THE BYRON SHIRE Volume 31 #41 The Wednesday, March 22, 2017 www.echo.net.au Good Life Phone 02 6684 1777 [email protected] [email protected] &Good Taste Eating Out Guide 23,200 copies every week PAGE 25-28 CAB ILLEGITIMI NON CARBORUNDUM! AUDIT We fi nally have a Island Quarry What’s in the Online in netdaily Kingscliff three-storey nation-building management defends stars? Ask Lilith height limit set to stay www.echo.net.au/kingscliff -three- PM! – p10 record – p5 – p33 storey-height-limit-set-stay Beach doof- Turtle adventure with a cause Connor won’t party organiser appeal Bali fi ned $8,000 jail sentence Luis Feliu AAP A Byron Bay residents group has Local woman Sara Connor has told welcomed the conviction of the her lawyers she will not appeal against organiser of a doof party late last her four-year sentence for her role in year at Tallow Beach which was shut the death of a Bali police offi cer. down by police and park rangers. Her lawyer Robert Khuana Th e organiser pleaded guilty to told reporters he believed she had two charges over the illegal event a good chance of being released and was fi ned $8,000 in Byron Bay upon appeal. Local Court last Th ursday. However, Khuana said Connor Byron Shire Council’s legal ser- had been traumatised by the system vices coordinator, Ralph James, said and was worried about her sentence around 200 ‘doofers’ had trampled being increased if she appealed. and rubbished the ecologically sen- On Friday prosecutors said they sitive area which contained threat- were appealing Connor’s four-year ened fauna and fl ora. sentence over the fatal assault of a Th e young man was not named in police officer Wayan Sudarsa last the Council press release, which also August, which they believed was too noted that another young man had short. Th ey notifi ed Connor of the been been convicted and fi ned $750 Eleven-year-old Arlian is set to star in a fi lm about a rescued sea turtle which suff ers injury from plastic and is appeal on Monday. aft er having pleaded guilty to being cared for by Seabird Rescue in Ballina. Plastic, Alarm! Let’s Save The Turtles is a collaboration with Arlian’s fi lmmaker Her British boyfriend David Tay- in attendance at the same doof party. mum, Karin Ecker, who says the adventure with his friends leads to interviews with the Plastic Free Byron initiative lor was handed a six-year term. Tay- Th e Friends of Tallow Creek said and Aboriginal women ‘to discover their perspective on being a responsible guardian for the environment.’ The lor became embroiled in a fi ght with they hoped the conviction and fi ne aim of the fi lm, she says, ‘is to get kids and schools involved to participate in, or initiate creative projects towards Mr Sudarsa aft er confronting him would deter others from similar acts protecting the environment.’ The fi lm’s fundraiser is online at bit.ly/2nuiAUX. Photo Jeff ‘Turtle Speed’ Dawson over Connor’s lost purse. of environmental vandalism. Th e party was held last Novem- ber in the national park adjacent to Tallow Beach. Indigenous ceremony site confi rmed near Mullum Friends spokesman Dailan Pugh Hans Lovejoy of undiscovered Aboriginal sites only ones who should be engaged to special signifi cance to local Aborigi- said the fi ne was ‘small’ for the envi- across the northern rivers region. interpret the heritage.’ nal communities, and am very pas- ronmental harm caused, including An Indigenous ceremonial stone site As a proud Bundjalung man sionate about educating the broader ‘trampling the nests of bee-eaters close to Uncle Tom’s at the Mullum- Unrecorded sites he says, ‘I was born in Widjabul public on Aboriginal heritage values.’ and pardalotes in the dunes, scaring bimby turnoff has been confi rmed ‘A lot of these sites are not record- Wiyabul Country, Lismore, and Mr Moran has a large area to cover. away the migratory shorebirds, pol- by the NSW Offi ce of Heritage and ed’, he said, and encouraged anyone grew up on Cabbage Tree Island, an ‘As the heritage conservation offi cer, luting the estuary with excrement, Environment (OEH). who finds what appears to be an Aboriginal community situated on my boundaries cover the Tweed River and leaving broken glass and ciga- Heritage conservation officer authentic Aboriginal site to contact the lower Richmond River located to the north and as far south to Ma- rette butts buried in the sand.’ Ashley Moran, based in Alstonville, him via his offi ce on 02 8289 6313. between Wardell and Broadwater. cleay Valley, Kempsey, and extends Mr Pugh, who caused a stir when told The Echo that the area is signifi - OEH closely engages with In- ‘I’ve been with the OEH for nearly west along the tablelands to Tenter- he singled out for blame just one cant to the Indigenous people of the digenous community members 17 years now, assisting with the iden- fi eld, Glen Innes then back down to- nationality of attendees at the doof, Brunswick and Tweed valleys and and groups across the region on a tifi cation, recording and interpret- wards Dorrigo and Bellbrook.’ continued on page 4 that there are potentially thousands regular basis, he says, ‘as they are the ing of Aboriginal sites and places of continued on page 2 Courtesy Bus Available ‘WHY COOK AT HOME’ 6685 5008 JOIN THE LOCALS IN OUR RELAXED FAMILY DINING ROOM Mondays Tuesdays Wednesdays Thursdays Fridays Join your STEAK NIGHT CHICKEN CARVERY 2 CHEAP CARVERY LOCAL CLUB $1690 PARMI NIGHT NIGHT DAY NIGHT for only $ $ $ $ $ $ $ 5 300g Rump, chips & salad 14 12 small 15 large LUNCH - Senior Citizens 7 Meals 12 small 15 large $ AND ENJOY THESE FANTASTIC WE’RE POWERED You choose your Traditional or Tropical Succulent juicy roast DINNER - 2 meals for 22 Succulent juicy roast complimentary sauce with pineapple cut & served up front cut & served up front MEAL DEALS SPECIALS BY SOLAR RVICES CLUB BYRON BAY SERVICES CLUB BYRON BAY SE STH END OF JONSON ST, BYRON BAY 6685 6878 WWW.BYRONBAYSERVICESCLUB.COM.AU [email protected] Local News North Coast news daily: netdaily.net.au Indigenous ceremony site Vale Elizabeth Watts confirmed around Mullum Aslan Shand As for the wonderful fu- continued from page 1 cast but was a ‘visionary well neral held at the Mullum- Meanwhile local authors ahead of his time.’ ullumbimby and bimby Anglican Church Steve Strong and his son ‘His work on the standing- M the Byron Shire re- on 15 March, she said, ‘The Evan have been trying to stones site was known around cently lost a great church was full with around confirm what they believe the world and led directly to community stalwart with 300 people.’ is a Stone Henge-like site at his academic death. the passing of Elizabeth Ann Sewing was Liz’s passion the same Mullumbimby site; ‘So great was the censor- Watts in the early hours of and 21 years ago she started Steve told The Echo they be- ship of Slater, we are yet to Friday March 10. the Brunswick Valley nee- lieve large ‘standing stones’ find one public photograph Known far and wide for dlework group that is still made from columnar basalt or acknowledgement in any her unwavering commitment going strong. were brought there, but were academic record. to both her family and her ‘Her friend from the group later removed in the 1940s. ‘What we need to do is es- community, Liz Watts gave to said it is all the little things He said, ‘We have the map tablish the scientific validity those around her throughout that mum would do that they of each rock, their sacred of the claim by a geologist.’ her life. Last year she received missed, that reminded them name, its meaning, the song the award for the Volunteer of her.’ and dance for the rocks, and Natural occurance of the Year 2016 at the Byron now the rocks.’ But OEH Heritage Con- Shire Australia Day awards Touching funeral Strong told The Echo that as servation Officer Ashley Mo- recognising her involvement ‘It was a really touching a representative of a ‘Council ran told The Echo that colum- in community groups and funeral and reflected Mum.’ of Elders and concerned citi- nar basalt rocks are naturally fundraising efforts. Liz had been volunteering zens’ which contains 25 mem- occurring stones. Liz was a life member of Liz Watts. Photo supplied and running the Anglican op bers, their aim is to ‘recover the ‘Nine times out of ten, you the Mullumbimby Swimming shop in Mullumbimby for the standing stones and put them could find these large stone Club, been involved with the area Liz and Trevor, through in north Tumbulgum. last ten years and worked up back on the mound. We have pillars buried around here as- Chincogan Fiesta and had the charity Variety, were in- In 1967 her friend persuad- until a month before she died written about this in some de- sociated with Mt Wollumbin been involved in Meals on strumental in fundraising for ed her to come down to Ew- of cancer. tail over the last three years.’ (Warning) being an ancient Wheels for 30 years. both Mullumbimby Primary ingsdale Hall to attend a Junior ‘She wasn’t one to com- volcano. Liz and her husband Tre- School and towards the pur- Farmers dance and it was here plain; there was no fuss, she Outcast academic ‘You see many basalt stone vor were also involved in chase of the Variety Club bus that she and Trevor met.