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■ A man has been arrested after two Police cars and two civilian vehicles were damaged on Thursday morning (Apr. 27) in Melbourne’s north.

Police observed a stolen grey Ford Focus in a car park at the intersection of Plenty Rd and High St, Thornbury about 8.30am.

The driver rammed into a police sedan and a parked unoccupied civilian vehicle before fleeing north on Plenty Rd.

With the assistance from Air Wing, police followed the car to Chifley Drive, Preston where again the driver rammed a police sedan.

The driver fled before police spotted the ve-

hicle in Newlands Rd, Reservoir where the driver hit another civilian vehicle.

He was arrested after a short foot pursuit.

The driver, a 26-year-old Hadfield man wasassisting police with their enquiries. No one was injured during the incident. The vehicle was stolen from an aggravated burglary from overnight in Coburg

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Church at Mernda

■ Trains will be stopping at the new Greensborough and Montmorency stations, as the State Government completes an intensive construction blitz.

The Government says the line improvements will deliver 40 extra services each week for passengers on the Hurstbridge Line.

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Fnal stages of testing have been taking place. The new timetable comes into effect on May 28.

The completion of the Hurstbridge Line Duplication will add more than 75 extra services across the Hurstbridge, Mernda, Belgrave and Lilydale and Alamein lines.

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The new stations at Greensborough and Montmorency offer better weather protection, safer connections to the surrounding area and access for people of all abilities.

Platform 2 at Diamond Creek Station was also upgraded during the six-week construction blitz, and a new signalised pedestrian crossing behind Diamond Valley College will make trips to school safer for students.

A new walking and cycling path will be built between Greensborough and Montmorency stations by the end of the year, connecting to the Plenty River Trail with a new pedestrian crossing.

Parking at Greensborough Station will become easier for train passengers, with early works underway on a new 100 space multideck car park and bus interchange set to open by late 2024.

Jacinta Allan, Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, said: “After an intensive 44-day construction blitz, we’ve delivered new stations, removed level crossings and now we’re adding more trains, more often – we promised Victorians we'd get on with duplicating the Hurstbridge Line and we've delivered on our promise.”

Ben Carroll, Minister for Public Transport, said: “Victorians deserve a great public transport system they can rely on to get them where they need to go - and that’s exactly what we’ve delivered for thousands of people in Melbourne’s northeast.”

Colin Brooks, Member for Bundoora, said: “The Hurstbridge Line Duplication brings massive benefits to Melbourne's rapidly growing north-east, delivering more train services and less crowding on peak services, as well as brand new modern stations.”

Vicki Ward, Eltham MLA, said: “We’d like to thank locals for their patience while crews worked over the past six weeks to build new stations and carry out track duplication, so we can deliver better train services along the Hurstbridge Line.”

The State Government is proud of its North East Link, Hurstbridge Line Upgrade, removing 21 level crossing removals or upgrading Fitzsimons Lane, and says it is delivering a better transport system for Melbourne’s north-east.

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■ The heritage-listed Wollert Methodist Church was officially unveiled on April 21 at its new home at the Carome Homestead in Mernda.

Colleen Lazenby, City of Whittlesea CoOrdinator Heritage Strategy and Programs,presented Kerry Anderson, Working Heritage Committee of Management Chair, with the church’s original iron key.

Thomastown MLA Bronwyn Halfpenny, Yan Yean MLA Lauren Kathage, Major Road Projects Victoria representatives, and descendants of the church’s founding members were also in attendance.

Special events

■ Living & Learning Nillumbik will be celebrating Neighbourhood House Week 2023 with a series of special events at their three Neighbourhood Houses: Diamond Creek, Eltham and Panton Hill.

Events include a unique opportunity for the community-led creation of a new mural in Diamond Creek.

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?Darebin City Council has received a copy of the final report from Municipal Monitor John Watson. “We accept this report as an important opportunity to address the challenges highlighted by the Monitor’s report, and as a Council we are committed delivering the Good Governance Action Plan,” said Mayor Cr Julie Williams.

Wurundjeri waits on Voice

■ Elders at the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung

Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation will postpone announcing their formal position on the Voice to Parliament until after a meeting with Linda Burney, Minister for Indigenous Australians, on May 20.

Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation CEO Donald Betts said the Elders maintained their position on the Voice to Parliament but that he wanted to give Minister Burney an opportunity to listen to the voice of Elders.

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The annual Olives to Oil Festival is back, bringing people to gether to harvest olives and have them pressed into local olive oil. The Festival begins on Saturday, May 20, at the community olive harvest at All Nations Park in Northcote or Regent Community Garden. No experience is necessary – participants will be shown how to safely harvest,. The olives harvested will go into the CERES Olives to Oil communal oil pressing and then they can collect a small amount of oil in June. On Sunday, May 21, from 11am to 4pm participants can join to celebrate the olive season with a free festival at CERES Environment Park in Brunswick East. Patrons can enjoy food, music and culture.

✔Murrindindi Council’s Cr Karine Haslam declared a general conflict of interest in an agenda item at last week’s Shire meeting: the Contributions Program - April Allocation,s due to being a member of Eildon Action Inc.

Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Elders want to instruct the people of Melbourne how they intend to vote in the referendum because they are being asked by members of the public on how to vote,” Mr Betts said.

“The Voice to Parliament will impact the Wurundjeri community and the people of Melbourne know this so are asking us how they should vote.

“We want to give the government a chance to hear Wurundjeri voices to ensure Wurundjeri people have a say in the upcoming referendum and beyond.”

The Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung are said to be traditional owners of Melbourne, with links to the Yarra and Plenty regions.

Spelling Bee at Eltham

■ Eltham College will perform The 25th Annual Putnam Country Spelling Bee this Friday and Saturday (May 5-6).

The production has been designed by the College to give their advanced performers an opportunity to extend their skills by tackling more complex and difficult works.

Winner of the Tony and the Drama Desk Awards for Best Book, the musica has charmed audiences across the world with its balance of humour and heart-warming moments. The musical explores social connections, puberty, family, love and isolation, through the innocent lens of youth; mirroring the realities of grown-up life.

Eltham College encourages prospective student families, theatre aficionados and the wider community to attend.

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✖Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate Maayga Folasa. The 39-year-old is wanted on warrant in relation to theft, assault and deception offences. Folasa is described as having an olive complexion, approximately 195cm tall, large build and dyed blonde short hair. He has distinctive tattoos on his thighs and knees. He is known to frequent the Tarneit, Point Cook, Shepparton and Taylors Lakes areas.

Cr Damien Gallagher told last week’s Murrin dindi Shire Council meeting that he looked forward to a banking venue being established in Alexandra and a continuity of local financial services being realised. He described discussions with the Yea and District Community Bank as being “fruitful”.

Assault at Heidelberg

■ Banyule Crime Investigation Unit detectives are appealing for public assistance following an assault in Heidelberg.

It is understood a man was assaulted following an altercation inside a convenience store on Burgundy St about 4.10pm on Tuesday last week (Apr. 25).

The 45-year-old man, of no fixed address, was taken to hospital with serious injuries.

Police were told the offender fled the scene on foot.

He is perceived to be Caucasian, about 180cm tall with a medium build, brown hair and a short beard.

Investigators have released CCTV of a man they believe may be able to assist with their enquiries.

Darebin directions

■ Darebin City Council has been directed to provide financial statements for July-December 2022, a detailed financial projection for the next 10 years of the Council’s borrowing capacity, and an action plan on how the Council proposes to address the financial sustainability issues.

Donald Betts, CEO, Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung

Simon Le Plastrier, Eltham College Principal

● ● ● ● ● Mayyga Folasa

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■ Melbourne based charity Open Table is marking 10 years of operation this month, celebrating the impact its volunteers have made by turning food that would otherwise be wasted into healthy free meals for people in need across the northern suburbs.

The celebration on Friday, May 19, will take place at their Coburg headquarters in Schoolhouse Studios

Since 2013, this grassroots community organisation has rescued more than 125 tonnes of food from landfill, distributed over 26,000 shopping bags of fresh produce to people in need and cooked more than 7500 fresh healthy meals via volunteer run community lunches.

In addition to community lunches, Open Table run free produce markets in partnership with

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Yarra Libraries and Cultivating Community, and recently acquired an electric refrigerated van to ensure the team can save more food from going to waste across Melbourne, while keeping it fresh for our volunteer cooks.

“Open Table wouldn’t exist today without the generous support from our community.” says Angela O’Toole, CEO of Open Table “Every volunteer that’s joined us to cook at the lunches, all the food businesses that donate their surplus food, our venue partners that share their kitchens and community spaces, all our wonderful donors –we’ve been humbled by all the amazing support these past 10 years and will keep the food flowing for many years to come.”

RSVP at angela@ open-table.org

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Artist-in-residence

■ Nillumbik Council’s Artist in Residence Program offers local artists an exciting opportunity to work on their arts practice in one of its community facilities and get paid.

As part of the Council’s Arts and Culture Strategy goal to create a visible and supported creative community, the Council says it is committed to offering artist residency programs in inspiring places, in support of emerging and established artists.

“The Nillumbik Artist in Residence Program is designed to support artists in progressing their current practice and/or project goals, providing time, space and resources to make the next steps in their artistic development,” said a Council representative.

The program is open to individual artists from visual arts, literary arts, and performing arts or cross-disciplinary practice across these fields. The performing arts residency is also open to groups, and provides a performance presentation fee.

The residencies are not live-in but offer generous access to the residency space, including after hours and weekends, and are available part-time or full-time between midJuly 2023 and the end March 2024.

Minimum residency duration is 45 days. Successful artists will organise their term of residency and schedule in consultation with Council.

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“As part of the residency, artists will be required to deliver one or two community sessions such as a workshop, an artist talk or an event. This will be supported by the host facility and Council,” said the representative. Residencies include an artist fee, an allocated creative space within a Nillumbik community facility, and artist support.

Nillumbik Council is offering three nonacquisiuive opportunities:

■ Visual Artist in Residence at Edendale Community Environment Farm, artist fee and community sessions: $7000

■ Literary Artist (Writer) in Residence in partnership with Yarra Plenty Regional Library at Eltham Library, artist fee and community sessions: $7000

■ Performing Artist in Residence at Living & Learning Nillumbik (Eltham and Diamond Creek), artist fee, performance and community sessions: $10,000 Nillumbik Mayor Cr Ben Ramcharan said he was excited artists would soon be honing their practice from council facilities and providing community members with programs to provide insights into their work as an artist.

“It’s so important we get behind these talented folk across the visual, literary and performing arts spaces, and for them to inspire others.

“Having these clever artists do their thing at Edendale Community Environment Farm, Yarra Plenty Regional Library and at our Eltham or Diamond Creek Living and Learning Centre is an investment in local innovation, creative industries and the evolving artistic identity of our Shire, and offers our community first-hand experience of artistic work in development.

“I encourage artists to apply, so the community can revel in their ideas, and support upcoming workshops, artist talks or performances.”

Projects are scheduled to be completed by the end of March 2024. Applications open until Friday, May 26.

Nillumbik Council will notify applicants by mid-June.

Pilot program

■ A Victorian pilot program aims to deliver a mix of new social, affordable and private housing on surplus government land at 16-20 Dumbarton St, Reservoir.

Darebin Council says the proposed planning scheme amendment will be on exhibition to the public until May 25 during which time public submissions can be made.

An online public information session will be held at 6.30pm on Tuesday next week (May 9).

A directions hearing will be held in June, followed by a hearing for public submissions in July.

Darebin Council will consider this matter at its meeting on May, 22.

CABARET FESTIVAL LAUNCH

● The headline acts have been announced for this year's Melbourne Cabaret Festival returning from July 4-9. Festival Producer Neville Sice revealed that two of Australia's favourite acts, RnB songstress Prinnie Stevens and award-winning mu-

sic comedy trio The Kransky Sisters will headline the festival. Sice stated: "We were determined to mark our return with two of Australia's most-loved, high-calibre cabaret shows, and that's exactly what audiences will receive." ● ● ● ● More inside

The Briefing

■ Channelling Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Melissa McGlensey’s The Briefing is strangely pertinent even though the character was Donald Trump’s former press secretary and is now the current governor of Arkansas.

That an American political figure is known to Australians, even as a figure of comedy, speaks to her current right wing stance on issues such as abortion and cancel culture as well as her excruciatingly memorable time fronting the media for the Donald.

McGlensey’s depiction with its sustained Arkansas accent is frighteningly funny at times. Some of this can be attributed to the outright stupidity of American politics but it is McGlensey’s ability to be spontaneous that is the hallmark.

The Briefing is well structured with a screen for support. The graphics – quotes, images and text messages – provide ample fodder for fun. This is the structured part of the show but each segment becomes more interactive.

Interruptions from the audience are actually welcomed, none of which faze McGlensey.

Tweets are solicited at the beginning of the performance which McGlensey selects at random towards the latter half of the show and contextualizes.

This impromptu contextualizing is genuine and quick witted. I know this to be the case as my offering was one of those addressed.

The word game McGlensey plays with the audience where their contributions help her compose a media release speaks to the vacuous nature of political messaging in the States which is becoming all too real in Australia. Her use of a North Face jacket testifies readily to politicians relying on appearances as well.

The humour moves between the revolting to the very clever but, when you have the absurdity of American politics as your source, you can’t go wrong. The Briefing makes for a suitably ribald hour of entertainment.

- Review by David McLean

True West

■ Playwright Sam Shepard pits two brothers against each other in his play, True West The itinerant thief, Lee (Mark Diaco) confronts his Ivy-league educated brother, Austin (Justin Hosking), the latter who is trying to sell a screenplay to entrepreneur Saul (Kevin Summers). There is threat and menace in Lee’s conduct as he bullies his brother and intervenes in the negotiations about the screenplay. By the end, however, the roles are reversed and their mother, Mom (Fiona Stewart), returns home finding her house in a shambles.

The challenge for director Lee Mason is to realize the many layers within Shepard’s discourse about American society. The brothers are symbolic of the tension between the creative and, what amounts to, the criminal class with both envying the freedom the other seems to have. The irony that the playwriting process is corrupt is also evident as Lee gambles with Saul for the chance at realizing his, as yet unarticulated, treatment of a western. Behind that are the broken familial ties that compromise everything. The humour, menace, insecurity and frustration experienced by the brothers play out, sometimes unevenly, over the course of their encounter. The transition between some of these states is difficult for any actor made all the more challenging by the pace at which Shepard has them occur. One can imagine how each night’s performance would see changes in the balance between these states as the actors explore their characters and situation. The fact that Hosking and Diaco will be alternating roles over the course of the season will add to that variety. The humour seemed more extant on the night of this review but audience reaction will also determine some of this balance.

This is an actor’s play and the brief season at fortyfivedownstairs – it runs until May 7 –will only allow audiences a sense of what could be were it to run longer which would give them an opportunity to see it more than once to witness how it could evolve.

Performance Details: Until May 7

Venue: fortyfivedownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne Bookings: www.fortyfivedownstairs.com

- Review by David McLean

On Midnight

ESSENDON CHAMPIONS

■ Combine a marvellous Melbourne theatre with a crowd of footy followers and something must be going on.

Absolutely right, it is. It’s Essendon Football Club’s 150th anniversary play, Essendon Champions – from Thurgood to Hird.

At Chapel off Chapel, celebrating with us, opening up his heart about the majestic, unforgettable Bomber premierships, but also prodded into prizing open shadows of scandal is Des Lane (Alec Gilbert), the ubiquitous fan with his heart endlessly carried on his sleeve.

But up and definitely coming young reporter Mary Corrigan (Nicola Pohl) is determined to get her scoop, and prise open that overfilled box of heart wrenching despair and disbelief that goes with being a full blooded supporter of one of the great old teams of Australian Rules.

Under the direction of Alicia Ben-Lawler, Neil Cole’s play, Essendon Champions, cleverly takes us to the awe-inspiring skills of past greats Albert Thurgood, Dick Reynolds and John Coleman.

Cliches abound as Des expounds on who could “arguably” be considered the best ever, and who was “arguably” unfairly targeted by umpires, fans and players alike.

Highly energetic performances from Melanie Madrigali and Matthew Richard -Walsh really raise the roof from their “stands” on stage – the scarves and beanies get a good workout. Coleman is nobbled. What does it take for a coach to win that Grand Final.

From the dark despair of the unexpected loss of 1902 and other notables that got away, to the start of Sheedy’s successful transition of style and self belief, and then the shattering of player spirits and numbness of hero James Hird’s fall from grace, we’re taken on a roller coaster of emotions.

That journalist just couldn’t remember to talk “supplements,” “not drugs”. Des Lane put up a memorable defence ...

Run with the ball on the highs and lows of this fascinating potted history at Chapel off Chapel until May 7, Wed. to Sat. at 8pm, Sunday 5pm.

Tickets: $42 - $45 Duration 70 mins. Bookings: www.chapeloffchapel.com.au

- Review by Maggie Morrison

Molly Sweeney

■ Heidelberg Theatre Company presents a compelling interpretation of Brian Friel's twoact play Molly Sweeney, playing until May 6 at 36 Turnham Avenue, Rosanna.

Set in 1990s Ballybeg, County Donegal in Ireland, Friel's masterfully crafted script draws the audience slowly into the narrative.

By Act Two, captivating storytelling from the three characters - Molly's doting husband Frank (Matt Biscombe), self-promoting ophthalmologist Mr Rice (Chris McLean) and visually impaired Molly (Alexandria Page), totally immerses the audience into each individual's Mollycentric world.

We hear of the lead-up to Molly's operation which attempts to restore her sight, the operation itself, Molly's excursion into the land of vision, and her challenges and unexpected response to her new sightedness.

An effective, simple set designed by Marie Mackrell comprises three pedestals, each with a single chair, and the image of a large, white lens-like shape maintains a symbolic presence above Molly's chair throughout the play.

The striking lighting design by Stelios Karagiannis is intricate to the storytelling. Sound design is by John Rowe.

Director Joan Moriarty extracts first-class, memorable performances from her cast, including Chris McLean, who presents a naturalistic, rawly honest portrayal of Dr Rice, depicting his ambitious confidence to humble sense of failure. Matt Biscombe is admirably exuberant as Frank, while subtly conveying his underlying inner tension.

Alexandria Page (Molly) delivers a beautifully understated performance in the title role. She relives Molly's upbeat courage and happy

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tales of childhood, taught by her father to use tactile vision, her pride at becoming employed part-time at a health club and delight at meeting future husband, Frank.

The audience is left to wonder how much happier Molly's story would have been without having the surgery in an attempt to restore her sight.

This is a thought-provoking play presented as a quality theatre performance.

Congratulations, Heidelberg Theatre Company.

Performance Details: Until May 6

Venue: Heidelberg Theatre, 36 Turnham Ave., Rosanna

Bookings: htc.org.au

- Review by Cheryl Threadgold

Sisi and I

■ Sisi and I, a new biopic of the Empress Elizabeth of Austria, known as Sisi (Susanne Wolff), is told from the point of view of her lady’s maid.

Countess Irma von Sztáray (Sandra Hüller) accompanied Sisi in the last years of her life until she died in 1898 at the hands of an Italian anarchist, while strolling along the banks of Lake Geneva.

The unmarried, graceless and awkward Irma, a failure in the eyes of her spiteful and cruel mother, is interrogated for her position and inspected like a prize cow.

Infatuated by her new mistress, Irma transforms, eventually emerging Chrysalis-like from her shell, embracing her new freedom, having escaped the restrictions of Vienna.

A free spirit, Sisi has fled the stuffy Hapsburg Court for Corfu

What comes through is Sisi’s frustration with the old regime and her embracing the new.

In her island retreat, Sisi is obsessive, compulsively exercising and following a restrictive diet, including imbibing cocaine and nettle juice shots that all in her household must follow.

Dragging her entourage around Europe, Sisi embarks on affairs with stable hands and organises seances to speak to her dead children.

Beautiful cinematography by Thomas W Kiennast and fabulous costumes by Tanja Hausner capture the fin-de-siecle feel of the dying days of the nineteenth century.

The story exudes that languid sense of ennui, a mix of boredom and restlessness that so engulfed that other doomed but fictional heroine, Madame Bovary.

Indulged by her servants, enabled in her madness, a sense of doom overwhelms the narrative that all is about to change forever.

A pop soundtrack ( Nico, Portishead ) galvanises what could have been a too-long historical drama into something far more interesting.

The German Film Festival will be presented from May 4-24 at Palace Balwyn, Palace Brighton Bay, Palace Cinema Como, The Kino, Pentridge Cinema, Palace Westgarth and The Astor Theatre (selected sessions).

www.german film festival.com.au

Review by Kathryn Keeble

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■ The team behind the upcoming highlyanticipated new musical Midnight have released a sneak preview of five new songs written for the new Broadway-style production which opens at the Comedy Theatre in Melbourne in June.

Music and lyrics for Midnight range from Broadway-style showstoppers to sweet ballads and have been created by John Foreman and Anthony Costanzo with an exclusive song by the much-loved Kate MillerHeidke also being written exclusively for the production.

The songs released include Kate Miller Heidke’s W ithout You performed by Brianna Bishop with Being The King by Shane Jacobson hitting all the right comic notes.

Thomas McGuane delivers a soaring rendition of I Will Find You and the romantic balladYou Are The One will be sung in the musical by one of Australia’s favourite musical theatre stars, Lucy Durack.

Previews of these songs, as well as the previously released recording of Why Can’t I? performed by Brianna Bishop, can be found on the Midnight websitewww.midnightmusical.com.au

Midnight - The Cinderella Musical premieres at the Comedy Theatre in June for a strictly limited season. With music/lyrics by John Foreman (Aussie Pops Orchestra, Carols By Candlelight) and Anthony Costanzo (Life’s A Circus, Cross Roads) and featuring an exclusive song by Kate Miller-Heidke (Muriel’s Wedding), Midnight is a magical romantic comedy that will delight audiences young and old.

This enchanting new tale features Ella, played by Brianna Bishop, a feisty, funny and passionate young heroine who doesn't want or need a so-called Prince Charming.

The Prince, enchanted by this alluring stranger, suddenly finds himself in uncharted territory and quickly learns that Ella is like no other. Can he prove his worth? Can she ignite his desire for change? Can all be achieved before the magical stroke of Midnight?

The creative team for this reimagined tale includes Direction/Book by Dean Murphy (Charlie & Boots, The Divorce) and Pip Mushin (Resident: Book of Mormon, Fiddler on the Roof).

Choreography by Kelly Aykers (So You Think You Can Dance, The Wizard of Oz, Barnum) with Musical Direction by Anthony Barnhill (Evita, Phantom of the Opera). Set design is by James Browne (Ghost the musical, Cabaret) costumes by Harriet Oxley (Into the Woods, The Flying Dutchman) and lighting by Helpmann Award winner Trudy Dalgleish (Hairspray, Saturday Night Fever) rounding out this magical offering.

Midnight is produced by Spencer McLaren (Dive Club, Puffs the Play, Mother & Son), Dean Murphy (Charlie & Boots,The Divorce, Strange Bedfellows) and Craig Donnell (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Grease - The Musical, The Sound of Music).

Midnight starring Brianna Bishop, Shane Jacobson, Thomas McGuane, Lucy Durack, Verity Hunt-Ballard, Raphael Wong, Kristie Nguy, Melanie Bird - with Matt Lee and more. Presented by Aspect Entertainment, Sounds Write and Impresario Productions Strictly limited season from June. Comedy Theatre, Melbourne www.ticketek.com.au

Now or Never

■ The City of Melbourne has revealed its newest major event – Now or Never – a 17day festival running from Thursday, August 17 to Saturday, September 2.

Now or Never will explore the intersection of art, ideas, sound and technology in various iconic venues across the city – attracting an expected crowd of more than 200,000 people. The uniquely Melbourne event has been designed to invite curiosity and wonder – an open call to explore the future in the present moment, with a series of engaging events across day and night. The inaugural event’s program brings together an eclectic mix of renowned musicians, artists, changemakers, future thinkers and innovators.

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Josh Lee

Shows

■ Mordialloc Theatre Company: It’s Only a Play (by Terrence McNally) Until May 3 at the Shirley Burke Theatre, 64 Parkers Rd., Parkdale. Director: Peter Newling. Bookings: 9587 5141 or www.mordialloctheatre.com

■ Wyndham Theatre Company WOMPA (West of Melbourne Performing Arts): One Act Play Festival, May 7 at 2pm at the Wyndham Cultural Centre. Nine 10-minute plays will be performed and independently judged with People Choice awards. Supported by Wyndham Cultural Centre and Essence Productions. Tickets: $15/$10 Bookings: www.wyndhamtheatrecompany.org.au

■ Eltham Little Theatre: Much Ado About Nothing (by William Shakespeare) Until May 6 at the Eltham Performing Arts Centre, Main Rd., Research. Director: Matthew Freeman. Bookings: www.elthamlittletheatre.org.au

■ Williamstown Little Theatre: Jumpers for Goalposts (by Tom Wells), Until May 6 at 24 Albert St., Williamstown. Director: Bruce Akers. www.wlt.org.au

■ Lilydale Athenaeum Theatre: Barefoot in the Park (by Neil Simon) Until May 6 at 39 – 41 Castella Street, Lilydale. Director: Pip Le Blond. Bookings:www.lilydaleatc.com

■ The Basin Theatre: Same Time Next Year (by Bernard Slade), Until April 30 at The Basin Theatre, Cnr Simpsons and Doongalla Rd., The Basin. Director: Lisa McNiven. www.thebasintheatre.org.au

■ Malvern Theatre Company: Deathtrap (by Ira Levin) Until May 6 at Malvern Theatre, 29 Burke Rd, Malvern East. Director: Keith Hutton. Bookings: www.malvern theatre.com.au

■ Geelong Repertory Theatre: Extremities (by William Mastrosimone), Until May 6 at the Woodbin Theatre, 15 Coronation St., Geelong West. Director: Debbie Fraser. Bookings: www.geelongrep.com/extremities

■ Heidelberg Theatre: Molly Sweeney (by Brian Friel), Until May 6 at 36 Turnham Avenue, Rosanna. Director: Joan Moriarty. Bookings: www.htc.org.au

■ Peridot Theatre: #Bacchae Too (based on The Bacchae by Euripedes) May 4 – 14 at Clayton Theatrette, Cooke St., Clayton. Adapted and directed by Elise D’Amico and Joe Dias. Bookings: www.peridot.com.au

■ Bairnsdale Production Line Theatre: School of Rock (Musical) May 5 – May 21 at the Forge Theatre and Arts Hub, Director: Peter Martignoles. Bookings: www. bairnsdaleproductionline.org

■ Williamstown Musical Theatre Company: The Boy From Oz May 5 – 20 at Centenary Theatre, 71 Railway Place, Williamstown. Bookings: 1300 881 545 www.wmtc.org.au

■ CLOC Musical Theatre: Catch Me if You Can May 12 – 27 at the National Theatre, 20 Carisle St., St Kilda. Director: Richard Perdriau; Musical Director: Tony Toppi; Choreographer: Felicity Bender. Bookings: www.cloc.org.

■ Warragul Theatre Company: Jekyll and Hyde (Musical) May 19 – 27 at the West Gippsland Arts Centre, Warragul. Bookings: www.warragultheatrecompany.org.au

■ Beaumaris Theatre: The Three Musketeers (by John Nicholson and Le Navet Bete) May 19 – June 3 at 82 Wells Rd, Beaumaris. Director: Richard Keown. www.beaumaris theatre.com.au

■ Mountain District Musical Society: The Sound of Music May 26 – June 4 at The Karralyka Centre, Ringwood. Bookings: www.mdms.org.au

■ Wonthaggi Theatre Company: Dusty the Pop Diva Musical May 26 – June 10 at the Wonthaggi Union Community Arts Centre, 96 Graham St., Wonthaggi. Enquiries: (03 5671 2470 or wonthaggi.artscentre@basscoast. vic.gov.au

Auditions

■ Strathmore Theatrical Arts Group (STAG): The Normal Heart (by Larry Kramer) April 30 at 7.00pm, May 2 at 7.00pm at the Strathmore Community Theatre, Loeman St., Strathmore. Director: George Benca. Enquiries: georgebenca@gmail.com

■ Peridot Theatre: Things I Know to be True (by Andrew Bovell) May 15 and 17 at Fleigner Hall, Oakleigh East. (Director: Kellie Tweeddale) Audition bookings: k.tweeddale@yahoo.com )

YOU NEED TO SEE THIS ‘ONCE’

■ The Darlinghurst Theatre Company presents a return season of the musical Once at Melbourne's Comedy Theatre from May 5 to June 4.

Guy meets Girl in this smash-hit Broadway musical. Once is a tender love story of a struggling Irish musician on the verge of giving up and a piano-playing Czech immigrant who reminds him how to dream.

Set on the streets of Dublin and featuring an ensemble of 'quadruple threat' performers playing instruments live on stage, Once is a tender love story that reminds us to reach for our dreams and the power of music to connect us all.

Performance Details: May 5 to June 4

Venue: Comedy Theatre, Exhibition St., Melbourne

Bookings: Ticketek - Cheryl Threadgold

Cabaret Festival

■ The headline acts have been announced for this year's Melbourne Cabaret Festival returning from July 4-9.

Festival Producer Neville Sice revealed that two of Australia's favourite acts, RnB songstress Prinnie Stevens and award-winning music comedy trio The Kransky Sisters will headline the festival.

Sice stated: "We were determined to mark our return with two of Australia's most-loved, high-calibre cabaret shows, and that's exactly what audiences will receive."

After a bruising three years due to COVID restrictions, the festival has found a new home in the iconic art deco Memo Music Hall in St Kilda. The adjoining hidden gem upstairs in the St Kilda RSL, The Ruby Carter Lounge, will also host boutique and intimate performances.

Prinnie Stevens will perform ‘Lady Sings The Blues’, a story about women in song, their hurts, struggles, and pain. The show features the songs of greats such as Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald , and iconic modern voices like Beyonce, Whitney and Sade. The audience will be transported to a speakeasy in New York and into the very heart of the star of the show Prinnie Stevens.

The Kransky Sisters will perform ‘Assorted Nuts’, a spicy mix of their hot hits. This eccentric trio of siblings from Esk will share their nutty stories and songs, including well-known tunes with a peculiar spin, played on an eclectic mix of instruments including musical saw, tuba and old reed keyboard.

The full festival program will be revealed in early May, with Neville Sice predicting an eclectic line-up. “We received well over 100 show applications which is an incredibly positive and welcoming sign of optimism from cabaret performers excited to resume their performing careers and eager to enthusiastically support the return of the festival in its twelfth year.”

Prinnie Stevens in ‘Lady Sings The Blues’

Venue: Memo Music Hall, 88 Acland Street St Kilda (entry via Albert St)

Date: July 8 and July 9

Time: Doors open at 7:50pm, show starts at 8:15pm

Duration: Approximately 70 minutes with no intermission

Tickets: From $55 to $65 +booking fees

Bookings: www.melbournecabaret.com

The Kransky Sisters - ‘Assorted Nuts’

Venue: Memo Music Hall, 88 Acland Street St Kilda (entry via Albert St)

Date: July 8

Time: Doors open at 6pm, show starts at 6:30pm

Duration: Approximately 70 minutes with no intermission

Tickets: From $55 to $65 +booking fees

Bookings: www.melbournecabaret.com

- Cheryl Threadgold

ANZAC Tribute

■ Legends of the Skies Theatre presented a spirited, well-staged ANZAC Eve tribute to the ANZACs, 'and all who have served and still serve to defend Australia in times of need.'

Memories of Max

A symbolic burning flame and the dulcet tones of didgeridoos played by Ray Higgins and Peter Funke set the scene for the capacity audience on arrival in the Casey Hangar at the Moorabbin Air Museum.

Poetry, audience sing-a-longs, re-enactments of original scripts by Jim Williams, Kerry Hollier, Darina Mendan and Maggie Morrison, audience quizzes and games with prizes, and musical entertainment from Barbara Mendleson, Jessie Inglis, Graeme Hanks and Colin Prosser, contributed to a jam-packed nostalgic, enjoyable evening.

But juxtaposed with the fun, enhanced by projected archival images, was always the reminder of the harsh reality of war, the terrible hardship experienced by Australian troops in World War I, their sacrifices, heroism, war's futility and the hope for future peace.

Promising young actors Jamie Johnson and Taj Jepson did well capturing youthful bravado in a war, then the grim reality. Great work also as the 'Rats' of Tobruk.

Moving performances were also presented by David Dodd, Ian Johnson, Kerry Hollier, Maggie Morrison, Jim Williams and Darina Mendan.

Particularly interesting were Kerry Hollier's tribute to war nurses, including an image of serving war nurse Agatha Christie , and Darina Mendan's reminder of the many horses sent overseas for war purposes, yet only one returned.

Towards the end of the evening, Artistic Director Maggie Morrison signalled the audience to stand in silent reflection, capping off a wonderful night of mixed emotions.

This sold-out annual ANZAC Eve event has become extremely popular. Booking early for next year's event is highly recommended.

- Cheryl Threadgold

Story of Intrigue

■ Kingston resident Ian Blunt never expected to write a novel in his retirement, but this is exactly what happened after he joined a Kingston U3A Genealogy class and commenced online research of his great, great grandfather, Townsend Duryea.

Ian was most surprised to read the many pages of information about his great, great grandfather, particularly highlighting Townsend Duryea's contribution to the photographic industry.

Three years later, the result of combining imagination with researched historical fact, is Ian's 572 page novel titled Townsend: A Story of Intrigue, Passion and Betrayal.

The novel commences in New York in 1840, when a young Townsend Duryea goes against his affluent father’s wishes and derision and embarks on a career in the new art form – photography.

Eventually leaving behind a wife, children, family and a successful studio, Townsend arrives in gold rush Melbourne with his lover, a young actress and singer. Townsend establishes a promising photography business, but the past catches up, forcing the couple to seek refuge in Adelaide in the colony of South Australia.

Over the next decade and joined by his younger brother, Sanford, they establish the foremost photographic studio in the colony, and with that success, their fortunes, social standing and renown grow.

Townsend: A Story of Intrigue, Passion and Betrayal by Ian Blunt is available from Amazon in paperback or for Kindle.

- Cheryl Threadgold

■ It is hard to believe that it’s now a year since a major Melbourne classical music star’s light was dimmed.

Counter tenor Max Riebl was only 30 when he died in April last year of a brain tumour, leaving behind his beloved wife Bethany and two small children, Ivy and Billy Regular Herald Sun Aria attenders will recall Max’s ethereal voice filling Hamer Hall over an orchestra when he won the Herald Sun Aria several years ago.

Max was part of a very talented musical family, with sister Rose being a concert pianist, composer, and frequent accompanist of her brother, and older brother Felix is the lead in the acclaimed band The Cat Empire. So what does a musical family do to celebrate a member who died too soon? They host a sold out tribute concert featuring recordings of their beloved brother and adding their own live performances. That concert was held last week at Chapel off Chapel, where Max had recorded many songs. Because it was sold out, and also broadcast on Australian Digital Concert Hall, the Riebl family has released posthumous recordings of Max on Spotify, and proceeds from last week’s concert and the recordings will go to a fund set up for the education of Ivy and Billy Riebl.

While losing Max was a huge loss to the Australian classical music world, we are blessed to still have his soaring and beautiful voice still with us through these newly released recordings, which are also available at maxriebl.com

- Julie Houghton

Auditions

■ Brighton Theatre Company: Fracked! Or Please Don’t Use the F-Word! (by Alistair Beaton) May 21 at 7.00pm, May 23 at 7.30pm at Brighton Theatre, Cnr Carpenter and Wilson Sts., Brighton. Director: Alan Burrows. Audition enquiries: aburrow1@bigpond. net.au or 0412 077 761

■ Melbourne French Theatre: Flagrant Délire (in Flagrente Delirium) (Flagrantly Delirious)(by Jean-Pierre Martinez) on May 13 at 2.00pm, May 15 at 7.00pm at La Maison de Maitre Building, 203-205 Canning St., Carlton. Director: Luca Romani. Please note: Fluent French-speaking actors only. Audition enquiries: www.melbournefrenchtheatre. org.au/audition

- Cheryl Threadgold

Media Flashes

■ The Australian Financial Review has announced that it will bolster its coverage of foreign affairs and defence.

■ Kyra Gillespie has started as a Producer for ABC Drive Melbourne. She was most recently a News Reporter for ABC South West Victoria.

■ Tony Armstrong is hosting a new podcast, The Pool Room, produced by iHeartPodcast Network . The twice-weekly, short-form podcast is for sporting fans and dives into Australia's rich sporting history, aiming to uncover extraordinary, untold tales.

Toby Francis (Guy) and Stefanie Caccamo (Girl) in the musical Once.

Photo: Robert Catto

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MSO Britten's War Requiem

■ In a pre-concert talk, Artistic Director of Gondwana Voices, Sam Allchurch, hinted at a celestial element to the MSO’s production of Benjamin Britten’s moving anti-war work for chorus and large orchestra, War Requiem.

Commissioned for the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral in 1962, German bombs destroyed the original 14th-century church during the Second World War.

Britten, a pacifist and conscientious objector, intersperses the Latin text of the Requiem Mass (‘Mass for the Dead’) with excerpts from the great First World War poet Wilfred Owen.

Owen died at age 25, killed in action a week before the Armistice.

Jaime Martin expertly conducts the vast musical forces on stage, not only the MSO but also over one hundred voices of the MSO Chorus and the superb soloists, soprano Samantha Clarke, tenor Toby Spence and baritone David Greco.

Britten questions the futility of presenting youth to slaughter using text from Owen’s poems which soar above the orchestra as if in ironic transfer to the lamentations usually reserved for the war dead: "My subject is War, and the pity of War,” and “I am the enemy you killed, my friend.”

Profoundly moving, the work begins with tenor, Toby Spence’s first solo using Owen’s words, “What passing bells for those who die as cattle?”

But it is the inclusion of the excellent voices of the Gondwana Voices children’s chorus singing the Requiem Mass in Latin from on high as a heavenly chorale that gives the work such poignancy.

Britten’s warning of the futility of war and the toll taken by youth makes the performance of this work compelling.

- Review by Kathryn Keeble Otto

and Astrid’s Joint Solo Project

■ The two-person show Otto and Astrid’s Joint Solo Project, part of the International Comedy Festival, was a hilarious blast of punk rock cabaret from the self-proclaimed “Berlin’s Prince and Princess of art rock and Europop”.

After disagreement about which songs should be on the fifth album of their two-person band Die Roten Punkte, Otto and Astrid decide to tour separately. Unfortunately, the brother/sister duo can’t find other musicians to back them and so end up backing each other whereupon mayhem ensues.

The show is a chronicling of the trevails the dynamic duo experience as they struggle to come to terms with their “joint solo project” of individual tours.

The tension between the dysfunctional pair drives the storyline as they rehearse a series of riotously funny songs they will perform on their individual tours. The songs are interspersed with hilarious banter between brother and sister.

In bringing these oddball siblings to life, Daniel Tobias (Otto) and Clare Bartholomew (Astrid) give wonderful performances, fully inhabiting the personas of Otto and Astrid.

Their timing, so critical to great comedy, is spot-on and their antics bring to mind the comedic genius of the silent era of film. The fact that they are both consummate musicians to boot means that there’s a proliferation of talent on display.

Behind the curtain, bringing the best out of Tobias and Bartholomew , there’s some serious Melbourne comedy “royalty” supporting them, with Neill Gladwin (direction), Casey Bennetto (dramaturg), Josh Samuels (story coach) and Lauren Eisinger and Dans Maree Sheehan (producers) all working on the show.

The zany Pythonesque comedic style of Gladwin and Bennetto especially can clearly be seen in the capers of Otto and Astrid.

It’s unfortunate that the comedy festival season of Otto and Astrid’s Joint Solo Project has finished but if you ever do get the opportunity to see this show or, indeed, pretty much anything this pair of great performers offers, grab it with both hands.

Presented at The MalthouseBeckett Theatre.

Review by Peter Murphy

Satyagraha

■ In a one-night-only, Melbourne exclusive concert, Opera Australia will present its premiere performance of Philip Glass’s hypnotic masterpiece, Satyagraha, at Hamer Hall on Saturday, May 13.

Performed in its original Sanskrit, this operatic depiction of Mahatma Gandhi’s early years of nonviolent protest in South Africa is set to the mesmerising minimalist compositions for which Glass is renowned.

For the first time, in the challenging role of Gandhi, is Indian -born tenor Shanul Sharma, who began his musical career as a heavy metal vocalist before making an unusual transition into the world of opera.

Sharma debuted with Opera Australia in 2014, and in his premiere performance with the company became the first Indian-born Australian to perform as a principal artist in any Australian opera company.

Helpmann-nominated, Australian soprano Rachelle Durkin will portray Gandhi’s secretary Mrs Schlesen, reprising a role which she performed to great acclaim with the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

Performing with the national company in her home city, Australian soprano Olivia Cranwell will make her

role debut in this production, returning to the Hamer Hall stage after her portrayal of The Confidante in Victorian Opera’s production of Elektra last year was deemed “exceptionally strong” by Classic Melbourne.

Iranian -born mezzo soprano Agnes Sarkis will make her role debut as Kasturbai, Gandhi’s wife, after performing in the highly acclaimed production of Madama Butterfly on Sydney Harbour as the loyal Suzuki.

Rounding out the leading cast are Opera Australia principals Andrew Moran, Richard Anderson, Sian Sharp and Alexander Sefton, all of whom will be making role debuts in this unique musical experience.

The substantial four-part chorus in Satyagraha will be performed by the world-class Opera Australia Chorus, whose gravitas will enhance Glass’s powerful choral writing.

Opera Australia Head of Music, Tahu Matheson, will lead Orchestra Victoria in this challenging piece which uniquely does not feature any brass or percussion instruments and rather focuses on strings and woodwind to highlight the central theme of peace and nonviolence in this piece.

Directed by acclaimed director Andy Morton , this concert performance of Satyagraha showcases the brilliance of Philip Glass’s highly influential composition style and the superb talent who will bring it to life. Tickets at opera.org.au

- Caitlin Eames

National tour

■ The Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra returns to the concert stage from May 31 with a national tour - taking in Melbourne.

The ensemble features a mix of outstanding locally-based and returning Australian internationals plus the cream of overseas musicians – all of them specialists in historically informed performance.

Beethoven Septet & Louise Farrenc Nonet (‘New Perspectives’) showcases the expressive potential of larger chamber groups of strings and winds, and the beautiful sounds made when these instruments are balanced by a master.

Beethoven’s Septet was one of his early successes, taking the popular Viennese format of a serenade or divertimento but imbuing it with virtuosity and complexity.

The Septet was such a hit that very few composers dared write for a similarly-sized ensemble for 50 years, until the great French pianist, professor and publisher Louise Farrenc wrote her Nonet in 1849.

Full of rich textures and intricate scoring, it demonstrates her irrefutable compositional skill.

Beethoven Septet & Louise Farrenc Nonet – New Perspectives Saturday, June 10, 7pm – David Li Sound Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne.

The Guilty

■ (M). 85 minutes. Now available on DVD.

For those who have felt starved of genuinely gripping thrillers in recent years, then this superb effort from Denmark will be a major shot in the arm, a magnificently satisfying film filled with twists, turns, and tension.

Set at an Emergency Services Call Centre, the story centres on Asger Holm (Jacob Cedergren), a police officer currently under investigation, who has been relegated to dispatch operator until the matter has been concluded.

Dismissive and condescending to those who call in, Asger soon finds himself in uncomfortable territory when he takes a call from a woman who suggests she has been kidnapped, but cannot say anything as her abductor is right next to her.

As the situation becomes more dangerous, Asger tries to help the woman any way he can, before everything goes pear-shaped.

Director Gustav Moller, working from a taut, intelligent script by he and Emil Nygaard Albertsen, keeps proceedings claustrophobic and intimate, never wasting a moment as he slowly turns the screws on both his main character and the audience.

Cedergren is exceptional as Asger, bringing considerable dramatic weight to the production’s one-set location.

Beware of the US remake with Jake Gyllenhaal, which is vastly inferior.

RATING - ****½

The Sisters Brothers

■ (MA). Now available on DVD.

Renowned French film-maker Jacques Audiard (A Prophet, Rust And Bone) made his English language debut with The Sisters Brothers, a smart deconstruction of the traditional western, which sees its title characters in an increasingly unique light.

Using the Gold Rush as its backdrop, we are introduced to bounty hunter brothers Eli (John C. Reilly) and Charlie (Joaquin Phoenix), whose ruthless reputation precedes them, as they carry out their tasks with no questions asked.

Their powerful boss, known as The Commodore (a barely glimpsed Rutger Hauer), enlists the duo to hunt down Kemit Warm (Riz Ahmed), who has apparently stolen from him, but will not go into specifics.

Also on the case is Morris (Jake Gyllenhaal), who is already closely watching Warm, but circumstances change when all three pursuers find out what Warm has in his posses-

sion, leading to numerous unforeseen complications.

Based on the 2011 novel by Patrick deWitt, co-writer/director Audiard lovingly plays with the western’s form, stripping the genre of its mythology and carved-instone righteousness, while instilling the material with striking humanity and heart (its finale is particularly moving).

Performances are outstanding, with Reilly and Phoenix sharing wonderful chemistry together, while Ahmed is much better here than he was in Venom.

Beautifully crafted, The Sisters Brothers is a film to seek out and savour, providing strong entertainment for adult audiences.

RATING - ****

The Drug King

■ (MA). 139 minutes. Now streaming on Netflix.

Packed with talent in front of and behind the camera, this large scale examination of the biggest drug dealer who ruled South Korea during the 1970s, is a massive disappointment, failing to make its story engaging or compelling in any way.

Song Kang-ho stars as Lee Doosam, who after entering the criminal world through the UN gang in 1972, quickly transforms into a force to be reckoned with, becoming rich and powerful by distributing methamphetamine (more commonly known as crank) in Japan, then in his homeland of South Korea.

On his trail is prosecutor Kim In-Goo (Cho Jung-seok), but as the political climate becomes more unstable, Lee’s hold on power starts to wane, even after befriending high-ranking lobbyist Kim Jung-A (Bae Doo-na)

While there is nothing inherently bad about The Drug King, writer/ director Woo Min-ho (who appears to be a huge fan of Scarface) keeps the subject at arm’s length, never drawing the viewer into its potentially fascinating world, which is strange considering his last effort was the critical and commercial success Inside Men , which also dealt with criminal behaviour and government corruption.

The strong cast do what they can, but one wishes that Song (Emergency Declaration, Snowpiercer) and Cho (The Face Reader, Hit-And-Run Squad) could have swapped roles, and the immensely talented Bae (Broker, A Girl At My Door, Air Doll) is sadly wasted.

The Drug King is watchable, but should have been so much better.

RATING - **½

- Aaron Rourke

■ We all have memories of the early days of Australian rock and roll and one of the all time greats was Col Joye

Colin Frederick Jacobsen was born in Sydney in 1936 he was one of four children and the family lived at East Hills

When Colin was 14 he left school and went to work as a jewellery salesman.

He took guitar lessons at the age of 16 and formed a group under the name of The K J Quintet.

He later joined a group with his brothers Kevin and Keith where Col became a guitarist and lead singer.

He began using the stage name of Col Joye as the group played at clubs and pubs before changing their name to Col Joye and The Joy Boys

In 1958 they were signed to a recording contact by Ken Taylor of Festival Records

Their first single was Stagger Lee but their second recording of Bye Bye Baby went to number three in the hit parade in 1959.

I can remember being at a concert at Festival Hall for one of the Lee Gordon Big Shows when Col came onstage to make an announcement.

He held up a telegram saying that for the first time an Australian rock and roll song was number one on the hit parade - it was Oh Yeah, Uh Huh (with an old typewriter tapping out the beat)

Col was one of the regular performers on

Whatever Happened To ... Col Joye

By Kevin Trask

of 3AW and 96.5 Inner FM

Brian Henderson's Bandstand television series for 14 years.

There is a DVD set of the Bandstand shows and it is wonderful to see Col singing in the series.

By 1963 Col Joye and The Joy Boys had released 20 singles, twenty four EPs and 23 albums.

In 1966 the Jacobsen family formed their own label ATA Records

In 1970 Col Joye married Dalys Dawson and they have two children Amber and Clayton

It was a double wedding as singer Sandy Scott married Col's sister Carol at the same time. In 1973 Col was back on top of the hit parade with his recording of Heaven Is My Woman's

● ● ● ● Col Joye

Love Col and his brother Kevin built Jacobsen

Entertainment which became a successful promotions company. They produced many stage shows and handled some very famous artists including The Bee Gees Col Joye is a very generous man - he was cutting a tree for a friend in 1990 when he slipped

and fell several metres onto brick paving suffering extensive injuries.

I can remember producing a show for Ted Hamilton at a Sydney Leagues Club in 2002.

When I got to the rehearsals in the afternoon Ted told me that Col had already called in to see how things were going and had driven home to pick up an amplifier in his utility for us to use onstage.

I had a great time chatting to Col at a book launch many years ago and have had the pleasure of doing several radio interviews with him.

In 1981 he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for his entertainment and philanthropic work.

Sadly in the last few years there has been legal action within the Jacobsen family over financial issues concerning their hit stage musical Dirty Dancing

In recent times Col Joye hosted a rock and roll radio show on 2CH in Sydney

What a great survivor Col Joye has been after almost 66 years in showbusiness, he remains one of Australia's Rock and Roll living legends.

Kevin Trask

Kevin can be heard on 3AWThe Time Tunnel - Remember WhenSundays at 10.10pm with Philip Brady and Simon Owens. And on 96.5 FM That's Entertainment - Sundays at 12 Noon. www.innerfm.org.au

COLLAGE, PAINTINGS AT BENALLA ART GALLERY

Collage and Mark Making with Rachel Doller.

Working with recycled and found materials, participants will explore the art of collage artist, Rachel Doller.

The workshop will explore objectbased print and mark making with paint, and collaging in response to themes and concepts which will result the competition of a final piece.

Participants will be encouraged to be inventive with materials and be imaginative with what is on hand fostering freedom and creativity in the construction of work.

Ages 15+ . Cost $35 Members / $45 non-Members

Lesson: Saturday May 20 at 10 am – 1. 30pm. Registration and payment essential; 5769 2619 or gallerybenalla.vic.gov.au

Brilliant Paintings with Pauline Fraser

In this workshop, beginner or skilled participants will have an exciting painting experience using intense colours and wax resin in various applications.

An introductory discussion with Pauline will examine ways of creating an interesting composition. Inspiration can come from an arranged stilllife, an illustrated picture storybook, patterned fabric, or flowers.

Participants are welcome to bring their own objects for inspiration too.

Be prepared to be totally flexible to new approaches and outcomes. In the last hour of the session participants can enjoy a complimentary wine with nibbles, whilst exploring and sharing each other’s works.

Saturday May 27. 1pm – 4pm.

Benalla Art Gallery

Botanical Gardens Bridge St, Benalla

Linden Art

■ Three new exhibitions now open at Linden New Art: Kate Just, Nell and Abdul-Rahman Abdullah

Self Care Action Series –Kate Just arose out of Just’s well-known social justice and feminist art practice and reflects the artist’s knitted meditation on actions required to sustain oneself to do challenging work in a confronting world.

As a queer feminist, artist teacher,

The Arts

modern-day Australia. Exhibition of the three artists closes June 4. Sculpting Magical Animals

Join Iranian/Australian artist Kate Robinson for a fun animal sculpting workshop .

Starting with a guided tour of the exhibition, participants will gather inspiration before unleashing their imaginations to sculpt and decorate their own magical animals using modelling clay, gens and glitter.

Saturday May 20, at 1pm. Free, limited spots The workshop is open to all ages.

Linden New Art

26 Acland St, St Kilda - Peter Kemp

Harry Potter

advocate, activist, and parent who dedicates a lot of time working in the art world and real-world contexts to generate social and political change, Just explores the radical history of self-care and its relevance to feminist practice by artists working for social change.

Old New Wave – Nell

Sydney-based artist, Nell, is presenting three works as part of her exhibition, Old New Wave.

Two of these works will be having their Melbourne debut, including a large-scale installation comprising of a life-size female bronze figure walking amongst 33 individual hand-blown glass ghost sculptures.

The exhibition includes one new work that is debuting a Linden , a large-scale installation of a metal tree growing out of the floor of the gallery.

Journeys – Abdul-Rahman

Abdullah

Abdullah is presenting three works titled Journeys , reflecting on passages of life complicated by the intersections of mythology, lived culture and the natural world.

The exhibition includes two existing installations that will be having their Melbourne debut and a new work entitled I Am Your Treasure.

Framed by his Islamic faith, Abdullah’s exhibition aims to give informed clarity to make sense of the world that consists of contested nature and the stereotypes of that in

OK. With John O’Keefe

Audience boos Katy Perry

■ The Magical Music of Harry Potter –Live in Concert will be staged at the Palais Theatre, StKilda at 7.30pm on Wednesday, May 17.

The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit in Concert will be performed at Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne at 3.30pm and 7.30pm on Thursday, May 18.

Book Fair

■ The Melbourne Art Book Fair will be held at NGV International, and venues across Victoria from May 18-28. It is a free event.

At Monash

■ Yorta Yorta artist DRMNGNOW will showcase new work, and Noongar conductor Aaron Wyatt will leadl the Monash Academy Orchestra. Muniak Nangarna by Neil Morris AKA DMNGNOW. May 30- June 2.

Special event: Neil Morris presentation at 7.30pm on May 30. David Li Sound Gallery, The Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts, 48 Exhibition Walk, Clayton

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■ Zhao Jiping will present Violin Concerto No.1 at the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra on Thursday, May 4.

■ Katy Perry doesn't hold back on her opinions, particularly when it comes to her judgment of contestants on American Idol. Typical of her caustic sprays was an outburst directed to an aspiring vocalist who Perry referred to as a 'glitter bomb' because of the sequin dress she wore. Angry studio audience reacted with hostile booing. In future, try and cool it Katy

Neard and ‘Stache contest

■ Making a comeback is the Beard and 'Stache competition to be held at Ballarat’s Hop Temple. There are various sections to enter, all requiring creative styling of one’s follicles. There is $1000 in prizes up for grabs. Details and entry forms on beardcomp.com.au

Veteran actor for soapie

■ Actor Dick Van Dyke, 97, is soon to appear in his first-ever soapie, Days of Our Lives. Dick is in good shape, sharp as a tack, exercising in the gym and watching his diet.

Minister for Silly Walks

■ John Cleese has announced he will tour Australia in July. Cleese will be the subject of a Roast on July 19 when a panel of local comedians will grill him with awkward questions. Reserve that date.

Kevin still going strong

■ Veteran radio man Kevin Hillier is celebrating his 50 th year in commercial radio. Keith voices and produces podcasts, as well as a weekly gig, 'Sideline View' on Bay FM 93.9 (Geelong), 1pm, Saturdays. The program is wall -to-wall music and sports of all sorts with lots of news on the Cats. Go Kevin.

with Peter Kemp

- John O’Keefe

● ● Katy Perry

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/from-cpac-dc-why-we-need-new-federal-state-of-china/

From CPAC 2023: Why We Need a New Federal State of China

by Kelly John Walker

Anyone who attended February’s CPAC event in Washington, D.C. could tell you that one exhibitor was impossible to ignore: The New Federal State of China (NFSC). Who are these people, and what do they seek to achieve?

NFSC is perhaps America’s greatest anti-CCP ally in the Cold War against the CCP

On June 4, 2020, the New Federal State of China launched in New York City with one overarching goal: “Take down the CCP (Chinese Communist Party).” Yet, these freedom-seeking people encountered an America that has been infiltrated by the evil communist regime they came here to escape. America is not the beacon of freedom it once was…but a base of 500 million supporters desperately want to see our country resume the mantle of World Leader and Champion of Liberty. As American lawmakers are increasingly realizing, America cannot do that until it decouples from the CCP.

Tough times make tough people, and the New Federal State of China is made up of graduates from the school of hard knocks. Some have been arrested, others have been tortured; many worry that the CCP is targeting family members back in China in attempts to intimidate them. One young man shared that his mother sits in a CCP prison back in China. Nevertheless, the NFSC’s people are brave enough to face down a regime arguably worse than any of the 20th-Century’s most insidious regimes, including Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and the Japanese Empire.

“Take down the CCP” needs to be a defining slogan of our times.

The New Federal State of China is perhaps America’s greatest antiCCP ally in the Cold War against the CCP , and their rallying cry of “take down the CCP” needs to be a defining slogan of our times.

The group brought their energy, enthusiasm, and tech savvy to CPAC at three booths buzzing with non-stop activity, reportedly doing about 90 interviews per day, livestreamed to NFSC Speaks onto their GETTR account: https:/ /gettr.com/user/NFSCSpeaks.

These NFCS efforts are a key component of the Information War against the CCP .

Guests included congressmen, heads of state, NGO leaders, independent news organizations, journalists, prominent dissidents from all over the world, and more.

“You can count on Congress to take back America from the CCP’s manipulation and weaponization of U.S. federal government agencies.” -Congressman Keith Self

Pennsylvania Representative Scott Perry discussed his bill, which would “label the Communist party of China a transnational criminal organization.” He also pointed out the importance of separating the CCP from the Chinese people, who want to be free.

“The Communist Party is not the friend of the United States of America,” he added.

Texas Representative Keith Self shared his conviction that “you can

count on Congress to take back America from the CCP’s manipulation and weaponization of U.S. federal government agencies. I think we will do that through the select committee on the CCP . We’ve got to find the facts, we’ve got to lay out the case, and then we’ve got to move forward!”

My Pillow Founder, Mike Lindell said during his interview that he will share NFSC’s call for an investigation into the CCP’s lawsuits against Mr. Miles Guo using America’s top law firms and proxies within the DOJ and FBI: “I’ll take what I’m hearing from you…I’ll get it before…Jim Jordan and Kevin McCarthy…we’re behind everything you’re doing.”

“We’re not going to deny any righteous people that are speaking the truth like the NFSC,” said Washington Times Holdings Chairman, Michael Jenkins. “We’re happy to meet your leader and founder to discuss what are the facts, and I’m sure you’ll help enlighten the public!”

While in D.C., NFSC representatives visited a D.C. studio for a live interview with Grant Stinchfield on Real America’s Voice. “The CCP is so scared right now,” said NFSC co-host, Prince Li after the interview. “Grant Stinchfield is amplifying our voice to expose their corruption to the world!”

The weapons of NFCS’s warfare are not rifles and grenades, but information.

In the war against the Chinese communist regime, NFSC is the modern-day equivalent of the French Resistance that opposed Nazi aggression and the occupation of Europe. With over 500 million followers, NFSC operates all over the world, including in China. Some are even providing intelligence from within the government and military. Unlike the freedom fighters of the past, however, the weapons of NFCS’s warfare are not rifles and grenades, but information.

China took an early lead over the U.S. in the information and political warfare arenas. If we are to avoid a “hot war” with China, the U.S. must take back control of the narrative, win back hearts and minds, and—perhaps most importantly—heal the division the CCP has purposely exacerbated within our society and between our political parties.

We cannot free China until we first free America.

The NFSC organization is young and filled with optimism and energy to take down the CCP, but their momentum isn’t just about their own struggles. As NFSC representatives will tell you, we cannot free China until we first free America. The testimonies and information these people have to share are key to restoring the greatness and independence of the People of the U.S. and the governance we all deserve.

As the Chinese Whistleblowers who escaped the oppressive regime back in China can attest, if communism wins, we all lose.

Kelly John Walker is an American statesman, writer, branding professional, and entrepreneur. He is the founder of FreedomTalk, host of FreedomTalk TV, and a freelance writer.

● ● Grant Stinchfield of Real America’s Voice discusses the CCP threat with Arizona radio show host, Kathleen Winn.

Ex-DOJ Attorney George Higginbotham Testifies in Pras Michel Trial About Guo Wengui/Miles Guo: Everything You Need to Know

by Matt Palumbo

Disgraced ex-employee of the Department of Justice, George Higginbotham, who was instrumental to a $100 million conspiracy financed by CCP-linked Jho Low, is expected to testify in Pras Michel’s ongoing criminal trial in Washington D.C. on April 6th, 2023. Higginbotham was reportedly paid $41 million after visiting the D.C. Chinese Embassy in 2017 to conspire with Ambassador Cui Tiankai to send Guo Wengui/Miles Guo, a prominent CCP dissident, back to China. Michel’s attorneys have also requested Mr. Guo’s testimony but were rejected by the DOJ. Notably, While Michel stands trial facing decades in prison, Higginbotham not only walks free after the DOJ cut him an apologetically lenient plea deal, but he also appears to currently work at the heavily CCP-linked Citadel. Others including Leonardo DiCaprio have previously testified at the highlypublicized Michel trial.

George Higginbotham worked as Senior Congressional Affairs Specialist at the DOJ from 2016 to 2018. He had been friends with Michel for a long time, going back to when Higginbotham operated a law firm and Michel was reportedly his client. The two reconnected around 2017 when Michel, on behalf of Jho Low and the CCP, reached out to Higginbotham soliciting his help in removing Mr. Guo from the United States. Ironically, Mr. Guo currently is held without bail by the DOJ on bogus fraud charges, because the Justice Department reportedly wants to prevent Mr. Guo from testifying at Michel’s trial.

But Michel and Higginbotham didn’t operate alone, their long list of notable co-conspirators includes Casino Mogul Steve Wynn, RNC Finance Chairman Elliot Broidy, and now convicted-felon Nickie Lum Davis. Steve Wynn defeated his DOJ lawsuit alleging him to be

a foreign agent for China with the help of the CCP-linked law firm Paul Hastings, whose partner Luc Despins has been relentlessly persecuting Mr. Guo as DOJ-appointed bankruptcy trustee. Broidy has pleaded guilty to violating FARA and acting as an agent of the CCP to remove Mr. Guo, but was issued a Presidential pardon.

The public’s fascination with George Higginbotham centers not only around his role as a DOJ official, but also the extent and extravagance with which he carried out his crimes. Higginbotham walked in broad daylight right into the Chinese Embassy in D.C., where he reportedly told the Chinese Ambassador that the DOJ was “working” on Mr. Guo’s removal.

Higginbotham also traveled to Hong Kong with Michel, Broidy, and Davis in 2017 to meet with Sun Lijun, Vice Minister of Public Security of China. According to sources familiar with the trip, once the group arrived in Hong Kong, they were told that Minister Sun wanted to meet in Shen Zhen instead. The group had initially expressed concerns that they lacked the Chinese Visa necessary to cross the Chinese border. Minister Sun had reportedly replied that “Only two men run everything in China, President Xi runs Beijing, and outside of Beijing, I run everything.” The group was then secretly brought over the border to Shenzhen without ever showing

passports, where they met with Minister Sun and Jho Low to discuss how to force Mr. Guo’s return to China.

Together, the group would illegally lobby then-President Trump, Attorney General Jeff Session, the DOJ itself, and the NSA in an attempt to force Mr. Guo’s return to China – all for hundreds of millions of dollars of personal financial gain. In Steve Wynn’s court filing, it was revealed that when President Xi visits President Trump in 2017, Xi personally requested Mr. Guo’s return to China, offering even new assistance packages for North Korea in return.

Mr. Guo has made himself the arch nemesis of the CCP by exposing three highly classified CCP documents he had obtained in 2017: the BGY Plan (which exposed the CCP’s efforts to infiltrate all aspects of American society), the 3F Plan (which exposed the CCP sending tens of thousands of spies to the U.S.), and the 13579 plan (which revealed the CCP’s plan to create and release a biological weapon – now known as Covid-19 – within three years).

Mr. Guo’s recent arrest, on March 15th, and the prosecutor’s argument that Mr. Guo might face deportation to China, makes one wonder if Higginbotham’s involvement in 2017 had anything to do with Mr. Guo’s current criminal fraud charges, which many experts have commented as bogus

and lacking substance. Specifically, of the 5,500+ alleged “harmed” investors, the prosecution has identified exactly zero of them as victims. In fact, according to independent research, there are only 4 GTV investors who have ever publicly filed complaints against Guo, one of whom recently came out and admitted that he was forced to file such accusations by Chinese Authorities and was given step-by-step filing instructions by policemen. This amounts to 0.05% of the investor base – practically a rounding error.

If the DOJ does not make an effort to sugar coat Higginbotham’s testimony at Michel’s trial, which many has suspected the Department might do in the interest of protecting “one of their own”, then we can expect to hear from Higginbotham the details of his peculiar trips to China and Chinese Embassy in 2017.

The Higginbothams of America are the reason why our nation is in extreme peril. A conspiracy is in plain view, involving high-ranking DOJ officials, a sitting U.S. President, and an Attorney General, executed by American traitors who have the best interest of Beijing at heart, and financed by a CCP billionaire who stole from the Malaysian people, all to return one man, Guo Wengui, back to China. As Attorney Adam Waldman points out, “It’s all one overlapping case.”

Mr. Guo, the center of this BIG overlapping case, currently sits in federal prison without bail while his testimony at Michel’s trial had long been requested. It’s about damn time: FREE MILES GUO and LET HIM TESIFY.

About the author: Matt Palumbo is the author of The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros (2021), Dumb and Dumber: How Cuomo and de Blasio Ruined New York (2020), Debunk This!: Shattering Liberal Lies (2019), and Spygate (2018).

Across Across

145. Excel

146. Castle water barriers

147. Elaborately

148. Cattle-farmers

149. Mad (dog)

150. Tied (shoes)

152. Surprise victory

154. Labelled

157. Chinese gooseberry, ... fruit

158. Of the side

162. Grieg opera, Peer ...

163. SOS

166. Wig material

167. Speaks

169. Kind

171. Door frame post

172. Resistant to disease

173. Start (of ailment)

175. Primp

176. Encouraged

179. Tutsi country

180. Ranted

182. Hawaiian garland

183. Belonging to us

184. Spindly

186. Took in (child)

189. Last Greek letter

190. Wallabies or Springboks sport

191. Synagogue scholar

192. Stimulating

196. Disable

197. Canadian province, ... Scotia

198. Kenya's capital

199. Exhilarating

201. Caught

202. Ridicule

203. Departing

204. Fibre-spinning rods

205. Writer, ... Hemingway

208. Journalist's credit (2-4)

210. Cheap ship fare 211. Fertiliser ingredient

212. Redder

213. Bobs head 215. Firebugs

219. Signalling flame

221. Cruel men

223. Searches out scandal

227. From Brussels

228. Mummifies (corpse)

230. Judge's hammer

231. Democratic Republic of Congo

232. Threatened 233. Slip by 234. Gist

238. Tennis ace, ... Edberg

239. Indianapolis state 240. Splatter

243. Arrival 246. Annulled 247. Dressy

250. Woodwind instruments

251. Fools

253. Paltry

256. Helicopter's landing place

257. More hefty

258. Grills

262. Labyrinth

263. Reverie

266. Honey liquor

268. Peacemaker

269. Central Asian republic

270. Lovely women

Down Down

1. Doomed person

2. Legends 3. Equine

4. Cosy home 5. Nearly 7. A few

8. Persecutes

9. Checkers game

10. Thread

11. Henry VIII's ... Boleyn

12. Second-hand vehicles (4,4)

13. Smart aleck (4-3)

14. Friendly

15. Tests

16. Former Soviet region (1,1,1,1)

17. Lightweight timber

18. Go in

19. Mixer drinks

24. Appeared

26. Trading centre

30. Last-minute

33. Pungent cleaning fluid

34. Small hill

35. Sniffed 38. Cross-breeds

39. Made contact with 40. Takes no notice of 42. Canadian lake 43. Bringing up 46. Stud (with jewels)

47. Conformed, ... the line 49. Hurricane 50. Follows orders 51. Europe/Asia 53. Regards highly 54. Riled 55. Aussie sheep herders 59. Very demanding 60. Settle overseas 67. Bewildered 68. Moved on hands & knees 69. Of earthquakes 70. Run (event) 72. Aplomb 74. Travelling worker 76. Gusty 77. Leave impression 78. Smooth over (4,3) 79. Gushed 81. Brash newcomers 84. Egg dish 87. Dried with

138. Famous Swiss mountain

141. Main artery

142. Flowed away

143. Yesterday, ..., tomorrow

151. Cling (to)

153. Early fetus

155. Directed 156. Surly person

159. Hoping (to)

160. Vitality

161. Irritating

164. 365-day periods

165. Cosmetics boss, Elizabeth ...

168. Legendary Atlantic continent

170. Money

173. Car distance clock

174. Mideast waterway (4,5)

177. Raincoat fabric

178. Gradually diminished

181. Devotees

185. Thrilling

186. Loss of memory

187. Beginnings

188. Trampled

193. Obscure

194. Sports injury remedy (3,4)

195. Hot springs

200. Venetian boats

201. Conceive of

206. Havens

207. Increases threefold

208. Sun-tanned

209. Most inquisitive

211. Coup organiser

214. Cigarette users

216. Affair of the heart

217. Giving green light to

218. Huge

220. Blacksmith's block

222. German wine, ... Riesling

224. Most avid

225. US cotton state

226. Giant Himalayan peak

229. Criticise harshly

232. Lion's neck hair

235. Poorer quality

236. Wear down

237. Soft goat wool

241. Fence planks

242. Authorise

244. Bridge over gorge

245. Louder

248. Trophies

249. Those ones

108. Alleged assassin, Lee Harvey ...

109. Stop! (nautical)

112. Emerging again from sleep

116. Protective shielding (6,5)

251. Weaponry

252. Bogs

253. Office circulars

254. Grand Slam winner, ... Agassi

255. Writer, ... Dahl

259. Happen

260. Prized fur

261. Genders

262. Method

264. Sudden attack

265. Son of Adam & Eve

267. Sprint Solution

Crossroads

By Rob Foenander info@countrycrossroads com.au

Something Special

■ Phil Salter has returned after a brief sabbatical with some new original music.

Something Special is an inspirational song about believing in your dreams and that anything is possible. It reminds the listener of growing up, feeling invincible and being up for any challenge.

Since 1972 Phil has been making music and the multi-instrumentalist has decades of performing experience in numerous musical outfits.

More info: www.facebook.com/ PhilSalterMusican

Cabaret Festival

■ The Melbourne Cabaret Festival announces its highly anticipated return from Tuesday-Sunday, July 4-9. Festival Producer Neville Sice revealed in a media release that two of Australia's favourite acts, RnB songstress Prinnie Stevens and award-winning music comedy trio The Kransky Sisters, will headline the festival. Bookings and more info www.melbournecabaret.com

Afraid of the Dark

HOLLAND-BATT WINS STELLA PRIZE

■ The winner of the 2023 Stella Prize celebrating Australian women and non-binary writers was announced at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art on Thursday (Apr. 27) in an event hosted by journalist and presenter Leigh Sales

The $60,000 prize was awarded to Sarah Holland-Batt for her poetry collection, The Jaguar.

Holland-Batt, an award-winning poet and Professor of Creative Writing and Literary Studies at QUT, wrote these poems as she observed the devastation of her father’s worsening Parkinson’s Disease

The result is a “remarkable” collection that the 2023 Stella Judging Panel said “investigates the body as a site of both pleasure and frailty.”

Awarded annually, the Stella Prize recognises original, excellent, and engaging work by Australian women and non-binary writers.

Sarah Holland-Batt’s win marks the second consecutive year a book of poetry has won the prestigious award.

She focuses on the pedestrian details of hospitals and aged care facilities, enabling us to see these institutions as distinct universes teeming with life and love.

Her imagery is unexpected and unforgettable, and often blended with humour.

This is a book that cuts through to the core of what it means to descend into frailty, old age, and death.

It unflinchingly observes the complex A voice for gender equality and cultural change in Australian literature.

Of winning this year’s prize, Sarah Holland-Batt says: “It’s both an indescribable joy and a deep honour to receive the Stella Prize for The Jaguar.

“I wrote this book during an intensely challenging period, as my father was dying, and just after. It was the friendship, generosity, and camaraderie of women that not only saw me through this difficult time, but that has been the sustaining armature of my writing life.

erature.” Creative Director & CoCEO of Stella, Jaclyn Booton, says of the winning book:

“The Jaguar is a gift of a book. It examines questions of grief and memory and care; it weaves together moments of both full-hearted joy and crushing disappointment.

“Stella is thrilled to celebrate this book as the winner of the 2023 Stella Prize, and we encourage readers to experience this deeply affecting collection for themselves. It gives me great pleasure to congratulate Sarah on her achievement.”

“The 2023 Stella Prize is generously supported by the Wilson Foundation. Chair of the Wilson Foundation, Karen Wilson, says:

“The Stella Prize has an extraordinary impact on Australian literature. Annually the Prize provides us with a collection of authors and books that are brave, provocative, and original.

ever Fund from 2024. Sarah Holland-Batt is the author of three books of poetry – The Jaguar (2022), The Hazards (2015) and Aria (2008) – and a book of essays on contemporary poetry, Fishing for Lightning (2021). Her honours include the 2016 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry, a Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship , and residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo in the United States.

She is presently the Judy Harris Writer in Residence at the University of Sydney’s Charles Perkins Centre, and Professor of Creative Writing and Literary Studies at QUT.

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Last year’s Stella Prize was awarded to Goorie-Koori poet Evelyn Araluen for her debut collection Dropbear.

The prize was presented by award-winning author and 2023 Stella Prize Chair of Judges, Alice Pung.

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Pung says of the winning book: “In The Jaguar, Sarah HollandBatt writes about death as tenderly as we’ve ever read about birth.

“So it’s only right that I acknowledge all the women – publishers, editors, mentors, fellow writers, friends – who have supported and championed my work over the years; I simply wouldn’t be here without them.

“I’m thrilled to enter into the company of the extraordinary writers who have received the Stella , and so grateful for what this prize has done to transform the books and voices we value in Australian lit-

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“As a literary award it has set the benchmark for gender equality and cultural change. 2023 is the Wilson Foundation’s final year as the Stella Prize Award sponsor which we have had the pleasure of supporting since 2020. We wish the Stella Prize ongoing and continued success.”

In 2022, Stella announced the Stella Forever Fund target of $3 million had been reached, endowing the Stella Prize for generations of writers to come.

The annual Stella Prize money will be drawn from the Stella For-

With electrifying boldness, Sarah Holland-Batt confronts what it means to be mortal in an astonishing and deeply humane portrait of a father’s Parkinson’s Disease, and a daughter forged by grief. Opening and closing with startling elegies set in the charged moments before and after a death, and fearlessly probing the body’s animal endurance, appetites and metamorphoses, The Jaguar is marked by Holland-Batt’s lyric intensity and linguistic mastery, along with a stark new clarity of voice.

Here, Holland-Batt is at her most exacting and uncompromising: these ferociously intelligent, insistent poems refuse to look away, and challenge us to view ruthless witness as a form of love.

- Terri King

Observations with Matt Bissett-Johnson with Matt Bissett-Johnson

Sport

PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE LEADS BETTING

■ The fast Victorian mare Passive Aggressive still heads the betting in the lead up to the running of the Sangster Stakes to be run at Morphettville in South Austrlia this Saturday (May 6).

A recent winner of the prestigious Challenge Stakes over 1000 metres in Sydney back in March, is among the quickest racing in Australia.

She is raced by well known-owner Johnathon Munz, who has another top-notcher in his camp in Giga Kick, listed as the best sprinter in Australia after his win in the Everest Stakes, still only three years of age.

On the second line is another smart mare, Bella Nipotina, who ran a great third in the big race, the Quokka in Western Australia, after missing the start.

She was also prominent in placing in the William Reid Stakes at Moonee Valley.

Last year she won the Manikato Stakes in fine style at Moonee Valley.

One from the powerful Peter Moody camp, that was impressive in winning at Sandown on March 15 was She Dances, a winner of five races from her nine starts.

Ridden in superb style by Linda Meech, she bolted in at Sandown over this journey and has a ton of ability.

Another that is pretty sharp and quick is the Sydney mare, Zapateo, prepared by James Cummings.

She scored nicely in the Sapphire Stakes back on April 8 over this distance, and in good style.

One of our top sprinters is the Sydney mare Espiona , you may recall her winning by six lengths up the straight at Flemington earlier in her career.

She won brilliantly at Sandown back on February 11 over 1200 metres, and made it two on end, winning the Coolmore Classic over 1500 metres at Rosehill on March 11 in easy fashion. She is going to be right in this, she is a classy racehorse.

The Victorian galloper, Roch’N’ Horse, a winner of the Newmarket Handicap at Flemington at big odds, I feel he is better suited up the straight.

The mare, September Run, is battling to find her best form, although she has been close to placing.

Then there is Argentina, who is battling at the moment, finishing out a of a place in the Emancipation Stakes over 1500 metres.

Prepared by the Freedman team, it hasn’t done anything for some time, and needs to improve on recent form.

Belsielle failed to fire in the Hareeba Stakes at Mornington on Cup Day, and would to have to improve rapidly on that run.

The Peter Moody trained Chain of Lightning was out of his class in the Newmarket won by In Secret.

He is better suited in something not so rich.

I feel the main chances are the favourite, Passive Aggressive, Bella Nipotina, She Dances, Zapateo and Espiona

Ted Ryan

will commence his stud career in the Hunter Valley at an introductory fee of $121,000 (including GST).

The Godolphin set-up are proud to announce that the Horse of the Year elect, is the most keenly anticipated stallion prospect in Australia in over a decade.

The nine-time Group One winning son of Street Boss , is already assured of widespread support from across Australia and New Zealand, with leading breeders queueing up to have representation with his first crop.

Anamoe leaves the racing stage as the winner of 14 races and eight placings, among the top echelon from 25 starts.

Through his outstanding efforts he accumulated more than $11.1 million, in stakemoney.

He is ranked sixth on the all-time-list, behind another Australian champion Winx, a winner

of a world record of $11.1 million, including a record four Cox Plates on end.

The Godolphin team is ecstatic that Anamoe will represent their powerful organisation. He will be prepared for his first season at stud, at Darley’s Kelvinside property in the Hunter Valley later this year.

Above Anamoe on the fee card is champion sire, Exceed and Excel, whose fee remains unchanged at $132,000 (inc. GST).

With nine stakes horses in his current juvenile crop, Exceed and Excel has enjoyed another phenomenal season on the racetrack and at the sales.

In great news for Victoria, Anamoe’s sire, Street Boss, returns to Northwood Park at a fee of $66,000 (inc.GST).

This follows two seasons in NSW.

Godolphin Australia has also confirmed the decision to stand the sprint star Paulele on the Darley Stalliion’s Northwood Park roster in Victoria for the 2023 breeding season.

Paulele will stand at a fee of $16,500 including GST.

The decision to stand Paulele in Victoria was straight forward.

Paulele is a smart looking stallion, he’s a Group-One weight-for-age winner.

Vale Dean Holland

■ The funeral service to celebrate the life of Dean Holland will be held in the Atrium Room at Flemington Racecourse , Epsom Rd, Flemington on Monday (May 8). A private cremation commencing follows the 2pm service.

The family has requested no flowers, directing donations to the National Jockeys Trust, which would be appreciated.

All in the racing world send our thoughts and prayers to his loving family.

- Ted Ryan

Stud Stakes

■ Australia’s best galloper, Anamoe, has run his last race.

The brilliant son of leading sire, Street Boss,

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MILDURA PACING CUP CHARLTON-BOUND

■ Another successful Mildura Cup week was held from April 18-22 and Charlton based Shane Sanderson (45) and 19-year-old son Ryan provided a complete shock blowout result to the $60,000 (Group 3) Tasco Petroleum Mildura Pacing Cup over 2600 metres on Saturday April 23, the final night of the three day cup week program held each year around Easter time, when Sahara Tiger saluted the judge at odds of $126, the longest priced winner in Cup history which was first held in 1957 when two divisions of the race were programmed - Manang and Simple Joe winning for a stake of $250 or 125 pounds, with both overcoming a 24-yard handicap. Manang (P Carr) scoring in a mile rate of 216.8 and Simple Joe (M Bourke) 2-15.2 for the 13 furlong and 96 yard journey.

Sahara Tiger trained at the Charlton complex by Shane with youthful Ryan in the sulky producing what was the ‘drive of the night’ giving him his greatest thrill in a short career.

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Serge Blanco Ryan Duffy

Western Sonador Rebecca Bartley

Kowalski Analysis Glen Craven

Curly James David Moran

Helluva John Justice

Cant Top This (second line) Kerryn Manning

Sahara Tiger Ryan Sanderson

Bulletproof Boy Scott Ewen

Tay Tay Alex Ashwood

Dhaulagiri Jack Laugher

Serg Blanco through the agency of the ace alley led easily as the gate pulled away, with Curly James outside him and Sahara Tiger immediately angling to the leaders back after Western Sonador couldn’t hold his ground shifting down to be three pegs, Kowalski Analysis (one/ one) being trailed by Bulletproof Boy and Cant Top This, Tay Tay and Helluva which was restrained after being caught wide and Dhaulagiri at the tail.

Within a lap Cant Top This was off and running to park in the open pushing those in the moving line back a spot.

With no moves eventuating, the field remained in the same order until the last lap with Ryan Duffy (Serge Blanco) increasing the tempo making it hard for those back in the field to make ground.

Cant Top This to the dismay of favourite punters was under extreme pressure approaching the final bend allowing Sahara Tiger to ease off the leaders back with Curly James angling three wide to issue his claim.

Joining Serg Blanco on straightening, Sahara Tiger rallied strongly in the straight to record a 3.1 metre margin over Western Sonador which gained inside runs after Serge Blanco shifted up the track under pressure, with Cant Top This after looking a spent force coming again in the straight for third 2.4 metres away, Curly James fourth and Serg Blanco fifth.

In quarters of 30 seconds, 29.6, 28.2 and 28.9 after a lead time of 76.6, Sahara Tiger returned a mile rate of 1-59.6, 3.4 seconds outside Phoenix Prince’s 1-56.7 set last year.

Raced by breeders Bruce Paul and Peter Watkinson (HRV Board member) along with Peter Hornsby, Mary McEvoy, Dale Monteith (HRV Chairman), John and Nikki McKeown, Priority Divisions Group (Mgr Travis Gray) and Balwyn Football - 400 Club Group Managed by Peter Watkinson, Sahara Tiger a 7Y0 gelded son of Art Major and Sahara Miss originally trained at Drouin by Gary and Deb Turner has raced on 60 occasions to date for 22 wins and 16 placings for stakes of $200,182.

Horsham events

■ Horsham raced on Monday April 24 with their traditional Noel Smith Memorial Invitation Drivers Series featuring Chris Alford, Anthony Butt, Michael Bellman, Jason Lee, John Caldow, Ellen Tormey, Jack Laugher, John Justice, Kerryn Manning and Ryan Sanderson.

Four races were held during the afternoon with Ellen Tormey taking first blood aboard the Bec East (Heywood) trained 4Y0 Betting LineMama Tambu mare I Betuwantano. Settling at the tail from the extreme draw, I Betuwantano was sent forward to lead from the bell and score

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of 1-59. Stablemate Firefly, a 3Y0 Downbytheseaside-Illawong Joyful gelding landed the Shepparton RSL Vicbred Pace over 1690 metres in identical fashion, defeating Dabyminga which raced outside him by 2.5 metres, with Diamond Shooz (one/one) third 6.9 metres away. The mile rate 1-57.6. Stable reinsman Jack Laugher handled both horses to perfection.

Ballarat winners

■ Ballarat raced on Wednesday and Dunnstown part-owner/trainer John Murphy was successful with handy 4Y0 Sportswriter-It Is She mare Emer in the National Tiles Pace over 2200 metres.

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by 8.3 metres from Sunshinefromheaven (Anthony Butt) along the sprint lane from three pegs in 2-03.5 for the 2200 metre trip. Famous Label (Kerryn Manning) after leading and trailing was third a half neck away.

■ The second race over 1700 metres saw Ellen Tormey again successful when Bendigo trainer Alex Ashwood’s 5Y0 Art Major-Sparks Under Fire mare Major Fire after racing in the open was too strong for Our Ultimate Layla (one/two – Anthony Butt) and Areuohkay (three pegs –Kerryn Manning) returning a mile rate of 1-55.8. The margins being a neck by 12 metres.

■ Race three again over 1700 metres saw Michael Bellman combine with Shane Sanderson when 3Y0 DownbytheseasideLonnie Franco gelding Ourmatemenko led throughout to account for You Beauty (Ellen Tormey) which raced outside him from the bell by 7.1 metres in 1-54.6. Rimu Valley (Jack Laugher) after trailing the winner was third 1.8 metres away.

■ The fourth and final race of the series over 2200 metres went to Anthony Butt aboard Bannockburn trainer Geoff Webster’s smart 3Y0 Betterthancheddar-Dougs Courage gelding Dougs Platter which led throughout to defeat Major Collect (death – one/one at bell – Jack Laugher), by 1.7 metres with Jilliby Sellwood (Ellen Tormey) third a half head away after racing exposed for the final circuit. The mile rate 156.8.

The winner of the Series was Ellen Tormey

It was great to see Peter Craven in the winners stall after 5Y0 Love You-Maori Tessa gelding Love Ya Brother greeted the judge in the 2200 metre The Weekly Advertiser Trotters Handicap. Trained by son Mattie for mother Helen, Love Ya Brother (10m) was four wide, then three wide to the breeze, before crossing to lead for the last lap in defeating Apex which ran home late from mid-field for second, with Lady Be Lucky (one/one – outside the winner on turning) third. The margins 6 by 1.2 metres in a rate of 2-02.7.

Peter (69) has driven numerous winners over the years mainly for his late parents Harold and Alice Craven, but sits back these days mostly watching the Craven and Lee families compete at the races, but is still a huge advantage to Mattie assisting throughout the week.

Trailed leader

■ At Shepparton on Tuesday, Doreen trainer John Yeomans combined with Chris Alford to land the Jims Diggers 3Y0 Maiden Pace over 2190 metres with American Ideal-Foxy Roxy Rita colt American Werewolf.

Bred by John and wife Christine, American Werewolf (gate two) dropped down to trail the poleline leader Caesar Nero before using the sprint lane to gain the day by 7.4 metres. Riveera was third 5 metres away after racing wide from mid-field. The mile rate 1-59.5.

The strong Strathfieldsaye stable of Julie Douglas snared a double on the night with Kiwi bred 3Y0 Vincent-Hazel B Hasty gelding Our Vincent Can Gough leading throughout from gate two in the 2190 metre Central Tyre Service Pace to account for Tupelo Beach (three pegs) along the sprint lane and Zuberi off a three wide trail last lap from the rear.

The margins 5.9 by 5.5 metres in a mile rate

Driven by nephew Brent Murphy, Emer (gate six) settled last on the markers with Majorholeinmypocket leading from gate three. Coming away from the markers in the last lap, Emer weaved in-between runners and when extricated wide on turning, finished brilliantly to blouse Royal Saxon (one/one) which had dashed clear in the straight by a head in 2-00.5. Hit The Track was third 2.3 metres back after following the runner up throughout.

■ Twenty one year old Heathcote reinsman Sean O’Sullivan produced a classic drive aboard his 13-Y-0 Courage Under Fire-Realy Dry gelding Realy Under Fire to land the 1710 metre Haymarket Pace.

Trained by father Jim, Realy Under Fire led throughout from the pole and with Sean nursing him all the way to the wire, greeted the judge by a head in 2-00.4 from Alook To Like (one/one –three wide home turn) and Gigis Grinner which raced exposed finishing 8.9 metres away. It was Realy Under Fire’s 23rd success at start number 268.

■ Mount Wallace trainer Kelly Stuart-Mitchell landed the Ballarat Sportsman Association 3Y0 Pace over 1710 metres with Art Huntsman, a gelded son of Huntsville and Arts Bliss.

Driven by Jason Lee, Art Huntsman led throughout from the pole to just last from Lochinvar Lorenzo which trailed by a half head, with Yahoo (one/one) third a half head away in a blanket four horse finish. The mile rate 158.7.

Thursday events

■ Two meetings were held on ThursdayCharlton and Kilmore.

Marong owners and co-trainers Terry and Jacinta-Allan Gange were victorious at Charlton with very honest 6Y0 Modern Art-Caro Ella gelding Mister Jimaringle who chalked up his 10th victory when making his 97th race appearance.

Driven by Ryan Sanderson, Mister Jimaringle began brilliantly from gate six to lead throughout and score comfortably by 1.9 metres from Victory George which raced wide from the bell. Warrantee (one/three) was third a neck away after following the runner-up home. The mile rate two minutes even.

■ South Ecklin trainer/driver Mattie Craven’s Grinfromeartoear-Primanproper Lombo 6Y0 gelding Gotta Smuge was a deserved winner of the Wimmera Mallee Tourism Pace over 2100 metres after some great runs of late.

Despite racing in the open outside Betternbetter from gate five, Gotta Smudge raced by Camperdown’s McSween family was too strong at the business end, defeating Double The Hunter which followed him most of the way by an easy 14.3 metres. Ultimate Force was third a head back after trailing the runner up. The mile rate 1-56.3.

■ At Kilmore, Romsey trainer/driver Chris Svanosio was successful with Father PatrickMason Magic filly Aldebaran Miley in the Broadstead Kilmore 3Y0 Trotters Mobile over 2180 metres.

Allowed to balance from gate three settling five pegs in a strung out field as Satin Stride (Chris Lang) led from gate four, Aldebaran Miley came away from the markers to lead up the outside division for the final circuit and was too strong at the finish for the pacemaker defeating her by 4.5 metres in a mile rate of 202.2. Shes Ruby Roo (six pegs – one/one at bell – behind leader home turn) was third 11.2 metres back after using the sprint lane.

■ Meetings for the week : Monday –Hamilton/Swan Hill, Tuesday – Shepparton, Wednesday – Ballarat, Thursday – Bendigo, Friday – Yarra Valley/Mildura, Saturday –Melton, Sunday – Cranbourne.

■ Moorilim trainer/driver David Moran was victorious with Huntsville-Suenos Dulces gelding Roryville in the 1690 metre APG Gold Bullion (heat) for 3Y0 Colts & Geldings.

Beginning brilliantly from gate four to lead, Moran elected to hand over to the raging hot favourite Gawn approaching the bell which had been pressuring him, before using the sprint lane on turning to record a neck margin in 1-58.2. Heatseeker (five pegs – death last lap) was third 2 metres away.

■ Nagambie trainer/driver Mel Thackeray landed the Worlds Best Hoof Oil Trotters Mobile over 2180 metres with Aldebaran Tanisha, a 4Y0 daughter of Aldebaran Eagle and Aldebaran Turnpike much to the delight of Aldebaran Park principal Duncan McPherson and partowners Danny and Mel Thackeray.

On a night where the sprint lane was so prominent, Aldebaran Tanisha was given a beaut trip from inside the second line trailing Silent Reverie (gate two) and finished hard along the inside to score by 3.5 metres from Elegant Peak (one/one) and Poppy Popstar (one/two – three wide last lap – outside leader home turn) who was a head away third. The mile rate 2-04.

■ Veteran Coimadai trainer/driver Graeme Whittle brought up a hat-trick with 6Y0 Majestic Son-Melpark Sunrise mare Amunet by taking the Hip Pocket Castlemaine Trotters Mobile over 2180 metres.

A winner of a Maryborough heat and final affair earlier in the month, Amunet (gate four) led virtually throughout to win in a breeze from Montane Chevelle which raced outside her, with old timer Mystic Chip (one/one) third. The margins 9.5 metres by a neck in a mile rate of 204.7.

At Bendigo

■ It was the $30,000 (Group 3) Aldebaran Park 2023 Bendigo Trotters Cup night on Friday and Riddell trainer/driver Chris Lang’s 6Y0 Love You-One Over Kenny entire Ultimate Stride outstanding in victory. Despite racing parked for the complete 2650 metre journey, Ultimate Stride (10m) outstayed his rivals to record a superb success. When Bailey McDonough sent 20 metre backmarker One Over All forward with a rush from the rear of the field mid-race to take over from Harry Stamper (10m) after Ultimate Stride had earlier made an effort to cross shortly after the start, One Over All a 5Y0 half brother to Ultimate Stride by Angus Hall, appeared to have the at his mercy, kicking clear on the final bend however Ultimate Stride was relentless and kept on coming to blouse him by a head returning a mile rate of 2-01.4 - .7 seconds outside McLoven’s track record set in 2019. Locksley Lover (10m) first up since February was third 10 metres back after moving from the tail three wide in the last lap before dropping to trail the winner into the straight. Raced by Sydneysider’s Emilio and Mary Rosati under the banner of E & M Stride, Ultimate Stride a somewhat standing start specialist who won the Redwood Classic in 2019 has raced on 35 occasions for 15 wins and was trained to the minute on the day.

■ Rockbank owner/trainer John McCullagh’s 3Y0 Yankee Rockstar-Mear Princess filly Chermear Princess upstaged her older rivals to capture the 2150 metre Gold Central Victoria Pace restricted to concessional drivers in a rate of 1-59.9.

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● Lt. Adam Breetvelt and family lay a wreath at the Yea Cenotaph.

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FUNERALS FOR BARRY AND FATHER BOB

■ Hi everyone, remotely from my suite at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites in West Hollywood comes this week’s news.

Sadness for pair

■ The family of beloved Australian comedian and entertainment icon Barry Humphries is consiudering offer of a State Funeral.

Known for his portrayal of the iconic Dame Edna Everage, 89-year-old Barry Humphries passed away due to complications from hip surgery, and cancer.

As news of his death traversed the globe, the grief from fans and peers was immediate, as the world mourned the loss of an entertainment icon.

Given Barry was born in Melbourne, it would be only fitting that his final farewell is in the city where he began his extraordinary life. The family have held a private service and cremation in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales.

Barry is survived by his wife Lizzie Spender, his four children, and 10 grandchildren.

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The State Government has announced a date for a State Funeral for Father Bob Maguire, affectionately known as ‘the people's priest’: this Friday (May 5).

Writing on Twitter, Premier Daniel Andrews confirmed the funeral would be held at 11am this Friday, May 5, at St Patrick's Cathedral in East Melbourne.

"I'm so pleased Father Bob's family have accepted our offer of a State Funeral to remember him," the Premier tweeted.

Mr Andrews said the service would "celebrate the life and work of a great Victorian. For our state, and the whole nation".

Father Bob died late last month. His health had been deteriorating for months. The 88-year-old was a Melbourne Catholic priest known for his charitable work and irreverent sense of humour.

Elton wins

■ Elton John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour, his last outing before retirement, has become the highest-grossing tour of all time, taking a total of $818M, according to new figures from Billboard.

That haul surpasses the previous record of $776M held by Ed Sheeran for his Divide tour.

However, even after five years and 278 shows, the Rocket Man is not done yet with 51 more European dates and a final sign-off performance headlining the iconic Glastonbury festival to come.

Despite that longevity, it’s unlikely Elton John will beat Ed Sheeran’s record of most tickets sold on a single tour, as the Divide Tour delighted some 8.9M Sheerios, roughly equivalent to the entire population of New York City

The tour hasn’t been without its challenges, though. Initially commencing in 2018, Elton’s tour has had to navigate the pandemic, his hip surgery and then his battle with COVID in January last year.

Still the show went on, meaning that Elton will have now performed 1573 shows dating back to 1986, grossing in excess of $1.8B the highest-grossing touring solo artist of all time.

World Cup wishes

■ Congratulations to Argentina, who clinched their first World Cup in penalty kicks to end a thrilling final.

Qatar’s bill for the event has been widely cited to be $220B+. Bloomberg puts it as high as $300B.

Now that it’s over, a classic post-gargantuan-scale-sportingevent question will be raised: Was it worth it?

For context, the funding is part of Qatar’s expansive National Vision 2030 plan to become an “advanced society” and global business hub.

Hotels, underground transportation, stadiums, and airport infrastructure were already on the docket with or without soccer.

The World Cup was a way to market that development, and Qatar got its name out there with record-breaking viewership.

At the same time, much of the conversation highlighted Qatar’s struggles with LGBTQ+ rights, migrant workers, and alcohol. Especially alcohol.

As for a return on investment, organisers hoped the event would provide a $17B boost to their economy, though a recent study found the World Cup doesn’t have a significant effect on a host country’s GDP.

Out and About Long expensive war

■ It has been 20 years since a US-led coalition launched its ground offensive in the Iraq War, the start of a nearly nineyear occupation.

The conflict would topple Saddam Hussein’s pan-Arab, secular Ba’athist regime while ushering in an extended period of instability and counterinsurgency in the region.

A multinational force led by the US and joined by at least 40 other nations based the 2003 invasion on intelligence that Iraq had acquired weapons of mass destruction in addition to claims the regime was aiding terrorists in the West.

Occupying forces were ultimately unable to substantiate either claim. Estimates place the overall civilian death toll of the war between 100,000 and 500,000, with millions more displaced. At least 8000 Americans died amid the initial invasion and subsequent occupation and counterinsurgency. Analysts estimate the war’s overall cost at roughly $2.5T. Roughly 2500 US personnel are stationed in Iraq today in mostly advisory roles.

Record broken

■ A Nebraska-based coffee chain broke a Guinness World Record by assembling an 848-pound cake ball in celebration of its 25th anniversary.

Scooter's Coffee, based in Omaha, assembled the cake at its annual Grow Conference at the CHI Health Centre in Omaha

Officials said they attempted the Guinness World Record to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the chain's founding in Bellevue. The resulting cake ball weighed in at 848 pounds, beating the record of 628 pounds set by England's Sheffield Wednesday Football Club in 2017.

Booze Highway

■ The California Highway Patrol said clean-up crews were summoned to a stretch of highway when a truck overturned and spilled its load of about 10,000 empty wine bottles into the roadway. The CHP's Santa Rosa office said the truck overturned on Highway 101, near Healdsburg, and the trailer ripped open, spilling its load of about 10,000 empty wine bottles into the roadway "No other vehicles involved and the driver wasn't injured," said the CHP. The cause of the crash was unclear. Crews responded to clean up the mess and repair a guardrail.

Groupon regrouping

■ Founded in 2008, Groupon’s appeal was a supposed winwin for both customers and businesses: Customers scored big discounts at local merchants if enough of them agreed to make the same purchase.

Businesses got exposure and new customers. In August 2010, Forbes called the Chicago-based platform the “fastest growing company ever.” The following year, it IPO’d at a $17.8B market cap. Today? Groupon is worth just $103M a 99.4 per cent plummet from its IPO. And though it does maintain 14M active users, it had 83M+ subscribers in 2011, per TechCrunch.

Why the downfall? Critics have long called Groupon’s model unsustainable. Customers get subpar services from swamped businesses, while businesses get a bad deal in the long term.

One analysis found only 20 per cent of Groupon buyers returned for full-price purchases.

We’d love to see you

■ If you are considering coming over to California for a holiday, then I have got a special deal for you.

We would love to see you at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites, 8585 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood I have secured a terrific holiday deal for readers of the Melbourne Observer and The Local Paper.

Please mention ‘Melbourne Observer’ when you book to receive the ‘Special Rate of the Day’ for your advance bookings.

Please contact: Jennifer at info@ramadaweho.com

Happy Holidays, Gavin Wood

Pictured in happier times: International film director Rod Hardy with Barry Humphries

● ● Fr Bob Maguire

Diana Trask: Memories Are Made Of This

A great CD by one of Australia’s popular singers $20 including postage

Diana Trask was one of the first popular Australian singers to be successful in the USA but soon after many others followed: Helen Reddy, Olivia Newton-John and in recent times Keith Urban. Diana's success began on the Sing Along with Mitch TV Show from New York. Coming back to Australia she had a national hit TV show The Di Trask Show.

Dear Friends, I am so happy and excited to have my CD “Memories Are Made of This” made available to you through The Local Paper. I trust you will enjoy hearing this great selection of wonderful songs I sang on “The Di Trask Show” all those years ago.

With love, Diana

1. Memories Are Made of This

2. Unforgettable

3. Alley Cat

4. Que Sera Sera

5. Heather on the Hill

6. Half as Much

7. All or Nothing at All

8. Auf Wiedershen

9. Green Eyes

10. Blues in the Night

11. Hello Young Lovers

12. To the Ends of the Earth

13. Days of Wine and Roses

14. Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer

15. Goodnight Irene

16. Comes Love

Simply send the form below. All orders will be dispatched within two working days of cheque/money order clearance. Please include your name/address/phone number, and mail with cheque or money order to Kevin Trask Enterprises.

To: Kevin Trask Enterprises PO Box 200, Canterbury, Vic 3126

Yes! Please send me the CD “Memories Are Made of This” I enclose my Cheque/Money Order for $20.00

Name: .........................................................................................................

Address: .......................................................................................................

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$20 including Postage or “Memories Are Made of This” can be purchased from Diana’s website www.dianatrask.com

Your Stars with Kerry Kulkens

ARIES: (March 21- April 20)

Lucky Colour: Silver

Lucky Day: Monday

Racing Numbers: 2.3.5.6.

Lotto Numbers: 2.15.26.39.34.40.

Some changes that could take you by surprise and most of them should bring increase in your earning power. Problems with communications could prove costly if you rely on them entirely.

TAURUS: (April 21- May 20)

Lucky Colour: Red

Lucky Day: Wednesday

Racing Numbers: 5.6.2.4.

Lotto Numbers: 5.12.26.34.33.1.

You should be feeling better and getting on with your duties but something could be postponed and change your plans somewhat. Busy social life could take its toll if you do not get enough rest.

GEMINI: (May 21- June 21)

Lucky Colour: Mauve

Lucky Day: Tuesday

Racing Numbers: 5.6.2.3.

Lotto Numbers: 5.12.26.37.8.9.

You could be feeling harassed by people who do not really know what they are talking about. Cut yourself off from unnecessary hassle and concentrate on what you want to get on with.

CANCER: (June 22- July 22)

Lucky Colour: Yellow

Lucky Day: Monday

Racing Numbers: 1.2.1.5.

Lotto Numbers: 1.12.26.35.40.33.

Something very intriguing could be happening and you might not know what to do. Trust people who you know are worthy of it but stay out of trouble and away from careless friends.

LEO: (July 23- August 22)

Lucky Colour: Peach

Lucky Day: Friday

Racing Numbers: 2.3.6.2.

Lotto Numbers: 2.12.26.35.40.22.

A very good time to look into your own mind and make up your mind independently from others. Improvements are expected by people who know you well and want your best.

VIRGO: (August 23- September 23)

Lucky Colour: Apricot

Lucky Day: Thursday

Racing Numbers: 5.2.1.3.

Lotto Numbers: 5.12.26.34.22.10.

Very good period romance wise and someone you care about could be taking a special interest in your career matters. Would be wise to be careful in what you say and try to present yourself in a better light.

LIBRA: (September 24- October 23)

Lucky Colour: Blue

Lucky Day: Wednesday

Racing Numbers: 5.3.2.1.

Lotto Numbers: 2.15.5.12.21.22.

You could find something you thought lost forever, many other surprises could be happening during this period and your ability to adapt could become handy. Luck with someone born in June.

SCORPIO: (October 24- November 22)

Lucky Colour: Orange

Lucky Day: Monday

Racing Numbers: 1.6.9.8.

Lotto Numbers: 1.12.26.39.5.44.

Your hunches could pay off during this period and many of your plans for the future could seem that much nearer now. If travel is in your plans make sure everything is above board.

SAGITTARIUS: (November 23- December 20)

Lucky Colour: Lilac

Lucky Day: Sunday

Racing Numbers: 5.6.8.7.

Lotto Numbers: 5.12.26.34.40.45.

Try not to get involved with someone who will expect you to do something you are not prepared to do. You should be able to solve a problem that has been bothering you for some time.

CAPRICORN: (December 21- January 19)

Lucky Colour: Dark Green

Lucky Day: Monday

Racing Numbers: 5.9.6.1.

Lotto Numbers: 1.12.26.5.44.3.

Good period for financial speculation if you know what you are doing. Domestic matters could cause a problem if you are not prepared to compromise and let bygones be bygones.

AQUARIUS: (January 20- February 19)

Lucky Colour: Red

Lucky Day: Thursday

Racing Numbers: 8.9.1.5.

Lotto Numbers: 8.15.29.37.40.11.

This could be a very profitable time and also good for your career matters but you have to be quick to take advantage of the situation, use your charm to achieve a peaceful solution to a family problem.

PISCES: (February 20- March 20)

Lucky Colour: White

Lucky Day: Saturday

Racing Numbers: 5.9.6.1.

Lotto Numbers: 5.18.24.40.26.33.

You seem to be very busy in your social life and your company is sought by many people. In your working environment you could be asked to do something new and ability to learn will become useful.

Local Sport SCORES FROM WEEKEND MATCHES

■ Victorian Amateur Football Association. Premier Men’s. Old Scotch 24.11 (155) d University Blues 7.10 (52). St Kevins

18.100 (118) d Old Melburnians 12.6 (78).

Old Xavierians 17.20 (122) d Caulfield Grammarians 8.8 (56). Old Brighton 14.7 (91) d Collegians 12.9 (81). Old Heileybury 18.12 (120) d University Blacks 9.8 (62).

Premier Men’s Reserves. Old Scotch

19.21 (135) d Universioty Blues 5.4 (34). Old Melburnians 9.9 (63) d St Kevins 7.9 (51).

Old Xavierians 26.11 (167) d Caulfield Grammarians 3.2 (20). Old Brighton 13.10 (88) d Collegians 3.1 (19). Old Heileybury 9.9 (63)

d University Blacks 10.3 (63).

Premier B Men’s. Fitzroy 9.14 (68) d Old Geelong 10.7 (67). Old Trinity 9.12 (66) d Monash Blues 9.7 (61). Williamstown CYMS

11.15 (81) d St Bedews/Mentone Tigers 16.15

(111). St Bernards 16.11 (107) d Beaumaris

9.14 (68). De La Salle 15.17 (107) d AJAX

3.7 (25).

Premier B Men’s Reserves. AJAX 11.7

(73) d Old Trinity 9.9 (63). Beaumaris 10.18

(78) d St Bedes/Mentone Tigers 1.6 (12).

Fitzroy 14.20 (1004) d Williamstown CYMS

6.4 (40). Old Geelong 16.12 (108) d Monash

Blues 3.8 (26). St Bernards 10.10 (70) d De La Salle 3.5 (23).

Premier C Men’s. Old Ivanhoe Grammar-

ians 12.18 (90) d Old Carey 9.10 (64).

Mazenod OC 15.7 (97) d Ormond 14.9 (93).

Parkdale Vultures 17.13 (115) d Marcelin OC

11.6 (72). Old Camberwell Grammarians 13.8

(86) d Hampton Rovers 5.12 (42).

Premier C Men’s Reserves. Old Ivanhoe

Grammarians 8.10 (58) d Old Carey 5.6 (36).

Mazenod OC 13.20 (98) d Ormond 5.7 (37).

Marcellin OC 12.18 (99) d Parkdale Vultures

6.4 (40). Old Camberwell Grammarians 10.9

(69) d Hampton Rovers 8.10 (58).

Division 1 Men’s. Therry Penola 11.11

(77) d West Brunswick 10.10 (70). Glen Eira

4.11 (35) d Prahran 3.7 (25). Oakleigh 16.10

(106) d Old Peninsula 13.10 (88). Kew 14.19

(103) d Preston Bullants 9.8 (62). Ivanhoe

6.5 (41) d UHS-VU 4.8 (32).

Division 1 Men’s Reserves. West Brunswick 13.10 (88) d Therry Penola 7.5

(47). Glen Eira 18.6 (114) d Prahran 7.10

(52). Oakleigh 28.23 (191) d Old Peninsula

4.1 (25). Kew 19.12 (126) d Preston Bullants

8.10 (58). Ivanhoe v UHS-VU.

Division 2 Men’s Reserves. MHSOB

13.7 (85) d Aquinas 7.12 (54). St Mary’s

Salesian 14.12 (96) s Old Paradians 10.7

(67). Whitefriars 14.15 (99) d Old Yarra Cobras 14.9 (93). Parkside 14.9 (93) d South Melbourne Districts 6.9 (45). Brunswick 16.9

(105) d Bulleen-Templestowe 6.7 (43).

Division 3 Men’s. Wattle Park 22.12

(144) d La Trobe University 8.6 (54).

Elsternwick 14.22 (106) d Canterbury 9.7

(61). Hawthorn 15.20 (110) d Power House

12.18 (900). Richmond Central 27.8 (1700)

d Swinburne University 14.8 (92).

Division 3 Men’s Reserves. Wattle Park

18.19 (127) d La Trobe University 4.5 (29).

Canterbury 9.12 (66) d Elsternwick 8.10 (58).

Hawthorn 14.8 (92) d Power House 8.10 (58).

Richmond Central 15.15 (105) d Swinburne University 9.5 (59).

Division 4 Men’s. North Brunswick 29.21

(195) d Eley Park 5.3 (33). Box Hill North

14.12 (96) d St John’s 11.20 (86). Masala

16.15 (111) d Albert Park 14.8 (92).

Division 4 Men’s Reserves. North Brunswick 25.18 (168) d Eley Park 2.5 (17). St John’s 12.14 (86) d Box Hill North 9.7

(61). Masala 11.17 (83 d Albert Park 9.3

(57).

■ Eastern Football League. Premier Division. Balwyn 17.9 (111) d Norwood 8.14 (62). Noble Park 12.11 (83) d South Croydon 12.7 (79). Rowville 12.7 (79) d Park Orchards 11.10 (76)). East Ringwood 25.10 (160) d Vermont 10.9 (69). Doncaster 7.5 (47) d Berwick 7.3 (45). Blackburn 16.8 (104) d Doncaster East 11.20 (86).

Division 1. Bayswater 12.9 981) d Mooroolbark 12.8 (80). South Belgrave 16.8 (1204) d Beaconsfield 14.8 (92). Montrose 13.17 (95) d Lilydale 9.9 (63). Mitcham 13.8 (86) d North Ringwood 10.14 (74). Wantirna

South 14.12 (96) d Croydon 12.14 (86).

Division 2. Templestowe 13.17 (95) d The Basin 10.7 (67). Boronia 11.16 (82) d East Burwood 11.9 (75). Ringwood 9.11 (65) d Upper Ferntree Gully 4.2 (26). Knox v Heathmont. Waverley Blues 22.11 (143) d Mulgrave 13.5 (83).

Division 3. Donvale 18.13 (121) d

Coldstream 8.9 (57). Oakeligh District 17.8 (110) d Warrandyte 3.10 (28). Silvan 14.13 (97) d Fairpasrk 4.1200 (34). Whitehorse Pioneers 10.17 (77) d Ferntree Gully 11.6 (72).

Division 4. Forest Hill 15.12 (102) d Croydon North MLOC 10.7 (67). Chirnside Park

20.17 (137) d Nunawading 7.13 (55). Kilsyth

8.17 (65) d Surrey Park 9.11 (65). Scoresby: Bye.

■ Essendon District Football League. Premier Division. Keilor 17.16 (118) d Strathmore 6.9 (45). Pascoe Vale 17.14 (116)

d Greenvale 9.15 (69). East Keilor 24.12 (156) d Airport West 8.9 (57). Essendon

Doutta Stars 15.15 (105) d Avondale Heights

9.7 (61). Aberfeldie 5.5 (35) d Maribyrnong Park 2.4 (16).

Division 1. Craigieburn 9.9 ^3) d

Roxburgh Park 7.10 (52). Hillside 16.11 (107)

d Keilor Park 5.10 (40). St Albans 9.20 (74)

d Westmeadows 8.4 (52). Rupertswood 15.11 (101) d Moonee Valley 14.9 (93). Tullamarine

18.14 (122) d Glenroy 8.11 (59). West Coburg

14.4 (88) d Deer Park 11.19 (85).

Division 2. Northern Saints 14.7 (101) d

Burnside Heights 13.6 (84). Coburg Districts

11.12 (78) d Sunbury Kangaroos 9.15 (69). Oak Park 17.18 (120) d East Sunbury 8.9 (57). Taylors Lakes 16.8 (104) d Hadfield 7.10 (52).

■ Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League. Division 1 Seniors. Pines 7.6 (48) d Langwarrin 5.8 (38). Frankston Bombers 17.13 (115) d Sorrento 9.9 (63). Red Hill

10.11 (71) d Bonbeach 6.12 (48). Dromana

13.10 (88) d Frankston YCW 13.6 (84). Mt Eliza 23.11 (149) d Rosebud 2.8 (20).

Division 1 Reserves. Frankston Bombers 15.10 (100) d Sorrento 3.4 (22)). Red Hill 12.14 (86) d Bonbeach 1.3 (9). Frankston YCW 5.8 (38) d Dromana 4.12 (36). Mt Eliza 19.22 (136) d Rosebud 3.2 (200). Pines v Langwarrin.

Division 1 Under 19. Bonbeach 9.8 (62)

d Red Hill 9.6 (600). Mt Eliza 20.18 (138) d Rosebud 1.1 (7). Pines v Langwarrin.

Division 2 Seniors. Chelsea 17.10 (112)

d Pearcedale 11.11 (77). Karingal 12.14 (86)

d Edithvale-Aspendale 9.7 (61). Hastings 15.9 (95) d Crib Point 6.13 (49). Mornington 21.14 (140) d Tyabb 9.11 (65). Seaford 17.12 (114)

d Rye 11.17 (81). Somerville 9.13 (67) d

Devon Meadows 8.7 (55).

Division 2 Reserves. Pearcedale 12.7 (79) d Chelsea 9.8 (62). Karingal 7.8 (50) d

Edithvale-Aspendale 6.8 (44). Crib Point 5.12 (42) d Hastings 4.4 (28).Mornington 23.15 (153) d Tyabb 2.2 (14). Seaford 26.8 (164) d

Rye 2.1 (13). Devon Meadows 5.7 (37) d

Somerville 5.4 (34).

Division 2 Under 19. Edithvale-Aspendale 8.4 (52) d Karingal 6.9 (45). Mornington 9.14 (68) d Mt Eliza 4.9 (33). Seaford 9.19 (73) d Rye 1.3 (9).Somerville 25.15 (169) d Devon Meadows 1.2 (8).

■ Northern Football Netball League. Division 1 Seniors. Hurstrbidge 14.11 (95) d North Heidelberg 12.14 (86). Macleod 16.12 (108) d Banyule 12.14 (86). West Preston Lakeside 10.10 (70) d Greensborough 9.13 (67). Montmorency 14.9 (93) d Heidelberg

13.100 (88). Bundoora 12.8 (80) d Whittlesea

2.7 (19).

Division 1 Reserves. Hurstbridge 14.15 (99) v North Heidelberg 11.13 979). Banyule

14.9 (93) d Macleod 3.12 (30). West Preston Lakeside 9.14 (68) d Greensborough 7.7 (49). Heidelberg 11.11 (77) d Montmorency 8.7 (55).

Division 1 Under 19.5. Eltham 14.15 (99) d North Heidelberg 4.10 (34).

Greensborough 1 18.9 (117) d West Preston Lakeside 15.9 (99). Heidelberg 9.8 (62) d Montmorency 3.5 (23). Banyule 11.13 (79) d Bundoora 9.9 (63).

Division 2 Seniors. Northcote Park 16.10

(106) d Panton Hill 9.9 (63). St Mary’s 23.11 (149) d Watsonia 11.11 (77). Eltham 10.15

(19). Old Eltham Collegians 15.8 (98) d Fitzroy Stars 4.5 (29). Kinglake 17.15 (117) d Mernda 12.9 (81). Laurimar 37.18 (240) d Lalor 5.3 (33). Division 3 Reserves. Heidelberg West 16.7 (103) d Reservoir 7.5 (47). Old Eltham Collegians 15.10 (100) d Fitzroy Stars 2.4 (16). Mernda 9.16 (70) d Kinglake 11.1 (67). Laurimar v Lalor.

Division 3 Under 19.5. Mernda 6.11 (47) d Thomastown 5.5 (35). Hurstbridge 14.16 (100) d Panton Hill 1.7 (13). Macleod 14.15 (99) d Banyule/Heidelberg West 9.8 (62). ■ Outer East. Premier Division Seniors. Gembrook Cockatoo 10.14 (74) d Monbulk 10.10 (70). Upwey Tecoma 13.17 (95) d Mt Evelyn 7.6 (48). Wandin 20.13 (133) d Narre Warren 14.17 (101). Woori Yallock 12.10 (82) d Pakenham 11.9 (75). Olinda Ferny Creek: Bye. Premier Division Reserves. Monbulk 8.11 (59) d Gembrook Cockatoo 4.7 (31). Upwey Tecoma 10.11 (71) d Mt Evelyn 4.3 (27). Narre Warren 14.15 (99) d Wandin 9.8 (62). Pakenham 18.18 (126) d Woori Yallock 0.0 (0). Olinda Ferny Creek: Bye.

Division 1 Seniors. Officer 20.9 (129) d Seville 10.14 (74). Emerald 12.11 (83) d Berwick Springs 11.13 (79). Healesville 15.18 (108) d Belgrave 7.10 (52). Hallam: Bye.

Division 1 Reserves. Officer 6.10 (46) d Seville 4.9 (33). Emerald 7.6 (47) d Berwick Springs 4.8 (32). Belgrave 8.9 (57) d Healesville 6.14 (50). Hallam: Bye.

Division 2 Seniors. Alexandra 22.19 (151) d Broadford 3.2 (20). Warburton-Millgrove 10.18 (78) d Powelltown 5.18 (48). Yarra Glen 14.11 (95) d Yarra Junction 10.11 (71).

Division 2 Reserves. Alexandra 16.12 (108) d Broadford 5.1 (31). Warburton-Millgrove 16.18 (114) d Powelltoiwn 4.1 (25).

Yarra Junction 11.10 (76) d Yarra Glen 4.5 (29).

Under 19 Boys. Officer 14.11 (95) d Seville 6.4 (40). Monbulk 4.18 (42) d Emerald 5.2 (32). Upwey Tecoma 11.20 (86) d Mt Evelyn 3.8 (26)(. Narre Warren 16.14 (110). Woori Yallock: Bye.

■ Southern Football League. Division 1 Seniors. Springvale Districts 14.9 (91) d Chelsea Heights 10.11 (71). Cheltenham 127.22 (124) d St Paul’s McKinnon 12.4 (76). St Kilda City 16.6 (102) d Mordialloc 5.14 (44). Dingley 13.17 (95) d Port Melbourne Colts 9.13 (67). Cranbourne Eagles 13.4 (82) d Bentleigh 4.7 (31).

Division 1 Reserves. Springvale Districts

23.11 (149) d Chelsea Heights 0.0 (0).

Cheltenham 17.13 (115) d St Paul’s McKinnon

1.5 (11). St Kilda City 15.14 (104) d Mordialloc 3.,4 (22). Port Melbourne Colts

12.6 (78) d Bentleigh 9.20 (74)./

Division 2 Seniors. Highett 15.16 (106) d East Malvern 11.11 (77). East Brighton

18.12 (120) d Hampton Park 7.12 (54). Black Rock 11.9 (75) d Skye 14.22 (106).

Murrumbeena 9.10 (64) d Doveton Doves 6.14 (50). Caulfield Bears 15.8 (98) d Keysborough

3.7 (25).

Division 3 Seniors. Frankston Dolphins

16.19 (115) d Heatherton 6.11 (47). Ashwood

10.9 (69) d Carrum Patterson Lakes 8.17 (65). Narre South Saints 10.21 (81) d Clayton 11.12 (78). Lyndhurst v Endeavour Hills.

Division 4 Seniors. South Mornington

15.8 (98) d Dandenong 5.3 (33). Hampton

40.20 (2600) d South Yarra 1.4 (10). Doveton Eagles9.15(69)dLyndale9.10(64).

Broome Beach Resort welcomes all guests to this relaxing retreat, situated at Cable Beach in the magnificent Western Australian coastal town of Broome. Within a short leisurely stroll to the iconic Cable Beach, Day Spas, restaurants, cafes and bars, Broome Beach Resort is the ideal 4½ star family resort. Set amongst lush, tropical gardens, each of our fully selfcatering, air-conditioned 1, 2 or 3 bedroom apartments are well appointed and feature full kitchen and laundry facilities, a spacious open plan dining and living area, a private verandah and free WIFI and FOXTEL. Free off-street parking is also available for in-house guests' vehicles.

FOR SALE

•Long-term agreements

•Body Corporate salary of over $129k

•Well-appointed two-bed, one-bath unit with large office and storeroom on the one title. Available for $560,000

•Located in one of Western Australia’s most sought after destinations

•Property inspections are by appointment only NET PROFIT: $381,153. PRICE: $1,143,459

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Free ‘For Sale’ and ‘What’s On ads are available in The Local Paper to private parties and community organisations. There are no charges, no fees and no commissions.

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PUBLIC NOTICES

BELT AND DISC SANDER. FC. $25. Greensborough. 0406 939 273.O-R

BOAT. 3.6m. Savage Kestrel, three seat, Dunbier trailer with spare wheel, 15HP , Suzuki outboard, 30 hrs, registered all safety gear, two fuel tanks, tonneau cover. EC. $4500. Flowerdale. 0411 577 050.L-O

CANE LOUNGE, Table, Chair, Sofa, Cushions. Never used. EC. $450. Frankston. 0488 062 837.O-R

CLOTHING. Concert and custom. Clearance. Music and Movie Memorabilia. ACDC, Pink Floyd, Billy Eilish, Kiss, U2, Guns and Roses, Billy Joel, Dua Lipa,. Elton John, Rod Stewart, Harry Styles, Ed Sheeren, INXS, Kraftwerk, Pink, Midnight Oil, Pantera, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Kate Bush, Iron Maiden, Alien, LOTR, Blade Runner, Ice cube and more. VGC. $30-$100. Cheltenham. 0401 623 388O-R

FOR SALE

FOR SALE FOR SALE FOR SALE

CLOTHES. Boys. Approx. 200 pieces. New and as new. Age 0-14. Ex Op Shop stock. Excellent for market. VGC. $50 the lot. Tullamarine. 0417 999 224.J-M

COLLECTORS. Shelby Lane Bear, ‘Bridget’, $50. Rubik’s Cube, 1982 instruction book, $40. Frigidaire steel door handle, $25. Skippy Bush Kangaroo book, $35. Bone China cup/saucers, 9, $20 each. Disability scooter, hardtop canopy, under 1 yr, other extras, $2900. Alexandra., 0419 445 697.L-O

DINING TABLE. 150cm x 150cm. 8 chairs, blackwood colour. Micro fibre seat covers. $1350. Briar Hill. 0417 312 034.

ELECTRIC CHAIR LIFT. Lan Franco Chelsea. Dual Motor Ambience Stone Fabric (Fawn). GC. $350. Eltham. 0438 801 928 L-O

PUBLIC NOTICES

ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA. Complete full set with 24 volumes of 1965 edition. Maroon ‘leatherette’ covers. Original wooden shelving unit. GC. $50. Ashburton. 9885 2203.F-I

FLOOR MATS. Honda Accord. Euro luxury MY12 Genuine, front and rear. Genuine cargo mat/boot liner. Colour: Grey/black. EC. $85 ONO. Gladstone Park. 0402 282 477.F-I

FORD FALCON. 2006. RTV Ute. Gas. Reg. 9/23. New tyres, hard lid, canopy. RWC. Drives great. 335,000. Rego. 1HU9JS. $8750. Yarck. Barry, 0414 718 812.

GARDEN SHREDDER. GMC. Electric. GC. $25. Greensborough. 0406 939 273. O-R

HAY. Top quality grass hay. Square bales, $6.50. Rolls, $50. Kinglake West. 0400 529 469.

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HORSE BITS. Two. Different sizes. Ex Light Horse Brigade. As new. $100 each. Rosebud. 0467 845 449.

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KITCHEN ‘Cupboards and drawers in various sizes in American oak timber. $300 ONO. East Iavnhoe. 00418 322 569. F-I

KNICK KNACKS. Variety of items. $50. Springfield Lakes. 0408 777 876. L-O

LOUNGE SUITE. ‘Fler’

Modular 6 Seater L-shaped Corner Unit with Fluro Light Sand Colour, would suit large room or Man Cave. EC. $200. Endeavour Hills. 0468 954 177.F-I

MARBLE TOP Coffee

Table. Solid. EC. $50. Frankston. 0488 062 837. O-R

MICROWAVE. $40. Walker, $40. VGC. Mill Park. 9436 8935. O-R

STOCK SADDLE. Davidson. Near new. With all accessories. GC. $500. Broadford. 0429 951 862.

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SUNBEAM 4-in-1 Air Fryer and Oven Model AFP 5000 BK. In box. Instructions. Never used. $250 ONO. Wantirna South. 0438 299 285. N-Q

SUITCASE. Antique. Old. Full of old board games. GC. $20. Tullamarine. 0417 999 224. J-M

WATER TRANSFER PUMP. Yardworks. 1100W model. YW1100TP integrated trolley. 4600 litres per hour. EC. $65 ONO. Gladstone Park. 0402 282 477.F-I

PROPOSAL TO INSTALL A NEW MOBILE PHONE BASE STATION AND 5G ON AN EXISTING FACILITY AT 237-243 REX ROAD CAMPBELLFIELD VIC 3061.

1. The scope of the proposal consists of:

Installation of triangular headframe on existing 30m high

Telstra monopole

Installation of nine (9) Optus 4G & 5G panel antennas mounted on a headframe on the pole

Installation of one (1) GPS antenna

Installation of six (3) future Remote Radio Units (RRU’s)

Installation of four (4) bay outdoor units at the base of the facility

The installation of new ancillary equipment including antennas mounts, feeders, cabling and other associated equipment

2. Optus and Vodafone regards the proposed installation as a Low-impact Facility under the Telecommunications (Low-impact Facilities) Determination 2018 (“The Determination”) based on the description above.

3. In accordance with Section 7 of C564:2020 Mobile Phone Base Station Deployment Code, we invite you to provide feedback about the proposal. Further information and/or comments should be directed to Ventia.

Name: David Hodgkinson, Town Planner

Phone: 0437015282

Email: community.consultation@ventia.com

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Address: 167-169 Cremorne St, Cremorne VIC 3202

Submission due by COB on Friday 12th May 2023

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OVEN. Fisher and Paykel, double doors, approx. 6 years old with new element and all shelving. $300 ONO. East Ivanhoe. 0418 322 569.F-I

MICROWAVE OVEN. Samsung. Owners Instruction Book included. GC. $80. Box Hill South. 9890 7904.J-M TABLES. Small wooden table. 60cm extends to 120cm. $15. Small wooden cupboard, 900cm x 45cm $15. Plastic table. Oval white 90cm c 120cm, outdoor type. $15. Padded cahirs, $5 each. Box Hill South. 9890 7904. J-M

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MORNINGTON Dutch Australian Seniors Club. Meets weekly in Tyabb Community Hall, Frankston-Flinders Rd, Tyabb on Mondays, 10am2pm. Morning coffee, games of Klkaverjas and Rummicub. New members welcome. Nel, 0414 997 161. Paula, 5779 8291. UFN

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‘OH, WHEN ALEX. COMES MARCHING IN’

Footy Scores

Women’s Football

■ Outer East. Senior Women’s Division 1. Pakenham 12.15 (87) d Monbulk 0.0 (0). Upwey Tecoma d Healesville. Olinda Ferny Creek 7.3 (45) d Berwick Springs 1.3 (9). Division 2. Yarra Junction 3.10 (28). Seville 13.21 (99) d Thornton-Eildon 1.0 (6). Belgrave 9.4 (58) d Wandin 3.2 (20).

Country Leagues

■ Goulburn Valley Football League. Seniors. Shepparton Swans `10.8 (68) d Rochester 8.9 (57). Mansfield 16.13 (109) d Benalla 8.6 (54). Euroa 15.20 (110) d Shepparto United 5.9 (39). Seymour 15.12 (102) d Mooroopna 8.9 (57). Kyabram

12.13 (85) d Tatura 9.9 (63). Echuca 20.19 (139) d Shepparton Swans 5.7 (37). Reserves. Shepparton 8.8 (56) d Rochester 5.0 (03). Mansfield v Benalla. Euroa

14.9 (99) d Shepparton United 9.7 (61).

Seymour 17.14 (116) d Mooroopna 4.5 (29).Kyabram 23.13 (151) d Tatura 4.1 (25). Echuca 22.16 (148) d Shepparton

Swans 1.2 (8).

Under 18. Shepparton 15.14 (104) d

Rochester 7.6 (48). Mansfield 12.17 (89)

d Benalla 6.4 (40). Shepparton United

19.15 (129) d Euroa 5.7 (37). Mooroopna

12.8 (80) d Seymour 5.9 (39). Tatura v Kyabram. Echuca 218.7 (115) d Shepparton Swans 4.4 (28).

■ Kyabram District Football League.

Seniors. Tallygaroopna 11.12 (78) d Avenel

10.11 (71). Lancaster 16.10 (106) d

Stanhope 4.8 (32). Murchison-Toolamba

25.14 (164) d Girgarre 6.1 (37). Nagambie

28.30 (204) d Merrigum 6.1 (37). Dookie

United 14.13 (97) d Violet Town 9.7 (61).

Longwood 15.12 (102) d Undera 10.7 (67).

Sunday, April 30: Rushworth v Shepparton

East.

Reserves. Avenel 15.13 (103) d Tallygaroopna 3.4 (22). Lancaster 17.18 (120)

d Stanhope 0.1 (1). Murchison-Toolamba

15.7 (97) d Girgarre 4.3 (27). Nagambie

15.17 (107) d Merrigum 3.11 (29). Dookie

United 15.16 (106) d Violet Town 0.0 (0).

Undera 8.4 (52) d Longwood 3.5 (23). Sun-

day, April 30: Rushworth v Shepparton East.

Under 19. Lancaster 27.11 (173) d

Stanhope 1.2 (8). Murchison-Toolamba

14.19 (013) d Girgarre 5.6 (36). Undera

28.29 (197) d Longwood 0.0 (0). Avenel: Bye. Dookie united: Bye. Merrigum: Bye.

Nagambie: Bye. Rushworth: Bye. Shepparton East: Bye. Tallygaroopna: Bye. Violet Town: Bye.

■ Riddell District Football League. Seniors. Woodend-Hesket 8.7 (55) d Riddell

2.7 (19). Melton Centrals v Romsey. Diggers Rest 16.18 (114) d Lancefield 6.3 (39). Wallan 24.24 (168) d Western Rams 3.4 (22).

Reserves. Riddell 8.1 (49) d WoodendHesket 6.9 (45). Melton Centrals v Romsey. Diggers Rest 24.21 (165) d Lancefield 0.0 (0). Wallan 19.19 (133) d Western Rams

1.3 (9).

Under 19.5. Woodend-Hesket 13.12 (90) d Riddell 4.2 (26). Gisborne Giants

11.7 (73) d Wallan 10.7 (67). Melton Centrals v Romsey. Macedon v Lancefield.

This Saturday

Saturday, May 6

■ NFNL. Division 1. Banyule v West Preston-Lakeside. Greensborough v Heidelberg. Montmorency v Bundoora. North Heidelberg v Macleod. Whittlesea v Hurstbridge.

Division 2. Panton Hill v Lower Plenty. Epping v Eltham. Thomastown v Watsonia. St Mar’s v Northcote Park. Diamond Creek v South Morang.

Division 3. Heidelberg West v Old Eltham Collegians. Kilmore v Reservoir. Lalor v Kinglake. Fitzroy Stars v Laurimar.

■ Alexandra Seniors recorded a 131-point victory against Broadford in last Saturday’s Outer East Division 2 contest at Rebel Park. Ray Steyger reports:

The Outer East League 2023 season round 3 saw the Rebels travel to Broadford for twogames of football and four games of netball.

Everyone was impressed with the ground surfaceand capital works done in the car park since last season, sunny conditions also making the visitors feel welcome.

The Reserves had some changes from last week but were too strong, increasing their lead each quarter to take the game, Alexandra 16.12 (108) to Broadford 5.1 (31).

Awards: Shepparton Volkswagen – Morgan Eastwood, Ampol fuel card – Ben Makowski, Alex Sportspower – Lachlan Collard, Buxton Hotel – Tom McKinlay

The Seniors made one change, Ryley Norris in to replace brother Brayden, the Rebels starting inaccurately with four goals from 14 scoring shots, then correcting the accuracy and adding to the scoreboard consistently each quarter, Alexandra 22.19 (151) to Broadford 3.2 (20).

Awards: Incentives – Lucas O’Sullivan, Harry Aikman and Taylor Kleinschmidt, Buxton Hotel – Harry Correa. Yarck Hotel / Endeavour Petroleum volunteer award –Michelle Jack. Thank you to On Point Brewery for their hospitality on Saturday night.

Netball Awards

A-Grade won 56 – 35: Incentive – Caitlan Haggis, Corner Hotel / Grant St Grocer – Ellie Hedger. B-Grade won 53 – 19: Incentive – Sarah Mooney, Corner Hotel / Grant St Grocer –Louise Hurrey. C-Grade lost 19 – 33: Incentive – Elly Gambrell, Corner Hotel / Grant St Grocer – Laura Westwood. Under 17 won 17 -10: Incentive – Tyler Richards, Corner Hotel / Grant St Grocer – AshleeFrankcombe.

Thursday’s Rebel Raffles continued last Thursday and we thank our sponsors Swenrick Constructions, Yarck Hotel, Reddrops Foodworks / Houseboat Sales Lake Eildon, Eildon Bakery / Yarck Meat and Produce, Alexandra Quality Meats / AFNC canteen, Yea Chinese Restaurant / Bailey Funerals with the winners Sally Hill, Kath Hedger, Mary Pearson, Alan Randall, Rocky Parkinson and Anne Benghamy. The Swenrick Constructions Joker Jackpot will be worth $500 this week so come along and buy some tickets at $1 each but you need to be at the Club rooms at 8pm for the draw. Meals will also be available.

This coming Saturday (May 6), the Club returns to Rebel Park and hosts Yarra Junction for two games of football and four games of netball, the senior football match will see the two Clubs compete for the annual George Steiner Cup. The Club will also host Sponsors Day, Past Players Day and Life Members Day, so a busy day at the office. 2023 Club memberships are available: $200 – Patron, $150 – Family and $100 –Members. $600 Rebel Raiser Sponsor together with Business, Corporate, Executive and Major Sponsor packages available, so if you would like to support the Club, please contact Ray Steyger on 5772 2627. Do not forget to order your Club merchandise – polo shirts, warmup shirts @ $50, hoodies, vests @ $70, casual shorts, netball top @$40, Club stubby holders @$10, travel mugs @ $15, peaked caps and beanies @ $25, visors @$20, bumper stickers arefree. Thursday night dinners are available after training with main course and sweets – adults$15 and kids $10, everyone is welcome.

Top performance by Panthers

■ Eltham have produced another stellar victory to remain undefeated in the NFNL Division 2 competition, defeating Thomastown by 40 points at Eltham Central Park.

The Panthers kept the Bears goalless in the first term and despite a mini third term surge from the visitors, the hosts were too strong in the 10.15 (75) to 5.5 (35) victory.

Daniel Horsfield was sublime for last year’s minor premiers, with his clearance work a highlight in his side’s win. He also was a handful up forward when necessary and found the goals as a result.

Jason McCormick was slick inside 50, kicking three goals, while Tom Goodwin and Daniel Owen were also brilliant around the ground. Matthew Byron could’ve had multiple goals to compliment his impressive contested marking, but inaccuracy cost him from contributing to the scoreboard.

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OE DIV. 2 SCOREBOARD

SENIORS

ALEXANDRA .. 4.10, 11.13, 17.15, 22.19 (151)

BROADFORD .............. 1.1, 1.,2, 2.2, 3.2 (20)

Best. Alexandra: Braydon Hardstaff, Joshua Delaney, Adam Miles, Liam Lucas, Bryce Fleming, Dean Tydell. Broadford: Lucas O’Sullivan, Harry Aikman, Taylor Kleinschmidt, Harry Correa, D’Arcy Kennedy, Tom Boots.

WARB.-MILL. ....... 4.4, 4.10, 5.10, 10.18 (78)

POWELLTOWN .......... 1.6, 1.9, 5.16, 5.18 (48)

Best. Warburton-Millgrove: Patrick Huynh, Nelson Aldridge, Trent Elliott, Harry Rothwell, Ben Pretty, Tyson Henry. Powelltown: Russell Cowan, Sam Meadows, Dylan Stevens, Jayden Fowkes, Ben Wratten, Matthew McArthur.

YARRA GLEN ............ 4.2, 6.6, 8.9, 14.11 (95)

YARRA JUNC. ........... 3.2, 5.6, 7.9, 10.11 (71)

Best. Yarra Glen: Thomas Sullivan, Ryan Smith, Richard Wyles, Marcus Kikidopoulos, Ben Ashton, Sam Wood. Yarra Junction: Mackenzie Ball, John Jones, Sam Morton, Dylan Cawsey, Trent Fennell, Hori Jury.

RESERVES

ALEXANDRA ......... 5.1, 9.5, 11.9, 16.12 (108)

BROADFORD ................ 1.0, 3.0, 5.0, 5.1 (31)

Best. Alexandra: Morgan Eastwood, Ben Makowski, Lachlan Collard, Tom McKinlay, Brent McDonald, Clayton Hibberd. Broadford: Harley Austin, Gareth Sharp, Aaron Gleeson, David Hussey, Henry Creed, Rhys Mortlock.

WARB.-MILL. .... 6.2, 8.10, 13.13, 16.18 (114)

POWELLTOWN .............. 0.0, 3.0, 3.1, 4.1 (25)

Best. Warburton-Millgrove: Marcel Kocher, Liam Westlake, Zayden Crunden, Tyler Bert, Ben Gray, Jackson Jones. Powelltown: Josh Taylor, Mitchell Wood, Matthew Pote, Jacon Beale, Bobby Walker, Terry Walker.

YARRA JUNC. ....... 3.4, 7.10, 7.10, 11.10 (76)

YARRA GLEN ................ 0.1, 3.3, 3.3, 4.5 (29)

Best. Yarra Junction: Sean Jordan, Mathew Holland, Aaron Stewart.

LADDERS

DIVISION 2. SENIORS. 1. WarburtonMillgrove, 354.76, 12. 2. Alexandra, 210.18, 8. 3. Powelltown, 109.39, 8. 4. Yarra Glen, 96.69, 8. 5. Yarra Junction, 47.28, 0. 6. Broadford, 32.73, 0. RESERVES. 1. Warburton-Millgrove, 553.33, 12. 2. Alexandra, 290.20, 12. 3. Powelltown, 86.98, 4. 4. Yarra Junction, 57.50, 4. 5. Yarra Glen, 44.54, 4. 6. Broadford, 29.69, 0.

Lawrence Lopiccolo was a standout in the midfield for the Bears, often trying to create attacking plays with his ball winning ability, Ross Hatzis also impressed, kicking two important third term goals, while Aaron D’Angelo did all he could in a solid performance down back.

Eltham are not only now one of three sides to remain undefeated in the 2023 season, but with their win on Saturday, they have now claimed victory in 20 of their last 21 home and away games.

The Panthers registered nine scoring shots to one on the opening term and despite the lack of accuracy, they made their intent known on the contest early.

Colm Culligan found the goals inside two minutes for Eltham before Byron dominated the air inside 50, taking contested mark after contested mark.

However, he would register only behinds for his efforts, with the next goal from the hosts not coming until just before time on when Benjamin Smith, in his first game of the season, kicked truly.

Daniel Horsfield made it a third just minutes later before a late behind from Thomastown ensured they didn’t enter quarter time scoreless, albeit they still trailed by 23 points.

A contested second term followed with multiple stoppages slowing down the scoring.

Culligan kicked his second to extend the margin to 29 points before Bill Samie broke the Bears’ goal drought, slotting through his seventh major of the season to give the visitors some hope at half time.

Jason McCormick’s first goal of the afternoon just minutes into the third term pushed Eltham’s lead out even further, but unlike the previous two quarters, Thomastown looked up for the fight, with Hatzis and Salvatore Mamone registering back-to-back goals within three minutes.

The skill of McCormick and Daniel Owen allowed the home side to respond with backto-back goals of their own but the Bears through Mamone and Hatzis again would kick the last two majors of the term to reduce the deficit to 18 points at three quarter time and give the visitors a sniff at an upset win.

It was imperative for Thomastown to kick the first goal of the last quarter if they were any chance of making a comeback, but the ball lived in Eltham’s forward half for the first stages of the term.

A Ben Montanaro goal six minutes in all but sealed victory for the Panthers, with later majors from Middleton and McCormick wrapping up another terrific triumph from a side many are expecting to have a big say in this year’s Division 2 competition.

● ● Alexandra players sing the Club Song after defeating Broadford at Rebel Park.

NFNL Netball

■ Heat 5 17 d Hurstbridge 2 16. North

Heidelberg 6 40 d Lalor 2. Heat 7 29 d

Netball Scores Local Sport Brilliant Magpies topple Tigers

Kilmore 5 20. Northcote Park 1 20 d Epping 4 19. Diamond Creek 1 33 d Bundoora 1 39. Heat 3 36 d North Heidelberg 5 28. Hurstbridge 5 34 d Bundoora 10 9. Bundoora 7 d

Heidelberg West 2 21. Montmorency 1 23 d

Hurstbridge 1 21. Bundoora 2 27 d Greensborough 1 19. Whittlesea 3 26 d Hazel Glen 3

10. Kilmore 1 40 d Hazel Glen 1 26. Watsonia 4 16 drew with Kinglake 2 16. South morang

2 22 d Hazel Glen 2 9. Bundoora 6 29 d La Trobe 1 24. Heat 6 43 d Bundoora 9 23.

Epping 3 33 d Lalor 3 21. Epping 7 25 d Heat

10 24. Epping 6 30 d Hurstbridge 0 17. Diamond Creek 2 26 d St Mary’s 1 17. North

Heidelberg 3 36 d Beat 2 24. Thomastown 4

26 d Hurstbridge 4 20. Watsonia 2 19 d Heidelberg West 1 17. Montmorency 3 24 d Hurstbridge 3 23. Bundoora 8 25 d Kilmore 3 17. Hume 1 36 d Greensborough2 28. Hazel Glen

4 27 d Epping 2 18. North Heidelberg 4 d

Watsonia 1 25. South Morang 1 27 d Kilmore

2 22. La Trobe 3 22 d Bundoora 12.Heat 4 36

d Panton Hill 1` 23. Lalor 1 25 d Whittlesea 1

19. Lower Plenty 1 31 d Heat 9 18. Epping 5

39 d Kilmore 6 28. Diamond Creek 3 42 d Fitzroy Stars 2 8. North Heidelberg 1 40 d

Heat 1 15. Kilmore 4 45 d Thomastown 5 17. Montmorency 5 24 d Bundoora 11 11. Thomastown 2 21 d Montmorency 2 20. Bundoora 5 25 d Epping 2 22. Hume 2 31 d Greensborough 3 15. Kinglake 1 22 d Epping 1 21. West Ivanhoe 1 35 d Watsonia 5 15. Bundoora 13 26 d Epping 8 24. Watsonia 3 32 d La Trobe 2 9. Fitzroy Stars 1 28 d Thomastown

3 17. Heat 8 32 d West Preston Lakeside 1

19. Bundoora 4 27 d Whittlesea 2 16. Bundoora 3 32 d Thomastown 1 27. Montmorency 6 15 d Kilmore 7 11. Montmorency

4 36 d South Morang 3 16. Bye: South Morang

4, Hazel Glen 5, North Heidelberg 2, Macleod 1.

OE Netball

■ Premier Division. A-Grade. Wandin 44 d Narre Warren 42.Monbulk 43 d GembrookCockatoo 27. Mt Evelyn 50 d Upwey Tecoma

37. Beaconsfield 47 d Pakenham 33. Olinda Ferny Creek 47 d Berwick 31.

Premier Division. B-Grade. Narre Warren 57 d Wandin 35. Monbulk 43 d GembrookCockatoo 39. Mt Evelyn 49 d Upwey-Tecoma 46. Beaconsfield 47 d Pakenham 38. Olinda Ferny Creek 47 d Berwick 21.

Premier Division. C-Grade. Monbulk 43 d Gembrook-Cockatoo 33. Upwey Tecoma

v Mt Evelyn. Pakenham Lions 34 drew with Beaconsfield 34. Olinda Ferny Creek 33 d Berwick 23. Narre Warren 31 d Wandin 30.

Premier Division. D-Grade. GembrookCockatoo 30 d Monbulk 18. Upwey Tecoma v Mt Evelyn. Pakenham Lions 28 d Beaconsfield 14. Olinda Ferny Creek 23 d Berwick

19. Narre Warren 32 d Wandin 25.

Division 1. A-Grade. Yea 64 d Hallam 19. Seville 53 d ROC 32. Emerald 63 d Berwick Springs 18. Belgrave 59 d Healesville 24.

Division 1. B-Grade. Yea 72 d Hallam 22. ROC 53 d Seville 50. Emerald 35 d Berwick Springs 27. Belgrave 77 d Healesville 18.

Division 1. C-Grade. Seville 34 d ROC 29. Emerald 52 d Berwick Springs 34. Belgrave 41 d Healesville 5. Yea: Bye.

Division 1. D-Grade. ROC 35 d Seville 22. Emerald 31 d Berwick Springs 27. Belgrave 31 d Healesville 5. Yea: Bye.

Division 2. A-Grade. Broadford 56 d

Alexandra 35. Warburton-Millgrove 63 d Powelltown 30. Yarra Glen 67 d Yarra Junction 44.

Division 2. B-Grade. Broadford 53 d

Alexandra 19. Powelltown 40 d WarburtonMillgrove 35. Yarra Glen 45 d Yarra Junction 21.

Division 2. C-Grade. Broadford 33 d

Alexandra 19. Powelltown 29 d WarburtonMillgrove 27. Yarra Glen 49 d Yarra Junction 5.

Division 2. D-Grade. WarburtonMillgrove 24 d Powelltown 15. Yarra Glen 40 d Yarra Junction 14.

Premier Division. 17&U Blue. Pakenham

Lions 41 d Beaconsfield 24. Narre Warren 48 d Wandin 18. Berwick 29 d Olinda Ferny Creek 18. Seville 55 d ROC 24. Mt Evelyn: Bye.

Division 2. 17&U Blue. WarburtonMillgrove 25 d Powelltown 15. Alexandra 17 d Broadford 10. Yarra Junction: Bye.

■ It was déjà vu for Montmorency and Heidelberg in their huge NFNL Division 1 clash at Warringal Park, with the Magpies holding on for a five-point triumph.

Montmorency were dominant in most areas of the ground, particularly in the midfield and up forward, allowing the Magpies to escape with a 14.9 (93) to 13.10 (88) win and as a result, end the Tigers’ 18-game winning streak.

The reigning premiers last defeat came in almost the exact same circumstances when Montmorency claimed a one-point victory at Warringal Park in Round 3 of the 2022 season.

Patrick Fitzgerald was a clear highlight for the Magpies , kicking seven majors, the 14th time in his senior career that he’s kicked seven or more goals in a game.

Meanwhile Jake Spencer dominated in the ruck for the visitors, shutting down Heidelberg’s ability to win clearances and get first use of the ball from stoppages.

Montmorency’s speed when moving the ball from turnovers was too much to handle for Heidelberg, with Marcus Lentini ensuring that was the case.

Reigning club best and fairest Liam WaleBuxton was also impressive as was defenders Billy Jenkin and Jai Robinson.

Keenan Posar was a standout in defence for the Tigers with Lachlan Wilson also a key contributor in helping his side to win back the midfield battle.

Zane Barzen and Mackenzie Hogg were the leading goalkickers for the reigning premiers, with two majors each.

Following the unfurling of their 2022 premiership flag, Heidelberg got things going early in the first term, with the returning Ben Nikolovski finding the goals within the opening minutes before Luke Bunker pushed their lead to two majors.

However, their advantage didn’t last long, with Marcus Lentini showing his class with a nice major from just inside 50, before Fitzgerald found his first of the day to give the Magpies a tight lead just 13 minutes into the term.

Both sides then traded goals to round out the quarter, with fast breaks from their defensive 50 leading to Montmorency’s four opening term goals, whereas capitalisation on turnovers in the midfield resulted in Heidelberg’s majors.

The hosts held a one-point advantage at the first change with no clear sign of which side would break the game open.

But as it turned out, Montmorency were the more efficient team in the second term in both their marking and their kicking, and it showed on the scoreboard with a five-goal to three quarter.

Heidelberg’s backline started looking sparse as they struggled to keep up with the speed of the Magpies’ ball movement and when the Tigers did take possession, they weren’t able to make the most of their chances with poor kicking efficiency.

The reigning premiers did kick two of the first three goals of the term with Zane Barzen launching from just outside 50, before Kai Kearns snapped truly from his set shot.

But Fitzgerald would start to find his groove, kicking a further two majors to help lead Montmorency to a 12-point half time advantage.

The Magpies looked to have broken the game open in the third quarter, as they kept Heidelberg scoreless for the opening 17 minutes of the second half.

Fitzgerald was at his dominant best during that period, kicking all three third quarter goals for the visitors, and it could have been more had it been for some slightly more accurate goalkicking.

However, it was the Tigers’ first goal of the quarter, from Mackenzie Hogg, which woke Vin Dattoli’s men up, and they would eventually go on to match Montmorency’s 3.2 for the quarter.

Captain Sam Gilmore did well to rouse his side with an impressive pack mark in his forward 50, but it was a late major to Isaac Wallace that continued the Tigers momentum throughout the third term.

As the siren sounded for the last break of the game, Montmorency were looking like the stronger team, but Heidelberg’s surge in the final minutes kept the reigning premiers in the hunt. And as it turned out, the Tigers would find themselves in front early in the quarter with backto-back goals putting Heidelberg in front for the first time since the opening quarter.

The one-point lead didn’t remain for long however, with a responsive goal from Montmorency’s Bronson Hill putting the visitors back in the lead, where they would remain for the rest of the game.

Spencer continued to dominate in the ruck, while his teammates Kyle Kankaanpaa, Jai Robinson and Marcus Lentini were all key contributors throughout the quarter.

Kai Kearns and Thomas Sullivan had set shots on goal within a minute at the 18-minute mark of the quarter, but with both shots missing, Montmorency still kept their lead intact.

Hill’s goal at the 23-minute mark would prove to be the sealer for the Magpies, kicking his third major for the afternoon after calmly converting the set shot.

Hogg would manage to kick a second goal which would see the margin shrink to five points, however, the siren sounded seconds later, dashing any hopes of a Heidelberg comeback.

- Sheridan van Gelderen

Busy Sunday for young Rebels

■ The Alexandra Football Netball Club junior teams Round 2 of the 2023 season last Sunday saw the Alexandra Black netball teams with a bye.

Under 9, Under 10, Under 12 and Under 14 football. Alexandra Red, and Under 11 and Under 13 netball teams travelled to Nagambie to play Tabilk.

Alexandra Red Under 15 travelled to Kings Park to play Seymour whilst the Under 16 football travelled to Tatura Park to play Tatura in the second of four grading games.

Under 16s Football

Alexandra 17.14 (116) defeated Tatura 3.3 (21).

DMK Taxation – Coen Miljkovic ; Essence Coffee Lounge – Ben Geldart; Foodworks

– Will Clark; Alexandra Bakery and Café – Ashton Cowell; Coach – Will Ross.

Under 11s Netball

Alexandra Red 9 defeated Tabilk 7. Foodworks – Asher Mullins ; Alexandra Bakery and Café –Zelda Van Lierop.

Under 13s Netball

Alexandra Red 9 lost to Tabilk 17. Foodworks – Ella Palmer; Alexandra Bakery and Café –Nikita Lyttle

Under 15s Netball

Alexandra Red 25 defeated Seymour 22. Foodworks – Milly Wales; Alexandra Bakery and Café – Abby Miljkovic; Sponsor –Eva Twitchett.

A very big thank you to the above award sponsors for their continued support of our junior footballers and netballers in 2023.

Next Sunday, the juniors return to Rebel Park and host Broadford for four games of football, Alexandra Black netball host Broadford for three games of netball, Alexandra Red host Seymour for three games of netball and the Alexandra Under 16s football travel to Memorial Oval in Euroa to play Seymour. If anyone can assist with the canteen on home games during the season please speak to Melissa Crane and Shona Miljkovic to go on the roster.

- Ray Steyger

Latest News

Mernda’s new millionaire

■ A Mernda man’s weekend has been rocked by the revelation he’s now a millionaire after winning division one in Tattslotto. The man held one of the five division one winning entries in draw 4359 on Saturday (April 29). His total prize was $1,052,598.23. When an official from The Lott reached out to the winner, he was completely oblivious to his good fortune.

“I’m about to cry here,” he exclaimed when the enormity of his win was revealed.

“Holy s***. Holy crap. Thank you so much. I’m just all over the place. This is fantastic, I only started playing TattsLotto two weeks ago. I thought, ‘let’s see how we go’, and now you’re calling me.

“I said at the time, ‘wouldn’t it be funny if I won?’. This is absolutely fantastic timing. We’ve been wanting to buy a house in the area, and now we can."

The man’s winning 50-game Quick Pick entry was purchased online at thelott.com Winning numbers were 4, 18, 15, 16, 45 and 35, while the supplementary numbers were 17 and 11.

Charges after assault

■ A leading senior constable from Transit and Public Safety Command has been charged following an internal investigation. The female officer has been charged with one count of common law assault. The 53-year-old was charged on summons.

● ● Montmorencu 14.9 (93) d Hedelberg 13.10 (88). Photo: NWM Studios.

Junior Scores

■ Kinglake have continued their outstanding run in the NFNL Division 3 competition, proving too strong for the previously unbeaten Mernda with a 36-point victory at Kinglake Memorial Oval.

The Lakers hit the ground running with a dominant 4.5 to 0.1 first term. They extended their lead to 46-points at the main break with the visitors were barely hanging on, but the game slipped away when the margin blew out to 70points at the last change.

The Demons were at their best in the final quarter, but it was too little, too late as the Lakers cruised in the 17.15 (117) to 12.9 (81) triumph.

“We came into the game with a focus on intensity and pressure,” Kinglake coach Andrew Fairchild said.

“The team was phenomenal in that regard early on and we maintained it throughout the game.”

Fairchild loved the work of Thomas Clarke in the ruck, he impressed around the ground and finished off his work with three goals.

The Robinson brothers also received high praise from their coach. Bailey kicked four majors, while crowd favourite Ethan booted two himself and got plenty of the footy.

Luke Hannah excelled playing a role down back and hit his targets when exiting defence, while a winning midfield saw the ball constantly being driven into the Lakers forward line thanks to industrious players such as Mason McAllister and Matthew Langford.

Often it seemed like Kinglake had more players on the ground as they regularly outnumbered their opponents around the ball. The Lakers spread well from half back and their ball movement generally looked well worthy of a finalist.

Jake McNamara kicked two first quarter goals and his first came as a result of a deft touch to the ball which trickled through the big sticks. Joining him in kicking two majors was the busy Damian Pywell.

When Mernda players did get their hands on the ball, they were often disposing of it under pressure. The margin looked like blowing out, but a seven goal to one final quarter saved their percentage from taking a big hit.

The fast finish by the Demons saw William Crouch, Riley Edwards and Billy Morrison and each register two goals.

“We were beaten by a very good footy team today,” Mernda coach Robert Fletcher said.

Fletcher was happy by the work of Chris Roussos on a wing who has had a brilliant start to the season. Jesse Guelfo and Joel Harris battled hard all day, while Dayne Kellett was solid in defence. But the Demons had few winners when the game was up for grabs.

They now go to the bye at 2-1 and although their fans will be disappointed at the loss which sees them drop to fifth spot on the table, they have played three teams which all appear to be genuine premiership hopefuls.

Kinglake travels to Lalor Reserve to play Lalor next week. Lakers fans will be eager to see how long they can keep their unbeaten run going as after playing the Bloods , they have a tougher draw with Old Eltham Collegians and Laurimar to follow.

- Doug Long, NFNL

Junior Scores

Goulburn Murray

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■ Football. Under 16 2. Tatura v Alexandra. Seymour v Shepp. United. Moama 10.16 (76) d Leitchville Gunbower 6.7 (43).

Under 14 Seymour. Broadford 10.12 (72) d Yea 7.2 (44). Seymour 10.7 (67) d St Mary’s 2.5 (17). Tabilk 11.5 (71) d Wandong 0.2 (2). Alexandra: Bye.

Under 12 Seymour. Broadford v Yea. Seymour v St Mary’s. Wandong 12.4 (76) d Tabilk 5.6 (36). Alexandra: Bye.

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Erin’s ANZAC Day address

■ Excerpts from Sgt Erin James’s ANZAC Day address given at the Yea Cenotaph:

It’s with great honour that I speak here today, not only on the 100th anniversary of the Yea cenotaph, but here, where I call home with my family.

It’s said that time dims the memory of ordinary events, but not great events. In a nation's history, great events, whether in peace or war, live in our memories regardless of time.

They are deemed great not necessarily for what they achieve, nor for whether they are reckoned to be victories or successes.

Rather, the great events are distinguished by the quality of the human endeavour they call upon, by the examples they create for ordinary men and women, and by the legends they inspire.

So it is with ANZAC Day. We gather here today to mark ANZAC Day 2023, we pause and remember those who have served our country in war and peace, and to reflect on their acrifice.

On April 25, 1915, 16,000 New Zealanders and Australians surged ashore at the foot of rugged cliffs on the Dardanelles peninsula, in Turkey, to open a campaign intended to give allied shipping access to the Black Sea, bring help to Russia, and perhaps force Turkey out of the war.

Historians say it was an ill-conceived campaign in pursuit of a vague objective, premised on an under-estimation of the military prowess, character of the Turkish soldiers, and of the tactical advantages they held.

But the cream of the New Zealand and Australian armies, who were all of them volunteers, committed themselves with no hesitation about the nobility of their cause, and fought with great courage, skill and audacity.

In the eight months which followed their first landing at Gallipoli, some 50,000 ANZACs were committed to the battlefront, alongside the British, French and Indian soldiers.

When the last of them was withdrawn as winter set in, more than 11,000 ANZACs lay dead, and with them, many more allied and Turkish soldiers.

Some 21 years after the guns fell silent on WWI, Australians were again asked to support their allies in another world conflict.

Men and women were asked to serve a second time. Fathers who had experienced the horrors of the first war, women who had farewelled their husbands, were asked to send their sons.

The men and women who enlisted for WWII did so with a firm understanding of what awaited them, but with no less determination and courage than their forebears.

WWII saw Australia itself under threat, with the bombing of Darwin, for Australia war was

no longer an abstract, distant concept. Our Defence Force p ersonnel continue to serve with distinction during the Korean War, Vietnam War, in UN Peace Keeping missions, Iraq, Afghanistan and the Ukraine, where our modern day soldiers continue to uphold our first ANZACs traditions and values.

The Roll of Honour at the Australian War Memorial holds the names of more than 102,000 Australians who have died on operations across the globe; with more than 23,000 having no known graves.

You only need to read all the names on the cenotaph here to know that families of Yea and Murrindindi surrounds have felt and known the sacrifices of war. Many of their families descendants still residewithin our community.

It was recorded that an enthusiastic and stirring send-off was given to the Yea troop of the 15th Light Horse on the eve of theirdeparture. Lt. Thomas Templeton presided over the evening and toasts were given to the King and to the success of the British forces. In replying to the toasts a Trooper William McLeish could be heard saying “if it was their luck to stop a piece of lead, they would take it in the good part, but it would not be in the back”

A snippet from the Yea newspaper from 1915 describes Trooper McLeish as one of Yea’s greatest football players, who had a jovial disposition making him a general favourite around town. Trooper McLeish, who was only 27 years old, died in Egypt, after becoming ill with Typhus, like so many more who succumb to illness and disease from the iving conditions.

His brother Lance Corporal Ronald McLeish, was only 21 years old, he was there that fateful day- April 25 - in the landing at Gallipoli. He fought in the trenches for 5 months in horrendous conditions before being wounded by a grenade.

He fought hard and was returned home to Australia, but later died whilst undergoing treatment for his wounds at the Base Hospital.

There is a memorial tombstone for the brothers, which was erected by the family, here in the Yea cemetery.

Lt. Templeton was killed in action in 1917, and his name can be found on the Menin Gate Memorial for the missing, in Belgium.

A memorial dedicated to the soldiers, whose graves are unknown.

“We are the beneficiaries of the actions of our first ANZACs, and those who have fought for Australia since. We demonstrate our gratitude by remembering their sacrifice and by honouring the values they first fought for over 100 years ago, and continue to fight for today. This is the payment we make against a debt we can never

Blue. Eltham Black 16.15 (111) d Diamond Creek 1.1 (7). Mill Park Blue 27.12 (174) d Greensborough 6.7 (43). Yarrambat 20.17 (137) d Wallan 7.3 (45). Under 15 Red. Mill Park White 19.15 (129) d Keon Park 7.5 (47). Whittlesea 7.14 (56) d Laurimar Teal, 3.7 (25). South Morang 15.13 (103) d Mernda 6.4 (40). Montmorency White 5.8 (38) d Eltham Red 4.12 (36). Under 16 Girls Blue. Diamond Creek Womens 14.12 (96) d Montmorency Black 0.1 (1). Yarrambat7.3 (45) d Whittlesea 4.5 (29). Research 10.14 (74) d Epping 0.1 (1). Under 16 Blue. Yarrambat 11.11 (77) d South Morang Blue

8.8 (56). Montmorency 10.10 (70) d Eltham Black 6.12 (48). Whittlesea 14.9 (93) d Kilmore Blue 7.9 (51). Under 16 Girls Red. Eltham 11.14 (80) d Wallan 1.1 (7). Diamond Creek Womens 2 12.5 (77) d Montmorency White 3.5 (23).

Darebin Womens 5.6 (36) d Mernda 2.1 (13). Under 16 Red. Mernda v Kilmore White. Research 15.12 (102) d Laurimar

1.8 (14). South Morang Gold 15.11 (101) d Eltham Red 3.5 (23). Under 17.5 Blue. Yarrambat 18.11 (119) d West PrestonLakeside 6.6 (42). Laurimar 14.11 (95) d South Morang 6.7 (43). Diamond Creek Blue 22.12 (144) d Research 2.5 (17). Eltham 12.5 (77) d Montmorency 11.3 (69). Under 17.5 Red. Whittlesea 27.14 (176) d Wallan 4.2 (26). Kilmore 11.13 (79) d

● ● ● ● Kinglake 17.15 (117) defeated Mernda 12.9 (81). Photo: NWM Studios