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TITLED the ‘top end’ of Jonson Street Byron Bay, August 2021, there are no people, cars, industry or buzz, a far cry from just weeks, months, years ago... Lockdown has transformed the iconic tourist town into a ghost town, but a telling sign too locals are doing what is asked and staying at home.

Speaking of signs, only in Byron Bay would one expect to see one such as this (pictured, right).

IN a national first, the Queensland Government is requiring mandatory vaccination for any essential worker who crosses the Qld-NSW border for work.

Making the announcement at the start of the week, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said all essential workers who needed to cross the border in either direction must have at least one shot of either Pfizer or Astra Zeneca vaccine by Friday, August 20.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the result was fantastic, but she warned the risk of the virus entering Queensland was still present and her government was taking every precaution.

“The positive sewage testing for Delta has been creeping northwards, so we are very concerned,” she said.

“Every Queenslander would understand that these measures are needed. They are strict. We will be enforcing them. We apologise for the inconvenience,” Premier Palaszczuk said.

Queensland’s Chief Health Officer Dr Jeanette Young said most of the workers affected by the directive would likely have already had at least one dose of vaccine, as there had been pushes to get essential workers vaccinated since February.

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COVID LOCKDOWN UPDATES Bid to move border checkpoint south of Tweed THE Mayor of Tweed Cr Chris Cherry has met with Cross Border Commissioner James McTavish seeking to move the current Covid-19 checkpoint at Tweed Heads-Coolangatta to a more practical location further south of Tweed River.

With more than 16,000 people trying to cross each day for work, Mayor Cherry said a solution was desperately needed, and urged NSW and Queensland governments work together on relocating the checkpoint.

“That allows our community to operate with South East Queensland... and that would be 16,000 people able to continue working if this lockdown is extended and so many more families who can continue their normal daily lives in a time when life is anything but,” Cr Chris Cherry said.

Queensland Premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk said her government was “still in discussions about the Tweed River issue” which she said Queensland had supported in the past, leaving it now to “the discretion of the NSW Government.”

Frustration as tight border controls grip commuters COMMUTERS on the Tweed-Gold Coast border reported wait times of up to three hours on major arterials into Queensland, only for some NSW residents to be turned away.

Local social media sites blew up early this week with posts by bewildered border residents sharing daunting experiences; “When border controls go badly wrong. Currently there is zero cases of community transmission on the Northern Rivers and Tweed. Zero.

Yet as of today QLD is literally turning around anyone trying to cross the ‘border’ except emergency services staff or people with a medical emergency. This means thousands of workers in building, teaching, cleaning, retail etc are being sent home. This then makes things harder and less functional in QLD as employers scramble to fill those roles.

They are not even letting local farmers take their produce to the morning wholesale market,” Glenn Woods posted on Monday morning.

Other commuters were succinct: “3 hour wait at least, now.”

“Don’t bother they are turning everyone around. My partner sat in line for two hours only to get turned around.”

“Hope you packed a picnic lunch.”

Concerningly, border residents reported medical appointment cancellations in the fall out from Queensland’s tough new border entry requirements, “My friend had one on Wednesday at Robina, she has been told not to go she will not be able to get over the border.

Her appointment has been cancelled (it was for a post op procedure for cancer.)”

Residents are reminded to keep personal, address and all official work and medical appointment details on them if trying to cross the border.

Businesses can accept new customer check-in card THE Covid-19 check-in card is a hard copy card with an encrypted, unique QR code that contains a customer’s registered contact details.

A customer can present their card at a participating business for the business to scan the QR code.

Once the QR code is scanned, the customer’s registered contact details automatically fill in the Service NSW business online webform, allowing fast and easy electronic registration.

Alternatively, if a customer is able to self-serve, they can scan their QR code and check themselves in.

Businesses need to be using their unique Service NSW online webform.

The unique online webform URL is among the package of resources a business receives when they register as COVID Safe.

You can retrieve your online webform from your Business Resources page. There is a Guide for Businesses and a communication toolkit which contains information and promotional material for the COVID19 check-in card. For more information, please see www.service.nsw.gov.au.

Lismore medical practice employee close contact THE Keen Street Clinic in Lismore has advised on social media that it has received notification that an employee is a close contact of a known Covid case. A number of other employees of the clinic have been identified as secondary close contacts.

The practice has contacted public health and is following the testing and isolation advice for those staff members. The clinic is advising that some appointments will be rescheduled and will be in contact with patients as soon as possible. The practice has not identified any risk to any patient.

Unexpected treat from Selfish Fish n Chips in the queue to the border. Pic: Janet Ahrens

Un-Selfish fish ‘n’ chips, free serves for queueing motorists IT’S those little acts of kindness that go a long way, well not too long a way if stuck in the slow-moving traffic to the border at Tweed Heads, but a free serve of fish and chips certainly helped!

Selfish Fish n Chips may be ‘Selfish’ by name but its actions along the congested queue on Monday morning were anything but and provided a little cheer – and sustenance to commuters as they waited hours to clear the border checkpoint or were turned back.

Letia from Selfish Fish n Chips told The Northern Rivers Times that with trade affected by strict border-crossing conditions, they decided to share a little local kindness... and a lot of calamari, fish bites and hot chips.

EDITORIAL - The Northern Rivers Times team are so impressed with this show of kindness and community spirit that if border queues are continuing by the time this issue is published we will have our staff out offering free newspapers to motorists to bide the time in the queue.

“We aren’t going to get much business so instead of wasting food, we’re handing it out!” she said.

Owner, Adrian Wright, declined to comment, too busy working on the next generous move.

Pharmacies almost set to deliver vaccine The new pharmacies signed up to deliver the vaccine in Lismore/ Ballina/Casino are: • Lismore Central Chempro – 02 6621 9159; • Lismore Square Priceline Pharmacy – 02 6621 2218;

• Lismore Woodlark Chempro Chemist – 02 6621 5212; • Southside Pharmacy Lismore – 02 6621 4500; • Mcdonalds Pharmacy Casino – 02 6662 1036; • Scrivener & Webb

Chemist Casino – 02 6662 1202; • East Ballina Pharmacy – 02 6681 4446; • Lennox Head Chempro Chemist – 02 5622 6050; and • Terry White Chemmart Ballina – 02 6686 8800.

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Whale entangled off Snapper Rocks

By Margaret Dekker A YOUNG whale is moving south along the East Coast with buoys and chain reportedly attached to its body, after a ‘harrowing’ rescue from entanglement in sharknets off Coolangatta-Tweed Heads last week.

The two-day rescue operation performed by Queensland Fisheries’ Marine Animal Rescue Team and Sea World staff from last Wednesday, August 11, left the juvenile male distressed and injured. Sea Shepherd’s shark campaigner, Jonathan Clark, told The Northern Rivers Times the whale’s chance of survival is bleak.

“This whale is swimming against the odds, it has suffered 40 hours of rescue attempt, it has spent energy and is now injured, when these kind of events happen it has a huge impact on them,” he said.

The whale was released but with a length of anchor chain and three large, heavy buoys still tangled around its lower tail area. The buoys were deflated by rescue teams, to help the whale dive.

“But it’s still going to have drag, and that chain is going to make a lot of noise in the water and as it hits reef and rocks, attracting predators,” Jonathan said.

He said the two-day two-night operation was an extremely difficult and dangerous rescue attempt, “These people put their lives on the line when doing this rescue work, that was an impossible task. These rescues ought to be a thing of the past, especially when consideration is given to the modern technology available to enhance beach safety

The juvenile whale may’ve dragged the shark net from Coolangatta to Snapper Rocks on August 11.

Photo: Scott Wilson Imagery

without impacting on these magnificent creatures.”

Sea Shepherd Australia says multiple lives are at risk by using shark nets; swimmers, surfers, whales and other marine life including rays, dolphins and turtles; and de-entanglement teams.

“The Queensland Government may not use harpoons, but their pointless killing nets do the same job in a far more cruel and barbaric way, strangling and suffocating for hours on end until one of our iconic Australian Humpbacks draws its last breath. Or in this case with the whale lost, we have ropes acting like razor blades, continuing to tighten and

cut deep into the whale’s tail region, disabling its ability to swim and outrun predators, thereby a death sentence to this whale from the Qld Government,” Jeff Hansen, managing director of Sea Shepherd Australia said.

The ocean protection organisation says the solution to shark control can be much more simple; use drones, eco-shark barriers and a comprehensive education program, teaching locals and tourists alike about shark awareness and safety.

“In 2021, we don’t have to choose between keeping our loved ones safe or precious marine life, we can do both with modern-day non-lethal

and effective shark mitigation solutions. We encourage the Queensland Government to stand on the right side of history, to be a world leader in shark mitigation and embrace the real solutions available today and leave the current lethal ineffective methods where they belong, in the past, “We believe they’ve already got the science, they don’t have the guts to do it,” Jonathan Clark said.

Sea Shepherd and ORCA volunteers (whale, dolphin, seal and dugong rescue) dotted along the Eastern Seaboard were on alert over the weekend, looking for the stricken whale and signs of it coming to shore, distressed.

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Over 20,000 whales travel from Antarctica to warm water in north Queensland every year between April and November. Jonathan Clark wonders if this is in fact the first whale entangled in Queensland’s permanent shark nets this year, as he says Government data is difficult to collect.

“Queensland won’t give us that data, but we know it happens. The question is, is this the first time?” he asked.

“Whales suffer the same fear of drowning as humans.

This poor whale definitely suffered as witnesses heard his cries from the beach early on Wednesday morning,” Jonathan said.

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Regions join Sydney in state of lockdown

By Margaret Dekker

and rural supplies can stay open; newsagents, pet supplies, THE entire state is in lockdown office supplies, baby supplies, as of 5pm last Saturday August medical or pharmaceutical 14 after NSW had its “worst supplies can trade and vehicle day” of the pandemic, 17 hire premises, phone repair months on, recording 4 deaths shops, service stations, banks, and 466 COVID-19 positive post offices, laundromats and cases with 42 of those in the drycleaners. regions.

Schools across the state will Deputy Premier, Nationals be closed, early childhood MP John Barilaro announced education and care services may the snap lockdown via social remain open but for children media last Saturday afternoon, whose parents cannot work shortly before it took effect. from home.

“To minimise movement and Regional residents must stay protect our communities from within their Local Government the evolving COVID situation Area or within five kilometres in Sydney, stay-at-home-orders of their residence if entering a will be introduced for all of neighbouring LGA. Regional NSW from 5pm Funerals in Regional NSW tonight,” Mr Barilaro wrote last are permitted but with just 10 Saturday. people permitted to attend.

This lock down of Regional Proof of address must be NSW is expected to last at least carried at all times. one-week.

Such fundamental changes For Northern Rivers residents to regional life announced via in Lismore, Ballina, Byron a niche social media ap less and Richmond Valley LGAs, than two hours beforehand an existing lockdown due to left many unimpressed. The end Tuesday this week is now Premier, Gladys Berejiklian extended until at least 12:01am released her media statement on Sunday, August 22. about the broader lockdown The order specifies: also on Twitter, less than 90 Reasonable excuses to minutes before ordering some 8 leave home include shopping million NSW residents to stay for essentials, medical care, at home. A formal statement caregiving, outdoor exercise was not issued by NSW Health with a member of the same until after 3pm. household or one other person, “It is important that and work if it’s not practicable announcements that have such to work from home; a big impact on the people of No visitors to the home – no New South Wales are made family or friends, but one from official government visitor can fulfil a carers’ and health sources,” NSW responsibilities or visit if Opposition Leader, Chris a non-resident partner of a Minns said at the time. relationship; Social media lit up with All hospitality is closed disbelief at the way the except for takeaway; regional lockdown was All retail must close except introduced and explained, for supermarkets, grocery stores some claiming the Premier including butchers, bakeries, would’ve already known about fruit and vegetable, seafood. it by her 11am press conference Bottle Shops can sell take away. that day.

Kiosks, hardware/building “A lot of older people aren’t supplies, landscaping, garden on social media, but they watch

including anyone who resides anywhere in the border zone – to only enter Queensland for essential reasons which include: Obtaining essential goods and services that can’t reasonably be obtained in NSW; attend permitted work (definition below) or emergency volunteering; attend school or childcare but only for essential workers who must transport their child/children to the school or childcare facility; provide assistance, care or support to a vulnerable person or visit a terminally ill relative; fulfil an obligation relating to shared parenting, child Hectic. Woolworths panic contact or contact between buying in Coffs Harbour last siblings; obtain medical care Saturday afternoon. or supplies or other health care services, including a scheduled their local news,” one woman COVID-19 vaccination, which said. cannot reasonably be obtained Another asked: “Are they within New South Wales; seriously locking down all an emergency situation; for of NSW without a press safety reasons (to avoid injury conference?” or illness, or to escape a risk “NSW health website isn’t of harm, including domestic even updated yet. How will violence.) people know. Not everyone is Permitted work in on the internet. Shameful.”

Queensland is narrowed to A one-day ‘grace period’ three categories: for safety was given last weekend, until reasons, emergency repairs and 12.01am Monday, for planned what is necessary to maintain weddings and funerals in essential services and supplies regions not already in lockdown to the community or part of the but only with guests from community including: ‘unlocked’ areas.

• A medical practitioner or other With the government giving prescribed health practitioner under two hours’ notice before (including at residential aged Saturday’s lockdown kicked care facilities, disability in, panic buying overwhelmed accommodation services and supermarkets and bottle shops aged care or NDIS supports that afternoon with queues long, provided to a person’s home) tempers flared and essentials • an emergency health services like toilet paper and paper again or emergency services stripped from the shelves like worker, national defence, seen when the pandemic first state security or police gripped in March, 2020. worker; • a freight or logistics operator; ‘Border Bubble’ pops • an emergency infrastructure For at least one week from worker; 8pm Saturday, August 14, • air crew or maritime crew; Queensland requires any • an emergency volunteer; New South Wales resident – • a disaster management

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Work that is not permitted in Queensland by New South Wales residents includes: teachers, anyone who can perform their work remotely at home, childcare workers, hospitality workers, sales representatives and commercial construction workers on noncritical projects “These two aspects are going to have a huge impact on our Shire,” Tweed Mayor Cr Chris Cherry told The Northern Rivers Times.

Richmond MP, Justine Elliot wrote on her social media advice to ensure medical appointments in Queensland, “I have confirmed that people are permitted to cross to Qld for medical care, but it is advisable they bring evidence of their appointment when they come to cross the border,” Ms Elliot stated.

It’s currently not possible to enter Queensland to attend a wedding or funeral, exercise, holiday or spectate at professional sporting events, attend the cinema or a tourist experience.

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Hospital restrictions and sewage testing results NORTHERN Rivers residents are being urged, if they have the slightest of symptoms to get tested.

This call has been made by Northern NSW Local Health District (NNLHD) after positive sewage detections of Covid have been made at Lennox Head and Ballina.

Positive detections were found in samples from 12 August at the Lennox Head sewage treatment plant, which serves about 7,700 people, and the Ballina plant, which serves about 31,100 people.

Acting chief executive Ms Lynne Weir said while no new confirmed cases of Covid-19 have been reported among residents of the district, these detections indicated the virus could be circulating in the area.

“It remains very important that anyone who has any symptoms or is a close or casual contact of a person with Covid-19, isolates and is tested immediately,” Ms Weir said.

“Testing and contact tracing are amongst the most effective tools for controlling spread of the virus.

“When testing clinics are busy, please ensure you stay in line, identify yourself to staff and tell them that you have symptoms or are a contact of a case.”

Ms Weir said as well as being present in stools, viral fragments can enter the sewer when washed off hands and bodies through sinks and showers.

NSW Health has advised that Covid-19 fragments have also been detected at the South Lismore Sewerage Treatment Plant.

“While there are known cases in Lismore, NSW Health is also urging local residents to be vigilant in the region as the South Lismore sewage treatment plant has detected fragments of the virus that causes Covid-19,” a NSW Health spokesperson said.

“If you are directed to get tested for Covid 19 or selfisolate at any time, you must follow the rules whether or not the venue or exposure setting is listed on the NSW Health website.

“It remains vital that anyone who has any symptoms or is a close or casual contact of a person with Covid-19, isolates and is tested immediately.

“When testing clinics are busy, please ensure you stay in line, identify yourself to staff and tell them that you have

symptoms or are a contact of a case.”

Two cases have been confirmed by NSW Health and are currently at Lismore Base Hospital.

Hospital visits Health facilities across the Northern NSW Local Health District have also tightened, to protect patients and staff, according to Ms Weir.

“Visitors are not permitted at facilities across the district unless they receive an

exemption from the health facility,” Ms Weir said.

“An example of an exemption would be for compassionate reasons related to a patient receiving end-oflife care.

“Any visitors who receive an exemption will need to comply with the entry and screening requirements, including checking in with QR codes and wearing a mask.

“Women accessing birthing services can nominate one support person during labour, birth and post-delivery, without requiring an exemption.”

For detailed information, visit https://www.nsw.gov.au/ covid-19/rules.

NNSWLHD is also urging people to check the Commonwealth Government’s https://www.health.gov.au/ resources/apps-and-tools/covid19-vaccine-eligibilitychecker and, if eligible, to book an appointment for a vaccination as soon as possible.

HOW PREPARED IS LISMORE FOR AN OUTBREAK?

By Samantha Elley AS residents of the Northern Rivers went into lockdown last week, due to the diagnosis of at least two Covid cases in Byron Bay, the question that must have been on many minds: How prepared is our hospital system if a large cluster of cases grows in our area?

Lynne Weir, acting chief executive of the Northern NSW Local Health District (NNLHD) said they have a detailed escalation and surge plan for Covid-positive patients should the need arise in the area.

“In our district there are more than 20 intensive care beds spread across our three major hospitals in Grafton, Lismore and Tweed, with plans in place to surge staffing and intensive care capacity, if and when required, across all our health facilities,” she said.

“Throughout the early stages of the pandemic, we sourced additional equipment, including ventilators, in the event it’s required for any surge in intensive care patients that may occur in our region.

Ms Weir said they regularly review stock and supply chains of resources, including PPE and pharmacy items, to ensure adequate supplies.

She also said since the beginning of the pandemic,

Northern Rivers, they turned out in droves to get tested.

Over the three days from Tuesday, August 10 to Thursday, August 12 there were 7,299 tests conducted across the four hospital-based testing clinics and six drive through clinics from Grafton to Tweed Heads, according to NNLHD numbers.

Those figures do not include the multiple other pathology, Julie Sturgess, chief executive, respiratory and GP testing clinics.

Healthy North Coast, Source: “We are extremely pleased HNC with the high numbers of the NNLHD has been actively people turning out for testing increasing its staffing and across our region at the upskilling its workforce in moment,” said Ms Weir. readiness to care for Covid-19 Additional testing clinics patients in the Northern Rivers. have since been established, “An additional 62 nurses including new drive through were recruited across the clinics in Casino and district, including assistants in Bangalow, to cater for the nursing, enrolled nurses and surge in numbers. registered nurses,” Ms Weir Wait time for results has said. averaged around the 24-48 “Additional training hour period. programs were developed for “As has been the case nurses, midwives and allied throughout this pandemic, our health staff, with more than public health response relies 265 staff attending surge on immense team efforts, and training in intensive care, we commend health staff right emergency and immunisation across the district,” Ms Weir specialties to provide said. additional capacity to care for patients.”

Vaccinations According to Healthy North Covid testing Coast, nearly 195,000 As soon as residents were Covid-19 vaccine doses have aware that Covid had hit the been injected into the arms

in vaccinations and I encourage people in all areas to get the jab to protect themselves and their community,’ Healthy North Coast chief executive Julie Sturgess said.

“Our second dose rate is a little bit lower than the NSW and national average, but it is increasing in line with supply availability.

“It’s also in line with other regional areas in NSW. This Lynne Weir, acting chief may be because in outbreak executive, Northern NSW areas like Sydney, second Local Health District. Source: AstraZeneca doses are being NNLHD brought forward, so people are getting them more quickly than of Northern Rivers residents, here.” which is on par with the Ms Sturgess encouraged national and state averages. residents who have had their The Australian government’s first shot, to ensure they get most recent geographic their second shot for maximum vaccination rates show more protection. than 45% of the eligible North “The recommended dose Coast population has had one interval is 12 weeks for vaccine dose, compared to 46% AstraZeneca and 3-6 weeks for of the eligible NSW population Pfizer,” she said. and 44% Australia-wide.

“The interval for Within the region, first dose AstraZeneca can be shortened rates are: in an outbreak area, based on • Mid North Coast – 49.2%; a recommendation from the • Coffs Harbour-Grafton Australian Technical Advisory 44.4%; and Group on Immunisation, but • Richmond-Tweed – 42.5%. this has not yet happened in Nearly 20% of the eligible northern NSW.” North Coast population has In the week to 10 received their second dose, August, 11,741 doses were compared to 23% in NSW and administered in the Healthy 22.5% overall in Australia.

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LOCAL POLICE BEAT Operation STAY AT HOME

safety of everyone, and this operation THE NSW Police Force launched significantly strengthens those efforts.”

Operation STAY AT HOME from Anyone who has information 12.01am Monday 16 August, in a regarding individuals or businesses in significant boost to public health order contravention of a COVID-19-related enforcement efforts across the state. ministerial direction is urged to The operation will utilise resources contact Crime Stoppers: https://nsw. from all Police Districts and Police crimestoppers.com.au. Information is Area Commands under Metropolitan treated in strict confidence. The public and Regional Field Operations is reminded not to report crime via alongside officers attached to Traffic NSW Police social media pages. and Highway Patrol Command, Police Transport Command, Dog and Men charged for breaching Mounted Unit, and a number of other Public Health Order specialist commands as required.

A man has been charged for breaching Significantly, 1400 officers the Public Health Order after leaving attached to Traffic and Highway Sydney and visiting Byron Bay and Patrol Command will be dedicated surrounding areas. to both static and mobile COVID-19 Officers from Richmond and Tweed/ compliance operations on the state’s Byron Police Districts commenced an roads. investigation after receiving reports a A further 500 Australian Defence man and family members had travelled Force troops, in addition to the 300 to Northern NSW in late July. already deployed, will assist with A 52-year-old Rose Bay man has compliance checks and patrols. previously been charged in relation to Operation STAY AT HOME will be breaching the Public Health Order; he coordinated from the Police Operations remains before the courts.

Centre (POC) in Sydney under Following further extensive the command of Acting Assistant inquiries, on Thursday 12 August, Commissioner Andrew Holland.

Tweed/Byron PD officers issued Minister for Police and Emergency a 19-year-old man with a Court Services David Elliott said the NSW Attendance Notice for four offences, Government was supporting the including: Commissioner’s call for assistance in • fail to comply with noticed direction the most practical way. re section 7/8/9 – COVID-19 – “The Commissioner asked individual; for tighter Public Health Orders • fail to comply with electronic and the government agreed, the registration directive – individual Commissioner asked for higher fines (two counts); and and the Government agreed, and the • not wear fitted face covering in Commissioner asked for more ADF public transport/taxi. personnel and we have an additional Police will allege the 19-year-old 500 highly-trained ADF personnel Rose Bay man travelled from Sydney arriving to assist,” Mr Elliott said. to the Byron Bay area in company of “We’ve had to tighten the current the related 52-year-old Rose Bay man public health orders because of the facing similar charges. minority who exploited them. Enough He is due to appear at Byron Bay is enough. If you do it, you will get Local Court on Monday 27 September fined.

2021.

“The only way out of this Inquiries are ongoing.

COVID-19 crisis is if we support each other and support the NSW Police-led Fatal motorcycle crash, Tugun compliance operation, Operation A 25-year-old Tweed man has died STAY AT HOME.” after his motorcycle collided with a Deputy Commissioner Mick Willing, water truck on the Pacific Highway Regional NSW Field Operations, said at Tugun early Wednesday morning, preventing movement to regional areas August 11. from Sydney, and between regional Queensland Police say preliminary areas, would be a key focus of the information indicates around 6.30am operation. the two northbound vehicles were “There will be more roadblocks involved in a nose to tail collision on on main arterial roads and backroads the M1. from tomorrow, and these operations The male rider sustained critical will continue to expand throughout injuries and passed away at the scene. this week in order to enforce the The driver of the truck, a 35-year-old permit system announced by the NSW man, was not physically injured.

Government this morning,” Deputy Gold Coast District Forensic Crash Commissioner Willing said.

Unit are investigating the incident and “There will be nowhere to hide if appealing for any witnesses or anyone you are doing the wrong thing. If you with relevant dashcam footage to travel anywhere beyond your LGA at contact them. the moment, you are putting everyone else in NSW at considerable risk.

Anyone with information about these incidents are urged to contact “From the start, this has been Crime Stoppers: 1800 333 000 or https://nsw.crimestoppers.com.au. about reducingismovement Information treated inacross strictthe confidence. The public is reminded not to state and report protecting the health and information via NSW Police social media pages.

Police out and about to keep region safe

By Samantha Elley

RESIDENTS on the Northern Rivers will notice a larger police presence, according to Assistant Commissioner, Peter McKenna, Commander of the Northern Region.

“You will see more police out and about to make sure people are safe and complying with public health orders,” he said today at a press conference in Newcastle.

With a 7-day lockdown issued to the Byron, Ballina, Lismore and Richmond Valley local government areas until August 17, the commissioner is asking for co-operation from Northern Rivers residents.

“We are used to banding together in times of crisis,” he said.

“The police operation so far has really ramped up.

“For example we’ve now got a border operation up and down the whole of the North Coast. We have stopped nearly 400 vehicles, not just on the main M1 but also the arterial roads.

“We have so far issued 15 infringement notices and turned some

cars back.”

In regards to the man who recently visited Byron Bay from Sydney, who tested positive to COVID causing the 7 day lockdown, Commissioner McKenna said contract tracers and police are conducting a thorough investigation.

“If any breaches of the public health orders have happened, then police will deal with that,” he said.

“The investigation is ongoing but at this stage no charges have been laid as yet.”

Commissioner McKenna said he encouraged members of the public to contact police, either through Crime Stoppers or their local police if they see breaches of public health orders being undertaken.

New recruits welcomed

TEN new police officers will join the Northern Rivers ranks as the NSW Police Force swore in 182 recruits on Friday Four probationary constables will be assigned to Coffs/Clarence police district, four to the Richmond district and two to Tweed/Byron.

Minister for Police and Emergency Services David Elliott congratulated the recruits who are starting their new careers in times of unprecedented challenges “Congratulations to the men and women of class 348, who graduate today and will join the NSW Police Force when it most needs versatile, adaptable officers,” Mr Elliott said.

“The career path you embark on today will test your courage, your resilience and your decision-making.

“You are joining a police family of more than 17,000; a modern, wellequipped force focused on driving down crime rates and protecting the community.

“The NSW Government will be there, too, to support you and ensure you have world-class training, and the

technology and resources you need to best serve the people of NSW.” NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller welcomed the new probationary constables acknowledging they’re commencing a challenging career at a challenging time.

“The pandemic is impacting many aspects of our lives but as police, we have taken an oath – a promise – to protect and serve the people of this state while exercising the highest level of integrity,” Commissioner Fuller said.

“Despite the challenges ahead, our newest recruits can expect a rewarding career and will have the camaraderie and guidance of their new policing family every step of the way.

“I hope these officers are as proud to join the NSW Police Force as I am to swear them in. I’m looking forward to seeing them out on the beat.”

Class 348 includes 121 men and 61 women. Twenty-three recruits were born overseas.

Six recruits are indigenous, with two recruits joining through the Indigenous Police Recruitment Our Way Delivery (IPROWD) program.

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“A BIT LIKE CHILDBIRTH” SAYS COUNCILLOR OF DELIVERING NEW HOUSING IN THE TWEED

By Margaret Dekker A PLANNING amendment will see 96 small homes built on-site at a Tweed Heads South Over-50s housing estate, after heated debate in a Tweed Council meeting which also challenged the notion of housing affordability in the shire and how to achieve it.

Council voted 5-2 to approve the amendment to a $13.8 million ‘GemLife’ development by Gth Resorts No14 P/L of Burleigh Town which will see 96 of the mostly three-bedroom homes, now built on-site over 3 stages at Fraser Drive Tweed Heads South.

“It’s a bit like childbirth, if you want the actual outcome at the end, you have to go through the pain and that’s what we need to do .. be supportive of these things and not drag them out for ever and a day,” Cr Pryce Allsop told councillors.

A staff report recommended the ‘manufactured homes be erected progressively within the manufactured home estate’ but Cr Chris Cherry (mayor) and Cr Katie Milne motioned they be built off-site sparing nearby residents noise and dust, a bid which failed.

Cr Ron Cooper said the real issue is not where the homes are built but housing affordability and said Local Government must turn to the Federal Government as it’s pointless relying on developers for change when manufactured homes start at $550-600 thousand dollars.

30 Fraser Drive, Tweed Heads South. “A whole new life starts here.”

96 homes will be built on-site, saving on costs.

“It’s just fiddling at the edges, that’s what’s annoying me, we’ve got to do a lot more than that to get the Government to take notice and it’s got to be argument, it’s got to be working with ministers,” Cr Cooper said.

Cr Warren Polglase said building the homes on-site would shave $50 thousand dollars off their market price, thus improving affordability.

A claim Cr Katie Milne rebuffed, “In fact it’s quite unusual I would say that that would be passed on to the prospective home owner, it would go straight into the developer’s pocket,” Cr Milne said.

Mayor, Cr Chris Cherry said local residents should be spared the construction disturbance, “That’s nearly two years of

construction noise for people, for the neighbours, for the people who start living there.

It’s not what the manufactured home estate legislation is trying to achieve,” Cr Milne said.

However Cr Pryce Allsop said this argument would not hold up in court, given similar disturbances occur with other building developments in the Tweed.

He then posed the philosophical question, ‘what is affordable housing?’

“What’s the magic number we’re looking for that makes a house affordable? Tell me the magic number!” Cr Pryce Allsop asked.

Cr Katie Milne said there was no magic number, more it was what a ‘normal, average moderate-income worker, like a Council worker, would be able to afford.’

Addressing Cr Milne, Cr Pryce Allsop said Council ran the risk of losing developers’ confidence in the Tweed by stalling, and that manufactured homes built on-site will aid affordability and generate jobs. “ ‘We don’t want any development!’ that’s where you guys want to go, you are fighting your battle for affordable housing and you’re stopping it at every opportunity,” Cr Pryce Allsop said to Cr Katie Milne.

“I think you’re not the solution, you’re the problem!” he added.

“I find that offensive, I object to that comment, that’s just absolute rubbish,” Cr Milne said.

In speaking to the motion, Cr James Owen was concise, concurring with Cr Ron Cooper, “It is fiddling around the edges .. the staff recommended this for approval, let’s just vote and get on with it,” Cr Owen said.

Earthmoving work has begun at the 4.5 hectare site with the project scheduled for completion by 2023.

Tweed Council closes shop in keeping with NSW stay-at-home orders MAYOR of Tweed Shire Chris Cherry says Council has acted swiftly to do everything possible to minimise the spread of COVID-19 in the interests of community safety and urged residents to comply with stay-at-home orders.

Tweed Shire Council has temporarily shut customerfacing facilities including Customer Service Counters at Murwillumbah and Tweed Heads and Tweed Regional Aquatic Centres with Brett Street Café and Starting Block Café at TRAC Murwillumbah only doing takeaways.

The tip, Stotts Creek Resource Recovery Centre,

is open for essential and commercial waste disposal only or waste that may become a public health issue Tweed Holiday Parks are closed with some exceptions including for permanent residents, overnight travellers, persons working in the local area or persons who have no other place of permanent residence.

These closures are in addition to earlier closures

including Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre, Tweed Regional Museum, Tweed JUNKtion Tip Shop, Visitor Information Centres, Council events and community markets including Kingscliff, SALT Village, Pottsville, Murwillumbah and Tweed Heads.

Click and collect loan services from library branches at Murwillumbah, Tweed Heads and Kingscliff will remain.

Essential services including water and kerbside waste collection services are operating as normal.

The next Council meeting

on Thursday 19 August will be a virtual meeting only - for Councillors, staff and the general public – and will be livestreamed, details on Council’s website.

Cr Cherry said Council has relaunched its Together Tweed campaign, encouraging residents to take care of each other during this difficult time.

“Tweed residents are faced with additional difficulties – not only do we have to comply with strict stay-at-home orders but we are faced with the double whammy of having to navigate ever-changing rules to cross the border into Queensland,” Cr Cherry said.

“I know how difficult this situation is for so many of our residents and businesses – particularly in the north of the Shire where multiple border crossings are a daily occurrence – and I urge everyone to be kind to each other and show understanding.

“Together, we have overcome difficulties in the past and it has made us stronger and together we will do the same again now,” she said.

Council staff are still available to answer the community’s questions through Tweed Shire’s Contact Centre.

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Call for electorate name to be more inclusive

By Tonia Dynan A PUSH to change the name of the state seat of Lismore to the Bruxner electorate has come from Tenterfield Shire Council.

Councillors voted to write to the NSW Electoral Commission asking to implement the necessary steps to change the name at a recent council meeting.

“Michael Bruxner was possibly the most famous political figure to come from the Tenterfield area,” the council report stated.

“Also, the Bruxner Highway forms a common thread linking the shires of Lismore, Casino and Tenterfield.

“Since the NSW State Government’s boundary adjustments, Tenterfield Shire residents and community have struggled to identify with the ‘Lismore’ distinctiveness as its electorate.”

The electoral district includes the city of Lismore, much of inland Tweed Shire, all of Kyogle Council and all of Tenterfield Shire.

Previously the majority of Tenterfield Shire was part of the Northern Tablelands Electorate.

Cr Gary Verri said his motion was straightforward and it wasn’t politically motivated.

“The Country Party’s disappeared. I talked to Janelle Saffin about it, and she said it provides a commonality between all the towns in the electorate, rather than Lismore,” Cr Verri said.

“Lismore sort of gives it a central name.

“I think it would be worthwhile to get the name changed.”

Cr Bronwyn Petrie said

there had been some talk about changing the name back to the Northern Tablelands.

Mayor Peter Petty said Member for Lismore supported the name change and he thought it would be a good thing, “Let’s go for that journey,” Cr Petty said.

“It’ll cost us nothing.”

Member for Lismore Janelle Saffin said she backed Tenterfield Shire Councillor Gary Verri’s actions to trigger a naming discussion.

“People from Tenterfield, Kyogle, Murwillumbah and Tweed Valley, and even Lismore, often ask me why the name covers one part of the Electorate,” Ms Saffin said.

“While not a first order issue, it does concern people.

“I have asked the Parliamentary Library to

Lieutenant-Colonel Michael Bruxner research the process for naming of electorates, and I will share that information with the local community and in local media.”

Kyogle Mayor Danielle

Mulholland said she agreed a more collaborative name for the electorate might be appropriate.

“But personally, I’m not convinced that basing it on the name of a political figure is the way to go without broadly engaging with all the communities affected,” she said.

“There’s also a high chance of confusion amongst voters if they are not consulted as the seat of Lismore has a high level of brand recognition.

“Kyogle Council doesn’t have an official position on this particular issue, but it is certainly a conversation we can have with our communities to get their feedback and have input into the process if a name change is being proposed which makes all communities within the electorate feel recognised.”

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Lismore Mayor Vanessa Ekins said an electorate name change was an interesting idea.

“Obviously being the Mayor of Lismore, I really like the electorate of Lismore,” she said.

“However, a conversation with our community about a relevant name is the first step in a name change.

“I think an appropriate Aboriginal place name would be meaningful.”

Tweed Shire Mayor Chris Cherry agreed.

“Local communities across the state electorate of Lismore should be consulted before a new name is chosen,” Cr Cherry said.

“I’d be supportive of an appropriate Aboriginal name being chosen, one which acknowledges the incredible region in which we all live.”

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abysmal disgrace they are.

You claim to quote empirical evidence, however you present nothing but alarmist propaganda which you hope will scare the living daylights out of everyone enough to make them believe untrue and unsubstantiated publications. I suggest you take a very close look at your information sources and examine the causes of your alleged catastrophes rather than the distorted results, computer models are just that, models not facts.

Please explore this website which explains the very reasons many Pacific Islands are experiencing water inundation: www.degruyter.com/ document/doi/10.1515/ nleng-2015-0031/html Research tells me Christmas bush in northern NSW typically flowers in spring, I believe that is Sept, Oct, Nov. If the bushes are budding now, flowers will be blooming in spring. Is this front yard observation valid evidence of climate change? If you think so, you may be eligible for a lucrative senior position on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

G MacDonald Pimlico

Community minded Everyone has the right not to believe current best scientific and medical evidence surrounding Covid, air pollution or climate change, creating alternate explanations for the world we live in.

Whether those firmly held

beliefs protect them - or us - from the ravages of Covid, air pollution or increasing natural disasters because they don’t believe in them is another question.

Yet there should no question as to whether we have the right to endanger our neighbours and future generations with anti-social behaviour that flows from our selfish or anti-scientific beliefs, be that Covid, climate change or asbestos. It seems cynical if the most vocal climate science deniers tend to be too old to reap the consequences of their ignorance, yet are happy to burden our grandchildren with a toxic legacy.

If it were only erratic pensioners and conspiracy theorists, we’d still be a safe and ethical society, yet sadly our State and Federal government policies on climate change - and recently even on vaccination procurement, quarantine safety and timely lock-downs - have been displaying a similar level of arrogance, greed and disregard for fairness and international scientific consensus and health advice.

Luckily most residents of the Northern Rivers are community minded, taking these matters in their own hands, following best evidence to fight the virus, air pollution and climate change, limiting their negative impact on others, helping, planting and protecting, creating beauty and healthy futures instead.

Dr Ulf Steinvorth Dunoon

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In reply to Ted Strong (letters 12/8), lets have a look at some history.

1970’s – scientists alarmed the world with predictions of global cooling, ‘’US scientists see new ice age coming’’ Let’s hear your (Washington Post 9 July 1971),’’ Another ice opinion! age? Pollution blocking letters@nrtimes.com.au sunlight’’ (The Day Nov.1 Please keep under 150 words 1971), ‘’The ice age and include an address and cometh’’ (The Saturday phone number Review, March 24,1973).

Buckle down Hundreds of newspaper Looks like Scott reports continue until Morrison is trying to hold 1979. Well how did that the fort on not enforcing all turn out? mandatory vaccines but Go forward to say, others, like some states 1989. AP reports, ‘’United and unions are pushing Nations environmental for it. It was the Coalition official says entire nations government of January could be wiped off the 2016 that brought in the face of the Earth by rising ‘no jab, no pay’ before sea levels by the year parents could receive 2000’’. ‘’Governments child allowances so have a ten year window to hopefully ScoMo doesn’t to solve greenhouse effect give in. before it goes beyond Whether we have a human control’’. Seems federal election over every ten years another ten mandatory vaccines years are added because remains to be seen as nothing has happened. both sides, Labor and Our own Tim Flannery Coalition seem to be for said, “Cities such as it. We aren’t allowed to Brisbane and Sydney are push our views about likely to run out of water it due to spreading very quickly because misinformation and fines of man made global imposed so it feels like warming”. more of our freedoms 2005 – “Theres only have been taken away as two years water supply in the states try to control Warragamba Dam, if the the virus. computer models are right The Spanish flu lasted then drought conditions 2-3 years after WW1 will become permanent”. and we survived that so Since when have we just have to buckle computer models ever down by looking like been right? Spectacularly surgeons and bandits and stupid, wrong predictions. putting up with rules and They said the science was regulations required for settled then, they say the this situation. science is settled now.

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Dreadful dam Construction of the Dunoon Dam has been rejected multiple times by both the community and the Rous County Council, and has been recognised in the IWCM as an inferior option compared to a “diversified portfolio of actions to meet the region’s water security needs”.

The environmental damage caused by the construction of the Dunoon dam is unacceptable to a huge percentage of the communities within the four affected LGAs. Protecting the ecological biodiversity of the Channon Gorge and the proposed dam site, of which 253 ha would be inundated, is of the highest importance.

There is only 1% of the Big Scrub Rainforest remaining and the rainforest in the proposed dam site represents 6.7% of the 1% that is left. The 62ha of rainforest is an Endangered Ecological Community, and includes 7ha of warm-temperate rainforest on sandstone – an extremely rare occurrence in this region.

There are nine threatened flora species on the dam site and 17 threatened fauna species. It is the habitat of threatened koalas and platypus and contains crucial wildlife corridors.

The prehistoric burial sites in The Channon are of the utmost sacred & cultural importance to the Widjabul Wia-bal people of the local area. Their rights to preserve this area must be respected by Rous Council or it will suffer a massive community backlash.

“Government won’t cover the cost of the dam - we ratepayers would be doing it,” according to Keith Williams. There will be no federal money because it is not an agricultural dam, and the state might put up 25% to 50% but that is not guaranteed.

Casino has a perfectly good dam at Toonumbar that is currently underutilised. Why build another dam at great

financial, social, cultural and environmental cost?

Renee Engl Coopers Shoot

Trying terms Finally Scott Morrison is directing all repatriation flights through Howard Springs. The only thing is he must also direct commercial flights to meet up with RAAF flights at domestic terminals and have them fly directly to Howard Springs, with doctors and nurses on board also.

We can now do away with hotel quarantine that continues to plague the country and lead to lockdowns.

Furthermore some better language, like ‘hibernation’ might be better than ‘lockdown’ – just a thought.

I don’t know why they don’t have mobile vaccination vans like Mr Whippy going street to street vaccinating people.

It would be so much easier and get more people vaccinated quicker and the ice cream and coffee van could follow giving free ice cream and coffee, paid by the government.

Alan Mosley Yamba

Empty vessels Congrats to all the dedicated writers of those poignant letters castigating those noisy, local empty vessels.

However, empty vessels are only noisy when someone is listening. Maybe it’s time to stop listening.

The real challenge is undoubtedly the removal of this corruption infested Federal Government, only then will Australia be free to embrace serious climate change policy and then the G MacDonalds and L Evans’ of this world will finally fade into obscurity.

It must be obvious by now that it doesn’t matter what “empirical” evidence you present, they just ignore it. Maybe it’s a combination of conservative arrogance in treating anything from the left, (whatever that is?) with total distain - and blind stupidity - that

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The most hypocritical part of their nauseating intransigence is the cherry picking of the BOM’s empirical evidence, the very same and trusted institution that has posted both previous and predicted temperature and sea-level-rise records; the very same scientific institution that is warning of catastrophic climate change.

Hello, anybody home?

Keith Duncan Pimlico

human beings is total out of control.

Recently chatting to a friend, they informed me that they were abused and belittled recently at a local shop and within the community due to not wearing a mask. This person has a medical exception, and for very good reasons. What right does another person have to belittle, become abusive and discriminate another person for not wearing a mask? Don’t just assume, there are many reasons why people Science lesson can’t wear face masks. Do Climate science goes these people tell people back 160 years when, in in wheel chairs to get out 1860, physicist Sir John of their wheel chair and Tyndall discovered that walk? “Stop being lazy, CO2 and other greenhouse you’re putting it on.” I gasses absorb heat. These think not. Wake up to heat trapping gasses have yourselves, take a hard increased by 46% over look at yourself. the industrial era. Fossil Pure and simply that fuel combustion can be is discrimination. Not the only reason, there is having the same beliefs no other. This increased or opinions, well you atmospheric warming is need to be sent to a 1984 having a direct impact on re-education censorship weather systems across camp. We were all born the globe. equal, no matter what Michael Holmes you think. If you’re Grafton angry, stressed or upset, express it towards our Discrimination? incompetent politicians, At first instance I thought government departments the lockdowns to contain that are voted in by us the spread of Covid 19 and we, as tax payers, pay was ok. My opinion of their salary.

Covid 19 as a health issue The lockdowns aren’t isn’t on the same level as working, small businesses the majority, but aren’t we are folding, families and allowed to have our own communities are under opinions or beliefs, or this immense stress, churches is the new norm- political are closed for worship, all correctness gone mad or while politicians continue censorship of our human to get paid and big rights? business operates as usual When the lockdowns and doing quite well out began we, as humans and of this pandemic. Wake communities, banded up sheeple. together supporting one Luke O’Neill another, through simple Alstonville NSW gestures of kindness, such as checking on your Fire funds neighbours, cooking Why, oh why, is money meals for family or being wasted on Maclean friends, visiting the and Yamba non-essential elderly or getting back projects when they were to old fashioned family not at all affected by activities. bushfires?

Now over a year on, This money should the ME world is back to be going to such towns normal, it’s all about me. as Mororo, Woombah The greed, selfishness and Iluka that were truly and lack of compassion affected. Clarence Valley is more prevalent. I can Council is funnelling understand people’s works in all the wrong frustration and stress places. A disgrace. but the lack of dignity Sue Le Cornu and self-respect to other Iluka

Water wisdom To those who are concerned for the future water supply for the Northern Rivers. I’m sure your Pro-Dam stance is coming from good intentions, however, new technologies/ideas must be adopted. Dams are good. Dams alone are not sufficient. We have a good dam which has/ is serving us well. So now we need to add new technology to the mix.

Stopping leaks, introduction of smart meters throughout the system, and purified recycled water would form a diverse, resilient water management plan, not reliant on rainfall.

I’m sure button-up boot makers thought change was unnecessary, but time and technology move on.

Purified recycled water is cleaner than the water we presently receive.

It has a cost, but so does building a dam. And not just in dollars - the cost of losing a precious remnant of the Big Scrub rainforest after losing so much habitat in the fires is a cost too high. The cost of losing Aboriginal heritage and sacred sites is too much, the loss of ever diminishing koala and platypus habitat is too much.

I’m happy to pay for new non-destructive water sources that are non-rain dependant and drought resilient. In the long run a resilient system will prove to be cost effective.

Please support the revised IWMC, another dam is not going to secureour water future in this climate-changed 21st century.

Andrya Hart The Channon

County Council, only 9% made a submission or signed a petition. 85% of these, or 6.6% of the population, signed the OFNR petitions/ submissions which specifically called for more studies into the viability of the dam proposal - they did not ask for the dam to be built.

This is typical of those who promote the dam proposal: misleading the public by omission or by distortion of the facts.

Rous County Council has already spent millions over the past 25 years investigating the dam. They have had Heritage Reports and Environmental Impact Reports - enough to know there are serious problems with the dam option.

Initially Rous proposed pumping from Terania Creek in dry times to top up the Dunoon Dam because they realised that a second dam on a small creek did not have the catchment or flow

Wicked wages As a 16-year-old Christian, I feel assured in labelling every Liberal and Labor politician “wicked”.

The Coalition’s stage 3 tax cuts, backed by Labor, will give an extra 11.8 billion dollars to Australia’s richest 1% according to parliamentary analysis obtained by the Greens. The bottom 40% will get just 3.1 billion.

The average tax cut for the top 20% of earners will be worth $4,230, compared with just $10 extra for the lowest paid – 400 times the benefit.

This is not only extremely unfair; it is also bad economics. The bottom 40% are far more likely to go out and spend stimulus money, therefore stimulating the economy, than the top 1%, who prefer to save it – largely because they have extreme wealth already.

“The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern.” (Proverbs 29:7).

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The truth is that of the 150,000 residents in the area supplied by Rous

required to keep the dam full.

Further studies will be a waste of money when Rous knows, from the studies already carried out, that there are many other options. These options are scalable so that, as demand increases, projects can be expanded or new options brought on-line. In this way the cost for water will be spread out over decades rather than paid for by current Rous customers.

Rous councillors have studied the reports; looked at the options; assessed the environmental, social and economic costs and made an informed decision to move on from the Dunoon Dam option.

I congratulate the five councillors who have not taken the obvious solution; who have voted for modern, innovative options which will provide water security for our region in the face of an uncertain future.

Hugh Nicholson The Channon

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REGIONAL HOUSING MEETINGS KICK OFF DESPITE COVID

By Tonia Dynan MORE than 300 Northern Rivers residents have expressed their views and concerns on affordable housing to Regional Housing Taskforce chair Garry Fielding last week.

Community members, industry experts and councils all took part in the online meetings, with the Northern Rivers being the first stop for regional NSW. Taskforce chair Garry Fielding said the first round of meetings had provided valuable feedback on how the NSW Government could use the planning system to address regional housing supply.

“There are strong concerns about housing supply and affordability, the escalation of course in purchase prices, but allied with that the escalation in rental cost and what that’s doing to the availability of rental accommodation for tradesmen and other essential workers, in particular in the North Coast area,” Mr Fielding said.

He said in the 12 months from March 2020 to March 2021, in Ballina the median

house price increased from $653,000 to $795,000.

In Lismore the increase was from $405,000 to $510,000, about a 25% increase.

“The other major concern we’ve got, according to data provided by the Real Estate Institute of New South Wales, rental vacancy rates at the moment are extremely tight in that area and the vacancy rate in July was 1.5% in the Northern Rivers area, whereas normally a balanced vacancy rate for rental accommodation is seen as being three per cent

and that is also impacting on homelessness in that area,” Mr Fielding said.

“What we’re concerned too, with homelessness is just under 30% of the state’s rough sleepers were in the North Coast region.”

Mr Fielding said the development sector had raised concerns about the complexity of the planning system, the time and cost involved in lodging developing applications for example.

“Concerns about what’s called a planning proposal

pathway that’s getting land rezoned as well, just the high costs of all the specialist reports and so on that are involved in that, but against that we are concerned of course wherever development occurs, it occurs in an appropriate manner,” he said.

Mr Fielding said the statewide sessions were important to gain an understanding of the issues faced for each region.

“Because the issues are not homogenous throughout regional NSW, they really

do differ, so we do need to understand what the particular issues in the various regional centers throughout New South Wales are,” he said.

“We greatly value the suggestions that may be coming forward, which will come forward in the form of submissions that come through to the taskforce as well.

“It would be foolish to assume that we have all the possible solutions for these supply and affordability issues.

“At the end of the day, we want to identify what are the barriers in the NSW planning system to the supply of housing in regional NSW, and barriers to the implementation of more affordable housing, and the barriers to the social views which are clearly emerging and have clearly emerged over the last couple of years, particularly on the North Coast.”

The Minister for Planning and Public Spaces will receive an independent report with the taskforce recommendations in October.

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

Union says prison officer pay rise not enough

By Tim Howard CORRECTIONAL Officers at Clarence Correction Centre have received a pay increase this month which will result in an anticipated $7000 per annum gross increase for all officers working under the current roster patterns.

A further 2.5% increase will take effect from September 1, 2022.

This offer was declined by the Community and Public Sector Union, but the increased payments have been made in good faith by Serco Australia in support of our correctional officers.

Serco managing director Michael Strickland said the annual aggregate salary would increase from $61,602 to approximately $68,400 immediately (in year one).

“During negotiations with the Community and Public Sector Union we consistently said we wanted to increase pay for our officers and wanted to do this as soon as possible,” Mr Strickland said.

“We are disappointed the agreement was not approved

however Serco has made the decision to pay staff the increase immediately. The increase will be in staff pay from August 2.

“This increase is well above the wage price index and in excess of other industry increases. It has also led to an increase in the hourly rate which flows onto night, weekend, public holiday and overtime work.

“Our priority is to maintain the security and good order of Clarence Correctional Centre by continuing to deliver essential services that keep our staff, visitors, and the inmates in our care safe as well as the broader community. Our work at the centre continues to deliver some exceptional outcomes and I am very pleased that we were able to show our commitment to staff through this significant increase in pay.”

But CPSU Northern organiser Asren Pugh said the union was waiting for the result of its protected action ballot which closed last week.

“There is still a chance we will take some sort of

industrial action if that’s what the members want,” Mr Pugh said.

“Serco pressing ahead with a pay increase outside the enterprise agreement doesn’t change the fact employees rejected their pay offer which effectively raised pay from $24 to just over $26.”

He said while the company’s figures looked good on paper, they did not reflect the base pay rate.

“Those numbers factor in shift allowances, weekend allowances and night rates, which occur on top of the base pay rate.

“The fact is administrative officers at the Clarence Correctional Centre working a normal five day week are on a higher base rate than prison officers trying to rehabilitate prisoners and maintain security 24 hours a day.”

He said Serco needed to get the base pay rate up to $31$33 an hour to be competitive and attractive to the high level staff it needed.

Mr Pugh said Serco had still not addressed other issues including sick leave, maternity

leave and shift rostering, which employees had rejected in last month’s enterprise agreement ballot.

“It’s outrageous in a pandemic workers have been offered seven days sick leave a year instead of the 12 we’ve asked for,” he said.

“It’s vital workers are not encouraged to go to work sick and to take time off without affecting their pay rate.”

He said Serco’s failure to reach agreement with its staff at the centre was costly as it brought in workers on higher pay rates to cover shift shortfalls and poor pay and conditions was hindering successful recruitment.

“Until Serco makes a competitive offer with pay and conditions to match other centres, the best people will leave and go to those centres or interstate,” he said.

Mr Strickland said Serco would also continue to work with the local Clarence Valley community and partners.

“We have more than 20 local partnerships with community groups, businesses and charities and I am very

proud of the way we have worked with them to build some sustainable and valuable programs both in the prison and outside,” Mr Strickland said.

“Clarence Correctional Centre has 11 local industry partnership projects currently active within the centre. Ten of these businesses are based in the Clarence Valley region.

“Our local industry partnerships such as those with Big River Industries, Ensbey Engineering and Sunburnt Timbers not only provide economic benefits to the local community but offer meaningful employment and potential post- release opportunities as part of an inmate’s rehabilitation and reintegration journey.”

Clarence Correctional Centre currently has more than 150 local vendors registered with the centre either providing goods or services.

This equated to a $2.4 million local spend between July to December 2020 across industries including food procurement, manufacturing, fabrication and horticulture.

The Northern Rivers Times

August 19, 2021

16 NEWS

BIZARRE CRASH COSTS COMMUNITY A SHINING GEM

By Tim Howard MARTY Stait was one of those people you warm to straight away.

The 35-year-old was a devoted father of two and passionate about his craft of cutting gemstones and opals.

So when the news came he had succumbed to his injuries after he was seriously injured in a bizarre car crash on August 6, family, friends and colleagues were feeling stunned at the cruel turn of events.

Marty was driving his Mazda Bravo utility home when a roll of chicken wire fell from a vehicle in front of him and crashed into the cabin of his vehicle.

The wire crashed through the windscreen of his utility, inflicting severe head and chest injuries, but thankfully left his two children unharmed.

His eight-year-old daughter courageously called 000 for assistance.

He was airlifted on the Westpac Rescue Helicopter to the Gold Coast University Hospital, where he died the next day.

Immediately colleagues in the gem cutting community and the Grafton Twilight Markets, where Marty’s opals and gemstones stall was extremely popular, looked for ways to support his family.

Colleagues in the opal cutting and gemstones

A GoFundMe page for Marty Stait’s family had raised almost $16,000 toward its $50,000 target by last weekend.

The tributes and gifts for the family of Grafton Twilight Markets stallholder Marty Stait who died tragically last week. community have set up a GoFundMe page, with an aim to raise at least $50,000.

Last Thursday the Twilight Markets held a minute’s silence for Marty and set up a gifts table where people could make donations to the family as well as learn what a great contributor he was to our community.

The market co-ordinator Debrah Novak gave an emotional speech ahead of the short vigil for Marty.

She noted the numbers at his stall on the day before the accident were the best he had experienced and he was on a real high.

“Marty was a gentle soul who walked quietly on our Earth,” Ms Novak said. “He

loved talking about his gems and rocks with a real sparkle in his eye and the kids and adults loved his stall.

“He was always on time, well mannered, polite, always offered to help me set up.

“We send our deepest sympathies and condolences to his family and friends.”

Stallholders like Tayla and Briana Spicer said Marty’s absence at Thursday’s market felt like a huge hole in their lives.

“Marty had been our stall’s neighbour for the last four or five markets,” Tayla said.

“He had a real infectious enthusiasm for what he was doing. You could always hear him talking to people about gemstones and particularly

opals.

“There were always a lot of people looking at his stall. A few times you would see him give a young kid who was interested in gemstones a stone to build up their interest.”

The Spicers’ stall Envie Designs, donated half their takings on the night, $240, to Marty’s GoFundMe page.

His father Glenn came to the area to support Marty’s family after the accident.

He was struggling to come to terms with what had happened, but said he was heartened to learn how respected and admired Marty had become in his field.

“I knew Marty was passionate about his gems and rocks,” he said. “But it was

really touching to see how well he was regarded by others in the field.

“That was something about him I hadn’t quite realised, how important he was to a lot of those people.”

The GoFundMe page at www.gofundme.com/f/helpmartys-family-in-need had raised nearly $16,000 by last weekend, with a top donation of $2000.

There had been 118 donations and the link to the page had been shared nearly 1000 times.

YouTuber Roy’s Rocks posted this moving tribute to Marty during the week at: www.youtube. com/watch?v=wD_ llTB0uY0&t=12s

From hoist to mezzanine – a Business Flood Grant story MARK and Sarah Frost, who own Advanced Automotive Solutions Lismore, have always been focused on servicing Mercedes-Benz owners in their Conway Street workshop, regularly hoisting cars up high to complete repair jobs.

Now, thanks to the Flood Ready Grant they received from Lismore City Council, which was funded by the NSW Government, vehicles will not be the only objects that are hoisted high.

Advanced Automotive Solutions was one of 15 flood-affected Lismore businesses which received a grant from the $250,000 Flood Ready program.

The workshop was inundated with flood water in March 2017, destroying valuable items such as tools

and workbenches. This made it impossible for them to re-open their doors as quickly as they would have liked.

Learning from the lessons of the flood, the team came up with their own advanced solution.

They used the flood grant to employ a fabricator to weld large alloy platforms that fit on to alloy frames which can be connected to the existing car hoists in the workshop.

This creates a mezzanine level that can store workshop items at a safer height.

“With so many items, time is a critical factor, and we cannot rely on using a vehicle to move important items away,” Mark said.

“Utilising equipment already available to us, such as the hoist, just seemed like the logical solution.

“It does take a team of us to assemble the platforms, but once this is done we can

store many items that are then lifted to a safe height.”

Sarah feels this solution

stops any potential environmental hazards and allows the business to start operating again much quicker after a flood.

“Ensuring hazards such as used oils are out of flood waters mean it is safer for the environment and the overall clean-up needed to have the workshop back in operation is so much faster, cleaner and safer,” she said.

Under the competitive Flood Ready program, businesses were required to submit their proposed projects to an independent panel which determined the successful recipients.

The program was designed to help local businesses which contribute so much to our local and regional economy to recover promptly from future flooding.

August 19, 2021 The Northern Rivers Times

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Nimbin development review and response LISMORE City Council resolved at its meeting on July 13 to start public exhibition of amendments to the Lismore Development Control Plan (DCP), specifically the Nimbin DCP and the controls relating to public lighting in village and large lot residential areas.

The draft amendments to the DCP may be viewed on council’s website www.lismore.nsw.gov.au by following the “Your Say Lismore” link.

Submissions relating to the draft

amendments outlining grounds of objection or support can be addressed to the General Manager, Lismore City Council, PO Box 23A, Lismore or sent by email to council@lismore.nsw.gov. au.

For enquiries, please contact council’s strategic planner Sally Slater or strategic planning coordinator Paula Newman on 6625 0500.

Submissions must be received by council by close of business on September 17.

Vaccinate or detonate OPINION

By Lesley Apps

If the latter is the option that aligns with your values, fingers crossed it’s not you or anyone you care about.

A ONCE in a lifetime world pandemic Maybe in a decade or two we can that has already killed millions of look back like we do with polio and people isn’t an event that lends itself to ebola, and COVID will be something an opt-in or out approach — except if that breaks out occasionally because you live in Australia. our immunised bodies, whether Despite being smack bang in the medically or naturally, have adjusted middle a new and unpredictable virus to having it around for years. In the that has already upped the ante in meantime, it’s just not the case. the severity of its strains, our rather As women are already acutely isolated country of 25 million is acting aware the ‘my body, my choice’ like it’s something you can take or self-management is a worthy hill to die leave. on but when it comes to applying it in How some feel they can draw on the the midst of a new pandemic, it’s an privileges they are surrounded by and alternate universe too far. been immersed in their entire lives, and Generally, Australia doesn’t know decide that’s going to be enough to put what it’s like to be a Third World the inconvenient beast back in its box. country, to have broad reaching poverty Would that same approach be and famine and disease as its defining applied to a virus like polio or the features. bubonic plague if it were to strike here Thanks to government bungling, we tomorrow? Or if struck by cancer and are getting our first real taste of a virus any other disease or virus that requires that has already decimated countries Western medicine to intervene to around the world, so to continue bring it under the control quickly and thinking we’re just going to apply our effectively. go-lucky attitude or righteous privilege If there was an Eastern or natural to the situation is reaching the point of alternative that had the same sense of ridiculousness. urgency and results in a pandemic then Beyond opting out of society and I’d be all for that option. But there isn’t. moving to the mountains to live in At this point in history the only way an alpine bubble, the only way to out of a new pandemic is vaccination. surmount the immediate threats of a Otherwise we accept an enormous new pandemic is to get vaccinated. culling of humans from the planet, the Protecting our diverse communities taster of which currently sits at 4.3 requires taking one for the team. Or in million. this case, two.

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August 19, 2021

18 NEWS

Masterplan for iconic Grafton park seeking approval

By Tim Howard A REVAMP of one of Grafton’s iconic parks could include combined light and water features, sculptures and an upgraded children’s playground.

The See Park Grafton Masterplan report has come to this month’s Clarence Valley Council meetings recommending a wide range of improvements to the park, which would come at an estimated cost of $1.758 million.

The plan prepared by Brisbane company Vee Designs, resulted from a 2019 council resolution to ‘consult with the community to determine the desires and needs of any future

development of See Park’.

This item seeks approval for the masterplan, not the start of a project.

The 2020-21 budget included concept development for the project after community consultation was completed.

Designers incorporated themes that emerged through the community consultation, online discussion, input from local media and primary users, such as the Jacaranda Festival.

The park is a well-used piece of local infrastructure with its European garden atmosphere including bridges and a water feature a popular backdrop for wedding photography.

During the Jacaranda

Festival the park’s jacaranda tree line streetscape is a magnet for visitors seeking the killer shot of the purple blossoms.

It’s children’s playground is also popular, although there has been criticism the equipment lacks variety.

The quiet atmosphere of the park also encourage people to enjoy a contemplative stroll, taking in the birdlife and water dragons which is abundant.

The proposed masterplan predicts improvements to all the existing features of the park.

It proposes to combine its natural beauty with “the character and mood of Grafton’s history”.

Included will be formalised

The new-look See Park would see current features upgraded and weak points such as park access points improved.

An artist’s sketch of proposed terraced banks down to the fountain which is a highlight of the water feature in the park.

entry and park gateways, improved parking and pathways, a range of features to positively activate the space including terraced seating, upgraded park furniture, greater access to and around the water as well as a light feature for night time events.

The concept masterplan retains components of the park including the bridge, recently renewed pond pathways and the Cowper memorial rotunda.

The plan also highlights a range of water experiences including touch, sounds and view and directly links people to these elements through organised and passive pathways.

It will also include feature lighting to the water fountain

and water body at night.

This is for potential night time activation via activities/ events to increase positive interactions in the park.

Artistic addition to the park include plans for semi-submerged art sculptures which could be native turtles, water birds or a reference to a first nation storyline.

The plan extends play space including an additional junior playground equipment as well as an extension of nature based play elements leading to the pond.

The report went to the council’s Corporate Governance and Works Committee on Tuesday. The outcome will be reported in future editions of The Northern Rivers Times.

POP DENISON PARK UPGRADE FOR BALLINA WORK has started on a new $1.3 million junior playground at Pop Denison Park in Ballina.

This upgrade is part of the Pop Denison Park Master Plan, which aims to transform the park into a recreational area of regional standing.

The new playground will be inclusive as well as nature and adventure play-based to challenge and entertain children with: • New play equipment and shade sails to include swing sets, hammocks, mound slide, monkey bars, 4x4 rocker, play forts, fairy-tale ship, and a spinning orb; • Adventure pathways integrated through existing vegetation and around

landscaped gardens and across a dry creek bed feature with balance logs, stepping stones and scavenger hunt features; • A concrete loop path meandering around the outside and rubber surfacing to provide easy access; and • Picnic shelters, seats, landscaping, and shade trees.

Grant funding of $252,000 was given through the NSW Government’s Stronger Country Community Fund to the project.

The existing playground will be closed for the duration of the works. Please visit ballina.nsw.gov.au/ playgrounds to find another

playground near you.

A small section of the carpark off Compton Drive (near the toilet block) will also be closed off to allow construction crews to access the site.

Early works include pruning vegetation in preparation for the new nature trail, demolition and removal of the old play equipment, followed by excavation and drainage works.

The junior playground construction is expected to be completed in late December (weather and site conditions permitting).

For project information, please visit ballina.nsw.gov. au/PopDenisonParkUpgrade.

August 19, 2021 The Northern Rivers Times

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GRAFTON GETS ITS FIRST REAL TASTE OF NORTHERN RIVERS PROPERTY BOOM

By Lesley Apps

Those already engaged in transactions in the Grafton area COVID has impacted a lot of include long-time residents industries with brutal force from neighbouring Northern but there is one that seems Rivers areas. to be infallible, Australia’s “People from Byron who perpetually favourite topic — moved there 20-30 years when real estate. it was a nice little beachside When it comes to the town but it got a bit hectic Grafton area, it’s traditionally so they moved out to the been the slower and steadier hinterland to Bangalow and performer of the Northern Mullumbimby and now that Rivers — but not anymore. area is also starting to get more According to two of the metro, it seems we’re the next area’s busiest agents it’s stop down from there.” “gone nuts”.

“I know people from there Sales agent for Elders who have had to change their Grafton, Jake Kroehnert working hours because of the said things started to incline gridlock getting into Byron. steadily last year but when he One guy who lives in an returned from a week off at 80km zone can’t get out of his Christmas it “exploded”. driveway of a morning during Sales Agent for Elders Grafton Jake Kroehnert with one of his recent sales — a classic historical work time because of the “The first hint was when Grafton residence.

I put a little two bedroom stream of traffic going past”. house online in the first week While Grafton doesn’t back and we had well over 10 He said buyer interest the riverfront. He said the itself. Even when we had the have problems like that at offers. A lot of buyers fighting demographically is around (Clarence) was one of the best boom in the early 2000s the the moment, Adam said it over it.”

50/50 local and “out of rivers he’d ever seen in all buyers weren’t as frenzied as will in the future if it doesn’t Statistically that period is towners”. the places he’s been looking they are now,” Adam said. get a better balance between generally quiet Jake said “as “People are happy to invest but couldn’t get a coffee to “Back then we were development and retaining its most people were still on here because it is a good return sit down with and enjoy there still doing two and three country heritage feel. holidays. on investment but many are unless walked back up the inspections before they’d make “I don’t know of too many “That house set a record also looking to move here street to get a takeaway. an offer. Now they come to other residential subdivisions for a two-bedroomer but has for the lifestyle. There’s less He also said having open house, walk in front door in the pipeline and if people since been beaten twice since hustle and bustle. It’s an easy somewhere to park a boat out the back door and around continue to move here we then.” place to live and relax and would also be a great asset to the side and say to the agent are going to need to spread Jake puts this down to a work from home. A lot of develop.

‘I’ll give you the asking price, our wings on that front. We’ll mix of things including low people are looking to improve “People doing trips around sign it up, let’s go’.” either need to get higher interest rates and the interest their quality of life and are Australia on their boats could Adam said they have had a density stuff in areas already in regional living. looking for alternatives rather then come up the river for a lot of inquiry from Sydney but there like multi-level unit “Grafton has been a little than being in traffic for hours look, fuel up, come in and have whether that was “genuine or a developments or rezone bit forgotten so people are everyday.” a meal and spend a few nights by-product of being locked up land to encourage sensible realising its potential as one One of things Jake believe on the water here.” in your house for weeks is yet subdivisions,” he said. of the. More affordable towns could enhance Grafton’s Sales agent for McKimms to be seen”.

“Otherwise it’s going to within the 10 towns that appeal was capitalising on Real Estate Adam Crawley “All regional areas, Orange, drive property prices through surround it,” he said citing its impressive river location said he had never seen an Bathurst, even Dubbo, are the roof, rental and sales wise. places like Yamba, Coffs including more waterfront “appetite to purchase” in seeing an influx of people We need a consistent supply to Harbour, Woolgoolga, and entertainment and dining Grafton in his 20 years in the coming out of Sydney so we’ll cater for our population growth Maclean. options. industry. wait and see if that happens otherwise it’s going to make it “It’s a nice place to live “I had a Melbourne “It really started to ramp up here once all this lockdown is harder and harder for people. and is still close to the coast purchaser here looking around at the back end of last calendar finished and people can start You can’t find rentals now so at about half or a third of the and he was dumbfounded year and then this year has making decisions about their there are already a lot of angry price.” he couldn’t find a cafe on been crazy. Climbing over lives.” people out there.”

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The Northern Rivers Times

August 19, 2021

20 NEWS

“Leemo’s View”

100TH BIRTHDAY IN LOCKDOWN

By Tonia Dynan

“LEEMO has views on just about anything”

Mum Jane’s DUMB budget...

AAAARGH...‘Leemo Cat’ here. I was SO joyous ‘cos I thought ‘Mum Jane’ had forgotten that our annual BUDGET meeting occurs July 1st. NUP, she hadn’t.

She told me ‘she had been very busy and distracted’ but we were going to have our budget meeting tonight. OMG. So, I sat at our conference table and observed Mum taking Shopping Strips of paper (receipts) from our Budget Box. She told me...“Leemo, these ‘strips’ (Leemo’s shopping) represent what you have cost our household in the past 12 months...AND I AM NOT PLEASED” Eeek. I attempted silky suck-up purrs & pats & and worshipful look stuff...DID NOT work! Eeek. SHE (old bat I thought!) continued. “LISTEN TO ME Leems....

NEW RULES NOW apply...OK?” Firstly, ‘YOU’ are not going shopping ANY MORE. AND, ‘Leems, when did you acquire a taste for smoked Trout... pray tell”. (Dripping with sarcasm!) (She was reading one of my shopping ‘strips’).

Hmmm...I hadn’t told her I’d been emptying out the poxy home

brand cat food sachets and stuffing them with smoked Trout.

Thirdly, Leems, your habit of watching TV shows like ‘Bluey’ or “Majestic Cats like Me” is worrisome... in other words, EXPENSIVE...so, more rules will apply.

“TV time will be limited to 1 hour daily.

AND I will check every cat food sachet in your cupboard to ensure they have not been interfered with.” (By YOU!) Hmmm. Needless to say, the BUDGET meeting was not going very well. (For ME) And, because ‘Mum Jane’ simply can’t stop diatribing, she questioned me. “OK Leems, exactly WHAT do you contribute to the cost of running our house?” Do you earn an income of any sort?

(I’ve not noticed any payments on my Aged Pension Statement relating to a ‘Helpful Cat Allowance’). Do you help around the house or in the garden?

Do you contribute ANYTHING at all apart from costing me $$ for your food, Vet bills, litter, plush blue blankies, toys, TV & ALL the other things?”

Crikey...I’m in strife.

I decided to meditate big time with paws in air ‘thinking thinking’.

Aaaah...I “remember”.

The Dali Lama’s Cat...that very wise far flung relative of mine...“HHC” (‘His Holinesses’ Cat). I peered at ‘Mum Jane’ and told her...“Mum, WELL, what I DO bring to our household is priceless...way beyond your rabbiting on about spending cuts and our dumb Budget...MUM JANE, “ I ” bring you love and contentment... when you pat, rub, brush, talk and sing to me...sit on the grass and chat, and I feel your happiness”. Nite with happy purrs...

Leemo Cat.

LITTLE sister Ena Pearce had big plans to help her sister Hazel Daley (pictured) celebrate her 100th birthday on the weekend, but of course that all changed when the region was plunged into a snap lockdown last week.

Hazel spent her milestone birthday alone on Sunday at her home in Alstonville, but she did get her letter from the Queen, the prime minister, the GovernorGeneral and local politicians, and cards and gifts from her family and friends.

“She kept saying to me, ‘How did all these people know it was my birthday’,” Ena said.

“She kept asking, so I had to admit that I told them.”

Hazel was born on August 15, 1921. Her and her siblings grew up on a banana plantation in the Alstonville area and were put to working picking bananas.

She has lived in the same house in Alstonville since 1956 and is still quite active and self-sufficient.

Hazel has volunteered for many local organisations in her days, including working 50 years at the Uniting Church Bargain Basement, UPAT Rooms in

Lismore and driving for Link Community Transport.

She worked hard dairy farming, working in peanuts and picking peas. She was an avid tennis player and absolutely loved her indoor bowls.

Ena asked Hazel why she thought she had made it this far.

“Well, I never, ever drank grog or I never smoked cigarettes, did I?” Hazel replied.

Hazel has lived a Christian life going to church every Sunday.

“She hasn’t been to church for about three years, but they come and visit her,” Ena said.

“We were going to take her to church at Alstonville on Sunday morning and they were going to make a bit of a fuss over her, but we can’t do that.

“We had planned a luncheon at the Wollongbar Tavern, and a lot of her grandchildren were coming to that – but we can’t do any of it.”

GetSetUp to tackle social isolation AWARD-winning care provider, Whiddon, has partnered with GetSetUp, an online platform that aims to bring health and wellbeing classes directly to their Community Care clients.

Through this partnership, Whiddon aims to further enhance their care experience by helping to improve health and wellbeing and tackle social isolation for their home care clients.

GetSetUp has created a customised safe space for mature adults to learn, create, and share their wisdom. The platform helps older adults stay mentally and physically fit, creates economic opportunities through jobs and reskilling, and provides a community where people find meaning and purpose.

GetSetUp classes are taught by older adults to their peers and already serve over 2 million lifelong learners globally.

“We’re so excited to have partnered with GetSetUp to provide this special offering for our Community Care clients. At a time where COVID-19 is still amongst our communities, and clients may be unable to attend their regular social groups. This is a

great way for them to remain active, exercise their minds, and help to reduce social isolation and feelings of loneliness,” Whiddon’s Anna Maltby said.

“Our clients who do receive home care services, are still continuing to do the things they love where they can. From visiting their friends or continuing a hobby, our team is there to help them achieve this in person or virtually, depending on pandemic regulations.

The GetSetUp platform will provide additional support to help our clients to remain connected to the things they love during this time, and will remain an option for them to

use even after the threat of COVID-19 is gone,” Whiddon’s Aaron Evans said.

By addressing all the social determinants of health, GetSetUp is helping to tackle some of the challenges older people may face. By expanding friendship circles and creating a purpose, GetSetUp has helped many older adults feel a renewed sense of joy. This coupled with Whiddon’s excellent care services mean that older adults in their care aren’t just having their physical health needs met but also their mental and social needs as well.

“Learners regularly provide feedback about

how we are changing the lives of older adults by helping reduce social isolation, which is one of the leading causes of illness and death among older adults. Older adults on our platform are part of a global community with peers who are passionate about similar topics. For many learners, who are often home alone, this has made a world of difference. Now, fellow peers in positive learning environments are just a click away,” said Lawrence Kosick, co-founder of GetSetUp. To learn more about GetSetUp, please visit www.getsetup.org To learn more about Whiddon, please visit www.whiddon.com.au

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Very sweet season for NSW sugar cane industry

By Margaret Dekker THE boss of Sunshine Sugar is keeping it short and sweet on 2021.

“It’s a pretty positive season,” Chris Connors said.

In a year characterised by doom and gloom, the northern New South Wales sugar sector is anything but. Prices are up 20 percent on last year fetching an average $550 or higher per tonne (compared to 450/MT last year) and despite hectarage down, total yield is on track to reach 1.8 million tonnes of sugar cane, again up on last year. “ .. and the growers are all responding to that, there’s a lot of good feel out there,” Chris Connors, Sunshine Sugar CEO said.

With a global sugar shortage due to supply problems in Brazil and Thailand but with world consumption up 3 percent, Australia – and notably northern New South Wales, is in a good position to capitalise, aided also by strong demand from domestic customers including Woolworths, Coles, Metcash convenience stores and Aldi.

In a coup for the sector, beverage giant, Asahi – owner of the Schweppes range, is also coming online.

“We’re pretty pleased to be with them, it’s going to be a very interesting relationship,” Chris Connors said.

Despite heavy Autumn rain and flooding in Broadwater and Condong areas, Chris Connors says it’s been a good growing season, with the rain having little impact, “It’s one of the good things about sugar cane, it’s a resilient crop,” he said.

Improvements in sugar cane varieties are seeing sugar yield up five percent on previous years with some of the highest CCS levels (Commercial Cane Sugar) had in the past 20 years, with no new disease or pest problems.

“These new varieties are really stacking up,” Chris said.

The annual burning program is in full swing across all three river regions - Clarence, Richmond and Tweed, controversially at times with ash drifting across homes in nearby population centres.

“At the end of the day, growers don’t want to burn, they’re out doing it in the middle of the night and early morning and it’s not the safest practice. We’re undertaking a

Cane burning has begun across the Tweed Valley Photo: John Van-Den-Broeke

Northern NSW sugar yield and price are up in 2021 Photo: John Van-Den-Broeke

Aqua Botanical bottled water from Sunshine Sugar program to see how we can make water,” Chris Connors best utilise those fibres that said. have to get off before we Such is the confidence go back to the soil,” Chris in the water project, Connors told The Northern Sunshine Sugar forecasts Rivers Times. up to 20-million litres of Part of this commitment Aqua Botanical will be to better utilise cane trash produced within three with only 20 percent of the years, with beverage giant plant viable for commercial Asahi indicating interest sugar - is the company’s as well as domestic diversification into water customers, particularly from extraction from remnant cane Melbourne. stalks.

“At the end of the Sunshine Sugar CEO Chris Connors, “It’s a good, clear water, day, it’s a product that’s “It’s a pretty positive season.” not out of the aquifers, it’s environmentally friendly lovely,” Chris shared. and the world at the end of The extraction and bottling “We’re growing water,” the day requires water,” Chris plant is currently being Chris Connors said, Connors said. fine-tuned at Sunshine “It comes in with the sugar And critically, there’s Sugar’s Condong mill cane, 60 to 70 percent of it is support from company near Murwillumbah with water and rather than sending shareholders, the local cane commercial bottling of the it through evaporation out into growers, that Sunshine Sugar aptly named ‘Aqua Botanical’ the atmosphere or rivers, it’s is on to a good thing as it expected to start in weeks. being put through the plant to seeks to diversify from solely

commercial sugar supply.

“It’s pretty clear this line has got the right pay-backs on it, it’s right up there and heading in the right direction,” Chris Connors said.

Back on the cane farms and among Northern Rivers’ traditional cane communities, expect a welcomed and wide ripple effect from the sector’s new-found prosperity; one bright light at least in a dark time of pandemic.

“What we’ll see out of this latest range of prices is investment into communities, in properties and machinery, I hope the growers will actually grow more cane and we’ll put more back into Research and Development,” Chris Connors said.

“It’s set to be a very positive period.”

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Biodiversity scheme ‘rort’ claims council report

By Tim Howard A NSW Government scheme to offset biodiversity loss during land development is ineffectual and has been rorted, claims a report to the latest cycle of Clarence Valley Council meetings.

On Tuesday the council’s Environment Planning and Community committee meeting dealt with a report detailing the council’s submission to the NSW Legislative Council’s Environment and Planning Committee on the Integrity of the NSW Biodiversity Offset Scheme.

The report’s summary said there has been widespread concerns since the introduction of the scheme regarding declining biodiversity, and rorting by companies of the offset market.

“As Clarence Valley Council processes an increasing number of developments that enter the BOS through land clearing, concerns have been raised over the schemes ability to conserve local biodiversity.”

The scheme, know as the Biodiversity Offset Scheme, requires developments and

other projects that meet certain thresholds for significant impacts on biodiversity to purchase or surrender offset credits or payment to the Biodiversity Conservation Fund, managed by the Biodiversity Conservation Trust.

If clearing and other impacts, including biodiversity impacts exceed a certain trigger, a Biodiversity Development Assessment Report (BDAR) is required to determine how the proponent will avoid, minimise or offset the impact from the proposed development.

The council said it has little confidence in the legislation for biodiversity conservation as offsets can occurred outside of the local government area, which meant a net loss of biodiversity in the region.

“To date, only one of the BDAR’s processed for CVC has had biodiversity credits offset locally. There are inherent difficulties in entering the credit supply market to source ‘like for like’ credits from landholders that have had their land approved and assessed for the number and type of credits,” the council report said.

developers make contributions.

“Many Plant Community Types (PCT’s) on the floodplain, which comprises a large percentage of land being developed in the Clarence, are threatened ecological communities (TEC’s) which are to be offset for the same TEC forcing developers to pay into the fund as the sole way to offset credits, as there are no locally available credits.

“There is no way to determine if this money deposited in the trust is then used to facilitate “These credit suppliers stewardship sites in the recovery or protection of TEC’s are located all over the state, Clarence. in the Clarence – creating hence if a developer can source Concerns about the integrity biodiversity loss.” credits, they are unlikely to be as well as the effects of the The same reasoning applies sourced within the Clarence, scheme were raised in council to threatened species with a creating a ‘net loss’ of debate earlier this year, when a limited geographical range do biodiversity.”

Gulmarrad manufactured homes not fit into the ‘like for like’ The council was also development was required to rule. concerned there was a shortage pay $3 million into the scheme.

The endangered coastal emu of stewardship sites in the local Cr Richie Williamson drew (pictured) which generates government area attention to the shortcomings significant credits (over $1.5 The process for landholders then saying there were no million for a recent BDAR) to get their land assessed and guarantees this money would that can only be paid into the approved as a stewardship be spent in the area and it was BCT, comes with no guarantee site involves a large monetary costly. that money is spent on species output, with returns only certain “This is something that’s recovery. if they sell the credits they have guaranteed to put development The Northern Rivers Times been assessed to hold. costs through the roof,” he said. will follow this issue at council Currently on the public The report also identifies a and bring a full report on the register, there are only two lack of transparency in the way outcome.

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August 19, 2021

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RETURN & EARN OPENS IN TWEED HEADS A NEW, bulk container-sorting facility has been opened by Vinnies in Tweed Heads for public and company use.

The state of the art depot on Ourimbah Road sorts and counts the containers for customers and is a welcomed advancement in the recycling effort.

“Individuals can visit our new depot at Tweed Heads to get 10c back for every eligible drink container. No need to pre-sort or feed them one by one into a slot. Just bring your bags or boxes of eligible containers and hand them to our friendly Vinnies staff, they will put them through our machines to quickly sort and count the 10c per container refunds.” Mitch Saddler, St Vincent de Paul Society NSW said.

“Refunds are provided on the spot and you can choose to keep it or donate some of it back to Vinnies,” he added.

Since 2018, St Vincent de Paul has collected and sorted over 160 million containers, including business or company waste.

“We’re partnering with local businesses – this means we will supply companies in the area with our blue recycling bins and collect them when they are full.” Mitch Saddler said.

“These partnerships will see the 10c per container deposits donated to Vinnies on the businesses’ behalf which will help our local services and members continue supporting people experiencing disadvantage.”

State Member for Tweed Geoff Provest congratulated Vinnies on its initiative to bring a bulk receiving depot to Tweed Heads at 57 Ourimbah Road.

“More families or businesses in this region would participate if there was a bulk receiving station nearby rather than using ‘Return and Earn’ machines that can be very time consuming,” Geoff Provest, said.

Tweed Mayor Cr Chris Cherry said the recycling facility achieves dual purpose; ease for locals to drop off their bottles and a way to raise money for St Vincent de Paul which goes back to those in need in the Tweed.

“It’s a win-win for the Machines quickly sort and count the 10c per container refunds community and people can really feel good about bringing in their bottles for recycling,” Councillor Cherry said.

Homelessness services including Fred’s Place in Tweed Heads and Mary’s Place in Ballina are set to benefit.

“They provide shower and laundry facilities, access to case workers, legal aid, health services and more. Donations will also assist people in need, who our members help with everyday essentials like food, clothes, and money to pay bills .. We are also happy to work with other charities,” Mr Saddler said.

If a business or venue would like to raise funds for Vinnies by having a blue recycling bin on site to collect containers, please contact the St Vincent de Paul Society in Tweed Businesses can get a blue Return and Earn bin with proceeds going back to Vinnies Photos: Vinnies Heads (07) 5523 1305.

Property owner fined $30,000 for cutting down trees A SUFFOLK Park property owner has been convicted and fined $30,000 for cutting down three mature trees and ordered to pay Byron Shire Council’s costs of $5500.

Two of the trees were mature coastal cypress pines which formed part of an endangered ecological community.

In September last year, council received a development application for a swimming pool and when staff inspected the site of the proposed pool, they noticed that three trees had been cut down.

The property owner was issued with three $3000 on-the-spot fines, but the property owner elected to have the matter dealt with in the Local Court.

Council’s legal counsel Ralph James said the magistrate was specific in pointing out that the

cutting down of trees was a serious offence, especially when it was done for the sole purpose of installing a swimming pool.

“It is worth noting that the original DA for the construction of the house was approved on the condition that the trees be retained, and the property owner was aware of this,” Mr James said.

“A fine of $30,000 is very significant and this sends a message to anyone else in the Byron Shire who may think that removing trees without approval is acceptable.

“My message to anyone thinking about removing trees is to make a phone call or send an email to council and staff can advise them on what to do so they don’t end up with a fine.”

Information about the removal of trees is on council’s website.

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Thermomix provides delights for koalas

By Samantha Elley IT is not often you’d hear the words koalas and thermomixes in the same sentence, but ‘bear’ with me, it is about to happen.

A recent call from the Friends of the Koala organisation in Lismore to the German company Thermomix resulted in the donation of two Thermomix machines, to help feed their furry charges.

Gemma McQueen is area manager on the North Coast for Thermomix and was only too happy to provide the appliances.

“We donated two of our older appliances that had been refurbished,” she said.

“I delivered them last weekend and hopefully they are using them to help the koalas.

“We have previously donated Thermomixes to Taronga Park Zoo and (Taronga Western Plains) Dubbo Zoo, where they were mixing food for echidnas.”

For the uninitiated a Thermomix is a blender that also cooks and stirs your food at adjustable temperatures and speeds.

It also comes with a built-in

Special feeding care of koalas will be made easier with the donation of two Thermomixes. scale, a steamer attachment and can have a touchscreen that will walk you through recipes for everything from chicken cacciatore to biscuit dough.

Claire Agnew, manager of operations and communications at Friends of the Koala in Lismore said they had been using a blender to grind eucalyptus leaves for sick koalas but, while it was doing the job, it wasn’t a fine enough grind.

“Koalas that have gut issues have an intense microbiome and gut bacteria,” she said.

“So we can’t treat them with antibiotics.

“What we need the Thermomix for, was to build up their gut bacteria by grinding fine eucalyptus leaves and the blender just wasn’t fine enough.”

Ms Agnew said it has been working so far.

“We don’t have a lot in care with gut issues at the

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THE Burns Point Ferry will be taken to a dry dock slipyard for major maintenance works from Friday, August 27 to Monday, September 13.

The ferry service will stop at 1pm on August 27 and is scheduled to start at 8am on September 13.

The ferry crossing will be closed to customers for the duration of this work.

Road users are advised to use the alternate route of the Pacific Highway and River Drive, Wardell.

During this period the ferry will have major mechanical and electrical repairs, and safety upgrades. The vessel will also be blasted and repainted.

The slip dates are prearranged to coincide with suitable tides around the Wardell and Woodburn bridges but are also dependent on safe, navigable weather conditions.

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moment,” she said.

“But when joeys (baby koalas) are born, they feed off mum’s faeces which is where they get the bacteria for their gut.

“When they are orphaned they still need that bacteria so we blend the eucalyptus leaves into a paste.

“We have tried lots of blenders in the past but they don’t do a good enough job to make the paste.”

Ms Agnew said Western

Plains Zoo had had better success making a paste to go into a syringe using a Thermomix.

Friends of the Koala are currently reduced to a skeleton staff while the Northern Rivers is in lockdown.

“We have people harvesting leaves and doing rehabilitation work and general husbandry, so far so good,” said Ms Agnew.

“We don’t have a huge amount in care but as the warmer weather comes, mums and joeys will be moving around and males will be looking for their mates.

“They become more active and in Lismore’s dense population they come into contact with dogs and cars.”

Ms Agnew said since Covid started last year they stopped their tours, which brought in many of their donations, to keep the volunteers safe.

“Volunteers are the life blood of what we do,” she said.

“It was a necessary move, but people still come and make donations.”

If you would like to donate to Friends of the Koala, you can visit their website friendsofthekoala.org

New signage to slow traffic and save koalas at Goonengerry THERE are speed zones in school areas and now there’s a koala zone on Mafeking Road at Goonengerry with the key message to drivers being to slow down.

Council staff have installed new signage on either side of the Byrangery Grass Reserve at Goonengerry to alert and remind drivers to look out for koalas.

The signage, funded by the NSW Koala Strategy 2018-21, includes two 6m x 7m road markings, as well as signs picturing a mother koala with a joey on her back.

Byron Shire Council’s biodiversity officer Liz Caddick said the signage was large, bright and different to standard wildlife signs with the aim being to catch the attention of drivers – both locals and visitors to the area.

“This part of Mafeking Road is known koala habitat with breeding females regularly seen which is just a wonderful thing,” Ms Caddick said.

“Unfortunately, koalas and cars don’t mix and recent upgrades to the road have locals concerned about an increase in speeding and the impact this could have on the resident

koalas.

“The Goonengerry Landcare group approached us to see if something more could be done and with the help of the community, we identified sites for signage and went to the NSW Government in May this year with a request for funding.

“We’re grateful the NSW Government has recognised the importance of this project to the community and the new signage is the result which is terrific.”

Traffic counters were put in place prior to the installation of the signs to gather data on their impact on driver behaviour and staff will be monitoring this over the next several months.

New signage will also be installed on Grays Lane at Tyagarah and Bangalow Road.

With spring just around the corner, drivers are reminded that koalas are on the move especially around dusk and dawn.

People who accidently hit a koala, or who find an injured koala, or other native animal, should call WIRES on 1300 094 937.

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August 19, 2021

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Study opportunity in paradise at Hayman Island TOURISM students now have exclusive access to paid internships at the idyllic Hayman Island Resort in the Whitsundays, courtesy of The Hotel School and Southern Cross University’s partnership.

The tropical campus at the InterContinental property in the Great Barrier Reef is the only hotel school in the world where students can study, work and live on a 5-star resort island.

The course, a two-year Associate Degree of International Hotel and Tourism Management accredited by Southern Cross University and HTMi Switzerland, blends university-level units with paid internships.

The Hayman Island campus joins The Hotel School’s existing campus locations in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

The Hotel School is a longstanding partnership between Southern Cross University and hotel giant Mulpha Australia.

Southern Cross University Vice Chancellor Professor Tyrone Carlin said this latest hotel management study initiative presented students

with a unique opportunity to enter the high-end hospitality industry.

“The InterContinental Hayman Island Resort is one of the world’s most prestigious hotels and Southern Cross University has built a reputation for delivering outstanding hotel and tourism courses,” Professor Carlin said.

“Students can be confident the work experience they gain during the paid internship, where they will put into practice the knowledge and skills gained while studying, will open doors to careers in the high-end market.”

Mulpha Australia CEO Greg Shaw said his organisation was proud to lead the industry with the world’s first 5-star resort island hotel school.

“With the opening of the Hayman Island campus, Mulpha has created a vision of a new globally unique academic offering,” Mr Shaw said.

“Rather than students studying academic content and enjoying work opportunities to re-enforce learning, the Hayman Island location allows complete and full integration of students into the InterContinental Resort business.”

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of The Hotel School, said students would be exposed to executive leadership of the resort and will be actively involved in driving performance and improvement.

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Illegal water structure fee angers residents

By Tim Howard

Under this classification councils cannot charge for the use of the land.

Maclean Shire and then Clarence Valley councils, unaware of the oversight, have been charging for recreational structures built on canals ever since.

Clarence Valley Council claimed it and its predecessor acted in good faith believing the structures leased were on operational land.

At its last meeting the council resolved it would refund any lease fees charged, but any owner claiming a refund would need to remove their pontoon or jetty.

This struck Mr Schwarz as extreme and he has retaliated with a call on social media for affected landholders to show “civil disobedience” and refuse to pay the fees.

“This item affects every person living on the waterfront in Yamba in Melaleuca Drive, Tecoma Place, Westringia Place, Gumnut Drive, Acacia Crescent, Witonga Drive and Nabilla Court, who have an approved council jetty/ pontoon for which they pay annual licence fees,” he wrote.

A YAMBA resident demanding a refund of Clarence Valley Council fees illegally collected since 1994 has slammed its response called for “civil disobedience”.

Yamba resident Dave Schwarz outed himself on social media as the resident who asked council to refund licence fees he had paid for a pontoon he had built to access the canal waterway from his property.

Since 1994 Maclean Shire and then Clarence Valley councils have charged people with recreational structures on their land a small licence fee, amounting to $70 a year, for the structures, usually pontoons or jetties.

But a report released in 2016 uncovered an administrative error by the Maclean council in 1994 when the State Government requested classification of land it owned as operational or community.

During debate it emerged the council at the time missed the deadline for classifying land as operational and it reverted to community land.

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“So that’s 132 ratepayers as I understand it, and I invite them all to join me in commencing some civil disobedience to this lunatic local government body. Lets not pay our licence fees!

“Council has accepted that it is illegal for them to approve any structures whatsoever on Community land, despite CVC and pre-amalgamation Maclean Shire Council doing so since around 1994.

“In their wisdom, five councillors moved an amendment to my refund submission which basically says that if I remove my pontoon and apply for a refund I can have it, but if I leave it there I can’t.”

Mr Schwarz said the move was “petty” and the refund would not cover the cost of removing the structure he had built.

He also noted the council’s acting general manager, Laura Black, admitted council would be hard pressed to act if owners decided not to pay up.

Four councillors, Greg Clancy, Karen Toms, Peter Ellem and Debrah Novak, did not support the motion put up

by Cr Richie Williamson.

Cr Toms was surprised the council had continued to charge the fee after the error was discovered in 2016.

Ms Black said it had decided to continue charging the fee because the council and owners had agreed to the situation in good faith and were happy with the arrangement.

Cr Ellem asked if once the land was reclassified operational, would all structure on it be legal. Ms Black said this would be the case.

Cr Williamson said his motion does not require anyone to do anything they haven’t been happy to do up to now.

“In my opinion you can’t have your cake and eat it too,” he said. “The lease fees are not much and now there’s a mechanism in place to clear up these issues.”

But Cr Ellem said the motion was draconian and left landowners with a heavy decision hanging over them.

“I would never do that to a ratepayer,” he said.

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of money involved were trifling – 19 cents a day he calculated – for an arrangement most seemed happy to see continue.

“Ninety-nine point nine per cent of people say they’ve had benefit from this structure and are happy to pay for it.”

Cr Toms proposed a foreshadowed motion to give affected residents a two-year moratorium on licence fees, She council had done the wrong thing charging licence fees when it knew it was not entitled to.

Cr Novak said council’s failure to act on its knowledge it was not entitled to charge the fee hurt its standing in the community.

“I think council needs to act in good faith and give a refund,” she said. “It would be the start of building a stronger relationship between us and the community.”

Mayor Jim Simmons supported the motion, but pointed out there were examples in the finance and banking systems when errors were made and repayments ordered.

The motion passed 5-4.

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Small birthing kits making a huge difference

By Tonia Dynan YOU might not think a small piece of string, a bar of soap and some wash clothes could do much, but to young expectant mothers in the Papua New Guinea and TimorLeste, a small birthing pack means the world.

Ballina on Richmond Rotary Club is preparing the kits as part of their Donations in Kind program to send to the islands as soon as possible.

Volunteer Wayne Crawford (pictured) said birthing kits had been made by Rotarians for a long time.

“If you imagine these women, these to-be mums, they’ve got no dignity, they’ve got no sanitation, they’ve got absolutely nothing,” Wayne said.

“To be given something like this, that seems so small to you or I, living in this privileged country that we do live in, this to them is amazing.

“It ticks boxes on so many different fields if you like.

Firstly, we’re supplying a need. Secondly, we are building relationships with other people, not government the government, it’s people to people in all these other places and that’s what Rotary

is about - they build bridges with people.

“Prior to this, I’m not sure what the what the mortality was, but I could imagine it was very high, for mum and bub. This just gives them a little bit of a chance.”

Wayne said the club was about to launch its first 100 birthing kits.

“We have all the materials to go with it now. When they are done, they’ll go off and find their way into a container and they’ll be shipped off to New Guinea and Timor-Leste,” Wayne said.

“When these kits find their way into their destination, they are then put on the back of the midwife. When these kits are grabbed by the midwife, she has to pack them on her back, and she has to take these kits

for miles and miles up rough terrain and everything else.

“When she gets to the village, she may decide that she’s going to do six or eight or 10 villages at any one time, so she may have 20 birthing kits on her. So, they have to be light.”

Each kit works out to be about 250 grams and has nine components – a cleansing swab, a scalpel blade, a piece of string, rubber gloves, toweling, linen, a large bag (for the mum to lie on), a smaller bag, and soap.

“That’s why it takes us a while to get to do the birthing kits, you need to have the numbers of everything before you can make them up,” Wayne said.

The club hopes to have volunteers pack the kits as

GO FURTHER FOR OUR KIDS THE NAB Darrel Chapman Fun Run is a much-loved Lismore fundraising event for Our Kids, a local charity that raises money to purchase lifesaving equipment for our local hospitals, to keep our kids local when needing medical care.

To help keep our community safe from Covid, the event organisers have made the difficult decision to take the fun run completely virtual in 2021.

You’re invited to take part virtually in the week between August 23 to 29 for the following run or walk events: • Our Kids - 4km; • Lord’s Taverners 10km; • Lismore Masters half marathon; or • Southern Cross University Marathon.

Darrel Chapman Fun Run has been held in Lismore for more than 25 years, and Lismore City Council is proud to join NAB and other business and community partners in sponsoring the 2021 event, through the Special Business Rate Variation Funds.

Council recognises the importance of supporting businesses and organisations to deliver activation and promotion initiatives within Lismore,

which increasingly includes planning for virtual participation and leveraging wider marketing and engagement opportunities online.

Council will be pleased to share outcomes and learnings as part of the Business Activation Plan, which is soon to be announced.

Find out more and sign up to participate at www.darrel-chapmanfun-run-2021.raisely. com/.

soon as the COVID lockdown is lifted.

“We will have a crew of probably eight people here, and we’ll do them,” Wayne said.

“Once they pack into these individual packs, this small

one goes into that larger bag and they’re packed into a carton, maybe 10 to 15 in each carton.

“And then when Covid permits, we’ll take them north to the containers in Kingston.”

MARINE RESCUE IN BALLINA

ON Friday morning, volunteers from Marine Rescue Ballina rescued three people aboard a six-metre open runabout that had broken down offshore.

Marine Rescue Ballina rescue vessel

BA30 with crew Ian Grimwood, William Ewen, Stephen Evans and Tony Powell, supported by radio operator Trevor Stabb, took the vessel under tow, returning it and its occupants safely to the Fisheries Creek boat ramp.

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TEACHERS and students at home or in class are reminded to log on to next week’s finals presentation of the 2021 Green Innovation Awards.

The interactive finals event is timed around school lunchtime, 12.30-1.00pm, next Wednesday, August 25.

Now in its 4th year, the Green Innovation Awards which reward young ingenuity to age-old problems, have chosen five finalists from 20 participating schools across the Northern Rivers: St Ambrose Catholic School Pottsville, Bexhill Public School, Tregeagle Public School, Goolmangar Public School and Empire Vale Public School.

“There are lots of little schools excelling,” founder, Dr Bridie Cullinane (chiropractor) told The Northern Rivers Times.

The awards categories include Agriculture and Sustainable Land Management, Biofuels and Renewable Energy, Green products and Recycling, Water Management and Waste Management.

Teachers around the region are encouraged to share this “uplifting and educational” interactive experience with their classes either at home or at school, members of the public interested in sustainability are also welcome to attend. Registration prior to the Awards event via the Green Innovation Awards website is essential; www. greeninnovationawards.com.au

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SCU AWARDS DISTINGUISHED PROFESSORSHIP TO REEF RESTORATION PIONEER PETER HARRISON SOUTHERN Cross University has honoured Professor Peter Harrison, an eminent and internationally recognised leader in coral reproductive ecology and restoration, with the title Distinguished Professor.

The Distinguished Professorship – the university’s highest academic honour – acknowledges and rewards sustained, outstanding performance.

Prof Harrison is the inaugural recipient.

For more than 40 years Prof Harrison has been leading coral research efforts on Australia’s World Heritagelisted Great Barrier Reef and on many reef regions around the world.

The award-winning and fervent coral reef and marine science advocate is recognised internationally as an eminent researcher, pioneer, and expert in the field of coral reproduction and larval restoration.

As a strong advocate for the integration of science and conservation, he is actively mentoring the next generation of marine scientists to safeguard the future of the Great Barrier Reef.

Vice Chancellor Professor Tyrone Carlin said Southern Cross University was privileged to award its first Distinguished Professorship to Peter Harrison.

“The intention of this scheme is to allow us to shine a spotlight on particularly sustained and meritorious academic leadership at the professorial level, to celebrate that contribution and to provide a platform for building upon it to create an enduring legacy,” Prof Carlin said.

“Peter has achieved so much and contributed significantly over a very long period of time. He is a deeply worthy recipient of this honour, and I feel that it is a genuine privilege to be in a position to extend the offer of this appointment.

“I look forward to seeing Peter capture the essence of this appointment to build his

enduring legacy to Southern Cross University and the community.”

Nominating Prof Harrison for the Distinguished Professor honour was Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) Professor Mary Spongberg.

“The Distinguished Professor title is not just recognition for Peter as a stellar researcher,” said Prof Spongberg.

“To receive the title, one must be distinguished in all areas of academic pursuit.

“Peter has been awarded a national citation for outstanding teaching and is one of Australia’s leading science communicators.

“A fabulous all-rounder and

most deserving of the honour!”

Distinguished Professor Peter Harrison thanked the vice chancellor.

“I am delighted to accept this great honour,” said Professor Harrison.

“I’d also like to thank Mary for the nomination and the many staff and students at the University and my family who have been so helpful and supportive on this journey over more than 30 years.

“I look forward to building on the successes so far for the University and the Great Barrier Reef to ensure the legacy is enduring.

“There are a lot of new and exciting projects and important research by research students

and staff in my team, and we are constantly evolving the restoration techniques to be more successful for future larger scale reef trials.”

Great Barrier Reef Foundation managing director Anna Marsden congratulated Prof Harrison on his invaluable contribution to coral reef conservation.

“We’re proud to support his world-leading research into coral restoration,” she said.

“The success of this research not only applies to the Great Barrier Reef but to all coral reefs around the world, giving us hope for their future.”

In an international scientific first in 1981, Prof Harrison – then a PhD candidate – jointly discovered that many coral species reproduce synchronously, over just a few nights each year, on the Great Barrier Reef.

Inspired by this natural phenomenon (called mass coral spawning), Prof Harrison spent many years developing and refining a novel coral larval restoration technique to harness the trillions of egg and sperm bundles released by many coral species.

Now known commonly as Coral IVF, the technique has been used successfully in the Philippines and more recently on the Great Barrier Reef and has restored breeding coral populations on damaged sections of reefs.

Rescuers can’t see the ocean through the trees

By Tonia Dynan A SECTION of overgrown vegetation is hampering the efforts of Marine Rescue Ballina.

The vegetation outside the Marine Rescue tower at the southern end of Lighthouse Beach has grown so much since the base was built in 2017 that it is impeding the view from the tower of the beach, people in the surf and vessels approaching from the north.

Marine Rescue has approached Ballina Shire Council about pruning the overgrowth, but council staff have advised the vegetation referred to contains a littoral rainforest, an endangered ecological community, which is protected under the NSW

Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016.

“It is also integral to the stability of the beach dune system by ensuring deeprooted structural capacity in accordance with the Coastal Zone Management Plan, while assisting with mitigating beach erosion and assisting accretion,” staff reported.

“When pruning vegetation, compliance is required with the Australian Standards for Pruning of amenity trees. This standard encourages pruning practices that reduce hazards and premature tree death.

“Within this procedure, the amount of pruning that can occur is subject to individual tree assessments and is dependent on the species, health, age, condition and location of the vegetation.

“Pruning of the species identified, in accordance with the standards, would not result in successfully providing the extent of vision that Marine Rescue is requesting from the tower.”

Council advised Marine Rescue to approach the State Government regarding the potential for approval to trim the vegetation prior to

investigating further options, such as using cameras or drones.

Marine Rescue Ballina unit commander Zsolt Mankowsky said rescuers could not see the ocean at all near Lighthouse Beach.

“When you’re a marine rescue organisation, trying to save lives on the water, or keep boats safe - if you can’t

see them, it makes it very hard,” Mr Mankowsky said.

“Using drones is a matter for council. We’re awaiting the installation of a bar camera on the roof but while it will have direct vision of the bar, it’s unlikely it will be able to see over the vegetation either.”

Lou Wilson, from the Lennox Head-Alstonville Surf Life Saving Club, said the overgrown vegetation was also an issue with the surf club and suggested the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act should be amended to allow critical services to be able to prune vegetation to allow vision.

Minister for Energy and Environment Matt Kean’s office was contacted for comment, but they have yet to reply.

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RIVER STREET DUPLICATION PROJECT UPDATE THE River Street duplication project in West Ballina is progressing well, and work is almost complete on the section adjacent to Cedars Caravan Park (Phase 7).

Preliminary works have also started on the outbound lanes, with dig out and construction to start the week of August 16.

This next phase of works will proceed west from the Barlows Road roundabout to Quays Drive.

As Ballina Shire Council nears completion of the northern side (adjacent to Cedars Caravan Park – Phase 7) the following will remain in place: • Outside travel lane is closed with vehicles travelling in a single lane through the Barlows Road roundabout.

Note: the new inbound lanes are expected to open in September once all construction activities on

the northern side of River Street, including final asphalt and line-marking, are completed; • Street parking is restricted; • Bus stop is temporarily located to Ballina Byron Islander Resort.

The right-hand turn into Ronan Place will be permanently closed after the section adjacent to Mays Motors and Quayside Motors (Phase 8) is completed.

Landscaping of the median and approaches will occur over the next couple of months. Temporary lane closures will be required when landscaping is underway.

Council thanks the community for their continued patience as it completes this important road upgrade.

To learn more about the project and to register for emailed project updates please visit ballina.nsw.gov.au/ RiverStreetDuplication

Bonalbo flood assessment to go on display KYOGLE Council is putting the Bonalbo Flood Study on public display to get the community’s input.

Council plans to host a community drop-in session in Bonalbo Hall where the community can view model outputs, pre-recorded presentations and ask any questions about the study.

The Bonalbo Flood Study has been prepared under the Floodplain Risk Management Process to develop a detailed understanding of the flood behaviour at Bonalbo from both Peacock Creek (mainstream flooding) and from the local catchment drainage though the township.

In preparing the study, information was sought from the community via a community questionnaire to understand the community’s experiences of flooding.

The questionnaire was mailed to 280 residents in September last year and was also made available online.

“59% of respondents indicated that their property had flooded before with a further 15% acknowledging that their property was flood affected but it had not flooded before to their knowledge,” the study reported.

“More than 80% of the of the respondents were from

residential properties. Most respondents were located within the Bonalbo town area.

“Flood modelling has been validated against observed flood marks from the 2008 event and anecdotal evidence obtained for the community during the community consultation.”

The study has identified the two main sources of flooding to the town; the local catchments which lead to overland flows, and flooding from Peacock Creek itself.

In smaller events the overland flows are the dominant source of flooding.

However, in a larger event the Peacock Creek spills into the floodplain flows from the creek becoming the dominant source of flooding at the south-eastern end of the town.

The study has also considered provisional flood hazard and flood function.

Typically, when under overland flow conditions, the floodways are limited to the channels and drains except for a few streets.

In the larger events, a floodway from the creek develops in the flood runner east of the town. This affects a few properties towards the eastern end of Sandilands Street.

The study showed much of the town could evacuate given sufficient warning time, however areas affected

by Peacock Creek could become low flood islands due to developing floodways along streets and channels within the town in larger events.

“Although areas have rising road access or overland escape routes for properties on the west and north of town, these routes lead to high trapped perimeter areas where the hillslope terrain can make vehicle access difficult,” the study reported.

“For the town area affected by overland flows, flood depths are typically less than 0.5m.

“In recent years, no significant mainstream flooding has been reported and recent inundation reported though the community consultation has typically been from overland flows.

“Bonalbo township becomes frequently isolated from the wider community.

During events in the last 10 years, including 2010 and 2011, roads such as the Clarence Way between Urbenville and Bonalbo were cut by floodwaters while much of the town remained unaffected by direct flooding.”

Major flooding affecting the town from Peacock Creek occurred in 1967. Events in the 1950s washed away the

Woodenbong Road / Clarence Way bridge crossing on Peacock Creek and damaged a replacement bridge.

“Other than these events, there has not been major flooding from Peacock Creek in recent years,” the study reported.

“Flash flooding has also been described in the community consultation responses.

“The summer months of December to March typically receive the highest rainfall.

Flooding on Peacock Creek and some of the largest events (1954, 1976, 2008) have all occurred during these summer months with the exception of the 1967 event which occurred in June.”

The study also looks at dam-break assessment, road inundation, climate change and other potential flood hazards.

The Bonalbo Flood Study will be placed on public exhibition for a minimum of 28 days.

Following community consultation and public exhibition, the final study will be brought to council for adoption, at which point the Bonalbo Flood Study and Flood Risk Management Plan/Study will start as well as the formation of a formal steering committee.

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(R) 7.00 Judge Judy. (PG, R) 7.30 Bold. (PG, R) 8.00 Studio 10. (PG) 12.00 Dr Phil. (PGa) 1.00 The Living Room. (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. (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. Tino grows spuds the easy way.

8.30 Midsomer Murders.

(Masv, R) DCI Barnaby and DS Winter investigate when a member of a village watch is murdered.

10.00 The Capture. (Mlv, R) A soldier is accused of kidnapping.

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

11.15 The Vaccine. (R) Presented

by Jeremy Fernandez.

11.30 Question Everything. (R) Presented by Wil Anderson and Jan Fran.

12.00 Rosehaven. (PG, R) 12.30 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv)

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

7.35 Hunt For Queen Nefertiti. (PG) Archaeologists search for Nefertiti.

8.30 World’s Most Extraordinary Homes: Switzerland. (PG) Explores a range of architect-designed houses.

9.30 Brooklyn Nine-Nine. (M) Jake and Charles team up.

10.25 SBS World News Late.

11.00 Patriot Brains. (Mals, R) 11.50 Transplant. (Premiere, MA15+a) 3.10 Cruising With Jane McDonald. (PG, R) 4.00 Killer In Our Classroom: Never Again. (Malv, 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 Better Homes And Gardens.

Joh gets a look behind the scenes of FareShare, a service providing meals for those in need. Dr Harry looks at how to keep a turtle as a pet. Fast Ed makes beef, asparagus and prosciutto rollups.

8.30 MOVIE: We Bought A Zoo. (2011, PGal, R) Based on a true story.

In the wake of the loss of his wife and despite financial pressures, a single father moves his family to a run-down zoo where he and the staff set out to renovate and reopen the facility. Matt Damon, Colin Ford, Scarlett Johansson.

11.05 To Be Advised.

1.00 Home Shopping.

6.00 NBN News.

7.00 A Current Affair.

7.30 Rugby League. NRL. Round 23.

Penrith Panthers v South Sydney Rabbitohs. From BlueBet Stadium, Sydney.

9.50 Golden Point. James Bracey, Peter Sterling, Paul Vautin, Andrew Johns and Billy Slater present a post-match wrap-up.

10.35 MOVIE: The American.

(2010, MA15+lsv, R) A contract killer and gunsmith is asked to design a high-end sniper rifle for an assassination.

George Clooney, Thekla Reuten.

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

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

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

6.30 The Project. Peter Van Onselen, Lisa Wilkinson, Nazeem Hussain and Susie Youssef take a look at the day’s news.

7.30 The Living Room. The team revitalises a woman’s wardrobe and turns her apartment into a palace fit for a princess.

8.30 To Be Advised.

9.30 The Graham Norton Show.

(M, R) Graham Norton is joined by actors Hugh Grant, Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey and Amy Adams, celebrity cook Nigella Lawson, and comedian Romesh Ranganathan.

Dua Lipa performs her song Levitating.

11.30 The Project. (R) Peter Van Onselen, Lisa Wilkinson, Nazeem Hussain and Susie Youssef take 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)

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 Hard Quiz. 8.30 Brian Johnson’s A Life On The Road. 10.00 Gruen. 10.35 Doctor Who. (Final) 11.50 Art Works. 12.20am Brush With Fame.

12.45 Live At The Apollo. 1.35 QI. 2.05 Would I Lie To You? 2.35 30 Rock. 2.55 Reno 911! 3.15 Friday Night Dinner. 3.40 Inside No. 9. 4.10 News Update.

4.15 Close. 5.05 Miffy’s Adventures Big And Small.

5.15 The Furchester Hotel. 5.25 Late Programs.

VICELAND (31) 6am WorldWatch. Noon RocKwiz. 12.55 What’s The Catch With Matthew Evans. 2.00 Yokayi Footy. 2.35 Over The Black Dot. 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 Hoarders. 9.20 Cycling. UCI World Tour. La Vuelta. Stage 7. 1.50am News. 2.20 NHK World English News. 3.00 Thai News. 3.30 Bangla News.

4.00 Punjabi News. 4.30 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: Eight O’Clock Walk. (1954, PG) 5.20 Serengeti. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 David Attenborough’s Dynasties.

8.40 MOVIE: Yesterday. (2019, M) 10.50 MOVIE: Taking Woodstock. (2009, MA15+) 1am TV Shop.

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: The Next Generation.

ABC ME (23) 6am Children’s Programs.

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am The Young Victoria. Continued. (2009, PG) 7.00 The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp. (1943, PG) 10.00 Richard The Stork. (2017) 11.35 Run Lola Run. (1998, M, German) 1.05pm Kung Fu Jungle. (2014, M, Cantonese) 3.00 The Well-Digger’s Daughter. (2011, PG, French) 5.00 The Eagle Has Landed. (1976, PG) 7.30 Girl. (2018, M, Flemish) 9.30 Postcards From The Edge. (1990, M) 11.25 Le Brio. (2017, MA15+, French) 1.15am The Clan. (2015, MA15+, Spanish) 3.15 Late Programs.

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 Storage Wars. 3.30 Pawn Stars. 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.

12.05am Pawn Stars. 12.30 American Pickers. 1.30 Pawn Stars South Africa. 2.00 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 Children’s Programs. 5.10 Malcolm. 5.40 MOVIE: Wedding Daze. (2006, PG) 7.30 MOVIE: Stick It. (2006, PG) 9.35 MOVIE: Clueless. (1995, M) 11.35 Love Island USA. 12.35am Keeping Up With The Kardashians. 1.30 90 Day Fiance. 2.20 Social Fabric. 2.50 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 This Is Us. 2.30 Becker. 3.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 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 Stockman’s Strategy. Noon MOVIE: Catch A Fire.

(2006, M) 1.50 Anthem Sessions Interstitials. 2.00 On The Road. 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 Pete & Pio’s Kai Safari. 7.00 NITV News: Nula. 7.30 MOVIE: Mosley.

(2019, PG) 9.10 Bedtime Stories. 9.20 Big Name, No Blanket. 10.25 Vogue Australia: Sixty Years Through The Lens. 11.25 Late Programs.

9LIFE (84) 6am House Hunters Int. 6.30 House Hunters. 7.00 Desert Flippers. 8.00 Garden Gurus Moments. 8.10 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 Int. 7.00 House Hunters. 7.30 Maine Cabin Masters. 8.30 Barnwood Builders.

9.30 Lakefront Bargain Hunt Renovation. 10.30 Lakefront Bargain Hunt. 11.00 Late Programs.

SKY NEWS (53) 6am Breakfast Show.

1.40pm Robot Wars: World Series. 2.40 The Unlisted. 3.20 Matilda And The Ramsay Bunch.

3.35 Wow That’s Amazing. 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 Turtle Odyssey. 7.10 MOVIE: Legends Of Oz: Dorothy’s Return. (2013, PG) 8.40 Good Game Spawn Point. 9.00 Fruits Basket.

9.25 Sword Art Online. 9.45 Radiant. 10.15 Close.

5.30am Children’s Programs.

1pm Cook And The Chef. 1.30 Kitchen Hero. 2.00 Rachel Khoo’s Cosmopolitan Cook. 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 Better Homes And Gardens. 3.30 Surf Patrol. 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. 11.40 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 21 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. (PG, R) 2.25 Fake Or Fortune? (R) 3.25 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. 11.00 NSW Coronavirus Update. 11.30 Turkish News. 12.00 Arabic News F24. 12.30 America: News. 1.00 PBS News. 2.00 Equestrian. FEI Jumping Nations Cup. La Baule. H’lights. 3.00 Drink Wars: Coca-Cola Vs Pepsi. (ad, R) 3.55 Arabian Sands. (R) 5.00 Cycling. UCI World Tour. La Vuelta. Stage 7. H’lights. 5.30 WWII Battles For Europe. (PGaw, R)

6.00 Shopping. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise.

10.00 Morning Show. (PG) 12.00 Highway Cops. (PGl, R) 12.30 Border Patrol. (PG, R) 1.00 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 Rivals. (Return) 12.30 The Rebound.

1.00 The Pet Rescuers. (PG, R) 1.30 The Block.

(PGl, R) 2.30 Garden Gurus. (Return) 3.00 Netball. Super Netball.

Preliminary final.

5.00 News: First At Five.

5.30 Getaway. (PG)

6.00 Reel Action. (R) 6.30 Leading The Way. 7.00 Seafood Escape. (R) 7.30 4x4 Adventures. (R) 8.30 RV Daily Foodie Trails.

(R) 9.00 Taste Of Australia. (R) 9.30 St10.

(PG) 12.00 The Living Room. (R) 1.00 The Dog House. (PG, R) 3.00 Jamie’s Easy Meals For Every Day. (R) 3.30 Roads Less Travelled.

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

6.15 The Repair Shop. (R) Steve Fletcher works on a toy replica.

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

7.30 The Durrells. (PG) Louisa opens a new boarding house.

8.20 The Trial Of Christine Keeler.

(Premiere, Malsv) During the ’60s, an English model finds herself at the centre of a scandal involving a government minister.

9.20 The Newsreader. (Mal, R) A reporter and a newsreader are thrown together in the cutthroat world of commercial TV news.

10.15 Maigret. (Mav, R) A diamond merchant is murdered.

11.45 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv)

6.30 SBS World News.

7.30 Top Ten Mummies Of Egypt. (PGa, R) 9.15 Top Ten Treasures Of Pompeii.

(Mas, R) A look at Pompeii’s treasures.

11.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine. (M, R) 12.00 MOVIE: Let The Sunshine In. (2017, MA15+s, R) 1.45 MOVIE: The Wave. (2019, MA15+al, R) 3.20 World War Speed. (Madl, R) 4.25 VICE Guide To Film. (Madlv, 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 Seven News.

7.00 Surveillance Oz. (PGa) A group of teens go viral after their destructive night is caught on CCTV. 7.30 MOVIE: Alita: Battle Angel.

(2019, Malv) An amnesiac cyborg who was rescued from a scrapyard tries to regain her memory. Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly.

10.00 MOVIE: X-Men: First Class.

(2011, Mlv, R) During the ’60s, a group of mutants matches wits with a former Nazi who is determined to start a nuclear war. James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence.

1.00 Home Shopping.

6.00 NBN News.

7.00 Rugby League. NRL. Round 23. Parramatta Eels v North Queensland Cowboys.

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

9.45 MOVIE: The Longest Yard.

(2005, Mlsv, R) Adam Sandler.

12.00 MOVIE: The Beguiled. (2017, Mas) 1.45 Garden Gurus Moments. (R) 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) Monster waves lash Bondi.

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

8.00 Ambulance Australia.

(Madlv, R) Paramedics respond to a serious call involving a 51-year-old man suffering a heart attack.

9.00 To Be Advised.

11.00 Blue Bloods. (Mv, R) A medium approaches Danny and Baez.

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. 11.50 Bliss. 12.15am Fleabag. 12.45 Would I Lie To You? 1.15 Grand Designs NZ. 2.05 Escape From The City. 3.00 News Update. 3.05 Close. 5.05 Late Programs.

VICELAND (31) 6am WorldWatch.

10.00 Basketball. WNBA. Dallas Wings v Indiana Fever. Noon Letterkenny. 1.25 What’s The Catch With Matthew Evans. 2.25 Insight. 3.25 WorldWatch. 4.50 Seconds From Disaster. 6.40 American Runestone: A Viking Mystery. (Return) 7.30 Forsaken Places. 8.30 Inside The X-Files.

9.20 The X-Files. 11.00 Cycling. UCI World Tour. La Vuelta. Stage 8. 1.50am Late Programs.

7TWO (62) 6am Home Shopping. 8.30 Travel Oz. 10.00 NBC Today. 12.30pm Jabba’s Movies. 1.00 House Of Wellness. 2.00 The Great Australian Doorstep. 2.30 Weekender. 3.00 Creek To Coast. 3.30 Sydney Weekender. 4.00 RSPCA Animal Rescue. 5.30 Charlie Luxton’s Homes By The Sea. 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 My Favorite Martian. 10.30 The Avengers. 11.30 Edgar Wallace Mysteries. 12.45pm MOVIE: The Mind Benders.

(1963, PG) 3.00 MOVIE: South Of Algiers. (1953) 4.55 MOVIE: McLintock! (1963, PG) 7.30 Desert Vet. 8.30 MOVIE: The Shawshank Redemption.

(1994, MA15+) 11.20 Australia’s Top Ten Of Everything. 12.20am 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 Pat Callinan’s 4x4 Adventures. 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 11. Austrian Grand Prix. Replay. 3.40 WhichCar. 4.05 Late Programs.

ABC ME (23)

6am Children’s Programs.

2.45pm Radiant. 3.10 Sailor Moon Crystal. 3.35 Voltron: Legendary Defender. 4.00 Taking The Next Step. 4.30 Odd Squad. 4.45 Little Lunch.

5.00 Secret Life Of Boys. 5.30 Kung Fu Panda.

6.00 Space Nova. 6.30 72 Cutest Animals. 7.00 Mythbusters “There’s Your Problem!”. 7.35 MOVIE: Grandpa’s Great Escape. (2018, PG) 8.50 Joe All Alone. 9.20 Close. 5.30am Children’s Programs.

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am The Eagle Has Landed. Continued. (1976, PG) 7.30 Remi Nobody’s Boy. (2018, PG, French) 9.30 The Straight Story. (1999, PG) 11.35 The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp. (1943, PG) 2.35pm Richard The Stork. (2017) 4.10 Cutthroat Island. (1995, PG) 6.25 Beauty And The Beast. (2014, PG, French) 8.30 Kursk. (2018, M) 10.40 Divine Love. (2019, MA15+, Portuguese) 12.30am Late Programs.

7MATE (63) 6am The Fishing Show.

7.00 Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction. 8.00 Home Shopping. 10.00 Garage 41. 10.30 Mudslingers.

11.00 Roll With It. 11.30 Motor Racing. Outlaw Nitro Funny Cars. Replay. 12.30pm Timbersports.

1.00 Blokesworld. 1.30 Storage Wars. 2.00 Pawn Stars South Africa. 2.30 Pawn Stars UK. 3.15 Pawn Stars. 3.45 MOVIE: Invictus. (2009, PG) 6.30 To Be Advised. 11.00 Late Programs.

9GO! (83) 6am Children’s Programs.

1.35pm Malcolm. 2.35 Visions Of Greatness. 3.45 MOVIE: Pokémon The Movie: The Power Of Us. (2018) 5.45 MOVIE: Shark Tale. (2004) 7.30 MOVIE: Mortal Engines. (2018, M) 10.00 MOVIE: R.I.P.D. (2013, M) 11.50 Young, Dumb And Banged Up In The Sun. 12.50am Westside. 1.50 Visions Of Greatness. 3.00 Power Rangers Dino Fury. 3.30 Thunderbirds. 4.30 Late Programs.

PEACH (52) 6am Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. 7.00 The Middle. 8.00 Frasier. 9.00 Rules Of Engagement. 10.00 Becker. 11.00 Australian Survivor. 3.30pm Friends. 6.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.45 2 Broke Girls. 10.45 The Conners.

12.15am Home Shopping. 1.45 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.

3.30 Funny Girls. 4.30 Home Shopping.

ABC NEWS (24) 6am News Programs. 2pm ABC News. 2.30 World This Week.

3.00 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 ABC News Regional. 7.00 ABC National News.

7.30 Australian Story. 8.00 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. 12.30pm Choccywoccydoodah. 1.00 Cook And The Chef. 1.30 Lidia’s Italy. 2.00 Living On The Veg. 3.00 Rhodes Across Italy. 4.00 Watts On The Grill. 5.00 Heston’s Recipe For Romance.

6.00 Cheese Slices. 7.00 Born To Cook. 7.30 Yotam Ottolenghi’s Mediterranean Feasts. 8.30 Ainsley’s Mediterranean Cookbook. 9.30 The Hairy Bikers’ Best Of British. 10.40 Late Programs.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs.

2.55pm Rugby Union. WA Premier Grade. 3.45 Bowls. SA Super League. 4.15 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 News. 7.40 Through The Wormhole With Morgan Freeman. 8.30 MOVIE: Out Of State. (2017) 10.00 MOVIE: Miles Ahead.

(2015, M) 11.45 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 Worst To First. 2.30 Barnwood Builders. 3.30 Lakefront Bargain Hunt. 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 22 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. (Final, PG, R) 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. 11.00 NSW Coronavirus Update. 11.30 Turkish News. 12.00 Arabic News F24. 12.30 America: News. 1.00 Speedweek. 3.00 Cycling. UCI Europe Tour. Arctic Race of Norway. H’lights. 4.00 Gymnastics. FIG Trampoline World Cup Series.

5.00 Cycling. UCI World Tour. La Vuelta. Stage 8. 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. (PG, 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 23.

Brisbane Broncos v New Zealand Warriors.

6.00 Morning Programs. 8.00 Roads Less Travelled. (R) 8.30 Pooches At Play. (R) 9.00 Australia By Design: Interiors. (R) 9.30 St10.

(PG) 12.00 My Market Kitchen. (R) 12.30 Everyday Gourmet. (R) 1.00 Jamie’s Easy Meals For Every Day. (R) 1.30 Healthy Homes Aust. 2.00 Australian Survivor. (PGl, R) 3.30 Roads Less Travelled. 4.00 Farm To Fork. (PG, R) 4.30 Taste Of Australia. 5.00 News.

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

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

8.30 The Newsreader. (Mal) Helen and Dale report on the return of Halley’s comet.

9.25 Traces. (Mads) Kathy and Sarah examine the nightclub fire.

10.10 Les Norton. (Mlsv, R) 11.00 Silent Witness. (MA15+av, R) 12.00 Recognition: Yes Or No? (R) 1.05 Maigret. (Mav, R) 2.35 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 4.10 Shakespeare And Hathaway. (Mv, R) 4.55 Insiders. (R)

6.30 SBS World News.

7.30 Queen Victoria’s Children. (PG, R) 10.40 Filthy Rich And Homeless. (Madl, R) 11.45 24 Hours In Emergency. (Ma, R) 12.40 Diagnosis On Demand. (R) 1.50 The Surgeon And The Soldier. (Mal, R) 2.50 How To Die A Better Death. (Maw, R) 4.00 E-Cigarettes: Welcome Back, Big Tobacco. (PGw, R) 4.50 Destination Flavour Scandinavia Bitesize. (R) 5.00 France 24 Feature. 5.15 NHK World English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle.

6.00 Seven News.

7.00 The Voice. (PGa) An all-girl group named G-Nation perform.

8.30 Homicide: With Ron Iddles: Wayne Amey. (Mdlv) Former police detective Ron Iddles takes a look at the challenging case of femme fatale Robyn Lindholm.

9.30 Miniseries: Hatton Garden.

(Ml) Part 3 of 4. After the robbery hits the news, the gang agrees to lay low for six months before splitting the money.

11.35 The Blacklist. (Mav) 12.30 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.

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

10.00 Fergie’s Killer Dresser: The Jane Andrews Story. (Mav) 11.00 Killer On The Line. (Mav, R) 11.50 Dr Christian Jessen Will See You Now. (Mam, R) 12.40 The Garden Gurus. (R) 1.05 Rivals. (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.

A look at the day’s news.

7.30 Australian Survivor.

The castaways, who have been divided into two camps, continue their adventure in Cloncurry, Queensland.

9.00 FBI. (Mav) FBI special agent Jubal’s concern for his sick son affects his judgement as the team rushes to track down two doctors abducted by a desperate father willing to do anything to save his own son.

12.00 The Sunday Project.

(R) A look at the day’s news.

1.00 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 Sir Mouse. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Compass. 8.30 Louis Theroux: The Night In Question. 9.30 Miriam Margolyes Almost Australian. 10.30 Beyond The Towers. 11.30 Doctor At The Door. 12.25am Inside The Met. 1.25 Brian Johnson’s A Life On The Road. 2.50 Live At The Apollo. 3.35 News Update. 3.40 Close. 5.05 Miffy’s Adventures Big And Small. 5.15 Late Programs.

VICELAND (31) 6am WorldWatch.

Noon Date My Race. 1.00 What’s The Catch With Matthew Evans. 2.00 After The Virus. 2.50 State Of Terrorism. 3.50 WorldWatch. 4.15 The Point.

4.45 The Orville. 6.35 Life After People. 7.30 Guns That Changed The Game. 8.30 Life And Death Row. 9.30 Locked Up: Teens Behind Bars. 10.25 I Was A Teenage Felon. (Premiere) 11.15 Cycling. UCI World Tour. La Vuelta. Stage 9. 1.50am Late Programs.

7TWO (62) 6am Home Shopping. 7.30 Leading The Way. 8.00 David Jeremiah. 8.30 Home Shopping. 10.00 House Of Wellness. 11.00 The Great Australian Doorstep. 11.30 To Be Advised.

Noon Dr Harry’s Animal Encounters. 1.00 To Be Advised. 2.00 The Bowls Show. 3.00 The Story Of The Royals. 5.00 Escape To The Country. 7.00 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. 8.30 Cold Case. 10.30 Without A Trace. 11.30 Late Programs.

9GEM (82) 6am Morning Programs.

7.30 In Touch. 8.00 Beyond Today. 8.30 The Incredible Journey. 9.00 TV Shop. 10.00 The AFL Sunday Footy Show. 12.10pm Getaway. 12.40 MOVIE: Mr Denning Drives North. (1951, PG) 2.40 MOVIE: Bikini Beach. (1964, PG) 4.45 MOVIE: The Pride And The Passion. (1957, PG) 7.30 Death In Paradise. 8.40 Coroner. 9.40 Chicago P.D. 10.40 Late Programs.

BOLD (51) 6am Home Shopping. 7.30 Key Of David. 8.00 Bondi Rescue. 8.30 Reel Action.

9.00 Snap Happy. 9.30 Escape Fishing With ET. 10.00 Roads Less Travelled. 10.30 Bondi Rescue.

11.00 Scorpion. 1pm The Doctors. 2.00 The Offroad Adventure Show. 3.00 All 4 Adventure. 4.00 WhichCar. 5.00 Mighty Machines. 6.00 JAG. 7.00 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 9.25 NCIS: Los Angeles.

10.20 48 Hours. 11.20 Late Programs.

ABC ME (23)

6am Children’s Programs.

1.15pm MOVIE: Blinky Bill: The Movie. (2015) 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 72 Cutest Animals.

7.00 Mythbusters “There’s Your Problem!”. 7.35 MOVIE: The Boy In The Dress. (2014) 8.45 Joe All Alone. 9.15 Sailor Moon Crystal. 9.40 Rage. 10.40 Close. 5.30am Children’s Programs.

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am Cutthroat Island. Continued. (1995, PG) 6.35 Richard The Stork. (2017) 8.10 Traffic. (1971, French) 10.00 Beauty And The Beast. (2014, PG, French) 12.05pm The Eagle Has Landed. (1976, PG) 2.35 The Straight Story. (1999, PG) 4.40 Remi Nobody’s Boy. (2018, PG, French) 6.40 Heart Beats Loud. (2018, PG) 8.30 Strangerland. (2015, MA15+) 10.35 The Clan.

(2015, MA15+, Spanish) 12.35am Late Programs.

7MATE (63) 6am Shopping. 6.30 The Fishing Show. 7.30 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 AFL Pre-Game. 3.00 To Be Advised. 6.00 Pawn Stars. 6.30 MOVIE: The Time Machine. (2002, PG) 8.30 MOVIE: Captain America: Civil War. (2016, M) 11.30 Late Programs.

9GO! (83) 6am Children’s Programs.

1.30pm Rivals. 2.00 Hollywood Medium. 3.00 Say Yes To The Dress: Atlanta. 5.00 MOVIE: Fletch Lives. (1989, PG) 7.00 MOVIE: The Benchwarmers.

(2006, PG) 8.45 MOVIE: Happy Gilmore. (1996, M) 10.40 MOVIE: Sausage Party. (2016, MA15+) 12.20am Outlaw. 1.20 Westside. 2.20 Road Trick.

2.50 Clarence. 3.00 Power Rangers Dino Fury. 3.30 Thunderbirds. 4.30 Pokémon. 4.50 Late Programs.

PEACH (52) 6am Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. 7.00 The Middle. 8.00 Neighbours. 10.00 The Bachelor Australia. 1pm The Dog House. 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. 1.30pm 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 Road To Tokyo. 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. Noon The Hairy Bikers’ Best Of British.

1.05 Nigella Kitchen. 1.35 Watts On The Grill. 2.00 The Cook Up. 4.30 Cook And The Chef. 5.30 Michela’s Tuscan Kitchen. 6.00 Amazon Taste. 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.

10.00 Football. WKFL Women’s. 11.15 Football.

AFL. Heartland Footy. Murray League. 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 Art + Soul. 7.30 NITV News Update. 7.40 North To South: NZ’s Wildest Journey. 10.50 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 Kyal And Kara: Blue Lagoon Build. 9.30 My Lottery Dream Home.

10.30 Fixer To Fabulous. 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 23 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.

(Final, PG, R) 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 The Durrells. (PG, R) 2.00 Parliament Question Time.

3.15 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. 11.00 NSW Coronavirus Update. 11.30 Turkish News. 12.00 Arabic News F24. 12.30 America: News. 1.00 Al Jazeera. 2.00 Mars. (Ma, R) 2.55 Railway Journeys UK. (R) 3.30 The Cook Up. (PG, R) 4.00 Australia With Julia Bradbury. (R) 4.35 Jeopardy! (PG) 5.00 Cycling. UCI World Tour.

La Vuelta. Stage 9. 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: Tempting Fate. (2019, M, R) 2.00 To Be Advised.

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 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. (Ma) 1.00 Australian Survivor. (R) 2.30 Ent. Tonight. 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG) 3.30 My Market Kitchen. (R) 4.00 Everyday Gourmet.

4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (PG) 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. Investigative journalism program.

9.15 Media Watch. (PG) 9.35 Beyond The Towers. (MA15+a) 10.30 ABC Late News.

10.45 The Business. (R) 11.05 Doctor At The Door. (R) 12.00 Parliament Question Time.

1.05 Traces. (Mads, R) 1.50 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. (PGa, R) 8.30 Secret Scotland: Grampian And The Central Highlands. (PG) 9.25 24 Hours In Emergency. (Ma, R) 10.20 SBS World News Late.

10.55 Outlier. (MA15+l) 11.45 Das Boot. (MA15+v, R) 1.55 Secrets Of Nazi U-Boat Bases. (PGa, R) 3.00 MOVIE: Blackfish. (2013, Maw, R) 4.30 VICE Guide To Film. (MA15+anv, 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. (PGs) 7.30 The Voice. (PGl) On the second last night of the Blind Auditions, the contestants find it harder than ever to get the chairs to turn.

9.00 9-1-1: Lone Star. (Mav) Grace and Judd fight for their lives in the aftermath of a car accident.

11.00 The Latest: Seven News.

11.30 Station 19. (M) Ben confronts a tough loss.

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) 8.40 Under Investigation. (Return, Mav) 9.40 100% Footy. (M) 10.40 Nine News Late.

11.10 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.

7.30 Australian Survivor.

Presented by Jonathan LaPaglia.

8.40 Have You Been Paying Attention? (Malns) A fast-paced look at news, with Sam Pang and Ed Kavalee joined by other celebrity panelists to compete to see who can remember the most about events of the week. Hosted by Tom Gleisner.

9.40 Jimeoin: Ramble On. (Mls) Stand-up performance by Jimeoin.

10.50 The Project. (R) 11.50 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG) 1.00 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. 9.25 Grand Designs New Zealand.

10.10 Doctor Who. 10.55 The Chemical World. 11.55 Escape From The City. 12.55am QI. 1.25 30 Rock.

1.45 Reno 911! 2.05 Friday Night Dinner. 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.

Noon Seconds From Disaster. 2.45 New Girl. 3.40 WorldWatch. 5.05 Joy Of Painting. 5.35 Shortland Street. 6.05 Forged In Fire. 7.00 Jeopardy!

7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Hypothetical. 9.25 Taskmaster. 10.25 What Does Australia Really Think About… 11.25 My Name Is ...

And I’m An Alcoholic. 12.20am MOVIE: Battle Of Memories. (2017, MA15+) 2.30 Late Programs.

7TWO (62) 6am Shopping. 6.30 The Story Of The Royals. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute.

9.30 NBC Today. 10.30 Business Builders. 11.00 The Bowls Show. Noon House Of Wellness. 1.00 Million Dollar Minute. 2.00 Miniseries: Bancroft.

3.00 Sydney Weekender. 3.30 Surf Patrol. 4.00 Medical Emergency. 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. 3.05 Antiques Roadshow.

3.35 MOVIE: Rich And Strange. (1931, PG) 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 48 Hours.

3.10 Diagnosis Murder. 4.05 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. 5.00 The Doctors.

ABC ME (23)

6am Children’s Programs.

1.40pm Robot Wars: World Series. 2.40 Children’s Programs. 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 Teenage Boss. 7.00 Mythbusters “There’s Your Problem!”. 7.35 MOVIE: Gangsta Granny. (2013) 8.45 Joe All Alone. 9.15 Sailor Moon Crystal. 9.40 Rage. 10.40 Close. 5.30am Children’s Programs.

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am Remi Nobody’s Boy. Continued. (2018, PG, French) 7.00 Beauty And The Beast. (2014, PG, French) 9.05 Heart Beats Loud. (2018, PG) 10.55 A Royal Affair.

(2012, M, Danish) 1.25pm Cutthroat Island. (1995, PG) 3.40 Traffic. (1971, French) 5.30 The Man Who Knew Infinity. (2015, PG) 7.30 Devotion Of Suspect X. (2017, M, Mandarin) 9.35 High Heels. (1991, MA15+, Spanish) 11.40 Late Programs.

7MATE (63) 6am Morning Programs.

1pm Storage Wars Canada. 2.00 Motor Racing.

Supercars Support Races. Super Trucks. Highlights.

3.00 Motor Racing. Supercars Support Races.

Highlights. 4.00 American Restoration. 5.00 Pawn Stars South Africa. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 American Pickers. 8.30 MOVIE: Face/Off. (1997, MA15+) 11.30 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: Mechanic: Resurrection. (2016, MA15+) 10.30 Paranormal Caught On Camera. 11.30 Late Programs.

PEACH (52) 6am The Middle.

7.00 Friends. 9.30 The Conners. 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 Shopping. 1.30 This Is Us. 2.30 Crazy ExGirlfriend. 3.30 Stephen Colbert. 4.30 Shopping.

ABC NEWS (24) 6am News Programs. 1.40pm Capital Hill. 2.00 Parliament.

3.15 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 Late Programs.

SBS FOOD (33) 6am Morning Programs. 2.30pm Mexican Table. 3.00 Chefs’ Line. 3.30 Lidia’s Kitchen. 4.00 Free Range Cook. 4.30 Bake With Anna. 5.00 Destination Flavour China. 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. 8.30 Amy Schumer Learns To Cook. 9.30 Mystery Diners.

10.00 Late Programs.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs.

2.10pm Art + Soul. 3.00 Jarjums. 5.00 Shortland Street. 5.30 Chefs’ Line. 6.00 The 77 Percent. 6.30 Pete & Pio’s Kai Safari. 7.00 Our Stories. 7.20 News.

7.30 Card Stories. 7.40 Through The Wormhole With Morgan Freeman. 8.30 Living Black. 9.00 Josephine Baker: Story Of An Awakening. 10.00 News. 10.10 Te Ao With Moana. 10.40 Late Programs.

9LIFE (84) 6am Morning Programs.

8.00 Fixer To Fabulous. 9.00 Flip Or Flop Atlanta.

10.00 Windy City Rehab. 11.00 Postcards. 11.30 Good Bones. 12.30pm My Lottery Dream Home.

1.30 Kyal And Kara: Blue Lagoon Build. 2.30 The Block. 4.00 Flipping Vegas. 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 Parliament Live. 3.15 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 24 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 The Trial Of Christine Keeler. (Malsv, R) 2.00 Parliament Question Time.

3.15 ABC News Afternoons.

4.00 Escape From The City. (R) 5.00 Anh’s Brush With Fame. (R) 5.30 Hard Quiz. (PG, R)

6.00 WorldWatch. 7.30 Italian News. 8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News. 9.30 Greek News. 10.30 German News. 11.00 NSW Coronavirus Update. 11.30 Turkish News.

12.00 Arabic News F24. 12.30 America: News.

1.00 PBS News. 2.00 No Distinguishing Features. (PGal) 3.30 The Cook Up. (PG) 4.00 Australia With Julia Bradbury. (R) 5.05 Jeopardy! (PG) 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R)

6.00 Sunrise.

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

12.00 MOVIE: A Teacher’s Crime. (2008, Mav, R) 2.00 To Be Advised.

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. (PG, 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. (PG, R) 8.00 Studio 10. (PG) 12.00 Dr Phil. (PGal) 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. (R) 4.00 Everyday Gourmet.

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

6.00 The Drum.

7.00 ABC News.

7.30 7.30.

8.00 Back To Nature.

8.30 Doctor At The Door: The Kulkarnis.

9.30 The Chemical World. (PG) 10.30 ABC Late News.

10.45 The Business. (R) 11.00 Q+A. (R) 12.05 Parliament Question Time.

1.05 Miriam’s Big Fat Adventure. (Final, PG, 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.

7.30 Who Do You Think You Are? (PGaln, R) 8.30 Insight. (R) 9.30 Dateline.

10.00 The Feed.

10.30 SBS World News Late.

11.00 The Point.

11.30 Cacciatore: The Hunter. (MA15+alsv) 12.35 The Pier. (MA15+adn, R) 4.20 VICE Guide To Film. (MA15+lv, R) 4.50 Destination Flavour Bitesize. (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. (PGa) 7.30 The Voice. (PG) The final blind auditions and the first cut begin.

9.20 Australia: Now And Then.

(Mal) Part 3 of 4. Shane Jacobson and a panel of celebrities take a look at which generation of Aussies was the toughest.

10.20 Gordon, Gino & Fred: American Road Trip. (Mdl) 11.20 The Latest: Seven News.

11.50 Station 19. (M) 1.00 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 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. (PGdn, R) 10.40 Nine News Late.

11.10 Reverie. (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 and events.

7.30 Australian Survivor.

The castaways, who have been divided into two camps, continue their adventure in Cloncurry, Queensland.

9.00 The Cheap Seats. (Mal) Presenters Melanie Bracewell and Tim McDonald take a look at the week that was.

9.55 Strassman: iTedE. (Mls, R) A performance by David Strassman.

12.00 The Project. (R) 1.00 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG) 2.00 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 Rosehaven. 10.10 All My Friends Are Racist. 10.25 Doctor Who. 11.15 Fleabag. 11.40 The Games.

12.10am 30 Rock. 12.30 Reno 911! 12.55 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. 1.35 Friday Night Dinner. 2.00 Inside No. 9. 2.30 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. 9.25 Limetown. 10.25 VICE. 11.00 Cycling. UCI World Tour. La Vuelta. Stage 10. 1.50am News. 2.20 RT News In English From Moscow. 3.00 Late Programs.

7TWO (62) 6am Home Shopping. 6.30 The Story Of The Royals. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute.

9.30 NBC Today. Noon House Of Wellness. 1.00 Million Dollar Minute. 2.00 Miniseries: Bancroft.

3.00 Creek To Coast. 3.30 Medical Emergency.

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 The Search. 12.10am M*A*S*H. 1.30 Surf Patrol. 2.00 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 Poirot. 1.10 Days Of Our Lives. 2.05 The Young And The Restless. 3.05 MOVIE: Mine Own Executioner.

(1947, PG) 5.20 Quincy M.E. 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 Gift. (2015, M) 4.30 Escape Fishing With ET. 5.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation.

ABC ME (23)

6am Children’s Programs.

3.20pm Matilda And The Ramsay Bunch. 3.35 Wow That’s Amazing. 4.00 Ace My Space. (Premiere) 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 Teenage Boss. 7.00 Mythbusters “There’s Your Problem!”. 7.35 MOVIE: The Midnight Gang. (2018, PG) 8.45 Joe All Alone. 9.10 Make It Pop! 9.35 Rage. 10.35 Close. 5.30am Children’s Programs.

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am Traffic.

Continued. (1971, French) 7.35 The Man Who Knew Infinity. (2015, PG) 9.35 Belle And Sebastian 2.

(2015, PG, French) 11.25 Devotion Of Suspect X. (2017, M, Mandarin) 1.30pm Heart Beats Loud.

(2018, PG) 3.20 Playtime. (1967, PG, French) 5.35 Arthur And The Two Worlds War. (2010, PG) 7.30 Masaan. (2015, M, Hindi) 9.30 Delicatessen. (1991, M, French) 11.25 Late Programs.

7MATE (63) 6am Morning Programs.

1pm Storage Wars Canada. 2.00 Pawnography.

3.00 Graveyard Carz. 4.00 American Restoration.

5.00 Pawn Stars UK. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Outback Truckers: Best Of. 8.30 Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020. Opening Ceremony build-up. 9.00 Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020. Opening Ceremony.

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: I Am Legend. (2007, M) 9.30 MOVIE: Aeon Flux. (2005, M) 11.15 Police Ten 7. 11.45 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. 1.40pm Capital Hill. 2.00 Parliament.

3.15 ABC News Afternoons. 4.00 Afternoon Briefing. 5.00 ABC News Hour. 6.00 ABC Evening News. 6.55 Heywire. 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 Late Programs.

SBS FOOD (33) 6am Morning Programs. 3.00pm Chefs’ Line. 3.30 Lidia’s Kitchen. 4.00 Free Range Cook. 4.30 Bake With Anna. 5.00 Destination Flavour China. 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.

1.30pm Always Was Always Will Be. 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 On Country Kitchen. 6.30 First Footprints.

7.30 The Point. 8.00 Living Black Conversations.

8.30 Serena Vs The Umpire. 9.30 Let The Fire Burn.

11.10 Late Programs.

9LIFE (84) 6am Morning Programs.

Noon House Hunters. 1.00 Help! I Wrecked My House. 2.00 Restored By The Fords. 3.00 The Block. 4.00 Flipping Vegas. 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: Tiny House On A Lake. 10.30 Beachfront Bargain Hunt.

11.00 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 Parliament Live. 3.15 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 25 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 Parliament Question Time.

3.15 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. 11.00 NSW Coronavirus Update. 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 The Cook Up. (PG) 4.00 Luke Nguyen’s Railway Vietnam. (PGa, R) 4.35 Jeopardy!

(PG) 5.00 Cycling. UCI World Tour. La Vuelta. Stage 10. H’lights. 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R)

6.00 Sunrise.

9.00 The Morning Show. (PG) The latest news and views.

11.30 Seven Morning News.

12.00 Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020. Day 1: Day session.

4.00 Seven News At 4.

5.00 The Chase Australia.

Hosted by Larry Emdur.

6.00 Today.

9.00 Today Extra. (PG) 11.30 Morning News.

12.00 The Hundred With Andy Lee. (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. (PG, R) 8.00 Studio 10. (PG) 12.00 Dr Phil. (PGal) 1.00 The Bachelor Aust. (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 Hard Quiz. (PGls) 8.30 Question Everything.

9.00 Rosehaven. (PG) 9.30 Would I Lie To You? (PG, R) 10.00 Staged. (Ml, R) 10.25 ABC Late News.

10.40 The Business. (R) 10.55 Four Corners. (R) 11.40 Media Watch. (PG, R) 12.00 Parliament Question Time.

1.00 Beyond The Towers. (MA15+a, R) 1.55 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. (PGalw, R) 8.30 What Does Australia Really Think About… (M) 9.30 War Of The Worlds. (MA15+) 10.25 SBS World News Late.

10.55 Unknown Amazon. (Final, Mal) 11.45 The Killing. (Mas, R) 4.05 VICE Guide To Film. (MA15+av, R) 4.50 Destination Flavour: Japan 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. (PGa) 7.30 Nurses. (Mam) A look at the experiences of nurses.

8.30 RFDS. (Mas) When a seven-year-old boy goes missing in the outback, it’s a race against time to find him.

9.30 The Rookie. (Mav) An Amber alert sends the team on a race against time.

10.30 The Latest: Seven News.

11.00 Chicago Fire. (Mv) 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. (Ma) A paramedic comes to the aid of a driver.

9.40 Australian Crime Stories. (Malv) 10.40 Nine News Late.

11.10 Killer On The Line. (Mav, R) 12.00 Bluff City Law. (Ma, R) 12.50 Explore.

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. A look at the day’s news and events.

7.30 The Bachelor Australia.

Hosted by Osher Günsberg.

8.30 Bull. (PGa, R) Bull looks for jurors who believe the law is open to interpretation when he defends an idealistic state judge who is on trial for obstruction of justice after she helped a trial witness evade federal arrest.

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

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. 8.00 Would I Lie To You? 8.30 Art Works.

9.00 Inside The Met. (Final) 9.50 Doctor Who. 10.35 Old People’s Home For 4 Year Olds. 11.40 Louis Theroux: The Night In Question. 12.40am 30 Rock. 1.00 Reno 911! 1.25 Friday Night Dinner. 1.45 Inside No. 9. 2.15 News Update. 2.20 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 MOVIE: Bone Tomahawk. (2015, MA15+) 11.00 Cycling. UCI World Tour. La Vuelta. Stage 11. 1.50am News. 2.20 France 24. 3.00 Thai News. 3.30 Bangla News.

4.00 Punjabi News. 4.30 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 Miniseries: Bancroft. 3.00 Kochie’s Business Builders. 3.30 Medical Emergency. 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 Long Dark Hall. (1951, PG) 5.20 Quincy M.E. 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.

3.35pm Wow That’s Amazing. 4.00 Ace My Space.

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 Teenage Boss. 7.00 Mythbusters “There’s Your Problem!”. 7.35 MOVIE: Hank Zipzer’s Christmas Catastrophe. (2016, PG) 9.05 Slugterra.

9.25 Make It Pop! 9.50 Rage. 10.50 Close. 5.30am Children’s Programs.

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am Playtime.

Continued. (1967, PG, French) 7.55 Death Defying Acts. (2007, PG) 9.40 Arthur And The Two Worlds War. (2010, PG) 11.35 Delicatessen. (1991, M, French) 1.30pm The Man Who Knew Infinity.

(2015, PG) 3.30 Belle And Sebastian 2. (2015, PG, French) 5.20 Goal! (2005, PG) 7.30 Sheep Without A Shepherd. (2019, M, Mandarin) 9.35 Being John Malkovich. (1999, MA15+) 11.40 Late Programs.

7MATE (63) 6am Morning Programs.

10.00 Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020. Day 1: Morning session. Noon A Football Life. 1.00 America’s Game. 2.00 Pawnography. 3.00 Graveyard Carz. 4.00 Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020. Day 1: Afternoon session. 7.00 Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020. Day 1: Night session. 10.00 Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020. Day 1: Late-night session. 11.30 Late Programs.

9GO! (83) 6am Children’s Programs.

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: Retaliation. (2013, M) 9.40 MOVIE: Conan The Destroyer. (1984, M) 11.40 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. 1.35pm Capital Hill. 2.00 Parliament.

3.15 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. 3.30pm Lidia’s Kitchen. 4.00 Free Range Cook. 4.30 Bake With Anna. 5.00 Destination Flavour China. 5.30 Cook And The Chef.

6.00 Choccywoccydoodah. 6.30 Come Dine With Me UK. 7.00 The Cook Up. 7.30 Giada Entertains.

(Return) 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 Serena Vs The Umpire. 3.00 Jarjums. 4.30 Grace Beside Me. 5.00 Shortland Street. 5.30 Chefs’ Line.

6.00 On Country Kitchen. 6.30 Pete & Pio’s Kai Safari. 7.00 Our Stories. 7.20 News. 7.30 The South Sydney Story. (Premiere) 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: Tiny House On A Lake. 1.30 Getaway.

2.00 Restoration Man. 3.00 The Block. 4.00 Flipping Vegas. 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. 11.00 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 Parliament Live. 3.15 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 26 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. (PGls, R) 1.30 Question Everything. (R) 2.00 Parliament.

3.15 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. 11.00 NSW Coronavirus Update. 11.30 Turkish News. 12.00 Arabic News F24. 12.30 America: News. 1.00 PBS News. 2.00 Hitler Youth. (PGa, R) 2.55 Railway Journeys UK. (R) 3.30 The Cook Up. (PG) 4.00 Luke Nguyen’s Railway Vietnam.

(R) 4.35 Jeopardy! (PG) 5.00 Cycling. UCI World Tour. La Vuelta. Stage 11. H’lights. 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R)

6.00 Sunrise.

9.00 The Morning Show. (PG) The latest news and views.

11.30 Seven Morning News.

12.00 Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020. Day 2: Day session.

4.00 Seven News At 4.

5.00 The Chase Australia.

Hosted by Larry Emdur.

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.

(PGal) 1.00 The Bachelor Aust. (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.

6.55 Sammy J. (PG) 7.00 ABC News.

7.30 7.30.

8.00 Foreign Correspondent.

8.30 Q+A. 9.35 Fake Or Fortune?

10.35 ABC Late News.

10.50 The Business. (R) 11.05 Miriam’s Deathly Adventure. (Mls, R) 12.05 Parliament Question Time.

1.05 Midsomer Murders. (Masv, R) 2.35 Silent Witness. (MA15+av, R) 3.35 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. (PG, R) 8.30 Incredible Journeys With Simon Reeve. (M) 9.40 The Good Fight. (M) 10.40 SBS World News Late.

11.10 Criminal Planet. (MA15+) 12.00 Mr Mercedes. (MA15+av, R) 3.10 WACO: Madman Or Messiah? (Mav, R) 4.45 Destination Flavour: Japan Bitesize. (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. (PGa) 8.30 My Impossible House: Family Farm House. (PG) A woman transforms an oast house.

9.30 10 Years Younger In 10 Days.

(PGa) 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) 1.00 Travel Oz. (PG, R) 2.00 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 24.

Newcastle Knights v Gold Coast Titans.

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: Pilot Error. (Ml, 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.

7.30 The Bachelor Australia. Bachelor Jimmy Nicholson, an airline pilot, sets out to find true love from among a group of eligible bachelorettes.

9.00 Law & Order: SVU. (Mad, R) The SVU struggles to find a serial predator who finds his victims on an online dating app.

11.00 Blue Bloods. (Mv) Danny makes a surprising discovery.

12.00 The Project. (R) 1.00 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG) Late night talk show.

2.00 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. 11.00 That Pacific Sports Show. 11.30 You Can’t Ask That. 12.05am To Be Advised. 12.55 Doctor At The Door. 1.55 30 Rock. 2.15 Reno 911! 2.40 Friday Night Dinner. 3.05 Inside No. 9. 3.35 News Update. 3.40 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 12. 1.50am News. 2.20 Deutsche Welle. 3.00 Late Programs.

7TWO (62) 6am Home Shopping.

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THE TIME IS NOW FOR FARM CLEAN UP LOCAL Land Services (LLS) is advising landholders August is the perfect time to get in and clean up on-farm ahead of an expected busy Spring.

Cleaning up will help reduce the potential impact of pests, by reducing their possible breeding and nesting locations, as well as reduce the risks for livestock to chemical residues from items such as old batteries.

LLS Agriculture and Plant Biosecurity Business Partner, Andrew Lieschke said a

yearly farm clean up in winter was a good idea.

“Farming is busy all year round, but if you can get in and clean up in winter, it should make life easier when you’re flat out with sowing or harvesting or shearing,” Mr Lieschke said.

“You could target one area a week, maybe the shed first, silos next and then around the house yard to reduce the job into more manageable tasks.

“With mice numbers expected to increase across

large parts of the state as we head into spring, one of the best management tips is to minimise feed sources and shelter, which can be as simple as cleaning up residual grain or cleaning out sheds and silos.”

Mr Lieschke said cleaning up old lead batteries and building materials was also important to reduce any potential animal health risks.

“Battery cases become brittle with time and cattle with their generally inquisitive nature, especially

younger cattle, can easily disturb an old battery to access the lead that they contain,” Mr Lieschke said.

“They develop a taste for the salts in the lead and can go back repeatedly to lick and chew at the source.”

Other than batteries, sources of lead that may be readily found on farms include lead-based paint on farm buildings or other structures, ash from fires left after burning these products, automotive grease, oil filters, sump oil and linoleum.

Other old chemical drums should also be cleaned and taken to their local drumMUSTER collection site which can be found on the drumMUSTER website www.drummuster.org.au/ find-a-collection-site.

“It is also a good time to register your ag and vet chemicals with ChemClear (www.chemclear.org.au) to receive storage stickers for chemicals and receive alerts when there are chemical collections happening in the area,” Mr Lieschke said.

Mann and Nymboida Rivers annual fishing closure THE annual total fishing closure on the Mann and Nymboida Rivers and their tributaries started on August 1 and will run for three months until October 31.

NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) Director for Fisheries Compliance Dr Andrew Moriarty said the annual closure was in place to provide an increased level of protection to the endangered and iconic Eastern Freshwater Cod during its spawning season.

“Fishers are not permitted to target or take Eastern Freshwater Cod at any time; however, they require additional protection from accidental capture during their spawning season and that is why the total fishing closure is in place for three months,” Dr Moriarty said.

“During the spawning season, Eastern Freshwater Cod become very protective of their nesting sites and therefore there is an increased probability that they will attack anything that comes in close proximity to their nest

including other fish, fishing lures or baits.

“The closure area includes the Mann River and all its tributaries upstream of its junction with the Clarence River, including the Boyd, Sara and Guy Fawkes Rivers

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“Thankfully, much of the Eastern Freshwater Cod habitat is situated within remote National Park and State Forest estate, where they benefit from isolation and intact natural ecosystems.

“Fisheries Officers from the Far North Coast Zone and the North-West Zone will conduct regular monitoring of the closed waters during the threemonth closure period and there will be limited tolerance for anyone found flaunting the rules.”

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Cattle Market Reports

LISMORE 210 CATTLE were sold at the Lismore Saleyards on Tuesday.

Prices were strong throughout, on a par with last Saturday’s Store Sale.

A good run of beef cows sold to meatworks operators and restockers with most in the $2.80 to

GRAFTON THERE were 198 head yarded at Grafton Fat Cattle Sale 10th August 2021.

Another small yarding this week, again the quality was mixed in a market which held up quite strong, even though the quality was back.

The low numbers of prime export cattle made it hard for an accurate quote, while young cattle to restockers sold strong, with most sales of light steers making over 700c/kg, with some even reaching 800c/kg.

Please Note: The Fat Cattle Sale Tuesday 17th August 2021 has been cancelled. The Store Cattle Sale scheduled Thursday 19th August 2021 will proceed as planned. Weekly Fat Cattle Sales will resume as normal on Tuesday 24th August 2021.

Sale Highlights include:

SALE HELD TUESDAY 10 AUGUST $3.16/kg range.

Lindsay Bryen’s Angus cow returned $2,157.

The weaners this week were of good quality but most in winter condition.

The lightweight steers generally sold from $6.80 to $8.05/kg, $1,040 to $1,406.

Light heifers $6.60 to $7.30/kg.

Heavy weaner steers/yearlings sold from $4.90 to $6.15/kg.

Don Pearce’s Hereford yearling returned $1,911.

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SALE HELD TUESDAY 10 AUGUST A/c Sidhu Farms Discretionary Trust sold Angus Bullocks 345.2c/kg averaged 752.5kg - $2,597.63 p/hd.

A/c L Towns sold Angus Steers 416.2c/kg averaged 401.7kg - $1,671.74 p/hd.

A/c WH & SL Clay sold an Angus Steer 438.2c/kg weighed 445kg - $1,949.99.

A/c J Heart Angus sold an Angus Heifer 328.2c/kg weighed 595kg - $1,952.79 p/hd.

A/c C & C Eichman sold a Brangus Cow 334.2c/kg weighed 685kg - $2,289.27.

A/c B Brotherson sold a Brangus Cow 326.2c/kg weighed 570kg - $1,859.34.

A/c LAD Investments sold Brangus Cross Cows 322.2c/kg averaged 529kg - $1,704.44 p/hd.

A/c Josh Green sold a Brangus Bull 290c/kg

weighed 805kg - $2,334.50.

A/c GJ & ME Lee sold Angus Vealer Heifers 634.2c/kg averaged 217.5kg - $1,379.39 p/hd.

A/c GJ & ME Lee sold an Angus Vealer Steer 696.2c/kg weighed 180kg - $1,253.16.

A/c Brendon Elward sold an Angus Vealer Steer 748.2c/kg weighed 165kg - $1,234.53.

A/c AJ & KC Skinner sold Angus Vealer Heifers 762.2 c/kg averaged 145.8kg - $1,111.54 p/hd.

A/c Aylesby Angus Vealer Steers 742.2c/kg averaged 172kg - $1,276.58 p/hd.

A/c Koukandowie Brangus sold a Brangus Steer 802.2c/kg weighed 130kg - $1,042.86.

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Franklin Angus tops Grafton bull sale

Blair and Nick Franklin of Franklin Angus with buyer Breck Johnson from Bregot Grazing and selling agent, Mitch Donovan.

HOT on the heels of its record-breaking success at the Casino All Breeds Sale, Franklin Angus has topped the Ray Donovan Angus & Brangus Bull Sale at Grafton.

Rising two year old Franklin Hallmark Q10 was the top-priced bull

at $23,000 going to Bregot Grazing from Manila, NSW. Franklin Angus sold 8/8 bulls, averaging $15,875.

“What a cracking sale,” co-owner Nick Franklin said about the August 7 sale.

“Thank you to all our buyers and under bidders, and to the team at Ray Donovan for all their hard work to make the sale a success.

Also to Elite Livestock for making the sale available online,” Nick said.

NRLX SALES RETURN IN good news for local producers, Northern Rivers Livestock Exchange (NRLX) sales will pick up where they left off following last week’s lockdown with three auctions taking place this week.

These include Wednesday’s regular prime sale, Friday will be Ray White Rural’s special store sale and Saturday will be the heldover prime sale from last Friday.

The sales were announced in light of the NSW Health Minister’s office today granting a formal exemption for saleyards to operate in NSW under the current lockdown. The exemption can be found here: https://health.nsw.gov. au/Infectious/covid-19/Documents/ exemption-auctions-regionalnsw. pdf This exemption sits alongside the Public Health Order and, in particular, the definitions of an essential worker and a reasonable excuse the leave home. In context of saleyards the term “public” in this exemption means an essential worker who has a reasonable excuse to leave home – it does not include vendors or members of the public and any other person who is not essential to the operation of the saleyards.

NRLX Operations Manager

Brad Willis said first preference admission was for essential saleyard site staff, accredited livestock agents and staff, and genuine buyers with true intention to purchase.

Mr Willis said under the exemption vendors were not allowed to attend, however, livestock transporters were able to access the facility for the purposes of unloading and loading of livestock.

He said all other individuals should not attend the NRLX. “On-ground systems and protocols are in place to manage attendance at the NRLX and we will be strong in our stance to ensure adherence to public health safety measures,” Mr Willis said.

“Masks are compulsory and please do not visit the NRLX if you have been in a hotspot or are feeling unwell.”

Friday’s Ray White Rural’s special store sale has 1000 cattle booked, and Saturday will see 1100 head come up for auction.

Both sales will be available online via StockLive and buyers are encouraged to pre-register.

For more information please contact NRLX Operations Manager Brad Willis on 0408 203 654.

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Are there any ‘catches’ for Australian cotton?

EXCELLENT seasonal conditions and strong prices are fuelling a positive outlook for Australia’s cotton sector, with expectations next year’s crop could be one of the largest on record, according to agribusiness banking specialist Rabobank.

Discussing the positive outlook for cotton in its recent RaboResearch podcast Any catches for Aussie cotton?, the bank’s senior commodity analyst Cheryl Kalisch Gordon said the production and price outlook suggests there should be “no catches for cotton” as long as “we can get it in the ground this coming planting season”.

Early planted-area forecasts for the 2021/22 Australian cotton crop point to a sizeable increase, she said – anywhere from 49 per cent to more than 80 per cent year-on-year.

“The high end of these forecasts would bring planted hectares near the fourth-largest on record – a welcome second year of improvement after 2019/20 the second-lowest planted area in 40 years,” she said.

“So a good-looking position

for Australia to come back and we think around 4.5 million bales is a reasonable expectation for next year.”

Dr Kalisch Gordon said while some analysts are suggesting there “could even be some upside to that (production outlook), given they’re looking at average yields in their calculations”, the “real challenge might be getting cotton planted in wet conditions and then ensuring the sun shines over the growing season”.

Rabobank’s Agri Commodity Markets Research team, said stocks in Brazil and the US, the “key suppliers of cotton to China”, were now at a low, with both countries heavily frontloading their export programs this year.

“On the Brazil side, production’s looking pretty good with a slight increase from this year, forecast for next year,” he said. That said, cotton has had “quite stiff competition for acreage with corn prices being as high as they are.”

In the US, Mr Rawlings said, Global dynamics “there is very good potential for Joining Dr Kalisch Gordon 17 million bales (production on the podcast, London-based output)” with “really good Rabobank commodity analyst crop conditions and given such Andrew Rawlings said global high prices, potential for quite dynamics, with an “outlook that low abandonment compared to includes a deficit in production previous years”. compared to consumption” Mr Rawlings said while were supportive of cotton production prospects in the US prices, with the ICE#2 trading and Brazil were “pretty good”, above USc 85/lb since midthey were “probably not enough June. to arrest the global ending-stock “The global balance sheet decline”. on a world scale is looking “Not unlike many other like another tight year,” he commodities globally, we really said, with the USDA pegging are walking a bit of a tightrope a deficit of around 3.8 million on those stocks and looking to bales for 2021/22.” production to really come out Mr Rawlings, from on expectations otherwise we

move into situations where we move even tighter,” he said.

Demand was expected to remain strong, Mr Rawlings said, with “some pent-up demand from COVID and growing new demand”.

This is expected to see the ICE#2 cotton remain above USc 85/lb out to the end of 2021 and continue testing the USc 90/lb level in coming months.

cent above the five-year average at around USc 80/lb.

“Our expectation that the AUD will trade in the range of USc 73 to USc 74 in Q1 through to Q3 2022 supports Australian cash prices trading around AUD 580/bale in 2022,” she said.

And this comes at a time when you “probably couldn’t get a much better starting situation” in terms of the For Australia season.

Dr Kalisch Gordon said it “Across New South Wales was “not just prospects of for example, there is not one a great growing season that cotton region that doesn’t have would incentivise this year’s average or quite above-average expansion” but cotton prices. soil moisture,” she said.

“Local cotton prices lifted Dr Kalisch Gordon said six per cent during July to while this supports a substantial broach AUD 600/tonne for the increase in dryland planting, first time since Covid hit local the improved Murray Darling shores,” she said. “ICE#2’s Basin water storage capacity consolidation above USc 85/lb – now above 70 per cent and and the AUD tracking mostly “increasing by the day” – would sideways at the lower range in also lead to expanded irrigated June were key to this lift, and cotton programs. we expect these two factors to “The BOM is forecasting a remain in play for the second 70 per cent chance of abovehalf of this year.” average rainfall across all As new US cotton becomes cotton-growing regions between available towards the end of the now and November,” she said. year, Dr Kalisch Gordon said “So as long as they can get their prices were likely to step down crop in the ground, the outlook into 2022 but still remain 10 per is good.”

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The crucial role of cattle in the carbon cycle THE first of a series of themed animations being produced to debunk myths about the environmental impact of red meat production in Australia has been launched by Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA).

The animation explains how methane from cattle is part of the natural carbon cycle, demonstrating how the environmental impacts of emissions of methane from cows and carbon dioxide from fossil fuels, are fundamentally different.

The two-minute video is the first in a series of five animations being launched

by MLA this year, addressing important topics such as nutrition, sustainability and traceability in order to address a growing thirst for knowledge

from the community about food provenance.

MLA managing director, Jason Strong, said that while the animations are part of the red meat industry’s efforts to be more transparent, they will also work to proactively counteract any misleading claims about the credentials of red meat production systems in Australia.

“Comparing different greenhouse gasses is a very complex topic, but it’s vitally important for people to understand the systems that we live within, the impacts, and most importantly, what we’re doing about it,” Mr Strong said.

“We’ve created these animations to reduce some of the confusion through content

that is easy to understand, which we hope will enable people to make informed decisions about what they eat and why.

“The red meat industry must continue to be on the front foot in sharing the good story about our farming systems, the nutritional benefits of red meat, our animal wellbeing and environmental stewardship credentials, and our drive for intergenerational sustainability and productivity improvement in a competitive global marketplace.

“While the community want something done on climate change, they also want to continue to enjoy red meat as part of a healthy diet and it’s our job to provide

SHEARERS SAY WOOLGROWERS LEAVING INDUSTRY OPEN TO COVID-19 OUTBREAK WITH Covid-19 spreading rapidly outside the nation’s major population centres Australia shearers say many woolgrowers are failing to act on health measures designed to stop the spread of the virus.

The Australian Workers’ Union, which represents the nation’s shearers, says while most rural businesses are going out of the way to be COVID safe, its members say many woolgrowers are totally ignoring the dangers.

This week Bogan, Bourke, Brewarrina, Coonamble, Gilgandra, Narromine, Walgett and Warren joined Tamworth and Dubbo in a growing list of local government areas under stay-at-home orders.

Ron Cowdrey, AWU NSW vice president and its shearing organiser, says given the low level of health compliance it’s just a matter of time before there is a COVID case in a shed.

“With cases spreading into the regions, and the list of regional lockdowns escalating, regional employers have had to lift their game to prevent the spread of COVID-19,” Mr Cowdrey says.

“Shearing is considered an essential service and everyone needs to do their part to keep the industry operating.

“This ‘she’ll be right’ attitude

by woolgrowers is really a disaster waiting to happen - one positive case in a single shed will have a devasting impact on the industry.”

Mr Cowdrey says woolgrowers must follow the example of other businesses by taking a few simple steps to protect themselves and their workers: • Provide well stocked hand-washing stations and sanitiser for workers; • Ensure all workers and visitors check in with a NSW QR code (or paper record) every day; • Ensure masks are worn indoors (except when shearing, which is classed as strenuous physical activity); • Enforce safe social distancing – 1.5m between workers. If that isn’t possible between stands, use every second stand; and • Disinfect and clean down hightouch surfaces and equipment between use.

The AWU says woolgrowers should also encourage all workers to get vaccinated and do this in paid time.

“Workplace health and safety has never been more important,” Mr Cowdrey says.

“Our shearing organisers are actively supporting our AWU members in the sheds this season to make sure woolgrowers do the right thing.”

the evidence that says it’s absolutely ok to keep doing that.”

Mr Strong said the red meat industry was doing more than most to be part of the climate solution.

“In 2017, the red meat and livestock industry set the ambitious target to be carbon neutral by 2030 (CN30) which provides a framework to guide investment in technologies and research that will foster productivity and grow profitability throughout the red meat supply chain,” Mr Strong said.

“Agriculture has already done much of the heavy lifting on limiting carbon pollution with net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from red meat production less than

half what they were in 2005, representing by far the greatest reduction by any sector of Australia’s economy.”

The animations form part of a broader program of community engagement work for MLA, under the Australian Good Meat branded digital platform, including the Australian Good Meat website and social media channels, aimed at reaching consumers who are keen to learn more about how red meat is produced in Australia.

MLA will also promote the animations through the Primary Industries Education Foundation (PIEFA) to encourage school teachers to utilise these and other MLA resources in classrooms across Australia.

Pacific Islands workers to resolve labour shortage INCREASING the number of workers from the Pacific Islands and increasing Australia’s quarantine capacity are critical in ensuring Australia’s vegetable and potato growers have access to the workers they need to harvest their produce.

The call from AUSVEG, the peak industry body for the Australian vegetable and potato industries, comes as the industry continues to face severe labour shortages of up to 24,000 for the coming peak harvest seasons following modelling conducted by EY. Phase 2 of the ‘Seasonal horticulture labour demand and workforce study’, commissioned by Hort Innovation, indicates that that the peak casual labour supply gap could range from 11,000 to 24,000 workers in early 2022.

According to AUSVEG, state and federal government support in increasing the number of people from the Pacific Islands to come and work on Australian fruit and vegetable farms is hugely important to ensure the industry has the workforce it needs to harvest, pack and

distribute fresh produce.

“Industry has already brought in more than 10,000 workers since the Seasonal Worker Programme restarted in July last year, and it is great to see the prime minister’s commitment last Friday to bring in another 12,500 workers by March next year,” said AUSVEG’s Tyson Cattle.

Quarantine capacity and costs continues to be a significant challenge for the industry, with some growers forced to pay more than $3000 per worker to complete their quarantine before they have started work.

“AUSVEG has continued to work with the federal government and support initiatives such as in-country quarantine to help minimise both the health risks and the costs for growers, workers and the Australian public,” said Mr Cattle.

“As industry we continue to urge governments to look at ways to increase its quarantine capacity and to look at all options to support the vegetable and potato sectors that still require harvest labour for its upcoming harvest.”

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44 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

CHARITY COMEDY NIGHT AT MACLEAN BOB Walker walked into Maclean Bowling Club a few months ago offering the club a comedy line-up that they could not refuse. His only request was that all the money raised from the comedy night would be donated to domestic violence, which is no laughing matter. Bob had seen the club’s signage on busways buses in the Clarence Valley raising awareness of domestic violence and driving the message that violence is not the answer when facing family and domestic disputes.

Bob says he experienced domestic violence in his family throughout his youth and felt that he would like to do something to support others going through similar difficult times by putting on a fundraiser.

Bob (pictured, left) has put together an amazing array of comedians for the night (which he’s hoping will be able to go ahead by September) with Kelly Mac as MC, Anne Ferguson Howe

throughout the east coast to develop his animated stage presence. His style of comedy is absurd and boundary dissolving as he draws from personal experience, a subversive worldview and his audience to explore the ideas he can’t wrap his head around.

All ticket proceeds from the comedy charity night will be donated to the Clarence River as the headline act from made in his bedroom, Domestic & Family Violence the Gold Coast, John poking fun at Aussie Specialist Service which is a Peacock as main support stereotypes. specialist crisis service in the and other performers This young up and Clarence Valley supporting Scotty Brizzle, Paul comer will make you feel women and children from Mamone and Alf Arber. like your cup is always all backgrounds affected by Bob himself will also take to audiences laughing themselves half-full even long after he’s domestic and family violence. the spotlight - having worked silly. Once you see her show, pinched it.

The refuge provides essential as an open mic comic around your life may never be the Paul Mamone was dropped 24-hour seven-day crisis Byron Bay and the Gold Coast same again. on his head at a young age. support and accommodation for the past 13 years, he’s got a A deep thinker with social This gave him the superpower plus specialist outreach few gags. anxiety and middle age spread, of thinking he’s a worldservices.

Anne Ferguson Howe John Peacock (pictured, right) famous comedian. Paul will Don’t miss this great comedy (pictured, centre) is an might also be gluten intolerant. make you laugh or at least event at Maclean Bowling award-winning comedian who A bit of a late bloomer, he is follow you around for the night Club on (hopefully) Saturday, has entertained crowds for over blooming hilarious trying to until you make a run 11th September from 7pm. a decade, and the former host Scotty Brizzle started for it.

Tickets are $20 per person and of The Very Anne Show, she making ripples back in 2015 in Alf Arber has spent the past can be bought at the Club’s bar has her own style that pushes the local community putting up several years working Northern or online at www.trybooking. boundaries as she leaves comedy skits on social media Rivers venues and performing com/bszlt

A film not to be Miss-ed at the Star Court Theatre TWENTY years ago, Billy Elliot showed us that boys can dance and now Miss will win hearts as it proves that boys can compete in beauty pageants.

The new film by Ruben Alves (The Gilded Cage) is a feel-good story about overcoming hardship and prejudice, with a fun and light-hearted commentary on how attitudes towards gender are shaped. It is the best kind of thought-provoking film: one that is celebratory and joyful.

Ever since childhood Alex (Alexandre Wetter) had wanted to enter the annual Miss France beauty pageant, despite being a boy.

However, adolescence was not

kind and Alex suffered huge blows to his self-esteem.

When an unexpected encounter allows Alex to pursue his dreams once more, he does everything he can to transcend the traditional binary gender definitions that threaten to hold him back.

See Miss (rated M, 107 mins, France/Belgium) at the Star Court Theatre Lismore, from August 29 to September 1.

Shows at 2.30pm and 5.30pm Sunday; Wednesday 3.30pm and 6.30pm.

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4 PINES BECOMES BEER PARTNER OF CRICKET AUSTRALIA The next big beer of The Vodafone Ashes and summer of cricket probably isn’t who you’d expect. In a refreshing changing of the guard, 4 Pines Brewing Co is today revealed as the official beer of The Australian Men’s Cricket Team.

Born by the beach 13 years ago, 4 Pines has grown from a Brew Pub in Manly into one of the biggest craft brewers in Australia, building connections with communities across the country on its journey.

4 Pines co-founder Jaron Mitchell said: “At 4 Pines we are passionate about having fun and bringing people together over great beer.

Partnering with Cricket Australia to make this happen on the biggest of stages is huge for us and we are going to swing harder than Adam Gilchrist did on a short delivery to make this a success!”

“It’s been a tough time for the industry, so we look forward to supporting our

customers with initiatives to bring punters into their venues to enjoy games this summer.”

“As part our commitment to Brew Better, 4 Pines will partner with Cricket Australia to make a difference via the bat.

Every 4 hitting the

boundary will see 4 Pines plant 4 trees to help regreen Australia through our partnership with Landcare Australia.”

Dr Shane Norrish, Landcare Australia CEO commented: “Landcare Australia is excited to expand our current partnership

with 4 Pines Brewing, a business that is committed to sustainability. We look forward to seeing numerous 4 Pines Fours in the summer of cricket ahead and planting thousands of trees in strategic locations to enhance local native habitat,

increase biodiversity and improve wildlife connectivity in the landscape. The partnership is an outstanding example of how corporate Australia can make a meaningful difference in protecting our natural assets.”

Cricket Australia and 4 Pines will be

celebrating classic cricket moments big and small, all summer long. We’ll be bringing the cheers and beers to the people wherever they are enjoying the game this summer from stadiums, BBQs or their local.

Nick Hockley, Cricket Australia’s CEO, said he can’t wait to see the partnership come to life.

“The team at 4 Pines are full of energy and have a shared passion for Australian Cricket.

4 Pines’ commitment to bring fun to this year’s Ashes Series, along with making a difference via their sustainable re-greening program, brings a new dimension to the partnership.

“We love their story and are so impressed by what they have achieved in such a short period, particularly their work in sustainability.

We look forward to welcoming 4 Pines to the cricket family as we celebrate the upcoming summer together.”

The Northern Rivers Times

August 19, 2021

46 HISTORY FEATURE

Spanish flu on the Northern Rivers

By Samantha Elley THIS is not the first time the Northern Rivers has had to deal with a deadly and contagious disease.

As we’ve all had to sit in lockdown, this past week to ensure we don’t spread or catch any variant of Covid-19, our ancestors were grappling with the same issue in 1919 in the form of the Spanish Flu. Between January and September 1919, pneumonic influenza, better known as the Spanish Flu, killed 6,387 people in New South Wales.

There were 290,000 infected in metropolitan Sydney alone.

The Northern Rivers didn’t escape the sweeping sickness, as cases were soon reported here as well.

Word had reached Australia in September 1918 of a “devastating outbreak” of pneumonic influenza in South Africa and America.

The disease had been carried by soldiers returning home from the war in Europe and arrived in Sydney from some infected passengers, via a ship from New Zealand on 25th October, 1918.

Despite being quarantined at North Head station in Sydney, the death rate to other strains of influenza in NSW grew more than three times the monthly average.

A ‘suspicious’ case of a sick soldier on 24 January, 1919 was reported at Randwick. He had travelled up from Melbourne by ship four days before and shared a compartment with a sick civilian. Within 48 hours, three nurses treating him and seven other soldiers who had also travelled to Sydney from Melbourne had fallen sick. It was the beginning of the first wave.

As the flu travelled outside the major cities, an effort was made by other states to create some form of national quarantine. Queensland borders were shut at 2pm, 29 January and those in Coolangatta who had gone over to Tweed Heads to work, do the banking or shop, were suddenly stranded. For the next few months they waited in tents or public buildings converted to house them, before they could go home.

Lismore became one of the earliest places to experience

Two soldiers and three VAD nurses with an ambulance.

Photo: Australian War Memorial

the flu in 1919 thanks to travellers coming up from Sydney. In a 2018-19 project at the Royal Australian Historical Society entitled An Intimate Pandemic: The Community Impact of Influenza in 1919, medical historian Dr Peter Hobbins tells the story of how Alstonville combated the Spanish Flu. A soldier by the name of Percy Latimer had come home to marry local girl Ilene Bell in 1919. The wedding was attended by 23 people who watched the groom cough through the whole service. Percy ended up spending his honeymoon in hospital and out of the 23 people at the service, 20 caught the deadly flu.

Alstonville reacted quickly, making sick people stay at home and if a member of the household was sick, they were isolated to a room. The disease only spread to two other homes and there were no deaths in Alstonville.

Lismore was not so lucky. By March 1919 local Lismore doctors had issued a statement stating that pneumonic influenza had broken out in the town. A young lad by the name of Cecil Frish from Lismore was admitted to hospital and

died shortly afterwards.

Other instances of the disease were popping up frighteningly fast. A death at Stoney Gully near Kyogle and eight Indigenous residents of the ‘blacks’ reserve’ at Fingal near Tweed Heads had been reported.

By May 1919, in a second wave of the epidemic, local newspapers reported 200, possibly 400 (where people didn’t admit to the sickness) cases in the area and the hospitals were filled to capacity. The town was declared an ‘infected area’ by official proclamation. Many businesses closed to stop the spread.

The newly formed Voluntary Aid Detachment from the Lismore branch of the Red Cross stepped up and were on duty a few days after its formation.

Members helped at the inoculation depot and hospital. A Red Cross kitchen was established, first at the hospital and later at the public school. The public helped by bringing in food supplies to keep the kitchen going with milk, eggs, groceries, poultry etc.

Local authorities called for medical inspections to be held on each vessel that arrived at Ballina or Byron

Government advice for residents during 1919 Spanish flu epidemic. Photo: NSW State Archives Bay, hoping to prevent a further wave spreading across the district. Family members and friends were called up to provide basic nursing care for sick patients, as nurses were in short supply. Many of them having caught the flu themselves.

When two young girls, the Misses Landrigan from Broadwater, aged 18 and 13 caught the flu, both parents stepped up to treat their children who had to isolate at home, under the supervision of Dr Monti.

A doctor in Murwillumbah lauded the value of inoculation as a way of defending against the flu, saying that of all the cases he had treated only four had

been people who’d had it.

By July Kyogle was reporting 500 cases, but Grafton was a success story, imposing strict limitations to public gatherings and ensuring people quarantined.

The result was only about 100 cases during the peak of the flu.

By August 1919 the Lismore Municipal Council received a communication from the office of DirectorGeneral of Public Health, announcing the withdrawal of the proclamation requiring notification of pneumonic influenza as an infectious disease.

By mid-September the epidemic of Spanish Flu was declared over.

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NEWS 47

New signage at Goonengerry to save koalas There are speed zones in school areas and now there’s a koala zone on Mafeking Road at Goonengerry with the key message to drivers being to slow down.

Council staff have installed new signage on either side of the Byrangery Grass Reserve at Goonengerry to alert and remind drivers to look out for koalas.

The signage, funded by the NSW Koala Strategy 2018-21, includes two 6m x 7m road markings, as well as signs picturing a mother koala with a joey on her back.

Council’s Biodiversity Officer, Liz Caddick, said the signage is large, bright and different to standard wildlife signs

with the aim being to catch the attention of drivers – both locals and visitors to the area.

“This part of Mafeking Road is known koala habitat with breeding females regularly seen which is just a wonderful thing,” Ms Caddick said.

“Unfortunately koalas and cars don’t mix

and recent upgrades to the road have locals concerned about an increase in speeding and the impact this could have on the resident koalas,” Ms Caddick said.

“The Goonengerry Landcare group approached us to see if something more could

be done and with the help of the community we identified sites for signage and went to the NSW Government in May this year with a request for funding.

“We’re grateful the NSW Government has recognised the importance of this project to the community and the new signage is the result which is terrific.

Traffic counters were in put in place prior to the installation of the signs to gather data on their impact on driver behaviour and staff will be monitoring this over the next several months.

New signage will also be installed on Grays Lane at Tyagarah and Bangalow Road.

With Spring just around the corner, drivers in Byron Shire are reminded that koalas are on the move especially around dusk and dawn.

People who accidently hit a koala, or who find an injured koala, or other native animal, should call WIRES on 1300 094 937.

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DEVILLED SAUSAGES WITH SWEET POTATO MASH

For a budget-friendly meal that is easy to prepare and sure to please the whole family, try these devilled sausages recipe with sweet potato mash.

Use a lean sausage, preferably hand made by your butcher to avoid preservatives and additives.

Bulking up your meals with veggies is a great way to get more nutrition into your family.

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HEALTH

‘SPEAK UP’ HEALTH SURVEY WILL HELP MAKE A DIFFERENCE

What’s up, or down, with health in your town?

Healthy North Coast, the organisation that delivers the Australian Government’s Primary Health Network program, wants to find out.

Healthy North Coast is conducting a detailed survey asking communities in northern NSW and Mid North Coast regions to share what’s working well and what can be improved.

‘We’re asking local residents to tell us about their health and the health services where they live,’ said Healthy North Coast Chief Executive Julie Sturgess.

‘The Speak Up survey is something we do every three years. The feedback we receive helps us to prioritise areas of need and deliver essential health services to the most vulnerable in our communities.

‘We’d love people to have their say and help us understand what’s working and what’s not when it comes to health on the North Coast.’

The 2021 Speak Up survey was launched on 16 August and remains

open until 16 September.

It will take around 15 or 20 minutes to answer the questions. All answers are anonymous and completely confidential.

Ms Sturgess said one of the outcomes of the 2018 survey had been its highlighting of the difficulty of accessing mental health and alcohol and other drugs treatment services in parts of the North Coast.

The 2018 survey findings directly led to the funding of new services and expansion of existing programs. They also provided information and assisted in the development

of resources for GPs to help support vulnerable populations to manage their mental health and wellbeing, including youth, the general population and the LGBTQI community.

‘Having a community voice at the centre of health care planning and decision making is essential in achieving better health on the North Coast,’ Ms Sturgess said.

At the end of the survey, participants can enter a prize draw for one of 20 x $100 cash cards. Terms and conditions apply.

Visit hnc.org.au/speakup for more information.

BREAST CANCER NETWORK AUSTRALIA

The temporary closure of BreastScreen services across NSW is NOT an excuse to ignore symptoms warns Breast Cancer Network Australia (BCNA).

Screening services in a number of LGA’s are on hold across the state due to COVID implications but it’s important that anyone with signs or symptoms know that they still have access to diagnostic services and should not hesitate to contact their GP. In 2020, an analysis of cancer notifications in Victoria found a 10% reduction of cancer diagnoses due to the impact of the COVID-19 restrictions, which included a temporary closure of BreastScreen Victoria services.

BCNA is concerned that a similar decline in

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diagnoses is likely to be seen across NSW due to the stay-at-home orders, temporary closures of some NSW screening services, and community hesitancy to respond to symptoms of concern.

Professor Bruce Mann, Surgeon and BCNA Board Member said seeing a healthcare professional for any concerns people may have about changes to their breasts is critical.

“When a person finds a lump or sees changes in their breast, assessments and tests are key to finding out whether it’s benign or whether it’s a tumour that could be aggressive and quickly become harder to treat.

These assessments need to be done urgently to give women, and men, the best chance of recovery,” says Professor Mann.

Breast Cancer Network Australia’s Director of Policy and Advocacy, Vicki Durston says a focus must remain on early detection of breast cancer and that every effort should be made to ensure people with

symptoms of concern can access the services and care that they need.

“We acknowledge that every effort needs to be made to keep communities safe but breast cancer won’t wait for COVID, closing routine screening programs will delay early detection, diagnosis and potentially lifesaving treatment. The Victorian system is still dealing with the impact of last year’s closures and the rebounding of later stage breast cancer presentations. BCNA is calling for a national roadmap to address the impact of COVID on these and related services.”

It is important that everyone attend follow up appointments and all women impacted by the BreastScreen service closures to feel reassured that as soon as services can reopen that their screening will commence.

If you have any concerns, you can call BCNA Helpline on 1800 500 258.

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ALFA ROMEO 4C 33 STRADALE TRIBUTO HYUNDAI I30 FASTBACK N LIMITED EDITION

Alfa Romeo 4C 33 Stradale Tributo is finished in an excellent Ville d’Este red.

Alfa Romeo bids farewell to an icon with the Alfa Romeo 4C 33 Stradale Tributo, the last production run of the Alfa Romeo 4C, that 15 Australians have been lucky enough to secure.

Numbered one of 15, the Alfa Romeo 4C 33

Italian style and technical performance,” said Tom Noble, Director of Marketing Communications for Alfa Romeo.

“This is a tribute to an icon and we’re thrilled to be able to provide Australian enthusiasts with an opportunity to own a

Stradale Tributo will consist of 10 Coupes and five Spiders.

There’s a uniquely numbered centre console badge.

Alfa Romeo 4C 33 Stradale Tributo pays homage to the 4C’s

piece of history with the Alfa Romeo 4C 33 Stradale Tributo,” he continued.

The dual-mode, lightweight titanium Akrapovic exhaust system produces the maximum Alfa Romeo

racing roots, remaining the epitome of Italian style, celebrated by its sporty interior and exterior design.

“The Alfa Romeo 4C is a beautiful representation of the Alfa Romeo brand, culminating both

sound when the vehicle is in Dynamic or Race mode.

The Alfa Romeo 4C 33 Stradale Tributo exterior is celebrated with a striking Special Ville d’Este red paint, paired with gold wheels.

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also feature throughout the front fascia vents and the mirror covers decorated with the colours of the Italian flag.

Carbon fibre is featured on the roof of the Coupe, whilst the Spider houses a carbon fibre roll bar.

Both the 4C 33 Stradale Tributo Coupe and Spider have a piano black front air intake and rear diffuser.

There’s a dedicated ‘Centro Stile Alfa Romeo’ exterior badge.

Inside are competition two-tone seats, a leather stitched upper dashboard and the ‘33 Stradale Tributo’ dashboard insert.

The Alfa Romeo 4C 33 Stradale Tributo is arriving in Dealerships now, with customer deliveries commencing this August.

MODEL RANGE Alfa Romeo 4C 33 Stradale Tributo Coupe:

$123,000 Alfa Romeo 4C 33 Stradale Tributo Convertible: $133,000 Note: These prices do not include government or dealer delivery charges. Contact your local Alfa Romeo dealer for drive-away prices.

The Hyundai i30 Fastback N Limited Edition has a wider front track and rides on bespoke 19-inch Pirelli P Zero tyres.

By EWAN KENNEDY Hyundai Australia has introduced the i30 Fastback N Limited Edition, which is available to order until September 31 to a maximum of 500 units.

It’s powered by an upgraded 2.0-litre engine featuring a new turbocharger and intercooler is offered in eight-speed manual and a double-clutch automatic.

Power of 206kW and torque of 392Nm are up 4kW and 39Nm respectively.

The new 2.0 turbo-petrol maintains maximum torque between 2,100 and 4,700rpm, and achieves maximum power at 6,000rpm. It has a maximum speed of 250km/h where conditions permit. The DCT version can go from 0-100 km/h in 5.4secs.

Hyundai i30 Fastback N Limited Edition has high-performance driving features, including Rev Matching function, Launch Control and an N Supervision cluster with shift lights.

The transmission was designed to provide the engaging experience of a manual transmission with the convenience of an automatic. Drivers can choose to engage manual mode and shift gears via either the paddle shifters on the steering wheel or using the gear selector.

The N DCT enables three new N performance functions: N Grin Shift, N Power Shift and N Track Sense Shift.

N Grin Shift releases maximum power of the engine and transmission for 20 seconds - performance that is sure to bring a

grin to the driver’s face.

To activate it, the driver pushes a steering wheel button, which also starts a countdown timer on the cluster.

N Power Shift is engaged when the car accelerates with more than 90 percent accelerator, reducing torque drop-off during shifts to enhance acceleration.

Finally, N Track Sense Shift recognises when the road conditions are optimal for dynamic driving - on a racetrack, for example - to activate automatically.

The i30 Fastback N Limited Edition has a Grin Control System gives the driver a choice of five distinct driving modes: Eco, Normal, Sport, N and N Custom.

The driving modes adjust the parameters of the engine, the suspension, Electronic Stability Control, N Corner Carving Differential, active variable exhaust, steering and transmission, to optimise them for a variety of driving conditions.

In the N Custom mode, drivers can select from Eco, Normal, Sport and Sport+ settings for individual vehicle systems, to match their driving preferences and the road conditions.

N Light Seats are aimed at providing lateral support and a combined weight saving of 2.2kg compared with the standard seats.

They have a premium feel with leather and Alcantara upholstery.

They have , Performance Blue stitching and an illuminated N logo in the integrated headrest.

The i30 Fastback N Limited Edition has its suspension and steering systems tuned to deliver improved ride and handling performance. It has a wider front track, revised geometry, and new spring, bushing and damper calibrations allow the Limited Edition to provide greater comfort and more driver engagement.

It rides on Hyundaibespoke 19-inch Pirelli P Zero tyres aimed to give sharp handling and front-end grip.

The Electronically Controlled Suspension benefits from extensive local Australian tuning across its three modes, to offer a range of settings suited to our challenging urban, highway and country roads, and to the racetrack.

Hyundai i30 Fastback N Limited Edition is duly fitted with larger 360mm (up from 345mm) front disc rotors clamped by signature red N calipers.

Brake cooling air guides are mounted to the front lower control arms to make the brakes all but fade even under extreme conditions.

“We are delighted to introduce the i30 Fastback N Limited Edition for an exclusive number of lucky highperformance customers,” Hyundai Motor Company Australia Chief Executive Officer, Jun Heo said.

“The Limited Edition builds on the i30 N’s renowned racetrack capability in an everyday sports car package, with enhanced performance and handling, and additional safety and convenience technologies.”

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MITSUBISHI ECLIPSE CROSS PLUG-IN HYBRID

By EWAN KENNEDY The Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross Plug-in Hybrid is about to arrive in Australia. Mitsubishi is a long-time player in electric power in vehicles and is keen to be seen as one of the leaders. Not only that but also the fact that the Eclipse Cross offers sometime right out of the ordinary in the ever more popular SUV market.

The powertrain is the latest iteration of the proven technology used globally in the popular Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV. Available in Australia since 2013, the Outlander Plug-in Hybrid is the world’s top-selling PHEV with more than 260,000 vehicles sold globally.

The Eclipse Cross Plug-in Hybrid has a 2.4-litre petrol four-cylinder engine combined with two electric drive motors.

A sophisticated powertrain control system automatically selects the most efficient drive mode based on the prevailing conditions without driver intervention.

The powertrain provides drivers with the ability to drive solely on electric power around town, while at higher speeds or on longer drives, the powertrain will switch to Series or Parallel Hybrid modes to boost the range whilst minimising fuel consumption.

The petrol engine is able to recharge the battery as well as power the vehicle

Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross hybrid is out to fight in the popular SUV market

simultaneously.

The drive battery is a 13.8 kWh unit powering front and rear electric

is more than adequate for the daily commute or school runs for most Australian families

effective role in reducing urban pollution, cutting emissions by as much as 84 per cent for average

the petrol engine to assist the battery or to directly drive the vehicle.

drive motors. It has an official all-electric range of 55km, which Mitsubishi Australia says

living in towns and cities. It is here that the zero tailpipe emissions can play the most

weekly distances.

When the destination is further afield, the hybrid modes employ

“The arrival of the Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross Plug-in Hybrid EV completes the renewal

of the Eclipse Cross SUV range in Australia.

It brings a proven and successful zero or low emission powertrain that will meet the real-world needs of Australian SUV buyers looking to reduce their environmental impact,” said Shaun Westcott, CEO of Mitsubishi Motors Australia Ltd. “The Eclipse Cross has been successful in attracting customers to the Mitsubishi brand over the past four years.

With the new look, enhanced technological specifications and the new Plug-in Hybrid option, we have a vehicle that will be even more appealing to urban couples or families who want a car that fulfils a number of diverse needs.”

It has a 10 year / 200,000 km warranty on most of the vehicle provided that all servicing is done by Mitsubishi dealerships.

Otherwise, the warranty reverts to five years and 100,000 km. The warranty on the EV drive battery is eight years or 160,000 km.

The Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross Plug-In Hybrid EV goes on sale across Australia from mid-August 2021 and is priced from $46,490.

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JEEP HAS A VISION OF ZERO-EMISSION FUTURE

By EWAN KENNEDY On July 15, 1941, the former Willys-Overland Co. signed a contract with the U.S. War Department to begin production of the first military Jeep vehicle.

Eighty years later, the Jeep brand thrives around the world with a product line-up that continues to expand into new segments, a devoted community of global customers and the utilisation of 4xe electric vehicle technology as the natural evolution of 80 years of capability leadership “We’re celebrating our 80th anniversary by continuing to move upward and forward” said Christian Meunier, Jeep Brand Chief Executive Officer.

“Next in our exciting

The 1942 Willys Jeep and EV Jeeps charging into the future.

global product pipeline is the introduction of the all-new Jeep Grand Cherokee, which will be equipped, for the first time, with plug-in-hybrid 4xe technology. We are fully committed towards

a vision of zero-emission future, and by 2025 we will be offering a zeroemission fully electric Jeep 4xe in every SUV segment” To celebrate its anniversary and to

honour this zeroemission vision, the Jeep brand posted on the Jeep brand YouTube channel the 80th Anniversary version of the Jeep Life Electrified video.

The video showcases

the nature of the electrification of the Jeep brand through a couple’s love story. The piece intertwines Jeep brand vehicles, future technology and the Jeep global community, to

‘crash’ gearbox. Unlike older MGs this one had hydraulic brakes.

The TA was built around a simple ladder style chassis frame and,

as with previous MGs, its body shell used a wooden frame for support. Whilst the semi-luxury specialists felt the whole concept of the TA marred the past image of the MG marque and lacked the fancy aerodynamics of MG’s competitors, the Nuffield engineers had produced a car that was simpler, faster, and more reliable than before. The TA provided cheap fun.

Whereas most of the TA’s competitors were designed especially with car trials in mind the TA could provide regular transport during the week and outperform its competition in weekend motoring events. For here was a two-seater car with all the previously established MG virtues including, of course, the traditional radiator grille.

Although its four-

MG TA

By DAVID PIKE Launched in 1936 the MG TA replaced the PB model and was the first of a successful range of T-series sports cars from the MG marque. It was powered by a four-cylinder overhead-valve, threemain-bearing crankshaft motor of 1292 cc capacity that developed 37.5 kW at 4500rpm. It was fuelled by two horizontal SU carburettors.

The MG TA also had a three-speed synchromesh gearbox which made it unique among small sports cars of that period.

It was this engine and transmission combination which customers thought the most innovative.

The engineers at the Nuffield Group chose

1936 MG TA.

the engine and running gear for the TA from the range of the latest Morris/ Wolseley engines available to them at that time and then set about modifying

it to make it suitable for a small sports car. This was the first time in eight years that an MG car did not have an overheadcamshaft engine or a

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“We are committed to make Jeep the greenest and most exciting SUV brand. The electrification of the Jeep lineup will allow commuters to travel solely on electric power, delivering an efficient and fun on-road experience and offering an ability to enjoy even more off-road capability in nearly complete silence,” said Meunier.

This zero-emission vision is another significant milestone in the 80- year history of a brand that continues to be defined by a sense of community, open-air-freedom, pioneering spirit and groundbreaking 4X4 innovations. cylinder engine was neither as specialised nor as high-revving as the engine which powered previous MGs, it turned out to be faster than all of its competitors and was only slightly slower than the six-cylinder Magnettes, which were still in production.

Suspension comprised a beam axle at both front and rear. This, no doubt, contributed to the rock hard ride which, like its sensitive steering and poor protection of occupants in wet weather, were some of the TA’s failings. It was replaced by the TB in 1939 and after World War II the TC, in production from 1945 to 1949, retained the traditional chassis and beam axles and was structurally and mechanically the same as the TA but sold in much larger quantities.

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56 GARDENING

MACADAMIAS AND OTHER BEAUTIFUL FLOWERING NATIVES

Alphitonia excelsa fruit MANY beautiful native trees are flowering in the next few months throughout the Northern Rivers. Some are showy and brightly coloured, others are attracting native birds and insects with their delicate and subtle blooms.

Look out for the Flindersias, which are decorating the ground with their distinctive seed pods.

Very tall trees when fully grown, they mainly grow besides streams, near the sea or in subtropical rainforest from the Clarence River in New South Wales to Bundaberg in south eastern Queensland. Flindersia bennettii or Bennett’s ash, flowers from May to October, producing pretty creamcoloured to white flowers.

The bunches of leaflets are an attractive, glossy dark green on the upper surface and paler underneath.

Flindersia australis or crow’s ash, grows to a height of forty metres, with a beautiful, buttressed trunk when older. The white to cream, delicate flowers occur from September to October, followed by an attractive, woody capsule.

Alphitonia excelsa, the red ash or soap tree, is another splendid shade tree which can grow to a height of about twenty metres in warm moist forest conditions, but may only grow to around ten metres in home gardens. The natural shape of Alphitonia excelsa is one of its most attractive features. The tree is covered in fragrant clusters of delicate creamy blossoms in late autumn and early winter.

The red ash also attracts native bird species which enjoy the fleshly blue-black fruits. It is a quick-growing pioneer species capable of growing as much as three metres a year, given ideal conditions. It is the only host plant of the green-banded

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The Indigenous peoples used red ash for soaps and ointments. The crushed leaves contain saponin and create a lather when rubbed in water.

Crushed leaves steeped in water reduce head aches and sore eyes. This infusion also relieves insect bites and stings.

Macadamia tetraphylla and integrifolia, are the native rough-shelled and smoothshelled bush nuts. These species have dense foliage and grow up to eighteen metres in height. The leaves have attractive, serrated edges and they have long, weeping, white (integrifolia) to creamy pink or purple flowers (tetraphylla), followed by edible seeds in a hard shell.

Macadamia tetraphylla has a higher sugar content than integrifolia. When used in baking this can cause burning, so commercial macadamias are of the integrifolia species to avoid this. However, for eating raw, the tetraphylla is usually preferred.

Macadamia tetraphylla was the first Australian native food plant to be grown by non-indigenous Australians as a commercial crop. The first commercial plantation of macadamia trees was in the early 1880’s at Rous Mill, just southeast of Lismore. Grafted modern varieties followed in the 1990s. Ironically, the native macadamias are now listed as vulnerable species because of the clearing of the rainforest and the increase in invasive weeds.

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IDENTIFY AND AVOID NSW LABOR: PROTECT PANDEMIC FATIGUE; SMALL BUSINESSES FIND OUT ABOUT COVID-19 FINANCIAL SUPPORT As COVID-19 and its effects continue to impact millions of Australians, it’s important to remember that support is available for those experiencing ‘pandemic fatigue’.

Healthy North Coast Chief Executive Julie Sturgess said there were many useful resources for people feeling overwhelmed, as well as for people suffering financially.

‘We’ve been dealing with COVID-19 for the past 18 months, the threat it poses to ourselves and our communities, and now a large part of our region is in lockdown,’ Ms Sturgess said.

‘Everyone is different and we all deal with adversity in our own way, but I want to encourage anyone who is feeling down, or struggling to cope, to tap into the available resources.

‘We understand these are challenging times, so we need to be kind to ourselves and those around us, stay in touch with friends and family and seek professional support when needed.’

She said the National Mental Health Commission (NMHC) had identified a number of feelings and behaviours that indicated pandemic fatigue. It recommended some simple measures to help overcome these feelings.

Pandemic fatigue – symptoms and solutions Pandemic fatigue can include feelings of tiredness, frustration, low energy, restlessness,

irritability, hopelessness and dread. It can also be indicated by difficulty in looking forward to tomorrow, wanting to be alone, through increased use of alcohol and other substances, and lack of enthusiasm for things you would normally enjoy.

Some of the most effective ways to overcome these feelings include: • identify and practise self-care strategies that work for you • keep kids communicating. Let children know it is ok to be worried, and talk it out • get sweaty - exercise is great for mental health • reach out to those who may not have connections • follow facts from trusted sources • take a break – do the things you’ve been putting off for a rainy day.

Financial support available For people experiencing financial difficulty, or adversely affected by COVID-19 – including current State public health orders such as lockdown, both the NSW and Australian governments can provide financial assistance.

For more information or to apply for assistance, visit https://www. nsw.gov.au/covid-19/ financial-support. The website includes details on the COVID-19 disaster payment;

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Service NSW has a hotline open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for any COVID-19-related concerns or enquiries. To speak to someone about your individual situation, call 137 788.

Call the National Coronavirus Helpline on 1800 020 080 for information on coronavirus. It operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

More information and resources can also be found on the Healthy North Coast website.

Talk it over If at any time you feel overwhelmed by any feelings, it is important that you talk to someone you trust. A GP, family member or friend, or make contact with any of the services (available 24/7) below: • Connect to Wellbeing North Coast: 1300 160 339 • Coronavirus Mental Wellbeing Support Services: 1800 512 348 • Lifeline: 13 11 14 • Kids Helpline: 1800 551 800 • www. headtohealth.gov.au

NSW Labor is calling for the State Government to reintroduce the National Code of Conduct for Small and Medium Enterprise Commercial Leases.

The Code, which protected small business tenants, was introduced in NSW in April 2020 during the initial lockdowns but was phased out by the NSW Government at the end of March this year. It has not been reintroduced for the current lockdowns that started in late June.

Steve Kamper, Shadow Minister for Small Business said: “The state government’s current support for tenants through landlord land-

tax relief was designed for a short lockdown.

Unfortunately the situation has now morphed into a long-running series of lockdowns with no end in sight.”

“Small businesses and retailers around the state have been forced to stop trading but they still have to come up with their rent, while earning not one cent. And we’ve seen the issues in support payments actually getting into the hands of small business owners.

“Small businesses in NSW has been abandoned, and small retailers have been left without any of the protections that the law extended

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“The government must immediately reintroduce the National Code and ensure that it protects small businesses not just during the lockdown but immediately afterwards, to make sure they are not taken advantage of by powerful landlords while they rebuild their businesses.

“As small business currently stands there is no protection postlockdown.

“The code should provide a road-map and a reasonable financial setting to give small business a path to full recovery,” Mr Kamper said.

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Cancer Jun 24 - Jul 22

This week you are going from the drawing board to experimentation. Aries, you may be filled with ideas you can’t wait to try. On Friday, August 20, Mercury in Virgo, in your house of routines, makes an inconjunct to rigid Saturn in Aquarius.

Today’s an excellent day for serious brain work. Your powers of concentration are quite strong, and you’re able to spot inconsistencies, errors, and root out problems.

But do this by yourself. If you add other people into the mix, a debate can happen. You might feel criticized by coworkers, and they feel the same about you. This is a good day to close the office door and work solo.

Taurus Apr 21 - May 21

Your heart is in it to win it this week. Cancer, this week, you may be searching for your heart’s desire. On Friday, August 20, Mercury in Virgo, in your house of communication, makes an inconjunct with prudent Saturn in your house of resources.

You may wake up today disappointed that you don’t have that new shiny car in your garage, but happy you stayed on budget. And the Universe may reward you today with a gift.

Someone could give you an object of value, perhaps not a car but something that warms your heart and puts a smile on your face. On the other hand, if you did spend a lot yesterday, you may have some buyer’s remorse today.

Leo Jul 23 - Aug 23

Taurus, you feel the momentum building. This week may have a slow beginning, but a big finish. On Friday, August 20, Mercury in Virgo, in your house of fun and romance, makes an inconjunct to structured Saturn in Aquarius.

You might be looking forward to seeing your sweetheart, and suddenly plans are canceled (or at least postponed). It’s no one’s fault. Taurus, circumstances are in the way. Wait a few days, and the energy will be more conducive to making a connection.

Gemini May 22 - June 23

This week, you may float in a sea of emotions. But by the end of the week, Leo, you’re riding the wave. The week begins on Saturday, August 21, with the sun in Leo (happy birthday!), in your house of confidence, making an inconjunct to wishy-washy Neptune in Pisces. You are vacillating between your usual selfassuredness and indecision or worse, doubt.

This is a passing phase, so avoid making big decisions. If it is your birthday today, Neptune’s influence will shift—bringing increased psychic ability for you over the course of the next year.

Virgo Aug 24 - Sep 22

Your sign ruler Mercury is quite active this week. Frustration gives way to adventure and possibly success. On Friday, August 20, Mercury in Virgo, in your house of home and family, makes an inconjunct to cautious Saturn in your house of rules. Today, you might be tempted to sit the family down and talk about individual responsibilities. But having an inclination doesn’t mean this is the best day for it.

People will be ready for a debate. Instead, take a pen and paper and write down an agreement that can later be shared with the family. Hold onto this until at least the end of the week.

This week, small steps turn into big leaps. Virgo, don’t wait to feel ready. Just do it! On Friday, August 20, Mercury, in your own sign of Virgo, makes an inconjunct with stern Saturn in your house of work. Virgo, you are generally quite disciplined, pragmatic, and responsible. And today, that volume is turned up to 11. You may be working on spreadsheets, organizing paperwork, or writing your dissertation. This is a good day to work on your article for a scientific journal. But most importantly, be supportive of yourself.

Criticism is not motivating, especially today.

Be kind to you, and you will produce work that impresses many.

Home sweet home

by Nigel Dawe

It’s often said that a picture paints a thousand words, and I agree, but one single thought of home quite often

paints a million more in the recesses of your mind; the mere mention of this single word evokes the deepest

Libra Sep 23 - Oct 23 Libra, there are many opportunities this week.

Consider coloring outside the lines, and you can make a masterpiece. The week begins on Friday, August 20, with the sun in Leo, in your house of community events, making an inconjunct to imprecise Neptune in Pisces.

There could be some scheduling difficulties today, or a problem at your job could cause you to miss out on a social event.

While this can make today frustrating, this energy will pass quickly, and by tomorrow you’ll be smiling again. Libra, you may be tiptoeing around, waiting for the right opportunity to make your feelings known.

Capricorn Dec 22 - Jan 20 At the beginning of the week, energy seems all bottled up.

But at the end of the week, Capricorn, the cork is popped.

The week begins on Sunday, August 22, with the sun in Leo, in your house of resources, making an inconjunct to hazy Neptune in your house of written agreements. If you are going over a contract today to buy a car or purchase a house, check things over carefully before signing. Letters and numbers seem to swim before your eyes. A low-interest rate could suddenly morph into a balloon payment or extra fees. Take a non-Capricorn with you if you’re trying to strike a deal.

Aquarius Jan 21 - Feb 18

Scorpio Oct 24 - Nov 20 Scorpio, you may start the week feeling you’re a lone voice in the wilderness. But by week’s end, you could be leading the tribe. The week begins on Saturday, August 21, with the sun in Leo, in your house of career, making an inconjunct to fuzzy Neptune in your house of risk-taking. Scorpio, you might want to strike out on your own, build a business, and create passive income sources. But today, all the details are too imprecise.

These are big ideas worthy of you, but they warrant more thought before you set sail.

This week, you can go from wishy-washy to laser focused.

Aquarius, your energy is building. The week begins on Sunday, August 22, with the sun in Leo, in your house of partnerships, making an inconjunct to nebulous Neptune in your house of money. Your usual cool, calm demeanor is out the window. You can be talked into something today. Avoid slick salespeople, shady investment seminars, and infomercials. On the positive side, this is a good day to sit with your sweetheart and visualize avenues to wealth. Consider putting together a vision board.

Sagittarius Nov 22 - Dec 21 Sagittarius, you make a slow start out of the gate. But by the end of the week, you’re first to the finish line. On Friday, August 20, Mercury in Virgo makes an inconjunct to pedantic Saturn in your house of contracts and communication. There are emails to return, and inboxes are filling up. And you don’t want to do any of it.

You’re standing at the crossroads choosing between irritation or taking responsibility.

This aspect can increase your mental discipline and help you breeze through complex forms. You can end the day by checking many things off of your to-do list.

recollections of self and of truly belonging somewhere upon this ever-revolving globe of ours.

There is something about the notion of home that stirs so many deep-seated things within us all, that it almost requires a moment or two to take stock, or to at least catch your breath in some way. Relatedly, Laura Ingalls Wilder once said: “Home is the nicest word there is.”

The nicest, and perhaps the most accommodating, or receiving of all we could ever hope, be, seem and dream within ourselves; home is the ultimate bastion, albeit receptacle of potential and promise that we each present to the world at large. It’s where we belong, where we return to or long for when we are lost in any way along the meandering path of life. Or as Marjorie Rawlings once said: “I do not understand how anyone can live without one small place of enchantment to turn to.”

What constitutes home, or where we consider it to be, ever shifts in and out

Pisces Feb 19 - Mar 20 There are waves of energy this week, sometimes pulling you down and sometimes lifting you up. Pisces, fortunately, your sign is aligned with the sea. On Saturday, August 21, Mercury in Virgo makes an inconjunct to sagacious Saturn in the house of the shadow self. Today the irritating person across the table from you is your mirror. You might feel that you are being criticized or even ostracized. But this is the Universe stepping in to show you an exaggerated version of what you’re doing. If you stop and shift your behavior, suddenly, the other person is no longer irritating. It’s like magic.

of focus if not perspective our whole lives; when you think about it, we can have a house that we call a home, or a hometown that we ‘grew up’ in or were ‘raised’ that conjures home, as well as a neighbourhood that feels more than homely or inviting: it is by degrees that we experience or reflect upon locales that encapsulate or represent home to us.

For good measure, at the centre of the word home is the much overlooked, albeit fully unnoticed syllable ‘Om’, which is arguably the most profound and revered of concepts throughout the world. It is perhaps the standalone sacred utterance and encapsulation of the divine for Hindus and Buddhists. As such, Robert Southey once beautifully noted: “There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never known beyond its hallowed limits.”

Having just returned from a quick trip out to my old hometown of Broken Hill

(a place I spent my first 18-years) I’ve been awash with reflections and nostalgia that initially prompted this topic as my point of focus today. At such moments, I’m always reminded of a great line by Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Time dissipates to shiny aether the solid angularity of facts.” And how long-range recollection alters or sways our understanding, albeit concise fathoming, of past events.

There is a reassuring blur, if not an uplifting rush to peeling back the years by wandering the streets and haunts of your old hometown, finding the constants and early bearings that become left behind or forgotten over the long haul. As Josh Gates once reflected: “Travel does not exist without home...If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world.”

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IN MEMORIAM 59 In Memoriam

In Loving Memory

NOEL ALLAN HEPBURN 2nd May 1950 – 23rd August 2020

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Hill, Beverley Anne Passed away peacefully 30th July 2021 Much loved partner to Ken Loved Mum to Yvette, Darren and Benjamin.

Will be sadly missed by all her extended family and friends.

Aged 75 years.

A smile for all and a heart of gold, One of the best this world could hold, Never selfish, always kind, A beautiful memory left behind.

Missing you each and everyday, Forever in our hearts and thoughts, Love Kaylene, Keron, Tony, Jack & Ben Wayne, Alicia, Troy & Kate Leanne, Chloe & Ryley xxxxxxxxxxxx

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As per families wishes a private service has been held for Bev.

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Passed away peacefully on 8th August, 2021 at St Vincent’s Hospital, Lismore.

Late of Casino.

Aged 96 years.

Beloved wife of Jack (decd).

Much loved mother & mother-in-law of Doug & Eileen (decd), Fay & Bruce Stratford, and Terry.

After a long battle Tom passed away into God’s hands peacefully on Friday 13 August 2021.

Rest in Peace

12-07-1929 to 13-08-2021

Loved husband of 54 years to Robyn and proud father of Jodie, Sue, Jim and Helen and father-in-law of Michael, Donna and Scott.

Dearly loved grandfather of Micheal, Lachlan, Sarah, Allyssa, Thomas and Riley.

Brother of Mary (dec), Francis (dec), Leo (dec), and Phyllis.

Due to current Covid restrictions, Hazel’s funeral service at St Paul’s Presbyterian Church, Hickey Street, Casino will be private.

A requiem mass for the repose of his soul at St Dympna’s Church, Dunoon will be held on Friday 20 August 2021 at 1.00pm with a burial to follow at the Dunoon Cemetery.

Due to current restrictions, only immediate family are able to attend.

Livestreaming will be available from 1.00pm Friday 20/8 at the following link https://vimeo.com/event/1197249

A Livestream of the service will be available via the following link: https://vimeo.com/event/1208348

Attendance capacity 10 immediate family only. Please bring a suitable mobile phone, as all guests will be required to comply with the mandatory COVID-19 QR code sign-in for contact tracing purposes, and must ensure social distancing is maintained at all times. Masks are mandatory.

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Late of Dunoon. Passed away on the 7th August, aged 74 years.

Loving partner of 36 years to Barbara Magnay (dec’d).

Beloved son, father, brother, brother-in-law, grandfather, great-grandfather, uncle, and friend.

Funeral details to be provided at a future date; Please refer to the Parkview Funeral Home website www.parkviewfunerals.com.au for more information.

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Cherished Nanna of her 5 grandchildren, and all her great & great, great grandchildren.

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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.

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COMMUNITY NOTICES MAXIMUM OF 50 WORDS To be included simply email your communtiy notice to: janelle@heartlandmedia.com.au

ALSTONVILLE ALSTONVILLE INNER WHEEL CLUB Meet socially 3rd Wednesday of every month. Contact President Carol Vidal 0427326832.

CRAWFORD HOUSE MUSEUM Would you like to join a friendly local community group? Crawford House Museum and the Alstonville Plateau Historical Society have openings for people of any age to volunteer in administration or in the museum. No experience is necessary, as training is provided. Your time need only be a few hours per week or month, whatever suits you best. If you’re interested, visit us at 10 Wardell Rd Alstonville on Fridays between 10am and 4pm or Sundays between 1pm and 4pm, phone us on 66281829 or email us on info@ aphsmuseum.org.

SQUARE DANCING Summerland Larrikins Squares Alstonville, Fridays 7.30pm-9.30pm at Uniting Church Hall, 59 Main Street, Alstonville. Contact 0407663017 for further information. New dancers welcome.

BALLINA

BALLINA

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 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.

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.

BALLINA TOY LIBRARY Welcomes families from Ballina Shire, 9 Regatta Ave, Ballina. Open Saturday 10am-1pm, by appointment only on Tues & Wed. Phone 0411719074.

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, Wed & Thurss starting at 12.15pm. For more information please ring David 0473587412.

CASINO

CASINO

CASINO & BONALBO UPPER CLARENCE LIONS CLUBS Casino Lions club now meets each 4th Wed at the RSM.

CASINO MEALS ON WHEELS WEEK 4 MON: S Forrester, J Whittaker & family TUE: D Coleman, K Rowse & K Evans WED: L Barton, J Cornell, P Muntelwit & G Mannix THU: H Moffitt, J Hanna FRI: Richmond Valley Council staff.

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.

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. A visit to a Nursery is also being planned. Interested new members please contact Marg. on 66621746 or Jan on 66626424 CASINO SENIOR CITIZENS All welcome, our ac�vi�es currently are Wednesday a�ernoons at Casino RSM 1.00pm 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 9.00 am. 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 66621971 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 0419 886 119 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 HEAD

EVANS HEAD

EVANS HEAD BRANCH CWA We meet over lunch, 3rd Tuesday every month, 12noon at the Illawong Hotel. New members welcome. Further info 0427825560.

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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 SENIORS Grafton Seniors August General meeting, including trade table, attendance 55, apologies 14. Guest speaker: Katrina, Clarence Regional Library, spoke on services available, including books, jigsaws, kids club, study rooms, genealogy, knitting club, writers group, help on devices, newspapers. Birthday wishes: to those celebrating; best wishes to anyone unwell. Advice Doris Holbrook now in Dougherty Villa. New members: Welcome Elsie Norris, Sympathy to: Betty Doggett, passing of brother in - law. Also family of Don Battye, recently passed. 100 Club winners : G. Mealia; J. Mitchell; G. Watters.

Correspondence in: Various letters; return thanks from M. Austin; photos, Anzac wreath. Correspondence out: welcome letters, new members; sympathy & get well cards. General business: Letter from ASIC, after funeral insurance enquiry; reminder of Census; thanks from Yvonne Hall following illness. Trips: due to border closures, 8 Day tour to Queensland was cancelled for second time, re-booked for 13 August, 2022. New brochure & bookings next meeting. Next day trip, river cruise from Yamba just on sale, still spare seats. Competition winners: P. Cooke; G. Hunter-Blanch; K. Hull; E. Boothby; G. Swift; H.Smith; N.Harrison. New members: over 50’s welcome. Next meeting: Tues. 14 September, 2021, 10.30am, at Racecourse. Guest speaker, Chemist, Glynn Bodimede. Enquiries: Publicity Officer, Sandra, 6642 7720.

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 fun ! 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 LENNOXHEAD 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

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 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 0418 766 247 for details of our other monthly social gatherings and outings.

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 10am. 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

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 Lismore High School’s Centenary Dinner , which was to have been held on 11 September, 2021 has been postponed due to Covid restrictions.

It is proposed to hold the dinner in March, 2022 . The date has yet to be decided. For further information , phone Helen George: 0414734313.

LISMORE TARGET RIFLE CLUB For .22 calibre rifles, meets Wed nights from 6.30 pm & 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.

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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 10 am. 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” COMBINED PENSIONERS & SUPERANNUANTS ASSOC. LISMORE INC. Meet every 2nd week (aged pension day) at 10.00am at Lismore Workers Club. Alternate Meetings & Outings.

Visitors and new members welcome.

Contact Veronica 66214654, Bea 66219772 or Colleen 66243624.

LISMORE CLIMATE STRIKE FOR EFFECTIVE ACTION NOW Each Thursday at the Lismore Quad between 1.30 and 3.30 pm. 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.

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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.

TWEED HEADS

TWEED HEADS

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 on13th 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 10.00 a.m. and closing at 3.00 p.m. 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. 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. There is a government requirement to check into the Gift Shop also with the QR code.

WOLLONGBAR WOLLONGBAR PROBUS CLUB The committee of the Wollongbar Probus Club have needed to cancel club meetings until Thursday October 21st due to the risks to our members health created by the safety requirements to deal with Covid-19. That date of course also depends that it will be safe at that time.

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.

ALL NORTHERN RIVERS

ALL NORTHERN RIVERS

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.

Entry Forms for the 2022 Summerland Pumpkin and Watermelon Festival Art and Craft Competition are available from the following places in Kyogle, Clay Corner, Kyogle Craft Creations, Roxy Gallery, Kyogle Newsagency, Farmer’s Market and the Visitors Information Centre. The theme for next year’s competition is ON THE VINE. Seeds for Giant Pumpkins and Watermelons are now available in Kyogle from CRT, Norco, The Saw Spot, Dave’s Bakehouse, Motor Bike Shop, Stuart’s Butchers, PRD RE Agents and Gateway Real Estate.

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BALLINA With the change in current restrictions, offshore will not be permitted this week.

You can however fish in your local government area in the river and on the beaches. The weather for most of this week is looking very good with light winds and sunny for the most part. The run in tides have been producing some good quality bream on prawns and mullet.

The warmer weather has encouraged the flathead to be a little more active with some quality fish to 70cm being taken on live baits, soft plastics and pilchards.

The beaches north of the river mouth have been holding some bream, flathead and tailor. The better quality fish have been landed late afternoon and into the evening on the usual baits such as mullet and pilchards. The change of tide at night this week should be good with live baits or lures for those wanting to chase a mulloway around the mouth of the river.

Tight lines. Brett

Snapper, tuskfish and maori cod between Mud and Cook Islands. Pearl perch, snapper, tuskfish and trag jew on the 32s east of the Tweed.

EVANS HEAD Trag jew, spanish mackerel and jew on the close reefs, tailor along Boundary Beach, bream and whiting along Airforce Beach and bream, whiting and flathead in the Evans River.

TWEED HEADS Good dart at Cabarita, tailor in the surf from Fingal to Cabarita, bream on top of the tide along the rock walls at the mouth of the Tweed River, flathead along the Chinderah reach, school jew in the deep holes near Tumbulgum Bridge and luderick in Cobaki Lakes, behind the hospital and around the bridges

POTTSVILLE Pearl perch and small snapper on the close reefs off Pottsville, dart, tailor and bream in the surf from Wooyung to Brunswick Heads and flathead, bream and whiting in the creeks. We have moved premises and are now located at Shop 5, 15 Coronation Avenue Pottsville.

CURRUMBIN Flathead, bream, whiting, tailor and trevally in Southport Broadwater and Nerang River. Spotty mackerel on Palm Beach Reef, chopper tailor at Currumbin Alley, flathead and whiting in the lower reaches of Currumbin Creek and bream around the bridges.

KINGSCLIFF - OFFSHORE Pearl perch, snapper, rosy jobfish, hussar, pigfish and morwong on the 40s east of the Tweed yesterday, tuskfish, snapper, pigfish and spangled emperor on the 40s east of Kingscliff.

TWEED COAST - OFFSHORE

NORTHERN RIVERS TEMPERATURE & RAINFALL PREDICTIONS AREA GRAFTON EVANS KYOGLE BALLINA MULLUM TWEED

Thurs 19th August 21 / 12 C 18o / 13o C 19o / 9o C 18o / 13o C 19o / 14o C 20o / 13o C o

5% 5% 4% 5% 5% 5%

o

Fri 20th August

Sat 21st August

24 / 4 C 22o / 14o C 24o / 10o C 22o / 14o C 22o / 14o C 22o / 13o C

26 / 5 C 23o / 11o C 25o / 9o C 23o / 11o C 23o / 12o C 22o / 12o C

o

MOON PHASES Thu 19 Aug

Sun 22 Aug

Wed 25 Aug

o

5% 4% 4% 4% 4% 4%

o

o

5% 4% 3% 4% 4% 3%

Sun 22nd August 27 / 5 C 24o / 12o C 25o / 9o C 24o / 12o C 24o / 12o C 24o / 13o C o

o

5% 4% 3% 4% 3% 3%

Mon 23rd August 26 / 6 C 23o / 13o C 25o / 10o C 23o / 13o C 23o / 13o C 23o / 13o C o

o

4% 5% 4% 5% 4% 3%

Tues 24th August 26 / 6 C 23o / 13o C 25o / 10o C 23o / 13o C 23o / 14o C 23o / 13o C o

o

6% 46% 44% 46% 50% 64%

Wed 25th August 27o / 8o C 24o / 14o C 27o / 12o C 24o / 14o C 24o / 15o C 23o / 15o C

6% 6% 6% 6% 6% 14%

TIDE TIMES & HEIGHTS CLARENCE - RIVER ENTRANCE

Waxing Gibbous 89% Visible

Full 100% Visible

Waning Gibbous 90% Visible

Sunrise & Sunset

DAY Thursday 19th August Friday 20th August Saturday 21st August Sunday 22nd August Monday 23rd August Tuesday 24th August Wednesday 25th August

DAY Thursday 19th August Friday 20th August Saturday 21st August Sunday 22nd August Monday 23rd August Tuesday 24th August Wednesday 25th August

SUNRISE 6:15 am 6:14 am 6:13 am 6:12 am 6:11 am 6:10 am 6:09 am

LOW 11:03 am 0.4m 6:17 am 1.16m 1:34 am 0.26m 2:17 am 0.21m 2:57 am 0.2m 3:33 am 0.22m 4:06 am 0.26m

HIGH 6:05 pm 1.68m 6:59 pm 1.75m 7:46 pm 1.78m 8:30 pm 1.78m 9:09 pm 1.73m 9:45 pm 1.65m 10:17 pm 1.55m

LOW

LOW 11:09 am 0.36m 12:49 am 0.34m 1:35 am 0.27m 2:17 am 0.24m 2:56 am 0.22m 3:33 am 0.23m 4:08 am 0.26m

HIGH 6:01 pm 1.74m 6:54 pm 1.8m 7:41 pm 1.83m 8:24 pm 1.83m 9:03 pm 1.79m 9:41 pm 1.72m 10:17 pm 1.63m

12:09 pm 0.29m 1:00 pm 0.23m 1:47 pm 0.18m 2:30 pm 0.18m 3:12 pm 0.21m 3:54 pm 0.28m

LOW 12:13 am 0.4m 1:09 am 0.31m 1:56 am 0.24m 2:36 am 0.2m 3:15 am 0.19m 3:49 am 0.2m 4:22 am 0.23m

HIGH 6:24 pm 1.66m 7:16 pm 1.73m 8:02 pm 1.76m 8:44 pm 1.75m 9:22 pm 1.7m 9:57 pm 1.61m 10:29 pm 1.49m

LOW 11:20 am 0.34m 12:21 pm 0.29m 1:14 pm 0.23m 2:01 pm 0.2m 2:45 pm 0.2m 3:27 pm 0.24m 4:07 pm 0.31m

LOW 11:06 am 0.32m 12:54 am 0.35m 1:40 am 0.27m 2:20 am 0.23m 2:58 am 0.22m 3:33 am 0.23m 4:06 am 0.25m

HIGH 6:17 pm 1.74m 7:09 pm 1.82m 7:56 pm 1.85m 8:38 pm 1.84m 9:16 pm 1.79m 9:51 pm 1.71m 10:23 pm 1.6m

LOW

LOW 11:05 am 0.37m 12:39 am 0.37m 1:24 am 0.29m 2:05 am 0.23m 2:44 am 0.21m 3:21 am 0.22m 3:57 am 0.25m

HIGH 6:14 pm 1.69m 7:05 pm 1.76m 7:52 pm 1.79 8:33 pm 1.79m 9:13 pm 1.75m 9:48 pm 1.68m 10:22 pm 1.58m

6:59 pm 1.75m 12:56 pm 0.28m 1:44 pm 0.25m 2:28 pm 0.25m 3:09 pm 0.28m 3:49 pm 0.34m

EVANS HEAD - RIVER ENTRANCE DAY Thursday 19th August Friday 20th August Saturday 21st August Sunday 22nd August Monday 23rd August Tuesday 24th August Wednesday 25th August

NORTHERN RIVERS AREA

HIGH 5:17 am 1.12m 6:17 am 1.16m 7:09 am 1.22m 7:56 am 1.26m 8:40 am 1.3m 9:21 am 1.32m 10:00 am 1.33m

HIGH 5:29 am 1.09m 6:26 am 1.16m 7:15 am 1.23m 7:59 am 1.29m 8:39 am 1.34m 9:19 am 1.38m 9:59 am 1.4m

LOW

BALLINA - RIVER ENTRANCE SUNSET 5:27 pm 5:27 pm 5:28 pm 5:28 pm 5:29 pm 5:29 pm 5:30 pm

DAY Thursday 19th August Friday 20th August Saturday 21st August Sunday 22nd August Monday 23rd August Tuesday 24th August Wednesday 25th August

HIGH 5:40 am 1.02m 6:43 am 1.06m 7:35 am 1.12m 8:20 am 1.18m 9:01 am 1.22m 9:40 am 1.25m 10:18 am 1.27m

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DAY Thursday 19th August Friday 20th August Saturday 21st August Sunday 22nd August Monday 23rd August Tuesday 24th August Wednesday 25th August

HIGH 5:26 am 1.1m 6:29 am 1.15m 7:20 am 1.21m 8:06 am 1.27m 8:49 am 1.31m 9:30 am 1.33m 10:08 am 1.35m

12:06 pm 0.26m 12:58 pm 0.21m 1:45 pm 0.18m 2:29 pm 0.19m 3:10 pm 0.23m 3:49 pm 0.31m

TWEED HEADS - RIVER ENTRANCE DAY Thursday 19th August Friday 20th August Saturday 21st August Sunday 22nd August Monday 23rd August Tuesday 24th August Wednesday 25th August

HIGH 5:18 am 1.11m 6:19 am 1.16m 7:11 am 1.22m 7:58 am 1.28m 8:41 am 1.32m 9:22 am 1.34m 10:03 am 1.34m

LOW 12:03 pm 0.3m 12:55 pm 0.24m 1:41 pm 0.21m 2:24 pm 0.21m 3:05 pm 0.26m 3:45 pm 0.34m

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SUPPORTING AND GROWING AUSTRALIAN SPORT AT ALL LEVELS Today the Australian Sports Commission (ASC) has released its 2021-2025 Corporate Plan, which highlights Sport Australia and the Australian Institute of Sport’s (AIS) commitment to grow participation in organised sport and continue to support high performance sport, while developing the champions of the future.

Minister for Sport, Senator the Hon Richard Colbeck said Sport Australia and the AIS has shown tremendous agility and a renewed focus on supporting sport.

“Australia’s remarkable achievements at the Tokyo Olympics was an inspiration to us all,” Minister Colbeck said. “It not only inspired our sport stars of the future but it also highlights what can be achieved when funding and support meets the needs of elite sports men and women.”

He said the Australian Government’s commitment to funding of sport at every level had also helped the sector navigate the extraordinary challenges of the COVID-19

pandemic.

“This financial year alone we will spend more than $500 million on sport and recreation and in the 2021-22 Budget we announced an additional $245.8 million for sport over and above our regular sports funding commitments.

“This includes an additional $136.3 million to support Australia’s high-performance system.”

Minister Colbeck

said the ASC will work toward increasing participation at every level while ensuring a world-leading high performance system is in place to prioritise athlete wellbeing.

“The potential for sport to inspire Australians over the next decade or so is unrivalled, highlighted by the recent announcement that Brisbane will host the 2032 Olympic and

Paralympic Games, with a fabulous green and gold runway of events.

“The ICC Men’s T20 Cricket World Cup, FIBA Basketball Women’s World Cup, FIFA Women’s World Cup and Netball World Cup and the 2022 UCI Road World Championships are already confirmed, among other major international events, providing the nation with a unique opportunity

to come together and celebrate through sport.”

ASC Chair Josephine Sukkar added: “Sport has an incredible ability to unite, inspire and build healthier, stronger communities. The pandemic has presented us with uncertainty but also opportunity to refocus our goals to support and grow Australian sport at all levels.”

“By helping Australians understand

the value and benefits of sport and growing the capability of our sport workforce, we can make Australia stronger through sport.”

“Sport Australia will do this through the development of initiatives and platforms such as the Australian Sport Learning Centre, SportAUS Connect and Game Plan, as well as lead and facilitate knowledge sharing across the sport sector via our Clearinghouse for Sport.”

Similarly, the AIS will continue to lead the high performance system via the National High Performance Sport Strategy 2024 to deliver national pride and inspiration through international sporting success.

“The AIS remains focused on helping our athletes to be successful in both sport and life, and its greater focus on wellbeing has prepared our athletes well for the challenges we are facing as a result of the pandemic.”

The ASC 2021-2025 Corporate Plan is available on Sport Australia’s website.

CALL FOR PARALYMPIC CLASSIFICATION CLARITY Olympics legend Michael Johnson believes Paralympic sport must step up its attempts to find a new classification system that is easier for a growing audience to understand.

Global viewing figures for the Rio 2016 Paralympics topped four billion, according to Statista, and could increase for Tokyo 2020, which gets under way on August 24.

Four-time Olympic champion Johnson is an avid supporter of the Paralympic movement, but says it must meet the demand for a clearer and fairer way of grouping athletes together.

“That’s a view which is shared by a lot of people, myself included,” Johnson told the PA news agency.

“I think it’s a challenge, and I

Gabriel Cole of Australia (l) competed in the men’s 100m T47 at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

Credit: EPA don’t think it’s any secret, a challenge that Paralympic sport will have to deal with as people start to move away from just appreciating and supporting out of sympathy.

“When people have

watched and start to say, ‘Hey, this is good sport’, which is what Paralympic athletes want to see and be recognised as, and I’m sure that’s what the Paralympic movement wants - to be recognised just as competitive

sport.

“As people move more towards viewing it from that perspective, there’s going to need to be more work done by the Paralympic movement to ensure that the classifications are clear to people, so they

understand it.”

Johnson urged any viewers who might be put off by the confusion to stick with it, but said the classification system must also be made fairer for the athletes themselves.

“They must make it

a more level playing field, and I know that’s something that they’re dealing with now and that’s not going to be easy...,” the American athletics great said.

“But at the same time, fans of Paralympic sport and the athletes will have to continue to demand improvement continues around the classification, so that ultimately it’s as fair as it can possibly be.

“How fair and how level you can get given that everyone’s disability is different, I’m not sure.”

Johnson has been closely involved in the development of Paralympic athletes since founding his Texas-based sports performance company, Michael Johnson Performance, in 2007

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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 15-08-2021 No competition was possible last Sunday due to covid 19 restrictions and lack of players so next Sunday all going well, will be a single stroke on the bottom 10 holes sponsored by North Casino Mini Mart and visitors are welcome to play with hit off from 6-30am till 7-30am.

CHERRY STREET CROQUET CLUB SPORTS RESULTS Club championships to play : Golf div 1 singles D. Scott v G.Porter semi G. Kerr v R.Chapman semi Ricochet div 1 singles R.Chapman v D.Scott final Handicap doubles R.Allen N.Barnes v R.Chapman N.Poynting Winner to play D.Scott R.Poynting in final.

Annual General Meeting.

Election of committee for 2021 - 2022.

The club welcomes new committee members Christine Edlund President, Robyn Poynting Vice President, Penny Scott Vice Captain, Other committee members elected : David Scott Secretary, Faye Duncan Treasurer, Ray Chapman Captain, Gloria Drew Social, Norma Watts Publicity, Greg Porter Publicity, Barbara Wellings Welfare, Greg Porter Twilight Golf.

Gloria Drew Association Games Manager, Ray Chapman Ricochet Games Manager, Penny Scott Golf Games Manager.

Patrons : Dac Cameron, Albert Biggs, Ken Clarke.

The club is very proud of the 3 Patrons who have been with the club since first inception in 2010.

Albert & Ken both being foundation members of the club, and Dac is the chairman of Cherry Street Sports Board today and was also chairman in 2010.

Albert & Ken have also served on the Cherry Street Sports Board.

Des Kennedy liaison officer.

Thank you to all 3 Patrons & Des. EVANS HEAD WOMEN’S BOWLING CLUB 2021 CHAMPIONSHIPS Major Pairs - Final P Freeman, C Dance defeated S Maxwell, A Peel Major Singles - Final S Downs defeated A Peel Minor Singles - Final P Freeman defeated S Smith KYOGLE BOWLS RESULTS Wednesday August 11 - B Studders B Hyde d D Condon N Bodycote + 14, P Crewe L Condon d B Ryan J Arnold + 11, P Anderson T Burdess d R Clark N Parker + 3. Saturday August 14 - B Ellis J Watts N Parker d G Knapp L Condon G Miller + 20, T Hoffman T Burgess N Bodycote d T Hoffman D Condon T Holder + 8, P Bywater P Crewe D Petherbridge d B Ryan J Coston S Hall + 3, Championship fours P Anderson K Hayes J Arnold B Hyde d D Zelcer D Farrell B Creighton M Harris 20 to 12.

in conjunction, round 20 B&K Balustrades/Bolt Barn shootout round; 2BBB Multiplier: Winners - Chris Waring/Mark Rodda (102 - rounds of 70 & 69 respectively!); R/up - Seth and Mick McClelland (99); 3rd - Marshall Stevens/Brian Walsh (96 c/b).

A Grade: Winner - Jason Matthews (42).

B Grade: Winner - Ben Sharkey (40).

C Grade: Winner - Eli McDermott (46).

Ball Run-Down: 79 c/b.

NTP’s: 2nd – N/A; 5th – N/A; 6th Pak Vending Chipshot – N/A; 8th – N/A; 9th – Half-Gallon Milk Shot 9th: N/A; 11th – N/A; 13th – N/A; 16th – N/A. Field size: 198 (superb).

THIS WEEK’S EVENTS Thursday: 19-Aug-2021: Alpine Towing back-marker challenge.

Saturday: 21-Aug-2021: Single stableford, round 21 B&K Balustrades/ Bolt Barn shootout round.

SHOOTOUT UPDATE Anthony has maintained his healthy lead while there was a lot of movement below him as 77 players scored 36 or better on Saturday and Sunday! Refer the below leaderboard and attached file for full details.

LISMORE WORKERS GOLF On the golfing front, per last year the Saturday event will be carried over to Sunday until advised otherwise. NTP’s will be suspended until the Covid restrictions are relaxed. Saturday sponsor days will be re-scheduled.

Shootout rounds will continue.

Special shoutout to Micka McClelland who had a week to remember shooting 3 under on Thursday and then 5 under Saturday. A new set of shafts seems to be the secret to his good fortune, Pete look out for a deluge of similar requests!

This week we have the Alpine Towing back-marker challenge on Thursday, while on Saturday we’re playing a single stableford. It is also round 21 of the B&K Balustrades/Bolt Barn shootout Stay safe and good golfing everyone......

GOLF RESULTS FOR LAST WEEK Thursday – 12-August-2021: single stableford; A Grade: Winner - Mick McClelland (40 - superb round of 3 under); R/Up Tom Molloy (39 - single figures not far away Tommy!). Gross - Harry White (36 - par round).

B Grade: Winner - Geoff Alberth (40); R/up - Roger Boyd (39). Gross - Jeff Larkin (23 c/b - 13 over) Ball run-down: 36 c/b.

NTP’s: 2nd - N/A; 11th - N/A; 16th - N/A. Field size: 132 (amazing).

Saturday – 14-August-2021: Twoball stableford multiplier, single

NRDGA CHAMPIONSHIPS This year’s event scheduled for Sunday the 22nd of August at Mullumbimby Golf Club has been postponed to a date TBC.

bit when we played them last time because of their speed and their intensity.”

The Lions’ one-goal win over the Tigers on June 5 was their fifth match this season they have held firm and withstood plenty of pressure late in contests to grab maximum points.

It’s a different story to last season where they swept everything – and every one – aside, but one Williams has enjoyed.

“Last year was brand new and no-one knew what to expect, but this year everyone’s lifted another notch because the competition is stronger than the old North Coast Premier League.

“We’re the same; we’ve lifted a notch with training and the commitment of the lads. We don’t want to lose a game until the season finishes. We want to go through, that’s our goal even though we’ve ticked off one of our goals already.

There’s still plenty for us to play for.”

In other matches Port Saints host Kempsey Saints while Port United travels to Taree to face the Wildcats.

LISMORE MASTERS GAMES Unfortunately due to the current Covid-19 pandemic situation across NSW and Southern Qld, this year’s event has been cancelled and will now be held in 2022.

CPL ROUND 18 PREVIEW They already have the minor premiership safely in their grasp, but Coffs City United has no intention of releasing their firm grip on the Coastal Premier League competition.

The Lions will shoot for 14-straight wins when they host the high-flying Coffs Coast Tigers at McLean Street on Saturday.

The Tigers currently sit in second spot, but will play their final game of the season ahead of the finals which Lions coach Glenn Williams said should make for a “cracking” game.

“They only have one more game which is this weekend, but then there are teams behind with games in hand so I expect a very tough game. They’ll want the points to make sure they finish up there,” he said.

“It’ll be a cracking game. They’re a good, young fast side especially through the middle of the park.

They sort of exposed us a little

Boambee heads to Kempsey for a clash with Macleay Valley and Sawtell host Northern Storm.

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The Socceroos begin the final phase of Asia’s World Cup qualifying for Qatar 2022 with two crucial matches against China and Vietnam at the start of September.

These games will be the first two of 10 home-and-away contests between six teams from Group B - Australia, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Oman, China and Vietnam.

The green-and-gold will need to finish in the top two to progress automatically to the 2022 World Cup, while the third-placed team will have a playoff route to football’s showpiece event.

How to watch the Socceroos World Cup qualifiers in Australia Australia’s football broadcast landcape has undergone a huge change with Network Tenaffiliated Paramount Plus winning the exclusive rights to most domestic football - including Socceroos and Matildas matches.

All Socceroos

Paramount+ costs $8.99-a-month and also includes Australian football such as the A-League. W-League and the FFA Cup. You can also watch the green-and-gold’s journey to the World Cup on free-to-air via Network Ten. Matches will also be streamed on Network Ten’s in-house streaming service 10Play.

Socceroo Jamie MacLaren Photo courtesy of Getty Images

qualifiers can be watched live on Paramount+,

which is available on desktop, iOS app,

Android app, Apple TV 4, Android TV,

Chromecast, Fetch and Telstra TV.

How the Socceroos can progress to the World Cup from 3rd round of qualifying?

The top two teams from Australia’s group will get direct qualification to the World Cup. The third-place team in the group will playoff against the third-place team in Group A across a single match, with the winner to take on a team from another confederation for a ticket to Qatar.

Failure to finish in the top three means there will be no chance of earning qualification to football’s showpiece event.

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Australia will kick off their third round of qualifying for a place in Qatar on September 2 against China.

The green and gold have had to forfeit playing that game on home soil due to COVID-19 and the government not granting any quarantine exemptions for travelling players.

That means the Socceroos must find another country in Asia to host the match with Australian-based players then facing at least 14 days in quarantine upon their return.

With the FFA Cup hoping to resume in September and the

Socceroos coach Graham Arnold

A-League kicking off in late October, clubs may be reluctant to release their players for such a long time frame.

Arnold admits the squad selection process is far more complex than it once was and is hoping the Socceroos can secure the cooperation of clubs.

“The days of just

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picking a player and making a statement and saying that he’s in the squad and if he doesn’t turn up he’s suspended [are over],” Arnold said via ESPN. “Football Australia (FA) are talking to the clubs about the September and October windows because we need help, we need

our best players.

“Obviously, we’re communicating with the players, we’re communicating with the clubs and the A-League clubs...I need our best players.”

FA CEO James Johnson is leading discussions with the clubs and admitted that having players

stuck in quarantine for a fortnight isn’t ideal for anyone.

“We are speaking with clubs about when we can use the players. It’s not practical for the players to go abroad and come back after nine days and sit 14 days in a hotel three months in a row,” Johnson said.

“It’s not good for players, the club or the national team because players won’t be fit.

“We’re trying to find pragmatic solutions with the clubs around trying to use the players for hopefully two out of three windows and what I can say is those conversations are going in the right direction.

“We’ve got some really sensible people in clubland and we’ll find an agreement that works for us and A-League clubs.”

Following the match against China, the Socceroos will travel to Vietnam for a second qualifier on September 7.

After that international window, Australia are then expected to host Oman on October 7 before heading to Japan for a match on October 12.

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!"#$%&''()$*+',-./$0$123245$(674$!789:2 Aussie surfers Stephanie Gilmore and Jack Robinson have won the Corona Open Mexico presented by Quiksilver, the seventh stop on the World Surf League 2021 Championship Tour, after four consecutive days of competition at Barra de la Cruz in Huatulco, Mexico.

The Australians claimed victory in the four-to-sevenfoot waves throughout today’s Semi-finals and Finals, winning the last CT event of the regular 2021 season.

Gilmore earned her 32nd CT victory today, continuing to break her own record, after taking down a competitive field, including World No. 1 and reigning four-time WSL Champion, Carissa Moore (HAW), in today’s Semi-finals and World No. 2 Tatiana Weston-Webb (BRA) in yesterday’s Quarterfinals.

“It’s unbelievable,” said Gilmore. “Malia (Manuel) was my pick for the whole event.

She was on the right waves and surfing so beautifully.

That Final was tough because Gilmore’s win now moves her up into the fourth position heading into the Rip Curl

start,” said Robinson. “It’s like a feeling I got when I qualified and I’m still in that state of processing it.

Everything pushed me just trying to find all the right things to come together, so many things, and got a good team of support around me.

The Doras, my wife Julia, my family, sponsors, I couldn’t do it without them.” The Corona Open Mexico pres.

Quiksilver is the last event

Pictured: Jack Robinson Photographer: Heff/WSL WSL Finals, the one-day event in San Clemente to decide the 2021 World Champions.

Gilmore will be the fourth seed, ahead of Johanne Defay (FRA). “I haven’t won a contest in a while,” continued Gilmore.

“I was hoping to climb up the rankings maybe one spot for the finals at Trestles so I didn’t have to surf as many heats on finals day (laughs).

This is sick. Ever since seeing this event in 2006 for

the men and losing Snapper off the Tour, this is the next best thing.

I think knowing when Tahiti was cancelled and this was the last event, all the pressure was on trying to stay ahead of the world’s best women in the line-up.

This place is incredible and it’s just like home and I really love it here, I’m so proud to win here. ”CT rookie Jack Robinson (AUS), earned his first CT event win today, after

Pictured: Stephanie Gilmore Photographer: Heff/WSL defeating Deivid Silva (BRA) in the Final, Mateus Herdy (BRA) in the Semi-finals, and Frederico Morais (PRT) in the Quarterfinals. “We did it and I don’t even know where to

of the regular season before the Rip Curl WSL Finals, and similar to how he qualified for the CT in 2019, Robinson was able to top off his rookie year with a win in the final event.

that started with a battle against Carissa Moore in the Semifinals.

With 11 World Titles between them, it was a clash of the two most dominant women over the last decade, and potentially a preview of what we may see at Lower Trestles at the upcoming Rip Curl WSL Finals.

In the final, Gilmore went toe to toe with Hawaii’s Malia Manuel, who donned the words “AI Forever” on her jersey in honor of the 2006 Barra champ and fellow surfer from Kauai Andy Irons.

It went down to the wire, but in the end, the Queen of Snapper Rocks was simply too

good on finals day.

“Once I heard that Tahiti was cancelled, I knew this was the event to make it happen,” said Gilmore.

“I couldn’t let the foot off the gas here because I wanted to make sure I had a shot into the finals. So, it’s amazing to be in it.”

The WSL announced the cancellation of the Tahiti Pro following the French Government’s declared state of emergency for French Polynesia due to COVID-19 and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention moving French Polynesia into a Level 4 zone and advising people not to travel.

Gilmore wins at Corona Open Mexico

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AFTER a week of flawless surf at Barra De La Cruz, Tweed surfer Stephanie Gilmore swept the Corona Open Mexico presented by Quiksilver.

For seven-time World Champion Gilmore, it’s her first victory of the 2021 season and the 32nd of her career.

The win also solidifies her spot in the WSL Final 5 and gives her a clear path to winning a record-setting eighth World Title.

“Best feeling ever! I haven’t won a contest in a long time,” Gilmore smiled back on the beach.

Gilmore’s win came after a hard-fought day of surfing

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By Tim Howard Retiring Gold Coast Titans winger and try scoring record holder Anthony Don found his cult hero status in the game welcome, if a little baffling.

He was never been stranger to the try line, setting a Group One try scoring record when he touched down 40 times for the Grafton Ghosts in 2010.

Next season he was off to Burleigh and the Queensland Cup and in 2013 made his debut with the Titans at the ripe old age of 25.

In the next nine seasons Don scored 85 four pointers in 152 first grade games for the Titans, as well as attracting a legion of adoring fans.

As the grandson of legendary player and coach Ron Willey, Don even has a touch of rugby league royalty about him.

But none of that explains why fans would call for a bronze statue of The Don to be erected outside the Robina Stadium, created Facebook fan pages dedicated to him, screamed his name during games or raised a petition to keep him at the club, as they did in 2018.

Eleven years after his last game for the Ghosts anyone who outpaces the defence to score is labelled another Anthony Don. His theory was he saw himself as a battler, who did everything he could to improve himself for the team and the fans loved that about him.

Former Grafton Ghost Anthony Don has announced his retirement after nine seasons in the NRL, all with the Gold Coast Titans. Photo: NRL Images.

“They (fans) were really good to me,” Don said.

“No-one really had a go at me or said nasty things, which is quite lucky.

“I don’t know why they liked me, maybe because I was a bit of a battler.

“Maybe that’s what they were cheering for, a bit of the underdog story.

“I don’t really know why they supported me, but it didn’t go unnoticed and I was really grateful for all the support I got throughout my career.”

The realisation it was all coming to a close came to him this season.

“I’m 33, nearly 34,” he said.

“I wasn’t playing in the best form compared to the previous few years, so it was quite and easy decision to hang ‘em up

and move on with a life.

“There’s no regrets. You always wish you’d scored more tries, or made less mistakes, but I’ve been very lucky.

“I’ve been able to stay at the one club for nine years and play a lot of first grade which is something I dreamt of, so absolutely no regrets. I’ve loved every moment of it.”

He ruled out a return to play a season or two with the Grafton Ghosts, because he and wife Sam and daughter Frankie are keen to keep living on the Gold Coast.

“It would be too much of an ask – especially with the borders – to play with the Ghosties,” he said.

“I’m hanging my boots up, but the body’s still in good nick.

WINNING REBELS ARE GRINNERS There’s nothing better than a sunny afternoon at the footy at McKittrick Park.

The burgers are big, the drinks are cold and the Rebels are running

down starting at 5pm on Saturday afternoon could knock the smiles off these fans, although some could not be convinced to remove masks.

A family day at the footy for, from left: Jessica Gaddes, Ella Patch, Joey Gaddes and Harley Patch.

hot in the first game of the Group 2 semifinals.

Not even the premier’s declaration of a statewide lock

Above: Rebels fan Jody Gaddes, left, and former club president Jacinta Cooper cheering on the red and whites.

“I’ll have to secure some work, that’s my first port of call.”

Don said his competitive nature wouldn’t allow him to give up competitive sport and didn’t rule out a return to the league field, although at a lower level.

“If I really want to keep playing and there’s an opportunity somewhere to play rugby league, I’ll play, but nothing’s certain.

“I’ll need to play some competitive sport, because I’m a competitive person, whether it’s touch, Oz Tag or soccer.

I’ll be doing something and not ruling out rugby league.”

As a qualified PE teacher before his footy career took over, Don says there are opportunities open to him.

“There’s some good rugby

league schools on the Goldie in PBC and Keebra Park,” he said.

“I would like to work with one of those school and be teaching rugby league and coaching rugby league.

“I’ll doing some work a few days a week at the Gold Coast Titans as well. Nothing’s set in stone.

“One of the reasons I’ve announced it (retirement) now is so I can move and look at finding some work.”

Coach Justin Holbrook says Don has left a great legacy at the club.

“I would like to wish the Don family of Anthony, Sam and Frankie all the best for life after footy,” Holbrook said.

“Donny has invested a lot of time and hard work into this club and he deserves the accolade of being the Titans top try scorer.

“His professionalism and the high standards he sets for himself have been reflected in the number of first grade games that he’s achieved over the past nine years.”

As well as setting the club’s try scoring record, Don won the Paul Broughton Medal as the Titans best and fairest in 2017, the only winger to have claimed the honour.

Don will play out the remainder of the season with the Titans and the club has planned a celebration for him at the last home game of the season at CBus Stadium on September 5.

South Grafton residents Ben and Rachele Passmore love getting down to McKittrick Park to cheer on the home team.

Young fans Rhys Berry, Izac McConell and Teven Gallagher loving watching the Rebels down Bellingen in the elimination semi-final on Saturday.

Rebels supporters Graham and Kylie enjoying a great afternoon of footy at McKittrick Park on Saturday.

Rebels supporters Richard Riley, left, and Glenn Reid in the stands just after the announcement of the statewide lockdown.

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In nine years Anthony Don amassed a club record of 85 tries for the Gold Coast Titans. He announced his retirement earlier this month. Photo: NRL Images.

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