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COVID-19 and amalgamation drive Council deeper into deficit Council Watch, pages 28 & 29 • Council to hike fees and charges, cut capital works projects • Council to borrow $50M • Cost-shifting costs council $45M • Council amalgamation costs underestimated by almost $40M

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With work set to resume over the weekend on a temporary fix for severe erosion at Wamberal Beach brought on by wild weather and powerful tides two weeks ago. See page 3

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• Councillors’ pay rise will stand

Central Coast Council’s Gosford Art Prize will be accepting online entries this year to ensure all COVID-safe processes are followed. See page 17

Central Coast Council will increase fees and charges, shelve capital works projects and borrow up to $50M as it tries to navigate the impact of COVID-19 and high amalgamation costs. In a fiery meeting, the Mayor used her casting vote this week to approve the 2020/21 Operational Plan which projects a $13.3M operating deficit this coming year, following an expected deficit of over $40M in 2019/20. Continued page 6 Photo: Justin Stanley

Horse rescued It took four fire trucks, 10 firefighters, and several residents to save a horse stuck in a flooded dam at Matcham on July 28. The rescue took place at 11.30am in an area that is notorious for flash flooding. The female horse, Naaman Flaunt, became trapped under a fence and was struggling to keep her head above the rising waters. Local resident, Tarni Letherbarrow, was passing by and said she was trying to keep the horse calm. “I kept her head propped up on my knees to keep it out of the water,” Letherbarrow said.

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Central Coast Local Health District has paid tribute to its security teams following International Security Officers Day on July 24. See page 33

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Fire and Rescue NSW’s Leading Station Officer at Gosford Fire Station, Rodney Tobone, led the rescue operation. “We tried a couple of times to get the horse to its feet, but it did not have the energy, so it was slipping in the mud,” Tobone said. “We then called for a specialist Technical Rescue Vehicle to come from Newcastle that carries large animal rescue equipment,” Tobone said. “We managed to get the horse in a harness and onto a large animal slide [and from there] we were able to slide it up on to some solid ground. Jacinta Counihan

Two local football clubs have been given a financial boost to assist with getting their seasons up and running, courtesy of Minister for Sport grant funding. See page 38

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Labor MPs on the Central Coast claim money meant to support NSW councils with extra costs of amalgamation, including Central Coast Council, has instead been redirected to councils in Coalitionheld electorates.

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Since JobKeeper was announced on the 30th March it has provided a massive economic and psychological boost to the nation. See page 16

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Ominous storm clouds and heavy rain moving in over Long Jetty

Kids across the Coast will be spoilt for choice when it comes to playtime, with Central Coast Council delivering a mix of 18 new and improved playspaces across the Coast. See page 17

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Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast, Adam Crouch, announces the new palliative care unit with members of the Elsie’s Retreat Committee

Construction will begin this year on the region’s first dedicated Palliative Care Unit at Gosford Public Hospital thanks to a commitment from the State Government announced on July 16.

The 10-bed unit, to be located in the hospital’s old maternity ward, is expected to be operational by the end of the third quarter next year, with tenders set to go out in coming weeks. The announcement follows

an eight-year campaign spearheaded by community advocacy group, the Elsie’s Retreat Committee, supported by the Lions Club of Wyoming East Gosford Centennial. Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast and Member

for Terrigal, Adam Crouch, said it was critical that families facing the death of a loved one have more choices and greater access to high quality care. “That’s why it has been a personal priority for me and for the NSW Government to find a

way of enhancing palliative care options right across the Central Coast,” Crouch said. “For many families – including my own – palliative care is an incredibly sensitive issue. Continued page 10

The boys are back in town Some unusual visitors of the flippered kind have been spotted around Central Coast waters in recent weeks.

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This chunky boy popped in to say hi at Koolewong Photo: Lynne Mather

Central Coast Dolphin Project spokesperson, Ronny Ling, said the group had spotted bachelor seals exploring the Brisbane Waters. They have been monitoring several seals for quite a while and sightings had been recorded in recent weeks at Point Clare,Tascott, Koolewong, Woy Woy Bay, Avoca and Copacabana. “These seals are part of a bachelor seal colony at Barrenjoey and often venture to

the Central Coast and sometimes onto Brisbane Water,” Ling said. With the official name of Pinnipeds, which means flipper foot, there are three sub species of the semiaquatic marine mammals; fur seals and sea lions, elephant and leopard seals and walruses. “There were seals all up and down the east coast 250 years ago, but they were virtually wiped out in the early 1800s following European colonisation,” Ling said. “They are starting to come back and there are several colonies along the coastline. “The Barranjoey colony

consists of up to 15 long-nosed fur seals. “These are almost sexually mature male seals known as bachelors and they explore and extend territories. “Sometimes they are joined by smaller seals who are around five years old and are serving an apprenticeship as they learn to hunt fish, squid and penguins. “While they are based at Barranjoey, the seals will often go exploring to check out what’s to eat and we are hoping that within 7-10 years we may start to get females there as well. Continued page 5

The well-known Avoca Beachside Markets will be resuming on Sunday, July 26, after being forced to stop running because of COVID-19. See page 25

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Wild weather lashed the north of the Central Coast on July 12, with heavy rain, thunder and lightning putting on a sky show and hail carpeting Gwandalan like snow. The Bureau of Meteorology and State Emergency Services started putting out warnings to batten down the hatches a few days before the storm swept through. Deputy Unit Commander of Wyong State Emergency Service, Sue Robson, said that they were called to 27 jobs over the three-day storm period.

“It wasn’t quite as bad as expected because it wasn’t the East Coast Low everyone thought it was going to be, instead it was a low-pressure system, but it still brought some heavy weather,” Robson said. The low-pressure system brought damaging winds, big tides and heavy seas with winds averaging 60 to 70km/h and peak gusts in excess of 90km/h while the powerful seas started scouring out the already unstable sand dunes along The Entrance North Beach.

Marlene and Gerry Pennings have lost about 4m of their backyard, but they say they are still quite stable as their house is a further 7m back. “Our house is over 100 years old, so we are a bit different to some of the newer homes which have much deeper foundations,” Marlene said. “Council is doing everything they can, they have been very supportive and the beach crew is very helpful, getting as much done as they can by moving sand to shore up the banks and sometimes working up to one o’clock in the morning.

“The engineering staff have been out to check us and we’re safe, but we’ll be keeping an eye on those big tides coming in over the next couple of days,” Marlene said. Paul Green and his wife have lived at The Entrance North for the past 16 years and he says this beach erosion is definitely the worst that most people along the beachfront have seen. “We’ve lost 10m of our land, and we’ve got about another 10m left,” Green said. “I’m feeling pretty anxious and a little frustrated.

Long suffering Mariners fans will be hoping for a stronger post-Covid showing from the blue and yellow this Saturday evening. See page 38

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High seas slowly but surely demolishing the sand dune at North Entrance beach Photo: Klayte McSweeny, Photoslog

Residents now have assurance that council will not take regulatory action for emergency work carried out, but only at Wamberal and The Entrance North, and the work has to have been designed and approved by a qualified coastal

The Australia Reptile Park gave visitors a front-row seat to the milking process of five of Australia’s most venomous snakes.

The Wyong District Garden Competition is back for its 47th instalment and entries are now open. See page 15

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The Glen Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centre continues to work towards getting The Glen for Women up and running at Wyong Creek.

engineer. The works also need to be certified as not likely to have significant adverse impacts on other land and the work is only that which is reasonably required to protect the property. The time frame for the works is limited to four weeks. The decisions were made at July 20’s extraordinary council meeting called to update the community and councillors on the coastal erosion impact resulting from a low pressure system that stretched from Merimbula to Port Stephens. Continued page 4

Residents from 18 beachfront homes at Wamberal remain locked out of their properties as the State Government and Central Coast Council install emergency measures to prevent even more erosion after heavy seas battered the coastline last week. State-appointed Local Recovery Coordinator, Lee Shearer, has been assigned the task of working with the community on recovery. See our full coverage on pages 4-6

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JobKeeper extension brings happiness to the arts and hospitality sectors

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After a long wait, the Central Coast Rugby Union season finally kicked off on July 18, with Ourimbah and The Lakes off to a flying start. See page 31

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For many Central Coast businesses, an extension of the JobKeeper program announced this week by the Federal Government could prove to be the difference between staying afloat and going

under. The payment is set to continue at its current level until September 27, after which it will be extended for a further six months at a reduced rate. From September 28 until

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Crouch welcomes low-rise planning code

January 3, 2021, it will drop to $1,200 per fortnight and $750 per fortnight for employees who worked less than 20 hours a week in the month of February preCOVID-19. Continued page 25

He said the purpose of the Code was to improve housing affordability as well as encourage more housing diversity. The Central Coast was one of 46 Local Government Areas which had the Code implemented on July 1. “The Code only applies where a council has already zoned land for this type of development,” Mr Crouch said. “Every council in NSW has had more than two years to tailor the Code to their communities.” However, the State Opposition is calling for the Code to be scrapped or heavily amended. “The Code sets aside Council planning controls and allows more intense, unplanned development,” said Shadow Minister for Local Government Mr Greg Warren. “Under the Code, terrace houses, dual occupancy and manor houses will be fast tracked

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by many councils as overdevelopment by stealth and has the potential to overcrowd suburban streets across the state.” Local Government NSW, an association of councils, said it made it harder for councils to uphold community confidence in an orderly development system that supported the local character

of their areas. Association president Ms Linda Scott said the Government should allow councils to retain the power to decide on individual developments, ensuring the right balance between the need for different forms and size of housing that support existing amenity and local community expectations.

SOURCE: Media statement, 22 Jul 2020 Adam Crouch, Parilamentary Secretary for the Central Coast Media release, 7 Jul 2020 Greg Warren, Shadow Minister for Local Government Media release, 1 Jul 2020 Linda Scott, Local Government NSW

Councillors give themselves a pay rise

What might self-driving cars do for people with a disability in places like the Central Coast? See page 29

Council Watch

When Council discussed the proposal for a new regional library at its July 13 meeting, Cr Bruce McLachlan asked whether the community really wanted a new $30M library. See page 31

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The pay rise was supported by most Labor councillors as well as independents Cr Jane Smith, Cr Chris Holstein and Cr Louise Greenaway. Cr Greg Best, Cr Bruce McLachlan and Liberal Cr Jilly Pilon, Cr Rebecca Gale and Cr Chris Burke voted against it. Labor councillor Cr Doug Vincent also voted against the pay rise and one Liberal councillor, Cr Troy Marquart, was not at the meeting. A councillor’s remuneration now rises from $30,410 per year to $32,040. The Mayoral fee moves from $88,600 to $99,800. The full increase means an adjustment to the council budget of an additional $35,650. However, the matter will be discussed again at the next council meeting after Cr Best gave notice he would move a rescission motion. Cr McLachlan said he would support the rescission motion. Cr Best said: “This will give all concerned another opportunity to reconsider this totally out-of-touch self-awarded pay rise. “This Council recently raised

Council Watch, pages 28 & 29 • Council to hike fees and charges, cut capital works projects • Council to borrow $50M • Cost-shifting costs council $45M

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Out&About as ‘complying developments’ in as little as 20 days. “These do not require a full development application to a council, only a complying development certificate issued by a certifier. “This process removes Council oversight and community input. “The Code has been described

• Council amalgamation costs underestimated by almost $40M

Rock placement and emergency protection works started on Friday, July 24, and was completed by Sunday, July

26, and included maintenance of pre-existing ad hoc protection structures at the beach. However, there has been further erosion to yards and properties south of 15 Hutton Rd, due to powerful sea swells from the second low pressure system in the past week. A Council spokesperson said no houses were under immediate threat and crews

were undertaking repair works which continued until the high tide on the afternoon of Tuesday, July 28. All works have been in accordance with the expert coastal engineering advice received from Royal Haskoning and directions from the Local Emergency Operations Controller and state government agencies. A pozitrack machine, which

can operate during higher tides, was used to assist the dump trucks with the movement and placement of rocks to stabilise the base of the sand escarpment south of Hargraves St. Protection works comprised a 260m long engineer designed rock wall from the Hargraves St beach access, north to the Karagi Reserve beach access. A meeting at The Entrance

North on July 22 advised residents about the work to provide immediate protection to the base of the erosion scarp. A Council spokesperson said work over the weekend firstly focused on 50m of the most vulnerable coastline and other sections of the coastline were completed in stages.

He suggested it was quite easy to see from attendance records that some councillors found it hard to get to all meetings because of other commitments. He said his diary showed in one year he had attended more than 130 meetings, more than 80 events and more than 60 video meetings. The pay increase became available because the Local Government Remuneration Board had reclassified council. While councillors did not have to adopt the maximum amount, a report from council staff recommended that it was

The NSW Government announced on Tuesday, July 28, that it would support all recommendations of an independent review into the Warnervale Airport (Restrictions) Act 1996, including providing certainty to the community by immediately repealing the flight cap limit.

appropriate for a council the size of the Central Coast to remunerate councillors at the higher level. “While this represents an increase, this needs to be considered in the light of the fact that Council has long held that it should be in a different category,” the report said. The council is now the only council in a new category of Major Strategic Area, with a remuneration range the same as for a Major Regional City.

Planning and Public Spaces Minister, Rob Stokes, said that there was an overwhelming response from the community, with more than 75 percent of submissions received during the review supporting the

SOURCE: Central Coast Council agenda 3.4 and 6.1, 13 and 27 Jul 2020

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Central Coast Council will increase fees and charges, shelve capital works projects and borrow up to $50M as it tries to navigate the impact of COVID-19 and high amalgamation costs.

repeal of the Act. “The review found a range of problems with the Act, including that is overly complex, difficult to administer and that it was creating safety risks, and recommended that it should be repealed as soon as possible,” Stokes said. “We will continue to work with Central Coast Council on a staged repeal of the Act, ensuring that the appropriate planning controls and plans of management are in place to govern and manage the future operations of the airport.”

In a fiery meeting, the Mayor used her casting vote this week to approve the 2020/21 Operational Plan which projects a $13.3M operating deficit this coming year, following an expected deficit of over $40M in 2019/20.

MPs stood with members of the NSW Nurses and Midwives Association to attempt to stop the Berejiklian Government from privatising the local 24/7 mental health triage service.

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Horse rescued

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It took four fire trucks, 10 firefighters, and several residents to save a horse stuck in a flooded dam at Matcham on July 28. The rescue took place at 11.30am in an area that is notorious for flash flooding. The female horse, Naaman Flaunt, became trapped under a fence and was struggling to keep her head above the rising waters. Local resident, Tarni Letherbarrow, was passing by and said she was trying to keep the horse calm. “I kept her head propped up on my knees to keep it out of the water,” Letherbarrow said.

The curse of Central Coast Stadium prevailed on Monday night (July 27) when a late goal from the Western Sydney Warriors’ Simon Cox denied the Mariners a win. See page 31

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slap in the face of our ratepayers by an out of touch Council, clearly spending someone else’s money.” Gosford West ward’s Cr Holstein, whose ward covers the Peninsula, defended the increase. “This remuneration argument has been going on for 30 years and one reason council can’t attract a wide range of councillors is because the pay is woeful,” he said. “This is a reclassification of the work we do. “It works out about $30 a week. “It is the sixth largest council in Australia and one of the biggest financially in Australia.’’

With work set to resume over the weekend on a temporary fix for severe erosion at Wamberal Beach brought on by wild weather and powerful tides two weeks ago.

Central Coast Council’s Gosford Art Prize will be accepting online entries this year to ensure all COVID-safe processes are followed.

Council has commenced planning for this year’s Lakes Festival and is calling for Expressions of Interest

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Airport Restrictions Act to be repealed rates by $4.4M after losing $41M last financial year and now the same people can somehow justify a pay rise with the mayor getting a further $11,000 bringing her total remuneration to $131, 000 plus a luxury car and expenses. “If this were a private corporation working on real KPIs and performance criteria, the administrators would have been called long ago. “Simply put, our community is really struggling under the weight of Covid-19, struggling to make ends meet and struggling to find a job, let alone to get a pay rise. “This just says it all, an absolute

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Hundreds of tonnes of rock will only provide a temporary solution More than 900 tonnes of basalt rock and 220 tonnes of sandstone has been placed in front of homes along The Entrance North Beach as part of Central Coast Council’s emergency erosion remediation works.

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Residents in the northern suburbs have been on high alert for almost two weeks with two low pressure systems leaving a trail of destruction in their wake.

Central Coast councillors have voted eight to six to give themselves a pay rise at the July 13 council meeting.

Photo: Klayte McSweeny, Photoslog

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Residents allowed to do emergency work to protect storm affected properties Beachfront residents at The Entrance North and Wamberal have been given direction on what emergency work they can do in the wake of the beach erosion caused by a low pressure system bringing wild weather and heavy seas which hit their sand dunes.

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“We wanted permission to do something along the beach to shore up the sand dunes but obviously we weren’t getting enough council and state government support, everything just takes too long. “We wanted to put down geosandbags or sandstone, something that’s safe for people, and we weren’t looking for a handout, but knew that something had to be done sooner than later or we could very well finish up like Wamberal is now.

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Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast Mr Adam Crouch has welcomed the introduction of a new Low Rise Housing Diversity Code on the Central Coast.

Transport for NSW has confirmed that it has met only 13 percent of its biodiversity offset requirements.

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Two local football clubs have been given a financial boost to assist with getting their seasons up and running, courtesy of Minister for Sport grant funding. See page 38

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Workers navigate tides for temporary fix at Wamberal With work set to resume over the weekend on a temporary fix for severe erosion at Wamberal Beach brought on by wild weather and powerful tides two weeks ago, Central Coast Council CEO Gary Murphy said finding a permanent solution was “complex”. A combination of an East Coast Low and swells of up to five metres saw homes undermined and residents evacuated as portions of the dunes were swept away. Council and the State Government organised the placement of hundreds of huge bags of rocks on the sand to stave off further erosion, with work coming to a halt early this week pending the delivery of more rocks and bags from Japan, expected to arrive by the end of the week. While the “rock wall” has been effective so far, Murphy said finalising a longer-term solution would take time. “While a terminal protection wall is under investigation this solution requires input and agreement from a number of parties, including impacted residents,all levels of government and the community,” he said.

The scene on the Wamberal beachfront this week Photo: Richard Smith

“An agreed funding model is a central element (and) can only be agreed to once a detailed design is developed. “We are doing emergency works now, that have been directed by the Emergency Controller; some of the rocks, including the rock bags used in the current works, could be reused as part of a more permanent solution.”

Murphy said he could understand residents’ frustration over a situation which has been brewing for decades. “A permanent solution has been worked on for some time now … but at the end of the day, it comes down to funding and who is going to pay for it,” he said. “We are continuing to work closelywiththeStateGovernment

and I have been heartened by recent conversations with Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast and Member for Terrigal, Adam Crouch, that the Government is willing to work with Council on a permanent solution. “If we look back at the history of this, going back from the 1950s, ‘60s and more recently, in the early 2000s, there were

numerous approaches by the former Gosford Council to various state governments over the years for funding and they have been knocked back.” Many residents have taken to social media citing incidences in the past where homes have been built or added to against Council advice and following Land and Environment Court rulings. But resident Warren Hughes,

who addressed councillors prior to their July 27 meeting, said residents had pleaded with Council for years to allow them to place suitably approved protections at the ocean toe of their properties at their own expense. “In no way did we seek for these works to be paid for by the broader ratepayers,” Hughes said. Murphy said he could understand the broader community’s concern about Council funding a long-term solution. “We also understand that this would be a significant impost on those affected,” he said. “So it is really heartening to hear Mr Crouch’s and the State Government’s approach this time around.” In May this year, Council engaged Manly Hydraulics Laboratory to prepare concept plans for a terminal protection structure at Wamberal, part funded by Council and the NSW Government at a total cost of approximately $400,000. They are expected to be completed late this year. Terry Collins

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Airport Restrictions Act to be repealed The NSW Government announced on July 28, it would support all recommendations of an independent review into the Warnervale Airport (Restrictions) Act 1996, including providing certainty to the community by immediately repealing the flight cap limit. Planning and Public Spaces Minister, Rob Stokes, said there was an overwhelming response from the community, with more than 75 per cent of submissions received during the review supporting the repeal of the Act. “The review found a range of

problems with the Act, including that is overly complex, difficult to administer and was creating safety risks, and recommended it should be repealed as soon as possible,” Stokes said. “We will continue to work with Central Coast Council on a staged repeal of the Act, ensuring the appropriate planning controls and plans of management are in place to govern and manage the future operations of the airport.” Parliamentary Secretary for Central Coast, Adam Crouch, said the NSW Government would introduce legislation in September to implement the recommendations, starting with the repeal of the daily

take-off and landing cap. “Our community has sent a strong message that it wants Warnervale Airport retained and accessible for public use by community groups like the Aero Club, and our government will act to ensure this is the case,” Crouch said. “The airport is used for training the next generation of

Australian pilots, as well as enabling medical evacuations and bushfire emergency responses to occur. The final report from the independent review made three recommendations: The Act should be repealed as soon as possible, but if there was a delay the airport flight

restrictions should be removed immediately; Central Coast Council, which owns and operates the airport, should adopt a clear framework to govern the airport’s future management; and safety issues affecting the runway be addressed. Central Coast Council said it would review the recommendations in detail and respond to their impacts on its operational management of the airport. Mayor Lisa Matthews said that Council can only operate Warnervale Airport under the legislative environment that the State Government sets.

“I want to emphasise that Council does not make the laws about the operation of this community owned asset,” Cr Matthews said. “Council must and does adhere to the State legislation that governs Warnervale Airport and this includes the current flight cap limits. “Minister Rob Stokes has publicly notified that this part of the Act is proposed to be repealed, and once that is done Council will respond to the legislation in its management of the airport.” Sue Murray

Work starts on state-of-the-art ING complex in Wyong ING’s 400 Central Coast employees will soon have a new state-of-the-art environment in which to work, with construction underway on an $11.3M complex in Wyong Business Park. The new building is due to open in 2022 and will provide an open plan office space and innovative meeting areas as

well as a call centre on the 4,800sq m site. There will be more than 300 free parking spaces, an onsite café and a garden area. ING’s Australian CEO, Uday Sareen said the location was chosen because of its access to transport links and other services such as shopping amenities, fitness centres, childcare facilities and food options.

Sareen, said the new building would offer an opportunity to grow more jobs on the Coast. “We have been on the Central Coast for almost two decades and we are one of the region’s biggest employers,” Sardeen said. “A quarter of our entire Australian workforce is based there. “The Coast produces

passionate, caring and dedicated people that we want to invest in to help build our business. “People are most productive when they have a good worklife balance, and this is exactly what our new Central Coast home is about.” ING Senior Manager Contact Centres, Paul Classens, is hoping the new building will bring employees closer

together. “It will provide an opportunity for our current workforce to potentially expand other areas of the business, which will hopefully move up here in the future,” he said. “[It is a great] opportunity to bring Sydney and Tuggerah closer together with all the technology we are sure is going to be available for us in the building as well.”

The commercial development company, Gibbens Group, is behind the development. “The master-planned redevelopment of Wyong Business Park will deliver a vibrant hub of commercial & industrial activity,” Gibbens Group CEO, Matthew Gibbens, said. Jacinta Counihan

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Panel rejects West Gosford residents’ concern over 24-hour Hungry Jacks The Central Coast Local Planning Panel has deferred a decision on a revamp of the West Gosford Shopping Centre, requesting more information on proposed landscaping for the centre’s carpark and how that might impact on parking spaces. But the panel was satisfied proponent Mintus Properties had adequately addressed concerns regarding the impacts a proposed Hungry Jack’s outlet might have on nearby residents. Despite 43 submissions having been received, most of which expressed concerns about traffic, noise and visual impacts of the 24-hour drive through fast food outlet, panel members seemed content with a 2.7m acoustic wall and landscaping proposed by the developer as a solution. Long-time residents of the three townhouses immediately adjoining the proposed Hungry Jack’s site beg to disagree.

Residents Shirley Mitchell and Colin and Irenee Douglas on the site of the proposed Hungry Jack’s, with their homes in the background

Colin Douglas addressed the panel just before its deliberations on June 23 on behalf of the residents of the townhouse complex and said a Noise and Impact Statement had failed to adequately address impacts on residents. He said sleep disturbance, possible anti-social behaviour and lighting pollution needed to be investigated further. “My wife Irenee and I have lived here for 16 years,” Douglas told Coast News. “Part of the reason we bought here was the proximity to

shops and transport and we are all in favour of seeing the shopping centre upgraded. “We have seen it go from a very prosperous centre to a shell and welcome revitalisation. “But we feel no consideration has been given to nearby residents with the inclusion of a 24-hour drive through Hungry Jack’s.” The restaurant would be sited just metres from the Douglas’s home. “We are horrified at the noise and smell which this would

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generate 24 hours a day,” Douglas said. “The proposed acoustic wall will block sunlight from our gardens and restrict daylight entering our ground floor rooms and will do little to mitigate noise.” Douglas said odours from the restaurant would impact residents and he was not satisfied waste management had been adequately addressed. He said he felt his concerns had not been taken on board by the panel.

“I got the impression I was there to be tolerated,“ he said. His wife Irenee said they were also concerned about proposed lighted signage which could be as high as eight metres and would shine into their bedroom window, while neighbour Shirley Mitchell said the possibility of anti-social behaviour attracted by a 24hour drive through so close to residential homes was also a major concern. But town planner Jonathon Wood from ThinkPlanners spoke to the panel on behalf of the applicant and said while he “fully appreciated” the concerns of residents, an acoustic report had shown impacts would be acceptable given the provision of the acoustic barrier between the carpark site and the townhouses. He said potential landscaping which could include an evergreen hedge would provide further noise protection as well as visual impacts and conditions imposed on the development application would

limit lighting spill. The proposed three-stage redevelopment would see major alterations to existing buildings and the addition of a childcare centre as well as the Hungry Jack’s. Stage one would see the fast food outlet constructed, with 50 indoor seats and a drivethrough, catering for 16 cars. Stage two would see alterations, including demolition of existing walls and fit-outs on the first floor, converting existing office space to an 81 place childcare centre and a gym and Stage three would see major renovations to the ground level, including the demolition of the existing tavern, re-sheeting and reconfiguration of the carpark and the introduction of new shade sails. The application is expected to be considered again at the panel’s next meeting on August 6. Terry Collins

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COVID-19, amalgamation drive Council deeper into deficit Central Coast Council will increase fees and charges, shelve capital works projects and borrow up to $50M as it tries to navigate the impact of COVID-19 and high amalgamation costs. In a fiery meeting, the Mayor used her casting vote this week to approve the 2020/21 Operational Plan which projects a $13.3M operating deficit this coming year, following an expected deficit of over $40M in 2019/20. Central Coast Council is budgeting for a deficit of $13.3M at the end of this financial year. CEO Gary Murphy said while councillors argued over the rights and wrongs of having a deficit, the main point was whether council was being responsible with ratepayers’ money. Ratepayers can take comfort from the fact that the Council is audited yearly by the NSW Audit Office, Murphy said. Murphy was responding to conflicting statements about

the Council deficit which was debated at the meeting on July 27 when Council adopted its operational plan, also called the budget, for this financial year. “That was the challenge on Monday night,” Murphy said. “You had Cr Best for example saying you need to reduce spending and not have a deficit and you had Cr MacGregor saying councils and governments at this time should be running up deficits because we aren’t in the business of a profit.” What does the CEO think? “I think that for all government agencies that have security of tenure, either from income tax or GST or Council has rates, it is okay to run deficits in the short term because you have security of income but you cannot run deficits in the long term because you will simply run out of cash. “So, if you have a plan that says there is a recovery coming back, it is okay to run deficits in the short term.” The operational plan shows the Council plans to be back in

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black by financial year 202122. But this year, the council has factored in the current state of

affairs. It expects the COVID-19 crisis to add $8.5M in lost revenue, while the cost of amalgamating

also continues to be a contributing factor. Murphy said another factor was that water and sewerage increases (2.2 per cent) as set by the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal were less than council had anticipated. It was good news for residents with reduced water charges but from the council’s perspective it meant $35M a year less - or a total of $105M over three years. At the same time, the level of expenditure had continued to grow and included a $61M Mardi to Warnervale drinking water pipeline, one of the region’s most significant infrastructure projects. Murphy also said the Central Coast was experiencing a growth in population of 0.9 per cent but the revenue growth was only 0.5 per cent. “Income is not keeping up with demand,” he said. Murphy advised that deficits can be offset against accumulated operating surpluses from earlier years, which had previously grown to $72.9M but which had since

been eroded by a $5.1M deficit in 2018-19 and a deficit in 2019-20 that was still to be determined. During debate at the council meeting to adopt the plan, Cr Best asked acting chief financial officer Carlton Oldfield what the deficit for 2019-2020 was expected to be. Oldfield said it was estimated at the third quarter that the deficit for the year would be $41M. Cr Best expects that going on those figures, this year’s deficit could blow out well beyond the projected $13.3M. But Murphy said it was not a “set and forget” budget. Senior staff would sit down with councillors on August 17 to begin the budget quarterly review process to look at what needed to be changed and adapted before they got to the actual quarterly review. Meanwhile, the annual audit process has started, and the auditor is due to report back to Council in October or November. Merilyn Vale

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Woolworths closes centre in response to workers’ strike Central Coast councillors have thrown their support behind more than 500 workers at the region’s only Woolworths Distribution Centre who walked off the job for 24 hours on July 24 demanding pay parity with their Sydney counterparts. The workers at the Warnervale centre took legal industrial stop work action on July 24 after negotiations over pay and conditions broke down. United Workers Union spokesperson, Brad Donnelly, said workers on some job levels were paid up to 16 per cent less than Sydney distribution workers. He said workers were also calling for an end to Woolworths’ unsafe pick rates (the number of items a worker is expected to move every hour) and insecure work which leaves many worrying if they will be able to support their family week to week. “Woolworths warehouse staff have worked through the COVID-19 crisis, helping the company achieve record growth but management

Workers protest outside the Woolworths Distribution Centre at Warnervale

continues to refuse their demands after almost five months of negotiations,” Donnelly said. “There is no reasonable justification for workers in Sydney to be paid so much more than regional workers doing exactly the same job.” Workers are also asking that the ratio of permanent staff be 80 per cent and casual staff 20 per cent.

The Woolworths response to the workers’ strike was to close the distribution centre until July 29. “While we fully respect the right to strike, we need certainty in our supply chain to continue providing the essentials the community relies on, especially in the current COVID-19 crisis,” Woolworths Chief Supply Chain Officer, Paul Graham, said. “To minimise disruption to

our customers, we have enacted our contingency plans out of other distribution centres and will service store deliveries from these sites. “We’ve negotiated in good faith for four months and accepted a number of claims from the bargaining representatives, but we won’t agree to unsustainable pay demands and the removal of basic performance

expectations. “We ask the bargaining representatives to reconsider the offer on the table because further industrial action won’t change our position,” Graham said. Councillors showed unanimous support for the Woolworths workers by accepting an Urgent Notice of Motion from Cr Kyle MacGregor at their July 27 meeting.

Cr MacGregor’s motion asked Council to note the importance of secure local jobs and the negative impact the dispute between Woolworths and the workers would have on the wider community and to call on both parties to recommence negotiations and allow workers back as soon as possible. “I stand by the workers at Warnervale who have been locked out of their workplace despite wanting to return to work, asking for nothing more than a fair day’s work for a fair day’s pay,” Cr MacGregor said. “This is a time for industry to be supporting and working collaboratively with their workforce not locking people out who want a decent local job and economic security for their family. “These are issues that affect our broader Central Coast economy and every family in our region, be it through their workplace or home directly, where they shop, or the standards that we are willing to accept as local workers,” he said.

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Dead whale stirs concerns over seismic activity The Central Coast Dolphin Project has renewed its opposition to any further seismic testing off the coastline after a 4.5m dead adult whale washed ashore at North Entrance last week. Spokesperson Ronny Ling said the dead animal, which was discovered on Thursday, was a member of the Beaked and Bottle-nosed whale family, believed to be a Blainville’s beaked whale. “Beaked and Bottle-nosed whales have the appearance of large deformed dolphins,” Ling

said. “There are 21 species worldwide in this family ranging in size from 35m to 13m in length and they can weigh several tonnes. “These whales usually inhabit the deeper waters off the continental shelf. “They are the deepest diving of all whales and have been known to dive to depths of 4600m; they can hold their breath for almost an hour. “Off the shelf, they use their echolocation (sonar) to primarily hunt for squid in the darkness.

The dead whale which washed up at North Entrance

“They will also hunt small fish like herring and pilchards. “These whales are sometimes lone animals but have also been observed in pods up to around six.” Ling said National Parks and Wildlife (NPWS) had difficulty extracting the carcass, with recent erosion impacting the ability to use necessary machinery. He said necropsy performed late on Friday by Taronga Zoo staff confirmed that the young whale had not eaten recently, its lungs were very congested, and it had an enlarged spleen. “It is believed that the whale

had been unwell for a few days,” he said. “There were no signs of injury or vessel strike, no ingestion of plastic, no entanglement, and no gunshot wounds.” Ling said whales were very sensitive to sound in the water and military sonar and seismic testing could have devastating effects on them. “If PEP11 goes ahead, we could see more of these beautiful animals washing up on our shores,” he said. Source: Media release, Jun 28 Ronny Ling, Central Coast Dolphin Project

Coast Community Connections continues energy bill support A free energy bill support service provided by Coast Community Connections (CCCL) and the Energy & Water Ombudsman is set to continue, with phone consultations replacing inperson interviews in light of COVID-19. Available on the last Tuesday of each month between 9am and 3pm, the service provides

information and expert advice to local families and residents about their energy and gas bills. Coast Community Connections CEO, Bruce Davis, said the Peninsula Community Centre has been hosting the Energy Bill Support Service since 2016 and will continue offering the service in a slightly different format.

Instead of attending the Peninsula Community Centre in person, residents are now invited to book an individual phone consultation with Energy & Water Ombudsman NSW staff who will provide expert assistance on topics such as reviewing and explaining bills, checking rebate eligibility, resolving outstanding issues, complaint resolution,

establishing payment plans and linking to special support programs. If residents are eligible for energy rebates, staff will provide advice on how to claim these. “The Energy Bill Support Service has been incredibly popular with local residents over the past few years, so we are pleased to be able to

continue to offer this service, albeit in a slightly different format this year,” Davis said. “It is a great opportunity for those experiencing financial hardship to obtain information about how to receive any energy rebates and government payments they are entitled to. “Many people are unaware of the benefits they could be receiving each year.

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Hey, Annastacia, we’re not Sydney Central Coast Mayor Lisa Matthews has said the inclusion of the Central Coast in a travel ban imposed on residents of “greater Sydney” by Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk this week is a “slap in the face for Coasties”. Palaszczuk imposed the ban on travel to Queensland as fears of a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic continue to spread. Cr Matthews said she had put in a call to the Premier to protest the situation and had also sent a message and an

email, with no response. “We have been fighting to be recognised as our own region for a number of years,” Cr Matthews said. “We are not part of greater Sydney and it is disappointing we have not heard back from the Premier.” Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast, Adam Crouch, agreed. “The Central Coast has been free of COVID-19 since May 20, but bizarrely, the Queensland Government considers our region to be a COVID-19 hotspot,” Crouch said. “Even more bizarrely, the

regions of Newcastle and Port Stephens have active COVID-19 cases but are still allowed to visit Queensland. “This decision was made without even informing or consulting the NSW Premier, Gladys Berejiklian.” Meanwhile, Central Coast Local Health District (CCLHD) has reassured residents that a Central Coast resident who recently returned from overseas and is in isolation in Sydney after testing positive for COVID-19 poses no risk to the Coast. “She was diagnosed in a quarantine hotel in Sydney, where she has remained in

isolation since arriving in Australia,” a CCLHD spokesperson said. “She will be released from isolation once Health staff confirm that the infection has cleared. “Health staff are undertaking daily wellness checks while she is in hotel quarantine and she is doing well. “There are no close contacts of this case (and) no ongoing risk to the community.” More than 37,000 Central Coast residents have so far undergone testing for the deadly virus. Parliamentary Secretary for

the Central Coast, Adam Crouch, said new figures revealed upwards of 23,000 tests have been conducted by the Central Coast Local Health District (CCLHD), in addition to 14,000 undertaken at EV Church, Erina. Of the 23,000 CCLHD tests, more than 2,000 have been conducted in the past week alone. Separately, the union representing retail employees, including supermarket workers (SDA), is urging any travellers from Sydney visiting the Central Coast and other regional areas in NSW to do the right thing and wear a mask.

The call comes on the back of SDA polling conducted by Essential, which reveals 23 per cent of people in NSW believe being forced to wear a mask is an infringement on their personal freedom. SDA NSW Secretary, Bernie Smith said people wearing a mask when entering shops would protect not just retail workers, but the wider community. “A COVID-19 outbreak has the potential to seriously devastate regional towns,” Smith said. Terry Collins

Search for solutions to Davistown drainage issues begins Central Coast Council will investigate drainage issues at Davistown and apply for any State and Federal funding available to help address the situation, which sees multiple streets go underwater every time it rains. Councillor Rebecca Gale moved a successful motion at Council’s July 27 meeting, which calls for an examination of drainage needs including but not limited to drain pits, flood gates and general upgrades and specifies Davis Ave, McCauley St, Kyoga Ave, Lilli Pilli Bus Stop, Restella Ave (boat ramp end), Pyang Ave and Mireen Ave (boat ramp end) for particular attention. Cr Gale reminded fellow councillors that 415 homes were without a toilet or clean water for days earlier this year when heavy rains saw a failure of the sewerage system.

“The reports I heard were that elderly people were trudging through water to get to the portaloos Council provided,” she said. “My concern when going through the Operational Plan was that Davistown did not seem to be mentioned in Flood Plain Risk Management plans. “I know this is a low-lying area, but we need to take responsibility for these drainage issues.” Cr Gale said her motion came off the back of responses received to a Question on Notice she had put to the previous meeting of Council. “I would encourage staff to apply for any water infrastructure grants which might be available (from State and Federal Government),” she said. “Council’s own minor drainage improvement fund might even get us over the

line.” Councillor Chris Burke seconded the motion, saying Davistown was “as flat as” and (drainage had) always been a problem. “Over the years, drainage (at Davistown) has been a big issue and it’s about time we investigated the situation and see what Council can come up with,” he said. Deputy Mayor Jane Smith questioned if the Floodplain Risk Management Plan now being formulated was relevant and asked for an update on its progress. But Director Roads Transport Drainage and Waste, Boris Bolgoff, said a two-pronged approach was being taken to the plan, with his own department and the Department of Environment and Planning both working on it and he was unable to give an update on its progress.

With no further debate, the motion was passed unanimously. Davistown Progress Association, which has long been campaigning for urgent action on drainage issues, said resident who were affected by “the constant local flooding and unpleasant muddy conditions” were pleased with the outcome. “We hope to see short term fixes like unblocking drains and hope some of the longer term solutions like small automatic one way drainage gates can be looked at for the major tidal outlets around Davistown,” Association President, Jenny McCulla, said. “We are also very appreciative that all councillors unanimously supported the need to look at issues here, that can be fixed now.” Terry Collins

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Emergency remediation works continued over the weekend at Wamberal and the North Entrance in a bid to get as much done before the predicted second east coast low hit our coastline early this week.

The Central Coast arts industry has been hit hard by COVID-19 and we are working on several projects to help support local artists and encourage creativity.

At Wamberal, all available rock filled bags have now been placed on Wamberal Beach to help secure the base of the escarpment. Wamberal Beach remains closed in front of the emergency works. There is also a lot of activity around the surf club, so please avoid the area where possible. Yesterday at the North Entrance, Council crews completed emergency protection works, involving maintenance of the pre-existing ad hoc protection structures at North Entrance. The works provide a continuous placement of rocks at the base of the escarpment for properties south of Hargraves Street, North Entrance. Council has engaged leading coastal engineering consultancy Royal Haskoning DHV, who are providing recommendations for recovery actions to mitigate further damage in the short term. At present, the works at both locations have been put on hold until tide and wave conditions permit safe beach access once more. The weather and beach conditions are being monitored carefully and Council will continue to work together with residents and the State Government to manage coastal erosion at Wamberal Beach and North Entrance. Mayor Lisa Matthews Central Coast Council

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Council and nbn™ team up to showcase indigenous art

For details on the prize, the entry process and submission of works, visit info.centralcoast.nsw.gov.au /gosfordartprize

Residents may have already spotted artworks popping up on the side of local roads recently as a number of nbn™ network nodes have been wrapped in striking indigenous designs. The designs were created under the Maliga program in collaboration with local schools Kincumber Public, Kincumber HS, Wyong HS, Tuggerah Lakes Secondary College (both The Entrance and Berkeley Vale Campuses) and Wadalba Community School. A total of seven nbn™ node cabinets showcase the four designs which include written descriptions to engage the passing community with the artworks story and meaning. You can spot some node art at: • Kincumber, Joalah Rd and Bungoona Rd • Wyong, Alison Rd and Cutler Drive • Wadalba, Clydesdale St

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EOI open for creatives to fill vacant spaces

The Gosford Regional Gallery have also just announced that the Gosford Art Prize will return in 2020 with a new COVID-safe process for entrants.

Entries open on 1 August and close on 30 August, with finalists announced on 4 September.

While the world was shutting down around us, our Community and Culture team set out to document these extraordinary times in our region. The ‘Creation in Isolation’ project engaged local artists to creatively respond to the challenges of life during the pandemic, with their creations to be exhibited in a future roadshow. • Twelve local singer songwriters produced original compositions. • Local photographers created visual essays about isolation, resilience and documented Anzac Day on the Central Coast. • A young local indigenous filmmaker created a film capturing the mood of this incredible time. • Four mural artists designed works that respond to place and time during lockdown. • Community members documented life during the pandemic with stunning printworks, heartfelt poems, drawings and stories.

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Bateau Bay, Shelley Beach Rd and Bateau Bay Rd.

We are calling on Central Coast visual artists or creative groups to submit their interest in utilising a variety of spaces in several town centre locations for creative endeavours. Expressions of interest are now being sought from creatives of any visual medium - including arts and crafts, ceramics, sculpture, photography, printmaking, textile and fashion, filmmaking, and other innovative visual art installations. These spaces are in high traffic areas and available on a ‘pop-up’ temporary, casual or semi-permanent basis. We have also worked with commercial property owners and real estate agents to decorate vacant shop windows. Residents may have already spotted these displays at Woy Woy, The Entrance, Wyong, Gosford and Budgewoi. For more information, visit centralcoast.nsw.gov.au/eoi

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Community Bulletin - COVID-19 Information YOUR SAFETY

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With alarming clusters of COVID-19 cases occurring in other areas, the NSW Government has once again tightened restrictions around some activities to help limit the spread of COVID-19. Last week, the Government strengthened the restrictions around “higher risk” activities such as dining, weddings, funerals and corporate events. The requirement on pubs to restrict bookings to a maximum of 10 people was extended to restaurants, bars, cafes and clubs. Wedding and corporate events are limited to a maximum of 150 people, subject to a one person per foursquare metre rule. Gatherings at funerals and places of worship have again been restricted to a maximum of 100 people, subject to the four-square metre rule. While private home or outdoor gatherings remain at a maximum of 20 people, the NSW Government has strongly urged people to take a precautionary approach and limit the number of visitors to private homes to a maximum of 10 people as a general principle. Details: nsw.gov.au/covid-19/what-you-canand-cant-do-under-rules

The resurgence of clusters of COVID-19 cases not far from the Central Coast means many people are no longer feeling the peace of mind they had when there was minimal community transmission of the virus. We’ve put together a comprehensive list of resources for those who feel they need support. As well as mental health resources, there is also information about physical supports such as food hamper distribution and help for people experiencing domestic violence or issues relevant to particular age or cultural groups. Details: centralcoast.nsw.gov.au/help Meanwhile, there are simple ways we can each help minimise the spread of COVID-19: • stay away from lots of people • wash hands often with soap and water • avoid touching your face • sneeze or cough into a tissue or your elbow. If you feel unwell, please seek a COVID-19 test and stay home while you wait for the results. COVID testing clinics can be found at nsw.gov. au/covid-19/how-to-protect-yourself-andothers/clinics

The continued reopening of our community is dependent on minimal cases of COVID-19. The NSW Government has called on businesses to join the statewide COVID Safe program to ensure they are operating in a safe way to protect staff, customers and visitors. The program provides industry-specific advice and safety plan templates, signs to inform customers and visitors about your plan, an opportunity for customers to provide feedback and notifications about any updates to health and safety rules. Businesses will need to keep their COVID Safe Plan on hand, train staff in COVID Safe practices, collect customer and visitor contact details and make staff aware of the COVIDSafe app. They will also need to cooperate with NSW Health if notified of a positive case of COVID-19 in their workplace. Details, including industry-specific COVID Safe guidelines: nsw.gov.au/covid-19/covid-safebusinesses More business information and resources at centralcoast.nsw.gov.au/business-support

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Terrigal Boardwalk survey Adam Crouch MP’s latest newsletter tells us the vast majority of our community endorses the Terrigal Boardwalk project. He says a survey from council shows 81 per cent of Terrigal locals strongly support or support, the boardwalk. The following figures come directly from council’s website. Of 688 written submissions 52 per cent expressed general support for the proposal while 48 per cent expressed a lack of support for the proposal. Breaking down these numbers into Terrigal and outsiders: Supportive; Terrigal 56 per cent; Non Terrigal 51 per cent. Not Supportive: Terrigal 44

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See Page 2 for contribution conditions per cent; Non Terrigal 48 per cent. Face to face street interviews: Supportive; Terrigal 44 per cent; Non Resident 56 per cent. Of these 49 per cent were very supportive, 15 per cent were supportive, 17 per cent were somewhat, 7 per cent were not very and 12 per cent

not at all. The supporter’s reasons: Better access, recreation, tourism and a positive visual design. The non-supporters’: high cost, negative visuals, lack of need, impact on current use of the rock platform and ecological impact pollution. Does the “81 per cent of Terrigal locals’ come from a council survey as Mr Crouch reports or from another source? As shown above they already had a survey. I think it is disingenuous to mislead the public if what I have shown is correct. Email, Jul 23 Tom Raine, Wamberal

Coast residents deserve better This latest Wamberal disaster should be the final nail in Central Coast Council’s coffin after causing major damage to ratepayers’ homes again. Residents deserve a competent council who produces results instead of hollow promises, failing to

FORUM meet their basic responsibilities and leaving their residents with last century’s roads and other infrastructure resulting in one disaster after another. The State Government is critical of council’s performance on numerous occasions but

now needs to use their powers to sack council and install competent administrators with proven performance records to bring our Coast up to this century’s standards. Central Coast residents deserve much better. Email, Jul 21 Rod Robey, Copacabana

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While I sympathise with the owners of the dwellings on the eroded/eroding sand dunes at Wamberal the articles raise several questions. One; For what reasons did council oppose the initial Development Applications? Two; On what grounds did the

FORUM Land and Environment Court overturn the initial opposition? Three; Why should I, as a rate paying citizen, have to contribute to the rectification of problems incurred by faulty decisions of the Land and Environment Court? Four; To what depth will foundations have to be

excavated to build a successful sea wall? Five; I know this will cause some consternation, but what will be the effect on the above dwellings of a rising sea level due to global warming (claims of 80 cm by the end of this century)? Email, Jul 27 Col Hodgson, Mt Elliot

More pay for Councillors? Clean the streets first I am disgusted at the councillors asking for a pay rise instead of spending ratepayers’ money on the cleaning up the gutters and hiring staff for outside work. Up until now councillors made an effort to get to meetings on the planning of our

FORUM city, however from what I have seen only very few get there now. Now they are asking the ratepayer for more money, I ask what for? The city of Gosford looks like

a garbage tip filled with empty buildings. It is no wonder that the State Government have taken over planning powers. Maybe the public will have better ideas for our city? Email, Jul 17 Robert Findley, Point Clare

Pay councillors properly … so anyone can stand

If some of the Councillors do

FORUM not need the income they are free to donate the money to any number of charities that are really struggling. Or if they do not need the work, then they can resign and leave the position to one of the

3.92 million people who need work right now. Although, given the poor rate of pay, I expect it will be difficult to find the right sort of person to take the flak they cop on a daily basis. Email, Jul 28 Megan Bartley, Narara

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Terry Collins’ articles (page 4, CCN 252) make interesting reading.

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I sprained my knee recently, and am barely able to hobble around home, let alone walk to the bus stop. I’d like to thank the taxi driver

FORUM (I didn’t get his ID) who took an urgent prescription to the pharmacist, waited around, brought it back, yet refused a

tip. Thank you, Central Coast Taxis, and whoever you were, Mr Taxi Driver. Email, Jul 27 Dave Horsfall, North Gosford

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Public money for public coastal erosion response only In response to the Wamberal coastal erosion articles that appeared in edition 252, I would argue for public money for public coastal erosion, and private money for private coastal erosion. I understand that government has a duty to stabilise the Wamberal escarpment, but anything beyond that is the equivalent of the not uncommon “privatise the profits, socialise the losses” attitude of some stakeholders. I would also argue that this public money may be needed in the coming decade for assisting with the “planned retreat” recommended by the

FORUM Wamberal Beach Management Options: Cost Benefit and Distribution Analysis Report of 2017. I would further argue that public money is required for the clear and present need at Terrigal public esplanade. Anecdotally, the extent of the current deep erosion has never been seen by locals. The attached photographs were taken at the lunchtime low tide of July 29. There is a clear and present need for this public infrastructure, used by the public in their thousands, that

may have been impacted by the regular removal of the Terrigal lagoon berm creating an undersea delta. During the next low tide, I would urge Central Coast Council to divert their large rock manipulator machinery which is nearby at Terrigal lagoon. The broken debris, currently exposed, could be shaped into a very interim riprap line in front of the esplanade. It will not be perfect, but progress, not perfection, is all that is available with Dame Mother Nature. Email, Jul 29 Brad Allen, Terrigal

Brad Allen’s photo of the southern end of Terrigal Beach

Libraries good, white elephants bad In a typical and well-worn political ploy, the dinosaurs who control the council are trying to make out that opponents of the regional library (and, in particular, a regional library in Gosford) are against libraries in general. As I have made clear, on several occasions, I am in favour of expanding local libraries and increasing their numbers, to bring them into closer contact with their communities, and of giving them enhanced Internet capabilities, to link them together and respond to the changes in library-use habits that characterize the current

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See Page 2 for contribution conditions youth generation. I believe that libraries are amongst our most important amenities and have pleaded for the retention and expansion of the extra services that were provided during the lockdown period.

What I am against, along with any sensible person, is the construction of a whiteelephant facility in a geographically remote location, based on a 20th-century notion of library functions and capacities. If we need the impressive list of extraneous facilities proposed to be piggybacked onto the library, we shouldn’t be using the excuse of a regional library to sneak them into the budget: they should be justified in their own right and separately located where they will best meet demand (which hasn’t been in any way demonstrated, as far as I know).

Don’t blame the Council I am little suspicious at residents of Wamberal blaming local authorities for the disaster on the beachfront. It is not a council problem – it is a State and Federal problem as councils cannot do anything about the maritime situation. So, my suggestion is that

FORUM those people, who I have a great sympathy for, seek the State and Federal authorities to do something about it. No one can control the sea. Take a look at Stockton Beach in Newcastle – the same situation.

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I do look forward to the Federal and State authorities to do their duty and not pass it onto the ratepayer. It is not the ratepayer’s responsibility. I live close to the waterfront as well. Email, Jul 23 Robert Findley, Point Clare

As for the library, if we have a network of linked local libraries, we only need, in addition, a regional archive repository, with some associated research facility, and this can be located almost anywhere. The long article by Merilyn Vale (“In defence of libraries”, CCN252) at no point attempts to justify the construction of a regional library. In fact, the whole tenor of respondents’ comments

supports my contention that people value their local libraries, with little support for the idea of a regional library per se. Cr McLachlan has hit the nail on the head, when he points out the likelihood that most residents won’t make a trip to Gosford to visit a library that offers almost nothing they can’t get in a local library. If the library were to be at Tuggerah, I could see some

slight argument that a centralized library, accessible to all, might be justified, but this is not what is proposed. He is also right to point out the danger that, to justify this monumental commitment, local-library budgets could be cut, thus diminishing the service that respondents say they value so much. Email, Jul 29 Bruce Hyland, Woy Woy

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Hazmat experts called to remove pest control tablets Terrigal and Berkeley Vale Fire and Rescue NSW crews have assisted specialist Hazardous Materials experts to remove phosphine tablets from a property at Matcham. Firefighters were called to the property at around 6:30pm on July 24 when the tablet’s (commonly used for pest control) odour was noticeable from some distance. As the gas these tablets

release is extremely toxic an exclusion zone of up to 50 meters was established with crews entering the contaminated area in full hazmat gear. The tablets were then secured in specialist bins and removed from the site. Source: Press release, Jul 24 Fire and Rescue NSW Media

Man charged after uploading acts of vandalism to social media A man will appear in court today charged following investigations into several acts of vandalism at train stations across Sydney, Central Coast and Hunter region transport networks. In December 2019, officers from the Police Transport Command commenced an investigation, following reports

railway infrastructure and trains had been vandalised with graffiti across the Sydney area and the Central Coast transport network. Investigators charged a 35-year-old Newtown man earlier this month and he remains before the courts.

Following further inquiries, investigators executed a search warrant at a home in Blue Haven about 10am yesterday, Tuesday, July 28. During the search, investigators located sketch pads, spray paint, a mobile phone, three cannabis plants in a hydroponic setup and 16g of dried cannabis.

These items were seized to undergo forensic examination. A short time later, a 19-yearold man was arrested at the property and taken to Wyong Police Station. He was charged with 21 offences, including: Seven counts of malicious damage, cultivate prohibited plant, possess prohibited drug, five

counts of face blackened/ disguised with intent to commit indictable offence, and seven counts of enter/remain on running lines. Police will allege in court that the man vandalised trains and infrastructure at railway stations in Kingsgrove, Maitland, Campbelltown, Hamilton, Lidcombe, Telarah

and Gosford. It will also be alleged the man then uploaded these acts of vandalism to social media. The man was refused bail and is due to appear at Wyong Local Court. Source: Press release, Jul 29 NSW Police Media

Two men charged after armed robbery in Blackwall Two men have been charged following an alleged armed robbery. At about 4am on Wednesday, July 15, police will allege in court that a 21-year-old man entered a service station on Memorial Ave, Blackwall, and threatened a 44-year-old male

attendant with a rifle. The man demanded cash and cigarettes before he left the scene with another man along Warrigal St. Officers from Brisbane Water Police District attended and

commenced an investigation. Following extensive inquiries, a 24-year-old man was arrested at Woy Woy at about 10am yesterday on Thursday, July 16. He was taken to Gosford Police Station and charged with one count of in company rob

while armed with dangerous weapon, one court of deal with the proceeds of crime, and three counts of possess prohibited drug. He was refused bail to face Gosford Local Court on Friday, July 17, where he was formally bail refused to face the same

court in September. Following additional inquiries, police arrested a 21-year-old man at Ettalong Beach at about 9:15am on Friday, July 17. He was taken to Gosford Police Station and charged with robbery in company whilst armed with a dangerous

weapon and possess unregistered firearm in a public place. He was refused bail to face Newcastle Local Court on Saturday, July 18. Source: Press release, Jul 17 NSW Police Media

Two projects receive bushfire recovery funding Two projects have been selected to support bushfire recovery on the Central Coast as part of a Federal Government grants program to help our native wildlife and habitat recover from the devastation of last summer’s bushfires. Member for Robertson, Lucy Wicks, said projects involving

the post-fire recovery of the Regent Parrot, commonly found on the Coast, and erosion control and revegetation on the Hawkesbury River to benefit native fish will attract over half a million dollars. “It is going to take time, but the community, with the right backing from the Government, will play a vital role in making it happen,” Wicks said.

Environment Minister Sussan Ley said the Government had made a $200M commitment to the long-term recovery of threatened species, native animals and local habitats and was working with ecologists, Indigenous leaders, bushfire experts, scientists, wildlife experts and community organisations in preparing strategies to build back better

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for our wildlife and landscapes. The funds will be invested in bushfire affected regions over the next two years. Landcare Australia Ltd and partners Native Fish Australia and OzFish will receive $384,550 to release Macquarie Perch and restore fish habitat in bushfire affected areas, including the Hawkesbury River. The project will undertake

restoration of 20km of riparian habitat impacted by bushfires to improve habitat for turtle, fish and crayfish. BirdLife Australia and partners Australian National University and Taronga Conservation Society Australia will receive $150,575 to raise the Regent Parrot from the ashes. The project will support the post-fire recovery of the

Regent Parrot, including by post-fire surveys (in both burnt and unburnt habitat), undertaking Noisy Miner control, and trialling the reintroduction of Needle-leaf Mistletoe in critical breeding habitat at multiple locations including the Central Coast. Source: Media release, Jul 28 Member for Robertson, Lucy Wicks

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Gosford Art Prize returns Linda Joyce’s Birds of My Paradise was one of last year’s entries

Central Coast Council’s Gosford Art Prize will be accepting online entries this year to ensure all COVID-safe processes are followed. Since the prestigious competition began 50 years ago, this is the first time that the finalists will be selected from online submissions. The competition prize pool is $25,000, with the winner

receiving $15,000. Council Director Connected Communities, Julie Vaughan, said that more than 500 artists from across Australia are expected to enter the competition. “The Gosford Art Prize and the exhibition of the finalists’ work is always a highlight, and we are thrilled that we are able to proceed with the competition in what has been a challenging

year, to say the least,” Vaughan said. “We have to do things a little differently this year, and artists competing in the prize will need to submit digital images of their works online. “Only selected finalists will be asked to deliver their physical work, and we will proceed with the Gosford Art Prize exhibition as in previous years.

“The Gosford Art Prize is a Central Coast institution and supports local artists and artists from across the country.” Mayor Lisa Matthews said the cultural and economic benefits of the Gosford Art Prize were significant. “Art brings us together, inspires us and challenges us, and in 2020 the Gosford Art Prize is more important than

ever,” Cr Matthews said. “Approximately 24,000 people will visit the Gosford Art Prize exhibition at the Gosford Regional Gallery, and 40 per cent of visitors will come from outside our region, which represents a great tourism boost for the Coast.” To be accepted, applications must include a high-quality photo of the art piece. The entry form can be found

on the Central Coast Council website and should be submitted between August 1 and August 30. Finalists will be announced on September 4, with exhibition of finalists’ work to be on show at Gosford Regional Gallery September 26-November 29. Source: Media Release Jul 29 Central Coast Council

Let’s paint the town red Visual artists and creative groups are being asked to share their ideas about adding some flair to vacant spaces in town centres around the Central Coast. Central Coast Council is calling for expressions of interest from local creatives of any visual medium including arts and crafts, ceramics, sculpture, photography, printmaking, textile and fashion, filmmaking and other innovative visual art installations. Council wants to see a showcase of visual art in vacant spaces in high traffic areas which could be on a pop-up temporary, casual or semipermanent basis. There’s been some work done already with commercial property owners and real estate agents to decorate vacant shop

windows with creative decals which visually highlight the area’s key features and attractions. Eagle eyed residents may have already spotted these displays at Woy Woy, The Entrance, Wyong, Gosford and Budgewoi. Council’s Director Connected Communities, Julie Vaughan said the local creative and arts industry had been significantly impacted by COVID-19 and this initiative would provide much needed support. “Council is actively developing a number of initiatives to support and sustain the Coast’s creative community and this one has the added benefit of activating town centres which also supports local businesses,” Vaughan said. “Council is investigating opportunities to provide access to a variety of places and spaces in our town centres to support

creative practitioners and would like to hear from individual artists, collectives or community groups wishing to use these places to create art, showcase their work or run community workshops.” Mayor Lisa Matthews said this project is a chance for creatives to develop their practice and take up this opportunity to create, display and promote their work in the parameters that COVID-19 restrictions allow. “This Council initiative will not only support our local artists and creative industry but will also provide a boost to the local economy by helping to create vibrant town centres brimming with cultural vitality to attract both residents and visitors,” Mayor Matthews said. Media release, Jul 24 Central Coast Council

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Lighter side of theatre company politics A new project that puts the trials and tribulations of regional theatre centre stage is underway at Tuggerah’s Jopuka Productions.

Josh Maxwell is taking on tv with his High Society project

The High Society project is being spearheaded by Jopuka’s Founder and Artistic Director, Josh Maxwell, and celebrated South Australian Playwright and regular Jopuka contributor, Jamie Hornsby. A homage to the complexities of regional Aussie theatre, High Society is a comical take on the often bizarre politics that emerge in theatre companies and is being written for adaption into a television series. The story centres around a young man that unwittingly finds himself on the board of one such company, much to

the chagrin of his peers. But while it may appear as a light-hearted comedy, at its core High Society is about unpacking the difficulties young people face when trying to pursue the performing arts in regional Australia. Having grown up on the stage himself, it’s a struggle Maxwell is intimately familiar with and one he said anybody who’s ever been involved with a regional theatre company would pick up on as the stories overarching plot. “The story is very much taken from the real life experiences of young artists trying to break into theatre. “There aren’t a lot of options for young people to do this in regional Australia which is why these politics and hierarchies emerge at companies.

“It’s a bit tongue in cheek, but it’s also something we think pretty much anyone who’s served on the board of a volunteer organisation will understand and be able to laugh at,” Maxwell said. Maxwell and Hornsby have been writing High Society for the past two years and have just commenced readings of the script to help with development. After some finetuning, Maxwell said the pair would be ready to pitch it to producers from next year. As the Coast’s leader in youth arts development, Maxwell said if the project does eventuate on television it would break new ground for Jopuka, but he’s aware it’s still early days. “We’re still in early

development but its been so exciting to work on this project with Jamie. “We started it because we both love writing and now it’s definitely something that’s turned long term,” Maxwell said. With the launch of Jopuka’s 2021 season on the horizon, Maxwell said he was looking forward to what prospects next year could bring after the horror year his company and the wider arts industry has had thanks to COVID-19. “At this stage we’ve basically said goodbye to 2020 and are putting all of our efforts into our 2021 program which will hopefully start in late August,” he said. Dilon Luke

Andrew McDonald features in council’s next Library Online event Central Coast Council Library Service’s next Library Online event will feature children’s and young adult author, Andrew McDonald. Library Online is council’s way of delivering fun and engaging literary content for residents, with children to be entertained and inspired to read by this special after school session with McDonald. A regular presenter on the Australian schools circuit, McDonald burst onto the scene in 2009 with his debut work, ‘The Greatest Blogger in the World’, which was followed by ‘Son of Death’, a dark comedy about a family of modern grim reapers that was named one of the Best Books of the Year by The Age in 2015. He is an avid reader of children’s and young adult

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literature and is perhaps most well-known for his ‘Real Pigeons’ series that debuted in 2018. Featuring hilarious illustrations by Ben Wood, the series follows four crimefighting pigeons who’ll do anything to solve a mystery and keep their city safe. With a natural gift to communicate big ideas while keeping audiences engaged, McDonald will talk about writing funny stories, creating memorable characters, using language to your advantage, the power of books and other writing tips. The Andrew McDonald Library Online event will take place from 4pm on August 6. Bookings are essential and can be made through Central Coast Council Library Service. Dilon Luke

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Out of the box ideas needed for The Lakes Festival Central Coast Council has commenced planning for this year’s The Lakes Festival and is calling for Expressions of Interest from local businesses, organisations and community groups who’d like to be involved. The 10 day festival celebrates the Coast’s beautiful and diverse waterways and typically sees events take place at waterside suburbs around the region. It is being planned for November, but this year’s will be different to previous festivals, as council adopts a range of COVID-safe measures to keep festivalgoers safe. Those measures do mean more careful planning will need to take place as council develops this year’s program and, according to Council Unit Manager Community Partnerships, Glenn Cannard, out of the box ideas will be needed. While planning is still underway, it’s understood Memorial Park at The Entrance will be this year’s festival hub, with ‘Under The Wave’, a popup wave structure that will play host to entertainment across

the 10 days. “If you have creative vision and would love to be part of the festival program, we want to hear from you. “We’re looking for great music, theatrical performances and outside the box creative ideas to fill the space. “Contributors will need to stay true to the overarching theme of our waterways and will benefit from inclusion in our marketing campaign and a listing in the program,” Cannard said. Central Coast Mayor, Lisa Matthews, said The Lakes Festival is an annual highlight for our region, made possible through the contributions of so many amazing local businesses, groups and organisations. “It has been disappointing to see so many events cancelled due to COVID-19 and I’d encourage creative locals to come together and be part of The Lakes Festival for 2020,” she said. Submissions close on August 7. Source: Press release, Jul 24 Central Coast Council Media

The Entrance’s Memorial Park will once again light up as the hub for The Lakes Festival in 2020 Photo: Central Coast Council

Gardening gloves come off on The Mountain The Kariong/Somersby Rotary Club is calling on residents from the suburbs of Kariong or the adjoining Mountain Area to send in photos of their garden as a part of the club’s COVID-19 Garden competition.

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The contest aims to showcase the improvements residents have made to their garden during the COVID-19 lockdown. Club Foundation Director, Peter Mulholland, said over the last few months he had started seeing more people out and about in the community.

“We noticed that people had all this time of their hands and they started spending a lot more time on their gardens,” Mulholland said. “We are organising three prizes - $300, $200 and $100 - for outstanding improvements by residents, who have focussed on their gardens due to social isolation imposed by the COVID-19 lockdown arrangements. Bunnings has also got involved by offering gift cards to winners. “Put simply, we hope to

create a practical and psychological benefit in the community from the inherent negative aspects of this social isolation,” Mulholland said. Before photos are not a necessity but are encouraged as it can help demonstrate the changes. The winners will be chosen by Kariong Somersby Rotary Club members and the Central Coast Australian Plant Society. Photos must be submitted by September 30 at www. ksrotary.org. Jacinta Counihan

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5:30 6:00 News Breakfast [s] 6:00 Sunrise [s] 9:00 9:00 ABC News Mornings [s] 9:00 The Morning Show (PG) [s] 11:30 Seven Morning News [s] 11:30 10:00 Foreign Correspondent [s] 10:30 Kurt Fearnley’s One Plus One 12:00 Movie: “Oscar Pistorius: Blade 12:00 11:00 The Repair Shop [s] Runner Killer” (M v,s) (’17) 1:00 12:00 ABC News At Noon [s] Stars: Andreas Damm 1:00 Shaun Micallef’s On The 2:00 Program To Be Advised Sauce (M) [s] 3:00 The Chase UK [s] 4:00 Seven News At 4 [s] 3:00 2:00 Call The Midwife (M) [s] 4:00 5:00 The Chase Australia [s] 3:00 ABC News Afternoons [s] 5:00 4:15 Think Tank [s] 6:00 Seven News [s] 7:00 Better Homes And Gardens 6:00 5:10 The Repair Shop [s] 7:30 Program To Be Advised 7:00 6:00 The Drum [s] 7:30 8:30 Movie: “Under The Tuscan 7:00 ABC News [s] 7:30 Monty Don’s French Gardens: Sun” (PG) (’03) – Frances The Artistic Gardens [s] – Monty Mayes, a 35-year-old San Francisco writer, gets a divorce 9:45 turns to France’s famous artistic 10:35 that leaves her with terminal tradition to see what influence it writer’s block and depression. has had on the country’s Later, she decides to buy a gardens. 8:30 MotherFatherSon (MA15+) [s] house in Tuscany in order to 1:05 9:30 Marcella (M v) [s] change her life. Stars: Diane Lane, Sandra Oh, Lindsay 10:45 The Virus [s] Dunca, Raoul Bova 1:30 11:10 The Weekly With Charlie 10:50 Program To Be Advised 4:30 Pickering [s] 5:30 11:40 rage (MA15+) [s] 12:30 Home Shopping 6:00 6:00 Home Shopping 6:00 rage (PG) [s] 7:00 7:00 Weekend Sunrise [s] 7:00 Weekend Breakfast [s] 10:00 rage Guest Programmer (PG) 10:00 The Morning Show - Weekend 10:00 12:00 (PG) [s] 12:00 ABC News At Noon [s] 12:00 Beach Cops (PG) [s] 12:30 The Sound [s] 12:30 Weddings Make You Laugh 12:30 1:30 When Louis Met Paul And Out Loud (PG) [s] Debbie (PG) 1:00 1:30 Program To Be Advised 2:30 Back In Time For Dinner [s] 3:00 Program To Be Advised 3:30 Escape From The City [s] 3:00 4:00 Better Homes And Gardens 4:30 Landline [s] (PG) [s] 5:00 Football: A-League: Melbourne City v Sydney FC *Live* From 5:00 Seven News At 5 [s] Olympic Stadium [s] – A top of 5:30 Border Security - Australia’s 5:00 5:30 Front Line (PG) [s] the table clash at Sydney’s 6:00 Olympic Stadium. A win or draw 6:00 Seven News [s] 7:00 for league leaders Sydney FC 7:00 Border Patrol (PG) [s] 7:30 7:30 Movie: “Mission Impossible: will see them secure the Rogue Nation” (M v) (’15) Stars: Premiers Plate. 9:30 Alec Baldwin 7:00 ABC News [s] 7:30 Shakespeare And Hathaway: 10:00 Movie: “Wrath Of The Titans” 11:30 (M v) (’12) Stars: Sam Teach Me, Dear Creature (PG) Worthington, Liam Neeson, 8:15 Les Miserables (M v) [s] Ralph Fiennes, Edgar Ramírez 9:20 Thirteen (M l) [s] 1:10 10:20 The Good Karma Hospital (M) 12:00 Criminal Minds - Suspect Behaviour: Two Of A Kind (M) 11:10 rage Guest Programmer 2:00 12:30 Home Shopping (MA15+) [s] 6:00 6:00 Home Shopping 6:00 rage (PG) [s] 7:00 7:00 Weekend Sunrise [s] 7:00 Weekend Breakfast [s] 10:00 The Morning Show - Weekend 10:00 9:00 Insiders [s] 11:00 12:00 House Of Wellness [s] 10:00 Offsiders [s] 1:00 1:00 World’s Most Extreme: 10:30 The World This Week [s] World’s Most Extreme Roads [s] 11:00 Compass (PG) [s] 3:00 2:00 Program To Be Advised 11:30 Songs Of Praise [s] 4:00 Better Homes And Gardens 12:00 ABC News At Noon [s] 5:00 Seven News At 5 [s] 12:30 Landline [s] 6:00 1:30 Monty Don’s French Gardens 5:30 Sydney Weekender [s] 7:00 2:30 Restoration Australia (PG) [s] 6:00 Seven News [s] 7:00 Farmer Wants A Wife (PG) [s] 8:50 3:30 Silvia’s Italian Table [s] – Romance is blossoming and 9:50 4:00 Todd Sampson’s Life On The 10:50 in a first for Farmer Wants A Line: Friction (PG) [s] Wife, the farmers and their 4:30 The Mix [s] ladies come together for an 5:00 Hard Quiz (PG) [s] Italian feast where a surprise 5:30 The Sound [s] visitor causes chaos at the 6:30 Compass (PG) [s] party. 7:00 ABC News Sunday [s] 8:30 Between Two Worlds (M) [s] 11:50 7:40 Shetland (M l,v) [s] 9:30 Liar (M) [s] 8:40 Vera: The Seagull (M) [s] 12:40 10:30 Autopsy USA: 10:15 Vanity Fair (PG) [s] 1:30 Muhammad Ali (M) [s] 11:00 The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco: Madhouse (M v) [s] 11:30 Absentia: Casualties (MA15+) 2:00 2:30 12:30 Home Shopping 1:50 rage (MA15+) [s] 3:00 4:10 Vanity Fair (PG) [s]

Also see: ABC COMEDY (Channel 22) ABC ME (Channel 23) ABC NEWS (Channel 24)

Also see: 7TWO (Channel 62) 7MATE (Channel 63) 7FLIX (Channel 66) 7FOOD (Channel 74)

TEN (C13)

NINE (C81/80)

Today [s] 6:00 Today Extra (PG) [s] 8:30 NINE’s Morning News [s] 12:00 Ellen (PG) [s] 1:00 Movie: “St Vincent” (M v,s,l) 2:00 (’14) Stars: Bill Murray, Melissa 2:30 McCarthy, Naomi Watts, Chris 3:30 4:00 O’Dowd, Terrence Howard Tipping Point (PG) [s] NINE’s Afternoon News [s] 4:30 Millionaire Hot Seat [s] 5:00 NINE News [s] 6:00 A Current Affair (PG) [s] NRL: Brisbane Broncos v 6:30 7:30 Cronulla Sharks *Live* From 8:30 Suncorp Stadium [s] Friday Night Knock Off [s] Movie: “Dragon: Bruce Lee Story” (M) (’93) Stars: Jason Scott Lee, Lauren Holly, Robert 9:30 10:00 Wagner, Michael Learned 11:00 Award Winning Tasmania: Spirit Of Tasmania (Part 2) [s] 12:00 1:00 Home Shopping The Avengers: Epic (PG) [s] 2:00 A Current Affair (PG) [s] 6:00 Ellen (PG) [s] 6:30 Weekend Today [s] 7:00 Today Extra - Saturday [s] 7:30 Award Winning Tasmania: 8:00 Freycinet (Part 2) (PG) [s] 9:00 Animal Embassy: 9:30 Clownfish White Tiger [s] Netball: Suncorp Super Netball: 12:00 Firebirds v Lightning *Live* [s] 12:40 Netball: Suncorp Super Netball: 1:00 2:00 Giants v West Coast Fever 2:30 *Live* [s] NINE News: First At Five [s] 3:00 Getaway (PG) [s] 3:30 NINE News Saturday [s] 4:00 A Current Affair (PG) [s] Movie: “Daddy’s Home 2” (PG) 4:30 5:00 (’17) Stars: Will Ferrell 6:00 Movie: “Blockers” (MA15+) 7:00 (’18) Stars: Leslie Mann Movie: “Cheech And Chong’s 7:40 The Corsican Brothers” (M v,s,l) 10:00 11:00 (’84) Stars: Cheech Marin 12:00 Australia’s Top Ten Of 1:00 Everything (M) [s] 3:00 Home Shopping 6:00 Animal Tales [s] 7:30 Weekend Today [s] 8:00 Sports Sunday (PG) [s] Sunday Footy Show (PG) [s] Netball: Suncorp Super Netball: 8:30 Swifts v Thunderbirds *Live* [s] 9:30 12:00 NRL: Melbourne Storm v Newcastle Knights *Live* From 1:30 Suncorp Stadium [s] 2:00 NINE News Sunday [s] Australian Ninja Warrior (PG) 2:30 3:30 60 Minutes (PG) [s] NINE News Late [s] 4:00 Cold Case - New Leads Wanted: Kayo Matsuzawa (M) 4:30 [s] – Follow the cold case teams 5:00 6:00 as they re-open unsolved 6:30 murder cases from police 7:30 archives. Mysteries And Scandals: The 9:00 Chippendales Murder (M v,s) [s] 10:00 Timeless: Hollywoodland (M) 11:00 Hayley & Lauren’s Adelady [s] 12:00 1:00 Home Shopping Skippy - The Bush Kangaroo 5:00 Home Shopping

Also see: GEM (Channel 82) GO! (Channel 83/88) LIFE (Channel 84)

SBS (C30)

Headline News [s] Studio 10 (PG) [s] Dr Phil (PG) [s] The Living Room [s] Entertainment Tonight [s] Judge Judy (PG) [s] My Market Kitchen [s] Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield [s] The Bold And The Beautiful (PG) [s] 10 News First [s] WIN News [s] The Project (PG) [s] The Living Room [s] Have You Been Paying Attention? (M) [s] – Have our contestants been paying attention? Program To Be Advised Celebrity Gogglebox USA (M) WIN’s All Australian News [s] The Project (PG) [s] The Late Show With Stephen Colbert (PG) [s] Home Shopping Unknown Road Adventures Entertainment Tonight [s] Escape Fishing With ET [s] What’s Up Down Under? [s] All 4 Adventures [s] Which Car (PG) [s] Studio 10 Saturday (PG) [s] The Children’s Hospital (PG) Farm To Fork [s] The Living Room [s] Pooches At Play [s] Jamie: Keep Cooking And Carry On [s] What’s Up Down Under? [s] Everyday Gourmet [s] Farm To Fork [s] Taste Of Australia [s] 10 News First [s] Bondi Rescue (PG) [s] The Children’s Hospital (PG) Ambulance UK (PG) [s] Beecham House (M) [s] FBI: The Lives Of Others (M) Law & Order: SVU (M v) [s] NCIS: Los Angeles Home Shopping Religious Programs [s] Fishing Australia [s] Taste Of Australia With Hayden Quinn [s] The Living Room (PG) [s] Studio 10 Sunday (PG) [s] Program To Be Advised Jamie: Keep Cooking And Carry On [s] Farm To Fork [s] Australia By Design [s] Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield [s] Which Car (PG) [s] RPM [s] 10 News First [s] WIN News [s] The Sunday Project (PG) [s] Bachelor In Paradise (M) [s] FBI: American Idol (M v) [s] FBI: Scorched Earth (M v) [s] NCIS: Voices (M) [s] The Sunday Project (PG) [s] Home Shopping The Talk (PG) [s]

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CGTN English News NHK World English News Worldwatch PBS Newshour Native America: Cities Of The Sky (PG) 3:00 NITV News: Nula 3:30 Governor Macquarie’s Silent Witness (PG) (In English/ Hindi) 3:40 Building The Tube: The Piccadilly Line (PG) 4:35 Tony Robinson’s Coast To Coast (PG) 5:30 Letters And Numbers 6:00 Mastermind Australia 6:30 SBS World News 7:30 The Day Kennedy Died (PG) 8:30 Movie: “Marshall” (M) (’17) Stars: Chadwick Boseman 10:40 SBS World News Late 11:10 The Late Session: Storytelling (M l) 12:10 Eight Days That Made Rome (M s,v) 3:30 Full Frontal With Samantha Bee (MA15+) 5:00 CGTN English News 5:15 NHK World English News 5:30 Worldwatch – Deutsche Welle English News 6:00 France 24 News 6:30 Worldwatch Continues 1:00 PBS Newshour 2:00 Bollywood: World’s Biggest Film Industry (PG) (In English/ Hindi) 4:05 Gadget Man: Staying In 4:30 Miracle At Sea 5:30 WWII - Battles For Europe: Battle For The Scheldt (PG) 6:30 SBS World News 7:35 Chris Tarrant’s Extreme Railway Journeys: A Railway Too Far? (PG) 8:30 Movie: “The King’s Speech” (M) (’10) Stars: Colin Firth 10:35 On The Ropes (M l,v) (In English/ Arabic) 4:25 Trump’s Showdown: Trump’s Law (PG) 4:30 Full Frontal With Samantha Bee (MA15+) 5:00 CGTN English News 5:15 NHK World English News 5:30 Worldwatch 1:00 Speedweek 3:00 Destination Flavour China Bitesize 3:10 Running Wild With Uzo Aduba (PG) 3:55 Sport: Fair Game 5:00 Cycling: Incycle 5:30 WWII - Battles For Europe: Battle For The Siegfried Line (PG) (In English/ German) 6:30 SBS World News 7:30 The Day They Dropped The Bomb (M) 8:30 America’s Great Divide: Obama To Trump (M v) 10:35 Gunned Down: The Power Of The NRA (M) 11:35 John Pilger: The Dirty War On The NHS (M) 1:35 How To Lose Weight Well (PG) 4:20 Full Frontal With Samantha Bee (MA15+)

Also see: 10 PEACH (Channel 11) 10 BOLD (Channel 12)

Classifications: (G) General, (PG) Parental Guidance, (M) Mature Audiences, (MA15+) Mature Audience Over 15 Years, [s] Subtitles Consumer Advice: (d) drug references, (s) sexual references or sex scenes (h) horror, (l) language, (mp) medical procedures, (n) nudity, (v) violence

Also see: SBS VICELAND (Channel 31) SBS MOVIES (Channel 32) SBS FOOD (Channel 33) SBS NITV (Channel 34)

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Tuesday 4 August

5:30 6:00 Sunrise [s] 9:00 9:00 The Morning Show (PG) [s] 11:30 11:30 Seven Morning News [s] 12:00 12:00 Program To Be Advised 1:00 1:30 Program To Be Advised 1:10 2:30 Program To Be Advised 3:00 3:00 The Chase UK (PG) [s] 4:00 Seven News At 4 [s] 4:00 5:00 5:00 The Chase Australia [s] 6:00 6:00 Seven News [s] 7:00 7:00 Home And Away (PG) [s] 7:30 Farmer Wants A Wife (PG) [s] 7:30 9:25 – The farmers embark on romantic one-on-one dates with their chosen ladies. Over intimate picnics and river swims, the farmers start to make connections with their dates. 8:30 9-1-1: Lone Star: Texas Proud (M) [s] 9:30 Madeleine McCann: The Hunt 10:40 For The Prime Suspect (M) [s] 11:10 12:10 10:30 The Latest Seven News [s] 11:00 S.W.A.T.: Day Of Dread (M) [s] 12:00 Black-ish: Public Fool (PG) [s] 1:00 1:30 12:30 Home Shopping

5:30 6:00 Sunrise [s] 6:00 News Breakfast [s] 9:00 9:00 The Morning Show (PG) [s] 9:00 ABC News Mornings [s] 11:30 11:30 Seven Morning News [s] 10:00 Four Corners [s] 12:00 10:45 Meet The Ferals: Rabbits [s] 12:00 Movie: “Jesse Stone: Sea 1:00 Change” (M v,s) (’07) Stars: 11:00 The Repair Shop [s] 3:00 Tom Selleck, Kathy Baker 12:00 ABC News At Noon [s] 4:00 2:00 Criminal Confessions: 1:00 Rosehaven (PG) [s] 5:00 Baton Rouge (M v,l) [s] 1:25 Retrograde [s] 6:00 3:00 The Chase UK [s] 2:00 Call The Midwife (PG) [s] 7:00 4:00 Seven News At 4 [s] 3:10 ABC News Afternoons [s] 7:30 5:00 The Chase Australia [s] 4:10 Think Tank [s] 9:20 6:00 Seven News [s] 5:10 The Repair Shop [s] 7:00 Home And Away (PG) [s] 6:00 The Drum [s] 7:30 America’s Got Talent: Audition 7:00 ABC News [s] 7 (PG) [s] – The final lot of 7:30 7.30 [s] auditions. Simon Cowell, Heidi 8:00 Anh’s Brush With Fame: Klum, Howie Mandel and host Lisa Wilkinson [s] 8:30 Shaun Micallef’s On The Terry Crews return with new judge Sofia Vergara; variety Sauce (M) [s] acts and contestants audition 11:20 9:30 Putin - A Russian Spy Story for the chance to win $1 million. 11:50 (MA15+) [s] 9:15 Towards Tokyo: Olympic 10:20 ABC Late News [s] Games Sydney 2000 Moments 12:40 10:50 Q&A [s] That Moved Us [s] 1:30 11:55 Wentworth (MA15+) [s] 2:00 12:45 The Letdown: Super Mum (M l) 11:45 The Goldbergs (PG) [s] 2:30 12:30 Home Shopping 1:20 rage (MA15+) [s] 6:00 News Breakfast [s] 9:00 ABC News Mornings [s] 10:00 Q&A [s] 11:00 The Repair Shop [s] 12:00 ABC News At Noon [s] 12:30 National Press Club Address 1:40 Media Watch [s] 2:00 The Good Karma Hospital (PG) [s] 2:45 Classic Countdown Extras [s] 3:10 ABC News Afternoons [s] 4:10 Think Tank [s] 5:10 The Repair Shop [s] 6:00 The Drum [s] 7:00 ABC News [s] 7:30 7.30 [s] 8:00 Hard Quiz (PG) [s] 8:30 Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL (M) [s] 9:00 Rosehaven (PG) [s] 9:30 Retrograde (M) [s] 9:55 Planet America [s] 10:25 ABC Late News [s] 11:00 Four Corners [s] 11:45 Media Watch [s] 12:05 Wentworth: The Fixer (MA15+)

6:00 Sunrise [s] 9:00 The Morning Show (PG) [s] 11:30 Seven Morning News [s] 12:00 Movie: “Hannah’s Law” (M v) (’12) Stars: Billy Zane, Danny Glover, Greyston Holt, Kimberly Elise, Ryan Kennedy 2:00 Criminal Confessions: Edmonton (M v,l) [s] 3:00 The Chase UK [s] 4:00 Seven News At 4 [s] 5:00 The Chase Australia [s] 6:00 Seven News [s] 7:00 Home And Away (PG) [s] 7:30 Highway Patrol Special: Wayward Women (PG) [s] 8:30 America’s Got Talent: Best Of Auditions (PG) [s] – A look back at some of the most memorable auditions from America’s Got Talent. 10:30 The Latest Seven News [s] 11:00 The Front Bar (M) [s] 12:00 Disobedient Dogs Make You Laugh Out Loud (PG) [s] 1:00 Home Shopping

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6:00 News Breakfast [s] 9:00 ABC News Mornings [s] 10:00 Planet America [s] 10:30 Australian Story [s] 11:00 The Repair Shop [s] 12:00 ABC News At Noon [s] 1:00 Hard Quiz (PG) [s] 1:30 Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL (M) [s] 2:00 The Good Karma Hospital (PG) [s] 2:50 Charlie Pickering: My Guest Tonight (PG) [s] 3:00 ABC News Afternoons [s] 4:15 Think Tank [s] 5:10 The Repair Shop [s] 6:00 The Drum [s] 6:55 Sammy J [s] 7:00 ABC News [s] 7:30 7.30 [s] 8:00 The Heights (PG) [s] 8:30 Escape From The City [s] 9:30 Kurt Fearnley’s One Plus One: Munjed Al Muderis [s] 10:00 Would I Lie To You? (PG) [s] 10:30 ABC Late News [s]

6:00 Sunrise [s] 9:00 The Morning Show (PG) [s] 11:30 Seven Morning News [s] 12:00 Movie: “The Bridges Of Madison County” (M l) (’95) Stars: Clint Eastwood 3:00 The Chase UK [s] 4:00 Seven News At 4 [s] 5:00 The Chase Australia [s] 6:00 Seven News [s] 7:00 Home And Away (PG) [s] 7:30 Movie: “Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them” (PG) (’16) – The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York’s secret community of witches and wizards, seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school. Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Ezra Miller, Johnny Depp, Dan Fogle, Alison Sudol 10:10 The Latest Seven News [s] 10:40 Program To Be Advised 11:40 Surveillance Oz (PG) [s] 12:30 Home Shopping

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Also see: ABC COMEDY (Channel 22) ABC ME (Channel 23) ABC NEWS (Channel 24)

Also see: 7TWO (Channel 62) 7MATE (Channel 63) 7FLIX (Channel 66) 7FOOD (Channel 74)

TEN (C13)

NINE (C81/80)

Wednesday 5 August

6:00 News Breakfast [s] 9:00 ABC News Mornings [s] 10:00 Landline [s] 11:00 The Repair Shop [s] 12:00 ABC News At Noon [s] 1:00 Marcella (M l) [s] 1:55 Call The Midwife (M) [s] 3:00 ABC News Afternoons [s] 4:10 Think Tank [s] 5:10 The Repair Shop [s] 6:00 The Drum [s] 7:00 ABC News [s] 7:30 7.30 [s] 8:00 Australian Story [s] 8:30 Four Corners [s] 9:15 Media Watch [s] 9:35 Q&A (PG) [s] 10:40 ABC Late News [s] 11:10 Shaun Micallef’s On The Sauce (M l) [s] 12:10 Wentworth (MA15+) [s] 1:00 The Letdown (M l) [s] 1:30 rage (MA15+) [s] 3:00 Gardening Australia [s] 3:30 Call The Midwife (M) [s] 4:30 The Drum [s]

PRIME (C61/60)

Thursday 6 August

Monday 3 August

ABC (C20/21)

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Today [s] 6:00 Today Extra [s] 8:30 NINE’s Morning News [s] 12:00 Ellen (PG) [s] 1:00 9Honey - Every Day Kitchen 2:30 Australian Ninja Warrior (PG) 3:00 Tipping Point [s] 3:30 4:00 NINE’s Afternoon News [s] Millionaire Hot Seat [s] 4:30 NINE News [s] A Current Affair (PG) [s] Australian Ninja Warrior (PG) 5:00 A Glorious Life - Ian Chappell 6:00 6:30 [s] – Ian Chappell didn’t just play cricket, he shaped it. The 7:30 incredible story of the Australian 9:00 test captain, journalist and 10:00 protagonist who helped transform the game of cricket 10:30 and, along the way, Australia. 11:30 12:30 NINE News Late [s] 100% Footy (M) [s] 1:30 Lethal Weapon: Family Ties (MA15+) [s] 2:30 A Current Affair (PG) [s] 5:00 Home Shopping

Headline News [s] Studio 10 (PG) [s] Dr Phil (PG) [s] Program To Be Advised Entertainment Tonight [s] Judge Judy (PG) [s] My Market Kitchen [s] Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield [s] The Bold And The Beautiful (PG) [s] 10 News First [s] WIN News [s] The Project (PG) [s] Bachelor In Paradise (M) [s] Have You Been Paying Attention? (M) [s] Program To Be Advised Celebrity Gogglebox USA (M) WIN’s All Australian News [s] The Project (PG) [s] The Late Show With Stephen Colbert (PG) [s] Home Shopping The Talk (PG) [s]

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SBS (C30)

5:00 CGTN English News 5:15 NHK World English News 5:30 Worldwatch – Deutsche Welle English News 6:00 France 24 News 6:30 This Week With George Stephanopoulos 7:30 Worldwatch Continues 2:00 The Secret Life Of Queen Victoria (M) 2:55 Alex Polizzi The Fixer (PG) 4:00 Great British Railway Journeys: Lynton And Lynmouth To Exeter (PG) 4:35 The Nile: Ancient Egypt’s Great River Nile (PG) 5:30 Letters And Numbers 6:00 Mastermind Australia 6:30 SBS World News 7:30 D-Day: The King Who Fooled Hitler (PG) 8:30 Space Shuttle: Triumph And Tragedy (PG) 10:15 SBS World News Late 10:45 Agatha Christie’s Criminal Games (M l,v) (In French) 12:35 The Typist (M l,v)

6:00 Headline News [s] Today [s] 8:30 Studio 10 (PG) [s] Today Extra [s] NINE’s Morning News [s] 12:00 Dr Phil (PG) [s] Ellen (PG) [s] 1:00 Program To Be Advised Australian Ninja Warrior (PG) 2:30 Entertainment Tonight [s] Tipping Point (PG) [s] 3:00 Judge Judy (PG) [s] NINE’s Afternoon News [s] 3:30 My Market Kitchen [s] Millionaire Hot Seat [s] 4:00 Everyday Gourmet With NINE News [s] Justine Schofield [s] A Current Affair (PG) [s] 4:30 The Bold And The Beautiful Australian Ninja Warrior (PG) (PG) [s] Movie: “London Has Fallen” (M) 5:00 10 News First [s] (’16) – In London for the Prime 6:00 WIN News [s] Minister’s funeral, Secret 6:30 The Project (PG) [s] Services agent Mike Banning 7:30 Bachelor In Paradise (M) [s] discovers a plot to assassinate 9:00 Just For Laughs Uncut all the attending world leaders (MA15+) [s] and must bring the President to 9:30 NCIS: Once Upon A Tim (M v) safety. Stars: Alon Abutbul 10:30 NCIS: Los Angeles: NINE News Late [s] Re-entry (M v) [s] Manifest: Fasten Your 11:30 WIN’s All Australian News [s] Seatbelts (M v) [s] 12:30 The Project (PG) [s] Tipping Point [s] 1:30 The Late Show With Stephen A Current Affair (PG) [s] Colbert (PG) [s] Home Shopping 2:30 Home Shopping Skippy - The Bush Kangaroo 5:00 The Talk (PG) [s]

CGTN English News NHK World English News Worldwatch PBS Newshour The Secret Life Of King Charles II (M s) 2:55 Great British Railway Journeys (PG) 3:30 Who Do You Think You Are? 4:35 The Nile: Ancient Egypt’s Great River Nile (PG) 5:30 Letters And Numbers 6:00 Mastermind Australia 6:30 SBS World News 7:30 Great Asian Railways Journeys: Ho Chi Minh To Hoi An (PG) 8:30 Insight: Finding Your Feet As A Father 9:30 The Feed 10:00 NRA Under Fire (M) 11:05 SBS World News Late 11:35 Bad Banks: Collateral Damage (M l) (In German/ English) 12:30 Cardinal: Northwind/ El Brujo (MA15+)

Today [s] Today Extra [s] NINE’s Morning News [s] Ellen (PG) [s] Explore: Farmer Market [s] Australian Ninja Warrior (PG) Tipping Point (PG) [s] NINE’s Afternoon News [s] Millionaire Hot Seat [s] NINE News [s] A Current Affair (PG) [s] RBT: Interstate Regret/ Uteless (PG) [s] Emergency: Fernando Vargas’s Knockout Tank (M) [s] – Dr Mark assembles a crack team to save a man with lifethreatening gunshot wounds. Botched: Not OK From The UK (M n,l) [s] NINE News Late [s] New Amsterdam: As Long As It Takes (M) [s] Dr Miami: Drama Queens (M) Tipping Point (PG) [s] A Current Affair (PG) [s]

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Today [s] Today Extra [s] NINE’s Morning News [s] Ellen (PG) [s] Movie: “Falling In Love” (PG) (‘84) Stars: Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Harvey Keitel, Jane Kaczmarek, George Martin, David Clennon, Dianne Wiest, Victor Argo, Wiley Earl Tipping Point (PG) [s] NINE’s Afternoon News [s] Millionaire Hot Seat [s] NINE News [s] A Current Affair (PG) [s] NRL: St George Illawarra Dragons v Sydney Roosters *Live* From TBA [s] Golden Point (M) [s] NINE News Late [s] Murdered By Morning: Party Crashers (M) [s] The Fix: The Fugitive (M v) [s] Tipping Point (PG) [s] Home Shopping Ellen (PG) [s]

Also see: GEM (Channel 82) GO! (Channel 83/88) LIFE (Channel 84)

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Free social French conversation groups. Small classes at East Gosford & Bateau Bay Renee 0435 028 416 www.afcentralcoast.org.au afcentralcoast@gmail.com

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Lectures, demonstrations and discussion. Weekly paint-outs Tues 4349 5860 for locations Workshops 4363 1156 9.30am 1st & 3rd Wed Meetings 1.30pm 4th Wed Gosford City Arts Centre. 4325 1420

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Painting, drawing groups and classes, demonstarations and workshops. 7 days 10am-4pm, Cafe Tues-Drawing group 10am Wed - Painting group 9:30am 4392 4666 toukleyartgallery@gmail.com www.toukleyartgallery.com.au

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Safeguard ABC’s independence, funding, & standards. Meetings through the year & social mornings Well-known guest speakers 0400 213 514 www.fabcnsw.org.au

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3rd Sun - Jan to Nov Trips Away, Social Outings, friendship with like minded folk Geoff 0447 882 150

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Who doesn’t hate underpants? Leanne Fedele of East Gosford has gone from parent to international author with the publication of her first children’s book, I Hate Underpants.

Leanne Fedele’s daughter Layla was the inspiration for the book

The picture book was picked up by the publishing company Austin Macauley and now retails in a range of major bookstores around the world. The storyline revolves around a young girl who dislikes everything to do with putting on underwear, tapping into every parent’s morning struggle of trying to get children ready for the day. “The book is about a little girl, Layla, who hates underpants and every day is a struggle choosing between her underpants as they are either too big or too small,” Fedele said. “It’s a bit of humour, and it’s a bit of something [parents] can relate to. “A lot of kids hate getting dressed in the morning or

having to get out of the house fast. “In the end, the mother has enough and throws all the underpants in the bin. “Then her grandmother comes and saves the day by knitting her custom-made fancy underpants.” Fedele said the book had also been used to help young children with sensory issues around clothing. “It wasn’t written for that, but some people have read it and thought that is was really good and really useful,” she said. The inspiration for the work came from Fedele’s own experience with her young daughter Layla. “My daughter was really picky with underpants, so we bought a million pairs like the dad in the book, and I had enough and ended up throwing a lot out,” she said. “One night, I thought I would write a book for her fifth birthday, so I wrote it and ended

up showing it to a few people who told me to write a manuscript and send it to some publishers. “I didn’t think much would come of it, but it ended up getting published two years later. “[My daughter] finally has her book in her hand.” Fedele has worked in the early childhood industry for 16 years and has always had a love of writing and reading to children. “I used to read a lot of books with the kids, and I used to get into it a lot,” she said. Publishing I Hate Underpants has given her motivation to carry on with other projects. “I am pretty excited about the next one,” Fedele said. She has scheduled a range of author readings at local childcare centres, schools and libraries around the Central Coast to help with promotion. Jacinta Counihan

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On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous Author: Ocean Vuong Publisher: Vintage

Ocean Vuong is a successful poet, so it is no wonder that he came up with such a lovely title for a book. Although it is a fiction novel, much of the book seems to reflect Ocean Vuong’s life. Like his protagonist, Ocean himself arrived to the US from Vietnam via a refugee camp in the Philippines. Both have grandfathers that were soldiers serving in Vietnam during the war. Both had to leave Vietnam when their mixedrace mother was not permitted to work under the new communist regime. And both settle in Hartfold, Connecticut. The story is told primarily in the form of a ruminating letter by the protagonist, Little Dog, to his mother, Rose. (He writes even though his mother can’t read.) “What I am about to tell you, you will never know … I am writing to reach you even-if each word I put down is one word further from where you are”. Little Dog is a name given to him by his grandmother and, although he says, “I have and have had many names”, the only one he is referred to as in this book is Little Dog. His grandmother called him this because she was raised in a rural village in Vietnam where “To love something, then is to name it after something

so worthless it might be left untouched – and alive.” With the choices being, demon, pig snout or bastard, Little Dog wasn’t so bad. Hartford has seen better days, “the insurance companies that made us the big city had all moved out once the Internet arrived, and our best minds were sucked up by New York or Boston.” The family arrives knowing no English. Little Dog lives in a small apartment with his mother and grandmother. His father makes a brief appearance, but only to beat his mother. In turn Little Dog is beaten by his mother. His grandmother suffers from mental illness. It is chaotic in that little apartment. He’s lonely and bullied at school for being different, for his foreignness and for what’s

perceived as his effeminacy. At 14, Little Dog gets his first job working on a tobacco farm where he meets Trevor, the 16 year old grandson of Mr. Buford, who owns the tobacco fields. Trevor works to “get away from hid vodkasoaked old man” but is himself a product of reckless behaviours. When Little Dog meets Trevor, he feels possibilities, “I was seen – I who had seldom been seen by anyone.” Little Dog and Trevor form a relationship. While Little Dog is comfortable Trevor is not: “Trevor the hunter, Trevor the carnivore, the redneck, not a pansy, shotgunner, sharpshooter, not fruit or fairy.” As the Guardian writes the essence of the novel, right there in its title, is the notion that “in

early youth, somewhere beyond the margins of conventional society, there’s a brief authentic flowering of life and happiness, which can’t be carried forward into disappointing, grown-up, settled existence.” While the rest of Little Dog’s contemporaries are getting high or dying of drug overdoses Little Dog pursues education and gets out of Hartford to go to school in New York. The boy who came to America knowing no English becomes a writer. Vuong’s family story is at the heart of his 2017 debut poetry collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, which won both a Forward prize and the TS Eliot prize. There are some beautiful lines in this book, passages such as “Too much joy, I swear, is lost in our desperation to keep it.” and “I’m sorry I keep saying How are you? when I really mean Are you happy?” kept my highlighter busy. In keeping with the theme of the novel, the writing is very in-the-moment, “ … from the two-hour drives to nowhere and a Burger King at the edge of the county, a day of tense talk with his old man, the rust from the electric razor he shared with that old man, how I would always find it on his sink in its sad plastic case, the tobacco, weed and cocaine smoke on his fingers mixed with motor oil …” However, like poetry (to me at least), there were also some very fragmented and confusing parts – I’m still not sure how the explicit description of eating monkey brains was pertinent, but I really didn’t want to read it over again to find out. This is the most bizarre letter written to a mother ever, but it is a book I keep thinking about and one I am glad I read. Kim Reardon The Reluctant Book Critic

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Business & Property Local businesses team up to support others

Steve Donaldson from Display Power Group delivers the new hand sanitiser unit to Member for Gosford Liesl Tesch.

Two Central Coast businesses have teamed up to provide personalised automatic sanitisation stands for businesses, sporting clubs and community organisations as fears of a second wave of COVID-19 in NSW grow. West Gosford based Display Power Group and Onyx Coffee Spirits have joined forces to

deliver the stands. Display Power Group owner and manager, Travis Canobie, said supporting other local businesses had always been central to the organisation. “Our objective with the sanitisation stand was to produce a personalised and good quality product for our community, without breaking the bank,” he said.

“As part of our business model we’ve always prided ourselves on ensuring that we source what we can from the Central Coast and this product is no different. “We’ve been working with Onyx Coffee Spirits for a while and we wanted to ensure with our sanitisation station we could provide a complete product.

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“We have always recognised the importance of Central Coast businesses supporting other local businesses all year round, but now it’s more important than ever to drive that value home because if we don’t support each other who will support us?” Member for Gosford, Liesl Tesch, was one of the first to order a sanitisation unit.

“Here on the Coast we are all about supporting each other in good and bad times,” Tesch said. “It’s amazing to see our local businesses stepping up and teaming together to keep us all safe and healthy while at the same time working to keep our local economy afloat. “These last couple of weeks have shown just how quickly

COVID-19 can spread and it’s a serious and timely reminder that we are still not in the clear. “We all need to keep our hygiene practices up to ensure we are protecting ourselves and each other,” Tesch said. Source: Media release, Jul 24 Member for Gosford, Liesl Tesch

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New vehicle sanitisation station for taxi, uber drivers Taxi and Uber drivers on the Central Coast can have their vehicles kept COVID safe for free, thanks to a new vehicle sanitisation station which opened at West Gosford on July 29. Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast and Member for Terrigal, Adam Crouch, said the Coast was one of four nonmetropolitan areas in NSW to benefit from the service for point-to-point transport providers. “The NSW Government has worked hard to create a COVIDsafe public transport system, but we also want to ensure local taxis and Ubers are also COVID-safe,” Crouch said. “This is a complimentary once-per-vehicle-per-day service to help keep drivers

Point to Point worker Lachlan Grimston works on sanitising a taxi

and passengers safe during COVID-19. “This will give communities on the Central Coast increased confidence in point-to-point transport services used for essential travel like going to the shops or medical appointments.” Minister for Regional Transport and Roads, Paul Toole, said the Point to Point vehicle sanitisation station builds on the measures already put in place to create a COVIDsafe transport network right across the state with enhanced cleaning on NSW TrainLink trains and coaches. “Since the start of March, more than 590,000 additional cleaning hours have been carried out across our entire network,” Toole said. “This sanitisation station for

point-to-point vehicles is another way we are ramping up cleaning and keeping our community safe.” NSW Government vehicles including Ambulance, Police and HealthShare vehicles are also eligible for the sanitisation service. Vehicle sanitisation includes disinfecting high-touch areas like outside and inside door handles, window controls, headrests and payment terminals. The new sanitisation station is at 7 Merinee Rd, West Gosford, and will be open from 7am to 7pm on weekdays and from 8am to 5pm on Saturdays. Source: Media release, Jul 29 Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast, Adam Crouch

Is small business stimulus hitting the mark? The State Opposition has called on the NSW Government to review the effectiveness of its support programs for small businesses, with the JobSeeker and JobKeeper programs set to be phased out early next year. Shadow Treasurer, Walt Secord, and Shadow Minister

for Finance and Small Business, Daniel Mookhey, said support programs had been dramatically under-subscribed because they were “too narrow”. They claimed only $2.7M had been provided out of a $440M land tax relief fund and that fewer than half of eligible NSW businesses had been provided

with payroll tax relief. “There are still sections of the community which have missed out on Federal assistance such as casual employees, university staff, the arts sector, and some sole traders,” Secord said. Mookhey said sole traders and partnerships had been denied support. “NSW entered the COVID

Recognition of the hard work of employees during shutdown All Greater Bank branches on the Central Coast will be closed on Monday, August 3, due to an annual leave day being gifted by the company to all employees. The call centre and all ATM’s will, however, remain open. The Day for You is intended to recognise the hard work all Greater Bank employees have done during the COVID-19 lockdown in which no banks closed their doors. Greater Bank CEO, Scott Morgan, said he was proud of the effort and commitment all employees and customers showed during this time. “Closing branch and head office operations for one day is

an opportunity to say thank you to our employees and give them the opportunity take a break and hopefully spend a little more time with their family,” Morgan said. “While this may cause some inconvenience for customers, I am certain that all will understand and appreciate our desire to reward our employees.” Murphy acknowledged the challenges the past few months had placed upon his employees, including stress on their mental health. “Already 2020 has been a year like no other for all parts of the community as we have had to cope with and manage

the wide-ranging effects of the global pandemic,” he said. “Like the majority of businesses, we saw incredible disruption to the way we conduct our business, from the need to move more than 400 head office employees to work from home, through to the change in operational protocols across our branch network to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our employees and customers.” The region’s six Coast branches will reopen for business the following day at 9am. Source: Media Release, Jul 28 Greater Bank

pandemic with a weaker economy and therefore, NSW was more dependent on the JobKeeper and JobSeeker,” he said. But Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast, Adam Crouch, said $15M, not $2.7M, had been paid in land tax relief and $540M in small business grants had been paid or was in

the process of being paid. He said 52,000 businesses had registered for payroll tax relief. “Over the last four months alone, the NSW Government has committed more than $13.6B in health and economic stimulus,” Crouch said. “This is all about keeping people in jobs and keeping

businesses in business. “All NSW Government support for small businesses during COVID-19 is under constant review. “The NSW Government is pulling every economic lever available to create new job opportunities and keep people in jobs at this difficult time.” Terry Collins

Getting back on track Business NSW Central Coast has urged all levels of government to work together to get the state’s economy back on track as the fallout from COVID-19 continues to be felt throughout the Coast’s business community. Regional Director, Paula Martin, said the organisation’s recent Back On Track Report had outlined a number of recovery drivers aimed at ensuring that businesses stay open, staff are rehired and foundations are set in place for future economic growth. “Last week the Commonwealth released the Government’s Economic and Fiscal Update which reaffirmed Australia is in recession, with unemployment expected to spike at 9.25 per cent and the budget deficit forecast to be the worst since World War II,” Martin said. “Businesses have had to make enormous sacrifices to keep all of us safe during this global health crisis. “Unfortunately, this has come

at great cost, with many businesses having to close their doors or lay-off staff. “A recent Business NSW survey showed on average, business revenue has fallen 43 per cent since the pandemic started. “Without JobKeeper, many businesses would be unable to maintain operations in their current form. “Half of the respondents indicated they would be unable to maintain current hours and headcount when payments stop.” Martin said governments should boost confidence by signing a compact to return the unemployment rate to below 6 per cent and outline when or how remaining restrictions will be lifted as a major recovery driver. Other suggestions for government were: establishing a Youth Jobs Guarantee to keep youth learning or earning, removing barriers for investment, growth and employment through regulatory reform; providing affordable, reliable energy by expanding

the energy supply market and removing unnecessary costs on business; working together to deliver better government and improvements in key areas such as tax; ensuring payroll tax does not deter employers from hiring staff; improving workplace relations which cuts red tape, creates jobs and boosts living standards; and building a seamless state economy by better connecting regional NSW and deepening labour markets. “While Australia has performed well compared to other countries, outbreaks in Victoria and subsequent risks presented to NSW underscore the persistent threat posed by COVID-19,” Martin said. “Our future success rests on these recovery drivers to protect and steady the economy. “Now more than ever our political leaders need to work together to get our economy back on track.” Source: Media release, Jul 27 Business NSW Central Coast Regional Director, Paula Martin

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Umina Beach aged care facility nears completion A $30M aged care facility is set to open its doors at Umina Beach in coming weeks. Peninsula Villages has announced that construction on its 114-bed ageing in place development, Pozieres House, is nearing completion. The development will set a new benchmark for standard of service with distinguishing features to include specialist aged, palliative and dementia care units all housed within separate households to ensure continuity of care between care staff and residents. The development comprises 111 one-bedroom premium rooms and three executive suites, all with private ensuites, as well as an onsite beauty salon, café, theatre lounge room, physio and wellness

centre and consulting rooms. “Pozieres House is a premium ageing in place development that will offer residential care in a safe, supported and comfortable environment with serene surrounds,” Peninsula Villages CEO, Shane Neaves,

said. “The design of this development takes into consideration how we can meet the consumer directed care standards more effectively now, and into the future.” Neaves said residents would

live as part of vibrant and close-knit households of 12-14 people. Each household will have an alfresco area or balcony, spacious kitchen, dining and living area and separate lounge.

“Each house embraces a person-centred approach and residents create their own daily rhythm filled with opportunities to enhance wellbeing, create connection with others and participate in activities with purpose, which all support individuality and choice,” he said. “This highly flexible approach honours and respects our resident’s wishes, without compromising on quality of care.” Peninsula Villages has been present on the Coast for more than 40 years. “This new building is the product of a fantastic vision from our Board of Directors, our planners, hard work from our builders, and, very importantly, support from the local community,” Neaves said. “Not only will this development

be a huge boost for our premises, but also for the local economy and labour market, creating more jobs and ensuring we can continue to keep up with the demand of our ageing community. “This year has not only proved challenging with the threat of the coronavirus, but the increase of home care packages and people choosing to live at home means providers have to look to develop residential care facilities that will stand the test of time and meet the demands of the community well into the future.” Pozieres House will be available for residents from mid to late August. Source: Media release, July 23 Peninsula Villages

153 objections to Tumbi Umbi rehab home Tumbi Umbi residents will be re-notified of a proposed transitional home for drug and alcohol rehabilitation in their area after Central Coast Council receives more information. Council has given the applicant of a proposed transitional home at an existing house at 30 Bakali Rd, Tumbi Umbi, until August 17 to provide more information. Once this information has been received the application will be re-notified for 21 days and people who lodged a submission will be included within that process. A total of 153 submissions objecting to the proposal were sent to Council when the plan was on public exhibition during June and closed on July 3. Council’s records indicate that the subject property was sold on May 7, as some of the

submissions note. Council has indicated that the sale date and/or price was not a planning matter for consideration as part of the assessment of the application. The proposal will go to the Local Planning Panel for a decision as more than 10

submissions were received. One submission from the residents’ committee of a nearby Forresters Beach Retirement Village said such an establishment posed a risk to the elderly and vulnerable in the community. Council says that as the

development application was still under assessment, no date for referral to the Local Planning Panel has been set. The proposed change of use to a transitional group home would see up to eight residents in the house. A permanent on-site

manager’s residence would be located above the garage of a second dwelling on the site. The transitional group home would be for male residents who are in alcohol or drug rehabilitation. Various programs would be held on site, such as

psychologist sessions, Salvation Army counselling, Mission Australia services and Alcoholic Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous sessions, the development application said. Merilyn Vale

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Council to hike fees and charges, cut capital works projects A five per cent increase in some fees and charges was part of the operational plan adopted by Central Coast Council on July 27 for this financial year. These increases come after the rest of the fees and charges for 2020-21 were adopted a few weeks ago. Council estimated it could increase income by about $100,000 if it adopted increases to the Environment and Certification Unit within council. This unit charges for releasing a dog from the pound or when people claim an impounded car. It also includes the cost of outdoor dining footpath hire and the Food Shops’ Annual Administration charge. This will increase for an average food business from $215 to $226 a year. Council inspection and issuing of certificates for things like new manufactured homes, pool inspections, complying development certificates, occupation certificates,

plumbing and drainage inspection fees will also increase by an average of five per cent. The proposed changes will go on public exhibition and come back to council for ratification. But the rest of the operational plan has been adopted. Council has budgeted $225M for capital works across the local government area. This is a reduction from the draft plan that went out on public exhibition. The capital works budget has decreased by $23.3M. A new sculpture of Percy the Pelican at The Entrance was one victim of the cuts. But Council has $33M in additional capital works projects which are waiting on external grant funding confirmation or are gated projects where funding will be released once the project meets set criteria to continue. The first stage of the Adcock Park redevelopment, for example, continues. Stage Two is earmarked for the next financial year.

Council expects to gain an income from interest revenue, rates and other charges of $551M but has budgeted $564.3M for the delivery of essential services. This means council expects an estimated deficit of $13.1M. Staff costs are $200.9M. The Materials and Contracts budget includes materials, consumables, contractor and consultancy costs, operating leases and contracts including Council’s waste collection contract are expected to be $106.9M. Council had already adopted the rates increase of 2.6 per cent and the water and sewerage increase of 2.2 per cent in its June meeting. The operational plan says that Council is forecasting a reduction in payments received due to the impact of COVID-19 on businesses and families. During the last quarter of 2019-20 financial year payments received for rates and annual charges decreased compared to prior years. “It is anticipated that this

trend will continue during 2020-21 financial year,” the operational plan states. But Council has a strong “own source” operating ratio of 82.1 per cent as at June 30, 2019. This means 80 per cent of its funds come from its own rates and charges. The Office of Local Government benchmark expects it to be only greater than 60 per cent each year. Council said this indicated a very high level of fiscal flexibility and very low reliance on external funding sources such as operating grants and contributions. Long term, Council has a strong balance sheet, the report said. “Borrowings as at 30 June 2019 totalled $233.2M and $7.2B in Total Net Assets,” the plan says. The full list of capital grant projects is in the operational plan which is a public document. Merilyn Vale

Council to borrow $50M Central Coast Council plans to borrow $50M this financial year. Council’s debt portfolio totalled $233.2M of external borrowings a year ago and about $235.4M at the end of June this year was forecast. All existing loans are due to mature by May 2037. The majority of these loans were established when interest rates were far higher than they

are now, pre-dating the Global Financial Crisis, Council said in its operational plan. The average rate on these loans is higher than present market rates but the costs associated with breaking the loans and refinancing have been judged to be prohibitively high. Instead, Council has been paying down the debt steadily. The majority of current debt

was established to finance long-term water and sewerage network assets and is held as a liability within the Water Supply Authority functions. The average duration of the loan portfolio is reducing at a faster rate than the depreciation of the corresponding infrastructure assets and will require refinancing in the short to medium term, Council said. “We undertake regular debt reviews to determine the costs

and benefits associated with extinguishing existing debt and investigating favourable refinancing options,” the operational plan says. “New borrowing requirements in recent years have been satisfied by borrowing internally from the other funds (General and Sewer funds) that have sufficient unrestricted cash. “In 2020-21 Council does expect to require borrowings

from external financial institutions to refinance the maturity of current existing borrowings with material balloon repayments of approximately $43.7M.” It is expected that Council will seek expressions from NSW TCorp and external major banks to procure the lowest cost of funding for terms of up to 10-20 years. Natural disasters such as droughts, bush fires, storm

events and pandemics have not been factored into the longterm financial plan as the financial impact will be different for each event. “However, the financial impact will be factored into the forecasted results for the reporting periods which the natural disaster impacts,” the plan said. Merilyn Vale

Cost-shifting costs council $45M Central Coast Council expects to pay the State Government $32.5M in waste levies this financial year. In return, the Government will grant Council just $300,000 this year from the Better Waste Recycling Fund which is funded from the waste levy. It is one example of “cost shifting”, which Council says cost it about $45M in the 20172018 financial year. The figures come from this year’s operational plan adopted on July 27. It explains cost shifting as where the responsibility or

costs of providing a certain service, asset or function, are shifted from a higher level of government to a lower level of government without providing corresponding funding or adequate revenue raising capacity. “Cost shifting continues to place a significant burden on Council’s financial situation; approximately $44.7M in the 2017-18 financial year which is estimated to be around eight per cent of Council’s total income before capital grants and contributions,’’ the operational plan said. Other examples of cost

shifting were listed as contributions to the NSW Fire and Rescue. NSW Rural Fire Services and NSW State Emergency Service and lack of adequate funding for public libraries. The report mentioned the failure of the State to fully reimburse councils for mandatory pensioner rebates. The region has a higher proportion of aged pensioners compared to other local government authorities. Council provides a rate reduction on the combined ordinary rate levy amount and the domestic waste

management charge of 50 per cent, with a maximum combined reduction of $250 to eligible pensioners. Of this reduction 55% per cent is reimbursed to Council by the NSW Government. The estimated total amount of pension rebates for ordinary rates and domestic waste management charges in 202021 is $6,340,000. As well, the State moved in on developer contributions. “The local contributions levy for the Gosford City Centre has been reduced to one per cent (was previously 4%) of the cost of development due to the

Gosford City Centre Special Infrastructure Contribution (SIC) under the Environmental Planning and Assessment – Gosford City Centre Determination 2018,” the report said. “The SIC is collected by the NSW Government. “Council is still required to deliver the infrastructure under the local contributions plan for the Gosford City Centre and is required to apply to the NSW Government for funding to contribute to these projects.” Council said income related to development applications had fallen in the 2019-20

financial year and a significant proportion of this was a result of changes to State Significant Development provisions, including the specific provisions for the Gosford City Centre. It said the fees were significant on a per application basis because they were for larger developments. Council forecasted a decrease this year in the number of developer applications and correspondingly a decrease in development application income and associated developer contributions due to the uncertainty from COVID-19. Merilyn Vale

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Council amalgamation costs underestimated by almost $40M It has cost Central Coast Council almost $39M more to amalgamate on top of the $10M it got from the NSW Government’s implementation fund – and it may be 10 years before we see the benefits. Costs included $8.3M to harmonize salaries and to resolve back dated entitlements for staff of the former legacy councils. The costs were an estimation given to councillors in a report on July 27, the same night they adopted the operational plan for this financial year. It will take until June 2022 to complete the amalgamation process, but Council CEO Gary Murphy said it would take a decade for the benefits to be seen and all the consolidation to be bedded down. Speaking during the meeting, Cr Chris Holstein agreed it would take a decade for the benefits to show but wondered if the ward system should go. Cr Jane Smith successfully recommended that the amalgamation report be adopted with an amendment that Council look at governance models. She said the original State Government report that suggested amalgamations

said larger councils could have local boards to ensure local identity and representation. Cr Smith wants the council to continue to discuss better ways to meet the needs of the diverse community. The report will be forwarded to the Minister for Local Government, the Office of Local Government and Local Government NSW. In July 2019 Council assigned a program coordinator to track progress on amalgamation projects. This involved monitoring 173 projects, with 790 discrete actions within them that needed to be completed, all of differing complexities. By the end of June this year, 127 of the 173 projects had been completed (73 per cent), and 650 of the 790 individual actions completed (82 per cent). The former Wyong Shire Council and former Gosford City Council became Central Coast Council in May 2016. A Program Management Office (PMO) was established to coordinate and manage the consolidation of systems, processes and people. The PMO divided the program of work into 20 work streams, with projects and actions

within each work stream. A number of projects still remaining include the consolidated Local Environment Plan and Development Control Plan, rates harmonisation and new IT systems, prior to being fully consolidated. Council received $10M from the NSW Government’s Stronger Communities Fund to kick start the delivery of infrastructure and service projects. Of the 10 projects identified as recipients of this grant fund, only one hasn’t been completed. That project, to improve accessibility at community facilities and other council sites, will be completed by the end of September. Completed projects include: Umina and Niagara Park playground upgrades; Avoca Beach foreshore protection works; Austin Butler Oval and Woy Woy Tennis amenities redeveloped; starting blocks and electronic timing system at Peninsula Leisure Centre; drainage and irrigation system at Alan Davidson Oval; traffic flow improvements in Terrigal CBD; Elfin Hill Rd foreshore protection works; and San Remo BMX track facilities. Merilyn Vale

Pay rise to stand Central Coast councillors have voted to keep the pay rise they allowed themselves at their July 13 meeting, rejecting an attempt to reverse the decision by Councillors Greg Best, Rebecca Gale and Bruce McLachlan. With the failure of a rescission motion at their July 27 meeting, councillors will retain their $1,630 per annum rise (from $30,410 to $32,040), with the mayor receiving an extra $11,200 per year (from $88,600 to $99,800). Council also voted on July 13

that an annual fee of $9,980 be paid to the Deputy Mayor, to be deducted from the annual fee paid to the Mayor. Cr Jillian Hogan said she would support retaining the rise, which worked out to be around $4 per day, and cited expense claims from some councillors including Cr Best ($5,000), Cr Chris Burke, Cr Rebecca Gale and, to some extent, Cr McLachlan. She herself had not claimed any expenses, she said. Cr Jilly Pilon said she would support the rescission motion as a pay rise in such perilous economic times didn’t “cut the

mustard”. At the end of the day, the rescission motion was defeated 8-6. Councillors Hogan, Louise Greenaway, Jane Smith, Chris Holstein, Kyle MacGregor, Lisa Matthews, Richard Mehrtens and Jeff Sundstrom voted against it with Councillors Best, McLachlan, Pilon, Gale, Doug Vincent and Burke voting in favour. The full increase means an adjustment to the council budget of an additional $35,650. Terry Collins

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Councillor Marquart’s absence critical to Operating Plan vote The absence of Councillor Troy Marquart proved critical, as it turned out, to the passage of Council’s 2020/21 Operating Plan. In a statement to Coast Community News, Councillor Marquart said he would have voted against the Plan. In his absence, the Plan was approved, but only via a casting vote from Mayor, Lisa Matthews. “Whilst it may be a hypothetical statement [now], I am happy to confirm that I would have voted against the budget,” Cr Marquart said. “The Central Coast Council operational costs are extreme and flabby around the mid-drift in my opinion, the operation as become addicted to spending ratepayers’ money and sensible cost savings or productivity advancements are as rare as hens’ teeth,” he added. My personal opinion is that we should have tightened the fiscal belt, as normal businesses and house Mr Marquart has also been notable

in the past year for absences from staff-led briefings. He advised that he has caught up with all recent council briefings after being on annual leave for two weeks and missing both the ordinary meeting on July 13 and the extraordinary meeting on July 20. Cr Marquart said he returned on the weekend in time for the extraordinary meeting on the Monday which was called to update councillors on the waterfront damage at Wamberal and North Entrance. He spent time on-site at Wamberal on Sunday and spent hours discussing the issues with colleagues. But he had a work-related emergency issue that meant

he didn’t attend the meeting because he had to work through the night in order to satisfy new work plan requirements because of COVID-19. Cr Marquart’s business designs and installs sprung timber floor systems across NSW, ACT and QLD. “I simply had to revise our COVID safe work continuation plan for projects in ACT, which is a large and involved document,” he said. “If it was not completed by 6.30am the following morning, we could not continue works on site, we would have lost a huge amount of money in coating material that had to go down today and all our employees would have been turned away from site and without work. Cr Marquart said he always caught up at length on any briefings or meeting information through the Councillor Hub and conversations with colleagues. Merilyn Vale

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Development Consents Notice is given of the granting of the following Development Consents and Complying Development Certificates pursuant to Section 101 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act, 1979. Consents can be made available for inspection by contacting Central Coast Council. No

Date

489/2020

Address

Suburb

Proposed Development

14-07-2020 11 Mermaid Dr

BATEAU BAY

Deck

576/2020

14-07-2020 4 Forest Oak Pl

BERKELEY VALE

Dwelling

592/2020

16-07-2020 26 Forest Oak Pl

BERKELEY VALE

74/2020

13-07-2020 74 Bay Rd

447/2020

Development Applications

The following Development Applications are notified for public comment and can be viewed online at centralcoast.nsw.gov.au

Written submissions close: 21 August 2020 No

Address

Suburb

Description

633/2020

6 Geoffrey Rd

CHITTAWAY POINT

Detached Dual Occupancy & 2 Lot Torrens Title Subdivision Applicant - Clarke Dowdle & Associates

Dwelling

58824/2020

BLUE BAY

Multi Dwelling Houses Comprising 3 Townhouses, Subdivision & Demolition of Existing Structures

139 Springwood St ETTALONG BEACH

Proposed Dual Occcupancy & Demolish Existing Dwelling Applicant - KM Design Partners

648/2020

4 Discombe Ave

KANWAL

Dual Occupancy & 2 Lot Torrens Title Subdivision Applicant Resolve Urban Planning

14-07-2020 1 West Kahala Ave

BUDGEWOI

Shed, Deck & Awning

661/2020

59 McLachlan Ave

LONG JETTY

466/2017

15-07-2020 131A Panorama Ave

CHARMHAVEN

Dual Occupancy & Subdivision (Amended Application)

Demolition of Existing Building, Construction of Dual Occupancy Single Storey Attached Residences & Landscaping Applicant - Mrs R J Crook

57995/2020

20-07-2020 84 Copacabana Dr

COPACABANA

Dual Occupancy Attached & Demolish Existing Dual Occupancy

671/2020

58 Toowoon Bay Rd LONG JETTY

Dual Occupancy, Subdivision & Demolition of Existing Structures Applicant - Design Smart Living

554/2020

15-07-2020 3 Liza Cl

FOUNTAINDALE

Awning

672/2020

60 Toowoon Bay Rd LONG JETTY

604/2020

17-07-2020 47 Pinaroo Rd

GWANDALAN

Dwelling

Demolition of Existing Dwelling & Associated Structures, Proposed Dual Occupancy Development & 2 lot Torrens Title Subdvision Applicant - Design Smart Living

58487/2020

21-07-2020 43 Gooriwa Rd

HOLGATE

Fence Adjacent to the Side Boundary

692/2020

5A Gorman Cl

Proposed Attached Dual Occupancy with 2 Lot Torrens Title Subdivision Applicant - Residential Logistics Pty Ltd

58558/2020

14-07-2020 5 Simpson Cl

KARIONG

Steel Framed Shed

58246/2020

10-07-2020 11 Karuah Ave

KINCUMBER

Swimming Pool & Gazebo

56560/2019

09-07-2020 Lot 111 DP1184661 Brisbane Water Dr

KOOLEWONG

Telecommunications Facility

16-07-2020 960 Pacific Hwy

LISAROW

52978/2017

Staged Torrens Title Subdivision: Stage 1 - 1 Allotment into 2 Allotments; Stage 2 1 Allotment into 4 Allotments (Amended Application)

539/2020

15-07-2020 48 Eloora Rd

LONG JETTY

Proposed Alterations & Additions & Secondary Dwelling

691/2019

16-07-2020 6 Watkins St

LONG JETTY

Change of Use - Outdoor Entertainment Area (Amended Application)

58400/2020

21-07-2020 245 Oak Rd

MATCHAM

Alterations & Additions including 3 Car Garage

440/2019

16-07-2020 2 Merino Rd

NORAVILLE

Alterations & Additions (Amended Application)

686/2019

16-07-2020 117 Palmdale Rd

PALMDALE

Stage 1 - Dwelling Alterations & Additions, Swimming Pool & Tennis Court Stage 2 - Formalisation of the Conversion of a Non-Habitable Outbuilding to a Detached Secondary Dwelling (Amended Application)

58555/2020

20-07-2020 37 Coral Cr

PEARL BEACH

Carport

563/2020

13-07-2020 22 Perouse Ave

SAN REMO

Alterations & Additions

526/2020

14-07-2020 48 Braithwaite Rd

TACOMA

Awning

58560/2020

21-07-2020 22 Sumner Cct

TERRIGAL

Retaining Wall & Associated Earthworks

505/2020

16-07-2020 75 Leonard Ave

TOUKLEY

Secondary Dwelling & Carport

307/2020

13-07-2020 210 Tumbi Rd

TUMBI UMBI

Alterations & Additions to Existing Dual Occupancy to create a Detached Dual Occupancy, Above Ground Pool, Demolition & other Associated Works

51055/2016

20-07-2020 23 Abelia Pl

UMINA BEACH

Extend existing Living & Veranda, New Entry Porch & Double Garage (Amended Application)

58321/2020

21-07-2020 269 Trafalgar Ave

UMINA BEACH

Dwelling House (New) & Secondary Dwelling

58476/2020

20-07-2020 52 Alexandra St

UMINA BEACH

Establishment of Use for Storeroom

58530/2020

16-07-2020 36 Calypta Rd

UMINA BEACH

Swimming Pool Inground

58682/2020

15-07-2020 47 Calypta Rd

UMINA BEACH

Awning

58680/2020

15-07-2020 21 Remembrance Dr WAMBERAL

Patio Roofing

491/2020

14-07-2020 13 Mitchell Tce

WARNERVALE

Dwelling

58027/2020

16-07-2020 15 Alma Ave

WOY WOY

Rebuild Workshop using Existing Footprint of Damaged Workshop (Amended Application)

577/2020

14-07-2020 12 Parry Pde

WYONG

Dwelling

591/2020

14-07-2020 43 Championship Dr WYONG

Dwelling

WATANOBBI

Written submissions close: 28 August 2020 No

Address

Suburb

Description

58868/2020

23 Flathead Rd

ETTALONG BEACH

Demolition of Existing Dwelling & 3 Unit Multi Dwelling Housing Applicant - L Ferranda

58799/2020

12 - 16 Kurrawyba Ave

TERRIGAL

Addition to a Boundary Fence Applicant - M J Hall

Integrated Development

Written submissions close: 21 August 2020

Address

Suburb

Description

457/2014

205 Elizabeth Bay Dr

LAKE MUNMORAH

Manufactured Home Estate & Community Title Subdivision Incorporating 52 Dwelling Sites & Ancillary Facilities & Works (Amended Application) Applicant - Cape Munmorah Pty Ltd. The application has been made for the development consent under the Environmental Planning & Assessment Act 1979. Approval is also sought from NSW Rural Fire Service.

Nominated Integrated Development

Written submissions close: 4 September 2020

Address

Suburb

58314/2020

386 Booker Bay Rd BOOKER BAY

Description Residential Flat Building (8 Units) Applicant - Motian Group Pty Ltd. The application has been made for the development consent under the Environmental Planning & Assessment Act 1979. Approval is also sought from the Natural Resources Access Regulator.

Central Coast Council is required to comply with the requirements of the Government Information (Public Access) Act 20019 which requires submissions on Development Applications to be published on Council’s website. In order to maintain privacy, all submissions lodged using Council’s DA Submission Form or online portal will have personal contact details and signature redacted. Submissions received not using Council’s DA Submission Form or via the online portal will be published in full. Your submission may also be reproduced in full in Council reports or in Court proceedings.

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Stirring Change: The humblest of superfoods

Georgia Lienemann

Greetings Coasties If you watch our weekly 5@5 bulletin on Fridays, you may recognise me as the former news anchor. I was tempted to joke about being a woman of many talents, but then it dawned on me that it’s only ever been food, or talking, or some combination of the two. In any case, I’m hoping this column will inspire you with regards to the former. It’s been a lifelong obsession for me, food that is (not talking) and one that has had me traipsing around the world on many adventures. I even have some credentials to speak of. Firstly, I’m a clinically trained nutritionist and wholefoods chef. Secondly, I’m a mum, which brings a dose of humility and realism to one’s health advice! Yes, that’s right, I’ll be leading you in some “from-scratch” healthy cooking, among other things, but I promise to arm you with plenty of tips to make it achievable – and delicious. Afterall, I’m a diehard foodie, at heart. There’s no two ways about it, we’re living in interesting times. I believe this tumultuous period is an opportunity to reconnect with what is truly important: health, obviously, but also community. Food has traditionally been central to both. And when it comes to cooking, I’m passionate about teaching the lost skills and know-how of yesteryear. Grandma didn’t overthink it – she inherently knew how to nourish and heal her family, especially in tougher times. Her go-to strategy wasn’t panic-buying tinned baked beans, as we saw during the COVID first wave – it was humble, nose-to-tail, root-to-tip

cooking, eating seasonally and locally, preserving the harvest, creatively repurposing leftovers and having a grasp on home-made remedies. In just a couple of generations we’ve lost touch with that old food culture, making us easy prey for the food and diet industries and, in the current climate, in a state of disempowerment. Rekindling this wisdom is extremely empowering. And there’s some good news. The most nutrient dense foods aren't flying long distances in fancy packaging to get to you – they’re being produced by a farmer, just a little way down the road. One of the silver linings of this crisis is that so many of our local growers and producers are suddenly being valued for their work. And their newfound customers are finally discovering the freshness, unparalleled flavour, nutrient density and, of course, a sense of local connection and community. The other good news is that cultivating health doesn’t have to be expensive, or complicated, or even time-consuming. The key is gradual skill-building and baby steps - it’s only effort until it’s routine. Theme 1. Immunity Topic: Garlic – a humble superfood. Recipe: Fermented Garlic Honey My aim is to have a monthly theme with the obvious first choice being immunity. With Winter hard upon us it is more important than ever to do what we can at home to prevent and treat illness and infection, by enhancing our body’s innate immunity. One humble culinary ingredient that can be found in every kitchen and which happens to be one of the most potent natural medicines available is garlic. Not only is it one of nature’s most powerful antibiotics, it’s also strongly anti-viral, antifungal, antioxidant and anticancer. Just one milligram of allicin, garlic’s main active constituent, is equivalent to 15 IU of penicillin, so three cloves of garlic contain the same antibacterial activity as a standard dose of penicillin. The bonus, aside from being cheap, safe and incredibly delicious, is that garlic comes free from the risk of creating antibiotic resistance. A 2009 in-vitro study showed that quercetin, another powerful phytonutrient found in garlic, was more effective in treating influenza A viruses than Tamiflu. Together, allicin and quercetin, make garlic the antiviral superfood for the times. Being a devout foodie and long-time garlic lover, I’ve learnt much about this humble bulb over the years.

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And one of the most valuable things I’ve discovered is just how important it is to source local product – and that means shopping seasonally. Imported garlic is often grown with chemicals banned for use in Australia. According to the Australian Garlic Industry Association, imported garlic is treated with growth inhibitors to prevent sprouting, bleached with chlorine and fumigated with methyl bromide to kill any stowaway bugs. We’re just seeing the very last of the Australian garlic at this time of year. I like to buy it in bulk from a local producer in December when it’s at its peak and preserve what I can’t use over the Summer. The simplest way to preserve a locally grown stash of garlic, so that you have it on hand yearround, is to store unpeeled cloves in the freezer, taking them out when needed. But, instead of storing it, why not make it into my all-time favourite cold and flu remedy, especially for young children – fermented garlic honey. Fermented Garlic Honey With just two ingredients, this is an easy way to combine local garlic with the incredible antimicrobial powers of raw honey into an immune-boosting powerhouse. Honey has been shown in the medical literature to be more effective than over-thecounter cough medications, so this is a great one to have on hand when those lingering Winter coughs set in. Perhaps the most pervasive myth about garlic is that it must be consumed raw to reap the benefits of the allicin. In Jo Robinson’s brilliant book ‘Eating on the Wild Side’, I discovered that the allicin is indeed effectively destroyed after just 30-60 seconds

of heating. However, if you mince or chop the garlic and allow it to sit for ten minutes before cooking, the full potency remains. Ingredients Raw garlic Raw honey (ideally local) 1. Peel the garlic cloves, by placing them under a large chef’s knife and giving them a hard whack with the heel of your hand – aiming to bruise and rather than completely smash the clove. Remove and discard the skin. 2. Place the cloves into a clean glass jar, with enough honey to cover and close the jar with a lid. It’s important to leave at least a third of the jar empty, as the mixture will expand as it ferments. 3. Invert the jar once every few days to keep the garlic submerged in honey. Allow it to ferment for 4 weeks. You’ll notice air bubbles forming after several days (you can release it by gently opening the jar and then resealing). Eventually the honey becomes less viscous and the bubbling will stop. 4. Store exactly as is, in a cool dark place, consuming the garlic or honey as necessary. For children, I like to give a teaspoon of garlic honey several times daily at the onset of illness, or a whole clove for adults. The ferment should last years if stored correctly. GL NB. If you have any questions you’d like to ask, or to propose a health food “theme”, please contact me via www. coastcommunitynews.com.au

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Erina COVID-19 clinic to stay open People can continue to be tested for COVID-19 at the Central Coast Respiratory Clinic until the end of September after the Federal Government extended funding.

Free COVID-19 testing at the Central Coast Respiratory Clinic has been extended until the end of September

Anyone experiencing mild to moderate symptoms such as a cough, sore throat, tiredness, fever and shortness of breath can book in to be accessed and tested without a referral. The clinic is a free, Federal Government initiative run by the not-for-profit Central Coast Primary Care and operates from the grounds of the EV church at Erina. The respiratory clinic, which specialises in the COVID-19 testing, has taken 14,000 tests since opening on May 1, with

zero tests returning a positive result. Babies as young as six weeks old and residents in their 90s have been among those tested, with the most common testing occurring in the healthcare, aged care, disability and childcare and education sectors. With cases of COVID-19 escalating throughout the country, Central Coast Primary Care’s CEO, Michelle Bradbury, said she has seen a significant increase in community demand, making the government funding extension extremely timely. “We have been operating since May, and more recently in the past weeks, we have seen an increase in people making bookings to be accessed and

tested for COVID,” she said. “With the situation in Victoria heating up over the past few weeks, we need to remain vigilant and continue to test people with mild symptoms in our local community. “It has come at a good time when we need to ensure the Central Coast community is safe, and one of the best ways to do that is to provide testing so we can react and treat people within the community if they do come back positive. “We have extended our capacity by employing more nurses and administration staff, so we are testing up to 300 people a day, with a 12 – 24-hour turn around on the result. “That’s the community

demand. To maintain minimal face-toface contact, patients are required to remain in their car until five minutes before their appointment and then, at the appropriate time, people are guided to the testing area and then guided back immediately after. Bradbury made it clear that the clinic only tests symptomatic people. “If [people] are not symptomatic, then the way to get tested is to go to your GP, and they will refer you to the pathology centre,” she said. Bookings are required to be tested and can be done online at Central Coast Primary Care or over the phone. Jacinta Counihan

No new cases of COVID-19 on the Coast (touch wood) The Central Coast Local Health District has quashed rumours of a COVID resurgence on the Coast. Rumours that at least three new active cases of the virus had emerged within the region had been gaining traction over the past week, prompting District CEO, Dr Andrew Montague and Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast, Adam Crouch, to address the matter. “We have not had a confirmed COVID-19 case on the Central Coast for four weeks now,” Dr Montague said. “However, it is important that we all continue to follow the advice from NSW Health to protect ourselves and each

other from the spread of COVID-19. “Like other diseases, you can be infectious just before you get symptoms so it is very important to monitor your health, get checked as soon as you notice COVID-19 symptoms, stay home until you get your test results and follow the advice provided by health professionals. “Please take extra care when you’re around vulnerable people as well, like people aged 65 and over, and those who have long-term and chronic illnesses. “We have come a long way since the start of the pandemic and we can continue to make progress if we remain vigilant,”

Dr Montague said. Crouch also called for vigilance as virus clusters continue to pop up around Sydney. “There have been some rumours circulating around the community of three new COVID-19 cases on the Central Coast. “I can confirm that there are zero cases at this time. “We are very fortunate to be in this position, but we cannot be complacent. “I would urge everyone to continue following the social distancing rules and to get tested if you have any symptoms,” Crouch said. Dilon Luke

Government reaffirms its attention to aged care facilities Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast, Adam Crouch, has given reassurances that residents in aged care in the region are at the forefront of the State Government’s mind in the wake of calls from the State Opposition for confirmation of precautions to protect seniors during the pandemic. Shadow Minister for Health, Ryan Park, called for the Government to outline how it was keeping seniors safe as

COVID-19 case numbers continue to grow in Victoria and parts of Sydney. Park cited the fact that earlier this year 19 residents at the Newmarch House aged care facility in Sydney died, with around 71 cases linked to the centre and said we did not want another such situation. “Explain what Personal Protective Equipment has been secured,” he said. “Explain whether there’s additional screening available for residents’ families and workers at aged care facilities.

“Explain whether nearby Intensive Care Units will be used for residents who fall ill.” Crouch said the Government has invested hundreds of millions of dollars into the health system for response to COVID-19 cases, including on the Central Coast. “Pleasingly, there are no current outbreaks of COVID-19 in NSW residential aged care facilities,” he said. “The NSW Government recognises how vulnerable residents in aged care facilities are to the risk of COVID-19, and

we take our response to this pandemic seriously. “The Federal Government has responsibility for aged care, but NSW Health is working very closely to ensure the safety of residents in aged care facilities, such as by enacting the Public Health (COVID-19 Residential Aged Care Facilities) Order (No 2) 2020.” The order includes strict instructions on those allowed to enter aged care facilities citing the following as permissible: employees or contractors; union

representatives; persons providing goods or services that are necessary for the effective operation of the facility; persons providing health, medical, pharmaceutical or personal care services to a resident; persons making a care and support visit to a resident; persons providing end-of-life support for a resident; emergency management or law enforcement; prospective residents; and persons with an exemption given by the Minister.

It specifies that people are not to be admitted if: during the 14 days immediately before the proposed entry, the person arrived in Australia from a place outside Australia or had known contact with a person who has a confirmed case of COVID-19; the person has a temperature higher than 37.5 degrees or symptoms of acute respiratory infection; the person does not have an up-to-date vaccination against influenza (some medical exemptions). Terry Collins

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Local Health pays tribute to security officers Central Coast Local Health District has paid tribute to its security teams following International Security Officers Day on July 24. A spokesperson for the District said the hardworking officers at Wyong and Gosford Hospitals went above and beyond to keep staff and patients safe. “In high-risk and emergency circumstances, it is their reassuring presence and skills that can de-escalate situations, protect patients and staff and provide assistance to those in need. “And on International Security Officers Day, we celebrated and reflected on the 24/7 nature of their work,” the spokesperson said. “Much of their work occurs behind the scenes and is so

effective that it often goes unnoticed. “That’s why we’re shining a light on our security teams and encouraging all to thank them for their contribution. “We thank them for providing support during emergencies, such as escorting patients to hospital departments in times of crisis and accompanying staff to their vehicles at night, for being the highly trained men and women who initiate our emergency response plans and leading evacuation efforts. “And we thank them for protecting us against workplace violence and unlawful behaviour, providing a safe and secure environment and for being the friendly face that offers assistance,” the spokesperson said. Dilon Luke

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Smoking in decline Cigarette smoking rates in people aged 14 and up have hit a record low for the Central Coast, according to new data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). The data is based on a threeyearly survey of more than 22,000 people aged 14 and over, compiled through the Institute’s National Drug Strategy Household Survey. The survey shows the number of daily smokers aged over 14 has fallen nationally to 11 per cent, down from 12.2 per cent in 2016. “Smoking rates have more than halved since 1991 when almost one quarter (24%) of

Australians were daily smokers,’ said AIHW spokesperson Dr. Gabrielle Phillips. According to the AIHW survey, the cost of cigarettes has been a major factor in the decline with more smokers now saying the cost of smoking was motivating them to quit or cut back – 58% in 2019 compared with 52% in 2016. The Central Coast’s results were recorded as part of the results for the Hunter New England and Central Coast Primary Health Network, which indicates the Network overall hit its lowest ever smoking rate for the same age bracket, at 12.3 per cent.

Cancer Council NSW has welcomed the news, but according to its Hunter Central Coast Community Lead, Sarah Russell, there is still work to be done to bring the Network’s results in line with the state level of 9.5 per cent. “First and foremost, it is so important that adults educate kids on the dangers of smoking and keep these youth smoking rates as low as possible,” Russell said. Tobacco Control Cancer Council NSW Manager, Alecia Brooks, said most of the decline in NSW in smoking among young people reflected of a suite of proven effective tobacco control measures implemented by governments

over decades such as health warnings and smoke free environments. “We are now seeing the percentage of younger people who have never smoked reach an all-time high of 66 per cent for NSW and, at a national level, that figure increases to almost 97 per cent among those under the age of 18,” Brooks said. The decline in smoking was slower however, in older age groups, highlighting the need to bring smoking rates down further across all demographic groups. “Based on what has worked in the past, what we most urgently need is a revival of the impactful, graphic, antismoking

campaigns seen in the 2000s. “Research shows that these ads are effective in reaching older smokers, particularly those with families who have smoked for some time and may be increasingly susceptible to hard-hitting messages about the health harms. “If these ads are aired regularly and with sustained investment, I’m sure we will once again see smoking rates plummet as they did in reaction to last decade’s campaign activity,” Brooks continued. “But mass media campaigns are only one aspect of a threepronged attack needed to drive further reductions to smoking rates.

“We must also focus on expanding smoke-free environments and strengthening tobacco retail policy. “With the draft new National Tobacco Strategy in development, the next few years present a huge opportunity for state and national governments to work collaboratively with industry bodies, like Cancer Council, to create real change that will save thousands of Australian’s lives in the years to come,” Brooks said. Source: Press release, Jul 24 Mark Evans, Cancer Council NSW

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Terrigal PS donates $2,735 to South Coast school for bushfire recovery

Milton PS community members thanking the Terrigal PS community for their support

Terrigal Public School has donated $2,735 to Milton Public School on the NSW South Coast. The funds were raised through the school’s end of Term 2 Crazy Hair Day to

support Milton PS with its bushfire recovery effort, after the town Milton was ravaged in the Black Summer Bushfires earlier this year. Terrigal Public School staff also contributed to the donation, providing a $750

boost. Terrigal’s Principal, Michael Burgess, said the funds would allow Milton PS to stimulate their township’s economy by spending locally. “Milton PS will be able to spend the money within the

town to help them continue with their recovery from the devastating bushfires. “At the same time our staff donation allowed Milton PS staff to have coffee and chocolates on the first day back this term.

“They spent the money in town to support local businesses. “I also know some of our families visited Milton during the holidays, either to stay or call in on their way through. “Thank you to those families

for supporting Milton,” Burgess said. Source: Newsletter, Jul 23 Michael Burgess, Terrigal Public School

2020 HSC Guide released The NSW Government’s annual HSC Study Guide is now available online for all Year 12 students. With helpful tips from HSC 2019’s top students and some sage advice from HSC markers, the HSC Study Guide is critical reading for Year 12 students now in the home stretch.

The guide is packed with practical information and advice to help students achieve their best in the upcoming HSC exams, with written exams due to start on October 20. NSW Education Minister, Sarah Mitchell, said many Year 12 students would be feeling a mix of nerves and excitement – normal emotions in what had

been an ‘abnormal’ year. “COVID-19 and the impact it has had on you, your families, your schools and your communities has been challenging but has also helped you uncover a layer of resolve and resilience you may not have known you had. “The HSC will require hard

work and focus over the coming months and I urge you to keep things in perspective and your health front of mind. “I want you to do well but, more importantly, I want you to be well,” Mitchell said. The guide includes: Strategies for keeping healthy; Tips for effective study techniques;

Helpful advice from past HSC students and HSC markers; Real HSC exam questions and more. It also outlines how course requirements have been adapted or changed due to the impact of the pandemic. The 2020 HSC cohort is the first to undertake a HSC that

has a specific minimum literary and numeracy requirement. The guide provides information on how to meet this requirement for those who have yet to do so. Source: Press release, Jul 27 NSW Department of Education Media Unit

Students lend a hand to Leagues Club Field totems Handprints of Central Coast schoolchildren are to be stenciled on to hardwood totems at the redeveloped Leagues Club field in Gosford by a local Darkinjung artist. Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast, Adam Crouch, said community engagement was at the forefront of the project. “This is a fun and COVID-safe way for kids to play a part in its development,” he said. “Students from Chertsey Primary School in Springfield will be the first to make their mark on Leagues Club Field by lending their hands to be

copied onto the totem poles.” The 14 totems represent the Aboriginal Peoples of the Central Coast and will surround a community hub, inspired by a traditional dance ground. Crouch said the redeveloped Leagues Club Field would tell the stories of the region’s past and be a testament to the region’s natural resources and workforce. “We expect the $10M transformation of Leagues Club Field will be a real hit with local families,” he said. “When completed, it will feature picnic areas, play equipment, a sporting field, pathways and a tidal pool. “A unique tidal water play

area will be adorned with sandstone animal designs modelled on carvings at Kariong’s Bulgandry art site, rope play equipment is reminiscent of a fish trap and boats will represent Brisbane Water’s history as a key boatbuilding site. “With almost all of the construction workers being Central Coast-based, this truly is a space created by locals for locals to enjoy.” Work is expected to continue until late this year. Source: Media release, Jul 23 Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast, Adam Crouch

Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast, Adam Crouch, with Chertsey Primary School students at Leagues Club Field

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CCGS launches waste education campaign

Senior students Jenna Watkins, Taylem Barnard, Robert Bacon and Ella Muma with one of the new Envirobank bins

A new waste education campaign has launched at Erina Height’s Central Coast Grammar School. The initiative was spearheaded by Head Prefects, Robert Bacon and Taylem Barnard, and saw the introduction of Envirobank blue bins across the campus to inspire students, staff and teachers to rethink, reduce, reuse and recycle. The aim is to encourage everyone from Kindergarten to

Year 12 to recycle plastic bottles, cans and juice/milk cartons with 10c refunded for each recyclable and donated to a nominated charity. The school’s Environmental Action Group, ranging from students in Years 5 to 12, will champion the campaign as they continue to develop initiatives to reduce the school’s environmental footprint and provide opportunities for students to act as environmentally conscious

global citizens. So far, the group of students have been working on implementing paper bin recycling throughout the Junior School. Now the team has turned its attention to educating students about what can and cannot go in the new blue bins. “We’ve had some small wins for our recycling initiatives,” said Year 6 student, James Peters. “The blue bin recycling is

Year 6 students Harrison Blake, James Peters, Jack Brown, Asher Smith

different to the yellow bins we use at home so it’s taking time for people to know what to put in the new bins. “To help raise awareness we’ve made posters to show the kind of things that can and cannot go in the bins. “Plus, we’re going into every single classroom to talk to students about the bins. Giving students an opportunity to actively participate in decision making at school is an important part of the CCGS

wellbeing structure. As the blue bins start to fill up with 10c refundable recyclables, students will be able to have their say and vote for their nominated charity. “Voting for the charity of their choice gives students an opportunity to help make decisions for the school,” said Matt Porter, Deputy Head of Senior School. “We want students to have their say and show them we value their views.

“The Environmental Action Group consists of teachers and students working together to design solutions for the school. “We appreciate and respect the ideas and opinions of all involved. “It’s this collaborative approach that can genuinely help shape learning and decision making,” he added. Source: Website, Jul 28 Joanne Marston, Central Coast Grammar School

Wamberal PS basketball half-court opens Wamberal Public School students are itching to get courtside with the school’s new half basketball court poised to open. According to Principal, Paul Miller, the half court is the first in a medley of new outdoor play, sport and learning spaces coming to Wamberal as part of

its community developed 2018 Whole School Schematic Plan. With the recent wet weather delaying the court’s opening, Miller said students were eagerly awaiting the day they could test out their new basketball court. “There is still some fencing around the court that needs to

be removed but once that’s done, we are planning on holding an online event to open it,” Miller said. “Our students have been patiently awaiting the opening and now that they can walk around the space and see the court, they’re very excited about it,” he added.

The new court brings the total number of basketball courts at the school up to two, a move Miller said would bring more equity for students. “The new court is in an area predominantly for senior students which complements our existing court, which is in an area predominantly for

juniors, so it balances out,” Miller explained. Adjoining the new court is a new grassed play area that Miller said would be up for further development. “We plan on installing new play and fitness equipment on the grassed area from early next year, to further build on our

Mystery of ‘Joel’ unravelled Copacabana Public School’s mystery radio donor has been revealed. In November of 2019 Coast Community News reported on the mystery $500 donation the school received from a generous radio contest winner known only as ‘Joel’, but now the school’s own Joel Blanchfield-Keane has come forward as the donor. The Year 5 student won Hit FM’s (formerly Sea FM) Alphabucks contest which challenged entrants to answer a series of questions with words that all started with the same letter within 30 seconds. His prize was $1,000 with a stipulation that half the monies be donated to the winner’s school, but at the time Copacabana PS was going

through an administration change which is why mystery surrounded the donation. Since then Joel has met with his new Principal, Mary Hunt, to determine what the monies would be allocated to and also held a formal cheque presentation to deliver it. With the funds since spent on new dodgeballs, much to the delight of his peers, Joel has become a bit of a legend on the playground, but he hasn’t let the fame go to his head. Instead he’s just excited he got to help out his school. “We didn’t have dodgeballs before, we had to use old netballs and soccer balls, so it’s really cool having them now,” Joel said. The charitable youngster also donated $200 from his personal winnings to local children’s

charity, Central Coast Kids in Need (CCKIN), a decision that’s made Jodi Blanchfield one proud mum. “Joel was born nine weeks premature and CCKIN were such a big help to us. “They covered so many expenses to ensure we could stay in hospital and they do that for so many families here on the Coast, so that’s why Joel wanted to give something back to them,” Jodi said. As Joel was born deaf, Jodi hopes by sharing his story other kids with a disability will feel inspired to give things a go. “Joel doesn’t let his hearing aids slow him down and I just want people to know that he did this and that I’m proud of him,” Jodi said. Dilon Luke

offering and to make Wamberal the best school it can be,” Miller said. Other projects outlined in the plan include a new playing field, a dedicated outdoor learning area and an amphitheatre. Dilon Luke

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Local football clubs receive funding LOCAL FOOTBALL Two local football clubs have been given a financial boost to assist with getting their seasons up and running, courtesy of Minister for Sport grant funding. Both the Avoca Sharks and Kincumber Roos FCs recently scored grants with Member for Terrigal, Adam Crouch, delivering the good news. Roos President, Scott Barker, said his club would be spending their $2,500 to refurbish their canteen with a new food preparation bench and sink. “With COVID food preparation, safety and handling has never been more important and this is something the club has been wanting to do for a long time, so we’re very grateful for this funding,” Barker said. According to Barker, the refurb project will kick off once council approves plans. The funding was a much welcome boost for the Roos, who’ve been working hard in the hope of one day seeing a major overhaul of their facilities. “We have been talking about getting work done to our facilities for years and have been saving up to contribute to the development of a new clubhouse, so getting to do this

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refurb is very exciting for us. “It gives members the feeling that things are happening,” Barker said. The funding also builds upon a $2,000 grant the Roos received earlier this year. Barker said that funding had been put towards developing a coach’s clinic for the Roos’

of grassroots football on the Coast,” Barker said. The Sharks picked up a $1,687 grant and, like the Roos, they’re spending it on canteen upgrades. “We’ve used the funding to buy a new freezer and to get some new shelving installed. “We also needed to replace

the battery in our defibrillator and those aren’t cheap, so the funding was really appreciated,” Sharks President, Justine Martin, said. With the 2020 season coming with a hefty price tag due to COVID-19 restrictions, Martin said the funding had been most welcome.

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“We’re really grateful to be getting a full season of play but it hasn’t been cheap. “We’ve had to hire hand sanitiser stations, get special signage, set up contactless payment and jump through a few other hoops, so Adam’s grant was a big help,” Martin said. With around 850 members, the Sharks are the Coast’s third largest football club membership wise and according to Martin the next big thing on the Sharks’ wish list was securing their own home ground. The club primarily uses the grounds at Erina High School as their base of operations and utilises Fagan’s Park at Point Clare as a backup, but with this setup not practical for all members Martin worries players might look to other clubs with more fixed arrangements. “We would love to work with council on securing a permanent home ground that caters to our needs. “We know council can’t just magic up green space just to accommodate us, but there’s a lot of grounds that are underutilised that we would love to call home,” Martin said.

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The Lakes, Terrigal and Warnervale post wins RUGBY Round 2 of the Central Coast Rugby Union (CCRU) saw some exciting games of rugby played across the Coast. In the match of the day at Slade Park, The Lakes snuck home in a tight match over Avoca Beach by the narrowest of margins, by 15 points to 14. In wet and slippery conditions, The Lakes got away to the better start, kicking an early penalty goal and following up with a converted try take a lead of 10 points to nil lead at the midway point of the first half. But Avoca Beach fought back with two penalty goals to fullback, Shaun Townsend, to trail 10 points to 6 at half time. When Avoca Beach kicked their third penalty goal early in the second half, the match was up for grabs. Both teams fought hard for ascendency and both managed to cross for a single, unconverted try apiece leaving the final score 15-14 to The Lakes. Tomi Kaati, Zac McGuiness and Nick Valentine were all in fine form for The Lakes while Avoca Beach were well served by hooker Fionn HendersonFoley and fullback Shawn

Warnervale worked hard to secure their first win of the season Photo: Warnervale Rugby Club

Townsend. Both teams will take a lot from the clash and the result suggests these two teams will be in the reckoning at the end of the year. At Mark Taylor Oval, Hornsby opened their season with a convincing win over Kariong, running out victors by 41 points to 10. Hornsby took control from the opening whistle with some constructive, open rugby and went to the halftime break with a handy 17 -3 lead.

However, it was in the second half that they really asserted their dominance, posting a further 24 points to secure the win Best on the paddock for Hornsby were lock Wes Faupula, while Tuihakavalu Ika, No.8 James McCarthy and fullback Leone Naisorotab all scored two tries apiece for the home side. Kariong never stopped trying with flankers Josh Bottero and Christian Whitfield putting in solid performances.

The Terrigal Trojans continued on their winning way with a 31 to 13 win over Gosford at The Haven. Gosford got away to a great start and posted two tries early in the match to take a 10 -0 lead. A converted try to the close to halftime evened things up and Gosford still led 13 – 12 well into the second half, with some enterprising rugby. But Terrigal gradually wore down Gosford and were able to cross for several late tries to

eventually post a quite comfortable victory. Lock Josh Vainikolo and flanker Sam Kenny starred for Terrigal while for Gosford veteran Adam Carlisle made his mark at five-eight as did Ben Shelley at halfback. Warnervale scored their first win of the season when they accounted for Woy Woy at Woongarrah Oval by 18 points to 10. Warnervale led by 7 points to 3 at the halftime break and increased their lead early in the

second stanza to 15 points to 3. Woy Woy kept coming however and fought back to get the score to 15 -10. Only a late penalty goal to Warnervale secured them the win, with very little between these two teams for the entire 80 minutes. Best for Warnervale were No.8 Cameron McNamara, Kye Haslem and Sione Branxton, while Woy Woy were best served by backs Wade Hannell and Junior Stowers. Next weekend sees a top-ofthe table clash between Premiers Terrigal and The Lakes at The Haven, while Gosford take on Ourimbah, Woy Woy face Kariong and Warnervale take on Hornsby. The Women’s 10’s rugby also saw some exciting clashes over the weekend. Although only four teams were in action, there was plenty of action on the paddock. Hornsby easily accounted for Kariong 38-5, while Woy Woy had a close win over Warnervale 22-17. Match report, Jul 26 CCRU President, Larry Thompson

Will we be seeing Super15 Rugby live on the Coast? RUGBY Central Coast Regional Sporting and Recreation Complex welcomes both the NZ Warriors and the Melbourne Rebels. The Coast’s new Central Coast Regional Sporting and Recreation Complex is hosting training sessions for two major sporting teams that have made the Central Coast their ‘home away from home’ during COVID-19 restrictions - the New Zealand Warriors and, more recently, the Melbourne Rebels. The Rebels, who boast Wallabies Reece Hodge and Matt Tamou in their ranks, shot back into contention for the

Australian Conference of the Super15 Rugby competition after beating the NSW Waratahs last weekend (July 24) 24 points to 10. The announcement of the Rebels using the Complex at Tuggerah as their official training venue follows the earlier announcement of the NZ Warriors basing themselves on the Central Coast with their primary training residence at Central Coast Stadium, and alternating training at the Complex when required. Based in Tuggerah, the purpose-built venue has proven itself a fantastic sports and recreation venue since opening in 2019, having already hosted significant

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mass participation events such as the 2019 Koori Knockout, which attracted over 40,000 attendees to the region. Mayor Lisa Matthews said that having two high-profile sporting teams using the new venue provides an exciting opportunity to showcase this fantastic facility and deliver a boost to our local economy. “We have been thrilled to welcome these two elite sporting teams to the region. \ “Being able to deliver a venue that can support the training needs of these two teams is a sign that we are living up to our reputation as a region that excels in delivering high quality sporting facilities,” the Mayor said.

Warriors Football Operations Manager, Daniel Floyd said the team is excited to be training on the Central Coast on quality sports grounds. “We, along with Melbourne Rebels, appreciate the community welcoming our teams and their patience as we use their local facilities,” Mr Floyd said. With the teams set to train at The Complex until September, Council has inform community members that the venue will be closed to the public during training days, and to check the Council website for scheduled closures. Ross Barry

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APPROX. TIME LAG AFTER FORT DENISON Ettalong 40 min, Rip Bridge 2hrs - Wisemans Ferry 2 hrs 30 min, Koolewong 2 hrs 10 min In view of the variations caused by local conditions and meteorological effects, these times are approximate and must be considered as a guide only. They are not to be relied on for critical depth calculations for safe navigation. Actual times of High and Low Water may occur before or after the times indicated

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Two draws in three days ... and the spoon is ours

Mariners 0 - 0 Jets A-LEAGUE The curse of Central Coast Stadium prevailed on Monday night (July 27) when a late goal from the Western Sydney Warriors’ Simon Cox denied the Mariners a win. The 1-1 draw means that the Mariners winless run has now stretched to 13 matches and confirms their fourth wooden spoon in five seasons. Both sides created opportunities in the first half, including a heavy strike from fullback Tate Russell that was

narrowly diverted by Keeper Mark Birighitti, shortly followed by a similar, long-range strike by the Mariners Milan Duric that beat the Wanderers goal keeper only to cannon off the woodwork. Western Sydney’s Mitch Duke’s was lucky to avoid a red card in the 35th-minute after a reckless challenge on Ziggy Gordon. It was the Mariners who drew first blood midway through the second half when local hero Matt Simon headed a cross from Tommy Oar onto the boot of Duric, who finally found the

back of the net. It was only in the 88th minute of the match that a Kwame Yeboah cross found the head of Simon Cox, fresh off the bench for the Wanderers, who guided the ball into the corner of the net to salvage a draw. The draw didn’t help Western Sydney’s final chances. The Wanderers are now in 9th place on the A-League ladder, four points out of the top six, albeit with a game in hand. On Friday evening (July 24), the Mariners also eked out a 0-0 draw against F3 derby rivals, the Newcastle Jets, at

Mariners 1 - 1 Wanderers Central Coast Stadium. The draw all but snuffed out any semi-final aspirations of the Jets who now sit in 8th place on the ladder, 3 points adrift of the top six. In a contest of limited creativity, Newcastle had most possession in the first half with former Socceroo, Bernie Ibini, making a few incisive attacks into the Mariners box. After absorbing most of the pressure however, it was the home side’s young attacking star Sam Silvera who showed great speed and footwork to get a shot way forcing the Jets’

Lewis Italiano into a vital save. Kye Rowles and Milan Duric also had shots on goals but its was the Jets’ youngster, Kosta Petratos who probably had the best chance to snatch the match late in the second half before being denied by a desperate save by the Mariners Mark Birighitti. In other highlights, Sudanese teenager, Alou Kuol, show flair in his debut for the blue and yellow and blue in a promising sign for the future. The 19-year-told Fox Sports’ Robbie Slater after the game he was very excited to play in front

of the home crowd and had big aspirations for the remainder of the season. “Obviously [to] win firstly and secondly score a goal man – rifle ones into the top corner,” he said. With one remaining match against Melbourne Victory on August 3, the Mariners will rue another forgettable season in which they’ve so far managed to post just 23 goals in 25 matches, while conceding 53 goals, an average of 2.1 goals per match. Ross Barry

Heart resume their winning ways NETBALL Central Coast Heart, the region’s elite combined representative netball organisation, has gotten off to a flying start in the 2020 NSW Netball Premier League, with its Under 23’s and Opens teams both bringing home wins.

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In the Under 23’s, it was a nail biter of a game against the Kingswood Panthers, with the Heart managing to ride out a six point buffer to take the win 46 to 40.

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