’s history happened to my ancestors. ‘I was born in 1957. For the first 10 years of my life, like all indigenous people at that time, I was not a citizen of this country. We existed under the Flora and Fauna Act of NSW.’
tion of children. I welcome the scrutiny of the Ombudsman and I respect the role his agency plays in revealing systemic problems. It is only through careful review and analysis of these cases that the necessary changes can be made.’
Given that white shoes no longer seem to be ‘de rigueur’ amongst the Gold Coast developer set, I offer the following guidelines to accurate identification of this prominent and aggressive subspecies. 1) ‘Bait and Switch’ behaviour and its variant ‘Move the Goalposts’. Principally, present and market a subdivision in a low-key, family-friendly way, only to later fill in the ‘future development’ gaps on the master plan with previously unheralded elements, such as full-line supermarkets, taverns, service stations, shops and more shops, child-care centres and anything else that might fly. The value of this feeding
frenzy is that, in asking for the lot, the net result is bound to be more on your plate than you originally ordered. 2) Strong-arming of the local council and any uncompliant yokels with the ‘up yours’ tried and true, ‘forty-day deemed refusal approach’ to mealtimes. 3) Sending tumbrels around to collect any local lovers of large car parks, all the while making sure that a friendly team of PR consultants in smart black shirts are available with glasses of water, letter-writing skills and softly cooed acknowledgements to keep morale high. 4) Employment of extremely loud-voiced legal eagles to harass any of the local wildlife
who may legitimately wish to resist their compulsive nestfeathering. 5) Most significantly, said nest-feathering is always about the absolute maximum that can be squeezed out of the environment – for the largest conceivable nest – leaving the rest of the local fauna seriously plucked. Some say that the days of this subspecies are numbered, given that several of their ilk have recently fallen on tough times. It seems that the days of cheap birdseed from spivvy sources are over, so one can only hope.
only help in the PDK/Macintosh crusade. Hey, Gavin‌ my favourite bible story is David and Goliath.
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facilities in Tweed Heads, near public transportation centres and in walking distance of town centres, that the community should once again revisit decisions it supported only four years ago. Nothing has changed and we welcome jobcreating investment at this critical time of likely recession. We respectfully ask Cr Milne to ‘keep her powder dry’ for the real fight to come to ensure the new LEP 2008 for Tweed Heads does not introduce extensions to the three storey height limits outside the medium density areas covered by the Tweed Heads Masterplan (Town Centre Precinct).
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Nothing new The Sydney Morning Herald (October 29) mentions ‘a new report’ showing that rising sea levels will eventually affect some of Sydney’s beaches, houses, roads and commercial property. But what’s new about this? 25 years ago I applied for a job in a surveyor’s office. They gave me a drawing. ‘Take this home and draw something on it,’ they said. So, that night I looked at the drawing – of a proposed Gold Coast development – while listening to the radio. On the radio, the CSIRO reported the anticipated high tide level for the east coast ‘in fifty years time’. I drew that contour on the drawing before me. It cut straight through the middle of the proposed development! Needless to say, I didn’t get the job. John Jennings
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The Tweed District Residents and Ratepayers Association has unanimously passed a motion supporting the proposed eleven storey construction of residential units and other use, on the site of the old Dolphin Hotel in Tweed Heads central, as proposed by Ballanday Pty Ltd and Cheval Properties Pty Ltd. This proposal is in line with the ‘reducing-from-the-border building heights’ as detailed in Tweed Heads Masterplan (Town Centre Precinct) which was developed with the then President of our Association as the community stakeholder and offered a number of times for full community comment before it was approved by the State in April, 2004. We cannot support Cr Milne who has advised she will oppose this project and wonder who in Tweed Heads is against an already approved project within the Masterplan’s Town Centre Precinct’s construction height limits. We are disappointed to see councillors now telling developers who are prepared to invest in medium density living
And she added: ‘We recognise, as the Ombudsman has pointed out today, there is still room for improvement.’ It was classic language of a bureaucrat/politician. Read carefully, it means almost nothing. It is the kind of empty spin crafted by cynical government minders to get the minister off the hook. Since the Ombudsman’s report Burney has delivered two windy replies in parliament without mentioning the 156 kids who have died while on the department’s ‘alert’ files. She hasn’t once referred to the department’s Families First program which the State Government has been boosting in the media for the past five years. Instead, she’s been talking about the Brighter Future Program which, she said, ‘identified families who need early support and
gives them sustained services to prevent problems escalating and placing children at risk’. It sounds horribly like the Hollowmen have taken Families First and reinvented it as Brighter Futures. The hasty refurbishment of DOCS is driven by the imminent completion of former Justice James Wood’s 12-month-long inquiry into the dysfunctional and underresourced department. Wood, who conducted the NSW police royal commission in the 1990s, will deliver his report by the end of the year and it is expected to call for sweeping reform in the way it is managed. The mighty Wiradjuri – and a lot of white fellas – will be watching Burney’s response and hoping she does the right thing.
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Tweed District Residents and Ratepayers Association Letters also received from Irene Young, Bilambil Heights, Steve Dale, Pottsville, Victor Sparks, Nobby’s Creek, Trish Mann, Burringbar, Doug Ogilvie, Bilambil, Ralph Edwards, Pottsville.
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During National Recycling Week, the North East Waste Forum and Tweed Shire Council is encouraging people to Recycle Right‌ to conserve resources, to reduce contamination, to save water, and to combat climate change by reducing carbon emissions. Recycling is one thing that Tweed Shire residents can do to help address climate change. The more we recycle, the greater the environmental beneďŹ t as we are not only minimising the output of carbon dioxide – which is the biggest contributor to climate change, but we’re also conserving valuable resources and saving vast amounts of water and energy. ‘Last ďŹ nancial year more than 17,000 tonnes of recyclable household waste was recycled in the NEWF region of Tweed Shire, Byron Shire, Ballina Shire, Clarence Valley, Richmond Valley and Kyogle Council areas,’ said Coordinator of the North East Waste Forum, Gordon Fraser-Quick, ‘This amounts to a saving of 8,500 tonnes of CO2 being saved from entering into the atmosphere or the equivalent of 2050 cars being permanently removed from our roads; and a water saving of more than 280,000 megalitres or the equivalent of 112 Olympic sized swimming pools.’ Recycling bottles, cans, jars and paper at home is a great start, however to Recycle Right we need to make sure we’re putting the right things into our home recycling bins. When we put the
Recycling most food and drink containers saves water and energy and reduces greenhouse gas emissions.
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wrong items in a household recycling bin, we contaminate the entire contents of the bin and reduce the effectiveness of the whole recycling process. For example, a single plastic bag can shut down an entire material recovery facility if it gets caught in its machinery, and just 5 grams of drink-ware glass or Pyrex in a recycling bin can contaminate a tonne of bottle and jar glass because it melts at a different temperature. For more information about recycling in your area visit your local Council website www. tweed.nsw.gov.au or www. recyclingnearyou.com.au.
mercury, magnesium, lead and carbon. Most of these substances in their raw or modiďŹ ed form can cause considerable damage to the environment. Battery World, as the leading retailer of batteries in Australia has the capacity, know how and industry links to act as a recycle point for all types of batteries. If you bring your old batteries to Battery World we guarantee to recycle them. Please call Rob, Brad and Jay at Battery World Tweed on 131 760 if you need any assistance with your Battery Recycling program.
It would be good to have a depot or depots closer to population centres rather than just the one central location at Stotts Creek Quarry site. It is regrettable that the Murwillumbah quarry tip site will be closing next year. The recycling of building materials, cars and car parts are important ways of reducing consumption of raw natural resources, and don’t forget bicycling as a way of getting ďŹ t and helping the health of the planet. Come see our op-shop at 4 Queen St, Murwillumbah phone 02 6672 1121.
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Batteries have been an ever increasing environmental problem and as societies become more dependent on portable power, a long term plan is needed to limit the amount of battery waste entering landďŹ ll. It is estimated that 8,000 tonnes of batteries are going into landďŹ ll each year. There are many different elements that make up a vast array of battery technologies including, nickel, cadmium, sulphur, lithium,
The ‘3 Rs’ – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’ are just as pertinent as they were when ďŹ rst expressed thirty years ago. Although recycling is widely accepted in Tweed Shire, there is still a long way to go to reach universal use. It is easy to forget to take a bag to the shops, but once you get into the habit of op-shopping, recycling and composting the vegie patch, it soon becomes habitual and enjoyable part of life.
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At Kingscliff Village Dental our goal is to meet all of your expectations and have you walking away with a brilliant smile and a healthy mouth. We are a general practice which offers a full range of dental services to the local community. We offer orthodontic, You pick the days, dates and reconstructive, cosmetic, general times and we find the work. and preventative care treatments, Whether it is full time or part time, and are happy to offer advice and according to study demands or information on how best to care family life, we would love to have for your family’s oral health. you on board. Why not broaden your skills and earn some money We have recently added a proven while you are at it? Try a different ‘In Chair Tooth Whitening’ system to our range of treatments worksite for a change of scenery and are offering our clients the or return to familiar places if that opportunity to be the first in is what you prefer. Kingscliff to experience this. In We don’t like numbers! We go just 60 minutes you can have a the extra mile to know you! bright new smile in time for the We pride ourselves on being festive season. Ph: 02 6674 3344 nurse friendly and welcome our There’s a lot to smile about at employees to join us on social Kingscliff Village Dental. occasions. If you are looking for a company who respects your lifestyle, which empowers your status, has high integrity and pays well, please contact ACNS for an interview and become a part of Aged Care & Nursing Solutions. Phone 02 6679 4028
For 22 years Judy has been treating people for a wide range of disorders including chronic coughs, viruses, lower back and sciatic pain, neck and shoulder pain, migraines, menstrual and fertility problems, insomnia, anxiety, depression, irritable bowel, stomach problems and children’s ailments. Judy’s gentle, quiet manner along with her ability to listen has made her popular with grandparents, mums, dads and the kids. Her acupuncture is painless, safe and effective and having trained for many years to become a specialist in both Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine. Judy is highly valued by many. For those new to acupuncture, Judith explained that acupuncture and the tradition of medicine originated in China over 5000 years ago. Over the past three decades this enduring art and science of healing has gradually acquired a global acceptance, including the World Health Organisation.
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6;E<FG@4F CE8F8AGF Lavender Blue – the perfect way to shop! Take the hassle out of the festive season with some great gift ideas from Lavender Blue Aromatherapy Day Spa. We have Gift Vouchers for a $dollar value or choose from our packages. You can even design your own for that special person! We have what you need at Lavender Blue whether you’re filling up a stocking or treasuring the one you love with a pampering package. This holiday season feel confident and secure in knowing that your purchase at Lavender Blue will bring a smile to someone’s beautiful face! So celebrate Christmas and give your loved one what they really want! A Lavender Blue Gift Voucher. Gift Vouchers can be ordered and paid for over the phone. Call Lavender Blue today and let us make your Christmas shopping easy! Sonia, Ari and Courtney combine their unique and amazing talents and have developed a reputation as Murwillumbah’s most professional and successful business. At Lavender Blue we stock Australia’s fastest growing cosmeceutical skincare INDIO and we offer the latest technology to give you the skin you deserve, IPL, Microdermabrasion and Oxygen Therapy. If it is stress you suffer from, book yourself in for a Hot Stone massage and relax. Lavender Blue, a sanctuary where you can pause for a moment. Phone 6672 6133
J8?6B@8 GB 6ELFG4? GE84FHE8F Crystals are renowned for their special healing and balancing properties. Come and have a browse at Crystal Treasures and let the perfect crystal jump out at you. Perhaps a massage is what your body is calling for. The style of massage varies according to individual needs.
If you are at a crossroads or feeling a little ‘stuck’, a psychic reading can give insight and clarity into questions seeking truth. Reiki and Crystal Healing are perfect for revitalizing your spirit. Ev has 22 years hands on experience. As a gifted healer, Ev will show you what is possible beyond your current lifestyle and support you in living your true potential. Phone 02 6672 2216
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Television Guide
FRIDAY 7
1. A new series of the sitcom Scrubs is getting airings on Prime, albeit mainly late at night and in several different time slots during the week. The chopping and changing of scheduled programs at the last minute has become so rife that even this TV Guide has little confidence that what we print on Thursday will still be accurate by the end of the week. Seven and Nine in particular reschedule without warning, trying to get a jump on each other. Advertisers presumably drive this hair-trigger reaction to ratings, but the channels might try thinking of viewers rather than advertisers. Sure, the ads pay for free-to-air TV, but if the content gets so unreliable that viewers give up watching and buy DVDs or download their favourite shows from the web then the channels will be busted anyway. 2. Fred Zinneman’s film of Robert Bolt’s superlative play A Man For All Seasons is the standout movie of the week (ABC2, Saturday 8.30pm). Paul Schofield plays Sir Thomas More.
4.30 GP (PG) Repeat. 5.30 Spicks And Specks (G) Repeat. 6.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 The Lion Man (G) Final. 11.25 Aussie Animal Rescue (G) Repeat. 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Rewind (M*,sr,a) Repeat. 1.30 Spicks And Specks (PG) Repeat. 2.00 Trial And Retribution (M*,v,cl) Rpt. 3.00 Kids’ Programs 4.50 RollerCoaster 6.00 Message Stick (G) Repeat. 6.30 Can We Help? (G) 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Stateline 8.00 Collectors (G) 8.30 Taggart (M*,v) 9.40 Murphy’s Law (MA*,cl,v) Final. 10.35 Lateline 11.15 Review With Myles Barlow (M*,a,cl) Repeat. 11.45 triple j tv Repeat. 12.15 Good Game Repeat. 12.40 rage (M) goes on until 5am Saturday.
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6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 Asia Pacific News 9.30 Business Today 10.00 Kids’ Programs 4.30 The New Inventors (G) Repeat. 5.00 7.30 Select 5.35 Catalyst (G) Repeat. 6.00 Compass: The Sleeping Book (G) Repeat. 6.35 The People Watchers (G) 7.30 Something In the Air (G) Repeat. 8.00 Basketball: WNBL 2008/09 Live Canberra vs Townsville. 10.00 Soundtrack To My Life: Nick Heyward (G) 10.25 Classic Albums: Metallica (G) Final 11.20 Close
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5.20 World News in various languages. 1.00 The Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia (G) Repeat. 1.30 Insight Repeat. 2.30 The Gunpowder Plot (G) Repeat. 3.30 The Mary G Show (G) comedy series. Repeat. 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 5.30 Andre Rieu (G) Part 1 of 6 doco from the Netherlands. 6.00 Global Village (G) 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 My Biggest Fan (G) doco on Tara Morice. 8.30 The SS (M,a,v) Repeat. 9.30 World News Australia 10.00 Transvestite Wives (MA,cl) doco from the UK. 10.55 Movie: Nitschewo (MA,s, 2001) Drama from Germany. 12.30 Movie: 800 Bullets (M,v,s,cl, 2002) Spaghetti Western from Spain. 2.40 WeatherWatch Overnight
6.00Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.00 6.00 Ten Early News 7.00 Kids’ Programs Raggs 11.30 Seven News 8.30 Puzzle Play 12.00 Movie: Chicago (M,v,a, 2002) Stars 9.00 9am With David & Kim (PG) Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta11.00 Ten News Jones, Richard Gere. 12.00 Dr Phil (PG) 2.30 Home Improvement (G) 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) 3.00 Moonlighting (PG) Repeat. 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) 4.00 It’s Academic 3.00 Infomercial (PG) 4.30 Seven News 3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures (G) 5.00 M*A*S*H (G) Repeat. 4.00 Animalia 5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful (G) 6.00 Prime & Seven News 5.00 Ten News 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 6.00 The Simpsons (G) Repeat. 7.30 Better Homes And Gardens (G) 8.30 Movie: Transporter 2 (M, 2005) Stars 6.30 Neighbours (G) 7.00 Will And Grace (PG) Repeat. Jason Statham, Keith David. 7.30 Ice Road Truckers (PG) series return. 10.20 Bond On Location: Making Of 8.30 Movie: X-Men – The Last Stand Quantum Of Solace (PG) (M,2006) Stars Hugh Jackman, Halle 10.50 Scrubs (PG) Berry, Ian McKellen, Anna Paquin. 11.20 V8 Supercars - Bahrain (G) 1.00 Movie: Big Shot – Confessions Of A 10.40 Late News With Sports Tonight Campus Bookie (M,v,n,d, 2002) 11.40 Late Show With David Letterman 3.00 Danoz, Expo and Guthy Renker 12.50 Bom Bali (M,cl,a) Repeat. 2.30 Infomercials 4.00 Celebrity Cooking Showdown (PG) Seven QLD program same as above except: 6.30 Today Tonight 5.00 Religion
5.30 Today 9.00 Mornings With Kerri-Anne (PG) 11.00 Danoz and Guthy Renker 12.00 The View (PG) 1.00 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 2.00 Days Of Our Lives (PG) 3.00 Fresh Cooking (G) 3.30 Here’s Humphrey Repeat. 4.00 The Shak 4.30 National News 5.00 Antiques Roadshow (G) Rochester Cathedral 1. 6.00 Evening News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 Movie: Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban (PG, 2004) Stars Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson 10.30 Movie: Driven (PG,v,cl, 2001) Stars Sylvester Stallone, Burt Reynolds. 12.50 Movie: Bamboozled (MV15+, 2000) Stars Damon Wayans, Savion Glover. 3.20 Michael Jackson (PG) Music. 3.30 Guthy-Renker (G) 4.30 Good Morning America
6.00 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (G) 6.30 Kids’ Programs 10.30 It’s Academic 11.00 Melbourne Cup Carnival 2008 Live 5.30 Sydney Weekender (G) 6.00 Seven News 6.30 Movie: Wallace & Gromi – The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit (PG,cl,a 2005) animated movie. 8.15 Movie: The Princes & Me (PG, 2004) Stars Julia Stiles, Luke Mably Ben Miller, James Fox. 10.30 V8 Supercars – Bahrain 1.30 Movie: Dirty Filthy Love (MA,cl, 2004) Stars Michael Sheen, Adrian Bower, Claudie Blakley. 3.30 Danoz , Expo and Guthy Renker
6.00 Infomercials 7.30 Kids’ Programs 11.00 The Music Jungle (PG) 12.00 Malcolm In The Middle (PG) Repeat 12.30 Movie: Speedway (G, 1968) Stars Elvis Presley, Nancy Sinatra. 2.30 Movie: The Green Berets (PG,v, 1968) Stars John Wayne, Jim Hutton, David Janssen. 5.30 Antique Roadshow (G) Hull. 6.00 Evening News 6.30 Funniest Home Video Show (G) 7.30 Movie: Yours, Mine Ours (PG, 2005) 9.45 Rugby League World Cup England vs New Zealand. 12.00 Movie: Bulletproof Monk (M,v, 2003) Stars Chow Yun-Fat, Seann William Scott, Jaime King. 12.55 Movie: Just Looking (MA15+, 1999) Stars Peter Onerati, Joseph Franquinha. 2.50 Mad TV (M) Repeat. 3.50 Good Charlotte (PG) Repeat. 4.00 Danoz and Guthy Renker
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SATURDAY 8
Prime HD program same as above except: 12.00 Kevin Hill 12.50 Fast Ed’s Fast Food 1.00 Movie: A Walk In The Clouds (M,1995) 2.45 Harry’s Practice 3.15 Get Ed 3.35 The Great Outdoors
5.00 rage (PG) 5.20 World News in various languages. 7.00 Kids’ Programs 8.00 rage: Guest Programmers British 1.00 Ballerina (G) Masterpiece from 3.00 rage (G) Repeat. India (G) 5.00 rage: Guest Programmers British France. 9.00 triple j tv With The Doctor India (G) Repeat. 2.25 Arts in the 21st Century (PG) 10.00 Songbook: David Gray (G) Repeat 6.05 The New Inventors (G) Repeat. Masterpiece from the UK. Repeat. 11.00 Black Books (PG) Final. 6.35 Robin Hood (PG*,v) Repeat. 3.30 Mozart: Looking For Traces (G) 11.30 The Cook And The Chef (G) Repeat. 7.30 The Einstein Factor (G) Repeat. Masterpiece from Austria. Repeat. 12.00 Stateline Repeat. 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 8.00 At The Movies (G) Repeat. 12.30 Australian Story Repeat. 8.30 Movie: A Man For All Seasons (PG, 5.30 Alain Ducasse at the Plaza 1.00 Foreign Correspondent Repeat. 1966) Stars Paul Scofield, Robert Athenee: Chefs to Heads of State 1.30 Bowls: NSW Open 2008 – Men’s Shaw, Orson Wells. (G) food series from France. 10.30 Movie: Dangerous Mission (PG, Pairs Final 6.00 Classical Destinations : Austria to 1954) Stars Victor Mature, Piper 2.30 Basketball: WNBL 2008/09 Vienna (G) Repeat. Laurie, WiIliam Bendix, Vincent Price 6.30 World News Australia 4.00 Soccer: W-League – Melbourne 11.45 Close Victory vs Perth Glory Live 7.30 Mythbusters (PG) doco series. 6.00 Totally Frank (PG) Repeat. 8.30 Iron Chef (G) Repeat. 6.30 Gardening Australia (G) 9.20 RocKwiz (PG) entertainment. 7.00 ABC News 10.00 Classic Albums: John Lennon (M) 7.30 Rough Diamond (PG) drama series 11.00 Nynne (PG) drama series from Denmark 8.25 ABC News 11.45 SOS (MA) 8.30 The Bill (PG) 1.30 NEWStopia With Shaun Micallef 10.05 ABC News (M) Comedy series. Repeat. 10.10 The Ghost Squad (M*,cl,v) Repeat. 2.00 Drawn Together (MA,s,v) Animated 11.00 The Last Detective (M*,cl) Repeat. comedy series. 12.15 rage (M) 2.25 Stripperella (MA,s) Animated comedy series. 2.50 WeatherWatch Overnight
5.00 rage 6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Insiders And Inside Business 10.30 Offsiders 11.00 Asia Pacific Focus 11.30 Songs Of Praise (G) Repeat. 12.00 Landline 1.00 Gardening Australia (G) Repeat. 1.30 Message Stick (G) 2.00 The Guardians Of Rome (PG) Final 3.00 War Oratorio (PG*) 4.30 First Tuesday Book Club with Jennifer Byrne (G) Repeat. 5.00 Sunday Arts (G) 6.00 At The Movies Repeat. 6.30 The Einstein Factor (G) 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Trek: Spy On The Wildebeest Final 8.25 ABC News Update 8.30 Friends And Crocodiles (M*,cl,d,n) 10.20 Compass: God Is Green (G) 11.15 Dickens In America (G) Repeat. 11.45 Falling (M*,cl,v,s) 1.20 Movie: Rembrandt (PG, 1936) Stars Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester. 2.45 Movie: Mexican Spitfire At Sea (G, 1942) Stars Lupe Velez, Leon Errol. 3.55 Our Boys (PG) Canterbury Boys High
7.00 Nina Simone: Live At Montreux 6.25 World News in various languages. Jazz Festival 1976 (G) 10.00 Dateline 8.00 Dr John: Live At Montreux (G) 11.00 Sunday Brunch Sessions: BB King 9.00 The Guitar Show with Martin Taylor, Live! (G) Roy Rogers, Tommy Emmanuel, Steve 12.00 Cycling: Melbourne To Jackson. Warrnambool. 9.30 Montreux Jazz Festival 2003: 12.30 World Superbike Championships Black Superstars Of Music (G) Final 2008 10.30 triple j tv With The Doctor 1.00 Speedweek 11.30 triple j tv presents The Living End 2.00 FIA World Rally Championship ‘08 12.00 London Live (G) Music. Repeat. 3.00 Football Asia 12.30 Red Dwarf (PG) Repeat. 3.30 UEFA Champions League 1.30 Planet Rock Profiles: Keane (G) Magazine Sport. 1.55 Brian Wilson On Tour (G) 4.00 Les Murray’s Football Feature 5.00 The World Game Football. 3.15 The Doves Live At Eden (G*,cl) 4.05 Elvis Costello: Live In Memphis (G) 6.00 Thalassa: Atlantic Salmon (G) 5.05 Classic Albums: Phil Collins – Face 6.30 World News Australia Value (G) Repeat. 7.30 Who Do You Think You Are? – 6.00 ABC Fora Graham Norton (PG) doco series. 7.00 First Tuesday Book Club With 8.35 The President’s Guide To Science Jennifer Byrne Repeat. 9.35 Movie: Kurt Wallander – Castles in 7.30 Sunday Arts (G) Repeat. the Sky (MA,cl,n, 2006) Drama from 8.30 Who The #$&% Is Jackson Pollock? Sweden. (PG) 11.15 Movie: Days of Being Wild (M,v, 9.40 Conversations With Australian 1990) Drama from Hong Kong. Artists: Dadang Christanto (G) 12.55 TV Around the World: Israel (PG) 10.00 Artists At Work: Richard Nylon (G) 1.25 If The Dead Could Speak (M,v,a,cl) 10.25 Moulin Rouge Girls (PG) Final. Drama series from Argentina. Repeat. 10.50 Close 2.20 Weatherwatch Overnight
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Seven QLD program same as above except: 6.30 Today Tonight 9.00 W.I.T.C.H 9.30 It’s Academic 10.00 Melbourne Cup Carnival 2008 4.30 Scrubs Prime HD program same as above except: 10.30 Movie: The Others (MA,h, 2001) 12.35 Bond On Location 1.00 Break It Down
6.00 Religion 6.30 Creflo A Dollar 7.00 Staines Down Drains 7.30 Weekend Sunrise 10.00 Kochie’s Business Builders (G) 10.30 Sea Change, Tree Change (G) Mackay. 11.00 Rolex Spirit Of Yachting (G) series return. 11.30 Home Improvement (G) 12.00 Scrubs (PG) 12.30 Mayday: Collision Course (PG) 12.00 Surf Livesaving – Coolangatta (G) 1.30 Motorsport: Carrera Cup (G) 2.00 V8 Supercars – Bahrain 5.00 What Not To Wear (PG) 6.00 Seven News 6.30 The Outdoor Room With Jamie Durie (G) Egypt. 7.00 Kath & Kim (PG) Repeat. 7.30 Dancing With The Stars (G) Final. 10.00 Movie: Four Weddings And A Funeral (M,cl,s, 1994) Stars Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell. 12.15 Movie: Class Action (M,cl, 1991) Stars Colin Friels, Gene Hackman. 2.30 Danoz, Expo, Guthy Renker
6.00 Kids’ Programs 8.30 Video Hits First (G) 10.00 Video Hits (PG) 12.00 Pat Callinan’s 4X4 Adventures (G) 12.30 Everybody Loves Raymond (PG) 1.00 Jimmy’s Farm (PG,cl ) new series on trials & triumphs of pig farming. 2.00 Totally Australia: Stories From The Harbour (G) 3.00 Animal Lifeline : Chimps Under Fire (G) 4.00 Escape With ET (G) 5.00 Ten News With Sports Tonight 6.00 The Simpsons (PG) Repeat. 6.30 Movie: Kicking & Screaming (PG, 2005) Stars Will Ferrell, Robert Duvall, Kate Walsh. 8.30 Movie: The Fast And The Furious – Tokyo Drift (M, 2005) Stars Lucas Black, Zachery Ty Bryan, Lynda Boyd. 10.35 Rush (M) Repeat. 11.35 Crime Files (M) 12.30 Rugby Spring Tour 2008: Wallabies vs Italy 3.00 Infomercials) 4.00 Religion (G)
NBN QLD program same as above except: 5.30 The Good Life
6.00 Religion 7.00 Wormwood 7.30 Totally Wild 8.00 Meet The Press 8.30 State Focus 9.00 Video Hits First (G) 10.00 Video Hits (PG) 11.30 Video Hits Presents: Fall Out Boy 12.00 Goin’ Ballistyx (PG) snowboarding 1.00 RPM (PG) motorsport. Final. 2.00 Rugby Spring Tour 2008 Replay 4.00 Country Matters (G) 5.00 Ten News With Sports Tonight 6.00 The Simpsons (PG) Repeat. 6.30 Thank God You’re Here (PG) Repeat 7.30 Australian Idol (PG) 8.30 Rove (M) 9.40 NCIS (M) Repeat. 10.40 Californication (MA15+) 11.20 The Office (PG) 11.50 Movie: Tomcats (M, 2001) Star Jerry O’Connell, Shannon Elizabeth. 1.35 Infomercials (PG) 4.00 Religion to 6am (PG)
6.00 Danoz and Guthy Renker 7.00 TVP Direct 7.30 Biomagnetics (G) 8.00 Sunday News 9.00 Wide World Of Sports (G) 11.00 A Century of Rugby League 12.00 Speed Machine (G) 12.30 Boarding Pass travel show. 1.00 WWE Afterburn wrestling. 2.00 Seinfield (PG) 2.30 Movie: Madison (G, 2001) Stars Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus. 4.30 Travel Wild (G) Eco East Coast. 5.00 The Gurus Explore Korea (G) 6.00 Evening News 6.30 20 to 1 (PG) 7.30 60 Minutes 8.30 Rugby League World Cup Australia vs Papua New Guinea 11.45 Movie: Showtime (M,cl,v, 2002) Stars Eddie Murphy, Robert De Niro. 12.40 George Lopez 1.10 The Avengers (PG) Repeat. 2.05 Guthy Renker and Danoz 4.00 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News
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6.00 ABC News Breakfast 4.30 GP (PG) Repeat. 9.00 Asia Pacific News 5.30 Spicks And Specks (G) Repeat. 9.30 Business Today 6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Landline Repeat. 4.30 Gardening Australia (G) Repeat. 12.00 Midday Report 5.00 Message Stick (G*) Repeat. 12.30 Incredible Journeys With Steve 5.35 Can We Help? (G) Repeat. Leonard (G) Repeat. 6.05 Collectors (G) Repeat. 1.30 The Cook And The Chef (G) Final. 6.35 The People Watchers (G) 2.00 Parliament Question Time 7.30 Something In The Air (G) Repeat. 3.00 Kids’ Programs 8.00 triple j tv 5.00 RollerCoaster 8.30 The Hack Half Hour (M*) 6.00 Landline Extra Repeat. 9.00 Good Game 6.30 Talking Heads: Stephen Mayne 9.30 Death Note (M*,v) drama 7.00 ABC News 10.00 triple j tv presents The Vines (G) 7.30 7.30 Report with Kerry O’Brien 10.30 Kanye West: Late Orchestration 8.00 Australian Story Final. 11.20 Close 8.30 Four Corners Final. 9.20 Media Watch Final. 9.35 Enough Rope With Andrew Denton 10.35 Lateline 11.10 Lateline Business 11.35 The Last Days Of Yasser Arafat (PG) 12.35 Parliament Question Time 1.40 Movie: The Fugitive (PG, 1947) Stars Henry Fonda, Dolores Del Rio. 3.25 Bowls: QLD Open 2008 Repeat.
5.20 World News in various languages. 1.00 The American Ruling Class (M,cl,a) Repeat doco from the USA. 2.35 The Indian Miracle? (PG) Repeat doco from the UK. 3.30 Insight Repeat. 4.30 The Journal 5.00 The Crew (G) student video production. 5.30 Corner Gas (G) Comedy. Repeat. 6.00 Global Village Scandinavia. 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Top Gear Australia (PG) Part 7 of 8. 8.30 Swift And Shift Couriers (M) New comedy series. 9.00 Bogan Pride (M,cl) comedy series. 9.30 World News Australia 10.00 Shameless (M,a,cl,v) Comedy. 10.55 Movie: One Nite in Mongkok (MA,cl,v, 2004) Crime from Sweden. 12.55 Movie: Spriggan (MA,v, 1998) Animation from Japan. 2.25 WeatherWatch Overnight
4.30 GP (PG) Repeat. 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 5.30 Spicks And Specks (PG) Repeat. 9.00 Asia Pacific News 6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.30 Business Today 10.00 Behind The News 10.00 Kids’ Programs 10.35 Arrows Of Desire (G) Final. 4.30 Little Angels (G) Repeat. 11.05 Sleek Geeks (G) Repeat. 5.00 Talking Heads (G) Repeat. 11.30 Carbon Cops (G) Repeat 5.35 Game Ranger Diaries (G) 12.00 Midday Report 6.35 The People Watchers (G) 12.30 The Einstein Factor (G) Quiz show. 7.30 Something In The Air (G) Repeat. 1.00 The New Inventors (G) Repeat. 8.00 Australian Story Final. 1.30 Catalyst (G) Repeat. 8.30 Hamish Macbeth (PG) Repeat. 2.00 Parliament Question Time 9.20 The Bill (M*,v) Repeat. 3.00 Kids’ Programs 10.50 MDA (M*cl,a) Repeat. 4.55 RollerCoaster 11.45 Close 6.05 Time Team: Dotton Mill (G) 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 Report with Kerry O’Brien 8.00 Navy Divers (PG) 8.30 Monash: The Forgotten Anzac (PG) 9.30 Foreign Correspondent 10.00 Jennifer Byrne Presents Biography 10.30 Lateline and Lateline Business 11.35 Four Corners Repeat. Final. 12.20 Media Watch Repeat. Final. 12.35 Parliament Question Time. 1.40 Movie: Cornered (M,v, 1945) Stars Dick Powell, Walter Slezak. 3.35 Murder Prevention (M*,cl,sr,v) Rpt.
5.20 World News in various languages 1.00 The Storm Rages Twice (G) Repeat drama from Lebanon. 2.05 Don Matteo (PG) Drama series from Italy. 3.05 Fashionista (G) Repeat. 3.30 Food Safari: Korean (G) Repeat. 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 5.30 Corner Gas (G) Comedy series. 6.00 Global Village (G) 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Insight current affairs program. 8.30 Not Forgotten (PG) Remembrance Day. 9.30 World News Australia 10.00 Movie: Brides (MA,cl) Drama from Greece set in 1922. 12.15 Movie: Cero y van Cuatro (MA,v,cl 2004) Comedy from Mexico. 1.55 Vh1 Illustrated (M,cl,s) Repeat comedy series. 2.25 WeatherWatch Overnight
6.00 ABC News Breakfast 4.30 GP (PG) Repeat. 9.00 Asia Pacific News 5.30 Spicks And Specks (G) Repeat. 9.30 Business Today 6.00 Kids’ Program 10.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 Behind The News Repeat. 4.30 Once A Soldier (G) 10.15 Australians (G) Repeat. 5.00 An Island Parish (G) 12.00 Midday Report 5.35 Time Team (G) Repeat. 1.00 National Press Club Address 6.35 The People Watchers (G) 1.30 Talking Heads (G) Repeat. 7.30 Something In The Air (G) Repeat. 2.00 Parliament Question Time 8.00 Sleep Clinic (G) 3.00 Kids’ Programs 8.30 The Girl With Eight Limbs (M*,a) 4.55 RollerCoaster 6.05 Art Museums Of The World (G) Rpt. 9.20 Iconoclasts: Dave Chapelle And Maya Angelou (M*,cl) Final. 6.30 The Cook And The Chef 10.10 The Beckoning Silence (M) moun7.00 ABC News taineering tragedies. 7.30 The 7.30 Report 11.25 Nazi Hate Rock (M*,cl,v) Repeat. 8.00 The New Inventors (G) 12.10 Close 8.30 Spicks And Specks (PG) 9.00 Stupid Stupid Man (M*,sr) 9.30 Summer Heights High (M*,cl) Repeat 10.00 At The Movies 10.30 Lateline and Lateline Business 11.30 Cracker (M*,v,at) Repeat. 12.25 Parliament Question Time 1.35 Movie: The Last Days Of Pompeii (PG, 1935) Stars Preston Foster, Alan Hale, Basil Rathbone, John Wood. 3.25 National Press Club Address Repeat
5.20 World News in various languages. 6.00 Sunrise 1.00 Movie: The Moustache (M,a,cl, 9.00 The Morning Show 2005) Drama from France. 11.00 Raggs pre-schoolers program 2.30 Hard Choices WA (PG) Repeat. 11.30 News 3.00 Salam Cafe (G) Repeat. 12.00 Movie: Running Home (M,v, 1998) 3.30 Football Stars Of Tomorrow Stars Claudia Christian, Kristian Ayre. 4.00 The Journal 2.00 Desperate Housewives (M) 4.30 Newshour with Jim Lehrer 3.00 Moonlighting (PG) 5.30 Is Your House Killing You? (G) Repeat. 4.00 It’s Academic 4.30 Seven & Prime News 6.00 Living Black (G*) 5.00 M*A*S*H (G) Repeat. 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 The Hairy Bikers’ Cookbook (G) Final 5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) 8.00 Cooking In The Danger Zone: India 6.00 Prime & Seven News (PG) 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 8.30 Breath: The Pathogens We Breath 7.30 Criminal Minds (M) double episode (PG) doco from Sweden. 10.30 Alan Sugar: The Apprentice (M,cl) 9.30 World News Australia 11.50 Scrubs (PG) double episode. 12.50 Danoz, Expo and Guthy Renker 10.00 NEWStopia (M) Comedy 10.30 Movie: The Magician (MA,v,cl, 2005) Stars Ben Walker, Kane Mason. 12.00 Movie: The King (M,v,cl,s, 2002) Drama from Greece. 2.20 Weatherwatch Overnight
6.00 Sunrise 6.00 Ten News 9.00 The Morning Show (PG) 7.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Raggs Final. 9.00 9am With David & Kim 11.30 Seven News 11.00 Ten News 12.00 Movie: McBride; Semper Fi (M,v, 12.00 Dr Phil (PG) Repeat. 2007) Stars John Larroquette, Ben 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) Repeat. Murphy, Katie Walder. 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) 2.00 Desperate Housewives (M) 3.00 Infomercials (PG) 3.00 Moonlighting (PG) 3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures (G) 4.00 It’s Academic 4.00 Outback 8 Kid’s travel to the 4.30 Seven News Australian Outback. 5.00 M*A*S*H (G) Repeat. 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful (G) 5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) 5.00 Ten News 6.00 Seven and Prime News 6.00 The Simpsons (G) Repeat. 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 6.30 Neighbours (G) 7.30 The Rich List (G) 7.00 Will And Grace (PG) Repeat. 8.30 City Homicide (M,v,a) 7.30 Australian Idol (PG) 9.30 Bones (M) 8.30 Good News Week (M) comedy. 10.30 Out Of The Question (M) 9.30 Supernatural (M) 11.00 Louis Theroux And The Patriots (M) 10.30 Late News With Sports Tonight 12.00 Auction Squad (G) Repeat. 11.15 Late Show With David Letterman 1.00 Danoz, Expo and Guthy Renker 12.00 Everybody Loves Raymond (PG) Repeat. Seven QLD program same as above except: 12.30 Judge Judy (PG) 6.30 Today Tonight 1.00 Infomercials Prime HD program same as above except: 12.00 Kevin Hill12.50 Fast Ed’s Fast Food 1.00 4.00 Religion to 6am.
5.30 Today 9.00 Mornings With Kerri-Anne 11.00 Time/Life (G) 11.30 Danoz (G) 12.00 The View (PG) talk show. 1.00 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 2.00 Days Of Our Lives (PG) 3.00 Fresh Cooking (G) 3.30 The Kingdom Of Paramithi new kids’ series. 4.00 Lab Rats Challenge kids’ game show. 4.30 National News 5.00 Antiques Roadshow (G) Rochester Cathedral 2. 6.00 Evening News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 Domestic Blitz (PG) Special about someone with Tourette’s Syndrome. 8.45 Lotto 9.00 CSI (M,v) all new episode. 10.00 Cold Case (M) all new. 11.00 True CSI: Cold Blood (M) 12.00 Shipwrecked (PG) 1.00 The Baron (PG) Repeat. 2.00 Guthy Renker and Danoz 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News
6.00 Ten Early News 6.00 Sunrise 7.00 Toasted TV & Kids’ Programs 9.00 The Morning Show (PG) 8.30 Puzzle Play 11.00 All For Kids new series 9.00 9am With David And Kim 11.30 Seven News 12.00 Movie: Random Encounter (M,v,s,cl, 11.00 Ten Morning News 11.30 TTN (G) 1998) Stars Elizabeth Berkley, Joel Wyman, Frank Fontaine 12.00 Dr Phil (PG) 2.00 Desperate Housewives (M) 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) Repeat. 3.00 Moonlighting (PG) 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) Repeat. 4.00 It’s Academic 3.00 Infomercial (PG) 4.30 Seven News 3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures (G) 5.00 M*A*S*H 4.00 Totally Wild 5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful (G) 6.00 Seven and Prime News 5.00 Ten News 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 6.00 The Simpsons (G) 7.30 The Zoo (G) 6.30 Neighbours (G) 8.00 Find My Family (PG) 7.00 Will And Grace (PG) Repeat. 8.30 Packed to the Rafters (PG) 7.30 The Simpsons (PG) 9.30 All Saints (M) 8.00 Kenny (PG) Final. 10.30 Surgery Saved My Life (PG,a) new. 8.30 NCIS (M) 11.30 Beyond Boiling Point (MA) 9.30 Rush (M,at) drama. 12.00 Room For Improvement (G) Repeat 10.30 Late News With Sports Tonight 1.00 Danoz, Expo and Guthy Renker 11.15 Late Show With David Letterman 12.00 Everybody Loves Raymond (G) Seven QLD program same as above except: Repeat. 6.30 Today Tonight Prime HD program same as above except: 12.00 12.30 State Focus Repeat. Kevin Hill 1.00 TBA 2.45 Harry’s Pracitce 3.15 Get 1.00 Infomercials (PG) Ed 3.35 The Great Outdoors 10.30 UrbanLegends 11.00 Lost 12.00 Extreme: Celebrity Yo-Yo Dieters 4.00 Religion to 6am.
5.30 Today 9.00 Mornings With Kerri-Anne 11.00 Danoz and Guthy Renker 12.00 The View (PG) 1.00 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 2.00 Days Of Our Lives (PG) 3.00 Fresh Cooking (G) 3.30 Here’s Humphrey Repeat. 4.00 Lab Rats Challenge kids’ game show. 4.30 National News 5.00 Antiques Roadshow (G) De La Warr Pavillion. 6.00 Evening News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 The Chopping Block (PG) 8.30 Two And A Half Men (M) double episode. 9.30 20 to 1 (M) all new. 10.30 Survivor: Micronesia (PG). 11.30 Girls Of The Playboy Mansion (M) 12.00 E R (M) Repeat. 1.00 Sports Disasters (M) 2.00 Guthy Renker Australia 3.00 Danoz (G) 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News
Movie: Consenting Adults (M,v,s,cl, 1992) 2.45 Harry’s Practice 3.15 Get Ed 3.35 The Great Outdoors 10.30 Alias,11.30 Ross Kemp On Gangs, Out Of The Question.
THURSDAY 13
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4.30 GP (PG) Repeat. 5.30 Spicks And Specks (G) Repeat. 6.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Riddles Of The Bible (G) Repeat. 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Parkinson (PG) Repeat. 1.30 The Collectors (G) Repeat. 2.00 Parliament Question Time 3.00 Kids’ Programs 4.55 RollerCoaster 6.05 The Four Alps (G) mountain ranges 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 Catalyst 8.35 The Mystery Of The Mary Celeste (G) 9.25 Searching 4 Sandeep (M,s,cl) 10.25 Lateline and Lateline Business 11.25 Buena Vista Social Club (G) Repeat. 1.10 Wildside (M*,s,v,cl) Repeat. 2.00 Parliament Question Time 3.00 WIldWatch2 (G) Repeat. 3.55 The Glass House (M*,cl) Repeat.
Programs are correct at the time of going to press but beware – all stations like tinkering with things at the last minute.
6.00 ABC News Breakfast 5.30 World News in various languages. 9.00 Asia Pacific News 1.00 Our Brand Is Crisis (M,a,v,) Repeat. 9.30 Business Today 2.45 The True Story Of Sawney Bean (G) 3.00 A Fork In Asia: Guilin 10.00 Kids’ Programs 3.30 Chefs Of The Great Hotels Of The 4.30 The Einstein Factor (G) Repeat. 5.00 The Cook And The Chef (G) Repeat. World Shangri-La Hotel, Hangzhou 4.00 The Journal 5.35 ABC Fora 6.35 People Watchers (G) 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 7.30 Something In The Air (G) Repeat. 5.30 FIFA Futbol Mundial 6.00 Global Village: The Rajah’s Horses 8.00 Spicks And Specks (PG) Repeat. 8.30 Stupid Stupid Man (M*, sr) Repeat. 6.30 World News Australia 9.00 Summer Heights High (M*,cl) Repeat 7.35 Inspector Rex (PG) crime series from 9.30 Review With Myles Barlow (M*at,cl) Austria. Repeat. all facets of life. 8.30 The Eagle (M,v,a) drama series from 10.00 The Graham Norton Show (M) Denmark. Repeat. 10.30 Ideal (M*,cl,v) 9.35 World News Australia 11.00 Bromwell High (M*,cl) Repeat. 10.05 IF Awards 2008 Inside Film Awards 11.25 Close 11.40 Queer As Folk (MA,cl,s) Repeat. 12.40 Movie: Body Confusion (M,cl,s,d,2004) Black Comedy from Spain. 2.20 Weatherwatch Overnight [s] [a] [n] [du] [dr] [v] [*] [h]
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Seven Qld program same as above except: 6.30 Today Tonight Prime HD program same as above except: 12.00 Kevin Hill 12.50 Fast Ed’s Fast Food 1.00 Movie: The Musketeer (M,v, 2001) 2.45 Harry’s Practice 3.15 Get Ed 3.35 The Great Outdoors 10.30 Dr Danger 11.00 Gear 11.30 Make Me A Supermodel 12.30 Alan Sugar
6.00 Ten Early News 7.00 Toasted TV & Kids’ Programs 8.30 Puzzle Play 9.00 9am With David And Kim 11.00 Ten Morning News 12.00 Dr Phil (PG) Repeat. 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) Repeat. 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) 3.00 Infomercial (PG) 3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures (G) 4.00 Totally Wild 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful (G) 5.00 Ten News 6.00 The Simpsons (G) Repeat. 6.30 Neighbours (G) 7.00 Will And Grace (PG) Repeat. 7.30 Big Cat Diary (PG) 8.30 House (M) 9.30 Life (M) 10.30 Late News With Sports Tonight 11.15 Late Show With David Letterman 12.00 Everybody Loves Raymond (G) 12.30 Infomercials (PG) Repeat. 4.00 Religion to 6am.
6.00 Ten Early News 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 7.00 Toasted TV & Kids’ Programs 11.00 All For Kids 8.30 Puzzle Play 11.30 Seven News 9.00 9am With David And Kim 12.00 Movie: Reversals (M,s,2003) Stars 11.00 Ten Morning News Marc Warren, Sarah Parish. 12.00 Dr Phil (PG) Repeat. 2.00 Desperate Housewives (M) Repeat. 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) Repeat. 3.00 Moonlighting (PG) 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) 4.00 It’s Academic 3.00 Infomercial (PG) 4.30 Seven News 3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures (G) 5.00 M*A*S*H (G) Repeat. 4.00 The Elephant Princess new series 5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful (G) 6.00 Prime & Seven News 5.00 Ten News 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 6.00 The Simpsons (G) Repeat. 7.30 Make Me A Supermodel (PG) 6.30 Neighbours (G) 8.30 The Amazing Race (PG) 7.00 Will And Grace (PG) Repeat. 9.30 Heroes (M) 7.30 Are You Smarter Than A 5th 10.30 Scrubs (M) Grader? (G) 11.00 Prison Break (M) 8.30 Law & Order: Criminal Intent (M,a) 12.00 Destination New Zealand (PG) 9.30 Law & Order: SVU (M) Repeat. 12.30 Sons And Daughters (G) 10.30 Late News With Sports Tonight 1.00 Danoz, Expo and Guthy Renker 11.15 Late Show With David Letterman Seven Qld program same as above except: 6.30 Today Tonight 12.00 Everybody Loves Raymond (G) Prime HD program same as above except: 12.00 12.30 Infomercials (PG) Kevin Hill (final) 1.00 Six Degrees 1.50 Make Me A Supermodel 2.45 Harry’s Practice 3.15 Get Ed 3.35 4.00 Religion to 6am.
5.30 Today 9.00 Mornings With Kerri-Anne 11.00 Danoz 12.00 The View (PG) 1.00 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 2.00 Days Of Our Lives (PG) 3.00 Fresh Cooking (G) 3.30 Here’s Humphrey 4.00 Lab Rats Challenge 4.30 National News 5.00 Antiques Roadshow (G) Castle Of Mev. 6.00 Evening News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 Two And A Half Men (PG) double episode. 8.30 The Mentalist (M) 8.45 Lotto 9.30 CSI: NY (M) 10.30 How to Have Sex After Marriage 11.30 Just Shoot Me (PG) 12.00 All Of Us (PG) 12.30 Twins (PG) 1.00 Mad TV (M) Repeat. 2.00 Guthy- Renker Australia 2.30 Danoz 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News 5.30 Today 9.00 Mornings With Kerri-Anne 11.00 Danoz and Guthy Renker 12.00 The View (PG) 1.00 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 2.00 Days Of Our Lives (PG) 3.00 Fresh Cooking (G) 3.30 Here’s Humphrey 4.00 The Shak 4.30 National News 5.00 Antiques Roadshow (G) Liverpool 1 6.00 Evening News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 Getaway (PG) travel series. 8.30 The Strip (M,v) crime series. 9.30 RPA (M,mp) 10.30 Amazing Medical Stories (M,mp) 11.30 Seinfeld (PG) 12.00 Movie: Welcome To Hollywood (M,cl,s, 2000) Stars Adam Rifkin, Tony Markes, David Andriole. 1.40 Entertainment Tonight 2.00 Guthy-Renker Australia 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News
The Great Outdoors 11.30 Heroes 12.30 Movie: Solaris M,a,s,cl, 2002)
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A DRAMATIC PLANETARY STANDOFF BETWEEN THE ENERGIES OF CAUTION AND RADICAL CHANGE MAKES THIS WEEK’S BIG QUESTION WHETHER TO DIG IN AND DOWNSIZE OR GO AHEAD AND TRY SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT… ARIES: You can learn a lot about yourself from this week’s challenges and confrontations which, if you’re willing to listen, could give you a whole new perspective. If you notice you’re too intent on your own personal agenda, look around you: we’re all in the same canoe. TAURUS: This week’s positive Chiron/Venus combination brings excellent aspects for
rerouting your financial future. If advice or information isn’t what you want to hear, don’t judge too quickly – ask for reasons and clarification. Consider your options carefully and don’t act till you’re satisfied with your decisions. GEMINI: With this week’s emphasis on health and office politics, be thorough concerning the first and treat the second with a giant dose of diplomacy. Your ruling planet in the sign of intuition makes you faster than most people, so speak slowly, simply and clearly to avoid misunderstandings. CANCER: A moon wobble’s presently shaking up any rut you’re stuck in: physical, mental, emotional, professional or relational. Big changes are underway, but they needn’t be distressing if you take them at your own pace and treat them as the dynamic, creative opportunities they are. LEO: This week’s people are in the mood to place blame, but no use having a power surge about that. The present astral energy’s eliminating and refining, a fiery time for burning off dross so be gentle with yourself. And try not
to give others a hard time either. VIRGO: November’s about expressing yourself, something you’ll do with increasing depth and accuracy. This week’s planetary pressures bring a corresponding crunch point in earthly affairs, providing the perfect opportunity to observe, eliminate or improve any habits you’d be more effective without. LIBRA: This week stirs up your house of money, with risk hating Saturn saying Play it safe while risk loving Uranus urges Take a punt. Hasty investments aren’t in your best interests, but listening to new financial ideas is. Don’t be fearful but do be careful. SCORPIO: The planetary trinity of Mercury, Sun and Mars in Scorp corner makes you a powerful persuader and this week the year’s best for self promotion. Be careful about using cutting edge communication though – the Scorpion sting’s a painful thing and not always quickly forgiven. SAGITTARIUS: Venus in Sagittarius is adventure driven and this week’s tug of war features freedom seeking, rulebreaking Uranus versus stable, security loving Saturn in an internal dialogue about whether
CAPRICORN: Responsibilities, obligations and money worries snapping at your heels? Put them on hold this week, which favours travel and the company of others. Your ruling planet Saturn the Solid opposing Uranus the Changer could morph you into an unfamiliar and unexpectedly wonderful new you. AQUARIUS: There’s plenty of emotional extravaganzas to distract you this week from the job of honestly examining your own deepest needs during mid/late week Aquarian moon. If issues of security vs. independence are up and running, look around – could your insights help others going through it? PISCES: Deal with this week’s unstable shifting sands by asking for what you want and being grateful for what you get – even if it’s not what you asked for. And take heart that your planetary ruler Neptune’s finally moving forward again in the sign of friendships and future plans.
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India captured the world title this week thanks to Viswanathan Anand, but India’s less-publicised four gold medals at the World Youth Championships in Vietnam also serve to indicate that the future of Indian chess is in safe hands. India dominated the medal table in Vung Tau, with only China offering a challenge and traditional superpowers such as Russia and the US trailing badly. Croatia surprisingly captured the two U/18 golds but India took first place in the next three age divisions. India’s success in Vietnam is directly related to Anand’s success – over the past decade the so-called Anand Boom has seen hundreds of thousands of young players around India taking up the game, many leaving school and turning professional as preteens. The members of Australia’s 26-strong delegation were mostly situated mid-field. Melbourne’s Anurag Sannidhanam finished
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CHESS by Ian Rogers Play at Seagulls Club , Thursdays 6–10pm tied for 11th place in a field on should have – when caught by surprise in a 90 in the U/10 division but as similar position, Boris Gelfand tried the same usual the Australians struggled set-up.’ 13.0-0 Nxe5 14.Bxe5 0-0 15.Bxf6 Qxf6 in the higher age groups. 16.f4 Qg7! ■ As foreshadowed last week, ‘Around here I understood I’d messed Viswanathan Anand took the it up,’ admitted Anand. world match title from Vladimir 17.e5 c5 18.Nxb5 cxd4 19.Qxc4 Kramnik, although not without a5! 20.Kh1!? some nervous moments. Anand Hoping for 20...gxf4 21.Bf3 Bxf3 won 6.5-4.5 to finish the best- 22.gxf3! with counterplay along the of-12 contest a game early, but g file. he lost game 10 and should have 20...Rac8! 21.Qxd4 gxf4?! didn’t see a defence to 21...Bc5!’ said lost the previous game, given ‘IAnand, though Kramnik pointed out below, Kramnik’s greatest missed that 22.Qa4 hangs on. opportunity in the match. 22.Bf3 Ba6 23.a4 Rc5 24.Qxf4 Bonn 2008, Game 9 White: V Anand Black: V.Kramnik Opening: Queen’s Gambit Declined, Semi-Slav 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 c6 5.Bg5 ‘Maybe playing such a sharp line was not so wise,’ said Anand, who needed a point more to take the world title, ‘but I thought I might win the match in one game.’ 5...dxc4 6.e4 h6 7.Bh4 g5 8.Bg3 b5 9.Be2 Nbd7 10.Qc2 Bb7 11.Rd1 Bb4 12.Ne5 Qe7 An over-the-board inspiration. ‘My team didn’t even consider this,’ admitted Anand, ‘but we
36.Qxc7 Bxc7 37.Bc4! Re8 38.Rd7 a4!? A last attempt at complications but Anand defuses every trick. 39.Rxc7 axb3 40.Rf2 Rb8 41.Rb2 h5 42.Kg2 h4 ‘A nice try,’ said Anand. ‘I wanted to put my king on f2 now but then he has 43...Ra8!’ 43.Rc6! hxg3 44.hxg3 Rg8 45.Rxe6 Rxc4 Draw Agreed
Rxe5 25.b3?! ‘I didn’t understand this decision,’ said Kramnik. ‘To give the b pawn was not necessary.’ 25...Bxb5 26.axb5 Rxb5 27.Be4 Bc3 28.Bc2 Be5 29.Qf2 Bb8! 30.Qf3 Rc5 31.Bd3 Rc3 32.g3 Kh8 33.Qb7 f5!? 34.Qb6 Qe5?! 35.Qb7? Missing the trick 35.Bxf5!! which should hold. 35...Qc7? Far too conservative. Both 35...Rg8 Viswanathan Anand, the 15th World Champion. The and 35...Bc7 were very strong. line begins with Wilhelm Steinitz in 1886.
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My Favourite Martin Jeff Martin at the Coolangatta Hotel Thursday
nor musket, but thunder is through the windswept crags its voice and lightning is its gaze. It will lay waste those of the Sheeps Head peninwho look upon it, and yea, sula in West Cork, pause will they forever speak of the to reflect on the wondrous day The Armada landed upon beauty, and listen. Listen their shore.’ closely and you will hear it. Former Tea Party front man A storm is coming, menacing Jeff Martin and legendary perand pulsating with intent to cussionist Wayne Sheehy are sweep away all in its path. on a mission. With their newly In its eye there is a force, a raiding party, lustful, brood- formed rock’n’roll powerhouse, The Armada, the dynamic duo ing and terrifying when it are set to launch an attack on strikes. It carries not sword,
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the aural landscape, mixing the captured audio slaves of numerous campaigns into a set of wholly new material for release in the Autumn. Drawing on the pairs vast experience of both studio and live performance, this album is a declaration of intent. Yes, the culmination of months of work, but only the beginning of the real campaign, getting out on the road and storming the gates of complacency. This is where
east meets west, past meets future, now meets then, light meets shade, they shake hands and slug it out. Following on from his time as band leader with Canadian three piece The Tea Party, Jeff Martin’s move to Ireland has yielded a creative spurt in the seminal guitarists psyche. Blending his love of balls to wall rock with his enduring fascination with middle eastern, Indian and Turkish
music, the spark blossomed to a flame once his new studio, Kingdom, was completed. Nestled in the hills overlooking Dunmanus Bay, Jeff has created an analogue wonderland, free from the computerised enhancements of so much of today’s music scene. Old school mic techniques, an array of exotic instruments and good ol’ performance capturing is what makes this place tick. And it ticks like a time bomb. And when the bomb goes off, the sound you will hear is the thundering drums of Wayne Sheehy. Having cut his teeth with cult Irish band Cactus World News, and following up with an illustrious career as skin man to the likes of Ronnie Wood and Bo Diddley, Wayne’s awesome force behind a kit is the perfect compliment to Jeff ’s searing guitar work. Even as an acoustic two piece (the pair having been touring with this setup for the past two years), they are a sight and sound to behold. No half measures here, every gig is a flatout tornado of passion, refined in its content, raucous in its delivery. Jeff Martin’s Armada are coming, run for your lives, but toward the storm, it will wash your soul clean, blow away the cobwebs from your mind and leave you wondering where they came from. Is it heaven, is it hell, who cares, who can tell. Thursday at the Coolangatta Hotel. Tix $59.90 from Oztix.
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soapbox Mandy Nolan
A Hard Subject When I had the sex talk with my kids I didn’t go into a lot of detail. I opted for the old classic ‘when two people love each other very much they lie down together and eventually have a baby.’ It occurred to me only recently it might be the reason why my kids never want to go to bed. I didn’t explain any of the details. I mean, how do you describe casual sex to a 7 year old? ‘When a person reaches about 15 – maybe older, maybe younger, they’ll suddenly decide to lie down with lots of different people, some whose names they may never remember and whose faces in latter years one can’t recall.’ I stiffed (pardon the pun) on arousal and didn’t have the capacity to even begin to render the complexity and wonder of the human orgasm. ‘And that alone will make you do things you never intended. You will wear shirts, watch movies and eat food that you despise, all in the hope of landing the elusive O.’ I couldn’t do it. For a young innocent mind the concept of penis entering vagina, dispersing seed (sounds like an automatic bird feeder) ending with the great uteral easter egg hunt is enough to twist their tiny minds. I detailed gestation and the eventual and theatrical emergence of the child through the red velvet show curtains of the vagina. Even in my pictures it felt more like describing a vaudeville peformance than an actual birth. Each of my three children recoiled in disbelief and mirth at that story alone. I have saved the extra details for their teenage years. In my defence, all the books on sex education I have seen only deal with sex as a means of procreation. I’ve never seen a parental guide to assist breaking the scary news that manages to explain the concept of sex as a physical pleasure. I’m by no means a prude. In fact most would have me pegged as a bawdy bad-mouthed bimbo with few social mores. And they’d be right. I’m often shocked by people who are shocked by me. But even loose women like myself have limits. The other day I was driving the kids to school. It was just after 8am. They had won the battle of the airways and instead
of all of us quietly listening to the ABC news (my preference) we had a local pop FM station blaring top 40 hits with morons ringing in to identify the secret sound: ‘is it the thump of the disappointment I have with my miserable life?’ Then the ad comes on. I’ve heard it before. But the kids were never paying so much attention. ‘Do you have erection problems? Do you have difficulty maintaining arousal, well you are not alone... with nasal delivery...’ Hello. It’s early morning. If I had erection problems I wouldn’t want to be reminded of my floppy hell till the evening. My daughter pipes up: ‘Mum, what’s an erection.’ I don’t say anything. So she asks again. ‘Muuuuum WHAT IS AN ERECTION?’ Christ. How do you explain an erection five minutes before school dropoff? ‘Well, darling, when a man thinks about sex his penis gets all puffed up... a bit like the cat when it sees a dog.’ I froze. I was tempted to go for one of the old favourites ‘well I don’t know. Perhaps we should google erection when you get home from school. It would make a great subject for show and tell.’ Instead I went for a more lateral approach. ‘Darling, an erection is something they put up in cities.’ Whoever put that ad on is going to get nasal delivery all right. From me. It’s just not breakfast radio. Imagine if they started running ads for women ‘Do you have an unresponsive vagina? Trouble achieving orgasm? Not getting wet enough? You’re not alone. There’s a lot of frigid bitches out there. We were going to come up with a product. But we couldn’t be bothered.’ As for ‘nasal delivery’. It sounds like a pizza business. If you can’t get an erection I really don’t think my family needs to hear about it.
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In the Black The Black Sorrows are back on the road after completing the filming and recording for their first DVD, Four Days In Sing Sing. Four Days In Sing Sing was shot live in Melbourne’s Sing Sing Studios. The guys asked a few friends along for the ride and powered through a selection of the tracks they love playing at gigs. All tracks were recorded in no more than three takes with no overdubs. The result is a selection of old and new, borrowed and blue that will be a hit with anyone who has ever seen The Sorrows play. The Black Sorrows are one of Australia’s most-loved bands. They have sold more than a million albums and released their acclaimed CD, Roarin Town in 2006. Roarin Town was re-released last year with an exclusive bonus 7 track CD of Live Classics. With its intoxicating mix of joyous, uplifting music and heartbreaking songs about love gone wrong, Roarin Town recalls the Sorrows’ best work. But it’s no nostalgia trip. The album is a bold step forward for an artist who’s never been afraid of change. The Age raved: ‘From the first guitar strum of Lonesome Road, you can’t help falling for the Sorrows’ first studio album in eight years. A welcome return by one of Melbourne’s best-loved bands’ and went on to say: ‘No other Australian musician has had a career quite like Joe Camilleri. He’s like one of those fighters who, when you feel they are down for the count, suddenly jump to their feet.’ Friday at the Bangalow Bowls Club. Tix are available at the venue.
Singing it up at Satori Satori is the newly invigorated Belongil Cafe. Not the new shiny glass one. The older wooden restaurant attached to the backpackers at Belongil.
For years that cafe always had a laid back mystique, and as owners came and went they’d try to stamp their feel on it, but the cafe always won. It maintained that laid-back coastal chill. It’s really quite wonderful. Even under new ownership, the vibe is still there, scrubbed clean, modernised, but out of every pore of the building leaks old Byron. It’s the perfect lazy Sunday arvo venue to sit back and enjoy a beer (yes, it’s licensed) and enjoy some live music. This Sunday you have a treat in store if you decide to rock on down, when Aotearoaborn (NZ) Mihirangi performs acoustic soulful-roots and funky world-r’n’b with a rare performance style. She creates her own band sound – live in front of the audience. Using a loop pedal she layers her vocals into intricate harmonies with beat boxing and vocal bass lines, along with acoustic guitar and tribal rhythms, to accompany her r’n’b infused vocals. Paying homage to her Maori roots, her music is a passionate internal journey: from danceable rhythms to lyrics evoking quiet reverie. The insight into Mihirangi’s emotions, personal triumphs, fears and political convictions offers a refreshing perspective on contemporary culture. Her performance is renowned as a celebrated spiritual event that is sincere and inspiring, crafting an original rootsy dynamic sound that is deservedly attracting a wide and enthusiastic audience. Mihirangi plays from 4pm-6pm, but if you feel like getting in a little earlier, say 12pm-3pm you can catch Abbie Cardwell, the girl who’s been quoted as having ‘the voice of an angel’. This Triple J Unearthed winner draws inspiration from life and the roots of all music. Soaking up her favourite moments of rock, folk, country, soul and blues Abbie creates what she has nicknamed as ‘Rootsy Toons’. Having grown up on a healthy diet of her Country Hall Of Fame inductee father’s JJ Cale, Rickie Lee Jones, Tom Waits and Tony Joe White Records Abbie manages to condense those influences into her own style with an emphasis on the up-close-and-intimate side of ‘laid-back’. Abbie has taken her music around the United States and was the winner in the BMI,
Rosie Burgess at the Ballina Hotel on Friday and the Rails on Saturday
Joe Camilleri of the Black Sorrows. They play the Bangalow Bowling Club on Friday USA Song Competition 2004 held on Kauai, Hawaii amongst other things. She set up shop in Atlanta, Georgia for about five months after winning the BMI Song Comp where she worked with producer Butch Walker (of Avril Lavigne and The Donnas fame) and, in a beautiful twist of fate (long story… ask her about it), managed to land the mixing services of Nick Didia (Bruce Springsteen, Powderfinger, Rage Against The Machine etc) – also known as Brendan O’Brien’s number one engineer. It’s going to be a simply sensational Sunday at Satori with the Sisters!
Roots and Soul to Coorabell Abbie Cardwell and Mihirangi at Satori on Sunday
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It was wonderful to see the strength of community spirit rally together to bring music back to Coorabell Hall. This Friday, the fruits of one’s labour are well and truly harvested when three original roots and soul musicans play this humble venue, on the tails of their performance at Stradbroke Island’s Vibe Festival. This Friday will see Saritah, Mr Laneous and Simon Asquith grace the wooden floors. Having just
returned from playing major festivals and TV shows in her country of birth, South Korea, conscious roots songstress Saritah brings a potent blend of melody, message and groove that will uplift and inspire. Currently working on her upcoming album, due for release in early 2009, Saritah has toured consistently since the release of her debut album Gratitude in 2004, performing over 400 shows and winning over audiences with her captivating positive energy. Since forming the Family Yah in 2007, Mr Laneous’ shows have become the stuff of legend. He has become somewhat of an icon in Brisbane, playing a staggering number of shows and having recorded, toured and played with countless musical projects. Born one minute’s walk from where he now lives, Laneous makes grunty rudeboy soul and croon punk for the back beat generation, and is now set to emerge from his beloved Brisbane with his most extravagant musical offering yet – the debut album St. Ill Regal. Dividing his time between Melbourne and Byron Bay, charismatic singer/song-
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writer Simon Asquith has just returned from playing festivals and venues in Switzerland, Germany, Hungary, Spain, Croatia, Macedonia and Montenegro. ‘Onstage, Simon let’s his equally soulful nylon strings and sensual, life affirming lyrics, coax the audience into the uncertain future with all the warmth and hope that love and music can provide.’ (T. Marke.)Bring your love and your best dancing shoes. Doors open at 8pm. Entry is $12/15.
In the name of the Rosie
It’s on for young and the not old!
Rosie Burgess brings her special new band lineup, featuring Sam Lohs (Fruit), when she launches her brand new album Wait for the World in venues in the Northern Rivers. With the national success of her previous folk/roots release, Humble Pie firmly tucked under her belt, Rosie really comes into her own with this highly anticipated new album, and it’s certainly evident why she is being called ‘one of our country’s best rising stars’. The first single to be released from the album is the melodic and heart warming, Degree by degree, featuring the beautiful sounds of Sam Lohs on harmonies. Rosie will be appearing at the Ballina Hotel on Friday night and at the Rails on Saturday.
Shearwater Steiner School have been busier than a squirrel gathering his winter nuts. Their latest creative endeavour aims at getting young people together in a musical showdown: an all schools comp called High School Battle of the Bands. It’s going to be rocking the walls of the Mullumbimby Civic Hall this Friday. Ten bands, ten songs in a explosive musical shoot out from High School dudes and dudettes. Duelling on the night will take place with Half Nelson, 30 years from now, Before I die, Vital testament and six other young talented bands all competing for a cash prize of $200. If you want to see Fame of the future in the music industry and have a great night out then join in with the rest of the community to witness the talented youth of this shire. 7pm. Alcohol free refreshments available and tix are at the door. $15 Adults $10 students $25 family. Enquiries pavitar@ shearwater.nsw.edu.au or 6684 3223.
Macca and friends at Seagulls on Friday morning
Chris Cavill at Sphinx Rock Cafe on Sunday
Sam Buckingham at Sphinx Rock Cafe on Sunday
Simon Asquith and Saritah at Coorabell Hall on Friday
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The Toothfaeries at the Currumbin SoundLounge on Friday
to Ian ‘Macca’ McNamara’s ABC Radio program, Australia All Over, which is broadcast to over 100 stations across the From humble beginnings country. as busking duo Marcello On any given day of the Milani and Grant McMillan, week, Macca’s desk at ABC Toothfaeries became one of Brisbane’s most popular bands Radio is awash with hundreds of letters, emails and faxes during the 1990’s. An integral from fans. His down-to-earth, part of the explosion of the friendly, laid-back style has local live music scene in the made him the fair dinkum hero early part of the decade, they were intimately associated with of everyday Aussie battlers. In life, Macca has done it all! the birth and survival of The Zoo, Brisbane’s most enduring Born in Sydney, Ian graduated Sphinx Rock rock from Sydney University with an music venue. Playing roots Chris Cavill creates a unique Economics degree, but turned music before the category fusion of roots, blues and regexisted, their acoustic folk/pop his back on city life to become a jackaroo. His career took a sound was joyful, passionate, gae that forms the backbone of an original sound that lends and made them a staple of the major turn when he joined Col Maleny/Woodford and Austral- Joye as a singer/guitarist with itself to an impressive live the Joy Boys. He joined the ABC ian National Folk Festivals, performance. His rhythmic, in 1974 in the Industrial Relaalthough the band also played structured guitar melodies and tions department, but moved at Livid and the repeatedly soulful, distinctive voice creates to the Rural department two Big Day Out. The Toothfaeries a sound that switches effortyears later as a rural reporter. released three CDs, with the lessly from a mood of deep He then spent 12 months in first release I Believe and final reflection to one that sweats television working on A Big album Where still soughtpure energy. The African-influCountry and Countrywide, after today. They reformed for enced addition of Alena SchWoodford Festival this year and before returning to Rural Radio neider on percussion creates a to the delight of Faerie lovers in 1980 as a reporter, and evenrhythm section to die for, and everywhere, they are back, live tually, presenter of Australia one that must be experienced and cooking at the Currumbin All Over. Macca is passionate live to be fully appreciated. about meeting Australians SoundLounge on Friday. Following the release of his EP Clara’s Story in late 2007, Chris Hearing Vincent has achieved a remarkable six months of musical success. The Country music singer Rodrecord, which was launched to ney Vincent appears at the a packed out Northcote Social Ocean Shores Country Club on Friday and Club Banora Club has received regular on Sunday. He is currently airplay from Triple J’s Roots n promoting his latest CD/DVD All and other local Melbourne Music Memories and Madness radio stations such as RRR. His passion for delivering his music which received 4 nominations to a broader audience has seen in this year’s Victorian Country Music awards. This modest him play many shows throughold school performer has also out Australia, including tours had the honour of doing five to Adelaide, Tasmania and New Australian tours with the late South Wales, an abundance of great American rock’n’roll shows across regional Victoria, legend Gene Pitney and also and three very special perform- wrote and recorded two songs ances at last years Queenscliff with him as well. His show is Music Festival. As his journey variety entertainment, a mixwith music progresses, so do ture of country, comedy, old the experiences and influences time standards and rock’n’roll tributes to Australia’s own king that encourage and shape his of rock’n’roll Johnny Okeefe. unique sound change, guaranteeing his passion for music will never waver. In his words Goin to Macca’s for ‘I’ll slap that chord till I die.’ He plays the Sphinx Rock Cafe on the Country Ladies Sunday with support act Sam Every Sunday morning, almost Burrell. two million listeners tune in
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from all walks of life, and relishes the chance to travel with his shows. In his off-the-cuff style, he delivers an eclectic mix of music, poetry and anecdotes, delighting audiences of all ages with his true blue Aussie humour and inimitable knowledge of our wide brown land. On his latest tour, his quest is to raise money for the CWA. If you have ever made 100 in the backyard at Mum’s, worn gumboots or a big hat, come along and say gidday to Macca at Seagulls on Friday November 7 for a special morning show (10.30am DST/11.30am Qld time), packed with songs, side-splitting yarns, entertaining videos and tales from his travels around Australia. To book, call the box office on 5587 9033. Tickets are $18 for members, $20 for nonmembers.
Bamboo nights Summer is well on its way, and as the nights get warmer, head down to Bamboo Restaurant and Lounge Bar to unwind and watch the sun set while
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sipping on your favourite Belvedere cocktail, personally mixed by the Belvedere Ambassador Barman. During the month of November, Belvedere Vodka proudly presents Sun Sets with live music by DJ Ari. Friday nights will come alive with the sounds and tastes of a Balinese paradise. Sun Sets take place poolside at Bamboo Restaurant and Lounge Bar from 5.30pm. Complimentary tapas is available for all guests between 6pm and 7pm. For further information or to book a table for dinner, please call Bamboo Restaurant & Lounge Bar on 02 6670 5555.
Jazz Man at the Goldie Johnny Nicol has been described as ‘the finest jazz guitarist stylist in Australia’. He returns to the Gold Coast Arts Centre to play for the Gold Coast City Jazz Club, performing on Monday at 7pm in The Basement. Johnny Nicol was born at Ayr in far north Queensland. His introduction to music was at family gatherings around an upright piano played by his sisters. Talent was Johnny’s passport out of hard labour to the wondrous world
of music. Johnny journeyed south to Sydney and worked at various jobs including playing guitar at Bill McConnell’s Redfern boxing gym, where three Maori musicians linked up with Johnny and they formed the now legendary Maori Troubadours. During his years with the Troubadours, Johnny travelled the length and breadth of Australia and often performed up to fifteen shows daily in a marquee on showgrounds. Johnny left the Troubadours to go solo. During 1989 considerable recognition came Johnny’s way with his nomination for three major awards – the Mo Award as an entertainer, the inaugural Ricky May Jazz Award and the Artist and Performing Rights Award for the Best Australian Composition for his song Where the Love Is –- a song featured on his album for Larrikin Records. Johnny’s albums include Touch of Blue, Traces, I Remember, Where the Love Is, Moving Forward and Just the Way You Are. Joining Johnny Nicol on stage are Steve Russell (Piano), Ian Beddows (Bass) and Willy Qua (drums). Tickets: Members $20 ~ Guests $25. Bar open and food available from 6pm. Showtime 7pm. Bookings to (07) 5528 8015.
Bright Lights Shining Through Bright Lights Performance School presents their final production for 2008. Their Year 5/6 group made up of 26 cast members from 7 local primary schools will perform The Golden Keys produced, directed and choreographed by Brian Dale, Lee Purdie and Rebecca Balfour. Cleo, played by Samara Tyrell, is The Golden Child. To the children of Atlantia, Cleo has the power and the ability to save them. The Atlantians, under the command of Princess Tia (Kristy-Lee Wilson) are losing their life force; losing the ability to carry out simple daily tasks. They need Cleo to rescue them. She has to collect a number of keys that will unlock the vault that stores the Atlantian children’s life force. However, the vault is guarded by the evil Laticians, ruled by Gravestone (Gabe Francis), who grow smarter and more powerful each time they steal an Atlantian life force. They hide the keys to the vault throughout different parts of the world and these keys can only be found by solving a puzzle. Cleo thinks she is just an
Johnny Niichol at the Gold Coast City Jazz Club at the Gold Coast Arts Centre on Monday ordinary girl and knows nothing about the Atlantians or Laticians. Fortunately for the Atlantians, Cleo is about to take off on a world trip. If they can lead her towards finding the keys Cleo may be able to save the children of Atlantia. Is Cleo capable of finding the keys? Will she save the Atlantians? The Golden Keys is an entertaining musical full of mystery and intrigue. Tickets will be available at the door. Adults $15 Students $8. Performances are Thursday Nov 6 at 7.30pm and Friday Nov 7 11am and 7.30pm at Byron Community Centre Theatre.
Rodney Vincent at the Ocean Shores Country Club on Friday and Club Banora on Sunday
Wonderful workshops at the Mullum Music Fest! A mini Mullum Music university will be taking place all day Saturday Nov 22 and Sunday Nov 23 as an integral part of the inaugural Mullum Music Festival. With musical workshops designed for kids through to all levels of adults, this is a rare chance to experience the artistry of the festival starring artists, up close. From 10:30am until late afternoon, the Scout Hall (behind the Post Office), will be the venue for your own music making. For the kids they’ve enlisted Julia Monacelli to
teach her renowned Songwriting classes for two different age groups. On Saturday she’ll run a group for 7-13 year olds, and on Sunday it’s the Teens from 14 - 20 who get to express it all. Then choose from Hip Hop is My Passport with Morganics’ Morgan Lewis, where you get to create your own track in one fun session, to unleashing your vocal imagination with the inimitable Mr Percival, or take a stab at that easy-to-play Ukulele with the inspiring Benhur (Blue Hulas, Blackbirds). If you’ve secretly wanted to songwrite, the Mullum Music Festival offers a choice of workshops with three of its starring singer/songwriters: Jackie Marshall, Sara Tindley and Lucie Thorne. And to top it all off, don’t miss the lecture/demonstration on The Life of a Hereditary Musician with Jali Buba Kuyateh, who will share his depth history of kora playing in his West Africa culture, and treat us to an intimate show as well. Admission:$12 for all workshops, or free on the Sunday if you purchase the Sunday Festival Ticket. Festival Tickets are available at:www.mullummusicfestival.com or email Alison Pearl to reserve your ticket for payment on the day. For further info: Alison Pearl apearl@mullum.com.au
RidinG THE SounDwAvE ‘The band that came out of that project is called Low Pressure Sound System – basically we put the word out for the people we’d met playing and surfing over the years, there were crew there who didn’t surf and crew there who didn’t play… they just sat in the background and cheered us on!’ For anyone attending the festival who wants one program that affords a pick of players, this could be it. Michael McFadin, co-founder of Ubiquity Records raved: Featuring Tony Hughes ‘Cyrus Sutton and I are S-T(vocal) of King Tide, Terepai O-K-E-D to be working with Richmond (drums) of King Band of Frequencies, their Tide/Whitlams/Missy Higgins, music crosses all genres in a Mark Henman (drums) of Afro very effective way. Sol Carroll’s Dizzi Act, OJ Newcomb (bass) guitar tones are the sh*t and of Band Of Frequencies/Afro their futuristic live audio/visual Dizzi Act, Sol Carroll (guitars shows tie it all together with and vocals), Col ‘fingers’ the audience!’ Malone (keyboards/synth) of Afro Dizzi Act, James Cox Sol is also known for his (percussion) of Afro Dizzi Act, work as guitarist and lead Chris Lane (flutes and sax) of vocalist with Afro Dizzi Act, Oka and Stu Fegie (DJ) of Oka. appearing at the Mullum Music Festival in a special The guys rely on each other’s program that showcases the ability to improvise and collaborating artists who follow. recorded on the Aussie surf ‘We are playing it all by ear, flick that tells the intimate we are checking the vibe, story of surf and sound. using a bit of each band’s The Life Like Liquid Band are individual sound to create impressive. The Low Pressure Sound
Sol R Carrol is a busy guy. In the band sense one might say he’s happily polygamous, enjoying the freedom many creative relationships give a man. His outfit, Band Of Frequencies, has landed their first international release with US label Ubiquity Records releasing the soundtrack to the award winning film Under The Sun which was co-created by Band Of Frequencies and prolific producer Shawn Lee.
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System. We draw on each other’s material – and we have heaps to draw from. On the night, we will have a theme, we will explore that together and see where it takes us. We have used the themes that we discovered during the recording. Once you find a starting point and sometimes a signal for where to go it’s easy. Finishing can be a tricky thing – you throw something into the musical broth and do the eye contact – the old eyebrow raise and someone will jump on the same rhythm and invariably someone didn’t catch the eye and they go somewhere else and a whole new tune will be born. Each person just adds their own feel. We didn’t go searching for each other. I believe that life just brings people of a similar ilk together.’
thought process becomes that when you become part of the wave, you are in the no-mind state when you are making music, like you are in surfing. This then allows you the freedom to be where you are and create most honestly and be completely present. This is the sort of thing they talk about in the film.’ He laughs, ’I am the no-mind man’.
Life Like Liquid is the surfing equivalent, of What the Bleep – an exploration of what it means to become part of the wave. Sol is tuned in to what it means to surf, on and off the wave.
Life Like Liquid is a featured event at the Mullum Music Festival. With the film screening first, and then the players of Low Pressure Sound System creating unridden rhythms in the show that follows. It’s about spontaneity, where nothing is written, and nothing rehearsed. Saturday November 22 at the Mullumbimby Civic Hall. 2pm – 5pm. Tix are $26 for adults and $12 for kids. Tickets at www.mullummusicfestival. com.au or Hotel Great Northern, All Music and Vision Stores and Vitamin Records – Train Street industrial complex, Mullum.
‘In the water it’s a responsive state of mind – there’s a lot of correlations between sound waves and ocean waves, the
Afro Dizzi Act also feature on Friday at the Mullum Bowlo and on Sunday again at the Bowlo.
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FRIDAY 7 ■ SOUTHPORT YACHT CLUB 6.30PM KULAZ ■ GOLD COAST ARTS CENTRE, 8PM COMEDY IN THE BASEMENT LAWRENCE MOONEY, STEVEN J WHITLEY, MC STEVE AITKEN
■ GOLD COAST ARTS CENTRE, ARTS THEATRE 7PM GOLD COAST YOUTH ORCHESTRA ■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL 8PM NOISEWORKS, TAXI RIDE + MOVE TREES
■ COOMERA WATERS TAVERN 7.30PM LEIGH JAMES
■ COURAN COVE ISLAND RESORT 5.30PM SUMMER DAZE
■ CURRUMBIN RSL SOUNDLOUNGE 8PM TOOTHFAERIES + MAL WEBB & LOREN
■ MERRIMAC TAVERN 7.30PM DIVA DIVO
■ COORABELL HALL 8PM SARITAH, MR LANEOUS & SIMON ASQUITH ■ BURLEIGH GOLF, GOLD COAST 7PM TANSENNE JAM ■ MERRIMAC TAVERN 7.30PM RED CHERRIES ■ MULLUM CIVIC HALL 7PM HIGH SCHOOL BATTLE OF THE BANDS ■ RADISON RESORT, GOLD COAST 6.30PM DAMON RILEY ■ ROYAL PINES RESORT 8PM FILL ■ SEAWORLD, NARA RESORT 7PM ALEX FIETZ ■ SALTBAR, KINGSCLIFF 8.30PM SMART ARTISTS ■ SEAGULLS, STARDUST PIANO BAR 11.30AM MACCA & FRIENDS, CONNECTIONS 6PM KEN ALEXANDER 9PM LOADED DICE ■ UKI CAFE 6PM JAM NIGHT ■ UKI HALL 7PM SPANKINHIDE ■ LUFFLEY CAFE, M’BAH 7PM LIVE MUSIC ■ BAMBOO RESTAURANT & BAR, SANTAI 7PM DJ ARI ■ OCEAN SHORES COUNTRY CLUB 6.30PM RODNEY VINCENT ■ BYRON COMMUNITY CENTRE 11AM + 7.30PM THE GOLDEN KEYS BY BRIGHT LIGHTS PERFORMANCE SCHOOL ■ BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 9.30PM JUMBLE DAT ■ THE RAILS, BYRON 7PM THE BOHEMIAN COWBOYS ■ LA LA LAND, BYRON FOLLY & GENERIC
■ BANGALOW BOWLING CLUB 8PM THE BLACK SORROWS ■ HOTEL BRUNSWICK 7.30PM FORD BROTHERS
■ TOOLEY’S BAR & RESTURANT 8.30PM THE APPLE TREE ■ MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES CLUB 6.30PM CLELIA ADAMS ■ O’REILLYS RAINFOREST RETREAT 6PM ROBBIE DUNN DUO ■ RADISON RESORT, GOLD COAST 6.30PM JULIAN JONES ■ ROYAL PINES RESORT 6PM TANIS ALIA ■ SEAWORLD, NARA RESORT 7PM DARREN MCCLEAN ■ SALTBAR, KINGSCLIFF 8.30PM KEL HARPER ■ SEAGULLS, STARDUST PIANO BAR 8.30PM THE FABULOUS 60'S SHOW CONNECTIONS 6PM KEN ALEXANDER 9PM BAD CATS ■ UKI CAFE 6PM BILL JACOBI ■ SHEOAK SHACK, FINGAL HEAD 7PM GEOFF TURNBULL ■ BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 9.30PM BOMBA ■ HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON SPARKADIA ■ THE RAILS, BYRON 6.30PM ROSIE BURGESS ■ LA LA LAND, BYRON LIVEWIRE ■ HOTEL BRUNSWICK 7.30PM BABY FACE
SUNDAY 9 ■ GOLD COAST ARTS CENTRE, ARTS THEATRE 7PM STREET JAM ■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL 7PM NOISEWORKS, TAXI RIDE + MOVE TREES ■ CLUB BANORA 10AM RODNEY VINCENT ■ POTTSVILLE BEACH SPORTS CLUB 1PM THE HAVE A GO SHOW REVUE ■ TOOLEY’S BAR & RESTAURANT 5PM
TANIS ALIA ■ ROYAL PINES RESORT 6.30PM TRACE ■ SALTBAR, KINGSCLIFF 1PM ERIN O’HAGAN ■ SEAGULLS CONNECTIONS 3PM DEEP CREEK ■ SPHINX ROCK CAFE, MT BURRELL, 1PM CHRIS CAVILL & ALENA, SAM BUCKINGHAM ■ GREENMOUNT SURF CLUB 2PM-6PM KING LOUIE BAND ■ SOUTHPORT YACHT CLUB 4PM STREET CAFE ■ SATORI, BYRON 12PM ABBIE CARDWELL 3PM MIHIRANGI ■ BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 4.30PM BOMBA 8PM DJ NOWAK ■ HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON HERMITUDE ■ THE RAILS, BYRON 6PM PACHA MAMMA ■ LA LA LAND, BYRON CAPTAIN KAINE ES
MONDAY 10 ■ GOLD COAST ARTS CENTRE, THE BASEMENT 7PM GOLD COAST CITY JAZZ CLUB, JOHNNY NICHOL ■ THE RAILS, BYRON 6.30PM SAM BUCKINGHAM
TUESDAY 11 ■ SALTBAR, KINGSCLIFF 7PM TRIVIA TUESDAY ■ SEAGULLS LAKEVIEW LOUNGE 5.30PM CRAIG SHAW ■ SEAWORLD THEME PARK 8PM MASKE ■ THE RAILS, BYRON 6.30PM SLIM PICKENS
WEDNESDAY 12 ■ SALTBAR, KINGSCLIFF 7.30PM SIT DOWN COMEDY CLUB: MICKEY D, KATRINA DAVIDSON, MC LINDSAY WEBB ■ SEAGULLS – LAKEVIEW LOUNGE 1.15PM DON WHITAKER ■ HOTEL BRUNSWICK 3PM WEAR THE FOX HAT 7PM SOLOIST
THURSDAY 13 ■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL 7PM JEFF MARTIN, ARMADA ■ SEAGULLS, LAKEVIEW LOUNGE 5.30PM FAITHFULLY YOURS
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with John Campbell
RocknRolla Pommy gangsters are always Eastenders, awright? In writer/ director Guy Ritchie’s latest, the usual wall to wall glottal stops have been joined by the lingo of a meanski crew of Cossacks, with top shelf dirty deeds ensuing. It begins with a lot of background information being narrated by Archie, minder to Lenny, the primo old school crook who has a bent finger in every London pie and who is now negotiating a major deal with Uri, a Russian billionaire. The pair meets in Uri’s suite overlooking a massive stadium – a thinly veiled reference to Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich – and Uri lends Lenny his lucky painting. The painting disappears, a couple of geezers relieve Uri’s couriers of seven million Euros and things go from bad to worse. If anything, Ritchie seems too concerned with style and making an impression, which is a shame because when it finally settles and the all-important atmos has been established, the result is a crafty story with a host of well drawn characters. But for scheming accountant Stella, played by Thandie Newton with a feline Eartha Kitt coolness which is very agreeable, they are all lads and none of them are on the right side of the law. Naturally, some crooks we would forgive, and Gerard Butler (One Two), Tom Hardy (Handsome Bob) and Idris Elba (Mumbles) are our rough diamond mates. But it is Toby Kebbell’s Johnny Quid, the skinny, rat-arsed dope fiend, on whom we eventually focus. His justification for his unrepentant, hopeless love of drugs, coloured at a near subliminal level by a piece from Lou Reed (with the Velvet Underground?), is a rare example of the spell that can be cast by an astute mixing of sound, pictures and words. Much movie music these days is a case of ‘pick a hit’ to express the mood and, though we all enjoy a sing along soundtrack, it is a dumbing-down, lazy option for any filmmaker. Ritchie’s use of the thrashing pub band as accompaniment to a street bashing is equally effective (and it also accentuates the inherent violence that is never far below the surface
of most hard rock). With echoes of Trainspotting and The Bank Job, I enjoyed this more the longer it went. It is wickedly funny without trying for a laugh a minute, intricately plotted, honest in the way it deals with homophobia and drug addiction, and, as all crim-flicks are deep down, strongly moralistic – ie, a villain is exposed and gets just desserts.
Saw V A bloke regains consciousness and finds himself manacled and spread-eagled on a table in a dimly lit dungeon. Above him is a giant blade. It swings like a pendulum and rips his stomach to shreds. Blood everywhere. And that’s just for starters. Next up is the hero detective. His head is jammed into a sealed glass cube which begins to fill with water. It’s unbreakable, of course, so you know what he does to save himself from drowning? He pulls a pen from the pocket of his trousers (I know, I never carry one there either), hollows it out and rams it into his windpipe. You’ve got to admit, that shows a lot of enterprise, but I barely had time to fully appreciate it before a pretty blonde was decapitated in another dimly lit dungeon. At that point I was distracted by something burrowing into my neck. After a few minutes of frenzied probing, I excavated what was a tick from behind my ear – it must have travelled with me all the way from Goonengerry. The darkness of the cinema didn’t help, but, having done it before, I managed to get it onto my left thumbnail then steamrolled it with my right. The crisp sound of its abdomen bursting filled me with inordinate satisfaction… there are degrees of sadism, I guess. Returning to the dimly lit dungeons, I found myself confused by the complex time shifts. There is a present, an immediate past and a more distant past, and the narrative, aimed squarely at an audience of computer game-playing,
task driven young men, hops from one to the other with hateful cleverness. The genre is not for everyone, but a good horror flick – and this one is expertly made – can be a lot of fun, but there is something deeply disturbing going on here and I feel some shame in admitting that I stayed until the end. I was intrigued and wanted to know who would win. The last victim meets his squelchy death in the classic walls-closing-in-from-all-sides torture, and, though morally outraged by the nastiness, I was also unsettled by being made aware of the dimly lit dungeon that is hidden in my brain. Australian Leigh Whannell and Malaysian James Wan have reportedly made $23.8 million in the last two years from their cult serial, which they claim is finalised with this instalment – but I reckon you can bet pounds to peanuts that there will be a Saw VI.
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ing life in the area. Organised by Julia Hancock of the Residents Association, it has been in preparation for months and has drawn a large number of entries from both local and visiting artists. Hancock is delighted by the response. ‘Once you’ve been to Uki you never forget it,’ she says, ‘and obviously it’s inspired many people to express their impressions creatively.’ Works are in all media, with the criterion that they must depict an aspect of life in Uki. ‘There is a wealth of artists, potters, sculptors and carvers living in this area,’ says Hancock, ‘but it’s often difficult for them with Judith White judith@tweedecho.com.au to attract an audience for their work. This exhibition provides a great opportunity to showcase some of that talent.’ Ukitopia calling Echo readers are invited to Uki, the village sign tells us, is attend the official launch of the where the mountains touch exhibition by deputy mayor the sky. Drawn by its natural Barry Longland, at 6pm on Satbeauty, artists, writers and urday November 15. A gold musicians have over the years coin donation is requested, and become an integral part of the there will be light refreshments community. and a raffle. The exhibition is Next weekend visitors are then open to the public from welcomed to Ukitopia, the vil9am to 5pm the following day. lage’s Arts, Life and Culture Fes- All works are for sale with 25 tival. Friday night, November per cent of the proceeds being 14, sees celebrations open with donated to Uki’s Historic BuildGlodance, then on Saturday ings Restoration Fund. evening there’s live music at Ukitopia, Sunday NovemUki Café and a night of film ber 16, 10am to 3pm, Uki under the stars featuring Crop village centre. Free. Circles. Sunday will be the main day of Ukitopia with music, Keeping history alive dance and theatre in the village One person not surprised by centre, and admission is free. the wealth of artistic talent in Organised by the Ukitopia the village is Mary-Lee ConArts Collective, it features local nery of the Uki and South Arm performers and school groups. Historical Society. ‘The Tweed is Artists appearing include very keen to be an all-embracLoren Murray, Imangan, Dave ing community,’ she says. ‘It has Innes, Marty Many Hands, Josie distinct cultures that have been Forest and Phil Eisenberg. brought together over time.’ It’s a family event with plenty As research officer of the of things for kids to do, and Society, Connery is custodian the monthly market is on that of the village records, housed Sunday, too. in the little building between In the village hall you will the Buttery and the village hall find Images of Uki, the biggest which has been the organisaexhibition to date of art depict- tion’s home for the past 15
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years. She founded the Society back in 1984, ‘well before computers’. Now, with the assistance of a team of volunteers, she is busy preserving the records and digitising the photographic collection. ‘We have more than 100 original photos,’ she explained, ‘and many hundreds of copies. People lend us their family pictures but they like things to stay in the community, and we respect that, so we are always willing to copy them and give them back.’ The earliest photographs date back to the 1870s and form part of an invaluable pictorial record of the area. Together with a small selection of objects such as the 19th century cradle which sits inside the door, many of them have been donated by people like Ida Daly and other descendants of early settlers – the Priests, Milsoms, Irvines and Fogartys. Connery has become something of an authority on these families, and has recorded their oral history by interviewing older residents, publishing some of the results in her book The Way It Was, now almost out of print but to be found in local libraries. The Society also holds paper records – documents of landownership, school enrolments, minutes of the Progress Association and the Hall Trust. Preserving them poses a particular challenge because of persistent damp and, more dramatically, periodic floods. A lot of documents were lost before the organisation came into existence, in the 1954 floods. Now papers are carefully stored in special archive boxes, and outside the front door is a yellow disaster supply bin provided by the council, for dealing with any possible repeat of the floods. Connery’s group was a prime mover in the initiative to bring the area’s historical societies together to form the regional museum, which remains a significant work in progress for the Tweed. The shire council maintains the building in which her team works. But she acknowledges that skilled volunteers like Carolyn Jones and Esma Thompson – both of them also stalwarts of the Hall Trust and the Rural Bush Fire Brigade – are essential to keeping the conservation project on track. Out of the minutiae of record-keeping, the team has developed some fascinating insights into the history of the area. ‘It wasn’t all hard work in the old days,’ says Connery. ‘People have always come here to lead a good life. The early settlers may have been practical folk but they were not illiterate or ignorant. They valued education, and they were prepared to experiment. ‘This community has produced a large number of people who have left to make contributions elsewhere –
radio-physicists, teachers, engineers, artists. And of course some of them eventually come home as retirees. ‘Why wouldn’t you?’ Work at the Society takes place at various time through the week but the building is open regularly on Friday mornings.
Escape from Uki Serendipitously, back in the centre of Murwillumbah, Escape Gallery features Uki artist Barbara Suttie in its Artist’s Corner throughout November. A former artist in residence at the Tweed River Art Gallery, Suttie lives in Uki and works mainly in oils. She is featured in the current issue of Australian Artist magazine. Suttie will be at Escape each Thursday until the end of the month, and will be available to talk to gallery goers. Showing there at the same time are works by Gold Coast bush artist Heather Bell, whose watercolours and acrylics depict beach, bush and shearing shed scenes.
Regional gallery events Exhibiting artist Helen CelesteAllen will give a free floor talk at the Tweed River Art Gallery next Sunday, November 16, at 2pm. She will discuss the making of her multi-layered and highly personal paintings. Helen will talk about her lifelong fascination with using the medium of paper and the root of her art-making being from the heart not the head or hand. Themes she explores include ‘shades of grey in our gender, our identity, our spirituality and our meditation on relationships’ and ‘voyeurism as a permissible act’. Fascinating stuff. A date for the diary: on Tuesday November 25, at 10.30am, the gallery will launch its anniversary book featuring 50 works from the permanent collection. The project has been financially supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation, and the honours will be done at the launch by noted Brisbane art dealer Philip Bacon. Not included in the book, of course, is the new raft of acquisitions from the 20th anniversary exhibition Wish You Were Here. There are just 10 days left to view the show before it closes on November 16, and after that we’ll bring Echo readers a full report on the results.
Big Ted, Little Ted and the rest. Audience numbers are limited Next Monday, November so that children can happily 11, Tweed Heads Library is jump around to the music, so holding an author talk at 10am. booking is essential. Tickets Grace Gawler will talk about $12, children under 12 months her book Grace, Grit and Gratifree. Call (07) 5587 9033. tude: a memoir, from which she draws lessons about ‘keeping passion and hope alive throughout adversity’. Gawler is becoming known internationally as a speaker on health and wellbeing, and aims to give her audience practical, realistic tools to take away with them for dealing with grief, illness and the trials of life. Among her inspirations are Jawaharial Nehru who wrote, ‘Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.’ And Ernest Hemingway, for saying: ‘The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places’.
Amazing grace
Early warning: Playschool The ABC’s favourite concert for littlies, Playschool Live is coming to the Seagulls Club at Tweed Heads on November 25. It’s a 40-minute show of songs, games and stories with Clockwise from top: Left to right: Volunteers Carolyn Jones and Esma Thompson with Mary-Lee Connery at the Uki and South Arm Historical Society. Photo by Marilyn Hahn. Spiral Drop by Alan Wain from the exhibition Images of Uki. Reproduced courtesy of Vibrant Imaging. Green Cauldron by Barbara Suttie at Escape Gallery. The Ghost Gum by Heather Bell at Escape Gallery. Ali and the Flame by Perri Wain, from Images of Uki. Reproduced courtesy of Vibrant Imaging.
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MY AMALFI COAST Amanda Tabberer her third visit to Positano, she happened to meet and fall in love with ‘the most handsome man on the Amalfi coast’, the son of a restaurant owner. This is the stuff of fairytales: six months later she had packed up her life and headed south to live with Sergio, with whom she would go on to bear a son and spend the ensuing eighteen years. Apart from helping out as a waitress at Da Adolfi, the family restaurant, she established her own screen-printed T-shirt business then a pure linen collection of fashion garments for men and women. All this we learn at the start of the book before she launches into a breakdown of all the towns and villages making up ‘her’ Amalfi coast. (That pos-
sessive angle bothered me initially until, upon completion of the book, I understood how earned it was...) There are twelve sections in all, each prefaced by a quotation from a well-known writer (and artist in the case of M.C Escher). Amanda is thorough, covering architecture, history, mythology, topography, culture, customs and festivals of each of the places, in writing whose style is down-to-earth and unaffected, and periodically tossing in pertinent personal anecdotes. Her appetite is infectious: not only for all things sybaritic (although there is much evidence of that) but also for walking and exploring, fishing and sailing and people. This is a guide which will describe to you the
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This is the sort of guide book that every part of the world should have. Written with both the objectivity of a ‘forestiero’ (or foreigner) and the subjectivity of someone who spent long enough time there to become fully and passionately familiar with it, My Amalfi Coast offers a beautifully rounded view devoid of the usual platitudes. Certainly, this area has drawn foreigners to its shores for centuries, not least writers and painters and film-makers who have famously documented it; it has inspired countless images of its cliff-hugging villages, dramatic backdrops and coastal panoramas. And yet Amanda Tabberer’s contribution provides a personal and highly knowledgeable insight into this part of southern Italy – managing, at the same time, an admirable degree of humility and respect. Daughter of well-known Australian identity Maggie Tabberer, Amanda had been working in Florence in the fashion industry when, on www.tweedecho.com.au
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interiors of small, out-of-theway churches then, a breath later, where to find the best gelato or the most exciting discotheque. What truly elevates this book to a travellers’ guide par excellence is, however, the photography. Australian Carla Coulson has over the past few years been establishing herself as a photographer of note. Based in Paris, her exquisite first book Italian Joy was published in 2005 and she has contributed extensively to Marie Claire, Australian Gourmet Traveller, Vogue Entertaining and Travel amongst other titles. Evocative and often sensual, her images are woven throughout My Amalfi Coast and capture the same sunny, languid spirit of the place as the text does. It’s a coffeetable book which may never leave your coffee-table, enabling you to vicariously live that life every time you dip wistfully into it. My Amalfi Coast– Amanda Tabberer. Penguin Books.
Ingredients 3 heads fresh spring garlic 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil 8 eggs 100g grated parmesan 4 tbsp finely chopped parsley Salt and pepper Spring garlic: Where good local garlic is concerned, winter can seem a long stretch. By mid- to late autumn all the Australiangrown wn garlic is finished, largeexcept ept ffor the mild, larg clove russian ssian va variety – this is good d to roastt as a ve vegetable but it doesn’t do ’t have thatt assertive, pungent rtive, p unge flavour. flavour.
Method Preheat oven to 160 0C. Trim garlic of its long shoots so only bulbs are left. The shoots are good to chop into soups or stocks. Place garlic bulbs on a roasting tray and sprinkle with a tablespoon of oil. Roast in oven for 15 minutes until cloves have softened but remain firm. Remove and cool a little. Peel individual cloves and place in a small bowl. Break eggs into a large bowl, add parmesan and parsley and season with salt and pepper. Beat lightly for 15-20 seconds so that the ingredients are mixed but the whites and yolks are still visible here and there. Add peeled ro roast garlic cloves and mix in. Hea remaining oil in a not-tooHeat wide skillet, making sure the oil coa oats the sides as well. When coats h ho and begins to smoke, itt iss hot pour in mixture. Keep flame up pour high and, an as the frittata begins high to form a cooked crust on the des, push toward the centre sides, o uncooked unc so mixture flows in rep to replace it. This method crea creates air pockets and results in a fluffy, light frittata. Once most of the liquid is cooked – the top should look messy and uncooked – remove the frittata from heat. Place a plate over the pan and turn out frittata onto the plate, cooked side up. Put frittata back into the pan, return to heat and cook for a minute or two. Remove, cool a little and serve. Serves 4-6.
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the A Division. At the -12 to the -17 carnival at Lennox Head last Sunday our -14 and -15 boys had good results. Callum Smith won the -15 surf and iron man and teamed with Jordan Carter. Nathan Sharp and Daniel Ross to win the cameron relay. Daniel won the sprint and Nathan the flags. In the -14s
Duncan Baxter took out the spirit, Jack Raward the swim and board and Jarrad James the iron man. Ashley Spence stood out in the 13 division taking out the surf, board and iron man. Many thanks to the Old Boys Association for their donation of an updated honour board for Surf Boat and Inshore Rescue Boat captains.
Roxy ‘Trials for Trials’ at Duranbah Dimity Stoyle from Buderim took a comfortable win in the Roxy Trials for Trials at Duranbah Beach last Sunday to advance through to the official Roxy Trials which will run the day before the ASP World Tour 2009 Roxy Pro on the
Gold Coast next March. Stoyle was a runaway leader the final when she quickly opened with a solid 7 point ride then immediately backed up that ride with an excellent 8.6 giving her a scoreline of 15.6 out of a possible 20 points inside the opening five minutes. ‘That was a dream start to the final,’ said Stoyle after her win. ‘Two waves just popped up where I was placed in the lineup and I luckily took best advantage of them. I didn’t find a decent ride after those opening waves and the other girls also found it hard to find anything decent so it worked out well for me.’ ‘To get to surf in the trials will be amazing, definitely it will be the biggest event I’ve ever surfed in. I’ll come up against girls like Carissa Moore from Hawaii and Sally Fitzgibbons (Aus) and to get the opportunity to surf at Snapper Rocks with just a few girls in the water. I can’t wait to take on those girls.’ Stoyle defeated fellow Sunshine Coast surfer Talina Christensen from Currumundi in the final. It was Christensen’s biggest result and she surfed superbly throughout the
Wein and June Wotherspoon. The raffle winner was Margaret Trapnell. Monday 3rd Club selected Pairs. Betty Sydneham and Margaret Trapnell def Ann Revie and June Wotherspoon. Coming events: Thursday 6th: Club selected fours Sharon Hinks, Pauline Bowen, Colleen Wein and June Wotherspoon to play Ann Revie, Colleen Payne, Rosalie Lowe and Lorraine Sandall at 1pm today. Club selected Pairs Betty Sydneham and Margaret Trapnell to play Pat Smith and Joy Ashford at 1pm today. Thursday ladies social arrive 12.30pm for 1pm start. Mon 10th – 1pm, Social mixed triples mufti dress , all welcome. Sun social club Xmas Breakup day with a beautiful BBQ lnch, Sunday 16th Nov – 08. Nominations open for the 2009 Pennant Season, commences February 10. Entries close Thursday November 20. Sheet on board for club championship fours for 2009. Bookings 02 6674 1816 / 2734. Kingscliff Ladies Bowls An important week for Maisie Edmed this week when she was presented with her Matriarch Badge (90 years) by Madam President Dianna. The annual presentation day was held last week with Senior VicePresident Sandra Akers taking out the Bowler of the Year award. Results of last week’s play: Winners Joan Dr Vries, Joan Heales, Joan Kemp, Jean Dalmayer, Maisie Lincoln and Sandra Akers. Runners up Avis Shipway, Joyce Styles and Irene Fuller. The date for our next monthly meeting is November 19 and the Ladies AGM is November 26. The club’s Mixed Fours final will be played this Sunday morning between Kev Liddington’s team and Michael Turners four. Pottsville Men Wednesday October 29 Winners with Highest Winning Margin were B Jackson and B Parr.Winning Rink went to B Mackay Townsend and A Scholl. Consolation prize W Hill D Thompson and W Whitney Friday October 31 Winners were D Thompson and V Scott Saturday November 1 Winners with Lowest Winning Score were R Bryant and D Grant-Mitchell.
Winning Rink went to J Hefferen and B Laybutt, the consolation went to B Wilson and J Rae. Sunday November 2 ‘Calcutta Day’ Winners of the Winners: W Fielding and T Fuller. Winners of the Losers J Fletcher and B Parr REMINDERS. ‘Barefoot Bowls’ every Sunday at 2.00pm, beginners welcome. For enquires and bookings for bowls call the Pottsville Beach Sports on 02 6676 1077. Pottsville Women Monday, October 27: Tweed Byron District Shield, Cudgen Leagues won with five wins and a draw with Pottsville second and Mullumbimby third. The ‘Moneyboard’ winners were Judy Whaites, Murwillumbah, and Judy Baxter, Pottsville. Raffle winners were Bunny Wainwright, Condong, Gwen Coustley, Cabarita and Faye Parkes, Brunswick Heads. Thursday October 30 Lucky Bowler was Lola Dowling with the Raffle winners being Jan Appleton and Anne Mackay. Winning Rink was Caryl Parker and Georgie Moore. Saturday November 1 Match between John and Doreen Buckley against Richard Scott and Aileen Swift. With a draw on the last end and after an extra end, the Buckley’s won by one shot. Updates: Nov 6: Monthly Meeting. Nov 22: Pennant entries close. Nov 24: Mystery Bus Trip. Dec 11: Presentation Day. Dec 18 Break Up Day. Visitor Info: Fri 1.30 pm mixed pairs with jackpot. Thurs Women’s Social Bowls 9 am. Oplease contact the club on 6676 1077 and follow the prompts. Tweed Heads Men Championships: B Grade Triples: Bill Hagen, Bob Perriotte, Col Moses d. Bob Chapman, Bill Grose, Ian Irvine 19/18; Jed Hambleton, Les Hughes, Ron Edwards d. Dennis Lusby, Paul Price, George Kendall 21/17; Clem Jones, Brian Scrase, Kim Stephenson d. George Mynott, Ted Williams, Gary Clarkson 25/12; Alan Davis, Frank McPhillips, Roy Nuttall d. Ken Withington, Peter Goldsmith, Terry Patton 20/16; Semi-final: Clem Jones, Brian Scrase, Kim Stephenson d. Bill Hagen, Bob Perriotte, Col Moses 32/12.
Senior Triples: Laurie Rea, Nick Separovich, Peter Harris d. Harry Mercer, Brian Bitmead, Bill Finney 34/8; Peter Goldsmith, Frank McPhillips, Roy Nuttall d. Bob Chapman, Bill Grose, Ian Irvine 25/7; Laurie Rea, Nick Separovich, Peter Harris d. Sean Harty, George Mynott [sub. Brian Lamb] Ron Taylor 19/14. Social Results: Friday October 24 Green 1: Ray Connel, Sam Ramsay, George Hanlon r/up: David Nelson, Bob Perriotte, Ken Schmidt Green 2: John Bailey, Clinton Bailey, Jim Bryant; r/up: Bob Cowen, Bill Hagen, Col Moses. Green 3: Len Fanning, John MacMahon, Bob Carr; r/up: Terry O’Reilly, Tom Reeves, Col Fishlock. Saturday Octovber 25 Green 1: Ken Davey, Dennis Agnew; r/ up: Bob Withers, Chas Hill, Bill Groae. Green 2: Jack Blagbrough, Bill Perry; r/ up: Jack Maloney, Frank Parsons Sunday October 26 Green 1: Ngaire Gibson, Brian Bevan; r/ up: Colleen Granger, Frank McPhillips. Green 2: Aileen Bolton, Joan and Harry Lyon, Ed Kolbee; r/up: Ron Edwards, Pauline Mooney, Pat and Jim Maynard. Tuesday October 28 Winners - Men - Ken Scott, Peter Howell, Tom Kelly, Geoff Dixon; r/up: Len Harrison, Tony Laycock, Con Impellizzeri, Sam Ramsay. Winners - Ladies - Marie Kelly, Penny Collins, Sybil Hambleton, Bridie Carey; r/up: Jess Armstrong, Mena Nunn, Ruth Wallis, Grace Watts. Wednesday October 29 Green 1: Peter Goldsmith, Roy Nuttall; r/ up: John Bailey, Clinton Bailey. Green 2: Harry Mercer, Bill Finney; r/up: John Mann, Ken Schmidt. Green 3: Tony Nicholls, Len harrison, Bill Knight, Ian Mather; r/up: George Kendall, Geoff Green. Friday October 31 Green 1: Wal Farr, Jon Swift, Jeff Walter; r/up: John Rayward, Laurie Rea, Peter Harris. Green 2: Alan Wood, Rod Stebbins, Ron Parker; r/up: Sean Harty, John MacMahon, Ken Calvert Green 3: Gordon Wright, Howard Waye, Mike Nedjati; r/up: Terry O’Reilly, Allan Hey, Roy Norman Saturday Novermber 1 Winners: Fred Peel, Ken Withington, Brian Bevan; r/up: Chris Bidwell, Richard
Mills, Con Impellizzeri, George Vlismas. Tweed Heads Tourers There was total of 32 players for a combined morning with South Tweed and Pottville and the Tourers on the Indoor Green last Sunday morning. Winners for the Tourers were Andy Lavelle, Clive Weston and Alan Stephen. * Please note that due to the club limited’s AGM there will be NO bowls next Sunday 9 November. GOLF Chinderah Veterans Social Golf Thursday 30/10/08 Stableford Winner A grade: Ed Franklin 45 points, new h/cap 8. R/up Geoff Hawkey 42 points, new h/cap 10. Winner B grade: Jim Donnachie 46 points, new h/cap 17. R/up Pat Linaker 42 points, (c/back), new h/cap 18. Winner C grade: Ray Brettell 44 points, new h/cap 22. R/up Carolyne Beynon 44 points, new h/cap 30. Ball rundown to 38 points. Next event 6/11/08 Stableford. Monday 3/11/08 Stroke and 3rd round championships in conjunction. Winner A grade: Betty Tolley net 55 new, h/cap 11. R/up Bob Dickie net 56, (c/ back), new h/cap 8. Winner B grade Laurie Reading net 55, new h/cap 13. R/up Elaine Watson net 58, (c/back), new h/cap 17. Winner C grade Maree Platt net 57, (c/ back), new h/cap 23. R/up Joan Yaldwyn net 57 new h/cap 27. Ball rundown to net 60 Next event 10/11/08 Stroke and 4th round championships in conjunction. Murwillumbah Golf Club Sun October 26 Ind Stableford Women’s Winner I.McCormack 40 pts and M.Cause 41 pts B/R/Down to 33 pts. Monday Ocober 27 Veterans 2 Person Ambrose Winners R.Neil and W.Bruce 64.750 nett, R/Up L.Morris and N.Shepherd 65.250 nett N/Pin. 2nd T.Soan, 5th H.Krenkel, 10th A.Collings, 17th K.Forster and B.R. Down 66.750 nett. Tuesday October 28 Women’s Individual Stableford in 3 Grades Winner Div 1 J.Moore 37 pts, R/ Up Div 1 J.Gielis 36 pts, c.b, Winner Div 2 R.McIvor 34 pts, c.b, R/Up Div 2 P.Buckler 34 pts, c.b, Winner Div 3 J.Davis 34 pts, R/ Up Div 3 B.Collins 33 pts, c.b. N/Pin 2nd D.Rabe, 5th A.Wedlock and R.Bateson,
Cudgen Surf Notes Surf Life Saving Australia A.G.M. and presentation of the annual report was held on October 24. Membership in all categories totalled 140,192 of which 39,994 were patrolling members in the 306 clubs. A total of 94,717 awards were gained which was up 43% from the previous year. Rescues recorded were 13,642, preventative actions 446,929 while spending 1,112,205 hours of beach patrols watching over more than 55 million beach visitors. The Association distributed $7,371,608 to states, clubs and branches. Surf LSNSW will hold their 101 year AGM this Saturday. Final proficiency tests for the season at Cudgen will be held for resuscitation on Thursday night and surf on Sunday with a 9am start. Entry details for the Mantra Salt Classic are on the notice board. It will be held over the weekend of 15th -16th November with Round 3 and 4 of the North Coast Boats at Scotts Head. In round 2 at Minni Water last Saturday the masters crew won their final and came second in
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BOWLS Burringbar Bush Ticks Winners on Wednesday were C Allard, B Andrew, L Andrew and L Proudlock. Friday winners: N Philip, L Proudlock, T Gibbons and C Hawkins an enjoyable afternoon on Sunday with the men’s club joining us winners were L Andrew and S Wade . Don’t forget our Manchester Unity Lodge charity day Sunday November 16. Everyone welcome mufti dress – barefoot bowlers are welcome and we have plenty of spare bowls for use at the club so come along and have some fun play commences at 3pm. The Bush Ticks are a mixed bowls club who play socially on Wednesday evenings and Friday and Sunday afternoons Burringbar Men Saturday November 1 L Philip and A Campbell. def T Allard and R Chapman, B Andrews and E Roberts def K Sharpley and S Robson and B Bathie and J Boyle def T Giacomici and S Wade. The jackpot did not go off and our member’s draw was won by B Bathie. Members are reminded of the visit from the Paradise Point Club next Sunday November 9. Play commences at 9am. We need 21-25 bowlers to complete a side. Our visitors will remain for lunch prior to their departure, members welcome to join them. The sheet is on the notice board and don’t forget Mick Dignan Day is Saturday November 22 – only 16 teams to nominate, 9 teams already confirmed. The sheet is on the notice board. CUDGEN LEAGUES LADIES Results of the first round. Club Selected Fours played last Thursday the 30th – Ann Revie, Colleen Payne, Rosalie Lowe and Lorraine Sandall defeated Faye Clingan,Yvonne Corcoran (sub), Maureen Alcorn and Liz Fleming. Lola Taylor, Judy Martin, Val Andrews and Margaret Trapnell def Betty Sydneham, Anne Law, Mary Hay, and Joy Ashford. Sharon Hinks, Pauline Bowen, Colleen Wein and June Wotherspoon def Pat Smith, Eileen Burke, Pat Pieterse and Isabel Nipperess. Thursday 30th. The ladies social results winners, rink 4, Sharon Hinks, Pauline Bowen, Colleen
Local surfer Brittany Nicholl from Cabarita, was in great form through her quarter finals and semi finals at the ‘Roxy Trials for Trials’ at Duranbah Beach last Sunday, but had a shocking wave starved final ending up third overall and missed out on the one prized position into the 2009 Roxy Trials. Photo Steve Robertson – Surfing Australia.
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day impressively winning her quarter and semi finals. By the end of the final Christensen was the only surfer capable of catching Stoyle although she required an excellent 8.25 ride and simply couldn’t find a wave capable of delivering that type of score. Third and fourth placed surfers Brittany Nicholl fromCabarita and Wini Paul fromTugun, had tough finals and both girls were left chasing combination scores. Brittany Nicholl had also been super impressive in her early rounds of the event but in the final simply could not find any wave capable of delivering a decent score. ‘Dimity sealed that win by getting those really good waves early in the final,’ said Britany on Sunday. ‘The rest of us simply couldn’t get a decent wave, it sort of went flat out there and there’s nothing I could do but sit and wait for a wave and they never came. It’s a disappointing way to lose in a final but surfing can be like that and really there ‘s nothing you can do when it happens.’ Only today’s winner received the prized position in the 12 Girl Roxy Trails and theother 11 girls in the trials have yet to be announced. 10th M.Morin, 17th B.Lane and L.Turner, B.R.Down to 31pts c.b. Friday October 31 Members Winner C.Read 45 pts B.R.Down to 36 pts Saturday November 1 Individual Stroke in 4 Grades Winners A Grade: M.knight 69 nett c.b and R/Up G.Philp 69 nett. B Grade: C.Hulme 69 nett and R/Up M.Rayner 70 nett. C Grade: M,Fenn 70 nett c.b and R/Up T.North 70 nett D Grade: A.Crocker 69 nett and R/Up B.Cooper 70 nett. N/Pins 2nd F. Dick, 5th R.Dickson, 10th R.Balmain and 17th W.Mavin. B/R/Down to 75 nett c.b SHOOTING Murwillumbah Pistol Club Week ended November 2 Air Pistol – Men – J Lumsden 572 S Nash 572 M Curtis 569 J Curtis 560 N Frankland 554 D Besson 475. Standard Pistol – R Rees 624 H Walters 615 A Berry 609 M Walters 566 D Dowling 564 J Lumsden 563 J Gove 560 R Hanby 560 R King 555 R Gospel 550 G Callaghan 529 P Walsh 518 J Kilpatrick 517 S Doyle 500 T Walters 497 R Kilpatrick 493 E Machielson 455. Rifle – G Callaghan 600 E Wenban 600 B Wenban 600 R. Gospel 600 M Walters 599 R Walters 599 M Luxton 599 J Lumsden 599 H Walters 598 N Luxton 598 B Welsh 598 T Walters 597 G Guinnery-Smith 597 J Blair 593 R Blair 593 P Gospel 591 B Cornford 589 J Hoctor 581 D Besson 500 SURF LIFE SAVING Cudgen Point Score Results 2.11.08 Run-Swim-Run 1. Phil Klein, 2. Sharon Klein, 3. Jemma Walker. Handicap Board - 1. Jackson Kenny, 2. Jo Colja, 3. Jan Gielis
SLSC PATROLS Cudgen SATURDAY 10-3pm ‘Pelicans’ Giles Wilson (C.) SUNDAY A.M. ‘Ducks’ Gary Raso (C.) P.M. ‘Seagulls’ Doug Fewtrell (C.)
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Learning to surf at the 2007 Rip Curl Girls Go Surfing Day, a beginner gets ready to take it to the waves at the Walkin’ On Water Surf School.
It’s coming up to that time of year again, when the girls of the shire have way too much fun as the Casuarina and the Walkin’ On Water Surf schools host the 18th annual ‘Rip Curl Girls Go Surfing Day’. In previous years as many as 6000 participants have enjoyed this all girl event. The idea of the all girl day is to promote the sport without the pressure that can sometimes keep girls out of the water when they are in mixed company. Surfing is one of the exciting growth markets in women’s sport at the moment and the ‘Girls Go Surfing Day 2008’ will be promoting this fact. The program is run at over 65 Surfing Australia surf schools around the country with team riders and high profile spokeswomen participating to encourage and support
the girls. Surfing is a healthy outdoor activity and the event will be actively promoting healthy lifestyle choices. All lessons will be presented by Surfing Australia Accredited coaches with an emphasis on fun and safety. The GSSD includes a lesson plan designed specifically for all-girl classes that has an emphasis on water safety and most importantly having fun. Classes cover everything from putting on a wetsuit to standing up and catching some waves. All participants receive a gift bag including an exclusive ‘Rip Curl Girls Go Surfing Day’ singlet and poster. All you need is your towel, swimmers and sunscreen – Don’t forget sun safety. Surfboards and all other equipment will be provided on the day. The GGSD will take place on
Cudgen ladies clean up at Pottsville Pan Pacs ‘em in Pottsville Women’s Bowling Club hosted the Tweed Byron District Shield. It was the first time for a long time that all ten clubs in the District were represented, hence there were 20 teams vying for the Shield.
The last end of the last teams on the greens, which required an umpire to measure the last shot, decided that game and the result of the Shield. Cudgen Leagues won with five wins and a draw with Pottsville coming second and
Mullumbimby in third place. The pictured grinning winners from Cudgen are Rosalie Lowe, Lorraine Sandell, Margaret Trapnell, Liz Fleming (Skip), June Wotherspoon (Skip), Joy Ashford, Pat Pieterse and Ann Revie.
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While the 10,000 participants in this year’s Pan Pacific Masters Games are keeping busy at their respective sports venues, Games organisers are staging a planning meeting for other international Masters Games events today. Senior officials from the New Zealand Masters Games, Sydney World Masters Games, Australian Masters Games, Alice Springs Masters Games and Lismore Masters Games are on the Gold Coast this week to study the operations of the Pan Pacific Masters Games. Now in its sixth edition, the Pan Pacific Masters Games is regarded as an industry leader and offers other Masters Games the opportunity to discuss event delivery systems with the experienced Queensland Events Gold Coast staff. Queensland Events Gold Coast General Manager Cameron Hart said this forum for all visiting Masters Games is being convened to explore ways to improve the Masters Games ‘product’ ‘The Masters Games concept is only relatively new in terms of major events with the first World Masters Games held in Toronto, Canada in 1985,’ said Mr Hart. ‘Since the first Masters Games on the Gold Coast in 1996, the quality of our event
delivery has been highly regarded and I am pleased to be able to share our knowledge with other event managers.’ Visiting Chairman of the New Zealand Masters Games Councillor John Bezett from Dunedin said following the signing of a ‘Memorandum of Understanding’ between the New Zealand and Pan Pacific Masters Games in 2004, both events have enjoyed substantial benefits from sharing information and ideas to improve the respective events. ‘Collectively the New Zealand and Gold Coast-based Masters Games have over 40 years of experience in presenting Masters Games,’ said Cr Bezett. ‘To be able to combine our experiences with the other experienced event managers present this week is a great opportunity. ‘The ultimate beneficiaries of today’s forum will be the participants of future Masters Games.’ Cameron Hart said that the Pan Pacific Masters Games continues to look for improvement despite its industryleading reputation. ‘The collective experience of the visiting Masters Games in attendance is second to none and I am looking forward to ideas to further improve our product in 2010,’ said Hart.
November 15 and 16 at local beaches and will cost $40 per participant, which includes a lesson, board and wetsuit hire and the Rip Curl show bag. For more information phone the Casuarina Surf School on 02 6674 1039 or Jamo at Walkin On Water on 07 5534 1886 or register at www.surfingaustralia.com.
TIDE TIMES PHASES OF THE MOON New Moon 28th Nov 3.55 am First Quarter 6th Dec 8.27 am Sagittarius Full Moon 13th Dec 3.39 am Last Quarter 19th Dec 9.30 pm FRI 7th
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0412 702 522
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Sheoak Edible Landscapes can bring your backyard, garden or small space to life in a productive and rewarding way.
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Classified Ads ECHO CLASSIFIEDS 6672 2280 PHONE ADS Ads may be taken by phone on 6672 2280 8.30am-12pm Wednesday 9am-5pm Monday to Friday Ads can’t be taken on the weekend AT OUR OFFICE ClassiďŹ ed ads may also be lodged at our ofďŹ ce: Suite 1, Warina Walk Arcade, Murwillumbah RATES & PAYMENT $13.00 for the ďŹ rst two lines (minimum charge) $4.00 for each extra line (these prices include GST) Cash, cheque or credit card – Mastercard or Visa. Prepayment required for: Garage Sales, Share Accommodation, Short Term Accomodation, Wanted to Rent and Work Wanted classiďŹ cations. DEADLINE 12pm Wednesday for display ads 12pm Wednesday for line ads Account enquiries phone 6684 1777
PUBLIC NOTICES – CLASSIFIEDS – Can be booked any time during business hours Monday to Friday by phoning 66722280 Please be very clear about what you want to have printed in your ad. Our Echo staff will read your ad back to you. Please help us by making sure we have correct details and phone numbers. Please also have your credit card ready for ALL ads placed over the telephone.
CELEBRANT DEREK HARPER 66803032, derekharper@mac.com
TAX DOCTOR! Ronald H Wolff, former ofďŹ cer with Tax Dept is happy to keep you in good tax health incl. GST. For personal and professional tax services call 66794129 Will make house calls.
Specialist rug washing & repairs Quality rugs for sale Cnr Wollongbar & Centennial Cct Byron Arts/Ind Est 6685 7750/0427 469 843
PSYCHIC CONSULTANT: MEDIUM With over 45+ years of invaluable experience as a Psychic, Consultant, Medium, Counsellor and Advisor for business, personal, career and relationships. I can offer a level of accuracy, a depth of compassion and proven psychic gifts, and I request that you do not reveal your particular enquiry.
NEW BRIGHTON Each Tuesday 8am - 11am HEALTH
KINESIOLOGY Clear subconscious sabotages. Reprogram patterns and beliefs. De-stress. Restore vibrancy and physical health. Clear allergies. SANDRA DAVEY Reg. Pract. 66846914 OSTEOPATH A biodynamic approach to Osteopathy in the cranial ďŹ eld
ANDREW HALL New Brighton, 66802027, Thurs, Fri. Not your usual Osteopathy.
LEARN REIKI Workshops in New Brighton. 66805098
CAR AUCTIONS
Buy at Dealers only through us. Phone David 0414306152 CHOICE MADE, $$$ SAVED.
CAR BODIES REMOVED FREE
HOLDEN VECTRA 99 model, exc cond. Must sell. $6500 ono. Ph 0447529746
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from $10.50sqm & Bamboo Flooring. For ceilings, walls, doors, etc. Ph 66884188 - sample & brochure www.bambooply.com.au LOCALLY HAND-MADE CUSTOM
JEWELLERY by Helen Luna 66844163 www.helenluna.com.au DIGITAL VIDEO CAMERA Panasonic NV-GS400. Excellent Condition, $1480. Ph 66779207 BURLS Redgum & Coolibah, all sizes. Phone David on 0414959446 TREADMILL Good quality, wide track, auto-incline. Used 5 times, $800. Phone 0427533557
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BARGAINS ’98 Rodeo Tray Back with Canopy air, p/s, 2/09 rego. VSK-500 ...........................$6250 Mazda 626 Hatch auto, air, p/s, 8/09 rego, very clean car. YWU-562......................$2750 ’99 Mazda 323 Protege auto, air, p/s, 2/09 rego, immaculate. AIE-542 ..................$8650 Holden Commodore Sedan auto, air, p/s, 7/09 rego, 184KMs. AQ-61-ER ............$1950 Nissan Navara Tray Back 5spd, air, work or play. QTD-343 .....................................$3250
35 CARS UNDER $10,000 www.dealcars.net 16 ENDEAVOUR CLOSE, BALLINA
Ballina Car Centre
6686 5586
DLN 19950
TRACTOR REPAIRS
TRACTOR REPAIRS Repairs, Parts and Restorations to all Makes and Models, on-site service available. Prepurchase inspections. Tractors sold on consignment for clients. Unwanted tractors removed at no charge
Tractor loader Daedong DK80C– 82 hp, 4wd, 925 hrs, a/c cab, FEL, QR, bucket forks auger $37,000 o.n.o.
TRACTOR SAFETY SCHEME Have an approved R.O.P.S. safety frame fitted to your tractor. It’s cheaper than a funeral. Phone us now.
BUSINESS FOR SALE
6680 3630 www.greenpack.com.au
PIZZA SHOP Located in popular seaside town, Pottsville. Good client base, fully equipped, $60,000 ono. Ph 0425375044
GARAGE SALES
BUSINESS OPP.
ECHO ACCOUNTS POLICY: Ads in this section must be paid by credit card or in person at time of placement.
WARNING The Department of Fair Trading has warned people to be very careful about responding to advertisements offering work at home. Readers should be wary if asked to pay money upfront for employment opportunities and never send money to a post ofďŹ ce box.
Grounds Maintenance Person. TVRS requires a person 15 hours a week to maintain the grounds and buildings of an administration and activity site. Application and information packages are available from www.tvrs.org.au – Positions Vacant or by phoning William on (07) 5524 8185 or by emailing williammcmanamey@tvrs.org.au Applicants MUST address the selection criteria. Applications close at 5.00pm on Monday 17th November.
POTTSVILLE BEACH share lge house, own bdrm/bthrm, sep living room + pool, $160pw & exp. 0407098993, 66763608
BRAYS CREEK via Tyalgum 2484, beautiful rural setting, northerly aspect, 2 large bedrooms, large living area, new kitchen & bathrm with spa, $300pw. Phone 0412367233 BANORA POINT WATERVIEW Granny Flat. Fully furn with everything. Own entrance, driveway, front deck and garden. Large, spacious. 1 min walk to river. All bills incl $270pw. 0414648669
POSITIONS VACANT Happy, healthy, conďŹ dent women wanted for nude photographic projects. Earn $200-$400+ ‘Alternative Ethical Erotica’ putting women back in control of their self image. An opportunity to be creative, take your own photos, ... and get paid for it! No obligation. No Sleaze. No pressure. Just great fun! Call Kate for an interview on (02) 6680 7755 LADIES (18+) ONLY – Sorry Guys Based in Byron Bay
GRAPHIC DESIGN / MARKETING Well Established, excellent client base, modern studio. Contact 0431044254
HAMMER & HAND
JEWELLERY COLLECTIVE Members wanted, 1 day per week, jewellery bench & showroom, Byron Arts & Industry Estate. Phone Bruce Pringle 0409960614
HOLIDAY ACCOM. PETS OK Mullum, lush, pool, spa, for single to family. Louella 0434497774
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5/1 Carlyle St, Byron Bay
6680 8253
MUSICAL NOTES BYRON SOUND LOUNGE rehearsals, recording & PA hire. 0411288101
LOST & FOUND LOST: MISSING DOGS 5 wks Cudgera Creek. Black Kelpie female, Border Collie male. 02 66762450
PETS WORK WANTED ECHO ACCOUNTS POLICY: Ads in this section must be paid by credit card or in person at time of placement.
ADOPT A CAT from Animal Welfare League NSW. Phone 66844070
HANDYMAN
FREE CAT TO GOOD HOME Blue Russian light weight moggy. Pink nose & paws. Been a loving family pet for 8 years. De-sexed/immunised. Must go to good home. 0447529746
MAN WITH UTE Phone Matt 0427172684
ONLY ADULTS BEST BODY MASSAGE. Guaranteed. 0415200866. 9-6pm, Brunswick Hds
WE HAVE TRACTORS FOR SALE
02 6688 4143
requires an experienced
ECHO ACCOUNTS POLICY: Ads in this section must be paid by credit card or in person at time of placement.
Rural Machinery Repair Service
Workshop Charltons Rd, Federal. Phone Bill for service.
eco friendly compostable catering and packaging supplies
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TWEED VALLEY RESPITE SERVICE INC
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TUITION LEAP. Learning Enhancement Advanced Program. Specialised Kinesiology for learning difďŹ culties. Proven results. Reg. Practitioner Sandra Davey. Ph 66846914
Your local qualiďŹ ed arborist
BAMBOO PLY
FARMERS MARKET
SHORT TERM ACCOM. ECHO ACCOUNTS POLICY: Ads in this section must be paid by credit card or in person at time of placement.
$$$s for most. Phone 0418189324, 0438189323
TRAMPOLINES, REPLACEMENT MATS & parts. 66851624 or 0409851624
6687 1006 Annabelle.
Notice is hereby given that Australian Bay Lobster Producers Limited (ABN 74 092 822 485) is commencing development activities of its aquaculture facility and associated seawater supply works in Cudgen, NSW under DA approval No. DA-282-11-2004-i. The Company will be maintaining the following lines of communications for general public comments or complaints during the course of its development. By mail: 42 Campbell Street, Bowen Hills, Qld 4006 By phone: 0437 464 989 By e-mail: community.comments@ australianbaylobster.com.au By order of the Board Australian Bay Lobster Producers Limited
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Natives & exotics for the home garden and larger landscapes. Great prices & huge range. Come and browse. Ocean Shores end of Coolamon Scenic Drive. Open 7 days. 66805505
All sessions by appointment only.
NOTICE OF COMMENCEMENT OF DEVELOPMENT
MAN WITH UTE Phone Matt 0427172684
PLANTS FOR SALE
BLISS BOTANICALS
ALI’S RUG CENTRE
HANDYMAN
COOLAMON GARDENS
SUBSCRIBE TO THE ECHO If you want to be sure of your copy each week, or if you have a friend who’d like to have a subscription, why not send them one? $35 per quarter or $125 per year, post incl. Write to ‘The Echo’ 6 Village Way, Stuart St, Mullumbimby 2482 including payment in advance.
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Noticeboard Tumbulgum get-together Tumbulgum Public and Catholic School former students together with past and present Tumbulgum residents are invited to an informal get-together on Thursday December 4, 2008 from 11am DST at Tumbulgum Tavern. For bookings and details call Brian Breckenridge on 02 6676 6343 or leave a message.
Tweed Coast Garden Association Tweed Coast Garden Assoc. will be holding a fancy dress meeting with a classical movies theme at the Cabarita community hall on Nov. 11 at 1pm. Flower of the month is daylily – 1 flower (no buds) and monthly theme is a Christmas centrepiece. Last meeting for the year. Phone Dennis or Kathy on 02 6676 4402.
Christmas sale Tweed Unlimited Arts Inc. of Banora Point will be holding their Christmas Sale Weekend on November 29-30. These creative people have been busy with pottery, paintings, spinning and weaving, embroidery and cards in readiness for this special weekend. Demonstrations, low priced quality items and refreshments all in this unique art centre. Inquiries (07) 5524 6223 9am-1pm weekdays.
Family history Tweed Gold Coast Family History and Heritage Assoc will be holding their monthly meeting on November 11 in Sth Tweed Sports Club, Minjungbal Drive, Sth Tweed Heads, 1.30pm (NSW) time. Guest speaker Marie Stewart talks on ‘Scrapbooking/Creative Memories’. Visitors are welcome and stay for tea/coffee following meeting. Infor Noelene Magrath 07 5599 8939.
Probus Club Murwillumbah Probus Club meets at 10am on November 17 at the bowls club. Phil Keevers, treasurer of Mur’bah Show Society will talk about the history of the show. The postponed outing to the Chorus Line musical has been fixed for Sunday, November 23. Bus leaves bowls club at 1.30pm (NSW time).
Furntiture sale Tweed Palliative Support is having a two day furniture sale at the old Print Spot Building in Church Lane behind the Murwillumbah police station on Friday, November 14 from 9am-4pm Saturday, November 15, 9am-2pm. If you’re setting up house, furnishing a holiday place or just looking for a little something to fill up that empty space in the corner – don’t miss this chance for fantastic bargains at rock bottom prices! Everything must go to make room for new stock. Come along and join the fun. Don’t forget there’s a free sausage sizzle on Saturday. Details TPS (02) 6672 8459.
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Backburner If Tweed council’s first meeting was their winter of discontent, then its second seemed to have thawed into an early spring. Chuckles and chirpy exchanges were in sharp contrast to the leaden atmosphere of their first get-together following a bruising mayoral battle which left all sides simmering with resentment. Even Greens’ councillor Katie Milne managed to appear cheerful as her colleagues shot down just about every passionately argued motion and amendment she tried to put forward. Being the odd-person-out may have helped create an affinity with colleague Warren Polglase who previously declined to join any of the dozens of council committees, saying others had conspired against him. The two even shared some light-hearted banter, with Cr Polglase suggesting she might get him to start voting green, but some think he was probably talking about the red and green voting buttons which are still proving a challenge to some councillors.
Outside St Andrews Presbyterian Church in Murwillumbah the sign is bang up-to-date. The sign apparently advertising dodgy financial services was snapped in Bali by our columnist Mungo MacCallum, and is itself a sign that he is now back at work. Read Mungo on page 10. ■ ■ ■ ■
Still, with Metricon challenging Tweed Shire Council’s retail strategy in the Land and Environment Court last week in a case which was costing both sides tens of thousands of dollars a day, we can understand why it would be happy to avoid further court action. But if that’s the case, why didn’t the company come to the party during early negotiations with council staff? Or did they know that developer-friendly coun■ ■ ■ ■ The councillors’ love-in ex- cillors were likely to save their tended to development giant bacon? ■ ■ ■ ■ Metricon when they decided not to prosecute the Mel- Observers are tipping an early bourne-based company for decision following last week’s dumping thousands of tonnes Metricon v council case which of unwanted fill on cane land may end up costing ratepayers a next to their development in motza depending on how costs Murwillumbah on the pretext are awarded. Pottsville busithat ratepayers’ money could ness chamber president Tania be at risk. The Echo’s tea lady Murdoch who sat through the reckons the case was a laydown case says win, lose or draw, misère for the council, with the ratepayers can be proud of the existence of the stockpile im- professional performance by possible to deny and the com- council’s planning staff, espepany admitting that the dump- cially development assessment ing was unauthorised. The only planner Rowena Michel. ‘They one appearing to face a mon- did a great job in defending etary risk is the developer who the council’s planning guidecould have been up for mas- lines which the developer is atsive fines and court costs if the tempting to bulldoze,’ she said. ■ ■ ■ ■ case had gone ahead. Will the council now nix any prosecu- One for the true believers, or tion of ratepayers found dump- non-sceptics among us, and it’s ing rubbish in unauthorised free. Professor Jan McDonald locations on the same spurious will give a half-hour presentation on climate change adaptagrounds?
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Sir Anthony O’Reilly is thinking of selling his 39 per cent stake in APN, which owns the Tweed Daily News. Rumour has it that the staff are already packing up their desks (if they were lucky enough to have one) while others have made appointments with financial ■ ■ ■ ■ advisers regarding redundanFeisty pensioners who are keen cy payouts. Bon Voyage, Sir to lobby the Federal Govern- Tony! ment for more pension can join ■ ■ ■ ■ the cause with the Pensioners Why are we not surprised? The Action Group that will meet at Local Government Association 2pm (NSW time) on Novem- of NSW says the recent council ber 11, in the Dusk room at elections were poorly run and South Tweed Sport Club. For managed by the NSW Elecmore info phone Terri on 0755 toral Commission. President 233096. Genia McCaffery said it was ■ ■ ■ ■ ‘not the so called deluxe service ‘Warwick, have you got a gun?’ that councils and their coma woman living on a few acres munities across the state are inquired of her neighbour re- paying for’. Like many Tweed cently. Seems the woman’s two observers noted, she found that sheep were down and out for voters were given incorrect inthe count. Fearing the worst formation, returning officers and not wanting to go too close provided conflicting advice the woman called on Warwick ‘and one candidate was told to put the sheep out of their they were elected when they misery. Before taking aim War- weren’t’. She also said that some wick told the woman to go and long term residents turned up have a closer look at the sheep to vote only to find their names and see if she could get them weren’t on the electoral roll. to their feet. With the help of ‘We fear ratepayers are being a friend she managed to get used as a cash cow to fund the the sheep up. Turns out the Electoral Commission’s gensheep weren’t sick after all. Last eral ongoing costs and we are weekend the pair were sheared looking into conducting an of their hefty wool that was independent review,’ she said. weighing them down! Good luck, LGA.
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