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TWEED HEADS Harvey Norman Centre, Greenway Drive Phone: 5523 2055 SALE ENDS: 25Th January 2009 THE TWEED SHIRE Volume 1 #19 Thursday, January 15, 2009 Advertising and news enquiries: Phone: (02) 6672 2280 Fax: (02) 6672 4933 page 11 [email protected] [email protected] www.tweedecho.com.au LOCAL & INDEPENDENT Rate rise case: council to seek costs Ken Sapwell costs if an agreement can’t be est cases where other factors sidering that if it had lost the costs. Th e council has the legal feel that if we pursue it further reached with Mr Sharples’s le- were present. case it would have been on the right to make application just our costs will only be greater.’ Tweed Shire Council will chase gal team. But councillors in favour of receiving end of a costs appli- as do the other two respon- Mr Rayner called this week’s legal costs of around $330,000 The council decided on a general manager Mike Rayner’s cation,’ he said. dents [the Local government extraordinary council meeting from local resident Terry Shar- hard line despite the judge’s recommendation to seek costs He was backed by Cr Dot Minister and his department],’ following Mr Sharples’s failed ples following his unsuccess- view that it may be appropriate said they would be derelict in Holdom who said the costs she said. bid to have the rate increases ful appeal to have rate rises not to make an order given Mr their duty to ratepayers if they could well exceed $330,000, A bid by Mayor Joan van Lie- voided on the grounds that the contained in its controversial Sharples’s measure of success didn’t. and Barry Longland, who shout to defer a decision until council had misled the public seven-year plan declared null in establishing that the coun- Cr Warren Polglase said the strongly defended the integrity the next meeting to seek legal and subsequently the Minister and void. cil had misled people over the council had a duty to ratepay- of the seven-year plan, saying advice failed when it only won who approved the plan. The council voted 5-2 to true fi nancial impacts of the ers to chase the costs, even if it it had been widely tested in the the support of Greens council- Justice Biscoe found the spend a further $15,000 to rate rises. proved unsuccessful. community. lor Katie Milne. council had materially misled apply to the Land and Envi- Justice Peter Biscoe also not- ‘Th e council should not be ‘I conclude that the vast ma- Cr van Lieshout referred to and that its community consul- ronment Court for a judge ed a High Court ruling against subsidising anyone taking ac- jority of the residents of this evidence of the council mate- tation process was signifi cantly to make a determination on awarding costs in public inter- tion against it, especially con- shire would expect us to seek rially misleading and added: ‘I continued on page 2 Land values rise Freestyle frolics along the coast Ken Sapwell coastal shires and cities, in- cluding Lake Macquarie, Gos- Tweed Coast villages are ex- ford, Newcastle, Great Lakes pected to lead a sharp increase and Wyong. in land values when shire resi- A spokesman said the valu- dents receive new valuations in ations are the first since the two weeks time. property boom of 2005 and are The Tweed is among the based on values assessed as of top three NSW coastal shires July 1 last year. showing the largest rises in res- Real estate sources say the idential land values assessed by steepest increase will be along the Valuer-General. the Tweed Coast, particu- According to figures re- larly in prestige locations like leased by the Lands Depart- Kingscliff , Casuarina, Salt and ment, Tweed land values have Fingal. soared by 15 per cent since the Th e new valuations will have last valuations more than three a major impact on residents’ years ago. rates bills, with people whose Th e only other local govern- properties have posted the ment area along the NSW Coast biggest gains facing the biggest to record bigger increases were rate increases, even though Byron and Richmond Valley values have slid since July. shires which both posted 19 Rates are due to increase per cent gains, with all others by 9.5 per cent this year un- Shey Doyle freestyles a few impressive aerial moves drawing from capoeira, tricking and martial arts during an Extreme Teens below double fi gures. der the council’s controversial Trix workshop at Murwillumbah Showgrounds this week, watched by Susie Cardiff (with hoops) and participants. Susie and Shey Property values actually fell seven-year plan unless coun- from Hoopla Circus conducted the Tweed Shire Council sponsored workshops on Monday and Tuesday which proved so popular in some of the once-booming continued on page 2 that an extra one-day workshop was held yesterday. Photo by Jeff ‘No Style’ Dawson NUMBER 1 FOR YOUR CAR 2 STAR SHEEPSKINS 3 STAR SHEEPSKINS 4 STAR SHEEPSKINS Fully lined. 18mm pile extra Fully lined. 20mm pile high Fully lined. 25mm pile super quality. Rear map & mobile quality. Rear map & front quality. Rear map & front phone pocket. personal pocket. personal pocket. Airbag styles available. Airbag styles available. Airbag styles available. $249 $149 $199 <HEDJF7?H <HEDJF7?H <HEDJF7?H AUTOQLDN02288 EdboWlW_bWXb[Wj STH TWEED HEADS Harvey Norman Centre, Greenway Drive Phone: 5523 2055 SALE ENDS: 25th January 2009. Local News Council to seek Two adventure-fi lled lives to read about costs from page 1 Luis Feliu because I always wanted to do fl awed but decided this did not something for my children,’ invalidate the Minister’s ap- Eungella resident Gillian Boyer she said. proval of the rate rises. was researching and co-writing ‘Then she went through Th e judge also noted that al- her biographical book with all my stuff and found this legations of fraud, corruption Gympie author Patricia Young copy of a manuscript and she and criminality levelled against recently when they stumbled asked “what’s this?” and I told the council by Mr Sharples in across a manuscript by Gil- her I didn’t know, that it was letters to the Minister were not lian’s mum in Gillian’s bottom something mum did, to do maintained during the pro- drawer. with China, and she took it ceedings. ‘It was quite unreal, an home to read. She said it was He accepted the council did amazing coincidence. I had fantastic and that it should be not intend to mislead and also been taping her memories for published.’ noted that the applicant ‘makes her book In Th e Shadow of the Patricia, who also writes no such allegation.’ Golden Pagoda when Gillian children’s books, told Th e Echo Mr Sharples plans to ap- came across her mum’s manu- she had an ‘amazing’ time re- peal the decision, saying that script for Sons of Heaven in her searching her friend’s book us- on legal advice allegations of bottom drawer,’ Patricia said. ing the internet and email. fraud which he raised with At the time, Chinese-born ‘Gillian’s mum led an ex- the Minister were not part of Gillian was living on her farm traordinary life, she was a lin- his pleadings, but that didn’t in the Mary Valley in south-east guist, artist and historian, her mean they wouldn’t be raised Queensland but a proposed book is just a gem and full of in other forums. controversial dam for the area Like mother like daughter. Gillian Boyer proudly displays her mother’s biography as well as her old China… it’s a good book Dr Stephen Segal, who prompted her to move to the own at her farm at Eungella. for universities and schools stepped in to help when Mr Tweed Valley late last year. because you wouldn’t fi nd this Sharples’s case looked like fold- According to the publisher’s ‘in the shadow of the Golden biographical book Sons of describing it worse than her sort of history in ordinary his- ing aft er solicitors’ demands for blurb, Gillian’s book transports Pagoda foretells a long and Heaven depicts her life living time growing up in China tory books, it’s a great book.’ money up front, said he was the reader to then tumultuous lucky life’ full of adventure. in the international settlement ,where as a six-year-old she Gillian, who has fi ve adult shocked by the decision. 1930s China where her birth Her mother Sheila Urquhart’s in Shanghai, China, from 1908- saw her dad marched off to children and nine grandchil- ‘He did this in the public in- 1931. prison by bayonet-wielding dren, said that when writing terest and I don’t believe they Coastal land values rise from page 1 Gillian and Patricia will give Japanese soldiers and other her memoirs, she ‘came to have a case – all they are trying a free talk on how they met ‘horrible’ things, when Patricia appreciate the extraordinary to do is bankrupt Mr Sharples,’ cillors intervene but a council should be limited to 2.5 per and did the research for both overheard her. strength and courage of my said the long-time council crit- spokesman said the overall cent because of the current books and the method used to ‘This business with [the mother’. ic who has initiated several le- amount of revenue the coun- economic crisis which has seen write them, on Tuesday, Janu- former Queensland Premier She said she hoped her gal cases to have his landhold- cil could raise was capped and the nest eggs of self-funded re- ary 20, at the Tweed Heads Peter] Beattie and the dam book cold also inspire others ings at Chinderah rezoned for rates would be adjusted ac- tirees decimated.
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