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Notices Old Kombi Wanted Do you have an old kombi sitting in a shed somewhere? I am looking to buy a complete bus or old camper that is in need of restoration. Please call Rusty 0416-045-007 Bush dance Nimbin Red Cross fundraiser for the Victorian Bushfires at Tuntable Falls Community Hall on Saturday 4th April. Food from 6pm, music starts at 7pm. Enquiries, phone Phyllis on 6689-1558. Shady business replaced with cheap tiles. A said Sergeant Tom Campbell. We will remane it Mt Fuji- Last week we had a lot second hand vanity sink was I feel very lucky to be able Warning. I believe it will Tuntable Preschool AGM of fun filming a TAFE supplied but not plumbed in, to have my writing published work – look at the Gold Tuntable Falls early childhood centre is having its AGM on documentary in Lismore, and a mountain of rubbish in The Nimbin GoodTimes, Coast. Tuesday 7th April, 1.30pm at the preschool. dancing in the street where was left. which is such an attractive Another niche tourist dollar there are large shady trees and It took me 4 days to repair and well-edited newspaper. could be made by eliminating Tidy Towns AGM open footpaths, allowing an the damage done, clean up If anything, it’s too good at the thigh-busting, agonising, Kyogle Tidy Towns will hold its AGM at Kyogle Bowling expansion of people’s energy and finish the job. depicting the beauties of our sweaty armpit trek from the Club on Tuesday 7th April at 5pm. Contact Mrs Anne Reardon on (02) 6632-1851 for more information. into the surrounding space. When engaging a village’s people and places. carpark to the summit, which It is such a different reality tradesman here are some We don’t want everyone to I am against on principle, as Art and Craft Market to Nimbin, where our trees point to remember: know, let them stay home and excercising in any way is un- As from Easter Saturday 11th April, Kyogle Tidy Towns are constantly trimmed • Ask for ID and grow their own Nimbins. Australian. will host a monthly Art and Craft Market in the Kyogle so that cameras are never qualifications. Kathy Stavrou Why can’t we allow in Memorial Institute, replacing the monthly Sunday Market without a view of every little • Get the quote in writing. Nimbin guest workers from the Mt that operated at Kyogle Showground. Stallholders please social interaction, and we Demand dockets and Everest region of Nepal? The phone Mr Rupert Esch 6632-6623 or Mrs Anne Reardon exist with tiny footpaths. receipts. Tourism initiatives Sherpas! These tough, wiry, 6632-1851 prior to the day. Where is our friendly • Don’t pay a cent till the job I don’t wish to state the ever-smiling natives should streetscape? Nimbin very you asked for is correctly bleedin’ obvious, but there be imported under contract Friday Folk Cafe easily fills up with noxious finished. are tourism and development and fitted with saddles that Next Tuntable Falls Community café will be from 5 pm Friday 17th April, with great food by Delight and Donna car fumes and overwhelming • Keep an eye on what he is opportunities everywhere I are hand stitched in Tibet, and great music by some of the region’s best folkies. The heat. With the amount doing!!! look in the Rainbow Region. by the occupying Chinese cafe will be happening again twice a month from May. of development to be • Don’t be afraid to ask I know for a fact that there craftsmen. commenced between Lismore questions. are hordes of Japanese tourists Every overweight and Murwillumbah, there Carter Bijou leaving town week after week Australian adventurer who could be a time when our Bilambil with bucketloads of cash doesn’t have the stamina, streets become unusable due unspent in their pockets. This through no fault of his or Plant of the Month to the amount of deadly car No Inserts! is a criminal offence! her own, would be leisurely Brush Cherry – attractive and edible fumes. Your paper is a great effort, My vision is as follows: carried up the treacherous Another Meet the Council but nothing written is as I propose an eco-friendly path to the top. It’s a win-win meeting was on at the Town good as finding no advertising alteration to Mt Warning, situation. Hall and supposedly we have inserts in it. which will hardly be noticed, We will call this venture: a chance for our message to Every other paper is loaded for a cable car ride that Saddle-Up-A-Sherpa Eco- get across, though many ideas with our reshaped trees – can operate 24/7 from the tours. All proceeds go to us. in the past have collapsed into the Byron Echo is shameful. carpark at the bottom to I recommend starting nothing. Our town is still Please never start! Especially a viewing platform on the these tourist opportunities being developed. the bloody Norman Harvey summit, allowing the tourist immediately, before Lismore Will we be allowed to have endless consumer crap, no hordes fantastic photo beats Nimbin to the punch shade trees, or are they too good even in the dunny, that opportunities, fast junk food and steals our rightful tourist dangerous for us, only being slimy paper, and horrible to outlets and a romp in the dollars. What do you think? allowed in a safe town like mulch. artificial snow, tastefully Trevor Thomas Lismore? Keep up the Good Times. covering the mountain top. Clunes by Richard Burer, evergreen tree is easy to Project Officer for EnviTE Lynne Oldfield Rainbow Warrior grow and makes an excellent Nimbin Website: David McMinn Syzygium austral is a small screen, garden or native Imperfections About us www.nimbingoodtimes.com tree found in all types of planting for most situations. Unscrupulous Tradies I’m writing to apologise to Editor: Bob Dooley NGT is auspiced by the warm rainforest. Commonly For those interested, there A elderly friend needed a readers for two mistakes known as Brush Cherry, it is is a very old tree on Calico Assistant Editor: Sue Stock Nimbin Community School minor repair to his shower. I have made in my articles Co-operative Ltd. very common on the north Creek (on Blade Road, Layout: Bob Dooley and A few hours and a couple of published in the NGT coast, and particularly in the opposite the tip) that looks Andy Gough Next deadline: hundred dollars was required. (February and March 09). Wednesday 29th April Nimbin area. to have had many a camp and Photographers: Sue Stock, A so-called builder was In one, I referred to Earle Email: nimbin.goodtimes It is often found in damp feast over the last couple of Len Martin, Pam Bourne, recommended. Stanley Gardner when I @gmail.com or put stuff in gullys and by creeks. Purple/ hundred years. Cath Marshall Five weeks and $1200 later should have said Erle Stanley the pigeonhole at the Nimbin maroon fruits hang in EnviTE is a not-for-profit (at $30 an hour) the shower Gardner; and the other is Distribution: Angus, Tonia, Community Centre. abundance from winter to organisation providing Geoff & Terry, Peter & Pixie, was still un-repaired and my reference to Sergeant Please limit contributions to spring and are a favourite employment, training and Pip (Bellingen), Matt (Glebe) unusable. A lovely slate floor Macdonald, in the last edition 600 words or less, and include bush tucker for the kids. professional environmental was demolished and poorly of NGT, when I should have Bookkeeper: Jayne Woolfe a photo if possible. This very attractive services.

Next Market Nimbin Visitor Centre 12th April “Information for locals and visitors” Band of the Day: Souvenirs, maps, books, local Luke Vassella arts, crafts and produce Monday to Saturday 10am to 4pm Charity of the Day: Sundays on Nimbin Market Weekend The Channon Public School P&C 80 Cullen Street Nimbin Enquiries phone: 6689 1388 6688-6433 [email protected] “Make It, Bake It, Grow It” Page 8 The Nimbin GoodTimes April 2009 www.nimbingoodtimes.com Simon says... From the mayor’s desk went down 9 to 2 (Vanessa funding for the service. At Preparing a works plan and • Monday April 20 – City Ekins being the only other its most recent meeting, associated budget is one of Contact Forum- Mayor supporter). What was NOROC also considered the most difficult tasks as and 5 Councillors present I saying about loving a the need to seek funding we examine each proposal for residents’ questions challenge….! More work to for an Integrated Regional for its financial, community • Tuesday April 28 – be done here. Transport Plan. and environmental impacts Workshops on Water Better news on the and how it relates to our Sensitive Design, koala front, however. I Koalas Strategic Plan. Disability, Access and moved that the Council Cr Clough’s motion for Inevitably some wonderful Inclusion Plan, Social determine a time frame to Council to prepare a Koala ideas and well-supported Impact Assessments review and implement the Plan of Management for the initiatives will miss out but • Tuesday May 5 – Public by Councillor Simon Clough Comprehensive Koala Plan by Jenny Dowell whole Local Government staff and Councillors will do Submissions – those who of Management, which Mayor of Lismore Area was also carried . The the best we can with what made submissions to had one of the BIG life was accepted. The only next budget is extremely we have. the Budget can book to moments this month. councillors opposing it were [email protected] limited so no-one should address Council. If time You know, those Peter Graham, John Chant, expect this Plan to be GSAC permits, the Council will I North Lismore moments where you realise Graham Meineke and Neil undertaken in the near The biggest self-funded also commence the Budget your identity has changed in Marks. industrial land future but at least it is now project ever undertaken by workshop process the eyes of the world. We are so fortunate here, At last month’s meeting, on the agenda. Long-time LCC will be open by the • Wednesday May 6 I opened the Nimbin to have a koala population Council voted 10/1 (Vanessa residents may recall that time readers get this edition. – Budget workshop GoodTimes and there was in a large urban area. Ekins against) to rezone the previous KPoM only The people of Goonellabah continued my birthday party photo on There are many threats to 10 ha of land between the covered the south-east in particular have waited It is advisable to check this the Seniors page! It’s like their survival and quality saleyards on Tweed St section of our LGA and then over ten years for this facility information in the NR the first time when someone of life, and I believe a (Dunoon Rd) and Terania failed to gain support of the and I feel confident that they Echo the week prior to offers you a seat on the bus comprehensive plan of St for future industrial Council around late 2003. and those in the broader attending. (hasn’t happened to me management is essential. I use. The rezoning is an community will not be All workshops and yet). I hadn’t quite thought wore my little furry koala amendment to Lismore’s Superannuation disappointed. Next time you meetings listed are at 6pm of myself in that way. So badge on my shirt, which Local Environmental Plan For five years, the are in town, please take the at Council’s Chambers in thanks Sue and Bob for the amused some at the meeting (LEP) so it must go to the Local Government opportunity to visit. There Oliver Ave. reality check – and don’t but probably not everyone. Minister for Planning for Superannuation Scheme has are picnic and café facilities think you’ll be invited next My other adventure this approval. Some residents given Councils a ‘holiday’ to make your visit an ideal Halls time! month was participating have expressed concerns from making contributions. school holiday experience As I write this column, I love being on Council. in the “Rising Tide” over traffic, noise, loss of Unfortunately, like other too. I have just heard that I said this to Trish one protest at Newcastle. We amenity and the visual super funds it has lost a federal minister Anthony morning, and she looked were accompanied by Cr. impact of an industrial estate great deal in investments Women in Local Albanese has approved very puzzled and said Jeff (“wake up”) Johnson so Council will also prepare and is asking Councils to Government Lismore’s application for “why?...”. I realise I love the from Ballina Council, and a new Development Control make large payments to I was invited to speak $1.049 Million. As readers challenge of it. Some people our own icon Benny Zable Plan (DCP) to ensure their cover long term employees at the Australian Local will recall, the money was like to reduce stress in their with his flags and costume concerns are addressed. A in the now-defunct ‘defined Government Women’s offered to LCC subject to lives. I like working on a (though he did forget his DCP can include conditions benefit’ scheme. For LCC, Association conference in a complying submission. number of diverse issues at mask), and half a dozen for the site such as signage, the amount due is around Queanbeyan late last month. Part of our application was once, so Council works well other supporters. lighting, landscaping, $900,000- a significant Sadly women make up only to request that $5000 be for me. I also love (perhaps Those coal ships are bloody water efficiency and design amount in the best of years 27% of Councillors in NSW available to each of our 28 that’s a bit strong) meetings. enormous. Undaunted we alternatives to mitigate noise. but enormous this year. and only 20% of the local rural halls. That money will I was elected to Council paddled out in our canoes Lismore Council, like many government workforce. On be available as NGT hits on the platform of “Our and kayaks, but could not PAGs others, is requesting that the upside, it was wonderful the streets and I’m sure it Sustainable Future”, and find a single coal ship, New community members the repayments are spread to meet so many young will be well spent by hall I am passionate about though there were plenty of for Council’s six Policy over five years. We await the women Councillors who committees throughout the supporting climate change police. Aware of the protest, Advisory Groups were Board’s decision. Whatever were elected in September. Lismore LGA. initiatives. the harbour authorities had also elected at the March the outcome, I would not 2009 has been declared the At the last Council meeting closed the port. meeting. I’m delighted like to see Lismore City Year of Women in Local Blue Moon Cabaret I moved that the Council So we had the best of all to see that Nimbin is Council request a rate Government and is also a The March Blue Moon sign up to the Northern situations, a victory (it costs represented by Jennifer Park increase to cover the cost. great time to start thinking Cabaret continued the high Rivers Climate Change at least $100,000 day to delay (Community Services PAG), Instead, Councillors and about standing for election standard of performances Collaboration Agreement. a coal carrier) and fun in Diana Roberts (Economic staff, in a manner familiar to in 2012. Interested readers that we have come to Many other organisations the sun paddling around the Development PAG) and many readers, will work to can always contact me for expect from these fantastic and peak bodies, such as harbour. (See story page 19.) Colin Smith (Infrastructure trim an already lean budget more information. evenings. Congratulations Richmond Valley Council, On the home front - Assets PAG) to all involved and we look Southern Cross University, thanks to the Chamber of Budget Workshops and forward to the next one. North Coast TAFE, North Commerce and the Nimbin Public transport Submissions from the meetings Coast Area Health Service Community Centre for Council voted community, Councillors and Lismore Council’s draft There is always so much and The Northern Star, organising the evening on unanimously for Cr Ekins staff to the next LCC budget meeting schedule for the more I could include in this have already signed. would participation (Story page 5). motion confirming support closed on March 20. 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www.nimbingoodtimes.com April 2009 The Nimbin GoodTimes Page 9 What happens in counselling? Are CCTV cameras worth the cost? Dr Elizabeth McCardell instances in a person’s life when by Rob Graves, police liason Phone 0429 199021 they are not that way. If I am attuned to seeing my life as he recent debacle, where we as a n my practice I frequently heavy and grey, it is hard for me community of motorcycle gangsters Isee people who come with a to know that I also experience Twere caught brawling and creating sense of a specific issue which lightness of being. The task mayhem at Sydney airport, has sent a clear they want to be resolved, of therapy is to bring to the message to the community. something that doesn’t feel forefront these other narrative What is clear is that CCTV cameras do right; or they want to work accounts. not protect us from organised and violent on some part of themselves Thus, for instance, when a crime. The problem it seems is that no one that jars with the expectations mother and her father, with client brings to her counselling was watching the cameras, when the violence of others. This issue is felt examples of good experiences sessions a life narrative broke out and policing which (seems to have to be separate from their and bad; how her mother and consisting only of accounts of been effective once it arrived) still needed to relationships, their personal father interacted with their self blame and victimization be called in by a citizen on the trusty 000. history, and isolated from the parents; how she played with my job is to explore instances Now that everyone knows that Mr Nobody in rest of their life. her siblings, friends, what when the client does not feel Blue was watching the cameras many of us are The client comes with this school was like, and so on. I herself as a victim and also to wondering why so much police resource and idea that I will work with would want to know how examine what might be gained blind faith has gone in this failed direction. them solely on this specific these interactions from the from experiencing herself as a Word around the campfire is that the I talk to them. It’s a pity that our guardians issue. It comes as a bit of a still living past feel to her in victim. I would want to know cops didn’t even get any CCTV footage fail to do this. surprise when I ask about their her body. Did, for instance, her what attracts the client to her to help them tie up the loose ends of the For the poor who suffer from mental illness experiences (bodily, thoughts, mother frequently shout at her friends and they to her. I might big airport brawl. So much for Richmond the cameras are an utter disaster. I observe and emotions) in the other so that she felt tears welling ask her to pretend she is her Local Area commander Bruce Lyons’ claim this disaster day by day. In my experience dimensions of their lives. I up in her throat, but that, over closest friend, husband, or about CCTV surveillance that: “from the as a community worker surveillance cameras want to know, for instance, the time, she learnt to hold these lover, and describe the client footage, investigating officers might be able to tend throw sufferers of mental illness into family dynamics of their past, tears back? How this feels from that perspective. Trying identify an offender or uncover a vital piece of paranoia, a most painful manifestation of their present, and how they now? Is tenseness there all the on other people’s experiences evidence”. (Northern Star – March 26, 2009) madness. Madness and homelessness are imagine these relationships will time? Where else in her body of ourselves brings to the fore Clearly the cameras are a failure in hard enough to live through as it is, without pan out in, say, five, ten, thirty does she feel tense? How this some awareness of what it is protecting the community, and now we having ones shame and struggle broadcast years. tenseness “tells” her how to be to be ourselves, and not just are told that all the cameras need to be all on reality CCTV to a select group of law What lies behind the specific with people who remind her reacting to those other people. hooked up to help the police solve pretty enforcement officers. issue gives understanding (for of her mother, and so on. I My therapeutic conversations crimes. Whilst on this topic I wonder why The cultural implications of surveillance client and me) of patterns might talk to and ask questions with the client would probably Commander Lyons is selling the community need to be considered and debated. Are of responses, reactions and of this tenseness, to objectify encompass remembering when a dog that won’t hunt? Is the focus on petty we building a great society based on trust exceptions to a more prevailing it in order to see how it plays other people reinforced more crime and minor drug offences a cover for his and people caring for reach other or a small mode of behaving towards out in relation to anger and affirmative views of the client, embarrassment for not really making a dent minded society based on fear? Are we really other issues of that type. More impatience. Is tenseness there when these precious others on the long list of unsolved major crimes, doing ourselves a service by maintaining law than this, though, it shows when playfulness is present? praised the client as being some of which haunt this region? This is a and order through gadgets and technology? how the previous modes of And so on. strong, self-determining, and question that needs to be answered. Are we building communities of trust and response shapes (exaggerating, If we look only at the self assertive. Or perhaps the I would like to suggest a better way forward co-operation based on kindness or are we irritating, softening) the presenting problem we are client read something in a book - boots on the ground community policing. abdicating this responsibility in favour of the present response. We are our really focusing upon one part or saw a movie that offered It is not just that the cameras don’t work. I quick technological fix? past, present, and expectations of the whole of the client’s alternative ways of being. These think they have undermined policing that We could get back on the main game and for our future. Our behaviour experiential field. This one part alternative stories “thicken” and does work – that is sensitive responsive and get back to a style of policing where good is contemporaneous. The examined without its place in enrich the experiences a client intelligent community policing. We have coppers maintain the peace through wise therapeutic work thus moves, in the whole, has little effect on has of herself giving greater actually seen – here in Nimbin how good communication, and a skilled and measured part, around the client’s history, the healing of the whole person. versatility to how she can then community policing can get – but that is application of the law to each of the difficult exploring it as the living history The therapeutic approaches make sense of her world and history. situations into which they are called. This it is. Michael White, the co- I use are thorough; bring the way she can then relate to The cameras do not help the victims of would be a genuinely preventative police founder of Narrative Therapy rich awareness and a fresh other people. domestic violence, they do not help the strategy. The bikies proved it. CCTV is (with David Epstein), wrote understanding to being in the I hope that what I have children in abused homes, they do not help bogus – because the cameras were not being about therapy as re-membering world. One of the approaches described here gives the reader resolve long term and entrenched organised watched. This is the final sinister breach of (re-putting together) the I employ is Narrative Therapy. a sense of what to expect in crime that pervades our whole State. And trust. The cameras were not being watched. contexts and behaviours of a This approach suggests that we counselling. Being a client is why is Commander Lyons still selling the We were not protected. person’s life, of exploring the all make stories about our lives entering an extraordinary, cameras? Is he a spin-doctor or a cop? When aybe the answer is not more ‘absent but implicit’. from the position of trying to confidential, and safe space did our public servants decide that is their and more technology (or even For example, a client make sense of the multiplicity where conversations take role to be influencers of public opinion? Mmore robo-cops) but rather in comes to the first counselling of experiences that occur in our place quite unlike any other Beyond the ineffectiveness of the cameras as the training of police to serve as citizens session wanting to know lives. Sometimes these stories conversations had with a policing tool, there is also the psychological who can solve the crimes that really how to control her anger and are “thin,” non-adaptive and anyone in the ordinary world. harm they cause to the poorest of the poor. matter. Solving serious crime is an art and impatience with her child. inflexible. When we are feeling Sometimes these conversations These are the targets of the technologically not something that can be bought off the Instead of teaching her ways of well, happy and centred, our go beyond words, carrying driven blitz on petty crime. shelf. A low resolution reality TV show checking her anger (pressing on stories are flexible, rich, and full meaning on sound, drawings, For homeless people surveillance cameras watched by the boys and girls in blue cannot her finger to remind her to take of variety, and we are open to and drama. Here there is invade whatever little privacy they have. be a replacement for real people in police a deep breath, or whatever), new experiences. “Thin” stories a mutual journeying into The all seeing eye is always watching them. uniforms relating to real people in real life. though I might suggest this as are one-dimensional and they awareness. These people are now being photographed We all know what we want, and we are well, I would want to know in reinforce feelings of despair For consultations, please twenty four hours a day, often while they are all in this together, so let’s set policing up what other instances she feels and distress. Such stories, ring me on 0429-199-021 or just struggling to survive a harsh world. It is in a better way so we can all make progress this quick anger response. I being inflexible as they are, 6624-3704. I am in Lismore just wrong in my opinion because everyone together. I think this is the direction that would want to understand and conjuring a limited range on Mondays- Tuesdays, and has a right to some privacy. My homeless community policing should be heading, and I how she got on with her of emotions, grossly neglect Nimbin on Thursday-Fridays. friends feel it and don’t like it. I know because know I am not alone in these thoughts.

Dr Elizabeth McCardell, M. Counselling, PhD Counsellor/Psychotherapist For those who want to bring mindfulness to, and some relief from, that which is creating depression, anxiety, drug and alcohol excess, relationship problems, prolonged grief, or a sense of meaninglessness in their lives. Clinics: • 80 Cullen Street, Nimbin: Thursdays & Fridays • Lismore: Mondays & Tuesdays Ring 0429-199-021 for an appointment - Internal/External Feature Stone Walls - Page 10 The Nimbin GoodTimes April 2009 www.nimbingoodtimes.com Our Media Factory’s Birth, and Beyond A Legal Opinion: by Ian Smith some, but I believe an Implied Trust Media Factory beneficial ownership Bakada Rocks, Mountain Top exists here. rests in the Nimbin community That a then very large government urther to the question, “When grant was obtained, on the very basis by Dr Michael Kidd, It can not be argued that is a community building not a that this was a community building and Barrister and Solicitor the Media Factory was an Fcommunity building?” (NGT not privately owned, speaks for itself. www.kiddlegal.com unlawful undertaking which April 09, p15), the short answer is: when And yes, weren’t we foolish to trust could impose an equitable trustees for the community apparently these people and not yet formalise an here are plans afoot defense, and the court would become no longer trust-worthy. association to continue managing our to privately sell a also look at those who stand Can people who have, for the past 35 community building? Doing so now will Tcommunity complex to claim a windfall under the years, assured the Nimbin community be far simpler than raising vast sums in Nimbin, originally called equitable doctrine of unjust that they acted only as trustees to keep to buy our own building back, while the Media Factory and enrichment. the first community building acquired projects for our youth go begging. referred to as Birth and “...the presumption of for the ‘73 Aquarius Festival in this “We are planning to form a Voluntary Many people who’ve been concerned Beyond, by some of the resulting trust is rebutted community’s hands in perpetuity, now Association which will insure that the about this for the last six months and original trustees for their by evidence of any intention assume rights to treat it as privatised real people who are shareholders are merely more, had confidence that Tuntable own personal profit. inconsistent with such a estate? trustees for the community. For example, Co-op surely wouldn’t turn a cost- It seems the original trust, not only by evidence Did these ‘shareholders’ expect to turn in the event of resale of the property, the free Trusteeship for the Nimbin intention back at the of an intention to make a their $150 contribution into $50,000 trustees would waive any and all profit as community into a cash source. Not beginning of the Aquarius gift.” Lord Browne-Wilkinson when they aged, a secret super fund? I individuals in favour of the community wishing to depreciate the efforts of many festival may have been a little Westdeutsche Landesbank v don’t think that was true – then. To put as represented by the Voluntary Tuntablians, but this is an issue for the vague, but there is little doubt Council of London Borough of 1974 into perspective, a $150 share was Association.” whole community, not just Trustees now that the document dated Islington [1996] AC 669. 2.1 times the basic wage of $72 per week; The letter, dated 10th March, 1980, assuming ownership/sale rights. 10th March 1980 creates a Some have argued that in present terms, perhaps $1200. was signed by Sri Richard C Bingham, P It’s time we either got together to sort trust in favour of the broader this presumption arises as a I missed the last of a series of meetings van der Wyk, Gael Knepfer, Jan Oliver, this out, or just accepted that we’ve been Nimbin Community, and result of a lack of intention at Tuntable Co-op, but was reassured Harry Freeman and Robyn E Freeman. truly had by the already wealthy, and the actions of various peoples to transfer any beneficial it guaranteed the building’s beneficial Does the fact that Jan Oliver’s and that what we knew as ‘community’ back and organizations since, interest, but this view ownership remaining in community Beth Freeman’s publicly declared gifted then doesn’t exist any more. Many tend in donating free material has not received judicial hands, confirmed by a typewritten letter shares to Richard and Peter were never to the latter view, but if there remain and labor plus at least one endorsement, so an automatic to Coordination Co-op, hand signed by recorded on the title, enabling later as few as a dozen people here then government grant reinforces resulting trust can arise when a majority of trustees, and reproduced in transfers to Toby Freeman, mark the and since who know what our sort of the resulting trust. the settlor tries to set up a Nimbin News #107. start of a process of acquisition, or community meant and hopefully still Wikipedia says: “A resulting trust for a third party, but After asking Tuntable to replace John merely a negligence by which people now means, I’ll commit to arrange a meeting trust (from the Latin ‘result there is an initial failure for Dobson as representative, quote: “Jan hope to profit? soon with the help of committed others. are’ meaning ‘to jump want of objects or by naming Oliver and Beth Freeman, as two current That such association was never A meeting in Aquarian style, not deftly back’) is the creation of an beneficiaries which cannot be shareholders, have now transferred their formalised – apart from the ongoing facilitated but an old-fashioned circle of implied trust by operation defined. shares to Richard Bingham and Peter voluntary association of hundreds of people sharing memories, experiences, of law, as where property It could be argued that van der Wyk at no cost – in recognition people over 35 years who’ve made use understandings, evidence and strategies gets transferred to one who the original intention of the for their continuing participation and of, shared, looked after, managed and to turn around what’s being presented as pays nothing for it; and Media Factory can no longer interest in the Media Factory as a maintained what we all believed to be a a private deal, really none of the Nimbin then is implied to have held be fulfilled, but that would community building.” community building – may embolden community’s business. the property for benefit of be a hard one to argue, or to another person.” rebut for that matter, and the It is quite clear, in fact present populace of Nimbin and law, but the courts are might have something to say expensive and slow, and if about that. Even if there are IT’S ON AGAIN! one side has access to better only a few original Aquarians lawyers, the result may around, the fact that the be unfortunate from the centre has been run for public Nimbin Community’s point purposes is widely accepted. of view.In this case, some of But evidence of that would the settlors, ie the owners on need to be put before the title, are related transferees, court. so there is a presumption that Whilst it is difficult to could arise under the Family prove intention it may Law Act 1975, or under be easier to prove the family protection legislation, circumstances when a legal that would need to be presumption will arise. argued: Harry, Beth & Toby It would therefore be quite Freeman are related, and easy to rebut the claim of there may be another de facto those who wish to sell after of Harry’s — so the Family all this time, arguing that Law Act could be of some they were not beneficial relevance. But this is clearly owners but held the property not a family situation. on behalf of the community Wikipedia further at large. says: “Those who receive Perhaps this is an example substantial value without that the spirit of Aquarius consideration are ordinarily has died. I think not, it is presumed to hold the more base intention: “If I can property in trust...” get away with it, why not…”

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f I had to pick one highlight from the Highlights Ithirteen MG’s that I have participated in, if I had • Cannabis Law Reform Rally to focus on the one MG at 2.30 Sunday starting opposite that stands out above all the police station.This is the the others in my memory, it central event, not to be missed, would have to be 2005, the and where the Best Floats are year the BigBongMobile.com judged, Cannabis Cup Raffle came to town with cannabis drawn, and Cheech and Chong growing in it. Metaphorically, look a like comp decided, it was the last stage of the hopefully by Tommy Chong cannabis equivalent of an himself. around the world yacht • Showground Camping will • Dr John Jiggens, author and Elspeth and friends will be race, a marathon many mind that neither the crowd be open from Wednesday at of “The Sydney Connection” there taking entries for the week months in the undertaking nor the police wanted to $10 per night. A weekend explains how Underbelly 2 got it before MardiGrass. and suddenly, there it was, harm the innocent plants MardiGrass Armband, (which wrong and explains who Donald • Ageing Hippy Award, like an unexploded bomb in their flimsy cage, nor to gives access to all events except Mackay’s murderers were and the Hemp Masters Olympix parked right outside the stop the BigBong PoT Art the Cup), costs $30, or $50 why the NSW police covered to prove how fit long term Nimbin H*E*M*P*Bar / Demonstration from going with two nights camping. A up the murder. potsmokers can be is still on the H*E*M*P*Embassy in the off as planned. Saturday only pass with no •The “International Forum chopping board, but got great main street of town, wrapped On Sunday, after the parade camping costs $20, and Sunday on Cannabis Reconciliation”, potential. Pension card entry in a tarp with PotArt exhibit and speeches in Peace Park only $10. probably Saturday evening in the only and all competitors will be painted on it and then, as was over, in the 4 and 20th • Volunteers are the heart and Town Hall. thoroughly psychosis tested. now, displaying cannabis the media for the havoc they hour, at approximately 4 and soul of MardiGrass.We love • Hemp Olympix (including • The Hemporium Tent Expo plants in the main street create, the drunks in search 20 minutes until 4.20pm, the both locals and visitors alike, the Michael Phelps Backpedal in Peace Park is collecting as of Nimbin is, as you would of the never ending party and 4th attempt to phone Michael please consider putting in some Award) on in Peace Park as many hemp related stalls and expect, an arrestable offense. the NSW police. I am sure by the newly appointed Police time. usual, the Bong Throw, Growers ideas as possible to showcase Of course, the police were that the smiles on their faces Area Commander “about • Jungle Patrol is collecting Iron Person Event, Speed and the myriad uses of the plant we only one force at MardiGrass each time they passed by were the plants in the yellow car names in a blue book at the Creative Joint Rolling, and for are celebrating. Dr Keith Bolton who ‘theoretically’ threatened genuine. No one it seemed out the front’ was successful Hemp Party Bar. Please register, the first time, “Correct Weight”, will be there to talk about the the sanctity of the final wanted to spoil the spectacle - Michael, of course, hadn’t Save-a-Mate Red Cross training where competitors have to now legal NSW low thc crop. phase of the Big Bong PoT for everyone else. Erk, I’m been avoiding the calls, he on Wednesday 29th April at estimate an oz in a cliplock • Hemp Fashion Shows with Art Demo, the crowd being getting ahead of my self..... had been down in Peace Park the Bowlo. (28.3495231 grams!) Judy Who will be throughout the other. Most everyone’s 4 and 20 hours is a long speaking to the crowd - and • MardiGrass has music • Cooking, Bubblebag, the weekend after a big show on opinion was “those plants time to expect to have the ultimatum delivered. happening everywhere, up to Varouriser, brick and Friday night. won’t last 5 minutes” with cannabis in a flimsy wire “If the plants are real seven venues! It’s big Saturday papermaking, legal advice, • Pot Art Tattoo is on in the equal odds for police or cage in the main street of cannabis, take them out now. night in Peace Park, the gardening and many other Bowlo Sat arvo from 1pm like last crowd as to who would be Nimbin, indeed, it would be a If they are not, they can stay.” “Dance for Drug Law Reform’, classes will be held throughout year, registrations from 10 am. first to rip them out. major MardiGrass miracle if We moved quickly, police has Japans most popular the weekend. • Kombi Konvoy leaves Byron I have always believed it were to happen, or so said officers had been dispatched psychedelic band Dachambo • Comedy Cafe on as usual in Bay at midday on Sat and that the amount of time, the punters at the 4 hour 20 from the station to make coming out especially to play The Oasis Sat and Sunday nites Lismore at 3pm to arrive in preparation and art that went minute mark. At the 12 hour sure wishes of the Area at this gig. Other performers with S and Alan Glover hosting Nimbin about 4pm into the ‘Caged Cannabis mark there was just me and Commander were obeyed. confirmed for MardiGrass again. • Dutchies Cafe will be Info Demonstration’ was its best the webcam viewers and I was Of course, the plan had include Fyahwalk, Diana Anaid, • Ganja Faeries are welcoming Central in Peace Park next to the protection. The cannabis certain that the next 12 hours always been to ‘symbolically Chocolate String, Zennith, and having rehearsals on the stage, also hosting the CWA, plants looked so innocent, were a done deal because I and literally’ rip the cage AntiBodies, CC the Cat, our market stage every Wednesday Cooking With Attitude. the image so evocative of the knew that when the sun came off whilst yelling FREE old favorite Captain Reefer at 4pm. • 420 World Wide Global “real situation of Cannabis”, up and the smoke machine MARIJUANA, and and the Konescrapers, Saritah, • Aquarius Markets are on Marijuana March will take off that everyone was enthralled from the H*E*M*P*Bar then after a short photo Groove Foundation, Pagan Love all weekend, speak to Cat on from the Hemp Bar at 4.20 Sat by them, the MardiGrass was added, thousands and opportunity, free the actual Cult, IBM, Homeless Yellow, 0429-194-248 arvo after we have attempted crowd, the local youths and thousands of pictures would Marijuana from the mobile Bo Kaan and Essie Thomas. • The Pickers Ball, including to rewrite the history books for black market profiteers who be taken of the BBM and and since it was real cannabis • RAID, Random Armband I the Hemp Fashion Show, is on the largest number of joints lit usually get such a bad time in there was no doubt in my and since the Police had D checks by the local POLITE Friday evening in the Town Hall at once. been as wonderful and FORCE who will be wandering after the opening Ceremony in • Survey of long term cannabis understanding as the crowd MardiGrass asking you to buy Allsopp Park around sunset, with users to be done from the had been to the sanctity of an armband if you don’t have George Scott and Bundjalung Hemp Party Bar throughout the the PoT Art Demonstration. one to support the cannabis law Elders and dancers. weekend, please take the time. At 4.08:40pm, Michael and reform rally. Please help them. • Best Float Awards will be • Fringe MardiGrass ‘Red I FREED MARIJUANA in • Marijuana Music Awards, awarded when the Rally arrives Pill Circus of Truth’ hosted by front of the live webcam and previous winners will play in Peace Park on Sunday. $1000 Mark Jago will be on at the at least 420 stoners (and more around sunset in Peace Park Sat first prize, $500 second, $200 old garage each afternoon, with flash bulbs) whilst Cannabis evening when the 2009 winners third. movies every evening. Dave took some video – are announced. • Childrens entertainment, we • Hemp Party political members which you can easily find on • Medical Cannabis and have a couple of shows in Peace sign-up all weekend, meeting youtube, and the best part of Industrial Hemp Forums will be Park Sat arvo, more welcome, in the Hemp Party Bar, 4.20 all was that we made it back in the Town Hall and at Peace please contact the Embassy. Sunday May 3. inside the H*E*M*P*Bar Park on both Sat and SundayThe • Pot Art is on in the Regional • Lots more details on www. with plenty of time for 420! killer cop and . Gallery opposite the Oasis nimbinmardigrass.com

Page 12 The Nimbin GoodTimes April 2009 www.nimbingoodtimes.com – Friday gigs start 7.30pm – Rich Hardesty confirmed Rich Hardesty is confi rmed as performing at NIMBINbyby UndaUnda CuvvaCuvva STREET SHUFFLE Mardi Grass for the 6pm Sydney airport cameras failed Maybe I can see the end is Global MMA slot on the to deliver any pictures of the nigh and I want a pension like TANKS FOR THE ‘GRASS Saturday night. bikie bash. Th is means Unda’s all you bludging hippies. Am I Hardesty had a huge What a month. Undacuvvas are back in business big time. making sense?? Did I light up hit with the song All My from across the state are being How dare they replace us with the wrong grass? Friends are Stoners, featured wound in for the Mardigrass. cameras! Th e Big Blue Boss in the movie Totally We’ve been meeting for is getting a network on the THE RIVER COURT Baked, and headlined for months, much longer than North Coast of all the private It’s been action plus at the John Mellencamp’s 50th the slack hippies from the camera systems, hoping to WKTA (Well Known Tourist birthday bash. so-called MOB. Ever had to get us back in uniform. So I Attraction) this month. Th e Before the release of watch one of their meetings? can tell you we will be here in Mingle Park camp is an the latest record, Rich God only knows how they pull Well I can tell you the Big numbers for Mardigrass this ancient meeting place I heard Hardesty has sold more than 50,000 CD’s and has gained the show together. It truly is a Blue, an Unda himself for a year. Every NSW Unda has to this week, a refugee camp a worldwide fan base by playing over 2000 live shows mystical thing and I try to tell quarter of a century you must have a thousand points by June indeed. You hippies can paint across the U.S., including a 36 city tour in 2001, opening that to the bosses. remember, was ready to take 30 to keep their jobs. Most up what you like, but not in for bands including Cypress Hill, Kid Rock, and Eddie Strategy after strategy, Chong on in what the MOB of us are languishing at 2 or our backyard, mate. Mike has Money. He has played six consecutive spring breaks at plot after plot, horses, dogs, wanted to call the Great 300, so the big weekend will now been joined by Bill (not beach bars and resorts in Jamaica, and he has also played in detectives, tanks. Can you Unda Mardigrass Showdown, be a free-for-all. Every caution, their real names) on search Florida and Southern California. Th e list goes on, building believe one of the Undas GUMS. We had to pull the every bust, no matter how and destroy missions. Th ey up to his credibility of being Indiana’s #1 selling artist. suggested tanks? Two, she plug. small, gets one point. Th ere is have been trying to outdo each said, “one at each end of town! a problem, they deduct points other with points this month Just to scare ‘em into behavin’ RUDD FAILS BONG TEST if it later turns out not to be and the popular Koori camp good”, she said. Undacuvva can tell you our cannabis. Last year one Unda and meeting place is full of For those who came in late... Ruddy boy caused a storm at organised 32 of the total of easy targets, same as they have SHOCKING BLUE the White House this week. 80 arrests. We all thought he been for over 200 years. Th e Jungle throughout Never show weakness in front After the press conference was a hero until the results Sorry – don’t mention the Patrol is MardiGrass off the boss the others told me Obama invited Kevin out back came back and 27 of the joints word around here, if we go a local from Friday later, he refuses to admit the to meet his team and our boy contained lavender. I see him soft the all important court volunteer 8am through war is lost in any way at all. spied a bong in the corner. One on the street often, looking river starts to dry up, jail organisation to early Th e next day he calls a press of the staff ers off ered Kev a totally lost. You all know him. numbers drop, and our necks that patrols Monday conference outside the station cone and it became apparent are on the line. “Whatever the streets, morning, and all about Mardigrass and how he had no idea what it was REDNECK RALLY RUSTED happens, the river must encouraging people are urged he as a dad personally opposes about and had to admit he’d Several Unda’s stationed along fl ow”, they taught us that at people to to sign up for two weed. “Like most parents,” never been stoned. Obama Williams Road lately have Undaschool. “Remember who keep the peace, four-hour shifts. he says, and then he goes on laughed and our PM got teased reported major parties in the ya’ workin for”. and bear witness when Th e Jungle Patrol will again about clearing the streets relentlessly about his meetings middle of the road at night. As a young well-meaning they do not. Th e Jungle be providing visitor of dealers for the mums and in Amsterdam the following “Lit up like an airport, loud cop I was terrifi ed to even Patrol cannot enter an information, crowd safety, dads. week. Apparently Rudd said he music and all,” one report said. consider any other option aff ray, but will encourage a primary fi rst aid, event How can anyone get rid would consider having a toke “Th ey dug through the night, for years until you freaks in peaceful resolution to any communications and of the myriad masses on the there, because it was legal. burying God only knows Nimbin got to me, big time disturbance. If there is an security/police liaison. If footpath asking passersby if what.” Fortunately the petrol now. Mingle Park may be incident, it is witnessed, you need help during the they wanna buy any weed? ARMY RECRUITERS heads have diverted their rally a seam of gold to the eager and aid is rendered after the event don’t hesitate to ask. What hope do us cops have With unemployment galloping plan which has secretly pissed beavers, but somehow my event if necessary. Jungle Contact Heidi Glover, of stopping that, with the the tourist people called off a lot of the meat-eating conscience has fl uttered Patrol members will be able phone 6689-7589. recession fallout growing like them in – concerned Nimbin hippies out that way who were back to life while hanging to contact the Police if the lantana around here? visitors will soon have to looking forward to it, I believe. out there. Th ey promised situation warrants it. Th e Save-a-Mate Course run the gauntlet of Army Talking of rallies, I know a me I wouldn’t feel it, but I Jungle Patrol grew from the Wednesday 29th April, at POLITE FORCE LOSE recruiters walking our one lot of you thought that was am. Endless coff ees from the volunteer groups of early the Nimbin Bowlo, 10am: GUMS street town. Especially now the me dressed in black at all the unsinkable Museum, and MardiGrass celebrations. 90-minute presentation. Tommy Chong’s rumoured damned youth are being driven MOB meetings, but tell me the patience, the kindness, Jungle Patrol operates 6pm: Jungle Patrol meeting. appearance at the MardiGrass out of their cubby holes behind why would I set fi re to my the endless forgiveness, and has taken up hours at our the shops. Th e unemployed own HQ, and make such a the mad people staring at me meetings. What a prize! love weed more than anyone mess of the job? And go back saying, “Th ou shalt not lead Five pairs of Unda’s have we know, and we would know. three times to make sure I our kids into temptation”. My been ordered to enter the With Kev’s bonus money got discovered and arrested? resistance is falling apart. Cheech and Chong look-a- they’ve been banding together like competition hoping to and buying quantity, though get close to the legend. We’ll it never seems to last long. do our best, but I had to tell It’s funny though, the Army the boss I’ve been watching recruiters tempting would- from the pub verandah the be recruits with stories of new uniformed Polite Force Kandahar Hash! under Nonstupidintended and Sergeant Sarah Jane, training CAMERAS v UNDACUVVAS out the back of the Embassy So long as weed is illegal, for their RAIDS (Random I’ve got a job here forever, it Armband ID checks). Unlike seems. Our major competitor, us, they’ve been rushed with the CCTV Empire, took a applicants. serious dive this week when

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