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ISSUE No. 30

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with DAVID DIXON

Justice in our system is represented by a blindfolded woman holding scales that objectively and fairly determine guilt or innocence. The blindfold on “Lady Justice” indicates that we are all judged on our character and conduct, not our name, position, and influence.

Newswatch recently became aware of a matter involving a well-known local Orange identity who appeared before a magistrate on what was once primly referred-to as a “domestic matter”.

We at Newswatch aim to bring out the best in people with positive stories highlighting issues of direct relevance to the local community; we don’t do courts, crimes, car-crashes, and police rounds.

Save our trees… foliage is on Orange City Council’s mind at the moment with opposition to proposed removal of trees in Anson Street for the planned pedestrian mall likely to see Council save the trees.

However, it does strike one as a bit odd that those — that slavishly report in detail on domestics, DUI’s, assaults, and varied other mayhem in the billionfooted city — did not cover this matter as they would a Joe-Average from east Orange (or Kelso, for that matter) pleading guilty to the same offence.

Precedent of the recent tree forum is also likely to be followed with a similar event held for the controversial south Orange sports precinct.

Council recently released first stage of the development application (DA) to remove more than 500 trees for the Bloomfield sport stadium proposal.

• Turn to page 3 and 4–5 for our two reports on the tree removal issues.

Tributes for beloved former Mayor, Tim Colour City is mourning recent death of much-loved former Orange mayor, Tim Sullivan (OAM).

Mr Sullivan recently passed-away after a long battle with kidney failure and was warmly-remembered by a number of current councillors.

“He was a great son of Orange, born and bred” current office-holder, Cr Reg Kidd, who knew Mr Sullivan for decades in both his private and professional life, said.

n Turn to page 10 for our tribute.

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Georgia on my “welcome” sign…

Quite an aesthetically-pleasing rustic creation though it is, one reader noticed that Orange’s new welcome sign at the intersection of Bathurst Road and the northern distributor, seems to have some ghosted lettering underneath the Orange signage.

“Does it say Georgia?” the reader asked trying to decipher the rusted imagery. Maybe the letters were assigned to the panels before the back-panels were reconfigured, with Orange and Georgia both sharing three letters. Later inspection showed most of the lettering had been scrubbed-out.

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monolith trail, or not?

Carols are out; Future Tunes in for Friday’s free concert Love your Chrissie carols and upset about cancellation of this year’s “Carols by Candlelight” in Orange? Then come to next Future Tunes concert in Robertson Park this Friday, December 18.

Next Future Tunes gig follows on from the success of the first event that opened-up live performances in Orange and drew hundreds of locals out in warm spring weather.

With a radio station running “Carols Requests” on the evening after the next concert on Saturday, December 19, as a carols substitute, the Robertson Park event could be your only chance to hear Chrissie classics, live and local.

Go to Council’s website at: orange.nsw.gov.au to book your free ticket.

Hi-tech forum mikes-up for voice of the people The hundred or so attendees at the recent Anson Street Tree Forum at Orange Council were having a bit of trouble hearing the Council staff over the general ambience of the room.

Finding a solution on the go, desk-top microphones apparently assigned to each councillor for the Chamber meetings were utilised to allow both the speakers to be heard up the back and the Council staff to offer their explanations for the controversial move to replace the decades’old London Plane trees at said location.

Only problem is, the wireless range of the mikes was such that speakers had to wend their way through the chairs to be within about 10 metres of the transmitter station for the units to work.

A Council Director did the honours, being in the unusual position of answering questions put by attendees as he held the mike for the same attendees.

Orange on the terrifying In such a very 2020-way, strange monoliths have been appearing overnight at obscure locations around the world, and then suddenly disappearing just as quickly.

These have included in Utah in the western United States, southern California, Rumania, the Isle of Wight, and in Belgium.

Visitors to Orange’s Cook Park were a teensy bit unsettled recently to see what appeared to be our very own monolith near the bird aviary.

Like the sci-fi movie, Signs, was this a portent for an imminent alien invasion where our human ingenuity would determine our fate?

A more mundane explanation awaited, the plinth appeared to be part of new signage for the bird exhibition…

TREE-HUGGER WON’T LET ANSON ST OLD-GROWTH GO Passionate about her decade’s old Anson St London Plane trees, Irene Iskric mimicked the actions of old-style environmentalists who were often decried as “tree-huggers” for their tendency to tie themselves to old timber to stop loggers from removing it.

Irene was one of the half-dozen or so locals spoken to on the street who believe that the beautiful old stand of trees, subject of a public forum at Council recently, should stay.

Asked if she wanted to be photographed near the tree, Irene enthusiastically rushed-up and hugged one of the trees marked for destruction.

Trees are the subject of the moment with Orange Council currently, with recent release of the DA to remove more than 500 trees from the south Orange site assigned for the sports precinct. | Saturday 12 December, 2020 |

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Precedent of the recent Anson Street Tree Forum at Orange Council Chambers likely for the controversial south Orange sports precinct, opponents of the siting of the proposal say.

SOUTH ORANGE STADIUM TREE REMOVAL TO GET OWN PUBLIC FORUM, OPPONENTS Precedent of the recent Anson Street Tree Forum at Orange Council Chambers is likely to be followed with a similar forum held for the controversial south Orange sports precinct, opponents of the siting of the proposal say.

A spokesperson for residents opposing the Bloomfield site for the multi-field $25 million project, told Newswatch that a senior Council official assured them after the recent Anson St Forum, that a similar event would likely be held for the south Orange project.

The suggestion follows the recent development application (DA) submission for the first stage of the project, removal of more than 500 trees at the reclaimed golf-course site adjacent to Bloomfield hospital site.

“First stage of Orange City Council’s plans to build a sporting precinct, which includes removing trees on a site alongside Sir Jack Brabham Park, goes on-show today for community comment,” a Council media release said.

Due to the size of the $25 million dollar development, (which includes a new grandstand, a marquee field, eight new sporting fields and a specialist athletics track) planning approval for the project is being handled progressively in stages, Council added.

However, opponents of the project are aiming to create the same public outcry that followed the recent announcement by Council of plans to remove about a dozen decades-old London Plane trees from Anson Street as part of the proposed Future City mall development. hey believe that the stadium should be built on the original north Orange site purchased by Council with the de-commissioned golf course reverting to natural state for the growing south Orange area.

The DA for the first-stage of the south Orange project — which involves gaining approval for the removal of trees on the site is on exhibition from now until early-February for community comment.

Later DAs will look at the design of a grandstand, sports fields and other facilities, Council said.

The DA shows the sports precinct would not be built in older-growth areas alongside the hospital, but in a former cleared area that was planted during the 1980s with Radiata pine to mark out the fairways of a golf course.

The report of an independent environmental consultant is part of the DA. The consultant’s assessment of the 28-hectare site alongside the Jack Brabham sporting fields, between Forest Road and Huntley Road, has found the site contains approximately 1,028 trees and shrubs (794 trees and 234 shrubs).

Of the 794 trees, the assessment found: •55 are planted natives, • eight are remnant natives and the rest (approximately 730) are planted exotic species, including Radiata pine trees.

Of the 794 trees, approximately 513 are proposed for removal, while 281 would be kept. Of the 513 trees identified for removal, approximately 55 are native planted trees, nine are remnant native trees and 449 are exotic species, including Radiata pines, planted during the 1980s for a golf course.

The assessment concludes: “The development would not have any adverse environmental, social or economic impacts on the locality. The development would provide an opportunity to deliver a community recreational facility that would service the wider area and provide improved recreation facilities for the general public.”

Orange Mayor Cr Reg Kidd is hoping the information in the DA will help the community better understand the project.

“There’s been a lot of misunderstanding about the project so far, mostly about the location, and I hope people take the time to look at the project closely before they decide whether or not to support it,” Cr Kidd said.

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“Most of the criticism I’ve heard so far is from people worried about the loss of trees in an area alongside the hospital. But that’s not where the sports precinct will be built.

“Maps in the DA, which is now available for people to look at, make it clear we’re proposing the new grandstand and new sporting fields are built alongside Jack Brabham Park. We have no plans for any development in the area alongside the hospital.

“The proposed new sports precinct is nowhere near the designed landscaped grounds of Bloomfield Hospital. This area was not part of Bloomfield Hospital. In fact, it’s several hundred metres from the hospital, and basically is not in view of the hospital.

“Staff are already looking into how the wood from the removed trees could be used. There’s strong interest in the pine trees from a particle board manufacturer and we’ll be looking to make sure any potential sources of valuable timber are put aside.

“Council has done a huge amount of bush regeneration work in that part of town over many years. We’ve planted thousands of trees around Gosling Creek, HiIton Reserve and Bloomfield Park that were overgrown with weeds before we started work.”

Orange City Council’s Sports and Recreation Committee chair Cr Jason Hamling believes the information in the DA will help the community understand the project.

“The DA makes it clear we’re swapping one sporting facility, a golf course, for another sporting facility,” Cr Jason Hamling said.

“The opportunity to build a $25 million purposebuilt sports precinct with a grandstand and marquee field is one that’s too good to miss. This new precinct will benefit Orange residents for generations to come,” Cr Hamling said.

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PUBLIC FORUM MAY HAVE SAVED ANSON ST TREES

Public opposition to radical plans to remove about a dozen decades-old trees on Anson Street as part of a proposed pedestrian mall is likely to see the proposal canned, attendees at a public forum at Council last week heard.

With a keen nose for the public mood, Orange Mayor, Councillor Reg Kidd has also come out against the proposal, saying that he will oppose the proposal whenever it is likely to come before Council

Under the hammer, Orange Council senior staff explaining the proposal to remove decades’ old London Plane trees from Anson St.

About 80 ratepayers and residents attended the forum which saw senior Council engineers and arborists explain that the London Plane trees (and two other species) were creating serious flooding, pavement, and service damage to underground cabling that would likely require their removal for the proposed 40-metre mall.

However, almost every public speaker at the event expressed strong opposition to the proposed removal of the trees with Councillor Glenn Taylor expressing the opinion that the numbers of other councillors now publicly-opposing the tree removal “was now adding up”.

Cr Kidd (not at the meeting due to a personal family commitment) said later "I’m for keeping them at the moment.”

The strong public attendance at the event was proof, he added, that Council was handing the issue correctly: “The proposal (to remove the trees) was put out there to get community reaction, moment, that’s why we had it,” he said.

Council engineering and parks and gardens staff said that any of the realistic proposals for root trimming, moving the conduit cables, or lifting the road around the trees, would have a price-tag of about $500,000 with removal of the trees and their replacement with smaller stock only costing a fraction of that.

Attendees at the event said that it was time for Council to put the aesthetic and natural benefit of the trees before any costbenefit analysis of the project.

“We have one of the nicest of the trees outside our Chambers… it’s one of the nicest trees in Orange, actually,” local lawyer whose offices are Anson Street, Mason Manwaring said before the meeting to Newswatch.

“I’m interested to see what the reason is for their removal… it would take a lot to convince me about the need for their removal,” he added.

Council staff at the meet, firstly provided some background to the Anson St mall proposal and the claimed need to remove the trees; no major project had been carried-out in Orange’s CBD since the 1990s, Council had budgeted $5 million for the Future City proposals to make the shopping precinct more pedestrian-friendly and “walkable”, and the trees had been creating problems in Anson St for a number of years.

“We’ve really wrestled with the trees as well,” Council 's Nick Redmond said.

Cr Glenn Taylor, who has publicly expressed his opposition to the tree removal, then interjected: “l’ve been on Council for 25 years, why are we only hearing about these problems now?”

COUNCILLOR GLENN TAYLOR: expressed the opinion that the numbers of other councillors now publiclyopposing the tree removal “was now adding up”.

Manager of Council Engineering Services, Jason Theakstone, then described a number of major structural issues with the trees that required their removal.

“There’s no dispute that they are beautiful, they are beautiful, but we have problems,” he said, saying that underground conduits for the NBN, gas, Telstra, Optus, electricity, and water were all being deleteriously-affected by the trees.

“They have six metre root-balls,” he said, adding that Orange’s location on heavy clay soils had forced their roots upwards and outwards rather than down.

“This is part of the reasons that we are having problems with these trees, they’re; growing-out under the kerb,” he said, adding that this had created serious trip hazards that have caused a number of pedestrian falls in the street.

“They’re’ growing-out amongst the services and amongst the footpaths; there’s not much footpath left… the tree roots have lifted the footpaths and the kerbs,” Mr Theakstone said.

“The tree roots are getting into the pipes and causing flooding,” he said, adding: “There’s accessibility issues for the disabled with 19 trip complaints in the last five years,” he said.

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“You want to put a mall in the street, that’s why,” he added.

Council staff responded that the removed trees would be replaced with advanced growth replacement species that would eventually provide the shade and shelter currently a feature of this section of Anson St. Innovative “tree cells”, milk-crate like structures, would be buried around the trees to ensure that the current problems don’t recur, Council staff said.

“We’re looking at pretty advanced trees in these areas, ‘Shademasters’,” a Council staffer said.

Mr Theakstone said that any realistic scenario for retaining the trees would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

“We’re talking huge costs, about half a million bucks.”

“These are costs we wouldn’t have to spend if we removed the trees.”

He said that any decision to retain the trees would have to be revisited again eventually. “Whatever we do, we’ll have to come back in five years, and it won’t work,” he said.

He described the tree problem as a “generational problem” that would not go away. “if we don’t fix it, the next generation will have to,” he said.

Council staff then fielded a number of suggestions and proposals from the attendees, suggesting that “root trimming”, to reduce the impact of the disproportionate roots of the London Plane Trees would “make then unstable on the pathway side” and lead to unknown levels of foliage destruction.

Another ratepayer suggested that creative solutions as those in other regional centres such as at Bright in Victoria that had faced similar problems, "should be explored,” the resident said.

“All the ratepayers would love you to spend the money to save

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Proposals to remove the historic trees from Anson St stem from plans to create a 40-metre pedestrian mall in Anson St. the trees,” the resident said to scattered applause.

innovative street furniture design, self-sustaining rain gardens and storm water reuse options.

“Plane trees are an asset to our community,” another said, with other speakers indicating that the trees should be valued as far more than their monetary cost to the community.

A number of speakers aid that the easiest way to deal with the rising root balls would be to raise the footpath and pedestrian area so that trip hazard and other issues would be less an issue.

“Why not form a new footpath and put all the services in the one duct?” another speaker asked.

A number of speakers said that the loss of shade and carbon capture would become more crucial due to climate change; issues that are forecast to increase day-time temperatures throughout Australia.

COUNCILLOR KEVIN DUFFY: ...I’m for the mall, but I’m not for it if the trees have to go,” Councillor Kevin Duffy said...

“I want the staff to listen closely to this,” Cr Taylor said.

“Reg (Cr Kidd) will not support removing the trees. I learnt about this only a week ago, and I’ve been hit between the eyes with this.

“There’s no need for us to remove those trees. All the major cities in the world work around their historic trees. I’ve been on Council 25 years and I’ve seen no report on the problem with the trees.”

He added that his support for the mall proposal was dependent upon retention of the trees. “If we have to remove the trees to have the mall, then we should not have the mall,” Cr Taylor added.

Life-long local and former Council staffer, John Kich spoke passionately about the need to retain the trees, saying: "Orange has a heart and a soul and if you try this, you’ve got a fight,” he said.

Council Director of Technical Services, Ian Greenham in discussing the mall said that the aim of the project was to make Orange “more walkable”, not to provide a café culture for the 40-metre mall.

Cr Jeff Whitton who expressed that he was likely to oppose the proposal in its current form, said that much water will pass under the bridge before any decision comes before Council on the tree issue.

As part of the presentation at the recent community forum events, Council staff confirmed that it is intended that the block’s plane trees would be removed as part of the upgrade because: • • •

Tree roots have lifted sections of the footpath, creating trip hazards and shop flooding issues Tree roots have grown into kerbside gutters interfering with storm water flow Damage to buildings

The forum heard the size of the tree trunks and the uneven roots at the base of the trees also reduced the number of parking spaces in Anson Street. The street needs to drain towards Kite Street but the tree root system hampers this.

Council staff assessed a number of options with the aim of retaining the trees.

“I can tell you; we’ll be asking Council staff to go back and redo the plans for this,” he said.

Locals were invited to discuss the Council plans for the trees following strong public opposition once the plan was announced.

“I’m for the mall, but I’m not for it if the trees have to go,” Councillor Kevin Duffy said, before the meeting describing the proposed plans for the 40-metre between Kite and Summer St as “half-baked”.

“The whole thing is half-baked, if they’re going to do it, do it properly for all the area, not just this little narrow mall idea they’ve got,” he added.

These included moving the kerb and gutter closer to the shop fronts which would allow the water to travel towards Kite Street. This option would reduce the footpath width and would not address the issue of the root damage to the footpaths and other infrastructure. It would also require services such as telecommunications, water, and power to be relocated.

While the replacement tree species have yet to be chosen, it’s planned new trees will be planted in 2-metre-deep tree-pit root cells, an underground ‘milk-crate-like’ container used to prevent tree roots damaging surrounding infrastructure.

The trees were a major issue raised at previous community forums held recently as part of the Future City initiative to upgrade Orange’s CBD.

According to preliminary designs for the new mall area, there would be more trees re-planted in the block than there are now. The new trees would be advanced tree stock of a species to blend with other street trees of Orange. The new trees would be three to five metres tall.

The meetings heard that the new mall in Anson Street will result in a 40m section of the current road, paved to create a raised pedestrian platform with bollards at each end of the platform to separate pedestrians and traffic at an estimated $1.5 million cost that will include outdoor dining options,

The nose-in parking planned for Anson Street would create extra parking spaces, including four new disabled parking spaces. Construction work on the proposed new mall in Anson Street is time-tabled to start in the second quarter of next year.

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POWERED “PEDESTRIANS” MUST FOLLOW ROAD RULES Nearly run-over a mobility scooter on one of our busy roads recently? What are they under NSW traffic law — a push-bike, motor-bike, or vehicle? Answer: None of the above!

Increasingly common on our footpaths, lanes, and shopping centres in our ageing society, mobility scooters are legally-defined as “pedestrians”, Acting Inspector Brian Duffey from Orange Police, revealed.

“Strictly speaking, it’s not illegal for them to be on the road, but they can’t cause an obstruction,” he added.

His clarification follows a recent complaint to Newswatch from a driver heading east on Summer Street in the CBD who was stuck behind a flagbound mobility scooter with a lane of traffic behind.

“He was holding-up the whole-lane of traffic, it was unbelievable,” the

avid reader said, with Acting Insp Duffey saying that this behaviour was probably-illegal.

“Under the (Traffic) Act, they are considered a ‘pedestrian’. For that reason, we prefer them to use pedestrian areas rather than the road,” he explained. “They’re considered like a motorised wheel-chair, so the same rules apply.”

He said that mobility scooter users in country towns like Orange, often drive (or is it, ride?) on the road verge due to a lack of concrete footpaths in suburban areas, which is quite legal.

them because there aren’t always good footpaths to travel on.” “it’s the same as a pedestrian using the road verge to walk when there are no footpaths,” Acting Insp Duffey said. “But it wouldn’t be safe in high-risk, hightraffic areas, its not advisable to try it.”

Acting Insp Duffey said that there were some other rules regarding this increasingly-popular form of transport for older Australians that many people may not know.

“When they’re on it, they must give way to other pedestrians, you just can’t rush through.

“They can’t take a lane-up, but in small “It is also an offence to use if you don’t country towns they may prefer to use have a disability,” he concluded.

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Art sells; now for annual creative fest, supporters Interested in helping get the art festival idea off the ground? The meeting is being held from 7pm, Wednesday, December 16 at “The Hive” in McNamara Lane.

Artistic proof is in the pudding, they say, with a pre-Christmas bonanza seeing a score of art works sold at Orange’s firstever pop-up art exhibition.

More good news for the local arts scene is a proposed arts festival for the Colour City with a meeting next week to test interest in the idea.

Local art groups hope that the unique pop-up display at the Summer Centre will “fire” interest in the local arts scene with a proposal to eventually house a permanent exhibition in Orange’s historic fire station, once a new 21st century facility is constructed.

Creator of the pop-up proposal, distinguished local artist Hank Spirek hopes that the pop-up proposal could fill other vacant shop-fronts in the CBD with local art eventually having the public profile as our fine food and good wine.

“It’s going very well; some 21 works sold for around $4500,” Hank enthused after the shop-front’s first week in operation.

Regular sales of the original artworks which represent a number of local arts groups works, will ensure regular turnover of new works for sale, he added.

“The presidents of the different groups decide when they are going to refresh their exhibits but because of the number of sales; it is safe to say the exhibition is being refreshed on a regular basis,” Hank said.

“The swap-over of work is up to the presidents of the three different groups, because of the considerable volume of sales, there will almost certainly be changes.

“It is normal for exhibitions to be hung for

believes that the proposal to create a permanent art exhibit at the historic fire station — once a newly-built 21st facility was constructed — would open-up a “fantastic” area for local artists to display their work.

between three and four weeks. We’ve been up for two; I know the Art Society intends on changing theirs after three weeks,” he explained.

Supporters believe that the arts festival proposal could be the right vehicle to lift the profile of the Orange arts scene. The meeting this Wednesday, December 16 at The Hive co-working space and conference room centre in McNamara Lane, is designed to explore interest in the idea.

The loose collective of local artists and innovators are proposing an established cultural feature on the local calendar alongside FOOD and Wine Week. “We have a very strong arts scene here,” local photographer, Orange tourism officer, and idea promoter, Glen Mickle, said.

“We have everything from artists that are working professionally through to sculptors to film makers and of course our local artisans, our handmade products…

Anyway, we can highlight and showcase that then it is a great idea,” he added.

Suggestions for a local arts festival could include open studios, pop-up exhibitions, workshops, and an artisans’ market, supporters say, but testing thew waters is the first thing, Mr Mickle said.

“We are hoping this call for a public meeting will get anybody who is interested in perhaps being involved in an arts event to come along and show their support, put their hand up and see if we can get something happening,” he explained.

Local artists, artisans, and creatives see the proposal as adding a new thread to The Colour City’s tourism appeal.

“I think it is another feather in the cap for the town,” designer, illustrator, and fine artist Sonny Day said.

“Orange is a really cultural place; there

Suggestions for a local arts festival could include open studios, pop-up exhibitions, workshops, and an artisans’ market, supporters say, but testing thew waters is the first thing, Mr Mickle said. is some really amazing, talented creatives working here. It would be great to give them a bit of a showcase… to give a voice not only to local artists, but other creatives in Australia who might never have been here before,” he added.

“It would be a bit of a coup to pull off something like that.”

“I think it is a great idea! There’s that many creatives in the town, and if we can all get together and organize something, I think it would be really fun, great for the community and for tourism as well,” furniture-maker, Will Brennan agrees.

The Corner Store Gallery’s Madi Young said a festival like this has been a dream for many years. “It is something we’ve always thought about, but it is a big job trying to get it together — that is the big issue at the moment,” she said.

“But I think it would be amazing because there are lots of great artists and makers.

There’s really high-quality stuff that we have in the area, which would be really nice to showcase,” Ms Young concluded.

Orange Mayor, Councillor Reg Kidd

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“They can buy something, and then slide down the fire pole,” Cr Kidd joked at the shop-front opening that is opposite the current fire station.

Mr Spirek said that the first station proposal was “exactly” what the local arts scene required to provide display space for painters.

“The fire station would be great; we could get all those art groups together. It’s exactly what we need,” Mr Spirek added.

While Orange already has a number of art galleries, these generally cater to the highend of the art market and the connoisseur.

“The elite don’t need exhibition space like this, but we do,” Mr Spirek said.

He thanked shop-owner Paul Saunders for the offer of the space provided at nominal sale-commission rate and would like to see other landlords in town offer vacant shopfronts for the displays.

“If they have an empty space, don’t let it rot and become run-down; offer it to local artists and it can become a beautiful space,” he said.

Proving the importance of a highprofile for artist to display their works, Kay Partridge revealed that two of the sales included works bought by passing travellers who had just chanced upon the exhibition.

“A woman from Sydney said she was just passing by, she bought one for her son on his birthday and a quirky landscape for her daughter,” she said.

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by DAVID DIXON

ICAC delay won’t save “Our Glad” — Donato to be publicly-released, Mr Donato fears for the future of the organisation the Greiner Government set-up 32-years ago to fight official corruption in NSW. “I just don’t understand why there is this secrecy around releasing of these reports,” Mr Donato said.

While it’s the Festive Season for most of us, for the political class, it’s traditionally-been the “killing season” with those strained, overwrought pre-Christmas days the most likely time for lame-duck leaders to be dispatched.

But for former Police Prosecutor, Phil Donato, Christmas 2020 is not just about the fate of one embattled premier, but the hard-graft of the 30-year NSW fight against corruption in State and Local Government.

In the short-term, the local State member (and Shooters, Fishers, and Farmers MP) believes that it is now only a matter of time for embattled Premier, Gladys Berejiklian to go the way that is ultimately destined for all who aspire to lead in political office.

With recent announcement that the ICAC hearing into the conduct of disgraced MP Daryl Maguire and his relationship with the Premier as unlikely

Visiting the region recently for the weekend on a holiday/work visit, Labor Leader Jodi Mackay, agrees with Mr Donato, saying that this almostunprecedented decision by ICAC to keep the findings private, is simply not acceptable.

She said that delays to releasing the much-anticipated report call into question the integrity of ICAC, set-up in the 1980s after decades of corruption at the State level in NSW “Are we going back to the dark old days in NSW?” Ms McKay said, calling on the premier to demand release of the report into the conduct of Mr Maguire, who is accused of attempting to use his political office as local member for Wagga Wagga, to sell influence.

Ms McKay believes that the Premier is receiving a free-pass for her handling of the coronavirus pandemic that saw NSW perform better than a number of other states, (Victoria particularly).

“Phil Donato is right; her conduct is simply unacceptable. She should resign, she has lowered the standards required of a Premier of NSW,” Ms Mackay said recently in Orange before heading-back to Sydney.

Mr Donato believes that, “it is only matter of time” for the Premier to be replaced but the wider question concerning the delaying of the release of the report into Mr Maguire puts the

whole rationale for the corruptionbusting body into question.

“I mean this is ICAC (full-name Independent Commission Against Corruption). If ICAC is to have any clout, it’s reports must be publicly available,” Mr Donato said.

He said that suggestions that the report will be tabled: “later in the New Year” simply aren’t good enough.

“Its findings must be above-board and available to the public, it’s why it was formed,” Mr Donato said.

“They’re public hearings and the public has a right to know. If there’s going to be faith in the process, it must be public,” he said.

He believes that Ms Berejiklian is benefiting from the Government’s acknowledged handling of the once-in a- hundred-year pandemic to escape scrutiny of her actions in regards to Mr Maguire.

“There’s no doubt she built-up political capital with her handling of the drought and bushfires and COVID, but other premiers have gone for much less than this,” he said.

“I mean, she had a close personal relationship with Mr Maguire, she knew full-well what he was up to.

“There’s phone recordings of his boasting of him getting $1.5 million and she says, ‘I don’t need to know about that,” he said.

He said that that her secret relationship with Mr Maguire had obviously “clouded her judgement” but that alone should not save her.

Ms Berejiklian offered in her defence

that her relationship with Maguire was of a casual, sporadic nature and that it was nobody else’s business.

“I couldn’t care less about her relationships,” Mr Donato emphasised.

“But she clearly knew what was goingon and willfully turned a blind-eye to corruption, and this relationship continued after he left Parliament.”

“I mean there’s a text message where he said he was going to make $5000 on a commission and she responded ‘Congrats, great news! Whoo-hoo!’.”

“I mean, she has always come across as a teacher’s pet, a bit of a goody-tooshoes…perhaps she’s been naïve in love.

“There was clearly secrecy surrounding this relationship that had been around a long-time without even her family knowing."

Mr Donato said that, if former Premier Barry O’Farrell could be forced to resign in 2014 after forgetting his receipt of a bottle of Grange Hermitage from a lobbyist, then that should make Ms Berejiklian’s position untenable.

“I know she’s done a good job on COVID and many people feel for her, but in the end, she’s the Premier, she has to set the example for her government."

He said though that simple scale of Mr Maguire’s attempted deal-making makes Ms Berejiklian's position largelyirretrievable.

“We’re talking about him making commissions on projects worth thousands of millions of dollars; the Premier has shown extremely bad judgement about someone engaging in corrupt conduct,” he concluded.

Jodi forgets her jumper…

Enjoying an early summer break in the beautiful Central Tablelands recently, Labor Leader Jodi McKay took time over the weekend to visit local wineries and the historic villages of the district.

Growing up at the beef and dairy town of Gloucester in the Barrington Coast hinterland, she told Newswatch that she is still essentially a country girl. “I didn’t realise how cold it was still of a morning, though,” she laughed as a chill wind blew across Robertson Park. | Saturday 12 December, 2020 |

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These awards are won for research, but the end-point is about making a real difference in the real world,” Prof Geoff Gurr.

Real-world solutions focus of CSU scientists’ trans-Tasman award Science is at its most valuable when it has real-world application, an award-winning local researcher believes.

Professor Geoff Gurr is leader of Charles Sturt University's Novel Pest Management Program at its Orange campus that recently won the trans-Tasman Engagement Australia Excellence Award for Outstanding Engagement for Research Impact His team’s work involves alternative pest control systems for crops ranging from commercial pine forests, rice, and cotton, to the use of beneficial insects to protect plants from pest species.

One of Prof Gurr’s most innovative projects involves using natural chemical attractants on plants to attract beneficial insect species that predate pest species of the plants.

“The fourth project involves development of new biologically-bred products to attract beneficial insects,” he explained.

“We use a range of natural compounds from the plants themselves that mimic the biological chemicals of the plants under attack; the beneficial insects follow this odour and attack the caterpillars, aphids and the like, that are attacking these plants,” he explained.

The team’s work — focussing on food security and the reduction of hazardous inputs in commercial crops — has saved farmers millions of dollars in pest control and increased productivity Prof Gurr, said, which is the real aim of such research.

“People talk about the ‘ivory tower’, I liked doing the research because I found it interesting in itself, but I’ve changed a bit, it’s the application of the work that matters,” he said.

He said that the satisfying aspect of the work that his team are engaged in, is that it is at “real world” solutions, and it was for this that his team won the prestigious award.

and reduce hazardous inputs.”

“The award was for the impact of the research, its applicability,” he explained.

“These awards are won for research, but the end-point is about making a real difference in the real world,” he added.

The research team’s work involves working with local and international producers to improve agricultural outcomes around world. The Novel Pest Management Program win was in the Engagement Australia Excellence Award for Outstanding Engagement for Research Impact.

Prof Gurr works in the School of Agricultural and Wine Sciences and the Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation with the award recognising his project as one of the top eight in Australia and New Zealand for its exceptional communitybuilding and economic-advancement.

Prof Gurr said the win was great recognition for what has been a team effort over quite a few years involving postgraduate and post-doctoral students, and collaborators within the university, and indeed around the globe.

“This project was initiated over 10 years ago when I began collaborating with colleagues across Asia to combat a very serious outbreak of pests in rice crops,” Prof Gurr said.

“This work was a roaring success and has since been adopted by tens of thousands of rice farmers in multiple countries and is recognised national policy in China.

“The original project was driven by a crisis and we were able to find a solution relatively quickly; it also set the industry up to be more sustainable and give farmers higher yields.”

Acting Vice-Chancellor Professor John Germov said the Novel Pest Management Program is an outstanding example of the

Prof Gurr added that his team had recently been working on two projects with the Australian Research Council.

“One is looking at pest management in pine trees and another is developing a new product that farmers can apply to crops to attract beneficial insects,” he said.

Weevils are the mostserious pest of sweet potato in Australia and in Papua New Guinea where Geoff Gurr’s team are developing new approaches for growers. impact Charles Sturt’s research is having on the world.

“Securing and growing food sources is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity,” Prof Germov said.

“On a global level, this project supports the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals,” Prof Germov said.

Prof Gurr said the project’s initial success overseas had been parlayed into further impactful research at home.

“Since that time, reflecting the success of the rice project we have worked with other industries particularly in Australia, and there has been huge interest from other countries.

“We are currently working on a milliondollar project funded by the Australian vegetable industry, and we have developed similar approaches that Australian vegetable farmers can use to combat pests

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Engagement Australia Chair and President, Professor Jim Nyland, said there has never been a more important time for Australian universities to become deeply engaged with their communities, and to align these transformational operations with their strategic priorities — from research and industry engagement to the health and well-being of the communities in which they serve.

“Our judging panel commented on the exceptional quality of the 2020 nominations,” Professor Nyland said.

Professor Nyland added that it’s also notable that three of the successful universities and individuals are from outside the capital cities.

Prof Gurr says that his priorities as a scientist have grown and developed over the years from when he first discovered his love of the natural world as a young man.

“When I was first studying, I was sort of selfish, I had an interest in ecology and how the natural world worked.

“Through my fields of knowledge, I eventually found it more useful and beneficial to work on projects that provide solutions to real world problems,” he said.

He described the virtual award ceremony as a novel experience. “it was all online on Tuesday of last week, which was an experience,” he concluded.

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Beloved former mayor, Tim Sullivan warmly remembered by councillors Current Orange Mayor, Councillor Reg Kidd recently paid tribute to his predecessor and beloved former office-holder, Tim Sullivan (OAM).

Sullivan in 1995,” Cr Glenn Taylor said.

“He was a mentor for me when it came to serving on Council over many years. He was a man who could cut to the nub of an issue in very few words.”

“He came from a working-class background.

The son of a shearer’s cook, he was a Labor man through and through. He worked as a nurse at Bloomfield Hospital, and you could see that in the way he genuinely cared for people. It was one of the reasons he was very popular as a Mayor of Orange.

Mr Sullivan recently passed-away after a long battle with kidney failure and was warmly remembered by a number of current councillors.

“He was a great son of Orange, born and bred” Cr Kidd, who knew Mr Sullivan for decades in both his private and professional life, said.

“He worked many years at the Bloomfield Hospital as both a male nurse and administrator and raised his family locally, with his wife, Lorraine,” Cr Kidd said.

“He was a true servant of the community; I remember serving with Tim on Council after he came back for his second term as a councillor,” Cr Kidd said.

“As well as working hard across the board on with a number of terms as mayor, he was passionate about local sport and put in a lot of time for local clubs including CYMS. “After he retired from involvement in local government, he retained a strong interest in Council and the community. He was always willing to give me feedback about whatever were the big community debates of the day, but it was always helpful, constructive advice.

“He loved to see the development of key community assets for Orange. I know he marvelled at the quality of medical facilities here, the very health assets that he was able to use as his health declined, to get some extra precious years with his own family.”

Long-serving council member Cr Glenn Taylor remembered Tim Sullivan as a “man of the people” saying his death was a “sad day for Orange City Council”.

“I first ran on a Council election ticket with Tim

| Saturday 12 December, 2020 |

“In 1996, there was a by-election to fill the vacancy caused after the departure of longserving local National Party member Garry West.

The pundits said a Labor Party candidate couldn’t get close in the seat of Orange. Tim was proud, he proved them wrong and got within two per cent of winning the State seat of Orange for the ALP,” Mr Taylor said.

Although severely ill at the time, Mr Sullivan recently returned to public attention after he predicted that the proposed 8500-seat sports stadium at south Orange, adjacent to his old workplace at Bloomfield, could lead to the stadium becoming a “white elephant”.

When Newswatch apologised for bothering him at a time of serious illness, he responded, “doesn’t bother me, I’m sitting here all day on dialysis, so I’ve got plenty of time,” he said simply.

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PLANETARIUM DEVELOPMENT: Desperately seeking money For life-long amateur astronomer Rod Somerville who has spent two decades, lobbying for Orange Planetarium, the waiting is the hardest part.

telescope can still offer fantastic views of the night sky in our astronomicallyrich viewing part of the world in western NSW.

External funding will be the key to getting the planned planetarium (as part of the (proposed new conservatorium of music in the north court of the Civic Centre) “off the ground”.

“You can still get some fantastic sights with a 20cm diameter telescopes, absolutely,” Rod enthused.

Orange City Council recently voted to support the $20 million proposal, which, because of its scale, will be determined by the Western Regional Planning Panel (WRRP) rather than Council itself.

Council is now waiting on government grant applications before the project can go out to tender.

“People often think of it as one development, but they’re two separate entities,” Rod — president of Orange Planetarium Incorporated — explained “We were put together as a project because it was easier to get funding. They were building a new conservatorium, and we were tacked-on — we are independent,” he said.

A planetarium, Rod explained, is a totally different facility from an observatory — a building housing telescopes of various types to observe the night sky.

“A planetarium is a domed structure that has projections of the stars and planets to simulate the night sky on its internal roof,” he said. “The domed roof gives an immersive feel to the whole thing.”

The new 11-metre, 74-seat planetarium — to be one of the most advanced in

He said that the waiting on the project funding is now the major issue in moving the development ahead.

Pictured on the site of the proposed new building are Orange Planetarium Inc President Rod Somerville; Cr Russell Turner; Conservatorium Manager, Donna Riles, and Orange Mayor, Councillor Reg Kidd. the country — will also be available for other simulations ranging from sciences to the arts.

“You can project anything you want onto the internal dome, it will be available for a range of other uses,” he said. “It is quite a versatile facility.”

“While its main use is still astronomical, we won’t be rusted to that. It can show everything from other sciences in the school curriculum to joint events with the conservatorium, with music playing as you have projections above,” he envisaged.

Local schools, and not just those in Orange, will also be able to use the facility: “it will be a great educational resource.

“As well as catering to schools and the school curriculum, it will serve the wider area as well,” Rod said.

He said that the finished project will offer one of the best planetarium experiences in the country. “It will

not be as large as those in Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Wollongong, it will be of a similar technology… "it will hold 75–80 seats with an 11-metre diameter".

Rod also believes that the planetarium will be another string to the local district’s tourism bow forming one more reason to visit the Central Tablelands.

“It’s providing one more thing to do while they’re here. It’s an extra thing in town, and so they’ll spend an extra night here,” he believes.

He said that, ideally, having an observatory attached to the facility would have been the best result, but star watching on portable telescopes outside the facility will be the next best thing.

“We were planning to incorporate a conservatory, but once we joined with the Conservatorium of Music, that just wasn’t possible. “But we can certainly have portable telescopes on the grassed area outside.”

He said that a good mid-sized portable

“Things are moving ahead, but exactly when, we’ll have to wait until Council lets us know,” he explained. “it was all a case of sourcing funding overall for the project.”

A $10 million grant has been committed by the Australian Government and Orange City Council has allocated $5 million towards the project.

He believes that Council’s commitment to the project will not see it stopped over a funding shortfall. “The last I heard, they were still a bit shy of what they needed, how and when they source that amount will not slow it down,” he added.

As well as the living green walls and planetarium dome and internal courtyard, the development will also include avenue tree plantings and grassed open space areas.

The DA will be determined by WRPP as the Council-sponsored project is a ‘regionally significant development’ and exceeds a capital investment value of $5 million.

“I keep annoying them about how it’s going, but they explain to me, ‘that’s not how Council works’,” he concluded.

“Living green wall” for new north-court facility A living and unique “green wall” is one of the special features of the proposed conservatorium/planetarium project.

The “living green wall” will wrap-around the planetarium’s domed perimeter by “integrating landscape” into the building design.

The proposal for the living green wall as a part of the conservatorium project came from the building’s designers, Brewster Hjorth Architects.

This design feature has been used in recent years on contemporary buildings with research pointing to the positive impact of vertical gardens in lowering ambient temperature and even reducing noise. By covering otherwise bland surfaces such as the dome, this innovation can also reduce opportunities for vandalism.

A number of high-profile buildings recently constructed in Sydney have included living green walls including at Broadway in central Sydney.

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Saturday, December 12

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6.00 Rage.

7.00 Weekend Breakfast.

10.00 Rage.

12.00 ABC News At Noon.

12.30 Call The Midwife.

2.00 The Sound.

3.00 Dream Gardens.

3.30 Ask The Doctor: Pain.

4.00 Searching For Superhuman: Immortality.

Final.

5.00 Australian Story: Cradle Of Life/To Russia With Love. Final.

5.30 Midsomer Murders.

7.00 ABC News.

7.30 Midsomer Murders.

9.00 Endeavour.

10.35 Sherlock.

12.05 Rage.

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

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

11.30 Turkish News. 12.00 Arabic News F24.

12.30 ABC America: World News Tonight. 1.00 PBS News. 2.00 Figure Skating. ISU Grand Prix.

Cup of China. 4.10 Gourmet Farmer. 4.40 Tony Robinson’s Hidden Britain By Drone. 5.35 Nazi Megastructures.

6.30 SBS World News.

7.35 Secrets Of Our Cities.

8.30 Portillo’s Greatest Railway Journeys: Railways, Law And Order.

9.25 MOVIE: Shutter Island. (2010) Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo. Two US marshals investigate a disappearance. (MA15+) 12.00 The New Pope.

1.15 Great Irish Railway Journeys. 1.55 North To South: The Full Journey. 5.00 CGTN English News.

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

Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 12.50 Twirlywoos. 1.05 Baby Jake. 1.20 Pablo. 2.05 Grandpa In My Pocket. 2.30 Arthur. 3.05 Catie’s Amazing Machines. 3.30 Play School. 4.20 Dot. 5.05 Dinosaur Train. 5.20 Aliens Love Underpants And... 5.55 Go Jetters. 7.05 The Deep. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Would I Lie To You? 8.30 Stephen Merchant: Hello Ladies...

Live! 9.50 QI. 10.50 Mock The Week. 11.25 Penn & Teller: Fool Us. 12.05 Would I Lie To You? 12.35 Friday Night Dinner. Final. 1.00 I’m Alan Partridge. 2.00 Absolutely Fabulous. 2.30 Live At The Apollo. 3.20 Close. 5.15 Lily’s Driftwood Bay. 5.30 Postman Pat Special Delivery Service.

5.55 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

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 Until Proven Innocent.

1.35 New Girl. 2.55 Insight. 3.55 ABC America: World News Tonight. 4.20 PBS News. 5.20 Most Expensivest. 5.45 Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

6.55 Secrets Of The Bermuda Triangle. 7.50 8 Out Of 10 Cats. 8.30 The X-Files. 11.05 Takeshi’s Castle Indonesia. 12.25 MOVIE: The Fly. (1986) 2.10 The Movie Show. 2.40 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. 11.30 Matilda And The Ramsay Bunch. 11.50 Operation Ouch! Hospital Takeover. 12.20 Gym Stars. 12.45 Deadly 60 On A Mission: Pole To Pole. 1.15 The Dengineers. 1.40 Larry The Wonderpup. 2.25 Thunderbirds Are Go. 2.50 Voltron: Legendary Defender. 3.15 Boruto: Naruto Next Generations.

3.35 Dragon Ball Super. 4.05 Odd Squad. 4.35 Hank Zipzer. 5.00 So Awkward. 5.25 All Hail King Julien. 6.00 Dragons: Race To The Edge.

6.30 The Crystal Maze. 7.35 Doctor Who. 8.20 Danger Mouse. 8.45 Teenage Boss. 9.15 TMNT. 9.35 Degrassi: The Next Generation. 10.00 Close.

5.30 Slugterra.

6.00 It’s Academic.

(66) 7.00 Beat Bugs.

8.00 News Of The Wild. 9.00 Flushed. 10.00 SA Weekender. 10.30 Back With The Ex. 12.00 The Amazing Race.

1.00 VIC Schools Spectacular.

3.00 Schools Spectacular Remix.

5.00 MOVIE: Jingle All The Way. (1996) 6.45 MOVIE: The Ant Bully. (2006) Nicolas Cage.

8.30 MOVIE: Alexander. (2004) Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie.

12.15 MOVIE: Yellow Canary. (1943) Anna Neagle, Richard Greene, Albert Lieven. 2.00 Home Shopping. 3.00 Smallville.

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6.00 France 24 English News First Edition. 6.30 Al Jazeera News. 7.30 Italian News. 8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News. 9.30 Greek News. 10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News. 11.30 Turkish News. 12.00 Arabic News F24.

12.30 France 24 English News Second Edition.

1.00 Speedweek.

3.00 Figure Skating. ISU Grand Prix. Round 3.

Rostelecom Cup. 5.05 Travel Man. 5.35 Nazi Megastructures.

6.30 SBS World News.

7.30 Blood Of The Clans.

8.35 Inside The Ritz Hotel.

10.20 Marry Me, Marry My Family.

11.20 Civilisations: Colour And Light.

2.35 Inside Hitler’s Killing Machine.

3.35 Life After The Oasis.

5.00 CGTN English News.

5.15 NHK World English News.

5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.

Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 12.10 In The Night Garden. 12.50 Twirlywoos. 1.05 Baby Jake. 1.20 Pablo. 2.05 Grandpa In My Pocket.

2.30 Arthur. 3.05 Catie’s Amazing Machines.

3.30 Play School. 3.55 Bananas In Pyjamas. 4.20 Dot. 5.05 Dinosaur Train. 5.20 Fireman Sam. 5.35 PJ Masks. 5.55 Go Jetters. 7.05 The Deep.

7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Would I Lie To You? 8.30 Penn & Teller: Fool Us. 9.10 Sammy J’s 2020 Dumpster Fire Spectacular. 10.10 Gruen XL. 10.55 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. 11.40 Stephen Merchant: Hello Ladies... Live! 1.00 Would I Lie To You? 1.30 The Thick Of It. 2.00 Way To Go. 3.05 Close. 5.15 Lily’s Driftwood Bay. 5.30 Ready, Jet, Go! 5.55 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

9.00 Croatian News. 9.30 Serbian News. 10.00 Portuguese News. 10.50 Urdu News. 11.35 Hindi News. 12.00 Hoarders. 12.50 Atlanta. 1.50 New Girl. 3.40 France 24 English News Second Edition.

4.10 The Future Of Work. 5.10 Running Wild With Tom Arnold. 6.00 Years Of Living Dangerously.

7.55 8 Out Of 10 Cats. 8.35 Lost Gold Of World War II. 9.20 United Shades Of America. 10.10 Vogue Williams: Transgender Warriors. 11.15 Sexplora. 11.40 Hernán. 12.35 MOVIE: Hard Paint. (2018) 2.40 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. 11.25 Matilda And The Ramsay Bunch. 11.50 Operation Ouch! 12.20 Gym Stars. 12.40 Deadly 60 On A Mission: Pole To Pole. 1.10 The Dengineers. 1.40 Larry The Wonderpup. 2.10 Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed! 2.25 Thunderbirds Are Go. 2.45 Get It Together! 3.10 Teenage Boss. 3.40 Horrible Histories. 4.10 Odd Squad. 4.35 Hank Zipzer.

5.00 So Awkward. 5.30 All Hail King Julien. 5.50 Total DramaRama. 6.05 Dragons: Race To The Edge. 6.30 The Crystal Maze. 7.35 Doctor Who. 8.30 Almost Naked Animals. 8.45 Teenage Boss.

9.10 TMNT. 9.35 Degrassi: The Next Generation.

9.55 Rage. 1.55 Close. 5.30 Slugterra.

6.00 It’s Academic.

(66) 7.00 Beat Bugs.

8.00 News Of The Wild. 9.00 Flushed. 10.00 SA Weekender. 11.00 Creek To Coast. 11.30 Weekender. 12.00 Bringing Sexy Back.

1.30 Kiss Bang Love.

3.00 Instant Hotel.

4.15 MOVIE: The Ant Bully. (2006) 6.00 Picker Sisters.

6.30 Funniest Ever Crazy Cats.

7.30 First Dates Australia.

10.30 Say Yes To The Dress: Atlanta.

11.30 Bridezillas. 12.30 Smallville. 4.30 Picker Sisters. 5.00 One Tree Hill.

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WIN (8) 6.00 Reel Action. 6.30 Entertainment Tonight.

7.00 Places We Go. 7.30 WhichCar. 8.00 What’s Up Down Under. 8.30 All 4 Adventure. 9.30 Studio 10: Saturday. 12.00 The Living Room. 1.00 Left Off The Map. 1.30 Freshly Picked With Simon Toohey. 2.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield.

2.30 To Be Advised.

3.30 Roads Less Travelled.

4.00 Taste Of Australia With Hayden Quinn.

4.30 Farm To Fork.

5.00 10 News First.

6.00 Family Feud.

7.00 Bondi Rescue.

7.30 Ambulance.

9.50 999: What’s Your Emergency?

11.00 MOVIE: In Like Flynn. (2018) Thomas Cocquerel, David Wenham. Errol Flynn goes on a treasure hunt. (MA15+) 1.00 Home Shopping.

5.00 Hour Of Power.

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6.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

10.05 My Favorite Martian.

10.35 MOVIE: Young Wives’ Tale. (1951) 12.10 MOVIE: The Frightened City. (1961) 2.10 MOVIE: The Rat Race. (1960) 4.20 MOVIE: It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

(1963) Spencer Tracy.

7.30 MOVIE: In The Line Of Fire. (1993) Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich.

10.05 MOVIE: Cop Land. (1997) Sylvester Stallone, Robert De Niro.

12.10 Dangerman. 1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

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(53) 6.00 1.30 Power Rangers Beast Morphers. 2.00 Clarence. 2.15 Xtreme Collxtion. 3.15 MOVIE: Pokémon The Movie: White – Victini And Zekrom. (2011) 5.15 MOVIE: Smurfs: The Lost Village. (2017) 7.00 MOVIE: How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.

(2018) 9.00 MOVIE: Spider-Man 2. (2004) Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco. 11.30 Stunt Science. 12.30 MOVIE: Resident Evil: Degeneration. (2008) 2.30 Xtreme Collxtion.

3.00 Power Rangers Beast Morphers. 3.30 Beyblade Burst. 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. 8.30 Travel Oz. 10.00 NBC Today. 11.30 Vasili’s Garden.

12.00 The Bowls Show. 1.00 River Monsters: Top Ten. 2.00 Reno Rookie. 2.30 The Great Australian Doorstep. 3.00 Sydney Weekender. 3.30 Creek To Coast. 4.00 Weekender.

4.30 Building The Dream.

5.30 Greatest Outdoors.

6.30 The Yorkshire Vet In Spring.

8.30 Escape To The Country.

11.30 Peter Andre’s 60 Minute Makeover. 12.30 The Fine Art Auction. 3.30 Sydney Weekender.

4.00 Creek To Coast. 4.30 Weekender. 5.00 Home Shopping.

Fish Of The (63) 6.00 Day. 7.00 The Big Adventure. 8.30 Home Shopping. 10.00 MXTV. 10.30 Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction. 11.30 Life Off Road. 12.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 12.30 Timbersports. 1.00 Blokesworld.

1.30 Freesurfer. 2.00 Outback Truckers. 3.00 Rides Down Under: Workshop Wars. 4.00 Desert Collectors. 6.00 Ultimate Factories. 7.00 Building Giants. 8.00 Mysteries Of The Abandoned.

9.00 Motorway Patrol. 9.30 Harness Racing.

Queensland Harness Racing Championship.

10.30 Air Crash Investigation. 12.30 Storage Wars Canada. 1.00 Late Programs.

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Home (81) 6.00 Shopping. 9.00 The Doctors. 10.00 MacGyver. 11.00 Diagnosis Murder. 12.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 1.00 iFish. 1.30 Truck Hunters. 2.30 Car Crash Global: Caught On Camera. 3.30 All 4 Adventure. 4.30 Mighty Machines. 5.00 Reel Action.

5.30 MacGyver.

7.30 NCIS. 8.30 NCIS: New Orleans.

10.20 SEAL Team.

12.15 Law & Order: SVU. 1.10 48 Hours. 2.10 NCIS: Los Angeles. 3.05 Motor Racing. Formula 1. Race 16. Sakhir Grand Prix. Replay. 4.05 Star Trek: Enterprise. 5.00 Home Shopping.

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(82) 6.00 Charmed.

7.00 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. 8.00 Frasier.

9.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 10.00 Rules Of Engagement. 11.00 The Neighborhood. 11.30 Charmed. 1.30 Broke. 2.30 Seinfeld.

3.30 Friends.

6.00 Columbo.

7.30 Kojak.

8.30 Spyforce.

9.30 The Big Bang Theory.

10.30 The Middle.

12.30 2 Broke Girls. 1.30 Charmed. 3.30 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. 4.30 Home Shopping. 5.30 The Neighborhood.

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6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise.

10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend.

12.00 MOVIE: Finding Father Christmas. (2016) Erin Krakow. A woman discovers a clue about her father. (G) 2.00 Cricket. Big Bash League. Game 5. Adelaide Strikers v Hobart Hurricanes. From Blundstone Arena, Hobart.

5.30 Sydney Weekender.

6.00 Seven News.

7.00 Cricket. Big Bash League. Game 6.

Sydney Sixers v Melbourne Renegades. From Blundstone Arena, Hobart.

11.00 MOVIE: The Town. (2010) Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm. A career thief plots his next robbery while trying to keep ahead of an FBI agent. (MA15+) 1.30 Home Shopping.

5.00 Seven Early News.

5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 Easy Eats. 7.00 Weekend Today. 10.00 Surfing Australia TV. 10.30 Peaking. 11.05 Visions Of Greatness. 12.10 MOVIE: Uptown Girls. (2003) Brittany Murphy, Dakota Fanning. 2.00 MOVIE: Blizzard. (2003) Jennifer Pisana, Brenda Blethyn, Paul Bates. 4.00 Tipping Point. 5.00 News: First At Five. 5.30 Territory Cops.

6.00 Nine News.

7.00 60 Minutes.

8.00 RBT. 8.30 MOVIE: Sully. (2016) Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney. After a pilot makes an emergency landing onto the Hudson River, his actions come under investigation. (M) 10.30 Nine News Late.

11.00 Killer On The Line.

11.50 Grand Hotel.

12.40 The Garden Gurus.

1.10 The Healthy Cooks.

1.35 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

4.00 Take Two. 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 Australia By Design: Interiors.

8.30 The Living Room.

9.30 Studio 10: Sunday.

12.00 Destination Dessert.

12.30 Roads Less Travelled.

1.00 Jamie: Keep Cooking And Carry On. 1.30 Freshly Picked With Simon Toohey.

2.00 Pat Callinan’s 4x4 Adventures. Return.

3.00 Emmylou’s Christmas Table.

4.00 All 4 Adventure.

5.00 10 News First.

6.30 The Sunday Project.

7.30 The Graham Norton Show.

8.30 FBI: Most Wanted.

10.30 Blood And Treasure.

12.20 The Sunday Project.

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 My Favorite Martian. 10.30 MOVIE: The Playboy Of The Western World. (1963) 12.35 Great Getaways. 1.35 MOVIE: Mayerling. (1968) 4.30 MOVIE: Sayonara.

(1957) Marlon Brando. 7.30 Death In Paradise.

8.40 Chicago P.D. 9.40 Chicago Fire. 10.40 Chicago Med. 11.40 License To Kill. 12.35 Adventures In Rainbow Country. 1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.30 Joyce Meyer. 5.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

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(53) 6.00 1.00 Power Rangers Beast Morphers. 1.30 Clarence. 1.45 Monster Croc Wrangler. 2.15 Dance Moms. 3.15 MOVIE: My Girl 2. (1994) 5.15 MOVIE: The Golden Compass. (2007) 7.30 MOVIE: Downsizing. (2017) Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz. 10.10 MOVIE: Suburbicon. (2017) Matt Damon. 12.10 The Top 100 Video Games Of All Time. 1.10 Tamara’s World. 2.05 One Night With My Ex. 3.00 Power Rangers Beast Morphers. 3.30 Childs Farm. 4.00 Bakugan: Armored Alliance. 4.30 Pokémon: BW Adventures In Unova And Beyond. 4.50 LEGO Friends: Girls On A Mission. 5.10 Lego City Adventures. 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh!

6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 10.00 This Is Calisthenics. 11.00 NBC Today. 12.00 The Yorkshire Vet In Spring.

2.00 Vasili’s Garden.

2.30 The Bowls Show.

3.30 Escape To The Country.

6.30 M*A*S*H. 8.30 MOVIE: Blood Work. (2002) Clint Eastwood, Jeff Daniels.

10.50 World’s Most Amazing Videos.

11.50 Wedding Surprises: Caught On Camera.

12.50 River Monsters: Top Ten. 2.00 Brit Cops.

4.00 Harry’s Practice. 4.30 Million Dollar Minute.

5.00 Home Shopping.

Home (63) 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction. 7.30 Home Shopping. 10.00 Timbersports. 10.30 The Hunt For Monster Bass. 11.30 My Fishing Place. 12.00 The Fishing Show. 1.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 1.30 Storage Wars Canada. 2.00 Off The Grid With The Badger. New. 3.00 Motor Racing.

Night Thunder. WA Sprintcar Title. 4.00 Bushfire Wars. 4.30 Graveyard Carz. 5.30 Counting Cars. 6.00 Detroit Steel. 7.00 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. 8.30 MOVIE: Prometheus.

(2012) Noomi Rapace, Logan Marshall-Green, Michael Fassbender. 11.00 Tattoo Nightmares.

12.00 Hardcore Pawn. 12.30 Late Programs.

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Home (81) 6.00 Shopping. 7.30 Key Of David. 8.00 The Doctors. 10.00 Car Crash Global: Caught On Camera. 11.00 Mission: Impossible. 12.00 MacGyver. 2.00 Family Feud.

3.00 Bondi Rescue. 3.30 Healthy Homes. 4.00 Fishing Edge.

5.00 iFish.

5.30 Star Trek: Voyager.

6.30 Bondi Rescue.

7.30 NCIS. 9.25 NCIS: Los Angeles.

10.20 48 Hours.

11.20 NCIS: Los Angeles. 3.00 Elementary. 5.00 The Doctors.

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(82) 6.00 Broke. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Middle.

9.00 Neighbours.

11.30 Charmed.

1.30 The Neighborhood.

2.30 Broke. Final.

3.00 Man With A Plan.

4.00 The Middle.

6.00 The Big Bang Theory.

9.00 Friends.

10.00 Man With A Plan.

11.30 2 Broke Girls. 12.30 Mom. 2.30 Charmed.

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 Gruen. 1.35 Squinters. 2.00 Rake. 3.00 ABC News Afternoons. 4.00 The Heights. 4.30 Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery.

5.00 Escape From The City. 6.00 The Drum.

7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Stan Grant’s One Plus One. New. 8.30 Attenborough’s Wonder Of Eggs. 9.30 Griff’s Great Australian Rail Trip. 10.20 Tomorrow Tonight. 10.50 ABC Late News. 11.10 Harrow. 12.05 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch.

(3) 6.30 This Week. 7.30 WorldWatch. 2.00 Epic Warrior Women.

3.00 Alex Polizzi: Chef For Hire. 4.00 Railway Journeys UK. 4.30 The Supervet: Noel Fitzpatrick. 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 News. 7.30 Inside Monaco: Playground Of The Rich. 8.35 24 Hours In Emergency. 9.30 Life And Birth. Final.

10.40 SBS News. 11.05 Agent Hamilton. 11.55 Outlander. 2.15 Late Programs.

Sunrise.

(6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: Merry Kissmas. (2015) 2.00 The Secret Daughter. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia. 6.00 PRIME7 News. 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30. 7.00 Cricket.

Big Bash League. Game 7. Sydney Thunder v Brisbane Heat. 11.00 Station 19. 12.00 Funniest Ever Toddlers. 1.00 Home Shopping. 5.00 Seven Early News. 5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 Morning (5) Programs. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.00 MOVIE: A Country Christmas Story. (2013) 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 Gold Coast Cops.

8.00 Driving Test. 8.30 MOVIE: Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade. (1989) Harrison Ford, Sean Connery. 11.00 Nine News Late. 11.30 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning (8) Programs. 12.00 Dr Phil.

1.00 Jamie’s Ultimate Veg. 2.00 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Inside The Children’s Hospital.

3.00 Judge Judy. 3.30 Freshly Picked With Simon Toohey. 4.00 Farm To Fork. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 10 News First.

6.30 The Project. 7.30 All Aussie Adventures.

9.00 MOVIE: Office Christmas Party. (2016) Jason Bateman, Jennifer Aniston. 11.00 Kinne Tonight. 11.30 Late Programs.

Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.30 Whose Line Is It Anyway? 8.50 The Office. 9.35 Upstart Crow.

10.20 Detectorists. 10.50 Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. 11.35 Squinters. 11.55 Red Dwarf. 12.25 Crashing. Final. 12.50 Green Wing.

1.45 The IT Crowd. 2.10 Sando. Final. 2.40 Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled. 3.30 Close. 5.00 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

12.00 Hustle. 12.50 Beerland. 1.40 One Star Reviews. 2.05 Munchies Guide To Wales.

3.00 Munchies Guide To Washington. 3.50 WorldWatch. 4.15 This Week. 5.10 Small Business Secrets. 5.40 The Joy Of Painting.

6.10 Alone. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Taskmaster. 9.25 Nude. 10.15 Late Programs.

6.00 Home (62) Shopping.

6.30 Travel Oz. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 10.30 Adventure All Stars. 11.30 Better Homes And Gardens. 1.00 My Greek Odyssey. 2.00 Harry’s Practice. 2.30 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 M*A*S*H. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Doc Martin. 8.30 Foyle’s War. 10.40 Killer Tapes. 11.50 Late Programs.

Morning (52) 6.00 Programs. 9.30 Danoz Direct. 10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

11.30 My Favorite Martian. 12.00 Australia’s Top Ten Of Everything. Return. 1.00 Days Of Our Lives. 1.55 The Young And The Restless. 2.50 Antiques Roadshow. 3.25 MOVIE: Brighton Rock. (1948) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 Grantchester. 8.40 DCI Banks.

10.40 See No Evil. 11.40 Late Programs.

Morning (81) 6.00 Programs.

12.00 MacGyver. 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. 10.20 Motor Racing. Formula 1. Race 17. Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Highlights. 11.20 NCIS: New Orleans. 12.15 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 8.15 Danger Mouse. 3.40 The Dengineers. 4.10 Odd Squad. 4.35 Hank Zipzer. 5.00 So Awkward.

5.25 All Hail King Julien. 6.00 Dragons: Race To The Edge. 6.30 Horrible Histories. 7.00 Deadly 60. 7.35 Doctor Who. 8.20 Danger Mouse.

8.45 Teenage Boss. 9.15 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. 9.35 Degrassi: The Next Generation.

9.55 Rage. 11.00 Close. 5.30 Slugterra.

6.00 Morning (66) Programs. 12.00 Once Upon A Time. 1.00 The Goldbergs.

2.00 Black-ish. 3.00 Powerless. 3.30 Dr. Ken. 4.00 Me, Myself & I. 4.30 Picker Sisters. 5.00 Funniest Ever Crazy Cats. 6.00 How I Met Your Mother. 7.00 The Simpsons. 7.30 Modern Family. 8.30 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares.

9.30 Ramsay’s Costa Del Nightmares. 11.30 Late Programs.

Morning (63) 6.00 Programs. 12.00 Outback Truckers. 1.00 Zoltan, The WolfMan. 2.00 Mine Kings. 3.00 MXTV. 3.30 Blokesworld.

4.00 Storage Wars Canada. 4.30 Mega Marine Machines. 5.30 Storage Wars: Texas. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 SAS UK. 8.30 MOVIE: Minority Report. (2002) Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton. 11.30 Late Programs.

Kids’ Programs.

(53) 6.00 11.00 Dance Moms.

12.00 American Ninja Warrior. 1.45 Kids’ Programs. 2.00 The A-Team. 3.00 The Six Million Dollar Man. 4.00 Baywatch. 5.00 Knight Rider. 6.00 Malcolm. 7.00 The Nanny.

7.30 MOVIE: The Nutty Professor. (1996) 9.30 MOVIE: 48 Hrs. (1982) 11.30 Paranormal Caught On Camera. 12.30 The Nanny. 1.00 After The Raves. 2.00 Late Programs.

(82) 6.00 Morning Programs. 11.00 The Neighborhood. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.30 A Million Little Things. 1.30 Medium. 2.30 The King Of Queens.

3.30 Carol’s Second Act. 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 Easy Eats. 7.00 Weekend Today. 10.00 Today Extra: Saturday. 12.00 Award Winning Tasmania. Final. 12.30 Rebound. 1.00 The Healthy Cooks. 1.30 Small Gift, Big Heart. 2.00 World’s Greatest Journeys. 3.00 CMA Country Christmas.

4.00 The Perfect Serve. 4.30 The Garden Gurus.

5.00 News: First At Five. 5.30 RBT. 6.00 Nine News Saturday.

7.00 A Current Affair.

7.30 Christmas With Delta.

8.50 MOVIE: Love Actually. (2003) Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Keira Knightley. A series of interlocking vignettes exploring love and romance in Britain in the weeks before Christmas. (M) 11.30 MOVIE: Mickey Blue Eyes. (1999) Hugh Grant. (M) 1.15 Award Winning Tasmania.

1.40 A Current Affair.

2.05 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

4.30 Global Shop. 5.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

5.30 Wesley Impact.

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6.00 Rage. 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. 9.00 Insiders. Final. 10.00 Offsiders. Final. 10.30 The World This Week. 11.00 Compass. 11.30 Songs Of Praise. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 12.30 Landline Summer. 1.00 Back Roads. 1.30 Gardening Australia. 2.30 The Mix. Final. 3.00 Basketball.

WNBL. Round 5. 5.00 War On Waste: The Battle Continues.

6.00 The Sound.

7.00 ABC News Sunday.

7.40 Climate Change: The Facts.

8.40 MOVIE: Danny And The Human Zoo. (2015) Kascion Franklin, Lenny Henry.

An account of the early life and career of impressionist, comedian and actor Lenny Henry. (M) 10.10 Total Control.

11.00 Killing Eve. 11.45 No Offence.

12.35 Endeavour. 2.15 No Offence. 3.05 When Louis Met Paul And Debbie. 3.55 Louis Theroux: Louis And The Brothel. 5.00 Insiders. Final.

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6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise.

10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend.

12.00 Christmas From The Country.

1.00 Christmas With The Salvos.

1.30 Jabba’s School Holiday Movie Special.

2.00 Surf Patrol.

2.30 MOVIE: Christmas With The Andersons.

(2016) George Stults. (G) 4.30 Better Homes And Gardens Summer.

5.00 Seven News At 5.

5.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line.

6.00 Seven News.

7.00 Cricket. Big Bash League. Game 4.

Melbourne Renegades v Perth Scorchers. From Blundstone Arena, Hobart.

11.00 MOVIE: Ride Along. (2014) Ice Cube, Kevin Hart, Tika Sumpter. A fast-talking man joins his girlfriend’s disapproving brother, a hottempered cop, on patrol. (M) 1.00 Home Shopping.

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TVguide 6.00 Morning (2) Programs. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Gatwick: The Last Chance Hotel. 2.00 Rake. 3.00 ABC News Afternoons.

4.00 The Heights. 4.30 Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery. 5.00 Escape From The City. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Outback Ringer. 8.30 London Zoo: An Extraordinary Year. 9.20 Maggie Beer In Japan. 10.20 Insert Name Here. 10.55 ABC Late News. 11.10 Lucy Worsley’s Christmas Carol Odyssey. 12.05 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch. 2.00 (3) Epic Warrior Women.

3.00 Great British Railway Journeys. 3.30 Who Do You Think You Are? 4.35 Alex Polizzi’s Secret Italy. 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 News. 7.30 Railway Journeys UK. 8.35 Inside Aldi. 9.30 Where Are You Really From? 10.00 The Feed. Final.

10.30 SBS News. 11.00 Why We Hate. 11.50 The A Word. 12.55 Bad Banks. 4.00 Miniseries: Supervolcano. 5.00 CGTN English News. 5.15 NHK World English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle.

Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 5.35 PJ Masks. 5.55 Go Jetters. 6.45 Andy’s Wild Adventures. 7.00 Sir Mouse. 7.15 Odd Squad.

7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.30 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. 9.10 Ghosts. 9.40 Would I Lie To You At Christmas? 10.10 I’m Alan Partridge. 11.10 Frontline. 11.40 Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. 12.20 Squinters. Final. 12.45 Red Dwarf.

1.15 Green Wing. 2.05 Detectorists. 2.35 QI. 3.10 Close. 5.15 Lily’s Driftwood Bay. 5.30 Ready, Jet, Go! 5.55 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

12.00 Hustle. 12.50 Beerland. 1.40 One Star Reviews. 2.05 Munchies Guide To Oregon. 2.55 Munchies Guide To Northern England. 3.45 WorldWatch. 5.10 Small Business Secrets. 5.40 The Joy Of Painting With Bob Ross. 6.10 Alone.

7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Escaping Polygamy. 9.20 High School Mums. 11.10 Final Space. 12.00 MOVIE: Hard Eight. (1996) 1.55 Mardi Gras Movies Home Grown. 2.30 Late Programs.

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(23) 6.10 6.35 SheZow. 6.55 Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs. 7.40 Wishfart! 7.55 TMNT. Final. 8.15 Odd Squad.

3.40 The Dengineers. 4.10 Odd Squad. 4.35 Hank Zipzer. 5.00 So Awkward. 5.25 All Hail King Julien. 6.00 Dragons: Race To The Edge.

6.30 Horrible Histories. 7.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. 7.35 Doctor Who. 8.20 Danger Mouse.

8.45 Teenage Boss. 9.15 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. 9.35 Degrassi: The Next Generation.

9.55 Rage. 10.55 Close. 5.30 Slugterra.

6.00 Morning (66) Programs. 8.00 Match It. 9.00 Home Shopping. 10.30 House Rules. 12.00 Once Upon A Time. 1.00 The Goldbergs. 2.00 Black-ish. 3.00 Jabba’s School Holiday Movie Special. 3.30 How I Met Your Mother. 4.30 The Simpsons. 5.00 Modern Family. 6.00 How I Met Your Mother. 7.00 The Simpsons. 7.30 Modern Family. 8.30 MOVIE: Father Figures. (2017) Ed Helms, Owen Wilson, J.K. Simmons. 10.40 MOVIE: Ride Along. (2014) 12.40 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning (2) Programs. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Sue Perkins And The Chimp Sanctuary. 2.00 Rake. 3.00 ABC News Afternoons. 4.00 The Heights. 4.30 Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery. 5.00 Escape From The City. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Hard Quiz. 8.30 Gruen. Final. 9.05 Reputation Rehab. Final. 9.35 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. 10.20 QI. 10.50 ABC Late News. 11.10 Basketball. WNBL. Second semi-final. 1.10 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch.

(3) 2.00 Epic Warrior Women. 3.00 Great British Railway Journeys.

3.30 Who Do You Think You Are? 4.35 Alex Polizzi’s Secret Italy. 5.30 Letters And Numbers.

6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 News. 7.30 London’s Great Bridges: Lighting The Thames.

8.30 Drain Alcatraz. 9.30 Miniseries: The Sister.

10.25 SBS News. 10.55 24 Hours In Emergency.

11.55 Vikings. 1.40 MOVIE: Herstory. (2018) 3.50 Miniseries: Supervolcano. 5.00 CGTN English News. 5.15 Late Programs.

Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 5.35 PJ Masks. 5.55 Go Jetters. 6.45 Andy’s Wild Adventures. 7.00 Sir Mouse. 7.15 Odd Squad.

7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.30 The IT Crowd.

8.55 Rosehaven. 9.20 Gavin & Stacey. 10.25 Frontline. 10.50 The Thick Of It. 11.20 Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. 12.05 Red Dwarf. Final. 12.35 Green Wing. 1.30 Whose Line Is It Anyway? 1.55 QI. 2.25 The Catherine Tate Show. 3.00 Close. 5.15 Lily’s Driftwood Bay. 5.30 Ready, Jet, Go! 5.55 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

12.00 Hustle. 12.50 Beerland. 1.40 One Star Reviews. 2.05 Munchies Guide To Basque Country. 2.55 Munchies Guide To Sweden.

3.45 WorldWatch. 5.10 Small Business Secrets.

5.40 The Joy Of Painting With Bob Ross. 6.10 Alone. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 MOVIE: Climax. (2018) Sofia Boutella. 10.15 Saturday Night Fever: The Ultimate Disco Movie. 11.35 MOVIE: Beyond The Lights. (2014) 1.40 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 7.40 Wishfart! 7.55 Dragons: Riders Of Berk. 8.15 The Penguins Of Madagascar. 3.40 The Dengineers.

4.10 School Of Rock. 4.35 Hank Zipzer. 5.00 So Awkward. 5.25 All Hail King Julien. 6.00 Dragons: Race To The Edge. 6.30 Horrible Histories. 7.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. 7.35 Doctor Who. 8.25 Danger Mouse. 8.50 Almost Never.

9.20 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. 9.40 Degrassi: The Next Generation. 10.00 Rage.

11.05 Close. 5.30 Slugterra.

6.00 It’s (66) Academic.

7.00 Spit It Out. 8.00 Match It. 9.00 Home Shopping. 10.30 House Rules. 12.00 Once Upon A Time. 1.00 The Goldbergs. 2.00 Black-ish. 3.00 Powerless. 3.30 How I Met Your Mother. 4.30 The Simpsons. 5.00 Modern Family. 6.00 How I Met Your Mother. 7.00 The Simpsons. 7.30 Modern Family. 8.30 The Mentalist. 10.30 Numb3rs. 11.30 Criminal Minds. 12.30 Fringe. 1.30 Black-ish. 2.00 Home Shopping. 4.00 Smallville. 5.00 One Tree Hill.

6.00 Morning (2) Programs. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Hard Quiz. 1.30 Reputation Rehab. Final. 2.00 Rake. 3.00 ABC News Afternoons. 4.00 The Heights. 4.30 Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery. 5.00 Escape From The City. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. Final. 8.00 Scottish Vets Down Under.

8.30 Rick Stein’s Secret France. 9.30 Death In Paradise. Final. 10.30 Anh’s Brush With Fame.

11.05 ABC Late News. 11.20 Louis Theroux: Louis And The Nazis. 12.25 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch.

(3) 2.00 Pope: The Most Powerful Man In History. 2.50 Great British Railway Journeys. 3.30 Who Do You Think You Are? 4.35 Alex Polizzi’s Secret Italy. 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Australia.

6.30 News. 7.30 MOVIE: The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years. (2016) 9.30 Lennon’s Last Weekend. 10.35 SBS News. 11.05 24 Hours In Police Custody. 11.55 Wisting. 4.25 Railway Journeys UK. 5.00 CGTN English News.

5.15 Late Programs.

Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 5.35 PJ Masks. 5.55 Go Jetters. 6.45 Andy’s Wild Adventures. 7.00 Sir Mouse. 7.15 Odd Squad.

7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.30 Hard Quiz. 9.00 Mock The Week. 9.30 Review With Myles Barlow: Christmas Special. 10.00 Reputation Rehab. Final. 10.30 Superwog. Final. 10.55 Ghosts. 11.25 Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. 12.05 Red Dwarf A-Z. 12.35 Green Wing. 1.30 The Office. 2.20 Close. 5.15 Lily’s Driftwood Bay. 5.30 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

12.00 MOVIE: Venus. (2017) 1.40 The Movie Show. 2.10 Munchies Guide To Las Vegas. 3.00 Munchies Guide To Oaxaca. 3.45 WorldWatch.

5.10 VICE. 5.40 The Joy Of Painting With Bob Ross. 6.10 Alone. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 The Curse Of Oak Island. 9.15 Full Frontal. 9.40 Photo Op: Trump And Black Lives Matter. 10.55 Beyond Boobs. 11.55 The Longest Day In Chang’an.

12.40 Dragula. 2.35 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 7.40 Wishfart! 7.55 Dragons: Riders Of Berk. 8.15 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk. 3.50 How To Do Stuff Good. 4.10 Odd Squad. 4.35 Hank Zipzer. 5.05 Secret Life Of Boys. 5.25 All Hail King Julien. 6.00 Dragons: Race To The Edge.

6.30 Horrible Histories. 7.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. 7.35 Doctor Who. 8.45 Almost Never. 9.15 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. 9.35 Degrassi: The Next Generation. 10.00 Rage. 11.00 Close.

5.30 Slugterra.

6.00 It’s (66) Academic.

7.00 Spit It Out. 8.00 Match It. 9.00 Home Shopping. 10.30 House Rules. 12.00 Once Upon A Time. 1.00 The Goldbergs. 1.30 Jabba’s School Holiday Movie Special. 2.00 Black-ish.

3.00 Powerless. 3.30 How I Met Your Mother.

4.30 The Simpsons. 5.00 Modern Family. 6.00 How I Met Your Mother. 7.00 The Simpsons.

7.30 Modern Family. 8.30 The Mentalist. 10.30 Numb3rs. 11.30 Bones. 12.30 Fringe. 4.30 How I Met Your Mother. 5.00 One Tree Hill.

6.00 News Breakfast.

(2) 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Outback Ringer. 10.30 Scottish Vets Down Under. 11.00 Gardening Australia. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. 1.50 Rake. 3.00 ABC News Afternoons. 4.00 The Heights. 4.30 Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery. 4.55 Escape From The City. 6.00 The Drum. Final. 7.00 ABC News.

7.30 Gardening Australia Christmas Special.

Final. 8.30 Vera. 10.05 Mum. Final. 10.35 ABC Late News. 10.50 Gruen. Final. 11.30 Rage.

6.00 WorldWatch.

(3) 2.05 Pope: The Most Powerful Man In History. 2.55 Great British Railway Journeys. 3.30 Who Do You Think You Are? 4.35 Alex Polizzi’s Secret Italy. 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Australia.

6.30 News. 7.30 Scanning The Nile. 8.30 Wonderful World Of Chocolate Christmas. 9.20 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 10.15 SBS News. 10.45 Country Music. 11.45 Miniseries: The State. 3.30 Croc A Dyke Dundee. 4.30 Railway Journeys UK. 5.00 Late Programs.

Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs. 5.55 Go Jetters. 6.45 Andy’s Wild Adventures. 7.00 Sir Mouse. 7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.30 Gruen XL. Final. 9.15 Absolutely Fabulous. 9.45 Catherine Tate Christmas Special. 10.25 The IT Crowd. 10.50 Would I Lie To You? 11.20 Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. Final. 12.00 Green Wing. 12.50 The IT Crowd. 1.15 Would I Lie To You At Christmas?

1.45 Upstart Crow. 2.30 Close. 5.00 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

12.00 The Third Industrial Revolution. 1.55 Munchies Guide To Berlin. 2.50 Munchies Guide To Bohemia. 3.40 WorldWatch. 5.05 VICE. 5.40 The Joy Of Painting With Bob Ross.

6.10 Alone. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Ngumpin Kartiya.

8.55 Hoarders. 9.45 Ina Loves Porno. Final.

10.35 Vagrant Queen. Final. 11.25 The Feed.

11.55 Meet The Hitlers. 1.30 Dragula. 2.25 NHK World English News. 3.00 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 7.55 Dragons: Riders Of Berk. 8.15 Horrible Histories.

2.30 Teenage Fairytale Dropouts. 3.10 Almost Never. 4.10 Odd Squad. 4.35 Hank Zipzer. 5.05 Secret Life Of Boys. 5.25 All Hail King Julien.

6.00 Dragons: Race To The Edge. 6.30 Horrible Histories. 7.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. 7.35 Doctor Who. 8.40 Good Game Spawn Point. 9.00 Voltron: Legendary Defender. 9.25 Boruto: Naruto Next Generations. 9.45 Degrassi: The Next Generation. 10.10 Close. 5.30 Slugterra.

6.00 It’s (66) Academic.

7.00 Spit It Out. 8.00 Match It. 9.00 Home Shopping. 10.30 House Rules. 12.00 Once Upon A Time. 1.00 The Goldbergs. 1.30 Jabba’s School Holiday Movie Special. 2.00 Black-ish.

3.00 Powerless. 3.30 How I Met Your Mother.

4.30 The Simpsons. 5.00 Modern Family. 6.00 How I Met Your Mother. 7.00 The Simpsons.

7.30 Modern Family. 8.30 The Mentalist. 10.30 Numb3rs. 11.30 Bones. 12.30 Fringe. 4.30 How I Met Your Mother. 5.00 One Tree Hill.

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Sunrise.

(6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: My Santa. (2013) Matthew Lawrence.

2.00 The Secret Daughter. 3.00 The Chase.

4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia. 6.00 PRIME7 News. 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30. 7.00 Cricket. Big Bash League.

Game 8. Hobart Hurricanes v Adelaide Strikers.

11.00 Chicago Fire. 12.00 Grey’s Anatomy. 1.00 Home Shopping. 5.00 Seven Early News. 5.30 Sunrise.

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NINE

6.00 Headline News.

(8) 8.30 Studio 10. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 Jamie’s Ultimate Veg. 2.00 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Inside The Children’s Hospital. 3.00 Judge Judy. 3.30 Freshly Picked With Simon Toohey. 4.00 Farm To Fork. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful.

5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 Ambulance Australia. 8.30 NCIS. 9.30 NCIS: Los Angeles. 10.30 NCIS. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.30 The Project. 1.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 2.30 Late Programs.

9GEM

Home (81) 6.00 Shopping.

8.00 Diagnosis Murder. 9.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 10.00 Mission: Impossible. 11.00 Jake And The Fatman. 12.00 MacGyver. 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 Hawaii Five-0. 4.10 NCIS: New Orleans. 5.05 The Doctors.

9GO!

(82) 6.00 Charmed.

7.00 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. 8.00 Frasier.

9.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 10.00 Cheers. 11.00 The Neighborhood. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.30 A Million Little Things. 1.30 Medium. 2.30 The King Of Queens.

3.30 Seinfeld. 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. 12.00 Frasier. 12.30 Home Shopping. 1.30 Late Programs.

NINE

6.00 Headline News.

(8) 8.30 Studio 10. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 To Be Advised. 2.00 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Inside The Children’s Hospital.

3.00 Judge Judy. 3.30 Freshly Picked With Simon Toohey. 4.00 Farm To Fork. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 10 News First.

6.30 The Project. 7.30 The Royals Revealed: Harry & Edward – Princes In Exile. 8.30 Bull.

10.30 The Masked Singer USA. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.30 The Project. 1.30 Late Programs.

9GEM

Home (81) 6.00 Shopping.

8.00 Diagnosis Murder. 9.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 10.00 Mission: Impossible. 11.00 Jake And The Fatman. 12.00 MacGyver. 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. 12.10 Home Shopping.

2.10 NCIS. 3.10 MacGyver. 4.05 NCIS: New Orleans. 5.00 Elementary.

9GO!

(82) 6.00 Charmed.

7.00 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. 8.00 Frasier.

9.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 10.00 Cheers. 11.00 The Neighborhood. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.30 A Million Little Things. 1.30 Medium. 2.30 The King Of Queens.

3.30 Seinfeld. 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 Frasier.

12.30 Home Shopping. 1.30 Late Programs.

NINE

6.00 Headline News.

(8) 8.30 Studio 10. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 To Be Advised. 2.00 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Inside The Children’s Hospital.

3.00 Judge Judy. 3.30 Freshly Picked With Simon Toohey. 4.00 Farm To Fork. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 10 News First.

6.30 The Project. 7.30 Jamie: Easy Meals At Christmas. New. 8.30 Law & Order: SVU. 9.30 Blue Bloods. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News.

12.30 The Project. 1.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 2.30 Late Programs.

9GEM

Home (81) 6.00 Shopping.

8.00 Motor Racing. Formula 1. Race 17. Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Highlights. 9.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 10.00 Mission: Impossible. 11.00 Jake And The Fatman. 12.00 MacGyver. 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. 10.30 SEAL Team. 11.30 NCIS: Los Angeles. 12.30 Late Programs.

9GO!

(82) 6.00 Charmed.

7.00 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. 8.00 Frasier.

9.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 10.00 Cheers. 11.00 The Neighborhood. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.30 A Million Little Things. 1.30 Medium. 2.30 The King Of Queens.

3.30 Seinfeld. 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. 10.30 Carol’s Second Act. Final. 11.00 The Middle. 12.00 Frasier. 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 Inside The Children’s Hospital.

3.00 Judge Judy. 3.30 Freshly Picked With Simon Toohey. 4.00 Farm To Fork. 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 The Montreal Comedy Festival. 10.30 Just For Laughs Australia. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.30 The Project.

1.30 Late Programs.

9GEM

Home (81) 6.00 Shopping.

8.00 Diagnosis Murder. 9.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 10.00 Mission: Impossible. 11.00 Jake And The Fatman. 12.00 MacGyver. 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 Law & Order: SVU. 9.30 MOVIE: Escape Plan. (2013) Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger. 11.50 Late Programs.

9GO!

(82) 6.00 Charmed.

7.00 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. 8.00 Frasier.

9.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 10.00 Cheers. 11.00 The King Of Queens. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.30 Charmed. 1.30 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. 2.30 The King Of Queens. 3.00 Seinfeld. 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. 10.30 Nancy Drew. 12.30 Home Shopping. 1.30 Late Programs.

6.00 Today. 9.00 (5) Today Extra Summer. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.00 Explore. 1.15 MOVIE: A Christmas In Tennessee. (2018) 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 20 To One. 8.30 Kath & Kim. 9.40 Hamish & Andy’s Euro Gap Year. 10.40 Nine News Late. 11.10 The First 48. 12.05 Tipping Point. 1.00 A Current Affair.

1.30 Late Programs.

7TWO

Morning (52) 6.00 Programs.

10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. 12.00 Australia’s Top Ten Of Everything. 1.00 Days Of Our Lives. 1.55 The Young And The Restless. 2.50 Antiques Roadshow. 3.20 MOVIE: San Demetrio, London. (1943) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 New Tricks. 8.40 MOVIE: Runaway Jury. (2003) John Cusack, Gene Hackman. 11.10 The Disappearance Of Maura Murray. 12.10 Late Programs.

7MATE

Kids’ Programs.

(53) 6.00 11.00 Dance Moms.

12.00 American Ninja Warrior. 1.45 Kids’ Programs. 2.00 Malcolm. 3.00 The Six Million Dollar Man. 4.00 Baywatch. 5.00 Knight Rider. 6.00 Malcolm. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 MOVIE: Matilda. (1996) 9.30 MOVIE: The DUFF. (2015) 11.30 The Nanny. 12.00 Baywatch. 1.00 Visions Of Greatness. 2.10 Dance Moms. 3.00 Beyblade Burst Rise. 3.30 LEGO Friends: Girls On A Mission. 4.00 Pokémon. 4.30 Pokémon Journeys. 4.50 Kids’ Programs.

PRIME7

6.00 Today. 9.00 (5) Today Extra Summer. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.10 MOVIE: Christmas Reservations. (2019) 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 The InBetween. 9.30 Chicago Med. 10.30 Nine News Late. 11.00 Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

11.45 World’s Wildest Weather. 12.35 Tipping Point. 1.30 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning (62) Programs. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute.

9.30 NBC Today. 12.00 Sydney Weekender.

12.30 Vasili’s Garden. 1.00 My Greek Odyssey.

2.00 Harry’s Practice. 2.30 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 Funniest Cutest Kittens Ever. 4.30 The Real Seachange. 5.00 Under The Hammer.

5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Pie In The Sky. 8.30 Inspector Morse. 10.50 Robbie Coltrane’s Critical Evidence. 12.00 Late Programs.

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

11.00 A Football Life. 12.00 Outback Truckers.

1.00 Zoltan, The WolfMan. 2.00 Mine Kings.

3.00 Mudslingers. 3.30 Life Off Road. 4.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 4.30 Great Lake Warriors. 5.30 Storage Wars: Texas.

6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Highway Patrol. 8.00 Motorway Patrol. 8.30 Full Custom Garage. 9.30 Counting Cars. 10.30 Leepu & Pitbull. 11.30 Late Programs.

Sunrise.

(6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: A Cinderella Christmas. (2016) Emma Rigby. 2.00 Funniest Ever Crazy Cats. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia. 6.00 PRIME7 News. 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30. 7.00 Cricket. Big Bash League.

Game 9. Perth Scorchers v Melbourne Stars.

11.00 The Amazing Race. 12.00 Code Black.

1.00 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 Small Gift, Big Heart At Christmas.

12.00 David Attenborough’s The Hunt. 1.10 Days Of Our Lives. 2.05 The Young And The Restless. 3.10 MOVIE: The Lady With A Lamp. (1951) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 As Time Goes By. 8.50 Midsomer Murders. 10.50 Silent Witness. 12.10 Antiques Roadshow. 12.35 Late Programs.

7MATE

Kids’ Programs.

(53) 6.00 11.00 Dance Moms. 12.00 American Ninja Warrior. 1.45 Kids’ Programs. 2.00 Malcolm. 3.00 The Six Million Dollar Man. 4.00 Baywatch. 5.00 Knight Rider. 6.00 Malcolm. 7.00 The Nanny.

7.30 Paranormal Caught On Camera. 8.30 MOVIE: Underworld: Awakening. (2012) Kate Beckinsale. 10.15 MOVIE: Underworld: Blood Wars. (2016) 12.00 Baywatch. 1.00 Surfing Australia TV. 1.30 The Nanny. 2.00 Dance Moms. 3.00 Kids’ Programs.

PRIME7

6.00 Today. 9.00 (5) Today Extra Summer. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.00 MOVIE: A Christmas Wish. (2019) 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 Great Getaways. 8.30 Race Across The World. 9.50 Inside Phuket Airport: Welcome To Paradise. 10.50 Nine News Late.

11.20 World’s Wildest Flights. 12.10 Tipping Point. 1.05 A Current Affair. 1.30 Late Programs.

6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 6.30 Travel Oz. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 12.00 Creek To Coast. 12.30 Weekender. 1.00 My Greek Odyssey. 2.00 Harry’s Practice. 2.30 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 Cutest Ever Puppy Party.

4.30 The Real Seachange. 5.00 Under The Hammer. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 The Coroner. 8.30 Lewis.

10.30 Jonathan Creek. 11.40 Cop Squad. 12.35 Brit Cops. 1.30 Late Programs.

Morning (63) 6.00 Programs. 9.00 American Pickers. 10.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 11.00 A Football Life. 12.00 Outback Truckers. 1.00 Zoltan, The WolfMan. 2.00 Mine Kings. 3.00 Mudslingers.

3.30 The Hunt For Monster Bass. 4.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 4.30 Outback Truckers. 5.30 Storage Wars: Texas. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 The Simpsons. 8.30 Family Guy. 9.30 American Dad! 10.30 Golden Boy. 11.30 Late Programs.

Morning (6) 6.00 Programs. 12.00 MOVIE: Love For Christmas. (2012) 2.00 PreGame Show. 3.00 Cricket. First Test. Australia v India. Day 1. Afternoon session. 5.00 The Lunch Break. 5.40 Cricket. First Test. Australia v India. Day 1. Late afternoon session. 6.00 PRIME7 News. 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30. 7.00 Cricket. First Test. Australia v India. Day 1. Late afternoon session. 7.40 Test Cricket: Tea Break.

8.00 Cricket. First Test. Australia v India. Day 1.

Evening session. 10.30 Late Programs.

7TWO

TV Shop: (52) 6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. 7.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. 12.00 As Time Goes By. 1.10 Days Of Our Lives. 2.05 The Young And The Restless. 3.10 MOVIE: The Third Man. (1949) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 Poirot. 9.30 The First 48. 10.30 The Price Of Duty. 11.30 Westside.

12.30 Antiques Roadshow. 1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.30 Late Programs.

7MATE

Kids’ Programs.

(53) 6.00 11.00 Dance Moms.

12.00 American Ninja Warrior. 1.45 Kids’ Programs. 2.00 Malcolm. 3.00 The Six Million Dollar Man. 4.00 Baywatch. 5.00 Knight Rider.

6.00 Malcolm. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 MOVIE: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. (1986) 9.45 MOVIE: American Reunion. (2012) 12.00 Baywatch.

1.00 Xtreme Collxtion. 2.00 Dance Moms. 3.00 Beyblade Burst Rise. 3.30 LEGO Friends: Girls On A Mission. 4.00 Pokémon. 4.30 Pokémon Journeys. 4.50 Kids’ Programs.

PRIME7

6.00 Today. 9.00 (5) Today Extra Summer. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.10 MOVIE: Hometown Christmas. (2018) 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 Country House Hunters Australia. 8.30 MOVIE: Bad Moms 2. (2017) Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, Kathryn Hahn. 10.35 MOVIE: Four Holidays. (2008) 12.10 Tipping Point. 1.05 Late Programs.

6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 6.30 Travel Oz. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 12.00 Reno Rookie. 12.30 The Great Australian Doorstep.

1.00 My Greek Odyssey. 2.00 Harry’s Practice.

2.30 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 Funniest Ever Toddlers. 4.30 The Real Seachange. 5.00 Under The Hammer. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Father Brown.

8.30 Murdoch Mysteries. 9.30 One Lane Bridge. 11.30 Late Programs.

Morning (63) 6.00 Programs. 12.00 Outback Truckers. 1.00 Zoltan, The WolfMan. 2.00 Mine Kings. 3.00 Mudslingers. 3.30 The Hunt For Monster Bass. 4.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 4.30 Outback Truckers.

5.30 Storage Wars: Texas. 6.00 Cricket. First Test. Australia v India. Day 1. Late afternoon session. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 8.30 MOVIE: Brothers’ Nest. (2018) Shane Jacobson, Clayton Jacobson. 10.40 MOVIE: Beast. (2015) 12.30 Late Programs.

Morning (6) 6.00 Programs. 12.00 MOVIE: A Puppy For Christmas. (2016) 2.00 Pre-Game Show. 3.00 Cricket. First Test.

Australia v India. Day 2. Afternoon session.

5.00 The Lunch Break. 5.40 Cricket. First Test.

Australia v India. Day 2. Late afternoon session.

6.00 PRIME7 News. 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30.

7.00 Cricket. First Test. Australia v India. Day 2.

Late afternoon session. 7.40 Test Cricket: Tea Break. 8.00 Cricket. First Test. Australia v India.

Day 2. Evening session. 10.30 Late Programs.

7TWO

Morning (52) 6.00 Programs.

10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. 12.00 Australia’s Top Ten Of Everything. 1.00 Days Of Our Lives. 1.55 The Young And The Restless. 2.50 Antiques Roadshow. 3.20 MOVIE: Private’s Progress.

(1956) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 Planet Earth II. 8.40 MOVIE: Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. (1989) William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley. 10.50 MOVIE: Bad Boys. (1983) 1.00 Late Programs.

7MATE

Kids’ Programs.

(53) 6.00 11.00 Dance Moms. 12.00 American Ninja Warrior. 1.45 Kids’ Programs. 2.00 Malcolm. 3.00 The Six Million Dollar Man. 4.00 Baywatch. 5.00 Kids’ Programs. 5.15 MOVIE: Free Birds. (2013) 7.00 MOVIE: Hotel Transylvania 2. (2015) 8.45 MOVIE: Transformers: The Last Knight. (2017) Mark Wahlberg. 11.45 The Top 100 Video Games Of All Time. 12.40 Urbex: Enter At Your Own Risk. 1.40 Rivals. 2.10 Dance Moms. 3.00 Kids’ Programs.

6.00 Morning (62) Programs. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 12.00 This Is Calisthenics. 1.00 My Greek Odyssey.

2.00 Harry’s Practice. 2.30 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 Jabba’s School Holiday Movie Special. 4.00 Christmas With The Salvos.

4.30 The Real Seachange. 5.00 Escape To The Country. 6.00 Bargain Hunt. 7.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 8.30 Escape To The Country. 9.30 Selling Houses Australia. 10.30 Property Ladder UK. 11.45 Late Programs.

Morning (63) 6.00 Programs. 11.00 A Football Life. 12.00 Outback Truckers. 1.00 Zoltan, The WolfMan. 2.00 Mine Kings. 3.00 Mudslingers. 3.30 The Grade Cricketer. 4.00 Timbersports. 4.30 Outback Truckers. 5.30 Storage Wars: Texas. 6.00 Cricket. First Test.

Australia v India. Day 2. Late afternoon session.

7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 MOVIE: Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid. (1969) Paul Newman.

9.50 MOVIE: Boar. (2017) John Jarratt. 11.55 Late Programs.

| Saturday 12 December, 2020 |

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replaced. But … online these days is just too peachy to ignore. All you have to do is type in one idea, like ‘The awesome 80s’ and you’re set gotbut my dear ol’ dad I don’t know aboutI’ve you, I have a to thank true hope hope in found in forfound? an entireTrue day, maybe longer. for it. I’ve been a music ‘fan’ since very love/hate relationship with the Fromof VanChristmas.

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6 hoursHe called Christmas, brought brought Album’ toto play the songs the time off and a chance spend timethat I called ‘Pure Rock & Roll’, I was and still hope to a world that was in need of a ‘Buffalo Bill’ and ‘Ronky Racoon’. with family. For all of us, this Christmas am, in music heaven. The only two Then he introduced us to Elton,rescue.

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This is all street, and the other kids would hard about December too. It’s so busy. and (ii) leaving the keyboard to play come over so we could play Acca because of what Jesus did.

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He came to restore and renew.

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He isI’mthe light that you can is blasting, at peace.

Late last Subaru in the 80s had ZZ Top, Big perfect Christmas spread. So for all of Tuesday arvo, just before the hope in when all other lights go out (as Country, early Midnight Oil, Aussie us who are thinking and wondering awesome rain came, I jumped Crawl, The Knack and of course Lady Galadriel says to Frodo Baggins). what the coming weeks will have in the ride-on, stuck the buds in Flock of Seagulls as big tunes. So Thisas youonlook ahead to Christmas, store for each of us, where hopeof my fave my ears and had my phone in my ‘alone time’does was some may you find your Jesus.playlist.

May pocket, readyhope for anin internet fit? All of us need hope in something. memories of going from a school kid you know the true peace that I hooked intohope a list ofand songs by one an adult.

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I sick of my own company yet? Nope.

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

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putting-off. The fear is that, one day you wake-up as an invalid in a nursing home, and it’s all too late.

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LETTER to the editor

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WHO IS JEANINE BIRD AND WHAT ARE HER QUALIFICATIONS?

Who is Jeanine Bird? What are her qualifications? Is she a local resident?

I would be grateful if you could supply this information at the heading of her weekly articles. It would perhaps help me to better understand her purpose and intention.

Each week, she informs us that we are being controlled by fear. Yet every week she finds something or some group or some organisation to mistrust and disbelieve.

According to her articles, we are being conned, lied to, exploited, and controlled by “Them”. Is this supposed to make us less fearful?

“They” are Big Banks, Big Pharms, the UN, World Monetary Fund, the Government, and the list goes on.

“Research it for yourselves”, she says, knowing full-well that most of her readers would have neither the knowledge nor the

skills to do so. I remember struggling with the subject “Statistics” in College. We were asked to criticise research papers and determine whether the results were statisticallysignificant. Many were not. Are we then to examine her references to find out if they are true or biased?

What she is telling us may or may not be factual. I have no way of knowing. If I were to believe it all, I would be afraid, indeed very afraid. So, is her aim to make us even more fearful than the people who are trying to control us by fear?

She lost me with her assertion that COVID-19 is no worse than the normal Influenza. Hard for me to swallow when I had recently lost a friend who was physically healthy two weeks before contracting it. I expect that the gentleman from Blayney, whose wife died as a result of it, (contracted on the Ruby Princess,) would also disagree with her.

I know about the deaths each year from the normal Influenza, I was a Registered Nurse, but this is totally different. Please don’t ask me to believe that the information about the numbers of cases and deaths around the world are all fabricated.

So, Jeanine, here is my challenge. You have now had many weeks to give us all the bad news and dire warnings. How about you now use your investigative skills (praised by Julie Pont in a recent letter) to provide us with some solutions and some practical advice on how to make the world a better place.

Also, when you are writing your next article, could you please refer to our Prime Minister as Scott Morrison. His name is not “ScoMo”.

Audrey Ferris

WHERE’S THE PROOF? — by BOB HOLLAND —

“What she is telling us may or may not be factual. I have no way of knowing. If I were to believe it all, I would be afraid, indeed very afraid. So, is her aim to make us even more fearful than the people who are trying to control us by fear?” Audrey Ferris The above quote from a recent reader letter (see full letter on this page), probably sums up the way many readers are feeling about what Jeanine Bird claims in her columns each week.

Regular readers would also know that what Jeanine has to say offends some readers and is of great interest to others. So, what to do as a small regional newspaper editor who’s trying to be real and provide a meaningful service for his community?

This is a question I’ve thought a lot

about during our Newswatch journey, and I’ve considered what the various letter writers have had to say on Jeanine’s columns. Yes, I know she and the topics she covers are not strictly local, but they are of general interest to many people across the whole country, if not, they ought to be.

The truth is, I too, am challenged by what Jeanine says, and I too find it a bit overwhelming, but having said that, I know that much of what she says is true. Jeanine and I have had many conversations about the various issues, and she has provided me with ample evidence to support her claims.

If I personally have a problem, it’s that despite any truth in what she says, people by their nature really don’t care, and ultimately nothing will change, after all we’ve been hearing this type of stuff for a long, long time and it still goes on. We all know there’s corruption everywhere, but rarely do we hear of

anyone being seriously punished for it. You only have to think about the bank that recently got fined billions of dollars for shonky dealings, yet what has changed? It’s still there, business is as usual, and one wonders how much money banks make if they can just brush off a fine of that magnitude.

Surely, there’s something wrong with our society if we as people, can just brush something like that aside without blinking?

also rarely seen in the main stream

When I asked Jeanine if she would like to write for Newswatch, I had in mind a more general column about all manner of things, not necessarily the serious issues that she has focused on.

Jeanine is a brilliant and entertaining writer at any time and I wanted to tap into that, of course it’s taken a different path and I’ve gone along with it, mainly because Jeanine is a valued friend and I know her heart is in the right place.

The type of information she shares is

and invited her to “justify” herself a

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media, probably for the same reasons her columns have been so controversial in Newswatch, nobody seems to want to know and big media probably wouldn’t handle the flack, given they too probably have loyalties in the fields that are being challenged.

I’m still undecided about where to go from here but while I ponder that, I’ve discussed the matter with Jeanine bit more for our readers. Her response follows.

Dear Audrey, and others with similar concerns, I hope this helps. For the record, Jeanine still thinks Donald Trump will retain the Presidency and about her reference to ScoMo, she says she should have used his full name first up but also says Scott Morrison answers to it.

BIRD’S-EYEview with JEANINE BIRD

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Qualifying the Unquantifiable This week I am going to address some of your concerns, in particular, as put in Audrey Ferris’ letter.

No, I am not trying to scare anyone Audrey – far from it in fact. What I seek to do is to inform you because I believe education is the key to our freedom, and knowledge is the power that each one of us can use to discern events around us. I am trying to join the dots for people, and I can tell you, I spend days of research to ensure that what I write is factual, or the conclusions I make are based on very solid evidence.

When I was a young mum, I walked through the TV room one day and stopped in my tracks. There was a woman talking about the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (ROC). I couldn’t believe what she was saying, but she appeared to have excellent evidence. I was certain I didn’t want this for my children, or their children, because it embodied everything our grandparents and great grandparents had fought against in two world wars. I tracked the lady down and then spent hundreds of hours researching (no internet then), and sure enough, I came to the conclusion that she was indeed correct.

That meant studying our Constitution, particularly in relation to international agreements we were signing under the External Affairs Power, which it appeared would actually surreptitiously over-ride it. I was fortunate to meet and be mentored by a wonderful man, a barrister, international Constitutional lawyer, Christian man who was so humble, yet so amazing. He had all the humanist degrees coveted by humanists at that time, yet spoke against “humanism”.

He had also won a landmark case in the International Court for a small country when everyone told him he could never win it. I am so thankful to have known him, because his guidance and mentoring helped my studies, and that knowledge is invaluable IF one believes in an Australia according to our Constitution, not a free-for-all for outsiders who wish to usurp it, our laws, and our way of life.

That led me to the money connection – I then studied that, and lo and behold, I could see the link between global banking elites controlling us and the UN agreements, which seemed to be aligned in so many ways. I was interested from a rural perspective of course, and the effect it had on our trade.

I wondered what I could do about it – we were farmers with small children and I had an off-farm business as well. I decided the best thing I could do was to buy a fax, and write letters to the editor to let people know what I’d found out. I then got phone calls from all over Australia – people wanting to know more, or who were further down the track than I was. I had called a public meeting about the ROC and paid for the above-mentioned barrister to come and speak.

As time went on, interest blew sky high and we had a drought. We shot sheep – I shot my own sheep, an awful, gut-wrenching thing to do, staring into their eyes, squeezing the trigger. These beautiful animals we’d

husbanded being shot because we had no-where to go. No feed, no market and the government policy was to shoot them and be paid a pittance. At the very least, a less traumatic end for sheep; truckers and abattoirs could be paid, the meat could be canned and sent to starving countries instead of overseas aid we were paying, which was being siphoned off to dictatorships who spent it on weapons to control their populations.

I wrote about that, and increasingly, wrote about government policy which was being dictated to by UN agreements we were party to. The horse bolted! The agreements our government was signing all over the place blew out. Now, it’s phenomenal, and invades, yes, even dictates to every policy and law our government makes. The warnings of the High Court judges in the Tasmanian Dam case have come true – it has transferred power, not only to the Commonwealth, but to UNELECTED bureaucrats and oligarchs OUTSIDE of Australia – infiltrating “every conceivable aspect of life in Australia”.

There is no field of power which hasn’t been invaded, and the federal balance has practically been destroyed. An integral part of that destruction was doing away with State banking.

So who am I? I’m probably an idiot, albeit loyal to my Australia, my country; putting my silly neck on the line to help you understand what’s happening, because I know how difficult it is to track everything down, but at least I can give you the clues to do it for yourself. It isn’t too difficult really with the internet, although there’s a lot of noise there, I agree. I am thankful for my research at the beginning, when it wasn’t rife, which allows me to discern and filter the information now.

I do not want to scare you, I want to give you the information – the KNOWLEDGE that we are not getting from the main-stream media (MSM). I believe there is a silent war going on at present. I need to research this, but I believe that the latest agreement we have signed with Asia may ultimately mean that farmers can’t keep ANY seed, not just GMO seed, and if they do, their property may be confiscated (or the court costs mean they lose it). The big boys have the money to “patent” what are God-given natural plants – claiming they’ve “discovered” the genes. Ultimately, even us home gardeners won’t be able to save our seed legally, or swap with a neighbour.

to Drs and Scientists not in the employ of Big Finance & Pharma.

I am reporting thousands of doctors, professors, epidemiologists, and medical researchers who have said the same, but been censored for saying so. 500 German doctors, 3 million marched in October yet we hear nothing. Robert F Kennedy Jr has done a lot of research. Prof. Borody says it can be cured and I have quoted others. The World Freedom Alliance made up of thousands of doctors, scientists, professors, lawyers and journalists globally is suing governments, corporations and individuals around the world for the CV19 fake crisis.

Former chairman of the Royal College of Physicians Examination Committee in Pathology (Canada), and now chair of biotech company selling Covid19 tests, Dr Roger Hoskinson said in November “The bottom line is there is utterly unfounded public hysteria driven by the media and politicians.

It’s outrageous. This is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting public. ... “[COVID-19] is nothing more than a bad flu season. This is not Ebola. It’s not SARS. It’s politics playing medicine, and that’s a very dangerous game.” He (like others) says masks, lock-downs and social distancing are useless too. So, what if this is a form of warfare, economic, biological or even “scarefare”?

It won’t bring loved ones back who should have been treated with effective remedies, but legal recourse I know about aside from the above-mentioned is AdvocateMe (Aust) and the German/US lawyer Dr Reiner Fuellmich bringing the biggest global tort case ever. For excellent research links and references, see “Cops for Covid Truth”.

Personally, as I’ve followed Dr Suzanne Humphries and others over the years advocating Vitamin C (vilified by the establishment), I told friends at the beginning “If your friends or family get Covid19, insist on a intravenous Vitamin C infusion”. This week, the ABC reported an Australian man with sepsis in late stages of CV19 was saved with this protocol. Search “NZ Man Swine Flu Vitamin C” to prove it’s not new. I make liposomal Vitamin C myself, and it was part of my husband’s (late-stageterminal) cancer recovery.

Already, Canadian farmers many years ago warned us. They were registered seed growers, and some GMO seed from another farm blew into theirs, grew, contaminating their seed, yet incredulously, Monsanto took them to the cleaners. They fought back, and travelled the world telling us about it – so it’s not too far a stretch. It’s already happened. It fits with the UN, WTO and World Economic Forum (WEF) plans exactly.

Worse, two Doctors, ex-Pfizer head of respiratory research Dr Michael Yeadon and lung specialist and former head of a public health department Dr Wolfgang Wodarg have warned us it’s female sterilization: “The vaccine contains a spike protein called syncytin-1, vital for the formation of human placenta in women. If the vaccine works so that we form an immune response AGAINST the spike protein, we are also training the female body to attack syncytin-1, which could lead to infertility in women of an unspecified duration”.

I am sorry I lost you Audrey, and possibly others, with my assertion that Covid19 was no worse than normal influenza. I am really SO upset that SO many people have been allowed to die unnecessarily and our government/s won’t listen to doctors who say it CAN be cured. I think it’s a crime. I didn’t arrive at that conclusion myself. I listened

I am not trying to give bad news without solutions. I try to sign-post solutions, but most of all, my gift to you is knowledge. eg.

If I was a young woman wanting to have children, would I have this vaccine? Would I want my grand-daughters to have it? Would YOU? Do I want my DNA changed? Do I want to inject myself with GMOs? While I

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can understand this may seem bad news to Audrey and others who may not have been exposed to these “other” views, it’s also good news - a warning to arm yourselves with information. I have had the benefit of writing and watching politics and the UN’s impact for years, but suddenly it has become crucial. You must research, and decide for yourself where you stand on these things.

I can write fun articles, poems or anything really, however, at the moment, I am driven to write about these things because I can see that the silent economic war happening is the culmination of many things, and longterm planning via the UN. This is being accelerated right now because of the US election and the UN/Central Bankers/WTO wanting to entrap us with their Global Reset (see WEF) and digital currency.

Biden will facilitate it; Trump is in their way. I believe Trump’s movement in the US is what will save us from this madness, and our kids from losing their homes, farms and businesses. It will restore the original US Constitution and give fast-disappearing freedoms back to we, the people. There is more information coming out about Chinese Communist Party and other international as well as domestic interference with the US election. I believe it’s true that Trump won in a landslide, yet people are being threatened and losing their jobs for testifying to voter fraud. They’re in a “war” to reclaim their freedom to elect representatives where their vote counts.

America coughs, we sneeze. It WILL flow on and affect us in many ways, because of the thousands of integrated agreements we’ve signed which over-ride our Constitution. We expect our pollies to make good policy where we can thrive and live safely. Instead, they are signing away our way of life and allowing UNELECTED people and organisations overseas dictate to us. Most wouldn’t even know or have time to research what links and trans-sections there are, but it’s a very advanced economic and social war.

I understand that this can divide people.

Truly, this in not my purpose or intention.

This is so big and so integrated, it’s very difficult to bring angles together in an explanatory article without writing an Encyclopedia Britannica.

I have nothing to gain. I try because I love Australia, my sunburnt country, my land of flooding rains, and I truly appreciate what our Diggers fought for, and for which many gave their lives. I want to ensure the freedom they gifted to us is there for your and my children, and theirs in perpetuity.

We are many, they are few; knowledge is power, and we too need our Constitution back, because it enshrines our freedoms.

God help us because we are fighting for freedom again. As Christmas approaches and we celebrate Jesus’ birth, God’s gift to us, let’s ponder on our past Diggers’ gift and sacrifice for us; let’s get some steel in our spine and hold people in positions of power accountable from a knowledgeable perspective. That is the only gift I have to offer you.

CITYwatch

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AMANDA SPALDING with Bob Holland

How to get the Best Out of Our Council?

Bob: Amanda, we’ve been doing these columns for quite some time now and because we’re coming to the end of the year, how about we take the opportunity to remind readers why we do them?

Amanda: Sounds good.

Bob: So, in summary what are we trying to achieve through City Watch?

Amanda: We write these columns so that our readers will know how to get the best out of our Council.

Councils are essentially part of the NSW Government and the Government wants communities to hold their local Council accountable, as the Government does not intend to perform that function.

Bob: Why do you think it’s important that people should have a better understanding of how their Council functions?

Amanda: People need to understand how their Council functions, so that they can hold their Council accountable. Since 2016 there have been some changes to the Local Government Act and the Act is to enable councils to carry out their functions in a way that facilitates local communities that are strong, healthy and prosperous. Amongst other things, Councils should:

• provide strong and effective representation, • •

• •

leadership, planning and decision-making; carry out functions in a way that provides the best possible value for residents and ratepayers; plan strategically, using the integrated planning and reporting framework, for the provision of effective and efficient services and regulation to meet the diverse needs of the local community; act fairly, ethically and without bias in the interests of the local community, and actively engage with their local communities.

Councils are the level of government closest to the community and decisions made by Council have a significant impact on our quality of life. I would like to see Council demonstrating to the local community how well it fulfils these roles.

Bob: Do you have any anecdotal or other feedback

about what we’ve covered in City Watch over all those months? Were there any topics or issues that attracted greater reader response than most?

Amanda: We’ve covered a lot of ground in City Watch, and before that my columns in Orange City Life about local government were also well received.

I wrote quite a few about accountability and received feedback that agreed with me that it is not possible to measure performance if the goalposts keep moving.

I understand that some Council staff have taken on board issues that we have raised about strategic planning and reporting.

I received feedback from a reader on a column about how to complain to Council, as this person had found it practically impossible to get any action on noxious weeds. Where State and local government responsibilities overlap it is often difficult to get effective action. It’s very annoying for neighbours to see noxious weeds over the fence when they have removed their own, as the seeds from next door will just sew new noxious weeds on their own property!

The issue of overgrown properties is also difficult to manage as it is either the Rural Fire Service or the Council who should ensure this matter is dealt with to reduce fire risk or environmental health risk.

I also heard from a local couple who had found it impossible to get satisfaction from Council’s Engineering Department. I intervened on behalf of this family, eventually gaining assistance from Phil Donato MP to get the Council’s Chief Executive involved to resolve the matter. This is the kind of issue that Councillors should champion on behalf of members of the community. As you know I have a ‘B in my bonnet’ about the NSW Local Government Act requiring that Councillors act as a Board of Directors with their first duty to the Council.

Bob: At the end of the day, and although Council matters are probably the most talked about and attract most of the local news time and space, do you think most people really care that much?

Amanda: During the many years I worked in local government I did find it frustrating that it was difficult to engage local communities in taking an interest in Council issues, but people would be up in arms about

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something they did not agree with once actions started to be taken. People do care when it affects them, and the issue of trees is very important to a large number of community members at the moment.

In NSW, community engagement has moved increasingly to the strategic plans and away from operational matters, particularly in land use planning, and this tends to result in feelings of distrust from the community when they are presented with a fait accompli.

Bob: A lot of readers, and I’m among them, would like to see a lot of fresh faces on Council after the next Local Government Election, so what do you think needs to happen between now and then for that to have any chance of happening, given history shows voters traditionally re-elect the same old faces time after time?

Amanda: I guess it would help for candidates to announce themselves early so that members of the community have a few months to find out more about those people and what they stand for. Congratulations to the Greens for making an early announcement of their lead candidate in the September 2021 local government elections in Orange as Mel McDonnell.

At the 2017 elections there were 13 groups and 88 candidates in total. A large number of candidates does tend to cause confusion amongst voters. Early announcement of candidates could remove this confusion! For those existing Councillors who are going to stand at the 2021 election, the Council’s End of Term Report that will go to the last meeting of Council prior to the elections, in August 2021, will be their ‘manifesto’ showing what they have achieved over the term of Council 2017 – 2021.

Your offer to candidates to launch themselves in City Watch is also good, Bob!!

Bob: Sadly, I don’t think that idea is going to fly, but it’s still on the table for any potential candidate wishing to take advantage of it. Personally, I thought it was a great idea but like so many of my great ideas, they just die because others don’t appear to see the potential that I see in them. Such is life!

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LASER SHOW LAUNCH FOR FIREWORKS-FREE NYE Colour City will have a “laser-sharp” rather than “explosive” New Year’s Eve spectacular at Wade Park to welcome-in 2021. to go up to Waratahs,” he added.

Fireworks are “out”, and a world-class laser and water mist show are “in” for New Year’s Eve 2020 in Orange.

Decision follows last-year’s cancelled fireworks display due to the drought and continuing bushfire crisis then gripping the State.

For ticketing purposes, bookings are on sale at Eventbrite and via the “Light Up Orange” Facebook page.

While the event will be based on the “VIVID” laser shows broadcast onto buildings in Sydney, the Orange event will feature a virtual screen created by water vapour creating a fog effect.

Not-for-profit “Light Up Central West” — formed by local business representatives to support the Central West economy — is running the show with Orange City Council providing $30,000 and Kennards Hire and Newcrest Mining as major sponsors.

“This display is designed for the openair, we use misters and fog and then project the laser not that,” Luke Compt from Kennards Hire explained.

“This year especially, it is important for everyone to celebrate their achievements, however big or small, in what has been a very challenging time,” Orange Mayor, Councillor Reg Kidd said.

“I think the Orange community has a lot to celebrate and be hopeful for in the New Year, and I encourage residents to get out and enjoy the event with family and friends,” he added.

Kennards Hire Regional Manager, Craig McMahon said the highlight of the New Year’s Eve celebration would be three 15-minute laser shows produced by internationally-renowned company Laservision Mega Media. The first of the laser shows kicks-off from about 8.30pm on Thursday, December 31.

“A light show is a more modern, safer approach than the traditional fireworks and can incorporate sound and visual elements to tell a story,” Mr McMahon said.

“For the first year of ‘Light Up Orange 2020’, we wanted to go back to the beginning to the story of the first people of our land.

“We’re working with the Orange Aboriginal Medical Service and the

Luke Compt (Kennards Hire); Melissa O’Brien (Newcrest Mining); Holly Manning (Manning PR and Media); Craig McMahon (Kennards Hire); and Orange Mayor, Councillor Reg Kidd, launch the “Light Up Central West” laser show for this year’s New Year’s Eve at Wade Park.

Aboriginal Lands Council to create two laser shows, an extended ‘Welcome to Country’ and a story about the Wiradjuri people of this region, while a third show will be a celebration of the New Year.”

The alcohol-free event will also feature live music and dance performances from local performers.

Local food providers will offer lots of delicious food options at the event, and people can bring their own picnic.

Ticket-holders are encouraged to bring picnic rugs and chairs. There will be loads of space for lawn games. Pets are not permitted.

As COVID-19 restrictions are changing regularly, the organisers will announce ticketing arrangements soon.

Proceeds will go to “Give Me 5 For Kids”

to purchase equipment for the children’s ward at Orange Health Service.

The new laser show could be the start of a new tradition to welcome in the New Year in Orange, Cr Kidd. He said, however, that it could be curtains for a tradition that goes back to the invention of gunpowder in ancient China during the Tang dynasty in the 9th century.

“This will likely be in perpetuity,” Cr Kidd said.

These laser shows are not weatherdependent, you don’t need all the regulations and fire-fighters and safety measures and fire restrictions that go with fireworks.

“You don’t have the problem with neighbourhood dogs going mad and we can have it in Wade Park, we don’t have

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“We just thought it was a good community thing to do; on the whole, we’ve had a traumatic year… and we decided to try and give something back to the community,” he said. Orange City Council decided to sponsor the event with a $30,000 worth of funding at an October Council meeting.

“We’ve been involved behind the scenes in the ‘NYE Party under the stars’ for a number of years now and we’ve seen what a fantastic community event it is,” Mr McMahon said. “We want to see it continue and that’s why we approached Council to see if something could happen.”

“Last year, at the height of the summer, there was some debate about staging a fireworks display. The quality of laser shows that are now available really solves that problem. The plans are to have a 45-minute spectacular display that will bring local families together.”

“They project the laser images onto a fine mist of water that catches the light, and lets the audience see what’s happening. Each misting machine only uses five litres of water for the whole show, so it’s sensible amount of water use,” Cr Kidd concluded.

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GAME-PLAN TO HELP LOCAL SPORT THRIVE INTO 2021 AND BEYOND Has your local sports club in Orange got the game-plan to survive into 2021 and beyond?

Local sports groups have all told Newswatch of the extra pressure on their local sports to maintain their services at a time of reduced volunteers numbers and increased social distancing and santisation requirements from the pandemic.

COVID-19 has caused a reduction in the number of our volunteers with fewer people prepared to take on the work of community clubs, Sport Australia Acting CEO Rob Dalton said.

Many clubs have reported their volunteer workload as increasing up to 100 per cent due to the “new normal” by the quarantining, reduced spectator numbers, and other requirements caused by the coronavirus.

Community sports must look at lifting the number of volunteers to replace those lost through natural attrition and the COVID-19 epidemic, Sports Australia believes.

Recognising this, Sport Australia recently launched the new launched the “Game Plan” online diagnostic tool for volunteers and club administrators to improve how they operate.

The aim is to help local sporting clubs and organisations not just survive the COVID-19 pandemic, but return even bigger and better.

“With COVID-19, we’ve seen a reduction in the number of our volunteers and so, therefore, the burden falls on fewer people to take on the work of our community clubs,” Sport Australia Acting CEO Rob Dalton said.

He said that the new module-based diagnostic tool aims to increase those numbers by empowering those who haven’t previously had the confidence to step-forward into roles with their local clubs.

“This will enable those new volunteers who have always been fearful of taking on some of the responsibilities of their clubs and community clubs, to enable them to be able to carry-out those functions including coaching and the sponsorship proposals for funding, taking on the Treasurer’s role and finances and other roles” he said.

Mr Dalton said that, small community clubs, like those in country NSW, are central to the health of our whole sporting community.

“Community clubs are the lifeblood of our sporting sector and we are very keen to ensure that we are arming everyone with the tools that they need to run successful organisations and put on a fantastic show for our participants,” he said.

normal’ so sport can return and that can come with challenges,” Mr Dalton said.

“Many sporting clubs are also run by volunteers who may be time poor or have varying levels of experience in running a club. Our Game Plan tool is designed to make life easier for these clubs by connecting them with information and resources they need to help them operate more efficiently and effectively.”

Clubs can check how they’re performing in 13 areas including four foundation modules that underpin all club operations – Governance, Strategy, Finance and Workforce.

The modules are quick and easy to complete. Once a club has finished a module, they receive a maturity rating, information, and resources to help them improve, and an action plan to assign responsibilities and timelines.

“The best part about Game Plan is that it’s not limited to a single user – any administrator of a club can complete modules suited to their role, whether that’s coaching, sponsorship or finance. Clubs can also access the platform at any time to assist them in or outside of season,” Mr Dalton said.

Minister for Youth and Sport, Senator Richard Colbeck said Sport Australia’s Game Plan is another way the Australian Government is supporting sport through COVID-19 and beyond.

“We know sporting clubs have had to adapt to our ‘new

“A key focus of Game Plan is assisting community level sporting clubs and volunteers as they recover from the impacts of COVID-19. Clubs and sporting organisations can access resources to help them grow their membership base as well as support the recruitment and retention of volunteers in a new sporting environment.”

The new tool has already received the tick of approval from a number of sports.

CEO Pony Club Australia Dr Catherine Ainsworth said: “As a national sporting organisation Pony Club Australia is very excited to use Game Plan to assist the continuous improvement of our clubs.”

General Manager Growth, Legal and Strategy at Hockey Australia Michael Johnston said: “Game Plan provides a starting point for clubs looking to improve and some targeted guidance on how they can do it. We know it can be hard to attract volunteers and they often burnout quickly.

The more support we can provide, the more volunteers we can attract and retain.”

Delivery Network Lead at Netball Queensland Laura Rathgeber said: “We’re really passionate about reducing the burden on our volunteers. We believe it will give time back to our volunteer workforce so they can put their time where it best suits, and that’s in delivering sport to our community.”

Sport Australia’s Game Plan can be found at: gameplan.sportaus.gov.au

Bathurst and Orange Inter-district Cricket Competition Draw Round 7

12 DEC

One-day

Cavaliers

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Rugby Union

1:30pm

Wade Park

Kinross

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Bathurst City

1:00pm

Kinross

Orange City

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Centennials Bulls

1:00pm

Riawena Oval

St Pats Old Boys

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City Colts

1:30pm

Sportsground

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Centrals

1:00pm

Bloomfield Oval

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WHO IS JEANINE BIRD AND WHAT ARE HER QUALIFICATIONS?

is no worse than the normal Influenza. Hard for me to swallow when I had recently lost a friend who was physically healthy two weeks before contracting it. I expect that the gentleman from Blayney, whose wife died as a result of it, (contracted on the Ruby Princess,) would also disagree with her.

Who is Jeanine Bird? What are her qualifications? Is she a local resident?

I would be grateful if you could supply this information at the heading of her weekly articles.

It would perhaps help me to better understand her purpose and intention.

Each week, she informs us that we are being controlled by fear. Yet every week she finds something or some group or some organisation to mistrust and disbelieve.

According to her articles, we are being conned, lied to, exploited, and controlled by “Them”. Is this supposed to make us less fearful?

“They” are Big Banks, Big Pharms, the UN, World Monetary Fund, the Government, and the list goes on.

“Research it for yourselves”, she says, knowing full-well that most of her readers would have neither the knowledge nor the skills to do so. I remember struggling with the subject “Statistics” in College. We were asked to criticise research papers and determine whether the results were statistically-significant. Many were not. Are we then to examine her references to find out if they are true or biased?

What she is telling us may or may not be factual.

I have no way of knowing. If I were to believe it all, I would be afraid, indeed very afraid. So, is her aim to make us even more fearful than the people who are trying to control us by fear?

She lost me with her assertion that COVID-19

I know about the deaths each year from the normal Influenza, I was a Registered Nurse, but this is totally different. Please don’t ask me to believe that the information about the numbers of cases and deaths around the world are all fabricated.

So, Jeanine, here is my challenge. You have now had many weeks to give us all the bad news and dire warnings. How about you now use your investigative skills (praised by Julie Pont in a recent letter) to provide us with some solutions and some practical advice on how to make the world a better place.

Also, when you are writing your next article, could you please refer to our Prime Minister as Scott Morrison. His name is not “ScoMo”.

Audrey Ferris

ONCE WAS PARADISE, BUT IT IS NO LONGER I very much enjoy reading your comments, but I also have some of my own which I would like to share with you. I always believed in supporting local shops, I even got my solar panels here, even though they cost far more.

empty shops because of high rates (Council does not care); ripping-off ratepayers any way possible is their agenda. Council is wasting ratepayers’ money and do not care what the locals want.

We are paying for services which are not even provided, there is no bulk collection and there are many people unable to drive to the dump and deposit it there. We do not all have trucks available or fit enough to load a truck. I am 83 and a bit fragile, not even able to sit out the local meetings.

Local people have changed a lot also. My family have to deal with that on a daily basis. It is very sad that this town has sunk with nothing to save any more. When I came here in 1962, it was a paradise. Now we are just surviving and hope that nothing is going wrong Orange has been turned into a construction site and not really a place to visit with things getting built and then torn down again and shifted to a different spot.

I am so sorry that Peter Andren died; he was the perfect man to keep this Council under control.

A pity I could not join him with his work as he asked me to do. I was just too old and fragile.

We urgently need low-rent housing and not wasting many on galleries which do nothing for the people in need. Maybe you can keep this Council on the straight and narrow and remind them what they are there for.

This Council does not listen to ratepayers; even as they ask us; they just do as they like.

Orange is not the town that it was with many

OPEN HOUSES PRICE RANGE

Inge Vander Wal

SATURDAY, 12 DEC, 2020

TIME

ADDRESS

AGENT CONTACT

10.00 - 10.30am

22 Redgum Avenue

5

3

2

Contact Agent

Ash Brown

0417 663 687

10.00 - 10.30am

14 Warrigal Place

4

2

2

Contact Agent

Ash Brown

0417 663 687

10.15 - 10.45am

13 Camellia Place

4

2

2

$850,000 - $900,000

Roger Burrell

0438 017 416

11.00 - 11.30am

86 Kenna Street

4

1

3

$595,000

Jen Stojanovic

0473 401 666

11.00 - 11.30am

65 Torulosa Way

3

1

1

$380,000

Orange Real Estate

02 6360 0300

11.00 - 11.30am

143 Anson Street

4

2

2

$657,000

Michael Wright

0421 360 948

11.00 - 11.30am

125 Gorman Road

8

2

2

$1,115,000

Jacob Evans

0428 130 789

11.00 - 11.30am

20 James Dalton Lane

4

2

5

Contact Agent

Ash Brown

0417 663 687

11.15 - 11.45am

605 Bowan Park Road

3

2

2

Contact Agent

Ash Brown

0417 663 687

11.45 - 12.15pm

38 Torulosa Way

3

1

1

$329,000

Michael Wright

0421 360 948

12.00 - 12.30pm

68 Honeyman Drive

4

2

2

$449,000

Jen Stojanovic

0473 401 666

12.15 - 12.45pm

52 Moulder Street

2

2

0

$669,000

Ash Brown

0417 663 687

12.15 - 12.45pm

115 Woodward Street

3

1

1

Contact Agent

Ash Brown

0417 663 687

12.30 - 1.00pm

7a Osman Street, Blayney

3

1

2

$435,000

Roger Burrell

0438 017 416

12.30 - 1.00pm

20 Calvert Ln, Forest Reefs

0

0

0

AUCTION

Stephen Townsend

0427 631 957

12.30 - 1.30pm

26 Matthews Avenue152

3

2

1

Contact Agent

Michael Wright

0421 360 948

1.15 - 1.45pm

Warrendine Street

4

2

2

$749,000.00

Ash Brown

0417 663 687

2.15 - 2.45pm

34 Walkers Lane

4

2

2

$850,000 - $900,000

Ash Brown

0417 663 687