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June 30, 2026

Disclosure Day

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Eclectic Selection for the week beginning 1 July 2026

Eclectic Selection: What’s on this week is a taste of some of the events that can be found in the Byron Shire and beyond this coming week.

Other News

Winter wellness begins in the pantry

or thousands of years, the kitchen was the pharmacy. Long before supermarket shelves and medicine cabinets, families turned to nourishing broths, warming spices, medicinal herbs and seasonal foods to support their health through winter. While modern medicine has an invaluable place – particularly for serious illness – many everyday winter rituals have been forgotten or aged out.

Discursion on ‘reserve’

Reserve is a word with many meanings. What is the Reserve Bank of Australia? Does it have a ‘reserve’? Reserve...

Man in court today after alleged pursuit near Kingscliff

A man will face court today after an alleged pursuit in December last year.

Sustainable infrastructure

I attended the last Byron Council meeting – thanks to the community members who were able to come. The frustration...

Tweed Mayor advocates to restore funding at Local Government assembly

Tweed Shire Council say it has secured national support at the Australian Local Government Association’s National General Assembly, with four key motions carried.

LisAmore! returns

There is something quietly remarkable about LisAmore! Every year, thousands of people make their way to a corner of the Northern Rivers and, for a few hours, swap the everyday for something altogether warmer – the aromas of fresh pasta and cannoli in the air, the sound of an accordion drifting across the grounds, children twirling spaghetti with the kind of concentration usually reserved for far more serious pursuits.

 

If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you?

From legendary three-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker Steven Spielberg, comes the gripping sci-fi thriller Disclosure Day.

As the world stands poised on the brink of World War III, cybersecurity specialist Dr. Daniel Kellner (Golden Globe-winner Josh O’Connor) steals from the Wardex Corporation – a secret arm of the US government – a piece of extraterrestrial technology and related files, detailing various events of human-alien contact dating back to the Roswell incident. Branded a foreign spy, making him the target of federal authorities, Daniel goes into hiding at a convent with his girlfriend, Jane Blankenship.

In Kansas City, television meteorologist Margaret Fairchild (Academy Award-nominee Emily Blunt) is preparing for work when a cardinal flies into her home, briefly observes her, and then flies away. The incident awakens latent psychic abilities, allowing Margaret to intuitively understand the thoughts and emotions of others.

Together Daniel and Margaret try to reveal the truth to the world all at once, while facing intense government secrecy.

Featuring an all-star ensemble cast, including Academy Award-winner Colin Firth, Academy Award-nominee Colman Domingo, and Wyatt Russell and Eve Hewson.

Returning to the sci-fi genre over 40 years on from his critically-acclaimed works, E.T. the Extra-Terrestria and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Spielberg weaves a chilling story of control, knowledge and power in Disclosure Day making audiences question if we are truly alone in this universe and what we would do if we found out we weren’t.

www.palacecinemas.com.au



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Winter wellness begins in the pantry

or thousands of years, the kitchen was the pharmacy. Long before supermarket shelves and medicine cabinets, families turned to nourishing broths, warming spices, medicinal herbs and seasonal foods to support their health through winter. While modern medicine has an invaluable place – particularly for serious illness – many everyday winter rituals have been forgotten or aged out.