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NORTHERN “BURDEN” What to do about the messy North Orange traffic lights is the immediate question.

Unloading the highly-expensive Northern Distributor from the burden of ratepayers could become the real issue though!

Should the bypass become the highway through Orange coming under Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) responsibility?

Local Member Phil Donato says that he has never received Council direction on the issue.

The debate follows Orange Council recently passing a resolution to examine solutions to the messy and inefficient two-stage traffic lights situation on Telopea Way where it feeds into the Woolworths shopping complex, McDonalds, and Waratahs Sports Club.

• Turn to page 4¬–5 for our full story Jeanine Bird is an accidental BIRD ON THE controversialist.

WIRE CAN’T The centre of a local media storm with her UNDERSTAND iconoclastic Newswatch column — she never wanted it to be this way.

ALL THE FUSS • Turn to page 13-15 for our interview

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with DAVID DIXON • Concerned that the south Orange tree removal DA, of which Newswatch has provided consistent coverage over the past nine months, may be getting slipped-through Council next week without our knowing, we contacted our local government link-man.

To our surprise, we found out that the DA is unlikely to come before Orange Council until April or even May. We were told that there are a number of “state layers” that have to be gone through; plus, about 70 submissions from interested members of the public.

Good to see that Council officers are taking the required time to get this vital report right. On that issue, we have another story in this week’s paper on page 7.

• In a fit of uncharacteristic conscientiousness, Newswatch thought we’d better get a pic of someone in Orange getting the jab in their arm from the new coronavirus vaccine.

After being ping-ponged between NSW Health and a local nursing home about how to get approval for a shot (of a shot!); we decided to leave well alone.

If the seeming casual indifference of the Health Department “spokesperson” to provide any assistance in this matter is any indication, it is no wonder that our schedule of numbers to be vaccinated is already way behind the timetable!

• Ringing-around the current local councillors to ask the one piece of advice they would give to prospective candidates for September’s Local Government elections, most replied, “don’t just run on one pet issue. It’s a long four years otherwise.” Newswatch gets the impression that a couple of the current councillors, can’t wait for September to come around!

WHO WILL YOU VOTE FOR IN SEPTEMBER? Between now and then, we’ll keep you up to date with who’s who and what’s what...

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“DINE & DISCOVER NSW” KICKS-OFF, BUT WHO KNEW? State Government’s much-heralded “Dine & Discover NSW” initiative offering vouchers to encourage the community to get out and about and support dining, arts, and tourism spending in the economy kicks-off in March; but who knew?

The scheme was heavily-promoted in the last State Budget as an innovative way to get the hospitality sector back on its feet after a lamentable 2020, but has not been sighted since.

The Government says that the scheme kicked-off in Sydney’s The Rocks and in Broken Hill in early February before moving to the Harbour City’s CBD, Northern Beaches, and Bega Valley from late February. The statewide rollout, we are told, will commence in March.

But local fine fare outlets in Orange tell Newswatch they know little about the scheme and have seen no promotion of it in the wider community.

Local member Phil Donato is also at a loss as to its likely introduction to the Colour City and believed that it was currently in its trial phase. “My understanding is, it is still only being trialled on the Northern Beaches,” he told Newswatch mid-week.

“It is typical of this government to announce something like this in a great fanfare and to not follow-it up, I’ve heard very little about it… they get the publicity for the announcement, and there’s no follow-through,” he added.

The Dine & Discover NSW scheme offers every NSW resident aged 18 and over four $25 vouchers worth $100 in total. To participate in Dine & Discover NSW, you must have a MyServiceNSW account ahead of the vouchers becoming available.

very quickly Future of Bird’s-Eye View Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Our highlycontentious Bird’s-Eye View column hasn’t appeared for a couple of weeks and, judging by our Back Page letters this week, some who like the column are voicing their feelings.

We’re sure several others who don’t like the column are probably rejoicing. Truth is, it hasn’t gone, we’re just in the process of considering the best way forward with it.

We’ve taken on board a lot of the comments, we’ve talked to Jeanine about how we can make it more accessible and, this week, we’ve interviewed Jeanine (see pages 13–15) so that readers can get a greater feel for who she is and why she does what she does.

Bird’s-Eye View will return very soon and, hopefully at the very least, more of our readers will accept that not everyone thinks the same but that doesn’t mean we can’t still agree to disagree. Life’s too short.

— The Editor

CALDWELL HOUSE SAVED Caldwell House, adjacent to the site of the old Orange Base Hospital, has been saved from demolition.

The 1937-vintage, former health office building — which has been vacant for a number of years — was subject of a legal dispute between Orange City Council and Health Infrastructure which owns the site.

In July last year, Orange City Council rejected an development application by Health Infrastructure to demolish the building, arguing it could be saved and the unstable asbestos in the building would have to be dealt with whether the building was demolished on not.

After a hearing, the Western Regional Planning Panel has now ruled in favour of the arguments put forward by Orange City Council, and will recommend to the NSW Planning Minister that the building be saved.

The Panel gave approval for the former nurses’ quarters on the corner of Sale and Dalton Street to be demolished but recommended that Caldwell House be retained.

Old Moulder courts now bike education course From redundant netball courts to safe bike-riding; Orange Council has found a use for the old netball courts at Moulder Park.

Staff have transformed two of the netball courts at the park into a bike track, complete with two-lane and one-way tracks, a roundabout, rough surface, pedestrian crossing, give-way and stop signs.

The track was painted in December and replica traffic signs were recently-installed along the track. New seating will provide space for parents and guardians to sit while their children ride their bikes.

Orange Mayor Reg Kidd says the large, flat area at the netball courts has been a popular spot for parents to take their children to learn to ride their bikes over the past few years.

“I’m pleased there is now a formal learn-to-ride area, which will be of great benefit to the children of Orange, where they can learn to ride their bikes safely,” Cr Kidd said.

“This is also a great way to revive the space, which has sat largely unused since the netball courts were opened at Orange PCYC in 2009,” Cr Kidd said.

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to take on the job of independently investigating the mountain area to see if a new network of mountain bike tracks can be built, that are sympathetic to the environment,” Cr Kidd said.

“We’re still months away from the final reports from the various specialists, but I’m delighted the first round of mapping is showing very positive results.”

“In due course, we’ll get a detailed report, and there’ll be lots of time for community discussion.

But we want to take-up the opportunity of this week’s community forum to keep the community in touch with what’s been found to date. It’s important that the community conversation be based in the facts, and this will be a great opportunity to learn about what they’ve found.”

BATTLE OF THE DUELING REPORTS AT FIERY MOUNTAIN BIKING FORUM Battle of the dueling environmental reports will determine the fate of mountain biking proposals for Mt Canobolas, leader of a group opposed to the proposal believes.

This follows a sometimes-fiery public forum of about 150 locals to discuss the mountain biking idea at Orange Council recently.

While Orange Council welcomed preliminary indications from an environmental assessment team that there is enough space for an ecologically-sensitive mountain bike trail on Mount Canobolas, senior scientific assessor, Dr Col Bower said that whole area is simply too environmentallysensitive.

His group, the Canobolas Conservation Alliance (CAA) recently produced their own alternative report, ‘Biodiversity Values and Constraints on Development in the Mount Canobolas State Conservation Area’ which states, “it would be impossible to establish a mountain biking track network in any part of the conservation reserve without having a significant

negative impact on biodiversity.”

“Most importantly, the entire reserve meets the criteria for gazetting as an Area of Outstanding Biodiversity Value (AOBV) and was nominated for this status more than two years ago,” their report said.

The Council-appointed team from Bathurst-based firm, The Environmental Factor, however, gave a progress briefing on their work at the forum stating it was possible to develop mountain bike tracks for Canobolas that avoided sensitive ecological areas.

The CAA report though says that this is simply not possible.

“We know that Council was hoping to be able to identify sensitive areas and to put bike tracks in areas they could get away with,” Dr Bower said.

“But we really have to see what areas they actually propose to put the tracks in,” he said.

“Is it going to be 10 tracks of 65km, and how is it going to be assessed, under how rigorous an assessment process?” he asked.

His group’s report outlines the unique and threatened biodiversity values of the Mt Canobolas State Conservation Area (SCA) and presents

previously-unpublished data on its distribution within the SCA. “It is concluded that a mountain biking complex proposed by Orange City Council (OCC) for the SCA would inevitably cause significant and unacceptable environmental harm.

“This is because the entire reserve supports biodiversity for which further losses of individuals or habitat places them at risk of extinction. No parts of the conservation area are without threatened biodiversity,” the report summary states.

Meanwhile, the Councilappointed team of specialist environmental consultants has been working since November last year to identify archaeological and environmentally-sensitive areas, around which a new track can be designed.

The experts included environmental scientists, archaeologists and special track designers that have made a number of site visits and considered submissions from a range of community members and groups.

Orange Mayor, Councillor Reg Kidd said he’s encouraged by the first round of findings.

“We’ve asked these consultants

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“Council’s consultant has completed the preliminary stages of mapping locations on the mountain which would constrain the locations of track. This mapping indicates areas where there would be low, moderate, and high constraints if tracks were built there, as well as complete ‘no-go’ areas.

“Importantly this mapping indicates the areas on the mountain where the bike trails could be designed.”

“Specialist track designers, Dirt Art, are now working to create a track that is sympathetic to the unique features of the mountain.

They’re in the early stages of their work but on Thursday night they’ll be able to giver a briefing on how they’re going about this task, and we’re hoping they will be ready to give a first-look at their work.

“The new track designs are a key element of this project. The network of tracks that were part of an early feasibility study

years ago are no longer being considered.

“Track designers will be working hard to avoid sensitive areas and minimise the potential impact. We want them produce a series of trails that will showcase the beauty of the area, so we can share with visitors from across the country,” Cr Kidd said.

The half-million-dollar consultancy on controversial plans for bike tracks on Mt Canobolas has already made some interesting findings, Newswatch has been told.

New mountain bike trail will be designed around constraints identified, to avoid impacts to these as much as possible, with the previous concept design put to one side.

If done right, mountain bike riding could impact sensitive areas of Mt Canobolas no more than bushwalkers, a spokesperson for the consultancy firm assessing proposals on the Mount, believes.

The consultancy is also talking to key players from the Mt Canobolas alliance opposed to any mountain biking on the Mount to gain their perspective on the proposals, the spokesperson added.

The site is not a pristine wilderness, and areas could benefit from regeneration work that the mountain bike trails could help facilitate. “It is an area of natural beauty, that we hope we can find the best outcome for,” Principal Consultant Emily Cotterill from The Environmental Factor said.

The time-frame for the assessment is open-ended with the final report only being presented when the consultants have completed all work required on the proposed mountain bike tracks.

Senior scientific assessor, Dr Col Bower from Canobolas Conservation Alliance, said that the whole Mt Canobolas area is simply too environmentallysensitive for mountain bike riding trails.

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NORTHERN “BURDEN” WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE MESSY NORTH ORANGE TRAFFIC LIGHTS IS THE IMMEDIATE QUESTION. Unloading the highly-expensive northern distributor from the burden of ratepayers, could become the real issue though!

Some councillors say that the bypass should become the highway through Orange and therefore come under Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) responsibility; others say that Council must decide first if it wants the bypass or Summer St to remain the highway, while Local Member Phil Donato says that he has never received Council direction on the issue.

The debate follows Orange Council recently passing a resolution to examine solutions to the messy and inefficient two-stage traffic lights situation on Telopea Way where its feeds into the Woolworths shopping complex, McDonalds, and Waratahs Sports Club.

Orange Mayor, Councillor Reg Kidd agrees that the situation is a mess, but recalls that it was not of Council’s own making.

“It was one of those strange ones where Council voted unanimously to

oppose the McDonalds for north Orange, the developer then took us to the Land and Environment Court and won,” Cr Kidd said.

“Then when we were exploring how to resolve the issues around the area, the then RTA (former Roads and Traffic Authority) told us ‘you’ve got to have lights there for pedestrians’,” Cr Kidd said.

Cr Kidd agrees that the situation at the intersection is not ideal, but plans for a roundabout would not come cheap.

but the main bypass road for those traveling east and west through Orange.

Traffic counts indicate the section of the bypass past McDonalds has about 10,000 vehicles per day with around a quarter of those commercial vehicles.

Cr Glenn Taylor, who proposed the resolution, says that this is the problem; a local distributor road has now become the effective highway for Orange, with local ratepayers picking-up the tab!

“You’ve got to get the money; you’d be looking at $4 million.” Cr Kidd advocates for a more radical solution: flyovers have become popular in many areas of suburban Sydney with increasing traffic. “You can prefabricate them in three sections and then they just put them all together. Compared to what they once were, they’re as cheap as,” Cr Kidd said enthusiastically.

“North Orange is going to get larger and larger,” Cr Taylor said. “We must address it sooner rather than later,” he believes. “The lights were put there because of Woolworths and McDonalds, for pedestrian access and a few of us at the time did express concern about how it would operate,” he said.

An alternative was for pedestrian walk-over ramps to remove the dangers for walkers, cyclists, and mobility scooter users. “In truth, I’d love to see them around some of our schools as well, James Sheahan, Orange High and the like,” he added.

The larger issue, he believes, is that the Northern Distributor has now replaced Summer St as the effective highway through Orange.

He said that Council had learned a lot of lessons that they are utilising for the Southern Feeder Road to avoid the mistakes of the past.

Most councillors were aware that the decade-old Northern Distributor had now become not only a major detour road for local road-users,

“What was designed as a distributor road for the city is now a pseudo-highway in all but name, it was never meant to have traffic lights and such,” Cr Taylor said.

“I think we should respectfully put to the State Government that, with all its traffic movements, it’s still a local road, but in effect locals are funding a State Government road,” he added.

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NEWS He said that traffic has more than doubled over recent years with almost all bypass traffic through Orange using the throughfare. “We spent six and a half million dollars hot-mixing it, and that was from ratepayers.

“The road was never intended to take the enormous amount of heavy traffic that it is,” he added.

“It is now the highway, I have no doubt about that, and therefore it should be funded by the State Government.”

Cr Jason Hamling said that it is not only during the Saturday morning football rush of parents and kids when the intersection can’t handle traffic flows: “It’s junior touch football at nights and a whole range of other times where you just get stuck in traffic at that intersection.

“Those traffic lights were put in for a quarter of the traffic that uses it now… the (then) RTA modelled it on figures far less than use it now.”

He said any solutions that improved the intersection, including having traffic police direct vehicle flow, should be considered.

Cr Hamling agreed that the road is now effectively an extension of the Mitchell Highway and should be considered as such.

“It is a bypass, when you come from Bathurst and you have the opportunity to bypass the main street, then why wouldn’t you use it?”

He said Council needs to engage with Roads Minister, and Member for Bathurst, Paul Toole about RMS taking full responsibility for the utility.

“We need to have all options on the table, and that should be one of them,” Cr Hamling said.

Cr Stephen Nugent has also been forced to use the road since his local gymnasium relocated to Waratahs.

“I’m supportive of an investigation of a roundabout at the intersection; it should always have been a roundabout,” he said.

He said that numerous efforts at resequencing the two sets of traffic that crosses the intersection have not made much improvement. “it was more of a mess in the past, and it’s a little better now.”

“They call Orange ‘the roundabout capital of the world’ but they generally work pretty well at managing traffic flows through intersections.”

He said that a gradated ramp for pedestrians, cyclists and mobility scooter users would obviate the problems of pedestrians and other traffic rushing across a busy roundabout.

Cr Jeff Whitton says that the issues at Telopea Way are a product of the growth of Orange to the north over the past decade, growth that seems to be accelerating. “This is the new growth centre of Orange and, I suppose, western areas of NSW using it as a highway."

He said that a roundabout could be the expensive though ultimate solution.

“While they say we’re a city of roundabouts, there’s no doubt that roundabouts provide safe

traffic flow.”

He said that foot-bridges over the road would solve most of the issues with pedestrian traffic, saying that Cr Tony Mileto had suggested an underpass for pedestrians at the intersection.

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He said that transferring responsibility of the road to RMS was the solution: “I think that this is ultimately the common-sense approach.”

“When you have a road like this, then that attracts all this other infrastructure, petrol stations and fast-food outlets, it’s just the way it is.”

Cr Scott Munro says that the reality will eventually have to be faced, the Northern Distributor is now effectively the highway through Orange, not Summer St, with the RMS taking control.

“That’s what will happen eventually, Orange’s main street is no longer the highway. Success breeds success and its now become a product of its own effectiveness; I’d like to see the State Government take it over. It’s used by drivers from Dubbo, Bathurst, all areas of western NSW and it should be the responsibility of the taxpayers of Australia,” he added.

As a former retailer in the shopping centre near the intersection, he opposes a roundabout, saying that its long-term construction would impact small businesses at the centre.

He said that the new roundabout on William Maker Drive now offers local motorists an opportunity to bypass the intersection completely. “My long-term view is that a roundabout is the solution” he added.

Cr Russell Turner says that the intersection is no worse than many others in the Colour City and we should be glad that the area of North Orange has become so popular. “It’s a product of a growing city, a roundabout would be ideal, if we had a spare $8–10 million!” he added.

He said that the issue of transferring the asset to the RMS is one that Council must first decide on themselves.

"Do they want the bypass as the highway or Summer St? Council themselves have to resolve which one it is.”

Local member Phil Donato described it as “a terrible intersection, the product of a complete lack of coordination by whoever put it in.”

He said the intersection should be a roundabout but is open to approaching the RMS on Council’s behalf to have it gazetted the highway. “I urge Council to approach me on it, if that’s what they want, just pick up the phone.”

Last word goes to Cr Joanne McRae who told Newswatch: “Council has already passed a resolution on this matter, and after that, councillors should not really be commenting on it.” So there!

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North Orange local Roslyn Davidson with her West Highland White Scottish Terrier “Maggie May” beside blackberry that is slowly-choking native species on the North Orange

North Orange local Roslyn Davidson has some advice for Orange Council — if you build it, maintain it!

The busy and active long-time Australian Army and civilian nurse wants outdoor staff to maintain a walk near her place in better nick. At the moment, it’s a weed-infested mess.

Roslyn keeps her quaint bungalow in Coombs Place with an Australian flag flying out the front as neat as a pin; and believes that Council should do the same.

“Come on, Maggie May,” she says to her West Highland White Scottish Terrier as she goes on her daily walk. This involves circuiting parts of the North Orange Loop along the southern edge of the graded embankment bordering the northern distributor.

“This is a disgrace,” she says, pointing to blackberries, thistles, and various cress thriving on the embankment and verges adjoining the path.

“It’s been like this for ages, and it’s like this all the way through the walk for hundreds of metres,” she said.

As well as its unsightliness and the sense of abandonment of the area, she also worries about snakes and other animals that may lurk in the luxuriant undergrowth.

“Now come along here and you can see the phalaris up there among the plants, and there’s creepers killing what’s left of the

trees,” she said.

Roslyn then points to a prickly forest of weeds adjoining the path among stumps of dead shrubs.

“My friend used to live here, and she had a beautiful hedge.

Council said it was not allowed as it encroached on the path, so they came one day and chopped it all down… now its just a bed of weeds that is now itself encroaching on the path!”

“Look at it, what a mess, it’s like that all the way along,” Roslyn says shaking her head. “You’ve got blackberry springing-up everywhere strangling the native trees that they planted.”

Roselyn points to tens of metres of black irrigation tubing running unconsidered and seeminglyforgotten amongst the weeds.

“They must have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars putting in that watering system and, do you know? I’ve never ever seen it used, not once,” Roslyn added.

A reasonably-keen gardener herself, Roslyn said that the establishment of the embankment about 10 years ago saw a range of appropriate plants, shrubs and grasses integrated into the site. “it’s a shame, when they first put it in, it was beautiful!”

“But why would you build a garden walkway like this, and then just neglect it?” she asked.

Asked if the lesson for Council should be, if you create a community resource like the North Orange Loop, you must maintain it, Roslyn replied, “I think so!”

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NORTHERN DISTRIBUTOR ROAD JUNCTION WITH TELOPEA WAY

WHAT CAN WE DO TO FIX THIS MESS ONCE AND FOR ALL?

For this week’s Council Game, we asked the Mock Mayor and Mock Councillors if they would like to comment on the motion from Cr Glenn Taylor to the Council meeting of 16th February to investigate the feasibility, viability, costs and funding options for the construction of a roundabout to replace the current traffic lights on the corner of the Northern Distributor Road and Telopea Way. The report will also look at pedestrian access options.

Clearly there is a need for a solution as it is a problem that’s only going to get worse.

Solutions that were suggested at the Council meeting included a roundabout, overpass or underpass, all of which would be very costly.

Maybe it could be closed completely and alternative access points created from both further east and west. Maybe McDonalds could have an exit onto the NDR from somewhere on their site. If this was possible, these could be installed before closing the existing intersection, which would solve the issue of impacting on the businesses during construction.

We would also like to invite readers for “fresh” ideas or suggestions for a solution.

Please send your ideas to david@oclife.com.au

Mock Mayor Amanda Spalding As Mock Mayor I am concerned about the process that brought this very important issue of the problems of the intersection of the Northern Distributor Road and Telopea Way to Council’s attention. The fact that it came up as a Notice of Motion from a Councillor, rather than being brought forward by staff is troubling.

The whole history of the NDR has been troubled. I understand that the road was designed and made by Council to a specification for a minor road, not a bypass/highway, which is the reason the NSW Government has given, through the Roads and Maritime Service, why it will not take on responsibility for the road.

I am reliably informed that the development of North Orange took off more rapidly than expected, thus necessitating the building of the NDR – apparently without much strategic planning! This must not happen again, but how do we deal with the mess we have now?

I have managed a lot of planners and engineers in my career, and, whilst I generally believe in listening to professionals, they are not always right, and sometimes do not display common sense. I recall the time when working for Parramatta City Council we sent the engineers to put a bench in a park near a children’s playground and then received lots of complaints as the bench had been put in with its back to the playground.

When I asked the engineers why they had done that and why they did not think about the parents sitting on the bench to

watch their children in the playground, they suggested that it made engineering sense!!

So, I am not going to design the intersection or give advice on it myself, but I am clear about what outcomes we should aim to achieve. The purpose of the road needs to be clear so that its users know what conditions to expect, and drive to the conditions.

It may be that the NDR was initially proposed as a bypass or major highway, but it was not built for that function; it is within the urban area, not outside it, and it has many intersections that already prevent the road from behaving like a highway. It is a non-negotiable that every urban street intersection should provide priority to pedestrians over vehicles. It is unfortunate that North Orange looks like Western Sydney, because it has been designed to give priority to cars, but let’s not keep on compounding that error!

Let’s find a long term solution that aims to make North Orange more liveable, and does not disadvantage local businesses.

Mock Councillor Dr. Steve Peterson The northern distributor is a great example of how if council wants to do something, they need to do it right the first time even if it is more expensive. I shudder to think of the price that all those repairs to the road would have cost, and how the road deteriorated so quickly. One would hope these lessons will be evident with construction of the southern distributor.

Mock Councillor Josh GirleBennett Given the exponential growth that our city is experiencing, I believe Orange needs less roundabouts and improved intersections with sets of traffic lights. I make this comment on the basis that the volume of traffic on our roads, particularly within our CBD, is increasing and the fact that improved intersections statistically make it safer for both pedestrians and motorists.

With respect to Councillor Taylor’s Notice of Motion at last week’s council meeting, I believe constructing a roundabout on the Northern Distributor Road and Telopea Way would be a poor decision. While I agree that the new roundabout at Hill Street and William Maker Drive is working well, I have to argue that council does not have sufficient space to construct such a roundabout as functional as the Hill Street and William Maker Drive one. Instead of a new roundabout, my proposal is to improve the existing intersection which would involve removing the rather unusual “middle” traffic light.

One of the many issues I am campaigning on is operational efficiency within Orange City Council. In this instance, I do have to question why it ended up taking council about seven months to construct the Hill Street and William Maker Drive roundabout. We have to continue to question why council prolongs critical infrastructure projects.

Mock Councillor Greater Good It’s always been an horrendous problem and it’s not going to go away without a serious fix. I went and had a look at the area during the week and made some observations. Changing a problem intersection into a roundabout, overpass etc. won’t reduce the congestion etc. that occurs.

I wondered if one suggestion couldn’t be to make the intersection at the distributor lights an exit only, allowing traffic to turn right or left onto the Distributor. Access to the Shopping Centre and Waratahs could be via the new roundabout at William Maker Drive. It would greatly increase traffic through the suburban

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streets between the William Maker Roundabout and the Shopping Centre and make accessing McDonalds a little more inconvenient but maybe this general idea could be a starting point.

Mock Councillor Daniel McGregor Something has to be done, so let’s make it worthwhile!

It’s hard to imagine there’d be many people who haven’t seen the traffic chaos that occurs at the North Orange McDonalds/Shopping Centre intersection at peak times and when things are on at Waratahs. It is a nightmare and I only recently saw an accident occur there.

Given the trucks using the distributor it has the feel of a major accident occurring at some stage!

I know not everything has been under Council’s control, but it is now going to cost a significant amount of money to make the changes necessary… millions of dollars of ratepayer’s money!

The consensus seems to be that some kind of roundabout is the answer (bear in mind I am no road planning expert and I believe we should look to experts for the answers).

Whatever the answer is, one of the considerations needs to be how pedestrians will be able to get from one side to the other.

It presents an opportunity to build something functional, architectural and sculptural to turn that intersection into something visually appealing and a showpiece for Orange.

I came across this website: https://www. architecturaldigest.com/gallery/worldsbest-pedestrian-bridges which shows the type of thing that can be achieved.

Of course, anything like this is only going to make it more expensive. I’m certainly conscious of that. However, if viewed as a form of art, this would be an investment for Orange.

Could a pedestrian overpass then connect with a cycle path/walkway down to the Botanic Gardens precinct as well as a cycle path/walkway all the way to the CBD? We could also run a design competition to get the best minds offering ideas and possibly get some media exposure for Orange around the competition.

With collective will, we can achieve anything in Orange!

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Look to the canopy to cool our heating city. Futuring Orange’s Kate Hook opposes removing about 513 trees in south Orange as first-stage of a $25 million sports precinct proposal.

Preference for south Orange as the site of the proposed new sports precinct could have as much to do with politics as logistics, an environmentalist opposing location of the new sport stadium believes.

Futuring Orange’s Kate Hook was among dozens of locals who made submissions about Orange Council’s development application to remove about 513 trees from the de-commissioned golf course site as first stage of the precinct proposal.

She said that, before Orange Council makes such a drastic change to the local environment, experts in urban planning with specific knowledge of climate sensitive urban design should be consulted.

Ms Hook’s group aims to develop a longterm vision for what she calls the “Climate Emergency” from global warming by “working at what we can do locally,” she said. “This is both in terms of reducing our contribution to the climate problem and also making smart decisions now that will protect people in five, 10 or 20 years from climate impacts, one of which is heatwaves.”

In her submission to the Council DA, she said: “From on overall urban planning point of view, clearing an entire area of land, goes against everything that Australia’s best urban planners are recommending, which is to:

Council believes that the decommissioned Ex-Services golf course site between Brabham Sports fields and Bloomfield hospital is the ideal location for the sports precinct, opponents believe that it should be located on a North Orange site purchased by Council before the golf course site became available.

“They’ve been offered $25 million by the State Government to build the sports precinct, which is wonderful, but it should be spent in such a way that is doesn’t remove other valuable assets for Orange.”

Ms Hook said.

She said that trees are an essential element in reducing the urban heat island effect with open sports fields relatively poor at protecting soils from heat. “Add to that the carparks and other heat radiating infrastructure and you create a large area that radiates heat into surrounding areas.

This is in contrast to a parkland, which would cool surrounding areas.”

“From Futuring Orange’s point of view, removing 500 trees is an irreversible step that has not been very well thought out,” she said. Even from the point of view of property values in Orange.

Prioritise the following: • shade •w ater retention in the soil (trees do this best) which cools the soil and surrounding area.

• reducing the urban heat island effect.” ”The temperature is so much hotter on exposed areas of grass compared to where there are trees, it can be 15–20 degrees hotter on exposed sports fields, and you don’t want that in Orange,” she added.

“Most people know about the Urban Heat Island Effect and how it is impacted by concrete, bitumen, steel, but big areas of sun-exposed grass adds to its as well,” she said.

She added that as many people come to towns like Orange for its green parkland beauty as for sporting events.

“People may come for a one-off sporting event or a carnival, but every single weekend of the year they come for our parks and gardens, wineries and natural spaces; that’s reliable steady visitor numbers and income that most don’t even notice,” she said.

“But they would notice if it was gone, we have a phenomenal number of Airbnb’s for a town our size, and most of those visitors come for our parklands and natural areas.”

She said that sport stadiums also have

large continuing costs to ratepayers that must be borne by the city.

parklands and playing fields would be the next best compromise.

“Orange City Council should be upfront about how much the ratepayers will be responsible for in the upkeep of the proposed Stadium and precinct. The suggestion of $200,000 per annum at the public forum seems wrong when Blacktown Sporting Precinct costs $2.5 million’” she added.

“The timeline suggests that the State Government wants it completed by June 2022. Now that may be a political imperative of the Government, but that shouldn’t impact on the best location that Orange Council chooses for the sports precinct. And it shouldn’t mean that such a consequential development decision is rushed, leaving no time for consultation with the best urban design experts, who understand the challenges ahead relating to increasing heat.”

Ms Hook said that as Orange grows, it will need more parkland to maintain this attractiveness to visitors, not less. “it’s part of our visual image, but also to protect our cool climate grape-growing areas, they will be impacted if our development practices are creating a belt of heat around Orange” she said.

Ms Hook said that suggestions that an 8500-seat sports stadium would be incongruous in a semi-rural north Orange setting are contradicted by towns like Wagga Wagga where the main multi-field sports and athletics precinct, Jubilee Park, was built 10 minutes from the centre of town, on the edge of the more dense suburban areas.

“I agree that we need to find a compromise for the sports precinct, where we get the sporting facilities people want while keeping the area around the hospital cool, and not losing the opportunity to develop an asset of great value to Orange such as a well-designed, visionary parkland.”

At the very least, a redesign of the Bloomfield site, to combine both cooling

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Objections from other residents to the tree removal proposals included that: Orange Council had failed to “observe the strategic planning priorities set out in its orange local strategic planning statement 2020 to ‘protect, conserve, and enhance Orange’s urban tree canopy, landform, waterways, and bushland’,”.

“To remove a few trees is one thing,” the resident added, “But to remove 513 trees in a mature tree canopy is totally different, and should not be undertaken, let alone be the justification for the current development application.”

Another resident said that the economic case for the stadium simply did not add-up.

The proposed stadium represented “an inappropriate use of NSW state government funds,” and a “failure to provide full detail of the proposed sporting precinct before a business case has been prepared for the proposed stadium.”

NEWS

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Wet and warm autumn to set farmers up for another good growing season left in the paddocks.

“We’re looking at quite a good set-up for autumn, if we get one or two small falls of rain, then we will be set-up very well,” Mr Reynolds said. “A few falls in March will set-us up well for a good autumn.”

News though hasn’t all been so good for local orchardists, while production has been better than previous years, the international travel ban has impacted heavily on export markets.

“Generally we’re looking at warmer days and warmer nights with rainfall for autumn wetter than average for northern and south-eastern Australia.”

Orange district’s wet, mild summer is looking to continue into autumn with slow breakdown of the La Nina weather pattern likely to see another good growing season.

Local farmers, orchardists and graziers are having a great season productively; though the opening-up of international travel is the key to full recovery, NSW Farmers Association Executive Councillor and local grazier, Bruce Reynolds says.

“It’s been one of the best summers ever that I can remember anyway, and I have to go back a long way to remember the one that has been as good,” Mr Reynolds said.

And the Bureau believes that the good times are likely to continue, for the coming autumn at least.

“Generally, we’re looking at warmer days and warmer nights with rainfall for autumn wetter than average for northern and southeastern Australia,” Bureau of Meteorology Waaga Wagga Meteorological Office Station Chief, Nigel Smedley said.

Two dominant weather patterns that impact on rainfall daytime temperatures in Australia and much of the southern hemisphere are named La Nina (Spanish for “the girl child”) and El Nino (“the boy child”). due to their common appearance around Christmas.

Related to seas temperatures in the Pacific Ocean and evaporation rates, La Nina is normally associated with milder temperatures across much of south-eastern Australian and higher rainfall, El Nino with higher temperatures and lower rainfall, as in 2019.

The weather patterns normally peak in the previous summer and begin to break-down in the following autumn as appears to be happening now, Mr Smedley said.

“While the La Nina is starting to die, it’s still very influential, so we’ve had a summer that has been very different to the dry, hot years that we’ve had recently,” he added.

“So, I guess it is looking okay for autumn.”

He said that consistent pattern of agriculture Australia is one or two “drought” seasons — which are actually part of our normal weather pattern — followed by one or two seasons of wet, milder weather. “it often happens that way in the Australian climate, we’ll have hot and dry summers followed by wet and mild ones as the summer we’ve just had.”

This autumn appears to be the last squeeze of the latest La Nina lemon before we return to neutral weather patterns or another drying period.

“La Nina is past its peak, but it’s still influencing our weather now,” Mr Smedley said.

Mr Reynolds said that local graziers, with relatively-low stocking rates, have been making lots of hay while the sun has shone.

“People are making plenty of hay, I saw some being baled even now on the way in,” he said.

He said that the amount of the typicallyround large-size hay bales produced appears to have exceeded local storage capacity though.

“It was a late cherry harvest with the quality good and the apple harvest for Royal Galas and the like has been excellent yields and good quality,” Mr Reynolds added.

“The problem with horticulture though, is, because of COVID, we’re not exporting much stone fruits, especially.

“Most people don’t know, but pretty well international passenger flights carry most of our exported fruit with 80–85 per cent under the feet of passengers.”

He added that what is being exported is at exorbitant mark-ups due to the restrictions in international trade.

“There’s not many freight planes coming-in as well, and those that are looking at freight rates that are two and a half to six times higher than they were before the lockdowns,” Mr Reynolds said.

“In reality, I expect this to last another

“There’s been a lot of hay made, and there’s a lot left out in the paddocks, that’s because there’s not enough livestock to eat the grass,” Bruce Reynolds said.

“There’s been a lot of hay made, and there’s a lot left out in the paddocks, that’s because there’s not enough livestock to eat the grass,” he explained.

“Local farmers are starting to re-stock, but it’s a slow process, so we’ve had a lot of grass

| Saturday 27 February, 2021 |

We’re looking at quite a good set-up for autumn, if we get one or two small falls of rain, then we will be set-up very well,” NSW Farmers Association Executive Councillor Bruce Reynolds said.

12 months before we get back,” he believes.

He urged locals to take advantage of the lack of export markets to eat healthy while also helping-out our Australian producers.

“This has meant that nectarines, peaches, plums are very cheap…for apples you can get beautiful Royal Galas for about $3.50 per kilogram, so my advice is, get out and eat it up!”

Mr Reynolds concluded.

NEWS

Cabbies move, tree removal, part of Lords Place upgrade Council wants to move the cabbies, and the cabbies are none too ‘appy!

Plans to relocate the popular and picturesque taxi rank on the western side of Robertson Park to Summer Street have been given the thumbs-down by drivers who use the current rank.

The move is part of C ouncil’s grand Future City proposals designed to rejuvenate our CBD and make it more appealing for shoppers and visitors.

Removal of at least three London Plane trees currently on the roadside is another controversial element of the proposal.

Cabbies spoken to at the rank recently, though, were more concerned with the rank moving adjacent to the bus stop opposite Benson’s Café, citing issues to do with the amount of traffic on Summer St and also the need to detour round city blocks to take the shortest routes west of the city.

“I do have reservations,” cabbie Joanne Walker said. “I mean, this is a nice rank and if we go round to the main street, it’s the main highway through Orange,” she explained.

“This is good where we are here,” Navdeep Singh added at the Lords Pace rank recently. “it’s not a good idea, it’s too busy a street and it’s the highway, I’m not that keen to be honest,” he added.

“It’s a bad idea,” Allan Felstead said, believing that Lords Place is the best spot for fares taking the most direct route to anywhere in Orange.

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Lords Place without a cab in sight. Plans for the thoroughfare as part of Council’s Future City initiative.

Lords Place but reduce parking in Summer Street by four spaces.

Futuring Orange’s Kate Hook though believes that the removal of some of the London Plane Trees in Lords Place could see the same public anger that erupted over proposals to removal some of the same type of trees from Anson Street as part of the proposed pedestrian mall.

During business hours, it’s expected the new Summer St taxi rank would provide room for around four taxis and more after hours when buses stop running. The proposed change has the early support of the Orange Taxi Co-op, and Co-op Chair Ged Dening.

“I just think we could have the same protest for the trees, it’s the same issue as in Anson St,” she added.

“I was pleased when Orange City Council approached the co-op with this suggestion,” Mr Dening said. “It’s important for the safety of our drivers to be working from a very well lit-area.”

Other elements of the Lords Place design are: • Installation of a new pedestrian crossing part-way along the block.

“After hours when the demand for our taxis is strongest, we’ll be able to use the entire bus zone area, and there’ll be much more room for cabs.

“Across our drivers, I’m sure there will be a variety of views about this change. I’m sure our regular customers will see it as a change for the better. The new rank will be more convenient and much closer to the shopping centres,“ he said.

The proposed design to transform Lords Place (between Summer and Byng Street) and Byng Street (between Lords Place and Peisley Street) are two of the latest elements of Orange City Council’s Future City CBD upgrade plans.

• Changing the roundabout at the Lords Place/Byng St intersection from two lanes to one lane of traffic • Extra disabled car parking spaces

Not happy cabbies! Drivers at the current Lords Place rank, like it where they are…

“if they put the rank in Summer St, as well as it being a highway, then drivers will have to go around another block to get back the way they want to head. This will add to fares and you know who is going to get the crap for that? The cabbies, that’s who!”

Orange Council though believes that move has a number of benefits, including putting two elements of Orange’s public transport hubs in the same location with an overall increase in parking in the CBD — the change would increase public parking in

“In Byng Street the proposal is to plant a lower height garden bed in the centre median. We must be clear that there will be changes to some trees in that block of Lords Place, but long term, the change will definitely be for the better.”

Owner of the Overlander Indian restaurant and Motel, Vijay Bohra was impressed to be asked for input by Council staff.

“Council has been very approachable throughout this whole process,” Mr Bohra said. “The staff have been very accommodating and have ensured that discussions about how the plans could be altered to be more suitable to businesses were had.

Orange Mayor, Councillor Reg Kidd said the new designs show how the Future City plans are aimed at making the CBD more attractive, and more pedestrian friendly.

“The current narrow medians will be replaced with strips in the centres of the roadway that are two and half metres wide.

In Lords Place, the strip will be planted with 14 advanced new trees. Similarly to the plans for McNamara Street, we’re also going to be using underground cell structures which let the trees grow but are designed to stop the trees’ roots damaging the roads and footpaths.”

Business operators in Lords Place have welcomed the proposals.

“They have been very considerate of thoughts from the businesses. This opportunity looks like it will be really good for the street and from a development point of view it’s great to see Orange is moving forward, in the right direction. “ “On the western side of the road there are five trees which are of different species and different heights that have been added at different times over the years. There’s a lack of consistency as you look along these trees which don’t actually make a row.

The proposal is to remove them. I’d encourage residents to look at the artist’s impression and see the difference these changes will make.”

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Jacinta Milne from Dr Ben Milne’s Orthopaedic Practice was pleased to be contacted by Council staff about the proposed design.

“We really appreciate the time and effort Orange City Council staff have put into listening to our concerns,” Ms Milne said.

“They have been genuinely consultative and taken on board some of our suggestions. It has been a really positive experience.”

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Saturday, February 27

6.00 Rage.

7.00 Weekend Breakfast.

10.00 Rage.

11.00 Rage Retro Month.

12.00 ABC News At Noon.

12.30 Sleeping Beauty.

2.40 The Royal Wives Of Windsor.

3.30 Dream Gardens.

4.00 Ask The Doctor: Ageing Well.

4.30 Landline.

5.00 Soccer. A-League. Round 10. Western Sydney Wanderers v Adelaide United. From Bankwest Stadium, Sydney.

7.00 ABC News.

7.30 Death In Paradise.

8.30 Call The Midwife.

9.30 Harrow.

10.25 Miniseries: Apple Tree Yard.

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 Black Hole: Universe’s Greatest Mystery. 4.40 Lost Viking Army. 5.35 Hitler Youth.

6.30 SBS World News.

7.30 Going Places With Ernie Dingo.

8.00 King Arthur’s Britain: Truth Unearthed.

9.10 MOVIE: Monty Python And The Holy Grail.

(1975) Graham Chapman, John Cleese. King Arthur searches for the Holy Grail. (PG) 10.45 MOVIE: The Broken Circle Breakdown.

(2012) (MA15+) 12.45 War Of The Worlds.

4.30 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.

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. 6.35 Rusty And The Temple Of Boom. 7.00 Catie’s Amazing Machines. 7.15 Sir Mouse. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 QI. 8.30 Live At The Apollo. 9.15 Ross Noble: Stand Up Series. 9.55 Would I Lie To You? 10.25 Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: A Schitt’s Creek Farewell. 11.10 Why Are You Like This. 11.35 High Fidelity. 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.

10.00 Dutch News. 10.30 Hungarian News. 11.00 NHK Japanese News. 11.35 Hindi News. 12.00 Basketball. NBA. Memphis Grizzlies v Los Angeles Clippers. Replay. 2.00 New Girl. 3.00 Insight.

4.00 PBS News. 5.00 ABC America: World News Tonight. 5.30 Basketball. NBL. Round 7. Adelaide 36ers v New Zealand Breakers. 7.30 The Last Man On Earth. 7.55 8 Out Of 10 Cats. 8.35 The X-Files. 11.05 The Sunny Side Of Sex. 12.00 Vogue Williams: Wild Girls. 1.00 Myanmar’s Killing Fields.

2.00 Lost Boys Of Taranaki. 2.30 France 24. 3.00 Thai News. 3.30 Bangla News. 4.00 Punjabi News. 4.30 Sri Lankan Sinhalese News. 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs.

11.25 Matilda And The Ramsay Bunch. 11.50 Operation Ouch! 12.20 Gym Stars. 12.40 Deadly Pole To Pole. 1.10 The Dengineers. 1.40 Winston Steinburger. 2.05 Danger Mouse. 2.20 Thunderbirds Are Go. 2.50 Radiant. 3.15 Boruto: Naruto Next Generations. 3.40 Dragon Ball Super. 4.05 Gym Stars. 4.30 Odd Squad. 4.55 The Next Step. 5.20 Dogstar. 6.00 Spirit Riding Free. 6.30 Robot Wars. 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 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. 11.30 Dance Boss. 1.00 The Amazing Race.

3.00 Britain’s Got Talent.

5.00 MOVIE: The Boxtrolls. (2014) 7.00 MOVIE: Home Alone 2: Lost In New York.

(1992) Macaulay Culkin.

9.30 MOVIE: Beaches. (1988) Bette Midler, Barbara Hershey.

12.00 Britain’s Got Talent. 2.00 Home Shopping.

3.00 MOVIE: Marabunta. (1998) Eric Lutes, Julia Campbell, Mitch Pileggi. 5.00 The Goldbergs.

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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. 4.35 Thomas. 5.10 Luo Bao Bei. 5.35 Peter Rabbit. 5.55 Ben And Holly. 6.45 Andy’s Dinosaur Adventures. 7.00 Catie’s Amazing Machines. 7.15 Sir Mouse. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Compass. 8.30 Louis Theroux: Savile. 9.45 How Australia Got Its Mojo. 10.45 Catalyst. 11.45 No Time For Quiet. 12.45 You Can’t Ask That. 1.05 Restoration Australia. 2.00 Chris Ramsey’s Stand Up Central. 2.25 Would I Lie To You? 3.00 Close. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.40 Waffle The Wonder Dog. 5.55 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

11.35 Hindi News. 12.00 Front Up. 12.30 Inside Heston’s World. 1.30 New Girl. 2.00 Basketball.

NBL. Round 7. South East Melbourne Phoenix v Illawarra Hawks. 4.00 ABC America: World News Tonight. 4.30 Basketball. NBL. Round 7.

Brisbane Bullets v Cairns Taipans. 6.30 Brooklyn Nine-Nine. 7.00 Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

7.35 Abandoned Engineering. Return. 8.30 Why Women Kill. 9.30 United Shades Of America.

10.20 Letterkenny. 11.20 Sexplora. 11.45 Box 21.

Final. 12.40 Deep Water: The Real Story. 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. 4.05 Gym Stars. 4.30 Odd Squad.

4.55 The Next Step. 5.20 Dogstar. 6.00 Spirit Riding Free. 6.30 Robot Wars. 7.35 All Hail King Julien. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Danger Mouse. Final. 8.55 The Rubbish World Of Dave Spud. 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 Instant Hotel.

5.30 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 Splitting Up Together. 1.00 MOVIE: A Woman Rebels. (1936) Katharine Hepburn, Herbert Marshall. 3.00 MOVIE: Government Girl.

(1943) Olivia de Havilland. 5.00 The Goldbergs.

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(52) 6.00 6.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.00 Edgar Wallace Mysteries. 11.15 My Favorite Martian. 11.45 The Avengers. 12.45 MOVIE: My Brother Jonathan. (1948) Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray. 3.00 MOVIE: I’ll Take Sweden. (1965) Bob Hope, Tuesday Weld, Frankie Avalon. 5.00 MOVIE: McLintock! (1963) John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Patrick Wayne.

7.30 Rugby Union. Super Rugby. Round 2. ACT Brumbies v NSW Waratahs.

9.45 Super Rugby Post-Match.

10.00 MOVIE: Major League. (1989) 12.10 Lethal Weapon.

1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

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Kids’ Programs.

(53) 6.00 1.30 Surfing Australia TV. 2.00 Xtreme Collxtion. 3.00 Liquid Science.

3.30 MOVIE: Pokémon: The Power Of One. (1999) 5.10 MOVIE: Spy Kids 4: All The Time In The World. (2011) 7.00 MOVIE: Despicable Me. (2010) 8.50 MOVIE: Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy. (2004) Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Steve Carell. 10.50 MOVIE: Sausage Party. (2016) 12.35 MOVIE: The Cable Guy. (1996) 2.30 Xtreme Collxtion. 3.00 Power Rangers Dino Charge. 3.30 Thunderbirds. 4.30 Pokémon: BW Adventures In Unova And Beyond. 4.50 Nexo Knights. 5.10 Kaijudo: Rise Of The Duel Masters.

5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh!

6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 9.00 Travel Oz. 9.30 The Great Australian Doorstep.

10.00 Winners.

11.00 House Of Wellness.

12.00 Horse Racing. Australian Guineas and Chipping Norton Stakes.

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.

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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.

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 The Middle.

11.30 To Be Advised. 2.00 Everybody Loves Raymond.

3.30 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.

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6.00 Home Shopping. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise.

10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. 12.00 Motor Racing. Supercars Championship. Round 1. Mount Panorama 500. Day 2. Support races and preview.

2.00 Motor Racing. Supercars Championship.

Round 1. Mount Panorama 500. Day 2. Pre-race and race. 5.00 Seven News At 5. 5.30 Sydney Weekender.

6.00 Seven News.

7.00 Holey Moley Australia: Celebrity Special.

8.30 MOVIE: Venom. (2018) Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams. A journalist is unwittingly merged with a symbiotic alien with lethal abilities. (M) 10.45 World’s Deadliest.

11.45 Surveillance Oz Dashcam.

12.15 Motor Racing. Supercars Championship.

Round 1. Mount Panorama 500. Day 2.

Highlights.

1.30 Home Shopping.

5.00 Seven Early News.

5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 Easy Eats. 7.00 Weekend Today. 10.00 The Xtreme Collxtion.

11.00 Women’s Footy.

12.00 Ironman. Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain IronMan and IronWoman Series. Round 6.

2.00 MOVIE: Zeus And Roxanne. (1997) Steve Guttenberg. (G) 4.00 David Attenborough’s Dynasties.

5.00 News: First At Five.

5.30 Territory Cops.

6.00 Nine News.

7.00 Married At First Sight.

8.40 60 Minutes.

9.40 Nine News Late.

10.10 The Piketon Family Murders.

12.00 Young, Dumb And Banged Up In The Sun. 1.00 My Way. 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 Places We Go. 9.00 Luca’s Key Ingredient.

9.30 Studio 10: Sunday.

12.00 All 4 Adventure.

1.00 The Offroad Adventure Show.

2.00 Three Blue Ducks.

2.30 Freshly Picked With Simon Toohey.

3.00 Bondi Rescue.

3.30 Roads Less Travelled.

4.00 To Be Advised.

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: On The Buses. (1971) 12.50 Getaway. 1.20 Alfred Hitchcock Presents. 1.50 MOVIE: Cairo Road. (1950) 3.45 MOVIE: The Lone Gun. (1954) George Montgomery. 5.15 MOVIE: Rio Grande.

(1950) John Wayne. 7.30 Death In Paradise. 8.40 Chicago P.D. 9.40 Chicago Fire. 10.40 Chicago Med. 11.40 Bizarre E.R. 12.35 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 12.00 Kaijudo: Rise Of The Duel Masters. 12.30 Beyblade Burst Rise. 1.00 Power Rangers Dino Charge. 1.40 Dance Moms.

3.40 MOVIE: BMX Bandits. (1983) 5.40 MOVIE: Alvin And The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.

(2009) 7.30 MOVIE: The Matrix Reloaded. (2003) Keanu Reeves, Hugo Weaving. 10.10 MOVIE: Ghost Rider. (2007) Nicolas Cage. 12.25 Lethal Weapon. 1.20 Dance Moms. 3.00 Power Rangers Dino Charge. 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 NBC Today.

12.00 House Of Wellness.

1.00 The Yorkshire Vet. 2.15 Sailing. The Vendée Globe. Highlights.

3.30 The Yorkshire Vet. 4.30 Escape To The Country.

8.30 Wild Bill.

9.30 Bodyguard.

11.50 Escape To The Country.

12.50 Sailing. The Vendée Globe. Highlights. 2.00 Cop Squad. 4.00 Harry’s Practice. 4.30 Million Dollar Minute. 5.00 Home Shopping.

Fishy (63) 6.00 Business. 7.00 Desert Collectors. 8.00 Home Shopping. 10.00 Megastructures. 11.00 River To Reef: Retro. 12.00 The Fishing Show. 1.00 Football. AFL Women’s.

Round 5. Adelaide v St Kilda. 3.00 Football. AFL Women’s. Round 5. Collingwood v Melbourne.

5.00 Graveyard Carz. 6.00 Last Car Garage. 6.30 Border Patrol. 7.00 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. 8.30 MOVIE: The Hangover Part II. Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms. (2011) 10.40 MOVIE: Hall Pass. (2011) Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis, Jenna Fischer. 12.50 Blokesworld. 1.30 Shipping Wars. 2.30 Counting Cars. 3.00 Last Car Garage.

3.30 Gold Fever. 4.30 Freesurfer.

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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 Australia By Design: Innovations. 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. 1.10 Instinct. 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.

12.30 Everybody Loves Raymond.

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 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 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. 11.30 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch.

(3) 6.30 This Week. 7.30 WorldWatch. 2.00 Meghan Markle Escaping The Crown. 2.50 Railway Journeys UK. 3.25 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.

Final. 8.30 24 Hours In Emergency. 9.25 The Story Of The Songs. 10.20 SBS News. 10.50 Outlander. 11.50 Late Programs.

Sunrise.

(6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: Romeo Killer: The Chris Porco Story.

(2013) 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: Kids Special. 9.00 9-1-1. 10.00 The Rookie. 11.00 The Latest: Seven News.

11.30 Station 19. 12.30 Late Programs.

6.00 Today. 9.00 (5) Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.00 Getaway. 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 Married At First Sight. 9.00 Under Investigation. New. 10.00 Australian Crime Stories. 11.00 Nine News Late. 11.30 The First 48. 12.15 Tipping Point. 1.05 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 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 Hughesy, We Have A Problem. 9.30 The Graham Norton Show. 10.30 The Project. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News.

12.30 Late Programs.

(22) 6.00 Kids’ Programs. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Doctor Who. 9.10 David Attenborough: Kingdom Of Plants. 10.05 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces. 10.55 Escape From The City.

11.50 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. 12.35 Would I Lie To You? 1.05 Parks And Recreation. 1.25 Reno 911! 1.50 W1A. 2.20 Zapped. 2.55 Close.

5.05 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

10.30 SBS Courtside. 11.00 NBA. Celtics v Wizards. 1.30 Untold Australia. 2.30 Australiana: Island Queens. 3.05 Gaycation.

3.55 WorldWatch. 4.20 This Week. 5.15 The Joy Of Painting. 5.45 Shortland Street. 6.15 Forged In Fire Latin America. 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. 10.30 MOVIE: The Falcon’s Brother. (1942) 12.00 House Of Wellness. 1.00 Brit Cops. 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. 3.00 Antiques Roadshow. 3.30 MOVIE: Hell Is A City. (1960) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 London Kills. 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 Diagnosis Murder. 5.00 JAG. 7.00 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 11.15 NCIS: Los Angeles. 12.10 Home Shopping. 2.10 CSI: Miami.

3.10 Diagnosis Murder. 4.05 Instinct. 5.00 Nash Bridges.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 4.00 Gym Stars. 4.30 Odd Squad. 4.55 The Next Step. 5.20 Dogstar. 6.00 Spirit Riding Free.

6.30 Operation Ouch! 7.00 Deadly 60. 7.35 All Hail King Julien. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed! 8.55 The Rubbish World Of Dave Spud. 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 Modern Family. 3.30 Splitting Up Together. 4.00 How I Met Your Mother.

5.00 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 Late Programs.

Morning (63) 6.00 Programs. 1.00 Graveyard Carz. 2.00 Motor Racing. Night Thunder. Krikke Boys Shootout. 3.00 Last Car Garage. 3.30 Motor Racing. Supercars C’ship.

Round 1. Mount Panorama 500. Day 1 and Day 2. Highlights. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Pawn Stars South Africa. 8.00 Pawn Stars UK. 8.30 MOVIE: Aquaman. (2018) 11.20 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 Baywatch. 5.00 Knight Rider.

6.00 Malcolm. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 RBT. 8.30 MOVIE: American Made. (2017) Tom Cruise.

10.45 Paranormal Caught On Camera. 11.45 The Nanny. 12.15 Lethal Weapon. 1.10 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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MONday, March 1

WIN (8) 6.00 WhichCar. 6.30 Entertainment Tonight.

7.00 Escape Fishing With ET. 7.30 Pat Callinan’s 4x4 Adventures. 8.30 The Offroad Adventure Show. 9.30 Studio 10: Saturday. 12.00 Good Chef Bad Chef. 12.30 Destination Dessert. 1.00 10 Minute Kitchen. 1.30 Places We Go. Return.

2.00 Three Blue Ducks. 2.30 Australia By Design: Innovations. 3.00 What’s Up Down Under. Final.

3.30 My Market Kitchen.

4.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield.

4.30 Farm To Fork.

5.00 10 News First.

6.00 Bondi Rescue.

6.30 To Be Advised.

7.00 Three Blue Ducks.

7.30 To Be Advised.

9.00 Ambulance.

11.20 Inside The Children’s Hospital.

12.00 To Be Advised.

1.00 Home Shopping.

5.00 Hour Of Power.

SuNday, February 28

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.

3.00 Bushfire Animal Rescue. 4.00 Great British Railway Journeys. 4.35 Sportswoman.

5.35 Hitler Youth.

6.30 SBS World News.

7.30 Searching For Cleopatra.

9.10 The Queen And The Coup.

10.05 Untold Australia: Country Town Pride.

11.05 24 Hours In Police Custody: Code Of Silence.

12.00 Michael Mosley: A History Of Surgery.

3.05 The Gang Crackdown.

4.10 Great British Railway Journeys.

5.00 CGTN English News.

5.15 NHK World English News.

5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.

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NINE (5)

6.00 Easy Eats. 7.00 Weekend Today. 10.00 Today Extra: Saturday. 12.00 Ironman. Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain IronMan and IronWoman Series.

Round 5. 2.00 My Way. Return. 2.30 Witness To Disaster. 3.30 Serengeti. 4.30 The Garden Gurus.

Return. 5.00 News: First At Five. 5.30 Getaway.

Return.

6.00 Nine News Saturday.

7.00 A Current Affair.

7.30 Space Invaders. New. 8.30 MOVIE: Yesterday. (2019) Himesh Patel, Lily James, Sophia di Martino. A singersongwriter realises that he is the only person on Earth who remembers The Beatles. (M) 10.50 MOVIE: Taking Woodstock. (2009) Demetri Martin. A young man promotes a music festival. (MA15+) 1.00 Witness To Disaster.

2.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

4.30 Global Shop.

5.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 5.30 Wesley Impact.

Step Outside (63) 6.00 With Paul Burt.

7.00 Buccaneers & Bones. 8.00 Home Shopping.

10.00 Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction. 11.00 Pawn Stars. 11.30 Your 4x4. 12.00 On Tour With Allan Border. 12.30 Timbersports. 1.00 Blokesworld.

1.30 Travel Mates. 2.00 Rides Down Under: Workshop Wars. 3.00 Football. AFL Women’s.

Round 5. Western Bulldogs v GWS. 5.00 Desert Collectors. 6.00 Megastructures. 7.00 Building Giants. 8.00 Mighty Ships.

9.00 The Thrill Of The Chase.

10.00 Mighty Cruise Ships.

11.00 Air Crash Investigation. 1.00 Desert Collectors. 2.00 Megastructures. 3.00 Gold Fever.

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 10. Melbourne Victory v Canberra United.

6.00 Antiques Roadshow.

7.00 ABC News Sunday.

7.40 Grand Designs New Zealand.

8.30 Harrow.

9.25 Silent Witness.

10.25 Killing Eve. Final.

11.10 Line Of Duty.

12.10 Wentworth.

1.00 Rage.

4.10 Wentworth.

5.00 Insiders.

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6.00 Home Shopping. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise.

10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. 12.00 Motor Racing. Supercars Championship. Round 1. Mount Panorama 500. Day 1. Support races and preview.

2.00 Motor Racing. Supercars Championship.

Round 1. Mount Panorama 500. Day 1. Pre-race and race. 5.00 Seven News At 5. 5.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line.

6.00 Seven News.

7.00 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line.

7.30 MOVIE: Guardians Of The Galaxy. (2014) Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana. A brash space adventurer joins forces with a gang of criminals after stealing a mysterious orb. (M) 10.00 MOVIE: Clash Of The Titans. (2010) Sam Worthington, Ralph Fiennes. A king recruits a warrior. (M) 12.00 Motor Racing. Supercars Championship.

Round 1. Mount Panorama 500. Day 1.

Highlights. From Mount Panorama Circuit, NSW. 1.00 Home Shopping.

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TV Guide News (2) 6.00 Breakfast. 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Four Corners. 11.00 Antiques Roadshow. 12.00 ABC News At Noon.

1.00 Call The Midwife. 2.00 Rake. 3.00 ABC News Afternoons. 4.00 The Heights. Final. 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. Final. 10.25 QI. 10.55 ABC Late News. 11.30 Q+A. 12.35 Wentworth. 1.20 Rage. 3.40 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch. 2.15 (3) Charles And Diana: The Truth Behind Their Wedding. 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. 9.35 Michael Portillo’s Abandoned Britain. 10.30 SBS News.

11.00 The Pier. 11.55 Borgen. 4.25 Railway Journeys UK. 5.00 CGTN English News. 5.15 NHK World English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle.

(22) 6.00 Kids’ Programs. 5.35 Rusty Rivets. 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. 8.50 Why Are You Like This. 9.15 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. 10.00 High Fidelity. 10.25 Brassic. 11.15 Live At The Apollo. 12.00 Ross Noble: Stand Up Series.

12.30 Parks And Recreation. 12.50 Reno 911!

1.15 W1A. 1.45 Zapped. 2.20 Close. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.35 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

10.30 SBS Courtside. 11.00 Basketball. NBA. Philadelphia 76ers v Indiana Pacers. 1.30 Figure Skating. ISU Grand Prix. Replay. 3.40 WorldWatch. 5.05 The Joy Of Painting. 5.35 Shortland Street. 6.05 Asia’s Next Top Model.

New. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 The Big Fat Quiz Of Everything. 10.15 Miniseries: The Salisbury Poisonings. 11.10 News. 11.35 Brooklyn NineNine. 12.00 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 2.10 Degrassi: The Next Generation. 2.30 Make It Pop! 2.55 Wow That’s Amazing. 3.30 Horrible Histories. 4.00 Gym Stars. 4.30 Odd Squad.

4.55 The Next Step. 5.20 Dogstar. 6.00 Spirit Riding Free. 6.30 Operation Ouch! 7.00 Deadly 60. 7.35 All Hail King Julien. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed!

8.55 The Rubbish World Of Dave Spud. 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 The Resident. 1.00 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 2. (2012) Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner.

10.50 90210. 1.00 How I Met Your Mother. 1.50 Late Programs.

Morning (2) 6.00 Programs. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 12.30 Press Club. 1.35 Media Watch. 1.55 Rake. 3.00 ABC News Afternoons. 4.00 Great Expectations: Karta The Orang-Utan’s Story. 4.30 Silvia’s Italian Table.

Final. 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.

10.00 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. 10.40 Staged.

11.05 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch.

(3) 2.20 Royal Family: Scandals And Shame. 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. Final.

10.20 Romulus. 11.15 SBS News. 11.45 The Night Manager. 12.35 MOVIE: White God. (2014) 2.45 Railway Journeys UK. 5.00 CGTN English News.

5.15 Late Programs.

(22) 6.00 Kids’ Programs. 4.10 Wiggle. 4.45 Play School Art Time. 5.10 Luo Bao Bei. 5.35 Rusty Rivets.

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. 8.50 Devolution. 9.50 Restoration Australia.

10.50 How Australia Got Its Mojo. 11.50 Louis Theroux: Savile. 1.05 Parks And Recreation.

1.30 Reno 911! 1.50 W1A. 2.20 Zapped. 3.00 Close. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.40 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

12.00 Basketball. NBA. Boston Celtics v Washington Wizards. Replay. 2.00 Gaycation.

2.50 Gaycation Presents: Orlando. 3.45 WorldWatch. 5.10 The Joy Of Painting With Bob Ross. 5.40 Shortland Street. 6.05 Vs Arashi.

Return. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Wellington Paranormal.

9.00 MOVIE: The Gambler. (1974) 11.00 MOVIE: Mona Lisa. (1986) 12.55 News. 1.20 Undressed. 2.20 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 2.10 Degrassi: The Next Generation. 2.30 Make It Pop! 2.55 Wow That’s Amazing. 3.30 Horrible Histories. 4.00 Gym Stars. 4.30 Odd Squad.

4.55 The Next Step. 5.20 Dogstar. 6.00 Spirit Riding Free. 6.30 Operation Ouch! 7.00 Deadly 60. 7.35 All Hail King Julien. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed!

8.55 The Rubbish World Of Dave Spud. 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 The Resident. 2.00 Deception. 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: Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief.

(2010) Logan Lerman, Brandon T. Jackson, Alexandra Daddario. 11.00 The Guardian. 2.00 Late Programs.

Morning (2) 6.00 Programs. 10.00 Australian Story. 10.30 To Be Advised. 11.05 Australia Remastered. Final. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Hard Quiz. 1.30 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. 2.00 Rake. 3.00 ABC News Afternoons. 4.00 Antiques Roadshow. 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. 10.05 Aussie Inventions That Changed The World.

10.55 ABC Late News. 11.30 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch. 2.15 (3) Royal Family: Scandals And Shame. 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 The World’s Greatest Palaces. 8.30 Shadowplay.

New. 10.30 SBS News. 11.00 24 Hours In Police Custody. 11.55 The Good Fight. 12.40 The Family Law. 3.40 Railway Journeys UK. 5.00 CGTN English News. 5.15 NHK World English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle.

(22) 6.00 Kids’ Programs. 5.35 Rusty Rivets. 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. 9.25 Hard Quiz. 9.55 The Weekly. 10.25 You Can’t Ask That. 10.55 David Attenborough: Kingdom Of Plants. 11.45 Parks And Recreation.

12.05 Reno 911! 12.30 W1A. 1.00 Zapped.

1.30 QI. 2.00 Brassic. 2.50 Close. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.35 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

12.00 Basketball. NBA. Philadelphia 76ers v Indiana Pacers. Replay. 2.00 Gaycation.

3.45 WorldWatch. 5.10 NBL: Overtime. 5.40 Shortland Street. 6.10 Taskmaster Norway.

New. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 The Curse Of Oak Island. 9.20 American Runestone: A Viking Mystery. New. 10.10 Dave Gorman: Modern Life Is Goodish. Return. 11.05 News. 11.30 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 2.10 Degrassi: The Next Generation. 2.30 Make It Pop! 2.55 Wow That’s Amazing. 3.30 Horrible Histories. 4.00 Gym Stars. 4.30 Odd Squad.

4.55 The Next Step. 5.20 Dogstar. 6.00 Spirit Riding Free. 6.30 Operation Ouch! 7.00 Deadly 60. 7.35 All Hail King Julien. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed!

8.55 The Rubbish World Of Dave Spud. 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 The Resident. 2.00 Deception. 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 Deception.

3.30 The Resident. 5.30 Dr. Ken.

Morning (2) 6.00 Programs. 10.00 Q+A. 11.00 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 Antiques Roadshow. 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 Vaccine. 11.15 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. 11.45 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch. 2.00 (3) Australia Says Yes. 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. 7.35 Viking Murder Mystery. 8.30 Going Places. 9.00 Who Do You Think You Are? UK. 10.10 The Royals And The Nazis. 11.10 SBS News. 11.30 Dolly Parton: 50 Years At The Opry. 1.00 Miniseries: Deep Water. 5.00 CGTN English News. 5.15 NHK World English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle.

(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 Rusty Rivets. 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 David Williamson’s Emerald City.

10.50 Brush With Fame. 11.20 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces. 12.10 Catalyst. 1.05 Parks And Recreation. 1.30 Reno 911! 1.50 Zapped. 2.25 Close. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.40 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

11.30 SBS Courtside. 12.00 Basketball. NBA. Memphis Grizzlies v Milwaukee Bucks. 2.30 The Last Lesbian Bars. 2.55 Gaycation. 3.40 WorldWatch. 5.05 The Joy Of Painting With Bob Ross. 5.40 Shortland Street. 6.05 If You Are The One. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Hoarders. Final. 9.20 Mums Make Porn Germany. New. 11.05 Monogamish.

12.05 News. 12.30 MOVIE: Holding The Man. (2015) 2.45 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 2.30 Make It Pop! 2.55 Wow That’s Amazing. 3.30 Horrible Histories. 4.00 Gym Stars. 4.30 Odd Squad. 4.55 The Next Step. 5.20 Dogstar. 6.00 Spirit Riding Free. 6.30 Operation Ouch! 7.00 MOVIE: Gangsta Granny. (2013) 8.05 Horrible Histories. 8.35 Good Game Spawn Point. 8.55 Voltron: Legendary Defender. 9.20 Boruto: Naruto Next Generations. 9.40 Radiant. 10.05 The Legend Of Korra. 10.30 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 The Resident. 2.00 Deception. 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 Deception.

3.30 The Resident. 5.30 Dr. Ken.

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PRIME7

Sunrise.

(6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: The Preacher’s Sin. (2015) 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 Splitting Up Together. 12.30 Home Shopping. 5.00 Late Programs.

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NINE

6.00 Today. 9.00 (5) Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.00 The Garden Gurus. 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 Married At First Sight. 9.00 Framing Britney Spears. 10.30 Nine News Late. 11.00 Labour Of Love. 12.00 Law & Order: Criminal Intent. 1.00 A Current Affair. 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.00 Late Programs.

7TWO

Morning (52) 6.00 Programs. 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. 3.30 Keeping Up Appearances. 4.00 Heartbeat.

5.00 Netball. Constellation Cup. Game 1. New Zealand Silver Ferns v Australian Diamonds.

7.00 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 New Tricks.

8.40 The Closer. 9.40 Rizzoli & Isles. 10.40 Shades Of Blue. 11.35 Late Programs.

7MATE

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 MOVIE: Waterworld. (1995) 10.10 MOVIE: The Big Hit. (1998) 12.00 Lethal Weapon. 1.00 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.

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 Married At First Sight. 9.00 Amazing Grace. New. 10.00 New Amsterdam.

Return. 11.00 Nine News Late. 11.30 Chicago Med. 12.15 Tipping Point. 1.05 A Current Affair.

1.30 Late Programs.

6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 6.30 Travel Oz. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 12.00 House Of Wellness. 1.00 Brit Cops. 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. 12.50 Pie In The Sky. 2.00 Escape To The Country. 3.00 Bargain Hunt. 4.00 Late Programs.

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

11.00 A Football Life. 12.00 Doomsday Preppers. 1.00 Round Oz Ride. 2.00 Gold Fever.

3.00 Pawn Stars South Africa. 3.30 Pawn Stars UK. 4.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates.

4.30 Road Hauks. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Aussie Salvage Squad. 8.30 Outback Opal Hunters.

9.30 Outback Pilots. 10.30 Mighty Rivers. 11.30 Late Programs.

Sunrise.

(6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: A Daughter’s Revenge. (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 Miniseries: The Pembrokeshire Murders. 10.30 The Latest: Seven News. 11.00 Criminal Confessions. 12.00 Robbie Coltrane’s Critical Evidence. 1.00 Late Programs.

9GEM

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 Elementary.

3.00 Diagnosis Murder. 5.00 JAG. 7.00 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 CSI: Miami. 3.15 JAG. 4.10 Star Trek: Voyager. 5.05 Diagnosis Murder.

9GO!

(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.

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 Cube. 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.

7TWO

Morning (52) 6.00 Programs. 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 Keeping Up Appearances.

4.00 Heartbeat. 5.00 Netball. Constellation Cup. Game 2. Australian Diamonds v New Zealand Silver Ferns. 7.00 Antiques Roadshow.

7.30 As Time Goes By. 8.50 Midsomer Murders.

10.50 Silent Witness. 12.10 Late Programs.

7MATE

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 Paranormal Caught On Camera. 8.30 MOVIE: Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade. (1989) Harrison Ford. 11.00 Police Ten 7. 11.30 The Nanny. 12.00 Lethal Weapon. 1.00 The Horn.

2.10 Dance Moms. 3.00 Beyblade Burst Turbo.

3.30 Ninjago. 4.00 Kids’ Programs.

PRIME7

6.00 Today. 9.00 (5) Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.00 Destination WA. 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 Taronga: Who’s Who In The Zoo. 8.30 The Equalizer. 9.30 Murder For Hire.

10.30 Nine News Late. 11.00 Manifest. 11.50 New Amsterdam. 12.40 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 Brit Cops. 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.

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

11.00 A Football Life. 12.00 Doomsday Preppers. 1.00 Ax Men. 2.00 Gold Fever. 3.00 Classic Restos: USA Edition. 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: Poseidon. (2006) 2.00 Criminal Confessions. 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. 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.

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 Bondi Rescue. 8.00 Territory Cops. 8.30 Gogglebox. 9.30 Law & Order: SVU. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.30 The Project. 1.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 2.30 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: Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull. (2008) Harrison Ford. 11.00 Young Sheldon. 12.00 Lethal Weapon. 1.00 Xtreme Collxtion. 2.10 Dance Moms. 3.00 Beyblade Burst Turbo. 3.30 Ninjago. 4.00 Pokémon. 4.30 Kids’ Programs.

PRIME7

6.00 Today. 9.00 (5) Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.00 Amazing Grace. 2.00 Desperate Housewives. 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.

8.30 MOVIE: Coming To America. (1988) Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Madge Sinclair. 10.50 MOVIE: Be Cool. (2005) 1.00 Surfing Australia TV. 1.30 Late Programs.

WIN

9GO!

(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. 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 The Living Room. 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 Australia. 11.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.00 The Project. 1.00 Late Programs.

9GEM

Home (81) 6.00 Shopping.

8.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 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 L.A.’s Finest. 3.00 Diagnosis Murder. 5.00 JAG. 7.00 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 Nash Bridges. 3.00 JAG. 4.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 5.00 Late Programs.

9GO!

(82) 6.00 Cheers.

7.00 Friends. 8.30 Everybody Loves Raymond.

9.30 Becker. 10.30 Frasier. 11.30 Cheers. 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Medium. 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 The Conners. Return. 10.30 Charmed. Return.

11.30 The Big Bang Theory. 12.00 Home Shopping. 1.30 Medium. 3.30 Frasier. 4.30 Home Shopping.

7MATE

Kids’ Programs.

(53) 6.00 11.00 Dance Moms.

12.00 Royal Pains. 1.00 The Mindy Project.

1.30 Snog, Marry, Avoid? 2.30 Malcolm. 3.30 Baywatch. 4.30 Knight Rider. 5.30 MOVIE: Kubo And The Two Strings. (2016) 7.30 MOVIE: The Great Wall. (2016) 9.30 MOVIE: The Mummy. (2017) 11.35 Big Heads. New. 12.35 Lethal Weapon. 1.30 Rivals. 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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WIN PEACH

Home (81) 6.00 Shopping.

8.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 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 Elementary. 3.00 Diagnosis Murder. 5.00 JAG. 7.00 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 Hawaii Five-0. 9.30 L.A.’s Finest. 10.30 NCIS: Los Angeles. 11.30 Elementary. 12.30 Home Shopping. 2.00 Nash Bridges. 3.00 Diagnosis Murder. 4.00 Late Programs.

Morning (52) 6.00 Programs. 10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. 12.00 Call The Midwife. 1.10 Days Of Our Lives. 2.05 The Young And The Restless.

3.05 Antiques Roadshow. 3.35 MOVIE: Home At Seven. (1952) Ralph Richardson.

5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow.

7.30 David Attenborough’s Seven Worlds, One Planet. 8.40 MOVIE: Earthquake. (1974) Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner. 11.10 Law & Order. 12.10 Late Programs.

Morning (63) 6.00 Programs.

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 Doomsday Preppers. 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 2. (2002) Tommy Lee Jones. 9.20 MOVIE: Predator 2. (1990) Danny Glover, Gary Busey. 11.35 Late Programs.

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9GEM

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 Brit Cops. 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.

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7MATE

Sunrise.

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

12.00 MOVIE: Murdered At 17. (2018) Cristine Prosperi. 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: Tag. (2018) 10.30 Ambulance: Code Red. 11.30 Surveillance Oz Dashcam.

12.00 MOVIE: Stolen Youth. (1996) 2.00 Home Shopping.

WIN PEACH

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 Elementary.

3.00 Diagnosis Murder. 5.00 JAG. 7.00 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 Instinct.

5.00 Star Trek: Voyager.

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. 1.00 Days Of Our Lives. 1.55 The Young And The Restless. 2.50 Antiques Roadshow. 3.20 MOVIE: Outcast Of The Islands. (1951) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 Call The Midwife. 8.40 Poirot.

10.55 See No Evil. 11.55 Miracle Hospital. 1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.30 Late Programs.

Morning (63) 6.00 Programs.

10.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 11.00 A Football Life. 12.00 Doomsday Preppers. 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: The Crimes Of Grindelwald. (2018) Eddie Redmayne. 10.30 MOVIE: Universal Soldier.

(1992) 12.50 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 Brit Cops. 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 Harry’s Practice. 4.30 Late Programs.

WIN

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 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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Lord require of you? To act justly and to love will occur (like being able to sing again in TV humbly and radio,with they’ve been mercy andOn tothe walk your God.’ church). But will we times. still have that same about making playlists of Getting my drivers’ licence Imagine talking what difference that would make spirit that seemed to help us get through ‘songs you play when you’re lonely meant I could all that happened 12 months ago?play Willmusic we in theif we lived like that? This was ultimately or alone’, but that’s just garbage. car on my own as loud as I liked shown atI’m the cross where in an act of still check in on our neighbours? Will we never alone when the music and I did. My go-to cassette in justice, Jesus bore theatpunishment that still rally together to … make sure we are ok is blasting, I’m peace. Late last Subaru in the 80s had ZZ Top, Big humanity deserved and in mercy, he went and coping with life? Or will we return to Tuesday arvo, just before the Country, early Midnight Oil, Aussie willinglyawesome becauserain humanity could never pay the same old patterns of looking inward came, I jumped Crawl, The Knack and of course the debt.on If the weride-on, want tostuck keep loving to own interests? I worry that this will theon buds in each Flock of Seagulls as big tunes. This other and helping each other, look to Jesus be the case. In fact we‘alone are already doing my ears and had my phone in my time’ was some of my fave and the example and hope he provides. this collectively in much of the western pocket, ready for an internet playlist. memories 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 setwill include ‘Mad World’ by Tears up (see last weeks’ column) is aces. sites — part-sensationalised facts, partThere’s an old JewishOh, saying that has for Fears, the song by John Lennon and the music … it’s goin’ on out entered popular culture, “Be careful what commentary — has seen our world entering where he says ‘Strange Days Indeed, here on the outskirts of Millthorpe, you wish for, you just may get it.” a period of almost obsessive interest inby Most Peculiar Mama…’, Onion Skin I’m telling you. Can you hear it? politics.

Boom Crash Opera (‘these here are After the end of the Cold War 30-years ago, These days, ten bucks a month crazy times’), The Doors ‘People it was a popular topic to the lack of on-line toand denounce former willdecry get you access to a billion People go Are colleagues Strange’. I know a mate who’d interest in the world around us — the great friends and for voicing unpopular songs, maybe more, and there’s add ‘Here I go Again on myactor own’ with by a no adsback if youtopay for it. I’ve stillopinions, got philosophical battles going World every bobble-headed Whitesnake.

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by DAVID DIXON

BIRD ON THE WIRE CAN’T UNDERSTAND ALL THE FUSS down the line from her home near Leeton.

“But it stands to reason — go to any footy match and half barrack for one side, and half the other. I had in mind, I was going to write about Australian politics with a funny twist and life in general,” she explained.

Knowing the Colour City through her two daughters attending school here, she believes that the same pressures affecting towns like Orange are universal in not just Australia, but the world.

JEANINE BIRD IS AN ACCIDENTAL CONTROVERSIALIST. The centre of a local media storm with her iconoclastic Newswatch column — she never wanted it to be this way.

The lifetime country girl only ever intended to draw on her experience to write about rural and regional issues, Australian politics, political and banking policies impacting on rural people, and topical issues to do with country life.

That was, however, before the near 12-month COVID-19 lockdowns; the ominously-termed “Great Reset”; the chilling industrial-scale removal of dissenting voices from social media; and the contested 2020 US Presidential election.

We now live in a changed world where those who refuse to wear facemasks on public transport can get arrested; smart-phone tracking apps record our every public move; bio-passports aimed at banning those who refuse the coronavirus-vaccine from international travel are celebrated by the media; and previously-radical concepts like “anti-whiteness training” are forced onto staff at giant multinationals like Coca-Cola.

“It’s definitely brought things to a head, COVID, in how it has impacted us all — it’s been an exercise in controlling and scaring people,” Jeanine said.

“I read where one the ‘experts’ from the World Economic Forum said, ‘don’t waste an opportunity to use COVID to your advantage’,” she said, adding, “so, they’re using it very well to usher in their Great Reset, which really concerns me.”

But her interest in politics and how it intersects with power was more a product of her experiences than her temperament.

“I went to school in Queensland at Emerald where I wasn’t really interested in politics at all, I was only interested in riding my horse – I loved jumping, eventing, cattle-work; and sport – I was competing at State level in basketball, high-jump and long-jump — just active in everything,” she said.

“I then left school wanting to jillaroo in the Northern Territory for a while, and then maybe study law. Glad I didn’t now!

“I knocked around a bit, ran my own secretarial service, married and lived on a property at Goolgowi, near Griffith.

“It was there that I became more attuned to corruption in the political landscape.”

She said that this pattern of alternate neglect and occasional publicity-seeking using the bush as a backdrop has continued for decades in Australia.

“For example, after a bushfire, all the pollies came bush in their moleskins and felt hats promising a heap of money for fencing, etc.

“The problem was, that no-one was eligible! They were ‘too well off, or ‘not viable’ Nothing’s changed!”

Jeanine was also active in the NSW Farmers Association, but she said, in the end, it was clear when there was drought and high-interest rates, that they weren’t really responsive to their members concerns.

Issues to do with how the coronavirus has changed our world and also re-enforced trends towards centralisation of power among an international elite are regularly covered in Jeanine’s Birds’-Eye View column.

“Nor were the National Farmers Federation. It was very easy for the banks to compromise state farm organisation’s leaders without them even knowing, then telling them, when they presented on behalf of a member, that “they” were a good farmer, but the other bloke was a “bad farmer”. Divide and conquer — but in reality, there was barely any difference.”

Her contentious observations generate about 80 per cent of the Letters to the Editor and informal comment to staff of Newswatch — Orange’s new weekly paper that pledges “Local News delivered with — Integrity — Wisdom — Balance”.

It was then that Jeanine started looking into politics more deeply, studying international agreements we’d signed which embraced economic rationalism aimed at, what she believes, is a long-term aim for a world government through the United Nations.

“I had no idea that my little column would produce such a fuss, I didn’t really intend it that way,” Ms Bird said laughing

Jeanine says that these policies destroyed not only the wool industry, but wreaked havoc on family farms

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and businesses in rural Australia and devastated our manufacturing industries.

She said studying how banking really worked was a natural progression.

to be able to get debt written off, but the first thing banks would say was “we don’t write off debt”. But they did, it was just the way you handled it.”

“We had high interest rates, drought, a devastated wool industry — I shot sheep, along with half Australia — which was just horrible. I could see it was a combination of banking and government policies causing it. Banks were foreclosing nationwide, and no-one seemed to care, and, I thought, 'what can I do, working on the farm?'.”

Jeanine believes it’s like we are all playing with our financial future in a giant casino where large corporations have a fix on the roulette wheel, the decks are stacked, and the coins fixed. “We’ve ceded sovereignty of our national money supply and banking to private global financiers who don’t have our interests at heart. Yet, we once financed everything, even World War I with our own credit. We didn’t need to borrow.”

“I decided I could write about what I’d learned, so I’d buy a fax, then I wrote to newspapers all over Australia,” she remembers. “I used to write letters to the editor, and ultimately Bob (Newswatch publisher Bob Holland) asked me if I wanted to write a column for him.

“I used to get phone calls from all over Australia. Then I was asked to make a video, which sold nationally and internationally about what was happening on the land. I was also asked to stand for State government, which I did – crazily – deciding about four weeks out from the election. I got about 12 per cent of the votes, which was amazing!

“I was approached then to become CEO of the Union of Farmers, which was to be a lobby group, but it ended up being much more.

“We had small rural action groups all over Australia concerned about the big banks stranglehold over agriculture in the 1990’s, and we were taking the banks on, head on.

“We had an amazing network and were very successful in keeping family farmers on their farms. We developed seminars, strategies, and advocated for and supported family farms and businesses all over Australia.”

“Banks were very corrupt and got away with blue murder. In South Australia, one bank had someone forging mortgages, so it no doubt went on in other states too.

“There was a lot of skulduggery, offbalance-sheet accounts, or secondary accounts to run-up interest so banks could claim a tax deduction as well as shaft the farmer to keep their credit system going.

“They loaded the high interest with penalties, just to add misery. In Queensland, one manager would make farm women who’d come to town to shop to present their shopping lists to him, and he’d cross-off what they could or couldn’t have — whether they could have toilet paper or not! Total humiliation.”

Some of the foreclosures, Jeanine said, were a product of the banks encouraging

“There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times. Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.”

— François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

farmers to take-out loans in foreign currencies such as Swiss francs; “they often weren’t really foreign loans at all — banks just charged the clients international rates and didn’t tell them they needed to hedge!

“The stupid thing was, they didn’t really — it was just bank skulduggery anyhow because it was mostly on-shore!”

Yet, the subsequent collapse in the value of the Australian dollar bankrupted many fourth or fifth generation farming families.

“In some areas, just before they were about to auction a property they had foreclosed on, the big banks would take about six weeks advertising, full-pages, in the local paper, that effectively muted criticism of their actions,” she explained.

While such views about the banking sector and big business were common among the leftist intelligentsia of the 1970s, they are now more likely to get someone labelled a right-wing conspirator.

Jeanine is therefore a local example of the utterly-modern phenomenon from the modern corporate-left orthodoxy of seeking to ban people for their dissenting views.

Legendary British comedian and lifelong libertarian, Ricky Gervais, recently described this new censoriousness as like calling-up a guitar lesson teacher who advertises locally and saying; “But I don’t want any f*&^king guitar lessons.”

If you don’t want to read views you don’t agree with, don’t read them, he advises.

During Newswatch’s recent series of letters calling for debate on the continuation of Ms Bird’s articles, many a letter writer took the view, “I defend free speech, but… Ms Bird is beyond the pale”.

As the old sage once said about such arguments, “everything before the ‘but’ is bull.” In simple terms, if you only defend free speech that you believe is “acceptable”, then you don’t really believe in free speech.

Jeanine says she feels the need to warn people about policies that will forever “Funnily enough, some bankers would change the legacy of those who fought for help in their own way, but often they had our freedoms; she’s a Cassandra figure — their hands tied. Others just loved being mongrels. After years of coming-up against the princess who warned the Trojan King, Priam, not to take the Trojan Horse inside our groups, one top banker (three sheets of Troy. to the wind) told us “It’s no use asking Journalists used to be described as the politicians to help you. They nearly all suffering from group-think, acting in a gamble, live the high life, and when they pack, and all writing the same thing about get into trouble financially, they go up to those they wanted to bring down; the the 10th floor of the State Bank and see modern term is a “narrative” — an agreed the fat man. He fixes them up.” world-view created by journalists, editors, “So, he was telling us they were all politicians, and social leaders delivered compromised, and would do the bank’s with po-faced seriousness to which all bidding before their constituents’! And “reasonable” people must agree. that’s the way it was too. They were “The left only wants their view useless, so we had to find strategies to presented, and they’re not willing to force the issue in order to keep regional Australian people on their farms. We used question anything that opposes that.

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“With the Union of Farmers advocacy, I did heaps of interviews where you’d see what you said totallymisrepresented by the media; banks wouldn’t defend what they were doing (they couldn’t!), but they’d say ‘oh, they’re just bank-bashers’, or ‘rightwing extremists’,” she said. “They couldn’t argue on merit, just put-down.”

“On the destruction of Australian industry, taking our jobs overseas, all our chickens are now coming home to roost with us being so tied-up with China; but I think it is going to get a little bit worse before it gets better,” she said.

She said her Bird’s-Eye View column is designed to ask more questions than provide complete answers.

“I know I’m pretty hard-hitting, but I’m not trying to convince anyone that I’m right, but to challenge them to go out and find-out for themselves. To research, ‘could this be right?’ I think that is really essential,” she said.

“It’s important that people know — I don’t care if they disagree with me, if they disagree with a good argument,” she added.

Her support for much-derided alternative treatments for the coronavirus is partly from a regard for nature, doubt about the motives of so-called ‘big pharma’, and personal experience in her own marriage.

“I enjoy my garden — I’m no botanist — but just

enjoy dabbling, growing our own vegies, and having some colour to brighten the day.

“I also take a keen interest in health — particularly alternative health and innovations.

“When my husband was diagnosed with very latestage cancer four years ago, and only given months to live, we went into overdrive and implemented a regime designed to give his body all the nutrition (just like soil) it needed to heal itself.

“He has recovered well, and his specialists consider him a miracle.

“That’s also a reason for my scepticism around the need for a vaccine when we could be taking supplements to avoid it instead. Doctors and the medical profession are often put-through the same mince-meat machine that is promoted and supplied by big pharma, as they wind the handle to make more money.”

“What I can see happening — that’s on a global scale — I think we are very close to much being revealed, one way or another. And I don’t think that we are going to be untouched here,” Ms Bird concluded.

American writer, critic, and social commentator, Tom Wolf once said that all journalists are obsessed with what he called a “grim-slide” mentality; that all and every new trend in society is towards an inevitable downward slope to an authoritarian future.

But anyone who believes in such quaint oldfashioned concepts as civil liberties, freedom of speech, and diversity of opinion, could have no doubt that, in this regard, the future is looking pretty grim.

Jeanine believes that the true nature of the social movements and economic trends of the past 100-years are now coming to some sort of distillation in the proposed “Global Reset” prompted by internet giants, media companies, and corporate left social movements.

“The ‘Global Reset’ is coming to a head. If you want to know about it, I urge people to research what this means, they will be shocked,” Jeanine said.

YET JEANINE IS OPTIMISTIC:

“We are many, they are few — so we CAN call their bluff — we NEED to, and that starts with the getting of knowledge — and wisdom.”

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Barbecues on the backburner Fifteen years ago it was busted rowing machines, unwanted treadmills, and those old, boxy analogue TV sets with the control knobs on the front — this year discarded gas barbecues seem to be one of the most popular items for Council’s large item pick-up service.

Newswatch, of course, takes the view, that it’s not a real barbecue, unless it’s cooked with wood!

Orange’s new town slogan announced…

Such could be the case with the footpath of much of the Colour City; squiggly lines around town indicate where the surface needs to be repaired, often due to damage by our otherwise-beautiful London Plane trees.

Where every day is a good day…

Millthorpe Public was recently identified as one of the best schools in NSW joining only two others in a newly-created “Ambassador Schools” program. The Ambassador Schools have been appointed to share their expertise with others in need of a lift in the key areas of literacy and numeracy.

¡Arriba, work on new texmex outlet Work is apparently and finally now starting on the new tex-mex fast food restaurant, Taco Bell, in Orange on the old Thomson’s Nursery site on the Bathurst Road with the land levelled and relocation of telephony junctions outside the site.

Taco Bell is an American fast food restaurant chain based in California which serves a variety of Mexican and tex-mex foods that include tacos, burritos, quesadillas, and nachos.

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First medico’s at Orange CSU’s traditional O-Week celebrations Arrival of the first batch of medial students was the highlight at Charles Sturt University Orange Campus’ Traditional O-Week (Orientation Week) celebrations.

Nearly 500 students now attend the local institution — which was for many years an agricultural college — at Leeds Parade on the city’s northern edge.

Farming has since made way for courses in Bachelor of Physiotherapy (Honours) Integrated Honours, Bachelor of Health and Medical Science, Bachelor of Pharmacy, and Bachelor of Dental Sciences.

Dean of Rural Medicine in the Charles Sturt School of Rural Medicine, Professor Lesley Forster said it was fantastic to have students back on campus, creating vibrancy and connection within the community.

“It is wonderful to welcome our commencing and continuing students to our Orange campus and continue the proud tradition our campus has for providing first-class tertiary education,” Prof Forster said.

“The Orange campus was originally known for its agricultural education, but over the years has forged a strong reputation for its health courses and for training highlyskilled health graduates.

“We have our inaugural cohort of Medicine students starting with us this year, in addition to students studying a number of our popular and long-standing health courses, such as dental science, pharmacy, and physiotherapy,” Prof Forster added.

The University — like all modern organisations — is taking necessary precautions for a safe return to campuses by asking staff, students, and visitors to comply with the Department of Health check-in system and continue to follow COVID-Safe principles.

These include practising hand hygiene, maintaining physical distancing, staying away, and getting tested if experiencing symptoms, and downloading the COVID-Safe app.

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RUNNING FEST AIMS TO HELP GET BACK YOUR OLD, HEALTHY LIFESTYLE A new year though has re-energised the club with the event next Sunday an important marker in the Club’s — and society’s — gradual return to normality.

“We still generally get about 60–90 members at our Wednesday evening and Sunday morning meets at Elephant Park, so were on the way back,” Mr Cooper said.

“It is important for us to keep flying the flag and to be able to put on an event for our members and members of the community,” he said.

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One of the biggest race days in regional NSW with usually more than 1000 runners signed-up, the event was lucky last year to get-off just before the first full lockdown of NSW from mid-March but faces the now-normal COVID-19 restrictions that have become of all our lives.

Well, now’s the time to get your old runners out of the cupboard and to start shaping-up!

Next Sunday, Orange Runners Club are hosting their “2021 Limited Edition Orange Running Festival” at the beautiful Gosling Creek Reserve.

“Normally, we have runners from throughout regional NSW and from all over the State, but this year we’d be happy for 400–500 runners,” he said.

While the occasion won’t be quite the same series of races as in the glory days of yore, the return of the marquee event is, however, sign of a welcome return to some routine for the Orange Running Club who run the races.

Like most country sports clubs though, the group itself has also been hard-hit by the reticence of members to gather together and the long-shutdown that affected NSW through most of 2020 with membership dropping from about 500 members to around 300.

“It’s much more limited because of COVID; we normally have a 2km kids run, 5km, 10km, halfmarathon and full-marathon,” Event Coordinator and President of Orange Running Club, Mike Cooper said.

“COVID has reduced members numbers overall with the shutdown proving a disincentive to join with some people wary of congregating in large groups,” he explained.

“This year we’ve got the 2km Junior Dash and 6km races for men and women; all to be run around Gosling Creek,” he explained. Due to the nature

It is important for us to keep flying the flag and to be able to put on an event for our members and members of the community Mr Cooper urged all current runners and lapsed joggers who may want to start getting their old life back again, to go to their website at: https://www. orangerunningfestival.com.au/ and sign-up.

“Absolutely, the more we can get the better. Go to our website and register through the links there,” Mr Cooper said.

Interested in making your new year’s resolution to get fit again a reality? Mr Cooper can also be contacted on 0408 419 806.

• The event will be guided by NSW Health guidelines that are current at the time with respect to how the Festival can proceed. In the event that an individual entrant cannot run due to COVID restrictions, their entry fees will be refunded (all entry fees will be refunded if we are required to cancel the Festival). Unfortunately, there will be no presentations on the day.

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LACK OF GUTS, SPINE, AND BRAINS IN THE GOVERNMENT Dear Andrew Gee MP, I wrote to your Prime Minister in December 2020. I asked him to answer 41 questions about his inept governance of Australia. He has not replied.

Would you be so kind as to ask the PM to reply to my questions? Or would you like a copy of these questions so you can ask him in Parliament?

I still maintain that it takes guts, spine, and brains to run a government. Obviously, you are following the wrong leader. The PM should have hit the “bully” China fast and hard at the time, instead of running off to the teacher to complain.

And the “silent invasion” continues with military secrets in the hands of the Chinese! Now Facebook has raised its ugly head to bully Australia. At least I can fight back with this bully. I am disappointed Google was not kicked out of Australia.

A new email address is soon to come. I can’t change my phone number with Google. Who gave these organisations clearance to expose me to TIK TOK? A breach of privacy, unchecked because no-one in Government has brains, guts, or spine.

I would not be organising an election soon, much later would be the idea. There will have to be a new political party because the alternative is not an alternative.

Ian Donald

“YES” TO MOUNTAIN BIKE TRAILS ON MOUNT Really? There is no room in the 1672 hectares of Mount Canobolas Recreation Park for the proposed mountain bike trails AND bush-walking trails? Come on guys! Let’s be a bit realistic here.

We’re not talking about noisy, polluting dirt-bike tracks cutting through and degrading the environment and disturbing native fauna and flora. We’re talking about low-impact mountain bikes using well-designed and maintained trails. The only real difference between a walking track and a mountain bike track, is the user gets from A to B a lot faster.

Mayor Reg Kidd is taking the right approach in getting the experts, The Environmental Factor to work with expert track designers, Dirt Art to come-up with a solution to bypass and preserve those sensitive areas of concern.

In case the opposers to the mountain bike trails are not aware, Mayor Kidd has a background in horticulture and is as interested as anyone else in preserving the unique biodiversity and beauty of the Mount Canobolas area, while at the same time making it accessible to those who appreciate, love, and value the beauty of these wilderness areas.

Let’s see what the experts come up with BEFORE drawing any conclusions.

Seems to me that the originators of ‘Values and Constraints on Development of Mt Canobolas State Conservation Area’ may be as guilty of what they are accusing Council of. That is, of being an organisation trying to put the best spin (on their opposing view) so that

NOTHING happens.

Dalby in Tasmania had shown how well-maintained mountain bike trails can serve to — not only preserve the natural environment with minimum impact — but to also make the wild areas more accessible to humans to enjoy at the same time providing a boost to the economy from visiting enthusiasts.

How about a bit of compromise? Can’t have it all the bush-walkers way!

As a regular bush-walker in the Mt Canobolas area, I am also very pleased to hear of the $2 million grant to the National Parks and Wildlife Service to enhance walking trails and new amenities on Mt Canobolas — both of which are well overdue.

Tilly Wood

SEALED SECTION; FOR ADULTS ONLY! There seems to be a page missing out of this week’s Newswatch? I’m hoping it returns soon...

Otherwise, maybe I’ll threaten to not pick-up Newswatch anymore… like the ‘lovers’ of democracy and free speech who threatened to do the same if you DO keep printing it!

I’m talking, of course, about ‘Birds-Eye View’.

I think I might have a solution to the problem of what to do with ‘Birds-Eye View’.

Put it in a ‘sealed section’ so that those poor souls who are offended by reading the truth, won’t have to be confronted with it!

Suzanne Sycica

MORE INFO FOR ORANGE PUBLIC ON WATER IDEAS

of the capacity of Burrendong Dam. In reality, a dam this size will not proceed as, for example, the run-off in 2020 would not have filled it and no water would have passed through to Burrendong. For the creation of urban water security, a dam of say 100 Gl may be more appropriate, more achievable, and less costly. However, it was refreshing to see that the provision of a dam is on Council’s agenda.

Another councillor advised that building dams does not make it rain. This is correct, but dams do collect surplus runoff for times when it does not rain. From this discussion, the Council moved to support investigations into treated effluent reuse. At present with commitments to Cadia mine, this option may not be viable. When treated product becomes available, determination before that time that aquifer recharge is viable will be valuable information.

The Technical Director advised Council that an investigation is to be undertaken to determine the catchment yield for the existing water supply, so that assessment of current strengths and vulnerabilities can be made and, where there are shortfalls identified, these can be submitted to the Government’s sustainable towns program for grant funding applications. This is an extremely important study for the City as it may well drive change to our City planning and expansion based on the evidence of the water supply performance in the two recent droughts.

The various views expressed at the meeting showed that Council and various councillors are far more focused on the City’s water supply issues than has been evident in the public arena. Council needs to put more effort into providing a wider spread of information to the public in readable form rather on relying on the Mayor to speak of his preferences only and to set out timeline objectives to achieve milestones.

Bob Wyllie

At the last Council meeting, the issue of the City’s water supply was an agenda item. The continued growth of our City and the security of water supply to minimise the potential of Level Five water restrictions and beyond, are the primary drivers in the consideration of strategies for the future.

The discussions at the Council meeting were revealing.

The Mayor took a strong lead with his commitment to the IWCM strategy; which is to deliver water around the region from available resources to meet shortfalls. This strategy has merit in the provision of regional water supply networks. For Orange, the network would need to be able to supply at least 20 megalitres of water per day to satisfy the above drivers.

Two councillors spoke correctly of the water harvesting system and the Macquarie pipeline as tinkering around the edges of the water security issue. With growing City demand and the falling water yield and climate predictions detailed in the recently-released NSW Draft urban Water Strategy, these two councillors spoke in support of the need to investigate the provision of a new dam. They were successful in having the Council support the proposal for a dam on the Macquarie River at Ullmarah which has been deleted from the Castlereagh/Macquarie Catchment strategy.

This Ullmarah dam proposal on the Macquarie River is for a capacity of 700 gigalitres or just over 40 per cent

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