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9 to 5

■ Local creatives who have entered the 9 by 5 Exhibition will have their skilled artworks on display at the Walker Street Gallery and Arts Centre in Dandenong until Friday, July 7.

The exhibition commemorates an original 1889 event held in Melbourne

The original exhibition featured the works of wellknown artists Tom Roberts, Charles Condor, Arthur Streeton and Frederick McCubbin, where they created works on 9 by 5 inch cigar tin lids.

Local footy scores

■ ■ ■ ■ The Local Paper’s Footy Week section has great coverage of last weekend’s results from matches in the Mornington Peninsula Football League, as well as the Amateurs, Southern League and the Outer East competition. There is also a guide to the ANZAC weekend local fixtures. Turn to Pages 25-27 for all the details.

■ A Frankston woman in her 30s is flush with disbelief and excitement after she scored a $1.3 million Keno prize while on the toilet.

The wiman held a Keno Classic 10 Spot winning entry in draw 740, drawn last Thursday (Apr. 13), and scored $1,358,122.00.

“Oh my god! I’m feeling fabulous!” the woman exclaimed when an official from Keno spoke to her minutes after her win.

“I can’t believe it! I was at home on the toilet and thought I’d play some Keno

“I was sitting there and just picked the numbers randomly. They weren’t even my favourites. I was just like, ‘three in this row, this one here, that

there’. Then I saw the draw results and… oh my god!

“I leapt up and ran out of the toilet. I was shaking and just yelling, ‘oh my god, oh my god!’.

“I haven’t even been playing Keno for a week. I only started about four days ago.

“I’m with my family now celebrating. We just can’t believe it.

“I want to buy a house, and this will be more than enough. I won’t have to stress about mortgage payments, that’s for sure.”,” said the Frankston woman.

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ANZAC Day on Peninsula

■ There will be a number of ANZAC Day observances across the Mornington Peninsula on Tuesday (April 25).

ANZAC Day 2023 marks the 108th anniversary of the Gallipoli landing in 1915.

“The spirit of ANZAC continues to play a role in the local community to this day, with its qualities of courage, friendship and sacrifice,” said a Mornington Peninsula Shire representative.

“We encourage our community to commemorate ANZAC Day by attending their local traditional dawn services, marches and remembrance services.”

Mayor Cr Steve Holland said: “On ANZAC Day we remember and honour those who have fallen and express our gratitude for their service and sacrifice.

“Now more than ever we feel the value of peace. Council is proud to be supporting ANZAC Day services in 13 towns on Tuesday.”

■ Balnarring. Service 9.30am Anzac Park - Corner Frankston-Flinders Rd and Russell St.

■ Crib Point. Dawn Service 6am. Cenotaph at Tingira Place.

March 10.45am, Crib Point RSL, Milne St. Service 11am. Cenotaph at Tingira Place

■ Dromana. Dawn Service 6am. War Memorial, The Peninsula Club, Gibson St.

March 9.15am.

O’Donohue St. Service 9.45am. Dromana Cenotaph, Corner Pt Nepean Rd and Verdon St.

■ Flinders. March 10.30am. Service and

Aged care exit

wreath laying 11am, Flinders War Memorial, corner Cook St and The Esplanade

■ Hastings. Dawn Service 6am, Cenotaph Hastings Foreshore. March

10.30am, Hastings

RSL, King St. Service

11am, Cenotaph

Hastings Foreshore

■ Mornington

Dawn Service 6am

Memorial Park, Barkly St. March

9.30am. Corner Queen St and Main St. Service 10am, Memorial Park, Barkly Street

■ Mount Eliza. Service 2pm, Remembrance Garden Cenotaph, Mount Eliza Community Centre, Canadian Bay Rd

■ Red Hill. Service

10.30am, Red Hill Community Park, Shoreham Rd, Red Hill South.

Long Shots

■ Rosebud. Dawn Service 6am, Rosebud

RSL Memorial, Eastbourne Rd. March

9.30am. Cnr 9th Ave and Point Nepean Rd. Service 9.45am, Rosebud Cenotaph, Cnr Jetty Rd and Point Nepean Rd

■ Rye. Dawn Service

6am, Memorial Wall, Rye RSL, Nelson Street. March 12

Noon, Rye Pier to Rye

RSL. Service 12.30pm

Memorial Wall, Rye

RSL, Nelson St.

■ Somerville. Dawn Service 6am, Fruit Growers Reserve, Jones Rd and Station St.

■ Sorrento. Dawn Service 6am, Sorrento Foreshore War Memorial. March

11.30am, Cnr Ocean Beach Rd and Melbourne Rd. Service 12 Noon, Sorrento Foreshore War Memorial

■ Tyabb. Dawn Service 6am, Tyabb Central Reserve.

■ Greater Dandenong Council Mayor Cr Eden Foster says the municipality is considering whether or not it will exit the aged care services sector.

A report went to last week’s Council meeting. The options paper nvolves extensive community and stakeholder consultation and be presented to Council at the end of August outlining all possible service options.

“Many other Councils throughout Victoria have already exited the service, we will continue to monitor these developments closely.

“Council is not taking any action to alter our service at this point, so our home care service will not change before June 2024, nor without a Council resolution,” Cr Foster said in a statement.

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The Casey-Cardinia Edition readership area comprises part of the City of Casey including Cranbourne, Cranbourne East, Cranbourne North, Cranbourne South, Cranbourne West, Devon Meadows, Doveton, Endeavour Hills, Eumemmerring, Hallam, Hampton Park, Harkaway, Junction Village, Lynbrook, Lyndhurst (part), Pearcedale (part). The entire City of Casey is home to more than 340,419 people, living in approximately 102,790 homes.

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Stop sticks at Carrum Downs

■ ■ Two men have been arrested after evading Police locally. Police observed an alleged stolen white Mercedes wagon speeding on the Frankston-Dandenong Rd in Frankston North just after midnight on Thursday, April 6. With the assistance from Air Wing, Police followed the car to Carrum Downs where stop sticks were deployed.

The vehicle was driven to Adib Court in Frankston North where two men were arrested about 12.45am.

The driver, a 20-year-old Carrun Downs man has been charged with theft of motor vehicle, dangerous driving while being pursued by police, careless driving, handling stolen goods, driving while suspended, committing an indictable offence while on bail.

He was remanded in custody to appear at the Frankston Magistrates’ Court.

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Erratic drive

■ Police arrested three teenagers after a stolen vehicle was driven erratically throughout numerous suburbs before crashing in Dandenong North

The Police Air Wing sighted the stolen Jeep Gran Cherokee in the Melton area about 12.15am on Sunday, April 9.

The car had been stolen from Cranbourne on the previous day.

The Air Wing followed the Jeep as it was driven erratically and at speeds in excess of 200kmh along the Western Freeway, through the Burnley Tunnel and onto the Monash Freeway.

Arts grants open

■ The Cardinia Arts Grants are now open until Sunday, May 7.

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Police are investigating an assault at a Mornington shopping centre last month that left a security guard injured. Investigators have been told security staff told a man to leave the centre on March 11 around 9pm for unruly behaviour. The man initially complied, walking toward the exit with the security guard behind him. The offender turned when he reached the exit and punched the security guard multiple times to the face before walking away. The guard was treated for swelling, bruising and cuts to his face.A 17-year-old Frankston North teen was charged with theft of motor vehicle, dangerous driving while being pursued by police, careless driving, handling stolen goods, unlicensed driving and committing an indictable offence while on bail. He was remanded in custody to appear at a children’s court.

The vehicle was allegedly stolen from aggravated burglary in Brighton on April 4.

Cardinia Shire Council offers these grants to encourage local artists to connect their artistic practice with local communities in new ways.

The grants provide financial assistance to local artists for initiatives that utilise, expand, and promote the arts within Cardinia Shire Artists and arts groups can apply for a grant of up to $5000 from a pool of $25,000. Applicants must contact one of Cardinia Council’s Arts Project Officers to discuss their project idea before submitting.

Wanted for theft offences

■ Police have charged five teenagers following an alleged crime spree across multiple suburbs of Melbourne.

It is alleged the group were involved in the theft of two motor vehicles in Kooyong on April 7.

It is alleged the group were involved in criminal damage at a Brighton East property where windows and vehicles were damaged.

Police say the group were also involved in armed robberies across Knox.

The group were arrested in the stolen Audi in Pakenham just after 3pm. The stolen BMW and its occupants remain outstanding.

A 13-year-old Dandenong boy has been charged with aggravated burglary, two counts of theft of motor vehicle, attempted armed robbery and reckless conduct endangering serious injury.

A 14-year-old Catani boy has been charged with dangerous driving while being pursued by police, two counts of theft of motor vehicle and reckless conduct endangering serious injury.

A 15-year-old Springvale South boy has been charged with attempted car jacking and theft of motor vehicle.

Those three boys have been remanded to

The driver eventually lost control and crashed into a barrier on the Monash Freeway. Three occupants ran from the Jeep but were arrested nearby.

Two 15-year-old boys Noble Park and Dandenong North and a 14-year-old girl from Keysborough were assisting investigators with their enquiries.

Mercedes flipped

■ Five teenagers have been arrested after a stolen vehicle crashed outside a Frankston shopping centr.

Police received information that a stolen vehicle had been sighted at the shopping centre on Cranbourne-Frankston Rd about 4.50pm on Wednesday, April 5.

Officers attended the centre and were directed by members of the public who had seen the vehicle heading west on FrankstonDandenong Rd.

The officers saw a trail of smoke and dark rubber marks on the road, leading to a Mercedes that had been flipped onto its roof. The Mercedes had been stolen from the North Balwyn area on April 1.

Witnesses reporting seeing a group of youths running from the crash scene towards Deane St.

With the assistance of the Dog Squad, five youths were arrested nearby a short time later.

■ Police were last week appealing for public assistance to help locate Peter Scoble.

Police said the 41-year-old was wanted on warrant in relation to theft related offences. Scoble was described as being of Caucasian appearance, approximately 200cm tall, solid build with dark hair.

Police said Scoble is known to frequent the Mornington, Mt Martha and Frankston areas.

Investigators released an image of Scoble in the hope someone may be able to provide information on his whereabouts.

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face a children’s court at a later date.

A 15-year-old Dandenong boy and 16-yearold Hallam girl have been charged with theft of motor vehicle.

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Mornington Peninsula resident Chris Procter is await Council approval on plans for a business park on Bungower Rd. The design of the business park will have a high-tech focus, which will limit heavy industrial use, he says. Mr Procter says his development will create up to 1100 jobs for the local area and incorporate green space. “The heritage building located on site will be carefully revitalised, ensuring the character and original beauty of the building is retained and the community can enjoy it,” Mr Procter said.

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CCP Dissident’s MAJOR Warnings About China’s Military Come True

By Matt Palumbo

Intimidation and harassment campaigns have become common from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in their efforts to sabotage Miles Guo when he’s set to publicly expose them. This has happened on a number of high-profile occasions, whether it be the now-infamous “Voice of America” incident, or when they derailed a speaking engagement he had at the Hudson Institute in 2017.

Guo was scheduled to speak at the Hudson Institute on October 4th, 2017, where he was set to expose three highly classified CCP documents he had obtained; 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). But before he could do this, the Hudson Institute’s website was hacked and crashed – which even drew attention from then-U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who confronted Chinese government officials about it. Nonetheless, the CCP’s sabotage and intimidation tactics were successful, and Guo’s talk was canceled.

With an annual military budget exceeding $800 billion, the only possible explanation is that the U.S. knew about the spy balloon and simply decided to ignore it, only being forced to

acknowledge its existence after civilians on a commercial airline spotted it.

According to Guo, the CCP’s spy balloons cost a mere $3,000, yet it costs America $439,000, or nearly 150 times as much to shoot down one balloon. These balloons can easily be equipped with spy cameras, suicide weapons, and bioweapons – making them extremely dangerous. Furthermore, Guo exposed that the CCP is planning to launch tens of thousands more of such balloons, launching asymmetrical war against the U.S. to consume our economic and military power.

The CCP is the number one threat to U.S. national security – and they are being helped from within by traitors inside our own government.

Indeed, as the NFSC has long advocated, the CCP’s growing aggression is only made possible by Americans “supporting” them– not just economically but more importantly, by ignoring the CCP’s total infiltration of our federal government. The CCP’s infiltration stretches from the private sector all the way to the DepartThere is only one solution; to completely decouple from the CCP .

ment of Defense, FBI, and CIA– who are all too happy to play the CCP’s useful idiots to keep the American people in blindfolds and the Chinese people in slavery. When we fought the Cold War against the Soviets, we completely decoupled from them economically, politically, and technologically – leaving the corrupt communist regime to collapse underneath its own weight. Once we decouple from the CCP and investigate their infiltration of our government, the will of the people will spell the CCP’s demise, as it did for the once seemingly invincible Soviet Union.

The Chinese people have enjoyed thousands of years of prosperity without the CCP –and given their track record, the Chinese people, and China as a nation will be far better off without them. Guo is the founder of the New Federal State of China (NFSC), a movement that aims to oust the authoritarian CCP from power. Naturally, this has made Guo public enemy number one of the regime. and has resulted in him constantly being met with CCP attacks. Since 2017, the CCP has infiltrated law firms, attorneys, and judges involved in the regime’s unrestricted lawfare against Guo, hacking

the computers of the law firm preparing Guo’s political asylum application and compromising judges and lawyers, including Barry Ostrager and Luc Despins to force Guo into bankruptcy, thereby installing Despins as Trustee to destroy Guo and the NFSC.

In 2017, Guo also warned that spy balloons would be part of the CCP’s warfare strategy against the U.S., as well as the coming biological weapon. He gave thousands of pages o f documents to the FBI regarding balloon, BGY, 3F, and 13579 Plans. Yet even after the FBI had confirmed the document’s authenticity, the infiltrationridden agency failed to act.

In recent weeks, the Department of Energy and the head of the FBI have been just the latest to admit that a lab leak is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, and came just short of concurring with Guo that it was an intentional one. With estimated global COVID deaths nearing 7 million, millions of lives and tens of trillions of dollars in wealth could’ve been saved if Guo’s warnings had been taken seriously and acted upon by U.S. authorities who were given this information.

Similarly, the Biden administration had been humiliated earlier in February when a spy balloon from China was spotted in U.S. airspace – as was predicted by Guo years prior.

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).

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SEXY ENVIRONMENTALIST AT WORK

■ K-based comedian Steve Hili, performing at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, has a compelling argument about making environmentalism sexier.

And ironically, if he wasn’t a comedian bagging, with hilarious gusto, the militancy of environmentalists and how they make people feel guilty for their impact on the environment and pressuring them to change their behaviour, they might take him more seriously and have a greater impact – we all know sex sells.

Hili is high energy, high impact and not afraid to go for the jugular - aka get a bit down and dirty.

Nothing is too risqué or woke for him.

He bounces on stage with pulsating excitement drawing attention to his dreadlocks (has he already done enough for the environment?)

and his lazy eye. Hili recalls his strict Catholic upbringing in Malta and reflects on the way guilt is employed by the environmental movement to encourage us all to recycle.

How much better, he suggests, if they presented recycling as very, very sexy.

But how do you make saving the planet sexy?

Well, that’s for Hili to tell you and it is well worth it.

As a member of the Extinction Rebellion, he shares some funny ideas and anecdotes from

demonstrations, and there’s even a personal inspiring message from Stormy Daniels

But it’s not all about the environment, there is of course stuff about sex, meeting his wife and inheriting his mother’s seaside Maltese house – that is if rising tides due to global warming don’t swallow it up first – hence his urgency and commitment – now that’s hilariously self-serving.

The Sexy Environmentalist flows with rapid pace and has just the right amount of audience participation - what he does with audience feedback is brilliant.

He is a funny and accomplished performer and deserved a larger audience and a bigger stage - if you get the chance, don’t miss Steve Hili as The Sexy Environmentalist.

- Review by Beth Klein

What’s On Kate’s second show

■ Due to demand, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has announce da second concert of My Life Is A Symphony, celebrating the career of Kate Ceberano, at Melbourne Town Hall on Thursday, September 28.

"It is such a privilege on every level to be able to perform with this symphony orchestra just once, but to have, in my beloved Melbourne, a second opportunity to deliver these beautiful arrangements by Roscoe James Irwin with an orchestra I have respected and loved my whole life, well...it just moves me to tears,” said Kate.

The cclaimed singer, songwriter, artist and performer last week released a further single from her forthcoming new album My Life Is A Symphony, Louis’ Song

Kate will celebrate her 40-year career with the release of her 30th album on May 12on 12 May, and in concert.

‘The Sexy Environmentalist flows with rapid pace and has just the right amount of audience participation’

Best of Edinburgh

■ In the cavernous Capitol Theatre with its stunning ceiling, the finest British comedy talent, three stand-out comics, Ian Smith, Maisie Adam and Markus Birdman, combine to bring a fast-paced night of funny.

Beware of coming late as Smith opened the show with some witty improv at the expense of a group of latecomers, 12 family members who became the butt of many jokes during Smith’s set.

A master at handling heckles from the audience, Smith incorporated the best of these into his act. This made for great content.

Smith’s comedy felt effortless as he riffed about the English penchant for sexual fetishes, boots, dogs, dentists, and teeth-grinding.

Smith related a very funny anecdote about trying to orchestrate a romantic moment only for it to be ruined by passers-by.

Maisie Adam took us on a holiday to Prague. Specifically, a holiday where her then-boyfriend, now fiancé, asked her to marry him.

With a lightning-quick delivery, Adam enlightened the audience with a hilarious recap, with swarms of partying youth on Stag Do’s interrupting the proceedings.

Markus Birdman took a darker trip reliving his more comical moments as a hospital patient recovering from his recent stroke.

Recounting a recent benefit gig for stroke victims, Birdman tells us that, incredulously, his jokes about strokes didn’t go down well with participants.

The Capitol audience had no such qualms.

Teenagers get a hilariously bad wrap, as do under-30s, as Birdman leans into his old white male schtick only to mine the idea of a stick-in-the-mud, old fogey character for laughs.

Review by Kathryn Keeble

Stinking Hot Trash

■ Isabelle Carney’s one-woman show Stinking Hot Trash, part of the International Comedy Festival, was a rough gem of a show with enough pizazz to warrant further development.

The show was a rambling cascade of skits, thoughts and absurdist humour, all of which drew upon various aspects of Carney’s life, both real and imagined, with plenty of flights of fancy being played out (for example, a talking chair, a who-done-it complete with Inspector Clouseau raincoat).

Accompanied by several short films interspersed throughout the evening, Carney dropped occasional pop culture references during the 50 minutes, references which helped to anchor the audience and gave the show some semblance of structure.

One gets the sense though that structure either isn’t Carney’s forte or, more likely, something that’s not of great concern to her.

To be honest, given the whimsical nonsensical nature of the show, this is a sensible choice.

In lieu of a tight structure what really carried the show was Carney herself.

She brought a naïve charm to the work and, at times, a deadpan delivery that accentuated the absurdity to great comic effect.

Still, on the whole the material was patchy; some of it was hilarious while, unfortunately, other parts were quite slight, dull and unable to be rescued by the performer’s skills.

No credits were available for either direction or production, even though no small number of props and stage craft were involved in the show.

Working with a sympathetic director/ dramaturg who understands this style of comedy could improve the show in terms of its content and develop what strongly felt like a work-in-progress.

Overall then this rough gem had enough going for it to make Isabelle Carney a “person of interest” as something of an adventuress in the field of non-narrative absurdist comedy and makes Stinking Hot Trash a gem worth polishing.

Performed at The MC Showroom, Prahran.

- Review by: Peter Murphy

IT’S ALL PEAR SHAPED

■ Theatre Works and Rogue Projects production of Pear Shaped is a wonderful night of theatre that reminds you of how exhilarating and enthralling a space theatre can be for storytelling.

This particular story is about Frankie (played by Ziggy Resnick) and Kayla (played by Luisa Scrofani ) who are sisters in their early twenties.

Frankie is studying, working on her graduating design project involving Alice in Wonderland, while Kayla continues an ongoing struggle with an eating disorder.

Memories of their childhood together are triggered when going through some old costumes and suddenly their past and present become entwined with the story of Alice.

Miranda Middleton and Ziggy Resnick are the playwrights who have produced a fantastic dramedy-style approach to what is some difficult challenging material.

There’s no classic three-act structure here but rather a series of vignettes where we see the family dynamic of the two sisters and their relationships with their mother and grandmother.

These are interwoven with scenes from Alice in Wonderland rendered in a delightful magical realism fashion.

Resnick (playing Frankie/Caterpillar/ Cheshire Cat/Mad Hatter/Queen of Hearts) and Scrofani (Kayla/Alice/Mum/Savita) give energetic passionate performances in all the many roles they each play but especially when it comes to the central characters of the two sisters.

They capture well the love-hate nature of the siblings’ relationship and the devastating impact Kayla’s eating disorder has on it and the family.

Miranda Middleton’s direction is assured and imaginatively brings to life the marvellous script, finding in it moments of both humour and despair.

She’s more than ably supported by a proficient talented professional team including Robbi James and Erica Lovell (producers), Brittanie Shipway (dramaturg) and the brilliant, inspired design team led by Grace Deacon (production designer).

Theatre Works, Rogue Projects and the play’s cast and crew are to be heartily congratulated for Pear Shaped is a bold and thrilling original Australian work that is a magnificent piece of imaginative storytelling.

- Review by Peter Murphy

Re-enchantment

■ Josie Long’s show Re-enchantment, part of the International Comedy Festival, is a rollicking rollercoaster of a ride through (mostly) modern day Britain.

The ride covers a range of different topics eg the trials and tribulations of recently becoming a mother, her love of rock melon, the dire straits the UK finds itself in post-Brexit, her recent move to Glasgow, slagging off the Conservative Party, etc.

This is all done in an in-your-face bravado fashion, explicit and upfront about her left-leaning politics and mixed with a genuine warmth. She takes the audience along with her, engaging them with a staccato high-energy delivery.

As with much stand-up comedy, Long clearly follows a script of sorts in terms of having a certain amount of material planned and ready to go which she works through during the hour.

However, equally true is the fact that audience interaction is unknowable, and so good improvisation skills are a must.

In both cases Long performs admirably, riffing off the audience when they take up invitations for comment and participation, though always, thankfully, done in a gracious way.

When, inevitably, fun is made of the audience it’s done tongue-in-cheek, making you feel like performer and audience are laughing together at the silliness of it all. It helps too that Long is self-deprecating at times, something which nicely undercuts her manic persona.

Throughout the evening, one of the strengths of Re-enchantment is that it never loses its humanity nor compassion, even when ripping into members of the UK’s ruling elite.

● ● ● ● Ziggy Resnick and Luisa Scrofani in Pear-Shaped. Photo: Angel Leggas

Long wears her heart on her sleeve and is a winning performer as a result.

Venue: Cloak Room, Melbourne Town Hall, Swanston St

Dates and times: Until April 23. Tues.-Sun. at 5.30/6.30pm.

Duration: 1 hour

Tickets: $29-36.50

Bookings: https://www.comedyfestival.com. au/2023/shows/josie-long

- Review by Peter Murphy

Harry Potter

■ Another brilliant triumph for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra presenting the final in the Harry Potter series.

The film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 was released in Australia cinemas in 2011. Harry Potter’s ultimate quest is to destroy the remaining Horcruxes and to bring to an end the battle with the evil Lord Voldemort.

Joined by his loyal friends Ron and Hermione, they unite students and teachers to defend Hogwarts.

The familiar battle between good and evil ensues, followed by a dramatic roller coaster ride through the Wizard world.

The huge high-definition film screen telling the story behind the orchestra, dominates the stage, heightening the drama.

The magnificent score is composed by Alexandre Desplat and performed by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in Hamer Hall, as the audience watches the movie on the big screen.

This concert is conducted by Nicholas Duc, an esteemed composer, conductor and arranger. Among his many awards are the inaugural Fellowship of Australian Composers Award, Elmer Bernstein Award for Film Scoring and he completed his Master’s Degree in Scoring for Film and Multimedia at New York University.

Under his experienced baton, the superb MSO immaculately follows the action on the movie screen, from epic battle scenes to quiet reflective moments, rising to dangerous and evil passages personifying the presence of Lord Voldemort and his cronies.

The audience was enraptured and lived every exciting moment, cleverly centred perfectly in the middle of the film action.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 was featured in the 2023 Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Season.

- Review by Jill Page

Barry Pearl visits

■ Actor, director and producer Barry Pearl willbe in Melbourne this June.

He will be live in conversation at ACMI on Monday, June 19, discussing his career in film, on stage and on TV, and of course starring in Parmount Pictures' iconic hit musical Grease where he played T-Bird Doody.

He will also be doing a Q and A with fans at Fonzies Diner in Kilsyth, as fans enjoy lunch and dinner sessions on Wednesday and thursday, June 21 and 22.

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Stephen K. Amos

■ “If you’re after deep meaning and pathos, you’re in the wrong show,” Stephen K Amos warns his audience. Amos doesn’t disappoint.

With jokes coming rapid-fire and super funny, Amos shares easy banter with his audience.

A hapless banker in the front row becomes the subject of a running gag. "It’s not bullying,” he tells the audience, "he’s laughing."

Even randomly laughing can be dangerous at an Amos gig: “Laugh in time with the others, Madam!” It’s never unkind, though.

It is quite the opposite as audience members offer themselves to become comedy fodder for the improv master.

Amos was in Adelaide preparing for a national tour three years and four British PMs ago. COVID hit, and Amos had just four days to leave.

Lockdowns and forced downtime meant it’s been a long time between Australian gigs. Amos spent lockdown in his Wimbledon home with his 82-year-old father. This enforced living arrangement could only end in one of two ways: murder or comedy.

Luckily for the audience, Amos then forges ahead through a bulging clipboard of jokes invented during lockdown. If the audience laughs, the jokes stay.

Amos’s Nigerian background, school life, and siblings all feature as a backstory to landing some hilarious gags.

Amos launches in on the links between Australia’s love of the meat raffle and the British town of Hull.

Amos follows with an elderly Uncle rant about his hatred of social media and its ability to vomit nonsense. The jokes come thick and fast.

Through it all, Amos confidently steers his audience and presents a masterclass of standup comedy.

- Review by Kathryn Keeble

Dave Woodhead

■ Dave Woodhead is a ‘big unit’ – he admits it himself – and while the comedian stands an intimidating 6 foot 6 inches (in the old money) he is like a big cuddly curly-haired Wookie, with endearing meek charm.

Handpicked by the Melbourne International Comedy Festival back in 2019 for a spot in Comedy Zone, a showcase for rising stars of Australian comedy, Lunch for Dinner is Woodhead’s Festival debut show.

For tragic foodies, the title of the show might have some salivating for food comedy – however apart from a rather traumatic incident with his father at a KFC, there’s no food on the menu.

Woodhead is host of Triple J Lunch –guessing that is the title connection – and he has a natural, confident and mischievous stage presence.

A lot of his material resonates – anecdotes about age, in his case looking older than he actually is (nobody wants that), dealing with a cat crazy mother and nutty father, growing up in Darwin, falling in love for the first time (in primary school) and clubbing (that came later).

There are some Gen Z references that may be lost on some, but overall, Woodhead engages with the audience with wit and an endearing cheekiness, and he draws plenty of hearty laughs.

He enjoys giving the audience a little ribbing when questioning the assembled crowd for affirmation on his thoughts on an issue or topic – for example, his favourite pastime, which opened the show, or a bush doof – that did not get the affirmation he was looking for.

Woodhead is a likeable character, he comes across as vulnerable, sensitive and very human and his stories are interesting and quite revealing in some sense – that is for someone in an older age bracket.

The humour is clearly targeted and works for those Gen Y and Z , and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.

- Review by Beth Klein

Work with Dee Dee

■ Joseph Campbell is now Executive Producer for Afternoons on 3AW

Shows

■ The 1812 Theatre: The Shoe-Horn Sonata (by John Mistro) Until April 22 at The 1812 Theatre, Rose St., Upper Ferntree Gully. Directed by Andrew Ferguson. Bookings: www.1812theatre.com.au

■ Ballarat National Theatre: Dust and Run (by Alexandra Meerbach) Until April 22 at the Mt Rowan School Theatre, 453-457 Forest St., Wendouree. Director: Alexander Meerbach. Bookings: www.bnt.org.au

■ CPP Community Theatre: Sense and Sensibility (adapted by Kate Hamill, based on the novel by Jane Austen) Until April 22 at Boronia K-12 College, Performing Arts Centre, Albert Ave. Entrance, Parking at Rangeview Rd., Boronia. Director: Kathryn White. Bookings: https://cppcommunity theatre.com.au/

■ Eltham Little Theatre: Much Ado About Nothing (by William Shakespeare)April 21 –May 6 at the Eltham Performing Arts Centre, Main Rd., Research. Director: Matthew Freeman. Bookings: www.elthamlittletheatre. org.au

■ Wangaratta Players: Six Characters in Search of an Author, Until April 23 at The Stage Door Studio, 4D Evans Street, Wangaratta. www.wangarattaplayers.org.au

■ Williamstown Little Theatre: Jumpers for Goalposts (by Tom Wells),April 19 – May 6 at 2 -4 Albert St., Williamstown. Director: Bruce Akers. www.wlt.org.au

■ Lilydale Athenaeum Theatre: Barefoot in the Park (by Neil Simon) April 20 –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), April 20 – 30 at The Basin Theatre, Cnr Simpsons & Doongalla Rd., The Basin. Director: Lisa McNiven. www.thebasintheatre.org.au

■ Malvern Theatre Company: Deathtrap (by Ira Levin) April 21 – 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), April 21– 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), April 21 – May 6 at 36 Turnham Avenue, Rosanna. Director: Joan Moriarty. Bookings: www.htc.org.au

■ Legends of the Skies Theatre: A Special Anzac Eve Performance Monday April 24 at 7.30pm at the Australian National Aviation Museum, Moorabbin. Quizzes, yarns, music, facts, games. Artistic Director: Maggie Morrison. Cabaret style. BYO drinks and nibbles. Tickets $20 or $140 table of eight. Bookings: Trybooking

■ 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.bairnsdale productionline.org

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

■ CLOC Musical Theatre: Catch Me If You Can May 12-27 at the National Theatre, St Kilda. Bookings: www.cloc.org.au

■ 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

■ Mordialloc Theatre Company: It’s Only a Play (by Terrence McNally) April 28 –May 3 at the Shirley Burke Theatre, 64 Parkers Rd., Parkdale. Director: Peter Newling. Bookings: 9587 5141 or www.mordialloctheatre.com

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

- Cheryl Threadgold

ONE WOMAN SHOW GRIM

■ The one-woman show Grim, part of the International Comedy Festival, is a bold adventure in comedy that is to be applauded for its brave, but only partially successful, attempt at absurdist comedy.

The show follows the adventures of Grim (played by Ellen Grimshaw), an alien accidentallydropped on Earth, who explores their new surroundings with gusto.

Absorbing a veritable barrage of information via the airwaves, clogged of course with advertising, Grim ends up unsuccessfully auditioning for several advertisements thinking this to be the best way to assimilate with Earthlings. After several such encounters Grim is reunited with her mother and spaceship.

The main problem with the show lies firmly in the script which is underdeveloped. Apart from a deft use of multimedia (involving animation, music and voiceover), the quality of the writing is uneven; some scenes are quite funny and moving while too many others are simply not funny, with tired cliched “fish out of water” jokes that fall flat.

In addition, the final scenes are somewhat at odds with the tone of what’s come before and so the show ends on an incongruous note.

However, what helps save the show is Grimshaw herself who puts in a wonderful performance, one full of bravado and high-voltage energy; consequently, she’s the main attraction.

Her physicality is wonderful, often expressing more with her gestures, movements and guttural sounds than with the spoken word. In addition, she can be mercurial, switching from coy ingenue to foul-mouthed slut in a heartbeat.

She’s ably supported by a production team involving Kimberley Twiner (directorial assistance), Vidya Rajan (dramaturg), Kellie-Anne Kimber (sound/lighting design), Matt Osborne and Chris Hocking (AV), Caitie Murphy (coproducer) and Tim Rutty (costume design).

Overall, this team creates an evocative environment in which the action takes place.

So Grim is not for the faint-hearted nor for those who like their comedy more sophisticated or nuanced. Nevertheless, the festival is a broad church in which it has its place.

Venue: The Motley Bauhaus Blackbox, 118 Elgin St, Carlton

Dates and Times: At 5.30/8.30 until April 22

Tickets: $14.50-27.50

Bookings: https://www.comedyfestival. com.au/2023/shows/grim

- Review by Peter Murphy

Circus Royale

■ It is always exciting to see the top of the circus tent from a distance. The yellow and blue of Damian Syred’s Circus Royale was no exception.

Placed next to the Palais Theatre St Kilda , the magic began the moment we stepped into the big tent foyer.

Life size animatronics of African animals complete with moving eyes were a thrill and all part of the circus experience presented in Syred’s 52nd version of Circus Royale.

With international high risk acts there were many thrills when seated.

Circus Royale is a traditional circus (minus real animals) including, yet not limited to, hula hoops, tight rope walking, fire, clowns, audience participation and magic. The highlight for me being the latter.

The talented magician with her assistants performed mind boggling magic right in front of us.

The children accompanying me were in awe of the high acts, gasping with others as it appeared the acrobats were going to actually fall. They played the part well ,riding bikes on ropes, swinging from trapezes.

There was one section of the show that felt flat, a mimed skit based around the Titanic, that I suspect may have been a ‘filler’ preparing for what was to come, three talented brothers from Colombia riding motorbikes simultaneously fast in the ‘Globe of Death’.

This was after two of the three had already displayed amazing athleticism on the Wheel of Steel, running in circles both inside and on top of the ‘wheel’. Oh what a sight.

Complete with popcorn , fairy floss, showbags

Circus Royale is a definite ‘go to’ for the whole family.

Venue: Circus Royale St Kilda, St Kilda Triangle, Lower Esplanade, adjacent to Palais Theatre

Season: Until April 30

Prices: Adults from $35, Children from $25 Bookings: www.circusroyale.com or 0488 769 253 or on-site

- Review by Elizabeth Semmel

Twist

■ Alice Fraser’s one-woman show Twist, part of the International Comedy Festival, is an entertaining evening with a smart laid-back comedian riffing on the unpredictability of life in general and motherhood in particular.

Sharing a series of humorous insights, Fraser reflects on her new life having recently become a mother. She touches on a wide variety of topics, eg. identity issues, capitalism, crypto-currencies etc.

This veritable kaleidoscope of issues keeps the audience on its toes as she skillfully segues from topic to topic or, in contrast, digresses in novel and surprising ways. Interspersed between the insights are “advertisements” which, tongue-in-cheek and read from cue cards, pillory public figures, myths and other sacred cows.

Fraser appears to adlib much of the show as, throughout the hour, she frequently glances stage right to read from something which triggers her adlibs.

This something is “accidentally” revealed as a laptop when the prop covering the laptop falls down (though it’s hastily returned to its place). I say “accidentally” because is the reveal a twist in itself?

Another slightly anomalous event occurs preshow. Fraser sits down on the front of the stage and chats amiably with the audience, telling us how she’s not your normal stand-up. However, once the lights go down and she comes onstage, she delivers in a normal stand-up style. Another twist? Is the show itself a twist of sorts?

Speculation aside, Fraser has a wonderful performance energy which makes you feel as if you’re having an amiable chat with a quickwitted astute friend who happens to be very funny.

She talks about the challenges she faces as a new parent and challenges we collectively face with regards to social and environmental issues but does so in a way that makes you care.

With no director or producer credited, it seems we have only Fraser herself to thank for a thought-provoking and delightful 60 minutes which twists and turns, much like life itself.

Venue: Quilt Room, Trades Hall, 54 Victoria St, Carlton

Dates and times: Mon.-Sun. (no show Weds.) Until April 23

Duration: 1 hour

Tickets: $20-34.90

Bookings: au/2023/shows/twisthttps://www.comedyfestival.com.

- Review by Peter Murphy

Media Flashes

■ Sophie Black has been named Editor-inChief of Crikey . This marks a return to the publisher for Sophie, who was Editor-in-Chief from 2014 to 2015.

■ Philip Brady has celebrated 65 years since starting at GTV-9 on Easter Monday, 1958.

■ It is a sad fact of cultural history that female artists rarely received the same exposure that was given to their male counterparts.

Geelong Art Gallery has a proud history of excellent exhibitions, highlights our art history and their latest exhibition celebrates early 20th century Australian artist Clarice Beckett.

Titled ‘Atmosphere’, it features more than 50 artworks from Beckett, which she painted from 191 to the early 1930s.

Through her art, Beckett wanted to showcase the natural world around her, including wonderful paintings done around Beaumaris, Melbourne, the Yarra River and Port Phillip Bay.

Portraying different light in her paintings to Beckett’s work, so she painted in many different lights and weather.

She loved her local Beaumaris seascapes and streetscapes, and these feature prominently in the current exhibition.

She also loved portraying Geelong, the Surf Coast and the Western District, and in 1926 spent six months on a friend’s western district sheep station.

Seeing the world through Beckett’s eyes is a special experience, and Geelong Gallery senior curator Lisa Sullivan hopes art and history lovers from Melbourne will hop on the train for a pleasant day in Geelong, taking in this fascinating exhibition.

‘Clarice Beckett – Atmosphere’ is showing at Geelong Art Gallery until Julie 18. For further details, visit www.geelonggallery. org.au

Julie Houghton

Auditions

■ Heidelberg Theatre Company: My Old Lady (by Israel Horovitz), April 23, 24 from 7.00-9.00pm at Heidelberg Theatre, 36 Turnham Ave., Rosanna. Director: Maureen McInerney. Enquiries: www.htc.org.au

■ The 1812 Theatre: Of Mice and Men (by John Steinbeck) April 30 at 7.00pm at 3 Rose St., Upper Ferntree Gully. Director: Malcolm Sussman.Audition enquiries: 0417 141 803 fatters@bigpond.com

■ 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

■ 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. Audition enquiries: www.melbournefrenchtheatre. org.au/audition

- Cheryl Threadgold

At Recital Centre

■ Ferruccio Furlanetto will make a return to Melbourne Recital Centre onApril 22 with an intimate performance that traverses his illustrious, almost five-decade long career.

● ● Ellen Grimshaw in Grim.

● ● ● ● Clarice Beckett

FAREWELL TO LIZ JONES

■ Dr Liz Jones has stepped down as Artistic Director of La Mama Theatre, 50 years after commencing working there in 1973.

An intimate occasion in the La Mama courtyard also marked the passing of the torch to new CEO, Caitlin Dullard.

Richard Watts , Chair of La Mama's Committee of Management, thanked Liz for her skilled custodianship of La Mama over many decades.

"Her commitment to the primacy of the artist and her championing of d iverse voices has ensured La Mama’s place in the cultural history of the nation; simultaneously, her foresight and careful succession planning has meant we’re well positioned for the future."

Liz will continue to play an important part at La Mama, advising on scripts and working on a project to rebuild stories that were destroyed in the devastating 2018 fire.

Richard W atts formally welcomed new CEO Caitlin Dullard to guide the dedicated team at La Mama securely into the future.

He also appealed for public donations: "With your support, La Mama can realise its vision of facilitating fearlessly independent theatre-making now and into the future.

“Whether $500 or $50, every dollar donated to La Mama enables and empowers artists to do what they do best: make art.

“I encourage you to donate today online and play a part in La Mama’s exciting next chapter."

www.lamama.com.au

- Cheryl Threadgold

Palindrome

■ Reuben’s ‘Palindrome’ doesn’t quite land. The cleverness with toying at the edges of a presentation and how it is received by an audience is quite clever.

The opening shtick suggesting he knows an old acquaintance in the audience who fails to recognise him brings the potential for embarrassment t o the surface before you realise Reuben is playing with us.

But on the night of this review, an audience member played up to one of Reuben’s moments bringing him unstuck and the planned follow up lines that were to come out later in the show became redundant.

Reuben had been hoisted by his own petard or, to borrow one of his images, the parachute didn’t open and he had no reserve. He should have had, as that skit suggested, an infinite number of reserve chutes.

The show itself is a series of bits which don’t always cohere. The opening cartoon images are witty but then have no relevance in the overall show.

And the title, Palindrome, simply refers to one ‘bit’ or routine rather than having any thematic relevance. Disconcerting also was Reuben’s tendency to yell the punch line which, in

Birthday

■ (M). 120 minutes. Available on Blu-ray and DVD.

Touching on a subject that continues to deeply affect many members of the South Korean community, especially those who directly suffered from it, this exceptionally well-acted, genuinely moving drama sees the arrival of an exciting talent, writer/director Lee Jongeon, who has actually been working behind the scenes for almost two decades.

On April 16, 2014, a seemingly routine ferry trip turned into an absolute nightmare.

but he does manage to slowly make a connection with his daughter.

When volunteers from a Sewol support group show up asking if the couple want to commemorate their son’s upcoming birthday, as a way of saying goodbye, Jung-il agrees, but Soon-nam refuses, feeling the whole exercise undermines her significant loss.

The first three-quarters of Birthday are beautifully low-key, as we see a family dealing with the sorrowful death of a loved one, and how it affects each person differently.

a small room, can overwhelm. There is potential in what Reuben is doing but he hasn’t yet quite managed to achieve the command and mastery required that proves he can play with an audience at will.

Until April 23.

Motley Bauhaus, 118 Elgin St, Carlton

Bookings: comedyfestival.com.au

Review by David McLean

4-Peace Band

■ The 4 Peace Band will next be entertaining on Friday (Apr. 21) at 7.30pm at the Mentone RSL, Palermo St, Mentone.

The band featuring Paul O'Gorman, Peter Grant, Gary Hammond and Peter Shilton plays a mix of hits from the 50s through to the 80s.

Entry is free. Bookings recommended. Dinner can also be booked. Call Mentone RSL on 9583 2841.

- Cheryl Threadgold

Sisters In Crime

■ Sisters in Crime will present their 17th Law Week event titled 'Boys Behaving Badly (and what to do about it)' on Friday, May 19 from 6.30pm-10pm at the Sir Zelman Cowen Centre, Victoria University, Queen Street Campus, Lecture Theatre G02, 295 Queen St, Melbourne (upstairs - no lift).

An expert panel, Elena Campbell, Ahona Guha and Sherele Moody, chaired by Bronwyn Naylor will debate how to combat toxic masculinity and the violence perpetrated against women.

Bookings: https://www.eventbrite. com.au/e/17th-law-week-event-boysbehaving-badly-and-what-to-doabout-it-tickets-597366678817

- Cheryl Threadgold

Red Stitch

■ Red Stitch Actors' Theatre this week revealed the remaining three plays for its 2023 season. The final three plays include an Australian premiere, a premiere INK production,

and a stage classic to round out the season.

Premiering in -June, Shhhh is a new work from acclaimed writer Clare Barron, directed by Emma Valente, that cleverly explores the impacts of physical trauma and sexual assault in a dark and disturbing tale of two sisters.

Shareen is struggling in a complicated relationship, worrying about her mother, and battling a range of health issues. Her older sister, Sally, a parttime witch and ASMR therapist, offers advice, and seems to possess a higher knowledge, but is herself dealing with trauma.

Set in the vibrant nightlife of Hanoi, directed by Artistic Director, Ella Caldwell, comes Dan Lee’s Flake, cocreated by Chi Nguyen

In this INK premiere, Lee and Nguyen draw deep into the mess and chaos of old friendships, fragmented families and the inevitable blur of aging. Meanwhile, the ancient city of Hanoi howls and crashes around outside, through the walls of the tiny basement kitchen. Flake opens in October and features Robert Menzies and Joe Petruzzi.

Come November, Red Stitch will once again welcome Sarah Goodes who will direct Edward Albee’s timeless classic, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, featuring Kat Stewart in an allensemble cast.

When it burst on to the stage in 1962, it tapped into a growing unease about notions of decency and respectability, in a vicious dissection of a marriage over years of disappointments. Yet Albee’s characters also tell a love story: a story of shared acceptance of an inescapable fate.

Real-life married couple, Kat Stewart and David Whiteley, will portray Martha and George , whose romance is served up to their unwitting guests, played by Emily Goddard and Harvey Zielinski, as a taste of the humiliations and the inevitable compromises to come.

The above works round out an annual season of work, including Pulitzer Prize finalist Selling Kabul that takes the stage in April.

- Cheryl Threadgold

The Sewol, due to piloting error, turned too sharply and began to slowly tip over, but instead of getting the passengers to make their way to the upper deck, the crew told them to remain in their cabins, reassuring them that everything was okay.

By the time that it clearly became evident everything wasn’t okay, the ferry had tipped to the point where the passengers couldn’t escape, with the lower levels now largely filled with water.

On top of that, the coast guard response was far too slow, and government orders to keep outside experts, helpers and reporters at bay, hindered things even more.

By the time the disaster reached its conclusion, 304 passengers had drowned, around 250 of them students from Danwon High School.

Of the 172 people who survived, most were rescued by fishing boats who turned up 40 minutes before the coast guard.

The government then concentrated their efforts on covering up the numerous, incompetent mistakes made, enraging the public even more.

This, along with other incidents, lead to the downfall of President Park Geun-hye in 2017.

Set three years after the tragedy, Birthday centres on one particular family, who lost their teenage son, Su-ho (played by Yoon Chanyoung in flashbacks).

Jung-il (Sol Kyung-gu) is the husband and father who returns to South Korea after several years abroad, wanting to re-enter the lives of his wife Soon-nam (Jeon Doyeon) and young daughter Ye-sol (Kim Bo-min), who was too young back then to now recognise her father.

Soon-nam is totally broken from the death of Su-ho, and has never forgiven Jung-il for not being there during her darkest hour, and immediately asks for a divorce.

Jung-il is totally unprepared for the stifling, destroyed world Soonnam lives in (she even intermittently picks on or ignores Ye-sol), and his awkward attempts to console are frequently wrongheaded,

Lee carefully concentrates on what each character says and does (or doesn’t), and how they interact with people who are either trying to help, or have suffered like them, and even quietly (but powerfully) incorporates real locations and memorials that families of the disaster visit.

This makes the finale all-themore emotionally overwhelming, as we see damaged people finally externalise their pain, openly acknowledging how much Su-ho’s death has devastated them.

This heart-wrenching catharsis eloquently follows the grimly measured drama that has proceeded it.

The acting is simply brilliant. Jeon (The Harmonium In My Memory, The Shameless, Ashfall, Beasts Clawing At Straws), who won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival for her searing performance in the magnificent 2007 film Secret Sunshine, totally immerses herself in what is a very demanding role, making Soonnam’s crippling grief wholly believable.

Sol (Peppermint Candy, Oasis, Idol) also impresses as Jung-il, while young Kim is perfect as Yesol. Lee Jong-eon has worked for a number of years for renowned filmmaker Lee Chang-dong (whose most recent film was the critically acclaimed Burning), as a script supervisor on Secret Sunshine, and as an assistant director on Poetry (2010); she also worked as an assistant director on Ounie Lecomte’s outstanding autobiographical feature, A Brand New Life (2009), which was produced by her mentor.

Birthday is certainly emotionally draining and demanding, but is an authentically human experience that deserves to be seen.

There have been a number of documentaries made on the Sewol disaster, including The Truth Shall Not Sink With Sewol (2014), After The Sewol (2017), Intention (2018), and In The Absence (2018), which received an Oscar nomination.

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RATING - ****

- Aaron Rourke

● ● La Mama CEO Caitlin Dullard with retiring CEO Dr Liz Jones.

Photo: Daniel Pockett

■ The first time I saw Tony Martin on-screen was in the Marx Brothers film The Big Store and I thought he was a wonderful singer.

Alvin Morris was born on Christmas Day in San Francisco in 1913. His family were Jewish and his grandparents had emigrated from Eastern Europe

He began playing the saxophone at the age of 10 and gained experience in an orchestra as a musician and singer.

Alvin had a beautiful singing voice and was a very tall, handsome young man.

In the 1930s he went to Hollywood to try his luck in films and changed his name to Tony Martin.

A regular radio spot led to a contract with 20th Century Fox Studios. Tony appeared in a small role in the 1936 film Follow The Fleet

His other films during the late 1930s included Pigskin Parade with Judy Garland, Poor Little Rich Girl and Ali Baba Goes to Town with Eddie Cantor

He married Alice Faye in 1937 but the marriage only lasted for four years.

Tony had his first hit song in 1938 when he recorded I Hadn't Anyone Till You with Ray Noble and his orchestra.

In 1941 he moved to MGM and was cast opposite The Marx Brothers in the classic comedy film The Big Store .

During the war years Tony served in the Navy and the Army . He sang for the troops with The

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Glenn Miller Band in several concerts and was popular with Glenn Miller and his band members.

Whilst in India he formed a concert party from the Army personnel and put on shows.

In 1948 he married Cyd Charisse who became a famous dancer through her musical films at the MGM studios.

Cyd Charisse later appeared at Her Majesty's Theatre in Melbourne in 1972 for a season of the stage musical No No Nanette

His films included Deep In My Heart, Two Tickets To Broadway, Till The Clouds Roll By, Easy To Love and Hit the Deck.

In the post-war years Tony appeared at the London Palladium.

He had 14 top ten hit songs in his career.

Tony Martin performed concerts in Australia and my mate Ian Maurice, from 4BC in Brisbane, became a friend of Tony in 1965 when he played Chequers Nightclub in Sydney

Ian kept in touch with Tony over the years and caught up with him during a later visit to the US

After his film career finished Tony concentrated on his cabaret act and sometimes performed with Cyd.

His last on-screen appearance was in 1982 in a German-made film titled Mr Wonderful. Melbourne singer Max Blake is a huge fan of Tony Martin.

Tony continued working up until the day he died and his voice remained in great shape. Tony Martin passed away from natural causes at the age of 98 in 2012, four years after his beloved wife Cyd Charisse

They were married for 60 years. Tony is survived by Nico Charisse, his adopted son from Cyd's first marriage. His son with Cyd Charisse, Tony Martin Jnr died in 2011.

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

FACES IN UNUSUAL PLACES AT PHOTO MUSEUM

■ Madeline Bishop asked 10 people to be photographed together. Though these subjects were all known to the artist, they were strangers to each other.

Their instruction was to press together as if they were dough expanding and morphing to make themselves fit into a rectangle bread tin.

Bishop photographed this scene o ver and over revealing minute changes over time.

As the session progressed bodies settled into the nooks of each other’s bodies and found dew spaces to press again.

Exhibition closes May 1.

100 Faces

brings together 100 works drawn from over 50 artists and three photographic collections to explore the portrait in its many forms, as well as what it means to collect portraits both publicly and privately>

Exhibition closes May 8.

Museum of Australian Photography |

860 Fer4ntree Gully Rd. Wheelers Hill

At Covent

Archiving The Epthemeral -Artist in Residence. Leisa Shelton. will bring together the completed bodies of work spanning over 30 years of Shelton’s practice.

The exhibition is the major outcome of Shelton’s artist in residence at the Abbotsford Convent, it is a world first, and the only time one full collection has been seen,

Five major works, Mapping, Archive, and Scribe, Addendum and Performing the Archive will come together in an exhibition, series of live appearances and opportunities for audiences to participate in the work.

Each of these responsive works focuses on the need for grater visibility, recognition and honouring of hundreds of Australian experimental artists, through the voices of the audience.

Exhibition closes April 22.

Abbotsford Convent Gallery

St Heliers St, Abbotsford

MPRG

Creation – Deborah Kelly

Creation is a sprawling, evolving

The Arts

per objects, Julie Blyfield, a South Australian metal artist with a practice spanning 35 years, investigates the unique red seaweed found only along the coast of southern Australia.

By researching, photographing, and sketching marine algae, Blyfield gained an understanding of each of the specimens, which were the inspi- ration for the 15 worsk commissioned and presented by Samstag Museum of Art in 2022

Exhibition closes May 21.

Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery

Cnr Dunn’s Rd & Mornington

Tyabb Rd, Mornington

Linden New Art

Three New Exhibitions

Kate Just, Neil and Abdul Rahman Abdullah

Milestone for Carol Burnett

artwork in the form of a queer science fiction climate change religion by artist Deborah Kelly.

Built through collaborations between artists and communities Creation offers ways to gather and commune – a counterpoint to the natural disasters and plagues and leadership failures of our era.

Drawn from politics, evidence, mysticism and collectivity Creation is developed through a multi-venue series of cross-disciplinary projects, public brainstorms and participatory performances.

Exhibition closes May 21.

★

Standing on the Inside – Mike Green (Prints 1980 – 1881)

Mile Green is an accomplished contemporary artist who lived on the Mornington Peninsula for over 40 years. This exhibition reveals a selection of captivating screenprints from an extensive print archive recently donated by the artist.

The prints depict a range of interior scenes from run sown Australian homesteads to beach boxes, highlighting Green’s technical experimentation and skill in the medium and preoccupation with light, space and our environment.

Exhibition closes May 21.

★ Flowers of the Sea – Julie Blyfield

In a new body of large scale cop-

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

As a queer feminist, artist teacher, advocate, activist and parent with who dedicates a lot of time working in the art world and real-world contexts to generate social and political change.

Neil – Sydney-based artist, Neil, 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.

Abdul-Rahman Abdullah is presenting a suite of 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 modern-day Australia.

Exhibition closes June 4.

- Peter Kemp

■ Carol Burnett turns 90 years of age on April 26. Carol was presenter of her own TV show that ran between 1967 -1978 and was awarded a total of 25 Emmy Awards including first female to host a TV variety sketch show. What a legend.

Det. Chief Inspector on the case

■ Brenda Blethyn, or as you most likely know her as Vera, the main character in the ABC TV series of same name is almost certain to sign on for a further series. Her off- beat persona rates exceptionally well in Australia as she solves case after case wearing that daggy, old raincoat.

Brooke Shields drops a bomb

■ Brooke Shields told the New Yorker magazine about an incident she was involved in during her dating time with tennis player Andre Agasti. Brooke recalls how she was filming a sit com and Andre was in the audience. All sounds sweet as the lovebirds took in every moment. All of a sudden, Andre went berserk, stormed out, drove home and smashed contents of his prized trophy cabinet. Never a dull moment.

Reality show at starting gate

■ Secrecy surrounds a new reality TV series based on the age-old hidden camera technique. Series is intended for Australian screens for a family audience. Warner Brothers is involved in the production where contestants prank fellow contestants. Could be a ratings winner, even if a blast from the past.

Elvis Festival at Geelong

■ Overseas and local Elvis impersonators will take over Geelong for a two day festival to be held August 25, and 26 at the Sphinx Hotel, North Geelong - John O’Keefe

with Peter Kemp

OK. With John O’Keefe

● ● Tony Martin

● ● ● ● Carol Burnett

Stateside with Gavin Wood in West Hollywood

OZCAR AWARD PARTY ON THE GOLD COAST

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

Ozcar to Craig Bennett

■ The 2023 Ozcar has been presented to entertainment journalist, author, radio and television presenter Craig Bennett.

The Ozcar is a light-hearted but meaningful nod to Australian sporting, music, showbusiness personalities and celebrities that have contributed to developing and achieving creative links between Australia and the US

The award is managed in concert with the City of West Hollywood Council and Tourism West Hollywood.

Tourism West Hollywood President Tom Kiely welcomed the announcement. “When it comes to promoting our Hollywood showbiz links with Australia, Craig Bennett is our poster boy. His contribution is justifiably recognised with the 2023 Ozcar award.”

West Hollywood Mayor Lauren Meister, said: “We are delighted that Craig has been recognised with the 2023 Ozcar award. He has been a regular visitor to West Hollywood over the past 25 years to report on many of our most prominent showbusiness and entertainment celebrities.”

Alan Johnson, Managing Director Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites West Hollywood said: “Craig is a wonderful ambassador for all of Australia here in Los Angeles.”

Previous recipients include John Michael Howson (playwright, showbiz reporter), Molly Meldrum (music), entrepreneur Gerry Ryan (War Horse, Global Creatures, King Kong, Moulin Rouge), movie writer and director Michael Rymer (Angel Baby, Battlestar Galactica, Picnic at Hanging Rock), director Simon Wincer (Free Willy, PharLap, Lonesome Dove, The Man From Snowy River), composer and arranger Bruce Rowland (Picnic at Hanging Rock, Lightning Jack, All The Rivers Run), director Rod Hardy (December Boys, High Noon, Two forTexas, The Mentalist), radio and television personality, Gavin Wood, and Ron Barassi (sport).

Guests at the presentation included Gold Logie winners Hazel Phillips and Denise Drysdale, notable actors Christine Amor, Shanyn Asmar, Steven Tandy, Gregg Cave, Simon Gallaher, Maggie Kirkpatrick, Val Lehman, Gael Ballantyne and entertainers Normie Rowe, Brian Mannix, Russell Morris, Brian Cadd, Peter Cupples and Tony Worsley.

Craig Bennett is a self-confessed gossip tragic who’s been shamelessly nosing his way around the Hollywood and Australian showbiz scene for more than 40 years.

Over the decades Craig has interviewed a cavalcade of the world’s most famous showbiz stars including Angela Lansbury, William Shatner, Jane Fonda, Fran Drescher, Shelley Winters, John Travolta, Faye Dunaway, Mickey Rooney and Sammy Davis Jr.

“I love Hollywood because everything about it is larger than life. It’s glitzy, flashy, and deliciously trashy. Much like me,” he laughs. “And coming from Australia I am always warmly welcomed by all.”

Story: Tony Healey

Police numbers down

■ A 2022 survey showed that US police departments nationwide saw resignations jump by 18 per cent and retirements by 45 per cent over the previous year, with hiring decreasing by 5 per cent.

The Los Angeles Police Department has been losing 50 officers a month to retirement, more than the city can replace with recruits.

Oakland lost about seven per month in 2021, with the number of officers sinking below the city’s legally mandated minimum.

The list goes on: Chicago has lost more cops than it has in two decades. New Orleans is backfilling its shortfall of officers with civilians. New York is losing more police officers than it has since such figures began being recorded.

Minneapolis and Baltimore have similar stories. St Louis, one of the most dangerous cities in America, has lost so many cops that there’s a seven-foot-tall, 10-foot-wide pile of uniforms from outgoing officers at police headquarters called ‘Mount Exodus’.

And in San Francisco, just across the bay from Richmond, the police department has seen 50 officers out of a force of fewer than 2000 take off for smaller, suburban departments, according to Lieutenant Tracy McCray, the head of the city’s police union.

Out and About

Spotlight on extra fees

■ Junk fees “add up to hundreds of dollars a month,” President Joe Biden said in his State of the Union address. A Junk Fee Prevention Act would ban or reduce several of them but what are they? Ever book a hotel at what seems like a decent price, only to realise there’s also a “resort fee”? That’s a junk fee, an added cost that pops up when it’s time to pay. Some other examples: 1. Service fees when buying event tickets; one review found that sports tickets can rack up service, delivery, and other fees that amount to 50% of their face value. 2. Fees airlines charge for families to sit together. 3. Early termination fees for TV, internet, and phone services, which can exceed $200. 4. Hotel resort fees, which average $42 per night, cover amenities like Wi-Fi, gyms, and pools even if you don’t use them. It’s often hard to avoid these fees because they’re not included in the upfront price, and in some cases like when buying event tickets, buyers have few alternatives.

Trump circus

■ Former President Donald Trump’s appearance in the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse is the start of this particular legal battle in New York, with the exact charges against him unsealed.

He may be facing other more serious charges elsewhere.

Gavin Wood From my Suite at the Ramada Plaza Complex on Santa Monica Blvd

In Georgia, a grand jury investigated attempts by Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, and in Washington, D.C., the special counsel, Jack Smith, and the Justice Department are looking into his handling of classified documents and at efforts to reverse his election loss. Trump has insisted he is not guilty of criminal charges in the New York case, which he calls a “witch hunt” and which is being overseen by Justice Juan Merchan. After the proceeding, the former president is returning to Mar-aLago in Palm Beach, Florida. The indictment is the formal charge brought against someone after a grand jury agrees that there is sufficient evidence of a crime. The indictment against Trump includes 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.

$10m make-a-wish

■ On the release of the Ben Affleck directed movie ‘Air’ about Michael Jordan partnership with Nike the six-time NBA champion Michael Jordan is celebrating his 60th birthday by making a $10 million donation to Make-A-Wish.

It is the largest donation ever received from an individual in the organisation’s 43-year history. Jordan’s hope is that his decision to celebrate his birthday by donating to Make-AWish will inspire others to help fulfill the wishes of the kids still waiting for their wishes to come true.

“For the past 34 years, it’s been an honour to partner with Make-A-Wish and help bring a smile and happiness to so many kids,” Jordan said in a news release.

● ● ● ● Donald Trump

■ In this atmosphere a normal upstanding Republican or a normal accomplished conservative would beat whatever the Democratic ticket is. It is only Mr Trump who would surely lose. He lost in 2020 by seven million votes with a growing economy and no inflation and that was before the events of January 6. America isn’t going to elect him again. They’re not going to let that guy back in that house. Because everyone knows it: Let Donald Trump back there and he’ll do a January 6 again. While his followers love America, he doesn’t. He likes it as far as it goes, appreciates it as the stage for his greatness, but beyond that Trump voters: Call an audible again. Look at the field and the facts, be strategic. Donald Trump, in the 2016 primaries, tended to win with about a third of the vote. In a field of 17 that was enough. It’s looking like the GOP field could be larger than expected in 2024, and of course Mr Trump could run again and win the nomination again. It will be easier for him if past Trump voters fail to think strategically, and if donors big and small don’t move early to support the rest of field.

“Witnessing their strength and resilience during such a tough time in their lives has truly been an inspiration.” Jordan, now the owner of the NBA’s Charlotte Hornets, first supported Make-A-Wish in 1989. He has granted hundreds of wishes to children all over the world and remains one of the most requested celebrity wish-granters. He was named Make-A-Wish Chief Wish Ambassador in 2008 for what the organisation called the “life-changing impacts he has had on wish kids and their families.” “I can’t think of a better birthday gift than seeing others join me in supporting Make-AWish so that every child can experience the magic of having their wish come true,” Jordan said.

Come to California

■ 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

● ● ● ● OZCAR recipient, Craig Bennett, Vicky O’Keefe and Brian Cadd. Photo: Picture: Linda Willmott.

Trump not looking great

Lovatts Crossword No 3

Across Across Down Down

148. Polluted shower (4,4)

149. Peru beast

150. Cambodia's ... Penh

152. Poisonous tree-snake

154. Midday sleep

157. Minor quarrel

158. Young frog

162. Soccer net

163. Saunters

166. Bright (future)

167. Soviet states (1,1,1,1)

169. Tennis great, Arthur ...

171. Home stereo (2-2)

172. Turkey's capital

173. Kingdom

175. Frenzied

176. Below

179. Travelling stagehand

180. Fashion sense

182. Anticipated arrival (1,1,1)

183. Universal age

184. Great sea

186. Supposition

189. Holy city

190. Distance runner

191. West African land

192. Guided (to seat)

196. Female horse

197. Spine part

198. Misbehaves (5,2)

199. Assignments

201. Picketing workers

202. Flat bun

203. The ... Tenors

204. Lesson

205. Sufficient

208. Large indefinite number

210. Flute category

211. ..., taut & terrific

212. Constantly busy (2,3,2)

213. Musical symbol

215. Chroniclers

219. Donkeys

221. Dot/dash code

223. Repainted (car)

227. Ape or monkey

228. Bestows (knowledge)

230. Elsewhere excuse

231. Nocturnal hours

232. Dealt with

233. More sacred

234. Least frank

238. Yeast

239. Hoped (to)

240. Complied, ... by the rules

243. Off correct path

246. Reporter

247. Moroccan port

250. Angry & flustered (3,2)

251. Refute

253. Unites

256. Alexander's ... Band

257. Frisks (about)

258. Rationally

262. ... & papa

263. Duchess of York

266. Calf flesh

268. Fine particles

269. Keep up

270. Tonic (4-2-2)

271. Unorthodox person

272. Football arbiter

273. River creature

274. Just a minute, wait a ...

275. Sang alpine-style

276. Prisoner's shackles (3,5)

277. Thaws

278. Poured

1. Portable lamp

2. Half-diameters

3. Steam burn

4. Cupid

5. Bold

7. Adversaries

8. Glorify

9. Boneless lamb cut

10. Peruse quickly

11. Lower

12. Man/beast

13. Slimmest

14. Sets alight

15. Dr Jekyll's alter ego (2,4)

16. ... & twos

17. Russian mountains

18. Actor, ... Murphy

19. Trifled 24. Conspire 26. Tied 30. Vexed 33. Loss of memory 34. Straighten again 35. Foreboding 38. Normally (2,1,4)

132. Gestures without words

133. Rock face recess

134. Explode

137. Longed (for)

138. Potato variety

141. Koran religion

142. Internet message

143. Long time

151. Hassle

153. Scottish children

155. Internal

156. Group of bees

159. Tank's weaponry

160. Boards

161. Tear jaggedly

164. Find fault with 165. Select band 168. Smudging 170. Ravenously 173. Recall 174. Familiarises

177. Insulin takers

178. Edge of highway

181. Stencil

185. Bidding sales

186. Teen idol (3,4)

187. Stretchy tape

188. Underwriter

193. Secret collector 194. Willingly 195. Feared greatly

200. Closing

201. System of drainage

206. Romantic US falls

207. Home for terminally-ill

208. Tiny amounts of time

209. Vigilantly 211. Tsar's wife

214. Naval escort ship 216. As a group (2,5)

217. Speaking publicly 218. Falters

220. Space film genre (3-2)

222. Radio acknowledgment 224. Mercury & Pluto

225. Born Free author, Joy ... 226. Optic orb

229. Cleaning agent, caustic ...

232. Meals list

235. Sticking quality

236. Bury (corpse)

237. Blue gem

241. Annoying

242. Aimless person

244. Game hunter

245. Bowmen

248. Bigoted

249. Light-rail car

251. Please reply (1,1,1,1)

252. Smiled brightly

253. Humid

254. Writer, ... Dahl

255. On a par

259. Rink

260. Decree

261. Coupled

262. Inconsiderable

264. Colony insects

265. Copied

267. Frilly fabric

Crossroads

By Rob Foenander info@countrycrossroads com.au

Where Our Hearts Live

■ Australian country instrumentalist Anthony Baxter has released his latest single, Where Our Hearts Live. The talented young guitarist has already made his mark since breaking into the industry in 2018. Musical collaborations and numerous local and international awards have been the order of the day since joining forces with his mentor Lindsay Butler from LBS studios Tamworth. The single is from his forthcoming album. More info at facebook.com/ anthony.baxter3

Little Country Store

■ Merelyn Carter and Craig Lloyd have combined for a new song. The single Little Country Store is inspired by the unforgettable nostalgic experience of the Taggerty General Store and its colourful owners. The shop stands sentinel as the lifeblood of a town of yesteryear, where everything else is long since abandoned. The building is old, in need of a little repair, but its essence stays strong, even in the face of modern-day change says David Cater of Crestway Productions, Kinglake.

Memo Mothers Day

■ A feast of jazz featuring some of the finest local singers and musicians will take to the stage at Memo Music Hall, St Kilda, on Mothers Day. Nina Ferro, Nichaud Fitzgibbon and Julie O’Hara will front what’s been described as the hottest swinging quartet around. Showtime 3pm and tickets at trybookings.com

‘ROLLING THUNDER VIETNAM’

■ The rock drama Rolling Thunder Vietnam will play in Victoria as part of a national tour, in Bendigo at the Ulumbarra Theatre on June 6, Frankston Arts Centre on June 8, and at the Palais Theatre, St Kilda on June 10 at 7.30pm.

The hand-picked ensemble includes Brittanie Shipway, Tom Oliver, Christian Charisiou, Jerrod Smith, Imogen Moore and Sam Richardson.

Described by producer Rebecca Blake as “a stellar cast of emerging young stars and exciting theatrical talents”, the performers will feature alongside some of Australia’s most renowned rock musicians in the biggest tour of the acclaimed production to date.

"From the time of its 2014 world premiere at QPAC in Brisbane, Rolling Thunder Vietnam has introduced a number of new talents to audiences throughout Australia

“The show is an original Australian work and I’m thrilled that we once again have such an exceptional cast,” Rebecca Blake said.

“Some names are already familiar, others are newcomers, and I can’t wait for our audiences to see them light up the stage in this uplifting and moving rock drama.”

Rolling Thunder Vietnam is inspired by the true stories of numerous Vietnam veterans and family members, extensive research and actual letters.

Written by journalist-writer

Bryce Hallett, directed by David Berthold, and with musical arrangements by Chong Lim , the production features songs by Steppenwolf, The Rolling Stones, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Curtis Mayfield, Gladys Knight, Billy Thorpe, Edwin Starrand Paul Simon.

They include Magic Carpet Ride, Fortunate Son, The Letter, Black Magic Woman, Help Me Make It Through the Night, War, People Get Ready, Killing Me Softly With His Song and Bridge Over Troubled Water.

Dr Brendan Nelson, the former Director of the Australian War Memorial, is Patron of the 2023 national tour, which is proudly supporting Soldier On, a not-for-profit organisation that provides integrated and holistic support services to Australia’s Defence personnel, contemporary veterans and their families.

Victorian Performances: June 6 at the Ulumbarra Theatre, Bendigo at 7.30pm; Frankston Arts Centre on June 8 at 7.30pm and the Palais Theatre, St Kilda on June 10 at 7.30pm.

Bookings and further information: www.rollingthunder vietnam.com

Yirramboi Fest.

■ The Yirramboi Festival will join with Arts Centre Melbourne for a diverse series of performances in-

cluding singer songwriter David Arden, a powerful live music tribute to healing and grief by Maylene Yinarr, and a mindful marketplace.

Arts Centre Melbourne First Nations Executive Director Troy Walsh (Panninher/Palawa) said: "In the local languages of the Boonwurrung and Woiwurrung peoples, Yirramboi means tomorrow. As a First Nations lead festival, Arts Centre Melbourne looks forward to ‘tomorrow; and is immensely proud to collaborate with Yirramboi as a culturally immersive experience for participants and audiences alike."

Yirramboi Festival Co-Lead / Creative Lead Sherene Stewart (Taungurung / Filipino) said: "Yirramboi plays host to a feast of mediums honouring the endurance of First Nations people and voyaging boldly into what is a Blak led future. Curated in celebration of Blak love, joy and excellence with a stellar line up of First Nations creatives."

On May 11-12 Meetra - Rise Up! The Ballad of James Arden will be performed at The Pavilion. Accomplished Gunditjmara/ Kokatha singer songwriter David Arden will bring together a deadly team of artists to perform a creative piece of powerful truth telling and warm heartfelt theatre.

Kutijika: Sngs Under the Evening Star will be be performed on May 13 in The Pavilion

Maylene Yinarr pays tribute to her late twin sister Marjorie who was given the sacred nam e Kutjika by their Uncle Kuk u Yalanji Elder, Edgar ‘Man’ Harris.

The performance is a tribute to the depth of healing and grief , where Sorry Business turns into healing business and features a thought-provoking collection of live music by leading First Nations musicians including Wemb a Wemba rapper Philly as well as Palawa and Piadram woman and The Voice Australia grand finalist, Kristal West.

In partnership with Mindful Mob, an online platform exploring philosophy, spirituality and mindfulness, this event will also feature The Mindful Mob Healing Markets – a marketplace showcasing local First Nations makers including Deadly Mob Services, Gomeroi spiritual healer Lee Couch, Gunai Kurnai healer Stevie Thorpe , Creed Custom Designs by Pitta Pitta and Gungari woman Minelle Creed.

Yirramboi festival platforms the interconnectedness and diversity of First Nations creatives, locally, nationally, and internationally. Returning for its fourth iteration from May 4-14. Yirramboi will again invite audiences to immerse themselves in its stories, truth, and way. For more information and bookings, visit: artscentr e melbourne.com.au

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YODELLED LEGIRONS DEFROSTS DECANTED

■ Leading bookmakers, Neds Betting, have framed an early market on the popular Doomben 10,000 , to be run over 1200 metres on Saturday, May 13.

Without a doubt if most of those at the top of the betting before nominations start, it will be a crackerjack field.

The Everest winner, Giga Kick, has been nominated as the one to beat, after yet another big run in the T.J.Smith Stakes at Randwick on April 1.

Giga Kick was down to run on April 15, in the All Aged Stakes in Sydney.

But with the Doomben a month nearly down the track he could have a crack at it.

Top jockey, Craig W illiams has been rebooked to ride him in the All Aged Stakes after recovering from injuries after a bad fall at Flemington.

Giga Kick’s run behind another top Melbourne galloper, I Wish I Win, in the T.J. was a ripper, and he is all class.

The 1200 metres in the Doomben in my book, suits him better, but he handles the reverse way of Sydney well.

On the second line for the Doomben is another smart sprinter is the James Cummings prepared, Aft Cabin, who atoned for a disappointing run at his previous outing with a solid win in the Arrowfield Sprint o ver 1200 metres at Randwick on a heavy track.

I felt he was down in class, in what he may meet here.

The big question on racegoers lips’ at the moment is ‘has Nature Strip had enough’.

The once world rated number one sprinter is going on nine years of age, but you can’t write him off.

His trainer Chris Waller said before his run in the T.J.Smith, he was back to his best, but he dropped out to finish fourth behind I Wish I Win, who came from last to win.

The question is: can you write him off.

The Newmarket Handicap winner, Sydney three-year-old filly In Secret failed to trouble them in the T.J.

I would say forget the run, she is all class, despite being the youngest, if she goes around here.

Next in the market is Lost and Running, a six-year-old, with John O’Shea, who has won nine of his 18 starts,and is good, but I think the others will be too good for him here.

Private Eye on his day is one f the best sprinters going around, but failed to fire in the T.J., but it was all class.

You have to give him another chance to atone, on his day he can put in hard.

The veteran, Eduardo, always gives on his best, but like Nature Trip, has reached his best, and will battle from here on.

Mazu, by the champion Japanese sire, Maurice, is one of the best sprinters going around as proven by his good third in the T.J.Smith.

He was beaten by two of the best young horses in Australia in Giga Kick , and I Wish I Win, on that occasion.

I will follow up on the Doomben Handicap when the picture is clearer with acceptances.

MVRC hits switch

■ The Moonee Valley Racing Club has revealed ambitions to become Australia’s most sustainable sports and entertainment precinct,

with plans to achieve carbon neutrality by 2027, taking a significant leap forward with the recent approval of critical development permits.

EARLY MARKET FOR THE DOOMBEN Ted Ryan

MVRC will undertake a whole-site approach to environmentally sustainable design throughout the master plan delivery.

The Club is targeting significant reductions in energy consumption across all facilities.

This will include the new grandstand, and clubhouse, which will consume at 20 per cent less energy than is required under building regulations.

Lighting upgrades will see LED lighting installed on the racetrack, further contributing to reduced energy consumption.

The upgrade and operational management will improve the efficiency of track lighting by 52 per cent.

This will save the Club $400,000 per year.

Over 3.5Kwh of grid energy is expected to be saved by generating and storing electricity on-site, saving almost 3000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually.

The announcement follows the unveiling of a master planned sports, community and lifestyle precinct designed within the existing racecourse land in one of the most significant urban regeneration projects in Australian history.

Modernisation of the racing precinct, construction of a multi-function grandstand and the creation of recreational, public facilities, within the racetrack in-field are key elements of the master plan.

This will bring vibrancy to Moonee Ponds and be a source of jobs and economic growth for generations to come.

“This is the most significant transformation in Moonee Valley Racing Club’s 140-year history,” said Moonee Valley Racing Club’s Chief Executive Michael Browell.

The landmark precinct will ensure Moonee Valley Racing Club’s relevancy amongst future generations of customers, and the broader community alike.

Permit approval for the racetrack upgrades and a revitalised maintenance precinct, have now been received, signifying an important marker for the 10-year project, as it moves into the delivery stage.

Racetrack upgrades include innovative techniques to improve water conservation on the site. This includes harvesting water from stormwater pipes and capturing all excess irrigation water from the track.

The Moonee Valley Racing Club estimates the in-field areas will provide a major water catchment source future stormwater harvester.

The sustainability initiatives planned will also allow the Moonee Valley Racing Club to target Green Star and EnviroDevelopment certification.

- Ted Ryan

at Flemington Racecourse on March 11. Photo by Brett Holburt/Racing Photos.

Stakes at Caulfield on Aug. 13.

Photo by Brett Holburt/Racing Photos

AGS WHITE SOCKS’ WARRAGUL CUP VICTORY

■ Former Kiwi 9Y0 gelding A GS White Socks who finished fifth behind Ultimate Sniper in the 2019 Alexandra Park Auckland Inter Dominion after winning two heats, was victorious in taking the $35,000 Downtowner Warragul Pacing Cup over 2627 metres on Sunday April 9.

Trained at Lara Jay Lodge Myrniong by Jess Tubbs assisted by husband Greg Sugars, A GS White Socks a $2.15 favourite making only his 95th race appearance (15 wins) looked the one to beat after Echuca Cup victor Pas Guarantee (gate three) worked overtime from gate two in an effort to cross roughie Wotdidusaaay inside him as polemarker Our Madiba momentarily held the front running.

No sooner had Pas Guarantee gained the lead, James Herbertson was off and running with Supreme Dominator (gate four) which had followed the trio and after a severe challenge, was unable to cross. Scott Ewen wasted no time and was off and running from one/one with Bulletproof Boy (gate five) to again test the leader which proved unsuccessfull leaving him parked with two circuits to travel.

Trying to get a breather which didn’t eventuate as Bailey McDonough immediately sent A GS White Socks forward from the tail with a lightning move only for Pas Guarantee to again try and resist the challenge which didn’t occur.

Striding clear at the bell, A GS White Socks which had done no work until mid-race, appeared to have the race at his mercy as the three favourites made the home turn together with Supreme Dominator which had been one/ one for the final lap three out.

Challenged by Bulletproof Boy who gave his all halfway up the running, A GS White Socks had to pull out all stops to stall him off, with Supreme Dominator surging late.

It was anyone’s guess on hitting the wire with most suggesting the Supreme Dominator got the decision, however the verdict went to A GS White Socks by a nose, with Bulletproof Boy running the race of his life for third a half head away in what was almost a triple dead-heat.

By Rock N Roll Heaven from Atomic Gold, A GS White Socks raced by a large ownership headed by former trainer Greg Hope in quarters of 30.2, 30.9, 29.1 and 28.3 after a lead time of 74.8 seconds, returned a mile rate of 1-56.9 equaling the track record set by Perfect Stride in 2021.

■ The time honoured $20,000 Eddie Evison Memorial Warragul Trotters Cup over the same distance from the stand saw Romsey trainer/ driver Chris Svanosio successful with 7Y0 Orlando Vici-Bohemian Queen gelding Brandlo Prince in a rate of 2-03.3.

Raced by a large syndication including Chris’ father Peter and form guru Darren Carroll, Brandlo Prince the only handicapped runner (30m) first up since December bided his time at the back of the field after both Sonny Brook and Naked Ambition galloped hopelessly shortly after the start and were tailed off with Get Lucky (barrier two) arresting the lead away from old timer Kheiron (barrier three) shortly after the start.

With no speed on through the middle stages, Brandlo Prince was sent forward racing for the bell to join the leader and in a punishing finish, raced away over the concluding stages to score by 14.3 metres in a mile rate of 2-03.9 over Get Lucky, with Kheiron showing a return to form third 3.2 metres back. It was Brandlo Prince’s 15th victory in 82 outings.

■ It was so disappointing for the Warragul Club that the Cup being the main race of the season was shunted to Sky 1 due to a minor race at the Mudgee (NSW) gallops running almost four minutes late. This once again shows NSW gallops unfrortunately control Sky.

M’borough Monday

■ At Maryborough on Monday, long time participant Coimadai’s Graeme Whittle was successful with honest 6Y0 Majestic Son-Melpark Sunrise mare Amunet in the VHRC – Aldebaran Park Benefiting Our Members Trotters Mobile over 1690 metres.

Trained and driven by Graeme, Amunet (gate four) led virtually throughout to register an easy 10.2 metre margin in advance of Astro (one/two – three wide home turn) returning a mile rate of 2-03.2. Kyvalley Paint after settling

Harness Racing

Strathfieldsaye produced an unbelievable performance to capture the 4th Heat of the Park Douglas Printing Pace over 1790 metres. Driven by Tayla French, Didshedoit galloped away from gate three as the mobile pulled away settling at the rear of the field.

Looking to have little chance at the bell with the field ahead of her, Didshedoit must have made the final bend five wide but still a long way off the leaders before swooping down the outside fence to record a runaway 6.4 metre victory in 2-01.9 over Beaudacious (three wide last lap from mid-field) and Apache Wind (one/ three – three wide last lap) who was 2.9 metres back.

Sulky Snippets Sulky Snippets

This Week

■ Wednesday – Shepparton, Thursday –Melton, Friday – Maryborough/Mildura, Saturday – Mildura (Cup), Sunday – Cranbourne, Monday – Horsham, Tuesday – Shepparton.

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six pegs from inside the second line was sent forward to race outside the winner before finishing third a neck back. The mile rate 2-03.2.

■ Great Western’s Peter Manning landed the VHRC Aldebaran Park Benefiting Our Members 2Y0 Trotters Mobile over 1690 metres with Father Patrick-Courtesy Chancery filly Cadence Lane who was making her race debut.

With Jason Ainsworth in the sulky, Cadence Lane trotting to perfection from gate five on the back of the first start leader Atego Robbo (gate three), Cadence Lane after easing away from the inside on turning shifted abruptly to the outside of the track but still scored by 6 metres from Centurion Dream (four pegs) in a rate of 2-03.3. Atego Robbo held third 9.9 metres away.

■ Bolinda trainer Brent Lilley’s 5Y0 SkyvalleyKyvalley Café mare Kyvalley Honeybunny bred and raced by long term client Jim Connelly was the victor of the 2190 metre VHRC – Aldebaran Park Benefiting Our Members Trotters Mobile.

With stable reinsman Chris Alford in the sulky, Kyvalley Honeybunny was taken back when caught wide from the extreme draw to settle at the tail as Aldebaran Stevie led from gate four. Set alight racing for the bell with a brilliant turn of speed to lead for the last lap, Kyvalley Honebunny defied all challengers to greet the judge by 10.5 metres over Aldebaran Stevie and Silent Reverie (gate two) which followed the pair. The mile rate 2-03.5.

■ Harkness trainer Joanne Justice combined with brother Lance to capture the VHRC Super Bonus Program Country Clubs Championship (heat three) over 2190 metres with lightly raced 4Y0 Devilish Smile-Our Skinny Maree gelding Ooh Ah Listah.

Crossing My Ultimate Billy which had flown away from gate five shortly after the start, Ooh Ah Listar (gate two) raced by Steve Lister was rated a treat by Lance even though the time of 1-57.9 was fast and just lasted by nose over My Ultimate Billy along the sprint lane in a tricky finish.

Tiger Band Wagon after shifting to the sprint lane on turning from mid-field was held up all the way to the wire when third 4.5 metres back.

Prelude to Cup

■ Mildura raced on Tuesday as a prelude to the big pacing cup carnival over three nights the following week with the $12,000 feature being the 2190 metre Happy 13th Birthday Michael Valvo Pace taken out by Irymple trainer Boris Devcic’s 7Y0 Modern Art-Lavra Chloe gelding Nationaldraft which recorded his 16th victory in 97 outings. Driven by Bendigo’s Tayla French, Nationaldraft possied one/one from gate five following Urabadboy (gate four) as United led from gate two.

When the hot favourite Rick Reilly after being restrained from inside the second line to go forward with two laps to travel, Nationaldraft came out ahead of him to join the pacemaker before being eased to take the perfect trail as Rick Reilly shadowed the leader.

Poised to pounce in the final circuit, Nationaldraft did exactly that on turning to blouse Rick Reilly by 2.7 metres in a mile rate of 1-59.

Old timer Bernie Winkle came from the tail to finish third 6.4 metres back.

■ Kiwi bred Terror To Love-Whitewash 5Y0 mare Didshedoit trained by Julie Douglas at

Small 6-card event

■ A rather small six race card was held at Geelong on Wednesday with Terang (Ecklin South) reinsman Mattie Craven taking the honours. Four year old Muscle Hill-Glenferrie

Dash gelding Hautacam landing the Jack Powles Memorial Trotters Handicap over 2570 metres and 5Y0 Artspeak-Carpal Puzzle mare Sheza Daydreama the 2100 metre Searoad Ferries Pace.

Hautacam raced by a large syndicate stepped cleanly from 20 metres to assume control within a lap and defied all challengers to register a 5.9 metre victory in a rate of 2-04.5 over Next Thru (30m first up since May 2021) which raced outside him from the bell.

Polemarker Lavengers Boy battled on well after leading to finish third a head away. Sheza Daydreama trained by partner Amy Day settled one/one from gate four before going forward three wide to cross the leader Powerlinc at the bell.

Although shifting ground on turning, Sheza Daydreama safely held Damysus which had raced exposed before shifting down to the back of the leader approaching the home turn at bay scoring by 1.3 metres, with Azterian (one/two) third 8.1 metres back. The mile rate 1-58.6.

■ Berringa co-trainers AJ & Beau Tindale captured the Devcon Properties Pace over 2100 metres with Illawong Awesome, a 5Y0 daughter of Mach Three and Miss Astronomical. Driven by Bailey McDonough, Illawong Awesome showed great speed to lead from gate four and allowed to run, greeted the judge easily by 14.3 metres from Vapar Brenda which trailed from the pole returning a mile rate of 157.1. Shardonant a stablemate of the winner was third eased wide from three pegs on the home turn to finish third 2.4 metres back.

Charlton review

■ Charlton also raced on Wednesday and 7Y0 Shadyshark Hanover-Dance With Mia gelding Atego Shades bred by Janine Pitt and mother Margaret Hucker notched up his 13th success in 112 outings when taking the Gunawarra (Black Swan) Pace over 1609 meres at the annual indigenous day.

Trained and driven by Dunnstown’s David Murphy for wife Erin, Atego Shades began fast from gate three as he usually does, but couldn’t cross the polemarker Im Eugene before angling to his back.

Using the sprint lane, Atego Shades scored by 2.1 metres over Im Eugene, with Dream Asset (gate two) third a nose away racing exposed. The mile rate 1-58.3.

■ Tasmanian based trainer Ben Yole who’s team are based in Kilmore under the care of Robbie Walters snared the trifecta in the Fitzpatrick Transport Pace over 1609 metres when 7Y0 Always A Virgin-Celebrity Lass gelding Always A Celebrity defeated Southern GNP and Ideal Investment in 1-59.1.

Driven by Ellen Tormey, Always A Celebrity led from gate four before allowing Ideal Investment to cross from outside the front line. Enjoying a sweet trip, Always A Celebrity came away from the inside on the home turn and finished best to prevail by 2.2 metres from Southern GNP (three pegs – outside leader from the bell), with Ideal Investment 5 metres away third.

■ It was a local victory to the 1609 metre WAA (Australian Raven) Pace with Mark and Janice Boyle’s 5Y0 Tell All-Slap On A Hat gelding Yapper victorious.

Driven by Ewa Justice, Yapper trained by Mark began fast from gate five to lead and rated to perfection couldn’t be caught, greeting the judge by 1.1 metres from polemarker Tossu p which trailed angling outside him on the home turn. Rock Phone (one/one) was third a half head away. The mile rate 1-56.

Shepp. respect

■ Shepparton raced on Thursday with the club paying respect to young NSW reinsman Nic Dewar who was tragically killed in a car accident on the way home from a Shepparton meeting a few years back.

The Nic Dewar Memorial consisted of two races over 2190 metres for invited concessional reinspersons from Victoria and NSW (Riverina area) taking part. A further two races will be held at Young on Tuesday April 18.

The first race saw NSW based Blake Micallef victorious aboard the Alex Ashwood (Bendigo) trained ex-Kiwi 5Y0 Art MajorSparks Under Fire mare Major Fire in 1-59.1. Taken back to the rear from outside the front line, Major Fire circled the field in the last lap, running home well in the straight to score by 3.4 metres from Feels Lika Boss (Grace Bilney) along the sprint lane after trailing the poleline leader Tropical Storm (Corey O’Donoghue) which held third 5 metres away.

The second race went to Charlton trainer Shane Sanderson’s 3Y0 DownbytheseasideLonnie Franco gelding Ourmatemenko (Grace Bilney) in 1-58.9. Enjoying a cosy trip on the back of the leader Heavensway (gate fourJames Locke), Ourmatemenko also used the sprint lane to gain the day by 2.5 metres over Heavensway, with Alfresco (Blake Micallef) third 3.1 metres back after following the pair from the pole.

■ Extremely talented 4Y0 Yankee Spider-Bold Invasion gelding Sheetweb Weaver returned to the winners list after winning the 2190 metre Neatline Homes Pace for Chiltern trainer Peter Romero.

Restrained by regular driver Cameron Maggs to settle at the rear from gate six, Sheetweb Weaver commenced a forward three wide in the back straight on the final occasion to join the leaders One Muscle Hill (gate four) and Menewa which had gone forward from midfield mid-race to park outside the leader.

With three in line on turning, Sheetweb Weaver raced clear in the straight to record an impressive 9.8 metre margin over Menewa in 2-02.3. One Muscle Hill held third 17.1 metres back.

Tackled by favourite

■ Bendigo was Friday’s venue and Avene l trainer/driver Juanita Breen’s very reliable 6Y0 Skyvalley-Golden Wahine mare Golden Sunset was victorious in the $10,000 Bendigo Locksmiths Trotters Mobile over 2150 metres. Going forward from gate five to cross and lead, Golden Sunset travelled beautifully at the head of affairs. Although tackled by the hot favourite Bitta Irish Luck (gate three) on turning after trailing, Golden Sunset easily held her at bay to register a 1.4 metre margin, with Majestic Pride (death – last – death – four pegs – three wide on turning) third 16.8 metres away. The mile rate 2-01.3.

■ Aroha Koe was relegated in the Halloween Dual Code Meeting Trotters Mobile . - Len Baker

with Len Baker

Pain Relief Magic from Europe

■ Health practitioner Michael Nixon-Livy has the reputation internationally as ‘the man with the magic hands’.

He has returned to Australia after assignments that have seen him practise in clinics in France, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Italy and Belgium.

In addition to his teaching commitments, Michael and wife Jo have settled at Macleod where they are raising their two young daughters, aged 6 and 3.

Michael is enthusastic about sharing his services with a method that he developed in the 1990s.

The method - which he says is particularly effective is treating back pain and neck pain - involves a stand-out technique, that Michael teaches to other health professionals including chiropractors and osteopaths.

The technique is gentle contact with points in the body that alerts the body to re-set. The same points that link physical issues in the body, can also affect the emotional operation of the body.

Michael says it is quite an empowering process to assist people re-set their own emotional status and nervous system.

This looks after the whole person in integfrated systematic ways.

Michael labels his care as a ‘ Neurostructural Integration Technique’ (NST), and says that leading health authorities believe it to be the world’s premier ‘handson’ technique.

His aim always is for pain removal and rejuvenation.

“Using highly specialised softtissue manipulation, NST is able to reset the body’s muscle tensional system causing safe, natural auto regulation to occur within the spinal column and its structures, therby rapidly eliminating pain and symptoms, while restoring postural integrity and vitality.

“Typically an NST session induces deep relaxation followed by profound and often miraculous results.

“Clinical research has confimred that even in chronic cases, more than 80 per cent of NST recipients are symptom free in 1-5 sessions.

“Safe for all conditions and age groups, an NST session may last anywhere from 5 minutes to 45 minutes, depending on the individual’s presenting symptoms.”

Appointment fees are $200, which are often fully or partly refundable by some health insurers.

Conditions that respond well to NST include:

■ Back pain, neck pain and all spinal conditions.

■ Leg, knee, ankle and foot conditions.

■ Shoulder, elbow, wrirst and hand conditions.

■ Headaches including migraines.

■ Cranial conditions including whiplash.

Speedy pain relief

■ Arthritis and joint conditions.

■ Accident and sporting injuries.

■ Digestive and intestinal conditions.

■ Asthma and respiratory conditions.

■ Menstrual, fertility and menopausal conditions.

■ Pre and post-natal conditions.

■ Infant and child conditions.

■ Acute and chronic fatigue.

■ Stress conditions and emotional depression.

Michael says that natural law dictates that the body will intelligently reverse patterns of imbalance and dysfunction based on its inherent resources to do so.

As lifestyle irregularities undoubtedly have their consequences for our health, each individual’s response to NST is an honest expression of their body’s unique state of wellbeing.

■ Pain removal and rejuvenation are key at NST Health.

Practitioner Michael NixonLivy says an inspiration for his practice was the life work of Tom Bowen from Australia and Major Bertrand DeJarnette from USA, who he describes as “two greats” in the Sprinal Integration field, using Advanced Kinesiology.

Michael says he was able to isolate then integrate the intrinsic elements of both men’s work into a new Spinal Integration super technique called NST.

Since its European launch in 1996, NST has grown to become a global phenomena in the spinal, sporting and natural health fields.

Michael says that temporary corrective responses may be experienced as the body returns to balance, such as tiredness, general body aches, toxic and emotional releases all of which should be regarded in a very positive therapeutic light.

Michael was born in Melbourne in 1954. He holds qualifications in Osteopathy, Psychology, Applied Physiology, Bowen Therapy , Science and Art.

He is founder of the highly acclaimed Neurostructural Integration Technique - NST and has travelled the world teaching NST to groups of chiropractors, osteopaths, pyshiotherapists, manual therapists and a variety of other health professionals.

Michael encourages people to take control of their health.

As a member of the Australian Traditional Medical Society, he is keen to guide his clients, and also offers counselling. He is registered to provide this service, holding a Diploma.

● ● Michael Nixon-Livy with wife Jo at NST Health.

● ● ● ● Michael Nixon-Livy treats patients at NST Health in Macleod.

● ● ● ● Michael Nixon-Livy

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WELL WORTH THE CHEMO

■ Michael Shafar spins a modern take on oldschool-style stand-up.

Think jokes with a great build-up and foreshadowing, followed by a terrific punchline.

To a packed opening house audience, Shafar kicks off with his recent marriage and invites some audience participation.

A couple in the front row oblige and become part of the show.

Like an Aussie Seinfeld, Shafar is such a likeable character onstage; he makes it all seem so easy.

With this new show, Shafar has added a PowerPoint presentation.

Phone contracts, clubbing in your 30s, drunk driving, hangovers, bedtime routines, and premature ejaculation, all these disparate elements come together effortlessly.

Not afraid to tackle controversy, religion, racism, and bigotry prove a goldmine for Shafar’s jokes.

A musing on colonisation turns into a joke about the six degrees of separation between Hitler and the late Queen and Comedy Festival staple Pauline Hanson.

The joke lingers all the more poignantly, knowing that Shafar’s grandparents are Holocaust survivors.

Shafar is proof of Mark Twain’s adage that tragedy plus time equals comedy.

Except in Shafar’s case, he skipped the time part and turned what to anyone else would have been a tragic cancer diagnosis into a rich mine for comedy.

Cancer and Shafar’s experience as a cancer survivor are enduring themes in his comedy routine and prove to be another rich seam for some outstanding jokes.

A joke about a naturopath leads to antivaxxers and a Palestinian anaesthetist delivered at lightning speed.

Great set-up, great banter, great gags, and rapid-fire delivery.

As one of Shafar’s oncologists summed up, "Great show, Michael. You were well worth the chemo."

- Review by Kathryn Keeble

Sense and Sensibility

■ After a sold-out opening night, CPP Community Theatre presents Sense and Sensibility until April 22 at the Boronia K-12 College Performing Arts Centre.

Adapted by Kate Hamill, based on the novel by Jane Austen and directed by Kathryn White, this amusing play is set in the English countryside, following the fortunes and misfortunes of the Dashwood sisters, as they navigate their way t hrough life and love, accompanied by a colourful cast of characters.

In this production, Jane Austen's classic novel gets a theatrical re-imagining.

Performance Details: April 20, 21 at 8pm, April 22 5pm.

Venue: Boronia K-12 College, Performing Arts Centre, Albert Avenue. (Entrance and parking at Rangeview Rd., Boronia)

All tickets are General Admission. Prices: $29/$27/$80 (Family two adults, two children)

Ticketing Link: https:// www.trybooking.com/CGHZK

- Cheryl Threadgold

Grey Arias

■ Grey Arias is a delightful melange of comically tragic, intimately personal yet publicly theatrical dissection of social mores and pretensions.

Co-creators and cast duo, Adrienne Truscott and Le Gateau Chocolat eviscerate the elitism, racism, misogyny ... you name it, they tackle it .. attitudes prevalent in society. What they reveal is that contradictions abound.

Le Gateau’s entrance as Cio-Cio-San from Madame Butterfly epitomises the absurdity they explore. We cross boundaries of gender, expectation, propriety . . . you name it, they cross it .... because Le Gateau is a tall, cross-dressing drag queen of African descent. (Oh, but what a voice)

No less challenging is Truscott stripping naked and shattering the image of the beloved orphan from the musical Annie.

The high culture of an Italian writing sub-

lime music about a white colonialist fathering a child with a 15-year-old who then takes the offspring for his barren wife clearly defies current political correctness but is regularly staged. In Truscott’s hands, Annie becomes a cabaret.

The theatrical risks these two performers take is also astonishing. What the audience finds uproariously hilarious one minute, is undercut by personal revelations from the two challenging us to truly question our attitudes and values. Their experiences of rape and racial vilification are very real and, more importantly, lie just beneath the surface of polite society.

Their stagecraft is also deft and simple with co-director and dramaturg, John Jarboe, advising here. A ladder cart becomes a staging platform. Projections of text messages add subtext. A geisha wig becomes a cradled infant.

Truscott and Le Gateau know what they can create using such rudimentary props but it is their intimate knowledge of the other that allows them to create character but then switch to the personal making the confidential all the more powerful.

Beneath the humour lies the tragedy. Truscott and Le Gateau are worthy ambassadors of this year’s Melbourne Comedy Festival.

Presented at The Malthouse.

- Review by David McLean

Molly Sweeney

■ Heidelberg Theatre Company presents Molly Sweeney by Brian Friel from April 21May 6 at 36 Turnham Ave., Rosanna.

Directed by Joan Moriarty, Molly Sweeney is set in the 1990s in Ballybeg, County Donegal. The play explores the relationship between the blind Molly Sweeney, her husband Frank and her ophthalmologist Mr Rice, who performs a successful operation to restore Molly's sight.

The play is related as shards of memory, as each character recalls the lead-up to the operation, the operation itself, and the dramatic impact that Molly’s response to her new sightedness had on all of them.

While the two men believed the gift of sight would be nothing short of a miracle, Molly finds her new world threatening and overwhelming and withdraws from it.

The cast includes Alexandria Page (Molly Sweeney), Matt Biscombe (FrankSweeney) and Chris McLean (Dr Rice).

Performance Details: April 21 - May 6 Venue: Heidelberg Theatre, 36 Turnham Ave., Rosanna Bookings for Matinees and Evening Performances: htc.org.au

- Cheryl Threadgold

Around Euroa

■ Once a familiar figure riding his penny-farthing bicycle around the City of Kingston, Bruce Hargrave now lives mostly in north-eastern Victoria in his beloved town, Euroa.

His latest book Around Euroa, Watercolours, with Foreword by Trevor Chappell of ABC Radio, will be launched on Thursday, April 27 from 2.30pm-5pm at the Euroa Library. Hosted by the Friends of Euroa Library, afternoon tea will be provided, and all proceeds from book sales at the launch go to the Strathbogie Landcare 'tea towels for trees' projects.

Bruce says: "The purpose of the book was to record Euroa’s significant and beautiful buildings in water colour as they stand at this moment in history. Additionally I wanted to capture some of the timeless beauty of the hills and landscape."

Bruce knows Euroa well, having lived and worked in the town from the late 1970s into the '80s as Vice-Principal of Euroa Primary School. His late wife Suzie was the Art teacher. Bruce then developed his Riding Through Time, History of the Bicycle school incursion which he took all over Victoria for a decade.

"Euroa is a delightful small country town which basks in the glory of the beautiful Balmattum Hill and Sevens Creek," says Bruce.

"It is a joy for the water colour artist with such an abundance of gorgeous landscape." Around Euroa, Watercolours costs $35 and is available from The Hub Euroa, the information centre in the main street. Or contact 0400 414 547. - Cheryl Threadgold

Local Football

ANZAC weekend games

■ There is plenty of activity with local football resuming across the state. Here are fixtures for the ANZAC Weekend round:

Amateurs

■ Premier Men’s. Saturday, April 22. Old Brighton v Old Haileybury. Old Scotch v Collegians.St Kevin’s v Caulfield Grammarians. Old Xavierians v Old Melburnians. University Blues v University Blacks.

■ Premier B Men’s. Saturday, April 22. Beaumaris v St Bedes/Mentone Tigers. Fitzroy v Williams-town CYMS. Monash Blues v Old Geelong. AJAX v Old Trinity. St Bernards v De La Salle.

■ Premier C Men’s. Saturday, April 22. Hampton Rovers v Ormond. Mazenod v Marcellin. Old Ivanhoe Grammarians v Old Camberwell Grammarians. PEGS v Parkdale Vultures. Old Carey: Bye.

■ Division 1 Men’s. Saturday, April 22. Old Peninsula v Glen Eira. Ivanhoe v Oakleigh. UHS-VU v Kew. Therry Penola v Preston Bullants. West Brunswick v Prahran.

■ Division 2 Men’s. Saturday, April 22. Brunswick v Old Yarra Cobras. Aquinas v St Mary’s Salesian. Old Paradians v South Melbourne Districts. Whitefriars v Bulleen. MHSOB v Parkside.

■ Division 3 Men’s. Saturday, April 22. Canterbury v Hawthorn. Elsternwick v Richmond Central. Power House v Wattle Park. La Trobe University v Swinburne University.

■ Division 4 Men’s. Saturday, April 22. Albert Park v Box Hill North. North Brunswick v Masala. Eley Park v St John’s.

Eastern

■ Premier League. Saturday, April 22. Park Orchards v East Ringwood. Norwood v Vermont. Rowville v Balwyn. Doncaster East v Doncaster. Berwick v Noble Park. Sunday, April 23. South Croydon v Blackburn.

■ Division 1. Saturday, April 22. South Belgrave v Wantirna South. Croydon v Beaconsfield. Mooroolbark v North Ringwood. Lilydale v Bayswater. Mitcham v Montrose.

■ Division 2. Friday, April 21. Heathmont v Ringwood. Saturday, April 22. The Basin v East Burwood. Upper Ferntree Gully v Templestowe. Mulgrave v Knox. Boronia v Waverley Blues.

■ Division 3. Saturday, April 22. Coldstream v Whitehorse Pioneers. Ferntree Gully v Donvale. Warrandyte v Silvan. Fairpark v Oakleigh District.

■ Division 4. Saturday, April 22. Forest Hill v Scoresby. Nunawading v Kilsyth. Surrey Park v Chirnside Park.

Essendon

■ Premier. Saturday, April 22. Greenvale v Strathmore. Keilor v Pascoe Vale. Maribyrnong Park v East Keilor. Essendon Doutta Stars v Airport West. Aberfeldie v Avondale Heights.

■ Division 1. Saturday, April 22. Craigieburn v Hillside. Moonee Valley v Keilor Park. Rupertswood v Roxburgh Park. St Albans: Bye. Tuesday, April 25. Glenroy v West Coburg. Westmeadows v Tullamarine.

■ Division 2. Saturday, April 22. Oak Park v Sunbury Kangaroos. East Sunbury v Taylors Lakes. Hadfield v Northern Saints. Burnside Heights v Coburg Districts.

Morn. Peninsula

■ Division 1. Saturday, April 22. Langwarrin v Bonbeach. Rosebud v Dromana. Frankston YCW v Frankston Bombers. Red Hill v Mt Eliza. Sorrento v Pines.

■ Division 2. Saturday, April 22. Karingal v Chelsea. Crib Point v Rye. Devon Meadows v Mornington. Seaford v Edithvale-Aspendale. Tyabb v Hastings. Pearcedale v Somerville.

Northern

■ Division 1. Saturday, April 22. Banyule v Hurstbridge. Greensborough v Bundoora. Whittlesea v Heid-elberg.

■ Division 2. Saturday, April 22. Panton Hill v Watsonia. Diamond Creek v Epping. Thomastown v South Morang. Lower Plenty

v Northcote Park. St Mary’s v Eltham.

■ Division 3. Friday, April 21. Heidelberg West v Fitzroy Stars. Saturday, April 22. Kilmore v Kinglake. Lalor v Old Eltham Collegians. Mernda v Laurimar.

Outer East

■ Premier Division. Saturday, April 22. Olinda Ferny Creek v Upwey Tecoma. Monbulk v Woori Yallock. Sunday, April 23. Mt Evelyn v Wandin.

■ Division 1. Saturday, April 22. Hallam v Belgrave. Emerald v Seville. Officer v Berwick Springs. Healesville: Bye.

■ Division 2. Saturday, April 22. Warburton Millgrove v Yarra Junction. Alexandra v Powelltown. Yarra Glen v Broadford. Millgrove v Yarra Junction. Alexandra v Powelltown. Yarra Glen v Broadford.

Southern

■ Division 1. Saturday, April 22. Port Melbourne Colts v Chelsea Heights. Cheltenham v Bentleigh. Cranbourne Eagles v Dingley. St Paul’s McKinnon v Mordialloc. Springvale Districts v St Kilda City.

■ Division 2. Saturday, April 22. Skye v Keysborough. East Malvern v Hampton Park. East Brightopn v Doveton Doves. Murrumbeena v Caulfield Bears. Highett v Black Rock.

■ Division 3. Saturday, April 22. Endeavour Hills v Ashwood. Heatherton v Carrum Pastterson Lakes. Clayton v Lyndhurst. Frankston Dolphins v Narre South Saints.

■ Division 4. Saturday, April 22. South Yarra v Dandenong. Moorabbin Kangaroos v Lyndale. South Mornington v Doveton Eagles.

Western Region

■ Division 1. Saturday, April 22. Altona v Spotswood. Caroline Springs v Point Cook Centrals. Point Cook v Yarraville Seddon Eagles. Tuesday, April 25. Werribee Districts v Hoppers Crossing.

■ Division 2. Saturday, April 22. Braybook v Albion. Newport v Parkside. Sunshine v Wyndhamvale.

■ Division 3. Saturday, April 22. North Sunshine v Laverton Magpies. Suns v Tarneit. West Footscray v Sunshine Heights.

COUNTRY

Geelong

■ Saturday, April 22. GW Giants v Anakie. East Geelong v North Geelong. Bell Post Hill v Werribee Central.Corio v Winchelsea. Belmont Lions v Thomson. Tuesday, April 25. Bannockburn v Inverleigh.

Goulburn

■ Saturday, April 22. Benalla v Tatura. Shepparton United v Mooroopna. Seymour v Euroa. Kyabram v Shepparton. Rochester v Echuca. Shepparton Swans v Mansfield.

Riddell

■ Saturday, April 22. Melton Centrals v Wallan. Riddell v Western Rams. WoodendHesket v Lancefield. Romsey: Bye.Tuesday, April 25. Macedon v Diggers Rest.

FINAL SIREN SCORES FROM SATURDAY’S FOOTBALL

■ Victorian Amateur Football Association. Premier Men’s. University Blues 10.19 (79) d Old Melburnians 9.7 (61). Old Scotch

13.19 (97) d Caulfield Grammarians 5.6 (36). Old Brighton 11.10 (76) d University Blacks

6.6 (42). St Kevins 7.12 (54) d Old Haileybury

7.11 (53). Collegians 13.7 (85) d Old Xavierians 10.8 (68).

Premier Men’s Reserves. University Blues 4.1 (25) d Old Melburnians 0.0 (0). Old Scotch 27.17 (179) d Caulfield Grammarians

2.4 (16). Old Brighton 9.17 (71) d University Blacks 0.6 (6). St Kevins 11.7 (73) d Old Haileybury 4.5 (29). Old Xavierians 2.3 (15) d Collegians 2.3 (15).

Premier B Men’s. St Bedes/Mentone Tigers 15.14 (104) d AJAX 9.10 (64). Fitzroy

15.16 (106) d Monash Blues 1.5 (11). Beaumaris 11.10 (76) d Old Geelong 9.9 (63). St Bernards 21.17 (143) d Williamstown CYMS

8.6 (54). De La Salle 12.15 (87) d Old Trinity

5.9 (39).

Premier B Men’s Reserve. St Bedes/ Mentone Tigers 12.8 (80) d AJAX 10.10 (70). Fitzroy 21.21 (147) d Monash blues 0.5 (5).

Beaumaris 7.8 (50) d Old Geelong 6.11 (47). St Bernards 11.7 (73) d Williamstown CYMS

3.12 (30). Old Trinity 10.11 (71) d De La Salle

3.5 (23).

Premier C Men’s. Old Ivanhoe Grammarians 12.10 (82) d Parkdale Vultures 9.11 (65).

Old Camberwell Grammarians 11.10 (76) d Old Carey 3.12 (30). Hampton Rovers 9.9 (63)

d Marcellin 5.13 (43).PEGS 12.10 (2) d Mazenod OC 4.6 (30).

Premier C Men’s Reserves. Old Ivanhoe Grammarians 10.5 (65) d Parkdale Vultures

7.11 (53). Old Camberwell Grammarians 13.4 (82) d Old Carey 8.12 (60). Marcellin v Hampton Rovers. Mazenod OC 8.19 (67) d PEGS

4.4 (28).

Division 1 Men’s. Old Peninsula 7.17 (59)

d Therry Penola 7.9 (51). Oakleigh 13.13 (91)

d Prahran 12.8 (80). UHS-VU 14.11 (95) d

Preston Bullants 6.10 (46). Ivanhoe 4.5 (29) drew with West Brunswick 4.5 (29). Glen Eira

4.6 (30) d Kew 0.6 (6).

Division 1 Men’s Reserves. Old Peninsula 18.10 (118) d Therry Penola 8.8 (56).

Oakleigh 7.12 (54) d Prahran 6.8 (44). UHS-

VU 8.14 (62) d Preston Bullants 6.5 (41).

Ivanhoe v West Brunswick. Kew 8.12 (60) d

Glen Eira 8.4 (52).

Division 2 Men’s. South Melbourne Dis-

tricts 10.8 (68) d St Mary’s Salesian 8.6 (54). Brunswick 13.12 (90) d Old Pardians 10.4 (64). Old Yarra cobras 20.9 (129) d Aquinas

8.11 (59). Whitefrairs 10.4 (64) d Parkside

4.13 (37). Bulleen Templestowe 10.7 (67) d

MHSOB 5.10 (40).

Division 2 Men’s Reserves. South Melbourne Districts 17.15 (117) d St Mary’s Salesian 6.7 (43). Brunswick 13.8 (86) d Old Paradians 6.9 (45).Aquinas 14.10 (94) d Old Yarra Cobras 9.3 (57). Parkside 9.9 (93) d Whitefriars 7.7 (49). Bulleen Templestowe 11.9 (75) d MHSOB 3.8 (26).

Division 3 Men’s. Canterbury 13.9 (87) d Richmond Central 6.10 (46). Hawthorn 18.16 (124) d La Trobe University 4.7 (31). Power House 17.17 (119) d Swinburne University 5.7 (37). Wattle Park 9.16 (76) d Elstwernwick 9.8 (62).

Division 3 Men’s Reserves. Richmond central 12.13 (85) d Canterbury 9.3 (57). Hawthorn 10.16 (76) d La Trobe University 6.5 (41). Power House 10.9 (69) d Swinburne University 7.5 (47). Elsternwick 9.8 (62) d Wattle Park 7.5 (47).

Division 4 Men’s. North Brunswick 8.14 (62) d Albert Park 3.3 (21). Box Hill North 13.10 (88) d Eley Park 2.7 (19). Masala 18.18 (126) d St Johns 3.11 (29).

Division 4 Men’s Reserves. Albert Park 8.13 (61) d North Brunswick 8.11 (59). Box Hill North 16.18 (114) d Eley Park 4.5 (29). St Johns 14.9 (93) d Masala 11.12 (78).

■ Eastern Football League. Premier Div ision Seniors. Balwyn 12.9 981) d Blackburn 8.7 (55). Noble Park 13.10 (88). d Rowville 9.10 (64). Norwood 17.16 (118) d Doncaster 7.6 (48). Berwick 11.11 (77) d Vermont 10.12 (72). Doncaster East 13.10 (88) d Park Orchards 10.14 (74). East Ring-

wood 7.14 (56) d South Croydon 9.4 (58).

Division 1 Seniors. Montrose 10.10 (70)

d Bayswater 9.7 (61). South Belgrave 18.12 (120) d North Ringwood 6.12 (48). Wantirna

South 14.7 (91) d Mooroolbark 10.14 (74).

Mitcham 13.11 (89) d Beaconsfield 9.12 (66).

Lilydale 5.10 (40) d Croydon 6.14 (50).

Division 2 Seniors. Heathmont 18.18

(126) d Upper Ferntree Gully 3.9 (27).

Waverley Blues 12.12 (90) d Templestowe 11.12 (78). East Burwood 15.11 (101) d

Mulgrave 12.10 (82). Boronia 14.13 (97) d

The Basin 4.5 (29). Ringwood 14.10 (4) d Knox 6.3 (39). Waverley Blues 16.21 (117) d

Mulgrave 5.13 (43).

Division 3 Seniors. Ferntree Gully 14.12

(96) d Fairpark 6.11 (47). Oakleigh District 11.8 (74) d Coldstream 7.10 (52). Silvan 14.13 (97) d Whitehorse Pioneers 9.11 (65).

Donvale 13.14 (93) d Warrandyte 14.5 (89).

Division 4 Seniors. Forest Hill 14.15 (99)

d Nunwading 8.8 (56). Kilsyth 13.17 (95) d

Croydon North MLOC 9.6 (60). Scoresby 11.4

(80) d Chirnside Park 10.7 (67).

Premier Division Reserves. Blackburn

9.10 (64) d Balwyn 7.8 (50). Rowville 8.16

(64) d Noble Park 4.6 (24). Norwood 8.5 (53)

d Doncaster 5.5 (53). Vermont 12.12 (84) d

Berwick 3.5 (23). Doncaster East 6.9 (45) d Park Orchards 6.14 (50). East Ringwood 7.5

(47) d South Croydon 3.3 (21).

Division 1 Reserves. Croydon 18.21

(129) d Mooroolbark 1.2 (8). Beaconsfield

7.11 (53) d Bayswater 4.3 (27). Montrose

9.11 (65) d South Belgrave 7.6 (48). North Ringwood 17.8 (110) d Lilydale 6.10 (46).

Wantirna South 9.7 (61) d Mitcham 9.6 (60).

Division 2 Reserves. The Basin 7.9 (51)

d Mulgrave 4.10 (34). East Burwood 7.9 (51)

d Waverley Blues 3.6 (24). Boronia 16.17

(113) d Heathmont 3.3 (21). Upper Ferntree

Gully 12.12 (84) d Knox 4.1 (25). Templestowe

10.10 (70) d Ringwood 3.8 (26).

Division 3 Reserves. Warrandyte 16.12

(108) d Coldstream 3.3 (21). Donvale 13.9

(87) d Oakleigh District 4.7 (31). Whitehorse

Pioneers 9.9 (63) d Fairpark 5.5 (35). Ferntree

Gully 15.19 (109) d Silvan 1.0 (6).

Division 4 Reserves. Croydon North

MLOC 11.9 (75) d Nunawading 8.11 (59).

Kilsyth 6.12 (48) d Forest Hill 5.10 (40). Surrey Park 7.8 (50) d Scoresby 5.5 (35).

■ Essendon District Football League. Premier Division Seniors. Avondale Heights 11.6 (82) d Maribyrnong Park 12.8 (80). Keilor

23.12 (150) d Airport West 6.6 (42).

Strathmore 25.17 (167) d Essebndon Doutta

Stars 5.3 (33). East keilor 7.14 (56) d Green-

vale 7.10 (52). Pascoe Vale 14.9 (3) d

Aberfeldie 10.9 (69).

Division 1. Craigieburn 9.9 (63) d

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

d Keilor Park 5.10 (40). Saturday, April 29: St Albans v West-meadows. Moonee Valley v Rupertswood. Glenroy v Tullamarine. West

Coburg v Deer Park.

Division 2. Northern Saints 17.20 (122)

d East Sunbury 15.12 (102). Hadfield 5.8 (38)

d Coburg Districts 4.8 (32). Burnside Heights 12.11 (83) d Sunbury Kangaroos 211.14 (80).

Oak Park 14.7 (91) d Taylors Lakes 4.12 (36).

Premier Division Reserves. Maribyrnong

Park 19.15 (129) d Avondale Heights 5.1 (31).

Keilor 12.11 (83) d Airport West 7.8 (50).

Stratmore 29.13 (187) d Essendon Doutta

Stars 0.4 (4). Greenvale 13.10 (88) d East

Keilor 5.14 (44). Aberfeldie 22.14 (166) d Pascoe vale 2.3 (15).

Division 1 Reserves. Hillside 16.7 (103)

d Rupertswood 0.2 (2). Keilor Park 12.14 (86)

d Craigieburn 4.6 (30). St Albans 9.10 (64) d

Glenroy 7.5 (47).Roxburgh Park 14.12 (96) d

Moonee Valley 12.12 (84). West Coburg 15.13 (103) d Tullamarine 5.8 (38).

Division 2 Reserves. Northern Saints

16.14 (110) d East Sunbury 7.11 (53). Coburg

Districts 18.9 (117) d Hadfield 3.1 (19).

Sunbury Kangaroos 18.22 (130) d Burnside Heights 5.3 (33). Taylors Lakes 9.6 (60) d Oak Park 6.6 (42).

■ Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League. Division 1 Seniors. Frankston Bombers 12.8 (80) d Pines 8.10 (58).

Dromana 13.12 (91) d Bonbeach 8.3 (51).

Mt Eliza 6.15 (51) drew with Langwarrin 7.9 (51). Frankston YCW 15.15 (105) d Sorrento 5.11 (41).Rosebud 9.7 (61) d Red Hill 7.7 (49).

Division 1 Reserves. Pines 6.9 (45) d

Frankston Bombers 0.9 (9). Dromana 7.7 (49)

d Bonbeach 4.5 (29). Langwarrin 7.13 (55) d

Mt Eliza 6.7 (43). Frankston YCW 6.11 (47) d

Sorrento 1.5 (11). Red Hill 18.14 (122) d

Rosebud 2.1 (13).

Division 1 Under 19. Frankston Bombers

11.19 (85) d Pines 0.3 (3). Bonbeach 8.11 (59) d Dromana 4.9 (33). Mt Eliza 13.6 (84).

d Langwarrin 8.2 (50). Red Hill 19.8 (122) d

Rosebud 1.1 (7).

Division 2 Seniors. Devon Meadows

13.10 (88) d Edithvale-Aspendale 12.13 (85).

Karingal 11.15 (81) d Hastings 8.9 (57).

Pearcedale 18.12 (120) d Crib Point 12.6 (78). Seaford 14.14 (98) d Tyabb 5.11 (41).

Chelsea 31.13 (139) d Somerville 18.10 (118). Rye v Mornington.

Division 2 Reserves. EdithvaleAspendale 12.14 (86) d Devon Meadows 3.5 (23). Karingal 13.5 (93) d Hastings 0.0 (0). Crib Point 10.10 (70) d Pearcedale 6.4 (40). Somerville 10.5 (65) d Chelsea 8.7 (55). Mornington 15.23 (113) d Rye 1.3 (9).

Division 2 Under 19s. Edithvale-Aspendale 12.13 (85) d Devon Meadows 5.10 (40). Hastings 10.12 (72) d Karingal 9.5 (59). Seaford 14.15 (99) d Mt Eliza 6.5 (41). Rye 8.6 (54) d Mornington 8.6 (54).

■ Northern Football Netball League. Division 1 Seniors. Greensborough 11.15 (81) d Macleod 7.10 (52). Hurstrbidge 10.9 (69) d West Preston Lakeside 9.12 (66). Montmorency 15.17 (107) d Whittlesea 6.5 (41). Heidelberg 10.8 (68) d North Heidelberg 10.7 (67). Bundoora 13.5 (83) d Banyule 10.15 (75).

Division 1 Reserves. Macleod 13.4 (82) d Greensborough 11.3 (69). Hurstbridge 15.13 (103) d West Preston Lakeside 7.5 (47). Montmorency 20.14 (134) d Whittlesea 8.2 (50). Heidelberg 15.14 (104) d North Heidelberg

6.6 (42). Banyule 12.20 (92) d Bundoora 3.1 (19).

Division 1 Under 19.5. Greensborough

1 18.16 (124) d Eltham 8.8 (56). Banyule

28.16 (184) d Montmorency 7.3 (45). North Heidelberg 9.14 (68) d Heidelberg 10.7 (67). Bundoora 12.12 (84) d West Preston Lakeside

10.10 (70).

Division 2 Seniors. Eltham 13.9 (87) d

Panton Hill 5.7 (37). Thomastown 14.15 (99)

d Epping 4.2 (26). Watsonia 16.12 (108) d

Lower Plenty 6.12 (48).South Morang 13.14 (92) d St Mary’s 6.9 (45). Diamond Creek

9.9 (63) d Northcote Park 4.9 (33).

Division 2 Reserves. Eltham 14.17 (101)

d Panton Hill 4.4 (28). Thomastown 12.11 (83) d Epping 4.9 (33). Watsonia 13.11 (89)

d Lower Plenty 3.3 (21). St Mary’s 20.14 (134) d South morang 6.5 (41). Diamond Creek 24.24 (168) d Northcote Park 1.12 (7).

Division 2 Under 19.5. Watsonia 13.10 (88) d Lower Plenty 7.7 (49). Diamond Creek

9.126 (70) d Greensborough 2 3.11 (29). Laurimar 12.24 (96) d Kilmore 9.4 (58). South Morang 12.12 (84) d St Mary’s 8.9 (57).

Division 3 Seniors. Mernda 7.10 (52) d Old Eltham Collegians 2.10 (22). Kinglake

28.13 (181) d Reservoir 3.12 (30). Laurimar

15.16 (106) d Kilmore 4.122 (36). Fitzroy Stars 18.17 (125) d Lalor 1.5 (11).

Division 3 Reserves. Old Eltham Collegians 11.12 (78) d Mernda 7.5 (47). Kinglake

17.22 (124) d Reservoir 1.4 (10). Laurimar

12.12 (84) d kilmore 3.9 (27). Fitzroy Stars

14.6 (90) d Lalor 2.4 (16).

Division 3 Under 19.5. Thomastown 16.8 (104) d Macleod 11.13 (79). Banyule/Heidelberg West 7.7 (40) d Panton Hill 5.8 (38). Hurstbridge 14.16 (100) d Mernda 8.8 (56). ■ Outer East. Premier Division Seniors. Narre Warren 12.15 (87) d Pakenham 5.4 (34). Upwey Tecoma 15.14 (104) d Gembrook Cockatoo 8.9 (57). Saturday, April 22: Monbulk v Woori Yallock. Olinda Ferny Creek v Upwey Tecoma. Mt Evelyn v Wandin. Premier Division Reserves. Narre Warren 18.17 (125) d Pakenham 4.0 (24). Upwey Tecoma 14.22 (106) d Gembrook Cockatoo

2.1 (13). Saturday, April 22: Monbulk v Woor Yallock. Olinda Ferny Creek v Upwey Tecoma

Sunday, April 23: Mt Evelyn v Wandin.

Division 1 Seniors. Emerald 17.21 (123)

d Officer 8.15 (63). Berwick Springs v Hallam Seville v Healesville.

Division 1 Reserves. Officer 14.10 (94)

d Emerald 7.6 (48). Berwick Springs v Hallam. Seville 14.12 (96) d Healesville 6.5 (41).

Division 2 Seniors. Alexandra 16.16 (112) d Yarra Glen 6.12 (48). WarburtonMillgrove 16.11 (107) d Broadford 3.5 (23) Powelltown 17.19 (121) d Yarra Junction

11.13 (79).

Division 2 Reserves. Alexanda 17.8 (110)

d Yarra Glen 3.2 (20). Warburton-Millgrove

15.6 (96) d Broadford 2.1 (13). Powelltown

12.13 (985) d Yarra Junction 2.5 (17). Under 19 Boys. Seville v WarburtonMillgrove. Pakenham v Narre Warren. Officer

11.10 976) d Emerald 6.7 (43). Monbulk 74

d Mt Evelyn 3.6 (24). Upwey Tecoma 18.4 (112) d Woori Yallock 9.11 (65).

Women’s Division 1. Healesville 8.5 (53)

d Berwick Springs 2.3 (15). Pakenham 5.11 (41) d Olinda Ferny Creek 4.9 (33). Upwey Tecoma 12.12 (84) d Monbulk 0.2 (2).

Women’s Division 2. Hallam 6.5 (41) d Seville 2.10 (22). Wandin 6.6 (42) d Thornton Eildon 3.3 (21). Belgrave 4.3 (27) d Yarra Junction 4.2 (26).

■ Southern Football League. Division 1

Seniors. Cranbourne Eagles 12.16 (88) d Chelsea Heights 8.8 (56). Springvale Districts

13.7 (85) d Mordialloc 2.9 (21). Cheltenham

15.10 (100) d Dingley 6.15 (51).Por t Melbourne Colts 14.11 (95 d St Kilda City

13.13 (91). St Paul’s McKinnon 10.10 (70) d Bentleigh 7.8 (59).

Division 1 Reserve. Cranbourne Eagles

18.15 (123) d Chelsea Heights 0.2 (2)

Springvale Districts 13.9 (87) d Mordialloc

7.6 (48). Cheltenham 12.13 (85) d Dingley 4.4 (28). St Kilda City 9.4 (58) d Port Melbourne Colts 4.6 (30). Bentleigh 15.10 (100) d St Paul’s McKinnon 5.2 (32).

Division 2 Seniors. Doveton Doves 13.7 (85) d East Malvern 5.3 (33). Caulfield Bears

9.11 (65) d Skye 9.8 (62). Hampton Park

18.15 (123) d Black Rock 4.6 (30). East Brighton 13.9 (87) d Murrumbeena 7.10 (52) Highett 10.15 (75) d Keysborough 6.5 (41).

Division 2 Reserves. Doveton Doves 17.7 (109) d East Malvern 7.5 (49). Caulfield Bears 6.9 (45) d Skye 4.4 (28). Hampton Park 11.16 (82) d Black Rock 0.4 (4). East Brighton 9.6 (60) d Murrumbenna 6.8 (44).

Division 3 Seniors. Ashwood 17.18 (120) d Clayton 11.5 (71). Endeavour Hills 12.7 (89) d Carrum Patterson Lakes 8.9 (57).Frankston Dolphins 13.18 (96) d Lyndhurst 11.6 (72) Heatherton 11.13 (79) d Narre South Saints 7.15 (57).

Division 3 Reserves. Ashwood 9.17 (71) d Clayton 3.4 (22). Endeavour Hills 8.11 (59) d Carrum Patterson Lakes 8.5 (53). Frankston Dolphins 11.6 (72) d Lyndhurst 4.6 (30). Narre South Saints 9.16 (70) d Heatherton 3.10 (28).

Division 4 Seniors. South Mornington 19.18 (132) d Lyndale 3.4 (22). Moorabbin

Kangaroos 10.10 (70) d Hampton 9.10 (64)

Doveton Eagles 18.22 (130) d South Yarra 4.11 (35).

Division 4 Reserves. South Mornington

11.13 (79) d Lyndale 1.2 (8). Moorabbin Kangaroos 10.7 (67) d Hampton 10.5 (65)

Doveton Eagles v South Yarra.

Under 19. Highett 11.6 (72) d Bentleigh Blue 6.8 (44). Cheltenham 7.5 (47) d Dingley

5.11 (41). Endeavour Hills 7.7 (49) d Lyndhurst

5.7 (37). Frankston Dolphins 19.21 (135) d Narre South Saints 1.3 (9). Bentleigh Red

10.17 (177) d Murrumbeena 6.7 (43).

Thirds. Sandown Cobras 9.6 (60) d Heatherhill 5.6 (36). Dingley v Bentleigh.

Lyndhurst v Endeavour Hills. Skye 12.9 (81) d Murrumbeena 10.11 (71). Narre South Saints v Lyndale. Springvale Districts 10.8 (68) d

Cerberus/South Mornington 6.3 (39). Highett

7.6 (48) d Keysborough 6.6 (42).

Local Sport Your Stars with Kerry Kulkens

ARIES: (March 21- April 20)

Lucky Colour: Yellow

Lucky Day: Tuesday

Racing Numbers: 2.4.5.6.

Lotto Numbers: 2.14.34.42.22.1. This will be a period of improvements in all aspects; you could be more health-conscious than usual and try out some new diets. You could find a new way of making money.

TAURUS: (April 21- May 20)

Lucky Colour: Blue

Lucky Day: Wednesday

Racing Numbers: 8.9.5.6.

Lotto Numbers: 8.9.34.42.33.5.

A period of family extensions when people get married and engaged or have more children. This is a busy period in which you could run your feet off for other people; try occasionally resting if you can.

GEMINI: (May 21- June 21)

Lucky Colour: Cream

Lucky Day: Thursday

Racing Numbers: 7,8,9,3,

Lotto Numbers: 1,14,23,34,45,22,

An exciting meeting with someone who thinks the same as you and someone you feel strongly about. Some longdistance travel is on the agenda or plans for the near future. Good vibes all the way.

CANCER: (June 22- July 22)

Lucky Colour: Violet

Lucky Day: Tuesday

Racing Numbers: 7,9,2,4,

Lotto Numbers: 1,15,23,34,41,22, It’s time to do something different and relax with good friends. Something you have been hoping for will be coming your way soon. Try not to overdo the good things in life and look after your health.

LEO: (July 23- August 22)

Lucky Colour: Brown

Lucky Day: Sunday

Racing Numbers: 1,4,2,1

AROUND THE GROUNDS

Lotto Numbers: 1,12,23,34,37,45, Some excellent news involving family members and someone you have been thinking about could call. A little problem at work will sort itself out in no time.

VIRGO: (August 23- September 23)

Lucky Colour: Orange

Lucky Day: Monday Racing Numbers: 5,7,6,2,

Lotto Numbers: 1,16,26,39,41,3, Changes are coming up in your life or lifestyle, some not by your own doing. Restless feelings could catch up with you, but romance will calm down.

LIBRA: (September 24- October 23)

Lucky Colour: Silver

Lucky Day: Monday Racing Numbers: 2,6,7,9,

Lotto Numbers: 1,6,23,37,7,22, During this period, you have to sort out some difficult situations that have been around for some time. You could still feel a little restless, and someone from the past could show much interest in you.

SCORPIO: (October 24- November 22)

Lucky Colour: Lemon

Lucky Day: Saturday

Racing Numbers: 7,9,2,4,

Lotto Numbers: 1,6,23,38,36,30, Your romantic urges may become very pressing and your social life very busy. Your mood tends to go from one extreme to another, upsetting those closest to you. You could get the rewards from past efforts now.

SAGITTARIUS: (November 23- December 20)

Lucky Colour: Cream

Lucky Day: Friday Racing Numbers: 1,4,1,7,

Lotto Numbers: 1,17,23,38,36,5, You probably feel like entertaining or being entertained. Your approach towards your partner must be honest and loving to keep the peace at home. Improvements in financial matters are likely.

CAPRICORN: (December 21- January 19)

Lucky Colour: Green

Lucky Day: Thursday Racing Numbers: 5,7,9,3,

Lotto Numbers: 1,4,23,28,33,3,

Your sex life is in for a boost. It’s an excellent time to communicate with loved ones and communicate your intentions. Be very thrifty. There may be some differences of opinion with your mate regarding the spending of money,

AQUARIUS: (January 20- February 19)

Lucky Colour: Apricot

Lucky Day: Friday

Racing Numbers: 4,7,8,9,

Lotto Numbers: 1,16,23,35,45,11,

A new direction in a meaningful relationship may develop, but a severe clash could stop you from getting together. Some creative thinking and extra hard work could be beneficial for you in a financial way. Some will be very conscious of their appearance and may find it necessary to start a self-improvement program.

PISCES: (February 20- March 20)

Lucky Colour: Fawn

Lucky Day: Wednesday

Racing Numbers: 4,7,2,4,

Lotto Numbers: 1,16,23,36,41,9, Your powers of attraction are boosted. There is some fun and games to be had, with plenty of passion involved. Joint funds and partnerships are favoured, and energy levels are pretty high.

● ● Northern: Kinglake made an impressive start in the NFNL Division 3 competition against Reservoir.

● ● Outer East Division 2: Warburton-Millgrove's Brayden Woolridge punches the Sherrin in the Reserves match against Broadford. The Burras 15.6 (96) d Broadford (the Roos) 2.1 (13).

● ● Outer East Division 2: Alexandra's Nick Meehan goes into attack at Rebel Park against Yarra Glen. Alexandra 16.16 (112) d Yarra Glen 6.12 (48).

Photos: Ash Long

● ● NFNL: Reservoir and Kinglake ruckmen in the last quarter in the first round match.