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with DAVID DIXON • Went on my first visit to a nursing home since the big lockdown. People working in the “caring careers” must certainly have had a long and trying pandemic.

Having resisted wearing a face-mask — even on Sydney public transport — up until now, I was struck by how difficult the simplest task such as walking, and speaking are in such safety garb. I also suffered a sense of claustrophobia and couldn’t wait to take it off.

I don’t envy anyone who has to wear one for most of their working day in the slightest!

Bikers face-off against hikers at Thursday’s community forum on mountain bike trails on Mt Canobolas.

Orange Council will receive an interim report on a $500,000 environmental assessment on allowing mountain-bike tracks for Mt Canobolas with bikeriding groups for the proposal and environmentalists against.

Public forums are the future of community consultation — although Orange Council faces a “shellacking” every-time they hold one — Mayor Reg Kidd said.

However, there is no justification for mountain bike trails on the sub-alpine 1400-metre Mount, the Canobolas Conservation Alliance believes.

• Dangers of quad bikes were again highlighted by the tumble taken by our beloved Mayor on his property last weekend.

“It was long grass, I rolled the quad-bike and ended up in the ditch; I’ve got a sore hip, I’m stiff all over, and it took off some bark as well,” Cr Kidd explained.

The news was not all bad though, the local government doyen did get in some good quality down-time while recuperating: “With the injuries, I spent much of the weekend reading, so I read Newswatch from front to back; twice!” he said.

• Turn to page 3 for next week’s big barney.

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Locals vow to buy Aussie and support Orange with resistance to “Made in China”.

But it wasn’t always so — encouraging new mothers now more vital than ever.

• Turn to page 6–7 for our full report.

• Turn to page 8 for Nursing Mothers’ pioneer.

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• The rather-dilapidated Cowra Showground is the setting for a State Memorial Service for former Deputy Premier — and the man often credited with bringing the Ag Department (now DPI) to Orange — Ian Armstrong.

The State Memorial will be held at 11am on Monday, February 22 at Cowra Showground Pavilion with members of the public having to register their interest.

Due to COVID-19 restrictions, limited seating is available and any available seating will be allocated in order of registered interest.

Go to: rsvp2-protocol@dpc.nsw.gov.au A good roll-up of former Parliamentary colleagues and local National Party dignitaries are expected at the event for the 25-year political veteran who died in late December.

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ONLY THE LONELY — WITH OUR COMMUNITY VISITORS SCHEME Members of the community unable to get out and about or who feel lonely or isolated, can now take advantage of Council’s Community Visitors Scheme (CVS).

The CVS arranges volunteers to visit older people to provide friendship and companionship and help develop social connections. The free service is available to anyone on a Home Care Package.

Older people can feel lonely for various reasons such as little contact with friends or relatives, feeling isolated from their culture and heritage, mobility issues that prevent them from taking part in social activities, or being different in some way.

Services Policy Committee Chair, Cr Scott Munro, said older people can refer themselves to the service, however the CVS also accepts referrals from service providers, family members and friends.

“A volunteer might accompany you for a walk around the garden or simply have a chat. The volunteers will adhere to social distancing rules in accordance with public health orders,” Cr Munro said.

very quickly Standingup to internet bullies While “media news” rates very low on most people’s interest-meter; the Facebook ban on all Australian content — including for hospitals and emergency services — follows Australia becoming the first country to legislate the news free-for-all that the internet has always been.

Facebook announced the ban in anticipation of Federal Parliament passing laws to force Facebook and Google to pay for news content.

The ban by Facebook prevents international users from accessing Australia-based news outlets via Facebook, while Australians are also banned from accessing international news outlets. The social media giant said it made the move “with a heavy heart” in response to the media bargaining laws.

“Or if you don’t feel up to a visitor in your home, you could receive a phone call, a video chat or a letter. The important thing is people are receiving support and staying connected with their community.”

Imagine making internet giants — who famously pay dimes to the dollar in tax anywhere in the world — to pony-up for the journalism that drives much of their content — the front of democracies!

For more information on the Community Visitors Scheme, contact 6393 8600.

Newswatch would love to see Mark (he of the weird eyes) Zuckerberg finally have to pay for content that he has been used to taking for nix, for a change!

Get your quills and ink pots out: Banjo Paterson Writing Awards Entries are now open for the 30th annual Banjo Paterson Writing Awards.

The awards aim to honour great Australian writer AB “Banjo” Paterson and encourage short story and poetry writing with Australian content.

A major change this year is that entrants will be able to email their entries, as well as post, by the due date, Friday April 23.

Well-known local author Kim Kelly has come on board as the Short Story judge this year. Kim’s most recently published book is “The Truth & Addy Loest”.

Three categories comprise: • Category 1 is for Short Stories with a maximum word limit of 3000 words.

• Category 2 is for Contemporary Poetry to submit no more than 200 lines.

• Category 3 is for younger writers aged 16 years or younger; either a short story no longer than 1000 words or a poem no longer than 30 lines.

Entry forms with full Conditions of Entry are available from the Central West Libraries website: www.cwl.nsw.gov.au or by phoning 6393 8120.

Heritage awards preserve our Colour City history Nominations are now open for the latest round of Orange City Council’s Cultural Heritage Awards to encourage local restoration projects.

Entries can come from property owners, family, friends, and relatives who have watched a restoration project develop.

It can also be a builder or tradesman who has worked on a project who can make the nomination. The awards are held every two years with eight categories for the 2021 awards ranging from restoration, adaptive use of a building, heritage treatments,

conservation, best improvements, infill developments, and group contribution to the cultural heritage of Orange.

Projects must have been completed within the past five years with deadline for entries at 5pm, Friday March 12.

Nomination forms and more information are available from the Customer Service Counter at the Orange Civic Centre, Orange City Library or online at: www.orange. nsw.gov.au/our-heritage/awards/ | Saturday 20 February, 2021 |

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Bikers vs Hikers in Mount riding forum Bikers face-off against hikers at next Thursday’s community forum into proposals for mountain bike trails on Mt Canobolas.

Orange Council will soon receive an interim report on a $500,000 environmental assessment on proposals to allow mountainbike tracks to be constructed on Mt Canobolas with bike-riding groups for the proposal and some environmentalists against.

Public forums such as these — the third in recent months in Orange — are the future of community consultation, although Orange Council faces a “shellacking” either way, Mayor, Councillor Reg Kidd said.

While the aim of the forum is to allow the public to have their say on the proposal, no amount of finessing or amending can justify construction of mountain bike trails on the sub-alpine ecology of the 1400-metre mount, opponents of the proposals believe.

“There is no way to construct a mountain bike track without causing significant harm to the threatened biodiversity on the Mount… the entire mountain is threatened,” President of the Canobolas Conservation Alliance, (CCA) Dr Colin Bower, said.

However, in October, Orange Council appointed Bathurst-based firm, The Environmental Factor, to complete an independent assessment and to work with expert track designers, Dirt Art, to see if tracks can be positioned to

avoid sensitive areas.

Dr Bower said that the independent assessment guidelines have been framed by Council in such a way as to almost make the proposal a reality.

“This is an organisation wanting something to happen, they’re just trying to put the best spin on it,” Dr Bower said.

Dr Bower said that the CCA is releasing their own assessment into the proposal called “Values and Constraints on Development of Mt Canobolas State Conservation Area”.

“We’re just about to put the finishing touches on our own report; about the same time as the forum,” Dr Bower, He said his group’s report will not simply be a catalogue of complaints against Council, but an authoritative work on the dangers that mountain biking poses to the ecological island of the Mount.

“We’ve got people in the CCA with decades of experience,” Dr Bower — an accredited a Biodiversity Assessment Method Assessor — said.

“Our report will be more authoritative and is aimed at helping Council and the consultants to come-up with the right decision," he said.

Overall, their report has found that it is impossible to establish a mountain biking track network in any part of the conservation reserve without having a significant negative impact.

“This is because the entire reserve supports biodiversity that is considered to be at risk of

extinction,” Dr Bower said. There are no parts of the conservation area without threatened biodiversity, he added.

The CCA report will state that the entire reserve supports vegetation communities that are listed under the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act as either “Endangered” or “Critically Endangered”.

In addition, the reserve supports three communities and four species so rare that any disturbance to them is considered to be a ‘Serious and Irreversible Impact.’ These entities are given special protection under the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016.

On top of this, a further 13 species, that occur in the SCA and nowhere else on earth, would also qualify for consideration as having Serious and Irreversible Impact status.

“Our studies, and others, within the Mt Canobolas SCA have shown it to be a tiny last refuge for an outstanding array of unique and highly-threatened biodiversity’ Dr. Bower said.

“This nature conservation reserve is the most important in the region and one of the most important in NSW.” Orange Mayor Reg Kidd said, however, that preliminary work had identified a range of areas on the mountain which need to be avoided should the proposal go ahead.

“The initial proposal we put to the public was merely a concept plan showing what was theoretically possible on the

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No mountain biking allowed. Bikers face-off against hikers at next Thursday’s community forum into proposals for mountain bike trails on Mt Canobolas. mountain,” Cr Kidd said.

“The original concept has been useful in generating discussion around the possibilities for tracks to attract mountain bikers to the region to enjoy the beautiful mountain, along with other trail user groups."

Cr Kidd added that a recent grant announced by the State Government will see $2 million for the National Parks and Wildlife Service to enhance walking trails and new amenities on Mt Canobolas.

He said that the forum concept — with two previous events held to explain proposals for tree removals in Anson St and the proposed sport precinct in south Orange — are likely to become the future of major community consultation in Orange.

“These don’t have to be held, we generally cop a real shellacking at them and not many councils hold them, but they’re the future.

“They give the community a good opportunity to hear about these proposals and to air their won opinions and I encourage anyone interested in this proposal to attend,” he added.

Orange City Council’s Infrastructure Chair, Cr Jeff Whitton said the general public was invited to come along to the community information session from 5.30pm on Thursday, February 25 at the Orange Civic Theatre.

“This project has generated a lot of community discussion, which is good,” Cr Whitton said.

“I’d like to invite those community members to direct their discussions towards this community workshop.

“Council will not be proceeding with the proposal if the track design does not measureup environmentally and this workshop will provide Council, and the community with information on where the assessment is up to, what it’s looking at, what the limitations are and above all, we can all ask questions.

“This is a hugely complicated proposal which must consider the social, economic, cultural and biological issues all at the same time,” Cr Whitton said.

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Youth take the lead at Friday’s Future Tunes

Performing this Friday: “Blindly Led Youth” a local five-piece cover band playing favourites’ hits.

Youth take the lead at Friday’s Future Tunes concert in Robertson Park.

community on a cost-free basis; to promote local talent and encourage people to frequent local restaurants and hotels, that sort of thing,” he explained.

More good news; if you’re a rocker suffering from the big COVID lockdowns, Council is also looking for more performers for another two concerts planned in March and April.

The aim was also psychological and social, to get locals out of the lockdown mentality that had made 2020 such a depressing year for so many Australians.

“People were apprehensive in going-out in public, Council provided the event to allow people to go out in a COVID-safe manner.

The February 26 event though celebrates Orange’s young people with an all-student line-up featuring “Fusion”, a three-piece ensemble rocking-out in a blues and funk blend.

Other performers include “Blindly Led Youth” a local five-piece cover band playing favourites’ hits and the “The Objectors” a five-piece band that specialises in classic rock covers.

“For the next gig, we want to give the city’s young people a platform to perform, be paid, and experience what it feels like to perform in a professional setting,” Orange Mayor, Councillor Reg Kidd, said.

Future Tunes will also continue these free Friday twilight concerts with another two confirmed for March 12 and April 9 with artists yet to be announced.

Council though is asking for expressions of interest from other local musicians (as well as food and drink providers) for the upcoming gigs. So if you or your band are hankering for some live performing, now’s the time to get your skates on.

“The first three Future Tunes music gigs were a great success with about 300 people attending each one,” Cr Kidd said.

Future Tunes are a series of afternoon, outdoor, live music performances is aimed at bringing the Orange community together, while supporting local musical talent, in a relaxed, casual setting.

Orange City Council’s Employment and Economic Development Committee Chair, Cr Tony Mileto said the Future Tunes gigs were designed to support the central business district.

“It’s wonderful we’re able to showcase local musicians

“The impression I got is that people were very appreciative with the feedback very positive,” he added. and give them a platform to have a professional, paid gig, given they took a huge financial hit during 2020,” Cr Mileto said.

Live performers were one of the hardest hit groups in the gig economy due to the coronavirus with many unable to access programs like JobKeeper due to the informal and sporadic nature of much of their work.

“I’m particularly excited for the city’s young people that we’ve been able to dedicate the stage to them for an evening.

“There’s been limited opportunities for all artists for any venues, and this was a way to segue back into the routine for artists as well,” he explained.

“But first and foremost, the idea behind Future Tunes is to provide an economic boost to the local economy.

The wide age-range for attendees at the three previous concerts and the celebratory atmosphere were highlights, he added.

“Local providers have the opportunity to sell food and drink during the concert, but the events are designed to finish fairly early so people can head out into the CBD, grab a drink at the local pubs and a bite to eat, head to restaurants and boutique bars.

“We’re aiming to attract large numbers of people to the area on a Friday afternoon and create a vibrant, welcoming CBD with a great atmosphere.”

The events — designed to encourage locals to get back to their pre-COVID lives while also offering hard-hit local musicians a chance to perform in front of live audiences again — could be the model for Orange developing “Day on The Green” type events in the future.

“These events are intended for families to enjoy music and relax with a broad section of people targeted,” Cr Mileto said.

The famous “Day on the Green” live performance concept that is such a success for towns like Mudgee where it sees affluent old baby-boomers and Gen X-ers rocking-along to stars of the past, could be something Orange can also explore, he said.

One local winery is ahead of the game with the idea; hosting Aussie pub-rock legends Cold Chisel in February before the big lockdown.

“Part of the reason we held them was to stimulate the economy, to get people going out after the events to local venues,” Cr Mileto said.

“We looked at having a 10-year agreement for these events with Council contributing to the event at Heifer Station,” Cr Mileto said.

“It was an extension of the Future City program, it was an opportunity to give something back to the

“But that was all pre-CVOVID, everything went into lockdown after that,” he concluded.

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Local jobs the key to new billion-dollar rail contract Local jobs will be the key to success of a new 10-year billion-dollar-plus rail network control centre for Orange with up to 80 per cent of new positions created likely to be from the region.

John Holland is out and new contactor UGL is in for the Country Regional Network (CRN) maintenance contract for Transport NSW for a decade from January next.

Finding a suitable base for the operations of the network is next cab-off the-rank with suggestions that the old Department of Primary Industries (DPI) building — last year vacated for new premises at Prince Street, — is a contender.

“Local jobs will be the key to this,” Orange Mayor, Councilor Reg Kidd said of the recent announcement.

UGL is the new contactor for the Country Regional Network (CRN) maintenance for a decade from January next. employment,” Cr Kidd added.

“We’re now at the nuts-and-bolts stage of negotiations, they are now looking at prospective places for the hub,” Cr Kidd explained.

The contract, previously held by Chineseowned firm John Holland is for maintenance of the track and rolling stock, stations, weed control, embankment work, bridges, level-crossings, and fencing issues along the thousands of kilometres of rail line in country NSW.

“We can’t say how many positions will be created at the moment, but the emphasis will be on apprenticeships for local kids, training, and indigenous employment,” Cr Kidd said.

“We’re talking about here and also at Bathurst; these are real jobs and, best of all, it’s a contract for 10-years,” Cr Kidd said.

“As part of their contract, we’ve been looking at between 50–80 per cent regional

Minister for Regional Transport and Roads, Paul Toole confirmed that UGL’s

Network Control Centre, their regional headquarters, would be set up in Orange.

“Running the CRN is an important and mammoth task. Since 2011, the NSW Government has invested more than $1 billion to ensure it delivers for all our customers, from our rail passengers to farmers and industry,” Mr Toole said.

be based in the bush and a requirement for a Network Control Centre in a regional area which UGL has advised it plans to set up in Orange.”

Under the deal with UGL, there will be an overall increase in jobs in the regions.

“We’ve also set UGL an industry leading target of 12 per cent for the employment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. They have set themselves the target of exceeding that and hitting 20 per cent by 2026,” Mr Toole said.

The CRN comprises almost 2400km of operational rail lines and more than 3000km of non-operational lines, more than 1300 level crossings (300 active), more than 900 bridges and 1200 property assets including stations — 356 of which are heritage-listed.

“The new partnership with UGL will see an increase in the amount of maintenance work carried-out over the next 10 years to ensure that the network continues to meet the high standards that operators and customers expect.

The current contract to operate and maintain the CRN has been held by John Holland Rail since 2011 and is due to expire at the end of 2021. A 12-month mobilisation period will follow the award of the new contract, to enable the smooth transition of the new service provider.

“We went to the market asking for a strong focus on regional employment including a minimum of 80 per cent of jobs needing to

UGL won the right to operate and maintain the network from 2022 following a competitive tender process.

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BUY AUSSIE FOR LOCAL Buy Australian is the buzz-word in the local building trade, Brendan Kent says.

"Buy Australian" is the buzz-word since the coronavirus hammered the Australian economy with the call resonating with locals in the building trade, Brendan Kent says.

owned trade-quality power source manufacturer, Makita, cutting production as soon as the first lockdowns came into play.

A builder himself working in the family business, he says that he’s seen a couple of instances where the “Made in China” brand has put shoppers off.

He said that trade imbalances with the world’s largest economies had led to major import issues that have trickled down to the Colour City.

Building material shortages due to reductions in international trade are also likely to hit a crunch-point in April, he believes.

“You see, China is exporting more than it is importing at the moment, so there’s not much room on the containers coming back for items such as mouldings, skirtings, and architraves…, these are all big, heavy items, and as containers are charged on size, not weight, they’re being left on the docks in China as the shipping companies prefer taking lighter containers,” he explained.

"The impact of the coronavirus has been fairly big on us,” he explained.

“We’ve had a lot of stock issues since COVID across whole range of sectors.”

A simple example was Japanese-

“They must have though that the world was going to end, but demand went-up, absolutely shot-up and this taken us nine-months to catch-up.

“We’re still saying it now,’ you’ll have to wait’ for certain items,” Brendan explained.

Local heroes are now high on shopper’s list Locals are putting Australia first in their buying options, a quick scan of the Orange CBD suggested.

Some are also using their buying power over unhappiness with China’s trade cuts on Australian goods since the coronavirus.

Pulling together as they do during a crisis, locals have generally taken the view that every little bit helps when it comes to the “Made in Australia” label.“Most definitely,” Kelly-

Jean Nairne said. “I want to buy Australian, but it’s not all that easy sometimes, it’s hard to know where some items come from,” she said.

there’s always a trade-off with these things,” she added.

“We’ve got such good, skilled people and need to share that knowledge, we should have a list published somewhere of Australian businesses and what they sell,” she believes.

“Absolutely, I buy Australian,” Garry Kelly said.

“Generally, yes, I’ve become more conscious of it since the coronavirus. I didn’t make much of an effort pre-COVID, now more so.”

“After what they’ve done to us, I don’t what to buy Chinese, if I can help it,” she added.

Georgia Holmes said she tries to buy Australianmade, where possible: “Definitely, if I can buy local, I do, especially now,” “But there’s always supply and demand issues… | Saturday 20 February, 2021 |

He said that in choosing goods from other countries, he is conscious if they have the “Made in China” marque on them, “that impacts on my buying,” he said.

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THE BUZZ-WORD L BUILDING GAME He said that, although we appear to be over the hump as far as the COVID-19 pandemic goes, the international trade issues are only coming to a head now.

“We haven’t seen the worst of it yet, particularly for timber, it’s going to get a lot worse from April,” he believes.

The problem is affecting both the pace at which local building projects can be completed, and their cost.

He said that, far from hunkering down during the first phase of the lockdown in March last year, people began to look at renovating, building, and extending their hidey-holes. “it’s been crazy from the very start. Firstly, tradies started panic-buying… we remained open because we are an essential service, and they just cleaned us out of so-much stuff.

“It’s just been a regular problem since COVID first started and what made it worse was a wharfies strike in Sydney,” Brendan said.

"And then the tradies' phones started ringing, people saying “I want a deck put on’, ‘I want some renovations'," he said.

Exacerbating the timber shortage were forest fires that are estimated to have destroyed about 40 per cent of the nation’s prime soft and hard-wood timber plantations in the devastating 2019–2020 bushfire season.

As well as increasing interest for buyers to look to support Australian made and grown woods and other items, there had also been instances of people wanting to avoid the “Made in China” marque.

The container shortage has also led to the old inflationary effects of supply and demand with container transport costs rising hundreds of percent.

“Definitely, I remember one instance of a Makita drop-saw, the guy took it home and found out it was made in China and brought it back and asked for a refund,” he recalled.

“We went from roughly about $2000 for a container in a three-month period to about $6500 to transport,” he explained.

“This is material for local houses, we have absorbed as much as we can, but eventually we will have to pass it on,” Brendan said.

“Yeah and no,” Bryce Corney said on his buying habits.

“It’s good to buy local Australian stuff if you can, but prices have gone up so that’s an issue,” he added.

He added that he doesn’t discriminate against Chinese made goods in his purchases “”Not really, it doesn’t really matter to me that way,” he added.

“I do buy Australian when I can,” Jodie Chaves said. “But I’ve usually got three kids with me, so it isn’t always easy.

“But I think it’s important to make the effort, particularly in this day and age,” she added.

She said that she is portably now more aware of country of origin when purchasing goods made outside of Australia.

“I do try to shop around to get stuff that’s not made in China,” she added.

“I think it’s important to buy Australian as a way of building our economy up,” Brooke Grimshaw said. “although it’s sometimes a bit dearer, I try to support locally-made.

He said that this had also manifested in far more awareness of country-of-origin provenance of hardware, timber, and fittings.

“A lot of people want other options (than Chinesemade); they’re definitely asking where stuff’s made

“Sometimes other countries are the only option there, but I feel we should support our own country when we can,” she said.

“I will buy Australian if it’s not too big a difference, Tricia Oliver said. “We’re a big enough country, we should be looking at making as much stuff here that we can.

But it’s so hard, my husband’s trying to buy a tractor and there simply aren’t any made here, you have to go overseas.”

“I try and buy Australian-made, absolutely,” Kaz Hartin said. “We should be supporting our farmers, they’ve had it so hard, and supporting them does affect me on the way that I buy,” she added.

China though was definitely not on her Christmas list at this stage. “At the moment absolutely, I’m trying to avoid something if it’s Chinese made.”

I try and buy Australianmade when we can. We pay $5 for a cup of coffee and think nothing of it, why not a few extra cents for Australian | Saturday 20 February, 2021 |

more than in the past,” Brendan said.

He said that with supply shortages on a global scale, medium economies like ours are suffering.

“What’s making the timber shortage worse, is that normally when there’s a local shortage, we go to New Zealand for supplies, but New Zealand is also having a boom, so they’re not exporting.

“Other suppliers are in South America, but one of their mills is so heavily-affected by COVID, that out of 260 millworkers, more than 100 have got COVID,” he said.

This is leading to worldwide shortages in structural timber, with the United States and Europe taking first call on scarce supplies.

“We really get left-off the end when there’s not much about, Europe or North America gets it first, they’re just so much bigger markets, so who are they going to sell to?”

Brendan said that despite the up’s and down's of the past 12 months, they’ve been able to keep the business going strong.

“We’ve weathered the storm so far; our customers are pretty loyal.

“It’s been weird, but it’s going to get worse from here on in, everyone is just buying up everything,” Brendan concluded.

stuff in the supermarket?” she added.

“We’re over China, we should be looking at making a lot of our own stuff here, instead of relying on the rest of the world.”

“Definitely, Australian made whenever we can,” Fred and Freda Harvey said.

“If we don’t have to buy Chinese, we won’t,” Freda added.

“These countries have too much control over us already, they own half the country, it’s time we started to support our own a bit,” Fred said.

“I’ve been more conscious of buying Australian in the past 12 months,” Jane Murphy said.

“I always try and buy local, especially for fish and canned foods, our own stuff is just so much better.”

“But I can’t help buying Chinese, most of the clothes I buy, that’s just where they are made,” she concluded.

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by DAVID DIXON

In fact, it was less than two decades ago that a campaign by a local mother saw the Education Department endorse it for visiting mothers in NSW schools after a principal publicly-accused a woman of “emotionally-damaging” her older children by breastfeeding at an assembly.

Beryl remembers those days bitterly, “When my babies were born in the 1960s, there was so much opposition to breastfeeding… I gave-up and was very upset, depressed and heartbroken,” she said.

“There was never any help for anyone; I was told not to breastfeed, that the milk was not ‘good enough’, the clinic sisters, the chemists, used to say,” she recalled.

“You were told to give them a bottle, otherwise they wouldn’t sleep during the night. The ads used to say: ‘Bottle-feed for a big, healthy baby’.”

Encouraging new mothers to breastfeed their babies is now more vital than ever, local Nursing Mother’s Association Branch founder Beryl Jackson, believes.

But by the late 1960s, the times, as they say, were a’changing.

She had read in a women’s magazine about a group that supported mother’s efforts — against almost the whole medical establishment and pharmaceutical industry — to nurse their own babies as long and as often as they wanted.

“I joined the group in 1968 when my fourth baby was nine-month’s old; I had tried to breastfeed my first four, but they were all weaned at two-three months,” she explained.

Mother’s milk now more important than ever; breast-feeding pioneer believes Breast is best, as they say, but it wasn’t always so!

Was a time when the term “breast-feeding” was banned in Australian public discourse with a radio caller having to ask permission to use the phrase “Mother’s Milk”.

But in 2021 — encouraging new mothers to breastfeed their babies is now more vital than ever, a local natural-feeding pioneer believes.

Mother’s milk — it is now widelyacknowledged — provides a range of benefits for babies from immunity to a number of infectious diseases; better mother-baby bonding; lower obesity rates in later life; and complex acids that aid in brain development.

But for local Nursing Mothers’ Association Branch founder Beryl Jackson, it wasn’t always like this. Before joining the Nursing Mothers’ in 1968

— forming the local branch in 1974 — breastfeeding was actively-discouraged by doctors, pharmacists, child-care nurses, and the community.

Reaching-out to the nearest Nursing Mother’s Group in Canberra, she found advice totally at odds with the conventional wisdom of the day.

“My contact was Beverly Batt, I was just writing to her and asked, ‘should I give complementary feeding?’, and she said, ‘no, just breast-feed as often as your baby is hungry,’ it was amazing to hear someone support you like that.”

Beryl then decided to start a local group in 1974 with the help of Greg Hayes and Wendy Grey — a social worker at the then-Orange Base Hospital.

“And we couldn’t believe it; 20 young mothers-to-be came along and joinedup, we were so pleased,” she said.

“But, of course, like all the groups, we had to name ourselves ‘Nursing Mothers’ because you simply weren’t able to

Breast-milk was too watery; didn’t provide enough nutrients; babies didn’t “thrive” or put on enough weight; they wouldn’t sleep during the night… men would no longer find their wives attractive — these were only some of the arguments used to support “scientific” bottle-feeding.

Attitudes over the intervening decades though, have only improved at glacial-speed.

Western society’s association between women’s breasts and sexuality — utterly unknown in conservative traditional societies in the Middle East and Africa where breastfeeding is the norm (and, ironically, where female modesty is highly-prized) — often leads to suggestions that nursing a baby is somehow improper.

| Saturday 20 February, 2021 |

use the term ‘breast’,” she giggles. (The group is now known as the “Australian Breastfeeding Association” — ABA.) She recalls laughingly a phone-in competition on a local radio show that she was a regular guest on called the “Hospital Hour” where five clues were given for a weekly prize for the correct answer.

“This woman rang-up, and she had to ask the presenter, ‘am I allowed to use the phrase?’, and he said, ‘yes, you are,’ and she said, ‘Mother’s Milk’.”

Beryl devoted decades to the local group as both counsellor and volunteer and estimates she has helped “hundreds” of women with the sometimes-difficult path to breastfeeding their own babies.

“I did it for more than 40 years, when I go to 73, I finally retired,” she said with a NSW Nomination for Volunteer of the Year in 2008 recognising her years of effort in the field.

“Of course, with COVID and everything, it’s now more important than it ever was.”

Like most nursing mothers, Beverly said that the support of her partner proved vital in her decision to contest our society’s obsession with convenience and technology. “My husband, Ray, always supported me, right from the start with this.

“Anyone can breastfeed, as long as they have the help,” Beryl concluded.

From “Nursing Mothers” to “Breastfeeding Association” The Nursing Mothers’ Association was founded in 1964 by six Melbourne mothers with the aim of helping and supporting other mothers to breastfeed.

Now the Australian Breastfeeding Association, it is Australia’s largest breastfeeding information and support service providing up-to-date information and continuing education for thousands of health professionals working with mothers and babies.

Around 1100 trained volunteer breastfeeding counsellors and community educators also provide ABA’s services to the community, new mothers, and health professionals.

NEWS

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Sports Precinct compromise saves both trees and stadium Saving 500 trees in south Orange while also providing for our future sporting needs is a cake that we can have and eat at the same time, a longtime local believes.

Relocation of Orange’s stadium precinct proposal within current confines of Sir Jack Brabham Park is a compromise that could save the trees while providing a location for the new sports fields as part of the precinct.

Unique history of the Bloomfield area must also inform any decision about Orange Council’s sports precinct proposal, Bev Drady added.

She should know, Bev has family history going-back almost to the very founding of the site in 1923 as a tent city with nearly 100 years’ service at Bloomfield between both her parents and brother.

She said that the years of work that developed the site from virgin undulating basalt country in the 1920s, should not now be thrown-away in the rush to remove more than 500 tress as first stage of the $25 million sports precinct proposal.

“Orange Council has waited too long to explore other options and alternatives to the present plans,” she said.

“Hundreds of men over many years have toiled and sweated to make the grounds as attractive and natural as they are today… we do not want a barren wasteland, just sensible planning,” she said.

Bev’s family ties go back nearly to establishment of the hospital with her father Kit, and mother, Frieda starting in the mid-1930s, with her brother Wayne also working many years at the site.

“It was originally a tent city, the first patients and carers came up on a train from Sydney and they just set-up on the site,” she explained.

She points to a local nurse Vic Kable’s history of the hospital as proof of the district’s diverse and singular past.

The first patients, the history says, arrived

from Gladesville Mental Hospital in 1923.

de-commissioned Ex-Services Golf Course.

An Orange newspaper from the time confirmed: “at long last after many years of waiting, a start is to be made on a former Government’s commitment to build a mental asylum at Orange.”

Ms Drady said that she is not against the sports precinct idea at the site, but the blanket removal of more than 500 trees as proposed under the Council’s plans, and the overriding of the area's rich history.

“My mother was loved out there, my brother said that it was like a little city with shops, plumbers, electricians, and even boot-making,” she said.

“They had lawn-bowls, hockey teams, cricket teams… I remember when we had snowfall, we all used to go out there, it’s such a lovely spot and has taken so long to develop,” she said.

Ms Drady believes that relocating the stadium proposal within the confines of the Brabham Sports fields will achieve both ends. “This will require a readjustment and relocating and redesigning of the stadium,” she said.

“I simply can’t understand why they would need to get rid of 500 trees, do they know how much work went into the establishment of this site?” she asked.

“I think the idea of the sports ground is quite good, but not to knock-down the trees. It needs protecting and building-up into a botanical gardens style of development,” she said.

Opponents, however, say that a land parcel previously-purchased by Orange Council for the stadium on a semi-rural part of north Orange, will allow the regenerating natural area to become a special green space for the growing south Orange locale and a focus for social and community events in the area.

Unique history of the Bloomfield area must inform any decision about Orange Council’s sports precinct proposal, Bev Drady believes. removal of only some of about 60 Radiata pines that border the southern edge of the current sports complex.

“Why can’t surveyors be used to save various trees already growing in between fields as shade for spectators?” she added.

“Let’s turn it into a ‘Colour City Sporting Park’ without sacrificing trees unnecessarily.”

Orange City Council believes that the $25 million sports precinct — which is to include an 8500-capacity rectangular sports stadium — is best-suited to the site adjacent to the former Bloomfield Hospital and incorporating part of the

Her proposal involves the new purposebuilt 8500-capacity rectangular stadium going into the Huntley Road corner of the current sports complex near where it meets Forest Rd. “This would reduce traffic from interfering with emergency vehicles on Forest Rd and allowing the sports traffic to use the southern distributor and alternatives,” Ms Drady explained.

“The two fields taken over can then be relocated near the Forest Rd stadium site as displayed on the recent Council plan,” she added.

She said this would involve only the

| Saturday 20 February, 2021 |

More than 70 submissions were recently received by Orange Council for its development application (DA) to remove about 513 trees from the site of the ExServices Golf Club as first stage of the $25 million sports precinct proposal.

But for Ms Drady, a bit of creative thinking could solve both the tree removal and sports stadium issue in one elegant solution.

For motor racing fans though, her plans are not all good news! She wants to remove the name of the legendary Australian racing car driver, Sir Jack Brabham, from the site.

“Get rid of the name ‘Jack Brabham Park’.

He only drove around Gnoo Blas once or twice… ‘Bloomfield Sporting Parkland’ is far better — ‘Bloomfield’ being the original name of the property on which it is located.

“Everyone would know where it was, then” Ms Drady concluded.

TV Guide

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Saturday, February 20

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6.00 Rage.

7.00 Weekend Breakfast.

10.00 Rage.

11.00 Rage Retro Month.

12.00 ABC News At Noon.

12.30 Employable Me Australia.

1.30 Miniseries: Agatha Christie’s The Witness For The Prosecution.

2.30 The Royal Wives Of Windsor.

3.30 Dream Gardens.

4.00 Ask The Doctor.

4.30 Landline.

5.00 Soccer. A-League. Round 9.

Western United v Macarthur FC. 7.00 ABC News.

7.30 Death In Paradise.

8.30 Call The Midwife.

9.30 Harrow.

10.20 Call The Midwife. Final.

11.20 Press. 12.20 Rage Retro Month.

5.00 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. 2019-2020 ISU European Championships. Replay. 3.30 Sailing.

Vendée Globe 2020. Highlights. 4.30 Railway Journeys UK. 5.35 Secret Nazi Bases.

6.30 SBS World News.

7.30 Going Places With Ernie Dingo.

8.00 9/11: Control The Skies.

8.50 MOVIE: The King’s Speech. (2010) Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter. The newly crowned George VI of England struggles with a debilitating speech impediment. (M) 11.00 MOVIE: A Monster Calls. (2016) Lewis MacDougall. (PG) 1.00 War Of The Worlds. 5.00 CGTN English News. 5.15 NHK World English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.

Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs.

12.00 Teletubbies. 12.15 In The Night Garden.

12.45 Clangers. 2.15 Get Grubby TV. 2.45 Little J And Big Cuz. 3.00 Curious George. 3.30 Play School. 4.10 Wiggle. 5.10 Luo Bao Bei. 5.35 Peter Rabbit. 5.55 Ben And Holly. 6.35 Thomas. 7.00 Catie’s Amazing Machines. 7.15 Sir Mouse. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 QI. 8.30 Live At The Apollo. 9.20 Ross Noble: Stand Up Series. 9.55 Would I Lie To You? 10.25 Why Are You Like This.

11.15 Russell Kane: Live. 12.05 Penn & Teller: Fool Us. 12.50 Escape From The City. 1.50 Chris Ramsey’s Stand Up Central. 2.10 Would I Lie To You? 2.45 Close. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.40 Waffle The Wonder Dog. 5.55 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

9.30 Serbian News. 10.00 Dutch News. 10.30 Hungarian News. 11.00 NHK Japanese News.

11.35 Hindi News. 12.00 Inside Heston’s World.

1.00 New Girl. 2.00 PBS News. 3.00 Motorcycle Racing. Australian Superbike Championship.

Round 1. 5.00 ABC America: World News Tonight.

5.30 Basketball. NBL. Round 6. Melbourne United v Brisbane Bullets. 7.30 The Last Man On Earth.

7.55 8 Out Of 10 Cats. 8.35 The X-Files. 11.05 Tent And Sex. 11.35 7 Days Of Sex. 12.25 Jerry Springer: The Opera. 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. 11.35 Matilda And The Ramsay Bunch. 11.50 Operation Ouch! 12.20 Gym Stars. 12.45 Deadly Pole To Pole. 1.15 The Dengineers. 1.55 The Rubbish World Of Dave Spud. 2.20 Thunderbirds Are Go. 2.50 Radiant. 3.15 Boruto: Naruto Next Generations. 3.40 Dragon Ball Super. 4.05 Prank You Very Much. 4.30 Odd Squad. 4.55 100 Things To Do Before High School. 5.20 Dogstar.

6.00 Dragons: Race To The Edge. 6.30 Robot Wars. 7.35 All Hail King Julien. 8.00 Slugterra.

8.20 Danger Mouse. 8.55 Total DramaRama.

9.10 All Hail King Julien. 9.30 The Legend Of Korra. 9.55 Close. 5.45 Winston Steinburger.

6.00 It’s Academic.

(66) 7.00 ZooMoo Wild Friends. 8.00 News Of The Wild. 9.00 Flushed.

10.00 SA Weekender. 10.30 Creek To Coast. 11.00 Weekender. 12.00 Dance Boss.

1.15 The Amazing Race.

3.20 Britain’s Got Talent.

5.20 MOVIE: The Wild. (2006) 7.00 MOVIE: Home Alone. (1990) 9.10 MOVIE: Shallow Hal. (2001) Jack Black, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jason Alexander.

11.30 MOVIE: Arthur. (2011) Russell Brand, Helen Mirren, Jennifer Garner. 1.30 Home Shopping.

2.30 MOVIE: The Gay Falcon. (1941) George Sanders, Wendy Barrie. 4.00 The Resident.

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SBS (3)

6.00 France 24 English News First Edition.

6.30 Al Jazeera. 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 Speedweek.

2.00 Beach Volleyball. Australian Championships.

4.00 Cycling. UCI Europe Tour. Tour Of Provence.

Highlights. 5.00 Travel Man. 5.40 Secret Nazi Bases. Final.

6.30 SBS World News.

7.30 I Am Jackie O. 9.00 I Am JFK Jr. 10.40 Filthy Rich And Homeless.

11.40 24 Hours In Police Custody.

12.35 The Contraceptive Pill: How Safe Is It? 1.30 How To Die A Better Death.

2.40 The Surgeon And The Soldier.

3.45 Great British Railway Journeys.

5.00 CGTN English News.

5.15 NHK World English News.

5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.

Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs.

12.00 Teletubbies. 12.15 In The Night Garden.

12.45 Clangers. 2.15 Get Grubby TV. 2.45 Ready, Jet, Go! 3.00 Curious George. 3.30 Play School.

4.10 Wiggle. 5.10 Luo Bao Bei. 5.35 Peter Rabbit. 5.55 Ben And Holly. 6.45 Andy’s Safari Adventures. 7.00 Catie’s Amazing Machines.

7.15 Sir Mouse. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Compass. 8.30 Louis Theroux: Drinking To Oblivion. 9.30 Enslaved. Final. 10.30 Catalyst.

11.30 Quilty: Painting The Shadows. 12.30 You Can’t Ask That. 12.50 Restoration Australia. 1.45 Chris Ramsey’s Stand Up Central. 2.05 Would I Lie To You? 2.40 Close. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.40 Waffle The Wonder Dog. 5.55 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

10.00 Portuguese News. 10.50 Urdu News. 11.30 SBS Courtside. 12.00 Basketball. NBA. Charlotte Hornets v Golden State Warriors. 2.30 Hindi News. 3.00 Basketball. NBL. Round 6. South East Melbourne Phoenix v Brisbane Bullets. 5.00 Front Up. 5.30 Basketball. NBL. Round 6. Sydney Kings v Adelaide 36ers. 7.30 The Last Man On Earth.

8.00 8 Out Of 10 Cats. 8.40 Why Women Kill. 9.35 United Shades Of America. 10.25 Letterkenny.

11.15 Sexplora. 11.40 Box 21. 12.35 MOVIE: Charlie Bartlett. (2007) 2.20 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 Pole To Pole. 1.10 The Dengineers. 2.00 Danger Mouse. 2.15 Thunderbirds Are Go. 2.35 Deadly Dinosaurs. 3.05 Teenage Boss. 3.35 Horrible Histories. 4.00 Prank You Very Much. 4.30 Odd Squad. 4.55 100 Things To Do Before High School. 5.20 Dogstar. 6.00 Dragons: Race To The Edge. 6.30 Robot Wars. 7.35 All Hail King Julien. 8.00 Slugterra. 8.20 Danger Mouse. 8.55 Total DramaRama. 9.10 All Hail King Julien. 9.30 The Legend Of Korra. 9.55 Rage. 10.55 Close.

5.45 Winston Steinburger.

6.00 It’s Academic.

(66) 7.00 ZooMoo Wild Friends. 8.00 News Of The Wild. 9.00 Flushed.

10.00 SA Weekender. 10.30 Creek To Coast. 11.00 Weekender. 12.00 Britain’s Got Talent. 2.00 The Big Music Quiz. 4.00 Holey Moley Australia.

7.00 Modern Family.

7.30 Say Yes To The Dress: Atlanta.

8.30 First Dates Australia.

10.50 Bridezillas.

11.50 Seven Year Switch.

2.10 MOVIE: Strange Holiday. (1970) Jaeme Hamilton, Mark Healey. 3.40 MOVIE: The Saint In Palm Springs. (1941) George Sanders, Wendy Barrie. 5.00 The Goldbergs.

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(52) 6.00 6.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.00 My Favorite Martian. 10.30 The Avengers. 11.30 MOVIE: The Face Of Fu Manchu.

(1965) Christopher Lee, Nigel Green. 1.30 MOVIE: South Of Algiers. (1953) Eric Portman, Van Heflin, Wanda Hendrix. 3.30 MOVIE: Lawman. (1971) Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Lee J. Cobb. 5.30 Rugby League. NRL All-Stars. Australian Indigenous Women’s All-Stars v New Zealand Maori Women’s All Stars.

7.30 Rugby League. NRL All-Stars. Indigenous Men’s All-Stars v New Zealand Maori All Stars.

10.30 MOVIE: True Grit. (2010) 1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

7MatE

Kids’ Programs.

(53) 6.00 1.00 Beyblade Burst Rise. 1.30 Power Rangers Super Beast Morphers.

2.00 No Man’s Land: Expedition Antarctica. 3.30 Xtreme Collxtion. 4.30 Liquid Science. 5.00 How To Train Your Dragon Homecoming. 5.25 MOVIE: Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over. (2003) 7.00 MOVIE: Jurassic Park III. (2001) Sam Neill. 8.45 MOVIE: King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword. (2017) Charlie Hunnam, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Jude Law. 11.15 Stunt Science. 12.15 Lethal Weapon. 2.15 Xtreme Collxtion. 3.15 Mike Tyson Mysteries. 3.30 Thunderbirds. 4.30 Pokémon: BW Adventures In Unova And Beyond. 4.50 Rev & Roll. 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh!

6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 8.30 Travel Oz. 10.00 Winners. 11.00 RSPCA Animal Rescue. 12.00 Weekender. 12.30 Creek To Coast. 1.00 House Of Wellness. 2.00 Sydney Weekender. 2.30 The Great Australian Doorstep.

3.15 Dog Patrol. 3.45 Property Ladder UK. 5.00 Horse Racing. Blue Diamond Stakes Day and Silver Slipper Stakes Day. 6.00 Border Security: International. 6.30 The Yorkshire Vet. 8.30 Escape To The Country.

11.30 The Great Outdoors: Greatest Escapes.

12.30 The Fine Art Auction.

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

Step Outside (63) 6.00 With Paul Burt.

7.00 Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction. 8.00 Home Shopping. 10.00 Pawnography. 11.00 Shipping Wars. 11.30 Pawn Stars. 12.00 On Tour With Allan Border. 12.30 Timbersports. 1.00 Blokesworld.

1.30 Aussie Dreamlivers Alaska. 2.00 Travel Mates. 2.30 Shipping Wars. 3.00 Rides Down Under: Workshop Wars. 4.00 Desert Collectors.

6.00 Ultimate Factories. 7.00 Building Giants.

8.00 Mighty Ships.

9.00 Mighty Cruise Ships.

10.00 Air Crash Investigation.

12.00 Shipping Wars. 1.00 Desert Collectors. 3.00 Ultimate Factories. 4.00 Air Crash Investigation.

WIN (8) 6.00 WhichCar. 6.30 Entertainment Tonight. 7.00 Escape Fishing With ET. 7.30 Pat Callinan’s 4x4 Adventures. 8.30 All 4 Adventure. 9.30 Studio 10: Saturday. 12.00 Good Chef Bad Chef. 12.30 Destination Dessert. 1.00 10 Minute Kitchen.

1.30 10 Travlr Northern Territory.

2.00 Three Blue Ducks.

2.30 Australia By Design: Innovations.

3.00 What’s Up Down Under.

3.30 Freshly Picked With Simon Toohey.

4.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield.

4.30 Farm To Fork.

5.00 10 News First.

6.00 Bondi Rescue.

7.00 Three Blue Ducks.

7.30 Ambulance.

11.00 Inside The Children’s Hospital.

11.30 NCIS. 12.30 Home Shopping.

5.00 Hour Of Power.

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Home (81) 6.00 Shopping. 9.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 10.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 11.00 Star Trek: Enterprise. 12.00 Diagnosis Murder. 1.00 The Doctors. 2.00 Jake And The Fatman. 4.00 iFish Summer Series.

4.30 Mighty Machines.

5.00 Escape Fishing With ET. 5.30 Scorpion.

7.30 NCIS. 8.30 NCIS: New Orleans.

10.20 FBI: Most Wanted.

11.20 L.A.’s Finest. 12.15 Hawaii Five-0. 1.10 CSI: Miami. 2.10 48 Hours. 3.10 The Doctors. 5.00 Home Shopping.

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(82) 6.00 Cheers.

7.00 Friends. 8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond.

9.00 Becker. 10.00 Frasier. 11.00 Friends. 12.00 To Be Advised. 2.30 The Middle.

3.00 Friends.

6.00 Columbo.

7.30 Kojak.

8.30 Spyforce.

9.30 The Big Bang Theory.

10.30 The Middle.

12.00 Home Shopping.

1.30 2 Broke Girls. 4.00 Mom. 4.30 Home Shopping. 5.30 The Brady Bunch.

WIN PEaCH

PrIME7 (6)

NINE (5)

WIN (8)

6.00 Home Shopping. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise.

10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend.

12.00 House Of Wellness.

1.00 Holey Moley Australia.

4.00 Better Homes And Gardens.

5.00 Seven News At 5.

5.30 Sydney Weekender.

6.00 Seven News.

7.00 Holey Moley Australia.

8.30 MOVIE: John Wick: Chapter 2. (2017) Keanu Reeves, Ruby Rose, Ian McShane.

After returning to the criminal underworld to repay a debt he owes to an Italian gangster, professional assassin John Wick discovers that a large bounty has been put on his life forcing him to confront a host of killers. (MA15+) 11.00 World’s Deadliest.

12.00 Medical Emergency.

12.30 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 The Xtreme Collxtion.

11.00 Rugby League. NRL All-Stars. Indigenous Men’s All-Stars v New Zealand Maori All Stars.

Replay.

1.00 World’s Greatest Cities.

2.00 Australian Open Tennis Pre-Show.

3.00 Tennis. Australian Open. Day 14. Mixed doubles final.

5.00 News: First At Five.

5.30 Territory Cops.

6.00 Nine News.

6.30 Australian Open Tennis Pre-Show.

7.30 Tennis. Australian Open. Night 14. Men’s singles final. From Melbourne Park.

12.00 Chicago Med. 1.00 Surfing Australia TV. 1.30 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 Good Chef Bad Chef.

8.30 Australia By Design: Innovations.

9.00 Luca’s Key Ingredient.

9.30 Studio 10: Sunday.

12.00 All 4 Adventure.

1.00 The Offroad Adventure Show. Return.

2.00 Three Blue Ducks.

2.30 Farm To Fork.

2.50 To Be Advised.

3.50 The Amazing Race Australia.

5.00 10 News First.

6.30 The Sunday Project.

7.30 The Amazing Race Australia.

9.00 FBI: Most Wanted.

11.00 The Sunday Project.

12.00 Home Shopping.

4.30 CBS This Morning.

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

8.30 The Incredible Journey Presents. 9.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.00 The Baron.

11.00 MOVIE: Mandy. (1952) 1.00 MOVIE: Time, Gentlemen, Please! (1952) 2.45 MOVIE: Alexander The Great. (1956) 5.30 MOVIE: The Thousand Plane Raid. (1969) Christopher George, Laraine Stephens. 7.30 Death In Paradise. 8.40 Chicago P.D. 9.40 Chicago Fire. 10.35 Chicago Med. 11.35 Bizarre E.R. 12.30 My Favorite Martian. 1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.30 Joyce Meyer. 5.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

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Kids’ Programs.

(53) 6.00 11.30 Lego Jurassic World: Legend Of Isla Nublar. 12.00 Kaijudo: Rise Of The Duel Masters. 12.30 Beyblade Burst Rise. 1.00 Power Rangers Super Beast Morphers.

1.30 Dance Moms. 3.30 MOVIE: Where The Wild Things Are. (2009) 5.30 MOVIE: Alvin And The Chipmunks. (2007) 7.30 MOVIE: The Matrix.

(1999) Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne. 10.10 MOVIE: Mad Max: Fury Road. (2015) Tom Hardy.

12.35 Lethal Weapon. 2.40 Dance Moms. 3.30 Thunderbirds. 4.30 Pokémon: BW Adventures In Unova And Beyond. 4.50 LEGO Friends: Girls On A Mission. 5.10 Lego Jurassic World: Legend Of Isla Nublar. 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh!

6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 10.00 House Of Wellness. 11.00 The Thrill Of The Chase.

12.00 The Zoo. 12.30 The Great Outdoors: Greatest Escapes.

1.30 Harry’s Practice.

2.30 The Yorkshire Vet. 4.30 Escape To The Country.

8.30 Wild Bill.

9.30 Miniseries: Bancroft.

11.30 World’s Most Amazing Videos.

12.30 Escape To The Country. 1.30 ICU. 2.00 Cop Squad. 4.00 Harry’s Practice. 4.30 Million Dollar Minute. 5.00 Home Shopping.

Mark Berg’s (63) 6.00 Fishing Addiction.

7.00 Desert Collectors. 9.00 Shipping Wars.

10.00 Timbersports. 10.30 Buccaneers & Bones.

11.00 Big Angry Fish. 12.00 The Fishing Show.

1.00 Football. AFL Women’s. Round 4. Brisbane Lions v Adelaide. 3.00 Football. AFL Women’s.

Round 4. Western Bulldogs v Melbourne. 5.00 Football. AFL Women’s. Round 4. GWS Giants v West Coast. 7.00 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. 8.30 MOVIE: The Hangover. (2009) Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis.

10.45 MOVIE: Bad Neighbours. (2014) 12.45 Great Lake Warriors. 2.00 Blokesworld. 2.30 Late Programs.

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Home (81) 6.00 Shopping. 7.30 Key Of David. 8.00 Bondi Rescue. 8.30 Star Trek: Voyager. 9.30 One Strange Rock. 10.30 Escape Fishing With ET. 11.00 Scorpion. 1.00 The Doctors. 2.00 Beyond The Fire. 2.30 The Offroad Adventure Show. 3.30 Reel Action. 4.30 What’s Up Down Under. 5.00 iFish. 5.30 Star Trek: Enterprise. 6.30 Bondi Rescue.

7.30 NCIS. 9.25 NCIS: Los Angeles.

10.20 48 Hours.

11.20 Hawaii Five-0. 12.15 NCIS: New Orleans. 2.10 CSI: Miami. 3.05 Star Trek: Voyager. 4.05 Star Trek: Enterprise. 5.05 The Doctors.

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The (82) 6.00 Brady Bunch. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory.

9.00 Neighbours.

11.30 The Neighborhood.

1.00 To Be Advised.

2.00 Everybody Loves Raymond.

3.30 Friends.

6.00 The Big Bang Theory.

9.00 Friends.

10.30 2 Broke Girls.

12.00 Home Shopping.

1.30 Mom. 3.30 The Neighborhood. 4.30 Home Shopping. 5.30 The Brady Bunch.

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Morning (2) 6.00 Programs. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Death In Paradise.

2.00 Parliament Question Time. 3.15 ABC News Afternoons. 4.00 The Heights. 4.30 Silvia’s Italian Table. 5.00 Restoration Australia. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Australian Story. 8.30 Four Corners. 9.15 Media Watch. 9.35 The Pacific: In The Wake Of Captain Cook With Sam Neill. 10.25 You Can’t Ask That.

10.55 ABC Late News. 11.25 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch.

(3) 6.30 This Week. 7.30 WorldWatch. 2.05 Luke Nguyen’s Railway Vietnam. 2.35 Jonah And The Whale. 3.30 Who Do You Think You Are? 4.30 Railway Journeys UK. 5.05 Jeopardy! 5.30 Letters And Numbers.

6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 News. 7.35 The Architecture The Railways Built. 8.30 24 Hours In Emergency. 9.20 The Story Of The Songs. 10.15 SBS News. 10.45 Outlander. 11.55 Late Programs.

Sunrise.

(6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: Nightmare Tenant. (2018) 2.00 Gold Coast Medical. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia. 6.00 PRIME7 News. 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30. 7.00 Home And Away. 7.30 Holey Moley Australia.

Final. 9.00 9-1-1. 10.00 The Rookie. 11.00 The Latest: Seven News. 11.30 Station 19. 12.30 Home Shopping. 5.00 Late Programs.

6.00 Today. 9.00 (5) Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.00 MOVIE: Fierce Creatures. (1997) 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 Married At First Sight. Return. 9.20 MOVIE: Bridesmaids. (2011) Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne. 11.40 Nine News Late.

12.10 The First 48. 1.00 Late Programs.

6.00 Headline News.

(8) 8.30 Studio 10. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 To Be Advised. 2.30 Entertainment Tonight. 3.00 Judge Judy. 3.30 Left Off The Map. 4.00 Farm To Fork. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 The Amazing Race Australia.

8.30 Hughesy, We Have A Problem. 9.30 The Graham Norton Show. 10.30 The Project. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 1.30 Late Programs.

(22) 6.00 Kids’ Programs. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Doctor Who. 8.45 David Attenborough: Kingdom Of Plants. 9.35 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces. 10.25 Escape From The City.

11.25 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. 12.05 Would I Lie To You? 12.35 Parks And Recreation. 1.00 Reno 911! 1.20 W1A. 1.50 Back In Very Small Business. 2.30 Close. 5.00 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

10.30 Courtside. 11.00 NBA. Knicks v Timberwolves. 1.30 World Of Sports. 2.00 Curse Of Oak Island. 2.50 DNA Nation. 3.50 WorldWatch. 4.15 This Week. 5.10 Joy Of Painting. 5.40 Shortland St. 6.10 Abandoned Engineering. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Taskmaster. 9.25 RocKwiz. 10.20 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning (62) Programs. 10.40 MOVIE: The Falcon’s Adventure. (1946) 12.00 House Of Wellness. 1.00 Cold Feet. 2.00 Harry’s Practice. 2.30 Million Dollar Minute.

3.30 The Great Australian Doorstep. 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Doc Martin. 8.30 Foyle’s War. 10.40 Autopsy USA. 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 Death In Paradise. 1.10 Days Of Our Lives. 2.05 The Young And The Restless. 3.05 Antiques Roadshow. 3.35 MOVIE: Derby Day. (1952) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 London Kills. New. 8.40 DCI Banks. 10.40 Three Days To Live. 11.40 Late Programs.

Home (81) 6.00 Shopping.

8.00 Star Trek: Enterprise. 9.00 Diagnosis Murder. 10.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 12.00 Nash Bridges. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 CSI: Miami. 3.00 Bondi Rescue. 3.30 Diagnosis Murder. 4.30 Star Trek: The Next Generation.

5.30 Star Trek: Enterprise. 6.30 Bondi Rescue.

7.30 NCIS. 11.15 NCIS: Los Angeles. 12.10 Home Shopping. 2.10 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 4.30 Odd Squad. 4.55 100 Things To Do Before High School. 5.20 Dogstar. 6.00 Spirit Riding Free. 6.30 Operation Ouch! Hospital Takeover.

7.00 Deadly 60. 7.35 All Hail King Julien. 8.00 Slugterra. 8.20 Danger Mouse. 8.55 Total DramaRama. 9.10 All Hail King Julien. 9.30 The Legend Of Korra. 9.55 Rage. 10.55 Close. 5.40 Kids’ Programs.

6.00 It’s (66) Academic. 7.00 Match It. 8.00 Flushed. 9.00 Home Shopping.

10.30 House Rules. 12.00 Blindspot. 2.00 Life Sentence. 3.00 Splitting Up Together. 3.30 How I Met Your Mother. 4.30 Holey Moley Australia. 6.00 Futurama. 6.30 The Simpsons.

7.30 Modern Family. 8.30 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares. 10.30 Ramsay’s Hotel Hell. 11.30 Hell’s Kitchen USA. 12.30 Late Programs.

Morning (63) 6.00 Programs. 12.00 Swamp People. 1.00 Ax Men. 2.00 Wildlife Heroes. 3.00 Shipping Wars. 4.00 Last Car Garage. 4.30 Pawnography. 5.30 Storage Wars.

6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Restoration Workshop. 8.30 MOVIE: Justice League. (2017) Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot. 10.55 MOVIE: Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. (1997) 12.40 Late Programs.

Kids’ Programs.

(53) 6.00 11.00 Dance Moms.

12.00 Royal Pains. 1.00 The Mindy Project.

2.00 Say Yes To The Dress: Atlanta. 3.00 Social Fabric. 4.00 The A-Team. 5.00 Knight Rider.

6.00 Malcolm. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 RBT. 8.30 MOVIE: Black Hawk Down. (2001) Josh Hartnett. 11.20 Paranormal Caught On Camera.

12.20 Quantum Leap. 1.15 Bromans. 2.10 Dance Moms. 3.00 Kids’ Programs.

(82) 6.00 Morning Programs. 10.00 The Big Bang Theory. 11.00 Cheers. 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Medium. 2.00 Two And A Half Men. 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 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 Destination WA. 12.30 Award Winning Tasmania.

1.00 Getaway.

2.00 Australian Open Tennis Pre-Show.

3.00 Tennis. Australian Open. Day 13. From Melbourne Park.

5.00 News: First At Five.

5.30 RBT. 6.00 Nine News Saturday.

6.30 Australian Open Tennis Pre-Show.

7.30 Tennis. Australian Open. Night 13. From Melbourne Park.

12.00 Chicago Med. 1.00 Aircrash Confidential: Nevada Triangle.

2.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

4.30 Global Shop.

5.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

5.30 Wesley Impact.

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

12.00 ABC News At Noon.

12.30 Landline.

1.30 Gardening Australia.

2.30 Australia Remastered.

3.30 The Mix. 4.00 Soccer. W-League. Round 9.

Sydney FC v Adelaide United.

6.00 Antiques Roadshow.

7.00 ABC News Sunday.

7.40 Grand Designs New Zealand. Return.

8.30 Harrow.

9.25 Silent Witness.

10.25 Killing Eve. 11.10 Line Of Duty.

12.10 Wentworth.

1.00 Rage.

4.10 Wentworth.

5.00 Insiders.

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7.00 Weekend Sunrise.

10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend.

12.00 Surf Patrol.

12.30 Horse Racing. Blue Diamond Stakes Day. Featuring the Group 1 $1.5 million Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m). Silver Slipper Stakes Day. Featuring the Group 2 $250,000 Silver Slipper Stakes (1100m).

5.00 Seven News At 5.

5.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line.

6.00 Seven News.

7.00 Holey Moley Australia.

10.15 MOVIE: 300: Rise Of An Empire. (2014) Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, Lena Headey.

In the wake of the Battle of Marathon and the heroic stand of the 300, an Athenian general battles hordes of invading Persians led by their god-king and a vengeful naval commander.

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11.00 Antiques Roadshow. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Call The Midwife. 2.00 Parliament Question Time. 3.15 ABC News Afternoons.

4.00 The Heights. 4.30 Silvia’s Italian Table.

5.00 Restoration Australia. 6.00 The Drum.

7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Foreign Correspondent. 8.30 Catalyst. 9.30 Australia Remastered. 10.30 QI. 11.00 ABC Late News.

11.30 Q+A. 12.35 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch. 2.05 (3) Luke Nguyen’s Railway Vietnam. 2.35 Egypt’s Lost Princess. 3.30 Who Do You Think You Are? 4.30 Great British Railway Journeys. 5.05 Jeopardy! 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Australia.

6.30 News. 7.30 Great Australian Railway Journeys. 8.40 24 Hours In Emergency. 9.30 Michael Portillo’s Abandoned Britain. 10.25 SBS News. 10.55 The Pier. 11.45 Borgen. 4.20 Railway Journeys UK. 5.00 CGTN English News.

5.15 Late Programs.

(22) 6.00 Kids’ Programs. 5.35 Peter Rabbit. 5.55 Ben And Holly. 6.45 Andy’s Safari Adventures. 7.00 Dino Dana. 7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks.

8.00 Doctor Who. 8.45 Why Are You Like This. 9.10 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. 9.50 High Fidelity. 10.25 Brassic. 11.10 Live At The Apollo.

11.55 Ross Noble: Stand Up Series. 12.30 Parks And Recreation. 12.50 Reno 911! 1.10 W1A. 1.45 Back In Very Small Business. 2.15 Close. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.35 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

12.00 Basketball. NBA. Charlotte Hornets v Golden State Warriors. Replay. 2.00 The Curse Of Oak Island. 2.50 Hunting Hitler. 3.45 WorldWatch. 5.10 The Joy Of Painting. 5.40 Shortland Street. 6.10 Abandoned Engineering.

7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 MOVIE: The X-Files: I Want To Believe. (2008) 10.30 Miniseries: The Salisbury Poisonings. 11.25 News. 11.50 Brooklyn NineNine. 12.40 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 2.10 Degrassi: The Next Generation. 2.35 Make It Pop! 2.55 Junior Vets. 3.35 Horrible Histories.

4.05 Gym Stars. 4.30 Odd Squad. 4.55 100 Things To Do Before High School. 5.20 Dogstar.

6.00 Spirit Riding Free. 6.30 Operation Ouch!

Hospital Takeover. 7.00 Deadly 60. 7.35 All Hail King Julien. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Danger Mouse. 8.55 Total DramaRama. 9.10 All Hail King Julien. 9.30 The Legend Of Korra.

9.55 Rage. 10.55 Close. 5.45 Kids’ Programs.

6.00 It’s (66) Academic. 7.00 Match It. 8.00 Flushed. 9.00 Home Shopping.

10.30 House Rules. 12.00 Blindspot. 2.00 Life Sentence. 3.00 The Goldbergs. 3.30 How I Met Your Mother. 4.30 Futurama. 5.00 The Simpsons. 6.00 Futurama. 6.30 The Simpsons.

7.30 Modern Family. 8.30 MOVIE: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1. (2011) Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner.

10.50 90210. 11.50 Seven Year Switch. 2.00 Late Programs.

Morning (2) 6.00 Programs. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 12.30 National Press Club Address. 1.35 Media Watch. 2.00 Parliament Question Time. 3.15 ABC News Afternoons.

4.00 The Heights. 4.30 Silvia’s Italian Table.

5.00 Restoration Australia. 6.00 The Drum.

7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Hard Quiz.

8.30 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. 9.00 Aftertaste. 9.30 Why Are You Like This. 9.55 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. 10.35 Staged. 11.00 ABC Late News. 11.30 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch. 2.05 (3) Luke Nguyen’s Railway Vietnam. 2.35 Grave Of The Vikings. 3.30 Who Do You Think You Are? 4.30 Great British Railway Journeys. 5.05 Jeopardy! 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Australia.

6.30 News. 7.35 Britain’s Most Historic Towns.

8.30 Michael Palin: Travels Of A Lifetime. 9.20 Vikings. 10.15 Romulus. New. 11.25 SBS News.

11.55 The Night Manager. 12.45 MOVIE: Final Portrait. (2017) 2.25 Queen Elizabeth’s Secret Agents. 3.25 Late Programs.

(22) 6.00 Kids’ Programs. 5.35 Peter Rabbit. 5.55 Ben And Holly. 6.45 Andy’s Safari Adventures. 7.00 Dino Dana. 7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks.

8.00 Doctor Who. 8.45 No Time For Quiet. 9.45 Restoration Australia. 10.45 Enslaved. Final.

11.45 Louis Theroux: Drinking To Oblivion.

12.45 Parks And Recreation. 1.05 Reno 911!

1.30 W1A. 2.00 Back In Very Small Business.

Final. 2.35 Close. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.35 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

12.00 Basketball. NBA. New York Knicks v Minnesota Timberwolves. Replay. 2.00 The Curse Of Oak Island. 2.50 Hunting Hitler. 3.45 WorldWatch. 5.10 The Joy Of Painting With Bob Ross. 5.40 Shortland Street. 6.10 Abandoned Engineering. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Wellington Paranormal. Return. 8.55 MOVIE: Time Bandits.

(1981) 11.00 MOVIE: Machete. (2010) 12.55 News. 1.20 Undressed. 2.20 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 2.10 Degrassi: The Next Generation. 2.35 Make It Pop! 2.55 Junior Vets. 3.35 Horrible Histories.

4.05 Gym Stars. 4.30 Odd Squad. 4.55 100 Things To Do Before High School. 5.20 Dogstar.

6.00 Spirit Riding Free. 6.30 Operation Ouch!

Hospital Takeover. 7.00 Deadly 60. 7.35 All Hail King Julien. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Danger Mouse. 8.55 Total DramaRama. 9.10 All Hail King Julien. 9.30 The Legend Of Korra.

9.55 Rage. 10.55 Close. 5.45 Kids’ Programs.

6.00 It’s (66) Academic. 7.00 Match It. 8.00 Flushed. 9.00 Home Shopping.

10.30 House Rules. 12.00 Blindspot. 2.00 Life Sentence. 3.00 The Goldbergs. 3.30 How I Met Your Mother. 4.30 Futurama. 5.00 The Simpsons. 6.00 Futurama. 6.30 The Simpsons.

7.30 Modern Family.

8.30 MOVIE: Kingdom Of Heaven. (2005) Orlando Bloom.

11.25 The Guardian. 2.30 How I Met Your Mother. 3.00 Blindspot. 5.00 The Goldbergs.

Morning (2) 6.00 Programs. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Hard Quiz. 1.30 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. 2.00 Parliament Question Time. 3.15 ABC News Afternoons.

4.00 The Heights. 4.30 Silvia’s Italian Table.

5.00 Restoration Australia. 6.00 The Drum.

7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Back Roads.

8.30 Q+A. 9.35 Kurt Fearnley’s One Plus One. Return. 10.05 Aussie Inventions That Changed The World. New. 11.00 ABC Late News. 11.30 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch. 2.05 (3) Luke Nguyen’s Railway Vietnam. 2.35 King Solomon’s Mines. 3.30 Who Do You Think You Are? 4.30 Great British Railway Journeys. 5.05 Jeopardy! 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Australia.

6.30 News. 7.35 The World’s Greatest Palaces.

8.30 Trust Me, I’m A Doctor. 9.25 Cornwall With Simon Reeve. 10.25 SBS News. 11.00 24 Hours In Police Custody. 11.55 M: The City Hunts A Murderer. 1.55 The Little Drummer Girl. 3.40 Late Programs.

(22) 6.00 Kids’ Programs. 5.35 Peter Rabbit. 5.55 Ben And Holly. 6.45 Andy’s Dinosaur Adventures.

7.00 Dino Dana. 7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Doctor Who. 8.45 Penn & Teller: Fool Us. 9.35 Hard Quiz. 10.05 The Weekly. 10.35 You Can’t Ask That. 11.00 David Attenborough: Kingdom Of Plants. 11.50 Parks And Recreation. 12.15 Reno 911! 12.35 W1A. 1.05 Zapped. 1.40 QI. 2.10 Brassic. 3.00 Close. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.35 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

12.00 Fade To Black: Fight To The Death. 1.30 VICE. 2.05 Post Radical. 2.55 Hunting Hitler.

3.45 WorldWatch. 5.10 NBL: Overtime. 5.40 Shortland Street. 6.10 Abandoned Engineering.

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

9.20 Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films. 11.35 News. 12.00 The Longest Day In Chang’an.

12.55 Dopesick Nation. 2.35 Deutsche Welle.

3.00 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 2.10 Degrassi: The Next Generation. 2.35 Make It Pop! 2.55 Junior Vets. 3.35 Horrible Histories.

4.05 Gym Stars. 4.30 Odd Squad. 4.55 100 Things To Do Before High School. 5.20 Dogstar.

6.00 Spirit Riding Free. 6.30 Operation Ouch!

Hospital Takeover. 7.00 Deadly 60. 7.35 All Hail King Julien. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Danger Mouse. 8.55 Total DramaRama. 9.10 All Hail King Julien. 9.30 The Legend Of Korra.

9.55 Rage. 10.55 Close. 5.45 Kids’ Programs.

6.00 It’s (66) Academic. 7.00 Match It. 8.00 Flushed. 9.00 Home Shopping.

10.30 House Rules. 12.00 Blindspot. 2.00 Life Sentence. 3.00 The Goldbergs. 3.30 How I Met Your Mother. 4.30 Futurama. 5.00 The Simpsons. 6.00 Futurama. 6.30 The Simpsons.

7.30 Cold Case.

8.30 The Mentalist.

10.30 Numb3rs. 11.30 Bones. 2.30 How I Met Your Mother. 3.00 Blindspot. 5.00 The Goldbergs.

Morning (2) 6.00 Programs. 10.00 Q+A. 11.05 The Pacific: In The Wake Of Captain Cook With Sam Neill. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Back Roads. 1.30 Outback Ringer.

2.00 Rake. 3.00 ABC News Afternoons. 4.00 The Heights. 4.30 Silvia’s Italian Table. 5.00 Restoration Australia. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 Gardening Australia. 8.30 Vera.

10.00 Mum. 10.30 State Of The Union. 10.45 ABC Late News. 11.00 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. 11.30 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch.

(3) 2.05 Beasts And The Pharaohs. 3.00 NITV News: Nula. 3.30 Who Do You Think You Are? 4.30 Great British Railway Journeys. 5.05 Jeopardy! 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Australia.

6.30 News. 7.30 Who Do You Think You Are? UK. 9.35 My Grandparents’ War. 10.30 SBS News. 11.00 MOVIE: Whitney. (2018) 1.10 The Looming Tower. 3.05 Stopping Male Suicide.

4.00 Railway Journeys UK. 5.00 CGTN English News. 5.15 Late Programs.

(22) 6.00 Kids’ Programs. 3.30 Play School. 4.10 Wiggle. 4.45 Play School Art Time. 5.10 Luo Bao Bei. 5.35 Peter Rabbit. 5.55 Ben And Holly. 6.45 Andy’s Dinosaur Adventures. 7.00 Dino Dana. 7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Doctor Who. 8.45 The Merry Widow. 10.30 Brush With Fame. 11.00 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces.

11.50 Catalyst. 12.50 Parks And Recreation. 1.10 Reno 911! 1.35 W1A. 2.05 Zapped. 2.35 Close.

5.05 Little Princess. 5.40 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

11.30 SBS Courtside. 12.00 Basketball. NBA. Memphis Grizzlies v Los Angeles Clippers. 2.30 VICE World Of Sports. 2.55 Hunting Hitler. 3.45 WorldWatch. 5.10 The Joy Of Painting With Bob Ross. 5.40 Shortland Street. 6.10 Abandoned Engineering. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Hoarders. 9.20 City Porn. 10.10 Housos. 11.10 Monogamish.

12.10 News. 12.40 MOVIE: Naked Ambition 2.

(2014) 2.35 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 2.35 Make It Pop! 2.55 Junior Vets. 3.35 Horrible Histories. 4.05 Gym Stars. 4.30 Odd Squad.

4.55 The Next Step. 5.20 Dogstar. 6.00 Spirit Riding Free. 6.30 Operation Ouch!

Hospital Takeover. 7.00 MOVIE: Grandpa’s Great Escape. (2018) 8.10 Horrible Histories.

8.40 Good Game Spawn Point. 9.00 Voltron: Legendary Defender. 9.25 Boruto: Naruto Next Generations. 9.45 Radiant. 10.15 The Legend Of Korra. 10.35 Close. 5.45 Kids’ Programs.

6.00 It’s (66) Academic. 7.00 Match It. 8.00 Flushed. 9.00 Home Shopping.

10.30 House Rules. 12.00 Blindspot. 2.00 Life Sentence. 3.00 The Goldbergs. 3.30 How I Met Your Mother. 4.30 Futurama. 5.00 The Simpsons. 6.00 Futurama. 6.30 The Simpsons.

7.30 Cold Case.

8.30 The Mentalist.

10.30 Numb3rs.

11.30 Bones. 2.30 How I Met Your Mother. 3.00 Blindspot. 5.00 The Goldbergs.

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(6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: A Killer Among Us. (2012) 2.00 Gold Coast Medical. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia. 6.00 PRIME7 News. 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30. 7.00 Home And Away. 7.30 Highway Patrol Special.

8.30 The Good Doctor. 9.30 The Resident.

10.30 The Latest: Seven News. 11.00 Station 19.

12.00 Home Shopping. 5.00 Seven Early News.

5.30 Sunrise.

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(8) 8.30 Studio 10. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 To Be Advised. 2.00 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 My Market Kitchen. 3.00 Judge Judy. 3.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 4.00 Farm To Fork. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 The Amazing Race Australia.

8.30 NCIS. 9.30 NCIS: Los Angeles. 10.30 The Project. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 1.30 Home Shopping. 4.30 CBS This Morning.

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8.00 Star Trek: Enterprise. 9.00 Diagnosis Murder. 10.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 11.00 Jake And The Fatman. 12.00 Nash Bridges. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 CSI: Miami.

3.00 Bondi Rescue. 3.30 Diagnosis Murder.

4.30 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 5.30 Star Trek: Enterprise. 6.30 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. 10.25 CSI: Miami. 11.20 To Be Advised. 12.15 Home Shopping. 2.15 Late Programs.

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(82) 6.00 Cheers.

7.00 Friends. 8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond.

9.00 Becker. 10.00 Frasier. 11.00 Cheers. 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Medium. 2.00 Two And A Half Men. 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends.

8.00 The Big Bang Theory.

9.30 Mom. 12.00 Home Shopping. 1.30 Medium. 3.30 Frasier. 4.30 Home Shopping.

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(8) 8.30 Studio 10. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 To Be Advised. 2.00 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 My Market Kitchen. 3.00 Judge Judy. 3.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 4.00 Farm To Fork. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 The Cube. New. 8.30 Bull.

10.30 The Project. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 1.30 Home Shopping. 4.30 CBS This Morning.

6.00 Today. 9.00 (5) Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.10 Married At First Sight. 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 Married At First Sight. 9.15 Botched. Return. 10.15 Labour Of Love. New. 11.15 Nine News Late. 11.45 Law & Order: Criminal Intent. 12.35 Tipping Point. 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.00 Take Two. 5.00 News Early Edition. 5.30 Today.

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7.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. 7.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 9.30 Danoz Direct. 10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. 12.00 London Kills. 1.10 Days Of Our Lives. 2.05 The Young And The Restless. 3.00 Antiques Roadshow. 3.35 MOVIE: The Man In The White Suit. (1951) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 New Tricks. 8.40 The Closer. 9.40 Rizzoli & Isles. 10.40 Shades Of Blue. 11.40 Law & Order. 12.35 Late Programs.

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(53) 6.00 11.00 Dance Moms.

12.00 Royal Pains. 1.00 The Mindy Project.

2.00 Say Yes To The Dress: Atlanta. 3.00 Malcolm. 4.00 The A-Team. 5.00 Knight Rider. 6.00 Malcolm. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 MOVIE: Safe House. (2012) 9.45 MOVIE: Fargo. (1996) 11.45 The Nanny. 12.15 Quantum Leap. 1.10 Urbex: Enter At Your Own Risk. 2.10 Dance Moms. 3.00 Beyblade Burst Turbo.

3.30 Ninjago. 4.00 Pokémon. 4.30 Pokémon Journeys. 4.50 Kids’ Programs.

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6.00 Today. 9.00 (5) Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.00 Explore. 1.15 Married At First Sight.

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 Married At First Sight. 9.15 The Equalizer. New. 10.15 Chicago Med. Return. 11.15 Nine News Late. 11.45 New Amsterdam. 12.35 Tipping Point. 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 2.30 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 House Of Wellness. 1.00 Cold Feet. 2.00 Harry’s Practice.

2.30 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 Sydney Weekender. 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens.

5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Pie In The Sky. 8.30 Inspector George Gently. 10.30 Jonathan Creek. 1.00 Pie In The Sky. 2.00 Escape To The Country. 3.00 Bargain Hunt. 4.00 Late Programs.

Morning (63) 6.00 Programs.

7.30 Creek To Coast. 8.00 American Pickers.

9.00 Pawn Stars. 9.30 Storage Wars. 10.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions.

11.00 A Football Life. 12.00 Swamp People.

1.00 Ax Men. 2.00 Gold Fever. 3.00 Restoration Workshop. 4.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 4.30 Pawnography. 5.30 Storage Wars.

6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 To Be Advised. 8.30 Outback Opal Hunters.

10.30 Yukon Gold. 11.30 Late Programs.

Sunrise.

(6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: Nanny Killer. (2018) 2.00 Gold Coast Medical. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia. 6.00 PRIME7 News. 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30. 7.00 Home And Away. 7.30 Ambulance: Code Red. 8.30 The Bay. 10.30 The Latest: Seven News. 11.00 Criminal Confessions. 12.00 Code Black. 1.00 Home Shopping. 5.00 Seven Early News. 5.30 Sunrise.

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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 New Tricks. 1.10 Days Of Our Lives. 2.05 The Young And The Restless. 3.00 Antiques Roadshow.

3.30 MOVIE: Golden Ivory. (1954) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 As Time Goes By. 8.50 Midsomer Murders. 10.50 Silent Witness. 12.10 My Favorite Martian. 12.35 Antiques Roadshow. 1.00 Late Programs.

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(53) 6.00 11.00 Dance Moms. 12.00 Royal Pains. 1.00 The Mindy Project. 2.00 Say Yes To The Dress: Atlanta.

3.00 Malcolm. 4.00 Baywatch. 5.00 Knight Rider. 6.00 Malcolm. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 Paranormal Caught On Camera. 8.30 MOVIE: Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom. (1984) Harrison Ford. 11.00 Police Ten 7. 11.30 The Nanny. 12.00 Quantum Leap. 1.00 The Horn.

2.10 Dance Moms. 3.00 Beyblade Burst Turbo.

3.30 Ninjago. 4.00 Kids’ Programs.

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6.00 Today. 9.00 (5) Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.00 Explore. 1.15 Married At First Sight.

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 Married At First Sight. 9.00 The Equalizer.

10.00 Murder For Hire. 11.00 Nine News Late.

11.30 The Horn. 12.30 Tipping Point. 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 2.30 Global Shop. 3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 5.00 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 House Of Wellness. 1.00 Cold Feet. 2.00 Harry’s Practice.

2.30 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 Make It Yours.

4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt.

7.30 Frankie Drake Mysteries.

8.30 A Touch Of Frost.

10.50 Jonathan Creek. 1.15 ICU. 2.00 Home Shopping.

Morning (63) 6.00 Programs. 7.30 Creek To Coast. 8.00 American Pickers. 9.00 Pawnography. 10.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 11.00 A Football Life.

12.00 Swamp People. 1.00 Ax Men. 2.00 Gold Fever. 3.00 Pawn Stars. 3.30 Blokesworld.

4.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 4.30 Pawnography. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 The Simpsons. 9.00 Family Guy. 9.30 American Dad! 10.30 Family Guy. 11.30 Late Programs.

Sunrise.

(6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: Outlaw Prophet: Warren Jeffs. (2014) 2.00 Gold Coast Medical. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia.

6.00 PRIME7 News. 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30. 7.00 Home And Away. 8.30 Wife Swap Australia. 9.45 Busted In Bangkok. 10.45 The Latest: Seven News. 11.15 Celebrity Obsessed.

12.30 Home Shopping. 5.00 Seven Early News.

5.30 Sunrise.

(82) 6.00 Cheers.

7.00 Friends. 8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond.

9.00 Becker. 10.00 Frasier. 11.00 Cheers. 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Medium. 2.00 Two And A Half Men. 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends.

8.00 The Big Bang Theory.

9.30 2 Broke Girls.

12.00 Home Shopping. 1.30 Medium. 3.30 Frasier. 4.30 Home Shopping.

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6.00 Headline News.

(8) 8.30 Studio 10. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 Bondi Rescue. 2.00 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 My Market Kitchen. 3.00 Judge Judy. 3.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 4.00 Farm To Fork. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 Bondi Rescue. Return. 8.00 Territory Cops. Return. 8.30 Gogglebox. 9.30 Law & Order: SVU. 10.30 This Is Us. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.30 The Project. 1.30 Late Programs.

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Home (81) 6.00 Shopping.

8.00 Star Trek: Enterprise. 9.00 Diagnosis Murder. 10.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 11.00 Jake And The Fatman. 12.00 Nash Bridges. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 CSI: Miami.

3.00 Bondi Rescue. 3.30 Diagnosis Murder.

4.30 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 5.30 Star Trek: Enterprise. 6.30 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 Hawaii Five-0. 9.30 L.A.’s Finest. 10.30 NCIS: Los Angeles. 11.30 NCIS. 12.30 Home Shopping. 2.00 Late Programs.

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(82) 6.00 Cheers.

7.00 Friends. 8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond.

9.00 Becker. 10.00 Frasier. 11.00 Cheers. 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Medium. 2.00 Two And A Half Men. 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends.

8.00 The Big Bang Theory.

9.30 Friends.

12.00 Home Shopping. 1.30 Medium. 3.30 Frasier. 4.30 Home Shopping.

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 My Market Kitchen. 3.00 Judge Judy. 3.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 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 The Graham Norton Show. 9.30 To Be Advised.

10.30 Just For Laughs. 11.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.00 The Project. 1.00 Late Programs.

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Home (81) 6.00 Shopping.

8.00 Star Trek: Enterprise. 9.00 Diagnosis Murder. 10.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 11.00 Jake And The Fatman. 12.00 Nash Bridges. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 CSI: Miami.

3.00 Bondi Rescue. 3.30 Diagnosis Murder.

4.30 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 5.30 Star Trek: Enterprise. 6.30 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 Law & Order: SVU. 10.30 CSI: Miami. 11.30 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. 12.30 Home Shopping. 2.00 Late Programs.

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(82) 6.00 Cheers.

7.00 Friends. 8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond.

9.00 Becker. 10.00 Frasier. 11.00 Cheers. 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Medium. 2.00 Two And A Half Men. 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 MOVIE: Sliding Doors. (1998) Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah.

11.30 MOVIE: Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World. (2012) 1.30 Late Programs.

Kids’ Programs.

(53) 6.00 11.00 Dance Moms.

12.00 Royal Pains. 1.00 The Mindy Project.

2.00 Say Yes To The Dress: Atlanta. 3.00 Malcolm. 4.00 Baywatch. 5.00 Knight Rider.

6.00 Malcolm. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 Young Sheldon. 8.30 MOVIE: Atomic Blonde. (2017) Charlize Theron. 10.45 Young Sheldon. 11.35 Police Ten 7. 12.05 Quantum Leap. 1.00 Xtreme Collxtion. 2.10 Dance Moms. 3.00 Beyblade Burst Turbo. 3.30 Ninjago. 4.00 Pokémon. 4.30 Pokémon Journeys. 4.50 Kids’ Programs.

PRIME7

6.00 Today. 9.00 (5) Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.00 Driving Test. 1.30 Married At First Sight. 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 Escape To The Chateau. Return.

8.30 MOVIE: Notting Hill. (1999) Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts, Rhys Ifans. 11.00 MOVIE: In Good Company. (2004) 1.00 Surfing Australia TV. 1.30 Late Programs.

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Morning (52) 6.00 Programs. 10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. 12.00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

1.00 Days Of Our Lives. 1.55 The Young And The Restless. 2.50 Antiques Roadshow. 3.20 MOVIE: The Angry Silence. (1960) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 David Attenborough’s Seven Worlds, One Planet. 8.40 MOVIE: Escape From Alcatraz.

(1979) Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Fred Ward. 11.00 Law & Order. 12.00 Late Programs.

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Kids’ Programs.

(53) 6.00 11.00 Dance Moms.

12.00 Ironman. Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain IronMan and IronWoman Series. Round 4. 2.00 Say Yes To The Dress: Atlanta. 3.00 Malcolm.

4.00 Baywatch. 5.00 Knight Rider. 6.00 The Nanny. 6.30 MOVIE: Lemony Snicket’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events. (2004) 8.40 MOVIE: Mortal Engines. (2018) Hera Hilmar. 11.10 Police Ten 7. 12.10 Quantum Leap. 1.10 Rivals.

1.40 Social Fabric. 2.10 Dance Moms. 3.00 Kids’ 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 House Of Wellness. 1.00 To Be Advised. 2.00 Harry’s Practice. 2.30 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 Weekender. 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens.

5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Highway Cops. 8.30 Escape To The Country. 9.30 Selling Houses Australia. 10.30 Property Ladder UK. 1.00 The Fine Art Auction.

4.00 Late Programs.

Morning (63) 6.00 Programs.

9.00 Pawn Stars. 9.30 Storage Wars. 10.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions.

11.00 A Football Life. 12.00 Swamp People.

1.00 Ax Men. 2.00 Gold Fever. 3.00 Shipping Wars. 4.00 Timbersports. 4.30 Pawnography.

5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers.

7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 MOVIE: Men In Black.

(1997) Tommy Lee Jones. 9.30 MOVIE: Predator. (1987) Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers. 11.45 Late Programs.

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Sunrise.

(6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: My Father Must Die. (2014) Elizabeth Gillies. 2.00 House Of Wellness. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia. 6.00 PRIME7 News. 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30. 7.00 Better Homes And Gardens.

8.30 MOVIE: John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum. (2019) 11.30 MOVIE: 300: Rise Of An Empire. (2014) Sullivan Stapleton. 1.30 Home Shopping.

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Home (81) 6.00 Shopping.

8.00 Star Trek: Enterprise. 9.00 Diagnosis Murder. 10.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 11.00 Jake And The Fatman. 12.00 Nash Bridges. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 CSI: Miami.

3.00 Bondi Rescue. 3.30 Diagnosis Murder.

4.30 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 5.30 Star Trek: Enterprise. 6.30 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 NCIS: Los Angeles. 10.20 NCIS. 12.10 Home Shopping. 2.10 CSI: Miami. 3.10 Diagnosis Murder. 4.05 Late Programs.

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. 3.00 Antiques Roadshow. 3.30 MOVIE: The Gentle Gunman.

(1952) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 Call The Midwife. 8.40 Poirot.

10.40 See No Evil. 11.40 The Disappearance.

12.35 Antiques Roadshow. 1.00 Late Programs.

Morning (63) 6.00 Programs.

9.00 Pawn Stars. 9.30 Storage Wars. 10.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions.

11.00 A Football Life. 12.00 Swamp People.

1.00 Ax Men. 2.00 Gold Fever. 3.00 The Simpsons. 4.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 4.30 Pawnography. 5.30 Storage Wars.

6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 MOVIE: Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them. (2016) Eddie Redmayne. 10.10 MOVIE: Beowulf. (2007) 12.25 Late Programs.

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7TWO

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 House Of Wellness. 1.00 To Be Advised. 2.00 Harry’s Practice. 2.30 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 Creek To Coast. 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens.

5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Father Brown. 8.30 Murdoch Mysteries. 11.30 Andrew Denton’s Interview.

12.30 The Fine Art Auction. 3.30 My Road To Adventure. 4.00 Late Programs.

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PaulTIERNEY LIFEandTIMES with ANGUS GIBB

MUSIC FOR COMPANY

Valentine’s Day

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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 I’ve got my dear thank for believing that Jesus saves. He Last weekend was Valentine’s Day.ol’ dad tosimply for an entire day, maybe longer. for it. I’ve been had a music ‘fan’spent since his life speaking about the love of Did you celebrate? I have always From Van Halen, to the Vapours, to mywith earliest memories. have God that is Tears shown Jesus.

He Vhelped a strange relationship this day. I I must Forin Fears, to Spy Spy … it’ll 3 or 4, but still for many Christians who were have never liked the been wayabout it demands soI cancare get played for you, no problems. fondlyliked remember begging mum to oppression. He was arrested, fleeing much of us. I have never the idea I typed in ‘Rock’ just to see what endlessly rewind the reel-to-reel tortured and killed on the ofa playlist that I need a social convention, simply would happen, and14th found tape we had of the Beatles ‘White February 269AD. If for weover are6honest, it is to tell my wife that I love her. I say this that goes hours called Album’ to play the songs that I called ‘Pure Rock &the Roll’, I was and love. still a pretty grim reason celebrate every day. At the same time however, it ‘Buffalo Bill’ and ‘Ronky Racoon’. am, inatmusic heaven.

The for. only He two But look closer what he stood is kind of nice to have a moment in the Then he introduced us to Elton, The annoying things have been (i) having stood year where we can do thisBoys, together as a Night, Beach Hot August to for love. But not so much the love to stop doing my realto work a wethe share with those dearest us.for But society. There is something niceWe about name a few. certainly had minute to find out the name of a new for a love that runs even deeper.

This seeing all the roses in the florists.

There coolest and loudest stereo in the song as that I am continually street, and the other kids would is the love of God has been educated, shown is something nice about seeing couples and (ii) leaving the keyboard to play come over soin wehand. could playto Acca us in Jesus.

In a letter to a church in enjoying dinner together hand air guitar when songs like ‘Panama’ Dacca and Sherbet at ear-blistering Rome, the Apostle Paul said this: ‘but Have you ever wondered about who or ‘Kickstart My Heart’ come on. levels, whilst doing air guitar. Good

God shows his love for us in that while we this Valentine guy was? Have you ever On the TV and radio, they’ve been were still sinners, Christ died for us.’ You wondered where thistimes. day comes from? talking about making playlists of Getting my drivers’ If you type his name into Google, you licencesee the greatest act of love that has ever ‘songs you play when you’re lonely meant I could play music the known, was when Jesus died on a may find yourself surprised by who he inbeen or alone’, but that’s just garbage. car on my own as loud as I liked cross in that place of humanity. This is was. You may be surprised by what he I’m never alone when the music and I did. My go-to cassette in a love that runs deep.

This was the stood for which is far… from what we is blasting, I’m at peace.

Latelove last Subaru in the 80s had ZZ Top, Big that Valentine lived andjust died for.the That is celebrate with those around us today.

Tuesday arvo, before Country, early Midnight Oil, Aussie Christians live their lives He was a guy who lived in the late third the love that awesome rain came, I jumped Crawl, The Knack and of course in light Yesstuck it is the notbuds always century. He was a pastor a church on the day. ride-on, in Flock of of Seagulls as big tunes.

This of every shown butand this love is realinand during a time when Christians were my ears had my phone my ‘alone time’ was some of my fave or seen, it saves. being persecuted by memories the government pocket, ready for an internet playlist. of going from a school kid

I hooked into a list of songs by one of current faves, a relatively new I’m alone again this week, working Aussie band called Ocean Alley – and from home. Weird. Fun. Novel. Am I screamed out the lyrics at the top of gonna get sick of it? Who knows. Am my lungs whilst mowing for almost 2 I sick of my own company yet? Nope. with DAVID DIXON Lovin’ It. My lovely wife made banana hours. Bliss. Alone. Not lonely. to an adult.

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A couple of songs I might add to bread to go with my (many) morning my extended playlists next week coffees. My computer and work setHaving an open window adjacent to one being able to find the specialist product at will include ‘Mad World’ by Tears up (see last weeks’ column) is aces. of the busiest intersections in central your local store. for Fears, the song by John Lennon Oh, and the music … it’s goin’ on out Orange, I often hear the andof Millthorpe, where says ‘Strange Indeed, herehorn-blasts on the outskirts Enjoying thehe delights of theDays Central Most Mama…’, Onion by arguments that ensueI’m between drivers inhear it?Tablelands telling you.

Can you allPeculiar the time, it’s easy toSkin forget Boom Crash Opera (‘these here are the Colour City.

These days, ten bucks a month that we are living in one of the most times’), and The Doors ‘People will is gethow you often access to a billion beautifulcrazy What most amazes me parts of probably the greatest Are Strange’. I know a mate who’d songs, maybe more, and there’s disputes seem to arise from what is, by any country add in the world.

‘Here I go Again on my own’ by no ads if you pay for it. I’ve still got objective standards, athe pretty well-timed and Whitesnake.

The is endless.

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Loud. it isalone. also,Turn many believe, “You travel to see you own country the most magnificent of times in the for the first time,” is an age-old truth that holds as well for country people going to the Orange district. big smoke as it does for overseas travellers.

With the onset on autumn in a week,

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Let’sTalk Talk Money Let’s Money

with Daniel McGregor with Daniel McGregor

SAVE YOUR RETIREMENT… BUCKETS ARE THE ANSWER! It’s amazing how a few weeks can feel like a few months… It feels as though we’ve been living through this coronavirus nightmare for a long time already! that when a downturn occurs, a ‘balanced’ fund within their I’ve been working in financial those growth investments have superannuation. This can be services since 2002, so I’ve seen time to recover. particularly dangerous for those a few financial crises during While nothing can protect us in the retirement risk zone, those two decades and in that from feeling some emotions that is, five years either side of time, I’ve learnt a lot. Not only when we see our life savings retirement. a lot about how investment going down, it’s incredibly As you move closer to markets work, but also how reassuring to know that when retirement, at retirement and human emotions work. it does happen, a strategy had during retirement, it’s important With all the craziness going on already been put in place to deal to put some strategy behind at the moment, many people with it. how your retirement savings are are understandably concerned Now, imagine if that strategy set up. A retiree with all their about their retirement savings. was combined with saving money sitting in a balanced Sadly, many people are making thousands of dollars a year in investment option in retirement the wrong decisions in how to investment fees! would mean that right now they deal with this crisis, acting on If these sound like the sorts of are being forced to sell shares at emotion and not realising the Don’t take my word for it… there is a huge bearing on how big this impact can things you want when it comes the worst possible time in order long-term implications of their group called Super Consumers Australia be. I encourage you to choose wisely. to your retirement savings and to meet their income needs. decisions.

(SCA) who are “the people’s advocate pointing that when it when youout value independence Sadly, many peopleIt’s areworth flooding I love helping people get their in the superannuation sector”.

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I can guarantee youadvocacy this leading consumer group. much the fees oncrisis, theirboth super area costing from health and they will! won’t be the last time we see One of the targets of SCA are the them.

Once we look at it in detail andHowever, look economic perspective.

A better strategy is to break up dark economic times… in fact, conflicts of interest that exist in the at the alternatives available, it can be a the decisions you are making retirement savings into short, I guarantee all my clients there financial advice superannuation life-changing Getting your super right now will have a huge medium and long term ‘buckets’ moment. will be times when theirand money spaces. whatfor your future to ensure that when something will go down. Moments like invested in a wayimpact that isonright you, looks 10 and 20 years like thisSCA happens, there no theseWhen are a good opportunity it comes to financial advice, withisultra-low fees, is like oneinof5,the most of growththingsfrom to remind mythat clients why their fees, need believe asset-based that to is,be selling out significant younow. can do to change assets (i.e. shares and property) money is invested the way it is. percentage-based fees, represent the most your financial future for the better.

Stay safe! while they are down.

Many people will be finding egregious conflict of interest as they “bear Why is this important? Well, a new study This type of strategy ensures themselves simply sitting in Daniel

HOW YOU PAY FOR FINANCIAL ADVICE MATTERS!

no relationship” with the work done by the adviser.

from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School has found that people’s If you’d like to find out more about how INDEPENDENT financial advice could help you manage cash flow, pay off the mortgage faster, get the most out SCA is just the latest in a long line of happiness and wellbeing increases with of super and invest wisely, then get in touch on 0411 484 464 or head to wealthtrain.com.au groups and individuals trying to increase more money. You might think that’s Daniel McGregor is the man behind Wealth Train and is a member of the Independent Financial Advice and Education. This advice may not be suitable to you because it contains general adviceawareness which does not take consideration any of of your personal circumstances.

All strategies and information provided are general advice only.it people’s ofintothis conflict obvious, but the reason is very simple…

Daniel McGregor and Wealth Train are authorised representatives of Independent Financial Advice and Education AFSL 520963 interest. grants more freedom!

SCA also believes the financial advice provided by superannuation funds is just as conflicted as that outside of super.

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The equation is this: Paying higher-thannecessary fees both for advice and for the management of your superannuation could see your future self having less freedom and less choice.

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The Council Game The second real Orange City Council meeting of the year was held on the evening of Tuesday 16th February 2021 with 386 pages on the agenda and no Confidential Items, and the meeting closed at 9.08pm. The business papers were available on time on Council’s website.

There was only one speaker in the Public Forum – the Executive Officer of Hearts for Orange who addressed the Council on the agenda item considering the request for financial assistance for the 2021 Hearts for Orange Program.

Three Notices of Motion by Councillors were debated. The first one concerning the funding shortfall of $5 million for the Orange Regional Conservatorium and Planetarium was debated with a Public Gallery largely consisting of people from the Conservatorium. Council resolved to investigate methods of funding a $5 million shortfall for the construction of a Conservatorium of Music and Planetarium at Northcourt. Those methods include using financial reserves and borrowing the money to complete the $20 million needed for

activities.

The request for funding to deliver the Hearts for Orange Program 2021 was the subject of a 14-page report that was debated at some length. Eventually the officer recommendation was agreed to: 1. T o acknowledge the report by the Manager Business Development.

2. That upon receipt of a more detailed submission from Hearts for Orange the matter be returned to Council. the project to go ahead.

pages of actions to be completed.

The second Notice of Motion concerned the Northern Distributor Road and Telopea Way Intersection.

The resolution was to investigate traffic lights with a roundabout and possibly an overpass on the Northern Distributor Road.

Councillors congratulated themselves and the staff on the quality of the reporting on Council Investments and the Mayor suggested that there needed to be further explanation.

The third Notice of Motion was to investigate a 32-kilometre cycle loop including Huntley and Forest Roads.

There was a report on Outstanding Resolutions of Council including Questions Taken on Notice and Notices of Motions. There were nine pages of actions completed, and 26

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It’s hard to find much positive to say about the 16th February Council meeting. There was not much meat to the agenda. It was a fairly unruly and disrespectful meeting with Councillors interrupting each other to call out comments, and bad behaviour from a woman in the Public Gallery.

I found it strange that the issue of the funding shortfall of $5 million for the Orange Regional Conservatorium and Planetarium came up as a Notice of Motion rather than a report from Council staff about how this important project can be completed.

That is one of the things that frustrates me about Orange City Council that a lot of time is spent on process instead of putting the effort into achieving results!!

Another example of this is the discussion on water. The Mayor lectured everyone about his dam on his property, but where was the result?

The Strategic Policy Review was nodded through and consisted of 223 pages to update Codes of Conduct and the policy on Gifts and Benefits to bring them into line with changes made to model codes by the Office of Local Government.

Council congratulated itself on the method of reporting on project

Have we become any closer to resolving Orange’s water issues? Councillors and staff talk about the topic of water in a detailed technical way that is guaranteed to make your eyes glass over, instead of saying – what are we aiming to achieve and how can we do it?

Priorities were mentioned a couple of times and having a strategic direction and clear priorities would hopefully prevent the amount of time that is spent in meetings and by staff dealing with the latest thought bubble.

Most of the resolutions that were discussed were about investigations that would need to be undertaken by staff, but most of the Councillors decided they needed to show how clever they were by pontificating on what they know about any particular subject. It’s a bit like the kind of competition that might have taken place in the Robertson Park toilets over the last 20 years if they had not taken 20 years to build!

There was a report on Outstanding Resolutions of Council with 9 pages of actions completed, and 26 pages of actions to be completed, which is perhaps a measure of how much staff time is being used to deal with thought bubbles. If that time was freed up, we might be able to get better public value in achieving outcomes.

I was informed by my close neighbours in the

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3. To approve the hosting of a Retail Business Forum.

Three reports followed concerning Water. The Mayor lectured Councillors on the topic. Council was told the combined water storage level of Orange dams has now reached 61.9 per cent.

For the Council Game this week, our Mock Council has been busy and here’s what they had to say about those topics that caught their attention.

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Public Gallery that the comments made by several Councillors during the discussion about the junction of the Northern Distributor Road and Telopea Way concerning the reasons for McDonald’s being on that site and that junction being the way it is was a very interesting attempt to rewrite history. This is another matter that could have done with some long term strategi planning rather than ad hoc decisions.

A former Minister, Carl Scully, was mentioned and it reminded me of the much loved Councillor Lilliane Brady OAM, who died recently, at the age of 96, in harness as the Mayor of Cobar.

She was the longest serving woman Mayor in NSW. She was a real straight shooter and fantastic ambassador for Cobar. She often told the story about the time she met with Carl Scully and he was schmoozing her – she said: ‘I’ve come here for finance, Minister. Not romance.’

During one debate the Councillor who had seconded the Motion then spoke against it, and he’s been on Council for 10 years! There was confusion about what motion was being debated. I am accustomed to Councils that have the motions on a screen while they are being debated so that Councillors and the public know what is being discussed and what is finally resolved. It tends to be good for democracy!!

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Daniel McGregor Think Big Orange! At this week’s Council meeting, I was surprised to hear discussion around Council not being responsible for market forces or supply and demand. At a high level, I agree. However, I believe governments at all levels play a crucial role in influencing market forces and supply and demand. What Council does has a material impact on the local economy. It is one of the largest employers in town, has a huge budget and impacts on the supply and demand for goods and services in our local economy and therefore the local market forces at work.

I would love to see Council think bigger about opportunities for it to be an influencer. I think of we ratepayers as being shareholders in Orange. Council sits on a stockpile of funds that could be getting put to more productive use for our benefit. As shareholders, what do we want from our yearly investment beyond the basics?

How can Council influence things like: - Small business growth – a small business incubator?

- Tech and climate change – opportunities for Council to invest in the technologies of the future?

- Housing development – rather than simply selling land to developers to cram in as many houses as possible, should Council begin developing land itself to get a better mix of housing for the community and keep the profit margins for Orange?

- Water – it looms as our Achilles’ heel in the future. Just wishing for a new dam isn’t going to cut it.

Finally, the Northern Distributor discussion raised my eyebrows. A few councillors patted themselves on the back and in the next breath discussed the $6.5 million it cost to re-do with hot mix and now the need for another potentially $4 million roundabout to fix the horrendous situation at the lights in North Orange.

totally disagree with what is being said. There were several instances on Tuesday evening when this did not happen. This was unpleasant and quite unnecessary.

somewhat. There was plenty of posturing and chestthumping about their ‘perceived’ achievements whilst on Council.

The most enjoyable part of the meeting, for me, was when a council staffer offered to compile a report on whether more rubbish bins were needed in Elephant Park, and our mayor assured the staffer that we don’t need any more reports - we just need more bins.

Having, like most of us, battled with bureaucratic processes on occasion, I enjoyed this much more than I probably should have.

It would seem that where some may have assumed their re-election was inevitable, some are now re-evaluating that assumption, albeit a little late in their terms.

The Council Game welcomes our latest player…

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Josh Girle-Bennett Occupation: Operational Buyer for Nestle Purina Interests/hobbies: Art, reading, chasing snow, gardening and politics Political Party: I am not a member of a political party Mission Statement: Improving council operational efficiency, challenging the status quo, listening to the needs of residents’ and addressing their concerns, value for the ratepayer as well as improving local services.

Expertise/experience: I am a Procurement and Purchasing professional with over 12 years’ experience working for both small and large businesses across these fields. My passions are improving efficiencies within businesses and reducing operational costs.

I have also served as a Youth Councillor in Queensland for two years.

Are there any new or existing projects or issues you’d like to see considered seriously by Council?

• Infrastructure - Improving intersections, traffic flow, traffic congestion, properly repairing existing roads littered with potholes in addition to providing decent public transport options.

• Water Security - Providing initiatives to residents and businesses to capture water as well as actively engaging with State and Federal Governments to build more storage reservoirs.

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Frances Kinghorne There were several issues discussed at the Tuesday evening council meeting, but rather than discuss any of these specifically, I have some observations about the meeting itself. I really noticed the range of communication skills shown by the participants. There were a couple of councillors who appeared to be intelligent, articulate, and able to understand multiple aspects & subtleties related to each issue. There were also some who simply waffled on and on, sometimes making a single point, and sometimes not making any valid commentary at all. I also thought it was very strange that there seemed to be some confusion about the actual process at times - I assumed that, having been part of the council for more than 4 years, everyone would be quite familiar with the proceedings and required standards.

I think it’s important for participants at these meetings to respect the rights of others to speak, even if they

• Value for Money – Greater scrutiny and transparency of council spending, finding operational efficiencies and capping rate rise increases.

• Crime – Creating greater community awareness, engaging with local community groups to assist with implementing initiatives to reduce crime and installing CCTV cameras across the city.

• Liveability – Continuing to grow a city that is adequately accommodating for future growth, environmentally friendly, affordable and still maintains its unique urban and rural feel.

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Melanie McDonnell It was evident at this week’s Council meeting that more than a couple of Councillors are feeling the heat

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I was glad to see a rare moment of action from the collective Councillors regarding Councillor Turner’s Notice of Motion to source the remaining funding for the Conservatorium and Planetarium. The Orange Regional Conservatorium outgrew its current site several years ago and this new, custom-built facility will be a major asset for the Orange region. If only the State Government valued the arts as much as, well…

Never one to go gently into the night, water security was once again a hot topic this week. With the memory of the recent droughts still painfully fresh in the minds of the community, water security, understandably, is bound to bring out the passions, opinions and ‘solutions’.

Unfortunately, most Councillors stuck to the antiquated theories of water security – let’s just build more dams.

As Councillor Nugent put it “building dams won’t make it rain more”. Councillors Kidd and Nugent countered the old, out-dated arguments by speaking to the role and importance of an integrated water cycle management when it comes to water security.

Environmental impacts aside, building dams is a distant, longer term notion.

Billions of dollars. Many, many years taken to survey, investigate, acquire, plan, tender, construct and finally bring online.

Aside from all this, when did we last have a government of any party or at any level which truly planned and acted for the long-term future, rather than the shortsighted, election-cycle vision that has pervaded Australian politics for well over a decade.

Who has that time to sit around waiting and hoping?

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Steve Peterson Upon watching the February 16 Council meeting a couple of points stood out for me. Different counsellors at different times made reference to a community perception of the high cost of council rates. The context being that this perception was unjust, or that this sentiment should be considered regarding particular expenditure. I want to avoid mere populism about lowering rates, but Orange council rates are high relative to nearby councils as demonstrated by the compare Council website https://www.yourcouncil.nsw. gov.au/compare-councils/. It is a website worth having a look at. Both Council and the community would benefit from transparent explanation of expenditure and why this is more than surrounding councils. I do think rates should be kept in mind in terms of debating expenditure and to investigate community feedback of what they feel is worth their money.

The water update saw dispute over the relative importance of water harvesting, reusing water and reducing output strategies versus greater water storage through another dam. Whatever can be done to reduce waste is admirable, but we need the ability to store that additional water in the good times. Suma Park dam was overflowing not that long ago and storm water

THE COUNCIL GAME harvesting or water recycling capacity is only as useful as our capacity to store it. Orange’s population is growing and the gestation time for a new dam is substantial so advocacy for this should be happening now.

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Theodore Crane While Cr Taylor spoke about the intersection at Telopea Way, my mind was drawn to related North Orange matters. I recalled that the original map for Waratah’s estate (in 2004) had land allowed for a proposed Catholic High School. This never came to be, and that land is now being developed into residential areas.

When I reviewed the Department of Education school zoning map, I saw that Bletchington Public School has a massive zone. It goes from Dalton Street, way up through North Orange, and from Burrendong Way to the train lines. In terms of residential streets, it is close to the biggest primary school zone in the Orange LGA. It really troubles me that we are loading more and more students into Bletchington by re-designating land held for a school, into even more housing.

Families of primary kids stress about their child being “lost” in overly large schools, and at 5 kindy classes for 2021 alone, Bletchington is risking that. I know their staff are amazing, and care for each kid individually, but the school is just so big. There is also associated pressure on playground space, and class sizes to consider.

I really hope while the Counsellors quite rightly consider roundabouts and traffic concerns near North Orange, they are also working hard with the state government to advocate for a much needed primary school for the Waratah development area. I know that it is a state government issue, but local council and town planners play a vital role in advocating and lobbying for school developments.

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“If you’re gunna back a racehorse, back self-interest, it will always win!” was a quote by Councillor Glenn Taylor during this week’s Council meeting when they were discussing a request for $50,000 worth of funding from Hearts for Orange to continue an ongoing marketing program to support local non-hospitality type retailers.

I mention this because the 14 page staff report, and recommendations presented to Councillors clearly had protect self-interest written all over it. The discussion saw seven of the Councillors speak on the issue and it was very obvious that they don’t want a bar of it. They did however leave the door open for Hearts for Orange to provide further information which came across more of a let’s tie them up in red tape and give them a heap of hoops to jump through so that it doesn’t look like we’re against it altogether, then we can officially say no.

Of the seven speakers Councillor Glenn Taylor showed himself to be the most out of touch of them all, he

obviously had no idea of what the $50,000 asked for was to be used for. Hearts for Orange asked for the money to undertake a 6 month marketing campaign aimed at encouraging more people from around the region to come into Orange to shop and do business more often. The money to be used for TV advertising and other retails sales promotions during that 6 months.

Councillor Taylor prattled on with comments such as “Issues concern me about promotions generally….I don’t know how effective media promotions are on shopping locally” and “I’m sceptical about how effective promotion campaigns can be….sure they have some effect” and “I don’t know whether it’s a fantastic campaign or it’s not a fantastic campaign…or another campaign the same as others we’ve seen over the years….I’m yet to see really much where we’ve had too big of a tangible result.”

Councillor Taylor then continued on talking about buying cheap milk, shops in the main CBD and the impact of online shopping, he claims to almost know a delivery driver’s first name following his daughter’s constant online purchases.

His whole commentary suggested he thought the request was for a campaign encouraging people to shop locally. It simply wasn’t and he had it all wrong.

Pretty poor show if you ask me, especially from a Councillor who claims to have doubts about promotion yet has probably been photographed with every pothole in Orange so he could get his photo in the CWD. I noticed his picture appeared again on the CWD website about another issue discussed at the meeting, and when I saw it around 10pm, I doubt if they’d even turned the lights out following the Council meeting.

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donations from the public. Over the years there’s been some wonderful projects that came about from Community involvement, The Adventure Playground, Ronald McDonald House, and the Cancer Care Western facility to name a few.

...At the end of the discussion Councillors did arrive at the only place they could, that is to push ahead and make it happen, somehow. Thank goodness for that...

I have no idea how the community might respond to such an idea or how much might be raised as a result, but I can say this – it’s worth adding to the mix of ideas and I believe we need projects like those mentioned where the community is given the opportunity to play a part and take some ownership. I’m surprised that at least one Councillor hasn’t thought of this. Maybe they will now?

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Gerald Power mock councillor

Greater Good Councillors at this week’s Council meeting spent time discussing whether Council would help find the necessary $5 million to allow the Conservatorium/ Planetarium Project to go ahead.

Various ideas for coming up with the money were talked about including selling off some unwanted Council property assets and allocating some of the proceeds from this. These assets were said to be worth in the vicinity of $22 million which apart from this issue, clearly makes for another story at another time. Asking the State Government if re-directing some of the $25 million for the Sports Stadium was possible. This got shot down pretty quickly as not possible. Like so many of the discussions at our Council meetings, some of what was said was helpful, while some of the other suggestions and comments left some of us wondering “is this person up to this?”

At the end of the discussion Councillors did arrive at the only place they could, that is to push ahead and make it happen, somehow. Thank goodness for that.

Orange desperately needs an attraction that people will specifically come here to see or experience, this project is well advanced and if we’re just $5 million away from making it a reality, our Councillors should not be discussing “if” at all, the conversation should have all been about “how”. If I were on Council, this would be a no brainer and I’d be urging that Council be all over it asap. One option that wasn’t considered, was to make raising the $5 million a Community Project and inviting

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Mock Councillor Gerald Power’s business commitments have prevented him from writing a column this week.’

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GOOD ON YOU, JEANINE BIRD It’s about time that the country woke-up to the fact that we are kept in the dark about the topics that Jeanine writes about.

Our freedoms are being eroded at an alarming rate and most people just don’t seem to care. As long as many Australians have their sport and four-wheel drives, they just don’t seem to care about the state of the country and the many businesses that have been destroyed by the crazy antics of the various State Governments over the COVID crisis.

Farmers cannot harvest their crops while so many sit idly by and collect the over-generous Government benefits.

Get-off your backsides Australians, and don’t rely on the free-ride that is provided at the moment.

We are continually being muzzled by the “racist” slur. We cannot say what we think, and I am sure that they would control what we think if they could. White people aren’t the only racists. Many non-European cultures complain about European cultures but aren’t called racist. WHY? The Japanese are reluctant to allow permanent migration to Japan but aren’t called racist ,WHY. It’s their country and can they be blamed for this attitude? If we express an opinion about who comes to Australia, we are immediately labelled as ‘racist’. My wife and I treat people as they come and how they treat others no matter where they come from.

Can we do any better than that? I don’t think so!

The media — particularly the ABC — have been biased and go out of their way to espouse the evils of the Trump Administration and, as Bob Holland stated, have ignored the fact that almost half of the American population voted for him. Love him or hate him ,it cannot be denied that their election raised some viable suspicions of the result, while ignoring the questionable conduct of the Biden family.

Why was the raid on the Capitol Building so much worse than Black Lives Matter riots when so much private property was destroyed, (both black and white)? Why was there little or no coverage of the fact that the extreme-left Antifa movement were well-represented in the Capitol

Building raid?

unnecessary detail.

Why isn’t it mentioned in our media that a dedicated fleet of buses carry the ‘rent a crowd’ activists to inflame the Black Death movement demonstrations? Why isn’t it disclosed in our media that the rate of black deaths in custody in Australia is hardly any different than the number of white deaths per capita of inmates? Why isn’t it mentioned in our media that indigenous people can commit more crimes than a white person does, before they are incarnated? It’s a fact for white and black, if you don’t do the crime, you don’t go to jail!

Unhelpful comments reinforce bias against people living in public housing and of Aboriginal tenants and drives a wedge in our community.

I distinctly remember the reaction of the ABC when Scott Morrison won the last Federal election. I watched the ABC broadcast the next morning, and you would think that there had been a major disaster or death in the family. ‘How could this be?’ was the major topic as they had been so sure that Labor would win. They conveniently forgot that it was a democratic vote, not a fix-up as seems to have happened in America.

Orange City Life Newswatch promotes values of ‘integrity-wisdom-balance’. The article on vacant public housing in Orange lacked these qualities. You can do better!

Lis Arundell

DISAPPOINTMENT AT NATURAL SCENE “DEFACED” BY GRAFFITI

It’s about time that we had a fair and balanced media to inform us of both sides of each argument.

Good on you Jeanine, and keep up the fight.

PS. Keep an eye out for ASIO.

Barry and Anne Potter

“PRETTY VACANT” REINFORCES BIASES I read with interest the article “Pretty Vacant... but do we care” by David Dixon.

While I am concerned that public housing in Orange remains without tenants, I was troubled by some of the content of the article. Living in social housing is not usually someone’s first choice and can come with a level of stigma.

Publishing the photos and street addresses of the currently-vacant houses unnecessarily identifies them for all of Orange to view and judge the future public housing tenants. I consider this an invasion of privacy.

Additionally, comments on the previous tenants of an Aboriginal Housing Corporation home included

This afternoon, my wife Merian and I took a drive up to Fourth Crossing on the Ophir Road, and hiked in to the Summer Hill Creek cascades lookout.

It’s the first time we’ve gone in and, it was a major effort for me — given mobility issues — so you can imagine our disappointment to see the natural scene defaced with ugly graffiti.

It’s bad enough to find graffiti defacing buildings, but when it comes to scenic spots like this, it is disgraceful.

Attached are two photos, the overall scene, and a closer one of the graffiti.

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ACCESS KEY TO INDOOR CRICKET CENTRE SUCCESS

Availability to all is the key to success of Orange’s indoor cricket centre at Wade Park.

CYMS Juniors is one of the local cricket clubs regularly utilising the new net facilities at the Carl Sharpe Centre of Excellence.

“It’s a fantastic facility for Orange,” CYMS official Matt French said while firing some balls through the bowling machine for under 15s and 16s batters.

“The great thing is that it’s accessible for all, for everyone to use, and it’s not weather dependent,” he added, with the club having rescheduled a number of training sessions through

the centre during our damp-ish summer.

He said that its yearround access will help junior development of the national game, especially during the cooler months.

“It will definitely aid in the development of kids’ skills; they’ll be able to train for longer periods of time… I have no doubt it will get used a lot in winter as well” he said of the $3.4 million training facility opened late last year.

“Orange Council, the local cricket associations, Cricket Australia, and the other organisations, have done a great job, we’re very grateful for this facility,” he added.

CYMS Junior teams getting a top-class work-out at the Cricket Centre of Excellence at Wade Park recently.

Council’s Sport and Recreation Committee Chair, Councillor Jason Hamling said that the facility shows that, when you provide world-class sports facilities in a town like Orange, they get used.

“They’ve been absolutely bombarded with teams wanting to train there, some games were washed-out the other day, so some teams organised an impromptu training session,” he said.

The Centre — located on the eastern side of Wade Park alongside the grandstand — was funded by the NSW Government, Cricket Australia and Cricket NSW, and Orange City Council.

“The kids love it,” Matt said in conclusion.

Bathurst and Orange Inter-district Cricket Competition Draw Round 12

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Wade Park

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Rugby Union

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Sportsground

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Fierce competition — and a crocodile — at Orange Anglican’s swim carnival Orange Anglican Grammar School’s recent swimming carnival — with friends, family, and supporters allowed poolside this year — is another sign of our slow recovery from the COVID-19 lockdowns.

A number of records were broken on the day that featured both fierce competition and some light-hearted moments involving tutus, a blow-up crocodile, and beach rings.

The highly-anticipated competition between top junior high school swimmers Lachlan Thompson and Tom Horan saw a number of records fall on the day.

Lachlan took-out top-spot — and set a number of new records — in the 50-metres Freestyle, Backstroke, Butterfly, and that most challenging of races, the Individual Medley.

Tom prevented the clean-sweep though pipping Lachlan at the post in a photo-finish to take first place — and also set a new school record — in the 50m Breaststroke.

Year 12 student Josh Whittingham actually did make the clean sweep in the senior’s section, with new school records in all strokes.

Orange Anglican newcomer Skye Napier in Year Six also set a school record in the 50m Breaststroke, with the relay team of Miley O’Brien, Hallie Ellice, Rohan Mittal, and Henry Jones also smashing the primary relay school record.

“All in all, it was a great day of fun, competition, and house spirit,” a school spokesperson said.

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RECYCLING TARGETS NOT MET, TIME TO THWART FLIES WITH BIN-LINER IDEA As reported in the Central Western Daily recently, our Council has failed to meet the State target to reduce landfill rubbish by 70 per cent by 2021. Our reduction has fallen far short of this.

Our green waste recycling facility is fantastic, however many of us are not recycling food waste.

I believe that acceptance and promotion of compostable kitchen bin-liners will dramatically increase recycling of food waste. In fact, some councils provide their residents with these bags (see link below).

I must say, that I have been put-off b y finding flies and maggots feeding on my kitchen scraps in my green bin!

Would you please consider publishing an article in Newswatch addressing this issue? https://www.innerwest.nsw.gov.au/live/wasteand-recycling/household-waste/your-bins-andservices/food-waste/how-to-recycle-your-foodwaste

Juliana Hazell

EDITOR’S NOTE: Introduction of bin-liners for green waste is an issue of interest to Newswatch publisher Bob Holland and one which he has consistently-argued for over a period of time. Perhaps Council’s failure to meet its landfill target will spur new interest in the idea, and is certainly one which Newswatch will pursue in the near future.

CLIMATE CHANGE NOT CAUSED BY CARBON The history books tell us that Captain James Cook was sent to sail home via the North-West Passage. A true fact from history. Who was right and who was wrong.? James lost his life over the facts. Think about that, with integrity, wisdom, and balance. Why does human history repeat itself?

Climate change is not caused by carbon dioxide.

During 2012, the sun rose over Orange from above the Showground, today the sun rises from above Dudley Hospital. Carbon dioxide did not cause this.

mathematically. The Earth is in cycles. The Earth wobbles on its axis, the angle of the tilt changes.

The Earth has an elliptical orbit about the Sun and the plane of its orbit changes. All these cycles affect the climate of the Earth. Facts from scientific study.

The World Health Organisation cannot find the COVID-19 virus in China. The vaccine was made from the SARS2 virus for the COVID 19 virus.

The vaccine will not change any protocols in place for the COVID 19 virus. There is a correlation between the COVID-19 virus and the start-up of 4G and 5G technology. Yes, no doctor diagnosed the symptoms during 2018 with the start-up of 4G technology.

Nobody died but contracted the COVID-19 symptoms during 2018. The symptoms of COVID 19 are the same for radio frequency radiation poisoning. During the Spanish Flu pandemic, radio was first installed and used commercially.

People died from the flu-like symptoms. There are well-educated people worldwide doing research on 5G technology and writing to the media, UN, EU and WHO warning of the dangers of 5G technology. All the above are scientific facts.

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The Assistant Director, First Assistant Director, and Director disagreed with me. The Minister for Minerals and Energy turned-up to the meeting with the First Assistant Secretary, and asked a lot of questions nobody could answer. I was not at the meeting. The Minister, Senator Garth Evans MP, declined the application. TRUE story.

Great minds think alike. Newswatch is asking people to THINK! Why do you vote for a Councillor who plants trees under powerlines? Why do you do that?

I ask the question. Some one answer THE question?

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round. Well, to be accurate, the Earth is fatter in the middle. We scientists today stand before the elite (less than one per cent of the Earth’s population who own more than 99 per cent of the money on Earth) and tell you the truth, and you criticise us! The elite want to drive electric cars with 5G radio waves.

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