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LOCAL NEWS DELIVERED WITH — INTEGRITY — WISDOM — BALANCE Saturday 26 September, 2020

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ISSUE No. 19

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with BOB HOLLAND

Someone contacted our office this week asking if we could get some seats put around the CBD so that elderly people could rest a bit. Have we not got seating for that already?

If not, I suggest you get into one of our Councillor’s ears, it’s sure to create another CWD photo opportunity for them.

DAM IT!

The Hearts for Orange TV Campaign on Prime TV promoting shopping in Orange and getting results. Several of the businesses featured in the ads are reporting good feedback and results even though they only appear very briefly in the ads. One comment we heard that was not expected was passed on to one of my staff last weekend. It went “Bob must have finally got to the Council, they’re now running ads on TV for local shops”. If only?

BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME; LOCAL WATER EXPERT BELIEVES New storage capacity — including a new dam for Orange — will be the only way to provide water security for Orange’s growing population, a water delivery expert has claimed.

Climate change, drier seasonal conditions, tree-changers escaping our crowded cities — all these factors will eventually force the hand of local authorities on the matter, long-term council engineer, Bob Wyllie believes.

Orange City Council’s current integrated water resource strategy that utilises a range of sources including the main supply at Suma Park, a pipeline to the Macquarie River, and stormwater harvesting, was fiddling around the edges of the problem.

He said that a lifetime battling the chronic need for water in inland Australia, has shown that you can never have enough

of the precious stuff.

“I was 40 years in this field; including as engineering director at Cabonne Council; … I’ve been at it now for 50 years.”

He believes that the automatic opposition to any new dams, in any circumstances, by environmental groups makes the current political situation too difficult for risk-averse politicians and bureaucrats.

“I think it’s a dilemma, but one that they will have to face at some time.”

•n Turn to pages 4–5 for PART II of our report on: “Water, Water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink”.

South Orange deferral — “a pretty fair result” n Turn to page 3

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Speaking of Hearts for Orange, there’s been some real momentum happening since we started this initiative and it’s about to get even better. Let me encourage all our local retail shop owners to find out more about upcoming activities because above all else, Hearts for Orange is trying to increase your chances for more customers over coming months and they have some very clever promotions coming up over the next couple of months. If you have a shop, please contact Executive Officer Amanda Spalding on 0479 179 779 or amanda@heartsfororange.com. au to find out what opportunities are coming up. Trust me, it will be worth your while to make the contact.

Isn’t it great to see the trees blossoming again and the cold grey look of winter disappearing?

Paul Toole’s appointment as Leader of the State Nationals will be seen by some as a boost for the area, albeit mainly in Bathurst.

Hasn’t he had a fast track up the ranks?

Personally, the jury is still out on him for me.

For those interested, I’ve written a bit about our Back Page Letters to the Editor opportunity in my We can do better column in this issue. If you have a mind to write a letter occasionally, let me encourage you to read what I have to say. We’d love to see more letters from readers each week, makes Newswatch more interesting.

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TURKISH TAKING DELIGHT IN MANGLING THEIR ENGLISH Fry’s Turkish Delight is one of those old English sweets predating the First World War that still retains a persistent following in Australia — especially amongst sweettoothed “Newswatch” correspondents.

But their iconic pink-maroon and gold wrapping has for years featured one rather opaque advertising claim. “60% less fat* and always has been.” On the face of it, a somewhat contradictory claim.

When one the turns over to the footnote, it says: “Per gram than the average of leading chocolate bars”. With the list of ingredients leading with “sugar” followed by “glucose syrup”; one wonders how there’s a place for any fats at all!

Socially-distanced new citizens join our nation Public citizenship ceremonies have been one of the forgotten victims of the coronavirus. Time was when family, friends, sponsors, and supporters were invited to what — for many new Australians — was a moment of public pride.

Orange Council (representing the Australian Commonwealth) recently hosted their first citizenship ceremony since the COVID-19 pandemic changed all our lives.

The event followed COVID-19 socialdistancing guidelines and was closed to the public.

With international travel and our immigration system largely on hold due to the pandemic, these events could be the last we see for some time…

Mayor Reg Kidd and Local member, Andrew Gee helped welcome the six new citizens from countries including New Zealand, Sudan, the United Kingdom, Zimbabwe, and Pakistan.

very briefly HOLIDAY ACTIVITIES TO KEEP KIDS (AND YOURSELF) SANE…

A range of school holiday activities at Orange’s cultural precinct these school holidays are designed to keep kids off their devices with something also for Mum and Dad. Projects include “Creative Challenge Activity Sheets” so as to work one’s way through 16 activities designed to encourage children and grown-ups to explore Orange Regional Museum, the Library, and the Gallery.

These activities include creating a mini outdoor sculpture, playing a video game at the museum, and entering the Library’s LEGO and craft competitions with all activities free.

The museum is also offering guided family tours of their current exhibitions “Code Breakers: Women in Games” and “Inherit:

Old and New Histories”. Each child attending a tour will receive a free activity pack, full of things to do at home and in the museum.

The library is also offering free activity kits with colouring-in and upcycling paper craft activities.

Bookings via Eventbrite for all Museum school holiday tours are essential. All children under 14 years old must also be accompanied by an adult. To book, go to: www.orange.nsw.gov.au/schoolholidays/ and follow individual Eventbrite links to book your activity.

LIGHTS ON AND ON AND ON BUT WITH NOBODY HOME… One peeved local tax-payer contacted “Newswatch” recently reporting seeing the lights on each night at the new Department of Primary Industries building in Prince Street for weeks on end — although staff are yet to move into the new facility.

“Every light is on every night of the week; I thought we were trying to save on carbon emissions?” the local, who lives near the impressive new facility, observed.

The fired-up resident said that a call to the building manager to register their disapproval was met with the explanation that the lights were on for: “operation and testing”.

“I mean, do they need to test them for two whole weeks? It just annoys me so much!” the resident said.

It’s just as well that solar panels on the roof will provide much of the power for the new facility. With this — and the heated concrete paths for the south-facing building reported on in the “Newswatch”, of August 15 — they could be running-up some real power-bills! | Saturday 26 September, 2020 |

“YES” TO NEW STADIUM MEANS “MAYBE, POSSIBLY, PERCHANCE” Opponents of the proposed sports precinct at Bloomfield say that the lack of public consultation to its proposed location on the old Ex-Services Golf Club site (pictured) been one of their major objections.

Not so, Orange City Council has been keen to advise, saying that all proper consultations and assessments will be duly carried-out before any decision is made on the proposal.

This very correct assurance though is rather at odds with a recent “advertorial” page run by NSW Upper House, MLC, Sam Farraway who — for our sins of electing Shooters, Fishers, and Farmers MP, Phil Donato — has been delegated as the district National Party representative for the Orange area.

“In late July I had the great privilege to announce that the $25 million for the Orange Sports Precinct has been fasttracked and Orange City Council can get cracking on preliminary works,” Mr Farraway enthused. “…now with the fast-tracking of the funding we know WHEN it’s going to happen. Geotechnical work has begun, and the precinct is intended to be completed by 2023.” Mr Farraway said confidently.

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South Orange deferral — “a pretty fair result” Deferral of a contentious proposal to allow a major shopping centre to be built at south Orange has been welcomed by advocates for rejuvenation of the main street.

Orange City Council recently deferred the “Amendment 26” re-zoning proposal that would have allowed construction of a giant shopping mall on the site adjacent to the new private hospital on Forest Road.

Construction of the shopping complex could also lead to the traffic gnarls regularly experienced at the giant Woolworthsanchored shopping complex in north Orange, Mayor, Councillor Reg Kidd believes.

Further discussions will now be held between the proposed developers and Council’s planning and engineering staff on traffic and other issues to do with the rezoning.

“I think, all things considered, it’s a pretty fair result,” Director of Orange Business Chamber and CBD retailer, Jack Evans, said.

With other main street retailers, Jack Evans (second from left). Agrees with Orange Councils recent deferral of the south Orange development.

I think, all things considered, it’s a pretty fair result.”

He believes that the decision is recognition that now is not the right time for Orange Council to be contemplating major expansions mini-major tenant with specialty space of of the Colour City’s retail environment. nearly 1000m². The assumed first full year of “We didn’t expect them to reject it outright. operation of the proposed development would I think they are deferring it to see what is happening to the economy,” Mr Evans added. have been by next year.

“That’s the view we take, something of that capacity needs to have the demand out there,” he said of the south Orange proposal.

The intended outcome of the proposal would have been to enable a currently-approved small retail complex of small specialist shops in Precinct 1 of the Bloomfield Private Hospital Site to include a far-larger sized supermarket.

The current approval for the site only allowed for a small handful of boutique shops servicing the motel complex attached to the new hospital with the rezoning amendment for the larger shopping precinct recently coming before Council.

Stage Two would see the expansion of the supermarket to 3000m² with an additional mini-major tenant of 936m² and a further 856m² of specialty floorspace. The expanded centre was assumed to be operational by 2024–25.

The overall centre would eventually contain approximately 4800m² once Stage Two was completed, making the proposed centre almost the same size as the existing north Orange centre.

“When it comes time to approve the development, it should proceed with caution,” Mr Evans said.

Cr Kidd agreed with Mr Evans that deferring He said that the “Shiralee” development the rezoning was the right decision. in the area is nowhere near large enough He said that one of his concerns for the to support a large supermarket complex proposed supermarket centre is that it would attached to what is a dedicated health precinct create the same traffic problems that many for the city. experience at peak times at the intersection of “Unlike the development of north Orange, the giant supermarket at north Orange where it’s been very slow, its not going to reach that it runs into the northern distributor. capacity for years,” Mr Evans said.

“It’s a huge decision, some people were very pro and some very against the proposal,” he said of the rezoning decision.

“I mean, we haven’t got the building occupied, the motels not even open yet; we’re going to sit back and take a deep breath,” Cr Kidd said.

He said that he had no problems with the original small specialty shops proposal for the site, but that he believes that Council has lessons to learn from the development of north Orange.

“The strip of shops they proposed, they were certainly needed, but that’s different from a supermarket of this size.

to the CBD relative to north Orange also made the case for the development less urgent. “I mean, you are really only four minutes from south Orange to Aldi, so it’s not a great distance.”

He said that more details would now be sought on the proposal before it returned to Council.

“Our engineering and planning staff will now be discussing these issues with the proponents, and they’ll come back to Council with a report on the issues,” Cr Kidd explained.

“One of the issues that concerns me is traffic and parking; we need more information on access and egress from the site.

He said that the relatively smaller decentralised population of south Orange also meant there was less urgency to the development of a major shopping centre in the area.

“I mean, when north Orange development was approved, we were told that there would not be a problem, traffic-wise, at that site.”

“Shiralee hasn’t been 50 per cent occupied, there’s not that great a population out there as yet.”

He said he remembers being ridiculed for proposing an overhead pass for north Orange as a solution to traffic gnarls he foresaw at the development.

He said that south Orange’s close proximity

Cr Kidd emphasised his continuing support for centralised business and shopping districts — the traditional main street retailer precinct. “I still believe in vibrant, central CBDs,” he concluded.

“At the end of the day, the deferral was good, I think they’re waiting to see what the effects of COVID are,” he added.

He said that main street shop-owners like himself were prepared for the small speciality strip of shops originally proposed for the site but were blind-sided by the proposed amendment to greatly expand the potential size of the development.

A number of main street retailers had previously described the proposal as a “nail in the coffin” for Orange’s Central business district. They said in July that Orange Council should be focussing their attention on the main street where vacancy rates are persistently high.

The proposed amendment would see the new retail centre developed in two stages with, firstly, a small supermarket and one

z C BD retailer Jack Evans believes that the deferral decision on south Orange rezoning is recognition that now is not the right time for Orange Council to be contemplating major expansions of the Colour City’s retail environment.

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“Hard facts” of our future water needs With decades of experience providing water security for local government areas, former senior Cabonne Council engineer, Bob Wyllie believes that Orange City Council will eventually have to make some tough decisions regarding water security.

The “hard facts” of Orange’s current situation are, he argues: • Stormwater harvesting is not storage and is totally dependent on rainfall events. If it does not rain or there is no runoff this system cannot deliver.

• The proposed extension to the stormwater harvesting scheme still relies on rain events and sufficient runoff. It is not storage for dry times.

This proposal is the only announced additional item at this time in the IWRS strategy.

• The pipeline from the Macquarie River is restricted by licence to pump a maximum of 12 megalitres(Ml) per day. This volume can only be achieved when the river flow is above about 122Ml under the current licence. When the water supply was reaching critical levels, a temporary licence was eventually granted allowing the 12Ml per day to be pumped with river flow of 50 Ml. • Current City daily average water use, including required environmental releases, is of the order of 15Ml per day. “With a population of 60,000, which Council suggests can be supplied in drought with current harvesting strategies, 25Ml per day will be needed to supply that population and increased commercial, industrial, and institutional activity associated with the population increase.”

• “There is no doubt whatsoever, that had the population been 60,000 at the start of this year the City would have run out of water. If the weather conditions of the past three years had continued with no runoff to storage, Level 6 water restrictions or worse would now be in force.”

• Level 6 restrictions address the closing down of schools and businesses and allowing one wash load per week, among other proposals.

• In 2016 the height of Suma Park Dam was raised, and storage capacity was increased. In August of that year the dam overflowed. The City then used approximately 25 per cent of the water capacity each year from 2017 to 2020 leaving less than 20 per cent at the start of this year.

• “We are experiencing hotter and drier climate as predicted by climate scientists. Ignoring this trend with currently proved deficient water supply strategies is dangerous for the sustainable future of our City.”

• Council has an agreement with Cabonne Council to supply Molong, Cumnock and Yeoval with water should those communities need supply.

It is fortunate that when Molong Creek Dam reached critical levels earlier this year, a request from Cabonne Council did not further drain Orange City’s low supply.

• As a City not on a major river like other regional centres in NSW and with very limited water supply catchment, Orange has already received widespread publicity as a City on the brink of running out of water. “This is not the publicity needed for a Regional City hoping to expand population and commercial and industrial development.”

“Council needs to clearly inform our community if it has any plans currently under way to implement either or both of the following options: 1. Unrestricted access to a water storage such as Wyangala Dam together with pipelines and pumps of sufficient capacity to deliver 15 to 20 megalitres per day to the City 2. Establish a new water storage dam in reasonable proximity to the City.”

“Water, Water, everyw Why does a city with some of the highest rainfall totals in western NSW, have seemingly-permanent water restrictions?

PART II of a Newswatch report

DAM IT! Build it and they will come; local water expert believes New storage capacity including a new dam for Orange will be the only way to provide water security for Orange’s growing population, a water delivery expert has claimed.

Climate change, drier seasonal conditions, tree-changers escaping our crowded cities — all these factors will eventually force the hand of local authorities on the matter, long-term council engineer, Bob Wyllie believes.

Orange City Council’s current integrated water resource strategy that utilises a range of sources including the main supply at Suma Park, a pipeline to the Macquarie River, and stormwater harvesting, was fiddling around the edges of the problem, he argues.

“A water supply strategy of ‘Let’s Do a Bit More of What We are Doing Now and Hope It Rains’ is not a strategy for the present let alone the future and is definitely not one this City deserves,” Mr Wyllie said.

He said a lifetime battling the chronic need for water in inland Australia, has shown that you can never have enough

of the precious stuff.

“I was 40 years in this field; including as engineering director at Cabonne Council… I’ve been at it now for 50 years.” he said.

He believes that the automatic opposition to any new dams, in any circumstances, by environmental groups makes the current political situation too difficult for risk-averse politicians and bureaucrats.

“I think it’s a dilemma, but one that they will have to face at some time,” he predicts.

He said that his approaches to Council on what he believes is the greatest longterm issue facing the “Colour City” have been met with courtesy, consideration, and eventually, disregard.

“I had a meeting with a councillor and the CEO about the issue, I talked about dams and our water security and they were quite receptive. I then wrote a letter on the draft budget and made a submission on what I believe they should be looking-at,” he explained.

“In the end, I never received a reply, which I think is pretty poor” he said.

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He said that councils in the past, when faced with such a situation, put political issues aside and built new storage capacity. “The Spring Creek and Suma Park facilities show that previous councils had the will and the capacity to fulfill these infrastructure projects as the town grew,” he added.

Mr Wyllie believes that, at present, there simply isn’t any political will in Orange to face hard decisions which will eventually have to be made regarding water security.

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where, nor any drop to drink”

“I have attended a number of water forums and said, ‘we need more storage capacity’, the mayor was at one and he said ‘we’ll never get that, you’re wasting your time’,” he said.

Orange Mayor, Councillor Reg Kidd has said previously that Council’s current integrated strategy provides water security levels that were impossible under the old “build new dam” strategies of the past.

He believes that Council has so far had a lucky run with rain coming at just the right time before the city came close to running-out.

“The millennium drought in 2010 and the 2017/2020 drought have given us lessons on our limited water supply which, if not observed, will be extremely serious for our city in future droughts.

“If I think I will see a new dam for Orange in my whole lifetime? The answer is ‘No’,” he said. “The future is looking at storage, recycling, and re-use of water,” Cr Kidd said.

“These droughts clearly showed our water supply system and storage is not sufficient for the current population and certainly not for our continued development and supply for Council’s commitments to Cabonne towns.”

Mr Wyllie believes though that this strategy will become less tenable as the population continues to grow and dry spells become more prevalent.

He said that Council’s congratulations to locals via electronic message boards on their efforts in continuing to save water is popular but ultimately not sustainable.

“The pipeline to Central Tablelands Water (at Blayney), the Macquarie pipeline, these are all subject to rigid controls and caps and rely on regular rainfall.

He said that since Orange’s main water supply was last augmented in the early 1990s, the city has gone into each new drought in a worse supply situation than the previous one.

“Unfortunately, Orange is not on a river, it’s actually at the top of the catchment,” he said.

He believes that, as well as building a new dam, Orange Council should immediately start planning infrastructure to construct a pipeline to Wyangala Dam south-west of Blayney on the Lachlan River.

“We need pipelines and pumps able to deliver from 15–20 megalitres per day to the City,” he said.

accelerated since the coronavirus that saw some of our major cities locked down for weeks — the situation will eventually reach a crisis point. “If we keep going as we are now; it will become untenable,” he said.

He said that his early training in western

“Council is entrenched in a position — that works quite well when it rains, when it doesn’t, we’re stuffed. That’s been proved by the last four–five years.”

“Here, we need at least 700mm in a year.

Look at the rain we’ve had for 2020, yet it’s just a trickle into Suma Park Dam.” He believes that, as Orange continues to attract professional people fleeing urban congestion — a trend that appears to have

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NSW showed how important a reliable water supply is to rural communities.

“When you live in the bush where water was not reliable, you understand that you simply can’t have enough water,” Mr Wyllie concluded.

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Optimism despite coronavirus export cuts for local farmers There’s persistent optimism amongst the gloom for local farmers battling export restrictions from COVID-19.

sentiment, but this was currently outweighed by terrific seasonal conditions.

Border lockdowns and associated COVID-19 restrictions on the movement of agricultural equipment and expertise were a concern for a number of producers in the lead up to harvest.

Weather’s good, prospects are great, prices and demand are down — that’s NSW Farmers Executive Councillor for the Central Tablelands’, Bruce Reynolds’ summary of local agriculture in the spring of 2020.

This follows a recent farmer survey that shows confidence among NSW farmers is still trending at its highest level since the 2016/2017 season with the State’s farmers currently the most positive in Australia.

“We’ve had plenty of rain, in fact much of the ground is now suffering from waterlogging, but, as they say, there is more money in mud than in dust,” Mr Reynolds said of local conditions.

“Because of that, crops are looking very good, it should be a good spring,” Mr Reynolds added.

Decreased international trade due to the coronavirus, however, has affected prices for local produce. “Marketwise though, things are difficult.

“The wool market has nearly halved from the start of 2020, and lamb prices are also down. Exports represent about 50 per cent of the market and that has almost stopped.”

“In many parts of the world, lamb is seen as a luxury item and, due to COVID and other restrictions, there’s been a lot of cutbacks,” he added.

He said that much exported horticulture — which often travels in the hold of commercial passenger jets — has been reduced by the almost total ban on international travel.

“About 80 per cent of our agricultural produce exported goes under people’s feet on passenger flights, but the flights have collapsed in number so this has created some challenges in exporting,” he said.

Beef prices however were one bright spot in the local industry, the local producer said.

He believes that long-term, good property-prices for agricultural land augured well for the industry.

“Farm prices went up by 50 per cent with people buying up their neighbour’s land to expand their own enterprises, until COVID, it was very strong,” he said, adding that the market even now is still holding-up well.

“There’s strength in land prices, even with COVID, they’re holding-up exceptionally strongly.”

He said though that the wet season the district has enjoyed since January — rainfall for 2020 is more than 200mm (eight inches) above average for the year — has not totally expelled the drought in the horticulture industry.

‘From a drought point of view, fruit-growers, such as for local apple growers are still lagging, they’re still selling the smaller crop from last season,” he added.

Mr Reynolds comments follow the most recent Rabobank Rural Confidence Survey which fund that “exceptional seasonal conditions” throughout New South Wales continue to underpin solid business confidence among the

Overall, the survey found grain growers were particularly optimistic about the coming year’s prospects with 55 per cent of those surveyed expecting conditions to improve in the next 12 months (down from 81 per cent in June).

Central Tablelands Farmers Federation Executive Councillor, Bruce Reynolds — sees optimism among the COVID gloom for local agriculture. state’s farmers.

The survey results revealed that confidence among NSW farmers is still trending at its highest level since the 2016/2017 season with the State’s farmers currently the most positive in Australia.

Cropping prospects in particular have boosted optimism, spurred on by regular and well-timed rain which saw the largest planting of winter crop hectares in four years and are supportive of excellent yield potential.

Beef producers also expressed a very positive sentiment, driven by record prices and continuing demand.

But while vastly improved seasonal conditions have been the major influencing factor on business sentiment this quarter, the impact of COVID-19 on agricultural trade and markets was concerning a growing number of farmers, according to the survey.

While this saw sentiment ease somewhat from the historic highs reached last quarter, NSW farmer confidence was still at its highest level in more than three years. It was also a significant turnaround from September 2019 when close to half the state’s farmers expected business conditions to deteriorate over the coming year, overwhelmingly due to drought.

The latest survey, completed last month, found 39 per cent of NSW farmers were expecting business conditions to improve in the coming 12 months – down on the 52 per cent with that view in the previous quarter.

The percentage of respondents expecting little change was 34 per cent (24 per cent in the previous survey) while those expecting conditions in the agricultural economy to worsen has increased slightly to 20 per cent (from 17 per cent).

Rabobank regional manager for northern NSW Brad James said the complete turnaround in seasonal conditions across most regions and the chance for farmers to rebuild and recover from more than three years of drought was driving the confidence.

Mr James said concern about the impact of COVID-19 restrictions and trade ramifications on markets and commodity prices was creeping into farmer

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The optimistic outlook can be overwhelmingly attributed to the excellent autumn and winter season, cited by 92 per cent of those grain growers expecting conditions to improve. Of the small percentage (17 per cent) expecting conditions in the grain sector to worsen, around half cited commodity prices, as well as an increase in COVID concerns.

Mr James said many cropping farmers were forecasting higher-than-average yield potential and higher total tonnes than seen for more than three years when harvest kicks off in the coming months, which will help the state’s farmers generate cash flow, pay down debt and rebuild their businesses after more than three years of drought.

Confidence among sheep producers had however tumbled, largely due to the dramatic fall in wool prices and the recent impacts of COVID-19 restrictions on sheep and lamb processing in Victoria, which was feeding into concerns about longer-term demand and supply contracts.

Just 14 per cent of sheep graziers reported they were expecting business conditions to improve in the coming year, a sharp fall from 47 per cent with that view last quarter. However, two-thirds of graziers (67 per cent) expected little change to the current business conditions over the coming year.

Dairy sentiment was down slightly on last quarter, but still strong overall due to robust prices, with 39 per cent of producers expecting agricultural economic conditions to improve over the coming year (compared with 59 per cent in the previous quarter) and 53 per cent expecting little change in conditions.

Beef producer sentiment is firm, underpinned by seasonal conditions and high commodity prices, with 45 per cent of producers having an optimistic outlook on the coming 12 months.

The survey found farmers were particularly upbeat about their prospects in northern and central NSW, with those in the north west pastoral region the most optimistic, followed by farmers in the Northern Rivers/ Hunter Valley, North West Slopes and Plains and Central NSW. Confidence was comparatively weaker among south coast and Southern Highlands farmers, and to a lesser extent, in the Riverina.

Overall, more than one third of the state’s farmers (35 per cent) are intending to increase investment in their farm businesses in the coming year. Of those, 69 per cent identified on-farm infrastructure as the primary investment, while pasture/fodder/ crops and fertiliser were cited by 59 per cent and increasing livestock numbers was a priority for 53 per cent.

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“Yes” to new tri-Council alliance; “No” to amalgamation — mayors — By DAVID DIXON —

New “strategic alliance” between Blayney, Cabonne and Orange councils will be no slippery-slope to possible amalgamation, the three mayors emphasised at the launch of the joint initiative recently.

The Alliance was simply a common-sense way to work together on better cooperation and outcomes, Orange Mayor, Councillor Reg Kidd said.

The three councils were penciled-in for forced amalgamation in 2016 with the issue seen as key from those opposed to the plans in the election of Shooters, Fishers and Farmers candidate, Phil Donato at a subsequent by-election.

“Do you think after what happened, we’d be thinking of something like that? It won’t happen, the decision against amalgamation is irreversible, absolutely,” Cr Kidd said emphatically.

The Alliance was simply a commonsense way for the three councils to share “expertise, equipment, and savings in procurement and staff,” he said at the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to guide the new relationship.

Cr Kidd said that the manner in which Mount Canobolas geographically-unified the three councils was a telling metaphor for the way in which all three local government areas could combine for issues of mutual benefit.

“Mt Canobolas is a unifying feature of the region, but it’s been poorly-funded by State Governments for a number or years with weeds, pigs, feral goats. But we could now all work together to fund it adequately... we can all work together for the region.”

Cabonne Mayor, Councillor Kevin Beatty agreed with Cr Kidd on Mt Canobolas and said that it was “iconic to the region” and an area that all three councils shared.

He emphasised that the alliance was a commonsense proposal that would benefit all areas of the district but was no precursor to political amalgamation. “It’s three councils, not amalgamating, but working together.”

He said that the obvious financial, logistical, and staffing benefits of the alliance made it a “no-brainer”.

Blayney Mayor, Councillor Scott Ferguson said that the signing of the memorandum

n At the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Blayney, Orange, and Cabonne Councils. Mayors, Scott Ferguson, Reg Kidd, and Kevin Beatty.

of understanding was “a significant day for our region and the three councils.

“I’m excited about bringing the three councils together,” he added. He said that the agreement was important because it was voluntary and “not forced” as the proposed amalgamation between the three councils had been.

sustainability of each individual council.”

Cr Ferguson said he was pleased to be signing the agreement.

“Staff from the three councils have already been working cooperatively for years and we want to extend that,” Cr Scott Ferguson said. “We’re already doing a lot together in the areas of tourism and waste management, but there’s room to do a lot more.”

Cr Beatty believes there are many benefits of cooperation.

...By working together, we can drive the success of the region...

“By working together, we can drive the success of the region, this formalises what needs to happen.

“We’re sharing the leadership, regardless of the history between us, of bringing us together,” Cr Ferguson said. “We’re not being forced to do anything together, and that’s the thing,” he said.

The MOU agreement states the three councils will be “working collaboratively and sharing resources (to). achieve economies of scale, build capacity and increase workplace productivity and ensure the long-term financial

SAVINGS ON PROCUREMENT LOGISTICS, STAFF, FOR THREE The new “strategic alliance” between Blayney, Cabonne and Orange councils will see the three councils work-together on better cooperation and joint initiatives with preliminary topics for shared activity including:

“The way the Netwaste network operates offers a good model for this new way forward together,” Cr Kevin Beatty said.

“We can negotiate a better deal with waste contractors by working together in an area like recycling, but at the same time we can each continue to operate different systems of local bins and by choosing to buy into the elements that suit local communities.”

• Joint tenders and purchasing arrangements

Cr Kidd is optimistic about the potential for the future.

• Review and coordination of strategic documents

“The new MOU gets the balance right between a commitment to work on the projects we have in common, while retaining our local identity,” Cr Kidd said.

“It makes it clear that each Council will continue independently as its own entity, and that’s the best way to deliver better value for our communities.”

• Open exchange and sharing of technical expertise and information • Workforce and staff secondment, professional development opportunities • Cross border roads construction and maintenance • Councillor and staff training

• Sharing of services and plant • Regional economic development and strategy • Benchmarking best practice and improved financial performance • Regional tourism marketing via Orange360 • Integrated planning and reporting

The new alliance will be managed by a joint board which will meet twice a year.

The alliance board will be chaired for two years by one of the three mayors in turn.

• Internal audit

General Manager of Blayney Shire, Rebecca Ryan was also announced as the inaugural CEO of the Alliance.

• Crown Lands management and Aboriginal heritage issues

| Saturday 26 September, 2020 |

• Waste collection • Natural resource management • Disability, cultural and social planning

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Seven degrees of oppression: Orange idyl for Li and Suhan “Falun Cosmic Circuit” to forced labour camps Falun Dafa (Falun Gong) is a philosophical belief system based on spiritual enlightenment via meditation, exercises, and personal morality.

Launched less than 30 years in China, it’s been a bumpy ride though from immediate popularity and official tolerance to oppression and persecution by the world’s largest authoritarian apparatus.

With a Mandarin name translated as either "Dharma Wheel Practice" or "Law Wheel Practice", Falun Gong was founded by Li Hongzhi in the early 1990s. Its religious antecedents include emphasising personal morality and the cultivation of virtue from Buddhism with its teachings also incorporating elements from the ancient Chinese Taoist (Daoist) faith.

As in many Eastern belief systems, it emphasises moral rectitude and the practice of meditation to eliminate what are considered to be negative “attachments” to the material world to ultimately achieve spiritual enlightenment.

The mesmeric slow exercise program of the group to which followers ascribe much of its benefits include such typically Asiatic descriptors as “Buddha Showing a Thousand Hands”: “Falun Cosmic Circuit” and “Strengthening Higher Powers”.

The practice initially enjoyed support from the Chinese Government but, by the late 1990s, the Government increasingly viewed Falun Gong as a potential threat due to its size, independence from the state, and spiritual teachings.

By 1999, government estimates placed the number of Falun Gong practitioners at 70 million. During that time, negative coverage of Falun Gong began to appear in the state-run media with protests from followers growing until April 1999 when more than 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners gathering in Beijing, leading to the almost-immediate banning of the group and the instigation of persecution.

Hundreds of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners are estimated to have been imprisoned, and practitioners are reportedly subjected to forced labour, psychiatric abuse, torture, and other coercive methods of “thought reform” from Chinese authorities.

Two women quietly exercising on a beautiful spring morning in an Orange park is a long way from the ominous power of the Chinese Communist Party and its seemingly-increasing belligerence.

Cold facts of world geopolitics, however, are never far from Suhan Hsu and Li Yan’s mind. Both are members of the Falun Dafa (Falun Gong) religious minority that is both banned and persecuted in the billion-population plus emerging super-power.

Yet the two ladies say that the system’s life philosophy is simply about three principles: “truthfulness, compassion and forbearance” with their exercises — a form of Chinese-inspired yoga — an integral part of their lifestyle.

“It’s a way of channelling your inner power; it helps with your immunity, health, and is a form of meditation,” Hsu explains. “Everyone can do it, there’s no groups you have to join or anything,” she added.

She describes Falun Dafa as an amalgam of Buddhism and the ancient Chinese religion of Taoism (the “way” or the “path”) that utilises a series of physical movements and meditation with the aim of reaching an enlightened state.

“It’s not a religion so much as a belief system,” Hsu added.

Li Yan agreed, saying that Falun is a practise more than an organised, hierarchical religion.

z Geopolitics never far from Li Yan and Suhan Hsu’s mind; both are members of the Falun Dafa (Falun Gong) religious belief system that is both banned and persecuted in China. following increasing crackdowns by the Chinese Government.

“They were frightened that we were becoming too popular, they simply didn’t want to surrender their power,” Li believes.

Since the banning of the philosophy, she said, many of its adherents have simply been “disappeared” by the Party’s vast security apparatus.

Persistent and credible allegations that followers are regularly “volunteers” for organ donations for wealthy party supporters are also levelled against the Chinese state.

Despite this, she says that the She said that the increasing popularity lifestyle now has more than 100 million adherents in 114 countries of its precepts — there were up to 100 with its emphasis on health, positivity, million adherents in mainland China by the early 1990s — saw it banned and spiritual happiness its greatest

attractions.

“I’ve been 14 years, and I’ve never seen a doctor, so who is happy, the person going to the doctor all the time?

“We believe that everyone is a good person; you can change yourself inside, it’s for the self that we change. Because, in the end, everyone wants to be a good person,” she said.

As with many Asian-oriented religious belief systems, Falun Dafa has gone through a growth phase in many middle-class western societies amongst people with little traditional religious backgrounds.

Li says though that the continued persecution of followers in China is a wound that never heals. “We just want to help people be happy; why do they hate us?” Li lamented.

Ass with the Muslim Uyghur minority that is believed to be targeted by the Communist authorities for their perceived religious independence; Falun Gong followers are accused of subverting the state and a threat to national security.

The US Department of State and CongressionalExecutive Commission on China cite estimates that as much as half of China's reeducation-throughlabor camp population is made up of Falun Gong practitioners.

Falun followers are also credibly believed to be victim of China’s industrial-scale organ harvesting program with an independent tribunal in June 2019 declaring: “Crimes against humanity against Falun Gong and Uyghurs has been proved beyond reasonable doubt.”

z With their unique exercise regime, Falun Dafa followers Li Yan and Suhan Hsu in Robertson Park.

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Public forums explain major new proposals Has coronavirus so preoccupied your life that you don’t get to know what’s going-in with Council proposals in your area?

we are putting forward is relevant,” Cr Mileto said.

Do you get a letter in the post on a development application or proposal in your area and can’t make head nor tail of what it is about?

“After the conversations I’ve had over time with residents and ratepayers, I thought it would benefit the public if we had information sessions halfway through an exhibition period on major proposals,” he explained.

Well, Orange City Council now wants to let you know what’s going-on!

Council recently approved a Motion from Councillor Tony Mileto to provide public information sessions at the halfway point of exhibition periods for all significant projects.

Cr Mileto said that the initiative followed numerous comments from ratepayers about the difficulty that residents have in understanding the bureaucratic nature that many proposals are presented.

“It’s important that the information that

to speak on these,” he said. “Ratepayers would then be able to ask questions and clarify issues,” Cr Mileto explained.

“I’ve had numerous people coming to me on an ongoing basis seeking information on the timing of projects,” Cr Mileto said.

He said that many ratepayers simply do not understand the form in which many of these proposals are presented and are not confident in making submissions on them. Many residents and ratepayers are unsure of the information provided and how it applies to their own situation, he added.

These information sessions would therefore be a way of explaining these proposals in lay-persons terms; without the layers of details required for formal submissions.

He said that Council documents presented for development applications and the like are: “technical documents, complex and confusing, and that these sessions would be a way of streamlining the process for residents”.

Council recently approved a Motion from Councillor Tony Mileto to provide public information sessions at the halfway point of exhibition periods for all significant projects.

He said that the public forums would comprise a lunchtime session and an evening session so that working ratepayers did not miss-out on the information sessions.

“There would basically be two public sessions with Council development staff

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“It’s an opportunity for stakeholders to ask these questions and get a better understanding on what is involved,” he said. “It’s more the fact that people want to be involved in the process,” he added.

“Not all of these significant projects are the same, and it’s important for people to be able to understand what is proposed for a new development,” he concluded.

The proposal was supported by 10 of the 11 councillors with Councillor Sam Romano voting against the Notice of Motion because, he said: “vocal minorities can get developments delayed due to personal vendettas”.

SATURDAY, 26 SEPT, 2020 AGENT CONTACT Marie Fox Ashleigh Bock Chris Tyack Chris Tyack Marty Lyden Orange Real Estate Chris Gryllis Real Estate John Cook Real Estate Professionals Orange Alistair Miller Chris Tyack Marty Lyden Margaret Longhurst Jen Stojanovic Ashleigh Bock Jacob Evans Pat Cutcliffe Chris Tyack Liz McAtamney Jen Stojanovic Ashleigh Bock Jen Stojanovic Jen Stojanovic Jen Stojanovic

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Saturday, September 26

6.00 Rage.

7.00 Weekend Breakfast.

10.00 Rage.

12.00 ABC News At Noon.

12.30 Grantchester.

1.15 Father Brown.

2.05 Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery: Susan Carland.

2.35 Further Back In Time For Dinner.

3.30 Escape From The City: Hunter Region, NSW – The Englishs.

4.30 Landline.

5.00 Australian Story: Beenham Valley Road Pt 2.

5.30 Midsomer Murders.

7.00 ABC News.

7.30 Father Brown.

8.20 The Split.

9.20 Endeavour.

10.50 Death In Paradise.

11.50 Rage.

6.00 France 24 English News First Edition. 6.30 Al Jazeera. 7.00 BBC News. 7.30 Italian News.

8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News. 9.30 Greek News. 10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News.

11.30 Turkish News. 12.00 Arabic News F24.

12.30 ABC America: World News Tonight. 1.00 PBS News. 2.00 Mediterranean From Above. 3.45 Australia With Julia Bradbury. 4.15 Russia’s Wild Sea. 5.15 Railways Of The Holocaust.

6.30 SBS World News.

7.35 Walking Britain’s Lost Railways: Royal Deeside.

8.30 Secrets Of Christ’s Tomb.

9.25 MOVIE: The Last Temptation Of Christ.

(1988) Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel. Follows the life of Jesus Christ and the inner torment of his experiences after discovering he is the son of God. (M) 12.25 Agatha Christie’s Criminal Games.

2.05 Fargo. 4.00 Gadget Man. 5.00 CGTN English News. 5.15 NHK World English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.

Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 12.10 In The Night Garden. 2.05 Grandpa In My Pocket.

2.30 Arthur. 3.05 Molly And Mack. 3.30 Play School. 3.55 Bananas In Pyjamas. 4.20 Becca’s Bunch. 4.55 Luo Bao Bei. 5.20 Octonauts: Arctic Adv. 5.55 Noddy Toyland Detective. 6.55 Catie’s Amazing Machines. 7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Would I Lie To You? 8.30 The Stand Up Sketch Show. Final. 8.55 QI. 9.55 Penn & Teller: Fool Us. 10.40 Would I Lie To You? 11.10 Staged. 11.35 Motherland. 12.05 Friday Night Dinner. 12.30 Absolutely Fabulous. 1.00 Live At The Apollo. 1.45 Comedy Showroom. 2.20 Close.

5.30 Postman Pat Special Delivery Service. 5.55 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

9.00 To Be Advised. 11.00 WorldWatch. 11.35 Hindi News. 12.00 The Good Doctor: Korea. 1.10 New Girl. 2.05 Insight. 3.05 PBS News. 4.05 ABC America: World News Tonight. 4.30 MOVIE: Inside Job. (2010) 6.30 Only Connect. 8.15 Stargate SG-1. Final. 9.05 Fear The Walking Dead.

Final. 10.00 Full Frontal. 10.30 Cycling. UCI Road World Championships. Women’s Elite Individual Road Race. 1.00 Dateline Shorts. 1.15 The Trixie & Katya Show. 1.45 Most Expensivest. 2.10 New Zealand’s Deadly Drug Epidemic. 2.35 France 24.

3.00 Thai News. 3.30 Bangla News. 4.00 Punjabi News. 4.30 Sri Lankan Sinhalese News. 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 11.55 Operation Ouch! 12.20 Gym Stars. 12.45 Bear Grylls: Survival School. 1.20 The Dengineers.

2.10 Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed! 2.25 Thunderbirds Are Go. 2.45 Voltron: Legendary Defender. 3.10 Boruto: Naruto Next Generations.

3.35 Dragon Ball Super. 4.15 Little Lunch. 4.35 100 Things To Do Before High School. 5.00 The Unlisted. 5.25 The Deep. 6.00 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk. 6.30 Operation Ouch! 7.00 Top Chef Jr. 7.55 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.40 Find Me In Paris. 9.10 Sailor Moon Crystal. 9.30 Detentionaire. 9.55 Close. 5.30 The Legend Of Korra.

6.00 It’s Academic.

(66) 7.00 Kitty Is Not A Cat. 7.30 The Deep. 8.00 The Pioneer Woman.

9.00 Restaurant Redemption. 10.00 Chopped Junior. 11.00 The Kitchen. 12.00 The Pioneer Woman. 12.30 Mystery Diners. 2.00 Restaurant: Impossible. 4.55 Jabba’s School Holiday Movie Special. 5.20 MOVIE: The Wild. (2006) 7.00 MOVIE: The LEGO Ninjago Movie. (2017) Jackie Chan, Dave Franco. 9.10 MOVIE: The Wedding Singer. (1998) Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Christine Taylor. 11.10 MOVIE: Night Shift. (1982) 1.25 Mystery Diners. 2.00 Home Shopping.

3.00 The Pioneer Woman. 4.00 Restaurant Redemption. 5.00 Late Programs.

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6.00 France 24 English News First Edition. 6.30 Al Jazeera News. 7.30 Italian News. 8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News. 9.30 Greek News. 10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News.

11.30 Turkish News.

12.00 Arabic News F24.

12.30 France 24 English News Second Edition.

1.00 Speedweek.

3.00 Best Of Tour De France 2020.

4.30 Russia’s Wild Sea. 5.30 Inside Hitler’s Bunker: The Last Archives.

6.30 SBS World News.

7.30 Ancient Superstructures: Mont Saint Michel.

8.30 Watergate: The Burglary. New. 10.15 Tennis. French Open. Day 1. From RolandGarros Stadium, Paris, France.

4.00 Food Safari.

5.00 CGTN English News.

5.15 NHK World English News.

5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.

Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 12.10 In The Night Garden. 2.05 Grandpa In My Pocket.

2.30 Arthur. 3.05 Molly And Mack. 3.30 Play School. 3.55 Bananas In Pyjamas. 4.20 Becca’s Bunch. 4.55 Luo Bao Bei. 5.20 Octonauts. 5.35 Peter Rabbit. 5.55 Noddy Toyland Detective.

6.55 Catie’s Amazing Machines. 7.15 Odd Squad.

7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Would I Lie To You? 8.30 Penn & Teller: Fool Us. 9.15 Live At The Apollo. 10.00 Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL. 10.35 Insert Name Here. 11.05 The Stand Up Sketch Show. Final. 11.30 Would I Lie To You? 12.00 The Young Offenders. 12.55 Upstart Crow. 1.30 The Thick Of It. 2.05 Close. 5.30 Wallykazam! 5.55 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

11.35 Hindi News. 12.00 The Good Doctor: Korea.

1.10 New Girl. 2.55 Rise. 3.45 France 24 English News Second Edition. 4.15 Insight. 5.10 Yokayi Footy. 5.45 Takeshi’s Castle Indonesia. 6.35 Abandoned Engineering. Final. 7.30 MOVIE: Lord Of The Flies. (1990) Balthazar Getty, Chris Furrh. 9.10 The British In Bed. 10.00 Lost Boys Of Taranaki. 10.30 Cycling. UCI Road World Championships. Men’s Elite Individual Road Race. 1.10 The Trixie & Katya Show. 1.40 Most Expensivest. 2.30 France 24. 3.00 Thai News.

3.30 Bangla News. 4.00 Punjabi News. 4.30 Sri Lankan Sinhalese News. 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 11.55 Operation Ouch! 12.20 Gym Stars. 12.45 Bear Grylls: Survival School. 1.20 The Dengineers.

2.10 Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed! 2.25 Thunderbirds Are Go. 2.45 Prank You Very Much. 3.15 The Wonderful World Of Puppies.

Final. 4.15 Little Lunch. 4.35 100 Things To Do Before High School. Final. 5.00 The Unlisted.

5.25 The Deep. 6.00 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk. 6.30 Operation Ouch! 7.00 Top Chef Jr. 7.55 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.40 Find Me In Paris.

9.10 Sailor Moon Crystal. 9.30 Detentionaire.

9.55 Rage. 10.55 Close. 5.30 The Legend Of Korra. Final.

6.00 It’s Academic.

(66) 7.00 The Deep.

8.00 The Grill Dads. 8.30 Guy’s Big Bite. 9.00 Restaurant Redemption. 10.00 Chopped Junior.

11.00 The Kitchen. 12.00 The Great Food Truck Race. 1.00 Cake Wars. 2.00 Chopped. 3.00 Mystery Diners. 4.00 Restaurant: Impossible.

6.00 The Simpsons.

6.30 MOVIE: Mr Popper’s Penguins. (2011) 8.30 MOVIE: Snatched. (2017) Amy Schumer, Goldie Hawn, Ike Barinholtz.

10.20 MOVIE: The Lost Boys. (1987) 12.20 Mystery Diners. 1.00 Geordie Shore. 2.00 Ex On The Beach. 4.00 Cake Wars. 5.00 The Blacklist.

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7.00 WhichCar. 7.30 Good Chef Bad Chef. 8.00 My Market Kitchen. 8.30 Jamie: Keep Cooking And Carry On. 9.00 Destination Dessert. 9.30 Studio 10: Saturday. 12.00 Jamie & Jimmy’s Food Fight Club. 1.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 1.30 Healthy Homes Australia. 2.00 Pooches At Play. Final. 2.30 Hotels By Design.

3.00 What’s Up Down Under. 3.30 The Living Room. 4.30 Taste Of Australia With Hayden Quinn. 5.00 10 News First.

6.00 Family Feud.

7.00 Bondi Rescue.

7.30 Ambulance Australia.

9.50 One Born Every Minute.

11.00 Todd Sampson’s Body Hack.

12.00 Motor Racing. Supercars Championship.

Round 10. OTR SuperSprint The Bend. Saturday.

Highlights.

1.00 Law & Order: SVU. 2.00 NCIS: Los Angeles. 3.00 Home Shopping.

5.00 Hour Of Power.

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Newstyle (52) 6.00 Direct.

6.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

10.00 The Baron.

11.00 MOVIE: The Pure Hell Of St Trinian’s.

(1960) 1.00 MOVIE: Carlton-Browne Of The F.O. (1959) 2.50 MOVIE: Follow That Dream. (1962) 5.05 MOVIE: The Bridge At Remagen. (1969) 7.30 MOVIE: Schindler’s List. (1993) Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley.

11.30 MOVIE: The Night Has Eyes. (1942) James Mason, Wilfrid Lawson, Mary Clare. 1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

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(53) 6.00 2.00 Soapbox Racing.

Red Bull Series. Round 1. Replay. 3.00 Xtreme Collxtion. 4.00 Liquid Science. 4.30 BattleBots.

5.30 MOVIE: Bedazzled. (2000) 7.30 MOVIE: Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby.

(2006) Will Ferrell. 9.40 MOVIE: Step Brothers.

(2008) Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly. 11.50 Heroes.

12.50 MOVIE: Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher. (2014) 2.30 Surfing Australia TV. 3.00 Power Rangers Super Ninja Steel.

3.30 Mega Man: Fully Charged. 4.00 Bakugan: Armored Alliance. 4.30 Pokémon: BW Rival Destinies. 4.50 Rev & Roll. 5.10 Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS. 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh!

6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 8.00 Travel Oz. 9.30 Australia’s Best Backyards.

10.00 Winners. 11.00 Make It Yours. 11.30 Vasili’s Garden. 12.00 Sydney Weekender. 12.30 Creek To Coast. 1.00 Weekender. 1.30 Horse Racing.

Golden Rose Day and Underwood Stakes Day. 6.00 To Be Advised. 6.30 The Yorkshire Vet. 8.30 Escape To The Country.

11.30 60 Minute Makeover.

12.30 Escape To The Country.

1.30 Sydney Weekender. 2.00 Creek To Coast.

2.30 Weekender. 3.00 The Great Australian Doorstep. 3.30 A Moveable Feast. 4.00 Intolerant Cooks. 4.30 Travel Oz. 5.30 Home Shopping.

The Next (63) 6.00 Level. 7.00 Big Angry Fish. 8.00 Home Shopping. 9.00 Ice Road Truckers. 10.00 Storage Wars. 10.30 Step Outside With Paul Burt. 11.00 The Weekend Prospector.

11.30 Zoltan, The WolfMan. 12.30 Timbersports.

1.00 Blokesworld. 1.30 D.U.I. 2.00 Highway Thru Hell. 3.00 Rugby Union. Shute Shield.

5.00 Towies. 5.15 Counting Cars. 5.45 MOVIE: Hot Shots! Part Deux. (1993) 7.30 Air Crash Investigation. 8.30 MOVIE: Django Unchained.

(2012) Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio. 12.00 Hard Knocks. 1.30 Esports. LPL Pro. Dota 2. Season 2. Week 3. Replay. 3.30 Late Programs.

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Home (81) 6.00 Shopping.

8.00 The Doctors. 9.00 Jake And The Fatman.

10.00 MacGyver. 11.00 Diagnosis Murder. 12.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 1.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 2.00 Planes Gone Viral. 3.00 Judge Judy. 4.00 WhichCar. 4.30 Mighty Machines.

Return. 5.00 Reel Action. 5.30 Star Trek: Voyager. 6.30 MacGyver. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 NCIS: New Orleans. 10.20 Motor Racing. Supercars Championship. Round 10. OTR SuperSprint The Bend. Saturday. Highlights. 11.20 NCIS. 12.15 Law & Order: SVU. 1.10 Hawaii Five-0. 2.10 48 Hours.

3.10 Motorcycle Racing. MotoGP. Race 8. Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. Replay. 4.40 Judge Judy.

5.05 The Doctors.

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(82) 6.00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. 6.30 Blaze And The Monster Machines. 7.00 PAW Patrol. 8.00 Totally Wild.

8.30 Kuu-Kuu Harajuku. 9.00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. 9.30 Blaze And The Monster Machines. 10.00 PAW Patrol. 11.00 SpongeBob SquarePants. 12.00 Everybody Loves Raymond.

1.00 Frasier. 2.00 Man With A Plan. 3.30 Seinfeld.

4.00 Rules Of Engagement. 5.00 Will & Grace.

6.00 Columbo.

8.00 Kojak.

9.00 Spyforce.

10.00 Friends. 12.30 This Is Us. 3.30 Family Ties.

4.30 Home Shopping. 5.30 Family Ties.

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6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise.

10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend.

12.00 House Of Wellness.

1.00 Border Security: America’s Front Line.

1.30 Cricket. Women’s Twenty20 International Series. Australia v New Zealand. Game 2.

From Allan Border Field, Brisbane.

5.00 Seven News At 5.

5.30 Sydney Weekender.

6.00 Seven News.

7.00 The All New Monty: Guys And Gals.

8.30 7NEWS Spotlight: Surviving The Crash.

9.30 Inside Belmarsh Prison.

10.30 Autopsy USA: Michael Landon.

11.30 Why Can’t We Sleep?

12.30 Home Shopping.

5.00 Seven Early News.

5.30 Sunrise.

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WIN (8) 6.00 Mass For You At Home. 6.30 Hillsong. 7.00 Leading The Way With Dr Michael Youssef. 7.30 Fishing Australia. 8.00 Pooches At Play. 8.30 The Living Room. 9.30 Studio 10: Sunday. 12.00 To Be Advised. 1.00 My Market Kitchen. 1.30 Farm To Fork. 2.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield.

2.30 Hotels By Design.

3.00 Jamie: Keep Cooking And Carry On. 3.30 WhichCar. Final.

4.00 Motor Racing. Supercars Championship.

Round 10. OTR SuperSprint The Bend. Sunday.

Highlights.

5.00 10 News First.

6.30 The Sunday Project.

7.30 Lindy Chamberlain: The True Story: Part 1.

9.00 FBI. 11.00 The Sunday Project.

12.00 NCIS. 2.00 Home Shopping.

4.30 CBS This Morning.

TV Shop: Home (52) 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Amazing Facts Presents. 7.00 Leading The Way. 7.30 In Touch Ministries. 8.00 Beyond Today.

8.30 The Incredible Journey Presents. 9.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.00 My Favorite Martian. 10.30 MOVIE: Against The Wind. (1948) 12.30 Getaway. 1.00 The AFL Sunday Footy Show.

3.00 MOVIE: The Colditz Story. (1955) Lionel Jeffries. 5.00 MOVIE: The Way West. (1967) Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum. 7.30 Death In Paradise.

8.40 MOVIE: Cape Fear. (1991) 11.15 DCI Banks. 12.30 My Favorite Martian. 1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.30 Joyce Meyer.

5.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

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(53) 6.00 11.30 LEGO Friends: Girls On A Mission. 12.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS. 12.30 Beyblade Burst Rise. 1.00 Power Rangers Super Ninja Steel. 1.30 Rivals. 2.00 Dance Moms. 3.00 MOVIE: Curious George. (2006) 4.40 MOVIE: City Slickers II. (1994) 7.00 MOVIE: Ghostbusters.

(2016) Melissa McCarthy. 9.30 MOVIE: Identity Thief. (2013) Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy, Jon Favreau. 11.45 MOVIE: Joe Dirt. (2001) 1.30 Surfing Australia TV. 2.00 Westside. 3.00 Power Rangers Super Ninja Steel. 3.30 Mega Man: Fully Charged. 4.00 Bakugan: Armored Alliance. 4.30 Pokémon: BW Rival Destinies. 4.50 Ninjago. 5.10 LEGO Friends: Girls On A Mission. 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh!

Home (63) 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 The Next Level. 7.00 Jabba’s School Holiday Movie Special. 7.30 Home Shopping. 9.30 Classic Restos. 10.00 Timbersports. 10.30 Big Angry Fish. 11.30 Creek To Coast. 12.00 The Fishing Show. 1.00 Hook, Line And Sinker. 2.00 Trev Gowdy’s Monster Fish. 2.30 Step Outside With Paul Burt. 3.00 Fishy Business. 4.00 Shipping Wars. 4.30 Counting Cars. 6.00 Full Custom Garage. 7.00 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. 8.30 MOVIE: Men In Black 3. (2012) Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin.

10.40 MOVIE: Universal Soldier. (1992) 1.00 Blokesworld. 1.30 Late Programs.

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6.00 Animal Tales. 7.00 Weekend Today. 10.00 Sports Sunday.

11.00 NRL Sunday Footy Show.

1.00 Netball. Super Netball. Round 14. Sunshine Coast Lightning v Melbourne Vixens. From USC Stadium, Queensland.

3.00 Rugby League. NRL. Round 20. St George Illawarra Dragons v Melbourne Storm. From Netstrata Jubilee Stadium, Sydney.

6.00 Nine News.

7.00 The Block.

8.30 60 Minutes.

9.30 Nine News Late.

10.30 See No Evil: Hell On Wheels.

11.30 Grand Hotel.

12.20 Rivals.

12.50 The Garden Gurus.

1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

4.00 Animal Tales.

5.00 News Early Edition.

5.30 Today.

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8.30 World’s Most Secret Homes.

10.30 Best Gardens Australia.

11.30 River Monsters.

12.45 Casino Confidential. 1.30 House Of Horrors.

3.00 Fatal Encounters. 4.00 Redrum. 4.30 A Crime To Remember. 5.30 Home Shopping.

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Home (81) 6.00 Shopping. 7.30 The Key Of David. 8.00 Motor Racing. Supercars Championship. Round 10. OTR SuperSprint The Bend. Saturday. Highlights. 9.00 The Doctors.

11.00 Star Trek. 12.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 1.00 Family Feud. 2.00 Escape Fishing With ET. 3.00 Hotels By Design. 3.30 Healthy Homes Australia.

4.00 Pooches At Play. 4.30 What’s Up Down Under. 5.00 iFish Summer Series. 5.30 Star Trek: Voyager. 6.30 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 9.30 Law & Order: SVU. 10.30 Motorcycle Racing. MotoGP. Race 9. Catalunya Grand Prix. 12.00 Motor Racing. Supercars Championship. Round 10. OTR SuperSprint The Bend. Sunday. Highlights. 1.00 NCIS: Los Angeles. 2.00 Late Programs.

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(82) 6.00 Family Ties.

7.00 Fam. 8.30 Will & Grace. 10.30 Rules Of Engagement. 11.30 Neighbours.

2.00 Happy Together.

3.30 Murphy Brown.

4.00 Rules Of Engagement.

5.00 Will & Grace.

6.00 The Big Bang Theory.

9.00 Gogglebox.

10.00 Friends.

12.00 Fam. 12.30 Rules Of Engagement. 1.30 The Flash. 4.30 Home Shopping. 5.30 The Brady Bunch.

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6.00 Morning (2) Programs. 10.00 Landline. 11.00 Grand Designs Australia.

12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Miniseries: The Accident. 2.00 Miniseries: Innocent. 3.00 ABC News Afternoons. 4.10 Think Tank. 5.10 Grand Designs Australia. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Australian Story. 8.30 Four Corners. 9.15 Media Watch. 9.35 Q+A. 10.40 ABC Late News. 11.10 Further Back In Time For Dinner. 12.10 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch.

(3) 6.30 This Week.

7.30 WorldWatch. 2.00 The World’s Most Extraordinary People. 3.05 Alex Polizzi: Chef For Hire. 4.05 Mythical Beasts Unearthed. 5.00 Tennis. French Open. Day 1. Highlights. 6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 News. 7.35 How The Victorians Built Britain. 8.30 24 Hours In Emergency. 9.25 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 10.15 SBS News. 10.30 Tennis.

French Open. Day 2. 4.00 Late Programs.

Sunrise.

(6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: A Perfect Day. (2006) Rob Lowe. 2.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia. 6.00 PRIME7 News. 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30. 7.00 Home And Away.

7.30 America’s Got Talent.

10.15 The Latest: Seven News. 10.45 Absentia.

11.45 Surveillance Oz. 12.30 Home Shopping.

5.00 Seven Early News. 5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 Today. 9.00 (5) Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.00 Getaway. 1.30 The Block. 3.00 Tipping Point. 4.00 Afternoon News. 4.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. 5.30 Nine News Local.

6.00 Nine News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 The Block. 8.40 Celebrity IOU. 9.40 Nine News Late. 10.10 100% Footy. 11.10 Lethal Weapon.

12.05 Tipping Point. 1.00 A Current Affair. 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 2.30 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning (8) Programs. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 Jamie’s Quick & Easy Food. 2.00 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Judge Judy. 3.30 Good Chef Bad Chef. 4.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Project.

7.30 Lindy Chamberlain: The True Story. 9.00 Have You Been Paying Attention? 10.00 Drunk History Australia. 10.30 The Project. 11.30 Late Programs.

Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 7.00 Dino Dana. 7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.30 Staged. 8.55 Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery. 9.25 Upstart Crow. 9.55 Back. 10.20 Parks And Recreation. 10.45 Schitt’s Creek.

11.10 Red Dwarf. 11.35 The Trip To Italy. 12.10 The Librarians 12.40 The Office. 1.10 Please Like Me. 1.35 Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled. 2.25 Close. 5.05 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

12.00 MOVIE: Love. (2012) 2.20 The Movie Show. 3.00 States Of Undress. 3.50 WorldWatch. 4.15 This Week. 5.15 NBA Spotlight. 5.45 The Joy Of Painting With Bob Ross. 6.15 Alone. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Taskmaster.

9.25 Difficult People. 10.20 Bernie Blackout: The 2020 Campaign. 11.55 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning (62) Programs. 9.00 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 10.30 Australia’s Best Backyards. 11.00 Make It Yours.

11.30 Better Homes And Gardens. 1.00 Escape To The Country. 2.00 Million Dollar Minute.

2.30 Air Crash Investigation. 3.30 M*A*S*H. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Doc Martin. 8.30 Foyle’s War. 10.45 Criminal Confessions. 11.45 Late Programs.

Morning (52) 6.00 Programs. 10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 11.30 Animal Tales.

12.40 The Royals: Australia’s Queen And The Royal Tour. 2.00 Miniseries: Miss Marple: At Bertram’s Hotel. 3.00 Antiques Roadshow. 3.30 MOVIE: The Belles Of St Trinian’s. (1954) 5.25 The Rockford Files. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow.

7.30 Grantchester. 8.40 Midsomer Murders.

10.40 The Killer Affair. 11.40 Late Programs.

Morning (81) 6.00 Programs.

12.00 Star Trek. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News.

2.00 Mission: Impossible. 3.00 Bondi Rescue.

3.30 Diagnosis Murder. 4.30 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 5.30 Star Trek: Voyager. 6.30 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 9.25 Law & Order: SVU. 10.20 Motor Racing. Formula 1. Race 10.

Russian Grand Prix. Highlights. 11.20 NCIS: New Orleans. 12.15 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 5.00 The Unlisted. 5.25 The Deep. 6.00 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk. 6.30 Horrible Histories.

7.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. 7.35 The Penguins Of Madagascar. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 The Rubbish World Of Dave Spud. 8.45 Find Me In Paris. 9.10 Sailor Moon Crystal. 9.35 Detentionaire. Final. 10.00 Rage. 11.00 Close.

5.30 Detentionaire.

6.00 Morning (66) Programs. 12.00 The Great Food Truck Race. 1.00 Cake Wars.

2.00 Chopped. 3.00 Coles Healthy Kicks. 3.30 Restaurant: Impossible. 4.30 One Tree Hill.

5.30 The Simpsons. 6.30 Futurama. 7.00 The Simpsons. 7.30 Modern Family. 8.30 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares. 9.30 Ramsay’s Hotel Hell.

10.30 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA. 11.30 Late Programs.

Morning (63) 6.00 Programs.

12.30 Barter Kings. 1.30 Outback Truckers.

2.30 Alaska’s Ultimate Bush Pilots. 3.00 The Weekend Prospector. 3.30 Blokesworld. 4.00 Shipping Wars. 4.30 Highway Thru Hell. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 American Pickers. 8.30 MOVIE: Lucy. (2014) 10.20 MOVIE: Big Trouble In Little China. (1986) 12.25 Late Programs.

Kids’ Programs.

(53) 6.00 11.00 Dance Moms.

12.00 World Of Dance. 1.00 Soapbox Racing.

Red Bull Series. Round 5. Replay. 2.00 Visions Of Greatness. 3.00 Kids’ Programs. 5.00 Big Bang. 5.30 Malcolm. 7.00 The Nanny.

7.30 Territory Cops. 8.30 MOVIE: Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows. (2011) 11.05 Big Bang. 11.30 Tattoo Fixers. 12.30 The Biggest Weekend. 1.40 Late Programs.

(82) 6.00 Morning Programs. 10.00 Friends. 11.00 Charmed.

12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Cheers.

2.00 The King Of Queens. 3.00 Becker. 4.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 Seinfeld. 10.00 Two And A Half Men. 11.00 The Middle. 11.30 Late Programs.

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6.00 Animal Tales. 7.00 Weekend Today. 10.00 Today Extra: Saturday. 12.00 Rivals. 12.30 The Garden Gurus. 1.00 Netball. Super Netball. Round 14. Collingwood Magpies v Queensland Firebirds.

3.00 Netball. Super Netball. Round 14. NSW Swifts v Giants. 5.00 News: First At Five. 5.30 Getaway.

6.00 Nine News Saturday.

7.00 A Current Affair.

7.30 MOVIE: San Andreas. (2015) Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino. A rescue helicopter pilot searches for his daughter following a massive earthquake. (M) 9.45 MOVIE: Limitless. (2011) Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro. An author takes a revolutionary drug. (M) 11.40 MOVIE: Don’t Breathe. (2016) Stephen Lang. (MA15+) 1.15 Murdering The Nanny.

2.05 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

4.30 Global Shop.

5.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

5.30 Wesley Impact.

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6.00 Rage. 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. 9.00 Insiders. 10.00 Offsiders. 10.30 The World This Week. 11.00 Compass. 11.30 Songs Of Praise.

12.00 ABC News At Noon. 12.30 Landline.

1.30 Gardening Australia. 2.30 Secrets Of The Museum. 3.20 Hard Quiz.

4.00 To Be Advised.

4.30 The Mix. 5.00 Antiques Roadshow.

6.00 Australia Remastered: Reptile Realm.

7.00 ABC News Sunday.

7.40 The Rise Of The Murdoch Dynasty: The Rebel Alliance.

8.35 Grantchester.

9.20 Doc Martin.

10.10 Killing Eve. 10.55 Wentworth.

11.45 Endeavour.

1.15 Rage.

2.55 Louis Theroux: Miami Mega Jail.

5.00 Insiders.

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6.00 Home Shopping. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise.

10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. 12.00 Horse Racing. Golden Rose Day and Underwood Stakes Day. 1.30 Cricket. Women’s Twenty20 International Series. Australia v New Zealand.

Game 1. 5.00 Seven News At 5.

5.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line.

6.00 Seven News.

7.00 Border Patrol.

7.30 MOVIE: Guardians Of The Galaxy. (2014) Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Vin Diesel. A brash space adventurer joins forces with a gang of criminals after stealing a mysterious orb. (M) 10.00 MOVIE: Maze Runner: The Death Cure.

(2018) Dylan O’Brien, Will Poulter, Kaya Scodelario. In a post-apocalyptic future, a young man and his companions embark on a dangerous mission to rescue a friend who has been kidnapped by an organisation hoping to use him to create a cure for a virus. (M) 1.00 Home Shopping.

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TVguide 6.00 News Breakfast.

(2) 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Four Corners. 10.45 Living With Fire. 11.00 Grand Designs Australia.

12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 The Split.

2.00 Miniseries: Innocent. 3.00 ABC News Afternoons. 4.10 Think Tank. 5.05 Grand Designs Australia. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Anh’s Brush With Fame.

8.30 Further Back In Time For Dinner. 9.30 Lockdown Stories. 10.30 ABC Late News. 11.00 Q+A. 12.05 Wentworth. 12.55 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch.

(3) 12.30 ABC America: World News Tonight. 1.00 PBS News. 2.00 The World’s Most Extraordinary People. 3.05 Who Do You Think You Are? 4.05 Mythical Beasts Unearthed. 5.00 Tennis. French Open. Day 2.

Highlights. 6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 News. 7.30 Every Family Has A Secret. 8.30 Insight. 9.30 Dateline. 10.00 The Feed. 10.30 Tennis. French Open. Day 3. 4.00 Food Safari.

5.00 CGTN English News. 5.15 NHK World English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle.

Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 5.35 Peter Rabbit. 5.55 Noddy Toyland Detective.

6.45 Andy’s Aquatic Adventures. 7.00 Dino Dana. 7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks.

8.30 Insert Name Here. 9.00 Sick Of It. Final.

9.25 The Trip To Greece. 9.55 Frontline. 10.25 Parks And Recreation. 10.50 Schitt’s Creek.

11.10 Red Dwarf. 11.40 The Trip To Italy. 12.10 The Librarians Final. 12.40 Black Books. 1.05 QI. 1.40 Back. 2.10 Close. 5.30 Wallykazam!

5.55 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

12.00 MOVIE: The House That Never Dies: Reawakening. (2017) 1.45 The Movie Show.

2.15 Front Up. 2.45 Dateline Shorts. 3.00 States Of Undress. 3.50 WorldWatch. 5.15 NBA Spotlight. 5.45 The Joy Of Painting With Bob Ross. 6.15 Alone. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Leah Remini: Scientology And The Aftermath. Final. 9.20 Venus: Let’s Talk About Sex. 10.55 Sex Right Now. 11.20 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 2.55 Operation Ouch! 3.25 Operation Ouch! Do Try This At Home. 3.40 Get It Together! 4.15 Little Lunch. 4.30 Almost Never. 5.00 The Unlisted.

5.25 The Deep. 6.00 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk. 6.30 Horrible Histories. 7.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. 7.35 The Penguins Of Madagascar.

8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 The Rubbish World Of Dave Spud. 8.45 Find Me In Paris. 9.10 Sailor Moon Crystal. 9.35 Miraculous. 10.00 Rage. 11.00 Close. 5.30 Detentionaire.

6.00 Morning (66) Programs. 9.00 Holiday Baking Championship. 10.00 Kids Baking Championship. 11.00 The Kitchen.

12.00 The Great Food Truck Race. 1.00 Cake Wars. 2.00 Chopped. 3.00 Coles Healthy Kicks.

3.30 One Tree Hill. 4.30 The Simpsons. 5.00 Futurama. 5.30 The Simpsons. 6.30 Futurama.

7.00 The Simpsons. 7.30 Modern Family. 8.30 MOVIE: Hall Pass. (2011) Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis, Jenna Fischer. 10.40 MOVIE: The Interview. (2014) 1.00 Late Programs.

6.00 News Breakfast.

(2) 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Q+A. 11.05 Grand Designs Australia. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 12.30 National Press Club Address. 1.40 Media Watch. 2.00 Miniseries: Innocent. 3.00 ABC News Afternoons. 4.10 Think Tank. 5.10 Grand Designs Australia. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Hard Quiz. 8.30 Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL. 9.00 Utopia. 9.30 Planet America. 10.00 QI. 10.35 ABC Late News. 11.05 Four Corners. 11.50 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch.

(3) 11.00 US Presidential And Vice Presidential Debates 2020.

12.30 WorldWatch. 2.00 The World’s Most Extraordinary People. 3.05 Dateline. 3.35 Insight. 4.35 Governor Macquarie’s Silent Witness. 5.00 Tennis. French Open. Day 3.

Highlights. 6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 News. 7.30 Arabia With Levison Wood. 8.30 Hillary. 9.35 The Good Fight. 10.30 Tennis.

French Open. Day 4. 4.00 Food Safari. 5.00 CGTN English News. 5.15 Late Programs.

Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 5.35 Peter Rabbit. 5.55 Noddy Toyland Detective.

6.45 Andy’s Aquatic Adventures. 7.00 Dino Dana. 7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks.

8.30 Friday Night Dinner. 8.55 Archer. 9.15 The Young Offenders. 9.50 The Letdown. 10.25 The Thick Of It. 10.55 Parks And Recreation. 11.15 Schitt’s Creek. 11.40 Red Dwarf. 12.10 The Trip To Italy. Final. 12.40 Very Small Business. 1.10 QI. 1.40 Blackadder Goes Forth. 2.15 Close. 5.30 Wallykazam! 5.55 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

12.00 MOVIE: Manhattan. (1979) 1.45 The Movie Show. 2.15 Front Up. 2.45 States Of Undress. 3.35 WorldWatch. 5.10 The Joy Of Painting With Bob Ross. 5.40 Alone. 6.30 Jeopardy! 7.00 Cycling. UCI World Tour.

Flèche-Wallone. Men’s And Women’s Race.

12.45 Boy Racer. 1.10 Venom Superman. 1.40 Kebab Kings. 2.35 France 24. 3.00 Thai News.

3.30 Bangla News. 4.00 Punjabi News. 4.30 Sri Lankan Sinhalese News. 5.00 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 2.55 Operation Ouch! 3.25 Operation Ouch! Do Try This At Home. 3.40 Get It Together! 4.15 Little Lunch. 4.30 Almost Never. 5.00 The Unlisted.

5.25 The Deep. 6.00 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk. 6.30 Horrible Histories. 7.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. 7.35 The Penguins Of Madagascar.

8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 The Rubbish World Of Dave Spud. 8.45 Find Me In Paris. 9.10 Sailor Moon Crystal. 9.35 Miraculous. 10.00 Rage. 11.00 Close. 5.30 Detentionaire.

6.00 Morning (66) Programs. 7.30 James Robison. 8.00 The Grill Dads. 8.30 Guy’s Big Bite. 9.00 Holiday Baking Championship.

10.00 Kids Baking Championship. 11.00 The Kitchen. 12.00 The Great Food Truck Race. 1.00 Cake Wars. 2.00 Chopped. 3.00 Coles Healthy Kicks. 3.30 One Tree Hill. 4.30 The Simpsons.

5.00 Futurama. 5.30 The Simpsons. 6.30 Futurama. 7.00 The Simpsons. 7.30 Modern Family. 8.30 Cold Case. 10.30 Without A Trace.

11.30 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning (2) Programs. 10.00 Planet America. 10.30 Australian Story. 11.00 Grand Designs Australia. 12.00 ABC News At Noon.

1.00 Hard Quiz. 1.30 Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL. 2.00 Miniseries: Innocent. 3.00 ABC News Afternoons. 4.10 Think Tank. 5.10 Grand Designs Australia. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 The Heights. Final. 8.30 Escape From The City. 9.30 Secrets Of The Museum. 10.20 ABC Late News. 10.50 Louis Theroux: Extreme Love. 11.55 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch.

(3) 12.30 ABC America: World News Tonight. 1.00 PBS News. 2.00 Over The Black Dot. 3.00 Grave Of The Vikings.

3.55 The Man Who Shot Tutankhamun. 5.00 Tennis. French Open. Day 4. Highlights. 6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 News. 7.30 Michael Mosley: Queen Victoria’s Slum. 8.35 Secrets Of The Tower Of London. 9.25 SBS News. 10.00 Tennis. French Open. Day 5. 4.00 Food Safari.

5.00 CGTN English News. 5.15 NHK World English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle.

Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 5.55 Noddy Toyland Detective. 6.45 Andy’s Aquatic Adventures. 7.00 Dino Dana. 7.15 Odd Squad.

7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.30 Hard Quiz.

9.00 Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL. 9.30 Motherland. Final. 10.00 Flowers. 10.30 The Trip To Greece. 11.00 Parks And Recreation.

11.20 Schitt’s Creek. 11.45 Red Dwarf. 12.15 The Trip To Spain. 12.45 Very Small Business. 1.15 In The Long Run. Return. 3.40 Close. 5.05 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

12.00 MOVIE: The End Of The Tour. (2015) 1.55 The Movie Show. 2.25 Front Up. 3.05 States Of Undress. 3.50 WorldWatch. 5.15 The War On Kids. 5.45 The Joy Of Painting With Bob Ross. 6.15 Alone. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Story Of Science Fiction. Final. 9.20 Full Frontal. 9.45 Letterkenny. 10.45 Every Family Has A Secret.

11.50 The Longest Day In Chang’an. Return.

12.35 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 2.55 Operation Ouch! 3.25 Operation Ouch! Do Try This At Home. 3.40 Get It Together! 4.15 Little Lunch. 4.30 Almost Never. 5.00 The Unlisted.

5.25 The Deep. 6.00 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk. 6.30 Horrible Histories. 7.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. 7.35 The Penguins Of Madagascar.

8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 The Rubbish World Of Dave Spud. 8.45 Find Me In Paris. 9.10 Sailor Moon Crystal. 9.35 Miraculous. 10.00 Rage. 11.00 Close. 5.30 Detentionaire.

6.00 Morning (66) Programs. 7.30 James Robison. 8.00 The Grill Dads. 8.30 Guy’s Big Bite. 9.00 Holiday Baking Championship.

10.00 Kids Baking Championship. 11.00 The Kitchen. 12.00 The Great Food Truck Race.

1.00 Cake Wars. 2.00 Chopped. 3.00 Coles Healthy Kicks. 3.30 One Tree Hill. 4.30 Jabba’s School Holiday Movie Special. 5.00 The Simpsons. 6.30 Futurama. 7.00 The Simpsons.

7.30 Modern Family. 8.30 The Mentalist. 10.30 Without A Trace. 11.30 Late Programs.

6.00 News Breakfast.

(2) 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Anh’s Brush With Fame. 10.30 QI. 11.00 Grand Designs Australia. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Lockdown Stories. 2.00 The Rise Of The Murdoch Dynasty. 3.00 ABC News Afternoons. 4.10 Think Tank. 5.10 Grand Designs Australia. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 Gardening Australia. 8.30 Vera.

10.00 Mum. 10.30 ABC Late News. 10.45 The Virus. 11.05 Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL. 11.40 Rage.

6.00 WorldWatch.

(3) 2.00 The Point. 3.00 NITV News: Nula. 3.30 Great British Railway Journeys. 4.05 Spending Secrets Of The Royals. 5.00 Tennis. French Open. Day 5.

Highlights. 6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 News. 7.30 Egypt’s Lost Princess. 8.25 Greek Island Odyssey With Bettany Hughes. Final.

9.25 SBS News. 10.00 Tennis. French Open.

Day 6. 4.00 Food Safari. 5.00 CGTN English News. 5.15 NHK World English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle.

Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 5.35 Peter Rabbit. 5.55 Noddy Toyland Detective.

6.45 Andy’s Aquatic Adventures. 7.00 Dino Dana. 7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks.

8.30 Absolutely Fabulous. 9.00 The Office.

9.30 Black Books. Final. 9.55 Blackadder Goes Forth. 10.25 Parks And Recreation. 10.50 Schitt’s Creek. 11.15 Red Dwarf. 11.45 The Trip To Spain. 12.15 Very Small Business. 12.40 Archer.

1.05 Sick Of It. Final. 1.30 Flowers. 2.00 Close.

5.30 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

9.00 To Be Advised. 11.00 WorldWatch. 12.00 MOVIE: Annie Hall. (1977) 1.45 The Movie Show. 2.15 Front Up. 3.15 Yokayi Footy. 3.50 WorldWatch. 5.15 Magic The Gathering. 5.45 The Joy Of Painting With Bob Ross. 6.15 Alone.

7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Sex And Love: Christiane Amanpour. 9.20 Sex In Lockdown. 10.10 Trigonometry. 11.00 The Feed. 11.30 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs.

3.25 Operation Ouch! Do Try This At Home.

3.40 Get It Together! 4.15 Little Lunch. 4.30 Almost Never. 5.00 The Unlisted. 5.25 The Deep. 6.00 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk.

6.30 Horrible Histories. 7.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. 7.35 The Penguins Of Madagascar. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Good Game Spawn Point. 8.45 Voltron: Legendary Defender. 9.10 Fruits Basket. 9.30 Sailor Moon Crystal. 9.55 Miraculous. 10.20 Close. 5.30 Detentionaire.

6.00 Morning (66) Programs. 7.30 James Robison. 8.00 The Grill Dads. 8.30 Guy’s Big Bite. 9.00 Holiday Baking Championship.

10.00 Kids Baking Championship. 11.00 The Kitchen. 12.00 The Great Food Truck Race.

1.00 Cake Wars. 2.00 Chopped. 3.00 Coles Healthy Kicks. 3.30 One Tree Hill. 4.30 Jabba’s School Holiday Movie Special. 5.00 The Simpsons. 6.30 Futurama. 7.00 The Simpsons.

7.30 Modern Family. 8.30 The Mentalist. 10.30 Without A Trace. 11.30 Late Programs.

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Sunrise.

(6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: Into The Woods. (2014) 2.30 RSPCA Animal Rescue. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia. 6.00 PRIME7 News. 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30.

7.00 Home And Away. 7.30 America’s Got Talent. 10.15 The Latest: Seven News. 10.45 The Goldbergs. 11.45 Surveillance Oz. 12.30 Home Shopping. 5.00 Seven Early News. 5.30 Sunrise.

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NINE

6.00 Today. 9.00 (5) Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.00 Celebrity IOU. 2.00 The Block. 3.00 Tipping Point. 4.00 Afternoon News. 4.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. 5.30 Nine News Local.

6.00 Nine News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 The Block. 8.40 Halifax: Retribution. 9.40 Bluff City Law. 10.40 Nine News Late. 11.10 Timeless.

12.05 Tipping Point. 1.00 A Current Affair. 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.00 Easy Eats. 5.00 News Early Edition. 5.30 Today.

7TWO

TV Shop: (52) 6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. 7.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 9.30 Danoz Direct. 10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 11.30 Animal Tales. 12.40 The Royals: Australia’s Queen And The Royal Tour. 2.00 Miniseries: Miss Marple: Nemesis. 3.00 Antiques Roadshow. 3.30 MOVIE: The Divided Heart. (1954) 5.25 The Rockford Files. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 New Tricks. 8.40 Poirot. 10.40 Law & Order: Criminal Intent. 11.40 Late Programs.

7MATE

Kids’ Programs.

(53) 6.00 10.30 Malcolm. 11.00 Dance Moms. 12.00 World Of Dance. 1.00 Soapbox Racing. Red Bull Series. Round 6.

Replay. 2.00 Visions Of Greatness. 3.00 Kids’ Programs. 5.00 Big Bang. 5.30 Malcolm. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 MOVIE: Ghost In The Shell.

(2017) 9.30 MOVIE: Life. (2017) 11.30 Big Bang.

12.00 Miami Vice. 1.00 The Biggest Weekend.

2.10 Dance Moms. 3.00 Beyblade Burst Turbo. 3.30 Ninjago. 4.00 Pokémon: BW Rival Destinies. 4.30 Pokémon. 4.50 Kids’ Programs.

PRIME7

6.00 Today. 9.00 (5) Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.00 Big Cats. 2.00 The Block. 3.00 Tipping Point. 4.00 Afternoon News. 4.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. 5.30 Nine News Local.

6.00 Nine News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 The Block. 8.40 Australian Crime Stories. 9.50 Murder Calls. 10.50 Nine News Late. 11.20 New Amsterdam. 12.10 Dr Christian Jessen Will See You Now. 1.00 A Current Affair. 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 2.30 Late Programs.

6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 7.00 Travel Oz. 8.30 Harry’s Practice. 9.00 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 12.00 Sydney Weekender. 12.30 Jabba’s School Holiday Movie Special. 1.00 Escape To The Country.

2.00 Million Dollar Minute. 2.30 Air Crash Investigation. 3.30 To Be Advised. 4.30 Medical Emergency. 5.00 RSPCA Animal Rescue. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt.

7.30 Rosemary & Thyme. 8.30 Inspector Morse. 10.50 Hospital. 12.00 Late Programs.

Morning (63) 6.00 Programs. 10.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions.

11.00 A Football Life. 12.00 Shipping Wars.

12.30 Barter Kings. 1.30 Highway Thru Hell.

2.30 Alaska’s Ultimate Bush Pilots. 3.00 Outback Truckers. 4.00 Shipping Wars. 4.30 Highway Thru Hell. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Highway Patrol. 8.30 Aussie Salvage Squad.

9.30 Demolition NZ. Return. 10.30 Scrap Kings.

11.30 Late Programs.

Sunrise.

(6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: Harry And Meghan: A Royal Romance.

(2018) 2.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4.

5.00 The Chase Australia. 6.00 PRIME7 News.

6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30. 7.00 Home And Away. 7.30 Highway Patrol. 8.30 MOVIE: The Commuter. (2018) Liam Neeson, Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson. 10.45 The Latest: Seven News.

11.15 World’s Deadliest Weather: Caught On Camera. 12.30 Late Programs.

9GEM

Home (81) 6.00 Shopping.

8.00 Judge Judy. 9.00 Diagnosis Murder.

10.00 Jake And The Fatman. 11.00 MacGyver.

12.00 Star Trek. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News.

2.00 Mission: Impossible. 3.00 Bondi Rescue.

3.30 Diagnosis Murder. 4.30 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 5.30 Star Trek: Voyager. 6.30 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 CSI: Miami. 10.25 Elementary. 12.15 Home Shopping. 2.15 NCIS. 3.15 Jake And The Fatman. 4.10 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 5.05 The Doctors.

9GO!

(82) 6.00 Family Ties. 7.00 The King Of Queens. 8.00 Becker.

9.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 10.00 Frasier.

11.00 Charmed. 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Cheers. 1.30 The King Of Queens.

2.30 Seinfeld. 3.00 Becker. 4.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends.

6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 Seinfeld. 10.00 Mom. 11.00 2 Broke Girls. 12.00 Becker. 12.30 Home Shopping. 1.30 Late Programs.

NINE

6.00 Headline News.

(8) 8.30 Studio 10. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 To Be Advised. 2.00 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Judge Judy. 3.30 Good Chef Bad Chef. 4.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful.

5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 The Masked Singer USA. New. 8.30 Bull. 10.30 The Project. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 1.30 Home Shopping. 4.30 CBS This Morning.

9GEM

Home (81) 6.00 Shopping.

8.00 Judge Judy. 9.00 Diagnosis Murder.

10.00 Jake And The Fatman. 11.00 MacGyver.

12.00 Star Trek. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 Mission: Impossible. 3.00 Bondi Rescue. 3.30 Diagnosis Murder. 4.30 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 5.30 Star Trek: Voyager.

6.30 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 NCIS: Los Angeles. 11.15 MacGyver. 12.10 Home Shopping.

2.10 Hawaii Five-0. 3.10 MacGyver. 4.05 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 5.00 Late Programs.

9GO!

(82) 6.00 Family Ties. 7.00 The King Of Queens. 8.00 Becker.

9.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 10.00 Frasier.

11.00 Charmed. 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Cheers. 1.30 The King Of Queens.

2.30 Seinfeld. 3.00 Becker. 4.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends.

6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 Seinfeld. 10.00 2 Broke Girls. 12.00 Becker. 12.30 Home Shopping. 1.30 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. 2.30 Late Programs.

NINE

6.00 Headline News.

(8) 8.30 Studio 10. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 To Be Advised. 2.00 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Judge Judy. 3.30 Good Chef Bad Chef. 4.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful.

5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 The Masked Singer USA. 8.30 Gogglebox. 9.30 To Be Advised. 10.00 This Is Us. 11.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.00 The Project. 1.00 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 2.00 Home Shopping. 4.30 CBS This Morning.

9GEM

Home (81) 6.00 Shopping.

8.00 Motor Racing. Formula 1. Race 10. Russian Grand Prix. Highlights. 9.00 Diagnosis Murder.

10.00 Jake And The Fatman. 11.00 MacGyver.

12.00 Star Trek. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News.

2.00 Mission: Impossible. 3.00 Bondi Rescue.

3.30 Diagnosis Murder. 4.30 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 5.30 Star Trek: Voyager. 6.30 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 Hawaii Five-0.

9.30 SEAL Team. 11.30 NCIS. 12.30 Home Shopping. 2.00 Late Programs.

9GO!

(82) 6.00 Family Ties. 7.00 The King Of Queens. 8.00 Becker.

9.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 10.00 Frasier.

11.00 Charmed. 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Cheers. 1.30 The King Of Queens.

2.30 Seinfeld. 3.00 Becker. 4.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends.

6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 Seinfeld. 10.00 Two And A Half Men. 11.00 Carol’s Second Act. 11.30 The Middle. 12.00 Becker. 12.30 Late Programs.

NINE

6.00 Headline News.

(8) 8.30 Studio 10.

12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 The Living Room. 2.00 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Judge Judy. 3.30 Good Chef Bad Chef. 4.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Project.

7.30 The Living Room. 8.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? 9.30 2018 Montreal Comedy Festival. 10.30 The Project. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 1.30 Home Shopping.

9GEM

Home (81) 6.00 Shopping.

8.00 Motorcycle Racing. MotoGP. Race 9.

Catalunya Grand Prix. Replay. 9.30 WhichCar. 10.00 Jake And The Fatman. 11.00 MacGyver.

12.00 Star Trek. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News.

2.00 Mission: Impossible. 3.00 Bondi Rescue.

3.30 Diagnosis Murder. 4.30 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 5.30 Star Trek: Voyager. 6.30 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 Walker, Texas Ranger. 10.30 Elementary. 11.30 CSI: Miami.

12.30 Home Shopping. 2.00 Late Programs.

9GO!

(82) 6.00 Family Ties. 7.00 The King Of Queens. 8.00 Becker.

9.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 10.00 Frasier.

11.00 Charmed. 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Cheers. 1.30 The King Of Queens.

2.30 Seinfeld. 3.00 Becker. 4.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends.

6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 Seinfeld. 10.00 Friends.

12.00 Becker. 12.30 Home Shopping. 1.30 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. 2.30 Late Programs.

7TWO

TV Shop: (52) 6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. 7.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. 12.00 Animal Tales. 1.00 David Attenborough’s Life Story.

2.00 Miniseries: Miss Marple: Nemesis. 3.00 Antiques Roadshow. 3.30 MOVIE: The Big Job. (1965) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 As Time Goes By. 8.50 Midsomer Murders. 11.00 Law And Order: Criminal Intent. 12.00 Late Programs.

7MATE

Kids’ Programs.

(53) 6.00 10.30 Malcolm. 11.00 Dance Moms. 12.00 World Of Dance. 1.00 The Break Boys. 1.30 Xtreme Collxtion. 2.00 Rivals.

3.00 Kids’ Programs. 5.00 Big Bang. 5.30 Malcolm. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 Young Sheldon.

8.30 MOVIE: Super 8. (2011) Kyle Chandler.

10.45 Big Bang. 11.10 Young Sheldon. 12.00 Miami Vice. 1.00 The Biggest Weekend. 2.10 Dance Moms. 3.00 Beyblade Burst Turbo. 3.30 Ninjago. 4.00 Pokémon: BW Rival Destinies.

4.30 Pokémon. 4.50 Kids’ Programs.

PRIME7

6.00 Today. 9.00 (5) Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.00 Big Cats. 2.00 The Block. 3.00 Tipping Point. 4.00 Afternoon News. 4.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. 5.30 Nine News Local.

6.00 Nine News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 RBT. 8.30 Paramedics. 9.30 Botched. 10.30 Nine News Late. 11.00 Prison Girls: Life Inside.

12.00 Tipping Point. 1.00 A Current Affair. 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 2.30 Global Shop.

3.00 Late Programs.

6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 7.00 Travel Oz. 8.30 Harry’s Practice. 9.00 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 12.00 Creek To Coast. 12.30 Weekender. 1.00 Escape To The Country. 2.00 Million Dollar Minute. 2.30 Mighty Planes. 3.30 To Be Advised. 4.30 Medical Emergency. 5.00 RSPCA Animal Rescue. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 The Coroner. 8.30 Lewis.

10.30 Jonathan Creek. 11.40 Mighty Planes.

12.50 Dates From Hell. 2.00 Home Shopping.

Morning (63) 6.00 Programs.

10.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 11.00 A Football Life. 12.00 Jabba’s School Holiday Movie Special. 12.30 Highway Thru Hell. 1.30 Cricket. Women’s Twenty20 International Series. Australia v New Zealand.

Game 3. 5.00 Shipping Wars. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars.

7.30 The Simpsons. 8.30 Family Guy. 9.30 American Dad! 10.30 Family Guy. 11.30 Late Programs.

Sunrise.

(6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: Harry And Meghan: Becoming Royal.

(2019) 2.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4.

5.00 The Chase Australia. 6.00 PRIME7 News.

6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30. 7.00 Home And Away. 8.30 MOVIE: This Means War. (2012) Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine, Tom Hardy.

10.30 The Latest: Seven News. 11.00 MOVIE: Kangaroo Jack. (2003) 1.00 Home Shopping.

5.00 Late Programs.

7TWO

TV Shop: (52) 6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. 7.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. 12.00 As Time Goes By. 1.15 Midsomer Murders. 3.25 MOVIE: A Man About The House. (1947) 5.20 Heartbeat.

6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 Agatha Christie’s Partners In Crime. 8.45 MOVIE: Agatha Raisin: The Quiche Of Death. (2014) Ashley Jensen, Oliver Lansley, Mathew Horne.

10.45 Chicago Med. 12.35 Late Programs.

7MATE

Kids’ Programs.

(53) 6.00 10.30 Malcolm. 11.00 Dance Moms. 12.00 World Of Dance. 1.00 The Break Boys. 1.30 Xtreme Collxtion. 2.00 Rivals.

3.00 Kids’ Programs. 5.00 Big Bang. 5.30 Malcolm. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 MOVIE: When Harry Met Sally. (1989) 9.30 MOVIE: The Lucky One. (2012) 11.35 Big Bang. 12.00 Miami Vice.

12.50 Surfing Australia TV. 1.20 Dance Moms.

3.00 Beyblade Burst Turbo. 3.30 Ninjago. 4.00 Pokémon: BW Rival Destinies. 4.30 Pokémon.

4.50 Kids’ Programs.

PRIME7

6.00 Today. 9.00 (5) Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.00 MOVIE: The Cure. (1995) 3.00 Tipping Point. 4.00 Afternoon News. 4.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. 5.30 Nine News Local.

6.00 Nine News. 7.00 Rugby League. NRL Finals Series. First qualifying final. 9.45 NRL Finals Footy Post-Match. 10.30 MOVIE: Blown Away. (1994) 1.00 Hayley & Lauren’s Adelady.

1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.00 Late Programs.

6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 7.00 Travel Oz. 8.30 Harry’s Practice. 9.00 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 12.00 Reno Rookie. 12.30 The Great Australian Doorstep.

1.00 Escape To The Country. 2.00 Million Dollar Minute. 2.30 Mighty Planes. 3.30 To Be Advised. 4.30 Medical Emergency. 5.00 RSPCA Animal Rescue. 5.30 Escape To The Country.

6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Father Brown. 8.30 Murdoch Mysteries. 11.30 Brit Cops. 1.30 Cry Wolfe. 2.00 Late Programs.

Morning (63) 6.00 Programs. 7.30 Creek To Coast. 8.00 Storage Wars. 8.30 Pawn Stars. 9.00 American Pickers. 10.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 11.00 A Football Life. 12.00 Shipping Wars. 12.30 Barter Kings. 1.30 Highway Thru Hell. 2.30 Alaska’s Ultimate Bush Pilots. 3.00 Outback Truckers.

4.00 Shipping Wars. 4.30 Highway Thru Hell.

5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers.

7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 To Be Advised. 11.00 MOVIE: Chappie. (2015) 1.30 Late Programs.

Sunrise.

(6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: North By Northwest. (1959) Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia.

6.00 PRIME7 News.

6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30.

7.00 Better Homes And Gardens.

8.30 MOVIE: Argo. (2012) Ben Affleck.

11.00 To Be Advised. 12.30 Home Shopping.

7TWO

TV Shop: (52) 6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. 7.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. 12.00 Animal Tales. 1.00 MOVIE: Agatha Raisin: The Quiche Of Death. (2014) 3.00 Antiques Roadshow. 3.30 MOVIE: Pink String And Sealing Wax. (1945) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow.

7.30 Poirot. 8.40 MOVIE: Enemy At The Gates.

(2001) Jude Law, Ed Harris, Rachel Weisz. 11.10 The Commander. 12.35 Late Programs.

7MATE

Kids’ Programs.

(53) 6.00 10.30 Malcolm. 11.00 Dance Moms. 12.00 World Of Dance. 1.00 The Break Boys. 1.30 Xtreme Collxtion. 2.00 Rivals. 3.00 Kids’ Programs. 5.15 Big Bang.

5.45 MOVIE: Spy Kids. (2001) 7.30 MOVIE: The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug. (2013) 11.10 Heroes. 12.05 Big Bang. 12.30 Rivals.

1.00 Visions Of Greatness. 2.00 Dance Moms.

3.00 Beyblade Burst Turbo. 3.30 Ninjago. 4.00 Pokémon: BW Rival Destinies. 4.30 Pokémon.

4.50 Kids’ Programs.

6.00 Morning (62) Programs. 9.00 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 12.00 House Of Wellness. 1.00 Escape To The Country. 2.00 Million Dollar Minute. 2.30 Mighty Planes. 3.30 To Be Advised. 4.30 Medical Emergency. 5.00 RSPCA Animal Rescue. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Air Crash Investigation.

8.30 Escape To The Country. 9.30 Selling Houses Australia. 10.30 Charlie Luxton’s Homes By The Sea. 11.30 Late Programs.

Home (63) 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Big Angry Fish. 7.30 Creek To Coast. 8.00 Storage Wars. 8.30 Pawn Stars. 9.00 American Pickers. 10.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 11.00 A Football Life. 12.00 Shipping Wars. 12.30 Barter Kings. 1.30 Zoltan, The WolfMan. 2.30 Alaska’s Wild Gourmet.

3.00 Outback Truckers. 4.00 Highway Thru Hell. 5.00 Storage Wars. 5.30 American Pickers.

6.30 Pawn Stars. 7.00 To Be Advised. 11.00 Armchair Experts. 11.30 Late Programs.

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6.00 Headline News.

(8) 8.30 Studio 10.

12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 Jamie’s Super Food. 2.00 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Judge Judy. 3.30 Good Chef Bad Chef. 4.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 Ambulance Australia. 8.30 Todd Sampson’s Body Hack. Final. 9.30 NCIS. 10.30 The Project. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News.

12.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.

1.30 Home Shopping. 4.30 CBS This Morning.

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Cross-roads: So, what’s your sporting poison? Footy, basketball, netball, cricket, tennis, racing, or something like bowls or darts?

No matter, in every single one, there is a rule-book which sets out the parameters in which you play. That is to say, players agree that they’ll compete on certain grounds. If you’re swimming, you stay in your lane, don’t jump off the blocks before the starters gun, make a clean turn, swim the correct stroke, and touch properly at the end or face disqualification.

So it is with our Australian Constitution.

It’s the Rule Book which sets out the parameters for the way we live here. Then we have our States, which also have their own rule-books. In our “Commonwealth”, we live under “Common Law”, laws which have a long legal history ensuring our Godgiven freedoms. Whether or not you are Christian, our laws are rooted in Biblical principles. We are, thankfully, given the freedoms of thought, speech, assembly, property ownership etc. Unlike countries run by extreme religious laws or ideologies, we can be confident that we won’t be thrown into jail without recourse to a righteous legal system, and a jury of our peers.

Or can we?

My heart is heavy as I write this, because I see both our Commonwealth and State Constitutions being contemptuously brushed off, and disregarding our rulebook is the beginning of totalitarianism, or another “ism”, such as Marxism, communism or fascism. All “ism’s” that our valiant Diggers fought and gave their blood and lives for to protect us from. Lest We Forget.

Lest We Forget, indeed. None of our gutless pollies seem to be capable, or even want to defend it. Shame on Scott Morrison who has been Missing in Action (MIA) over these issues and has failed miserably to lead the nation. A fish rots from the head, and our national parliament is rotting. Shame on the State Premiers, who’ve locked up their States against Section 92 – free trade and movement between States. Similarly, quarantine (S51ix) comes under the Commonwealth power, which over-rides the States, yet the States are holding forth on this.

Scott Morrison was party to, then pulled out of Clive Palmer’s court action on S92.

Whatever you may think of Clive Palmer, the PRINCIPLE is important to every single one of us. Yet, Scott Morrison and the LNP Coalition have been feeble – totally chicken – on this issue. Of course, the ALP are silent because they don’t want to attract any more attention or arrows, and it’s mainly their Premiers being unaccountable!

After the first wave of corona-virus, it should have been apparent to any of the bureaucrats who actually did a bit of research (sadly none it seems), that the “cases” which are counted daily with tallies relayed in boring media releases, are not dying, and by far, have recovered, with the vulnerable (elderly and immunecompromised) at most risk of dying, yet not necessarily OF it, but WITH it.

However, there are always people who want to undermine our rule-book, our

Your Life, Your Future

The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.”

Alexander Tytler (1747-1813)

Constitution, both from within and outside Australia. China’s Communist Party (CCP), taking a lead role in shaping their Utopian New World Order, targeted Italy initially and then most other countries with a flood of disinformation tweets – hundreds of thousands from all sorts of “handles” insisting that countries lock down as Wuhan did, to cope with the virus.

Where are our governments security agencies detecting this outside interference in our economy? Missing in action too!

Sweden, who with the best outcome, opted for ‘herd immunity’ by NOT locking down, attracted grievous twitter attacks accusing them of genocide, as did Boris Johnson, who was doing the same, but he capitulated to the twitter attacks and locked down.

We know that the World Health Organisation (WHO) has been very cosy with the CCP, and Bill Gates said “China, on the other hand, did a very good job of suppressing the virus,” thanks in part to the ‘typical, fairly authoritarian’ approach and the individual rights that were violated.” Who needs enemies when so-called friends are undermining you, and causing the economic destruction of countries around the world for a virus which many doctors globally say is easily treated with hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin and zinc along with an asthma medication. Many of these Drs say they’ve treated hundreds or thousands successfully.

Yet, Bill Gates, with his media and pharmaceutical interests, and WHO mates, stands to make a LOT from vaccines. The WHO goaded world leaders to lock down as China did, with extreme tracing measures to boot!

A global madness epidemic of following and praising the CCP’s lock-downs ensued.

Lancet’s Editor-in-Chief praised them: “not only the right thing to do, but it also showed other countries how they should respond in the face of such an acute threat. So, I think we have a great deal to thank China for.”

Our media made sure to follow the yellow brick road; Facebook and google “factchecked”, which in “1984 language” means keeping successful treatments from us; nondoctors censoring doctors for the mighty dollar! WHO’s Bruce Aylward rudely cut a live interview when asked about Taiwan’s success in dealing with Covid without locking down. Ooops!

Dan Andrews went all the way down the gangway, because after all, he’d signed up to the Chinese Belt and Road initiative, involving undisclosed loans which will probably require assets to be handed over now they’re broke! Dan Andrews has also signed Victoria up to the Strong Cities Network (SCN), an initiative of the London thinktank ISD – funded by, you guessed it, George Soros – the same billionaire who with others, funds the violent BLM movement and Antifa. The same Antifa who DON’T get kicked off Facebook for their tweets skiting about lighting the fires in America to teach us all about “climate change”. The same Antifa and BLM terrorists who fire-bomb shops, houses and people.

George Soros’ Open Society Foundation – or it’s associated Alliance for Open Society International Inc (AOSI) also just lost a US Supreme Court case where they challenged the government (USAID), arguing they should be able to get US grants, even if they refuse to abide by the requirement to denounce prostitution and human trafficking. They wouldn’t; they lost.

Soros has said the United States is “the main obstacle to a stable and just world order” and hailed communist China for having “a better-functioning government than the United States.”

So, this is the crunch – more OUTSIDE interference in Australia from a privatised, UN/NGO POLICE FORCE! Because that’s what the Strong Cities Network really is, and it was launched at the UN. Victoria is the ONLY State to have signed up, and if you go and look at pictures of the “police” storming protesters at the Victorian Markets Freedom Day Rally, you will see the difference between the REAL Victorian police and the totally black-clad “force” without any Victorian police logo identification. Are they the SCN police?

Do we have the Antifa accordant SCN, funded by Soros, possibly already “policing” in Victoria, but definitely influencing the Victorian police to “take the knee” to BLM/ Antifa (knowing what it really represents)?

Do we have the BLM/Antifa usurpers arresting or influencing the force used to harass and arrest a pregnant young woman for a Facebook post proclaiming freedom?

Eureka! What’s the world coming to? What about all the other brutal force the Victorian police are using to arrest law-abiding people who feel the need to safely exercise their right to protest this UNCONSTITUTIONAL lock-down and loss of freedoms.

Aside from Victoria being an SCN member, a look at the partners and funders of ISD shows Facebook, Google, Twitter and Microsoft among them. Maybe that explains the media blockage of Doctors the world over trying to tell us that Covid is not as dangerous as we are being told, and that it can be successfully treated.

There is NO NEED for a lock-down, curfew, border closures or anything else. The need is to look after those who are vulnerable, and should the resources being spent on locking everyone up be put into treating the vulnerable properly – such as providing all nursing homes and front-line workers the treatment Prof. Borody recommends – then we wouldn’t have a “pandemic”, and the nation could return to work.

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What about the new Covid-19 Omnibus (Emergency Measures) Amendment Bill? It will allow Victorians to be arrested without warrants, held in detention without cause, to be arrested by anybody the government or a public servant wants to randomly appoint (perhaps the SCN police?) to deprive others of their liberty and COMMON LAW rights. It will over-ride nearly every other law. There are currently a group of 8 “governing” without a duly elected parliament. There’s a spineless opposition, and a chief health officer who can’t do his research. This is UNCONSTITUTIONAL in the extreme, totalitarianism in the name of “health”, with the Queensland junta not much better, deferring powers they may not even have to their chief health officer.

It’s not about health for all, it’s about POWER for a few.

Thankfully, there are plenty of lawyers now who can see that we’ve been sold a pup. Maybe there is some Constitutional recourse, IF we haven’t gone around it with the abuse of the external affairs power (S51 xxix). But, what still concerns me greatly is China’s unquestioned interference, and the unbridled power of the UN and its agencies, along with their “private sector partners” who really ultimately only want dictatorial power over people and whole economies for their own greed – and they openly approve violence to obtain it. Do we continue to allow our people to die unnecessarily, be scared, depressed, anxious, silenced, locked up, suicide, and go broke for this greed?

As Alexander Tytler noted: abundance leads to selfishness, which leads to apathy, then dependence, before bondage. We are dependent on gutless and unaccountable governments, keeping truths we deserve from us, and we’re staring down a dark tunnel to bondage – by our own governments, the UN, and their private “partners”.

What would our Diggers think about leaders who have forgotten how fragile freedom is? Or leaders who’d trashed those freedoms our Diggers made bloody sacrifices for? Or leaders who enter into treasonous agreements that are NOT in the interests of those who elected them? Eureka indeed.

Can you imagine the diggers saying – well, we won’t go to war, there’s a flu out there Mate.

No, they went and dodged bullets and put up with unimaginably horrible things to ensure OUR future freedom and liberties.

I believe that we should honour that, and not slide into subservience to the UN and big corporate mates – we should be strongly supportive of our OWN Constitution and ability.

Most of all, it is up to US, you and me, to take a stand for what our Diggers fought for; for our freedoms embedded in the Constitution of our Great South Land under the mighty Southern Cross. We need to stand for our rule-book that has served our liberty faithfully, except for the treasonous use of the external affairs power which opens Australia up to foreign interference.

We need to uproot our dependency on mandated insanity lest we enter bondage, proving Alexander Tytler’s observation correct.

FOODforTHOUGHT

PaulTIERNEY LIFEandTIMES with ANGUS GIBB

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my lungs whilst mowing for almost 2 I sick of my own company yet? Nope.

Lovin’ It. My lovely wife made banana hours. Bliss. Alone. Not lonely.

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Let’s Talk Money Let’s Talk Money

with Daniel McGregor with Daniel McGregor

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CITYwatch

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AMANDA SPALDING with Bob Holland

Open for Business and Needing a Rest BOB: I continue to be disappointed with the obsession our Councillors seem to have with supporting tourism and hospitality businesses while ignoring local retailers. Orange City Council announced its COVID Rebound Group with great fanfare but I haven’t seen any results. I wondered if you knew how other similar councils are responding to our COVID recession.

AMANDA: I asked some members of the COVID Rebound Group what was happening about meetings, and I was told that the proposals had been picked up in the Future City proposals.

I have had a look at Councils that are similar to Orange City Council and are part of the Evocities Group. (for which there is still a link on the Orange City Council website).

Albury City Council has a good reputation for being outward looking and as early as June it was encouraging local people to love local with a Love Local Campaign – ‘Whilst restrictions ease and our businesses recover from the impact of COVID-19, we encourage you to support our local business community when you can.

Whether it’s buying a coffee, a voucher, a new item of clothing or dining out on Dean, we can all make a difference. Life during COVID-19 restrictions doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy or support our local businesses and as we have grown and adapted, there are so many ways we can back the local businesses we know and love. By backing local, we can stimulate the economy and support jobs, ensuring we recover as quickly as possible from the impacts of this global pandemic.

If you aren’t able to financially support a business, why not leave a positive review or drop your favourite places an encouraging email of support and solidarity?

Information on the support available to businesses in Albury is available on our dedicated COVID-19 page, as well as the latest information on event cancellations or postponements, changes to our services and updates, alerts and resources to help during this time.

For those of us at home, we can source much of what we need right here in our region. So please, if you’re lucky enough to be able to help, take a look at the diverse options on offer and stay loyal to local.’

Our neighbours, Bathurst Regional Council work very closely with the local Chamber of Commerce through the Business Hub https://bathurstbusinesshub.com.au/ Bathurst Council has led the ‘Doors Open Bathurst – A Local Business Initiative’ and the September Biz Month 2020 with 14 events for local businesses, preceding the NSW Small Business Month in October.

Tamworth Regional Council has very little on its website about assisting recovery, but it does have a very active Chamber of Commerce that is promoted

on Council’s website.

In July Wagga Wagga City Council announced its COVID-19 Relief Package to complement its Live Local. Be Local. Activation Plan developed by the Business Support Group. The main aim is to activate the CBD and get more people into the retail precinct, accessing those local businesses and supporting them.

‘We also want to make it easier for business people to come in and establish a new business or grow their current operations. This is about encouraging people to get out there and have a go with a level of support from Council. We’re here to support and be part of the community and take up some of the burden on the community.’

The relief package includes: • COVID-19 Infrastructure Contributions Relief Package: Defer Payment of Infrastructure Contributions for 12 months for major developments that support employment and investment in the city; Waive Sewer Infrastructure Contributions for Change of Use in the CBD; Modify timing for Sewer and Stormwater contributions conditioned at construction for Commercial and Industrial Buildings Only.

• Small Business Package As the largest employment sector, small businesses (<50 staff; around 98% of employment) are critical to maintaining a diverse workforce and career pathways for local youth.

1. Main Street Live – we’re bringing vibrancy back to the heart of the city! A key attraction in our city is events that celebrate who we are and what we have to offer. We’ve missed some key events but this just means a more action packed mix is coming soon.

A schedule of main street activities and events are scheduled for the next 12 months. We plan to catch up on all the fun we’ve missed during COVID-19 restrictions, so check out the event calendar on Visit Wagga and join us in the city.

2. Main Street Local – made great, in Wagga!

The region has some incredibly talented people that create amazing artwork, make unique products, craft delicious cuisine, and provide award winning service.

Eastern Riverina Arts and the business community are looking to make the main street experience even better through the Creative Spaces initiative. The aim is to fill empty shops with artists to not only showcase the fantastic local art, but also get people back into the CBD and demonstrate the potential of a thriving main street.

3. Main Street Hub – innovation leads to growth Innovative entrepreneurs have the potential to kickstart the local economy and solve community and industry problems quickly. The business community is collaborating to create a hub that will help facilitate collaboration and ensure our up-and-coming business leaders have the space and support they need to | Saturday 26 September, 2020 |

make their business a reality. proponents through the process and Council services to enable simple applications to be made easier for our customers and reduce the amount of time required to approve development. Council has been identified as a pilot program to leverage from the NSW Government’s Planning Acceleration Program.

It is hard to find much about Dubbo Regional Council working with the local business community on the website, but I do know that the Dubbo Chamber of Commerce is running a Salute to Dubbo Businesses Awards event in November. ”This is all about celebrating that resilience, but also acknowledging the creative ways in which many businesses have pivoted, diversified or simply became innovative with their offering.

The Chamber believes that should be recognised.”

Voting is online and there are only 4 categories of Awards. Some Chambers make the mistake of having endless Awards, with unclear voting methods, that can be all about the self-glorification of the sponsors!!!

The President of the Dubbo Chamber is also encouraging people to buy local and invite their friends and relatives for a visit to stimulate the Dubbo economy.

In Orange 35% of ‘tourists’ are ‘visiting friends or relatives’, so I guess it is up to us to make sure they spend money at local retailers!

BOB: Do we have any news on how OC Future City is going?

AMANDA: The proposal for a pedestrian mall in Anson Street has its detractors and its supporters so it should be an interesting debate. My view is that it can be pedestrianised during the day and allow traffic through slowly at night so that there is passive surveillance of the area to improve night time safety.

This can be done with pavement treatments. We did something similar in Parramatta.

We had a visitor to our office this week who asked if we could mention the need for seats in the CBD and in the shops. Quite a lot of people find walking around the CBD very tiring and would like the opportunity to sit down for a few minutes to rest.

I have noticed that the small number of chairs near the Summer Street entrance to Orange City Centre are always occupied by people taking a breather.

As the OC Future City project is aiming to change community behaviour about car parking and make the CBD more walkable it seems that this is a necessity. It may be included in the 106 projects for OC Future City, but if it is not, I feel we should urge Council to include seating in the Public Domain planning.

If you would like to discuss any of the matters that Bob and I raise in our conversations, please feel free to contact me at aespalding2@bigpond.com or on 0417 288 246.

BUSINESS news

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HE RTS FOR ORANGE

$2000 ON THE TABLE, JUST FOR SAYING YES! ­— BOB HOLLAND — Hearts for Orange will be holding a big two-day sales event over two days - October 30 and 31 and appropriate local shops can be part of it for no cost whatsoever.

To be called - The Big Orange Citywide Home Improvement Spectacular - shoppers will be encouraged to shop at participating local home improvement type businesses during the spectacular, and they’ll have a $2000 Gift Voucher as an incentive to do so.

Hearts for Orange is putting up the prize and inviting all local home improvement type shops to join in - AND there’s absolutely no cost to participate.

This is an outstanding free opportunity for home improvement type businesses and one that just requires a simple YES to be ­ part of it.

Call Hearts for Orange Executive Officer Amanda Spalding to find out more or to participate. There’s no cost whatsoever so we can’t make it any easier than that.

Call Amanda on 0479 179 779 or email her amanda@heartsfororange.com.au

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FINANCE

KEEPING BUSINESSES AFLOAT DURING COVID-19 Claiming valid deductions from coronavirus losses Small businesses doing it tough as a result of COVID-19 have been reminded by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) that they have a range of options this tax year including claiming a deduction for losses.

The ATO anticipates that in 2019–20 and 2020–21, a number of businesses that would ordinarily be turning a profit may be making a loss due to COVID-19, possibly for the first time.

“We know some small business owners are under incredible amounts of stress and facing uncertainty like never before. We understand your tax obligations may not be at the top of your list of things to do,” ATO Assistant Commissioner Andrew Watson said.

“If you’re feeling overwhelmed or getting behind with your tax, let us know as early as possible so we can work with you to find a solution. No matter what your situation is, it’s never too late to ask for help.”

Sole traders and individual partners in a partnership who meet certain conditions, can now offset current year losses against other assessable income (such as salary or investment income) in the same income year.

Otherwise, they can defer the loss or carry it forward and offset it to a future year when the business next makes a profit.

“If you find yourself in this boat, you may be able to claim a deduction for the loss. It’s crucial that you keep proper records to ensure you can claim the deduction you’re entitled to,” Mr Watson said.

Businesses that are set up under a company structure that have made a tax loss in a current year can generally carry forward that loss for as long as they want and claim a deduction for their business in a future year.

“You’ll need to keep records for five years for most transactions. However, if you fully deduct a tax loss in a single income year, you only need to keep records for four years from that income year,” Mr Watson said.

There are some deductions that can’t be used to create or increase a tax loss, such as donations or gifts and personal super contributions.

Mr Watson also acknowledged that some businesses may need to close their doors — either temporarily or permanently — due to COVID-19.

Businesses that are closing temporarily are encouraged to do their best to keep up with tax and super obligations, and to reach out to the ATO on 1800 806 218 or contact their registered tax professional if they need additional time or support.

“If you have to close your business permanently as a result of COVID19 or for any other reason, there’s a few things you’ll need to do, like lodge any outstanding activity statements and instalment notices, make GST adjustments on your final activity statement and lodge final tax returns — so we can finalise your account and issue any refunds that might be owed to you,” Mr Watson said.

Extended insolvency protections for small businesses, Ombudsman Federal Government extension of temporary insolvency and bankruptcy protections to support struggling small businesses impacted by the COVID crisis has been welcomed by the Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman, Kate Carnell.

Regulations reducing the threat of creditors acting against small businesses impacted by trading restrictions have now been extended to 31 December 2020.

small business owners facing financial stress can obtain a voucher valued up to $5,000 to access tailored advice on the state of their business,” Ms Carnell added.

The changes also extend the temporary relief for directors from any personal liability for trading while insolvent. “These necessary measures give otherwise viable small businesses more time to recover, preventing a wave of unnecessary insolvencies,” Ms Carnell said.

The voucher would ensure small businesses have access to the expertise they need to judge business viability, she said.

“While we support this temporary relief for financially distressed businesses, there will also be a number of zombie businesses kept artificially afloat as a consequence.

“ASIC data shows insolvencies are tracking at close to 50% below 2019 levels, which goes to show the extent to which government stimulus and protection measures are keeping businesses on life support, including businesses that have not been viable for some time.

“Deloitte Access Economics modelling estimates about 240,000 small businesses are at risk of failure, highlighting the critical need for small businesses to sit down with their trusted financial adviser for a viability assessment.

“My office continues to recommend the establishment of a small business viability voucher program, where

“Unfortunately, small businesses with cash flow issues, compounded by falling revenue, may not seek out professional advice because it’s deemed to be unaffordable. This could prove to be devastating for the business owner and their family, down the line.

“We know the sooner a small business owner experiencing financial stress seeks assistance from an accredited professional, the better the outcome.”

Ms Carnell has also urged the Federal Government to reduce the financial pressure off small businesses without adversely impacting workers by deferring superannuation guarantee increases and cutting taxes on superannuation payments.

In a letter to the Treasurer, Ms Carnell has proposed a two-year deferral on legislated superannuation guarantee increases, while also cutting the 15 per cent tax on compulsory employer superannuation guarantee contributions to 7.5 per cent during that time.

Ms Carnell says the combined

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measures offset each other, to ensure workers end up with a similar superannuation amount as they would have under the scheduled increase.

“We have to get the balance right by ensuring small businesses aren’t hit with rising costs and workers are no worse off,” Ms Carnell said.

Many small businesses are already struggling to stay afloat as a result of the COVID-induced recession and cannot afford to pay higher costs, she believes.

“These increased costs would put small business owners under even more financial strain, placing jobs and businesses at risk.

“It is equally important to safeguard the long-term financial future of Australians through superannuation.

“Our modelling shows our proposed tax cut would cost the Government no more than $6 billion per year and would also support struggling small businesses and help the millions of Australians who used the early access to superannuation program to start restoring their long-term super balance.

“Ultimately, by implementing this proposal, the federal government would be supporting small businesses and all Australians who deserve a dignified retirement,” Ms Carnell concluded.

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NEW CSU MEDICAL SKILLS EDUCATION CENTRE APPROVED AT BLOOMFIELD PRIVATE HOSPITAL

FIRST STUDENTS WILL BE WELCOMED NEXT YEAR TO AN INNOVATIVE PROGRAM DESIGNED TO STRENGTHEN REGIONAL HEALTHCARE THAT IS TO BE BASED AT THE NEW BLOOMFIELD PRIVATE MEDICAL CENTRE IN ORANGE The joint project between Charles Sturt University and the University of Western Sydney involves establishment of the Clinical Skills Education Centre at the south Orange site.

The new facility recently received development approval from Orange City Council to begin construction. It will be housed on the first of six floors of the Bloomfield Private Medical Centre and will support the training of students in the Charles Sturt and Western Sydney University Joint Program in Medicine.

The new program is likely to welcome its first cohort of 37 students in 2021.

The space will include rooms for teaching clinical skills, tutorials, and general learning, as well as meetings and conferences, and quiet rooms and other workspaces.

This facility will support the major capital works currently underway at Charles Sturt University in Orange with the inaugural Dean of the School of Rural Medicine named as Professor Lesley Forster.

Prof Forster said the approval marked another stepping-stone in Charles Sturt’s push to ensure the provision of highlyskilled medical professionals ready to meet the healthcare needs of regional Australians.

“This Centre will provide state-of-theart clinical and learning facilities that will greatly improve medical education at Charles Sturt University and benefit Orange Health Service and its staff,” she said.

“The Doctor of Medicine curriculum takes into account the healthcare needs of regional communities.

z The inaugural Dean of the School of Rural Medicine overseeing Charles Sturt University’s new Clinical Skills Education Centre is Professor Lesley Forster.

...This Centre will provide state-ofthe-art clinical and learning facilities that will greatly improve medical education at Charles Sturt University and benefit Orange Health Service and its staff... enhance the learning opportunities for the inaugural and subsequent Doctor of Medicine students, Prof Forster said.

Orange Mayor, Councillor Reg Kidd, congratulated Charles Sturt on its progress towards the new training centre.

“This facility, as part of the $22 million capital works program which also includes the Academic and Research Hub and medical education facilities under construction on the Orange campus, will be at the heart of servicing those needs into the future.”

“There’s long-standing research that talks about medicos being more likely to stay and work in the regions if they’ve trained in the regions. Charles Sturt University is putting that understanding into practice by opening this new training facility,” Cr Kidd said.

The site for the new facility, adjacent to Orange Health Service, will further

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to create a new Health and Innovation precinct around the Bloomfield campus.

There are already many strengths to be built on and this new training space will be one more.

“Compared to living and working in an inner-city capital, Orange and the Bloomfield campus is going to be very attractive for students.”

The Bloomfield Private Medical Centre comprises of six levels over 13,000 square metres and will include operating theatres, a hospital ward, a wide range of medical specialists, as well as facilities for general practitioners, imaging, and pathology.

The fit-out of the Clinical Skills Education Centre is scheduled to be completed early 2021 in time for the commencement of new students in the Doctor of Medicine program in February 2021.

Applications for entry into the Joint Program in Medicine, which is part of the Commonwealth’s Murray Darling Medical Schools Network close on Wednesday, September 30 with applications through the Universities Admission Centre (UAC), with students from rural and regional backgrounds strongly encouraged to apply.

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“WIRED FOR SOUND” REFS IMPROVE DECISIONS AND FAIR-PLAY, MILETO

Top Orange Soccer referees have this year for the first time been “wired for sound” as part of a development program for the sports’ whistle-blowers.

The technology and associated professional program are designed to keep the officials in the game longer and to reduce problems with player and crowd behaviour, Tony Mileto from Orange District Football Association (ODFA) explained.

“What it is, is we were approached by the Referee’s Association who wanted to become more professional in their development and how they do their job,” Mr Mileto said.

“The ODFA have assisted the ODFRA with funding to purchase Beeper Flags/Comms Equipment and ongoing training to assist in the development of refereeing,” he explained.

“It allows for better communications between the referees and their assistants (linesmen).

“The referee has a headpiece and the assistant can communicate with them on decisions and things that the referee may have missed. It’s a way for the officials to better referee the game,” he added.

He explained that the system involves the assistants having microphones built into their flags and talking to the referee during the game, a system in many major football codes and which was first used in the 1970s in American football.

“It’s a way of letting the referee know what’s going on. What it does is stop the misinterpretations on the rules,” he added.

z “Wired for Sound”: Sydney A-League official, Kearney Robinson who travelled to Orange recently to assist in promoting an “RU OK” match with the new communication equipment.

He said that it was also helping enforce better player and crowd behaviour. “it’s not just the players on the field, but sometimes the spectators who are communicating with the assistants, telling them, you know ‘he’s off-side, raise the flag’, that sort of thing.”

ORANGE CITY AND EMUS set for grand final showdown

Local derby rugby fans got what they wanted with Orange Emus and Orange City pitted against each other in the decider at Wade Park on Saturday.

COVID-19 restrictions, however, will make it a very different affair from the usual celebrations of sport and community that these events normally are.

Tickets have been limited to 2000 capacity with all having to pre-purchased; “COVID marshals”, security guards, police, and licensing police, will all be present to ensure that social-distancing rules are kept.

“Everyone will be behind the fence, everyone will be seated, there will be no mingling, and we’re asking ticket-holders to bring their own chairs,” Chief of Central West Rugby, Matt Tink said.

“Any alcohol that is purchased must be consumed sitting down… and we’re keeping a record of all ticketholders,” he added.

The Blowes Cup Grand Final followed minor premiers Orange Emus defeating Bathurst Bulldogs with Orange City also knocking-over Dubbo Roo’s last weekend.

The Firsts kick-off is at 4.30pm with the two local teams also facing-off in the Colts Game from about 3pm.

The ladies thirds and seconds games both feature Dubbo Roo’s versus Bathurst Bulldogs.

Mr Tink says that, while the restrictions have probably halved the potential crowd, it’s a success that the competition went ahead this year at all.

“Ultimately, there were plenty of times when we thought that we wouldn’t have any rugby this year; the clubs are to be commended on the huge sacrifices that they made to make it all go ahead,” he concluded.

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The wired-up officials are only part of a new professional development project for the local referees, Mr Mileto said.

“We agreed with the Orange and District Football Referees Association on providing $10–12,000 to do that with referees development.”

“It’s aimed at helping them become more professional; to support referees in all areas of the game,” he added.

He said that a levy on local players was designed to improve training and provide seminars to the local whistleblowers to improve their overall confidence and support.

With grand finals for all grades set-down for this weekend, he said that games in the top three grades will benefit from the new technology.

Mr Mileto said that the feedback from the referees was that the technology was a success and enabled the refs to better do their job.

It would also, he said hopefully, see young referees stay with the game longer. “It’s all about giving young people the confidence and ensuring greater participation in referees,” he explained.

With 25 years involved in local football, he defends his emphasis as ODFA president on player and crowd good behaviour, saying that fair play is the essence of community sport.

“Many of these things are around discipline, I’ve got a low tolerance for player and spectator misbehaviour and I don’t apologise for that.

“In the end, if we don’t have referees, we don’t have a game. It’s that simple,” he said.

With the grand finals this weekend, he looks back at the abbreviated 2020 season and believes that the decision to go-ahead with games from mid-July following the coronavirus lockdown, was ultimately the right one. “It’s been a good competition with games seeming to be enjoyed by everyone, it’s gone well,” he concluded.

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WHERE IS COUNCIL’S $180 MILLION INVESTMENT FUND? ORRA ASKS Thank-you for giving Orange Residents and Ratepayers Association a plug in your recent opinion pieces.

We have tried — over the previous 10 years — to make voters aware of the need to watch over Council as it has a monopoly on how rates are managed.

We have endeavoured to persuade voters to take an interest in local government and not simply turn-off after election time.

Your comments about Council and councillors have been valid. We must always, however, keep an open mind.

With an educated and vocal voter, there are many views. Facts — all the facts — need to be expressed; not simply social media-type opinion.

As they say, “The facts speak for themselves”.

Our biggest concern with Council over the years has been the Council Investment Fund which has reached a sizable $180 million. We believe Council does not have a written report as to the purpose of the Fund.

It seems to simply be an accumulation of unspent ratepayer money — a bank.

Plus, we are of the opinion that the fund has placed too great a percentage of ratepayer money into Triple B rated return rather than talking a more conservative investment strategy.

We ask voters to watch over the Council activities and be alert to councillors swaying to public opinion with their sole view for re-election rather than pursuing a benefit to ratepayers.

Colin Young – President Orange Residents and Ratepayers Association Inc. 2010

SPORTING PRECINCT AT BLOOMFIELD SITE (Copy of a letter forwarded to Orange City Council on the proposed sporting precinct for south Orange) On reading the available information, I feel that there is insufficient information to assess the value of this concept plan for the Sporting Precinct.

It is difficult to determine the benefits (if they exist) by moving the sporting precinct from the approved Northern Distributor Road site.

I’m concerned that any heritage impact isn’t included in the information provided at Council’s meeting (3rd Dec 2019). As far as I know, the Bloomfield Hospital site (including “the grounds”… draft Health Precinct) is listed on the Historical Register.

The treescape in this section of the golf course is part of the local character and should be considered as part of the “historic site” of Bloomfield Hospital.

The concept design appears to be an over-development of the site, with too many stadiums and playing fields that detract from the existing open space and the need to preserve it.

There doesn’t appear to be sufficient parking for large crowds that would be attending the many sports/ functions that could be happening simultaneously, let alone to cater for the main stadium.

I’m very concerned about the number of trees (possibly hundreds) that would be removed to allow for this development to proceed.

‘I think it is remiss of Council to not value the existing trees as part of the environmental, socio-economic impact. Council were considering the use of the i-Tree program to ascertain the intangible value of trees to the community. (See attachment from CRCWSC) The intangible value, $ millions in this case, of the existing site trees should be considered when evaluating this proposal.

Most of the trees that would be removed are exotics but they still have value. They are vital in maintaining the Local Character (State Architect) in the Bloomfield Hospital site.

As the existing site is a very important open green space, there should be considerable effort on Council’s part to employ natural based solutions (NBS) as outlined in Water Sensitive Cities.

Consideration should be given to using the existing fairways for any future development. I would suggest that any development would see the enhancement of the existing waterways (centre of the site and Huntley Road).

I see the concept sporting precinct plan to be in conflict with many aspects and aspirations with Council’s Community Strategic Plan (CSP) and NSW State documents, such as the Urban Design for Regional NSW. These are summarised by, in the Health and Innovation Draft p52, “save natural ecosystems and open spaces”.

I would request that the concept plan: • be revised by down-sizing, lowering the number of activities • return the main stadium, athletics to the Northern Distributor Road site • be discarded and that this section of the golf course be integrated with the proposed Health/Innovation Precinct.

I would be happy to discuss further with staff.

C Smith, Ratepayer

ROD FARRELL’S ARTICLE IN SEPTEMBER 19 ISSUE Rehabilitating the State Forests on the western slopes of Mount Canobolas and creating a mountain bike mecca there was always a great idea. Just imagine if the feral pines and rampant blackberries were to give way to a native forest such as once existed, providing a scenic backdrop for the mountain bikers to enjoy?

Rather like other mountain bike parks that are so popular.

Just imagine, this vision could have been achieved long before this, if only the original planners had shown some respect for the small State Conservation Area on the mountain and not insisted on including it in their grand concept.

No serious “environmentalist”, whether a local Councillor or a bike shop owner, would have ever contemplated constructing kilometres of dedicated bike trails in the Mt Canobolas SCA. And the halfa-million dollars being spent on a second round of consultancy could have been spent on getting clearing, revegetation and trail construction started.

Note that any serious “environmentalist” knows the difference between “sub-arctic” and “sub-alpine” ecologies. Anyone who reads the local newspapers would be aware of the respected scientists who have already identified numerous threatened species preserved and supposedly-protected within the State Conservation Area (including a unique lichen community).

It’s hard to imagine too many environmental constraints to trail construction in the State Forests.

Perhaps it’s time the proponents of this scheme made a serious attempt to reclaim and re-purpose Forestry land for their scheme. It could just work.

Jenny Medd EDITOR NOTE: The substitution of the term “sub-alpine” with “sub-arctic” was a mis-type by the article’s author, not

by Mr Farrell.

WHO’S SETTING ORANGE WATER CHARGES NOW? Could somebody please explain, how Orange Council is working-out the water charges increase from the 1st of July 2020? There was only one meter reading in August.

Can I assume that Council just assumed that the consumption was estimated?

But what happens to customers who were not in Orange in July 2020? They just got overcharged. It does not make sense.

The rates have increased, the roads are in disrepair.

The roads in Orange are, to say the least, very unsafe.

But if an incident occurs, it is driver’s fault. Is this fair?

Dr James Mc Chartny

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