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ELEVENTH HOUR BID TO SAVE HISTORIC TWEED HEADLAND BUILDINGS IN VAIN

By Margaret Dekker THE wrecking ball will fall on two of Tweed Heads-

Coolangatta’s oldest buildings after a last-minute challenge by locals appears to have failed to save century-old D’bah House

and D’bar Café from demolition.

Clearing of the landmark buildings, which sit on the Point Danger headland at the NSW-

Queensland border, will see construction start on ‘Awaken,’ a new 38 metre, 13-storey apartment and restaurant

complex approved by a Special Delegation of Gold Coast City Council in April.

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SNAP LOCKDOWN AFTER COVID CASE DISCOVERED

By Tonia Dynan

New restrictions were introduced for the Byron Shire, PARTS of the Northern Rivers Richmond Valley, Lismore and went into lockdown at 6pm on Ballina Shire Local Government Monday night after a COVID Areas. positive man in his 50s had Following updated health been infectious while travelling advice from NSW Chief around the area since July 30.

Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant, NSW Health learned of stay-at-home orders will apply the COVID case on Monday to all people who live in these morning but waited until 5pm areas or have been there on or on Monday to announce the one- after July 31. week lockdown, effective until The rules for these areas 12.01am Tuesday, August 17 will be the same as those

already in place across Greater Sydney, as well as Tamworth, Armidale, Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Maitland, Port Stephens, Singleton, Dungog, Muswellbrook and Cessnock.

Everyone in these areas must stay at home unless they have a reasonable excuse to leave.

They also cannot have visitors in their home from outside their household, including family and friends.

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PREMIER PLEDGES EXTRA PFIZER VACCINES

By Tonia Dynan

extra doses, saying the boost gave the government a chance AN extra 180,000 doses of to redirect the doses taken the Pfizer vaccine have been from regional areas. promised by Prime Minister “Now this is very positive Scott Morrison for NSW in news,” she said. the next fortnight and Premier “It means that in the wake Gladys Berejiklian says some of the 16th of August we can of those will be sent back to redirect those doses we’ve regional NSW. taken from the regions for Up to 40,000 Pfizer doses the HSC students, and it were redistributed to south also means we can put the west and western Sydney balance into those eight recently, “due to the need to local government areas in vaccinate Year 12 students in Greater Sydney of concern in the LGAs most affected by the particular. current COVID-19 outbreak “I’m very relieved about and reduce the risk of the that. I want to thank the prime virus escaping into the regions minister for those extra doses from one of their household on top of what we’ve already contacts, such as an authorised been allocated. worker”, the State Government “That will make a big said. difference to us in containing The premier welcomed the the spread because we know

from the stats and the facts that getting the vaccine reduces your chance of being contagious but also it saves you staying out of hospital and it saves you passing it on to all your loved ones and we know how critical that is.”

The premier continued to urge people to get vaccinated.

“It doesn’t matter which vaccine you’re offered,” she said.

“If you have any concerns please go through your GP but get vaccinated and I can’t

stress that enough.

“If we all work hard, we can get to that 60 million target by the end of August, and these extra doses, of course, will help.

“Our vaccination program and how successful we are, will lead to us having a freer life beyond August 29.”

Local Nationals Member of the Legislative Council Ben Franklin said he wanted to thank the communities of regional NSW for their patience.

“I am incredibly proud and in admiration of our regions who have shown support for their city cousins during this time,” he said.

“The Federal Government has heard our pleas and responded.”

Snap lockdown as man tests Covid positive Continued from page 1

immediately isolate and have a COVID-19 test if they have People still can have one even the mildest of symptoms: visitor at one time to fulfil Byron Shire, Richmond Valley, carers’ responsibilities or Tweed, Lismore, Kyogle and provide care or assistance, or Ballina. for compassionate reasons, Byron Shire Mayor Michael including where two people are Lyon said Byron Shire Council in a relationship but do not live staff were now working with together.

Here we go again – authorities on getting additional People also cannot enter Woolworths shelves testing facilities open, including the Byron Shire, Richmond at Lismore Square the Cavanbah Centre on Valley, Lismore and Ballina on Monday.

Ewingsdale Road at Byron Bay. Shire Local Government Areas, “The first message is - if without a reasonable excuse to more.

Monday a man in the Byron alerting to the community in anyone is not feeling well do so.

“We need more timely advice Bay community had tested terms of any venues that he’s please, please go and get Lismore MP Janelle Saffin and more detailed information positive to COVID-19. checked into. tested,” Cr Lyon said. called for snap lockdown on from the NSW Government “There’s also a call out for “At the moment, we don’t NSW recorded 283 new Monday afternoon, after a and agencies like NSW Health, everybody in and around the have any venues that he’s locally acquired cases of COVID positive man in his NSW Treasury and Services Byron Bay community to come checked into using his QR COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 50s had been infectious while NSW. forward and get tested,” Ms codes at this time.

8pm Sunday night. travelling around the area.

“All local MPs and mayors Berejiklian said.

“So, we are quite concerned, One hundred and six cases Ms Saffin said it was clear need to be contacted and kept Chief Health Officer and we do want to see those were in isolation throughout a short, sharp lockdown, the informed.”

Dr Kerry Chant said the testing numbers increasing their infectious period and 42 sooner the better, was needed Ms Saffin said investigations government wanted to see in that area and we’ll be were in isolation for part of their to get on top of a confirmed were underway into the source high testing numbers in the monitoring that closely.” infectious period. Sixty-four COVID-19 case in the Byron of a Sydney man’s infection Byron Bay community as Dr Chant confirmed the man cases were infectious in the area. with COVID-19 and local the man was infectious in the had been admitted to hospital community, and the isolation “With any lockdown, we venues which he might have community for several days. and was in hospital at the status of 71 remains under expect the NSW Government visited in the region.

“We understand he did travel present time, and contact tracers investigation. to immediately put in place “As reported, this person, from Sydney earlier towards and police were interviewing NSW has reached the the essential supports for the aged in his 50s, has been active the end of July. He is currently the man’s contacts and major milestone of 10 million communities and businesses in in the community since July being re-interviewed, and next of kin to find out more tests, with a record 133,840 all affected local government 30 and possibly infectious for we are also arranging urgent information.

COVID-19 tests reported to areas,” Ms Saffin said. several days,” Ms Saffin said. testing of his two household As a precaution everybody 8pm Sunday night, compared “I know that lockdowns hurt, NSW Premier Gladys contacts, and once we have who is in the following local with the previous day’s total of but administrative delays hurt Berejiklian confirmed on more information, we’ll be government areas should 95,480.

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Urgent bid to stop “catastrophic” impact of year-‘round holiday letting in Tweed

By Margaret Dekker TWEED Mayor Cr Chris Cherry will write to the NSW Planning Minister seeking an urgent delay in the November 1 roll-out of new holiday-let laws which will permit year ‘round holiday letting in the Tweed Shire and see all local controls over the contentious practice gone.

Cr Cherry told The Northern Rivers Times she wants a 12 month delay in the introduction of the disruptive new law.

“We need to get as much pressure on the State Government as we can to change that date,” Cr Cherry said.

In June 2018, the NSW Government released a new Regulatory Framework for Short Term Rental Accommodation (STRA) in NSW proposing to make Short Term accommodation permissible for up to 180 days in metropolitan Sydney and between 180–365 days in regional NSW with each Council to nominate its preferred timeframe. At the

time, a majority of Tweed Shire Councillors supported blanket holiday letting of 365 days.

Mayor Chris Cherry told a Council Meeting on Thursday that when the legislation was formed, the current “crisis situation with regards to lack of affordable homes across the Tweed and the greater Northern Rivers” was not envisaged.

“Tweed currently has less than 0.1% availability in the rental market and key workers, such as nurses, teachers, police and retail and hospitality staff are finding it impossible to get accommodation within the area, often being forced to couch surf or sleep in their vehicles just to survive,” Cr Cherry’s report read.

She told The Northern Rivers Times no one could have foreseen the changes in housing demand and price in just three years from myriad factors including influx of ‘Sea and Tree-changers’ from the cities and returning ex-pats.

“Tweed Shire Councillors

Fears year ‘round holiday letting will devastate Tweed’s local housing supply could not have possibly envisaged the COVID-19 housing crisis we’ve now got,” Cr Cherry said.

She said the potential impacts of allowing all approved dwellings, in any zone, for Short Term Rental Accommodation could be catastrophic for the Tweed community.

“Currently only homes in specific zones within our Shire can legally be used for STRA. The new areas that will be impacted are the low-density residential zones

and the rural zones, which effectively means that all of our urban areas, including quiet residential zones will have STRA allowed as exempt development,” Cr Cherry’s motion read.

“It has the potential to make our current housing crisis so much worse,” she told The Northern Rivers Times.

Cr Cherry will write to the NSW Minister for Planning and Public Spaces, the Honourable Rob Stokes MP seeking a 12 month deferment of the proposed new planning

rules for non-hosted Short Term Rental Accommodation (STRA) dwellings, before they take effect on November 1, 2021.

“Just to try and give the community some breathing space,” Cr Cherry said.

In March 2020, Byron Shire Council lodged a planning proposal seeking to limit nonhosted STRA to 90 days in its LGA (Local Government Area). Until the planning proposal is determined or until 31 January 2022, Byron Shire LGA is exempt from the STRA policy.

Mayor Cherry hopes Tweed Shire Council can achieve a similar deferral of the legislation, “for a substantial period to help the Tweed community cope with its current housing shortage without the inevitable reduction of homes that will occur when the new law comes into force.”

“Our Council in 2018 unfortunately voted that we would stay with 365 days of STRA, the community is now asking Councils to revisit that idea,” Cr Cherry said.

DRIVERS PAY HIGH PRICE FOR GOVERNMENT CASH GRAB NEW data has revealed drivers across the Lismore Electorate have been slugged with a 592% increase in fines for low range speeding offences of less than 10km per hour, since the NSW Government made the decision to remove warning signs.

Member for Lismore Janelle Saffin has joined NSW Opposition Leader Chris Minns in calling for the NSW

Government to reintroduce warning signs.

“We all want safer roads, but this is looking like a blatant cash grab,” Ms Saffin said.

“In the six months before the signs were removed 282 fines were issued with a dollar value of $35,662.

“That is compared to 1535 fines issued and $211,139 collected since the warning

signs were removed.

“The numbers speak for themselves. The amount of fines issued shows the government’s decision to remove warning signs have not slowed drivers down.”

Ms Saffin said the fact of the matter was people slowed down when they saw proper warning signs – and that made the roads safe.

Ms Saffin said these hidden

speed cameras are doing nothing to slow people down and instead are slugging families and workers in our Electorate of Lismore in the middle of a pandemic.

“Warning signs display speed limits for drivers, which acts an alert to check speeds and slow down if they need to,” Ms Saffin said.

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“If enough points accumulate and people lose their licences it can lead to job losses and major impacts on their whole lives and those of their family members,” she said.

“The current points system is probably in need of review.”

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WRECKING BALL FOR HISTORIC BUILDINGS Continued from front page

the border with New South Wales was drawn, Marketing for the S & S “Then during WWII, it Projects development states became an important part ‘Awaken’ will feature nine of the radar station network luxury units including a created to identify potential 4 bedroom penthouse, an enemy approaches,” Wayne 11-storey/200m2 art mural on Purcell said. the north wall, 27 off-street car The buildings also housed spaces plus an internal car lift RAAF and US Service system and a two storey café Personnel. and restaurant complex.

“Many are dismayed at how “Awaken Residences pay such iconic buildings, 100 and homage to the organic forms 85 years old, could soon be of the Australian coastline, gone and that such an imposing creating a design that seems structure could be allowed to to have been formed by the be built atop the headland and ebb and flow of waves just tower over the public reserve metres away... The design also and Captain Cook Memorial The Lookout Café, circa 1950s. compliments other significant and Lighthouse,” Nicolle residential developments the spokesperson said. as Bamboo Flute. continued. of similar height under But Nicolle Archer said Nicolle says critically, the Nicolle says the Gold Coast construction in the area and repeated requests to see the site’s Aboriginal Cultural City Council’s City Plan has will be positive addition to ‘Preliminary Assessment’ significance was ignored. She provisions for the protection of the changing skyline,” S&S have produced nothing. She’s says threats to aesthetics at landmark headlands from high Projects, Urbis Awaken flyer determined to exhaust every prominent points also threaten rise development, but not in reads. legal angle possible to put on the Tweed-Coolangatta border this case.

In its report to Council, the record the sites’ heritage, area’s Aboriginal cultural “The problem we have with Gold Coast City Council with the buildings said to be landscape including Country, this development is not just planners said the proposed the first built on the headland. Storylines and Dreaming. the loss of the two buildings development, “Simply, the significance of Known to the local but the impact it will have on “Delivers a quality a place’s heritage is measured Aboriginal people as Jabbo/ Point Danger itself. The tower architectural design to deliver by qualities beyond bricks Chabow, she says the headland will be visible for miles; from a built form that contributes discretionary powers under the and mortar. There is equal holds a special connectedness surfers surfing the waves down to both the existing and Queensland Heritage Act 1992 statutory weight for criteria to other peaks within its line of at Duranbah, people walking intended character of the area; to stop the development and such as rarity, social, historical sight. These high places were along Bilinga Beach, to The proposed development have the buildings’ heritage connections, aesthetics” used for cultural expression, residents over at Fingal.” achieves a balance between significance fully assessed.

Nicolle Archer said. ceremony, resource siting and Southern Gold Coast City built form and landscaped A spokesperson from D’bar House – named after security.

Councillor, Gail O’Neill was areas;” the GCCC planning Minister Scanlon’s office nearby Duranbah Beach - was “Line of sight is incredibly contacted by The Northern report said. told The Northern Rivers built in 1921 and the adjacent important in Aboriginal Rivers Times but declined to But community objector Times a recent preliminary building, today D’bar Café, cultural landscapes. To connect comment.

Nicolle Archer (pictured, inset) assessment of the sites by was built in 1936. Historians to Country, line of sight As steel fencing has already says the development – rated Queensland heritage experts believe they’re among the between places offers insight gone up and the asbestos ‘Code Assessable’ meaning found the buildings weren’t last four original buildings to character and amenity,” removalists make a start on the no community feedback was significant. Further, the remaining in the area Nicolle Archer said. end of this chapter of border required by Council on its minister was unable to invoke with historic links back to There’s also the colonial history. application - was passed at her discretionary powers to Coolangatta Surf Lifesaving significance of Point Danger “I feel shock, shock that no Easter without notice, leaving stop work and assess a site as Club, the Movie and Capitol says local historian, Wayne bureaucrats went to bat for it Tweed Heads and Coolangatta Council had already approved Cafes and the Greek Consul in Purcell. .. it deserved a bit more than locals shocked and angry. the development.

Brisbane. The buildings have “Having been sighted a cursory glance of a heritage A petition to Queensland “Heritage experts said invariably been a surf shop, art and recorded by Captain assessment,” Nicolle Archer Environment Minister because the buildings had been gallery, surfer meeting room, Cook during his voyage of said.

Meaghan Scanlon attracted remodelled many times since a milk bar, tearoom, holiday discovery along the east coast “The sense of place will be 2038 signatures urging the 1930s, the buildings would houses, corner store, even a of Australia in 1771, it thus changed forever, it doesn’t feel the Minister to use her not meet state heritage values,” Hare Krishna restaurant known became the point from which right,” she said.

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25% RISE IN CALLS FOR HELP SINCE PANDEMIC

By Samantha Elley

3,148 calls and the day after it was 3,176 calls.

WE knew it was going to “That’s the equivalent of become an issue, but it has someone ringing in crisis, been officially confirmed, every 30 seconds.” mental health has been dealt Mr Were said compared to a blow as people grapple with numbers before COVID 19, the reality of a deadly virus in there has been a 25 per cent their everyday life. increase in calls to Lifeline.

The recent report by “The stats have been the Australian Institute of consistent at over 25 per cent Health and Welfare confirms and has become our new an increase in ambulance normal,” he said. attendances for suicidal “Mental health and and self-harm attempts, wellbeing has increased in along with increased levels the community conversations of psychological distress, which is a good thing. especially among younger “Lifeline is seen as a trusted people. help and it’s good to see people And as calls to Lifeline can get support. increase, regional general “We exist so no Australian manager of Northern NSW, faces their darkest moment Michael Were (pictured) has alone.” confirmed that on Monday, Mr Were said Lifeline also August 2 they received 3,345 has a text and webchat service. calls.

“That service is becoming “That is the highest increasingly used as it’s number of daily calls in the difficult for people to talk so organisation’s history,” he said. they can communicate through “The day before we received texts,” he said.

Australia that will clearly increase the risk factors linked to distress. “(These include) economic hardship, employment, relationship breakdown and loneliness, particularly for young people,” she said.

“Fortunately, while there has been a rise in the use of mental health services and increase in psychological distress there On the Northern Rivers, hasn’t been a rise in deaths by suicide is 50 per cent above the suicide.

NSW average, according to Mr “I strongly encourage young Were. people to take a proactive “We have many at-risk approach when it comes to groups on the Northern their mental health and to seek Rivers, including LGBTIQA+, support if they need it.

Indigenous and veterans,” he “There are many support said. services for the youth “With Indigenous people, the community including suicide rate is twice as high as Headspace, ReachOut, Kids non-Indigenous.”

Helpline and Batyr.”

Suicide Prevention Ms Murray also encouraged Australia’s CEO Nieves parents, grandparents and Murray said recent lockdowns carers to find time to check across Australia had in regularly with the young significantly shifted the social people in their live, especially and economic landscape in if they notice things not quite

right.

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It combines nine community-led strategies connecting new and existing interventions, while building a suicide prevention safety net for the Lismore community.

The trial is overseen by people with lived experience of suicide and is led by a full-time coordinator.

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Ballina to lead the way in push for vaccinations

By Tonia Dynan BALLINA Shire could be the first community with immunity if a push for more COVID-19 vaccinations in arms is successful.

Dr Tony Lembke and the team at Alstonville Clinic are leading the charge, and they have even printed up some t-shirts to help inspire the community to get involved.

Ballina Shire Council deputy mayor Sharon Cadwallader recently had her first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine (pictured) and said she was doing well.

“I’m ok, I’m fine,” Cr Cadwallader said.

“The Alstonville Clinic, particularly Tony Lembke, they always go out on a mission and this is another one that they have decided to take up the banner.

“For me, it’s Ballina Shire, not just Alstonville, to become a community with immunity.

It’s the only way we’re going to be able to come out of this.

“I think Ballina Shire could take the lead on this and get our numbers up there, and say we did it, throw down the challenge, say come on everybody jump on board.”

Cr Cadwallader said the more people with immunity the greater benefit that would

be to everyone.

“It’s simple stuff,” she said.

“I think it’s a community thing, I think it’s a responsibility that we all have.

“We’ve seen it with other things - measles, mumps, things like that. When the majority of people get vaccinated it then gives immunity to the multitude.

“It’s one of things where I think it’s a responsibility that we have to keep each other safe, not just ourselves.”

Cr Cadwallader said she understood some residents might be upset about the recent reallocation of regional NSW vaccines to help

students in Sydney.

“We’ve had to redirect some of our supplies to the students in Sydney, well that’s what you do,” she said.

“We’re also a caring community and while the vaccines are here, let’s not hesitate. Let’s just go and get it done.”

Australian Government figures show the North Coast’s COVID-19 vaccination numbers are on par with the state and country averages.

The Department of Health’s report on geographic vaccination rates, published on August 2, highlights

the percentages of eligible Australians who have received their first and second vaccination doses.

In the Coffs Harbour/ Grafton region 41.7% of people aged over 15 have received one dose, and 14.6% of people have received two doses.

In the Richmond/Tweed region, 39.7% of people aged over 15 have received one dose, and 17.2% have received two doses.

In NSW, 42.2% of people aged over 15 have received one dose, and 19.81% have received two doses.

On the North Coast, in the

week to August 3, 12,280 vaccine doses were given.

Since the rollout began in February this year, about 183,000 doses have been administered - 76% AstraZeneca and 24% Pfizer.

Healthy North Coast Chief Executive Julie Sturgess said that while the region’s second dose rate was slightly lower than state and national averages, it was in line with other regional areas of NSW. “This discrepancy may be because in outbreak areas like Sydney, second doses of AstraZeneca are being brought forward,” Ms Sturgess said.

“Locally, we’re continuing to see solid vaccination numbers as people realise the importance of protecting themselves, their loved ones and their communities.

“There is strong demand for Pfizer vaccine, which at the moment is exceeding supply both locally and nationally, with up to three months’ waiting time. Come midSeptember we should start to see an increase in the supply of the Pfizer.”

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Car crash blackout Emergency service personnel shut off electricity in Grafton mid afternoon to allow a young woman trapped in a car after hitting a power-old to be removed from her vehicle.

Coffs Clarence police said the incident occurred after 3pm on Thursday when a Toyota Kluger driving along Victoria St near the intersection with Duke St, left the road and mounted the footpath.

The car smashed the pole’s protective railing before coming to rest against the power pole (pictured).

The driver, believed to be a young woman, was injured in the crash and ambulance paramedics treated her at the scene.

The impact severely damaged the passenger side front end of the vehicle.

Grafton Police commander Inspector Jo Reid said emergency personnel requested the electricity supply to be cut off for a short time to allow the woman to be removed from the vehicle safely.

This resulted in a short blackout across Grafton after 4pm on Thursday.

“The power outage was not caused by the impact of the vehicle,” Insp Reid said.

She did not have further details at hand, including the health of the driver.

Witnesses at the scene were uncertain how the vehicle came to leave the road.

Insp Reid said more information about the incident would be released as it came to hand.

Motorist struck by object dies A man has died in hospital after he was critically injured when a roll of wire impacted his vehicle in the state’s north last week.

About 6pm last Friday 6 August, emergency services were called to Swan Creek, near Grafton, following reports a Mazda Bravo had been damaged while travelling on Big River Way.

University Hospital in a critical condition.

The man later died in hospital, about 9am Sunday 8 August.

The two passengers of the vehicle, an eight-year-old girl and a threeyear-old boy, were not injured.

Officers from Coffs/Clarence Police District secured a crime scene which was later examined by specialist police from the Crash Investigation Unit.

Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding this collision and are seeking witnesses and/or dashcam footage from motorists who were travelling between Ballina and Ulmarra between 2.00pm and 6.00pm on Friday 6 August.

Man wanted on warrants Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a man (pictured) wanted on an outstanding warrant in the state’s north.

Jay Pease, aged 28, is wanted on three warrants with Operation Utah commencing inquiries into his whereabouts.

Mr Pease is described as being of Caucasian appearance, between 175cm to 180cm tall, of medium build, with brown hair and blue eyes.

He is known to frequent the Newcastle and east Lake Macquarie areas, including Georgetown, Mayfield, Swansea, Gateshead, and Belmont North.

Anyone with information about Mr Pease’s whereabouts is urged to contact Coffs/Clarence Police District.

The 35-year-old driver from Anyone with information about these incidents are urged to contact Ulmarra was treated at the scene Crime Stoppers: 1800 333 000 or https://nsw.crimestoppers.com.au.

by NSW Ambulance paramedics Information is treated in strict confidence. The public is reminded not to and later report airliftedinformation to Gold Coastvia NSW Police social media pages.

FACIAL RECONSTRUTION MAY PROVIDE FINAL CLUE DETECTIVES from Tweed/Byron Police District have renewed a nationwide appeal to help identify a man whose decomposed body was found on the state’s Far North Coast almost a decade ago.

A post-mortem examination established that the man was Caucasian and aged between 50 to 70-years-old. He was 163cm tall, with a thin build and grey hair tied in a ponytail with a blue band. Further investigations have revealed the man wore dentures.

The post-mortem was unable to determine the man’s cause of death, with no visible signs of injury and the body heavily decomposed. Despite exhaustive inquiries and comparisons to missing persons cases from across the country, detectives were not able to identify the man at the time.

In early 2020, investigators engaged a forensic artist from the Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification at the University of Dundee in Scotland to construct a 3D virtual sculpture and digital forensic facial reconstruction.

Tweed/Byron PD Crime Manager, Detective Chief Inspector Brendon Cullen, is pleading with people

across the country – but particularly on the NSW Far North Coast and in Queensland’s South East – to take the time to look at the facial reconstruction, hoping they may recognise this man from their past.

“While we are yet to find a match on any Missing Persons database, we are confident there is someone out there who will know this man and recognise his features,” Det Ch Insp Cullen said.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Tweed Heads Police Station or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

New upgrades for Lismore and Byron Bay courthouses DOMESTIC violence complainants and other vulnerable witnesses will have the opportunity to give evidence more comfortably in court thanks to a new remote witness room to be built at both Lismore and Byron Bay courthouses.

Local Nationals Member of the Legislative Council Ben Franklin said this was a positive step forward for victim-survivors to be able to feel more secure in reporting abuse and giving evidence in court.

“Remote witness rooms mean that victim-survivors do not have to face their alleged abuser or feel intimidated in the court room,” Mr Franklin said.

“They can give evidence from a secure and safe room via videolink to help them feel more comfortable.

“Speaking in a courtroom can be a daunting experience, especially for those who have faced trauma, and it takes courage so I’m glad our region will have two new remote witness rooms to support victim-survivors.”

The projects are being delivered as part of a $9 million Commonwealth COVID-19 stimulus funding package.

The upgrades include a new remote witness room and state-of-the-art audio-visual link equipment at both courthouses, acoustic panelling, new furniture and secure access doors at Lismore, and an upgraded safe room at Byron.

Attorney General and Minister for Prevention of Domestic and Sexual

Violence Mark Speakman said witnesses had commonly been through serious trauma and coming to court could be very stressful.

“This is particularly true for victimsurvivors of domestic, family, and sexual violence,” Mr Speakman said.

“These investments are part of our ongoing commitment to support victimsurvivors if they choose to report to police, and to help them feel confident in coming to court.”

Later this year, self-represented defendants will be banned from personally cross examining complainants in domestic violence criminal proceedings and related apprehended domestic violence order proceedings, under new laws passed last November.

As part of the same reforms, complainants in these proceedings also now have a prima facie entitlement to give evidence remotely via AVL and in a closed court.

The works will also include upgrades of essential safety features, funded from the NSW Government’s $100 million Sustaining Critical Infrastructure Program, announced in the November 2020 budget.

The contracts for Lismore and Byron Bay courthouses have been awarded to Intrec Management Pty Ltd. Start dates are currently being finalised and the stimulus projects will be completed by the end of the year.

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Residents ready to fight for Dawson Street traffic lights

By Tonia Dynan ANN Campbell has lived on Dawson Street for about 55 years and every time she goes to walk across the Bruxner Highway with her walker, she takes a deep breath and hopes for the best.

Ann doesn’t drive and doesn’t have access to a vehicle. The only way the pensioner can get into town is to walk or catch a cab, and she only lives two blocks from the Lismore CBD. “It makes it very difficult for me at times to cross the highway because of the amount of traffic there is,” she said.

“I’ve got to the stage that if I have an appointment somewhere, if my appointment’s not until 9.30, I’ll still leave home at eight o’clock, so I know that I can safely get across the highway.

Between eight and 10 past eight I find there’s a gap in the traffic to get across.

“I’d rather go and sit for an hour and wait for an appointment, then try and get across the highway at a more suitable time to match the appointment. It’s either that or get hit by a car.”

Ann says she fears for her life every time she has to cross the highway.

“I take a deep breath and hope to hell that I get across,” the 77-year-old said.

“It has to get fixed, but I don’t think it’ll happen in my time to be honest.”

And Ann is not alone.

Almost 200 people have signed an online petition to get traffic lights installed at the Dawson Street intersection.

Ann said she would feel much safer crossing if there were traffic lights.

“I’ve used the lights down further when I could walk down that way,” she said.

“One day I almost got hit by a car crossing at Wyrallah

Road, and that was very, very scary.

“I don’t go out near as much and socialise like I used to because I can’t get across the road.”

The State Government is proposing to replace the roundabout at Molesworth Street outside Lismore City Hall with traffic lights instead of fixing Dawson Street.

“I don’t think Molesworth Street is anywhere near as busy as down here, because I used to go up there to get my blood test done and I never had any trouble crossing the highway,” Ann said.

Girards Hill residents meet with Lismore MP Janelle Saffin last week to voice their concerns, which some have been doing for years.

Ms Saffin said the NSW Government had broken a promise made in the February 2019 election to fix traffic congestion and improve safety on the Bruxner Highway in downtown Lismore.

She said the election commitment was to spend $6 million on traffic lights and improvements to the Bruxner Highway-Dawson Street intersection, not at the Molesworth Street intersection.

“We’ve outgrown

roundabouts,” Ms Saffin said.

“We’ve got a city surrounded by roundabouts that are not functional.

“The promise was done on the basis of pedestrian safety and access, no other reason.

That’s the promise the locals want kept. That’s the promise I’m advocating to the minister to keep.

“If they want to do something at Molesworth Street, at the bridge, go ahead.

This one has to be honoured – they’re two separate issues.”

Ms Saffin said there was a whole neighborhood that was cut off by a very busy highway from the Lismore CBD. “It’s about pedestrian access and we have to do a lot more,” she said.

“It’s not fair. We’ve got people here like Ann, who goes down in her wheelie walker, trying to get across a highway with 25,000 cars coming a day, and we all know with our roundabouts, the way we approach them, because they are so busy in Lismore, everyone’s just waiting for that second when they can go in, they come through quite fast.”

Resident Anne Meagher has been a Lismore resident about 40 years and has lived on

Dawson Street for eight years.

“We’ve been fighting for at least the last eight years,” she said.

“We were actually promised in 2019, it was an election promise by the State Government, that they would allocate $6 million towards the installation of traffic lights on the corner of Dawson Street, and the Bruxner Highway, and we’re still waiting.

“The funding was provided so we feel that a promise is a promise. You know where I come from and my values are that when you make a promise you keep it and what we’re going to do is make sure this government maintains that promise.”

Neighbour Emma Capp recently moved to the street and her eight-year-old son goes to the Living School in the CBD. “I just assumed that we’d be able to walk there easily, and he’d be able to maybe walk to school by himself, but he can’t,” she said.

“I’m too scared to let him go to school by himself. And I don’t think they should wait for a fatality to do anything about the crossing here.”

This week, Lismore Mayor Vanessa Ekins raised a notice of motion on the

State Government’s decision to put in traffic lights at the Molesworth Street intersection instead.

The motion looked to advise Transport for NSW that the priority pedestrian and road network improvements for Ballina Road were the Dawson Street and Wyrallah Road intersections and council was to write to NSW Minister Transport and Roads and Member for Lismore Janelle Saffin to support the 2019 decision to upgrade Dawson Street.

“In 2019 Transport for NSW committed $6 million to upgrade Ballina Road at Dawson Street and there is significant community support for this project,” Cr Ekins said.

“It appears that TfNSW are considering a cheaper, shortterm solution at Molesworth Street that does not offer the same pedestrian advantages, removes 18 car parks and numerous trees at Heritage Park.

“The outcome Lismore wants is the Dawson Street upgrade as a priority.”

Ms Saffin said the next step would be to wait to hear back from Transport NSW on whether they were willing to change their decision.

COOLEST SCHOOL: CORAKI CHOSEN TO POWER SOLAR REVOLUTION CHILDREN at the small Coraki Public School will soon be able to boast they are leading the way in the State’s march towards a zero carbon future, Clarence Nationals MP Chris Gulaptis is claiming.

“Coraki is part of a handful of public schools in regional NSW to win the right to join the Nationals in NSW Government’s new

Schools Renewable Energy Infrastructure Pilot Project,” Mr Gulaptis said.

“What that means is tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of free solar panels and batteries coming to Coraki to make clean green electricity for the school and the local community.”

Mr Gulaptis said the pilot project will test the benefits

and costs of the large-scale implementation of solar systems and batteries in order to reduce the State’s reliance on carbon intensive electricity production.

“If this works, and there is no reason to think it won’t, it could be replicated across many of the other 2,200 public schools in NSW,” Mr Gulaptis said.

“In the meantime, Coraki kids and their families get the bragging rights.”

Minister for Education, the Nationals’ Sarah Mitchell, said the potential of the Schools Renewable Energy Infrastructure Pilot Project was limitless.

“NSW public schools have a combined roof space of 8 million square metres. That is

almost 2,000 football fields’ worth of space ready for clean power generation,” Ms Mitchell said.

“By producing solar energy, schools will benefit from lower energy bills, and batteries will store any excess solar energy for later use or it can be sold to the energy grid. They’ll also save an average of $300,000 in power bills.”

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DAM TOUTED AS VALUABLE CULTURAL ASSET

By Tonia Dynan AN estimated 39,500 people visit the Rocky Creek Dam reserve each year, according to a recent study.

On behalf of Rous County Council, Southern Cross University researched the nonmarket value of tourism and recreational services provided by the reserve.

From the report, the estimate for the total value of tourism and recreation values provided by the dam was $1.6 million dollars per annum.

Rous County Council chair Keith Williams said it was good to see the community valued the naturalised area.

“A lot of work has gone into restoring rainforest and the original vegetation areas and it’s good to see it being used and people valuing the services that are there,” Cr Williams said.

“I think it’s a beautiful place.

“People might be surprised at the dollar value that’s put on it, but I think people really do value quality, outdoor experiences.

“Providing that for the community just shows that that’s good value.”

Cr Williams said revegetation work at the site started back when the dam was built, but in the last 20 to 30 years, Rous had put a lot of effort into restoring the Big Scrub Rainforest.

“There’s so really well-

maintained, high-quality forest in that area that adds an environmental effect to the whole community as well as a wonderful place to visit,” he said.

“We’ve made the effort to make sure there are walks for people that would like to stretch their legs or just use the playground areas and picnic areas.

“There’s different levels of opportunity there for people and I think that’s one of the strengths of the area.”

origin was within 100km by road.

Lismore was identified as the biggest contributor to visitation making up 16% of the sample.

70% of visitors said they came to the site to bushwalk and hike, 39% to picnic, 25% were site seeing, 17% came to take in the nature and 12% were bird watching.

Most visitors to the site were The results provide insight between the ages of 26 and 35 into the numbers of people (19%), which is in line with visiting the popular reserve, national averages. where they lived, why they Regarding the frequency came and what they valued at of visitation to the site, most the site. visitors (46%) claimed to be One noticeable observation first time visitors. and the most common response Another 13% of respondents, from interviewees was to who had visited the site before, maintain the status quo, and claimed to visit the site less not make any changes to the than once a year. reserve.

The full report produced by Visitors came from a variety Dr Mitchell Kirby is available of locations and travelled from on the Rous County Council as far as Darwin and Adelaide. website: rous.nsw.gov.au/ 83% of the visitors’ point of news#Report.

Byron included in development of catchment program WORK has started on the development of the Richmond River Coastal Management Program, a long-term strategy for the management of the Richmond River catchment which includes parts of the Byron Shire.

In the past a Coastal Zone Management Plan focused on the management of the Richmond River in the Ballina, Lismore and Richmond Valley council areas.

“This time the plan is for a ‘whole of catchment approach’ to the Richmond River, recognising how the health of the upper catchments affect the lower reaches of the river,” Biodiversity and Agricultural Projects Officer Peter Boyd said.

“Just under half of Byron Shire drains into the Richmond, with waterways including Coopers Creek, Wilsons Creek and Byron Creek flowing into the Wilson River and then to the

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LETTERS, FEEDBACK AND OPINION on water”, I immediately think of Professor Tim Flannery’s prediction in the early 2000’s that Sydney’s main water source (Warragamba Dam) would never be full again.

In a knee-jerk reaction, We’d love to hear the State Government of the time commissioned from you! the water desalination letters@nrtimes.com.au plant at Malabar which Please keep under 150 words has never been fully & include address and utilised but which costs phone number the NSW taxpayers a Tiny Byron six-figure sum weekly In NRT 5/8 edition in just to keep it on the crime report on page standby (all payable 8 Local Government to a Canadian pension election candidate Rhett Political agendas fund). Conversely, since Holt described Byron I refer to the letter to its construction, the Bay as “a small town”. the editor penned by N dam has actually been Best do some homework Nicholson (NRT 5/08) overtopped twice. So Rhett, the population in which she suggests much for the climate of Byron is over 9,000 that the decisions of the experts! people. It’s hardly a Rous County Councillors All I will say regarding town, least of all a small be considered as the Widjabul Wia-bal one. “courageous”. I believe people’s position is Sue Le Cornu they should be more that any comment that Iluka correctly termed was a position other “political” as Greens than anti-dam would Nuclear solution councillors have voted as be regarded as racist I agree with G per their political agenda. but, irrespective of skin MacDonald’s letter The Greens’ mantra is colour or background, we (NRT 5/8/21), we should “no dams” so to say all need water. have had nuclear energy the councillors have Brian Latimer decades ago. considered all the facts in Goonellabah Instead of spending my opinion is farcical. billions on renewables I, and many others, Mistaken identity we could have built small have been saying for With deep respect may I nuclear power stations many years that there correct an error published around the country for is no place in local in the poignant article electricity and water government for party (NRT 1/7/21) in relation courses to take water politics of any colour; to the closure of the from one area to another rather we need people historic St Oswald’s so that when one area has who will represent the Church of England at a drought another area will of the majority on Broken Head near Byron can supply its surplus local issues.

Bay, and its interlocking water and if one area I accept that it would story of three local floods we could pump it be short sighted to rely soldiers killed in action away with nuclear power. on water from a single in the 1914-1918 With more water source as we have seen First World War, they available for outback in our previous drought being named as Jacob towns and cheaper events. However, as for Frederick Flick, Arthur electricity, farmers could following the “water Beaumont Goard and employ more workers experts and the science Frank Kimpton.

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The first name given as Jacob Frederick Flick is incorrect.

Family records reveal the soldier was actually Jacob’s son, Frederick Walter Flick (known as Sonny), second child of Jacob Frederick Flick and Mary Jane (Malloy).

Sonny’s eldest sister, Emily Rachael Flick married Arthur Hayter in 1913, aunt and uncle of my late father, Walter Hayter. Both my dad and Sonny were born at Byron Bay in 1896 and 1897 respectively.

“We lost the cream of Australia’s youth in that terrible war”, my father often lamented with tears in his eyes.

“When news of casualties rolled in, the grief was not only confined to families.

It vibrated throughout the close-knit Byron community. The annual Empire Day Celebrations in Australian towns and schools were big events that instilled a strong allegiance to Mother England. The lads considered it their loyal duty to enlist to defend King and Country.”

The three soldier’s names along with others are listed in the War Memorial Wall at the old Byron Bay Recreation Grounds. “Lest We Forget”.

John Hayter Tintenbar

younger generations’’, then go on to accuse me of being a conspiracy theorist, you obviously read a different paper to me, I have never said such a thing.

The left historically hold socialist ideals, they try to suppress any contrary view to their own and want to crush anyone who dares to have a dissenting opinion. Thank God our wonderful Northern Rivers Times upholds the right to freedom of speech and offers both sides of a debate. You may be shocked and surprised if you remove your blinkers and peer through the locked green door, there is a very large proportion of the community whom have the same beliefs, ideals, political views, fears and expectations as I. You have the temerity to question the legitimacy of the BOM and their many tidal and sea level gauges all around the Australian coast.

Where do you think the United Nations, state governments, engineers and construction companies source their sea level data from?

Who conducts the Great Barrier Reef marine authorities sea level tests? How accurate are they? Are they audited?

Are the testers qualified?

All you have to offer is unsubstantiated rhetoric Biting back and alarmist conjecture.

In response to S Walters I deliberately refrained (letters NRT 5/8), I find from commenting on it quite weird you think Sir David Attenborough I said “NASA has a as I consider it vested interest in creating offensive to taunt the paranoia and fear in the elderly. Contrary to your accusations no one has more concern for his children, grandchildren and the younger generation GRAFTON & BEYOND than I. Consequently I push back against the oppressive left whom through their silly green agendas seek to destroy their future. As soon as you resort to expletives you have lost the debate.

Maybe you should stick to empty vessels and pig wrestling, seems you know all about that.

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Incompetent bungling The already botched COVID vaccine rollout has now reached farcical status. How bad is it when Labor ex-PM Kevin Rudd had to intervene by contacting, on behalf of Australian businesspeople, the head of Pfizer in an effort to increase supply. Just what is this rubber-mouthed Morrison’s claim to fame besides rhetorical double-speak, deflection, distraction and virtually anything but the truth?

Morrison is now so adept at shapeshifting, finger-pointing, excuseconjuring and shameless denial, that he thinks he can get away with anything, and to date he probably has. All we’re getting from this blatherskite and his sidekick (Greg Hunt), like regurgitating parrot’s defending the botched vaccine roll-out is, “we’re hitting our vaccine marks and we’re getting this done”. What marks?

The ones we’ve already missed by many months?

At this rate we’ll be in lockdowns forever.

It seems that Morrison’s modus-operandi is keeping us totally confused with his incoherent waffle, and shapeshifting ability.

When politicians like Morrison can make Teflon appear sticky, overconfidence can be their downfall – when the long suffering voters finally awaken to this “menacing wallpaper”, all-hell could be unleashed with brutal consequences. If anyother Aussie PM besides this serial obscurantist had tried this, they’d have been shamed, tarred and feathered and run out of office long before now.

With a bit of luck that might happen sooner rather than later.

Keith Duncan Pimlico Christmas in July I have noted many letters about Climate Change, some quite cutting and futile, as none are prepared to honestly debate with facts agreed

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LETTERS, FEEDBACK AND OPINION to by both sides.

So I put forward some empirical evidence of my area, Ballina. 40 years ago I planted two Christmas trees and for 30 years they flowered in December. 10 Years ago they flowered in November, five years ago they flowered in October, last year they flowered in September and then one died. This year the one remaining is budding now, in August.

It appears nature doesn’t read newspapers or watch tv or look at the Internet. My evidence is in my front yard.

Come and see for yourselves.

The people attacking Greta Thunberg do themselves a disservice as it weakens their argument and belittles them. I was impressed by one of your letters, where it was stated that the sea wasn’t rising but the islands were sinking, pure Trumpism, similar to one of his statements that there would be less positive Covd results if people stopped being tested.

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the economic driver of this country when they gotten rid of lots of manufacturing and two oil refineries and much more.

Anyway basically we are living in a throwaway consumer driven society that does not give a rat’s about the environment with the amount of landfill from cheap consumer crap and the disposable society we live in.

Furthermore if you are not living like the indigenous or the amish who live minimalist lives recycling everything and living simply then you’re not living, you’re hoarding. I quote actor David Gulpilil who said they had no word for ‘rubbish’ as they reused everything.

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The letters from climate deniers G MacDonald and Lynette Evans (NRT 8/7) are notable in that they both sing from the same sceptic song book.

They know about climate change as it has always occurred, but reject global warming - they need reminding that geological climate change occurred slowly over centuries if not millennia while changes occurring now are measurable over decades, ie they are anything but natural.

G MacDonald loves empirical evidence but obviously ignores the empirical evidence which is readily available for warming atmosphere and ocean, worldwide retreat/ disappearance of alpine glaciers, ocean acidification, sea level rise, frequency of QR question coral bleaching, melting ‘Leemo Cat’ here writing on permafrost, increasing velocity behalf of my ‘mum Jane’. If of polar glaciers etc etc. you read my column every G MacDonald also loves the week in this wonderful data he gets from the BOM newspaper, you will understand and though he has a penchant what I am writing about. for using the data erroneously How is it, that Mum’s it is intriguing that his beloved doctor’s surgery has been the BOM is made up of scientists/ only place she has attended meteorologists who not only in the past 4-5 weeks to ask accept global warming but Disposable society her to actually verify that she indeed are responsible for I don’t give a rat’s a**e about had signed in correctly using actually confirming it. the economy and it’s Covid the Covid safe sign-in when Sceptics somehow see it that’s highlighted the fact that she uses her mobile, and show as their duty to demonise our you can’t put the economy her phone screen sign-in with youth seemingly because they before people’s health. NSW a green tick? Mum goes here have the audacity to accept the has found that out the hard and there every second or third science and be concerned for way while other states have day and has been doing things the future of their planet - segue gotten away with things the wrong way for weeks. to Greta - in her latest TV because they put health of their No other business in documentary she met up with people before the economy.

Lismore apart from her David Attenborough who Seeing that western Australia doctor’s surgery, has asked enthusiastically embraced her and iron ore are contributing her to actually verify she has conclusions - so on one hand half of Australia’s economy signed in correctly using her we have Attenborough and and all of the Job Keeper phone by showing the green on the other MacDonald and money was iron ore money and tick sign-in on her phone Evans - now there’s a choice rest of the economy coming screen. This kinda needs for the ages! from agriculture and somewhat addressing... don’t you think?”

Sorry Lynette, so many of from tourism, I’m not sure Leemo Cat the islands affected by rising why NSW thinks that they are Lismore sea level are atop very stable

regions of the oceanic crust ie they are not sinking while satellite altimetry confirms that sea level has indeed risen.

Sadly, for our two correspondents, the Internet is an infinite source of sceptical rubbish that seems plausible but the best advice for deniers is to treat sceptical sites with caution and be on the lookout for so called experts with fossil fuel connections (remember when big tobacco trotted out PhDs to convince us smoking was not dangerous) and likewise be very wary of the ‘alternate climate facts’ promoted on media like Sky News.

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Safe air Is the air safe to breathe?

Certainly not yet; for we can no longer guarantee the air our children breathe is safe to breathe anywhere in the world. And if living in the best suburbs doesn’t give you “gold standard” protection from this latest pandemic, what level of protection do we now have in a world where employment growth is in manufacturing masks and Covid contact tracing?

When will the penny drop that to adequately address a global pandemic, a global approach is required? A global approach to ascertain the truth about the origin of this pandemic would be a good start.

And with increasing supplies of Australian Astra Zeneca vaccine coming on stream, when will we become more generous world citizens and provide more of our vaccines to our neighbouring countries, for the world will only get on top of Covid when the world’s most disadvantaged people have been vaccinated?

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World: “ There is no way we can shut down everything in order to lower emissions, slow climate change and protect the environment.”

Mother Nature: “Here’s a virus. Practice.”

All the best in the future you choose for those you love.

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Protect the reef At Ningaloo Reef in WA near Exmouth, developers are hovering like vultures in the thermals. My favourite Aussie author, Tim Winton, has been an anti-development activist of the reef ever since I can remember. Now this important ecosystem for fish and dugongs and humpback whales migrating from the southern oceans is under threat again.

This area has been vulnerable to development for decades and that’s how long Tim’s been watching this area and had campaigned against a marina before and won.

Tours to see turtles, manta rays and humpback whales and whale sharks draw thousands of visitors every year from around the globe.

Gascoyne Gateway of the proposed development and billionaire Andrew Forrest of the mining sector and Minderroo Foundation are both behind developments and their submission to the environment watchdog said ad-hoc multisection industrialisation fo the gulf was a key concern? I suppose for billionaires enough isn’t enough, and that’s a disease, folks.

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If you love Byron Bay, dig deeper for its homeless A CALL from the crew at Fletcher Street Cottage, Byron’s homelessness hub It’s easy to forget your troubles in Byron. Just take a stroll on Wategos Beach or browse the boutique stores and it’s almost impossible to worry about anything except maybe which cafe to get your next latte from. It’s the reason millions of people visit every year.

But there’s another side to this popular beachside town you don’t see on social media or in tourist brochures. The reality is Byron has the highest rate of homelessness outside of Sydney, with numbers on the rise, many of them disadvantaged women.

In response to this housing crisis emergency, Byron Community Centre and Creative Capital have joined forces to reopen Fletcher Street Cottage in the heart of town, as a service hub for Byron’s most vulnerable.

On Monday, August 9, a crowdfunding campaign was launched to raise $250,000 to renovate the classic beach house. Owned by Byron Shire Council, Fletcher Street Cottage used to be a drop-in centre but closed 5 years ago due to lack of funding.

The raised funds will go to planned improvements including a new furniture fit out, building a commercial kitchen, adding showers, storage lockers, and turning the front and backyard into a safe and welcoming refuge.

“Fletcher Street Cottage will act as a hub for a range of services for locals at risk of becoming homeless and those already sleeping rough,” Louise O’Connell, general manager at Byron Community Centre said.

“Instead of accessing

services in five or six different locations, here’s a one-stopshop, where people can come and have breakfast, access a counsellor, have a shower, do their laundry, talk to housing specialists and access other wraparound services. It’s all under the one roof, which is something we haven’t had since Fletcher Street Cottage closed five years ago.”

“Byron’s always been amazing at coming together and protesting. We’re very good at saying no to things,” says Fraser Williams-Martin, creative director of Creative Capital. “Fletcher Street Cottage is an opportunity for the community to say yes, we want to look after everyone in town, especially those in need.”

While funding has been secured through the Goninan Foundation for a manager to run the new homelessness hub, Fletcher Street Cottage will need additional donations, beyond the renovations, to help keep the lights on, because it’s reopening without any government support.

“Looking back on my time of having no fixed address, you’re predominately in survival mode, so your nervous system and adrenal glands are exhausted.

Anywhere you can find, where you can experience some calm and a sense of safety is so important, which Fletcher Street Cottage really provided,” said Silver, a local woman who frequented the former Fletcher Street Cottage.

With no ongoing government funding, Fletcher Street Cottage is relying on community support to reopen its doors.

So, if you’ve ever holidayed in Byron, surfed, got married, partied, given birth, started

Jumping at the chance to provide safe haven for Byron’s homeless

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HOUSING TASKFORCE WANTS TO HEAR FROM LISMORE ELECTORATE HAVE your say on the supply and affordability of housing in regional NSW. Residents in the Lismore electorate are invited to share their views on how the NSW Government can respond to increasing pressures on housing.

Member for Lismore Janelle Saffin urged locals to register for upcoming online sessions this month or for face-to-face meetings hosted by the Regional Housing Taskforce in Ballina on August 17 and 18.

“The new housing taskforce wants to hear your experiences to better understand the challenges when buying and renting in the bush, so it can drive policy that delivers new housing opportunities for regional communities,” Ms Saffin said.

“This is the community’s chance to voice their opinions on housing issues affecting the Northern Rivers and Northern Tablelands.”

State Minister for Planning and Public Spaces Rob Stokes said the NSW Government was looking to tackle the combination of factors putting pressure on housing supply.

“By having the right housing policies, planning rules and support in place, we can boost our economic recovery and ensure everyone has a safe place to call home,” Mr Stokes said.

“Housing supply is as important in the regions as in Sydney, which is why I set up the Regional Housing Taskforce to investigate how we can better use the planning system and other levers to boost supply.”

Chair of the new Regional Housing Taskforce, Garry Fielding, said community feedback would be vital to informing his independent report, which would be handed to the NSW Government in September.

“These findings will play a crucial role in developing a set of recommendations on how to achieve better housing outcomes for our regions,” Mr Fielding said.

“I am pleased to lead this online roundtable and encourage the community and local business to join the conversation.”

Throughout this month of August, the Taskforce will be engaging with councils, Members of Parliament, the housing and development sectors and the local community.

A series of virtual consultations are scheduled, as well as in-person meetings in Ballina, Orange and Queanbeyan.

For more information, register for an event or make an online submission visit www. planningportal.nsw.gov.au/ regional-housing.

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GOVERNMENT HAS DUTY OF CARE: EXTINCTION REBELLION

By Samantha Elley DAISY Nutty is a 48-year-old Lismore nurse who decided, when she went to Canberra, that she was going to get arrested.

As part of an early morning protest by the group Extinction Rebellion, Daisy occupied the roof of the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association last week.

The goal of the group was to hold a ‘spectacular and disruptive protest..causing traffic chaos by closing down four lanes of traffic in Barry Drive, Canberra for two hours’, according to a media release.

As it was the first Winter sitting day for Federal Parliament, the group felt it was an important time to get the message through about urgent climate action at a national level.

Daisy Nutty, 48-year-old Lismore nurse was arrested in Canberra last week after protesting at an Extinction Rebellion event.

One of the two tripods set up to disrupt Canberra traffic last week, involving a Lismore nurse who was arrested.

“About 70 percent of Australian want serious action on the climate emergency, but our government is not responding,” said Ms Nutty.

“We ordinary people have a moral duty to stand up for life on Earth.

“I have pledged to my niece and nephew and all future generations to save koalas

Bluesfest Easter cancellation results in nationwide loss of $225 million BLUESFEST director Peter Noble OAM was heartbroken when the popular Easter event was cancelled due to COVID in 2020, but he says the last-minute cancellation earlier this year was “catastrophic”.

Reuben Lawrence Consulting last week delivered their Economic Impact Report regarding the cancellation of Bluesfest on March 31, just one day before it was due to go ahead at Easter.

But as Mr Noble states: “You may cancel us – but you cannot stop us from bringing millions of dollars into New South Wales and creating scores of jobs!”

Mr Noble says that although he would never believe Bluesfest 2021 at Easter should have been cancelled, due to one positive case of COVID-19 from a non-festival ticket buyer who lives 35 minutes’ drive time away from the event, you can’t change the past.

The loss in 2021 due to the last-minute cancellation was estimated to be $181.2 million plus job losses

of 897 (full-time equivalent) totalling $44.2 million for a combined loss of $225.4 million.

“Yet we still created economic output of $33.8 million and wages valued at $7.4 million,” Mr Noble said.

“We lost so much when Bluesfest was cancelled less than 24 hours out

by NSW Public Health Order.

“Our entire industry was traumatised, yet we picked up the pieces, put ourselves back together, paid our bills, including significant payments to the cancelled artists

and still delivered major numbers to the economy of NSW in economic output and job creation.

“In the end we move on because we believe our industry, the live music industry, will come back stronger than ever.”

Mr Noble said there was nothing that equalled the experience of live music.

“If you think we are going to give up, not only must you think again, but also we don’t think you are thinking right in the first place,” he said.

“Live music will return, and we will be at the forefront.”

and all life from extinction.”

Ms Nutty was arrested, released, then promptly arrested again at another protest at the Department of Environment, Water and

Agriculture. Along with two others, she was charged with defacing Commonwealth property when she used red paint to make her statement.

Ms Nutty was fined $100.

Getting a real census of our country OPINION

by Lesley Apps

you have a wife and daughters?

For the women: Are you a feminist?

Do you believe trans women are YOU’VE gotta love a good census. I women? Have you been misogynised? wish they were more frequent than every Are you an influencer? Believe in five years because they make you take a vaccination? Have you been called good hard, stocktake on yourself.

Karen even though it’s not your name?

Inevitably, the more boring you are, Been a victim of domestic violence? the more stuff some stays the same.

How much superannuation do you have?

Other things change. Like your For all Australians (including the address and your age (if you’re lucky). kids): Or, as previous years revealed, your Do you think refugees and their religion: Hello to all the Jedi Masters out children should be ‘detained’ for: 1 there. year, 10 years, indefinitely?

Besides revealing just how many Do you think all Australians get a fair domestic comedians are out there, the go so they can have a go?

Census is also a blueprint for Australia’s Do you believe in reverse racism or future, to guide government in a sexism? Did you go to public or private practical, evidence-based way to plan school? Do you know someone living for it (if only they’d asked the question: with a disability?

How would you behave in a pandemic?

Do you know what coercive control five years ago). is? Do you know what consent means?

That kind of surface information is First Nations section: fine but what if the Department of Bean Have you read the Uluru Statement Counters created a document that took from the Heart? Do Black Lives Matter a deeper dive into to population asking or All Lives Matter? questions that also revealed the psyche Do you think Aboriginal people of the nation? should get over it? Get a job? Go Here are a few sample questions for back to the desert? Continue to die in starters: custody? To be sent to jail at age 10?

Do you believe in climate change? Do Deserve: a. A land treaty, b. Voice you think Australia Day should be held in parliament c. Recognition in the on January 26? Do you acknowledge Constitution or d. All of the above? that white privilege is a thing?

Do you own your own home/s/s/s?

Some sections could be more Do you have franking credits? Do you personalised. know a homeless person?

For the men: Are you a good guy?

Obviously, there’s scope to pose Have you ever assaulted a woman? many more questions to really get to Do you believe women should be paid the heart of the country so we can plan the same as men? Do you think your for a better future for all, but we do family is your property? Do you support only have one night to complete the women’s rights or ‘not all men’ rights? form.

Are you a member of a boys club? Do Maybe next time Australia.

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Rural land share communities, a thing of the past

By Margaret Dekker FORTY years after they were first trumped as a low-cost, environmentally-friendly housing solution in NSW, Tweed Shire Council has voted to prohibit Rural Land Share Communities in the Shire by early 2022.

Councillors at Thursday night’s Council Meeting voted 5-2 in support of making Rural Land Sharing Communities a prohibited land use by removing reference to the Tweed Local Environmental Plans (2000 and 2014) from the State Environmental Planning Policy.

In its report, Council staff stated, “The sole purpose of the planning proposal is to prevent the proliferation of further applications for new RLSCs as they are no longer seen to achieve the outcome first envisaged to be acceptable when the initial State environmental planning policy controls were released in the 1980s,” the report read.

Council was also advised to avoid developments like Rural Land Sharing Communities, where ‘common areas’ are

Out with the old. A new Housing Strategy is being developed in the Tweed Photo: TSC shared by more than one household established through arrangements like trusts, cooperatives, shareholdings and partnerships, when, “It is apparent their objectives are no longer being genuinely pursued and delivered, but have become more akin to a misapplication of their intended purpose.

Additional rural dwellings randomly located in rural areas is not considered to be a solution to provision of low cost accommodation for disadvantaged persons in need of ready access to

public transport, services and facilities,” the TSC staff report read.

33 submissions were taken from the public during the June consultation period.

“While the majority of submissions supported the planning proposal, comments were also received in support of the need for affordable housing and smaller scale RLSCs for the purpose of providing additional housing for extended family, workers or for rental purposes,” the staff report read.

Savings provisions were

also agreed to, to allow development applications currently before Council including Nightcap Village, a big Rural Land Sharing Communities project at Kunghur promoted by celebrity chef Pete Evans – and all new applications to be assessed under existing controls until the LEP is formally changed, which could take six months.

Mayor of Tweed Shire, Cr Chris Cherry, told The Northern Rivers Times it’s not the end of shared living communities in the Tweed

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“To us, strategically it’s better to be exempt from State planning laws and adjust the local Tweed LEP to better control the process, to give people what they really want.

It’s not all over,” Cr Chris Cherry said.

She said council has prioritised the preparation of its Growth Management and Housing Strategy which will provide guidance on housing opportunities in the Tweed, including multiple occupancies.

Cr James Owen told The Northern Rivers Times Council needs to get its Housing Strategy right and removing old planning laws for communal living is part of that, “These sorts of opportunities will be looked at under that, we can revisit those further down the track,” Cr Owen said.

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Cheeky William with brother Jack (20 months) and mum and dad, Kylah and Clem.

Will loved all things mechanical, especially excavators.

SIDS FUNDRAISER TO HONOUR WILLIAM

By Samantha Elley HE was a little boy full of life, cheeky giggles and a bundle of energy.

Two-year-old William McGeary of Woodburn loved anything mechanical.

“He is obsessed with machinery, as you would expect with the family business being an earthmoving business,” said mum, Kylah Grainger.

“William was obsessed with everything excavators and dump trucks and he knew the name for everything, every part of an excavator. His favourite being a long-reach excavator.”

It was less than a month before August 7 when he would be celebrating his third birthday at Woodburn Park with his very large family.

With 17+ cousins and plenty of aunts and uncles and family friends, there was going to be lots of hot chips and cake to celebrate.

But on the Monday night 19th July, all that came to end.

“He ate his dinner that night, he was running around, jumping, he was running away from me when I was trying to dress him, as toddlers do,” said Kylah.

“He was happy, he didn’t have a nap that day which is normal for him, he skips a nap every now and then.

“We all sat down on the couch after a shower to watch a movie and he fell asleep on me and Clem (William’s father and Kylah’s partner) put him to bed.

“Which is all completely

normal. We put them both into the same room. William’s in a single bed and then most nights, in the middle of the night they both make their way to our bed.”

When this didn’t happen and the realisation of William’s death came to light, the community rallied.

“We had a number of (family) at the house a couple of hours after everything had gone on and everyone got the word around,” said Kylah.

“They were doing the dishes and doing our washing and looking after Jack, our little guy.

“They cooked food and did all sorts of things and helped us get our stuff out of our house to take to our in-laws.

The support’s been unreal from everybody.”

William’s body was taken to Forensics in Newcastle where testing is still being undertaken to confirm the cause of death.

“We won’t get him back until the end of August when they’ve finished all their testing,” Kylah said. “(This is) because of the situation with the unexplained and sudden passing, they have to do certain testing which takes 28 days for that to occur to find a cause for what happened.”

Red Nose Australia, which was founded in 1977, has to date reduced the occurrence of SIDS by 85% and invested more than $17 million into lifesaving research.

In 2019, according to their website, one baby is stillborn every four hours and 3,000

children still die each year during pregnancy, infancy and childhood and 742 deaths in the perinatal period(during pregnancy and 12 months after birth) which is 2 for every 1,000 children.

“Unbeknown to me and anyone I’ve spoken to, nine children and babies die each day in Australia from these unexplained deaths,” said Kylah.

Red Nose Australia reached out to the McGeary-Grainger family after William’s sudden death.

“The forensics people in Newcastle contacted us and they explained the situation and everything that’s going on and the Red Nose offer to come and see (William) and get casts of his hands and feet for us to keep,” said Kylah.

“It’s a framed work you get. “(The volunteers at Red Nose) do that in their own time.

“It’s something they do on behalf of the children which is really lovely.”

In a show of unity members of the family and one of Kylah’s good friends all decided to get tattoos of excavators.

“I think it’s probably the strangest thing that tattooist has ever had to do,” laughed Kylah.

“I think there was about seven of them lined up outside to get tattoos of an excavator and some of them have a little fish hanging off them as well and a ‘W’ for Will.”

Will also loved to fish and his parents enrolled him in the

recent Evans Head Fishing Classic where he loved to go down and check out the fish that had been caught.

Fundraising Both Kylah and Clem could not be more grateful for the support they have received and wanted to return the favour in some way.

“We received an enormous amount of support, gifts, food, money, gifts for Jack and things like that, I felt like I needed to give back,” said Kylah.

“With not knowing what is happening or what has happened (to William) and the Red Nose already helping us in our situation, I decided to put a fundraiser up on Facebook.

“When I realised Red Nose Day was this month, I put it up there.

“I donated $100 and made a goal of $250 and I got that in a minute.

“Now it was up to $15,700 today.”

William was due to go to preschool at Evans Head Preschool once he turned three and had been attending Sandcastles daycare two days a week.

Both schools are doing their own activities to be able to contribute to Kylah and Clem’s fundraiser.

“We are doing pizza days next week,” said Evans Head preschool director Allyson Cuskelly.

“The preschool will supply all the ingredients for kids to make pizzas and the parents can donate.

“I taught Clem, Will’s dad

and his aunts.

“His grandmother was on our management committee and his great-grandmother was a much-loved educator with us for about 27 years.

“Will was going to come to preschool soon and so he is a part of our preschool family.”

There are stories of people who have had their own grief and one of the paramedics who attended the night of William’s death who have all made donations to Kylah’s fundraiser.

The family decided to go ahead and still celebrate Will’s 3rd birthday at Woodburn Park.

“We will plant a tree with the family, which was donated by the nursery at Wardell, the Moore family,” said Kylah.

“We will still have cake at the park, donated by a friend.

“We were going to get married this month, but we have postponed that.

“When we are ready to celebrate without him, we will incorporate him in the ceremony somehow, but it is up in the air.”

Meanwhile the young family want to get through these darkest of days.

“We are holding each other together,” said Kylah.

Red Nose Day is this Friday, 13th August, 2021.

If you would like to donate to Kylah’s fundraiser you can go to Facebook, search for Kylah Grainger’s page to find the link to Kylah’s fundraiser for Red Nose Limited.

At the time of writing, the amount of funds raised had reached $16,219.

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34 years of true child care at Tweed Hospital

By Margaret Dekker WHEN Tina Spence started on the Paediatric Ward at Tweed Hospital in October 1987, things were different; a different uniform, different medicines and efficacy, different equipment and systems of observation and certainly different children’s names.

Now, almost 35 years later, this Clinical Nurse Specialist from Cabarita Beach is calling time on a long and distinguished nursing career on the same ward at the same hospital.

“I stayed because I loved it, I’ve always been a nurse,” Tina Spence said.

“You’ve just got to be gentle, and don’t be hard, because a lot of nurses are hard and you don’t want to scare the kids,” There are too many young patients to recall across more than three decades but one constant remained, “The kids are great, yes they get sick but they also get better really fast you know and that’s lovely, that’s so good to see,” Tina said.

“They always give you a high five or a hug or things you’re not supposed to do, but they’re cute.”

All those day, afternoon and night shifts, which Tina often covered on her own in the early days. She also recoils at the memory of old hospital guidelines for croup, an upper airway infection that would frighten patients and parents alike, “.. this is terrible, we used to put them in cots and they had like a plastic tent around the cot and at the back of the cot there was a metal box so we used to fill that up with ice because that was the recommended treatment, so

we’d fill it up with ice, run the oxygen into this big thing and try and get the child to settle in this horrendous thing and a lot of times the mum hopped in there and slept with them. But you could imagine, oxygen, heat and ice .. it was just a wet, cold, horrendous environment!”

Tina recalled.

Tina said it was often the parents as well as the children who needed caring for by the nurses and tireless paediatricians at the Tweed Hospital.

“Look, the parents are just as important as the kids too and they need a lot of support as it’s a very stressful time for them as well, but we had great support with our doctors, we had a really good rapport with everybody,” Tina said.

She added - “and maybe controversially” - that it was advancements in vaccines for childhood infections like meningococcal, meningitis, pneumonia and epiglottitis that really saw positive change on the ward.

“And since immunisations, we don’t have the kids as sick and there’s a lot of diseases that are now you just don’t see in children that were always seen as paediatric emergencies, and to me that’s fantastic,” Tina said.

After 34 years and nine months, Tina still keeps in touch with some parents of her former patients or runs into them in the supermarket, still with warm thanks. It’s a special legacy .. that naturally follows special service.

In another form of compliment to Tina, each of her three daughters - Alana, Shannon and Kendyl are nurses and all three have worked at one time at the

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So how to replace Tina Spence and close to 35 years of specialist experience, knowledge and care? The Northern Rivers Times asked Tina to write down her own job description.

“You’ve got to be devoted, that’s probably the main thing, you’ve got to like kids, you’ve got to be tolerant and you just need to be there .. yes .. and you can’t be hard,” she said.

And you can’t keep a good nurse off the ward! Tina expects a few Casual shifts in the future... in between a camping trip or two to Point Plomer with her husband of 43 years, Graeme.

“It’s always at the end, isn’t it, and then you realise that you are appreciated. I’ve been humbled, it’s lovely.

Thanks for the memories and the laughs and the friendships,” Nurse Spence said.

20-year-old Tina Spence graduating as a Nurse in 1980.

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August 12, 2021

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No-pay phones are now a thing “Leemo’s View”

By Samantha Elley

“LEEMO has views on just about anything”

Stuff from the home front…

‘LEEMO CAT’again.

There is a smallish verbal wrangle happening between me & ‘Mum Jane’ right now. I asked her, just to-day...“Mum, what’s the story with all that stuff piled outside our storage shed...the mountain of thingies that, I, as a TRULY astute feline, perceived, initially, to be simply throw out rubbish.”

But eeeek, I saw one of my old most favourite water bowls in the heap...oooh... nooo Mum, you cannot throw that one away.

Hmm...naturally, Mum had something to say. “Leems, you have 4 water bowls, strategically ‘placed’ in convenient spots for YOU inside and outside. The bowl in question has a huge crack and does not retain water ANY LONGER”. I considered this. “Well, I ‘spose that’s OK...

BUT SHE COULD HAVE ASKED FIRST”. I figured this is an issue with a lot of things in our lives...

NOT asking first, before jumping in with conjecture, which is exactly what I did.

AND SO DID MUM JANE. (so there!!)

She ‘presumed’ I didn’t want my old water bowl, so it was in the ‘throw out’ pile”. Hmmm. I CONTINUED ‘cos I had more questions.

“Mum what’s with

that big spear thing and bamboo stick at the end of our bed? I have been wondering about them for years?”

Mum told me. “Leems, those are to defend and protect us...me and YOU. If someone tries to invade our house, firstly, they will be confronted by ME, (I figure THIS would be enough to scare ANYONE away...a terrifying spectre indeed) wielding the bamboo pole using a skilled and smooth swing...kinda like an Olympic athlete. And, Leems, if that does not deter the intruder, I shall utilise my throwing skills with our cold steel Assegai spear, and put it right though their foot, and PIN them to the floor”. Crikey...Mum is starting to worry me. I decided I will sneakily drag both the bamboo pole and ferocious spear OFF the end of our bed and hide them.

I will then present her with a somewhat less violent defence strategy. Hmmmm...I know what we would do. If perhaps some empty-headed intruder comes to our house.

“I” will claw them and emit many terrifying MIAOORRROOW howling noises to make them run away posthaste. My ferocious howling will wake the whole street and before long the ‘suspect’ will be apprehended by old ladies in chenille dressing gowns and held until the Police arrive. ‘Mum Jane’ appeared not to be at all impressed by my brilliant plan and told me it was the stupidest thing she had ever heard me utter. Crikey...how rude. Oh well, I guess we will need to put our heads together and come up with a solution. “I KNOW LEEMS; we’ll get a big fierce barking dog”. Needless to say I am NOT going to comment on THAT idea…I’m going to my hidey hole. Purrs & sulks, Leemo.

A NEW Telstra initiative, which could see the corporation lose $5 million in revenue, means Australians will now be able to make standard national calls for free from pay phones.

Despite the popularity of personal mobile phones, public pay phones and their booths still have a place in society.

Whenever your mobile phone goes flat or you can’t get reception, a public telephone could save the day.

Even Superman appreciates the privacy of a telephone booth.

With over 15,000 booths spread across Australia, that means plenty of support for people who need to communicate.

Consumers will still need to pay for overseas calls, however.

With figures showing pay phones are still very popular, the move by Telstra has been labelled a game-changer.

Telstra CEO Andy Penn said 11 million calls a year are made on pay phones.

“Over 230,000 of those are actually for emergency-type services like 000 or people seeking support, people trying to escape from domestic violence, homeless people,” he told a Melbourne radio station.

“It played a big role in the bushfires as often…bushfires… will take out infrastructure for power and that will take the mobile network down.”

There will be a maximum call time of six hours.

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August 12, 2021

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Meals on Wheels not prepared to be starved out

By Samantha Elley WITH 225 clients in the Ballina area, and around 110 of those signed up for meal services, Ballina Shire Meals on Wheels Inc. knows how important their services are for the local community.

For this reason, said service coordinator Meleta Wood, if the Australian Government implements their proposed changes to funding for Commonwealth Home Support Program (CHSP) recipients, it could be

devastating for the not-forprofit organisation.

“Our funding has been bulk funding,” said Ms Wood.

“Every quarter the government gives us a bulk amount of money.

“At the end of the year we show how we’ve spent it.

“As a not-for-profit we don’t make a lot of money, we have some in reserve but not much.”

Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care Service Senator the Hon Richard Colbeck has

announced that ‘most’ CHSP funded organisations will be transferred from an up-front block funding plan to a payment in arrears plan.

“We would have to spend all the money first and get it paid back,” said Ms Wood in regard to the new model of payment.

“We don’t have a waiting list, but if we don’t have any money, we’d have to be careful about who we take on.

Ms Wood said they are currently funded for 19,000

meals.

“We deliver 28,000 meals but we don’t have a waiting list,” she said.

“If payment changes and we are restricted in the fund, it could come out that we can’t function.

“We’d give it a good go but it is a possibility.

“It may mean we will have a waiting list, but people can’t wait for meals.”

To date the Minister has not announced which organisations will fall into the ‘most’ category, causing

alarm to the BSMOW Board of Management, staff, and volunteers, as well as Meals on Wheels services across Australia.

“We now face an uncertain future because we are part of the 68% of NSW MOW services which have identified that they will close if shifted to a payment in arrears plan,” said Ms Wood.

“Meals on Wheels Australia has been lobbying the government so it hasn’t been decided yet. Our short term funding is still available.”

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Urgent enquiry requested into hospital mismanagement

By Samantha Elley A LISMORE woman recently experienced a harrowing neardeath experience in Tenterfield Hospital’s emergency department, according to a letter recently written to NSW Minister for Health, Brad Hazzard from Lismore MP Janelle Saffin.

The Northern Rivers Times understands the details of the situation are currently being looked into and may be subject to further investigations.

For the last three years Tenterfield Hospital has seen a large exodus of its medical staff and has at times been running without an on-site doctor.

Ms Saffin has taken the definitive step of writing to Minister Hazzard.

“Minister Hazzard, I have tried to work with Hunter-New England Health, community leaders and concerned citizens to encourage improvements at Tenterfield Hospital but the horror stories keep being reported to me,” Ms Saffin wrote to the health minister.

Ms Saffin’s action was also prompted by an urgent resolution from the Tenterfield

Lismore MP Janelle Saffin at Tenterfield Hospital. Photo contributed.

Shire Council which stated: “Resolved that the Tenterfield Shire Council contact local member, Janelle Saffin MP to request the Health Minister to implement an urgent, independent investigation of the management of the Tenterfield Hospital, including interviews with all staff who have resigned in the last three years.”

Council’s acting chief executive, Kylie Smith said Council strongly supported the need for the Minister’s intervention.

“The community is being impacted on a daily basis with the current circumstances at the hospital and the treatment of staff, contractors and clients,” she wrote to Ms Saffin.

“We are losing members of the community as they relocate to areas with perceived better health facilities which are available around the clock.”

Executive director, Rural and Regional Health Services, Ms Susan Heyman admits staffing the hospital has been difficult.

“Recruiting to rural and regional areas is not only a challenge Australia-wide but world-wide,” she said.

“NSW faces the same issues as other states and territories.

“In the 18 months to June 2021, nine nursing staff have left Tenterfield Hospital for various reasons, including three who retired and two who relocated to other towns for personal reasons.”

Ms Heyman said two registered nurses have been successfully recruited to Tenterfield Hospital and commenced in January.

“Recruitment to an additional three nursing positions remains ongoing,” she said.

Ms Heyman said the Federal Government needs to shoulder some of this responsibility.

“The Federal Government is responsible for primary care, where the majority of patients engage with general practitioners who are the absolute frontline in keeping people healthy and out of hospital,” she said.

“Where the Federal Government is unable to ensure GP availability and support in local communities, the State supports primary care providers to find alternative solutions to medical workforce shortages.”

Ms Heyman said this resulted in flow-on effects to the wider hospital system including increases in the number of people going through the emergency department, medication management needs and potentially preventable hospitalisations.

“This is the fundamental health problem facing rural and regional communities,” she said.

Years of fighting spirit, on exhibit at Tweed gallery A NEW exhibition highlighting the Tweed Shire’s history of protest and fight has opened this week in Murwillumbah.

The ‘Fight for the Right’ exhibition reflects the community’s response to political, environmental and social issues which united and at times divided the Tweed.

The exhibition includes personal stories of locals involved in campaigns and their quest to stand up for what they believe is right.

Museum Curator Erika Taylor said through historic objects, photographs and video, the exhibition provides visitors with an insight into how protests like the Ocean Blue development proposal at Fingal Head, the Save Wollumbin Forest campaign, the Marriage equality campaign in the Tweed, the Repco World Rally Car Championship protest and the Byrrill Creek blockade have shaped the Tweed Shire.

“From the social justice campaigns of the 1960s, right through to current day issues, Fight for the Right reflects the passion shown by the community on a wide range of issues, including protection of

the local environment,” Erika Taylor said.

“We hope to not only bring back memories for locals but also show the involvement of the community and how that has impacted the Tweed,” she said.

Special objects on display include the gloves of Tweedborn civil rights activist Faith Bandler, who campaigned for Aboriginal rights in the 1967 Australian referendum. The gloves are on loan from the National Museum of Australia.

Also featured are protest banners from the Save Wollumbin Forest campaign, video from the World Rally Car Championship protest, and an extensive range of photographs and media coverage from over the years.

The exhibition is open at Tweed Regional Museum in Murwillumbah.

Top: The Byrrill Creek blockade of 1987 was a protest against spraying of chemicals used to control weeds.

Below:Uki residents and anti-coal seam gas protesters unite in a march through the village in 2018.

Photo: Hugh Kearney.

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August 12, 2021

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A year proving ‘bittersweet’ at Husk distillers

A meeting of minds, Husk head distiller Quentil Brival and Burleigh Brewing Co senior brewer Sean Culverston.

By Margaret Dekker RISING Tweed distillery, Husk Distillers, is reeling in the wake of hard border restrictions and stay at home orders across NSW and Queensland.

The boutique rum and gin distiller on the Tweed River at Tumbulgum has cut casual staff hours as thousands of forward bookings are cancelled and cellar door hours reduce by a third.

“It’s definitely much worse than last year, we had hand sanitiser production then. Now we’re just trying to juggle everyone’s needs and make sure they’re OK. It’s pretty heartbreaking, in one day we cancelled 1200 guests,” Harriet Messenger GM Marketing and Hospitality told The Northern Rivers Times.

But helping keep up spirits is Husk’s special collaboration with local brewer, the Burleigh Brewing Company. For when a top rum maker joins forces with a senior beer brewer, it can only result in... an exciting whisky! Ten barrels or up to 3000 bottles of the aromatic drop with notes of biscuit, vanilla and lychee, should be ready in around five years, or longer...

“We thought OK, it’s not going to be our main game but once a year let’s make a collaboration whisky with those guys, we’re already friends, let’s give the opportunity to express their skills as well in the first step, and we said to them find a recipe you want to do. Making whisky is super interesting to them, it’s a bit different to making a beer, so they choose the grains, they choose the parameters,” head distiller, Quentin Brival said.

It’s the third ‘collab. whisky’ Husk’s made with a local brewer, first Stone and Wood

Brewing Co in 2019 and then Burleigh’s Black Hops Brewery in 2020 with all three ‘sub-tropical’ whiskies proving promising.

“Stone and Wood use a recipe inspired by their Stone Beer, the very dark one, Black Hops went completely nuts on heaps of malts and intense flavours and Burleigh Brewing was a lot more soft, elegant, so it’s almost like you taste a whisky it is a perfect representation of what the breweries are and that is quite fascinating,” Quentin Brival said.

“So it’s a big waiting game, it’s a lot of passions like you really need to be patient when you do those sort of products.

And hopefully people will be able to appreciate that,” he added.

One of the secrets to Husk’s rum-making success lies in using its own sugar cane crop rather than processed molasses.

Husk grows four hectares of ‘virgin’ sugar cane right next to the distillery, giving easy and fresh access when distilling.

And like the French ‘terroir’ of a vineyard, this Tweed Valley crop is producing something distinctly ‘Tweed’ from the collective soil, light, aspect and sub-tropical climate.

“A bit like wine, you get that notion of vintage, so one vintage might be a bit dryer than the other one or you may have a weather event happening and that’s going to influence the taste of your cane and the growth of your cane and you will taste that in your juice and then you taste that in your ferments and then in the final product in your rum,” Quentin Brival explained.

Adding to the heady mix is the heritage variety of sugar cane Husk uses. The rare, black-stemmed Badila comes from old, ‘noble’ varieties of

Husk Distillery at Tumbulgum

sugar cane brought to Australia from Papua New Guinea.

‘Rediscovered’ eight years ago jutting out of a backyard potplant, the Badila cane is now a small commercial crop at Husk, wielding a big influence on its rum.

“And this has a completely different taste and it’s pretty much what it used to taste like .. that original taste to me is a lot more .. it’s nuttier, notes of coconut through it, a bit of acidity as well, it’s interesting, you’ve got a bit of that sourness at the back of your palate when you drink it so very very different,” Quentin Brival said.

The Badila is also rich in compounds which help activate the yeast. Correct acidity and alcohol in turn create the ‘ester’ or flavour of the rum with deeper notes further achieved by turning the rum, while it extracts extra more from the charred internal panels of the wood barrel.

“It’s doing heaps in there,” Quentin laughed.

“There’s a lot of chemistry, there’s a sort of maze between art and science and it’s very interesting and that’s why we love that style of rum that we call Australian cultivated rum and very good cane means you can get a very good rum out of it,” he added.

“All these years we only thought ‘it looks cool’ but that’s actually amazing how different it is. So that batch, it’s all from a little potplant and one stick!”

From reading an inflight magazine article on pioneer Tasmanian distiller Bill Lark (who this journalist interviewed in Tasmania in 1997) to owner Paul Messenger finally realising his dream distillery

The proof is in the whisky tasting and so far so good “it’s doing heaps in there”. on the banks of the Tweed River, one shared vision at Husk remains, to make the region famous for its spirits and brews.

“I would love for this part of the world to be opening up, I love that we’ve been able to create a synergy between breweries and distilleries ..

I’ve always loved regions, and it creates really some sort of culture around it. I just love that sort of spirit and if in 10 years’ time we could have that here, a few more distilleries and breweries, we could create something special here,” Quentin Brival said.

With that, Quentin hopes a rum culture as rich as that on his home island of Martinique in the French West Indies, may also develop with time. Well, one almost as rich!

“Back in the Caribbean it’s almost ceremonial, we don’t drink to get drunk we drink because that’s what our fathers were doing and we grow up, preparing in a certain way, always the same way, and you learn that ritual and when you turn 18 your dad hands you your first glass of rum prepared

a specific way and you go, that’s it, we got there,” Quentin Brival fondly recalled.

He even thinks ahead to a Tweed Appellation or ‘controlled designation of origin’ with the Tweed’s rich caldera soils, sub-tropical climate and passionate people behind it.

“So there’s something quite magical about the rum and the culture and the rum culture shaped the way people are and we don’t have that here but I would love to bring it here, that’s a big objective of mine and that’s the vision I’ve got, everything I do here, I’ve always got that in the back of my mind,” Quentin Brival said.

“For us, it’s a very unique place in Australia and in the world.”

With rum and whisky a time and patience game, Husk Distillers is well-placed to see out the COVID-19 storm, however long it takes the spirits are waiting and just improving with age.

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COVID-19, PUBLIC HEALTH MEASURES AND SCIENCE

By Janelle Saffin MP State Member for Lismore

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August 12, 2021

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Celebrating our wonderful aged care workers

By Samantha Elley FOR the last 15 years, 71-year-old Julie Sonntag has been an aged care worker, visiting her elderly and incapacitated clients in their homes and she loves it.

“I came from New Zealand 30 years ago and have always been in the food preparation industry,” she said.

“That was after three years in the New Zealand navy and before 11 years in retail.

“In my heart of hearts I think I really liked working with the elderly.

“I did courses at Centrelink and found this tiny ad about a private company who was looking for non-medical help with the elderly.”

And with that Julie became a caregiver with Home Instead Senior Care through the Gold Coast and Northern Rivers Office.

Julie’s day usually starts with helping her clients with personal care, such as showering, dressing and preparing their breakfast.

“I help planning meals and cooking for them, I do some housework for them,” she said.

“Maybe even sew a button for them. Anything they need to make their life a little better for the day.”

With the onset of COVID 19, the routines for Julie and her clients has changed.

“We wear a lot more PPE (Personal Protection Equipment) and are more rigorous in maintain them,” she said.

“We keep masks on and gloves as much as we can.

“We can’t go out for some of my clients I have to explain that and be more patient, when they don’t understand.”

Julie said the recent Olympics has been a great distraction for her clients, where they love watching it on television, and she will sit and discuss the results with them.

With Aged Care Employee Day celebrated on August 7th, it has been an opportunity to highlight, recognise and celebrate the amazing people who provide consistent and quality care throughout the year and especially throughout the ongoing COVID 19 pandemic.

“Australia’s ageing population has led to an

Julie Sonntag of Home Instead Senior Care loves working with the aged. increase in demand for workers in the aged care sector, specifically within inhome care,” a Home Instead Australia spokesperson said.

“An increased number of ageing adults would prefer in-home help to avoid having to move into a residential aged care facility, and by 2023/2024 government spending on aged care is expected to increase by

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Dementia Australia CEO Maree McCabe said the day was an opportunity to acknowledge, honour and celebrate aged care employees.

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SAE GRADS GRAB CHANCE TO UPSKILL OVER the last year, COVID-19 has decimated the music and audio industry in Australia with an estimated $300 million loss in revenue.

With opportunities at many venues, festivals and events currently limited, up-andcoming audio and music professionals have found it difficult to find work.

Two recent alumni of SAE Creative Media Institute, Courtney Parmenter and Dylan Brockington, have bucked that trend by securing positions at community radio station, Lennox Wave.

Courtney and Dylan caught up with us to share how they got their foot in the door and what they’ve learnt on their journey.

“We both studied the Bachelor of Audio degree…,” Courtney said. “...specialising in studio production,” Dylan added.

“I liked that I could access the studio whenever I wanted, and the degree was very hands on.

“All my lecturers were really engaging, and I always made sure to listen, do my

work, grow, and make the most of the opportunities given to me.”

Courtney said she didn’t think she could narrow it down to one aspect of the course she liked.

“I don’t know if I could pick one thing, I just really loved the whole journey at SAE,” she said.

“I really didn’t want to leave at the end!

“I learned so much at the Byron Bay campus, the people I met were amazing, the lecturers were super knowledgeable, it was an all-round great experience.”

Dylan said he had always

been interested in music.

“I’ve always been into music, and interested in DJing, so I just fell into it,” he said.

“I like to dabble in anything creative; like music, film, and photography.”

Dylan said Courtney first told him about the opportunity at Lennox Wave.

“It was advertised on the SAE alumni and student Facebook group, and I thought it might be a good chance to learn some new skills, so I got in touch with Milt at the station,” Courtney said.

“We both do the programming and scheduling of shows.

“Given it’s a community radio station and there’s no live DJ, we line up what’s going to be played through an online platform.

“I’ve also done a bit of digital file converting and things like that as well.”

Courtney said aside from programming, she had learnt how a radio station worked behind the scenes.

“All those digital audio classes at SAE have helped with file management, so that has certainly been good,” she said.

“It’s been a really good introduction to the different aspects of radio, and it

gives you an understanding of what’s expected in a professional environment,” Dylan said.

“I’d really like to use the skills I’ve learnt to produce podcasts at some point.”

Courtney said she wanted to immerse herself in as much audio work as possible.

“Get a taste of all the different audio fields and see where that takes me,” she said.

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$6.8 million Myocum Rd upgrade underway A $6.8 million upgrade of Myocum Road was started on Monday, August 9 and there will be significant changes for traffic as sections of the road are reconstructed and a new intersection is delivered at Possum Shoot Road and Kennedys Lane.

Myocum Road is one of the busier roads in the Byron Shire, carrying more than 3000 vehicles a day including garbage trucks carrying the shire’s waste to Byron Shire Council’s Resource and

Recovery Centre.

“Our primary focus is to make this road safer, and this means we be making it wider in some sections, reconstructing some of the worst sections of the road and undertaking a major realignment at the intersection of Possum Shoot Road and Kennedys Lane,” council’s director infrastructure services Phil Holloway said.

“Due to the scale of works at this intersection, we unfortunately need to close

Myocum Road at the Possum Shoot Road and Kennedys Lane intersection from Monday, August 16 for around four months, to get the works done safely and efficiently.”

Other road reconstruction and safety works will be completed in sections with traffic control in place and single lane access. Motorists can expect delays of around five minutes as roadwork crews move along Myocum Road upgrading each section, starting at the Byron Bay end.

The full scope of works are scheduled for completion by March.

“This is a huge project which will bring huge benefits but unfortunately it is going to cause some delays and inconveniences,” Mr Holloway said.

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NEW SPEED LIMITS AND PEDESTRIAN CROSSING TO BE TRIALLED ON BURRINGBAR ST, MULLUM BYRON Shire Council will be trialling reduced speed limits on Burringbar Street, Mullumbimby, and installing a new pedestrian crossing at the eastern end of the street, with signage going in and road painting and marking starting this week (Monday, August 2).

The safety initiatives are part of the grant-funded Talking Street program which aims to make the Mullumbimby Town Centre a better and safer place for people to relax, enjoy and shop.

“We want to give everyone a heads up as they will see new speed signs going up in Burringbar Street and traffic speed will be reduced from 50km per hour to 30km per hour from next week,” council’s place activation coordinator Rob van Iersel said.

“Weather depending, this work will be followed by the installation of a new pedestrian crossing which we are trialling at the eastern end of the street, in front of the Commonwealth Bank – and we will be touching up painting of the

existing pedestrian crossing at the western end of the street too.

“Lastly, we’ll be trialling the temporary narrowing of traffic lanes at the Burringbar Street and Stuart Street intersection which is designed to provide the visual cues needed to slow motorists down.

“All of these changes are on trial as part of Mullumbimby’s Talking Street project and we will be asking the community to continue giving us feedback over coming months.”

Mr van Iersel said the idea was that if the community really loved one or several aspects of what had been

introduced, council could look at finding funding to keep those initiatives in place.

The Talking Street project trial runs until the end of December. The trial includes two pop-up parklets which have been in place near the intersection of Burringbar St and Stuart St since March.

“Our intention is to move the parklets to different locations over coming months to test where the need is greatest and what sort of layout and design works best,” Mr van Iersel said.

Council is also seeking Expressions of Interest from businesses in Mullumbimby who would like to install their own parklet on Burringbar Street.

These parklets, which can provide additional outside seating space for nearby businesses, will be located in existing unused ‘triangles’ between garden beds and parking spaces.

Find out more from council’s website or have your say at www.yoursaybyronshire.com. au/talkingstreettrial.

This project has been made possible thanks to a $250,000 grant from the NSW Government’s Streets and Shared Spaces program.

For more information contact council’s place activation coordinator Rob van Iersel on 6626 7054.

$1.4m stormwater network upgrade next in pipeline for Byron Bay MAJOR upgrades to improve the stormwater drainage network across Lighthouse Road, Paterson Street and Kipling Street, Byron Bay, got underway on Monday (August 9).

The works have been made possible thanks to Byron Shire Council’s recent $1.4 million grant from the Australian Government’s Local Roads and Community Infrastructure Program.

“We are very excited to be delivering these much needed and critical works which include the construction

of kerb and gutter and underground stormwater drainage on Lighthouse Road that will extend from the Captain Cook Carpark to Massinger Street,” council’s director infrastructure services Phil Holloway said.

“The upgrades will also include construction of a new grassed swale on the eastern side of Paterson Street and a vegetated stormwater basin south east of the corner of Paterson Street and Kipling Street.

“What these works will do is reduce stormwater runoff that

currently comes down from Lighthouse Road into Clarkes Beach Caravan Park and then onto Clarkes Beach. These works will help us mitigate the

impact of stormwater runoff on these areas.

“Once upgraded, the stormwater network will capture, detain and treat runoff

from the road and surrounding properties.”

The works are expected to take four months to complete, weather permitting.

“At times traffic may be reduced to one lane and there may be minor delays, but we will make every effort to keep disruptions to a minimum during the construction period,” Mr Holloway said.

For more information about the stormwater upgrades contact Council’s Project Engineering Team on 6626 7000 or email: ipt@byron. nsw.gov.au.

MORE ACTION AND EDUCATION DURING HOMELESSNESS WEEK NATIONAL Homelessness Week was last week, and Byron Shire Council joined the call for more action from all levels of government.

“Homelessness is an ongoing issue for us in the Byron Shire, with street counts in NSW revealing that the numbers of people rough sleeping are second only to the City of Sydney,” Byron Shire Mayor Michael Lyon said.

“And we know that’s only the people we can see, and that the real homelessness picture includes all those who are living in cars or couch surfing or in emergency shelters.

“More than 116,000 people are experiencing homelessness on any given night in Australia, according to the organisers of Homelessness Week, Mission Australia – and that is absolutely

heartbreaking.

“These huge numbers are not okay, and this is why the End Rough Sleeping Byron Shire project was initiated last year, why we’ve stepped up our resourcing and action to directly assist people sleeping rough and our community’s most vulnerable people.”

Cr Lyon said council assisted people on the ground through their experienced

public space liaison officers, and behind the scenes as they worked with the service providers who helped those sleeping rough to transition into accommodation for the long-term.

“Responding to homelessness is a priority for us – and we know that a lack of affordable housing is one of the main causes of homelessness for people in our

shire,” he said.

“We are working on housing initiatives and models and ways to deliver more affordable housing as well as addressing the impacts of short-term holiday letting on our permanent rental supply.

Find out more about everything council is doing to address homelessness on their website at www.byron.nsw. gov.au.

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Innovation Awards founder Empire Vale Public School Bridie Cullinane, the future – at Empire Vale near South despite the current COVID-19 Ballina has been a part of the cloud – is bright.

Green Innovation Awards since Across the Northern Rivers, their inception in 2017. This five finalists have been chosen year, the primary school pupils from 20 participating schools have used Minecraft – an in five award categories online game where children including; agriculture and virtually ‘create’ a new world sustainable land management, – to build a ‘world’ which biofuels and renewable energy, wholly protects koalas from green products and recycling, various hazards – including water management and waste cows! And ensures an management. abundance of trees and safe “Children and young people havens. have awesome ideas and “They’re so much fun, think out of the boxes and building these worlds, sometimes this is needed to but pupils can also totally solve an age-old problem. appreciate how it’s a great They’re really passionate way to educate adults,” Dr about the environment Cullinane said. which is inextricably linked Over at Bexhill Public to our own health, and we School, primary-aged pupils just wanted to run an award have this year worked with program to feel like we are mentors to come up with doing something positive and natural solutions to the school’s solution focused,” Dr Bridie annual mosquito problem.

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(PG) 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R)

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9.00 The Morning Show. (PG) 11.30 Seven Morning News.

12.00 MOVIE: Flower Shop Mystery: Mum’s The Word. (2016, Mav) 2.00 House Of Wellness. (PGa) 3.00 The Chase. (R) 4.00 Seven News At 4.

5.00 The Chase Australia.

6.00 Today.

9.00 Today Extra. (PG) 11.30 Morning News.

12.00 Explore. (R) 12.15 MOVIE: The Dating List. (2019, PGa) 2.00 Pointless. (PG) 3.00 Tipping Point. (PG) 4.00 Afternoon News.

5.00 Millionaire Hot Seat. (R)

6.00 Ent. Tonight. (R) 6.30 Everyday Gourmet. (R) 7.00 Judge Judy. (PG, R) 7.30 Bold. (R) 8.00 Studio 10. (PG) 12.00 Dr Phil.

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4.00 Everyday Gourmet.

4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (PG) 5.00 10 News First.

6.00 The Drum. Analysis of the day’s news.

7.00 ABC News. Takes a look at today’s top stories.

7.30 Gardening Australia. (Return) Sophie Thomson visits a flower farm.

8.30 Midsomer Murders. (Mv, R) A young man is found murdered during the grand reopening of the village of Little Auburn.

10.00 Baptiste. (Final, Mlv, R) Julien and Genevieve outmanoeuvre Constantin.

11.00 ABC Late News. Detailed coverage of the day’s events.

11.15 The Vaccine. (R) Presented

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11.30 Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL. (Final, R) 12.00 Rosehaven. (PG, R) 12.30 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv)

6.00 Mastermind Australia. (R) 6.30 SBS World News.

7.35 Secrets Of Tutankhamun.

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8.30 The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes: Portugal. (Return) Explores a range of architect-designed houses.

9.30 Brooklyn Nine-Nine. (Return) Amy returns from maternity leave.

Jake and Rosa work a difficult case.

10.25 SBS World News Late.

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5.15 NHK World English News.

5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.

6.00 PRIME7 News.

6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30.

7.00 Better Homes And Gardens.

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8.30 MOVIE: Hidden Figures.

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11.05 To Be Advised.

1.00 Home Shopping.

6.00 NBN News.

7.00 A Current Affair.

7.30 Rugby League. NRL. Round 22.

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9.50 Golden Point. A wrap-up of the Brisbane Broncos versus Sydney Roosters match, with NRL news and analysis.

10.35 MOVIE: Navy Seals.

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Charlie Sheen, Dennis Haysbert.

12.40 Tipping Point. (PG, R) Hosted by Ben Shephard.

1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 Global Shop. (R) Home shopping.

4.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 5.30 A Current Affair. (R)

6.30 The Project. Waleed Aly, Lisa Wilkinson, Nazeen Hussain and Susie Youssef take a look at the day’s news and hot topics.

7.30 The Living Room. Barry Du Bois renovates a tiny kitchen to better suit the needs of a big Samoan family.

8.30 To Be Advised.

9.30 The Graham Norton Show.

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11.30 The Project. (R) A look at the day’s news.

12.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG) Late night talk show.

1.30 Home Shopping. (R)

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VICELAND (31) 6am WorldWatch. Noon RocKwiz. 12.50 Charlottesville: Documenting Hate.

1.50 Your Call Is Important To Us. 2.05 Yokayi Footy.

2.40 Over The Black Dot. 3.40 WorldWatch. 5.05 Joy Of Painting. 5.35 Shortland Street. 6.05 Forged In Fire. (Final) 6.55 Jeopardy! 7.30 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Hoarders. 9.20 The Perfect Vagina. 10.25 Fear The Walking Dead. 12.55am News. 1.20 South Park. 2.20 NHK World English News. 3.00 Late Programs.

7TWO (62) 6am Home Shopping. 7.00

9GEM (82) 6am TV Shop: Home Shopping.

7.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. 7.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.30 Pointless. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. Noon Animal Tales. 1.00 Days Of Our Lives. 1.55 The Young And The Restless. 3.00 Antiques Roadshow. 3.30 MOVIE: Father’s Doing Fine. (1952) 5.10 Bears About The House. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 David Attenborough’s Dynasties. 8.40 MOVIE: The Blind Side. (2009, PG) 11.20 Late Programs.

BOLD (51) 6am Home Shopping. 8.00 Diagnosis Murder. 9.00 JAG. 11.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation. Noon Walker, Texas Ranger. 1.00 NCIS. 2.00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. 3.00 Diagnosis Murder. 5.00 JAG. 7.00 Bondi Rescue.

7.30 NCIS. 8.30 Law & Order: SVU. 11.30 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. 12.30am Home Shopping.

2.00 Walker, Texas Ranger. 3.00 JAG. 4.00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. 5.00 Star Trek: Voyager.

ABC ME (23) 6am Children’s Programs.

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am Romeo And Juliet.

(2013, PG) 8.10 Belle. (2013, PG) 10.05 The Trouble With You. (2018, M, French) 12.05pm Polina. (2016, PG, French) 2.05 Panga. (2020, Hindi) 4.30 The Three Musketeers. (1973, PG) 6.30 The Lunchbox.

(2013, PG, Hindi) 8.30 The Disappearance Of Alice Creed. (2009, MA15+) 10.25 American Animals.

(2018, MA15+) 12.35am In Harmony. (2015, M, French) 2.10 Like Water For Chocolate. (1992, M, Spanish) 4.00 The Trouble With You. (2018, M, French)

7MATE (63) 6am Home Shopping. 6.30 The

Fishing Show. 7.30 Creek To Coast. 8.00 Big Angry Fish. 9.00 American Pickers. 10.00 A Football Life.

11.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions.

Noon Ax Men. 2.00 Fight To Survive. 2.30 Gold Fever. 3.00 Off The Grid With The Badger. 4.00 Timbersports. 4.30 Pawn Stars South Africa. 5.00 Pawn Stars UK. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 To Be Advised. 11.30 Hardcore Pawn.

Midnight Pawn Stars South Africa. 12.30 Pawn Stars UK. 1.00 Late Programs.

9GO! (83) 6am Children’s Programs.

11.00 Hollywood Medium. Noon Parenthood. 1.00 Keeping Up With The Kardashians. 2.00 90 Day Fiance. 3.00 Malcolm. 3.30 The Nanny. 4.00 3rd Rock From The Sun. 4.30 That ’70s Show. 5.00 Malcolm. 5.30 MOVIE: Honey. (2003, PG) 7.30 MOVIE: School Of Rock. (2003, PG) 9.45 MOVIE: Save The Last Dance. (2001, M) 12.05am Love Island USA. 1.05 Keeping Up With The Kardashians.

2.05 90 Day Fiance. 3.00 Beyblade Burst Rise. 3.30 Lego City Adventures. 4.00 Late Programs.

PEACH (52) 6am The Middle. 7.00 Seinfeld.

8.00 Rules Of Engagement. 9.00 Becker. 10.00 The Big Bang Theory. 11.00 Frasier. Noon This Is Us. 1.00 2 Broke Girls. 1.30 Seinfeld. 3.00 Rules Of Engagement. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 Friends.

11.30 The Big Bang Theory. Midnight Home Shopping. 1.30 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. 2.30 Charmed.

3.30 This Is Us. 4.30 Home Shopping. 5.30 Joseph Prince.

ABC NEWS (24) 6am News Programs.

3pm ABC News Afternoons. 4.00 Afternoon Briefing. 4.30 Friday Briefing. 5.00 ABC News Hour.

6.00 ABC Evening News. 7.00 ABC National News.

7.45 The Vaccine. 8.00 Planet America. 9.00 ABC Nightly News. 9.30 Close Of Business. 10.00 The World. 10.55 Heywire. 11.00 The Drum. Midnight ABC Late News. 12.15 Planet America. 1.10 ABC Late News. 1.30 Friday Briefing. 2.00 DW News. 2.15 The Vaccine. 2.30 The Drum. 3.30 DW Conflict Zone.

4.00 The World. 5.00 Late Programs.

SBS FOOD (33) 6am Morning Programs.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs. 11.00 Milpirri: Winds Of Change. Noon MOVIE: Life.

(1999, MA15+) 1.55 Other Side Of The Rock. 2.00 Intune 08. 3.00 Wapos Bay. 3.25 Bushwhacked!

3.55 Bino And Fino. 4.00 Mustangs FC. 4.30 Grace Beside Me. 5.00 Fraggle Rock. 6.00 Pete & Pio’s Kai Safari. 6.30 On Country Kitchen. 7.00 NITV News: Nula. 7.30 MOVIE: Tia And Piujuq. (2018) 8.55 Bedtime Stories. 9.05 Hawaiian: The Legend Of Eddie Aikau. 10.30 When The River Runs Dry. 11.30 Late Programs.

9LIFE (84) 6am House Hunters Int. 6.30 House Hunters. 7.00 Desert Flippers. 8.00 Find Me A Dream Home Australia. 8.30 The Block. 9.30 House Hunters Int. 10.30 House Hunters. 11.00 Flip Or Flop Atlanta. Noon House Hunters Int. 1.00 Fixer Upper. 2.00 Bargain Mansions. 3.00 The Block.

4.00 Desert Flippers. 5.00 Flip Or Flop. 6.00 House Hunters International. 7.00 House Hunters.

7.30 Maine Cabin Masters. 8.30 Barnwood Builders. 9.30 Lakefront Bargain Hunt Renovation.

10.30 To Be Advised. 11.30 Late Programs.

SKY NEWS (53) 6am Breakfast Show.

1.20pm Kung Fu Panda. 1.40 Robot Wars. 2.40 Degrassi: The Next Generation. 3.15 Matilda And The Ramsay Bunch. 3.35 Massive Monster Mayhem.

4.00 Gym Stars. 4.40 The Inbestigators. 5.00 Secret Life Of Boys. 5.25 Kung Fu Panda. 6.00 Space Nova. 6.30 Operation Ouch! 7.00 MOVIE: Planet 51. (2009, PG) 8.30 Good Game Spawn Point. 8.50 Fruits Basket. 9.15 Sword Art Online.

9.35 Radiant. 10.00 Close. 5.30am Thunderbirds Are Go. 5.55 Children’s Programs.

1pm Come Dine With Me UK. 1.30 Kitchen Hero Feast. 2.00 Bill’s Kitchen: Notting Hill. 2.30 Mexican Table. 3.00 Chefs’ Line. 3.30 Lidia’s Italy.

4.00 Free Range Cook. 4.30 Bake With Anna. 5.00 Destination Flavour Down Under. 5.30 Cook And The Chef. 6.00 Choccywoccydoodah. 6.30 Come Dine With Me UK. 7.00 The Cook Up. 7.30 River Cottage Aust. 8.30 Jamie’s Ultimate Veg. 9.30 Mystery Diners. 10.00 The Cook Up. 10.30 Cook And The Chef. 11.00 Late Programs.

Auction Squad. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. Noon House Of Wellness. 1.00 Million Dollar Minute. 2.00 Jabba’s Movies. 2.30 MOVIE: Grumpier Old Men. (1995, PG) 4.30 M*A*S*H. 5.30 Escape To The Country.

6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Mighty Ships. 8.30 Railway Restorations With Peter Snow. 9.30 Selling Houses Australia. 10.30 Charlie Luxton’s Homes By The Sea. 11.30 Late Programs.

9.00 Fox Sports News. 10.00 AM Agenda. 11.00 NewsDay. Noon NewsDay. 1.00 Alan Jones. 2.00 Afternoon Agenda. 3.00 Afternoon Agenda. 4.00 Paul Murray Live. 5.00 Fox Sports News. 6.00 Credlin. 7.00 Bernardi. 8.00 The Media Show.

8.30 The McGregor Angle. 9.00 Hardgrave. 10.00 Full Time Live. 11.00 News. 11.30 News. Midnight News. 12.30 News. 1.00 News. 1.30 Late Programs.

Please Note: Programs are correct at the time of print and are subject to change by the Networks.

SATURDAY, August 14 ABC TV (2)

SBS (3)

PRIME7 (6)

NBN (8, 80)

TEN (5)

6.00 Rage. (PG) 7.00 Weekend Breakfast.

10.00 Rage. (PG) 12.00 ABC News At Noon.

12.30 Grand Designs: House Of The Year.

(R) 1.20 Restoration Australia. (R) 2.30 Fake Or Fortune? (R) 3.30 Back In Time For Dinner. (PG, R) 4.25 Chopsticks Or Fork?

(R) 4.45 Landline. 5.15 Scottish Vets Down Under. (PG, R) 5.45 Silvia’s Italian Table. (PG, R)

6.00 WorldWatch. 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 America: News. 1.00 PBS News. 2.00 March Of The Penguins Part 2: The Next Step. (R) 3.30 Avalanche: Making A Deadly Snowstorm.

(PG, R) 4.35 Planet Expedition. (PG, R) 5.30 WWII Battles For Europe. (PGaw, R)

6.00 Shopping. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise.

10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG) 12.00 Border Patrol. (PG, R) 12.40 To Be Advised.

4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (R) 5.00 Seven News At 5.

5.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. (PG, R)

6.00 Animal Tales. (PG, R) 7.00 Weekend Today. 10.00 Today Extra: Saturday. (PG) 12.00 Surfing Australia TV. 12.30 The Rebound. 1.00 Netball. Super Netball. Major semi-final.

3.00 Netball. Super Netball.

Minor semi-final.

5.00 News: First At Five.

5.30 Getaway. (PG)

6.00 Morning Programs. 7.30 4x4 Adventures. (R) 8.30 RV Daily Foodie Trails.

(R) 9.00 Places We Go. (PG, R) 9.30 St10.

(PG) 12.00 The Living Room. (R) 1.00 The Dog House. (PG, R) 2.00 Pooches At Play.

(Final) 2.30 Jamie’s Easy Meals For Every Day. (R) 3.00 Everyday Gourmet. (R) 3.30 My Market Kitchen. (R) 4.00 Farm To Fork. (PG, R) 4.30 Taste Of Australia. (R) 5.00 News.

6.15 The Repair Shop. (R) Will Kirk restores a rosewood table.

7.00 ABC News. Takes a look at today’s top stories.

7.30 The Durrells. (PG) A circus comes to town.

8.20 Belgravia. (Final, PG) Charles receives an olive branch, but the offer of reconciliation places him in grave danger. James must find a way to defend Charles’ honour before Lady Maria is lost to him forever.

9.10 The Trouble With Maggie Cole.

(PG) Maggie heads to the pub to get a room and amend another radiogate wrong.

10.45 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) Music video clips.

6.30 SBS World News.

7.30 Blood Of The Clans: The Year Of Victories. (PGv, R) Part 1 of 3. Neil Oliver recounts the story of Scotland’s 17th-century civil war.

10.55 Brooklyn Nine-Nine. (R) Amy returns from maternity leave.

11.55 MOVIE: The Girl Who Played With Fire. (2009, MA15+sv, R) Noomi Rapace.

2.15 MOVIE: The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest. (2009, MA15+v, R) 4.50 Destination Flavour: Singapore Bitesize. (PG, R) 5.00 France 24 Feature.

5.15 NHK World English News.

5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.

6.00 Seven News.

7.00 Surveillance Oz. (PGas) A brazen art thief gets chased by a chef. Chaos ensues with a wheelchair in the Sydney Harbour Tunnel.

7.30 MOVIE: Spider-Man: Far From Home. (2019, M) Peter Parker faces four destructive elemental monsters while on holiday in Europe. Tom Holland, Jake Gyllenhaal, Zendaya.

10.15 MOVIE: Zombieland: Double Tap. (2019, MA15+h) The survivors of a zombie apocalypse find themselves embarking on a new mission to aid one of their friends.

Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson.

12.30 Home Shopping.

6.00 NBN News.

7.00 Rugby League. NRL. Round 22.

Manly Sea Eagles v Parramatta Eels.

9.30 NRL Saturday Night Footy Post-Match. Post-match coverage of the NRL game.

9.45 MOVIE: Deepwater Horizon.

(2016, Mal, R) A crew struggles to survive after an oil rig explosion. Mark Wahlberg.

11.45 MOVIE: Good Kill. (2014, Malsv, R) 1.40 A Current Affair.

2.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 Global Shop. (R) 5.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 5.30 Wesley Impact With Stu Cameron. (PG)

6.00 Jamie’s Easy Meals For Every Day. Jamie Oliver reinvents family favourites.

6.30 Bondi Rescue. (PGal, R) Jessie rescues an American tourist.

7.00 The Dog House. (PG, R) Dogs are matched with companions.

9.00 To Be Advised.

10.00 Ambulance Australia.

(Mav, R) On the weekend night shift, resources are stretched with a surge in calls relating to drugs and alcohol.

11.00 Blue Bloods. (M, R) Erin helps Anthony.

1.00 Home Shopping. (R) 5.00 Hour Of Power.

CONSUMER ADVICE (P) Pre-school (C) Children (PG) Parental Guidance Recommended (M) Mature Audiences (MA15+) Mature Audiences Only (AV15+) Extreme Adult Violence (R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions (a) Adult themes (d) Drug references (h) Horror (s) Sex references (l) Language (m) Medical procedures (n) Nudity (v) Violence.

ABC TV PLUS (22) 6am Children’s Programs. 7.15pm Sir Mouse. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 QI. 8.30 Live At The Apollo. 9.45 Sammy J. 9.50 Whose Line Is It Anyway? 10.15 Penn & Teller: Fool Us. 10.55 Would I Lie To You? 11.25 Everything’s Gonna Be Okay. 11.55 Bliss.

12.40am Fleabag. 1.05 Would I Lie To You? 1.35 Grand Designs NZ. 2.20 Escape From The City. 3.20 News Update. 3.25 Close. 5.05 Late Programs.

VICELAND (31) 6am 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. Noon If You Are The One. 7.35 Building The Ultimate. (Final) 8.30 The X-Files. 11.00 Dateline.

11.30 Insight. 12.30am Flowergirl. 12.50 South Park. 1.50 Cycling. UCI World Tour. La Vuelta. Stage 1. 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.

7TWO (62) 6am Home Shopping. 8.30 Travel Oz. 10.00 House Of Wellness. 11.00 To Be Advised. 11.30 The Great Australian Doorstep.

Noon Weekender. 12.30 To Be Advised. 1.00 House Of Wellness. 2.15 Charlie Luxton’s Homes By The Sea. 3.15 RSPCA Animal Rescue. 3.45 MOVIE: Ocean’s 11. (1960, PG) 6.30 Dr Harry’s Animal Encounters. 7.30 The Yorkshire Vet In Spring. 8.30 Escape To The Country. 11.30 Late Programs.

9GEM (82) 6am Newstyle Direct. 6.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.00 The Avengers.

11.00 MOVIE: Hue And Cry. (1947) 12.40pm MOVIE: Please Turn Over. (1959, PG) 2.30 MOVIE: Sweet Smell Of Success. (1957, PG) 4.30 Rugby Union. Bledisloe Cup. Second Test. New Zealand v Australia. 7.00 2021 Bledisloe Cup Post-Match. 7.30 Desert Vet. 8.30 MOVIE: The Magnificent Seven.

(2016, M) 11.10 Late Programs.

BOLD (51) 6am Home Shopping. 9.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 10.00 Diagnosis Murder. Noon JAG. 2.00 The Doctors. 3.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 4.00 Bondi Rescue. 4.30 WhichCar. 5.00 Reel Action. 5.30 Scorpion. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 NCIS: New Orleans. 10.20 Blue Bloods. 11.20 CSI. 1.10am 48 Hours. 2.10 Motorcycle Racing. MotoGP. Race 10. Styrian Grand Prix. Replay. 3.40 WhichCar. 4.05 The Doctors. 5.00 Shopping.

ABC ME (23)

6am Children’s Programs.

4pm Taking The Next Step. 4.30 Odd Squad.

4.45 Little Lunch. 5.00 Secret Life Of Boys. 5.25 Kung Fu Panda. 6.00 Space Nova. 6.30 Secrets Of Skin. (Premiere) 7.00 Mythbusters “There’s Your Problem!”. (Premiere) 7.35 The Penguins Of Madagascar. 8.00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

8.35 The Day My Butt Went Psycho! 9.00 Slugterra.

9.25 Close. 5.30am Children’s Programs.

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am Polina.

(2016, PG, French) 8.00 The Lunchbox. (2013, PG, Hindi) 10.00 The Three Musketeers. (1973, PG) Noon In Harmony. (2015, M, French) 1.35 Belle.

(2013, PG) 3.30 White Tuft, The Little Beaver.

(2008) 4.55 Asterix: The Mansions Of The Gods.

(2014, PG, French) 6.30 1982. (2019, PG, Arabic) 8.30 Mid90s. (2018, MA15+) 10.05 Big Game.

(2014, M) 11.45 Late Programs.

7MATE (63) 6am Morning Programs.

10.00 Garage 41. 11.00 Round Oz Ride. 11.30 Pawn Stars South Africa. Noon Pawn Stars UK. 12.30 Timbersports. 1.00 Blokesworld. 1.30 Boating. UIM Class 1 Powerboat Championships. Sarasota Grand Prix. 2.30 Rides Down Under: Workshop Wars. 3.30 American Pickers. 4.30 Pawn Stars South Africa.

5.00 Pawn Stars UK. 5.30 American Restoration.

6.30 To Be Advised. 11.00 Late Programs.

9GO! (83) 6am Children’s Programs.

1.30pm Visions Of Greatness. 3.45 MOVIE: Pokémon The Movie: I Choose You! (2017, PG) 5.45 MOVIE: Aliens In The Attic. (2009, PG) 7.30 MOVIE: The Matrix Revolutions. (2003, M) 10.00 MOVIE: RoboCop 2. (1990, MA15+) 12.15am Young, Dumb And Banged Up In The Sun. 1.15 Westside.

2.15 Peaking. 3.00 Power Rangers Dino Fury. 3.30 Thunderbirds. 4.30 Late Programs.

PEACH (52) 6am Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. 7.00 Frasier. 8.00 Rules Of Engagement.

9.00 Becker. 10.00 Broke. 10.30 Australian Survivor. 2.30pm Frasier. 3.00 Friends. 6.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.45 2 Broke Girls. 10.45 MOVIE: Fathers’ Day. (1997, PG) 12.50am Home Shopping.

1.50 The Big Bang Theory. 2.40 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.

3.30 Funny Girls. 4.30 Home Shopping.

ABC NEWS (24) 6am News Programs. 3pm ABC News. 3.30 The Breakfast Couch. 4.00 ABC News. 4.30 Q+A Highlights. 5.00 ABC News. 5.05 Planet America. 6.00 ABC Evening News. 6.30 Australian Story. 7.00 ABC National News. 7.30 Kurt Fearnley’s One Plus One. 8.00 ABC News Tonight. 8.10 Four Corners. 9.00 ABC Nightly News. 9.30 Foreign Correspondent. 10.00 ABC News Weekend. 10.30 Late Programs.

SBS FOOD (33) 6am Morning Programs. 1pm Come Dine With Me UK. 1.30 Destination Flavour Down Under. 2.00 Living On The Veg. 3.00 Beautiful Baking. 4.00 Watts On The Grill. 5.00 Pacific Island Food Revolution. 6.00 Cheese Slices. 7.00 Born To Cook. 7.30 Ottolenghi’s Mediterranean Island Feast. 8.30 Ainsley’s Mediterranean Cookbook. 9.30 The Hairy Bikers’ Best Of British. 10.35 Late Programs.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs.

1.25pm Rugby Union. SA Premier Grade. 2.55 Rugby Union. WA Premier Grade. 3.45 Bowls. SA Super League. 4.55 Indian Country Today. 5.25 News. 5.55 NITV News: Nula. 6.25 Going Places.

6.55 Yokayi Footy. 7.30 NITV News Update. 7.40 Through The Wormhole With Morgan Freeman.

8.30 Ranger To Ranger. 9.40 MOVIE: Children Of Men. (2006, MA15+) 11.35 Late Programs.

9LIFE (84) 6am Morning Programs.

11.30 Postcards. Noon Find Me A Dream Home Australia. 12.30 Getaway. 1.00 House Hunters Int. 1.30 Flipping San Diego. 2.30 Barnwood Builders.

3.30 To Be Advised. 4.30 Lakefront Bargain Hunt Renovation. 5.30 Maine Cabin Masters. 6.30 Log Cabin Living. 7.30 Escape To The Chateau. 8.30 House Hunters. 9.30 House Hunters International.

10.30 House Hunters Reno. 11.30 Late Programs.

SKY NEWS (53)

6am News. 6.30 News. 7.00 Gameday Live. 8.00 Gameday Live.

9.00 News. 10.00 News. 11.00 News. Noon News.

12.30 News. 1.00 News. 1.30 News. 2.00 News.

2.30 Fox Sports News. 3.00 Fox Sports News. 3.30 Fox Sports News. 4.00 Fox Sports News. 5.00 Fox Sports News. 6.00 Fox Sports News. 7.00 Bernardi.

8.00 Fox Sports News. 9.00 Fox Sports News.

10.00 Full Time Live. 11.00 Late Programs.

SUNDAY, August 15 ABC TV (2)

SBS (3)

PRIME7 (6)

NBN (8, 80)

TEN (5)

6.00 Morning Programs. 10.00 Offsiders.

10.30 World This Week. (R) 11.00 Compass.

(PG, R) 11.30 Praise. (R) 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 12.30 Landline. 1.30 Gardening Aust.

(R) 2.30 Dream Gardens. 3.00 Shakespeare And Hathaway. (PG, R) 3.45 Scottish Vets Down Under. (PG, R) 4.15 How Deadly World.

(PG, R) 5.00 Art Works. (PG, R) 5.30 Antiques Roadshow.

6.00 WorldWatch. 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 America: News. 1.00 Speedweek. 3.30 Motorcycle Racing. FIM Superbike World C’ship. Round 6. 4.30 FIFA World Cup 2022 Magazine. 5.00 Cycling. UCI World Tour. La Vuelta. Stage 1. H’lights. 5.30 WWII Battles For Europe. (PGaw, R)

6.00 Shopping. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise.

10.00 Morning Show. (PG) 12.00 House Of Wellness. (PGa, R) 1.00 Kochie’s Business Builders.

1.30 To Be Advised.

3.00 Gold Coast Medical. (PGa, R) 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (R) 5.00 Seven News At 5.

5.30 Sydney Weekender. (R)

6.00 Animal Tales. (PG, R) 7.00 Weekend Today.

10.00 Sports Sunday. (PG) 11.00 NRL Sunday Footy Show. (PG) 1.00 The Xtreme CollXtion. (PG, R) 1.30 Ultimate Rush. (PGl, R) 2.00 The Block. (PGl, R) 3.00 Rugby League. NRL. Round 22.

Cronulla Sharks v Newcastle Knights.

6.00 Morning Programs. 8.00 Left Off The Map. (R) 8.30 Pooches At Play. (R) 9.00 Australia By Design: Interiors. (R) 9.30 St10.

(PG) 12.00 What’s Up Down Under. (R) 12.30 GCBC. (R) 1.00 My Market Kitchen. (R) 1.30 Everyday Gourmet. (R) 2.00 Australian Survivor. (PGl, R) 3.30 Roads Less Travelled.

(Return) 4.00 Farm To Fork. (PG, R) 4.30 Taste Of Australia. (Return) 5.00 News.

6.30 Compass. (PG, R) 7.00 ABC News Sunday.

7.40 Joanna Lumley’s Britain. (PG) Part 2 of 3.

8.30 The Newsreader.

(Premiere, Mal) A reporter and newsreader are thrown together.

9.25 Traces. (Premiere, Mal) A lab assistant pursues a killer.

10.15 Les Norton. (Mdlsv, R) 11.10 Silent Witness. (Mav, R) 12.10 Roll With It. (Ml, R) 1.10 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 4.15 Shakespeare And Hathaway. (PG, R) 5.00 Insiders. (R)

6.30 SBS World News.

7.30 Roman Megastructures. (PG) 10.30 Filthy Rich And Homeless. (Mal, R) 11.30 24 Hours In Emergency. (Ma, R) 12.25 Michael Mosley: What’s My Diagnosis. (PGa, R) 1.35 Michael Mosley On Cosmetic Treatments. (PGa, R) 3.30 Spina Bifida And Me. (Ma, R) 4.25 VICE Guide To Film. (Malv, R) 4.55 Destination Flavour: Singapore Bitesize. (R) 5.00 France 24 Feature.

5.15 NHK World English News.

5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.

6.00 Seven News.

7.00 The Voice. (PG) Hosted

by Sonia Kruger.

8.45 Homicide With Ron Iddles.

(Premiere, M) After a 17-year-old goes missing, his mother asks former detective Ron Iddles to investigate the case.

9.45 Miniseries: Hatton Garden.

(Ml) Part 1 of 4. A gang of ageing career criminals set out to rob the vault of a safe-deposit company.

11.45 The Blacklist. (MA15+) Red visits a friend.

1.00 Home Shopping.

5.00 Seven Early News.

5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 NBN News.

7.00 The Block. (PGl) 8.30 60 Minutes. Current affairs program, investigating, analysing and uncovering the issues affecting all Australians.

9.30 Nine News Late. A look at the latest news and events.

10.00 Up And Vanished. (Mas) 11.20 Killer On The Line. (Mav, R) 12.10 Dr Christian Jessen Will See You Now. (Mamn, R) 1.00 Surfing Australia TV. (R) 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

4.00 Take Two. (R) 5.00 News Early Edition.

5.30 Today.

6.30 The Sunday Project. Joins panellists for a look at the day’s news, events and hot topics.

7.30 Australian Survivor. A group of 24 castaways head to Cloncurry, Queensland, where they are divided into two camps: Brains and Brawn.

9.00 FBI. (Mv) After a man is killed by an explosive package shipped to his home, the team tries to capture the sender and intercept his latest deadly parcel.

12.00 The Sunday Project.

(R) A look at the day’s news.

1.00 Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 CBS This Morning.

Morning news and talk show.

CONSUMER ADVICE (P) Pre-school (C) Children (PG) Parental Guidance Recommended (M) Mature Audiences (MA15+) Mature Audiences Only (AV15+) Extreme Adult Violence (R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions (a) Adult themes (d) Drug references (h) Horror (s) Sex references (l) Language (m) Medical procedures (n) Nudity (v) Violence.

ABC TV PLUS (22) 6am Children’s Programs. 7.15pm Sir Mouse. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Compass. 8.30 Louis Theroux: The City Addicted To Crystal Meth. 9.30 Miriam Margolyes Almost Australian. 10.30 The Grid: Powering The Future. 11.30 Inside The Met. 12.25am Brian Johnson’s A Life On The Road. 1.50 Live At The Apollo. 2.35 News Update. 2.40 Close.

5.05 Late Programs.

VICELAND (31) 6am WorldWatch.

Noon Freaks & Geeks: The Documentary. 1.10 Chinese Dating With The Parents. 3.10 WorldWatch.

3.35 Forged In Fire. 5.50 Abandoned Engineering.

6.40 Life After People. 7.30 Guns That Changed The Game. 8.30 WWE Legends. (Final) 10.00 Beyond Boobs. 11.00 Cycling. UCI World Tour. La Vuelta. Stage 2. 1.50am South Park. 2.20 France 24. 3.00 Late Programs.

7TWO (62) 6am Morning Programs.

8.30 Shopping. 9.30 House Of Wellness. 10.30 Your 4x4. 11.00 The Great Australian Doorstep.

11.30 To Be Advised. Noon Dr Harry’s Animal Encounters. 1.00 To Be Advised. 1.30 Travel And Eat With Dan & Steph. 2.00 The Bowls Show.

3.00 The Story Of The Royals. 4.00 Escape To The Country. 7.00 Border Security. 8.30 Cold Case.

10.30 Without A Trace. 11.30 Late Programs.

9GEM (82) 6am Morning Programs.

7.00 Leading The Way. 7.30 In Touch. 8.00 Beyond Today. 8.30 The Incredible Journey. 9.00 TV Shop.

10.00 The AFL Sunday Footy Show. Noon Getaway.

12.30 MOVIE: Folly To Be Wise. (1952) 2.30 MOVIE: It’s All Happening. (1963) 4.40 MOVIE: The Secret Of Santa Vittoria. (1969, PG) 7.30 Death In Paradise. 8.40 Coroner. 9.40 Chicago P.D. 10.40 Late Programs.

BOLD (51) 6am Morning Programs.

8.30 Reel Action. 9.00 Snap Happy. 9.30 Escape Fishing. 10.00 Bondi Rescue: Road Boss Rally.

11.00 Scorpion. 1pm The Doctors. 2.00 The Offroad Adventure Show. 3.00 All 4 Adventure.

4.00 Pooches At Play. 4.30 WhichCar. 5.00 Mighty Machines. 6.00 JAG. 7.00 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 9.30 Motorcycle Racing. MotoGP. Race 11. Austrian Grand Prix. 11.15 Late Programs.

ABC ME (23)

6am Children’s Programs.

3.30pm Junior Vets. 4.00 Taking The Next Step.

4.30 Odd Squad. 4.45 Little Lunch. 5.00 Secret Life Of Boys. 5.25 Kung Fu Panda. 6.00 Space Nova.

6.30 Secrets Of Skin. 7.00 Mythbusters “There’s Your Problem!”. 7.35 The Penguins Of Madagascar.

8.00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. 8.45 Wishfart!

9.00 Slugterra. 9.20 Sailor Moon Crystal. 9.45 Rage. 10.45 Close. 5.30am Children’s Programs.

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am Morning Programs. 7.00 Asterix: The Mansions Of The Gods.

(2014, PG, French) 8.35 1982. (2019, PG, Arabic) 10.35 White Tuft, The Little Beaver. (2008) Noon Like Water For Chocolate. (1992, M, Spanish) 1.50 The Lunchbox. (2013, PG, Hindi) 3.50 The Red Balloon. (1956, French) 4.30 Bandslam. (2009, PG) 6.35 Grace Of Monaco. (2014, PG) 8.30 The Killing Of A Sacred Deer. (2017, M) 10.45 Late Programs.

7MATE (63) 6am Morning Programs.

8.00 Shopping. 10.00 Fishing. Australian Championships. AFC IX. 11.00 River To Reef: Retro.

11.30 Step Outside. Noon The Fishing Show. 1.00 Fish’n With Mates. 1.30 Fishing And Adventure.

2.30 Merv Hughes Fishing. 3.00 To Be Advised.

6.00 MOVIE: Tomorrowland. (2015, PG) 8.35 MOVIE: The Dark Knight Rises. (2012, M) 11.55 Late Programs.

9GO! (83) 6am Children’s Programs.

1.40pm Making A Model With Yolanda Hadid. 2.40 Hollywood Medium. 3.40 Say Yes To The Dress: Atlanta. 4.40 MOVIE: City Slickers II. (1994, PG) 7.00 MOVIE: My Super Ex-Girlfriend. (2006, PG) 9.00 MOVIE: Spider-Man: Homecoming. (2017, M) 11.40 Outlaw. 12.35am Westside. 1.30 Road Trick.

2.00 Hollywood Medium. 2.50 Clarence. 3.00 Power Rangers Dino Fury. 3.30 Late Programs.

PEACH (52) 6am Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. 7.00 The Middle. 8.00 Neighbours. 10.00 The Bachelor Australia. 1.30pm Jamie’s Easy Meals For Every Day. 2.00 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch.

3.00 Friends. 6.00 The Big Bang Theory. 8.30 The Neighborhood. 9.30 2 Broke Girls. 11.30 Mom. Midnight Home Shopping. 1.30 Funny Girls. 2.30 Charmed. 3.30 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. 4.30 Home Shopping.

ABC NEWS (24) 6am News Programs. 1pm ABC News. 1.30 Foreign Correspondent. 2.00 ABC News. 2.30 Aust Story.

3.00 ABC News. 3.30 Offsiders. 4.00 Landline.

5.00 News. 5.30 World This Week. 6.00 ABC Evening News. 6.30 Foreign Correspondent. 7.00 ABC News Sunday. 7.40 Drum Beat. 8.00 Insiders.

9.00 ABC Nightly News. 9.30 Australian Story.

10.00 ABC News Weekend. 10.30 Late Programs.

SBS FOOD (33) 6am Morning Programs. 10.30 The Hairy Bikers’ Best Of British.

11.35 Living On The Veg. 12.30pm Beautiful Baking.

1.30 Born To Cook. 2.00 The Cook Up. 4.30 Cook And The Chef. 5.30 Michela’s Tuscan Kitchen. 6.00 Amazon Taste. (Premiere) 7.00 Middle East Feast With Shane Delia. 7.30 Weekend Breaks With Gregg Wallace. 8.30 Rick Stein’s Spain. 9.40 The Hairy Bikers’ Best Of British. 10.50 Late Programs.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs.

8.45 Wapos Bay. 9.05 Kagagi. 9.30 Bushwhacked!

10.00 Football. WKFL Women’s. 11.15 Football.

QAFL. Replay. 1pm Rugby League. NRL NT. 2.30 Football. NT Women’s Premier League. 4.30 Ice Hockey. SA Premier League. 5.45 African News.

6.00 NITV News: Nula. 6.30 First Australians. 7.30 NITV News Update. 7.40 The Beach. 10.25 Going Places. 11.25 Late Programs.

9LIFE (84) 6am Morning Programs.

10.00 Maine Cabin Masters. 11.00 Flip Or Flop Atlanta. Noon House Hunters Reno. 1.00 He Shed She Shed. 2.00 Find Me A Dream Home Australia.

2.30 Windy City Rehab. 3.30 Log Cabin Living.

4.30 Fixer Upper. 5.30 House Hunters. 6.30 House Hunters Int. 7.30 Good Bones. 8.30 A Sale Of Two Cities. 9.30 My Lottery Dream Home. 10.30 To Be Advised. 11.30 Late Programs.

SKY NEWS (53)

6am News. 6.30 News. 7.00 Gameday Live. 8.00 Sunday Agenda.

9.00 Outsiders. 10.00 Outsiders. 11.00 Business Weekend. Noon News. 12.30 News. 1.00 News.

1.30 News. 2.00 News. 2.30 News. 3.00 News.

3.30 News. 4.00 News. 5.00 News. 6.00 Sharri.

7.00 Chris Smith Tonight. 8.00 In My View. 9.00 Paul Murray Live. 10.00 Outsiders. 11.00 Late Programs.

MONDAY, August 16 ABC TV (2)

SBS (3)

PRIME7 (6)

NBN (8, 80)

TEN (5)

6.00 News. 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Landline. (R) 11.00 Joanna Lumley’s Britain.

(PG, R) 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 The Durrells. (PG, R) 2.05 Harrow. (Final, Malv, R) 3.00 ABC News Afternoons.

4.00 Escape From The City. (R) 5.00 Anh’s Brush With Fame. (PG, R) 5.30 Hard Quiz. (PG, R)

6.00 WorldWatch. 11.30 Turkish News. 12.00 Arabic News F24. 12.30 America: News. 1.00 Al Jazeera. 2.00 Destination Flavour China Bitesize. (R) 2.05 Mars. (Ma, R) 3.00 Rick Stein’s Cornish Christmas. (R) 3.35 The Cook Up. (PG) 4.05 Australia With Julia Bradbury.

(R) 4.35 Jeopardy! (PG) 5.00 Cycling. UCI World Tour. La Vuelta. Stage 2. H’lights. 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R)

6.00 Sunrise.

9.00 The Morning Show. (PG) 11.30 Seven Morning News.

12.00 To Be Advised.

2.00 World’s Deadliest: Days Out. (Ml, R) 3.00 The Chase.

4.00 Seven News At 4.

5.00 The Chase Australia.

6.00 Today.

9.00 Today Extra. (PG) 11.30 Morning News.

12.00 Getaway. (PG, R) 12.30 The Block. (PGl, R) 2.00 Pointless. (PG) 3.00 Tipping Point. (PG) 4.00 Afternoon News.

5.00 Millionaire Hot Seat.

6.00 Ent. Tonight. (R) 6.30 Everyday Gourmet. (R) 7.00 Judge Judy. (PG, R) 7.30 Bold. (PG, R) 8.00 Studio 10. (PG) 12.00 Dr Phil. (Mad) 1.00 Australian Survivor. (R) 2.30 Ent. Tonight. 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG) 3.30 My Market Kitchen. 4.00 Everyday Gourmet.

4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful.

5.00 10 News First.

6.00 The Drum.

7.00 ABC News.

7.30 7.30.

8.00 Australian Story.

8.30 Four Corners. Highlights from the show’s past six decades.

9.30 Media Watch. (PG) 9.50 Beyond The Towers. (Mav) 10.50 ABC Late News.

11.20 The Grid: Powering The Future – A Catalyst Special. (R) 12.25 Baptiste. (Mlv, R) 1.20 Traces. (Mal, R) 2.05 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 4.25 The Drum. (R) 5.25 7.30. (R)

6.00 Mastermind Australia. (R) 6.30 SBS World News.

7.35 Inside Windsor Castle. (PG, R) 8.30 Secret Scotland: Galloway And The South. (PG) Susan Calman heads to Galloway.

9.25 24 Hours In Emergency: Inside Out. (Mal, R) 10.20 SBS World News Late.

10.50 Outlier. (Premiere, Mal) 11.45 Das Boot. (Malv, R) 3.55 Trump’s American Carnage. (Malvw, R) 5.00 France 24 Feature.

5.15 NHK World English News.

5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.

6.00 PRIME7 News.

6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30.

7.00 Home And Away. (PG) 7.30 The Voice. (PG) Hosted

by Sonia Kruger.

9.00 9-1-1: Lone Star. (Mav) The 126 is dispatched to a funeral where another dead body has crashed the burial, and then to a hospital where an MRI has gone haywire.

TK makes waves in his new position.

11.00 The Latest: Seven News.

11.30 Station 19. (Ma) The crew investigates an electrical fire.

12.30 Home Shopping.

5.00 Seven Early News.

5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 NBN News.

7.00 A Current Affair.

7.30 The Block. (PGl) 8.45 Celebrity IOU. (PGl) Kevin Hart wants to thank his trainer and friend, Boss.

9.45 100% Footy. (M) 10.45 Nine News Late.

11.15 The Arrangement. (Malsv) 12.05 Tipping Point. (PG, R) 1.00 A Current Affair. (R) 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 2.30 Global Shop. (R) 3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 Take Two. (R) 5.00 News Early Edition.

5.30 Today.

6.30 The Project. A look at the day’s news.

7.30 Australian Survivor.

Presented by Jonathan LaPaglia.

8.40 Have You Been Paying Attention? (Malns) Celebrity panelists compete to see who can remember the most about events of the week.

9.40 Arj Barker: We Need To Talk.

(Mls) Comedian Arj Barker returns to make fun of our obsession with technology.

10.40 The Project. (R) A look at the day’s news.

11.40 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG) 12.30 Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 CBS This Morning.

CONSUMER ADVICE (P) Pre-school (C) Children (PG) Parental Guidance Recommended (M) Mature Audiences (MA15+) Mature Audiences Only (AV15+) Extreme Adult Violence (R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions (a) Adult themes (d) Drug references (h) Horror (s) Sex references (l) Language (m) Medical procedures (n) Nudity (v) Violence.

ABC TV PLUS (22)

6am Children’s Programs. 7.15pm Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 QI. 8.30 Brian Cox’s Adventures In Space And Time. 9.20 Doctor Who. 10.15 Grand Designs NZ. 11.00 The Chemical World. Midnight Escape From The City. 12.55 QI. 1.30 30 Rock.

1.50 Reno 911! 2.15 The Good Place. 2.35 Inside No. 9. 3.05 News Update. 3.10 Close. 5.05 Miffy’s Adventures Big And Small. 5.15 Late Programs.

VICELAND (31) 6am WorldWatch.

8.00 Basketball. WNBA. Phoenix Mercury v Atlanta Dream. 10.00 WorldWatch. Noon Seconds From Disaster. 2.45 New Girl. 3.40 WorldWatch. 5.05 Joy Of Painting. 5.35 Shortland Street. 6.00 Forged In Fire. (Return) 6.55 Jeopardy! 7.30 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Hypothetical. 9.25 Taskmaster. 10.25 VICE. 11.00 Cycling. UCI World Tour. La Vuelta. Stage 3. 1.50am Late Programs.

7TWO (62) 6am Home Shopping. 7.00 Auction Squad. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 10.30 Kochie’s Business Builders. 11.00 The Bowls Show. Noon House Of Wellness. 1.00 Million Dollar Minute.

2.00 Little Boy Blue. 3.00 Sydney Weekender.

3.30 Surf Patrol. 4.30 M*A*S*H. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Doc Martin. 8.30 Judge John Deed. 11.00 Late Programs.

9GEM (82) 6am TV Shop. 7.00 Creflo.

7.30 TV Shop. 9.30 Newstyle Direct. 10.00 Danoz.

10.30 Pointless. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. Noon Death In Paradise. 1.10 Days Of Our Lives. 2.05 The Young And The Restless. 3.00 Antiques Roadshow.

3.30 MOVIE: The Love Lottery. (1954) 5.20 Serengeti. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 Poirot.

8.40 Agatha Christie’s Marple. 10.40 Law & Order: Criminal Intent. 11.35 Late Programs.

BOLD (51) 6am Home Shopping. 8.00 The Doctors. 9.00 Diagnosis Murder. 10.00 JAG. 11.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation. Noon Walker, Texas Ranger. 1.00 NCIS. 2.00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. 3.00 Diagnosis Murder. 5.00 JAG. 7.00 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 11.15 Blue Bloods.

12.10am Home Shopping. 2.10 Motorcycle Racing.

MotoGP. Race 11. Austrian Grand Prix. Replay. 4.00 48 Hours. 5.00 The Doctors.

ABC ME (23)

6am Children’s Programs.

1.40pm Robot Wars. 2.40 Children’s Programs.

5.30 Kung Fu Panda. 6.00 Space Nova. 6.30 Secrets Of Skin. 7.00 Mythbusters “There’s Your Problem!”. 7.35 The Penguins Of Madagascar.

8.00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. 8.35 The Day My Butt Went Psycho! 9.00 Slugterra. 9.25 Sailor Moon Crystal. 9.45 Rage. 10.50 Close. 5.30am Children’s Programs.

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am Morning Programs. 7.20 Bandslam. (2009, PG) 9.25 The Red Balloon. (1956, French) 10.05 Big Game. (2014, M) 11.45 Asterix: The Mansions Of The Gods. (2014, PG, French) 1.20pm Grace Of Monaco. (2014, PG) 3.15 1982. (2019, PG, Arabic) 5.15 Bala. (2019, PG, Hindi) 7.40 Armour Of God. (1986, M, Cantonese) 9.30 Operation Condor: Armour Of God II. (1991, M, Cantonese) 11.35 Late Programs.

7MATE (63) 6am Morning Programs.

8.30 Dipper’s Destinations. 9.00 Fishing Addiction.

10.00 A Football Life. 11.00 America’s Game. Noon Ax Men. 2.00 Fight To Survive. 2.30 Gold Fever.

3.00 Graveyard Carz. 4.00 Pawnography. 4.30 Pawn Stars South Africa. 5.00 Pawn Stars UK. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 American Pickers. 8.30 MOVIE: Logan.

(2017, MA15+) 11.20 Late Programs.

9GO! (83) 6am Children’s Programs.

11.00 Hollywood Medium. Noon Parenthood.

1.00 Keeping Up With The Kardashians. 2.00 90 Day Fiance. 3.00 Malcolm. 4.00 The Incredible Hulk. 5.00 Malcolm. 6.00 The Nanny. 6.30 3rd Rock From The Sun. 7.00 That ’70s Show. 7.30 RBT. 8.30 MOVIE: The Mechanic. (2011, MA15+) 10.30 Paranormal Caught On Camera. 11.30 Late Programs.

PEACH (52) 6am The Middle. 7.00 Friends. 11.00 The Neighborhood. Noon This Is Us. 1.00 Charmed. 2.00 2 Broke Girls. 2.30 The Big Bang Theory. 3.00 Rules Of Engagement.

4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 Seinfeld. 11.00 Friends. Midnight Home Shopping. 1.30 This Is Us. 2.30 Crazy ExGirlfriend. 3.30 Stephen Colbert. 4.30 Shopping.

ABC NEWS (24) 6am News Programs. 3pm ABC News Afternoons. 4.00 Afternoon Briefing. 5.00 ABC News Hour. 6.00 ABC Evening News. 7.00 ABC National News. 8.00 ABC News Tonight. 8.45 The Business. 9.00 ABC Nightly News. 9.30 7.30. 10.00 The World. 11.00 The Drum. Midnight ABC Late News. 12.15 The Business. 12.30 Q+A Highlights. 1.00 ABC Late News. 1.30 7.30. 2.00 Late Programs.

SBS FOOD (33) 6am Morning Programs. 2.30pm Mexican Table. 3.00 Chefs’ Line. 3.30 Lidia’s Italy. 4.00 Free Range Cook.

4.30 Bake With Anna. 5.00 Destination Flavour Down Under. 5.30 Cook And The Chef. 6.00 Choccywoccydoodah. 6.30 Come Dine With Me UK. 7.00 The Cook Up. 7.30 Food Fight Club.

(Return) 8.30 Amy Schumer Learns To Cook. 9.30 Mystery Diners. 10.00 Late Programs.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs.

1.45pm Mimi. 2.00 First Australians. 3.00 Jarjums.

5.00 Shortland Street. 5.30 Chefs’ Line. 6.00 The 77 Percent. 6.30 On Country Kitchen. 7.00 Our Stories. 7.20 News. 7.30 Card Stories. 7.40 Through The Wormhole With Morgan Freeman. 8.30 Karla Grant Presents. 9.00 The Price Of Protest: The Colin Kaepernick Story. 10.00 News. 10.10 Te Ao With Moana. 10.40 Late Programs.

9LIFE (84) 6am Morning Programs.

9.00 Flip Or Flop Atlanta. 10.00 Windy City Rehab.

11.00 Postcards. 11.30 Find Me A Dream Home Australia. Noon Good Bones. 1.00 My Lottery Dream Home. 2.00 A Sale Of Two Cities. 3.00 The Block. 4.00 Desert Flippers. 5.00 Good Bones.

6.00 House Hunters Int. 7.00 House Hunters. 8.30 Restored By The Fords. 9.30 Boise Boys. 10.30 Help! I Wrecked My House. 11.30 Late Programs.

SKY NEWS (53)

6am Breakfast Show. 9.00 Fox Sports News. 10.00 AM Agenda.

11.00 NewsDay. Noon NewsDay. 1.00 In My View.

2.00 Afternoon Agenda. 3.00 Afternoon Agenda.

4.00 Paul Murray Live. 5.00 Fox Sports News.

6.00 Credlin. 7.00 The Bolt Report. 8.00 Alan Jones. 9.00 Paul Murray Live. 10.00 PML Later.

11.00 News. 11.30 News. Midnight Credlin. 1.00 Bolt Report. 2.00 Late Programs.

TUESDAY, August 17 ABC TV (2)

SBS (3)

PRIME7 (6)

NBN (8, 80)

TEN (5)

6.00 News. 9.00 ABC News Mornings.

10.00 Four Corners. (R) 11.00 Antiques Roadshow. (R) 12.00 ABC News At Noon.

1.00 Belgravia. (PG, R) 2.00 Death In Paradise. (Mav, R) 3.00 ABC News Afternoons.

4.00 Escape From The City. (R) 5.00 Anh’s Brush With Fame. (PG, R) 5.30 Hard Quiz. (PG, R)

6.00 WorldWatch. 11.30 Turkish News. 12.00 Arabic News F24. 12.30 America: News. 1.00 PBS News. 2.00 Destination Flavour China Bitesize. (R) 2.05 Mars. (PGa, R) 3.00 Rick Stein’s Cornish Christmas. (R) 3.35 The Cook Up. (PG) 4.05 Australia With Julia Bradbury.

(R) 4.35 Jeopardy! (PG) 5.00 Cycling. UCI World Tour. La Vuelta. Stage 3. H’lights. 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R)

6.00 Sunrise.

9.00 The Morning Show. (PG) 11.30 Seven Morning News.

12.00 MOVIE: Trust. (2009, Msv, R) 2.00 World’s Deadliest: Bail Outs. (PGa, R) 3.00 The Chase. (R) 4.00 Seven News At 4.

5.00 The Chase Australia.

6.00 Today. 9.00 Today Extra. (PG) 11.30 Morning News.

12.00 Explore. (R) 12.15 Driving Test. (PG, R) 12.45 The Block. (PGl, R) 2.00 Pointless. (PG) 3.00 Tipping Point. (PG) 4.00 Afternoon News.

5.00 Millionaire Hot Seat.

6.00 Ent. Tonight. (R) 6.30 Everyday Gourmet. (R) 7.00 Judge Judy. (PG, R) 7.30 Bold. (R) 8.00 Studio 10. (PG) 12.00 Dr Phil.

(PGa) 1.00 Australian Survivor. (R) 2.00 Ent. Tonight. 2.30 Farm To Fork. (PG, R) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG) 3.30 My Market Kitchen.

4.00 Everyday Gourmet.

4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful.

5.00 10 News First.

6.00 The Drum.

7.00 ABC News.

7.30 7.30.

8.00 Back To Nature: The High Country.

8.30 Doctor At The Door: The Kulkarnis. Part 1 of 2.

9.30 The Chemical World: Within. (PG) 10.25 ABC Late News.

11.00 Q+A. (R) 12.05 Miriam’s Big Fat Adventure. (Ml, R) 1.00 Death In Paradise. (Mav, R) 2.00 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 4.25 The Drum. (R) 5.25 7.30. (R)

6.00 Mastermind Australia. (R) 6.30 SBS World News.

7.30 Who Do You Think You Are? (PGa, R) 8.30 Insight. (R) 9.30 Dateline.

10.00 The Feed.

10.30 SBS World News Late.

11.00 The Point. (R) 11.30 Cacciatore: The Hunter. (MA15+alsv) 12.40 Gigantes. (MA15+v, R) 3.25 Tsunamis: Facing A Global Threat. (Ml, R) 4.30 VICE Guide To Film. (Mlv, R) 5.00 France 24 Feature. 5.15 NHK World English News.

5.30 Deutsche Welle.

6.00 PRIME7 News.

6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30.

7.00 Home And Away. (PG) 7.30 The Voice. (PG) Hosted

by Sonia Kruger.

9.00 Australia: Now And Then.

(Ma) Shane Jacobson and a panel of celebrities take a look at which generation of Aussies was the hottest.

10.00 Gordon, Gino & Fred: American Road Trip. (Mls) Part 2 of 5.

11.00 The Latest: Seven News.

11.30 Station 19. (M) 12.30 Home Shopping.

5.00 Seven Early News.

5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 NBN News.

7.00 A Current Affair.

7.30 The Block. (PGl) Hosted by Scott Cam. 8.40 The Hundred With Andy Lee. Andy Lee is joined by a panel of comedians and 100 Aussies to explore the fun behind the facts.

9.40 Travel Guides. (PGls, R) 10.40 Nine News Late.

11.10 Reverie. (Premiere, Mav) 12.05 Tipping Point. (PG, R) 1.00 A Current Affair. (R) 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 Take Two. (R) 5.00 News Early Edition.

5.30 Today.

6.30 The Project. A look at the day’s news.

7.30 Australian Survivor. A group of 24 castaways head to Cloncurry, Queensland, where they are divided into two camps: Brains and Brawn.

9.00 The Cheap Seats. (Mal) Presenters Melanie Bracewell and Tim McDonald take a look at the week that was.

9.55 Eddie Ifft: Sweet Home Mailbama. (MA15+ls) Eddie Ifft shares stories of marriage and parenting.

11.30 The Project. (R) 12.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG) 1.30 Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 CBS This Morning.

CONSUMER ADVICE (P) Pre-school (C) Children (PG) Parental Guidance Recommended (M) Mature Audiences (MA15+) Mature Audiences Only (AV15+) Extreme Adult Violence (R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions (a) Adult themes (d) Drug references (h) Horror (s) Sex references (l) Language (m) Medical procedures (n) Nudity (v) Violence.

ABC TV PLUS (22) 6am Children’s Programs. 7.15pm Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.30 Whose Line Is It Anyway? 8.50 Everything’s Gonna Be Okay. 9.15 Bliss. 9.45 Doctor Who. 10.35 Rosehaven. 11.05 Fleabag. 11.35 The Games. 12.05am 30 Rock. 12.25 Reno 911! 12.50 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. 1.30 The Good Place. 1.55 Inside No. 9. 2.25 News Update. 2.30 Close. 5.05 Late Programs.

VICELAND (31) 6am WorldWatch.

Noon Seconds From Disaster. 2.45 New Girl. 3.35 WorldWatch. 5.00 Joy Of Painting. 5.30 Shortland Street. 6.00 Forged In Fire. 6.55 Jeopardy! 7.30 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Roswell: The First Witness. 9.30 Limetown. 10.25 VICE. 11.00 Cycling. UCI World Tour. La Vuelta. Stage 4. 1.50am News. 2.20 RT News In English From Moscow. 3.00 Late Programs.

7TWO (62) 6am Home Shopping. 7.00 Auction Squad. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. Noon House Of Wellness. 1.00 Million Dollar Minute. 2.00 Little Boy Blue. 3.00 Travel And Eat With Dan & Steph.

3.30 Surf Patrol. 4.30 M*A*S*H. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Pie In The Sky. 8.30 Lewis. 10.30 Deadly Dates. 11.30 Late Programs.

9GEM (82) 6am TV Shop. 7.00 Creflo.

7.30 TV Shop. 9.30 Newstyle Direct. 10.00 Danoz.

10.30 Pointless. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. Noon Poirot. 1.10 Days Of Our Lives. 2.05 The Young And The Restless. 3.00 Antiques Roadshow. 3.30 MOVIE: Tonight’s The Night. (1954) 5.20 Serengeti.

6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 New Tricks. 8.40 The Closer. 9.40 Rizzoli & Isles. 10.40 The Lover’s Lane Murders. 11.40 Late Programs.

BOLD (51) 6am Home Shopping. 8.00 Diagnosis Murder. 9.00 JAG. 11.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation. Noon Walker, Texas Ranger. 1.00 NCIS. 2.00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. 3.00 Diagnosis Murder. 5.00 JAG. 7.00 Bondi Rescue.

7.30 NCIS. 8.30 Blue Bloods. 10.25 NCIS: New Orleans. 12.15am Home Shopping. 2.15 MOVIE: The Guardian. (2006, M) 5.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation.

ABC ME (23)

6am Children’s Programs.

1.40pm Robot Wars. 2.40 Children’s Programs.

4.30 Odd Squad. 4.45 Little Lunch. 5.00 Secret Life Of Boys. 5.25 Kung Fu Panda. 6.00 Space Nova.

6.30 Secrets Of Skin. 7.00 Mythbusters “There’s Your Problem!”. 7.35 The Penguins Of Madagascar.

8.00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. 8.45 Wishfart!

9.00 Slugterra. 9.20 Sailor Moon Crystal. 9.45 Rage. 10.50 Close. 5.30am Children’s Programs.

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am Grace Of Monaco. Continued. (2014, PG) 7.35 Bala. (2019, PG, Hindi) 10.00 The Thief Of Bagdad. (1940, PG) Noon Armour Of God. (1986, M, Cantonese) 1.50 Bandslam. (2009, PG) 3.55 The Importance Of Being Earnest. (1952) 5.45 Walking On Sunshine.

(2014, PG) 7.35 Song Lang. (2018, M, Vietnamese) 9.30 The City Of Lost Children. (1995, M, French) 11.35 Late Programs.

7MATE (63) 6am Morning Programs.

2pm Fight To Survive. 2.30 Gold Fever. 3.00 American Pickers. 4.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 4.30 Pawn Stars South Africa. 5.00 Pawn Stars UK. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Highway Patrol.

8.30 Outback Truckers: Best Of. 9.30 Outback Truckers. 10.30 Demolition NZ. 11.00 Late Programs.

9GO! (83) 6am Children’s Programs.

11.00 Hollywood Medium. Noon Parenthood. 1.00 Keeping Up With The Kardashians. 2.00 90 Day Fiance. 3.00 Malcolm. 3.30 The Nanny. 4.00 3rd Rock From The Sun. 4.30 That ’70s Show. 5.00 Malcolm. 6.00 The Nanny. 6.30 3rd Rock From The Sun. 7.00 That ’70s Show. 7.30 MOVIE: Jaws 2.

(1978, M) 10.00 MOVIE: Rocky Balboa. (2006, M) Midnight Late Programs.

PEACH (52) 6am The Middle. 7.00 Seinfeld. 8.00 Rules Of Engagement. 9.00 Becker.

10.00 Friends. 11.00 Frasier. Noon This Is Us. 1.00 2 Broke Girls. 1.30 Seinfeld. 3.00 Rules Of Engagement. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 Mom. 11.35 Frasier.

Midnight Shopping. 1.30 This Is Us. 2.30 Late Programs.

ABC NEWS (24) 6am News Programs. 3pm ABC News Afternoons. 4.00 Afternoon Briefing. 5.00 ABC News Hour. 5.55 Heywire. 6.00 ABC Evening News. 7.00 ABC National News. 8.00 ABC News Tonight. 8.45 The Business. 9.00 ABC Nightly News. 9.30 7.30. 10.00 The World. 11.00 The Drum. Midnight ABC Late News. 12.15 The Business. 12.30 Aust Story. 1.00 ABC Late News. 1.30 7.30. 2.00 Late Programs.

SBS FOOD (33) 6am Morning Programs. 3.30pm Lidia’s Italy. 4.00 Free Range Cook. 4.30 Bake With Anna. 5.00 Destination Flavour Down Under. 5.30 Cook And The Chef.

6.00 Choccywoccydoodah. 6.30 Come Dine With Me UK. 7.00 The Cook Up. 7.30 Destination Flavour: Japan. 8.00 David Rocco’s Dolce Africa.

8.30 Jamie’s Great Britain. 9.30 Mystery Diners.

10.00 Late Programs.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs. 1pm My Survival As An Aboriginal. 2.00 Card Stories.

2.10 Urban Native Girl. 3.00 Wapos Bay. 3.25 Bushwhacked! 3.50 Bino And Fino. 4.00 Mustangs FC. 4.30 Grace Beside Me. 5.00 Shortland Street.

5.30 Chefs’ Line. 6.00 Foreign Flavours. 6.30 First Footprints. 7.30 The Point. 8.00 Living Black Conversations. 8.30 Without Bias. 9.30 For My Father’s Kingdom. 11.15 Late Programs.

9LIFE (84) 6am Morning Programs.

10.30 Zombie House Flipping. 11.30 House Hunters. 12.30pm Help! I Wrecked My House.

1.30 Restored By The Fords. 2.30 The Block. 4.00 Desert Flippers. 5.00 Boise Boys. 6.00 House Hunters Int. 7.00 House Hunters. 7.30 Escape To The Farm With Kate Humble. 8.30 Restoration Man. 9.30 Building Off The Grid. 10.30 Beachfront Bargain Hunt. 11.30 Late Programs.

SKY NEWS (53)

6am Breakfast Show. 9.00 Fox Sports News. 10.00 AM Agenda.

11.00 NewsDay. Noon NewsDay. 1.00 Alan Jones.

2.00 Afternoon Agenda. 3.00 Afternoon Agenda.

4.00 Paul Murray Live. 5.00 Fox Sports News.

6.00 Credlin. 7.00 The Bolt Report. 8.00 Alan Jones. 9.00 Paul Murray Live. 10.00 PML Later.

11.00 News. 11.30 News. Midnight Credlin. 1.00 Bolt Report. 2.00 Late Programs.

WEDNESDAY, August 18 ABC TV (2)

SBS (3)

PRIME7 (6)

NBN (8, 80)

TEN (5)

6.00 News. 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 The Recording Studio. (R) 11.00 The Repair Shop. (R) 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 12.30 Press Club. 1.35 Media Watch. (PG, R) 2.00 Death In Paradise. (PG, R) 3.00 ABC News Afternoons.

4.00 Escape From The City. (R) 4.55 Anh’s Brush With Fame. (PG, R) 5.25 Hard Quiz. (PG, R)

6.00 WorldWatch. 11.00 Spanish News.

11.30 Turkish News. 12.00 Arabic News F24. 12.30 America: News. 1.00 PBS News.

2.00 Dateline. (R) 2.30 Insight. (R) 3.30 Destination Flavour China Bitesize. (R) 3.35 The Cook Up. (PG) 4.05 Australia With Julia Bradbury. (PG, R) 4.35 Jeopardy! (PG) 5.00 Cycling. UCI World Tour. La Vuelta. Stage 4.

H’lights. 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R)

6.00 Sunrise.

9.00 The Morning Show. (PG) 11.30 Seven Morning News.

12.00 MOVIE: Newlywed And Dead. (2016, Mav, R) 2.00 World’s Deadliest. (Ml, R) 3.00 The Chase. (R) 4.00 Seven News At 4.

5.00 The Chase Australia.

6.00 Today.

9.00 Today Extra. (PG) 11.30 Morning News.

12.00 Desperate Housewives. (Mas, R) 1.00 The Block. (PGl, R) 2.00 Pointless. (PG) 3.00 Tipping Point. (PG) 4.00 Afternoon News.

5.00 Millionaire Hot Seat.

6.00 Ent. Tonight. (R) 6.30 Everyday Gourmet. (R) 7.00 Judge Judy. (PG, R) 7.30 Bold. (R) 8.00 Studio 10. (PG) 12.00 Dr Phil.

(PGa) 1.00 The Bachelor Aust. (R) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG) 3.30 My Market Kitchen.

4.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield.

4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful.

5.00 10 News First.

6.00 The Drum.

7.00 ABC News.

7.30 7.30.

8.00 Hard Quiz. (Return, PG) 8.30 Question Everything. (Premiere) 9.00 Rosehaven. (PG) 9.30 Would I Lie To You? (PG, R) 10.00 Staged. (Ml, R) 10.25 ABC Late News.

10.55 Four Corners. (R) 12.00 Media Watch. (PG, R) 12.15 Beyond The Towers. (Mav, R) 1.15 Death In Paradise. (PG, R) 2.15 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 4.25 The Drum. (R) 5.25 7.30. (R)

6.00 Mastermind Australia. (R) 6.30 SBS World News.

7.35 Tony Robinson’s World By Rail. (PG, R) 8.30 What Does Australia Really Think About… (M) 9.35 War Of The Worlds. (Return, MA15+) 10.30 SBS World News Late.

11.00 Unknown Amazon. (Mal) 11.50 The Killing. (Man, R) 4.05 VICE Guide To Film. (MA15+alv, R) 4.55 Destination Flavour Scandinavia Bitesize. (R) 5.00 France 24 Feature.

5.15 NHK World English News.

5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.

6.00 PRIME7 News.

6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30.

7.00 Home And Away. (PG) 7.30 Nurses. (Premiere, M) Looks at the inner workings of three hospitals.

8.30 RFDS. (M) Pete’s simmering resentment towards Eliza comes to a head during a tense mid-air birth.

9.30 The Rookie. (Mav) A judge’s son is kidnapped.

10.30 The Latest: Seven News.

11.00 Chicago Fire. (Mav) 12.00 First Dates Australia. (PGs, R) 1.30 Home Shopping.

5.00 Seven Early News.

5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 NBN News.

7.00 A Current Affair.

7.30 The Block. (PGl) 8.40 Paramedics. A crew responds to a hotel pool.

9.40 Australian Crime Stories.

10.40 Nine News Late.

11.10 Killer On The Line. (Mv, R) 12.00 Bluff City Law. (PGa, R) 12.50 Explore. (R) 1.00 A Current Affair. (R) 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 2.30 Global Shop. (R) 3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 5.00 News Early Edition.

5.30 Today.

6.30 The Project. Join the hosts for a look at the day’s news, events and hot topics.

7.30 The Bachelor Australia. Bachelor Jimmy Nicholson, an airline pilot, sets out to find true love from among a group of eligible bachelorettes.

9.30 Bull. (Ma, R) TAC represents a train engineer with no memory of the fatal crash he allegedly caused.

11.30 The Project. (R) A look at the day’s news.

12.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG) 1.30 Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 CBS This Morning.

Morning news and talk show.

CONSUMER ADVICE (P) Pre-school (C) Children (PG) Parental Guidance Recommended (M) Mature Audiences (MA15+) Mature Audiences Only (AV15+) Extreme Adult Violence (R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions (a) Adult themes (d) Drug references (h) Horror (s) Sex references (l) Language (m) Medical procedures (n) Nudity (v) Violence.

ABC TV PLUS (22) 6am Children’s Programs. 7.15pm Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Would I Lie To You? 8.30 Art Works.

9.00 Inside The Met. 9.50 Doctor Who. 10.50 Old People’s Home For 4 Year Olds. 11.50 Louis Theroux: The City Addicted To Crystal Meth.

12.50am 30 Rock. 1.05 Reno 911! 1.35 The Good Place. 2.10 Inside No. 9. 2.40 News Update. 2.45 Close. 5.05 Late Programs.

VICELAND (31) 6am WorldWatch.

10.00 Basketball. WNBA. Chicago Sky v Dallas Wings. Noon Seconds From Disaster. 2.45 New Girl. 3.35 WorldWatch. 5.00 Joy Of Painting.

5.30 Shortland Street. 6.00 Forged In Fire. 6.55 Jeopardy! 7.30 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown.

8.30 The Act. 9.20 I Am Evel Knievel. 11.05 Cycling.

UCI World Tour. La Vuelta. Stage 5. 1.50am News.

2.20 France 24. 3.00 Late Programs.

7TWO (62) 6am Home Shopping. 7.00 Auction Squad. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. Noon House Of Wellness. 1.00 Million Dollar Minute. 2.00 Little Boy Blue. 3.00 Kochie’s Business Builders. 3.30 Surf Patrol. 4.30 M*A*S*H. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 The Coroner.

8.30 A Touch Of Frost. 10.50 Bones. 12.50am M*A*S*H. 2.00 Home Shopping.

9GEM (82) 6am TV Shop. 7.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. 7.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

10.30 Pointless. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. Noon New Tricks. 1.10 Days Of Our Lives. 2.05 The Young And The Restless. 3.00 Antiques Roadshow.

3.30 MOVIE: The Captain’s Paradise. (1953) 5.20 Serengeti. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 Keeping Up Appearances. 8.50 Midsomer Murders. 10.50 An Unexpected Killer. 11.50 Late Programs.

BOLD (51) 6am Home Shopping. 8.00 Destination Dessert. 8.30 Snap Happy. 9.00 JAG. 11.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation. Noon Walker, Texas Ranger. 1.00 NCIS. 2.00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. 3.00 Diagnosis Murder. 5.00 JAG. 7.00 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 NCIS: Los Angeles. 11.15 SEAL Team. 12.10am Home Shopping. 2.10 48 Hours. 3.10 Diagnosis Murder.

5.00 The Doctors.

ABC ME (23)

6am Children’s Programs.

1.40pm Robot Wars. 2.40 Children’s Programs.

4.30 Odd Squad. 4.45 Little Lunch. 5.00 Secret Life Of Boys. 5.25 Kung Fu Panda. 6.00 Space Nova.

6.30 Secrets Of Skin. 7.00 Mythbusters “There’s Your Problem!”. 7.35 The Penguins Of Madagascar.

8.00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. 8.45 Wishfart!

9.00 Slugterra. 9.20 Sailor Moon Crystal. 9.45 Rage. 10.45 Close. 5.30am Children’s Programs.

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am Morning Programs. 7.15 The Young Victoria. (2009, PG) 9.15 Walking On Sunshine. (2014, PG) 11.05 Operation Condor: Armour Of God II. (1991, M, Cantonese) 1.10pm Bala. (2019, PG, Hindi) 3.35 The Thief Of Bagdad. (1940, PG) 5.35 The Well-Digger’s Daughter. (2011, PG, French) 7.35 Kung Fu Jungle.

(2014, M, Cantonese) 9.30 Run Lola Run. (1998, M, German) 11.00 Late Programs.

7MATE (63) 6am Morning Programs.

Noon Ax Men. 2.00 Fight To Survive. 2.30 Gold Fever. 3.00 Pawn Stars. 3.30 Blokesworld. 4.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 4.30 Pawn Stars South Africa. 5.00 Pawn Stars UK. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars.

7.30 Surveillance Oz Dashcam. 8.00 Beach Cops.

8.30 Fat Pizza: Back In Business. 10.30 Housos 2020. 11.00 Late Programs.

9GO! (83) 6am Children’s Programs.

11.00 Hollywood Medium. Noon Parenthood. 1.00 Keeping Up With The Kardashians. 2.00 90 Day Fiance. 3.00 Malcolm. 3.30 The Nanny. 4.00 3rd Rock From The Sun. 4.30 That ’70s Show. 5.00 Malcolm. 6.00 The Nanny. 6.30 3rd Rock From The Sun. 7.00 That ’70s Show. 7.30 MOVIE: G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra. (2009, M) 9.45 MOVIE: Exit Wounds. (2001, M) 11.45 Late Programs.

PEACH (52) 6am The Middle. 7.30 Frasier. 8.00 Rules Of Engagement. 9.00 Becker.

10.00 Friends. 11.00 Frasier. Noon This Is Us. 1.00 2 Broke Girls. 2.00 Mom. 3.00 Rules Of Engagement. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.20 2 Broke Girls. 11.35 Rules Of Engagement. Midnight Shopping. 1.30 This Is Us. 2.30 Late Programs.

ABC NEWS (24) 6am News Programs. 12.30pm Press Club. 1.35 ABC News Day. 3.00 ABC News Afternoons. 4.00 Afternoon Briefing. 5.00 ABC News Hour. 6.00 ABC Evening News. 7.00 ABC National News. 7.55 Heywire. 8.00 ABC News Tonight. 8.45 The Business. 9.00 ABC Nightly News. 9.30 7.30. 10.00 The World. 11.00 The Drum. Midnight ABC Late News. 12.15 The Business. 12.30 One Plus One. 1.00 Late Programs.

SBS FOOD (33) 6am Morning Programs. 3.00pm Chefs’ Line. 3.30 Lidia’s Italy.

4.00 Free Range Cook. 4.30 Bake With Anna. 5.00 Destination Flavour Down Under. 5.30 Cook And The Chef. 6.00 Choccywoccydoodah. 6.30 Come Dine With Me UK. 7.00 The Cook Up. 7.30 Nigella Kitchen. 8.00 Poh & Co. 8.30 Rick Stein’s Cornwall.

9.00 Rick Stein’s Seafood Odyssey. 9.30 Mystery Diners. 10.00 Late Programs.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs. 2pm Intune 08. 3.00 Jarjums. 4.30 Grace Beside Me. 5.00 Shortland Street. 5.30 Chefs’ Line. 6.00 Foreign Flavours. 6.30 Pete & Pio’s Kai Safari. 7.00 Our Stories. 7.15 Other Side Of The Rock. 7.20 News.

7.30 Wellington Paranormal. 8.00 Yokayi Footy.

8.35 Over The Black Dot. 9.35 NITV News Update.

9.45 Rugby League. NRL. WA Premiership. 11.15 Late Programs.

9LIFE (84) 6am Morning Programs.

11.30 Beachfront Bargain Hunt. 12.30pm Building Off The Grid. 1.30 Getaway. 2.00 Restoration Man. 3.00 The Block. 4.00 Desert Flippers. 5.00 Escape To The Farm With Kate Humble. 6.00 House Hunters Int. 7.00 House Hunters. 7.30 Masters Of Flip. 8.30 Home Town. 9.30 Beachfront Bargain Hunt: Renovation. 10.30 Island Life. 11.30 Late Programs.

SKY NEWS (53)

6am Breakfast Show. 9.00 Fox Sports News. 10.00 AM Agenda.

11.00 NewsDay. Noon NewsDay. 1.00 Alan Jones.

2.00 Afternoon Agenda. 3.00 Afternoon Agenda.

4.00 Paul Murray Live. 5.00 Fox Sports News.

6.00 Credlin. 7.00 The Bolt Report. 8.00 Alan Jones. 9.00 Paul Murray Live. 10.00 PML Later.

11.00 News. 11.30 News. Midnight Credlin. 1.00 Bolt Report. 2.00 Late Programs.

THURSDAY, August 19 ABC TV (2)

SBS (3)

PRIME7 (6)

NBN (8, 80)

TEN (5)

6.00 News. 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Aust Story. (R) 10.30 Back To Nature. (R) 11.00 The Chemical World. (PG, R) 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Hard Quiz. (PG, R) 1.30 Question Everything. (R) 2.00 The Trouble With Maggie Cole. (PG, R) 3.00 ABC News Afternoons. 4.00 Escape From The City. (R) 5.00 Brush With Fame. (PG, R) 5.30 Hard Quiz. (PG, R)

6.00 WorldWatch. 11.30 Turkish News. 12.00 Arabic News F24. 12.30 America: News. 1.00 PBS News. 2.00 Destination Flavour China Bitesize. (R) 2.05 Mars. (PGa, R) 3.00 Railway Journeys UK. (PG, R) 3.35 The Cook Up. (PG) 4.05 Australia With Julia Bradbury. (R) 4.35 Jeopardy! (PG) 5.00 Cycling. UCI World Tour.

La Vuelta. Stage 5. H’lights. 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R)

6.00 Sunrise.

9.00 The Morning Show. (PG) 11.30 Seven Morning News.

12.00 MOVIE: Jesse Stone: Lost In Paradise. (2015, M) 2.00 World’s Deadliest. (Ma, R) 3.00 The Chase. (R) 4.00 Seven News At 4.

5.00 The Chase Australia.

6.00 Today.

9.00 Today Extra. (PG) 11.30 Morning News.

12.00 Desperate Housewives. (Mas, R) 1.00 The Block. (PGl, R) 2.00 Pointless. (PG) 3.00 Tipping Point. (PG) 4.00 Afternoon News.

5.00 Millionaire Hot Seat. (R)

6.00 Ent. Tonight. (R) 6.30 Everyday Gourmet. (R) 7.00 Judge Judy. (PG, R) 7.30 Bold. (R) 8.00 Studio 10. (PG) 12.00 Dr Phil.

(PGa) 1.00 The Bachelor Aust. (R) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG) 3.30 My Market Kitchen.

4.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield.

4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful.

5.00 10 News First.

6.00 The Drum.

6.55 Sammy J. (PG) 7.00 ABC News.

7.30 7.30.

8.00 Foreign Correspondent.

8.30 Q+A. Interactive public affairs program.

9.35 Fake Or Fortune? Gerome.

10.35 ABC Late News.

11.05 Miriam’s Big Fat Adventure. (PG, R) 12.05 Midsomer Murders. (Mv, R) 1.35 Silent Witness. (Mav, R) 2.35 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 4.25 The Drum. (R) 5.20 Sammy J. (PG, R) 5.25 7.30. (R)

6.00 Mastermind Australia. (R) 6.30 SBS World News.

7.30 Great Asian Railway Journeys: Yogyakarta To Surabaya.

(PG, R) Hosted by Michael Portillo.

8.35 Incredible Journeys With Simon Reeve. (M) Part 2 of 4.

9.40 The Good Fight. (M) 10.40 SBS World News Late.

11.10 Criminal Planet. (Premiere) 12.00 Mr Mercedes. (MA15+lsv, R) 2.45 Plane Crash. (Ml, R) 4.05 VICE Guide To Film. (MA15+ans, R) 5.00 France 24 Feature.

5.15 NHK World English News.

5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.

6.00 PRIME7 News.

6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30.

7.00 Home And Away. (PG) 8.30 My Impossible House: Colossal Cathedral. (PG) Newlyweds transform a 180-year-old church in Yorkshire, England, into their dream home.

9.30 10 Years Younger In 10 Days.

(PG) Ordinary people have their appearances transformed in just 10 days.

10.30 The Latest: Seven News.

11.00 The Front Bar. (M) 12.00 Black-ish. (PG) 12.30 Home Shopping.

5.00 Seven Early News.

5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 NBN News.

7.00 A Current Affair.

7.30 Rugby League. NRL. Round 23.

Gold Coast Titans v Melbourne Storm.

9.45 Thursday Night Knock Off. Post-match NRL news and analysis.

10.30 Nine News Late.

11.00 Chicago Med. (Mam, R) 11.50 World’s Worst Flights: Mechanical. (M, R) 12.40 Tipping Point. (PG, R) 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 2.30 Global Shop. (R) 3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 5.00 News Early Edition.

5.30 Today.

6.30 The Project. A look at the day’s news.

7.30 The Bachelor Australia. Bachelor Jimmy Nicholson, an airline pilot, sets out to find true love from among a group of eligible bachelorettes.

8.30 Law & Order: SVU. (Mas, R) An ingénue ballerina seeks help from Detectives Benson and Rollins when she discovers she has been secretly videotaped for a pornographic website.

10.30 Blue Bloods. (Ma) 11.30 The Project. (R) 12.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG) 1.30 Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 CBS This Morning.

CONSUMER ADVICE (P) Pre-school (C) Children (PG) Parental Guidance Recommended (M) Mature Audiences (MA15+) Mature Audiences Only (AV15+) Extreme Adult Violence (R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions (a) Adult themes (d) Drug references (h) Horror (s) Sex references (l) Language (m) Medical procedures (n) Nudity (v) Violence.

ABC TV PLUS (22) 6am Children’s Programs. 7.15pm Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.30 Penn & Teller: Fool Us. 9.10 Hard Quiz.

9.40 Question Everything. 10.10 Doctor Who. 11.20 That Pacific Sports Show. 11.50 You Can’t Ask That.

12.20am To Be Advised. 1.15 The Grid: Powering The Future. 2.10 30 Rock. 2.35 Reno 911! 2.55 Friday Night Dinner. 3.20 Inside No. 9. 3.50 News Update.

3.55 Close. 5.05 Late Programs.

VICELAND (31) 6am WorldWatch.

Noon Seconds From Disaster. 2.45 New Girl. 3.35 WorldWatch. 5.00 Joy Of Painting. 5.30 Shortland Street. 6.00 Forged In Fire. 6.55 Jeopardy! 7.30 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 The Curse Of Oak Island. 10.10 Dave Gorman: Modern Life Is Goodish. 11.00 Cycling. UCI World Tour. La Vuelta.

Stage 6. 1.50am News. 2.20 Deutsche Welle. 3.00 Late Programs.

7TWO (62) 6am Home Shopping. 7.00 Auction Squad. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. Noon House Of Wellness. 1.00 Million Dollar Minute. 2.00 Little Boy Blue. 3.00 Weekender. 3.30 Surf Patrol. 4.30 M*A*S*H. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Father Brown. 8.30 Inspector Morse.

10.50 Murdoch Mysteries. 11.50 Father Brown.

12.50am M*A*S*H. 2.00 Late Programs.

9GEM (82) 6am TV Shop. 7.00 Creflo.

7.30 TV Shop. 10.30 Pointless. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. Noon Keeping Up Appearances. 1.10 Days Of Our Lives. 2.05 The Young And The Restless.

3.00 Antiques Roadshow. 3.30 MOVIE: Pink String And Sealing Wax. (1945, PG) 5.20 Serengeti.

6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 The First 48. 8.30 Reported Missing. 9.45 5 Mistakes That Caught A Killer. 10.45 Late Programs.

BOLD (51) 6am Home Shopping. 8.00 Motorcycle Racing. MotoGP. Race 11. Austrian Grand Prix. Replay. 9.30 Bondi Rescue. 10.00 JAG. 11.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation. Noon Walker, Texas Ranger. 1.00 NCIS. 2.00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. 3.00 Diagnosis Murder. 5.00 JAG. 7.00 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 Hawaii Five-0.

10.30 SEAL Team. 11.30 FBI. 12.30am Shopping.

2.00 Late Programs.

ABC ME (23)

6am Children’s Programs.

1.40pm Robot Wars. 2.40 Children’s Programs.

4.30 Odd Squad. 4.45 Little Lunch. 5.00 Secret Life Of Boys. 5.25 Kung Fu Panda. 6.00 Space Nova.

6.30 Secrets Of Skin. 7.00 Mythbusters “There’s Your Problem!”. 7.35 The Penguins Of Madagascar.

8.00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. 8.45 Wishfart!

9.00 Slugterra. 9.20 Sailor Moon Crystal. 9.45 Rage. 10.45 Close. 5.30am Children’s Programs.

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am The Thief Of Bagdad. Continued. (1940, PG) 6.55 The Well-Digger’s Daughter. (2011, PG, French) 8.55 The Importance Of Being Earnest. (1952) 10.45 The City Of Lost Children. (1995, M, French) 12.50pm Walking On Sunshine. (2014, PG) 2.40 The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp. (1943, PG) 5.35 The Young Victoria. (2009, PG) 7.35 Still Alice. (2014, M) 9.30 Twelve Monkeys. (1995, M) 11.55 Late Programs.

7MATE (63) 6am Morning Programs.

10.00 A Football Life. 11.00 America’s Game. Noon Ax Men. 2.00 Fight To Survive. 2.30 Gold Fever.

3.00 Fishing Addiction. 4.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 4.30 Pawn Stars South Africa. 5.00 Pawn Stars UK. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 MOVIE: Inception.

(2010, M) 10.30 MOVIE: Escape From New York.

(1981, M) 12.35am Late Programs.

9GO! (83) 6am Children’s Programs.

11.00 Hollywood Medium. Noon Parenthood. 1.00 Keeping Up With The Kardashians. 2.00 90 Day Fiance. 3.00 Malcolm. 3.30 The Nanny. 4.00 3rd Rock From The Sun. 4.30 That ’70s Show. 5.00 Malcolm. 6.00 The Nanny. 6.30 3rd Rock From The Sun. 7.00 That ’70s Show. 7.30 Young Sheldon.

8.30 MOVIE: Kill Bill: Vol. 1. (2003, MA15+) 10.40 Late Programs.

PEACH (52) 6am The Middle. 7.00 Frasier. 8.00 Rules Of Engagement. 9.00 Becker.

10.00 The Big Bang Theory. 11.00 Frasier. Noon This Is Us. 1.00 2 Broke Girls. 2.00 Mom. 3.00 Rules Of Engagement. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier.

6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 Seinfeld. 11.00 The Neighborhood. Midnight Shopping. 1.30 This Is Us. 2.30 Late Programs.

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“WE COULDN’T BELIEVE IT” – RECORD BULL PRICE PAID AT 2021 ALL BREEDS SALE

By Margaret Dekker

NICK and Blair Franklin of Franklin Angus waited literally until the end, to the very last lot of the sale when their rising two-year-old bull was auctioned at the Casino All Breeds Sale.

If prices were strong all day, they just got stronger as Franklin Double Vision Q13 fetched a record $20,000 for the Orara Valley stud, the highest price ever paid at the premier Sale event held annually at the Northern Rivers Livestock Exchange.

“We thought ‘there is no way we’re going to get that’, but we did, we’re so stoked,” Nick Franklin told The Northern Rivers Times.

The bull went to Tristan and Emma Walmsley of “Naru” Glen Innes who fought tight competition for the genetics.

“We produce bulls that have a moderate birth, high early growth, are naturally thick, easy doing, high fertility, docile and structurally correct, all packed in a moderate frame that converts grass into kilos.

These Q bulls are a testament to our programme, they were conceived by AI and born in the drought, followed by bushfires then flood after flood,” Nick Franklin said ahead of the record price.

Franklin Angus sold 3/3 bulls at the sale, averaging $17,300. Nick says the price is vindication and nice reward, that their breeding program is on track.

“It’s the best line of bulls we’ve produced so far. The sale result is huge for us as it’s getting people talking about Franklin Angus and

Blair and Nick Franklin after the sale with the star 2-year-old bull what sets us apart. The exposure is everything for us,” Nick Franklin said.

“With the use of AI and embryo transfer we have seen a huge genetic gain in our herd and we have an exciting new line of yearling bulls coming up, “We are very fortunate to have agents T&W McCormack in Casino and Ray Donovan in Grafton that do a great job promoting our cattle,” Nick added.

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Angus offering bulls, Nick says it’s a good time to be in cattle coming off the back of the drought, prices buoyant and demand for young bulls high, “There were more people at the sale this year than last year, it’s a lot to do with record cattle prices across all sectors, producers needing to restock their breeders and the season we are having,” Nick Franklin said.

Nick estimates up to 400 people attended last Saturday’s sale, with some buyers travelling from as far afield as Delungra, some four hours west of Casino.

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Topping the sale, Lot 143, Franklin Double Vision Q13 from Franklin Angus

conjunction with Stocklive which meant bidding was available nationwide.

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Grafton Cattle Market Report FROM TUESDAY 3 AUGUST THERE were 212 head yarded at Grafton Fat Cattle Sale 3rd August 2021.

Numbers were back by around 100 head at this weeks Fat Cattle Sale, in a mixed quality yarding.

Some of the usual buyers were absent due to the low numbers which affected some categories, however, cows sold slightly dearer and good quality stock sold very well.

The quality of a fair portion of light weaners was low, reflecting a cheaper market.

Sale Highlights include: A/c Leo Carlton sold an Angus Steer 340c/kg weighed 580kg - $1,972.00.

A/c GD & KM Douglas sold an Angus Steer 464.2c/kg weighed 415kg - $1.926.43.

A/c G Skinner sold a Shorthorn Heifer 350c/kg weighed 540kg $1,890.00.

A/c GD & KM Douglas sold an Angus Heifer 424.2c/kg weighed 405kg - $1,718.01.

A/c S Nelson & JE Graham sold a Charbray Cow 347.2c/kg weighed 650kg - $2,256.80.

A/c Nattai Investments sold Brahman Cross Cows 345.2c/kg averaged 525kg - $1,812.30 p/hd.

A/c Ken McKenzie sold Angus Cows 344.2c/kg averaged 655kg - $2,254.51

p/hd.

A/c W & G Chevalley sold Brahman Cross Cows 334.2c/kg averaged 507.5kg - $1,696.07 p/hd.

A/c A & M Adamson sold Brangus Cows 372.2c/kg averaged 382.5kg $1,423.67 p/hd.

A/c V Emerton sold Charolais Cross Steers 556.2c/kg averaged 281.3kg $1,564.31 p/hd.

A/c Ella Graham sold Angus Vealer

Steers 486.2 c/kg averaged 345kg $1,677.39 p/hd.

A/c AJ, PJ & RJ Matthews sold Angus Vealer Heifers 524.2c/kg averaged 267.5kg - $1,402.24 p/hd.

A/c JS & ML Gorrie sold Charolais Cross Vealer Heifers 530.2c/kg averaged 252.5kg - $1,338.76 p/hd.

A/c Brad McLennan sold Brangus Vealer Heifers 550.2c/kg averaged 240kg - $1,320.48 p/hd.

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Lismore Cattle Market Report Casino Cattle Market REPORT FROM WED 4 & FRI 13 AUGUST AGENTS yarded a total of 1,287 head at the Northern Rivers Livestock Exchange regular prime sale on Wednesday 4 August.

The yarding consisted mostly of young cattle along with a good number of cows. Quality was varied with a mix of well-bred and mixed bred cattle sold on the day.

Restockers purchased the largest percentage of young cattle with the majority headed for Southern and Western NSW and Queensland. The market held firm to slightly dearer across most categories.

Cow prices saw a drop this week averaging 314.3c/kg and reaching a top price of 364.2c/kg. 3 head sold for a top return of $2,205.63.

Heifer prices were dearer again this week topping their category at 782.2c/kg and averaging 508.9c/kg and 248kg. 1 head sold achieved a return of

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Bull prices were back this week with 77 head sold reaching a top of 398.2c/kg and average of 306.0c/kg and 557kg. Steer and bullock prices held firm with 362 head sold.

Steers sold to a top of 796.2c/kg and averaged 580.6c/kg and 232kg with 3 head selling for a return of $2,201.76.

Bullocks averaged 361.8c/kg and 655kg with 4 head selling for a top return of $2,856.85.

Vealer prices were stronger this week with 282 head yarded. Prices reached 810.0c/kg and averaged 586.8c/kg and 210kg. 1 head sold achieved a top return of $1,896.00.

This Friday 13 August will see T&W McCormack and Ramsey & Bulmer hold their joint monthly store sale starting at 10am. Covid restrictions will apply, please contact the NRLX for more information.

FROM SATURDAY 7 AUGUST JUST under 700 cattle were sold at the Lismore Saleyards on Saturday 7/8/21.

It was another fantastic sale with prices higher across the board.

Heavy feeder steers sold from $4.60 to $5.12c/kg, depending on age, to return $2036 to $2407.

Good quality grower steers/ light feeders topped at $5.42c/kg, $1904 for Gino and Cheryl Cittolins Santa X. Heavy weaner/yearling steers $4.90 to $6.08c/kg, Col and Sue Martin’s Charolais yearling returned $2,059.

With plenty of the weaner steers selling in the $6.00 to $7.00c/kg

range returns were high most in the $1400 to $1700 range.

Light weaners hit $8.00c/kg for a line of Angus steers, $1,000 with most British and Euro bred calves $7.00 to $7.80c/kg.

Weaner heifers were also popular selling at dearer rates.

Charolais X heifers, 8 months sold on behalf Gary and Megan Savins, $5.80c/kg- $1653.

Lighter heifers sold from $5.80 to $7.70c/kg.

Cows and calves were mainly of secondary quality but competition was keen, most from $2,300 to $2,700 with top of $2,925.

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Concerning feral deer sighting in Byron Shire IN a big blow for the environment, a feral deer was last week spotted in the north of the Byron Shire.

The deer, a young male Rusa deer, was photographed by a property owner.

Byron Shire Council’s biodiversity and agriculture officer Peter Boyd described the sighting as very concerning.

“Feral deer are a real problem in many parts of Australia, and we have been fortunate that they have not become established in the Northern Rivers, and in particular, we are not aware that any have been sighted at all in the Byron Shire until now,” Mr Boyd said.

“Unfortunately, deer are being seen more regularly in neighbouring shires and we now really need to work hard to make sure they do not get established because they are one of Australia’s worst pest animals.

“Deer might not look like an animal that is feral, but they breed quickly and as their populations grow, they cause a lot of damage to the environment.

“They also have a significant human impact because they can reduce the ability of farmers to earn a living, spread disease to livestock and other animals and are a hazard to drivers, straying onto roads and causing accidents.”

Council is working with Tweed, Kyogle and Lismore councils on a Feral Deer Alert campaign.

The campaign aims to alert people in the Byron Shire and the Northern Rivers region to the feral deer problem and provides information on identification, management and reporting.

“We are really at a critical point in that now is the time we need to work together to keep an eye out for feral deer, and if seen, report them,” Mr Boyd said.

People should report sightings of feral deer at the FeralScan website or call Local Land Services on 1300 795 299.

“Landowners should also know that under the NSW Biosecurity Act, they are responsible for the control of feral animals such as foxes, wild dogs and now deer on their land,” Mr Boyd said.

Feral deer facts (NSW Department of Primary Industry) • In 2020 the distribution of feral deer in NSW was 180,443km2 or 22 per cent of NSW • Fallow deer (the most widespread deer species) increased its distribution in NSW by 60 per cent from 2016 to 2020.

For more information on deer, what to do and who to tell, go to the Feral Deer Alert website.

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NEFA launches court action over north-east Regional Forest Agreement rollover IN what could be a landmark case for north-east NSW forests, the Environmental Defenders Office solicitors acting for the North East Forest Alliance have today served papers on the Commonwealth and NSW Governments challenging the re-issued Regional Forest Agreement for north-east NSW. “NEFA will argue that when the Prime Minister executed the varied RFA, he did not have regard to assessments of key environmental matters as required by law,” said NEFA President Dailan Pugh.

“We say there was no assessment of the impact of climate change on the

forests. This despite the Commonwealth having access to and publishing its own materials about the current science – science that warns about the effects climate change has already had on the Australian natural environment and what climate change might mean for our forest ecosystems in the future,” said NEFA spokesperson Susie Russell.

“Extreme weather events can have catastrophic impacts on forests. We saw this the in the drought that preceded the 2019/20 bushfires, the bushfires themselves, and the floods that have followed.

Untold number of animals, including some that the

Commonwealth Government has listed as threatened with extinction have died.

“Similarly, we say the Commonwealth undertook no assessment of endangered species or oldgrowth forests before it rubber stamped ongoing intensive logging for another 20+ years.

“We contend this is a breach of federal law. We say these are matters that should have been assessed and that failure to do so means the Regional Forest Agreement for north-east NSW does not exempt forestry operations in north east NSW from Commonwealth assessment and approval.

“We are asking the Federal

Court to make a declaration to that effect for north-east NSW,” Ms Russell said.

“In late 2018 the Prime Minister and the NSW Premier rolled over the RFA for north-east NSW for a further 20 years, with provision for the agreement to automatically extend every 5 years, so that it could go on indefinitely,” Mr Pugh said.

“The Commonwealth and NSW rely on the RFA to exempt forestry operations in north east NSW from the usual Commonwealth environmental assessment and approval requirements.

“We say that where logging is occurring that is likely to significantly affect a matter

of national environmental significance – like a listed threatened species – it will need to be referred to the Federal Minister for the Environment and be assessed under the provisions of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act,” he said.

“Both governments have effectively rubber-stamped ongoing destruction of our forest ecosystems.

It is appalling that in the face of the twin global crises of rapidly changing climatic conditions and biodiversity decline, that all they could do is agree to more of the same without considering the science,” Ms Russell said.

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY GOALS WELCOMED AUSTRALIA’S Beef Sustainability Framework (ABSF) has welcomed the goals recently announced by the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (GRSB).

The GRSB, a worldwide network of organisations powering progress in sustainable beef, announced a commitment to reduce net global warming impact of beef by 30% by 2030 through global sustainability goals.

Chair of the Sustainability Steering Group that drives the ABSF, Tess Herbert, said the Australian red meat industry had its sights firmly set on ambitious targets of their own.

“The Australian red meat industry has set a goal to be carbon neutral by 2030,

which sends a clear message to global customers and consumers that we’re serious about being part of the climate solution, without compromising on animal numbers or land productivity.

Emissions from red meat production are now less than half what they were in 2005,” Ms Herbert said.

“The beef industry is also working towards 100% use of pain relief by 2030 for routine

and invasive procedures.

“It’s important to understand where the global beef industry is headed – we want to ensure we maintain ongoing consumer support but also build market access opportunities through demonstrating our long-term viability.”

Ms Herbert said the ABSF was constantly reviewing its indicators and data sources to ensure the industry

meets global stakeholder expectations, and is key to ensuring Australia lives up to its reputation as world leaders in animal welfare, environment, and food safety.

“The Australian beef industry is constantly identifying opportunities to improve and showcase its sustainability credentials through tracking performance against industry priorities to ensure Australian beef

remains in high demand in international markets.”

The ABSF was developed by the Australian beef industry, and is well placed to answer any expectations or goals from customers, consumers, investors, and other external stakeholders.

For more information visit the Australian Beef Sustainability website at www. sustainableaustralianbeef.com. au

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MYSTERY SURROUNDS PROFIT FLOW FOR FRESH FRUIT AND VEG AUSTRALIAN shoppers may have noticed a steep price hike on some of their favourite fresh fruit and vegetables over recent months, but profits from higher retail prices are not reaching farmers.

The cost of vegetables inflated by 5.5 percent in the June quarter, while the consumer price index on fruit lifted by 4.7 percent.

Chair of the NSW Farmers Horticulture Committee Guy Gaeta said the noticeable price hikes at retail are creating mystery around where the profits are going, because it’s not to farmers.

“Farmers are not reporting changes to their payment from wholesalers, driving speculation that the more powerful elements of the supply chain, including major retailers and wholesalers, are pocketing the profit.”

“Lebanese cucumbers, for example, are selling for up to $11.90* per kilogram in the supermarkets while growers are currently receiving around $5 per kilogram, equating to a 140 per cent mark up on the

farmgate price. Red Delicious apples are selling for $3.90* per kilogram, while they are going for $0.83 per kilogram at the farm gate.”

“Supply chain power inequities are a known challenge for many fresh food farmers, who are price takers due to the perishability of their product.”

“A number of state and federal inquiries have confirmed that farmers in fresh food supply chains such as horticulture, dairy and poultry meat bear the brunt of distorted power dynamics that favour the bigger players.”

“We know a lot of people are doing it tough right now, and our heart goes

out to the restaurants and small businesses who are suffering. But the major retailers and wholesalers aren’t struggling right now, and it’s irksome to think they might be capitalising from rising demand for food with the closure of other providers such as fresh food markets.”

Mr Gaeta said the price

hikes are likely attributable to a number of factors, including labour shortages.

“There’s a number of complexities behind the inflation of essential goods and we don’t want to speculate too much on these, however what we do know is that farmers are not seeing a fair distribution of profit for their produce,” Mr Gaeta said.

“We need to see the Horticulture Code strengthened to increase market price transparency.”

“Growers are at the coalface of a number of challenges at the moment, including the significant shortages in labour supply caused by ongoing border restrictions amid COVID-19.”

“Many growers are in a position where they need to recoup their losses, and it’s heartbreaking for them to see someone else pocket the increased profit for their produce,” Mr Gaeta concluded. * Retail prices are based on 3 August prices at Coles online.

Improved weather data switched on

1000 farmers benefit from Rural Aid’s mouse plague fund AUSTRALIA’S leading rural charity, Rural Aid, has closed applications for its $1 million mouse plague fund, with 1000 farmers set to benefit from the support.

Rural Aid opened the fund in June for farmers from many parts of the country whose livelihoods and incomes had been affected by the devastating mouse plague.

Each eligible farmer is being issued a $1000 pre-paid Visa card, which can be spent on whatever will help them recover from the mouse plague.

Mice numbers peaked in late autumn and early winter across most of eastern Australia.

Bingara farmer Robert Groth said he was very grateful to receive support from Rural Aid. “Every little bit helps, my word it does,” Mr Groth said.

Mr Groth said he’d “never seen anything like it” during the peak of the plague.

“We got 54 mice in a trap on the veranda in one night. The worst thing is the smell of them,” Mr Groth said.

The mice numbers have largely steadied for now, which Rural Aid CEO John Warlters hopes will continue into spring.

“Rural Aid is proud to have been able to help farmers recover from yet another debilitating natural disaster,” Mr Warlters said.

“Applications for the $1 million fund are now closed. But Rural Aid will keep a close eye on mouse numbers into spring.”

Rural Aid is welcoming any farmers in need of assistance to get in touch. Rural Aid can be contacted on 1300 327 624, or by emailing contact@ruralaid.org.au

SWITCHING on the Hillston Doppler Radar will provide farmers across NSW with improved weather data to aid their business and farm management decisions.

Deputy Premier John Barilaro and Minister for Agriculture and Western NSW Adam Marshall have announced the second of three promised Doppler radars is now live. The third is under construction at Yeoval.

“These Doppler radar projects are an important joint commitment from the NSW Government and the Bureau of Meteorology. They are fixing significant black spots in the delivery of critical weather data to farmers and rural communities in western NSW,” NSW Farmers president James Jackson said.

“These new radars will provide critical data that will aid farmers in their short and long term planning and preparation for extreme weather events.”

“Farmers across western NSW will now be able to access more timely information on rain, wind, and temperature and this additional data will also benefit primary producers closer to the eastern seaboard. The data from these radars will also feed into modelling for seasonal forecasting.”

The first of the three Doppler radars went live in Brewarrina Radar in October last year.

“NSW Farmers looks forward to the last link in the chain - the completion of the Doppler radar at Yeoval - the more eyes to the skies the better.”

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THE SWEET BUSINESS OF MUSHROOM GROW BAGS IN a partnership between Sunshine Sugar and biotechnology company Sustinent, Mushroom Grow Bags using sugarcane biomass are currently being developed as a commercial product on-site at the Harwood sugar mill.

CEO of Sunshine Sugar, Mr Chris Connors said, “With gourmet mushrooms in demand across the world for their flavour, versatility and

health benefits, we see this project as a great fit for our diversification program. By teaming up with the experts at Sustinent, we will be producing a world-class product by the end of the year.”

The leafy material that is left after the sugarcane is harvested is rich in carbon and energy, making it an excellent, low-cost growth medium for mushrooms. Much of this residual biomass in NSW is

currently used for energy generation but it is also a rich source of material for the production of fuels, chemicals and other value-added products, including animal feed and bio-degradable packaging.

This is the first phase of a project aimed at utilising the cane trash in producing a diversified product range incluidng nutritionally enhanced feedstock and packaging..

“Our team of scientific, industry and manufacturing experts have successfully cultivated edible gourmet mushrooms such as Oyster and Shiitake already, as well as medicinal mushrooms like Resihi and Turkey Tail”; says Sustinent Founder and CEO, Mr Peter Tomich.

The richness of the sugarcane biomass allows for multiple flushes of mushrooms to be harvested

before the substrate is then recycled as livestock feed or a rich compost, thus creating a sustainable, circular economy.

Developing products of both environmental and economic value is a fundamental goal shared by both the NSW sugar industry and Sustinent.

Ready-to-fruit gourmet Oyster Mushroom Grow Bags are expected to start flying off the production line towards the end of 2021.

Sensors, blood profiling hone in on battle against calf loss BLOOD hormonal profiling is being investigated as a technique to predict maternal behaviour in cows, with the view to arming producers with strategies for mitigating calf loss.

Paving the way for such research has been developments in automated sensing devices, which allow social behaviour in cattle to be accurately and objectively measured.

Researcher Rory Nevard said calf mortality was a key issue for the northern Australian beef industry, resulting in significant reductions in productivity, economic profitability and poor animal welfare outcomes.

Calf loss during the first two weeks of life alone has been estimated to cost the northern cattle industry more than $54 million annually.

Research is being undertaken at the Charles Sturt University farm in Wagga Wagga looking at whether a relationship exists between cows with high blood prolaction and good cow-calf interaction.

Prolactin is a protein hormone secreted from the brain and is important to both lactation and maternal behaviour.

Dr Nevard, from the university’s School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, gave an overview of the research at the 2021 Graham Centre Livestock Forum, held virtually last month.

He said calf wastage was typically hard to objectively quantify because in northern settings, cows were only brought in once or twice a year.

“We don’t have a lot of information about what is going on to cause losses between pregnancy testing and subsequent weaning,” he said.

“However, in similar situations in the United States, where a lot more research has been done, they found the first few days of life is where the greatest losses occur and maternal behaviour has been shown to be a critical determinant.”

Those large-scale US studies found 57.4 per cent of calf loss occurred within 24 hours of calving, with almost 75pc of total deaths occurring within one week of calving.

Dr Nevard explained maternal behaviour was genetically controlled, so there was the potential to identify cattle with superior maternal behaviour to reduce calf

wastage.

What makes a good mother was a very broad question, he said.

It depends on the breed, the climate and environment the cows are in and production systems.

A Bos indicus cow and calf will have completely different requirements for being a good mother than Bos Taurus dairy cows.

A key challenge associated with behavioural traits is the difficulty in measuring and quantifying them.

“Recording maternal behaviour on a large scale, particularly in extensive

In this research project, proximity logger collars are recording interactions between cow and calf.

When cows have calved, the collar is fitted around the neck of the cow and the calf. Blood collection for serum prolactin assay will take place on the day of calving, and then every fourth day until two weeks postpartum.

Cows and calves will wear the collars for two weeks post calving.

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A MAJOR SURVEY EXHIBITION BY AUSTRALIAN CHINESE ARTIST LINDY LEE LOSE yourself in the work of influential Australian-Chinese artist, Lindy Lee, at Lismore Regional Gallery.

Slow down and take in shimmering, meditative and thought-provoking works in her major survey exhibition which draws on her experience of living between two cultures.

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SMOKY BACON AND MISO CHICKEN CHICKEN THIGHS ARE STUFFED WITH GARLIC AND SPRING ONION PASTE, WRAPPED IN BACON AND BRUSHED WITH MISO AND MAPLE SYRUP SO THEY CARAMELISE WONDERFULLY IN THE OVEN.

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HEALTH

STUDIES SHOW IGNORING ORAL HEALTH CAN HAVE

SERIOUS IMPACTS ON THE REST OF THE BODY Previously unknown health risks for Australians – that gum disease suffered by one in three Australian adults1 could increase the risk of serious cardiovascular events, Type 2 diabetes and adverse pregnancy outcomes – are now coming to light following decades of dental and medical studies.

The Australian Dental Association (ADA) wants to alert Australians to the very close links between what goes on in their mouths and the far-reaching effects on the rest of the body.

The latest research across a range of studies2 has shown that people with advanced gum disease (periodontitis) have a much higher risk of a heart attack than people without it.

In another study3 conducted recently by Prof Joerg Eberhard, an oral health scientist and Chair of Lifespan Oral Health at the University of Sydney’s School of Dentistry, it was found that not brushing your teeth caused systemic inflammation which could prompt serious cardiac events.

“We asked a cohort of healthy young people with no cardiovascular risk factors, to not brush the same quadrant

of their mouths, that’s seven teeth, for three weeks, to see what effect it would have on their health,” explained Prof.

Eberhard.

“After three weeks we measured the inflammation in that quadrant of the mouth and we found the inflammation caused by not brushing there, had reached other parts of their body.

“But as soon as they started brushing that quadrant again, C-reactive protein, a risk marker for heart attacks, went down to normal levels. It’s another clear and concerning link between mouth health and whole of body health.”

Extensive research over decades has found that the main conditions that link the mouth with the rest of the body are cardiovascular, Type 2 diabetes and adverse pregnancy outcomes4.

Studies are also being

conducted into the effects of periodontitis on pregnant women. Some early data suggests that if the gum disease is treated, the risk of having a premature baby declines.

The ADA’s Oral Health Promoter and dentist Dr Mikaela Chinotti said:“These serious health conditions and events can be significantly reduced if people regularly look after their mouths.

“That means brushing twice a day with a small amount of fluoridated toothpaste, flossing daily, eating a diet low in sugar and seeing your dentist regularly for checkups.

These typically include a scale and clean which is vital for removing the bacteria that build up and start the process of periodontitis and inflammation.”

Another recent international study5 by a group of

cardiologists and dentists showed that treatment for gum disease reduced blood pressure (BP) normally only achieved through medications, because high BP can come about due to a loss of elasticity in blood vessels and this loss can be caused by inflammation from gum disease.

Lifestyle also plays a big role in oral health: in a three year study6 of people from Queensland with poor oral health including gum disease, Prof. Eberhard and colleagues found that by adopting better teeth brushing techniques, going regularly to the dentist and adopting a healthier diet all led to reduced systemic markers which are predicters for a heart attack.

The ADA’s Dr Chinotti explained that periodontitis signs can be difficult to spot and may include bleeding from the gums and very little or no pain, and without treatment, the condition can worsen over time until affected teeth may finally become loose.

Risk factors include older age, smoking, drinking alcohol above recommended levels, the presence of diabetes and poor oral health practices.

“While periodontitis damage can’t be reversed,

you can stop its progression by seeing a dental practitioner for treatment, including professional cleaning of the teeth above and below the gums which the patient cannot access, which halts the disease and reduces inflammation.”

More advanced cases may need surgical treatment performed by a specialist periodontist under a local anaesthetic to access difficult to reach areas under the gums.

“Regular dental visits are the best way to keep on top of your oral health and detect and manage conditions such as periodontitis, in their earliest stages of development.

“This is in addition to those other oral health basics that add up to only about six minutes a day but which protect the health of your whole body and not just your mouth.

“For too long mouth health has been separated from body health. It’s time to put the mouth back in the body.

“The ADA hopes that by making this mouth and wholeof-body relationship more widely known to Australians, they’ll understand oral health is an integral part of general health.”

POTENTIAL IMPACT OF “LONG COVID” MUST BE FRONT OF MIND FOR ALL PATIENTS The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) is urging patients to consider the impact of contracting COVID-19 on their long-term health when making an informed decision on getting vaccinated.

“Long COVID” is a broad term referring to a range of symptoms that can last for weeks or months after the initial illness. At this stage the ongoing effects remain unknown, and prolonged illness could potentially last for years.

The symptoms can be very serious and include fatigue, breathlessness, anxiety and depression, chest pain, “brain fog” and changes to taste and smell.

Details of how many people are affected by long COVID and the impact some symptoms may have in the years or even decades ahead are still emerging.

One study by Imperial College in London of half a million adults who contracted COVID-19 found over a third still had at least one symptom 12 weeks later.

There is emerging evidence that some people who have recovered from COVID-19 are more likely to score poorly on intelligence tests and although it is more common in older people, young people – including children – can suffer from long COVID. RACGP President Dr Karen Price said that the long-term

health consequences of contracting COVID-19 needed to feature prominently in patient decision-making.

“When making an informed decision on getting vaccinated, patients must have long COVID front of mind,” she said.

“Throughout the vaccine rollout, there has been disproportionate focus on the extremely rare risk of blood clots resulting from the AstraZeneca vaccine. There has also, of course, understandably been a lot of attention paid to tragic deaths from COVID-19.

This is not just a disease that effects older people, one recent death in Sydney was a student in her 30s.

“However, many patients are unaware of how serious long COVID is. Just because you have survived COVID-19 that does not mean you are out of the woods, serious symptoms may persist for months, or even indefinitely.

“Long COVID symptoms, including serious neurological, cardiac and psychiatric issues, can severely compromise your quality of life and we do not have a full picture of what it will mean for patients in the years ahead.

“Younger people may feel they face less risk from COVID-19, but we know young people, including children, can suffer from long COVID. So please consider what long

COVID could mean for your quality of life, your job, your relationships with loved ones and your long-term health and wellbeing.

“The decision-making matrix must change and my message to all patients is straightforward this needs to be taken seriously.

There are reports of ‘long haulers’, including young and otherwise healthy people, requiring long-term medical care, struggling psychologically, unable to work or even walk up a flight of stairs without pausing multiple times to catch their breath.”

Dr Price said raising public awareness of the risks of long COVID could help boost the pace of the vaccine rollout.

“We need to shift the conversation and change the way patients are assessing their health risks,” she said.

“This includes patients weighing up whether to be vaccinated at all and patients opting to delay receiving an AstraZeneca vaccination in the expectation they will receive a Pfizer vaccination later in the year. There are considerable risks with the wait-and-see approach that are only amplified when you factor in long COVID. “Many patients have read media reports about thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome, or TTS, and opted against receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine.

“That is an unfortunate but unsurprising reaction given the media coverage people are being exposed to every day concerning blood clots.

However, current data tells us that TTS only occurs in around two out of every 100,000 people who receive the first dose of the vaccine. It is far rarer following second doses and even if you do contract TTS the fatality rate is three per cent.

“Now consider what can happen if you remain unvaccinated. There are some estimates that almost 9% of people in their 70s die if they contract COVID-19 and if you are a younger person you may well survive but suffer from long COVID symptoms.

Remember too, we don’t know the full scope of what this means for long-term patient health.

“So please, don’t just fixate on the extremely rare risk of the blood clotting syndrome, consider what will happen if you remain unvaccinated, contract the virus and then suffer health consequences for months or even years to come.”

Retired schoolteacher Audrey Cooke, who was a highly active person with no underlying health issues when she contracted COVID-19 and then suffered long COVID effects, said that greater public awareness was vital.

“I recovered from the initial COVID-19 symptoms in about

two to three weeks, but that was only the beginning,” she said.

“I experienced symptoms including fatigue, loss of smell, shortness of breath and chest tightness for 10 months, as well as double vision.

“We need to boost awareness of long COVID. This is a major problem for some people who have contracted COVID-19 and should not be taken lightly.”

The RACGP President said that time was of the essence.

“We are now in the winter months and this is the time of year when we know that this virus has a greater chance of taking hold of communities,” she said.

“The highly transmissible Delta variant is so much harder to control and what is currently happening in Sydney could happen elsewhere without warning. If you think you are immune because you live in a community that hasn’t had COVID-19 cases, you are playing a dangerous game – especially if you are aged over 60.

“So please, when making your decision on getting vaccinated don’t just focus on blood clots.

Consider what could happen if you contract COVID-19, because even once you recover from the initial illness that might not be the end of your COVID-19 story – it could be just the beginning.”

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By DEREK OGDEN The Sonata? Forget any reference to a run-of-themill classical instrumental composition, think more in terms of the Surprise Symphony for the new eponymous Hyundai.

The eighth generation of the mid-size sedan, which first saw the light of day here in 1989, and now with a single designation N Line, is a genuine sports sedan not to be sniffed at.

The range has been pared back from Active and Premium variants to a single model – the Sonata N Line – in a less-is-more move. The new Sonata, with performance-plus and looks to match, is a surprise package.

The only sticking point to universal acceptance of the Hyundai could be the more-than-$50,000 price tag.

However, a closer look shows off the four-door classic coupe style with luxury, tech and turbo power of more expensive European rivals.

The new model debuts the all-new Smartstream 2.5-litre turbo-petrol GDi engine mated with a new wet-friction eightspeed dual-clutch automatic transmission, incorporating a shift-by-wire push-button gear selector and steering wheelmounted paddle shifts.

The Sonata N Line is on sale for $50,990, plus on-road costs, and comes with a five-year unlimited kilometre warranty, complimentary roadside assistance for 12 months and free 1500 km first service.

STYLING The front is straight out of the Hyundai playbook with its hallmark cascading radiator grille, with black inserts flanked by the lighting set-up.

However, it is this lighting architecture that sets the Sonata apart.

Daylight running lights start under LED headlamps, wrapping around the lenses up to the bonnet edges, segueing into metal strips on the way back to the windscreen. This theme is repeated at the rear, with a red-light strip going the width of the vehicle, looping up on both sides to end in a boot-lid spoiler.

As well as the stand-out lighting the N Line Sports body kit includes a set of 19-inch Continental tyres that fit well with the sleek profile.

INTERIOR Sonata’s swish suede and Nappa leather trimmed cabin includes heated and ventilated,

Launch control pays homage to the racetrack, optimising acceleration from a standstill.

With the accelerator fully planted, the system maintains an engine speed that exerts maximum torque, hence performance to match.

The head-up windscreen display is one of the better ones. It shows vehicle speed, navigation instructions, speed limits and traffic sign info, plus active safety alerts and driving system status.

Users choose what is on display and are able to change the position and brightness to suit varying cabin lighting.

power adjustable front seats, heated outboard rear seats, dual zone climate control air conditioning and panoramic glass sunroof.

A simple centre console is the base for Sonata’s rotary shift-by-wire gear selector and system controls saving space and coming easily to hand.

INFOTAINMENT Also on view for the first time is a 12.3-inch LCD high resolution colour instrument cluster, complemented by a 10.5-inch touchscreen multimedia unit with satellite navigation.

A 360-degree surround view

performance, mated with an eight-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission, the powertrain is sparing with fuel

The Sonata N Line sets a high standard for the four-door coupe-style sports sedan and puts out lower emissions.

SAFETY A suite of SmartSense technology heads up advanced safety, with forward collision

has taken a new approach to chassis and tuning development, with Australian engineers involved early in the piece, before signing off with a grueling test on city, highway, country and gravel roads. The result is a versatile tourer with a touch of spice.

The new engine is in tune with the eight-speed auto transmission, the latter matching revs on downshifts depending on driving style.

This works especially effectively in driver selected sports modes.

Fuel consumption is claimed to be 8.1 litres per 100 kilometres in the combined

SUMMARY Having driven Sonatas since their first appearance Down Under, the latest version is a pleasant surprise in looks, performance and value. It deserves to do well in the war with its more expensive opposition.

AT A GLANCE MODEL LINE-UP Hyundai Sonata N Line: $50,990 Metallic / Mica paint: $595 Note: These prices do not include government or dealer delivery charges. Contact your local Hyundai dealer for drive-away prices.

SPECIFICATIONS (Hyundai Sonata N Line 2.5L Turbo 4-cylinder petrol, 8sp automatic, FWD) ENGINE: Capacity: 2.497 litres Configuration: Four cylinders in line Maximum Power: 213 kW @ 5800 rpm Maximum Torque: 422 Nm @ 1650-4000 rpm Fuel Type: Petrol 91 RON Combined Fuel Cycle (ADR 81/02): 8.1 L/100km CO2 emissions 188 g / km

monitor, wireless smartphone charging and 12-speaker Bose Premium audio, the latter featuring surround technology that splits music into multiple channels, producing full sound immersion.

ENGINES / TRANSMISSIONS The new Sonata is the first Hyundai to make use of the latest Smartstream 2.5-litre turbo-petrol four-cylinder engine with high efficiency combustion and integrated thermal management. It has 213 kW at 5800 rpm and 422 Nm between 1650 and 4000 revs.

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avoidance / junction turning assist, driver attention alert and blind spot warning.

Also fitted is lane keeping assist, which consists of two functions – lane departure warning and lane keeping assist. LDW alerts the driver visually and audibly if the vehicle begins to wander out of a lane, while LKA intervenes to assist steering if the LDW is not acted on.

Advanced body construction and six airbags ensure occupants are protected with the latest in passive safety measures.

DRIVING With Sonata, Hyundai

urban / highway cycle. The test car came up with 10,6 litres per 100 kilometres in the city and 5.8 on a motorway run.

The soundtrack is closer to the classical music mode of the Wagnerian Valkyrie, rather than a raw explosive rock vibe. After all, this is a Sonata seeking premium sports saloon acceptance.

A Drive Mode system provides the driver with a choice of normal, sport, sport+ and custom modes, accompanied in the instrument cluster with graphics setting out such things as engine oil temperature, torque and turbo boost pressure.

DRIVELINE: Eight-speed dual clutch automatic, frontwheel drive DIMENSIONS, WEIGHT AND CAPACITIES: Length: 4900 mm Wheelbase: 2840 mm Width: 1860 mm Height: 1445 mm Turning Circle: 11.0 metres Kerb Mass: 1623 kg Fuel Tank Capacity: 60 litres BRAKES: Front: Ventilated disc Rear: Disc STANDARD WARRANTY: Five years / unlimited kilometres

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MOTORING REVIEW

REVISED PORSCHE MACAN ON ITS WAY

By Ewan Kennedy PORSCHE is launching a revised Macan SUV with increased performance, a sharper design and a new operating concept. All three available versions come with significantly more power than their predecessors.

The Macan GTS’s 2.9-litre V6 bi-turbo engine now delivers 324 kW, an increase of 44 kW and accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in 4.3 seconds with the now standard Sport Chrono package. Its top speed is 272 km/h.

The Macan S is now also equipped with a 2.9-litre V6 bi-turbo engine that produces 20 kW more power than before, with 280 kW. Its zero to 100 km/h in 4.6 seconds with the optional Sport Chrono package. Top speed now 259 km/h.

A newly developed, turbo-petrol four-cylinder engine with 195 kW is used in the entry point model in the Macan range. Its figures are zero to 100 km/h in 6.2 seconds with the optional Sport Chrono package, and reaches a top speed of 232 km/h.

All engines are coupled to the seven-speed Porsche PDK dual-clutch transmission and the Porsche Traction Management all-wheel-drive system.

A new, shorter, transmission selector lever is fitted. The Macan adopts the new multifunction and GT Sport steering wheels from the 911.

The chassis has been optimised further and we are told the Macan now responds with even more sensitivity and more directly to the driving situation and road conditions, giving the driver even better feedback via the steering wheel.

Porsche Macan GTS with the sport air suspension,

which lowers the body by 10 millimetres and is now standard.

The optional GTS Sport package further increases the dynamic potential of the car, with 21-inch GT design wheels with performance tyres and Porsche Torque Vectoring Plus.

Porsche Macan has a redesigned front end with an inlay in the exterior colour that emphasises its width, making. On the new GTS, the centre of the nose section as well as other elements are finished in Black. The rear features a striking diffuser in a particularly technical design.

The LED headlights with the Porsche Dynamic Light System and SportDesign exterior mirrors are now standard on all Macan models.

Larger wheels are also fitted as standard: they measure at least 19 inches for the Macan, 20 inches for the Macan S and

21 inches for the Macan GTS. A total of seven new wheel designs have also been added to the range.

Porsche Macan has a redesigned front end with an inlay in the exterior colour to emphasises its width.

A total of 14 colours is available, including the new colours Papaya Metallic and Gentian Blue Metallic. Python Green can be chosen for the Macan GTS - but only with the GTS Sport package.

Porsche Macan has a substantially enhanced interior.

Its new operating concept, which makes use of touch surfaces instead of tactile buttons. The analogue clock at the top of the dashboard is now standard equipment.

A number of leather upholstery and contrasting seam packages in Gentian Blue, Papaya or Crayon are

optionally available to add new colour highlights to the interior.

The Macan continues to offer many online functions and services as standard. These can be controlled via the 10.9inch full HD touch display of the Porsche Communication Management or by means of voice commands.

A GTS Sport package is available only for the top model. It has 18-way sport seats, the Carbon interior package, Race-Tex upholstery with extended leather elements, various items with contrast stitching and GTS lettering in Python Green.

AUSTRALIA MACAN MODELS WILL BE EQUIPPED WITH THE FOLLOWING Macan GTS: Sport Chrono Package including redesigned mode switch, 19-inch collapsible spare

wheel, Metallic paint, BOSE Surround Sound system, Automatic dimming mirrors, Porsche Entry & Drive, Lane Change Assist, ParkAssist (front and rear) with reversing camera and Surround View, Side airbags in rear compartment, Privacy glass, Driver memory package and Apple CarPlay.

Macan S: Metallic paint, Front apron/SportDesign side skirts/Side blades/rear apron all painted in exterior colour#, BOSE Surround Sound system, 18-inch collapsible wheel, Automatic dimming mirrors, 75-litre fuel tank, Porsche Entry & Drive, Lane Change Assist, ParkAssist (front and rear) with reversing camera and Surround View, Side airbags in rear compartment, Privacy glass, 14-way Comfort seats with memory package and Apple CarPlay.

Macan: 19-inch Macan Design wheels with a new design#, interior package in piano finish Black#, 18-inch collapsible wheel, automatic dimming mirrors, 75-litre fuel tank, Porsche Entry & Drive, Lane Change Assist, ParkAssist (front and rear) with reversing camera and Surround View, side airbags in rear compartment, privacy glass, 14-way comfort seats with memory package and Apple CarPlay.

The latest Porsche Macans are available to order now and are expected to arrive in Australia from at a time yet the me advised - other than that it will be in the fourth quarter of 2021.

MODEL RANGE Macan: $84,800 Macan S: $105,800 Macan GTS: $129,800 Note: These prices do not include government or dealer delivery charges. Contact your local Porsche dealer for drive-away prices.

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HOT NEW AUDI RS 3: ADVANCED INFORMATION

By EWAN KENNEDY Audi has given us advanced information on its new Audi RS 3 Sportback and sedan that are expected to arrive in Australia in the first half of 2022.

Its 294 kW five-cylinder engine now delivers 500 Nm of torque and responds even faster than the previous unit.

It will sprint from zero to 100 km/h in just 3.8 seconds. Top speed is limited to 250 km/h, but with the RS Dynamic package and ceramic brakes, they can even reach a top speed of 290 km/h.

A seven-speed dual-clutch transmission has short shifting times and a sportier gear ratio spread.

For the first time, the exhaust system features a fully variable flap control system that supports intermediate positions, thus broadening the sound characteristics even further.

The new Audi RS 3 is the first model that comes standard-equipped with a torque splitter. It replaces the rear axle differential and the previous multiple disc clutch package on the rear axle.

Instead, an electronically controlled multiple disc clutch is used on each of the drive shafts. This ensures that the right amount of torque is optimally distributed along the rear axle.

During more dynamic driving, the torque splitter increases the drive torque to the respective outer rear wheel with the higher wheel load, which significantly reduces the tendency to understeer.

The new technology also makes controlled drifts on closed-off tracks possible. The torque splitter directs all of the power to only one of the rear wheels, with up to 1,750 newton metres per wheel possible.

The RS Performance mode, increased cornering force. outlets. The rocker panels created specifically with black trim have been Audi RS 3 has a larger for the racetrack, It redesigned.

There’s a RSSingleframe honeycomb grille and uses a specific engine specific rear bumper with air intakes. and transmission integrated diffuser and the

configuration and is precisely tailored to the semi-slick tires that are a factory option.

The standard RS sports suspension features newly developed shock absorbers and a valve system both specific to the RS 3. Larger wheel camber results in a more precise steering response and

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The new Audi RS 3 has a wide RS bumper, a revised Singleframe honeycomb grille and large air intakes.

Behind the front wheel arches are additional air

RS exhaust system with two large oval tailpipes.

On the Sportback, the rear axle track has increased by ten millimetres.

Pirelli P Zero ‘Trofeo R’ performance semi-slick tyres are optional.

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In the interior many elements specific to the RS accentuate its sportiness.

The displays appear in the 12.3-inch Audi virtual cockpit plus, which comes standard. It displays the revs in the form of a bar graph and shows power and torque as percentages.

Optionally, the rpm display is available in the new ‘RS Runway’ design. In The Audi virtual cockpit plus includes displays for g-forces, lap times and acceleration from 0-100 km/h, 0-200 km/h, quarter mile, and eighth of a mile.

The 10.1-inch touch display has an ‘RS Monitor,’ which displays the coolant, engine, and transmission oil temperatures as well as tyre pressures.

Also available for the first time is a head-up display that projects relevant information onto the windshield in the driver’s direct line of sight in addition to the shift light indicator.

There’s a carbon-fibre instrument panel and RS sport seats with RS embossing and anthracite contrast stitching. The seat upholstery is optionally available in fine Nappa leather with RS honeycomb stitching and glossy black, red, or, for the first time, green contrast stitching.

Audi RS 3 has a three spoke RS Sport multifunctional leather steering wheel with a flattened bottom. It features built-in, high-quality die-cast zinc shift paddles.

Further information on pricing and specifications will be announced closer to launch.

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Attracting native birds with shrubs and small trees

Alyxia ruscifolia flower and fruit THIS week the focus is on local native shrubs or small trees which attract small native birds. With Spring just beginning to show its early presence this is a time to think about planting in your garden. There is moisture in the ground and the weather should not get too hot for the next month or so. Ideally you need to create a multi-layered habitat of ground covers, small and medium shrubs and trees that provide food and shelter locations all year.

These plant species need to have varied structures and should be planted close enough together to create a protective thicket. Some thorny plants are good and having the plants deeply mulched will encourage insect life for insectivorous birds.

Best results will be with local species that grow easily in this climate. Look for plants with smaller flower which the big birds can’t easy feed from. Hybrid grevilleas, for example, with their large flowers attract the larger aggressive honeyeaters which will chase away the smaller birds. Even in gardens where noisy miners dominate, smaller birds can survive if a dense understorey is provided for them. If you make a note of the flowering and fruiting times of your plants you can aim to have food always available.

Planting some local native grasses in some areas, and allowing them to seed will provide food for the seed eaters. And a bird bath or pond will provide water. Also don’t remove all the spider webs, small prunings etc – they are important nesting material.

Mixing types of plants and putting in several of each category will quickly create small bird habitat. Here are a few good small bird native plants for this area.

Alyxia ruscifolia – chain fruit, is a shrub of high rainfall areas in eastern

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Citrus australasica – finger lime flowers Australia. The natural range of distribution is from Wollongong in New South Wales north to as far as New Guinea. As its name indicates it is a prickly shrub which can grow to three metres. It is hardy and adaptable, but rather slow growing. This plant does best in semi-shaded sites and it gives protection to small birds because of its dense prickly leaves – several small bird species favour it as a nesting plant. The tiny fragrant white flowers of this plant appear in later winter and early spring.

They are a distinctive in shape with the petals curling back on themselves like little windmill.

They are followed by small orange fruit which grow in short chains. Both fruit and flowers can be on the bush at the same time and add to its attractiveness. This is an interesting plant which will bring texture and character to any small garden. It is tolerant of light frosts.

Austromyrtus dulcis – midyim berry. This fineleaved shrub has weeping characteristics and, if not pruned, will sprawl to fill a space of two metres in all directions. It produces small white flowers in spring and has splendid bronze-coppery young growth. If planted two metres apart and pruned after fruiting it can form a very handsome hedge, responding well to pruning after fruiting.

Midyim’s small fruit is speckled light mauve and appears in summer. It is edible and really tasty. It attracts the fruit-eating birds and once established requires only minimal watering. It will grow in full sun or partial shade.

Desmodium acanthacladum – thorny pea is a local,

Blueberry ash in flower rare species plant of the pea family, a spiny shrub to 1.5 metres. It is a sprawling shrub often more than 2m wide. The branches are rather rigid, usually arch over other vegetation. It produces tiny delicate pink-mauve flowers.

It is found near streams in the north-east of New South Wales and has a vulnerable status, occurring only in this area.

It is a wonderful protective plant for small birds and an attractive addition to your native garden. It does best if planted in small groups or lines and allowed to sort of ramble.

Elaeocarpus reticulatus – blueberry ash is a small, fairly open tree which grows to only 2-3 metres. In its natural habitat it is found in moist open areas at the forest edge or near creeks. It will tolerate cold weather. In spring and summer, it produces beautiful white, hanging, bell-shaped flowers with fringed edges, like tiny ballerina skirts. The variety prima donna has pink flowers. The elongated, finely toothed leaves have white

Midjimberry foliage

frosted edges; old leaves turn a bright red before they fall adding a splash of colour to the tree at any time of the year.

The small fruit is bright blue appears April to October and in theory is edible. It certainly attracts fruit eating birds.

Citrus australasica - finger lime. Australian finger lime is a thorny understorey shrub or small tree of lowland rainforest in this area. The cylindrical fruit is edible and has been developed as a commercial crop. It is a slow grower though very hardy.

Over time it can reach six metres but can be pruned

to a more manageable size.

Flowers are white to pale pink.

It can be grown on a wide range of soils in temperate areas, however does best in deep loamy soils. It is able to withstand light frost. Mulch well during spring and water regularly in the hotter months.

Finger limes thrive in dappled light as well as full sun.

The flowers appear in late autumn to summer, with the fruit ripening between May and June. It is a good idea to protect trees from prevailing winds. Finger limes, make good hedges and espalier well against fences and walls.

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BUSINESSES TOOLS AVAILABLE TO ENCOURAGED HELP BUSINESS IN BATTLE TO PROMOTE FOR COVID JABS EMPLOYEE VACCINATION

Business owners wanting to encourage their employees to get the jab now have a handy set of tools to use.

All the hard work and thinking about the best messaging has been done for you, with the release of the Australian Government’s COVID-19 Vaccination Business Kit, part of their Arm Yourself campaign.

Healthy North Coast CEO Julie Sturgess says local business should check out the kits.

‘The free resources offer lots of different ways to share information with employees, from posters for the staff room, to templates for internal staff communications, staff newsletter updates, and pre-written email messages,’ Ms Sturgess said.

‘You can add your organisation or business name to the materials and help educate your staff on the importance of getting their COVID-19 vaccination.’

The Australian Government Department of Health has developed the Arm Yourself campaign to encourage Australians to vaccinate to protect themselves and the wider community from COVID-19.

There are information sheets, digital assets, infographics and prewritten letter templates such as a personal message from the CEO, and email templates that include advising what your business is doing to support staff to get vaccinated.

Australian organisations and businesses can even offer cash or other rewards to people who have been fully vaccinated under the Government’s national COVID-19 vaccination program.

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The Federal Government has just release its COVID-19 Vaccination Kit as part of their Arm Yourself campaign and it wants businesses to check them out.

Healthy North CEO Julie Sturgess said the kits contain a wealth of free information and a handy set of tools to encourage their employees to get the jabs.

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58 YOUR WEEKLY HOROSCOPE Aries Mar 21 - Apr 20

Cancer Jun 24 - Jul 22

This week, financial opportunities are knocking on your door. Capricorn, manifesting money is possible.

The new moon in Leo begins your week on August 13, putting a spotlight on your house of resources. Over the next two weeks, you may be refinancing your house, looking at bill consolidation, or find that you actually enjoy investing. This is an excellent time to explore passive streams of income such as affiliate marketing, book royalties, or selling digital products. This can be a lucrative couple of weeks that just scratches the surface of the potential you could be making.

This week, the spotlight shines on your finances. Cancer, there are opportunities for new streams of revenue to flow in.

The new moon in Leo begins your week on August 13, lighting up your area of money.

You can receive more over the next two weeks by paying attention to the money you have and the spending you’re doing. You can discover new sources of revenue or find ways to work less and make more. Curbing spending could help your accounts grow, as well as looking at what items you can make and sell for profit. This is a good time to face insecurities about managing money and make friends with financial spreadsheets.

Taurus Apr 21 - May 21

Leo Jul 23 - Aug 23

Taurus, you could make a big leap this week as new opportunities in career and romance are possible.

The new moon in Leo begins your week on August 13, lighting up your house of home and family. Over the next two weeks, it’s time to bring joy to the family through activities. This could mean reinstituting game night at home or making a video call to a lonely relative on the other side of the country. While you may have to encourage others to join in, soon everyone is thanking you for bringing joy to their day.

This week, you are the star of the show. Leo, your charisma is off the charts.

The new moon in Leo begins your week on August 13, shining a spotlight on you. This gives a boost to your charisma and attracts interesting people to you. Over the next couple of weeks, you have lots of opportunities to meet new people who could become friends, mentors, business partners, or even a committed love relationship. Don’t waste this energy hiding behind your busy work schedule. Reach out to people you know, and you’ll find they are happy to introduce you to new people.

Gemini May 22 - June 23

Virgo Aug 24 - Sep 22

This week, you could be looking forward and looking back.

Gemini, it’s fortunate you can do more than one thing at a time. The new moon in Leo begins your week on August 13, lighting up your area of siblings and younger relatives. Over the next two weeks, you are likely spending time with a family member you haven’t seen in a while.

You might talk for hours about their activities and your projects. These could be happy times for both of you. On August 105, Mercury in Leo, in your house of transportation, makes an opposition to Jupiter in Aquarius in your house of contracts. You may be scrutinizing transportation from all angles.

Virgo, you’re connected to mystical energy. This week, something extraordinary can happen. The new moon in Leo starts off your week on August 13, illuminating your house of magic and intuition.

Sometimes you live in your head, but at other times like now, you find yourself in the flow of mystical energy and feeling the harmony of the stars. Over the next couple of weeks, it’s a good idea to explore your magical side.

You may have a conversation with a stray cat, commune with a large oak tree, or pick up smooth, water-washed stones by the seashore.

This is a good time to listen to your thoughts and let go of what is negative or not useful.

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IT’S not until people say to me: “how on earth do you do

that?!” That being, the knack of having a pretty good recall

Libra Sep 23 - Oct 23 This week, you stand up for others by lending out your talent and experience. Libra, others seek your help. The new moon in Leo begins your week on August 13, shining a light on your house of friendships and community. Over the next two weeks, you might be volunteering for a community charity, putting up a stand at the farmer’s market, or attending your City Council meetings. This is a great time to join up with Meetup groups and do some networking. Do this and, Libra, people will soon be knocking at your door.

Capricorn Dec 22 - Jan 20 This week, financial opportunities are knocking on your door.

Capricorn, manifesting money is possible. The new moon in Leo begins your week on August 13, putting a spotlight on your house of resources. Over the next two weeks, you may be refinancing your house, looking at bill consolidation, or find that you actually enjoy investing. This is an excellent time to explore passive streams of income such as affiliate marketing, book royalties, or selling digital products. This can be a lucrative couple of weeks that just scratches the surface of the potential you could be making. It’s likely you’ve already done the research and know the direction you want to go. Capricorn, now it’s time to begin.

Aquarius Jan 21 - Feb 18

Scorpio Oct 24 - Nov 20 This week, there are good prospects for your career.

Scorpio, your name could move to the top of the list.

The new moon in Leo begins your week on August 13, highlighting your house of career and reputation. If you’re looking for work, this is an excellent day to post your resume. Add a cover letter, and you could really dazzle the hiring manager.

And while you are job hunting over the next couple of weeks, it’s a good idea to make sure you’re on your best behavior on your social media accounts. Employers are looking!

This week, the stars are aligning in favor of romance.

Aquarius, you are the object of admiration.

The new moon in Leo begins your week on August 13, highlighting your house of relationships and partnerships.

If you’re looking for love, you have a wonderful two-week period where you are more easily seen, and you see things more clearly. Now you can correctly judge the potential for a connection. If you’re already in a love relationship, you may be seeing more things eye to eye. Aquarius, now you are becoming true partners.

Sagittarius Nov 22 - Dec 21 Sagittarius, you’re smart and getting smarter. This week, your education is under the microscope. The new moon in Leo begins your week on August 13, highlighting your house of knowledge and education. It’s possible you’re getting ready to go back to school or preparing the kids for their re-entrance to educational life.

Sagittarius, you may be getting excited with the smell of fresh notebooks and pens of different colors. Over the next two weeks, this is a good time to learn something new. Instead of just scrolling randomly through videos, consider finding some interesting documentaries.

of all the great passages I’ve ever read, and then being able to pepper my conversations with them, when relevance permits. But I guess I do it without thinking too much about it, it’s just something I’m lucky to be able to do.

One explanation I give, that somehow best explains what I’ve had called my ‘interpersonal party trick’, is a Zen saying about the little red robin that calls out to a millipede one day and asks: “tell me, how do you move all those legs in such a way?”

After which, the millipede stops to think about it, attempts an explanation – and then isn’t able to walk again.

That said, I don’t have a photographic memory by any means, but if something really chimes or stands out for me in a book, it just seems to orbit around my brain until it absolutely sticks.

And as such, I think I’ve been mentally ‘collecting’ great lines from literature all my adult life, like I used to collect footy cards as a kid.

In a sense, I’ve been drawn to the aphorism (or the short,

Pisces Feb 19 - Mar 20 This week, there are changes at the office which could keep you hopping. Pisces, there’s new life at work.

The new moon in Leo begins your week on August 13, shining a spotlight on your house of work, coworkers, and routines.

Over the next two weeks, there may be some changes at the office. There could be new software or a complete computer changeover. A favorite coworker may return after maternity leave or a sabbatical.

Suddenly, there’s new life at the office. Or you may be getting a new job entirely and spending your time meeting new people and learning the ropes.

sharp one to two sentences of truly insightful, and even mildly sarcastic, brilliance) and some of the greatest exponents of this ‘art form’ aren’t necessarily the most broadly known of cultural figures. But one thing they all have in common, is an acutely refined observational radar, and a social awareness that cuts through any situation that might be clouded by some form of smarm, ignorance, arrogance, pomp or ceremony.

If we were to put together a team photo of all the great aphorists in world history, then incredibly the bulk of the side would be comprised of keen-eyed and very quickwitted Frenchmen, because so many that have excelled in this sparkling genre, have hailed from that corner of the cultural world.

From the lightning-like La Rochefoucauld and La Bruyere, to Chamfort and Joubert, these French exponents of the masterful maxim (another word for an aphorism) ruled the cafes and bars with their unrivalled

personal, and yet highly relatable verbal ‘take’ on the world. Add the German speaking contingent of Goethe, Wittgenstein, and perhaps history’s last great ironic wordsmith – Karl Kraus, and you have the absolute stars of the abovementioned side of punchline acrobats.

All this said, I don’t for a moment want to give the impression that aphorists have all the answers, because that would do each of them a grave disservice; but what I will say, is that they do have an astonishing knack of showing us, where the goalposts in the game of life are located – at all times.

Or as the ever-smirking, word assassin himself, Ludwig Wittgenstein once insinuated: “Raisins may be the best part of a cake; but a bag of raisins is not better than a cake; and someone who is in a position to give us a bag of raisins still can’t bake a cake with them, let alone something better.”

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AHEARN Graeme Vincent 6.2.1938 – 31.7.2021

Passed away suddenly at home on Saturday 31/7/2021 aged 83 years.

Loving husband and best friend to his wife Marie for 61 years.

A loving father and father-in-law of Carolyn Venn, Tony, Jenny and Geoff Smith, Susan & Carl Roach and Greg & Kirsty.

A devoted Pa to his fourteen grandchildren.

He waited eagerly to nurse two great grandchildren, Beau, 1 week old and another arriving soon but didn’t get the chance.

Graeme was the son of Vincent and Edna (Sneesby) and brother of Elsa & Dom Predebon, Gregory (dec), Bernard (dec), Brian & Julie and uncle to their families.

Brother-in-law to the Bertoli families and loving friend to many.

Forever in our hearts.

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Loving husband of June.

Dearly loved father and father in law of Karen and Des, Susanne and Mick, Jennifer and Barry, Christopher, James and Adrian.

Cherished grandad of Nikki, Adrian, Stuart, Amy, Allison, William, Joseph, Jacqueline, Madeline, Teearna and Rebecca; great grandad of Noah, Benjamin, Luke, Oliver, Athena and Luna.

Dearly loved brother, brother in law and member of the Sharpe and Galea families and much loved friend of many.

A funeral service and celebration of Glen’s life will be held in the Gummifera Garden, Lismore Memorial Gardens Crematorium, Skyline Road Goonellabah, TODAY Thursday August 12, 2021, commencing at 12.30pm.

Family and friends are warmly invited to attend Glen’s funeral in person or via livestreaming (on Facebook or by googling) Funeral Livestreaming Northern Rivers.

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BALLINA MARKETS 3rd Sunday of the month.

BALLINA FARMER’S MARKET Sundays 6am till 1pm at Commemoration Park Ballina.

BANGALOW FARMER’S MARKET Saturdays 7am till 11am at Bangalow Hotel Carpark.

BLUE KNOB FARMER’S MARKETS Saturdays 8.30am till 12pm at Blue Knob Café, Lillian Rock.

BYRON BAY FARMER’S MARKET Thursdays 7am till 11am at Cavanbah Centre Byron Bay. CASINO GOLF CLUB MARKETS 2nd Sunday of every 2nd month.

EVANS HEAD COMMUNITY MARKETS 4th Saturday of the month at Evans Head RSL Club.

KYOGLE FARMER’S MARKET Saturday mornings Stratheden Street, Kyogle.

LISMORE CAR BOOT MARKETS Lismore Square – 1st & 3rd Sunday of the month.

LISMORE FARMER’S MARKET Saturdays 8am till 11am at Lismore Showgrounds.

LISMORE PRODUCE MARKET Thursdays 2.30pm till 6.30pm at Magellan & Carrington Streets.

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LISMORE RAINBOW REGION ORGANIC MARKET Tuesdays 7.30am till 11am at Lismore Showgrounds.

MULLUMBIMBY COMMUNITY MARKET 3rd Saturday of the month.

MULLUMBIMBY FARMER’S MARKET Fridays 7am till 11am at Mullumbimby Showground.

Contact Allie on 66771345.

MURWILLUMBAH FARMER’S MARKET Wednesdays 7am till 11am at Murwillumbah Showgrounds.

Contact Sue on 0498733766.

NEW BRIGHTON FARMER’S MARKET Tuesday 8am-11am at New Brighton Oval - River Street.

Contact Allie on 66771345.

NIMBIN FARMERS MARKET Wednesdays 3pm till 6pm at Green Bank Carpark.

Contact Jason on 66891512.

THE CHANNON CRAFT MARKETS 2nd Sunday of the month.

UKI FARMER’S MARKET Saturdays 8am till 12.30pm at Uki Hall.

YAMBA FARMER’S MARKET Wednesdays 7am till 1pm.

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ALSTONVILLE INNER WHEEL CLUB Meet socially 3rd Wednesday of every month. Contact President Carol Vidal 0427326832.

CRAWFORD HOUSE MUSEUM At Crawford House Museum there are many interesting household objects dating from the turn of the century till 1960 and local historical items and documents, as well as research facilities for the descendants of Ballina Shire families. And if you’ve got a few spare hours per month to welcome and introduce visitors to the museum, we’d love to hear from you. We’re open on Fridays from 10am to 4pm and Sundays from 1pm to 4pm. Please visit us at 10 Wardell Road Alstonville, phone us on 66281829 or email us at info@ aphsmuseum.org.au SQUARE DANCING Summerland Larrikins Squares Alstonville, Fridays 7.30-9.30pm at Uniting Church Hall, 59 Main Street, Alstonville. Contact 0407663017 for further information. New dancers welcome.

BALLINA

BALLINA

BALLINA HOSPITAL AUXILARY Our next meeting will be held at 1.30pm on Tuesday 17th August at the RSL at Ballina. New members are welcome. Check out our website: ballinahospitalauxiliary.simplesite.com NORTHERN RIVERS DAY PROSTATE CANCER SUPPORT GROUP The next meeting of the Northern Rivers Day Prostate Cancer Support Group is to be held on Monday August 16th 10am until 12 noon Ballina Cherry Street Bowling Club - Men diagnosed or newly diagnosed with prostate cancer and their partners or carers are most welcome to attend. Personal cancer stories are told which gives all present a wonderful opportunity to share, learn and benefit from other people’s experiences.

Enquiries phone Bob Corney (02) 66281527 or 0400747630.

BACCI GROUP A local Arts based group meet each first Monday of each month. Meet with other local artisans and makers and participate

in group exhibitions as they occur.

Time 5pm for 5.30pm. Place Cherry St Sports. Meet beforehand in the club for social time before the meeting – contact ballinaartsandcraftscentreinc@gmail.com

BALLINA TOY LIBRARY Welcomes families from Ballina Shire, 9 Regatta Ave, Ballina. Open Saturday 10am-1pm, by appointment only on Tues & Wed. Phone 0411719074.

PROBUS CLUB OF BALLINA WATERS The Probus Club of Ballina Waters will hold its next monthly meeting on Wednesday 18th August, commencing at 10am at the Cherry Street Sports Club. This will be the regular Monthly meeting, with a guest speaker. Other activities coming up this month include a luncheon on 27th August and a mystery bus trip on Tuesday 31st August. This Probus Club is a mixed club and men and women are invited to attend and join this friendly group. Further details can be obtained by calling Faye on 66866585.

BALLINA MAHJONG 6/8/2021 Jeanette Henwood 1, Wendy Thornton 2, Lorna Simpson 3, Ronda Taylor 4, Gail McDonagh 5, Sally Lowry 6, Lesley Richie 7, Joy Lowien 8, Coral Lavelle 9, Jan Williams 10, Gladys D’Anna 11, June Grebert 12, Margaret Bryant 13, June Greenaway 14, Pam Farrell 15, Shirley Coleman 16, Jan Boardman 17, Shirley Atkinson 18, Jan Rhodes 19, Diana Auret, Valda McLerie 20, Susan Allan 22, Kathy Pickles 23, Jan Small 24, Janene Jarvis 25, Shirley Henry 26, Val Heinritz 27. Mahjong is played on Friday at 12:30pm at the Ballina Bridge Club North Creek Road. Enquiries for new players phone Vanessa on 66874181.

RAINBOW DRAGONS REGATTA Postponed until October Jan Wright, Rainbow Region Dragon Boat Club president has announced due to the current unpredictable COVID situation, the difficult decision has been made to postpone our regatta which was to be held on August 28-29th at Shaw’s Bay. Save the new date in your calendars: October 9-10th 2021, and let’s hope we can all gather again soon with renewed energy and excitement. rainbowdragons.com.au BALLINA SCOPE CLUB We are a group of ladies who do fund raising with all money going to local charities. We meet the 1st Monday of the month at the Ballina RSL Club at 7pm.

Any enquiries to Ruth on 0429877733.

BALLINA CWA Ballina CWA Handicraft & Friendship mornings are held every Wednesday morning from 9am until 12noon in our rooms on River Street. Numbers are covid safe limited so could you please ring our Handicraft Officer Barb 0428116668 on Monday night to book a place. Ballina CWA meetings are held on the 3rd Monday of the month at 9.00am in our rooms, please ring our Secretary Janet 0435323079 for more information.

Mahjong is being played once again in The Ballina CWA rooms on River Street, Wednesdays & Thursdays starting at 12.15pm. For more information please ring David 0473587412.

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IN FOCUS TOASTMASTERS CLUB How about trying something different?

If you would like to improve your communication and leadership skills or simply make new friends and have fun, you are warmly invited to attend the In Focus Toastmasters Club. We meet the 3rd Wednesday evening of each month.

You may attend either from the comfort of your own home via zoom or join us in person at the Cherry Street Sports Club, Ballina. For more information please contact: President Udo Moerig email tmumoerig@gmail.com or Vice President email Jan Coleman janetlcoleman@ gmail.com Webpage: https://3209990. toastmastersclubs.org/ BALLINA LIFEBALL Each Tuesday (9:30-11am) at Ballina Indoor Sports Centre. Come and join us for exercise, fun and friendship. Contact Yvonne 0448004161.

THE FREE BRUNCH CENTER It’s Back the Free Community Brekky Center is now reopening as The Free Brunch Center in Ballina, on the 1st Saturday of every month. There will be sausage sizzle available along with hot dogs, sandwiches, fruit salad, tea, coffee and take away meals also available. This will be presented under new Covid safe rules and restrictions. This is totally free and everyone is welcome. This is to be held at the Ballina Presbyterian Hall which is just behind the church, on the corner of Cherry & Crane Sts. The Brunch Center will be on the 1st Saturday of every month between 10am and 12pm.

BRUNSWICK HEADS

BRUNSWICK VALLEY VIEW CLUB On August 12 we will celebrate our 36th birthday with a low-key luncheon at 10.30am at Ocean Shores Country Club.

Bookings are essential as numbers are limited due to Covid restrictions. Contact Wenda on 0449563580 or wjhunt@ yahoo.com.au to book, no later than the Monday before. Our club supports seven disadvantaged students in The Smith Family’s Learning for Life program.

Information: president Margaret 0429966894.

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CASINO

CASINO MEALS ON WHEELS WEEK 4 MON: D Armitage, J Corocher; TUE: M Benn, D Coleman; WED: D Winkler, T Evans; THU: R & D Lee; FRI: W & P Edwards, Richmond Valley Council staff.

CASINO & BONALBO UPPER CLARENCE LIONS CLUBS Casino Lions club now meets each 4th Wed at the RSM. CASINO RICHMOND RIVER COUNTRY MUSIC CLUB – CANCELLATION Sing along for August has been cancelled owing to Covid 19 restrictions. We will have more information as lockdown is lifted. Phone 66622625 or 0412910884 CASINO AIR RIFLE CLUB Saturdays - Rifles, Ammunition & Targets supplied, shooting starts 8am until 12noon. Call Ollie on 0414622272.

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64 COMMUNITY NOTICES CASINO & DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP Advise we have a new phone number which is 66641118 and email casinofhg@gmail.com CASINO BRANCH CWA MEETING DATES AND NEWS Meetings on the 3rd Thursday of the month at the Casino Community Cultural Centre at 9.00 am. Next meeting is on Thursday 19th August.

Unfortunately our Street Stall last month had to be postponed or cancelled depending on COVID restrictions.

Watch this space. At our August Meeting our Cookery Officer Rita will judge a chocolate cake. Recipe is your own choice BUT may be baked in any shaped tin except a ring tin and approx. 2 1/2 inches (non metric size) To be iced on top only and may be simply decorated with nuts, dried fruits, coconut or chocolate or a simple piped design.

Competition is open to any person living in NSW. Bake a chocolate cake and bring it to the meeting on the 19th. We are still hoping to hold a “We Care Cuppa” in September to raise funds for the Casino Cancer Support Group. More advertising when we know where COVID is at.Interested new members please contact Marg. on 66621746 or Jan on 66626424.

CASINO BRANCH CWA MEETING DATES AND NEWS Meetings on the 3rd Thursday of the month at the Casino Community Cultural Centre at 9.00 am. Next meeting Thursday 19th August. Unfortunately we have had to postpone our Street Stall planned for Saturday 24th July due to COVID Restrictions. Hopefully when COVID leaves us alone we can set a new date. Sorry to disappoint our very supportive regular customers. More information please contact: Marg. Ph: 66621746 or Jan Ph: 66626424 CASINO SENIOR CITIZENS All welcome, our activities currently are Wednesday afternoons at Casino RSM 1pm to play Hoy, Euchre. We have group play on Thurs afternoons 1.00pm.

Contact Jan Danaher on 0414625680.

CASINO COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTRE Meetings on the 3rd Thursday of the month at the Casino Community Cultural Centre at 9am. The Land Cookery Contest is conducted by CWA of NSW. It is open to any person living in NSW or ACT NOT only CWA members.

For more information phone Marg. on 66621746 or Jan on 66626424.

LISMORE CASINO NAVAL ASSOCIATION Meets bi-monthly at Casino RSM, new members welcome. For more information phone Chris 66293269 or Jim 0427400625.

LION’S CLUB CASINO Lion’s Club meeting is held on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday each month at Casino RSM Club from 6.30pm for a 7.00pm start.

CASINO COMMUNITY MEN’S SHED Mon, Tues, Wed, attendance limited to 50 members, 8.00am-1.30pm.

Contact 66626423 DH or casmenshed@live.com.au

CASINO MINI RAIL Every Sunday 10am to 4pm. Weather permitting. West Street Casino. Phone 0472638044.

CASINO VIEW CLUB Monthly luncheon meeting at Casino RSM Club at 11am, second Thurs of every month. Contact Barbra on 66612530 or 0448969498.

CASINO CROQUET CLUB Monday & Wednesday sign in time now before 8.30am to start play by 9am.

Contact Mary on 6662 1971 for further information.

CASINO LADIES AND FRIEND CRAFT GROUP Meets 1st & 3rd Tuesday of each month.

Bring your own morning tea and wear a mask. Names to be in by Lunch time Monday. Phone Vivian on 66621838 or Jan on 66626424.

CASINO MIXED PROBUS CLUB Meeting 4th Thursday of the month.

For more information call the secretary on 0419886119. New Members most welcome. Call Fran on 0419886119 for more information.

THE CASINO & DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM Sun, Mon, Wed and Fri 10am to 2pm.

Email casinohistorymuseum@outlook. com for further information. Check us out on Facebook.

CASINO EVENING CWA Meets first Thursday of the month.

Casino Uniting Church at 6pm and for further information please ring Alison 0400956404 or Penny 0422301799.

CASINO BRANCH CWA Casino branch CWA hold meetings on the 3rd Thursday of the month at Casino Community Cultural Centre at 9.00am.

EVANS EVANSHEAD HEAD EVANS HEAD BRANCH CWA We meet over lunch, 3rd Tuesday every month, 12noon at the Illawong Hotel.

New members welcome. Further info 0427825560.

GRAFTON

GRAFTON

GRAFTON VIEW CLUB VIEW meets on the 4th Tuesday of each month at the Grafton District Services Club, Mary Street. The August meeting is on Tuesday 24th, commencing at 10.30am. The guest speaker will be Helen Dobra, who will speak about how Bowen Therapy works. Please phone Vorna at 66424719 for catering purposes no later than the Friday before the meeting.

GRAFTON SENIOR CITIZENS After a break for the Racing Carnival, members are reminded Grafton Senior Citizens will have their next meeting at 10.30am, Tuesday, 10 August, at Race Course, Powell St Grafton.

Members urged to attend for important information. Please wear face masks.

GRAFTON & DISTRICT GARDEN CLUB We would love to welcome new members, come and see what we have to offer. Meeting on the 3rd Monday of

every month. At the Grafton Masonic Centre, 104 Bacon St Grafton. Gather at 3.30pm for afternoon tea. Our next bus trip will be to the Quota Craft and Garden Fair at Ballina. Visit private gardens, enjoy bus trips with like-minded people, buy or swap plants and have funw! For any enquiries please send an email to graftondistrictgardenclub@ gmail.com You can also find and follow us on Facebook.

GRAFTON VIEW CLUB How do you feel about making new friendships, or renewing old acquaintances? Well, VIEW Club is your answer! It meets on the 4th Tuesday of each month at the Grafton District Services Club, Mary Street, Grafton. The August meeting will be on Tuesday 24th August, commencing at 10.30am. The guest speaker will be Helen Dobra, who will speak about how Bowen Therapy works. Grafton VIEW offers you a warm welcome, so come & enjoy friendship, a lovely lunch & listen to our motivated guest speaker. At the same time, you will be supporting children in need. Please phone Vorna at 66424719 for catering purposes no later than the Friday before the meeting.

GRAFTON’S MIGHTY CLARENCE TOASTMASTERS CLUB Perhaps it’s time to find out what it’s all about! If you would like to improve your communication and leadership skills.

Make new friends and have fun, you are warmly invited to attend the Mighty Clarence Toastmasters Club. We meet on the 1st & 3rd Wednesday evening of each month. You may attend either from the comfort of your own home via zoom or join us in person at the Joan Muir Community Centre: 194 Turf Street, Grafton. For more information please contact: Vice President on email Jan Coleman janetlcoleman@gmail.com or Facebook page:https://www.facebook. com/graftontoastmasters JIGGI-GEORGICA JIGGI-GEORGICA RED CROSS MEETINGS Our AGM which had been re-scheduled for 13/8/2021 has now been deferred until July 2022. Also, we will not be holding our monthly meetings until further advised. The possibility of holding them will be assessed as the year progresses.

KYOGLE

KYOGLE

KYOGLE COUNTRY MUSIC Due to ongoing restrictions Kyogle Country Music’s next day will now be held on 12th September at 11am at KYOGLE GOLF CLUB. These days are fully catered for by the club with lunch and drinks available. ALL WELCOME. $2 donation at door appreciated.

KYOGLE SUNSHINE CLUB Meets every Thursday at 9.30am. For more details contact 0499824274.

RICHMOND RIVER BEEF PRODUCER’S ASSOCIATION Meet on the 2nd Wednesday of every month at Kyogle Showgrounds in the luncheon room at 7pm. For more details Phone Jan on 0427293455.

LION’S CLUB OF KYOGLE Meeting is held on the 1st & 3rd Tuesday

each month at the Kyogle Lion’s shed from 6.30–7.00pm For more information contact Neville Moon on 66322233.

LENNOX HEAD

LENNOX HEAD

LENNOX HEAD LIONS CLUB New members welcome to join our close-knit club where the emphasis is on community service in a fun environment.

Meetings are on the first and Third Wednesday of each month at Club Lennox starting at 6.30pm. Members do what they can, when they can to facilitate the needs of our club.

LENNOX HEAD DAY VIEW CLUB The Lennox Head Day VIEW Club meets on the first Monday of each month at the Lennox Head Community Centre. with the meeting starting at 11:00am and includes an interesting speaker and concludes with a light lunch. An informal Coffee and Chat meeting is held on the third Monday of the month.

The Club sponsors three students through The Smith Family Learning for Life scholarship program that provides educational items for disadvantaged Australian children. New members and guests are most warmly welcomed and enquiries may be made to Enid 047187511 or Dawn 0466717435.

LENNOX HEAD EVENING VIEW CLUB Meets on the second Tuesday of each month upstairs at the Lennox Hotel at 6.30pm for dinner at 7.00pm. Guests welcome. “VIEW members support the education of disadvantaged Australian children by raising much needed funds for The Smith Family. Through fundraising activities and social events in local communities, members raise money that goes directly to The Smith Family’s learning and mentoring programs for disadvantaged students.” Lennox Head Evening VIEW Club currently sponsors two Learning for Life students. Contact Sue Brennan 0409 728 814.

LENNOX HEAD CWA Handy Craft Mornings on Mondays 9.30am-12noon in the community centre at Lennox Head, Call Jan on 66816150.

PROBUS CLUB OF LENNOX HEAD Meets 10.00 for 10.30am at Club Lennox, 10 Stewart Street, on the first Thursday of each month. Visitors are welcome, also retired or semi-retired people wishing to join our non-service club to hear interesting guest speakers and to join in trips and outings are invited along. Phone Jan 66876859.

LISMORE LISMORE LISMORE GARDEN CLUB Lismore Garden Club August Meeting will be held on Thursday 12th August 1pm Lismore Workers Club. Special for August Fruit or Vegie. More info contact dcoles39@outlook.com.or 0448294496 PROBUS CLUB OF LISMORE HEIGHTS Our mixed group meets on the 1st Tuesday of each month at the LISMORE HEIGHTS BOWLING CLUB in High St. Our brief meeting is followed by morning tea and a guest speaker. Senior’s lunch for $15 at noon is optional. Guests and visitors are welcome. Ring/text Pam on 0418766247 for details of our other

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THE GOONELLABAH PROBUS CLUB Will be holding its monthly meeting on Thursday 19h august a lismore workers club keen street. Venue change is due to covid social distancing compliance.

Meeting time remains at 10 am. For further information please contact Gloria Francis 66291442 SPRUNG Sprung!! is a registered charity and a not for profit community organisation that offers Dance, Theatre & Movement workshops and training to people with disabilities. We are currently looking for volunteers to assist our organisation in a number of ways including supporting our Tutors and Disability Support Workers; transcribing; catering; professional skills; technical support and backstage support.

Our workshops and performances run in Lismore, Mullumbimby, Tintenbar and Lennox Head expanding to Ballina and the Tweed. Any interested volunteers can reach us here and for general information please contact us on info@sprung.org.au LISMORE HIGH SCHOOL’S CENTENARY DINNER Is on 11 September 2021 commencing at 6.00 p.m.at the Lismore Workers Club.

Tickets cost $60 and can be purchased from the Club by phone[02 66217401, online Lismore Workers.com.au] or in person. For further information phone Helen George 0414734313 EMBROIDERERS GROUP Meetings are 9.30am-2.30pm 1st and 3rd Wednesdays and 3rd Saturday of each month at the Red Dove Centre, Keen Street, Lismore. We welcome embroiderers of all styles and ability levels to meet, share and learn. For more information see our facebook page ‘Lismore Group – Embroiderers Guild NSW’, phone 0423337872 or simply turn up.

THE ROTARY CLUB OF SUMMERLAND SUNRISE We meet every Friday at 7.05am for a Breakfast meeting at Coffee Shots, Molesworth St, Lismore. Interested in contributing to community? Local and international? Join us at Coffee Shots please. Phone 0435990919 for more details.

LISMORE HIGH SCHOOL’S CENTENARY DINNER Is on 11 September 2021 commencing at 6.00 pm at the Lismore Workers Club.

Tickets cost $60 and can be purchased from the club by phone 66217401. online lismoreworkers.com.au or in person. For further information phone Helen George 0414734313.

SPORTS CLUBS BREWERY & WINE TOURS BUCKS, HENS WEDDINGS AIRPORT SHUTTLE DAY TOURS SCHOOLS SHOPPING TOURS

LISMORE TARGET RIFLE CLUB For .22 calibre rifles, meets Wed nights from 6.30pm & the 1st & 3rd Sat of each month from 12 noon. Air Rifle shooting for .22 & 177 air rifles will also be available at the Saturday shoots.

For more info please phone Derek on 66282082 (AH).

LADIES INDOOR BOWLS Played at Lismore Workers club, Mon mornings 9am, New members welcome.

Info Rosemary 0434611520 or Veronica 0417004622 NR U3A LISMORE INC. (UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE) Retired? Make new friends, gain knowledge, laugh and learn, enjoy a richer retirement. U3A offers over 30 classes and activities each week. One yearly fee of $50 entitles you to attend all classes/activities of your choice.

Interested? Check out our webpage http://www.u3anriv.org.au for course list, times and venues or contact 66227408 Follow us on Facebook.

LISMORE REGIONAL PARKINSON’S SUPPORT GROUP Please note Change of Venue. Lismore Regional Parkinson’s Support Group’s next meeting will be held at Wade Park undercover area, corner of Military Road and Ann St, East Lismore on Friday, 20th August at 10am. Our very special guest speaker will be Sarah McGuigan, Exercise Physiologist, Neuro Moves, Spinal Cord Injuries Team Leader. There will also be an opportunity to share strategies and support each other in a non - judgemental confidential environment.

All members of the Parkinson’s Community and their care-givers are most welcome to join us. Contact: Di: 66227959 or John: 0490332268 or visit Lismore Regional Parkinson’s Support Group’s FaceBook Page https://www. facebook.com/ParkinsonsLismore LISMORE CLIMATE STRIKE FOR EFFECTIVE ACTION NOW Each Thursday at the Lismore Quad between 1.30 and 3.30pm. Bring signs and something to sit on. Come Strike with us!

TABLE TENNIS AT GOONELLABAH Tuesday and Thursday mornings social playing: 9.00am-12noon; Monday and Wednesday nights social playing: 7.009.00pm; Training Monday mornings: 9.00am-12noon; Junior coaching after school Wednesday 3.30pm-4.45pm, $6.00 a session. Everybody is welcome – all levels. Phone centre on 66251602 Mon-Thur 9.00am-1.00pm or visit website www.fnctabletennis.com.au LISMORE GIRL GUIDES Lismore Girl Guides meet every Tuesday during school terms from 5.30 to 7.30pm

at our hall, Magellan Street Lismore. Any girl aged from 7 to 17 is most welcome to attend for two nights free, but please make contact first. Any adult female aged 18 and over interested in becoming a volunteer with youth, are encouraged to contact Leonie on mobile number 0412866766, for further details. Our hall is also available to hire.

SUMMERLAND AMATEUR RADIO CLUB Meetings of the club are normally held on the second Sunday of each month at the clubrooms: 412 Richmond Hill Road, Richmond Hill at 1.00pm. Visitors are welcome. The clubrooms are usually open on Sunday afternoons from about 1pm onwards. We are primarily amateur radio enthusiasts and welcome persons interested in radio, electronics, astronomy and similar subjects. For more details about the club and its activities see the club’s website: https://sarc.org.au/ or check us out on Facebook at https:// www.facebook.com/SummerlandARC “MAINLY MUSIC” IN LISMORE FOR 2021 An interactive session for 0-5 year olds & parents/carers using fun songs and actions to help develop co-ordination and motor skills, followed by home cooked morning tea for adults while children enjoy supervised play time. Tuesdays 9.30-11.30am in school term. Anglican Parish Hall, Zadoc St Lismore. Enquiries 66213200 or mainlymusic.org ROTARY CLUB OF LISMORE NETWORKING Want to be part of an innovative, interesting and inclusive networking group who meet fortnightly to share ideas, meet other professionals and work together to make a difference in your community? Then Rotary Club of Lismore Networking could be the answer for you! Meets fortnightly on Wednesdays at the Rous Hotel, Keen Street, Lismore at 5.30pm. For more information contact Rita on 0413300578 or Gae 0412742095.

ROTARY CLUB OF LISMORE WEST INC Is in its 60th year and meets at the East Lismore Bowling Club each Thursday at 6.00pm. New members would be made most welcome. Further information available on 0428151934.

RED CROSS LISMORE BRANCH Meets the 3rd Monday of the month at 2.00pm in the Red Cross Tea Rooms in Keen Street Lismore. As well as fund raising we are also an active social group and welcome new members.

New volunteers are also required to assist in our popular Tea Rooms. If you can commit to 1 or more days a month please contact Lynn 66217642 or Rhonda 66241950.

COUNTRY CARNA Cancelled this month. August 22nd at Lismore Workers Club due to Covid Restrictions.

EMBROIDERS GROUP Meetings are 9.30am-2.30pm 1st and 3rd Wednesdays and 3rd Saturday of each month, Red Dove Centre, Keen Street, Lismore. We welcome embroiderers of all ability levels from all towns and districts in the Northern Rivers.

MACLEAN

MACLEAN

MACLEAN VIEW CLUB Monthly meetings again, after months of lock down. It will start as usual 3rd Thursdays of each month at 11am.

Contact Ruth Toyer on 0409844212 by Mondays, no later than 7pm. Numbers are required for catering purposes.

MURWILLUMBAH

MURWILLUMBAH

THE NORTHERN RIVERS COLLECTORS CLUB Are holding their 30th Antiques & Collectables Exhibition & Trading Fair @ the Murwillumbah Civic Centre, Sat 14 Aug from 8.30am to 2.30pm, Adults $6 Kids $1. Proceeds to Tweed Palliative Support. Thousands of items for sale, Antiques, Vintage, Retro & Collectables.

Details Ph 0439779577.

MURWILLUMBAH COMMUNITY GARDEN Members and visitors are invited to join the group for activities and gardening tips most Sundays. Time 3-5pm (NSW time, street parking, Byo, covered footwear, comfy clothing, hat and water. Children ok with strict supervision. Covid plan operating.

Enquires: murbahcommunitygardens@ gmail.com - follow us on Facebook #MurwillumbahCommunityGarden COMMUNITY PRINTMAKERS MURWILLUMBAH Fine art printmakers. Meet at studio space 224 Stokers Rd, Stokers Siding.

Prints, gallery, workshops and more! E: cpmmurwillumbah@hotmail.com - T: Peter 0498399640 or Sue 0408493253.

Find us on Facebook & Instagram.

POTTSVILLE

POTTSVILLE

POTTSVILLE FUN CROQUET CLUB Meets at Black Rocks Sports Fields on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8.30am.

New members are welcome to come and join us for a hit and a bit of fun.

For any further enquires please call Jean on 0431606375. We will have a new starting time at the end of daylight saving. We play at Black Rocks Sports Field. New members are welcome. For further enquires please ring Jean on 0431606375.

Ph: 0434 232 538 or 0431 118 483 Email bookings@onpointbushire.com.au

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THE TWIN TOWNS DAY VIEW CLUB Meets monthly at the South Tweed Sports Shop on the first Thursday of each month – 10.30 for 11am. Following a small update on VIEW matters, and a guest Speaker, lunch is partaken at either the bistro or the coffee shop. VIEW Clubs support the valuable work done

by The Smith Family with their students Learning for Life program for which our club provides 7 children with their tertiary fees. Contact Kathie 0407709629 or Freda 0755241357.

FLOWER & GARDEN SHOW Twin Towns & District Garden Club Flower & Garden Show 11th September 2021. DUE to COVID 19 restrictions it is with regret that this event is now CANCELLED. Please see our website for information regarding meetings. https://twintownsgardenclub.com (click on link). Please note there will be no general meeting on Monday 9th August 2021. Our next meeting will be on 13th September 2021 Covid restrictions permitting.

TWEED HOSPITAL AUXILIARY TO HOST SECOND WOOLLEN GOODS STALL The Tweed Hospital Auxiliary will present its second Wool Stall in the hospital foyer from 16-20 August opening at 10.00am and closing at 3.00pm each day. Denise, the organising volunteer, had a successful stall earlier this year, raising over $1600 and is keen to do well again. The items for sale are made by local helpers, some UHA volunteers and others who enjoy knitting and donating to this charity. Goods for sale will include hand-knitted knitted baby wear such as jackets, cardigans, beanies, bootees, ponchos and more.

There will be a range of knitted toys as well as knitted and crochet rugs. Assorted craft items will also be available. Many of these goods sell quickly, particularly the rugs purchased for patients and well

as personal use. Denise is keen to sell all her items and so they will be priced accordingly. Of course the usual COVID 19 requirements are in place at the hospital. People keen to visit the hospital to view some examples of the highquality items can visit the Gift Shop and ask the friendly volunteers to show them the beautifully crafted woollen goods for sale there. There is a government requirement to check into the Gift Shop also with the QR code.

on the Sat 14th.

SUMMERLAND GIANT PUMPKIN AND WATERMELON FESTIVAL 2022 Theme – “ON THE VINE” It’s Time : To finish preparing your plot ready for planting. Plan your painting or craft project based on the theme. Do your research – you will find great ideas on Google. Regularly check the Festival Face Book page for updates.

WOLLONGBAR

WOLLONGBAR

PROBUS CLUB The Probus Club of Wollongbar will be holding the regular monthly meeting on Thursday August 19th beginning at 10am at the Alstonville Bowls and Sports Club Deegan Drive Alstonville. All Covid19 protocols will be met.

YAMBA

YAMBA

YAMBA DAY VIEW CLUB Yamba Day View Club’s monthly luncheons are held at Yamba Bowling Club on 3rd Monday of month, starting 10am for 10.30am. Acceptance and apologies to President Lyn 66463164

by Friday prior to luncheon for catering purposes. We hold a monthly social outing either for lunch or morning tea and visitors are always welcome.

YAMBA LIONS CLUB Yamba Lions Club’s meetings are held 2nd & 4th Thursdays of month at Yamba Bowling Club, commencing at 7pm for 7.30pm. For further information, please contact the Secretary Peter 0417546097.

Social outings also held at various time and visitors and new members welcome.

ALL ALLNORTHERN NORTHERNRIVERS RIVERS NORTHERN RIVERS COLLECTORS CLUB Due to the ongoing covid restrictions, The Northern Rivers Collectors Club Inc. have decided to cancel the Antique & Collectables Exhibition & Trading Fair

MEN AND WOMEN SINGLES Over 60 Social Group. Looking for Company, companionship. We are interested to hear from you Organised outing, get togethers. Nice people & friendship for both. Contact 0455588143.

TOASTMASTERS CAN HELP! Would you like to become better at socialising? Then Toastmasters Speechcraft can help. Do you need to make an important Speech? Then Toastmasters Speechcraft can help. Are you wanting to apply for that important promotion at work? Then Toastmasters Speechcraft can help. For details, please contact Donna on 0428878421.

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The flathead were fairly good across the weekend with some good quality fish coming the shallow sand flats between Pimlico and Broadwater. Prawns and pilchards were the pick of the baits, and shallow running hard body lures also accounted for a few fish.

The run in tides produced some of the better quality bream, with mullet and squid working well along the walls from the mouth of the river to the ferry. The luderick were a little quiet snd may be the same this week with the wind that is predicted.

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NORTHERN RIVERS TEMPERATURE & RAINFALL PREDICTIONS AREA GRAFTON EVANS KYOGLE BALLINA MULLUM TWEED

Thurs 12th August 25 / 10 C 23o / 15o C 26o / 10o C 23o / 15o C 22o / 16o C 22o / 14o C o

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5% 4% 3% 4% 3% 3%

Fri 13th August

Sat 14th August

Sun 15th August

22 / 14 C 19o / 16o C 21o / 12o C 19o / 16o C 20o / 16o C 21o / 14o C

23 / 9 C 22o / 12o C 21o / 10o C 22o / 12o C 22o / 13o C 24o / 11o C

22 / 8 C 21o / 10o C 22o / 7o C 21o / 10o C 21o / 10o C 22o / 9o C

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Sun 15 Aug

Wed 18 Aug

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6% 57% 43% 57% 52% 50%

Mon 16th August 23 / 7 C 21o / 10o C 25o / 6o C 21o / 10o C 22o / 10o C 22o / 9o C o

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Tues 17th August 24 / 6 C 24o / 9o C 26o / 9o C 24o / 9o C 24o / 10o C 23o / 10o C o

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5% 41% 5% 41% 42% 39%

Wed 18th August 23o / 10o C 23o / 11o C 24o / 9o C 23o / 11o C 23o / 11o C 23o / 12o C

43% 58% 51% 58% 52% 69%

TIDE TIMES & HEIGHTS CLARENCE - RIVER ENTRANCE

Waxing Crescent 17% Visible

Waxing Crescent 49% Visible

Waxing Gibbous 81% Visible

Sunrise & Sunset

DAY Thursday 12th August Friday 13th August Saturday 14th August Sunday 15th August Monday 16th August Tuesday 17th August Wednesday 18th August

DAY Thursday 12th August Friday 13th August Saturday 14th August Sunday 15th August Monday 16th August Tuesday 17th August Wednesday 18th August

SUNRISE 6:22 am 6:21 am 6:20 am 6:19 am 6:18 am 6:17 am 6:16 am

LOW 4:47 am 0.27m 5:27 am 0.3m 6:08 am 0.33m 6:52 am 0.38m 7:44 am 0.42m 8:46 am 0.45m 9:56 am 0.44m

HIGH 10:57 pm 1.61m 11:39 pm 1.5m

LOW 5:08 am 0.26m 5:46 am 0.28m 6:27 am 0.31m 7:12 am 0.35m 8:02 am 0.39m 9:02 am 0.41m 10:14 am 0.41m

HIGH 11:03 pm 1.65m 11:47 pm 1.52m

1:30 pm 1.4m 2:42 pm 1.44m 3:57 pm 1.51m 5:05 pm 1.59m

LOW 4:34 pm 0.37m 5:26 pm 0.44m 6:27 pm 0.51m 7:40 pm 0.57m 9:07 pm 0.58m 10:35 pm 0.53m 11:47 pm 0.43m

EVANS HEAD - RIVER ENTRANCE DAY Thursday 12th August Friday 13th August Saturday 14th August Sunday 15th August Monday 16th August Tuesday 17th August Wednesday 18th August

NORTHERN RIVERS AREA

HIGH 10:45 am 1.34m 11:34 am 1.36m 12:29 pm 1.38m 12:28 am 1.37m 1:28 am 1.24m 2:45 am 1.14m 4:06 am 1.1m

HIGH 10:48 am 1.34m 11:36 am 1.38m 12:30 pm 1.41m 12:38 am 1.37m 1:38 am 1.22m 2:52 am 1.11m 4:16 am 1.07m

1:31 pm 1.46m 2:39 pm 1.51m 3:52 pm 1.58m 5:01 pm 1.66m

LOW 4:55 pm 0.29m 5:48 pm 0.37m 6:49 pm 0.46m 8:00 pm 0.53m 9:27 pm 0.56m 10:58 pm 0.51m

BALLINA - RIVER ENTRANCE SUNSET 5:23 pm 5:23 pm 5:24 pm 5:24 pm 5:25 pm 5:26 pm 5:26 pm

DAY Thursday 12th August Friday 13th August Saturday 14th August Sunday 15th August Monday 16th August Tuesday 17th August Wednesday 18th August

HIGH 11:07 am 1.28m 11:55 am 1.31m 12:00 am 1.46m 12:48 am 1.32m 1:47 am 1.18m 3:01 am 1.07m 4:23 am 1.01m

LOW 5:04 am 0.25m 5:44 am 0.27m 6:25 am 0.3m 7:10 am 0.34m 8:03 am 0.37m 9:06 am 0.39m 10:14 am 0.38m

HIGH 11:17 pm 1.58m 12:48 pm 1.34m 1:50 pm 1.37m 2:59 pm 1.42m 4:13 pm 1.49m 5:23 pm 1.57m

LOW 4:51 pm 0.34m 5:44 pm 0.41m 6:46 pm 0.5m 8:03 pm 0.55m 9:34 pm 0.56m 11:02 pm 0.5m

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DAY Thursday 12th August Friday 13th August Saturday 14th August Sunday 15th August Monday 16th August Tuesday 17th August Wednesday 18th August

HIGH 10:53 am 1.35m 11:42 am 1.37m 12:35 pm 1.39m 12:36 am 1.39m 1:33 am 1.25m 2:46 am 1.14m 4:09 am 1.09m

LOW 4:49 am 0.27m 5:28 am 0.28m 6:09 am 0.3m 6:55 am 0.33m 7:49 am 0.36m 8:52 am 0.38m 10:00 am 0.37m

HIGH 11:08 pm 1.66m 11:49 pm 1.54m 1:39 pm 1.42m 2:53 pm 1.47m 4:10 pm 1.55m 5:18 pm 1.65m

LOW 4:32 pm 0.32m 5:25 pm 0.41m 6:26 pm 0.5m 7:43 pm 0.58m 9:15 pm 0.6m 10:46 pm 0.55m 11:59 pm 0.45m

TWEED HEADS - RIVER ENTRANCE DAY Thursday 12th August Friday 13th August Saturday 14th August Sunday 15th August Monday 16th August Tuesday 17th August Wednesday 18th August

HIGH 10:42 am 1.34m 11:32 am 1.36m 12:30 pm 1.38m 12:28 am 1.38m 1:29 am 1.24m 2:46 am 1.14m 4:07 am 1.1m

LOW 4:38 am 0.31m 5:19 am 0.32m 6:02 am 0.36m 6:50 am 0.39m 7:45 am 0.43m 8:49 am 0.44m 9:59 am 0.42m

HIGH 11:00 pm 1.63m 11:40 pm 1.52m 1:37 pm 1.4m 2:51 pm 1.44m 4:06 pm 1.51m 5:14 pm 1.6m

LOW 4:25 pm 0.37m 5:18 pm 0.46m 6:20 pm 0.56m 7:35 pm 0.63m 9:06 pm 0.65m 10:36 pm 0.59m 11:45 pm 0.48m

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68 SPORTS RESULTS SEND YOUR SPORTS RESULTS TO sports@nrtimes.com.au Please keep under 150 words.

Photos are welcome but publishing is at the discretion of the editor.

Results must be sent in Word, Pages or PDF format CASINO SOCIAL GOLF RESULTS

The winners of the Richard Hempstead Memorial Trophy played at Tenterfield are Norton Bolt, Dennis Westerman, Wayne & Brett Jackson.

The Richard Hempstead Memorial Trophy played at Tenterfield and sponsored by Potubi Transport Pty. Ltd., Casino was won by Norton Bolt, Dennis Westerman Wayne & Brett Jackson with a net score of 54.5 from Don Matulick, K.Morgan, David Slade & Donald Hampson with 58.75. 3rd, Darren Diews, Nathern Rose, Trevis Jenkins & Rod Horseman with 59.125. The putting trophy went to the Mortimer team with 18 putts and G.Skennar won the players draw. Nearest to pins: 1st & 18th, Shephard’s team. 5th & 10, Jenkins team.7th & 17th Jackson’s team. 8th, Rankin’s team. 9th & 13th, Matulick’s team.16th, Mortimer’s team.Next Sunday’s event sponsored by Madsen Meats, Casino will be a single stableford on the top 11 holes and visitors are welcome to play with hit off from 6-30am till 7-30am.

BALLINA PETANQUE CLUB RESULTS Sunday Aug. Ena Pearce 317, Isabelle Sheeran 312, Keith Scott 218, Llewenna Butt 210 Bert Carter 206, Barry Genet 204, Carol Briand 202.

Sunday Aug 8. Steve Mills 320, Julie Ogden 312, Carol Briand 306, Denis Madeleine 215, Trish Razzi 213, Gunela Astbrink 213, Margaret Burnett 208, Keith Pye 203 CHERRY STREET CROQUET CLUB SPORTS RESULTS GOLF: C.Edlund D.Scott 6 d F.Duncan J.OSullivan 3

R.Allen F.Frederiksen 7 d N.Watts J.Huxley 3 G.Frederiksen B.Liebmann 5 d R.Poynting J.Campbell 4 W.Peters G.Lewis 4 d J.Saunders L.Whiteman 2 L.Wesely K.Duffey 6 d J.Murphy G.Patch 3 P.Scott J.Dorward 6 d J.Copeland C. Duffey 1.

F.Frederiksen K.Duffey 6 d J.Campbell J.Copeland 4 R.Poynting L.Wesely 5 d R.Allen C.Duffey 3 J.OSullivan G.Lewis 7d B.LiebmannJ. Dorward 4 G.Frederiksen 8 d F. Duncan W.Peters 3 J.Huxley G.Patch 5 d C.Edlund L.Whiteman 4 D.Scott J.Saunders 7 d N.Watts G.Porter 6 RICOCHET: D.Scott N.Poynting 11 d P.Waters G.Porter 9 G.Drew B.Wellings 17 d P.Bolte J.Hannigan 16 J.Doust B.Waters 14 d R.Allen P.Doyle 14 P.Scott 23 d N.Watts 10 C.Edlund P.Scott 13 d M.Field N.Poynting 12 J.Murphy N.Watts 16 d J.Doust J.Hannigan 13 H.Young 18 d P.Bolte R.Poynting 18 G.Kerr R.Chapman 8 d D.Scott P.Doyle 6 ASSOCIATION : G.Drew L.Turner 21 d G.Porter 17 L.Hardy B.Hardy 16 d E.Thorman S.Keen 14 G.Porter 16 d N.Poynting 12 R.Poynting 11 d G.Drew B.Reddy 10

Phyllis Waters & Barry Waters Lismore winners of the Crusader Cup Doubles 7/6.

Runners up David Scott & Ray Chapman Cherry Street.

CORAKI VETERANS GOLF RESULTS THURSDAY 5/8/21 First round of the veterans championships were played by 48 golfers first round winner B McDonald, 2nd E Reddell 3rd R Thorne, free game G Tait chicken/ ball winners D Bullock, T Doyle, J Perkins, S Reddell, S Toms, R Gacioppa, T Foster,A Parr, K Lloyd, W Wotherspoon, J Savins, K Avery. Neraest pins 3rd/12th W Wotherspoon, 6th/15t5h B Collyer Putting comp M Fairfull.

This Thursday the 2nd round

of championships will be played commencing at 8.30am.

AS USUAL TILL THEN GOOD GOLFING .. Max BALLINA WOMEN’S BOWLING RESULTS Tues Aug 3rd – Championship Fours P.Condon A.Jackson E.Reid B.Bennett (Rink W) 22 d W.Threadgate B.Lane L.Jackson S.Baldwin 9, A.O’Brien J.Hourn K.Albany S.Skennar 21 d M.O’Neill S.Gordon F.Crowder S.Grady - 15 Social Games H.Riggs A.Percy K.Tyrrell (Rink R/up) 22 d G.Nugent S.Gilbert A.Brown 12, H.Maish M.Gee Kee S.Mazzer 20 d G.Bray N.Holmes B.Patterson 6, Y.Orchard V.Mayweh A.Mathews 19 d S.Bray E.Bosworth H.Tootell 12.

EVANS HEAD WOMEN’S BOWLING CLUB Winners L Sanderson, J Draper, N Hinch, R Michaels Runners Up F King L Saunders S Trigg J McFay Lucky Losers M Gibson, M Playford, J Poole, T Cselka KYOGLE BOWLS RESULTS Wednesday August 4 - B Ryan D Condon Rex McKenna d B Ryan R Clark K Hayes + 22, P Crewe T Burgess P Doyle d G Turner R McKenna B Hyde + 14, W Farrell R Felton R Goebel d P Anderson J Arnold G Lavelle + 7, G Napp N Bodycote d P Hogan N Parker + 2.

Championships B grade pairs N Parker T Burgess d T Hoffman G Lavelle 18 to 11.

LISMORE WORKERS S PORTS BOWLING CLUB RESULTS Social, Tues 3/8--Rocco, R walker 16 d A Wilson, J Fowler 15 M Moss, Gary Rose 20 d Jane Rose, B Turner 10 E Bullman, R Moss, B Hutchinson 13 d S Savins, L menin, L Church 10 Stan Roberts, I Osbourne, D Pearce, 15 d Joan Rose, G Clarke, S Roberts 14 Fri 6/8 K Hoffman, B Hutchinson 24 d J Fowler, R Moss 11 R Walker , J Rose, Gary Rose, 15 d R Walker, M Moss, J piper 12 S Savins, W Partridge, Jane Rpse 28 d L Taylor, D Smart , A Wilson 4 I Osbourne, D Morrow 29 d L Bryant, C Tait 16 Ladies Pairs Champ E Bullman, R Partridge 28 d J Ackers, C Vanderewall 9 Sat 7/8 Joan Rose, C Vanderwall 23 d G Moss, G Cox 22 Jane Rose, G Vanderwall 24 d J Davis, D Pearce 23 J Fowler, W Davis 23 d D Morrow, Gary Rose 21 Mens minor singles L Church,34 d J Quinlan 8 Champ triples N McDonald , M Rose, J Piper 27 d G Clarke,B Turner S Roberts 17 Champ Fours K Morrow, I

Osbourne, S Smart, W Partridge 18 d K Hoffman, W Woods, Greg Rose, R Walker 17 CPL ROUND 17 RESULTS, LADDER AND NEXT FIXTURES

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NEW BASKETBALL MENTOR PROGRAM FOR LOCAL GIRLS FRIDAY evenings at the Ballina Indoor Sports Centre are a hive of activity with the new ‘One Hour of Girl Power’ basketball program, encouraging teenage girls to give the game a go.

Ballina Basketball has launched the program teaching basketball skills and game sessions, to motivate teenage girls to pick up a basketball, learn new skills and fall in love with the game.

Participants, aged between 10 and 17 years, are mentored by one of

the nation’s best, Lauren King.

Ms King has played more than 250 games in the Women’s National Basketball League and is the regional development officer with Basketball NSW. “The program aims to give girls a taste of the different aspects of basketball in a safe, fun and pressure-free environment,” Ms King said.

“With the Women’s Basketball World Cup in Sydney next year, it’s an exciting time to grow

basketball at a grassroots level.

“As the girls become more confident with the rules and skills, they can compete in the mixed junior competition held on Tuesday afternoons at the Ballina Indoor Sports Centre.

“We are hoping that with increasing interest, we can establish a female competition in the future.”

The program is being trialled for five weeks with a view to making it a permanent program.

The program runs

from 5pm-6pm at costs $5 each week.

For more information contact the Ballina

Indoor Sports Centre on 6681 0599.

Olympic hockey sisters coming home to Tweed with the situation.

“That is sport and its why I love it. It’s rare to find experiences in life that mirror the emotions that come with sport.”

Savannah said there was little room for error.

“You have to show up when it matters, and it breaks my heart to realise we couldn’t,” she said.

“I love my team when we win, and my love honestly deepens when

my teammates for our country and inspire. That wasn’t our story this time, but I hope what we displayed to our sporting community will have an inspiring ripple effect.”

Savannah said she hoped that effect sparked young girls to forge their own path in pursuit of their dream.

“Our Olympic campaign is over, however the story of the united, courageous

Savannah Fitzpatrick, Brian Fitzpatrick, Madison Fitzpatrick

By Tonia Dynan AN unheralded but tenacious India side made the biggest upset of the Tokyo 2020 Women’s Hockey Tournament, taking down the undefeated Hockeyroos in the quarter finals.

The world number two side was knocked out of the games in a 1-0 result.

Cabarita Beach Hockeyroo Savannah Fitzpatrick took the loss in her stride.

“If you’ve been following my journey, you’ll know what I mean when I say that I did not think I was to be a Tokyo Olympian,” she said.

“The last few months have been so fast paced and full of pure elation ... now met with a

combination of disbelief and sorrow.

“Since May I’ve had a step-by-step approach, being selected in the Olympic team, making my debut as an Olympian, winning five games, and scoring a goal for my country and finally the last step which we couldn’t complete.

“However, my beloved sport means I’m not out there alone, I share the ride with 17 other girls. I’m just so proud of my teammates and what we’ve achieved in the face of a turbulent year leading into an Olympics.”

A fractured side going into Tokyo, the Hockeyroos had overcome so much to

get there, and the squad pulled together to win all their games leading up to the quarter finals.

“I strongly did not want these tribulations to be the reason for us not achieving our dream, rather I wanted it to be the reason we did achieve our dream,” she said.

“The eruption made us stronger, more courageous and more united than ever. It gave us the tools to begin a successful campaign, making history, winning our first five games.

“The moment our dream came to an end is something I will never forget. It has shaken me more than I knew possible and left me battling to try reason

Fitzpatrick Sisters we lose. When things are tough is an indication of when a great team can remain together.

“There is nothing that can break our solidarity.

‘We are the soil from which the next great chapter of women’s hockey in Australia will emerge’ (recent quote from a wise woman).

“My dream wasn’t to be an Olympian; it was to win gold with

and unapologetic Hockeyroos lives on,” she said.

“This is just the beginning.”

Savannah’s sister and fellow Hockeyroo Madison thanked all her supporters for their love after the loss to India.

“I am so proud and privileged to be a part of this squad,” she said.

“It was not the result we wanted but we stand

tall and together.

“This is not the end, but simply the fuel to our fire.”

The girls are already back on home soil, enduring a stint in quarantine before they can hopefully return to the Tweed to visit proud mum Margie Coleman next week.

The sisters will get back to their roots and inspire the next generation for some coaching sessions at Hockey Tweed, where they are sure to be given a gold-medal-worthy welcome home.

“Obviously when it first happened (the loss) they were just inconsolable,” Margie said.

“I think because they were doing so well, they thought this is our time – we’ve got the quarters and the semis, and then let’s give the Dutch a good run for their money for the gold.

“And we were predicting that. That was their journey, but sometimes destiny has different ideas.

“I told them, even though this game was a loss, it’s a good memory and look at how much you’ve achieved so far. That’s the most successful that any of the teams have ever been in the round games of an Olympic Games.”

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OLYMPIC CHAMP CARISSA MOORE The 2022 WSL CT will include 10 regular-season events in seven countries, starting in January at the world-famous Pipeline in Hawaii, for the first-ever men’s and women’s joint event at that legendary break.

The CT will return to G-Land, Indonesia, which is back on the CT for the first time in 24 years for the men and for the first time ever for the women, and conclude in August at the infamous Teahupo’o in Tahiti before the second-annual Rip Curl WSL Finals in September, where the WSL Final 5 men’s and women’s surfers will face off for the undisputed World Title.

The 2022 CT season will start with 36 men and 18 women, and then be reduced to 22 men and 10 women after the mid-season cut. The topranked surfers will continue on to the second half of the tour (where they will be joined by two men’s and two women’s

Pictured: Olympic champ and WSL frontrunner Carissa Moore Photographer: Cait Miers/WSL

wildcards) and automatically requalify for the 2023 CT. The smaller fields in the back half of the year will create more compact and exciting events, with only the

best conditions in the event window, and more matchups featuring the biggest stars on tour. The surfers who miss the cut will be relegated to the CS, which commences

immediately following CT stop five in Western Australia, where they will have the opportunity to earn back their slot on the following year’s CT.

John John Florence has decided to withdraw from the next two WSL events in Mexico and Tahiti. “This was a really hard decision to make, but I’m not 100% healed from my knee surgery and I’m trying to do the right thing for my future health and goals.

The opportunity to surf in Tokyo was once in a lifetime, and a risk I was willing to take.

But looking at the rest of the year and talking with my medical team the best step forward is continuing with physical therapy for the next 60 days. I want to make sure there is nothing that keeps me from competing, and surfing the way I want to in the long term. With all that said, I’ll be ready to go for the Pipe Masters and excited to compete! Good luck to everyone still in the World Title race — it’s gonna be an exciting end to the year!”

MORE FUNDING FOR SURF NEW SHADES OF GREEN AT LISMORE LIFE SAVING ON THE TWEED WORKERS SPORTS BOWLS CLUB

The Tweed Coast will continue to be safer with Tweed Shire Council awarding a new five year surf lifesaving contract to Surf Life Saving Services Pty Ltd, NSW. Known as Australian Lifeguard Services, Council

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will pay the charity-run organisation $841,500 (inclusive of GST) for the first year with further years subject to an annual increase of CPI or 2.5% whichever is greater.

The Tweed Shire has 37 kilometres of coastline with surf lifesaving clubs operating at Fingal Head, Cudgen Headland/Kingscliff, Salt (South Kingscliff) and Cabarita Beach.

Patrolled Tweed beaches include Letitia, Kingscliff, South Kingscliff, Casuarina, Bogangar, Cabarita, Cudgera, Pottsville, Mooball/Pottsville South and Wooyung beaches with some patrols to start as early as next month with the Spring school holidays from September 18.

LISMORE Workers Sports Bowls Club is receiving $311,700 from the NSW Government to install a new synthetic needle punched mat and construct a retractable shade cover over the bowling green.

The Regional Sport Facilities Fund is helping local organisations provide sporting infrastructure that will meet the current and future needs of the community and encourage participation in local sport.

Local Member of the Legislative Council Ben Franklin said this was a major boost for Lismore.

“Bowls is a game that can be played and enjoyed by any age group and it is becoming an increasingly popular activity both socially and competitively,” Mr Franklin said.

“To have a brand-new mat that will meet the needs and expectations of current and

future players is fantastic.

“The retractable shade cover will also be ideal to ensure players can enjoy the game whilst protecting them from the harsh sun in summer.

“The Club is at the heart of the local community and is the choice gathering spot for many meetings, social events and celebrations.”

Mr Franklin said the new mat and shade cover would make the club an even better place to come together and he was sure locals were already looking forward to bowling on the new green.

Minister for Sport Natalie Ward said the Regional Sport Facility Fund would help promote healthy lifestyles across regional NSW while stimulating local economies and boosting employment.

“The NSW Government recognises investing in new and existing sports facilities plays

a vital role in improving the health and wellbeing of NSW residents,” Mrs Ward said.

“The Regional Sport Facility Fund will promote improved health and wellbeing and create a construction boom across regional NSW as part of the NSW Government’s multi-billion-dollar infrastructure pipeline.”

The grant was part of Round One of the NSW Government’s Regional Sport Facility Fund which will see $50 million awarded over two years for new and upgraded sports facilities in regional NSW. Albert Park in Lismore was also given $872,885 for accessibility improvements and the Mullumbimby Brunswick Valley Football Club was given $431,954 to upgrade the playing surface of the field and replace existing floodlights with sustainable LED lights.

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GHOSTS NAIL MINOR TITLE, REBELS SECURE HOME SEMI from back page game.

By Tim Howard Both Grafton’s Group 2 Rugby League teams achieved their aims in the final match of the competition before the semifinals begin on Saturday.

The games were part of the catch-up of the washed out round 11, but they were vital to the Grafton Ghosts and South Grafton Rebels.

For the Grafton Ghosts the thrilling 20-19 win of Bellingen/Dorrigo confirmed the minor premiership and gave them a vital week off before the major semi-final.

For the Rebels’ 24-10 victory over the Macksville Sea Eagles was vital to give the team a home game in Saturday’s elimination semi-final.

For the Ghosts it continued a season where at least five games were won or lost in the dying stages.

As was the case in the round 13 heartstopper against Macksville, when skipper Todd Cameron grabbed an intercept and scored in the final minute, the captain stepped up the mark on Sunday to hand his team the minor premiership, slotting a pressure penalty to put his team ahead with minutes remaining on the clock.

For the Magpies players, who lost another tight game against the Ghosts 12-10 earlier in the season, it must have seem like deja vu.

Ghosts electric fullback Mitch Lollback attempts to break the Bellingen defence at Frank McGuren Field on Sunday. Photo Amy Hodge.

The teams were lock at 10-10 at half time and traded points in the second half until a drop goal looked like getting the visitors home.

Instead the nerveless Cameron slotted the winner and the Ghosts dug deep in the final minutes to hold onto their advantage.

After the game the skipper said the win was vital.

“It’s what we wanted,” he said. “We need the week off.

“I would like to say we’ve got some big names coming back for the finals, but I’m not too sure.”

Cameron said he would be reluctant about making too many changes at this stage in the season.

“The players who got us here deserve their spots in the team,” he said. “I don’t think it would help the side to make too many changes now.

“But having some experienced players available in the finals is not the worst position to be in.

“It will be a difficult call and I’ll be the one who has to make it.”

At McKittrick Park the Rebels withstood a strong opening from Macksville conceding an early lead before fighting back to lead 14-10 at half time.

Winger Matt Dalton and right centre Greg Davis were instrumental in the fightback.

Dalton scored the Rebel’s

first try of the game, when Davis put him outside his opposite number and he beat the cover defence to the corner.

Then the lanky Dalton soared above the pack to tap back a perfectly-weighted Hughie Stanley kick to find Davis, who touched down in virtually the same spot.

Stanley gave his team the lead just before half time with a brilliant individual try, powering through tackles and bumping off players to score near the posts.

It was a good win for the Rebels, missing their captain coach Roy Bell, who took the week off to nurse a sore knee.

“It’s nothing, just a precaution,” he said after

But he found out there was a plenty of leadership potential in the team.

“I decided to put the C (captain) beside Hughie’s name and he didn’t let me down,” he said.

“He led them round the field and his kicking game was excellent.”

Bell also paid tribute to another powerhouse game from ever green backrower Grant Stevens.

“Stump was inspirational,” he said. “But he’s like that every week. He’s what the Rebels are all about.”

Just in the first half Stevens pulled off a several bellringers, but in one set of six just before the break he was unbelievable.

In four tackles he made three punishing hits, then pulled off a classic round-the-legs tackle to down a flying centre.

It was the type of defence that lifts a team and resulted in the Rebels keeping their visitors scoreless in the second half.

The Rebels also blooded another youngster, Cooper Makings, in the hooking role.

“He played 60 minutes and was really solid,” Bell said.

“He carried himself really well.”

Bell said he would be back to play Bellingen in the elimination final at McKittrick Park on Saturday.

“It’s going to be a tough one,” he said. “Everyone lifts for the semi-finals and we will need to be at our best.”

REDMEN REMAIN IN THE HUNT AFTER GRITTY WIN OVER WHALERS

By Gary Nichols

Redmen players were battered, exhausted, but never beaten, recording an epic 14-7 win over the Evans River Whalers in the Coopers Far North Coast President’s Cup minor semi-final on Saturday.

It was a lion-hearted victory to the home side who refused to buckle against a wave of Whalers attack in the dying minutes of the game.

With a mountain of possession and territory, Evans threw everything they had at the Redmen who continued to scramble against the visitor’s flair and speed out wide.

The game was worthy of semi-final football with fierce forward exchanges, slick backline moves and wonderful counter-attack from both sides.

However, the game was racked by controversy with several yellow cards and one red card handed out by the referee.

It took 20-minutes for Grafton to draw first blood when cult hero Billy Whalan

Redmen cult hero Billy Whalan reaches out to plant the ball over the line for Grafton’s first try in the semi-final win over the Evans Head Whalers. reached out like Inspector Gadget to plant the ball on the chalk after Grafton won a scrum against the feed.

Guy Robertson made no mistake with the conversion to give his side a 7-0 lead.

Evans continued to play expansive rugby but failed to execute the final pass which would have seen them the close the gap on the scoreboard.

Another error from the Whalers saw Grafton stretch their advantage to 14-points when winger Dom Bullock found space down the right touchline to score a brilliant individual try.

Robertson’s conversion sailed between the uprights to give his side plenty of breathing space at the break.

Evans continued to push the passes and it paid dividends

early in the second-half when captain Max Pye scored next to the uprights.

The game suddenly swung in the Whalers favour as they continued to stretch Grafton’s tiring defence.

The visitors looked like scoring on several occasions but lacked that cutting edge in the clutch moments.

In the final wash-up Grafton’s win was full of grit,

while Evans were left to rue missed opportunities.

Redmen coach Jack Anderson was a relieved man after the game.

“Yeah, there were a few nervous moments, but we get to come back next week, so I’m pretty happy,” Anderson said after the game.

“I thought our scrum was pretty good but our line-out was a bit up and down, but we’ll work on that next week.”

Grafton made plenty of changes after the break with players playing out of position and the bench working overtime.

“That was part of the game plan, to use our full bench and rotate our players and keep fresh legs,” Anderson confirmed “The boys did well under pressure, and we never gave up and kept on tackling.

“A couple of yellow cards didn’t help but in the end we’re very happy to come away with the win against a quality side like Evans.”

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Ghosts backrower Justin King made a huge impact running the ball in defence coming off the bench against Bellingen on Sunday. Photo: Amy Hodge

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