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[email protected] [email protected] www.echo.net.au IF YOU NEED VIOLENCE TO ENFORCE YOUR IDEAS, YOUR IDEAS CAB p18 –19 23,200 copies every week AUDIT ARE WORTHLESS – #BENTLEYBLOCKADE Inside Erosion of Daniel The Arts Best damn gig guide Game of Byron Shire this civil liberties Champagne are alive in for the best damn Throwns Council Notices week – p15 interview – p20 Byron – p24 gigs – p26 – p40–41 Page 39 Local MP supports Rail trail her govt on gas or bust Hans Lovejoy gasco’s communications relations manager, she declined to comment. Again state parliament was in dis- Ms Cusack also declined to com- array last week with resignations, ment on whether she thought the slush funds, bribe allegations and fossil fuel industry unfairly infl u- dodgy appointments debated. ences politics and would not say But one other item stood out. whether she supported lobbyist or Lennox Head-based upper donation reform. house MLC Catherine Cusack But when asked who she sup- (Liberal) lashed out at comments ported – either the protesting Bent- by Labor’s Walt Secord in parlia- ley residents or her government – ment aft er Mr Secord said Th omas she paused and replied, ‘I support George (Nationals member for Lis- my government’s position.’ more) is ‘a fi erce opponent of the Despite being cautious with her Bentley blockade’. words, Ms Cusack did elaborate on how the expansion of mining has become a hot-button issue.