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March 18, 2024

What’s Love Got to Do with It?

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Tweed hospital and playgrounds welcomed

State Labor politicians have officially welcomed two upgraded playgrounds and a new hospital built in the Tweed Shire.

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Global beats and lantern parades

Byron Bay’s free Harmony Day celebration on Saturday, March 23 starts at 3.30pm in Apex Park, Main Beach, with live global beats and dance from our region’s multicultural community.

Next round of Butler Street Reserve investigations

Byron Shire Council will start the next round of contamination investigations at Butler Street Reserve in Byron Bay today and tomorrow in response to a request from the Environment Protection Authority.

Kylie to headline Splendour in the Grass for 2024

Taking to the Splendour stage Kylie Minouge will be the opening night headline while she makes a triumphant return home and stamps her name in the annals of Splendour lore. 

Lismore South Public School rebuild to withstand future floods

Following consultation with the local community and other stakeholders the Lismore South Public School and the Ngulliboo Jarjums Preschool will be rebuilt.

First responders critical of government/Council on second flood anniversary

A public event to recognise the second flood anniversary was held at the Soundshell in Bruns last Wednesday, with the mayor, deputy mayor, police representatives and a handful of locals present, according to the photos posted on Council’s Facebook page.

Cost shifting excluded in Byron council’s financial review

An independent review of the financial model applying to local government in NSW would seem at first glance to be a welcome opportunity for councils such as Byron.

Art imitates life in What’s Love Got to Do with It? a 2022 British romantic comedy-drama film directed by Shekhar Kapur, from a screenplay by Jemima Khan. 

The precis reads: ‘Set between London and Lahore, a filmmaker documents her childhood friend and neighbour’s arranged marriage to a bride from Pakistan.’

Jemima Khan is an English screenwriter who, in 1995, married Pakistani cricket superstar Imran Khan, in Paris (this was way before he became prime minister of Pakistan). They also had a civil ceremony. A few months before her wedding, she converted to Islam citing the writings of Muhammad Asad, Charles le Gai Eaton and Alija Izetbegović as her influences. After her marriage to Khan, she relocated to his hometown, Lahore, Pakistan, where she learned to speak Urdu and also wore traditional Pakistani clothes.

What’s Love Got to Do with It? is about a white British woman who falls in love with a South Asian man. The film stars Lily James as Zoe and Shazad Latif as Kazim – the couple in question as well as Shabana Azmi, Sajal Aly, Oliver Chris, Asim Chaudhry, Jeff Mirza, Alice Orr-Ewing, and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and the not be missed Emma Thompson.

What’s Love Got to Do with It? had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September last year, and won Best Comedy (the ‘Ugo Tognazzi’ award) at the Rome Film Fest in October 2022.


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