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Becton’s 800 tourist resort goes on displayLesley PattersonBecton’s revised vision for its North Beach site in Byron Bay has a very Casuarina Beach feel to it. Pressured by Byron Shire Council to dis-close plans for the entire site, Becton’s multi volume devel-opment application (DA) reveals a 431 bed tourist resort in an architectural style reminiscent of our northern neighbour, Casua-rina Beach.

The Becton DA is on pub-lic exhibition from March 3 to April 13. While you can view the weighty document at Council’s Mullumbimby offi ces and the Byron Bay library, the issue has been taken out of Council’s hands and it is to the Department of Planning that submissions will be sent and ultimately the decision made.

Stage one of the DA con-fi rms what we already knew, that a 117 unit tourist resort complete with a village cen-tre (health spa, resort offi ces, cafe, bike store etc) is planned

for the central part of the site. Appealing presumably to the community’s desire to reclaim the ‘wholesome’ tourist market, the DA says the resort will be family ori-ented and contain a mix of hotel units and townhouses. The emphasis though is squarely on townhouses with over 100 two and three bed-room townhouses.

What we didn’t know about were the details of stage two, which contains a further 57 two and three bedroom units or an addi-tional 141 bedrooms. To put this in perspective, compare it to the Byron at Byron Resort which when com-plete will have a total of 90 bedrooms.

There is a slight snag for the stage two plans in that the area is constrained by bushfi re risk. However, the DA states rather optimisti-cally that Becton doesn’t intend to lodge a DA until ‘the Bushfire Planning Guidelines have been revised

or amended to allow for tourist development’.

Talking of amending guidelines, last year Byron Shire Council, in consulta-tion with the community, came up with its own view of the amount and style of development that the Becton site could bear. Called a Development Control Plan or DCP, it stipulated a limit of 250 bedrooms. Stage one exceeds that by about 40 bedrooms, and combined with stage two the resort would contain a total of 431 bedrooms which equates to about 860 people at full capacity.

In an amazing coincidence, last week the Minister for Planning (that’s the same guy who will be determining the Becton DA) introduced a bill into parliament which among other things allows him to over turn DCP’s already pro-duced by councils.

Beacon’s Dailan Pugh believes this is no coincidence.

Alex McAuleyLanguage students in Year 8 at Mullumbimby High School are enjoying a real treat this semester with the arrival of Indonesian teach-ing assistant Ayu Kusumas-tuti from Java. The school was chosen to host Ayu who will help Indonesian teacher Linda Keyte with the teach-ing and learning of Indone-sian language and culture.

Ayu has been working at the Indonesian Australian Language Foundation

(IALF) in Bali for fi ve years where she teaches English to postgraduate and high school students. She has also lived in Sydney where she com-pleted a postgraduate degree in communications at UTS, so she is familiar with Aus-tralian culture.

Ayu is thoroughly enjoying the experience of teaching at Mullum High, and has been impressed by the students’

eagerness to learn. She has been surprised, however, by the difference between Indo-nesian and Australian high school students.

‘I never thought Australian high school students would be so different from Indone-sian ones,’ said Ayu. ‘In Indonesia, the children are much more disciplined, so I fi nd it a challenge to keep the

Ayu Kusumastuti, pictured above, teaches Mullum High students the poco poco. Photo Jeff ‘Shake It All About’ Dawson

What we might expect if Becton’s North Beach project goes ahead, pictured above, an artist’s impression of the tourist resort’s ‘village centre’.

Byron Shire Council appears to have shot itself in the foot over the document which dictates future development in Byron Bay and Suffolk Park, the draft LEP (Local Environment Plan).

Led by the Holiday Let-ting Organisation and sup-ported by some business sectors, opposition to the draft LEP has been building over the past few weeks, with calls for an extension to the public exhibition period and

talks of a public hearing. Byron Shire Mayor Jan

Barham admitted during last Tuesday’s Council meeting that there are mistakes in the draft document, which is on public exhibition until March 17, and suggested that the LEP be withdrawn from exhibition to correct those errors. The suggestion was later ruled out of order when Council staff pointed out it concerned a resolution cur-rently in force.

Cr Barham told The Echo that she was not aware of the errors when the LEP was exhibited.

‘They might be viewed as inconsequential but include some minor technical changes that may change the intent of the LEP. Some of the mistakes relate to holiday letting, environment protec-tion areas and some issues around density and develop-ment potential’.

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Dick Herne has passed on. Born locally, and a resident of Bangalow and Ewingsdale for 44 years, he brought joy to everyone he greeted. Always happy, warm and generous, and with a particular talent, he made us all feel we were his best friend. We miss you, Dick. – Kaye Hall

Farewell to Dick Herne

From front page‘The clear message that

he sends to the Byron com-munity is that Minister [for Planning] Sartor has appar-ently already made his mind up to override Council’s DCP for the Becton site. The only certainty it pro-vides to the community is that no matter what they do to regulate development, the NSW ALP is prepared to ride roughshod over them to give developers what they want,’ Mr Pugh said.

Stage three, which lies within the coastal erosion zone, also mentions motel accommodation but the details are unspecifi ed.

When The Echo spoke to Becton’s Simon Stockfeld

he couldn’t elaborate, say-ing, ‘the motel is further down the track’.

Despite the history of ani-mosity between Byron Shire Council and Becton, the two parties have been talk-ing of late. It appears one area of common ground that has emerged is the pro-vision of a 400 seat confer-ence centre as part of stage three.

Simon Stockfeld points out that the current zoning does not allow for a confer-ence centre but that ‘the draft LEP provides for con-ference centres in that zone’.

The good news in the DA is that Becton is planning to turn over 58 hectares of the

site to the community for environmental protection and undertake a fair amount of rehabilitation work.

While this is a great ges-ture, it should be said that most of that land is pro-tected wetlands and not zoned for development.

Asked about the approval process after exhibition, Simon Stockfeld said ‘the Department of Planning will consider all submissions from the public and govern-ment agencies then they will go through a process of approval or approval with conditions.

‘We are expecting a deci-sion around the middle of this year.’

If you get along to view

the DA don’t be fazed by the seven volumes of litera-ture.

Head straight to the State of Environment Effects which details the develop-ment proposals then if you’ve still got some energy start on the reference docu-ments.

Alternatively you could check out Becton’s website at www.northbeachbyron.com.au.

Remember submissions must be sent to the Direc-tor, Urban Assessments, Department of Planning, GPO Box 39, Sydney 2001 quoting DA 10-02-2006 and not to Byron Shire Council.

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Poco PocoFrom front pageAustralian students focused on their studies. However, on the positive side, students here have the freedom to express themselves and their opinions in class which Indo-nesian students don’t.’

Ms Keyte explained that she has targeted Year 8 for this program to offer conti-nuity of learning. ‘Currently, Indonesian is compulsory for Year 7 students at Mullum High, but is not offered again until Year 9 as an elective subject,’ said Ms Keyte. ‘I have organised a series of

workshops for interested Year 8 students who may wish to continue with Indonesian in Year 9 so that they don’t lose their skills.’

Ayu is delighted to be involved in the program and is very impressed by Ms Keyte’s knowledge of the language and culture, as well as the school’s excellent resources.‘Linda has planned the program really well and I’m really enjoying it,’ said Ayu. ‘I have to return to Indonesia as I’m on a con-tract with IALF, but if I ever get the opportunity to come back I’ll grab it.’

From front page‘Some of the issues affect

private land to a degree that could constitute a challenge. The important point is we have had a history of LEPs being challenged. I moved in June that we had all the legal checks done before the LEP went out on exhibition con-trary to staff advice that we exhibit it at the same time as getting the legal checks done.

‘Since then people have highlighted mistakes. We rely on professional staff to make

sure the document is water-tight. It should have had the closest scrutiny possible to ensure we did not have the technical challenges.’

According to Cr Barham the exhibition period will be allowed to continue, then Council staff will prepare a report on the submissions received.

‘Councillors will then have to resolve what amendments to make and we will have to make a decision whether the changes mean the LEP has to be re-exhibited,’ she said.

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Alex McAuleyThe members of Mul-lumbimby’s Tidy Towns committee are getting fed up. All three of them. The trio, ably led by Elaine Rob-inson, is putting in a huge effort to maintain the areas of garden they have planted and cultivated in public areas of Mullumbimby but are fi ghting an uphill battle. The reason? Vandalism.

‘The large garden bed near the Mullumbimby Co-Op has been vandalised twice now: once before Christmas and once a cou-ple of weeks ago,’ said Elaine. ‘They’ve hacked branches off the trees and stamped on the geraniums; they’ll recover eventually, but what really upsets me is that they’ve stamped down the big Yuc-cas (or Agaves).

‘Once the centre of these plants has been broken then they never recover. It’s so disheartening; it takes such a long time to get the gardens looking good and no time at all to destroy them.’

Elaine is also mourning the decline in the member-ship numbers of the Tidy Towns committee which was once a band of about 20 vol-unteers when it started in 1981.

‘We entered the Tidy Towns competition every

year and won our category in 1982,’ said Elaine. ‘In fact we won something every year for about a nine or ten year period.’

The committee, which is a subcommittee of Byron Shire Council which pro-vides them with plants and mulch etc, was behind the planting of Palm Park, the maintenance of Heritage Park, the planting of the gar-

den beds on the main street and at the Post Offi ce, and the building of the waterfall at Civic Park.

That Elaine and her col-leagues are responsible for the beautifi cation of Mul-lumbimby is in no doubt; what is in doubt is their abil-ity to continue with their work when there are so few of them.

‘Most of our original

members are now too eld-erly to continue to work, have died or moved out of the area,’ said Elaine. ‘Unfor-tunately, no new members have stepped into their shoes.’

Elaine would love to hear from anybody who is inter-ested in becoming involved in this very worthwhile cause and can be contacted on 6684 2627.

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Elaine Robinson with the vandalised garden bed. Photo Jeff ‘Succulent’ Dawson

The investigation into the cause of death of Disha Schluter of Mullumbimby last September is still ongo-ing. Michael Knock, Coro-ner at Lismore Local Court, explained that there is a number of reasons for the lengthy delay.

‘It is the duty of the coro-

ner to determine the manner and cause of any death, and in a case where there is a possiblity of inappropriate medical procedures, then the Health Care Commission (HCC) becomes involved,’ said Mr Knock. ‘Some of the doctors involved in this par-ticular case have refused to

provide statements to the HCC, and while they are entitled to do so in the short term, in the long term they will be obliged to provide those statements to the police. Should they refuse to provide them to the police, I can open an inquest and subpoena those statements.’

At this stage, Mr Knock is waiting for the police to fi nalise the investigation and is confi -dent that the doctors involved will provide their statements so that he can make his fi nding, but unfortunately he does not anticipate any conclusion before the end of March at the earliest.

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Local author and illustrator Stephen Axelsen just scooped a pres-tigious Aurealis award held at Brisbane’s South Bank last Satur-day. His book Piccolo and Annabelle won best Children’s Short Fic-tion for 2005. ‘I’m thrilled and delighted,’ a jubilant Axelsen told The Echo. ‘Five years ago they included a children’s section and this is certainly an honour to win.’ Axelsen’s fourth book in the chronicle, Steamer Demons, will be launched in July 2006. Above: Stephen accepting the Aurealis award. Photo Mark Greenmantle

The Byron Youth Enterprise Centre was offi cially launched last Wednesday at the YAC centre in Byron Bay to an enthusiastic and warm crowd. The centre aims to assist young people in Byron Shire to obtain information, sup-port, mentoring and training. It also aims to help generate enterprising projects that pro-duce income and establish businesses.

Launching the initiative, co-ordinator Di Mahoney said, ‘One of the key skills we all need to learn is to be enterpris-ing... that is to use our imagi-nation and our abilities to develop projects and busi-nesses that fi t our values and that spring from our passion’.

The Byron Youth Enter-prise Centre consists of a state-of-the-art Apple iMac studio suite that is accessible

to local young people via a membership card system. Access to the support of experienced youth workers, enterprise mentors and facil-itators is also available, along with hospitality and barista training.

‘Starting a new project or a business, however small and fl edgling, can create a great sense of personal achievement,’ Mahoney said. ‘Hard work and know-how then enable a fi nancial return to come. My role is to help young people find their dream, and then turn it into a reality that offers a fi nan-cially viable pathway’.

Left: Local filmmaker Darius Devas signs a letter of support for developing a culture of enterprise among young people in the Byron region.

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Back 2 Byron walk-a-thonFriends of Byron Youth Serv-ice are organising a beach walk/bike ride on Sunday March 12 to raise funds for a youth club and ongoing funding for Street Cruise.

Byron Youth Service invi-tes you and your team to join in the walk in support of our youth. Why not sponsor yourself and/or a friend/s and walk or ride from Brunswick Heads to Byron Bay?

The Lions Club is kindly hosting a BBQ and selling raffl e tickets in Apex Park and on the beachfront. There will be a celebrity to draw the pri-zes on stage at the Beach

Hotel at 3.45pm. Sponsor forms available at Travelscene Byron Bay, There’s Always More Hair & Beauty Byron Bay, Book City Byron Bay, Brunswick Newsagency, True Value Hardware Ocean Shores, 5 Star Supermarket, Suffolk Park.

Contact Fiona Hunter (BYS) on 6680 7922 or email [email protected]. There is bus transport by Summerland and bookings are needed on 66807922. Bus leaving Main Beach Apex Park Byron at 11 am and returning mid afternoon to Brunswick.

Friday’s weather forecast sounded disastrous. Abnor-mally high tides, rough seas, heavy rainfall and a low pres-sure system heading straight for the Northern Rivers which was described by one weather watcher as ‘techni-cally a cyclone’.

Much to the relief of resi-dents, and local SES control-ler, Noel McIveney, the pre-dicted recipe for disaster didn’t eventuate and the Shire escaped relatively lightly, although a Lennox Head man died in a car crash early on Saturday morning near Broken Head.

Much to the delight of surfers the surf raged, but the high winds experienced fur-ther north stayed away and the very heavy rainfall expe-rienced further south failed to materialise.

According to the Bureau of Meteorology, Byron Bay’s rain gauges measured 359mm for the 7 days ending on Monday morning and Mullumbimby was a tad drier with 293mm.

While SES volunteers geared up for a busy day on Sunday, Noel McIveney said they only received about a dozen calls most of which were requests for sand bags. A few residents in Suffolk Park, Ocean Shores, South Golden Beach and Mul-lumbimby required sand bags as heavy rainfall ran from high ground towards their homes.

‘On Friday it sounded like it was going to be really bad, so we left notices at the stores at South Golden Beach, Billinudgel and New Brighton to get the warnings out, but fortunately it didn’t happen,’ said Mr McIveney.

Flooding affected many minor creeks, low lying areas disappared under water and

Wilfrid Street at Billinudgel experienced its normal fl ood-ing after heavy rain, but luck-ily didn’t enter any premises.

Be prepared is the advice from the SES, who warn the wet season is not over yet.

‘The main thing is to clean leaves out of the gutters as this is where a lot of water can get in,’ said Mr McIv-eney. ‘When you hear the warnings put furniture up high and listen to the local radio stations for updates. The SES are in constant contact with radio stations.’

And drive carefully. One BMW driver learnt this les-son the hard way near Uncle Toms at Mullumbimby after driving too fast through water, skidding off the road and ending up in a ditch. Mr McIveney advises walking through water fi rst to gauge its depth.

If it’s not too deep then drive through slowly in fi rst or second gear and keep going until you’re clear of the fl ood waters. Don’t forget to test the brakes afterwards.

The weekend’s bad weather claimed the life of a 21 year-old Lennox Head man in a single motor vehicle crash at Broken Head on Saturday morning. About 3am, the man was driving his 2005 Mazda sedan south along Coast Road when he lost control of the vehicle which rolled a number of times and landed in a ditch.

The crash was not reported to police until 2:47pm as the vehicle could not be seen by passing motorists. Emer-gency Services attended the scene, however the driver was already dead.

Crash Investigation Police from Ballina also attended and will be preparing a report for the coroner.

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A recent petition lodged with Byron Shire Council shows strong support for the pro-posed development of a brothel in Byron Bay’s Indus-trial Estate.

Despite early opposition to the application, mostly from residents at nearby Sunrise Beach, there is now evidence of a growing number of peo-ple who are in favour of the brothel.

Ray Darney, Planning Director at Byron Shire Council, confi rmed that a petition with 281 signatures had been lodged with Coun-cil, albeit after the display period, however he was not convinced that it would carry a great deal of weight.

‘The petition has been signed by people from all over the Shire who state that they have no objections to the proposed brothel,’ said Mr Darney.

‘What sort of weight it will carry is up to the Coun-

cillors, however Council generally gives considera-tion to written submissions giving planning reasons as to why a particular proposal should be approved or refused rather than a peti-tion.’

Under state government planning policy, brothels are permitted in industrial zones, but not in residential or commercial zones.

However, Mr Darney pointed out that a number of issues will need to be considered in relation to the proposed brothel in Byron Bay regarding its proximity to childcare, church and commercial facilities.

‘We are meeting with the proponents next week to discuss a number of points of social impact that were not adequately addressed in the original application,’ said Mr Darney.

‘In particular, we will be discussing the possible increase in crime that may

result from the approval of the application. It is likely that people would be encouraged to go into the industrial area at night who normally wouldn’t [should a brothel be built there] which may result in an increase in crime. Con-sideration also needs to be given to health issues and drug use which may arise.’

Mr Darney was of the opinion that the community had a very balanced approach to the proposal, with most people able to see both sides of the argument, especially considering the benefi ts of a legal brothel over illegal street prostitu-tion and the negative impacts that has on the community.

The application was to go before Council this March, however problems with the on site effl uent disposal have delayed the matter which will now be heard at the

council meeting on April 11.

Earlier this year the Ewingsdale Progress Asso-ciation and the Byron Bay Police registered their objec-tions to the proposed brothel.

Byron Bay OrganicsChamber boss puts views on local issuesHans LovejoyByron Bay Chamber of Commerce President Greg Owens has been an active member of this community for over four years as a solic-itor, and has a close associa-tion with Byron, having grown up in Alstonville.

In the past he has been involved with environmental campaigns, particularly ‘Save the Hinterland’, spearheaded by the Australian Conserva-tion Foundation around 1990. The campaign aimed at preventing the develop-ment of Gold Coast hinter-land as golf courses and urban sprawls. ‘I was very proud to be a part of that,’ he said ‘I was part of a great team that included over 20 local and national organisa-tions.’

Being the mediator for the Chamber meetings has given him a pragmatic approach to both developers and conser-

vationists. ‘Having seen both sides, it’s fair to say that there needs to be more open dia-logue and both parties need to give more ground.’

LEP – ‘This document is the most significant to emerge in years, and will affect the community and businesses for many years to

come. From the advice that our town planner has given us, and from our own obser-vations, we are concerned with the lack of town infra-structure and and traffic management plans. We strongly urge that the social and economic consequences of the LEP be explored. The Chamber has requested to Council that our response be in May, to give it the time and scrutiny it deserves.’

Urban development – ‘I’m in favour of town resi-dential development rather than urban sprawls. That’s not to say that I want high rises; it is appropriate for small towns to limit the size of buildings. The community seems to agree that there should be height restrictions. Central growth protects the hinterland.’

Tourism – ‘We are united about moving away from being a party town to one

that encourages families. A balance needs to be struck where owners of rental prop-erties and communities can co-exist.’

Byron bypass – ‘Coun-cil’s proposed bypass will unfortunately put traffic through the heart of Byron [next to the Railway Hotel], rather than diverting it around the town. This makes no sense, and seems like a band-aid approach to what is a very simple solution: build the road to come out at Mitre 10 with a roundabout with parking there. That way traf-fi c can continue to Suffolk.’

Bad press for Byron – ‘One of the chamber’s con-cerns is the obsession by the national media in highlight-ing the rougher side of the town – reports have been received that there has been a downturn in trade during the Christmas and New Year period.’

Byron chamber president Greg Owens. Photo Donatella Parasini

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Monks give fl ag to Council

Tuesday last week was LOSAR, Tibetan new year, and it was appropriate that the Venerable Khen Rinpochey, the abbot of Tabo Ancient Monastery, situated on the Tibetan border in Himachal Pradesh India, handed over a Tibetan fl ag to Mayor Jan Barhnam in the council chambers at noon.

Khen Rinpochey has been living in exile in India for 47 years, unable to return to his homeland in Tibet. He is grateful to India for accept-ing and caring for the Tibetan refugees in India for so many years.

He is visiting Australia at the present with Ven Chetan Zangpo, the director of Tabo Ancient Monastery and

Phuntsok Dhondup from www.spitivalley.com, an eco tourist group from the trans Himalayan range. They are all here in Australia partici-pating in forums on sustain-able community.

The Australian Tibet Council asked Mayor Barham to fl y the Tibetan fl ag on March 10, Tibetan Uprising Day, and she felt it appropriate to fl y the fl ag if it was offered to Council from a Tibetan.

Ven Khen Rinpochey offered the fl ag to the Mayor with the request that the council fl y his country’s fl ag as recognition of the Tibetan people who are currently liv-ing under Chinese occupa-tion or in exile.

Friends of the Koala is hold-ing a basic training course on Saturday, March 11 from 9am to 4pm for people who want to get involved in help-ing koalas in the Northern Rivers region.

The course covers topics such as basic koala care, food trees and diet, assessing a sick koala and koala rescue techniques.

It’s a great opportunity to get involved with Friends of the Koala, a group which has worked on behalf of these

endangered animals for 20 years. People are encouraged to sign up for hands-on care in the Koala Care Centre, or help in whatever way they can.

The course costs $6 with morning tea provided, and FOK membership is $20.

The course will be held in Room Z181 at Southern Cross University.

For bookings and inquir-ies, phone Barb Dobner on 6688 8165 or the Koala Hot-line, 6622 1233.

Learn to care for koalasA cost blowout of over $250,000 has failed to derail plans for the Helen Street footbridge at South Golden Beach. Council had allocated $175,000 following initial estimates, however, engi-neering consultants have now revealed that the cost will be nearer to $430,000.

For over ten years the local community has lobbied for a footbridge over the Capri-cornia Canal to provide pedestrian access to the beach. Maggie Brown, con-venor of the footbridge project, has had to face more than the expected number of

hurdles to get the bridge off the ground.

‘The delay and the length of time the project has been going means that the costs have increased,’ said Ms Brown. Last Tuesday the majority of councillors voted to go ahead with the three span steel truss bridge with timber deck, obtaining the extra cash from additional loan funds and development contributions from a new subdivision in Palmer Ave-nue, North Ocean Shores.

‘I’d like to thank the coun-cillors for their support,’ said Ms Brown.

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Jo combines circus thrills and yoga stills

‘Circus is a craft that relies on trust, teamwork, discipline and creativity’, says Circus Yoga teacher Jo Hoy.

There would not be many Indian trained yoga practi-tioners who have also founded their own circus. Byron has at least one, Jo Hoy, the woman behind Cir-cus Yoga.

Jo was introduced to yoga in Byron about 12 years ago. A sprinter, a try-hard athlete who had never been taught to stretch, at the age of 25 she could hardly touch her knees. Her fi rst experience of yoga was excruciating. How-ever an invitation to work

with a Butoh dance company led her to undertake teacher training overseas in Goa. Jo stayed on to study for a year with K Patthabhi Jois in the Ashtanga Yoga tradition.

Back in Australia, Jo dis-covered Vulcana, a Brisbane-based circus. ‘What I loved was the body confi dence, the feeling that the body can change and achieve anything that you put your mind to,’ Jo says. ‘I was 26 when I started circus, and it was a big change for my body. It took

me three years to even do the fi rst pullup! I had lived for so long as a vegan and a terrible cook that the journey to a strong body seemed to take forever’.

A course with Bobbi and Simon from ‘Stillness in Action’ made Jo realise that one way to make a proactive change, and give something back to make a better com-munity, was to encourage people to change their lives by developing a stronger body, and then to encourage them to take risks with that body.

Jo gained community development funding to start a youth circus in West End Brisbane that she called Flip-side. Almost ten years on, Flipside is a recognised cir-cus training and performance company.

Jo’s aim in Circus Yoga is to give children and adults a bit of the magic that can be gained from circus and yoga elements mixed together. Circus Yoga classes are held at the Arts Factory and are a blend of acrobalance, tum-bling, handstands, aerials and juggling for all ages and abilities.

For more information call Jo on 6687 5632.


E ven John Howard’s own party president once described him as ‘mean

and tricky’, and the polls show that most of us believe that Australia has become a meaner place under his leadership.

But it has now been revealed that beneath that miserly and myopic exterior there dwells a generous and warm-hearted humanitarian, a selfl ess altruist prepared to reach out and embrace the most disadvan-taged in society. Take, for example, the case of Trevor.

Trevor is what we now tact-fully describe as differently abled. He is totally deaf in one ear and the other one isn’t too good either. He is a chronic amnesiac; he cannot remem-ber where he has been, whom he has talked to, or what he talked about.

From time to time he has kept diaries to jog his memory, but this doesn’t help much as poor Trevor constantly loses them. They are written out in longhand, since Trevor is una-ble to use a computer and is apparently incapable of learn-ing how to handle even a word processor, let alone email.

But even if Trevor managed to hang on to the diaries mat-ters might not improve, since even when shown records of previous events at which he was undeniably present, he still can’t recall them. Actually there is some suggestion that he may be dyslexic, if not functionally illit-erate: even when the words on the page are crystal clear to other observers, Trevor seems to have a lot of trouble grasping their meaning.

To his credit he cheerfully admits that he is not exactly a rocket scientist; he sees himself more as a sort of fi gurehead, someone who can do a bit of glad-handing while others get on with the real work. How-ever, it is diffi cult to see him succeeding even in this limited

role given his propensity for unpredictable and anti-social exhibitionism: among other things he enjoys taking off his clothes and pointing pistols at people.

He once stood as a political candidate, but was considered too silly even for National Party voters. He has spent most of his career farming, or in sinecures of various kinds provided for him by well-meaning patrons, where he could do comparatively little damage – although this may have been partly because he usually forgot to show up for work, an oversight for which he was dismissed from at least one position. And of course,

we are not counting the money wasted on his salary and not inconsiderable expenses.

It is not an encouraging CV; if Trevor was a wheat crop (and coincidentally he has spent much of his life associ-ated with wheat) you’d have to say he was quite a few tonnes short of the full silo. In the harsh world of economic rationalism, you’d also have to say that he was pretty much unemployable.

But not for someone with the compassion of John Howard. When in need of a man to lead a delicate diplo-matic mission to post-war Iraq with the task of rebuilding a bureaucracy dedicated to the continuation of Australia’s wheat trade, the Prime Minis-ter did not hesitate: ‘Bring me Trevor Flugge,’ he snapped,

and after a quick body search for concealed firearms our Trev was admitted, briefed, and provided with almost $1million in cash taken, incred-ibly, from Australia’s sparse foreign aid fund. Presumably the rationale was that Flugge was a foreign sort of name, and there was no doubt the loot would be used to aid him.

All in all it’s a wonderful, warm-hearted story which shows how our Dear Leader has been misunderstood all these years. But now we know: not a lying rodent, but a living saint.

When I gave a brief sum-mary of this inspiring tale to a friend, he seemed lost for

words for a moment, but then emotion got the better of him. ‘It’s enough to make you weep,’ he gasped. And when you think about it, he’s quite right.

But seriously, folks – the whole Wheat for Weapons debacle is in the process of being reduced to a series of comforting fairy tales.

When the heavies from the Australian Wheat Board sol-emnly tell the Cole Commis-sion that they can’t recall meet-ings, conversations and events, we don’t believe them and we’re not meant to. We know they’re lying, but we can’t prove it, so we can’t charge them with perjury or fraud.

When the public servants assure us that they took allega-tions of kickbacks very seri-ously and carried out the most painstaking investigations

before declaring the board innocent, again we know they actually either turned a blind eye or conspired in a coverup or both; we know they’re lying, but we can’t prove it so we can’t accuse them of derelic-tion of duty or corruption.

And when John Howard and his ministers swear with their hands on the place where normal humans have their hearts that honestly, truly they knew nothing about it all, of course we don’t believe them: this is confi rmed in the opin-ion polls. We know they’re lying, but we can’t prove it.

Of course, we could always vote them out of offi ce. But we never have in the past, so why should they worry?

F rom barefaced fi ction to undeniable fact.

Australia’s new chief scien-tist, Jim Peacock, is no wild-eyed lefty; he is in favour of Australia adopting peaceful nuclear technology and is an advocate of genetically modi-fi ed food production, so he can hardly be dismissed as being too politically correct. But Peacock also has absolutely no doubt about the reality of glo-bal warming and the human contribution to it. This is hardly surprising; the science has been there for many years and every new study confi rms it.

These days the magnitude of the problem is accepted by all but the lunatic fringe; unfor-tunately this fringe includes many fossil-fuel brained mem-bers of the Howard govern-ment and their fl at earth cheer-leaders in the media.

One can only hope that the opinion of their own chief sci-entist will carry more weight than that of the coal and oil lobbyists who have so success-fully infi ltrated the bureauc-racy. But as we know, the Howard mob have always pre-ferred fi ction to fact.

Comment

John bares his heart for Trevor

All in all it’s a wonderful, warm-hearted story which shows how our Dear Leader has been misunderstood all these years.

by Mungo MacCallum

The long history of the former Club Med site (former Globe-trotters caravan park etc) near Sunrise Beach is coming to some sort of resolution. After being stuffed around in the planning process since lodging a masterplan in July 2003, chiefly by the state government and their own indecision, Melbourne development company Becton has now lodged a development application (DA) for stage 1 of the site.

With holiday letting the flavour of the month, Becton’s proposal will see 431 extra beds available to visitors. But wait, there’s more: another 141 bedrooms are planned for stage 2, which depends on bushfire planning guidelines being revised, a fact about which Becton seems optimistic.

The danger for local residents passionate about the envi-ronmental values of the site and about the pressures on Byron Bay itself is in the fact the state government will deter-mine the DA, not Council. There is no guarantee the state government’s values will match the desires of the local com-munity. However the stage 1 proposal is not much bigger than the constraints of the current development control plan, so approval with those guidelines is likely.

(In general, the planning minister’s new-found ability to override DCPs does not augur well for the integrity of the local planning process. Either you allow the third tier of government to get on with planning business or you dont; this constant moving of goalposts is an insult to the electors who have put their trust in councils to carry out their mandate.)

The Becton DA is on public exhibition from March 3 to April 13. You can view the DA at Council’s Mullumbimby offices and the Byron Bay library; submissions must be sent to the Director, Urban Assessments, Department of Planning, GPO Box 39, Sydney 2001, quoting DA 10-02-2006. Have your say while you can.

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Letters

Correct metaphor?Usually we take what the Liberal government says with a grain of salt… after the AWB scandal do we now take what they say with a grain of wheat?

Jacqueline DavisFederal

Name the coastA recent suggestion by the Chairman of Tourism Aus-tralia, Tim Fischer, to brand the region ‘The Bold Coast’ was generally greeted with derisive laughter across the Shire.

This region is well known for its scenic attractions, but also for its high unemploy-ment rate. No, Mr and Mrs Bourgeoisie, not because of laziness, but due to the lack of job placement opportuni-ties, lack of training and advantages, and the sense of hopelessness that long term unemployment can gener-ate.

Why not shake off the ex-acerbation of shame and blame that this conservative goverment’s Mutual Obliga-tion policies have generated in the unemployed of the Shire by proudly declaring the region The Dole Coast? Let’s compulsorily require ‘The Dole Coast’ to appear on everyone in the Shire’s number plate – from capital-ists to the unemployed alike!

Caroline GollanMullumbimby

The Echo has always liked ‘The Dole Fun Coast’ as a brand name, with its cetacean overtones – Ed

Lessen depressionInstead of all the depressed canaries meeting up to share their anxieties, why don’t we all join The Greens, or even just vote for The Greens!

They seem to be the only group likely to provide us with some solutions, and give us some hope for the future, so there’ll be less reason to feel depressed. I’m feeling better already.

Michele GrantOcean Shores

Remember railIt would appear that many businesses in Mullumbimby were down on their takings during January due to the closure of Coolamon Scenic Drive and the redirection of hinterland traffi c up through

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It is insane that a town like Byron Bay which has mar-keted itself as a tourist desti-nation is now trying to sabo-tage its main industry.

A large percentage of this town relies on tourism to survive (myself included). If we take away hundreds of individual properties which will then supposedly free up homes for those who cannot fi nd permanent accommo-dation (mind where those people are going to be able to work since jobs will be lost and businesses will suffer if not close down due to the lack of visitors to supply them with a reason to exist and funds to operate!) then how they will pay rents is another story.

People, especially couples, do not always want to stay in multiple complexes, they want to be able to choose to stay in quiet, private, out of the way areas and not be subjected to the masses, the same goes for families want-ing something special.

We have community groups such as BRACE who are tell-ing people not to put up with holiday letting in residential areas, yet some of these same people will happily go and stay in holiday houses in other Australian beachside destina-tions yet won’t allow this to go on in their home town Byron Bay!

I have spoken to many local people regarding this subject and they are all very concerned regarding the impact this is going to have on their lives; we need tour-ism to sustain the reason we all moved here.

Byron by no means is a cheap choice of lifestyle… the hippie years have gone and the town has progressed into a cosmopolitan destina-tion with council rates as high as some city councils; as we all know ‘change is a part of life’ and Byron has evolved into a great north coast des-tination. It still has its com-munity spirit, we can’t close the door and hope to turn the clocks back to the 1970s.

Residents need to be pro-active about how much this new LEP is going to impact on the big picture of life in Byron… some of us will not be able to afford to choose to live here any more.

Ann-Maree TomasettiByron Bay

Byron attracts some of the nation’s hungriest investors who believe real estate’s prime purpose is profi t. Pur-chase of residential property for maximum profi t holiday renting is destroying the town once loved as a place to live.

Our max return investors are doing very well out of

turning neighbourhoods into all night parties, depleting full time rental stock, and driving prices of residences and rents through the roof. Fewer ordinary people can either afford or even want to live in Byron’s once residen-tial suburbs. In an attempt to address this demise, Coun-cil’s new LEP is proposing holiday letting be limited to eight weeks per year in areas zoned residential. The hun-gry lobby group of real estate agents and owners of holiday lets thinks this is preposter-ous. They tell us the town will die without them being able to maximise their returns. Lower rental returns may force some investors to sell off part of their property portfolios. Boo hoo!

Council is truly dreaming, thinking they are going to be able to police the proposed eight weeks allowed for holi-day letting. Council is not known for its ability to deal with compliance issues for the larger players of our Shire who engage QCs. The eight weeks is just the loophole our max return investors need and must not be included in the fi nal LEP.

It’s important that as many people as possible who share these concerns make submis-sion on the draft LEP and say no to the eight week holiday letting residential loophole that is proposed for our hun-gry residential investors.

Garry ScottMyocum

There is a hysteria and bias surrounding holiday let-ting. Maggie Luke is declar-ing the issue simple ‘black and white’ – the old ‘you’re either for us or against us’ ethos. The opponents of hol-iday letting are all ‘white and good’ and the renters and anyone associated with them all ‘black and evil’.

According to these new neo cons, who probably moved here after a holiday, the streets will be paved with smoked salmon and sushi when we rid ourselves of holiday makers. They favour only those holiday makers who can afford to pay for Rae’s and Victoria’s, having declared houses in Watego’s and the Belongil off limits.

As someone who once per-manently let a house in Byron Bay I can assure you it was a commercial activity. As someone who lives near both a holiday let and per-manent lets I know it is not black and white, especially a few years of party house ten-ants who live permanently next door. I look forward to Maggie taking up the cudgels in the Council and press against these illegal permanent lets and raucous residents with

equal vigour. I await her immediate solution for the job losses for the average income families who rely on letting to provide work and spend their income in Byron Bay, school their children here, donate to Greenpeace and the Wilderness Society and are part of this com-munity.

Sure, maybe they are not the elite forms of employ-ment that the letting detrac-tors seem to favour, but let-ting provides women in particular casual or part-time work between school hours in an area where childcare is either impossible to fi nd or unaffordable. How do I know, simple, I am one of them.

Felicity DonaldSunrise Beach

We are still getting dis-turbed by the holiday let next to us although this was one of the properties that the Council staff had started action on last year to stop before the holiday let owners threatened legal action against Council.

The latest holiday let ten-ants woke us up at 3.30am Sunday morning with loud partying on their deck, which is very close to our house. We put earplugs in but the noise was so much that we were still kept awake. We got up, turned our lights on, shouted at them and only then they stopped. Of course we did not go back to sleep for hours and our plans for Sunday were wrecked. We felt invaded and very upset all over again.

The sooner Byron Bay can be rid of these holiday lets in residential areas the happier the community will be. It is not acceptable at all – would

anyone want to put up with this for eight weeks a year and then not know the rest of the year if the new tenants are family or just another paying group?

This is not against tour-ism, most of the community in Byron Bay depends on tourism directly or indirectly, this is having a home to retreat to in peace at any time of the year.

Everyone who is affected or could be in the next ten plus years do write to Coun-cil and insist that the Local Environment Plan stops hol-iday letting in residential areas for good. The closing date is March 17. The com-munity must win on this one or we lose Byron Bay as we know it.

Maggi LukeByron Bay

Holiday letting and the LEP


Letters

Possum Shoot.If we had commuter trains

running on the line (up to 16 services a day), I would sug-gest that substantial numbers of visitors to Byron would have made a trip out to Mul-lumbimby.

Local businesses would have been protected and tak-ings may have been higher than would have been the case had there been no road closure. New business oppor-tunities would be opened up for tour operators based in Mullumbimby to take visi-tors to Crystal Castle, Minyon Falls and other hin-terland attractions.

Excessive dependence on road-only transport systems is not good for our social, economic and environmental wellbeing.

Basil CameronGoonengerry

Rough crossingYour article ‘Rail crossing halts bypass plan’ would be good material for a Gilbert and Sullivan opera.

The Level Crossing Advi-sory Committee (LCAC), sends representatives to meet with Council staff to discuss how cars are going to cross a railway line that is being allowed to rot!

While it is painful to realise that our taxes and rates are being used to fi nance meet-ings like this, it does reveal how Byron is the victim of a public service farce. Our Council has absolutely no intention of giving long suf-fering residents any relief from the traffi c chaos that is Byron’s CBD. (The bypass does not feature in the Draft LEP 2006.)

The mini bypass is, and

always was, a total red her-ring, put up knowing it could not be built. (The LCAC would not allow a crossing this near the railway station.) Yet GM Westing is still trot-ting this out as ‘stage one of the full bypass’.

The LEP is a blatant attempt to limit population, by refusing to plan and implement essential infra-structure. Cr Tabart admit-ted this publicly during a Chamber of Commerce meeting. (‘Now that the moratorium is fi nishing, we have to do something.’)

Council’s leasing of the land beside Mitre 10 to the RSL for overfl ow parking is yet another indicator of their lack of will. One councillor even suggested that this land should be sold off!

If the LEP is supposed to give us a blueprint for where we will be in ten years’ time, God help us.

Tony NarracottByron Bay

Now this week the Byron Council manager is telling us the fate of the Byron town bypass ( the one that was going to be completed in 1996!) is in the hands of the state government Level Crossing Advisory Com-mittee.

Well last year in April 2005 Council and the Byron Chamber of Commerce met with Minister John Watkins, who said there are no trains running at the moment so he couldn’t see why we shouldn’t have another crossing. So again a year later and nothing has hap-pened. Are we still living in the 70s, hey this is 2006, forget the railway, it will always hold us up, remem-

ber when they used to play with us every morning and test the lights. Imagine two crossings that will only be a double holdup!

The proper solution here, is to go over the rail-way, simple abutments and a bridge, then we will have a full time access route in this town without being stuffed around like we have been for years by this pathetic state government and State Rail, who can only spend our money in Sydney.

Only problem is that it would take this council ten years to do the plans! As for the Mayor’s other ‘soft options’ or ‘other traffi c management options’, what are they ?? This coun-cil is hopeless, but they are

good at making up excuses!

Terry HudsonByron Bay

RTA plansThe editorial of last week’s Echo (‘Rorting the public good’) raises interest-ing questions. Is the RTA planning to build a toll road near you? Why did the RTA last year expand their study area and abandon their proposal to upgrade the existing Pacific Highway?

In the 200 odd pages of their report, why didn’t they fi nd space to explain this? Why do they now want to in-sert a six-lane motorway into one of the most environmen-tally sensitive areas of East-ern Australia? Did somebody somewhere exert some infl uence? Why did they avoid mention of the nastier aspects of their motorway proposals? Perhaps a toll road (like their infamous Sydney Cross-City PPP) is the hidden agenda. Their pretty glossy brochures

gave you the good news – you’ll get a lovely new motorway, please indicate your support and choose the one you like, the RTA will supply the forms and pay the postage. You’ll learn the bad news later.

Just in case anybody wants to trot out the old argument that we must have the motor-way because an upgrade of the existing highway would be unsafe, let us review what the RTA themselves said about their previous pro-

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As advertised, Byron Shire Council will once again begin the wholesale spraying of our streets, sports fi elds, parks, bus shelters and road-sides with glyphosate (Roundup) which it consid-ers to be less of a health risk than the weeds it wishes to control.

Glyphosate products are a class of neurotoxic chemi-cals and the Australian Chemical Trauma Alliance (ACTA) has documented cases of children with ADD and autism exhibiting peri-ods of severe behavioural problems (including vio-lence) following the use of Roundup in residential areas. Health care profes-sionals of the Alliance say that hospital admissions for asthma also increase.

Symptoms attributed to Roundup exposure docu-mented by a number of sci-entifi c journals and observed by doctors working in the fi eld of environmental health

include: swollen or itchy eyes, blurred vision, swollen glands, sore throats, sinus pain, headaches, foggy head chronic fatigue, itchy rashes, cough, tight chest, palpita-tions, dizziness, feeling over- emotional and irrational, muscle aches, joint pain, jaw clenching, digestive upsets, disrupted menstrual cycle and heavy bleeding. It espe-cially affects people with chronic fatigue syndrome and multiple chemical sensi-tivity. The American Envi-ronmental Protection Agency says that it off-gases for a period of 100 days after it has been sprayed, breaking down into highly toxic sub-stances.

So I urge parents to be aware of the risks involved to your children’s health when using the local playgrounds and sports fi elds and even the risk involved while wait-ing to catch the school bus.

There are alternative meth-ods of weed control which

Council has been research-ing. To make sure these are implemented we need par-ents and concerned residents to add their voice to the over two thousand signatures ask-ing for change already pre-sented to Council.

Council regulations allow for residents to place their names on a register so as not to have spraying happen directly in front of their properties, if they take responsibility for keeping weeds under control them-selves which can be as safe as using a jug of boiling water. Many of the streets to be sprayed just have a few clumps of grass growing in pavements and drains and this would be an effective way of reducing the amount of spray drift about to hit our streets. It might also inspire Council to use com-mercially available heat treatments.

Glenda BarberByron Bay

I’ve had to sign a release form to say that I will not say anything about my time at, nor my payout figure from, the Mullumbimby Rural Co-operative so... this letter is to formally acknowl-edge the wonderful people who were so supportive and kind to me during my brief time trying to work at the Co-op.

Also the biggest thank you to the excellent fl oor staff and Veronica Guy, my direc-tor, who saw what was hap-pening and supported me despite efforts to the con-trary – your hearts are in the right place and you are damn good at your jobs. I look for-ward to catching up with you all in the real world as I con-tinue to settle into this beau-tiful area.

Kym BeatonMullumbimby

I want to thank all those people who know what has happened at the Mul-lumbimby Rural Co-op and who appreciated a female being appointed to the board of the Co-op and a female appointed as the general manager.

I was a director for over three years and last year I joined the Australian Insti-

tute of Company Directors at my cost and purchased the course notes to complete the Diploma for Company Directors. This course is offered to people who have a desire to understand current compliance issues and cur-rent responsibilities of com-pany directors after the cor-porate failures in Australia and beyond.

It is unfortunate indeed that the board of the Mul-lumbimby Rural Co-op received the information I was able to disseminate from my course with less than enthusiasm or interest.

I resigned from the board on January 12, 2006, after having attended a meeting with a special agenda. That meeting turned into a vilifi -cation of me to the extent that I felt I had no recourse but to resign. I wasn’t wanted on that board. Females bring a different viewpoint to boards; the ‘old boys’ club’ seems not to accept other points of view, including proper equity for shareholders.

Dr Helen Nugent, one of Australia’s top female direc-tors, laments that female director numbers are decreas-ing rather than increasing on Australian boards. My own

Co-op experience over-whelmingly tells me that female shareholders are delighted that there was a female director and a female GM. However, we are both gone from the Co-op, not because we wanted to go but there is only so much a girl can bear.

Nothing will change at the Co-op unless and until the owners, ie. the shareholders, become more aware and demand accountability from the board. I was appointed as the ‘token female’ after the annual general meeting in 2001 which saw a large number of nominations for directorships come in from the fl oor.

The ‘outsiders’ were defeated and I am sorry to say that I was part of their defeat. I now wish it hadn’t been so. Five years on noth-ing has changed. The Co-op still lives in the fi fties and is unable to address current business practice and man-agement issues. The share-holders lose out.

Again, thanks to everyone for your support. Maybe in the future, things may change... I’m not holding my breath.

Veronica GuyMullumbimby

Trouble at the Co-Op

Why is Council spraying?


Lettersposal. The following state-ments refer to Option B Modified, a proposal to upgrade the existing Pacifi c Highway which was aban-doned when the RTA ex-panded their study area. They are from RTA publica-tion RTA/Pub.04.166 ‘Sub-missions Report – Pacifi c Highway Upgrade – Banga-low to St Helena’ prepared in July, 2004, under the super-vision of Shane Higgins, Project Manager.

This report refers again and again to safety aspects of the proposal. It is very clear that the RTA were particu-larly anxious to dispel any concerns that their proposed upgrade would not meet safety standards. Among the statements made in the RTA report were these:

‘Completion of the Pro-posal is predicted to bring about a marked improve-ment in road safety over the existing conditions.’

‘Option B Modifi ed meets the requirements of the RTA Road Design Guidelines and RTA Road Safety Guidelines.’

‘The Proposal provides markedly safer conditions for buses than currently exists.’

‘Safety improvements and a reduction in the number of traffi c accidents are antici-pated as a result of the Pro-posal, and would reduce the risks involved with the trans-portation of dangerous goods.’

So we know the existing highway can be upgraded safely. They could start right now. And we come back to the question: Why do they now want a motorway? There are at least 18,000 of us who don’t.

David CatchpooleCoopers Shoot

SewercideThe recent spate of farty, burpy letters has taken me

back to early childhood. You know, when you started school and there’s a whole bunch of fi ve year olds.

Mungo and Matthew Hartley worry about John Howard. They should worry more that people with this fart/burp mentality get to vote. It’s no wonder Islam is growing so strong when Christianity is sinking to sewer level.

WB CromptonMullumbimby

Human problemAs we watch the insanity of the communal confl icts in Iraq it is strangely heartening to see the orange and the green are at it again in North-ern Ireland.

It is not a Middle Eastern or a Muslim problem; it is a human problem. My paternal grandparents, from Lanca-shire, wouldn’t attend my par-ents’ wedding because it was held in a Catholic Church.

Watching a Shia crowd in full emotion reminded me of nothing so much as the crowds being stirred by Adolph Hitler.

Those of us of Northern European extraction are often repulsed and embar-rassed by the emotionalism of Southern European and Middle Eastern peoples, but it is just beneath the surface of all of us. If the truth be known emotion trumps rationality nearly every time.

We are still not much smarter than our short, hairy cousins. Xenophobia rules. Progress can be measured by how many people we can kill at a time without having to look them in the eye.

Jim NutterMain Arm

Oh, it’s a sharkGee, we are getting eaten by sharks when we are in their habitat, so what’s new? Do

you realise it’s not the sharks’ fault, we are in their habitat and they are naturally hunt-ers and anything in their habitat is food (but you know what, they don’t like the taste of humans).

On the Gold Coast (love that name) the Department of Primary Industry protects swimmers with the place-ment of shark nets at certain beaches. During the winter months, eg May to August, the humpback whales migrate north from Antarctica along the east and west coasts of Australia. Mother whales give birth along the coast and at Hervey Bay where they rest until their calves are strong enough to migrate back south to Antarctica. On their migration path the humpbacks have to pass by the Gold Coast (love it more) where these shark nets are situated.

For a long time these nets have been responsible for the

deaths of adult and baby whales, among other marine life, but the DPI will not stop the practice of shark netting. Why not?

The DPI has been sitting on information presented to them of an alternative elec-tronic device by an inventor on the Coast for the last two years. Why?

Why can’t at least the DPI remove the nets during the whales’ migration for those months that I have men-tioned above so the whales can travel in peace without harm?

How many more whales and marine life have to be sacrifi ced, not only in the Southern Ocean but along our coastline?

We are not the only species on this planet with intelli-gence, or think we are.

For the whales.Paul Brecht

MullumbimbyMore letters overleaf


Letters

Mining approvalN Anderson (Letters, Febru-ary 14) wonders if anyone has knowledge of the approval process that permitted Bar-rick Gold to operate an anti-quated, cyanide based gold extraction process at their mine on the foreshores of Lake Cowal.

Lake Cowal is NSW’s larg-est ephemeral lake and wet-land system and internation-ally significant migratory bird habitat.

The state government approved the mine because it would create 300 jobs for 13 years, raise revenue from taxes etc and it is govern-ment policy to encourage mining in NSW, making NSW the third most attrac-tive state/country in the world to develop a mine.

The government approved the use of the new American Solvay Internox, Caro’s Acid technology, that will suppos-edly reduce cyanide levels in the 350ha tailings dams to a level so low that it would not pose any risks to the environ-ment. The government refuses to advise me whether this technology has been tested under Australia’s extreme weather conditions, eg fl oods.

I wrote two letters con-cerning this and other issues to the previous and current premiers.

Their government depart-ments refuse to comment on this and most other issues, however the Department of Environment and Conserva-tion (DEC) introduced new safeguards to address the risks of wind borne arsenic from ore stockpiles polluting the lake. This issue had not been addressed in the EIS or Commission of Inquiry dur-ing the approval process, nor was a risk assessment under-taken for fl ooding.

This mine was approved with key environmental issues, such as a Cyanide Management Plan, to be addressed by additional management plans prepared after approval was granted. These plans are not subject to a rigorous assessment process open to public scru-tiny and the DEC refuses to provide copies of them to members of the public.

My concerns about these issues have been com-pounded by the discovery that the company who obtained development approval, North Ltd, is the same company that obtained approval for the nearby North Parkes Gold Mine. This mine killed 2,736 birds from cyanide poisoning. After an investigation, it was discovered the EPA/DEC were partly to blame because the provisions for cyanide management were not ade-quately addressed in the

development approval proc-ess.

It is also the same com-pany that obtained approval for the Ranger Uranium Mine, which was fined $150,000 for causing water pollution in the Kakadu National Park. A 2003 Sen-ate Committee report found there had been 110 pollu-tion incidents and numer-ous breaches of environ-mental requirements since 1981.

This report was not taken into consideration during the development approval process of the Lake Cowal mine, nor was the WA Cooke Report, regarding cyanide seepage at Barrick’s joint venture gold mine in Kalgoorlie.

It seems inevitable to me that there will be water pol-lution incidents at Lake Cowal and its tributaries, eg the Lachlan and Murray Darling Rivers.

About 80% of gold is used to make jewellery. To think globally and act locally, join the boycott on gold jewellery.

D HamiltonLismore

Fear of dogsCynophobia – an abnormal or morbid fear of dogs. It seems that Villiafe Espinile (Letters, February 28) fi ts the profi le of someone who is suffering from cynophobia,

what else can explain her complete over the top tirade about ‘man’s best friend’? It is no wonder that her fi ve year old is terrified and screaming, the child is pick-ing up on the mother’s hys-teria. Children learn from their parents. I am a child care worker and sometimes I look after children that are scared of dogs, however after a few visits to my family’s house they are all smiles and happiness when they see our dogs. It is all about balanced education. And as for the possibility of contracting a dose of tapeworm or lept-osperosis, I have had dogs for over 40 years and have never had either of those or known anyone who has had them either.

We always walk our dogs in the dog exercise area and also pick up their faeces, and I’m sure most other dog owners do the correct thing too. You will always have people that don’t do the right thing, and this is where the rangers should step in. But I have yet to hear about any owners being fi ned on people only beaches, or any stray dogs being rounded up on the people only beaches, I don’t think the rangers like to get their shoes sandy.

And one last thing to all those people who do not like dogs, I suggest you don’t

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It’s the Northern Rivers’ ver-sion of Artbank. With over 100 artworks already sub-mitted for the third FEHVA art auction, The Buttery offi ces are now bulging with some of the fi nest art in the region.

And with the highly antici-pated art auction and soirée still four months away, FEHVA coordinator Dee Tipping has come up with a plan: ‘With the concept of Australian Artbank in mind, we want to create another opportunity for local artists to have their work seen by a wider audience outside of the gallery setting and of course to ultimately encourage the

purchase of the artwork at the FEHVA sale in June.

‘Rather than keep these beautiful works bubble wrapped in the FEHVA offices we’ve decided to adopt them out to good homes in Byron prior to the auction and sale. For a very reasonable $28 a month you could have an Emma Walker or a James Guppy adorning the walls of your offi ce or home.

‘We’ve already had a great response from a number of businesses and lovers of art including the Shirley Street Medical Practice, where Emma Walker’s work “Ship Shape” is producing a sooth-

ing atmosphere for Dr Hugh Macleod’s patients.

‘This is also an opportu-nity for people to live with the art prior to purchase to get a feel for it in their offi ce or home, sort of try before you buy.’

All submitted works can be viewed at the FEHVA website:www.fehva.com, so you can browse the works, choose an artwork and con-tact Dee on 6687 1623 or [email protected] to organ-ise the adoption papers – she guarantees a quicker process than the Department of Immigration! Insurance details will also be outlined with prospective adopters.

FEHVA artworks seek good homes

Artist Emma Walker hangs her artwork ‘Ship Shape’ for Dr Hugh Macleod. Photo Jeff Dawson

The Cancer Council NSW has teamed with Rotary again this year during Bowel Cancer Screening Week to urge all Northern Rivers residents over 50 to check for bowel cancer symptoms with a simple home test available for $6.

‘Research has shown that a quarter of people at risk of bowel cancer can’t name a single symptom of bowel cancer – yet it’s the most common cancer for men and women, killing around 80 people in Northern Rivers each year,’ said Diana Fisher, Regional Programs Coordi-nator. ‘Each year around 210 people will be diagnosed with bowel cancer in this region.

‘Blood in the stools is a common symptom of bowel problems and the Faecal Occult Blood Test (FOBT) is a quick, easy and non-inva-sive way you can check for blood that isn’t easy to see, in the privacy of your own home.

‘Northern Rivers residents can pick up a Rotary Bowels-can FOBT kit from shop-ping centres at Tweed Mall, Tweed City, Kingscliff Shop-ping Centre, Murwillumbah Sunnyside, Grafton, some pharmacies and at many other locations. You can call our Cancer Helpline 13 11 20 for the price of a local call for information about where to get a kit.’

According to the Cancer

Council NSW, bowel cancer is highly curable, with up to 90% of cases treatable if detected early.

‘It’s really important that people over 50 perform an FOBT test every year and see their doctor if they notice blood in their bowel motions,’ said Ms Fisher.

Other symptoms of bowel cancer include a change in bowel habits lasting more than two weeks, abdominal pain, weight loss, bloating and symptoms of anaemia. You may be at higher risk of bowel cancer if one or more of your close relatives have had the disease, if you have had bowel polyps, or if you have had infl ammatory bowel disease for more than eight years.

Call for over 50s to check for bowel cancer

Planning to wash down the hiking boots, dust off the Olivetti and take three months off to write a best-selling travel book? Think again. There’s certainly more to travel writing than buying the ticket and loading up the camera. But despite the chal-lenges, travel is a popular genre for writers with a strong profi le in the market-place.

Travel writer and free-lance journalist Mark Mordue, pictured, will visit Byron Bay in the middle of March to unpack the secrets of ‘writing about the journey’ in a one-day, interactive workshop examining approaches to travel writing and provid-ing a practical overview of the contemporary market.

Mark is an internationally published writer and the winner of a 1992 Human Rights Media Award. His best-selling travel book, Dastgah; Diary of a Head-trip, is a collection of stories, poems and impressions written during a one-year odyssey that took him through India, Iran, Turkey, France, the United King-dom and the USA. In his workshop, Mark will show

that achieving a balance between the personal and a more external set of obser-vations is central to good travel writing.

‘Mumbai to Marrakech – Writing On The Road’ will be held on Saturday March 18 in the Studio Room at the Byron Bay

Community Centre from 10am to 4pm. Cost is $45 for Northern Rivers Writ-ing Centre members and $60 for non-members. Numbers are limited and early bookings are essen-tial. For bookings and information call NRWC on 6685 5115.

Learning to write on the road

More than 500 entries are expected in this year’s $35,000 Country Energy Art Prize for Landscape Painting. Recognised as Australia’s richest annual landscape art prize, the unique competition has enjoyed rapid growth and wide acclaim since its incep-tion in 2003.

Regional general manager Far North Coast, Brian Glawson, encouraged all regional artists to put paint to canvas, whether they’ve already enjoyed national success or just want to show off their backyard.

Last year’s winner was local artist Fiona Bennell of Mullaway, whose entry was one of more than 470 received.

‘Each year, it is both exciting and rewarding to see so many high quality entries – from those who

have been awarded Sulman and Archibald prizes to those who simply feel inspired to drag the paint box out from under the bed,’ Brian said. ‘I’m sure the 2006 $35,000 Country Energy Art Prize will be no exception.

‘There’s no doubt that being a country artist can be tough, but winning a prize like this is a valuable opportunity, which could mean building a studio, hosting exhibitions or rent-ing space, or even travelling overseas. Not to mention raised profile, increased sales and wider opportuni-ties to showcase their work,’ he said.

Entry to the prize is open to artists whose principal place of residence is within Country Energy’s network area, which spans more than 95 per cent of New South

Wales’ land mass. Entry forms are available at all Country Energy customer service centres and regional art galleries or by phoning 13 23 56 or visiting www.countryenergy.com.au/art-prize.

One change in the condi-tions of entry – allowing the submission of entries as dig-ital pics on a compact disc or print out – is expected to attract more artists than ever before.

The judging panel to select fi nalists will include Craig, artists Helen Eager and Euan Macleod and Maitland City Council’s cultural director Joe Eisen-berg. Overall judge is Syd-ney artist Tim Storrier.

Entries will close on 21 July 21 and this year’s exhi-bition and judging will be held at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery.

Artists wanted to win $35,000

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Letters

walk on a dog exercise beach. On several occassions I have been verbally abused by cynophobes while I have walked our dogs on a dog exercise beach. Dogs run around, on the sand and in the water, they do like to say hello, they are a gregarious species just like us humans. If you do not like them then stick to the people only beach.

Conny HoganOcean Shores

Saving EwingsdaleI read with relief that Byron Shire Council has moved to ensure that ‘Byron Bay’s graceful old ladies be saved from the chop’ (Echo, Febru-ary 28). It is very important that the surroundings of these buildings are well kept. To respect the memory of an early pioneer William Flick it would be a positive step if the irresponsible people who abuse the road and the cul de sac at the end of the newly named William Flick Lane in Ewingsdale could emulate the community spirit he showed in settling this lovely rural area.

Despite the signs and regu-lar surveillance by Council rangers it is still used by campers and as a dumping ground for rubbish, not to mention several other repre-

hensible behaviours. All these activities spoil the area where St Columba’s church, the Ewingsdale hall and former schoolhouse and the avenue of gigantic weeping fi gs have just been added to the envi-ronmental heritage list.

Helen Johnston Ewingsdale

Iraq quagmireThe Iraq war quagmires on. It is costing the US more than planned. Soldiers are deserting by the hundreds. Getting men to sign up in the US is harder.The groundswell of resistance started by one mother, Cindy Sheehan, saying ‘Enough is enough’ has given momen-tum to public opinion across the nation against the war.

Peace vigils are being held continually. March Saturday 18 at 5pm at the Peace Pole in Byron Bay there will be a vigil to connect up with many across Australia on the same day.

Bring fl owers and candles. Members of the Byron Peace Carnival are welcome to come. It is time for peace in Iraq. Any assistance to me on 66858382.

Margeaux MarshallByron Bay

Letters acknowledged from John Flanagan, Thir-roul, R J Martin, Byron Bay, Warwick and Kathy Bracey, Byron Bay

A teenage friend of John Howard, who later became a minister in the Greiner gov-ernment, said that when he was young he was obsessed about becoming prime min-ister. She told me that he had no vision, no grand plan for Australia, he just wanted to be prime minister.

Matthew Hartley is very perceptive with his analy-sis of John Howard.

His best asset is that he is a very skilled politician. He will do whatever it takes to remain in power. Even if this means being highly economical with the truth.

The Howard team shines best at election time. It is very skilled at using fear.

Fear of boat people, fear of terrorists, fear of rising interest rates. People run for cover, for security, when afraid. They like to keep the status quo.

Many Australians are beguiled by the illusion that the economy is being run well by the treasurer. They seem blissfully unaware of the conse-quences of the current account deficit blowing out to 6% of our GDP and that our foreign debt has reached nearly half a tril-lion dollars or $59,000 per

household. We are in hock, as never before, to our neighbours.

In the meantime, while we are living way beyond our means, hospitals, schools and infrastructure are grossly underfunded, the environment is being destroyed at an alarming rate and the gap between the rich and the poor in Australia has widened to unprecedented levels, with CEOs receiving over one million dollars a year and single parents struggling to survive. And the new IR laws will ensure the poor stay poor.

The government fans racist fears, takes us into an illegal invasion of a sov-ereign country on a false pretext, allows coal com-panies to dictate green-house policy and funds the very dictator whose coun-try we invade to remove! To cap it off, John Howard pays one million dollars from our cash-strapped aid budget to a pistol-packing mate to spend a few months swanning around Iraq opening doors, but too deaf to hear what’s going on. And this man was the chairman of the AWB! Those who have read Confessions of an Eco-

nomic Hit Man by John Perkins will understand why aid money was used to send Trevor Flugge to Iraq.

When Milo Dunphy was dying, just after John How-ard was elected, he told me he had received a visit from Neville Wran who told him that John How-ard would be in for at least two terms. Milo said to Neville, ‘I’m glad I’m dying.’ How right he was.

Richard JonesPossum Creek

He’s going down. For the sake of the nation he has to go down, and if the Opposi-tion can’t manage the job on their own, we must help them. How? By honing watertight critiques and pro-viding compelling reasons why he must go. But fi rst, the good news.

John Howard, he who is corrupt, he who knows noth-ing, is not undefeatable. Let’s look at his electoral victories. He won in 1996 defeating Paul Keating, a politician admired by some but despised by many more, and he won it by running a ‘small target’ campaign. So what? A jailer’s cat could’ve beaten Keating. In 1998, the ALP was still on the nose, but

Howard got only 48.5 of the vote anyway. Many voters went Democrat in the Senate mistakenly believing this would prevent the introduc-tion of the GST. Having introduced same, Howard was a dead duck until the Tampa and 9/11 turned him into the ‘Man of Steel’, or at least stealing, and delivered him a race issue and a khaki election. His next electoral victory? Against the sadly unhinged Mark Latham. What a surprise! So let’s not be intimidated. This guy has never won a straight fi ght. He’s been lucky. Not any more.

If you accept the above, you may see Mungo’s dire assessment that fi nally noth-ing matters in the voters’ minds but the economy, and the punters think Howard’s the Man on that, is a little too pessimistic. Now I’ll present an argument you may fi nd excessively optimis-tic, but which I think can be shown to stand up: Howard’s balls are hanging out all over the park, he’s vulnerable on every issue including the economy, and together we are going to club his admin-istration to death. Really? Oh yes.

For this week let’s begin with the economy. Referring

again to Mungo’s article of last week, and foreshadow-ing a more complete piece of my own, debt is through the roof, and stated in the old terms unemployment is over 10%. Let’s start from here. The debt has been taken on largely by private house-holds, so you can’t pull the federal government up on that, right? You think? What’s the major cause of public debt? House prices. Who engineered the surge in house prices as a smoke-screen creating ‘growth’ on paper? That’s right. Along the way, who locked young Australians out of home ownership? Now we’re mov-ing. But will the increasing division of society into haves and have nots bother Howard’s Bastards? No. So dump them. Work instead toward his victims, especially in rural seats. And parents whose kids will never be able to afford to buy. And anyone with a conscience about the unemployed.

So unemployment fi gures are now compiled differ-ently? Compile them the old way. That’s right: the way for-ward is to begin talking about ‘historically high unemploy-ment’ and stating the fi gures in the old terms. Tear down the illusions.

Talk about the decline in the economy. Apart from quarrying and wheat and the house borrowing madness, what’s going on? Well, elabo-rately transformed manufac-tures are going backward. So are intellectual property exports. So is ownership of actual wealth-producing assets. This economy busi-ness is supposed to be Howard’s area of strength?

He’s taken the good luck of high mineral prices and thrown it to the winds. He’s manipulated the population into a national debt trap for his own political ends. He’s brought in high unemploy-ment, unless you fi ddle the fi gures. Real wages have gone through the fl oor, unless you fi ddle the fi gures. He’s turned the Australian dream of home ownership into a night-mare. Amazingly, he’s done all this while a resources boom has been going on.

Corrupt and incompetent. Keep talking it up. He’s going down. By the way, did you hear ABC correspondent Jim Middleton ask him about ‘claims you’ve created a pub-lic service that only tells you what you want to hear’ and Howard avoid the question? He is going down.

Matthew HartleyByron Bay

Is there an end of the line for John Howard?

LETTERScontinued from page 12

Auslink help for local transport infrastructureThe latest element in the Australian government’s massive AusLink strategy for rejuvenating the nation’s transport infrastructure was launched in Canberra last week

The Minister for Trans-port and Regional Services, Warren Truss, and the Aus-tralian Government Minister for Local Government, Ter-ritories and Roads, Jim Lloyd, released details of AusLink’s Strategic Regional Program. Mr Truss said the program assists councils to build regional land transport infrastructure that supports industry, tourism and eco-nomic development and improves access for regions to Australian and export markets.

‘City and rural councils can apply for the $126.8 mil-lion available. The Australian government funds will be distributed on merit, based on the quality of submissions received,’ he said.

Mr Lloyd said local gov-ernment will administer the successful projects, but fi rst must convince the govern-ment their proposals are worthwhile.

‘This will be done by assessing each nominated project on its competitive

merits against standard cri-teria. I have written to coun-cils, providing the program guidelines and details indi-cating how they should go about nominating projects,” he said.

Nominations close on May 1. Mr Lloyd will announce successful projects later in the year.

Mr Truss said emerging transport patterns and developments in agribusi-ness and the resource sec-tors required a new way of thinking about how trans-port infrastructure could be provided. This new approach included the possibility of industries contributing to projects where they received a direct benefi t.

Mr Truss said projects will be split into two notional funding allocations for larger and smaller projects.

The large projects are those seeking an Australian government contribution of more than $1 million, while the smaller category is for project funding of up to $1 million.

More information on AusLink’s Strategic Regional Program can be found at www.auslink.gov.au/policy/programmes/strategic/appli-cation_info.aspx.


Council Roundup with Lesley Patterson

James Hardie Indus-tries’ cold hearted and unethical actions to

dodge its responsibilities to pay compensation to suffer-ers of asbestos related ill-nesses victims has spurred many individuals and coun-cils to boycott the compa-ny’s products. At its meet-ing on Tuesday last week, Byron Shire Council voted to develop an ethical ten-dering policy which would allow Council to exclude tenderers which did not meet predetermined ethical standards.

The awarding of a con-tract to Halliburton sub-sidiary, Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR), for the Ban-galow Sewage Treatment Works, raised hackles among many in the com-munity including Mitra Ardron from Byron Sus-tainable Ventures Network who spoke at Tuesday’s meeting.

‘We are being exhorted from many quarters to vote with our dollars and I do not believe this should be restricted to when we are purchasing as individuals. The businesses involved in the Byron Sustainable Ven-tures Network take account of ethics in their purchasing and I believe we should expect this of our collective purchases at all levels of government,’ he said, add-ing that we should be ask-ing tenderers to disclose certain activities.

‘The most obvious dis-closures would be of envi-ronmental offences for example.

‘It would probably have been relevant to Council’s decision on the Bangalow Sewage Works that KBR is under investigation by US senators for knowingly sup-plying water contaminated with sewage to the Iraqi army and preventing its employees disclosing this.’

‘I am sure there will be ethical grey areas, and areas where values differ, but that is what Council was elected for. To make hard decisions on behalf of the community at large, and I believe that the majority of cases will in fact be particularly obvious. For example since KBR appears to have silenced its employees from reporting the sewage contamination of drinking water, why would we trust them not to hush up any similar event in Bangalow,’ said Mr Ardron.

I should point out here that the shire’s drinking water is totally separate from the Bangalow Sewage Treatment Plant and resi-dents should not be alarmed, on that score any-where. There are plenty of

other things to be alarmed about and if you can’t think of any I’ll be giving some suggestions later. All coun-cillors voted to develop a working group to develop an ethical tendering policy, except Cr Tucker who dis-missed the idea as ‘touchy feely nonsense’.

Things have been hum-ming along in Council

quite harmoniously for the past year or so, however Tuesday started badly with the ten councillors split evenly over many issues. On one side sat the four Greens councillors plus independent Peter Westhe-imer facing independent Crs Tucker, Mangleson, Woods, Tardif and the ALP’s Ray Kestle. In these situations the mayor can use her casting vote, which she was forced to do on at least fi ve issues before the end of the day. Despite this, and a pace slow enough to frustrate a snail on Moga-don, a raft of commitments were committed to, deci-sions decided and plans planned.

Nearly $140,000 has been sitting in a drawer at Council earmarked for streetscaping. Cr Barham suggested it might be a good idea to spend some of the money and plant a few trees in our streets, native of course.

After lots of argy-bargy, angst and argument about whether we should employ a consultant to draw up a tree planting plan or just get on and do it, Brett Lee, Council’s director for get-ting stuff done, agreed that his staff could prepare some simple plans outlin-ing what to plant where, therefore leaving more

money for shrubs, shovels and Sheoaks.

For a change the north of the Shire got its fair share of attention including a decision to help the Bruns-wick Heads community develop a DA for a new skatepark at Stan Thomp-son Oval, a bevy of bike-ways in Brunswick Heads

and coughing up the money for a budget blowout on the Helen Street footbridge (see news pages for the full story).

Byron Bay also got a look-in with a plan to help address the area’s crippling teenage unemployment rate.

The Youth Activities

Centre has had its eye on a couple of the cabins sur-plus to requirements in Council’s caravan parks. The idea is to use the cab-ins for classrooms for young people who have left school without completing their school certifi cate. Council agreed to allocate the cab-ins to the YAC and work out where to find the $22,000 to move and res-tump them at the next quarterly budget meeting.

Before we leave Byron Bay, I should mention Cr Tardif ’s motion to extend the exhibition period for the draft Byron Bay and Suffolk Park LEP. Eight weeks is not long enough it seems to take a look at the document and make a sub-mission.

Brad Heydon, a promi-nent member of the Byron Bay Chamber of Com-merce, but speaking to Council as an individual, supported Cr Tardif ’s motion. Cr Barham com-mented that the LEP had

been discussed at Council and in the press since June 2005 and eagerly awaiting by many in the community. Mr Heydon made the rather startling comment that he had no awareness of the LEP before its exhibi-tion in mid January. The motion was defeated, but only after the Mayor pulled out her casting vote to break the deadlock.

A Council meeting wouldn’t be complete with-out a discussion about sew-age. The parlous state of Mullumbimby’s sewage pipes, which leak raw sew-age into the Brunswick River during heavy rain, has received a fair amount of media coverage recently. It is not a problem for which there is an easy or cheap solution, however Council agreed to Cr Tabart’s motion to step up its efforts to sort out the issue, employing a consult-ant to stick his or her head down pipes and pull out the plunger.

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Sponsored by the Kellogg Brown & Root Historical Society, councillors reenact the significant Battle of the Bangalow Sewerage Plant of 2007. Several egos were harmed in the making of this photo.


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Marine wildlife and coastal birds continue to take a bat-tering from increasing popu-lation and tourism, according to Australian Seabird Rescue (ASR) founder and presi-dent, Lance Ferris.

‘Careless fi shing practices and pollution are proving hard to keep up with,’ said Mr Ferris. ‘We are also see-ing increasing numbers of sea turtles beaching them-selves because they have

swallowed plastics or dis-carded fi shing line.’

Mr Ferris says that the big-gest problem, however, is

ignorance. All sea turtle spe-cies are endangered; when they beach themselves, it is because they are seriously ill or hurt. Since they breathe infrequently and lie very still, beach walkers usually assume they are dead.

‘Kicking sea turtles to see if they are alive, ignoring them, or putting them back in the water can be disastrous for them. An urgent response is needed if these vulnerable creatures are to be saved.’

Beached turtles should be covered in a wet towel, shaded or moved to shade if possible and guarded until a rescuer arrives; call the ASR hotline on 0482 862 852 for help.

Mr Ferris is conducting a workshop on pelicans, sea-birds and sea turtles in Ballina on Sunday March 12 from 8.30am and it is open to anyone with an interest in these species.

The workshop costs $25 and includes all notes, barbe-c u e l u n c h a n d refreshments. Early registra-tion is essential by phoning 6686 2852 during office hours, or email admin@ seabirdrescue.org.

Mullum Mitre 10 gives $2,000 to landcarers Group stages dog awareness day

View Club elects new committee

A group of concerned resi-dents has formed a group called WatchDog whose aim is ‘to promote mutual respect in our community and the protection of our environ-ment’. This group, which operates under the auspices of the South Golden Beach Progress Association, was formed in an attempt to rec-tify the uncontrolled dog situation in the area.

On a recent Saturday the group held an Awareness Day at South Golden Beach with an aim to educate dog owners of their responsibili-ties and non-dog owners of their rights in regard to dogs. It also informed the general public of Council Resolution 05-751 which resolved that the beach stretch between South Golden Beach and New Brighton be designated as a dog exercise zone. This motion (points 4 and 5) were presented to Council by Cr Jan Mangleson, a representa-tive of the Companion Ani-mals Committee, who modi-fi ed the Committee’s original motions to include two more. ‘We believe Cr Man-gleson has a duty to make recommendations to Council after due consultation with the committee and the com-munity,’ said a group spokes-

person. ‘It should also be noted that all members of the Companion Animals Com-mittee with the exception of the Chair, Cr John Lazarus, are dog owners.

‘How can these committee members make balanced decisions for the community when the committee is so one-sided? Who is represent-ing that section of our com-munity who are not dog owners?

‘Even though it was not very crowded at the beach on Saturday it was a most posi-tive exercise. It was gratifying to hear from many dog own-ers that they felt that there were already enough dog exercise areas in this part of the shire and that it was

important to retain beach areas for humans.

‘Some of these people had real concerns about dogs, often with no apparent owner present, running amok, def-ecating and intimidating their dogs in the dog exercise areas.

‘We did have discussions with a couple of grumpy local dog owners who basi-cally stated that the beach belonged to everyone and they had the right to take their dogs wherever they liked regardless of Council regulations and respect for other beach goers. Fortu-nately, this type of person is in the minority but they are still highly visible in setting a bad example for others.’

One of the Mullumbimby Federation Bridge Landcare coordinators Mandy Lisson explains the vegetation restoration project to Anthony Zahra from Mullum Mitre10 who’ve just donated $2,000 to the group. Photo Jeff Dawson

The new Brunswick Valley View Club committee was elected at the Brunswick Heads Bowling Club recently, and all the ladies are delighted to have the opportunity to continue the club’s good work. The View Club is particularly active in supporting the Smith Family projects, both locally and nationally.

Learn about our sealife with Lance

Regional development board welcomes DSRD role change‘The Premier’s announce-ment to expand the role of the Department of State and Regional Development (DSRD) will be of great economic benefit to the Northern Rivers region,’ said Margot Sweeny, Chair of the Northern Rivers Regional Development Board.

‘This region has signifi -cant growth and develop-ment opportunities, but it’s also facing challenges such as long term unemploy-ment, low incomes, struc-tural change in some of our key industries and cross-

border issues.’The Board has been

working to address these issues by developing a Regional Industry & Eco-nomic Plan (RIEP).

The RIEP is the eco-nomic deve lopment framework for the region. This gives us greater capacity in the Northern Rivers to take advantage of the expanded role of the DSRD in realising regional development pri-orities.

‘A series of industry workshops for RIEP are currently under way to

identify industry priorities and it is possible that this expanded role will provide greater support to the region’s main industry and economic develop-ment activities.

Details and dates of these workshops can be found on the Develop-ment Board’s website www.nrrdb.com.au

‘The Board is pleased to see that tourism, which is one of the region’s key economic drivers, has been integrated into DSRD.

‘This will be particularly

helpful in developing a cohesive approach for tourism development in the region,’ said Ms Sweeny.

‘The other key win for the region is the Depart-ment will now also include the investment arm of the Film and Television Offi ce.

‘With the highest num-ber of documentary mak-ers outside of Sydney and Melbourne living and working in the Northern Rivers, our region is well placed to capitalise on this linkage.’

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HealthHealth & & BeautyBeauty

Do you suffer from headaches or neck pain?

The sub-occipital muscles lo-cated at the base of the skull are very important structures in the human body. As well as holding your head up these muscles work as one unit with the eyes and inner ear to provide very precise balance information to your brain. To test this out close your eyes and look left to right. Do you feel the muscles in the base of the skull twitch?

The downside of this arrange-ment is that poor posture and spinal alignment mean that these muscles can become hypertonic which upsets this delicate bal-ance system causing headaches as well as poor concentration and fatigue. Chiropractic treatment can restore the correct tone in these muscles.

To make an appointment at Byron Chiropractic Centre with Bruce or Brent please call us on 6685 8159. We are at 52 Shirley Street, Byron Bay.

Look gorgeous with Judy

The new high-tech O2 Oxygen Treatment at Judy’s Pamper Yourself makes you look younger. Lactic and Enzyme facials offer fi rst class anti-ageing skincare, as do all of Judy’s high quality natu-ral ingredient skincare products.

For your body you can choose from a comprehensive menu of treats and treatments to pamper yourself. There are manicures, pedicures, scrubs and waxing (including Brazilian).

If you want to create a gor-geous new you and indulge in a blissful pampering in a secluded, peaceful, air-conditioned atmos-phere, call Judy on 6685 5870.

Voice Dialogue Trainings with Ana Barner

Next seminar: Saturday and Sunday March 18 and 19, 10am to 5pm, Byron Bay.

Discover the different aspects of your personality with this excit-ing and easy to learn transforma-tional process. Voice Dialogue deeply explores these energies within you in a playful way, sup-porting you to develop an aware-ness centre and navigate life in a more conscious and deliberate fashion. The seminars are for any-one interested in personal devel-opment and professional training. Subjects covered are: Psychology of Selves, relationship patterns, dreams, body symptoms and the Transpersonal. For more informa-tion, enrolments, individual and couple sessions, supervision and trainings, please contact Ana at 6680 7747, 0410 740420 or www.TranspersonalDialogue.com

NeurotherapyByron Bay Neurotherapy is now offering a new revolutionary rela-tionship therapy. Recent studies have shown that Neurotherapy

can train two people to be on the same wavelength. Treating both brains to produce relaxed brainwaves in phase and at the same time, results have been for more harmonious, positive and loving relationships and in some cases telepathy.

Call Claire on 6680 8540 or 0414 243491.

Beate SommerEverybody has an innate ability to create optimal health when the life energy is 100% and fl ows freely throughout the body. As a result of injury, emotional trauma, nutri-tional or other unresolved stress, energy fl ow is interrupted and parts of this energy are used to ward off stress and are not avail-able for creating optimal health. Health care is the restoration and maintenance of an ideal and free fl ow of life energy.

Beate is giving an introductory talk on Tuesday March 7 at 6pm at Discover Chiropractors, Ballina. Phone 6686 0266.

Zena GourevitchZena Gourevitch is an accred-ited teacher of Vianna Stibal’s DNA 1 & 2 Theta Healing 3-day workshop. This practical hands-on course needs no prior training. You will learn a technique how to reach the theta state in seconds, and connect to the creative source so that you can effect change in your DNA on a cellular level. You will look inside the hu-man body and do a reading and body scan, and more…

Rosen Method BodyworkRosen Method Bodywork is an exploration into the unconscious-ness, using listening hands that respond with a touch and words that allow you to begin recognis-ing what has been held down – incidents, feelings and insights are awakened as the person sees ways that they as children de-cided they had to be if it was too unsafe, too painful – then slowly muscle tension eases, the body begins to move more freely and so too does the psyche.

For more info contact Rose 6628 0110.

Chi Kung or is it Qigong?Different spellings, same mean-ing. It’s pronounced ‘chee goong’ meaning ‘training the breath’, or ‘cultivating the vital energy’. ‘Qigong’ is the offi cial westernised spelling of this Ancient Chinese health promoting practice(s).

There are hundreds of varieties of Qigong, Tai Chi being one of its moving forms. It is an art that combines aerobic conditioning, meditation and relaxation, without

extreme physical exertion. There are Qigong practices for every age, and all levels of fi tness or for treating ill health.

Qigong builds up stamina and energy whilst calming the mind, requires no equipment and you can practise it anytime, anywhere – lying, sitting or standing.

Interested in cultivating your health and wellbeing through these practices? Call Suzanne Rienits, an Acupuncturist, Chinese Medicine practitioner and Bodyworker. She has been practising and quietly teaching Qigong since her fi rst studies in China in 1989. Enquire now on 6687 5636.

Traditional, Authentic Ayurvedic treatment

Raman Das, General Secretary, World Academy of Ayurveda, New Delhi, and a registered Ayurvedic Physician in India, has many years of practical experi-ence using the systems of Yoga, Tantra and Ayurveda.

Prior to opening YATAN Holistic Ayurvedic Centre in January 2000, Raman Das had an International Ayurvedic clinic in Kathmandu, Nepal, consulting patients from all over the world. Travelling extensively in the USA, Europe, Russia and Australia conducting seminars and consul-tations, he is well acquainted with Western chronic, recurrent and seasonal health problems. His unique consulting style blends pulse diagnosis, dosha analysis and other intuitive techniques to assess your health.

Raman Das is accredited by ANTA for Ayurvedic Medicine, and is a professional member of ATMS, AAA, NPA and YTAA.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming

Do you want to create Successful Relationships, Eliminate Negative Emotions, Behaviours and Beliefs, Improve Finances, Career and Business, Boost Confi dence, Self Esteem and Well-Being, Defi ne What You Really Want in Life and Achieve your Goals with Confi dence?

NLP is a cost and time effective leading edge personal develop-ment technology that can be applied to business coaching to enhance every area of business and in personal transformation sessions.

Louise Crosby is a nationally accredited NLP practitioner and Life Coach with more than 15 years experience in private prac-tice and professional develop-ment training.

Phone Louise Crosby 6684 2253 or 0414 312300.

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Comment & Articles

In Palestine, a terrorist government, democrati-cally elected. In Britain,

consternation over a video-tape of ‘our boys’ beating Iraqis. In Israel, the ‘Lion of Judah’ comatose and sinking. In Washington, Rumsfeld proclaiming ‘We are losing the propaganda war’. In New York, the UN demanding Guantanamo be closed down. In Iran, an anti-Semite building nuclear weapons. In Virginia a Cheney hunting buddy falling, his hand clutching his chest.

In a list of detainees let out of Guantanamo, Osama bin Laden’s bodyguard. In sev-eral countries Danish embas-sies burning because of a cartoon. All over the world, duly elected advocates of ‘freedom’ damning those who reproduce the cartoon. Vows by all governments to ‘speak out’ against ‘irrespon-sible cartoonists’. In Mel-bourne, Leunig pilloried as an anti-Semite because of a cartoon. In Baghdad, Sadd-am’s trial once more adjourned lest it look to the world unfair. In Samara, the Golden Mosque burning.

Is ‘freedom’, then, winning the War on Terror? No. Are we, at last, negotiating with terrorists? Oh yes. You bet. By blaming Denmark’s car-toonists and admonishing our own, we’re negotiating: we don’t make jokes any more, you don’t burn down embassies any more. That’s negotiation.

But we always negotiated with terrorists. Israel, Ireland, Algeria, Mandela’s South Africa, Rabuka’s Fiji, were born of such negotiations. The US broke from England by terrorist action followed by negotiation.

The Catalonians last week gained a federalised inde-pendence by terrorist action, and then negotiation. Every suburban siege of a gun-wielding kidnapper is a negotiation with a terrorist. Every suburban hostage-taker asked to come out with his hands up is a terror-monger being reasoned with. Every police department has an offi cer trained to reason, threaten, soothe, negotiate in this way, with hostage-takers who are what else but terrorists.

What lies we secular West-erners tell. What lying

swine the Islamic world must think us. There is no torture in Guantanamo. ‘A few bad apples,’ not Bush-Rumsfeld policy, caused Abu Ghraib. Colonel Ghadaffi, once a mad beast worth target-bombing (the raid killed two of his children), is now a good man, worth doing busi-ness with, negotiating with. And though we personally

bombed him, that wasn’t ter-rorism, oh no. That was ‘pre-emptive action’. ‘Shock and Awe’ was not terrorism. That was ‘pre-emptive action’.

Saddam’s WMDs exist, I show you here certain proof, my name is Colin Powell. What lies, damned lies and statistics.

Now ‘Condi’ is threatening Iran with a war she can’t deliver, and has ceased to threaten North Korea with a war she can’t deliver, and still expects to be henceforth believed. She too swore the WMDs were there, and the uranium yellow cake, and she expects to be henceforth believed.

What Big Lies we tell and how stupid we must seem to the four billion people harmed by the West before now. No, no, Vaile and

Howard knew nothing of bribes to foreign govern-ments, though the Depart-ment of Trade is there for no other purpose. No, no, it’s clear from the polls, no Aus-tralian cares if the biggest known bribe in world history, our three hundred million to Saddam, bought bullets to fi re at Australians, or family trusts for suicide bombers who blew up Israelis.

No Australian cares about such things, so long as the economy ticks over, and the stupid rich can buy univer-sity degrees the smart poor can only dream of, and bosses can grope their female employees and sack them if they resist, and high school kids can dream of jobs in call centres.

With advantages like these why would we Australians care about the odd hundred million slung at Saddam Hussein, torturer of Shi’ites and gasser of Kurds? Why would we care if the Iraq we helped free from tyranny thinks we helped keep that tyrant in place and won’t buy our wheat any more because of it?

Why should we care if lies like these are told, and harm us as they do? We’re getting used to it, surely.

Well, if we don’t care any more, the two elections of March 18, when the Liberals

lose on average a third of their vote in all the seats they stand for in Tasmania and South Australia will thereaf-ter need to be skilfully explained. The true explana-tion is that the word ‘Liberal’ is now on the nose, the way the word ‘democrat’ came to be. And ‘One Nation’. And ‘Communist’ and ‘Ruddock’ and ‘Kernot’ and ‘Reith’ and ‘Latham’. The word ‘Howard’ is too now. Because it no longer occurs in any head-line. The initials PM occur instead.

Because the word ‘Howard’ no longer has the concept ‘honesty’ wrapped up in it. The concept ‘habitual dis-sembling’ has replaced it.

And for him and most world leaders, the now impotent Blair, the now vis-ibly drunken Bush, the now

transparent second-rater ‘Condi’ (compare her with Colin Powell), the language-challenged serial killer Rumsfeld and the friendly-fi ring Fudd Dick Cheney among them, the lies, the Big Lies, are coming home to roost.

So is the weird idea that killing tens of thousands

of people helps things, an early Cro-Magnon concept that still animates Americans’ thinking and powers their economy. Though killing on this scale did once help in wars between nations and pitched battles of ignorant armies in uniform, those wars and battles no longer occur.

Nor does the need for Star Wars rockets built to knock down other Star Wars rockets in a time when atomic bombs arrive in suitcases carried by moonlight unchallenged across the Rio Grande by young men whose relatives, probably, were killed by Americans in Iraq. Killing tens of thousands of people makes hundreds of thou-sands of enemies, and it always did. But what is dif-ferent now is that the oppor-tunity to kill everybody doesn’t exist any more. Now your enemies fl y to Mexico, and walk with suitcase bombs across the Rio Grande.

Lies come home to roost

What Big Lies we tell and how stupid we must seem to the four billion people harmed by the West before now.

by Bob Ellis

Leila and Saeed to visit friends in Byron

Having recently been given Permanent Protection to stay in Australia, the Iranian Kha-lilpour family, Leila, Saeed and their two children are looking forward to meeting the many friends in the Byron area who have sup-ported them over the past fi ve and a half years. It was the many letters of support

which kept them going when they were held in detention at Curtin Camp in Western Australia and Baxter in South Australia.

Currently they are living in Adelaide where Leila is keen to complete Australian requirements which will allow her to practise her career as a pharmacist, while

Saeed is participating online in a 16 week course which will gauge how much further study he needs to do in order resume his profession as a dentist. The family will be in Byron from March 16 to 23. For information on the cel-ebration details please phone Diti Dickson 6684 2964 or [email protected].

Former Byron fi shers meet up again

After a chance conversation Anne Biddulph from Banora Point was able to reunite her father Lester Phillips from Ballina, left, and Don Hopper from Murwillumbah. Lester and Don had not seen each other for at least 50 years when they had fishing boats together back in Byron Bay in the 1950s.A get-together was held at Don’s residence at Mountain View Retirement Village last month where many a fish tale was told, also remembering the big 1954 cyclone which took the Byron Bay jetty and the two cranes which had been used to lift the boats up from the ocean.

Scholarships available to rural nursesFPA Health Family Planning NSW is inviting applications for the Tony McGrane schol-arship for Nursing in Repro-ductive Health.

This scholarship provides funding for a registered nurse to complete the FPA Health Post-graduate Certifi cate in Sexual and Reproductive Health. It is named in mem-ory of Tony McGrane, former State Member of Parliament for Dubbo and a strong supporter of FPA Health Family Planning NSW.

The legacy of the Scholar-ship is that at the successful completion of the course, the nurse will return to rural NSW with added expertise and skills to assist local peo-ple. Last year’s recipient Susan Brown from Brewar-rina in north west NSW, 1000 km from Sydney, says, ‘The scholarship has been an amazing opportunity for me and for the health of rural women.’

The scholarship consists of a sum of up to $6000 to cover course tuition, travel

and away-from-home living expenses while completing the training in Sydney.

Applications for the 2006 scholarship will be accepted from registered nurses with at least two years post-basic experience who are working in rural or remote NSW. Applicants must be Austral-ian citizens or permanent residents, and able to com-mence study in 2006.

For an application form or further information, please call 1300 658 886. Applica-tions close March 31.

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Television Guide

1. Heath Ledger is up against Heath Ledger on Saturday night with Prime showing The Four Feath-ers at 8.30pm and TEN A Knight’s Tale at 6.30pm. A Knight’s Tale is more fun, but where’s Heath’s far superior Aussie movie Two Hands? 2. Spanish comedy Kill Me Tender (SBS, Saturday, 9.45pm) has been described as Pedro Almodovar meets the Coen Brothers. There’s a dominatrix in it, if you like that sort of thing. 3. Ewan McGregor waves his wand about as the young Obi Wan Kenobi in a more bear-able episode of the interminable movie series – Star Wars Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace (TEN, Fri-day, 9pm). Catch Lynda La Plante’s dark crime series Trial And Retribution on ABC, Friday at 8.30pm.

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4.30 Movie: Value For Money (G, 1955) John Gregson, Diana Dors, Susan Stephen, Derek Farr

6.00 Kid’s Programs 10.00 School Programs 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 National Press Club Address 1.30 Talking Heads 2.00 The Bill 3.00 Kid’s Programs 6.00 Rosemary: Castle Cook 6.30 The Cook And The Chef 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 Report 8.00 The New Inventors 8.30 Spicks & Specks 9.00 Little Britain (M, sr) Roman De Vere gets

a little more than he bargained for during a facial

9.35 The Glass House 10.05 At The Movies 10.35 Lateline 11.10 Four Corners 11.55 Media Watch 12.10 Movie: Walk Softly, Stranger (PG,

B&W, 1950) Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Spring Byington, Paul Stewart

1.40 Movie: Nutcracker (MA, n,s,v,cl, 1982) Joan Collins, Carol White, Paul Nicholas, Finola Hughes

3.25 National Press Club Address

5.00 Weatherwatch 5.25 World News 6.30 UEFA Champions League LIVE 8.55 World News 11.30 Arabic News 12.05 Indonesian News 12.30 Business Report 1.00 World News 2.30 Tales From A Suitcase 3.00 Food Lovers Guide To Australia 3.30 Cycling Central 4.00 World Sport 4.30 The Journal 5.00 Newshour 6.00 Living Black 6.30 World News Australia 7.00 World Sport 7.30 Inside Australia: Stock Squad 8.00 The Movie Show 8.30 Dateline 9.30 World News Australia 10.00 Movie: Chaos (MA, v,s,a, 2001) French

drama/comedy 11.55 Movie: Check And Mate (M, a,v, 2000)

Italian drama 1.35 Larry Clark (M, s,cl,a) 2.35 Close

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 Raggs 9.30 Home Shopping 10.30 Morning News 11.00 Wheel Of Fortune 11.30 Still Standing (PG) 12.00 Movie: Murder At My Door (M, v,a,

1996) Judith Light, RH Thomson, Johnny Galecki

2.00 Blue Heelers 3.00 Moonlighting 4.00 It’s Academic 4.30 News 5.00 Wheel Of Fortune 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.00 Prime News 6.30 Seven News 7.00 Home And Away 7.30 Beyond Tomorrow 8.30 Prison Break (M, v,a,s) 9.30 Air Crash Investigation (M) 10.40 Border Patrol (PG) 11.10 Forensic Investigators 12.00 The L Word (MA, s,cl,a) 1.00 Home Shopping 5.00 Crefl o A Dollar 5.30 Home Shopping

6.00 Early News 7.00 Toasted TV 8.30 In The Box 9.00 9am With David And Kim 11.00 Ten News 11.30 Home Life Style 12.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 1.00 The Oprah Winfrey Show 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Infomercial 3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures 4.00 Totally Wild 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News 6.00 The Simpsons 6.30 Neighbours 7.00 The Biggest Loser 7.30 Jamie’s Great Italian Escape 8.00 Bondi Rescue 8.30 House (M) 9.30 NCIS (M) 10.30 Late Night News And Sports Tonight 11.05 Blind Justice 12.00 Cops 12.30 The Up-Late Game Show 1.55 Video Hits Up-Late 2.00 Infomercials 4.00 Religion

6.00 Today 9.00 Mornings With Kerri-Anne.. Reminds me that there is infi nitely more important things to be doing 11.00 Today Extra 11.30 Danoz 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 Days Of Our Lives 2.00 The Young And The Restless 3.00 Fresh Cooking 3.30 Hi-5 4.00 Streetsmartz 4.30 Frazier 5.00 Temptation 5.30 Bert’s Family Feud 6.00 Evening News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 McLeod’s Daughters (PG) 8.30 Without A Trace (M, s,du) 8.40 Lotto 9.30 ER (M) 10.30 Extreme Makeover 11.30 Nightline 12.00 Curb Your Enthusiasm (MA15+) 1.00 Late Show With David Letterman 2.00 Cheers 2.30 All Of Us 3.00 Guthy Renker 4.00 Entertainment Tonight 4.30 Good Morning America

4.30 Movie: Time Flies (G, B&W, 1944) George Moon, Tommy Handley

6.00 Kid’s Programs 10.00 School Programs 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Lovejoy 1.30 Strictly Dancing 2.00 The Bill (M, v) 3.00 Kid’s Programs 6.00 Human Contraptions: Media 6.05 The Life Of Mammals 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 Report 8.00 Force Of Nature: Last Voyage Of

Donald Crowhurst Golden Globe yacht race 1968

8.30 Bomber Crew 9.30 The West Wing (PG) 10.15 Lateline 11.00 Palace Of Dreams Tom Rayner 11.55 Movie: The White Tower (PG, 1950) A

woman fulfi ls her father’s dream to climb a nearly impossible mountain in the Swiss Alps. Starring Glenn Ford, Alida Vallia and Claude Rains

1.35 Movie: The Arizonian (PG, B&W, 1935) Richard Dix, Margot Grahame, Preston Foster, Louis Calhern

2.55 Message Stick: Macumba (G*) 3.30 ATP Masters Cup Tennis Highlights

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5.00 Weatherwatch 5.25 World News 6.30 UEFA Champions League LIVE 8.55 World News 11.30 Arabic News 12.05 Indonesian News 12.30 Business Report 1.00 Dateline 2.00 World News 3.00 Das Journal 3.30 School Torque 4.00 World Sport 4.30 The Journal 5.00 Newshour 6.00 Global Village 6.30 World News Australia 7.00 World Sport 7.30 Inspector Rex 8.20 Hotline 8.30 The Heartbreak Tour (M, 2004) Austral-

ian drama about a group of friends on the edge of their thirties. Starring Toby Schmitz, Caroline Craig, Nathanial Dean

9.30 World News Australia 10.00 Ghost In The Shell (M, a,v) Japanese

animation 10.30 Movie: Baby Cart In Hades (MA, v,a,

1972) Japanese action 12.00 Movie: Saturday Action (M, a,s,cl,

1992) German drama 1.45 Close

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 Raggs 9.30 Home Shopping 10.30 Morning News 11.00 Wheel Of Fortune 11.30 Still Standing 12.00 Movie: Hunter – Back In Force (M, v,

2003) Hunter investigates of a chain of bank robberies. Starring Fred Dryer, Steph-anie Kramer, Gregory Scott Cummins, Linda Bisesti and Robert Crow

2.00 Blue Heelers (M) 3.00 Moonlighting 4.00 It’s Academic 4.30 News 5.00 Wheel Of Fortune 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.00 Prime News 6.30 Seven News 7.00 Home And Away 7.30 Las Vegas (PG) 8.30 Lost (M) 9.30 The Amazing Race 10.30 American Dad (M) 11.00 Family Guy 11.30 Scrubs 12.00 8 Simple Rules For Dating My Teen-

age Daughter 12.30 Home Shopping 5.00 Crefl o A Dollar 5.30 Home Shopping

6.00 Early News 7.00 Toasted TV 8.30 In The Box 9.00 9am With David And Kim 11.00 Ten News 11.30 Home Life Style 12.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 1.00 The Oprah Winfrey Show 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Infomercial 3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures 4.00 Totally Wild 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News 6.00 The Simpsons 6.30 Neighbours 7.00 The Biggest Loser 7.30 Smallville 8.30 Medium (M) 9.30 Law & Order (M) 10.30 Late Night News And Sports Tonight 11.05 Sex And The City (M, cl,sr) 11.30 Vodaphone Live At The Chapel Stereo

MCs 12.00 A Minute With Stan Hooper (M) 12.30 The Up-Late Game Show 1.55 Video Hits Up-Late 2.00 Infomercials 4.00 Enjoying Everyday Life 4.30 Kenneth Copeland 5.00 More Religion

6.00 Today 9.00 Mornings With Kerri-Anne 11.00 Danoz 11.30 Guthy Renker 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 Days Of Our Lives 2.00 The Young And The Restless 3.00 Fresh Cooking 3.30 Hi-5 4.00 Streetsmartz 4.30 Frazier 5.00 Temptation 5.30 Bert’s Family Feud 6.00 Evening News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 Getaway Beautiful beach in the British

Virgin Islands, New Zealand, Australia’s Warburton Eel, safari in Kenya, Megan Gale’s Perth, Sydney’s sub-zero bar

8.30 Waking The Dead (M v) 9.30 The Footy Show (M) 11.00 Nightline 11.30 Scare Tactics 12.00 Paradise Hotel 1.00 Late Show With David Letterman 2.05 One On One (PG) 2.30 Spy TV 3.00 Guthy Renker Australia 4.00 Entertainment Tonight 4.30 Good Morning America Hi Cristar

5.00 Weatherwatch 5.25 World News 9.20 Le Journal 9.55 Russian News 10.30 Greek News 11.30 Arabic News 12.05 Indonesian News 12.30 Business Report 1.00 Insight 2.00 Interesting Times 3.00 A Fork In Africa 3.30 The Movie Show 4.00 World Sport 4.30 The Journal 5.00 Newshour 6.00 Global Village 6.30 World News Australia 7.00 World Sport 7.30 Holidays In Places That Don’t Exist

Places that are not offi cially recognised as autonomous countries

8.00 The Mysterious Geographic Explora-tions Of Jasper Morello (PG)

8.30 Unit One (M) Danish drama 9.35 World News Australia 10.00 Why Men Wear Frocks British doco 11.00 Movie: Shopgirls (M, cl, 2002) Italian

drama 12.45 Movie: Blind Profi t (M, a,v,cl, 2001)

Swedish crime 2.30 Close

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 Raggs 9.30 Home Shopping 10.30 Morning News 11.00 Wheel Of Fortune 11.30 Still Standing 12.00 Movie: Rich And Famous (M, s,d,cl,

1981) Two friends, dazzled by the glitter of money and fame, compete fi ercely for eve-rything. Starring Jacqueline Bissett, Candice Bergen, David Selby, Hart Bochner

2.35 Kitchen Confi dential 3.00 Moonlighting 4.00 It’s Academic 4.30 News 5.00 Wheel Of Fortune 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.00 Prime News 6.30 Seven News 7.00 Home And Away 7.30 Better Homes And Gardens 8.40 Movie: The Lizzie McGuire Movie (G,

2003) Hilary Duff, Adam Lamberg, Robert Carradine, Hallie Todd, Jake Thomas

10.20 Movie: Someone Like You (M, s,cl, 2001) A woman wants to understand why she has been suddenly jilted. Starring Ashley Judd, Greg Kinnear, Hugh Jackman, Catherine Dent

12.20 For Love Or Money (PG) 1.20 Home Shopping

6.00 Early News 7.00 Toasted TV 8.30 In The Box 9.00 9am With David And Kim 11.00 Ten News 11.30 Home Life Style 12.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 1.00 The Oprah Winfrey Show 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Infomercial 3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures 4.00 Wicked Science 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News 6.00 The Simpsons 6.30 Neighbours 7.00 The Biggest Loser 7.30 Friday Night Games 9.00 Movie: Star Wars Episode I – The

Phantom Menace (PG, v, 1999) Darth Vader’s youth when he was discovered and trained by Jedi Qui-Gon Jinn. Starring Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd

11.40 Late Night News 12.10 Sports Tonight 12.40 The Up-Late Game Show 1.55 Video Hits Up-Late 2.00 Infomercial 4.00 Cottonwood Christian Centre 4.30 Infomercial 5.00 Religion

6.00 Today 9.00 Mornings With Kerri-Anne 11.00 Today Extra 11.30 Guthy Renker 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 Days Of Our Lives 2.00 The Young And The Restless 3.00 Fresh Cooking 3.30 Hi-5 4.00 Streetsmartz 4.30 Frazier 5.00 Temptation 5.30 Bert’s Family Feud 6.00 Evening News 7.00 A Currrent Affair 7.30 Backyard Blitz 8.30 Friday Night Football West Tigers v St

George Illawarra Dragons 11.00 Nightline 11.30 2006 NAB Cup AFL Semi fi nal – Adelaide

v Melbourne 2.30 Late Show With David Letterman 3.30 Justice League 4.00 Entertainment Tonight 4.30 Good Morning America Every gun that is made, every warship

launched, every rocket fi red, signifi es a theft from those who hunger, from those who are cold and are not clothed.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

4.30 Movie: Portrait From Life (PG, B&W, 1948) Mai Zetterling, Guy Rolfe, Herbert Lom

6.00 Kid’s Programs 10.00 School Programs 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Grass Roots 1.35 Men Behaving Badly 2.00 Kath And Kim 2.30 Spicks & Specks 3.00 Kid’s Programs 6.00 Message Stick (G*) 6.35 A Place In Slovakia 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Stateline 8.00 Collectors 8.30 Trial And Retribution: The Lovers (M,

v,a) 9.40 The Chaser’s War On Everything 10.10 Ali G In Da USAiii (M, cl) 10.40 Lateline 11.15 The Glass House (Repeat) 11.45 Rage (M)

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11.45 Rage continues 11.10 Out There 11.35 Girls In Love 12.00 Stateline 12.30 Australian Story 1.00 Foreign Correspondent 1.40 Words: Roger Wells 2.00 Movie: One Night With You (G, B&W,

1948) Nino Martini, Patricia Roc, Stanley Holloway, Hugh Wakefi eld

3.30 Walking With Cavemen 4.00 Wild Australiasia: Southern Seas 5.00 Winter Paralympics, Turin Highlights 6.00 Head 2 Head 6.30 Gardening Australia 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Doc Martin (PG) 8.30 The Bill (PG) 9.25 Parkinson Charlotte Church, Trinny

Woodall, Susannah Constantine 10.10 Between The Sheets (M) 11.00 Rage (M)

5.00 Weatherwatch 5.25 World News 8.00 Das Journal 8.30 Spanish News 9.20 Le Journal 10.00 Russian News 10.30 Greek News 11.30 Arabic News 12.05 Indonesian News 12.30 Business Report 1.00 Masterpiece On Saturday

Ring Of The Nibelung: Siegfried 2.30 Pissarro: The First Impressionist 3.35 Rhythms From Africa 4.30 The Journal 5.00 Newshour 6.00 Handle With Care 6.30 World News Australia 7.00 World Sport 7.30 As It Happened: UFOs And the Cold

War 8.30 Iron Chef 9.15 Rockwiz 9.45 Movie: Kill Me Tender (MA, s,a,cl, 2002)

Spanish comedy based on a true story about a girl who works in a dominatrix salon in Barcelona who falls for a guy who dresses up as a rabbit for work

11.25 SOS Shorts on screen 12.25 Noise TV Music series 2.00 Close

6.00 Tractor Tom 7.00 Saturday Disney 9.00 The Saturday Club 10.00 Flipper And Lopaka: The Search For

Neptune’s Trident 10.30 Disney Adventures 11.30 That’s So Raven 12.00 Australian Cup LIVE 5.00 Surprise Chef 5.30 Sydney Weekender 6.00 Seven News 6.30 The World Around Us: Anatomy Of A

Shark Bite 7.30 Heartbeat 8.30 Movie: The Four Feathers (M, v, 2002)

Set in 1898, a British offi cer in Sudan resigns his post right before his regiment ships out to battle the rebels and perceiv-ing his resignation as cowardice his friends and fi ancee give him four white feathers, the symbol of cowardice. Starring Heath Ledger, Kate Hudson, Djimon Hounsou, Wes Bentley

11.15 Movie: Brannigan (M, v, 1975) A Chi-cago cop doesn’t mind bending the rules if it will help him get his man. Starring John Wayne, Richard Attenborough, Judy Gee-son, Mel Ferrer, John Vernon, Daniel Bilon, Lesley-Anne Down, Ralph Meeker

1.30 Danoz Direct 2.30 Expo

6.00 Toasted TV 7.00 Scooter: Secret Agent 7.30 Totally Wild 8.00 Yakkity Yak 8.30 Video Hits 12.00 State Focus 12.30 Out Of The Blue 1.00 Infomercial 1.30 Home Life Style 2.00 Discover Down Under 2.30 Totally Australia: Nature’s Hot Line 3.30 Escape With ET 4.00 Beach Volleyball 5.00 Ten News 5.30 Sports Tonight 6.00 The Simpsons 6.30 Movie: A Knight’s Tale (PG, cl,v, 2001)

A young squire sets out to prove himself a worthy knight at a jousting competition. Starring Heath Ledger, Mark Addy, Rufus Sewell, Paul Bettany, Shannyn Sossamon

9.05 Movie: The Patriot (M, v,w,a, 2000) A former war hero turned pacifi st fi nally retaliates when his eldest son is wounded and youngest son is murdered. Starring Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Joely Richard-son, Jaxon Isaacs

12.30 NAB AFL Cup Semi fi nal 2.30 Formula One Grand Prix Bahrain 3.30 Infomercials 4.00 Religion

6.00 Danoz 6.30 Untold Wealth 7.00 Kids Programs 10.00 So Fresh 11.30 Backstage Pass KT Tunstall, James Blunt 12.00 Supercross Masters Adelaide 12.30 The Boat Show 1.00 George Lopez 1.30 Movie: It Happened At The World’s

Fair (G, 1963) Elvis Presley, Gary Lock-wood, Joan O’Brien

3.30 Fresh Prince Of Bel Air 4.00 Clever 5.00 Cheers 5.30 Airport 6.00 NBN News 6.30 Australia’s Funniest Home Videos 7.30 Movie: Dinotopia (PG, v, 2002) Tyron

Leitso, David Thewlis, Wentworth Miller 8.40 Lotto 11.30 Movie: Burglar (M, cl,s,v, 1987) Whoopi

Goldberg, Bob Goldwait, GW Bailey, Lesley Ann Warren, James Handy, Anne de Salvo

1.20 Movie: Playing God (AV15+, v,cl,du, 1997) A surgeon who loses his job because of his drug addiction is in the right place at the right time to save a man’s life. Starring David Duchovny, Timothy Hutton

3.00 Late Show With David Letterman 4.00 Home Shopping 5.30 Icon

6.30 Kid’s Programs 9.00 Insiders 10.00 Inside Business 10.30 Offsiders 11.00 Asia Pacifi c Focus 11.30 Songs Of Praise 12.00 Landline 1.00 Gardening Australia 1.30 Message Stick (G*) 2.00 The Private Life Of A Masterpiece:

The Sunfl owers 2.50 Proud Possessors 3.00 Veronica Villarroel 4.00 Sunday Arts 5.00 Winter Paralympics, Turin Highlights 6.00 At The Movies 6.30 The Einstein Factor 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Life In The Undergrowth 8.30 Agatha Christie: Poirot – Taken At

The Flood (M, v) 10.00 Compass: God On Our Side Profi les

three rugby league players 10.30 Blues For Mandela 11.25 Movie: Two Thousand Women (PG,

B&W, 1944) Phyllis Calvert, Flora Robson, Patricia Roc

1.00 Movie: Sinbad The Sailor (G, 1947) Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Maureen O’Hara

3.00 Secrets Of St Marys 3.30 Raw Comedy (M, cl,sr)

6.00 Weatherwatch 6.30 World News 8.30 Latin American News 9.00 Maltese News 9.30 Polish News 10.00 Ukrainian News 10.30 James Morrison And Judy Bailey 11.00 A-Series Athletics Melbourne 12.00 Speedweek 2.00 The World Game 3.30 UEFA Champions League Magazine 4.00 The World Game 5.30 Cycling Central 6.00 Classical Destinations: Germany 6.30 World News Australia 7.00 World Sport 7.30 Lost Worlds: Beneath The Stones

Of Gaza Ruins of a Byzantine monastery among many other discoveries

8.30 Science: Prescription For Survival (G) Back to the basics – health and the essen-tial requirements

9.30 Movie: The Legend Of Al, John And Jack (M, cl,v, 2002) Italian comedy set in 1959 about three gangsters

11.15 Movie: You’ll Be Back (MA, s,cl,a, 2002) Spanish drama about two very different brothers who reunite after a long period

1.00 The Storm Rages Twice (PG) Lebanese drama series

1.50 Close

6.00 Religion 7.00 Stanley 7.30 Tabaluga 8.00 Weekend Sunrise 10.00 Blinky Bill 10.30 Jetix 11.00 Movie: All Dogs Go To Heaven 2 (G,

1996) Animation 1.00 Movie: Night Of The Wolf (PG, 2002)

Anne Archer, Robert Urich, Zachary Bos-trom, C Thomas Howell

3.10 Movie: Father Of The Bride (G, 1991) Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, Martin Short, Kimberly Williams

5.30 8 Simple Rules 6.00 Seven News 6.30 Where Are They Now 7.30 Ghost Whisperer (PG) 8.30 Movie: Bringing Down The House (M,

du,v, 2003) Steve Martin, Queen Latifah, Eugene Levy, Jean Smart, Missi Pyle, Kim-berly J Brown

10.40 Movie: Frank McKlusky CI (M, v,s, 2002) Dave Sheridan, Cameron Richardson, Randy Quaid, Dolly Parton, Kevin Pollack

12.15 Movie: Among Giants (M, 1998) Pete Postlethwaite, Rachel Griffi ths, James Thornton, Lennie James

2.05 Home Shopping 5.00 Religion 5.30 Home Shopping

6.00 Mass For You At Home 6.30 Meditation Medication 7.00 Worst Best Friends 7.30 Totally Wild 8.00 Inside Franchising 8.30 Video Hits 12.00 Movie: Ice Castles (PG, cl,a, 1978) A

young skater, who is blinded in an acci-dent, overcomes the tragedy with the help of her loving boyfriend. Starring Robby Benson, Lynn Holly Johnson, Tom Skerritt and Colleen Dewhurst

2.00 World Rally Championship Mexico 3.00 RPM 5.00 Ten News 5.30 Sports Tonight 6.00 The Simpsons 6.30 Futurama (PG) 7.00 Everybody Hates Chris (PG) 7.30 Australia’s Brainiest Olympian 8.30 Law & Order: S.V.U. (M) 9.30 Law & Order: Criminal Intent (M) 10.30 Formula One Grand Prix Bahrain 1.00 Video Hits Presents Darren Hayes 2.00 Infomercial 4.00 Enjoying Everyday life With Joyce

Meyer 4.30 Kenneth Copeland 5.00 Life Today With James Robison 5.30 This Is Your Day With Benny Hinn

6.00 Danoz 6.30 Guthy Renker 7.00 Y? 7.30 Business Success 8.00 Business Sunday 9.00 Sunday 11.00 Sunday Footy Show 12.30 The Boat Show 1.00 2005 Women’s ASP World Surfi ng

Roxy Pro, Fiji 2.00 Movie: Escape From Wildcat Canyon

(G, 1998) Dennis Weaver, Michael Caloz, Peter Keleghan

4.00 Sunday Rugby League Brisbane Bron-cos v North Queensland Cowboys

6.00 Evening News 6.30 Clever (PG) 7.30 60 Minutes 8.30 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (M,

v,sr) 9.30 CSI: Miami (M) 10.30 Movie: Passenger 57 (M, v,cl, 1992) An

undercover anti-terrorism expert is aboard a plane when it is hijacked. Starring Wesley Snipes, Elizabeth Hurley, Tom Sizemore

12.15 Movie: Bombers B-52 (G, 1957) Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Marsha Hunt, Robert Nichols

2.15 Mad TV 3.30 Guthy Renker Australia 5.00 Primetime

4.30 Movie: Carry On Girls (PG, 1974) Sidney James, Barbara Windsor, Joan Sims

6.00 Kid’s Programs 10.00 School Programs 11.00 Landline 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 The Pilot Hour 1.30 Head 2 Head 2.00 The Bill 3.00 Kid’s Programs 6.00 Winter Paralympics, Turin Highlights 6.30 Talking Heads: Tommy Emmanuel 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 Australian Story 8.30 Four Corners 9.20 Media Watch 9.35 Israel And The Arabs: Elusive Peace

(M, v,cl) 10.35 Lateline 11.15 Witchcraze (MA, v,cl) Of 1589-91 driven

by King James VI of Scotland and resulting in the deaths of over 1000 people

12.15 Movie: 80,000 Suspects (PG, B&W, 1963) Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Cyril Cusack

2.10 Movie: Pot Luck (PG, B&W, 1936) Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn, Robertson Hare, Diana Churchill

3.25 No Quick Fix (M, cl,sr) Testing a metha-done treatment alternative

5.00 Weatherwatch And World News 9.20 Le Journal 9.55 Russian News 10.30 Greek News 11.30 Arabic News 12.05 Indonesian News 12.30 Polish News 1.00 Dateline 2.00 Insight 3.00 Wine Lovers Guide To Australia 3.30 The Movie Show 4.00 World Sport 4.30 The Journal 5.00 She’ll Be Right, Boss – No Worries 5.30 Living Black 6.00 Global Village 6.30 World News Australia 7.00 World Sport 7.30 Mythbusters 8.30 South Park (M, a) 9.00 Stripperella (MA, sr,cl,a) American ani-

mation 9.30 World News Australia 10.00 Shameless (MA, s,cl,a) 10.55 Movie: Drowning Ghost (MA, v,cl,a,

2004) Swedish horror 12.40 The Nanny 1.10 Movie: Pachito Rex – I’m Leaving But

Not For Good (M, v,a,cl, 2001) Mexican drama

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ten Bell, Anne Heche, Diane Ladd, Shedrack Anderson, Kristin Fairlie

2.00 Blue Heelers 3.00 Moonlighting 4.00 It’s Academic 4.30 Seven News 5.00 Wheel Of Fortune 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.00 Prime News 6.30 Seven News 7.00 Home And Away 7.30 The Great Outdoors India’s Taj Majal,

Hobbit hotel in New Zealand, Victoria’s Otways, Fiji, Princess Mary’s favourite Tasmanian winery, giant tortoise of the Galapagos

8.40 Desperate Housewives (M) 9.40 Commander In Chief (M) 10.35 Boston Legal (M) 11.30 Scrubs 12.00 Arrested Development 12.30 Home Shopping 5.00 Religion 5.30 Home Shopping

6.00 Early News 7.00 Toasted TV 8.30 In The Box 9.00 9am With David And Kim 11.00 Ten News 11.30 Home Life Style 12.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 1.00 The Oprah Winfrey Show 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Infomercial 3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures 4.00 Scope 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News 6.00 The Simpsons 6.30 Neighbours 7.00 The Biggest Loser 8.00 Courting Alex (PG) 8.30 Numb3rs (M) 9.30 Supernatural (M) 10.30 Late Night News And Sports Tonight 11.05 Touching Evil (M, v) 12.00 Volvo Round The World Ocean Race 12.30 The Up-Late Game Show 1.55 Video Hits Up-Late 2.00 Infomercial 4.00 Enjoying Everyday Life With Joyce

Meyer 4.30 Kenneth Copeland 5.00 Life Today With James Robison 5.30 This Is Your Day With Benny Hinn

6.00 Today 9.00 Mornings With Kerri-Anne 11.00 Today Extra 11.30 Danoz 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 Days Of Our Lives 2.00 The Young And The Restless 3.00 Fresh Cooking 3.30 Hi-5 4.00 Streetsmartz 4.30 Frazier 5.00 Temptation 5.30 Bert’s Family Feud 6.00 Evening News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 20 To 1 8.35 Who Wants To Be A Millionaire 8.40 Lotto 9.35 Cold Case (M) 10.35 Body Of Evidence 11.05 Pshchic Detectives 11.30 Nightline 12.00 Da Vinci’s Inquest (M) 1.00 Water Rats (M) 2.00 Young Lions (M) 3.00 Guthy Renker 4.00 Entertainment Tonight 4.30 Good Morning America

I pretend to work. They pretend to pay me.

5.00 Weatherwatch 5.25 World News 10.30 Greek News 11.30 Arabic News 12.05 Indonesian News 12.30 Business Report 1.00 Oz Concert 2006 2.30 Tales From A Suitcase 3.00 Food Lovers Guide To Australia 3.30 Living Black 4.00 World Sport 4.30 The Journal 5.00 Newshour 6.00 Global Village 6.30 World News Australia 7.00 World Sport 7.30 Insight 8.30 Cutting Edge: Tranquility Bay

Extremely strict and expensive re-education camps for troubled youngsters in the US, Jamaica, Fiji and Western Samoa

9.30 World News Australia 10.00 Hot Docs: Yamakasi Young men who

have developed a new athletic code 11.25 Movie: Hijack Stories (M, v,a,cl, 2000)

German drama 1.00 Movie: The Red Tent (PG, 1971) Italian

drama about the 1928 rescue of an Italian polar expedition. Starring Peter Finch and Sean Connery

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6.00 Sunrise 9.00 Raggs 9.30 Home Shopping 10.30 Morning News 11.00 Wheel Of Fortune 11.30 Still Standing 12.00 Movie: Striking Poses (M, v,cl,du, 1998)

A paparazzo who stalks celebrities for a living becomes the target. Starring Shan-nen Doherty, Joseph Griffi n, Tamara Gorski, Aidan Devine, Diane D’Aquila, Sean Hewitt and Colm Feore.

2.00 Blue Heelers (M, v) 3.00 Moonlighting 4.00 It’s Academic 4.30 Seven News 5.00 Wheel Of Fortune 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.00 Prime News 6.30 Seven News 7.00 Home And Away (G) 7.30 Dancing With The Stars 9.30 All Saints (M) 10.30 Medical Incredible (M) 11.00 Sweet Medicine (M) New series 12.00 MDS (M) 1.00 Home Shopping 1.30 Danoz Direct 2.30 Expo 5.00 Crefl o A Dollar 5.30 Home Shopping

6.00 Early News 7.00 Toasted TV 8.30 In The Box 9.00 9am With David And Kim 11.00 Ten News 11.10 TTN 11.30 Home Life Style 12.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 1.00 The Oprah Winfrey Show 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Infomercial 3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures 4.00 Totally Wild 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News 6.00 The Simpsons 6.30 Neighbours 7.00 The Biggest Loser 7.30 The Biggest, Fattest Simpsons Feast

(PG) 8.00 Futurama 8.30 The O.C. (M) 9.30 Rove Live (M, cl,a) 10.40 Late News And Sports Tonight 11.15 The 4400 (M) 12.10 It’s All Relative (PG) 12.40 The Up-Late Game Show 1.55 Video Hits Up-Late 2.00 Infomercial 4.00 Enjoying Everyday Life 4.30 More Religion

6.00 Today 9.00 Mornings With Kerri-Anne 11.00 Danoz 11.30 Icon 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 Days Of Our Lives 2.00 The Young And The Restless 3.00 Fresh Cooking 3.30 Hi-5 4.00 Streetsmartz 4.30 Frazier 5.00 Temptation 5.30 Bert’s Family Feud 6.00 Evening News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 Magda’s Funny Bits (PG) 8.30 CSI: New York (M, v) 9.30 CSI (M) 10.30 Real Crime 11.30 Nightline 12.00 Wonderfalls (M) 1.00 Late Show With David Letterman 2.00 Stingers (M) 3.00 Guthy Renker 4.00 Entertainment Tonight 4.30 Good Morning America Give a man a fi sh and he will eat for a day.

Teach him how to fi sh, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

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4.30 Movie: All Coppers Are… (PG, 1971) Nicky Henson, Martin Potter, Julia Foster, Ian Hendry

6.00 Kid’s Programs 10.00 School Programs 11.00 Grand Designs Abroad 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 The New Inventors 1.00 The Einstein Factor 1.30 Force Of Nature 2.00 The Bill (PG) 3.00 Kid’s Programs 6.00 Winter Paralympics, Turin Highlights 6.35 The Dog Listener 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 Dusty: Little By Little Dusty Springfi eld 8.30 The Bill (PG) 9.20 Foreign Correspondent 10.00 Great Artists: Giotto 10.30 Lateline 11.05 Teachers (M, cl,sr) 11.55 Movie: The Big Steal (PG, B&W, 1944)

Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Ramon Nararro

1.10 Movie: Cloak Without Dagger (G, B&W, 1957) Philip Friend, Mary MacKenzie

2.20 Movie: The Man From Toronto (G, B&W, 1933) Jessie Matthews, Ian Hunter, Fred Kerr, Kathleen Harrison

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IT ONLY takes one look at Kate Miller-Heidke and you know she’s got that special something. As corny as it sounds, she’s got more X Factor than a whole stream of contestants on a Reality Show combined. Classi-cally trained, Kate is an extraordinary vocal talent who has closed the door on her Opera career to pursue her passion as an independent creator of innovative and edgy pop-folk.

For Kate, leaving Opera wasn’t so much of a choice but a necessity.‘I studied classical voice at the Con-servatorium in Brisbane and did an apprenticeship with Opera Queens-land – I was booked to sing Mabel with Opera Australia at the Opera House later this year, but I had to pull out, I don’t have the time to do the exercises and the rehearsal... or the performance.’Working in opera offers a stable ca-reer of comfort and regular schedules and for a beautiful young thing like Kate, also the opportunity to be an up and coming Diva. ‘I love classical music, but there is something in me that doesn’t like being constrained to the notes on a page, I have always loved singing and

writing my own music.’Opera isn’t a discipline you can just dip in and out of. It requires commit-ment and discipline, early nights and long days.‘It’s like being an athlete, but instead you use a small muscle instead of a big one. You have to keep it up every day. I was out every night in bars, singing and playing music, it just didn’t work. Playing my own music suits my personality a lot better... they are really two very separate worlds and I suppose that I felt that I never really belonged to the Opera world.’Which I’m sure is something the Op-era world mourns a little, only in her early twenties, Kate has performed opposite Todd McKenny and Tom Burlinson in concerts such as Spirit of Christmas and Last Night of the Proms. Something other divas would give their pearly eye teeth for. Kate has assembled a tight and contemporary band around her, with the players adding to the diversity that she herself already brings to the table.‘The band has been playing together for 2 years, we have three guys in my band and they are also in Transport

and I also have Emma Dean – she plays violin and sings harmonies and she is a great soloist as well... she is actually from a jazz background.’A voice like Kate’s is a glorious gift. One imagines the endless times she is coaxed to hit a high note for the glee of spectators. If she’d had my mother, it would have been a regular occurrence, being cajoled with the ‘Go on do one for Aunty Betty. You should hear her.’ But Kate admits to being less showy. Personally, I would have let one rip for Aunty Betty, but

I’m tone deaf and have a voice in the same comfort range as fi ngernails on a chalkboard.Miller-Heidke is the image of restraint: ‘I try not to hit high notes too much, I don’t like the idea of being of virtuos-tic for the sake of it.’From opera to indy fame in only a few short breaths. How does that happen? What was the defi ning moment?‘The turning point for me was getting a manager. It took the pressure off me

having to organise everything myself, and getting an agent and then the new CD is getting licensed through Sony BMG and I still own it but they do the distribution.’So how much success is attributed to status as an up and coming indy artist? ‘I think it is because I come from Indy land and my Manager does as well. I think that is really where my audience is, I’ve built my audience from the live scene... you have to grow your audience through your live

shows.’This year saw Ms Kate touted as the ‘Queen of Woodford’ resplendent with fi ery crown. I didn’t even know such an honour existed. For those who’ve been to Woodford, you’ll know that Kate is one of those acts that got the festival buzz of ‘you really should go see this girl’. Better promo than any publicist. People Talk.‘Word of mouth at Woodford is so important. I won’t see anything un-

less it’s recommended.’Not just a serious singer, Kate has released Comikaze, a 4 song EP of her comic material. ‘I always sprinkle a couple of comedy songs into my live performance, and they are just kind of observational – there is a bit of a spoof of Australian Idol – and I do a couple of operatic versions of pop songs: Psycho Killer and Staying Alive.’On fi rst listen, one is left with some retro references. There’s the tiny bit Joni Mitchell, a little Kate Bush and a whole lotta Heidke. Ironically, it’s Joni Mitchell who’s her hero, not the wailing Bush. For Kate, the essence of her music is very much in the poetry of the lyr-ics. ‘Lyrics are extremely important to me... I spend a lot of time trying to make it right – I usually write to clear my head – at the piano. I have a new album due out – it’s an EP, called: Circular Breathing – it’s really a metaphor for giving and receiving and when you do circular breathing you do both at the same time.’

Kate Miller-Heidke plays the Ban-galow Catholic Hall on Thursday 23 March. Tix $18/15 at the door.

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I’M NOT about to go into the nitty gritty details, but it would appear that our burgeoning peace movement has suffered a small setback. Squabbling. Factionalising. Arguing. Politicking for Peace. How can this be? How can an event as inspirational as the Peace Car-nival, one that connected brother with sister in the human quest for harmony end up doing laps of the ‘He said’ ‘She said’ roundabout? The Peace Train has come off the tracks, and if it’s anything like NSW Rail, it could take a bit of time to get her moving again. We may even have to compromise and get the peace bus. And like any bus, you’ve got to be prepared for a few crazies sitting next to you. It’s important to tolerate and involve them, but under no circumstances let them drive the bus. And who does Peace belong to anyway? I didn’t know there was a patent on Peace. Pardon me if I thought it was a power to the people thing, that the commitment to peace and love should dilute any internal personality struggles. I think it’s time we stopped playing philosophical tug-o-war with the peace dove before we rip her wings off and end up with peace egg on our face. There’s some pretty peaced off people out there at the moment. Everyone seems to want a peace of the action. How is the Peace Movement going to save the world if we can’t even share our rainbow fl ags occasionally?

Like charity, peace really needs to start at home. You can’t sell Peace to the planet if you’re tearing each other apart. It’s just not good advertising. It’s like a Catholic priest instructing on some ofhis favourite sexual positions, or John Howard’s lecturing on compassion or Amanda Vanstone being voted the next It girl. It just ain’t ever going to happen. If you want the world to stop warring, then perhaps we should stop warring as well. To be effective, then perhaps we should be unifi ed – to ensure that we are all on the same Peace Page or cooking from the Peace Wok. Peace shouldn’t be about ego struggles, or who’s right, or who’s wrong, or who’s idea it was in the fi rst place. The hope for peace is a dream for human and planetary salva-

tion. A story which transcends our petty individualism. Stop acting like a pack of peacewits. Forget your bickering, have a hug and get on with it. If we can’t even manage to have solidarity and unity within our own local peace movement, what hope does the planet have? For god’s sake, and the rest of us humans, do what Mr Lennon said, and give peace a chance. While you sweat the small stuff someone’s clubbing a seal, a bomb has gone off in Beirut, more of our ozone has disappeared, whales are slaughtered, indigenous peoples are dis-placed, a civil war rages in Africa... silly power struggles pale in the face of our global armageddon. Pull a cone on the Peace Pipe and move on. Lets all go out and get totally, mind numbingly Peaced.

THESOAPBOX with Mandy Nolan

FOR A lot of musicians, the place where you fi nd your feet is on the street. If you are just starting out and haven’t managed to score enough live gigs to hone your act, then the street offers an instant audience that gives instant response. Invigorate and gain their attention, you’ll get spontaneous group adulation and a splattering of golden coins and bomb and you get a quick passing snicker. Lots of perform-ers fi rst cut their teeth with a hat on the pavement. In fact, I think it should be part of a musical apprenticeship. Unless you’ve done your time on the kerb, then you haven’t earnt the stage! Percussionists Natalie and Carlo credit a lot of their musical development to the years they spent working the crowds on the Byron streets. They now front the nationally popular, roots outfi t, Blue King Brown. For the fourth

year running the Byron Business Group, (a group of CBD businesses who raise money towards the beautifi cation of Byron’s town centre) are organising the Blues over Byron, Busking Festival – offering players a chance to busk at Australia’s most prestigious music fes-tival. Sandy McKee is one of the event promoters and says: ‘We’ll be doing the heats for the best original musician at the Rails, the front bar of the Hotel Great Northern and the Beach Hotel, and the fi nal will be on at the Beach Hotel on the Good Friday. The winner gets a spot on Monday on the Apra stage at the Blues Festival. The stand-ard has been fantastic, and last year all the fi nalists were local, but the event is open to everyone. Only two years ago a guy from Mission Beach won, last year it was Engine 37 – Casey Dean’s band. There will be $100 people’s choice

prize.’ Anyone can enter, providing of course you have some musical talent! And will there be open guitar cases for the buskers for audience to shower them with shrapnel. ‘We have hats made up on the voting box,’ Sandy went on to say ‘and we do encourage people to chuck money in the box. We will be also organixing extra gigs for the fi nalists. We also have a street performers side to the competition as well – running from Saturday 8 April to Wednesday 12 April. First place gets a weekend busking inside the festival and two runners up get to busk half a day at the main gate.’ Register your interest now. You can follow the link on the Bluesfest site: www.bluesfest.com or log onto www.byronbusiness-group.com The event is graciously sponsored by the Lions’ Club with the fi rst Heat Monday 10 April.

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THOU SHALT NOT:

WORSHIP FALSE IDOLSLove it or hate it, I suppose you have to admit that Australian

Idol has become something of a phenomenon. It’s brought families closer together with Mums and Dads and kiddies gathering together to bask in the neon glow of the box, (although with the advent of plasma, it’s more like sitting around a manila folder) to watch people triumph and more importantly, stuff up. It’s a bit like watching a car accident. You know it’s bad for you but you just can’t stop. I don’t think any real musical talent has been unearthed, just lots of very good singers who may one day have a lucrative few months touring the Club circuit. But they do appear to be having fun. Well sort of, except for the tears and the desperation, where the glitz of celebrity and fame beckons. Of course, there is celebrity, in the form of massive exposure and the consequent fame. But it tends to be fl eeting. I worry that people care so much about being famous and wonder why they aren’t encouraged to create their own music. But why offer a chance to an up-and-coming musician who may have some real pros-pects: those guys get good because they struggle, they stay thin because they have no income, and they maintain their edge. Australian Idol is like the

emery board for edges, just niave and deluded kids who want to leave their job at Grace Brothers to become a Pop star. Yeah Right. For some unknown reason (and I have phoned the publicists several times) they have decided to come to Byron. No doubt canvassing our incredible talent, although I am a little suspicious of the ‘humour’ aspect, of these audi-tion shows. I can only surmise that Byron has been chosen because the crew would like a weekend at the Beach and our rich diversity of drummers and stick twirlers will provide a hearty laugh for all those mid-dle Australians out there who do so love to make hippy jokes. Of course, if you’ve managed to wade through this and you are still keen to audition, then I suppose you can’t be stopped but let me say it before you fall ‘I told you so’. Saturday

at Byron Beach Resort. Of course you must be between 16 and 31, have enormous breasts and be only marginally articulate. And that goes for the blokes as well. Of course I was joking. You don’t need to be articulate at all. Host James Mathison and produc-ers are coming to scour the area for talent kicking off from 8.30am. (For creative safety, try a version of Ramadam – 24 hours of non movement). You

can register to a spot www.

australianidol.com.au or

1900 926 435

BAREFOOT

AT THE KNOBLike its name would suggest, the Blue Knob Commu-

nity Hall is a place of much excitement and colour! I am completely enthralled with the provocative name. I am thinking of renaming the Azure Phallus or the Marine Member or my favourite the cobalt cock. I would be tempted to set up an alternative venue, called the Violet Vagina. The hall has, in the past been the victim of many smarty pants penis jibes, and in that time, the Blue Knob has held her head high and been the venue of many vibrant dances from the 30’s to the 80’s with this nostalgic oc-casion providing something of a new Millenium reincarnation for the Blue Knob Community Hall Gallery. A night of fabulous handcrafted contemporary-tra-ditional folk music is all lined up with Mandy Breeze and Doug

Kelly playing beautiful ballads, lively tunes, haunting medieval dirges: sensitively and passion-ately on instruments chosen from Irish bouzouki, French pipes, banjo, guitar, mando-lin, dulcimer, keyboard and bodhran. Black Train will be playing 1920s and 1930s hillbilly music – such as that of Woody Guthrie and Stanley Brothers.Adults: $10, under sixteens: $5. Supper available. Tickets can be purchased in advance at the Nimbin Artists’ Gallery and at the door on the night. Location: Blue Knob Hall Gallery, 719

Blue Knob Road, near corner

of Lillian Rock Road, Tel. 6689 7449 for further enquiries.

GROOVING IN THE

NEIGHBOURHOODHave you ever wanted to hang out with the coolest dudes? Then man, you oughta pop off to Brisbane, because the skanky hanky is just getting more fanky (meaning funky) by the minute. The Neighbour-

hood Groove Collective

features members of George, AfroDizziAct, Promiscuous, Kafka, the Resin Dogs and Spankenhide, NGC (The Neigh-bourhood – Groove Collective) is one group whose inspiration and reputation rests solely on horny harmonies and golden vocals! Their ability to blend music and improvise perform-ance produces a sound that meets somewhere on the corner between a seedy jazz bar and sparkly funk club. They

play at the Beach Hotel on

Saturday.

HARPING ONIt’s like the music from Lord of the Rings. Celtic music always reminds me of deep mountain streams, misty mornings and beautiful women in fl owing robes fl oating in the lilies. Emerald are Daeva Skye on Celtic harp and guitar and Elvina Munir on fl ute. Together, they launch their hauntingly beautiful music from the Celtic regions of Ireland, Scotland, France and Scandanavia, recorded on CD at the Byron Vista Social Club under the title ‘Gems from the Celtic Tradition’. The Studio. Upstairs

at the Byron Community

Centre on Tuesday 14 March

at 7.30pm.

LIVEMUSIC

Getting the Getting the Dope Dope on Dobaon DobaMONDAY. I miss my ap-pointment with Jenny Craig, pick up my friend’s car from the auto repair shop and fang it back from Lismore, having just taught my Tafe Comedy Class. I’ve got to drop the car to my friend and make it home in time to take my Dobacaracol interview before the furniture truck turns up to drop off my son’s desk and I in turn have to go do the school pick up. Phone Rings. It’s the delightful husky French voice of the Carole half of the French Canadian Dob-racaracol. She’s got a voice like honey, sweet and musky but so fast, my pen is literally tripping to catch her words. ‘I really love being on the road. It feels better to get home though, and get back on track, it’s been such a big year. It’s been just crazy. We’ve been caught in a big storm, it’s so fast and so intensely fabulous. It’s all been a fabulous ac-cident. Today we won a prize for the song that got the most airplay and we got the prize, and a lot of writers probably

set out to do that but we didn’t do it on purpose. It was something that started out of friendship. It has made it very strong between us. When I met her (Doraine) about 7 and a half years ago, we knew that something special was going to happen. It’s everything. Being very good friends and working together... when one is not feeling so good, the other can make it more powerful. We have two brains working in different ways. We don’t have the same strengths and weaknesses, so I suppose we complement each other.’ I ask her how they write music together. Of course, it always varies, but she has this rather unique approach with a fabu-lous name. Something Carole calls ‘cadaver exquie’ (excuse my French) but it means Ex-quisite cadaver, and according to Carole ‘is when one person will write a sentence and the next person will add a sen-tence. We do that with lyrics and sometimes with music. Sometimes it comes out really bad..and sometimes it’s really

great! We don’t ever want our writing to be a routine that you just fall into and that becomes too mechanical and lose our spontaneity... We want to write spontaneously because that’s how humans live... we live very day to day and some-times my Mum is like, How can you live like that? But we feel that if you expect too much from life then maybe you’re not doing what you should be doing! We started our project for fun and we still have fun and things that make it more interesting is to be ourselves in our music...The main thing in the project is our friendship and we just wouldn’t have been able to do it without each other. We have never planned it and it is the history of 2 people meeting and the sparkle that came out of it... we are just so grateful...We are on the same page and we have the same values and share the same global vision of life and we have learnt to be able to talk about it and we know the other very well and we try to respect each

other!’ Both women are single mums with young children. ‘The moment we had children we became more inspired and more creative to make the most of the time we had. If you see things in life fulfi lling your life... the more you have to give...’ There is a knock at the door. There is a stocky bloke in shorts and a very noisy furniture truck ready to unload. There’s a delightful passionate warm voice on the phone. The blokes are starting to look impatient. I make my excuses to Carole, that I am at home taking the interview and will have to close a little earlier. She laughs and retorts ‘Ok. Enjoy your furniture.’ That was it. I never found out the bit about how to continue with fulfi lling creative choices...maybe you should just check them out at the Blues Festival and get an update. Warm, vibrant, and so uplifting, Dobacaracol are steeped in a tradition of eclectic chants and unique grooves. Tix are still available: www.bluefest.com But get in fast.

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The A to Z of Collective Nouns

colin heaney’s hot glassColin Heaney’s Glass Blowing Studio and Gallery is an icon in the Byron Shire, and is represented overseas at Habatat Galleries in three states of the US, Cosa in London and more recently the Gaffer Gallery in Hong Kong.

The gallery is open 7 days and the glass blowing process may be viewed on weekdays. Select a piece from the extensive display of goblets, vessels, sculpture and paintings – a unique gift idea or as a personal reflection of your own good taste. 6 Acacia St, Byron Arts & Industry Estate

Phone 6685 7044 www.colinheaney.com

clearance sale @ la dolce vita homeware

While waiting for a new container, Silvia is having a huge sale on everything for the next

3 weeks... Best quality teak furniture from 20 to 50% off

Funky lamps 20% offHand paintings 25% off

Stylish homeware up to 50% off

19 Centennial Circuit (Corner Wollongbar Sts)

Art & Industry Estate, Byron Bay6685 5763 • Freecall 1300 360 852

Mon-Fri 10am-4pmSat by appointment only 0401 520 270

www.ladolcevitahomeware.com.au

a touch

of style

computersDavid Lawson Computer Services has been serving the shire since 1994 and can help with computer repairs and tuition, upgrades, new computers, peripherals, printers, scanners, cameras, usb devices and monitors.

Broadband and Internet connections including wireless broadband are also supplied and setup to your configuration. Explore the easiest way of using the latest computer equipment with a computer lease PC, laptop or peripheral. This saves your capital and is tax deductible if you use it for business.

David is the local Westnet agent, providing help and advice on all ADSL & Dialup needs – ‘it’s the service that sets Westnet apart.’

Call David Lawson Computer Services Ph. 6684 3955 or 0414 843955

carolyn’s beauty therapyBeauty at Sunrise is located in a tranquil private location in Sunrise Crescent, Lennox Head. Enjoy outrageously indulgent facials, body treatments, infrared sauna, massage,

foot and hand treatments and waxing. The salon has also incorporated medical professionals to supply the growing need for IPL permanent hair reduction and

photorejuvenation. These treatments

are very effective for hair removal,

pigmented skin scarring, Rosacea, capillaries,

wrinkles and acne. Treatments are painless and safe. Phone Carolyn on 6687 7160 to enquire about

popular wrinkle injection treatments. Great for facial lines, crows feet, frown lines, and excellent for softening facial lines for a fresher younger look.

All treatments are done with great care by experienced operators with your needs being their greatest interest. Carolyn uses Environ & Algologie products.

Phone Carolyn on 6687 7160 • 15 Sunrise Crescent, Lennox Head

New IPL and Wrinkle Injection Treatments

craniosacral therapy at coorabellA gentle and profoundly effective hands-on method of evaluating and enhancing the health of the body and mind.

Restrictions in the craniosacral system are released to improve the functioning of the central nervous system and relieve painful symptoms.

Create more space, and relax into the self-healing forces of the body…

Call Kalakeli on 6684 8097 or 0405 929 670

Practicing since 1992, recently settled in the Byron Shire.

Sometimes collective nouns are so obvious we forget they’re there, like CAST (actors), CHAIN (islands), COLONY (ants) or even

CONVOY, CLASS and CONGREGATION. Sometimes they are less well known, like a CRASH of rhinoceroses; sometimes they are stupid

- a CONFLAGRATION of arsonists (when have you ever seen a group of arsonists in the one place?); and sometimes they are so obvious that you’d kick

yourself (a COLLECTIVE of nouns!). Still, a COVEN of witches might covet a COVER of coots but a COVEY of grouse would be cooler. In these parts we can

have a COMFORT of masseurs for a CURSE of old codgers.

Spirit Health Club1/67 Centennial Cct, Byron Bay Phone 6685 7129www.spiritfitness.com.au

chinese lessonsVocabulary:

Yum – to drink, Cha – tea,

Dim – to touch, Sum – the heart.

Yum Cha at Red Ginger is a great favourite with the locals. Eating dim sum and other yummy dumplings, indulging in delicious

steamed buns, gazing out the window at the Byron sights and sipping the complementary green

tea is an experience to touch your heart. Come in and indulge or buy frozen dumplings and tea to

take home for genuine Chinese delights. Red Ginger Asian Food and Home,

opposite the cinema in Jonson Street, Byron Bay. Phone 6680 9779.

carpets & rugsAli’s Rug Centre not only sells rugs but washes

and repair them as well. Having attended a specialist Rug Seminar in USA in 2005, they have perfected their

skills in rug washing, which is the best method of cleaning your rug. If your rug needs repairing, Alison with 25 years experience in weaving, can expertly repair any type of

damage. Also selling a large variety of hand-woven woollen rugs including Persian, Afghan, Indian, kilims, saddle-bags, cushions, pillows, runners, all sizes, old and new. It’s sale time, and everything is reduced.

Open on Saturdays 9am to 1pm for March only as well as regular hours of

10am to 3pm Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. If you would like to visit Ali’s Rug

Centre out of these hours, please phone for an appointment.

Located at corner of Wollongbar Drive and Centennial Circuit, Arts & Industry Estate,

Byron Bay. Phone 6685 7750 www.alisrugcentre.com

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curves in the right places• Total body workout• Group fitness circuit training• Cardio work, drills & push ups• Lower Body Strength training• Upper Body Strength training• Abs session with cool down• Absolutely unique to Byron BayBody Sculpt launch Sat March 11, 9.30am. Ring to make a booking. Free brunch served afterwards. Dress up in red.


A WHOLE NEW

LAYER TO KAYAAfter my rant on reality TV shows and ineffective talent, I must bite my tongue momen-tarily to introduce you to Kaya, who were fi nalists on Channel 10’s X Factor in 2005. (See, they really must have talent because they didn’t win!) Enjoy soaring harmonies, heartfelt lyrics and sensual story telling. And that’s just in the foyer. Feel

the spirit, at the Bangalow

Catholic Hall on Friday.

THE LION I KING

I have to admit I have no idea what Raz Bin Sam and the

Lion I Band means. Maybe it doesn’t mean anything. I do know that Raz Bin Sam is originally from Israel and has been singing Reggae since the tender age of 16. This will be the last show before a three month break. Buddha Bar on

Saturday.

THE SOUND OF

YOUR SOUL GROWINGFor years Darpan has been a musical shaman working with music as a transformational tool. He creates evocative sound-scapes that literally resonate on a cellular level. The Temple of

Glowing Sound offers you the opportunity to be transported into deeper spaces within yourself. He is joined by fellow musician Bhakta, who has an incredible ability to create music out of the silence, which has the organic feeling of something that has created itself. It’s a reminder of the something that is the essence of our purest existence. It’s about waiting pa-tiently for the absent dimension to take over. The two have put together a double CD entitled ‘The Temple of the Glowing Sound’ weaving vocals, percus-sion, harmonic overtone singing, electronic and ethnic sounds into a seamless tapestry of shapeshifting aural landscapes. From a rich blend of shamanic grooves to Amazonian atmos-pherics and vocal transmissions intended to uplift the spirit and soothe the savaged soul to ambient sounds designed to accompany the listener into deep trance. Warning. Do not

play CD two whilst driving! A percentage of the proceeds is dedicated to the preserva-tion of the rainforest. They are performing in a special launch, where if you buy a CD at the door you don’t have to pay the $15 entrance. Also on the night is Amir and Avishai

from the Israeli world music band, Sheva. A performance by Antara and the Kundalini

Collective. Dean Jeffries will be screening selected footage from Shamans of the Amazon. DJ’s Nirgrantha and Svarup

and DJ reforM will be rocking the house with up-vibe beats. Friday night at Durrumbul

Hall from 7pm.

HEY HEY IT’S

NATHAN KAYE!!!Byron Bay’s Good vibed, Slide-didgin’ and human Beat-boxing song-smith, Nathan

Kaye is still charged up from his packed out performances at this year’s Woodford Folk Festival and recent local warm-up gigs for his show with the Dreamseeds at the Hotel Great Northern this Saturday night! On his last UK Summer tour he played the stages at some world renowned festivals such as Glastonbury Festival, and Scotland’s Edinburgh Festival in the world famous Spiegel Tent. As a multi-instrumentalist, he does human beat-boxing (vocal drums), plays 12 string guitar like its some kind of funky sitar, 6 string guitar and lap-steel slide at the same time as the Slide-Didge (which is an innovative Trombone-like Didgeridoo made from timber) and stomp-box. But it isn’t his obsession with instruments that has attracted so much attention to his show. It is his heart-felt voice, lyrics and engaging, honest conversa-tional style evoking the inspiring moods of Michael Franti that people are drawn to. Joining him onstage will be the Dream-seeds featuring the talents of Marty Jones on Kit and Zia Moreau on Bass plus in support will be our local world longboard champion, Beau Young and the Sunshine Coast’s Zia Moreau. Nathan Kaye and his very

esteemed Dreamseeds are at

the Hotel Great Northern on

Saturdays.

LINE UP

OF FREQUENCIESLast week Paul Francis’ fi lm ‘Beyond The Line Up’ took out the best Surf Film at the Byron Film Festival. The Film takes us on a day to day jour-ney with seven very different surfers from Australia to Japan to Indonesia, indulging us in the rich and ambient rhythms of surf culture. Music and surfi ng are interrelated. Water comes in waves, and so does music. The surf journey continues when one hits the lounge room, where with guitar in hand the same chilled out ride is sought. Look at Jack John-son, and Xavier Rudd, and and and, I can’t think of anymore, but they’re surfers. It’s a par-ticular sound. You only need to play Nick Cave for ten seconds to realise the mad don’t hang ten. It’s a particular sound. This week Dave Rastovich and his musical buddies support the release with an evening focus-ing on surfi ng and music. The fi lm also includes some unseen footage of the legendary George Greenough. Band of

Frequencies. Music and Surf

Film – at the Hotel Great

Northern on Sunday.

ROCKING THE SPHINXThe hills are alive with the sound of music this weekend it would seem. If you are in the Sphinx Rock area then you are in for a major treat as they have a gig which boasts a massive 16 live bands. Headling acts are Bertha Control, from Brisbane, a bunch of bright and brassy young broads who rock hard and play hard. Also featured are Blissmongers, Future Native

and many many more. This is a fundraiser for the Murwillumbah Community Centre, so be there and lend your support. It’s only $20 per person with kids under 16 accompanied by an adult allowed in for free! This is an all day event, kicking off from 11am and running through until 11pm. Workshops, food and great kids activities. Phone John for tix, on 6679 7118. At the Sphinx Rock Cafe.

VERY PLUCKY GUYRichard Thompson is an internationally acclaimed guitar-ist and songwriter – some-one who has been called a musician’s musician! He has achieved more as a songwriter

and instrumentalist than most musicians do in a lifetime. His colleagues ranging back to Jimi Hendrix and up to today’s young giants, unify through time in admiration of his accomplish-ments. He says: ‘I always had a problem growing up in London around a British folk tradition but also listening to rock and roll and not fi nding anyone who was playing the music I really wanted to hear. Really what I wanted to hear didn’t exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.’ So how does one go about creating music that you want to listen to? Well, at the tender loin chicken age of 17, (sorry, I’m getting peckish. Either that or I’ve got a touch of Bird Flu) he was the co founder of Fairport Convention in the 60’s and has continued to write and perform some of the most distinctive and acclaimed music ever. The album Liege and Lief, long regarded as a milestone re-cording in defi ning British Rock, revealed the extent of Richard’s talent as a songwriter. His fi rst solo was Henry the Human Fly, regarded by many as a classic and his legendary 1982 album Shoot out the LIghts which was hailed by Rolling Stone as one of the Top Ten albums of the 1980’s. He’s been called Bri-tian’s greatest living songwriter, which is a pretty big call. I’d say you probably shouldn’t miss him. Richard Thompson at

the Hotel Great Northern on

Tuesday 14 March.

WOMEN’S FEST:

LIVING CONSCIOUSLYA curious title. My instant image was from one of those daytime soapies like the Bold and the Beautiful and one of the fabulous women with big hair is in a coma and we don’t know if she’s coming out... now that’s a living uncon-sciously. My Nanna has made a whole lifetime out of uncon-scious choices. And doesn’t she love it. Where would our families be without a few rounds of the Blame Game. Oh damn, I got the ‘You never loved me, it’s all your fault Dad’ card. Go directly to the pub, and shout three rounds. Perhaps we could all make more informed and conscious choices about our lives. That would have to be a good thing. Personally I’m all for the Living

with a Conscience as well. Makes it very hard to make a conscious choice about buying $700 shoes when you know that somewhere in the world that would have fed a family for a week. All these issues. How to die, How to Live and from me, how to laugh in the process. Featuring keynote speaker and author Stephanie Dowrick, the beloved Zenith and silly old me. Byron Com-munity Centre. Friday. www.wholewoman.com.au

PAINTING YOUR-

SELF CATHOLICThey say you can always pick a catholic girl, and it’s true, she’s the one in deten-tion. Three creative women combine their talents for a mixed media exhibition at Arc de Art on the Industrial Estate

in Byron this week. Featuring the works of Suzanne Carrick, Laurel Barickman and gallery curator, Tennille Hogan. The art featured deals with age, beauty and tradition. Works are powerful, funny and quirky with titles such as ‘Oh my God I’m so Catholic’ and ‘My mother hates the Hil’s Hoist’. Part french inspired, obsessed with Asian culture, others bal-ancing in moderninty. All are invited to the opening at Arc De Art, 4/10 Wollingbar Street Industrial Estate on Friday.

ARTSEVENTS

LIVEMUSIC

Suzanne Carrick at Arc de Art


ONE MINUTE WITH

PLUTO SAVAGEAKA THROBBING VENUS

Pluto has been a per-formance artist working on the fringe since his fi rst nightclub perform-ance at Sydneys Club Kooky in 1996. His work deals with the taking the piss out of the dirty un-derbelly of our society.

God: Some guy i made up when i was really pissed. Sorry, i had no idea it would go this far.

Politics: Taking pleasure in the pain of others.

Gender: An illusion ripe for destruction.

Drag: A monotonous zombie art form denied evolution by a deplorable fear of risk

The microphone: My second favorite weapon after the mascara wand.

See Throbbing Venus perform alongside DJ Mark Murphy at Squeezbox March 16 @ Play.

Katalyst has gone from strength to strength.His fi rst album Manipulat-ing Agent won two DMA awards; ‘Best Producer’ and ‘Best Album’ at the 2002 Australian Dance Music Awards. He then went on to start Invada Records with Geoff Barrows from Portis-head which was successful enough to start in England as well. In tha last few years Katalyst has played all the big festivals in Australia and toured with likes of Jurra-sic 5, DJ Shadow and Ben Harper. What’s next?

What are you working on Production wise? When can we expect a new album from you?I’m currently working on the new record and after the Invada Stage Invasion Tour is fi nished, it will be all I’m working on till it’s done. I have a lot of it written but it will still take a few months to pull it together with all the guests I’ll have on the record etc. There will be lots of guest vocalists on the album from Australia and abroad. Still keeping the Katalyst sound it will hopefully be a progression from the last album. I’m still infl uenced by the same type of sounds so I don’t think it will be a shock for anyone who has the the last record, but it will defi nitely be different.

Your Partnership with Portishead’s Geoff Barrow has worked out well by all accounts. How did you meet and what creative relation-ship do you share?It has worked out well. I met

Geoff when he was here in Sydney on holidays at the end of 98. We had a lot in common, became friends and worked on a few projects together before entering into a busi-ness relationship with the label. Geoff came out for the summer in Australia every year since apart from the last couple as he became a dad. As soon as the next Portishead album is fi nished he’ll be back out for a long summer holiday.

I’ve certainly learnt a lot from

him in many areas of music production, song writing etc, and he values my musical opinion so we are constantly bouncing ideas off each other, sending Mp3’s and playing each other tunes down the phone to get each other’s feedback etc.

FDEL tours with a live band. How do you feel about the merging of acoustic and electronic sounds in live shows? Do you use artists and live sounds much in your production work?Most of the sounds I work with are acoustic in origin. It’s just that they may have been recorded some time ago and

pressed onto vinyl. So its not really an issue merging live sound with ‘electronic’ sounds. It’s all stylistically similar. Fdel is basically the drum and guitar parts of his songs replayed live and triggering the rest of the material from his sampler. Part of the reason some produc-ers use samples as opposed to getting players to record the parts is that the recording techniques used today tend to give a far cleaner sound that often has less ‘character’ than the older recordings. There is a science in recreating the char-acter of those recordings. I like to use artists and live sounds in my production when the sound is right. However sometime it is a very costly exercise to record certain elements live. Strings for example. So I might fi nd myself searching for a string sample of an entire orchestra

The Invada Label has been running strong with it being launched in the UK as well. What’s it like running a label? Is it more business than creative?Running a record label is a busi-ness. But if you can’t properly identify if someone is creative, or you don’t understand the creative process, then you’re not completely understand-ing your business. I’d like to be spending more time as an artist being more creative in the next few years as I’ve been

doing the business for a while now. As far as business goes, running a record label is very creative but at the end of the day it must be treated like a business if it’s going to survive in the tough environment that exists today.

Ru C.L, Koolism and FDEL are label mates & tour mates. What will each artist add to the show?Even though there are 4 es-sentially hip hop artists on the bill – each act is totally different & brings something unique to the tour.

Ru C.L is awesome live – I personally think he is Australia’s most talented MC. His mum is Jamaican & they speak Patois at home so this infl uence comes through strongly in his lyrics & his style. Ru C.L’s live show consists of Ru C.L, MC Xela (Good Buddha) and DJ Leeroy Brown – these guys do a great live show together – the fi rst big run of shows they did together was when they

supported the Black Eyed Peas, every time i see their show it just gets tighter.

Koolism need little introduc-tion, these boys have done so much touring. Danielsan & Hau have been rocking it since the early nineties. Their live show is full of energy, Hau has stamina on the mic and Danielsan keeps the crowd entertained. Danielsan’s breakdown of The Funky Drummer on the MPC is something to be seen, and throughout the show Dan gets out from behind the decks and cuts some moves – they are funny lads. This is the offi cial tour for their new album New Old Ground, the follow up to the Aria winning Random Thoughts. New tracks, whole new show... check it out

Fdel’s live show is full of energy – it gets the dance fl oor bumping. Having not toured nationally since the release of ‘Audio Fdelity’, the boys are excited to be joining the rest of the Invada crew. Fdel

and his 4-piece band will be bringing the funk live – Fdel’s band consists of drums, guitar, DJ Armee (Downsyde) on the decks, Fdel on MPC. A show not to be missed – check it out for ya’self.

Who do you think is blowing up nationally and internationally?Someone always got to be blowing up. Sometime for no apparent reason. I guess you could put a lot of people into the ‘Blowing Up’ category.One person who seems to have blow up in the last 12 month is Common. But why...he has had many fantastic albums, why did ‘Be’ blow up? Perhaps cause Kanye did most of the production on the record. So why did Kanye blow up... perhaps cause he signed to Roc-a-fella and Jay Z ‘retired’. It’s not always about what you know or what you do.Koolism, Fdel, Katalyst & RU C.L. will rock the Great Northern Wednesday night.

DJ Slinky, local breaks maestro, is moving to London. I caught up with him before his last gig in Oz.

Have you been producing lately? What have you been doing Music wise?I’ve been working on a few projects lately. A chill tune for Lee Groves (ex Terminalhead) due to be involved in new apple software. I’ve also just fi nished a new remix for indie breaks label Amotiv from Manchester in the UK. I think it gets pressed to vinyl late April early May. It’s very dreadzone infl uenced with a general midi breakdown. A very dub feel with snappy breaks, live ragga vocals from West Kenyan Tommy Motto, and live Timbali and cowbels from Jamie (ex Utungan percussion). Came up a real treat. Great high when you see people on the dance fl oor just having it and going off! The rest of my tracks I’m working on got lost unfortunately when I fried my hardrive with no backup! Start fresh and new!

You’re off to the UK soon is

this a career move? What do you want to accomplish over there?It is both a career and personal. I want to go over there to further my music and get in studios with some big guns and learn some new tricks and how to speed up the process, but also to be with my girlfriend Liz, and hopefully start a fresh life together. Byron’s great for a holiday, but not much opportunity for a professional career in breakbeat! Sad how the whole town is after the tourist dollar and so blind to its hidden wealth of talent musically. I just want to have people like my music enough to want to buy it so I can make a living doing what I love. To make enough money to start a family while making music. Those opportunities don’t come very often in byron, I think in the UK you might be more likely to bump into the right person at the right time if you keep at it, and perhaps live your dream. I just live each moment to the fullest.

What or who is exciting you in the breaks scene at the moment?

Well there are so many...Rouge Element is pumping out some psychedelic tinged breaks, while Madox from Italy is the funk man. Malente from Germany is pumping it out, and smithmonger from Tasmania is caning it as well. My favourite tracks at the moment would have to be some unreleased ones I have from BLIM, Krafty Kuts & ILS. Amazing production over clever beats.

What can we look forward to the gig in Coorabell? Well that’s easy... good music! It’s s’posed to be a sorta going away party for me. Pob and Shelley have done this amazing but retarded fl yer with the heads of Brad, Pob and myself all on the bodies of the sound of music cast. Really freaky but funny too. That’s what the event is about... sharing good

music with people you love and not taking things too seriously and having some fun. I guess it will be one of the last chances I get to share my tunes with people and have everybody I know in the same place to say goodbye to them at once.

Any last words to your loyal Byron Shire fans before you become a pommy?Never give up on your dream! Fol-low it to the moon and back, only then can you be truly satisfi ed you did everything you could whether you succeed or fail. Live every minute as if it was your last, and....keep listening to breakbeat...its good for the soul, mind and body. Top 40 is evil!

The Hills are alive 2 with

Slinky, Pob & Vortex. Coorabell

Hall this Saturday night.

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‘we are constantly

bouncing ideas off each

other, sending Mp3’s and

playing each other tunes

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MOVIEREVIEWS

GEISHAMEMOIRS OF A

It’s 1963 and two cowboys, Ennis and Jack, are alone together in the mighty landscape of Wyoming’s high sierra. Slowly they discover their true selves and in their shared tent they inevitably consummate an intense, enduring attraction. After taking his time to arrive at this moment, director Ang Lee then compresses twenty years of their subsequent, separated lives into the sec-ond half of the story without ever seeming hurried in the telling. Eschewing the temptation to be a banner waving liberation fl ick, the fi lm’s power lies in its intensely pri-vate mood. The role of Ennis is not a showy one – he is inarticulate white trash, overwhelmed by circumstance and his own ungovernable nature – but Heath Ledger lives and breathes it. Jake Gyllenhaal is equally good and there are no weaknesses in a supporting cast of pre-cisely drawn characters who embody the outside world from which Ennis and Jack are forever alienated. The recurring theme’s melancholy is perfectly offset against a spare soundtrack, helping to draw you in deeper every minute until, just when you think it’s all done and dusted, Ledger nails it beautifully with his mumbled elegy in the poignant last frame. John Campbell

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

KINKY BOOTSThe Price family of Northampton have been making shoes since 1895, but young Charlie (Joel Edgerton) makes a break and heads south for a more exciting life. Upon his father’s death he returns to take charge of a company near bankrupt. Serendipitously, while in London he met Lola (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a big black drag queen who can’t get a pair of shoes to fi t him properly. Charlie decides that guys in dresses is a niche market and Lola moves north to be his designer. Initially you fear that the movie will waste its energy on boas, high campery and poofter jokes, but it moves unerringly into its characters’ uncontemplated lives, demanding that they reappraise their relationships and what they value most. It’s about identity and ac-ceptance, not just of others but of oneself too, which is sometimes the most diffi cult ask. Meaningful questions are posed, but in a comforting rather than confronting manner – things need not always be hard edged to make a point. It’s unpretentious and good-humoured, with ef-fective bites from Nina Simone, Bowie and James Brown and a look at Milan’s glorious Piazza del Duomo in the late afternnoon sun. John Campbell

SHOP GIRLShopgirl, directed by Anand Tucker ( http://movie-re-views.colossus.net/movies/h/hilary.html) from a screen-play by Steve Martin ventures into Lost in Translation territory. Although the relationships in this fi lm are overtly romantic and sexual (as opposed to what was simmer-ing beneath the surface in Translation), there’s the same sense of longing and poignancy, and a recognition of spirits touching, then passing by. One tends to associ-ate Martin with comedy, but Shopgirl is a dramatic piece. There are humorous bits certainly, but taken as a whole, the movie goes for the heart, not the funny bone. Romance is usually seen by Hollywood as a convenient convention – something that can be sold to readers of Harlequin paperbacks. Rarely do we see a fi lm that treats the subject seriously – exploring the highs and lows, the defl ating disappointments, the desperate second-chanc-es, the awkward moments, and the delicious yearning. Shopgirl does all of these things. This is a smart, adult romance that rarely panders to clichés, and gives up the heady bliss of most such movies in favor of something bittersweet.Ross Goode


WEDNESDAYWEDNESDAY 88■ BEACH HOTEL, BYRON

9PM BIG SCREEN DANCE

MUSIC

■ BUDDHA BAR, BYRON 7PM COCKATOO PAUL

LIVE + SOL CARROLL +

STEVO EXTREMO

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■ BYRON BEACH RESORT, 7PM WOMEN’S FESTIVAL

– SUCCESS MATTERS

■ CHEEKY MONKEYS, BYRON 7PM DIDGE SHOW

■ COCOMANGAS, BYRON TULIP + GOODWOOD

■ PLAY, BYRON SLINKY +

THE LED DJ’S + NOODLES

■ O’SUSHI, BYRON, 6.30PM MICK’S SASHIMI BAND

■ THE RAILS, BYRON 7PM WAITING FOR BRIAN

■ LENNOX HOTEL 9PMTRIVIA

■ STARCOURT THEATRE, LISMORE 8PM WHAT THE

FROCK DO WE KNOW

THURSDAYTHURSDAY 99 ■ BEACH HOTEL, BYRON

9PM WRIGHT BROS

■ BUDDHA BAR, BYRON 7PM DAVE BASEK + WILD

MARMALADE

■ CHEEKY MONKEYS, BYRON 9PM TALENT QUEST

■ COCOMANGAS, BYRON KRISTIN + QUALITY

CONTROL

■ HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON 9PM MONKEYBONE

■ PLAY, BYRON SCOOTA +

MS SKYE + WILLJAY

■ THE RAILS, BYRON 7PM ARONSTEN BROS

■ LENNOX HOTEL 9.30PMFIG JAM SESSION

■ CHINCOGAN HOTEL, MULLUM 7.30PM OPEN

MIC NIGHT

■ HOTEL BRUNSWICK 6.30PM DEB BOND

■ BANGALOW HOTEL, 7.30PM ANDREW WINTER

■ HOTEL NIMBIN, 6.30PM

HANNAH PEARL


FROCK DO WE KNOW ■ AUSSIE TAVERN, M’BAH JAMES T

■ POWERHOUSE, BRISBANE 7PM MASAI FILM

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aa FRIDAYFRIDAY 1100 ■ BEACH HOTEL, BYRON

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■ BUDDHA BAR, BYRON

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■ BYRON COMMUNITY CENTRE, 2.30PM WOMEN’S FESTIVAL

EVENT THE ART OF

LIVING CONSCIOUSLY

■ CHEEKY MONKEYS, BYRON 7PM ADRENALIN PARTY

■ COCOMANGAS, BYRON VOODOO + CRINKLE

LOUNGE GRAVY

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■ PLAY, BYRONDIRTY:SEAN CANDY +

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■ HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON 9PM KOOLISM + KATALYST +

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■ THE RAILS, BYRON 7PM UTOPIANS

■ HOTEL BRUNSWICK 6.30PM LEIGH JAMES

TRIO

■ YAMIS, BRUNSWICK 6.30PM ANDY HOLM

■ BILLINUDGEL HOTEL, 6.30PM JAM NIGHT

■ CHINCOGAN HOTEL, MULLUM 8.30PM SOFT

MOSH

■ DURRUMBUL HALL, 7.30PM TEMPLE OF

GLOWING SOUND +

SHAMANS OF THE

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■ OCEAN SHORES COUNTRY CLUB, 6PM CLELIA ADAMS

■ BANGALOW CATHOLIC HALL, 7.30PM KAYA

■ STOKERS SIDING HALL, 7.30PM LIVE IN LILAC

■ LENNOX HOTEL, 9.30PM MADHOUSE

■ BANGALOW HOTEL, 8PM FIGJAM

■ BALLINA BOWLS 7PM ROD DOWSETT

■ BALLINA RSL 9.15PM LISA HUNT

■ AUSSIE TAVERN, M’BAH XSENTRIX

■ GRAND PACIFIC HOTEL, K’CLIFF 9.30PM SOULMAN


FROCK DO WE KNOW

■ TWEED GOLF CLUB, 9-3PM

WOMEN’S FESTIVAL

EVENT – SPIRITUAL

RENEWAL IN DAILY LIFE

W/ STEPHANIE DOWRICK

■ ELSEWHERE, SURFERS AUDON + CASEY STEELE

■ POWERHOUSE, BRISBANE 8PM THE KUSUN

ENSEMBLE

SATURDAYSATURDAY 1111 ■ BEACH HOTEL, BYRON

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■ BUDDHA BAR, BYRON 9.30PM RAZ BIN SAM &

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■ CHEEKY MONKEYS, BYRON 7PM LADIES

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■ COCOMANGAS, BYRON GAZ + GOODWOOD

■ HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON 9PM NATHAN KAYE + THE

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■ PLAY, BYRON ILLYA + MS

SKYE

■ THE RAILS, BYRON 7PM ROLL LIKE THAT

■ HOTEL BRUNSWICK 6.30PM BORDELLO

■ BANGALOW HOTEL, 8PM HANNAH PEARL

■ BANGALOW A & I HALL, 8PM BUTTERY BINGO

BONANZA W/ VANESSA

WAGNER

■ CHINCOGAN HOTEL, MULLUM 6.30PM GROOVY TUNES +

SALSA PARTY

■ LU LU’S, MULLUM 11AM MARK ROBSON

■ MULLUMBIMBY RSL 8.15PM DELISCH

■ LENNOX HOTEL, 9.30PM WORDPLAY

■ BALLINA BOWLS 7.30PM THE ELVIS SHOW

■ BLUE KNOB HALL GALLERY 8PM BAREFOOT @ THE

KNOB

■ AUSSIE TAVERN, M’BAH ZAHLU + THE

ALCHEMISTS OF SOUND

■ COORABELL HALL, 9PM THE HILLS ARE ALIVE 2

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VORTEX

■ FEDERAL HALL, 8PM REEL FILMS PRESENTS

‘DON’T LOOK NOW’

■ MARY GILHOOLEYS, LISMORE 8PM WAITING

FOR BRIAN

■ LISMORE WORKERS CLUB 6.30PM CLELIA ADAMS

■ TWEED GOLF CLUB, 10AM

WOMEN’S FESTIVAL

EVENT – WOMEN

PLANTING SEEDS FOR

CHANGE

■ SEAGULLS, TWEED 3PM

CLASSIC CONCERT

NRSO BARRY SINGH

■ SPHINX ROCK CAFE, MT BURRELL 11AM-10.30PM FOOD + MUSIC FAYRE

■ ELSEWHERE, SURFERS KATHERINE + MS SKYE +

BEN ABRAHAMS

■ POWERHOUSE, BRISBANE 2PM THE KUSUN

ENSEMBLE 8PM MIRIAM

MAKEBA

SUSUNDAYNDAY 1212■ BEACH HOTEL, BYRON

4PM MIGHTY

PRAGMATICS 9PM COASTAL JAMMIN’

■ BUDDHA BAR, BYRON CYBERBAS LIVE

■ BYRON YOUTH CENTRE, IRRELEVANT

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■ THE RAILS, BYRON

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■ HOTEL BRUNSWICK 6.30PM RAIN DANCE

■ BILLINUDGEL HOTEL, 2PM

MASON RACK

■ LENNOX HOTEL, 5PM SOULMAN

■ THE CHANNON TEA HOUSE, 4.30PM SING IT

UP SISTA

■ 3 WAYS, WILSONS CK 4PM DJ’S POB + FRIENDS

■ SEAGULLS, TWEED 3PM

CLASSIC CONCERT

NRSO BARRY SINGH

■ ELSEWHERE, SURFERS GIV + ROCK HARDSON

■ POWERHOUSE, BRISBANE 6PM MIRIAM MAKEBA

MONDAY MONDAY 1313■ BEACH HOTEL, BYRON


MUSIC

■ BUDDHA BAR, BYRON MATT DEVITT + DJ BRAD

VORTEX

■ CHEEKY MONKEYS, BYRON MEXICAN PARTY

■ COCOMANGAS, BYRON VOODOO + CRINKLE

■ LA LA LAND, BYRON 9PM LOCAL DJS

■ THE RAILS, BYRON 7PM DENNIS WILSON

TUESTUESDAYDAY 1144

■ BEACH HOTEL, BYRON


MUSIC

■ BUDDHA BAR, BYRON 8PM DJ DAVE C

■ BYRON COMMUNITY CENTRE, 7.30PM CD

LAUNCH ‘EMERALD’

■ CHEEKY MONKEYS, BYRON TEAM TRIVIA

■ COCOMANGAS, BYRON KRISTIN + GOODWOOD

■ THE RAILS, BYRON 7PM ANDREW WINTON

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‘When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.’ Jimi Hendrix


You know the bumper sticker that says: Shit Happens? Give it a posi-tive spin by upgrading it to Shift Happens. Then make that true by using this week’s frustrations and aggravations to get you to a new level of ex-pertise…

ARIES: The Aries retro Mercury fun to-do list: Go ahead and explore those time-wasting diversions and excursions. Experiment with giving in gracefully. Practise deep listening – the opposite of selective hearing. Find something to appreciate in everyone you meet. Have a great week.

TAURUS: Yes, minds are changing like traffic lights: this way, that way, couldn’t care less, but it must be like this… One way to help you stay on an even keel this week would be to start appreciating yourselves more for who you are, rather than what you do. Or have.

GEMINI: If you’re irresistibly drawn to something gorgeous this week – and it’s highly likely – gestalt psychology would tell you that it’s an outward projection of your own internal beauty, and like the legendary Narcissus you’re attracted to your reflection. What do you think?

CANCER: This week you’ll absorb even more energetic input than you usually do from the world around you. Personal dreams, postponed plans and adventurous enterprises tug at your attention, sending you meandering off on fascinating tangents – and it’s time you let them.

LEO: Things to do this week to counteract the stress effects of Mercury retrograde: Treat all delays as opportunities. Regard setbacks as rest breaks. If you feel you’re heading towards the deep end, don’t panic and flap about – stay buoyant by relaxing and floating.

VIRGO: Domestic harmony (which includes your personal brain space) is the urgent item on this week’s agenda, so downplay blame, niggling and arguing – upgrade patience, understanding and support. Most importantly, make peace with your own and other people’s shortcomings.

LIBRA: People’s defenses aren’t easy to penetrate this week. Others may not be emotionally robust or particularly forthcoming – you’ll have to draw them out, carefully and patiently or they’ll retract and withdraw. Consider it a challenge to your charm and expertise.

SCORPIO: As you’re probably aware, you’re experiencing the full spectrum of human emotions right now – not separately, but inextricably mixed. Setting one part of your personality against the other doesn’t work, as you’ve already found out – dark and light both need to be equally honoured. SAGITTARIUS: Mercury retrograde has extra stress factors operating this week, so be a smart banana and don’t make waves. If you’re not getting what you want try a different angle, think laterally, even just give up altogether – that often gets miraculous results.

CAPRICORN: Fire signs like it hot and happening, water signs like it moist and touchy-feely, air signs like space and communication, but earth signs like things solid – which they aren’t particularly right now. But you are, and it’s a blessing. And the more you are this week, the better.

AQUARIUS: This week’s birthday celeb is Yuri Gagarin, the first person in space. And with Venus moved into Aquarius you’ll be concentrating on examining the space around you in some way or other: whether it’s mental, physical, emotional, creative or work space.

PISCES: This week’s Piscean birthday poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning observed that prayers often thrust the thing we pray for in our face, a gauntlet with a gift in it. Present transits are likely to give you what you put out for – and prove challenging as well as helpful.

LilithLilith

S T A R S

YOU SING THE BLUESOk. So you wanna win a ticket to the Blues Festival. This year, I don’t want no more beggin. You wanna get a leggin, you gotta put your pen to paper and give me what you wanna be gettin. See

I’m a natural. We have 3 double passes to give away. Each week I am asking readers to submit one verse of a blues song which contains some key words. The best blues verse will be published and the winner awarded accordingly. This week’s words: Wheat, Caravan and Breast Augmentation. Email your entry to [email protected] or drop into one of our offi ces. Deadline for the fi rst

Heat is noon on Thursday 23! I’ll let you know the criteria for heat 2 next week!


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GETTING YOUR GOAT RIGHT Brisbane residents and visitors will have the rare opportunity to taste a traditional goat feast when Dr Mudenta Rita Bridg-wood cooks for the Afrika festival weekend at Brisbane Powerhouse on Sunday March 12. Mudenta Rita will cook two styles of goat for the day, a roast and a stew. She says that even though she cannot give away the recipe, she will give away a few of the ancient secrets to cooking the per-fect goat. ‘In truth there is no exact recipe because a large part of African cooking is improvisation, but I will share tips that have been passed on over generations from women in my family,’ Mudenta Rita said. The Zambian-born chef grew up watching her mother and stepmother cook for their entire village to celebrate coming-of-age, weddings and visits from outsiders. For bookings and info visit www.brisbanepow-erhouse.org and click on the Afrika Pasifi ka banner.

BYRON GETS MEDALS IN COFFEE Byron Shire and surrounds has always done well at the Sydney Royal Show annual cof-fee competition. This year Byron Organic Produce picked up a silver in plunger cof-fee. Bronzes in a number of classes went to local companies, including the Byron Bay Coffee Company, Zentveld’s, and Bun Cof-fee. Full competition results are available at www.sydneyroyalshows.com.au.

CHECK YOUR MUSSELS Reader David Gilet who has Belgian ances-tory writes in to us with a delightful tip on how to tell when a mussel is bad, based on his boyhood memories. The cleaned mussels were placed in a copper (otherwise used for washing clothes) without added water and with chopped onions, celery and carrot. The gas was lit and a large white peeled onion placed on top. If the onion dis-coloured it meant there was ‘a crook mussel in the mix which had to be looked for...’

NO GOLD FOR PASTAWheat is not only a problem for the federal government. Judges decided not to award a gold medal in the 2006 Sydney Royal Fine Food Show Pasta Competition. Entries from around the country competed in the 100% Durum Wheat Classes, 100% Wheat Classes and Fancy Classes, with

only one silver medal and ten bronze from the 53 entries being awarded. ‘What we see at the Pasta Competition is refl ective of Mother Nature and from where the fl our is transposed into pasta,’ said Grahame Latham AM, Chairman of Judges. ‘This year seems to indicate that Mother Nature didn’t provide as well in the raw material department which produced a considerable challenge. But there were some very good products. Class 9 (Innovation and Fancy Class) produced two very signifi cant pastas suitable for special dietary requirements, which will benefi t particular sectors of the community – these were the Orgran Rice and Corn Pasta Spirals and the Orgran Glu-ten Free Pasta.’ The silver was awarded to Passion Pasta from Victoria for its Saffron Angel Hair entry. Most of the bronze med-als came from the dried pasta category, which included fettuccine, parpadelle and linguini exhibits. NSW produced most bronze medals including Bellatta Gold in Tamworth, Pasta Fina in Wollongong, Pasta Italia in Fairfi eld, and Pastabilities in Marrick-ville. Full competition results are available at www.sydneyroyalshows.com.au.

BOUTIQUE WINERY WORTH A VISITSeeking to overcome the effects of bushwalking at Binna Burra in the Lam-ington National Park, our bibulous editor stumbled upon the Mt Nathan Winery on his way back to Nerang. Their chardonnay is superb and reasonably priced, and they do a very nice line in honey liqueurs. Find out more at www.mtnathanwinery.com.au.

Mudenta Rita will show you how to cook goat at Afrika Pasifi ka.

Byron Shire Echo March 7 , 2006 33www.echo.net.au

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‘ITALIA SI, Italia no, una pizza in com-pagnia!’ Omero used to sing to me as we worked the stoves, though never beyond that one refrain. A pizza in company sounds so jolly and cosy, suggesting the reverse in solitude – and yet a pizza in solitude was what I enjoyed every Friday night for quite possibly a year in my innercity Sydney days. Old Castille was my outlet of choice and their pizzas were magnifi cent with toppings way ahead of their time – for all I know they still are. Well before the advent of thin-crusted pizzas with funky toppings, this company was offering the most crea-tive and gorgeous combinations to grace their plump and puffy bases; their inex-plicably named French one, consisting of fresh rosemary, thinly sliced potatoes and a punchy salami, was particularly splendid.

A restaurant called The Edge opened just off William Street, and gave way to the vogue of thin crunchy crusts and increas-ingly ambitious toppings. By the time tandoori chicken arrived, things had got seriously out of hand.

Starting out life as humble street food, pizza began as bread dough stretched and baked till crisp and sold with nothing more than olive oil and salt on top. In the late eighteenth century, allegedly, a sweet red strain of tomato was developed around Naples in southern Italy, giving rise to a fancier version of pizza – the Napolitana re-mains to this day one of the more popular types of pizza in its classic simplicity.

A calzone is a pizza folded over to form a yeasty envelope for its fi lling – and I wish more places offered this variation on a theme. Puncture its puffy pastry and you may catch the exhalation, like a tiny sigh, of fragrant steam as your meal defl ates be-fore your eyes. Next time you happen to be in Florence, ask to be directed to Yellow in the heart of town where the calzoni come stuffed with a hot and spicy sausage and molten mozzarella.

Everyone in the world now makes pizzas – it seems you may dispense with the essential ingredients of wood-fi red oven and pizza chef, or pizzaiolo, whose dough-stretching talents were learnt from genera-tions before him. Pizzas made at home in domestic ovens are rarely successful because the intensity of heat is not there, although placing them on a pre-heated

ceramic tile will improve their crisping ability considerably. Franchises abound and invade. Yet sometimes one discovers a re-ally good pizza in a place most unexpected. Liz Jackson out at Luscious, her snug little eatery at the Byron Arts and Industry Es-tate, has a loyal following for her gorgeous ones with their modest range of toppings, whipped out of her cafe’s centrepiece, the wood-fi red oven. And at the Buddha Belly Cafe at the Crystal Castle I sat outside under a big white umbrella with a postcard picture of lush hinterland before me and mountains rising mistily in the distance and shared a fantastic pizza of quite perfectly roasted fresh beetroot, pumpkin, tomato fi eld mushrooms, pesto and cheese, on a meltingly soft outwardly crisp light and lovely base. And this is the thing. In my best pizza experiences, the crusts have had substance and volume, and a presence as valid as what adorned them. And invariably enjoyed more vigorously in company.

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CAFE RIPEFine coffee, fi ne dining, eat in or takea-way – enjoy courtyard dining at its best. BYO welcome. Gourmet sandwiches plus Asian foods now available.

COCOONNew management at Cocoon offers the full range of Dr Haushka skin and body care (including a product loyalty pro-gram), a selection of Weleda products and a full organic herbal dispensary. The natural health practitioner team of-fers remedial massage, herbal medicine, iridology, homoeopathy, anthroposophic therapies and other treatments. Free 15-minute herbal medicine consultations available. Now open Monday to Satur-day with late night Thursday.

INKY BUSINESSInky Business, the master recyclers have a current red hot special – what about an HP1010 Laserjet printer at just $198? Inky business specialises in printer repairs, refi lls and remanufactured laser cartridges to the highest standard, and you can save up to 50% or more on computer printing costs. Open from 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday they are loca-ted at 19 Tasman Way in the Byron Arts & Industry Estate. Phone 6680 7776.

LOOK HOT FEEL GREATYoga intense Bikram Style – detoxing, optimise health, body weight and wellbeing. Starts March 20 at Mullum-bimby. Pay for one class attend fi ve. Phone Jo Morrish on 6684 3250.

FUSIONFusion Hair Body Image is hot and they are offering a fantastic offer for the month of March. Come into Fusion on Sunday, Monday or Tuesday until the end of March and receive 20% off all services including hair, massage and beauty. You can’t afford to miss this gre-at offer. With friendly and helpful staff,

Fusion Hair Body Image will pamper you until your heart’s content! Call for an appointment today 6685 6227. Located at 4/6 Jonson Street, Byron Bay.

GRAZISGrazis Café is now open Friday and Saturday nights with new chef Skye and a delicious new menu. Sit by the water feature sipping a glass of Andrew Garrett chardonnay, and nibble on our delicious antipasto tempters. Day menu features all day brekkie and our magnifi cent eggs ‘grande’ – just try and fi nish it, go on, we dare you! Smooth Merlo coffee and the best hand-made chai in town. 111 Jonson Street, opposite the cinema, next door to Red Ginger.

SPINIFEX MOONSpinifex Moon is a shop where the soul can wander. Maybe you’ll fi nd what you are looking for in the range of clothes (natural fabric), hats, jewellery, bags, handwoven and dyed hangings, silk and grass cushion covers, cotton sheets, towels and robes, sea urchin t-light hold-ers, silk scarves, hand-painted Thai kitch-enware and more. It’s a moving feast, so come and catch up in what’s hot!


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Service Directory36 March 7, 2006 Byron Shire Echo www.echo.net.au

� HOME BUILDING & EXTENSION

BUILDING TRADES

‘ABUILDITY’ Steve Fluke, Lic builder 26470C. Extensions & renovations. Also bobcat hire ..... 66879200

ALCHEMY Bricks, blocks and landscaping design and construction ...........66872825 or 0400281973

BANGALOW Brick and block laying, quality service, reliable Lic 129723c ........66872138 or 0434434935

BRICKLAYER, BLOCKLAYER Matt Powell. Quality assured, reliable Lic 104383C ................ 66872198

BRICKLAYER, BLOCKLAYER Neat, realiable, quality Lic 114688C ...................................0410326052

BRIMS BUILDER’S HARDWARE .......................................................................................... 66801718

BUILDER All building & carpentry stairs specialist. Lic 105050C George Reynaud ................. 66846000

BUILDER Alrick East Lic 27307 ................................................................................................ 66842708

BUILDER/CARPENTER Jamie McKenna Renovations, kitchens, stairs, frames, etc Lic 43205 66801683

BUILDER/CARPENTER Stuart Dickie Renovations, decks, lic 139438C .... 0421 707727 or 66804622

CARPENTER/BUILDER ‘Colin the Carpenter’ Lic 162072c ..............................................0419 722132

CARPENTRY/JOINERY Renovations, kitchens, bathrooms, etc Lic 157823c Paul .................. 66805722

CARPENTER/LANDSCAPER/HANDYMAN Dave L110208C .................. 0412 171616 or 66809782

CARPENTER LICENSED #150644C Small jobs, reliable ......................................................0427109195

CONCRETING All types ph Chris Lic No 124842c ......................................0404147100 or 66872334

FREE FLOW GUTTER GUARDS Free quotes ....................................................................0427 886136

GET PLASTERED AND PAINTED 25 years experience .................... Trevor 0407049600 or 66851325

GYPROCK PLASTERING Free quotes, phone Dave Lic R63900 ........................................ 0403403098

HANSEN TIMBERCRAFT Feature projects, joinery Lic 84399C Call Don .......................... 0418650608

OUTDOOR TIMBER SETTINGS RESORED Mark .................................................................6680 1350

METAL POLISHING Federation copper ..........................................................................66286456

SOLOMONS FLOORING DESIGN flooring, vinyl, carpets .................................................... 66809166

STAINLESS WIRE BALUSTRADING Supplies and installation ............................................. 66872253

STONEMASON Jackhammer Stoneyard .................................................... 66855666 or 0417 377005

TILING PERFECTION All types, helpful advice, free quotes. .......................66801168 or 0409847653

WATERPROOFING Tiling, bathroom, reno, decking, Dave Lic 4112 ...................................0427464748

Wall Tiling, Building MaintenancePhil and Linda GuyPh 6684 6930 • 0418 255 599

Ceramic Floor Tiling

Domestic & CommercialLic No. 55115C

CONSULTING & INSPECTIONS

FENG SHUI CONSULTATIONS Elizabeth Crawford, www.fengshuigarden.net 0421027823 or 66853751

DESIGN & DRAFTING

ARCHITECTURAL CAD Additions & buildings to council specs ............................................. 66841795

BRUNSWICK BUILDING DESIGNERS Home plans/additions ................ 0427 851512 or 66851512

DAVID ROBINSON House plans and extensions ....................................... 66858114 or 0419 880048

DAVID TEMPLE ARCHITECT ................................................................................................. 66857739

EXPANDESIGN Houses, shops & renovations. Alok W Eggenberger ...................................... 66847180

GARDEN DESIGN, FENG SHUI & LANDSCAPE PLANS Lyn Ruming ................................ 66857756

KATE PLATT Interior design www.kateplatt.com .......................................0411 888416 or 66807606

MULLUMBIMBY DRAFTING & DESIGN Terry Newling Engineering, BASIX, Council ......... 66841842

PRODUCT DESIGN/CAD 3D prototyping & design services ......................0401069121 or 66851828

ZAHER DESIGNZ Architectural & Design Services .................................... 0414 974088 or 66849408

ELECTRICIANS

2481 ELECTRICAL 24 hour service. Lic 177563C ...............................................................0409 521030

ALFRED BURLEY 24 hour service, Lic 41598C ........................................... 0428 299754 or 66858691

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

CURTIS ELECTRICAL 24 hour service – all Byron Shire. Lic 79065C ..................................0427402399

DAVID LEVINE Lic 96251C Electrical, phones, security, data .............................................0402 022111

GOTCHA WIRED Peter Kendall Electrical Contractors Lic 61439C ............ 0427 611832 or 66855422

SMALL – URGENT – EMERGENCY JOBS ONLY ............................................................0427402399

TREVOR REID Electrical and air conditioning Lic EC30537 ........................ 0418 710377 or 66847795

Andrew Curtis • Lic No 79065C • Ph 0427 402 399

Business, Home, Farm, Industrial

ELECTRICIANReliable and Punctual

24 Hr Service • No Call Out Fee

Local, reliable, friendly electrician24 hour service, extensive experi-ence, no-obligation free quotes.

Call Wayne 0414 821137or 6684 5521

Schultz Circuit Electricalcommercial, industrial and

domestic applications

ENGINEERING

MOBILE WELDING AND FABRICATIONS Ph Zac ................................................................ 66771523

8 Centennial Cct, Byron Arts/Ind Est • Ph 6680 8060

• Full machine shop • High tensile bolts & nuts repair service• Hydraulics, pumps, motors, valves, hoses etc • General enquiries welcome

McLean Agquip • Welding • Steel fabrication • Steel sales

FAX 6680 8066

FENCING

BEDNARZ, H & W, FENCING LIC R88997C ALL TYPES, FREE QUOTES ........................... 0417 491136

FLOOR SANDING & FINISHING

FLOOR SANDING PROMPT & EFFICIENT, NON–TOXIC, FREE QUOTES .............................0414 804277

FLOORSANDING

FURNITURE RESTORATION & CONSTRUCTION

POLISH AT BYRON Antique restoration – Showroom 1/5 Centennial Cct, Byron .................. 66807010WOOD DOCTOR Stripping, polishing, repairs, ..................................................... free quotes 66770185

GLAZIERS

OCEAN SHORES GLASS AND SCREENS, GLASS SPLASHBACKS LIC NO 61205C .............. 66803333

Cape Byron Glass24hr Emergency servicePH 6685 8588 or 0415660801

Lic No 37118C

NOBBS & MYERSGLASS

For all glass supplies & repairs, shower screens, mirrors & robe doorsPh 26 Mill St

Mullum

Lic 34432C

6684 2685 Ah 6684 3326Fax 6684 3585

HOT WATER

INSULATION

THE INSULATION MAN Cellulose fibre .....................................................66793136 or 0410853473

INTERIOR DESIGN

KATE PLATT Interior Designer, www.kateplatt.com ................................... 0411 888416 or 66807606KITCHEN AND BATHROOM DESIGN Meriel Shaw ...................................0418453057 or 66845292

PAINTING

ALL-WAYS PAINTING Shahron Shahar Lic 114240C ................................ 0438 784226 or 66809281BYRON PRO-PAINT Competitive prices, call Ben Lic 87771C ............................................0418662281DEREK BULLION PAINTING Free quotes Lic R98818 .............................. 0414 225604 or 66805049NORTH POINT PAINTING Interior, exterior, commercial Lic 168414C ......0403332654 or 66847137PAINTER/DECORATOR Andrew Johnson Lic R84077 .............................. 66803698 or 0414 309585SAUNDERS RE-PAINTS & A/HRS OFFICE LicR65241 ................................0402265557 or 66803908SCOTT & CO. PAINTING Quality service Lic 110646C .............................. 66850227 or 0410 466585


� HOME BUILDING & EXTENSION

BUILDING TRADES

‘ABUILDITY’ Steve Fluke, Lic builder 26470C. Extensions & renovations. Also bobcat hire ..... 66879200

ALCHEMY Bricks, blocks and landscaping design and construction ...........66872825 or 0400281973

BANGALOW Brick and block laying, quality service, reliable Lic 129723c ........66872138 or 0434434935

BRICKLAYER, BLOCKLAYER Matt Powell. Quality assured, reliable Lic 104383C ................ 66872198

BRICKLAYER, BLOCKLAYER Neat, realiable, quality Lic 114688C ...................................0410326052

BRIMS BUILDER’S HARDWARE .......................................................................................... 66801718

BUILDER All building & carpentry stairs specialist. Lic 105050C George Reynaud ................. 66846000

BUILDER Alrick East Lic 27307 ................................................................................................ 66842708

BUILDER/CARPENTER Jamie McKenna Renovations, kitchens, stairs, frames, etc Lic 43205 66801683

BUILDER/CARPENTER Stuart Dickie Renovations, decks, lic 139438C .... 0421 707727 or 66804622

CARPENTER/BUILDER ‘Colin the Carpenter’ Lic 162072c ..............................................0419 722132

CARPENTRY/JOINERY Renovations, kitchens, bathrooms, etc Lic 157823c Paul .................. 66805722

CARPENTER/LANDSCAPER/HANDYMAN Dave L110208C .................. 0412 171616 or 66809782

CARPENTER LICENSED #150644C Small jobs, reliable ......................................................0427109195

CONCRETING All types ph Chris Lic No 124842c ......................................0404147100 or 66872334

FREE FLOW GUTTER GUARDS Free quotes ....................................................................0427 886136

GET PLASTERED AND PAINTED 25 years experience .................... Trevor 0407049600 or 66851325

GYPROCK PLASTERING Free quotes, phone Dave Lic R63900 ........................................ 0403403098

HANSEN TIMBERCRAFT Feature projects, joinery Lic 84399C Call Don .......................... 0418650608

OUTDOOR TIMBER SETTINGS RESORED Mark .................................................................6680 1350

METAL POLISHING Federation copper ..........................................................................66286456

SOLOMONS FLOORING DESIGN flooring, vinyl, carpets .................................................... 66809166

STAINLESS WIRE BALUSTRADING Supplies and installation ............................................. 66872253

STONEMASON Jackhammer Stoneyard .................................................... 66855666 or 0417 377005

TILING PERFECTION All types, helpful advice, free quotes. .......................66801168 or 0409847653

WATERPROOFING Tiling, bathroom, reno, decking, Dave Lic 4112 ...................................0427464748

Wall Tiling, Building MaintenancePhil and Linda GuyPh 6684 6930 • 0418 255 599

Ceramic Floor Tiling

Domestic & CommercialLic No. 55115C

CONSULTING & INSPECTIONS

FENG SHUI CONSULTATIONS Elizabeth Crawford, www.fengshuigarden.net 0421027823 or 66853751

DESIGN & DRAFTING

ARCHITECTURAL CAD Additions & buildings to council specs ............................................. 66841795

BRUNSWICK BUILDING DESIGNERS Home plans/additions ................ 0427 851512 or 66851512

DAVID ROBINSON House plans and extensions ....................................... 66858114 or 0419 880048

DAVID TEMPLE ARCHITECT ................................................................................................. 66857739

EXPANDESIGN Houses, shops & renovations. Alok W Eggenberger ...................................... 66847180

GARDEN DESIGN, FENG SHUI & LANDSCAPE PLANS Lyn Ruming ................................ 66857756

KATE PLATT Interior design www.kateplatt.com .......................................0411 888416 or 66807606

MULLUMBIMBY DRAFTING & DESIGN Terry Newling Engineering, BASIX, Council ......... 66841842

PRODUCT DESIGN/CAD 3D prototyping & design services ......................0401069121 or 66851828

ZAHER DESIGNZ Architectural & Design Services .................................... 0414 974088 or 66849408

ELECTRICIANS

2481 ELECTRICAL 24 hour service. Lic 177563C ...............................................................0409 521030

ALFRED BURLEY 24 hour service, Lic 41598C ........................................... 0428 299754 or 66858691

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

CURTIS ELECTRICAL 24 hour service – all Byron Shire. Lic 79065C ..................................0427402399

DAVID LEVINE Lic 96251C Electrical, phones, security, data .............................................0402 022111

GOTCHA WIRED Peter Kendall Electrical Contractors Lic 61439C ............ 0427 611832 or 66855422

SMALL – URGENT – EMERGENCY JOBS ONLY ............................................................0427402399

TREVOR REID Electrical and air conditioning Lic EC30537 ........................ 0418 710377 or 66847795

Andrew Curtis • Lic No 79065C • Ph 0427 402 399

Business, Home, Farm, Industrial

ELECTRICIANReliable and Punctual

24 Hr Service • No Call Out Fee

Local, reliable, friendly electrician24 hour service, extensive experi-ence, no-obligation free quotes.

Call Wayne 0414 821137or 6684 5521

Schultz Circuit Electricalcommercial, industrial and

domestic applications

ENGINEERING

MOBILE WELDING AND FABRICATIONS Ph Zac ................................................................ 66771523

8 Centennial Cct, Byron Arts/Ind Est • Ph 6680 8060

• Full machine shop • High tensile bolts & nuts repair service• Hydraulics, pumps, motors, valves, hoses etc • General enquiries welcome

McLean Agquip • Welding • Steel fabrication • Steel sales

FAX 6680 8066

FENCING

BEDNARZ, H & W, FENCING LIC R88997C ALL TYPES, FREE QUOTES ........................... 0417 491136

FLOOR SANDING & FINISHING

FLOOR SANDING PROMPT & EFFICIENT, NON–TOXIC, FREE QUOTES .............................0414 804277

FLOORSANDING

FURNITURE RESTORATION & CONSTRUCTION

POLISH AT BYRON Antique restoration – Showroom 1/5 Centennial Cct, Byron .................. 66807010WOOD DOCTOR Stripping, polishing, repairs, ..................................................... free quotes 66770185

GLAZIERS

OCEAN SHORES GLASS AND SCREENS, GLASS SPLASHBACKS LIC NO 61205C .............. 66803333

Cape Byron Glass24hr Emergency servicePH 6685 8588 or 0415660801

Lic No 37118C

NOBBS & MYERSGLASS

For all glass supplies & repairs, shower screens, mirrors & robe doorsPh 26 Mill St

Mullum

Lic 34432C

6684 2685 Ah 6684 3326Fax 6684 3585

HOT WATER

INSULATION

THE INSULATION MAN Cellulose fibre .....................................................66793136 or 0410853473

INTERIOR DESIGN

KATE PLATT Interior Designer, www.kateplatt.com ................................... 0411 888416 or 66807606KITCHEN AND BATHROOM DESIGN Meriel Shaw ...................................0418453057 or 66845292

PAINTING

ALL-WAYS PAINTING Shahron Shahar Lic 114240C ................................ 0438 784226 or 66809281BYRON PRO-PAINT Competitive prices, call Ben Lic 87771C ............................................0418662281DEREK BULLION PAINTING Free quotes Lic R98818 .............................. 0414 225604 or 66805049NORTH POINT PAINTING Interior, exterior, commercial Lic 168414C ......0403332654 or 66847137PAINTER/DECORATOR Andrew Johnson Lic R84077 .............................. 66803698 or 0414 309585SAUNDERS RE-PAINTS & A/HRS OFFICE LicR65241 ................................0402265557 or 66803908SCOTT & CO. PAINTING Quality service Lic 110646C .............................. 66850227 or 0410 466585


Service Directory

ENVIRONMENT FRIENDLY PAINTERS

Antonio0421 724 255

Lic No

. R6

82

28

Lic 130521C

FLYNN’S QUALITY PAINTING• 16 years’ experience • Professional • Friendly • Clean

For a free quote call Mark on6680 3070 or mobile 0410 520647

‘Quality work to be sure, to be sure!’

PLUMBERS

BILL CONNORS Plumber & drainer Gold Lic No L1051 CA 1221 ............................................ 66801403DART PLUMBING Plumbing, roofing, gas service. Lic. 1175539C .....................................0421 334515DOMINIC TAYLOR Maintenance & new work Lic 176059C ......................0422286599 or 66771169I LOVE PLUMBING Call Steve Lic 148904C .......................................................................0412 916140PLUMBING, DRAINS, LP GAS Dennis McKinnon Lic L6616 .................... 66878191 or 0400 726610PIPE DREAM PLUMBING Draining & gas fitting Ben Campbell Lic 154590C ..................0408 626343

Ace PlumbingAce Plumbing• Prompt service• Competitive rates• Free quotes

Adrian BlackPLUMBER

Cape Byron PLUMBING

24 HOUR EMERGENCY SERVICE

Ph 66809997 – YOUR LOCAL PLUMBERS Lic

No

4838All plumbing, gasfitting & roofing

INSPECTOR SEPTIC- AT YOUR SERVICE -

Solutions to ALL your problems6684 2474 0427 842 474

Lic.

8908

Your local specialist inSewage Management phoneTRINE SOLUTIONS

6680 2358or 0407 439805

SEWAGESOLUTIONS

For

SKIPS

BEST SKIPS AND CONTAINERS Bangalow ..............................................0417458149 or 66871544

SWIMMING POOLS

BAYWATER POOLS Design & Construction Lic 129104c .......................... 66843489 or 0419 479921MULLUM HIRE CHEMICALS, ACCESSORIES, WATER TESTING ...................................... 66843003

BALLINA POOL SHOP . 6686 5800Quality construction or renovation. All types of pools & spas.

On road service & maintenance. Free computer analysis.16 Ray O’Neill Crescent, Ballina • Serving you since 1988Licence 41452

TILING

DEGREE TILING° Walls & floors, free quotes ..............................................................Alex 0415650073

� HOUSEHOLD SERVICES

AIR CONDITIONING

ANTENNA & INSTALLATION

A ANTENNA MAN Reception Specialist Greg Kingdom ............................ 66867811 or 0408 117130

ANTENNA EXPERT Great reception at the right price – all work guaranteed ....................... 66809065

BYRON ANTENNA SERVICE Crystal clear reception ................................1800613033 or 66809065

TV ANTENNA INSTALLATION All work Rob Deegan ..............................0429 994516 or 66845525

Brunswick T.V. Service

CLEANING

ABLE CLEANING SERVICES Domestic/holiday accommodation .......................................... 66840178

ALLWAYS CLEANING ........................................................................................................0434515016

A. MORE CARPET & UPHOLSTERY CLEANING ......................................... 66807721 or 66803419

CAPE BYRON Window Cleaning & Property Maint. ..................................... Tom Scott 0418 600576

TWO VIKINGS CLEANING SERVICES Domestic/holiday accommodation .......................... 66291807

WINDOW CLEANING Professional work, free quotes, phone Arjun ......... 0421 797210 or 66846982

ALL BYRON SHIRE CARPET& UPHOLSTERY CLEANING

TILE & GROUT CLEANING7 DAYS TRUCK MOUNTED MACHINE

ph Brendon O’Connor 66853767 or 0429853767

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Reliable and of the highest quality – call for a free quoteFREECALL 1800 68 38 38 MOBILE 0411 444 367

“Always Waterwise”

Professional Window CleaningDOMESTIC – COMMERCIAL – BOND CLEANS

Level 5 restrictions compliant

Phone Jon on 0413 802 582

BYRON BAY WINDOW CLEANING• Residential & Commercial• Difficult access and gutter

clean

• Fully insured• Builders cleans• Free quotes

TLCTENDER LOVING CARE

Truck Mounted MachineCARPET CLEANING

Specialising in household carpet cleaning

Kevin & Margaret Bower (02) 6684 1001Speedy Drying

ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES

BRUNSWICK TV SERVICE 30yrs Byron Shire, Bill Sked ......................................................... 66851778

MULLUMBIMBY APPLIANCE SERVICE Byron Shire .............................. 0408 851633 or 66842952

TV & VIDEO REPAIRS & SALESWe repair Hi-Fis, CDs, Microwaves

BYRON ELECTRONICS25 BRIGANTINE ST, BYRON INDUST. ESTATE • 6685 7610

GARBAGE & RUBBISH REMOVAL

ABOUT BYRON SHIRE Rubbish removed/recycled ..........................Mark 66853995 or 0421932945

ALLWAYS RUBBISH REMOVAL .......................................................................................0434515016

GET RID OF IT Call Richard anytime. ...........................................................0438169989 or 66851984

RAPID RECYCLING/RUBBISH REMOVAL Phone Rob ........................... 66811836 or 0402 921630

WEEKEND RUBBISH REMOVAL .......................................................................................... 66779003

Ph 6687 1544Mob 0417 458 149

2m, 4m, 6m cubic mtr binscommercial • industrial • domestic

We strive to be the best, not the biggest

BESTSKIPSAND CONTAINERS

BANGALOW

GARDEN & PROPERTY MAINTENANCE

AAA LAWNMOWING Prompt, efficient service ........................................................ Ray 0421 106332

AARDVARK LAWN & GARDEN SERVICE Phone Richard ...................... 66859853 or 0428573511

ABOUT BYRON Mowing, gardening, rubbish removal .................... Mark 0421 932945 or 66853995

ADAM BLANCH RURAL MOWING Gardening – rubbish removal ................................ 0427084501

BONNIE’S MOWING A1 job everytime! ....................................................66808970 or 0418562414

BYRON OCEAN SHORES LAWNS & GARDENS Gardening, mowing, rubbish removal etc 66804744, 0404 418957DAVID FROST LANDSCAPES Maintainence, design, contruction ....................................0412767546

DAVID’S LAWNMOWING SERVICE Huge value, tiny prices, small jobs OK ......................... 66807337

DIG IT LANDSCAPE GARDENS Ride-on. Phone Patrick .......................... 0416 109495 or 66871095

GARDEN Rubbish removal, whipper snippering, odd jobs ............ ph Matt 0432217503 or 66853704

GARDEN SACK SERVICE Rubbish removal. ............................................. 0437 874884 or 66874886

GARDEN MAINTENANCE by experienced horticulturist. ..............ph Kyla 0425254830 or 66803298

GARDEN, WHIPPER SNIPPING Ocean Shores area, Kim .................................................... 66805390

GUTTERS CLEANED All areas, free quotes, fully insured ............................ 0405 922839 or 66841674

HARD WORKING, RELIABLE AND KNOWLEDGEABLE Gardener,Ph Bridget ..................... 66846345

HORTICULTURIST Bush regeneration and garden care. Ph Mark .................0407224142 or 66802805

LAWN MOWING & GARDENING Gutters cleaned, reliable, reasonable rates ..................... 66859922

ORGANIC GARDEN MAINTENANCE/MULCHER Reliable naturally .........66846193 or 0423 527882

OUTDOOR TIMBER SETTINGS RESTORED Mark ......................................................................66801350

TONI’S LAWNMOWING AND GARDEN SERVICE ............................................................ 66841546

TREE FELLING & CHIPPING Fully insured, goor rates, ph Nick ................ 0415 935048 or 66884336

TREE LOPPING & WOOD CHIPPING Vic Carpenter (see Tradework) .................................. 66841172

TROWS LAWNMOWING Lawns, gardens, ride–on .................................. 0410 665902 or 66875959


GARDEN & PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CONTINUED

Peter McDonaldFencing & FarmMaintenance6684 2440 / 0415 838979

• Fencing • Slashing• Stockyard Building• 4WD 4 in 1 Bucket• Post & Rail Fences

All areas – no job too small

❋ onsite repairs to all major pump brands❋ pool pump sales & repairs ❋ all types polypipes & fittings

Tanks, Pumps & Pipes

66842022GAS FITTERS & SUPPLIERS

BRUNSWICK VALLEY ELGAS SUPPLY free delivery, no rental ............................................ 66841575MULLUMBIMBY GAS WORKS Service & installation. Lic No L11487 .................................. 66840187

HANDYPERSONS

ADAM’S HANDYMAN Odd jobs & carpentry ....................................................................0432797012A REASONABLE RATE CARPENTRY/CONCRETE RENDERER ..... Oz 0421 893534 or 66842858A TO Z HANDYMAN SERVICES Jack of All Ph Andre ............................................................ 66847553BAY BUILDING SERVICES Int + ext home improvements ph Pete ...................................0427350470BUILDER Lic 3442c Renovations, handyman ph Larry .................................0418608407 or 66845331COSMO’S HOUSE HEALING SERVICES Pro paint, carpentry, the works .......................0422 996731DAN HANDYMAN Leaking taps to minor building maintenance .............66228911 or 0402 009361ESSENTIAL HOME SERVICES ....................................................... James 66853186 or 0432 418354RELIABLE HANDYMAN SERVICE Michael ..............................................0405325569 or 66805752SHANES HANDYMAN SERVICES General carpentry & odd jobs ...................................0439 335659SMARTEN UP PROPERTY MAINTENANCE Max .................................. 66843189 or 0411 226717

HIRE

BYRON WEDDING & PARTY HIRE ........... www.byronpartyhire.com.au 66855483 or 0439855483MULLUM HIRE Builders, party and much more .............................www.mullumhire.com.au 66843003TRUCK HIRE WITH CRANE For those too heavy jobs ............................................................ 66846789

HOUSEHOLD REQUIREMENTS

BANGALOW UPHOLSTERY Re-covering specialists: Bangalow Upholstery ......................... 66871553

B y r o n S h i r e

Rob & Lorraine CubisPh: 6685 1969 Mob: 0412 995267Free Quotes on:- • Screens • Hollands • Venetians • Pleated • Security • Awnings & Patios • Vertical drapes

LANDSCAPING & EXCAVATION

BEAUTIFUL ROCKWORK SANDSTONE TERRACES, PONDS ETC ..0428149847 or 0406485141BRUNSWICK BOBCAT & TIPPER HIRE and landcsaping. Best prices ..... 0422 041491 or 66850057DAVID FROST LANDSCAPES Maintainence, design, contruction ....................................0412767546GARDEN DESIGN & FENG SHUI ............................................................. 0428 884329 or 66857756LANDSCAPE DESIGN by David Pettifer www.byronscape.com .............. 0427 845284 or 66855985LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE Construction & irrigation, qualified horticulturists ...........0423871677NICK TREGONNING LANDSCAPING Paving and landscaping .......................................0411861404NORTHERN RIVERS TRENCHING SERVICE Mini excavator hire, ...........0402 716857or 66802750

PAVING, LANDSCAPING Style landscapes – Phil Carr L 41307 ........................................0427570076SHANE FLANNERY LANDSCAPING Paving, retaining walls, bricklaying .......................0418 669055TIGHT SPOT EXCAVATIONS Call Chris .................................................... 0404 147100 or 66872334

PH: MOB: ABN:50631252592

PEST CONTROL

TROPICALE PEST MANAGEMENT

ENVIRONMENTAL PEST CONSULTANTS

Ph/fax 6684 2428 Mob 0418 110 714

REMOVALISTS

ASHFORTH AFFORDABLE REMOVALS .............................................. 66282362 or 0401665619

CRANE TRUCK & GEN CARRIER Those heavy large jobs machinery, timber, etc .66846789, 0438846788

BEYOND BYRON REMOVALSReady for work within & beyond Byron

Brisbane Sydney backloadingFor careful service & great rates

Phone66858108

Cape Byron Removals8 Grevillea St, Byron Arts & Industrial Estate• Based in Byron Industrial Estate• Continuing to serve the Byron Shire• Local • Brisbane • Sydney • Melbourne • Inland

SECURITY SERVICES

BRUNSWICK VALLEY LOCKSMITHS Shirewide ..................................... 66771550 or 0412 144679

BYRON SHIRE SECURITY SERVICE ....................................................... 66858557 or 0408 661660

CAPE BYRON SECURITY SERVICE (est. 1988) ....................................... 66853507 or 0403 252210

SEWING MACHINE & APPLIANCE SERVICE

A1 SEWING MACHINES Since 1964 Leaders In Service ........................................................ 66847447

WINDOW TINTING

TWEED BYRONWINDOW TINTING

Car, House, Office, Shop

6 6 8 0 2 4 8 4

� BUSINESS & OFFICE SERVICESLIKE MINDS MARKETING for small business: wwwlikemindsmarketing.com ....... Nina 0414718855

SMART WORDS Professional copywriting, editing, proofreading .......................................... 66856827

SORTING CHAOS SECRETARIAL Business services ............................................................. 66805555

ACCOUNTANTS

ACCOUNTANT Paul Mayberry ................................................................................................ 66847415

ACCOUNTANT HUDSON MATTHEWS MANAGMENT SERVICES .................................. 66858129

BIZWIZZ Professional & mobile – www.bizzwizz.com.au ...................................................0400758192

BOOKKEEPING BYRON Professional, mobile, quick, excellent rates .................................... 66857524

BOOKKEEPING MYOB, tuition/shoebox & chequebook ................................ Clare Wigley 0422190277

BOOKKEEPING MYOB, very experienced, excellent references, Vineeto Raspini ................... 66856645

COMPUTER SERVICES

O/SHORES MOBILE TECH All computer problems Ph Daniel ....................66801713 or 0422804449

DAVID LAWSON COMPUTER SERVICESNew Machines, Repairs. Upgrades, Training, Networking, Internet Con-nection, Software Win 98, Win 2000XP, NT. Cert. Tech. Microsoft Sales

Ph: Mobile 0414843955 or 02 66843955• email: [email protected] • Accepts credit cardsShop 10 Ross Industrial Complex, Station St, Mullum

Also at 15 Riverside Drive, Mullumbimby 2482


Service Directory

COMPUTER TONER & CARTRIDGES

Inkjet

Refills from

$6.00!!

All BrandsFaxes & Lasers Too!

We Refill Your Ink Cartridges!ON THEINK RUN

Business Home Office Tel: 6676-1919 Mob: 0413 085 710

Run Out of Printer Ink? Don’t Panic..WE COME TO YOU!When your Computer Printer or Fax runs out of ink - We Come to You with

guaranteed savings and only INK on the RUN uses premium quality American Inks with the exclusive IVC (ink viscosity control). Call Us and SAVE!

INKYBUSINESS6680 7776

INKS LASERS FAXES REPAIRS SALES

THE PRINTER & CARTRIDGE SPECIALISTYOUR ONE STOP SHOP

ESTABLISHED 10 YEARS19 Tasman Way,

Byron Arts & Industry Estate

PRINTING & GRAPHIC ART

ACCENT COLOR THE COPY SHOP ....................................................................................... 66856236ACCENT COLOR THE LAMINATING SHOP ......................................................................... 66856236ARC DE ARTE Creating conceptual designs ............................................................................ 66855491PRINTWORKS Commercial & digital printing, brokers & graphic design ............................... 66843633NORTH COAST PRINT SOLUTIONS Graphic Design and Printers ....................................... 66858264SYD GEARY GRAPHIC DESIGN Digital printing .................................................................. 66843633

� HEALTH & LIFESTYLE

DENTISTS

BYRON DENTAL SURGERY Mercury-free restorations ......................................................... 66807774MULLUMBIMBY DENTAL CENTRE 100 Stuart St, Mullumbimby ........................................ 66842644

FLORISTS

PASSION@FLOWERS Byron Bay. Fresh flowers, weddings. Interflora member ..................... 66855209

HAIR & BEAUTY

BANGALOW HAIR Hair specialists ......................................................................................... 66871888EDGE HAIRDRESSING Award winning salon. Open 6 days & Thursday nights ..................... 66858391SHAMPOO HAIR STUDIO Byron Bay .................................................................................... 66809656THERE’S ALWAYS MORE Hair & beauty Byron Bay. Redken & Dermalogica ........................ 66807922

HEALTH

ACUPUNCTURE CHINESE HERBAL MEDICINE Dr Adam Osborne .................................... 66857366ACUPUNCTURE CHINESE HERBAL MEDICINE M Collis .................................................... 66857001ACUPUNCTURE Chinese herbs, Massage… R Gutwein ......................................................... 66808208ACUPUNCTURE & CHINESE AYERVEDIC HERBS House of Wellbeing, Kim Kilgariff ......... 66858538ACUPUNCTURE & MOXIBUSTION Japan trained. ................................... Joshua Leishman 66809092ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE Postural re-education for pain, stress/dysfunction. M. Hayes ..... 66809770BYRON DENTAL SURGERY Mercury free restorations ......................................................... 66807774CHILD & FAMILY PSYCHOLOGIST ........................................................................... Krista 66803754CHIROPRACTOR Bruce Campbell, Brent Verco 52 Shirley St, Byron Bay ................................ 66858159CHIROPRACTOR Andrew Badman & Steve Foster– low force ............................................... 66858553CHIROPRACTOR Michael Schwager 109 Stuart St Mullumbimby ......................................... 66841962CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST Michael Du Sautoy, Lennox Head .............................................. 66877000CRANIOSACRAL BALANCING Najma Ahern, Practitioner, Tutor & Trainer .......................... 66846444MULLUMBIMBY Herbals, Naturopathy, Massage, 79 Stuart St .............................................. 66843002MULLUMBIMBY MEDICAL CENTRE 60 Stuart St ............................................................... 66841511OCEAN SHORES PHYSIOTHERAPY Nigel Pitman, Manipulative Physiotherapist .............. 66803499THERAPY & SUPERVISION Addictions/Coping/Change ..........................................Gaby 0405295965

Gentle, effective treatment for neck and back pain and dysfunctions relating to the central nervous system... enjoy relaxing into the self-healing forces of the body.Call Kalakeli 66848 097 or 0405 929 670

C r a n i o s a c r a l T h e r a p y

OSTEOPATHY

ANDREW HALL New Brighton ................................................................................................ 66802027BARDIA ASAADI D.O. (London ‘91) Byron Bay .................................................................... 66808118BRUNSWICK HEADS OSTEOPATHY Sue Broadbent, Mon - Fri ........................................... 66851126EVE SCHOENHEIMER, JODIE JACOBS Byron Bay ............................................................... 66807575

PHYSIOTHERAPY

ANTHONY D’ORSOGNA Suffolk Park 1 Bryce Street ............................................................ 66853511BANGALOW PHYSIOTHERAPY Craniosacral, Massage & Pilates

Libbie Nelson, Petra Karni, Clare Connolly Lot 1, Ballina Road, Bangalow ................................ 66872330CLAUDIA MIRDITA Craniosacral therapy, acupuncture, physio ............................................. 66847555NICK EDMOND, CHRISTEL TAYLOR & MARTINA RIGBY Mullumbimby Physiotherapy Centre ‘Govinda’

8 Jubilee Ave, Mullumbimby Monday, Wednesday, Friday ......................................................... 66843255OCEAN SHORES PHYSIOTHERAPY NIGEL PITMAN ........................................................ 66803499PAULA RAYMOND-YACOUB Acupuncture and physio ........................................................ 66851646

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

� MOTORINGBILLINUDGEL BRAKE CENTRE ............................................................................................ 66801382BILLINUDGEL STEERING & SUSPENSION ......................................................................... 66801382CAR BODIES REMOVED Any condition, for quote phone Mark .......................................0427660641CAR BODIES REMOVED FREE Essery Wreckers ................................................................... 66845296FRED HENRY MECHANICAL REPAIRS Billinudgel .............................................................. 66802155MECHANICAL REPAIRS, WELDING, MTA MEMBER, PEARCE MOTORS ............................... 66851252

Natrad AUTO COOLING SERVICE CENTRE

BAYSIDE RADIATORS, WINDSCREENSAND AIR CONDITIONING

24 Hours 7 Days Serving Byron Shire

Where else would you take a leak!Lot 4, Wilfred St, Billinudgel. Ph 6680 2444

NEW TYRESBATTERIES & REPAIRS

Billinudgel Tyre Service Ph 6680 2366

MogoPlace

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Quality tyres & retreads, repairs, batteries, fitting & balancingMULLUMBIMBY TYRE SERVICE

Dalley Street, Mullumbimby 6684 2016

GREEN & ENVIRONMENTALLYFRIENDLY MUFFLERS

20 years in Byron ShireWILSON’S EXHAUST

15 Grevillea St, Byron Arts & Industry Est Ph. 6685 6925

� MISCELLANEOUS

EVENT SERVICES

MAKE UP ARTIST Weddings & special events, Sabine Hellfaier ........................................0422 752264

PICTURE FRAMING

BILLINUDGEL CUSTOM PICTURE FRAMING 7/1 Wilfred St, Billinudgel ........................... 66803444HAIKU FRAMING & DESIGN 144 Jonson St, Byron Bay ....................................................... 66807891PICTURE FRAMING Bill Veale ................................................................................................ 66842262

VETERINARY SURGEONS

BILLINUDGEL/OCEAN SHORES VET HOSPITAL Jon Hollingworth .................................. 66803480BYRON BAY VET CLINIC 1/70 Centennial Cct. Matt Allworth ............................................... 66856899MULLUMBIMBY VET CLINIC Neil Farquhar and Susannah Wood ........................................ 66843818

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AT OUR OFFICESClassifi ed ads may also be lodged at our offi ces:Mullumbimby – Village Way, Stuart StByron Bay – Unit 3, 6 Jonson St

RATES & PAYMENT$12.50 for the fi rst two lines (minimum charge)$3.50 for each extra line (these prices include GST)Cash, cheque or credit card– Bankcard, Mastercard or Visa.Prepayment required for: Garage Sales, Share Accommodation, Wanted to Rent and Work Wanted classifi cations

DEADLINE12pm Monday for display ads

2pm Monday for line ads

Account enquiries

phone 6685 5222

Classifi ed Ads

Billi’s Thai is the Byron Shire’s long-est running Thai restaurant. For 11 years it has been the pride of a long time local family.

Business is bet-ter than ever! The owners have put in

• Long term lease (3x3x3)• Low rent ($8,700 p/a)• Fully equipped Asian/ Western kitchen• Fireplace

Thriving local business for sale!

a years hard work and Billi’s looks great, and is ready to take to the next level, whether as a restaurant or a cafe. It remains a unique and charming place that both locals and tourists love. A large and loyal customer base from Ocean Shores, South Golden, Bruns, The Pocket, Main Arm & Mullum ensures good business throughout the year.

Extremely low rent and a long term lease equals a great pro t margin minus the stress! Easy take-over in time for Easter!

• Terraced area• Seats 64• Owners offer full training• Flexible payment plan neg.• $130,000 wi/wo

PH: (02) 6680 3352 [email protected]

ALI’S RUG CENTRESpecialist rug

washing & repairsQuality rugs for sale

Cnr Wollongbar & Centennial Cct

Byron Arts/Ind Est6685 7750/0427 469 843

let them eat cake

stylish & delicious cakesfor all celebrations

6684 4768 0403 677 684www.eatcake.net.au

f lowers on the runnow holding

FREE FLOWER ARRANGING WORKSHOPS

Call now – Bookings essential6680 9988Enquiries: 6672 2874

LENNOX HEAD

MARKETTHIS SUNDAY


ANTHEA AMOREMARRIAGE CELEBRANT

66807277 0422383151 www.antheaamore.com

LEARN GESTALT THERAPYSecond group starts 8 April

Grad. Dip. Program 2006 – Lismore Prof. Training, FEE HELP. 66213911

PEDAL POWER COURIERS deliver between Byron CBD & Industrial Estate $5 per trip. 0421745446 / 66808325

TAHITIAN DANCE CLASSTuesdays 5pm @ Buddha BarMon 4-5pm Suffolk Park Hall

Phone 0419717950

DEREK HARPERMarriage Celebrant. 66803032

DRU YOGA @ SUFFOLK HALL9.30am Wednesdays. 66859898

MULLUMBIMBY SOUP KITCHENNeighbourhood Centre, Dalley Street,

Wednesday 5pm. 66841816

CHRIST LIGHT MEDITATIONAmbaji Wellness Centre, Marvel Street, Byron, 7.30pm, March 14.

ASTROLOGERBABULA CLEMENTS

Readings – natal, transits, black moon [email protected] 0400730109

FUSION DANCECombining Egyptian, Indian, Sacred & Bollywood Dance. A divine experience of dance & fitness. 5 week course $60

starts Friday 10 March 10am. Mohani 66846553

RED HOT SALSANEW FRIDAY NIGHT CLASS & SOCIAL

Opens 17th March @ Buddha Bar7.30pm Beg 8 week course $12/class

8.30pm Social dancing $5Special guest Cuban dancer MoroPh Alison 66807091, 0415627458

PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT class Thurs 6-8pm @ Watergarden. 66856545

OCEAN SHORES PUBLIC SCHOOL P&C AGM March 14, 7pm in the staff room. Enquiries Conny 66802335

WORK AND LIVEIN PARADISE!

Beautiful privately owned south Pacific island. Wide variety of jobs available

for health resort and community. Great pay, free housing, food, healthcare, flights. Skilled & unskilled workers. No drugs, alcohol or meat. Loving, health conscious community living.

Call Deborah re information meeting 0411114344

RAW FOOD RETREAT5 day live-in intensive. Learn how to heal with foods & live life at your peak. Gourmet raw food classes, meditation, Chi Kung plus much more Mar 16-20 beautiful location near Byron – $790. For info & bookings call 1300 664179

or visit www.rawpower.com.au

SACRED SEXUALITYwith Babadez 24/3 - 24/4

Talks, Workshops, Private sessionswww.babadez.com Ph 0413021440

RED HOT SALSApresents SALSA W’SHOPS w/MOROSydney based Cuban Salsa dancer!

Sat 18th March @ Buddha Bar2.30 Mens/Ladies technique $15

3.30 Beg, 4.45 Int $20 each.Ph Alison 66807091, 0415627458

REFLECTIONS – oil painting with RENE BOLTEN March 25 & 26.

Eternity Springs. 66886385

DANCE JAM @ Coorabell Hall •Thursdays 4-6pm. Ochre 0408392086

Like a more peaceful home?

CALL JILL BENHAMParent Coach. Phone 66841439

KEYBOARDERS WANTEDAlternative taste gigs waiting.

Phone 66226063 or 0410725031

WILD ZINNIAS alive@ The Beach Hotel

Friday 17/3 St Pat’s Day 8.30-9.30pm

BOLLYWOOD DANCE CLASSat The Shiva Temple Sat morn 10am.

66847014

LEARN TO SWIMBruns Swim & Gym, heated indoor

pool, qual instructors. Taking bookings now for term 1 session 2 from March

11/06. Phone Sam 66847866

DYNAMIC DRAWING Wed – Mullum Drill Hall Theatre

Fri – Byron Scout Hall, both 9.30-12, cost $15/$20. Enq 0421101220

SAT AM KIDZ ARTByron Scout Hall, cost $10.

PAPERS AVAILABLE FOR MULCH AT ECHO BYRON OFFICE

ART WORKSHOP 1-3 APRILCamilla Connolly – finding your own artist voice & technical application.

66871256

MEDITATION. Discover your natural state 5.30pm Mon & Wed @ Watergar-den, by donation. Phone 66856545

FASTER THAN KNITTING! Weave your blanket now. Ring Paula 66802795

MOBILE HAIRDRESSINGRon of Mullumbimby is now provid-ing mobile hairdressing in the Byron

Shire & welcomes past & future clients by appointment. Phone 0411735972

DYNAMIC AFRICAN DANCESat 10-12pm Buddha Bar, Tues 6-8pm Ewingsdale Hall, second term starts 18 & 21 March. Phone 66857927,

0411843384

YOUNG DANCERSBREAK DANCE 4 BOYS with Jason

@ Mullum from 8 yrs + new teen class DANCE PLAY for pre-schoolers. Mul-lum, Byron & Ocean Shores. ACTION DANCE 4 BOYS 5-7 yrs @ Mullum.

Also NEW SATURDAY CLASSES @ Mullum in Hip Hop, Modern & Ballet.

Call Youngdancers 66847779

WE GOT MARRIED!Saturday 26 February ’06.

Thank you to our families & friends for spending this beautiful day with us.

Davy & Johanna Dubens.

SALSA PARTY CARLOSGalliano & Elli Torres & Sassy crew

perform Sat 11 Chini Hotel 8pm class, 9pm party $5 or $10. Dress theme

SILVER BLUE WHITEW/shop Sun 12 Ewingsale Hall 1pm

ladies styling, 2pm Int/adv, 3pm beg & men’s styling $15 or $25 for 2 classes,

$30 for 3 classes. Private avail Sat.Phone Carlos or Daniella 0431108791

www.sassysalsa.com.au

REIKI ISeminar 18th & 19th March.

Cate Taylor 66808571

TAI CHI & CHAI TEA WITH KKSun 4pm start. Phone 66847525

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGSAMITAYUS AGM 4pm Sunday March 12 at Laura’s place, 161 Tandy’s Lane, Andersons Hill. Phone 66841955. All carers invited.

HEALTH NOTICES BE SPOILT-MASSAGE. Therapeutic. $30 hr full massage, neck & shoulders $15. Jean 66801864 Ocean Shores.

Development ProposalSpecies Impact Statement

Reference: DA 10-02-2006Location: Lots 2-35 and 44 Section 7, DP 1623; Lots 16-23 Section 6, DP 1623;Lots

1 and 2 and 6-10 DP 243218; Lots 447,449 and 450 DP 812102; Lot1 DP 780243; Lot 2 DP 620642; Lot 1 DP 190757; Lots 11-13 DP 243218 and Lot 100 DP 849102, Bayshore Drive, Byron Bay, NSW

Applicant: S J Connelly Pty Ltd Council area: Byron Shire Council

Consent authorityThe Minister for Planning is the consent authority by virtue of the provisions of StateEnvironmental Planning Policy (State Significant Development) 2005.

Description of proposalStaged Development Consent. First stage being a 117 key integrated tourist facility; environmental repair and the creation of a habitat conservation area. Further stages of the development propose additional tourist accommodation with a maximum of 33,420m² floor space and will require further development applications to be lodged and approved.

State significant developmentThe proposal is State significant development by virtue of the provisions of StateEnvironmental Planning Policy (State Significant Development) 2005.

Integrated DevelopmentThe proposal is classed as integrated development under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 as approval is required from the Department of Natural Resources under Part 3A of the Rivers and Foreshore Improvement Act 1948, NSW Rural Fire Serviceunder section 100B of the Rural Fires Act 1997, and the Byron Shire Council under section138 of the Roads Act 1993.

Species Impact StatementSpecies Impact Statement has been prepared In accordance with section 78A(8)(b) of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 to accompany the Development Application.

Accompanying information

Statement of Environmental Effects and Species Impact Statement

Enquiries: 1300 305 695Email: [email protected]

The Development Application and Species Impact Statement and accompanying information are on public exhibition and may be inspected during normal office hours from 3 March 2006to 13 April 2006 at:

Department of Planning:• Information Centre, 23-33 Bridge Street, SYDNEY (9:00am to 5:00pm, Monday to Friday)• North Coast Office, 76 Victoria Street, GRAFTON (9:00am to 5:00pm, Monday to Friday)

Byron Bay Council• 70-90 Station Street, MULLUMBIMBY (Mon to Fri, 9:00am to 4:00pm)• Byron Bay Library, Cnr Lawson & Fletcher Streets, BYRON BAY (Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri - 10:00am to 5:00pm, Thursday - 10.00am to 8.00pm, Saturday - 9.00am to 12.00pm)

A link to view the proposal can be found on: http://www.northbeachbyron.com.au

Anyone may make a written submission to the Director General on this proposal. If you object, you must state grounds (s). Copies of your submissions may be sent to other government agencies involved in assessing the proposal. Unless you state otherwise, copies may also be provided to the applicant or other interested parties in some circumstances.

Send submissions marked Ref: DA 10-02-2006 to:Director, Urban AssessmentsDepartment of Planning GPO Box 39, SYDNEY NSW 2001

Submissions must be received by 13 April 2006www.planning.nsw.gov.au

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Ocean Shores ParentResource CentreA place for support,

information and referralPh: 6680 4919

T iffany Sunshine Faery/Wildcat

BEST MASSAGEBEST MASSAGEANYWHERE EVER!ANYWHERE EVER!

Tel 6685 9910

Home Visits – Byron BayHealth Funds

Flo Fenton Dip.R.M.

ATMS Accredited

An indepth 8 week course about empowering individuals through the use of Shamanism and its ancient healing techniques and wisdom to heal ourselves and others fully, and to achieve our dreams and souls’ purpose.• Understanding a shaman’s reality• Deepening my connection to my

soul and Great Spirit• Working with animal totems, spirit guides and angels

• Soul loss and retrievalCall Simon 0421 884 [email protected]

Awakening Your Shamanic Power


CHIROPRACTORBruce Campbell BSc DC

Byron Chiro Ctr 6 days 66858159

ANDREW HALL OSTEOPATHEvery second week Monday to Friday

New Brighton 66802027Chronic conditions, high level wellness, general Osteopathy.

REFLEXOLOGY AND MASSAGE JOANNE MORRISH – 66843250

REBIRTHING & TRAININGPh: Alakh Analda 0413167688

www.rebirthing.com.au

HAWAIIAN MASSAGEwith Michaela. Lush & deeply healing

2 hours $80. Phone 0416332886

PODIATRISTCraig Watson Pharmacy Mullumbimby

8.30am to 1pm MondaysHome visits Ocean Shores,

Brunswick, Mullum. Ph 66884366 – Heather Walker

PRENATAL YOGAwith KATHRYN RIDING

Thurs 10-11.30am, 52 Armstrong Street, Suffolk. Phone 66859904

KINESIOLOGYStuck, tired, depressed, digestive

troubles, aches & pains? Find your answers with Paritosho. 66802475

HOLISTIC PSYCHOLOGISTPAULA BARUKSOPULO

Member Aust Psychological Society Incorporating holistic counselling,

kinesiology, hypnotherapy, meditation, exercise & nutrition as a pathway

leading to good health & happiness. Health fund & some Medicare rebates.

66870700

BYRON OSTEO – OSTEOPATH Peter Dunshea D.O. 66856193

SWEDISH MASSAGE Ocean Shores1.5hrs $60. Susan 0411409123

OKI-DO YOGA BYRONWeekly Wed class 9.30-11.30am

Gail 66854535, 0404147398

EAR CANDLING– help clear ears/sinuses. 66857736

GIVE YOURSELF A BREAK

BEGINNERS YOGA@ Yoga Arts, Byron Street above Centrelink with Lachlan $15 or 5 classes $60. Thurs, Fri 4-5.30pm

BEGINNERS TO GENERAL YOGAEvery Thursday 6pm at Inspya Stu-

dio, Natural Lane, Broken Head. Call Lynda Dean 0404471521 or just come.

DR JANE REFFELLWomen’s Health & Wellbeing

is now at Bangalow.Appointments 66872337

MULLUM MASSAGEDEEP ★ FLOWING ★ NURTURINGKahuna style ★ Deborah 66843723

HAWAIIAN BODYWORKDORIS trained at The Source.

66843478, 0421953714

MASSAGEEN-LIGHTENINGIN-VIGORATING

You will float out the door! $40.Phone Kathy 0401573990

Reflexology/ IHM / Hopi / Massage ❤ KIM Qual/Exp 0407158364 $40 ❤

MASSAGE SIMPLY DIVINE deep tis-sue relaxation $45. Lisa 66844003

FEMALE COUNSELLORDIP. COUNSELLING

Supporting you to find your way back to inner peace from trauma & pain.

Call Sophia 66847091 &/or Alchemia Mullumbimby.

GOOD STRONG MASSAGE18 years exp. ATMS cert.

Health Fund rebate. Home visits.Georg Horn 66848046, 0428131490

BEST MASSAGEAlso 4 hands. Relax & heal 7 days.

In/out calls. Bernie 0407431588

EXQUISITE DELICIOUS BOWEN OR MASSAGE. Call Bridget 66846345

CHRONIC BACK, NECK PAIN, SCIATICA?Try something that works!

Kinesiology, deep tissue massage, 20 years exp. David Guthrie 0421954170

FLOAT & MASSAGE2 hour session $60. 66858304

KINESIOLOGYChange unhelpful patterns.

Enhance emotional wellbeing. De-stress.

Increase energy levels!Sandra Davey reg pract. 66846914

Mullum HomeopathyChristina (Ina) Buhse Adv.Dip.Hom.

4 days. 66841028. Health fund rebates

HOLDSWORTH HOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICEBYRON BAY

Women’s Health | Men’s Health | Sexual HealthBulk Billing Surgery • More than Just Doctors

HOLISTIC HEALING | MODERN MEDICINE & COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES

37 Fletcher Street Byron Bay

Mon | Tue | Thu | Fri 9am-5pm

Wed 9am – 6pm

Appointments Phone: 6680 7211E: [email protected]

MASTER OF MIDWIFERY

Pamela Sonia

Registered Nurse/M

id

wife

Lotions & Potions


TANTRIC WORKSHOP April 8thYoga and Massage. Cultivate Bliss.

Also QABALAH WORKSHOP Apr 9thLearn Applied Practical Mysticism.Contact Amneon 0402145263 or

[email protected]

HEALING MASSAGEDEEP TISSUE, RELAXATION

THERAPEUTIC, REIKIPhone Heather 66804446

(recommended by The Echo staff)

HAWAIIAN BODYWORK with HINAKUHawai’i trained since 1995. Full Ho’ola Massage – 150 mins – a real journey

more than a quick fix!Alchemia 66846384, 0405599475

HATHA YOGA with Lee IV Cert @ Watergarden 6pm Monday. BYO mat. Phone 0412153365 for details.

SPIRITUAL BLOKEEnergy healing in ByronShamanic & transference

Stewart. Phone 0414230051www.spiritualbloke.com

KINESIOLOGYLin Bell

66847877 or 0404066707Specialising in

Emotions * Nutrition * Allergies

CHI KUNGFor radiant health & wellbeing.Daily classes with Shirsha Marie

66858181, www.byronlivingarts.com

STRONG HANDS MASSAGEPhone Cornelia 0427301251

MASSAGE – GO KAHUNAW’e special $40ph a treat! 66846049

★ SHAMBALA SANCTUARY ★at SUNRISE BEACH

Autumn term commencingYoga / Chi Gung / Women’s

Call Elana for schedule 66809242

HEALING HANDS deep tissue mas-sage, home visits. 0422456978 Rajan.

TURNING POINTAre you ready to live as PEACE?‘Stay in the fire’ and experience the

‘Miracles of healing’ as revelations of your essential SELF. Free intro Mon-day 13/3, 6-9pm. Phone 66855875

ART & ARTISANS

ART TUITIONONE TO ONE

All levels welcome.‘Lynley has the gift of helping you

uncover your creative potential,’ Stan.Phone Lynley 66859902

POTTERY AT WHEEL OF LIFEClay school for kids Mon Thur 4-

5.30pm, Adults Mon, Thur, Sat 10am-1pm, all ages. Enquiries 66851442

BUS SERVICESBYRON 2 BRISBANE EXPRESSCity/Airport 2 hours. 1800 626222

BYRON↔BRIS CITY EXPRESS $22Depart bus station 16.30 daily

Call Byron Bay Shuttle 66857447

CHILDCAREBYRON BABEWATCHNannies & BabysittersAll Insured & Qualified.

24 hours / 7 days. 66848008

CHILDCARE: reliable, First Aid & own car, experienced. Phone 0401347973

RELIABLE, honest and loving mum of 3 teenagers can babysit child of any age, own car. Phone 66808429

FOR HIREBACKHOE HIRE/4WD

John Coe – All excavationsPh 66841576, mobile 0408 841576

RELIABLE HANDYMAN WITH UTE$25/hr. 0423512730, 6-7pm 66849141

HALL FOR HIREEWINGSDALE HALL AVAILABLEfor your function. Ph 66847706 AH

LICENSED VENUE AVAIL FOR FUNCTIONS Mullumbimby. 66842273

SHALA HALL at Byron Ambaji Well-ness Centrally located. Ph 66856620

COMPUTERS

MR MACINTOSH I’ll come to you!

Troubleshooting, tuition, internet.Call Tom 66855504

BUSINESS SOLUTIONSINTERNET • DATABASE • DIGITAL

11th Hour Group Pty Ltd. Phone 66875367

COMPUTER TUITION…We come to you, we show you how.Tutorials in Computing. 1800 016010

HELP – Computer getting you down? Talk to Nick – 66846741, 0412599695

GREAT WEBSITESLOW COST, GREAT DESIGN

Phone Bob 66853568

LOW BUDGET WEBSITESDo you need a website? It’s easy!

Start at $150. Call Samb 0417756636 www.thelocalshop.org. 5 years exp.

COMPUTER TECHNICIANWe come to you 24/7. 0421634379

TRADEWORK

SEWER CHOKESSewer, Drainage & Storm Water block-

ages. Sewer machine available.Gary Potter… All Areas.Ph 6687 1348 • Lic L190

SAMMY THE CHIPPYBuilding/carpentry/maintenance.Decks, carports, pergolas etc.

Phone Sam 0408463390

RENOVATION SPECIALISTQualified Carpenter/Concretor

Free design service. Geoff 66843362

PROPERTY MAINTENANCE small building work, handyman services. Steve Petrie 66845163, 0403285366

2 MEN, a truck & a wacker packer for hire. Rubbish removal. Ph 66801371

HANDYMANwith 27 years carpentry experience $25/hour. 2hr minimum. 66840227

Why keep one when you can…

HIRE-A-HUSBANDSpecialising in horticulture. I also do • gardening • home maint & improve-ments • clean-ups & rubbish removal • whatever else (well… almost) you

need a husband for. Robert 0417437895

FINE CARPENTRYSpecialising in accurate, detailed

internal/external woodwork & repairs. Byron-Suffolk area $30/hour.

Phone Ned 66854263, 66854971

TREE LOPPING FOR SALE

WARD’S LANDSCAPE SUPPLIESWooden railway sleepers, concrete sleepers, garden ornaments & pots, mulches, soil, metals, gravel & more. Mon-Fri 7.30am-6pm, Sat 7.30am-2pm. 1176 Myocum Rd, Mullum.

66842323

BAMBOO PLY from $10.50sqm For ceilings, walls, doors, etc.

Ph 66884188 - sample & brochure

MASSAGE TABLES $220 + supplies, 5 year warranty. M’bimby Herbals, 79 Stuart St, 66843002 or 66850232 AH, www.balancebodybenches.com

BRIDGLANDS BUY & SELL - good used furniture - good clean bedding - late model electrical & antiques. M’by 66842511

COMPOST TOILETSGarry Scott • 66843468

GAS SUPPLIES, appliances, sales & service. Marshalls ph/fax 66801864

BEDS - MATTRESSES - ENSEMBLES Best brands - Best range. Sleep Zone Bridglands, Mullumbimby. 66842511

TRAMPOLINES, replacement mats & parts, a variety of pool tables in different sizes & accessories. Phone 66851624, m. 0409851624

iPODNEW MODELS ARRIVING SOON

BRIDGLANDSMULLUMBIMBY. 66842511

CARPET OFFCUTS – Lots of sizes and prices at Ray Towers Carpets, Mullumbimby Industrial Estate.

LATTICEFACTORY PRICES – MADE TO SIZE

Phone 66801700

TIMBER, pine, treated pine, hardwood, mouldings, sleepers, fencing, Koppers logs, ply, MDF, lattice, made to order. Brims Builders Hardware, Mogo Place, Billinudgel. Phone 66801718

WASHING MACHINE auto $140, fridge 2 door $180. 0413589388

FIREHORSEFIREWOOD

TEA TREE MULCHBAG OR BULK delivery available

RUBBISH REMOVALFence posts, strainers, split posts &

shed posts available.Peter 66843366 / 0419843366

MOSQUITO NETS100% cotton, all sizes & coloursPh 66843191, web: 1001nets.net

RAILWAY SLEEPERSLarge quantities avail, various grades,

delivery. 66843366, 0419843366

GARDEN SHEDS Discount prices, slab & erection

service. Ph 66841674, 0405922839

POWDERCOATED FENCINGPHONE 66801700

BIRDS OF PARADISE mature $5.50 min 10. Phone 66847702

TYAGARAH MULCHfr $3.50. BH 66844242/AH 66851371

ORGANIC GARDEN COMPOST$12/30L bag & earthworms. 66846341

DIGITAL PIANO as new Celviano AP 60R 78 rhythms Casio midi compat-ible, digital effects, comes with plenty of music books, learning & advanced $1500 neg. 66802531, 0422962850

LAMINATOR Gold Line 780 plus trim-mer, some film, perfect working order $800 ono. Phone 66843377

BUNK BEDS – a few to choose from. Phone 0421499437

WatergardenHolistic Centre

Readings

Massage

Healings

Classes

Gifts

Woolies car park behind the cinema

02 6685 6545

Build Environmentally

tradesman/insured• small renovations• ooring• decks• garages & carports• cladding

CarpenterLic 105005C

Ph 0402 550 098

Sustainable LandscapeSolutions

Lic 68775C

30 years experience in all aspects of building & trade,

renovations, additions & general maintenance.

Lic.No. R91226

TRADITIONAL STONEMASON

Specialist in feature wallsand all aspects of retaining

walls and landscapingRing Tom Condon

Ph 6687 1692mobile 0412 519 512

all hoursLic no 40277

EXCELSIOR TREE& GARDEN CARE

Qualified ArboristTree & shrub removal

Insured, wood chippingCOMPETITIVELY

PRICEDBob 6684 02140414 668 405

C L A S S I F I E D S 6 6 8 4 1 7 7 7

gingers • heliconiasnon invasive bamboo

ph ph 6684 80536684 8053

north coastbamboo

• Plants & Shrubs• Landscape Supplies

• Tanks • Pots • Pavers

Also accessories, hats, jewellery,shoes, day & evening wear.

6684 2978for appointment. Mullumbimby.

FANCY DRESSPROPS &SUIT HIRE

hugabub® . ergo . maya wrap

discounted samplesdirect from hugabub®

please call for details

6685 5589www.hugabub.com


YOGA EQUIPMENT 10 x mats, belts, blankets, blocks, eye pillows, 4 bol-sters, hardly used, excellent condition $600. Phone Alice 0413519800

SECONDHAND BOOKS ideal for mar-ket stall. Phone 66840104

BLANK DVDsCDs & Mini DV tapes

BRIDGLANDSMullumbimby. 66842511

LAMINATE KITCHEN all appliances $1000 ono. Phone 0414438080

BALINESE CABINET glass front & sides, 1m high $250. Ph 0404863371

FREE CAMPHOR LOGS medium to very large. Phone 66872340

QU BED $200, mattress $100, elect cooktop $100, oven $80, st/st kitchen sink $100. 0401520270, 66846694 ah

2 TICKETS BYRON BLUES FESTSaturday to Monday. Phone 66805465

ENTERTAINMENT UNIT 4 door, swivel TV shelf, excellent condition $150, cof-fee table large $80. Phone 66858536

COMPUTER DESK large corner unit $170, swivel chair $80. 66858536

COMPUTER DESK corner unit $150 ono. Phone 66807064

WOOD LATHE Technotool 1200 top quality NZ, some chisels & turn-ing blocks, all dry $750. Phone 0408740480, 66843378 AH.

AIR COOLER, good condition $150. Phone 66802416

BEDSIDE TABLES x 2 $120, small table & chair $80. Phone 66802416

DOUBLE BED exc cond, 3 years old, barely used $225 ono. 0422191128

NEW RUGS 10% off regular low prices, up to 50% off red spot items, lounges, desks, caneware, bedsides. Byron Bay Furniture. Phone 66858955, 8 Grevil-lea St, Byron Bay Arts & Ind Estate.

OLD ARMCHAIRS, wall cupboard, hall table to restore 2400 x 1850, Elu combination saw, old tools, timber and more. Phone John 0418676500

BARGAINS moving, trampoline $50, Medico king size mattress $100, pine sofa set $30. Phone 0407267825

CARPET MATS – from 50 cents each at Ray Towers Carpets, Mullumbimby Industrial Estate.

ROTA-TOMS set of 3, on stand, as new, must sell $170. 0407267825

DAYBED recycled hardwood and bam-boo slats, was $890, now $650. Phone 66876011

PIANO upright good condition $500. Phone 0427845396

SODA STREAMMACHINES & GAS REFILLS.

Bridglands Retravision 66842511

SOFA BED good condition $150. Phone 66853179

LINEN CHEST, dresser, french doors, fridge, washing machine. 66803486

QUEEN mattress, base ensem, 2 mths old, must sell $150 ono. 0412033056

FRIDGE Westinghouse good work order $50, outdoor set $60. 0407579378

FRIDGE Kelvinator 500L great cond $300, WASHING MACHINE top load 5kg top cond $150. 0422559691

FRIDGE 280L exc cond $200, Ikea tele unit $50, outdoor setting $40, huge umbrella $30. Phone 66854001

HARDWOOD DECKING $2.30 per lin-eal metre. Phone 66855991

’91 COMMODORE reg 4/06 $1100, lemon/lime trees $10 ea. 0412299796

VACUUM BAGSTo suit most makes & models

BRIDGLANDSMullumbimby. 66842511

SOFA cream 2 seater $750, gas bbq $75, teak square coffee table $200, battery operated whippersnipper $75, Zentai double futon $200, Sensor tum-ble dryer $250. Phone 66871423

APPLE G4 Powerbook 1gig ram, 17”, DVD & burner. Imran 0422604466

WANTEDWANTED: ANTIQUES, GOOD USED FURNITURE Clean double & queen

size beds. Bridg lands Mby 66842511.

ALUMINIUM SLIDING DOORS AND WINDOWS. Phone 66855991

YARD secure Byron daily 2 small dogs/company others. Phone 66857738

GARAGE SALESECHO ACCOUNTS POLICY: Ads in this section must be paid by credit card or in person at time of placement.

39 HELEN ST Nth Ocean Shores, 9am Sat, good clothes, shoes, books etc.

HUGE combined sale furn, g/f clock, antiques, fridge, electric tools, clothes, baby stuff, toys & more, from 8am Sat & Sun, 8 Boondoon Cr, Ocean Shores

HUGE COMB G’SALE ALSO orig ART 4 sale & stone/silv jewellery liq sale, 34 Wilsons Ck Rd, Mullum, 500m from corner, 8am-4pm Sat 11/3. 66846170

MOVING Sat 8am, 16 Blackbutt Pl, Byron, furn, collectables, artwork etc.

FURNITURE, household goods & loads of bargains, 69 Sunrise Blvd, Sunrise Beach, Byron, Saturday 8am.

MONSTER MOVING SALEG4 Mac, printers, stunning electric gui-

tars in cases, household goods, surf ski, clothing plus much more.

21 Oodgeroo Gardens (off Mahogany Drive), Byron Bay, Saturday 11th March after 8am. Ph 66809365

SAT 8-3PM, 31 Booyung St, Brunswick, cupboards, household & freebies.

BRUNSWICK, 2/30 The Terrace, Bali style entertainment unit, round dining suite, coffee table, wrought iron 4 post queen bed, mattress, 2.5 seat lounge, 2 door fridge, BBQ, men’s bike, view by appt Wed, Thurs, Fri. Ph 0407940700

PACK’N UP. Furn, tools, timber, kitch-enware & more, 10/20 Fingal St behind health food shop in Bruns, Sat 8am.

2B/107 PATERSON ST, Byron, 8am Sat, furn, clothing, books, bikes etc.

BOOKCASE, fridge, metal clothes rack, shelves, tables, books, more, 3/4 Old Bangalow Rd, 8am. 66808276

GLITTER GIRL’S MOVING SALEAccumulated treasures galore, don’t miss this one! Datsun glittermobile, furniture, collectables, music, shoes,

clothing etc, Lot 6 Coopers Shoot Road, signposted from Bangalow end, Saturday 8am till 5pm & Sunday after

10am.

MOVING INTERSTATE Lot 4 Taylors Rd, Eureka, fridge, futon beds, wash mach, wetsuits, tents, more, Sat 8am.

WILSONS CREEK, 55 Blackbean Road, timber furniture & Landcruiser 4WD + more, Saturday 8am.

19 OCEANSIDE, S.P, combined, art, plants, clothes, household, 7.30 Sat.

SAT 8AM furn, desks, household, arti-facts, 80 Myocum Road, Byron end.

BOATS FOR SALEFIBREGLASS RUNABOUT 25hp Johnson, forward steering with trailer $1500. Phone 0404905432

CAR SERVICE

BSW MOTORSPre-purchase inspection from $40!

Pink slips, service + repair.10 Bonanza Dr, Billinudgel. 66804999

MOTOR VEHICLES

DON’T BUY A LEMON let a profes-sional help you. Car, 4WD, motor cycle. Phone Barry 66770004, 0427667177

CAR BODIES REMOVED FREEPhone 0418189324, 0438189323

CHEAP TYRES. 66809936

CHEAP BATTERIESMERCEDES BENZ 280SE

1985 sedan, ABS brakes, sunroof, rear head rests, sheepskin seatcovers,

genuine 2nd owner, full service his-tory, only 178,000ks, 12 months rego

AE-22-KY $7000 ono. Ph 0414542940

SUBARU FORESTER GX ’99 man, 126,000ks, excellent condition, full serv-ice history $15,990. Alice 0413519800

CAR BODIESREMOVED FREE

$$ paid for some!66845296 or 66845403

HOLDEN RODEO diesel ute ’82 4sp, 126,000ks, 10 mths reg, VG orig cond, no rust $3000 no offers. 0408450890

SAAB ’89 5sp man, p/s, a-c, reg 10/06, 140,000ks, A1 cond $4900. 66845137

PEUGEOT 406 sed ’97 air, CD, air bags, auto, exc cond $10,950. 66807225

FORD Laser ’90 1.8L 5sp man CD Ad-vanti racing mags good tyres 7 mth reg $3500 ono. 66843130, 0401098811

TOYOTA COROLLA 4WD station wagon ’96 very reliable, 3 months rego $2200. Phone 0404905432

HT KINGSWOOD sedan, 3 mths reg, very reliable $800 ono. Ph 66876554

NISSAN GAZELLE 2L 1984 5 speed, great condition $2200 ono. Please ring 0402965800

HONDA CIVIC 5 door Vi 2000, white, manual, 88,000ks $17,500. 66853318

TOYOTA Camry ’86 st/wag, 119,000 ks, auto, a-c, CD/stereo, rego 11/06, great condition $2800 ono. 0431184835

BMW 318i ’86 267,000ks, 5 sp man, silver, sunroof, 2nd owner, 16” alloys, CD, reg Jan ’07 $5500. 0422144803

VOLVO s/wagon, 8 mths reg, good con-dition, must sell $1000. 0416472204

TELSTAR TX5 2L Ghia ’85 rego 10/06, VGC, great engine, unlead, economical, just serviced, 2 new tyres, rear brake cylinders, no rust $1450. 66842211

PEUGEOT 306XT ’95 air-con, power steering & windows, excellent condition, 12 months rego $7500. 0418131221

COMMODORE VK strong blue motor, auto, solid car $800. Phone 66843004

TOWNACE ’92 177,000ks, air-con, CD player, white, rust proofed, well maint, 10 mths rego, lots of work done, runs extremely well, selling due to upgrade $4950 ono. Phone 0412732465

SUBARU 4WD 1984 good for parts, good tyres, radiator, interior $400 ono. Phone 66805817

TOYOTA CRESSIDA MX ’85 6 months rego, excellent condition $2300 ono. Phone 66843004

SUBARU touring wagon 4WD ’89 auto VGC $2500. 0410004891, 66843904

HYUNDAI EXCEL ’96 5 speed, 3 door, very economical & reliable, great first car $3800 ono. Phone 66844145

SUBARU Outback ’97 white, auto, very good condition, service history, t/bar, new tyres $13,500 ono. 0407272223

’96 VW GOLF GL white, manual hatch-back, air-con, p/w, p/s, ABS brakes, alloy wheels, central locking, towbar, excellent condition $7500. 66884524

MAGNA VERADA V6 ’92, lots of extras, 284,000ks, good condition $2800 ono. Phone 0428301251

TRACTOR REPAIRS

BUSINESS FOR SALEGENERAL STORE/CAFE DA approval 35 seat restaurant 30 mins from Byron $100,000 priced to sell. Ph 66840255

BYRON BAY SHOP central location, freehold $384,500. Ph 0419419402

BUSY CAFE IN BYRON$139,000. Licensed, large storeroom

ind coolroom, o/s dining licence. Phone J Perkins 0438841122,

B Sexton 0410599230

DE-VINYL RETRO CLOTHING and collectables, long established central location, great rent, lease $85,000 + SAV. Call Mel 0423891756

BUSY DELI/GOURMET T/A in Mullum. Exc main st loc, rapidly growing busi-ness $179,000. Phone 0411861716

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITYWARNING

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 you are asked to pay money

upfront for employment opportuni-ties and never send money to a post

offi ce box.

SPORTY PERSON? Like to start own business? Low start up, excellent potential. Phone 66848046

CASH IN MARCHDistributing / collecting brochures

$100 plus per weekCall Kylie 0403769005

CABIN FOR SALERELOCATABLE CABIN suit room or office 6.8mx3m, verandah etc, easy tilt tray delivery $5750 ono. 0413289443

LAND FOR SALEBUSH BLOCK Russell Island beside conservation area, 549sqm, Brisb 43ks, Surfers 32ks $38,000. 0755265262

PROPERTY FOR SALE2 DWELLINGS on 50 acres, estab-lished original Main Arm property, elevated, n/e facing, spring, licensed to sell water, beautiful large pool, $680,000. Phone owner 66850232 or www.balancebodybenches.com/prop-ertysale.html

HOUSES FOR SALEFOR SALE BY OWNER

House in Iluka $295,000. 5 bedrooms, 2-storey, 2 kitchens, 2 bathrooms,

garage, carport and shed, on a corner lot. Contact Jim 66840227

MEDITATION COMMUNITY walk to beach, Byron 12 mins, new house, 2 cabins, on 1 acre + shares in 85 acres final approval, est gardens & fruit trees, great views Mt Warning $459,000. Secure now buy later. MO Gondwana. 66847513

HIGH QUALITY relocatable home in secure grated residential caravan park in central Byron, 2brs, 1 bthrm, SLUG plus storage, high ceilings, bright and airy $169,000 (lease conditions apply). Frances O’Connor Real Estate 0432828384 or 0401935760

POTTSVILLE BEACH 2.5 bedroom, 2 bathroom townhouse 50m from beach, large private backyard, Elenor Avenue $320,000 ono. Phone 66803440

HOLIDAY ACCOM.WATERFRONT 4 Star Brunswick f-f 1 & 2br luxury apartments. Ph 66851631

BEACH HOUSE Wooli fully-furn, reas rates. Phone 66842968, 0439500070

AVAILABLE NOW & BLUES FEST self-cont flat in Bangalow, walk to town, 1br, quiet, clean $90pn. Ph 66870707

BYRON s-cont studio avail Easter 5 min walk to CBD & Blues fest. 66882386

EASTER ACCOM lush tropical prop-erty 10 mins from Byron. 66847337

SHORT TERM ACCOM.BYRON BAY gorgeous garden studio avail now to 10 April (6 wks), f-furn, large balcony, private bathrm, quiet tranquil setting, 5 min beach & town $280pw, couple OK. Phone 66808069

O.SHORES fully-furn 3br house for 6 wks 21/3 to 3/5 $300pw. 66805416

LARGE f-furn in Byron, high on hill, great views of l’house, ocean, moun-tains, walk to Tallow, 1.5k to town, cruisy people, 1-12 week stays $160-$240pw, travellers/yoga/students ideal. 0415045867

MULLUM big house f-f, March 28-June 9 $250pw. 66843904, 0407406479

LILLI PILLI, Byron, s-c furn garden stu-dio, loft br, verandah, no pets $200pw single, $280pw double. 66807536

STUDIO/OFFICE house sit ind est 27/3 to approx 1/6 $150pw ADSL. 0404520766 pm only.

HEART OF BYRON beautiful home, furnished share room, travellers wel-come, prefer fem $140pw bills includ-ed. Phone 0406202540

CLARKES BCH 300M QS ens $180pw, single $110pw, both $260pw pref mat work lady, vego, n/s, d/f. 66857736

HOUSE SITLOOKING TO HOUSE-SIT sensible, healthy living couple with baby in Byron for yoga training from mid-January to mid-April would lovingly take care of your home. 0412147020 Sam & Emily

HOUSESITTER available, impeccable references, available immediately, long term preferred. Phone 0409007213

PROF CARETAKER maint & gardens, avail 3/4, exc refs, security clearance & employed. 0409859058, 66801168

RELIABLE COUPLE good refs, require housesit 6 mths from mid-April, prefer Byron hinterland. Phone 66849313

SHARE ACCOM.ECHO ACCOUNTS POLICY: Ads in this section must be paid by credit card or in person at time of placement.

BYRON HILLS room avail 22/3, pool, BBQ, forest view $135pw + bills. Call Isabella 0403736717, 66853121

STH GOLDEN BCH share with 1 fem & cat, n/s $90pw + bills. Ph 66803773

BEACHSIDE SUFFOLK 2 large light adj rooms (br + studio/therapy room) with ens, in quiet house, opens onto garden, working person, n/s, no pets, avail 20/3 $150pw + exp + bond. Phone 66854065, 0408889485

WORKING PERSON new house, 2 min beach $140pw Byron Bay. Phone 0413406929 after 4.30pm

BEAUTIFUL old Queenslander in Fed-eral village, share with 1 other, 2 rooms $160pw, n/s, veggie garden. Phone Susana 66884451

SPACIOUS clean house with/for 1 fem n/s d/f veg, br & study, gdn, pool, O.Sh $170pw + bond & exp. 66803040

BYRON single, fully-furn, in 2br apart, share with young working couple, close to town, ocean views, n/s $135pw includes bills. Phone 0438900718

WORKING WOMAN 5 min walk Mullum CBD, quiet area $100pw. 0407212107

OCEAN SHORES fully-furn house, working person $130pw inclusive, must love dogs. Phone 0401458912

BYRON, Mahogany Dr, 3br townhouse with 2 males, 5 mins to Tallow Bch, fully-furn except room $125pw incl bills & broadband, wanted n/s female 20-35 working/student. Phone 66807286

BYRON Pacific Vista person to share house with 2 others, n/d, d/f $100pw + expenses + bond. Phone 66808994

5 MINS TO MULLUM $90pw private tropical gardens. Phone 66845007

COTTAGE 10 minutes from Byron. Phone 66847337

BEAUTIFUL home, views, Myocum, 2 rooms available. Phone 0412699878

ROOM AVAIL in shared house in Lilli Pilli $115pw bills included. 66856864

2 LARGE ROOMS in big beautiful f-furn house on acreage, ocean views, timber floors, verandahs, 10 min Byron, 5 min Bangalow, working persons, n/s, no pets, 9 month lease $140pw, 6 weeks bond. 0405907334, 66870753

SUNRISE room + ens $100pw, room $90pw, large house with bush b’yard, suit worker. 66807426, 0431398527

2BR UNIT 5 min to bch/CBD $100pw incl elect, worker, no bond. 66807309

1 BEDROOM Sunrise $100pw + bills, working fem pref. Phone 0422698171

BYRON HILLS 1br + loungeroom, 40+ n/s, working fem $110pw. 66859037

OCEAN SHORES room $110pw + exp, quiet, easygoing, non-smoker, share with 2. 0401347973, 0407460571

MULLUM room + study, f-time worker, n/s, 1 min CBD $90pw. Ph 66841372

BRUNS small room, great share house, worker $110pw incl bills. 66851984

1 ROOM in home with lovely ❤ & 2yo girl, green lush gardens, views, d/f fem pref $65pw, Burringbar. 66770116

MULLUM 1 room, acreage & views $115pw + bond, no dogs. 66843907

OCEAN SHORES single work person to share house with one other, 1 large room, one small room, polished wood floors, northern light $160pw + bond. Ring after Thurs please 66802663

BYRON room, share with 3 in d/f house $110pw includes bills. 0421047217

BANGALOW 2 rooms 1 big, 1 med, both b-in robes $100pw ea or $170pw for both quiet walk town b’b. 66870758

ROOM IN HOME, garden, central Ballina for fem, share mature fem artist $100pw. Phone 66816940

SUNRISE 1br clean, drug free, for 1 working person $115pw. 0422296442

SUFFOLK room lge spac house, pool, BBQ, avail 23/3 $115pw. 0403736717

STUDIO in town, self-cont, funky fit-out, f-furn, incl bills, suit couple/twin share $230pw. Phone 0421925531

ROOMS in luxury house, pool, ocean views, half way Byron-Ballina, from $125pw. Phone 0412136666

SUNRISE room, clean & light house, travellers OK. 0402712902, 66855260

THERAPIST TREATMENT ROOMavailable in Byron A&I Estate $30/day. Phone 0403452070 or 66855657

DOUBLE ROOM in Byron, funky fun share house with clean & tidy work-ing housemates, bush setting, 3 mins drive to beach, single $170pw, couple $200pw. Phone 0412818563

BAYSIDE BRUNSWICK 2brs & bath-room, prefer female, sole parent OK $150pw + expenses. Ph 0432393046

BAYWOOD CHASE 1br share 1/2 house with 1 other, quiet area, adjoining reserve $130pw + elect. 0431051474

BANGALOW lge furn room, big new house central $110pw. 0421208488

TO LETBANGALOW SELF STORAGE

Hi-tech security. 66872333

CARAVANS & CABINS from $195pw. Byron Tourist (Van) Village. 66857378

STORAGE with elect Billi $40pw. Siwicki RE, 17 Fingal St, Bruns. 66851206

FEDERAL 5 bedroom plus studio house, great views, massive lawn space, new carpet & paint $450pw. Phone 0414663669, 66884724

HOUSE FOR RENT furnished, Bris-bane from Aug ’06 to March ’07 Ash-grove 10 mins from downtown, 2brs + studio, large living room, air-con, large kitchen, garden & hot tub $395pw incl water & gas. Enq Yaro 0733664726

BRUNSWICK HEADS2 x 2 bedroom flats, river views, 100m to town centre, 6 month lease $400pw

and $375pw. Phone 0414658025

PROPERTY FOR SALE

C L A S S I F I E D S 6 6 8 4 1 7 7 7


BYRON BEAUTIFUL 3br house, short walk to beach, un-furn $330pw avail 13/3 for 1 year. Yantra 0418467120

3 BEDROOM FURNISHED HOUSE avail now, Ocean Shores, lovely view $340pw. Phone 0410212139

WILSONS CREEK furnished 5br house near school, large kitchen & verandah for 6 weeks from March 17 $350pw gardener included. Phone 66840312

SUNRISE – TOWNHOUSE + POOL 3 sleeping areas, 2br & studio conv, avail 18/3, lease 6 mths ongoing, suit reliable share $300pw. Phone 0408151742

2 BEDROOMS, fully-furn, short/long term in Byron, close to beach & town $350pw + bond. Phone 0418271489

BAYWOOD CHASE 2br flat, part-furn $250pw incl elect. Phone 66853554

BYRON BAY 1br unfurnished apart-ment with carport, avail 16/3/06, free Austar, pool & BBQ, onsite manager $280pw NO PETS. Phone 66809244

NTH OCEAN SHORES as new house, 3brs with b-ins, main with w-i-robe & ens, 2 l/rooms, large covered outdoor area, SLUG, perfect cond, light & airy, quiet street, sea breezes $330pw no pets. Phone Daryl 0415203686

COTTAGE on creek, acreage, private, spacious $220pw, Burringbar, month to month. Phone 0431681414

POTTSVILLE BCH 2.5br duplex, lge priv b’yd 100m bch $180pw. 66803440

HIRE A HOME caravan hire from $85pw delivered. Phone 0402196485

WILSONS CK studio views wood burn-er $125pw incl elect ref req. 66840230

OCEAN SHORES 3brs + studio, back covered verandah, open plan living area, some highway noise, avail now $300pw. Contact LJ Hooker 66850177, 5/16 The Terrace, Brunswick Heads.

MULLUM 2br apart, LUG, views, no kids $220pw. M-F 10-5pm 66843004

WILSONS CREEK beautiful timber yurt studio, single employed, refs req’d $200pw incl elect. Phone 66840230

BYRON BAY studio in town, suit cou-ple $280pw. Phone 0409062074

BEAUTIFUL 3br, 2 bathrm, spacious & light elevated home in lush bush sur-roundings in Byron Hills, avail 15 March $375pw + bond & refs. 0421954299

BRUNS HEADS 2br furnished unit $320pw, 1br flat $160pw. O.SHORES 3br townhouse, SLUG $300pw. CRAB-BES CREEK 3br house + office, DLUG $400pw. Siwicki Real Estate, 17 Fingal Street, Brunswick Heads. 66851206

BRUNSWICK STUDIO $160pw + elec-tricity. Phone 66842333

BYRON CBDFunky fully-furn beach house, 2brs plus sleepout, one street back from

Clarkes Beach, walk to centre of town, situated quiet location, avail now for

approx 5 mths $380pw. Ph 66215446 between 8.30 & 5 ask for Kerry.

BRUNSWICK 1 bedroom unit $210pw. Phone 66842333

OCEAN SHORES large designer 3br townhouse, ensuite, private patio, bal-cony, free Austar, close to shops, pets welcome $310pw. Phone 66804441

BYRON CBD quiet furn studio room, own shower, toilet, kitchenette, walk to beach/CBD, must be working $165pw single, $220pw couple. 0415092964

BANGALOW spacious 3br 2 bth house DLUG, no pets $370pw. 66870489

MULLUM self-contained studio, work-ing persons $180pw. Ph 66846049

NEW BRIGHTON quaint 3br open plan, verandah, close to beach & river $340pw. Phone 66847610

SINGLE working n/s person req’d for s-cont f-furn flat Ocean Shores, wash-ing machine, water views $135pw incl elect, no pets. Phone 66805958

WANTED TO RENTECHO ACCOUNTS POLICY: Ads in this section must be paid by credit card or in person at time of placement.

PRIVATE HOME in Byron CBD or Paterson/Massinger/Belongil for local business couple, preferably with private garden, view, pool, long lease up to $800pw, references available. Phone 0438809556, 66809720

SELF-CONTAINED SPACE mature fem can assist in h’h/off or personal care aged/child n/s d/f in exch 4 part rent. Phone 66854770 or 0438200640

38 YO WORKING MALE req’s quiet, clean, self-cont accom in Byron, pref with art space. Dave 0422177040

MATURE prof fem seeks un-furn, self-cont indep accom in Byron area, excel-lent local references. 0431905741

STUDIO/WORK $150pw Mull-hills, s-c, open plan. 0415167284, 66844403

4 MATURE WOMEN looking for spa-cious house, light, quiet, leafy, Byron, Mullum, Lennox district. Phone 66848294 or 0414634831

PART-TIME DAD looking for room/car-avan, work/rent. 0422456978 Rajan.

HOUSE/STUDIO for employed cou-ple with references, no kids, no pets. Phone 0415072093

TO LEASEWORKSHOP Billi $80pw. Siwicki RE, 17 Fingal St, Brunswick. 66851206

BANGALOW MEETING ROOM Hourly & daily rates. Phone 66871164

CAFE/RESTAURANTBYRON BAY

$2200 per month58 square metres includes equipment, rates & body corp. Phone 66856004

SHOP 80sqm central Jonson Street, Byron $72,000 per annum + GST, out-goings included. Phone 66804568

BYRON A&I behind Ozigo c/unit 120 sqm mezz shower $265pw. 66802163

BYRON IND EST SHED 22sqm $65pw + GST, FACTORY 70sqm $150pw + GST. Phone 0421006404

OFFICE 120sqm Byron CBD + car parking, internet cabling, kitchen, pri-vate terrace, good signage opportuni-ties, modern & light, short or long term lease. Phone 0429808266

BYRON IND EST warehouse 90sqm + 30sqm enclosed mezz, roller doors, shower, kitchen, toilet, air-con $250pw + GST, o/gs incl. 0405407565 BH.

SHOPFRONT/WAREHOUSE centrally located in Byron A&I Estate, 150sqm $420pw. Phone 0411088215

POSITIONS VACANTWARNING

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 you are asked to pay money

upfront for employment opportuni-ties and never send money to a post

offi ce box.

PART-TIME SALES ASSISTANT Ladies fashion, must have minimum 3 years experience in Retail Fashion Sales. Drop resumes into Running Wild, Jonson Street, Byron Bay.

OWNER BUILDER fully-insured, requires EXPERIENCED BUILDER/CARPENTER for construction of a residential dwelling in Byron township. Phone 66855448, 0421569252

GARDENER perm/casual for est busi-ness Bangalow-Byron. 0429882058

PLUMBER / GAS FITTERAustralian Hot Water & Air requires a

qualifi ed tradesman to take a lead role in installing and servicing solar, gas and electric water heaters. Excellent terms & conditions. Phone 66856160

or fax resume to 66858001

COCKTAIL BARMAN required for busy restaurant, RSA and experience required. Call Rhys on 66804666

FULL-TIME SOUS CHEF required for immediate start for award-winning res-taurant. Please send CV to Pogel’s Wood, Federal, fax 66884417, email [email protected]

OFFICE MANAGERWe require an offi ce manager for

approx 20 hours/week, 4 hours/day. The position requires a thorough

knowledge of Microsoft Word, accu-rate typing and computerised book-keeping, MYOB, ability to learn fast

and attention to detail.The applicant needs to be happy liais-ing with customers in a technical fi eld and able to work without supervision. Above award package is offered as

well as a pleasant central Byron Bay location. Written applications only

please, including resume & references to: PO Box 928, Byron Bay NSW 2481

APPRENTICE CHEF – 1st/2nd Year – Bangalow. Phone 0421962090

TREE PLANTERS WANTED at Casi-no NSW, 5.3 cents per tree planted, accommodation arranged, ASAP until end April. Info www.outlandresources.com.au or 66804664

STAFF REQUIRED for busy Byron takeaway. Ph 66871426, 0421966325

FULL-TIME BREAKFAST CHEFrequired, immediate start. 66392119, [email protected]

CREATIVE computer literate book-keeper wanted to help set up new business, 4 days fi rst week then 1 day per week. Phone 66855666

MASSAGE therapists wanted. Send CV to Tahi’s Beauty & Body Rituals, PO Box 291 Brunswick Heads 2483

CASUAL CLEANER/ ODD JOBS per-son with quick hands & light mind. Need own car. Start ASAP. Phone 0412818563

1/12 The Terrace, Brunswick Heads 2483T 02 6685 1283 F 02 6685 1479

SURFWEAR SALE

1 WEEK ONLY!SALE ENDS SUN MARCH 12

MASSIVE• Selected items

• All the top brands

• All heavily reduced40%OFF


PASTRYCOOK & KITCHENHAND wanted for Byron Gourmet Pies. Ring between 2pm & 4pm 66858649

CHILDCARE WORKERS (2) expe-rienced and qualifi ed needed for 2 weeks over Easter, 9-22 April, to work with 4 children aged 2-10yrs. MUSTSPEAK SWEDISH AND/OR FRENCH.Please phone Barbara 0422369447

QUALIFIED BEAUTY & REMEDIAL WILSONS CREEK HUONBROOK

LANDCARE GROUPNatural Resource Management

Consultants & Service Providers Register

The Group is revising its register and invites expressions of interest for inclusion from suitably qualifi ed consultants and other service

providers in the following areas:• Flora/fauna assessment & planning• Weed control, bush regeneration &

revegetation• Tree lopping & mulching

• FencingIndividuals or businesses will be

required to meet the Group’s insurance, OH&S, Workers

Compensation guidelines and other criteria for inclusion on the register.Expressions must be in writing and

will close on 28 April 2006.For enquiries & information package contact Bill Tweedie on 66840283.

CASTING FOR TALENT/MODEL PHOTOSHOOT

International photographer looking for talent/models for photoshoot for artis-tic project. Women of all ethnic types, surfers, hippies & ferals also welcome. Age 18-30. Body confi dent. Half day

shoot. Cash. Please call Mondo offi ce 02 93101770 or Alice 0409441710.

Casting to be held in Byron and Surf-ers 11-12 March.

WORK WANTEDECHO ACCOUNTS POLICY: Ads in this section must be paid by credit card or in person at time of placement.

ADMAN’S GARDEN MAINTENANCENo job too small. 0412766603

NANNY COOK DRIVERExperienced, reliable, fun, available to nurture your family. Own car & excel-lent references. Call Daisy 66840001

PART OR FULL TIME experienced Property Mgr, office mgr, PA, exc cust serv, accts, payroll, MYOB. Can do attitude. Have own ABN. Call Carolyn 0418202627. I can help you!

CARPENTER/HANDYMAN 25 years exp, Lic.24352C. Phone 0412057057

HANDYMANwith 27 years carpentry experience $25/hour. 2hr minimum. 66840227

INSIDE OUTOffice & business tidy ups, MYOB,

Q’books, admin, bookkeep, tax $20ph. 66857691, 0431905741

CLEANER available, permanent/casu-al, bond cleans etc. Ph 0413711214

TUITIONDRUM TUITION. Experienced teacher Ocean Shores. Phone 66802598

TUTOR MATHS & ENGLISHDedicated to your child’s progress. Brenten Ireland welcomes new and

returning students. Call now to book a space – 66871001

ENGLISH TUITIONExp teacher Year 7-12. Ph 66841230

FOOTSTEPS DANCE STUDIO offer-ing classes in Jazz, Irish & contempo-rary Mon arvo-eve Uniting Church Hall, Mullum. Phone Tanya 66846806 ah.

PROFESSIONAL TUTOR primary school Maths & English, first session free. Phone 0421227880, 66802715

MASSAGELEARN MASSAGE. Beg: Tues & Wed, Adv: Thurs & Fri. Phone 0417696084

SAXOPHONE clarinet, flute tuition, lim-ited places. Alfredo Lopes 66859851

SPANISH conversation & grammar, learn fast & easy. Phone 66808429

MUSICAL NOTESVOCAL PA for functions/duos/wed-dings/seminars/parties. 66847137

PA SYSTEM FOR SALE $11,000. Phone 66804012

DOUBLE BASS plywood, 20 years old, plays great, all set up, bag’n’bow & pickup $1800 ono. Phone 0412732465

LOST & FOUNDLOST: home made silver necklacewith citrine & tourmaline at Coorabell Hall Fri eve 3/3, sentimental value. Pls ph 66841279

FOUND: young light coloured kelpie cross pup, white nose, well looked after pet. Phone 0414857104

LOST: STEER at Manse Road, Myocum. Phone 66842863

LOST: 2 dalmatians, m & f, both desexed, lost in Brunswick SLSC area Sunday. Please ph Brenton 66851478 or Geraldine 0412378176. REWARD.

CHURCH NOTICES

CHRISTIAN CITY CHURCHEnq 66808872 Sunday Service 10am

40 Banksia Dr, Byron Ind. Est.

BIRTHSJACK KELLY SIMMONDS

Born 2.57pm at Cooma Hospital 3/3/06, 8lb, 50cm long.

Third beautiful son of Cristel and Scot-ty, nephew to Jannah, Obie, Lenny

and Melissa. Grandson to Sue, Dave and Nanna Canna.

BIRTHDAYS

THE PIRATE TURNED 50WAYNE THE WINO

THANK YOUROSE WAINWRIGHT AND FAMILYwould like to thank everyone for cook-ing, flowers, cards and support follow-ing the death of Rick.

AGISTMENT6 ACRES at Myocum, prefer horses, stable and dam. Phone 66841466

PETSADOPT A CAT from Animal Welfare League NSW. Phone 66844070

ANIMAL RIGHTS & RESCUE GROUPFar Nth Coast urgently needs homes

for many dogs, pups, cats, kittens Carers needed (food provided), volun-teers, garage sales items. 66221881

or visit www.animalrights.org.au

PET NATUROPATH66562829, 0401417744

PETS OF THE WEEK

BOSLEY: handsome, young tiger-stripe tabby male, intelligent, inquisi-tive & loves human company. Meet

him at our Cat Adoption Centre, 124 Dalley St, Mullumbimby, Tues & Sat

9-11am, Thurs 3-5pm. Animal Welfare

League NSW (North Coast Branch)

66844070.

ONLY ADULTSBEST BODY MASSAGE. Guaranteed.0415200866 – 10am - 6pm Bruns.

EXQUISITE TANTRIC massage & coaching for men, women, couples. Paul the love coach. 0409556969.

TENDER TOUCH therapeutic style, full body massage. Mon-Thurs only. 4 hands available. 0421191908

SOCIAL ESCORTSBALLINA Exclusive Company 5-star premises now open, 34 Piper Drive, Ballina, 10am till late. 66816038

BRUNS TO BYRON new escort female. 0402819867

BYRON AREA OUTCALLS. 0421401775

MALE ESCORT AVAILABLE. Also erotic massage. Phone 0434223526

BYRON EROTIC MASSAGE + in calls, Friday. 0402169906

FOR THE LADIES good looking 35 year old, out calls only. 0423874030


Sports Roundup with Alex McAuley

Monique hopes for a medal in MelbourneMullumbimby’s Monique Nacsa is once again revving up for the Commonwealth Games, having competed in Manchester four years ago. Her passion for athletics started at the age of five when she joined Little Ath-letics in Mullumbimby com-peting in the hurdles, long jump and discus. At about 13 years old, she realised that she had a particular talent for discus throwing, and decided to ‘give it a go’.

She was talent spotted by a coach in Brisbane at 15 years old, and when she reached 16, she left Mullum for Brisbane to concentrate on her sport. Having com-peted in the world juniors in 1994 where she finished eighth, and the Goodwill Games in 2001 where she also fi nished eighth, she is really hoping for a medal in Melbourne.

‘Two years ago I fi nished in the top 50 in the world, which I was really pleased with,’ said Monique. ‘At the moment, I think I’m about

sixth or seventh in the Com-monwealth, but I may be higher, I’m not completely sure. My personal best throw is 59.91 metres, and to really get noticed on the world stage I need to break through the 60m barrier, which I hope to do in Melbourne.’

Juggling an intense train-ing program with full time work is very demanding,

however Monique says she is lucky to have some support from the Queensland Acad-emy of Sport and lots of sup-port from her parents.

‘Mum and Dad help out so much,’ said Monique. ‘After Melbourne I hope to get a crack at the Beijing Olympics, so I should have at least another two years of competing in me!’

Hard Core win for All Above Board

Lennox Head’s All Above-Board surf team have 10,000 reasons to celebrate after winning Quiksilver’s second annual Core Store Surf Challenge held in perfect one to one and a half metre offshore waves at Snapper Rocks on the Gold Coast.

The Lennox team of Dan Thomson, Carly Smith, James Wood (pictured above) and Noel Graham teamed up to overcome six other

teams from around Australia and New Zealand to take out the whopping $10,000 fi rst place prize.

In the 45 minute tag-team style fi nal that sees each team member ride just two waves, with all scores counting towards a combined total, the Lennox team stormed ahead of runner’s up to fi n-ish on a staggering 56.63 points, nearly 17 points clear of their nearest rivals.

James Wood, the 2003 world junior champion, was the undisputed standout competitior for All Above Board, easily locking in the highest scoring waves of the fi nal with the same panache that has seen the 19 year-old scale to the top of his class as an individual performer. His near-perfect 9.67 out of a possible 10 was the clincher on a day that saw great rides from all the other teams.

Byron Bay athletes win a record number of medals

A team of 22 young Byron Bay athletes travelled to Ash-more Stadium on the Gold Coast recently for the annual Zone Athletics Intercentre Games. Eleven clubs from the Queensland South Coast and Northern Rivers took part, with athletes competing

for selection for the Queens-land State Championships. Some of the top young ath-letes in Queensland and Australia were there and it brought out the best in the Byron Bay ‘Hogsbreath’ team, with almost everyone recording personal bests. The

club is thrilled that a record nine Byron athletes won a total of 14 medals and selec-tion to the State Champion-ships in Townsville.

Niki Baltakova blitzed the fi eld in the U9 high jump winning the gold and jump-ing 4 cm higher than her closest rival. She also quali-fi ed for the 70m sprint and 60m hurdles. Tayla Redhead ran a very close third in the U10 70m sprint, missing out on silver by only two hun-dredths of a second.

Petra Goodall beat the U11 girls 400m qualifying time by an amazing three seconds to win the silver medal; Simon Knight fought brilliant long distance races to win silver in the U11 boys 1500m and bronze in the

1100m race walk. Clea Pratt ran creditable third places in both the 60m hurdles and 200m sprint in her age group, both well under qualifying time.

Tim Knight qualifi ed for his fifth consecutive state championships in four events. He is currently ranked third in Australia for the long jump in his age group and he blew his competition away win-ning gold by a huge margin of 89cm. He also won gold in the U13 boy’s triple jump by 42cm. He won silver in the 80m hurdles beating inside qualifying time and ran a PB in the 100m fi nal of 12.79s to win bronze.

Indigo Rawson-Smith competing in her fi rst zone championships won an amazing three U14 girls bronze medals in high jump, 80m hurdles and 200m hur-dles; Amy Buchanan beat the qualifying distance in the U14 triple jump by 7cm, and Sequoya Rawson-Smith qualifi ed for the U9 boy’s shot-put.

Although U7 and U8 ath-letes don’t compete at state level, it was great to see our champions of the future doing so well at Ashmore, particularly Aisha Fairburn-Harwood who won both the U7 girls 100m and 200m sprints.

Congratulations to all 22 athletes who represented Byron Bay at the Gold Coast for showing excellent sports-manship all weekend while having lots of fun, and the best of luck to all those who will compete in Townsville at the state championships.

Monique Nacsa in training for the Manchester Commonwealth Games. Born and bred in Mullumbimby, Monique now lives in Bris-bane where she has access to the training facilities she requires. Photo Getty Images, James Green

Successful Byron Bay athletes showing off their swag of medals, pictured from left to right: Tayla Redhead, Tim Knight, Petra Goodall, Jasper Goodall, Niki Baltakova, Isabelle Redhead, Simon Knight and Indigo Rawson–Smith.

Top tailor catch at Seven MileSome really good tailor were landed last week before the rains came, with plenty of fi sh in the two to three kilo range taken, and occasion-ally a larger beast coming in. The best catch, from Seven Mile Beach, was Byron Bar-tley’s 4.458kg whopper, which equates to 9lb 14oz. Some good fi sh were also around the rocky points such as the Peg, Flat Rock, and the river walls taking pil-chards.

Bream, dart and whiting were also about in good numbers, with the whiting best from the Broken Head area, and bream off Light-house beach.

The river was the pick of locations for jewfi sh, with a few ‘schoolies’ around the CBD and smaller ‘soapies’ up towards Wardell. Cape Byron, Brays Hole, and Jew Point all fi shed well for them prior to the big swells which basically closed these spots. In the creeks, bream and whiting have been the dominant catch, with mud crabs again starting to appear after the flood. With last weekend’s rain bringing dirty water down the river system again, it is hard to say what conditions for fi shing will be like there for a while.

There have been few reports from offshore, with the main area of activity being down south towards Evans Head. Marlin to 70kg and some spotted mackerel were mentioned as having been taken down that way.


Sports Roundup with Alex McAuley

SPORTS RESULTSAUSSIE RULESBYRON With the season only three weeks away the club is well down on the player numbers it requires.There has been a slight increase since training moved to Bangalow but we are still short of requirements. Anyone wanting to play should turn out at Bangalow Tues and Thurs at 6pm. BOWLSBrunswick Heads MenWed 1/3 Self selected triples winners: B O’Donnell, R Frappell, C Evans; r/u B Standfield, M Guest, N Condon; 3: T Cafarella, B Quince, V Caldwell. Mixed visit from Gold Coast Past Presidents, Sun 12/3 start after the raffle 1.15pm, require more players to match them. No green fees. John Foster Dynamic pairs Sat 11/3 12.00 md start, 3 x 10 ends open to all bowlers any comb men, women, or mixed. Casual dress. Good prize money. For info contact club 6685 1328.Brunswick Heads Women28/2 Ch’ship Fours result: S Curtis, M Southon, M Caldwell, K Peacey 23; M Allard, R Mills, N Philip, L Proudlock 9; B Wyborn, E Beddoes (Sub J Loomes) M Parsons, B Boorman 19; M Darby, S Iversen, T Rynehart, D. Guest 21. Social: E Toovey, L. McCormick 21 d D Batson, D Hay 18; B Rose, T Warr 34 d B O’ Donnell, E Marks 9. Lucky winners: Rink2 , B Rose, T Warr. Byron Bay MenWed Winners: H Simmons, S Reid, G White; r/up: R Orth and T Robbo. Thurs Winners: M Barry and Bulla; r/up: R Evans and P Lofts. Club Singles Ch’ships have been drawn so check the noitce board for dates of play.Byron Bay WomenTue 28/2 Winners: M Wight, J Wright and R McKenzie. Pennants on Fri resulted in a draw with Condong. Thanks goes to the Umpire of the day Syl Reid. Next pennant game is tue 7/3 at Cabarita Beach, then there is a break until Fri 31/3 with a home game against Bangalow. Next Trading Table will be tuesday 14/3 due to pennants this week. Club Singles, both Minor and Open will close 14/3 so get your names in.Lennox Head MenTues Self Selected Triples winners: B Jensen, M Knott, G Pascoe 31 d A Pritchard, J Lowry, T Kidd 11; r/up: F Allcoat, P Tressider, R McCarthy 26 d J Bice, N Strangward, B Earle 15. Wed Twilight Bowls winners: C Skennar, M Daley 11 d G Bowen, B Malcolm 9; r/up B Schweitzer, G Simon 19 d E Burgess, J Burrows 8.Ocean Shores Men27/2 Triples winners: E Boyter, R Tonkin, J Hay ; r/up S Warren, P Henderson, K Hosie; 3rd L Torressi, B Dunn, C Pav; 4th L Campbell, D Whitney, L Morgan; 5th R Bartlett, J Best, Chicko. Tony Carsburg Singles winners: R Makin 31 d J I’Anson 24; J Hay 31 d L Hoffman 29; S Pratt 31 d R Tonkin 27; W Priest d R Roberts 18; R Campbell 31 d W Sprengel 19; P Tornaros 31 d G Rowlands 12; T Mitchell 31 d B James 8; M Ellis 31 d L Morgan 15. Norfolk Challenge to resume soon. Pennants teams on the notice board.Ocean Shores WomenWed 1/3 Mixed Social Bowls Winners: G Johnston, G Martin and J Berry; r/up K Farrell, E Hill and W Sprengel. Other winners: J Bartlett, D Grant, M Flesser; S Iversen, M Moodie, G McDonald; M Oliver, L McGowran, L Campbell. T.B.D.W.B.A.T.B.D. Pres Triples, Mon 27/2. Event was played at the Mullum Club, 22 teams competed for the Triples Trophy. It started with a comp of Ditch To Ditch Bowls, Winners: R Archbold, B Dunne. District President Betty Croft presented the trophy to the Winning Team of E Hill, G Johnston, B Sprengel [Skip] from OS. R/up: R Stock, I Quinn, D Buckley [Skip] from Pottsville. Run Down Raffle Winners: H Dobbyn, M Sweetnam, D Dorrough. BRIDGEBrunswick Valley27/2: 1st Gross J Lipski and D Gall; 2nd Gross P Hems and J Skelton; 1st Nett M Buckley and C Wellings; 2nd Nett S Easterbrook and R G Pedecini. 4/3 N/S 1st Gross and 2nd Nett P Hems and B Simons; 2nd Gross and 1st Nett J Selleck and G Falson; E/W 1st Gross and 1st Nett G and A Withey; 2nd Gross D Grant and F Patterson; 2nd Nett R G Pedecini and K Westall. Brunswick Valley Bridge Club plays Monday, Sat at Bruns Heads Comm Centre, be seated by 12.45 for 1pm start. All welcome, enq 66841103 or 6846557.Ocean Shores1/3: 1st Gross J Hughes and Philip; 2nd Gross and 1st Nett L and R Moloney; 2nd Nett R Keyte and P Quirke. We play at OSs Country Club Wed evening at 6.45 pm, be seated by 6.30 pm. Byron BayFri 3/3, 8 table Mitchell are: N/S 1st B.Sundstrom, F Bogg 60.12%; 2nd J.Peiti, J.Kable 57.74%; 3rd C Johnson, P.Hems 55.36%; E/W 1st: E and J Fletcher 60.71%; 2nd E Smith, J.Lipski 57.74%; 3rd T Macdonald, D Dyst 56.25%. Bridge played Fri at 12.30pm at the Bangalow Bowling Club all welcome phone Brian 66872427CYCLING Byron Bay FreeridersRace 6 in Criterium on Sunday 12/3 in the A&I Estate. Entry fee $8.00, day licences avail, 4 grades, reg 6.-6.30am. Info contact 6680 9590. Centennial Cct, Brigantine St & Wollongbar Dve CLOSED between 6am and 8am. Next club meeting will be held in the Backroom at the Hotel Great Northern at 7pm on Wed 5/4. Anyone interested in joining a local cycling club is welcome to come along. Road training rides leave the clock tower in Byron Bay at 6.00am sharp on Tues, Thurs & Sat – fast pace. Sat Morning Club ride leaves the clock tower at 6.30am all welcome, steady pace. Jay takes out the Northern Rivers Adventure Rides each Sun, contact Jay at True Wheels for more info. 6684 1959.DARTSBrunswick ValleyRound 5, 1/3: Workers 7 v Tossa’s 4; OS Tavern 9 v Mullum2Pub’s 2; Shafter’s 8 v WCD’s 3; Dilligaf v Bye. Round 6, 8/3: Tossa’s v OS Tavern, Mullum2Pub’s v Workers, WCD’s v Dilligaf, Shafter’s v Bye.

GOLFMullumbimby Ladies9/3 Single Stab All in draww + 2 BBB: !st T: 8.30am N Carsburg, G Redman, G Smith: 8.36am L Riches, B Wodnough, C Robbins; 8.42am S Slogrove, J Neate, J Beer; 8.48am R Slogrove, R Wilson, T Batson; 8.54am S Kosaka, B Mules, N Dwyer; 10th T: 8.20am G Mackay, F. Gannell, E Henshaw; 8.36am A Moser, E Froggatt, B Wood; 8.42am M Essery, K Mudgway, T Robbins; 8.48am M Crichton, G Lynn, L Walker. Table Duty G Redman, F Gannell.Ocean Shores LadiesTues 28/2 Stab winner: L McGowran 38 ; r/up V Marsh 36; Div 2 winner: P Govett 33; r/up M Murray 33. NTP Div 1: K Brenton; Div 2: B Sprengel; Div 3 M Murray. Vouchers to 29 c/b. Wed 2/3 9 Hole Stab winner: L Dahl; vouchers to 15. 18 Hole Stab winner: L McGowran 33. Ocean Shores VetsThurs 2/3 Single Stab winner: J Dawson 40; r/up A Donaldson 40c; 3rd: A Phillips 40. NTP3rd: G Cole D Dupen; NTP 17th N Comer; T Martin. Capt Pin B Edwards. Vice Capt Award B Neate; L Hoffman.Balls to 35. Scrubbers Ball: P Osmond.RUGBY LEAGUEMullumbimby JuniorsGiants JFC monthly meeting be held at Mullum RSL at 7.30pm Thurs 9/3. All welcome.SQUASHBrunswick HeadsWed 8/3, Rnd 13. OS Bakery vs Bruns Smash: B Trivett vs B Johnston; L Clarke v L Crandell; R James vs C Pearce; R Cross vs J Nicolson; R King vs C Johston. Cantys Surveyors vs OS Glass: S Thompson vs M Page Smith; G Changler vs M Underwood; W Oliver vs P Booth; M Stratton vs S Page Smith; W Ferrier vs B McCauley. Bruns Pharmacy vs BB Trophies: S Koop vs B Staff; T Wood vs C Staff; J Gribble vs P Hill; A Li vs J Heers; S Moon vs B Doran. Bruns Blinds vs Mullum Jewellers: G Davis vs S Varty; I Bissett vs C Sleep; D Runciman vs C Walsh; L Miller vs R Cameron; J Heers vs S Truesdale. Mon 13/3, Rnd 10, Div 1: 5pm S Sleep vs A Brooker, B Staff vs D Bird; 6pm, G Davis vs L Power; M Page Smith, Bye. Div 2: 5pm, M Cassidy vs I Bissett; 6pm, B Johston vs B Trivett; S Varty vs S Koop. Div 3, 5pm M Ottery vs J Gribble; 6pm, B Johnston vs B Trivett; S Varty vs S Koop. Div 3: 5pm M Ottery vs J Gribble; 6pm D Runciman vs W Mahera. R Draper, Bye. Div 4: 5pm, R Cross vs A Ronan; S Page Smith vs A Thomas; A Li vs R King; C Johnston vs J Nicolson. Div 5: 5pm, A Booth vs D Williams; S Truesdale vs M Decarne; B Doran vs A Brooker; J Davison vs S Davidson. Phone 6685 1794 to play.SURF LIFE SAVINGBrunswickIRB and crew training weekend 11 and 12/3 at club. 8.30am. Cost for manual to be notified. Meals $10. BBQ at clubhouse 11/3 4pm. Thanks to all for help at masters carnival, breakfast in the park, Boxing day help appeal and pub raffles. Congrats to boaties winning 22 from 24 races, the other two coming 2nd and 3rd. Patrols, Sat 11/3, 10am to 3pm, Patrol no 1: K Southwell; Sun12/3, 9am to 4pm, Patrol No 2: M Hilderbrant. Raffles 12/03: Adrian and Mark.Byron Bay6/03 This w’end Senior NSW Titles at Cronulla. Jun NSW Titles: S Hulbert Green and B Barnes 2nd U/14 Board Rescue. Patrols, Sat 14/3, 10am to 3pm: K KloessingPC, P Flick, J Barwick, R Siebert, P Francis, B Hall, T Makin, S Palmer, R Harvey, P Lette, R Hollier. Sun 15/3 9am- 4pm: J KeoughPC, R AndrewsAPC, J Turner, L McRae, S Stott, M Keough, K McFadden, T Boot, T McGrath, M Thomson, MacTier, S O’Brien. SWIMMINGByron Bay4/3 Distance ch’ships: S Hubert Green 13y 800 Free 1; T Lyndon 14y 1500 Free 1; J Woollett 16y 400IM 2. FNC Ch’ship carnivals1 and 2: D Jensen 9y 50m Fly 2, Ba 3, 100m Br 3, Free 3, 200IM 10u; A Jensen 12y 100m Free PB, Br 5; B Woollett 13y 50m Back 2, 200m Ba 2, 100m Br 3, Free 4, 50m Fly 4, 200IM 4; S Hulbert Green 13y 50m 1, 200m Free 1, 100m Ba 1, Fly 1, 50 Br 2; J Woollett 16y 50m Free 1, 100m Free 1, 50m 100m 200m Back 1, 50m Fly 1, 200 IM 1, 50m 100m Br 2, 200m Free 2, 100m Fly 2. 5/3 Non ch’ship carnival Mullum, PB’s to: A, C and R Buckley; A and T Cormack; T Hall; A Barnes; C Farrell; G Adams; C Esposito; A Steedman; J and T Nelson Chapman; J Timperly; D and O Jarvis; J Manita. Placings: K Irwin 9y 50m Br 2nd; K Templeman 10y 50m Ba 2, Fly 3, Free 5; Y Nelson Chapman 11y 50m Free 4, Ba 3; A Jensen 12y 50m Br 1, Free 4, Ba 2; B Steedman 12y 50m Free 2, Br 3, Fly 4; R Templeman 12y 50m Fly 3; T McGrath 14y 50m Free 5, Br 3; J Cormack 7y 25m Fly 1, Free 1, Ba 1; D Adams 7y 25m Free 3, Ba 2, Fly 3; D Templeman 8y 50m Free 3, Ba 3, Br 5, 25m Fly 2; C Green 10y 50m Free 1, Fly 4, Br 1; C McGrath 11y 50m Free 5, Ba 5, Fly 4; S Cook 13y 50m Fly 1, Ba 1, Br 1, Free 1; A Burns 13y 50m Ba 2; T Burns 13y 50m Free 3, Fly 4, Ba 3; M Wasley 13y 50m Free 2, Br 2, Fly 2, Ba 4. Relays: 7y 2; 8y 4 and 7; 9y 3 and 7; 10y 1 and 4; 11y 2; 12y 1; 13y 1; 14y 1.TENNISMullumbimbyMixed comp, Rd 4: Epee 59 d Cutlass 51; Foil 56 d Rapier 49. Mens, Rd 4: Javelin d Boomerangs, Arrows d Slingshots, Spears d Darts. Social Tennis: Ladies Wed 9.15am start. Sat Mixed 2.30pm start. All welcome, m’ship not required. Coaching enq Justin 0403 841 241,other Jeanie 6680 4353w or 6680 1330h. VOLLEYBALLBrunswick HeadsTues 7/3, Rnd 12 Carsburg Comp: 6pm, Starlights vs Bugs; No Mercy vs Chalets; Flash vs Pissies. Dutey Starlights. 7pm, Brewers vs Nanas; Lounge Lizards vs Hit and Run. Duty Starlights. Thur 9/3, Rnd 11 OS H’ware Comp: 5pm, Kit Kats vs 3 Girls; 6pm, Desperate Housewives vs Kliblik; Rock Monsters vs Vixens; Bolters vs Pink Flamingos; Nickies vs Elles. Duty Squiggles Sisters and Court Jesters. 7pm, Squiggles Sisters vs Fudge Puppies; Court Jesters vs Can’t Touch This; Bob the Builder vs Chilli Twist; Exodia vs Triplets. Duty Desperate Housewives and Rock Monsters. Byes Hot and Sweaty, Sharleens, Hot Booties and Asthmatics. Phone 6685 1784 to play, beginners welcome.

North coast juniors take off with TFI

These talented young soccer players from the Far North Coast have been selected by the Futbol Insti-tute (TFI) for their touring teams following eight weeks of trials last year. The boys will be playing in the Dana Cup to be held in Hjorring, Denmark and the Gothia Cup in Gothenburg, Sweden in July of this year, followed by a trip to the UK including games with English clubs. Natalie and Danny Chat-terton (not pictured) will play in the Kanga Cup in Canberra in early July. All the players are very excited about the opportunity to participate in these tournaments overseas and would be delighted for any sponsorship to help them in their endeavours. Please call Marty Brennan on 0437 475 407 or Bernadette Pollard on 6687 7412. For more information on TFI contact Michael Cook on 0438 171 292 or Digby Reed on 0433 766 237.

Byron rugby unionMatt Alexander introduces us to some of the club’s peculiar wildlife.It has long been known that the better a rugby player is, the more odd his nickname will be and this is no better illustrated than by Byron Rugby’s own Wombat. Oth-erwise known as Michael Lecce, Wommy has led Byron Bay on and off the fi eld for the last few years and has always managed to inspire his team to greater heights.

Well known for battling on with only one good leg, a fi ve star hangover, several cracked ribs and a head that can only be described as well lived in, Wombat is always the fi rst onto the fi eld and last off it. With many new players hav-ing joined the club this year they will be able to learn at the feet of one of the club’s and zone’s oldest and best players both on the fi eld, in the bar and on the bus.

Anyone who would like to learn from and play with the master Wombat at Byron Rugby contact Matt on 0437 656 984.

Wild weather brings Quiksilver Pro to a halt

Byron Bay’s Danny Wills started his WCT 2006 season the right way with a big round one win at the Quiksilver Pro on the Gold Coast. He was one of the day’s highest scoring heat winners posting 8.6 and 7.5 wave scores to comfortably defeat his opponents and go straight to round three.

The wild weather that has lashed the coast over the last few days has put the event on

hold, however competition got underway again on Mon-day. With US$280,000 in prize money up for grabs, competition is fi erce and the line-up includes seven times world champion Kelly Slater, three times world champion Andy Irons and defending champion Mick Fanning.

Similarly, the Roxy Pro, which is being run concur-rently, was also put on hold due to the weather, but not

before a spectacular first round clash between two of the event favourites, Chelsea Georgeson and Stephanie Gilmore.

Georgeson narrowly edged out Gilmore by only 0.07 of a point despite a spectacular wipe out during which she accidentally collided with Gilmore’s board. The pair will meet again in round three, this time in a sudden death heat.

Byron Bay soccer needs women playersBoth Byron Bay’s womens’ teams had great seasons last year. Our fourth division team, full of complete begin-ners, came third in the com-petition and were unlucky not to get to the grand fi nal as they had a key player out due to injury.

Our first division team came fourth and were also unlucky to lose in a very close semi-fi nal. It was the fi rst time Byron has had two women’s teams in the comp and it would be great to increase the number of women players to create strong female representation from Byron Soccer Club.

However, Byron Women’s League is depleted in num-bers this year. We are in need of players aged 16 years and up (mums included), of any level from fourth division up to fi rst division; beginners are welcome. We are also desperate for two goal keep-ers, please let us know if you are interested.

Please call Christy on 6685 6652 or 0403 583 371 if you would like to join this successful club, or just turn up at the Byron Bay Rec-reation Grounds on Tues-day nights at 5.30pm for training.

This is a great opportunity to get fi t, learn new skills, make new friends and become part of the fastest growing sport in the region.

New Brighton BoardridersThanks to the Billinudgel Hotel and the Newy shop for making it possible to com-pete in the Kirra Challenge. Next comp is Sunday March 19, and the following week-end the club heads south for a two way with Evans Head. Enquiries to 0421 004 585.

Surfing FNCRegional titles will be held this weekend March 11 and 12 at Yamba. A very strong

contingent of surfers has entered in all age groups, both boys and girls. After the third round in Byron Bay, teams will be named for the state titles in Marou-bra, Port Macquarie and Coffs Harbour to be held later this year.

Byron Bay Boardriders Last weekend’s club round was called off due to rough seas. Boardriders had an unfortunate loss at touch

last week; hopefully we’ll do better this week. $1000 won at the Kirra teams challenge will be donated to Kirra Early Intervention Centre and Surf Aids. Easter Classic meeting on Thursday night at 7:30pm if you would like to help.

Brunswick BoardridersCommittee meeting next Tuesday March 14 at Hotel Brunswick at 6.30pm. All welcome.

Crankin what’s happening surfside

Danny Wills was back to his best in his first round of the Quiksilver Pro on the Gold Coast recently where he notched up one of the day’s highest scoring heats. Photo ASP Robertson


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Private Bush Block & Cabin6.4 acres of privacy with settlers cottage at Laverty’s Gap. Elevated and secluded the timber cottage has a basic kitchen, bathroom and an open plan living / dining. There is also a garden shed and a 3000 gal water tank. The road has been done and power and phone are available to the site. Roll up your sleeves and let the work begin. Most of the 6 acres are mixed forest and therefore low maintenance. This is your chance! Call now and inspect this unique piece of land.

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Bangalow Bungalow ‘Glasnevin’With character and charm, this delightful federation home is nestled onto a bigger than normal block of 1055sqm with well established, easy care gardens, nice tree frontage and privacy not normally offered.This 4 bedroom, 2 bathroom 100yr old homestead holds the key to the years gone by. Polished timber fl oors, traditional fi replace, spacious rooms, french doors to the internal & external verandahs, high ceilings and as new bathroom, makes this delightful home very appealing.You’ll love the north facing, very private verandah, perfect for ‘high tea’. A carport, single garage together with a nicely appointed self-contained studio with verandah tucked to the rear of the property, completes the package.

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15 Rifl e Range Road, Bangalow.Open for inspection Saturday

March 11, 3-3.30pm.

Magnifi cent Private EstateDiscover this truly delightful acreage on prestigious Friday Hut Road, offering lifestyle and privacy. Designed for extended family or lots of guests, this estate has enormous potential and is only 12 minutes from the beach. This traditional timber homestead on 8 meticulously kept acres, with wide verandahs, volume ceilings, open plan living and superb east/north/east facing entertaining areas has expansive lake frontage.• 6 bedrooms plus studio with 2 bedrooms

or offi ce facility.• 2 modern kitchens.• Beautifully landscaped grounds.• Easy access with large 2 car garage

plus storage garage.• Owner keen to meet current market.

AUCTION On-SiteApril 22, 11am.

418 Friday Hut Road, Brooklet.Open for inspection Saturday

March 11, 2-2.30pm.

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To advertise Something Different please call To advertise Something Different please call Amanda in Byron on 6685 5222 or Julie in Mullum on 6684 1777Amanda in Byron on 6685 5222 or Julie in Mullum on 6684 1777

Ray White Byron Bay p43• 64 Billinudgel Road, Billinudgel. At Byron

Bay Services Club. March 18 at 12pm. Inspect Sat, 2-3pm.

Scott Harvey Real Estate P52• 418 Friday Hut Road, Brooklet. On-site April

22, 11am. Inspect Sat 2-2.30pm.

LJ Hookers Byron Bay p54• 3 Cavanbah Street, Byron Bay. Sat 10am• 2 Mahr Place, Suffolk Park. Sat 10am• 19 Corkwood Cl, Suffolk Park. Sat 10am.• 26 Teak Circuit, Suffolk Park. Sat 10am.• 22 Mahogany Dr, Byron Bay. Sat 10am. • 10 Coogera Circuit, Suffolk Park. Sat 10am• 17 Brookview Court, Ewingsdale. Sat 11am.• 63 McGettigans L, Ewingsdale. Sat 11am.• 114 Quarry Lane, Ewingsdale. Sat 11am.• 59 Teak Circuit, Suffolk Park. Sat • 48 Shirley Streey, Byron Bay. Sat 12pm.• 41 Beech Drive, Suffolk Park. Sat • 53 Armstrong Street, Byron Bay. Sat 12pm.• 1/3 Mackellar Court, Byron Bay. Sat 12pm.• 160 Bangalow Road, Byron Bay. Sat 12pm. • 29 Armstrong St, Suffolk Park. Sat 1pm.• 118 Lighthouse Road, Byron Bay. Sat 1pm.• Cnr Beech Drive & Honeysuckle Drive,

Suffolk Park. Sat 1pm.• 60 Massinger Street, Byron Bay. Sat 1pm.• 68 Massinger St, Byron Bay. Sat 1pm. • 24 Scott St, Byron Bay. Sat 2pm. Scott Harvey Real Estate p52• 15 Rifl e Range Rd, Bangalow. Sat 3-3.30pm.Elders Byron Bay p50• 3 Electra Cl, Byron Bay. Sat 12-12.45pm.LJ Hookers Brunswick Heads p50• 33 Nana St, Brunswick Heads. Sat 12-1pm.• 482 The Pocket Rd, The Pocket. Sat 12-3pm.• 2 Katya Court, Ocean Shores. Sat 112pm.• 10/10 Balemo Drive, Ocean Shores.

Sat 11am-12pm.• 13 Kingsford Drive, Brunswick Heads.

Sat 10-10.45am.• 11 Orchid Pl, Mullumbimby. Sat 11-1.45pm.• 1A Left Bank Road, Mullumbimby.

Sat 11-11.45am.Gail Fuller Real Estate p49• 102 Eureka Rd, Rosebank. Sat 11-11.30am.• 17 Bangalow Rd, Byron Bay. Sat 1-1.30pm.

Great use of space,with more left overThis new rendered block home is on a generous ½ acre block that backs onto rainforest. Beautifully manicured lawns and gardens surround the smart design of two bedroom home with wide wooden balconies and wooden deck connecting to a separate, fully self-contained studio apartment.

Features include glass louvres, quality fl oor tiles, ceiling fans throughout and aircon in the master bedroom and apartment. To top it all off, the property is a one minute drive or about a 10 minute walk to the idyllic shores of Bingil Bay Beach and the Coral Sea. With plenty of room to put in your pool and add to the landscaping, this property is worth the trip to Far North Queensland.

Contact Exclusive Agent Melissa Thurgood at Ray White Mission Beach on 07 4068 7488. Mob: 0414 458 846. $320,000 [email protected]

Create a dream homeOne of Kingscliff’s most sought after streets. This three level home is offering the growing family room to move and the opportunity to create a dream home. Set on a block of 642 sqm facing Sutherland Street and entrance via Hungerford Lane.

This property offers four bedrooms, study/storage room, sunroom, sunken lounge and a games room. On offer is an ideal lifestyle, renovate to your own taste or build your dream home with DA approval to build two new homes. This is an opportunity not to be missed. Leave the car at home and walk out your back door to Dreamtime beach or be amongst the alfresco restaurant, trendy cafes and shopping that Kingscliff has to offer.

Contact Mark Zwemer at the Kingscliff Professionals Real Estate on 0428 717 034. Price $850,000.

Expansive family estateAUCTION

Set amidst 8 acres of manicured grounds lies this sprawling property comprising two homes, total six bedrooms and four bathrooms. Backing onto a beautiful tree lined expanse of lawn which borders Emigrant Creek this luxurious home is palatial in every sense of the word.

Features include central inground pool, several living areas, 10ft ceilings, billiards room and three garages, so you can rest assured that your comfort and enjoyment will be catered for. Privacy is afforded by the border of trees on both sides and rendered front fence. Perfect for the extended family.

Contact Andrew Rosee at L.J.Hooker Byron Bay 0421 914 054.

Five acres of total privacy... await you as you meander up the drive to the homestead. The house is built on a level plateau with the paddocks for ponies or cows surrounding the home. The views encompass valley, bush and Mt Warning in the distance, a tranquil vista to contemplate. The home is an immaculately presented ten year old brick with covered verandahs east and west sides, north open to sun and light. With three bedrooms, study, plus an additional one bedroom in-law self-contained apartment, an ideal space for the extended family or additional guests.

This property has it all – fully powered workshop and machinery shed, room to put in a pool, only minutes from the village of Burringbar and easy commute to Tweed and Byron.

Priced at $690,000 all offers welcome. Contact Lynda Rose at Gail Fuller Real Estate on 6685 5285 or 0407 098993.

New Brighton auctionAUCTION On-site Saturday March 25, 2006 at 12noon. Open house inspections Saturdays 11-12pm and Wednesdays 10.30-11.30am.

Opportunity to purchase a riverfront asian-style sanctuary, perfectly placed between the river and beach in popular and unique New Brighton. Featuring a two bedroom main house and separate one bedroom boathouse accommodation with ensuite.

The capacity for entertaining and relaxing is met by adjoining timber decks, shaded by poincianas and surrounded by lush gardens. Take in the abundant and diverse bird life that call the river home, and of course the sunsets should never be missed. Unique to this waterfront property is your own private wharf, or just a one minute stroll to reach the surf.

Contact WILL SORRELL at Rhonda Browning Real Estate on 6680 1594 or 0417 653 312.

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41 BeechDrive,Suffolk ParkSaturday 12pmContact Sharon on 0408 659 649

17 Brookview Court, EwingsdaleSaturday 11am Contact Sharon on 0408 659 649

114 Quarry Lane, EwingsdaleSaturday 11am Contact Andrew on 0421 914 054

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48 ShirleyStreet,Byron BaySaturday 12pm Contact Liam on 0417 780 795

4 ‘Vue’ 22 Mahogany Dr, Byron BaySaturday 10amContact Sharon on 0408 659 649

160 BangalowRoad,Byron BaySaturday 12pmContact Peter on 0411 837 330

19 CorkwoodClose, Suffolk ParkSaturday 10am Contact Gareth on 0417 237 559

‘Oasis Resort’ 24 Scott Street,Byron BaySaturday 2pmContact Liam on 0417 780 795

60 MassingerStreet,Byron BaySaturday 1pmContact Andrew on 0421 914 054

Cnr Beech Dr & Honeysuckle Dr,Suffolk ParkSaturday 1pmContact Peter on 0411 837 330

VACANT LAND

3 CavanbahStreet,Byron BaySaturday 10am Contact Peter on 0411 837 330

2 MahrPlace,Suffolk ParkSaturday 10amContact Liam on 0417 780 795

53 ArmstrongStreet,Suffolk ParkSaturday 1pmContact Gareth on 0417 237 559

10 Coogera Circuit, Suffolk ParkSaturday 11am Contact Liam on 0417 780 795

29 Armstrong Street, Suffolk Park Saturday 1pm Contact Sharon on 0408 659 649

1/3 MackellarCourt,Byron BaySaturday 12pmContact Andrew on 0421 914 054

63 McGettigansLane, EwingsdaleSaturday 11am Contact Gareth on 0417 237 559

26 Teak Circuit, Suffolk ParkSaturday 10am Contact Andrew on 0421 914 054

118 LighthouseRoad, Byron BaySaturday 12pmContact Gareth on 0417 237 559

68 MassingerStreet,Byron BaySaturday 1pm Contact Liam on 0417 780 795

59 Teak Circuit, Suffolk Park Saturday 11am Contact Peter on 0411 837 330

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The Hidden Valley

Lovely open plan home, set on 5 glorious green acres, with valley views in a beautiful peaceful setting in Upper Coopers Creek, just 20 min. from Mullumbimby. This two bedroom home has a citrus orchard as well as an abundance of established fruit trees and rainforest area, all beautifully landscaped. There is a large two storey timber barn/studio with electricity, water and telephone connected. Lots of water (17,000 gallons) plus large dam plumbed for irrigation, and a covered caravan with deck complete the picture. A state forest and a school very nearby. This property has many special features well worth discovering. Come and see for yourselves! Phone owner on 02 6684 1662.

The Views Will Lift Your Spirit

AUCTION 18/03/06 at 1.00 pm 24 Pacific Vista Byron Bay. OPEN HOUSE Saturdays 1-1.45pm. A fantastic solid two level home offering 5 bedrooms soaring cathederal ceilings, two bathrooms, two separate living areas, double garage and in-ground saltwater pool. Imagine watching frolicking whales from your own private decks, sipping gin slings, reading your favourite novel or simply relaxing by the pool after an exhausting day at the beach. If these are a few of your favourite things this property is your new home and a must to inspect – with sensational views to Broken Head – the views will definitely lift your spirit. Contact Janis Perkins at Ray White on 6685 6588 or 0438 841 122.

‘Hillview’

AUCTION 18/03/06 Byron Bay Services Club at 12.00pm.Open for inspection Sat March 4 & 11, 2-3pm. 64 Billinudgel Rd, Billinudgel. Private 40 acre elevated retreat with breathtaking 180° views with two modern, spacious homes positioned to take in the stunning ocean views. Both homes are immaculate and offer open plan living and include three and four bedrooms, two bathrooms, double lock up garages plus many other features. This property is only a short drive to the beach, Byron Bay and 30 minutes to Coolangatta Airport. Also included are income producing bananas, avocados, paw-paw and mangoes plus a large dam & sheds. Call Neil Cameron at Ray White Byron Bay 0419 274 798 or 02 6685 6588.

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Down Town Mullumbimby

Brand new brick/veneer home in the town of Mullumbimby for sale. It consists of three bedrooms, the master with ensuite and walk in robe, open plan kitchen/dining and the living room leading out to the backyard which has a rear lane access and room for a boat. There is also a single garage with work shop space and a laundry. Shops, schools and all other amenities are only two minutes walk away. The owner is moving to an acreage and therefore has put this place on the market. $395,000. Call InRealEstate on 6684 3600 or Ernst Reisch on 0428 842 387.

What A Find!

This 6,641sqm (1.64 acres) park like block is located in a cul-de-sac of small quality acreages right on the edge of town. With a self contained 6x12m (72sqm) colorbond workshed with 2 phase power, bathroom and approved septic that is ideal to live in while you build your perfect home. Elevated and gently sloping with rural views and sunny aspect. The property is serviced with water, power, phone, established fruit trees and a lush tree border. Stroll into town or only 3 minutes drive to the Shearwater Steiner School. Owner has just bought elsewhere and has massively reduced the price to sell from $459,000 to only $429,000.Call Chincogan Real Estate on 02 6684 3300.

Don’t Dream It... Live It!

This beautiful home is located at Broken Head just minutes walk to Suffolk Park and is surrounded by natural coastal scrub abundant with native birdlife. It has all utilities, three bedrooms, two bathrooms, large living areas, office, work shed and double car garage. Ocean and lighthouse views are captured through the mature trees assuring your picturesque setting is complete. The residence affords good living conditions year round with its secluded, unique setting and spacious contemporary design perfect for the family to enjoy. Contact Tony Farrell on 0417 212 692 or at L.J.Hooker Byron Bay. $1,250,000. Byron Bay

Immaculate Beachside Home

Located just one street from sparkling Tallow Beach and a short stroll to shops and restaurants, this immaculate property offers three spacious bedrooms and two bathrooms. Features abound including two separate living areas, a sunken lounge room, landscaped grounds, a sun drenched yard and expansive undercover outdoor entertaining area. This home has been meticulously and lovingly maintained and is ideal for those seeking the best of the beach lifestyle with an emphasis on comfort and position. Contact Sharon McInnes on 0408 659 649 or at L.J.Hooker Byron Bay. $785,000.

Byron Bay

One Of Mullumbimby’s BestQuality built in the 1930s, four bedroom home, original spotted gum floorboards, high ceilings, open fireplace and north facing kitchen. Rear lane to 920sqm block gives access to the garage and studio. Bi-fold timber louvres back open onto the terrace and in-ground pool. A home full of richness and warmth with a ‘Moroccan’ influence. Asking price $715,000. Will listen to offers.Phone Kaye Wilkie at Elders Byron Bay on 02 6685 6222 or 0412 856 208.

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Panoramic Ocean Views, Stunning Cliffs

The WOW factor! Panoramic ocean views that can never be built out, stunning 80m cliffs, a magnificent 80m waterfall during summer rain and complete privacy. Build your own dream home and lifestyle within 30 minutes of Byron Bay. 12 acres with a huge level 1.5 acre house site facing NE and backing onto National Park. The best sunrises and moonrises over the ocean! Certified organic avocados, being sold as a going concern. Great water supply.Has only changed owners twice in the last 50 years. Refer web: members.optusnet.com.au/deliciabone/Phone owner on 02 6684 5235 or 0438 845 235. $1.5M

BacklashA combined 38,469 guests roared through the doors of the Peppers Salt Resort and Spa, the Outrigger Hotel at Salt and the Casuarina Beach Domain Resort over the Christmas and New Year sea-son – the strongest tourism infl ux the Tweed Coast has ever seen. Right along the New Tweed Coast, at least fi ve new properties will open by the end of 2006, adding a further 350 rooms and apart-ments to the area’s stock – Resort Corp’s The Beach at Cabarita, The Beach Shacks, and Santai, Multiplex’s Pan-danus Pocket and Cotton Beach. A further 340 apart-ments soon to be released to the market are scheduled to be developed at Cotton Beach starting in 2008, alongside another 700 resort apartments and rooms planned for the Casuarina Town Centre. So expect a few more vistors driving south.

Clive Hamilton, Executive Director of the Australia Institute, gave a talk entitled ‘the Dirty Politics of Climate Change’ to the Climate Change and Business Con-ference in Adelaide last month. It detailed how the fossil fuels industry owns the government’s energy policy and even gave a list of the twelve people in Australia today who will be reviled in 50 years time as the bastards who blocked every effort to solve the greenhouse prob-lem. Don’t guess who’s on the list, read the paper at www.apo.org.au/linkboard/results.chtml?filename_num=67254.

Kerry Packer’s last say (maybe) – In the NSW upper house last week David Oldfi eld sought contingency for a condolence motion on Kerry Packer, probably the fi rst time in parliament that a condolence motion was

brought to a vote. Ian Cohen and Arthur Chester-fi eld Evans voiced the oppo-sition to the motion. The motion was forced to a vote and was successful. At the substantial vote several ALP members opposed the motion and it went to a vote. The ALP members left the room as the ALP forced them all, in a scene of high farce, to cross the fl oor and vote with the Old-fi eld motion lauding Kerry Packer despite having opposed it on the voices. The vote succeeded with the three Greens and Unity voting against. Democrats and some ALP members abstained by leaving the chamber.

Watch out for work-from-home businesses which want you to put money through your bank or credit union account. According to the Credit Union Indus-try Association, scammers use other people’s accounts to launder money obtained through internet crime.

The NSW government has launched an online ‘Com-pare What’s Fair?’ calculator which will allow employees to judge an offered Austra-

lian Workplace Agreement against existing state awards. Check how your job offer is stacking up at www.indus-trialrelations.nsw.gov.au.

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