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Ken Sapwell

Tweed Shire Council appears to have fended off a threatened takeover of its water assets valued at $1 billion.

An independent inquiry into regional water supplies and sewerage service has recommend-ed that the Tweed remains as a stand-alone entity.

Its fi ndings have been hailed by council’s gen-eral manager, Mike Rayner, as ‘good news’ for the Tweed – but not everyone agrees (see page 2).

‘It means that the council will continue to manage, own and operate our water supply and sewerage services,’ said Mr Rayner.

Th e inquiry, initiated by then Water Minister and now Premier, Nathan Rees, examined op-tions to improve the organisational structure of local water utilities to overcome supply short-ages during droughts.

It found that the Tweed – along with just seven other councils in the state – should re-main as stand-alone utilities.

The remainder would form alliances with neighbouring councils or operate under the umbrella of newly established water corpora-tions.

Mr Rayner, in a memo to councillors follow-ing the report’s release this month, warned of the possible consequences if the government failed to adopt the inquiry’s stand-alone recom-mendation following the public consultation process.

‘If options other than those recommended in the report are ultimately adopted Tweed’s water supply and sewerage services could be aggre-gated with the Richmond Valley resulting in the potential loss of asset ownership,’ he told them.

Th e council argued against removal of water and sewerage services from its control in a sub-mission to the inquiry, saying it would create ineffi ciencies and lead to higher water costs.

It says the current drought has had little im-pact on the ability of the council to supply water to its consumers.

‘In all, over the last 25 years restrictions have been imposed for a total period of four months which occurred on one occasion from October 2002 until February 2003,’ the council’s submis-sion said.

‘Historically the Tweed district water supply has been very reliable and the council is well placed to handle the eff ects of climate change.’

Th e submission notes that a recent analysis of the latest data has required the council to downgrade its yield from 27,000 to 13,750 mega litres per year which will support a population of some 94,000 people.

‘Th is revised yield has been adopted on an interim basis and will be reassessed in the near future following the completion of a demand management strategy and an assessment of cli-mate change,’ it says.

It also notes that additional dam storage will

be required within the next 10 years, and that the council is looking at two options which include the raising of the existing dam and con-struction of a new dam on council-owned land at Byrrill Creek.

Long-serving former councillor Max Boyd said the report’s fi ndings were a tribute to the forward planning of the council’s engineering staff .

‘It means that the council remains as master

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Valerie Skinner, a Kingscliff retiree who started mountain climbing late in life, inches her way up the spectacular but treacherous Eiger in the Swiss Alps last year. The 70-year-old is pictured climbing up via the Mitteleggi Ridge, the easterly and second most dangerous route to the summit. She was accompanied by her 37-year-old French guide Alexandre Périnet, who took this picture. The north face of The Eiger is called the Wall of Death because so many mountaineers have died attempting it. The tragic conquest of the Eiger via its north face in the 1930s and other mountaineering dramas featured in a gripping ABC TV documentary this week called The Beckoning Silence with British climber Joe Simpson. In next week’s Echo we profi le Valerie and her exciting exploits as told in her new book Mountains My Passion.

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We oft en hear of people ‘giving back to the community’ and Murwillumbah resident Joan Daniels is giving back in the most practical way possible. She is helping you cook your toast, wash your clothes and she’s a dab hand in the shower.

For the past 18 months Joan has been using solar power for her home and the excess electricity she is generating is going back to the grid and into your house.

Joan got the idea from a Four Corners program about a Chi-nese company producing small solar squares for fifty cents each. When she approached an Australian manufacturer she was told that the Chinese technology was a long way off but that there were rebates for

people installing panels with grid connect capabilities.

‘Aft er the rebate it cost me $5,500 to have the panels in-stalled,’ said Joan. ‘I don’t con-sider that a lot to pay for a power source which can also help the environment. I am en-deavouring to be self suffi cient and I am guilt free. I don’t feel bad every time I switch on the light.’

Joan, who has been using solar hot water for 30 years, says she is very happy with the panels and has the per-fect answer for those who say green power is a furphy. ‘I can put my mouth where my money is. When people tell me it doesn’t work I can show then my electricity bill for the August to November quarter. How does $45.94 sound? I’m happy with that.’

Energy returned to the grid can be used by others and will create a credit on home power bills, so not only do you save money and the environment, you can subsidise your grid energy use.

Tweed Shire sustainability officer Dan Walton says the federal government rebate of up to $8,000 for solar panel installation will continue until June 30.

Lisa Blackwell is the coordi-nator for a local group who are preparing to do the fi rst bulk buy for the area which will in-creased savings yet again

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Not everyone is in favour of Tweed’s stand-alone status. The only submission to the inquiry to come from the Tweed apart from the council’s was one from the Tweed Heads Environ-ment Group Inc.

It supported Tweed council adopting a regional water sup-ply system similar to south-east Queensland where a govern-ment authority oversees the sharing of regional water supplies to protect those most in need.

Under the scheme, the Queensland Water Commission acquired councils’ water assets before dividing them into separate entities of bulk supply, distribution and retail sales, but allowed councils to retain the water supply distribution systems.

It says an upside of the ar-rangement is that councils with spare water capacity can profi t from sales.

It warns that climate change might reduce our supplies and it did not consider the council had the fi nancial resources and skills to manage the sustain-able supply and delivery of drinking water.

It also criticised the council’s

sewerage treatment strategies, saying the council’s current policy of dumping more than 95 per cent of its reclaimable sewage wastewater from its fi ve main treatment plants into the Tweed River is unsustainable.

‘The Tweed and Rous Rivers’ marine ecosystem is loaded with nutrients from sewerage treatment plants and also from a high input from farming and background sources,’ secretary Richard Murray wrote.

‘This claim is supported by data from the Tweed River Es-tuary Ecosystem Health Moni-toring Program collected over twelve months (2000-2001).

‘The monitoring program showed that substantial quantities of sewage nitrogen are present in the leaves of the mangroves and in the phyto-plankton up to nine kilometres from the mouth of the Tweed River.

‘The study did not give any information about what other impacts the sewage effl uent was having on the rest of the ecosystem and still needs to be addressed.

‘The last major oyster grower of Tweed River system closed in 2006 because of poor water

quality in the Tweed River Ter-ranora Inlet system.

‘The continued dumping of reclaimable water is wasteful and unsustainable.

‘ If more funding and techni-cal advice was available from a properly constructed organisa-tion then Tweed sewage waste-water could be reclaimed for potable reuse, and water qual-ity of the Tweed River could improve to again allow oyster production,’ it concluded.

of its own destiny by being in charge of its own catchment,’ he said. ‘It can get on with the job without too much outside bureaucratic interference or having to argue with other councils about what you want to do.

‘It delivers effi ciencies and allows us to plan ahead and fund major projects such as the current $75 million upgrade of the Bray Park water fi ltration plant which will benefi t all consumers.’

Deadline for submissions is 5 pm, Friday, March 13. To view the report go to www.dwe.nsw.gov.au/water/utilities.

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Villages around Tweed Shire will showcase their fl air for tra-ditional Australia Day celebra-tions on Monday, with the main event and citizenship ceremony to be held at Uki.

Barbecue breakfasts, tug-of-wars, damper competitions, en-tertainment and novelty events as well as citizenship ceremo-nies and awards presentations will be the order of the day.

Eight townships throughout the shire have organised their own Aussie Day activities but the largest population centre, Tweed Heads, is not taking part this year.

Burringbar, Kingscliff , Potts-ville, Tumbulgum, Tyalgum, Murwillumbah and for the fi rst time, Cabarita Beach (Bogang-ar) will all host offi cial functions and activities on the day.

Multi-media personality Donnie Osmond is the shire’s Australia Day Ambassador this year and he will present awards at the Uki ceremony.

Th e Uki Sports Club grounds and clubhouse just past the village on Kyogle Road is ex-pected to be a hive of activity from 10am, when new citizens register for the ceremony. VIPs including the mayor, state and federal politicians will attend the Uki celebrations.

At Kingscliff , the local Lions Club will hold a breakfast in the park in Lions Park in Ma-rine Parade from 7am-9am at a nominal cost, followed by Aus-sie style music by Paul Ensby and other traditional events from 8am.

Tumbulgum will put on a free barbecue breakfast from 8am at the Brian Breckenridge Field in Bawden Street. Activities in-clude a display by street rodders and live music as well as novelty events with Donnie Sutherland paying a visit at 9.15am.

A bicycle race (the Tyalgum Cycle Cup) and cricket match (juniors and seniors) between Australia and India will be the highlights of activities at Tyal-gum. Events there will be held at the local hall and nearby Bruce Bartrim Oval. The bike race sign on begins at 7am and the junior cricket match at 8.30am,

seniors at 11.30am, with various games and activities for children organised.

Knox Park is the venue for celebrations at Murwillum-bah, starting at 8.30am with a Rotary breakfast barbecue fol-lowed by the town’s Australia Day awards presentations by ambassador Donnie Sutherland

at 9.45am. Th e Aquatic Centre is also putting on a fun family program.

Tweed Australia Day Com-mittee president Don Beck told Th e Echo he was disappointed Tweed Heads was not partici-pating in this year’s celebration.

Mr Beck, the former state member for Tweed and Mur-willumbah, said the Tweed Heads Chamber of Commerce and local services clubs used to organise the community

fun day at Chris Cunningham Park near the Jack Evans Boat Harbour but had declined to become involved this year.

‘We had some massive days there… it’s disappointing be-cause 50 per cent plus of the population will be denied that… but the invitation is there for them [the chamber] every year and we would welcome them on board for the 2009 meeting,’ he said.

Tweed’s Citizen of the Year this year is Noela Gresham, who has been honoured for her years of voluntary and com-munity service. Noela has been president of the Murwillumbah Autumn Club since 2001 and organises a program of activi-ties for elderly members. She is also a much valued volunteer at the annual Murwillumbah Festival of Performing Arts.

Other Australia Day award winners are:

McGibbon-Goode, a 15-year-old student at St Joseph’s Col-lege who organised the Gulu Walk to raise awareness of the plight of children in Uganda.

dent at Mt St Patrick College.

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Visiting Italian artist Anna Russo says the Tweed’s ex-travagance of natural colour and light has helped bring her painting to an exciting new level.

Ms Russo says that Australia, and the Tweed in particular, have been essential to the evo-lution of her work, which was recently acclaimed by Italian art critic Valerio Cremolini.

While Ms Russo has a studio in her home in Vernazza, she has been painting and exhib-iting her work in an outdoor area in front of Gelateria Ver-nazza in the Salt village south of Kingscliff , since Christmas eve last, bringing a new mean-ing to the term ‘al fresco’. It is her third such local exhibition, and will run till February 10 when she plans to return to Italy.

An artist by training, in 1970 she graduated from an art college in Carrara, Tuscany. Some fi ve hundred years ear-lier, a frustrated Michelangelo had fl ed to Carrara to work in its marble quarries and to re-charge his artistic batteries. It is also where he was to source the raw material for his most famous work, the statue of David.

Michelangelo was both a painter and sculptor, and Ms Russo is keen to stress the com-ing together of the two art istic forms. She likes to paste un-even layers of paper on to a canvas, or paint on uneven surfaces which contain protru-sions or fragments which lift

her medium from two to three dimensions.

‘Form is important… much like colour, which is an explo-sion coming off the page,’ she said. ‘A rough surface helps me to dig for colour, which in turn acts as a connection to the real world, the world of joy and pain.

‘I had already started to move from a more sedate use of colour to more vivid and lively experimentation, but it was only when I came to Aus-tralia in 2005 that this intuition of mine was confi rmed.

‘The intensity of light and colour here has been inspira-tional, and has given added confi dence and energy to my work.

‘It has also given impetus to a desire to use my painting as an unconventional form of sculp-ture, to use colour as an extra dimensional instrument.’

Incorporating themes of na-ture with the landscapes of her

home on the Italian Riviera, her use of dazzling colour is reminiscent of the playful style usually associated with naïve art. Structurally however, her style is more classically mod-ern, with a full repertoire of interconnected shapes and re-fractions of light.

Ms Russo said she had been ‘so taken by the enthusiasm of local people here, who have supported my work keenly… passersby and children just come up to me to talk and ask questions while I paint, and that is inspiring.’

Prior to arriving in Australia in December, Ms Russo spent time in Spain where she was commissioned to paint a mu-ral in Barcelona. While there, she was able to showcase other works, thereby adding Picasso’s home town to an impressive CV of exhibitions, one which already boasted Milan and Venice among others dating back to the 1970s.

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Residents living in select areas on the Tweed coast are set to pay a higher price than others for their seaside lifestyles fol-lowing recent land valuations.

NSW Valuer General, Philip Western, says land values have risen most in the new town-ships of Casuarina and Salt and the once sleepy village of Fingal, with parts of Greenbank Island, Tweed Heads and Point Danger not far behind.

Residents will learn how much their properties have risen over the past three years and the likely impact on their rates bill next week when valu-ation notices are scheduled to land in letter boxes on Monday and Tuesday.

Mr Western says median residential land values in the Tweed have risen on average by 23 per cent in the three years since the last valuations, while farmland values have jumped on average by 23 per cent and commercial property on average by 31 per cent.

He says demand for land in the shire remains strong, with residential values posting a 15 per cent gain in the 12 months

to July 1 this year despite a general softening in the prop-erty market statewide.

As a result, Tweed is among the top three NSW coastal shires showing the biggest rises in residential valuations, behind only Byron and Rich-mond Valley shires which both experienced a 19 per cent rise in the past 12 months.

A council spokesman said the new valuations would impact directly on any rate increases this year.

Although the council’s total revenue take is limited to the percentage increase which councillors will determine in June, those whose valuations exceed the median will pay proportionally more while those below will pay propor-tionally less.

Mr Western said valuation notices were being issued to some 29,000 Tweed proper-ties with a total land value of about $11.2 billion as of July 1 last year.

‘Real estate sales analysis in Tweed Shire has been extensive during the course of the valuation program with some 709 residential sales, 137 rural sales and 34 commercial

and industrial sales analysed,’ he said.

‘The residential market with-in the shire remained strong over the 12 month period to July 1 this year, especially in highly sought after areas such as Tweed Heads, Fingal, Casua-rina and Salt.

‘In most areas the value of commercial land remained stable or increased marginally.

‘Values for rural land remained stable or increased, depending upon the land type and location, with smaller, rural residential type allotments in coastal locations and in reason-able proximity to Murwillum-bah in demand.

‘Limited supply, coupled with strong demand, has resulted in a strong increase in the value of rural residential and well-located rural hold-ings.’

‘People who have a query about their valuation are encouraged to call our toll free number 1800 110 038,’ Mr Western said.

‘More information on land valuation and a land value search service can be found on the Department of Lands web site at www.lands.nsw.gov.au.’

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Ken Sapwell

Plans for a park overhaul at Pottsville involving the demo-lition of an historic hall will be unveiled at a public meeting in the town on Tuesday (Janu-ary 27).

Pottsville Community Asso-ciation president Mike Wells says the plan provides for a new building to replace the 82-year-old hall known as ‘the kiosk’ in a new location in the park.

He says although the plan doesn’t show the design of the structure, council architects

have indicated it will be similar to the original.

‘People will be sad to see it go because it is the last of three similar structures built around the same time to cater for campers down this end of the coast,’ said Mr Wells.

‘It’s used for yoga classes now but it’s been in almost continu-ous use for community meet-ings, dances, citizenship cer-emonies, political rallies and Christmas parties.’

Mr Wells said hopes that the building could be saved were dashed when an inspection re-

vealed it suff ered from timber rot and contained asbestos.

The council wants to shift the location 100 metres north in a revamp of the beachfront Ambrose Brown Park to make way for any future extension of the adjoining council-owned caravan park.

Th e plan replaces one drawn up by the council in 2006 and contains landscape and vegeta-tion changes.

Mr Wells said the park up-grade was being mainly funded through the federal govern-ment’s regional and local com-

munity infrastructure program which last month delivered $1.3 million into the council’s coff ers.

But the community needed to endorse the plan at next week’s meeting starting at 7.45pm to allow the council to spend the money by a Septem-ber deadline.

The hall was built from Casino hardwood by one of Pottsville’s original settlers, Bill Potts, with part of it later being converted to a kiosk catering for holidaymakers who visited the area in prewar days.

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Faith Williamson, 10, of Tweed Heads, enjoyed decorating her own plant pot with mosaic tiles during the ‘Mosaic Madness’ school-holiday workshop at the Tweed River Art Gallery on Mon-day. Art teacher Anne Stadler said the workshops were very popular, with many booked out.

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Th e Tweed has defi ed doom-and-gloom predictions from tourism experts to post one of the busiest Christmas-New Year holiday periods in recent years.

Tweed Shire Council’s seven coastal holiday villages had to turn people away and up-market resorts at Salt report-ed their best holiday period since opening their doors four years ago, with 80 per cent of their bookings from southeast Queensland.

Local accommodation op-erators who saw higher than usual cancellations during the market jitters in October and heard warnings of a domestic tourism downturn were sur-prised how quickly sentiment turned with a sudden surge of bookings.

Tweed tourism chief Phil Villiers said resorts, motels, holiday parks, bed and break-fast and self-catered accom-modation on the Tweed all

enjoyed a bumper Christmas, with strong bookings into February.

‘Everyone had a fantastic year and it underscores the fact that the Tweed is an emerging tourist destination helped by fabulous restau-rants and clubs and every-thing within easy travelling distance,’ he said.

Council’s business develop-ment manager Andrew Illing-worth said advance bookings for the shire’s seven holiday parks leading up to Christmas were the strongest ever.

‘People are starting to dis-cover the Tweed,’ he said.

‘Th e place is getting a few more of the things visitors want such as restaurants, pa-trolled beaches, good clean wa-terways and boat ramps where you don’t have to queue up for ages,’ he said.

Peak industry body Tourism Research Australia predicted a downturn in both interna-tional and domestic tourism late last year.

Tourists still love the Tweed coast

Holidaymakers relaxing at Hastings Point recently. The popular coastal village is full to the brim this month with visitors and locals.

Eve Jeff ery

Mt St Patrick College student Hayley Walker has been attend-ing school for 11 years and has suff ered no permanent damage from the use of red pen by her teachers.

In a controversial move that has been labelled as a frivolous waste of time, the Queensland government has released a kit suggesting that teachers refrain from using red pens to mark students’ work.

The Good Mental Health Rocks kit tells teachers to use blue or black pens to mark as-signments because red is con-sidered too confrontational. Th e kit and its contents became the subject for discussion in the Queensland parliament re-cently and had MPs and the public seeing red.

‘It’s just a way to make com-ments on your work,’ said Hay-ley, who will begin year 11 at Mt St Pat’s this year. ‘You just look at the ticks and crosses and hope that there aren’t too many crosses.’

Qld premier Anna Bligh said that raising the question of what colour pens the state’s

teachers should use was trivial at a time of economic crisis.

‘Th ousands of Queensland retirees for example are see-ing their superannuation earn-ings go through the fl oor and the opposition wants to speak about the colour of pens that teachers are using in the class-room,’ Ms Bligh said.

Hayley Walker agrees. ‘Teachers should be able to use whatever colour pen they like. You know red is also the colour of love – the crosses may be an-noying but the ticks are great. I think parliament should fi nd more important things to talk about like the bus service get-ting us to school.’

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Mt St Pat’s student Hayley Walker says red is the colour of love. Photo Eve Jeff ery

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In the dim dark ages when I was starting in journal-ism, Sydney had two aft er-

noon newspapers – well, the first editions actually came out mid-morning and call-ing them newspapers may have been a bit of a stretch, but there were certainly two of them: The Sun and The Mirror.

Th ey were fi ercely competi-tive, especially when it came to a front page screamer to attract the passing shoppers, and they were not exactly scrupulous about how they got one. The news editor of Th e Mirror, a veteran fabulist from way back, had developed a ploy for a day when nothing seemed to be happening. He would order one of his young cadet journalists into swim-ming togs and send him to Bondi Beach to mingle with the surfers.

At precisely 15 minutes before deadline the cadet would rush from the water screaming ‘shark! shark!’ and well before the ensuing panic subsided Th e Mirror was on the streets with its horror-shark headlines. Th is not only served to increase Th e Mir-ror’s circulation, but was also a welcome distraction from whatever more serious, but more mundane, crises might be occurring.

And last week brought an unmistakable sense of déjà vu. The mass media discovered that sharks were actually quite common around the Austral-ian coastline. One enterpris-ing subeditor described them as a plague, suggesting that the fish were swarming like locusts. Bathers were advised to avoid the water, or, if they must swim, to carry a large blunt instrument with which to strike ravenous sharks on the snout.

Nowhere in this Monty Py-thon style scenario was it not-ed that you are more likely to get killed by a lightning strike than by a shark attack. And of course, you are far more likely to get severely injured by the economy than by either. It says something about the Austral-ian character that the popu-lace in general is more worried by the unlikely possibility of marine predators than by the certainty of recession.

And it is now a certainty. Even before Access Econom-ics pronounced the budget buggered, it was clear that the twin props on which we had been relying to save us from the fate of the rest of the in-dustrialised world had been pulled from under us. The Chinese miracle was well and truly over. While the billions to our north would still need our raw materials, they would need far less of them, and would pay much lower prices. And as a result the great min-ing boom was also grinding to a halt. Indeed, not only were the big diggers cancelling planned new projects, they were cutting down on exist-ing ones and laying off large numbers of employees.

No-one is any longer pre-tending that deficits can be avoided; it is simply a question of how big and for how long. And the same will apply to the rise in the unemployment rate and the collapse of our balance

of payments. Th ings may not look quite as grim as they do in Europe, but they still look very grim indeed – certainly grimmer than they did at the start of Paul Keating’s reces-sion we had to have.

And yet the general public is treating the approaching disaster with quite remark-able insouciance. Wayne Swan’s bigger and better fi rst homeowner’s grant has been snapped up as if worries about

repayments were a thing of the past; obviously the buyers be-lieve that their jobs are safe. Similarly, Harvey Norman and its competitors are still urging their customers to cart the goods out the front door and pay nothing for a year and a half.

Perhaps they think that in a year and a half everything will be back to normal. Well, it might, but not too many professionals share their op-timism, and even the delib-erately upbeat rhetoric of the politicians is developing a hint of desperation. Kevin Rudd may well spend what’s left of his holidays honing an oration involving positively Churchil-lian quantities of blood and toil, sweat and tears to come.

But if the confidence can endure, it will in itself signifi -cantly shorten the recession and lessen the pain. And of course this week that confi -dence gets a mighty fi llip with the inauguration of Barack

Obama. Obama is not the messiah, but he is a powerful symbol of change and hope. Perhaps the punters have got it right: things aren’t quite as bad as they seem, even if it’s not safe to go to the beach.

And indeed even the Na-tional Party of Australia is

in a buoyant mood, or at least its New South Wales branch is. Th e Nats have decided to experiment with American-style preselections, in which all their supporters, not just party members, can vote to choose a candidate.

Th e idea is to avoid the in-creasingly common situation where the party’s candidate had been beaten by a more popular rival standing as an independent, which makes a bit of sense. But it also carries risks. The obvious one is the possibility that a maverick gets the nod, and goes on to play the role of an independent anyway; that the Nats end up with a party room full of Barnaby Joyces, only more so.

But the other risk is that the membership will simply melt away. Aft er all, they have no input to policy; that’s the pre-rogative of the parliamentary leadership. Th e only reason for enduring the meetings is to have a say in preselecting their own candidate. If they can’t do that, what’s the point? And without the troops to stuff en-velopes, man polling booths and stack talkback programs, even the most popular can-didate is going to look a bit bereft .

Still, it’s worth a try; the state the Nats are in anything’s worth a try. Th e worst it can do is accelerate their inevita-ble demise. And it’s something else to take our minds off the economy.

The staging of the Australian leg of the upcoming World

Rally Championship through Tweed and Kyogle shires

later this year has sparked concern among residents in

areas along its route as well as environmentalists further

afi eld.

Rally organisers will hold meetings with residents in

Murwillumbah, Kingscliff and Kyogle on February 7 to

provide further details of the event, including the route

details, and to try to allay many fears about the event’s

impact.

The event was foisted on to the public without any prior

consultation, which was enough to make it controversial

in the fi rst place. It has also thrown up the question of

how relevant is motor sport these days?

At a time when we are thinking about what to do to

reduce our carbon footprint, and in a biodiverse-rich area

with probably more environmentally-aware residents per

square mile than anywhere else in Australia, it’s not a wise

move.

It’s an even sadder irony that they want to run such a

rally through national parks or forests.

As a mostly spectator sport aimed at television view-

ers, why can’t they stage such an event in the desert or a

purpose-built facility away from residences, people and

wildlife? It makes more sense.

Promoters argue that such a big event will have a global

viewing audience of millions, so it should boost tourism

here and inject millions of dollars into the local economy

– but at what longterm cost and who really benefi ts?

Many Kingscliff residents have complained about the

use of their foreshore reserve as a staging and display

base for the rally cars for the duration of the event, while

further south, Kyogle area residents are exploring ways of

stopping it running through their neck of the woods.

The rally is at odds with everything the Tweed is

renowned and badged for in tourism – its unique envi-

ronmental values. Our environmental self-esteem will be

lost or irreparably damaged as a result of the incongruous

promotion of the rally for our area.

The event would be in doubt anyway because of a

growing number of objections from neighbouring Kyogle

and Byron Shires which would be unlikely to acquiesce as

easily as Tweed Shire. In the Cawongla/Barkers Vale area

just south of Tweed Shire there appears to much more

opposition by rural landholders, some of whom have

converted their properties into wildlife refuges.

Let’s be real, rally driving, or any motor sport for that

matter, appears to be slowly but surely dying out, espe-

cially as spectator entertainment. It may be a big thrill for

those behind the wheel, but it’s elitist and expensive and

has defi nitely reached its use-by date.

Petrol heads obviously won’t agree, but is it really all

that much fun watching cars speeding around, tearing up

the roads or – the entertaining highlight for most – simply

crashing?

Hit the road, Jack

Volume 1 #20 January 22, 2009

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Costs recoveryWhile it is good for Tweed Shire Council to recover legal costs from unsuccessful legal challenges to its decisions, one hopes that they pursue these costs against developers with the same relish that they are do-ing with Terry Sharples.Unlike him, the developers do not have the interests of the Tweed Shire ratepayers at heart.

S K SoutheyRound Mountain

Public service scrutiny?Th e Echo has been a marvel-lously refreshing addition to the public discourse and spread of vital information in the Tweed region. Whereas the other media are thick wrappers for advertising junk, you actu-ally help us to understand the forces and events aff ecting our community. Well done.

It strikes me, however, that an area of government in our shire has been largely unre-ported: the public service shire management team which is the real government of the area. Th e 1970s comedy Yes Minis-ter revealed a great deal about

the relationships between the career ‘servants’ and the elected government. So who are the people who set the agenda for the part-time elected offi cials who take the praise and the blame?

When various ‘issues’ appear before the elected council, such as the recent rates rises, who prepares the briefi ngs, lays out the ‘choices’ on which they will vote? Who initiates the various ‘initiatives’ and planning ideas, policies and regulations?

When new planning regula-tions decree the rules for house layout in regard to ‘streetscape’, do they stem from public con-cern, the initiative of the elect-ed councillors, or has someone in the management team ‘read-a-book, done-a-course’ and decided this would be good for us all and promoted their consideration and passage by the elected councillors?

‘Tweed Shire Council’ the letterhead declares, but how much is Council, and how much is unelected, profession-al management with little or no public oversight or media scru-tiny, busily ‘managing’ what the elected councillors will or will not be made aware of?

Kim DixonBogangar

No time for MungoMungo MacCallum’s vitriolic hatred for people who do not fi t his political views does not deserve space in your news-paper.

His spite and rantings are reminiscent of the derogatory venom directed at Hitler’s po-litical enemies by his propa-ganda minister Joseph Goeb-bels in the 1930s.

His political extremism bor-ders on the fanatical and paral-lels the behaviour of some of the religious fundamentalists mani-festing themselves worldwide.

My former high school Eng-lish master was always ready to

remind us that sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, and, if you don’t have a good word to say about anyone, don’t say any-thing at all.

On both counts, Mungo fails miserably.

Alan DownesBanora Point

■ Mungo MacCallum’s non-sense about John Howard (Th e Echo, January 5) is typical of the

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For most of his eleven years as PM, Howard was in touch with Australians who had vot-ed out Labor. Paul Keating had abandoned the mainstream

and become obsessed with political correctness and the views of self-anointed cultural elites. Nota bene, Mungo.

Howard’s fatal mistake was to introduce industrial relations’ laws which ignored Austra-lia’s fundamental concern for a ‘fair go’. Th en, even a strong economy and wages growth above infl ation could not save his tired government.

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■ It is ironic really. Th e Tweed River, as Katie Milne wrote, is already heavily used by high powered boating and apart from laws and rules enforced by the Maritime Services Board and the police, the Tweed is largely open slather to anyone who wants to put a speed boat in the river.

If we had a high speed ferry ride then it would be strictly controlled. It would be operat-ing under the most stringent laws in regards to environmen-tal impact, noise, speed and lo-cation not to mention safety – and some want to stop the only one we have any control over. By the way, Katie, a jetboat does not have a propeller. It uses a jet of water, hence the name. How about a little research fi rst?

If Lyn Vermeesch had done even a little research she would surely have found that the FIA (the governing body of World Rally) started carbon off set re-search way back in 1997 and

have developed reaff orestation projects in third world coun-tries making both WRC and Formula One carbon neutral. By the way, biofuel is used to power these cars.

If Milne and Vermeesch are serious about protecting our fl ora and fauna then they should be agitating to ban all commercial fi shing in our riv-ers and estuaries. Th ese areas are the nursery for many fi sh and shellfi sh species and are the bottom of the food chain for all other fauna that live in our coastal environment. Imagine what our river would be like then.

I fail to see how a regulated boat ride would stop anyone from enjoying a days kayak-ing or going on an indigenous tour to places of cultural signifi -cance. Aft er all, the Tweed is a big place that we can share with everybody.

Jim LarkinTerranora

■ I wonder if Echo readers know that the world rally to be held in Tweed and Kyogle shires this year was supposed to have been held last year but organis-ers couldn’t fi nd a home for it aft er the Queensland govern-ment failed to approve their re-quirements.

In Western Australia the 2006 rally was cancelled by the contract holders, the Western Australia Tourism Commis-sion, due to cost blowouts and declining crowds and sponsors (Wikipedia).

Rally Australia tried for Caloundra in Queensland but Queensland Events ‘conducted a comprehensive due diligence assessment of the event and, as a result, the decision was taken not to proceed.’

It seems no-one else in Aus-tralia is interested in a world speed car rally at this time – could it have something to do with the incongruity of ‘pet-rol head’ events as awareness

of greenhouse gas pollution is mounting?

Hosting a car rally based on speed sends out a completely mixed message for youth in the area, for ecological sustainabil-ity or for any form of nature-based tourism.

To date, a few Tweed land-holders have been sent no-tices of the event but there has been no DA lodged, no budget or comparative eco-nomic benefit statements produced or what the cost will be for ratepayers to fund and clean up if this event does proceed.

Please be advised that com-munity meetings have been announced on the Repco Rally website as scheduled for Satur-day, February 7, at the Kings-cliff Community Centre at 9am and again at noon at the Tweed Shire Council building, Mur-willumbah.

Trish MannBurringbar

Of power boats and petrol heads

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But that’s history. Let’s look ahead, hopefully to an even-handed Mungo analysis of Kev-in Rudd’s ill-disguised eff orts to shoehorn himself eventually into the secretary general’s job at the United Nations. Go to it, Mungo. Despite everything, we enjoy your articles.

Gerry WorsellTweed Head South

Bay StreetTweed Shire Council’s plan is to close and sell three lanes of the existing Bay Street and allow a 13/14 storey high rise resi-dential with shops and under-ground parking on the existing Bay Street Road Reserve.

Our new councillors may have made their fi rst careless mistake when they approved in October 2008 to ‘advise NSW Lands Department the application to close the road was to proceed’ and to ad-vertise Council’s intention to sell the closed Bay Street Road Reserve. Whether they had checked the past history of this 14 year proposal is not known.

The 1994 Tweed Mall re-quest to buy 3,407 square me-tres of Bay Street has been kept secret behind closed doors, without adequate public scru-tiny. Did councillors know at the time of the 2008 approval that on March 6, 2007 Council had approved a plan to close 3,407 square metres of Bay Street and to negotiate with prospective purchasers, fol-

lowing due process by public tender or public auction? What happened to the tendering and auction requirement in Coun-cil’s 2008 approval?

I hope councillors take their responsibility seriously and accept the invitation to attend

a Tweed Heads Public Rally on Saturday, January 31, at 10.30am (NSW time) at the Bay Street Car Park (opposite Woolworths).

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■ Letters also received from N C Thompson, Banora Point, F N Jenkins, Fingal Head, R Gray, Kingscliff , L Francis, Uki (see www.tweedecho.com.au). Several letters had to be edited for length; please remember short letters are preferred.

■ I suggest that awards show-ered upon Fingal’s Coastcare mob are devalued. Th at many of Fingal’s citizens are expe-riencing strife with respect to coastcare activities is of little apparent concern to the saga-cious judges. If awards were given to organisations that en-gendered community harmo-ny, Fingal’s coastcare would be well down the list, I suggest.

Th e Department of Land and Water Conservation (DLWC) identifi ed lack of community consultation by the Tweed Shire Council as the prime source of conflict between Coastcare Groups and citizens in 1996-97 when taking charge to restore sanity at Fingal.

Through public meetings with delegates of the Tweed Shire Council, Coastcare, the Fingal Progress Association, the Fingal Surf Club and dissi-dents like me, the Department developed a Plan of Manage-ment for the area. Strangely, it was never adopted by Council as the Reserve Trust Manager.

Less able to be avoided, the Department developed a docu-ment entitled ‘A guide to help

volunteers working on NSW coastal Crown Land’ (ISBN 0 7313 0307 5) listing legal and consultative obligations. How-ever, where Fingal is concerned, and possibly other pockets within the Tweed, the Council has reverted to old habits.

Recent accusations by the Coastcare president and the subservient Council bureauc-racy, that plantings ‘had been deliberately destroyed’ (in the early 1990s would you believe?) as reported in Th e Echo on Jan-uary 15 are part of a whispering campaign to discredit citizens and cover institutionalised nepotism and ineptitude.

Eddy Kemp Fingal Head

■ In response to Th e Echo ar-ticle on January 15 re Fingal Coast Care and resident Eddy Kemp, I am an original co-founding and active member of Dune Care for 22 years and wish to correct some inaccu-rate statements made.

Th e planting in front of Ma-rine Parade where Eddy Kemp lives was done by students from St Patrick College in Murwil-

lumbah with trees supplied by Dune Care, and Council sup-plied taps and a water supply so watering could be carried out. Th ese trees did not die through drought as Mr Kemp claims, they were totally removed. A year later Mt St Patrick’s replant-ed the area, and again the trees were removed. Th e students did not come back for a third serve.

We have worked in consul-tation with Council all these years and they share the vision of what can be achieved with degraded coastal land with support and hard work. Th ey should be congratulated.

Mr Kemp again has recently had his property for sale with ‘ocean views’ and I can under-stand his concern somewhat, but all of that area of Marine Parade is part of an overall planting plan arrived at with Council. Judging by the fami-lies, surfers and tourists who visit the area because it is dif-ferent and natural, Mr Kemp should be pleased that we vol-unteers who created this are boosting his real estate values.

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Award winning Palm Beach architect, Stephen Lesiuk has designed the quintessential coastal community, Pavilions at Pottsville Beach, inspired by Floridian seaside cottages. It is the second boutique residential development in the northern coastal NSW region designed by Lesiuk Architects and Sydney property developer, Augusta Properties. Andrew Hahn, Augusta Property spokesperson explains, “With Pavilions our objectives were to achieve high standard residences that comple-ment the natural coastal environ-ment and incorporate sustainable construction practices offered at entry level prices for seaside living.”

Priced between $475,000 and $650,000 there are eleven private residences with six residences fronting on the salt water estuary that buffers the Pacifi c Ocean; and fi ve residences with vistas of Mount Warning and the border ranges. Each residence is over two levels with three bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and open living plan combin-ing interior and external spaces positioned to take advantage of the sea breezes. Generous

ceiling heights and extensive glazing further enhance the liveability and a casual lifestyle. Combined interior and external living spaces range from 231sqm to 331sqm inclusive of a double lock-up garage for each home ac-cessible by a private community paved driveway with landscaped grounds using native fl ora.

Byron Bay-based ‘Fully Furnished by Designer Boys’ and ‘Di 4 Interior Designs’ from the Gold Coast were each commissioned to style and furnish a Pavilions showcase display apartment using their interpretations of casual coastal living infl uenced by well known international beach resort communities such as Florida’s Seaside and the New York Hamptons.

In the fi rst display home, Designer Boys, Warren Sonin and Gavin Atkins, opted for a midnight blue and crème colour palette with eclectic furnishings such as plush sofas and white-washed timber tables reminis-cent of mid-70’s Hampton style beach houses. “The style we’ve furnished the Pavilions display home is one of our personal favourites that works beautifully for those who want a luxurious, yet comfortable setting for their seaside lifestyle” said Designer Boy Gavin Atkins.

The Pavilions showcase display home styled by Di Hendy, is eclectically furnished using Ralph Lauren nautically inspired

accessories and oversized sofas; and exemplifi es how to effec-tively furnish a home on a set budget. Both design companies offer ‘turn key’ furniture pack-ages particularly popular for the holiday rental market.

Located in Pottsville Beach at the corner of Overall Drive and Hampton Close, Pavilions and its showcase display homes are open for inspection on Saturday 12:00pm to 2:00pm, and Sunday 11:00am to 1:00pm. Martin Toomey, Coldwell Banker Kirra Beach (mobile 0433 164 404)

and Roger McLeod, Professionals Pottsville Beach (mobile 0418 752 343) are handling the sales campaign.

Terranora Village Terranora Village Estate has been constructed and developed by local Tweed family business Greenview Developments.

Greenview Developments Pty Ltd is part of a family-owned group of companies that has operated in the South East Queensland and Tweed regions

for almost 20 years. Greenview Developments is strongly com-mitted to the principles of environmental excellence and sustainable development.

To achieve this, we:

our environmental performance

wherever possible, to envi-ronmental values of land and water

waste, pollution and biodiver-sity impacts of our activities

ronmental legislation and regulations

exchange of environmental in-formation with all stakeholders

age employees to meet and exceed their environmental responsibilities

tal targets on all projects

and review our environmental performance

Our achievement in the fi eld of environmental excellence is underlined by peak industry awards for best practice in civil construction presented at both state and national levels –

1999 Case Earth Award, 2006 NSW Case Earth Award for Environmental Excellence (projects over $15m), 2008 Earth Award for Environmental Excellence (projects over $15m).

Greenview Developments con-tribute expertise, insight and innovation, helping to meet challenges and deliver solutions that enhance effi ciency and add value to every project. While ensuring quality performance, environmental excellence and safe, healthy work practices, we deliver on time and on budget. Our people and our perform-ance are the cornerstones of our success.

Select from 64 blocks ranging in size from 600sq m to 1897sqm in “Terranora Village”; a boutique estate in a picturesque pocket of Terranora offering you views of the ocean or the hinterland within a serene neighbourhood setting reminiscent of yesteryear.

With playing fi elds for the children, the superb selection of fl at or sloping blocks in such a central location leaves you want-ing for nothing.

The Location:

schools, childcare, shops and medical centre.

tine beaches of Coolangatta or Kingscliff

skiing and all major sporting facilities

Coast

NEW Terranora Land Release Starts This Weekend

$230,000 - $340,000

The Tweed Shire is one of the booming regions in the state and development and housing are a growth industry. Companies who specialise in development which will shape the way we live in the future and create housing that is stylish while remaining economically and ecologically sound, is where we are headed in the 21st century.

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Find your place

Discover this rare offering of just 11 newly completed waterside townhomes on the Tweed Coast of Northern NSW, moments from the beach

and overlooking the river, coastal dunes and border ranges. Set at Pottsville Beach, an idyllic township where the country meets the coast.

Embrace a true community with its relaxed lifestyle and unspoilt natural beauty.

Display Suite Open: Saturday from 12noon to 2pm NSW time (11am to 1pm QLD time)

Sunday from 11am to 1pm NSW time (10am to 12noon QLD time)

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4.30 GP (PG) Repeat. 5.30 Spicks And Specks (G) Repeat. 6.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 I Can Jump Puddles Repeat. 1.30 Opal Fever (PG) Repeat. 2.00 Monarch Of A The Glen (G) Repeat. 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.05 Pilot Guides Honduras & El Salvador 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 Kylie Kwong: Sichuan (G) cuisine

journey through China. 8.30 Trial And Retribution (M,v,cl) new

crime series. 9.40 The Complete Guide To Parenting

(PG) Repeat. 10.05 ABC News 10.15 Man Stroke Woman (M,cl,sr) Repeat 10.45 rage (M) goes on until 5am Saturday.

5.00 rage (PG) 10.00 rage: Special – rage goes Retro (G) 11.00 Outback House (PG) Repeat. 12.00 Dynasties: The McGuigan Family 12.30 The Best Of Australian Story: It’s

Not Easy Being Green Repeat. 1.00 Movie: Hitler’s Children (PG, 1942)

Stars Tim Holt, Bonita Granville. 2.30 Basketball: WNBL 2008/09:

Bulleen vs Perth highlights. 4.00 Movie: Gunga Din (G, 1939) Stars

Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks, Joan Fontaine.

6.00 Totally Frank (PG) Repeat. 6.30 Best Of Gardening Australia (G) 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Rain Shadow (PG) Repeat. 8.25 ABC News 8.30 The Bill (PG) 10.05 ABC News 10.10 Last Detective (M,v,at) Repeat. 11.20 rage (M)

5.00 rage 6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Q&A debating the big issues. Rpt. 10.00 Inventions From The Shed (G) Rpt. 10.30 Every Parents Nightmare 11.30 Songs Of Praise (G) Repeat. 12.00 Best Of Landline (G) 1.00 Best Of Gardening Australia (G) 1.30 Message Stick (G) Repeat. 2.00 The Melbourne Story (G) boxing. 3.00 Schools Spectacular 2008 (G)

Repeat. 4.30 Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2007 (G) 6.05 Kidnapped (PG) Repeat. 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Doctor Who 8.25 ABC News Update 8.30 The Last Confession Of Alexander

Pearce (M,v) convict drama. 9.35 Fanny Hill (M,s,n) bawdy drama. 10.50 Compass: Raising The Flag (M,cl) 11.40 In The Winter Dark (M,v,cl) Repeat. 1.10 Movie: Seven Keys To Baldpate

(PG, 1947) Stars Phillip Terry, Jacqueline White, Eduardo Ciannelli.

2.20 Movie: Along The Rio Grande (PG, 1941) Stars Tim Holt, Ray Whitley.

2.50 Psychic Investigators (PG) Repeat. 3.55 Hell On Ice (PG) Repeat.

6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 Asia Pacifi c News 9.30 Business Today 10.00 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Howard Taylor: Forest Artist (G) 5.00 Travel Oz (G) Repeat. 5.30 From The Heart (G) Repeat. 6.00 Compass: The Quiet Revolution –

Global Networks (G) Repeat. 6.35 Coach Trip (G) 7.00 Zoo Days (G) 7.30 Something In the Air (G) Repeat. 8.00 Basketball: WNBL 2008/09;

Bulleen vs Perth Live. 10.00 Soundtrack To My Life: Joe

Jackson 10.30 Planet Rock Profi les: Ms Dynamite 10.55 Freshmen On Campus (PG) Repeat. 11.20 London Live (PG) Repeat. 11.45 Close

7.00 Kids’ Programs 3.00 rage (G) Repeat. 5.00 rage: Special; rage goes Retro (G)

Repeat. 6.05 Creature Comforts (PG) 6.35 Robin Hood (PG) Repeat. 7.20 A Little Later: Bjork (PG) 7.35 Classic Albums: Stevie Wonder –

Songs In The Key Of Life (G) Repeat. 8.35 Movie: The Front Page (PG, 1975)

Stars Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon.

10.15 Movie: The Mad Miss Mandon (PG, 1938) Stars Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene, Whitney Bourne.

11.35 Close

7.00 James Brown: Live In Montreux 1981 (G) Repeat.

8.10 The Doves: Live At Eden (G,cl) Repeat.

8.55 Kaiser Chiefs: Live At The Fillmore (G) Repeat.

10.00 Gorillaz: Demon Days Live (PG) Repeat.

10.05 T. Rex: When T. Rex Ruled The World (G) Repeat.

12.00 London Live (PG) Music. Repeat. 12.30 Red Dwarf (G) double episode. 1.30 Planet Rock Profi les: Coldplay (PG)

Repeat. 2.00 Elvis Costello: Live In Memphis

(PG) Repeat. 3.00 U2:Vertigo Live From Chicago (G) 4.00 Coldplay: Live In Sydney 2003 (G) 4.45 A Little Later: Moby (G) Repeat. 5.00 Classic Albums: U2 – Joshua Tree (G) 6.00 21 Years Of Compass: Buddha

Realms (PG) Repeat. 7.05 The Museum (G) Repeat. 7.35 Wild At Heart (PG) Repeat. 8.30 What Price Fame? – Where Egos

Dare (PG) Repeat. 9.25 Elizabeth David: A Life In Recipes 10.55 Montreux Jazz Festival 2003:

Music World (G) Repeat. 11.50 Close

5.20 World News in various languages. 1.00 The Food Lovers’ Guide To

Australia (G) Repeat. 1.30 Making Babies: Donor Generation

(PG) Repeat. 2.30 Life Under Napoleon: The Defeat

Of Napoleon (PG) Final. 3.30 Policing The Pacifi c (G) part 3 of 4

doco. Repeat. 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 5.30 The Clipperton Expedition: An

Orange Army land crabs. Pt 2 of 6 (G) Repeat.

6.00 Cycling: Tour Down Under Highlights Stage 4 – South Australia

6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Fairy Tales Exposed (PG) Snow White 8.20 One Voice, One Vote (G) short from

France. 8.35 Churchill’s Bodyguard (G) Repeat. 9.30 World News Australia 10.00 Eros Under The Swastika (MA,s,v)

doco from Germany. Repeat. 10.55 Movie: Miss Sweden (MA,cl,s, 2004)

Drama from Sweden. 12.30 Movie: 20 Centimetres (MA,s,n,

2005) Comedy from Spain. 2.30 WeatherWatch Overnight

5.20 World News in various languages. 1.00 The Turn Of The Screw (PG) Opera

from the UK. Repeat. 3.00 Who Gets To Call It Art? (MA,v)

doco from the US. Repeat. 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 5.30 A Fork In The Mediterranean:

Turkey (G) Repeat. 6.00 Cycling: Tour Down Under

Highlights Stage 5 – South Australia. 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Mythbusters (PG) doco series. 8.30 Iron Chef (G) Repeat. 9.20 RocKwiz (PG) entertainment. 10.00 Obama Inaugural Celebration

encore screening. 12.00 SOS (PG) 1.00 The Insiders Guide A To Love

(M,a,cl) Final. 1.50 Weatherwatch Overnight

6.25 World News in various languages. 10.00 Insight Summer Season: Holding

The Baby child care. Repeat. 11.00 Iron Chef (G) Repeat. 11.50 Cocktails (G) entertainment. 12.00 Dakar Rally 2009 Review 1.00 Speedweek 2.00 Cycling: Tour Down Under Stage 6

Live – Final Stage. 3.00 Football Asia 4.00 Les Murray’s Football Feature 5.00 The World Game football. 6.00 Thalassa – Oman (G) 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs

(PG) doco from the UK. 8.30 Nuremberg: Hermann Goering

(PG) Part 2 of 3 doco from the UK. 9.40 Speer And Hitler: Nuremberg

– The Trail (MA) Part 2 of 3 docu-drama from Germany.

11.15 Movie: Bad Boys (MA,s,v, 2005) Drama from Finland.

1.25 If The Dead Could Speak (M,n,cl,v) Drama series from Argentina. Rpt.

2.20 Weatherwatch Overnight

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 Kids’ Programs 10.00 That’s So Raven (G) 10.30 Seven Morning News 11.00 Tennis: Australian Open 2009 –

Day 5 Live. 6.00 Prime & Seven News 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 7.30 Tennis: Australian Open 2009 –

Day 5 Live. 12.30 Auction Squad (G) 1.30 Danoz Direct 2.30 Expo 5.00 Guthy Renker

6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 Toon Disney 11.00 Tennis: Australian Open 2009 –

Day 6 Live. 6.00 Seven News 6.30 TBA 7.30 Tennis: Australian Open 2009 –

Day 6 Live. 12.30 Movie: Blame It On Rio (M,s,n, 1984)

Stars Michael Caine, Demi Moore. 2.25 Danoz Direct 3.25 Expo 5.00 Guthy Renker

6.00 Religion 6.30 Crefl o A Dollar 7.00 Kids’ Programs 7.30 Weekend Sunrise 10.00 The Most Extreme (G) night lights. 11.00 Tennis: Australian Open 2009 –

Day 7 Live. 6.00 Seven News 6.30 Hot Property (G) Final. 7.30 Tennis: Australian Open 2009 –

Day 7 Live. 12.30 Movie: The Terminator (M,v,cl,s,

1985) Stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn.

2.30 Danoz Direct 3.00 Guthy Renker 5.30 Seven Early News

6.00 Ten Early News 7.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 9am Summertime (PG) 11.00 Ten News 12.00 Dr Phil (PG) Repeat. 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) 3.00 Infomercial (PG) 3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures (G) 4.00 It’s Me Or The Dog 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful (G) 5.00 Ten News 6.00 The Simpsons (G) Repeat. 6.30 Neighbours (G) Repeat. 7.00 Friends (PG) Repeat. 7.30 The Simpsons (PG) double episode. 8.30 Law & Order (M) double episode. 10.25 Orange Roughies (M,cl,v) 11.25 Late News With Sports Tonight 12.25 Late Show with David Letterman (PG) 1.25 Infomercial (PG) 2.25 Video Hits Up Late 2.30 Infomercials 4.00 Queer Eye For The Straight Guy (PG) 5.00 Religion to 6am (PG).

6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.00 Video Hits (PG) 12.00 Star Wars: The Clone Wars (PG) 12.30 Pat Callinan’s 4X4 Adventures (G) 1.00 Escape With ET (G) 2.00 Beach Cricket : Round 3 Live. 5.00 Ten News With Sports Tonight 6.00 The Simpsons (PG) Repeat. 6.30 Movie: Billy Madison (PG,cl,s,

1995) Stars Adam Sandler, Bradley Whitford, Bridgette Wilson.

8.30 Movie: The Jackal (M, 1997) Stars Richard Gere, Bruce Willis, Sidney Poitier.

11.00 Rush (M) Repeat. 12.00 America’s Next Top Model (PG)

double episode. 2.00 Infomercials 4.00 Religion to 6am (PG)

6.00 Religion 7.00 Totally Wild (G) Repeat. 7.30 Animalia 8.00 State Focus (G) 8.30 Video Hits (PG) 10.00 Video Hits (PG) 12.00 Australian Fishing Championship 1.00 Australian Speedway Motorcycle

Championships 2.00 Beach Cricket : Round 3 Live. 5.00 Ten News With Sports Tonight 6.00 Out Of The Blue (G) Repeat. 6.30 Movie: Nanny McPhee (PG, at,

2005) Stars Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Angela Lansbury.

8.30 Movie: Inside Man (M,cl,v, at, 2006) Stars Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Willem Dafoe.

11.05 The Daily Show With Jon Stewart – Global Edition (MA15+,cl,sr) comedy.

11.35 The Offi ce (PG) 12.05 Taken Out (G) 12.35 Cops (M,d,at) 1.00 Infomercials 4.00 Religion to 6am (PG)

5.30 Today 9.00 Mornings with Kerri-Anne

Summer Series (PG) Repeat. 10.00 Kids’ Programs11.00 Danoz 11.30 Temptation (G) fi nal. 12.00 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 1.00 The View (PG) talk show. 2.00 One Day Cricket Series – Australia

vs South Africa Live. 6.00 Evening News 6.30 A Current Aff air 7.00 One Day Cricket Series – Australia

vs South Africa Live. 10.00 Movie: Absolute Power (M,v,cl,

1997) Stars Gene Hackman, Clint Eastwood, Laura Linley.

12.30 Movie: Head Of State (M, cl, 2003) Stars Chris Rock, Bernie Mac.

3.00 Girlfriends (M) 3.30 Guthy-Renker Australia (G) 4.30 Good Morning America

6.00 Infomercials 7.30 Kids’ Programs 12.00 Boarding Pass Travel Show. 12.30 The Hills (PG) 1.00 The Gilmore Girls (PG) 2.00 Movie: Quo Vadis (PG,v,1951) Stars

Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov.

5.30 Angels Of Mercy (G) 6.00 Evening News 6.30 Funniest Home Video Show –

Summer Series (G) Repeat. 7.30 Movie: Superman III (PG,v, 1983)

Stars Christopher Reeve, Jackie Cooper, Richard Pryor.

8.40 Saturday Lotto 10.00 McLeod’s Daughters (M) double

episode. 12.00 Movie: A Soldier’s Girl (AV15+,v,s,cl,

2003) Stars Troy Garity, Lee Pace. 2.00 Movie: Nothing But Trouble (M,cl

1991) Stars Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, John Candy, Demi Moore.

3.50 David Campbell (PG) Music. 4.00 Danoz 4.30 Guthy Renker

6.00 Danoz And Guthy Renker 7.00 TVP Direct And Biomagnetics (G) 8.00 Sunday News 8.30 Fishing North Australia (G) 9.00 Movie: Dennis The Menace Strikes

Again (G, 1998) Justin Cooper, Don Rickles, Dwier Brown.

10.30 Going Places (PG) Bangkok. 11.00 2008 Western Australian Ironman

– Bussleton 12.00 Speed Machine Willowbank Raceway 12.30 Jack Of All Trades (G) 1.00 WWE Afterburn wrestling. 2.00 Wildlife Man Featuring David

Ireland (PG) 3.00 Movie: Grumpy Old Men (PG,cl,s

1993) Stars Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margaret.

5.00 Australian Of The Year Announcement

6.00 Evening News 6.30 20 To 1 (PG) 7.30 Two And A Half Men (PG) Repeat. 8.00 Big Bang Theory (PG) 8.30 Flashpoint (M) 9.30 The Mentalist (M) Repeat. 10.30 Cold Case (M) 11.30 Movie: Blow (MA15+, cl,v, 2001)

Stars Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, 1.45 At The Movies (PG)

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Seven Program same as above except:10.00 Australian Open 2009 – Day 5 Live. 5.00 Scrubs (double episode).Prime HD program same as above except:9.30 Movie: Solaris (MA,cl,s, 2002) 11.10 Urban Legends 11.35 Final 24: Jim Morrison

Seven program same as above except:10.00 Australian Open 2009 – Day 6 Live. 5.00 Scrubs (double episode).Prime HD program same as above except:9.30 Movie: I Heart Huckabees (M,cl,s, 2003) 11.30 Hamish & Andy

Seven program same as above except:10.00 Australian Open 2009 – Day 7 Live. 5.00 The Most Extreme.Prime HD program same as above except:9.30 This Is Your Laugh 10.30 The Knights Of Prosperity 11.00 Medical Incredible 12.00 Australia’s Strangest Home Improvements

NBN Qld program same as above except: 1.00 One Day Cricket Series – Australia vs SouthAfrica Live. 5.00 Evening News 5.30 A Current Aff air 6.00 One Day Cricket Series – Australia vsSouth 9.00 Temptation 9.30 Two And A Half MenAll cricket on NBN this summer will be broadcast in HD

1. Insomniacs should register the fact that after the

one-day cricket on Friday NBN wheels out a decent

Clint Eastwood fi lm, Absolute Power.

2. Owners of digital set-top boxes will congratulate

themselves on Saturday when they watch, without

ad breaks, the defi nitive newspaper story The Front

Page (ABC2, 8.35pm). Better still, it is preceded by a

documentary exploring how Stevie Wonder came to

write and record Songs in the Key of Life.

3. Nathan Fillion plays the captain in Serenity (Ten,

Monday 8.30pm). The fi lm is developed from Josh

Whedon’s SF television series Firefl y, which inexplic-

ably ran for only one season despite being better

written and more imaginative than the endless

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4.30 GP (PG) Repeat. 5.30 Spicks And Specks (PG) Repeat. 6.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 The Fishermen: Journey Into The

Mind Of A Killer (PG) Repeat. 1.30 Surfi ng The Menu (G) Repeat. 2.00 Parkinson (G) Repeat. 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.10 River Cottage Gone Fishing! Final. 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 The Museum (PG) Final. 8.30 Doctor Who (PG) Repeat. 9.35 Bastard Boys (M,cl,du) Repeat. 10.35 ABC News 10.45 Shrink Rap: David Blunkett (PG)

Repeat. 11.35 Movie: Invaders From Mars (G, 1953)

Stars Helena Carter, Arthur Franz. 12.50 Movie: The Magnifi cent Ambersons

(PG, 1942) Stars Joseph Cotton, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead.

2.20 Movie: Make Mine Laughs (G, 1948) Stars Joan Davis, Leon Errol, Ray Bolger.

3.25 Triple j tv With The Doctor (G)

4.30 GP (PG) Repeat. 5.30 Spicks And Specks (G) Repeat. 6.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Best Of Landline Repeat. 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Poirot (PG) 1.30 Surfi ng The Menu (G) Repeat. 2.00 Parkinson (G) Repeat. 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.05 The House Of Windsor Elizabeth II’s

reign. Final. 6.50 The Australia Day Message 2009 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 Choir Of Hard Knocks (PG) Repeat. 8.30 Glass: A Portrait Of Philip In

Twelve Parts (PG) artist Philip Glass. 10.30 ABC News 10.40 2050: How Soon Is Now? climate

change. 11.35 MDA (M,at) drama. Repeat. 12.30 Movie: MacBeth By William

Shakespeare (PG, 1948) Stars Orson Welles, Jeanette Nolan.

2.15 Movie: San Quentin (PG, 1946) Stars Lawrence Tierney, Barton MacLane.

3.25 Bowls: NSW Open 2008 - Men’s Semifi nal Repeat.

4.30 GP (PG) Repeat. 5.30 Spicks And Specks (PG) Repeat. 6.00 Kids’ Program 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 National Press Club Address Repeat 1.30 Surfi ng The Menu (G) Repeat. 2.00 Parkinson (G) Repeat. 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.05 Art Museums Of The World (G) Final 6.30 Nigella Express (G) cooking. 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 My Family (PG) Final. 8.35 The Omid Djalili Show (PG) Final. 9.05 Chandon Pictures (M,cl) new com-

edy series. 9.35 Seven Periods With Mr Gormsby

(M,sr,cl) Repeat. 10.00 The Robinsons (M,sr) Repeat. 10.30 ABC News 10.45 To The Ends Of The Earth (M,v,s) 3

part mini series. Repeat. 12.15 Movie: Men In Wars (M,v, 1957) Stars

Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Robert Keith. 2.05 Movie: Q Planes (PG, 1939) Star

Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Valerie Hobson.

3.25 National Press Club Address: James Gosling – Sun Microsystems

4.30 GP (PG) Repeat. 5.30 Spicks And Specks (PG) Repeat. 6.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Madras Magic: The Tied Test Of ‘86

(G) Repeat. 1.30 Surfi ng The Menu (G) Repeat. 2.00 Parkinson (G) Repeat. 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.05 Planet Earth: Seasonal Forests (G) 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 Everest ER (G) 8.35 The Unteachables (M*,cl) unruly kids 9.30 Flour, Sugar And Tea (G) why non-In-

digenous men live longer in Australia. 9.55 Constructing Australia (G) Repeat. 10.55 ABC News 11.05 Live From Abbey Road with The

Kills, Sara Bareilles, The Fratellis (M,cl) 11.55 Wildside (M,cl,v) Repeat. 12.45 Movie: Arch Of Triumph (PG, 1948)

Stars Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer. 2.55 Movie: Child Of Divorce (PG, 1946)

Stars Sharyn Moff ett, Regis Toomey. 3.55 The Glass House (M,sr,at)

6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 Asia Pacifi c News 9.30 Business Today 10.00 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Little Angels (G) Repeat. 5.00 Kylie Kwong (G) double episode. 6.00 Wagging School (G) 6.05 Under The Hammer (G) Repeat. 6.35 Coach Trip (G) 7.00 Zoo Days (G) 7.30 Something In The Air (G) Repeat. 8.05 Father Ted (PG) Repeat. 8.30 Hamish Macbeth (G) Repeat. 9.20 The Bill (PG) Repeat. 10.50 MDA (M*cl) Repeat. 11.40 Close

6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 Asia Pacifi c News 9.30 Business Today 10.00 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Best Of Gardening Australia (G) Rpt 5.00 Message Stick (G*) Repeat. 5.30 Croc Country (G) Repeat. 6.00 Walking With Cavemen (G) Repeat. 6.35 Coach Trip (G) 7.00 Zoo Days (G) 7.30 Something In The Air (G) Repeat. 8.00 Red Dwarf (G) Repeat. 8.30 The Pigeon Detectives At Radio 1’s

Big Weekend (PG) 9.00 Mind, Body And Kick Ass Moves (PG) 9.30 Code Geass (M,v) 10.25 INXS: Live Baby Live (G) Repeat. 11.35 Cowboy Bebop (M,v) Repeat. 12.00 Close

6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 Asia Pacifi c News 9.30 Business Today 10.00 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Dynasties (G) Repeat. 5.00 A Seaside Parish (G) 5.25 Gardening Australia (G) Repeat. 5.35 Time Team (G) Repeat. 6.35 Coach Trip (G) 7.00 Zoo Days (G) Britain’s largest zoos 7.30 Something In The Air (G) Repeat. 8.05 1 Giant Leap: What About Me? –

Wanting And Freedom (G) 8.30 Eataholics: Addicted To Bread 9.30 America’s Fattest City (PG) Houston 10.50 E-Dreams (M,cl) Kozmo.com 11.55 Close

6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 Asia Pacifi c News 9.30 Business Today 10.00 Kids’ Programs 4.30 The Pinnaroo Surfer (G) 4.40 Speed Machines (G) Repeat. 5.30 Naked Science (G) Repeat. 6.35 Coach Trip (G) 7.00 Zoo Days (G) Britain’s largest zoos 7.30 Something In The Air (G) Repeat. 8.00 The Omid Djalili Show (PG) Final. 9.05 Chandon Pictures (M,cl,at) comedy 8.55 Seven Periods With Mr Gormsby

(M,sr,cl) Repeat. 9.30 Roman’s Empire (M,cl,s) family drama. 10.00 Headcases (M,sr) satirical look at the

worlds celebrity and politics. 10.25 The Peter Serafi nowicz Show (M,cl)

Repeat. 11.05 Kung Faux (M,cl,v,sr) 11.30 The Book Group (M,cl,s) Repeat. 11.55 Close

5.20 World News in various languages 1.00 The Storm Rages Twice (G) Repeat

drama from Lebanon. 1.55 Don Matteo (PG) Drama series from

Italy. Repeat. 3.00 Here Comes The Neighbourhood

(G) Repeat. 3.30 Everybody Loves A Wedding (G) Rpt 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 5.30 Corner Gas (G) comedy series. 6.00 Global Village: Exccentriiiks 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Home To Live To 101 Without Trying

(PG) doco on the quest to live longer. 8.30 Blood And Guts: History of

Surgery – Fixing Faces (PG) 9.30 World News 10.00 The Dark Years (PG) animated series

of the 1930s from Canada. 10.55 Hot Docs (M,s,a) double episode. 11.40 Movie: Copacabana (M,cl,s, 2004)

Comedy from Brazil. 1.20 Why Australian Men Pay For It

(MA,cl,s) 2.20 WeatherWatch Overnight

5.20 World News in various languages. 1.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia (G)

Repeat. 1.30 The Life And Times Of Malcolm

Fraser (PG) Repeat. 2.40 SOS Presents (PG) Repeat. 3.00 Oz Concert 2008 (G) Repeat. 4.30 The Journal 5.00 The Crew (G) student video production 5.30 Corner Gas (G) comedy series. 6.00 Global Village: Lombardia (G) 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Top Gear (PG) 8.30 South Park (PG,a,cl) 9.00 Drawn Together (MA,s) animated

comedy series. 9.30 World News Australia 10.00 Pizza (M,a,cl) comedy series. 10.30 Skins (MA,d,s,n) repeat drama series.11.25 Movie: Phantom, The Submarine

(MA,v, 1999) Thriller from South Korea 1.15 Movie: The Boy Who Saw The Wind

(M,v, 2000) Animation from Japan. 3.00 WeatherWatch Overnight

5.20 World News in various languages. 1.00 Movie: The Syrian Bride (PG, 2004)

Drama from Israel. 2.40 The Legend Of The Scarecrow (G) 2.50 Skeleton Woman (PG) Repeat. 3.00 Salam Cafe (PG) Repeat. 3.30 Football Star Of Tomorrow Repeat. 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour with Jim Lehrer 5.30 Corner Gas (G) Comedy. 6.00 Global Village: Exccentriiiks 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Food Safari: USA (G) 8.00 Tales From The Palaces (G) doco

series on palaces of the UK. Repeat. 8.30 Long Way Down: King, Rwanda to

Chinteche, Malawi (M,a,cl) part 8 of 10 doco of a world motorcycle trip.

9.30 World News Australia 10.00 Movie: The Educators (M,d,cl,s,v,

2004) Drama from Germany. 12.15 Movie: Time Out (M,cl,s, 2001)

Drama from France. 2.30 Weatherwatch Overnight

5.30 World News in various languages. 1.00 TV Around The World: Iran (PG)

doco series from France. 1.30 Blizzard: Race To The Pole (PG)

doco series from the UK. Repeat. 2.30 Hitler’s Sunken Secret (PG) Repeat. 3.30 If Only (G) Repeat. 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 5.30 FIFA Futbol Mundial 6.00 Global Village: Exccentriiiks 6.30 World News Australia 7.35 Rex In Rome (PG) crime series from

Italy. 8.30 Carla Cametti PD (M,cl,v,) drama

series. 9.30 World News Australia 10.00 Movie: Read My Lips (MA,cl,v, 2001)

Drama from France. 12.05 Queer As Folk (MA,cl,s) Repeat. 12.55 Clara Sheller (M,cl) drama series

from France. Repeat. 1.55 Weatherwatch Overnight

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 Kids’ Programs10.30 Seven News11.00 Tennis: Australian Open 2009 –

Day 9 Live. 6.00 Seven and Prime News 7.00 Home And Away (PG,a) 7.30 Tennis: Australian Open 2009 –

Day 9 Live. 12.30 Guthy Renker 1.00 Danoz Direct 2.00 Expo 5.00 Guthy Renker 5.30 Seven Early News

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 Kids’ Programs10.30 Seven News11.30 Tennis: Australian Open 2009 –

Day 8 Live. 6.00 Seven and Prime News 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 7.30 Tennis: Australian Open 2009 –

Day 8 Live. 12.30 Guthy Renker 1.00 Danoz Direct 2.00 Expo 5.00 Guthy Renker 5.30 Seven Early News

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 Kids’ Programs 10.00 Hannah Montana (G) 10.30 Seven News 11.00 Tennis: Australian Open 2009 –

Day 10 Live. 6.00 Prime & Seven News 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 7.30 Tennis: Australian Open 2009 –

Day 10 Live. 12.30 Guthy Renker 1.00 Danoz 5.30 Seven Early News

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 Kids’ Programs 10.00 Hannah Montana (G) 10.30 Seven News 11.00 Tennis: Australian Open 2009 –

Day 11 Live. 6.00 Prime & Seven News 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 7.30 Tennis: Australian Open 2009 –

Day 11 Live. 12.30 Danoz 1.00 Guthy-Renker 5.30 Seven Early News

6.00 Ten Early News 7.00 Toasted TV & Kids’ Programs 9.00 9am Summertime (PG) 11.00 Ten News 12.00 Dr Phil (PG) Repeat. 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) Repeat. 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) Repeat. 3.00 Infomercial (PG) 3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures (G) 4.00 It’s Me Or The Dog (G) Repeat. 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful (G) 5.00 Ten News 6.00 The Simpsons (G) Repeat 6.30 Neighbours (G) 7.00 Friends (PG) Repeat. 7.30 The Simpsons (PG) Repeat. 8.00 Rules Of Engagement (PG) Repeat. 8.30 NCIS (M,v) double episode. 10.30 Late News With Sports Tonight 11.15 Late Show With David Letterman (PG) 12.30 Taken Out (G) Entertainment. 12.30 State Focus Repeat. 1.00 Infomercials (PG) 4.00 Religion to 6am (PG)

6.00 Ten Early News 7.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 9am Summertime (PG) 11.00 Ten News 12.00 Dr Phil (PG) Repeat. 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) Repeat. 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) Repeat. 3.00 Infomercial (PG) 3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures (G) 4.00 It’s Me Or The Dog (G) Repeat. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful (G) 5.00 Ten News 6.00 The Simpsons (G) Repeat. 6.30 Neighbours (G) 7.00 Friends (PG) Repeat. 7.30 The Simpsons (G) 8.00 Rules Of Engagement (PG) 8.30 Movie: Serenity (M,v, 2005) Stars

Adam Baldwin, Nathan Fillion. 10.50 Late News With Sports Tonight 11.35 Late Show With David Letterman (PG) 12.30 Taken Out (G) entertainment. 1.00 Infomercials 4.00 Religion to 6am (PG)

6.00 Ten Early News 7.00 Toasted TV & Kids’ Programs 9.00 9am Summertime (PG) 11.00 Ten Morning News 12.00 Dr Phil (PG) Repeat. 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) Repeat. 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) 3.00 Infomercial (PG) 3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures (G) 4.00 Its Me Or The Dog (G) 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful (G) 5.00 Ten News 6.00 The Simpsons (G) Repeat. 6.30 Neighbours (G) Repeat. 7.00 Friends (PG) Repeat. 7.30 The Simpsons (PG) Repeat. 8.00 Rules Of Engagement (PG,sr) Repeat. 8.30 House (M) double episode. 10.30 Ten News With Sports Tonight 11.15 Late Show With David Letterman (PG) 12.00 Taken Out (PG) entertainment.12.30 Infomercials 4.00 Religion to 6am (PG)

6.00 Ten Early News 7.00 Toasted TV & Kids’ Programs 9.00 9am Summertime (PG) 11.00 Ten Morning News 12.00 Dr Phil (PG) Repeat. 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) Repeat. 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) 3.00 Infomercial (PG) 3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures (G) 4.00 Its Me Or The Dog (G) 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful (G) 5.00 Ten News 6.00 The Simpsons (G) Repeat. 6.30 Neighbours (G) Repeat. 7.00 Friends (PG) Repeat. 7.30 Don’t Forget The Lyrics (G) 8.30 Law & Order: S.V.U. (M) Repeat. 9.30 Law & Order: Criminal Intent (M) Rpt 10.30 Ten News With Sports Tonight 11.15 Late Show With David Letterman (PG) 12.00 Taken Out (G) entertainment. 12.30 Infomercials (PG) 4.00 Religion to 6am.

5.30 Today 9.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Danoz And Guthy Renker (G) 12.00 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 1.00 The View (PG) talk show. 2.00 Days Of Our Lives (PG) 3.00 Summer Fresh (G) cooking. 3.30 Here’s Humphrey (G) 4.00 The Shak 4.30 Afternoon News 4.30 Antiques Roadshow Castle Howard. 5.30 The Zoo (G) 6.00 Evening News 7.00 A Current Aff air 7.30 Police Ten 7 (PG) 8.00 Sudden Impact (PG) Final. 8.30 Movie: Conspiracy Theory (M,v,

1997) Stars Julia Roberts, Mel Gibson Patrick Stewart, Alex McArthur.

11.15 Movie: Live From Baghdad (M, cl, 2002) Stars Michael Keaton, Helena Bonham Carter, Joshua Leonard.

1.30 Guthy Renker 3.00 Religion 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

5.30 Today 9.00 Mornings with Kerri-Anne

Summer Series (PG) Repeat. 10.00 Kids’ Programs11.00 Time/Life (G) 11.30 Danoz (G) 12.00 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 1.00 The View (PG) talk show. 2.00 One Day Cricket Series – Australia

vs South Africa Live. 6.00 Evening News 6.30 A Current Aff air 7.00 One Day Cricket Series – Australia

vs South Africa Live. 9.59 Lotto 10.00 Movie: Memphis Belle (M, 1990)

Stars Harry Connick Jnr, Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz.

12.10 E R (M) Repeat. 1.05 McLeod’s Daughters (PG) Repeat. 2.00 Guthy Renker 3.00 Religion 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

5.30 Today 9.00 Mornings With Kerri-Anne

Summer Series (PG) 10.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Danoz and Bio-Magnetics (G) 12.00 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 1.00 The View (PG) talk show. 2.00 Days Of Our Lives (PG) 3.00 Summer Fresh (G) summer dishes. 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 NBN News 5.00 Antiques Roadshow Castle Howard

Compilation. 5.30 The Zoo (G) 6.00 NBN News 7.00 A Current Aff air 7.30 10 To One (PG) 8.00 New Adventures Of Old Christine

(PG) drama series. 8.30 CSI: Miami (M) Repeat. 8.45 Lotto 9.30 E R (M) double episode. 11.30 Just Shoot Me (PG) 12.00 The Dead Zone (M) 1.00 The Avengers (PG) Repeat. 2.00 Guthy Renker And Danoz 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

5.30 Today 9.00 Mornings With Kerri-Anne

Summer Series (PG) 10.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Danoz and Guthy Renker (G) 12.00 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 1.00 The View (PG) talk show. 2.00 Days Of Our Lives (PG) 3.00 Kids’ Programs 4.00 Airtime Final. 4.30 NBN News 5.00 Antiques Roadshow Torquay. 5.00 The Zoo (G) 6.00 NBN News 7.00 A Current Aff air 7.30 Emergency (PG) 8.00 The Waiting Room (PG) hospital

drama. 8.30 Cold Case (M) Repeat. 9.30 Secret Millionaire (PG) Emma

Harrison. 10.30 Amazing Medical Stories (M,mp) 11.30 Seinfeld (PG) 12.00 Movie: The Invisible Circus

(M,s,cl,d, 2001) Stars Jordana Brewster, Cameron Diaz.

1.45 Newton Faulkner (PG) music. 2.00 Guthy Renker 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

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[s] = Sex[a] = Adult themes[n] = Nudity[du] = Drug use[dr] = Drug references[v] = Violence[*] = Could off end[h] = Horror

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Programs are correct at the time of going to press but beware – all stations like tinkering

with things at the last minute.All Ten programs between 5pm and 11pm (approx)

nightly are Closed Captioned (CC)

Seven program same as above except:10.00 Australian Open 2009 – Day 9 Live. 5.00 Hannah Montana 5.30 Deal Or No Deal.Prime HD program same as above except:9.30 Inside Saddam’s Reign Of Terror 10.30 Movie: Rudy; The Rudy Giuliani Story (MA, 2003) 12.00 Australia’s Strangest Home Improvements

Seven QLD program same as above except:10.00 Tennis: Australian Open 2009 Day 11 –Live. 5.00 Hannah Montana 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.30 Today Tonight.Prime HD program same as above except:9.30 Final 24: Janis Joplin 10.30 Lost 12.00 Australia’s Strangest Home Improvements

Seven program same as above except:10.00 Australian Open 2009 – Day 8 Live. 5.00 Hannah Montana 5.30 Deal Or No Deal.Prime HD program same as above except:9.30 Final 24: Janis Joplin 10.30 Urban Legends 11.00 Gear 11.30 Louis Theroux & Weird Christmas

Seven QLD program same as above except:10.00 Tennis: Australian Open 2009 Day 10 –Live. 5.00 Hannah Montana 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.30 Today Tonight.Prime HD program same as above except: 9.30 Medical Incredible 10.30 Lost 12.00 Urban Legends

NBN Qld program same as above except: 1.00 One Day Cricket Series – Australia vs SouthAfrica Live. 5.00 Evening News 5.30 A Current Aff air 6.00 One Day Cricket Series – Australia vsSouth 8.59 Lotto 9.00 Movie: Memphis Belle (M,1990) 11.10 Two And A Half MenAll cricket on NBN this summer will be broadcast in HD

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Oasis Pools Celebrate Australia DayThe annual Australia Day BBQ at the pool will again see all 5 Infl atables in the water from 11 o’clock until 4pm (weather permitting). The DJ will commence at 11.30 and there will also be

face painting for the children and prizes for the best Aussie.Scuba Diving Courses from beginner to Master are offered at the Pools with new courses each week.Lots of fun for the whole family. Do come and join us to celebrate.Leisure Drive, Banora Point, phone 07 5523 1781.

Billinudgel Hotel loves to celebrate Australia DayBillinudgel Hotel is a classic Aussie bush pub,on Australia

Day we have our Bistro opened with typical Aussie meals such as Corned Beef with White sauce and Lamb Cutlets, plus our usual great value and quality menu.We have live music from 2pm-7pm with Jerry and The Rollers followed by Shake Appeal playing some great rock music for you. For the kids we have sack races and

three legged races. Come and enjoy a great day at the Billi.

Australian Homeowners CelebrateHomeowners are enjoying a bonanza in the current political climate with three different rebates overlapping in New South Wales for the purchase of solar hot water systems, dramatically reducing their upfront cost.New South Wales State Government’s Department

of the Environment and Climate Change is offering a rebate of up to $1,200 when purchasing a solar hot water system for the home.NSW households who replace their existing electric hot water system with a solar hot water heater can also expect to gain energy savings of $300 per year!! Australian owned, EcoSmart Hot Water manufactures and markets a comprehensive range of environmental hot water systems for the home. Ecosmart™ can do

emergency replacements and offer installation within 24 hours.For further information on EcoSmart’s range of energy-effi cient hot water systems please visit www.ecosmart.com.au or call 133 326.

Greenmount Beach ClubWith second to none views of the entire Gold Coast from the balcony, a full bar with professional staff and sensational meals served by

the Head Chef and his team. Located at the beautiful Greenmount Beach, The Greenmount Beach Club is a great place to celebrate Australia Day. Starting at 10.00am, the whole family can enjoy a great day out. A special Australia Day menu is being prepared with live entertainment, featuring Paul Atkins, starts at 4.00pm. Don’t miss the cane toad racing or the monster raffl e for a bar fridge full of grog.For bookings call 07 5536 1506.

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Mention Austen Tayshus to a group of com-ics and the room

becomes hushed. Everyone has a vehement opinion. He has that ability to polarise people. ‘That bastard made fun of me,’ one mutters, ‘I know a club that will never have him back,’ says another and in the corner one shyly admits ‘I think he’s inspiring. He doesn’t care what anyone thinks. Isn’t that what we are supposed to be about?’Austen Tayshus is relentless. He has made a career as an outlaw in the comedy scene, a renegade who’s personifi ed by being diffi cult.‘Theres is never a venue I can go back to,’ he laughs.‘ It’s getting harder to fi nd venues where I haven’t upset people!’ Austen takes the funny

business of being a comedian seriously.‘It’s always been an artistic pur-suit for me, it’s never been just entertainment. I have never been interested in pandering to an audience, it becomes laborious just sucking up to an audience. When I’m performing I love the material to appear fresh. I love the spontaneity of the moment. There’s obviously a lot of old shit in there so I try and push it further and the way I do that is by harassing the audience. I don’t want to upset them for the sake of it, but creating an opposing point of

view, whatever it is creates a new theatrical dynamic.’

Most comics live in fear of hecklers. Austen lays in wait. He is the most ferocious opponent in the water, but at every Tayshus gig you can be assured of one thing. Some-one will crack.

Someone will say

something and then it’s on. The wild ride begins. He handles the heckler with a bemused calm, and then goes in for the kill.‘I used to get angry but now I try and utilise it artistically. It doesn’t matter what happens– if someone calls me big nose I just try and push it in a direc-tion where everything makes sense. I try and make the show make sense so that it is actually connected to the zeitgeist, to what’s going on in my head and what’s going on in the world, it should touch people somehow.’

Austen is a big believer in being well read. He believes comics owe their audiences the courtesy of being aware of the bigger picture.‘Everything is about being in-formed properly. Not just hear-ing three things and thinking one way or another. You need to hear everything and digest it. I always tell other comedians that they need to constantly read, be aware of current aff airs and read good literature – anything that can contribute to being informed and culturally cognisant of what is happening in the world. As a comedian it’s very important to be in charge. If you are well informed you will be in charge. You have to be confi dent. You always have people in the audience who’ll want to tear you apart because that’s part of this culture. It’s part of the challenge of being a comedian.’To watch a Tayshus show is a

thing of wonder. Even in the height of chaos, he seems cool and unfl appable. He’ll wander off stage and calmly have a post-show latte while some yobbo does laps in the car park waiting to kill him. The man in the trenchcoat and Ray Bans is characteristi-cally unafraid.‘I am very resilient to every-thing because my Dad survived the Holocaust. I guess that is inherent in my genetic make- up and it’s what makes me capable of pushing through. I love the art of comedy. I am totally passionate about it.’

His best shows have always been in the Byron Shire. Austen feels it’s an audience that’s smart enough to ‘get it’.‘I like the whole area around Byron, there’s obviously a lot of losers up there, but they give me a thrill, I love that, I love the losers, I love the confi dent losers!’If Austen was in school his report card would be marked ‘extreme oppositional behav-iour’. If you tell him not to do something, it’s the fi rst thing he does. There are hundreds of exam-ples that have become com-edy folklore where Tayshus has torn a venue manager apart, or insulted the invited dignitary or lambasted a CEO. Austen shared a more recent one with me.‘I was at Channel 31 (Commu-nity TV in Melbourne) and the guy said you can say anything you want, it’s not like com-

mercial station. They fi red up the cameras and I said ‘John Howard is a cunt’. They said you can’t say that! I said you said I could say anything. They said, I will give you one more chance and I said: John Howard is a fucking cunt. They stopped rolling and the guy said that’s it you’re banned. So now I have a lifetime ban at Channel 31.’He can’t help it. He’s a provo-cateur.

‘I have always loved that extremely provocative point of view. I like the Marlon Brandos of this world, the people who don’t fi t in who are always in trouble. I don’t mean to say you need to waste yourself – but take a point of view that is far away from the norm.’His successful, conservative

Jewish family don’t under-

stand.‘My mother says “why must you say cocksucker”?’ There is something of the

Bill Hicks in Austen Tayshus. Hicks is the opinionated

American comedian who was lauded by fellow comics and has become a cult fi gure ten years after his death. Diffi cult and talented people are al-ways appreciated most when

they are dead.Austen laughs: ‘I am sure there will be no one at my funeral.’ Might be hard to fi nd a venue.(Check out YouTube and type in Austen Tayshus for a backlog of footage that dates back to the 80’s.)Austen Tayshus, the thinking person’s comedian. Monday

at the Mullumbimby Ex-Services Club. 8pm. Tickets

are $15/20 and are available at the club or can be booked by phoning 6684 3443. MC is Mandy Nolan and support is Ellen Briggs.

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crossword 22

stars 22

gig guide20

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Pandanus Parade Cabarita Beach 02 6676 0033

PLUS

Relaxed Family Atmosphere

FREE Courtesy Bus from Kingscliff to Pottsville(24 hrs notice would be appreciated

CALL 02 6676 0033 FOR BOOKINGS

NEW menu and cocktail list

SUNDAY 25 JAN 2PMIsaac Paddon & the Tides

Monday Night Steak Special* $10Wednesday Night Schnitzel Special* $10*Conditions apply.

‘ FREAKS DAY OUT SURFING EXTRAVAGANZA’‘ FREAKS DAY OUT SURFING EXTRAVAGANZA’

Sat 24th Jan‘ FREAKS DAY OUT SURFING EXTRAVAGANZA’Comp starts 8am

Plus loads of family fun from

It’s fi nally happened. I’ve

become one of those

women with a big car

full of kids. Not just your

normal 5 seater. In just

12 weeks, I’ll be able to

fi ll a 7-seater. That’s right

environmentally aware pop ulation control Nazis, I am destroying the universe, one reverse park at a time. And if you’ve seen how I drive, there’s going to be paint scrapes

on Uranus. I’m gonna keep breeding until I can fi ll a bus or my uterus drops out. It’s funny how you become what frightens you most. Those women in cars with the sliding doors full of progeny have always scared me. You see a woman climb down from her mini-van, and you think, I’m not fucking with her. She’s probably had a bad day that’s only gonna get worse. She’s wearing three quarter length tracksuit pants and you know she has

no intention of going to the gym. This is combat wear – big family Mumma uniform. These women are the Mad Maxines of the suburban streets. They’ll mow you down at a pedestrian crossing, steal a disabled park and talk on the mobile with a car full of kids. I am now one of them. I have joined the pack of aggressive don’t-fuck-with-me-femmes. When you sit in the driver’s seat of an oversized people mover it’s like you need a sticker that says

‘Contraceptive Free Zone’. It is quite extraordinary to consider the unique existence of one’s tiny self, and then take a peek in the rear vision mirror and take in the vast array of people you have made. It’s like having your own human playdough. Having a big car gives you responsibilities. While I may be plugging away at the world resource bank with all the hungry mouths and busy bottoms, I do feel a pang of guilt driving solo, with six empty seats.

After dropping the kids off

to their various activities

the other day I drove past

a hitchiker and didn’t

pick him up. It seemed

unethical. And even

though I wasn’t going in

his direction I insisted on

picking him up and took

him back to Mullumbimby.

He was still trying to get

a hitch when I drove past

him later in the arvo with

a car full of kids. Pity I

couldn’t pick him up. He

was fi nally going in the

same direction.

BIG CAR LADY

Mandy Nolan

Austen TayshusAustralian comedy legend Austen Tayshus has per-formed 10,000 live shows in nightclubs, universities, com-edy clubs, pubs and theatres throughout Australia and the world.His single ‘Australiana’ released in 1983 still holds the record for the biggest selling Australian single ever. He’s sharp, rude, abrasive, and won’t feel satis-fi ed until someone walks out in disgust. See him then walk out on him at The Coolangatta Hotel, Friday January 23, 4pm. Entry is free.

Mental as AnythingThey have outlasted four Prime ministers, the death of the vinyl LP, the rise of Microsoft and the Internet, man’s colonisation of space, the New Romantic Movement, Pol Pot and big hair. Their career has spanned fl ared jean coming in and out of fashion. They have sold over two million records world-wide and had Top 10 hits in North America and Europe.They are Mental As Anything and they are coming to the Coolangatta Hotel on Friday January 23 8pm. Entry is free.

Wiley Wiley is one of the original founders of what is now known as ‘Grime’ music.Arguably the most infl uencial musician from Grime’s spiritual home of Bow E3, Wiley has been either directly responsible for or indirectly infl uenced the careers of nearly every artist to come through the scene. Either producing beats for or nurtur-ing younger talent like Tinchy Stryder, JME, Skepta, Doctor, Jammer and most notably Dizzee Rascal. Wiley is one of a few individuals who can be honestly described as excel-ling in many diff erent areas of music. Ticket Price $44.00 + bf. Coolangatta Hotel on Satur-

day January 24, 8pm.

Cooley gets The BluesThe Coolangatta Hotel brings

the hottest blues talent to

the Bandroom in a huge free

show featuring Mason Rack

Band, Blind Lemon, Eightball

Aitken and Marshall and The

Fro. Sunday January 25, 7pm.

Cabarita’s the place to be for Australia Day weekendThe Beach Bar Cabarita has

a huge line up for everyone

on Saturday. The Freaks Day

Out Surfi ng Competition

on Cabarita Beach includes a

family fun day on the lawns

next to The Beach Bar with two

bouncy castles, face painter,

balloonman, pony rides, mer-

chandise stands, bikini parade

and beach cricket. Feeling

hungry? Inside at the bar, a

special Aussie menu for the day

will also include bands starting

from 2pm. Catch Matt Buggy,

Carley Veal, Fat Albert, a Surf

Comp Presentation, Mason

Rack and Conrete Street.

Max Judo will fi nish the night.

Sunday is the normal menu

with Australia Day specials with

live music from Issacc Paddon

and the Tides from 2pm.

Monday is the normal great a

la carte menu with Austrlia Day

specials. Soul Man performs

from 2pm. There’s also a

bouncy castle for the kids all

the weekend!

Fred LangRegular escapee, laughter

maker and heartbreaker, Fred

Lang has escaped from three

schools, two TAFE colleges, 106

‘employment opportunities’,

53 households, 21 countries

and fi ve relationships – but he

is committed to his dog Beau!

He’ll push, prod and provoke

you with a style that is uniquely

his. Fred has worked with lumi-

naries including Peter Berner,

Tommy Dean, Jimeoin and the

Scared Weird Little Guys. Gold

Coast Arts Centre, Friday

January 23, 8pm, Support is

by David Eastgate and MC is

Mike Bennett. Bars open and

meals available from 6.30pm.

18 years & over. www.gcac.

com.au/

Christine Anu and Deni HinesTwo of Australia’s most loved

and successful female record-

ing artists Christine Anu and

Deni Hines join forces on

one tour takin’ it to the streets

around the country. In a 2 hour

show each artist will perform

a 45 min set of their hits and

favourite songs and yes there’ll

be some special duet perform-

ances as well. This is the fi rst

time that Christine and Deni

have performed together.

Tweed Heads Bowls Club

Sunday January 25 at 7pm.

Cost is $27.

The SearchersGet set to catch Love Potion

Number Nine. British band

The Searchers, who made the

song famous by sending it to

number two on the American

charts, are coming to Tweed

Heads as part of an around-

the-country tour. Formed in the

late 1950s, the Liverpool, UK,

band played a refreshing mix

of Mersey beat, pop and rock

in a time when music was sim-

pler and performances more

authentic. Saturday January

24, 8pm at the Tweed Heads

Bowls Club. Cost is $28.

Sunday NeverlandNew venue Neverland will be

featuring local original acts A

French Butler Called Smith,

Loudstar, Katia Demeester-

this Sunday. Find them at 23

McLean St, Coolangatta from

7pm. Cost is $5.

Battle of the BandsThe Ivory Tavern is hosting

a massive battle of the bands

contest this weekend! Satur-

day: 1pm Dan Hanniford band,

2pm Blind Side, 3pm Hell n

Whiskey, 5pm Joe Tameria and

the Green Stones, 6pm The

Avocado Theory, 7pm Most,

8pm Philosopher’s Stone

Sunday: 1pm Aron Bishop,

2pm Higher Frequency, 3pm

Tongue n Cheek, 4pm King

Louis Band, 5pm One year

Later, 6pm TBC, 7pm CC Cat.

Monday is the fi nals.

whatsON

with Hans Lovejoy

christine anu and deni hinesat the tweed heads bowls club sunday

tommee at the sphinx rock cafe

on sunday

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Marine Pde, KingscliffPhone: 02 6674 1404Fax: 02 6674 0089

Bingo Mondays & Fridays

from 9:30am

OPENING HOURSSunday: 8:00am - 10:30pm

Monday - Thursday: 9:00am - 10:30pmFriday & Saturday: 9:00am - 11:30pm

Celebrate Australia Day• Barefoot Bowls 10am-3pm• Free Jumping Castle 10am-2pm• Sausage Sizzle 10:30-2pm

FREE LIVE ENTERTAINMENTMon 12pm - 3pm Fri-Sat 7:30pm - 10:30pm

Trivia Tuesdays & Fridaysfrom 5:30pm

WIN AN AUSSIE BBQ

TWEED VALLEY JAZZ CLUB PRESENTS

a double main event

Date: Friday January 30 Venue: Greenhills On Tweed, River St, South Murwillumbah (Blackboard Menu & Bar Service available. No BYO).Cost: Members $15, visitors $20 U/18s $5

RAFFLES & MEMBERS DRAW – ALL WELCOME BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL – phone 02 6672 1697

The Mountain Bandits

From 6.30pm DST

Acoustic Brew From 8.45pm DST

Punk Rock not

dead yet

Scripts For Sidewalks are

leaving The Tweed Coast, but

not without one last hurrah.

Hurrah. The boys believe punk rock’s not dead yet and as long as there are people out there getting pushed to the ground they will be there to pick them up again. Scripts For Sidewalks will be playing with The Lost Cause, Deputy Dipshit and Sled at Shed 5 on Saturday Janu-ary 24, at 6pm. BYO event,

ID required, tickets are $10 at the door. 33 Ern Harley Drive West Burleigh Heads. They will also will be at the Sands Hotel every Thursday night jamming out with the Smashed Crabs. This event is free and over 18.

Tommee and the TrioWith legendary performances at big stages at Woodford and elsewhere, the Sphinx Rock Cafe are thrilled to present one of the funkiest roots acts in Australia. Tommee and the crew will spread love and light vibes and dancing rhythms, on a day when everyone will be made to feel gorgeous. Sphinx Rock Cafe, Mt Burrell, Sunday at 1pm

The Sound of InvisibleInvisible Friend add their distinct musical touch to the Australia Day long weekend when they bring their mes-merising rock, funk and roots music to Byron Bay. The lads are busy making plans for touring in 2009, as well as rifl ing through new material to record at their Sunroom Studio in the hills later in the year. The boys have become favourites of the live music scene with their infectious grooves, thoughtful lyrics and melodies, all sewn together with their hard hitting signature vocals. Invisible Friend have been described as having a Dr-Who like charm, jumping from

one style or genre to another

with great ease and aff ection.

They play the Buddha Bar on

Saturday at 8pm.

Over the ToppThe Topp Twins are New

Zealand’s cultural ambassadors

to the rest of the world. The

girls have a cult following

in NZ and something of an

underground one over here.

There ain’t many identical twin,

yodelling, singing, openly-out

lesbian acts on the circuit, and

these girls are sensational.

Starting off as buskers in

Auckland, every Friday night

crowds would gather and

overfl ow the footpaths as the

twins played, involving the

crowd in their visual antics. The

Topp Twins, Lynda and Jools,

have received exceptional

reviews, extending their

following globally. The Twins

came of age as performers in

the early 80s during the heady

days of political protesting. The

Topp Twins have successfully

crossed from the fringes to the

mainstream – the best of the

Twins’ stage shows were fi lmed

for a television special for

which they won several awards.

A decade later, the Topp Twins

own primetime TV Series Do

Not Adjust Your Twinset has

won the Topps’ several more

TV awards. The Topp Twins,

will grace the Stardust room

at Seagulls for one night only

Friday February 6 at 8.30pm.

mason rack at the beach bar cabarita saturday

the mentals atthe cooly on friday

top twins at seagulls friday feb 6

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eating out guide to all the best restaurants and cafés in the northern rivers

`The best restaurant in town.Not to be missed.’

Australian Gourmet Traveller, March 2008

Open 7 days from 6pm till lateBeach Hotel, Byron Bay

Bookings 66 807 055

Italian And Mediterranean CuisineAlfresco Family RestaurantDinner Tuesday – SaturdayDine In Or TakeawayBYO 07 5536 9500

1 Wharf Street, Tweed Heads

O L I O R I S T O R A N T EOpen 7 days • 8am - 4pm Friday & Saturday Nights

Fully Licensed2 Rowlands Creek Road,

Uki NSW 2484ph: 02 6679 5351

ph/fax: 02 6679 5851

64 Mt Warning Rd, Mt Warning NSW

Cottage at Cabba

BAR & RESTAURANTMarty & Wendy Waters

Shop 1/2 35 Tweed Coast Rd

Cabarita BeachPhone 02 6676 3955

❦ Cottage on CoronationModern Australian Cuisine

Bush TuckerWinners of 2008 BEX

Restaurant of the Year Award

12 Coronation AvePottsville

Phone: 02 6676 4949

NAM YENGVietnamese & Thai Restaurant

OPEN 7 DAYSBYO

PH: 02 6672 3088

Yolanda Nutter0407 078 408

Michael Sopena0439 489 623

7 Wharf St Murwillumbah360 Marine Pde, Labrador

(07) 5528 2377

BISTRO OPEN DAILY1497 Kyogle Rd, UkiPh: 02 6679 5111

OPEN 7 DAYS 10am–Late

MT WARNING HOTEL

RESTAURANT + LOUNGE BAR02 6670 5555

Poolside at Domain Santai Resort9 Dianella Drive, Casuarina

Lunch: Tues-Sun from 12 noonDinner: Tues-Sat 6pm-late

Buffet breakfast Saturday & Sunday7.00am–11.30am

Open for lunch on public holidays

Live it I Love it

GREAT VALUE FAMILY BUFFETGollan Drive Tweed Heads West 2485

07 5587 9000

02 6674 9961Barclay Drive, Casuarina

Dinner & BarOpen 6 days from 4pm

(closed Mondays)Weekends open breakfast/

lunch/dinnerFull a la carte breakfast from 7am

Lunch from 12 noonDinner/Bar from 4pm

FLAMINGOES CAFÉ

91 MAIN STMURWILLUMBAH02 6672 5492

OPEN 7 DAYS & NIGHTS

WORLDS BEST PIZZAS

Bookings essentialPh 02 6674 4833

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Salt Village Kingscliff

Evenings: Monday-Saturday

(Tapas/cocktail bar from 5pm)Lunch:

Friday, Saturday, Sunday 12-3

Free Delivery34 Machinery DriveSouth Tweed Heads07 5523 382

GIG GUIDE DEADLINE 12pm tuesday hans@echo.net.au ph. 6672 2280 fax. 6672 4933

gig guideTHURSAY 22

■ CUDGEN LEAGUES CLUB KINGSCLIFF 7.30PM LLOYD SANIEL

■ HOTEL BRUNSWICK BRUNSWICK HEADS 7.30PM BRAIN WATT

■ THE BEACH HOTEL BYRON 9.30PM KING FAROOK

■ THE RAILS BYRON 6.30PM GREEN MANGOES REUNION

■ HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN BYRON SUPERCHEESE

■ BUDDHA BAR, BYRON 7.30PM OPEN MIKE

■ TAPAS TAPAS BRUNSWICK HEADS, 7PM ILONA HARKER

■ TWEED HEADS BOWS CLUB 6PM LIVE ENTERTAINMENT

FRIDAY 23■ CUDGEN LEAGUES CLUB

KINGSCLIFF 7.30PM PAUL RENO

■ CABARITA BEACH SPORTS CLUB BOGANGAR 8PM PLAYGIRHYTHM

■ CABARITA BEACH BAR & GRILL LIVE DJ

■ CALYPSO TAVERN COOLANGATTA 9PM MR PERKINS

■ CABARITA BEACH BAR & GRILL LIVE DJ

■ CURRUMBIN RSL CURRUMBIN CREEK 7PM KAFFENE

■ GOLD COAST ARTS CENTRE 8PM COMEDIAN FRED LANG WITH DAVID EASTGATE AND MIKE BENNETT

■ SOUTH TWEED SPORTS CLUB 7.30PM ROCK AND ROLL DANCE LESSONS 8.30PM ROOMSHOT

■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 7.30PM LIVE ENTERTAINMENT

■ TWIN TOWNS SERVICES CLUB,9PM-12AM LIVE ENTERTAINMENT

■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL 4PM AUSTEN TAYSHUS

■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL 8PM MENTAL AS ANYTHING (FREE SHOW)

■ HOTEL BRUNSWICK BRUNSWICK HEADS 7.30PM THE PERCOLATORS

■ HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN BYRON ISAAC PADDON AND THE TIDES

■ HOTEL M’BAH 9PM DJ LEE■ IMPERIAL HOTEL M’BAH

8PM FOG MOHINI ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH HOTEL

8.30 YOHANN RAIN■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH CLUB

7.30PM STREET CAFE■ LA LA LAND BYRON MYLES

JUNIOR, WEBBER & RUSHTON

■ M’BAH SERVICES MEMORIAL CLUB 7PM BREAK OUT

■ POTTSVILLE SPORTS CLUB 6.30PM TREVOR RIX

■ SALTBAR, KINGSCLIFF 8.30PM TUFF

■ SEAGULLS, CONNECTIONS LOUNGE 7PM KATHY RAYDINGS

SATURDAY 24■ CABARITA BEACH SPORTS

CLUB BOGANGAR 8PM MASON RACK

■ CABARITA BEACH BAR & GRILL 2PM-11PM MATT BUGGY & CARLEY VEAL, FAT ALBERT, MASON RACK, CONCRETE STREET & MAX JUDO

■ CURRUMBIN RSL 7PM LOADED DICE

■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL 8PM WILEY

■ HOTEL MURWILLUMBAH 9PM RAY CAT

■ IVORY TAVERN TWEED HEADS 1PM DAN HANNIFORD BAND 2PM BLIND SIDE 3PM HELL N WHISKEY 5PM JOE TAMERIA AND THE GREEN STONES 6PM THE AVOCADO THEORY 7PM MOST 8PM PHILOSOPHERS STONE

■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH CLUB 7.30PM CHI CHI

■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH HOTEL 8.30 ZONE MUSIC

■ LA LA LAND BYRON LIVEWIRE

■ M’BAH SERVICES MEMORIAL CLUB 6.30PM VANYA

■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 8PM THE SEARCHERS $28

■ GOLD COAST ARTS CENTRE 7PM THE HARRY LYNN JAZZ QUARTET (WEEKLY GIG)

■ POTTSVILLE SPORTS CLUB 6.30PM DENNIS DEAN

■ SALTBAR KINGSCLIFF 8.30PM KEL HARPER

■ SHED 5 ERN HARLEY DRIVE WEST BURLEIGH HEADS 6PM, THE LOST CAUSE, DEPUTY DIPSHIT & SCRIPTS FOR SIDEWALKS

■ SOUTH TWEED SPORTS CLUB, 3PM-6.30PM LIVE JAZZ (WEEKLY FREE GIG)

■ SEAGULLS, CONNECTIONS LOUNGE 7PM KATHY RAYDINGS

■ SEAGULLS PIANO BAR 4PM TONY KRUGER

■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 8PM THE SEARCHERS $28

■ WAXY’S SURFERS PARADISE 7.30PM RYAN MURPHY

SUNDAY 25■ CABARITA BEACH BAR &

GRILL 2PM ISAAC PADDON AND THE TIDES

■ CLUB BANORA 11AM LIVE ENTERTAINMENT

■ IVORY TAVERN TWEED HEADS 1PM ARON BISHOP 2PM HIGHER FREQUENCY 3PM TONGUE N CHEEK 4PM

KING LOUIS BAND 5PM ONE YEAR LATER 6PM TBC 7PM CC CAT

■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH HOTEL 1PM PAUL ATKINS

■ LA LA LAND, BYRON HACIENDA NITE: JONNY G, DON NADI & CAPTAIN KAINE

■ CURRUMBIN RSL 1.30PM MARTY HURST

■ NEVERLAND COOLANGATTA 7PM A FRENCH BUTLER CALLED SMITH, LOUDSTAR, KATIA DEMEESTER

■ SALTBAR KINGSCLIFF 1PM CHILLED PRESTON

■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 7PM CHRISTINE ANU AND DENI HINES $27

■ POTTSVILLE SPORTS CLUB 5PM BIRDY

■ SPHINX ROCK CAFE MT BURRELL 1PM TOMMEE AND THE TRIO

■ BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 4.30PM THE FEREMONES 8PM DJ GOODIE

■ THE RAILS, BYRON 6PM THE REAL DEAL

■ HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON MICK HART

■ HOTEL BRUNSWICK 3PM SUPER CHEESE 7PM FOSSIL ROCK

■ SATORI, BYRON 12PM MICK’S SASHIMI BAND 5PM REBECCA IRELAND

■ BANGALOW A&I HALL 8.30PM FLICKERFEST

MONDAY 26■ CABARITA BEACH BAR &

GRILL 2PM SOUL MAN■ IVORY TAVERNTWEED

HEADS 1PM BATTLE OF THE BANDS FINALS

■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH CLUB 12PM MARTY HURST

TUESDAY 27■ THE RAILS BYRON 6.30PM

SCOTTY FAIRCLOUGH■ COCOMANGAS, BYRON

BUMPIN’ BEATS■ CHEEKY MONKEYS BYRON

COYOTE UGLY

WEDNESDAY 28■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL

MARINE PARADE 8PM JAM NIGHT WITH HOUSE BAND REMEDY (REGULAR WEEKLY GIG)

■ GREENMOUNT BEACH CLUB 7PM DOWNBEAT JAZZ BAND (REGULAR WEEKLY GIG)

■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6PM LIVE ENTERTAINMENT

COMING SOON■ SEAGULLS SAT FEB 7 THE

BEACH BOYZ■ STARDUST ROOM

(SEAGULLS) FRIDAY FEB 6 THE TOPP TWINS

local events and entertainment

www.tweedecho.com.au Th e Tweed Shire Echo January 22, 2009 21

The A to Z of Collective

NounsI

It is a Harvest of Sensational

Freshness... and so say all of us.

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Email: info@rpc.com.au Web: www.rpc.com.au

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Upcoming Market dates:

Saturday, January 31

Saturday, February 7, and 21.

Trading times 6:00am to 11:00am

We know of no fully accredited collective nouns starting with I, but you can

have some fun with spurious ones: Try an IMPOSITION of in-laws or an

INDECISION of managers. Here at The Echo, we have

an ILLUSION of workers. The Big Day Out Festival saw

an INDULGENCE of generation Y, an INQUISITION of

drug detection dogs, an IMMODESTY of tattoos and an

overall INFLUX of visitors causing a great INCREMENT

of poohs. Never mind, Council will move that problem

with an INVENTORY of trucks.

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It‘s relaxing, non invasive and totally painless. Most clients will only require one treatment, however a complimentary booster treatment is offered at no charge should you wish to have it. Clients feel no discomfort, and leave with a relaxed, peaceful feeling.

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Laser therapy can also be used for appetite suppression.

If you’ve visited the friendly Indonesian sub continent of Bali and surrounding region

recently and you’re missing the exotic, then you’ll be glad to see the friendly faces at

the Bali Hut Indonesian Restaurant in Tweed Heads. This charming local restaurant,

with traditional décor and warm Indonesian hospitality, will take you back to the

islands. The Bali Hut pride themselves on their no MSG policy for their meals. They

have chicken, beef, lamb and seafood dishes on off er, as well as an adequate

vegetarian selection. Vegetarians regularly enjoy the Tahu Goreng and Gado-Gado.

The house speciality is Ayam Pangang (BBQ chicken) cooked on a charcoal grill and

served with Balinese sauce cooked in our restaurant. They can cater for parties and

special occasions with reasonable prices to suit. Group lunches are also very popular

at the Bali Hut. Please be sure to book to avoid disappointment, or take

advantage of their convenient take-away menu.

Indonesian Information Highway

10% discount if you book early for pre dinner show. Phone 07 5599 1477.

The fabulously popular Currumbin Sanctuary

Farmers’ Market prides itself on making available the very freshest and widest range of mouthwatering produce and gourmet fare in the region. The market

place weaves in and out of the cool tree lined Sanctuary car park in Tomewin Street amongst more

than 55 “produce proud” stall holders.

Local musicians perform during the course of the morning and breakfast is served from 6:00am. There is convenient onsite

parking for more than 350 cars.

Electricity and power from Renewable Energy sources is the intelligent decision for your future energy needs. Renewable Energy Systems, particularly solar grid feed systems, can provide clean, green, renewable energy for your home.

Solar panels on your roof for a Grid-Feed, Stand Alone Power, or even a lighting system for the shed or stable is a positive move towards an environmentally sustainable future. The Rainbow Power Company has been supplying renewable energy systems for over 21 years now. We would

be pleased to provide you with guidelines and consultation to enable you to increase your own energy supplies and effi ciencies.

ibarJust opened in Wharf Street, Tweed Heads

is the new ibar.

Conveniently located in the heart of the Tweed Central Business District at the revamped visitor

centre site. At ibar you can enjoy icy cold beer with fresh seafood straight from the trawler, while taking

in the scenic views of the Jack Evans Boat Harbour foreshore. The ibar is family friendly

and has BBQ facilities.

Open 7 days from 11am.

Come and experience ibar.

4 Wharf Street Tweed Heads.

Is it time?Tweed Valley Denture Clinic provides a friendly,

caring, effi cient service for all your denture needs.

Conveniently located on the ground fl oor with

wheelchair access in Main Street, Murwillumbah

(next to the Imperial Hotel). They provide a free

initial, no obligation consultation to assess your

individual denture requirements and before any

treatment begins you will receive a quotation

covering the total cost of the denture services. The

staff at Tweed Valley Denture Clinic believe it is

essential to have dentures examined every two

years to assess their fi t and function before

complications occur. This consultation is also free.

Seniors Card holders and Pensioners receive a 5%

discount off all

denture services

and Veterans are

welcome.

131 Main Street, Murwillumbah.

Please call (02) 6672 4618 for appointments.

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Locall Australis has launched it’s ADSL2+ Fast & Furious plans making use of Telstra’s ADSL2+ network, but not their pricing. Our plans can save you up to $60.00 per month compared to normal Telstra rates. This means that regional customers can now enjoy high speed broadband with download speeds of up to 20Mbps at prices you can afford. Our new Fast & Furious plans feature data usage of up to 70 gigabytes per month, free new connections on 24mth contract or churns on 12mth contract, 5 email inboxes and 50g of personal web space.

Having a professional cleaning of your teeth can not only improve the colour and remove recent staining, but plaque removal can also improve the health of the gums.

There is much scientifi c information about mercury, dental amalgam and the associated health problems it poses. As a known poison, the mercury in dental amalgams can leak out of the teeth and be absorbed into the body. In addition to this, amalgam fi llings have an electrical current which can interfere with the harmonious fl ow of energy in the body, measurable through the acupuncture meridian system. Safe replacement of old amalgam fi llings with new tooth coloured composites looks good and can be a great health improvement getting rid of heavy metals in the mouth.

Byron Dental Ce

ntre

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safe amalgam removal and biocompatible materials

or make an appointment on 6680 7554

for a consultation.

In the Interest of Your Health

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Solution to previous puzzle

STARS

WITH LILITH

THIS WEEK’S SUN JOINS JUPITER AND NEPTUNE IN THE SIGN OF THE FUTURE – SO IF YOU’RE SERIOUS ABOUT MAKING YOUR DREAMS A REALITY, NOW’S THE TIME TO GET STARTED…

ARIES: Your thinking’s taken a quantum leap, Mars has you restless to make an upgrade and you’re raring to make great changes. This week has absolutely fabulous aspects for doing the prep that’s necessary to take you where you want to be – so start walking, boots…

TAURUS: You’ve got nothing to lose and everything to gain this week by experimenting, being adventurous and opening your mind to broader perspectives. Don’t dismiss strange

inspirations that come your way

and if unexpected guests turn

up with unusual off ers, why not?

GEMINI: This week’s full of

people looking for stimulation

and thrills without strings,

so pay attention to what’s

being said on the street, in the

supermarket, in restaurants, in

passing – there’s something

there for you. Shopping will be

most rewarding off the beaten

track, so tread the path less

travelled.

CANCER: Getting out and

about and getting physical pays

dividends this week. Travel is

very well aspected for Crabs

right now, bringing all kinds

of new people into your life,

with information and views

that expand your horizons and

switch your thinking on to new

possibilities.

LEO: They say love’s a party in

your heart, and this week brings

your party loving Majesties

a major romance transit –

whoohoo! During which stay

receptive to fabulous fl ashes

of inspiration, but also be

aware everything can change

in a heartbeat right now. And

probably will.

VIRGO: Saturn in Virgo’s the ultimate planner, and if this week’s plans include a review of past mistakes and acceptance of them as learning curves, progress will fl ow more smoothly. Mercury retrograde can be a productive time for you as domestic dynamo or offi ce whiz creating organization from disarray.

LIBRA: Mentors come in all shapes and sizes so don’t let rigid style preferences blinker your receptivity this week. Keep an open heart and mind – eyes wide open too, because it’s one of those curious times when ideas or assistance could arrive from unlikely sources.

SCORPIO: This week’s astral hormones are extraordinarily frisky – if this brings relationship complications, keeping things to yourself won’t do much to promote intimacy. What you say matters, so share your feelings. Someone’s likely to surprise you by totally overturning the opinion you had of them.

SAGITTARIUS: This is one of the year’s fi nest times for planning new moves. But not for acting on them yet – fi rst do the research you need to make an

informed choice. End of week

Sagittarius Moon’s perfect for

fi guring out how to do lots

more of what you’re passionate

about.

CAPRICORN: Mars gives you

plenty of get up and go this

week, but Mercury backtracking

into Capricorn is a reminder to

watch what you sign and keep

money agreements clearly

understood. Someone from the

past seems likely to resurface

with something important for

you.

AQUARIUS: With the Sun

joining Jupiter and Neptune in

your sign, this is the time of year

you shift into exuberant high

gear. And why wouldn’t you as

your money picture improves

and others become more

interested in your inventive

ideas? Happy birthday Aquarius.

PISCES: With Venus in your sign

making a sexy sextile to Mars,

no one could accuse you of

being shy and retiring this week.

Your Piscean water’s on the boil,

a turning point’s been reached

and something important’s

about to happen – you can

almost taste it.

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When the new Australian Junior Champion Cedric Antolis arrived in Australia from Jakarta six years ago, he could not play chess.

However Antolis was lucky enough to discover the Anderson Chess Collection – one of the world’s biggest and best – at the Victorian State Library.

Using the Anderson Col lect ion, with its special study area includ-ing chess sets, Antolis took himself from beginner to Victorian Junior

Champion in 2008.Antolis should have benefited

from attending University High School, a school with a tradition of producing strong chessplayers but, unluckily for Antolis, UHS currently has no chess team. Nor did Antolis attend a chess club regularly, though he did establish a reputation as a dangerous cus-tomer on his visits to Melbourne Chess Club

In the months prior to the national junior (Under 18) championships in Adelaide the University High student visited the State library almost every weekend. The reward was seen when Antolis, an outsider when the championships began, was able to celebrate his 15th birthday in Adelaide by finishing on an undefeated 10/11 score.

Incredibly, 10/11 was not enough to win the tournament

outright, as Canberra’s Yi Yuan, Antolis’s junior by a year, kept pace with the Victorian until the finish. The title was only decided by a rapid playoff match, won by Antolis 1.5-0.5.

In the Girls U/18 tournament, the Victorian Sally Yu was domi-nant. Yu, however, received no marks for sportsmanship when, with the title secure, she attempted to humiliate her final round oppo-nent, Alannah Byrne, by starting the game with a series of ridicu-lous opening moves. Yu won the game but lost a lot of fans.

The Open U/12 tournament should have been Queensland’s dominion but, despite Queens-land securing five of the top seven placings, first place eventually went to Sydney’s amazing nine-year-old Sean Gu.

While a clash with the Aust ralian Open in Manly – won by Alex

Wohl and George Xie – cost the Australian Junior many entrants, the Adelaide event was impressive for its strength in depth, especially in the Open U/18 division.

Australia may have no world-beating juniors like the Filipino Wesley So but Australia could now hope to win a 10 board junior challenge match against many of its southeast Asian neighbours.

This week’s game sees two of Queensland’s top juniors in action in Adelaide’s final round.

Australian U/18 Championship, AdelaideWhite: G NakauchiBlack: J MullerOpening: Nimzo-Indian Defence1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 d5 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Bd3 c5 7.0-0 dxc4 8.Bxc4 cxd4 9.exd4 b6 10.Bg5 Bb7 11.Rc1!? Nbd7 12.Qe2 Qb8?! 12...Rc8 13.Ne5 Be7 is more reputable. 13.Ne5 Bxc3 14.Nxd7 Nxd7 15.Rxc3! The point behind Black’s 11th move; White keeps his iso-lated pawn but also creates attacking chances. 15...Qd6 16.Rg3 Kh8 17.Qg4 f5 18.Qh4 Rf7 19.Re1 Bd5! 20.Be2!? e5? 20...Qb4! keeps Black in the game. 21.Bh5! g6 22.dxe5! Nxe5 23.Bf4 Re7 24.Bxe5+ Rxe5 25.Qd4! Bf3!? 26.Qxe5+ Qxe5 27.Rxe5 Bxh5 28.Rge3 1-0

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SPORT RESULTSBOWLSBurringbar Men’s Bowls January 17 – KG ShieldR Chapman defeated R Howard, R Grob defeated T Standfield and JW Boyle de-feated B Andrews. In the pairs R Howard and T Giacomini defeated T Allard and R Chapman.Singles and pairs entries close on Febru-ary 28. Australia Day volunteers are re-quired, all players welcome. Play starts 10.30amBurringbar Bush TicksHolidays are over so we welcome every-one back on Wednesday at 6pm.Winners: Nancy Philip, Clare Allard and Lorraine Andrews–Collard.Don’t forget our meeting on February 1 at 3pm. Friday Bowls at 5pmCabarita Men14/1/09 Winners B Harris & K Lidding-ton. r/up B Parker &T Cox cons P Mallon & R Harper.19/1/09 Winners J McArdle & A Latif r/up G Lake & N Thorley. cons W Chatman & K Doolin.Next monday Australia Day a mixed so-cial game; please refer to the sheet.Open pairs sheet has been put out, please put your teams down asap.Quarterley meeting is on 15/2/09 at 9.30 am. Bowlers do not forget to record your names on the sheet for the Tweed carpet care sponsored mixed day.Condong MenWednesday 14: 48 bowlers enjoyed a great afternoon and winners being I Hunt, P. Houghton, T. Houghton. Run-ners up T. Tilley, R. Cox, K. Hall. Raffle winners P. Houghton,S. Keen, T.Tilley. Thursday night power singles were played again and after first night lead-ers are B. Ayres, S.Reading, B. Rohweder. Again next Thursday 22nd 6pm. Sat-urday bowls 56 men played a great rollup but it could be better. Rink win-ners B. Bottrell, T.Tilley, R. Cox Runners up P. Messing, C. Pawlak. Open Pairs winners R. Pilon, P. Pluis def P. Messing, C.Pawlak. The final of the Open Fours played was R. Fredericks, S.Massey, P. Martain, J. McDonald def J. Andrassy, B. Rohweder, R. Kaehler, L. Edmunds. Raffle winners were S. Keen, M. Chilcott, K Palmer.Another Pennant trail will be held next Saturday can all players please turn up. Sunday 18th Open Triples won by S. Massey, K.Vardy, B. Wicks def R. Nelson, T.Scius, K. Palmer. Monday 19th 50 Condong bowlers hosted a visit from 50 Maclean bowlers all enjoyed a BBQ lunch before the game at 12.30pm. All said they had a great day. A big thank you to all who supported the game.B Grade Pairs closing soon.Cudgen Leaguse LadiesIt was a happy afternoon of bowling for our Thurs Ladies Social last week. Con-gratulations to the winners on Rnk 4, Trish McGee, Rosemary Archbold, June Wotherspoon. Raffle Winner – Maureen Alcorn. Coming up – Thurs Ladies So-cial arrive 12.30 for 1pm start. Please Note – Thursday Ladies Social will be commencing at 9.30 am during the Pennant Season starting on Feb 10th. Rnd 1 of the Club Championship Fours to be played today (Thurs) at 1pm –

Sharon Hinks, Betty Sydneham, Helen Wylie, Maureen Alcorn V’s Ann Revie, Pat Pieterse, Isabel Nipperess, Colleen Wein ; Marion Hull, Yvonne Corcoran, Lorraine Sandall, Liz Fleming V’s Judy Martin, Vickii Needs, Joy Ashford, June Wotherspoon Good Luck Girls. Mon 26th 1pm – Mixed Social Triples, all wel-come. Tues 3rd Feb, 9.30am – Quarterly General Meeting. ( For all Members ) Mon 9th Feb 9.30am – Delegates Meet-ing Mur – Bah. Sun 15th Feb 9.30am, Sun Social Bowls Club recommences with a beautiful BBQ Lnch, Cost $10 pp Mufti Dress, all welcome. Happy Birthday to all cel-ebrating this week. Look forward to seeing Members & Visitors at our Club. Bookings – 0266741816 / 2734. Happy Bowling everyone. Kingscliff MenThursday 15th Winners: L Morris, T Halloran, G Barrack; A Simpson, T Dimmock, D Gleave, R Sharmon, R Wilkinson, B Ryder. Plate Winners: J Ritchie, P Murphy, R JuliusTuesday 20th Winners: D Grenfell, R Nuttall Runners Up –T Halloran, K Lid-dington. Plate Winnners: N Bradbrook, T KingOpen Singles to be played on Saturday 24th January: J Bonet v M Turner, G Bar-rack v J Julius, D Gleave v T Wonka, M Penfold v G Searle, M Scott v J Quinn, K Banks v B Turner. The Tweed Valley Shield commenced on Monday 19th January with both sides going down to South Tweed. The next round will be held on Tuesday 26th January at Kingscliff. Please check the Board for teams.Pottsville MenWednesday 14Winners with Highest Winning Score: – K Coyte, D. Grant– Mitchell and F Field-ing. Winning Rink: – R Parker, R Dudley and W Whitney. Consolation Prize: – D Clark, M Fletcher and G ReadingFriday the 16Winners with Highest Winning Score: – W Gruggen, W Smith and W Fielding-Runners Up: – D Donges and B JacksonSaturday the 17Bowls were cancelled at Pottsville how-ever a team travelled to Cudgen Bowls Club for the annual Charity day where 12 clubs from the district contributed $1700.00 towards ‘Kids In Need’. Al-though bowls were shortened due to rain Cudgen were gracious hosts and all clubs represented were appreciative.Club ChampionshipsBret Lestrange and Shane Lofts played off in the final of the 2009 Novice Sin-gles in rather inclement weather on Saturday. The result was a 28 end tussle

ending in a win to Brett with a score of 31 to 19. A good game played in Great Spirit congratulations Brett, and there is always next year Shane. 2008 Club Championship Presentations were held on Sunday January 18.Novice Singles Champion . R Mackay R/Up G Fergusen. Open Triples Cham-pions. J Gill, R Wilson and K Lehfeldt R’s/Up B Kent, T Fuller and D Bowers.B Grade Pairs Champions. W Chatman, W Parr, R’s/Up D Townsend and W Whitney.B Grade Singles Champion. W Whitney R/Up D Townsend.Open Fours Champions. A. Latif, B Shep-pard R’s/Up G Sawtell, J Rae, R Wilson and K Lehfeldt, R Scott and D SmithOpen Single Champion. A Latif, R/Up K Lehfeldt.Open Pairs Champions. G Sawtell and K Lehfeldt, R’s/Up J Gill and G Verrills.Mixed Pairs Champions. D Buckley and J Buckley R’s/Up A Swift and R Scott.Mixed Fours Champions. T Baxter, M Comerford, R’s/Up A Swift, J Kent, J Bax-ter and K Lehfeldt, B Kent and R ScottREMINDERS.‘Barefoot Bowls’ every Sunday at 2.00pm, beginners welcome.For enquires and bookings for bowls call the Pottsville Beach Sports on 6676 1077 & follow the prompts. Don’t for-get if you strike the answering machine, to give clearly your name, the day and date for which you are booking and your preferred position. If you are a visi-

tor, a contact phone number would be appreciated, we would hate for anyone to be disappointed. Pottsville WomenThursday, January 15It was a hot day for the first game of the year but enjoyable for both Pennant trials and Social bowls.Lucky Bowler: Joyce Brammer . Winning Rink: K Soccio, C Parker, E Macdonald. Raffles: I Quinn, P Sherwood. Updates: Jan 26: Shirts and Skirts. Feb 5: Monthly Meeting. Feb 9: Delegates meeting, M’bah. Feb 10 Pennants Com-mence. Feb 26 Club 4’s entries close. Tuesday morning mixed bowls – mufti. Visitor Info: Fri 1.00 pm mixed pairs. Thurs Women’s Social Bowls 9 am. Order lunch and enjoy our warm & friendly club. For new bowlers, should coaching be required, please contact the club on 6676 1077 and follow the prompts.GOLFChinderah Veterans Social GolfThursday 15/1/09 – StablefordWinner ‘A’ grade – Rex Howard, 47 points, new h/cap 7, R/up – Graham Kennedy, 41 points (c/back) – new h/cap 13Winner ‘B’ grade – John Ross, 43 points (c/back) – new h/cap 17. R/up – Denise White, 43 points – new h/cap 16Winner ‘C’ grade – Coral Rasmussen, 42 points (c/back) – new h/cap 20, R/up – Keith Morris – 42 points – new h/cap 26.Ball rundown to 40 points

Hole–in–one! 12th – Mark Hills

Next event Thurs 22/1/09 – Stroke.Monday 19/1/09 – StablefordWinner ‘A’ grade – Don Nash, 40 points (c/back) – new h/cap 11, R/up – Ron Gibso, 40 points – new h/cap 7.Winner ‘B’ grade – Arthur Whitely, 42 points (c/back) – news h/cap 18 R/up – Bob Sladden, 42 points – new h/cap 17.Winner ‘C’ grade – Marcia Edmunds, 40 points – new h/cap 44, R/up – Sue Mis-son – 39 points – new h/cap 31.Ball rundown to 38 points. Next event: Monday 26, Stroke & Monthly Medal.Murwillumbah Golf ClubSunday 11th Jan Women’s Winner J.Hutton 38 pts Member P.Fleming 43pts N/Pin 2nd C.Fogo & G.Chadwick Monday 12th Jan Winner K.Blyth 47 pts R/Up A.Bryce 42 pts N/Pin 2nd A,Bryce 5th R.Rattray 10th A.Bryce 17th W.Bruce B.R.D.to 36 pts c.b Wednesday 14th Jan A.Grade Win-ner R.Masiar 44 pts & T.Selwood 42 pts B.Grade Winner R.Johnson 43 pts & R.Cann 41 pts c.b Veterans R.Green 40 pts c.b Eagle on 8th.C.Harden N/Pin 2nd B.Sterling 17th T.Selwood B/R/Down to 36 pts c.b Friday 16th Jan Women’s Winner s.Gorton 38 pts Members Winner L.Gailey 43 pts B.R.D to 36 pts Saturday 17th Jan 2009 4 .B.B.B Stab Winners W.Quantrill & G.Watts 52 pts R/Up D. & C. Carpenter 50 pts c.b N/Pins 2nd S.Ritchie 5th W.Colefax 10th. M.Fitzpatrick17th J.Fallon B.R.Down to 44 pts c.b

SHOOTINGMurwillumbah Pistol ClubWeek ended 18th January, 2009: Air Pistol – Men – D Dowling 583 P Faulkner 576 G Faulkner 384. Ladies – P Faulkner 424. Sports Pistol – G Callaghan 616 R Fleming 601 I Young 593 D Dowl-ing 590 T Clinch 586 S Stebbing 577 S Nash 576 D Stebbing 573 A Uren 572 J Clough 563 J Hoctor 555 J Gove 554 R Rees 546 D Gazzard 537 T Walters 536 A Gazzard 533 J Traves 532 P Cuack 507 M Fleming 497 J Bliss 470 H Gray 461 W Green 458 A Bobowski 418. Centrefire – J Duckworth 586 G Andronicus 578 J Lumsden 569 R Smith 569 B Clinch 560 W Gray 473. Rifle – B Wenban 630 M Luxton 627 E Wenban 611 P Cusack 600 L Blair 598 M Quinn 597 W Vidler 595 D Capilli 579 G Faulkner 573 N Luxton 571 J Lumsden 570 R Blair 555 J Blair 444.

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Some of the area’s iconic and less

well-known threatened species are

the focus of a new biodiversity con-

servation project in the Brunswick

Valley. The project is funded by the

Northern Rivers Catchment Man-

agement Authority.

At least 75 of the numerous spe-

cies of flora and fauna found in the

catchment are listed as threatened,

and their long-term survival in the

Brunswick catchment lies in the

hands of private landholders. Species

in the highly modified and less well-

reserved lowlands and floodplains

are particularly at risk.

Most species are rainforest-de-

pendent or associated with rain-

forest habitat and many have close

links to the ancient Gondwanan

flora and fauna that covered much

of the Australian continent 30 mil-

lion years ago. The rainforest fruit-

doves, Alberts Lyrebird, Koala and

Grey-headed Flying-fox are familiar

to many residents while the Pouched

Frog, Stephen’s Banded Snake, Bush-

hen and White-eared Monarch are

not as well-known.

Forests of the Brunswick catch-

ment are home to one of very few

NSW occurrences of the Giant Iron-

wood, important wild populations of

the Davidsons Plum, Durobby and

the Spiny Gardenia at its southern

limit. The upper reaches still support

a population of the Spotted-tailed

Quoll and Marbled Frogmouths sur-

vive in rainforest gullies.

But the landscape is now charac-

terised by shrinking stands of old

Call to save

iconic species

Taking sustainability to the streets

From left, Jane, Sharon, Djuaan and Bawoo in the back garden of their Stuart Street house, selected for an Eco-Home Makeover along with that of New

City Road family Mike and Tanya with two year old Quinn. The first sustainability workshop carries on in the background.

Story & photo Lou Beaumont

The North Coast Climate Action

Group’s Sustainable Streets initia-

tive has selected the home that will

undergo an Eco-Home Makeover.

Sharon Gibson and Jane Beattie of

Stuart Street, Mullumbimby, were

chosen for the sustainability makeo-

ver, financially made possible with a

grant from NRMA.

A second Mullumbimby house-

hold, home to Mike Clark and

Tanya Langlois in New City Road,

will also receive assistance from the

NCCAG to improve their level of

sustainability.

The two households were selected

by the Sustainable Streets Commit-

tee because they were already will-

ing and able owner occupiers that

needed some help to go the extra

mile.

If everyone on the planet lived like

the average Australian, we would

need 3.7 planets to sustain us. If eve-

ryone lived like Sharon and Jane we

would need two planets.

Jane and Sharon have dedicated

the majority of their suburban land

to mature edible gardens, a chook

pen and large compost heaps. All

the fruit and vegetables they con-

sume are grown in their garden, and

they eat eggs from their chickens

and honey from their bees – they

even compost their dogs’ poo. Waste

from the kitchen and chicken pen is

recycled in the garden, thus creating

a closed system.

Jane told The Echo, ‘We were al-

ready committed to the principles

of ecological sustainability and we

wanted to be an urban sustainable

model but we can always do more,

which is why we applied for this

project.’

Sharon adds, ‘We were living fur-

ther out of town previously, strug-

gling on larger land and driving

many kilometres to and from home.

Ironically we are now finding it eas-

ier to live more sustainably. We have

found it is more than possible in an

urban environment.’

Mike and Tanya had also done

much of the work themselves, in-

stalling solar panels through the Be-

yond Building Neighbourhood Soar

Scheme and doing home and gar-

den renovations to their 1950s home

with sustainability in mind.

Mike Clark told The Echo, ‘We had

done a lot already but we are look-

ing forward to going further with

it. We will be getting solar hot wa-

ter, a rainwater tank and we’ll take

a closer look at our general energy

consumption and expand our veg-

etable garden.’

Sustainable Streets project man-

ager Nina Bishop said, ‘It is great to

see the enthusiasm in the residents.

I would love to see all Stuart Street

houses calculate their eco-footprints

and eventually have the inspiration

flow over into other local areas.’

Calculating your eco-footprint is

essential if you are to ascertain the

U N B R I D L E D P A R A G R A P H O L O G Y

continued on page 5

continued on page 2

The Spotted-tailed Quoll in action.

L O C A L & I N D E P E N D E N T

Luis Feliu

Condong resident Kevin McCready, an unsuccessful Greens candidate for the Tweed Shire Council, has hit back at critics ‘crucifying’ him for his stance against religion and its teach-ing to children.Mr McCready, who narrowly missed out on the seventh and fi nal spot on Council at September’s elec-tions, featured in a story in Th e Echo on November 27 headed ‘Teaching religion is child abuse’.Th e political activist had written a draft submission for the Austra-lian Human Rights Commission’s (AHRC) public discussion on Free-dom of Religion and Belief in the 21st Century in which he said that prac-tices by religious groups which were antithetical to human rights should be banned, including teaching children that God existed, which he termed ‘child abuse’.

‘To abuse a young mind by teach-ing hypothesis as fact is wrong,’ he wrote.

As a result, many letters on the subject were received by Th e Echo, including one from Mr McCready expanding on his views.Th is week, he told us that he had been accosted several times on the street and in his local supermarket over his views.

‘They told me I should keep my mouth shut, that I was deliberately stirring up trouble and that I myself was intolerant,’ he said.‘I’ve had a few calls too, one from a cult member who wanted to abuse me and tell me I was wrong and trying to prove to me, in their own contorted logic, that I was a liar. I really think I’ve been stereotyped... people have this idea of what an anti-religionist is and they think it fi ts me.‘They’ve also stereotyped me as

an atheist, which I’m not... they ac-cuse me of being intolerant, which I’m not.‘These people have the right to say and believe what they want but I don’t think they have the right to pollute young inquiring minds with junk or any sort of rubbish at all.’

However, Mr McCready said that he was heartened by a call from ‘a very prominent person’ in the shire who ‘supported me and what I said... I was quite pleased and surprised’.He said he also ‘appreciated’ a call from ‘a religious person’ who ‘sup-ported my right to free speech’.‘We should all accept one another’s beliefs, with agreement of what’s rea-sonable, and protect one each other’s rights to free speech’.

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Motoring rally under scrutiny

Kevin McCready believes the right to free speech should be protected. His views against religion and its teaching in

schools came under attack not only in The Echo’s letters columns but on the street. Photo Jeff ‘No Redemption’ Dawson

Volume 1 #16Thursday, December 11, 2008Advertising and news enquiries:Phone: (02) 6672 2280Fax: (02) 6672 4933

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THE TWEED SHIRE

Ken Sapwell

Tweed Shire Council’s general man-ager Mike Rayner is under fire on a new front over his support of the World Rally Championships which critics say was given the boot by an-other state government on economic grounds.Th e Kingscliff Residents’ Associa-tion has raised concerns over what it sees as a potential confl ict of interest between Mr Rayner’s appointment as a director to the rally board while he is in charge of a council dealing with its DAs.

It has also objected to the failure of the former administrators to consult the community before giving organis-ers the go-ahead to use the Kingscliff foreshores as their base for the fi rst of fi ve rallies over 10 years, starting next September.Association president Peter Glad-win said Mr Rayner informed resi-dents only two days before the coun-cil elections that an area of foreshore between the northern caravan park and the bowls club would be home to about 60 competition cars and their back-up teams.

Mr Rayner, who the council ap-pointed as unpaid director to the board last month, has apologised to residents for not telling them sooner, saying that strict confi dentiality re-quirements prevented him.But he denies that his invitation to join the board has created a confl ict, saying he will play no part in assess-ing DAs which are being lodged for the event.A council spokesman said that ‘his involvement with the wider board will ensure benefi ts to the Tweed are maximised rather than missed.’

Mr Gladwin said residents were at a loss to understand why the cars could not be based on the foreshores at Salt where drivers and their teams were staying or at the Murwillumbah showgrounds which was at the centre of the rally route.Marine Parade resident, Max Hop-per, denies his proximity to an area of the park which he says will be turned into pits inspired his letter to councillors to move the event to open land away from builtup areas such as Kingscliff which already has traffi c problems.

Protest fearsHe says as someone who once lived close to Gold Coast Indy racing, he fears the scale of this event will spark a protest similar to the McIntosh Park stoush when residents took on the council to save their park from the ravages of Indy.

‘If our newly elected council does nothing else, it should refuse to allow the use of this or any other parkland in the shire,’ the retired council redis-tribution chief commissioner from Victoria urged.He also suggested they examine whether the state government had legally bound the council to use rate-payers’ funds and council resources and services to support the rally and disclose any cash and kind obliga-tions.

Mr Hopper says the West Austral-ian government cancelled the cham-pionships’ contract in 2006 aft er con-cluding that the event did not provide enough bang for the bucks it received from government coff ers.In a press release he uncovered on the internet, the West Australian continued on page 2

continued on page 2

‘I don’t think they have the right to pollute young inquiring minds with junk.’

Free speech under attack– McCready

The Echo is not a division of a big international

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combined weekly circulation of 41,500.

The Byron Shire Echo covers from Ballina to Ocean

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NoticeboardDay View ClubMurwillumbah Day View Clubs first luncheon for 2009 will be on Tuesday, January 27,at the Murwillumbah Bowls and Sports Club 9.30am for morning tea with a 10am start. As this is our Annual General Meeting a new committee is to be elected so all members must be financial. Subs are now due. Gwynne Glendenning, our National Councillor will be our spe-cial guest. In February there will be a cent auction for our Learning for Life student, and also an exciting mystery trip is being organised for February 16, more information at the meeting. For guests and apolo-gies ring Shirley 6679 1324 or Jill 6676 2398 before noon Saturday prior to meeting.

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Ongoing cuts at the Sydney Morning Herald which have already wiped out platoons of news gatherers are beginning to bite up here, and as is usually the case when panicking news-paper bean-counters slash and burn to save the bottom line, they end up biting the hand that feeds them. Th ousands of irate SMH subscribers in the Tweed are missing their paper following a reorganisation of delivery times from Sydney. According to frustrated news-agents, Granny’s failure to fi x the problem is driving readers into the arms of the Daily Ter-ror. Quelle shock, horror. And serves them right.

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Councillors last week attended the fi rst in a series of budget workshops to bring them up to speed on the preparation of the council’s $200 million-plus budget and its seven-year-plan following the failure of a legal challenge aimed at blowing it out of the water. It now appears that some councillors are ready to do what legal action failed to achieve while at least two others are ready to defend the plan’s integrity.

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Tasmanian police were for-ced to apologise recently for a counter-terrorism exercise in which a forest campaigner hi-jacked an aircraft and threate-ned to crash it into a pulp mill. Th e exercise came at a time of deep community division over plans for the controversial $2.2 billion Gunns pulp mill in the Tamar Valley, and followed a recent incident in which forest protesters’ vehicles were beaten with a sledgehammer and fi re-bombed. Back burner feels the scenario used was mischievous and serves to promote a green-bashing mentality. The only violence seen so far has been from pro-Gunns loggers and trying to equate community spirited protest with 9/11 style terrorism demonstrates that the police are hardly neutral on the pulp mill question.

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Ants are making hay while the sun shines, none more so than stinging green ants which are causing some discomfort to picnickers in parks at Fingal and Kingscliff. Fingal locals now include ant spray in their picnic baskets to ward off the tiny critters who are thriving in the warm dry weather con-ditions. So far the council has not received word of any acute infestations which are hard to control because they require the use of baits during the day and the erection of signage warning pet owners of their presence. Green ants can cause a painful sting but unlike their cousins, the bull ant, the pain subsides in an hour in the case of most people.

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Reader Madeline Clarke is ap-pealing for tips about ridding her house of another kind of pest: a herd of troublesome geckos. She says the fast-breeding tropical lizards live atop her blinds and bathroom cabinets leaving trails of gecko poo down the walls and even

clogging up her air condition-er. While she’s not expecting any sympathy about the air-con, she would like to hear from anyone who has dealt with a similar problem. ‘Th ey can run upside down and they move too fast to catch,’ she la-ments. ‘I could probably whack them with a fl y-swat but they’re too cute.’

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Check your wallets! Someone, possibly around the Tweed, is $7 million richer today but they may not yet know it. An unreg-istered NSW Lotteries player has won more than $7 million in Tuesday’s $2 Jackpot Lot-tery draw 9209 but yesterday remained unaware of his or her new wealth. Th e winning tick-et was bought from the Twin Towns Services Club.

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Backburner warns mall shop-pers around the Tweed to watch their trolleys following a spate of theft s and attempt-ed theft s from trolleys while their owners were not watch-ing. One elderly woman who left her grocery-laden trolley

outside the newsagency in Sunnyside Mall, Murwillum-bah, while she nipped in for a lottery ticket, turned to see a man walking off with the entire trolley! But, as she was a good screamer, the thief abandoned it halfway down the ramp.

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Talk about a setup, council-lor Phil Youngblutt appears to have fallen for the old photo-grapher’s trick of framing an incongruous object behind the subject. In this case Phil was photographed in front of an old picture of his former political nemesis – longserving mayor, councillor and administrator Max Boyd – above his shoulder at the council chambers. Th e daily rag photographer may as well have used the old kids’ ‘rabbit ears’ trick on him!

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It seems the poor old rag can’t win a trick. Last Friday the ‘Snooze’ (as it’s aff ectionately known), published another clanger, reporting that a man had been caught with 77 fi sh il-legally caught off Fingal Head. Th e report went on to say that, according to marine park aut-horities, the man had been caught in a sanctuary zone off Fingal Bay. Now isn’t Fingal Bay some where near Newcast-le? The Echo thought it all a bit fi shy and called authorities to get the drum. Sure enough, similar name but wrong place and the Snooze hacks, with their paltry local knowledge, fell for it. It’ll be even more fun when all APN’s subediting is done in New Zealand…

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But to even things up here’s a blue from us: in a recent foodies column on Gallic fare around the Northern Rivers, our reviewer forgot to men-tion the Blue Frog patisserie and café in downtown Main Street. Sacré bleu! Andre and his team at the café have been a mainstay of the coff ee and croissants scene in the town for years, raising the barista stan-dard for others to follow.

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There aren’t too many people who would have spent as many school holidays in the Tweed Shire as Ian Moreton. For the past 25 years the Warwick maths teacher and his wife Ros have stayed at the Hastings Point Holiday Village at least three times and often six times a year. A keen fi sherman, Ian usually hits the beaches and points of the shire but The Echo caught up with him chasing a few tentative trevally in the Tweed at sunset. Photo Jeff ‘Something Fishy’ Dawson