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BIG LOCKDOWN TO THE GREAT ESCAPE SILVER LININGS FOR NEW VISITORS…

ISSUE No. 20

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Talking POINTS

with BOB HOLLAND

I guess one of the big talking points right now would be how the changes to the Jobkeeper allowance this week will impact on people and businesses? It will be interesting to see what happens with businesses that have survived on the back of Jobkeeper until now but are no longer eligible.

There is also movement heading towards the next Local Government elections in September next year. They are still 12 months away but interested people are now starting to talk the talk and move into action. One area that is soon to become a talking point will be a push for more representation by women on the next Orange Council.

From the big lockdown to the great escape; Orange tourism is booming!

October Long Weekend is looking to be one of the best on records, local tourism operators say.

Colour City is enjoying an unprecedented boom in intrastate visitors with State and national lockdowns encouraging many locals to see country NSW for the first time.

Enjoying a sunny picnic with superlative spring weather in Robertson Park recently, Caleb, Ella, and Taylor couldn’t be happier: “We’re from the central coast (Wamberal), we’re just

here on a holiday,” Ella said.

“We were going to go to Echuca, but we had to change our plans with the lockdown in Victoria.”

“We’re here for the week, we were going to be for MondayFriday, but we added a day,” Caleb added.

“We’re really enjoying it, just seeing the sights, it’s a lovely, beautiful town,” he said enthusiastically.

“We’re just having a bit of a look around, ‘Good Eddies’ and ‘Heifer Station’, we’re staying in a local ‘Airbnb’,” Ella added.

“It’s a lovely place to visit,” she concluded.

• From “Bordeaux to Dubbo”, elites discovering the Orange region, turn to pages 4–5 for our report on the district’s booming tourism numbers.

Time for more women to stand for Council n Turn to page 7

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The new light poles in Summer Street are also sure to come in for discussion. It will be interesting to see what difference they make to the feel of the main street. I am having some difficulty thinking they’ll do anything for the street during the day while shops are open. They seem more of a nighttime attraction to me and I would have preferred to see something that added to the daylight shopping experience at this stage.

You’ll note we have several letters from readers again this week. That’s great! Keep them coming folks, I for one would love to hear your views on a whole range of things.

Our Hearts for Orange initiative continues to gain momentum as each week goes by, and given what retailers are facing over coming months, it’s going to be interesting to see what impact the various promotional activities will have. Retailers in Orange are encouraged to find out more about the program and then consider becoming part of it. For more information, go to the Hearts for Orange website www. heartsfororange.com.au or contact Executive Officer Amanda Spalding 0479 179 779 or amanda@heartsfororange.com.au Our City Watch column is a tad different this week. If you’ve ever wondered who’s who at Council and who’s responsible for what, have a read of City Watch in this issue, I think you may find it interesting.

Copies of Newswatch are available in a variety of places around Orange each week, if you think copies could be placed somewhere else as well, let us know. Call April 6361 3575 with suggestions.

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What Am I? loved by gardeners, early risers

“Me, a fossil? Never!”

1970s “Doctor” gets the fossil treatment

very briefly

To some, the long-running British series “Dr Who”, is the greatest science fiction show ever-made, to others, one of the cringiest franchises in TV history, but “The Doctor” has just been immortalised with the naming of a new fossil.

Naming the new fossil after Tom Baker, Dr Patrick Smith said he was inspired to follow a career in science thanks to Baker’s particular incarnation of the character (who is not actually named, “Doctor Who”).

“I’m not old enough to remember Tom Baker’s episodes which were originally aired in 1974–81,” Dr Smith said.

“However, growing up as a teenager when the series re-aired in the early 2000’s, I followed the show religiously and became convinced that a career in science was guaranteed to improve the world,” Smith added.

For night-owls like some “Newswatch” correspondents, it’s a daily torture until the first week in April blessedly rolls around again — it ends next year on Sunday, April 4.

z The new Orange Community Broadcasters Committee that was recently elected to the local station.

BROADCASTING LOUD AND CLEAR

Annual General Meeting of Orange Community Broadcasters Inc was held recently at the CWA Hall in Robertson Park. The following Committee of Management was unanimously elected:

Strategies to help you adjust to daylight saving time include: 1. Make the bedroom as bright as possible when you first wake up in the morning.

2. Eat a good breakfast.

3. Go outside in the sunlight in the early mornings.

4. Exercise outside in the mornings.

5. Try to get between seven to nine hours sleep each night.

PRESIDENT Richard Hattersley; VICE PRESIDENT Tina Hernando; TREASURER Amanda Spalding; SECRETARY Darrell Hair; Committee Members Gerry Faulkner, Addam Parish and Jon Carter President Richard Hattersley said: “We look forward to continuing to broadcast with our 22 local presenters; the support of our local business sponsors; generous donations from Newcrest Operations Cadia and some of our members, and grants from the Community Broadcasting Foundation.”

COBOTS; COMING TO WORKSITE NEAR YOU...

It’s not a robot, it’s a “cobot”, and if its proponents have their way, it could be coming to a building site near you…

A UNSW student is building one of the world’s most advanced robotic hands for use on construction sites.

A UNSW Master’s student has designed the world’s first soft robotic hand that can pick up, put down, paint and hammer with greater ease than current models in the workforce.

“Industrial robots are so dangerous the way they are now,” says Charlotte Firth, who is creating the robotic hand as part of her Master of Computational Design degree.

Universally approved of by gardeners, early-risers, and sun-lovers, the annual adjustment to our hours nevertheless does take some getting used to every year.

When first introduced in the early 1970s, critics suggested that this new-fangled initiative — it was originally proposed by Benjamin Franklin and first introduced in Australia as a power-saving initiative during World War I — of putting dairy cows off milking and fading the curtains due to the supposed extra hour of daylight…

Australian scientists named the newlydiscovered trilobite — an extinct marine animal — with the name (Gravicalymene bakeri) after the actor Tom Baker who played “The Doctor” in the 1970s.

Found in the shales of the Gordon Group, Northern Tasmania, the rare trilobite is dated from the Late Ordovician period, part of the Palaeozoic era, approximately 450 million years ago.

And it’s that time of year again… daylight saving starts this Sunday (October 4, 2am) in NSW, so remember to put your clocks forward an hour before you finish your hot cocoa.

“Being able to create soft robots would change the way humans interact with them and it will take out the element of danger.”

From hammering on construction sites to bone drilling in surgical situations, the two robotic arms need to be sensitive enough to work alongside people without hurting them.

Ms Firth became interested in cobots in construction due to the shortage of skilled workers onsite, and the potential for robotic material because of its underuse in industry, she says.

One wonders whether Cobot’s first rule is; don’t swear when you hit your thumb with the hammer!

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And now the winter of our discontent, made summer, by the return of the Bunnings barbecue!

Bunnings’ community sausage sizzles — banned during the big COVID-19 lock-downs — are coming back to the Orange store next Saturday, October 10.

And rumour has it, that Canobolas Lions Club are to be first cab-off-the-rank with the restart of this popular Saturday ritual.

Bunnings though, said that there will be some changes to reflect our more distant times… “including a new layout that promotes physical distancing and increased personal hygiene processes: • Separate ordering and pick-up points to allow for 1.5 metres’ physical distancing • Increased cleaning processes and hygiene requirements • Increased signage to guide customers • community groups required to wear a face mask or face covering during sausage sizzle So local community groups, now’s the time to brush-off that old apron, get the tongs and forks, out and fire-up the barbie for your fundraising venture…

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Staff down, workload up, pay frozen, for local Police Local Orange police had helped save NSW from Victoria’s shutdowns and the hundreds of COVID-19 deaths the State has suffered while at the same time being denied a due pay rise, the NSW Police Association said in Orange last week.

z Outside Orange Police Station seeking a pay rise for NSW Police, Association President, Tony King, local union rep, Adam Piffarelli, and Local Member and former police officer, Phil Donato.

Orange Police has lost up to 10 percent of its roster from officers assigned protecting the NSW border from illegal crossings at the same time as their workload has increased by 30 percent due to COVID-19, a local union representative added.

The thanks that NSW Police had received from the State Government for saving NSW “from what happened in Victoria” was to see their previously-agreed wage increases taken off the table, the Association spokesperson added.

Senior Police Association officials visited Orange recently with Local member, Phil Donato (himself a former Police Prosecutor), to campaign for the Berejiklian Government to re-open negotiations over the police payfreeze.

“Police have always managed to do a task, whether they have the resources or not, the community expects them to do what they are asked… they cope,” NSW Police Association President, Tony King said.

Mr Donato said that the work protecting NSW during a pandemic with the added stress, worry, and increased expectations was “worth more than zero”.

...Look at what happened in Victoria?

We prevented that!”

“With border patrols and the like, their workload has increased more than 30 percent,” he said.

the roster and saying ‘Can you go? Have you gone yet?’ it’s people from all sections, detectives as well as uniform,” he said.

“They’re putting themselves and their family members at risk by just doing their jobs; and it’s money that gets put back into local communities,” Mr Donato said.

“It’s put a strain on the officers when they’re taken from local duties and have to go down to the border; what they’re putting themselves through also puts them at added risk,” he said.

Mr King said that the union is now prepared to countenance the original 2.5 per cent offer as a starting point due to the economic pressures that the State Government is now under.

“They should look at the original 2.5 per cent agreed; but we’re not saying that it has to be 2.5 per cent, we’re just asking for them to negotiate,” he said.

“They’re going down to the border to protect us, there’s hotel quarantine, more call-outs to domestic situations, all we’re asking is for a fair deal.”

“Look at what happened in Victoria? We prevented that,” Mr King added.

Local Police Association union rep, Adam Piffarelli, said that the added workload in recent months from the bushfire crisis and COVID-19 — especially local police being assigned to border patrols — had added to the stress on local police.

“Everyone within this building has pretty much done a stint. They’re going through

The Berejiklian Government has opposed the pay increases, saying that the increased spending to protect the NSW economy from the pandemic, has left the State coffers unable to afford widespread, previouslyagreed pay increases.

Mr Donato said that it was hypocritical of the NSW Government to allow pay increases for “senior level bureaucrats” while opposing to frontline police.

“Some of these senior public servants got 60, 70, $80,000 pay increases, and yet you can’t give a pay increase to frontline people,” he said.

“All of this money is spent on local businesses, in shops, hotels, and services, it’s helping build prosperity in country towns,” Mr Donato said.

His own experiences as a serving officer had shown him how dangerous the job could be, he said.

“When cops put on their uniform and say

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z Orange Police has lost up to 10 percent of its roster from officers assigned protecting the NSW border from illegal crossings at the same time as their workload has increased by 30 percent due to COVID-19, a local union representative has said.

‘goodbye’ to their family as they head out to work their shift, they don’t know if they’ll come home scathed by injury, or if they’ll ever return at all,” he said.

NSW Police are now taking their campaign to the Industrial Relations Commission (IRC) to seek the previously-agreed pay rise.

“Police in Queensland and Victoria have not been treated with such disregard, and when we appear before the Industrial Relations Commissions next week, we will be arguing that the economic arguments being used by the Government just don’t hold-up,” Mr King concluded.

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From “Bordeaux to Dubbo” for first-time city visitors Pioneer Orange wine-maker, Stephen Doyle, believes that the coronavirus travel lockdowns have brought travellers to the region who have never ventured west of the Blue Mountains — with sometimes amusing results.

...It’s a lot more time consuming, we’ve had to employ someone else to clean-up, sanitise everything, and ensure that everything is as required under the rules,” Stephen Doyle said. New rules for wine-tasting at Bloodwood hasn’t deterred many firsttime visitors to Orange’s oldest commercial winemaking vineyard.

“I had someone complaining to me about not being in Bordeaux, he said, ‘I’m usually in Bordeaux (a wine-making region of France) at this time of year,’ I couldn’t help them,” he said.

‘Well I told him, ‘we are a bit like Tuscany (in Italy) but with gum-trees’ which he didn’t find funny, so I said, ‘we’re re not close to Bordeaux, but we are quite close to Dubbo which is only just down the road, if that would help’,” he laughed.

Doyle — whose Bloodwood winery was the first modern European style vineyard in the Orange region in the 1980s — has seen an influx of visitors that are new to the district “Because of the restrictions under COVID, we are seeing a number of people coming to our cellar door that have never been here before, they’re new groups coming over the mountains, seemingly for the first time, which is fantastic,” he said.

“They’re people that haven’t come across the ‘sandstone

curtain’ (Blue Mountains) before; they’re seeing their country for the first time,” he added.

He believes that this trend has enormous positive benefits over the long-term for the Orange region.

“Enough have come across to see what country NSW can do; it will be great for tourism.

These people will go back and remember the experience that they’ve had, provided that we behave ourselves now,” he added.

He said that many of these travellers are unfamiliar with the more-relaxed manners of the country, and it is imperative that local tourism operators put their best-foot forward.

“There’s sometimes a bit of a culture clash with these people; many have never been to the bush before.”

He said that the pandemic has affected his own winery a bit less than many of the larger operators as he has always required bookings for those coming for tastings.

Visitor boom for Orange is all in the numbers The figures are in, Orange is enjoying a post-lockdown boom with many of the visitors having their first look at the region with some visitor numbers up more than 50 per cent...

With international and interstate travel out of bounds for most Australians throughout a large part of the year, many are discovering their own backyard for the first time.

First batch is people coming through the door at the Visitors Centre. Peaked in July, but still way above last year pre-COVID. Orange Visitor Information centre is often the first port-of-call for travellers with the numbers telling a good story for tourism in the region.

“We’ve always run on bookings, before we had COVID, people were sometimes a bit odd about that, but now you’ve simply got to know who’s coming through the front door.”

VISITOR CENTRE TRAFFIC REPORTS:

His Griffin Rd property is all booked-up for the Long Weekend but with far smaller groups than visited prelockdown.

The story is the same for website visits. Measures of “traffic” on the key tourism website indicates that many more people who have never been to the Orange region, visited the website to research a trip. These “new-users” are coming to the site for the first time with comparisons below for this time last year and for recent months.

“It’s a lot more time consuming, we’ve had to employ someone else to cleanup, sanitise everything, and ensure that everything is as required under the rules,”: he added. “We’ve coped, but it’s been a terrible stress for us.”

He looks back now with the range of wineries in Orange and remembers the days when he was a beginner in the local industry.

“We weren’t the first to grow grapes locally, that goes back to colonial times, but we were the first to grow classic European grape varieties and make wine out of them for a larger market,” he concluded.

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2019

2020

% CHANGE

July

10,047

14,345

Up 43%

August

6781

8773

Up 29%

Sept

7164

11,215

Up 56%

Website traffic (www.orange360.com.au) showing year on year growth and huge increase in first time visitors: June 2020

19,989 unique users

June 2019

13,268

July 2020

17,064 unique users

July 2019

10,041

August 2020

14,314 unique users

August 2019

10.995

(18,919 new users) (15,868 new users) (13,428 new users)

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After lockdown, everyone wants to come to Orange Orange tourism boom is no new thing for local home accommodation booking agent, Tim Mortimer, he believes we’ve been in it for months!

“Actually, we’ve been chockers since the June Long Weekend,” he said.

“I just think that people haven’t been able to travel overseas and interstate, so they’re looking within NSW,” he said.

This was evidenced, he said, by a sudden surge in interest in local short-term rentals after the second wave of the coronavirus swept through Victoria.

“Once Melbourne locked-down, we had lots of bookings,” he said.

He says that this new interest in the central tablelands will have longterm benefits for the local industry, believing that to know the district, is to love it. “We all know how beautiful Orange is, about 20 per cent of those guests are going-out of their way to tell us, that this is their first visit,” he said.

“This is really going to mean positive growth over the coming decades,” he said.

Spokesperson for one local winery said that interest in visiting the region had gone up six-fold. “We would normally have maybe, 1000 enquiries at about this time each year, this year, we’ve had 6000.”

Orange Mayor, Councillor Reg Kidd said that the sudden interest in country life from the coronavirus pandemic has long-term transformative benefits for

the local tourism sector.

“People I bring-out, to see the villagers and the like, they really love our country architecture… our country pubs and the like,” he said.

They’re walking around and developing a new appreciation of rural architecture, the old places, Duntryleague, Croagh Patrick and the like.” He added that the worldwide pandemic has caused many people to get in touch with their rural background.

“People do like these type of things, we must build on their experiences to make them want to come back. We’ve got some great experiences out here,” he added.

Other local accommodation providers said that, after the slump caused by the State-wide lockdown from March, business is starting to pick-up again with a spike for the Long Weekend.

“We’re pretty much booked-out, we have only one room left Sunday,” Carl Patel from the Mid-City Lodge said.

“That’s pretty normal now, we’re mostly fully-booked except on Sundays.

Vijay Bohra from the Orange Motor Lodge said that things were now picking-up after a “really quiet time” due to the pandemic lockdowns.

“Things are pick-up now, that’s how we look at it,” he said.

He said that many visitors mention that this is their first visit to the region, a good sign for tourism. “I think that is right.”

A spokesperson for the Hotel Canobolas said that they are seeing many new visitors to the region with most expressing their surprise at the range of experiences locally.

Another major motel said that they had been booked-out since July with many visitors seemingly having their first look at the region with interest, particularly in the local wineries.

“A lot are saying, ‘that’s why we’re here,’ we’ve got 60 wineries and 40 cellar doors, so why wouldn’t they?” a spokesperson said.

Licensee of the Metropolitan Hotel and adjacent motel complex, Mark Murphy says that, while visitor numbers are picking-up now, the industry has a long way to go to claw back the losses of the past six months.

“We’re only just getting-over the lockdown period… we’re only just starting to open-up again,” he believes.

He points to events like the Bathurst 1000 which, at this time of year, usually brings thousands of visitors to the region as the lost opportunities of the current situation.

“We’ve had people coming here for that event for the past 25 years, but

now they’ can’t come,” he said.

He said though, that the state-wide lockdowns have encouraged people within NSW to see their state for the first time.

“On Monday we had visitors from Bowral, Mittagong, Canberra, Tweed Heads… I just think that people are just taking the opportunity to get out there, to see the country.”

“Once they’ve had a look, they love Orange!” he said.

While they have been booked-up for some time for the Long Weekend, they have had so many inquiries that “we have given-up” answering many requests.

Mr Murphy believes that, while the future is bright for Orange, infrastructure capacity could hold the city back.

“They don’t like to think about water, but you can’t keep growing without the infrastructure,” he said.

He believes that the lockdowns have been unevenly-applied with many elites seeming to live by other rules.

“They’re saying that we’re all in this together, well the average person is following the rules and regulations, but it’s not the same if you’re a famous footballer or politician, is it?”

Mr Murphy concluded.

Licensee of the Metropolitan Hotel and adjacent motel complex, Mark Murphy. Believes that, while visitor numbers are picking-up now, the industry has a long way to go to claw back the losses of the past six months. | Saturday 3 October, 2020 |

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MALL OPPOSITION TAKING POISON PEN TWIST, MAYOR Opposition to the contentious proposed mall in Anson Street has taken a bizarre turn with a fake letter purportedly from the Mayor of Orange, Councillor Reg Kidd, dropped into a number of locations around Orange.

The letter claims to detail Cr Kidd’s opposition to the mall idea on supposed grounds of cost, aesthetics, traffic access, lost tourism potential, and environmental concerns.

Council’s recently-launched Future City plan proposes transforming a 40-metre section of the current roadway into a new pedestrian mall space as a part of improving the Colour City’s “walkability”.

With some opposition to the plan from retailers likely to be affected by the road closure, Orange City Council has sent-out official Council correspondence to local small businesses seeking to explain the proposal in detail.

The photocopied, handwritten letter, however, claims in lurid, outlandish terms that Cr Kidd: “will not risk burning million$ of my hard-working ratepayers dollar$ for a million$ of dollar$ make-over of the most monotonous block of, in Anson St.” The letter also claims that the mall will not bring in tourism but will instead attract “Indian Minor Birds” seemingly referring to the exotic pest species Indian mynah birds that have been recently found in the district.

The unsigned missive also claims that

Orange taxi-cabs — that currently have one of their main ranks on the street — would be disadvantaged by the road closure.

Cr Kidd has dismissed the letter and said that he was considering filing a complaint about the matter with Orange Police.

He said that the aim of the long consultation period for the proposal is for everyone with a point of view to have a say on the plan.

The Anson Street proposal includes a raised pedestrian platform with bollards at each end of the platform to separate pedestrians and traffic.

The estimated $1.5 million project will also include outdoor dining options, innovative planting and street furniture design, self-

sustaining rain gardens and storm-water reuse options.

“This particular project to upgrade Anson Street will mean that local residents and those visiting our city have a large open space to, not only cross between both shopping precincts safely, but a space to enjoy and spend time in along the way,” Cr Kidd said.

Orange City Council’s Infrastructure Committee chair, Cr Jeff Whitton said, rather than being a burden to local retailers, they will be advantaged by the bold move: “Businesses along Anson Street will benefit from the Anson Street upgrade as the new layout will make it easier for people to move freely along the corridor and out into Summer Street,” Cr Whitton said.

Down to Level 2 with more rain on the way It never rains, it pours!

This could be the theme for Orange in the spring and summer of 2020 with higher than expected rainfall for the district as the same time that our water storage capacity tops-out at 61 per cent.

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology last week declared that the La Niña weather phenomenon has developed in the Pacific meaning that recent high rainfall and cooler temperatures are likely to continue at least until the end of the year.

The effect has been immediate with Orange’s water restrictions recently dropping from Level 3 to Level 2, a precipitous decline from Level 5 restrictions the city was on for months until August 19, only a few weeks ago.

In what seems a happy portent for the Colour City, Orange as at October 1 had received 883mm of rain for the year, more than double last year’s October 1 figure of only 421mm (the average for Orange at this time of year is 723mm.)

Orange Mayor and long-time farmer, Cr Reg Kidd said that rainfall events since summer had become so regular and persistent, farmers may now need a touch of dry weather!

“We haven’t had rain like this quite some time. I hope we do have the odd warm day so as to allow farmers to get their wheat, oats, and canola harvested.”

The outlook though, is all good news, he added.

“You go anywhere, the soil profile is saturated; that will help us through the hotter months. Because, when summer comes, it makes a big difference with a full profile rather than a dry profile,” he added.

La Niña is the cool phase of the El Niño Southern Oscillation. It is associated with cooler than average sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean.

In declaring the La Niña active, the Bureau explained that these events often form in autumn or winter, then decay in late summer. The greatest impact normally occurs during the spring and early summer period.

La Niña typically results in above-average spring rainfall for Australia, particularly across eastern, central, and northern regions. It can also mean cooler days, more tropical cyclones, and an earlier onset of the first rains of the wet season across the north.

The last La Niña event occurred from 2010-2012 and

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UP GO STORAGE LEVELS, S DOWN GO RESTRICTION

ch 27, 2020. recent years was 21.42% on Mar Orange’s lowest storage point in on 19 August dropped from Level 5 to Level 4 We reached storage of 40% and 24 August pped from Level 4 to Level 3 on Storage reached 50% and we dro September.

25 on 2 el Lev pped from Level 3 to Storage topped 60% and we dro

resulted in one of Australia’s wettest two-year periods on record. Widespread flooding occurred in many parts of Australia associated with the record rainfalls.

The impacts of La Niña can vary significantly between events. For those who remember with dread, the widespread flooding and loss of life suffered on the eastern seaboard in 2010, it is likely this year will not see the same intensity as the 2010-11 La Niña event, but is still likely to be of moderate strength.

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by DAVID DIXON

TIME FOR MORE WOMEN TO STAND-UP FOR ORANGE Newly-minted local Roslyn McGroder has a call to the women of the Colour City — ask not what Orange can do for you, but what you can do for your local community!

She says that she notices the gender divide in Orange Council mostly at times of important celebrations: “I think it’s emphasised when International Women’s Day rolls around each year. It would be lovely to share International Women’s Day with other women councillors.”

Roslyn is urging women of talent, ideas, and drive to consider standing in next year’s Council elections; and her clarion cry has won support from Orange’s sole female councillor, Joanne McRae. Ms McGroder’s appeal follows a recent NSW Government push for more women to run for local government in NSW (see attached story).

She believes that Orange — which currently only has one women councilor — Cr McRae — would be better served with greater female representation.

“At the moment, there’s an imbalance; there’s a lot of gentlemen past their use-by date. They’ve got a mindset that’s fixed-in with a certain clique or group,” she said.

In a recent letter to “Newswatch”; she rallied local women to put their doubts aside and to come forward for the greater good.

“Are there women in the community who have common-sense, family values, progressive judgement — and a vision — for what Orange community foresees for the next and future generations?” she asked.

z Time for women to shine; Roslyn McGroder is urging women of talent, ideas, and drive to consider standing in next year’s Council elections.

in her mid-70s and only a resident for about three years — left her calling for other women to take-up the challenge.

“Globally, I’d like to see more women in power. The saying is ‘it’s a man’s world,’ but men need women to get where they want to go.”

She said that, even in 2020, the tendency in male-dominated groups for men to predominate.

“They need more women in power so that they can have an equal say; so, what they’re saying is listened to, and they are not patronised.”

If so, equalise the present gender imbalance, pierce the glass ceiling, take-up the banner, and set a course for direction,” she added rousingly.

“Well I think there needs to be progress; women should be a larger part of the process in local government,” she explained.

She believes that women bring inherently different thought and decision-making processes than men: “They have different values and have different experiences; skills learned from raising families and the like.

“Women tend to be lateral thinkers, they see beyond the horizon — men are more tunnel-visioned,” she added.

“Orange should be a forward thinking, vibrant town.”

She said that her own situation — now

She said that having more women on Orange Council would benefit the local chamber’s overall performance. “It would be good to have two or more women to better support each other in decisionmaking in what can be a combative and male-dominated environment.”

Ms McGroder added that there were a number of ways in which Orange Council could make a positive difference in its next term. Projects which she feels the Council (to be elected in September next year) could embrace include making the “Colour City” a reality and not just a tourism slogan.

“For one, we need more green spaces in north Orange, it keeps growing with the (Waratahs) sports ground the only open area,” she said.

“And we need more colour in our streets and parks. Robertson Park is just so drab with its seasonal trees. It should have garden beds everywhere, it should be like ‘Floriade’,” she added.

She said that the same should go for the Orange Botanical Gardens which need brightening-up for much of the year.

She said that one of the features of male-dominated bodies is that they are always looking to next big thing, the next new initiative. “We’ve got to work on what we’ve got and make it better rather than rushing-off with a pile of new ideas.”

She said that with, only one woman on Orange Council, our representation needs to change.

z Orange’s only women councilor, Joanne McRae, believes that the Colour City would be better served with greater female representation.

Cr McRae agreed, saying that: “I encourage more women to stand for positions where they believe they can be elected. It would be great to see our councils represent the diversity of our communities.”

NSW PUSH FOR MORE FEMALE COUNCILLORS

Without declaring her own intention to stand a second-term for Orange Council, Cr McRae decried that local government in NSW has the lowest level of female representation of any State in Australia. “I’m only a one-termer and there were no women on Orange Council before this one.”

She said that she takes the good with the bad in what is the third-tier of government in Australia.

“It can be incredibly rewarding, but also frustrating. I love the aspect of being a community representative, but I hate the politics,” Cr McRae concluded.

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Ten serving and former female councillors, including Lucy Turnbull, Sydney Lord Mayor, Clover Moore (pictured), and Linda Scott, are spearheading efforts to get more women to stand for election to local government in NSW. Launching the State Government-funded campaign recently, Local Government Minister Shelley Hancock said: “Currently, women represent just 31 percent of all NSW councillors, which in 2020 is just not good enough.

“While we have made steps towards equality in other parts of society, the gender gap in local government is real and we can do better.

“To inspire a new generation of leaders, we’ve called on 10 prominent women to share their passion for local government and encourage more women to make a difference to their community and run for council at the September 4, 2021 elections.”

Other women featured in the campaign include Marianne Saliba, Katrina Humphries, and Kristy McBain.

The NSW government is also partnering with Women for Election Australia to run a series of online workshops and programs to equip aspiring candidates for the 2021 local council elections.

Women for Election Australia CEO Licia Heath said: “We’ll be focusing on running our workshops in regional NSW to encourage women, who are doing so much out in their community already, to consider doing that same work but as an elected member of their local council instead”.

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No sporting chance for questions on money-first Bloomfield sports plan Community consultation has been done? When? With Who? How? The mega-grant for Orange City Council should involve unprecedented community consultation, not 15 people, says a concerned local.

Making a $25 million grant to Orange conditional on building of a new sport stadium at Bloomfield in south Orange was a political inducement to the local electorate, founder of a petition opposing siting of the new stadium believes.

Local resident “Tilly” said that the unusual nature of the proposed funding — announced during the heat and time-pressures of a State election — inspired her to create the “change-org” petition opposing the siting of the sports precinct at Bloomfield.

She said that: “making the funding conditional on construction of the stadium constitutes a ‘sports rort’ that spurred me to make a public stand on the issue. In NSW legislation, it is not permitted for candidates/ parties to bribe voters in electorates with special offers.”

Her opposition to the proposal is to its haste, seeming lack of consultation, and the siting of the sports precinct in a beautiful green space area created by the closure of the Ex-Services Golf Club.

“I’m just an interested community member who thinks that Council should be seeking wider community input, such as creating an online submission portal to allow community consultation. Then to assess feedback, change plans accordingly, then put it out for comment again,” Tilly said.

local government or previous public presence,” Tilly said.

public comment once it had already been decided on.

She believes that this pressure to offer something led the stadium money which Ms Berejiklian openly-described as a direct motivation to elect a Coalition. “The Premier made a promise: ‘if you vote in our candidate, we will give you $20 mill to build a sports stadium’,” Tilly said.

“Can we just stop for a second and ask, whose idea it was for a $25 mill stadium in Orange? Many of the responses I have heard since then has been: ‘they offered $25 mill for a sports stadium — It cannot be allocated to ANYTHING else — so we must use it or lose it’,” she said.

This was at the same time that the Federal Government was embroiled in the so-called “Sports Rorts” affair where marginal electorates were prioritised in the allocating of sports grants regardless of the objective merit of their applications.

Despite this inducement, Donato held onto the seat winning the election after a local backlash against the NSW Nationals Party.

“The next thing I saw was an article saying that 400-plus trees would be culled to make way for a sports stadium at Bloomfield — I’d not seen a single thing about the stadium idea until then — and, asking around, neither had anyone else!”

Tilly said that the unprecedented size of the proposed grant and its conditional tie to a sports stadium stood-out to her as somewhat irregular.

“The Orange City Council’s previous NSW State Government grants had previously been no more than $1.5 million — in every one of those cases they were community submitted projects, so the grant was spread amongst several She said that her interest in the issue came about during the 2019 NSW State Election with the awkward flying visit by projects,” Tilly said.

“Orange’s 40,000 people have been so little involved in Premier, Gladys Berejiklian to support the Coalition against this proposal that the location, type of construction/facility, sitting member, Phil Donato from the Shooters, Fishers, and potential benefit to community — none of these vital factors Farmers Party.

Tilly believes that the spur for the $25 million funding offer have received any local feedback or input. From what I can gather, only a few key members of local sporting groups were came about from the Coalition running a candidate with invited to a meeting to discuss the proposal”. high name recognition but little actual public experience.

Tilly said that the inverted nature of the process; an offer of “The Coalition put forward a seemingly-unlikely candidate, hoping her family name and the National Party would work. millions for a sports stadium before it had been approved at However, the candidate hadn’t any exposure prior to then,no the local level has led to an upside-down approach to seeking

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She said that her initial drive to create the petition was about its location, not the stadium plan itself. “My question was ‘why there?’.”

“After sharing the petition to an Orange social media page, much of the response I received seemed to be: ‘community consultation has been done, stop asking’ or ‘the other site was rejected due to asbestos’ — what other site?”

(Orange Mayor, Councillor Reg Kidd confirmed to “Newswatch” that both the north Orange and south Orange sites contain a form of naturally-occurring asbestos element that is not considered dangerous).

“For example, there is a perfect site at the corner of Leeds Parade and Northern Distributor — if may have an asbestos issue as well but it has no trees or existing vegetation that is going to be removed to put it there.”

Tilly said that “the proposals to build the rectangular rugby stadium at Bloomfield were have been planned before it had been announced.”

“No one is saying no to the $25 million injection to the Orange community. We just want to have some genuine input into what this community needs including long-term (not just construction) jobs, keeping the youth engaged (not just the sporting, but whole community), and facilities that will bring new attractions to Orange, not just once-a-year NRL showcases.” Tilly concluded.

Petition: https://www.change.org/p/mp-phil-donatobloomfield-stop-work-immediately-and-choose-anothersite?original_footer_petition_id=&grid_position=&pt=

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Saturday, October 3

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6.00 Rage.

7.00 Weekend Breakfast.

10.00 Rage.

12.00 ABC News At Noon.

12.30 Grantchester.

1.15 Father Brown.

2.00 Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery: Derryn Hinch.

2.30 Further Back In Time For Dinner.

3.30 Escape From The City: Gippsland, Victoria – The Charges.

4.30 Landline.

5.00 Australian Story: Breaking New Ground.

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. 2.20 Morocco From Above. 4.00 Australia With Julia Bradbury. 4.30 Tennis. French Open.

Day 6. Highlights. 5.30 The Students, The Traitor And The Nazis.

6.30 SBS World News.

7.35 Walking Britain’s Lost Railways: Norfolk.

8.30 MOVIE: The Bookshop. (2017) Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, Patricia Clarkson. In ’50s England, a woman, despite local protests, opens a bookshop, which becomes a political minefield. (PG) 10.30 Tennis. French Open. Day 7. From RolandGarros Stadium, Paris, France.

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

Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 11.40 Sally And Possum. 12.10 In The Night Garden.

1.05 Bing. 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 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 Ross Noble: El Hablador. 9.20 QI. 10.20 Penn & Teller: Fool Us. 11.00 Would I Lie To You? 11.30 Staged.

11.55 Motherland. Final. 12.25 Friday Night Dinner. 12.50 Absolutely Fabulous. 1.20 Live At The Apollo. 3.10 Close. 5.30 Postman Pat Special Delivery Service. 5.55 Kids’ Programs.

Hong Kong (31) 6.10 News. 6.30 Chinese News. 7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 Romanian News. 8.30 Macedonian News. 9.00 Croatian News. 9.30 Serbian News.

10.00 Dutch News. 10.30 Hungarian News. 11.00 NHK Japanese News. 11.35 Hindi News. 12.00 The Goddam Election! With John Safran. 1.00 New Girl. 2.40 Insight. 3.40 ABC America: World News Tonight. 4.05 PBS News. 5.05 Monty Python’s Flying Circus. 6.20 Only Connect. 7.30 Punk. 8.30 The X-Files. 11.10 MOVIE: 600 Miles. (2015) Tim Roth, Kristyan Ferrer. 12.40 Kebab Kings. 1.45 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.

1.45 Larry The Wonderpup. 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. 4.00 The Flamin’ Thongs. 4.30 Almost Never. 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 Miraculous. 9.55 Close. 5.30 Detentionaire.

6.00 It’s Academic.

(66) 7.00 The Deep. 8.00 Jabba’s School Holiday Movie Special. 8.30 The Pioneer Woman. 9.00 Crazy Cakes. 10.00 Kids Baking Championship. 11.00 The Kitchen. 12.00 Mystery Diners. 1.30 Restaurant: Impossible. 2.30 The Simpsons. 3.00 Rugby Union. Shute Shield.

5.00 MOVIE: The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water. (2015) Tom Kenny, Antonio Banderas.

7.00 MOVIE: Charlie’s Angels. (2000) Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, Cameron Diaz.

9.00 MOVIE: Conspiracy Theory. (1997) 11.50 Restaurant: Impossible. 1.00 Home Shopping. 3.00 The Pioneer Woman. 4.00 Crazy Cakes. 5.00 The Blacklist.

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6.00 Rage. 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. 9.00 Insiders: Budget Special. 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.

3.25 Secrets Of Silicon Valley.

4.30 The Mix. 5.00 Antiques Roadshow.

6.00 Australia Remastered: Orca.

7.00 ABC News Sunday.

7.40 The Rise Of The Murdoch Dynasty: The Comeback.

8.35 Grantchester.

9.20 Doc Martin.

10.10 Killing Eve. 10.55 Wentworth.

11.45 Endeavour.

1.15 Rage.

2.55 Louis Theroux: Extreme Love.

5.00 Insiders: Budget Special.

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.

3.10 Travel Man. 3.35 Secrets Of The Rolls Royce Luxury Car. 4.30 Tennis. French Open. Day 7. Highlights.

From Roland-Garros Stadium, Paris, France.

5.30 Secrets Of Nazi U-Boat Bases.

6.30 SBS World News.

7.35 Ancient Superstructures: Machu Picchu.

8.40 Watergate: Things Fall Apart.

10.30 Tennis. French Open. Day 8. From RolandGarros Stadium, Paris, France.

5.00 CGTN English News.

5.15 NHK World English News.

5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.

Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 11.40 Sally And Possum. 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 Ross Noble: El Hablador. 11.50 Would I Lie To You? 12.20 The Young Offenders.

12.50 Upstart Crow. 1.25 The Thick Of It. 2.00 Close. 5.30 Ready, Jet, Go! 5.55 Kids’ Programs.

Hong Kong (31) 6.10 News. 6.30 Chinese News. 7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 Maltese News. 8.30 Macedonian News. 9.00 Croatian News. 9.30 Serbian News.

10.00 Portuguese News. 10.50 Urdu News. 11.35 Hindi News. 12.00 Spookers. 1.40 New Girl. 2.30 Rise. 3.20 France 24 English News Second Edition.

3.50 Insight. 4.50 Yokayi Footy. 5.30 The Curse Of Oak Island. Return. 6.15 Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

8.30 Cycling. UCI World Tour. Liège–Bastogne– Liège. Women’s and Men’s Race. 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. 10.40 The Next Step. 11.05 Find Me In Paris. 11.30 Massive Monster Mayhem. 11.55 Operation Ouch! 12.20 Gym Stars. 12.45 Bear Grylls: Survival School. 1.20 The Dengineers. 1.45 Larry The Wonderpup. 2.05 Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed! 2.20 Thunderbirds Are Go. 2.40 Get It Together! 3.05 Fierce. 4.10 How To Do Stuff Good. 4.30 Almost Never. 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 Miraculous. 9.55 Rage. 1.55 Close. 5.30 Detentionaire.

6.00 It’s Academic.

(66) 6.30 The Deep. 8.00 The Grill Dads. 8.30 Guy’s Big Bite. 9.00 Crazy Cakes. 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 Mystery Diners.

4.00 Restaurant: Impossible.

6.00 The Simpsons.

6.30 MOVIE: Mars Attacks! (1996) 8.40 MOVIE: The Beach. (2000) Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert Carlyle, Virginie Ledoyen.

11.10 Geordie Shore. 12.30 Guy’s Big Bite. 1.00 The Kitchen. 2.00 The Great Food Truck Race. 3.00 Cake Wars. 4.00 Chopped. 5.00 The Blacklist.

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6.00 Animal Tales. 7.00 Weekend Today. 10.00 Today Extra: Saturday. 11.30 Rugby League. NRL Women’s Premiership. Sydney Roosters v St George Illawarra Dragons. 1.00 Netball. Super Netball. First semi-final. 3.00 Rugby League. NRL Women’s Premiership. Brisbane Broncos v New Zealand Warriors. 4.30 Nine News Saturday. 5.00 Rugby League. NRL Finals Series. Elimination final. Canberra Raiders v Cronulla Sharks.

7.30 Rugby League. NRL Finals Series. Qualifying final. Melbourne Storm v Parramatta Eels. From Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane.

9.45 NRL Finals Footy Post-Match.

10.30 MOVIE: Criminal. (2016) Kevin Costner, Ryan Reynolds. After the death of a CIA operative, his consciousness is implanted into a death-row inmate to stop a hacker. (MA15+) 12.30 Award Winning Tasmania.

1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

4.30 Global Shop.

5.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

5.30 Wesley Impact.

6.00 Reel Action. 6.30 Entertainment Tonight.

7.00 WhichCar. 7.30 What’s Up Down Under. 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 Business As Usual When Nothing Is Usual.

1.30 Buy To Build. Return.

2.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield.

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 Bondi Rescue.

7.30 Ambulance Australia.

8.40 Lindy Chamberlain: The True Story.

11.40 Law & Order: SVU. 1.30 Home Shopping.

5.00 Hour Of Power.

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(52) 6.00 6.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.00 My Favorite Martian. 10.30 The Baron. 11.30 MOVIE: The Flying Scot. (1957) Lee Patterson, Kay Callard. 1.00 MOVIE: Laughter In Paradise. (1951) Alastair Sim, Fay Compton, Guy Middleton. 3.00 MOVIE: Vera Cruz. (1954) Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, Denise Darcel. 5.00 MOVIE: Gunfight At The OK Corral. (1957) Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming.

7.30 MOVIE: Paper Planes. (2014) 9.30 MOVIE: Da Kath & Kim Code. (2005) Jane Turner, Gina Riley.

11.15 MOVIE: Jeff Who Lives At Home. (2011) Jason Segel. 1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

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(53) 6.00 8.00 MOVIE: Barbie: Princess Adventure. (2020) 9.30 Kids’ Programs.

1.30 Power Rangers Super Ninja Steel. 2.00 Soapbox Racing. Red Bull Series. Round 2. Replay.

3.00 Xtreme Collxtion. 4.00 Liquid Science.

4.30 BattleBots. 5.30 Clarence. 5.45 MOVIE: Cats & Dogs. (2001) 7.30 MOVIE: Show Dogs.

(2018) Will Arnett. 9.15 MOVIE: K-9. (1989) James Belushi, Mel Harris, Kevin Tighe. 11.20 Heroes.

12.15 MOVIE: Raising The Bar. (2016) 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 Vasili’s Garden.

10.00 Cricket. Women’s One Day International Series. Australia v New Zealand. Game 1.

5.00 Sydney Weekender.

5.30 Building The Dream.

6.30 The Yorkshire Vet. 8.30 Escape To The Country.

11.30 Peter Andre’s 60 Minute Makeover. 12.30 Escape To The Country. 1.30 Sydney Weekender.

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

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The Next (63) 6.00 Level. 7.00 Big Angry Fish. 8.00 Home Shopping. 9.00 Highway Thru Hell. 10.00 Zoltan, The WolfMan. 11.00 The Weekend Prospector. 11.30 American Pickers.

12.30 Timbersports. 1.00 Blokesworld. 1.30 Step Outside With Paul Burt. 2.00 Pawn Stars. 2.30 Storage Wars. 3.00 Megastructures. 4.00 AFL Pre-Game Show. 4.30 Football. AFL. Finals Series.

Second elimination final. St Kilda v Western Bulldogs. 7.00 AFL Post-Game Show. 7.30 AFL Pre-Game Show. 8.00 Football. AFL. Finals Series.

First elimination final. West Coast v Collingwood.

10.30 AFL Post-Game Show. 11.15 Family Guy. 12.15 Hard Knocks. 1.30 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.

5.00 Reel Action. 5.30 Star Trek: Voyager. 6.30 MacGyver. Final. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 NCIS: New Orleans.

10.20 Hawaii Five-0. 11.15 NCIS. 12.15 Law & Order: SVU. 1.10 Hawaii Five-0. 3.05 Motor Racing.

Formula 1. Race 10. Russian Grand Prix. Highlights.

4.05 Motorcycle Racing. MotoGP. Race 9.

Catalunya Grand Prix. Replay. 5.35 Judge Judy.

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(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 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. 1.00 Fam. 2.30 Seinfeld.

3.00 Rules Of Engagement.

4.00 Will & Grace.

6.00 Columbo.

8.00 Kojak.

9.00 Spyforce.

10.00 Friends.

12.00 This Is Us. 3.00 Will & Grace. 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 The All New Monty: Guys And Gals.

2.30 America’s Got Talent.

4.00 Better Homes And Gardens.

5.00 Seven News At 5.

5.30 Sydney Weekender.

6.00 Seven News.

7.00 The Test: Feature Length Special.

9.00 Crime Investigation Australia: Most Infamous: Snowtown – Bodies In The Barrels.

10.20 Inside Belmarsh Prison.

11.25 Autopsy USA: Roy Orbison.

12.30 Home Shopping.

5.00 Seven Early News.

5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 Animal Tales.

7.00 Weekend Today.

10.00 Sports Sunday.

11.00 NRL Sunday Footy Show.

1.00 Netball. Super Netball. Second semi-final.

3.00 Rugby League. NRL Finals Series.

Elimination final. South Sydney Rabbitohs v Newcastle Knights. From ANZ Stadium, Sydney.

6.00 Nine News.

7.00 The Block.

8.30 60 Minutes.

9.30 Nine News Late.

10.30 See No Evil: We Never Fight.

11.30 Born To Kill? Class Of Evil: Peter Tobin – “Charmed To Death”.

12.20 Grand Hotel.

1.10 South Aussie With Cosi.

1.35 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

4.00 Animal Tales.

5.00 News Early Edition.

5.30 Today.

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 Destination Dessert. 12.30 My Market Kitchen.

1.00 Taste Of Australia With Hayden Quinn.

1.30 To Be Advised.

2.30 Hotels By Design. Final.

3.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield.

3.30 Farm To Fork.

4.00 Bondi Rescue.

4.30 RPM. 5.00 10 News First.

6.30 The Sunday Project.

7.30 The Graham Norton Show. Return.

8.30 FBI. 10.30 The Sunday Project.

11.30 NCIS. 1.30 Home Shopping.

4.30 CBS This Morning.

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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 The Avengers.

11.00 MOVIE: Mr Denning Drives North. (1951) 1.00 The AFL Sunday Footy Show. 3.00 Getaway.

3.30 MOVIE: 633 Squadron. (1964) 5.30 MOVIE: Sahara. (1943) Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett.

7.30 Death In Paradise.

8.40 MOVIE: Darkest Hour. (2017) 11.10 Silent Witness. 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 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.

4.00 MOVIE: Shaun The Sheep: The Movie. (2015) 5.40 MOVIE: Planet 51. (2009) 7.30 MOVIE: The Great Wall. (2016) Matt Damon, Willem Dafoe.

9.30 MOVIE: Hercules. (2014) Dwayne Johnson, John Hurt, Ian McShane. 11.30 Heroes. 12.30 Tattoo Fixers. 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!

6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 7.00 Tomorrow’s World. 7.30 Leading The Way. 8.00 David Jeremiah. 8.30 Mums At The Table. 9.00 Home Shopping. 9.30 Australia’s Best Drives.

10.00 House Of Wellness. 11.00 NBC Today. 12.00 The Yorkshire Vet. 2.00 Vasili’s Garden. 2.30 Reno Rookie. 3.00 SA Weekender. 3.30 Escape To The Country. 5.30 M*A*S*H. 7.30 Escape To The Country. 8.30 World’s Most Secret Homes. 10.30 Best Gardens Australia. 11.30 River Monsters: Top Ten. 12.45 Secret Lives Of Stepford Wives. 2.00 House Of Horrors. 3.00 Fatal Encounters. 4.00 Redrum. 4.30 A Crime To Remember. 5.30 Home Shopping.

Home (63) 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Big Angry Fish. 7.30 Home Shopping. 9.30 Classic Restos: USA Edition. 10.00 Timbersports. 10.30 American Pickers. 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: Kingsman: The Secret Service. (2014) Taron Egerton, Colin Firth, Samuel L Jackson. 11.05 Alcatraz. New. 12.05 Blokesworld.

12.35 Shipping Wars. 1.00 Hook, Line And Sinker.

2.00 Late Programs.

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Home (81) 6.00 Shopping. 7.30 The Key Of David. 8.00 The Doctors. 10.00 Australia By Design: Architecture. 10.30 Australia

By Design: Interiors. 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 Buy To Build.

4.30 What’s Up Down Under. 5.00 iFish Summer Series. 5.30 Star Trek: Voyager. 6.30 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 9.25 Law & Order: SVU. 10.20 48 Hours.

11.20 NCIS: Los Angeles. 2.05 RPM. 2.35 NCIS. 4.30 Reel Action. 5.00 The Doctors.

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6.00 Family (82) Ties.

7.00 Rules Of Engagement.

8.00 Will & Grace.

9.00 Fam. 10.30 Neighbours.

1.00 Charmed.

3.00 Rules Of Engagement.

4.00 Will & Grace.

6.00 The Big Bang Theory.

9.00 Gogglebox.

10.00 Friends.

12.00 2 Broke Girls. 1.30 The Flash. 4.30 Home Shopping. 5.30 The Brady Bunch.

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6.00 Morning (2) Programs. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 The Great Australian Bee Challenge. 2.00 Seven Types Of Ambiguity.

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 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. Final. 12.05 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch.

(3) 6.30 This Week. 7.30 WorldWatch. 2.00 Queen Elizabeth’s Secret Agents. 3.05 Alex Polizzi: Chef For Hire. 4.05 Inside Fortnum & Mason. 5.00 Tennis. French Open. Day 8. 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.

10.30 Tennis. French Open. Day 9. 5.00 Late Programs.

Sunrise.

(6) 6.00 10.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News.

12.00 MOVIE: Mommy’s Little Princess. (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.

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 RBT. 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. 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 #Trump: How Social Media Changed The Presidency. 8.40 Have You Been Paying Attention? 9.40 Drunk History Australia.

10.10 Just For Laughs. 10.40 The Project. 11.40 Late Programs.

Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 7.00 Sir Mouse. New. 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. 11.05 Red Dwarf. 11.35 The Trip To Spain.

12.05 Very Small Business. 12.30 The Office.

1.00 Please Like Me. 1.30 Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled. 2.20 Close. 5.05 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

12.00 Hoarders. 1.40 Front Up. 2.10 Our Guy In Russia. 3.05 States Of Undress. 3.55 WorldWatch. 4.20 This Week. 5.15 BBC My World. 5.45 The Joy Of Painting. 6.15 Alone.

7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. Final. 8.30 Taskmaster. 9.35 In Search Of... Return. 10.25 Difficult People.

Return. 10.55 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. 10.30 Australia’s Best Backyards. 11.00 Cricket.

Women’s One Day International Series.

Australia v New Zealand. Game 2. 6.00 Border Security: International. 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. 9.30 Danoz Direct. 10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. 12.00 Global Roaming. 1.00 MOVIE: Night Boat To Dublin. (1946) 3.05 Antiques Roadshow. 3.35 MOVIE: The Ghost Of St. Michael’s. (1941) 5.20 Heartbeat. 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.

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. 9.25 Law & Order: SVU. 11.15 NCIS: New Orleans. 12.10 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 Miraculous. 10.00 Rage. 11.00 Close. 5.30 Detentionaire.

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

2.00 Chopped. 3.00 Coles Healthy Kicks.

3.30 Guy’s Big Bite. 4.00 One Tree Hill. 5.00 Jabba’s School Holiday Movie Special. 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 Late Programs.

Morning (63) 6.00 Programs. 12.00 Full Custom Garage. 1.00 Wardens. 2.00 Gold Fever. 3.00 The Weekend Prospector. 3.30 Blokesworld. 4.00 Barter Kings. 5.00 Shipping Wars. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 American Pickers. 8.30 MOVIE: The Transporter. (2002) Jason Statham, Qi Shu. 10.20 MOVIE: Escape From New York. (1981) 12.30 Late Programs.

Kids’ Programs.

(53) 6.00 11.00 Dance Moms.

12.00 World Of Dance. 1.00 The Break Boys. 1.30 Xtreme Collxtion. 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: The Italian Job. (2003) 10.45 Big Bang. 11.10 Tattoo Fixers. 12.10 Miami Vice. 1.10 Visions Of Greatness. 2.10 Dance Moms. 3.00 Kids’ Programs.

(82) 6.00 Morning Programs. 9.00 The Middle. 10.00 The Big Bang Theory. 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 Home Shopping. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise.

10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. 12.00 Horse Racing. Epsom Day and Turnbull Stakes Day. 5.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line.

6.00 Seven News.

7.00 MOVIE: Night At The Museum. (2006) Ben Stiller, Robin Williams. A man goes to work at a museum. (PG) 9.15 MOVIE: Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes.

(2011) James Franco, Andy Serkis, Freida Pinto.

After a pharmaceutical chemist develops a substance designed to help the brain repair itself, it inadvertently gives rise to a superintelligent chimpanzee, at the same time as the world is engulfed by tragedy. (M) 11.25 MOVIE: The Gumball Rally. (1976) Normann Burton, Michael Sarrazin. A motley group of people takes part in a non-stop car race from New York to Long Beach, California.

(M) 1.00 Home Shopping.

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(2) 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Four Corners. 11.00 Grand Designs Australia. 12.00 ABC News At Noon.

1.00 The Split. 2.00 Parliament Question Time. 3.10 ABC News Afternoons. 4.10 Think Tank. 5.10 Grand Designs Australia. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 Budget 2020: The Treasurer’s Speech. 8.00 Budget 2020: ABC News Special. 9.30 Louis Theroux: The Night In Question. 10.30 ABC Late News. 11.05 Q+A. 12.10 Wentworth. 12.55 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch.

(3) 2.00 Queen Elizabeth’s Secret Agents. 3.00 Great British Railway Journeys. 3.30 Who Do You Think You Are? 4.30 Great British Railway Journeys. 5.00 Tennis. French Open. Day 9. 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 SBS News.

11.00 Tennis. French Open. First quarterfinals.

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 Go Jetters. 6.45 Andy’s Aquatic Adventures. 7.00 Sir Mouse. 7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.30 Insert Name Here. 9.00 Ghosts. 9.25 The Trip To Greece. 9.55 Frontline. 10.25 Parks And Recreation. 10.45 Schitt’s Creek. 11.10 Red Dwarf. 11.40 The Trip To Spain. 12.10 Very Small Business. 12.40 Black Books. Final. 1.05 QI. 1.35 Back. 2.05 Close. 5.30 Ready, Jet, Go! 5.55 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

12.00 Hoarders. 1.40 Front Up. 2.10 States Of Undress. 3.50 WorldWatch. 5.15 BBC My World. 5.45 The Joy Of Painting. 6.15 Alone.

7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Dave Gorman: Modern Life Is Goodish. New. 9.25 Learning To Skateboard In A Warzone. 10.10 Stacey Dooley Meets The IS Brides. 11.05 Sex Right Now. Final. 11.30 The Looming Tower. 1.20 F*ck, That’s Delicious.

2.35 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 2.10 Art Ninja. 2.40 What It’s Like. 2.55 Operation Ouch! 3.40 Get It Together! 4.05 Lost In Oz. 4.30 Almost Never. 5.00 The Unlisted. 5.30 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 Best Bugs Forever.

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: The Bucket List. (2007) Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman, Sean Hayes. 10.30 MOVIE: Skiptrace. (2016) 12.45 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning (2) Programs. 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 Parliament Question Time. 3.10 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. Final. 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) 12.30 ABC America: World News Tonight. 1.00 PBS News. 2.00 Queen Elizabeth’s Secret Agents. 3.00 Dateline.

3.30 Insight. 4.30 Railway Journeys UK. 5.00 Tennis. French Open. Quarterfinals. Highlights.

6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 News. 7.35 Walking Britain’s Roman Roads. New. 8.30 Hillary. 9.40 The Good Fight. 10.30 SBS News.

11.00 Tennis. French Open. Quarterfinals. 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 Go Jetters. 6.45 Andy’s Aquatic Adventures. 7.00 Sir Mouse. 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 Spain.

12.40 Very Small Business. Final. 1.10 QI. 1.40 Blackadder Goes Forth. 2.15 Close. 5.30 Ready, Jet, Go! 5.55 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

12.00 Hoarders. 1.40 Front Up. 2.10 States Of Undress. 3.50 WorldWatch. 5.15 BBC My World. 5.45 The Joy Of Painting. 6.15 Alone.

7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 MOVIE: The Host. (2006) Kang-Ho Song. 10.45 MOVIE: Rampant. (2018) 12.55 MOVIE: James White. (2015) 2.30 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. 2.10 Art Ninja. 2.40 What It’s Like. 2.55 Operation Ouch! 3.40 Get It Together! 4.05 Lost In Oz. 4.30 Almost Never. 5.00 Endlings. New. 5.30 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 Best Bugs Forever.

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 Brunch @ Bobby’s. 8.30 Guy’s Big Bite. 9.00 Cake Wars Christmas.

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 Beach Bites With Katie Lee. 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. 11.00 Grand Designs Australia. 12.00 ABC News At Noon.

1.00 Hard Quiz. 1.30 Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL. Final. 2.00 Parliament Question Time.

3.10 ABC News Afternoons. 4.10 Think Tank.

5.05 Grand Designs Australia. 6.00 The Drum.

7.00 ABC News. 7.30 Budget 2020: Opposition Reply. 8.00 7.30. 8.30 Escape From The City.

9.30 Secrets Of The Museum. 10.15 ABC Late News. 10.50 Louis Theroux: Twilight Of The Porn Stars. 11.50 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch.

(3) 12.00 US Vice Presidential Debate 2020. 1.30 WorldWatch.

2.00 The Royal Family Affairs & Infidelities.

3.05 King Solomon’s Mines. 4.00 Inside Selfridges. 4.55 Tennis. French Open.

Quarterfinals. Highlights. 6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 News. 7.30 Michael Mosley: Queen Victoria’s Slum. 8.35 Fargo. Return.

10.45 SBS News. 11.15 Grand Tours Of Scotland’s Lochs. 12.00 Tennis. French Open. Women’s singles semi-finals. 5.00 Late Programs.

Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 5.35 Peter Rabbit. 5.55 Go Jetters. 6.45 Andy’s Aquatic Adventures. 7.00 Sir Mouse. 7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.30 Hard Quiz.

9.00 Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL. Final. 9.30 QI. 10.00 Flowers. 10.30 The Trip To Greece.

10.55 Ghosts. 11.25 Parks And Recreation. 11.45 Schitt’s Creek. 12.10 Red Dwarf. 12.40 The Trip To Spain. Final. 1.10 The League Of Gentlemen.

1.40 Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled. 2.30 Close.

5.30 Ready, Jet, Go! 5.55 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

12.00 Hoarders. 1.40 Front Up. 2.10 States Of Undress. 3.50 WorldWatch. 5.15 BBC My World. 5.45 The Joy Of Painting. 6.15 Alone.

7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 The Curse Of Oak Island.

9.20 Brooklyn Nine-Nine. 10.10 Letterkenny.

Final. 10.45 Every Family Has A Secret. 11.45 The Longest Day In Chang’an. 12.35 MOVIE: The Sacrament. (2013) 2.25 Deutsche Welle.

3.00 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 2.10 Art Ninja. 2.40 What It’s Like. 2.55 Operation Ouch! 3.40 Get It Together! 4.05 Lost In Oz. 4.30 Almost Never. 5.00 Endlings. 5.30 The Deep. 6.00 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk. Final.

6.30 Horrible Histories. 7.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. 7.35 The Penguins Of Madagascar. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Best Bugs Forever.

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 Brunch @ Bobby’s. 8.30 Guy’s Big Bite. 9.00 Cake Wars Christmas.

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 Beach Bites With Katie Lee. 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 The Mentalist. 10.30 Without A Trace. 11.30 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning (2) Programs. 10.30 QI. 11.00 Grand Designs Australia. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Louis Theroux: The Night In Question. 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. 11.10 Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL. Final. 11.40 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch. 2.00 (3) The Point. 3.00 NITV News: Nula. 3.35 Inside Harvey Nichols. 4.30 Tennis. French Open. Women’s singles semifinals. Highlights. 5.30 Mastermind Australia.

6.30 News. 7.35 Secrets Unearthed. New. 8.30 The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes. 9.30 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 10.25 SBS News. 10.55 Grand Tours Of Scotland’s Lochs.

12.00 Tennis. French Open. Men’s singles semi-finals. 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 Go Jetters. 6.45 Andy’s Aquatic Adventures. 7.00 Sir Mouse. 7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.30 Absolutely Fabulous New York Special. 9.25 Absolutely Fabulous. 9.55 The Office. 10.25 Blackadder Goes Forth. Final. 11.00 Parks And Recreation. 11.20 Schitt’s Creek. 11.45 Red Dwarf. 12.15 Rosehaven. 12.40 The League Of Gentlemen. 1.10 Archer. 1.35 Flowers. 2.05 Close. 5.30 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

12.00 Hoarders. 1.45 Front Up. 3.15 Yokayi Footy. 3.50 WorldWatch. 5.15 BBC My World. 5.45 The Joy Of Painting. 6.15 Alone.

7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Sex And Love: Christiane Amanpour. Final. 9.20 My Lesbian Virgin Diary.

10.15 Trigonometry. Final. 11.05 The Feed. 11.35 Taboos And Subcultures. 12.30 MOVIE: Blue Velvet. (1986) 2.40 NHK World English News.

3.00 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 2.15 Art Ninja. 2.40 What It’s Like. 2.55 Operation Ouch! 3.40 Get It Together! 4.05 Lost In Oz. 4.30 Almost Never. 5.00 Endlings. 5.30 The Deep. 6.00 Dragons: Race To The Edge. 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. 9.35 Sailor Moon Crystal. 9.55 Miraculous. 10.20 Close. 5.30 Detentionaire.

6.00 Morning (66) Programs. 7.30 James Robison. 8.00 Brunch @ Bobby’s. 8.30 Guy’s Big Bite. 9.00 Cake Wars Christmas.

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 Beach Bites With Katie Lee. 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 The Mentalist. 10.30 Without A Trace. 11.30 Late Programs.

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(6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News.

12.00 MOVIE: In My Dreams. (2014) 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. Final.

9.15 The Latest: Seven News.

10.15 Criminal Confessions.

12.30 Home Shopping. 5.00 Seven Early News.

5.30 Sunrise.

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(8) 8.30 Studio 10. 12.00 Dr Phil. 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 Prince William: A Planet For Us All. 9.00 Ambulance Australia.

10.10 NCIS. 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.

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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.

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(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.

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(8) 8.30 Studio 10. 12.00 Dr Phil. 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 Bachelorette Australia.

Return. 9.00 Bull. 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.

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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.

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(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.

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6.00 Headline News.

(8) 8.30 Studio 10. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 To Be Advised. 2.40 Entertainment Tonight. 3.00 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 Bachelorette Australia. 9.00 Gogglebox. 10.00 To Be Advised. 10.30 This Is Us. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.30 The Project. 1.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 2.30 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 Hawaii Five-0.

9.30 SEAL Team. 11.30 NCIS. 12.30 Home Shopping. 2.00 Hawaii Five-0. 3.00 NCIS. 4.00 Diagnosis Murder. 5.00 Jake And The Fatman.

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 To Be Advised. 9.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? 10.30 To Be Advised. 11.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.00 The Project. 1.00 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 2.00 Home Shopping.

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 Walker, Texas Ranger. 10.30 Elementary. 11.30 CSI: Miami.

12.30 Home Shopping. 2.00 Hawaii Five-0.

3.00 NCIS. 4.00 Walker, Texas Ranger.

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.

11.00 Supernatural. Return. 12.00 Becker. 12.30 Home Shopping. 1.30 Late Programs.

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 Halifax: Retribution. 9.40 Bluff City Law. 10.40 Nine News Late. 11.10 The First 48.

12.05 Timeless. 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 My Favorite Martian. 12.00 Global Roaming. 1.00 MOVIE: I Was Monty’s Double. (1958) 3.05 Antiques Roadshow. 3.35 MOVIE: Isn’t Life Wonderful!

(1954) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 New Tricks. 8.40 Poirot. 10.40 Law And Order: Criminal Intent. 11.40 My Strange Addiction. 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 After The Raves. 3.00 Kids’ Programs. 5.00 Big Bang. 5.30 Malcolm. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 MOVIE: S.W.A.T. (2003) 9.50 MOVIE: Green Zone. (2010) 12.00 Miami Vice. 1.00 After The Raves. 2.00 Dance Moms. 3.00 Beyblade Burst Turbo. 3.30 Ninjago. 4.00 Pokémon: BW Rival Destinies. 4.30 Pokémon. 4.50 Mega Man: Fully Charged. 5.10 Kids’ Programs.

PRIME7

6.00 Today. 9.00 (5) Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.00 Beauty And The Reef. 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. 9.40 Murder Calls. 10.40 Nine News Late. 11.10 New Amsterdam. 12.05 Dr Christian Jessen Will See You Now. 1.00 A Current Affair.

1.30 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 Vasili’s Garden. 1.00 Escape To The Country. 2.00 Million Dollar Minute.

2.30 Mighty Planes. 3.30 Mighty Ships. 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 World’s Most Amazing Videos. 12.00 Late Programs.

Morning (63) 6.00 Programs.

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 Gold Fever. 2.30 Picker Sisters. 3.30 Shipping Wars. 4.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates.

4.30 Outback Truckers. 5.30 Storage Wars.

6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Highway Patrol. 8.30 Aussie Salvage Squad.

10.30 Demolition NZ. 11.30 Late Programs.

Sunrise.

(6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: To Have And To Hold. (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. 7.30 Highway Patrol. 8.30 MOVIE: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. (2016) Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders, Danika Yarosh. 11.00 The Latest: Seven News. 11.30 Crazy On A Plane. 12.30 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 Global Roaming. 1.00 Poirot. 3.00 MOVIE: The Cracksman. (1963) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 As Time Goes By. 8.50 Midsomer Murders. 11.00 Law & Order: Criminal Intent. 12.00 My Strange Addiction.

1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 1.30 Footy Classified. 2.30 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. 2.30 Surfing Australia TV. 3.00 Kids’ Programs.

5.00 Big Bang. 5.30 Malcolm. 7.00 The Nanny.

7.30 Young Sheldon. 8.30 MOVIE: After Earth.

(2013) Will Smith. 10.30 Big Bang. 11.20 Young Sheldon. 12.10 Miami Vice. 1.10 After The Raves. 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 Natural World: Cheetahs Growing Up Fast. 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 Paramedics. 8.30 Kings Cross ER. 9.30 Botched. 10.30 Nine News Late. 11.00 Law & Order: Criminal Intent. 11.50 Tipping Point. 12.45 Garden Gurus Moments.

1.00 A Current Affair. 1.30 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 Creek To Coast. 12.30 Weekender. 1.00 Escape To The Country. 2.00 Million Dollar Minute. 2.30 Mighty Planes. 3.30 Mighty Ships. 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.

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 Sound FX: Best Of. 11.00 Cricket. Women’s One Day International Series. Australia v New Zealand. Game 3. 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 American Dad! 12.00 Esports. LPL Pro. Dota 2. Season 2.

Week 7. 2.00 Home Shopping.

Sunrise.

(6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: The Maltese Falcon. (1941) Humphrey Bogart. 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: The Heat. (2013) 11.00 The Latest: Seven News.

11.30 The Front Bar. 12.30 Home Shopping.

5.00 Seven Early News. 5.30 Sunrise.

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 Global Roaming. 1.00 Midsomer Murders. 3.10 MOVIE: Eureka Stockade. (1949) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 Agatha Christie’s Partners In Crime. 8.45 MOVIE: Agatha And The Truth Of Murder. (2019) Dean Andrews, Ruth Bradley, Bebe Cave. 10.45 Chicago Med. 12.35 Antiques Roadshow. 1.00 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 MOVIE: The Wedding Planner. (2001) 9.40 MOVIE: License To Wed. (2007) 11.30 Big Bang. 12.00 Miami Vice. 1.00 Xtreme Collxtion. 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.

PRIME7

6.00 Today. 9.00 (5) Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.00 MOVIE: Nights In Rodanthe.

(2008) 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 semi-final. 9.45 NRL Finals Footy Post-Match. 10.30 MOVIE: The Last Castle. (2001) 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 Mighty Ships. 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. 12.30 The Fine Art Auction. New. 3.30 Late Programs.

Morning (63) 6.00 Programs.

10.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 11.00 A Football Life. 12.00 Pawn Stars. 12.30 Barter Kings. 1.30 Gold Fever. 2.30 Picker Sisters. 3.30 Shipping Wars. 4.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 4.30 Outback Truckers. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 MOVIE: Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone. (2001) Daniel Radcliffe. 10.30 MOVIE: Police Academy.

(1984) 12.30 Late Programs.

Sunrise.

(6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: Rodeo & Juliet. (2015) Nadine Crocker.

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 Better Homes And Gardens.

8.30 MOVIE: John Q. (2002) 11.00 MOVIE: Eraser. (1996) Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Caan, Vanessa Williams. 1.30 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 Global Roaming. 1.05 MOVIE: Whisky Galore. (1949) 2.50 Antiques Roadshow. 3.20 MOVIE: Lease Of Life. (1954) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 Poirot. 8.40 MOVIE: What To Expect When You’re Expecting. (2012) Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Lopez, Dennis Quaid. 10.50 The Commander. 12.30 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 No Man’s Land: Expedition Antarctica. 3.00 Kids’ Programs. 5.00 Big Bang.

5.25 MOVIE: Spy Kids 2: Island Of Lost Dreams.

(2002) 7.30 MOVIE: The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies. (2014) 10.20 MOVIE: The Last Dragonslayer. (2016) 12.30 Heroes. 1.30 Big Bang. 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 Home (62) Shopping. 7.00 Travel Oz. 8.30 Harry’s Practice. 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 Mighty Ships. 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 Australia’s Amazing Homes. 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 Shipping Wars. 9.00 American Pickers. 10.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 11.00 A Football Life.

12.00 Pawn Stars. 12.30 Barter Kings. 1.30 Gold Fever. 2.30 Picker Sisters. 4.00 Shipping Wars.

4.30 Outback Truckers. 5.30 American Pickers.

6.30 Pawn Stars. 7.00 To Be Advised. 11.30 Hardcore Pawn. 12.00 Picker Sisters. 12.30 Barter Kings. 1.30 Late Programs.

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“Civil” Criminality

Corruption Stakes: Westpac Whips WhichBank!

Let’s have a bit of fun. How about a fairy-tale to start with? But first, a bit of background that may have escaped you with all this other covid stuff happening to cloud it over.

In a joint media release the Attorney General & Minister for Industrial Relations, the Hon Christian Porter, and the Minister for Home Affairs, the Hon. Peter Dutton, announced that Westpac had reached an “agreement” with AUSTRAC – Australia’s financial intelligence and regulatory agency – to pay a record $1.3 billion penalty for breaching anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing laws.

No charges. An “agreement”. How civil.

Westpac admitted to over 23 million breaches, including failing to report international funds transfers of more than $11 billion dollars. This (if approved by the Court) would then be the largest ever CIVIL penalty in Australian history, almost doubling the previous record of $700 million paid by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) in 2018.

Oh, what a trophy! A new Australian record – they’ve pipped the CBA at the post by a long shot!

Now, imagine you or I going to our accountants and saying “It’s been a rough year and I fear we’ll be wiped out”.

Let’s imagine Westpac’s Chief Financial Officer having a conversation with their accountancy firm along those lines over their buttered rum and choc-chilli lattes ....  Westpac CFO to Accountant: To improve our cash flow we facilitated breaches of Australian Anti-Money

Laundering and counter-terrorism financing laws. We were really good at it.

We only breached the rules 23 million times, plus a few deals where we failed to report international transfers of over $11 billion.

Anyhow this damn whistle blower has drawn attention and AUSTRAC want to make a lunch appointment for us to talk about ….. well, life in general.

Well you’re the hot-shot adviser – what do we do? We really enjoy our lifestyle and don’t consider going to jail a preferred option.

Accountant: I have good news and bad news. The bad news is all you do is apologise and promise to self-regulate the way you conduct your business in future. They WILL fine you around $1.3b which you WILL have to pay ….... but noone will go to jail. You’re too big to fail.

However, the good news is, that despite the Attorney-General saying it’s not tax deductible, we can make it 100% tax-deductible by a bit of creative accounting. Remember, you still get Paul Keating’s 150% tax deduction on bad loans, and you’re gonna have plenty of them soon. This will mean you won’t have to pay tax on your profits this financial year, plus you’ll have the bonus of being allowed to carry forward tax credits into the next financial year. Now, as you and I know, that’s just on the set of books you show the government. On that OTHER set of books …... well, you know what I mean! (wink wink, nudge nudge) This beats the old bottom of the harbour schemes hands down.

Anyhow, you have won the lottery!

Here’s my account. 

Of course, the take-away message for the rest of us is: get a banker’s licence to avoid going to jail!

So, let’s pull this apart a bit. Remember we’ve just had a Banking Inquiry??

Remember all the dirty tricks they got caught out at? In effect, stealing property from people, fraud and straight out corruption. This is the same as another banking inquiry years ago, when they were up to the same old tricks, yet just got a slap on the wrist because they claimed it was de-regulation teething problems. Oh dear, they’re still at it! I wonder what made them do it this time? Just greed, perhaps?? Same old, same old story?

23 million breaches is a LOT of naughty activity. And guess what it apparently relates to – Peter Dutton hints: “Banks have a responsibility to not let criminal activity go undetected and to protect Australians from serious and organised crime like child exploitation, drug trafficking and fraud.” He also said Westpac’s offences were “significant and systematic”.

Ahhh yes, they knew, and might as well have been intimately involved with child exploitation, drug trafficking and fraud because they have a pretty fair idea where the money’s going.

We have mega tracking now, and anything over $10,000 being moved attracts “attention”. For all we know, 23 million breaches could be just the tip of the ice-berg. $11billion is a LOT – the total Australian wool and wheat exports are worth around $8b, so this isn’t something you just say very quickly and gloss over!

Dare I ask, where are Australia’s regulators? This shoots home to our Treasury, Treasurer, ATO, and Minister for Finance, not to mention AUSTRAC,

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Federal Police and our other law enforcement & regulatory bodies asleep on the job – AND, worst of all, facilitating child exploitation, drug trafficking, and I would argue, PARTY TO FRAUD. It also begs the question, what about the other banks? I bet they’re still engaging in questionable behaviour. After all, as Dutton says, it’s significant and systematic.

But, Westpac’s Chief Executive Officer Peter King “apologised sincerely for the Bank’s failings”, committing to fixing the issues blah blah blah … playing the old record we hear from all the banks, especially Westpac after the Westpac Letters Scandal. Funny thing that wasn’t mentioned, since 2014 until last December Peter King was actually the Chief Financial Officer – the one responsible for “Finance, Group Audit, Tax, Treasury and Investor Relations”.

Hmmm.

At the end of the day, these banks – all of them, should have their licences cancelled, and their business smoothly transitioned to reinstated “State” banks or building societies. They don’t deserve the business, they are criminal, and it’s hurting our children.

We need to look at clawing our State banking powers back from the Commonwealth government, because they should never have been ceded.

If these dirty dealings were you or I, we’d be thrown in the clink pretty quickly for “criminal” activity, but they get away with it under “civil” law. Not good enough …. and those in power should take note and DO something about it instead of being gutless wonders and continuing with the line that our Big 4 Banks, in particular, are “too big to fail”.

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PaulTIERNEY LIFEandTIMES with ANGUS GIBB

MUSIC FOR COMPANY

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Am I important figure in history. withers and the flowers theFun. Novel.

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

A couple of songs I might add to bread to go with my (many) morning my extended playlists next week coffees. My computer and work setwill include ‘Mad World’ by Tears up (see last weeks’ column) is aces. with BOB HOLLAND for Fears, the song by John Lennon Oh, and the music … it’s goin’ on out where he says ‘Strange Days Indeed, here on the outskirts of Millthorpe, Most Peculiar Mama…’, Onion Skin by I’m telling you. Can you hear it?

Boom Crash Opera (‘these here are These days, ten bucks a month interest iscrazy to make money, it’sDoors there to do I note the local Community Radio station times’), and The ‘People will get you access to a billion good in our community, for our community.

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CITYwatch

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AMANDA SPALDING with Bob Holland

Who’s Who and What’s What at Orange City Council

Amanda: I asked for that information from Council and made a table to show the lengths of service of our current 11 Councillors. A Council term is normally 4 years, but has been 5 years from 2012 – 2017 while the debate about Council amalgamations was taking place. There was a one year term from 2003 – 2004 which was, apparently, to bring local government elections into line with State Government elections.

BOB: Councils in NSW got an extra year added to their term before the local government elections in September 2021. We started our conversations to help people to get the best out of our Council. We have talked about customer service previously. Who should people go to at Orange City Council with particular issues?

AMANDA: The senior staff of the Council with their responsibilities are:

Orange City Councillors Time in Office 1991-19 1995-19 95 99

1999-20 03

2003-20 04

2004-20 08

2008-2012

2012-20 17

2017-2021

4 years

4 years

1 year

4 years

4 years

5 years

4 years

4 years

Reg Kidd

8 terms

30 years

7 terms

26 years

6 terms

22 years

Jason Hamling

4 terms

17 years

Jeff WhiIon

4 terms

17 years

Kevin Duffy

2 terms

9 years

ScoI Munro

2 terms

9 years

2 terms

8 years

Joanne Mcrae

1 term

4 years

Tony Mileto

1 term

4 years

Stephen Nugent

1 term

4 years

Glenn Taylor Russell Turner

Chief Executive Officer, David Waddell Director Development Services – Mark Hodges Services: Building and Environment, Development Assessment and Natural Resources

Sam Romano

Director Community, Recreation and Cultural Services – Scott Maunder Services: Central West Libraries, City Presentation, Community Services, Cultural Services (Art Gallery and Museum), Performing Arts and Venues Acting Director Corporate and Commercial Services – Nick Redmond Services: Administration and Governance, Business Development, Corporate and Community Relations, Financial Services, Human Resources, Information Systems and Internal Audit

By end of current term

Council Community CommiIees for 2020/21 Term COMMITTEE NAME

CHAIRPERSON

COUNCILLORS

Ageing and Access (AACC)

Cr Duffy

Cr McRae, Cr Romano

Airport

Cr Romano

Cr Mileto, Cr Munro

Services: Emergency and Commercial Services, Engineering Services, Operations and Major Projects, Plan and Depot Management, Waste Services and Technical Support, Water and Sewer Strategic, Water Treatment and Works

Australia Day

M Chisholm

Cr Kidd, Cr Munro

City of Orange Traffic Committee

Cr Turner

Cr Mileto (alternate)

Clifton Grove

Cr McRae

Cr Turner

The responsibilities are taken from the 2018/19 Annual Report, and Council prefers that enquiries are directed to Directors who will then delegate them to the relevant Managers or other staff as they see fit.

Community Safety & Crime Prevention (CSCPC)

Cr Hamling

Cr McRae, Cr Mileto, Cr Taylor

Community Services Interagency (CSI)

Kim McLean

Nil

BOB: What about Councillors? Some of our Councillors have served for a long time. Do you know how long? Which Councillors are on what Community Committees for 2020/21, the last year of their current term?

Companion Animals

Cr Nugent

Cr Munro

Cultural Heritage

Cr Kidd

Cr Duffy, Cr Nugent

Economic Development

Cr Mileto

Cr Kidd, Cr Mileto, Cr Whitton

AMANDA: I asked for that information from Council and made a table to show the lengths of service of our current 11 Councillors. A Council term is normally 4 years, but has been 5 years from 2012 – 2017 while the debate about Council amalgamations was taking place.

There was a one year term from 2003 – 2004 which was, apparently, to bring local government elections into line with State Government elections.

Environmental Sustainability

Cr Nugent

Cr Kidd

Floodplain Risk Management

Cr Kidd

Cr Romano

Lucknow

Cr Mileto

Cr Kidd

NAIDOC Week

Gerald Power

Cr Munro, Cr Nugent, Cr Kidd

Orange Health Liaison

Cr Kidd

Cr McRae

Director Technical Services – Ian Greenham

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FINANCE

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United call for viability review program in next Federal Budget No-one is under more pressure in our economy at the moment than small businesses, and this should be recognised in the upcoming Federal Budget, a group of small business advocates believe.

Australia’s peak accounting and book-keeping bodies have joined forces with the office of the Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman Kate Carnell to make a united call for a “Small Business Viability Review” program to be included in the Federal Budget.

The program would provide professional advice to struggling local businesses — to try and fight their way out of the current crisis or to exit their businesses with the least amount of losses and personal grief.

CPA Australia, Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ), Institute of Public Accountants (IPA), Institute of Certified Bookkeepers (ICB), Council of Small Business Australia (COSBOA) and the Ombudsman are calling for the Government-funded subsidy to ensure small businesses can access

urgently-needed professional advice on their viability.

Under the jointly-proposed “Small Business Viability Review” program, small businesses with up to $10 million in annual turnover would be eligible to obtain a subsidy valued at up to $5000 to access a tailored 15-month plan from an accredited professional on how and whether to turn-around their business or exit.

“Small businesses have endured the toughest trading conditions we’ve seen in living memory over the past few months and the sad reality is that not all of them will survive,” Ms Carnell said.

“As of today, there are many Australian small businesses that are no longer eligible for JobKeeper, however they may still be experiencing a significant reduction in turnover of anything up to 29 per cent.”

Many of these businesses that aren’t getting JobKeeper will also no longer be eligible for rent holidays or reductions as JobKeeper eligibility is part of the criteria for commercial rent relief negotiations.

“With banks also seeking repayment plans from their small business loan-holders, there is a

snowball effect that could place many otherwise viable small businesses under significant financial distress,” Ms Carnell said.

“Small businesses need access to an accredited professional adviser — such as an accountant or book-keeper — to judge the viability of the business now. This is the critical first-step that the small business owner needs to take so they can make an informed decision about the future of their business.

“Our modelling suggests 500,000 Australian small businesses would take up the viability subsidy at a budget expense of approximately $1.5 billion,” Ms Carnell said.

CPA Australia CEO, Andrew Hunter said that providing financial support to businesses to access advice would benefit businesses, their staff, and the economy.

“Access to professional advice is essential to enable businesses to manage through a crisis, adapt to the new environment and aid in their recovery,” Mr Hunter said.

“This process takes time and requires support. The risks of failure are likely to be higher for businesses that are unable to pay

for professional advice.”

plan ahead.”

Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand CEO, Ainslie van Onselen said that small businesses under financial strain may not be able to afford much-needed professional advice in the midst of a pandemic-induced recession.

Institute of Certified Bookkeepers Executive Chairman Matthew Addison says it is vital small businesses get advice from a trusted source, such as their accredited bookkeeper.

“Small businesses have a short window to revitalise their operations and professional advisers play a key role in determining the best course of action,” Ms van Onselen said.

“Tight cash flow, compounded by other business costs, could make professional advice unaffordable and that would imperil their future.”

Institute of Public Accountants CEO Andrew Conway says access to professional advice goes to the heart of businesses managing through the crisis, to business recovery and adapting to the changing environment.

“The Government’s recently announced plans to overhaul insolvency laws to give small businesses a chance to trade through the coming months is welcome,” Mr Conway said.

“It’s now vital the Government supports these small businesses to get the tailored advice they need to

“Bookkeepers have been working hard to assist their small business clients over the past few months,” Mr Addison said.

“Government support for small businesses now will assist them to make a wise decision about their future.”

COSBOA CEO, Peter Strong said that the COVID crisis, which has come on the back of devastating natural disasters, has driven many small businesses to the brink.

“Deloitte Access Economics modelling estimates about 240,000 small businesses are at risk of failure and that highlights the need for small businesses to sit down with their trusted adviser for a viability assessment,” Mr Strong believes.

“We know that many small businesses are under enormous financial pressure as a result of this crisis and the sooner they act on their professional advice the better the outcome for everyone involved,” he concluded.

Beyond Blue small business mental health “lifesaver” Owners of small businesses struggling to survive the financial, personal, and emotional pressures of the pandemic have been thrown a lifesaver by one of Australia’s most eminent mental health services.

“Beyond Blue” recently launched its latest initiative to support the mental health of small business owners under pressure.

The scheme includes a free online training course to help small business advisers provide mental health support to small business owners impacted by the COVID crisis. The program is being supported by The Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman’s Office, based in Canberra.

“Beyond Blue — with the help of partners

Xero and Go1 — is once again taking a lead role in supporting the small business community at a time when they need it most,” Ombudsman Kate Carnell said.

confidence they need to play a crucial support role that goes beyond financial advice. This practical support can save lives,” Ms Carnell concluded.

“There has never been a tougher time to be in business and the psychological distress caused by this pandemic cannot be underestimated.

The free Mental Wellbeing: Support Yourself and Small Business course can be accessed by all Australian small business advisers via Beyond Blue’s “Heads Up” website.

“Given small business loans are often secured against the family home, the stakes are incredibly-high and that is understandably taking a huge toll on small business owners’ mental health,” she said.

“Beyond Blue is responding to the needs of small businesses, by providing evidencebased training to trusted advisers – who small business owners often turn to in times of crisis.

“Equally, small business advisers are in

a good position to notice if their client is struggling to cope,” Ms Carnell said.

The free online course offers small business advisers information about what signs to look out for, how to start a conversation with a client they’re worried about, and how to connect small business owners to appropriate support.

“It equips advisers with the tools and

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The Beyond Blue Support Service is available at all hours on 1300 22 4636 or via beyondblue.org.au/get-support.

The new Coronavirus Mental Wellbeing Service is available 24/7 at: www. coronavirus.beyondblue.org.au. Its dedicated phone line, staffed by mental health professionals briefed on the pandemic response, is now open on 1800 512 348.

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BUSINESSES GETTING DETAILS OF CBD “FUTURE CITY” PLANS COUNCIL SPONSORS DESEXING PROGRAM FOR CATS AND DOGS Un-desexed and abandoned cats and stray dogs were once the shame of our urban areas with Orange City Council ensuring that that those bad old days don’t return with a discounted desexing program for cats and dogs owned by pension card-holders.

The fee for desexing, microchipping and registering a cat or dog will be $50 under the program and is available for one pet per household.

Orange City Council’s Companion Animals Committee Chair, Councilor Stephen Nugent said the program was timely, given that many households had taken home a pet to ease the stress of the COVID-19 restrictions on movement.

“We know a lot of people, particularly pensioners, brought home a cat or a dog for company to ease the mental health burden of not being able to get out and see their friends and family,” Cr Nugent said.

“We want to ensure these pets remain in the best possible health and can be returned to their owners if they happen to leave the property.

“There is no question that desexing your pet is better for its long-term health and wellbeing,” Cr Nugent said.

Eligible Orange residents can visit Orange City Council’s customer service desk to enquire about the program. Once the fee is paid, the pet is booked in to Canobolas Family Pet Hospital to have the procedures completed.

Funding is limited and will be allocated on a first-in basis.

The program is available in October to people with a pensioner concession card.

Central Business District retailers are getting some flesh on the bones of Orange City Council’s much-vaunted “Future City” project to revive our CBD. Council recently sent-out a letter and colour brochure to all ratepayers in the area bounded by Peisley, Hill, Kite, and Byng Sts precinct explaining the details of the scheme.

The letter — signed by Mayor, Councillor Reg Kidd and Orange City Council CEO, David Waddell — lays-out the next three years of the project.

The aim is to: “keep you in touch as Council’s ambitious five-year plan to transform the centre of Orange has now been adopted by Council and the implementation of the ‘Future City’ plan moves forward.

“After two years of research and design by expert consultants, guided by a community panel, a hundred potential ideas were drafted and put on exhibition for community comment.

Now a short-list of key projects, has been assembled in a three-year timetable, aimed at: •making the CBD a more walkable city centre, • encouraging more people to come to the CBD and spend more time there, • supporting current businesses and creating a CBD which will attract new investment, •beautifying the town centre.

“At the top of the CBD list, work is expected to start this financial year on a new pedestrian mall in Anson Street, alongside plans to make inner city sections of Byng Street, Lords Place and McNamara Street more attractive and pedestrian-friendly.

The letter, however, does not mention the contentious Anson St pedestrian mall plan that has already garnered some public opposition from local retailers as well as a poison-pen campaign by unknown persons. (see story on page 7).

The Council has allocated $5 million per year for projects in the first and second years of the project with the aim of transforming the CBD into: “a space that our local community can be proud of, a place where they’ll want to spend time and will easier for them to move around.”

“Expert consultants and the community panel have been working away for a long time on this plan and I’m delighted to see some concrete plans emerge,” the letter adds.

The first year of the implementation plan includes a short-list

Orange Mayor, Cr Reg Kidd said that Council wanted to ease the financial burden on people who owned pets and wanted to ensure the well-being of these pets was being considered.

“Ultimately, it is the responsibility of the community to make sure their pets are microchipped, desexed and registered,” Cr Kidd said.

“Council has decided to set aside some funding to help pension card holders who may be struggling financially to make sure their cat or dog receives these important procedures,” Cr Kidd concluded.

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of projects designed to have the greatest impact and which will be achievable in the short-term.

Major projects in the first year of ‘Future City’ projects to begin in the current financial year includes: •CBD Greening projects •Orange Public Art Program •Extending festoon and tree lighting •Pop-up/Start-up Support •A 4-tier program of business and retail support: The three-year timetable continues with a short-list of projects for years two and three.

“A project of this scale relies on involvement from key participants. It stands the best chance of being a success if it happens in partnership between Orange City Council, local businesses and the broader community. We’ll aim to keep you in touch with progress, and we’ll rely on your feed-back to help guide each stage of the work,” the letter ends.

The enclosed brochure, titled “CBD Upgrade Sneek Peek” however, contains graphics and summaries of the major projects to be included in the project.

These include the proposed Anson St Pedestrian Mall; nose-in parking for a revamped Byng St with a “shared street configuration” parking zone with bicycle lanes on the eastern side; an upgrade for McNamara Street from Summer to Kite St. The aim is to: “revitalise Orange’s central business district… to encourage more people to come to the Orange CBD, spend more time there, and to build a CBD the people of Orange can be proud of,” the brochure states.

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MAKING CITY MORE “WALKABLE”

WALK A MILE IN YOUR SHOES WITH NEW FOOTPATH DOUGH Making Orange a more “walkable” city is one of the aims of the multi-million dollar Future City program with Orange City Council putting their money where their mouth is by tripling spending on building concrete footpaths this financial year.

WITH $900,000 NEW FUNDING New footpaths being built with a $900,000 spend from Orange City Council includes:

be replaced. There are also nine new footpaths being installed in north Orange, which are funded by developer contributions.

Orange Mayor, Councillor Reg Kidd is pleased the extra funding will be used to improve and expand the city’s footpath network.

“I have been pushing for increased and sustained footpath funding for a number of years and it is my wish to see better footpaths in as many streets in Orange as we can,” Cr Kidd said.

Council will spend $550,000 creating new footpaths and $350,000 renewing old footpaths this financial year for a total “We have a vast footpath network of $900,000 allocated in the 2020/21 in Orange and these newly installed budget. walkways and repaired surfaces will be The spending is part of a three-year of great benefit to residents across the boost to footpath funding for the city, city, especially with an ageing population with a further $750,000 slated for next and increased emphasis on healthy year and $600,000 the year after that. lifestyles.”

This financial year, about 13 new Orange City Council’s Infrastructure footpaths will be built in areas around Committee Chair, Cr Jeff Whitton said the city identified as being missing links Council’s specialist crews were often in the network that are most in need stretched across a variety of projects, of a footpath, such as locations close to so the work would be supplemented by schools, nursing homes and shops, or local contractors to ensure all tasks were where there are safety issues. completed this financial year.

Another nine failing footpaths will

Contractors will be sourced via a

quotation process through Council’s procurement system.

“Depending on the workloads of our crews, we will get contractors when we need to,” Cr Whitton said.

Council staff prioritise tasks using an objective ranking process based on criteria such as location, the amount of foot traffic, pedestrian safety and the condition of the existing surface.

Projects that have been already been completed this financial year are new footpaths on the eastern side of Autumn Street (Dalton to March), the eastern side of Garnet Street and the northern side of Ruby Street while footpath renewal has been completed on the southern side of March Street (Anson to Sale), the eastern side of McLachlan Street (Little Warrending to Caroline) and the western side of Anson Street (Prince to March).

This week, new footpaths are being built in Turquoise Way and the southern side of Dalton Street (Clinton to Burrendong). Footpaths are being replaced on the western side of Hill Street (Prince to March), and the western side of Autumn Street (March to Dalton).

• D alton Street, from Clinton Street to Burrendong Way • Autumn Street (eastern side), adjoining Newman Park • Anson Street, from Chestnut Avenue to the northern end of Woranita Park • Spring Street, from Bletchington Street to Dalton Street • Dalton Street, from William Street to McLachlan Street • Prince Street, from Woodward Street to Sampson Street • Peisley Street, from Margaret Street to Phillip Street • William Street, from March Street to Dalton Street • Gardiner Road from Peisley Street to Anson Street • Molong Road, from Forbes Road to Murphy Lane (subject to government funding) • Hill Street, from Margaret Street to Roselawn Drive (subject to government funding).

• Garnet Street (developer funded) •Ruby Street (developer funded) • Opal Street (developer funded) • Turquoise Way (developer funded) • Stevenson Way (developer funded) • Emmaville Street (developer funded) • Jasper Street (developer funded) • The remainder of Catania Street (developer funded) • The remainder of Etna Street (developer funded) Footpaths being replaced in 2020/21 are: • Hill Street, from Prince Street to March Street • March Street, Anson Street to Sale Street • McLachlan Street, from Little Warrendine Street to Caroline Street • Peisley Street, from Franklin Road to Gardiner Road • Autumn Street (western side), Dalton Street to March Street • Anson Street, from Prince Street to March Street • Nile Street, from Summer Street East to March Street • Prince Street, from Clinton Street to Sampson Street.

BATTLE AGAINST LOCAL EVIL ELM LEAF BEETLE RESUMES It is the ceaseless battle, they say, our efforts to control pests afflicting our trees and shrubs. Locals with elm trees in Orange are also being enlisted in the war.

hibernate over winter and emerge in spring to feed on the new leaves of the Elm trees and lay their eggs.

The larvae also feed on the leaves, causing them to die and fall off.

“We’ve already seen the positive impact of regular treatment on Council’s trees, with damage to trees dropping in the past few seasons,” Cr Reg Kidd said.

Orange City Council arborists have themselves resumed the fight to save the city’s elm trees as part of their long-running campaign against the Elm Leaf Beetle.

The loss of leaves impacts the tree’s ability to produce energy through photosynthesis, affecting its ability to grow and resist disease, which can end-up killing the tree.

“While we won’t ever be rid of this pest, we can all work together to make sure we minimise the damage these beetles cause and ensure the health of our Elm trees.”

Injecting the tree trunk with insecticide enables the chemical to travel to the leaf where it kills the beetles and larvae when they eat it, so while there will still be some damage to the leaves, it will lessen as the number of beetles decrease.

Signs of Elm Tree Beetle damage are leaves with holes in them, known as “shot-hole damage”, caused by the adult beetles, or skeletonisation, where the larvae eat the part of the leaf between the veins.

Orange Mayor, Councillor Reg Kidd encouraged residents with elms in their yards to check the trees for signs of damage and seek advice from Orange City Council or consult an arborist or their local nursery.

Visit www.orange.nsw.gov.au/ natural-environment/street-trees for more information on Orange’s street trees and the campaign to control Elm Leaf Beetle, including a fact sheet for residents.

As part of their latest campaign, more than 200 street and park trees are being injected with insecticide over the coming weeks in a continuing bid to ward off the pest which was only discovered in Orange in 2015.

The trees at risk of infestation are the advanced English Elms located around the central business district which were last treated in 2018.

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REVIVED BATHURST ORANGE CRICKET KICKS-OFF NEXT WEEK Last season ended with a whimper rather than a bang, but local cricket clubs are dead-keen for next week’s restart of the reformed Bathurst Orange Cricket competition.

Finals for the newly-revived inter-city competition had to be abandoned as the first lockdowns for the coronavirus put all competitive sport on hold.

“We missed-out on our last two weeks of the finals,” Orange District Cricket Association Secretary, Peter Jarick explained.

“There was a preliminary final where the minor premiers, Cavaliers were beaten by Orange City who progressed to the grand final, but the next week was washed-out and then the big lockdown came,” he said.

That was last season though, he said that players, teams, and officials are rearing to go for the restart of the 10-team elite competition from next Saturday, October 10.

“I think most teams are very keen to get back into it, everyone’s ready to go,” he said. The finish of the abridged football competitions last week had cleared the decks for the return of summer sport with Wade Park, which hosted the Blowes Cup rugby grand finals last weekend, looking good to go.

...I think most teams are very keen to get back into it, everyone’s ready to go,” The Bathurst-Orange first grade competition last ended in 2007 after a 15-year run from the early 1990s.

The two cities’ senior cricket competitions had reverted to local competitions before the concept was revived in

2019/2020.

“We started it up again last year, and most people were happy with the comp,” Peter said.

He said that, in contrast to last year, the competition will start with a series of limited-over one day matches rather than the more-gruelling two-day format of the previous seasons.

“We’re starting of with three one-day matches; this gets everyone back in the vibe of playing. The three weeks after Christmas will also be one-dayers,” he said.

He said that revival of the central tablelands elite level competition provided greater challenges for players and officials but one which they generally enjoyed.

“First year in, we were coming up against the unknown. But second year in, we know what to expect.

“You get to see different teams, different players, different umpires, and play on different pitches,” he explained.

“You are also playing against teams of a higher standard,” he added.

Veenstra set the course FOR CENTRAL WEST RUGBY

Central West rugby union — having just competing its abridged but highly-successful 2020 season — would not be where it is today without the foundational work of the late Peter Veenstra OAM. Mr Veenstra — who passed away from an illness recently — had administered central west rugby union for more than three decades, only standing-aside three years ago, current CEO, Matthew Tink said.

“He put in place a number of changes, all for the benefit of the game. These changes have greatly benefitted the competition that we have now.”

“He was very, very committed to the game; the only thing that he was more committed to, was his family,” Mr Tink said.

He added that he had worked with Mr Veenstra in central west rugby and had learnt much from the local doyen of the game.

“On a personal level, I consider ‘PV’ a mentor of mine. The things he taught me, I’ll never forget,” he added.

Mr Veenstra had also been a teacher at Kinross Wolaroi School from 1984 until his retirement in 1999. He was also involved in coaching and supporting the School’s rugby program and, for many years, coached the 2nd XV and was Team Manager of the 1st XV. He also coached and umpired the 15A and

2nd XI cricket teams as well as athletics and was also a Lieutenant in the Cadets.

His commitment to rugby saw him serve as CEO of the Central West Rugby Union for 31 years and decades of service on the Board of the NSW Country Rugby Association where he later served as its Patron.

In 2017, he was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia for service to rugby union, and to the community of Orange.

The award acknowledged his work with community organisations including Royal Far West, Australian National Field Days, Orange Police Citizens Youth Club, Lyndon Community Drug and Alcohol Service and as a Councillor for the Cabonne Shire Council.

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Peter Veenstra — who passed away from an illness recently — put in place a number of changes to local rugby that had benefitted the game.

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“SAVE OUR TREES” PETITION PROPOSAL The current Orange City Council has the unique opportunity and responsibility of making a decision that will have ongoing effects on our community well into the future.

The proposal to turn the picturesque former Bloomfield Golf Course into a sports centre is, at least, controversial and will ultimately be divisive within the Orange community.

The arguments for retaining the existing park-like property and finding an alternative location for the Sports Precinct are being publicised at present. Councillors need to take into account the opinions and expectations of the Orange community.

Establishing a “Save our Trees” petition is a relevant option to allow our population an opportunity to indicate their feelings and so guide our elected Councillors.

— Brian Keighran

SPENDING $5 MILLION PLUS; WHAT A WASTE OF MONEY! I am writing my comment and opposition as a ratepayer regarding the consultation and proposed Anson Street Pedestrian Mall and the three-year timetable on short projects.

How much CANDLE POWER was invested in this proposal? From my discussions with residents who have resided longer in Orange than myself, this type/style of proposal has been presented on several occasions over a period of years from Orange City Council and each time has been OPPOSED by the residents.

Within the CBD, there is an artery of road traffic. North to south are Hill, Sale, Anson, and Peisley Sts, and Lord’s Place with— east to west, Byng, Summer, and Kite Sts. Each of these traffic arteries feed into each other and, allowing for traffic lights, the flow is organised and controlled.

SO WHY disturb a good system by breaking-up Anson Street to put in a pedestrian mall?

There is already a foot pedestrian access outside of Woolworth’s which is constantly-used, there is the availability of a taxi rank, for shoppers etc, some of which are elderly, from low socio-economic groups, disabled, or mothers with prams and children.

The renovated building (previously known as Myers) has access from Anson Street into the new CITY CENTRE, where you are greeted with numerous and varying food service areas, a diverse range of retailers, general public seating placement in some areas, toilet facilities, and undercover entry back into Summer Street.

If Orange City Council has $5 million and is itching to spend it, then: 1. Update Robertson Park, located in the centre of CBD, with more picnic-style tables, seats, an avenue of trees with flowering throughout the year, a ring of flower beds to add a flash of colour, some artful sculptures and — as there is now a toilet block in place — this would be an ideal place for tourists and residents to use, seeing that the Tourist Information Centre and Museum, etc, is located across the road, and a place for residents to enjoy the park, to socialise and enjoy the scenery.

2. Revamp and update some of the kerbside garden beds located in the main streets, put up fairy lights or colourful banners, or boxed garden beds to showcase the area.

3. Install bus-style seating shelters along the arterial roads for people to rest in; either waiting for a bus for just for general use or to get out of the rain, as there is insufficient seating especially for the elderly, unless you use the Post Office steps, as most do.

4. Look to the Botanical Gardens, maybe some funding to assist the volunteers with planting for all year round, so that it could be on par with the Japanese Garden in Cowra, and to better-utilise and enhance as a visitor draw card.

5. Take a survey from the residents on what could be installed or updated for the children of Orange, for those who are not involved in the fashionable sports, but would rather be involved in: go-carts, archery, fishing clubs, roller-skating, etc.

6. Look at the Art Deco facades on buildings and give these a lick of paint so as to highlight the artwork and draw-out and on the history of the surrounding buildings. I paid good money when in the township of Napier, New Zealand, for a walking history tour and ended up spending more money on local goods.

7. More green spaces, especially in North Orange where the industrialisation of housing is taking place, a place to walk the dog, ride a bike in safety, take a stroll.

There would any number of better ideas out there, and they need to be heard. Maybe this is the opportunity for other residents to voice their ideas, on how better $5 million-plus could be spent as we know that budgets don’t always come-in on the dollar.

I can understand that Orange City Council wants to become more metropolitan, but if you wish to draw the tourist and — remember most of them are from the City — it is a serene and country atmosphere they are looking for. ORANGE has that to give, not just the mainstream food and wine, but the local colour and natural surroundings, a more relaxed lifestyle, and the hope of good and diverse shopping. Go where the money is, not waste it on something that will have little value.

As for the consultation process, it is a plus for the residents to be aware of what Orange City Council is proposing with ratepayer money. HOWEVER, it is to the residents’ best advantage to have a say, and not just accept what is put before them. It is our money, after all.

Think on it.

— Roslyn McGroder

SUPPORT FOR MORE SEATS IN THE CBD I was pleased to see your “City Watch” column on Saturday 26, September about “Needing a Rest”. I fully support the idea of having more seating available for people to sit-down and have a rest and, maybe, have a yarn with other passers-by.

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Recently, when I am out for a walk, I am often stopped and asked questions by Sydneysiders visiting Orange about what it is like to live here. I tell them the truth, that it is a great place to live. More seats would make it even better.

— Philip Miller

“DISMAYED” AT CITY SPRAWL — WITHOUT URBAN PLANNING I am sure many Orange residents are as dismayed and concerned as I am to see so many new residential blocks being developed with little or no regard to sustainable urban planning considerations.

Of course, everyone wants to see Orange grow and develop but in a planned, sustainable, and well-managed manner.

It is questionable as to whether we have sufficient water storage to meet the needs of the existing population.

Orange Council has not only failed to ensure secure water source for existing residents, they are now systematicallydestroying and degrading the regional nature of the city which makes it such a desirable place to live and work.

The numerous new sites being developed have been stripped of all existing vegetation including advanced trees with vital topsoil removed. It is not only the number of sites being developed that is alarming — or should we be referring to the large tracts of land being degraded — it is the lack of considered and thoughtful development that benefits and contributes to all of the community and preserves the best of the town while allowing for growth and development that doesn’t only benefit property developers.

Our Council has a responsibility to ensure proposed new developments and building permits submitted for approval meets some basic sustainable principles such as: • Minimum block sizes of 8002 metres • Siting of houses to maximise northerly aspects • Preservation of existing established trees • Water-storage tanks • Solar panels • Minimal use of concrete (especially for driveways) • Requirement to plant trees • Energy-efficient street lighting installed during development phase.

And, most importantly, tracts of land between developments that acts as wildlife corridors and to maintain the green, rural feel of our city and support wildlife diversity.

Orange is renowned as a food-producing and winegrowing area — that reputation which benefits the entire community is worth preserving.

— Lesley Smith

We are all encouraged to exercise more but, many people are deterred from going for a walk because there is nowhere to sit down and have a rest before starting back for home again. We really only need one seat on each block to encourage people to take some walking exercise.

I also thought it might be a good idea for Orange City Council to see whether health businesses, like health funds or health services, would be interested in

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