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Volume 2 #01

Thursday, September 3, 2009

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Editor Luis Feliu writes:

The Tweed Shire Echo has now passed its first birth-day, a milestone many of us thought would not eventu-ate, given the impact of the global financial crisis on advertiser confidence.

Not only did we survive in such tough economic times, we have grown bigger, and this week we have boosted the circulation by an extra 5,000 copies, or 25 per cent.

We have done this to meet an increasing demand by residents for The Echo’s unique style of dealing with important local issues and to provide a greater reach for our advertisers.

We pride ourselves in bringing you a truly in-dependent community newspaper covering all local issues of concern and profil-ing interesting locals, young and old, who contribute to our community.

We’re not into ‘beat-ups’, sensationalism or ‘dumbing down’ as we know our read-ers are much more discern-ing than other papers give them credit for.

We also believe in giving a voice to smaller communi-ties facing battles against over development as well as allowing minority groups to express their opinion.

In fact, readers in south-east Queensland and further south along the coast have asked us to start an Echo in their communities.

It has been an exciting year with many important issues explored and the feedback we have received from such an engaged com-munity is much valued.

If you haven’t seen all the 51 editions before this one, check them out on our website (www.tweedecho.com.au).

The most heart-warming response has been from our growing band of readers who look forward to The Echo each and every Thurs-day. For many of our senior citizens, having a free qual-ity local paper has improved their outlook on life, as some have told us.

Other readers have

thanked us for our gutsy approach to the controver-sial issues and for not being afraid to deal with the big questions.

‘Refreshing, open-minded, sorely needed, intelligent, informative, telling-it-like-it-is, thoughtful, well-written, a pleasant surprise, honest and unbiased reporting’ are just some of the tags used to describe The Echo by our readers during the past year and we promise we won’t disappoint you in the future.

Initially, we were known as the ‘new kid on the block’. Now we can say, after initiating many stories the others have followed, that we’re the ‘leader of the pack’. With such a keen readership to support us we hope to be around for our second birthday next year, bigger and brighter than ever.

Standing up for the community

It has been just over 40 years since The Beatles’ famous Abbey Road album cover was shot and one year since The Echo launched in the Tweed Shire. So what better way for us to celebrate than with our own pedestrian walk across Main Street, Murwillumbah? While we don’t claim to be as popular as the four iconic musicians, we hope we are still bringing the Tweed good quality news in 40 years’ time. Now to identities: foreground, l-r, receptionist Jane Boyle, salesperson Danielle Francis, salesperson Shari Young, editor Luis Feliu; background, photographer Jeff Dawson, sales manager Angela Cornell, salesperson Michael Hidden, journalist Roxanne Millar. Missing from the picture: journalist Ken Sapwell, who prefers to maintain his mystery. Photo digitally fiddled by Jeff Dawson

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Jim’s Tree & Stump Removal

Katies Curtains

Kysama Bookkeeping

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North Byron Farmers Market

North Coast Plantation Shutter

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Professionals Pottsville

Rainbow Power

Southern Cross Credit Union

Sports World

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Winston Lamont

Seagulls Club

THANK YOU!From the bottom of our heart The Echo would like

to thank everyone who has helped to make The Tweed Shire Echo possible –

Our advertisers without whom The Echo wouldn’t exist

Special mention to our foundation advertisers who came on board before the fi st paper was printed and without whom the Tweed Echo would have remained a dream:

Our avid readers for their enthusiasm

Our staff who have toiled so hard to make it happen

The Admin Team: Simon Haslam, Jane Boyle, Helen Luna– behind every great paper there’s a great admin team.

The Distribution Team: Dolph Cooke and Jillian, Michael Peoples, Rick Maher, James Bristow, Bryan Petersen and Shalisha, Pete Mills, Seymour Walters, Brian Mollet, Peter

Gauge, Tasman Lindsay, Tracey Bourke, Greg O’Brien, Kelvin and Deb Cutler, for effi ciently delivering the paper.

The Editorial Team: Luis Feliu, Ken Sapwell, Roxanne Millar, Eve Jeff ery, Hans Lovejoy, Pamela Payne and Jeff Dawson

for pursuing what’s important to our readers.

The Production Team: Ziggi Browning, Wendy Lovejoy, Carmen Iredale, Cristina Sharratt, Brefney Ruhl, Jenni

Macmahon for keeping a high standard of graphic design.

The Sales Team: Shari Young, Michael Hidden, Danielle Francis and Angela Cornell who work long and hard looking after our advertisers and making sure that every business in the Tweed Shire knows what the Echo can deliver for them.

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Luis Feliu

The much anticipated and con-troversial world rally is set for its big start today (Thursday) through Tweed and Kyogle shires, with opponents ready to protest their anger at the event after a last-minute legal bid to stop it failed last week.

Police from across NSW, including the riot squad, will be out in force on the Tweed this weekend to crack down on anti-social and criminal behaviour as hundreds of rally fans flock to the region and protesters take up their positions to maximise exposure on global TV networks.

Large numbers of protesters are expected to line the route of the rally at different marshalling points in what organisers say will be peaceful protests.

Injunction failsTweed Greens councillor

Katie Milne, backed by anti-rally groups, last Thursday sought a Federal Court in-junc tion to prevent the three-day event from going ahead on the grounds it breached

federal environment laws and harm a number of endangered species.

But the court in Sydney dismissed the application after a short hearing and an order on costs, if any, is yet to be made with opposing parties preparing their submissions this week.

Legal activist Al Oshlack, who represented Cr Milne, yesterday told The Echo that if necessary, further legal action could be taken if breaches to both state and federal laws occurred this weekend, with members of anti-rally groups set to keep a close eye on the event.

Mr Oshlack, from the In-dig enous Justice Advocacy Network, also rejected media speculation that Cr Milne could be made bankrupt if forced to pay the rally organisers’ legal costs over the case.

‘There’s no way in the world Katie Milne will be made bankrupt from these costs, that

has been a threat to scare her and a big beat up, now we see the rally people have lowered their costs estimate from $40,000 to $26,000,’ he said.

‘We already have pledges in hand to cover it if necessary.’

Police operationsPolice this week unveiled

‘Operation Palisade’ in time for the rally, a strategy which includes general duties officers, the public order riot squad, Polair and the dog unit, in their bid to boost safety both for the public and competitors.

Tweed-Byron commander Superintendent Michael Kenny is in charge and told media that police wanted to minimise the disruption of normal community life ‘while allowing this rally to be run in a safe, family-friendly environment’.

‘Local protest activities that have occurred over the past month have, of course, drawn the attention of police and the media. Police respect people’s

rights to protest and voice their objections lawfully,’ he said.

‘Nonetheless, the safety of spectators, local residents, volunteers working the event, drivers and their support staff are of paramount importance.

‘I still have concerns regard ing the intention of some radical protest groups to disrupt the event using unlawful and unusual tactics. However, a protest organiser has proactively met police to discuss their activities in a collaborative fashion. Police recognise not only the right of anyone to protest but also the right of everyone else to freely go about their business during the rally,’ he said.

All traffic information including road closures and clearways, together with maps, are available on the RTA website www.rta.nsw.gov.au or for traffic updates, contact 132 701.■ More rally and Speed on Tweed stories overleaf.

Where do you get your copy?If you don’t receive The Echo at home or the weather

is too bad for house to house delivery, pick up a copy of your Echo from the following places:

If you miss your printed copy of The Echo get it online at

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Banora Point: Banora Point Shopping Village, Chris’ Paradise Fruit Shop, Tweed Heights Shopping Centre IGA, Zaraff a’s Coff ee in Banora Central

Bilambil Heights: Stores

Burringbar: Real estate agent and service station

Byron Bay: Echo offi ce, Community Centre, newsagent, Visitors Centre

Cabarita Beach: Beach Bar, SLSC and cafe, newsagent, bottleshop

Casuarina/Salt: IGA, Salt Bar, bottleshop

Chillingham: Store

Chinderah: Art Gallery, pub, newsagent

Coolagattta: 7-11 Supermarket, Astral Trading, Border Sub News, Coolangatta Hotel, Coolangatta Senior Citizens Club, Surf Club, Twin Towns, Zenergy Health Foods,

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Crabbes Creek: General Store

Fingal Head: Sheoak Shack

Hastings Point: General store, service station

Kingscliff : Bowls Club, Library/Community Centre, two newsagents, Rings Realty, Echo stand in shopping mall

Mooball: Pub and petrol station

Mount Burrell: Store

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Murwillumbah: Echo offi ce, Bulk Whole Foods, Escape Gallery, Caldera Environment Centre, Sunnyside Mall stand

Pottsville: Supermarket, bottleshop, newsagent, fruit market

South Tweed Industrial Estate: 5-Star Machinery Drive, Casa Del Cafe, East Coast Bulk Food, Eat Me Cafe

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Roxanne Millar

A Murwillumbah man is blow-ing the cobwebs off his motor racing career thanks to a zippy 1968 MG Midget made around the time he gave up racing 40 years ago.

Steve Purdy, 62 (pictured in his MG Midget with his part-ner Susan Watters), will contest this weekend’s Speed on Tweed competition in the car that has recently put the former truck driver on leader boards in two states.

Already this year Steve has won the NSW Hill Climb Championships in his car’s cat-egory and smashed records in hill climbs held at Grafton and Ringwood.

It is an impressive feat for a man who returned to racing in

2008, after a 40-year hiatus.Steve puts his success down to

his historic car and his younger days racing every weekend, be-fore he gave up burning rubber to raise a family.

‘I lived for motor sport when I was younger. In the mid-60s I was heavily involved in any form of motor sport going, motorbikes, rally cars.

‘Coming back to it, you draw on the experience you had be-fore.’

He bought his car from a racer in Coolangatta, on the south coast of NSW.

‘It was modified for rac-ing in 1995 and is a consist-ent front runner, which it was when the previous owner had it,’ he said.

‘I thought I was buying it from someone up the road,

when I found out there is actu-ally a Coolangatta on the south coast!’

Steve competed in his first Speed on Tweed last year. He said he got back behind the wheel to see if he could get his racing licence.

‘I enjoyed it so much that I’ve stayed with it. I do a fair bit of circuit racing and I’m hoping when the grandkids get old enough I’ll be able to teach them,’ he said.

Steve is a member of a his-toric race car club based in Brisbane and said more young drivers should get involved in racing and car clubs to cut down on street hooning.

‘What we do isn’t super com-petitive because we aren’t com-peting for money or anything. It is really for the love of it,’ he said.

‘But I encourage everyone to get into it. We are the old hoons and we encourage the young hoons to get involved. Instead of roaring around the streets creating havoc, they can roar around a race track.’

Speed on Tweed is set to be a bumper event this year when it kicks off tomorrow, Friday, with an afternoon parade down Main Street, Murwillumbah, from 4pm and a carnival from 5.30pm.

Racing commences at 8.30am this Saturday, finish-ing at 5pm to make way for a Saturday night party in Main Street from 8.30pm.

Sunday it is back to the track with racing from 9am to 4pm.

Anti-rally protests intensified this week as organisers geared up for the event which starts today (Thursday).

Last Saturday morning, more than 80 protestors, many dressed in white, gathered at the rally service or pit-lane area in the Walter Peate Reserve, Kingscliff, to get their message across peacefully.

The day before in Murwil-lumbah, around 30 protestors allied with the No Rally Group held a demonstration outside the Repco auto-parts store in Brisbane Street then marched to Tweed Shire Council offices, watched and filmed by police.

Veteran Northern Rivers ac-tivist Graeme Dunstan was one of several people to address the crowd on the Friday from his ‘Peacebus’ minivan and urged people opposed to the rally to take ‘direct action’ to stop it.

Mr Dunstan, who held a similar protest outside the Lis-more Repco shop the previous week, said the rally would ‘not promote this area for tourism’.

‘Who wants them? Is this

the culture we want, of racing car drivers or people scream-ing through our roads? People fought for these forests.

‘This rally is a dinosaur so let it die, it’s a nonsense that economic recovery will come from this. If we don’t stop it

this year, we’ll do it again next year, the longer it goes on for, the stronger we become.’

Mr Dunstan said the rally represented a blatant abuse of government power and the subversion of the democratic process.

Veteran ‘hoon’ plans to show his winning ways

Two of the protestors at last Friday’s anti-rally march in front of the Repco autoparts store in Murwillumbah show their support for ‘Grannies Against Reckless Driving’. Photo Jeff Dawson

A legal threat by Aboriginal leaders of the Githabul nation to stop the controversial world rally from going ahead through Tweed and Kyogle shires this weekend has been postponed till the next rally planned for two years’ time.

Last week, Githabul senior custodian Doug Williams told The Echo that rally organisers had never been given formal permission to run the rally through Githabul land around

Kyogle, despite their claims to the contrary.

Mr Williams said no agree-ment had been reached and leaders were poised to launch a Federal Court injunction to stop it.

But earlier this week, Mr Williams said the rally was a ‘fait accompli’ and the fight against it, especially against the state government’s approval of it, would have to wait ‘till the next round.’

He confirmed also that he had agreed with rally organis-ers to conduct, for a fee, what they have described as a ‘wel-come to country’ for the rally opening this weekend, but which he calls an ‘introduction to my culture’ instead.

Stages of the rally are to be run through land in Kyogle shire, which is subject to an In-digenous Land Use Agreement between the Githanul people and the state government.

Protests gathering pace

Aboriginal leader backs away from threat

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Roxanne Millar

Tie up your apron strings and grease your cake tin in preparation for a race of a non-motoring type set to take over Tweed Shire kitchens next week.

A Murwillumbah business owner has launched a MasterChef-style cake baking competition to capitalise on the cooking obsession of so many viewers.

Joanne Nimmo, of The Modern Grocer (pictured), is calling for en-trants to bake a cake incorporating chocolate for judging by mayor Joan van Lieshout and chef Belinda Jeffery next Tuesday, September 8.

And Joanne has a few tips for pro-spective bakers.

‘When it comes to chocolate cakes, always measure the ingredients and use correct weights – that is a must – no guessing,’ she said.

‘Good quality chocolate and cocoa, it has to be one that you can happily eat. Don’t forget that things tend to cook quicker in darker cake tins so make sure you check the cake early.’

Joanne has had a massive response since announcing the bake off a few weeks ago and has had the tough de-cision of what to do with all of the entered cakes after judging.

‘Local solicitor Anne Simpson sug-gested that locals can, for a gold coin

donation, buy a slice, with the money to go to a local charity,’ she said.

‘At this stage the finer details of the local charity have not been decided, but all will be revealed next week.’

To enter, drop a chocolate themed cake at The Modern Grocer by noon on Tuesday, September 8. Cakes must be presented on a disposable plate with the entrant’s name and contact details attached to the bottom of the plate.

Judging will take place between 2pm and 4pm on September 8. There is a special category for children un-der 16. Entry forms available at The Modern Grocer on 02 6672 5007 or at www.themoderngrocer.com.

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Chocolate theme for big bake-offBilambil residents wishing to make submissions to the NSW planning department over the proposed high-density housing subdivision at Bilam-bil village have been given an exten-sion till next Monday, September 7.

Opponents of the $13.6 million 52-lot estate held a protest rally at the village recently, saying it was an over-development with the 52 home sites earmarked for a 4.7-hectare block on the site of the old quarry on the cor-ner of Urliup and Hogan Roads.

The planning department, which is the consent authority, originally set an August 31 deadline for submissions

but extended it after a lobbying by the Bilambil Progress Association.

Residents say the estate, by devel-oper Jackson International, was way too big and would forever alter the character of the village.

Meanwhile, the environmental as-sessment for a proposed large sub-division at the old Terranora Lakes Country Club site is on public display till September 18.

Plans for The Rise development in-clude 1604 residential dwellings, an aged care facility, resort, retail centre and community buildings. For details visit www.planning.nsw.gov.au.

Submission period extended for Bilambil high-density project

Council approves river laser shootsThe Tweed River will join Sydney Harbour as the latest waterway to be-come home to a novel form of target shooting using infrared beams.

Tweed Shire Council has given Tweed Endeavour Cruises permis-sion for a 12-month trial of laser clay shooting done aboard a boat using infrared beams shot from $7,000 con-verted firearms.

The firm will have to compile monthly reports on the activity and retrieve every target fired from the boat.

The activity is already run on Syd-ney Harbour and uses a reflective plastic disc that is catapulted 20 me-tres from a boat, floats on the water and is then picked up by a boat staffer on a surf ski.

Legacy volunteers urgently soughtA charity that raises money for the families of deceased veterans is suf-fering from old age.

Legacy Week, which ends this weekend, is appealing for more vol-unteers on the Tweed to sell badges.

Fundraising co-ordinator Ron Nor-ton said many of the charity’s usual volunteers were now too old to help out and few people had stepped up to fill their shoes.

‘So much of our territory we can’t get into to sell badges,’ he said.

‘We have 1,130 war widows in our area from Palm Beach to Banora Point, so it is a real shame.’

Badges will be sold this year in vari-ous locations in Tweed and Coolan-gatta. To volunteer to sell badges, call Ron on 0266 744 852.

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Roxanne Millar

To Pat MacRae, cake tins and flour are what notes and sheet music are to most piano play-ers – essential to success.

The Terranora woman is an avid cake decorator, baking a cake every week and likening the art of icing to practising the piano.

‘It takes practice. Like play-ing the piano, you have got to practise to master it,’ she said.

Pat is one of the members of the Tweed’s own cake deco-rating group, which is holding a series of workshops starting this month to teach others the fine art of cake decorating.

The series of six workshops will teach people how to pro-duce wedding-quality cakes, novelty cakes and the cake decorator’s staple, flowers for cakes.

Pat started decorating cakes 40 years ago when she learned her mum wasn’t too happy with her wedding cake.

‘I thought I’d learn how to do it and so I went to classes, which were a great help,’ she

said. ‘There aren’t any around here and so we thought we would hold some for people who want to learn this art.

‘It has changed a lot since I started. We don’t do so much lacework anymore, more nov-elty cakes. And people want chocolate cakes not fruit cakes, which means you can’t make

them so far in advance and do the decorating.’

Formed three years ago, the Tweed Valley Cake Decorating Association is a branch of the Cake Decorating Association of New South Wales.

It holds a workshop for members every month and meetings every two months.

The cake decorating classes start September 14 at the Ba-nora Point Community Centre and cost $50. The group is a not-for-profit organisation and the fee covers membership to the association as well as costs.For information call Betty Smart on 07 5590 4162 or Pat on 07 5590 4554.

Council throws koalas a lifeline

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Ken Sapwell

Tweed’s dwindling koala popu-lation is in sight of a belated lifeline following a council decision to undertake a range of initiatives to improve their chances of survival.

They include a concerted effort to obtain funding for a koala plan of management by Christmas and an extensive education program to alert the public to their plight.

The council’s natural re-sources director David Ox-enham said the council was hopeful of receiving an $80,000 biodiversity grant in December to help prepare the plan and has recommended that money be put aside in the next budget for its implementation.

In the meantime, council staff will work with commu-

nity groups and landholders to improve koala recovery and welfare and will review existing tree preservation orders to bet-ter protect existing habitat.

The moves, given a mixed reception by koala activist Jen-ny Hayes, comes some 11 years after the council voted to adopt a koala plan of management but failed to put money aside in subsequent budgets.

‘I welcome the fact that the koalas are back on the agenda thanks to community concerns but I still believe they are mov-ing too slowly in allocating money for the plan which is critical first step in trying to reverse the decline,’ she said.

Community concern about the koalas’ fate has been heightened by plans to build a massive new town in the heart of koala habitat at Kings Forest,

west of Kingscliff, which critics say do not go far enough in providing wildlife corridors.

Mr Oxenham says in a re-port to the council that koalas were once widespread in the shire but over the last 20 years their numbers had ‘declined dramatically and their range contracted significantly.’

‘The demise of the Tweed’s koala populations has co-in-cided with significant urban development,’ he said.

‘For koalas, urban develop-ment results in loss of habitat, lower reproduction rates and increased mortality due to dogs, vehicle strikes and bushfire.’

Kings Forest representative Reg van Rij told the council earlier this month that al-though more than 1,500 sub-missions expressed concern about his development, they

were a minority and indicated ‘the existence of special interest groups.’

‘These people, if you peel away their submissions, are re-ally about a stop-development agenda,’ he said.

Friends of the Koala presi-dent Lorraine Vass said in one of the submissions that she had grave concern about the im-pact the proposed Kings Forest development would have on the local koala population.

‘In our view there is a very strong likelihood of the extinc-tion of the koala population on King Forest lands and of the surrounding populations, unless core koala habitat is increased and essential veg-etation linkages are well-estab-lished in advance of the urban development proceeding,’ the submission said.

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Roxanne Millar

Behind the doors of a non-descript beige shed near the Murwillumbah Showgrounds, is what heaven must look like to handymen.

Radial arm saws, table saws, wood lathes and sand-ers compete for space in the Tweed Valley Woodcraft As-sociation’s new clubhouse, to officially open next Saturday, September 12.

The group, which formed in 1996, will put on a display at this week’s Senior’s Expo to encourage more retired people to join in their handyman form of male bonding.

Members will put on a wood lathing demonstration and dis-play some of the top-quality items they have made.

Tweed Valley Woodcraft president George Cranney joined the group four years ago with little knowledge on wood-craft but has made bowls and clocks using his new skills.

‘It is a really good, friendly place. Some members have lost wives and find this is a good no-fuss support group,’ he said.

‘Most of our members are retired because we meet week-days. But we hope to open on Saturdays soon so that we can attract some younger mem-bers.

‘Not all of our members have experience. Half a dozen have worked in joinery but we also have retired teachers and retired farmers who want a hobby.’

One of the stars of the wood-crafting group is the iconic Ce-dar Getter man, sculpted by lo-cal member Ian Shaw in 1989.

Usually displayed in Knox Park, the Cedar Getter is un-dergoing some repairs in the group’s new shed after he suf-

fered a bit of rot in the rain.The group’s new shed was

built last year using the hard labour of members and gener-osity of local couple Barry and Alma Pendergast, after which the shed is named.

An open day will be held to launch the shed on September 12 where people can enjoy a tour, some bush tea and free sausage sizzle from 10am.

The Senior’s Expo will be held next Thursday, Septem-

ber 10, from 9am to 3pm at the Seventh Day Adventist Centre, Racecourse Road, Murwillum-bah. A variety of demonstra-tions by reflexologists, local bands and mediation experts will be held.

Entry is $2. Find out more at Tweed Shire Council’s website www.tweed.nsw.gov.au.

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At 18-years-old, the Tyalgum Classical Music Festival is all grown up and about to go out on its own as its founder pre-pares to move overseas.

John Willison (pictured) will move back to his native Eng-land later this year, leaving the festival he started in 1991 in the capable hands of locals.

The violinist was inspired to launch the annual event by one of his countrymen Benjamin Britten who launched the Al-deburgh Festival in 1948 using halls in Suffolk.

‘When I came to the area I noticed it was full of village halls and it seemed obvious to use them for music,’ he said.

‘The Aldeburgh Festival started using village halls in

Suffolk, England, and is now an international festival. I thought we had quite a captive audience here for our own festival.’

John is moving back to Eng-land to be closer to his family and will spend his final Tyal-gum Classical Music Festival watching from the sidelines, rather than performing.

‘Seeing the audience enjoy the performances has been a highlight as well as playing music with friends,’ he said.

This year the Tyalgum Clas-sical Music Festival will prove to be bigger than ever with a hotly anticipated performance by Opera Queensland’s young artists this Saturday night.

Festival co-ordinator Alex-sandra Wilkinson said organ-isers had been talking about getting the young performers out for more than two years.

‘They will be a real highlight, but overall the festival offers something for everyone,’ she said.

It will kick off tomorrow, Friday (September 4) at the Tyalgum Hall from 8pm with a performance by the major prizewinner of the 2009 Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition.

Saturday will bring per-formances by young virtuosi

including Emma Baker-Spink and Hee-Joo Kim and a fun Brisbane-based quintet, Buzz.

Sunday is the annual lunch in the park day at the Tyalgum Showground from 12 to 3pm. There will also be a concert in the morning featuring husband and wife harpists.

Alexsandra said that al-though some roads would be closed due to the Repco Rally, there were a number of ways people could get to Tyalgum.

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The biggest carpool scheme in the Tweed region that links thousands of government em-ployees and TAFE and univer-sity students could open to the public next year.

The Northern Rivers Car-pool program, launched last month, is a free service that aims to link employees and students at specific companies and schools.

It is being trialled by em-ployees of councils from Tweed to the Clarence Valley, employees of the North Coast Area Health Service (NCA-HS), North Coast Institute of TAFE students and students at Southern Cross University.

If successful, the internet-

based program will open to the public in mid-2010.

NCAHS health promotion officer Tony Mills said he wan-ted people involved in the trial to try it out one day a week.

‘In this way, it still gives peo-ple the freedom to do other things on other days,’ he said.

The carpool operates throu-gh www.nrcarpool.com where participants register their ride and search for others going in the same direction.

Each organisation has desi-gnated pick up and set down points with branded road signs and designated priority carpool parking spaces.

Mr Mills said it was hoped the program would reduce congestion on Tweed roads.

‘One car less on the road re-

duces traffic congestion and it is obvious to anyone who has lived in the Tweed over the past 10 years or more that conges-tion in some areas is becoming a problem,’ he said.

‘While carpooling can help keep fuel and maintenance costs down, it can also save on fossil fuel depletion.

‘It has the potential to alle-viate the stress of finding a car park and there is the added bonus that one can socialise with friends or even make new friends.’

The website includes a travel fuel cost calculator that puts the savings of a carpool group travelling from Murwillum-bah to Tweed at $6 per week or $240 a year if they carpooled one day a week all year.

Carpooling aims to cut congestion

Tweed Hospital pathology technicians Sera Graham and Michelle Roxburgh ride in the front seat while North Coast Area Health Service health promotion officers Tony Mills and Julia Gill sit in the back for their car pooling. Photo Jeff Dawson

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Brendan Nelson is a decent, intelligent, moderate and gen-erally rational poli-tician, so his depar-

ture from Parliament is a loss to the Liberal Party, which ap-pears increasingly lacking in such qualities.

Nelson did a reasonable job as the patsy who had to pick up the pieces when Pe-ter Costello decided the job was too much like hard work and would probably have done a better one if he had not been constantly and vi-ciously white-anted by Mal-colm Turnbull, who made it clear from the start that he believed the leadership was his by divine right.

Nelson had intended to remain unobtrusively on the back bench until the next elec-tion, but after enduring life under Turnbull for almost a year he decided enough was enough. However, before leav-ing he reverted to his previous incarnation as medical practi-tioner and gave Peter Hartcher in the Sydney Morning Her-ald a free diagnosis of his sup-planter which deserves wider circulation.

Turnbull, reported the doc-tor, suffers from Narcissistic Personality Disorder, a com-plaint defined by ‘a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behaviour), need for admiration and a lack of empathy’. There follows a list of more or less unpleasant symptoms culminating in ‘ar-rogant, haughty behaviour or attitude’.

Nelson elaborated from his own experience: ‘At first I though he was demanding, emotional and narcissistic, us-ing his wealth and charm for seduction and always with a sinister threat just below the surface … most of the people who supported him (in the leadership ballot) voted for him to get rid of him.’

In other words they assumed he would crash and burn, and they may yet be right.

Nelson himself, it must be said, has left little in the way of a political legacy. He sup-ported Pauline Hanson; as ed-ucation minister he believed the problems of under-funded state schools could be solved with the provision of a flag pole and a poster of Simpson’s donkey; as defence minister

he was one of an ineffectual procession ritually bastardised by the military brass; and as opposition leader he mani-festly failed to pull the coa-lition together into anything resembling an alternative gov-ernment.

Yet for all his failings he had one thing going for him: he was not Malcolm Turnbull. And there are many in his own party who already miss him.

Speaking of past leaders, John Howard bobbed back up in the bowl last

week to give us a bit of ad-vice on, of all things, human rights. Truly the man has no shame.

The Prime Minister whose government incarcerated in-nocent children behind razor wire until they literally went mad and abandoned its own citizens to illegal imprison-ment and torture by a foreign power now warns us that judges and lawyers should not be allowed to tamper with decisions made by politicians elected by ‘ordinary’ people.

Any attempt to change our unsurpassable current ar-rangements would represent the final triumph of elitism and be an abrogation of the very idea of the sovereignty of the people.

This is presumably what has happened in just about every other democracy on earth, where bills of rights are incor-porated in the legal system or in many cases in the constitu-

tion. The model most often proposed for Australia would be comparatively mild: the bill would not have the force of law and the most judges could do would be to advise that ap-parent breaches had occurred. The politicians would retain the power to act or not as they saw fit.

But even that is too much for Honest John, fearless defender of the common man (and of the monarchy, but we’ll let that go for the present). Australia must stand alone, a bulwark against the creeping tide of international enhancement of liberty. He knows. Trust him.

And finally, a rare foray into state politics. The NSW Premier Nathan

Rees, the latest in a long line of ring-ins, is apparently also headed for the tip as the god-fathers of NSW Labor search vainly for someone – anyone – who can con the voters into not delivering too humiliating a thrashing in 2011. A win, of course, appears out of the question, but it would be nice

to save a few seats as the basis for some sort of regrouping for next time around.

The problem is that it is not actually the leader who is the obstacle. Rees and his pred-ecessor Morris Iemma are not exactly charisma machines, but both are presentable enough, and with a modicum of unified support could have made as good a fist of it as anyone. It is the whole party which is well and truly on the nose after far too long in gov-ernment, and it is the party, not the leader, the electorate will punish in due course.

But if the public loathing had to be more precisely focussed, the target would be not Rees, but the factional bosses and in particular the gruesome two-some of Eddie Obeid and Joe Tripodi. Rightly or wrongly these two are perceived as personifying everything that is wrong with the government: the arrogance, the thuggery, the cronyism, the lack of ac-countability, the manic desire for power and spoils of office, the unprincipled imperative of winning at any cost, whatever it takes.

Obeid and Tripodi have de-veloped their own version of King Midas’s curse: everything they touch turns to excrement. But it is believed, at least in the party and in the media, that they are still the men; they cannot be challenged or crossed. So we have the paradox: no one can become leader without their patron-age, but their patronage makes the leader unelectable.

It happened to Rees last week: Obeid denied he had withdrawn his support from the premier. The kiss of death. Rees will now sink still fur-ther in the polls and Obeid and Tripodi will have to find another protégé, another vic-tim.

Their political euthanasia is long overdue.

Let’s hope whoever wins the looming mayoral contest will use leadership to overhaul the council’s contentious complaints mechanism – the conduct review panel – to make the process more open and transparent.

The council adopted the six-man panel and its unique process of justice shortly after being elected, along with a raft of other hard decisions which administrators felt were too hot to handle.

It’s now evident following its first road test that the process is surrounded by undue secrecy which leaves it open to abuse.

An information blackout is imposed throughout the process until the panel provides a report to the council, which could be months after a complaint was lodged.

However, unlike other councils which publish the names of the complainants unless they are providing protected information, Tweed’s policy hides their identities while disclosing only the identity of the councillor accused of misbehaviour.

The panel’s first report following its inquiry into the mayor gave scant details of the complaints and the reasons why it de-cided to take no action, making it difficult to judge whether they had merit or bordered on the vexatious. But the panel chairman sounded a note of irritation in a concise report of a dozen para-graphs when he admonished councillors to stop their bickering.

Under the policy those accused can’t disclose they’re under investigation and when findings are published they are not al-lowed to publicly defend themselves or comment on any aspects. At the same time complainants cannot justify their actions, even if they wanted to.

The perception it’s being used to sideline unpopular col-leagues has gathered strength in the wake of the mayor’s claims published before her arraignment that a councillor had been overheard saying: ’We will sin-bin her and make her a lame duck’.

The recent resignations of two panel members for reasons only known to council staff has further clouded the issue. The process is under such a veil of secrecy that senior officers were unable to confirm last week whether a panel hearing was scheduled, even after a councillor publicly released the information.

Council chief Mike Rayner takes the view that releasing any information about the process could ‘jeopardise any pending investigation’.

Even Mick Keelty’s mob couldn’t get away with this one, and neither should our new council if they’re fair dinkum about their duty in upholding a degree of normal transparency.

Flawed process

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■ It was disingenuous of Gary Connelly to describe Rally Aus-tralia as a ‘not for profit’ com-pany when explaining why they were seeking costs from Cr Katie Milne in relation to the Federal Court hearing of her application for an injunction.

The reason it is ‘not for prof-it’ is that it has been structured that way by its owner, the Con-federation of Australian Motor Sport (CAMS). A not for profit organisation can have an oper-ating surplus – it just does not pay a dividend!

When CAMS set up Rally Australia as a privately owned company and worked out the budget for the rally they over-stated the anticipated expendi-ture, showed internal transfers as expenses, diverted potential income to other bodies (FIA & CAMS) and understated po-tential income.

The company has also re-ceived millions of dollars of cash and in-kind support from the public purse, courtesy of the state government and local councils.

Maybe, in order to pay their legal costs, they could re-quire FIA officials to pay their own way rather than spend-ing $40,000 on travel and ac-commodation as envisaged in their budget submitted to Events NSW. Maybe instead of spending $4,000 on gifts and hospitality they could put that towards their legal costs.

Rally Australia also paid $451,000 for the event per-mit fee, insurance premiums and CAMS fees and another $260,000 for a FIA Calendar Fee.

Funny thing though, there is no mention in the Rally Aus-tralia budget of the television broadcast rights. These were estimated some time back to be worth approximately $22mil-lion. Who gets this payment? Why didn’t it get paid to Rally Australia?

If they had prepared a prop-er budget it would have shown an operating surplus in the vicinity of $20 million rather than the manufactured operat-ing shortfall of $4 million they predicted.

Give us a break, Gary! Stop the spin and misinformation.

Michael McNamaraBanora Point

■ Tweed Heads police recently asked our community to help them crack down on hoons on Tweed roads, by reporting any hooning we may see to our lo-cal police station.

This seemed like a reason-able request to me because, as we all know, the Tweed police are undermanned and over-worked and need all the help they can get to keep our roads

safe. The Tweed Area Com-mander has frequently asked the Police Minister for more police, but the response has al-ways been, ‘sorry, no money for extra police’, even though our area has one of the low-est ratios of police per head of population in the state.

Then, last week, on the news: ‘Extra police being sent to Tweed’. Great, I thought, they have finally found the money to send us some extra cops – and they weren’t just sending us a couple of cops either, they were sending heaps. They were even sending us our own riot squad! Gee they must be feeling really guilty. Who says the govern-ment doesn’t care about pro-tecting us from crime and help-ing our overworked police?

Then came the punch line – these extra police weren’t being sent to protect the good citi-zens of the Tweed from crime and hoons, they were being sent to protect the commercial interests of an overseas-owned car parts company and a bunch of rally car driving hoons (can we report these hoons?).

Oh well, I guess at least we now know what our so-called government’s priorities are: car rallies first, welfare of Tweed citizens last.

Mark R CatchpolePottsville Beach

■ Repco rally held a residents’ meeting recently regard-ing ‘Safety Issues’. Airborne cars driving insanely fast and sideways around precipitous bends, endangering the lives of drivers, spectators, livestock and wildlife and suddenly they are concerned about safety?

We were assured there would be a wildlife carer on each stage, even though they weren’t sure which group that would be, or how many qualified spotters would stay at the foot of every koala tree. Byrrill Creek resi-dents have been painstakingly documenting 14 nationally endangered native animals for decades and a report was com-piled. If Repco could remove Williams Road and part of Sargents Road, why not Byrrill Creek Road? We were told that it was already decided and the answer was no. In other words, Repco does not care about en-dangered species but somehow thinks that the most important thing is that everyone ‘has a good time.’

Someone should tell Repco that animal lovers are NOT having a good time knowing that animals are experiencing what must appear to them to be WWIII. Nor are the ani-mals going to be having a good time.

That this rally is going to be a positive event and bring lots of

money to the shire is a lie told often enough till people begin to believe it. The only people who are excited about the rally are those who are not thinking about the animals’ terror. Read the independent ecology re-ports and study what happened at the WA rally and you might begin to awaken from Repco-induced mass hypnosis.

Menkit PrinceUki

■ When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

The Repco rally is, and al-ways was, a fait accompli, but listening to residents speaking out against the rally at Sphinx Rock Café this Sunday I real-ised it really will be a win for our community regardless.

This funky little rural café was operating at peak capacity, a week before the rally revellers even arrive. I doubt this event will bring any benefits there that could improve anything, only detract from its inherent beauty and tranquillity.

We don’t want the stupid, reckless event imposed on us by an irrelevant state government, or the impact on our environ-ment and indigenous heritage, but the awareness and resist-ance that has been generated to the undemocratic approval and imposition of this event has united much of our local com-munity in a common cause.

Sure it has polarised some, there are those who believe it will have a positive economic outcome for the region and therefore blindly support it, but personally I can’t wait to see the figures. I doubt it will help our economy significantly, despite all the empty promises and spin. How many business supporters will still be in favour when their tills are empty? There will be no profit in this event for our com-munity, only costs.

Because we’ve been denied our say, we will grow in our strength and determination to fight injustices such as this. Next time we will fight harder and with more experience. Mr Rees, our national parks are not just a resource to exploit when convenient. Your government can take away our legal rights, but you cannot extinguish our passion or our right to speak out. We’d rather be dancing and singing than breathing dust and exhaust fumes any day. We will not lie down and be railroaded (irony intended) for the whims of the rich and powerful.

As Oscar Wilde once said, ‘High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people’.

I tip my hat to Tweed coun-cillor Katie Milne for attempt-

ing to do what Peter Garrett should have had the balls to do. I have no doubt that there are sufficient people opposed to having the WRC on their door-step every two years who would donate to pay her legal costs in much the same way that Bob Brown was helped. We need more people like her elected to local councils, not less.

Andy GoughLarnook

■ Over the last few days signs have sprung up around Mur-willumbah proclaiming the coming of a ‘Special Event’. This

special event, which seems to have taken on the importance of the Second Coming of Christ, is the ill begotten ‘Facile Fossil Fuel Fest’, a conglomeration of motor sports mania, invading our fair town (let the chaos and corruption unfold).

What this ‘Special Event’ means for most of the good citizens of this shire (those who have matured beyond playing with cars) is many days of excessive noise, no access to the CBD (unless you have a ticket for this ‘Special Event’), no right of complaint (courtesy Rees government), no com-

pensation for damage to self or property. In short, those people not caught up in this mad mo-tor disease are treated as sec-ond-class citizens, not worth a thought by Repco rally and our esteemed elected council, which appears to be run by un-elected council members, such as our general manager.

Why should we have our lives disrupted so a bunch of blow-in petrol heads can have their puerile fun? Why should we have to take long detours to carry out our normal daily pursuits? Why should we, the

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Casuarina town centreThe ‘two grumpy old men’ Nik-ki O’Neill objects to (Letters, August 27) represent the views of a significant number of resi-dents of Casuarina, many of whom don’t attend Casuarina Residents Association (CRA) meetings either through apa-thy or disenchantment.

If CRA president Rob Bryant continues to gloss over shortcomings in the town centre development application, he risks incurring more cynicism in his office than already exists.

Don O’Rorke has become renowned for breaking promises and ignoring concepts that lured many people to Casuarina. He refuses to fix previous mistakes and his blatant efforts to buy political favours are now well documented, thanks largely to The Echo’s Ken Sapwell.Ross Pierce and Robyn Bensley

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Right of passageApparently, around the 1960s a path was built behind the shops and businesses in Mur-willumbah and a levee wall was installed to stop the flooding to the city centre, and evidently around three feet of land was taken to erect this wall on fairly stable land.

It appears now a landowner, with his arrogance, has decid-ed that he owns this land, even though he can do nothing with it, and wants to deny public access.

Firstly, the law in Victoria states categorically, that if pri-vate land has been a public right of way for thirty years or more, it must remain one. I would think that NSW law would be similar, and second-ly, even if it is private property and you trespass the owner of the land is liable.

The state of the walkway through this section is ques-tionable and if you fall or have

an accident, whether you are trespassing or not, then you have the right to claim dam-ages against the owner.

Perhaps, instead of hinder-ing pedestrian access, this per-son should hand over the land right to someone who cares and someone who maintains it, and some council that has spent a fortune protecting their property.

Libby FrancisUki

Bickering onThe extremely petty complaints against the mayor have been rightly dismissed with the con-duct review panel chairman telling councillors to ‘stop the bickering’.

The mayor has high level community support for ex-pressing her correct views on future needs of the area. It is an insult to democracy when petty-minded people complain about her addressing a senate committee to promote our fu-ture – clearly the complainants Holdom and Youngblutt have put themselves in community disrespect. It is hoped the sen-ate president will take action to ensure the people’s rights of presentation to the senate will override petty minds and local politics and that such attempts to breach our democratic rights will be prevented in the future.

The stupidity of council is no different to telling members of parliament and senators they cannot discuss matters with the public. Our good mayor was elected to act on behalf of the people and keep them informed in a two-way chan-nel of information, which is exactly what vested interests and power groups fear. Dic-tatorships are based on lying to the people, restricting free speech with power committees and false charges. We urge the mayor to lodge complaint with

the AFP against her complain-ants under Section 28 of the Commonwealth Crimes Act.

The old diggers in the RSL who fought for freedom and democracy and still carry the wounds, tell me they will sup-port mayor Joan Van Leishout and dump the others, so their battles of long ago will not have been in vain – Lest We Forget.

G J MayTyalgum

Educating landownersThe August 25 issue of Tweed Council’s Tweed Link publi-cation has an article entitled ‘Council seeks funds for koala plan of management’.

This article outlines council’s commitment to a number of worthy initiatives, the second of which is: ‘Working with landholders and community groups to address koala recov-ery and welfare’.

Other measures include talks to school and community groups, advice on strategies to preserve and enhance koala habitat, a draft biodiversity Development Control Plan, re-viewing Tree Preservation Or-ders, improved signage, etc…

But the Titanic (and Lus-itania) that are sinking while these deckchairs are being re-arranged are RMS ‘Kings For-est’ and RMS ‘Cobaki Lakes’.

So back to the working-with-landholders initiative – I can think of one landholder that really could use some re-education about artificial lakes, duplexes, golf courses, service stations, fast food outlets and koalas. Even though it’s now the state government’s call, I like to think that council might be willing to help.

Alan JohnstonPottsville

■ Letters also received from V Sparks, Nobbys Creek, K Chadwick, Banora Point, D Ogilvie, Bilambil.

A proposed crack down on the

weight-loss industry and fad

diets has been welcomed by

a local health clinic that uses natural

methods to slash fat.

Th e Natural Way in Tweed Heads has

endorsed recommendations by the

Federal Government’s Preventative

Health Taskforce that the industry

should comply to tighter regulations.

Th e taskforce has called for the industry

to be better regulated and for weight-loss

programs to prove they can help keep

the kilograms off long-term.

It follows evidence that fad diets, such as

those based on meal replacement shakes,

may be adding to the obesity crisis as

overweight people put weight back on

after they fi nish a diet.

Cora Farr, weight loss manager at Th e

Natural Way, Tweed Heads, said there

were some weight loss products on the

market that needed closer investigation.

‘It is a shame that pharmacies promote

these quick-fi x weight loss programs

when there is really little long-term

success in terms of the weight staying

off ,’ she said.

‘At Th e Natural Way, our extensively

trained weight loss consultants provide

their clients with weekly, personalised

consultations that are quite simply

motivation and lifestyle coaching sessions.

‘Our goal is that our clients lose weight

eating normal everyday foods – not meal

replacement shakes – and learn the right

way to eat through our Healthy Living

maintenance plan.

‘By the time our clients get to their goal,

they have all the tools they need to keep

the weight off .’

Cora said quick-fi x diets were nothing

but ‘fads’ and were ineff ective in

keeping weight off long-term and were

nutritionally imbalanced.

She said the best way to lose weight

was with an individual program, plenty

of support, education and professional

weight loss consultants.

‘We have been in business for 29 years

and our experience has shown us that a

holistic approach to weight loss off ers

a much greater chance for long-term

weight maintenance compared to any

shake diet.’

To fi nd out more about Th e Natural

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1300 SLIMMER or go to

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Weight loss – the natural wayTaking Care of Business

The Echo’s spotlight on local business

Toy guns and bananas Risky moves at The Point■ The childlike claim (Au-gust 27) from the vegan tree-hugging Stephen True-Arrow deep in the hills of Uki that he and his son ‘Long Bow’ were traumatised by the sight of in-nocent children with toy guns at the Tweed Banana Festival, deserves comment.

Guns don’t kill people, brother True-Arrow, no more than knives, heroin, bad prawns and XXXX beer. Peo-ple kill people.

Instill in your own child not the dangers of weaponry but the dangers of the minds of his fellow tribal mates. Even the peace-loving Amish were not spared from gratuitious violence recently.

It serves no interest or educational value for your offspring to deny them the simple pleasures of watching a parade without you exert-ing your selfish and narrow-minded outlook on the world. Better to be educated in the ways of the world than to hide away with your head stuck in-side a Uki tree trunk, brother True-Arrow.

Gary Sutton

Kingscliff

■ This letter supports Stephen True-Arrow’s ideas published in The Echo (August 27) in re-gard to children being given

toy guns on floats at the Ba-nana Festival and the subse-quent behaviour of children running around firing toy guns at each other on the streets.

Who on the Banana Festi-val Committee suggested that guns be a theme at the festi-val? As citizens we must ask why have they done this.

Is it a re-emergence of im-perialism or is it a forerun-ner of a brand of nationalism that has ended in two major world wars? The arms industry makes huge profits from pri-vate corporations; are we sup-porting this industry and pos-turing for warlike adventurism by encouraging gun use in our children? Are we preparing our children to accept guns as part of everyday life?

We need guns for defence. However, these should be handled with high levels of order, care and discipline and we do not want to encourage children to think that guns are toy things to run the streets with.

Freud argued that we have within our civilisation both the life-giving instincts and the death instincts and that it is of great importance to keep a strong sense of balance be-tween these, for if the death instincts get out of control in

any society, then war can be a serious result.

We have seen evidence of this in the two 20th century world wars and the destruc-tive forces that got out of con-trol; this was an example of the death instincts running rampant.

Hitler’s fascist state is an ex-ample of a society where the masculine instincts of speed and conquest got dangerously out of control; the death in-stincts outweighed the life-giving instincts. Hitler is on record as saying that it was better and more manly to go out at speed on the autobahns of Germany and be killed, than for men to show any feminine instincts or characteristics.

The Banana Festival Com-mittee must keep in mind that it is a spring festival to celebrate growth and renewal and the life-giving abundance of the valley. If the committee continue with their toy guns, then I will need to organise a thousand bikies to parade in the street.

Patrica Albanese

Murwillumbah

■ Gee, that True-Arrow bloke is an aggressive peace cam-paigner, isn’t he?

Joyce Sheehy

Murwillumbah

■ Another interesting sign has just appeared this week in Chinderah. It’s under the gross weight limit 14.5t sign, and it says ‘From Hastings Point South’.

So that would imply that the developers of The Point have spoken to someone to allow their trucks into Hasting Point so they can carry on building, or so it looks. Is there another con-spiracy theory gaining weight? The sign appeared only after the letter was published in The Echo bringing to light the weight of the traffic in the area.

Steven HingHastings Point

■ Developers of the huge The Point development at Hast-ings Point have been warned again regarding their conduct of building and marketing their development while before the Court of Appeal.

They and their builders, Hutchinsons, have publicly

touted sales of this cement-like prison with display units avail-able for viewing this coming Tweed Rally weekend, a great opportunity for spectators to view how inappropriate this development is for Hastings Point, and to imagine its poten-tial demolition.

The stark truth of the mat-ter is that The Point developers will likely lose in court and the community will be pressing for a demolition order.

Developers have been warned again and again. They ignore these warnings, one can only assume, because they think that if they build big enough and involve as many innocent parties as they can, no decision-maker could order demolition. WRONG!

The Hastings Point commu-nity is alarmed by reports that developers have failed to advise prospective purchasers of the is-sues before the court. Certainly, properly advising purchasers of

these very material facts would likely cause them to make a dif-ferent assessment of the risks – and to do that which the de-velopers refuse to do: wait until legal proceedings are over.

Failing to disclose such mate-rial facts is misleading and de-ceptive. Buyers who put large sums down could be left out of pocket big time if The Point de-velopers lose in court, go into administration or are ordered to demolish what is effectively an illegal building.

To involve innocent third parties in their risky endeav-ours without proper notice of the issues is completely reck-less. Shame on you developers. Shame on you builders (Hutch-insons). Shame on you finan-ciers (Westpac). The huge risk that you take is at your expense and should not and will not be rewarded.

John O’ReillyHastings Point

■ Edited for length – Ed

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A 15-year-old Banora Point teen who has never been over-seas or spent more than a week away from her family will walk the arduous Kokoda trail later this month.

Maddison Hilleard, (pictu-red) a student at Lindisfarne Anglican Grammar, will hike for eight days with a 20kg pack strapped to her slight frame as part of a Kokoda youth pro-gram.

The year 10 student was at-tracted to the challenge out of a

love of being fit, but has admit-ted to a few nerves before her September 21 departure date.

‘I love being fit and because I am training so much for the trek I am so fit at the moment and that is why I was interes-ted,’ she said.

‘It will be the most amazing thing that I have done.

‘I want to join the police force when I am old enough and this kind of thing opens up opportunities like that.’

Mum Kathy said Maddison had long had ‘a bit of fire in her belly’ but wasn’t your ty-

pical sports freak.‘My husband and I thought

we’ll let it take its course but nothing will probably even-tuate,’ said Kathy.

‘Now she is leaving in three weeks time! It will be her first time overseas and she isn’t the least bit fazed by it, so obvious-ly it is meant to be.’

Maddison’s preparation in-volves Sunday training sessions from 6am to at least 1pm where she often lugs heavy backpacks to get her ready for the arduous conditions.

A few months ago she hurt her knee badly and required extensive physio and a leg bra-ce. Thankfully, her trainers said she has fully recovered.

Kathy said she is incredibly nervous about letting Mad-dison go, particularly becau-se there would be no phone contact for 12 days.

‘If you knew me you would laugh, because I don’t even let her go to parties yet,’ Kathy said.

‘But her trainers say she is doing great and is strong and fit and that she will come through fine.’

Maddison said one of the best parts of her pre-trek pre-paration had been proving other people’s perceptions of her wrong and learning the history of Kokoda.

‘My friends don’t pick me to

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‘I have already learned a lot of stuff about Kokoda that you don’t realise and I am really looking forward to getting out there.’

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ratepayers of this shire, have to park away from the local shops – if we can find a parking space – to make way for drunken hoons and mad drivers?

Nobody asked us if we wanted Murwillumbah to be-come the ‘Motor Sport Mecca’ of northern New South Wales. Nobody asked us if we wanted our precious national parks to become racetracks. Nobody asked us if we mind fifty-plus helicopters flying low over our homes, invading our privacy. Nobody asked us if we mind the council spending $120,000 dollars per event on Repco rally, when our local infra-structure (health, education, environment, etc) desperately needs more funding. Nobody asked us if we minded being confined to our homes to make way for the dust demons tear-ing along our fragile country roads.

No folks, nobody asked us if we minded these things be-cause, the Rees government, Repco rally, and the TSC do not care how we feel. They tell us this motor mania will be good for this shire because it

will bring in buckets of cash for local businesses. Well, I would not be holding my breath, espe-cially if I did not own an eatery or a drinkery. I fail to see how, when most road access to the Murwillumbah CBD is verbo-ten to locals, it is going to help our local businesses. Perhaps they are relying on the swarms of petrol heads (20,000 are expected) to make them rich. Well, business people I have spoken to say they have their lowest sales while events like ‘Speed on Tweed’ take place.

Why are we, the ratepayers of the shire, treated in such an off-handed way?

The answer, my friends, is simple. They think they can get away with it! They think we are helpless and that we cannot do anything about it. Well good folks of this shire, we can show them they are wrong.

If you do not like being treated as a second-class citi-zen in your own town there are a number of personal actions your can take, including join-ing in with peaceful protests while the rally proceeds; writ-ing to state and federal poli-

ticians about our democratic rights, refusing to buy Repco products, etc.

You are special, not this event. Say no to Repco rally!

Chris DegenhardtNobbys Creek

■ The world rally, sponsored by Repco, is a promotional event for the car industry… the larg-est single carbon polluter on the planet.

Our ideas about nature are highly dysfunctional. We de-stroy nature on a global indus-trial scale, to the point that we are crashing the life support systems which exist on planet earth.

The broadcasting into our lives of the Repco event is re-inforcing the overriding, high-ly dysfunctional ideas about nature, the same ideas which have brought us to this critical moment in time.

The future which is being stolen from you is the future that contains a final attempt to rescue ourselves. To rescue the future we need to quickly, and radically, change the way we regard nature.

Repco, the world rally or-ganisation and the supporting car companies are complicit

in knowingly and deliberately promoting the dysfunctional ideas about nature which th-reaten our immediate future as we are driven towards the collapse of the ecology.

Repco (Robco?)… Stealing Your Future.

Repco have failed to recog-nise the rapid shift in sentiment of the people of the world. The imposition of a future which contains no final attempt to re-scue ourselves is unacceptable.

Brian SummersCaldera Environment Centre

■ It would seem to me that all the spin associated with the rally has had its desired result, at least for the moment any-way.

Yes, I do oppose the rally for a multitude of reasons, beyond which is at the moment, every-one’s right to choose. Whether you’re for or against a rally, don’t let the bigger picture pass you by. Our rights, freedoms, val-ues, environment, heritage and more being sold to the highest bidder to further engorge the wallets of a few. This chase for money with disregard to others is at the core of the problems we face on our Earth daily. Let’s really think it through.

See you at the protest to op-pose a rally, to stand up for our future and the need/desire to change our 200-year-old way of thought.

Paul RyderUki

■ I am worried about the impact that the World Rally Champi-onship organisation will have on domestic animals.

Animal owners in Kyogle LGA should ensure that their livestock and pets are watched and protected during the may-hem created by vehicles travel-ling on roads at over 200kmh. Helicopters will be patrolling the skies during the WRC – media, medical, officials from Repco Rally Australia and sightseers.

And this doesn’t include all the expected visitor traffic. The baker in Kyogle has been told to expect anywhere between 600 to 1,000 extra customers (Northern Star, August 29) during the rally debacle.

Not only will this number of visitors increase traffic and strain on normally peaceful public roads but both domestic pets and livestock will be sub-ject to increased noise of rally vehicles, whirring of helicop-

ters overhead as well as dust and disruption to their habitat and feed times.

Nowhere in any of the do-cumentation produced by rally organisers is there mention or consideration of animals living domestically along the 340 ki-lometres of rally route.

At the residents’ meeting in Kyogle on Saturday, August 29, the Repco Rally Australia Clerk of the Course did sug-gest that residents look after their dogs and that they might want to keep an eye on them – presumably so they don’t stray into the oncoming path of a car travelling at 200kmh.

Please report any concerns that you have for your pets and livestock to appropriate authorities and be sure to let Repco Rally Australia know so that they can assess the impact of the rally as part the review process they are required to undertake, by law, after the rally.

Mary WillisWadeville

■ I used to live in paradise, now I live on a rally routed road (and I’m not happy).

J HunterCudgera

Rally letters (continued from page 11)

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AS we have men-tioned more than once in this is-sue already, the Tweed Shire Echo

celebrated its first birthday last week and this is the start of our second volume. A year is a long time in local papers: it’s long enough for all sorts of interest-ing stuff to happen, but not so long that the pattern repeats itself. The staff at your loc al newspaper are still enjoying the thrill of the new.

But in this space I would like to explain a little bit about how The Echo brand and The Echo ethos came into existence.

More than a quarter of a century ago NSW Police – im-ported from Sydney, not local – initiated raids on the com-munes of Mullumbimby, pre-dominantly Main Arm. They were looking for marijuana plantations, and admittedly there were some – how else do you think Mullumbimby has remained so prosperous? – but they mostly found a few plants at the bottom of people’s gar-dens. Hell, even I had a me-dicinal plant at that time and I don’t even smoke!

It wasn’t the fact of the raids, it was their manner. What amounted in effect to heavily armed SWAT teams descend-ed on the valley, cut the phone lines and proceeded to terror-ise the populace, destroying fences, using water tanks for target practice, hovering heli-copters over cowering women and children, beating up their menfolk if they showed the slightest – even verbal – resis-tance, and generally behaving as if the rule of law did not ap-ply to them.

It was that scariest of events, a police riot. When that hap-pens, who are you gonna call?

The late Nicholas Shand, who lived on one of the Main Arm communes, had some journalistic experience; in fact at the time he was a stringer for a Lismore radio station. When he could get to an unvanda-lised telephone he made some calls and discovered that the mainstream media were not interested in what happened to the ‘hippies in the hills.’

Maybe it was inertia, maybe red-neck prejudice, maybe a cynical calculation that news media couldn’t afford to offend the police – whatever the reason he could not get anyone to re-port on the raids. To cut a long story short, after many years he did get the NSW Ombudsman to investigate and some police officers were given a couple of feather strokes across the wrist, but a much more important result was the motivation and inspiration this conspiracy of media silence gave him.

If the existing media were too cowardly to cover real in-justice he would have to do the job himself.

When I met Nicholas in

1985 I had just moved down to Mullumbimby from Brisbane, a refugee from the Bjelke-Pet-er sen regime. I did not have a printing press, that archetypal tool of political resistance, but I did have its twentieth cen-tury equivalent, a phototype-setting machine, the only one in the shire outside the Byron News. I also had some expe-rience working as a subeditor for The Australian in Sydney, and a knowledge of newspaper typography and layout.

So between us we had the bare essentials. Although the team quickly grew, in the be-ginning Nicholas sold the ads and wrote the stories to go in the spaces between, and I type-set, subbed and laid out both the stories and the ads. For a short time a friend of ours even printed the paper on a kitchen-table-size press we bought.

What we discovered with the fledgling Brunswick Valley

Echo (now of course the By-ron Shire Echo) was that people were thirsty for information. In those days Council meet-ings went unattended and un-reported, and decisions that affected people directly in the places where they lived were often simply unexamined.

The Echo changed all that. But not because it was a ‘cru-sading’ paper. That phrase summons up the image of a proprietor deciding what beat-ups to perpetrate, usually by banging the big drums of fear and law’n’order. If The Echo campaigned on an issue it was because local people thought it important. Usually the main-stream media, controlled from capital cities faraway, were flat-footed when it came to local sensitivities. By the time they realised, for instance, that By-ron Bay did not want its iden-tity swamped by a Club Med on the beach, their papers had already written editorials in fa-vour of the plan, on the basis of ‘jobs’.

(By the way, whenever a greedy developer talks about ‘jobs’ a good demystifying pro-cess is to read through his press releases substituting the phrase ‘my profit’ wherever the word ‘jobs’ appears. It instantly pro-duces a more truthful docu-ment.)

So we fought Club Med, and a little later on we fought a general manager of council who had manifest conflicts of interest. Now this wasn’t a single conflict with the back-ing of a council resolution. It wasn’t the sort of conflict that you could maintain if you dis-torted your code of conduct a little. These were a slather of conflicts that led to the plan-ning department, backed by a majority of pro-development

councillors, showing outra-geous leniency where devel-oper contributions were con-cerned. In due course this led to the impoverishment of shire infrastructure and for ten years Byron was almost broke. This was the catalyst that brought community-minded people to the fore in local politics, just as the outrageous bankrolling of Tweed councillors by develop-ers in a previous council here has produced a much more alert electorate.

Nicholas and I could not take credit for the cleansing of Byron Shire Council, or for any other outcome in local politics. It was the will of the people, but that will needs a platform, a vehicle, a channel. Particularly a channel, because information is the very basis of democracy. Inform the people in a democ-racy and you get better deci-sions. Hide stuff away and the chances are it’s because you are following your own pri-vate agenda. It’s a useful rule of thumb that secrecy in local government, and indeed any government, is inversely re-lated to the general good.

So The Echo was born from an issue of human rights abuse and has consistently pursued a philosophy of environmental protection and political open-ness. It has remained indepen-dent of parties or corporate in-terests. It sometimes displays a satirical edge. It has, as they say, ‘ attitude’.

How does that affect those people we rely on, our advertisers?

They do not always agree with our editorial opinions. To be honest, there are some adver-tisers in the original Echo who have never agreed with any of our editorial opinions.

But they still advertise after all these years. Because they get it. They understand that

the element The Echo brings to readers is involvement, even excitement. Our service to ad-vertisers is to engage people in the act of reading: reading their local paper attentively and ap-preciatively, or even attentively and angrily. Just as long as they pay attention, which is after all what advertisers like people to do.

So when we came to set up a new paper we had a head start. And we were lucky to at-tract journalists who knew the Tweed Shire inside out. I am grateful to our original team of Luis Feliu, Ken Sapwell and Madeleine Doherty, and to Roxanne Millar who joined a little later.

The Echo tries to avoid the bland, the stereotyped, the pro-grammed. There are enough newspapers full of blah, wrapped in more blah, with special inserts of blah. We do consciously strive to be differ-ent. And we do consciously strive to serve the communi-ty with information that will make a difference, often the sort of information that a big developer or government offi-cial doesn’t want you to have.

And of course a collateral benefit to the public is that the presence of The Echo forces other papers to lift their game. They don’t quite know what we do to attract such reader inter-est, so they copy the obvious things. For example, we’ve al-ways printed as many letters as we possibly can, because pro-viding a platform for readers’ views is part of our covenant with the community. So you may have observed the other

weeklies now suddenly finding more room for letters.

We were the first to notice that a noisy, dangerous motor-sport ploughing through our National Heritage landscape might not be such a great idea. The others were totally gung-ho, sniffing big advertising revenue in the wind, until they realised there was a substantial number of people voicing ob-jections. Now they’ve turned the other way and print all the criticism, much to the annoy-ance of rally people who can no longer get their press releases printed verbatim by a compli-ant local media.

A year is a long time in newspapers, and we launched the Tweed

Shire Echo just as the global financial crisis broke. Never-theless we have survived, we’ve achieved our first year’s goals, we’re increasing our circulation and are really looking forward to seeing how next year goes.

All the team at the Tweed Echo, and their counterparts in the older Byron Echo, have given maximum effort to the establishment of the new paper, and look forward to it growing and developing.

We hope to continue serving the readers and businesses of the shire with the most exciting newspaper we can produce.

A chronicle of echoes: how to start a local newspaper Publisher David Lovejoy recalls the early days

Founding editor Nicholas Shand (1948–1996) more than any-one else set the tone and direction of the Brunswick Valley Echo when it first appeared in 1986.

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4.30 Seachange (PG) 5.30 The New Inventors (G) Rpt. 6.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Planet Earth (G) 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Wild At Heart (PG) 1.30 Spicks And Specks (PG) Rpt. 2.00 Monarch Of The Glen (G) 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Message Stick (G) Rpt. 6.30 Can We Help? (G) 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Stateline (G) 8.00 Collectors (G) 8.30 George Gently (M) 10.00 Sensitive Skin (PG) 10.30 Lateline 11.15 triple j tv With The Doctor

Rpt 11.45 Good Game Rpt. 12.15 rage (M)

5.20 World News in various languages.

7.15 Cycling: Tour Of Spain 7.25 World News in various

languages. 1.00 The Food Lovers Guide To

Australia 1.30 Insight 2.30 Diamond Road: The Stone

That Divides (PG) Canada. 3.30 Living Black 4.00 Andre Rieu: The Fairy Tale 4.30 The Journal 5.00 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 5.30 Andre Rieu: The Fairy Tale

From Holland. 6.00 Global Village 6.30 World News 7.30 Young Victoria (G) 8.30 As It Happened 9.30 World News Australia 9.45 2009 One Day International

Cricket Live from The Oval, England.

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 Morning Show (PG) 11.30 Seven Morning News 12.00 Movie: The Glow (M 2001)

Stars Portia De Rossi, Dean Cain, Hal Linden.

2.00 All Saints (M) 3.00 Auction House (G) 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.00 M*A*S*H (G) 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.00 Seven and Prime News 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 7.30 Better Homes And Gardens

(PG) 8.30 TBA 3.00 Infomercials

Prime HD same as above except:12.00 Popstars (G) 12.45 Heroes Of The Amazon (G) 1.40 Harry’s Practice (G) 2.00 The Great Outdoors (G) 3.00 Kid’s Programs 4.00 Room For Improvement ➟

6.00 ABC News 9.00 Business Today 9.30 Asia Pacific

News 10.00 Kids’ Programs 4.30 The New

Inventors Rpt. 5.00 7.30 Select 5.30 Catalyst 6.00 Compass (G) 6.30 Junkyard Wars 7.20 Mr Bean 7.30 The Royal Today 8.00 The Worst Week

Of My Life: Thursday

8.30 Torchwood (M) 9.20 Being Erica (M) 10.10 Later... With

Jools Holland 11.10 London Live 11.40 The Graham

Norton Show (M) 12.10 Close

6.00 Netball Invitational

8.00 Sports Unlimited

9.00 Major League Baseball

12.00 NASCAR 1.00 Motorsport 2.00 Omnisport 2.30 AFL 2009

Geelong v Adelaide 4.30 Beach Volleyball 5.00 Athletix 5.30 Transworld

Sport 6.30 Motorsport 7.30 Australian Rally 8.30 Motorsport 9.30 Sports Tonight 10.00 Poker 11.00 BMX Road Fools 12.00 Sports Tonight 12.30 Omnisport 1.00 Major League

Baseball 3.30 Motorsport 4.30 NASCAR

6.00 Ten Early News 7.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 9am With David And Kim 11.00 Ten News 12.00 Dr Phil (PG) 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) 3.00 Infomercial 3.30 Friends (PG) 4.00 Huey’s Cooking

Adventures (G) 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News 6.00 The Simpsons (G) 6.30 Neighbours (G) 7.00 The 7pm Project (PG) 7.30 The Simpsons (PG) 8.30 Movie: The Break-Up (M)

Stars Jennifer Anniston, Vince Vaughn, Judy Davis, Vincent D’onofrio.

10.40 So You Think You Can Dance

1.40 Repco Rally Australia 2009 2.40 The Late Show With David

Letterman 3.30 Infomercials (PG) 5.00 Religion to 6am (PG)

5.30 Today 9.00 Mornings with Kerri-Anne 11.00 Infomercials 12.00 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 1.00 The View (PG) talk show. 2.00 Days Of Our Lives (PG) 3.00 Alive And Cooking (G) 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Afternoon News 5.00 Antiques Roadshow 5.30 Hot Seat 6.00 NBN News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 Friday Night Football

St George v Parramatta. 9.30 Friday Night Football

Wests v Bulldogs. 11.30 Late News 12.00 Movie: Secret Window (M

2004) Stars Johnny Depp, Maria Bello, John Turturro.

1.50 Movie: Cheats (M 2002) Stars Mary Tyler Moore, Matthew Lawrence.

3.30 Infomercials 4.30 Good Morning America

5.00am to 6.30pm World News

In Various Languages

6.30 World News 7.30 Lost Worlds 8.30 112 Emergency 9.00 Movie: Living In

Fear (M 2005) Vietnam. Stars Ngoc Phuong Mai, Hanh Thuy Ngo Pham.

10.55 Movie: Blueprint (M 2003) Germany. Stars Franka Potente, Ulrigh Thomsen, Snaer Gudnason, Justus von Dohnanyi.

12.55 Weatherwatch

All programs G or PG unless otherwise classified

6.00 Aria Music Show 7.00 The Nanny 7.30 Camp Lazlo 8.00 Ed, Edd N Eddy 8.30 I Dream Of Jeannie 9.00 Bewitched 9.30 Australia’s Funniest Home Video Show 10.30 Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ 11.30 Seinfeld 12.00 Gossip Girl (M) 1.00 Moonlight (M) 2.00 The Hills (M) 3.00 Just Shoot Me! 3.30 The Nanny 4.00 Camp Lazlo 4.30 Ed, Edd N Eddy 5.00 I Dream Of Jeannie 6.30 Bewitched 6.00 Australia’s Funniest

Home Video Show 7.00 Entertainment

Tonight 7.30 TMZ 8.00 Seinfeld 8.30 CSI: CSI (M) 9.30 CSI: Miami (M) 10.30 CSI: NY (M) 11.30 Just Shoot Me! 12.00 Ellen Degeneres 1.00 Aria Music Show

5.00 rage (PG) 11.00 Jam And Jerusalem (PG) 11.30 The Cook And The Chef 12.00 Stateline 12.30 Australian Story 1.00 Foreign Correspondent 1.30 Can We Help? (G) 2.00 Nigel Marven’s Rhino

Adventure (G) 3.00 Rugby Union: Shute Shield

2009 5.00 Bowls: Australian Indoor

Championships Womens Final.

6.00 Planet Food: Italy 6.30 Gardening Australia (G) 7.00 ABC News 7.30 East Of Everything (PG) 8.25 ABC News 8.30 The Bill (M) 10.00 ABC News 10.10 Double Time (M) Rpt. 11.20 rage (M)

5.00 rage (PG) 6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Insiders 10.00 Inside Business 10.30 Offsiders 11.00 Asia Pacific Focus 11.30 Songs Of Praise 12.00 Landline (G) 1.00 Gardening Australia 1.30 Message Stick (G) 2.00 Weapons Races (G) 3.00 Sydney Dance Company

Farewell to Graeme Murphy 4.00 Monumental Vision In Sri

Lanka (G) 4.30 First Tuesday Book Club

With Jennifer Byrne 5.00 Sting (G) 6.00 At The Movies 6.30 The Einstein Factor 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Stephen Fry in America 8.35 Midsomer Murders (M) 10.10 Compass (G) 10.40 Margot (PG) 11.35 Movie: Conquest Of The

Air (PG 1940) Stars Laurence Olivier.

12.40 Movie: 21 Days (PG 1940) Stars Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh.

1.55 Movie: Murder, My Sweet (PG 1945) Stars Dick Powell.

3.30 Talkin Heads: Iain Hewitson 4.00 The Pet Show (G)

6.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 Eclipse (PG) 1.00 Movie: Barbie And The

Three Musketeers (G) 3.00 According To Jim (PG) 3.30 V8 Xtra 4.00 Deal Or No Deal: Test Of

The Psychics 5.00 Guide To The Good Life 5.30 Sydney Weekender 6.00 Seven News 6.30 The Great Outdoors 7.30 Rugby Tri-Nations Australia

v South Africa. 10.00 Movie: Commando

(MA 1985) Stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Alyssa Milano, Rae Dawn Chong.

11.45 Movie: The Order (MA 2002) Stars Heath Ledger, Shannyn Sossamon, Benno Furmann.

2.00 Infomercials

6.00 Religious Programs 7.00 Weekend Sunrise 10.00 AFL Game Day (PG) 11.00 Magnum P.I. (PG) 12.00 Movie: Ghost Dad (PG 1990)

Stars Bill Cosby, Kimberly Russell, Denise Nicholas.

2.00 2009 AFL Premiership 5.30 Mercurio’s Menu (G) 6.00 Seven News 6.30 Dancing With The Stars (G) 9.00 TBA 11.05 Las Vegas (M) 12.00 Room For Improvement 12.30 Infomercials 5.30 Seven Early News

Prime HD same as above except:12.00 Kid’s Programs 1.30 Gladiators (PG) 4.30 Chrome (G) 5.00 In The Footsteps Of The Pharaohs (G) ➟

5.20 World News 7.15 Cycling: Tour Of Spain 7.25 World News 1.00 Accentus: Transcriptions

(G) Masterpiece from France. 1.50 Dances Of Life (G)

Masterpiece from USA. 2.50 The Chopin Etudes (G)

Masterpiece from UK. 3.00 The Wonderful World Of

Albert Kahn: Europe After The Fire (PG)

4.00 Tim Marlow Meets... Mike Leigh (G)

4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 5.30 2009 One Day International

Cricket Live from England. 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Mythbusters (G) 8.30 The Squiz (M) 9.00 Rockwiz (PG) 9.50 Movie: Intacto (MA 2001)

France. Stars Leonardo Sbaraglia, Eusebio Poncela.

11.45 SOS (M) 12.45 The Glenmoore Job (M) 1.45 Weatherwatch

6.10 World News 7.15 Cycling: Tour Of Spain 7.30 World News 10.00 Who Do You Think You Are?

Vic Reeves (G) 11.00 Who Do You Think You Are?

David Baddiel (PG) 12.00 Cycling: Tour Of Ireland 1.00 Speedweek 3.00 Football Asia 3.30 UEFA Magazine Program 4.00 Les Murray’s Football

Feature 5.00 The World Game 6.00 Thalassa (G) 6.30 World News Australia 7.00 2009 One Day International

Cricket Live from England. 3.00 Weatherwatch

7.00 Kids’ Programs 3.00 rage (G) 6.05 The New

Inventors 6.35 Heartland 7.20 Rex The Hunt 7.30 The Einstein

Factor 8.00 At The Movies

Rpt. 8.30 Movie: Touch

Of Evil (M 1958) Stars Charlton Heston.

10.00 The Wire (MA) 12.00 Close

6.00 Golf 7.00 Motorsport 9.00 Major League

Baseball 12.00 Athletix 12.30 Mecum Auction 1.30 Omnisport 2.00 AFL 2009 Finals 5.30 Motorsport 7.00 AFL 2009 Finals 11.00 NAB Rising Star 12.00 UFC Wired 12.55 Omnisport 1.25 Football.

Bundesliga Weekly Highlights

2.30 Major League Baseball

5.00 Xtreme Paintball 5.30 NCAA College

Football. Oklahoma State v Georgia

7.00 Classic Albums: Metallica: Metallica (G) 8.00 Zoo Days (G) 8.55 Little Angels (G) 9.25 Scrapheap Challenge 11.00 Beautiful Noise 12.00 Soundtrack To My Life: Nick Heyward (G) 12.30 Red Dwarf (PG) 1.30 Planet Rock Profiles (G) 2.00 triple j tv: Wolfmother. 3.00 The Doors: Live

In Europe 4.00 The Pigeon

Detectives At Radio 1’s Big Weekend

4.30 Verve In Session 5.00 Oasis: Soul And

Glory 6.00 ABC Fora 7.00 First Tuesday

Book Club 7.30 Cranford (PG) 8.30 Hornblower (M) 10.15 Under The

Greenwood Tree (G)

11.55 Close

6.00 NCAA College Football Oklahoma State v Georgia

8.30 AFL 2009 Finals 10.30 NASCAR 12.30 Omnisport 1.00 I Fish 1.30 Beach Volleyball 2.00 Motorsport 5.00 Body & Brain

Overhaul 5.30 Netball Test

Series 2009 7.30 Sports Tonight 8.30 NASCAR

Nationwide Series

11.00 Moto GP 12.10 AFL Premiership

Finals 2009 2.10 Motorsport.

Repco Rally Australia 2009

5.00 Major League Baseball

5.00am to 6.00pm World News

In Various Languages

6.30 World News 7.00 Cooking In The

Danger Zone 7.30 The World

Game 8.30 Spiral (M) 10.30 Movie: Kebab

Connection (M 2004) Germany. Stars Denis Moschitto, Nora Tschirner.

11.10 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships

1.30 Weatherwatch

6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Totally Wild 9.30 I Got A Rocket 10.00 Video Hits (PG) 12.00 Infomercial (PG) 1.00 It’s Me Or The Dog 2.00 AFL 2009 Qualifying Final 5.30 Ten News 6.00 Sports Tonight (PG) 6.30 The Simpsons (PG) 8.30 AFL 2009 Qualifying Final 12.00 NAB Rising Star Special 1.00 Repco Rally Australia 2009 2.30 Infomercials

6.00 Religion 7.00 Totally Wild 7.30 Animalia 8.00 Meet The Press 8.30 State Focus (G) 9.00 Video Hits (PG) 12.00 Netball Test 2009

Australia v New Zealand. 2.00 Repco Rally Australia 2009 3.00 No Ordinary Journey (G) 5.00 Ten News 5.30 Out Of The Blue (PG) 6.00 The Simpsons (PG) 6.30 Australian Idol (PG) 8.40 Rove (M) 9.50 Movie: Me, Myself & Irene

(M) Stars Jim Carrey, Renee Zellweger, Chris Cooper.

12.10 Moto GP From San Marino. 2.25 Video Hits 2.30 Infomercials 4.00 Religion

6.00 Infomercials 7.00 Today On Saturday 9.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 Postcards London (G) 1.30 Neil Diamond – Welcome

Home Neil 2.00 The Farmer Wants A Wife 3.00 Rescue Special Ops (PG) 4.00 Discover Downunder (G) 4.30 Talk To The Animals (G) 5.00 Hooked On Fraser (G) 5.30 Postcards (G) 6.00 Evening News 6.30 Australia’s Funniest Home

Videos 7.30 Movie: Maid In Manhattan

(PG) Stars Jennifer Lopez, Ralph Fiennes, Bob Hoskins.

8.40 Saturday Lotto 9.55 Movie: The Lake House

(PG) Stars Sandra Bullock, Keanu Reeves, Shohreh Aghdashloo.

11.50 Movie: THe Majestic (M 2001) Stars Jim Carry, Martin Landau.

2.35 MAD TV (M) 3.30 Police Ten 7 (PG) 4.00 Infomercials

6.00 Arrive Alive Cup Matraville v Patrician.

7.00 Weekend Today 10.00 Wide World Of Sports 11.00 The Sunday Footy Show 12.00 Sunday Roast (PG) 1.00 WWE Afterburn 2.00 English Rugby League 4.00 Sunday Rugby League

Newcastle v Penrith. 6.00 Evening News 6.30 Domestic Blitz 7.30 60 Minutes 8.30 Rescue Special Ops (M) 9.30 CSI: Miami (M) 10.30 CSI: Miami (M) 11.30 Psychic Detectives (PG) 12.00 Movie: Final Cut (M 2004)

Stars Robin WIlliams, Mira Sorvino, Jim Caviezel.

1.50 David Campbell ‘Good Lovin’ Music.

2.00 Police Ten 7 (PG) 2.30 Infomercials 3.30 Religion 4.00 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

5.00am to 6.30pm World News

In Various Languages

6.30 World News 7.30 Iron Chef 8.20 Marx & Venus 8.30 Epitafios (M) 9.30 Movie: Tsotsi (M

2005) South Africa. Stars Presley Chweneyagae, Mothusi Magano, Kenneth Nkosi, Terry Pheto.

11.10 Movie: Chaos (MA 2001) Stars Rachida Brakni, Vincent Lindon, Catherine Frot.

1.05 Weatherwatch

All programs G or PG unless otherwise classified

6.00 Aria Music Show 7.00 Kid’s Programs 11.30 Charlie’s Angels 12.30 Seinfeld 2.00 Scooby-Doo 2.30 Marine Boy 3.00 Aria Hall Of Fame 5.00 The Aria Music Show 6.00 Seinfeld 7.30 Dance Your Ass Off 8.30 CSI: CSI (M) 9.30 CSI: Miami (M) 10.30 CSI: NY (M) 11.30 Movie: Queen Of The

Damned (M 2001) Stars Stuart Townsend, Aaliyah, Marguerite Moreau.

1.30 The Aria Music Show

All programs G or PG unless otherwise classified

6.00 Aria Music Show 7.00 Kid’s Programs 11.30 Seinfeld 12.00 Charlie’s Angels 1.00 Marine Boy 1.30 Scooby-Doo 2.00 Josie And The

Pussycats 2.30 Scooby-Doo 3.00 The Jetsons 4.00 The Flintstones 5.00 The Nanny 6.00 Seinfeld 6.30 Wipeout 7.30 The Big Bang Theory 9.00 Aliens In America 10.00 The New Adventures

Of Old Christine 10.30 Movie: Police

Academy 2 (M 1985) Stars Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall, Buba Smith, George Gaynes.

12.00 The Aria Music Show

1. Martin Shaw is excellent as the detective

inspector in George Gently (ABC, Friday

8.30pm), a well-written police drama set in

1960s northern England. Worth it just for the

witty exchanges with his sidekick Detective

Sergeant John Bacchus (Lee Ingleby).

2. The ill-fated Aaaliyah appeals to the

night owls in Queen of the Damned (GO!,

Saturday, 11.30pm), an adaptation of Anne

Rice’s vampire series.

3. Break on through to the other side this

Sunday afternoon at 3.30pm on ABC2 with

The Doors: Live in Europe, filmed on their

1968. Their songs are consistently good and

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4.30 SeaChange (PG) Rpt. 5.30 The New Inventors (G) Rpt. 6.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Jamestown: America’s

Birthplace (G) 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 National Press Club 1.30 Talking Heads (G) Rpt. 2.00 Parliament Question Time

House Of Representatives 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Travel Oz (G) 6.30 The Cook and the Chef (G) 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 The New Inventors (G) 8.30 Spicks And Specks (PG) 9.00 The Librarians (M) 9.30 United States Of Tara (M) 10.00 At the Movies 10.30 Lateline & Lateline Business 11.30 Taggart (M) 12.40 The Sideshow With Paul

McDermott (PG) Rpt. 1.40 Parliament Question Time

The Senate 2.55 Pride Of The League (G) 3.25 National Press Club

5.20 World News in various languages.

7.15 Cycling: Tour Of Spain 7.30 World News in various

languages. 1.00 Movie: Ushpizin (PG 2004)

Israel. Stars SHuli Rand, Bat-Sheva Rand, Shaul Mizrahi, Rabbi Daniel Dayan.

2.40 Scripts Against Discriminations (PG)

2.50 One Fine Morning (G) 3.00 Corner Gas (PG) 3.30 The Hairy Bikers Ride Again 4.00 Real Top Guns (G) 4.30 The Journal 5.00 Newshour with Jim Lehrer 6.00 Global Village (PG) 6.30 World News Australia 7.35 Inspector Rex (PG) 8.30 About Men (M) 9.30 World News Australia 10.00 The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey

(M) Denmark. 11.10 2009 One Day International

Cricket

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show (PG) 11.30 Seven News 12.00 Movie: Stolen Youth (M

1996) Stars Sharon Lawrence. 2.00 Murder, She Wrote (PG) 3.00 Auction House (G) 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Seven and Prime News 5.00 M*A*S*H (G) 5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) 6.30 Seven and Prime News 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 7.30 World’s Strictest Parents 8.30 Criminal Minds (M) 9.30 My Name Is Earl (PG) 10.00 Scrubs (PG) 10.30 Family Guy (M) 11.00 American Dad (M) 11.30 Louis Theroux (M)12.30 Infomercials 5.30 Seven Early News

6.00 Ten Early News 7.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 9am With David And Kim 11.00 Ten News 12.00 Dr Phil (PG) 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) 3.00 Infomercials are punishment

for watching daytime TV 3.30 Friends (G) 4.00 Huey’s Cooking

Adventures (PG) 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News 6.00 The Simpsons (PG) 6.30 Neighbours (G) 7.00 The 7pm Project (PG) 7.30 The Simpsons (PG) 8.30 Law and Order: UK (M) 9.30 Numb3rs (M) 10.30 Ten News With Sports

Tonight 11.00 Netball Test Australia v The

World Invitational. 1.00 The Late Show With David

Letterman 2.00 Infomercials 4.00 Religion to 6am (PG)

5.30 Today 9.00 Mornings With Kerri-Anne

(PG) 11.00 Bio-Magnetics (G) 12.00 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 1.00 The View (PG) 2.00 Days Of Our Lives (PG) 3.00 Alive And Cooking (G) 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Afternoon News 5.00 Antiques Roadshow (G) 5.30 Hot Seat (G) 6.00 NBN News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 Two And A Half Men (PG) 8.00 Money For Jam (PG) 8.30 RPA (PG) 8.45 Lotto 9.00 The Gift (M) 9.30 Without A Trace (M) 10.30 Without A Trace (M) 11.30 Late News 12.00 Gilmore Girls (PG) 1.00 Entertainment Tonight 1.30 Informercials 5.00 Early Morning News

6.00 ABC News Breakfast

9.00 Business Today 9.30 Asia Pacific

News 10.00 Kids’ Programs 4.30 The Cook

And The Chef Moments (G)

4.40 The Kitchen Job (G)

5.30 Time Team (G) 6.30 Junkyard Wars 7.20 Mr Bean 7.30 The Royal Today 8.00 The Re-

Inventors (G) 8.30 Sin City Law 9.25 Family Brat

Camp 10.15 Nazi Hate Rock

(M) Investigates the disturbing and secretive world of white power music.

11.15 Eataolics (M) 12.15 Close

5.30am to 6.30pm World News

In Various Languages

6.30 World News 7.35 Insight (PG) 8.35 112 Emergency 9.05 Movie: Whisky

(M 2004) Uruguay. Stars Andres Pazos, Mirella Pascual.

10.50 Movie: The Overeater (M 2003) France. Stars Eric Cantona, Rachida Brakni.

12.20 WeatherWatch Overnight

4.30 World Cup Qualifyer. Italy v Bulgaria live from Italy.

6.00 AFL Premiership Finals 2009

8.00 Transworld Sport

9.00 Athletix 9.30 I Fish 10.00 Major League

Baseball 1.00 This Week In

Baseball 1.30 Omnisport 2.00 ITU Triathlon 5.00 NCAA College

Football 7.30 Body & Brain

Overhaul 8.00 High Five 8.30 Pro Bull Riding 9.30 Sports Tonight 10.00 Poker 11.00 Netball Test

Series 2009 1.00 AFL Premiership

Finals 2009 3.00 Omnisport 3.30 Major League

Baseball

All programs G or PG unless otherwise classified

6.00 Aria Music Show 7.00 The Nanny 7.30 Kids Programs 8.30 I Dream Of Jeannie 9.00 Bewitched 9.30 Australia’s Funniest Home Video Show 10.30 Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ 11.30 Seinfeld 12.00 Survivor 1.00 The Bachelor 2.00 The Bachelorette 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 The Nanny 4.00 Kids Programs 5.00 I Dream Of Jeannie 5.30 Bewitched 6.00 Australia’s Funniest

Home Video Show 7.00 Entertainment

Tonight 7.30 TMZ 8.00 Seinfeld 8.30 Terminator (M) 9.30 Fringe (M) 10.30 Eleventh Hour (M) 11.30 Just Shoot Me 12.00 Ellen Degeneres 1.00 Aria Music Show

All programs G or PG unless otherwise classified

6.00 Aria Music Show 7.00 The Nanny 7.30 Kids Programs 8.30 I Dream Of Jeannie 9.00 Bewitched 9.30 Australia’s Funniest Home Video Show 10.30 Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ 11.30 Seinfeld 12.00 Terminator (M) 1.00 Fringe (M) 2.00 Eleventh Hour (M) 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 The Nanny 4.00 Kids Programs 5.00 I Dream Of Jeannie 5.30 Bewitched 6.00 Australia’s Funniest

Home Video Show 7.00 Entertainment

Tonight 7.30 TMZ 8.00 Seinfeld (G) 8.30 The Gossip Girl (M) 9.30 Moonlight (M) 10.30 The Hills 11.30 Just Shoot Me 12.00 Ellen Degeneres 1.00 Aria Music Show

4.30 SeaChange (PG) Rpt. 5.30 The New Inventors (G) Rpt. 6.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Dynasties (G) 11.30 Two In The Top End (PG) 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Journey Of Life 1.30 Collectors (G) Rpt. 2.00 Parliament Question Time

The Senate 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 World’s Greenest Homes 6.50 Australia’s Heritage 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 Catalyst 8.30 Pedigree Dogs Exposed (PG) 9.30 Q&A 10.30 Lateline & Lateline Business 11.30 Live At The Basement: Luka

Bloom 12.25 Wildside (M) 1.15 Parliament Question Time

House Of Representatives 2.15 Movie: The Drum (PG 1938)

Stars Roger Livesey. 3.55 The Glass House (M)

5.20 World News in various languages.

7.15 Cycling: Tour Of Spain 7.30 World News in various

languages. 3.30 Wall Street Warriors (G) 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 5.30 2009 One Day International

Cricket 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 My Family Feast: Chinese

(G) 8.00 Costa’s Garden Odyssey (G) 8.30 ADbc New quiz show. 9.00 Dave In The Life: Of A

Homeless Person (M) 9.30 World News 10.00 Movie: The Man Who

Copied (M 2003) Brazil. Stars Luana Piovane, Pedro Cardoso.

12.15 Oz (MA) 1.20 Swordsmen Of The Passes:

Black Spine – Endurance (M) China.

3.00 Weatherwatch

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 Morning Show (PG) 11.30 Seven Morning News 12.00 Movie: Second Nature (M

2003) Stars Alex Baldwin. 2.00 Murder, She Wrote (PG) 3.00 Auction House (G) 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.00 M*A*S*H (G) Rpt. 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.00 Seven and Prime News 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 7.30 The Amazing Race (PG) 8.30 TV Burb (M) 9.00 Double Take (M) 9.30 My Name Is Earl (PG) 10.00 Scrubs (PG) 10.30 Family Guy (M) 11.00 American Dad (M) 11.30 That 70’s Show (PG) 12.00 Room For Improvement (G) 12.30 Infomercials

6.00 Ten Early News 7.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 9am With David And Kim 11.00 Ten News 12.00 Dr Phil (PG) 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) 3.00 Infomercial 3.30 Friends (G) 4.00 Huey’s Cooking Adventures 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News 6.00 The Simpsons (G) Rpt. 6.30 Neighbours (G) Rpt. 7.00 The 7pm Project (PG) 7.30 Rove Presents: Hamish And

Adny’s American Caravan Of Courage (PG)

8.00 Rules Of Engagement (PG) 8.30 Rush (M) 10.30 Late News and Sports

Tonight 11.15 Late Show With David

Letterman 12.00 Eureka (M) 1.00 Infomercials (PG) 5.00 Religion to 6am (PG).

5.30 Today 9.00 Mornings with Kerri-Anne 11.00 Infomercials 12.00 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 1.00 The View (PG) talk show. 2.00 Days Of Our Lives (PG) 3.00 Alive And Cooking (G) 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Afternoon News 5.00 Antiques Roadshow 5.30 Hot Seat 6.00 NBN News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 Getaway (PG) 8.30 20 to 1 (M) 9.30 The Footy Show (M) 11.00 Late News 11.30 AFL Footy Show 1.30 Entertainment Tonight 2.00 Infomercials

6.00 ABC News Breakfast

9.00 Business Today 9.30 Asia Pac News 10.00 Kids’ Programs 4.30 The Einstein

Factor (G) 5.00 The Cook And

The Chef (G) 5.30 ABC Fora 6.30 Junkyard Wars 7.20 Mr Bean 7.30 The Royal Today 8.00 Spicks And

Specks (PG) 8.30 The Librarians

(M) 9.00 FM: Last Night A

DJ Saved My Life (M)

9.30 United States Of Tara (M)

10.00 Pulling (M) 10.30 Billable Hours (M) 11.00 Modern Toss

(MA) 11.25 Very Small

Business (M)

6.00am to 6.00pm World News

In Various Languages

6.30 World News 7.30 As It Happened

(PG) 8.30 112 Emergency 9.00 Movie: Storm

(MA 2005) Sweden. Stars Eric Ericson, Eva Rose.

10.55 Movie: Carnage (M 2002) France. Stars Chiara Mastroianni, Angela Molina, Clovis Cornillac.

1.20 Weatherwatch Overnight

6.00 Body & Brain Overhaul

6.30 Grand-AM 7.30 NASCAR 9.30 Motorsport.

Raceworld 10.30 Australian

Superbikes 11.30 Major League

Baseball 2.30 Omnisport 3.00 Sports

Unlimited 4.00 Mecum Auction 5.00 ATP Tennis 5.30 Netball Test

Series 2009 7.30 Thursday Night

Live 9.00 Xtreme Paintball 9.30 Sports Tonight 10.00 UFC Wired 11.00 Boxing 12.00 Sports Tonight 12.15 Omnisport 12.30 Red Bull Air Race 2.30 Major League

Baseball

Prime HD program as above except:12.00 I Can Meake You Thin (G) 12.50 Movie: Easy Living (PG 1949) 2.10 The Great Outdoors (G) ➟

Prime HD program as above except:12.00 Dateline NBC 12.50 Heartbeat Of The Coral Coast (G) 1.40 Harry’s Practice 2.10 The Great Outdoors (G) ➟

4.30 Seachange (G) 5.30 The New Inventors (G) 6.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Landline 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Poirot (PG) 1.30 The Cook And The Chef (G) 2.00 Parliament Question Time:

The Senate 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Landline Extra 6.30 Talking Heads: Christine

Townend 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 Australian Story (PG) 8.30 Four Corners 9.20 Media Watch 9.35 Ashes To Ashes (M) 10.30 Lateline & Lateline Business 11.35 Bruce And Me (M) 12.25 MDA (M) 1.25 Parliament Question Time:

House Of Representatives 2.25 From The Heart: Kakadu

National Park (G) 2.55 Noise On Screen (M) 3.25 Bowls: Australian Indoor

Championships Womens Final

4.30 SeaChange (G) 5.30 The New Inventors (G) 6.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 The Real Mrs Doubtfire 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 The Einstein Factor (G) Rpt. 1.00 The New Inventors (G) Rpt. 1.30 Catalyst (PG) Rpt. 2.00 Parliament Question Time:

House Of Representatives 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.10 Finding The Fallen 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 Foreign Correspondent 8.30 The Wild West (M) 9.25 Fear, Stress And Anger (M) 10.00 Jennifer Byrne Presents (G) 10.30 Lateline & Lateline Business 11.35 Four Corners Rpt. 12.20 Media Watch Rpt. 12.35 Foyle’s War (M) 2.10 Parliament Question Time:

The Senate 3.25 triple j tv With The Doctor

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show (PG) 11.30 Seven News 12.00 Movie: One Hour Photo (M

2002) Stars Robin Williams. 2.00 Murder, She Wrote (PG) 3.00 Auction House (G) 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.00 M*A*S*H (G) 5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) 6.00 Seven and Prime News 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 7.30 TBA (PG) 8.30 City Homicide (M) 9.30 Beyond The Darklands (M) 10.30 Boston Legal (M) 11.30 It’s Always Sunny In

Philadelphia (M) 12.00 Saved (M) 12.30 Infomercials 5.30 Seven Early News

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show (PG) 11.30 Seven News 12.00 Movie: A Touch Of Frost (M)

Stars David Janson. 2.00 Murder, She Wrote (M) 3.00 Auction House (G) 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.00 M*A*S*H (G) 5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) 6.00 Seven and Prime News 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 7.30 TBA 8.30 Packed To The Rafters (PG) 9.30 All Saints (M) 10.30 TBA 12.00 I Can Make You Thin (G) 1.00 Infomercials

Prime HD same as above except:12.00 Dr Danger (G) 1.20 The Rich List 1.10 Harry’s Practice 1.30 Australia’s Strangest Home Improvements 2.00 The Great Outdoors ➟

Prime HD same as above except:12.00 Movie: Hello, Dolly! (PG) Stars Barbara Streisand, Walter Matthau 2.25 The Great Outdoors ➟

6.10 World News 7.00 2009 One Day International

Cricket 7.15 Cycling: Tour Of Spain 7.30 World News 1.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To

Australia 1.30 Metropolis: The Bright

Cities Of The Dark Ages (M) 2.30 Mister President 3.30 Insight 4.30 The Journal 5.00 The Crew (G) 5.30 2009 One Day International

Cricket 6.00 Living Black 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Top Gear (PG) 8.30 High Altitude: Fear (M) 9.00 Flight Of The Concords (M) 9.30 World News 10.00 Entourage (M) 10.30 Skins (MA) 11.20 Life’s A Zoo (M) 11.50 Movie: The Three Kings (M

2001) France. Stars Bernard Campan, Didier Bourdon, Pascal Legitimus.

1.35 Weatherwatch

5.20 World News 7.15 Cycling: Tour Of Spain 7.30 World News 1.00 Movie: Destiny Has No

Favourites (PG 2003) Peru. Stars Monica Steuer.

2.40 Hiyab (G) 2.50 Booth Story (PG) 3.00 Corner Gas (G) 3.30 Blaktrax (G) 4.00 Wine Lovers’ Guide To

Australia 4.30 The Journal 5.00 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 6.00 Global Village 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Insight 8.30 East West 101 (M) 9.30 World News Australia 10.00 Hot Docs: 51 Birch Street

(PG) From Canada. 11.40 Movie: Purple Butterfly

(MA 2003) China. Stars Zhang Ziyi, Liu Ye.

1.55 Weatherwatch

5.00am to 6.00pm World News

In Various Languages

6.30 World News 7.30 Lord Of The Ants 8.30 112 Emergency 9.00 Movie: Princess

(MA 2005) Spain. Stars Candela Pena, Micaela Nevarez, Marana Cordero.

11.00 Movie: Swing (PG 2001) France. Stars Oscar Copp, Lou Rech.

12.35 Weatherwatch

5.00am to 6.00pm World News

In Various Languages

6.30 World News 7.30 Hunting The

Hidden Dimensions (G)

8.30 112 Emergency 9.00 Movie: Seducing

Doctor Lewis (M 2003) Canada. Stars Raymond Bouchard, David Boulin.

10.50 Movie: Exiles (M 2004) France. Stars Romain Duris, Lubna Azabal.

12.40 Weatherwatch

6.00 ABC News 9.00 Business Today 9.30 Asia Pacific News 10.00 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Gardening

Australia 5.00 Message Stick 5.30 Can We Help? (G) 6.00 Collectors (G) 6.30 Junkyard Wars 7.20 Mr Bean (G) 7.30 The Royal Today

(PG) 8.00 Red Dwarf (PG) 8.30 Good Game 9.00 triple j tv With

The Doctor 9.30 Doctor Who 10.30 triple j tv

presents 11.00 Studio 22: X (M) 11.30 Ergo Proxy:

Anamnesis (M) 12.00 Close

6.00 Major League Baseball

8.00 Transworld Sport

9.00 NCAA College Football

12.00 Sports Unlimited

1.00 UCI BMX 2.00 Omnisport 2.30 Major League

Baseball 5.00 This Week In

Baseball 5.30 Netball Test

Series 2009 7.30 One Week At A

Time 8.35 NAB Rising Star 9.30 Sports Tonight 10.00 Grand-Am 11.00 Motorsport 12.00 Sports Tonight 12.15 One Week At A

Time 1.20 AFL 2009 Finals 3.20 Omnisport 3.50 Poker 4.50 ITU Triathlon 5.50 NFL Moment

6.00 ABC News 9.00 Business Today 9.30 Asia Pacific

News 10.00 Kids’ Programs 4.30 The Real Good

Life 4.55 Weird Science 5.00 Talking Heads

(G) Rpt. 5.30 Sun, Sea

And Bargain Spotting

6.30 Junkyard Wars 7.20 Mr Bean (G) 7.30 The Royal Today

(G) 8.00 Australian Story

Rpt. 8.30 Up In Town (PG) 8.45 The Beast (M) 9.30 The Wire (MA) 11.25 Teachers (M) 12.15 Close

6.00 One Week At A Time

7.00 Netball Test Series 2009

9.00 Major League Baseball

12.00 This Week In Baseball

12.30 Surfing 1.30 Omnisport 2.00 NCAA College

Football 4.30 One Week At A

Time 5.30 AFL 2009 Finals 7.30 Moto GP 8.40 Motorsport 9.30 Sports Tonight 10.00 NASCAR 12.00 Sports Tonight

Late 12.15 Omnisport 12.45 Body & Brain

Overhaul 1.15 Major League

Baseball 3.45 BMX Road Fools 4.45 ITU Triathlon 5.45 Omnisport

6.00 Ten Early News 7.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 9am With David And Kim 11.00 Ten News 12.00 Dr Phil (M) 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) 3.00 Infomercial 3.30 Friends (PG) 4.00 Huey’s Cooking

Adventures (G) 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News 6.00 The Simpsons (G) Rpt. 6.30 Neighbours (G) Rpt. 7.00 The 7pm Project (PG) 7.30 Are You Smarter Than A

5th Grader? (PG) 8.30 Good News Week (M) 9.40 Dexter (M) 10.45 Late News With Sports

Tonight 11.30 Late Show with David

Letterman (PG) 12.15 Sex And The City (M) 12.45 Video Hits Up Late 1.00 Infomercials (PG) 4.00 Religion to 6am (PG)

6.00 Ten Early News 7.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 9am With David And Kim 11.00 Ten News 12.00 Dr Phil (M) 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) 3.00 Infomercial 3.30 Friends (G) 4.00 Huey’s Cooking Adventures 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News 6.00 The Simpsons (G) Rpt. 6.30 Neighbours (G) Rpt. 7.00 The 7pm Project (PG) 7.30 the Spearman Experiment

(PG) With by Magda Szubanski. 8.30 NCIS (M) 9.30 NCIS (M) 10.30 News With Sports Tonight 11.15 Late Show With David

Letterman (PG) 12.00 Sex And The City (M) 12.30 State Focus 1.00 Infomercials (PG) 4.00 Religion to 6am (PG)

5.30 Today 9.00 Mornings with Kerri-Anne 11.00 Time/Life (G) 11.30 Infomercials 12.00 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 1.00 The View (PG) 2.00 Days of Our Lives (PG) 3.00 Alive And Cooking (G) 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Afternoon News 5.00 Antiques Roadshow (G) 5.30 Hot Seat (G) 6.00 Evening News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 Two And A Half Men (PG) 8.00 The Big Bang Theory (PG) 8.30 The Farmer Wants A Wife

(PG) 8.45 Lotto 9.30 Drop Dead Diva (PG) 10.30 Embarrassing Bodies (M) 11.30 Late News 12.00 Footy Classified (M) 1.00 Young Lions (M) 2.00 Infomercials 3.30 Religion 4.00 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

5.30 Today 9.00 Mornings With Kerri-Anne 11.00 Infomercials 12.00 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 1.00 The View (PG) 2.00 Days Of Our Lives (PG) 3.00 Alive And Cooking (G) 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Afternoon News 5.00 Antiques Roadshow (G) 5.30 Hot Seat (G) 6.00 Evening News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 20 To 1 (PG) 8.30 Two And A Half Men (M) 9.30 TBA 11.30 Late News 12.00 20/20 1.00 Intertainment Tonight 1.30 Infomercials 3.00 Religion 4.00 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

All programs G or PG unless otherwise classified

6.00 The Aria Music Show 7.00 The Nanny 7.30 Camp Lazlo 8.00 ed, Edd N Eddy 8.30 I Dream Of Jeannie 9.00 Bewitched 9.30 Australia’s Funniest Home Video Show 10.30 Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ 11.30 Seinfeld 12.00 The Big Bang Theory 1.30 Aliens In America 2.30 The New Adventures

Of Old Christine 3.00 Just Shoot Me! 3.30 The Nanny 4.00 Camp Lazlo 5.00 Ed, Edd N Eddy 5.30 I Dream Of Jeannie 6.30 Bewitched 6.00 Australia’s Funniest

Home Video Show 7.00 Entertainment Tonight 7.30 TMZ 8.00 Seinfeld 8.30 Dog The Bounty Hunter 9.30 Neighbours At War 10.30 Bad Lads Army 11.30 Just Shoot Me! 12.00 Ellen Degeneres 1.00 The Aria Music Show

All programs G or PG unless otherwise classified

6.00 The Aria Music Show 7.00 The Nanny 7.30 Camp Lazlo 8.00 Ed, Edd N Eddy 8.30 I Dream Of Jeannie 9.00 Bewitched 9.30 Australia’s Funniest Home Video Show 10.30 Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ 11.30 Seinfeld 12.00 Dog The Bounty Hunter 1.00 Neighbours At War 2.00 Bad Lads Army (M) 3.00 Just Shoot Me! 3.30 The Nanny 4.00 Camp Lazlo 4.30 Ed, Edd N Eddy 5.00 I Dream Of Jeannie 5.30 Bewitched 6.00 Australia’s Funniest

Home Video Show 7.00 Entertainment Tonight 7.30 TMZ 8.00 Seinfeld 8.30 Survivor 9.30 The Bachelor 10.30 The Bachelorette 11.30 Just Shoot Me! 12.00 Ellen Degeneres 1.00 The Aria Music Show

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2-day intensive Sept 12 & 13

FUN FREE INTRO NIGHTSWed Sept 9, 7.30-9pm

At Heartspace (above Santos), Mullumbimby

Call Cynthia/Jude 0408 205 671

BRAKES, CV JOINTS, AUTO ELECTRICAL

SECOND HAND TYRES

RECONDITIONED BATTERIES $38

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Living Water, the most important element for vibrant health.

Soothing home massage

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NATURAL SOAPS JAPANESE/TIBETAN/INDIAN INCENSE PURE SOY CANDLES 100% NATURAL MASSAGE OILS INCLUDING EDIBLE ORGANIC

BODY SOUFFLE ORGANIC SUGAR SCRUB

Help Dad save the environment this Fathers

Day - Say no to plastic

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Envirosax Eco Friendly Bags $6.95

Stainless Steel Water Bottles 500ml $16.95

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Mary Ryan’s: something for every dad!Spoil dad this Fathers Day with a trip to Mary Ryan’s. Delight his senses with a delicious Merlo coffee, relax in the bookshop, and browse the exciting range of titles. Here you’ll discover something to please every dad. If you’re finding it hard to choose a great gift, take a look at the Fathers Day displays in-store, or ask one of the friendly staff for a recommendation.

Ben and Kylie have a selection of great books to choose from, including Charles Kingsford Smith, D-Day: The Battle for Normandy, The Wide World of Ken Sutcliffe, or select an all-time favourite from their range of classics.

Most of all, Ben, Kylie, and the team at Mary Ryan’s would like to wish all the Dads out there a happy day!

Mary Ryan’s. 21-25 Fletcher Street, Byron Bay. Phone 02 6685 8183.

Bulk Sports WarehouseStocking a wide range of footwear, apparel, equipment and accessories, Bulk Sports Warehouse caters for a variety of sports including rugby league/union, AFL, soccer, cricket, hockey, boxing, tennis, athletics, swimming and more.

With spring here and the footy finals just around the corner, there is no better time to buy dad a new pair of running shoes or a shirt in the colours of his favourite footy team. If you’re a bit stuck for an idea then a gift voucher could be the perfect Fathers Day present.

Bulk Sports Warehouse has been servicing the sporting needs of the Tweed community for nearly 20 years. The business is located on the corner of Frances and Beryl Sts in central Tweed, just around the corner from the Rivers Clearance Centre. Drop

in and see James and Christine for some friendly assistance today.

Phone 07 55991566

Aussie DisposalsAussie Disposals Tweed Heads has the perfect present for dad this Fathers Day, like the new LED Lenser ‘P’ range of torches. These torches boast the most powerful LED technology giving it the brightest beam while using the smallest amount of energy. All LED Lenser torches are 15% off this weekend only! Or spoil dad with a new Leatherman multi-function tool. These tools are all completely stainless steel and have Leatherman’s lifetime warrenty! All leatherman tools are 10% off this weekend only! get in quick to get dad a bargain, only at Aussie Disposals Tweed Heads, or call their friendly staff on 07 5523 1788 for more details about these or other great camping ideas.

‘One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.’ George Herbert (1593-1632) British poet.

Your Local Sports Store

Corner of Frances & Beryl Streets, Tweed Heads – just behind Rivers 07 5599 1566

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Is Dad needing a new pair of runners, a tennis or squash racquet, boxing gloves or bag, new darts, or perhaps a shirt for his favourite NRL team?

Gift Voucher?

Whether Dad loves gardening, sports or the outdoors, we’ll help you fi nd the

perfect book at Mary Ryan’s.

This Father’s Day do you really think Dad wantsMORE socks and jocks?

BYRON BAY 21-25 Fletcher Street(02) 6685 8183

Fathers Day is a day of commemoration and celebration of dad. It is a day to not only honour your father, but all men who have acted as a father figure in your life – whether as stepfathers, uncles, grandfathers, or ‘big brothers.’

Did you know? Scholars believe that the origin of Fathers Day is not as recent as some think. Apparently a young boy called Elmesu carved a Fathers Day message on a card made out of clay nearly 4,000 years ago. Elmesu wished his Babylonian father good health and a long life. Though there is no record of what happened to Elmesu and his father but the tradition of celebrating Fathers Day remained in several countries all over the world.

Did you know? Roses are the official flower for Fathers Day.

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MAY 7 – 13 A L L Y O U R L O C A L E N T E R T A I N M E N TSEPT 3 – SEPT 9

Classical music comes to TyalgumThe Tyalgum Festival of Clas-sical Music will be held this weekend, from September 4 to 6 at the Tyalgum Hall and Showground. Co-founded in 1991 by virtuoso violinists, Carmel Kaine and John Willi-son, the Tyalgum Festival of Classical Music is renowned as one of Australia’s finest classical events. On Friday from 8pm at the hall, a piano recital will be given by the Prizewinner of the 2009 Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition. On Saturday at the hall from 10.30am, Emma Baker-Spink, soprano and Therese Milanovic, piano, will present four clas-sical pieces including works by MacMillan, Kats-Chernin, Mozart and Tavener. The full day’s entertainment will then continue with Raphael Eber-mann, violin with accompanist Corinna Ebermann perform-ing Vivaldi ‘s Sonata No 5 Opus 2 in B minor. Hee-Joo Kim, cello, and accompanist Marie Nicolson will be performing Beethoven’s Cello Sonata 2nd movement Opus 5. Seong-Yeon Shin, violin, and accompanist, Therese Milanovic will perform Wieniawski Scherzo’s Taran-tella. Ayesha Gough, piano will perform pieces by Beethoven, Rachmaninov and Bach.At 3pm, classical ensemble ‘Buzz’ will perform pieces by Arnold, Ewald, Previn, Dukas and Parker. Opera Queensland 2009 Young Artists will perform at 8pm and features Sam Hartley (bass), Hayley Sugars (soprano), Milica Ilic (soprano), Guy Booth (baritone) and Kylie Los (piano).On Sunday September 6 from 8.30 am, this year’s Sunday Morning Service will be taken

by The Reverend Colin Tett,

Rector, Anglican Parish Church,

Murwillumbah. St John’s is

located on the corner of Wol-

lumbin Street and Carraboi Ter-

race, Tyalgum. Choral works by

Mozart, Frank, Handel, Goodall,

Marlotte and Schubert will be

sung by mezzo soprano, Alison

McKenzie.

From 10.30am Sunday at the

Tyalgum Hall, Sebastien Lip-

man and Sayo Lipman present

a classical concert with works

by Beethoven, Bach, Mozart

and Debussy. Following an in-

terval, Maggie Chen and Vicky

Yang will perform works by

Rachmaninoff and Gavrilin.

The festival will then shift

to the showgrounds, with

gates opening at 11am. From

12.30pm The Hot Chilli Drum-

mers will perform, followed by

the Chillingham Bellydance for

Fun at 12.45pm and GuruV fea-

turing Mahini Cox at 1.30pm.

The Showgrounds are located

at the Tyalgum Taipans’ Soc-

cer Club, and BBQ café and

refreshments are available

from 12 noon to 3pm. Under

16s free entry. Laser Skirmish

from 11am – great fun for the

(bigger) kids! Bring the family,

a blanket to sit on and BYO

alcohol. Tickets are available on

6679 2280 or via email info@

tyalgumfestival.com.au.

For more visit tyalgumfestival.

com.au

CliffyCliffy promises something for

everyone in his show, and aims

to involve his audience to gen-

erate a feel good vibe. This solo

artist’s delivery is an awesome,

entertaining mix of music

and passion. Cabarita Beach

Sports Club, Bogangar, 8pm

Saturday. Also Fathom play

on Friday at the Club.

Creedence Clearwater Revival TributeHere’s your chance to relive the magic of the sixties, the soul of the seventies, the rock and roll of the eighties, and John Fogerty`s latest material from the `nineties. The Creedence Clearwater Revival Tribute perform such well know clas-sics as Bad Moon Rising, Down On The Corner, Midnight Special, Looking Out My Backdoor, Hey Tonight and Have You Ever Seen The Rain. This magnificent three hour performance has been hailed by sellout audiences throughout Australia as ‘The ultimate Creedence Clearwater experience.’ The International Creedence Clearwater Revival Tribute is at Seagulls this Sat-urday September 5 from 8pm.

Carter Edwards ShowCarter Edwards is winner of two Mo Awards, and nomi-nated five times as ‘Australia’s Entertainer of the Year’. As an accomplished entertainer, Carter will hold you spellbound with a raucous and typically Australian humour that in-volves the audience all the way. He couples this with songs,

L O C A L E N T E R T A I N M E

CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL SHOW SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5 AT SEAGULLS

ROGERTHAT COOLANGATTA HOTEL 8PM FRIDAY

MAGGIE CHEN & VICKY YANG SUNDAY AT THE TYALGUM HALL

DAVE GRANEY AND THE LURID YELLOW MIST SEPTEMBER 4 SOUNDLOUNGE

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SMALL TOWN GUSSETMandy Nolan

gags and perhaps a featured drum or guitar solo. Then he adds any of the highly enter-taining and original gimmicks he’s created over the years – but the mainstay of Carter’s onstage magic is his ability to have fun with an audience and just ‘make ‘em feel good!’ Seagulls Sunday 13, 8pm.

RogerthatHairy stooges and touring fools, Rogerthat are back in August and September to mix their peyote and melt minds. They’ll be crawling around on an Australian national tour to prop the release of their debut album The Desert’s Call. The band have just arrived in Europe for a month long run after smoking it in Canada – nine gigs in two weeks through West Canada to rooms full of Rogerthat converts. The Desert’s Call in store now through MGM. Coolangatta Hotel 8pm Friday.

Herman’s HermitsThe mid-sixties music scene was dominated by British acts. Household names such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones were among them, just as Herman’s Hermits are, and they remain one of the most successful groups to this day. Catch them on Friday, Satur-day, September 4 and 5, Twin Towns Services Club.

Kate Ceberano,Celebrating 25 years of suc-cess in the music industry and 22 albums, don’t miss Kate Ceberano as she lights up the stage revisiting the highlights of her career. Come along with Kate on a musical journey stop-ping off at favourite songs from her career, Pash, Brave mixed in with some other delightful surprises. Kate Ceberano, Sun-day September 6, Twin Towns Services Club.

Johnny Cash TributeMark Caligiuri, has the looks,

the voice and the style of the younger (1950s) late, great music star, Johnny Cash. Mark has based his show around the huge success of the movie: Walk The Line, with the wonderful songs written by the country-rock music legend. See him Wednesday September

9, Twin Towns Services Club at 11am.

Sugar Army and Buick SixPerth rock outfit Sugar Army will be at the Soundlounge this week. ‘If you think you liked Cut Copy, the Midnight Juggernauts or any of those other unfortunate Australian hipster bands, get ready to have your teeth knocked out.’ Beat Magazine.Their debut album The Paral-lels Amongst Ourselves was released July 10, 2009 through Shock Records and debuted in the top 100 of the ARIA charts and number 2 in the Austral-ian Independent Record 100% Indie Charts.

Buick Six With their debut LP set for release in late 2009, Brisbane rock trio Buick Six prepare to ‘test the waters’ with their second EP due out this coming July. A busy 2008 saw the band find their feet with a unique blend of Garage Rock, Pop and Blues. Their energetic live show has been met with positive reviews; street press simply describing the trio as ‘a great band that puts forward a very impressive performance… a lot bands are doing this sound, but Buick Six do it a lot better than the standard’ – faster-louder.com.au Sugar Army and Buick Six play Thursday

September 3, Soundlounge,

Currumbin.

Dave Graney Dave Graney’s music is not generic. It’s not rootsy or pop but it kind of is as well.

It’s Dave Graney music. He started to write songs in the post punk period when my-thology and ideology and self expression were all screwed up and meeting head-on. Dave Graney is on tour to promote his new disc, Knock Yourself Out.‘I call this record a filthy r’n’b set or an electro boogie album,’ says Dave. ‘It’s a solo album but it’s not a guy with an acoustic guitar. I play most of the instru-ments except for the drums which Clare Moore takes care of, either with her trusty vin-tage Gretsch kit which she has had since the Moodists days, or she took the sounds from her keyboard and arranged them as she saw fit. I wrote all the lyr-ics and music except for three which Clare either set up for me or worked on with me. Stu Thomas plays amazing bass on two songs and sings on others and Stu Perera plays lead guitar licks on three. I play electric guitar, bass and keys on all the others. I recorded and mixed it at our studio, the Ponderosa.’ Dave Graney and the Lurid Yellow Mist perform Friday September 4, Soundlounge, Currumbin. www.myspace.com/davegraney

Preston Train Preston Train will inject some rockin/blues and groove to The Tyalgum Hotel Sunday after-noon September 6. The Train interpret tunes from the likes

of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Robben Ford, The Bondi Cigars through to Aussie classics from the Hoodoo Gurus, Hunters & Collectors as well as a few originals of their own.

Early Bird Tickets to Mullum Music Fest 09Last year saw the birth of a brand new event: The Mullumbimby Music Festival. This grassroots event presents independent music to independent people. With nearly every venue in Mullum pulsing with music, from the Drill Hall to the High School, the Courthouse, the Bowlo, the RSL and the Civic Hall, it’s an opportunity to experience a vibrant village full of music lovers. This is not a gated festival. This is a four day event when every venue, every corner of Mullumbimby vibes with reggae, acoustic, dance, jazz, swing, gypsy and more. It’s the kind of event where you can take your kids, have a coffee, have a dance, see a friend, and then catch one of the 50 plus acts on this year’s playing schedule. Mullum Music Festival 09 welcomes Tex Perkins, Jen Cloher and the Endless Sea, Simone White (USA), Archie Roach and Shane Howard, Djan Djan with Jeff Lang, Mamadou Diabate Mali and Bobby Singh, Washington,

I can’t believe it. The snappy crotch is back. I would have thought in the interests of public health and safety these would have been outlawed like lead-based make-up, goldfish in a platform heel and the root perm. But no, this gusset grabber is back. So I bought one. I couldn’t help it. I’m wearing it right now. In fact, I’m frightened to take it off. (I haven’t been to the bathroom for two days.) I didn’t buy it because it was practical, or remotely comfortable, or even attractive. I bought it because I didn’t think anyone would believe me unless I had the evidence! There’s not many items of clothing that can threaten to take out a labia, but the body suit is one of them. One fatal slip up doing up a hook and eye and you’ve got a very intimate piercing. You didn’t need a breath test when you wore a body suit with a snappy crotch. If you could do up the gusset then you were right to drive. Many the 80s Princess found herself in the toilet cubicle at the local disco struggling to reunite the two ends of her body suit. For some women it was their first introduction to yoga in a confined space. Who can forget the horror of being in polite conversation and hearing the dreaded Pop! Followed by the even more worrisome Pop! Pop! It was like the vagina had channelled Bruce Banner and was experiencing the clothes tearing transformation of the Incredible Hulk. It’s a nasty image. But any woman

who’s lived through the

eighties knows the need for

emergency response once

that gusset starts rolling up

like an angry venetian blind.

Only sober women should

wear body suits. There

should be a warning. ‘Keep

garment away from alcohol.’

I remember being on a date

with a bloke I was hoping to

impress. We were at a 21st

dancing to Robert Palmer

and drinking beer from a

keg. Of course I drank too

much. I know how much that

impresses blokes. Ladies,

there is nothing a fella

likes more than a slurring,

dribbling girlfriend that he

has to carry to the car. If you

really want to make your

mark, then vomit on the

back seat. You may never get

a second date but he’ll have

to sell the car to get rid of

you. Anyway, it wasn’t until

the photos came back I saw

that halfway through the

night I’m the chick dancing

with the flappy crotch of the

body suit hanging out the

top of my jeans. It wasn’t

until years later when I

scanned the photo I counted

four other women with their

gussets experiencing the

same party action as mine.

So, if like me, you can’t resist

the nostalgia of this lycra

chastity belt (I haven’t even

mentioned the finger tearing

torment experienced by

untrained hands who dared

to dismantle), do yourself

a favour and get a Brazilian

first. Either that or get some

waterproof mascara.

Love

FairAmazing array of

things to see and buyvintage & antique clothing

vintage shoes, handbags hats & accessories, lace, linen, collectables

vintage & antique jewellery

11.00am Demonstration of VintageMakeup Techniques & Hairstyles

Hairstylist will then be available to doyour hair in 1940s/50s style

WE NEED A MODEL FOR THE HAIR & MAKEUP DEMONSTRATION AT 11AM

If you would like to be our model then email a photo (head shot) of yourself to

janel@lovevintage.com.au Include yourname, phone number & bust, & waist

measurements so we can outfityou in a gorgeous 1950s dress

For more details seewww.lovevintage.com.au/bangalow.htm

or phone 02 66286688Cafe open Admission Adults $2

Sat 19th September 20099.00am to 4.00pm

A & I Hall Bangalow

SUGAR ARMY AND BUICK SIX, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 3 SOUNDLOUNGE

HERMAN’S HERMITS, FRIDAY 4 AND SATURDAY 5 TWIN TOWNS SERVICES CLUB.

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Nano Stern (Chile), Tinpan Orange, Washington, Vince Jones and many more. Mark November 26-29 in your diaries. Weekend tickets, opening night tickets and tickets to Friday, Saturday and Sunday go on sale Tuesday September 8 now with a 10% discount for early bird purchasers. And early birds even get a compilation CD of the best of MMF 09. Get in early because Sunday sold out last year and over 500 punters had to be turned away. Audience numbers are limited so get in quick!Early bird tickets are only available through the website: www.mullummusicfestival.com enquiries to 6684 6195.

Greg FleetThis Wednesday Saltbar Beachbar and Bistro’s Sit Down Comedy Club will get your healthy dose of endor-phins pumping. Headlining

the show will be comedy king Greg Fleet, who is one of Australia’s most experienced and popular stand up comics. As a NIDA trained actor, Fleet made the plunge in 1987 start-ing out as a sit down comic at the Prince Patrick Hotel in Melbourne. Support act Chris Hague is ‘quirky and charming’ with a comedic humour that is never short of belly laugh. Alongside Fleet and Hague will be MC Andrew Nason whose keen wit and incisive style promises a night of true blue comedic action and laughter. Wednesday September 9 from 7:30pm. For information or to make a booking please phone 1300 725 822.

Swell Sculpture Festival See the seventh annual Swell Sculpture Festival from September 11 to 20 at Currumbin Beach. Over fifty

large sculptures built by artists

from Australia and abroad will

enliven, amuse and uplift. The

exhibition is free and open

all hours with a selection of

sculptures revealing a new

verve as they light up under

the southern sky.

Experience the sculpture and

enjoy twilight sculpture walks,

artist talks, a public art forum,

the Swell Smalls Gallery, kids

workshops and gourmet BBQs.

For more visit www.swellsculp-

ture.com.au

Old Times by Harold PinterByron Bay Theatre Company

makes use of the iconic Drill

Hall to present Old Times by

Harold Pinter. ‘The Drill Hall

is an intimate and atmos-

pheric venue,’ says Director

Anatoly Frusin, ‘It is like a real

old community theatre space

with history and a feeling of

the ghosts of the past, and

so is perfect for Pinter’s Old

Times, about the way the past

haunts our present relation-

ships and even our identities.’

Frusin has worked with big

names such Cate Blanchett

and Hugo Weaving, as well as

at Opera Australia. He recently

directed The Song Company

in a medieval mystery play at

St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney

and staged Wagner’s Tristan

and Isolde for the West Austral-

ian Opera in Perth. As for Old

Times, Anatoly describes it as ‘a

very grown up comedy with a dark and sexy edge. Part com-edy of manners, part psycho-logical thriller with that special Pinteresque atmosphere.’ If you love the wit of Noel Coward, the passion of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, and the style and sexual politics of The Ice Storm, get down to the Mul-

lum Drill Hall, September 11

and 12 from 7.30pm and Sep-

tember 13 from 5pm. $22/$15 concession. Bookings through the Mullum Bookshop, Mary Ryans in Byron and Barebones Art Space in Bangalow.

Swell Sculpture Festival Currumbin Beach,September 11 to 20

Shapeshifter Coolangatta Hotel September 10

Tweed Heads Seagulls Foot-

ball Club Charity Masked Ball

SeagullsSaturday September 19

A Jazz Overture: Bob Mont-

gomery–Al Hermann Quintet

SeagullsSeptember 20

Leo Sayer,

Twin Towns Services Club Friday September 11

Lulo Reinhardt & Andrew

Veivers

Soundlounge, CurrumbinFriday September 11

Being the grand nephew of guitar genius Django Reinhardt shaped destiny for Lulo Reinhardt.

‘My whole family plays. When I was growing up, in every corner was a guitar. My cousin at the age of 10 was a super talent. As a child I listen to music every day and I start playing when I am 5. My father teach me every day. I was playing 4 or 5 hours every day. Like other kids play soccer. Do I become good? It depends on what your taste, on what it is to be good to you. To be your own musician is very important to me. To find my own style.’

And find his own style Lulo certainly did. He is described as a spontaneous and spirited musician and

his different styles come from a musical voyage to find flamenco roots in Spain, Latin jazz from South America, combined with his own artistic stamp and gypsy influences.

‘It is really important for me to do my own thing. Without Django maybe I be a taxi driver or a painter!’

This current tour marks Lulo’s sixth Australian tour paying homage to the passion our audiences have for his music.

‘The audience is very open. I look out and I see big eyes. They think it will be just like Django Rhienhardt but I have my own style.’

Lulo has picked up from the traditions and practise in many cultures.

‘I was in Spain many times

with flamenco guitarists. They inspire me that’s why I play so much samba stuff. I pick up everything. I was in Africa, in China... you have to be open to different cultures and different rhythms. I am really open. I steal everything and put it in!

‘Also just as important are the musicians you play with. When putting music together you have to taste everything. It’s like cooking. You find a mix, with your technique ... I have a good 6 piece band, you all have to be really into the music, otherwise it doesn’t work.’

Lulo’s music is highly responsive, and every concert is different.

‘My music is 90% improvisation. We start with arrangements, but every night is different. If someone looks you in the eyes... last night a 96 year old lady was flirting with me so I play something nice and soft...’

Lulo Reinhardt and his band are joined by the Buttery Recovery Choir at the Bangalow A&I Hall on Sunday. Tickets $35 pre (+BF) /$40 door

www.kupromotions.oztix.com.au

Lulo Reinhardtwith his band

GREG FLEET AT THE SALTBAR BEACHBAR AND BISTRO’S SIT DOWN COMEDY CLUB WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 9

BUICK SIX THURSDAY 3 SOUNDLOUNGE, CURRUMBIN

PRESTON TRAIN AT THE TYALGUM HOTEL SUNDAY 6

ALISON MCKENZIE, ANGLICAN PARISH CHURCH, MURWILLUMBAH, SUNDAY 6

KATE CEBERANO, SUNDAY 6, TWIN TOWNS SERVICES CLUB

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LINDSAY WEBB (HERE WITH WILL ANDERSON) GOLD COAST ARTS CENTRE FRIDAY

KINGFISHA AT THE BUDDHA BAR, BYRON BAY FRIDAY

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SMALL TOWN GUSSETMandy Nolan

gags and perhaps a featured drum or guitar solo. Then he adds any of the highly enter-taining and original gimmicks he’s created over the years – but the mainstay of Carter’s onstage magic is his ability to have fun with an audience and just ‘make ‘em feel good!’ Seagulls Sunday 13, 8pm.

RogerthatHairy stooges and touring fools, Rogerthat are back in August and September to mix their peyote and melt minds. They’ll be crawling around on an Australian national tour to prop the release of their debut album The Desert’s Call. The band have just arrived in Europe for a month long run after smoking it in Canada – nine gigs in two weeks through West Canada to rooms full of Rogerthat converts. The Desert’s Call in store now through MGM. Coolangatta Hotel 8pm Friday.

Herman’s HermitsThe mid-sixties music scene was dominated by British acts. Household names such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones were among them, just as Herman’s Hermits are, and they remain one of the most successful groups to this day. Catch them on Friday, Satur-day, September 4 and 5, Twin Towns Services Club.

Kate Ceberano,Celebrating 25 years of suc-cess in the music industry and 22 albums, don’t miss Kate Ceberano as she lights up the stage revisiting the highlights of her career. Come along with Kate on a musical journey stop-ping off at favourite songs from her career, Pash, Brave mixed in with some other delightful surprises. Kate Ceberano, Sun-day September 6, Twin Towns Services Club.

Johnny Cash TributeMark Caligiuri, has the looks,

the voice and the style of the younger (1950s) late, great music star, Johnny Cash. Mark has based his show around the huge success of the movie: Walk The Line, with the wonderful songs written by the country-rock music legend. See him Wednesday September

9, Twin Towns Services Club at 11am.

Sugar Army and Buick SixPerth rock outfit Sugar Army will be at the Soundlounge this week. ‘If you think you liked Cut Copy, the Midnight Juggernauts or any of those other unfortunate Australian hipster bands, get ready to have your teeth knocked out.’ Beat Magazine.Their debut album The Paral-lels Amongst Ourselves was released July 10, 2009 through Shock Records and debuted in the top 100 of the ARIA charts and number 2 in the Austral-ian Independent Record 100% Indie Charts.

Buick Six With their debut LP set for release in late 2009, Brisbane rock trio Buick Six prepare to ‘test the waters’ with their second EP due out this coming July. A busy 2008 saw the band find their feet with a unique blend of Garage Rock, Pop and Blues. Their energetic live show has been met with positive reviews; street press simply describing the trio as ‘a great band that puts forward a very impressive performance… a lot bands are doing this sound, but Buick Six do it a lot better than the standard’ – faster-louder.com.au Sugar Army and Buick Six play Thursday

September 3, Soundlounge,

Currumbin.

Dave Graney Dave Graney’s music is not generic. It’s not rootsy or pop but it kind of is as well.

It’s Dave Graney music. He started to write songs in the post punk period when my-thology and ideology and self expression were all screwed up and meeting head-on. Dave Graney is on tour to promote his new disc, Knock Yourself Out.‘I call this record a filthy r’n’b set or an electro boogie album,’ says Dave. ‘It’s a solo album but it’s not a guy with an acoustic guitar. I play most of the instru-ments except for the drums which Clare Moore takes care of, either with her trusty vin-tage Gretsch kit which she has had since the Moodists days, or she took the sounds from her keyboard and arranged them as she saw fit. I wrote all the lyr-ics and music except for three which Clare either set up for me or worked on with me. Stu Thomas plays amazing bass on two songs and sings on others and Stu Perera plays lead guitar licks on three. I play electric guitar, bass and keys on all the others. I recorded and mixed it at our studio, the Ponderosa.’ Dave Graney and the Lurid Yellow Mist perform Friday September 4, Soundlounge, Currumbin. www.myspace.com/davegraney

Preston Train Preston Train will inject some rockin/blues and groove to The Tyalgum Hotel Sunday after-noon September 6. The Train interpret tunes from the likes

of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Robben Ford, The Bondi Cigars through to Aussie classics from the Hoodoo Gurus, Hunters & Collectors as well as a few originals of their own.

Early Bird Tickets to Mullum Music Festival 09Last year saw the birth of a brand new event: The Mullumbimby Music Festival. This grassroots event presents independent music to independent people. With nearly every venue in Mullum pulsing with music, from the Drill Hall to the High School, the Courthouse, the Bowlo, the RSL and the Civic Hall, it’s an opportunity to experience a vibrant village full of music lovers. This is not a gated festival. This is a four day event when every venue, every corner of Mullumbimby vibes with reggae, acoustic, dance, jazz, swing, gypsy and more. It’s the kind of event where you can take your kids, have a coffee, have a dance, see a friend, and then catch one of the 50 plus acts on this year’s playing schedule. Mullum Music Festival 09 welcomes Tex Perkins, Jen Cloher and the Endless Sea, Simone White (USA), Archie Roach and Shane Howard, Djan Djan with Jeff Lang, Mamadou Diabate Mali and Bobby Singh, Washington,

I can’t believe it. The snappy crotch is back. I would have thought in the interests of public health and safety these would have been outlawed like lead-based make-up, goldfish in a platform heel and the root perm. But no, this gusset grabber is back. So I bought one. I couldn’t help it. I’m wearing it right now. In fact, I’m frightened to take it off. (I haven’t been to the bathroom for two days.) I didn’t buy it because it was practical, or remotely comfortable, or even attractive. I bought it because I didn’t think anyone would believe me unless I had the evidence! There’s not many items of clothing that can threaten to take out a labia, but the body suit is one of them. One fatal slip up doing up a hook and eye and you’ve got a very intimate piercing. You didn’t need a breath test when you wore a body suit with a snappy crotch. If you could do up the gusset then you were right to drive. Many the 80s Princess found herself in the toilet cubicle at the local disco struggling to reunite the two ends of her body suit. For some women it was their first introduction to yoga in a confined space. Who can forget the horror of being in polite conversation and hearing the dreaded Pop! Followed by the even more worrisome Pop! Pop! It was like the vagina had channelled Bruce Banner and was experiencing the clothes tearing transformation of the Incredible Hulk. It’s a nasty image. But any woman

who’s lived through the

eighties knows the need for

emergency response once

that gusset starts rolling up

like an angry venetian blind.

Only sober women should

wear body suits. There

should be a warning. ‘Keep

garment away from alcohol.’

I remember being on a date

with a bloke I was hoping to

impress. We were at a 21st

dancing to Robert Palmer

and drinking beer from a

keg. Of course I drank too

much. I know how much that

impresses blokes. Ladies,

there is nothing a fella

likes more than a slurring,

dribbling girlfriend that he

has to carry to the car. If you

really want to make your

mark, then vomit on the

back seat. You may never get

a second date but he’ll have

to sell the car to get rid of

you. Anyway, it wasn’t until

the photos came back I saw

that halfway through the

night I’m the chick dancing

with the flappy crotch of the

body suit hanging out the

top of my jeans. It wasn’t

until years later when I

scanned the photo I counted

four other women with their

gussets experiencing the

same party action as mine.

So, if like me, you can’t resist

the nostalgia of this lycra

chastity belt (I haven’t even

mentioned the finger tearing

torment experienced by

untrained hands who dared

to dismantle), do yourself

a favour and get a Brazilian

first. Either that or get some

waterproof mascara.

Love

FairAmazing array of

things to see and buyvintage & antique clothing

vintage shoes, handbags hats & accessories, lace, linen, collectables

vintage & antique jewellery

11.00am Demonstration of VintageMakeup Techniques & Hairstyles

Hairstylist will then be available to doyour hair in 1940s/50s style

WE NEED A MODEL FOR THE HAIR & MAKEUP DEMONSTRATION AT 11AM

If you would like to be our model then email a photo (head shot) of yourself to

janel@lovevintage.com.au Include yourname, phone number & bust, & waist

measurements so we can outfityou in a gorgeous 1950s dress

For more details seewww.lovevintage.com.au/bangalow.htm

or phone 02 66286688Cafe open Admission Adults $2

Sat 19th September 20099.00am to 4.00pm

A & I Hall Bangalow

SUGAR ARMY AND BUICK SIX, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 3 SOUNDLOUNGE

HERMAN’S HERMITS, FRIDAY 4 AND SATURDAY 5 TWIN TOWNS SERVICES CLUB.

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Nano Stern (Chile), Tinpan Orange, Washington, Vince Jones and many more. Mark November 26-29 in your diaries. Weekend tickets, opening night tickets and tickets to Friday, Saturday and Sunday go on sale Tuesday September 8 now with a 10% discount for early bird purchasers. And early birds even get a compilation CD of the best of MMF 09. Get in early because Sunday sold out last year and over 500 punters had to be turned away. Audience numbers are limited so get in quick!Early bird tickets are only available through the website: www.mullummusicfestival.com enquiries to 6684 6195.

Greg FleetThis Wednesday Saltbar Beachbar and Bistro’s Sit Down Comedy Club will get your healthy dose of endor-phins pumping. Headlining

the show will be comedy king Greg Fleet, who is one of Australia’s most experienced and popular stand up comics. As a NIDA trained actor, Fleet made the plunge in 1987 start-ing out as a sit down comic at the Prince Patrick Hotel in Melbourne. Support act Chris Hague is ‘quirky and charming’ with a comedic humour that is never short of belly laugh. Alongside Fleet and Hague will be MC Andrew Nason whose keen wit and incisive style promises a night of true blue comedic action and laughter. Wednesday September 9 from 7:30pm. For information or to make a booking please phone 1300 725 822.

Swell Sculpture Festival See the seventh annual Swell Sculpture Festival from September 11 to 20 at Currumbin Beach. Over fifty

large sculptures built by artists

from Australia and abroad will

enliven, amuse and uplift. The

exhibition is free and open

all hours with a selection of

sculptures revealing a new

verve as they light up under

the southern sky.

Experience the sculpture and

enjoy twilight sculpture walks,

artist talks, a public art forum,

the Swell Smalls Gallery, kids

workshops and gourmet BBQs.

For more visit www.swellsculp-

ture.com.au

Old Times by Harold PinterByron Bay Theatre Company

makes use of the iconic Drill

Hall to present Old Times by

Harold Pinter. ‘The Drill Hall

is an intimate and atmos-

pheric venue,’ says Director

Anatoly Frusin, ‘It is like a real

old community theatre space

with history and a feeling of

the ghosts of the past, and

so is perfect for Pinter’s Old

Times, about the way the past

haunts our present relation-

ships and even our identities.’

Frusin has worked with big

names such Cate Blanchett

and Hugo Weaving, as well as

at Opera Australia. He recently

directed The Song Company

in a medieval mystery play at

St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney

and staged Wagner’s Tristan

and Isolde for the West Austral-

ian Opera in Perth. As for Old

Times, Anatoly describes it as ‘a

very grown up comedy with a dark and sexy edge. Part com-edy of manners, part psycho-logical thriller with that special Pinteresque atmosphere.’ If you love the wit of Noel Coward, the passion of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, and the style and sexual politics of The Ice Storm, get down to the Mul-

lum Drill Hall, September 11

and 12 from 7.30pm and Sep-

tember 13 from 5pm. $22/$15 concession. Bookings through the Mullum Bookshop, Mary Ryans in Byron and Barebones Art Space in Bangalow.

Swell Sculpture Festival Currumbin Beach,September 11 to 20

Shapeshifter Coolangatta Hotel September 10

Tweed Heads Seagulls Foot-

ball Club Charity Masked Ball

SeagullsSaturday September 19

A Jazz Overture: Bob Mont-

gomery–Al Hermann Quintet

SeagullsSeptember 20

Leo Sayer,

Twin Towns Services Club Friday September 11

Lulo Reinhardt & Andrew

Veivers

Soundlounge, CurrumbinFriday September 11

Being the grand nephew of guitar genius Django Reinhardt shaped destiny for Lulo Reinhardt.

‘My whole family plays. When I was growing up, in every corner was a guitar. My cousin at the age of 10 was a super talent. As a child I listen to music every day and I start playing when I am 5. My father teach me every day. I was playing 4 or 5 hours every day. Like other kids play soccer. Do I become good? It depends on what your taste, on what it is to be good to you. To be your own musician is very important to me. To find my own style.’

And find his own style Lulo certainly did. He is described as a spontaneous and spirited musician and

his different styles come from a musical voyage to find flamenco roots in Spain, Latin jazz from South America, combined with his own artistic stamp and gypsy influences.

‘It is really important for me to do my own thing. Without Django maybe I be a taxi driver or a painter!’

This current tour marks Lulo’s sixth Australian tour paying homage to the passion our audiences have for his music.

‘The audience is very open. I look out and I see big eyes. They think it will be just like Django Rhienhardt but I have my own style.’

Lulo has picked up from the traditions and practise in many cultures.

‘I was in Spain many times

with flamenco guitarists. They inspire me that’s why I play so much samba stuff. I pick up everything. I was in Africa, in China... you have to be open to different cultures and different rhythms. I am really open. I steal everything and put it in!

‘Also just as important are the musicians you play with. When putting music together you have to taste everything. It’s like cooking. You find a mix, with your technique ... I have a good 6 piece band, you all have to be really into the music, otherwise it doesn’t work.’

Lulo’s music is highly responsive, and every concert is different.

‘My music is 90% improvisation. We start with arrangements, but every night is different. If someone looks you in the eyes... last night a 96 year old lady was flirting with me so I play something nice and soft...’

Lulo Reinhardt and his band are joined by the Buttery Recovery Choir at the Bangalow A&I Hall on Sunday. Tickets $35 pre (+BF) /$40 door

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GREG FLEET AT THE SALTBAR BEACHBAR AND BISTRO’S SIT DOWN COMEDY CLUB WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 9

BUICK SIX THURSDAY 3 SOUNDLOUNGE, CURRUMBIN

PRESTON TRAIN AT THE TYALGUM HOTEL SUNDAY 6

ALISON MCKENZIE, ANGLICAN PARISH CHURCH, MURWILLUMBAH, SUNDAY 6

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THURSDAY 3 ■ CLUB BANORA 4PM MICHELLE

BENSON■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL, 8PM LIVE

ENTERTAINMENT■ CUDGEN LEAGUES CLUB,

KINGSCLIFF 5.30PM LLYOD SANIEL

■ GOLD COAST ARTS CENTRE 7.30PM UNPLUGGED IN THE BASEMENT – NAT & NIGE WITH HOLLY TERRENS

■ GOLD COAST ARTS CENTRE 7.30PM PAUL ATKINS

■ IMPERIAL HOTEL, MUR’BAH 8PM LIVE MUSIC

■ MURWILLUMBAH HOTEL 9PM DJ CRAIG

■ MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES MEMORIAL CLUB 6.30PM TREVOR RIX

■ NEVERLAND BAR, COOLANGATTA, BRETT SELLWOOD

■ SEAGULLS LAKEVIEW LOUNGE 6PM MICHAEL

■ SOUNDLOUNGE, CURRUMBIN 8PM SUGAR ARMY AND BUICK SIX

■ THE SANDS HOTEL COOLANGATTA 8PM D J GHOST 8PM PHIL EIZENBERG

■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6PM VEENIE’S – SWIZZLE

■ TWIN TOWNS FROM 1PM LIVE ENTERTAINMENT 8.30PM CHER MEETS ABBA

■ BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 9PM SLIM BUDDHAS

■ THE RAILS, BYRON 6.30PM BROADFOOT

■ HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON BRIAN WATT

■ BYRON BAY COMMUNITY CENTRE 8PM MULLUM HIGH PRESENTS’ PROSPERO’S ISLAND

■ COURTHOUSE HOTEL, MULLUMBIMBY 8PM MANDY NOLAN OPEN MIC COMEDY

WITH Q&A BY DAVE RASTOVICHFRIDAY 4■ CABARITA BEACH SPORTS CLUB,

BOGANGAR 8PM FATHOM■ CABARITA BEACH BAR AND GRILL,

8.30PM BLIND LEMON ■ CLUB BANORA 7.30PM TOOHEYS

TALENT SEARCH SEMI FINAL 2■ CUDGEN LEAGUES CLUB,

KINGSCLIFF 5.30PM 2PLAY■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL 8PM

ROGERTHAT ■ CURRUMBIN RSL 7PM BLITZ■ ELSEWHERE, SURFERS PARADISE

ELECTRIC BOOGIE SHOW■ ELTHAM HOTEL 8PM GLEN

MASEY■ GOLD COAST ARTS CENTRE 8PM

COMEDY IN THE BASEMENT – DAVE WILLIAMS

■ IMPERIAL HOTEL, MUR’BAH 8PM THE PARTY ANIMALS

■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH HOTEL 9PM BUGGY

■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH CLUB 7.30PM DAVE CLAYTON

■ MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES MEMORIAL CLUB 6.30PM LIVE MUSIC

■ MURWILLUMBAH HOTEL 9PM DJ HERVE

■ NEVER LAND BAR COOLANGATTA, 7PM MOVIE PREMIERE: THERE’S NO I IN GLORY

■ POTTSVILLE BEACH SPORTS CLUB 7PM JUST FRIENDS DUO

■ SALT BAR, SALT VILLAGE 9.30PM THE PAINTED CROWS

■ SEAGULLS 8.30PM DELISH■ SOUNDLOUNGE, CURRUMBIN RSL

8PM DAVE GRANEY AND THE LURID YELLOW MIST

■ SOUTHPORT RSL CLUB 7.30PM LOOSE CHANGE ROCKERS

■ THE SANDS HOTEL COOLANGATTA 9PM DJ TOMMY 10PM PAUL ATKINS

■ TYALGUM HALL 8PM, TYALGUM FESTIVAL OF CLASSICAL MUSIC

■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 7.30PM JUST THE TICKET

■ TWIN TOWNS 11AM LINE DANCING 5PM TO 9.30PM LIVE ENTERTAINMENT, 8.30PM HERMAN’S HERMITS

■ THE BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 9.30PM SOLVER

■ THE RAILS, BYRON 7PM THE HOOCHERS

■ HOTEL BRUNSWICK 7.30PM PURPLE STONE

■ UKI HALL 8PM GLO DANCE WITH DJ PULSE

■ BYRON COMMUNITY CENTRE 8PM PROSPERO’S ISLAND BY MULLUM HIGH SCHOOL

SATURDAY 5■ CLUB BANORA 4PM 8PM DAVIDIA■ CURRUMBIN RSL 7PM BLIND

LEMON ■ CABARITA BEACH SPORTS CLUB,

BOGANGAR 8PM CLIFFY■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL 8PM LIVE

ENTERTAINMENT■ COOLANGATTA AND TWEED

HEADS GOLF CLUB 6PM FIRE & RAIN

■ ELSEWHERE, SURFERS PARADISE MOTION THEORY

■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH CLUB 7.30PM KARAOKE

■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH HOTEL 9PM NICK MUIR

■ GOLD COAST ARTS CENTRE 8PM 3 CHEFS DO LUNCH

■ GOLD COAST ARTS CENTRE 8PM JAZZ IN THE BASEMENT – MRS WHYTE & MR ASHBY

■ IMPERIAL HOTEL, MUR’BAH 8PM MACHINERY DRIVE

■ LUFFLEY CAFE, MURWILLUMBAH 7.30PM VANESSA HOFFMAN AND RADHA

■ MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES MEMORIAL CLUB 6.30PM RUSSELL HINTON

■ MURWILLUMBAH HOTEL 9PM RAY

CATT BAND■ NEVER LAND BAR, COOLANGATTA

DCUP, THOMAS J■ POTTSVILLE BEACH SPORTS CLUB

7.30PM ROBERT KEITH■ SALT BAR, SALT VILLAGE, 9.30PM

THE FEBS■ SEAGULLS 8.30PM WE WANT

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■ SOUTH TWEED SPORTS CLUB 3PM LIVE JAZZ

■ SOUTH TWEED SPORTS CLUB 7.30PM SHINDIG + COMEDIAN BUBBLE

■ THE COOLANGATTA SANDS HOTEL 9PM DJ MISS MATCH 10PM THE CHAD

■ TYALGUM HALL FROM 10.30AM, TYALGUM FESTIVAL OF CLASSICAL MUSIC

■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 7.30PM ATMOSPHERE

■ TWIN TOWNS 10AM TO 8.30PM LIVE ENTERTAINMENT 8.30PM HERMAN’S HERMITS

■ BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 9.30 DIRTY LAUNDRY

■ HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON ROGER THAT

■ BYRON COMMUNITY CENTRE 8PM PROSPERO’S ISLAND BY MULLUM HIGH SCHOOL

■ HOTEL BRUNSWICK, 7.30PM THE CREW

■ SHEARWATER STEINER SCHOOL, MULLUMBIMBY 10AM THREADS OF LIFE SPRING CARNIVAL

LOCALS SUNDAY 6■ CLUB BANORA 11AM CHAD

TRENT 12.15PM CHAMPAGNE JAM

■ CURRUMBIN RSL 1.30PM JAZZ CAFE TRIO

■ CABARITA BEACH BAR AND GRILL 1PM MICK WALTERS

■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL, 6PM LIVE ENTERTAINMENT

■ ELSEWHERE, SURFERS PARADISE, ROYALE SUNDAY

■ ELTHAM HOTEL 1PM GUY KACHEL

■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH HOTEL 7PM BLIND LEMON

■ NEVERLAND BAR, COOLANGATTA, CASSETTE KIDS

■ POTTSVILLE BEACH SPORTS CLUB 4PM ABBIGAYLE

■ SALT BAR, SALT VILLAGE, 1PM DARREN MARLOW

■ SEAGULLS CLUB, 2PM LINE DANCING

■ SPHINX ROCK CAFE, MT BURRELL 1PM MONA LIZARD

■ THE COOLANGATTA SANDS HOTEL 5PM SAMBA 4 U AND DJ VHS

■ TYALGUM HALL 10.30AM, TYALGUM FESTIVAL OF CLASSICAL MUSIC

■ TYALGUM SHOWGROUND 12PM, TYALGUM FESTIVAL OF CLASSICAL MUSIC

■ TWIN TOWNS 7PM KATE CEBERANO

■ CLUB BANORA 11AM LIVE ENTERTAINMENT

■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 5PM DON WHITAKER

■ BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 1PM FATHERS DAY BYRON BAY PUBLIC SCHOOL BANDS 4.30PM DAVE GRANEY 8PM DJ CAPTAIN KAINE

■ THE HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, ANNA WEATHERUP

■ HOTEL BRUNSWICK 3PM ONE 2 MANY BAND 7PM ALEMAN BROSSS

■ RAILS 2PM WRITERS @ THE RAILS W PASCALLE BURTON & DAVID HALLETT

■ BYRON COMMUNITY CENTRE 1PM & 7PM PROSPERO’S ISLAND BY MULLUM HIGH SCHOOL

■ BANGALOW A&I HALL LULO REINHARD & BUTTERY RECOVERY CHOIR

MONDAY 7■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL, 8PM

INDUSTRY NIGHT ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH CLUB 12PM

DAVID BARRY■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6PM

MICHAEL KING■ TWIN TOWNS 1PM LIVE

ENTERTAINMENT ■ THE RAILS, BYRON 6.30PM ANNA

WEATHERUP■ THE HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN

JOSH RAWIRI■ BYRON RSL PANDANUS LOUNGE

8PM MOTHER OF A COMEDY NIGHT: MANDY NOLAN, JENNY WYNTER, ELLEN BRIGGS

■ BUDDHA BAR, BYRON KAISHA & PING PONG

TUESDAY 8■ MURWILLUMBAH HOTEL 9PM

JAM NIGHT■ SEAGULLS 6PM, MICHAEL KING■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6PM

DAVE CLAYTON■ TWIN TOWNS 1PM LINE DANCING

6.30PM THE TENORS ■ BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 9PM MATT

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WEDNESDAY 9■ CLUB BANORA 11AM GLENNY

PALMER■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL, 8PM LIVE

ENTERTAINMENT■ SALT BAR SALT VILLAGE, 7.30PM

SIT DOWN COMEDY CLUB WITH GREG FLEET

■ SEAGULLS, 1.30PM DON WHITAKER

■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6PM DAVO

■ TWIN TOWNS SERVICES CLUB 10.30AM TO 8.30PM LIVE ENTERTAINMENT, 11AM A TRIBUTE TO JOHNNY CASH

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SPORT RESULTSBOWLSCabarita Beach Women28.08.09 North Star Sponsored Day. Winning Teams (Skips only) 1st P.Glancy, 2nd B.Kent, 3rd K.Ross, 4th K.Liddington, 5th J.Simpson.01.09.09 Social Bowls. Winning Rink L.Rice, D.Patterson. Consulation B.Petty, R. Woodbury, P.Killey.Shot of the day from Jocelyn Simp-son. Raffles: S.Firth, J. Simpson, J.Lake.Social Bowls Tuesdays 9.15am. Visitors warmly welcomed. Ladies also invited to play Saturdays 1.00pm. Please phone Club on 6676 2951 and leave message and contact number.Coaching Free every Saturday with ac-credited coaches from 9.30am.Cabarita Beach Bowls Club is possibly forming a social bowls club. Our first trip away is on 24/25 October 2009 and we will be visiting Tenterfield Bowls Club. The social bowls club weill look forward to reciprocating with other bowls clubs.Cabarita Beach Men26/8/09 Winners J Turnbull and P Schofield, r/up G Morrisey and K Stanley, cons G Lake and R Harper.29/8/09 Social winners V Brill, K Kennedy and K Ross, r/up R Brumfit,A Campbell and M Cox.31/8/09 Winners B Laybutt and A Latif, r/up R Maunders and P Craven, N Am-brose and P Glancy.‘B’ Grade winners J Hunter and G Bowen, r/up G Goode and R Woodbury.Condong MenWednesday 26 42 bowlers played win-ners E Hunt, P Houghton, T Houghton, runner/ups G Cranny, R Gerdes, S Knight. Raffle Winners P Houghton, R Shoo-bridge, T Houghton ,P Houghton. Sat-urday bowls 24 bowlers B Grade singles played R Kaehler 31 def T Kennedy 23. K Palmer 31 def L Muir 21 Thursday 3 rd September 1-30 pm start 3 bowl knock out pairs Good prize money. Sunday 60 bowlers and non bowlers had a great day raising money Tyalgum school.Cudgen Leagues LadiesCongratulations to Liz Fleming winner of the Consistency Singles Final, and to runner up June Wotherspoon. Well done to 3rd place Ann Revie and Joy Ashford. Sponsored by Bill Deal. Thurs Ladies Social results winners Rnk 6, Eileen Burke, Pat Pieterse, Lorraine Sandall. Raffle Trish McGee. Congratula-tions Everyone. There will be no more Fri Morning bowls until next year. Coming up, Isabel Nip-peress and Helen Wylie to play Pat Pi-eterse and Val Andrews at 1pm today in Round 1 of the Club Selected Pairs. Thurs ladies social 12.30 for 1pm start, all welcome. Mon 7th Social mixed Triples mufti dress, all welcome. Mon 7th Byron Bay Gala Day, M’tea 8.30, play 9.15am. Com-mittee Meeting next Tues Sept 8th, 9.30 am. Special Event - Visit from Southport Workers Club, Sun 13th Sept 1pm start, Dress Whites, Approx 40 Mixed Bowlers required. Mon 14th Sept Excutive Meet-ing. Mon 21st Sept, Sheet on board for TBDWBA Veterans Day ( 70 + ) at Cudg-en Leagues Club, day includes m’tea, bowls and lunch. Names to be in before Thurs 10th , (no cost) Sheet on board for Cudgen Leagues Gala Day Thurs 24th Sept - 09, Fours 2 x 11 ends or bell, trophies, winners, runner up, mystery, friendship. State Uniform. M’tea 8.30, play 9.15, Cost $15 pp. ($ 60 per team) includes M’tea, Grn Fees and Luncheon. Entries close Thurs 17th Sept. Sun 20th Sept – 09,Sun Social Bowls Club Day with BBQ Lunch, mufti dress Cost $10pp,9.15 for 9.30 start, all welcome. Mon 28th Sept – 09, District Gala Day Fours, closing date Wed 16th Sept – 09.

Cudgen Leagues MenMon. 24/8/09 Mixed Mufti. J.Hazell, R.Hall, F.HallWed 26/8/09Mens Mufti. $45-00 Winning Rink. T.King, D.Gleave, A.Reid $15-00 Losing Rink, K.Pritchard, D.Wilson, J.FrazerSat. 29/8/09 Mens Whites $30-00 win-ners. R.Hutchinson, P.CostelloMixed Pairs Champ’ships FinalT.King, V.Needs 21 d B.Murray, H.Wylie 17President Singles M.Ryan 21 def J.Holt 7.F.Smith 23 def T.Grimes 7, B.Cusack 21 def J.Neal 19. I.Turnbull 21 def L.Browning 14 Consistency Singles V.Shiemer def M.RyanKingscliff MenResults of Round 4 of Pennants: Divi-sion 1: Broadbeach 73 d Kingscliff 50; Division 2: Kingscliff 65 d Mudgeeraba 60: Division 5: Kingscliff 77 d Beaudesert 45: Division 7: McKenzie Park 60 d King-scliff 44. After Round 4 Division 1 sit in 11th place, Division 2 in 4th place, Divi-sion 5 in 2nd place and Division 7 in 9th place. This weekend Divisions 1 and 2 will both play double headers. Saturday 5th September: Division 1: Kingscliff v Paradise Point at Kingscliff; Division 2: Kingscliff v Helensvale at Kingscliff; Divi-sion 5: Kingscliff v Broadbeach at King-scliff; Division 7: Kingscliff v Tugun at Tugun. Sunday 6th September: Division 1: Kingscliff v Tweed Heads at Kingscliff; Division 2: Kingscliff v McKenziePark at McKenziePark. Please check the board for teams. Results of the quarter finals of the President’s Singles. T Hills d G Bar-rack; B Harris d O Simpson; J Ritchie d H Hockey; W Blackwood d R Armour. Social Bowls Results: Thursday 27th Au-gust, Patron’s Day: Winners: A Boosie, K Symons, B Clarke; R Sharman, J Ritchie, B Ryder; P Jones, J O’Malley, D Whittington: Plate Winners: E Cocks, J Quinn, J Mirls: P Brown, R hayes, R Stephens; N Madden, H Azzopardi, J Thebridge: Saturday 29th August: Winners: B Egington, T Green, B Henry; R Taylor, D Plumb, G White, G wood; K Davey, B Beattie, H Kemp: Plate Winners: N Debnam, G Smith, T Bards-ley, A Debnam: Tuesday 1st September: Winners: J Hanson, N Hodson; Runners Up: D Lusby, G Hanlon: Plate Winners: P Clancy, A Latif. Coming Up: Nominations for the Majors-Minors Competition are now open. Closing date 4th September. Monday 5th October: Kingscliff Men’s Labour Day Pairs; Total Prize Money of $800.00 with a maximum of 40 teams.Pottsville Men’s Bowling ClubWednesday 26/08/2009Winning Rink: - R Appleton, W Gruggen and T Fuller. Runner up prize:- R Sher-wood. N Cruickshank and C GallagherFriday 28/08/2009Winners: - D Arnold and K LehfeldtSaturday 29/08/2009 Winners: - J Rae and B GriffithsDist Champion of Champions ResultsGreg Sawtell and Kris Lehfeldt have pro-gressed to the final of the Tweed Byron District Champion of Champions Pairs to be held next week at Murwillumbah.DARTSTweed Valley Darts ResultsGames played on Monday 31st August. A Grade Jokers 9 def Gulls 6 and Hogan’s Heroes 9 def Tigers 6. Ron Dunn from Hogan’s Heroes threw 180. B Grade Devils 6 def Leftovers 5 and Cgulls 7 def Sharks 4.Point score subject to confirmation, A Grade Jokers 117, Hogan’s Heroes 97, Gulls 83 and Tigers 25. B Grade Leftovers 76, Cgulls 75, Devils 64 and Sharks 19GOLFChinderah Seniors GolfResults for Thursday 27/8/09 - StrokeWinner ‘A’ grade - Russ Pitchers - net 54 - new h/cap 8, R/up - Barry Martin - net 59 - new h/cap 1.Winner ‘B’ grade - Betty Tolley - net 53 - new h/cap 14, R/up - Jim Donnachie -

net 56 - new h/cap 14.Winner ‘C’ grade - David McIlwain - net 54 - new h/cap 19, R/up - Janice Hatton - net 56 - new h/cap 29.Ball rundown to net 59 (c/back). Next event 3/9/09 - StablefordResults for Monday 31/8/09 - Stroke and Monthly MedalWinner Monthly Medal - Peter BradyWinner ‘A’ grade - Peter Brady - net 54 - new h/cap 10, R/up - John Brinsmead - net 57 - new h/cap 8.Winner ‘B’ grade - Jack Waterfield - net 58 (c/back) - new h/cap 14, R/up - Jo McKeague - net 58 - new h/cap 18.Winner ‘C’ grade - Peter Elliott - net 56 (c/back) - new h/cap 21, R/up - Stan Alex-ander - net 56 - new h/cap 21Winner putting - Richard Girdlestone - 25 putts7th hole, par 4 Brent Johnson, Albatross!Next event 7/9/09 - StablefordMurwillumbah Golf ClubSunday 23rd August 2009 Women’s Winner B.Blunden 35 pts Members A.McCauley 42 pts N/Pin B.Larmer B.R.D. 35 ptsMonday 24th AugustN.R.D.G.A. ClassicTuesday 35th Aaugust Women’s Indi-vidual Stroke A.Grade M.Reynolds 70 nett c.b R.Up J.De Closey 70 nett B.Grade C.Fogo 68 nett R.Up A.Pendergast 71 nett c.b C.grade H.Leape 66 nett r.Up C.Dean, 69 nett 1ST Nine B.Bryce 32.5 2nd Nine J.Moore 35 nett. N.Pin 2nd D.White, 8th J.Baker, 10th A.Amisano, 14th M.Crisp and J.Duke B.R.Down to 75 nett c.b.Wednesday 26th August Winner A.Grade E.Kerr 42 pts t R/Up T.Grugan 40 ptsB.Grade P.Fleming 42 pts c.b R/Up P.Keenan 42 pts c.b N/Pin 2nd P.Thomas 10th J.Smith B.R.D.to 35 ptsThursday 27th Women’s Stableford A.Grade J.Gielis 35 pts andD.Mc-Cabe 34 pts c.b B.Grade P.Buckler 38 pts and E.Wheeler 35 pts c.b C.Grade G.Somerville 36 pts c.b and H.Gooley 36 pts Best 1st Nine C.Blissett 21 pts Best 2nd Nine D.Black 19 pts c.b N/Pin 2nd J.O’Flanagan 8th J.Born and C.Blissett 10th B.O’Reilly 14th P.Buckler and R.Haw B.R.Down to 33 ptsFriday 28thAugust Women’s Winner D.Stacey 30 pts Members Winner A.Brooks 40 pts c.bSaturday 29thAugust Winner A,Grade E.Kerr 40 pts c.b R/Up M.Knight 40 pts B.Grade C.Hulme 42 pts, R/Up S.Derepas 41 pts C.Grade J.Hunt 41 pts R/Up G.Smith 40 pts D.Grade P.Sheppard 44 pts, R/Up J,Neil 42 pts N/Pin 2nd D.Hobday 8th A.Causley - B.R.D.36 pts.NETBALLResults –11/12Hot Shots 12 d Bogangar 5Girl Zone 16 d Super Stars13 (Their first win. Great work Girl Zone. Should be a good game to watch in the semis next week)IntermediateStorm 41 d Get Smart Goal Getters 16Cabba Crew forfeited to Spice GirlsSouthern Cross Stars had the byeOpenCougars 64 d Newbies 16Tigers 29 d Flamin Devils 26Ladybeetles forfeited to WaratahsSo the Competition Closes with11/12 - Major Premiers: Hot ShotsIntermediate, Major Premiers: The StormOpens - Major Premiers: CougarsSemi Finals Week (5th Sept)11am Crickets v Bogangar Blue WrensRed Backs v Super Fabs11/12 Hot Shots v BogangarSuper Stars v Girl Zone1pm The Storm v Southern Cross StarsSpice Girls v Get Smart Goal Getters2.30pm Cougars v WaratahsTigers v Flamin DevilsLadybeetles v Newbies (friendly)

SHOOTINGThe Murwillumbah Pistol Club The club celebrated another successful Zone Shoot over the weekend. With competitors arriving from as far away as Warwick, Qld and Grafton, NSW, fun and good company was guaranteed. Several Personal Bests were achieved. Bruce Favell from City of Brisbane Pistol Club attained the second highest score ever shot in Australia for the Rapid Fire event. Zone Champion was closely fought with Justin Toohey from Cape Byron Pistol Club retaining the title. Ag-gregate winners went to Wayne Schafer and Wanda Adams. The Mayleigh Cup also returned to Justin Toohey. Juniors were well represented and enjoyed giv-ing the older and greyer shooters a run for their money. Juniors took out their own prizes. Dinner on Saturday night was well attended.

Results shown for MPC members only.25 Aug 2009 - Standard: B Clinch 574, T Clinch 554, D Gazzard 552. Air Pistol: I Young 556. Sports Pistol: R Rees 567, A Uren 564, A Berry 559, J Curtis 534, D Besson 495.29 Aug 2009 - Standard: J Lumsden 583, A Gracie 565, A Berry 560, D Stebbing 551, D Dowling 551, J Gove 545, A Gaz-zard 543, Y Mishteler 531, L Blair 505. Sports Pistol: D Dowling 592, R Wells 575, A Stevens 570, A Berry 569, A Gazzard 566, J Gracie 551, S Stebbing 544, L Blair 520. Centre Fire: J Lumsden 608, J Gove 581, D Stebbing 557. Air Pistol: A Berry 606, D Dowling 587, A Stevens 575, D Stebbing 561. Ladies Air: A Gazzard 394, B Bartrim 391, S Stebbing 369, A Gracie 369. Rapid Fire: D Dowling 566, A Berry 554, D Stebbing 543, Mayleigh Cup: D Dowling 296, A Berry 293, S Stebbing 287, D Stebbing 254.

Alex’s helmet design a winner

Over 4200 NSW school stu-dents delved into their crea-tive sides to create bright, eye catching, Helmet designs for the Ride2School and ABC Lo-cal Radio state wide Helmet Design Competition.

The competition aimed at addressing the issues of young riders not wearing their hel-mets while riding to and from school and within the wider-community.

Determining the winner was a long and difficult proc-ess as there were many qual-ity designs that fit the specific criteria.

Ride2School and ABC Local Radio would like to formally announce that 10 year old Alex Wunsch of Kingscliff Public School has taken out first place for the North Coast region.

Alex’s design was brightly coloured, stood out from the crowd and had a unisex appeal.

The overall winner of the competition will have their artwork made into a new hel-met that will be distributed statewide through the Bicycle NSW Ride2School program.

‘It’s been great to see so many kids actively participate in this initiative,’ said James Adams, Program Manager of the state wide Program.

‘Hopefully we will see an increased number of helmets being worn if kids know that their input is valued and that the design has come from a fel-low student.

‘Combating the idea that Helmets are “uncool” has been one of the major focuses for the Helmet Design campaign’.

Bicycle NSW Ride2School Team and an ABC Local Radio representative judged the com-petition in July 2009.

The design a helmet com-petition was part of the NSW Ride2School program. Ride2-School is a state wide behaviour change program which aims to raise physical activity among students and their families.

Ride2S chool recent ly launched the NRMA 500km Gold Medal Challenge aiming to increase cycling among sec-ondary school students.

Alex’s design as well the designs of the overall winner and other regional winners can found at www.bicyclensw.org.au/category/news/ride2-school.

The Little Athletics season will begin at the end of the month and the Twin Towns Little Ath-letics Club is inviting youngsters to come and join in for friend-ship, fitness and family fun.

Are you keen to see how fast you can run the 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m or 1500m or how high or long you can jump or how far you can throw the dis-cus, javelin or shot put?

If you are between 6 and 17 years old come along and sign on for the upcoming season. We are at Walter Peate Oval (behind Cudgen Leagues Club) Wommin Bay Road, Kingscliff from 10am-12pm Sunday Sep-tember 13 and 20. Bring along your child’s birth certificate.

Alternatively you come along for the first week of compe-tition on Saturday September 26 for a free trial to see if you like it. For information phone Karen Baker on 0410 334 573.

Winner Alex Wunsch, left, with the bike and helmet valued at over $600 that he won for his helmet design and the wiin-ing entry, above.

Little Athletics season begins

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Bank heist revisitedThe Tweed River Regional Museum invites residents to attend a site walk next Friday, September 11, from 2pm-3pm, focusing on the historic Murwillumbah bank robbery of 1978, Australia’s biggest such robbery of the time. Murwillumbah Historical Society president Ron Johansen will conduct the walk while member of the former bush band Bullamakanka, Paul Ensbey, will perform the band’s hit song about the robbery. A display about the event will be held at Murwillum-bah Museum in Queensland Road next Wednesday and Friday from 9.30am-4pm.

Parkinson’s seminar Tweed Parkinson’s Support Group will be holding its 2009 seminar on September 26 at Banora Point Community Centre, 10am start, for all those in the community who suffer from Parkinson’s and their carers. Guest speakers including Dr G. Boyce, a consultant neurologist. Entry by donation. For info call Helen 02 6676 2549 or Jill 02 6674 3252.

Church feteSt Cuthbert’s Tweed Heads fete and garage sale, Saturday, September 12, 7am-noon. Craft and orchid displays, stalls, Devonshire teas, BBQ and loads more. All welcome.

Ukitopia birthdayCelebrating its first year, the Ukitopia Arts collective is offering a free evening of feasting, images, theatre sports, live music and dancing next Saturday night (Sept 12) in the Uki hall. Starting at 7pm this party is free for Ukitopia members, with mem-berships available on the door ($10). The annual general meeting starts at 5pm and the party begins at 7pm. The dress theme is ‘come as your inner artist’ and everyone is asked to bring a plate of food to contribute to the feast. For more info go to www.myspace.com/ukitopiaartscollective or ring 6679 5677.

Coast Guard dayKingscliff Volunteer Coast Guard will hold a Monster Open Day on Saturday, Sept 19, from 8am till 1pm at the Coast Guard Tower, Kingscliff. Features include Hazmat demonstra-tion by the NSW Fire Brigade. The day includes a huge garage sale and a sausage sizzle.

Historical societyTweed Heads Historical Society at Tweed Heads Regional Museum, Pioneer Park, Kennedy Drive, Tweed Heads West. Open Tues, Thurs, Fri 11am to 4pm, Sun 1 to 4pm or by appointment. Free entry. September general meeting, Tuesday, Septem-ber 15, 10am star, guest speaker Syd Miller on ‘Early Convict Women in the Colony’.

Garden clubThe Tweed Coast Garden Asso-ciations next meet is at 1.30pm on Tuesday, September 8, at the Cabarita Community Hall. Please bring something for ‘Show and Tell’. Flower of the month is a selection of daisies’, Floral art is ‘fruit and flower arrangement’. For info call 6676 4402.

Food giveawayFree food giveaway for struggling pensioners on Wednesday at 12.30 at the iBar in Tweed Heads. An urgent call for a bakery to help by providing fresh bread on a Tuesday as recent arrangements will soon end. A big thankyou to donors of groceries each week. For info call Terri 0414 376057.

Philharmonic concertMurwillumbah Philharmonic Society is putting on a concert ‘Singing in

the Sawdust’, with help from the

Tweed Valley Woodcrafters Associa-

tion at their shed in Murwillumbah

Showground at 2pm on Sunday,

September 20. An afternoon of toe

tapping entertainment. Entry is $20

and $15 concession which includes

afternoon tea and a lucky door

prize. Tickets available at Andersons

Treasure Store, Murwillumbah or at

the door.

Walking groupMurwillumbah on the Move walking

group will meet at visitor informa-

tion centre carpark at 6.50am (sum-

mer start time) Wednesdays and

Saturdays. Enjoyable walks around

town. All welcome, for info call 02

6672 1660.

Biodiversity walksScenic biodiversity walks led by a

frog expert will be held next month

as part of the annual Tyalgum Classi-

cal Music Festival. Dr Jean-Marc Hero

from Griffith University will lead the

walks on Saturday, September 5 and

Sunday, September 6, from Tyalgum

Hall at 8.30am. Associate professor

Hero will talk about Tyalgum’s 23 mil-

lion years of biological history and

local rare and threatened species. To

find out more about the festival go

to www.tyalgumfestival.com.au

Garden clubTwin Towns and District Garden

Club’s next meeting will be on

Monday, September 7, (a week

earlier than usual) in the auditorium

at Tweed Heads Civic Centre. Guest

speaker will be Helen Rattenbury,

president of the Geranium and Pel-

agonium Society. Entry is $3 which

includes morning tea between

8.15am-9.15am with meeting start-

ing at 9.30am. Visitors welcome.

Girl GuidesGirl Guides meet at the Uniting

Church Hall, Kingscliff every Monday

from 5pm to 6.30pm. Last week, the

guides made Fathers Day gifts and

cards, and this week they will cook

cup cakes and learn origami. If you

would like to help with this group or

train to become a leader call Diane

on 6672 3682 or email dodgemcars@

hotmail.com

Guides get-togetherThe Annual Guiding Get Together is

to be held at the home of Anne Bid-

dulph, 64 Laura Street, Banora Point

on Wednesday, October 14, at 11am.

All persons who have been associ-

ated with Guiding at any time either

past or present, local or interstate are

invited to come along. For info call

Anne on 07 5524 1454.

Cake decoratingThe Cake Decorators Association of

NSW, Tweed Valley branch, is offering

a six-week introduction to cake dec-

orating course, where you can learn

the skills and techniques for making

you own decorated Christmas cake,

at Banora Community Centre begin-

ning on Saturday, September 12. For

info call Betty on 07 5590 4162 or Pat

on 07 5590 4554.

Tree care dayFollowing on from the successful

National Tree Day food forest plant-

ing at Sweetnam Park, Uki, recently,

a mulching and watering day will be

held there on Saturday, September

19, from 3pm. Bush tucker recipes

will be distributed and future plans

for the area will be discussed. For

info call Carolyn on 0411 471 147.

Baby showAnglican Baby Show and fete,

Saturday, September 12, 8.20am, By-

angum Road, Murwillumbah. Baby

show entries registration 9am, three

sections, four age groups. Lucky

entrant prize $250 portrait photo

package. Fete, jumping castle and

face painting for the children. Coffee cups competition, for most unusual, prettiest, most colourful cup. For info call Merilyn on 02 6672 2013.

Bargain shopFor more than 30 years, the Uniting Church Bargain Shop has been raising money to assist the Blair Athol Supported Accommodation and Assistance Program. Top quality pre-loved clothing, bric-a-brac, small household items, linen, books and luggage as well as new greeting cards and wrapping paper are available at inexpensive prices. The shop, at 2/3 Machinery Drive, Tweed Heads South, operates Monday to Friday from 9.30am to 3.30pm. For info call Malcolm or Georgina on 07 5524 4963.

Music concertTweed Links Music Club concert, September 6, at 2pm, Coolangatta Tweed Heads Golf Club, Soorley Street, Tweed Heads South,with the Tweed Links Quartet and Allan Grant Dancers. Compered by Bob Green, special guest artist, tenor David Chitick. Admission is $5 for club members, $10 for visitors. For info call Elaine on 5590 7870 or visit www.tweedlinksmusicclub.org.

Computer skillsComputer Association Tweed Seniors meets at 10.30am on the third Wednesday of each month at Seagulls. Learn computer skills from other seniors. Joining days are on the second Thursday of each month at Seagulls. For info call Noelene on 07 5599 8939 (Mon-Fri 9-5). All welcome.

Family centreThe Family Centre is taking book-ings now for the following courses, to book call 07 5524 8711. DadSkills Tuesdays fortnightly Sept 8 and 22, 5pm-7.30pm fortnightly program for fathers in or out of residence with children; Parenting Happy Children, Wednesdays Sept 9 to 30, 10am-noon, information sessions provided in Kingscliff and focused on children under 12; Anger and Parenting, Friday, Aug 28, 9.30am-3.30pm; MenAware, taking enrolments now for course starting October, Family Centre playgroups 9.30am-11.30am Mondays at Kingscliff, Tuesdays at Cabarita, Wednesdays at Murwillumbah and Thursdays at Banora Point.

Auxiliary feteThe Tweed Hospital Auxiliary would like donations of goods to sell at their fete on October 10. Goods may be left at the hospital gift shop or call 07 5506 7867 to arrange collection. Please note that TVs, computers, large heavy items, encyclopaedias, weekly magazines not accepted. Monthly meetings are held on the first Monday of each month. For info call June Young on 07 5559 5055.

Mental healthTweed Valley Mental Health Carers Network is a support group for families of people with mental ill-ness, offering friendship and sharing experiences and information. The group meets on the first and third Mondays in each month at the Tweed Heads Library, Brett Street (no public holidays). For info call 07 5524 4556.

Volunteer vacanciesAre you looking for a great way to gain work experience or make friends in your area while contribut-ing to your community? Volunteer-ing could be the answer. There are hundreds of positions to choose from listed with community organi-sations in our area. This week’s ‘Five Most Wanted’ vacancies include: Murwillumbah, Reader, reading news on tapes for vision impaired

clients; Tweed Heads, Kitchen

Storeman; Tweed Shire (various

locations), Community Visitor to visit

lonely residents in nursing homes

and hostels; Banora Point, Volunteer

Friendly Visitor, to visit elderly clients

in their own homes and provide

companionship for 1-2 hours per

week or fortnight; Tweed Heads

West, Activity Assistant for elderly

clients in an aged care centre. For

info visit www.nortecltd.com.au or

call 02 6672 8288.

ToastmastersA terrific way to become a popular,

confident public speaker, tune listen-

ing skills and have a laugh as well.

Join Murwillumbah Toastmasters

every other Thursday for dinner and

friendship (all ages). Call Marg 02

6677 9575 or Phil 02 6677 9388.

JusticesTweed Valley Justices of the Peace

have a desk at Tweed Centro each

Tuesday 10am-2pm. Also at Tweed

City Shopping Centre each Thursday

from 10am-2pm and 5pm-7pm. For

info call Margaret on 07 5599 2975.

Breast screeningBreastScreen NSW Tweed Heads

clinic at the Tweed Hospital is now

providing appointments to women

on Thursday nights and Saturdays

for free mammograms. For appoint-

ments call 02 6622 1822.

Community calendarAn online community calendar

of events has been launched by

the Tweed Shire Council to help

residents figure out what to do on

weekends. The calendar provides

another avenue for event organis-

ers, community groups, resident

and ratepayer groups and others to

promote events being held in the

area. Check it out at www.tweed.

nsw.gov.au/Events/WhatsOnCom-

munity.aspx.

Greenhills auxiliaryGreenhills Lodge next card party will

be held at the CWA at 1pm, Monday,

September 7. For info call Jean on

6672 3431.

VIEW clubsCoolangatta/Tweed VIEW Club next

luncheon meeting on Thursday,

September 10, (not Sep 17 as

previously advised), in the Horizons

Room, South Tweed Sports Club

at 11am for 11.30am start. Guest

speaker will be Bianca Habermann

from the Smith Family. Visitors

welcome. Bookings/apologies call

Celina on 07 5590 4267 before 5pm

on Monday Sep 7. VIEW stands for

Voice, Interests and Education of

Women and is a valued part of the

Smith Family.

Murwillumbah Day View Club’s two-

hour Richmond River boat cruise

including morning tea is scheduled

for September 7, with $25 bus fare

to be paid at the meeting. For info

call Ruth on 6672 3139.

U3A Tweed CoastU3A Tweed Coast invites you to

Kingscliff Uniting Church hall, Friday,

September 4, 2pm when Tom Al-

letson, Tweed Council’s waterways

program leader, will speak about the

Tweed Kenya mentoring program

and share his personal travel diary

with us. Afternoon tea. Donation $2.

Science art forumProfessor Robert Pope of Uki’s

Science Art Research Centre will

host a forum on September 13

at the Coolamon Cultural Centre,

Murwillumbah. The award winning

academic will explore the synergies

and convergence of art and science.

Seats are limited and doors open

10am. Book by September 10 by call-

ing Lesley Buckley on 0266 702 734

or email lesleyb@tweed.nsw.gov.au.

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1 T 0600 14282 W

T 16184 F 1712 0159,0.30

S 1807 0228,0.286 S 0621 0256,0.287 M 0326,0.298 T

W 2200 080010 T 084111 F12 S 0007 1026

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F26 S 1744 001127 S 174428 M 1220 0140

T 0218W 1746 1410

SEPTEMBER ’09Astronomical data

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Time lags

Tides in bold indicate high tide of 1.7m or more and low

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Hope Binsmead Taylor‘Our Ma’

Hope Taylor was born in Geelong, Victoria on the 6 July, 1915 and

passed away at home on July 27, 2009. She was a beloved mother,

grandmother, great-grandmother, aunt, sister and wife of the late

Lionel Taylor.

Hope was a clan elder, health educator, farmer, builder, nurse,

philosopher, poet and friend. Hope promoted peace and

opposed war. Her strength and courage inspired us all.

The family would like to express their thanks to Hope’s carers:

Jack Hession, George Bosire and Moira Mahony. Also thanks to

Tweed Valley Respite Service, Far North Coast Home Care Service,

Murwillumbah Community Nursing Service and Tweed Palliative Care Volunteers.

In God’s care.

The Allen, Findlay, Taylor and Tyack familes.

Visit our website to view the many other homeless dogs and cats:

www.friendsofthepound.com

Chino (4 year old desexed male) and Lilli (2 year

old desexed female), both Maltese x Shih Tzus, are in foster care with Friends of

the Pound.Chino and Lily are darling little dogs who are used to living together and play really well

together. They both love travelling in the car, going to the beach and enjoy sitting on a lap. They are good with kids and also with other

dogs. Sadly in their short lives they have already had 2 homes so the next one must be for keeps. We would like to keep them

together so, if you can give them a permanent, loving home please contact Susie 02 6679

3190 or the FOP Adoption Information Booth on 07 5524 8590.

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0414 777 4321st Sun Banora Point Farmers’ Market

0417 759 7771st Sun Byron Bay (02) 6680 97031st Sun Pottsville (02) 6676 45551st Sun Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714

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3rd Sat 8-11am Casuarina Farmers’ Market 0414 777 432

3rd Sat Mullumbimby (02) 6684 33703rd Sat Murwillumbah Cottage Markets

0417 759 7773rd Sun Ballina 6687 43283rd Sun Banora Point Farmers’ Market

0417 759 7773rd Sun Nimbin (02) 6689 00003rd Sun Pottsville (02) 6676 45553rd Sun Tweed Heads (07) 5599 17143rd Sun Uki (02) 6679 9026

4th Sat Kingscliff (02) 6674 08274th Sun Bangalow (02) 6687 19114th Sun (in 5 Sun month) Coolangatta

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FARMERS MARKETSEach Sat 8-11am Bangalow (02) 6687 1137Each Thu 8-11am Byron Bay (02) 6687 1137Each Tue New Brighton (02)6684 5390 Each Sat 8am-1pm Uki (02) 6679 5438

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32 September 3, 2009 The Tweed Shire Echo www.tweedecho.com.au

Just days before one-time lead-ership contender John Della Bosca imploded amid scandal, he had time to reveal another scandal relating to his govern-ment’s role in foisting the con-tentious world rally event on a divided community. During last week’s visit to the Tweed in his former guise as health minister the veteran NSW power broker revealed that the minister for fast cars, Ian Mac-donald, had apparently not even bothered to consult cabi-net before giving Events NSW the go-ahead and a bucket of cash to stage the event. When asked whether he thought the government’s decision to usurp the council’s powers through special legislation had eroded democracy, he made it clear he was ‘not a motor sports fan’, before adding he could ‘not re-call the rally being discussed or debated in the Labor cabinet room.’ If that’s the case then who made the decision and how was it made?

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Also copping a bit of stick was the Tweed newspaper known locally as the ‘daily snooze’ but dubbed a ‘wretched little rag’ this week by that bane of er-rant journos, the ABC’s Media Watch. Raising the ire of the program was the snooze edi-tor’s irresponsible decision to run a picture (clearly identifi-able) of a naked and mentally disturbed young man who lost his bathers after a skinny-dip in the Tweed River. According to the program, the man was admitted to hospital to recov-er from his ordeal but was so freaked out when he saw his picture plastered over the front-page that he disappeared with-out shoes or money for four days. Fortunately he was found, no thanks to the snooze and its fetish for front page beat-ups.

■ ■ ■ ■ Residents opposed to a large coastal housing development near Newcastle had a win this week with the NSW Govern-ment’s approval of the project

quashed by the Land and En-vironment Court. The Gwan-dalan Summerland Point Ac-tion Group took legal action over the approval of the Rose Group’s plans for 800 homes at Gwandalan and Catherine Hill Bay. Residents questioned a land swap arrangement and also claimed there would be massive overdevelopment. The court agreed, declaring the government’s approval void and also finding that former planning minister Frank Sartor was the driving force in nego-tiations with the developer and that his approval was affected by a reasonable apprehension of bias. Justice David Lloyd also found a lay observer might

readily think that Mr Sartor had already made his mind up, before receiving the relevant reports. Backburner heart-ily agrees and believes many more contentious approvals fell under this ‘bias’ by the minister toward developers.

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The left hand of the state gov-ernment doesn’t know what its right hand is doing… The RTA’s anti-speeding TV ad which belittles revheads won bigtime at an industry awards night recently. The Australian Association of National Ad-vertisers awarded the agency Clemenger BBDO Sydney prizes for the campaign it cre-ated for the RTA. The judges

said the ‘Speeding No One Thinks Big Of You’ campaign had saved lives and estimated its benefit to the local economy at $264 million. It won awards for the best state campaign and most original thinking. Even more original thinking would have been for the government not to impose on us a contro-versial event with fast driving as its raison d’être.

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Speaking of revheads, the Tweed Coast saw its fair share this week. One reader tells of a big white Ford racing through the chicanes at Casuarina at noon on Monday doing at least twice the speed limit, bounc-ing over gutters and swinging around blind corners. We fear this type of behaviour will in-crease before the week is out.

■ ■ ■ ■

One of the weirder stories floated by the media is that rally protesters may be storing ‘frozen roadkill’ to place on the route. The absurdity of the idea suggests it emanates from the rally’s spin machine. Backburn-er hopes it does not cause any genuine animal casualties to be dismissed by Repco’s cheer squad as a protesters’ trick.

■ ■ ■ ■

We would like to kill rumours that the upmarket David Jones retail chain is coming to Mur-willumbah. Apparently the bunting put up in the town’s main street last week (yes, inappropriately before the Banana Festival) are stylised checquered racing flags to pro-mote this weekend’s world rally and not the trademark hounds-tooth pattern that DJ uses for its bags and wrapping.

■ ■ ■ ■

And for those who want to es-cape the rally this weekend, far far from the madding crowd, Hastings Point residents will hold a Father’s Day family fun day at the coastal village this Sunday from 11am-3pm at the beach picnic area. See our Fa-ther’s Day feature inside (pp20-21) for more info.

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Sculpture surge: this pod-like sculpture by Kelly Ann Lees will be one of the many scenic attractions at this year’s Swell Sculpture Festival at Currumbin Beach on the Gold Coast. The popular festival, now in its seventh year, runs from next Friday, September 11 to Sunday, September 20, and is set to transform the seaside setting into an outdoor gallery with artists from around Australia and the world represented by 52 sculptures in the free open-air exhibition. The festival includes twilight sculpture walks, artists’ talks and a public art forum. For more information visit www.swellsculpture.com.au

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