Latrobe Valley Express Wednesday 5 October 2022

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Energy hub plan

By MICHELLE SLATER

AGL has promised to accelerate its plans to turn LoyYanginto an industrial energy hub after it brought forward the closure of its Latrobe Valley power station by adecade.

AGL chief operatingofficer,Markus Brokhof, told The Express that the company still intended to carry out its maintenance schedule at Loy Yang A, and had justemployed six new apprentices.

Mr Brokhof said AGL would need the cash flowfrom operating Loy Yang A until 2035 to helpfinance its plans to build12gigawatts of renewables and storageby2036and five gigawatts by 2030

AGL announced last weekitwas getting out of thermal coal by the middle of next decade and would spend $20 billion on the transition.

Mr Brokhof said this money would be distributed between AGL’s Latrobe

Valley, Hunter Valley and the Torrens Island sites, to transform them into low carbon energy hubs.

He said AGL would now focus on Loy Yang, after having concentrated its efforts on the next year’s closure of Liddell in the Hunter.

“This needs to accelerate [at Loy Yang] because initially we were speaking abouta[closuredate] of 2045, this was quite some time to go and there was no needtorush,” Mr Brokhod said.

“Now there’s anew situation and we have to acceleratethe development in the Latrobe Valley, but we are not starting from scratch.”

Mr Brokhof said a200 megawatt battery at Loy Yang was underway, with further talks on the future of the

Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain project at the site.

He said AGL was planningtoreha bilitate its mine by creating apit lake, but would prolong mining if any low-emissions industries wanted to use the coal.

There were also contractual obligations with Alinta to supply Loy Yang Bwith coal, but Mr Brokhof stated thiswas a“complexagreement” that he could not disclose to the press.

“We will not walk away from our rehabilitation obligations, but if other industries like the HESC consortium come forward and want to use the coal, we will need achangeinour mining licence,” he said.

“We will have discussions with the government how we could incorporate

this into the future planning for the region.”

AGL also announced it was developing anational energy workforce strategy in conjunction with state and federal governments.

Mr Brokhof said the company would assess the resources, workforce, reskill ing programs and industrial partners needed to attract new industries to Loy Yang.

“We are now getting all the people together to develop this strategy; it’s not onlyAGL thatistransforming in the Valley,wehave Hazelwood and [Yallourn],” he said.

“Therewill be astructural change away from coal to renewables and we need everyparty, the community, Indigenous people, state and federal government to do this structural transition.

“We are one stakeholder, we are an important stakeholder, but not the only one to do the structural transition.”

AGLchief operating officer Markus Brokhof

Council wades into industrial turmoil, seeks support, jobs

By MICHELLE SLATER

LATROBE City Council will talk to AGL about the company’s intentions for any new investment in the region and how it will manage its coal mine beyond the 2035 Loy Yang Aclosure.

Latrobe City mayor, Kellie O’Callaghan, said council had been planning for earlier coal closures than the dates that AGL had been providing.

“We’ve always operated on the basis that dates indicated were fluid. We learnt this coming out of Hazelwood, we made a rapid turnaround as we only had months to prepare,” Cr O’Callaghan said.

Cr O’Callaghan said the 2035 closure represented a“significant impact” on the community.

She said Latrobe City would keep putting pressure on the state and federal governments to provide the resources the region needed in the closure lead time.

The mayor cited the Latrobe City Transition Taskforce and its Strength Led Transition in which council was working with government and industry to help find new jobs and industries.

“The early closures of AGL Loy Yang A and predictions for others locally, decades before they were expected, could jeopardise all this preparation,” she said.

“Now we need to look at what our community needs to get ready for, to enter into some arrangements for new industries and new energy opportunities.

“It’s important to have the resources we require to support this work.”

This included infrastructure and policies to attract new businesses, as well as opportunities for young people, transitioning existing workers and opportunities for allied industries.

“We’ve put alot of work in place for new businesses to come here, but it won’t be like what we had before, where there’s been one significant industry to provide economic support to the region,” she said.

“There will be lots of new opportunities for new businesses and industries and we need to make sure we are ready to make this transition.”

The loss of Yallourn and Loy Yang Awill mean Latrobe loses $4 million ayear in rates, greatly affecting its revenue to deliver services.

Cr O’Callaghan said there were also social impacts to consider, such as people leaving the area, and how it would affect housing, education, and social interaction.

“We are very open to innovation and new idea and opportunities in the community, if we don’t try things we won’t know what may work,” Cr O’Callaghan said.

“But we are acutely aware there is sensitivity in the community around promises made and the capacity to deliver.”

Loy Yang will have future as energy hub, insists AGL chief

By MICHELLE SLATER

AGL has promised it will work with state and federal governmentsdevelop anational energy workforce strategy in light of its plans to close Loy Yang Aby2035.

The company is planning to get out of thermal coal by the middle of next decade after it had stated earlierthisyear it wasclosingLoy Yang Abetween 2040 and 2045.

The announcement was made as part of the company’s strategic directions review, after plans to split AGL into two separate entities were canned earlier this year.

As part of the new plan, AGL will progressively decarboniseits assets with 12 gigawatts of renewables and storage by 2036 and an interim target of five gigawatts by 2030 at acost of $20 billion.

It stated the majority of this will come from wind and batteries.

The company has also doubled-down on its commitment to transformingLoy Yang,the Hunter

Valley and Torrens Island sites into industrial energy hubs.

AGLchair Patricia McKenzie said the company “will work with its broadstakeholdergroupto deliver these ambitious outcomes”.

“It is particularly important that we support our people who maintainand operate our coal-fired power station,” Ms McKenzie said.

“We will work with our people, representatives and government to help develop the skills and capabilities required for new and existing industries as we progress to ensure the transitioning energysector is supported by askilled workforce.”

The early closure will cut 200 million tonnes of emissions from Loy Yang A.

Ms McKenzie said the coal closures represented “one of the most significant decarbonisation initiatives in Australia” and aligned with the Paris Agreement.

Incominginterim chief executive,Damien Nicks, stressed the early closure would “be akey source

of value for our shareholders”.

Mr Nicks said there had been mounting pressure from banks and equity investors for AGL to decarbonise, which would open access to awider pool of capital for the energy transition.

“We see some of our international peers who are successfully transitioningtoa lower cost of capital and avaluation premium, in part because of their greencredentials,” Mr Nicks said.

“We have heard it from our customers, communities, governments, capital providers and shareholders -the time is now for AGL to show leadership in the energy transition.”

Neighbouring power station Loy Yang Bhas an agreement with AGL to mine the coal out of the open cut.

Aspokesperson for Loy Yang Boperator Alinta said it would “continue to consult with all relevant parties on the outlook for energy security and reliability in Victoria before announcing any change to our operation”.

Govt will stand by workers in ‘transition’

By MICHELLE SLATER

THE Victorian Government has promised it will “put AGL workers first” after AGL announced Loy Yang Awill close by 2035.

The state’s Energy Minister,LilyD’Ambrosio, said the news would be “difficultfor those who have powered Victoria through Loy Yang Afor decades.

“We will work with AGL to help locals retrain, reskill and findnew work opportunities close to home as we transition the state to cheap, clean renewable energy,” Ms D’Ambrosio said.

“Today, we stand with the workersofLoy Yang A as this transition begins, thanking them for their service to Victoria.

“We also acknowledgethe ongoing uncertainty for other workers, communities and familiesinthe coal mining sector –aswetransition to aclean energy sector, we stand ready to support this industry each and every day.”

Ms D’Ambrosio pointed to the government’s renewables investments, including offshore wind and battery targets, that she claimed would create more than 24,000 jobs in Victoria.

She alsowelcomed AGL’s $20-billioninvestment into renewable energy and storageprojects to help the transition.

Labor Member for EasternVictoria,Harriet Shing, took to social media to spruik the state government’s $2-billion investment in the Valley since 2014, which she claimed had created 4000 jobs.

Ms Shing said the 2035announcementwould allow time to transition and train workers into new industries.

She saidshe would alsowork in partnership with businesses, communities, unions, and local government through the Latrobe Valley Authority.

“One-thirdofthe state’s energy is already produced by renewables giving Victorians access to low-cost and securepowertoday,”MsShing said

But the Nationals Member for Eastern Victoria, Melina Bath, said the Latrobe Valley was “yet to see aplan” for transition, despite it being fiveyears since the closure of Hazelwood.

Ms Bath said the state government “lacks the ability to fully support” workers, or work with industry to create new technologies and develop in time apathway that is affordable and reliable.

“The Valley needs new industries with new tech nologies and the creation of long-term, sustainable jobs for our high-skilled, technical workforce is a priority for the Nationals,” Ms Bath said.

“My focus will remain on supporting people, our community and industry –sothat our power stationworkers can havethe opportunity to shape abright and secure future.”

The Victorian Greens said the early closure “lays bare” the need for the government to activelystep

in to planfor the phase-out of coal or “workers and communities will be left in the dust”.

Victorian Greens deputy leader, Ellen Sandell, said the AGLannouncement made it clear that coal plants would shut earlier than expected.

“The writing is on the wall for Victoria’s brown coal plants, which burn Australia’s most polluting coal. They’re old, unreliable and polluting -harmingthe health of local communities,” Ms Sandell said.

Planning: Member forEasternVictoria Harriet Shing said the2035 announcement wouldallow time to transition andtrain workersintonew industries file photograph

One third of the state’s energy is already produced by renewables giving Victorians access to low cost and secure power today

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All govt must be involved: Chester

THE federal Member for Gippsland, Darren Chester, said he was “alarmed and disappointed” by AGL’s decisionand wasunconvinced therewould be enough reliable energy in place by the time Loy Yang Awas retired.

Mr Chester said he wasalsounconvincedthat planned renewables would offer the same reliability and affordability as coal.

“Projects like offshore wind have potential but the turbines haven’t been built, approval hasn’t even been granted, and the transmission lines through private property to connect them to the grid remain contentious,” Mr Chester said.

“I’m alarmed and disappointed that this decision has been made before there is any certainty that the national grid is able to make this transition to weather-dependent renewablesinanorderly way.”

Mr Chester said the AGL decision, coming on top of the planned closure of Yallourn power station, would demand aco-ordinated and strategic response from all levels of government.

He also accused the state government of having “consistently refused to participate in previous discussionsinvolving the Latrobe City Council and other elected representatives”.

“There needs to be ahigh-level and bi-partisan taskforce appointed immediately with significant long-termfundingallocated to help our region manage this transition,” Mr Chester said.

“Hopefully this announcement by AGL will force Premier Dan Andrews to wake up and realise the direct threat to the social and economic future of the Latrobe Valleyasbusinessdecisions are made in distant boardrooms without any consideration of local community impacts.

“I accept there is an irreversible transformation underway towards more renewables, and less coalfired power, but it must be done in away which respectsour local communitiesand delivers a reliable and affordable system.”

The federal Energy Minister, Chris Bowen, said the federal government was working with the states on anational energy transformation partnership,

Twoweeks’ back-up a problem the world over

By PHILIP HOPKINS

THE energyand climatechange program directoratthe GrattanInstitute, Tony Wood, said the earlierclosure of Loy Yang Apowerstationwas notgood news, but wasnot unexpected.

“The community has seenitcoming,even if it was not overnight like Hazelwood,” he said.

Mr Wood said with Yallourn power station set to close by 2027-28, to be followed by Loy Yang Ain 2035, the impact on the electricity system would be even greater.

“But we have time, but the amount of work that mustbedone to manage the transition is goingup every day,” he said.

Already protests were happening around regional Victoria against the transmissionlines that would connect to the various renewable projects.

“A lot of solar and wind will be built, including offshore wind near the Latrobe Valley, so there is much work to be done,” he said.

Mr Wood said ahugeamountofsolar and wind needed for back-upwhenthe sun didn’tshine and thewinddidn’t blow.

Batteries were not the solution. “Long term, we need deep storage.That is the challenge,” he said.

Deep storage included pumped hydroalong the lines of Snowy Hydro 2orthe Marinus Line between Victoria and Tasmania, where hydro was dominant.

The brutal truth, he said, was that renewables were weak in winter, the days were shorter for solar and there was often low wind at night.

“There are up to two weeks when you need alot of storage. That is aproblem around the world,” he said -providing the last 10 per cent of back-up power for renewables.

Mr Wood said it was imperative to get coordinated planning between government, industry and local communities.

“Announcements likethis (Loy Yang)help create the catalyst for thingstobedone properly,” he said.

Anew generation of small nuclear plants has been suggested as apossible source of back-up or regular power, but Mr Wood said he did not know if that was the solution.

Apart from pumped hydro, gas-fired power stations for short bursts of back-up power were another option, as potentially was hydrogen.

“I will notrule out nuclear, but Ihave not yet seen the commercial implementation of smaller nuclear reactors,” he said.

Work was being done on thisissue in other countries such as US, China and Russia.

“We need to keep an eye on that,” he said.

Australia did not have to do everything itself.

“Wehaveplentyoftime, but the ideal mix is not clear,” he said.

Mr Wood said renewables were low cost compared with coal and gas, but this would be partly offset by the high cost of transmission, both interstate and within the state, and of storage.

These should cancel each other out.

“But if we get it wrong and the costs blow out, it could be expensive,” he said.

including supporting new apprentices and skills.

Mr Bowen said the government’s ClimateChange Billwouldprovide the “certainty that investors have been crying out for in order to invest in renewable energy, transmission and storage projects”.

“We need to ensure that these closures are properly managed and that we invest in the firmed, dispatchable renewable energy, along with storage

and transmission, to replace the energy generation coming offline,” Mr Bowen said.

“As the prime minister has said on numerous occasions, this is agovernment that willmakesure no one is held back and no one is left behind, and that includes all workers through the transformation of our energy system.”

New boundaries define electorates

NEW electoralboundaries will affect almost a quarterofthe state’s voters as of November 1.

If you live in Toongabbie or Cowwarr you are no longer included in the seat of Morwell, but rather South Gippsland.

Also becoming part of South Gippsland are Yinnar and Boolara, Grand Ridge and Budgeree.

Moe South, Moe and Newborough willbecome part of theseat of Morwell.

Tanjil South will be split,with the MoeWalhalla Rd marking the boundary between the seats of Narracan and Morwell.

For instance, should you live on Purvis Rd, Tanjil South, you are part of the seat of Morwell.

This is the first time the electoral boundaries of both houses of parliament have been redrawn since 2013.

Questions to be answered: Federal Member forGippsland Darren Chester is “alarmed and disappointed” by AGL’sdecision. file photograph

By MICHELLE SLATER

LOCAL environment groups are calling to expedite aLatrobe Valley transition plan that includes a boom in renewables while alsoplanning mine rehabilitation as Loy Yang Acloses in 2035.

The GippslandClimateChange Network said the announcement should herald an acceleration to renewables in line with the rest of the world.

The GCCN recently hosted arenewable energy conference in Sale, which attracted international investors keen to develop large-scale renewables, including offshore wind in Gippsland.

GCCN chief executive Darren McCubbin congratulated AGL on its “reasonableand considered” movement to renewables and called for the state government to support the transition.

“I have the confidence we have the technology available to make this happen, but it needs a coordinated approach and asocial licence to bring theseprojects online,” Mr McCubbin said.

“There is awill from governments and the proponents, and Gippsland will remain an energy superpower. This is aonce-in alifetime transition from traditional to renewables.

“We are not starting from scratch, there is wind and solar all over the world. We have the workers here to make it happen and the proponents from all over the world with the experience.”

Friends of the Earth Gippsland organiser, Wendy Farmer, said closure plans should not be left up to the private companies that operate the power stations.

Ms Farmer said thiswas particularly needed after AGL brought forward the Loy YangA closure date twice this year.

“It is hard to trust this announcement from AGL.

Thechangingmessagesfrom the powergenerators is awake-upcall that we need to prepare for early closure. What communities need is certainty,” Ms Farmer said.

“That means aproper transition plan and support from all levels of government, and rapid development of renewable energy in Gippsland to bring on new power supply.”

Friends of Latrobe Water called on AGL to ensure it has aproperremediation plan post-closure.

FloW spokesperson, Tracey Anton, said communitiesliving near power stations and coal mines had “dealt withthe health and environmental impacts” of powering Victoria for decades.

Ms Anton said the early closure was a“step in the right direction” but it still meant another 10 years of “breathing in toxic air”.

“It’s greattosee AGL shave adecadeoff its operations, but we need to know what’s going to happen when Loy Yang Ashuts down,” Ms Anton said.

“Power stationsand coal mines leave toxicwaste behind, operators must safelyrehabilitate the sites or risk leaving our community with the dangerous consequences.”

‘Time is now’ for creating industry

By DANIEL PEDERSEN

GIPPSLAND Trades and Labour Council was told last Wednesday that Loy Yang Awould close earlier than previously thought.

There had been no discussions with the workforce, nor unions, before the public announcement, Gippsland Trades and Labour Councilsecretary, Steve Dodd, said.

“The writing hasbeen on the wall though, AGL told the stock market (the ASX) that the company would review its assets in late September,” he said. “And hey, it’s late September.”

GTLC represents 24 unions in the region.

Mr Dodd said at least the Latrobe Valley hadn’t been “ambushed” this time, as it was when Hazelwood power station was shut down in April 2017.

He said AGL now had asocial responsibility not just to its workers and the unions, other companies invested in power generation, but also the greater Latrobe Valley community.

He said both Loy YangA and Bwere being fuelled with coal, but it might not be feasible for Alinta to continue operating the mine alone.

There were many discussions to be had at many levels,but aleadtimeofmore thana decade helped

“Wehave time to speak with the Andrewsgovernment, to speak withthe Albanese government,” he said.

“It’s all very well to speak of transitioning, but transitioning into what? What we havetolook at now is industry creation.”

Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining And EnergyUnionLatrobe Valley organiser, Toby Thornton, said his union’s role would be to ensure all existingagreements remained in placeand safety was maintained at Loy Yang A.

“Really by the time 2035 comesaroundmost contractors will have moved on, at least they’re announcing it (the closure) now.”

For construction generally, the Hazelwood closure was more of aclassic example of how things happen, Mr Dodd said.

“Really, now, it’s about how they’re planning to power the state,” he said.

He said there had been no discussion with the union at thispoint and it had no news of the company’s plansuntil Thursday morning’s announcement to the ASX

Proper plan: Friendsofthe EarthGippslandorganiserWendy Farmer

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When ahousewife turned activist

By DANIEL PEDERSEN

TRACIE Lund was working at Morwell’s Neighbourhood House when she had the “powerful and confronting realisation thatsomething was terribly wrong” in her community.

With just notebook and pen, she and her fellow volunteers at Morwell Neighbourhood House had beendocumenting the adverse health affectswithin their community caused by the 2014 open-cut coal mine fire

They just started writing things down.

But it was “a moment in time that made an activist out of ahousewife”, she said, armouring herself with amug of coffee during an interlude in abusy day far from finished.

The neighbourhood house committee met and resolved to start documenting people’s health troubles.

“We didn’t understand what was going to unfold,” she said, but that one meeting decided on acourse of actionthat wouldstart to form the baseline data of the fire’s social and health ramifications.

“My eyes are burning, Ican’tbreathe,the smoke’s different,”were just some of the comments that strengthened her resolve to do what she could for the people around her.

Tracie is standing as an independent in the November 26 state election for the seat of Morwell.

She stood in 2014 as an independent, winning 10.9per centofthe primaryvoteand again in 2018, where she received 2.1 per cent in afield of 11 candidates. She currently has leave of absence from her role as aLatrobe City Councillor.

Gathering people’s thoughts and documenting their ailments was made easier by prevailing dayto-day, grassroots access to the community -people trusted and communicated with the people of the neighbourhood house.

Of standing as an independent, Tracie she said shefeltthatwas howshe couldmost powerfully represent her community’s aspirations.

Generally,she said, voters werebecomingbetter informed and felt disenfranchised by the two-party system.

“I think we’re on the cusp of something different,” she said. “People are challenging the system and asking ‘how can we do this better?’ There’san opportunity for good people andmypartyisthe community.

“I thinkdiversity in parliamentwillgiveusbetter outcomes because people realise we need long-term solutions, not short-term fixes.”

TheLatrobe Valley Authority should be one of thefoundation blocks of rebuilding and ensuring the region’s viability, Tracie said.

“It’s currently funded year to year, but our challengesaren’t year to year,” she said. “We need to look at how we can make the rehabilitation of Latrobe Valley’s mines an asset. To this point most of the focus has been on making them lakes; we need to prepareour community for changes. And politicians and thegovernment carrythat responsibility.”

Food insecurity and homelessness was increasing in the Latrobe Valley, said Tracie.

“People on government support don’thave wriggle

room in their budget, if they’re to keep aroof over theirheadsbeing able to feed themselves and their families is becoming an optional extra,” she said.

“People are living in theircars,squeezing into one bedroom with family or friends.”

Shesaidaffordable housing had been ignored for so long, for decades, that we now found ourselves in acrisis.

“Rentals aren’tsoaffordable anymore, there’s not justone solutiontothese problems, we need asuite of options, nobody should fall off the edge.

“Social housing needs investment, more investment, it takes time to build houses and properties for peopletolive in, we need to look at these issues through along-term lens.”

In the meantime, increasing food security had in the past reduced interactions with relief agencies to transactional engagement; they were seeing the same people return for food week-in, week-out and at the neighbourhood house, they were seeking solutionsthat did not only revolve around food, but rather social engagement, said Tracie.

“I’ve been with the neighbourhood house for 10 years, butIhaven’t seen so many people homeless in allthattimeasinthe past two years.

“COVID definitely escalated that, peopleare applying for rentals, but they’re one of 40 applicants, we need access to affordable rentals,” Tracie said.

She said the transactional nature of the neighbourhood house food bank had people begin to think about how to build capacity, so the same people weren’t forced into the same situation continually.

And so began the People’s Kitchen.

“We asked people, ‘What does agood food bank look like, what does abad food bank look like?’ So we helpedenablepeople to cook for themselves, so they were getting food they wanted to eat, then we frozethem and shared them out, then we began

looking at how to build health, by adding lentils andbeans, or greens, or whatever,” said Tracie.

“People saw value in working to cook, the ability to cook and contribute, we help them andthey support us. Then we introducedafood handlers’course and people liked it, because many of them had never had an opportunity to further their education.”

Then we got avolunteer who offers haircuts, she said.“Throughout this whole process, we noticed people’s anxiety was significantly increased, people were distressed and that made it tough on everyone, so we introduced apuppy that people couldinteract with on food bank days, tactile interactions that people appreciate.”

“Peoplestarted looking for her, taking photos with her, she became part of the team,” Tracie said. “So yes, the immediate needs of food are catered for, but there’s other things going on.”

The Gippsland Trades and Labour Council helped with the ‘Melting Pot’ program, where culturally appropriate food was provided for people of different cultures, she said.

Tracie becomes animated, “this is what I’m passionate about, every day presents anew opportunity to learn something new about our community”.

“Not everybody has that opportunity, so it must be honoured, and we must be respectful and take the time to learn about and understand people,” shesaid.

“We need to keep our finger on the pulse.”

Throwing her hat in the ring: Tracie Lund will contest the November 26 stateelection as an independent candidate

Pals: Independent candidateinthe upcomingstate election Tracie Lund with Honeybell Lollipop the Neighbourhood House therapydog,Buttercup Fairyfloss and Rainythe pup. photographs supplied

Fuel station protest

By MICHELLE SLATER

AGROUP of Traralgon residents is objecting to a proposed 24-hour petrol station slated for Princes Drive,fearing the development would be too close to surrounding houses.

Latrobe CityCouncil has received aplanning application for aservo to be built on avacant site where there was previously aderelict garage on the highway to the east of Kosciuszko Street.

Locals have been voicing concerns about noise, lighting, tankers re-fuelling in the night and the health impacts associated with petrol fumes.

Theplanning documents statethe development wouldinclude adrive-through lane and convenience store, and would operate 24 hours aday, seven days aweek.

The site is surrounded on three sides by residential houses, with proposals for aless-thantwo-metre buffer zone between the drive-through and back fences.

However, the plans also include vegetation and landscaping in the buffersbetweenthe development and neighbours’ fences.

Nearby resident Craig Simmons has spearheaded alocal objection group and aFacebook page with about 100 followers.

Mr Simmons said there wasalready another petrol station operating within 350-metres of the

proposal, and another 24-hour servo within a four-minute drive from the site.

“There’s only aminimal buffer between this petrol stationand residential houses,” Mr Simmons said.

“I feel Traralgon already has more than enough petrol stations. I’d like to see anything else being built here that will benefit the community and won’t impact the health of residents.”

Another resident hascirculatedaletter to nearby households encouraging locals to raise objections to Latrobe City.

“As if we need another service station in Traralgon,” the letter said.

“Previouslya derelict site, the focusonthe environment and phasing out of petrol vehicles and the highway diversion,infive-to-10 years, the site will be derelict once again.”

ALatrobe City spokesperson said council had received objections to the proposal, and planning officers were assessing the application, but there was no timeframe for council to make adecision.

The spokesperson said the developer would be provided an opportunity to respond to the objectors’ concerns and or make changes to the proposal.

“Based on the number of objections received to date, it is likely that the matter will be decided upon by councillors at afuture council meeting,” the spokesperson said.

Koala event comes to Moe

By MICHELLE SLATER

LOCALScan learn more about one of the region’s mostuniqueanimals laterthismonth at afestival dedicated to the Strzelecki koala.

The inaugural Gippsland Strzelecki Koala Festival will be at Old Gippstown and will feature aswag of activities and entertainment all about the fuzzy native species.

Families can meet wildlifecarers, shake paws with Kranky Koala, watch awildlife show, enter abest-dressed koala competition, or take part in circus classes.

Visitors will be able to learn about conservation programswith experts and Federation University koala researchers. There will also be food vans, live music, markets and native plants.

Organiser Melinda Darer coined the idea after spendingmost of her life working withnative animals in wildlife rescue and as avet nurse.

Ms Darer said the festival would allow

Gippslanders to learn more about the Strzelecki koala while having afun day out.

“The Strzelecki koala is genetically unique but we only have1500to2000ofthem left,this population is pivotal to the whole of Australia’s koala survival,” Ms Darer said.

“Researchers are studyingthem in the hope they can strengthen the genetics of other koalas into thefuture so they won’t become extinct. The little ones Icarefor are super important.”

Ms Darer said the festival was being backed by araft of groups such as Friends of the Earth, the Strzelecki Koala Action Team, and Warriors for Wildlife.

“Extinction doesn’t have to happen, there are stepswecan takethat aren’tthat extreme, we can turn this around,” Ms Darer said.

“Hopefully people can understand that we need to move to make sure of these guys’ survival.”

TheGippslandStrzeleckiKoala Festival will be at Old Gippstown in Moe on October 16.

Fume fears: Traralgon manCraig Simmons is concerned about health impacts from aproposed serice station upon neighbouring residents photograph michelle slater

COVID-19 isolation rules end this month

By STEFAN BRADLEY

THEPrime Minister announced after National Cabinet on Friday the mandatory five-day isolation period for COVID-19 will be scrapped, effective October 14.

Anthony Albanese said he and the FirstMinisters wanteda nationally-consistent approach to the issue.

“It was aunanimous decision by the National Cabinet today and had the support of all Premiers and Chief Ministers,” he said.

National Cabinet also agreed to endthe Pandemic Leave Disaster Payment (PLDP) effective the same date.

However, mandatary isolation and “targeted” financial support willcontinuefor workers in aged care, disability care, Aboriginal healthcare and hospital care sectors.

The new payment will be funded 50:50 between the commonwealth and states and territories, with final details including eligibility and compliance to be released by Services Australia.

These arrangements will be reviewed at the December meeting of National Cabinet.

Chief Medical Officer Professor Paul Kelly said the changes were context-specific and timingspecific recommendations.

“It recognises that we are in avery low community transmission phase of the pandemic here in Australia. It does not in any way suggest that the pandemic is finished,” he said

“We willalmost certainlysee future peaksofthe virus, as we have seen earlierthisyear. However, at the moment, we have very low ratesofcases, hospitalisations, intensive-care admissions,agedcare outbreaks and various other measures that we have been following very closely in our weekly open report.

“We also have, at the moment, very high hybrid immunity from previous infection, as well as high vaccination rates, particularly and specifically in thosehighly-vulnerable communities:older people,people in aged care,people living with a disability and the ones that we have talked about manytimes before.”

Asbestos laws ‘essential’

THE Latrobe Valley Asbestos Taskforce has presented 21 recommendations to the Victorian government thisweek focussing on minimising the risks of asbestos exposure.

Taskforcechair andLatrobeHealth Advocate, JaneAnderson, saidthe recommendation included increasing awareness and training, behaviourchange programs, and strengthening regulations.

“The most-needed change identified by the taskforceisthe management of asbestosinresidential properties,” Ms Anderson said.

“Thereisnoclearline of authority, and it is very concerning that across all sectors of the community, the real impacts and risks of asbestos exposure are not fully understood.

“The absence of one central body that takes responsibility for residential asbestos means that peopledon’t knowwhere to go for help,and so they can’t readily access the information needed.”

Ms Anderson said 4500 Australians ayear died

from asbestos-related disease, making it “absolutely essential” that information and education programs were rolled-out as soon as possible.

The recommendations also include new restrictions to the way homeowners handle any asbestos-containing materialsontheir ownproper ties, to align with the rules that contractors must follow.

“While there have been safeguards in place for manyyears for workers who may come into contact with asbestos, unfortunately these have not been extended to our homes,” Ms Anderson said.

“And we know there is far more asbestos in our homes than in our workplaces. It is asignificant problem that is not going away.

“The implementation of these recommendations will change the approach to managinglegacy asbestos right across the whole state, and will result in lives being saved.”

Isolated no more: Prime Minster AnthonyAlbanese (second left) at National Cabinet last week. photograph from twiiter

Honour for Morwell custody officer

By DANIEL PEDERSEN

MORWELL police custody officer Carolyn Escreet has won the Victoria Police inaugural custody practitioner of the year award, something she says was “most unexpected”.

Police custody officers (PCOs) are at the frontline when it comes to people in ‘the lock up’. They feed them, care for them, recommend if they need medical treatment and escort them to and from court hearings.

Morwell is one of regional Victoria’s bigger police stations and has the capacity to hold 10 people overnight.

Last Thursday at 7am there were five occupied cells.

PCOs wear badges, but are not police officers, rather public servants tasked with looking out for people who have landed themselves in a police cell.

They wear grey, not blue and “we consider our grey as abit of abargaining tool also, people often don’t know why we’re here”.

“You’re often seeing people on the worst day of their life,” said Carolyn, “they’re in need of empathy and understanding -some of them at least.

“You see their highs and lows, sometimes people are suicidal, it can be very confronting, but if you’ve talked someone around, then you’ve shared something with them, it’s avery privileged position to have.

“I’m both lucky and privileged, Ialways had parents who cared for me, were there for me, took me to sport, travelled for sport, Ihad agood family life -alot of people are not so lucky,” she said.

While apportioning blame is not part of her role, as aparent to four children and grandparent to another four, she feels the pain of an individual’s failure.

“Heyfield-born and bred” Carolyn was among the first intakes of PCOs. In youth she’d had aspirations of becoming apolice officer, but university, marriage, ahome, children and a career as an accountant intervened.

PCOs first arrived in Victoria in 2016, when studies identified taking police officers away from the daily responsibility for people in cells meant more time for policing.

Carolyn undertook eight weeks of intensive training at Victoria’s Police Academy then debuted in Morwell in 2017.

Since then she has become asupervisor and is author of guidelines available to police officers, who don’t get the level of training aPCO does when it comes to handling people in custody.

The guidelines and achecklist for police officers came in a‘light-bulb’ moment at an annual conference of PCOs; they’re now available for use by all police officers.

Empathy is arecurring theme in Mrs Escreet’s description of what she does.

“Family violence, opportunistic theft and drugs,” she says, when asked the most common reason people end up in one of Morwell’s cells.

The drug ice lands alot of people in alockup, somewhere they never would have been but for their use of the drug.

“Sometimes you see the same people, you watch their demise, their ever-diminishing bodies, they diminish in size and behaviour, and you’re witness to it,” she says sadly.

“Sometimes when they come in they don’t recognise you, they might literally run around the cell for hours, cutting tiny laps, then become tired and sleep -and sleep -sometimes we have to wake them up to make sure they eat.

“Then, once they’ve made it through that phase, they recognise you and are glad to see a familiar face.”

Because of the confronting nature of the role, it is astruggle to find people prepared to do it.

Everything is reported, every meal, whether aperson refuses to eat, if they’ve been visited by alegal representative, whether someone has dropped off clothes for them, if they’re vulnerable, whether they’ve been searched, every single event is documented.

Sometimes people don’t even make it from the police divisional van to acell; should aPCO determine they’re in need of medical attention, they can be diverted to hospital immediately.

In GippslandjustBairnsdale, Sale and Morwell police stations have PCOs, across the state that extends to Mildura, Horsham, Ballarat, Bendigoand Geelong.

On any given day, there could be as many as eight PCOs in Morwell court accompanying

prisoners. Ashift’s full complement is 22 PCOs and six supervisors.

There are four shifts daily, there’s 9am-5pm, 7am-3pm, 3pm-11pm and 11pm-7am.

“We’re low on numbers at the moment and we’ve had police comingin,” said Carolyn, explaining it was discussing obvious police training deficiencies with aduty sergeant that seeded her checklist and guidelines concept.

It’s not ajob for everyone, but can be a beginning for someone who aspires to becoming apolice officer.

“They can dip their toes in the water,” Carolyn said.

She recommends some previous work or world experience for someone contemplating the role

because “we regularly get abused, but then we had alass in who’d worked at Woolies and she was fine, saying ‘We always got abused at Woolies, this is nothing’”.

Traralgon, Moe, Warragul, Wonthaggi and Korumburra are the ‘feeding pools’ for Morwell station, which has class ‘A’ cells suitable for overnight detention, cells that PCOs also have to clean.

“We’ve been complimented on the cleanliness of our cells when bosses have come down from Melbourne,” said Carolyn, obviously taking pride in one of the more mundane roles she’s expected to perform.

She mentions protecting people’s human rights in the same sentence as discussing where it’s okay to take aphotograph and cleaning cells.

PCOs are also responsible for signing weapons in and out for police officers, and detainee searches.

There’s general searches and then there’s full searches, reserved for those with aweapons or drug history.

“Everything is on camera,” she said, the full searches are even on camera for posterity’s sake “if there’s acomplaint, but they aren’t broadcast for whoever might be walking by to see”.

Carolyn said COVID had changed the justice system, and now audio-visual hearings were possible, which was agood thing.

“At least now you don’t have people transported from Melbourne appearing in court here and being released without any of their worldly possessions and with nowhere to go,” she said.

PCOs also escort people being released to Centrelink to access whatever benefits might be available to them.

Deaths in custody -it’s aconversation stopper, even between two people who know the topic will inevitably be breached.

“We have never had adeath in custody in Morwell,” said Carolyn, quite proud of the record and one she’s determined to maintain.

Carolyn Escreet is one of our community’s unsung heroes.

She still lives in Heyfield and was president of the Heyfield Football Netball Club for eight years and also does part-time work for Ambulance Victoria as acommunity officer.

At Heyfield, acommunity officer for Ambulance Victoria could find themselves deployed asfar afield as Licola, administering emergency-response medicine, stabilising patients and feeding paramedics en-route situation reports, filling them in about what to expect.

Next year will mark adecade in that role.

“My husband says I’m agluttonfor punishment. Tomorrow’s my day off and I’ve got a 12-hour Ambulance Victoria shift.

“I do it for the community,” she said.

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Health &Safety Month October 2022

WORKSAFE HEALTH AND SAFETY MONTH COMING TO GIPPSLAND

HELPING injured workers return to workand improving understanding of workplacemental injury willbeonthe agenda when WorkSafe’s Health and Safety Month visitsGippslandthis month.

Health andSafetyMonth makesits inaugural visit to Traralgon today (October 5) forthe first time since 2019

The Gippsland visitisthe first of many free events scheduled across regional Victoria as part of Health and Safety Month.

It willprovide local employersand workersthe opportunity to hear from industry experts on four topics designed to improvehealthand safetyin the workplace:

 The value of healthand safety representatives in the workplace;

 Howtobuild asystems-basedapproachto healthand safety;

 Mental injury in theworkplaceand howto implement aprevention-led approach,and;

 Howtosupportinjured workers back to work, highlighting common challenges

Attendeeswill also be giventhe chancetohave their own workplace issuesaddressed as part

of aQ&A that will follow each session.A casual breakfast and lunchwillbookend theproceedings

Former Geelongcaptain andtriple-premiership player CameronLingiscontinuing his long association with WorkSafe’sHealth and Safety Month, whichthis year carries thetheme of ‘Connect, Learn,Share’.

“Spreading themessage of how importantwork place health andsafety is,and how employers andworkers caneachplaytheir role in improving workplacehealth andsafety is somethingI’m particularlypassionate about,” Ling said

Ling willhost some of the free Health and Safety Monthwebinar sessions,whichare running from October 24 to 28.

This year’s webinar programincludesa session with Warrnamboolbusinessowner and Health andSafety Month ambassador DarrenSmith

Meanwhile,fellow ambassadors, Bendigo midwivesSally Collier-Clarkeand SaraJorgenson, who will promote the importantrole health and safety representativesplay in asafeworkplace.

To register and formoreinformation, visit wwwworksafe.vic.gov.au/health-and-safety-month

Data (as ofSeptember 192022)

IN the2021/22 financialyear,there wasfivework-related fatalities in the Gippsland area -this includes thelocalgovernment areas of Baw Baw, EastGippsland, Latrobe, andWellington.

In the 2021/22 financial yeartherewas 882injury claims accepted by WorkSafe in the Gippsland area, comparedto865 in 2020/21.

Those claims included:

2021/22claims by industry: Gippsland

HealthCareand SocialAssistance: 208 (claims)

Manufacturing: 114

Construction: 113

2021/22 most common injuries: Gippsland

Musculoskeletal system: 300

Mentalinjury: 152

Traumatic tendon,muscleand ligamentinjury: 143

2021/22mostcommoncausesofinjury:Gippsland

Bodystressing: 319

Falls,slips and trips: 177

Being hitbymoving objects: 164

CRYSTALLINE SILICAAND SILICOSIS

CRYSTALLINE silica(silica) is found in sand, stone, concrete andmortar.Itisalsousedtomakea variety of products including compositestone used to fabricatekitchen andbathroom benchtops, bricks, tilesand some plastics.

What is crystalline silica?

Silicaissilicon dioxide, anaturallyoccurring and widelyabundant mineral thatforms the major componentofmost rocks andsoils. Thereare non-crystalline and crystallineformsofsilicon dioxide.The most commontype of crystallinesilica is quartz(CAS14808-60-7).

What is silica dust?

SILICAdust is generated in workplace mechanical processes such as crushing, cutting, drilling, grinding, sawingorpolishing of natural stone or man-madeproductsthatcontain silica.

Somedustparticles canbesosmall thatthey arenot visible;theseare commonly referred to as respirable particles.

Respirable silicadust particles aresmallenough to penetrate deep into the lungsand can cause irreversible lung damage.

Examples of work activities that can generate respirable silica dust particles include:

Duringfabricationand installationof composite(engineeredormanufactured) stone countertops;

Excavation,earth moving anddrillingplant operations;

Clayand stoneprocessing machine operations;

Paving andsurfacing;

Mining, quarrying andmineral oretreating processes;

Tunnelling;

Construction labouringactivities;

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Brick, concrete or stone cutting;especially using dry methods;

 Abrasive blasting(blasting agent mustnot containgreater than oneper cent of crystalline silica);

 Foundry casting;

 Anglegrinding, jack hammering andchiselling of concreteormasonry;

 Hydraulic fracturing of gasand oilwells, and;

 Pottery making

Choosing the best measures

Managing risksand worker exposures to silica can be achievedbyselecting and implementing measures using thehierarchy of controls:

 Substitution such as sourcing compositestone benchtops witha lower percentage of silica;

 Isolation of thehazard -using principles of safe work designtodesignate areas fortasks that generate dust andappropriateworker positioningduringthesetasks, using enclosures and automation to conductdust generating tasks;

 Engineering controlsthatminimisethe risk of exposuretogenerated dust, forexample, localexhaustventilation, water suppression (wet cutting) or using tools withdust collection attachments;

 Should ariskstill remain; administrativecontrols, including good housekeepingpolicies,shift rotations andmodifyingcuttingsequences, and;

 Should ariskstill remain; personal protective equipmentincludingappropriate respiratory equipment(generallya minimumofa P2 efficiency halfface respirator) andwork clothingthatdoesnot collectdust.

Morethanone controlwillnormally be required to adequately protect workers.

(Supplied by Asbestos Council of Victoria, GippslandAsbestosRelatedDiseases Support Inc)

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Health &Safety Month October 2022

LOYYANG BRUNS AYEAR–ROUND HEALTH AND WELLBEINGPROGRAM

THE healthand wellbeingofLoy Yang B’speople, their familiesand the community is important,and thepowergeneratorstrongly believes that people who livewell also work well.

General Manager Tony Hicks said LoyYangB runs ayear-round health and wellbeingprogram focusingonimproving mentaland physical health.

“These activities have been wellembracedby employees, with a100 per centparticipationrate in at least onehealth and wellbeingactivityby each person during the past 12 months, demonstratingthe program has becomepartofpeople’s daily lives,” he said.

“Mental health is an importantpart of our wellbeingprogram,and we have provideda rangeoftools to helppeoplemanagetheir own mental health and look outfor theirmates, includinga series of online wellnesssessions to giveour people techniques to navigate thechallenging environment in apositive way,and aworkshopon howrecognise when someone is struggling and howtooffer support.”

Physicalhealthchecks andactivitiesthat got peoplemoving, such as pilates, yoga and fitness challengeswerepopularamongthe workforce,as wereemployee-ledinitiatives such as participation in Latrobe Regional Hospital’s Community FunRun andthe PushUpChallenge, which both hadthe added benefits of building teamwork andmorale,

whilealso raising money for worthy charities.

Another keyactivitywas the introduction of an inauguralgiant Jenga tournament, where teams competedinanelimination-stylecompetition to be thelast one standing.This activity was agreat way to connectpeoplethrough friendlycompetition,

good-natured sledgingand lots of laughter.

LoyYang Balso strengthenedits commitment to providinga healthyworkplace forits people, by revising itsworkingfromhome policy to give people greater flexibility to balancetheir work and personalcommitments.

Pilateshas been apopularactivity forLoy Yang B’s employees.

LoyYangBemployeesran laps of thepowerstation to raisemoney for LatrobeRegionalHospital’s The Wear House project.

Northegrills Tierney on Opal supply

By PHILIP HOPKINS

THE state government has only supplied 15-20 per cent of its promised wood pulp commitment to Opal Australian Paper in the past 13 years, the government has admitted.

The figures were tabledinstateparliament by the Minister for Agriculture, Gayle Tierney, in response to aseries of questions from the Independent Member for Morwell, Russell Northe.

The government’s 1996 agreement requiresit to supply aminimum of 350,000 cubicmetresof pulpwood each year between 2010-11 to 2029-30 to the Maryvale pulp and paper mill. This government amount makes up 26 per cent of the mill’s1.65 million tonnes of pulpwood,with six per cent coming from sawmill residues; the remaining 68 per cent is from hardwood plantations.

Ms Tierney told parliament that after the 2009 bushfires, the government reduced the annual supply of ‘mountain forest’ pulpwood (mountain ash or alpine ash) to 265,000 cubic metres.

“The government continuestosupply approximately50,000cubic metres of mixed species pulpwood under the agreement,” she said.

In June2020, the agreement was varied to allow silvertop ash to be substituted for mountain forest pulp log. Silvertop ash is classified as ‘mixed species’ timber.

Ms Tierney said the variation provided for a proportionofasmuchas40,000 cubic metres of mountain forest pulpwood to be substituted with silvertop ash for the period 2019-21 to 2023-24 inclusive.

“A number of other clauses in the agreement allow for variations,” she said. VicForests manages the supply of pulpwood to theMaryvale millonbehalf of the Victorian Government.

Mr Northe pressed for information about which forest areas supplied the timber, but Ms Tierney said the specific details of VicForests’ supplyto the mill, including volumes and prices for supply from different forest management areas, were “commercial-in-confidence”.

Queried on the impact ashortfallinsupply would have on Maryvale, Ms Tierney said Opal was continuing to liaise closely with many of its suppliers, including VicForests andHancock Victorian Plantations, “to successfully maintain its operations”. Mr Northe pushed for information on the impact of third-party litigation on native

timber harvesting overmultiple decades. “Third parties havetakenlegal action under the Code of Practice for Timber Production 2014 as well as earlier versions of the code,” Ms Tierney said.

“In 2021 and 2022, the government varied the code and the Conservation, Forests and Lands Act 1987 to creategreater certaintyregardingthe code’s implementation. Further public consultation has takenplace on additional amendments to the code that will come into effect in 2022.”

Queriedonwhatimpactthe litigation was having on direct and indirect jobs for forest contractors, Ms Tierney said contractors experiencing difficulties with stand-downs because of litigation “are encouraged to contact VicForests regarding the temporary

support that is available for their businesses and their workers”.

Ms Tierney acknowledged that VicForests successfully appealed against the Federal Court’s May 2020 decision in favour of the Friends of the Leadbeater’s Possum action against VicForests.

“As other matters are currently before the courts with judgement reserved, Iwill not make any further comment,” she said.

Mr Northe asked what the Government was doing to ensure supply in theface of unsuccessfullitigation.MsTierney said it was difficultto quantify the impact of unsuccessful legal actions, which typically involvetemporary injunctions that are subsequently lifted. “VicForests updates

its harvesting methods and locations regularly in response to new research findings, bushfires and other events. Legal cases also consider changes in the harvesting environment,” she said.

“As such, it is difficult to recreate the baseline scenario in which third-party litigation did not occurand coupes were harvested in asubstantially different order over an extended period of time.

VicForests has worked closely with contractors to minimise employment impacts.”

Forest contractors in Gippsland have currently no workand two mills in East Gippslandare runningout of timber because of legal action by environmentalists and decisions by the Supreme Court.

Pressing: Member forMorwellRussell Northe posed anumberofquestions to Minister forAgricultureGayle Tierneyregarding wood pulpsupply to AustralianPaperinState Parliament recently. file photograph

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Tourism has its own wish-list for election

THE Victoria Tourism Industry Council (VITC) has developedalist of policiesfor the upcoming state election, several of which relate to Gippsland and surrounding areas, as part of their #tourismmatters campaign.

The campaign outlines afive-pointplantocreate jobs and support businessesinthe visitor economy Measures include acall for an aviation activation strategy to disperse tourists to regional Victoria, includinga plan for an airportinBairnsdale; planning for the Commonwealth Games; capping how long propertiescan be listed on short-stay platforms; and boosting skills and training for regional workers.

Other prioritiesinclude areview of Crown landuse, including 49-year leases to encourage infrastructure development in tourism experiences, adedicated business events strategy,and free TAFE tourism and travel courses.

As Victorians head to the polls in November, VTIC is calling for all major parties to commit to items within its five-point plan that fall under the following themes:

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3. Access and improving infrastructure in anew visitor economy;

4. Planning for the Commonwealth Games and beyond and;

5. Create a10-year blueprint to revitalise greater Melbourne.

VTIC chiefexecutive, Felicia Mariani,said Victoria faced multiple pressures in working to full recovery.These included the slow return of international visitors, lack of affordable housing in its regions, the need for coordinated long-term strategies for tourism growth tailored to the regions and greater Melbourne, and planning visitor servicing across four regional sites for the 2026 Commonwealth Games.

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by Joanne Madeline Moore October3-October 9,

Aries Harmonious partnerships and creative coupledom are highlighted as the Full Moon and Jupiter (in Aries) plus the Sun and Venus (in Libra) rev up relationships and joint ventures If you combine diplomacy with dynamism (and Ram charm with a sense of adventure) then you’ll sail through challenges

Balance is the key Your motto is from actress Claire Danes (who has Sun in Aries and Moon in Libra): “Relationships are a constant negotiation and balance

Taurus Expect a rather intense week as the fiery Full Moon stirs up inner compulsions, submerged secrets or hidden resentments You could also become obsessed about someone from your complicated past If you ’ re a bright Bull, you’ll learn from your mistakes, let go and move on Inspiration for the week is from actress Kate Winslet (who turns 47 on Wednesday): “The good and bad things are what form us as people change makes us grow ”

Gemini This week the Full Moon focus i G s on friendships: how to nurture them, keep them and then let them go if you have outgrown each other You’ll find mutual interests are essential to long term platonic relationships Attached Twins stop being scatterbrained and superficial! Mercury (your patron planet) is moving forwards again, so your sweetheart is looking to you for some sensible and balanced advice Singles love and friendship are linked

Cancer Are you making the most of your mind? With Pluto and Mercury (which is now direct) activating your communication zone, detailed research and strategic thinking will take you far Courtesy of the Full Moon, it’s a good week to increase your public profile complete a professional project give a speech, launch a website or start a social media campaign But don’t underestimate the hard work and patience it will take to keep the wheels of progress turning

Leo The Full Moon and Jupiter rev up your gypsy gene and activate your adventure zone So it’s a good time to escape somewhere special, whether it’s a much anticipated holiday or a spontaneous weekend getaway With Mercury moving forwards in your money zone, don’t let fleeting whims and luxury fever get in the way of long term financial planning Your motto is from fellow Leo, artist Andy Warhol: Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art ”

Virgo Mercury is moving forwards in your sgign so communication, travel and relationships should all start to improve But the big lesson to learn is how to diversify and delegate No one (not even a super effective Virgo) is indispensable And expect some dramatic developments to do with lust or loot, as the Full Moon stimulates your sex and money zones Single? It could be difficult to differentiate between a dream date and a disappointing dud, so tread carefully

Libra Expect some relationship rumbles as the Full Moon stimulates your partnership zone Singles look for love with an amorous Aries or an adventurous Aquarius (but don’t let them walk all over you) If you ’ re attached, now is the time to stand up for what you believe in Otherwise your proactive partner could take the reins and ride the relationship in the direction and manner they prefer, with little input from you A shared vision is vital for romantic longevity

Scorpio

You have strong likes and dislikes and you don’t do things by halves Especially when there s a Full Moon! You love to call the shots and be in control, but you’ll find another ‘ c ’ word cooperation will get you a lot further, with fewer tantrums and tears Positive Pluto aspects promise group activities intense communication and powerful conversations Don’t overthink things, though! As Bill Gates (a fellow Scorpio) says, “Often you have to rely on intuition ”

Sagittarius

The Full Moon and Jupiter light g up your drama zone so expect a week of extremes everything from passion and flamboyance to arguments and dummy spits A troubled teenager or a feisty friend could push your buttons So try to keep your composure, and don’t give them the satisfaction of a response!

Professional projects are favoured as long as you ’ re not a Sagittarian smart aleck Listen to the wise advice of a trusted colleague, teacher or mentor

Capricorn

The Sun’s visiting your career zone which boosts your ambitious streak You’re keen to get ahead but don’t trample over others on your climb to the top! Aim to get the balance right between your personal and professional lives Relationships will be complicated this week when passion is combined with power plays, and romance is coupled with responsibility So expect some domestic dramas, as the Full Moon triggers prima donna moments or a family fiasco

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Aquarius

It’s a good week to expand your q world via exciting local friendships and international contacts If you link up with like minded people, then it will open up new doors of opportunity But be careful what you post online, as a casual comment could lead to controversy And expect the sparks to fly on Sunday when the Full Moon and Jupiter fire up your adventurous spontaneous side If you must be rebellious then aim to be a rebel with a worthy cause

Pisces With Mercury moving forwards in your partnership zone, you’ll feel more motivated to sort out relationship problems than at other times And you have a good chance of success especially if you are proactive about finding solutions and are prepared to compromise But money matters could come to a head on the weekend when the Full Moon lights up your financial zone Maybe it’s time to boost your cashflow or redesign your dreams?

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The show opens this Friday (October 7).

The show will be open to the public from Saturday, October 8until Saturday, October 22, at the Moe Library.

Anyone is welcome on any day the library is open.

Members of the society will be in attendance during weekdays from 10am until 5pm, and on Saturdays 9am until 12 noon.

Moe Lions Club will have asausage sizzle in the forecourt of the library on Saturday, October 8.

Latrobe City Council and library staff, together with society members, are working hard to make this acommunity event.

The Spring Art Show will be followed by Artists @Work and the Mainstreet Artists of Life Skills Victoria’s Art Exhibition in the main library.

Moe Art Society is in its 78th year, something the society feels is acelebration in itself.

Any inquiries about the society can be made to president Beryl Galloway on 0407 271 686 or secretary Karen Rosato on 0400

278 565.

The society meets every Thursday. All are welcome to come in for achat between 9am and 2pm at the old Narracan Mechanics’ Institute Hall located in Heritage Park, Lloyd Street Moe.

Come and have alook: MoeArt Society membersHalina Taig,RosemaryArthur,Elaine Payne,Dennis Davies and KenDownesatthe 2021 Spring ArtShow. file photographs

On display: The Moe ArtSociety Spring ArtShowopens this Fridayatthe Moe Library. Picturedatlastyear’s opening areMoe ArtSocietysecretaryKaren Rosato, Latrobe City MayorCrSharon Gibson and Moe ArtSocietypresidentBeryl Galloway.

Flair: MoeArt SocietymembersKaren Rosato, John Reeve, andKen Downs have been painting newboards and easels.

New help for parents

THE state governmentishelping more schools across Victoria establish outside schoolhours care services.

This is aimed at ensuring children are cared for while their parents and carers get back into the workforce, study or training.

EducationMinister Natalie Hutchins recently announced 121 schools will share in $17 million of grants to establish new or expanded outside school hours care services.

“By creating more outside school hours care services, we’re helping parents and carers to get back to work, study, or training -while ensuring their kids are cared for before and after school hours, as well as during school holidays,” she said

“These grants will provide ahugebenefit to our schools and busy working families acrossthe state.”

The schoolswill receive as much as $75,000 each year in the next two years for their outside

school hourscare service, with special schools and those in remote locations to receive more funding if required.

The funding will help establish new services or expand existing ones to help them meet demand, as well as providesupportfor costs including resourcesorequipment, setup and administration, staffing, training and transport.

The grants come as part of a$81.7 million Outside School Hours Care EstablishmentGrants Initiative.

Afurther funding round will take placenext year,bringingthe total numberofschools to benefit from the initiative to more than 400.

Every singlegovernment secondary and special ist school across thestate has amentalhealth practitioner, and mental health and wellbeing leaders are being rolled outinevery primary school to support kids.

Trafalgar asking ‘R UOK?’

ST Joseph’s PrimarySchool, Trafalgar community asks RUOK? Theschool community participated in this annual event to help educate people about the importance of mental health.

On RUOK? Day people are encouraged to reach out to friends and family and check in on them.

Asimplephone callormessage can go along way in helping someone with their mentalhealth.

The leadership at St Joseph’sreached out to staff and asked them if they were really okay.

The message is stay connected and make asking RUOK? part of your everyday.

This way, if people are struggling with something big or something small or maybe nothing at all, they’llknow you care. Learn how to ask at ruok. org.au because aconversation could change alife.

To acknowledgeRUOK? Day,staff at St Joseph’s were presented with care packages.

The care packages included each staff member’s favourite cold drink, chocolate treats and healthy nibbles.

Support: St Joseph’s PrimarySchool, Trafalgar staffmembersLiza Marino and Katie Balfour with their care packages,received as partofR UOK? Day. photograph supplied

By PHILIP HOPKINS

AFORMER scientist with the State Electricity Commission, the Latrobe Valley’s Ray Burgess, has scathingly attacked AGL’s plan to close Loy YangAstation by 2035,calling it “fairyland thinking”.

Mr Burgess, aMorwell businessman, was an independent candidate for the seat of Morwell in the 2018 state election.

He received six per cent of the vote in afield of 11 candidates dominated by the Labor, National and Liberal parties and former National and independent, Russell Northe. He is notstanding in this year’s election.

Mr Burgess saidthe big energycompanies weretalking up apost-coalagendawithout any serious discussion about what was going to replace coal.

“They do not seem capable of comprehending or at least acknowledging the scale of electricity production these large thermo-mechanical power stations generate,” he said.

Loy Yang Aproduces 2110 megawatts of electricity, Yallourn W1450MWand Loy Yang B1000MW.

“If theseare all gone by 2035, we are in serious trouble.

“They are living in afairyland, thinking wind, solar, batteries and pumped hydro will cover our First-World electricity requirements.”

Mr Burgess said sadly, this would result in a loss of jobs and areduced standard of living for many Australians.

“This does not include theblackouts and huge expense required to make agreen ‘new world’ energy system,” he said.

Mr Burgess said many people in the Valley understood the inadequacies of agreen future.

“An 80-year-old widow and housewife commented to me, ‘I can’t see how it’s going to work’.

“Just aplain grandma with common sense practicality. She gets it,” he said.

Mr Burgess said if alow-carbonsocietywas mandated by the voting public, “then we need to seriouslybeconsidering anuclear future, and quickly”.

He cited areport he had studied from the UniversityofQueenslandcalled ‘What would be required for nuclear energy plants to be operating in Australia from the 2030s’.

It was written by ateam of scholars and students from the university under the leadership of ProfessorStephen Wilson, head of the Centre for Energy Futures in the Faculty of Mechanical and Mining Engineering, with input from other experts in Australia and overseas.

The ChancellorofQueensland University, Peter Varghese AO, wrote in the foreword that there wasnosingleanswer to the question of the best combination of technologies to provide reliable emissions-free electrical generation at affordable cost.

“Opinions will varyand differ. But if we are to have any chance of arriving at workable answers, we must be prepared critically to examine the various options,” he said.

Mr Varghese is aformer Australian Ambassador and High Commissioner; the former

director-generalofthe leading intelligence group, the Office of National Assessments; and aformer secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

As adiplomat, Mr Varghese said he had always been interested in how nuclear energy could be used in asafeand affordable way without contributing to the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

“As the country with the largest reserves of uranium in the world, these are questions which should be part of our public debate,” he said.

“Does it remain sensible for such acountry to export uraniumbut prohibit the safe use of this technology for itself?”

Mr Varghese said today’s modern, more compact nuclear engineering designs, especiallysmall modular reactors, had reframed the traditional safety and security concerns of nuclear power.

“These are some of the questions this study examines,” he said.

Dr Wilson, who is now an Adjunct Professor, told the Express that the report did not advocate nuclearenergy, was alsonot anti-nuclear, but emphasised the questionmustbetaken seriously.

“We have to prepare for the option whether we need nuclear or not,” he said.

“If in adecade from now we decide that we have to do it, it will not magically appear.

It’s not aquestion of just repealing the ban on nuclear energy and nuclear plants will pop up like mushrooms.

“We needa disciplined, well-managed program of work to get there.”

Professor Wilson said it would take aminimum time of decade to achieve this.

“If we get our heads together, we could be there in adecade,” he said.

Softwood plantings

By PHILIP HOPKINS

THE state government will spend $120 million in adeal with the private sector to establish 14,000 hectares of softwood plantations in Gippsland as partofthe Victorian Forestry Plan, which aimsto closethe region’shardwoodnative forest sector by 2030.

Agriculture Minister Gayle Tierney said the agreement with Hancock Victorian Plantations involved planting an extra 16 million trees to create anew forest estate.

Shedescribed the policy as the largest single investment in plantation establishment in the state’s history and said it would underpin new and existing jobs.

HVP, one of the largest private plantation companies in Australia, willmatch the Laborgovernment’s investment almost dollar-for-dollar to buy, leaseand man age the more than 14,000 ha of softwood plantations.

Ms Tierney said the new plantations would boost supply to the construction sector and had the potential to bring international processors to the region.

Currently, Gippsland is almost 100-percent dominated by hardwood processors.

Plantings of the softwoods willbegin in 2023, subject to final approvals, and continue for 10 years. Softwood plantations normally take 30 years to grow to provide quality sawlogs.

All going well, these plantations would maturebetween the early 2050s and 2060s

HVP chief executive, Stephen Ryan, said it was one of the most significant plantation developments of the past 20 years.

“We will generate employmentbyproduc ing an additional 1.5 million seedlings ayear at our Gippslandtree nursery, throughland preparation andtreeplantingand by caring for the trees,” he said.

The Nationals Leader, PeterWalsh, slammed the policy as areplay of a$110-millioninvestment, the GippslandPlantations Investment Program, announced in 2020.

Mr Walsh, the Opposition spokesman on Agriculture,saidthe moneyhad been sitting on the books for more than three years and had never been spent and had never produced any timber for Victoria.

“And two months out from astate election, they are trying to patch up the absolute mess they have made of the timber supply in Victoria,” he said.

The government emphasised the plantations wouldhelpVictoria cut its greenhouse gas emissions, removing about 7.8 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in the next 25 years.

The chief executive of the Victorian Forest Products Association, Deb Kerr, welcomed the announcement.

“Victoria imports on average 36 per cent of its softwood demand and desperately needs to secure future timber and fibre supplies.

“This support to establish 16 million new trees is welcomed to close the current shortfall in sovereign timber supplies,” she said.

However,MsKerrsaidthe investment was originally promised as thetransition for the Gippsland hardwood industry.

“With plantings only expected to commencein2023, it willstill leave afuture gap in harvestable timberand fibre from 2024,” she said.

Ms Kerr said HVP’s participation would enhance Gippsland’s standing as aplantationregion of majorimportance,while providingimmediate jobs in new plantings, tree and land cultivation, and management.

“It also opens opportunities in the farm forestry space,for local landholders to participate,” she said.

Ms Kerralsowelcomed the cutbacks in greenhouse gas emissions that the new plantings would provide.

Aconsultant’s reportfor the federally funded Gippsland Forestry Hub found that Gippsland has more than one million hectaresoflandsuitable for forest plantations.

Most of these areas’ suitability are classed as ‘high’ to ‘very high’.

The report also noted that including money fromgrowing trees’ abilitytosequester carbon dioxide could greatly improvethe revenue from plantations.

However, it warned that the Andrews Government’s policy to end native timber harvesting –despite growing demand for the timber–would continue to reduce local processing capacity.

“Loss of scale threatens the abilityof manufacturers to competeinanopen economy,” it said.

Local angle: Prominent Morwell businessman RayBurgess file photograph

Briefcase full of BluesinYarram

By TOMPARRY

CHECK it out, check it out! From Chicago, one night only, the fabulous Blues Brothers!

This Thursday, Yarram will be playing host to siblings Elwood and ‘Joliet’ Jake as they bring The Official Blues Brothers Revue to the Regent Theatre.

The show pays tribute to the titular musical act created by Dan Aykroyd for America’s late-night television staple, Saturday Night Live

But of course, most people will recognise the characters from the 1980 comedy film The Blues Brothers,which became aworldwide box-office hit.

Stepping into the shoes of Jake and Elwood, are Canadian performers Wayne Catania and Kieron Lafferty, both long-time admirers of Aykroyd’s work.

“I remember seeing them on Saturday Night Live and just thinking it was avery funny shtick,” Lafferty recalls.

“And I’ve always been afan of Dan Aykroyd, because he’s not only funny, but he’s ablues aficionado and he plays harmonica like myself, so Iwas always abit tuned-in.”

Catania and Lafferty have been performing as the brothers for over two decades, and are the only tribute act to have the official endorsement of Aykroyd and Judith Belushi, wife of the late John.

They first appeared together in the popular Legends of Concert shows before being invited by Mrs Belushi to audition for The Blues Brothers Revival,which later became the Revue they now tour globally.

“You can’t really call it ajob because you just enjoy doing it,” Catania said of his role.

What Lafferty enjoys most is being able to get out and play classic R&B tunes.

“It’s agreat playlist, it’s hardy music, it’s agood-time show, and it’s just wonderful to create agood energy,” Lafferty said.

“When you get off-stage and it all worked out well, it’s just agreat feeling.

“Kind of addictive, really.”

Audiences can expect to hear arange of songs as part of the Revue,which Lafferty describes as “an encyclopaedia of American music” from the 1930s onwards -including numbers from the film soundtrack.

But he insists that he doesn’t have a favourite song.

“It’s all aparadigm, the way the tunes fit together through the whole show, so you kind of view it as one large concerto, if you will,” Lafferty explained.

“The whole playlist just fits together very well -I can’t think of one moment better than another.”

Aykroyd’s musical duo is almost as old as the tracks in their show -next yearwillbe 45th anniversary of The Blues Brothers’ SNL debut.

So why is it that the pair and their music continue to endure?

“Well, the music speaks for itself, and it endures on its own; but Ithink that Dan Aykroyd put it quite well when he describes Jake and Elwood as two sociopaths with a heart of gold,and there’s something about that,” Lafferty said.

“The whole attitude of... take the shortest route from AtoB,and if it’s through a shopping mall, then that’s okay.

“That kind of humour, Ithink certainly doesn’t get old.

“All the scenes in that movie are still as funny today as they were in 1980.

“It has lasted -the humour has lasted, and the characters have endured.”

It’s an assessment Catania agrees with: “There’s definitely amagic in the characters.”

“Why is Elvis still so popular? It would be the same question,” he philosophised.

“And of course, like Kieron said, the music speaks for itself.”

The Official Blues Brothers Revue will be showing from 8pm this Thursday, (October 6) at the Regent Theatre, Yarram.

And, in afirst for local audiences, Catania and Lafferty will perform alongside aworldclass band, complete with horn section.

“The band that we’re with right now in Australia is amazing,” Catania said.

“You have to come to the show and see them,

that’s how amazing they are!”

Knowing this,the show seems well worth the 106-mile journey.

Just don’t run out of gas on the way.

For tickets, head to tinyurl.com/BBatYarram

Mission from God: Blues Brotherscreator DanAykroyd(centre) withElwood(Kieron Lafferty) and Jake(Wayne Catania) from ‘The Official Blues BrothersRevue’. photograph supplied

ANYONE who’s ever been involved in organised sport, of any kindatany level, knows that its ongoing function depends entirely on the work of volunteers.

Nowhere is this more on show than at one of my all-time favourite destinations, agame of country footy. There’s the person on the gate who takes your money as you drive in, usually accompanied by netball girls selling raffle tickets to raise money for the club.

You find agood spot on the boundary (might take afew laps) and pull in.

As spring approaches, you maynotice the grass is freshly cut, the boundary line and other white lines needed for the game are clearly and recently marked.

Across the ground you can seethat the beer booth and the canteen are doing abrisk trade.

There are volunteers everywhere you look, and for the most part, their contribution is short term on game day, done willingly to help the club along. Some may take it alittle further, perhaps coaching the juniorsfor afew seasons while their kids are involved, and then there are aselect few who take the act of voluntary servicetoalevel that you can only describe as extraordinary.

Such is the case with long-time Glengarry couple, Doug and Betty Timmins, who between them have life membership of no less than seven local sporting clubs and community organisations.

This fact on its own is pretty impressive, but it doesn’t come close to afull reckoning of what Doug and Betty havegiven to sport in their town.

Married in 1978, both are now in their 80sand have ceased active involvementinsport, but each have clear memories and are keen to talk about their stories, which Iquickly realise are quite distinct from each other and need to be told separately.

Today it’s Doug’s turn; Betty’s story will be the

subject in the next appearance of this column.

Doug was raised on asmall acreage in Toongabbie, where he and his two brothers helped their Dad with the cows and attended Toongabbie Primary School.

In 1956 the family moved to alargerfarm that many readers today will know; it’s right next to the Eaglehawk Creek Bridge on the GlengarryToongabbie Road, where the homesteadand

milking shed are quite close to the roadway.

Doug had farming in his blood, and he also loved playing cricket and footy in the playground at school and at home with his brothers. However there was no organised sport for kids until 1956, when an under 16 footy competition was started and Glengarry entered ateam.

Doug joined like ashot, and in his first year shared the league best and fairest with local identity Spike Jones.

He had also started playing cricket, and after acouple of years he found that the red ball game blended more easily with the life of adairy farmer, and turned his full attention to the Glengarry cricket team.

It was the beginning of along, unbroken, whole-hearted act of service to the club on and off the field, all of it marked by Doug’s natural humility and quiet determination.

He soon became aregular member of the Agrade side, and though not aflashy player, he was areliable team member with bat and ball.

No tearaway fast bowler, Doug was a wily medium-pacer who could move the ball, ever looking for weaknesses in an opposition batsman’s technique, especially ones who looked set for abig score.

Having watched them for afew overs, he would pitch one up in just the right spot, there would be abig swing, askied ball, and aset batsman trudging back to the sheds.

With bat in hand he was hard to dislodge, and agood man in tight situations, often making runs when they were most needed.

He was part of many long partnerships that turned things in the favour of the team.

He loved the cut shot, but it could also be his weakness, as he sometimes lofted it early in his innings. Waking up to this, some opposition teams would put two gullies in position as soon as Doug came to the crease, which often became asource of mirth for both teams as time went on.

He quickly established himself as an essential member of the team; they loved having him, and he loved just being there. He felt deep loyalty to the club that had given him agoasayoungster, and wanted to help them in any way he could.

In the long years that followed, Doug filled just about every position possible in a country sporting club.

He first played at 15 and retired at 77 after his 703rd game, the majority of which were two-day games over consecutive weekends.

Along the way he captained the A, Band Cgrade teams, winning three flags, and was named club champion on 12 occasions.

On the field Doug wasanastute, inclusive captain, and while he always had his own plans in mind, he would listen to suggestions from his team on field placings, bowling changes and the like.

If agamewas all butdecided, he would take the chance to give some of the lesser (often younger) players afew overs with the ball, or apromotion in the batting

order, andiftheyhad any success, like a boundary or awicket, he would be loud in his approval.

All this made the game enjoyable for the whole team, who readily unified behind Doug’s leadership, andtheybecame hard to beat.

Doug soughtalways to play to his best, but with respect for his opponents and the gameitself.Ifgiven out when he had not hit the ball, hewould not question the decision, or look at the umpire in disbelief, but just walk quietly off the ground.

The teams he led bore the hallmarks of this approach, and over the years he gathered ahighlevel of respect towards himself way beyond his own club, and held by few others in the local game.

He was akeen student of the game and loved nothing better than to help young and/or new players improve their game.

As such he was anatural fit for coaching juniors, arole he filled at the club for 17 years.

He held many administrative roles at the club; president for eight years, secretary for 18 years, treasurer for eight years, and, not surprisingly, he is alifemember.

He was also vice president of the Traralgon District Cricket Association, and is alife member of that association.

Doug was also amember of the Glengarry Recreation Reserve Committee, which he served for 27 years as acurator of the grounds, undertaking major projects including installation and maintenance of aturfwicketonthe main oval, and creation of asecondoval (which now bears his name) on the north side of the reserve, for junior and school cricket.

Fellow team members remember Doug spending many unpaid hours on his tractor doing this work, often at nightwith spotlightsbecause apparently it was easier to get the levels right.

In 1999 he was honoured to receive a Commendation Award from Traralgon Shire for services to the community.

Nowadays his main involvement with the club is to watch the footy and cricket teams on game day, and catch up with his many friends, who all speak of him with reverence, affection, and great respect.

In the club rooms where they gather, the honour boards are covered with his name.

Imust confess to being in awe of Doug’s mighty contribution to his hometown through cricket, not only for the astonishing length and breadth of his service, but also for the gentlemanly, mild-mannered way he has conducted himself the whole way through, and all of it free of charge.

And it amazes me that, despite taking akeen interest in local cricket and footy since arriving in the Valley in 1974, until writing this article, Ihad noteven heard of Doug Timmins.

But perhaps Ishouldn’t be surprised, because he is aquiet man who has never sought acknowledgement.

All he ever wanted was to see the looks on the boy’s faces when they had awin, and toknow that he had been part of it.

Incredible: Glengarrycouple Dougand BettyTimmins have lifemembershipatnolessthan sevenlocal sporting clubs and community organisations. photograph supplied

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Wednesday, October 5

ALICE FRASER:SAVAGE

ABC TV Plus, Saturday, 8.30pm

Aussie comedian Alice Fraser (above) cuts to the bone in this critically acclaimed stand-up show about death and imperfections.“What I wantedtowrite wasasilly, funny lighthearted comedyshow ”she begins. Thecameras havemoments of panning to audience members who arefightingback tears, but who says comedy can’t be heartbreaking and awkward? Fraser’sshow was filmed in Melbourne but the comic has honed this setabroad foryears. It’sawell-crafted, contemplative and very personal sojourninto her thoughts and experiences, particularly concerning her mother’s battle with cancer.Tune in foran incisiveand emotional look at life

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Afterexploring the confronting, unregulated world of cosmetic surgeryand society’sobsession with looking perfect,unflappable Todd Sampson(pictured) turns his penetrating gazetothe pitfalls of the internet.Inthis new investigation airing overtwo nights, Sampson examines how theinternet is altering the waywethink, howour brains are wired, and how we liveour lives, with aparticular focus on the ways this informationhighwayispotentially derailing children. From influencer culture to conspiracy theories, Sampson delivers acompelling investigation which plays out something likeahorror story. He also asks:isittoo late to changeour ways?

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David Attenborough’s KingdomOfPlants. (R) 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 12.30 National Press Club Address 1.40 Media Watch. (PG, R) 1.55 All CreaturesGreat And Small. (PG, R) 3.00 Gardening Australia. (R)

4.00 ThinkTank. (PG, R)

4.55 Anh’s BrushWithFame. (PG, R) 5.25 HardQuiz. (PG, R)

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6.00 WorldWatch. 9.00 Cook Up With Adam Liaw Bitesize. (R) 9.10 Peer To Peer (PG) 10.10 Employable Me (UK) (Ma) 11.20

World’sMost Amazing Festivals. (PG) 12.00 WorldWatch. 1.00 PBSNewsHour 2.00 Dateline. (R) 2.30 Insight.(R) 3.30

Destination Flavour ChinaBitesize. (R) 3.40

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Animal Einsteins. (R) 5.05 Jeopardy! 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R)

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8.30 Air Crash Investigation: Grounded –Boeing 737MAX 8. (PGa) Indonesian investigators must determine why one of the best-selling new airplanes on Earth-plungedintothe JavaSea. 9.30 TheAmazing Race (PGl) Hosted by Phil Keoghan 11.00 TheLatest: SevenNews. 11.30 Chicago Fire (Mav) 12.30 Sydney Harbour Bridge 90th Birthday (PG,R) [VIC]HomeShopping 4.00 NBC Today 5.00 SevenEarly News. 5.30 Sunrise.

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Garden Gurus Moments (R)

Shop: HomeShopping. (R)

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After atwo-year hiatus thanks to the pesky worldwidemedical emergency that rhymes with “bovid”, this funfilled talent show is returning with its long-awaited ninth season. Themost exciting part,besides acavalcade of fresh performerspromising everything from acrobatics to fire, is the arrival of fresh talent on the judging panel. Along with returning judge ShaneJacobson and hostRicki-Lee Coulter,veteran critics David Walliams and Alesha Dixon havebeen exported from the British series. Homegrown radio and soapie star Kate Ritchie (pictured, second from left,with Walliams, Dixon and Jacobson) fills out the impressivenew panel. With $100,000 and the performers’pride on the line,viewersshould alwaysexpect the unexpected.

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Stein’s Secret France.(R) 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Hard Quiz. (PG, R) 1.30 Question

Everything. (R) 2.00 All CreaturesGreat And Small. (PG, R) 3.00 Gardening Australia.(R)

4.00 Think Tank. (R) 4.55 Anh’s Brush With Fame. (PG, R) 5.25 Hard Quiz. (PG, R)

6.00 TheDrum.

6.55 SammyJ (PG)

ABCNews.

7.30 7.30 Presented by SarahFerguson.

Foreign Correspondent. International current affairs program.

Q+A. Public affairs program featuring Stan Grant and apanelof experts answering questions.

9.35 Kurt Fearnley’sOne Plus One. Kurt Fearnley speaks with MatRogers.

10.05 Walking Man. (PG, R)

ABC LateNews.

TheBusiness (R)

Keep On Dancing.

All Creatures Great AndSmall. (PG, R)

12.50 Silent Witness. (Ma, R) 1.50 LesMisérables. (Masv, R) 2.55 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv, R) 4.25 The Drum. (R) 5.20 SammyJ.(PG,R) 5.25 7.30.(R)

6.00 WorldWatch. 9.00 Cook Up With Adam LiawBitesize. (R) 9.10 Peer To Peer.(PG) 10.15

Employable Me (UK) (Ma) 11.25 World’s Most Amazing Festivals. (PG) 12.00 WorldWatch.

2.00 Cook Up With Adam Liaw Bitesize. (R)

2.05 First Ladies.(Ml, R) 2.55 Going Places. (PG, R) 3.35 The Cook Up.(PG, R) 4.05 Animal Einsteins. (R) 5.05 Jeopardy! 5.30 Letters AndNumbers. (R)

6.00 Mastermind Australia. (R)

6.30 SBS WorldNews

7.30 Dishing It Up (PG) Narrated by Veronica Milsom.

8.00 Guillaume’s Paris. (PG)Guillaume Brahimivisits the Eiffel Tower.

8.30 World’sMostScenic River

Journeys: TheSuwannee River (PG) Bill Nighy narrates ajourney down the Suwannee River,immortalised by thesong, OldFolksAtHome

9.30 TheHandmaid’sTale. (MA15+)

Serena gets to know her new hosts.

10.30 SBSWorldNewsLate.

11.00 Gomorrah. (MA15+v)

11.55 Luther (MA15+av,R)

3.50 Addicted Australia. (Madl, R) 4.50 Poh &Co. Bitesize. (R) 5.00 NHK World English NewsMorning. 5.30 ANC Philippines The World Tonight.

SEVEN (7,6)

6.00 Sunrise. 9.00 The Morning Show.(PG) 11.30 SevenMorning News. 12.00 MOVIE: APerfect Murder (1998,Mlsv, R) 2.15 SurveillanceOz. (PG, R) 2.30 Kochie’s Business Builders (R) 3.00 TheChase. (R) 4.00 SevenNews At 4. 5.00 TheChase Australia.

6.00 SevenNews.

7.00 Home AndAway. (PGav)Ziggy andDean announce their big news. 8.30 Kath &Kim. (PGals, R) Aworried Kathfrets over asinkingfeeling that Kelhas lostinterestinher.Kim plays it cool with Brett. Sharon’s doctor decides to put her on abroad-spectrum placebo for her hypochondria.

10.50 TheLatest: SevenNews. 11.20 AutopsyUSA: George Harrison. (Mdv,R)A look at the deathofGeorge Harrison. 12.20 Kiss Bang Love (PG, R) Blindfolded contestants kiss12 partners. 12.30[VIC]HomeShopping. 1.25 Harry’s Practice. (R) 2.00 HomeShopping. 4.00 NBCToday 5.00 SevenEarly News. 5.30 Sunrise

NINE (9, 8)

6.00 Today. 9.00 Today Extra.(PG) 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Block. (PGl, R) 1.00

Taronga: Who’s Who In The Zoo. (PG, R)

2.00 Pointless. (PG) 3.00 Tipping Point. (PG) 4.00 Afternoon News. 4.30[VIC]MillionaireHotSeat 5.00 MillionaireHot Seat 5.30[VIC]WINNews.

6.00 Nine News 7.00 ACurrent Affair

7.30 TheBlock. (PGl) HostedbyScott Cam. 8.40 Paramedics. (Mam)A flight paramedicand his team respond to acrash where amum has gone off abridge and into water. 9.40 A+EAfter Dark (Mam) Afisherman has an accident at sea.

10.40 NineNews Late. 11.10 New Amsterdam. (Mam)

12.00 TheGulf. (Madlsv, R) 12.50 DriveTV. (R)

1.20 Explore. (R) 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 2.30 Global Shop (R) 3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 Believer’sVoice Of Victory. (PGa) 4.30 A Current Affair.(R) 5.00 News Early Edition. 5.30 Today

TEN (10, 5)

6.00 The Talk.(PGa) 7.00 JudgeJudy.(PG, R) 7.30 The Bold And TheBeautiful. (R) 8.00

10 NewsFirst: Breakfast. 8.30 Studio 10 (PG) 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 To Be Advised. 2.30 Entertainment Tonight. 3.00 Judge Judy.(PG, R) 3.30 Farm To Fork.(PG, R) 4.00 Everyday GourmetWith Justine Schofield. 4.30 TheBold And TheBeautiful. 5.00 10 NewsFirst.

6.30 TheProject. Alook at the day’snews and events

7.30 TheReal Love Boat Australia. HostedbyDarrenMcMullen. 8.30 GoggleboxAustralia. TV fanatics open up their livingrooms to reveal their reactions to popular and topical TV shows. 9.30 Undressed. (Premiere, PGa) AgroupofAustralians explore what drives their clothing choices and are challenged to makenew selections. 10.30 To Be Advised. 11.30 TheProject (R) 12.30 TheLate ShowWith Stephen Colbert. (PG) 1.30 Home Shopping. (R) 3.30[VIC]Infomercials.(PG,R) 4.00[VIC]HomeShopping. 4.30 CBS Mornings.

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6am Morning Programs. 8.00 Cruise Away 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. Noon Emmerdale 12.30 Coronation Street. 1.00 Sons And Daughters. 3.00 To Be Advised. 3.30 MillionDollar Minute. 4.30 Medical Emergency. 5.00 Animal Rescue 5.30 Escape To The Country 6.30 BargainHunt. 7.30 Father Brown 8.30 McDonald And Dodds. 10.30 Murdoch Mysteries. 11.30 Late Programs.

9GEM (92,81)

6am TV Shop 7.00 Creflo

Dollar Ministries. 7.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.30 Pointless. 11.30 My Favorite Martian Noon Days Of Our Lives. 12.55 TheYoung And The Restless. 1.50 As Time GoesBy. 3.10 Antiques Roadshow 3.40 MOVIE: So Little Time. (1952, PG) 5.30 Murder,She Wrote. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow 7.30 Grantchester 8.30 Poirot. 10.30 The Case Of Caylee Anthony. 11.30 Late Programs.

6am The LateShow With Stephen Colbert 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The King Of Queens. 9.00 Becker 10.00 TheMiddle 11.30 Friends. Noon The LivingRoom. 1.00 Frasier 2.00 Becker 3.00 The King Of Queens 4.00 Becker 5.00 Frasier 6.00 Friends. 8.00 The BigBang Theory 9.30 Seinfeld. 11.00 Frasier Midnight Shopping. 1.30 Stephen Colbert. 2.30 James Corden. 3.30 KingOfQueens. 4.30 Shopping.

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Secrets Of TheLostLiners: Queen Elizabeth. (PG)Takes a look at the QueenElizabeth,a floating palace that servedasatroopship during the World WarII.

(R) Alookat

Atlantis ThePalm, Dubai.

News Late.

(MA15+v,R)

Australia.

NHKWorld English NewsMorning.

ANC PhilippinesThe World Tonight.

6am Morning Programs. 10.00 AmericanRestoration. 10.30 Pawn Stars. 11.00 American Pickers. Noon Seven’sMotorsport Classic 1.00 AussieLobster Men. 2.00 Heavy Lifting. 3.00 Shipping Wars. 3.30 Pawn Stars UK. 4.00 Pawn Stars Sth Africa. 4.30 Scrap Kings. 5.30 AmericanRestoration. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 8.30 MOVIE: Deadpool 2. (2018, MA15+)

6.00 SevenNews.

7.00 Better HomesAnd Gardens Johanna Griggs helps puttogether some superhero shirtpacks for kids. 8.30 MOVIE: Ford VFerrari. (2019, Ml, R)

During the ’60s,American car designer Carroll Shelby and driver KenMiles battle corporate interference and the lawsof physics to build arevolutionary race car for Ford so they can defeat rivalsFerrari. MattDamon,Christian Bale, Jon Bernthal

11.40 MOVIE: TheGumball Rally (1976,Man, R) Amotley group takes part in acar race. Norman Burton, Michael Sarrazin. 2.00 HomeShopping. 4.00 Million Dollar Minute. (R) Hosted by Simon Reeve 5.00 NBCToday. News and current affairs.

7MATE (73, 63)

6am Morning Programs. 1pm Aussie Lobster Men. 2.00 Pawn Stars. 3.00 Timbersports. 3.30 Pawn Stars UK. 4.00 Pawn Stars Sth Africa. 4.30 American Restoration. 5.00 Motor Racing. Supercars C’ship.Bathurst 1000 Practice, support races and qualifying. 5.30 Pawn Stars. 6.00 Football. AFL Women’s.StKilda v Carlton. 8.00 Football. AFL Women’s.Round 7. West Coast vRichmond. 10.00 Late Programs.

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6am Children’s Programs. 12.10pm Race Across The World. 1.30 Young Sheldon. 2.00 Full House. 3.00 TheNanny 3.30 3rd Rock 4.00 That ’70s Show 4.30 Raymond. 5.30 TheNanny 6.00 3rd Rock 6.30 That ’70s Show 7.00 YoungSheldon. 7.30 Survivor 8.30 MOVIE: Lethal Weapon. (1987, M) 10.45 Young Sheldon. 11.10 Telenovela 11.40 Raymond. 12.10am Smash. 1.05 Late Programs.

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6am Home Shopping

8.00 The Doctors. 9.00 Reel Action. 9.30 iFish. 10.00 MacGyver Noon Elementary. 1.00 Hawaii Five-0. 3.00 Bondi Rescue 3.30 TheLove Boat 4.30 Star Trek:The NextGeneration. 5.30 MacGyver. 7.30 NCIS 8.30 Bull. 10.30 Matildas Magazine Show 11.00 Elementary. 11.55 48 Hours. 12.50am Home Shopping 2.20 Tommy 3.15 Star Trek: The Next Generation 4.10 MacGyver

6.30 TheProject. Alook at the day’snews andevents 7.30 TheLiving Room. Chris and Miguel indulge in tree-topwalking. 8.30 To Be Advised.

9.30 JustFor Laughs. (Ml, R) Stand-up comedy performances from Steph Tisdell,Tom Ballard and TwoHearts. 10.00 JustFor Laughs Uncut. (MA15+ls,R)Hosted by Nikki Osborne

10.30 Melbourne CupCarnival Preview Show. From Flemington Racecourse,Melbourne

11.00 TheProject (R) Alook at the day’snews and events.

Friday, October 7 ABC TV (2) SBS (3) SEVEN (7,6) TEN (10, 5)NINE (9,8) 6.00 News Breakfast. 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Q+A. (R) 11.05 Extraordinary Escapes. (PG,R) 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Savage River (Mals, R) 2.00 Death In Paradise. (Ma, R) 3.00 Gardening Australia. (R) 4.00 Think Tank (R) 4.55 Anh’s Brush With Fame (PG, R) 5.25 Hard Quiz (PG, R) 6.00 WorldWatch. 9.00 Cook Up With Adam LiawBitesize. (R) 9.10 PeerToPeer. (PG) 10.10 Employable Me (UK) (Ma) 11.20 World’sMostAmazing Festivals.(PG) 12.00 WorldWatch. 2.10 Fight The Power: The HistoryOfProtests. (Mav,R) 3.00 NITVNews: Nula. 3.40 The Cook Up.(PG, R) 4.10 Animal Einsteins. (PGa, R) 5.05 Jeopardy! 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R) 6.00 Sunrise. News, sportand weather. 10.00 Motor Racing. Supercars Championship.Round 11.Bathurst 1000 Day 1. Practice, support races and qualifying. 5.00 TheChase Australia. Contestants race to answer quiz questions correctly to avoidbeing caught by The Chaser.Hosted by Larry Emdur. 6.00 Today. 9.00 Today Extra. (PG) 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Block. (PGl, R) 1.00 Taronga: Who’s Who In TheZoo.(PG, R) 2.00 Pointless. (PG) 3.00 Tipping Point. (PG) 4.00 Afternoon News. 4.30[VIC]MillionaireHotSeat.(R) 5.00 Millionaire HotSeat. (R) 5.30[VIC]WINNews. 6.00 The Talk.(PGa) 7.00 JudgeJudy.(PG, R) 7.30 The Bold And TheBeautiful. (R) 8.00 10 News First:Breakfast. 8.30 Studio 10 (PG) 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 TheLivingRoom.(R) 2.00 Entertainment Tonight 2.30 Ultimate Classroom. (R) 3.00 Judge Judy.(PG, R) 3.30 Farm To Fork.(PG,R) 4.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 10 News First. 6.00 TheDrum Analysisofthe day’snews. 7.00 ABCNews. Takesalook at today’stop stories. 7.30 Gardening Australia. Advicefor the home gardener. 8.30 Frankly (Premiere) Fran Kellychats with some of the biggest names and brains in Australia and from around the globe. 9.00 Doc Martin. (PG, R) AfterMartin rushesa sick Buddytothe vet, he discovers Angela is too sick to operate. 9.50 Annika. (Mav,R)A detective inspector returnstoGlasgow 10.40 ABC LateNews. Detailed coverage of the day’sevents. 10.55 Summer Love (Mdl, R) An estrangedcouple stayata holidayhouse. 11.25 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) Continuous music programming. 6.00 Mastermind Australia. (R) 6.30 SBS WorldNews. 7.35 Good With Wood. (PG) Hosted by MelGiedroyc 8.30 7MATE

12.00 TheLate ShowWith Stephen Colbert. (PG) 1.00 Home Shopping. (R) 5.00[VIC]Infomercials.(PG,R)

The

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Show 4.30 Raymond. 5.30 MOVIE: Cats. (2019) 7.40 MOVIE: The Witches. (2020,M) 9.40 MOVIE: The Huntsman: Winter’s War. (2016,M) 11.55 The EmilyAtackShow 12.40am Stunt Science. 1.40 Revolution. 3.30 Ninjago 4.00 TV Shop 5.00 Pokémon Ultimate Journeys. 5.30 Late Programs.

Friends.

Frasier

TheBig Bang

Mom. 10.30 NancyDrew 11.30 Frasier Midnight Shopping. 1.30 Stephen Colbert. 2.30

Programs.

6.00 Rage.

9.00

12.30 Vera (Mv,R)

2.00 Midsomer Murders.

3.30 Take 5With Zan

4.00 Spicks

4.50 Landline.

(PG,

(PG,

5.20 David Attenborough’s Kingdom Of Plants: Survival. (R)

6.10 ExtraordinaryEscapes: Sara Pascoe. (PG) Presented by Sandi Toksvig.

7.00 ABCNews. Takesalook at today’stop stories.

7.30 Death In Paradise. (Mv, R) Ashadow is cast overa smallfishing community when its festival queen is murdered.

8.30 TheCapture. (Return,MA15+lv)

Having beenseconded to Counter Terrorism Command’smapping department,DCI Rachel Carey’sformer colleagues alert her to amysterious case involving a man murdered by invisible assassins.

9.30 Summer Love (Mdl,R)Acouple on a trial separationseparately stay at aholiday house fortheir anniversary weekend

10.00 Savage River (Mals, R) Miki is back in custody

11.00 Silent Witness. (Mav,R) Aprowler is seemingly on theloose.

12.00 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv)

6.00 WorldWatch. 9.00 Ageless Gardens. 9.55 Earth’sSacred Wonders. 11.00 Paul O’Grady:For TheLove Of Dogs. (PG) 12.00 WorldWatch. 2.00 Gymnastics. FIG Artistic World Challenge Cup.Round 5. 3.30 FIFA World Cup 2022 Magazine. 4.00 Motor Racing. WSeries. Round6.Highlights. 4.40 KGB: TheSwordAnd TheShield. (PGa, R) 5.40 SecretNaziBases.(PG)

6.30 SBS World News.

7.30 GreatestTrain Journeys

From Above:Darjeeling HimalayanRailway (PG) Follows theDarjeeling Himalayan Railway

8.30 Secrets OfThe RoyalPalaces. (PG) From family heirlooms to national treasure, takes alookatthe significance of jewellery to the British royals.

9.30 Hunt ForQueen Nefertiti. (PGa, R) Archaeologists search for Nefertiti.

10.20 Celebrity Letters And Numbers. (M, R)

11.20 MOVIE: TheBig Short. (2015,Mln, R) ChristianBale.

1.40 MOVIE: TwelveMonkeys. (1995,Malv, R) BruceWillis, MadelineStowe, Brad Pitt.

4.00 Drones:The Next Air Disaster?(Mlv,R)

5.00 NHK World English News Morning. 5.15 France 24 Feature. 5.30 ANC PhilippinesThe World Tonight.

SBS

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SBS

6.00 NBCToday. [VIC]HomeShopping. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. 10.00 Motor Racing Supercars Championship.Round11. Bathurst 1000. Day 2. Practice and supportraces. 4.30 Motor Racing. Supercars Championship.Round11. Bathurst 1000. Day 2. Top10Shootout.

6.00 SevenNews.

7.00 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. (PG, R) Authorities investigatea nervous man 7.30 MOVIE: Men In Black. (1997, Mlv,R) Special agents policealiens on Earth. Tommy LeeJones, Will Smith. 9.30 MOVIE: X-Men: TheLastStand. (2006,Mv, R) The discovery of a“cure for mutation triggers aconfrontation between opposing groups of mutants. Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry. 11.40 MotorwayPatrol. (PG, R) 12.10 Motor Racing. Supercars Championship.Round 11. Bathurst 1000 Day 2. Top10Shootout.Replay. 1.40 Harry’s Practice. (R) 2.00 HomeShopping. 4.00 It’s Academic (R) 5.00 House Of Wellness. (PGan, R)

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6am Home Shopping

8.30 Weekender 9.00 Three Wide No Cover. 10.00 Winners. 11.00 Creek To Coast. 11.30 Sydney Weekender Noon Horse Racing 6.00 Border Security:International. 6.30 Mighty Ships. 7.30 The Yorkshire Vet. 8.30 Escape To The Country 10.30 IEscaped To TheCountry. 11.30 The Yorkshire Vet. 12.30am The Fine Art Auction. 3.30 Room For Improvement. 4.00 Late Programs.

7MATE (73,63)

6am Morning Programs. 12.30pm Timbersports. 1.00 Blokesworld. 1.30 Australia ReDiscovered. 2.00 Motor Racing.ANDRA Drag Racing. TopDoorslammer.Replay 3.00 Rides Down Under: Workshop Wars 4.00 Pawn Stars. 4.30 Barter Kings. 5.30 Last Stop Garage 6.00 MOVIE: The Replacements. (2000,PG) 8.30 MOVIE: Air Force One. (1997, M) 11.05 Late Programs.

NINE (9,

6.00 Getaway.(PG,R) 6.30 ACurrent Affair (R) 7.00 WeekendToday 10.00 Today Extra: Saturday.(PG) 12.00 Destination WA.(PG) 12.30 Rivals.(PGl) 1.00 DriveTV. 1.30 Cross Court. (Return) 2.00 TheBlock. (PGl, R) 3.30 TheBizarre PetVets. (PGm) 4.30 TheGarden Gurus 5.00 News:FirstAtFive. 5.30 Getaway. (PG)

6.00 NineNews Saturday. 7.00 ACurrent Affair. 7.30 MOVIE: Wonder Woman 1984. (2020,Mv) Dianamust contend with two new enemies, atroubled work colleague and agreedy businessman. Gal Gadot, Chris Pine,Kristen Wiig. 10.30 MOVIE: TheIncredible Hulk. (2008,Mv, R) An experiment causes amild-mannered scientist to turn into agiant, green monster whenhegets angry.Edward Norton, Liv Tyler 12.30 FirstResponders. (Malm) Police pursue avehicle forrecklessdriving.

1.30 Rivals. (PGl, R) Soli Bailey puts hisskills to the test.

2.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 GlobalShop. (R)Homeshopping. 5.00 TV Shop: HomeShopping. (R)

5.30 SkippyThe Bush Kangaroo (R)

9GEM (92,81)

6am Newstyle Direct. 6.30

TV Shop 7.00 LeadingThe Way. 7.30 TV Shop 8.00 Beyond Today 8.30 TV Shop 10.00 My Favorite Martian. 10.30 Seaway 11.40 Antiques Downunder 12.10pm AntiquesRoadshow Detectives. 12.45 MOVIE: TheCityUnder The Sea. (1965,PG) 2.30 MOVIE: Johnny Guitar.(1954,PG) 4.45 To Be Advised 7.15 MOVIE: The GreatEscape. (1963, PG) 10.45 Late Programs.

6.00 MorningPrograms. 8.30 What’sUp Down Under.(R) 9.30 St10.(PG) 12.00

Luxury Escapes.(PG, R) 12.30 Living Room (R) 1.30 HealthyHomes Aust. 2.00 Australia

By Design: Innovations. (PG, R) 2.30 Taste Of Aust.(R) 3.00 What’sUpDown Under 3.30 Farm To Fork. (PG, R) 4.00 Ultimate Classroom. (R) 4.30 Food Trail: SouthAfrica. 5.00 News.

6.00 LuxuryEscapes. (Final) Cameron Daddo heads to the outback.

6.30 Bondi Rescue. (PGlm, R) The lifeguards areinneed of savingwhentheir four-wheel drive buggy is swamped by waves

7.00 TheDog House. (PG, R) Athree-legged Labrador is looking foranew best friend and asetter poodlemay have found ahome

8.00 Ambulance. (Mlm) Lancashire ambulance crews attend to patients whose health problems are related to the lockdown.

10.30 To Be Advised.

12.30 NCIS: Hawai’i. (Mv,R) Torres andKnighttraveltoHawai’i. 1.30 Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 Authentic (PG) 5.00 HourOfPower.

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6am The LateShow

With Stephen Colbert. 7.00 The King Of Queens. 8.00 Frasier 9.00 Becker 10.00 Friends 11.00

The Amazing Race Australia 2pm To Be Advised. 4.30 Friends. 6.00 The BigBangTheory 10.15 Friends. 12.15am Home Shopping 1.45 Mom. 2.45

The Neighborhood. 3.35 Nancy Drew 4.30 Home Shopping.

Weekend Sunrise. Thelatest news, sportand weather 7.30 Motor Racing. Supercars Championship. Round11. Bathurst 1000 Day 3. Support Races and Warm Up 10.30 Motor Racing. Supercars Championship.Round 11.Bathurst 1000 Day

Race 30.FromMount Panorama, Bathurst, NSW

6.00 SevenNews. 7.00 Australia’sGot Talent. (Return, PGa)Hosted by Ricki-Lee. 8.50 7NEWSSpotlight: TheProperty Special. Takesalook at an investigation.

9.50 Homicide: With RonIddles: Gina Rossato (Mav,R)Former police detectiveRon Iddles takesa look at the1982murder of Gina Rossato 10.55 Born To Kill? DonaldNeilson “The Black Panther”. (MA15+av) Alookatthe case of Donald Neilson.

12.00 MOVIE: Secrets In TheWoods. (2020,MA15+av)Brittany Underwood.

2.00 Home Shopping. (R)

3.30 Million Dollar Minute. (R)

4.00 NBC Today. 5.00 SevenEarly News. 5.30 Sunrise.

7. Melbourne vWestern Bulldogs. 5.00 BarterKings. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 MOVIE: HarryPotterAnd The Chamber Of Secrets. (2002, PG) 10.15 MOVIE: Bad Boys. (1995,MA15+) 1am Late Programs.

9GO! (93, 82)

6am Children’s Programs. 1.30pm MOVIE: The Brady Bunch Movie.(1995, PG) 3.15 MOVIE: One Chance. (2013,PG) 5.15 MOVIE: City Slickers.(1991,PG) 7.30 MOVIE: Meet The Parents. (2000,M) 9.40 MOVIE: MeetThe Fockers. (2004,M) Midnight Kardashians 2.00 Motor Racing. IndyCar Series. Round 17.Grand Prix of Monterey.Highlights. 3.00 PowerRangers Dino Fury 3.30 Late Programs.

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6am Shopping. 9.00

The Doctors. 10.00 4x4 Adventures. 11.00 Escape Fishing. 11.30 Healthy HomesAust. Noon The LoveBoat 1.00 ST:Next Gen. 2.00 MacGyver. 4.00 Scorpion. 5.00 Reel Action. 5.30 IFish. 6.00 Scorpion. 7.00 Soccer.A-League Men. Matchweek 1. SydneyFCvMelbourne Victory 10.10 Soccer Women’s International Friendly.Australia vSouth Africa. 1am Late Programs.

6.00 Nine News Sunday. 7.00 TheBlock. (PGl) Hosted by Scott Cam. 8.30 60 Minutes Current affairs program, investigating, analysingand uncovering the issuesaffecting allAustralians.

9.30 Nine News Late. Takesa look at the latest news and events from Australia and aroundthe world.

10.00 TheFirst48: Mr New Orleans/No Shelter (MA15+av) Takesa look at twomurders.

11.00 Killer Couples: John Hawkins And Gene Hanson. (Ma)

11.50 FirstResponders. (Malm) 12.40 Tipping Point. (PG,

Shop:

Believer’sVoice

Today

Shopping.

Victory.(PGa)

Early

6.30 TheSundayProject Panellists dissect, digest and reconstitute the daily news, events and hottest topics.

7.30 TheAmazingRace Australia. (Final, PGl)Inthe finale, the team’s race to be first to meet Beau Ryan at the Pit Stop and claim the biggest prizeinshow’shistory 9.00 NCIS: Hawai’i. (Mv) When aUS Navy seaman is involved in amurder, the NCIS team is called to work thecase on their day off.Lucy is surprisedtofind out Whistler turned down apromotion in Washington, DC,tostayinHawai’i.

11.00 TheSundayProject (R) Alook at the day’snews. 12.00 Home Shopping. (R) 2.30[VIC]Infomercials.(PG,R) 4.00[VIC]HomeShopping.(R)

4.30 CBS Mornings.

6am TheBig Bang

Theory 7.30 Friends. 8.30 TwoAnd AHalfMen. 9.30 Friends. Noon The Middle 2.00 Basketball NBL.Round 2. Tasmania JackJumpers vBrisbane Bullets. 4.00 Basketball. NBL.Round 2. Melbourne United vSydney Kings. 6.00 The BigBangTheory 9.00 TheNeighborhood. 10.00 Friends. Midnight Home Shopping. 1.30 MOVIE: My Sister’s Keeper (2009,M) 3.30 BigBang 4.30 Shopping

6am Home Shopping

KeyOfDavid 8.00 TheDoctors. 9.00 Pat Callinan’s4x4 Adventures. 10.00 Reel Action. 11.00 Healthy HomesAustralia. 11.30 Destination Dessert Noon Scorpion. 2.00 What’sUpDown Under 2.30 Soccer.A-League Men. Matchweek1 Western Sydney Wanderers vPerth Glory 5.30 Reel Action. 6.00 Bondi Rescue. 6.30 MacGyver 7.30 NCIS 10.20 48 Hours. 11.15 Late Programs.

Australia. (R)

4.00 Think Tank (R)

4.55 Anh’s Brush With Fame (PG, R)

5.25 Hard Quiz (PG, R)

6.00 TheDrum

7.00 ABC News

7.30 7.30 Presented by SarahFerguson.

8.00 Australian Story. Australians tell personal stories.

8.30 Four Corners. Investigative journalism program that leads national debate and confronts issuesthat matter

9.20 Media Watch (PG) Paul Barry takesalook at thelatest issues affecting media consumers.

9.35 Planet America. Alook at American politics.

10.05 Parkinson In Australia. (PG, R)

Presented by Michael Parkinson.

11.10 ABCLate News.

11.25 TheBusiness. (R)

11.40 Q+A. (R)

12.45 Annika. (Mav,R) 1.35 Silent Witness. (Madv,R) 2.30 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 4.25

The Drum. (R) 5.25 7.30.(R)

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Programs.

Penn &Teller: Fool Us

6.00 WorldWatch. 9.00 Peer To Peer 10.30

Great LighthousesOfIreland. (PG) 11.30

World’sMostAmazing Festivals.(PG) 12.10

WorldWatch. 1.00 Al JazeeraNews Hour

2.00 Mental As Everything. (M) 3.00 This Man’s Worth. 3.30 The Cook Up With Adam Liaw.(PG, R) 4.00 Beyond The Stigma. 4.35

The Art In Healing. (PG) 5.05 Jeopardy! 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R)

6.00 Mastermind Australia. (R)

Presented by Jennifer Byrne

6.30 SBS WorldNews.

7.30 Celebrity LettersAnd Numbers. (M) HostedbyMichael Hing.

8.30 Iceland With Alexander Armstrong. (PG) Part 2of3.Alexander Armstrong heads north where he explores the fate of aformerwhaling centre.

9.25 Osher Günsberg:AMatter Of Life And Death. (Ma, R) Drawing on his own experiences, Osher Günsberg explores the national crisis of suicide in Australia.

10.50 SBS WorldNews Late.

11.20 ThePromise. (Premiere, Mal)

12.25 Outlander (MA15+asv, R)

1.30 Miss S. (Mav, R)

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Surprise connection during reunion

SCHOOL reunions are usually about catching up with former schoolmates from your own year level.

But Gippsland Grammar’s recentWinter Reunion at South Melbourne’s Bell’s Hotel invited all former students from across every cohort at the Gippsland independent school, and the result was agathering of more than 100 old scholars who attended the school from the late 1960s to last year.

Manycommented that whileitwas lovely to reconnect with familiar faces, it was the new connectionsformed between fellow old scholars whose only common ground was that they had attended the same school -often decades apart -that provided some of the richest conversations.

One of the most notable examples occurred only by chance, when old scholars Dr Sue Block (class of 1968)and SimonTyler (classof1998) introduced themselves and discovered that despite attending the school 30 years apart, they had aremarkable connection.

Simon mentioned he stuttered while at school but overcame the speech impediment not long after leaving school when he read a“lifechanging” book called ‘The Stutterer’s SurvivalGuide’. Whilethat particular bookwas written by Nick Tunbridge,Sue revealed she had actually contributed achapter in the second edition of the same book.

“It was reallyheartening to get such amazing feedback from someone who has managed and grown out of his stuttering,” Dr Block said when recalling the incident in the weeks following the reunion.

Like Simon, Sue also hails from Traralgon and was also aboarding student.

Simon agreed it was an amazing turn of events.

“I was actually abit starstruck when Imet Sue,” Simonsaid.

“I mean, that book completely changed the way Ispoke andactually changedthe course of my whole life.

“I really struggled with stutteringall the way through schooland Iwas always scared to do debating or read out in class.

“The only thing Iwas able to embrace wasdrama because weirdly, when Iwas on stage Ididn’t stutter. But my mum gave me alittle square book called ‘The Stutterer’s Survival Guide’ when Iwas about 19 and in avery small amount of time my speech improved immensely. So it was amazing to meet someone at areunion who had obviouslyattended the schoolwell before my time but had impacted

my life so much down the track.

“I still have the book and Inever thought I’d meet that person, let alone discover that we had gone to thesameschool.”

Whatmadetheirmeeting evenmore of achance encounter is that Simon revealed he was hesitant about attending the reunion in the first place.

“A friend convinced me to go along,” he said.

“And Iwas really just keen to have achat to people who were in my year, but actually Ireally enjoyed chatting to the people beyond that.

“Obviously Ihad agreat chat with Sue, who was olderthanme, but Ialsomet some students who graduated in 2020 and Ireally enjoyed that too.”

Sue, who is an AdjunctAssociate Professor in speechpathology at Latrobe University,agreed it was the mingling between cohorts that was the most unexpected but alsothe most rewarding part of the event.

“I really loved school,” Sue said.

“So Ialways enjoy going to the reunions,but of course you reallyonly want to go if you know someone else who is also going. But this reunion was such anice, casual environment it really felt like you couldjust go up to anyone and havea chat, whichisexactly what Simondid with us oldies. And what Ireally enjoyed was seeing how flexiblethe younger generation are in terms of theirwork; anumberofthem havehad several careersalready. Ialso enjoyed hearing from(acting principal) Michele Wakeham, who spoke to us all about what the school is like now.”

Gippsland Grammar’s development co-ordinator and reunion organiser, Sarah Guinness, said “it was heart-warming to feel the joy and hear conversations between old classmates and the connections made and renewed between old scholarsacross the decades”.

“Some old scholarsmet the children of classmates from their own cohorts,” Mrs Guinness said. “And there were also younger old scholars making new professionalconnections with someofthe older old scholars who happened to work in similar fields.”

GippslandGrammar has astrong history of celebrating reunions, and each year the school organises 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50-year reunions.

During the pandemic the reunions were held virtually, but this year they will returntoan in-person event this Saturday (October 8) at the school’s Garnsey Campus in Sale.

Thisyear the combineddecadesreunionwill celebrate the cohorts of 2012, 2002, 1992, 1982 and 1972.

Mrs Guinness said the success of the Winter Reunion proves that while year levels catch-ups are expected at reunions, the events don’t have to exclusively celebrate asingle year level.

“We are reallylooking to this year’s firstcombined decades reunion,” Mrs Guinness said.

“We will include asit-downlunch and memorabilia related to each year level.”

Any old scholars wanting to ensure they receive information about the upcoming decades reunion on Saturday can email Sarah Guinness via sarah. guinness@gippslandgs.vic.edu.au.

Incredible: Gippsland Grammar old scholarsSimon Tyler (class of 1998)and Dr Sue Block(class of 1968)attended thesame school 30 yearsapart,but discoveredanunexpected connection at the school’srecent Winter Reunion in Melbourne photograph supplied

Storage critical for targets: AEC

By MICHELLE SLATER

THE Victorian government has announced a bioenergy project at afarm in Gippsland as part of new energy storage target that it sayswill power about half of Victoria’s homes at their peak energy use.

Victoriawill reacha2.6 gigawatts of renewable energy storage capacity by 2030, with an increased target of 6.3GW of storage by 2035.

These are the biggest storage targets in Australia, the government says, and are expected to provide $1.7 billion in investmentfrom 2023 to 2035.

The state government has also announced $19.3 million for two bioenergy projects ,one in

Gippsland and another in Barwon from its Energy Innovation Fund.

It comes as the government is also providing $7 million for a100MW battery and inverter in Terang,and $119 million for a125MW big battery and grid-forming inverter between Bendigo and Red Cliffs.

YarraValleyWaterwillreceive$11.9million to install an electrolyser to make renewable hydrogen using recycled water in Wollert.

PremierDaniel Andrews saidVictoria was alreadythe renewable energy capital of Australia.

“And now, we’llhavethe biggest energy storage targets in the country too,” Mr Andrews said.

“We’ve cut emissions by more than any other state, tripled the amount of renewable energy and

created thousands of jobs. We’re not just talking about climate action –we’re getting on with it.”

The announcementwas welcomed by Environment Victoria, which urged the Commonwealth to get on board with anational storage target.

Environment Victoria chief executive, Jono La Nauze, was also hoping the target could be scaled up to provide for 100 per cent renewables “as soon as possible”.

“Untilnow however, there has been no overarching plan to coordinate public and private investment in storage capacity at either at the state or federal level,” Mr La Nauze said.

“Sensible environmental policy shouldn’t belong just to one side of politics.”

The Australian Energy Council said it would be looking at how the target would be rolled out to make sure it would not affect any capacity mechanisms that the states signed up to ensure grid reliability.

AEC corporate affairs general manager, Ben Barnes,saidthe announcement acknowledged that new investment in storage would be critical to asuccessfulenergy transition.

“It’s importantthat the target’s design sends the right signals to attract market investment, and does not detract from anational,competitive approach to delivering reliable energy,” Mr Barnes said.

PHN spots gaps in Gippsland’smental health services

By ZOE ASKEW

IN 2020 alone, general medicalpracticesin Gippslandprovided14,975referrals for psychology, inferring that use of local mental health services is at an all-time high.

Morethan $16million wasinvestedinmental healthservices across the region in the 2021/22 financial year, with Gippsland Primary Health Network reporting more people are accessing mental health services than ever before.

Gippsland PHN disclosed that the number of clients assessingGippsland PHN-funded Primary Mental Health care services increased from 2516 in 2019/20 to 4659 clients in 2020/21.

GippslandPHN’s priority issues papers, released last week, revealed that 22 per cent of Gippsland general practice patients had an active mental health diagnosis in 2022, with an estimated 9000 Gippslanders suffering from aseveremental illness.

They also revealed that more than half of presentationstoadoctor in secondary school clinics were related to mental health issues.

Gippsland PHN chief executive, Amanda Proposch, said the two priority issues papers provided valuabledata on mental health and

wellbeing across the region and informed service commissioning.

“Our aim is for the commissioning process to be informedbybest practice and through consultation with people who have lived experience,” Ms Proposch said.

“Programsare delivered in away that meets needs and aims to improve the overall health and wellbeing of people living in Gippsland.”

Despite the substantial injection into mental health services across Gippsland, significant gaps and access to timely and affordable mental health services across Gippsland, including psychology and psychiatry, remain fundamental issues.

“We recognise the importance of mental health and wellbeinginour community, and we are committed to ensuring people can access the most appropriate services for their mental health needs at any given time,” Ms Proposch said.

The Department of Health is expectedtopublish aMental Health and Wellbeing Statewide Service and Capital Plan by the end of the year, with regional plans set to follow by the end of 2023.

Further informationonGippsland PHN’s newest priority issues can be found at https://gphn.org. au/resources/.

Timely service gap: Gippsland PHN chief executiveAmanda Proposch. photograph supplied

Victoria’sonce-great hospitals and

IAMwriting because Iamconcerned at the mess our once gold-standard health system is now in.

Quite apart from the ambulance ramping and 000 call-centre fiasco, it seems our beloved premier is more interested in playing with his train sets in Melbourne rather than ensuring Victorians have access to high-quality hospital care.

Look at the Warragul Hospital, for instance.

It is more than 100 years old and when Ilast visited it, it was arabbit warren.

The populations of Drouin and Warragul have increased at an annual growth rate of two per cent and 11 per cent annually respectively -compared with the state’s average of 2.4 per cent -because of people fleeing Melbourne after the lockdowns.

So it is understandable how it struggles to cope.

Dan’s vaunted city-railway loop, initially costed at $50 billion has now been shown to actually potentially end up costing $125 billion.

Just imagine if just $1 billion of this overspend was spent on each of the Gippsland hospitals?

While we’re at it, imagine if experienced hospital staff, who have been prevented from working because of the vaccine mandate, were allowed back to work.

What would happen to the staff shortages we are now currently experiencing?

Dan has been adisaster for Victorians’ health, in November it’s time to give someone else ago.

Iwill be voting this time for local Gippslander Greg Hansford, for eastern Victoria in the Upper House.

Greg understands well the issues, concerns and problems facing people in the Gippsland region and is willing to fight strongly for Gippslanders.

Pamela Howden Traralgon

Friendliness doesn’t hurt

FURTHER to Carolyn Raymond’s letter of September 21, Itoo would be very disappointed if Latrobe City Council moved to dampen in any way the enthusiasm of the Franklin St school crossing attendant.

Ionlysee him as someone who enjoys his job and is adelight to pass by.

His friendliness brings asmile to everyone he is in contact with.

What ahappy start to the day for students walking into school.

Iask thecouncil to encourage this efficient employee and not to act on acomplaint by a killjoy.

Jill Reid Traralgon

Moreneeded forseniors

THE 40th Victorian Seniors Festival is amonthlong festival targeting older Victorians.

The Victorian government booklet lists three outings for Latrobe City residents. Two are the same every year, open days at Morwell and Traralgon to try croquet.

The third is afreeconcert at Kernot Hall.

Neighbouring Baw Baw Shire, with less residents, has their own local event guide booklet which lists 11 events, including free entry to fitness groups, the harness racing meeting, the

bowling club and the croquet club.

Luckily, free train and tram travel for aweek means the oldies from Latrobe can attend various functions throughout the state.

Not than any oldies will be travelling to the Valley to do the same.

Latrobe City oldies, many who have been ratepayers for 50 plus years, are volunteers and mainly spent their money locally, are treated with distain by Latrobe City every year during the Seniors Festival.

Come on Latrobe, lift your game.

Peter Randall Morwell

Opportunity foranother Royal visit upon us

WHEN the exciting announcement that the 2026 Commonwealth Games would be hosted in regional Victoria was made earlier this year, there remained the tantalising possibility that this would coincide with what would have been the centenary birthday of Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Alas, this is not to be as we continue to grapple with the profound sorrow of this month’s news that our late Sovereign Lady has been recalled by God to the Kingdom of Heaven.

Instead, the 2026 Commonwealth Games, which will include multiple events being hosted in Gippsland, is now aunique opportunity to have the new King of Australia, His Majesty King Charles III, replicate the 1954 Royal Tour of his parents.

Our King will certainly be in Victoria for the Commonwealth Games’ opening ceremony at the MCG, but the real priority must be to ensure that the King conducts aRoyal Tour of

Gippsland and attends the sporting events that will be held in our region.

This is aonce-in-a-lifetime opportunity to put the global spotlight on Gippsland, as avisit by The King would bring hundreds of millions dollars worth of international publicity to our part of the world.

Such an occurrence would be just the tonic we need to get Gippsland tourism going again, and market our region’s unique assets to a worldwide audience.

Additionally, this would give everyone in the region fond memories that last alifetime, as the vivid recollections of those who were alive for the 1954 Royal Tour demonstrate, many of which were published recently during the Platinum Jubilee and during the national mourning for Queen Elizabeth II.

Itherefore urge our state and federal MPs, together with local councillors in Latrobe City, Wellington, and East Gippsland, to immediately establish dialogue with Buckingham Palace to ensure that there is aRoyal Tour of Gippsland as part of the 2026 Commonwealth Games, and ideally sooner.

Nicholas Tam Traralgon East

Round the twist

IAMamazed at the number of people who do not know the rules that apply to roundabouts.

Too many people seem to think that give way to the right is the rule, however, the rule is in fact give way to anyone already in the roundabout, and on occasions this could mean giving way to your left.

Perhaps some motorists need to revisit the rule book.

Raymond Hough Yallourn North

Newvaping laws could soon startsavinglives

RELAXING Australia’s draconian vaping regulations could save up to 104,000 lives by 2080 and prevent untold suffering for their families and friends.

According to anew study, it would save more than two million years of lost life in Australia alone.

The study, conducted by academics from the University of Queensland, The University of Melbourne and the United States, examined the impact of regulating nicotine vaping as a consumer product, as it isinthe US.

The study took into account the health benefits for daily smokers switching to vaping, estimated at five per cent of the riskofsmoking, as well as any increase in harm from vaping in those who would never have smoked.

The study also estimated that, under the current restrictions on vaping, the goal of less than five per cent of adults daily smoking by 2030 will be missed by awide margin.

The national smoking rate will onlyreach 7.5 per cent for males in 2080 and five per cent for females in 2064.

With relaxed vaping laws, afive per-cent target for men will be reached in 2042 and for females in 2036.

Australia remains the only western democracy to require aprescription to legally access nicotine vaping products.

Since the effective ban came into force in October last year, the vaping black market has exploded, selling dodgy disposable products to young people, while limiting access by the adult smokers who actually need them.

New Zealand recently legalised nicotine e-liquid for use as aconsumer good. Smoking rates have been declining rapidly since, and young people have been successfully protected by basic consumer protections such as mandatory age verification before purchase.

If Australia is serious about reducing tobacco’s burden on our public health, Australia’s outdated vaping regulations must be urgently changed.

The evidence for vaping isconvincing, and modelling indicates that easy access tonicotine for vaping could save the lives of hundreds of thousands of smokers.

What are wewaiting for?

DrColin Mendelsohn

Australian Tobacco Harm Reduction Association

Frustrated and fed-up

IAMfrustrated and fed-up with all the political claptrap been dished out by those who would not have known what afull days’ work was like or even cared enough to get ajob, but are full of statements and instructions to the tax payers keeping them on the dole or in social security payments.

Anybody not working but can work are a burden on this state and country.

We need to get back to common sense and the previous government and change the state government before its too late and we go broke.

Klaus Budnik

Moe

If all else fails: Somereadershavetaken asatirical lookatminerehabilitation.

health system now just asorrytale

Lawabiding and not imbecilic

DESPITE the heroic rebellion of Peter Lalor and his small group of followers at Ballarat on December 3, 1854, where the miners of the Eureka Stockade swore an Oath of Allegiance to “bequeath to future generations alove of freedom and democracy”, Australia is still acountry drowning in asea of stories that cannot be told like the North Korea-like censorship/gag orders placed on all Australian doctors and nurses and health professionals by the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency (AHPRA) these last two-and-a-half years.

This communist-style decree seriously violates the sacred doctor-patient relationship and therefore is putting lives at risk, most ostensibly where apatient has ahistory of allergy to any of the ingredients that comprise the mRNA vaccines. In other words, if adoctor issues an “exemption” in such acase he or she will be deregistered as happened to Dr Mark Hobart and others who were ethical enough to defy AHPRA.

How is AHPRA upholding the Hippocratic Oath or adoctor’s duty of care to his or her patient/s in such situations?

During the last two-and-a-half years, we have witnessed spectacles and atrocities we never thought possible in this once-great nation. Hence, we are all seeing the exposure of a truly evil, immoral, unethical and fraudulent influence over all the institutions we were raised to trust and respect.

In 1963, one year before he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for advancing black civil rights, Dr Martin Luther King said in aletter written from aprison cell in Birmingham, Alabama, that “an individual who breaks abad law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law”.

Echoing Dr King, to be law-abiding should not be synonymous with being morally imbecilic.

Joseph Lis Morwell

Plan is in place

VICTORIA’S mental health workforce is overworked, fatigued, and being forced to close waiting lists as demand continues to increase, with many would-be patients waiting more than ayear for appointments.

The Nationals understand that people need mental health support when they need it, not a year from now.

That’s why The Nationals and Liberals have aplan to slash wait times for mental health support for Victorians, and provide two million additional mental health appointments.

The plan is part of anewly-announced Mental Health Workforce Strategy which could have as many as 200,000 more Victorians able to access timely mental health support every year.

The Nationals and Liberals in government will fund an additional 750 psychology supervisors in Victoria, and launch anew matching service to help psychology graduates find the right supervisor for them, across all parts of Victoria.

Those additional supervisor positions will increase Victoria’s capacity, by adding up to 1300 new psychologists during the next two

years. Under Labor, which was warned three years ago in the Royal Commission into Mental Health’s interim report that it must prioritise building Victoria’s mental health workforce, there are currently more than 6000 mental health job listings online.

We need innovative solutions to fix the mental health crisis, and only The Nationals and Liberals have real solutions that will rapidly build Victoria’s mental health workforce.

The workforce strategy also includes recognising counsellors as mental health practitioners, which would unlock an additional 2000 practitioners to deliver mental health support in our schools.

The Nationals and Liberals in government will establish the nation’s largest worker recruitment drive, with more scholarships on offer, extra training places opened for psychologists and psychiatrists, and relocation incentives to join the workforce.

Danny O’Brien State Member for Gippsland South

Dementia Week

THANK you to the people impacted by dementia, community members and healthcare professionals who marked Dementia Action Week 2022 from September 19-25.

Across Australia, individuals and organisations supported the campaign, ‘A little support makes abig difference’, to increase understanding about dementia and help eliminate discrimination.

On behalf of the estimated 487,500 people living with dementia in Australia, we thank everyone for their support.

While Dementia Action Week is only one week each year, the conversation and action to eliminate discrimination continues year-round. For information and tips about how you can continue

to make adifference in your community, please visit discrimination.dementia.org.au.

Maree McCabe AM Dementia Australia

Go timber

CONGRATS Gippy Times (Latrobe Valley Express’ sister paper) for its support for the forestry and timber industry in the Gippsland Times Tuesday, September 27 paper.

The article on page five highlighted the value and success of local Andy Wickham’s business in making and selling arangeoftimber products.

Although Australian sawmills meet the national and international standards that are endorsed by leading environmental groups, the industry is under continued attack from the noisy ‘anti’ voices.

Ihaverecently become adirector of asawmill started by my great grandfather 130 years ago, and know clearly that supply of sustainable resources is amajor challenge.

And surely it would be atragedy in the extreme if we had to import timber.

Go timber and thanks Gippy Times.

Alex Arbuthnot Sale

Do we really need aKing?

FAREWELL Betty Windsor! Being crowned 18 months after Iwas born, you have been a constant presence in my life.

But now you are gone, off on whatever journey, if any, that occurs after the lights go out; and the appointment of your successor raises some disturbing questions for Australians.

For example, why is it, in the 21st century, that our Parliamentarians must swear allegiance to The King of aforeign land? Not the people of Australia nor our constitution

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(which, itself, has some 60-plus references to the Crown).

This is, frankly, insulting to an otherwise independent nation and people.

And why do we need ahead of state anyway? Plenty of countries don’t, making do with their chief justice and aconstitution that he or she enforces.

If you think that having ahead of state will protect us from the predations of politicians, you only need look at what our current one failed to do when our previous PM tried to secretly sign himself up as ‘Minister for everything’.

So, time for some hard questions and adebate about who we are and who our politicians are loyal to.

This has nothing to do with [The Queen’s] death and is not meant to disrespect her achievements and life. This is about our future.

King Charles is anice bloke, and Imust give him credit for his commitment to the environment. However, Imust ask, “why should we swear allegiance to him?” Can anyone give me a credible answer to this question?

To those who say we need ahead of state to protect us from the likes of aDonald Trump, I say you need to think some more about possible models for anation.

It’s not hard, we just need to start talking about it.

John Gwyther Coongulla

Fuel price discrepancies

WITH regard to the federal government bringing back the full excise tax on fuels, this is its chance to make it less, as this will help the transport industry, etc, and people are suffering to meet their commitment because of increases on their budgets. Also, why is Mobil in Park Lane selling E10 fuel one cent cheaper than unleaded when other stations are three cents off?

The ACCC should show some teeth and investigate this fuel slog on motorists.

NF Nanos Traralgon

Old fashionedway: Yes, The Express still receives handwrittenletters,someevenwritten on a typewriter photograph liam durkin

Dirtand dust

THIS Saturday (October 8), Old Gippstown will hosts its first ever Dirt &Dust 4x4 Expo.

It will be proudly hosted by Shannons Insurance and supported by Admiral Towing, who will be bringing their Unimog, and Gippsland Tank Adventures, who will have atank on display.

Along with 4x4 vehicles, stall holders and food vans, there will be a music for your enjoyment and araffle with great prizes.

Come visit Old Gippstown. Gates open at 10am with entry at $5 for adults and children free.

Yinnar and District Historical Society

TO celebrate History Month (October), the Yinnar and District Historical Society and Museum will be open every Sunday during October from 10pm to 4am.

Came along and see the vast array of historical artifacts and photographs from the Yinnar district.

There are now two sheds open with displays and our members will be available to answer any questions you may have.

The updated adventure playground next to the sheds will also keep the kids/grandkids amused.

The museum is located at 9 Littleton Avenue, Yinnar.

Traralgon Garden Club

NEXT meeting of the Traralgon Garden Club will be at 2pm on Tuesday, October 11 at the Traralgon Greyhound Club, Glenview Park, McNairn Rd Traralgon.

Enter via the float entrance.

The topic is ‘in your Spring garden’. New members and visitors welcome.

For further information, phone Bryan Corkran on 0408 598 016.

Annual dinner

TRARALGON and District Historical Society’s annual dinner will take place on October 11 from 6.30pm at Dal Mondos, Traralgon.

The guest speaker is Jenny Davis of the Leyton Family talking historically about their business.

RSVP to secr@traralgonhistory.asn as soon as possible

For further information, phone secretary Christine Turnbull on 0402 911 950.

Scriptureunion Australia visits

MOE Baptist Church, Sunday, October 16 at 10am, will have two of the regional co-ordinators attend to share their roles and responsibilities in our local area and metro.

Every year the staff team supports 1000 workers who commit to lead camps, school chaplaincy and holiday programmes in order to build up young people and support families to live more resilient and hope-filled lives.

To be innovative and positively affect the lives of others.

Come along to listen and chat.

All ages most welcome.

Plenty of parking available. No cost involved.

Apancake morning tea will be provided.

Any further details, phone Val on 0412 724 990.

Ukulele lessons

IF you’re starting out or returning to an instrument, Phillip Chalker, can help you get off to aflying start.

He offers beginner ukulele lessons and can take lessons at his place or, if you live in Traralgon, in the comfort of your own home.

For those who live abit further away, online sessions can be arranged using Skype or FaceTime.

If you have acompanion who wishes to learn with you, Mr Chalker also offers group sessions for up to eight people.

You only need an instrument, a tuner and your desire to learn. and desire to start playing.

Current fee for one-hour lesson is $20, and slightly more for extra students.

Phone Phillip Chalker with any queries on 0400 603 367, or email latrobemusic@gmail.com.

Come andtry day

TRARALGON Croquet Club is hosting acome and try day this Sunday (October 9) from 10am to 2pm.

Asausage sizzle will be provided for lunch.

Wear flat-soled shoes.

Any inquires phone Alison on 043 659 663

Honour forBuhagiar

AS part of its 2Oth anniversary celebration at the Traralgon Farmers Market, the Traralgon Community

Development Association Inc honoured founding member Tony Buhagiar with aplaque commemorating his decades of service.

The plaque was presented by Latrobe City councillor Dale Harriman.

“Tony has been active in campaigning for Traralgon’s ‘fair share’ for many years. He was particularly involved in the campaign to secure

anew Performing Arts Centre for Traralgon and the wider community. He is now stepping back to enjoy more time with family”, TCDA spokesperson Axella Johannesson said.

In its 20 years, the TCDA has worked hard for anew Performing Arts Centre, as well as for what is now the Gippsland Regional Aquatic Centre.

Its members were involved in the ‘Mental Health First Aid in Schools’ project, and the group has also campaigned for the removal of ‘eyesores’ in town.

Few would know that the ‘Grinch Grotto’ at the Courthouse for the last Traralgon Community Christmas Parade was aTCDA project.

The Grinch will feature again at this year’s Christmas event, but his Grotto, which TCDA members are busily planning, will instead be part of the Parade’s Christmas Market this time around.

“He was hugely popular at the last event pre-Covid, and abig turnout is expected again this year”, Ms Johannesson said.

“There is still much for TCDA to do, including continuing to promote Traralgon, seeing to the installation of muralsand other public artworks, and securing better town entry signage for Traralgon, among other things. But we think it’s been a fruitful 20 years, and what we’ve

managed to accomplish continues to move us forward.”

Dayout withyourpet

ON October 16, the Ted Basarke Mercy Foundation will be holding a ‘Celebration of Pets’ at the MoeYallourn Rail Trail from 9.30am.

After registration, awalkalong the rail trail will begin the celebration, which will include ascavenger hunt, followed by afundraising sausage sizzle, afreecoffee cart and activities for dogs.The Ted Basarke Mercy Foundation is anot-for-profit organisation which subsidises veterinary treatment for pets whose owners are financially vulnerable, as well as support to those whose wellbeing and independence are enhanced by ownership of acompanion pet.

The TBM Foundation issupported in this event by Latrobe Health Assembly, as well as the Friends of the Moe-Yallourn Rail Trail.

This celebration is being named the ‘Jane Morrey Celebration of Pets’, in memory of Jane, who died recently. Jane was avalued, long-term member of the TBMFsince 2014, having stepped into the roleof president from 2017 until 2021.

Jane was aregistered dog trainer and her love and passion for all dogs was evident.

We were so lucky to have her on our team. She was instrumental in the success of our celebration of pets

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days, creating adog activity course where dogs and owners could test their skills. Jane also held atraining/ behaviour workshop as afundraiser for the foundation. She was aregular at our monthly pet walks and was more than happy to share her wealth of knowledge with pet owners. She will be sadly missed.

This event will be agreat day out with your dog, or indeed any pet. Dogs must be on leash, other pets confined for their safety.

Agold coin donation for the walk will assist the fundraising efforts of the group. Prizes will be awarded for various activities on the day. Donations are gratefully received.

Enquiries can be made to secretary, Lynne Stayches, on 0457 872 260.

Children’s book out now

INSPIRED by his grandchildren’s demand for longer bedtime songs (Operation Bedtime Delay) local writer Ian Whitehead wrote a children’s book, Wheels on the Bus. Bedtime Edition.

Awacky animal alphabet story, the book is best enjoyed when joyfully sung.

Published and available in UK and US bookshops, the book is available online in Australia from Booktopia, Amazon, Dymocks and Readings.

Moe Social Dance Club

MOE Social Dance Club is holding its

Annual Ball on October 14.

The ball will be at Newborough Public Hall, Balfour St Newborough from 8pm to midnight. Cost is $15.

Silhouettes are playing that night and everyone is welcome.

For more information, phone the secretary on 0448 906 657.

KnittedKnockers

THE Traralgon Branch are having their first fundraising event for the month of October.

We have afantastic raffle and we will be selling tickets along with a display of what we do at the following locations in October.

Wednesday, October 5, 9am to 3pm at Traralgon Centre Plaza.

Thursday, October 6, 9am to 3pm at Traralgon Centre Plaza.

Wednesday, October 12, 9am to 3pm at Mid Valley Shopping Centre.

Thursday, October 13, 9am to 3pm at Mid Valley Shopping Centre.

We start selling tickets on October 1 and it will be drawn October 30.

Our first prize has been donated by Brendan from Traralgon Refrigeration and Air Conditioning. He has given us afully installed split system valued at $2000.

Meditation evening

THE Planetary Meditation for Peace (also known as Twin Hearts Meditation) is ameditation designed to bless the earth and is an

instrument of world service for peace, loving kindness, joy, goodwill and abundance.

In addition, this meditation cleanses and energises the energetic body while also promoting ahigher level of awareness and consciousness.

After the meditation, you can experience afreepranic energy healing which can address physical and emotional issues.

Location: 2Avondale Rd, Morwell.

When: Every Tuesday 7pm to 8.30pm.

Cost (by donation): $5

MorwellCombined Pensioners

MEMBERS are reminded to bring a plate of finger food to share for our pre-cup day on October 31.

There will be prizes for the best hat and sweeps will be run by Gillian and Bill.

For further information, phone the president on 0414 962 615 or secretary on 0413 089 696.

TraralgonSeniorCitizens Centre

CURRENT programs: Bowls -Wednesday and Friday 1pm.

Patchwork/needlework -Monday 12 noon.

Cards (500) -Tuesday 1pm. Tai Chi -Thursday 9am.

Cost: membership $4 per year

Activities: $2

Afternoon or morning tea following activity is free.

Phone 0475 610 039 between 10am and 4pm weekdays for further information.

Get Together

GET Together is an open space for conversation and community.

We meet on the first Wednesday of the month.

Our next meeting will be on Wednesday, October 5at10am in the Traralgon Uniting Park Lane Foyer.

This will be atime when you can meet and chat with others over a cuppa.

If you or anyone you know would like to be apartofthis Get Together, please bring them along.

All are welcome.

For more details phone 5174 2398 or 5177 8107.

Inner Wheel Club

THE Inner Wheel Club of Moe is part of one of the world’s largest service organisations and originally began as afriendshipgroup for the wives of Rotary Club members.

World membership is 100,000 and Australian membership is approximately 4000.

Objectives of Inner Wheel are to promote true friendship, to encourage the ideals of personal service and to foster international understanding.

Our club meets once amonth, where we have ameal, have guest speakers andsupport thecommunity where able.

We currently sponsor local primary school students to attend camp, make

toiletry bags for welfare organisations and at Christmas we supply gifts for disadvantaged teenagers.

This year’s Inner Wheel theme is ‘Work Wonders’ and our club does this quietly and efficiently in many ways.

If you would like to know more about the Inner Wheel Club of Moe, please email our secretary via iiw. au.moe@gmail.com.

Traralgon CancerGroup

THE Traralgon Cancer Group is having aPinkRibbon afternoon tea on Sunday, October 16 at the Traralgon Tennis Centre.

The tennis centre is located on Franklin St. The tea will be held from 2pm to 4pm.

Tickets are $30 per person.

Group booking of tables of eight or individual tickets are now available from the Seymour St Newsagency in Traralgon.

This is aticketed event with only 100 tickets available so get in quick!

As well as ascrumptious afternoon tea, there will be raffle prizes, door prizes, trading table and much more.

Any queries or more information, please phone Una Fisher on 0434 673 032 or Mariana on 0417 051 158.

Youcan be apartof Community Corner

IF you are acommunity group and have any news items you need publicised, feel free to email us at news@lvexpress.com.au.

You can address the correspondence to editor Liam Durkin.

Deadline is Friday 9am to appear in the following Wednesday issue.

Latrobe Valley Express,

Congratulations: Latrobe Citycouncillor Dale Harriman presents Traralgon CommunityDevelopment Association founding memberTonyBuhagiarwitha plaque commemorating his service Left: Membersofthe TraralgonCommunityDevelopment Association with Tony Buhagair (centre). photographs supplied

JIM’S Mowing is awell-known and trusted franchise across the country forbig or small jobs,with 11 franchises in the local area.

Theyare currentlylooking fornew franchisees in the Latrobe Valley.

Becoming partofJim’s Mowing means that youwill become your ownboss,bepartofalarge supportnetwork and can giveyou moretime to spend with the family.

All franchisees arefullytrained and supportedbyalocal franchisor,theyare all fullyequipped forany work that youmay need done with: ride-onmowers, push mowers,brush cutters,hedge trimmers, blowersand back-pack weed sprayers.

All franchisees have Public Liabilitycover and arefullytrained, some have even takenthe next step and have completed a CertificateIIinHorticulture.

sMowingcan take on jobs ebig or small and arealways and able to get the job done sMowingservices include

lawn mowing,hedging,pruning, weed control, guttercleaning green wasterubbish removaland much more.

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ENTERTAINMENT

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able offer refused. Phone 0437 640 714.

FIREWOOD

Dry, split mixed hardwood. Delivery all areas. Phone 0439 206 925.

Landscaping

Beautify your garden. Bulk quantity available, $25m3. Phone 0412 613 443 or 1800 468 733.

MORWELL

11 Butters St. Saturday, 8am-12. Clothes, DVDs,

dolls, comics, furniture, bric-a-brac and more.

T'GON, 215 Marshalls Road, Sunday, 9am-1pm. Shed items, tools, fishing / camping and farming gear, bric-a-brac, kid's things and more.

T'GON, 27 Canfield Crs, Saturday, 9:30am-1pm. Homewares, retro items, some small furniture, books, baby items. Everything must go!

TRARALGON, 24A Albert St, Sat. 1st &Sat. 8th Oct., 8-12pm. Tomatoes (bush type and exotic vine types), zucchini, capsicum, cucumbers, pumpkin, sweet corn -singles $2.50, tubs $3. Home made relish and chutney's at marked prices. Also avail. Thurs. and Fridays in driveway. All proceeds to Guide Dogs.

WANTED TO BUY

Family home on 1- 5 acres in Yinnar /Boolarra area.

READY TO PURCHASE. Finance approved. Phone 0439 178 653.

CREDITORS, next of kin and others having claims against the estate of any of the undermentioned deceased persons are required to send particulars of their claims to STATE TRUSTEES LIMITED ABN 68 064 593 148, of 1McNab Avenue, Footscray, Victoria 3011, the personal representative, on or before 7December 2022, after which date State Trustees Limited may convey or distribute the assets, having regard only to the claims of which State Trustees Limited then has notice.

IRWIN, Anthony John, also known as Anthony James Irwin and Anthony Irwin, late of 13 Blair Athol Dr, TRARALGON, VIC 3844, deceased, who died on 26 September 2021. 28 September 2022

NOTICE TO CREDITORS HILDA MAY HOGAN Deceased, late of Royal Freemasons Aged Care, 1C Haigh Street, Moe, Victoria CREDITORS, Next-of-Kin and others having aclaim in respect of the Estate of the Deceased who died on 28 May 2022 are required to send written particulars of their claim to the Executor C/- PO Box 104, Moe, Victoria, 3825 within 60 days from the date of publication of this Notice, after which date the Executor may convey or distribute the assets, having regard only to the claims of which they may then have notice of.

O'HALLORAN DAVIS, Solicitors, 12-14 Kirk St, Moe 3825

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

PAUL BALMAIN CARTER

Deceased, late of 5Bliss Street, Moe, Victoria CREDITORS, Next-of-Kin and others having aclaim in respect of the Estate of the Deceased who died on 27 June 2021 are required to send written particulars of their claim to the Administrator C/- PO Box 104, Moe, Victoria, 3825 within 60 days from the date of publication of this Notice, after which date the Administrator may convey or distribute the assets, having regard only to the claims of which they may then have notice of.

O'HALLORAN DAVIS, Solicitors, 12-14 Kirk St, Moe 3825

Public Notices

Farm Mortgages Ltd

Finance advanced in Victoria. Investments accepted. Interest paid 6.5% p.a. 03 5593 3450.

Lawns Mowed

Big and small. Phone 0429 977 323.

GUITAR LESSONS

Gippsland Guitar School, all ages, 8-80, beginners to advanced, banjo and ukulele lessons also available. 0439 111 610.

HELP

Yinnar &District Memorial Hall, urgently require a Secretaryand Treasurer from November2022.

Assistance willbeavailable if required.

If these positionsaren’t filled by localcommunity members,the Community Hall will be put in the hands of the Latrobe City,which may lead to increased costs and ease of hire.

Please help us Robyn 0428 631200

Moe Self Storage

various sizes from $85 p.c.m. Contact Strzelecki Realty on 5127 1333.

Hooked On Rock’s 20thAnniversary

Rock ‘n’RollDance

Saturday8th October

Band: Itchy Fingers

Lavalla School Hall, Kosciusko St,T’gon 7.15 -11.30pm $20pp BYOE. Dress R‘n’ R Anne 0409 502 914

Come help us celebrate 20 years of Hooked On Rock!

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

JOSEPH SANDS Deceased, late of 1Discovery Boulevard, Moe, Victoria

CREDITORS, Next-of-Kin and others having aclaim in respect of the Estate of the Deceased who died on 6February 2022 are required to send written particulars of their claim to the Executor C/- PO Box 104, Moe, Victoria, 3825 within 60 days from the date of publication of this Notice, after which date the Executor may convey or distribute the assets, having regard only to the claims of which they may then have notice of.

O'HALLORAN DAVIS, Solicitors, 12-14 Kirk St, Moe 3825

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YINNAR COMMUNITY HOTEL CO-OPERATIVE LTD

Nominations of candidates are invited for the positions of Director with the above Co-Operative. There are 2vacancies due to the effluxion of time and one vacancy due to resignation. Pursuant to the rules the retiring Directors are deemed to have been nominated again unless they notify the cooperative to the contrary.

Nominations other than in the case of retiring directors are to be signed by two or more members and are to be accompanied by anotice in writing signed by the candidate, accepting the nomination.

Nominations must be lodged with the Secretary, Yinnar Community Hotel Co-Operative Ltd, 235-237 Princes Drive, Morwell on or before 17 October 2022. Pursuant to the rules any nomination lodged must include the following details in order for it to be provided to members with a ballot paper should aballot be required:

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CUT IT DOWN

Specialising in tree pruning, tree removal, gardening and planting. Same day quotes. Local friendly service. Ph 0434 114 139.

ELECTRICIAN

Specialising in all domestic work. REC.4188. Phone Peter 0438 177 153 or Carol 5126 2110.

GARDENING DONE

pruning, planting, weeding, small jobs through to large jobs, shed clean ups, rubbish removal etc.

Reasonable rates, pens. disc. Under NDIS the services costs may be covered by your Care Provider. Reliable &efficient. Police check. Fully ins. 18 yrs exp. Chauncy The Gardener. ABN 17268203656. Call Richard 0401 345 345.

Gas Appliances

Install -Service -Repairs Co Testing -Gas Safety Check.Contact Paul 0428 877 432. Lic.103230.

JS PAINTING

Specialising in commercial, residential work, over 30 years experience. For prompt and reliable service to all the Gippsland region phone Joe 0421 374 463.

LAWN MOWING and garden maintenance. ABN, fully insured, great rates. Ph 0411 372 205.

Need aPlumber?

Small jobs, hot water, toilets, taps, roofing. Over 20 yrs exp. 0437 759 224.

TIP TRUCK DRIVERS REQUIRED

ANC Forestry is based in Morwell Victoria. We are currently seeking 2Tip Truck Drivers for full time ongoing work.

Requirements of the role:

● White card

● An HC Licence

● Excellent driving skills

● Hardworking and reliable

● Good communication skills

● Safety conscious

● Truck and dog experience

● Confident to work unsupervised

● Self-starter with ability to think

This is afantastic opportunity for along-term stable job with variety in the work and agreat team to work with.

We offer:

● Excellent job security and remunerations

● Alarge well-established supportive workshop

● Home every night

● Friendly team environment

Please email admin@ancforestry.com.au or call on 5133 0222

FULL TIME GOLF CLUB MANAGER

Foster Golf Club is seeking an enthusiastic General Manager for agreat golf club. Our committee is askilled team of collaborative and supportive people. The position carries a significant front-of-house component.

Foster Golf Club has an 18 hole golf course, a great bistro (separately managed), the Spike Bar and aGaming Room with 25 EGMs.

Essential skills and experience:

● Bar and gaming management

● Back of house management, including stock management and rostering

● Aworking knowledge of System 1and BOS portal

● Aworking knowledge of Xero accounting package (or similar) and the Bluize till system or similar

● RSA and RSG

● Current Victorian Gaming Licence

Please contact the club for full details 5682 2272.

To apply for this position please email to: manager@fostergolfclub.com.au with your resume and cover letter addressed to the President, Foster Golf Club, no later than Friday, 14th October 2022.

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DRIVER /HOOKLIFT OPERATOR

IMR is currently recruiting an experienced full time

Driver to undertake roles in the Scrap Metal Industry.

Essential for the role you will have:

● Heavy Combination licence, experience in hook lift and trailer

● Positive attitude and demonstrated customer service skills

● Commitment to Health &Safety

● Physically fit

● Astrong work ethic and flexible approach to working hours

Applications close: 8October 2022. Please send CV and cover letter to: email: imr22@bigpond.net.au or PO Box 3245, MMC Morwell 3842

PLUMBING

General plumbing, repairs/ maintenance, drainage and sewerage, roofing and guttering. Small jobs welcome. Glenn 0437 327 879. Lic. No. 45333.

Vic Marino's Painting

Residential, commercial, int./ext. No job too small. Free quotes. Qualified tradesman. 0408 086 776.

Trafalgar, Warragul

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About us

LoyYang Bisanelectricity generator located in the picturesque Latrobe Valley currently supplying around 20% of Victoria’s power.Weare owned by Chow TaiFook Enterprises (CTFE) and belong to the AlintaEnergyfamily,agrowing andinnovative energy marketdisrupter

We arefocused on increasing plant performance, efficiency and flexibility and areinsearchofpeople with expertise and experience to contribute to innovative new projects.

We arecommitted to increasing workforce diversity and creating an environment where people with new ideas feel empowered to speak up and explorewhat is possible.

We constantly strive to understand and meet broad community expectations regarding environmental management,health, safety and good corporate citizenship.

About the opportunity

Competitive salaryand otherbenefits. Generous superannuation, contributions above the superannuation guarantee or membership of a Defined Benefit Scheme.

Flexible working arrangements to balance your work, lifeand play (base 36 hour,4day workweek). Above awardannual leave entitlements

Enjoy close proximity to great regional communities of Traralgon, Warragul and Sale, access to alpine regions and snow,expansive beaches, wilderness escapes andleading schools.

Create change and‘futureready’ the organisation through your involvement in key projects.

Access to development opportunities to continue to grow leadership and technical skills thatare highly transferable throughout industry.

Training in power plant operations to fulfill the Technician Operator function of the role

What you’ll do

Maintain and operate the coal fired generating facility

Conduct preventative, corrective and emergency maintenanceofall mechanical and electricalplant and equipment

Undertakediagnostics and corrective actions.

Assist in plantstart-up and shut-down

Use computerised maintenance management systems to plan and coordinate work.

What you’ll need

Certificate IIIinEngineering (Mechanical Fitter) or equivalent

Proven performer with extensive maintenance experience in steamgeneration turbines andassociatedplant

Ability to understandtechnical information, drawings and engineering data.

Relevant experience within the power generation or heavy industry field.

Excellent communication skills.

If this sounds likeyou, don’t ignorethis opportunity, makesureyou: Apply via our careers page www.loyyangb.com.au/careers

Position closes Tuesday 11 October 2022.

LoyYang B– powering your career!

LoyYang Bwelcome applications from people with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and people with disability.Wewill providereasonableadjustments for individuals with disabilitythroughout the recruitment process. If you identify as aperson with disabilityand requireadjustments to the application, recruitment, selection and/or assessment process, please advise via the aboveemail and indicate your preferred method of communication (email or phone) so we can keep in touch and meet your needs.

Immaculate Heart of Mary Primary (St Mary's) School, Newborough

TEACHER POSITIONS

VACANT

Fulltime Fixed Term Classroom Teacher

0.8 Ongoing Specialist/Classroom Teacher Commencement Date: Term 1- 2023

Immaculate Heart of Mary Newborough is seeking passionate teachers who are inspired to work in Catholic Education and are dedicated to improving student learning. Graduate and experienced teachers are encouraged to apply.

Role description and application form can be accessed from the CEVN website www.cecv.catholic.edu.au/Positions-Vacant

Contact details: Mrs Lisa Broeren, Principal Email: principal@stmnewbor.catholic.edu.au

Enquiries welcome, please call (03) 5127 2342.

Applications close: 5pm Monday, 17 October 2022.

Immaculate Heart of Mary school community promotes the safety, wellbeing and inclusion of all children

PRODUCTION and DESPATCH Assistant

Grayson Australia is looking for an enthusiastic and positive PRODUCTION &DESPATCH assistant on a full-time basis, 8.30am -4.30pm, to join our small but dedicated team at MORWELL, reporting to the Operations and Despatch Manager.

About the business:

Grayson Australia has been one of the leading manufacturer and supplier of liquid and powder smoke ingredients to the food industry for the past 36 years, with agrowing reputation in Horticultural market with water sanitation and plant health solutions.

The Grayson team vision: to develop and or represent high quality product and innovation across several markets, championed by operational excellence within asafe and supportive team environment.

For the past 15 years Grayson has been manufacturing our market leading brand within our reginal HACCP certified production and distribution site at MORWELL 3840. Due to several internal promotions we are now in search of our newest production and dispatch team member.

About the role:

We have an exciting opportunity for aproduction and despatch assistant located in our MORWELL production and distribution site, where you will be a key member of asmall and dedicated production and dispatch team.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

● Organise and process the receipt of goods

● Picking of orders

● Packing of orders

● Process and despatch of orders

● Organizing stock within the warehouse

● Assist, learn and grow your production understanding across our diverse product range

This role will also see you assisting with maintaining and working within the HACCP processes and requirements. The role will have the opportunity to keep developing skills and knowledge over aperiod of time for the successful applicant with asupporting team to assist in your development.

Skills and experience:

● Attention to detail

● Knowledge of Dispatch and Production -is preferred but not essential

● Ability to work autonomously and within ateam environment

● Willingness to learn and desire to grow current skill set

● Liaise with freight companies, when required

● Control and management of inventory and logistics

● Valid driver's licence

● Current forklift licence (or willingness to complete course)

● Enthusiasm towards continuous improvement

If the above is of interest please send your CV to the attention of HR.

We thank you and appreciate the time you have taken to apply, however, only successful candidates on this occasion will be contacted.

Grayson team wishes you all best with your application

If youare an extraordinaryperson who wants to join adiverse team, be well rewarded with greatsalary, perksand benefits, then keep reading!

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Italian Australian Sporting Social Club of Gippsland Inc.

ASSISTANT MANAGER Your career in Hospitality

The Italian Australian Sporting &Social Club of Gippsland is currently seeking an Assistant Manager to join our existing team of hospitality professionals. We are looking for an individual who is highly food focused, has demonstrated experience in gaming & wagering and understands the importance of providing exceptional customer service. The successful applicant will be ahighly motivated and enthusiastic individual that has proven leadership qualities.

Serving the community for more than 60 years the Italian Australian Sporting &Social Club is alicensed hospitality venue situated 170 kilometres southeast of Melbourne in the heart of the Latrobe Valley. The Club is an employer for 55 staff and has adiverse membership base of around 1,100 plus members. The venue comprises a160-seater family bistro with kids play area, amain function hall for up to 260 people, a smaller cocktail room for private parties and corporate events, abusy gaming room holding 42 EGMs, a modern wagering bar area and aspacious multipurpose Club lounge. Club sporting bodies include our foundation sport of bocce played in our nationally recognised bocce centre. The Club also supports other recreational pastimes including awell patronized family fishing club and apopular local golfing club.

Reporting directly to the General Manager the primary role of this position will be to assist the General Manager with the smooth and effective operations of the Club and have specific responsibility for.

● Staff supervision ● Stock Management

● Gaming &Wagering operations

● Supervision of Bistro &Function Operations

● General Cashier reconciliation

● Implement and maintain Club standard policies and procedures

To qualify for this position the successful applicant will have:

● Demonstrated bar, bistro and gaming experience

● Aminimum of 3years supervisory experience in amulti-faceted venue

● Current RSA, RSG and Gaming licence

● TAB accreditation

● The ability to work, days, nights, weekends, and public holidays

● An understanding of Clubs liquor licensing requirements

● Knowledge of Gambling Code of Conduct and Self Exclusion Programs

If you believe you are the right person for this position and wish to receive aPosition Description, please forward your resume along with your letter of introduction to:

manager@italianaustralianclub.com.au

ADMINISTATION OFFICER

Full Time (38 hours per week)

We are currently seeking avibrant, energetic and highly skilled Receptionist/Administration Officer to join our team. You will possess a'can-do attitude', have proven experience in time management and multi-tasking, be aproblem solver, team player, be self motivated, highly organised, positive and proactive. You will have extensive administrative experience.

Reporting to the Business Manager you will be responsible for managing all GLS reception functions including:

● Answering and managing inbound and outbound calls professionally, timely and with a sense of pride

● Liaising with customers/contractors, internal and external key stakeholders positively and professionally ● Ordering/purchasing of all GLS office supplies and PPE

● Managing the GLS Employee Training Database

● Maintaining of general office equipment

● Providing the GLS Management Team with administrative assistances as required inclusive of project tasks

● Raising purchase orders and entering work orders into the GLS work scheduling system

The successful applicant must have:

● Minimum 5years experience in aReceptionist/ Administration role

● Strong ability in using MS Office (MS Excel, Power Point, Outlook, Word)

● Exceptional interpersonal and stakeholder management skills with the ability to build professional, respectful, inclusive and effective working relationships across all of GLS

For further information please contact Marita Edwards, Business Manager -Gippsland Land Services on 0412 992 316 or email marita.edwards@gls.net.au

PLASTERER

Looking for an experienced plasterer for work in the Latrobe Valley area. Must be skilled with atrowel, have an ABN and own transport. Please send resumes to: pcarb.1@bigpond.com or call/msg 0427 083 583.

PLASTERER

No experience necessary but willingness to learn essential. White card preferred but not essential. Call John 0414 979227.

DELIVERERS WTD

Would you like to deliver the Latrobe Valley Express newspaper to individual homes on Tuesday and/or Wednesday afternoons in Morwell, Traralgon, Moe, Newborou gh and Churchill? Please apply to the Circulation Manager 0456 000 541.

Please note: Children must be 11 years or over as we will need to apply for agovernment Child Employment Permit

Children younger than 11 cannot or will not be accepted. Adult deliverers also welcome.

Warehouse Operator

We arefocusedonincreasing plant performance, efficiency and flexibility and areinsearchofpeople with expertise and experience to contribute to innovativenew projects.

We arecommitted to increasing workforce diversity and creating an environment where people with new ideas feel empoweredtospeak up and explorewhat is possible.

We constantly strive to understand and meet broad community expectations regarding environmental management,health, safety and goodcorporate citizenship.

About the opportunity

Assist with allaspects of the warehousefunctions and inventorymanagement associated with the operation of the power station.

Create change and ‘futureready’ theorganisation through your involvement in keyprojects.

Accesstodevelopmentopportunities to continue to grow leadership and technical skills that arehighly transferable throughout industry.

What you’ll do

Use the MMStomaintain for tracking of Purchase Orders, Stock Requests, InventoryLocations

Accurate and timely receipting of incoming materials verifying the quantity Qualityinspections whererequired aretobecompleted and entered into MMS in atimely manner

Operate material handling equipment to unload deliveries of material, stock and equipment

Perform Purchasing Officer duties during periods of absence or as required. Knowledgeand compliance of the handling andstorage for stock items that must comply with their Materials SafetyDataSheet (MSDS).

Ensurethe deliveryofLoy Yang BHealth&Safetyand Environmental policies and procedures to allow continual improvement,reduced risk, safeplant and equipment,safe systems of work and minimal impacts on the environment

What you’ll need

VCE or equivalent is preferred.

Provenperformanceand experience in thewarehousingfunction.

If this sounds likeyou, don’t ignorethis opportunity, makesureyou: Applyvia our careers pagewww.loyyangb.com.au/careers

Position closes Thursday 20October 2022.

LoyYang B– powering your career!

LoyYang Bwelcome applicationsfrompeople with diverse culturaland linguistic backgrounds and people withdisability. We will provide reasonable adjustments for individuals withdisabilitythroughout the recruitmentprocess. If you identifyas aperson with disabilityand requireadjustments to the application, recruitment selection and/or assessment process, please advise via the above email and indicate your preferred method of communication(email or phone) so we can keep in touch and meet yourneeds.

If youare an extraordinaryperson who wants to join adiverse team, be well rewarded withgreat salary, perks and benefits, then keep reading!

About us LoyYang Bisanelectricity generator located in the picturesque Latrobe Valley currentlysupplyingaround 20% of Victoria’s power.Weare owned by Chow TaiFook Enterprises(CTFE) and belongtothe Alinta Energyfamily,a growing and innovativeenergy market disrupter

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NUGEL ACAC CASE MANAGER

Morwell Location

VACCA's Nugel (Belong) Program was the first of these "Aboriginal Children in Aboriginal Care" programs to be implemented in Victoria and thus has been at the forefront of these developments, transforming the business of protecting children to truly meet the best interests of Aboriginal children today and for generations to come.

This position will be responsible for working with Aboriginal children and families, Government, and sector partners to reduce the over representation of Aboriginal children in care and in contact with the Child Protection system, strive for better outcomes for children and to build capacity in families so that children can be transitioned home.

View the position description and apply online www.vacca.org

URGENT Deliverers Wanted TRARALGON, MORWELL and NEWBOROUGH

Would you liketodeliver theLatrobe Valley Express newspaper to individual homes on Tuesdayand/or Wednesdayafternoons in Traralgon, Morwell and Newborough.

Please apply to:

The Circulation Manager 0456 000541

Please note: Children must be 11 years or over as we will need to apply for agovernment Child Employment Permit. Children younger than 11 cannot or will not be accepted.

Adult deliverers also welcome GP1 632593

Qualified Diesel Mechanic EVENING SHIFT

Full-time Position

We are on the hunt for one or two mechanics that would like to work the hours of 4pm to 12am. If you think this is you and would enjoy working in afriendly and very supportive environment: APPLY NOW

ANC Forestry is an extremely well-established logging and transport company seeking to employ a suitable person to manage our evening shift maintaining our fleet of Log Trucks, located in Morwell Victoria.

An experienced Diesel Mechanic/Fitter is required for immediate start to work in the workshop carrying out basic servicing and repairs across our fleet of single and B-double trucks.

To be successful for this role, you will possess the following:

● Track record of experience in the maintenance and repair of heavy vehicles

● Strong understanding of hydraulics and electrical systems

● Excellent diagnostic and repair skills

● Ability to problem solve

● Self-motivated, with apositive 'can do' attitude

● Great remuneration offered to successful candidate

● Ability to work within ateam or autonomously when required

● Sound knowledge of pneumatic braking and suspension systems

● Ability to prioritise all repairs and work to a deadline

COMMI/DEMI CHEF de PARTIE

The Italian Australian Sporting &Social Club of Gippsland is currently seeking aQualified Chef to join our existing team of hospitality professionals. We are looking for an individual to perform cooking duties as aCommi/Demi Chef de Partie or equivalent, having completed an apprenticeship or passed the appropriate trade test, and engaged in general or specialised cooking, baking, pastry cooking or butchering duties.

Reporting directly to the Head Chef the primary role of this position will be to assist the Head Chef with the smooth and effective operation of the Bistro Kitchen and Functions.

Key Responsibilities:

● Working with our current kitchen team and head chef to prepare and serve food for our Bistro and various functions

● Maintaining high levels of food safety

● Stock control, including correct preparation and rotation

● Ability to work unsupervised when required

● Ability to follow set up and pack down procedures with high standard and consistency

● Other duties as directed by the Head Chef

● To assist in the implementation of workplace policies and procedures as directed by the Management

● To participate as part of ateam providing services to members and patrons

● Through the application of recognised Occupational Health and Safety practices, provide asafe and healthy work environment

● To perform all duties consistent with the policies of the Club and Statutory requirements

To qualify for this position the successful applicant will need to demonstrate they have the following Knowledge/Skills &Experience:

● Holds aCertificate III in Hospitality (Commercial Cookery) or equivalent

● Holds acurrent Food Handling Certificate

● Demonstrated management and leadership skills

● Ability to manage stock control and ordering with respect to food services

● Ability to develop and implement policies and procedures as required

● Ability to exercise initiative and sound judgement

● Experience in function work and high volume bistro work

Salary $64K -$70K depending on experience.

If you believe you are the right person for this Permanent Full Time position and wish to receive aPosition Description, please forward your resume along with your letter of introduction to the Clubs Acting General Manager Frank D'Urbano, email: manager@italianaustralianclub.com.au

We are also seeking Truck Drivers and Boilermakers.

Please email admin@ancforestry.com.au or call on 5133 0222

Bookkeeper/BAS Agent

Part-time or Full-time Position Location -Drouin Office

Professional and dynamicenvironment Salarypackage basedonexperience Xero/MYOB/Reckon

About thebusiness and the role RGMFinancial Group provides financial services in Accounting and Financial Planning with three offices across Gippsland. We’reafinancial services firm with adifference, with over 65 years’ experience creating opportunity and building wealth by offering the right advice from ateam of the verybest

The role is to take careofall our BASclients within the Drouin Office. Youwill be responsible for liaising with clients, data entry, production of Quarterly BAS’s and meeting deadlines. To be successful in this role you must have doubleentryaccounting experience, abasic understanding of financial reporting, and data entry with attention to detail. Youmustpossess excellent communication and organisational skills and also have the ability to work both autonomously and as part of ateam.

About You

Ahighlevel of GSTknowledge, experience with softwareproductssuch as Xero,Reckon and MYOB would be an advantage.

In return, you will be rewarded with an attractive remuneration package and be part of agreat team environment andhavea positiveand excellent work ethic.

Job benefits and perks

Monthly RDO’s

Flexibleworking arrangements

Strong social cultureincluding monthly office lunches and mid and end of year functions

An organisation that looks to nurturetalent Amulti-faceted financial services firm in Gippsland

Family first environment

Forwardyour resume with acover letter to: Bookkeeper -Drouin -via email drouin rgmgroup.com.au or applyonline: rgmgroup.com.au/career/bookkeeper

Applicationsclose -7th October 2022.

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Please checkyourad onthe first day andbring any errors to the attention of the Classifieds Department immediately

The Latrobe Valley Express makes everyefforttoavoid errors

We regret that we cannot be responsible forany errors beyond the first day if you fail to bring it to our attention.

No allowancescan be made for errors not materially affecting the effectiveness of thead.

Positioncannotwill notbe guaranteed.

All claims foradjustment of credit must be made within seven days afterbilling date.

We reservethe right to revise or restrictany adwedeem objectionable and to change the classification when necessary to conform to the policy of this newspaper.

In the event an ad is omitted from publication, we assumenoliability forsuch omission.

Caravans

THANK YOU. Iwould like to thank everyone who came to my 100th Birthday Celebration. Iwas truly overwhelmed by how many were there, it was something Ijust never expected, so Iwould sincerely like to thank all of my family and friends for making my day completely unforgettable, it was one of the best days of my 100 years. "Thank you all" -Kathleen (Evans).

AZZOPARDI, Sebastian Phillip (Bass). 3787549

HQ 1st Aust. Task Force D&E Platoon. Vietnam. Passed away peacefully surrounded by his loving family at the Epworth Hospital, Box Hill on 26 September 2022.

Aged 77 years Much loved husband of Nina for 55 blessed years. Treasured and loved father of Jason and AnnMaree, father-in-law of Samantha and David. Cherished Papa and Grandpa of Isaac, Olivia, Bailey, Jorja and Jesse.

Alaugh, asmile, ajoke or two, That's the way we will always remember you.

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PEDIGREE Pop-top, 2001, 2gas bottles, TV, m/wave, radio/CD, 3-way fridge, gas stove, top electric oven, twin bunks, awning $16,500. 0417 533 007.

TRAVELLER caravan 23', 2012, dual axle, full ens., w/mach., large fridge, full annexe, 2solar panels, 4 remove movers, 2chairs, $55,000. 0408 193 281.

Wrecking

MAZDA, 2003 Tribute for sale or wrecking. New tyres and alternator, motor 200,000kms, transmission and interior good, driver side damaged. 0437 020 252, open to offers.

Trailers

BARRY, Brian Laurence. Born 4/7/1939 and passed away on 20/9/2022 with family by his side. Dearly loved father and father-in-law of Sharlene and Shane, Peter and Sharleen, Kevin, Steven and Tania. Grandfather to Liam, Sarah, Daniel, Luke, Kristy and Jay. Forever in our hearts Dad, you held my hand as my journey began. Iam privileged to have held your hand as your journey came to an end. Rest in peace and love Sharls and Shane.

BIANCONI (Pullano), Concetta. Passed away at LRH after ashort illness. Dearly loved wife of Nunzio (dec.) Adored mother and mother-in-law to Chiara and Robert. Dearly loved Nonna to Mia, Ava and Cristian.

Mamma, you have left a big hole in our lives. The brave fight you put up to the very end, you were so courageous. Iamsoglad Robert and Iwere there to hold your hand up to the final moment you closed your eyes. We are going to miss you so much. You gave so much love and affection to everyone. The love for your grandchildren was so pure and unconditional. There will be never enough words to express how much we love you.

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MOWING BUSINESS?

8x5 trailer, drop down back, ideal for start up mowing business, previous owner retiring $2000 o.n.o. Ph 0408 513 897.

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USE ALL THE MEDIA TO YOUR ADVANTAGE HOSTAGARAGE SALE TODAAY CALL 5135 4455

Reunited again with Papa No more suffering no more pain Te voglio bene assai ma tanto tanto bene assai

BIANCONI (Pullano), Concetta. Born 5/8/1932, Died 26/9/2022. Our Zia Concetta has gone to Heaven. Abeautiful, gentle and kind lady. Always welcoming and full of lover for everyone. We will miss you Zia. Rest in peace in God's house. Lilia, John, Trish, Fort, Chris, Daniel, Pap and all our families.

Italian Australian Sporting Social Club of Gippsland Inc.

GRANT Tourer, 2007, one owner, garaged, dual axle, 19'6", q/s bed, TV, front kit, fridge/freezer, gas 4burn stve/oven, h.w. tap, slide out BBQ under awn $25,000. 0438 426 061.

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BIANCONI, Concetta. Deep in our hearts you will always stay, Loved and remembered every day. Your presence we will miss, Your memory we will treasure, Loving you as always, Forgetting you never.

Loved Zia of Lou, Natalie, Orlanda, Warren, Carly, Jacob, Saige and Jordan.

BIANCONI, Concetta. Awonderful caring Zia. Our deepest sympathy to Chiara, Rob, Mia, Ava and Cristian. From Ezio, Carmen, Christian and Luca.

BIANCONI, Concetta. Our dear Zia, you were our closest link to our mother. Athoughtful kind woman which we will miss deeply.

Beautiful Memories Love Wendy, John, Jason, Simon, Elena and families.

BIANCONI, Concetta. We hold you close within our hearts, and there you will remain. Condolences to Chiara, Robert, Mia, Ava and Cristian.

Irma Guarascio and family.

Sadly Missed

BRIDLE, Robert.

All too suddenly alink to Morwell's pre-industrial past is gone. He was many things. Excellent company, he could be strongly opinionated, he was an entertaining golfer, especially near water, he was a connoisseur of good shiraz, well aged steak and ancient bananas and an aficionado of skinless hot dogs. He was Mr Magoo in aMitsubishi, he could be cranky when afootballer did not kick the bloody thing, he was generous with his time and concern for others, but foremost he was agreat friend who will be greatly missed.

Rest In Peace Robbity-Bob Dr Fang.

BUCCI, Giuseppe (Joe).

Passed away peacefully with family by his side at Latrobe Regional Hospital on Tuesday 27 September 2022.

Aged 87 years Beloved brother of Rosa, Giustina, Aurelia (dec.), Emilo (dec.), and Assunta (dec.). Brother-in-law of Mario D(dec.), Giovanni (dec.), Vera, Mario Tand Ferdinando. Beloved Zio to Anna M, Silvana, Maria D, Antonio, Rosanna, Anne D, Giuseppe, Michele, Carmelina, MariaB, Mariateressa and Luigi.

Loved forever

CHEFFERS (Casey), Marlene Patricia.

Passed away peacefully at Latrobe Regional Hospital Traralgon on 2October 2022

Aged 74 years

Dearly loved wife of Russell (Rusty).

Much loved mother and mother-in-law of Glen and Elda, Guy and Nat, Dean and Kellie, Marc and Sonia.

Adored Nanna to Jack, Zali, Ben, Tayla, Sienna, Luke, Mia, Tianna, Harry, Zac, Sam, Chloe.

God has you in His keeping, We have you in our hearts.

DOCHERTY (nee Herlihy), Colleen Jean.

Passed away at peacefully on Tuesday, 27 September 2022.

Aged 70 years

Loved wife of Neil (dec.).

Loved mother to Kenny (dec.) and Charitie.

Beautiful, amazing and caring Nanny to Otti, Jam, Mouse, Turkey and Dude.

Adored GG to Novy-bum.

Loved by all who knew her, young and old.

Please see Latrobe Valley Funeral's Website for service details

www.latrobevalley funerals.com.au

JOVICIC, Milan (Joe). 15/5/1946 -11/9/2022. Loved and remembered always by his family and friends.

PERRY (nee Bruce), Annie.

Loved sister of Jean, Colin, Don, Betty and Roy (dec.).

We will miss her

PRITCHETT, Thomas. Passed away Wednesday, 8September 2022.

Much loved husband of Maureen. Dearly loved father of Cheryl, Robert (dec.), Philip, Karen and partners. Grandfather to 12 and great-grandfather to 25.

Sleep Peacefully

WARE, Colin. With deepest sympathy to the Ware family on the loss of Col, atreasured member of the Thorpdale &District Angling Club. His commitment and enthusiasm were inspirational, and his friendship will be sadly missed.

R.I.P. Col. Gone fishing

Funerals

BUCCI. Prayers for the repose of the soul of Mr Giuseppe (Joe) Bucci will be offered at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Commercial Road Morwell on FRIDAY (7 October 2022) at 11.30am.

At the conclusion of the Service the Funeral will leave for the Yallourn Cemetery.

ROBINSON. The Funeral Service to Celebrate the life of Beverly Robinson will take place in the Rose Chapel, Gippsland Memorial Park Crematorium, Cemetery Dve, Traralgon THURSDAY (6 October 2022) commencing at 11am.

CHEFFERS, Marlene.

The Yinnar Football Netball Club wish to express their deepest sympathy to the family of Mrs Marlene Cheffers. Marlene was a much valued and loved life member, and also a long time volunteer and supporter of our club. Our thoughts and love are with her family during this sad time.

KOOTSTRA, Anna. Passed away peacefully, with family by her side on Friday, 30 September 2022.

Loved and loving wife of Jan (dec.). Mother and mother-in-law of Tony, Audrey and John, Klaas and Wendy, Janet and Mick, Kathleen and Pat. Loving nana to all her grandchildren and great grandchild.

Reunited with Dad

LIS, Dr Nicholas. MBBS (London), D.P.M., M.R.C. PSYCH., F.R.A.N.Z.C.P.

Surgeon-Commander R.N. (Rtd).

Born Walthamstowe, London 18/8/1933. Went to sleep at Traralgon, Victoria 30/9/2022.

Beloved husband and soulmate of Gabrielle (Gay) Michau.

Cherished father of Theresa,Jacqueline, Nicholas, Sarah, Victoria and Catharine.

Friend, protector and companion to the menagerie

Much loved, much missed Rest in peace, Nick

PRITCHETT, Tom. Latrobe Valley Group of Melbourne Legacy extend their condolences and sympathy to family and friends on the passing of Legatee Tom Pritchett. Legatee Tom has served Legacy for some 25 years with much pride and dedication to his Legacy Widows including his position as President and will be sadly missed.

WEBB (Thomson), Lillian "Jean". Passed away peacefully surrounded by loved ones at Andrews House, Trafalgar on 27 September 2022, in her 94th year.

Dearly loved wife of Wal (dec.) for 64 years.

Much loved mother and mother-in-law of Jen, Bruce and Sharon, Linda and Steve, and Ross.

Adored Nan/Nannie of Laura and Jayson, Ryan and Josie; Krystal and Ben, Aaron and Courtenay, Tayah and Iggy; James and Dani, Craig and Amelia.

Loving Grand Nannie of Lachie, Annalise, Angus, Ollie; Kye, Harley, Hunter, Mila; and Colton.

To the world she was but one, But to us she was the world.

Aviewing will take place in the above church on Friday morning, (7 October 2022) at 11am.

Joe's Service will be livestreamed. To view the livestream visit our website: latrobevalley funerals.com.au and click on Joe's Service.

MOE-MORWELL-TRARALGON MORWELL 5134 4937

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CHEFFERS. Requiem mass for the repose of the soul for Mrs Marlene Cheffers will be held at Lumen Christi Catholic Church, Churchill THURSDAY (6 October 2022) commencing at 2pm.

SMITH (Thomson). The Funeral Service of Mrs Margaret Mary Smith will be held at Latrobe Valley Funeral Services Chapel, 6Ollerton Ave, Moe on TUESDAY, (11 October 2022), commencing at 1.30pm. Following the Service, the Funeral will leave for the Moe Cemetery.

MOE-MORWELL-TRARALGON MOE 5126 1111 Place your tribute on latrobevalleyfunerals.com.au

MEAD, Terence John (Terry). 28/1/1938 -28/9/2022.

Passed away peacefully at home, in the loving care of his family.

Aged 84 years Reunited in Heaven with his beloved wife Frances.

Dearly loved son of Jack (dec.) and Esme (dec.).

Loving brother to Tony, Jean, and Anne (dec.).

Devoted and loved father of Paul, Mary, Pamela, and Susan.

Father-in-law of Graham and Libby.

Adored and loved Pop of Lachlan, Maxwell, Hayley, Daniel, Ryan, and Kyle.

Deeply loved, forever in our hearts

APrivate family Service for Terry will be held in accordance with his wishes.

MORREY, Jane Louise.

2/4/1961 -15/9/2022.

Passed away suddenly but peacefully at the Latrobe Regional Hospital, Traralgon.

Cherished daughter of Fred and Elizabeth (both dec.).

Much loved sister of Philip and Tracey, Anthony and Christine and their families.

Loved andrespected by all

PERRY, Annie. Passed away peacefully on Saturday, 1October, 2022.

Loved and loving wife of Horace (dec.). Beloved mother of Patricia, Susan, Kevin, Steven and Roger.

Greatly missed grandmother and great grandmother. At Rest

ROBINSON, Beverly. 24/9/2022.

We have lost avery kind soul who has been reunited with Malcolm and Shane.

Rest in peace Bev Chris and family.

SMITH (Thompson) (nee Myers), Margaret.

Passed away peacefully, Friday, 30 September 2022.

Much loved mother of Robert (dec.), Barbara (dec.), Geoffrey, David, Leslie (dec.), Terry, George, Ronnie, Alison, Marian (dec.), Linda and Kathleen (dec.). Greatly missed nanna of 16 grandchildren and great nan to 39.

Forever in our thoughts

THICKPENNY, Ronald James 'Ron'.

Passed away suddenly on Saturday, 24 September 2022 at Heyfield Hospital.

Aged 92 years Loved husband of Nancy (dec.).

Loved and respected father and father-in-law of Anne and Brian, David and Jane, Jason and Amy.

Loving Pa to Kelly, Ben, Shailee, Holly, Josie and Sam. Great Grandfather to Balyn and Ashlyn.

At peace, reunited with Nancy

TIMMINS, Robert. 18/9/1938 -23/9/2022.

Dearly loved brother of Ted (dec.), loved brotherin-law of Janice. Treasured and loving uncle of Pauline and John (dec.). Robert you were agentle and kind, loving man who was deeply loved and respected by everyone. We will treasure our memories.

Ted (dec.), Janice, Pauline and John (dec.).

Mum and Dad Reunited

Funerals

AZZOPARDI.

PRIVATE CREMATION In lieu of flowers, donations to Cancer Counsel Victoria would be appreciated, envelopes available at the Service.

THICKPENNY. The Funeral of Mr Ronald Thickpenny will be held at the Rose Chapel Gippsland Memorial Park, Cemetery Drive Traralgon on FRIDAY (14 October 2022) commencing at 1.30pm.

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Requiem Mass for the repose of the soul of Mr Sebastian Phillip (Bass) Azzopardi, late of Warragul and formerly of Morwell, will be celebrated at St Joseph's Catholic Church, Witton St, Warragul on WEDNESDAY (5 October 2022) at 1.30pm.

The Mass will also be live-streamed. To view, please visit: www.nielsenfunerals.com.au

The Funeral will leave at the conclusion of Mass for the Gulwarra Heights Memorial Park, 378 Burke St, Warragul.

Rosary will be recited prior to Mass at 1pm.

All Ex-Service Personnel and RSL Members are respectfully invited to attend.

In lieu of flowers adonation in memory of Bass may be made to the Warragul RSL. Envelopes will be available at the Church.

Marlene's Service will be livestreamed, to view the livestream please visit: latrobevalley funerals.com.au and go to livestreaming.

MOE-MORWELL-TRARALGON MOE 5126 1111 Place your tribute on latrobevalleyfunerals.com.au

KOOTSTRA.

The Funeral Service of Mrs Anna Kootstra will be held at Latrobe Valley Funeral Services Chapel, 437A PrincesDrive, Morwell on TUESDAY (11 October 2022) commencing at 2pm. Following the Service, a Private Burial will take place.

MOE-MORWELL-TRARALGON MORWELL 5134 4937 Place your tribute on latrobevalleyfunerals.com.au

MORREY.

The Memorial Service to celebrate the life of Jane Morrey will be held at the Nielsen Funeral Chapel, Korumburra Rd, Warragul NEXT WEDNESDAY (12 October) at 10.30am.

APrivate Cremation has been held.

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WEBB.

AService to honour the life of Mrs Jean Webb will be held at St Andrew's Uniting Church, Contingent St, Trafalgar on FRIDAY (7 October 2022) at 2pm.

At the conclusion of the Service the cortege will leave for the Trafalgar Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers adonation in memory of Jean may be made to Andrews House, Trafalgar. Envelopes will be available at the Church.

TWADDLE, James (Jim) NM.

Newborough Fire Brigade officers and members wish to express their deepest sympathy on the passing of Life Member Jim Twaddle NM. Sincere condolences to Jim's family.

BIANCONI. Requiem Mass for the repose of the soul for Mrs Concetta Bianconi will be offered at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Commercial Road Morwell, WEDNESDAY (5 October 2022), commencing at 11am.

The Funeral will leave at the conclusion of Mass for the Hazelwood Cemetery.

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PERRY.

AGraveside Service to celebrate the life of Mrs Annie Perry will be held at Boolarra Cemetery, Barktown Road, Boolarra, THURSDAY (6 October 2022) commencing at 2pm.

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15 years today, Ican't believe how long you have been away.

Lots of dark days and some sunny days have been the normal since you left this world.

You have never been forgotten, nor will you ever be as long as Ilive.

My heart still has ahuge hole, and Ilong to hear your voice again. Istill miss you terribly, but know when you are around me, keeping an eye one me.

Till we meet again Ilove you Andrew, my blue eyed boy Mum XXOO.

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TWADDLE, Jim. The Chairman, Board, Management and members of the CFA regret the passing of their esteemed college and offer their deepest sympathy to his family.

PRITCHETT. The Funeral Service and Committal for Cremation of Mr Thomas Pritchett will be held at Latrobe Valley Funeral Service Chapel, 437A PrincesDrive MorwellonFRIDAY, (7 October 2022), commencing at 1.30pm. In lieu of flowers, donations to Legacy, Latrobe Valley Group, would be appreciated. Envelopes available at the Service.

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HAMILTON, Rob. 3/6/1945 -7/10/2011. Eleven long years have passed by, we think of you often and wish you were here. Miss you heaps. Loving wife Marie, Jamie, Liza, Troy, Melissa, Jade, Nigel and your thirteen wonderful grandchildren.

SHAW, Chris.

Aged 35 years The years have slipped by but our precious memories are silently kept of the one we loved and will never forget. With love from your family XOXO.

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Break outthe 2022 Moe(t)

SPORT COMMENT BY LIAM DURKIN

WITH premierships and grand finals dominating the sports pages in recent weeks, readers may be surprised to learn just how successful one local town has been in 2022.

They may even be more surprised when they find out that town is Moe.

For atown that traditionally doesn’t get agreat rap, Moe has certainly provided plenty of positivity on the sporting field.

Earlier in the year, Moe Cricket Club won the AGrade premiership in the Latrobe Valleyand District Cricket League.

That samesummer, Moe Tennis Club tookout the Riverside Tennis Association Section 1title.

Just afortnight ago, Moe United Soccer Club won the Battle of Britain, adding another cup to its huge trophy cabinet.

In fact, the Red Devils are the most successful club in the Latrobe Valley Soccer League.

On the football field of adifferent shape and size, Moe has won two premierships this season. The Lions took out the Central Gippsland Junior

Football League Under 15s, whilethe senior women won the Female Football Gippsland flag.

Not to be outdone, Moe/Newborough Dodgers recently wonthe Latrobe Valley Baseball Association AGrade premiership.

Some honourable mentions are needed for Moe netballers.

Moe’s Aand BGrade netball teams each missed playinginSaturday’sGippsland League Grand Final by one goal.

Speaking of Grand Finals, afew Moe footballers have made their mark on AFL Grand Final day.

Who couldforgetTed Hopkins’ heroics for Carlton in 1970?OrBarry Rowlings winning two Gippsland League best and fairestsplayingfor Moe, before goingontoplay in two AFL premierships.

John Somerville played in Essendon’s 1962 flag, whilehis sonPeterplayedinthe Bombers’ 1993 triumph -both are Moe boys.

The Somerville name is behindlong running Moe joinery business Law Somerville Industries -the Law being current Latrobe City councillor Brad and the Somerville Geoff (brother of John).

Brad’s father Alby was another Essendon player, whom the Moe Football-Netball Club senior best and fairest is named after.

While on the subject of localconnections, current Australian women’s goalkeeper Teagan Micah hails from Moe, as does former OlympianJulianPaynter Paynter carried the Olympic torch through Moe for the 2000 Sydney games.

More recently, therewas anotherfamous connection that landed in Moe.

Did you know Black Caviar’s son ran at Moe Racing Club earlier this month?

Moe RacingClubofcourse beingbeing one of the few country tracks located virtually in the centre of town.

Notlong to go nowuntilthe Moe Cup -one of the most popular meetings on the Gippsland calendar.

Moe Racing Club’s state of the art StrathAyr track adds to alistofhigh-quality sporting infrastructure in the town.

The GippslandRegional Cricket CentreisinMoe, as is Ted Summerton Reserve, arguably the best football/cricket surface in Gippsland.

You may not have picked Moe as being asporty town, butitlooks like it is more than pulling its weightupagainst ‘bigbrothers’ Traralgonand Morwell.

Who knows, perhaps there will be even more Moe premierships to celebrate in 2023.

SPORT

MIRBOONorth Stadiumwill be rebuilt if The Nationals andLiberalswin governmentatthe state election.

Leader of The Nationals, Peter Walsh, joined NationalsMemberfor Gippsland South, Danny O’Brien, lastWednesdaytocommit$2.5 million to ensurethe facility is rebuilt and improved, if elected in November.

Mr Walsh saidThe Nationals recognise the importance of the gymnasium to the local community.

“This is asignificant public sporting facility and it cannot be allowed to continue to deteriorate to the detriment of the community,” Mr Walsh said.

“The gym that is shared by Mirboo North Secondary College and Primary School is also acommunity facility used by the Basketball Association, Mirboo North Football-Netball Club and anumber of other sporting and community groups.”

Mr O’Brien said it was clear to all that the stadium needs replacing.

“It is outdated with an undersized basketball court and concrete floors coveredinvinyl,”hesaid.

“The toilets and change facilities are awful despite the schools’ best efforts at cosmetic updates, and thereisasbestosand various building failures that need to be addressed.

“The Nationals in government will ensure that the community is given afull regulation-sized basketball court and agymnasium that is safe for the community and local schools to use.”

Mr O’Brien said he will continue to workwith the Mirboo North community to establish where the new facility should be built.

“This is aslightlyunusual situationinthat the

Traralgonfor great tennis

VALLEY locals will have the chance to rub shoulders with some of the world’s best tennis players when the Latrobe City Traralgon International hits town thisNovemberat Traralgon Tennis Association.

Players, including some of the world’s best rising stars from Australia and across the globe, will compete for US$100,000 (A$145,000) in prize money and valuable world-ranking points.

Withsupport fromthe Latrobe City Council, Traralgonisa popularspotonthe tennis calendar, and has regularlyplayedhostto key Australian Open lead-in events for juniors and playerslookingtogainvaluable court time in Australia, ahead of the year’s first Grand Slam.

Latrobe City Council MayorKellie O’Callaghan wasproudtosee the tournaments would be hosted in Traralgon.

“Wecannotwaittowelcome tennis players from across the globe to battle it out at the Latrobe City Traralgon International this November,” Cr O’Callaghan said.

“LatrobeCity haspositioned itself as a premium sportinghub andispleased the Australian Pro Tour has recognised our region.”

Traralgon Tennis Association manager SusieGrumley said the organisation was excited to host the Pro Tour event.

“These events are awonderful pathway for player development, and enable players to come to the Club, train and play matches for two weeks, giving them valuable experience in our great region,” Ms Grumley said.

“The community embraces these events and it’s lovelytobeabletogive them the opportunity to be apart of the tournaments, and experience some high-quality tennis locally.

“We are really looking forward to supporting Tennis Australia and the Pro Tour Circuit.”

Tennis Australia’s Pro Tour manager Fiona Luscombe also thanked the region for their ongoing support.

“We are extremely grateful for the support of Latrobe City Council, Traralgon Tennis Association and the community for their support to be able to host these events,” Ms Luscombe said

“We have alongstanding relationship with Traralgon, hosting ATP80Challenger events for morethan nineyears, and have seen esteemed players Max Purcell, Jordan Thompson, Luke Saville and Matt Ebden takeout titles here in the past, along with rising stars and the elite juniors of the game.

“Weare looking forward to hosting another great season of events and welcomingthe local community down to enjoy.”

The Latrobe City Traralgon International will take place at Traralgon Tennis Association from November 13 to November 27.

Organisers are promising that spectator entry to the event will be free.

The fields for the event will be revealed in early November.

school facility is the only stadium in town so it is amixed education and community use,” he said.

“Withthe money now on the table, Iwill work withthe local schools and community groups to determine the best outcome for all involved.”

The Nationals have also made a$4-million commitment to improve severely antiquated facilitiesatGaskin Park, Churchill, by building astate-of-the-art sporting hub.

The commitmentwillsee the construction of multi-use changerooms for male and female athletes and officials, construction of asecond netball court,resurfacing of the junior footballoval and relocation of cricket and baseball to Gaskin Park.

NationalsCandidate for Morwell, Martin Cameron, saidthe fundingwill give Churchill grassrootssporting clubs asense of security around their future.

“After talking with each of these groups, it was evident therewas an absolute need for the Gaskin Park Sporting Hub to be developed so this growing community can be supported and better connected,” he said.

“If we want to encourage active and healthy communities, then our local sporting groups deserve facilities to match.”

Liberal candidate for Morwell, Dale Harriman, said he had advocated for an upgrade to Gaskin Park for many years.

“It’s important for our regional towns to have fit-for-purpose sporting infrastructure that caters for everyone,” Mr Harriman said.

“Local sport and community participationis important to locals and the Liberals are proud to support Churchill’s grassroots organisations with this commitment.”

Success: MoeCricketClub’sA Gradepremiership from earlier in theyear.Moe has been home to anumber of flagsinvarioussports in 2022. file photograph

Member forEasternVictoria Melina Bath, Nationals LeaderPeter Walsh andMember for Gippsland South Danny O’BrienwithMirboo NorthStadium users,welcoming lastweeks commitment. photograph supplied

Twodayers, anew team,and arvo

CRICKET LVDCL BY LIAM DURKIN

WIVES and girlfriends of Latrobe Valley cricketers -get your goodbyes in now.

The Latrobe Valley and District Cricket League season starts in amatter of days, and that means hundredsofplayers across the region will be devoting their time to asport that takes up most of the weekend for the next six months.

To the uninhibited,cricket can appear to be a confusing game playedout by eccentrics in long trousers who stand out in the sun for six hours, but to millionsofdevoteesworldwide,itisthe ultimate battle of wits, cunning and attrition.

In terms of making areturn, the LVDCL has a double-dose in store for season 2022/23.

Not only will this season see the return of two day cricket, it will also see the return of the much-loved tradition of afternoon tea.

The return of two dayers means the returnofreal cricket, while the return of ‘the spread’ means the afternoontea stakes are sure to be abattle as hotly contested as anything on the field.

Clubreputations canbemadeordestroyed on the quality of the afternoon tea.

The cricket afternoontea is the ideal sporting diet -ideal for watching sport on televisionthat is, and is usually made up of party pies, sausage rolls, sandwiches, fruit, cake and slice.

Manyyoung playershavekept their spotina first grade teambecause their mothers provide scrumptious afternoon teas.

Moving back to the fixture, the season will see competing teams from the Premier Aand AGrade division play one-day games in across-conference system up until Christmas, before movinginto the longer format after the break.

Teams willthen only play opponentsintheir division after Christmas.

The opening round fixture is (home team listed first): Morwell vJeeralang-Boolarra, Traralgon West vCATS, Churchill vCentrals, MTY Raiders vTrafalgar, Moe vWillow Grove, Mirboo North vLatrobe.

CATS

 Last season: Premier Apremier

 Captain: Josh Keyhoe; in: None; out:Tinashe Panyangara, Sam Hoch.

CATS enter season 2022/23 in the unique position of goingfor ahat-trick of premierships across two different divisions.

The teamfromTraralgon South enteredthe Premier Acompetition last season, straight after being promoted from AGrade theseasonprior, and duly walked away with the title.

ACATSpremiership seemed along shot at times during the regular season, as they tip-toed their way through the campaign, emergingasa dark horse late in the piece.

Amazingly, they were30points adrift of Churchill on the ladder at the end of the regular season, and only gotinto the grand final after anerve-killing four-run win in the semi-final.

They then went on to defeat the Cobras by 131 runs in the grand final.

Talk aboutputtingitall together on the big stage.

If CATS are to go again, they will have to do so without the hero of last season’s decider, Tinashe Panyangara.

The ZimbabweanTest player was man-of-thematch in the grand final after taking 5/17.

Top order bat Josh Keyhoe takes over from Ben

Julin as captain, and he will have some strong seniorityaroundhim in theform of Jamie Cochrane and Cal Stewart.

Stewartmay moveupthe orderfor the two dayers after Christmas, and certainly has the class to average close to 50.

Areversesweep he played againstTrafalgar acouple of seasons ago still sticks firmly in the memory of those who witnessed it. The ball literally gottothe boundary in half asecond and never went more than two inches off the grass.

Churchill

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Last season: runner-up.

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Captain: John Keighran; in: Kian Farnworth (England), Brae Kelly(RedHill); out: Brendan Mason, Ryan Harvey (both injured).

THE Cobras will look to play finalsagain, and main tain their status as the competitions benchmark.

Churchill hasnot missed the grand finalsince the LVDCL was formed.

King Cobra John Keighran is back leading the side, and has welcomedtwo recruits for the season.

KianFarnworth hascome over fromEngland, and Brae Kelly from the Mornington region.

Kelly is expected to bowl plenty of overs withhis leg breaks, while Farnworth will takeupaposition in the top order.

TheCobras will be without key playersBrendan Masonand Ryan Harvey, who are both consigned to the sidelines with injury.

Whiletheir losses will be felt, if there is one thing Churchill cricketersknow betterthanmostitis howtoplay an effective role,and Keighran will

again be out to see his troops are doing this more often than not.

The Cobras haveanumber of bowlers suchas Chris Williams, Steve Warr and Keighran himself all capable of stringing plenty of dots together, and this, backed up by exceptional fielding has been a hallmark at George Cain Oval in recent seasons.

Opposition teams have oftencommented how it feels as though there are15 players on the field whenever they play against Churchill.

Morwell

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Last season: third.

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Captain/coach: Jordan Campbell; in: Greg Harvey(Liverpool), LukeGettings (Middlesborough), Manbir Singh (India); out: none

MORWELL won’t need to look hard for motivation this season.

The Tigers were denied aplace in the grand final by the barest of margins last season, and will be hell-bent on avoiding arepeat in 2022/23.

Morwell has some serious fire-power with the bat, equally complemented with players who can hold things together.

Players such as Blake Mills, Mark Cukier, Brendan Brincat and Blair Clymo are all capable of taking the game awayfromanopposition in asession, while captain/coach Jordan Campbell and Dylan Day bring tremendous game-sense to the equation.

Day is coming offa breakout season with the ball, where his 25 wickets saw him finish second on the league table.

The Tigershave afew internationals coming across thisseason, andofficials will hope this bolsters the line-up even more.

Depth certainlydoesn’tlook to be an issue at Morwell. Brincat batted as low as seven at times last season, and much like Adam Gilchrist during the halcyon days of Australian cricket, one can only imagine the demoralising effect this had on opponents.

Something that stood out from Morwell last season was how every batting pair, even those down the order, sawtheir time togetherasanopportunity to contribute rather than atasktosurvive.

If this continues, the Tigers should havelittle trouble posting decenttotals, especially in thetwo dayers.

MTY Raiders

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Last season: fourth.

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Captain/coach: Liam Maynard; in: George Cheshire(returning international), Alex Burcombe; out: Brayden Hickey.

THEY still haven’t retired.

MorwellTigersYinnar Raiderswill go into another season with an experienced list, topped off with some exciting young prospects.

Raiders’ veteransMick Higginsand Chris Stanlake will add to their games tally, along with returning captain/coach Liam Maynard in their quest to take the title.

The triomakeupacoregroup of Raiders players who seem to havebeenaroundforever, and will be joined by afew others bringing in avast amount of experience from other clubs.

International George Cheshire will be back in a

Raiders shirt. Cheshire had aproductive time in his last Australian stint, helping Raiders to the premiership with a17-wicket season.

Speaking of wickets, bean-pole quick Harry McColl took plenty last season -27infact to lead the LVDCL.

The youngster hashad abig 2022, named among the best for Yinnar in their recent senior football premiership.

Acricket flag to go alongside the footy one has a nice ring to it if you are aYinnarsupporter.

Latrobe

 Last season: fifth.

Captain: Benn Zomer; Coach: Lachlan Dobson (CarrumDowns) in: Lachlan Dobson; out: none

LATROBE could be forgiven for thinking the cricket gods have been against them in recent years.

The Sharks had Mirboo North 5/25 in pursuit of 218 in the semi-final two seasons ago, only for the Tigers to hang on for adraw and advance through as the higher ranked team.

Then in the season justgone, Latrobe missed finals despite winning the same number of games as CATS -who went on to win the premiership.

If cricket is indeed agreat leveller, it may be seen in just how the Sharks fare this season.

Latrobe hasrecruitedLachlanDobson from Carrum Downs to coach the club, and he will work alongside skipper Benn Zomer.

Zomer is one of many left-hand batsman in the Sharks top order, and this could be advantageous in making sure fieldersneed to changesides regularly.

Indefatigable: SteveWarr will againplayakey role forChurchill CricketClub this season.

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Eagle rock: Luke Phillips andRob Wilkie arelookingfor

teas allonhorizon in the LVDCL

Fellow left hander Anu Meenakshi came of age last season, scoring his first century in the top flight.

Latrobe already has a‘sort of’ cricket premiership this year, withalocalindoor team made up of mostly Latrobeplayers taking out alocal competition.

Those in the Shark colours will be hoping it serves as agood omen.

Mirboo North

Last season: sixth (relegated).

Captain/coach: Jed Alexander; in: Brett Pedlow(Yarram), Jesse VanRooye (Outtrim MoyarraKongwak), Dom Davis (Leongatha Imps), MarkGraeme(Gundaroo), Will Cheatley(returning to AGrade); out: Jesse Giardina (Leongatha Town), Iezaz Hasan (Paynesville).

MIRBOO North has recruited heavily for the new season.

After winning the Premier Apremiership in 2021/22, anumber of retirements meant the Tigers fielded avery youthful team last season.

That youth was given good exposure in the top flight, and the benefits of that might be seen more readily this season.

Jed Alexander takes over fromJesse Giardina as captain/coach.

While the names might be different, the style of leadership may remain similar, as you are unlikely to find two more laid-back characters.

Alexanderwill undoubtedly make playingcricket fun for Mirboo North, but will balance this out when the need arises to get down to business.

Hard-hitting batsman BrettPedlow has come back to the club after work commitments as principal at YarramSecondary Collegetiedhim to that part of Gippsland.

Moe

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Last season: AGrade premier (promoted).

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Captain: Noah Kane; coach: PatSpiteri;in: Callum Grant (Scotland); out: Joel Mitchell (overseas).

MOE makes the move into Premier Aafter winning the AGrade premiership.

TheLions will be greeted with new challenges in thetop flight, although their opponents will be familiar given the cross-conference model used in recent seasons.

Wicket-keeper batsman Noah Kane has been appointed club captain.

Kane has made the transition from vice-captain to lead the next generation of Moe cricketers.

The Lions have added Callum Grant this season, who is making the journey over from Scotland.

Afterconsulting the bible knownasCricinfo, Grant is listed as aleft-hand bat that bowls left arm orthodox.

Moe will be without star battingall-rounder Joel Mitchell this season, but having saidthat,the team will take confidence from what happenedonly a few months ago.

With Mitchell injured in the lastpartofthe 2021/22 season, the Lions not only won the premiership, they still put up three scores around or over the 250 mark.

Possibly thebiggest evolution in the way Moe play their cricket was seen last season, as anumber or players extended their battingfrom not just sweating on balls to hit to the boundary, but looking for every opportunity to pick up singles.

And of course, they still have Andrew Philip.

The real Prince Philip has made 800, 761and 600 runs in the last three seasons.

Trafalgar

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Last season: runner-up (A Grade).

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Captain/coach: Aydan Connolly; ins/outs: rolling withthe same squad.

THEShips have the same boat but anew captain steering it this season.

Aydan Connolly takes over from Rhys Holdsworth as captain, and will be out to see Trafalgar win as many games as possible in 2022/23.

As aclub always planning ahead,Connolly captained the side on occasions last season, in readiness to transition into the role.

The Ships have kept the same squad as the one that made the grand final last season.

If the TrafalgarCricketClubwas acountry it may well have beenasocialist onelastseason.The Ships found even contributions from everyone serving a common goal, with three players all making over 300 runs and five players all taking 12 or more wickets.

While the goal of the premiership eluded them, the Ships should be in contention again if they can demonstrate strong team values.

An area they may need to address is how they approach two-day cricket. Trafalgar hasn’t won a two-day game since the 2019/20 semi-final.

Centrals

 Last season: third(AGrade).

 Captain:TyeHourigan; Coach: RobWebber; in: Joseph Stewart(UK); out: none

FORCentrals, it has been acase of so close yet so far in recent seasons.

The Lions have had no trouble making finals, but have learnt how fragileacricket season can be thehard way, crashing out in their last three semi-final attempts.

If there is to be asilverlining however, players should now be even more determined to not let another opportunity slip by.

Youngster Tye Hourigan will captain the side this season, and is expected to bat in the top four.

Centrals have addedJoseph Stewart as their international,tofill the spinner’svoid that has

been largely unfilled since Irishman Ross Allen’s departure in 2020.

Statistically at least, the Lions offered astrange conundrum last season, as virtually every single player in the team had below-average campaigns.

ApartfromHourigan, who finished in the top 10 league batting aggregate, the next best was Wayne Henry, who came in at 32.

Bowling stocks didn’t fare quite as bad,with CoreyPollardand ReghardHefer each taking 20, but even then they only came in at 14 and 15 respectively on the league table.

To have such adiscrepancy in the batting especially is rare, especially when you have players the calibre of Rob Webber and Mark Rawson, so the Lions might be willing to write last season off and see 2022/23 as achance to start afresh.

Traralgon West

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Last season: fourth (A Grade).

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Captain/coach: RobWilkie; in: Matthew Griffiths, HarleyBright; out: none

IF last season was all about making finals, this season might be all about winning afinal for Traralgon West.

Lastseasonwas one for the dreamers at the Eagles, as the team made their first AGrade finals series since 2003/04.

While the side fell short, going down to eventual premier Moe, one would expect they are even hungrier to go again.

Rob Wilkie is back, leading the team for asecond season, and pleasingly from aTraralgon West perspective, they go in without any outs.

It has certainly been aslowburn for the Eagles, but they now look to be in aposition where they can certainly provide more than healthy competition.

Arguablythe biggest turning point that saw them make finals last season was simply knowing how to win, and Traralgon West was able to take a few games last season that hung in the balance late in the day.

Josh Monacella is coming off astrongseason with the bat, while the potential of Ihraam Zafar is well documented.

Jeeralang-Boolarra

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Last season: fifth(AGrade).

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Captain: Ben Heath; coach: AshSpotwart; in: Shankajaya De Silva, NavodEdirisinge, Yashan Wickramarachchi, Dilshan Thillekarathna; out: MattMcGrath (not playing), OssyBrennan (army), Rhy McNaughton (Paynesville).

AT least one writer is hoping he hasn’t been taken forafool with some of these ins.

Jeeralang-Boolarra will aim to make areturn to finalsthis season, continuing on astrong, if unheralded, history in AGrade cricketsince entering afirstgrade team in the old CentralGippsland Cricket Association in 2015/16.

Last season wasonly the first time the Panthers have missed finals in the LVDCL.

Ben Heath will again lead the side on the field, with Ash Spotwart acting as aclose confidant.

Just how well the new recruits go remains to be seen, although one thing is for certain-scorers will have atorrid time trying to fit their names in the batting and bowling column.

Jeerlang-Boolarra should benefit from having a few more games on their home ground this season, and will be looking forward to playing atwo-day game on the astro after Christmas.

WillowGrove

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Last season: Not applicable -entering A Grade this season.

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Captain/coach: not applicable; ins/outs: Not applicable

IT is allgoatthe Grove.

After many seasons of discussion within local cricket circles, the Wolves have finally decided to make the step up into AGrade

For aspeck of atown, Willow Grovehas athriving cricket club.

Last season they fieldedtwo senior grades, three junior teams, awomen’s side,and had an entry level program for beginners.

Now they are going to field an AGrade team for the first time since the mid 1980s.

Although arecruiting drive to bringsome A Grade quality to the club did not come to fruition, theWolves have still,admirably,decided to test thewaters.

Willow Grove finished third in Premier BGrade last season,and players who have been dominant at that level in recent years such as Brody Hams will now be among locals flying the flag for the Grove in the top flight.

The Wolveswon’t be totally out of place in A Grade,asHamsand co have faced AGrade quality teams in BGrade,while playerssuch as Peter Grima have played avast amount of first grade cricket at other clubs.

In helping with the transition, Willow Grove has been granted dispensation, and will field its second XI in the second-tier BGrade competition.

The club is hoping to gain the services of specialist coaches during the season to develop players and broaden their knowledge, with part of the move to AGrade about giving junior players at the club a taste of top level cricket.

With this in mind, Willow Grove will be under no illusions heading into the season, and in many respects, results are almost irrelevant.

For atown of less than 250 people, to have an A Grade cricket team is awin in itself.

The Latrobe Valley Express,

Stepping up: Willow Groveis playing AGrade cricketthis season.Pictured earlier in theyear is club president Josh Coombs,younggun Nathan Wheildon, secretaryJay vander Stoep and well-known localcricketerPeter Grima.

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Captain Connolly: Trafalgar CricketClubpresidentDaniel Heathcote(right) congratulates Aydan Connollyonhis appointmentas skipper photograph liam durkin

rward to another season at Traralgon West.

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Grand Finalrematchinthe TDCA

CRICKET TDCA

THE Traralgon District CricketAssociation endured acruel false start to the season, with heavy rains all through September stopping any chance of play for Round 1.

What made it even worse was the perfect cricket conditions that Saturday produced.

However, the decision to not play was stillthe correct one, with no grounds available at all due to their wet condition.

Round 2now effectivelybecomes Round1this weekend,withall clubssurelyabletoproduce wickets and have their grounds hardened up in time for cricket.

EX STUDENTS VGLENGARRY

THIS week’s match of the round is aGrand Final rematch, scheduledtobeplayedatthe newly named Terry Hunter Oval (formerly Traralgon Recreation Reserve).

This will be acrucial game for both sides to see who gets to flex their muscle early in the season and become the premiership favourite.

Ex Students at home are an incredibly tough prospect, especially with the ground looking so fast at the moment as the outfield is still alittle dead from winter.

The wicket may be adifferent proposition,

however, as it did getchurned up alot in the football season.

The curators will need to make as much progress as possible while the sun is shining early in the week, with rain forecasttoday (Wednesday), Thursday and Friday.

Jimmy Pryde will want to make abig impression early in the season to show that this team is now his and he is agood leader. Under Lee Stockdale, he was used up and down the order batting at three, four, five, six and nine in 2021/22, so it will be interesting to see where he finds himself most comfortable and wherehecan best help outhis team.

Glengarry will be on the hunt and eager to show off their latest big namerecruit -NathanAllen, who comes into the TDCA with an impressive CV.

Aleg spinner and middle order batsman,Allen has played Premier Cricketfor Dandenong and then Sub-Districts for years as well.

Although Allen hasn’tplayed since 2018/19, class doesn’t just evaporate and although he may be a bit rusty,he’ll be wanting to announcehimself in the TDCA, especially against the might of last season’s premier.

The Match-Up: Glengarry would have had nightmares of Lee Stockdale batting after last season’s incredible innings,where he made 91 not out carrying his bat in the grand final.

It will be interesting to see wherehelandsin the battingorder this season under anew skipper, but no doubt the quicks of Cam Graham and Nat Freitag will have put the work in and have some strong plans so he doesn’t have amatch-winning

innings again.

Prediction: Ex Students at home are going to be toostrong. No matter the state of the ground or the wicket, they just adapt their plans and make sure they get the job done.

ROVERS VIMPERIALS

ROVERS will host Imperials at Duncan Cameron Park in another tantalising match-up this round.

Roverswill want to make up for last season when Imperials knocked them off. Having improved drastically over the winter, Rovers will want to put the rest of the TDCA on notice.

The Duncan Cameron Park wicket for the past five years has taken alot of spin and has been reasonably hard to bowl pace on.

The curator should be lookingatthe Roversteam now and making sure there’s alittle more juice in the deck to give the likes of Mitch Floyd alittle assistance, as he will be crucial with the new ball for the young Rovers outfit.

If Floyd can get one end jumping, then Darion Duncan, Ewan Williams and Jack Lynch will be effective at the other endwiththeir line and length.

Imperialswill welcome back captain Ryan Morley into the country after along UK campaign, where he dominated for his UK club Olicanian. Morley should stillhave his eye in, but it will be difficult for the young opening bat to keep up his form for afull 18-monthperiod (Australiansummer 21/22, UK summer2022, and now another Australian

summer). It will be interesting to see how he navigates his season.

The regulars at Imps will be called on again to get the job done, such as Ross Williams and Joel Randall (if available), but if the wicketatDCP stays as it has been for the past couple of years, where spinhas beenking, the factthatBrad Sizeland won’t be available until close to Christmas will mean Imperials are behind in this game in abig wayalready.

The Match-Up: Whenever Englishmen come and play in the TDCA, there is always ahealthy rivalry between countrymen.

Rovers’ hard hitting all-rounder Olly Mason will be squaring up against Imperials superstar import Tom Starkey and willnodoubtatsomepointmeet in the middle.

Whoever wins this battle is likely to win the game for his team, so there willbemore pressure on these two Englishmen thantherewas on the pallbearers at her Majesty’s funeral. God Save the Queen.

Prediction: Rovers should be too strong, but go back12monthsand that’s the exact thingthatwas written when Imps knocked off Rovers in season 2021/22.

If Rovers lose this, it will be crushing, so with so much at stake they must win.

YARRAM VGORMANDALE

YARRAM and Districttravel over to take on Gormandale at Stoddart Oval,wherethey have played in some amazing games since their inception into the TDCA.

Something incredible always happenswhenthese twoteams play each other, and arivalry is certainly building between the two clubs.

Gormandale were kept out of the finals by the Pelicans last season by asinglepoint, and in their Round 3match of 2021/22,Yarram pummelled the Tigers into the turf after Gormandale let them off the hook when they were on 4/17.

Gormandalecaptain Adam Brady will be keen to gethis spinners into the game early and encourage Yarram’s batsmen to play the big shots, but this can backfire with the likes of Anthony Scott and Dylan Rash just as likely to smash aquick 60 or 70 if chances aren’t taken.

The Pelicans will go about playing the way they play, knowing that they can shake Gormandale’s core once they get on top. Daniel O’Keefe made a superb 83 against the Tigers last season, so will go into thegame confident that he can do it again.

TheStoddartOvalwicket is one that takes abit of time to really set yourself on, and O’Keefe is the type of bat to take his time early, so expect big things from him this weekend.

The Match-Up: Its captain vcaptain this weekendwithAdamBrady set to be crucial against keeping Ant Scott contained. Alot rides on this match-up, so may the best man win.

Prediction: This is way too closetocall;both teams rely heavily on building momentum and then steamrolling the opposition, so if either gets asniff of blood in the water, then watch out.

Toongabbie has the bye

Matchofthe round: Ex Students andGlengarrymeet in thegrand final rematchinTraralgon District CricketAssociation actionthis weekend.

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Paul Roberts.

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Leigh Brown returns home to coach Heyfield in 2023

FOOTBALL NORTH GIPPSLAND

BY ZOE ASKEW

FORMER Collingwood premiership player Leigh Brown has returned to where it all started, Heyfield Football-Netball Club -but Brownwon’tbedonning that blue and white guernsey. Instead, he’s trading the footy for aclipboard and pen as Heyfield’s newly appointed 2023 senior football coach.

Growing up in Heyfield, he played junior and senior footy for the Kangaroos until the age of 17 before going to Gippsland Power, where he was drafted to Fremantle in 1999.

Brown ended up playing 246 games in the AFL across stints with Fremantle, North Melbourne and Collingwood.

Taking the position as Heyfield’s senior football coach has always been on the cards for Brown.

“It’s something I’ve always wanted to do and give back to the footy club,” he said.

“The time is right, and in terms of the group, they need someone with experience; it’s apretty young group, and with my background, Ithink I am pretty well placed to help develop some of the guys and helpbuild aconsistent footy team on the field going forward.”

When KodieWoodland, Heyfield’s 2022 senior coach,stooddownfromthe role, Brown played an active part finding anew coach for 2023.

“The more Iwent through the process, the more that it cemented in my mind that [filling the role of coach] was what Iwanted to do,” Brown said.

After his retirement from professional football, Brownspent two yearsatMelbourne as the Demons’ assistant coachbefore returning to Gippsland.

Since being back in the region, Brown has spent five years as Gippsland Power coach and two years as the Victorian Country Under 18s coach.

“I thinkIampretty well placed to have an impact on theseyoung guys and build the club back up to playing finals footy sooner rather than later,” Brown said.

The last time Heyfield FNC’s senior football team won aNorth Gippsland Football-Netball League premiership was in 2012.

While apremiership is undoubtedly agoal for Brown as Heyfield’s new seniorcoach, building astrong and inclusive club community is at the forefront of the former Magpie’s mind.

“Anyone that plays or coaches any sport would like to have the ultimate success,” Brown said.

“Foracommunity club, such as afootball,cricket, netball club,building aplace, an environment, that atmosphereand spirit where peoplewant to come, enjoy, attend games, Thursday night dinners, is first and foremost; the rest will take care of itself from there.

“When you have the support of atown and the community behind any sporting club, it certainly drives it to be better, and Heyfield is no different.

“We have plenty of support within the club and

outside, whether that be helping out, working bees, in the canteen, those sorts of things, and they are just as important roles as acoach or aplayer.”

Brown said he was excited to continue building the Heyfield FNC community, and was determined to ensure the Kangaroos’ overall success.

“We’ve been quite successful over along period of time, we haven’t won apremiership for alittle while, but we are asuccessful club that has been able to produce players that have gone on to play at the highest level at AFL level, which is something the club certainly hangs its hat on,” Brown said.

“I have fortunately been through that process, and the club certainly supports the growth of any of its young players.”

This year, Heyfield FNC’s reservesteam finished thirdonthe NGFNL ladder, their Under 18s made

the Grand Final and their Under 13s and 15s football teams ended on top.

“I think anyone who comes to Heyfield or looks at Heyfield as afooty club would say we’re atight-knit place, acommunity-based club that supports their own and strives to grow and thrive,” Brown said.

“Certainlywiththe youngsters, the playerattention,which has happened for years andyearsnow, it is definitely aplace where young guys want to stay and play their footy.”

It is uncertain whether the Kangaroos’ senior team will be in fighting shape for the NGFNL 2023 premiership flag, having finished seventh on the 2022 ladder. However, with Brown as coach, adamant about directing astrong focus on the club’s junior players, it is warranted to expect big things from Heyfield FNC in the next few years.

Goanna Vets get back on the park

GIPPSLAND Goannas VeteransCricketClub recently hosted its annual meeting, electing Neil Meredith as the new club president, Ian Southall as vice president and Ian Gibson as treasurer.

Ray Smith, Col Carmody and Rino Metlikovec were also named office bearers for the 2022/23 season.

The Over 70s team got back on the park last Sunday, October 2, with an away game against Essendon/Maribyrnong in Koo Wee Rup.

Rino Metlikovec has been appointed the captain.

Gippsland Goannas are searching for anyone over the age of 68 interested in joining the team as numbers are tight.

Gippsland Goannas Over 50s team, playing in the Over50s premier division, will start the 2022/23 season on Sunday, October 9, led by Iona’s Graeme Rankin.

VeteransCricket Victoria recentlyannouncedthe Over 50s premierdivision would play an additional four games this season, extending the season from five games to nine.

Gippsland Goannas teams are keen to return to the park and welcome new players.

Training sessions are at the nets at Glengarry CricketClubWednesdays from 4.45pm, but phone first if it’s wet, it might be indoorsatBundalaguah.

If you are you interested in playing cricket with Gippsland Goannas Veterans Cricket Club, call Gibson on 0427 376 776.

ATHLETICS TRARALGON HARRIERS

BY MOLLYIRVINE

THE Harriersrun on Thursday, September22 was ‘The Donut’, asix-kilometre course starting at the clubrooms, where 47 participants were greeted to amildly warm night for their run. Despitethe daybeing apublic holiday, the run attracted several new members including Andrew Crawford (28:14), Matt Walt (29:50), Angus Reid (39:58) and Paul Smith (40:49).

For the males, it was Miles Verschuur who took line honours in atime of 23:46, followed closely by Daniel Furmston by onlyamere four seconds in atimeof23:50,and third for the males belonged to Ian Cornthwaite trailing behind Verschuur by only eight seconds in a time of 23:54.

In the female race, it was Liz Kenney who took line honours in agreat time of 29:27, second to her was Lynda Jones with atimeof 31:23, and third for the females this week was CarlyKorab who continues to show consistent improvements with atime of 32:36.

6KM RUNRESULTS: Miles Verschuur23.46;Daniel Furmston23.50; Ian Cornthwaite23.54; Dempsey Podmore 24.18;DarrelCross 25.38; Andrew Greenhill 26.39; Pete Sanders26.49;Jason Odlum27.45; AndrewCrawford28.14;Glenn Crawford28.16; GeoffFrancis28.55; Liz Kenney 29.27; Matt Walt 29.50; GaryFox 30.11; OwenNotting 30.51; Tobiasz Grzmil30.58;LyndaJones 31.23; ChrisFrancis 31.57; CarlyKorab32.36; CourtneyEllis 32.36;Andrew Broberg32.48; David Barr 32.58;Danelle Wright 33.22;Michael Walker 33.26;Tim Bye33.34; Kathleen Kent 33.56;Susan Poole 34.01;MarkLansdown 35.05; Callie Cook35.31;Phill Mayer 35.34; Bjorn Luxmann35.52; Maree (Ree)Graham 35.56;Kylee Earl 36.07; John Richards36.51; Dave Mann37.04; ColletteHofmann 37.22; Jerzey Podmore38.58; Ella Warner 39.52; Mandy Ellis 39.57; AngusReid39.58; Paul Smith 40.49; MarkFairbairn41.05;Alfie Warner 44.51;Barry Higgins

He’shired: Former AFL playerLeighBrown will coach his home club Heyfield next season. photograph zoeaskew