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ISSUE No. 36

ETERNAL PROMISE LOCAL SOLVES 99-YEAR WAR GRAVES MYSTERY

“We will remember them... Lest we forget” we all intone on Anzac Day… well Sharon Jameson hasn’t forgotten!

Tenacious local family historian recently solved a 99-year mystery helping find the nearest living relatives of an until-now unknown Digger from World War I buried here in 1921.

Touching ceremony at Orange Cemetery recently saw a dedication for Private William Wrangham with his great, great niece Libby Raynolds laying a wreath for the occasion.

• Turn to page 7 for the full story on Private William Wrangham.

Million-dollar babies…

Birds-Eye View; your say!

Local arborists say that 500 trees marked for destruction at south Orange as part of the sports precinct, could have an actual environmental value of $1 million — for each tree!

Five pages of correspondence from our readers, for and against our most-controversial columnist!

• Turn to page 3 for our full story.

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with DAVID DIXON From the variety of material one sees outside of local homes, clearly a lot of people are taking advantage of the Bulky & Scrap Metal Cleanup this month — so much so that some waste has been put out weeks before Council has asked.

For those in Council Week A — Recycling area bulky waste is to go-out this Sunday, February 14 for collection between February 15–26, but many residents have had stuff out for almost two-weeks!

It’s still a few weeks away before the JobKeeper payments cease, but businesses who have been relying-on these payments are starting to get nervous about what will happen when the support payments stop.

There’s no doubt that the impact will be significant for some business owners.

Recent survey by business group Sensis, found that 90 per cent of businesses, even those who are no longer using it, say it will impact their business in a negative fashion.

The next few weeks, as they say, is where the rubber really hits the road on our near 12-month business lockdown!

Controversial columnist Jeanine Bird certainly got the keyboards tapping following Newswatch Publisher Bob Holland’s offer for comments on her weekly column, Birds-Eye View.

More than a dozen letters were received for publication with about the same number coming-in anonymously.

Not to pour more fuel on this particular fire, but we’re planning on having an in-depth interview with Jeanine in a coming-edition, don’t miss it!

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Sunday February 14

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Orange Library trainees picnics and Lego fun day

Orange City Council Library trainees Claire Quinn and Andreas Kuegler have been preparing picnics and Lego sets for Library Lovers’ Day celebrations on Sunday, February 14, from 2–4pm.

Libraries around the world have reclaimed what is otherwise known as Valentine’s Day on Sunday, February 14, as Library Lovers’ Day. Friends of the library are invited to Orange City Library to share in refreshments, snacks and some fun time playing with new Lego sets to break the ice and get chatting.

Old tradition now followed by few…

Tuesday marks what used to be called in the Christian calendar, “Pancake Tuesday”; the start of the Lenten period in the Catholic and other Christian churches leading-up to Easter (everyone still knows that!)

Pancake Tuesday (on Tuesday, February 16) alternately known as “Mardi Gras” or “Carnival”, was a day to feast on all the leftover meats (from which the name “Carnival” and “Mardi Gras” derives) before the period of self-denial of Lent where good Christians traditionally give-up a vice — alcohol, swearing, or even the internet!

Next day is Ash Wednesday with many church denominations holding a special service, as the one at Holy Trinity this year in the Memorial Hall, rather than the Church itself.

Rise of “e-babies” born to online-met parents Within 18 years, babies born to parents who met online will be more common than babies born to couples who met via traditional means, according to a new report by an online dating service and Monash University.

Meeting through technology will increasingly be the norm, with projections suggesting 2040 as the year when more Aussie couples will meet online than offline.

This new report by experts at an online dating service and researchers from Monash Business School and the University’s Faculty of Information Technology, shines a light on the many

meaningful connections online dating creates.

Using a nationally representative survey of over 2000 Australians and projections from current trends in online dating, the authors of the report pinpoint 2038 as the year when more than half of babies born will be born to online couples.

Furthermore, by 2030, over a third of babies will be e-babies, which is huge leap forward considering just two decades ago online dating was very much in its infancy. In fact, even just a decade ago, few couples openly admitted they met online.

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New plans for Old Base Hospital site Orange City Council wants to guide future development plans for the western end of the former base hospital site in Prince Street, which could include townhouses and a four-storey apartment block.

The plan draft a new site-specific development control plan (DCP) for the area, to allow this type of development to go ahead, is on public exhibition for the next 28 days.

Orange Mayor Reg Kidd said the plan was to ensure a developer created a project on the site in line with Council’s ideas for the area.

“The aim of a Development Control Plan (DCP) is to guide certain types of development, and achieve particular development outcomes within certain areas,” Cr Kidd said.

“The new draft DCP is on exhibition is to change the DCP in order to control the type of housing to be built on the site by a developer once Council seels the site.

The plans are online at Orange City Council’s website and the deadline for submissions is March 12, 2021.

Council will also host a community information session where staff will be available to answer any questions the community has about the proposal.

The date for the community information session March 1, at Orange City Council Chambers, from 5.30pm. Please RSVP to aphillips@orange.nsw.gov.au by Friday, February 26.

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MILLION-DOLLAR BABIES… COST TO ENVIRONMENT OF EACH LOST TREE Arborists Jack and Garry Livingstone oppose removal of trees for sports precinct: “If you go to the Melbourne (Exceptional) Tree Register, which places proper values on the trees, one of those mature trees would be worth more than a million dollars,”

Million dollars per-tree, that could be the cost to our local environment, lifestyle, and eco-system for some of the 513 trees proposed for removal at the south Orange sports precinct.

previously-purchased by Orange Council for the stadium on a semi-rural part of north Orange, will allow the regenerating natural area to become a special green space for the growing south Orange locale.

“I’m dead against it,” Garry’s son Jack, with whom he runs a tree removal business, said.

“That area has so many mature trees and ones of heritage significance; they’ve taken decades to grow,” he said.

He added that modern tree valuing systems would price some of the mature trees at Bloomfield as having a huge dollar-worth to the local environment and in carbon abatement.

“If you go to the Melbourne (Exceptional) Tree Register, which places proper values on the trees, one of those mature trees would be worth more than a Well-known local arborists Garry and Jack million dollars,” he said.

Livingstone also estimate a cost to Council of about “They value trees, what they’re worth to the society $1 million in total to remove all the trees — many and the people; for them to go around and destroy decades old — at the de-commissioned Ex-Services 500 trees, is madness,” he said.

Golf course site at Bloomfield.

Both father and son cited cases where local They say that local property-owners often have to property-owners had faced almost insurmountable spend thousands of dollars in reports and studies bureaucratic barriers in removing trees on their to get permission to remove a couple of trees threatening their properties, but the same rules don’t properties that had become a danger to structures. seem to apply to Orange Council itself.

“I was talking to a bloke recently, who subdivided one block in north Orange into three smaller blocks, he Proposed removal of the mixed introduced and had a handful of eucalypts that had to be removed due native species on the chopping block in south Orange has elicited an overwhelming response from to danger to the houses; he said that it cost him three ratepayers with more than 70 responses recently to a years and $50,000 in tree reports to get it done,” Development Application (DA) to remove the trees as Jack said.

“It’s like ‘everybody else has a set of rules, but first stage of the sports stadium proposal. not us’.”

“Why can’t they find a green-fields site somewhere “I had a guy with one tree in William St over his else?” Gary asked. “it’s just so many trees, it’s just house, the owner had to go through the wringer to unbelievable,” he added. “It has the potential to be a better botanical gardens than the one we’ve got now,” remove one-tree, a eucalypt, and in the end had to say that Council would be liable if it fell on his house,” he said.

Garry added.

Orange City Council though believes that the $25 “Some people have to wait six-months to get a tree million sports precinct — which is to include an 8500-capacity rectangular sports stadium — is best- removed.” suited to the site adjacent to the former Bloomfield Both father and son also estimated that the charge of Hospital and incorporating the current Brabham the tree removal from the south Orange site would be Sport complex. in the order of seven-figures.

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remove, you’d be looking at six–eight-ten weeks work there,” Garry said.

He believes that this is too-high a price to pay for the tourism benefits of the odd elite sports evet at the stadium.

“They’d get one game a year, maybe, and lose all the visitors who would otherwise come to Orange for other things.”

He said that Council should instead be focussing on eco-tourism opportunities in the region.

“Up on Mount Canobolas you‘ve got the potential for some of the best mountain bike-riding in Australia,” he said.

Opponents of the siting of the sports precinct at south Orange also say that the area could become a focus for social and community events in the area.

“This regenerated native landscape could become an invaluable community asset for such events outside the capacity of Cook Park,” a residents’ spokesperson said.

“As Orange continues to grow, this is exactly the type of venue that Orange will need in the future.

The parklands area is adjacent to the unrivalled Bloomfield estate that was designed by the head gardener from the famous Kew Gardens near London.

“We stand to lose this amazing opportunity for a community parkland if Orange City Council proceeds with the Development Application (DA) to remove 513 trees,” the spokesperson added.

Garry disputed claims that a tall stand of Pinus Radiata on the northern edge of the sports precinct site typified the trees that would be removed.

“There’s a lot of a variety of trees on the site, eucalypts and other species.

“When I was at Orange TAFE, we used to go up there to identify trees as part of our course.”

He believes that Orange should be seeing the site as an asset, with the stadium going to its original site in north Orange: “It’s not the stadium, it’s the location.

“Orange is the greenest town west of the mountains, so much greener that Bathurst, than Dubbo, than Cowra, Lithgow…so to remove 500 trees from that, is criminal,” Garry concluded.

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Tunes could be future for post-COVID live shows

Success of this Summer’s Future Tunes concert in Robertson Park has seen more events added with the concept a model for post-coronavirus live performances in the Colour City.

Three more of the free Friday twilight concerts are now planned for February 26, March 12, and April 9 with artists yet to be announced.

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

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

Council’s Employment and Economic Development Policy Committee Chair, Councillor Tony Mileto said.

“It was an extension of the Future City program, it was an opportunity to give something back to the community on a cost-free basis; to promote local talent and encourage people to frequent local restaurants and hotels, that sort of thing,” he explained.

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

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

“The impression I got, is that people were very appreciative with the feedback very

positive,” he added.

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

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

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

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

Success of the program in a closedsection of Robertson Park could see it

continuing: “My view is that we, look at it again, the way it was conducted and to hold them in the future.”.

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

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

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

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

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YOUTH IN TROUBLE Quicker referrals, community Recognising the forum for those not coping, Clr warning signs youth suicides may be down in country areas, self-harm has increased. “This is a recurring problem, and we need to do something, but people think, ‘what can you do’?”

The former policeman has known of cases where a quicker referral to specialists — once the individual or family has made an approach for help — could literally have saved lives.

Life, as they say, is no walk across a field, and some of us find its difficulties a greater burden to bear than others.

“What I am being constantly told, is that people are not getting the treatment that they need readilyenough; I know of several locals who simply couldn’t get the assistance that they needed, their families couldn’t get them into care,” he explained.

Orange Councillor Tony Mileto (above) wants to do something to help those struggling under the pressures we all face in our daily lives.

He said he first ran for Orange City Council so as to advocate for a 24-hour specialised mental health facility which he believes is desperately-needed in the Orange area.

Following recent death of a young Orange footballer, he believes that enough is enough and wants a wholeof-community approach taken to this issue.

A forum in Orange bringing-together the community and experts in youth suicide could be one way to tackle the blight that inordinately impacts families in rural areas. There needs to be a greater focus on providing education around access to available services, he believes.

Reducing typically-long waiting times for referrals to health care specialists is another area where country towns could do better, he said.

Whilst statistics would indicate that

“I know it’s not Council’s area of responsibility, but I just think it’s one of those things that we should all be focussed on,” he said.

He said that the three questions that grieving family always want to know is: • Why did they do it?

• What could have been done if they had known about it?

• The impact of delayed treatment once they had seen that their son or daughter was in trouble.

“It’s that delayed period, from their first assessment to the next available appointment, that can be a month or up to six weeks. Now, that’s just too long a wait,” Cr Mileto believes. He said that whilst “skyping” may sometimes be an

option, it isn’t a solution to the problem.

“That’s why we need a 24-7 specialised mental health facility, it’s a youth mental health issue,” he said.

He said that the pressures of the recent drought, rural recession, bushfires, and the COVID-19 lockdown has placed increasing-pressures on vulnerable youth in towns like Orange and a new approach needs to be taken.

He said that he has spoken directly with the Minister for Mental Health, Regional Youth and Women, Bronnie Taylor regarding his concerns.

“We need something that involves the whole of the community, plus local experts and the State and Federal representatives, everyone we can get hold of,” he said.

He believes that, only where the collective experience of all sectors of our society are involved, can we begin to make some progress on the tragic loss of young life in our communities.

After a drop in the early 2000s following concerted Government efforts to stem the problem including the de-stigmatisation of mental health issues in our community, youth suicide rates have climbed again and are at near-record highs in Australia.

Cr Mileto believes that now is the time to act.

“There needs to be a public forum — not run by bureaucrats — but with stakeholders from the community and with mental health experts to try and nut-out some solutions.

“This is something that we should all be involved in,” he concluded.

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Research shows that nine out of 10 individuals who attempt self-harm have a history of mental illness or substance abuse, making these extremely important risk factors.

The warning signs include: • Noticeable changes in eating or sleeping habits; • Unexplained or unusually severe, violent, or rebellious behaviour; • Withdrawal from family or friends; • Sexual promiscuity, truancy, and vandalism; • Drastic personality change; • Agitation, restlessness, distress, or panicky behaviour; • Talking or writing about committing suicide, even jokingly; • Giving-away prized possessions.

• Doing worse in school.

How to help If you notice any of these warning signs in your child, you should take these steps: • Offer help and listen. Don’t ignore the problem.

What you’ve noticed may be the teen’s way of crying out for help. Offer support, understanding and compassion. Talk about feelings and the behaviours you have seen that cause you to feel concerned. You don’t need to solve the problem or give advice.

Sometimes just caring and listening, and being non-judgmental, gives all the understanding necessary.

• Get professional help. A teen at risk of suicide needs professional help. Even when the immediate crisis passes, the risk of suicidal behaviour remains high until new ways of dealing and coping with problems are learned.

• Don’t be afraid to take your child to a hospital emergency room if it is clear that he or she is planning suicide. You may not be able to handle the situation on your own.

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by DAVID DIXON

Still vacant after all these years, but the property now available for lease! 56 Turner Crescent Bel Air empty since a fire in about 2018.

THE LIGHTS ARE ON… BUT NOBODY’S HOME!

Mystery of two public housing properties in Bel Air — one apparently vacant for more than two years and the other for more than four months — has finally prompted some information from the Department involved.

After numerous phone calls and emails searching for a response from the Department of Communities and Justice — under which the Aboriginal Housing Office is administered — Newswatch got an answer… sort of.

Apparently, while no-one appears to have actually “lived” in these residences, they were in fact, and in one case, still are “leased” by “tenants”; if that makes sense.

And more good news, it is believed that the property at 56 Turner Crescent, which was restored late last year, is now available for tenancy, once the right family grouping required for a four-bedroom home are located.

The official response though from the mega-department “spokesperson” — in all its minute detail and creative flourishes — was:

“The NSW Government is delivering better social housing for individuals and families,” the spokesperson said, ignoring the delicious irony of defending the vacancy of houses for months on end...

“When a tenant vacates a property or relinquishes their lease, Land and Housing Corporation (LAHC) undergo a process to restore the property to a tenantable condition.” (In tenancy terms, the LAHC is the landlord of the property, while the Aboriginal Housing Corporation administers the lease agreement.)

See? it was all so simple: they’re doing the best they can under trying circumstances, and there is nothing for anyone to see here… and who says our public “servants” are not responsive to the community that

ultimately funds their generous pay and leave entitlements?

Apparently, the property at 56 Turner Crescent, damaged and abandoned after a fire in about 2018, was still “leased” (although unliveable) until the middle of last year, while the seemingly-abandoned property at 12 Nicole Drive still has “tenants” though a near-neighbour has seen no-one near the property for nearly five months…

“I’m fed-up, I’m over the joke,” the nearby resident to 12 Nicole Drive said. “No-one seems to want to do anything, someone got in touch with the police, but nothings been done with the house,” the resident said.

“I tried the department, but no luck, I just don’t’ know where else to turn” the Nicole Drive resident said.

s Public housing at 12 Nicole Drive, Bel Air. The lights are on, but nobody appears to be home. and we’re still waiting for a response,” Mr Donato said.

“Of course, I’m concerned if it’s been refurbished, then it should be tenanted.

“There is an endless number of people that literally wait years and years for public housing, it should be available and filled ASAP,” he said.

A neighbour of the residence repeated concerns about its lack of tenancy. “It’s unbelievable, you’ve got the community crying-out for accommodation and its vacant, it’s inexcusable,” the neighbour said.

Local member, Phil Donato for one is not happy

Newswatch late last year contacted NSW Housing, the Land and Housing Corporation, and eventually the Aboriginal Housing Office.

Local member, Phil Donato for one is not happy about the length of time the property at 56 Turner Crescent has been vacant and has already raised the issue with the Department from whom he expects a reply, in two months, maybe!

Mr Donato recently made presentations on the long-vacant Turner Crescent home, and eventually hopes to hear back from the Minister’s office.

“I have made presentations to the Minister, Melinda Pavey, about the house

“It is an Aboriginal Housing Office home… it has been refurbished and is ready to let,” a spokesperson said.

“I did some research and I’m not sure that it has been two years that it’s been vacant… but someone is going in very soon,” the spokesperson said in early December.

“Our aim was to get it in a great state, but I’m not sure why it’s taken two years,” the spokesperson said.

She said though that the responsibility to let the home is the responsibility of the manager of the property, the Land and

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Housing Corporation.

“It’s our house, but it’s managed by the Department of Communities and Justice through Public Housing of which we are a part, sort of.”

“The Land and Housing Corporation own the asset,” a spokesperson for Property NSW confirmed.

“It’s unbelievable, you’ve got the community crying-out for accommodation and there it sits, it’s inexcusable,” a near neighbour of the Turner Crescent property told Newswatch at the time.

“It could have made $50,000 in rent in that time, you’re looking at taxpayer’s dollars, it was mowed once and then went months without mowing.”

“You keep reading about all the homeless people in Orange, and yet here’s this perfectly good house just sitting there, empty. If it if was a private residence, you could have made thousands of dollars in rent, or been sold for maybe $500,000 dollars, easy.”

“I just don’t understand it, look at it, it looks fine, and yet it is still empty, it just doesn’t make any sense I’d like to see someone in there, that’s all,” the neighbour said. Well, after two long years, the property is likely to finally see some real people in residence.

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Eternal Promise

Local solves 99-year war graves mystery “I couldn’t say that I was upset, I was pleased, I was very fond of my grandmother and this is someone who would have known her, so that’s very special to me,” she added.

“We will remember them... Lest we forget” we all intone on Anzac Day.

Private Wrangham’s war had begun with a lie; at 50 he was probably too-old to sign-up after being born in Whitehaven in 1865, and so gave his age as 44.

Well, Sharon Jameson hasn’t forgotten…

The tenacious local family historian recently solved a 99-year mystery identifying and finding the nearest living relatives of an until-now unknown Digger from World War I. Touching ceremony at Orange cemetery recently saw a dedication for Private William Wrangham — born in distant Cumbria in northern England — with his great niece Elizabeth (Libby) Raynolds from Braidwood laying a wreath for the occasion.

“William was very close to being one of the forgotten but, due to a quirk of history, we now know who he is. His grave has been unmarked for 100 years,” local Federal Member, Andrew Gee said at the dedication.

Tireless (and sometimes) expensive online research by Sharon from the Orange Family History Group though has uncovered the mystery of one of the thousands of lone, sick, and injured soldiers, who returned from the Great War but were unable to enjoy the fruits of victory that they had won for others.

Invalidated out of the army in 1918, he died in Orange Base Hospital on May 17, 1921 with the local RSL paying for the service with former soldiers attending so as to save the indignity of what used to be called a “pauper's burial”.

However, his grave remained unmarked until Sharon’s detective work started in 2019 after she had seen a 98-yearold article in a paper of the day that had mentioned his burial.

“I saw an article in the Orange Leader on him from the time,” Sharon explained, “He had been in Western Australia driving a type of horse-drawn cart that was called a ‘jinker’ (a sulky) and that’s what he was doing in the War,” she said of William who was attached to the “Australian Army Veterinary Hospital.”

“After the war, he came here, we don’t know why, but he was in hospital (in France) with a friend (Reg Anorzlack) from Orange and may have come here to see his old companion,” Sharon guessed.

Searching the graves listings for Orange Cemetery, she was finally able — by a process of elimination — to identify William’s unmarked grave near Lone Pine Avenue.

But her work had only just begun. She then took-on the laborious bureaucratic task of first proving that the gravesite she had found was William’s and that he was then entitled to an Australian War Graves memorial.

Using online sites popular in researching family trees, she

At the outbreak of the European war in 1914, he was in Western Australian where he had gone to fossick for gold after arriving from England and originally settling in Victoria.

Lost, and now found, headstone for Private William Wrangham whose identity remained unknown for 99-years since the Great War.

Not forgotten… touching ceremony at Orange Cemetery recently saw a dedication for Private William Wrangham.

His great great niece Elizabeth (Libby) Raynolds is seen here with local historian who chased down Wrangham’s identity, Sharon Jameson.

was then able to chase-down William’s nearest living relative.

“I found her on Ancestry.com and simply sent her a note saying that we had found William,” Sharon said.

Ms Raynolds, who amazingly was from the same famous Lakes District of northern England as William — also home to the author, Beatrix Potter — was only too-happy to represent her family at the dedication.

“He was born only a couple of miles away from me in Cumbria in the western parts of the Lake District; my grandfather and all his brothers also signed-up and went to the Great War,” she added.

“I’m his great, great niece, he was my grandmother’s uncle,” Libby explained. The event, she said, was like discovering a part of her life that she had previously not known existed.

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He did his basic training at the Blackboy Hill Camp near Perth before embarking for France in 1916 where he drove for the hospital both in England and Calais before being hospitalised on two occasions after gas attacks for which he was eventually invalidated out in 1918 as medically-unfit.

Sharon’s searches found a family tree mentioning William’s family with descendants of his brother-in-law Mr J Mayers whom he had put as his next-of-kin when he signed-up, living in both Braidwood in southern NSW and at Ballarat in Victoria.

William was one of the thousands of Australian men who survived the Great War but eventually died from the horrendous health impacts of years of living under bombardment on a nearly daily basis.

His nearly two-years’ service saw him awarded the 1914–15 Star, the British War medal, and the Victory medal.

World War I (1914–1918), Mr Gee observed, had devastated “the flower of a generation” from every Australian town and village: “Those wounds still reverberate today, those wounds are still very raw… it is important that we pause and reflect on the extraordinary sacrifice, may we never forget it.

Thank-you William,” he concluded.

Chris Colvin from Orange Ex-Services Club conduced the Remembrance Service with Ministers Ann and Gary Neville reciting an older-form of the Lord’s Prayer that William would have been familiar with.

Sharon said after the service that the “hundreds of hours” that she had spent on the search now appeared to be worthwhile.

“It did not seem acceptable that a man who served this country should lay forgotten in the local cemetery,” she said in an historical note provided for the service.

“On the 18th December 2019, application was made to the Australian War graves Commission for an official commemoration to be placed on his grave. In December 2020, a full grave headstone was placed on this grave nearly 100 years after William Wrangham was interred there,” Sharon concluded.

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WHAT TO DO WITH ESSO PARK?

It’s not a high priority, but last week’s Council meeting spent some time discussing Esso Park so, for the Council Game this week, we thought we’d talk about this in a bit more detail.

For those who are wondering, Esso Park is a recreational area of sorts opposite Orange High School on Woodward Street and it’s adjacent to a couple of blocks of land which Council also owns but at present are vacant.

Council put a summary of what was decided on its website after the meeting.

‘Plans for Esso Park, opposite Orange High School were considered by last night’s meeting.

A number of options for the park have been floated including constructing links to council-owned vacant land on the corner of Summer and Woodward Streets.

Last night’s meeting decided to keep the park as it is, and move forward with the sale of 1 Summer Street.’

This issue came to Council because Councillor Russell Turner was successful with a Notice of Motion in November 2020 that ‘Council investigate the potential for extension of Esso Park.

Background Esso Park is a Neighbourhood Park across from Orange High School which Is used by students on occasion and residents of Hamer Street. Were the park to be realigned along the front of Summer St including blocks recently purchased by Council, there may be potential for the creation of housing blocks along Hamer Street in return and a chance to neatly formalise the Summer/Woodward corner to wider community benefit’.

1 Summer Street and 160 Woodward Street are two parcels of land owned by Council adjoining Esso Park. It is not clear what Council’s purpose was for the purchase of these parcels.

The Options that were tested are: Option 1 - Proposed a central through site link 6 metres wide to provide direct connection to the pedestrian crossing that would allow 6 housing lots to be created.

Option 2 - Proposed a meandering through site link of 6 metres wide connected to the pedestrian crossing and providing access and egress at the southernmost corner of the site. This would allow 5 housing lots.

Option 3 – retains the existing through site link and would allow 6 housing lots.

Option 4 – to retain the uses of the existing parcels and investigate the development/divestment options for 1 Summer Street and 160 Woodward Street.

From Mock Mayor Amanda Spalding

It appears that at least part of the reason for a large number of Councillors choosing to speak in favour of no change to the park, was that residents of adjoining Hamer Street were in the Public Gallery! This is one of the issues worth watching Council on YouTube, (which is a great legislative innovation), as it is not clear who is in the Public Gallery and whether Councillors are playing to an audience.

I have worked for some Councils that were bewitched by members of the public attending Council meetings and making it clear which side of any issue they were on. At Manly Council, there were 33,000 residents and, yet, if 10 or 20 people turned up, Councillors seemed to think that these people were representing widespread views! I recall one ghastly meeting when both sides of a Development Application issue spoke in the Public Forum before the meeting and then each of the Councillors attempted to mediate between the two sides in the course of the meeting!! Manly Council could go on after midnight if we all moved our cars out of the car park that closed at 12!!! It is good that Orange City Council has to stop at 10.30pm.

I imagine that this populism, by some of the Councillors playing to the Gallery, was disappointing to both Councillor Turner and the staff who had developed option testing, that the proposals for change were not given more rational consideration.

I also noticed that there is an element in the report that says:

This approach to risk is very disturbing and seems destined to result in no progress being made. I am a great believer in community engagement and accountability, but shying away from trying to achieve objectives, rather than properly considering the issues, is a poor way to manage risks.

I am not clear whether Council has considered its risk appetite, - which is the degree of risk that the organisation is prepared to accept in pursuit of its strategic objectives and business plan.

Risk management should consider how to ensure opportunities to achieve objectives are not missed as well as considering when the risks involved are too high. The risk management comments made in the report add to the enduring perception that Council does not have strategic objectives and just considers issues as they pop up in someone’s mind!

I have to confess that I have not read the Affordable Housing Strategy, but I would have thought that finding areas for affordable housing was a priority for Council.

There are a number of parks in Orange that seem to be missing a purpose. If you look on Google Earth you will see a large number of open spaces that do not appear to have a clear purpose, for example – Memory, Centenary, Total, Colvin and Esso Parks. I am accustomed to Councils having a hierarchy of parks with management plans that include their purpose.

I understand that Orange is an RV friendly town, but it does appear that there are not many rest stops with parking places for caravans and trailers.

The two sets of traffic lights on Woodward Street make any proposed vehicular access to the Park difficult.

Some Councillors suggested that the name of Esso Park should be changed.

Some other people have suggested that the name is part of the heritage, but it seems that the word ‘Esso’, having

‘Further Consideration The recommendation of this report has been assessed against Council’s other key risk categories and the following comments are provided: Image and Reputation

Consideration should be given to the potential publicity that may arise with such a proposal. It is common that the rezoning of public land for residential purpose can draw significant attention.

Political

Council should have consideration for the public’s reaction regarding reclassification and rezoning of public land for housing purposes.’

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been a petroleum purveyor in the past is interpreted by search engines to be Caltex, so if you search for it you will be directed to a Petrol Station, I do agree that the name of the park should be changed.

From Mock Councillor Dr Steve Peterson ‘House and land prices in Orange are very high. If part of the redevelopment could be having some of that land allocated for residential units, it would be useful money for Council to put towards other services. Cook Park is close by for green space needs.’

From Mock Councillor Frances Kinghorne ‘I’ve lived in Orange for 35 years and went to Esso Park for the first time on Sunday. Since hearing about it at the Council meeting, I thought it would be good to see what the issues were. It’s an odd place - a nice space but a bit boring and the parking area is just plain weird. I can see why the Hamer St residents are somewhat possessive of it, but it would be great to see it revamped to be a space where people actually want to go. A walking/exercise circuit around the edge would be good, and some more imaginative plantings. We want people to increase their physical activity and they’re more likely to do so if there’s an inviting space in which to do it.’

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ESSO PARK impasse part of wider parkland dilemma

— Cr Turner

Not all public parks are created equal; and Orange City Councillor Russell Turner wants to do something about it.

The sold land would provide much-needed housing in one of Orange’s quietest streets while utilising the land running alongside the Mitchell Highway to be added to the park.

While everyone loves the amount of public land in the Colour City, some portions of it could be consolidated for other uses, he believes.

“We’ve tried to sell the site of the old corner store for some time, but it’s on one of the busiest roundabouts in Orange and we’ve had no luck; with this proposal, we add the land to the park and develop the other side of the park for housing,” he explained.

Following the torpedoing of his efforts to consolidate and sell-off a portion of Esso Park opposite Orange High School recently, he says that an assessment should made on all parkland areas in Orange to rate their value.

Cr Turner received unanimous support late last year from his fellow councillors to examine hiving-off a portion of land for houses on the Hamer Street side of Esso Park and to then add other Council land adjacent to make the park larger.

“Council purchased the former Shell Service Station site and the old corner store, Aspros at 1 Summer Street, a number of years ago, all that land would be added into the park and we could still allow access for people on Hamer St,” he said.

Recent protests from Hamer St area residents at the full-Council meeting though saw Cr Turner as the only voice supporting more detailed work on the sell-off proposal.

“I first raised the issue on November 3 last year with a motion to investigate extension of Esso Park with the sub-division of the land on the eastern side to be further investigated.”

“We’d still have ample access for residents with access for Council work crews and the like, and we’d pull this old Colourbond fence down.

“This would more than replace the land lost. The park will be bigger with child-proofing along the highway,” he explained.

Wandering-around the sad little patch of ground that the park currently comprises with a dusty car-park at its western edge, he believes that the result would be a winall-round for both ratepayers and residents.

“The park seems to get very little use at the moment, this will encourage more use,” he believes.

Sale of the land would also raise about $1.5 million for Council coffers — money Council has been unable to recoup on the unsold property fronting the highway.

However, his efforts to further-investigate and fleshout the proposal at the recent meeting, saw a complete about-face with Council voting to retain the park as is and again attempt to sell the land at 1 Summer St. “The councillors certainly rolled-over in this instance,”

he observed wryly.

“I’m disappointed. When I first brought it up, everyone thought it was a good idea. Now all I wanted to do was to continue the assessment, to have a feasibility study as the next stage with a detailed proposal,” he added.

Esso Park though is only part of a wider problem, he believes, which Council at some time will have to face.

That is, small portions of parkland that have come under Council control, but which serve little effective purpose and whose original aim is probably no longer known.

“There’s dozens of them around Orange, they’re everywhere,” Cr Turner said, pointing to small patches of “parkland” all along the Mitchell Highway in Orange.

“Some were created way back; we don’t even know when. Others were some small lots set-aside as public land as part of subdivisions,” he explained.

He said that an assessment of all these small allotments (some pictured below) should be made cataloguing their relative value, use, and aesthetics, but he’s not holdingout hope.

“The next Council might, but not in this term,” he said of the current councillors who face an election in September.

He said that an assessment could see smaller lots of area sold-off with larger portions upgraded and revived to encourage greater public use of their suburban green space.

“It would probably involve selling-off some of the small lots, but it’s probably too-emotive an issue,” he concluded.

Cr Russell Turner: Disappointed that proposal to consolidate Esso Park was knockedback: “The park seems to get very little use at the moment, this will encourage more use.”

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PHOTO NEWSbriefs

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From Venus to rusty apples…

Garden-gnomes; Venus statues, and sundials once featured as garden-art in Orange, but bespoke, rusty works like this interpretive apple are now the trend in the Colour City.

Off to Botanic Gardens Sophia and William Nielsen sun-safe and ready to go for a recent visit with Mum and Dad to Orange Botanical Gardens.

Promote show, but fair’s fair Coronavirus has been particularly-hard on carnival ride operators who spent most of 2020 without any country fairs which are their lifeblood.

One can support the Fun Fair at Orange Showground the last few weekends while also objecting to the million signs stuck around the town with the highway past McDonalds towards Harvey Norman having them on almost every tree protector and fence.

While this may be strictly-against Council regulations (but highlyunlikely to be prosecuted) there’s no excuse for them being placed around traffic signs, which is not only illegal, but also dangerous. If they are all-removed post-Show, no long-term harm is likely to ensue.

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PHOTO NEWSbriefs

Bard from the bush remembered Bard from the Bush — and counted as Orange’s own — Banjo Paterson, is being remembered with street names in a new sub-division in east Orange.

While Newswatch enjoys a rollicking Patterson yarn like “Mulga Bill’s Bicycle” as much as the next bush poet, the relative lack of recognition locally for another of our great poets, Kenneth Slessor — born Kenneth Adolphe Schloesser in east Orange in 1901 — can be, at times, a little puzzling.

Putting-on a new face Not a classic example of fine public architecture, to be sure, but someone seems to have decided to give the old State Government office block at the corner of Anson St and Kite Street, a bit of a facelift.

Fixing a hole, where the rain gets in…

While it’s never going to be the Sydney Opera House, it’s amazing what a change of colour scheme and a few awnings can do for a brutalist concrete travesty from the 1970s or 1980s.

Orange Council staff using hot-mix recently to patch some of the numerous pot-holes that regularly-appear on Wakeford Avenue in east Orange.

One of the unfortunate side-effects of our current La Nina (high rainfall) weather pattern, is increased damage to roads as water seeps down into the road surface with vehicles gradually breakingdown these wet-points and creating the now-ubiquitous pot-hole.

Lucknow to join Metro line Shut for many years before re-opening for about another five, work has now started on demolition of the old 1960s-style petrol station at Lucknow.

The station is being replaced with a brand-spanking new Metro franchise operation likely to take two–three months to complete. After witnessing many service stations closing down from the 1970s to the 2000s, a flurry of new stations — often family-owned — have popped-up around Orange over the past 10 years.

These invariably offer long-opening hours, a wellstocked mini-mart, hot fast-food, barely-drinkable coffee, and considerably-cheaper fuel than one often pays in the Harbour City!

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Saturday, February 13

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6.00 Rage.

7.00 Weekend Breakfast.

10.00 Rage.

11.00 Rage Retro Month.

12.00 ABC News At Noon.

12.30 Employable Me Australia.

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

2.20 Making Child Prodigies.

3.30 Dream Gardens.

4.00 Ask The Doctor. Final.

4.30 Landline Summer.

5.00 Soccer. A-League. Round 8. Western United v Sydney FC. From AAMI Park, Melbourne.

7.00 ABC News.

7.30 Death In Paradise.

8.30 Call The Midwife.

9.30 Endeavour.

11.05 Harrow.

11.55 Call The Midwife. 12.55 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. 3.00 Jupiter Revealed. 4.00 Railway Journeys UK. 4.35 Remarkable Places To Eat. 5.35 Secret Nazi Bases.

6.30 SBS World News.

7.30 Going Places With Ernie Dingo.

8.05 Michael Portillo’s Abandoned Britain.

9.00 MOVIE: Harry Brown. (2009) Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer. An elderly ex-marine decides to take revenge on some local lowlifes after his best friend is murdered. (MA15+) 10.55 MOVIE: The Pianist. (2002) Adrien Brody.

(MA15+) 1.30 Atlanta. 4.00 Great British Railway Journeys.

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

Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs.

12.00 Teletubbies. 12.15 In The Night Garden.

12.45 Clangers. 2.15 Get Grubby TV. 2.45 Little J And Big Cuz. 3.00 Curious George. 3.30 Play School. 4.10 Wiggle. 5.10 Luo Bao Bei. 5.35 Peter Rabbit. 5.55 Ben And Holly. 6.35 Thomas. 7.00 Catie’s Amazing Machines. 7.15 Sir Mouse. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 QI. 8.30 Live At The Apollo. 9.20 Ross Noble: Stand Up Series. 9.50 Would I Lie To You? 10.20 New Whose Line Is It Anyway USA. 10.45 Mock The Week. Final. 11.15 Michael McIntyre: Hello Wembley! 12.00 Escape From The City. 12.55 Chris Ramsey’s Stand Up Central. 1.50 Red Dwarf A-Z. 2.25 Close. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.40 Waffle The Wonder Dog.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

8.30 Macedonian News. 9.00 Croatian News.

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

11.35 Hindi News. 12.00 MOVIE: Tank Girl. (1995) 2.00 New Girl. 3.00 Insight. 4.00 PBS News.

5.00 ABC America: World News Tonight. 5.30 Basketball. NBL. Round 5. Melbourne United v Cairns Taipans. 7.30 The Last Man On Earth. 7.55 8 Out Of 10 Cats. 8.30 The X-Files. 11.00 Tent And Sex. 11.30 7 Days Of Sex. 12.20 MOVIE: Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings. (2018) 2.45 France 24. 3.00 Thai News. 3.30 Bangla News. 4.00 Punjabi News. 4.30 Sri Lankan Sinhalese News.

5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs.

11.30 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 Larry The Wonderpup. 2.05 Danger Mouse. 2.20 Thunderbirds Are Go. 2.50 Radiant. 3.15 Boruto: Naruto Next Generations. 3.35 Dragon Ball Super. 4.05 Prank You Very Much. 4.30 Malory Towers. 4.55 100 Things To Do Before High School. 5.20 Dogstar. 6.00 Dragons: Race To The Edge. 6.30 Robot Wars. 7.35 All Hail King Julien. 8.00 Slugterra. 8.20 Danger Mouse. 9.05 TMNT. 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. 11.45 Dance Boss.

1.15 The Amazing Race.

3.15 Britain’s Got Talent.

5.15 MOVIE: Planes. (2013) 7.00 MOVIE: The Sound Of Music. (1965) Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker.

10.40 To Be Advised.

1.00 Home Shopping. 2.00 MOVIE: Step Lively.

(1944) Frank Sinatra, George Murphy, Gloria DeHaven. 4.00 Blindspot.

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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 Travel Man. 3.35 Cycling. Road National Championships. Women’s Race. Highlights. 4.35 Cycling. Road National Championships. Men’s Race. Highlights. 5.35 Secret Nazi Bases.

6.30 SBS World News.

7.30 Diana: Interview That Shocked The World.

8.50 Princess Anne At 70.

10.05 Filthy Rich And Homeless.

11.15 24 Hours In Police Custody.

12.10 Michael Mosley: Guts.

1.05 Body Clock: What Makes Us Tick?

2.05 Michael Mosley: Frontline Medicine.

4.20 Great British Railway Journeys.

5.00 CGTN English News.

5.15 NHK World English News.

5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.

Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs.

12.00 Teletubbies. 12.15 In The Night Garden.

12.45 Clangers. 2.15 Get Grubby TV. 2.45 Little J And Big Cuz. 3.00 Curious George. 3.30 Play School. 4.10 Wiggle. 5.10 Luo Bao Bei. 5.35 Peter Rabbit. 5.55 Ben And Holly. 6.45 Andy’s Safari Adventures. 7.00 Catie’s Amazing Machines.

7.15 Sir Mouse. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Compass. 8.30 Louis Theroux: The Most Hated Family In America. 9.30 Enslaved. 10.30 Catalyst. 11.25 Leaving Allen Street. 12.20 You Can’t Ask That. 12.45 Restoration Australia. 1.40 Chris Ramsey’s Stand Up Central. 2.05 Would I Lie To You? 2.40 Close. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.40 Waffle The Wonder Dog. 5.55 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

6.30 SBS Courtside. 7.00 Basketball. NBA. Phoenix Suns v Philadelphia 76ers. 9.30 WorldWatch. 12.00 Untold Australia. 1.00 The Feed. 2.00 Dateline. 2.30 WorldWatch. 3.00 Basketball. NBL. Round 5. Sydney Kings v Illawarra Hawks. 5.00 Basketball. NBL. Round 5.

South East Melbourne Phoenix v Perth Wildcats.

7.00 Abandoned Places. Final. 7.30 The Last Man On Earth. 7.55 8 Out Of 10 Cats. 8.35 Why Women Kill. 9.30 United Shades Of America.

10.20 Letterkenny. 11.15 Sexplora. 11.40 Box 21.

12.35 MOVIE: Soundtrack. (2017) 2.35 France 24.

3.00 Thai News. 3.30 Bangla News. 4.00 Punjabi News. 4.30 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 11.00 Find Me In Paris. 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.

1.50 The Rubbish World Of Dave Spud. 2.15 Thunderbirds Are Go. 2.35 Deadly Dinosaurs.

3.05 Teenage Boss. 3.35 Horrible Histories. 4.00 Prank You Very Much. 4.30 Malory Towers.

4.55 100 Things To Do Before High School.

5.20 Dogstar. 6.00 Dragons: Race To The Edge.

6.30 Robot Wars. 7.35 All Hail King Julien. 8.00 Slugterra. 8.20 Danger Mouse. 9.05 TMNT. 9.30 The Legend Of Korra. 9.55 Rage. 1.55 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.

11.30 Britain’s Got Talent.

1.30 The Big Music Quiz.

3.30 Instant Hotel.

6.00 MOVIE: Valentine’s Day. (2010) Ashton Kutcher.

8.30 First Dates Australia.

12.00 Bridezillas. 1.00 Seven Year Switch. 3.00 Weird, True And Freaky. 4.00 The Resident.

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

1.30 Destination Dessert.

2.00 My Market Kitchen.

2.30 Australia By Design: Innovations.

3.00 What’s Up Down Under.

3.30 Freshly Picked With Simon Toohey.

4.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield.

4.30 Farm To Fork.

5.00 10 News First.

6.00 Bondi Rescue.

7.00 Three Blue Ducks. New. 7.30 Ambulance.

11.00 Inside The Children’s Hospital.

11.30 NCIS. 12.30 Home Shopping.

5.00 Hour Of Power.

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Newstyle (52) 6.00 Direct.

6.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

10.00 Australian Open Tennis Pre-Show.

11.00 Tennis. Australian Open. Day 6. From Melbourne Park.

6.00 Tennis. Australian Open. Night 6. From Melbourne Park. This year’s tournament marks the 109th Australian Open and the first Grand Slam event of 2021.

11.00 Law & Order.

12.00 Timeless.

1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

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Kids’ Programs.

(53) 6.00 11.30 Tom And Jerry.

12.00 Ironman. Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain IronMan and IronWoman Series. Round 2. 2.00 Surfing Australia TV. 2.30 Xtreme Collxtion. 3.30 Liquid Science. 4.00 MOVIE: Spy Kids 2: Island Of Lost Dreams. (2002) 6.00 Tennis. Australian Open.

Day 6. 7.00 MOVIE: The Lost World: Jurassic Park. (1997) Jeff Goldblum. 9.30 MOVIE: R.I.P.D. (2013) Ryan Reynolds, Jeff Bridges, Mary-Louise Parker. 11.20 Stunt Science. 12.20 Lethal Weapon.

2.20 Xtreme Collxtion. 3.30 Thunderbirds. 4.30 Pokémon: BW Adventures In Unova And Beyond.

4.50 Rev & Roll. 5.10 Kaijudo: Rise Of The Duel Masters. 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh!

6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 8.30 Travel Oz. 10.00 NBC Today. 12.30 Creek To Coast. 1.00 House Of Wellness. 2.00 Sydney Weekender. 2.30 The Great Australian Doorstep.

3.15 Dog Patrol. 3.45 Property Ladder UK. 5.00 Horse Racing. Black Caviar and Apollo Stakes Day. 5.30 The Great Outdoors: Greatest Escapes.

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 Sydney Weekender. 4.00 Creek To Coast. 4.30 Her Majesty’s Theatre. 5.00 Home Shopping.

Step Outside (63) 6.00 With Paul Burt.

7.00 The Big Adventure. 8.30 Home Shopping.

9.00 Pawn Stars. 9.30 Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction. 10.30 Cycling. Santos Tour Down Under. Highlights. 11.30 Your 4x4. 12.00 On Tour With Allan Border. 12.30 Timbersports. 1.00 Blokesworld. 1.30 Aussie Dreamlivers Alaska.

2.00 Travel Mates. New. 2.30 Shipping Wars. 3.00 Football. AFL Women’s. Round 3. GWS Giants v Gold Coast Suns. 5.00 Desert Collectors. 6.00 Ultimate Factories. 7.00 Building Giants. 8.00 Mighty Ships. 9.00 Mighty Cruise Ships. 10.00 Air Crash Investigation. 12.00 Shipping Wars. 12.30 Desert Collectors. 2.30 Late Programs.

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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 Friends.

7.00 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. 8.00 Becker.

9.00 The King Of Queens. 10.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 11.00 Frasier. 12.00 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. 1.00 The Neighborhood. 1.30 The Middle. 2.30 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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WIN (8)

6.00 Home Shopping. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise.

10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. 12.00 House Of Wellness. 1.00 Holey Moley Australia.

4.00 Better Homes And Gardens.

5.00 Seven News At 5.

5.30 Sydney Weekender.

6.00 Seven News.

7.00 Holey Moley Australia.

8.30 MOVIE: Shooter. (2007) Mark Wahlberg, Michael Peña, Kate Mara. A sniper tries to prove his innocence after he is framed by rogue elements within the US government for the attempted assassination of the president.

However, it is no easy task as he finds himself pursued by every law enforcement agency in the country. (MA15+) 11.00 World’s Deadliest: Twist Of Fate.

12.00 Medical Emergency.

12.30 Home Shopping.

5.00 Seven Early News.

5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 Easy Eats.

7.00 Weekend Today.

10.00 Australian Open Tennis Pre-Show.

11.00 Tennis. Australian Open. Day 7. From Melbourne Park.

6.00 Nine News.

7.00 Tennis. Australian Open. Night 7. From Melbourne Park. This year’s tournament marks the 109th Australian Open and the first Grand Slam event of 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the competition was delayed by three weeks in order to give players time to quarantine for two weeks on arrival in Australia.

12.00 Chicago Med. 1.00 Our State On A Plate.

1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

4.00 Take Two. 5.00 News Early Edition.

5.30 Today.

6.00 Mass For You At Home. 6.30 Hillsong. 7.00 Leading The Way With Dr Michael Youssef. 7.30 Fishing Australia. 8.00 Good Chef Bad Chef. 8.30 Australia By Design: Innovations. 9.00 Luca’s Key Ingredient. 9.30 Studio 10: Sunday.

12.00 10 Minute Kitchen.

12.30 Left Off The Map. 1.00 My Market Kitchen.

1.30 Three Blue Ducks.

2.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield.

2.30 Farm To Fork.

3.00 Bondi Rescue.

4.00 The Amazing Race Australia.

5.00 10 News First.

6.30 The Sunday Project.

7.30 The Amazing Race Australia.

9.00 FBI: Most Wanted.

11.00 The Sunday Project.

12.00 Home Shopping.

4.30 CBS This Morning.

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

8.30 The Incredible Journey Presents. 9.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.00 Australian Open Tennis Pre-Show.

11.00 Tennis. Australian Open. Day 7.

6.00 Tennis. Australian Open. Night 7.

8.00 Death In Paradise.

9.10 Chicago P.D. 10.10 Chicago Fire.

11.05 Chicago Med. 12.05 Bizarre E.R. 1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.30 Joyce Meyer. 5.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

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Kids’ Programs.

(53) 6.00 11.30 Lego Jurassic World: Legend Of Isla Nublar. 12.00 Ironman.

Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain IronMan and IronWoman Series. Round 3. 2.00 Dance Moms. 4.00 MOVIE: Material Girls. (2006) 6.00 Tennis. Australian Open. Night 7. 7.00 MOVIE: Stargate. (1994) Kurt Russell. 9.30 MOVIE: Stargate: The Ark Of Truth. (2008) Ben Browder, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks. 11.30 Lethal Weapon. 1.20 Surfing Australia TV. 1.50 Dance Moms. 3.30 Thunderbirds. 4.30 Pokémon: BW Adventures In Unova And Beyond. 4.50 LEGO Friends: Girls On A Mission. 5.10 Lego Jurassic World: Legend Of Isla Nublar. 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh!

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

12.00 Her Majesty’s Theatre.

12.30 The Great Outdoors: Greatest Escapes.

1.30 Harry’s Practice.

2.30 The Yorkshire Vet. 4.30 Escape To The Country.

8.30 Wild Bill.

9.30 Miniseries: Bancroft. Return.

11.30 World’s Most Amazing Videos.

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

Home (63) 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction. 7.30 Home Shopping. 9.30 Classic Restos: USA Edition.

10.00 Timbersports. 10.30 Shipping Wars. 11.00 River To Reef: Retro. 12.00 The Fishing Show.

1.00 Football. AFL Women’s. Round 3. Adelaide v Fremantle. 3.00 Football. AFL Women’s. Round 3.

Brisbane Lions v Collingwood. 5.00 Counting Cars. 6.00 Last Car Garage. 6.30 Border Patrol.

7.00 MOVIE: Thor: The Dark World. (2013) Chris Hemsworth. 9.15 MOVIE: Captain America: The Winter Soldier. (2014) Chris Evans, Samuel L Jackson, Scarlett Johansson. 12.00 Graveyard Carz. 1.00 Blokesworld. 1.30 Late Programs.

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

7.30 NCIS. 9.25 NCIS: Los Angeles.

10.20 48 Hours.

11.20 NCIS: Los Angeles. 12.15 NCIS: New Orleans.

2.10 CSI: Miami. 3.05 Star Trek: Voyager. 4.05 Star Trek: Enterprise. 5.05 The Doctors.

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Fam. (82) 6.00 6.30 The Brady Bunch. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory.

9.00 Neighbours.

11.30 The Neighborhood.

1.00 To Be Advised.

2.00 The Middle.

3.30 Friends.

6.00 The Big Bang Theory.

9.00 Friends.

10.30 2 Broke Girls.

12.00 Home Shopping.

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

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

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

10.55 ABC Late News. 11.25 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch.

(3) 6.30 This Week.

7.30 WorldWatch. 2.00 Destination Flavour China. 2.30 Luke Nguyen’s Railway Vietnam.

3.00 Singapore 1942: End Of Empire. 5.05 Letters And Numbers. 5.35 Jeopardy! 6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 News. 7.35 The Architecture The Railways Built. 8.30 24 Hours In Emergency. 9.25 The Story Of The Songs.

10.20 SBS News. 10.50 Outlander. 11.55 Late Programs.

Sunrise.

(6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: Killing Mommy. (2016) 2.00 What The Killer Did Next. 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.

9.00 9-1-1. 10.00 The Rookie. 11.00 World’s Deadliest Weather: Caught On Camera. 12.00 Late Programs.

6.00 Today.

(5) 10.00 Australian Open Tennis Pre-Show.

11.00 Tennis. Australian Open. Day 8.

6.00 Nine News.

7.00 Tennis. Australian Open. Night 8.

12.00 Chicago Med. 1.00 Our State On A Plate.

1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 2.30 Global Shop. 3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.00 Take Two. 5.00 News Early Edition. 5.30 Today.

6.00 Headline News.

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

8.40 Hughesy, We Have A Problem. 9.40 The Graham Norton Show. 10.40 The Project. 11.40 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.40 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 1.30 Late Programs.

(22) 6.00 Kids’ Programs. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Doctor Who. 8.45 Quoll Farm. 9.45 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces. Final. 10.35 Escape From The City. 11.35 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. 12.20 Would I Lie To You? 12.50 Parks And Recreation. 1.10 Reno 911! 1.35 W1A. 2.05 Back In Very Small Business. 2.40 Close. 5.00 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

9.30 SBS Courtside. 10.00 NBA. Timberwolves v Raptors. 12.30 World Of Sports. 1.00 DNA Nation. 2.00 Oak Island. 2.55 Hunting Hitler.

3.45 WorldWatch. 4.10 This Week. 5.05 Only Connect. 5.40 Shortland St. 6.10 Abandoned Engineering. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Taskmaster. 9.25 RocKwiz. 10.20 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning (62) Programs. 10.45 MOVIE: The Falcon Takes Over. (1942) 12.00 House Of Wellness. 1.00 Cold Feet. 2.00 Harry’s Practice. 2.30 Million Dollar Minute.

3.30 The Great Australian Doorstep. 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Doc Martin. 8.30 Foyle’s War. 10.40 Autopsy USA. 11.50 Late Programs.

TV Shop: (52) 6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. 7.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 9.30 Danoz Direct. 10.00 Australian Open Tennis Pre-Show. 11.00 Tennis.

Australian Open. Day 8. 6.00 Tennis. Australian Open. Night 8. 8.00 Grantchester. 9.10 DCI Banks. 11.10 Three Days To Live. New. 12.05 Live Well For Longer. 1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 1.30 Late Programs.

Home (81) 6.00 Shopping.

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

5.30 Star Trek: Enterprise. 6.30 Bondi Rescue.

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

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 4.05 Prank You Very Much. 4.30 Malory Towers.

4.55 100 Things To Do Before High School.

5.20 Dogstar. 6.00 Dragons: Race To The Edge.

6.30 Operation Ouch! Hospital Takeover. 7.00 Teenage Boss. 7.35 All Hail King Julien. 8.00 Slugterra. 8.30 Camp Lakebottom. 9.05 TMNT. 9.30 The Legend Of Korra. 9.55 Rage. 10.55 Close. 5.40 Kids’ Programs.

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

10.30 House Rules. 12.00 Blindspot. 2.00 Life Sentence. 3.00 Splitting Up Together. 3.30 The Goldbergs. 5.00 How I Met Your Mother. 6.00 Futurama. 6.30 The Simpsons. 7.30 Modern Family. 8.30 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares.

10.30 Ramsay’s Hotel Hell. 11.30 Hell’s Kitchen USA. 12.30 Late Programs.

Morning (63) 6.00 Programs.

12.00 Swamp People. 1.00 Ax Men. 2.00 Last Car Garage. 2.30 Motor Racing. TCR Australia Touring Car Series. Round 1. Highlights. 3.30 Counting Cars. 4.30 Road Hauks. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars.

7.30 Restoration Workshop. 8.30 MOVIE: Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice. (2016) Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill. 11.30 Late Programs.

Kids’ Programs.

(53) 6.00 11.00 Dance Moms.

12.00 Royal Pains. 1.00 The Mindy Project.

2.00 Monster Croc Wrangler. 3.00 The Six Million Dollar Man. 4.00 The A-Team. 5.00 The Nanny. 5.30 Nine News Local. 6.00 Tennis.

Australian Open. Night 8. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 RBT. 8.30 MOVIE: Den Of Thieves. (2018) 11.15 Paranormal Caught On Camera. 12.15 Quantum Leap. 1.10 Bromans. 2.10 Late Programs.

(82) 6.00 Morning Programs. 8.00 The Neighborhood. 9.30 The Big Bang Theory. 11.00 Cheers. 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Medium. 2.00 Two And A Half Men. 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond.

4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 Two And A Half Men. 11.00 The Middle. 11.30 Late Programs.

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6.00 Easy Eats.

7.00 Weekend Today.

10.00 Australian Open Tennis Pre-Show.

11.00 Tennis. Australian Open. Day 6. From Melbourne Park.

6.00 Nine News Saturday.

7.00 Tennis. Australian Open. Night 6. From Melbourne Park. This year’s tournament marks the 109th Australian Open and the first Grand Slam event of 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the competition was delayed by three weeks in order to give players time to quarantine for two weeks on arrival in Australia.

12.00 Chicago Med. 1.00 Customs.

1.30 Award Winning Tasmania.

2.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

4.30 Global Shop.

5.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

5.30 Wesley Impact.

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

12.00 ABC News At Noon.

12.30 Landline.

1.30 Gardening Australia.

2.35 Australia Remastered.

3.30 The Mix. 4.00 Soccer. W-League. Round 8. Sydney FC v Brisbane Roar.

6.00 Antiques Roadshow.

7.00 ABC News Sunday.

7.40 Quoll Farm.

8.40 Harrow.

9.30 Silent Witness.

10.35 Killing Eve. 11.15 Wentworth.

12.05 Endeavour. Final.

1.35 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 Horse Racing. Black Caviar and Apollo Stakes Day. 5.00 Seven News At 5.

5.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line.

6.00 Seven News.

7.00 MOVIE: Thor. (2011) Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman. After being cast out of the realm of Asgard by his father, Thor, the god of thunder, finds himself bereft of his powers. (M) 9.20 MOVIE: Thor: The Dark World. (2013) Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston.

After Jane Foster falls victim to a mysterious force, Thor must battle to save Earth and the Nine Realms from a shadowy enemy that predates the universe itself before a catastrophic prophecy can come to fruition. (M) 11.35 Surveillance Oz Dashcam.

12.05 MOVIE: The End Of Eden. (1996) Jennie Garth. A pianist returns to his roots. (M) 2.00 Home Shopping.

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TVguide News (2) 6.00 Breakfast. 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Four Corners. 11.00 Our Dementia Choir. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Call The Midwife. 2.00 Parliament Question Time. 3.15 ABC News Afternoons. 4.00 The Heights. 4.30 Back Roads. 5.00 Restoration Australia. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News.

7.30 7.30. 8.00 Foreign Correspondent. 8.30 Catalyst. Return. 9.30 Australia Remastered.

10.25 QI. 10.55 ABC Late News. 11.30 Q+A. 12.35 Wentworth. 1.20 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch. 2.05 (3) Destination Flavour China. 2.35 Luke Nguyen’s Railway Vietnam.

3.10 David Baddiel On The Silk Road. 4.05 Who Do You Think You Are? 5.05 Letters And Numbers. 5.35 Jeopardy! 6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 News. 7.30 Great Continental Railway Journeys. Final. 8.35 24 Hours In Emergency. 9.30 Dog Tales. 10.30 SBS News.

11.00 The Pier. Return. 12.00 Borgen. 4.30 Railway Journeys UK. 5.00 CGTN English News.

5.15 Late Programs.

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

8.00 Doctor Who. 8.45 Why Are You Like This.

New. 9.35 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. 10.20 Brassic. Return. 11.05 Live At The Apollo. 11.50 Ross Noble: Stand Up Series. 12.20 Parks And Recreation. 12.45 Reno 911! 1.05 W1A. 1.35 Back In Very Small Business. 2.10 Close. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.35 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

12.00 Inside Heston’s World. 1.00 WorldWatch.

1.30 SBS Courtside. 2.00 Basketball. NBA. Los Angeles Clippers v Miami Heat. 4.40 WorldWatch. 5.40 Shortland Street. 6.10 Abandoned Engineering. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Monty Python: The Meaning Of Live. 10.15 Locked Up Abroad. 11.10 Brooklyn Nine-Nine. 12.00 King Of The Road. 2.30 RT News In English From Moscow. 3.00 Late Programs.

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

4.05 Prank You Very Much. 4.30 Malory Towers. 4.55 100 Things To Do Before High School. 5.20 Dogstar. 6.00 Dragons: Race To The Edge. 6.30 Operation Ouch! Hospital Takeover. 7.00 Teenage Boss. 7.35 All Hail King Julien. 8.00 Slugterra. 8.30 Camp Lakebottom.

9.05 TMNT. 9.30 The Legend Of Korra. 9.55 Rage. 10.55 Close. 5.45 Kids’ Programs.

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

10.30 House Rules. 12.00 Blindspot. 2.00 Life Sentence. 3.00 The Simpsons. 4.00 Modern Family. 5.00 How I Met Your Mother. 6.00 Futurama. 6.30 The Simpsons.

7.30 Modern Family.

8.30 MOVIE: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.

(2010) 11.00 90210. 12.00 Seven Year Switch. 2.00 Blindspot. 4.00 The Resident.

Morning (2) 6.00 Programs. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 12.30 National Press Club Address. 1.40 Media Watch. 2.00 Parliament Question Time. 3.15 ABC News Afternoons.

4.00 The Heights. 4.30 Back Roads. 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. 10.20 To Be Advised. 11.05 ABC Late News. 11.35 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch. 2.05 (3) Destination Flavour China. 2.35 Luke Nguyen’s Railway Vietnam.

3.05 David Baddiel On The Silk Road. 4.00 Who Do You Think You Are? 5.05 Letters And Numbers. 5.35 Jeopardy! 6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 News. 7.35 Britain’s Most Historic Towns. Final. 8.30 Michael Palin: Travels Of A Lifetime. 9.25 Vikings. 10.15 SBS News. 10.45 24 Hours In Emergency. 11.40 MOVIE: Arctic. (2018) 1.25 Queen Elizabeth’s Secret Agents. 2.30 Late Programs.

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

8.00 Doctor Who. 8.45 Quilty: Painting The Shadows. 9.45 Restoration Australia. Final.

10.40 Enslaved. 11.40 Louis Theroux: The Most Hated Family In America. 12.40 Parks And Recreation. 1.05 Reno 911! 1.25 W1A. 2.00 Back In Very Small Business. 2.35 Close. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.35 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

12.00 Basketball. NBA. Phoenix Suns v Philadelphia 76ers. Replay. 2.00 The Curse Of Oak Island. 2.50 Hunting Hitler. 3.40 WorldWatch. 5.05 Only Connect. 5.40 Shortland Street. 6.10 Abandoned Engineering.

7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 MOVIE: Legend. (1985) Tom Cruise. 10.15 MOVIE: John Carpenter’s Escape From L.A. (1996) 12.05 News. 12.30 Undressed.

2.30 France 24. 3.00 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 1.45 The Next Step. 2.10 Degrassi: The Next Generation.

2.35 Make It Pop! 2.55 Junior Vets. 3.35 Horrible Histories. 4.05 Prank You Very Much.

4.30 Odd Squad. 4.55 100 Things To Do Before High School. 5.20 Dogstar. 6.00 Dragons: Race To The Edge. 6.30 Operation Ouch! Hospital Takeover. 7.00 Teenage Boss. 7.35 All Hail King Julien. 8.00 Slugterra. 8.30 Camp Lakebottom.

9.05 TMNT. 9.30 The Legend Of Korra. 9.55 Rage. 10.55 Close. 5.45 Kids’ Programs.

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

10.30 House Rules. 12.00 Blindspot. 2.00 Life Sentence. 3.00 The Simpsons. 4.00 Modern Family. 5.00 How I Met Your Mother. 6.00 Futurama.

6.30 The Simpsons.

7.30 Modern Family.

8.30 MOVIE: Ransom. (1996) Mel Gibson.

11.00 The Guardian. 2.00 Blindspot. 4.00 The Resident.

Morning (2) 6.00 Programs. 11.00 Australia Remastered. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Hard Quiz. 1.30 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. 2.00 Parliament Question Time. 3.15 ABC News Afternoons. 4.00 The Heights. 4.30 Back Roads. 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 The Rise Of The Murdoch Dynasty. 10.25 Would I Lie To You? 10.55 ABC Late News. 11.25 The Royal Wives Of Windsor. 12.15 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch. 2.00 (3) Destination Flavour China. 3.00 Luke Nguyen’s Railway Vietnam.

3.30 David Baddiel On The Silk Road. 5.05 Letters And Numbers. 5.35 Jeopardy! 6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 News. 7.30 The World’s Greatest Palaces. 8.30 Michael Mosley: The Truth About Cosmetic Treatments. 9.30 Cornwall With Simon Reeve. 10.30 SBS News.

11.00 24 Hours In Police Custody. 11.55 M: The City Hunts A Murderer. 1.45 The Little Drummer Girl. 3.30 Late Programs.

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

8.00 Doctor Who. 8.45 Penn & Teller: Fool Us. Return. 9.35 Hard Quiz. 10.05 The Weekly.

10.35 You Can’t Ask That. 10.55 Quoll Farm.

11.55 Parks And Recreation. 12.20 Reno 911!

12.40 W1A. 1.15 Back In Very Small Business.

1.40 QI. 2.15 Brassic. 3.05 Close. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.35 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

12.00 Basketball. NBA. Denver Nuggets v Los Angeles Lakers. Replay. 2.00 Post Radical.

2.50 Hunting Hitler. 3.40 WorldWatch. 5.15 NBL: Overtime. 5.45 Shortland Street. 6.15 Abandoned Engineering. 7.10 Jeopardy! 7.40 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 The Curse Of Oak Island. 9.20 Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films. 10.55 News. 11.20 The Longest Day In Chang’an. 12.15 Dopesick Nation. 2.40 Late Programs.

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

4.05 Prank You Very Much. 4.30 Odd Squad.

4.55 100 Things To Do Before High School.

5.20 Dogstar. 6.00 Dragons: Race To The Edge. 6.30 Operation Ouch! Hospital Takeover.

7.00 Deadly 60. 7.35 All Hail King Julien. 8.00 Slugterra. 8.30 Camp Lakebottom. 9.05 All Hail King Julien. 9.30 The Legend Of Korra. 9.55 Rage. 10.55 Close. 5.45 Kids’ Programs.

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

10.30 House Rules. 12.00 Blindspot. 2.00 Life Sentence. 3.00 The Simpsons. 4.00 Modern Family. 5.00 How I Met Your Mother. 6.00 Futurama.

6.30 The Simpsons.

7.30 Cold Case.

8.30 The Mentalist.

10.30 Numb3rs. 11.30 Bones. 2.00 Blindspot.

4.00 The Resident.

News (2) 6.00 Breakfast. 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 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 The Heights. 4.30 Back Roads. Final. 5.00 Restoration Australia. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 Gardening Australia. 8.30 Vera. 10.00 Mum. 10.40 ABC Late News. 11.00 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. 11.30 Aftertaste. 11.55 Rage.

6.00 WorldWatch.

(3) 2.00 Destination Flavour China. 2.30 Luke Nguyen’s Railway Vietnam. 3.00 NITV News: Nula. 3.30 Luke Nguyen’s Railway Vietnam. 4.00 Who Do You Think You Are? 5.05 Letters And Numbers.

5.35 Jeopardy! 6.00 Grand Tours Of Scotland’s Lochs. 6.30 News. 7.30 Mastermind Australia.

Final. 8.30 Who Do You Think You Are? 9.35 My Grandparents’ War. 10.30 SBS News. 11.00 8 Out Of 10 Cats. 11.50 The Looming Tower. 3.40 Late Programs.

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

8.00 Doctor Who. 8.45 Warumuk: In The Dark Night. 9.30 La Sylphide. 10.35 Brush With Fame. 11.05 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces.

11.55 Catalyst. 12.50 Parks And Recreation.

1.15 Reno 911! 1.35 W1A. 2.10 Back In Very Small Business. 2.45 Close. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.35 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

12.00 Basketball. NBA. Los Angeles Clippers v Miami Heat. Replay. 2.00 Post Radical.

2.50 Hunting Hitler. 3.40 WorldWatch. 5.05 Only Connect. 5.40 Shortland Street. 6.10 Abandoned Engineering. 7.05 Jeopardy!

7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Hoarders. 9.20 City Porn. 10.10 Housos. 11.10 Monogamish. 12.10 News. 12.35 MOVIE: Brazilian Western. (2013) 2.30 NHK World English News. 3.00 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 3.35 Horrible Histories. 4.05 Prank You Very Much.

4.30 Odd Squad. 4.55 100 Things To Do Before High School. 5.20 Dogstar. 6.00 Dragons: Race To The Edge. 6.30 Operation Ouch! Hospital Takeover. 7.00 MOVIE: Ratburger. (2017) 8.10 Horrible Histories. 8.35 Good Game Spawn Point. 8.55 Voltron: Legendary Defender. 9.20 Boruto: Naruto Next Generations. 9.40 Radiant.

10.10 The Legend Of Korra. 10.30 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 The Simpsons. 4.00 Modern Family. 5.00 How I Met Your Mother.

6.00 Futurama.

6.30 The Simpsons.

7.30 Cold Case.

8.30 The Mentalist.

10.30 Numb3rs. 11.30 Bones. 2.00 Blindspot.

4.00 The Resident.

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(6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: I’ll Be Watching. (2018) 2.00 What The Killer Did Next. 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.

9.00 The Good Doctor. 10.00 The Resident.

11.00 Station 19. 12.00 Splitting Up Together.

12.30 Home Shopping. 5.00 Seven Early News.

5.30 Sunrise.

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6.00 Today.

10.00 Australian Open Tennis Pre-Show.

11.00 Tennis. Australian Open. Day 9.

6.00 Nine News.

7.00 Tennis. Australian Open. Night 9.

From Melbourne Park.

12.00 Chicago Med. 1.00 Our State On A Plate.

1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.00 Take Two. 5.00 News Early Edition. 5.30 Today.

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Morning (52) 6.00 Programs. 7.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. 7.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 9.30 Danoz Direct. 10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 11.30 My Favorite Martian.

12.00 Grantchester. 1.00 Days Of Our Lives.

1.55 The Young And The Restless. 2.50 MOVIE: The Great St Trinian’s Train Robbery. (1966) 4.50 Heartbeat. 6.00 Tennis. Australian Open.

Day 9. 7.00 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 New Tricks. 8.40 The Closer. 9.50 Rizzoli & Isles.

11.00 Shades Of Blue. 12.00 Late Programs.

7MATE

Kids’ Programs.

(53) 6.00 11.00 Dance Moms.

12.00 Royal Pains. 1.00 The Mindy Project.

3.00 The Six Million Dollar Man. 4.00 The A-Team. 5.00 The Nanny. 5.30 Nine News Local. 6.00 Malcolm. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 MOVIE: The Italian Job. (2003) 9.45 MOVIE: The Punisher. (2004) 12.10 Quantum Leap.

1.10 Urbex: Enter At Your Own Risk. 2.10 Dance Moms. 3.00 Beyblade Burst Turbo.

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

6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 6.30 Travel Oz. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 12.00 House Of Wellness. 1.00 Cold Feet. 2.00 Harry’s Practice.

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

5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Pie In The Sky. 8.30 Inspector George Gently. 10.30 Jonathan Creek. 12.30 ICU. 1.00 Pie In The Sky. 2.00 Escape To The Country. 3.00 Late Programs.

Morning (63) 6.00 Programs.

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

11.00 A Football Life. 12.00 Swamp People.

1.00 Ax Men. 2.00 Wildlife Heroes. New. 3.00 Restoration Workshop. 4.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 4.30 Pawnography. 5.00 Pawn Stars. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Highway Patrol.

8.30 Outback Opal Hunters. 10.30 Yukon Gold.

11.30 Late Programs.

PRIME7

Sunrise.

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

12.00 MOVIE: Family Pictures. (2019) 2.00 Gold Coast Medical. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia.

6.00 PRIME7 News. 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30. 7.00 Home And Away. 7.30 Ambulance: Code Red. 8.30 The Bay. 10.30 Criminal Confessions. 11.30 Celebrity Obsessed. 12.30 Home Shopping. 5.00 Seven Early News. 5.30 Sunrise.

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 CSI: Miami.

3.00 Bondi Rescue. 3.30 Diagnosis Murder.

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

9GO!

(82) 6.00 Cheers.

7.00 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. 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 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 3.00 Judge Judy. 3.30 Left Off The Map. 4.00 Farm To Fork. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 Jamie’s Easy Meals For Every Day. 8.30 Bull. 10.30 The Project. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 1.30 Home Shopping. 4.30 CBS This Morning.

6.00 Today.

(5) 10.00 Australian Open Tennis Pre-Show.

11.00 Tennis. Australian Open. Day 10.

6.00 Nine News.

7.00 Tennis. Australian Open. Night 10.

12.00 Chicago Med. 1.00 Our State On A Plate.

1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 2.30 Global Shop. 3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 5.00 News Early Edition. 5.30 Today.

7TWO

TV Shop: (52) 6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. 7.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 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 MOVIE: The Man Upstairs. (1958) 4.50 Heartbeat. 6.00 Tennis. Australian Open. Day 10. 7.00 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 As Time Goes By. 8.50 Midsomer Murders. 10.50 Silent Witness. 12.05 Antiques Roadshow. 12.35 Late Programs.

7MATE

Kids’ Programs.

(53) 6.00 11.00 Dance Moms.

12.00 Royal Pains. 1.00 The Mindy Project.

2.00 Malcolm. 3.00 The Six Million Dollar Man. 4.00 The A-Team. 5.00 The Nanny. 5.30 Nine News Local. 6.00 Malcolm. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 Paranormal Caught On Camera.

8.30 MOVIE: Raiders Of The Lost Ark. (1981) Harrison Ford. 10.50 MOVIE: Blue Streak.

(1999) 12.40 Quantum Leap. 1.40 The Nanny.

2.10 Dance Moms. 3.00 Beyblade Burst Turbo.

3.30 Ninjago. 4.00 Kids’ Programs.

6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 6.30 Travel Oz. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 12.00 House Of Wellness. 1.00 Cold Feet. 2.00 Harry’s Practice.

2.30 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 Make It Yours.

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

7.30 Frankie Drake Mysteries.

8.30 A Touch Of Frost.

10.50 Jonathan Creek. 12.00 Cop Squad. 1.00 Brit Cops. 2.00 Home Shopping.

Morning (63) 6.00 Programs.

10.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 11.00 A Football Life. 12.00 Swamp People. 1.00 Ax Men. 2.00 Wildlife Heroes. 3.00 Shipping Wars. 3.30 Blokesworld.

4.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 4.30 Pawnography. 5.00 Pawn Stars. 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.

PRIME7

Sunrise.

(6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: The Witches Of Eastwick. (1987) 2.30 Coastwatch Oz. 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.

10.00 Busted In Bangkok. 11.00 Gordon Ramsay On Cocaine. 12.00 MOVIE: Breaking The Surface. (1997) 2.00 Home Shopping. 5.00 Seven Early News. 5.30 Sunrise.

(82) 6.00 Cheers.

7.00 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. 8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 9.00 Becker.

10.00 Frasier. 11.00 Cheers. 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Medium. 2.00 Two And A Half Men. 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond.

4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends.

6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 2 Broke Girls. 12.00 Home Shopping. 1.30 Medium. 3.30 Frasier. 4.30 Home Shopping.

NINE

6.00 Headline News.

(8) 8.30 Studio 10. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 To Be Advised. 2.10 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 3.00 Judge Judy. 3.30 Left Off The Map. 4.00 Farm To Fork. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 Ambulance Australia. 8.30 Gogglebox. Return. 9.30 Law & Order: SVU. 10.30 This Is Us. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.30 The Project. 1.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 2.30 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 CSI: Miami.

3.00 Bondi Rescue. 3.30 Diagnosis Murder.

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

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 Friends.

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

NINE

6.00 Headline (8) News. 8.30 Studio 10. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 Jamie & The Nonnas.

2.00 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 3.00 Judge Judy. 3.30 Left Off The Map. 4.00 Farm To Fork. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 The Living Room. 8.30 The Graham Norton Show. 9.30 To Be Advised. 10.30 The Project. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 1.30 Home Shopping.

9GEM

Home (81) 6.00 Shopping.

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

3.00 Bondi Rescue. 3.30 Diagnosis Murder.

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

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 MOVIE: 10 Things I Hate About You. (1999) Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. 11.30 MOVIE: Whip It! (2009) 1.35 Late Programs.

6.00 Today.

(5) 10.00 Australian Open Tennis Pre-Show.

11.00 Tennis. Australian Open. Day 11.

6.00 Nine News.

7.00 Tennis. Australian Open. Night 11.

12.00 Chicago Med. 1.00 Our State On A Plate.

1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 2.30 Global Shop. 3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 5.00 News Early Edition. 5.30 Today.

Kids’ Programs.

(53) 6.00 11.00 Dance Moms.

12.00 Royal Pains. 1.00 The Mindy Project.

2.00 Malcolm. 3.00 The Six Million Dollar Man. 4.00 The A-Team. 5.00 The Nanny. 5.30 Nine News Local. 6.00 Malcolm. 7.00 The Nanny.

7.30 Young Sheldon. 8.30 MOVIE: Happy Gilmore. (1996) Adam Sandler. 10.30 MOVIE: EuroTrip. (2004) 12.30 Quantum Leap. 1.30 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 MOVIE: Hope Springs. (2012) Meryl Streep. 3.00 Australian Open Tennis Pre-Show. 4.00 Tennis. Australian Open. Day 12. 6.00 Nine News. 6.30 Australian Open Tennis Pre-Show. 7.30 Tennis. Australian Open.

Night 12. 11.00 To Be Advised. 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.00 Global Shop. 4.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 5.30 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo.

7TWO

Morning (52) 6.00 Programs. 7.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. 7.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

11.30 My Favorite Martian. 12.00 Easy Eats.

1.00 Days Of Our Lives. 1.55 The Young And The Restless. 2.50 Antiques Roadshow. 3.20 MOVIE: The Bridal Path. (1959) 5.20 Heartbeat.

6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.00 Rugby Union.

Super Rugby. Round 1. Queensland Reds v New South Wales Waratahs. 9.45 MOVIE: 3 Days To Kill. (2014) Kevin Costner. 12.05 Late Programs.

7MATE

Kids’ Programs.

(53) 6.00 11.00 Dance Moms.

12.00 Royal Pains. 1.00 The Mindy Project.

2.00 Malcolm. 3.00 The Six Million Dollar Man. 4.00 The A-Team. 5.00 Knight Rider.

6.00 MOVIE: Stuart Little 2. (2002) 7.30 MOVIE: Sing. (2016) 9.40 MOVIE: Mean Girls.

(2004) 11.40 Quantum Leap. 1.30 Rivals. 2.10 Dance Moms. 3.00 Beyblade Burst Turbo.

3.30 Ninjago. 4.00 Pokémon. 4.30 Pokémon Journeys. 4.50 Power Rangers Super Ninja Steel. 5.10 Kids’ Programs.

6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 6.30 Travel Oz. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 12.00 House Of Wellness. 1.00 Cold Feet. 2.00 Harry’s Practice.

2.30 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 Her Majesty’s Theatre. 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt.

7.30 Dog Patrol. 8.30 Escape To The Country.

9.30 Selling Houses Australia. 10.30 Property Ladder UK. 1.00 The Fine Art Auction. 4.00 My Road To Adventure. 4.30 Home Shopping.

Morning (63) 6.00 Programs.

10.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 11.00 A Football Life. 12.00 Swamp People. 1.00 Ax Men. 2.00 Wildlife Heroes.

3.00 Shipping Wars. 4.00 Timbersports.

4.30 Pawnography. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Football. AFL Women’s.

Round 4. Geelong v GWS Giants. 9.00 MOVIE: The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

(2003) Sean Connery, Peta Wilson. 11.15 Pawn Stars. 11.45 Late Programs.

| Saturday 13 February, 2021 |

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9GO!

7MATE

Sunrise.

(6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: Mommy’s Little Angel. (2018) Amanda Clayton, Morgan Neundorf. 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: Con Air. (1997) Nicolas Cage.

11.00 MOVIE: 300. (2006) Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham. 1.30 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 CSI: Miami.

3.00 Bondi Rescue. 3.30 Diagnosis Murder.

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

TV Shop: (52) 6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. 7.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. 12.00 As Time Goes By. 1.00 Days Of Our Lives. 1.55 The Young And The Restless. 2.50 MOVIE: Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. (1974) 4.50 Heartbeat. 6.00 Tennis. Australian Open.

Day 11. 7.00 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 Poirot.

9.30 The First 48. 10.30 The Disappearance.

11.30 Westside. 12.30 Late Programs.

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

11.00 A Football Life. 12.00 Swamp People.

1.00 Ax Men. 2.00 Wildlife Heroes. 3.00 The Simpsons. 4.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 4.30 Pawnography. 5.00 Pawn Stars.

5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers.

7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 MOVIE: Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2. (2011) Daniel Radcliffe. 10.05 MOVIE: 10,000 BC. (2008) 12.15 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 Cold Feet. 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. 2.10 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 3.00 Judge Judy. 3.30 Left Off The Map. 4.00 Farm To Fork. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 The Amazing Race Australia.

8.40 NCIS. 9.40 NCIS: Los Angeles. 10.40 The Project. 11.40 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.40 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 1.30 Home Shopping. 4.30 CBS This Morning.

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BUILD NEW SPORTS FACILITIES FOR ALL-COMERS, CR HAMLING metropolitan area.”

As far as sporting facilities are concerned, build it, and they will come, Cr Jason Hamling believes.

GIANTS Netball Executive General Manager, Tim Underwood said it is fantastic opportunity to showcase their club and sport to people in regional New South Wales.

“We can’t wait to turn Orange ‘orange’ and finally be back playing in front of a home crowd,” he said.

“It is a chance for us to visit a really strong netball region where one of our own GIANTS Training Partner’s, Annie Miller, started her career and inspire young netballers to also want to be a GIANT.

Thumbs-up to turning Orange ‘orange’ for the Sydney GIANTS netball visit, NSW regional performance and Pathways Coordinator, Mardi Aplin; Cr Hamling; and Event Coordinator for the GIANTS, Kate Athanasopoulos.

He sees a pre-season three-day visit in March by the Sydney GIANTS Netball team to the Colour City that will culminate in a pre-season game, as the harbinger of great things.

“It’s about having the facilities here; netball has got one of the biggest participation rates in Orange, it’s booming,” Council’s Sport and Recreation Policy Committee Chair said.

This means that extension of the combined indoor basketball-netball courts at Orange PCYC is the next logical progression for the sport.

“If you come down here on Saturday it’s crazy, with juniors in the morning and seniors in the afternoon,” he said.

“We’ve got plans for maybe two–three more indoor courts…one will be a showcase court.”

He explained that this will allow for

larger crowds for major games such as the pre-season match between the GIANTS and the Adelaide Thunderbirds.

2021 season.

At the moment, mobile internal seating stands will have to be manoeuvred to hold the expected capacity crowd of about 850 fans. “We’ll fit in as many as we can under the COVID restrictions,” Cr Hamling explained.

He points to the new cricket centre located at Wade Park as an example of how providing top-shelf facilities can increase enthusiasm and participation.

“Now that is a success story; they’ve been absolutely bombarded with teams wanting to train there, some games were washed-out the other day, so some teams organised an impromptu training session,” he said.

The GIANTS will spend three days in the Colour City to count-down to the

Headlining the trip is the pre-season match between the GIANTS and the Adelaide Thunderbirds marking the first-time fans in NSW will have had the chance to see their team live in action since the final round of the 2019 season.

“The support from Orange City Council has been fantastic and we hope we can make this an annual pilgrimage given the synergy of our team’s colours and the town”.

Orange Mayor, Councillor Reg Kidd also welcomed the Suncorp Super Netball pre-season fixture to the city.

“I can’t wait for Orange to host these titans of the National Netball League and am pleased the teams are bringing their game out of the metropolitan areas for regional fans to enjoy,” he said.

The two teams will take the court on “Sporting competitions across the Saturday, March 6 at the PCYC in Orange country bore the brunt of the pandemic with tickets not yet available. in 2020 and I’m pleased we are in a The GIANTS are also including visits to position now where the players and fans of all ages can get back into the sports some of the local netball associations in they love.” the area with GIANTS Head Coach Julie Fitzgerald stating: “I can’t wait to get to Orange and I also can’t wait to play in a stadium full of fans again”.

Cr Hamling added that he expects the excitement to build across the city in the lead-up to the event.

“This trip not only provides us the opportunity to test ourselves against another Super Netball side, but hopefully expose GIANTS and elite netball to fans outside of the

“This is a great opportunity for local netball players and fans to see their favourite professional players in the flesh, playing the sport at the highest national level,” he concluded.

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BIRDS EYE VIEW — READERS HAVE THEIR SAY

BIRDS EYE VIEW — THE REACTION

By Bob Holland

It’s Official! No one is right. No one is wrong.

That’s where I have arrived after receiving over 15 letters at the time of writing, with about half willing to allow publication. You can read those here. Those not for publication were also a mix of for and against.

It has been a very enlightening experience, putting myself out there and inviting people to either support or take potshots at me, so to speak. I’ve copped both with lots of words constituting the ammunition. The experience has caused me to open my eyes wider in trying to understand what makes people tick in today’s modern “free for all” world. I can assure you I’ve done a lot of thinking and reflecting as I considered what I’d write here.

One thing I decided definitely not to do, was disagree with or debate with anyone who contacted me. I could only see that ending-up in a never ending, no-win, back and forward waste of time and energy.

Instead, I’d like to just share some observations on some of the things said that I feel warranted some response. Let’s start.

Consistent with many of the letters was the accusation that Jeanine did not offer adequate proof for many of her claims. Not telling the “truth” was another accusation. There were also several who challenged my claim of providing a newspaper that claims to deliver local news with integrity, wisdom, and balance.

Some claimed the articles were divisive and overall, not helpful.

Like I said, I don’t want to debate anyone’s views or opinions but rather just make some observations.

For starters, how do you judge “truth”? Isn’t it up to the

...Simply flick past “Birds Eye View” if that’s your choice.

individual as to who they choose to believe?

with absolute certainty about anything, no one.

Truth is often judged by the “sell”. If enough people say it’s true, it must be true, right? If someone you like says something, you’ll in all likelihood believe it.

If someone you don’t like says something, you’ll in all likelihood choose not to believe it. True?

Of course, this brings up a whole range of social issues which people could debate over forever, things like tolerance, loving and respecting your neighbours viewpoint, agreeing to disagree, genuine free speech, accepting our different beliefs and cultures, and so on and so on.

Then there’s the “swallow” component. People will choose what they’re willing to accept, swallow if you like, and what they’re not prepared to accept.

The US election and the COVID-19 situation clearly shows what I mean. Millions upon millions of people have no certainty about what the absolute truth is with either situation. The weight of “sell” has people well and truly divided on both. Which side of the fence people are on is purely a matter of which stories or people they choose to believe, or to put it another way, what they are willing to swallow.

This is why I have a headline above that says “No one is right.

No one is wrong.” That is the truth, because no one knows

To be honest, reading the various responses and being fully aware that most were written with noble intent and in a respectful and courteous tone, I was saddened as I pondered how divided we, as a people, really are. Speaking very personally, I can tell you I am genuinely trying to do something good for our community, and if that extends to the Nation, great. The responses I received have left me feeling saddened for us a people. It is clear to me that anyone who is genuine and trying to do good, is clearly not allowed to do so without being subjected to a whole range of criticism etc.

Sadly, even when truth is as plain as the nose on your face, people

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will still find reason to challenge it or simply not swallow it. This of course, is nothing new, it’s been going on for centuries and, if you don’t agree with me, which I’m sure many won’t, so be it. The fact remains that I’m dead right and the biggest example of absolute truth that I can think of is that of Jesus Christ, his life, the reason he came to Earth, etc. etc.

I’m not here to preach but the Jesus story, without a doubt, is backed up by historical facts, eyewitness accounts and the consequences of not accepting its message are made abundantly clear in the Bible. Despite this being absolute and verified “truth”, the majority of people throughout the world doubt it, reject it, or simply won’t swallow it. “Selling” the doubts of the Jesus story has far outweighed selling the truth, so much so that most people won’t swallow it.

If this is an example of how people respond to absolute truth, it helps me understand why I received so many and varied views about Jeanine’s writings.

I therefore must conclude that no one is right, no one is wrong, and people will continue to make their own choices on what they will swallow and what they won’t.

That’s about all I want to say on the matter for now, but I would like to make one final comment. To those people who claim they won’t pick up a copy of Newswatch while Jeanine’s column is in there, I say this Birds Eye View is just one page out of 20–24 each week, it would be a pity if you deprived yourself of the remaining content which many claim to enjoy.

Simply flick past “Birds Eye View” if that’s your choice.

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Hard to reconcile “alternative facts” with balanced aim of Newswatch Thank-you for your invitation to comment about the future of Jeanine Bird’s page in Newswatch.

In May last year you were quoted in the Dubbo Photo News as stating that “The aim of the new paper will be to achieve positive outcomes from each story … that drive change that makes Orange a better city”; and that “Articles features and columns will aim to be well-researched, balanced, and fair at all times.”

I find it very difficult to reconcile your publication of Jeanine Bird’s world-view with these statements or with the Newswatch vision: Local news delivered with integrity - wisdom - balance. In my opinion, compromising these standards is undermining the credibility of Newswatch on its core business, local issues.

You also introduced Jeanine Bird to readers in May last year as a long-time friend, with a strong track record in advocacy for rural Australians. You didn’t explain why you thought her so deserving of the virtual monopoly she’s enjoyed commenting on global issues in your paper.

As she relies heavily on the internet for her information, an article in The Conversation on 18 January is particularly relevant. In There’s no such thing as ‘alternative facts’. Five ways to spot misinformation and stop sharing it online, Mark Pearson, Professor of Journalism and Social Media at Griffith University recommended: 1. Distinguishing verified facts from myths, rumours and opinions.

2. Mixing-up your media and social media diet.

3. Being skeptical and assessing the factual premise of an opinion.

4. Exploring the background and motives of media and sources.

5. Reflecting and verifying before sharing.

He describes these as constituting “Journalism 101”.

In my view, Jeanine Bird’s writing indicates that she is captured by a way of thinking that blinds her to facts and rational explanations; a heavily blinkered view of rather than an open bird’seye overview. Ironically, she highlighted on 23 January that “our minds are the cheapest, most effective prison of all”.

The world is far from perfect, but, in my opinion, publishing unfounded rumours and conspiracy theories sows and fertilises seeds of unwarranted doubt and fear.

As citizens of Australia, living in regional NSW,

what specific threats to her or our freedom justify the publication of her views? She should remind herself of the history of the 20th century and very dark places from which people worked together to develop modern democracies, and also open her eyes to the real lack of freedom, and to the constant fears and constraints on people’s lives, in much of rest of the world.

In the footnotes to her pages, you’ve taken a lofty position in claiming that you published her views as “a public service” and that they are “well-supported by eminent and expert professionals across the World”. Although their names and qualifications are rarely-provided, you named some of them this week as the Murdoch commentariat on Sky. They are not supporting Jeanine views; she is uncritically echoing their views, as well as those of anonymous sources, “Someone” and “Some”.

I was very concerned to read, in the same article that sought reader feedback on Bird’s-Eye, that you as the Editor of a paper that wants to be taken seriously, find Sky’s commentory “all very convincing”. I was also taken aback by your own flirtation with the echo-chamber of conspiracy and unreality (such as President Trump’s not losing the election and mankind not being the major factor accelerating climate change,). No matter how strongly we hold our own opinions, or how often we or others repeat them, their true value depends only how well they are supported by evidence or facts. Just because “some also claim” or someone holds an alternative view, doesn’t make that view true, informative or deserving of a wider audience.

It certainly doesn’t constitute “a public service”.

It’s more “public mischief ”, the outcomes of which can be sinister, as we have seen in the USA in recent years and weeks. Vitriol and armed threats to elected representatives of the people and to key democratic institutions are not struggles for “freedom” but planned anarchy by organised, armed groups. Bare-chested, slogan-chanting cross-burners in the Victorian Grampians last month are symptomatic of the potential for similar threats in Australia. Can you imagine the “freedoms” we’d enjoy under regimes inspired and directed by such groups.

Last week, conservative Mitch McConnell, Republican Leader in the US Senate who supported the last President, was quoted as saying: “Loony lies and conspiracy theories are cancer for the Republican Party and our country” (Sydney Morning Herald, 5 Feb 2021).

He’s seen, at first-hand, the threats, chaos, destruction and deaths that it has already produced in the USA. You claim that you “can tell for sure (that) something is brewing but whether anything happens is anybody’s guess”, and yet seem rather content to let it develop, and may even be helping to foment it through Bird’sEye. Please do not continue to do a disservice to the people of Orange by providing a platform for | Saturday 13 February, 2021 |

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similar biased and ill-informed commentary.

Please focus on your stated values of integrity, wisdom and balance and publish objective critique on local issues that is informative and constructive for the Orange community, rather than destructive and divisive.

David Kennedy

Orange’s progressive community opposes narrow-minded views First of all, thank-you for the opportunity to respond to your request for input.

Let me say at the outset, that I absolutely support the right to express an opinion. It is what has made our nation great and there are many instances where great Australian’s of all political persuasions have done just that, but in an atmosphere of civility and respect for those that may not share their opinion. Quality media outlets are often the forum for that opinion and debate.

However, what I do not support and what has been shown as dangerous recently is when opinion descends into the spreading of misinformation not based on fact, truth, or science; vilification of individuals, or groups of individuals; ridicule of others, sexism, racism etc.

You have quoted several journalists from the Sky network as a basis for your argument that diversity of opinion is a part of quality media outlets.

Bob, the individuals and their opinions you mentioned are angry and even hateful sometimes and narrow in their views.

They and their opinions certainly do not represent the diversity of a community such as Orange. Neither do the opinions and comments of Jeanine.

Orange has grown so much in the 10 years I have lived here. It is a wonderful progressive community full of professionals and workingclass people alike from a diverse range of ethnic groups and background.

The progressive nature of our community means that narrow-minded viewpoints that discredit science, facts, are hurtful or shame, are not welcome should not be tolerated. I do not support the retention of Jeanine, nor her to be replaced by anyone who shares such a narrow viewpoint.

Please understand Bob that your readership will grow exponentially if you truly represent the beautiful diverse community that is Orange.

Thank-you for your time.

Stephen Clipperton

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Lose readers if you go down that path!

Stop publishing Jeanine Bird’s rubbish column!

Newswatch should focus on local news, not American politics or conspiracy theories.

If you want to believe in anti-vax, crazy conspiracies, climate denial and Sky News garbage, don’t “shove it down our throats” to use your words.

You’ll lose a lot of readers if you continue down that path.

Amelia Page

for the Bird Defence “I appear for the defendant” seemed to be the theme of Bob Holland as substitute Bird’s-Eye View columnist last week. “Jeanine is one very savvy and well-informed lady ... a powerhouse of information” he claimed. Bob continued his address to the jury by saying “I too, am very challenged by what Jeanine writes … nothing ever seems to eventuate… little of what she has forecast has happened”.

Hang on a minute Mr Holland, aren’t you appearing as Defence counsel? Sure you don’t want to change your “not guilty” plea?

Bob pushed on regardless, introducing the big guns as witnesses to support his clients’ views on world-wide matters.

Jeanine simply asks the questions others won’t Jeanine Bird has done nothing other than ask questions and bring attention to the details lost or deliberately-obscured by the headlines.

She always qualifies what she says, and this paper has given more than enough space for people to challenge and potentially disprove the information she presents for our consideration.

There are plenty of other more high-profile places with an even wider reach where they can find a platform for their tireless monologue.

“People like Peta Credlin, Bronwyn Bishop and Alan Jones discuss on SKY NEWS the very same issues that Jeanine is on about”. Wow, that’s akin to Donald Trump providing a character reference.

Time now to bring letter-writer Bruce Smith to the witness box. Last week he told the Court, and I quote — “Newswatch is beginning to alarm me. I am doubtful that it is being delivered with – integrity – wisdom – balance as promised.

Jeanine Bird’s propaganda… is inflammatory, divisive, accusatory, and largely unverifiable”.

Guilty as charged. Take the prisoner down.

Owen Dally

Instead, her opponents squander any opportunity for intelligent debate by resorting to personal abuse and ridiculous objections based on whether or not she is local to Orange.

This matters why?

Bird’s competent facts

Do Orange people all think the same? Are they required to? Newswatch must be courageous. If the information is confronting, it is because it is so important to talk about.

As Bob pointed-out, Jeanine is not a cuckoo but is extremely competent in her article pieces which provide nothing but the truth.

People who try to shut people up are motivated by two things; uncertainty and ineptitude in their own arguments, as well as the arrogant assumption that human beings — perhaps not so evolved as themselves — are incapable of considering and not just assimilating everything they read.

Jeanine Bird has conviction and tenacity; what she writes takes courage and must exact a great personal toll.

There are not many who could or would take her place. It is a fight that is fought not because there will be a sure victory at the end, but because it is the right thing to do. I, for one, admire her.

Rebecca Gallagher

As a regular reader of Newswatch, I would have to disagree with many of the commentators for “Cuckoo Bird.”

Throughout her articles, she provides information to back-up her statements or gives the reader the means of finding out if what she says is true.

It is a far cry from those who merely resort to insults; saying her statements are rot without actually referring to something in particular and replying with statistics of their own.

If the best you can do is spit and hiss, then you clearly have lost the debate and cannot contradict what is put forward.

Jeanine Bird’s views are not as uncommon as some might think, they represent a significant population who sadly get very little say in Social Media. Newswatch gives these people a voice, a voice that should not be simply shut down.

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Disagree, but don’t hate or force my silence I would like to reply to your invitation to say what I think about Jeanine Bird.

Regardless of whether I agree with her or not (and I mostly agree with her), I think my biggest concern about her reporting is that she needs to reference her material. People want proof!

You say that she’s a powerhouse of information.

She is trying to communicate too much information at once. She needs to slow down and address one issue at a time, providing a web address (or destination to her source) that anyone can go to, to verify that her claims are authentic and verifiable.

I believe in freedom of speech and action, as long as one person isn’t threatening or abusing another (and no doubt these parameters need work).

One of the tests of a true democracy is its resilience under pressure. Our freedoms are being daily undermined. Now, with Daniel Andrews’ new legislation, we even have the thought police of 1984! Is the majority always right? People will say ‘Yes’ when it suits them, until they’re in the minority.

People should have the right to their own opinions, and even to voice their own opinions if there is no harm intended.

Of course, that opens-up a problem with the definition of ‘harm’. Many would say ‘just grow up’ without having to reach for the ‘phone to start litigation.

This is the hate generation.

If you don’t agree with me, agree to disagree with me, but don’t hate me, or worse still, use legislation as justification to force me to agree with you.

Bob, thank you for the opportunity to express my point of view. Will it last? It will, as long as we continue to have courageous editors like you.

Crosby Cook

Nothing cuckoo about Free speech is okay, but research claims Re Jeanine Bird’s column, I’m confused by your comments, saying she is very savvy and a powerhouse of information, then say you are challenged by her writing.

Agree with some of her comments relating to corporations and big business yet am amazed

BIRDS EYE VIEW — READERS HAVE THEIR SAY that you and her seemingly support there is some imminent big, bad revelation relating to Biden and Trump.

Yes over 70 million voted for Trump, but nearly 80 million voted for Biden, actually voted, no evidence of rigging either the count or the machines, Michael Moore’s book did state America had 40 million technicallyilliterate people, maybe the majority of them went Trump.

When credible, prestigious papers such as the Washington Post, Boston Herald, The Times, our ABC, the Times of India all report similar information on the USA election, the obstruction campaigns for minorities, the reduction of mail sorting machines, the outright lies by Trump and his supporters, surely that overrides rumoured conspiracies and supposition.

I always have reservations for followers of Sky News, my brother included, as they seem to me supporters of the extreme right wing, tea party types, some are just nasty, but free speech dictates even they can give opinions.

The furore on Margaret Court seems to suggest that her religious beliefs identify her to be castigated, the fact SHE is the greatest tennis player ever is to be swept aside.

create an independent news-source and that you are frequently being called-on to make editorial decisions that you feel ambivalent about, particularly when those decisions involve personal friends.

However, I would urge you in the strongest, and yet most civil, way that I can to make the call to drop Ms Bird’s column.

I understand that you feel that it’s often good to stir-up a little provocation but, in my view, Ms Bird’s writings do not create healthy and wellinformed debate, and nor are they designed to do so.

They merely create unprofitable and unedifying division. The space you give her each week could so much more profitably be given to local voices — perhaps with half a page each presenting two differing views on a local issue.

Your courageous and gracious call for feedback (and I am distressed to hear that some feedback you have received appears to have been most uncivil) contained some statements which I’d like to explore a little more: •

Her church supplies aid to all, no discrimination, allows all to attend her gathering, her Bible beliefs aren’t part of her personal life, check it out.

If Trump’s achievements are so good why are they no known, except for tax relief for the wealthy, slavish defence of Putin, and the NRA. For free speech, her column is okay, yet some of her poorly-researched opinions should be subject to edit as they can cause concern.

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Bob’s shaky Counsel Disquiet at direction of your newspaper You may (or may not !) recall that I wrote to you and the paper last year to register my disquiet with the regular appearance in your paper of Ms Bird’s full page op ed.

I’m afraid that since that time, I made a choice not to pick-up your paper, as I felt the credibility of Newswatch as a whole was significantly damaged by her inclusion.

A friend, who knew of my views, and agrees with them, alerted me to your request for feedback in yesterday’s issue and encouraged me to read this week’s edition and to write in — so here we go!

Bob, I can imagine that it’s not easy to

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I have no doubt that Ms Bird is “savvy and well informed”. It is a sad fact, however, that many bright and capable people can be full of information, and yet totally fail to understand or critique their own thinking.

The copious amounts of poorly sourced and badly fact-checked material that Ms Bird fills her columns with do not mean that she’s not a clever person. It does mean that she lacks discernment and wisdom to use her skills in ways that would help her, and her readers think much more rationally and effectively about the issues she cares about.

I agree that we live in a culture where people increasingly “do not want to hear anything that doesn’t fit their thinking” and who “don’t want to listen to both sides”.

However, it is people like Ms Bird herself, whose information is sourced from a toxic echo chamber of conspiracy theory, who believe that anyone who doesn’t think like they do has “drunk the Kool Aid” or failed to “do their research”. Ms Bird frequently refers to those she disagrees with in the most slanderous and demeaning fashion and has clearly no wish to consider any views other than her own. On these grounds, she herself is the perfect example of what you are concerned about.

I’m baffled by your claim that Ms Bird’s often bizarre and byzantine theories contain “undeniable truth”. Back when I actually read your paper, I took the trouble to follow up a number of claims Ms Bird had made and found that not only was their veracity suspect in the extreme, but many were demonstrably false. In order to have made the claims she did, she would already have had to accept a whale-sized set of | Saturday 13 February, 2021 |

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presuppositions that were simply not based on verifiable evidence.

Bob, I am by conviction a conservative.

Many of the issues that Ms Bird writes about concern me too. Yes, the US is in “big trouble” , although we may have different views about why that is so. Yes, we have an issue with increasing threats to religious freedoms. Yes, social media presents some enormous challenges (however, even a cursory visit to Twitter will reassure you that they are certainly not “censoring anyone who is not a Trump supporter”!)

But a principled conservative movement can only be tarnished if it is associated with rabbit hole weirdness of the type Ms Bird espouses. And your publication is, I’m afraid, tarnished as well.

Anyway, I’ve taken a long time to say something very short. Please reconsider your commitment to Ms Bird’s column. It is a poor choice for your paper. By choosing to limit or eliminate her content you would free up a page that truly could help people be well informed by modelling healthy and civil fact-based disagreement.

Lydia Smith

Do views extend to Holocaust denial?

I wrote to you early in the days of this column challenging the approach of Jeanine Bird and asking where would the extreme comments stop — I asked if it would extend to Holocaust denial.

I am profoundly disappointed to read that you question human causation of the heating planet.

So, I have a challenge for you.

Publish a column denying that the Holocaust before and during WWII occurred.

There is plenty on the web peddling this nonsense so there is much for you to write. If you think this would offend many people, then I need you to know that I am offended by climate change denialists and their influence on the sort of world my grandchildren are growing up in.

You have a proud history of journalism and publishing and your NewsWatch publication has much going for it — but the continuation of this column in its present “alternative facts” format says little for your current professionalism and your professed Christian values.

Dr Eric Cother Editor’s Note: Ms Bird has never expressed in her columns any sentiment towards denial of the Holocaust of World War II. In comparing this to reasonably-widespread doubts over the dangers of global warming, Dr Cother, though, may be familiar with another term from the centuries of persecution of the Jewish people, “Blood Libel”.

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Love her facts, not media’s half-truths Firstly, I love her conviction in stating facts, as she sees and researches them, and not just fluff.

There were too many anomalies in the US election.

All the stats on dead people voting, the bags of votes suddenly appearing, every-one of them for Biden, the voting machine anomalies, the people who signed affidavits, that they weren’t allowed to vote, as they had already been marked-off. All of this needs more scrutiny but has been denied.

I also liked her objectivity on the new $25m Stadium and where it should be built. It was thought-provoking.

Too many people, as you say, are not interested in the facts about anything, just the general halftruths that most media give us.

I also watch Credlin, Jones, Murray, etc. on Sky. When people like Mike Carlton, say Sky should be closed down, as it is a threat to democracy, then I know I am on the right-track in watching them.

Political correctness, the woke mob, cancel culture is stifling free speech. As Paul Murray says, they want 100 per cent of the conversation, and to them no-one else can have a different opinion.

I also watch a lot of YouTube, about what is going on in America, from reputable people, news you won’t hear in Australia from the general media.

Last night Alan Jones had a professor on who said, about climate change, that it is nonsense that people can think we can have any effect on climate which is always changing.

In general, we are going through an unprecedented, in my life-time, an era of shutting down debate of conservatives on everything, and demonising anyone with a different opinion.

The Australia Day/ Invasion Day when naming events on this day by the ABC, shows how far they have fallen in objectivity. Within one generation

of WWII we have forgiven the Japanese and Germans for what their previous generation did to Australia, and they are now allies and friends.

Used Car salesmen used to be at the bottom of the pile for credibility, but I would say they have been replaced by politicians & journalists; not yours, though.

Alan Mitchell

Remembering that, even those that are shallow in thought, can slowly absorb truth if fed little by little. But if given too much in opposition to what they believe, they will close their minds completely.

I don’t often say much, unless it’s essential. But now I feel the time is more important than ever for myself to encourage you.

Stay strong!

Matt Stedman

Thumbs-up to your integrity and truth I would like to give yourself, your staff and Jeanine, a “thumbs-up”, for the integrity and truth displayed in your publications.

I would first like to encourage you. It is clear to see that you are a man who is devoted to the truth of God. And your words and actions reflect it, even though I don›t know you personally.

You show yourself to be a man of wisdom, and it is clear to see for others who are wise.

From all of us out here that have open eyes, but no platform to speak from... it’s refreshing to read in your paper, of the truths that the mainstream media deliberately conceal.

I too, am very aware of the plans of oppression that a few at the top have for a One World Government. And all the tools of electronic media they use to deceive and delude the weak-minded.

I am not surprised that Jeanine, yourself, and OCL are copping flack over this. But we are standing with you in heart.

If I can offer one piece of advice on Jeanine’s page.

It’s that she covers less topics in each publication.

But rather give more explanations that backup what she is saying from common every-day events. Like the hypocritical lies the mainstream media states from day-to-day.

Speech is free as a bird for Jeanine’s bigger view For the critics of Jeanine Bird; if you take-off your rose-coloured glasses for a moment, you may realise that there is a bigger picture to see outside of the comfortable little box that some live-in here in Orange.

And if you think what is happening in the United States doesn’t and won’t affect us here; you might change your mind if you knew the policies that the Biden Administration are proposing to put in place.

Keep an open-mind and be grateful for the Jeanine Bird’s of this world that look-through the tightly-controlled mainstream media to bring us truthful information backed-up by world-renowned experts in their individual fields.

Bob, I take my hat off to you for having the awareness of mind to see the truth in what is being said by Jeanine and the guts to print what is seen by the majority of the uninformed as fantasy.

Tilly Wood

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not obvious to everyone present, Mayor Kidd was actually present and kept an eye and ear on the proceedings but was in and out of his office attending to other matters as was explained on the front-page of Newswatch on Saturday, January 23.

FAIR FLAK, BUT MAYORAL CREDIT WHERE IT’S DUE ON TREE FORUM

Julie Pont

Comments in one of last week’s letters on “TheBACKpage” (Saturday, February 6), that refers to ‘flak’ the Mayor and councillors are receiving over tree removal issues from readers of Newswatch is understandable — there have been a lot of valid arguments expressed by the community against issues at present on the Council drawing-board which involve tree removal.

NO SIGN OF “COLOUR CITY” IN OUR NEW “ORANGE” WELCOME

Concerned citizens and ratepayers of Orange have a responsibility to the community to raise objections to Council proposals that they see as being not in the best interests of Orange.

So ‘’Thanks for Visiting Orange’’ or ‘’Come Back Soon’’ or “Travel Safe” on the back. It is so bland and nothing special. I think a primary school student could have designed something more creative. To think, we waited so long for something so ordinary and boring!

More recently, a good exchange of ideas and information at the recent Council public forum for the proposed sports precinct to be located on the old Bloomfield Golf Course resulted in a pretty clear message to Council to please consider to ‘’RELOCATE OR REDESIGN” the proposal.

‘’Start Thinking Orange.’’

Patricia — Unhappy Ratepayer

Although an interesting concept that could be explored further, the whole CBD would need some major restructuring at huge costs due to the disruption that sectioning-off this area would have on traffic-flow and people’s access.

On another note, I noticed in Orange City Life’s January 28 edition, a reader’s “Thumbs Down” to Mayor Kidd for “not being present at the recent Bloomfield Sports Precinct Council forum held in the Civic Theatre foyer“. For the record, although

COUNCIL GAME A CONCEPT TO ELEVATE A NEW MAYOR This Council Game — with Amanda Spaulding as the mock Mayor — could hopefully result in our mock Mayor becoming the real Mayor!

Should Ms Spaulding choose to nominate for Council, her experience and qualifications could be a refreshing and welcome skills addition to a Council lacking in both.

Having a chartered accountant with extensive experience in senior management in both public and private sectors; is the skill-set necessary to oversee Council’s projects and budget performances.

This Council does not enjoy the confidence or respect of many residents, who have many years of experience to base their opinion on.

In response to a recent suggestion by a contributor on “THEBACKpage” of Newswatch to turn a section of Summer Street into a mall.

The good work of Council includes recent plantings at the Ploughmans Wetlands site, the improvements to the beautiful green-space Council created at the Gosling Reserve, and the ongoing commitment to the beautification of our city with numerous tree planting projects that have been undertaken during this term of office.

Suzanne Sycica

Anecdotal public opinion confirms Councillor Duffy’s complaints about public opinion being extremely negative, I believe it is even lower than he thinks it is.

EXPLORE MALL, KEEP THE TREES, AND NO MORE NAME-CALLING!

Orange is, however, fortunate to have a Mayor in office who has a background in horticulture and, by his own admission, is a ‘tree-lover’; perhaps evidenced in some of the projects this Council has been responsible for under his leadership.

Reg Kidd’s new nick name, of “Hollywood Reg” is deserved due to his constant appearances in the Central Western Daily. Orange City Council needs new leadership, directions, focus, and a return to basic public service, which includes an oversight of responsible expenditure including a focus on necessary projects.

Brian Wood

I think, however, that the Anson Street Mall is a great idea; as long as the London Plane Trees remain — as it is these very trees that make this

OPEN HOUSES TIME

You are entitled to voice your opinion, but leave out the insults!

Of all the things that Orange is known for, such as cherries, apples, wines, The Lake, Mt Canobolas, Banjo Paterson, and what happened to ‘’Orange the Colour City’’? It could have been a real masterpiece, ‘’something special.’’ No mention of population or height above sea level, etc.

To Mayor Kidd and Council’s credit; the initiative they have taken to hold public forums on contentious issues has highlighted what benefits come out of this type of community engagement — with some excellent alternative ideas for the Anson Street Mall proposed — which would see the London Plane Trees being preserved.

On another note, I for one, would appreciate it if one regular contributor to “THEBACKpage” stops the unpleasant name-calling and, instead, leaves that to the trolls on the internet.

Calling Jeanine Bird “Cuckoo Bird” is insulting and calling our Mayor “Reggie the Kidd” is not only insulting, but also incredibly disrespectful.

So much in agreement with “Denese” on “THEBACKpage” of Newswatch, January 30 regarding our new ‘’Welcome to Orange’’ sign.

Where did they find the people who design these?

Not to mention the fee of over $10,000.

The issues aren’t just about tree removal, they are about protecting the precious environment we have, such as the environment created by the magnificent London Plane Trees in Anson Street and the potential of a green-space parkland at the old Bloomfield Golf Course site in South Orange.

area of Anson Street so beautiful and suitable for a mall area in the first place! Take the trees out, and you are left with an ugly void reminiscent of an empty carpark — too hot in Summer and too cold in Winter.

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$375,000

Orange Real Estate

02 6360 0300