THE TWEED SHIRE Volume 1 #23 Thursday, February 12, 2009 Advertising and news enquiries: Phone: (02) 6672 2280 Fax: (02) 6672 4933 [email protected] pages 18 & 19 [email protected] www.tweedecho.com.au LOCAL & INDEPENDENT Another stoush Save me! at Hastings Point after somehow winning Tweed council approval to build a single dwelling on the site. WEH director, Scott Elliott, has denied the claim, saying he is simply building a holiday house which he and his family may use. Tweed Village Alliance president Julie Boyd says the area where the fill is being dumped was illegally filled by a former owner and was responsible for worsening flooding problems in a caravan park and homes in Creek Street. She said residents were unaware that council’s building staff had approved the house Ken Sapwell to preserve democracy but I until trucks began rumbling believe our democratic rights through their village last World War Two Bomber are being whittled away,’ he said week. Command survivor Vic Brill of the latest front in the ongoing ‘The first we knew anything (above) stood his ground when war to save the fragile Cudgera about this was when convoys a truck began nudging into a Creek from overdevelopment. of up to 62 trucks a day started group of fellow protestors at It involves a seven hectare bringing in huge amounts of Hastings Point. area on the northern side of the fill,’ she said. The 90-year-old former creek where developer, Walter ‘The council’s building unit navigator with the famous 463 Elliott Holdings (WEH), claims it was unaware of the Lancaster squadron, which wants to build a resort and 57 site’s contentious history when suffered the highest losses of houses. it gave approval, apparently any in RAF command, showed A development application without the full knowledge of time had not diminished the has been in the hands of the senior planning staff. bravery needed to fly the flak- NSW Planning Department ‘Strangely enough the filled skies over Germany. for nearly two years awaiting access road the developer is Mr Brill, who was finally a decision after the Minister creating is the same as that for pulled aside by others worried usurped planning controls the huge resort and housing about his safety, says he feels from the council because of the development now under he’s been pitched into a new sensitive nature of the site. consideration by the NSW war – one to save his peaceful But residents claim the Planning department.’ village lifestyle from developers developer is trying to start The residents won a minor apparently intent on trying to the proposed subdivision victory when council staff Jenny Hayes cuddles a cute koala at Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary last week. Ms Hayes says beat tough new planning laws by stealth by trucking in ordered the developer to these iconic creatures are threatened by the planned 4,500-home Kings Forest subdivision before they’re implemented. thousands of tonnes of fill to remove most of the fill from the southwest of Kingscliff and she has embarked on a campaign to protect them. Photo Jeff Dawson ‘I spent four year fighting create an extensive access road continued on page 2 See full story, page 2. Number 1 For Your Car
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If it weren’t for his young and nimble fingers plucking the Household Appliances piano keys, Jake Durrington could easily be mistaken for a maestro twice his age. The 13-year-old pianist from Burleigh Waters has been Mairéad 0458 085 009 wowing audiences at Murwil- www.ausenergy.com.au lumbah’s Mountain View Re- tirement Home – much like his idol Liberace did at Madison Square Garden, New York in the 1950s. DHI:DE6I=H But unlike Liberace – who IG:6IBDG:I=6CNDJI=>C@### started his career at the age of four – Jake has been playing s JOINT PAIN s SCIATICA s ARTHRITIS the piano for just 12 months s HEADACHES s SPORTING INJURIES s RSI and is completely self-taught. s BACK, NECK, SHOULDER, DIGESTIVE, POSTURAL, ‘I had a keyboard and just PREGNANCY AND RESPIRATORY RELATED ISSUES started to teach myself how to Tomas play that,’ he said. Piano nut Jake Durrington belts out a tune to the delight of his great grandmother Melva Rudi Leszczynski ‘But eventually it wasn’t good Hewish, mum Cheryl Durrington and grandma Pam Darby. Gerhardt M.Ost., B.App. enough – there weren’t enough B.Sc., D.O Sc.(Osteo), Dip. keys on it.’ He kicked it off with an ener- not boring, and play songs the memory. Jake said his lifetime Health Sc.(MT) Recognising his natural tal- getic rendition of ‘Chopsticks’, (residents) like,’ he said. dream was to play in New York Government Registered Osteopaths ent, mum and dad Paul and made all the more challenging Jake learned 10 new songs but he would settle for a schol- Members Australian Osteopathic Association Cheryl bought Jake a piano and for its dramatic rises and crash- for the performance – no mean arship to the Conservatorium OSTEOPATHS he has been practising three to ing falls. ‘I try to make it fun, feat since he plays solely from of Music. five hours every day since. s use gentle, non-invasive, effective, hands-on techniques Over the weekend Jake s treat babies, the elderly and serious athletes played his second gig at the re- s treat the whole body – not just the symptom tirement home where his great The koalas’ last stand s work with bones, muscles, joints and connective tissue grandmother Melva Hewish s give you 45-60 minutes consultation and treatment Luis Feliu tat loss and fragmentation from planning department spokes- time, incorporating massage lives. the 4,500-home subdivision as person said that several areas All four generations of his Tweed koala activist Jenny well as the dogs and vehicles of known koala habitat on the HICAPS EFTPOS ONSITE PARKING DVA REGISTERED family turned out to see him Hayes has known the fear of would spell disaster for not only Kings Forest site were zoned belt out a set list, including animals, having once been the koalas on the 1,100-hectare for environmental protection Boogie Woogie and Memory been chased up a tree in Africa site but other colonies which three years ago. from Cats, which Liberace by a black rhinoceros when use it as a corridor. Ms Hayes has worked ex- &%@>C<HIG::I!BJGL>AAJB76=++,',,.+ would have been proud of. working for Earthwatch, but ‘It’s not just that population tensively for Earthwatch and her fear for the future of the at Kings Forest, there’s only the BBC in Africa, researching shire’s diminishing koala colo- about 15 in there, but it’s quad- wildlife such as the rhinoceros. nies is much more immediate. ruple that number that move She said submissions should EVERYTHING’S IN PLACE The 43-year-old Ms Hayes, through this corridor, where be sent to Coastal Assessments, born and bred in the Tweed a major four-lane access road Department of Planning, GPO www.silverstoneliving.com.au Valley, has put her own money is to go.’ Box 39, Sydney 2001 or faxed into a personal advertising Ms Hayes, supported in her to 02 9228 6540 before noon campaign urging people to quest by Friends of the Koala, on February 16. The proposal stand up for the Tweed’s re- Northern Rivers, said ‘Dwell- can be viewed at www.major- Contemporary Tweed Heads maining few hundred koalas ings on this scale and koalas projects.planning.nsw.gov.au. apartments from $470,000* threatened to extinction by en- can’t live together… look at croaching development. Koala Beach near Pottsville, Hastings Pt stoush Her advertisements tell peo- they’ve had problems there, from page 1 ple the massive Kings Forest and at Chinderah, the bypass residential subdivision plan there wiped the koalas out. metre-high access road after now being considered by the ‘So to put a four-lane access agreeing that it would create state government is ‘a final road through this corridor is a dam-effect and a potential blow to Tweed Coast koalas’ putting the last nail in the cof- flood risk. and she wants people to voice fin of these koalas.’ Up to 300 residents who their objections by noon this She said koala populations gathered at the site on Monday, February 16. on the Tweed were contract- Friday voted to seek a court ‘It’s the koalas’ last stand’, she ing, with only around 200 injunction to stop construction,
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Greens councillor Katie Milne suspects many Tweed residents Mr Elliott said he expected to Open Thursday – Monday, Proudly marketed by are unaware of the impacts the two proposed massive subdivi- win government approval for 1 0 a m -12 p m ( Q l d t i m e ) 11 a m -1 p m ( N S W t i m e ) sions of Kings Forest and Cobaki will have on the shire. the remaining 56 two-storey Cr Milne, who unsuccessfully sought an extension to the Thomson Street, Tweed Heads houses and a two-storey resort public submission period for the two $7 billion township on the site in the ‘near future.’ Silverstone by MODA Residential is the Contact David Stringer projects by Leda Developments, told The Echo the developer ‘We have come up with a quintessential Tweed Heads Address - removed 07 5599 5222 or would ‘move mountains’ – around several millions of cubic design which we think will from the daily bustle of the tourist strip, yet 0418 150 731 metres of soil – at the sites and that wetlands, heathlands and make everyone happy,’ he said, within 1km from Greenmount Beach. koala populations would be irrreparably affected. noting that his company had :1'/1-#/ #/& $'&300.&'4+)/4 ‘There are very significant koala habitat areas in Kings Forest,’ scaled down original plans : 56//+/)0%'#/03*+/5'3-#/&7+'84 said Cr Milne, ‘and there doesn’t appear to be a koala manage- which envisaged 150 tourist : *06)*5(6--9&'4+)/'&-+7'#$-'$#-%0/+'4 Contact Ross Paddison ment plan for the Cobaki site.’ units and 100 homes after talks : '4035459-'100- 07 5536 2533 or Council’s planning director Vince Connell said council wrote with council staff. to the planning department on December 11 last year asking 0415 997 754 ■ Meanwhile developer PDK Penthouse now available for the exhibition of both projects be delayed until after the began work this week to re- Images are artist impressions only. *Price correct at time of printing. Christmas/New Year period, pointing out the public would get store a development site at a limited chance to review and comment on the concept plans. Young Street after residents But the request was rejected with the department saying were successful in a court chal- the exhibition period had already been extended to take the lenge to approval of a multi- holiday period into account. unit development. 2 February 12, 2009 The Tweed Shire Echo www.tweedecho.com.au Local News Shire rallies round bushfire victims Roxanne Millar The Gold Coast City Council Organisers of the Pottsville Salvation Army stores has pledged $200,000 towards Beach Market have pledged to are also taking donations of Tweed residents have rallied the fund, Sunshine Coast donate all profits made on Sun- goods. to support the victims of the Council $80,000 and Clubs day, February 15 to bushfire And a team of 60 local Rural Opening Special! horrific bushfires in Victoria, NSW $250,000. victims. Coles will also donate Fire Service volunteers are on donating blood and cash to A Tweed council spokeswo- all profits on Friday, February standby to fly immediately to Pacifi c Island 7 night cruise help the worst affected. man said such a gesture would 13 to the fund and Kingscliff’s Victoria to provide relief for Departing 3rd October on Pacifi c Sun. Priced from $1174 A record number of Tweed have to be approved by council Eagle Boys will donate $1 from fire crews in the affected areas. per person based on inside twin cabin. BONUS $75pp on Shire Council staff have put at its meeting on Tuesday – but every pizza sold from Friday to Officials have told Tweed fire- board credit included. Book by 27 February and get their arms up to donate blood, the issue is not on the council Sunday. fighters to ‘sit tight’ until they 20% off Travel insurance. Hurry spaces are limited. required by the Red Cross to agenda. The Red Cross will collect are required down south. * Conditions apply. Subject to availability. treat serious burns victims. Meanwhile, local businesses non-monetary donations such Donations for the Bushfire Call your local travel agent on 02 6674 5022 or call in But the council is one of the have rallied to contribute to the as bedding and toiletries at the Relief Fund can be made by and see us at the Kingscliff Shopping Village. Lic no. 2TA5508/09 few major employers in Tweed fund, with the Tweed Heads Tweed Heads Civic Centre calling 1800 811 700, online that has no plans to make a Bowls Club to donate at least and Tweed MP Geoff Provest’s at www.redcross.org.au or at lump sum donation to the Vic- $10,000 to match staff contri- Minjungbal Drive office from any NAB, Westpac, Common- torian Bushfire Appeal Fund. butions. 9am Thursday, February 12. wealth or ANZ branch. Council starts moving towards ‘e-planning’ The move to ‘e-planning’ is un- derway at Tweed Shire Council, with the first step in improv- ing customer service complete. 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www.tweedecho.com.au The Tweed Shire Echo February 12, 2009 3 Local News
Rate hikes not optional, says Longland
Ken Sapwell and vegetation management ects and the possible sacking of plans. trained council staff for short Tweed councillors risk digging A Murwillumbah museum term populist reasons does not a deep financial hole that will upgrade and a start on the serve the longterm interests of be hard to climb out of if they Tweed River Regional Muse- residents and ratepayers… dump the seven-year plan, um at Tweed Heads were also ‘The rise might seem a lot warns deputy mayor, Barry due to start. but we are simply catching up Longland. ‘If spending is cut to the bone with the rates paid by residents Cr Longland, the first to it will hurt local tradies and in comparable coastal shires.’ publicly defend the seven-year businesses relying on council However, former Mayor series of compounding rate contracts – there’s a definite Warren Polglase disagrees and hikes introduced by admin- link between council expen- suggests that it’s time for the istrators three years ago, says diture and local employment,’ council to apply the brakes and the plan’s demise would have he said. limit the increase to the 3.5 per serious implications for future The former Commonwealth cent inflation rate. communities. government accountant also He says times are tough for He says it’s raising some warned it could lead to staff many people, including self- $118 million so the council can sackings, risk amalgamation funded retirees who’ve seen undertake community-backed and a failure to provide for the their nest eggs evaporate, projects which were forced on replacement of assets, all creat- and the organisation needs to to the backburner because of a ing a ‘recipe for disaster.’ tighten its own belt by reining funding crisis arising from too- ‘Cancelling much needed in- in spending and finding cost small rate rises in the past. frastructure and services proj- savings. ‘The plan is a blueprint for improving basic services and community facilities by pro- What’s happening at Cabarita viding staff with a solid frame- work and timetable as well as the funding to achieve what the community has indicated it wants,’ he said. He says last year the CPI increase raised an extra $1.2 million, while increases in re- current costs for items like fuel, power and salaries was $1.8 million. ‘The $600,000 shortfall had to be met from productivity gains so it’s a myth that the council is awash with money. Major projects will have to be axed,’ said the Uki-based com- munity councillor, noting that staffing levels had been un- changed since 2006. RAY HALL TYRES ‘Some of the big ticket items like the Murwillumbah aquatic centre and carpark are out of the way and now we’re imple- MURWILLUMBAH menting some long overdue projects in other parts of the shire and the Tweed Heads area.’ Naked (well, nude feet) bowlers Sonia Marshall and Bob 02 6672 1133 They included park im- Penington rolling one on the green at Cabarita Sports Club. provements, road and foot- Every Sunday afternoon is barefoot bowls day for the whole path building programs, bet- community. Last week was come-as-a-hippy day and about 30 ter youth services and staged bowling tragics looked like they were having too much fun. s #ARS s XS s 4RUCKS s 4RACTORS implementation of coastline Check out our Cabarita feature on pages 15-17. s 2ETREADS s 2EPAIRS s "ATTERIES Tweed still compares well on rates SpecialistSpecialist in:in: Tweed Shire Council’s rates The Department of Local The report also shows that remain among the lowest of Government’s annual report, that the council’s employee s 7HEEL ALIGNMENTS other comparable local govern- which ranks council perform- costs fell by six per cent on ment areas despite three years ances across the state, also the previous year but operat- s ,ATEST IN -AG 7HEELS of substantial rate rises under found the Tweed generated less ing costs per capita of $931.60 the seven year plan. income from rates and charges were higher than the group av- Tweed’s average residential than others in its group. erage, which was $903.60. rate of $715 is higher than The Tweed also continues to Although Tweed Council Shoalhaven Council but lower achieve a higher income from decreased its borrowings costs than the other three councils interest on its investments than by 31 per cent from the previ- in the same grouping, accord- others in the group with a re- ous year, it was still 21 per cent ing to an official comparative turn of 6.71 per cent – 30 per higher than the group average performance chart. cent higher than the statewide and 38 per cent higher than the Other councils in the group average. NSW average. – Lake Macquarie, Newcastle But it was short-changed by Depreciation expenses for and Wollongong – had average federal and state governments the Tweed increased by 37 per rates of $726, $722 and $839 who handed out 25 per cent cent on the previous year and respectively, while Shoalhaven’s less in grants than last year. are 72 per cent higher than the rate was $623. It made up some ground by State average. Tweed farmers continue to raising 2.3 times more revenue The groupings in the Local pay the lowest farmland rate of from developer contributions Government Department’s re- Corner Kay Street & Mayfi eld Street, Murwillumbah any in the group while business than the NSW average, mak- port are based on a range of Turn off Tweed Valley Way at Buchanan Street owners are paying the second ing it the highest earner from factors, including its geograph- lowest business rate ahead of this source by 95 per cent in ic size, population and growth www.advantagetyres.com www.michelin.com.au only Shoalhaven. its group. rates. 4 February 12, 2009 The Tweed Shire Echo www.tweedecho.com.au Local News
Switch to solar and save, says Lisa $$ MASSIVE Roxanne Millar GOVT REBATES Tweed residents are switch- ing on to solar power in their NOW AVAILABLE droves thanks to a bulk buying scheme that could eventually earn them money. Murwillumbah resident Lisa Blackwell has had almost 100 SOLAR HOT WATER responses to her appeal for Electric hot water systems use participants in the scheme that ✔ installs solar panels on local approx 28% of household energy roofs. Solar hot water systems can save ‘The response has been over- ✔ whelming and I’ve had 30 peo- you between $300 - $700 a year ple sign up from all over the area,’ she said. ✔ Reduces greenhouse gas emissions ‘What I really love is that there have been a lot of pen- CALL NOW FOR MORE sioners doing it who can see the benefits and the money INFORMATION & A they will save in the longterm.’ Participants in the bulk buy Murwillumbah resident Lisa Blackwell has been inundated by locals who want solar panels COMPETITIVE, OBLIGATION initiative offered through Aus- installed on their homes. sie Solar are able to purchase FREE QUOTE 0419 971 231 solar panels and an inverter for ernment phases out rebates in Feed-in tariffs reward good and that there are things their home for just $990. favour of solar credits. households that pass the ex- we can do to lessen our impact,’ 02 66795865 The initial cost is $9,000 but People who take advantage cess electricity they generate said Ms Blackwell. the Federal Government pro- of low prices now will be ready through solar power back into Ms Blackwell is not affili- MAC Plumbing Services vides a rebate of up to $8,000. to make money when feed-in the grid. ated with Aussie Solar and has Michael A. Cummins - Plumbing, Drainage The scheme will close on 30 tariffs are introduced later this ‘It is time people start to real- organised the local bulk buy & Gas Fitting Lic No 195874C June when the Federal Gov- year. ise this planet is not looking so program because she wants to make a difference. [email protected] To take part in Ms Black- Councillors reject new ‘branding’ well’s bulk buy scheme, email [email protected] by Ken Sapwell briefing paper to councillors price tag and asking why local Send your letters and feedback to Friday, 13 February. but omitted from the council artists had not been asked to Find out more on rebates at [email protected] or fax 6672 4933 Tweed councillors have torpe- agenda available to the public. design a new logo to replace www.aussiesolar.com.au. And check out our website – doed moves by general manag- Cr van Lieshout led the at- one which has been in use for A second scheme is offered www.tweedecho.com.au er Mike Rayner to implement tack on the strategy, saying the about 10 years. through Sunbeam Solar. Call council needed to win commu- Mr Rayner indicated he didn’t a corporate relations strat- 6679 7228 for details. egy which included improved nity respect rather than adopt foresee the opposition to the ‘branding’ of the council’s im- a strategy to burnish its image. strategy when he revealed he age and a one-stop shop for She was also concerned that had already prepared a brief to council inquiries. council’s administrative hier- Brisbane consultants for a new Details of the costs and archy was becoming an ‘entity design pending a decision. some key aspects of the strat- apart from the elected coun- The 28-page report, pre- egy, which has the stated aims cillors.’ pared by media consultant and of building trust, respect and Greens councillor Katie former council staffer, Mary transparency with the com- Milne also joined in, question- Krinberg, talks of the impor- munity, were contained in a ing the rebranding’s $40,000 tance of the council’s ‘brand and market position’ and man- Improving communications aging the brand ‘closely and consistently.’ Tweed councillors are examining a range of options – includ- In the end Warren Polglase Learn to earn ing a citizens’ panel of up to 800 ratepayers – for improving the joined Crs Milne, van Lieshout way it consults with the community. and Kevin Skinner to dump on the Tweed Coast The move follows criticism by Maurice Daly of the council’s the strategy. community consultation process in his landmark investigation It was supported by deputy Are you ready to take a step up in your career? into the council’s affairs – which led to its sacking in 2005. mayor Barry Longland, Phil North Coast TAFE has many pathways to help you The council’s corporate relations director, Troy Green, said a Youngblutt and Dot Holdom, achieve your goals. Courses available in the following range of options were being put forward in a bid to get better with Cr Longland saying the study areas: community input. strategy included plans to set They included the citizens’ panel comprising up to 800 up a customer contact centre Graphic Design Administration ratepayers from various parts of the shire and registering com- which would ‘manage’ most Medical Reception Using a Computer munity groups so they can be notified of major developments customer interactions and Bookkeeping Training and Assessment or modifications. transactions. The options are included in a corporate relations strategy According to details con- Business Small Business commissioned by the administrators in 2007 after the council tained in the briefing paper Accounting Real Estate was sacked, leaving its image in tatters. the strategy would cost around Children’s Services Fitness Prof Daly was scathing of the council’s level of community $450,000 to implement, with Remedial Massage Construction consultation, saying it had ‘made no real effort’ to enter into most of the money being used process, and that documents sent to the public were ‘highly to establish a contact centre English Automotive legalistic and over-burdened with complexities.’ able to handle at least 70 per Web Design Information Technology Where there had been major issues attracting wide com- cent of inquiries without hav- Organic Farming Retail munity interest it had been community groups rather than the ing to transfer calls. Warehousing Hospitality council which called public meetings to examine them, he said. The strategy also contains a Events Management Cookery ‘The ability of citizens to unravel what just might be pro- range of options to improve its posed in a development or its modifications or what they can community consultation proc- For more information contact your local campus: do to express their attitudes and participate in the decision- ess following criticism of the Kingscliff on 02 6674 7200 or making process is quite difficult,’ Prof Daly concluded. way the council went about Its community consultation processes also came under fire informing residents of major Murwillumbah on 02 6672 0800. earlier this year from a judge who found that in the case of the projects by Maurice Daly dur- seven-year plan it was flawed and misleading. ing his landmark investiga- Community groups have echoed similar concerns about the tion into the council’s affairs consultation process involved in controversial plans to close in 2005. 131 601 www.nci.tafensw.edu.au and sell off part of Bay Street to a development consortium. ■ See story, left NC1739299 www.tweedecho.com.au The Tweed Shire Echo February 12, 2009 5 Local News New exhibition brings together some No media gags Ken Sapwell He said the media policy extraordinary facets of Aussie history was mainly applied to staff Tweed Council will overhaul its and was not intended to in- Roxanne Millar family before he was hanged,’ media policy following claims hibit what councillors could she said. by Mayor Joan van Lieshout tell the media. Touching letters by a bush- ‘They are very articulate, that it gags councillors from In fact, it specifically stated ranger sentenced to death, which may come as a surprise speaking to the media. that the mayor was free to is- a book printed in 1493 and to some who would assume A council spokesman con- sue press releases on a mayoral botanical specimens from the bushrangers were illiterate or firmed this week that the letterhead ‘as desired.’ 1700s will all be on display at poorly-educated people.’ policy, adopted in 2007 by the The council voted four to the Tweed Regional River Art Among the oldest items council’s three administrators, three to put the code of con- Gallery’s most exciting exhibi- on display is the Nuremburg would be reviewed to take duct on the backburner after tion yet. Chronicle from 1493, one of into account the role played by other aspects also came under For the first time in history, the first printed books and a elected councillors. attack. curators have dug out some type of encyclopedia of the The policy came under fire A requirement that ‘coun- of the oldest artifacts surviv- world back then. when council staff attempted cillors record details of all ing in NSW collections to tour Exhibition-goers hoping for to include it in a new code meetings, phone calls and other correspondence with them to the public as part of a a deeper understanding of the of conduct at the last council meeting. developers, objectors or their landmark showcase. collection can borrow an iPod ‘We are literally being agents’ within five days of con- ‘Great Collections’ features from the gallery that contains gagged,’ Cr van Lieshout com- tact were described by both documents and curiosities tracks detailing the history plained to the meeting. ‘We are Cr van Lieshout and Greens dating from before Captain and importance of each item. coming under a dictatorship.’ councillor Katie Milne as too ‘This is an incredible collec- James Cook chartered the Under the policy, only coun- onerous. Australian coastline in 1770 tion bringing us a piece of his- cil’s media unit, mayor, gen- Cr Milne said she was lob- to more modern times. tory that is unlikely to be seen eral manager and directors can bied ‘24/7’ in public places like It includes a Dutch atlas again,’ Ms Schardin said. speak directly to the media, supermarkets and ‘it’s going to from 1666 that charts three- ‘We’ve never had anything and if they’re in doubt about be rather awkward if we have quarters of Australia, death of this historic nature here what they can say they must to keep a record.’ masks of outlaws sentenced before.’ get authorisation from the gen- Councillors have been to hang in colonial times and The exhibition runs until eral manager, Mike Rayner. told that the new report- prints by Pablo Picasso. March 15 and will be officially The spokesman said a re- ing requirements arise from Tweed assistant art gallery launched by Sydney Morning vised media policy would the recommendations of the director Anne Schardin said Herald art critic John Mc- make it clear that councillors Daly inquiry which led to the some of the items were sur- Donald on Friday February were free to speak to the media sacking of the council in 2005 prisingly moving. 13 from 6.30pm for 7pm. Tweed River Regional Art Gallery’s public programs curator, and instead of needing autho- after uncovering evidence ‘There are some amazing For more information go to Anouk Beck with Captain Moonlight’s death mask (white) and risation from Mr Rayner they of overly cosy relations be- letters by the bushranger Cap- www.tweed.nsw.gov.au/artgal- gang member Thomas Rogan’s black death mask from their would only be required to con- tween some councillors and tain Moonlight, written to his lery hanging in 1880. sult with him. developers.
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8 February 12, 2009 The Tweed Shire Echo www.tweedecho.com.au Local News
Resignations throw hospital into crisis Need Staff? Need Work? call 1800 670 914 Luis Feliu Several days after that an- ‘We have locums at the hos- nouncement, three GP ob- pital who could carry out their Need Training? It was a week Murwillum- stetricians at Murwillumbah work if they quit anyway, so it bah Hospital’s administrators tendered their resignations, will be business as usual,’ he call 1800 266 425 would rather forget with the barely weeks after two senior said. resignations of its executive of- obstetricians also quit because Mr Crawford said elective TursaTu Employment & Training ficer followed by three of its they felt the NCAHS had left caesareans would still be per- Your Regional Employment & Training Services Provider top four obstetricians, throw- them in limbo. formed at Murwillumbah so ing the embattled hospital into The obstetricians are angry the number of deliveries at MURWILLUMBAH KINGSCLIFF SOUTH 50 Main Street Shop 6A, 1st Floor TWEED HEADS that fulltime (24-hour, seven Tweed would not increase as a crisis. Ph. (02) 6672 6712 Kingscliff Shopping Village 6/81 Minjungbal Drive The week included yet an- days a week) maternity serv- result of the changes. Murwillumbah’s communi- Email: tursa. 28 Pearl Street Ph. (07) 5523 4825 other protest rally by hun- ices at the hospital have not murwillumbah Ph. (02) 6674 0699 Email: tursa. dreds of locals at the hospital been restored as promised by ty is renowned for its passion @tursa.com.au Email: tursa.kingscliff [email protected] grounds last Saturday upset at the state government. and support for its hospital, @tursa.com.au the continuing downgrade of Their resignations will leave particularly its maternity and maternity and other services at Murwillumbah’s 10,000 resi- children’s wards, and protest NO CONVENIENT OFFICES IN: t Southport t Nerang t Coolangatta t South Tweed Heads t Kingscliff rallies against the hospital’s FEES! t Murwillumbah t Mullumbimby t Brunswick Heads t Byron Bay t Ballina t Lismore the hospital. dents with no obstetrics cover t Casino t Kyogle t Grafton t Maclean t Yamba t Coffs Harbour t Woolgoolga t Bellingen Both the resignations and and any urgent cases would downgrading over recent years the protest rally hit national have to be diverted to Tweed have traditionally drawn hun- check out www.tursa.com.au media. Hospital. dreds of residents. The North Coast Area Health One of those who quit, Mur- Service (NCAHS) last week willumbah medical staff coun- announced the resignation of cil chairman Doug Warne, told Ian Murray as executive officer media that the doctors wanted at the hospital, a position he to keep doing their job and had held since 1997, after local were committed to the local media were alerted at a busi- community but the current ness breakfast last week. situation with maternity serv- ! &).!, ",/7 NCAHS chief executive ices and a lack of backup nurs- Chris Crawford told The Echo ing was unsafe for the com- that Mr Murray, who was se- munity. riously ill and had been on ‘If this unit is downgraded leave for some time, had done there will be mishaps on the ‘a fantastic job’ at the hospital way [to Tweed], there will be and extended his best wishes babies born in ambulances,’ Dr to him. Warne said. His position is being filled Mr Crawford said this week on an acting basis by Ms Anne he had not received written Coccetti, the integrated care resignations from the doctors, coordinator for Tweed Com- but they would be required to munity and Allied Health. give three months’ notice. Protestors support doctors More than 1,000 people formed a human barrier around Murwillumbah District Hospital on the weekend to protest the downgrading of services. The protestors at the ‘secret’ rally linked arms in a show of support for three disgruntled GP obstetricians who tendered their resignations last week. The GPs quit because they did not want to work at the hospital while it transferred high-risk maternity patients on weekends to the Tweed Hospital. In their resignation letters, obstetricians Doug Warne, Sarah 4/ 47%%$ #/!34 +/!,!3 McEwan and Ian Kettle stated they may consider staying if the North Coast Area Health Service restores the maternity services to normal by March 2. Ian Ross, committee chairman of the Murwillumbah Hospital Support Committee, organised the rally secretly through email and text messages. KINGS FOREST DEVELOPMENT He said up to 10,000 people may have turned up if numbers s Habitat loss and fragmentation had not been kept low for health and safety reasons. s Massive residential area and business park Rally route laid out s Major four lane access road through koala corridor Dogs and vehicles Organisers of the controver- uled for September 3-6 com- s sial Repco Rally Australia have prises 34 stages between Burr- met with concerned Tweed ingbar and Bonalbo, southwest residents to defend their plans of Kyogle. The highlight is to for the event. be a modified 2km version Rally organisers toured of Murwillumbah’s Speed on 3UBMISSIONS CLOSE TH &EBRUARY Kingscliff, Murwillumbah and Tweed track. Kyogle on Saturday to outline Kingscliff residents are con- WRITE or FAX NOW stating: the preferred route covering cerned at the potential noise Your name and address; the proposal’s name and application reference 350km of ‘lightly used’ roads levels and damage the pit lane in the Tweed and Kyogle might cause to the beach fore- number (06_0318); your objection and supporting reasons. shires. shore during the event. Rally Organising Committee A Kingscliff business owner ADDRESS SUBMISSIONS TO: said the extra money the event chairman Garry Connelly said Director – Coastal Assessments, Department of Planning less than 10km of the distance would bring into the town far would pass through national outweighed any inconven- GPO Box 39, SYDNEY, NSW, 2001 parks. iences. ‘We have sought out the best Another resident called for FAX: (02) 9228 6540 or go to the website majorprojects.nsw.gov.au professional advice both locally Rally Australia to scale down and follow the links to the ‘On Exhibition’ page. and elsewhere to run the event the development application in harmony with its surround- from 10 years to 12 months be- ings,’ he said. fore it is lodged next month. Authorised by Jenny Hayes. Supported by Friends of the Koala Inc. (Northern Rivers) The proposed event sched- ■ Letters, page 11 www.tweedecho.com.au The Tweed Shire Echo February 12, 2009 9 Comment Kevin’s package stands up to scrutiny
hat makes Malcolm children is not explained. he was looking pretty seedy even Gorton years he thought Turnbull’s unquali- It is hard to avoid the con- before he came up with this he was in line for promotion. Volume 1 #23 February 12, 2009 W fied opposition to clusion that Turnbull is mere- courageous (as Sir Humphrey But it was not to be. As he left Kevin Rudd’s $42 billion pack- ly posturing; that he does not Appleby would certainly de- the new prime minister’s office, age more than usually perverse really want to substitute a pro- scribe it) approach. a colleague asked him what he is that almost everything in the gram of his own (indeed, apart The doubters in his own had got. Howson snarled back: Censorship sucks package is undeniably good from the chant of tax cuts he party must now admit that he ‘The little bastard gave me Senator Stephen Conroy is the Telecommunications Minister in policy. does not appear to have one) has taken a stand in firm op- trees, boongs and poofters.’ the Rudd government. He has not been a success in the portfolio. Refurbishing schools, in- and he does not really want position to the government, He was referring to the ad- There are longstanding problems with the licensing of broadcast sulating homes and updating to stop Rudd’s from being im- and this in itself is a welcome mittedly incongruous grab-bag television and with Telstra’s intransigence over broadband access, moribund infrastructure would plemented. Chris Evans, the change. The question to be of Environment, Aborigines which remain as intractable now as they were under the Liberal be worthwhile at any time, not government leader in the Sen- answered is whether it turns and The Arts, three areas in government’s various ineffectual ministers. just when the economy is in ate, was quite right when he out to be the stand of a bril- which the McMahon govern- But Senator Conroy has more in common with the most promi- desperate need of stimulus. ment had not the slightest in- Indeed these are among the terest. And in that sense, How- nent of Howard’s buffoons, Richard Alston, than mere incompe- many things that should have Turnbull’s real hope is that Rudd’s son was the ideal choice. His tence. Both ministers – along with moral campaigners like Julian been done in the boom years, package is seen to fail; that the ignorance of the environment McGauran, Brian Harradine and Fred Nile – fervently believe that when the government was recession grabs Australia as led me to christen him Peter the internet should be censored by the government. awash with money. Howson-Garden. His disdain Their initial pretext for tampering with the web (along similar Instead of course, Turnbull’s relentlessly as it will the rest of the for matters aesthetic resulted in lines to the notorious Chinese firewall) was protecting children. old mob decided that there world. Phillip Adams describing him Naturally, paedophilia was cited as the main danger from the were more votes to be gained as a pain in the arts. And on internet and, just like Alston, Conroy uses the perversion to smear in handouts to the middle class by Mungo MacCallum Aborigines, he was a dedicated his critics. When announcing the plan he argued defensively, ‘If and in tax cuts. Incredibly, Hasluckian: they could assimi- people equate freedom of speech with watching child pornogra- Turnbull believes that tax cuts said that the Libs were wetting liant politician or the last late or die out and he didn’t re- phy, then the Rudd Labor Government is going to disagree.’ are also the answer to a loom- their pants at the idea that one twitch of an unreconstructed ally care which. Web experts argue that the censoring filters will degrade ing recession. Obviously they of the independents might ac- merchant banker. Howson lost his seat in 1972 internet performance and be easily countered by those deter- are the answer to everything. tually join them and vote the And let’s not forget that it and left Canberra unmourned mined to do so. Civil libertarians point out that parents, not the Douglas Adams and Kevin bills down. was mainly the merchant bank- and unmissed. But some 30 state, should be deciding what children may watch; attempting Rudd, both of whom believe Turnbull’s real hope is that ers who got us into this mess in years later the culture-history to control every citizen’s web use is technically difficult and does, the answer is in fact 42, are Rudd’s package goes through the first place. Wouldn’t it be a wars saw him resurrected by indeed, raise legitimate questions of freedom of speech. clearly mistaken. and is seen to fail; that the re- bit naïve to trust one to get us Quadrant. Along with another Turnbull does, however, have cession grabs Australia as re- out again? political nonentity of similar Nobody is arguing for child pornography, but Conroy wants a minor problem of consistency. lentlessly as it will the rest of paternalistic views, Labor’s to ban much more, and not just pictures of explicit adult sex. He purports to be concerned the world. He could then claim peaking of the unrecon- Gary Johns, he became one He proposes to ban all ‘illegal’ sites without even specifying the about the projected deficits, or vindication: under his policies Sstructed, Peter Howson is of editor P P McGuinness’s criteria for judging them so. What is more, even the list of such as he prefers to call them, the we would still have had the dead. resident authorities on the sites will itself be subject to censorship – for security reasons. In crushing debts we will leave to recession, but we would have We learn this from a rather subject. He outlived his editor the bad old days of censorship enforced by customs officers, we our children. But at least Rudd’s saved all that money. And of confused piece in last Tuesday’s and survived to hear Kevin did at least know which books were on the proscribed list. Now lump sum payments, expensive course we would still have had Australian by Caroline Over- Rudd’s long overdue apol- anonymous political functionaries are to compile a secret index as they may be, are one-off costs. run-down schools, decrepit ington, who described him as ogy to the stolen generations, of prohibited information. Tax cuts are permanent; they infrastructure, and houses to- Australia’s first Minister for which he had derided as a A little thought suffices to show that the twin obsessions of are locked into the economic tally unsuited to the threat of Aboriginal Affairs. Of course silly fairy tale. terrorism and paedophilia are being used to bring in oppressive structure as a reduction of rev- climate change, not to mention he wasn’t; that honour belongs He had, Overington informs legislation that has no place in a free society. Fear of terrorism enue year after year. They would a $950 hole in the household to William Charles Went- us, a lifelong commitment to has led to show trials, secret trials, imprisonment without trial, make escaping the deficits far budgets of the needy, but that’s worth, a committed fighter for the deaf. That figures. and torture. Moral panic whipped up over paedophilia has seen more difficult than anything what we call responsible eco- the cause who was appointed On which happy note I’m policemen invading art galleries and adult males hesitating even Rudd has proposed. nomic management. by John Gorton in 1968. At taking off for a month in India to smile in public at children not their own. Terrorism and child But, Turnbull responds, he However if, as most econo- the time Howson was part of a a country which, with all its pornography are despicable crimes but they are not as common wouldn’t spend anything like mists, the business community clique undermining Gorton on extremes and contradictions, I as censorship enthusiasts pretend, and we should not give up our as much as Rudd is suggest- and Colin Barnett, the only behalf of William McMahon. find strange and challenging. I ing – barely half that, in fact. Liberal premier, all believe, When McMahon finally shall get my personal stimulus freedoms to appease them. Why? So he could come back Rudd’s policies actually suc- got the job in 1971, Howson there, without resort to Rudd’s Senator Conroy’s plan is a bad one and is driven by minority in- for seconds and spend the rest ceed to a worthwhile extent, lined up for his reward; having package or to Swami Makya terests. Only extremists in the Christian lobby defend it (probably later. Exactly how that would Turnbull will be left looking held down a junior ministry Chunda of the Snatchyahand- because they initiated it in the first place); most people realise it ease the crushing debt on our very politically seedy. But then, during the Menzies, Holt and bag Ashram. is unworkable and inequitable. For more information, and to help oppose censorship, visit www.getup.org.au. Replacing an electrical – David Lovejoy, Echo publisher hot water service? 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to plug a hole in Centro’s own Letters to the Editor six billion dollar deficit, and is Fax: 6672 4933 still bleeding. The rally argument rumbles on Email: [email protected] Centro – who through state Deadline: Noon, Tuesday government appointed admin- ■ I am writing to express my an environmentally insensitive ment of the significant eco- our intention to’ and glaringly Letters longer than 200 words may istrators thwart the develop- concern at the attempt to hold industry. nomic and tourism benefits the short on specific detail. be cut and pseudonyms are not a speed race in our shire. I There are naturally many event would bring to the area Yet these are the vague me- acceptable. Please include your full ment of any new shopping cen- name, address and phone number. tres that might compete with have just attended Rally Aus- people in Tweed who love a and the proposed manner in anderings on which World Centro! How convenient! tralia’s information session at good scream around the coun- which we would deal with en- Rally Australia, the State Gov- Now council bureaucrats Murwillumbah and, despite tryside but actually hosting an vironmental and other issues. ernment and Tweed Council Who are the ‘spiv’? want to gag our councillors. many questions, could not be internationally ‘famous’ car ral- Through your publication, I expects residents to approve So Premier Rees thinks the The sale of this land would see told what criteria was used to ly based on the thrills and spills would like to express our ap- a DA for the use of foreshore National Party supports spivs. the state government finding a decide that this area would be of speed sends out a message to preciation to those who attend- land for a pits and maintenance The only spivs in NSW are the way to strip the money in any used for car racing. people and particularly youth ed these meetings and particu- area, not for a single event but current NSW Labor Party and event. I understand that the or- that speed is fun and sexy. larly those who expressed their for the next ten years. There Messrs Carr and Rees, who I ask the current councillors ganisers state their intention is We are going to lobby hard opinions and asked questions. will be no second chances, no have driven this once prosper- to put their political and per- to ‘accept the need to be envi- and create as much public I would also like to thank all room to correct or curtail after ous state into economic chaos. sonal differences aside on this ronmentally responsible in all awareness of this event as we parties, whether they were sup- the first rally this year. Transport, water, power, the issue (although my political our actions’, but the very act of can. Events NSW, who are in- porting the event or not, for The inconsistencies exposed ethanol farce, are a few of the direction is right of Genghis performing high speed races in deed intending to fund this the courteous manner in which are too numerous to mention, political travesties vested on us Khan) and back Katie Milne this area negates this intention. event without any public con- they made their points to their but residents should carefully by state government and ap- and Barry Longland. Direct Cleaning up damage to the en- sultation and supposedly to the fellow community members consider the following. The pointed administrators in col- GM Michael Rayner to poleaxe vironment after the fact and tune of millions of dollars, will and to us. Tweed promotes tourism on its lusion with these Macquarie the very idea of closing even a planting trees to offset carbon also discover that Tweed resi- We received a great deal of clean, green credentials, as a ha- Street thugs, as they now ma- portion of Bay Street. emissions is not being proac- dents are extremely concerned feedback, much of it extremely ven from the hustle and bustle nipulate the stripping of our PS Katie, I still won’t be vot- tive. It sets the agenda that we about where NSW taxpayers’ constructive, and are currently of city traffic, noise and fumes. local assets. ing Green! do not have to change behav- money is being spent at a time considering all the information Why should we encourage an Current councillors are Stuart Cahill iour but are merely forced to where judicious spending is at passed on to us. event which is the very antith- locked into the Bay Street situ- Burringbar pay the cost for that behav- a premium. Garry Connelly esis of all we stand for? In these ation into virtually giving the iour. Trish Mann Organising Committee times of recession, high fuel land away in a severely de- Learning from mistakes The courses for these races Burringbar Repco Rally Australia prices, a scarcity of fossil fuel pressed market. For what? So The revelations resulting from will be well known to locals and ■ Edited for length – Ed. and the necessity of develop- that Centro, who has no plan- the ICAC inquiry into the could become regular speed- ■ The one fact to emerge from ing alternative energy sources ning, development application intimate and corrupt nexus tracks, and how could this be ■ Last Saturday the Organisers Saturday’s World Rally briefing for our very survival, can King- (DA) or building application between developers, the State prevented? Increased police of Repco Rally Australia, the in Kingscliff is that either the scliff residents morally defend (BA) in place for the parcel of Government and Wollongong presence on country lanes? Australian round of the FIA rally organisers have no idea of the promotion of such rampant, land, obtains a massive asset to Council last year were both Roadkill is unavoidable in this World Rally Championship, the scope of noise and incon- fossil-fuel guzzling excess? the detriment of the people of fascinating and shocking. But area and it can only increase conducted community consul- venience residents of Marine And before my usual critics the Tweed. were these findings that dif- with this type of sport. There tation meetings in Kingscliff, Parade and those who use the poke their heads out, I plead Centro – the beneficiary of ferent from those coming out can be no ‘zero net harm to Murwillumbah and Kyogle. beachfront parkland for exer- mea culpa as a fan of motor large parcels of state govern- of government inquiries into the environment’ as espoused At those meetings I had the cise and recreation will suffer; racing, having driven both ment ministers’ superfunds. Tweed Shire Council over the in your policy statement. There privilege of addressing mem- or if they have, they are failing open wheelers and sedans in Centro – who recently ob- past two decades? are many other ways to gener- bers of the local community to make a full disclosure. competition. tained a two billion dollar loan The ugly multi-storey ate money and it is dishearten- and presenting to them our The briefing was full of ‘we Jeremy Cornford from the Commonwealth Bank continued overleaf ing to find we might host such plans for the event, our assess- will try to’ and ‘it would be Kingscliff
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www.tweedecho.com.au The Tweed Shire Echo February 12, 2009 11 Letters continued from page 11 Did we secede? propounded by propagandist aberration known as ‘Sea- While some of us deal with writers such as Henry Rey- scape’ at Tweed Heads arose friends losing everything in- nolds, do not help reconcili- A war on the war on drugs from a similar corrupt nexus cluding their lives, in floods ation. ■ ■ on Drugs’ is obsolete, the ‘war’ between developers, the Tom and fires in other parts of the Fortunately, Reynolds was May we anarchists add to At last, an editorial highlight- does not work and has never Hogan-era Council and the country this month, and the rebutted and discredited long David Lovejoy’s thesis on le- ing how the war on drugs is a worked, we (society) need to Unsworth Labour Govern- rest of the world flounders in ago by reputable historians gitimacy and the law (Echo edi- failure and how making drug- torial, February 5)? taking a criminal act (rather change our outdated think- ment. Barrie Unsworth was al- a greed-created financial cri- such as Keith Windschuttle. Unless he/she is declared than a health issue) will only ing in order to overcome this legedly offered a very favour- sis, it’s truly bizarre that our At the same time, the tired incompetent, and made some- continue to line the pockets of global tragedy. Drug addicts able deal on an apartment for time up here is still taken up views of Mick Dodson are body else’s ward, sovereignty drug lords and corrupt public belong in the health system, his cooperation. dealing with dangerous stu- more than counterbalanced by resides with the adult indi- servants. this is a start to changing our The current fiasco next door pidity in all parts of the Tweed the outstanding contribution vidual. Congratulations to The Echo, thinking. in Bay Street seems to be the Shire. of other Aboriginal leaders Sovereignty does not reside I rejoiced when you ventured The next step after decrimi- result of yet another cosy deal Did the Tweed secede from such as Noel Pearson. with a reified abstraction, such into Tweed Shire last year and nalising drug use and treating between large development the rest of the planet and no Gerry Worsell as a nation, or a legalised au- do so even more now. addicts in the health system is corporations, Tweed Shire one noticed? Tweed Heads South thority, such as a king, patri- Let’s hope the death of that considered to be radical; how- Council and the State Govern- If Mrs Sterne (The Echo, ■ That Keith Windschuttle arch or premier. young girl in Perth will not be ever, it makes sense to me and ment’s Urban Task Force and February 5, page 2) wants is a ‘reputable’ historian is of Good laws defend this right in vain and that our laws on many others – decriminalise Lands Department. helpers to drive the wrecking course widely disputed – Ed. Where is the transparency to personal autonomy against prohibiting drugs for private drug supply and treat drug ball I’m sure there will be no bullies who would violate it. use will be repealed. Given the taking like our other legalised recommended by the Bulford shortage of offers from people Wetlands destroyed and Daly Inquiries? Why is the Bad laws allow the right to power of those espousing re- drugs: alcohol, tobacco and fed up to the back teeth with While huge amounts of money be violated, legally, by self- ligious dogma to control and prescription drugs. This will General Manager so enthusias- what is nothing short of com- are spent to create unpopular tic about development which righteous hypocrites. manipulate intelligent dialogue take the criminal element out munity abuse. and unscientific marine parks, Bad laws must be, and are, on the matter, and the subser- of the ‘war’ as evidenced by the costs the earth and shrinks the Councillors need to stop whose sanctuary zoning locks park? resisted, and may be broken by vient nature of most media reversal of prohibition of alco- the abuse of s96 and demand out recreational fishers from Green open space is finite men and women of good will outlets, I will not be holding hol in the US the 1930s. immediate restitution or pass their favourite fishing grounds and cannot be manufactured such as Jesus was – no matter my breath. Let’s get in on the Alcoholics, smokers and pre- legislation that enables them in the name of conservation, at will. We should hold on to what the cost. act and start a war on the war scription drug addicts all come what we’ve got, Dot. Scarce to seize properties of develop- governments and councils I’ll explain this to the mag- on drugs. under the auspices of the health resources should go into needy ers who fail to comply. allow the destruction of fish istrate when they next lumber Edward Blatt service, why do we treat drug services like sewage treatment We need to stop the culture nurseries in the name of de- me, as they lumbered him, self- Pottsville addicts using (currently) illegal to deal with the fundamental of Greed and Speed on the velopment. righteously but unjustifiably. drugs differently? problems of the lower estuary Tweed. The latest and most devas- Doug Ogilvie ■ I refer to the Echo editorial Christina Franklin not into unnecessary and un- Julie Boyd tating is that of Lot 156, Creek Bilambil (February 5). The term ‘War Murwillumbah wanted tizzying-up and trivial Hastings Point Street, Hastings Point. As a pursuits around the Jack Evans twelve-year-old kid (1952) I a safe haven for immature lud- am about nets and want to five times their current val- boat harbour. Australia Day regularly visited the area to erick, whiting, brim, flathead do something about it, please ue. Please all, keep aware of Why should our roads and What a pity that Michael Mc- replenish the larder. The area and several other unidentified write to Timothy Mulherin, the policy as it emerges (it green open space be sur- Donald’s thoughtful article now being developed was, and fish species. Minister for Primary Indus- changes every day), and we rendered to help balance the about Australia Day (February should remain, a coastal tidal The illegal pumping of sand, try & Fisheries, 67-69 Sydney can try to make sure we are books of an inept and incom- 5) was marred by talk of ‘brut- wetland, covered in sea grass filling and the creation of a Street, Mackay 4740. not just making life easier for petent state government? Who ish colonisation’ and ‘180 years and flooded each and every huge pond in the late fifties Paul Brecht big polluters by trying to do benefits? of murder of local tribes’. high tide. and early sixties drained this Mullumbimby the right thing and put solar E Hopkins These extreme and distorted Mud crabs were abundant area of its natural resources: on our roofs to reduce reliance Tyalgum views of Australia’s history, and shallow channels provided tidal water, and during times Green power again on fossil fuel use. of heavy rain, runoff water. In response to the letter from Much to my disappoint- There are now plans afoot Warren James on February ment, the Rudd government to further fill this area and de- 5, the writer states that green has as much ‘green creden- velop it. Might I suggest that power works, a sentiment I tial’ as a chainsaw. We need an infinitely better alternative am in 100 per cent agreement to keep track of the reality of would be for council to pur- with. these proposals as they affect to The Big Joke chase the land and return it I believe in climate change, us all. Nina Conti, Winner of Best New Act at Melbourne Comedy Festival 08 to its former environmental and I believe that Austra- Adam Russell and international headline this year at status, a coastal tidal wetland. lia could easily be powered Pottsville the Big Joke Comedy Festival for one fabulous show This would solve the extreme by 100 per cent renewables, flooding, created by landfill, in despite the faff put forward DA in question the area as happened during about base load (long ago ac- Methinks that Hel-a-va Jet the last heavy downpour, and counted for). Boats protest too much about would placate the extremely Just two points. their intended slow scenic stressed resident owners of 1. Six solar panels will typi- cruises on their twin 700hp Creek Street and the adjacent cally comprise a 1-kilowatt turbocharged jet. Not only caravan park who are rightly size system. To get the average that, but director Anne Marie concerned about flooding. It daily energy production, you Russell was at the least mis- would also give the shire’s resi- multiply the kilowatt size of informed when she wrote to dents faith that this council your system by the number of you. will oppose over-development peak sun hours (on the BOM She said that the Tweed which costs us the environ- website). cruises are not for seven ment and open space. In northern NSW, you mornings a week, but for two The re-creation of the wet- would be doing well to get a to four, and that we should lands would cost little com- total of five kilowatt hours per check our facts. pared to marine parks and day from a system of this size. So we did. The DA applied their policing and would give This doesn’t crunch out quite for is for seven days a week, greater return to the environ- as well, Warren, but the cost of 365 days a year, and, as de- ment. electricity is set to suffer ongo- mand arises, for bucks/hens M J McFie ing massive rises, so a great parties, corporate functions, Hastings Point investment still. team bonding, and parties. 2. Solar power system own- Should we trust a company Sharknets ers need to be aware that with whose unsupervised activities I know there have been shark the proposed carbon trading could impact on our unique attacks lately and that’s the risk scheme, installing panels on Tweed River, with its dolphin us humans take each time we your roof doesn’t reduce the and turtle habitat and migra- swim in the ocean. The Gold number of credits in the sys- tory bird areas? Should we Coast’s idea of public safety is tem, it simply frees up that trust a company whose di- to place shark nets at beaches, number for polluters to pur- rectors don’t know their own which don’t really work. chase so they do not need to DA? THURSDAY 26 MARCH 8PM BANGALOW A&I HALL What they do well is catch reduce emissions so much. We researched this envi- with Kitty Flanagan, Dave Williams & Mandy Nolan and kill other sea creatures The new scheme coming ronment and we are worried. tickets $47.50 from Jetset 6685 6262 [email protected] such as turtles, whales and into effect in the next finan- What do you think? dolphins. cial year ramps up the value Fran Rabbitts more info www.thebigjoke.com.au If you are concerned as I of these points on paper by Fingal Head 12 February 12, 2009 The Tweed Shire Echo www.tweedecho.com.au Articles Experts set for world sea turtle meeting in Brisbane An annual international 1970s the widespread decline heads); pollution (plastic bags mobile phone (02 6686 2852 conference on the of sea turtle populations began resemble jelly fish and cause and/or 0428 862 852) so they threatened sea turtles will to alarm biologists. float syndrome or choking); can immediately report any In response an international boat strikes; habitat degrada- stranded turtle, hatchlings or be held for the first time in conference was set up in 1980 tion; over-harvesting of turtles turtle tracks on the beach. Australia, in Brisbane, over to promote the exchange of in- and eggs; and predation of eggs ‘Equally important – never the weekend of February formation on sea turtle biology and hatchlings by foxes, feral put a stranded turtle back in 17-19. The Echo’s Jann and conservation. Now in its pigs, dogs and goannas. the water. Move it into the Gilbert looks at the world 29th year, the symposium has The mini symposium aims shade, cover it with a wet towel of this iconic creature and been held annually ever since, to get a jumpstart on learning or shade it with your body. If and continues to grow in diver- about the local sea turtle popu- you can, stay with the turtle the work local people do sity and numbers of delegates lations and the people that are until a rescuer arrives. This for its conservation. attending. working to protect them. protects it from others putting This year is the first time The symposium proper also it back in the water or an at- urtles hold an iconic the symposium has been held offers training workshops, tack by dogs or seabirds, and place in Australian Ab- in Australia, and indeed the and oral and poster presenta- makes it easier for the rescuer T original and European southern hemisphere, and Organisers of next month’s international sea turtle symposium tions on subjects as diverse as to find it. If you can’t stay with culture. Historically, many Australian Seabird Rescue in Brisbane handed out hundreds of koala mascots like these conservation though social, the turtle try tying a ribbon or coastal communities have (ASR) turtle specialists are ex- to last year’s dispersing delegates issuing a challenge for them economic, cultural and legal something around the nearest depended on sea turtles as a cited at the prospect of show- to photograph as many turtles as possible. From Panama to pathways; breeding biology; tree to establish a location. source of protein, and they fea- casing their activities to such a Peru and Africa to Asia, delegates snapped little ‘Brissie’ koalas bycatch and other mortality ‘Never interfere with hatch- ture in the mythology of many large and significant sea turtle as they went about their turtle work and what began as a factors; genetics and stock rec- lings walking to the sea, sim- coastal tribes. meeting. fun reminder has now become a part of the symposium. The ognition; and health, physiol- ply stand by and guard them Marine habitats in Australia ‘This is a unique opportunity amazing array of photos submitted so far can be seen on the ogy and toxicology. from dogs, four wheel drive are a sea turtle hot zone. Six of for us to meet and exchange website at www.turtlesbrisbane2009.org. In the leadup to the sympo- vehicles, seabirds and children the world’s seven species in- information with interstate re- sium ASR is encouraging any- (who can’t seem to resist pick- cluding Flatback, Leatherback, search teams and rehabilitators regional, and global scales. Its turtle activity also promote the one with an interest in turtles ing them up). Loggerhead, Hawksbill, Green, as well as experts from the in- aim is to create links between existence of recreational and to register and hook up with ‘Never dig up a turtle nest or and Olive Ridley turtles occur ternational turtle conservation communities and to connect industrial fishing that, coupled turtle experts in their area and “help” hatchlings out of a nest in Australian waters. They oc- community,’ says ASR North policy makers at all levels with with coastal and industrial de- from all over the world. Given or stick a pole in the ground cupy near shore habitats as well Coast Coordinator, Rochelle the latest information coming velopment and turtle use by that it’s also ‘turtle season’ ASR anywhere near a nest, and nev- as open ocean habitats around Ferris. from sea turtle research and communities in some regions, is keen to recruit extra volun- er leave a fire burning on the the continent. All species are ‘ASR is also planning to host conservation programs. has lead to concern about teers in the Tweed area (par- beach, ensure it is completely threatened – being listed from a number of delegates to tour A number of associated stocks of several species of ticularly Wooyung Beach) and obliterated, because hatchlings ‘vulnerable’ to ‘critically endan- the WildlifeLink turtle hospi- meetings are to be held in the turtle. to remind locals and visitors of are attracted by light and will gered’. tal in Ballina and is looking days preceding the main sym- In Australia (and the South a few turtle do’s and don’ts. walk into a fire.’ Marine turtles are actually forward to showing off the Far posium and many of these are Pacific generally) the main hu- ‘There are a few simple Tweed residents interested reptiles that have lived in the North Coast during their visit.’ regionally focused including man-associated threats come things that people can do to in volunteering should contact ocean for over 100 million The 2009 symposium in an Australian sea turtle mini from drowning (in fishing nets, help,’ says Rochelle. ASR on 02 6686 2852. For fur- years and they have changed Brisbane will explore themes symposium. crab pots float lines and shark ‘Most importantly, they ther information on the sym- little in that time. Once abun- such as building communica- The conditions that make nets); longlines (for carnivo- can program the ASR rescue posium go to www.turtlesbris- dant in numbers, by the late tion, and networking on local, Australia an epicentre of sea rous species such as Logger- hotline numbers into their bane2009.org.
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Tweed Coast Vet Printing The Echo responsibly Hans Lovejoy prepared this story about our printer last year. It has been updated to include the Tweed Shire Echo, as Open 7 Days well as our sister paper Mon to Fri 8.30am-6pm, Sat & Sun 9am to 2pm the Byron Shire Echo. 14 Tweed Coast Road, Cabarita Beach (02) 6676 3199 ince the first Echo hit the streets two decades ago S we have employed half a dozen printers. In the early days we even tried printing it ourselves, an experience that was… interesting. Recently we changed to a new company that had impressed us with its green credentials. What makes Horton Me- dia the best choice for us is an environmental and social consciousness, as well as an obvious passion for high qua- lity cutting-edge printing. They Horton Media’s cold-set plant in Nerangba, north of Brisbane. To see this press printing The Echo are a medium-sized, indepen- visit www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICZvmMe9lYs dently-owned printer and the papers they print are also in- first he thought he wouldn’t toilets and the irrigation sys- based inks over vegetable inks. dependently owned, including follow in the family business tem threaded throughout the The combination of the carbon the Glasshouse Country News, – he studied economics and plant’s landscaped garden. inputs required to produce the Coolum Advertiser and the worked as a newspaper repor- These innovations build on a vegetable-based inks (from Clarence Valley Review. ter until his mid-20s – but ink ten-year campaign by Horton agricultural production and Manager and owner Mat- runs in the blood, and since Media to take its environmen- manufacturing) are actually % # !$ ! % ! ! ! thew Horton’s personable and taking over from his father tal responsibilities seriously. greater than those required to % $ $! % hands-on approach sets him he has steered the business in According to Matthew, ‘Right produce mineral inks. Moreo- apart from all of our previous new directions. One of these from the start, the company ver, they perform poorly and % % ! printers. He comes from an is a brand-new, purpose-built demanded printers swap their create greater printed waste %" ! ! %"!$ # established printing family newspaper press in Australia, aromatic cleaning chemicals than their mineral alternatives. in New Zealand and has only and this venture has already for eucalyptus-based fluids. ‘Printed matter is the world’s Phone: 6621 2734 www.hamptonandlarsson.com.au recently added his Australian exceeded initial projections. Then management committed biggest landfill element and, as operation to the company. At The production ‘The printing industry has minimised its The Echo process environmental footprint by 95 per cent since There’s more to After the eight hour produc- 1990. A newspaper now produces one-fifth tion shift on Wednesday, the fi- of the carbon dioxide emitted by the nal PDFs of the Echo pages are production of a single CD or DVD.’ than just the paper sent via FTP (an internet-based transfer) to Horton Media, just to a longterm program of en- such, its producers and users north of Brisbane. There the vironmental improvement as must be conscious of their CHECK files are double-checked be- measured and recognised by responsibilities. However, the OUT OUR fore being burned on to alu- New Zealand’s foremost envi- printing industry has mini- minium printing plates using ronmental watchdog, Landcare mised its environmental foot- WEBSITE computer-to-plate laser tech- Research.’ print by 95 per cent since 1990. nology. The process takes an Matthew says that under the A newspaper now produces Our news, articles hour, and the actual printing program Horton Media over- one-fifth of the carbon dioxide and columns are takes around the same time. hauled its recycling practices emitted by the production of all uploaded each Completed papers are trucked to include all paper roll waste. a single CD or DVD. And, in week to our easy-to- down in the wee hours for a navigate site. ‘This meant that plastic and contrast to computers or the Thursday home delivery. kraft wrapping as well as reel power stations required to run Breaking news Much like all the best auto cores joined white paper and them, newspapers are readily published before the garages, the floors at Horton printed waste in the recycling recycled.’ next issue. Media are spotless. Creating a stream. High-grade aluminium And we might add that, un- purpose-built factory has ena- printing plates had always been like newspapers printed on gloss Search our archives bled Matthew and his staff to recycled but were now sent di- or semigloss stock, the Tweed for previous week’s design an area that will not only rectly to the smelter.’ Shire Echo makes an excellent stories. accommodate future growth Lighting was also replaced mulch! There’s a serious issue Post comments but will take into account the for lower energy consump- involved too, as gloss paper re- on our stories and latest in practical environmen- tion, he says. ‘These and va- quires heat-set presses which columns. tal processes. rious other improvements have consume much more energy One example is the extrac- helped the company attain than the cold-set web press that Browse our photo tion of water from the air com- Landcare’s Gold Enviromark prints this newspaper. gallery full of iconic pression process, necessary for standard.’ This is an environmentally local images and running all of the company’s conscious area, where many detailed coverage of production equipment. Up to Better practices events. people are aware of sustaina- 200 litres per day can be ex- These same practices have ble practices and are passio- Missed your printed tracted from Brisbane’s hu- been adopted in Australia. The nate about it. Horton Media is copy? Download the midity and this is fed into the introduction of paper made proactive in the way it opera- entire paper as a PDF. fresh water process, also cri- from recycled Australian news- tes, and as a result, has raised tical for the lithographic web print has been well received the bar amongst its peers. View streaming video offset printing process. The rest among local publishers, says Without question, it matters of the serious and the of the water is supplied from to us that our print partner un- hilarious. Matthew. two 3,000 litre rainwater tanks. Not everything seems as derstands that everything has The plant is also plumbed for green as it sometimes appears, consequences …and has im- grey water use. Grey water sup- however. Matthew explained, plemented processes to min- www.tweedecho.com.au plies non-potable uses such as ‘We chose to prefer mineral- imise those consequences. 14 February 12, 2009 The Tweed Shire Echo www.tweedecho.com.au cabarita Accountants & BusinessBu i Advisersd i MichaelMichael Paff CACA Principal Brian Charman CPAC Principal CabaritaCabarita BeacBeachh 3/35 CoasCoastt Road, Cabarita Beach PhonePhone:: 02 6676 3055 WWeb:e www.whk.com.au beach B WiWisese aandnd comeco and see BBevanevan for yyour bait COASTAL CABARITA ffromrom as ffarar as MoreeMoree,, tailor is worth $1,000$1,000 CABARITA & tacktackle... MIGHT BE MILES Bundaberg and and $500 worth of FROM THE CITY, BUT Goondawindi to Good Guys white BAIT IT STILL SUFFERS compete. goods. AND TACKLE FROM A MINOR CASE ‘Some people come ‘We’ve had a tailor Cabarita Bait and Tackle OF GRIDLOCK ONE every year and each weight in at 6.39kg, have all your fishing WEEKEND A YEAR. time they come back which was caught in needs covered – call Since 1985, keen they bring some 2000 - and that’s what in and see Beven for fishermen clad in friends who return the everyone is going to try friendly advice and Open 7 days fishing vests and following year,’ he said. and beat,’ said Mr Wise. service. From up- armed with rods have ‘It is great for the town ‘But in 1990 the biggest to-date information Rod & bike hire been pouring into the and great for our local tailor weighed only on the local area and town every Queen’s emergency services 400g and was the only conditions to the latest birthday long weekend who we donate all of one for the day. in rods, reels and lures CABARITA for the annual Lions the proceeds to.’ ‘We should get some Cabarita Bait and Tackle Greenback Tailor Fishing The biggest drawcard weighing three to four has it covered. BAIT AND TACKLE Competition. of the competition kilos this year - the 16 Coast Road 3/16 Coast Rd, Cabarita Beach are the lucrative prizes competition has no Cabarita Beach It is Cabarita’s premier Phone: 02 6676 3111 event and attracted supplied by local boundaries so if you 6676 3111 almost 1,000 entrants in businesses - particularly think you can get a big 2008 - causing caused the grand prize in the tailor out in whoop- LITTLE CLUB biggest tailor category. whoop they if you can quite a stir when they WITH BIG all converged on the town’s surf life saving APPEAL club to register. Cabarita Sports Club may not be as big as its This year the YOUR COMPLETE ONE STOP SURF SHOP competition will take border rivals, but what place on 6-7 June with it lacks in size it more registration at 12pm than makes up for in Saturday and weigh in atmosphere, comfort at 9am Sunday. and congeniality. Cabarita businesses Although once have already started to regarded as a local prepare for the busy secret, the Cabarita time when they like Sports Club is now STOCKISTS OF: to show off just what Hooking this fish can get it back here by pulling new members GLOBE VOLCOM OCEAN&EARTH INSIGHT makes the coastal town make a fisherman 9am Sunday - go and from all corners of the UÊ-1,7 ,ÊUÊ7 /-1/-ÊEÊ,- - so special. $1,500 richer and win catch it.’ Entry is $25 Tweed Coast. General UÊ 1-/" Ê " ÊEÊ-",/Ê ", - Bevan Wise, chairman him $500 worth of for adults and $15 for Manager Phil Mallon UÊ- / ", -UÊ " 9Ê ", -ÊEÊ-1,Ê /-Ê of the Lions Greenback white goods supplied children. To find out says word’s out that our UÊ Ê, 7, Ê --", - organising committee, by the Good Guys. more call Mr Wise on club is changing for the FULL RANGE OF GLOBE MENS SHOES AND LADIES FOOTWEAR The second biggest 6676 3111. better, plus it’s serving said people come 1/38 COAST ROAD CABARITA BEACH 02 6676 3151 Enjoy the benefits of Investing in Your Community
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the cheapest schooners appeals to most age courtesy bus operates CABARITA on the Coast. groups including throughout the local ‘At $3.30 they represent families. They can have area. SURF SHOP good value. They’re icy dinner with the kids Cabarita Sports Has all your surf needs cold, and always served and take them to the Club is committed covered and carries a with a smile,’ he said. kids club, then spend to supporting the great stock of surfboads ‘We have also some time together, local community and skateboards, surf wear endeavoured relaxing with a drink wherever possible, and accessories and to introduce and watching a live uses local suppliers. snorkelling gear. If the entertainment and band,’ said Phil. They also encourage urge to catch a wave IgZViNdjgAdkZYDcZId promotions that takes you suddenly you incorporate every can hire surfboards and 6LZZ`ZcY6lVn member of the family. body boards from the This month, we and receive some great started Barefoot Bowls advice and service at on Sundays and it’s the same time. become a huge hit. Kids 1/38 Coast Road over 13 are welcome Cabarita Beach to play and their 6676 3151 20% OFF FOR WEEKEND BOOKINGS (FRI & SAT NIGHTS) younger siblings aren’t VALENTINES DAYS overlooked because SOUTHERN Pandanus Parade Cabarita Beach P. 02 6670 0900 there’s face painting www.thebeachcabarita.com.au and our regular kids’ CROSS CREDIT club for three to 12 year UNION LTD – olds,’ said Phil. ‘There are not too members to support ‘Bowlers on the day also many places, especially local business CABARITA BEACH get a free sausage and on the Tweed Coast, through an innovative Part of Southern schooner and there are that offer that kind of partnership program Cross Credit Union’s plenty of free laughs on opportunity, and what’s whereby attractive philosophy is the offer as well.’ more, it’s free.’ discounts are offered to concept of helping The Club recently A Chinese and Bistro Club members. For a people take control full list of their business of their finances and partners visit the achieve their goals. WHATS club and at just $2.20 Cabarita Branch annually, membership Supervisor, Mitch ON of Cabarita Sports Club Alexander says, ‘We are proud to MONDAY 6-9PM FRIDAY 5.30PM - 7.30PM represents excellent $10 STEAK NIGHT DIPPING DELICACIES value. provide products and Kids eat free* & DIVINE DAIQUIRIS services such as loans, TUESDAY 6-9PM 9PM ROUND MOUNTAIN GIRLS The Club opens $10 PASTA NIGHT SATURDAY 6-9PM Mondays from 10am investments, and Kids eat free* VALENTINES DAY DINNER insurance, which help WEDNESDAY 6-9PM 7.30PM BJ GANNON to 9.30pm, Tuesday, $10 SCHNITZEL NIGHT members and the local SUNDAY 2PM ‘BEACH STYLE’ Wednesday and Kids eat free* LAWN CRICKET WITH community thrive in the THURSDAY 6-9PM Kids eat free* MATT BUGGY & CARLEY VEAL Sunday 10am to 10pm, NEW APL POKER LIVE ACOUSTICS hosted well known restaurant is located Thursday 10am to Northern Rivers region, TOURNAMENT 6-9PM $10 ROAST NIGHT whilst never sacrificing FREE ENTRY. REGISTRATION STARTS 6.30PM *TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY. pub rock bands Mason on the premises, two 10.30pm, Friday and personal service. Over FREE COURTESY BUS Rack and Blind Lemon, outdoor areas, pool Saturday 10 to 12 am. FROM KINGSCLIFF TO POTTSVILLE CALL 02 6676 0033 FOR BOOKINGS. and Wendy Matthews room, three bowling You can contact and above dealing with credit union members, For your chance to VALENTINES DAY is booked to appear greens and a well the club on 6676 WIN 1 NIGHT DINNER FOR 2 later this year, opening stocked bottle shop 1135 for any further we serve the local at the Beach Resort Penthouse Suite Bookings Essential its doors to a new with regular weekly information. www. community at large, generation of club specials. TAB and Keno cabaritasportsclub. particularly with the goers. are also available com.au money invested with Pandanus Parade Cabarita Beach 02 6676 0033 ‘Our entertainment at the Club. A free the credit union being 16 February 12, 2009 The Tweed Shire Echo www.tweedecho.com.au cabarita beach reinvested within the – including personal delight of locals, the stunning photographs Cabarita Beach. You’d success and provide Far North Coast to and home loans, term fourth generation hotel of Cabarita from all eras go the whole wide imaginative and help local people and deposits, investment on Cabarita Beach is and Caba Pub’s great world just to find it and constructive advice on businesses develop and savings accounts, again a community view to the beach. yet it’s in your backyard. the management and and create local jobs a range of electronic focal point for events, See you at Cabarita Stay a night or stay development of their through loans to banking products and special occasions, family Beach Bar. forever. client’s business and members.’ all insurance needs. outings or a few beers The Beach Resort financial affairs. Mitch began with 2-6 Pandanus Parade, For an appointment SCCU as an MSO THE BEACH Cabarita Beach please phone trainee, moving to RESORT 6670 0900 6676 3055 a Credit Officer and Where in the world winning Trainee of would you find the best the Year in 2006. He new address on earth? WHK has since become St Tropez? Monaco? CABARITA a Loans Officer, TheT Bahamas? The Far WHK Cabarita has continued his studies East? Look no further grown into a dynamic in Financial Services than right here on the and forward thinking and has now taken TweedT Coast. firm, providing clients on the Supervisor role Developed by Resort with a full range of at Cabarita. The rest Corp, The Beach Resort financial services to of the team consists is a new, world-class meet their every need. of Karen Hudd, who resort at Cabarita Beach They pride themselves has worked in the with its legendary on their skilled and credit union industry surfing beach and motivated staff, in various roles for 29 with friends. headland. fine reputation and years; Louise Stewart THE BEACH Friendly staff, great With all the facilities excellent client base. and Anne-Marie food and good times you’d expect from a WHK provide Piper, who together BAR on the beach. With so first class resort plus an exceptional service have over 15 years Cabarita Beach Hotel, many legendary surfers extensive retail precinct, to their clients and experience in SCCU Caba Pub or the Beach living locally, the Beach The Beach Resort offers are able to provide branches. 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1. Patricia Arquette and Tim Robbins star in the highly recommended cult comedy Human Nature (SBS, Saturday 10pm). 2. There’s a very droll comedy series on SBS called Corner Gas. But it’s wasted in the 5.30pm slot on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. 3. Old episodes of Dr Who are getting another airing on ABC1 (Tuesday, 1 2 3 8.30pm).
4.30 GP (PG) Repeat. 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 5.20 World News in various languages. 6.00 Sunrise 6.00 Ten Early News 5.30 Today 5.30 Spicks And Specks (G) Repeat. 9.00 Asia Pacific News 1.00 The Food Lovers’ Guide To 9.00 Morning Show (PG) 7.00 Toasted TV & Kids’ Programs 9.00 Mornings with Kerri-Anne 6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.30 Business Today Australia (G) Repeat. 11.00 Raggs (G) pre-schoolers show. 9.00 9am With David And & Kim (PG) Summer Series (PG) 12.00 Midday Report 10.00 Kids’ Programs 1.30 Museum Of The World (PG) Repeat. 11.30 Seven Morning News 11.00 Ten News 10.30 Kids’ Programs 12.30 I Can Jump Puddles (PG) Repeat. 4.30 The New Inventors Repeat. 2.30 Louis Xvii: Unsolved Enigma (PG) 12.00 Movie: Miracle In The Woods (M,a 12.00 The Doctors (PG) 11.00 Danoz and Guthy Renker 1.30 Spicks And Specks (G) Repeat. 5.00 7.30 Select Repeat. 1997) Stars Meredith Baxter, Della 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) 12.00 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 2.00 Monarch Of The Glen (G) Repeat. 5.30 Catalyst (G) Repeat. 3.30 Blaktrax (G) music series. Repeat. Reese, Patricia Heaton. 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) 1.00 One Day Cricket Series – Australia 3.00 Golf: Australian Women’s Open 6.00 Compass: Tony Blair’s Leap Of 4.00 The Journal 2.00 Shark (M) Legal drama. 3.00 Infomercial (PG) vs New Zealand Live. 2009. Live AEDT. Faith (G) Repeat. 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 3.00 Auction House (G) 3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures (G) 5.00 Evening News 6.00 Message Stick (G) Repeat. 6.35 Scrapheap Challenge: Dune 5.30 The Clipperton Expedition: Sharks 3.30 Demons To Darlings (PG) 4.00 Every Loves Raymond (G) 5.30 A Current Affair 6.30 Can We Help? (G) Bashers (G) In Danger (G) 4.00 Go Go Stop kids’ game show. 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful (G) 6.00 One Day Cricket Series – Australia 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Something In the Air (G) Repeat. 6.00 Global Village: Exccentriiiks (G) 4.30 Seven News 5.00 Ten News vs New Zealand Live. 7.30 Stateline 8.00 Basketball: WNBL 2008/09: 6.30 World News Australia 5.00 M*A*S*H (G) Repeat. 6.00 The Simpsons (G) Repeat. 9.00 King Of Queens 8.00 Collectors Sydney University v Bendigo 7.30 River Of No Return (PG) 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.30 Neighbours (G) Repeat. 10.00 Movie: The Madallion (M) 8.30 Trial And Retribution (M,v,l,a) Live AEDT. 8.35 Churchill’s Bodyguard (G) Repeat. 6.00 Seven and Prime News 7.00 The Biggest Loser (PG) 12.00 Movie: Rock Star (M) Crime series. 10.00 Soundtrack To My Life: 9.30 World News Australia 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 7.30 The All New Simpsons (PG) 2.05 Mad TV (M) 9.40 The Complete Guide To Parenting Peter Noone (G) 10.00 The First Zionist Bunny (M,l,a,n,s) 7.30 Better Homes And Gardens 8.00 The Simpsons (G) Repeat. 3.05 Guthy Renker Australia (G) (M,l) Final. 10.30 Planet Rock Profiles: Doco from Israel. 8.30 Movie: The Holiday (M 2006) Stars 8.30 Medium (M) Season return. 4.30 Good Morning America
FRIDAY 13 FRIDAY 10.05 Lateline Ricky Martin (G) 11.25 Movie: Cold Shower (MA,s,a,n 2005) Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet 9.30 Law & Order (M) 10.40 triple j tv With The Doctor Repeat 10.55 Freshmen On Campus (PG) Repeat. Tragi-comedy from France. 11.15 TBA 10.30 Women’s Murder Club (M) 11.10 Good Game Repeat. 11.20 London Live (PG) Repeat. 2.10 Movie: Consequences Of Love 12.15 In The Footsteps Of The Pharaohs 11.20 Late News With Sports Tonight 11.40 rage (M) goes on until 5am Saturday. 11.50 Close (MA,v,a,d, 2004) Drama from Italy. (G) 12.20 Late Show with David Letterman (PG) 2.25 WeatherWatch Overnight 1.15 Danoz And Guthy-Renker 1.20 Infomercials (PG) 4.00 Queer Eye For The Straight Guy (PG) 5.00 Religion to 6am (PG).
Prime HD program same as above except: 12.00 This Rugged Coast 1.00 Movie: The Bridge Over The River Kwai (PG 1957) 3.30 Powerpuff Girls 4.00 Yin Yang Yo! 11.15 Movie: Full Frontal (M,a,l 2002) 1.00 Movie: Crazy/Beautiful (M,s,l,a 2001) All cricket on NBN this summer will be broadcast in HD 5.00 rage (PG) 7.00 Kids’ Programs 5.20 World News in various languages. 6.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Toasted TV & Kids’ Programs 6.00 Infomercials 6.00 rage (G) 3.00 rage (G) Repeat. 1.00 The Trojans (G) Opera from France. 12.00 Britannia High (PG) double episode. 10.00 Video Hits (PG) 7.30 Kids’ Programs 10.00 rage: Guest Programmer Mark 5.00 rage: Guest Programmer Mark Repeat. 2.00 Movie: Gotta Kick It Up (G, 2003) 11.00 Video Hits Presents: NERD And 10.30 Streetsmartz Repeat. Ronson (G) RRonsonon Repeat. 3.50 Tim Marlow on Henry Moore at Stars Camille Guaty, America Ferrera. Future Music (PG) 11.00 TBA 11.00 Executive Stress (G) Repeat. 6.05.05 TThehe NNewew Inventors Repeat. Kew (G) UK. 3.50 According To Jim (PG) 12.00 Star Wars: The Clone Wars (PG) 12.30 The Hills (PG) 11.30 The Cook And The Chef Repeat. 6.36.355 RRobinobin HHoodood (PG) Repeat. 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 4.20 Seconds From Disaster: Asian 12.30 Pat Callinan’s 4x4 Adventures (G) 1.00 Movie: Oceans Eleven (PG 1960) 12.00 Stateline Repeat. 7.27.200 RRexex TThehe RRuntunt (P(PG) Repeat. 5.30 Singles Club (PG) 5-part doco. Tsunami (PG) 1.00 Animal Lifeline: Koala Crisis (G) Stars Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, 12.30 Australian Story Repeat. 7.3 7.300 TheThe Einstein FacFactortor (G) Repeat. Repeat. 5.30 Sydney Weekender (PG) 2.00 The Family (G) Double episodes. Sammy Davis Jr, Peter Lawford and 1.00 Basketball: WNBL 2008/09: 8.08.000 AAtt TThehe MovMoviesies RepRepeat.eat. 6.00 Classic Destinations (G) London and 6.00 Seven News 4.00 Escape With ET (G) Final. Angie Dickinson. Sydney University v Bendigo 8.38.300 MovMovie:ie: TThehe AAcademycademy SSeason:easo Cheltenham. 6.30 In The Bush With Malcolm Douglas 5.00 Ten News With Sports Tonight 3.30 Wipeout Australia (PG) highlights. TThehe Way We Were (PG(PG,, 19721972)) SStarsta 6.30 World News Australia Series on Australian outback (G) 6.00 The Simpsons (G) Repeat. 4.30 Australia’s Greatest Athlete 2.00 Golf: Australian Women’s OpeOpenn BarBarbrabra Streisand, Robert Redford. 7.30 Mythbusters (PG) doco series. 7.30 Kath And Kim (PG) 6.30 Movie: Mean Girls (PG 2004) Stars 5.30 Antique Roadshow (G) 2009 Live AEDT. 10. 10.4545 MovMovie:ie: AArchrch Of TTriumphriumph (PG, 19481948)) 8.8.30 Iron Chef (G) Series return. 8.00 Fawlty Towers (PG) Lindsay Lohan 6.00 Evening News 5.55 ABC News Up-Date StaStarsrs Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer. 9.29.200 RocKwiz (PG) entertainment. 8.40 The Vicar of Dibley 8.30 Movie: Out of Sight (M 1998) Stars 6.30 Funniest Home Video Show (G) 6.00 Totally Frank (PG) Repeat.eat. 11.11.55 55 CloseClose 10.00 MovMovie: Human Nature (MA,l,s, 9.20 Not Going Out George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez 7.30 Movie: Raise Your Voice (PG) 6.25 Minuscule: The Dungg BeBeetleetle 2002) CoComedy from US. 10.00 Gavin & Stacey 11.00 AFL Pre-Season Brisbane v St.Kilda 8.40 Saturday Lotto Battle (G) 11. 11.4040 SOSSOS (M) Repeat.Repe 10.40 What a Carry On! from Gold Coast Stadium. 9.45 Movie: Miss Congeniality 2 (M) 6.30 Gardening Australiaalia (G(G)) 12.4012.40 Bro’Bro’ Town:Town: TouchedTouch by a teacher 11.20 Movie; Jay and Silent Bob Strike 1.00 Rush (M) Repeat. Stars Sandra Bullock 7.00 ABC News (PG)(PG) Comedy series.series. NZ.N Repeat. Back (MA 2001) 2.00 Infomercials 12.10 Late Movie: Ballistic (M) 7.30 New Tricks (PG,sr)G,sr) Repeat. 1.051.05 NNightyighty NightNight (M,l,n,s),l,n,s) CComedyo from 1.25 Danoz Direct 4.00 Religion to 6am (PG) 2.00 Late Late Movie: Spring And Port SATURDAY 14 SATURDAY 8.25 ABC News UK. Repeat. 2.05 Guthy Renker Wine (PG,s, 1970) Stars James Mason 8.30 The Bill (M,v)v) 1.401.411..4.40 Weatherwatch OvernightOvernig 1.05 Danoz Direct & Susan George 10.05 ABC Newss 2.05 Guthy Renker 4.00 Danoz 10.10 Last Detectivective (M,,v,s)v,s) Repeat. Prime HD program same as above except: 4.30 Guthy Renker 11.20 rage (M) 12.00 Toons At Noon 1.50 Movie: Project: ALF (G, 1996) 3.00 Gear 3.30 Movie: GI Blues (G 1960) 5.00 TBA 6.30 Movie: Smart House (G 1999) 8.00 Scrubs (PG) 8.30 This Is Your Laugh 9.30 The Knights Of Prosperity 10.00 Movie: The Gods Must Be Crazy (PG 1980) 11.00 Final 24 12.30 Bruce Springsteen Special 5.00 rage (PG) 7.0000 TThehe UUnforgetablenforgetabable NNatata KKiKinKinggCg CColeole 6.26.255 WorldWorld NewsN in various languages. 6.00 Religion 6.00 Religion 6.00 Danoz And Guthy Renker 6.30 Kids’ Programs (G)G) Repeat.Repeat. 10.00 MythbustersMythb (PG) Repeat. 6.30 Creflo A Dollar 7.00 Totally Wild (G) Repeat. 7.30 Today On Sunday 9.00 Insiders And Inside Business 8.00 Genesis:esis: SSongbookongbook (G) Repeat. 11.00 IIronron ChefC (G) Repeat. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise 7.30 Animalia 10.00 Biomagnetics (G) 10.30 Offsiders 9.00 Charles MMingus:ingus: Live AAtt Montreux 11.45 Mo Moonshine: Samagon (G) short. 10.00 Kochie’s Business Builders (G) 8.00 Meet The Press series return. 10.30 Going Places (PG) Final. 11.00 Asia Pacific Focus (G) Repeat. 12.12.00 00 Cy Cycling: Australian Track 10.30 According To Jim (PG) 8.30 State Focus 11.00 A1GP World Cup Of Motor Sport 11.30 Songs Of Praise (G) 10.00 Lou Reed: Live Att MMontreuxontreux 22000000 Championships. Adelaide. 11.00 The Most Extreme (G) 9.00 Video Hits First (PG) from Jakarta 12.00 Landline (G) (G) Repeat. 1.01.000 Speedweek 12.00 2009 Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain Iron 10.00 Video Hits (PG) 12.00 Speed Machine New Series 1.00 Golf: Australian Women’s Open 10.55 Beck: Permanent Mutationsons (G) 3.3.00 Football Asia Man Series Round 4. Sunshine Coast. 11.30 Video Hits Presents: ABBA (PG) 12.30 Jack Of All Trades (G) 2009 Live AEDT. Repeat. 3 3.30 UEFA Champions League 2.00 Movie: If It’s Tuesday, This Must 12.00 Infomercials 1.00 WWE Afterburn Live. 6.00 At The Movies (PG) Repeat. 11.55 London Live (PG) Music. Repeat. Magazine Be Belgium (PG) Stars Suzanne 1.00 Animal Lifeline: Koala Crisis (G) 2.00 Super League Helens v Warrington 6.30 The Einstein Factor Quiz show. 12.30 Red Dwarf (G) double episode. 4.00 Les Murray’s Football Feature Pleshette, Ian McShane,. 2.00 River To Reef (G) Wolves. 7.00 ABC News 1.30 Planet Rock Profiles: KT Tunstall 5.00 The World Game football. 4.00 Special: The Island At The End Of 2.30 The Family (PG) 4.00 Wipeout Australia (PG) 7.30 Wild Caribbean: Reefs And (PG) Repeat. 6.00 Thalassa – Grey Nomads in Morocco The World – Shackleton’s Triumph 3.30 Meerkat Manor (G) 5.00 The Gurus Explore Thailand (G) Wrecks (G) 1.55 Pop[b]sessions: Ebony And Ivory 6.30 World News Australia (G) 4.00 In Memory O Maia (G) 5.30 Antique Roadshow (G) 8.25 ABC News Up-Date (G) Repeat. 7.30 Lost Worlds: Darwin’s Lost 5.00 The Rich List (G) Final. 5.00 Ten News 6.00 Evening News 8.30 Cranford: November 1842 (G) 3.00 Nelly Furtado: Loose, The Tour (G) Paradise Commemorates 200 years 6.00 Seven News 5.30 Out Of The Blue (PG) double episode 6.30 Domestic Blitz (PG) 9.25 Compass (G) Billy Graham Down Repeat. since the birth of Charles Darwin. 6.30 Sunday Night Live 6.30 The Biggest Loser (G) new series. 7.30 20/20 Cricket Australia v New Under. 3.55 The Diary Of Alicia Keys (G) Repeat. 8.30 Dateline current affairs. 7.30 Border Security 7.30 So You Think You Can Dance Zealand 9.55 Roberto Giordano: From One 4.55 A Little Later: Stereophonics (G) Rpt. 9.35 Movie: Ship Of No Return – The 8.00 Triple Zero Heroes (PG) Australia (PG) 10.30 Underbelly: A tale of two cities SUNDAY 15 SUNDAY World To Another (G) Repeat. 5.10 Classic Albums: Iron Maiden – The Last Voyage of The Gustloff Part 2 8.30 City Homicide (M,v,s) 9.30 Rove (M) season premier (M, v,l,s.d,n) Anti drugs campaigner 10.50 Order In The House parliament Number Of The Beast (G) Repeat. (M,v, 2008) drama from Germany. 9.30 Bones 10.40 Movie: Airplane 1 (AKA Flying Donald Mackay makes deadly 11.50 Movie: Carrington VC (PG 1954) 6.00 21 Years Of Compass: Tomorrow’s 11.10 Movie: Salamina Soldiers (M,a,v,s) 10.30 24 High) (M) Stars Lloyd Bridges, Leslie enemies with Griffith, the mafia and Stars David Niven, Margaret Leighton. Islam (G) Repeat. Drama from Spain. 11.30 Air Crash Investigators (PG) Nielson, Julie Hagerty. Peter Graves corrupt NSW police. 1.35 Movie: Call Out The Marines (G 7.05 Artscape: Dame Murdoch (G) 1.15 Autopsy: Life And Death – Cancer 12.30 Home Shopping 12.40 The Daily Show With Jon Stewart – 12.30 Super League Salford City Reds v 1942) Cast Victor McLaglen, Edmund 7.35 Wild At Heart (PG) Repeat. (MA,a,n) Doco series from the UK. 5.30 Seven Early News Global Edition (MA15+) final. Celtic Crusaders Lowe, Binnie Barnes, Paul Kelly. 8.30 The Da Vinci Detective (G) Repeat. 12.15 The Office (PG) 2.30 Guthy Renker Australia 2.40 Movie: Guns Of Hate (PG 1948) 10.10 Conversations With Australian 2.50 Weatherwatch Overnight Prime HD program same as above except: 12.45 Taken Out 3.30 Religion 10.00 Dateline 11.00 Weekend Sunrise 2.00 Stars Tim Holt, Nan Leslie. Artists: Ken Unsworth (G) Movie: Alexander The Great (PG,v, 1956) 4.00 3.10 Infomercials 4.00 Good Morning America 2.40 Eagle And Evans (M) Comedy. 10.30 Captain Cook (PG) Repeat. Movie: Dr Dolittle 2 (PG,cl,s, 2001) 5.30 Harry’s 4.00 Religion to 6am (PG) 5.00 Early Morning News 11.25 Close Practice 7.30 The All In Call – Live 8.00 Simulcast All cricket on NBN this summer will be broadcast in HD
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0414 997 722 or Phone: 1800 811 700 07 5506 6645 20 February 12, 2008 The Tweed Shire Echo www.tweed.echo.net.au 4.30 GP (PG) Repeat. 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 5.20 World News in various languages. 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.00 Larry 6.00 Ten Early News 5.30 Today 5.30 Spicks And Specks (G) Repeat. 9.00 Asia Pacific News 1.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia (G) The Lawnmower 11.30 Seven News 7.00 Toasted TV & Kids’ Programs 9.00 Mornings with Kerri-Anne (PG) 6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.30 Business Today Repeat. 12.00 Movie: Dear Prudence (PG 2008) 9.00 9am With David And & Kim (PG) 11.00 Time/Life (G) 11.00 Landline Repeat. 10.00 Kids’ Programs 1.30 The Choice (PG) Abortion in Stars Jane Seymour, Tantoo Cardinal. 11.00 Ten News 11.30 Danoz (G) 12.00 Midday Report 4.30 Gardening Australia (G) Rpt Australia Repeat. 2.00 Shark (M) legal drama. 12.00 The Doctors (PG) 12.00 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 12.30 Poirot (PG) 5.00 Message Stick (G) Repeat. 2.30 Dateline (PG) Repeat. 3.00 Auction House (G) new series premier. 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) 1.00 The View (PG) talk show. 1.25 The Cook And The Chef (G) Repeat. 5.30 Can We Help? (G) Repeat. 3.30 Independent America (G) Doco 3.30 Demons To Darlings (PG) 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) 2.00 Days Of Our Lives (PG) 1.55 Parkinson (G) Repeat. 6.00 Collectors (G) Repeat. from US. Repeat. 4.00 Go Go Stop 3.00 Infomercial (PG) 3.00 Fresh Cooking (G) Repeat. 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.35 Scrapheap Challenge: 4.30 The Journal 4.30 Seven News 3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures (G) 3.30 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Landline Extra (G) Repeat. Powerboats (G) 5.00 The Crew (G) student video production 5.00 M*A*S*H (G) 4.00 Everybody Loves Raymond (G) Rpt. 4.30 Afternoon News 6.30 Talking Heads: Tina Arena 7.30 Something In The Air (G) Repeat. 5.30 Corner Gas (G) comedy series. 5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) series return. 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful (G) 5.00 Bargain Hunt 7.00 ABC News 8.00 Red Dwarf (PG) Repeat. 6.00 Global Village: Exccentriiiks (G) 6.00 Seven and Prime News 5.00 Ten News 5.30 Antique Roadshow (G) Llanelli. 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.30 Good Game (PG) Repeat. 6.30 World News Australia 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 6.00 The Simpsons (G) Repeat. 6.00 Evening News 8.00 Australian Story (PG) 9.00 triple j tv With The Doctor (PG) 7.30 Top Gear (PG) UK. 7.30 How I Met Your Mother (PG) 6.30 Neighbours (G) Repeat. 7.00 A Current Affair 8.30 Four Corners 9.30 Code Geass (PG) 8.30 South Park (M,a) 8.30 Desperate Housewives (M) 7.00 The Biggest Loser (PG) 7.30 Two And A Half Men (PG) 9.20 Media Watch 10.00 T Rex: Born To Boogie Evening 9.00 Drawn Together (MA,v,a) animated 9.30 Brothers And Sisters (M) 7.30 So You Think You Can Dance 8.00 The Big Bang Theory (PG) 9.35 Stephen Fry: The Secret Life Of The Concert (G) Repeat. comedy series. 10.25 Boston Legal (M) Australia (PG) 8.30 Underbelly: A tale of two cities (M, Manic Depressive (MA,vcl) Final. 11.05 jtv Live: Behind Crimson Eyes’ One 9.30 World News Australia 11.20 30 Rock (PG) 8.30 Good News Week (M) v,l,s.d,n) 10.30 Lateline and Lateline Business NIght Stand (M,l) Repeat. 10.00 The Mighty Boosh: Call Of The Yeti 11.45 Last Comic Standing (M) 9.30 Dexter (AV15+) 8.45 Lotto MONDAY 16 MONDAY 11.35 Death Of A Nation (M,l) 11.35 Cowboy Bebop (M,v) Repeat. (PG) UK comedy series. 12.50 Home Shopping 10.35 Late News With Sports Tonight 9.30 Aussie Ladette To Lady (M) Repeat. 12.25 MDA: Break It Gently (M,l,v) drama. 12.00 Close 10.35 Skins (M,l,a,s) repeat drama series. 5.30 Seven Early News 11.20 Late Show with David Letterman (PG) 10.30 The Mentalist (M) Repeat. Repeat. 11.25 Movie: Nicotina D (MA,l,v,a 2003) 12.20 Taken Out (PG) 11.30 The Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 1.20 Movie: Storm Over The Nile (PG, Action drama from Mexico. Prime HD program same as above except: 12.50 Army Wives (M) 12.30 Australia’s Greatest Athlete Guest 1955) Stars Anthony Steel. Director 1.00 Movie: The Triad Zone (M,s,v, 2004) 12.00 This Rugged Coast 1.00 Deal Or No Deal 1.50 Video Hits Up-Late (PG) host Ricky Ponting Terence Young & Zoltan Korda. Drama from Hong Kong. 1.30 Blue Heelers 2.30 My Restaurant Rules 3.00 2.00 Infomercials (PG) 1.30 Enterteinment Tonight 3.25 Movie: The Lost Patrol (G 1934) 2.35 WeatherWatch Overnight Power Rangers 3.30 Powerpuff Girls 4.00 Yin Yang 4.00 Religion to 6am (PG). 2.00 Guthy Renker Australia Stars Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff. Yo! 10.30 Final 24: Nicole Brown Simpson 10.25 3.00 Religion Final 24: David Koresh 11.30 Urban Legends Director John Ford. 12.00 Bruce Sprinsteen Special 12.30 Dr Danger 3.30 Good Morning America 1.00 30 Rock 12.30 Australia’s Strangest Home 5.00 Early Morning News Improvements 4.30 GP (PG) Repeat. 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 5.20 World News in various languages 6.00 Sunrise 6.00 Ten Early News 5.30 Today 5.30 Spicks And Specks (PG) Repeat. 9.00 Asia Pacific News 1.00 The Storm Rages Twice (G) Repeat 9.00 The Morning Show (PG) 7.00 Toasted TV & Kids’ Programs 9.00 Mornings With Kerri-Anne (PG) 6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.30 Business Today drama from Lebanon. 11.00 Larry The Lawnmower 9.00 9am With David And Kim (PG) 11.00 Danoz And Guthy Renker (G) 11.00 Parkinson (G) Repeat. 10.00 Kids’ Programs 2.00 Don Matteo (PG) Drama series from 11.30 Seven News 11.00 Ten News 12.00 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 12.00 Midday Report 4.35 Little Angels (G) Repeat. Italy. Repeat. 12.00 TBA 12.00 The Doctors (PG) 1.00 The View (PG) talk show. 12.30 The Einstein Factor (G) Repeat. 5.05 Talking Heads (G) Repeat. 3.00 Here Comes The Neighbourhood 2.00 Shark (M) Legal series. 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) 2.00 Days Of Our Lives (PG) 1.00 The New Inventors (G) Repeat. 5.35 Sun, Sea And Bargain Spotting (G) Repeat. 3.00 Auction House (G) 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) 3.00 Fresh Cooking (PG) 1.30 Catalyst (G) Repeat. 6.35 Scrapheap Challenge: Rocket 3.30 Everybody Loves A Wedding (G) Rpt 3.30 Demons To Darlings (PG) parenting. 3.00 Infomercial (PG) 3.30 Kids Programs 2.00 Parkinson (G) Repeat. Railway (G) 4.00 The Journal 4.00 Go Go Stop kids’ show. 3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures (G) 4.30 Afternoon News 3.00 Kids’ Programs 7.30 Something In The Air (G) Repeat. 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 4.30 Seven and Prime News 4.00 Everybody Loves Raymond (G) Rpt. 5.00 Bargain Hunt 6.05 Time Team: Binchester (G) 8.00 Australian Story (PG) Repeat. 5.30 Corner Gas (G) comedy series. 5.00 M*A*S*H (G) Repeat. 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful (G) 5.30 Antique Roadshow (G) Llanelli. 7.00 ABC News 8.30 Rose And Maloney (M) Repeat. 6.00 The World Game Football news 5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) games show. 5.00 Ten News 6.00 Evening News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 9.20 The Bill (PG) Repeat. program. 6.00 Seven and Prime News 6.00 The Simpsons (G) Repeat. 7.00 A Current Affair 8.00 Lead Balloon (PG) 10.55 MDA (M,at) Repeat. 6.30 World News Australia 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 6.30 Neighbours (G) Repeat. 7.30 Wipeout Australia 8.30 Doctor Who (PG) Repeat. 11.50 Close 7.30 How Does Your Memory Work? 7.30 RSPCA Animal Rescue (G) 7.00 The Biggest Loser (PG) 8.30 Two And A Half Men (M) 9.15 Doctor Who: Confidential (PG) doco from the UK. 8.00 Find My Family (PG) 8.00 Bondi Rescue (PG) 9.00 Two And A Half Men (M) Repeat. Cutdown: Friends Reunited 8.30 India Reborn: India On The Move 8.30 Packed To The Rafters (PG) 8.30 NCIS (M) 9.30 Aussie Ladette to Lady (M) 9.30 Foreign Correspondent (PG) Part 2 of 4. 9.30 All Saints (M,v,d) 9.30 Lie To Me (M) Crime series. 10.30 Secret Diary Of A Call Girl 10.05 Artscape: Tom Moore 9.30 World News 10.30 Eli Stone (M) legal drama. 10.30 Late News With Sports Tonight (MA,a,d,s,l) Series return with Billie
TUESDAY 17 TUESDAY Glassorama! (G) 10.00 Hot Docs (M,v,a) Favela Rising. 11.30 Dirty Sexy Money (M) 11.15 Late Show With David Letterman (PG) Piper 10.35 Lateline and Lateline Business 11.30 Movie: Secuestro Express (MA,v,d,s, 12.30 Home Shopping 12.00 Taken Out (G) entertainment. 11.30 The Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 11.35 Four Corners Repeat. 2005) Action drama from Venezuela. 5.30 Seven Early News 12.30 Army Wives (M) Repeat. 12.30 The Dead Zone (M) 12.25 Media Watch Repeat. 1.00 Three Of Hearts: A post-modern 1.30 Infomercials (PG) 1.30 Guthy Renker 12.40 Changi (M,l,v,s) Repeat. family (M,a,s) Doco from US. 4.00 Religion to 6am (PG) 3.00 Religion 1.50 Movie: Women Of Twilight (G 1952) 2.45 WeatherWatch Overnight Prime HD program same as above except: 3.30 Good Morning America Stars Freda Jackson. Director Gordon 12.00 This Rugged Coast 1.00 Deal Or No Deal 5.00 Early Morning News Parry. 1.30 Blue Heelers 2.30 My Restaurant Rules 3.00 Power Rangers 3.30 Powerpuff Girls 4.00 Yin 3.25 triple j tv With The Doctor (G) Yang Yo! 10.30 Lost 11.30 Louis Theroux: Under Repeat The Knife 12.30 The Need For Speed – Bikes 1.30 Australia’s Strangest Home Improvements All cricket on NBN this summer will be broadcast in HD 4.30 GP (PG) Repeat. 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 5.20 World News in various languages. 6.00 Sunrise 6.00 Ten Early News 5.30 Today 5.30 Spicks And Specks (PG) Repeat. 9.00 Asia Pacific News 1.00 Movie: Festival In Cannes (M) US 9.00 The Morning Show (PG) 7.00 Toasted TV & Kids’ Programs 9.00 Mornings With Kerri-Anne (PG) 6.00 Kids’ Program 9.30 Business Today 2001 Stars Jenny Gabrielle, Greta 11.00 Larry The Lawnmower kids’ show. 9.00 9am With David And Kim (PG) 11.00 Danoz and Bio-Magnetics (G) 12.00 Midday Report 10.00 Kids’ Programs Scacchi 11.30 Seven News 11.00 Ten News 12.00 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 12.30 National Press Club Address 4.30 A Place in Greece (G) Repeat. 2.40 Mars (G) Repeat 12.00 Movie: Hunter: Back In Force (M) 12.00 The Doctors (PG) 1.00 The View (PG) talk show. Mick Dodson: Reconciliation Australia 4.55 Speed Machines (G) Repeat. 3.00 Salam Cafe (PG) Repeat. 2003 Stars Fred Dryer, Stephanie 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) Repeat. 2.00 Days Of Our Lives (PG) 1.30 Talking Heads (G) Repeat. 5.45 Time Team (G) Repeat. 3.30 Football Stars Of Tomorrow Kramer 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) Repeat. 3.00 Fresh Cooking (G) 2.00 Parkinson (PG) 6.35 Scrapheap Challenge: Fire 4.00 The Journal 2.00 Shark (M) Legal series. 3.00 Infomercial (PG) 3.30 Kids’ Programs 3.00 Kids’ Programs Engines (G) 4.30 Newshour with Jim Lehrer 3.00 Auction House (G) 3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures (G) 4.30 NBN News 6.00 The Queen’s Cavalry (G) Repeat. 7.00 Zoo Days (G) Britain’s largest zoos 5.30 Corner Gas (G) Comedy. 3.30 Demons to Darlings (PG) 4.00 Everyone Loves Raymond (G) 5.00 Bargain Hunt (G) 6.30 The Cook and the Chef (G) 7.30 Something In The Air (G) Repeat. 6.00 Global Village: Exccentriiiks 4.00 Go Go Stop kids’ show. 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful (G) 5.30 Antiques Roadshow (G). 7.00 ABC News 8.00 Body Hits: On The Lash (PG) 6.30 World News Australia 4.30 Seven and Prime News 5.00 Ten News 6.00 NBN News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.30 Eataholics: Addicted To 7.30 Feast India (G) Part 2 of 8 5.00 M*A*S*H (G) 6.00 The Simpsons (G) Repeat 7.00 A Current Affair 8.00 The New Inventors (G) Potatoes (G) 8.00 Tales From The Palaces (G) doco 5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) games show. 6.30 Neighbours (G) 7.30 The Farmer Wants A Wife (PG) 8.30 Spicks And Specks (PG) 9.30 Chimpanzees: Out Of The series on palaces of the UK. Repeat. 6.00 Seven and Prime News 7.00 The Biggest Loser (PG) 8.30 The Mentalist (M) 9.00 Chandon Pictures (M,l,s) comedy Shadows (PG) 8.30 Tribe: Matis, Western Amazon, 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 8.00 Guerrilla Gardeners (PG) 8.45 Lotto series. 10.30 My Teen’s A Nightmare: I’m Brazil (PG) Doco from UK. 7.30 Australia’s Got Talent 8.30 House (M) 9.30 Flashpoint (M) 9.35 Ruddy Hell! It’s Harry and Paul Moving Out: Cieran Bamford 9.30 World News Australia 8.30 Criminal Minds (M) 9.30 Life (M) 10.30 Cold Case (M) (M,l,s) Harry Enfield, Paul Whitehouse 11.20 Plumpton High Babies: 10.00 Movie: King’s Game (M,a,l) 2004 9.30 Gangs Of Oz (M) The Aussie mafia 10.30 Ten News With Sports Tonight 11.30 The Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 10.05 At the Movies Decisions...Decisions (PG) repeat Thriller from Denmark. 10.30 Lost (M) New season 11.15 Late Show With David Letterman (PG) 12.30 The Music Jungle (M)
WEDNESDAY 18 WEDNESDAY 10.35 Lateline And Lateline Business 11.45 Close 11.55 Movie: Who Knows? (PG) 2001 11.30 Disorderly Conduct Caught On 12.00 Taken Out 1.30 Guthy Renker And Danoz 11.35 Midsomer Murders (M) Repeat. Comedy from France. Tape (PG) 12.30 Infomercials 3.30 Good Morning America 1.10 Movie: The Silver Cord (PG 1930) 2.30 Weatherwatch Overnight 12.30 Guthy Renker & Danoz 4.00 Religion to 6am (PG) 5.00 Early Morning News Stars Irene Dunne, Joel McRae 5.30 Seven Early News 2.25 The Fisherman: A Journey Into The Mind Of A Killer (PG) Repeat 3.25 National Press Club Address Repeat.
4.30 GP (PG) Repeat. 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 5.20 World News in various languages. 6.00 Sunrise 6.00 Ten Early News 5.30 Today 5.30 Spicks And Specks (PG) Repeat. 9.00 Asia Pacific News 1.00 TV Around The World: Russia (M,l,n) 9.00 The Morning Show (PG) 7.00 Toasted TV & Kids’ Programs 9.00 Mornings With Kerri-Anne (PG) 6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.30 Business Today Doco series from France. 11.00 Larry The Lawnmower kids’ show. 9.00 9am With David And Kim (PG) 11.00 Danoz and Guthy Renker (G) 11.00 The War 10.00 Kids’ Programs 1.30 Blizzard: Race To The Pole (PG) UK 11.30 Seven News 11.00 Ten News 12.00 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 12.00 Midday Report 4.35 The Einstein Factor (G) Repeat. Documentary. 12.00 Movie: Daniel’s Daughter (G) 2008 12.00 The Doctors (PG) 1.00 The View (PG) talk show. 12.30 National Press Club Address 5.05 The Cook and the Chef (G) Repeat. 2.30 Dateline (PG) Repeat. Stars Laura Leighton, Sepastian Spence 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) Repeat. 2.00 Days Of Our Lives (PG) Peter Anderson: Australian Chamber 5.40 Naked Science (G) Repeat. 3.30 Alain Ducasse at the Plaza Athenee 2.00 Shark (M) Legal series. 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) Repeat. 3.00 Fresh Cooking (G) Of Commerce & Industry 6.35 Scrapheap Chalenge (G) (G) France. 3.00 Auction House (G) 3.00 Infomercial (PG) 3.30 Kids’ Programs 1.30 Collectors (G) Repeat. 7.30 Something In The Air (G) Repeat. 4.00 The Journal 3.30 Demons to Darlings (PG) 3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures (G) 4.30 NBN News 2.00 Parkinson (G) 8.00 Spicks And Specks (PG) Final. 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 4.00 Go Go Stop kids’ show. 4.00 Everyone Loves Raymond (G) 5.00 Bargain Hunt (G) 3.00 Kids’ Programs 8.30 Chandon Pictures (M,cl,at) comedy 5.30 FIFA Futbol Mundial 4.30 Seven and Prime News 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful (G) 5.30 Antiques Roadshow 6.10 Grand Designs: Sussex (G) 9.00 Ruddy Hell! It’s Harry and Paul 6.00 Global Village: Exccentriiiks 5.00 M*A*S*H (G) 5.00 Ten News 6.00 NBN News 7.00 ABC News (M,s,l) Harry Enfield, Paul Whitehouse 6.30 World News Australia 5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) games show. 6.00 The Simpsons (G) Repeat 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 The 7.30 Report 9.30 Roman’s Empire (M,s,l) family drama. 7.35 Inspector Rex (PG) Austria Repeat. 6.00 Seven and Prime News 6.30 Neighbours (G) 7.30 Celebrity Singing Bee (PG) 8.00 Catalyst 10.00 Headcases (M,l) satirical look at the 8.30 Tibet: Murder In The Snow (M,l) 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 7.00 The Biggest Loser (PG) 8.30 Adults Only 20 To 1 (M) 8.30 Bringing Up Baby (PG) worlds celebrity and politics. SBS documentary. 7.30 Ghost Whisperer (PG) 8.00 Bondi Vet (PG) 9.30 RPA (M) 9.30 Q&A With Tony Jones 10.25 The Peter Serafinowicz Show (M,s,l) 9.30 World News Australia 8.30 Grey’s Anatomy (M) 8.30 Law & Order: S.V.U. (M) 10.30 Amazing Medical Stories (M) 10.25 Lateline And Lateline Business Repeat. 10.00 Movie: 13 Tzameti (M,l,v,a) 2005 9.30 Private Practice (M) 9.30 Life On Mars (M) 11.30 The Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 11.30 Live From Abbey Road with Bryan 10.55 Spaced (M,l,a) Stars Simon Pegg Thriller from France. 10.30 Scrubs (PG) 10.30 Ten News With Sports Tonight 12.30 The Baron (PG) Adams, Ben Harper, Justin Currie (PG) 11.20 The Book Group (M,l,s) Repeat. 11.40 Queer As Folk (MA,s,l,a) Repeat. 11.00 Beauty And The Geek (PG) new 11.15 Late Show With David Letterman (PG) 1.30 Entertainment Tonight THURSDAY 19 THURSDAY 12.20 Wildside (PG) Repeat. 11.45 Close 12.35 Movie: El Nonaerense (MA,l,s,v) series. 12.00 Taken Out (G) 2.00 Guthy Renker Australia 1.10 Movie: Sword Of Monte Cristo (PG 2002 Drama from Argentina. 12.00 Australia’s Strangest Home 12.30 Orange Roughies (M) 3.30 Good Morning America 1951) Stars George Montgomery [s] = Sex [cl] = Coarse language 2.20 Weatherwatch Overnight Improvements (G) 1.30 Infomercials (PG) 5.00 Early Morning News 2.20 Movie: The Life Of The Party (G, [a] = Adult themes [sr] = Sexual references 12.30 Danoz & Guthy-Renker 4.00 Religion to 6am. 1937) Stars Joe Penner, Gene Raymond [n] = Nudity [mp] = Medical 5.30 Seven Early News 3.55 The Glass House (M,sr,cl) [du] = Drug use procedures [dr] = Drug references [st] = Supernatural Programs are correct at the time of going to [v] = Violence themes press but beware – all stations like tinkering [*] = Could offend [ie] = Issues about SBS advises viewers that programming between 6pm Most Prime programs between 6.30pm and 11.30pm All Ten programs between 5pm and 11pm (approx) with things at the last minute. [h] = Horror euthanasia and 10.30pm nightly is Closed Captioned (CC) (approx) nightly are Closed Captioned (CC) nightly are Closed Captioned (CC)
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If exchanges get STARS free at last. obeying the heart’s demands and heated, be easy on yourself and TAURUS: If the full moon sparks demonstrating your true worth. then you’ll be easier with others. flare ups in your domestic sector, VIRGO: Restraining sharp remarks Whatever’s looking shaky will be the voice of reason even if and critical observations mightn’t right itself by the end of the week others are unreasonable. Channel be all that easy this week, but if you’re patient and respectful. as much tolerance as you can, and with others so touchy and easily CAPRICORN: Capricorns thrive on if you can’t find common ground offended it’s worth it. If someone’s order, but the agents of change agree to disagree – by the end of unkind, remember that says more are giving you a makeover this the week tempers will settle. about them than you. On the week whether you want one or not. As the structure-loving GEMINI: With the future rushing brighter side, finances look like part of your nature gets a jack- WITH LILITH towards the present so quickly, it’s taking a promising upswing… hammering, going with it is your worthwhile overlooking cranky LIBRA: This week’s Aquarian WHILE THIS WEEK’S best option – because it’s your attitudes or remarks this week variations could make life seem only one. DRAMATIC FULL MOON and choosing your own words like it’s extravagantly unravelling, AND LUNAR ECLIPSE carefully. Ask yourself how much but take it as just another AQUARIUS: This week brings SUGGEST TEMPERAMENTAL are your own judgments and challenge to your balance. challenges to peace and INTERACTIONS, HEALING expectations contributing to the During late week Libra moon, invitations to argument, along situation. You might be surprised. new people have a big impact on with strong support for healing CHIRON PROVIDES hurts and differences. Take your thinking, but you’ll still need HELPFUL ASPECTS TO MOVE CANCER: With present advantage of them to negotiate second opinions and objective THROUGH THEM. AND BEING circumstances offering the odd a truce where it’s needed – with reality checks. UNDER THE INFLUENCE challenge, relaxed rather than your knack for negotiation and OF CONTRADICTORY reactive is your best operating SCORPIO: If this week stimulates invention you could come up with mode. That said, this is a brilliant shakeups or clashes of wills, AQUARIUS, FRIDAY 13TH something wonderful. Across chaste wedding (6) week for dealing honestly with be advised that they’re also PISCES: This week’s astral waters 1. Partly overcame radio with 26. South-west idyllic garden STARS ARE UNEXPECTEDLY financial fears or subconscious accompanied by a huge creative video equipment (6) in Scandinavian country (6) HARMONIOUS… are hot, so you might want to find sabotage programs that may surge – using these situations and somewhere cool to take care of 4. Take top hat or net for ARIES: Present energies bring a have been holding you back from this beneficial energy to alter your business and do some creative stinging insect (6) Down fabulous chance to heal an old economic equanimity. mindset could actually activate thinking with minimum outside 9. The condition of the 1. Changes ten cots in pattern that’s been operating for LEO: Leos, as we well know, don’t a life changing breakthrough in interference. The heat’s off by offi cial money factory is like competition (7) most of your life. To realize how like being eclipsed by anything, your habitual thinking. Friday the 13th, which (surprise!) new, despite its age (2,4,9) 2. Sounds like May’s for this different things are now that even a planet, and Leo full moon’s SAGITTARIUS: This week’s could be the week’s most tranquil 10. Lower part of crude mean grain (5) you’re the one in charge of your no exception. But forget regal fiery full moon could evoke and fortunate day. (6) 3. Wrote under circular 11. Gee! Harrison loses his building, or so we hear (7) head in troop station (8) 5. Neat and tidy hospital 12. George Lucas’s epic tales worker (7) create confl ict between the 6. Leading nutritionist chops actors (4,4) up true mint as a source of 14. Initially Yamaha idles nourishment (9) badly, then gives up (6) 7. Make one fold, then 15. Return ram in a fancy another, and what do you boat dock (6) have? Twice as much! (7) Unusual Plants & Locally Crafted Garden Ornaments 18. There’s a real risk of 8. Bono uses Gilbert & it burning down if art rep Sullivan for drums (6) becomes upset (8) 13. Bolster police group after 48 Acacia Street, Byron Arts & Industry Estate 6685 5134 or 0429 622 983 21. Oddly enough dear Fifi , horse restraint (9) old girl, has a yellow fl ower 16. South American river’s (8) just the thing for warrior 22. I’m fi rst person to act and women (7) With one round to play in the elite Wijk aan Zee 2009 Wijk aan Zee tournament, which CHESS by Ian Rogers White: A Giri make a big impression (6) 17. And Dante misses out concluded in the Netherlands last Black: R Pruijssers Play at Seagulls Club, Thursdays 6–10pm 24. To smile in a nudist colony on fi rst dance when music week, six of the fourteen players Opening: King’s Indian Defence is to make the most of a played slowly (7) were tied for first place. tion for this tournament was very Kasimdzhanov lost in the final 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 high’. round, enabling Caruana to leap- 0-0 6.Be2 e5 7.Be3 Na6 8.0-0 Ng4 9.Bg5 diffi cult situation? (2,4,3,4,2) 18. Lee fi ne, according to A dramatic final round saw the Qe8 10.c5!? The start of a super-sharp line 25. Slowly cooked meat in Spooner, about being like a favourite Magnus Carlsen lose ‘I was not favourite but I came frog both and earn entry to the A which Giri had noticed was played with success and left another teenager Sergey here to take first place,’ he contin- group in 2010. a few days earlier in Queenstown, New Zealand. Last week’s solution cat (6) Karjakin alone at the top of the ued. ‘For me this result is equal The Wijk aan Zee C group, a 10...exd4 11.Nd5 Qxe4! Taking up the chal- 19. Ow! Brain crosstable, capturing the 10,000 to winning the World Junior category 11 Grandmaster tour- lenge. 11...dxc5 12.Bxa6 plays into White’s is scrambled Euro first prize as well as an invi- Championships or becoming the nament, stronger than any GM hands. 12.Ne7+ Kh8 13.cxd6 Nc5 14.Bc4 by coloured tation to September’s lucrative world’s youngest grandmaster.’ event ever held in Australia, was d3! 15.Bd5 Qe2 16.dxc7 Ne6 The first new Grand Slam Cup in Bilbao. If Karjakin’s comments appear even more youth-dominated. move. In the NZ game Black played 16...f6 but phenomenon in the lost. 17.Nxc8 Raxc8 18.Bxe6 Qxe6 After the sky (7) The Ukrainian attributed his youth-centred – comparing a 15-year-old Filipino GM Wesley game Pruissjers preferred 18...fxe6!? 19.Bd8 e5 victory to maintaining a cool super-tournament with a junior 20. You get into So – amazingly the top seed with counterplay. 19.Bd8! Ne5! 20.Re1 Qd5 head in difficult positions and to championship – it should be – outdistanced big names like 21.Nxe5 Bxe5 22.Qd2 (See diagram) Bxc7?? action at a Sotheby’s the fact that ‘my level of prepara- remembered that the Ukrainian, Tiger Hillarp Persson and Oleg A blunder which ruins a tight struggle. After sale (7) just turned 19, was the oldest Romanishin to take first place by 22...Kg8 the threat of 23...Bxc7 becomes real. 23. Paid around fi fty group winner at the 71st edi- a point ahead of Anish Giri. 23.Bf6+ 1-0 Romans for a fabric tion of the famous Dutch tourna- Giri? Anish Giri is a 14-year- a b c d e f g h design (5) ment! old Nepali-Russian, currently liv- 8 The powerful B group ended ing in the Netherlands. His Wijk 7 in a surprise triumph for Italian aan Zee result was good enough © Lovatts Publications 16-year-old Fabiano Caruana. to earn him the grandmaster 6 The group had been led through- title, thereby becoming the 12th 5 Send your letters and feedback to out by former world title chal- youngest GM in history. Giri may 4 lenger Nigel Short but he slowed be two years older than Karjakin 3 [email protected] or fax 6672 4933 down and entered the final round when he established the existing And check out our website – tied with a fast-finishing Rustam record, but his is a name you will 2 www.tweedecho.com.au Kasimdzhanov. likely also be seeing in top tour- 1 New GM Anish Giri Amazingly, both Short and naments before long. What must Black not do?
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Talking to Ben Harper is always a his song. happens; basically we go in and little nervewracking. It’s impossible ‘I find ideas in every conversation we plug in and we make music the to be unaware of his celebrity, his Ii have, everything I read, every way it is supposed to be made: it’s infamous cool, those incredible insane perspective I want to write, raw and visceral and as improvised arms, and his unstoppable talent the songs aren’t about me, they as anything I have ever done.’ that is unmarred by commercialism become about you by proxy, it’s Ben has also been given the or the whims of record company about every waking moment role of guest programmer for marketing demands. Mr Harper is a and sleeping moment – it’s what the MOJO Stage on the Sunday true artist. writing music is about. I would be night of Bluesfest. He has just finished recording too boring to write about.’ ‘It’s a huge honour, it’s not surgery, his soon to be released album That is one of the major but it’s exciting as hell. I am so White Lies for Dark Times. So I keys for Ben. Music is not confident of the music that I am can’t talk about that, because autobiographical. As a creator putting on, I would do that for it’s not released. Last time I you become an empathetic Peter every year because I love interviewed him we talked about channel for a story or an idea him and I love the festival. One his last album, Both Sides of The that has the power to connect of my favourite up and coming Gun, probably the album I play with the listener. singer and songwriters that I’ve the most. Ben Harper creates ‘I think that is the key: to make a programmed is Grace Woodruff, unpredictable music. He doesn’t song feel like it had to be about and a friend of mine called Tom contrive it. He just goes with what you, so when they listen to it, it Freund from Venice Beach.’ is happening at the time. He is a feels like it’s about them. Ben Harper is a headline man in the moment. ‘It’s finding the connect point performer at Bluesfest this So how do you maintain the – you have to know what you year. For ticket and program creative flow and the intensity in are doing, but it needs to be enquiries go to www. the studio? completely unconscious. The odd bluesfest.com.au ‘There are times and places when equation that equals wood on the you have to retreat, or if not drum, the steel strings with the retreat, then severley redirect your tube: this amalgum of variables trajectory. You have to do it to get that go into making music. But it’s your focus because we are not not enough. Imagine how much cookie cutters, don’t try and fit into great music would never get someone else’s box. You don’t want heard. It’s not enough to be to become part of the machine, as a kid in your room with a an artist you have to stay above pen and a song, it takes a the fray.’ huge machine to get your So where does Ben Harper find music out there. I really his inspiration? appreciate promoters ‘It happens every day of my life. like Peter Noble, and my Every day is pre-production for the record company – it’s Simply email next song I write. I spend my days emblematic of a large with music. I have songs ringing in group working in an [email protected] my head. People think I am crazy! effective way. It gets and it will be It’s a curse but it’s my life… it’s a music to the listener.’ performer and included for free. place to hide.’ I ask Ben to talk me programmer Success hasn’t weighed down through the new Remember the gig the creative journey of Ben album. He won’t guide too, the best Harper. He is unaware, and do it. But he defers at bluesfest 09 way to advertise unconcerned with the trappings very politely. of being a musician. He is all ‘It’s almost like me the Tweed’s events. about making the music, and telling you about drawing on his world to weave sunset before it
www.tweedecho.com.au The Tweed Shire Echo February 12, 2009 23 James Blundell at NRSO – Save The late. Entry is a mere $5 on the door. www.myspace.com/ Seagulls Orchestra Concert is riverpeppermint Celebrating the release of his sold out much-anticipated Portrait of Circle of Rhythm Due to popular demand, a Man, the gorgeous coun- Heralded as Australia’s most with Hans Lovejoy the NRSO (Northern Rivers Mandy Nolan try swooner is joined by the exciting rhythm trio, Greg Symphony Orchestra) will be talented Peter Denahy and the Sheehan, Bobby Singh and performing a second concert voice of McLeod’s Daughters, Ben Walsh have between them Jam Nights and on Sunday March 1, 3pm Bec LaVelle. changed the face of percus- (DST). Adults $40, concession Open Mics Two decades, nine albums, sion in Australia. After ten years $35, high school students $22, A reminder you can find a country fame, pop hits, a defining and redefining what If you want to drive a pregnant friends knew who ended up primary school students free. jam night at the Coolangatta national top five album and Australian drumming can offer woman mad, ask her what she’s a heroin addict and a hooker. See them at Seagulls Club Hotel every Wednesday with ones that came nowhere near, the world, they have formed a going to call her unborn child. Now there’s a role model. A Sunday March 1, 3pm. It’s like torture. Just last week I career girl. I love Audrey. But my house band Remedy. The nine Golden Guitars, an ARIA percussion trio with a differ- googled 5,000 names for girls mother called her small white Sands Hotel Coolangatta also Award – the list goes on. He ence, rich in culture from the (yes I am the maker of women, fluffy Paris Hilton-esque dog has a jam night on Thursday also spent years as a bona-fide various styles all three dynamic difficult ones of course!) and Audrey. Unless I ‘accidentally’ from 8pm. Mullumbimby RSL Queensland cattleman and has performers have spent their I only liked about three. Then back over it in my seven seater has a jam night from 7.30pm toured with Kris Kristofferson lives exploring. I ran them by my partner and people mover (which can be on Thursdays. The Buddha and chin-wagged with Johnny The result of years of collabora- we were back to about none. arranged by the way) that Bar, Byron Bay from 7.30pm I am not into unusual names classic name is destined to be Cash. Throughout, his curios- tion through many different that sound like they were the moniker for a flea ridden has an open mike night also ity, intuition, good humour groups such as Pablo Percusso, made up after a few cones. pooch. My partner and I have on Thursdays. South Tweed and dogged determination Utungan Percussion, Skin, Dha, I like names that sound like tried trawling family names. Sports Club holds a jazz jam is still intact. As the Grateful The Bird and Taal Vadya to names. I like them to be a little There’s my dear grandmother, from 3pm-6.30pm every Satur- Dead once sang: ‘What a long name a few, Circle of Rhythm old fashioned but not overly well into her nineties, a woman day afternoon. Brackets and strange trip it’s been.’ exhibits a masterful skill in common. No offence to the with a big heart and little tact Big Joke Comedy Jam happens at the Banga- James Blundell has also drumming as an ensemble, Crystal Moonbeam Sunshines of (known to give you a bear hug low Pub on Tuesdays. Other this world: I pay respect to their and exclaim ‘shit you’re ugly’), recently released The Definitive Festival comes to but doesn’t shy away from hippy heritage, but have no the baby girl would be Ivy. regular weekly gigs Collection 1988-2008, which Currumbin melodic percussion, creating a need to inflict such freerange Apart from the odd feeling of include the Downbeat Jazz features hits including Way Out varied and accessible listening cruelty on my kid. Although a new spirit wearing an old Band at the Greenmount West, Postcards From Saigon The Big Joke Comedy Festival experience. I suspect being named Tony name, Ivy is also the alterego of Beach Club on Wednesdays and Ring Around The Moon. See has a treat in store for comedy Circle of Rhythm will make is far more bizarre in a North a friend of mine who had a sex from 7pm, and the The Harry him at Seagulls Club, Satur- lovers in the Currumbin area: you laugh, share their stories, Coast classroom. I don’t need a change and now moonlights Lynn Jazz Quartet at The day February 14, tickets $22. a free comedy show! The Big and most definitely leave you trendy original name. Having as a Gold Coast call girl. My Gold Coast Arts Centre from For more info visit Joke Festival was one of the breathless. Expect nothing me as a mother will surely be partner’s grandmother’s events funded by NSW Tourism punishment enough. I decided name was suggested next. 7pm Saturdays. jamesblundell.com.au less than standing ovations. this year with the aim to pro- I liked Anais. Anais Nin is one of Bertha. Hmm, not bad. I have Friday February 13 at the my favourite writers and such a a teenage daughter, I know mote the event, held in Ban- Soundlounge in Currumbin at free spirit. A name like Anais is the worry ahead of me. A galow, into nearby areas. Part 8.30pm. almost a DOCS-worthy offence. name like that would be like of the funding was allocated There will also be an afternoon One moment of pregnant cosmic contraception. The most to provide comedy launches, workshop with the ensemble hormone charged fantasy could important factor in selecting where comics travel to com- at 6pm. Take the chance to inflict with a lifetime of being a name is: can you yell it out munities and put on a show. called Anus on my unborn from the back step? It’s the best engage with rhythm yourself in Appearing at the Currumbin daughter. As a comedian, have way to test run a name that a rare workshop preceding the to admit I am almost tempted. you will be shouting for almost RSL on Wednesday March 4 show – no drums necessary, Anais Rose has a certain ring. two decades. Even the most are Mandy Nolan, Nick Penn and suitable to all levels. If the A word of advice to other beautiful names don’t make this and Ellen Briggs. show is not sold out before- breeders currently gestating the test. ‘Aurora’ is a classic example. hand, tickets will be available at next generation. When people Try shouting it. Sounds like a Jam Factory Sunday the door for $25. request that you reveal the labrador eating a sausage. The This Sunday the Jam Factory name that you have pondered only problem with this method have a wicked lineup once and pained over for months on is names like ‘shithead’ come end, that treasured short-list out on top. Then it happened. again – it’s gonna be funky of possible identities for the Last night, when I was sleeping. and fun. River Peppermint mysterious foetus within, do The name floated into the room are coming all the way from not cave. Withhold. Your friends like a feather and landed on my Brisbane to entertain with their will then perform a name pillow. I know who my baby girl james blundell at seagulls progressive live drum and bass audit: turns out my favourite is. I have the perfect name… styles. This instrumental four- name thus far, Evangeline, was well I’m not telling you, you’ll piece, formed in the middle of Sheoak Shack, Fingal Head, the name of a girl one of my just have to wait! on saturday 2008 consists of two guitars, 7pm see Mescalito Blues a bass, drums, and a whole on Valentine’s Day, Saturday heap of effects. The music February 14. created is a blend of engaging Cabarita Beach Sports Club, guitar melodies, warm bass on Friday at 8pm it’s The Real lines, and funk rhythms, with Deal and Saturday Purple the band trying to achieve Stone. short, memorable, and fun Murwillumbah Services jam-based compositions. River Memorial Club has Stir Crazy Peppermint often incorporate Friday and Trevor Rix on Sat- guest musicians into their set, urday, both at 6.30pm. so don’t be surprised to hear At the Coolangatta Hotel the occasional trumpet solo, 8pm Friday is British India female vocal, or djembe hit. then politically charged punk Also supporting is Uncle Jnr, rock band Propagandhi on a dynamic three-piece outfit Saturday. from Byron Bay, born from col- lective experience and varied Kingscliff Beach Club has styles, resulting in an original Cargo on Friday, Street Cafe powerful sound assault on the Saturday and Dave Clayton senses. Blues, punk, folk and from 12pm on Monday. rock are the areas these three Pottsville Beach Sports Club young musicians come from has Greg Bankx Friday night and it shows in their excep- and Syd Wilson from 5pm tional live performances. Jam Sunday. Factory is held at the supreme- Cabarita Beach Bar & Grill has ly sexy new venue Neverland RMG on Friday, BJ Gannon on which is located at 23 McLean Saturday and Matt Buggy and St, Coolangatta. The event Carly from 2pm on Sunday. occurs every Sunday, doors Imperial Hotel Murwillum- open at 5pm, the music kicks bah on Friday at 8pm serves off around 6pm and is open till up a Matt Seaberg. 24 February 12, 2009 The Tweed Shire Echo www.tweedecho.com.au degree, success and recogni- ‘First Caba off the rank’ is Thank Goodness tion has already begun for opening 2pm, February 14, at Ryan, being requested to How Great Thou Art Gallery You‘re Here perform on the ‘Fretfest’ stage 40 Tamarind Avenue, Cabarita If laughter is the best medicine, at the renowned Woodford Beach. the Murwillumbah Thea- Folk Festival 2008. Doors, food Born in Sheffield, England, tre Company looks sure to and bar open at 7:30pm with Wendy immigrated to Australia administer some curing alms to DVD screenings. Bands start at in 1969, with two young chil- audiences on the weekend. 8:15pm. Thursday at the Gold dren, raising them on her own. The talented thespians have Coast Arts Centre. Wendy’s parent’s were very Vic- planned a hilarious improvi- Brandon Hawkins – torian and would not allow her sational comedy night at the to go to art school. Two years Murwillumbah Civic Centre Jazz Singer ago, Wendy tried her hand at Auditorium on Saturday darren sanders This Valentine’s Day Jazz singer drawing and painting with February 14. at the gc arts Brandon Hawkins is set to acrylic medium and thanks to Inspired by hit Channel 10 Kransky sisters at the gold coast centre on friday croon for you at Jazz in the her devoted husband David, show Thank God You’re Here, arts centre friday 20 Basement, Gold Coast Arts and a very kind art teacher, Lis the theatre company is putting lumbah. Cost $49 per person, Centre. Tanke, the floodgate was open, on Thank Goodness You Are for bookings call (02) 6672 Here. and now Wendy is having her 8590 or email info@luffleycafe. But the added benefit of this first exhibition. Contact 66 76 com local version is that it might 2009 for more information. Comedian Darren just burn off a Tim Tam. The Art of Printing ‘Researchers at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennes- Sanders The fun and art of printing on see have found that 10 to 15 In the nineties, Darren broke fabric is the focus of the first minutes of raucous laughter into the US comedy market group exhibition this year by with background appearances increases energy expenditure members of the artist-run co- and heart rate by 10 to 20 per in many popular films, where operative, Community Print- he became known as the cent,’ a theatre spokeswoman D’Alliance festival makers Murwillumbah (CPM), said. ‘Where’s Wally’ of the movie at their community workshop bobby singh and ben walsh play with world. His touring saw him ‘Let’s face it, there hasn’t been D’Alliance is a carnivale that gallery in Bray Park just south greg sheehan at the soundlounge perform at the MGM Grand in much to laugh about recently, will transform Currumbin Creek of Murwillumbah on Kyogle currumbin friday 13 Las Vegas, The Improv in Irvine so if you are out of practice, we into a merry path of delight. Road. It’s aptly called Soft Land- as well as feature in Chicago The festival is a celebration recommend a prior laughter ing and opens this Saturday, and Idaho comedy venues. of the arts including theatre, exercise regime before attend- February 14, at 3pm continu- Darren has appeared on Spin, performance, comedy, music ing this performance!’ ing till April 5. It features attrac- Rove, In Melbourne Tonight and visual arts. Coming soon: This is a one night only show tive printed fabrics, unusual and The Russell Gilbert Show. Saturday May 9. commencing at 7.30pm. Support is from Stephen Head wall hangings, tote bags and The audience is invited to bring and MC Mike Bennett Friday How Great Thou Art other unique pieces. The gal- their own drinks and nibbles. Feb 13, 8pm at the Gold Coast Gallery lery is open Friday-Sunday Tables for more than six people Arts Centre. 11am-3pm. For info visit www. can be booked by calling Rose- Art Exhibition by Wendy Mar- cpmprintstudio.com or call 02 mary on 6672 1520. The Kransky Sisters shall, curated by Cath Grant. 6672 8276. Admission is $7 or $5 conces- ryan murphy at unplugged thursday Venturing out from the intensely private world of their old family home in rural Queensland, the Kransky Sis- ters arrive on The Gold Coast, with stories of their travels and unique homespun renditions of popular tunes. With tam- bourines, tuba, musical saw, an old 1960’s reed keyboard and a clatter of kitchen pots, these oddball sisters, Mourne, Eve and their reclusive, somewhat peculiar sister, Dawn Kransky, offer their offbeat illumina- tions on what they hear on their wireless and see in the magazines. Gold Coast Arts Centre on REGISTER NOW! mandy nolan at the big joke Friday February 20. Tickets comedy festival at currumbin rsl COUNTRY ENERGY adult $34.90, concession. KITE RECORD ATTEMPT march 4 Ryan Murphy and Sunday 22nd March 2pm The Buddy Holly Live Jazz Register now on-line or at the Paul O’Rourke Brunswick Visitor Centre, 7 Park St Show Paul and Debbie Lindenburg as individuals, families or schools or perform at South Tweed Unplugged in the Base- On Saturday February 14 The in sporting or community groups of 10. Sports Club 7.30pm Saturday ment has returned and this Groups of 50 or more go into the draw! Buddy Holly Show is at the Don’t forget the free jazz jam week you can see top quality Prizes for fi rst groups & schools to register Twin Towns Services Club. from 3pm- 6.30pm (weekly free performers Ryan Murphy and $10 entry fee includes a kite kit valued @ $10. Proceeds towards the local charity “Our Kids” gig) on Saturdays too. Paul O’Rourke this Thursday. Divine Intervention Originally from Murwillumbah, Enquiries: [email protected] If you like to dance to deep The Jazz Music of Ryan’s discovery of music in YOUTH TALENT QUEST grooves, interwoven with his teenage years came via his Heats: Saturday 21st March at the Soundshell keyboards, percussion, wind Mish father and the family piano. Finals: Sunday 22nd March at the Hotel Brunswick Enquiries: Kim Mitchell 6684 4267 instruments and free-form Come and celebrate Valentine’s Ryan’s immediate connec- vocals then come check out Day at the Luffley ‘Water Cult’ tion with music and its ability FAMILY ORIENTED STALLS Bookings: Melissa 0414 948109 @ $30 (no food) Divine Intervention. Members Cafe. Three course dinner with to allow him to temporarily of Sai Masil combine with a complimentary champagne escape reality saw him natu- SOCIAL/CHALLENGING BIKE RIDES special guest from California, on arrival. Be swooned and rally progress from musician Free hinterland & road rides Sat & Sun for all abilities Enquiries: Vicki 0425 334 269 Roger, who will be sharing his mesmerised by the delight- to songwriter. His passion and awesome live beats. Roger ful Jazz music of Mish from his natural ability became www.kitesandbikes.com.au has a decade of experience 6:30pm – you never know, you more evident with a transition playing around the world. This could be inducted into the cult! from piano to guitar. Now at gig is a one-off performance. (under 20’s females only apply) 22, a graduate of the exclusive Sphinx Rock Cafe, Mt Burrell, Saturday February 14, Luffley Queensland Conservatorium’s 1- 4.30pm Sunday. Cafe, 2 Wharf Street, Murwil- bachelor of popular music www.tweedecho.com.au The Tweed Shire Echo February 12, 2009 25 sion. For more information Australian poet known call Bryanne on 6672 5554 or worldwide for her best-selling Rosemary. verse novels which broke through the glass ceiling for Poetry in Motion poetry. Mandy Morris and Dangerously Poetic are back members of the Love Handles with a passion! On Sunday will provide steamy music they will feature contemporary to add to the ambience. For Aussie poetry that is steamy, the open reading, audience sexy and romantic. This will be members are invited to seduce at a new time this year from 2 – us with their own or a famous 4 pm at the Yogalates Studio, love poem. Homemade 72 Byron St. Bangalow. Local refreshments will be available with John Campbell actress Susan Hayward will for purchase. Admission read selections of love poetry still a bargain at $5/4 for Changeling A brief but shocking scene dinner, with the guffawing by wellknown Australian poets. Dangerously Poetic members. Besides death and taxes, all of surreal violence (my blokes hoeing into rare steaks, soft landing, Laura Jan Shore and Kathryn you can be certain of in this unsqueamish companion smoking and swilling grog, cpm’s new group Boorman will offer a tribute to Throbbing Hearts world is that, somewhere on looked away) and a later while the women, in separate exhibition at their the most dangerous poet of This is your last chance to the covers of those tizzy rags unsettling walk to the gallows quarters, are sedately nibbling that clutter the supermarket (unsettling for its ambivalence– bray park workshop all – Dorothy Porter (1954- get tickets to the Byron their vegies and drinking milk. 2008). She was a flamboyant Bay Blushing Hearts Ball: checkout, you’ll daily see the is it Hang ‘Em High or In Cold The image is not subtle but opens sat 14 latest snaps of luscious-lipped Blood?) are far more than you a spectacular, star-studded its veracity is unlikely to be Angelina Jolie, accompanied bargain for. Excepting Jolie Valentines Day party for questioned. The drama begins by breathless headlines about (nominated for an Oscar), the when Father Flynn (Philip everyone – gay, lesbian, her life – a life that is infinitely casting is perfect – from good Seymour Hoffman) calls Dennis, transgender and straight! more fantabulous than your cop to bad cop, from John the school’s only black student, Happening at Byron paltry existence. (Quick, buy Malkovich’s tenacious priest to into his office. For what purpose Community Centre on it!) She’ll either have had a tiff the blonde Nurse Ratchett type the boy was summoned we Saturday from 8pm.The with Brad or put on weight, who does the electric shock can never be certain, but the Blushing Hearts Ball is a concert be sharing the pain of an treatment at the mental asylum. unspoken sub-text emerges and dance party guaranteed emaciated Sudanese peasant Clint Eastwood’s direction is that Dennis is probably gay to thrill anyone with an open or struggling to decide which precise and without flourish and is being beaten at home heart and mind. Headline act, of Prada’s bambini outfits best and, as a moralist, he is unafraid by his father. Sister James acclaimed Electro Pop trio The suit the twins’ unique auras. As to deal with the unfashionable (Amy Adams) notes afterwards Blush Foundation playing a a celebrity, her omnipresence concept of responsibility. He that there is alcohol on the set of their hit songs including has begun to severely nobble plays his hand for maximum boy’s breath, so she cautiously Designer Vagina. These girls will her effectiveness as an impact, never giving anything brings to the attention of Sister leave you ‘startled, awestruck, actress. Changeling is an away until exactly the right Aloysius (Meryl Streep) the outstanding film, but it could moment and, as he always and strangely compelled to ‘interest’ that Flynn has taken have been even better with manages to do, he finds an aerobicise’! Come and swoon in Dennis. The older woman a less identifiable woman as emotional ace at the end. assumes the worst. A stern at their virgin performance on the protagonist – you might traditionalist who cannot the North Coast, fresh from as well have had Warnie play Doubt even abide the advent of sell-out gigs in Sydney and one of the detectives. It is Los ‘Give me the boy, I’ll show you ballpoint pens in the school, she Melbourne. Host and guest DJ Angeles, 1927, and Christine the man.’ The Jesuits’ boast instinctively loathes the more for this night of nights is Mr Collins (Ange) is a hard working, has become a hollow one in progressive Flynn – and his long Tobin Saunders. Internationally single mother whose little recent times, what with the fingernails – and makes it her known for his cross-dressed boy Walter has disappeared. torrent of testimony from creation Vanessa Wagner, Anxious for some good press psychologically scarred men mission to have him gone. The antagonists’ moral certainties colin elliott (left) and brian meldrum now meet the man behind after years of scandal, the LAPD who, as adolescents, were ensure that only one of them thanks the lord robin crossen the mascara – ‘unfrocked finds a boy whom they insist buggered by the very priests will survive the spiteful conflict. has turned up for thank goodness and unflappable’. In a last- is Walter. Christine knows he into whose hands their welfare is not and takes on the City’s had been entrusted. This is Director John Patrick Shanley minute coup the organisors (who wrote the play), by boldly you’re here on saturday are thrilled to announce a administration to vindicate set in 1964, the year after the herself and get the search for assassination of the idolised arguing against the knee-jerk special performer on the hysteria with which so many night – Morganics – acclaimed the real Walter resumed. The Catholic President Kennedy first half of the movie, in which (‘with Franklin D Roosevelt, of us delight in condemning pioneer of Australian hip hop, Christine is psychologically America’s greatest’, Sister James the sins of the cloth, leads the break-dance and rap. The brutalised by unscrupulous tells her class), and long before audience to share Sister James’s Blushing Hearts Ball is raising opponents, is an engrossing but the outrages committed in the doubt as to who is deserving funds for Byron Community hardly remarkable David and Boston diocese came to light. In of support. The empathy and and Cultural Centre. It will Goliath story, serving to remind an Irish/Italian neighbourhood understanding he strives for, be unlike anything ever us (for it is all based on actual of tenements and council trees, however, is jeopardised by previously staged in the area – events) that power tends to the nuns, whose bonnets and a concluding scene which is a Valentines Day party you will corrupt those who hold it. Your habits immediately bring Salem both over generous to one not forget. Entry is strictly for sympathies are with Christine, to mind, see to the children’s of the combatants and, more the over 18s. Tickets are limited your contempt is for officialdom educational needs and the significantly, out of kilter with and on sale now from BCCC or and you have a vague idea priests see to the parishioners’ all that has come before it – WHATS phone 6685 6807. Prices $55/ of the eventual resolution. spiritual ones. The hegemony it’s a last minute cheat that is $45 conc or $100 a double Enter the unexpected, horrific of the patriarchy is wonderfully very nearly farcical. Otherwise ON and includes a complimentary element that rams you into a illustrated by contrasting shots fantastic, with a memorable different nightmare altogether. of the fathers and sisters at sermon on gossip. MONDAY 6-9PM FRIDAY 5.30PM - 7.30PM drink upon arrival. $10 STEAK NIGHT DIPPING DELICACIES Kids eat free* & DIVINE DAIQUIRIS Witness Great Music 9PM ROUND MOUNTAIN GIRLS TUESDAY 6-9PM After recently relocating to $10 PASTA NIGHT SATURDAY 6-9PM Kids eat free* VALENTINES DAY DINNER Melbourne at the start of WEDNESDAY 6-9PM 7.30PM BJ GANNON 2009, The Witness return $10 SCHNITZEL NIGHT SUNDAY 2PM ‘BEACH STYLE’ to Byron for two shows this Kids eat free* LAWN CRICKET WITH weekend. They play the Rails THURSDAY 6-9PM Kids eat free* MATT BUGGY & CARLEY VEAL on Saturday at 6.30pm and NEW APL POKER LIVE ACCOUSTICS the Beach Hotel on Sunday TOURNAMENT 6-9PM $10 ROAST NIGHT FREE ENTRY. REGISTRATION STARTS 6.30PM *TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY. at 4.30pm. The band played a series of well received gigs FREE COURTESY BUS down south in December, FROM KINGSCLIFF TO POTTSVILLE CALL 02 6676 0033 FOR BOOKINGS. and were proud to bring their For your chance to VALENTINE’S DAY solid North-Coast roots to WIN 1 NIGHT DINNER FOR 2 the city. Away from the stage at The Beach Resort Penthouse Suite Bookings Essential the band are in the studio working on the release of their forthcoming single. They have been recording at SAE studios Pandanus Parade Cabarita Beach 02 6676 0033 Byron and are reportedly very happy with the recordings. 26 February 12, 2009 The Tweed Shire Echo www.tweedecho.com.au local events and entertainment gig guide
9PM RMG BILL JACOBI 6.30PM THE JAZZ MUSIC OF ■ MULLUM RSL, 8.15PM MIKE ■ MULLUM RSL 12PM COUNTRY THURSAY 12 ■ CURRUMBIN RSL, 7PM ■ COURTHOUSE HOTEL, MULLUM MISH PRESTON MUSIC CLUB ■ CUDGEN LEAGUES CLUB, SEDUCTIVE SOUL 8PM SOUL’D ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH CLUB, 7.30PM ■ MULLUM CIVIC HALL, 7.30PM KINGSCLIFF 5.30PM FREE LIVE ■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL, 8PM ■ HOTEL BRUNSWICK, BRUNSWICK STREET CAFE BAYFM PRESENTS LOVE MONDAY 16 ENTERTAINMENT BRITISH INDIA HEADS 7.30PM THE ■ MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES CULTURE ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH CLUB 12PM ■ GOLD COAST ARTS CENTRE ■ GOLD COAST ARTS CENTRE, 8PM PERCOLATORS MEMORIAL CLUB 6.30PM ■ MULLUM BOWLO 6.30PM MICK DAVE CLAYTON 8.15PM RYAN MURPHY AND COMEDIAN DARREN SANDERS ■ HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON TREVOR RIX MCHUGH ■ MURWILLUMBAH OPTUS PAUL O’ROURKE ■ HOTEL MURWILLUMBAH, 9PM DJ BAY GLORY B & TOMMEE ■ SALTBAR, KINGSCLIFF, 8.30PM ■ THE RAILS, BYRON BAY 6.30PM THE WITNESS STADIUM ARENA: THE SPERMS ■ SEAGULLS LAKEVIEW LOUNGE HERVE ■ THE BUDDHA BAR, BYRON BAY, SOUL SHAKERS THAT MADE IT 5.30PM MICHAEL WHITMORE ■ IMPERIAL HOTEL 7.30PM HORROR PARTY ■ SANDBAR AND GRILL 8.30PM BEN KELLY ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB ■ THE SANDS HOTEL MURWILLUMBAH 8PM MATT ■ THE BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY SUNDAY 15 ■ SOUTH TWEED SPORTS CLUB, DICK BARNS COOLANGATTA 8PM JAM NIGHT SEABERG THE MIGHTY PRAGMATICS ■ CABARITA BEACH BAR & GRILL 3PM - 6.30PM LIVE JAZZ ■ THE RAILS, BYRON BAY 6.30PM ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6PM ■ IVORY TAVERN, TWEED HEADS ■ THE RAILS, BYRON BAY 7PM 2PM MATT BUGGY AND CARLY ■ SOUTH TWEED SPORTS CLUB, TOBY VEENIE’S, GREG & LAURA 5PM CORY HARGREAVES VANESSA BAKER ■ CURRUMBIN RSL,1.30PM TONY 7.30PM PAUL AND DEBBIE ■ BYRON SERVICES CLUB, 8PM RAW DOOLAN ■ ■ LA LA LAND, BYRON BAY ANDY KRUGER KINGSCLIFF BEACH LINDENBURG COMEDY MC MANDY NOLAN ■ TWIN TOWNS SERVICES CLUB, HOTEL 8.30PM ZONE MUSIC MURPHY (ONELOVE) ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH HOTEL 2PM ■ SEAGULLS CONNECTIONS BAR ANDREA ■ BUDDHA BAR, BYRON INDUSTRY LIVE MUSIC ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH CLUB 7.30PM ■ LIQUID BAR, BYRON BAY 6.30PM CHI CHI ■ NEVERLAND, COOLANGATTA 6PM NIGHT WITH MATT HANLEY ■ THE BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY CARGO ELECTROFUNK, CADELL B ■ SEAGULLS 8.30PM JAMES JAM FACTORY, RIVER 9.30PM METHOD ■ MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES (FAMILY) DJ DAVE C BLUNDELL ■ THE RAILS, BYRON BAY 6.30PM PEPPERMINT AND UNCLE JNR TUESDAY 17 MEMORIAL CLUB 6.30PM STIR ■ SHEOAK SHACK, FINGAL HEAD, ■ POTTSVILLE BEACH SPORTS CLUB, NATHAN KAYE CRAZY SATURDAY 14 7PM MESCALITO BLUES 5PM SYD WILSON ■ THE TWEED HEADS ■ LA LA LAND, BYRON BAY EDU-K ■ POTTSVILLE BEACH SPORTS CLUB ■ CABARITA BEACH SPORTS CLUB, ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB, ■ SALTBAR, KINGSCLIFF, 1PM IPSO NEEDLECRAFT AND PUNK ROCK JULEZ JAY & DANIEL WEBBER 7PM GREG BANKX BOGANGAR 8PM PURPLE STONE 7.30PM GREG DOOLAN WITH FACTO SOCIETY, 5AM, KNITBANG ■ LIQUID BAR, BYRON BAY D’ARCY, ■ SALTBAR, KINGSCLIFF, 8.30PM ■ CABARITA BEACH BAR & GRILL, GUEST GEORGE HARVEY ■ SEAGULLS CLUB, 2PM LINE ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB DAIL FOXXY GREEN MACHINE 9PM BJ GANNON ■ TWIN TOWNS SERVICES CLUB, DANCING WITH TREVOR WHITE PLATZ ■ MULLUMBIMBY RSL, 7.30PM JAM ■ SANDBAR AND GRILL 6PM ■ COOLANGATTA TWEED HEADS 8PM THE BUDDY HOLLY SHOW ■ SPHINX ROCK CAFE, MT BURRELL, ■ SEAGULLS LAKEVIEW LOUNGE NIGHT BURLINGTON SESSIONS GOLF CLUB, 7PM HIGH NOON ■ LA LA LAND, BYRON BAY 1- 4.30PM DIVINE ENTERTAINMENT 5.30PM B.J. ■ BUDDHA BAR, BYRON BAY, ■ SEAGULLS 7PM, CONNECTIONS ■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL, 8PM LIVEWIRE INTERVENTION LITTLE 7.30PM OPEN MIKE BAR: MAXIMUM GROOVE BAND PROPAGANDHI ■ LIQUID BAR, BYRON BAY HOUSE ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 5PM ■ THE RAILS, BYRON BAY 6.30PM ■ HOTEL BRUNSWICK, 7.30PM ■ SOUNDLOUNGE, CURRUMBIN ■ GOLD COAST ARTS CENTRE, 7PM OF NOW, EL SCORCHO, CAPTAIN JOE PHILLIPS ANNA WEATHERUP JESSE 7.30PM CIRCLE OF RHYTHM THE HARRY LYNN JAZZ KAINE ■ THE BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY ■ BANGALOW A&I HALL 7.30PM ■ BYRON ARTISAN NIGHT MARKET, ■ BYRON BAY COMMUNITY ■ SOUTH TWEED BOWLS CLUB, QUARTET 4.30 THE WITNESS 8PM DJ THE WAIFS, JEZ MEAD 6.30PM CENTRE, 6.30PM & 9PM DEVIL’S 8.30PM CRUISERS (RNR ■ GOLD COAST ARTS CENTRE, 7PM CAPTAIN KANE JAZZ SINGER BRANDON ■ THE BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY ■ IN THE DETAIL: SPACE COWBOY DANCING) THE BUDDHA BAR, BYRON BAY WEDNESDAY 18 HAWKINS 9.30PM RAZ BIN SAM & THE 1-3PM REAL DEAL ■ TAPAS TAPAS, BRUNSWICK HEADS ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB ■ GREENMOUNT BEACH CLUB, LION I BAND ■ THE RAILS, BYRON BAY 6PM FLAP ■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL, 8PM JAM 7PM ILONA HARKER 7.30PM SWIZZLE TRIO COOLANGATTA 7PM LIVE MUSIC ■ BYRON BAY COMMUNITY CENTRE ■ HOTEL BRUNSWICK, BRUNSWICK NIGHT WITH HOUSE BAND FRIDAY 13 ■ TWIN TOWNS SERVICES CLUB, ■ HOTEL MURWILLUMBAH 9PM 8PM BLUSHING HEARTS BALL HEADS 3PM ROUND MOUNTAIN REMEDY LIVE MUSIC INNOCENT BYSTANDERS ■ THE BUDDHA BAR, BYRON BAY. GIRLS 7PM BIRDY (DUO) ■ GREENMOUNT BEACH CLUB 7PM ■ CUDGEN LEAGUES CLUB, ■ TWEED RIVER ART GALLERY ■ HOW GREAT THOU ART GALLERY, 7.30PM UPLOADER ■ LA LA LAND, BYRON CAPTAIN DOWNBEAT JAZZ BAND KINGSCLIFF 7.30PM FREE LIVE 6.30PM ZOM OSBORNE ART EXHIBITION BY WENDY ■ HOTEL BRUNSWICK, BRUNSWICK KAINE & FRIENDS ■ SEAGULLS LAKEVIEW LOUNGE ENTERTAINMENT ‘INBETWEEN’ EXHIBITION MARSHALL HEADS 7.30PM WEAR THE FOX ■ ST MARTINS ANGLICAN CHURCH, ENTERTAINMENT 1.15 - 3.15PM ■ CABARITA BEACH SPORTS CLUB, OPENING ■ IVORY TAVERN, TWEED HEADS HAT MULLUM 3PM BYRON MUSIC DON WHITAKER BOGANGAR 8PM THE REAL DEAL ■ UKI CAFE, 6PM LOREN 3PM CORY HARGREAVES ■ HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON SOCIETY PRESENT INGRID ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB ■ CABARITA BEACH BAR & GRILL ■ VICTORY HOTEL, MOOBALL 8PM, ■ LUFFLEY WATER CULT CAFE, BAY FAT ALBERT BAUER& MATTHEW RIGBY DAVE CLAYTON GIG GUIDE DEADLINE 12pm tuesday [email protected] ph. 6672 2280 fax. 6672 4933
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02 6674 9961 Barclay Drive, Casuarina Dinner & Bar Open 6 days from 4pm FLAMINGOES CAFÉ (closed Mondays) Weekends open breakfast/ 91 MAIN ST Tweed River Art Gallery MURWILLUMBAH lunch/dinner cnr Tweed Valley Way and Mistral Road 02 6672 5492 Full a la carte breakfast from 7am Murwillumbah NSW OPEN 7 DAYS & NIGHTS Lunch from 12 noon Open Wed-Sun 10am-5pm Dinner/Bar from 4pm Phone 02 6672 5088 WORLDS BEST PIZZAS
OPEN 8 NIGHTS Cottage on A WEEK! RESTAURANT + LOUNGE BAR Coronation 02 6670 5555 Modern Australian Cuisine Poolside at Domain Santai Resort Bush Tucker 9 Dianella Drive, Casuarina Winners of 2008 BEX Lunch: Tues-Sun from 12 noon MT WARNING HOTEL Restaurant of the Dinner: Tues-Sat 6pm-late BISTRO OPEN DAILY Year Award Buffet breakfast Saturday & Sunday 1497 Kyogle Rd, Uki 12 Coronation Ave 7.00am–11.30am Ph: 02 6679 5111 Pottsville Dine-in Open for lunch on public holidays OPEN 7 DAYS 10am–Late ❦ 64 Mt Warning Rd, Mt Warning NSW Takeaway Phone: 02 6676 4949 Home Delivery NAM YENG Cottage at 6685 6029 Vietnamese & Thai Restaurant 6685 5011 Cabba 6685 3101 OPEN 7 DAYS BAR & RESTAURANT Suffolk Park BYO Marty & Wendy Waters (behind the pub) PH: 02 6672 3088 Shop 1/2 35 Tweed Coast Rd NEW BYRON STORE 7 Wharf St Murwillumbah Cabarita Beach 360 Marine Pde, Labrador Yolanda Nutter Michael Sopena OPENING EARLY 2009 Phone 02 6676 3955 (07) 5528 2377 0407 078 408 0439 489 623
%ULVEDQH6W Open 7 days • 8am - 4pm OLIO RISTORANTE `The best restaurant in town. 3 085:,//80%$+ Friday & Saturday Nights Italian And Mediterranean Cuisine Not to be missed.’ Fully Licensed 0HDOVIURPDPGDLO\ Alfresco Family Restaurant Australian Gourmet Traveller, March 2008 2 Rowlands Creek Road, Dinner Tuesday – Saturday Open 7 days from 6pm till late Uki NSW 2484 Live it I Love it ph: 02 6679 5351 Wed-Sun 6pm/Dine in or takeway Dine In Or Takeaway GREAT VALUE FAMILY BUFFET RELAXED ATMOSPHERE Beach Hotel, Byron Bay ph/fax: 02 6679 5851 BYO 07 5536 9500 Bookings 66 807 055 Gollan Drive Tweed Heads West 2485 07 5587 9000 [DON±=@ Kerr’s Coast 2 Coast B&J ALBERT CONCRETING Cleaning Services TWEED SHIRE ECHO s 0OOL SURROUNDS s &OOTPATHS s 3HED SLABS s "USINESS CLEANING s 7INDOW CLEANING s 0ATIOS s $RIVEWAYS s %XPOSED CONCRETE s (OMES CLEANED s RESORT CLEANING SERVICE DIRECTORY Phone Baz – Lic 181648C 1800 449 926 0404 087 801 Chris & Janelle Kerr 0415 757 599 PO Box 138, Pottsville 2489 NSW Colour display ad: COMPUTER SERVICES 011001110011101011001100010110011100110111001100111001110101100110001011001110 CONCRETE 011011100110011100111010110011000101100111001101110011001110011101011001100010 110011100110111001100111001110101100110001011001110011011100110011100111010110 All aspects – free quotes 011000101100111001101110011000101100111001101110011000101100111001101110011000%PDUPS%BUB3FTDVF $35 per week Rob: 0419 769 342 Have you lost Has data been Call Doctor Data Rescue today! • images • videos • formatted Low rates, Simon: 0412 786 737 190232C No. Lic. • documents ? • deleted ? Fast local service. *ODMVEJOH(45XJUIBNJOJNVNXFFL • music • damaged 0419 146618 CPPLJOH XFFLTQBZBCMFJOBEWBODF We can recover from • hard disks • USB flash drives • ipods/mp3 players ARCHITECTURAL • CDs/DVDs • digital camera storage (SD etc) TIMBERS LOCALL AUSTRALIS Line listing: JACK MANTLE STAIRS INTERNAL / EXTERNAL !$3, K $IALUP 7EBHOSTING OPEN / CLOSED RISERS "ROADBAND FROM FROM $70 for 12 weeks 0408 740 480 / 02 6684 3378 MTHK MTH MTH Got any questions? Please call 4ELEPHONE BROADBAND BUNDLES AVAILABLE MURWILLUMBAH 1800 2888 71 www.australis.net Danielle Francis on (02) 6672 2280 DESIGN & DRAFTING HIRE GARDEN DESIGN, FENG SHUI www.simplybeautifulspaces.com.au .Lyn 0428 884329 or 66857756 ACCOUNTANTS BUILDERS, HANDYMEN... 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Kingscliff, Banora, Tweed.0410 753185 %NTERPRISE !VE 4WEED (EADS 3OUTH JIM’S TREE & STUMP REMOVAL s 1UALIl ED !RBORIST s 4REE 0RUNING 02 6684 9408 0414 974 088 2EG &95&3/"-)064&8"4)*/( s 4REE 2EMOVAL s 3TUMP 2EMOVAL */5&3/"-&95&3/"- s -ULCHING s &ULLY )NSURED .06-%3&.07"- s 3AME $AY 2ESPONSE Phone: 02 6676 3742 or 0404 171 031 131 546 Email: [email protected] www.advancedcleaningsolutions.com.au Zugai Strudwick Architects GUTTERING Ph: 6684 8017 www.zsarchitects.com.au reg. 7669/7673 Hydro Blast AST SPECIAL 4WEED #OAST 'OLD #OAST 0TY ,TD W BL IN GUTTER GUARD SPECIALISTS ATER G $ 2OOF CLEAN RE POINT n AVERAGE M2 HOME +GST 60 Installing Aluminium, Stainless Steel BUILDING TRADES 3URFACES CONCRETE PAVERS DRIVEWAYS SANDSTONE STANDARD BRICKS HOUSE WASH FOOT PATHS ETC DRIVEWAY and Polyethylene mesh. ★ $OMESTIC ★ #OMMERCIAL ★ )NDUSTRIAL UP TO M2) SPOTLESS GUTTERS – 0405 922 839 BUILDER – THINK BUILDING Excellent work. Quality projects. 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All jobs...... 0404 988222 Philip Barnes Ads may be taken by phone on 6672 2280 GARDEN DESING, FENG SHUI www.simplybeautifulspaces.com.au ..Lyn 0428 884329or 66857756 s GASl TTING SPECIALIST s COMMERCIAL AND DOMESTIC s REPAIRS 8.30am-12pm Wednesday MAINTENANCE AND INSTALLATION s GENERAL PLUMBING AND RENOVATIONS WOLLUMBIN LANDSCAPES PTYLTD Lic 177725C...... 0421 544124 or 66791420 s eco-friendly WATER SAVING DEVICES s SOLAR INSTALLATIONS 9am-5pm Monday to Friday Ads can’t be taken on the weekend ,IC .O # 0438 335 785 Specialising in AT OUR OFFICE tBMMTUZMFTPGQBWJOHCSJDLXPSL tJSSJHBUJPOtSFUBJOJOHXBMMT #LASSIl ED ADS MAY ALSO BE LODGED AT OUR OFl CE tUVSGBSFBTtXBUFSGFBUVSFT Suite 1, Warina Walk Arcade, Murwillumbah BOEBMMBTQFDUTPG QBWJOHBOEMBOETDBQJOH RATES & PAYMENT Over 20 yrs experience - friendly reliable service $13.00 for the fi rst two lines MINIMUM CHARGE Ring Dean on 0417 856 212 $4.00 for each extra line THESE PRICES INCLUDE '34 AVAILABLE 24/7 – TWEED ALL AREAS Cash, cheque or credit card – Mastercard or Visa. 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Guest speaker is Tweed Mayor Life skills Mahindra Lenar 25411 Tractor Point will present their weekend art Joan van Lieshout, who will talk about The Mustard Seed Fellowship Centre 4WD, 25HP, with front end exhibition Brushed With Love No. 4 at her hopes for the future of the Tweed. recommences with four weekly life loader, canopy, slasher, 92 HRS. the Seagulls Club. The exhibition starts skills sessions. Computers for Begin- $16,000 ONO at 11am on February 14, and continues Family Centre ners, Monday Feb 16 and Wednesday through to 6pm the next day. Thursday Where do you get 18. Enrolments at the bookshop. TRACTOR Art will donate ten per cent of their We are taking bookings now for the Phone 07 5599 2691 or 07 5536 1372. SAFETY SCHEME sales to the Northern Rivers Symphony following courses at the Family Centre Orchestra’s ‘Save the Orchestra’ concert. on 07 5524 8711. Parents and Prams your copy? Have an approved R.O.P.S. Walking Group, Tuesdays 9.45am-11 Tugun theatre safety frame fitted to your Senior computing .15am, Kingscliff and Rainbow Bay Tugun Theatre Company’s latest If you don’t receive The Echo at home or the weather tractor. It’s cheaper than a locations. Self-Esteem for Women production is a comic who-done-it funeral. Phone us now. Computer Association Tweed Seniors called ‘Death by Fatal Murder’, written is too bad for house to house delivery, pick up a Wednesdays February 11-April 1, Echo Workshop Charltons Rd, meets at 10.30am (NSW time) on the 12.30pm-2.30pm, 8-week course. by Peter Gordon. It’s on at the Tugun copy of your from the following places: Federal. Phone Bill for service. third Wednesday of each month at Pathways to Change,Tuesdays Febru- Community Centre on Coolangata Seagulls. Learn computer skills from ary 17-April 7, 5pm-7.30pm, 8-week Road. February 12-28 with 11 shows. Banora Point: Banora Point Mullumbimby: Echo offi ce 02 6688 4143 other seniors. Joining days are on self awareness for men. Anger: Making Cost $12/$10 concession, bookings 07 Shopping Village, Chris’ Paradise, Murwillumbah: Echo offi ce, Escape Tweed Heights Shops, IGA, Zaraff a’s the second Thursday of each month it work for you, Friday, February 20, 5520 1304. Cabaret seating, patrons Gallery, Sunnyside mall stand, Visitor at Seagulls (call Noelene on 07 5599 can bring nibbles and drinks. Coff ee in Coles complex opposite 9.30am-3.30pm, 1-day workshop. Spearchuckers Centre BUSINESS FOR SALE 8939). Healthier Relationships: Communica- Studio music Bilambil Heights: Store Pottsville: Supermarket, tion, Saturday, February 28, 9.30am- bottleshop, newsagent, fruit market BEAUTY SALON within popular Byron Burringbar: Real estate agent and Blue Care volunteers 3.30pm, 1-day workshop. Playgroups Music in the Artist’s Studio on Sunday, Health Club, long lease. Ph 0419995618 service station South Tweed Industrial Estate: Blue Care seeks volunteers in Banora February 22, at 4pm at The Studio, (9.30am-11.30am): Kingscliff,M onday; 5-Star Machinery Drive, Casa Del READINGS FRUIT SHOP, BANGALOW and surrounding areas to help support 21 Geles Road, Upper Burringbar, will Byron Bay: Echo offi ce, Visitors Cabarita Beach,Tuesday; Murwil- Cafe, Dolphin Juice Café, East Coast Main road frontage, good returns, local the elderly, people with disabilities and feature Brisbane-based players the Centre, newsagent, Community lumbah, Wednesday; Banora Point, Centre Bulk Food, Eat Me Cafe fruit, vegetables & small goods, others in need. Volunteers are needed Thursday (school term only). Whirl Wind Quintet. Admission $10/$8 $75,000 WIWO. Phone 66871966 to assist with various roles at com- conc. BYO folding chair or cushion and Cabarita Beach: Beach Bar, SLSC South Tweed: Dry Dock Road and cafe, newsagent munity and respite centres throughout U3A a plate to share afterwards and meet convenience store BUSINESS OPP. the region. Short flexible hours, and the players. Info call 02 6677 1549 or Casuarina/Salt: IGA, Salt Bar, Stokers Siding: Store U3A Tweed Coast branch, beginner’s bottleshop training is available. For info call Kelly 07 3371 0420. WARNING tap dancing, limited vacancies avail- Terranora: Supermarket Adams on 0414 471 270. Chinderah: Art Gallery, pub, The Department of Fair Trading has able on Monday mornings 10am-11am U3A Tweed Coast. newsagent Tumbulgum: Post Offi ce store at Kingscliff Anglican Church hall. Cost warned people to be very careful about Historical Society Scrabble and 500 in Reflections C’ty Coolagattta – Griffi th Street Tweed City: Echo stand near info responding to advertisements offering $2. Please contact Lynne for further room, Kingscliff on Thursday, 10am to and The Esplanade: Three desk work at home. Readers should be The general meeting of the Tweed information on 02 6674 0640. noon. This is another chance to keep newsagents, Visitor Info Centre, 7-11 Tweed Heads – Minjungbal Drive: wary if asked to pay money upfront for Heads Historical Society will be held Supermarket, Coolangatta Sands employment opportunities and never Ratepayers meet those brain cells working. Please con- Community Centre/Library, Elite on Tuesday, February 17, at 10am DST tact Dianne on 6674 4046 or Elizabeth and Coolangatta Hotel, Surf Club, send money to a post office box. Coolangatta Senior Citizens Club, Fitness, One Life Fitness, South in the Old Court House, Pioneer Park, The Murwillumbah Ratepayers and on 6674 0806 for further information. Twin Towns Tweed Bowls Club, Tweed Tavern Kennedy Drive, West Tweed Heads. Residents Association will hold their Embroidery and candlewicking are tra- Condong: Tweed Heads – Wharf Street: HAMMER & HAND Professor Alexander Kouzmin will first meeting of the year on Mon- ditional crafts you can learn (or crochet Store JEWELLERY COLLECTIVE be our lively guest speaker. Visitors day, February 16 at the Autumn Club, Crabbes Creek: General Store Farmer Charlies, Hospital main foyer, Member wanted, shop open 7 days, if you prefer) on Tuesdays, 1.30 to 3.30 Ivory Tavern, newsagent, Tweed welcome. Info 07 5536 8625. Tumbulgum Road, 7.30pm. Call 6672 Fingal Head: Sheoak Shack work 1 day per week, 10am-5pm. at Cudgen Leagues Club. Contact and 7407 for info. Heads Bowls Club, Twin Towns 1 place only, Byron Arts & Industry Est. leader is Angela 07 5523 4918. Hastings Point: General store, Mental health Tyalgum: Store Phone Bruce Pringle 0409960614 service station Tweed Valley Mental Health Carers Lupus support M’bah Day View Club Kingscliff : Bowls Club, Library/ Uki: Store, pub AWSOME BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY Network is a support group for families Lupus and Sjogren’s Syndrome Gold A mystery trip on Monday 16th Febru- Community Centre, two West Tweed: Seagulls, Work from home, ph 0428656812 or visit of people with mental illness, offering Coast-Tweed Support Group meeting ary. Bus leaves at 9.00am. Cost is $27 newsagents, Cellarbrations, Broadwater Village juliekent.unifiedwealthsolutions.com friendship and sharing experiences will be held on Monday, February 16 in which includes bus fare and morning Mooball: Pub and cafe Retirement Park, Spar Supermarket, CABINS FOR SALE and information. The group meets on the Alan Millard Room, Tweed Hospital, tea. Partners are welcome to come Mount Burrell: Store Panorama Newsagent the first and third Mondays in each Florence Street (opp. Ivory Crescent) at along. Members are also advised cost The Echo month at the Tweed Heads Library, 4pm DST (3pm Qld time). Meet others of meal at meetings will be increased If you miss your printed copy of get it online at STYLISH new cabins built to your Brett Street (no public holidays). Inquir- with Lupus (SLE) and Sjogren’s in an by one dollar. Margaret Woodham requirements from $12,000. 66841546 www.tweedecho.com.au ies 07 5524 4556. informal and social atmosphere. Some 6672 1156. www.tweedecho.com.au The Tweed Shire Echo February 12, 2009 31 Backburner Tweed residents, many of whom still remember the gen- erosity shown by other Austral- ians following the devastating 1954 floods, are now pitching in to help fire victims with dona- tions of cash, goods and offers of manpower. While the region remains a safe haven between the floods in the north and the fires in the south, longtime resi- dents know that it’s only a mat- ter of time before either of these two natural enemies visit. ■ ■ ■ ■ Indeed a climate study of southeast Australia by the Aus- tralian Bureau of Meteorology and the CSIRO in 2007 found VIOLIN & FIDDLE the number of days with very Keeping cool in Pottsville last week when the temperature went through the roof. Photo Jeff high or extreme fire danger ‘Wrinkle Toes’ Dawson ratings would increase signifi- LESSONS cantly. The worst changes were fines and costs totalling nearly youngsters had to be versed Street to a developer was a re- predicted for northern NSW. half a million dollars. The di- on the different toilet habits of sounding ‘No!’, with less than Paul ‘Rabbit’ Robinson ■ ■ ■ ■ rector’s personal share of this boys and girls as the kids were one per cent of the people ap- ALL STYLES including ELECTRIC VIOLIN A dud cheque for almost penalty came to $224,500 but stumped when confronted with proached agreeing with coun- BEGINNER to ADVANCED $20,000 just about forced the an earlier decision of the coun- urinals. With all the rules and cil’s plan. The survey was con- popular Northern Rivers Sym- cil administrators means that regulations governing teachers’ ducted by the Tweed District 0400 574 309 phony Orchestra to the wall ratepayers will unfortunately words and actions these days, it Resident and Ratepayers Asso- recently, but a sold-out benefit pick up that tab. must have been a difficult con- ciation. ‘As Tweed Centro under concert at Seagulls this Sunday ■ ■ ■ ■ versation to have without the direction from Sydney stopped afternoon is hoping to recoup NSW premier Nathan Rees’s advantages of mime. us questioning the community some of that to keep the show comment that The Nationals ■ ■ ■ ■ in the Centro carparks,’ said going. Last October after a have ‘shifted from being a gen- Motorists using the multi-level spokesperson Laurie Ganter, There’s never been concert at a Byron Bay festival, uine party that represents the car park outside Murwillum- ‘we were forced to collect sig- its organiser’s cheque bounced, interests of farmers and rural bah’s refurbished pool will natures in marketplaces and at a better time to go leaving the 65-member entou- workers to an outfit that repre- have to pay for it from Monday the January 31 rally.’ rage and its popular founder sents spivs along the coastline February 16. The Tweed Shire ■ ■ ■ ■ and conductor Barry Singh of NSW’ has generated a bit of Council will trial a six-month If you’re not in favour of speed reeling and forcing cancellation outrage (see letters, page 11). coupon scheme for the middle on the Tweed (and if you’re not of performances. Due to popu- One definition of a spiv is ‘a level of the car park, applica- already tired of rallies), mark lar demand, a second Save The particular kind of petty crimi- ble Mondays to Fridays, from Tuesday, February 17 down for ❂ Family sized solar hot water systems installed from $1470* Orchestra Variety Concert will nal, who deals in stolen goods 8am to 5pm. Motorists parking a protest against jet boats be- ❂ 1KW solar power systems installed from $2490* be held on Sunday, March 1, so or fraudulent sales’. It’s not a bad in this area must buy a daily ing allowed on the river. It’s set get in early this time. (Book- description of some of the cads coupon for $2 or a monthly for 4.30pm outside the council ❂ Energy effi cient appliances and lighting ings at club). and urgers you get around here coupon for $36 to avoid an $81 chambers in Murwillumbah. ❂ 12 months no deposit interest free fi nance** ■ ■ ■ ■ but hardly representative of the fine. Daily coupons are avail- ■ ■ ■ ■ Despite the failure of Terry whole coast. Rees doesn’t care able at the Starting Block Cafe Our editorial (page 10) men- Signifi cantly reduce your Sharples’s challenge to Tweed about the fallout anyway, as he at the Tweed Regional Aquat- tions that Fred Nile is one of energy bills and your Shire Council’s rate rises, coun- knows he doesn’t have a hope of ic Centre or at the council’s the crusaders for censorship carbon footprint today!! cils don’t always get their own winning back the state seats of front desk in Murwillumbah. currently disturbing the peace. way in court. In 2003 a road Tweed, Ballina or Lismore – as- Monthly coupons are available The Rev Fred’s autobiography is was illegally driven through suming he’s still the premier by only at the council’s front desk. not widely known, on account Ph 13 21 13 the habitat of endangered spe- the next state election. The car park’s ground level will of it being almost unreadable, *After eligible rebates **Fees & conditions apply cies at the Partridge Creek wet- ■ ■ ■ ■ continue to be free for two to but it does bear the distinc- Featuring products from land near Port Macquarie. Last Kindergarten kids at one Tweed four hour periods and the third tion of being dedicated to ‘Al- week Justice Lloyd of the Land school learnt more than just level will be free all day. mighty God’. One wonders if and Environment Court sen- their ABC’s on the first day of ■ ■ ■ ■ He was offered the courtesy tenced Port Macquarie Hast- school recently – they learned Perhaps not surprisingly, the re- of an advance copy and, more ings Council and its Director how to correctly answer nature’s sult of a survey asking if Tweed importantly, the opportunity of of Infrastructure Services to call. It seems some of the male Shire Council should sell Bay declining the honour. 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