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● Comedian Richard Stubbs’s ratings fell to 5.6 in the audience measurement figures released yesterday (Tues.).

Richard Stubbs hosts the afternoon program on Melbourne’s 774 ABC. His figures were more than doubled by his commercial talk radio rival, Denis Walter, who hosts the 3AW afternoon show between 12 Noon-3pm. More on Page 3.

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Circus Carbaret Fusion

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● Co-director of NICA’s Pescado, Carita Farrer Spencer.

■ The National Institute of Circus Arts’talCheryl Threagold meets ented second-year students will feature in Pescado – A Circus Cabaret Fusion, being Carita Farrer Spencer performed in NICA’s custom-built intimate studio space in Prahran from May 13-16.

While Hayden performed the role of Clown This quirky aquarium of circus, cabaret Vincente for Cirque du Soleil’s Dralion, and comedy will submerge the audience in a Carita hosted cabaret shows in the Big Top world of Piscean characters, circus skills and with the Cirque company. tongue-in-gill silliness, all wrapped up in a Now Carita and Hayden share their expe‘Venice Beach’ atmosphere. rience and knowledge with NICA students in Pescado is co-directed by Australian caba- Pescado – A Circus Cabaret Fusion. ret and circus mainstays, Hayden Spencer Carita says the show is a celebration of and Carita Farrer Spencer. circus and cabaret as a form, and is a chance Carita has worked professionally for more for students to embrace an opportunity to than 20 years as cabaret performer, singer, broaden their skills in a commercial genre. actor, teaching artist, recording artist, direc“This is a hugely popular form with shows tor, corporate performer, street entertainer, in like La Soiree touring the world,” says Carita. the film, TV and music industries, and is now “ Circus Oz and Circa are heavily focussed co-director of Pescado. on theatrical and entertaining acts.

Her interest in theatre began when perCirque du Soleil is also branching out into forming in shows as a child. Carita’s mother smaller scale shows of this style. It’s imporwas a speech and drama teacher and her tant for us to show our circus students they grandmother an art teacher, so she is a visual need to know how to entertain a crowd.” artist as well.

Carita says the set for Pescado looks fabuCarita chose to train as an actor, graduat- lous. ing in 1991 with a BA Acting Degree at QUT, “And the costumes by Emily Barrie will Brisbane. be the icing on the cake.”

“I have done lots of jobs as a straight actor, When the NICA season finishes, Carita will but am naturally drawn to the weird and won- head to Central Queensland to adjudicate derful world of comedy, circus and cabaret.” eisteddfods, perform in Women in Voice at the Carita says her successful show in the Queensland Performing Arts Centre, then do Melbourne International Comedy Festival, a season of her new show in Brisbane in July.

Larry Paradiseo and The Fabulous Dame Season dates: May 13 – 16 Farrar, is the first time she has done a double Times: Wed – Thurs at 7.30pm, Fri 6pm bill with herself! and 9pm, Sat 1.30pm and 7.30pm “Larry is my new character and I love Duration: Approximately 70 minutes performing him”, says Carita.

Venue: NICA National Circus Centre, “The audience really responds well … I Movement Studio, 39-59 Green St., Prahran make a good man!

Tickets: Adults $30, Conc. $25, Child U16 “The fabulous Dame Farrar is a character $22, I have worked on for a number of years.”

Family (2 adults and 2 children) $85 In 2008, Carita and husband Hayden Family (2 adults and 3 children) $100.

Spencer ‘ran away’ with the circus and their Parental guidance recommended (PG) two young children.

Bookings: www.nica.com.au

● Bruce Mansfield and Philip Brady: ratings up to 16.4% ■ Melbourne radio station 774 ABC dropped audience numbers in the radio ratings results announced yesterday (Tues.).

3AW increased its share from 13.6 to 15.4 per cent in the ratings, measured 5.30am-Midnight, Monday-Sunday.

Then followed: 774 ABC, 10.4 per cent (down from 10.7 per cent). MMM, 7.4. Smooth 91.5, 6.9. Hit 101.9 Fox, 6.9. Gold, 6.8. Nova, 6.7. KIIS, 6.1. JJJ, 5.6. Magic 1278, 4.4. SEN, 4.3. Radio National, 3.2.ABC FM, 2.5. Newsradio, 1.5.

Ross Stevenson and John Burns recorded an impressive 20.1 per cent market share for their breakfast program on 3AW, measured from 5.30am-9am weekdays.

Then followed:774 ABC, 14.2.

MMM, 8.6. Nova, 6.2. Hit 101.1 Fox, 5.9. KIIS 101.1, 5.7. Gold, 5.4. JJJ, 5.0.

Smooth 91.5, 4.5. Radio National, 4.2.

Magic 1278, 4.0. SEN, 3.9. Newsradio, 1.9. ABC FM, 1.8.

The breakfast session figures show a fall for Red Symons (774ABC), a steady lead for Eddie McGuire amongst FM broadcasters, and a poorer-than-station average for Smooth 91.5’s Mike Perso.

Smooth 91.5 is expected to gain listeners in coming ratings surveys after last week’s sacking of Kevin John and Jane Holmes from the Magic 1278 breakfast program.

3AW’s Neil Mitchell (16.8 per cent) took a significant victory in the morning program, ahead of Jon Faine (12.3) on 774ABC. Denis Walter (3AW afternoons) was delighted with his winning 12.4 per cent share. 774’s Richard Stubbs fell to 5.6.

Tom Elliott was clear ‘Drive’winner with 12.5 per cent audience share.

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Hold the phone ■ A TransportAccident Commission survey has found more than half of Victorian motorists illegally use their mobile phones while driving

Undies defence ■ Point Lonsdale couple Hunter and Meg de Crespigny - he in red jocks, she in a nightie bailed up two would-be theives at the front of their home, reports the Geelong Advertiser.

Arrests have yet to be made.

Gipps. trains late ■ Statistics released for last month show that V/Line services throughout Gippsland are the least punctual in the state, reports the Sale-based Times newspaper.

One-man shows ■ The Government has moved to shore up support for one-officer police stations across the state’s west, reports the Wimmera MailTimes.

Thefts alleged ■ A former employee, 30, of the Telstra store has been charged over the alleged theft of $70,000 worth of mobile phones, reports the Wangaratta Chronicle.

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Book chat

Tubular Bells

■ Tubular Bells For Two will be coming to Melbourne on Friday-Saturday, May 8-9. This music/theatrical event is presented by Darebin Arts and will play the Darebin Arts and Entertainment Centre in Preston.

At Eastland

● Ramona Koval ■ Former ABC radio presenter Ramona Koval will be in conversation with Arnold Zable at 6.30pm on Monday, May 18 at the Clarke Auditorium, Eltham College, 1660 Main Road, Reasearch.

She will talk about Bloodhound, an intriguing investigation of her family history.

Ramona's parents were Holocaust survivors who fled their homeland and settled in Melbourne.

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■ The Art of The Lion King is a n exhibition at Eastland Shopping Centre until May 15.

The costume and design exhibition, with video displays, is being staged, free, on Level 1outside NAB.

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Public talk

■ Melbourne Theatre Company presents a special public talk with Olivier Award-winning writer Joe Penhall at 6pm on Monday (Apr. 27) at Southbank Theatre, The Lawler.

This free event sees Joe Penhall joined by MTC Literary Director Chris Mead to talk about success, failure and the power of story, about his theatre career in London and being a playwright in Hollywood.

Joe wrote Blue/Orange for the National Theatre UK starring Bill Nighy.

Collection highlights

Tripod

■ Tripod: This Gaming Life at Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne, was part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

Aria winning comedy musicians, Tripod took us on an hilarious journey into their world of gaming of all sorts, including video games, power games and many more.

We were taken back to the eighties and nineties the era of Atari, Commodore 64 and Nintendo video games such as Skyrim and Halo.

It’s a love affair and a strong bond shared by the three performers.

They share their obsession and passion with an extremely appreciative and adoring audience.

Everyone who has ever been passionate about anything is engaged with the performance. We all understand.

Tripod began performing in the huge Melbourne nineties pub scene and attracted a devoted regular audience.

They are extremely talented and clever performers and excellent musicians.

Their career includes the Song in an Hour segment TripleJ morning show, Skithouse and ABC’s Sideshow.

They have performed at the Edinburgh Festival, released a single with Gotye, sang with Missy Higgins and released an album Men of Substance.

This Gaming Life is a new commission with the brilliant Melbourne Symphony Orchestra..

This opus was orchestrated and conducted by BAFTA winning and Grammy nominated composer Austin W intory.

Austin’s soundtrack for PlayStation3 game Journey was the first ever Grammy nominated videogame score, and also won many prestigious awards.

This Gaming Life was a sophisticated, nostalgic ,endearing and unny performance enjoyed by audience and performers.

- Review by Jill Page

● Ensemble Goldentree members Jacob Davey (piano), Tim Hannah (horn), Alison McIntosh-Deszcz (soprano).

■ There is a new chamber The ensemble’s 2015 sea- vided following the concert. ensemble in Melbourne, En- son opener brings one of the Performance Date: Sunday, semble Goldentree, which will most well-known works for May 3 at 2pm present itsfirst concert Of Ro- horn, voice and piano to life.

Venue: St Stephens AngliSchubert’s Auf dem Strom can Church, 360 Church St, mantics, Distance and Water on Sunday, May 3 at 2pm at St is a beautiful romantic trio de- Richmond Stephens Anglican Church, picting the separation of lovers Tickets: $20 Adult, $15 on the current of time.

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Concession and Free for ChilLachner’s evocative trios Ensemble Goldentree and Berlioz’ plaintive Le Jeune dren under 12. brings together the sonorous Patre Breton form a metaBookings: Tickets availcombination of horn and voice, phorical and musical foil to this able at the door, or visit to create a unique and engag- work. www.ensemblegoldentree.com.au ing musical experience.

- Cheryl Threadgold Afternoon tea will be pro-

Sam Evans joins Manins and Gould

■ Imogen Manins and Tony Gould look forward to sharing the stage at Melbourne Recital Centre’s Salon with soloist Sam Evans on tabla on Friday, May 29 at 7pm.

The inspirational and vibrant sounds of the Indian drums will make for an entertaining program for just one performance.

Audiences can always expect an engaging and diverse presentation from the Manins/ Gould duo, and this concert will be no exception when they are joined by Sam Evans on tabla, bringing a whole new, beautiful dimension to music-making..

Evans’s extraordinary gifts as a musician are founded from over a decade of studying in India and a solid grounding in the tradition of western music, including the intricacies of improvised

Cabaret seating. Tables seat 2-4 people. Food and beverages available for purchase during the performance.

Bookings: www.melbournerecital.com.au - Cheryl Threadgold

Theatres of War

■ Arts Centre Melbourne invites patrons to experience a comprehensive program of productions, events, and exhibitions to commemorate the ANZAC Centenary in 2015.

The ANZAC Centenary program spans visual arts, theatre, dance, and opera and will explore the many ways that the ANZAC story has impacted thenation’s history, Theatres of War: Wartime Entertainment and the Australian Experience.

● Muhammad Ali and Bert Newton Photo : Bruce Postle ■ Taking an old tip site and using the land to build a gallery dedicated to photography was an innovative decision by the former City of Waverley in 1990.

Located in Wheelers Hill, the Monash Gallery of Art (MGA) is turning 25, and is celebrating with a special exhibition, called Highlights from the MGA Collection.

Opening on May 8, it includes about 120 key works from a collection of more than 2400 photographs.

Well known photographers such as Max Dupain, Bill Henson, Patrician Piccinini, Wolfgang Sievers and Bruce Postle are among the photographers represented.

MGA Interim Director, Stephen Zagala, is passionate about this exhibition. " Highlights from the MGA Collection gives audiences a rare opportunity to enjoy the treasures of the Collection, which contained what re considered to be iconic masterpieces of Australian photographic history, some of which are rarely exhibition - on show will be works that capture important moments in the history of Australian photography,” he said.

The exhibition runs from May 8 until July 12 at Monash Gallery of Art, 860 Ferntree Gully Rd, Wheelers Hill from Tuesday to Sunday. www.mga.org.au - Julie Houghton

● Rhodri Clarke ■ Melbourne musicians are out in force paying tribute to those who fought at Gallipoli 100 years ago this weekend. One of the most interesting concerts is being staged by Zenith, an ensemble of just two.

Zenith is a voice and piano duo - Australian born velvetvoiced baritone Michael Lampard and Welsh native Rhodri Clarke. Having really hit it off when the first performed in Michael's original home state of Tasmania in 2011, they formed an ensemble to explore the vocal repertoire of the 19th through to the 21st centuries. They cover composers from Schubert to contemporary works.

Their ANZAC concert, Even Such Is Time, is happening at St Silas Church, Bridport St, Albert Park at 2.30 pm on Sunday (April 26).

In this concert, Michael and Rhodri focus on composers who had a definite association with the First World War. The program includes the beautiful and famous Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad by George Butterworth, which explore the themes of love and loss through wartime. The program also includes works by composers of that era such as Gerald Finzi Ivor Gurney and more.

If you are looking for a contemplative ANZAC concert with some fine singing and piano, this is the one for you.

Tickets at the door or through www.trybooking.com More information at www.zenithensemble.wordpress.com - Julie Houghton

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Jazz Bell Awards next week Briefs In Court

■ Matthew Robertson, 30, of Moray Ct, Corio, has appeared in a Geelong court charged with trying to pervert the course of justice following a hitrun death at Corio, reports the Geelong Advertiser. His bail has been extended.

Reinstated

■ A former Corowa doctor found two years ago to have selfprescribed drugs of dependence and restricted substances, has had suspension of her medical registration lifted. Dr Nancy Magdy Fayez Iskander’s registration has been reinstated with eight conditions, reports the Border Mail.

Scam ■ A man - 'Don Harrison' - who has scammed Victorians out of thousands of dollars through private car sales set his sights on a Bendigo man Chris Rix as his next target, reports the Bendigo Advertiser.

■ The 2015 Australian Jazz Bell Awards yesterday (Tues.) announced the nominations across all categories for this year’s awards.

The winners to be announced at a ceremony, hosted

by Helen Kapalos, at the Regent Theatre Ballroom on Thursday next week (April 30).

Jazz fans can expect a unique experience on the night with the presentation of seven award categories, live performances and a special presentation to the winner of this year’s Graeme Bell Hall of Fame inductee.

Final nominees for Australian Jazz Bell Awards are: Best Australian Jazz Vocal Album: Josh Kyle & Sam Keevers – Songs of Friends Tom Barton – Aspirations Sarah McKenzie – We could be lovers Best Australian Modern Jazz Album Paul Grabowsky – The Bitter Suite Daniel Susnjar – Su Su Nje James Mustafa Orchestra – The Last Sanctuary Best Australian Contemporary Avant-garde’ Jazz Album Monash Art Ensemble : George - Hexis Barney McAll = Trio Feral - Trio Feral = Don’t Feed Paul Van Ross - My Cuban Soul Best Australian Traditional Jazz Album James Morrison - A-Z of Jazz The Hunters & Pointers - The Hunters & Pointers Geoff Bull - Clarence Williams Tribute Best Australian Jazz Song of the Year Paul Grabowsky - Black Saffron Penelope Sai - Some Kind Of Dream Daniel Susnjar - Forte Pulse Torte Best Australian Jazz Ensemble Mike Nock Octet - Suite Sima Daniel Susnjar - Su Su Nje Daryl McKenzie Orchestra- Return Journey YoungAustralian Jazz Artist of the Year James Mustafa Jazz Orchestra - The Last Sanctuary Nic Vardenga - Inverno Jessica Carlton - Not Alone Winner of the Graeme Bell Hall of Fame – in recognition of an outstanding career – will be announced on the night.

The 2015 judging panel, made up of experts in their field, are from Australia and overseas. The panel comprises Albert Dadon, Adrian Jackson, Gerry Koster, John McBeath, Martin Jackson, Carl Griffinand Luis Tineo. www.bellawards.org

Gerry’s next role

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‘Never pick a fight with a man who buys ink by the barrel and paper by the ton.’

Fairfax axes 71 Vic jobs

● Gerry Connolly: Anything Goes ■ Actor, comedian and impressionist Gerry Connolly will join the cast of their upcoming production of Anything Goes.

He will to play the Captain of the S.S. American during the Melbourne and Brisbane seasons.

Connolly replaces Alan Jones who needs to remain located in Sydney from his increased radio commitments.

Jones withdrew from the Melbourne and Brisbane seasons, but will join the company to play the Captain during the Sydney Opera House season.

Opera Australia Artistic Director Lyndon Terracini and Australian theatre producer John Frost made the announcement on Monday.

Connolly is perhaps best known for his satirical caricatures of public figures such as Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles, Margaret Thatcher, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Bob Hawke, Paul Keating and Dame Joan Sutherland.

Police hunt for woman

■ Police are renewing their appeal for public assistance to help locate Nicole Gvero.

The 27-year-old woman is wanted after failing to attend court in relation to drug offences and a warrant has been issued for her arrest. Nicole is described as having long brown hair, brown eyes, approximately 170cm tall with a medium build.

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Investigators believe that Nicole may be driving an early model 1990s blue Ford sedan and frequenting the Reservoir area.

Police have released an image in the hope someone can provide information on her current whereabouts.

Anyone with any information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 .

Doctor reprimanded ■ A Victorian doctor has been reprimanded for professional misconduct after being found to have transgressed professional boundaries.

VCAT Senior Member Ian Proctor, and members Dr B. Collopy and Dr E. Shanahan - found that the doctor, who cannot be named for legal reasons, engaged in an inappropriate personal and/or romantic and/opr sexual relationship with a patient/staff member.

The doctor’s registration is being suspended for one year, commencing on April 29.

The doctor denied the allegations, and engaged Dr I Freckleton QC to argue his case at the Tribunal.

● Fairfax CEO Greg Hywood ■ In the week after sacking all on air staff at Melbourne radio station Magic 1278, Fairfax CEO Greg Hywood has presided over the sacking of 71 staff from the company’s Victorian country papers.

The Fairfax newspapers in Victoria include the Border Mail (Albury-Wodonga), Bendigo Advertiser, Ballarat Courier, Wimmera Mail-Times, Warrnambool Standard,Ararat Advertiser, Stawell TimesNews, with interests in The Advocate (Hepburn), The Northern Times (Kerang), The Sunraysia Daily (Mildura), Midland Express (Kyneton), The Guardian (Swan Hill), Gippsland Times (Sale) and Latrobe Valley Express (Morwell).

Some 57 of the jobs to go will be from the company’s Victorian editorial operations. The cuts will also affect the weekly country newspaper, Stock & Land.

This move follows the loss of 1900 jobs mostly associated with major newspapers including The Age, Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian Financial Review.

Director John Angilley said the decision outlined to employees was aimed at refreshing and revitalising all 13 mastheads serving local communities across Victoria.

“We are pleased that our communities care about our journalism as much as we do. That support coupled with our changes will ensure our newspapers and websites remain strong local voices and are as vibrant, locally focused and as useful as our readers want them to be.”

The Barrel doubts that even Mr Angilley believes that awkward attempt at spin. Country community are adept at detecting manure.

Blues Brothers Revue

■ The Official Blues Brothers Revue starring Wayne Catania and Kieron Lafferty as ‘Jake’ and ‘Elwood’ will be presented at The York on Lilydale Hotel, Mt Evelyn, on Friday, May 1, and The Palms on Crown, Melbourne on Saturday, May 2.

After John Belushi died his widow Judith married Victor Pisano and Victor has written this show.

It was originally produced by Dan and Judith.

Judith Belushi Pisano, Dan Ackroyd and The John Belushi Estate have officially sanctioned The Official Blues Brothers Revue.

The show combines the comedy, music and mayhem from the original movie, as well as songs from the five popular albums put out by John Belushi and DanAckroyd. Jake and Elwood are on a mission to deliver the most dynamic and authentic Blues Brothers show to hit our shores. Kieron Lafferty will be interview guest at 12 Noon on Sunday (Apr. 26) during That's Entertainment on 96.5FM.

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Riding for great cause WWI exhibition opens in Melb.

● Milton Mann, Darren Hill, Cyril Land and Malcolm Mann with two of the participants from the Royal Freemasons Homes Team.

■ The boys from the Victorian Freemasons challenge," she said.

Cycling Club were out in force on Sunday Unfortunately, an incident occurred involv(Apr. 19) for the MS Society Melbourne Cycle ing a rider from another team, who was Challenge. knocked off her bike. The entire Team stopped Rain, hail or shine, nothing was going to to lend a hand. stop the team from completing the 50-km ride "We all stopped to help the rider. We hoisted from one side of the city to the other. up the vehicle to retrieve her bike, and made Participants Basel Alogaidi, Malcolm and sure she was OK," Malcolm said.

Milton Mann, Cyril Land and Darren Hill So in true Freemason form, the boys proved donned the square and compasses jerseys and that actions speak louder than words, and not took off from Princes Park, rode through the only helped a rider in need, but continued the Docklands to Albert Park, peddled up to challenge as a Team in just under three hours.

Footscray and wound their way back to The MS Melbourne Cycle Challenge is Carlton North through North Melbourne. hosted every year, and since 2007, has been The team, from Diamond Valley Lodge and fundraising to providing services and support Wodonga Lodge had collectively raised $3084 for Australians affected by this baffling and for the Multiple Sclerosis Society, through in- debilitating disease. dividual donations and contributions from other Multiple Sclerosis is a disease of the cenLodges. tral nervous system affecting more young adult Team Captain for the event, Malcolm Australians than any other neurological conMann, said that despite the weather, it was a dition. great ride.

Approximately four Australians are diag"The Team is very proud to wear the square nosed with Multiple Sclerosis every day, equatand compasses jerseys today. It's more than ing to 1000 new diagnosis every year. just a ride, it gives us purpose and great expoSymptoms vary from person to person, but sure for Freemasons Victoria," Malcolm said. can include fatigue, loss of balance and coorFreemasons Victoria Communications dination, blurred vision and tremors.

Manager, Gabrielle Forman, met the Team For more information about Multiple Scleat the half-way rest stop to cheer the boys on. rosis and how you can get involved with "It was great to see the boys so dedicated. fundraising, visit the MS Society website at They'd made it to the half-way point unscathed, www.mssociety.org.au and were keen to continue the last leg of the - Contributed

■ Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove officially opened the WWI Centenary Exhibition at the Melbourne Museum on Thursday.

The exhibition contains more than 350 artefacts from the WW1 collections of the Imperial War Museums in London and provides a real and raw insight into the horror, loss and impact of the war that changed the world.

“I found this exhibition to be at once fascinating, thought provoking and touching,” Governor-General Cosgrove told guests.

“As we would expect from what is renowned as one of the world’s most significant military museums, the exhibition is breathtaking in scale and technique.’’

Guests at the opening included Trustee of IWM, Lord Ashcroft, IWM Director-General Diane Lees, Minister for Veterans John Eren, Minister for Creative Industries Martin Foley

, Victoria Cross recipient Keith Payne, and ANZAC Centenary Committee Chairman Ted Baillieu.

This is not an exhibition that you can breeze through in 20 minutes.

I found it to be highly educational and at the same time very emotional.

It is an exhibition that is worth supporting.

The exhibition highlights the personal stories of war, and shows how the conflict was fought on such an enormous, industrial and worldwide scale.

The special collection contains pieces ranging from large-scale artillery machines to intricate personal objects.

The WWI Centenary Exhibition is on show at the Melbourne Museum until October 4.

For further information and to book tickets go to www.ww1exhibition.com.au

Favourite Aussie pianist ■ “Amir Farid is one of my favourite Australian pianists, a familiar face and performer at Melbourne Recital Centre”, writes Di Rolle.

Amir is presenting a very special solo performance on Friday, May 1 in the Salon at the Recital Centre.

Persian-Australian Amir Farid, grew up with music, it is something that was strongly present in his household.

Neither of his parents were musicians but their love and appreciation of music meant that it was always playing on the radio or tape player.

One of the tapes that Amir vividly remembers growing up as a child was of Iranian pianist, the great Persian master, Javad Maroufi playing his own works.

Javad was one of the first composers of piano music in Persia and he was celebrated for his contribution to Persian classical music.

● Amir Farid Amir’s performances of Amir, a highly creative musician and pianist of great in- Maroufi’s works were broadtelligence and integrity, brings cast in full on ABC FM last year.

Amir will perform his Solo strong musical substance to all that he does, permeating it with Piano Works of Javad Maurofi his own particular experience on Friday, May 1, at the Salon at the Melbourne Recital Cenand understanding.

After years of intense train- tre.

He will launch his new CD ing as a classical pianist and a performer for many years, on the same evening.

For bookings visit Amir has made a CD called Amir Farid Plays Javad melbournerecital.com.au or phone 9699 3333.

Maroufi.

Patrice’s debut album

● Basel Alogaidi.

Diamond Valley Lodge.

● Milton Mann, Wodonga Lodge

● Darren Hill, Cyril Land, Milton and Malcolm Mann at the start line

● Milton Mann and Cyril Land

● Darren Hill

● From left: Basel Alogaidi, Darren Hill, Milton and Malcolm Mann

■ “I was very pleased when I heard that one of Australia’s emerging leading ladies of stage, Patrice Tipoki, had announced the release of her debut album,” writes Di Rolle: A Musical Heart will debut on Friday, May 1, celebrating Patrice’s journey across a broad range of musical genres.

This album features songs from many of the hit musicals Patrice has appeared in since making her musical debut at the age of 7 in The King & I, following her impressive career all the way through to her current starring role in the acclaimed production of Les Misérables.

A collection of popular musical theatre tunes, A Musical Heart includes I Dreamed A Dream from Les Miserables, Defying Gravity from Wicked, Beauty And The Beast from Beauty and the Beast, Somebody To Love from We Will Rock You, Tonight from Westside Story, Shall We Dance from The King & I, Anyone Can Whistle from Anyone Can Whistle, and I’m Not Afraid Of Anything from Songs For a New World.

A Musical Heart also features guest vocalist Simon Gleeson, Patrice’s Les Misérables costar, who joins her for a beautiful rendition of The Righteous Brothers classic Unchained Melody from the musical Ghost.

Internationally acclaimed singer Alex Boyé also duets with Patrice on The Lion King’s Can You Feel The Love Tonight, bringing new life to this hit song.

Every song on the album has significance

for Patrice. All except one are from musicals she has performed in.

Patrice has achieved great heights in her career to date.

Playing Nala in Disney’s The Lion King was a special and spiritual experience for her as well as playing the role of Elphaba in the Australian production of Wicked.

Defying Gravity holds a very special place in Patrice’s heart, she got to fly as an expectant, and then new, mother.

Currently she is honoured to be fulfilling her dreams performing I Dreamed A Dream every night as Fantine in Les Misérables.

Patrice's rich history of music and culture stems from her Maori and Irish background.

From an early age her love for music was fostered in a musical family performing throughout Australia, and her sister Laura Tipoki is the album’s Musical Director.

Patrice graduated from the prestigious Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) where she honed her craft.

She is also no stranger to the world of pop music where she was a member of Girlband, releasing the singles Party Girl (2006) and Electric (2007), and touring Australia with the Rogue Traders and TV Rock.

Patrice Tipoki’s A Musical Heart is released on iTunes on Friday, May 1 and distributed through The Planet Company.

A perfect present for Mum on Mother’s Day.

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Love This City! with with

Fiona Byrne Guest Columnist

Sophia, 80, still has ‘wow factor’

Nana delights Melb.

■ Screen legend Sophia Loren charmed Melbourne over the weekend, appearing as a special guest at the La Dolce Italia charity gala dinner at Crown.

The dinner, a fundraiser for the Alannah & Madeline Foundation, saw fans of Loren flock to her for autographs and photos.

Loren provided a couture Armani gown from her own collection for auction on the evening.

At 80 years of age, Loren still has ‘wow’ factor and can pull a crowd.

Guests at the dinner included business giants Gina Rinehart and Lindsay Fox.

● Sophia Loren signs autographs for waiting fans Photos: Fiona Hamilton

● Heloise Waislitz, Paula Lindsay Fox

● John and Rasa Bertrand

● Toni and Robert Dipierdomenico

Melbourne’s best kept secret

● Phil Price, Chrysalid.

■ The McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery at Langwarrin is well worth checking out if you fancy a bit of a drive.

The park was established in 1971 and features more than 100 sculptures by noted Australian artists.

It is a beautiful setting for stunning pieces – and frankly one of Melbourne’s best kept secrets.

On Saturday McClelland announced Phil Price as the winner of the $20,000 Frankston City People’s Choice Award for his work Chrysalid.

Chrysalid is a work of monumental scale and beauty.

The kinetic work sees the long fern fronds dance in the changing natural environment.

Born in New Zealand, but now based in Melbourne, Price was educated at Christchurch then specialised in sculpture at the University of Canterbury, School of Fine Arts, graduating in 1990.

He worked initially as an artist’s technical assistant and then in a variety of positions in the art world, in education and in composite engineering.

Since 2005 Price has focused on his sculp-

ture practice, working principally on large scale works for the outdoor environment.

His name is synonymous with large scale, wind-activated kinetic sculpture.

He is represented in public and private collections throughout Australasia.

The People’s Choice Award is part of the McClelland Sculpture Survey & Award.

The McClelland Sculpture Survey & Award was established in 2003 and quickly established itself as the most influential and prestigious exhibition of outdoor public sculpture in Australia.

It brings together a wide range of sculptors from emerging, mid-career and established artists, working in wide range of styles and different media.

The McClelland Sculpture Survey is open until Sunday, July 19 at McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park, 390 McClelland Drive, Langwarrin.

For more information go to www.mcclellandgallery.com ● Fiona Byrne is a former journalist and is the Public Relations Manager at Sofitel Melbourne On Collins.

Fiona@fionabyrne.com.au

● Nana Mouskouri and Di Rolle ■ Nana Mouskouri treated an adoring audience to an evening of memories and storytelling at Hamer Hall last week.

The concert hall was the perfect venue for Nana, allowing her to engage with the audience.

She chatted happily through her performance, sharing a tale about why she stays clear of the edge of the stage and even laughing at herself when she unexpectedly sneezed during a number and had to pick the song up half way through.

At 80 this will presumably be Nana’s last tour to Australia.

The fact that she was back on stage in Melbourne was greeted with huge warmth and enthusiasm by the audience many of whom had grown up with Nana’s music.

Lovely moments included Nana’s performances of Scarborough Fair and Turn On The Sun. Her version of Both Sides Now was beautiful and I particularly loved her take on Amy Winehouse's Love Is A Losing Game.

A montage of clips from her career that played as Nana arrived on stage demonstrated to great effect just how successful she had been as a performing artist.

My dear friend Di Rolle was the publicist for the tour and she said working with Nana was among her career highlights.

“This has to go down as one of the best tours I have ever worked on,’’ Di said.

“What a fabulous woman she is.’’

Dolph drops in

● Dolph Lundgren and gym owner Mark Castagnini Photo Fiona Hamilton ■ Melbourne appears to be high on the stop over list for aging action heroes.

First Arnold Schwarzenegger ventured Down Under for the Grand Prix and a sports expo, now Dolph Lundgren has been in town.

Lundgren, who starred alongside Schwarzenegger in recent hit film The Expendables 3, is best known for playing Drago in Rocky IV opposite Sylvester Stallone.

He was in town for a fan convention but found time to appear at the opening of Hammer’s Gym in Nunawading last Wednesday.

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Confidential Talk is cheap, gossip is priceless

Debra Byrne begs for a fan-paid trip to Phuket

Bitch Melbourne’s Secrets

Magic disappears ■ Radio station Magic 1278 now has a lot of “ex-” listeners, if Facebook comments are any indication.

Their fury follows the sacking last week of presenters Jane Holmes, Kevin John, Peter O’Callaghan, Peter Van and Ric Ditchburn.

Fan Pauline Coe said: “Goodbye Magic. The new presenters are terrible. Kevin and Jane brightened the morning and were a pleasure to ● Ric Ditchburn listen to. All our radios have now been turned off 1278.” Wendy Gander said much the same: “I have listened to Magic for more than 30 years and your presenters have been a familiar and reassuring presence. I may get used to the new presenters but if I don't with much disappointment you have lost me as a listener.”

Ian Millard commented: “Magic 1278 sounds like a re-vamped 3AW at the moment. I've been an avid Magic fan since Magic 693 began. It's not just the music you guys play. We invite your presenters into our homes and our lives. And now you sack them in a cost-cutting exercise?

“This is obviously a management decision by incompetent management. Shame on you. Goodbye Magic, Smooth FM will be my new station of choice.

And if any of your sacked presenters read this, "Thank you for all your hard work and long hours to make our lives happy. I hope you are able to find new positions in the radio industry. I will miss you".

Laura Kate: “I miss Ric Ditchburn - the reppacement guy sounds litke a wet mop.”

Julie Sykes: “If you want to cost-cut, you may as well close down the radio station! Not worth listening to anymore. It was the presenters and music that made Magic1278. Shame for sackings.”

Denis Carnell: “Abracadabra, just like Magic all our loved presenters have disappeared, Sad times, the listeners are next to disappear.”

William van Hoboken: “Absolutely appalled by what has happened. Never again will I listen to 1278.

Shame shame shame."

Beth Dudley Rose: “’The Songs You Know and Love’ BUT what has happened to the announcers we know and love?”

Kaye Crawford: “Well, wholesale sacking of your loyal staff. What a way to treat hard working people!

To the management of 1278 you have lost me, I don't want to listen to your new presenters, I liked the old ones.”

Georgie Millard: “I am not only upset but disgusted to read that all the presenters at Magic are gone. They were not just voices on the radio they were our friends. We have listened to Magic since the days of Johnny Young but no more.

“If this is how you treat your staff and loyal listeners then you can stick your station where the sun doesn't shine. All our radios will now be tuned to Smooth FM.” ● More comments on Pages 10, 34

■ Former Young Talent Time star Debra Byrne is pleading to her social media fans to pay for a trip to Thailand for she and her family.

Byrne, a former ‘Queen of Pop’, published her bank account details on Facebook at the weekend, to enable her fans to deposit donations directly.

Her plea comes just months after she revealed she was liable for rents of more than $100,000 at a Coburg church, when she suddenly abandoned her Born To Perform talent school.

Byrne says she wants to go to Thailand for dental work, which she says will improve her self-confidence.

She is also asking for members of the public to donate money to pay for airline fares and accommodation for her teenage daughter, and grandchildren.

“Challenge friends ... (I) need to return to Bangkok to have bridge work finalised. “(The) work was done prior to Fat Tony and Co filming … as I had limited time work (I) was unable to be completed re the root canal treatment.

● Debra Byrne “(I) was there four days and an average of five hours a day having …three root canals (all good no pain and perfectly healed), deep gum clean tooth cleaned, a bridge across front teeth while replacing missing tooth at front, a bridge replaced (though due to time limitations had to return with temporary as they were unsure of the root canal treatment), lower left side fillings. “ Wow, what a great team of dental technicians dentists nurses re-

And the winner is ...

ceptionists. wonderful people great place great work. “(I) must take children with me as leaving them in care at home is not acceptable and just ridiculously expensive but its more about keeping them close where I and they feel best. “(I) need help ... need cheap and I mean cheap but at least one pool near to Patong Beach which is where sister clinic to Bangkok, is as I thought taking kids to Phuket would be nicer for them than Bangkok.

“I have found heaps on site and they all look in much better condition than our home so I am sure its Aokay.

“I can manage the accom side of things …but its the flights guys …it’s killing me….so if anyone is up for the challenge I need flights for two adults me 58 and Lucille aged 14 and two children Aaron 8 and Oliver 10 flying from Melbourne to Phuket, June 21 returning July 1.

“Go forth my friends and find.

Love you xxDeb.” Byrne has adopted the hashtag #paybackalegend to promote her cause.

Rumour Mill

Whispers

Blues

● Mick Malthouse ■ Will Carlton Football Club’s Mick Malthouse be the first AFLcoaching casualty for the 2015 season?

Christian action

■ Flinders Christian Community College Inc has asked for a Frankston Magistrates’ Court Registrars’ Hearing this afternoon (Wed.) where it is due to allege a ‘services rendered’ civil claim against Rudolf Frey.

On Q&A Hear It Here First

School goes to Court

● 3AW reporter Donna Demaio was clear winner amongst Melbourne media people to publish a ‘selfie’ photo with Italian actress, Sophia Loren, 80, who attended a charity ball In Victoria on Friday.

Another Australian-born journalist, who seems to prefer to focus on the Italian heritage of her forebears, was a distant placegetter with a series of online Twitter photos that had Loren far away. These days, Loren is a French citizen whose primary residence is in Geneva, Switzerland.

Richard Stubbs on air ■ ABC Radio has chosen comedian Richard Stubbs to be one of its three presenters in its ANZAC Day broadcasts from Turkey on Saturday, Srubbs, Ollie Wards and Serpil Senelmis are promoted as offering Australian, New Zealand and Turkish persepectives to the coverage.per

● Richard Stubbs

■ Mornington’s prestigious The Peninsula School has requested a hearing at Dromana Magistrates’ Court on Monday (April 27) where it is due to allege a ‘debt’ owed by Donna Purcell.

The Magistrates’Administration hearing is set down for 11am. No representation has been registered in the matter.

■ Comedian Dave Hughes and broadcaster Derryn Hinch were panels guests on Q&A, broadcast from the Melbourne Recital Centre on Monday, hosted by Tony Jones. Also appearing were Trade Minister Andrew Robb and former speaker Anna Burke.

Claim

Allegation dismissed

■ An allegation against false and misleading against Frances Fernandez by Greg, Eva and Con Mesaritis has been dimsissed by VCAT Deputy President Ian Lulham. The allegation was also originally brought against Breez Finance Corporation, Poinciana CoOperative Housing Society, Jacaranda Co-Operative Hosing Society and Monet Finance Corporation in regard to a $94,000 claim over a motgage over land she owned at Woolamai. The claim was around $650,000 lent to fund the construction of townhouses on the property.

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■ Flemington Equine Clinic Pty Ltd has requested a Mebourne Magistrates’ Court prehearing conference today (Wed.) where it is due to allege a ‘services rendered’ claim against Pacific Bloodstock Pty Ltd.

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The Magic disappears ● From Page 9

● Peter Van and Kevin John: sacked without notice from Magic 1278 Upset listeners have continued their letters of complaint to the new Macquarie-Fairfax radio network management over the sackings of all Maqgic 1278 radio station on-air staff.

Lyn Hood said: “Another long time listener lost here as well, shame 1278 management shame.”

Janet Mitchell: “Can't believe that you sacked all the staff - you have lost me as a listener. Shame on you Fairfax!”

June Howarth: “Is it true that all our favourite presenters have been sacked? We didnt get a chance to say thankyou or goodbye. I will not be listening to 1278 any more. I’m going to go and change all my radios to another station.”

Lesley Lilley: “Fairfax has killed Magic! We like the music, but we love the presenters! Not listening any more, ever. And stuffy 3AW can get lost too. I guess the people of Melbourne don't matter to the Sydneycentric bigwigs, as usual.”

Colin Gibbons: “What on earth is going on with 1278? To read that everyone has been sacked is really bad. This is a wonderful station, please keep it on air with all the old staff.”

Grace Donaldson: “Who knew1377 MyMP plays the same music? If we can’t have Kavin and Jane, Ric Ditchburn, Peter O’Callaghan or Peter Van, we may as well listen to good music somewhere else ... 1278 was not just the music it was the announcers who made it fantastic. Turned on 1278 this morning and was not happy. The guy nearly read out an address then sounded like he was making fun of grandkids birthday segment and the Pankcake Parlour. No more, these decisions have no consideration for the listeners or commentators who were like family not just a number. 1377 here we come.”

Neil Maloney: “Terrible news about the mass sacking of the Magic on-air team. Haven't you learnt yet that Melbourne audiences want Melbourne personalities and news? We all remember the debacle that was MTR! Smooth FM and MyMP here I come, along with many others I'm sure.”

Anne Archer: “Shocked and saddened to hear of the recent ‘redundancies’ of four very talented and popular presenters. We will miss you Kevin, Ric and the two Peters. It's definitely bye bye from us, Magic 1278. The magic is gone.”

Anibal Tabone: “What have happened is a disaster. Where will our presenters go from now on?

Magic won't be the same never again, all it's left for these new owners is to change the radio name, they ruined the whole radio and programs and they lost almost all the listeners. Switching to Smooth and MyMP.” Lillian Stephenson: “You do realize that we don't only listen to 1278 for the music. It's the presenters that get us tuned it. I stopped listening to Gold when they sacked their staff, looks like it's Smooth FM for me from now on, goodbye Magic 1278 ... shame shame shame.”

Stephen Telekei: “What an absolute disgrace Magic, sacking the entire presenters team. Clearly the next step is bye bye Magic.”

Janine Terry: “The one thing that made me switch to Magic 1278 from the old 3KZ was that they treated their listeners with respect. When Andrew and Ann were joining the morning programs (I started listening when Johnny Young was the morning presenter), they had ads every hour or so to advise us that they were joining. When Jane and Kevin were joining as the morning presenters, we were also told. I'm so shocked that they (a) treated their staff with so much disrespect and (b) that they treated their listeners will so much disrespect. Pull your heads in management and restore at least the morning team or you will lose many - including me - listeners.” ● Turn to Page 34

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Melbourne Observer - Wednesday, April 22, 2013 - Page 11

Portland re-engages students Freemasons Victoria provides crisis relief funding

● Darren Spargo, Peter Lees, Pastor Don Press, John Chatfield, David Gibbs and Barrie Young.

■ Friday the Thirteenth can be quite lucky for some! On that day last month a presentation of $11,100 was made to 4C's (Cardinia Combined Churches Caring), a Church based emergency relief organisation working within and for the residents of the Shire of Cardinia.

This money was donated as a result of the efforts of Freemasons Victoria's Peter Lees of Gippsland Forest Lodge and Darren Spargo of Pakenham Lodge who were sponsored to undertake a bike ride. Their donation was then equalled by the Freemasons Foundation.

Freemasons Foundation Victoria Director, David Gibbs was on hand to present the cheque to the CEO of 4C's, Pastor Don Press.

"The Crisis Relief Centre sees up to 250 people a day, either for emergency relief, emergency housing, family counselling, financial counselling, no-interest loans and food parcels,” Don said.

Being totally reliant on gifts and grants this money will go a long way to assist in the funding of the centre and is just another example of Freemasonry's ideals, brotherly love, relief and being out there in the wider community.

■ Portland Secondary College has received a cheque for $10,000 from the Portland Lodge and the Freemasons Foundation, to go towards the College's Re-engagement Program.

The program, which has been running since 2011, has been set up to support young people who are, for various reasons, struggling within main stream education.

Chairman of the Portland Lodge Community Project Committee, Ian Berry, said that the contribution to the school was invaluable.

"Some of the students in the program have been bullied and taken out of school for home schooling. The reengagement program enables them to resume their education pathway in an environment free of judgement. Students who have completed the program often go on to continue their studies at University,” Ian said.

Portland College Principal Toni Burgoyne was quoted in the Portland Observer: "Funding is allocated to employ a student welfare coordinator and a literacy and numeracy Assistant", she said.

● Standing: Portland Secondary College Principal Toni Burgoyne, Chairman of the Portland Lodge Community Project Committee Ian Berry and Steve Rodgers. Seated: Junior students involved in the program with lead teacher Chris Thomas

Nhill Boardwalk project nears completion

■ Progress with reconstruction and refurbishment of the Nhill Swamp Boardwalk has been consistent and impressive since the commencement of the working part of the project in the New Year.

Contract supervision assisted by many hundreds of hours of voluntary work has led to such efficiency that the new and upgraded Boardwalk will once again link the Highway Park entrance with the downtown Nhill Lake, by this month This will enable the main part of the Boardwalk to be re-opened to the public once approval has been given by the supervising engineer, ths month. This will then leave just the branch to the Bird Observatory hub to be subsequently completed.

Leading participation by members of Lowan Lodge No. 107 and the Victorian Freemasons Task Force along with the Rotary Club of Nhill has been wonderfully supported by the local Karen community, the West Wimmera Health Service, Parks Victoria and the community at large.

The Nhill Boardwalk committee is pleased to report that the substantial inputs required for the project are coming in within budget. This would not have been possible without the outstanding contributions fromFreemasons Victoria and the Victorian Government.

The Boardwalk Committee is now planning for a grand opening ceremony to be held in the latter half of May 2015.

Next time you are travelling to, or through, Nhill be sure to visit the Boardwalk and enjoy the enduring legacy of Victorian Freemasonry's presence in Western Victoria. ● All of the committed volunteers from Lowan Lodge No. 107, the Freemasons Victoria Task Force, Rotary Club of Nhill, the Karen community, the Wimmera Health Service and Parks Victoria who are working hard to revive the Nhill Boardwalk.

To find out more about Freemasonry, how to become a member, or attend upcoming public events, please visit www.freemasonsvic.net.au Or ‘like’ our FaceBook page www.facebook.com/freemasonsvic for the most up to date information.

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BALWYN, 3103. Balwyn Newsagency. 413 Whitehorse Rd, Balwyn. (03) 9836 4206.

BALWYN, 3103. Belmore Newsagency. 338 Belmore Rd, Balwyn. (03) 9857 9729.

BALWYN, 3103. Yooralla Newsagency. 247B Belmore Rd, Balwyn. (03) 9859 8285.

BALWYN NORTH, 3104. Burkemore Newsagency.

1060 Burke Rd, Balwyn North. (03) 9817 3472.

BALWYN NORTH, 3104. Greythorn Newsagency.

272 Doncaster Rd, Balwyn North. (03) 9857 9894.

BALWYN NORTH, 3104. North Balwyn Newsagency.

77 Doncaster Rd, North Balwyn. (03) 9859 1983.

BANNOCKBURN, 3331. Bannockburn Newsagency.

(03) 5281 1625.

BARWON HEADS, 3227. Barwon Heads Newsagency. 43 Hitchcock St, Barwon Heads.

(03) 5254 2260.

BATMAN. Batman Newsagency. (03) 9354 1269.

BAYSWATER, 3153. Bayswater Authorised Newsagency. Shop 21, Bayswater Village. (03) 9729 1773.

BELGRAVE, 3160. Belgrave Newsagency. 1704 Burwood Hwy. (03) 9754 2429.

BELL PARK, 3215. Bell Park Newsagency. 21-23 Milton St, Bell Park. (03) 5278 4032.

BELMONT, 3216. Belmont Newsagency. 132A High St. (03) 5243 1385.

BENNETTSWOOD, 3125. Bennetswood Newsagency. 79 Station St, Bennettswood. (03) 9808 3391.

BENTLEIGH, 3204. Central Bentleigh Newsagency.

395 Centre Rd, Bentleigh. (03) 9557 1453.

BENTLEIGH EAST, 3165. Centrefield Newsagency.

939 Centre Rd, Bentleigh East. (03) 9563 7607.

BENTLEIGH EAST, 3165. Chesterville Newsagency.

299 Chesterville Rd, Bentleigh East. (03) 9570 1983.

BENTLEIGH EAST, 3165. East Bentleigh Tatts & News. (03) 9570 5951.

BERWICK, 3806. Berwick Newsagency. 29-31 High St, Berwick. (03) 9707 1311.

BLACK ROCK, 3193. Black Rock Newsagency. 606 Balcombe Rd. (03) 9589 4266.

BLACKBURN, 3130. Blackburn Newsagency. 116 South Pde, Blackburn. (03) 9878 0101.

BLACKBURN SOUTH, 3130. Blackburn South Newsagency. 108 Canterbury Rd, Blackburn South. (03) 9877 2110.

BORONIA, 3155. Boronia Village Newsagency.

Shop 22A, 163 Boronia Rd, Boronia. (03) 9762 3464.

BOX HILL, 3128. Newsline Newsagency. Shop 70, Box Hill Central. (03) 9890 2217.

BOX HILL, 3128. Whitehorse Plaza Newsagency.

G35, Centro Shopping Plaza, Box Hill. Phone: (03) 9899 0593.

BOX HILL NORTH, 3129. Kerrimuir Newsagency.

515 Middleborough Rd, Box Hill North. (03) 9898 1450.

BOX HILL SOUTH, 3128. Box Hill South Newsagency. 870 Canterbury Rd, Box Hill South.

(03) 9890 6481.

BOX HILL SOUTH, 3128. Wattle Park Newsagency.

164A Elgar Rd, Box Hill South. (03) 9808 1614.

BRIAR HILL, 3088. Briar Hill Newsagency. 111 Mountain View Rd, Briar Hill. (03) 9435 1069.

BRIGHTON, 3186. Gardenvale Newsagency. 168 Martin St, Brighton. (03) 9596 7566.

BRIGHTON EAST, 3187. Highway Newsagency.

765B Hawthorn Rd, Brighton East. (03) 9592 2054.

BRIGHTON EAST, 3187. East Brighton Newsagency.

613 Hampton St, Brighton. (03) 9592 2029.

BRIGHTON NORTH, 3186. North Brighton Authorised Newsagency. 324 Bay St, North Brighton. (03) 9596 4548.

BRUNSWICK, 3056. Lygon Authorised Newsagency. (03) 9387 4929.

BRUNSWICK WEST, 3055. Melville Newsagency.

418 Moreland Rd, West Brunswick. (03) 9386 3300.

BRUNSWICK WEST, 3055. Theresa Newsagency.

34 Grantham St, Brunswick West. (03) 9380 8806.

BULLEEN, 3105. Bulleen Plaza Newsagency. Shop 29, Bulleen Plaza. (03) 9850 5521.

BULLEEN, 3105. Thompsons Road Newsagency.

123A Thompsons Rd, Bulleen. (03) 9850 1882.

Every Wednesday - at your local newsagent

BUNDOORA, 3083. Bundoora Centre Newsagency.

Shop 3, 39 Plenty Rd, Bundoora. (03) 9467 1351.

BUNDOORA, 3083. Bundoora Newsagency. 1268 Plenty Rd, Bundoora. (03) 9467 2138.

BUNYIP, 3815. Bunyip Newsagency. (03) 5629 6111.

BURNLEY, 3121. Burnley Newsagency. 375 Burnley St, Burnley. (03) 9428 1669.

BURWOOD EAST, 3151. East Burwood Newsagency. 16 Burwood Hwy, Burwood East.

(03) 9808 7284.

CAMBERWELL, 3124. Burke Road Newsagency.

(03) 9882 3671.

CAMBERWELL, 3124. Burwood Newsagency. 1394 Toorak Rd, Camberwell. (03) 9889 4155.

CAMBERWELL, 3124. Camberwell Centre Newsagency. 628 Burke Rd, Camberwell. (03) 9882 4083.

CAMBERWELL, 3124. Camberwell Market Newsagency. 513 Riversdale Rd, Camberwell.

(03) 9813 3799.

CAMBERWELL, 3124. Zantuck Newsagency. 732 Riversdale Rd, Camberwell. (03) 9836 4953.

CAMBERWELL EAST, 3124. East Camberwell Newsagency. 188 Through Rd, Camberwell. (03) 9836 2495.

CANTERBURY, 3126. Canterbury Newsagency. 104 Maling Rd. (03) 9836 2130.

CARISBROOK, 3464. Carisbrook Newsagency. (03) 5464 2293.

CARLTON, 3053. Lygon Authorised Newsagency.

260 Lygon St, Carlton. (03) 9663 6193.

CARLTON NORTH, 3054. Princes Hill Newsagency.

607 Lygon St, Carlton North. (03) 9380 1419.

CARLTON NORTH, 3054. Rathdowne Newsagency.

410 Rathdowne St, Carlton North. (03) 9347 2630.

CARNEGIE, 3163. Carnegie Newsagency. 58 Koornang Rd, Carnegie. (03) 9568 5256.

CARNEGIE, 3163. Patterson Newsagency. (03) 9557 5794.

CARNEGIE, 3163. Southern Distribution & Delivery Service. 669 North Rd, Carnegie. (03) 9576 7044.

CARRUM, 3197. Carrum Newsagency. 514 Station St, Carrum. (03) 9772 7696.

CARRUM DOWNS, 3198. Bayside Distribution. (03) 9782 6333.

CAULFIELD EAST, 3145. Caulfield Newsagency.

14 Derby Rd, Caulfield East. (03) 9571 6194.

CAULFIELD NORTH, 3161. Junction Newsagency.

69-71 Hawthorn Rd, Caulfield North. (03) 9523 8546.

CAULFIELD SOUTH, 3162. Booran Road Newsagency. 177 Booran Rd, Caulfield South.

(03) 9578 3195.

CAULFIELD SOUTH, 3162. South Caulfield Newsagency. 792 Glenhuntly Rd, Caulfield South.

(03) 9523 8701.

CHADSTONE, 3148. Supanews. Shops A42 and A49, Chadstone. (03) 9569 5858.

CHADSTONE, 3148. Holmesglen Newsagency.

637 Warrigal Rd, Chadstone. (03) 9569 7365.

CHARLTON, 3525. Charltopn Newsagency. (03) 5491 1680.

CHELSEA, 3196. Chelsea Newsagency. 403 Nepean Hwy, Chelsea. (03) 9772 2621.

CHELTENHAM, 3192. Cheltenham Newsagency.

332 Charman Rd, Cheltenham. (03) 9583 3276.

CHELTENHAM, 3192. Southland Newsagency.

Westfield Shoppingtown, Cheltenham. (03) 9584 9433.

CLAYTON, 3168. Clayton Authorised Newsagency.

345 Clayton Rd, Clayton. (03) 9544 1153.

CLIFTON HILL, 3068. Clifton Hill Newsagency. 316 Queens Pde, Clifton Hill. (03) 9489 8725.

COBURG, 3058. Coburg Newsagency, 481-483 Sydney Rd, Coburg. (03) 9354 7525.

COLAC, 3250. Blaines Newsagency, Colac. (03) 5231 4602.

COLDSTREAM, 3770. Coldstream Newsagency.

670 Maroondah Hwy, Coldstream. (03) 9739 1409.

CORIO, 3214. Corio Village Newsagency. Shop 27, Corio Village, Corio. (03) 5275 1666.

COWES, 3922. Cowes Newsagency. 44 Thompson Ave, Cowes. (03) 5952 2046.

CRAIGIEBURN, 3064. Craigieburn Newsagency.

Shop 9 Mall, Craigieburn. (03) 9308 2132.

CRANBOURNE, 3977. Cranbourne Newsagency.

105 High St,Cranbourne. (03) 5996 8866.

CRANBOURNE NORTH, 3977. Thompson Parkway Newsagency. Cnr South Gippsland Hwy, Cranbourne North. (03) 5996 0055.

CROYDON, 3136. Burnt Bridge Newsagency. 434 Maroondah Hwy, Croydon. (03) 9870 6140.

CROYDON, 3136. Croydon Newsagency. 158 Main St, Croydon. (03) 9723 2001.

CROYDON NORTH, 3136. Croydon North Newsagency. 5 Exeter Rd, Croydon North. (03) 9726 6030.

DANDENONG, 3175. Lonsdale Newsagency. 250 Lonsdale St, Dandenong. (03) 9792 1897.

DANDENONG, 3175. Lucky Winners Lotto. 118 Hemmings St, Dandenong. (03) 9792 4628.

DANDENONG, 3175. Doveton News & Lotto. (03) 9792 4937.

DEER PARK, 3023. Deer Park Newsagency. 823 Ballarat Rd, Deer Park.(03) 9363 1175.

DENILIQUIN, 2710. Deniliquin Newsagency and Bookstore. (02) 5881 2080.

DIAMOND CREEK, 3089. Diamond Creek Newsagency. 62A Hurstbridge Rd. (03) 9438 1470.

DINGLEY VILLAGE, 3172. Dingley Newsagency.

79 Centre Dandenong Rd, Dingley Village. (03) 9551 1184.

DONCASTER, 3108. Shoppingtown Newsagency.

Shop 34, 619 Doncaster Rd, Doncaster. (03) 9848 3912.

DONCASTER EAST, 3109. East Doncaster Newsagency. 74 Jackson Ct, Doncaster East. (03) 9848 3174.

DONCASTER EAST, 3109. Tunstall Square Newsagency. Shop 4, Tunstall Square, Doncaster East. (03) 9842 2485.

DONCASTER EAST, 3109. The Pines Newsagency.

Shop 35, 181 Reynolds Rd, Doncaster East. (03) 9842 7944.

DROMANA, 3936. Dromana Newsagency. 177 Nepean Hwy, Dromana. (03) 5987 2338.

DROUIN, 3818. Burrows Newsagency, Drouin. (03) 5625 1614.

DRYSDALE, 3222. Drysdale Newsagency. High St, Drysdale. (03) 5251 2776.

EAGLEMONT, 3084. Eaglemont Lucky Lotto, News & Post. 68 Silverdale Rd. (03) 9499 2589.

EDITHVALE, 3196. Edithvale Newsagency. 253 Nepean Hwy. (03) 9772 1072.

ELSTERNWICK, 3185. Elsternwick Newsagency.

348 Glenhuntly Rd, Elsternwick. (03) 9523 8335.

ELSTERNWICK, 3185. Elsternwick Office Supplies.

433 Glenhuntly Rd, Elsternwick. (03) 9523 6495.

ELSTERNWICK, 3185. Ripponlea Newsagency. 78 Glen Eira Rd, Elsternwick. (03) 9523 5649.

ELTHAM, 3095. Eltham Newsagency & Toyworld.

958 Main Rd. (03) 9439 9162.

ELWOOD, 3184. Elwood Newsagency. 103 Ormond Rd, Elwood. (03) 9531 4223.

EMERALD, 3782. Emerald Newsagency. Main St, Emerald. (03) 5968 5152.

EPPING, 3076. Dalton Village Newsagency. (03) 9408 8877.

ESSENDON, 3040. Essendon Newsagency. 15A Rose St, Essendon. (03) 9337 5908.

ESSENDON, 3040. Roundabout Newsagency. 94 Fletcher St, Essendon. (03) 9370 5305.

ESSENDON NORTH, 3041. North Essendon Newsagency. 1085 Mt Alexander Rd, North Essendon. (03) 9379 2243.

FAIRFIELD, 3078. Fairfield Newsagency. 99 Station St, Fairfield. (03) 9481 3240.

FAWKNER, 3060. Fawkner Newsagency. 54 Bonwick St, Fawkner. (03) 9359 2046.

FAWKNER, 3060. Moomba Park Newsagency. 89 Anderson Rd, Fawkner. (03) 9359 1595.

FERNTREE GULLY, 3156. Ferntree Gully Newsagency. Shop 2, 69 Station St, Ferntree Gully. (03) 9758 1343.

FERNTREE GULLY, 3156. Mountain Gate Newsagency. Shop 9B, Ferntree Gully. (03) 9758 4427.

FERNTREE GULLY UPPER, 3156. Upper Ferntree Gully Newsagency. Shop 3 Ferntree Plaza. (03) 9756 0171.

FITZROY, 3065. Fitzroy Newsagency. 337 Brunswick St, Fitzroy. (03) 9417 3017.

FITZROY NORTH, 3068. North Fitzroy Newsagency.

224 St Georges Rd, Fitzroy North. (03) 9489 8614.

FOOTSCRAY WEST, 3012. Kingsville Newsagency.

339 Somerville Rd, Footscray West. (03) 9314 5004.

FOREST HILL, 3131. Brentford Square Newsagency. 29-31 Brentford Sq., Forest Hill.

(03) 9878 1882.

FOREST HILL, 3131. NewsXPress Forest Hill. Shop 215, Western Entrance, Forest Hill. (03) 9878 2515.

FOUNTAIN GATE, 3805. Fountain Gate Newsagency. Shop 1157 (Level 1), Fountain Gate. (03) 9704 6408.

FRANKSTON, 3199. Beach Street Newsagency.

239 Beach St, Frankston. (03) 9789 9736.

FRANKSTON, 3199. Foote Street Newsagency. c/ - Bayside Distribution Services. (03) 9783 4720.

FRANKSTON, 3199. Frankston Newsagency. 5 Keys St, Frankston. (03) 9783 3253.

FRANKSTON, 3199. Karingal Hub Newsagency. c/ - Bayside Distribution Services. (03) 9776 7744.

FRANKSTON, 3199. Young Street Newsagency. 78 Young St, Frankston. (03) 9783 2467.

GARDENVALE, 3186. See Brighton.

GARFIELD, 3814. Garfield Newsagency Pty Ltd. 77 Main St, Garfield. (03) 5629 2533.

GEELONG, 3220. Geelong Newsagency & Lotto.

139 Moorabool St, Geelong. (03) 5222 1911.

GEELONG EAST, 3219. East Geelong Newsagency.

78A Garden St. (03) 5229 5109.

GEELONG WEST, 3218. Manifold Newsagency.

Shop 2, 132 Shannon Ave, Geelong West. (03) 5229 5897.

GEELONG WEST, 3218. Murphy's Newsagency. PO Box 7133, Geelong West. (03) 5229 1973.

GISBORNE, 3437. Gisborne Newsagency. Shop 20, Village Shopping Centre. (03) 5428 2632.

GLADSTONE PARK, 3043. Gladstone Park Newsagency. Shop 164. (03) 9338 3921.

GLEN HUNTLY, 3163. Glenhuntly Newsagency.

1164 Glenhuntly Rd, Glenhuntly. (03) 9571 2551.

GLEN WAVERLEY, 3150. Glen Waverley News.

Shop L2, 65 Glen S/C, Springvale Rd, Glen Waverley. (03) 9802 8503.

GLEN WAVERLEY, 3150. Kingsway Newsagency.

65 Kingsway, Glen Waverley. (03) 9560 9987.

GLEN WAVERLEY, 3150. Syndal Newsagency. 238 Blackburn Rd, Glen Waverley. (03) 9802 8446.

GLENFERRIE, 3122. See Hawthorn.

GLENROY, 3046. Glenroy Newsagency. 773 Pascoe Vale Rd, Glenroy. (03) 9306 9530.

GRANTVILLE, 3984. Grantville Newsagency. Shop 4, 1509 Bass Hwy, Grantville. (03) 5678 8808.

GREENSBOROUGH, 3088. Greensborough Newsagency. Shop 4-5 Greensborough. (03) 9435 1024.

GREENVALE, 3059. Greenvale Newsagency. Shop 4 & 5, Cnr Mickleham & Greenvale Rds, Greenvale. (03) 9333 3154.

GROVEDALE, 3216. Grovedale Newsagency. 19 Peter St. (03) 5243 1480.

HADFIELD, 3046. Hadfield Newsagency. 120 West St, Hadfield. (03) 9306 5007.

HAMPTON, 3188. Hampton Newsagency. 345-347 Hampton St, Hampton. (03) 9598 1239.

HAMPTON EAST, 3188. Hampton East Newsagency.

412 Bluff Rd, Hampton East.(03) 9555 2821.

HAMPTON PARK, 3976. Hampton Park Newsagency. Shop 3, Park Square, Hampton Park. (03) 9799 1609.

HASTINGS, 3915. Hastings Newsagency. 56 High St. (03) 5979 1321.

HAWTHORN, 3122. Glenferrie Newsagency.669 Burwood Rd, Hawthorn. (03) 9818 2621.

HAWTHORN EAST, 3123. Auburn Newsagency. 119 Auburn Rd, Hawthorn East. (03) 9813 4838.

HAWTHORN EAST, 3123. Auburn South Newsagency. 289 Auburn Rd, Hawthorn East.

(03) 9882 2009.

HAWTHORN WEST, 3122. Hawthorn West Newsagency. 44 Church St, Hawthorn. (03) 9853 6098.

HEALESVILLE, 3777. Healesville Newsagency.

(03) 5962 4161.

HEIDELBERG, 3084. Heidelberg Newsagency. 128 Burgundy St, Heidelberg. (03) 9457 1098.

HEIDELBERG WEST, 3081. Heidelberg Heights Newsagency. 35 Southern Rd, Heidelberg West.

(03) 9457 2063.

HEIDELBERG WEST, 3081. The Mall Newsagency.

Shop 18, Heidelberg West. (03) 9457 4244.

HIGHETT, 3190. Highett Newsagency. 2 Railway Pde, Highett. (03) 9555 1010.

HIGHTON, 3216. Highton Newsagency. 7 Bellevue Ave. (03) 5243 4824, HOPPERS CROSSING, 3030. Hoppers Crossing Newsagency. 31 Old Geelong Rd, Hoppers Crossing. (03) 9749 2652, HUNTINGDALE, 3166. Huntingdale Newsagency.

291 Huntingdale Rd, Huntingdale. (03) 9544 1175.

HURSTBRIDGE, 3099. Hurstbridge Newsagency.

800 Main Rd. (03) 9718 2045.

IVANHOE, 3079. NewsXPress. 194-196 Upper Heidelberg Rd, Ivanhoe. (03) 9499 1231.

IVANHOE EAST, 3079. East Ivanhoe Newsagency.

262 Lower Heidelberg Rd, Ivanhoe East. (03) 9499 1720.

KEILOR, 3036. Centreway Newsagency. 59 Wyong St, Keilor East, 3033. (03) 9336 2451.

KEILOR, 3036. Keilor Newsagency. 700 Calder Hwy, Keilor. (03) 9336 7930.

KEILOR DOWNS, 3038. Keilor Downs Newsagency.

Shop 3, Keilor Downs Plaza, Keilor Downs. (03) 9310 9955.

KEW, 3101. Cotham Newsagency. 97 Cotham Rd, Kew. (03) 9817 3840.

KEW, 3101. Kew Newsagency. 175 High St, Kew. (03) 9853 8238.

KEW NORTH, 3101. North Kew Newsagency. 93 Willsemere Rd, Kew. (03) 9853 9383.

KEYSBOROUGH, 3173. Parkmore Newsagency.

Parkmore Shopping Centre, Kensington. (03) 9798 4311.

KILMORE, 3764. Kilmore Newsagency. 41 Sydney St. (03) 5782 1465.

KILSYTH, 3137. Kilsyth Newsagency. 520 Mt Dandenong Rd. (03) 9725 6218.

KINGSVILLE, 3012. See Footscray West.

KNOX CITY. See Wantirna South KNOXFIELD, 3180. Knoxfield Newsagency. (03) 9764 8260.

KOO-WEE-RUP, 3981. Koo Wee Rup Newsagency.

44-48 Station St, Koo Wee Rup. (03) 5997 1456.

LALOR, 3075. Lalor Newsagency. 364 Station St, Lalor. (03) 9465 2698.

LARA, 3212. Lara Newsagency. 44 The Centreway, Lara. (03) 5282 1419.

L AVERTON, 3028. Laverton Newsagency. 12 Aviation Rd, Laverton. (03) 9369 1426.

LEOPOLD, 3028. Leopold Newsagency. 45 Ash Rd, Leopold. (03) 5250 1687.

LILYDALE, 3140. Lilydale Newsagency. 237 Main St. (03) 9735 1705.

LOWER PLENTY, 3093. Lower Plenty Newsagency.

95 Main Rd. (03) 9435 6423.

LOWER TEMPLESTOWE, 3107. See Templestowe Lower.

MALVERN, 3144. Malvern Newsagency. 114 Glenferrie Rd, Malvern. (03) 9509 8381.

MALVERN, 3144. Malvern Village Newsagency.

1352 Malvern Rd, Malvern. (03) 9822 3761.

MALVERN, 3144. Winterglen Newsagency Malvern Lotto. 167 Glenferrie Rd, Malvern. (03) 9509 9068.

MALVERN EAST, 3145. Central Park Newsagency.

393 Wattletree Rd, Malvern East. (03) 9509 9842.

McCRAE, 3938. McCrae Newsagency, 675 Point Nepean Rd. (03) 5986 8499.

McKINNON, 3204. McKinnon Newsagency. 148 McKinnon Rd, McKinnon. (03) 9578 4478.

MELBOURNE, 3000. Mitty's Newsagency. 53 Bourke St, Melbourne. (03) 9654 5950.

MELTON, 3337. Melton Authorised Newsagency.

383-385 High St, Melton. (03) 9743 5451.

MELTON, 3337. NewsXPress. (03) 9743 5451.

MENTONE, 3194. Mentone Newsagency. 24 Como Pde, Mentone. (03) 9585 3494.

MERLYNSTON, 3058. Merlynston Newsagency. (03) 9354 1532.

MIDDLE BRIGHTON, 3186. Middle Brighton Newsagency. 75-77 Church St, Middle Brighton.

(03) 9592 1000.

MIDDLE PARK, 3206. Middle Park Newsagency.

16 Armstrong St, Middle Park.

MILDURA, 3500. Klemm's Mildura Newsagency.

(03) 5302 1004.

MILL PARK, 3082. Mill Park Authorised Newsagency. Stables Shopping Centre, Cnr Childs Rd & Redleap Ave, Mill Park. (03) 9436 4400.

MITCHAM, 3132. Mitcham Newsagency. 503 Whitehorse Rd, Mitcham. (03) 9873 1108.

MOE, 3825. Yeatman's Newsagency. 3A Moore St, Moe. (03) 5127 1002.

MONT ALBERT., 3127. Mont Albert Newsagency.

42 Hamilton St, Mont Albert. (03) 9890 1140.

MONTMORENCY, 3094. Montmorency Newsagency.

41-43 Were St. (03) 9435 8893.

MONTROSE, 3765. Montrose Newsagency. 912 Mt Dandenong Rd. (03) 9728 2057.

MOONEE PONDS, 3039. Puckle Street Newsagency.

45 Puckle St, Moonee Ponds. (03) 9375 2264.

MORDIALLOC, 3195. Mordialloc Newsagency.

574A Main St, Mordialloc. (03) 9580 5141.

MORDIALLOC, 3195. Warren Village Newsagency.

87 Warren Rd. (03) 9580 3880.

MORELAND, 3056. See Brunswick.

MORNINGTON, 3931. Mornington Newsagency. 97 Main St, Mornington. (03) 5975 2099.

MORNINGTON, 3931. Scribes Newsagency. Shop 1/10, Mornington Village, Mornington. (03) 5975 5849.

If your local newsagency is not listed, and you would like them to stock the Melbourne Observer, please ask them to contact All Day Distribution, phone (03) 9482 1145.

MORWELL, 3840. Morwell Newsagency. 176 Commercial Rd, Morwell. (03) 5134 4133.

MOUNT ELIZA, 3934. Mount Eliza Newsagency.

102 Mount Eliza Way. (03) 5974 2347.

MOUNT MARTHA, 3934. Mount Martha Newsagency. 2 Lochiel Ave, Mount Martha. (03) 5974 2347.

MOUNT WAVERLEY, 3149. Pinewood Newsagency.

Shop 59, Centreway Shopping Centre, Mount Waverley. (03) 9802 7008.

MOUNTAIN GATE, 3156. See Ferntree Gully.

MT EVELYN, 3658. Mt Evelyn Newsagency. 1A Wray Cres. (03) 9736 2302.

MULGRAVE, 3170. Northvale Newsagency. 901 Springvale Rd, Mulgrave. (03) 9546 0200.

MULGRAVE, 3170. Waverley Gardens Newsagency. Shop 44, Waverley Gardens, Mulgrave. (03) 9547 5773.

MURCHISON, 3610. Murchison Newsagency, Murchison. (03) 5826 2152, MURRUMBEENA, 3163. Murrumbeena Newsagency. 456 Nerrim Rd, Murrumbenna. (03) 9568 1959.

NARRE WARREN, 3805. Narre Warren News & Tatts. Shop 1 Webb St, Narre Warren. (03) 9704 6495.

NEWCOMB, 3220. Newcomb Newsagency, Geelong. (03) 5248 5434.

NEWMARKET, 3031. Newmarket Newsagency. 294 Racecourse Rd, Newmarket. (03) 9376 6075.

NEWPORT, 3015. Newport Newsagency. 6 Hall St, Newport. (03) 9391 2548.

NIDDRIE, 3042. Niddrie Newsagency. 455 Keilor Rd, Niddrie. (03) 9379 3840.

NOBLE PARK, 3174. Noble Park Newsagency. 22 Douglas St, Noble Park. (03) 9546 9079.

NOBLE PARK, 3174. Variety Newsagency. 1268 Heatherton Rd, Noble Park. (03) 9546 7916.

NORTH BALWYN, 3104. See Balwyn North.

NORTH MELBOURNE, 3051. See West Melbourne.

NORTH MELBOURNE, 3051. Haines Street Newsagency. 46 Haines St. (03) 9328 1195.

NORTH MELBOURNE, 3051. News On Errol. (03) 9326 3744.

NORTHCOTE, 3070. Croxton Newsagency. 509 High St, Northcote. (03) 9481 3624.

NORTHCOTE, 3070. Northcote Newsagency. 335 High St, Northcote. (03) 9481 3725.

NORTHCOTE, 3070. Northcote Newsplaza. (03) 9481 7130.

NUNAWADING, 3131. Mountainview Newsagency.

293A Springfield Rd, Nunawading. (03) 9878 7887.

NYAH, 3594. Nyah General Store. (03) 5030 2230.

OAK PARK, 3046. Oak Park Newsagency. 120 Snell Grove, Oak Park. (03) 9306 5472.

OAKLEIGH, 3166. Oakleigh Newsagency. Shop 61-63, Oakleigh. (03) 9563 0703.

OAKLEIGH EAST, 3166. Oakleigh East Auth.

Newsagency. 190 Huntingdale Rd, East Oakleigh.

(03) 9544 4322.

OAKLEIGH SOUTH, 3167. Oakleigh South Newsagency. (03) 9570 5833.

OCEAN GROVE, 3226. Ocean Grove Newsagency.

82 The Terrace, Ocean Grove. (03) 5256 1779.

PAKENHAM, 3810. Pakenham Newsagency. 99 Main St, Pakenham. (03) 5941 1243.

PARKDALE, 3195. Parkdale Newsagencxy. 238 Como Pde. (03) 9580 1724.

PASCOE VALE, 3044. Pascoe Vale Central Newsagency. 110 Cumberland Rd, Pascoe Vale.

(03) 9354 8472.

PASCOE VALE, 3044. Coonans Hill News/Tatts/ Post Office. 67 Coonans Rd, Pascoe Vale South.

(03) 9386 7465.

PASCOE VALE SOUTH, 3044. Paper N Post. Pascoe Vale South. (03) 9354 1432.

PEARCEDALE, 3912. Pearcedale Newsagency.

Shop 14, Pearcedale Village Shopping Centre, Pearcedale. (03) 5978 6343.

POINT COOK, 3030. NewsXPress. (03) 9395 0424.

POINT LONSDALE, 3225. Point Lonsdale Newsagency. 99 Point Lonsdale Rd. (03) 5258 1159.

PORT MELBOURNE, 3207. Port Melbourne Distribution. (03) 9681 8122.

PORTARLINGTON, 3223. Portarlington Newsagency. Shop 1, 60 Newcombe St, Portarlington. (03) 5289 2892.

PRAHRAN, 3181. Prahran Market Newsagency.

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Tinsel town executive pay

■ The Lionsgate CEO's pay was $63.6 million last year, but other media moguls made more too After a turbulent year for entertainment and media companies - the Sony hack, a net neutrality fight, attempted mergers and acquisitions - volatility in executive pay overall appears to have gone off script.

Last year’s pace-setter so far is Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer, whose compensation ballooned to a massive $63.6 million - up 400 percent from 2013's $12.6 million - on the heels of the success of the fiscal year's Hunger Games instalment and fuelled by Feltheimer's stock options.

Even Disney's Bob Iger couldn't compete with that - though his compensation also soared 35 percent. On the flip side, ailing media mogul Sumner Redstone's compensation is down 65 percent from last year $13.2 million.

Meanwhile Apple CEO Tim Cook - the biggest company in the world - doubled his salary, but still made just $9 million.

Rupert Murdoch, the chairman and CEO of 21st Century Fox, brought home a total of $29.2 million from that company alone in 2014, up a few hundred thousand dollars from 2013.

Throw in his News Corp. take and the media mogul had a nice 2014.

The company 21st Century Fox itself posted revenue of $31.87 billion for 2014, increasing 15 per cent year-over-year and topping Wall Street forecasts.

The increase was primarily due to increases in subscription, affiliate fees, content and advertising revenues - it certainly helped having 2014's Super Bowl.

On the big screen, Murdoch credited the global box office successes of X-Men: Days of Future Past, Rio 2 and The Fault in Our Stars for contributing to the particularly strong end to the company's year.

As executive chairman of News Corp, Murdoch can add $8.7 million to his other haul. That breaks down to $1 million in salary, $5 million or so in stock awards and about $2.7 million in nonequity incentive plan monies. All this money coming in combined, Murdoch's executive compensation rose 31.1 percent year-over-year.

For that new company's first standalone year, revenues of $8.57 billion represented a four percent decrease. News Corp as it now stands split from Rupert Murdoch's entertainment media company in June 2013.

Chase Carey, president and COO of 21st Century Fox, earned almost as much as Murdoch, with compensation totaling $28 million, up just four percent from 2013.

Though Carey's base salary stayed exactly the same yearover-year, his stock awards and non-equity incentive dipped, a $3.1 million change in pension/deferred comp more than made up for the decreases.

In addition to the reasons stated above in Murdoch's section, Fox's 34 percent increase in subscription revenues was primarily due to the effect of the consolidation of Sky Deutschland from January 2013.

Its 17 percent increase in affiliate fees for fiscal 2014 was principally attributable to higher average rates per subscriber across most cable channels and the acquisition of majority interests in the YES Network and Fox Sports Asia (formerly ESPN Star Sports), among others.

Apple CEO Tim Cook made $9.2 million in 2014; more than doubling his total take from 2013 ($4.3 million). Want a specific number? Sure: Cook took in 113 percent more this time around.

His earnings rose in each of three categories: salary, non-equity incentives and the catch-all other compensation.

The majority of Cook's paycheck came in the form of nonequity incentives: $6.7 million, up from last year's $2.8 million.

His salary this year was just under $1.75 million; Cook pulled in an additional $750,000 in other compensation.

Net sales for Apple rose 7 percent - or $11.9 billion - versus 2013, thanks mostly to the introduction of iPhones 5s, 5c, 6 and 6 plus. MacBooks Air and Pro, as well as increased iTunes sales also chipped in.

Viacom founder Sumner Redstone, 91, still earned $13.2 million in 2014. That is down significantly from 2013's take of $36.2 million, however. A small salary bump and better bonus couldn't make up for the nearly $25 million devaluation of his pension and deferred compensation compared to the previous year.

Viacom profits reached a record $4.13 billion for fiscal 2014, thanks in large part to higher worldwide affiliate fees, which increased $415 million (10 percent) to nearly $4.7 billion, primarily driven by rate increases, as well as the benefit of distribution arrangements. Lowered operating expenses were a major contributor to that net increases as well.

A $22.8 million performance bonus and $17 million in stock awards sent Disney chief executive Bob Iger's compensation soaring 35.6 percent over the previous year. It's also up from 2012, when the Disney boss scored a cool $40.2 million.

GavinWood

From my Suite at the Ramada Plaza Complex on Santa Monica Blvd Over the past 12 fiscal months, Iger's salary remained unchanged at $2.5 million. But to that, add $8.9 million in stock awards and $8.3 million in option awards, which were also more or less stagnant.

Iger also received a performance-based bonus of $22.810 million - that was the big change. In 2013, Iger's non-equity incentive plan compensation was $13.6 million The change in value to Iger's pension was $2.8 million, which didn't increase at all a year ago.

All that cash was thanks to Disney enjoying another record performance in fiscal 2014, posting $48.8 billion in revenue, up eight percent from the prior year.

Media network revenue ticked up four percent, hitting $21.2 billion, with profits at $7.3 billion, thanks to shows like Scandal.

ESPN was once again a boon to its parent company. The company's film sector closed strongly with Guardians of the Galaxy opening in Q4; Frozen earlier in the year certainly didn't hurt those gaudy figures.

Sony's executive salaries were leaked during 2014's hack, revealing that CEO Michael Lynton and then Co-Chairman Amy Pascal earned $3 million last year.

But everyone in Hollywood knows that figure was far from his or her actual compensation, though it might have constituted their base pay. Pascal exited Sony in February with the hack happening on her watch and the leak of her emails publicly embarrassing the company.

Since Sony Pictures is a subsidiary of Sony Corporation, relevant Hollywood all-in executive compensation is not specified in SEC filings; however, an individual with knowledge of Lynton's compensation estimates it to be closer to $15 million.

$1 billion box office ■ Fifty Shades of Grey and Furious 7 lead the way as studio hits mark for ninth straight year.

Led by the success of Fifty Shades of Grey and Furious 7, Universal Pictures International will hit $1 billion in international box office grosses for 2015 this month.

It's the earliest that Universal has reached that milestone, besting a previous record that was set on May 31, 2013. This is the ninth consecutive year that Universal has crossed $1 billion internationally, according to Universal's president of international distribution Duncan Clark.

Fifty Shades of Grey ($401.2 million) and Furious 7 ($316 million) led the way, along with Focus Features and Working Title's The Theory of Everything ($85 million). The Furious 7 number is all the more impressive since it's only been out for a week. It opens in Russia and China this month.

Universal is the second studio to hit the $1 billion mark this year. Fox International crossed the milestone for the 12th consecutive year.

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■ Baz Luhrmann's Netflix series The Get Down has cast its first four male leads: T.J. Brown, Justice Smith, Shameik Moore and Skylan Brooks will make up the rag-tag group of teenagers who run wild in the streets of the late-1970's Bronx.

Brown, 14, will play Boo-Boo. A mechanically minded kid who wants to get down, he is an irrepressible 40-year-old in a 14-year-old body. Aspiring rapper and dancer Brown was discovered while performing in the New York City subway.

Smith, 19, plays Ezekiel, a smart, resourceful teen brimming with untapped talent and unrequited love who is determined to make his mark in the world. Smith also stars in Paper Towns, which will be released by Fox 2000 this June.

Moore, 19, takes on Shaolin Fantastic, a child of the streets; thrill seeking, unpredictable and eccentric, but above all, enigmatic. He also stars in 2015 Sundance film Dope.

Brooks, 16, plays Ra-Ra.A loyal, respected, protective friend and brother with his head screwed on tight, he's the voice of reason beyond his years. Brooks stars in film The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete and will next be seen opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and Rachel McAdams in Antoine Fuqua's Southpaw.

The Get Down focuses on 1970's New York City: "broken down and beaten up, violent, cash strapped - dying," per Netflix's description. "Consigned to rubble, a rag-tag crew of South Bronx teenagers are nothings and nobodies with no one to shelter them - except each other, armed only with verbal games, improvised dance steps, some magic markers and spray cans."

"From Bronx tenements, to the SoHo art scene; from CBGBs to Studio 54 and even the glass towers of the just-built World Trade Centre, The Get Down is a mythic saga of how New York at the brink of bankruptcy gave birth to hip-hop, punk and disco - told through the lives and music of the South Bronx kids who changed the city, and the world … forever."

The 13-episode music-driven drama from Sony Pictures Television will debut in all Netflix territories in 2016. Netflix is ramping up production and looks like it will be a huge success inAustralia.

Streaming pay-out

■ Will musical artists finally make more money with a streaming service they own?

On March 30, a group of top musical acts - from Beyonce to Madonna - took to the stage in New York City for the launch of their music streaming service, Tidal.

At the podium, Alicia Keys - one of Tidal's high profile artists and owners - described it as "the first-ever artist owned global music and entertainment platform."

Pundits immediately asked if these top acts would make more money with their own streaming service, as opposed to relying on others.

"Tidal charging too much money to offer almost the same exact product as Spotify," wrote Kelsey McKinney in a critical piece on Vox.com.

"It's hard to believe that listeners will pay $20 monthly for a difference in audio quality that isn't distinguishable through the earbuds most people use to listen to music."

Music industry revenue from streaming has been rising at a dramatic rate. According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, revenue from music subscription services climbed above $1 billion for the first time in 2013. And as of 2014, the IFPI says subscription and ad-supported streaming services had grown from 9% to 27% of digital revenues in just five years.

Jay Z acquired Tidal's parent company Sweden's Aspiro last month for $56 million and quickly set out to make it a premium platform, teaming up exclusively with top talent. But Tidal does not stream for free. Its base cost is $9.99 a month, with a $19.99 a month price tag for premium version. It's not entirely clear if the artist-owners will pull their content from other streaming sites.

Academy countdown

■ The Academy has set dates for the next three years of Academy Awards, with next year's Oscars taking place on Feb. 28, 2016 and subsequent shows occurring on Feb. 26, 2017 and March 2, 2018.

The dates stick to what has been the traditional Oscar timing for the last several years: The show takes place on the last Sunday in February except in years in which the Winter Olympics is held, when it moves to the first Sunday in March.

The Academy Board of Governors is expected to consider a move back to five Best Picture nominations, which I believe will streamline the television presentation.

- Gavin Wood

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■ One of my favourites from the films of the 1950s was the great character actress Thelma Ritter.

She played tough gritty characters delivering those wonderful ‘one liners’ and not the slightest bit interested in putting up with any nonsense from her co-stars.

Thelma Ritter was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1902.

She came from a comfortable middle class family. At the age of eight she loved to recite monologues such as Mr Brown Gets His Haircut and The Story of Cremona to her class mates at Brooklyn's Public School No 77.

She attended Forest Hills High School and acted in school plays.

In her teenage years she performed onstage with a stock company in New Jersey and then studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Thelma fell in love with fellow actor Joseph Moran and married in 1927. They had two children Monica (who became an actress) and Joseph Moran Jnr. Joseph Moran gave up acting to join an advertising company where he eventually became vice- president.

Thelma gave up her career to be a mother to her children. In the early 1940s she started working again in radio shows such as Big Town, Mr. District Attorney and The Aldrich Family.

Her first film role was in 1946 when she

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played a frustrated mother who confronts Chris Kringle in Macy's Department Store in Miracle on 34th Street.

Her next major film was A Letter to Three Wives.

She was cast as ‘Birdie’ in All About Eve and received her first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

When ‘Eve Harrington’ delivers her monologue about what a hard life she has had ‘Birdie’ breaks the stunned silence with that great line: "What a story! Everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end."

Thelma played supporting characters in many films during the early 1950s in films such as With a Song In My Heart.

career but did not win. She was quoted as saying, "Now I know what it feels like to be the bridesmaid and never the bride."

One of her notable roles was in Rear Window with James Stewart and Grace Kelly. She made two great comedies with Doris Day, Pillow Talk and Move Over Darling.

Some of her other films included Titanic, The Birdman of Alcatraz, A Hole in the Head and How The West Was Won. In 1961 she worked with Marilyn Monroe again in The Misfits. Thelma played roles in television series such as Wagon Train and Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

In January of 1968 Thelma suffered a heart attack in New York City and died a month later at the age of 67.

Her final television performance was in The Jerry Lewis Show where she played a mother who chaperones her 30-year-old son (played by Jerry) on his first date.

Whatever happened to these great character actors? Sadly they do seem to be around any● Thelma Ritter more.

Kevin Trask Susan Hayward once said, "The real joy of The Time Tunnel - with Bruce & Philmaking the picture was Thelma - Thelma Ritter, Sundays at 8.20pm on 3AW also from Brooklyn ... She used to yell at me That's Entertainment - 96.5FM like this" - "Hey Sue, what're ya' doin'? C'mon Sundays at 12Noon over here and take your shoes off and be your96.5FM is streaming on the internet self ".

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Getting stoned in Alice Springs ■ I grew up in the Goulburn Valley town of Kyabram.

As us kids grew we invariably fashioned our own weapons, to use in fights between each other, and to direct missiles.

Granted the altercations were never very serious, and didn't cause many injuries. Instead of chucking rocks at each other, or any passing bird or cat,

we'd make a shangai. They were fashioned from a sapling whose branches had formed into a Y shape.

A thick rubber strip was affixed to each arm, with a pouch in the middle, then drawn back, and a projectile, a rock (yonnie), would be on its way.

Long have local Alice Springs adolescents been throwing rocks at each other, and at passing cars, but now

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the Community Safety Committee has found slingshots - our old shanghais - and is trying desperately to eradicate them.

But mentioning weapons, there was an unbelievable incident last week in town - a woman used her one year old baby as a weapon. He grabbed the infant by the ankles and attacked a man by swinging it at him.

The mind boggles.

■ It has taken about a year to make it - I mentioned it a few weeks ago - but the Big Perentie is now in place.

It was installed at a roundabout in town, just beside a Todd River crossing for all the world to see. It's a metre tall, and about five metres long.

The $10,000 sculpture has been made from rust-coloured recycled fuel drums.

It's quite inspiring to see such a majestic creature, because they're not often seen in the wild.

I caught a small brightly coloured specimen at the back of my shop a few years ago, only a couple of feet long.

I gave it to Rex Niendorf who, in his capacity as the official reptile catcher, released it into the wild. But not before it was photographed, and subsequently became a symbol for the NT tourism industry.

I have only seen a couple of others, both about two metres long, as I've been driving to the Rock.

Very arrogant and proud as they strut through the desert, afraid of neither man nor beast.

■ A couple of months ago a taxi driver, Moga Kenyi, left town because of the violence he claims he was being subjected to. He reckoned that taxi drivers were being assaulted in Alice "all the time, every single day".

So off he went.

Which reminds me of my mate Stan, a driver for years while I was up there.

He would often get requests: "Can you please take me out to Ayers Rock", expecting a half-hour jaunt. They were quite taken aback when informed that it wasn't a mere half hour, but a very expensive five-hour journey.

And then there was an opal buyer from Germany. He wanted to go down to Coober Pedy, about eight hours away. He wasn't fazed at the fare, in excess of $1000.

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with Nick Le Souef Lightning Ridge Opals 175 Flinders Lane, Melbourne Phone 9654 4444 www.opals.net.au This included Stan's return to Alice with an empty cab. He had a case stuffed with notes, Stan told me.

So off they went, and Stan deposited him, returning to Alice the next morning.

On his way home he stopped at Kulgera for fuel, when he was approached by a young lady, asking if his cab was vacant. Stan said yes, but he was hesitant about broaching the topic of the fare, because he didn't really know what to charge under the unusual circumstances.

She, however, got in first. "Road train rates OK?" Stan didn't know what they were, but soon, to his delight, found out.

■ Many visitors to the Centre are European, particularly German and Swiss.

I've always maintained that deep within the very psyche of every German there beats the heart of an explorer! He doesn't get much opportunity to ply this trade back home amongst the autobahns.

So as soon as they get to Alice, it's into the RM Williams, and off into the

desert. And, of course, they often get lost, totally unfamiliar with this type of terrain and climate.

Last week such a hiker was reported missing at Stanley Chasm - he eventually turned up hours later.

And a couple of months ago three intrepid explorers became stranded on the summit of Mount Gillen - they apparently freaked out at their predicament, and needed rescuing.

And then there have been many instances where they have hopped into their Britz 4WDs, and galloped off into the desert sunset, often with insufficient water, having told no one of their travel plans, and getting lost and bogged.

In the past, often a fatal decision.

I'm always wise in my automobile travel, but once went for a walk in a large paddock just a few k's out of town. For a couple of hours I rambled around through the gullies, and was about to dial 000 as the sun was setting, but fortunately at the last minute I regained my bearings

■ I can't understand why, but there have never been emus on display in the Alice Springs Desert Park.

Happily there are now.

The Minister for Parks and Wildlife, Bess Price, recently opened a new enclosure with two young females from a remote community. They weren't too well, but now they're in fine form, greeting visitors from all over the world.

Emus are the second tallest bird in the world, and are prevalent through much ofAustralia.

I don't see many in farmland Victoria on my way to Alice Springs, but once I hit the desert north of Port Augusta, they're everywhere.

And even in Gippsland, I often see them marching around my 30 acres on the Avon.

It's a pity that their farming ventures never got off the ground - they would be much more environmentally preferable to sheep and cattle, but it was not to be.

I couldn't understand why this never happened - ostrich farming was never going to work; there was never going to be $60,000 worth of meat on these birds - but emus would have been the perfect Aussie livestock.

- Nick Le Souef

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Melbourne Observer TV Guide ABC1 (CH2)

Wednesday, April 22

SEVEN (CH7)

6.00 ABC News Breakfast. 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Q&A. (R) 11.00 Boomtown. (PG) (R) (Final) 11.30 Eggheads. (R) 12.00 News.

12.30 National Press Club Address.

1.30 Jennifer Byrne Presents Great War Stories. (R) 2.00 Kitchen Cabinet. (R) 2.30 The Paradise. (PG) (R) 3.30 Midsomer Murders. (PG) (R) 5.00 News: Early Edition.

5.30 The Drum.

6.00 9.00 11.30 12.00

6.00 Antiques Roadshow. (R) Hosted by Fiona Bruce.

7.00 News.

7.30 7.30. Current affairs program.

8.00 QI. (PG) Hosted by Stephen Fry. 8.30 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. (M) (New Series) A satirical news program exposing the humorous, absurd and downright hypocritical.

9.00 The Agony Of… (M) Narrated

by Adam Zwar.

9.30 Lest We Forget What? (M) (R) Explores the Anzac legend.

10.30 Lateline. (R) 11.00 The War That Changed Us. (PG) (R) 12.00 The Business. (R) 12.15 Four Corners. (R) 1.05 Media Watch. (PG) (R) 1.20 Movie: The Terror. (M) (R) (1963) Boris Karloff.

2.45 Movie: Stage Door Canteen.

(R) (1943) William Terry.

5.00 Collectors. (R) 5.30 Eggheads. (R)

6.00 News.

7.00 Home And Away. (PG) Phoebe and Kyle fail to get along post break-up. Alf is deeply affected by seeing a fellow veteran pass away.

7.30 My Kitchen Rules. (PG) Hosted

by Pete Evans and Manu Feildel.

9.00 Criminal Minds. (M) A young boy who went missing in San Diego on Halloween suddenly reappears one year later.

11.00 Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. (M) 12.00 Dual Suspects: Rotten To The Core. (M) Documents a murder case that emerged in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1992 when a 16-year-old girl was found dead in an apple orchard.

1.00 Home Shopping.

3.00 Sons And Daughters. (PG) (R) 3.30 Harry’s Practice. (R) 4.00 NBC Today.

5.00 Sunrise Extra.

5.30 Early News.

2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 5.30

Sunrise.

The Morning Show. (PG) Morning News.

Movie: Borderline Murder.

(M) (R) (2011) Brooke Burns.

The Daily Edition.

The Chase.

Hosted by Bradley Walsh.

News At 4.

Deal Or No Deal. (R) Hosted by Andrew O’Keefe.

Million Dollar Minute.

Hosted by Simon Reeve.

NINE (CH9) 6.00 9.00 11.00 12.00 1.00 1.30 3.00 4.15 5.30

Today.

Mornings. (PG) News.

The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

(PG) Variety show.

Extra. Entertainment news program.

The Block Triple Threat. (PG) (R) Hosted by Scott Cam. News Now. News.

Millionaire Hot Seat.

Hosted by Eddie McGuire.

6.00 News.

7.00 A Current Affair.

7.30 The Block Triple Threat. (PG) Hosted by Scott Cam. 8.40 The Amazing ’90s. (M) Take a look back at all the big events and personalities of the ’90s from Australia and around the world. Continues with Susan Sarandon talking about the girl power hit Thelma & Louise, and the plot that brought down Bob Hawke and made Paul Keating Prime Minister.

9.40 Forever. (M) A university student is murdered.

10.40 The Mentalist. (M) (R) A US Attorney is found dead.

11.40 Believe. (M) 12.30 The Baron. (PG) (R) 1.30 Danoz Direct.

2.30 Extra. (R) 3.00 Global Shop.

3.30 Good Morning America.

5.00 News.

5.30 Today.

TEN (CH10)

SBS 1 (CH3)

6.00 Entertainment Tonight. (R) 6.30 Good Chef Bad Chef. (R) 7.00 Huey’s Kitchen. (R) 7.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (R) 8.00 Family Feud. (R) 8.30 Studio 10. (PG) 11.00 Bondi Vet. (PG) (R) 12.00 Dr Phil. (PG) 1.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R) 1.30 Entertainment Tonight. 2.00 Wonderland. (M) (R) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG) 3.30 Ben’s Menu. (R) 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef.

4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 Eyewitness News.

6.00 Soccer. UEFA Champions League. Matchday 10.

Continued.

7.00 WorldWatch.

1.00 Dateline. (R) 1.30 France 24 International News.

1.45 The Journal.

2.00 PBS NewsHour.

3.00 Al Jazeera News.

3.30 Insight. (R) 4.30 The Man-Eating Tigers Of Sumatra. (PG) (R) 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R)

6.00 Family Feud. Hosted by Grant Denyer.

6.30 The Project. A look at the day’s news.

7.30 Parky’s Favourite Australians.

Part 1 of 2. Sir Michael Parkinson presents highlights from the interviews he has conducted with Australians.

8.30 Wonderland. (M) A jealous Warwick starts a fight with Callan that ends in the emergency room. Colette catches Rob lying to her.

10.30 Hawaii Five-0. (M) The team investigates the murder of a woman.

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

12.30 Movie Juice. (R) 1.00 The Late Show With David Letterman. (PG) 2.00 Home Shopping.

4.00 Life Today With James Robison. (PG) 4.30 CBS This Morning.

6.00 Food Safari. (R) Maeve explores the world of Chinese cuisine.

6.30 World News.

7.30 Tony Robinson’s WWI. (PG) Part 4 of 4.

8.30 London’s Super Tunnel: Tunnels Under The Thames.

(R) Part 2 of 3.

9.30 The Legacy. (M) Frederick is furious after Gro announces their mother donated Gronnegaard estate to a charity.

10.35 World News.

11.05 Cycling. UCI World Tour. La Flèche Wallonne. From Belgium.

1.30 Forensics On Trial. (M) (R) Investigates the impact of forensics.

2.30 Movie: The Light Thief. (M) (R) (2010) Aktan Arym Kubat.

4.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia. (R) 4.30 Soccer. UEFA Champions League. Matchday 10.

Classifications: (P) Preschoolers (C) Children (G) General (PG) Parental Guidance (M) Mature Audiences (MA15+) Mature Audiences Only (AV15+) Extreme Adult Violence (R) Repeat.

Please note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to change by networks.

ABC2 (CH22)

7TWO (CH72)

GO! (CH99)

ONE (CH1)

SBS 2 (CH32)

6.00 Children’s Programs. 4.25 Joe & Jack. 4.30 Let’s Go Pocoyo. 4.40 The Furchester Hotel. 5.00 Sarah And Duck. 5.10 The Hive. 5.25 Peppa Pig. 5.30 Olivia. 5.45 Ben And Holly’s Little Kingdom. 6.00 Peter Rabbit. 6.15 Tree Fu Tom. 6.35 Octonauts. 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. 7.00 Spicks And Specks. 7.30 Doctor Who. 8.15 That ’70s Show. 8.40 World’s Toughest Jobs. 9.40 Tattoo Tales. 10.10 The Real Hustle: New Recruits. 10.40 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

11.20 Seconds From Disaster. 12.10 Metal Evolution. 12.55 That ’70s Show.

1.20 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. 2.00 News Update. 2.05 Close.

5.00 This Is Scarlett And Isaiah. 5.05 Tilly And Friends. 5.15 Waybuloo. 5.35 The Magic Roundabout. 5.50 Bert And Ernie’s Great Adventures.

6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping. 7.00 Flushed. 7.30 Spit It Out. 8.00 Jay’s Jungle. 8.30 Man About The House.

9.00 Home And Away. 9.30 Shortland Street. 10.00 Homes Under The Hammer. 11.00 Kingswood Country.

12.00 Taggart. 2.30 Neighbours At War. 3.00 The Martha Stewart Show.

4.00 60 Minute Makeover. 5.00 Best Houses Australia. 5.30 Homes Under The Hammer.

6.30 Bargain Hunt.

7.30 Pie In The Sky. 8.30 Inspector Morse.

10.45 Suspects.

11.45 Bargain Hunt. 12.50 The Martha Stewart Show. 2.00 Shopping. 3.00 Sons And Daughters. 3.30 Harry’s Practice. 4.00 Kingswood Country.

5.00 Best Houses Australia. 5.30 Shortland Street.

6.00 Robocar Poli. 6.30 PAW Patrol.

7.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! 7.30 Kitchen Whiz.

8.00 Move It. 8.30 Rabbids. 9.00 Surprises. 9.30 SpongeBob. 10.00 Green Lantern. 10.30 Teen Titans Go! 11.00 Power Rangers. 11.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. 12.00 Extra. 12.30 The Middle.

1.30 Top Gear. 3.00 SpongeBob. 3.30 Rabbids. 4.00 Kids’ WB. 4.05 Looney Tunes. 4.30 Scooby-Doo! 5.00 Ben 10. 5.30 Teen Titans Go! 6.00 Regular Show. 6.30 Adv Time. 7.00 Big Bang.

8.30 The Last Ship.

9.30 Movie: Sphere. (1998) Dustin Hoffman.

12.00 Supernatural: The Animated Series. 12.30 Adv Time. 1.00 Regular Show. 1.30 Rabbids. 2.00 TMZ Live.

3.00 TMZ. 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! 4.00 PAW Patrol. 4.30 Robocar Poli. 4.50 Thunderbirds. 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic.

6.00 Shopping. 8.00 M*A*S*H. 9.00 Motor Racing. Aussie Racing Cars.

Replay. 9.30 Motorcycle Racing.

MotoGP. Argentine Grand Prix. Race 3. Replay. 11.00 Movie Juice. 11.30 Garage Gold. 12.00 A League Of Their Own. 1.00 1600 Penn. 2.00 The Living Room. 3.00 Totally Wild. 4.00 Super Rugby Extra Time. 5.00 Fishing Edge.

5.30 iFish.

6.00 Family Feud.

6.30 M*A*S*H. 7.30 Cops.

8.30 Hawaii Five-0.

9.30 Sons Of Anarchy.

10.45 The Glades.

11.50 Cops. 12.20 Shopping. 2.20 Quit Forest Rally Event Review Pt 1.

3.25 Motor Racing. FIA Formula E Championship. Replay. 4.30 Cops.

5.00 Sport Science.

6.00 WorldWatch. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 Ukrainian News. 8.30 Macedonian News. 9.05 Croatian News. 9.40 Serbian News. 10.20 Portuguese News. 11.05 Japanese News. 11.40 Hong Kong News. 12.00 Hindi News. 12.30 Dutch News. 1.00 Italian News. 1.35 German News. 2.05 Spanish News. 3.05 Greek News From Cyprus. 4.00 Iron Chef. 4.45 Vs Arashi.

5.40 American Ninja Warrior. 6.30 If You Are The One. 7.30 The Feed. 8.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine. 8.30 Movie: Drive.

(2011) Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston. 10.20 Soccer. UEFA Champions League. Matchday 10.

Replay. 11.50 @midnight. 12.20 The Feed. 12.50 The Story Of Film. 2.00 Movie: The Libertine. (2000) 3.50 DW News In English From Berlin. 5.00 French News. 5.50 Urdu News.

ABC3 (CH23)

7MATE (CH73)

GEM (CH90)

ELEVEN (CH11)

ABC24 (CH24)

6.00 Children’s Programs. 10.00 Camp Lakebottom. 10.10 Sorry, I’ve Got No Head. 10.40 Wacky World Beaters.

11.05 Deadly 60. 11.35 Horrible Histories. 12.00 Grojband. 12.25 Camp Lakebottom. 1.00 SheZow. 1.35 Jamie’s Got Tentacles. 2.10 Dennis The Menace And Gnasher. 3.25 Shaun The Sheep. 3.50 Vic The Viking. 4.00 Tashi.

4.15 The Penguins Of Madagascar.

4.40 News On 3. 4.45 Studio 3. 4.50 Camp Lakebottom. 5.10 Endangered Species. 5.50 The Next Step. 6.15 Good Game: SP. 6.40 Canimals. 6.50 News On 3. 7.00 Deadly 60. 7.30 Worst Year Of My Life, Again. 7.55 The Adventures Of Figaro Pho. 8.00 Degrassi – The Next Generation. 8.25 Good Game: Pocket Edition. 8.30 Total Drama Action. 9.15 Star Wars: The Clone Wars. 9.40 Rage. 10.40 Close.

6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping. 7.00 Sheriff Callie’s Wild West. 7.30 Jake And The Never Land Pirates. 8.00 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. 8.30 Art Attack. 9.00 NBC Today. 11.00 Motor Mate. 1.00 Charlie’s Angels. 3.00 Starsky & Hutch. 4.00 Pimp My Ride.

5.00 How I Met Your Mother. 5.30 Wipeout USA. 6.30 MythBusters.

7.30 Beverly Hills Pawn.

8.30 Hardcore Pawn: Behind The Deal.

9.00 Hardcore Pawn.

9.30 Baggage Battles.

10.30 Pawn Stars.

11.30 Rude Tube. 12.00 Banged Up. 1.00 Repo Games. 1.30 Repo Games. 2.00 Shopping. 3.00 Sons And Daughters. 3.30 Harry’s Practice. 4.00 Motor Mate.

6.00 Friends. 6.30 Skippy. 7.00 TV Shop. 7.30 Danoz. 8.00 Gilmore Girls.

9.00 TV Shop. 9.30 Danoz. 10.30 Alive And Cooking. 11.00 Friends. 12.00 Movie: Golden Ivory. (1954) 1.50 Alive And Cooking.

2.20 Secret Dealers.

3.20 Poirot.

4.30 Ellen.

5.30 Gilmore Girls.

6.30 Friends.

7.30 New Tricks.

8.30 Spooks.

10.40 Luther.

11.50 Secret Dealers.

12.50 GEM Presents.

1.00 Gideon’s Way. 2.00 Danoz.

2.30 Global Shop.

4.30 Joyce Meyer.

5.00 Dangerman.

6.00 Toasted TV. 8.00 Totally Wild.

8.30 Toasted TV. 9.30 Wurrawhy.

10.00 Touched By An Angel. 11.00 Raymond. 11.30 Taxi. 12.00 Charmed.

1.00 JAG. 2.00 Sabrina. 2.30 Caroline In The City. 3.00 Frasier. 3.30 Cheers.

4.00 King Of Queens. 4.30 Laverne & Shirley. 5.00 Mork & Mindy. 5.30 Becker. 6.00 Family Feud. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Raymond.

7.30 The Simpsons.

8.00 Futurama.

8.30 The Simpsons.

9.00 Futurama.

9.30 The Simpsons.

10.00 Cleveland. 10.30 Bob’s Burgers. 11.00 Tattoos After Dark.

12.00 Raymond. 12.30 Frasier. 1.00 Caroline In The City. 1.30 Sabrina. 2.00 Touched By An Angel. 3.00 Charmed.

4.00 JAG. 5.00 Shopping.

6.00 News. 9.00 ABC News. 11.55 ABC Open. 12.00 News. 12.30 Press Club.

1.30 Capital Hill. 2.00 News.

5.55 ABC Open.

6.00 News.

6.30 The Drum.

7.00 News.

9.30 Lateline.

10.00 The World.

11.00 News.

11.30 7.30.

12.00 News.

12.30 The Drum.

1.00 Al Jazeera.

2.00 BBC Global.

2.30 7.30.

3.00 Outside Source.

3.30 BBC Africa.

4.00 Al Jazeera.

5.00 BBC World.

5.30 Lateline.

NITV (CH34)

6.00 Welcome To Wapos Bay. 6.30 Bizou. 7.00 Move It Mob Style. 7.30 Mysterious Cities Of Gold. 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Waabiny Time. 9.00 Go Lingo. 9.30 Bushwhacked! 10.00 Anzacs: Remembering Our Heroes. 10.30 Desperate Measures. 11.00 On The Edge. 11.30 Living Black. 12.00 Rugby League. Fox Memorial Shield. 2.00 A First Step. 2.30 Mugu Kids. 3.00 Bizou. 3.30 Bushwhacked! 4.00 Go Lingo. 4.30 Move It Mob Style. 5.00 Mysterious Cities Of Gold. 5.30 NITV News. 6.00 Our Footprint. 6.30 Anzacs: Remembering Our Heroes. 7.00 NITV News. 7.30 Sistas In The Sector. 8.00 Back To Munda. 9.00 A Transfer Of Power. 9.30 Awaken. 10.30 Kill The Matador. 11.00 Late Programs.

CH31 (CH44)

6.00 Bumper 2 Bumper. 6.30 Oz Fish TV. 7.00 Futsal Town Show. 7.30 Nu Country TV. 8.00 Euromaxx. 8.30 Move It Or Lose It. 9.00 Jumping Jellybeans. 9.15 Penguin TV. 9.30 Little Explorers. 10.00 Movie: Guilty Conscience. (1985) 12.00 Journal. 12.30 China Forbidden News. 1.00 Sri Lanka Today. 1.30 The Shtick. 2.00 ATVAA. 2.30 Dollars With Sense. 3.00 LawHelp Australia. 3.30 Our Time. 4.00 Rotunda In The West. 4.30 Arkabahce. 5.00 1700. 6.00 Chinese Weekly TV. 6.30 The Flying Show. 7.00 Mr Sink Show. 7.30 Vasili’s Garden To Kitchen. 8.30 Pet’s Practice With Dr Kevin. 9.00 Yappy Hour TV. 9.30 In Pit Lane. 10.00 Guitar Gods And Masterpieces. 10.30 Speaker TV. 11.00 Late Programs.

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Thursday, April 23

SEVEN (CH7)

ABC News Breakfast.

ABC News Mornings.

Australian Story. (R) Foreign Correspondent. (R) QI. (PG) (R) Eggheads. (R) News.

Antiques Roadshow. (R) Kitchen Cabinet. (R) The Paradise. (PG) (R) (Final) Midsomer Murders. (PG) (R) News: Early Edition.

The Drum.

6.00 9.00 11.30 12.00

Antiques Roadshow. (R) Clarke And Dawe.

News.

7.30.

The Checkout. (PG) Our Girl. (M) Molly is deployed to Afghanistan.

The Crater: A Vietnam Story.

(M) The story of the Battle of Coral–Balmoral.

Lateline. (R) The War That Changed Us. (PG) (R) The Business. (R) War Paint: The World According To George Gittoes.

(M) (R) The Talented Mr Stone. (M) (R) Movie: Gardens Of Stone. (M) (R) (1987) James Caan.

The Jonathan Ross Show. (PG) (R) Our Girl. (M) (R) Collectors. (R) Eggheads. (R)

6.00 News.

7.00 Home And Away. (PG) Matt disappears.

8.00 Australia: The Story Of Us. (PG) (Final) As we journey through 1975-2015, Elaine Moir helps save babies from the Vietnam War. Paul Hogan becomes our best export. The Sydney Olympic Games creates moments of national pride.

9.00 Downton Abbey. (M) Rosamund arrives at Downton following Edith’s shock departure.

10.00 State Of Affairs. (M) (Final) Charlie pursues Omar Fatah.

11.00 The Amazing Race. (PG) Hosted by Phil Keoghan.

12.00 Desperate Housewives. (M) (R) Gaby covertly meets Bree.

1.00 Home Shopping.

3.30 NBC Today. News and current affairs.

5.00 Sunrise Extra.

5.30 Early News.

2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 5.30

Sunrise.

The Morning Show. (PG) Morning News.

Movie: The Boy In The Striped Pajamas. (M) (R) (2008) Asa Butterfield.

The Daily Edition.

The Chase.

News At 4.

Deal Or No Deal. (R) Hosted by Andrew O’Keefe.

Million Dollar Minute. Hosted

by Simon Reeve.

NINE (CH9) 6.00 9.00 11.00 12.00 1.00 1.30 3.00 4.15 5.30

Today.

Mornings. (PG) News.

The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

(PG) Variety show.

Extra. Entertainment news program.

The Block Triple Threat. (PG) (R) Hosted by Scott Cam. News Now. News.

Millionaire Hot Seat. Hosted

by Eddie McGuire.

6.00 News.

7.00 A Current Affair.

7.30 Top Gear. (PG) Jeremy, Richard and James continue their journey to the southernmost point of South America.

8.50 The AFL Footy Show. (M) Hosted by Garry Lyon, James Brayshaw, Sam Newman, Billy Brownless, Shane Crawford and Dave Hughes.

11.00 The Footy Show Presents: On Foreign Fields.

11.30 The NRL Footy Show. (M) Hosted by Paul Vautin.

1.30 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo.

(R) Sonny meets a young puppeteer whose family disapproves of his occupation.

2.00 Danoz Direct. Home shopping.

2.30 Global Shop. Home shopping.

3.00 Extra. (R) Entertainment news program.

3.30 Good Morning America.

5.00 News.

5.30 Today.

TEN (CH10) 6.00 Entertainment Tonight. (R) 6.30 Good Chef Bad Chef. (R) 7.00 Huey’s Kitchen. (R) 7.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (R) 8.00 Family Feud. (R) 8.30 Studio 10. (PG) 11.00 Reef Doctors. (PG) (R) 12.00 Dr Phil. (PG) 1.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R) 1.30 Entertainment Tonight. 2.00 The Doctors. (PG) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG) 3.30 Ben’s Menu.

(R) 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 Eyewitness News.

6.00 Family Feud. Hosted by Grant Denyer.

6.30 The Project. Join the hosts for a look at the day’s news, events and hot topics.

7.30 Modern Family. (R) With a gridiron game coming up, Cam is determined to show no mercy.

8.30 Law & Order: SVU. (M) (R) A woman is attacked by the same masked intruder who sexually assaulted her partner.

10.30 Blue Bloods. (M) After researching the cost of colleges for Nicky, Erin gives serious thought to joining the private sector.

11.30 The Project. (R) 12.30 The Late Show With David Letterman. (PG) Hosted by David Letterman.

1.30 Home Shopping.

4.00 Life Today With James Robison. (PG) 4.30 CBS This Morning.

SBS 1 (CH3) 6.00 Soccer. UEFA Champions League. Matchday 10.

Continued.

7.00 WorldWatch.

1.00 Living Black. (R) 1.30 France 24 International News.

1.45 The Journal.

2.00 PBS NewsHour.

3.00 Al Jazeera News.

3.30 The Real White Queen And Her Rivals. (PG) (R) 4.30 Ned’s Head. (PG) (R) 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R) 6.00 Food Safari. (R) 6.30 World News.

7.30 Rachel Khoo’s Cosmopolitan Cook. Rachel visits France’s Provence region.

8.00 Poh & Co. Poh begins planting in her front yard.

8.30 Patisserie With Michel Roux Jr. A search for the “perfect” sweet delicacy.

9.30 Vikings. The Viking fleet approaches Paris.

10.25 World News.

11.00 UEFA Champions League Highlights.

12.00 Soccer. FA Cup. Semi-final.

Highlights. From Wembley Stadium, London.

1.00 Falcón. (AV15+) (R) 1.50 Falcón. (AV15+) (R) 2.45 Falcón. (AV15+) (R) 3.35 Falcón. (AV15+) (R) 4.30 Perfect Drug. (MA15+) 4.45 A Purpleman. (M) 5.00 Korean News.

5.35 Japanese News.

Classifications: (P) Preschoolers (C) Children (G) General (PG) Parental Guidance (M) Mature Audiences (MA15+) Mature Audiences Only (AV15+) Extreme Adult Violence (R) Repeat.

Please note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to change by networks.

ABC2 (CH22)

7TWO (CH72)

GO! (CH99)

ONE (CH1)

SBS 2 (CH32)

6.00 Children’s Programs. 4.40 The Furchester Hotel. 5.00 Sarah And Duck. 5.10 The Hive. 5.25 Peppa Pig. 5.30 Olivia. 5.45 Ben And Holly’s Little Kingdom. 6.00 Peter Rabbit.

6.15 Tree Fu Tom. 6.35 Octonauts.

6.50 Shaun The Sheep. 7.00 Spicks And Specks. 7.30 Doctor Who. 8.15 That ’70s Show. 8.35 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. 9.05 The Inbetweeners. 9.30 Comedy Up Late.

10.00 Portlandia. 10.25 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. 11.05 Good Game. 11.35 Total Wipeout.

12.35 That ’70s Show. 1.00 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

1.45 News Update. 1.50 Close. 5.00 This Is Scarlett And Isaiah. 5.05 Tilly And Friends. 5.15 Waybuloo. 5.35 The Magic Roundabout. 5.50 Bert And Ernie’s Great Adventures.

6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping.

7.00 Flushed. 7.30 Spit It Out. 8.00 Jay’s Jungle. 8.30 Man About The House. 9.00 Home And Away. 9.30 Shortland Street. 10.00 Homes Under The Hammer. 11.00 Kingswood Country. 12.00 Taggart. 3.00 The Martha Stewart Show. 4.00 60 Minute Makeover. 5.00 Best Houses Australia.

5.30 Homes Under The Hammer.

6.30 Bargain Hunt.

7.30 Pie In The Sky. 8.30 Lewis.

10.30 Blue Murder.

11.45 Bargain Hunt.

12.45 Man About The House.

1.15 How The Other Half Live.

2.30 The Martha Stewart Show.

3.30 Kingswood Country. 4.30 Best Houses Australia. 5.00 Shortland Street. 5.30 Shopping.

6.00 Robocar Poli. 6.30 PAW Patrol.

7.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! 7.30 Kitchen Whiz.

8.00 Move It. 8.30 Rabbids. 9.00 Surprises. 9.30 SpongeBob. 10.00 Green Lantern. 10.30 Teen Titans Go! 11.00 Power Rangers. 11.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. 12.00 Extra. 12.30 The Middle.

1.30 Suburgatory. 2.00 Community.

3.00 SpongeBob. 3.30 Rabbids. 4.00 Kids’ WB. 4.05 Looney Tunes. 4.30 Scooby-Doo! 5.00 Ben 10. 5.30 Teen Titans Go! 6.00 Regular Show. 6.30 Adv Time. 7.00 Big Bang. 7.30 Auction Hunters. 8.30 Big Bang. 9.30 Survivor.

10.30 2 Broke Girls. 11.30 Two And A Half Men. 12.00 Supernatural: The Animated Series. 12.30 Adv Time. 1.00 Regular Show. 1.30 Rabbids. 2.00 TMZ Live. 3.00 TMZ. 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! 4.00 PAW Patrol. 4.30 Robocar Poli. 4.50 Thunderbirds. 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic.

6.00 Shopping. 8.00 M*A*S*H. 9.00 International Fishing Series. 9.30 Motor Racing. Formula 1. Bahrain Grand Prix. Race 4. Replay. 12.00 A League Of Their Own. 1.00 1600 Penn.

2.00 The Living Room. 3.00 Totally Wild. 4.00 Fishing. 4.30 Wild Racers.

5.00 Fishing Edge. 5.30 iFish.

6.00 Family Feud.

6.30 M*A*S*H. 7.30 Last Man Standing.

8.30 Dads.

9.00 Movie: Flying High! (1980) Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty.

10.50 Fast Forward.

11.50 Blokesworld. 12.20 The League.

12.50 Shopping. 2.20 RPM. 3.25 Motorcycle Racing. MotoGP. Argentine Grand Prix. Race 3. Replay. 5.00 Wild Racers. 5.30 International Fishing Series.

6.00 WorldWatch. 7.30 Polish News.

8.00 Maltese News. 8.30 Macedonian News. 9.05 Croatian News. 9.40 Serbian News. 10.20 Portuguese News. 11.05 Japanese News. 11.40 Hong Kong News. 12.00 Hindi News.

12.30 Dutch News. 1.00 Italian News.

1.35 German News. 2.05 Spanish News. 3.05 Greek News From Cyprus.

4.00 Iron Chef. 4.45 Vs Arashi. 5.40 American Ninja Warrior. 6.30 If You Are The One. 7.30 The Feed. 8.00 Parks And Recreation. 8.30 South Park. 9.00 Town Of The Living Dead. 9.30 Big Trouble In Thailand. 10.20 Orphan Black. 11.10 South Park. 11.40 @ midnight. 12.05 The Feed. 12.35 The Story Of Film. 1.45 Movie: Not On The Lips. (2003) 3.45 NHK World News In English From Tokyo. 5.00 French News. 5.50 Urdu News.

ABC3 (CH23)

7MATE (CH73)

GEM (CH90)

ELEVEN (CH11)

ABC24 (CH24)

6.00 Friends. 6.30 Skippy. 7.00 TV Shop. 7.30 Danoz. 8.00 Gilmore Girls.

9.00 TV Shop. 9.30 Danoz. 10.30 Alive And Cooking. 11.00 Friends. 12.00 Movie: Carry On Nurse. (1959) 1.50 Tasty Conversations. 2.00 Alive And Cooking. 2.30 Supernanny USA. 3.30 New Tricks. 4.30 Ellen. 5.30 Gilmore Girls.

6.30 Friends.

7.30 David Attenborough’s Life.

8.30 New Tricks.

9.30 Blackadder The Third.

11.00 The Young Ones.

11.45 Friends.

12.10 Supernanny USA. 1.00 Gideon’s Way. 2.00 Danoz.

2.30 Global Shop.

4.30 Joyce Meyer.

5.00 Gideon’s Way.

6.00 Toasted TV. 8.00 Scope.

8.30 Toasted TV. 9.30 Wurrawhy.

10.00 Touched By An Angel. 11.00 Raymond. 11.30 Taxi. 12.00 Charmed.

1.00 JAG. 2.00 Sabrina. 2.30 Caroline In The City. 3.00 Frasier. 3.30 Cheers.

4.00 King Of Queens. 4.30 Laverne & Shirley. 5.00 Mork & Mindy. 5.30 Becker. 6.00 Family Feud.

6.30 Neighbours.

7.00 Raymond.

7.30 Futurama.

8.00 The Simpsons.

8.30 Movie: Step Up 2: The Streets.

(2008) Briana Evigan, Robert Hoffman.

10.35 Sex And The City. 11.15 Beauty And The Beast. 12.20 Frasier. 12.55 Caroline In The City. 1.30 Sabrina. 2.00 Touched By An Angel. 3.00 Charmed.

4.00 JAG. 5.00 Shopping.

6.00 News. 9.00 ABC News. 11.55 ABC Open. 12.00 News. 1.00 Capital Hill.

1.30 News.

5.55 ABC Open.

6.00 News.

6.30 The Drum.

7.00 News.

9.30 Lateline.

10.00 The World.

11.00 News.

11.30 7.30.

12.00 News.

12.30 The Drum.

1.00 Al Jazeera.

2.00 BBC Global.

2.30 7.30.

3.00 Outside Source.

3.30 BBC Africa.

4.00 Al Jazeera.

5.00 BBC World.

5.30 Lateline.

6.00 Children’s Programs. 10.00 Camp Lakebottom. 10.10 Sorry, I’ve Got No Head. 10.40 Wacky World Beaters.

11.05 Deadly 60. 11.35 Horrible Histories. 12.00 Grojband. 12.25 Camp Lakebottom. 1.00 SheZow. 1.35 Jamie’s Got Tentacles. 2.10 Dennis The Menace And Gnasher. 3.25 Shaun The Sheep. 3.50 Vic The Viking. 4.00 Tashi.

4.15 The Penguins Of Madagascar.

4.40 News On 3. 4.45 Studio 3. 4.50 Camp Lakebottom. 5.10 Numb Chucks. 5.25 Life With Boys. 5.50 The Next Step. 6.15 Young Dracula. 6.50 News On 3. 7.00 Deadly 60. 7.30 Worst Year Of My Life, Again. 7.55 The Adventures Of Figaro Pho. 8.00 Degrassi – The Next Generation. 8.25 Good Game: Pocket Edition. 8.30 Total Drama Action. 9.15 Star Wars: The Clone Wars. 9.40 Rage. 10.40 Close.

NITV (CH34)

6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping. 7.00 Sheriff Callie’s Wild West. 7.30 Jake And The Never Land Pirates. 8.00 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. 8.30 Art Attack. 9.00 NBC Today. 11.00 Motor Mate. 1.00 Charlie’s Angels. 3.00 Starsky & Hutch. 4.00 Pimp My Ride.

5.00 How I Met Your Mother. 5.30 Wipeout USA. 6.30 MythBusters.

7.30 Bad Ink. 8.30 Tattoo Nightmares.

9.30 Kinne.

10.00 Family Guy. 10.30 American Dad! 11.00 Family Guy. 12.00 SportsFan Clubhouse.

1.00 Starsky & Hutch.

2.00 Scare Tactics.

2.30 Pimp My Ride.

3.30 Motor Mate. 5.30 Shopping.

6.00 Welcome To Wapos Bay. 6.30 Bizou. 7.00 Move It Mob Style. 7.30 Mysterious Cities Of Gold. 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Waabiny Time. 9.00 Go Lingo. 9.30 Bushwhacked! 10.00 Anzacs: Remembering Our Heroes. 10.30 Our Footprint. 11.00 Awaken. 12.00 A Transfer Of Power. 12.30 Sistas In The Sector. 1.00 Back To Munda. 2.00 The Brush Sings. 2.30 Mugu Kids. 3.00 Bizou. 3.30 Bushwhacked! 4.00 Go Lingo. 4.30 Move It Mob Style. 5.00 Mysterious Cities Of Gold. 5.30 NITV News. 6.00 Around The Campfire. 6.30 Anzacs: Remembering Our Heroes. 7.00 NITV News. 7.30 The Marngrook Footy Show. 9.00 Burned Bridge. 10.00 Hunting Aotearoa. 10.30 Mataku. 11.00 Late Programs.

CH31 (CH44)

6.00 Classic Restos. 6.30 Australian Fishing Network. 7.00 Talking Fishing. 8.00 Euromaxx. 8.30 Move It Or Lose It. 9.00 Masterclass In Oils. 9.30 Art Studio. 10.00 Movie: Li’l Abner. (1940) 11.30 The Flying Show. 12.00 Journal. 12.30 Global 3000. 1.00 One World Sputnik. 1.30 Sutara TV. 2.00 Nat Chat. 2.30 Sweet And Sour. 3.00 Sacred Spaces. 3.15 Giant Steps. 3.30 Yappy Hour TV. 4.00 Be Positive. 4.15 Bernie Bear.

4.30 Active Babies Smart Kids. 5.00 1700. 6.00 Pulse Geelong. 6.30 News Geelong. 7.00 4WD TV. 7.30 That’s Good For Footy. 8.30 Classic Restos. 9.00 Drive It! 9.30 Bumper 2 Bumper. 10.00 Outback Championship Wrestling. 11.00 Asylum. 11.30 Underground Sounds. 12.30 Late Programs.

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Melbourne Observer TV Guide ABC1 (CH2) 6.00 9.00 10.00 10.30 11.30 12.00 1.00 2.00 2.30 3.30 5.00 5.30

Friday, April 24

SEVEN (CH7)

ABC News Breakfast.

ABC News Mornings.

One Plus One. Life At 7. (R) Eggheads. (R) News.

Antiques Roadshow. (R) Kitchen Cabinet. (PG) (R) Last Tango In Halifax. (PG) (R) Midsomer Murders. (PG) (R) News: Early Edition.

The Drum. A discussion of the events of the day.

6.00 Antiques Roadshow. (R) The tales of the unsung heroes of war.

7.00 News: Anzac Eve Special.

8.00 QI. (PG) (R) Hosted by Stephen Fry. 8.30 Midsomer Murders. (PG) A folk festival organiser is killed in a manner reminiscent to that described in a ballad.

10.00 The Trip To Italy: Villa Cimbrone, Ravello. (M) Steve and Rob visit Pompeii.

10.30 Lateline. (R) News analysis program.

11.05 The War That Changed Us. (PG) (R) Part 4 of 4.

12.00 The Business. (R) Hosted by Ticky Fullerton.

12.20 Rage. (MA15+) Continuous music programming.

4.25 ABC News Breakfast On Anzac Day: Sydney Dawn Service.

5.30 Anzac Day: National Dawn Service From Canberra.

6.00 9.00 11.30 12.00 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 5.30

Sunrise.

The Morning Show. (PG) Morning News.

Movie: Max And Helen. (PG) (R) (1990) Treat Williams.

The Daily Edition.

The Chase. Hosted by Bradley Walsh.

News At 4.

Deal Or No Deal. (R) Hosted by Andrew O’Keefe.

Million Dollar Minute.

Hosted by Simon Reeve.

6.00 News.

7.00 Better Homes And Gardens.

The team commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Anzac landing at Gallipoli.

7.30 Football. AFL. Round 4.

Richmond v Melbourne. From the MCG. 11.00 To Be Advised.

12.00 Harry’s Practice. (R) Dr Harry Cooper and Dr Katrina Warren present information about animals and pet care.

12.30 Dr Oz. (PG) (R) Dr Oz is joined

by Aisha Tyler who hosts some improv games featuring Wayne Brady and Colin Mochrie.

1.30 Movie: Little Jungle Boy. (R) (1971) A 12-year-old boy who grew up in jungleis kidnapped and taken to Singapore.

Rahman Rahman, Mike Dorsey, Niki Huen.

3.00 Home Shopping.

4.00 Weekend Sunrise. Latest news, sport and weather.

NINE (CH9) 6.00 Today. Presented by Karl Stefanovic.

9.00 Mornings. (PG) Topical issues and celebrity interviews.

11.00 News.

12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

(PG) Variety show.

1.00 The Brokenwood Mysteries.

(PG) (R) Part 1 of 4.

3.00 News Now. 4.15 News.

5.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. Hosted

by Eddie McGuire.

6.00 7.00 7.30 8.30

10.45

1.10 3.00 4.00 4.30 5.30

News.

A Current Affair.

The Big Bang Theory. (PG) (R) Movie: My Sister’s Keeper.

(M) (R) (2008) A young girl decides to sue her parents for medical emancipation to avoid donating a kidney to her dying sibling. Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Alec Baldwin.

Movie: Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood. (M) (R) (2002) A renowned playwright is abducted. Sandra Bullock.

Movie: The Island Of Dr Moreau. (M) (R) (1996) Val Kilmer.

The Avengers. (PG) (R) Global Shop.

Spyforce. (PG) (R) The Last Sanctuary: Cane Toads In The Kimberley. (R) Meet the scientists battling to halt the invasion of the dreaded cane toad in Western Australia’s Kimberley.

TEN (CH10)

SBS 1 (CH3)

6.00 Entertainment Tonight. (R) 6.30 Good Chef Bad Chef. (R) 7.00 Huey’s Kitchen. (R) 7.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (R) 8.00 Family Feud. (R) 8.30 Studio 10. (PG) 11.00 The Living Room. (PG) (R) 12.00 Dr Phil. (PG) 1.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R) 1.30 Entertainment Tonight. 2.00 The Doctors. (PG) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG) 3.30 Ben’s Menu.

(R) 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 Eyewitness News.

6.00 11.00 12.00 12.30 1.00 1.30 1.45 2.00 3.00 3.30 4.25

6.00 Family Feud. Hosted by Grant Denyer.

6.30 The Project. A look at the day’s news.

7.30 The Living Room. (PG) Miguel travels to New Zealand to bake Anzac biscuits. Amanda visits The Australian War Memorial.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show.

(PG) Graham Norton chats with Dame Judi Dench, Dev Patel, Jack O’Connell, Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney.

9.30 NCIS. (M) (R) Gibbs focuses his efforts on helping a traumatised marine regain the memories he believes will help them locate a terrorist.

10.30 Shark Tank. (PG) (R) Hosted by Sarah Harris.

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

12.30 The Late Show With David Letterman. (PG) Hosted by David Letterman.

1.30 Home Shopping.

6.00 Heston’s In Search Of Perfection. Hosted by Heston Blumenthal.

6.30 World News.

7.30 Soccer. A-League. Round 27.

Brisbane Roar v Newcastle Jets. From Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane.

10.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine. (PG) (R) Jake gatecrashes a cocktail party.

10.30 Brooklyn Nine-Nine. (PG) (R) The squad is invited to a training simulation.

11.00 World News.

11.30 Movie: 3. (MA15+) (R) (2010) A couple falls in love with a scientist. Sophie Rois, Devid Striesow.

1.35 Movie: Angele And Tony. (M) (R) (2010) Clotilde Hesme.

3.05 Movie: The Father Of My Children. (M) (R) (2009) LouisDo de Lencquesaing.

5.00 Korean News.

5.35 Japanese News.

WorldWatch.

Spanish News.

Arabic News.

Turkish News.

NITV News Week In Review.

France 24 International News.

The Journal.

PBS NewsHour.

Al Jazeera News.

Rex In Rome. (PG) (R) Coast: The Mysteries Of The Isles. (R) 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R)

Classifications: (P) Preschoolers (C) Children (G) General (PG) Parental Guidance (M) Mature Audiences (MA15+) Mature Audiences Only (AV15+) Extreme Adult Violence (R) Repeat.

Please note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to change by networks.

ABC2 (CH22)

7TWO (CH72)

GO! (CH99)

ONE (CH1)

SBS 2 (CH32)

6.00 Children’s Programs. 4.10 Lah-Lah’s Adventures. 4.25 Joe & Jack. 4.30 Let’s Go Pocoyo. 4.40 The Furchester Hotel. 5.00 Sarah And Duck. 5.10 The Hive. 5.25 Peppa Pig. 5.30 Olivia. 5.45 Ben And Holly’s Little Kingdom. 6.00 Peter Rabbit. 6.15 Tree Fu Tom. 6.35 Octonauts. 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. 7.00 Spicks And Specks.

7.30 Doctor Who. 8.15 That ’70s Show.

8.35 The Midwives. 9.35 Catfish: The TV Show. 10.20 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. 11.00 World’s Toughest Jobs. 12.00 The Undateables. 12.45 That ’70s Show.

1.10 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. 1.55 News Update. 2.00 Close.

5.00 This Is Scarlett And Isaiah. 5.05 Tilly And Friends. 5.15 Waybuloo. 5.35 The Magic Roundabout. 5.50 Bert And Ernie’s Great Adventures.

6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping. 7.00 Flushed. 7.30 Spit It Out. 8.00 Jay’s Jungle. 8.30 Man About The House.

9.00 Home And Away. 9.30 Shortland Street. 10.00 Homes Under The Hammer. 11.00 Kingswood Country.

12.00 Pie In The Sky. 1.00 To Be Advised. 3.00 The Martha Stewart Show. 4.00 60 Minute Makeover.

5.00 Best Houses Australia. 5.30 Homes Under The Hammer. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Better Homes And Gardens. 8.30 Escape To The Country.

9.30 The House That £100K Built: Tricks Of The Trade. 10.45 Make My Home Bigger. 11.15 Homes Under The Hammer. 12.15 Man About The House. 12.45 Escape To The Country.

2.00 The Real Seachange. 2.30 The Martha Stewart Show. 3.30 Late Programs.

6.00 Robocar Poli. 6.30 PAW Patrol.

7.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! 7.30 Kitchen Whiz.

8.00 Move It. 8.30 Rabbids. 9.00 Surprises. 9.30 SpongeBob. 10.00 Green Lantern. 10.30 Teen Titans Go! 11.00 Power Rangers. 11.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. 12.00 Extra. 12.30 The Middle. 1.30 Suburgatory. 2.00 Auction Hunters. 3.00 SpongeBob SquarePants. 3.30 Rabbids. 4.00 Kids’ WB. 4.05 Looney Tunes. 4.30 Scooby-Doo! 5.00 Ben 10. 5.30 Teen Titans Go! 6.00 Movie: Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery. (2014) 7.50 Movie: Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory. (1971) 9.50 Movie: Cop Out. (2010) 12.00 Gotham. 2.00 TMZ Live. 3.00 TMZ. 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! 4.00 PAW Patrol.

4.30 Robocar Poli. 4.50 Thunderbirds.

5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic.

6.00 Shopping. 8.00 M*A*S*H. 9.00 Quit Forest Rally Event Review Pt 1.

10.00 Working Below Zero. 11.00 Undercover Boss. 12.00 A League Of Their Own. 1.00 1600 Penn. 2.00 The Living Room. 3.00 Totally Wild. 4.00 Fishing. 4.30 Wild Racers. 5.00 Fishing Edge. 5.30 iFish.

6.00 Family Feud.

6.30 M*A*S*H. 7.30 Megafactories.

8.30 Cops: Adults Only.

9.30 Movie: Welcome To The Jungle.

(2003) The Rock, Seann William Scott.

11.30 Bellator MMA. 1.30 Shopping.

2.00 Cops: Adults Only.

3.00 Ross Kemp: Battle For The Amazon. 4.00 Motor Racing. World Series Sprintcars. Replay. 5.00 Fit ‘N’ Flexed.

6.00 WorldWatch. 8.00 DW Global 3000. 8.30 Macedonian News. 9.05 Croatian News. 9.40 Serbian News.

10.20 Portuguese News. 11.05 Japanese News. 11.40 Hong Kong News. 12.00 Hindi News. 12.30 Dutch News. 1.00 Italian News. 1.35 German News. 2.05 Spanish News. 3.05 Greek News From Cyprus. 4.00 Iron Chef.

4.45 Vs Arashi. 5.40 American Ninja Warrior. 6.30 UEFA Europa League Highlights. 7.30 Friday Feed. 8.00 Parks And Recreation. 8.30 Adam Looking For Eve. 9.20 Turn Me On: The History Of The Vibrator. 9.40 More Sex Please, We’re British. 10.35 Banana.

11.05 Cucumber. 12.00 Friday Feed.

12.30 The Story Of Film. 1.40 PopAsia.

3.45 NHK World News In English From Tokyo. 5.00 French News. 5.50 Urdu News.

ABC3 (CH23)

7MATE (CH73)

GEM (CH90)

ELEVEN (CH11)

ABC24 (CH24)

6.00 Children’s Programs. 9.35 Dragons: Riders Of Berk. 10.00 Camp Lakebottom. 10.10 Sorry, I’ve Got No Head. 10.40 Wacky World Beaters.

11.05 Deadly 60. 11.35 Horrible Histories. 12.00 Grojband. 12.25 Camp Lakebottom. 1.00 SheZow. 1.35 Jamie’s Got Tentacles. 2.10 Dennis The Menace And Gnasher. 3.25 Shaun The Sheep. 3.50 Vic The Viking. 4.00 Tashi.

4.15 The Penguins Of Madagascar.

4.40 News On 3. 4.45 Studio 3. 4.50 Camp Lakebottom. 5.10 Numb Chucks. 5.25 You’re Skitting Me. 5.50 The Next Step. 6.15 Slugterra. 6.40 Kobushi. 6.50 News On 3. 7.00 Deadly 60. 7.30 Worst Year Of My Life, Again.

7.55 Good Game: SP. 8.20 Naruto.

8.45 Sword Art Online. 9.10 Deltora Quest. 9.35 Voltron: Defender Of The Universe. 9.55 Close.

6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping. 7.00 Sheriff Callie’s Wild West. 7.30 Jake And The Never Land Pirates. 8.00 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. 8.30 Art Attack. 9.00 NBC Today. 11.00 Motor Mate. 1.00 Big Easy Justice. 1.30 Nitro Circus Live. 2.30 Inside West Coast Customs. 3.30 Zeke And Luther. 4.00 Star Wars Rebels. 5.00 How I Met Your Mother.

6.00 MythBusters.

7.00 AFL Pre-Game.

7.30 Movie: Kung Fu Panda. (2008) Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman.

9.20 Movie: The Adjustment Bureau.

(2011) Matt Damon, Emily Blunt.

11.30 Movie: Unleashed. (2005) Jet Li. 1.30 Big Easy Justice.

2.00 Nitro Circus Live. 3.00 Inside West Coast Customs. 4.00 Motor Mate.

6.00 Friends. 6.30 Skippy. 7.00 TV Shop. 7.30 Danoz. 8.00 Gilmore Girls.

9.00 TV Shop. 9.30 Danoz. 10.30 Alive And Cooking. 11.00 Friends.

12.00 Movie: Angels One Five. (1952) 2.00 Alive And Cooking. 2.30 Secret Dealers.

3.30 David Attenborough’s Life.

4.30 Ellen.

5.30 Gilmore Girls.

6.30 Friends.

7.30 Rugby League. NRL. Round 8.

Canterbury Bulldogs v Wests Tigers.

10.00 Movie: Sudden Impact. (1983) Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke.

12.30 Movie: Burglar. (1987) Whoopi Goldberg, Bobcat Goldthwait.

2.25 Movie: Rich And Strange. (1931) Henry Kendall, Joan Barry.

3.55 Movie: I Live In Grosvenor Square. (1945) Anna Neagle.

6.00 Toasted TV. 8.00 Vic The Viking.

8.30 Toasted TV. 9.30 Wurrawhy.

10.00 Touched By An Angel. 11.00 Raymond. 11.30 Taxi. 12.00 Charmed.

1.00 JAG. 2.00 Sabrina. 2.30 Caroline In The City. 3.00 Frasier. 3.30 Cheers.

4.00 King Of Queens. 4.30 Laverne & Shirley. 5.00 Mork & Mindy. 5.30 Becker.

6.00 Family Feud.

6.30 Neighbours.

7.00 Raymond.

7.30 American Idol.

9.30 Glee.

10.30 Snog, Marry, Avoid?

11.10 Movie Juice.

11.40 Wonderland.

1.40 Sabrina.

2.05 Touched By An Angel.

3.00 Charmed. 4.00 JAG. 5.00 Shopping.

NITV (CH34)

6.00 Welcome To Wapos Bay. 6.30 Bizou. 7.00 Move It Mob Style. 7.30 Mysterious Cities Of Gold. 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Waabiny Time. 9.00 Go Lingo. 9.30 Bushwhacked! 10.00 Anzacs: Remembering Our Heroes. 10.30 Around The Campfire. 11.00 The Marngrook Footy Show. 12.30 Lurujarri Dreaming. 1.00 Kimberley, The Land Of The Wandjina. 2.00 Knowledge, Painting And Country. 2.30 Mugu Kids. 3.00 Bizou. 3.30 Bushwhacked! 4.00 Go Lingo. 4.30 Move It Mob Style. 5.00 Mysterious Cities Of Gold. 5.30 NITV News. 6.00 The Medicine Line. 6.30 Anzacs: Remembering Our Heroes. 7.00 NITV News. 7.30 Rose Against The Odds. 8.30 Our Songs. 9.00 Go Girls. 10.00 Express Yourself. 11.00 Late Programs.

CH31 (CH44)

6.00 News. 9.00 ABC News. 12.00 News. 1.00 Capital Hill.

1.30 News.

6.30 The Drum.

7.00 News.

9.30 Lateline.

10.00 The World.

11.00 News.

11.30 7.30.

12.00 News.

12.30 The Drum.

1.00 Al Jazeera.

2.00 BBC World.

2.30 7.30.

3.00 BBC World.

3.30 BBC Africa.

4.00 Al Jazeera.

4.25 ABC News Breakfast On Anzac Day. 5.30 Anzac Day: National Dawn Service From Canberra.

6.00 Bumper 2 Bumper. 6.30 Catch And Cook. 7.00 Fishin’ Trip. 7.30 Rotunda In The West. 8.00 Euromaxx. 8.30 Move It Or Lose It. 9.00 The Exchange. 9.30 In Good Shape. 10.00 Movie: Africa Screams. (1949) 11.30 Regional Italian Cuisine. 12.00 Journal. 12.30 Arts 21. 1.00 Tom Padula TV. 1.30 At Home With The Baccalas. 2.00 Russian Kaleidoscope. 2.30 The Message. 3.00 Vasili’s Garden To Kitchen. 4.00 The Northern Footy Show. 4.30 3SSR. 5.00 1700. 6.00 Yappy Hour TV. 6.30 News Geelong. 7.00 The Local Footy Show. 8.30 The PI Law Show. 9.00 Tough Times. 9.30 Dollars With Sense. 10.00 Bent TV. 10.30 Sweet And Sour. 11.00 The Comic Box. 12.00 Late Programs.

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Melbourne Observer TV Guide ABC1 (CH2)

SEVEN (CH7)

Saturday, April 25 NINE (CH9)

TEN (CH10)

SBS 1 (CH3)

6.00 ABC News Breakfast On Anzac Day. 9.00 Anzac Day March Melbourne. 12.30 Anzac Day: Gallipoli Dawn Service. 1.30 Anzac Day: VillersBretonneux Dawn Service.

2.30 Anzac Day Commemoration Ceremony.

3.00 Australia Remembers: Gallipoli 100.

5.00 Gallipoli From Above: The Untold Story. (R) 5.55 Governor-General’s Anzac Day Address.

6.00 Weekend Sunrise. Join Andrew O’Keefe and Monique Wright for all the latest news, sport and weather.

12.30 AFL Pre-Game. Pre-game coverage of the big match between traditional Anzac Day rivals Essendon and Collingwood.

2.30 Football. AFL. Round 4.

Essendon v Collingwood.

From the MCG. 5.30 News.

6.00 News Special: Anzac Dawn Service.

6.30 Dora The Explorer. (R) 7.00 Weekend Today: Saturday.

10.00 Mornings: Saturday. (PG) 12.00 Gallipoli 100 Years: News Special.

3.00 The First Victory. (PG) (R) 3.30 Return To Anzac. (PG) 4.30 The Garden Gurus.

5.00 News.

5.30 AFP: Australian Federal Police. (PG) (R)

6.00 The Offroad Adventure Show.

(R) 6.30 Fishing Edge. (R) 7.00 ET’s Fishing Classics. (R) 7.30 Good Chef Bad Chef. (R) 8.00 Family Feud. (R) 8.30 Anzac Day 100 Years.

1.30 Healthy Homes TV. 2.00 Tour The World.

2.30 The Talk. (PG) 3.30 Car Torque. (PG) 4.00 What’s Up Down Under.

4.30 Escape With ET. 5.00 Eyewitness News.

6.00 12.30 1.00 2.00 4.50

6.00 Anzac Day: Lone Pine Memorial Service. Coverage of the Lone Pine memorial service from Gallipoli, Turkey.

7.00 News.

8.00 Movie: Agatha Raisin: The Quiche Of Death. (PG) (2014) A public relations agent finds herself implicated in a murder involving a poisoned quiche.

Ashley Jensen, Oliver Lansley, Mathew Horne.

9.30 Scott & Bailey. (M) (R) Janet discovers the body of a dead woman whose husband, although alive, is trapped in his bed.

10.20 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. (M) (R) Hosted by Charlie Pickering.

10.50 Judith Lucy’s Spiritual Journey. (M) (R) Judith Lucy explores her “spiritual” side.

11.20 Rage. (MA15+) Music videos.

5.00 Rage. (PG) Continuous music programming.

6.30 AFL Pre-Game. Pre-game coverage of the match.

7.30 Football. AFL. Round 4. Port Adelaide v Hawthorn. From Adelaide Oval.

11.00 Strip The City: Underground City – London. (PG) (R) Explores the hidden infrastructure of cities as well as solving mysteries surrounding their origins, geology, archaeology, industry, weather and engineering. Beneath the streets of London lie deep tunnels and more infrastructure than any city in the world.

12.00 Movie: The Soloist. (M) (R) (2009) A journalist tries to help a homeless musician. Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr. 2.30 Harry’s Practice. (R) Information about pet care.

3.30 It Is Written. (PG) Religious program.

4.00 Home Shopping.

5.00 Dr Oz. (PG) (R)

6.00 News.

7.00 Movie: Rise Of The Guardians.

(PG) (2012) An evil spirit launches an assault on Earth.

Hugh Jackman.

9.00 Movie: Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen. (M) (2009) In the wake of his previous encounter with the Decepticons and the Autobots, a teenager heads to university.

Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel.

12.00 Movie: My Own Private Idaho.

(M) (R) (1991) A hustler teams up with a young man. Keanu Reeves, River Phoenix.

2.00 Movie: Griff The Invisible. (M) (R) (2010) An office worker moonlights as a superhero.

Ryan Kwanten.

3.50 Nine Presents. (PG) (R) 4.00 Anger Management. (PG) (R) 4.30 Global Shop.

5.00 Extra. (R) 5.30 Wesley Impact.

6.00 Gold Coast Cops. (PG) (R) Officers stop a suspicious hatchback.

6.30 Jamie’s Food Fight Club.

Celebrity guest is actor Michael Sheen.

7.30 Bondi Vet. (PG) Dr Chris heads to China.

8.30 Movie: Gallipoli. (M) (1981) Two Australian sprinters face the brutalities of war when they are sent into battle at Gallipoli in Turkey during World War I. Mark Lee, Mel Gibson, Bill Hunter.

10.50 Movie: Hitchcock. (M) (R) (2012) Follows the love story between filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock and his wife, Alma Reville, during the filming of Psycho (1960). Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson.

1.00 Home Shopping.

4.30 It Is Written. (PG) 5.00 Hour Of Power.

6.30 World News.

7.30 Great Continental Railway Journeys. Michael travels to Leipzig on a historic railway line built by British engineers in 1839.

8.30 Movie: Kokoda. (M) (R) (2006) During World War II, a platoon of Australians struggle to survive an ambush by Japanese soldiers. Jack Finsterer, Simon Stone, Ben Barrack.

10.15 Movie: The Counterfeiters.

(AV15+) (R) (2007) A counterfeiter is sent to a concentration camp. Karl Markovics, Devid Striesow.

12.05 Movie: Black Out. (M) (R) (2009) Jalil Lespert.

1.45 Movie: The Equation Of Love And Death. (M) (R) (2008) Xun Zhou.

3.25 Movie: Outbound. (MA15+) (R) (2010) Ana Ularu.

5.00 Korean News.

5.35 Japanese News.

WorldWatch.

Turkish News.

PBS NewsHour.

The Magic Flute.

Tim Marlow’s Virtual Gallery: Leonardo Da Vinci – Mona Lisa.

4.55 Little Secrets Of Famous Paintings: Quentin Metsys’ The Money Lender And His Wife.

5.30 Who Do You Think You Are? Gurinder Chadha. (PG) (R)

Classifications: (P) Preschoolers (C) Children (G) General (PG) Parental Guidance (M) Mature Audiences (MA15+) Mature Audiences Only (AV15+) Extreme Adult Violence (R) Repeat.

Please note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to change by networks.

ABC2 (CH22) 6.00 Children’s Programs. 3.30 Play School. 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas.

4.10 Lah-Lah’s Adventures. 4.25 Joe & Jack. 4.30 Let’s Go Pocoyo. 4.40 The Furchester Hotel. 5.00 Sarah And Duck. 5.10 The Hive. 5.25 Peppa Pig. 5.30 Olivia. 5.45 Ben And Holly’s Little Kingdom. 6.00 Peter Rabbit. 6.15 Tree Fu Tom. 6.35 Octonauts. 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. 7.00 Spicks And Specks.

7.30 Total Wipeout. 8.25 Australian Encounters. 8.30 Build A New Life In The Country. 9.20 Live At The Apollo.

10.05 The Inbetweeners. 10.30 The Awesomes. 10.55 Portlandia. 11.15 True Stories. 12.05 True Stories. 1.35 News Update. 1.40 Close. 5.00 This Is Scarlett And Isaiah. 5.05 Tilly And Friends. 5.15 Waybuloo. 5.35 The Magic Roundabout. 5.50 Bert And Ernie’s Great Adventures.

7TWO (CH72) 6.00 Saturday Disney.

9.00 Jessie.

9.30 Shake It Up. 10.00 Home Shopping.

11.00 Anzac: Bardia - The First Battle.

11.30 Anzac: Kokoda Trail.

12.00 Anzac: RAAF Over Europe.

12.30 Anzac Day. 7.00 Make My Home Bigger.

7.30 Storage Hoarders.

8.30 Taggart.

10.00 Wire In The Blood.

12.00 Escape To The Country.

1.00 Storage Hoarders.

2.00 Taggart.

3.30 Movie: The Navy Comes Through. (1942) Desi Arnaz, Pat O’Brien, George Murphy.

5.30 Anzac: Bardia The First Battle.

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ONE (CH1)

SBS 2 (CH32)

6.00 Thunderbirds. 7.00 Kids’ WB Saturday. 7.05 Looney Tunes. 7.30 Dogstar. 8.00 Green Lantern. 8.30 Scooby-Doo! 9.00 Looney Tunes.

9.30 Adv Time. 10.00 The Batman.

10.30 Ben 10. 11.00 Heidi. 11.30 Move It. 12.00 Kitchen Whiz. 12.30 SpongeBob. 1.30 Danoz. 2.00 Yu-GiOh! 3.00 Thunderbirds Are Go! 4.00 Gumball. 4.30 Looney Tunes. 5.30 Scooby-Doo! 6.00 Movie: Dennis The Menace Strikes Again! (1998) 7.30 Movie: Happy Feet Two. (2011) Elijah Wood.

9.30 Movie: Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. (1999) 11.30 Two And A Half Men. 12.00 Movie: Wildcats. (1986) 2.00 Darren Sanders.

2.30 Gumball. 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! 4.00 PAW Patrol. 4.30 Robocar Poli. 4.50 Thunderbirds. 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic.

6.00 Motor Racing. Aussie Racing Cars. Replay. 6.30 Motorcycle Racing.

MotoGP. Argentine Grand Prix.

Race 3. Replay. 8.00 Netball. ANZ Championship. Round 8. Sydney Swifts v Northern Mystics. Replay.

10.00 Where It All Began. 10.30 Big Fish, Small Boats. 11.00 Wild Racers.

12.00 Motor Racing. FIA Formula E Championship. Replay. 1.00 11 Days In Afghanistan. 2.00 Bandages And Battlefields. 3.00 International Fishing Series. 3.30 Megafactories. 4.30 Garage Gold. 5.00 Freddie Flintoff: Lord Of The Fries. 6.00 Garage Gold.

6.30 Monster Jam. 7.30 Cops. 8.30 Elementary. 9.30 Blue Bloods. 10.30 Ross Kemp: In Search Of Pirates. 11.30 Blokesworld. 12.00 The Killing. 1.00 48 Hours. 2.00 Cops. 3.00 Ross Kemp: Afghanistan. 4.00 Late Programs.

6.00 Urdu News. 6.20 Indonesian News. 7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 Hungarian News. 8.30 Macedonian News. 9.05 Croatian News. 9.40 Serbian News. 10.20 Portuguese News. 11.05 Japanese News. 11.40 Hong Kong News. 12.00 Hindi News. 12.30 Dutch News. 1.00 Soccer. A-League. Round 27. Brisbane Roar v Newcastle Jets. Replay. 2.55 19 Reasons To Love If You Are The One: Bitesize. 3.00 Ultimate Parkour Challenge. 3.30 Venice 24/7. 4.00 Beyond Survival. 5.00 Planet Sport.

6.00 Knife Fight. 6.30 Heston’s Feasts.

7.30 If You Are The One. 8.30 Vikings.

9.25 Hunted. 11.25 Movie: Babycall.

(2011) 1.10 Movie: Samurai. (2002) 2.50 CCTV News In English From Beijing. 5.20 Latin American News.

5.50 Urdu News.

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ABC24 (CH24)

ABC3 (CH23)

7MATE (CH73)

GEM (CH90)

6.00 Children’s Programs. 9.55 Slugterra. 10.35 Endangered Species.

10.50 You’re Skitting Me. 11.15 Almost Naked Animals. 11.25 Trop Jr. 11.35 Lockie Leonard. 12.00 Mortified. 12.20 Camp Lakebottom.

1.25 Camp Lakebottom. 1.50 Horrible Histories. 2.20 WWI Centenary, A Behind The News Special. 2.35 Small Hands In A Big War. 2.55 Deadly 60. 3.25 Wacky World Beaters. 3.55 Studio 3. 4.00 You’re Skitting Me. 4.25 Iron Man: Armored Adventures. 5.00 Young Dracula. 5.30 Operation Ouch!

6.00 Horrible Histories. 6.30 WWI Centenary, A Behind The News Special.

6.45 Harriet’s Army. 8.05 Good Game: SP. 8.30 Naruto. 8.55 Sword Art Online. 9.20 Deltora Quest. 9.45 Voltron: Defender Of The Universe.

10.05 Close.

6.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 7.00 A Football Life. 8.00 Shopping. 9.00 Hook, Line And Sinker. 9.30 Shannon’s Legends Of Motorsport. 10.30 Motor Racing.

AHG Sprintcar Series. QUIT Krikke Boys Shootout. Preliminary. Replay. 11.30 Zoom TV. 12.00 American Chainsaw.

12.30 Swamp People. 1.30 Swamp Men. 2.30 Turtleman. 3.30 Gator Boys. 4.30 Surfing. Noosa’s Festival Of Surfing. Eight Days Of Pure Stoke.

5.30 Zeke And Luther. 6.00 Movie: Wreck-It Ralph. (2012) 8.00 Movie: Brave. (2012) 9.50 Movie: Beneath Hill 60. (2010) 12.30 Late Programs.

1.30 American Chainsaw. 2.00 Swamp People. 3.00 Motor Racing. AHG Sprintcar Series. QUIT Krikke Boys Shootout. Preliminary. Replay. 4.00 Late Programs.

6.00 Movie: Angels One Five. (1952) 8.00 Danoz. 8.30 Secret Dealers. 9.30 Destination WA. 10.30 Movie: My Learned Friend. (1943) 12.00 Duncan’s Thai Kitchen. 12.30 Postcards. 1.00 Movie: The Dam Busters. (1955) 3.30 Rugby League. NRL. Round 8.

Sydney Roosters v St George Illawarra Dragons.

6.00 Movie: Colt .45. (1950) Randolph Scott, Zachary Scott.

7.30 Antiques.

8.30 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

9.30 CSI: NY. 10.30 Unforgettable.

11.20 Golden Boy. 12.20 Movie: The Green Berets.

(1968) John Wayne, Jim Hutton.

3.00 Movie: The Dam Busters. (1955) Richard Todd.

5.30 Postcards.

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6.00 Welcome To Wapos Bay. 6.30 Waabiny Time. 7.00 Move It Mob Style. 7.30 Bizou. 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Go Lingo.

9.00 Bushwhacked! 9.30 Move It Mob Style. 10.00 NITV On The Road: Saltwater Freshwater. 11.00 Fusion With Casey Donovan. 12.00 NITV News Week In Review. 12.30 The Marngrook Footy Show.

2.00 Frontier Wars 2011. 2.15 Frontier Wars 2012. 2.30 Surviving. 3.00 Desperate Measures. 3.30 Our Footprint. 4.00 Around The Campfire. 4.30 Anzacs: Remembering Our Heroes. 5.30 NITV News Week In Review. 6.00 Maori TV’s Native Affairs. 7.00 Anzacs: Remembering Our Heroes. 8.30 A War Of Hope.

9.30 Anzacs: Remembering Our Heroes. 12.00 Volumz.

6.00 Toasted TV. 8.00 Totally Wild.

8.30 Scope.

9.05 The Loop.

11.35 The King Of Queens.

12.00 Diagnosis Murder.

2.00 The Brady Bunch.

3.00 Becker.

3.30 Everybody Loves Raymond.

4.00 The King Of Queens.

4.30 Laverne & Shirley.

5.00 Mork & Mindy.

5.30 Becker.

7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show.

9.30 Sex And The City.

10.30 Empire.

12.30 The Loop.

3.00 Diagnosis Murder.

5.00 Home Shopping.

5.30 Mass For You At Home.

CH31 (CH44)

6.00 ABC News Breakfast On Anzac Day. 9.00 ABC News On Anzac Day. 10.50 ANZAC Day National Ceremony from Canberra. 12.00 ABC News On Anzac Day. 12.30 Anzac Day: Gallipoli Dawn Service. 1.30 Anzac Day: Villers-Bretonneux Dawn Service. 2.30 Australia Remembers: Gallipoli 100.

5.00 Gallipoli From Above: The Untold Story. 5.55 Governor-General’s Anzac Day Address. 6.00 Lone Pine Memorial Service. 7.00 News. 8.00 Four Corners.

8.45 The Quarters. 9.00 News. 9.30 Australia Wide. 10.00 News. 10.30 Landline. 11.00 News. 11.30 AusBiz Asia. 12.00 Big Ideas Arts. 1.00 Al Jazeera. 2.00 BBC World. 2.30 World This Week. 3.00 BBC World. 3.30 One Plus One. 4.00 BBC World. 4.15 BBC Sport Today. 4.30 #TalkAboutIt. 5.00 Al Jazeera. 5.30 Aust Story.

6.00 The Old Path. 6.30 Consider Islam. 7.00 Yappy Hour TV. 7.30 The Northern Footy Show. 8.00 Geelong District Netball League. 8.30 Geelong District Football League. 9.00 The Local Footy Show. 10.30 Oz Fish TV. 11.00 Australian Fishing Network. 11.30 That’s Fishing. 12.00 Catch And Cook. 12.30 Savage Seas Adventures. 1.00 The Flying Show. 1.30 Mr Sink Show. 2.00 Vasili’s Garden To Kitchen. 3.00 Pulse Geelong. 3.30 Bumper 2 Bumper. 4.00 Your 4x4. 4.30 Classic Restos. 5.00 Rev Heads. 5.30 4WD TV. 6.00 Fishin’ Trip. 6.30 That’s Fishing. 7.00 Oz Fish TV. 7.30 Australian Fishing Network. 8.00 Regional Italian Cuisine. 8.30 FASX. 9.30 Speaker TV. 10.00 EPTV. 10.30 Nu Country TV. 11.00 Late Programs.

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‘Such Is Life’ by Joseph Furphy

Chapter 3 - continues But their children don’t deserve these things.

And just mark the slimy little word-shuffle which, in order to keep the “deserving poor” up to their work, pronounces upon them the blessings obviously adherent only to that unquestionable guarantee of unselfish purpose, namely, voluntary poverty. A subtle confusion of issues; but the person who homilises on the blessings of compulsory poverty should be left talking to the undefileable atmosphere.

Yet do I cling (continued the pipe) to Plato’s beautiful thought, that no soul misses truth willingly. In bare justice to brave, misguided Humanity; in daily touch with beings in so many respects little lower than the imagined angels; in dispassionate survey of history’s lurid record of distorted loyalty staining our old, sad earth with life-blood of opposing loyalty, while each side fights for an idea; in view of the zeal which fires the martyr-spirit to endure all that equal zeal can inflict; in contemplation of the everraging enmity between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent, the Ormuzd and the Ahriman in man; in view even of that dismal experiment indifferently termed “making the best of both worlds,” and “serving God and Mammon “— in view of all these things, I cannot think it is anything worse than a locally-seated and curable ignorance which makes men eager to subvert a human equality, self-evident as human variety, and impregnable as any mathematical axiom. And this special brand of ignorance is even more rampant amongst those educated asses who can read Kikero in the original than amongst uneducated asses who know not the law, and are cursed.

Remember (pursued the pipe, with a touch of severity) that Science apprehends no decimal of a second adequate to note, on the limitless circle of Time, the briefness of a centenarian’s life; and yet the giddiest pitch of human effrontery dares not carry beyond the incident of death any vestige of a social code now accepted as good enough to initiate a development which, according to your own showing, goes on through changing cycles till some transcendent purpose is fulfilled. The “love of equality”— that meanest and falsest of equivocations — sickens and dies, and the inflated lie of a social privilege based on extraneous conditions collapses, under the strict arrest of the fell sergeant, Death. If we seek absolute truth — which can never be out of place — surely we shall find it beyond the gates which falsehood cannot pass. And here we find it conceded by all; for as material things fade away, human vision clears, and truth becomes a unit.

Osiris’ balances weighed impartially the souls of Coptic lord and slave, before the pyramids rose on Egypt’s plains; austere Minos meted even justice to citizen and helot, while the sculptured ideals of Attica slept in Pentelican quarries; Brahmin and Sudra, according to deeds done in the body — strictly according to deeds done in some body — awake beyond the grave to share aeons of sorrowful transmigration, and final repose; Nirvana awaits the Buddhist high and low alike; Islamism sternly sends all mankind across the sharp-edged Bridge, which the righteous only cross in safety, while wicked caliph and wicked slave together reel into the abyss below. The apotheosis of pagan heroes rested on personal merit alone. No eschatology but that of High Calvinism anticipates, in the unseen world, anything resembling the injustice of a civilisation which, of set purpose, excludes from the only redemption flesh and blood can inherit, that sad rear-guard whose besetting sin is poverty. Yet John Knox’s wildest travesty of eternal justice never rivalled in flagrancy the moving principle of a civilisation which exists merely to build on extrinsic bases an impracticable barrier between class and class: on one side, the redemption of life, education, refinement, leisure, comfort; on the other side, want, toil, anxiety, and an open path to the Gehenna of ignorance, baseness, and brutality. Holy Willie’s God, at least, heaps no beatitude on successful greed; and your Christian civilisation does so.

Dare you deny it?

Chastened by contemplation of levelling mortality, awed into truth by the spectacle of a whole

Joseph Furphy (Tom Collins) world made kin by that icy touch of nature, the belated soul seeks refuge in a final justice which excludes from natural heirship to the external home not one of earth’s weary myriads. Your conception of heavenly justice is found in the concession of equal spiritual birthright, based on the broad charter of common humanity, and forfeitable only by individual worthlessness or deliberate refusal. Why is your idea of earthly justice so widely different — since the principle of justice must be absolute and immutable? Yet while the Church teaches you to pray, “Thy will be done on earth, as it is done in heaven,” she tacitly countenances widening disparity in condition, and openly sanctions that fearful abuse which dooms the poor man’s unborn children to the mundane perdition of poverty’s thousand penalties. Is God’s will so done in heaven? While the Church teaches you to pray, “Thy Kingdom come,” she strikes with mercenary venom at the first principle of that kingdom, namely, elementary equality in citizen privilege. Better silence than falsehood; better no religion at all — if such lack be possible — than one which concedes equal rights beyond the grave, and denies them here.

I wish you to face the truth frankly (continued the pipe), for, heaven knows, it faces you frankly enough. Ecclesiastical Christianity vies with the effete Judaism of olden time as a failure of the first magnitude. Passing over what was purely local and contemporaneous, there is not one count in the long impeachment of that doomed Eastern city but may be repeated, with sickening exactitude, and added emphasis, over any pseudo-Christian community now festering on earth. Chorasin and Bethsaida have no lack of antitypes amongst you. Again has man over-

ruled his Creator’s design. The mustard seed has become a great tree, but the unclean fowls lodge in its branches. The symbol of deepest ignominy has become the proudest insignia of Court — moths and professional assassins, but it is no longer the cross of Christ. Eighteen-anda-half centuries of purblind groping for the Kingdom of God finds an idealised Messiah shrined in the modern Pantheon, and yourselves “a chosen generation,” leprous with the sin of usury; “a royal priesthood,” paralysed with the cant of hireling clergy; “a holy nation,” rotten with the luxury of wealth, or embittered by the sting of poverty; “a peculiar people,” deformed to Lucifer’s own pleasure by the curse of caste; while, in this pandemonium of Individualism, the weak, the diffident, the scrupulous, and the afflicted, are thrust aside or trampled down.

And whilst the world’s most urgent need is a mission of sternest counsel and warning, from the oppressed to the oppressor, I witness the unspeakable insolence of a Gospel of Thrift, preached by order of the rich man to Lazarus at his gate — a deliberate laying on the shoulders of Lazarus a burden grievous to be borne, a burden which Dives (or Davis, or Smith, or Johnson; anything — anything — but Christ’s brutal “rich man”) hungry for the promised penalty, will not touch with one of his fingers. The Church quibbles well, and palters well, and, in her own pusillanimous way, means well, by her \silky loyalty to the law and the profits, and by her steady hostility to some unresisting personification known as the Common Enemy. But because of that pernicious loyalty, she has reason to complain that the working man is too rational to imbibe her teachings on the blessedness of slavery and starvation. Meanwhile, as no mag-

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nanimous sinner can live down to the pseudoChristian standard, unprogressive Agnosticism takes the place of demoralised belief, and the Kingdom of God fades into a myth.

Yet there is nothing Utopian (pleaded the pipe) in the charter of that kingdom — in the sunshiny Sermon on the Mount. It is no fanciful conception of an intangible order of things, but a practical, workable code of daily life, adapted to any stage of civilisation, and delivered to men and women who, even according to the showing of hopeless pessimists, or strenuous advocates for Individualistic force and cunning, were in all respects like ourselves — delivered, moreover,

by One who knew exactly the potentialities and aspirations of man. And, in the unerring harmony of the Original Idea, the outcome of that inimitable teaching is merely the consummation of prophetic forecast in earlier ages. First, the slenderest crescent, seen by eyes that diligently searched the sky; then, a broader crescent; a hemisphere; at last, a perfect sphere, discovered by the Nazarene Artisan, and by him made plain to all who wish to see. But from the dawn of the ages that orb was there, waiting for recognition, waiting with the awful, tireless, allconquering patience for which no better name has been found than the Will of God. History marks a point of time when first the Humanity of God touched the divine aspiration in man, fulfilling, under the skies of Palestine, the dim, yet infallible instinct of every race from eastern Mongol to western Aztec. “The Soul, naturally Christian,” responds to this touch, even though blindly and erratically, and so from generation to generation the multitudes stand waiting to welcome the Gospel of Humanity with palms and hosannas, as of old; while from generation to generation phylactered exclusiveness takes counsel against the revolution which is to make all things new. And shall this opposition — the opposition by slander, conspiracy, bribery, and force — prevail till the fatal line is once more passed, and you await the Titus sword to drown your land in blood, and the Hadrianplough to furrow your Temple-site?

I think not (added the pipe, after a pause). I think not. For a revolt undreamt of by your forefathers is in progress now — a revolt of enlightenment against ignorance; of justice and reason against the domination of the manifestly unworthy. The world’s brightest intellects are answering one by one to the roll-call of the New Order, and falling into line on the side championed by every prophet, from Moses to the “agitator” that died o’Wednesday. Inconceivably long and cruel has the bondage been, hideous beyond measure the degradation of the disinherited; but I think the cycle of soul-slaying loyalty to error draws near its close; for the whole armoury of the Father of Lies can furnish no shield to turn aside the point of the tireless and terrible PEN— that Ithuriel-spear which, in these latter days, scornfully touches the mail-clad demon of Privilege, and discloses a swelling frog.

Contemporaneous literature (continued the pipe thoughtfully) is our surest register of advance or retrogression; and, with few exceptions indeed, the prevailing and conspicuous element in all publications of more than a century ago is a tacit acceptance of irresponsible lordship and abject inferiority as Divine ordinances. Brutal indifference, utter contempt, or more insulting condescension, toward the rank and file, was an article of the fine old English gentleman’s religion — “a point of our faith,” as the pious Sir Thomas Browne seriously puts it — the complementary part being a loathsome servility toward nobility and royalty. In that era, the most amiable of English poets felt constrained to weave into his exquisite Elegy an undulating thread of modest apology for bringing under notice the short and simple annals of the Vaisya caste.

Later, Cowper thought poverty, humility, industry, and piety a beautiful combination for the wearer of the smock frock. Even Crabbe blindly accepted the sanctified lie of social inequality.

And this assumption was religiously acquiesced in by the lower animal himself — who doubtless glorified God for the distinctly unsearchable wisdom and loving-kindness manifested in those workhouse regulations which separated his own

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From Page 19 toil-worn age from the equal feebleness of the wife whose human rights he should have died fighting for when he was young. And, as might be expected, this strictly gentlemanly principle looms larger in your forefathers’ prose than in their poetry. At last, Burns and Paine flashed their own strong, healthy personalities on the community, marking an epoch; and from that day to this, the Apology of Humanity acquires ever-increasing momentum, and ever-widening scope. Now, if social-economic conditions fail to keep abreast with the impetuous, uncontrollable advance of popular intelligence, the time must come when, with one tiger-spring, the latter shall assail the former; and the scene of this unpleasantness (concluded the infatuated pipe) is called in the Hebrew tongue, Armageddon.

The swagman approached, plodding steadily along, with his billy in one hand and his waterbag in the other; on his shoulder, horse-shoe fashion, his forty years’ gathering; and in his patient face his forty years’ history, clearly legible to me by reason of a gift which I happily possess.

I was roused from my reverie by some one saying: “How fares our cousin Hamlet? Come and have a drink of tea, and beggar the expense.”

“Good day,” responded Hamlet, still pursuing his journey.

“Come on! come on! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?”

“Eh?” And he stopped, and faced about.

“Come and have a feed!” I shouted.

“I’ll do that ready enough,” said he, laying his fardel down in the shade, and seating himself on it with a satisfied sigh.

I rooted my damper out of its matrix, flogged the ashes off it with a saddle-cloth, and placed it before my guest, together with a large wedge of leathery cheese, a sheath-knife, and the quart pot and pannikin.

“Eat, and good dich thy good heart, Apemantus,” said I cordially. Then, resuming my seat, I took leisure to observe him. He was an everyday sight, but one which never loses its interest to me — the bent and haggard wreck of what should have been a fine soldierly man; the honest face sunken and furrowed; the neglected hair and matted beard thickly strewn with grey. His eyes revealed another victim to the scourge of ophthalmia. This malady, by the way, must not be confounded with sandy blight. The latter is acute; the former, chronic.

“Coming from Moama?” I conjectured, at length.

“Well, to tell you the truth, I ain’t had anything since yesterday afternoon. Course, you of’en go short when you’re travellin’; but I’m a man that don’t like to be makin’ a song about it.”

“Would n’t you stand a better show for work on the other side of the river?”

“Eh?” “Is n’t the Vic. side the best for work?” I shouted.

“Yes; takin’ it generally. But there’s a new sawmill startin’ on this side, seven or eight mile up from here; an’ I know the two fellers that owns it — two brothers, the name o’ H——. Fact, I got my eyes cooked workin’ at a thresher for them.

I’m not frightened but what I’ll git work at the mill. Fine, off-handed, reasonable fellers.”

“Would n’t it suit you better to look out for some steady work on a farm?”

“Very carm. Sort o’ carm heat. I think there’s a thunderstorm hangin’ about. We’ll have rain before this moon goes out for a certainty. She come in on her back — I dunno whether you noticed?”

“I did n’t notice. Don’t you find this kind of weather making your eyes worse?”

“My word, you’re right. Not much chance of a man makin’ a rise the way things is now. Dunno what the country’s comin’ to. I don’t blame people for not givin’ work when they got no work to give, but they might be civil” he paused, and went on with his repast in silence for a minute. It required no great prescience to read his thought.

Man must be subject to sale by auction, or be a wearer of Imperial uniform, before the susceptibility to insult perishes in his soul. “I been carryin’ a swag close on twenty year,” he resumed; “but I never got sich a divil of a blaggardin’ as I got this mornin’. Course, I’m wrong to swear about it, but that’s a thing I ain’t in the habit o’ doin’. It was at a place eight or ten mile down the river, on the Vic. side. I wasn’t cadging, nyther. I jist merely ast for work — not havin’ heard about the H——s till after — an’ I thought the bloke was goin’ to jump down my throat. I didn’t ketch the most o’ what he said,

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Called me everything but a gentleman.”

“Possess your soul in patience. You have no remedy and no appeal till we gather at the river.”

“O, I was in luck there. Jist after I heard about this saw-mill — bein’ then on the Vic. side — I foun’ a couple o’ swells goin’ to a picnic in a boat; an’ I told them I wanted to git across, an’ they carted me over, an’ no compliment. Difference in people.”

“I know the H——s,” I shouted. “When did you hear about them starting this saw-mill?”

“O! this forenoon. I must ast you to speak loud.

I got the misfortune to be a bit hard o’ hearin’.

Most people notices it on me, but I was thinkin’ p’r’aps you did n’t remark it. It come through a cold I got in the head, about six year ago, spuddiggin’ among the Bungaree savages.”

“I’m sorry for you.”

“Well, it was this way. After the feller hunted me off of his place this mornin’, who should I meet but a young chap an’ his girl, goin’ to this picnic, with a white horse in the buggy. Now, that’s one o’ these civil, good-hearted sort o’ chaps you’ll sometimes git among the farmers.

Name o’ Archie M——. I dunno whether you might n’t know him; he’s superintender o’ the E—— Sunday School. Fact, I’d bin roun’ with the H——‘s thresher at his ole man’s place four years runnin’; so when he seen me this mornin’, it was, ‘Hello, Andy! — lookin’ for work?’ An’ the next word was, ‘Well, I’m sorry we ain’t got no work for you’— or words to that effect — ‘but,’ says he, ‘there’s the H——s startin’ a sawmill fifteen or twenty mile up the river, on the other side. They won’t see you beat,’ says he, ‘but if you don’t git on with them,’ says he, ‘come straight back to our place, an’ we’ll see about something,’ says he. So I’m makin’ my way to the saw-mill.”

“Well, I hope you’ll get on there, mate.”

“You’re right. It’s half the battle. Wust of it is, you can’t stick to a mate when you got him. I was workin’ mates with a raw new-chum feller las’ winter, ringin’ on the Yanko. Grand feller he was — name o’ Tom — but, as it happened, we was workin’ sub-contract for a feller name o’ Joe Collins, an’ we was on for savin’, so we on’y drawed tucker-money; an’ beggar me if this Joe Collins did n’t git paid up on the sly, an’ travelled. So we fell in. Can’t be too careful when you’re workin’ for a workin’ man. But I would n’t like to be in Mr. Joe Collins’s boots when Tom ketches him. Scotch chap, Tom is.

Well, after bin had like this, we went out on the Lachlan, clean fly-blowed; an’ Tom got a job boundary ridin’, through another feller goin’ to Mount Brown diggin’s; an’ there was no work for me, so we had to shake hands. I’d part my last sprat to that feller.”

“I believe you would. But I’m thinking of Joe Collins. To a student of nominology, this is a most unhappy combination. Joseph denotes sneaking hypocrisy, whilst Collins is a guarantee of probity. Fancy the Broad Arrow and the Cross of the Legion of Honour woven into a monogram!”

“Rakin’ style o’ dog you got there. I dunno when I seen the like of him. Well, I think I’ll be pushin’ on. I on’y got a sort o’ rough idear where this mill is; an’ there ain’t many people this side o’ the river to inquire off of; an’ my eyes is none o’ the best. I’ll be biddin’ you good day.”

“Are you a smoker?” I asked, replenishing my own sagacious meerschaum. “Because you might try a plug of this tobacco.”

Now that man’s deafness was genuine, and I spoke in my ordinary tone, yet the magic word vibrated accurately and unmistakably on the paralysed tympanum. Let your so-called scientists account for that.

“If you can spare it,” replied the swagman, with animation. “Smokin’s about the on’y pleasure a man’s got in this world; an’ I jist used up the dust out o’ my pockets this mornin’; so this’ll go high.

My word! Well, good day. I might be able to do the same for you some time.”

“Thou speakest wiser than thou art ‘ware of,” I soliloquised as I watched his retreating figure, whilst lighting my pipe. “As the other philosopher, Tycho Brahe, found inspiration in the gibberish of his idiot companion, so do I find food

for reflection in thy casual courtesy, my friend.

Possibly I have reached the highest point of all my greatness, and from that full meridian of my glory, I haste now to my setting. From a Deputy– Assistant-Sub–Inspector — with the mortuary reversion of the Assistant–Sub-Inspectorship itself — to a swagman, bluey on shoulder and billy in hand, is as easy as falling off a playful moke. Such is life.”

The longer I smoked, the more charmed I was with the rounded symmetry and steady lustre of that pearl of truth which the swagman had brought forth out of his treasury. For philosophy is no warrant against destitution, as biography amply vouches. Neither is tireless industry, nor mechanical skill, nor artistic culture — if unaccompanied by that business aptitude which tends to the survival of the shrewdest; and not even then, if a person’s mana is off. Neither is the saintliest piety any safeguard. If the author of the Thirty-seventh Psalm lived at the present time, he would see the righteous well represented among the unemployed, and his seed in the Industrial Schools. For correction of the Psalmist’s misleading experience, one need go no further down the very restricted stream of Sacred History than the date of the typical Lazarus. Continually impending calamities menace with utter destitution any given man, though he may bury his foolish head in the sand, and think himself safe. There lives no one on earth to day who holds even the flimsiest gossamer of security against a pauper’s death, and a pauper’s grave. If he be as rich as Croesus, let him remember Solon’s warning, with its fulfilment — and the change since 550 B.C. has by no means been in the direction of fixity of tenure. Where are one-half of the fortunes of twenty years ago?

— and where will the other half be in twenty years more? Though I am, like Sir John, old only in judgment and understanding, I have again and again seen the wealthy emir of yesterday sitting on the ash-heap to-day, scraping himself with a bit of crockery, but happily too broken to find an inhuman sneer for the vagrants whom, in former days, he would have disdained to set with the dogs of his flock. I could write you a column of these emirs’ names. And if there is one impudent interpolation in the Bible, it is to be found in the last chapter of that ancient Book of Job. The original writer conceived a tragedy, anticipating the grandeur of the Oedipus at Colonos, or Lear — and here eight supplementary verses have anti-climaxed this masterpiece to the level of a boys’ novel. “Also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before,” &c., &c. Tut-tut! Job’s human nature had sustained a laceration that nothing but death could heal.

Is there any rich man who cannot imagine a combination of circumstances that would have given him lodgings under the bridge? — that may still do so, say, within twelve months? Setting my knighthood and my soldiership aside, I can imagine a combination that would have quartered me in that airy colonnade — nay, that may do so before this day week; and my view of the matter is, that if I become not the bridge as well as another, a plague of my bringing up! We are all walking along the shelving edge of a precipice; any one of us may go at any moment, or be dragged down by another.

And this is as it ought to be. Justice is done, and the sky does not fall. For, from a higher point of view, the Sabians and Chaldeans of the present day don’t dislocate society; they only alter the incidence of existing dislocation; and all this works steadily towards a restoration — if not of some old Saturnian or Jahvistic Paradise-idyll, at least of a Divine intention and human ideal.

Vicissitude of fortune is the very hand of “the Eternal, not ourselves, that maketh for righteousness,” the manifestation of the Power behind moral evolution; and we may safely trust the harmony of Universal legislation for this antidote to a grievous disease; we may rest confident that whilst this best of all possible worlds remains under the worst of all possible managements, the solemn threat of thirty-three centuries ago shall not lack fulfilment — the poor shall never cease out of the land. And no man knows when his own turn may come. But all this is strictly conditional.

Collective humanity holds the key to that kingdom of God on earth, which clear-sighted prophets of all ages have pictured in colours that never fade. The kingdom of God is within us; our allembracing duty is to give it form and effect, a local habitation and a name. In the meantime, our reluctance to submit to the terms of citizenship has no more effect on the iron law of citi-

zen reciprocity than our disapproval has on the process of the seasons; for see how, in the great human family, the innocent suffer for the guilty; and not only are the sins of the fathers visited upon the children, but my sins are visited upon your children, and your sins upon some one else’s children; so that, if we decline a brotherhood of mutual blessing and honour, we alternatively accept one of mutual injury and ignominy.

Eternal justice is in no hurry for recognition, but flesh and blood will assuredly tire before that principle tires. It is precisely in relation to the palingenesis of Humanity that, to the unseen Will, one day is said to be as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. A Divine Idea points the way, clearly apparent to any vision not warped by interest or prejudice, nor darkened by ignorance; but the work is man’s alone, and its period rests with man.

My reason for indulging in this reverie was merely to banish the thought of my late guest.

(Of course, my object in recording it here is simply to kill time; for, to speak like a true man, I linger shivering on the brink of the disclosures to which I am pledged. I feel something like the doomed Nero, when he stood holding the dagger near his throat, trying meanwhile to screw his courage to the sticking-place by the recitation of heroic poetry. Trust me to go on with the narrative as soon as I choose.)

I did n’t want to think of Andy personally. Intuition whispered to me that the swagman, who would have parted his last sprat to a former mate, hadn’t that humble coin in his pocket; whilst purse-pride hinted that I had four sovereigns and some loose silver in mine — not to speak of £8 6s. 8d. waiting for me in Hay. If I had allowed my mind to dwell on these two intrusive intimations, they would have seemed to fit each other like tenon and mortice; though when the opportunity of making the joint had existed, a sort of moral laziness, together with our artificial, yet not unpraiseworthy, repugnance to offering a money gift, had brought me out rather a Levite than a Samaritan. In mere self-defence, I would have been constrained to keep up a series of general and impersonal reflections till the swagman lost his individuality — say, five or six hours — but I was rescued from this tyranny by the faint rattle of a buggy on the other side of the river. Idly turning my glass on the two occupants of the vehicle, I recognised one of them as a familiar and valued friend — a farmer, residing five or six miles down the river, on the Victorian side. I rose and walked to the brink as the buggy came opposite.

“Hello! Mr. B— — ” I shouted.

“Hello! Collins. I thought you were way back.

When did you come down? Why did n’t you give us a call?”

“Could n’t get across the river without sacrifice of dignity and comfort.”

“Yes, you can; easy enough. You can start off now. I’m going across here with Mr. G— — to see some sheep, but I’ll be back toward sundown. I’ll tell you how you’ll manage: Follow straight down the road till you come to the old horse-paddock, nearly opposite our place; then turn to your left, down along the fence ——” “No use, Mr. B——. I want to get away to-morrow; and you know when we get together ——” “Yes; I know all about that. But you must come, Collins. There’s a dozen things I want your opinion about.”

“Indeed I appreciate your sensible valuation of me as a referee, Mr. B— — but I must still decline. I wish I had gone this morning; it’s too late now.”

“Well, I’ll feel disappointed. So will Dick. Bythe-by, Dick L—— has turned up again. He’s at our place now. He’s off next week — to Fiji, I suspect.”

“Where has he been this last time?”

“You would n’t guess. He’s been in the Holy Land. Poked about there for over six months.”

“At Jerusalem?”

“Yes; he’s been a good deal in Jerusalem. He lived in Jericho for a month; but he spent most of his time at different places up and down the Jordan.”

“Did he meet many Scotchmen wandering along that river?”

“I suppose he would meet a good many anywhere — but why there particularly?”

“Well, Byron tells us that on Jordan’s banks the arab Campbells stray.”

“I don’t take.”

“Neither do I, Mr. B——.”

“But I’m perfectly serious, Tom; I am, indeed. I

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His descriptions of the Holy Land are worth listening to.”

“Say ‘Honour bright’.”

“Honour bright, then. I say, Collins — did you ever have reason to doubt my word?”

“No; but I always get demoralised out back.

Where were you saying I could get across the river?”

“I thought that would fetch the beggar,” I heard B—— remark to his companion. And he was right. It would fetch the beggar across any river on this continent.

Dick L— — Mrs. B——‘s brother, was a mine of rare information and queer experiences. Educated for the law, his innate honesty had shrunk from the practice of his profession, and he had taken to rambling as people take to drink, turning up at irregular intervals to claim whatever might be available of the £l2 10s. per quarter bequeathed to him by his father. His strong point was finding his way into outlandish places, and getting insulted and sat on by the public, and run in by the police. Apart from this speciality, he was one of the most useless beings I ever knew (which is saying a lot). Some men, by their very aspect, seem to invite confidence; others, insult; others, imposition; but Dick seemed only to invite arrest. When well-groomed, he used to be arrested in mistake for some bank defaulter; when ragged, he was sure to be copped for shoplifting, pocket-picking, lack of lawful visible, or for having in his possession property reasonably supposed to have been stolen. Therefore, honest as he was, he had been, like Paul, in prisons frequent. But, thanks to his forensic training, these interviews with the majesty of the law seemed homely and grateful to him. He could converse with a Bench in such terms of respectful camaraderie, yet with such suggestiveness of an Old Guard in reserve, that his innocence became a supererogatory merit. Besides which, he had been, in a general way, a servant of servants in every quarter of the globe, and had been run out of every billet for utter incompetency; often having to content himself with a poor halfpennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack. So he enjoyed (or otherwise) opportunities of seeing things that the literary tourist never sees; and, being a good talker, and, withal, a singularly truthful man, he was excellent and profitable company after having been on the extended wallaby.

“Where were you saying I could get across the river, Mr. B——?”

“You know the old horse-paddock fence? Well, follow that down to the river, and just at the end of it you’ll find a bark canoe tied to the bank.

Bark by name, and bark by nature. And you’ll see a fencing wire lying in the river, with the end fastened to a tree. When you haul the wire up out of the water, you’ll find the other end tied to a tree on this bank. Very complete rig. And, I say, Collins; mind you slacken the wire down from this end after you get across, on account of steamers, and snags, and so forth, The canoe’s dead certain to be on your side of the river. It belongs to a couple of splitters, living in the horsepaddock hut; and they only use it to come across for rations, or the like of that. Well, we’ll be off, Mr. G——. I’ll see you again this evening, then, Collins.”

The buggy rattled away through the red-gums. I packed my things in a convenient hollow tree, and started off down the river, followed by the slate-coloured animal that constantly loved me although I was poor. About half-way to the horsepaddock, I was overtaken and passed by Arthur H— — one of the two brothers reported to be starting the sawmill; and I afterward remembered that, though we saluted each other, and exchanged impotent criticisms on the weather, I had by this time obtained such ascendency over the meddlesome and querulous part of my nature that I had never once thought of asking him if he had met Andy.

It must have been near six in the afternoon when I made my way down the steep bank to where the aptly-named bark was tied up. I soon pulled the slack of the wire out of the bed of the river, and made all fast. Then it occurred to me that I might have a smoke whilst pulling across. My next thought was that I could economise time by deferring this duty till I should resume my journey, with both hands at liberty. Forthwith, I squatted in the canoe, and got under way, leaving Pup to follow at his own convenience.

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Observer Classic Books person’s life is directed by his ever-recurring option, or election. Now let me glance at two of my own alternatives, each of which has immediate bearing on the incident I am about to relate: Three weeks ago (from the present writing) I had open choice of all the dates in twenty-two diaries. I actually dallied with that choice, and inadvertently switched my loco. on to the line I am now faithfully, though reluctantly, following.

The doom-laden point of time was that which marked the penning of my determination; for a perfectly-balanced engine is more likely to go wandering off a straight line than I am to fail in fulfilment of a promise.

Another indifferent-looking alternative was accepted when my guardian angel suggested a smoke while crossing the river, and I declined, on the plea of haste. A picaninny alternative, that, you say? I tell you, it proved an old-man alternative before it ran itself out. The filling and lighting of my pipe would have occupied three or four minutes, and I should have seen an impending danger in time to guard against it.

But I shunted on to the wrong line, and nothing remained but to follow it out to a finish. You shall judge for yourself whether even your own discretion and address could have carried the allotted trip to a less unhappy issue.

Hand over hand along the wire, I had wobbled the bark to the middle of the stream, when I noticed, not fifty yards away, a dead tree of twelve or fifteen tons displacement, en route for South Australia. Being about nineteen-twentieths submerged, and having no branches on the upper side, it would have passed under the wire but for a stump of a root, as thick as your body, standing about five feet above the surface of the water, on its forward end. In remarking that the tree was ong root, I merely mean to imply such importance in that portion of its substance that it might rather be viewed as a root with a tree attached than as a tree with a root attached. This is the aspect it still retains in my mind.

There was not half enough time to pull the bark ashore and sink the wire, so I did the next best thing I could. As the log approached, I carefully rose to my feet, and held the wire high enough to clear the root. Nearer it came; it would pass the bark nicely within three or four feet; a few seconds more, and the root would glide underneath the wire —— Pup had remained yelping and dancing on the bank for a few minutes after my embarkation — the kangaroo dog having a charcoal burner’s antipathy to the bath — but at last becoming desperate, he had plunged in, and was rapidly approaching whilst I judiciously gauged the height of the root, and meanwhile balanced the unsteady bark under my feet. When the root was within six inches of the wire, Pup’s chin and forepaws were on the gunwale; in three seconds more, I was clinging with one hand to the root, the other still mechanically holding the tightening wire; Pup was making for the log; and the splitters’ bark had gone to Davy Jones’s locker.

In another half-minute, the wire parted, and Pup and I were deck passengers, ong root for the land of the Crow-eaters.

I was no more disconcerted than I am at the present moment. I would go on to B——‘s as if nothing had happened; and put up with the inconvenience of swimming the river in the morning. In the meantime, though I was well splashed, all the things in my pockets were dry. I particularly congratulated myself on the good fortune of having been so close to the root at the Royal Georgeing of my bark. My bark — well, strictly speaking, it was the splitters’ bark; but accidents will happen; and I was certain that not a soul had seen me turn off the main road toward the river.

My clothes were of the lightest. I took them off, and tied them in my handkerchief. I pounded a depression in the package to fit the top of my head, and bound it there with my elastic belt, holding the latter in my teeth. You must often have noticed that the chief difficulty of swimming with your clothes on your head arises from the fore-and-aft surging of the package with each stroke. But nothing could have been more complete than my arrangements as I slid gently into the water, and paddled for the Cabbage Garden shore.

When I had gone a few yards, my faithful companion, now left alone on the log, raised his voice in lamentation, after the manner of his subspecies.

“Come on, Pup!” I shouted, without looking round; and the next moment I felt as if a big

kangaroo dog had catapulted himself through twenty feet of space, and lit on my package.

After returning to the surface and coughing about a pint of water out of my nose and ears, I looked uneasily round for my cargo. It was nowhere to be seen. I swam back to the log, and stood on it to get a better view. Good! there was the white, rounded top, an inch above the water, ten yards away. As I swam toward it, a whirlpool took it under. I dived after it, struck it smartly with the crown of my head; and eventually returned to the log, whence I watched for its re-appearance above the slowly-swirling water. It never re-appeared.

Following the sinuosities of the river, this must have been a mile and a half below the splitters’ crossing-place; and time had been passing, for there was the setting sun, blazing through a gap in the timber, and its mirrored reflection stretching half a mile of dazzling radiance along a straight reach of the river.

Now, though the Murray is the most crooked river on earth, its general tendency is directly from east to west. Would n’t you, therefore — if you were on a floating log, remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow; standing, like the Apollo Sauroctones, with your hand on the adjacent stump, and, to enhance your resemblance to that fine antique, clad in simplicity of mien and nothing else — if you were sadly realising the loss of your best clothes, with all the things in the pockets, including a fairly trustworthy watch — if, in addition to this, the patient face of the spratless swagman was rising before you till you involuntarily muttered “O Julius Caesar! thou art mighty yet!” and the nasty part of your moral nature was reminding you that you might have had anything up to four-pounds-odd worth of heavenly debentures; whereas, having failed to put your mammon of unrighteousness into celestial scrip, to await you at the end of your pilgrimage, you were now doubly debarred from retaining it in your pilgrim’s scrip, by reason of having neither scrip nor mammon — under such circumstances, I say, would n’t you be very likely to take the sunset on your left, and swim for the north bank, without doing an equation in algebra to find out which way the river ought to run?

That is what I did. It never occurred to my mind that Victoria could be on the north side of New South Wales.

After shouting myself hoarse, and whistling on my fingers till my lips were paralysed, I brought Pup into view on the south, and supposedly Victorian, bank, opposite where I had landed. By the time I had induced him to take the water and rejoin me, the short twilight was gone, and night had set in, dark, starless, hot, and full of electricity.

And the mosquitos. Well, those who have been much in the open air, in Godiva costume, during opaque, perspiring, November nights, about Lake Cooper, or the Lower Goulburn, or the Murray frontage, require no reminder; and to those who have not had such experience, no illustration could convey any adequate notion.

Hyperbolically, however: In the localities I have mentioned, the severity of the periodical plague goads the instinct of animals almost to the standard of reason. Not only will horses gather round a fire to avail themselves of the smoke, but it is quite a usual thing to see some experienced old stager sitting on his haunches and dexterously filliping his front shoes over a little heap of dry leaves and bark.

To return. The recollection of much worse predicaments in the past, and the reasonable anticipation of still worse in the future, restored that equilibrium of temper which is the aim of my life; and I felt cheerful enough as I welcomed my dripping companion, and, taking a leafy twig in each hand to switch myself withal, started northward for the river road, which I purposed following eastward to where the pad branched off, and then running the latter to my camp. Once clear of the river timber, and with the road for a base, the darkness, I thought, would make little difference to me.

After half an hour’s gliding through heavy forest, and cleaving my way through spongy reedbeds, and circling round black lagoons, alive with the “plump, plump” of bullfrogs, and the interminable “r-r-r-r-r” of yabbies, I found the river on my right, with a well-beaten cattle-track along the bank. Here was something definite to go upon. By keeping straight on, I must soon strike the old horse-paddock fence, where the splitters used to keep their bark; and in an hour and a-half more, I would be at my camp.

But the discerning reader will perceive, from

hints already given, that, by following the cattle track, with the river on my right, I was unconsciously travelling westward on the Victorian side, instead of eastward on the New South Wales side. If the sky had cleared for a single instant, a glance at the familiar constellations would have set me right.

After half a mile, the cattle-track intersected a beaten road, with the black masses of river timber still on the right, and a wire fence on the left — as I found by running into it. Everything seemed unfamiliar and puzzling; but I followed the road, looking out for landmarks, and zealously switching myself as I went along.

Soon I heard in front the trampling of horses, and men’s voices in jolly conversation. I aimed for the sounds, and, after running against a loose horse, feeding leisurely on the grass, I distinguished through the hot, stagnant darkness the approaching forms of three men riding abreast.

“Good evening, gentlemen,” said I politely, switching myself as I spoke. “Could you give me some idea of the geography”—— I got no farther, for a colt that one of the fellows was riding suddenly shied at me and followed up the action by bucking his best. Upon this, the loose horse presented himself, cavorting round in senseless emulation, while the other two horses swerved and tried to bolt. All this took place in half a minute.

The rider of the colt was taken by surprise, but he was plucky. Though losing not only his stirrups but his saddle with the first buck, he spent the next couple of minutes riding all over that colt, sometimes on his ears, and sometimes on his tail. But this sort of thing could n’t last — it never does last — so, after hanging on for about twenty seconds by one heel the fellow dismounted like a barrow-load of sludge. During this time, I saw nothing of the two other men, but I could hear them trying to force their excited horses toward the spot where I was skipping round, ready to catch the colt on the moment of his discharging cargo.

On making the attempt, I missed the bridle in the dark; and away shot the colt in one direction, and the loose horse in another.

“I bet a note Jack’s off,” said a voice from the distance.

“Gosh, you’d win it if it was twenty,” responded another voice from the ground close by.

“There goes his moke!” said the first voice.

“Come and jam the beggar against the fence, or he’ll be off to glory.” And away clattered the two horsemen after the wrong horse; Jack following on foot.

Noticing their mistake, I cantered hopefully after the colt, thinking to obtain a favourable introduction to Jack by restoring the animal; but in a few minutes I lost the sounds, and abandoned the pursuit. Then, after supplying myself with fresh switches, I resumed my fatal westward course.

More voices, a short distance away, and straight in front. Judging them to come from some vehicle travelling at a slow walk along the edge of the timber, I posted myself behind a tree, and waited as patiently as the mosquitos permitted.

“Now you need n’t scandalise one another,” said a pleasant masculine voice. “You’re like the pot and the kettle. You’re both as full of sin and hypocrisy as you can stick. Six of one, and half-a-dozen of the other. I would n’t have believed it if I had n’t seen it with my own eyes.

You’ve disgraced yourselves for ever. Who the dickens do you think would be fool enough to marry either of you after the way you’ve behaved yourselves to-day?”

“Well, I’m sure we’re not asking you to marry us,” piped a feminine voice.

“Keep yourselves in that mind, for goodness’ sake. I’m disgusted with you. Why, only last Sunday, I heard your two mothers flattering themselves about the C—— girls knowing too much; and I’ll swear you’ve both forgot more than the C—— girls ever knew. You’re as common as dish-water.”

“O, you’re mighty modest, your own self,” retorted a second feminine voice.

“It’s my place to be a bit rowdy,” replied the superior sex. “It’s part of a man’s education.

And I don’t try to look as if butter would n’t melt in my mouth. You’re just the reverse; you’re hypocrites. ‘Woe unto you hypocrites!’ the Bible says. But it’s troubling me a good deal to think what your mothers’ll feel, now that you’ve come out in your true colours.”

“But you wouldn’t be mean enough to tell?” interrupted one of the sweet voices.

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Observer Classic Books From Page 25 “I always thought you were too honourable to do such a thing, Harry,” remarked the other.

“Well, now you find your mistake. But this is not a question of honour; it’s a question of duty.”

“O, you’re mighty fine with your duty! You’re a mean wretch. There!”

“I’ll be a meaner wretch before another hour’s over. Go on, Jerry; let’s get it past and done with.”

“But, Harry — I say, Harry — don’t tell. I’ll never forgive you if you do.”

“Duty, Mabel, duty.”

“What good will it do you to tell?” pleaded the other voice.

“Duty, Annie, duty. On you go, Jerry, and let’s get home. This is painful to a cove of my temperament.”

During this conversation, I had become conscious of standing on a populous ant-bed; and, not wishing to lose the chance of an interview with Harry, I had retreated in front of the buggy till a second tree offered its friendly cover. Jerry’s head was now within two yards of my ambush, and, peeping round, I could make out the vague outline of the figures in the buggy.

“Well, I’ll tell you what I’ll do,” said Harry, stopping the horse: “If each of you gives me a kiss, of her own good will, I’ll promise not to tell. Are you on? Say the word, for I’ll only give you one minute to decide.”

“What do you think, Mabel?” murmured one of the voices.

“Well, I’ve got no —— But what do you think?”

“I think it’s about the only thing we can do. We would never be let come out again.”

There was perfect silence for a minute. My tree was n’t a large one, and the near front wheel of the buggy was almost against it. Not daring to move hand or foot, I could only wish myself a rhinoceros.

“Come on,” said one of the voices, at last.

“Come on how?” asked Harry innocently. “Look here: the agreement is that each of you is to give me a kiss, of her own good will. I’m not going to move.”

“O, you horrid wretch! Do you think we’re going to demean ourselves? You’re mighty mistaken if you do.”

“Go on, Jerry.” And the buggy started.

“We’re not frightened of you now,” remarked one of the voices complacently, whilst I threw

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myself on the ground, and rolled like a liberated horse. “If you dare to say one single word, we’ll just expose your shameful proposal. You mean wretch! you make people think it’s safe to send their girls with you, to be insulted like this. O, we’ll expose you!”

“Expose away. And don’t forget to mention that you both agreed to the shameful proposal. I’ll tell your mothers that I made that proposal just to try you, and you consented on condition of me keeping quiet. You’re both up a tree.

‘Weighed in the balances, and found wanting.

Mene, Mene, Tekel Upharsin.’ Go on, Jerry, and let’s have it over.”

“What do you think, Annie?” asked one of the voices, whilst I made for my third tree.

“He’s the meanest wretch that ever breathed,” replied the other vehemently. “And I always thought men was so honourable!”

“Live and learn,” rejoined the escort pithily.

“O, Harry!” panted one voice, “I seen a white thing darting across there!”

“Quite likely,” replied Harry. “When a girl’s gone cronk, like you, she must expect to see white things darting about. But I’ll give you one more chance.”

“I think we better,” suggested one of the voices.

“There’s nothing else for it,” assented the other.

By this time, the buggy had disappeared in the darkness. I heard it stop; then followed, with slight intervals, two unsyllabled sounds.

“Over again,” said Harry calmly. “You both cheated.”

The sounds were repeated.

“Over again. You’ll have to alter your hand a bit — both of you — or we’ll be here all night.

Slower, this time.”

Once more the sounds were repeated; then the buggy started, and Harry’s voice died away in the distance to an indistinct murmur, as he reviled the girls for this new exhibition of their shamelessness.

Whilst undecided whether to follow the buggy any further, I saw a light on the other side of the road. Making my way toward it, I crossed a logand-chock fence, bounding a roughly ploughed fallow paddock, and then a two-rail fence; wondering all the while that I had never noticed the place when passing it in daylight. At last, a quarter of a mile from the road, a white house loomed before me, with the light in a front window. I

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opened the gate of the flower garden, and was soon crouched under the window, taking stock of the interior.

A middle-aged woman was sitting by the table, darning socks; and at the opposite side of the lamp sat a full-grown girl, in holiday attire, with her elbows on the table and her fingers in her hair, reading some illustrated journal; while a little boy, squatted behind the girl’s chair, was attaching a possum’s tail to her improver.

Like Enoch Arden (in my own little tin-pot way) I turned silently and sadly from the window, for I was n’t wanted in that company. I thought of going round to the back premises in search of a men’s hut; but before regaining the gate, I trod on a porcupine cactus, and forgot everything else for the time. Then, as I lay on the ground outside the gate, caressing the sole of my foot, and comforting myself with the thought that a brave man battling with the storms of fate is a sight worthy the admiration of the gods, a white dog came tearing round from the back yard, and rushed at me like a coming event casting its shadow before.

“Soolim, Pup!” I hissed. That was enough. Pup’s colour rendered him invisible in the dark, and his stag-hound strain made him formidable when he was on the job. The office of a chucker-out has its duties, as well as its rights; and in half a minute that farm dog found that one of these duties demanded a many-sided efficiency with which Nature had omitted to endow him. He found that, though the stereotyped tactics of worrying, and freezing, and chawing, were good enough as opposed to similar procedure, they became mere bookish theories when confronted with the snapping system. Eviction becomes tedious when the intruder’s teeth are always meeting in the hind quarters of the ejecting party; and the latter can neither get his antagonist in front of him, nor haul off to investigate damage.

Of course, I fanned the flame of discord as well as I could, hoping that some one of my own denomination would come out to see what was the matter. But no: the parlour door opened, Mam came out to the gate, and, in the broad bar of light extending from the door, I saw her pick up a clod, and aim it at the war-clouds, rolling dun. I was crouching some yards away to one side, but the clod crumbled against my ear. Then the storm of one-sided battle went raging round

the back premises, as the farm dog returned to tell Egypt the story. Mam retreated from the gate in haste, and for a minute or two there was a confused clatter of voices in the house, and some opening and shutting of doors. Then all was silent again. Presently Pup returned, and accompanied me back to the road, carrying something which I ascertained to be a large fowl, plucked and dressed in readiness for cooking.

Musing on the difficulties of this Wonderland into which, according to immemorial usage, I had been born without a rag of clothes, I waited for Pup whilst he ate his fowl, and then again pressed forward, alert and vigilant, as beseemed a man scudding under bare poles through an apparently populous country, which by right ought to have been a sheeprun, with about one selection every five miles.

I had managed to put another mile between myself and my camp, when two horsemen met and passed me at a canter, singing one of Sankey’s Melodies. I made a modest appeal, but they didn’t hear me, and so passed on, unconscious of their lost opportunity.

Then I saw, a long way ahead, the lamps of an approaching vehicle, and at the same time, I heard, close in front, the trampling of horses, and voices raised in careless glee. I headed straight for the horses. As I neared them, the laughing and chatting ceased, and I was about to open negotiations when a woman’s awestricken voice asked, “Wha — what’s that white thing there in front?”

Before the last syllable had left her lips, that white thing was receding into the darkness, like a comet into space. The party stopped for a minute, and then went on, conversing in a lower tone.

More pilgrims of the night. This time, the slow footfalls of horses, and a low, inarticulate murmur of voices, out in front and a little to the left, gave me fresh hope. Warned by past failures, I thought best to forego the erect posture to which our species owes so much of its majesty. I therefore dropped on all-fours and went like a tarantula till I distinguished two horses walking slowly abreast, jammed together; the riders presenting an indistinct outline of two individuals rolled into one; and it was from this amalgamation that the low, pigeon-like murmurs proceeded.

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Melbourne Observer TV Guide ABC1 (CH2)

Sunday, April 26

SEVEN (CH7)

6.00 Rage. (PG) 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. 9.00 Insiders. 10.00 Offsiders. 10.30 Australia Wide. (R) 11.00 The World This Week. (R) 11.30 Songs Of Praise. (R) 12.00 Landline.

1.00 Gardening Australia: Canberra Special. (R) 1.30 The Mix. (R) 2.00 Art + Soul. (R) 3.00 The Art Of Australia. (PG) (R) 4.00 Muriel Matters! (R) 4.30 Movie: Agatha Raisin: The Quiche Of Death. (PG) (R) (2014)

6.00 Jake And The Never Land Pirates.

6.30 Sofia The First. (R) 7.00 Weekend Sunrise.

10.00 AFL Game Day. (PG) 11.30 Football. VFL. Round 2.

Essendon v Collingwood.

From Windy Hill, Melbourne.

2.30 AFL Pre-Game.

3.00 Football. AFL. Round 4.

Geelong v North Melbourne.

From Simonds Stadium, Geelong.

6.00 Who’s Been Sleeping In My House? Peter Pan. (R) Adam Ford explores the history of Peter Pan. 6.30 Compass: Walk The Talk.

7.00 News.

7.40 Inside The Commons: Reinventing The House. (M) Part 4 of 4.

8.40 Poldark. (PG) Ross celebrates the opening of Wheal Leisure.

9.40 Fortitude. (MA15+) Dan has an emotional encounter with Morton.

10.30 Movie: The Eye Of The Storm.

(M) (R) (2011) Charlotte Rampling.

12.25 Junior Doctors: Your Life In Their Hands. (M) (R) 1.20 Paul Merton’s Adventures.

(PG) (R) 2.05 Poldark. (PG) (R) 3.05 Fortitude. (MA15+) (R) 3.55 Inside The Commons. (M) (R) 5.00 Collectors. (R) 5.30 Eggheads. (R)

6.00 News.

7.00 My Kitchen Rules. (PG) As the competition heads into the final phase, teams prepare for their ultimate instant restaurant.

8.30 Sunday Night. Current affairs program. Hosted by Chris Bath.

9.30 Castle. (M) Beckett and Castle are faced with a large list of possible suspects after a personal injury lawyer is murdered.

11.30 Cougar Town. (PG) 12.00 Citizen Khan. (PG) (R) Mrs Khan is keen to go on a holiday.

12.45 Eastbound & Down. (MA15+) (R) Kenny starts a grassroots PR campaign.

1.30 Harry’s Practice. (R) 2.00 Home Shopping.

3.00 NBC Today.

4.00 NBC Meet The Press. Hosted

by David Gregory.

5.00 Sunrise Extra.

5.30 Early News.

NINE (CH9)

TEN (CH10)

SBS 1 (CH3)

PAW Patrol. (R) Dora The Explorer. (R) Weekend Today.

Wide World Of Sports. Hosted

by Ken Sutcliffe.

The AFL Sunday Footy Show.

Comprehensive coverage and analysis of the AFL. The Block Triple Threat. (PG) (R) Hosted by Scott Cam. News.

Postcards. Rebecca goes to Sir Charles in Fitzroy.

6.00 Mass For You At Home. (R) 6.30 Hillsong. 7.00 Joseph Prince: New Creation Church. 7.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R) 8.00 iFish. (R) 8.30 Studio 10: Sunday.

10.00 The Bolt Report. 11.00 All 4 Adventure. (PG) (R) 12.00 The Hotel Inspector. (PG) 1.00 Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution. (PG) (R) 2.00 Quit Forest Rally Event Review Pt 2. (R) 3.00 The Bolt Report. (R) 4.00 RPM. 5.00 Eyewitness News.

6.00 12.00 12.30 1.00 2.00 4.00

6.00 News.

7.00 The Block Triple Threat. (PG) The end of the final week approaches.

8.30 60 Minutes. Featuring reports from Liz Hayes, Tara Brown, Allison Langdon, Michael Usher and Charles Wooley.

9.30 Stalker. (M) Jack and Beth are called in to determine whether a stalker has come back to haunt a bride who was shot at her wedding.

10.30 20/20.

12.30 Anger Management. (M) (R) Charlie becomes romantically involved with a former patient.

1.00 The Strip. (M) (R) 2.00 Spyforce. (PG) (R) 3.00 Global Shop.

3.30 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo.

(R) 4.00 Good Morning America: Sunday.

5.00 News.

5.30 Today.

6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. Hosted

by Grant Denyer.

6.30 Modern Family. A peeping Tom spies on a sunbathing Gloria.

7.30 Shark Tank. (PG) Hosted by Sarah Harris.

8.30 NCIS: New Orleans. A navy commander’s car is stolen with his baby inside. The team investigate to determine whether it was a targeted abduction.

9.30 NCIS. (M) (R) The team suspects a cyberstalker could be responsible for kidnapping a teenage girl and killing her friend’s father.

10.30 Empire.

11.30 Movie: Morning Glory. (M) (R) (2010) A TV producer tries to save her show. Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford.

2.00 Home Shopping.

4.00 James Robison. (PG) 4.30 CBS Morning.

6.30 World News.

7.35 Rome: The World’s First Superpower: Caesar. (PG) Part 4 of 4. Larry Lamb continues to trace the story of Rome’s transition from a city state to empire.

8.30 Stonehenge Empire. (M) (R) A look at the people who built Stonehenge, one of the most iconic prehistoric monuments in the world.

10.15 The People Who Never Stop.

Animated short film.

10.25 Cycling. UCI World Tour. LiègeBastogne-Liège.

2.00 Death Unexplained. (M) (R) Part 2 of 3.

2.50 The Lala Road. (PG) 3.00 First Australians: An Unhealthy Government Experiment. (PG) (R) 3.55 SAS: The Search For Warriors.

(M) (R) 5.00 Korean News.

5.35 Japanese News.

6.00 6.30 7.00 10.00 11.00 1.00 5.00 5.30

WorldWatch.

Arabic News.

Turkish News.

The World Game.

Speedweek.

Soccer. FA Cup. Semi-final.

Highlights. From Wembley Stadium, London.

4.30 UEFA Champions League Magazine.

5.00 World Of Cycling.

5.30 Khrushchev Does America.

(PG)

Classifications: (P) Preschoolers (C) Children (G) General (PG) Parental Guidance (M) Mature Audiences (MA15+) Mature Audiences Only (AV15+) Extreme Adult Violence (R) Repeat.

Please note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to change by networks.

ABC2 (CH22)

7TWO (CH72)

GO! (CH99)

ONE (CH1)

SBS 2 (CH32)

6.00 Children’s Programs. 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. 4.10 Lah-Lah’s Adventures. 4.25 Joe & Jack. 4.30 Let’s Go Pocoyo. 4.40 The Furchester Hotel. 5.00 Thomas And Friends: Blue Mountain Mystery. 6.00 Peter Rabbit.

6.15 Tree Fu Tom. 6.35 Octonauts.

6.50 Shaun The Sheep. 7.00 Spicks And Specks. 7.30 The Checkout: Snack Size. 7.40 Seconds From Disaster.

8.30 Movie: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1. (2011) 10.15 Tattoo Tales. 10.45 Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends. 11.35 Catfish: The TV Show. 12.20 The Best Of Junior Doctors. 1.20 The Real Hustle: New Recruits. 1.50 News Update. 1.55 Close. 5.00 This Is Scarlett And Isaiah.

5.05 Tilly And Friends. 5.15 Waybuloo.

5.35 The Magic Roundabout. 5.50 Bert And Ernie’s Great Adventures.

6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Amazing Facts.

7.00 Tomorrow’s World. 7.30 Leading The Way. 8.00 David Jeremiah. 8.30 Shopping. 9.30 Home And Away Catch-Up. 12.00 Downsize My Pet. 12.30 Travel Oz. 2.00 The Travel Bug. 3.00 The Great Australian Doorstep.

3.30 Neighbours At War. 4.30 Four Rooms. 5.30 Mighty Ships.

6.30 Vicious.

7.00 Keeping Up Appearances.

7.30 Escape To The Country.

9.30 Original Features.

10.30 Best Houses Australia.

11.00 Front Of House.

11.30 Four Rooms. 12.30 The Great Australian Doorstep. 1.00 Neighbours At War. 2.00 Downsize My Pet. 2.30 Front Of House. 3.00 Best Houses Australia. 3.30 Travel Oz. 5.00 The Travel Bug.

6.00 Thunderbirds. 7.00 Kids’ WB. 7.05 Looney Tunes. 7.30 The Skinner Boys. 8.00 Green Lantern. 8.30 Scooby-Doo! 9.00 Looney Tunes.

9.30 Adv Time. 10.00 Young Justice.

10.30 The Batman. 11.00 Rabbids Invasion. 12.00 Tom And Jerry. 12.30 SpongeBob. 1.30 Danoz. 2.00 Power Rangers. 3.00 Green Lantern. 4.00 Teen Titans Go! 4.30 The Batman. 5.30 Scooby-Doo! 6.00 Thunderbirds Are Go! 6.30 Movie: Richie Rich. (1994) 8.30 Big Bang.

9.30 Movie: Mad Max. (1979) Mel Gibson, Hugh Keays-Byrne.

11.30 Two And A Half Men. 12.00 Movie: Nuts. (1987) 2.30 The Batman. 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! 4.00 PAW Patrol. 4.30 Robocar Poli. 4.50 Thunderbirds. 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic.

6.00 Sport Science. 7.00 Healthy Homes TV. 7.30 Fit ‘N’ Flexed. 8.00 Sport Science. 9.00 Escape With ET. 9.30 Wild Racers. 10.00 Enchanted Kingdom. 12.00 Netball. ANZ Championship. Round 9. West Coast Fever v Waikato Bay Of Plenty Magic.

2.00 Car Torque. 2.30 The Road To 2015. 3.30 4x4 Adventures. 4.30 International Fishing Series. 5.00 What’s Up Downunder? 5.30 iFish.

6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. 6.30 M*A*S*H. 7.30 Extreme Fishing.

8.30 Gold Coast Cops.

9.00 Bondi Rescue.

9.30 Movie: The Peacemaker. (1997) George Clooney.

12.00 Sons Of Anarchy. 1.00 RPM. 2.00 Fast Forward. 3.00 48 Hours. 4.00 Ross Kemp: Afghanistan. 5.00 Fit ‘N’ Flexed.

6.00 Urdu News. 6.20 Indonesian News. 7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 Maltese News. 8.30 Macedonian News. 9.00 PopAsia.

11.00 Portuguese News. 11.30 Croatian News. 12.00 Hindi News.

12.30 Dutch News. 1.00 Be Your Own Boss. 2.05 Foodie Planet. 3.05 My Mum Talks To Aliens. 4.10 Bunk. 4.40 19 Reasons To Love If You Are The One: Bitesize. 4.45 The Pitch. 5.35 Brazil’s Next Top Model. 6.30 Duck Quacks Don’t Echo. 7.30 If You Are The One. 8.30 South Park.

9.00 Cockroaches.

9.30 Housos. 10.00 Pizza. 10.30 Toast Of London. 11.00 In Her Skin. 12.40 24 Hours In Emergency. 1.35 This Is Not A Film. 3.00 Death Row. 4.00 CCTV News In English From Beijing.

5.00 French News. 5.50 Urdu News.

ABC3 (CH23)

7MATE (CH73)

GEM (CH90)

ELEVEN (CH11)

ABC24 (CH24)

6.00 Children’s Programs. 10.50 You’re Skitting Me. 11.15 Almost Naked Animals. 11.25 Trop Jr. 11.35 Lockie Leonard. 12.00 Mortified.

12.20 Nowhere Boys. 1.15 The Next Step. 2.45 Deadly 60. 3.15 Wacky World Beaters. 3.45 Studio 3. 3.50 Endangered Species. 4.20 The Dukes Of Broxstonia. 4.30 Roy. 5.00 Studio 3. 5.05 Life With Boys.

5.30 Horrible Histories. 6.00 The Penguins Of Madagascar. 6.25 The Adventures Of Figaro Pho. 6.30 Mortified. 6.55 Pet Superstars. 7.00 Heartland. 7.40 The High Fructose Adventures Of Annoying Orange. 7.55 The Adventures Of Figaro Pho. 8.00 Degrassi – The Next Generation. 8.25 Good Game: Pocket Edition. 8.30 Total Drama Action. 9.15 Star Wars: The Clone Wars. 9.40 Rage. 2.10 Close.

6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Hook, Line And Sinker. 7.30 Shopping.

9.30 Hook, Line And Sinker.

10.30 T.J. Hooker.

11.30 Fifth Gear.

12.30 Ultimate Factories.

1.30 The Border.

2.30 Bid America!

3.30 American Chainsaw.

4.30 Seinfeld.

6.30 Movie: The Avengers. (2012) Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans.

9.30 Movie: The Incredible Hulk.

(2008) Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth.

11.45 Movie: There Will Be Blood.

(2007) Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Ciarán Hinds.

3.30 Fifth Gear.

4.30 Hook, Line And Sinker.

6.00 TV Shop. 6.30 GEM Presents.

6.45 Movie: Carry On Nurse. (1959) 8.30 TV Shop. 9.30 Rainbow Country.

10.00 Antiques. 11.00 Movie: Vera Cruz. (1954) 1.00 Garden Gurus. 1.30 NRL Sunday Footy Show. 3.30 Rugby League. NRL. Round 8. South Sydney Rabbitohs v Canberra Raiders.

6.00 Customs.

6.30 River Cottage: Autumn Collection.

7.30 Journey To The Bottom Of The Ocean.

8.30 Movie: Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves. (1991) Kevin Costner, Alan Rickman, Morgan Freeman.

11.30 Cold Case.

12.30 Garden Gurus.

1.00 Seaway.

2.00 Danoz. 2.30 Global Shop. 4.30 Joyce Meyer. 5.00 Seaway.

6.00 Toasted TV. 9.00 TMNT. 10.00 Mako: Island Of Secrets. 10.30 Brady Bunch. 11.30 Becker. 12.00 ST: Next Gen. 2.00 Raymond. 2.30 Neighbours.

5.00 Mork & Mindy. 5.30 Becker.

6.00 Family Feud: Sunday.

6.30 The Simpsons.

7.30 Futurama.

8.00 The Simpsons.

8.30 Movie: Dance Flick. (2009) Damon Wayans Jr, Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans.

10.10 Californication.

10.40 Becker.

11.10 ST: Next Gen. 1.00 Brady Bunch.

2.00 TMNT. 3.00 Mork & Mindy.

3.30 Becker.

4.00 ST: Next Gen. 5.00 Shopping.

6.00 Saturday Landline. 6.30 Australia Wide. 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. 9.00 Insiders. 10.00 Weekend Breakfast.

11.00 News. 11.30 World This Week.

12.00 News. 12.30 Big Ideas. 1.00 News. 1.30 Saturday Landline. 2.00 News. 2.30 One Plus One. 3.00 News.

3.30 Offsiders. 4.00 News. 4.30 The Mix. 5.00 News. 5.30 News Update.

5.35 Australia Wide. 6.00 News. 6.30 Aust Story. 7.00 News. 7.30 News Update. 7.35 World This Week. 8.00 Insiders. 9.00 News. 9.30 One Plus One. 10.00 News. 10.30 The Mix. 11.00 News. 11.30 Big Ideas. 12.00 Landline. 1.00 Al Jazeera. 2.00 BBC World. 2.30 #TalkAboutIt. 3.00 BBC World. 3.30 World This Week. 4.00 BBC World. 4.15 BBC Sport Today. 4.30 The Mix. 5.00 Al Jazeera. 5.30 One Plus One.

NITV (CH34)

6.00 Welcome To Wapos Bay. 6.30 Waabiny Time. 7.00 Move It Mob Style. 7.30 Bizou. 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Go Lingo. 9.00 Bushwhacked! 9.30 Move It Mob Style. 10.00 Soccer. A-League. Round 27. Brisbane Roar v Newcastle Jets. 12.00 NITV News Week In Review. 12.30 Football. NEAFL. 2.45 Rugby League. Queensland Murri Carnival. 3.35 Cash Money. 3.40 JM’s Healthy Tips. 3.45 Rugby League. Koori Knockout. 4.45 The Black Olive. 5.00 Te Kaea 2014. 5.30 NITV News Week In Review. 6.00 Awaken. 7.00 Native Planet.

7.50 Oh My God. 9.30 Like Water. 12.00 Volumz.

CH31 (CH44)

6.00 The Pursuit Of Happiness. 6.30 La Voz Del Consolador.

7.30 The Lord’s Challenge. 8.00 Nusantara TV. 9.00 Arkabahce. 9.30 Zontas 100%. 10.00 Sri Lanka Morning Show. 11.00 Entre Todos. 11.30 Macedonians In The Aussie Land. 12.00 Tom Padula TV. 12.30 Sputnik. 1.00 Macedonian Horizons. 1.30 Dhoom Channel. 2.00 Desi Duniya Network. 2.30 Zhong Hua TV. 3.00 TV Sri Lanka. 3.30 Vietnamese TV. 4.00 Punjabi TV. 4.30 Hungarian TV. 5.00 Croatian TV. 5.30 The Pearl Of Lanka. 6.00 LawHelp Australia.

6.30 GR-TV. 7.00 ATVAA. 7.30 Sri Lanka Clip Show. 8.00 The Shtick. 8.30 Movie: Oklahoma! 10.30 At Home With The Baccalas. 11.00 3SSR. 11.30 The CEC Report. 12.00 Late Programs.

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Monday, April 27

ABC1 (CH2) 6.00 9.00 10.00 11.00 11.30 12.00 1.00 2.00 2.30 3.30 5.00 5.30

SEVEN (CH7)

ABC News Breakfast.

ABC News Mornings.

Landline. (R) Compass. (R) Eggheads. (R) News.

Antiques Roadshow. (R) Kitchen Cabinet. (R) Last Tango In Halifax. (PG) (R) Midsomer Murders. (PG) (R) News: Early Edition.

The Drum. A discussion of the events of the day.

6.00 Antiques Roadshow. (R) Hosted by Fiona Bruce.

7.00 News.

7.30 7.30. Current affairs program.

8.00 Australian Story. Australians tell personal stories.

8.30 Four Corners. Investigative journalism program.

9.20 Media Watch. (PG) Hosted by Paul Barry.

9.35 Q&A. Hosted by Tony Jones.

10.35 Lateline. (R) News analysis program.

11.05 The Business. (R) 11.25 Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy. (PG) (R) 12.25 Rick Stein Tastes The Blues.

(M) (R) 1.25 Movie: Two-Lane Blacktop.

(M) (R) (1971) James Taylor.

3.05 The Making Of Modern Australia. (R) 4.00 Paul Merton’s Adventures.

(PG) (R) 5.00 Collectors. (R) 5.30 Eggheads. (R)

6.00 9.00 11.30 12.00 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 5.30

Sunrise.

The Morning Show. (PG) Morning News.

Movie: Final Descent. (M) (R) (1997) Robert Urich.

The Daily Edition.

The Chase. (R) Hosted by Bradley Walsh.

News At 4.

Deal Or No Deal. (R) Hosted by Andrew O’Keefe.

Million Dollar Minute. Hosted

by Simon Reeve.

6.00 News.

7.00 Home And Away. (PG) Ash tries to persuade Billie to stay.

7.30 My Kitchen Rules. (PG) As the competition heads into the final phase, teams prepare for their ultimate instant restaurant.

9.00 Revenge. (M) Emily and Victoria learn that information is the most dangerous weapon.

Nolan tries to salvage his reputation.

10.00 Movie: Legally Blonde. (PG) (R) (2001) A ditzy blonde enrols in a prestigious law school to woo her ex-boyfriend.

Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson.

12.00 Talking Footy. (PG) (R) Hosted

by Luke Darcy.

1.00 Home Shopping.

3.00 Sons And Daughters. (PG) (R) 3.30 NBC Today.

5.00 Sunrise Extra.

5.30 Early News.

NINE (CH9) 6.00 9.00 11.00 12.00 1.00 1.30 3.00 4.15 5.30

Today.

Mornings. (PG) News.

The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

(PG) (R) Variety show.

Extra. Entertainment news program.

The Block Triple Threat. (PG) (R) The end of the final week approaches.

News Now. News.

Millionaire Hot Seat.

6.00 News.

7.00 A Current Affair.

7.30 The Block Triple Threat. (PG) Hosted by Scott Cam. 8.50 The Big Bang Theory. (PG) (R) After the guys fail to get tickets to Comic-Con, they consider buying them from a scalper.

9.50 Footy Classified. (M) Hosted

by Garry Lyon.

10.50 Person Of Interest. (M) Reese and Finch try to protect a psychologist.

11.45 Underbelly: A Tale Of Two Cities. (M) (R) Ray Chuck plans the Great Bookie Robbery.

12.45 Impractical Jokers. (M) 1.15 Extra. (R) 1.45 Nine Presents. (R) 2.00 Danoz Direct.

2.30 Global Shop.

3.00 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo.

(R) 3.30 Good Morning America.

5.00 News.

5.30 Today.

TEN (CH10)

SBS 1 (CH3)

6.00 Entertainment Tonight. (R) 6.30 Good Chef Bad Chef. (R) 7.00 Huey’s Kitchen. (R) 7.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (R) 8.00 Family Feud. (R) 8.30 Studio 10. (PG) 11.00 Shark Tank. (PG) (R) 12.00 Dr Phil. (M) 1.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R) 1.30 Entertainment Tonight. 2.00 The Doctors. (M) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG) 3.30 Ben’s Menu.

(R) 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 Eyewitness News.

6.00 11.00 12.00 12.30 1.00 2.55 3.00 3.30

6.00 Family Feud. Hosted by Grant Denyer.

6.30 The Project. A look at the day’s news.

7.30 The Odd Couple. Felix’s athleticism threatens Oscar.

8.00 Modern Family. (PG) (R) Claire allows Phil to take over the task of decorating the house for Halloween.

8.30 Law & Order: SVU. (M) Rollins’ old boss from Atlanta visits New York city along with his newest detective, who is found unconscious in her hotel bathroom.

9.30 Elementary. (M) After an NYPD officer is murdered, Holmes and Watson join the investigation.

11.30 The Project. (R) 12.30 The Late Show With David Letterman. (PG) 1.30 Home Shopping.

4.00 Life Today With James Robison. (PG) 4.30 CBS This Morning.

6.00 Food Safari. (R) Maeve explores Thai cuisine.

6.30 World News.

7.30 Is Your Brain Male Or Female?

Hosted by Dr Michael Mosley and Professor Alice Roberts.

8.30 Tea And Coffee Trails With Simon Reeve: The Tea Trail.

(PG) (R) Part 1 of 2.

9.30 Strip The Cosmos: Expedition Mars. Explores the history of Mars.

10.30 World News.

11.00 Cucumber. (MA15+) (Final) 11.55 Movie: The Sky Crawlers. (M) (R) (2008) Stephanie Sheh.

2.05 The Contagious Apparitions Of Dambarey Dendrite.

(MA15+) (R) 2.25 Hellfjord. (AV15+) (R) 3.00 World’s Most Dangerous Roads. (M) (R) (Final) 4.00 One Born Every Minute: What Happened Next? (M) (R) 5.00 Korean News.

5.35 Japanese News.

WorldWatch.

Spanish News.

Arabic News.

Turkish News.

Rieu Royale. (R) Poh & Co. Bitesize.

Al Jazeera News.

Exploring China: A Culinary Adventure. (R) 4.30 The Dales With Ade Edmondson.

5.00 Living Black.

5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R)

Classifications: (P) Preschoolers (C) Children (G) General (PG) Parental Guidance (M) Mature Audiences (MA15+) Mature Audiences Only (AV15+) Extreme Adult Violence (R) Repeat.

Please note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to change by networks.

ABC2 (CH22)

7TWO (CH72)

GO! (CH99)

ONE (CH1)

SBS 2 (CH32)

6.00 Children’s Programs. 4.25 Joe & Jack. 4.30 Let’s Go Pocoyo. 4.40 The Furchester Hotel. 5.00 Sarah And Duck. 5.10 The Hive. 5.25 Peppa Pig. 5.30 Olivia. 5.45 Ben And Holly’s Little Kingdom. 6.00 Peter Rabbit. 6.15 Tree Fu Tom. 6.35 Octonauts. 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. 7.00 Spicks And Specks.

7.30 Doctor Who. 8.15 That ’70s Show.

8.35 Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends.

9.25 Hard Time. 10.10 Gruen Planet: Cutdowns. 10.25 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. 11.05 Movie: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1. (2011) 12.50 That ’70s Show.

1.10 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. 1.55 News Update. 2.00 Close.

5.00 This Is Scarlett And Isaiah. 5.05 Tilly And Friends. 5.15 Waybuloo. 5.35 The Magic Roundabout. 5.50 Bert And Ernie’s Great Adventures.

6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping. 7.00 Flushed. 7.30 Spit It Out. 8.00 Jay’s Jungle. 8.30 Man About The House.

9.00 Home And Away. 9.30 Shortland Street. 10.00 Escape To The Country.

11.00 Mighty Ships. 12.00 Taggart.

3.00 Vicious.

3.30 The Martha Stewart Show.

4.30 60 Minute Makeover.

5.30 Homes Under The Hammer.

6.30 Bargain Hunt.

7.30 Cities Of The Underworld.

8.30 A Touch Of Frost.

10.45 Waking The Dead.

12.00 Bargain Hunt.

1.00 Man About The House.

1.30 Cities Of The Underworld.

2.30 How The Other Half Live.

3.30 The Martha Stewart Show.

4.30 The World Around Us. 5.30 Shortland Street.

6.00 Robocar Poli. 6.30 PAW Patrol.

7.00 Thunderbirds Are Go! 7.30 Kitchen Whiz. 8.00 Move It. 8.30 Rabbids. 9.00 Surprises. 9.30 SpongeBob SquarePants. 10.00 Green Lantern. 10.30 Teen Titans Go! 11.00 Power Rangers. 11.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. 12.00 Extra. 12.30 The Middle.

2.00 Car SOS. 3.00 SpongeBob. 3.30 Thunderbirds Are Go! 4.00 Kids’ WB. 4.05 Looney Tunes. 4.30 Scooby-Doo! 5.00 Ben 10. 5.30 Teen Titans Go! 6.00 Regular Show. 6.30 Adv Time. 7.00 Big Bang. 7.30 Car SOS. 8.30 James May’s Cars Of The People. 9.30 Movie: Blade. (1998) 12.00 Secret Mountain Fort Awesome. 12.30 Adv Time. 1.00 Regular Show. 1.30 Rabbids. 2.00 TMZ Live. 3.00 TMZ. 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! 4.00 PAW Patrol. 4.30 Robocar Poli. 4.50 Thunderbirds. 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic.

6.00 Shopping. 8.00 M*A*S*H. 9.00 Megafactories. 10.00 Quit Forest Rally Event Review Pt 2. 11.00 RPM. 12.00 NYC 22. 1.00 1600 Penn. 2.00 The Living Room. 3.00 Totally Wild. 4.00 Fishing. 4.30 Wild Racers. 5.00 Fishing Edge. 5.30 iFish.

6.00 Family Feud.

6.30 M*A*S*H. 7.30 Freddie Flintoff: Lord Of The Fries.

8.30 Undercover Boss.

9.30 Movie: The Rainmaker. (1997) Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Claire Danes.

12.15 Shopping.

2.15 Awake.

3.20 Ross Kemp: In Search Of Pirates.

4.25 International Fishing Series.

5.00 Fit ‘N’ Flexed.

6.00 WorldWatch. 8.30 Macedonian News. 9.05 Croatian News. 9.40 Serbian News. 10.20 Portuguese News. 11.05 Japanese News. 11.40 Hong Kong News. 12.00 Hindi News.

12.30 Dutch News. 1.00 Italian News. 1.35 German News. 2.05 Spanish News. 3.05 Greek News From Cyprus. 4.00 Iron Chef. 4.50 The Urban Freestyler Extreme. 4.55 Vs Arashi. 5.55 Never Ever Do This At Home. 6.30 If You Are The One. 7.30 The Feed. 8.00 30 Rock. 8.30 Movie: Shame. (2011) Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale.

10.20 Movie: A Dangerous Method.

(2011) 12.05 @midnight. 12.35 The Feed. 1.05 The Story Of Film. 2.20 Movie: Partners. (2009) 4.00 RT News In English From Moscow. 5.00 French News. 5.50 Urdu News.

ABC3 (CH23)

7MATE (CH73)

GEM (CH90)

ELEVEN (CH11)

ABC24 (CH24)

6.00 Friends. 6.30 Skippy. 7.00 TV Shop. 7.30 Danoz. 8.00 Gilmore Girls.

9.00 TV Shop. 9.30 Danoz. 10.30 Alive And Cooking. 11.00 Friends. 12.00 Movie: Sands Of The Desert. (1960) 1.55 GEM Presents. 2.00 Alive And Cooking. 2.30 Journey To The Bottom Of The Ocean. 3.30 River Cottage: Autumn Collection. 4.30 Ellen. 5.30 Gilmore Girls.

6.30 Friends.

7.00 Friends.

7.30 Monarch Of The Glen.

8.40 Midsomer Murders.

10.50 Cold Case.

11.50 The Big C. 12.30 Footy Classified.

1.30 Friends.

2.00 Danoz.

2.30 Global Shop.

4.30 Joyce Meyer. 5.00 Seaway.

6.00 Toasted TV. 8.00 Totally Wild.

8.30 Toasted TV. 9.30 Wurrawhy.

10.00 Touched By An Angel. 11.00 Raymond. 11.30 Taxi. 12.00 Charmed.

1.00 JAG. 2.00 Judging Amy. 3.00 Frasier. 3.30 Cheers. 4.00 King Of Queens. 4.30 Laverne & Shirley. 5.00 Mork & Mindy. 5.30 Becker.

6.00 Family Feud.

6.30 Neighbours.

7.00 Raymond.

7.30 Futurama.

8.00 The Simpsons.

8.30 Supernatural.

9.30 Sleepy Hollow.

10.30 Medium.

11.30 American Horror Story.

12.30 Frasier.

1.00 Judging Amy. 2.00 Touched By An Angel. 3.00 Charmed. 4.00 JAG. 5.00 Shopping.

6.00 News. 9.00 ABC News. 11.55 ABC Open. 12.00 News. 1.00 Capital Hill.

1.30 News.

5.55 ABC Open.

6.00 News.

6.30 The Drum.

7.00 News.

9.30 Lateline.

10.00 The World.

11.00 News.

11.30 7.30.

12.00 News.

12.30 The Drum.

1.00 Al Jazeera.

2.00 BBC Global.

2.30 7.30.

3.00 Outside Source.

3.30 BBC Africa.

4.00 Al Jazeera.

5.00 BBC World.

5.30 Lateline.

6.00 Children’s Programs. 10.25 Atoms Of Fire. 10.40 Children’s Programs. 1.10 Stormworld. 1.35 Bindi’s Bootcamp. 2.00 Arthur. 2.25 Pearlie. 2.40 Hairy Legs. 2.50 Tashi.

3.05 SheZow. 3.20 The Day My Butt Went Psycho. 3.40 The Dukes Of Broxstonia. 3.50 Vic The Viking.

4.00 Tashi. 4.15 The Penguins Of Madagascar. 4.40 News On 3. 4.45 Studio 3. 4.50 Camp Lakebottom.

5.20 Horrible Histories. 5.50 The Next Step. 6.15 Total Drama Action. 6.40 Kobushi. 6.50 News On 3. 7.00 Deadly 60. 7.30 Worst Year Of My Life, Again.

7.55 The Adventures Of Figaro Pho. 8.00 Degrassi – The Next Generation.

8.25 Good Game: Pocket Edition. 8.30 Total Drama Action. 9.15 Star Wars: The Clone Wars. 9.40 Rage. 10.40 Close.

NITV (CH34)

6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping. 7.00 Sheriff Callie’s Wild West. 7.30 Jake And The Never Land Pirates. 8.00 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. 8.30 Art Attack. 9.00 NBC Today.

10.00 NBC Press.

11.00 Motor Mate.

1.00 Charlie’s Angels.

3.00 Starsky & Hutch.

4.00 How I Met Your Mother.

4.30 Pimp My Ride.

5.30 Wipeout USA. 6.30 MythBusters.

7.30 Talking Footy.

8.30 Pawn Stars.

9.00 American Restoration.

10.00 American Pickers.

12.00 SportsFan Clubhouse.

1.00 Defiance.

3.00 Pimp My Ride.

4.00 Motor Mate.

6.00 Welcome To Wapos Bay. 6.30 Bizou. 7.00 Move It Mob Style. 7.30 Mysterious Cities Of Gold. 8.00 Mugu Kids.

8.30 Waabiny Time. 9.00 Go Lingo. 9.30 Bushwhacked! 10.00 Te Kaea 2014. 10.30 Ngurra. 11.00 Awaken. 12.00 Oh My God. 1.30 Postcards From Indigenous Taiwan. 2.30 Mugu Kids. 3.00 Bizou.

3.30 Bushwhacked! 4.00 Go Lingo. 4.30 Move It Mob Style. 5.00 Mysterious Cities Of Gold. 5.30 NITV News. 6.00 Surviving. 6.30 The Other Side. 7.00 NITV News. 7.30 Sheltered. 8.00 All Our Relations.

8.30 Blackstone. 9.30 Mana Mamau. 10.00 Black Music: An American (R)evolution. 11.00 NITV News.

11.30 Surviving. 12.00 Volumz.

CH31 (CH44)

6.00 New Game Plus. 6.30 Savage Seas Adventures. 7.00 Regional Italian Cuisine. 7.30 Be Positive. 7.45 Bernie Bear.

8.00 Active Babies Smart Kids. 8.30 Move It Or Lose It. 9.00 Eastern Newsbeat. 9.30 Inside Imaginary Realism. 10.00 Movie: Hercules Against The Moon Men. (1964) 12.00 Journal. 12.30 Arts 21. 1.00 Mr Sink Show. 1.30 Bosnian TV. 2.00 CBN TV. 2.30 Nu Country TV. 3.00 Rotunda In The West. 3.30 The Exchange. 4.00 Masterclass In Oils. 4.30 Art Studio. 5.00 1700. 6.00 VNTV News. 6.30 The Mortgage Busters Show. 7.00 The Reel Thing. 7.30 Facty Fact. 8.00 Community Kitchen. 8.30 Live On Bowen.

9.30 About Tonight. 10.30 New Game Plus. 11.00 Late Programs.

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SEVEN (CH7)

6.00 9.00 10.00 10.45 11.00 11.30 12.00 1.00 2.00 2.30 3.30 5.00 5.30

ABC News Breakfast.

ABC News Mornings.

Four Corners. (R) Media Watch. (PG) (R) Vet School. (PG) (R) (Final) Eggheads. (R) News.

Antiques Roadshow. (R) Kitchen Cabinet. (R) Last Tango In Halifax. (PG) (R) Midsomer Murders. (PG) (R) News: Early Edition.

The Drum.

6.00 9.00 11.30 12.00

6.00 7.00 7.30 8.00

Antiques Roadshow. (R) News.

7.30. Current affairs program.

Foreign Correspondent.

Stories from international correspondents.

The Secret World Of Lewis Carroll. (M) Martha Kearney takes a look at the life of Lewis Carroll, famous for both Alice in Wonderland and the relationship which inspired it.

Kevin McCloud’s Man Made Home. (PG) (R) Part 1 of 4.

Lateline. (R) The Business. (R) Wallander. (M) (R) The Secret World Of Lewis Carroll. (M) (R) Movie: Night Of The Living Dead. (M) (R) (1968) Duane Jones.

Out Of The Ashes. (R) Paul Merton’s Adventures. (R) Collectors. (R) Eggheads. (R)

6.00 News.

7.00 Home And Away. (PG) Evie and Josh look for Matt.

7.30 My Kitchen Rules. (PG) As the competition heads into the final phase, teams prepare for their ultimate instant restaurant.

9.00 Ramsay’s Costa Del Nightmares. (M) Gordon heads for Capbreton, a popular coastal town in south-west France, to meet Tim and Debbie.

10.00 Grey’s Anatomy. (M) A school field trip to the hospital takes a dramatic turn after two injured cops are rushed to the emergency room.

12.00 Smash. (M) (R) 1.00 Home Shopping.

3.00 NBC Today. News and current affairs.

5.00 Sunrise Extra. Highlights of Sunrise.

5.30 Early News.

8.30

9.30 10.20 10.50 11.10 12.40 1.35 3.15 4.10 5.00 5.30

Tuesday, April 28

2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 5.30

Sunrise.

The Morning Show. (PG) Morning News.

Movie: Til Lies Do Us Part. (M) (2007) Paula Trickery.

The Daily Edition.

The Chase. (R) Hosted by Bradley Walsh.

News At 4.

Deal Or No Deal. (R) Hosted by Andrew O’Keefe.

Million Dollar Minute. Hosted

by Simon Reeve.

NINE (CH9) 6.00 9.00 11.00 12.00 1.00 1.30 3.00 4.15 5.30

Today.

Mornings. (PG) News.

The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

(PG) Variety show.

Extra. Entertainment news program.

The Block Triple Threat. (PG) (R) Hosted by Scott Cam. News Now. News.

Millionaire Hot Seat. Hosted

by Eddie McGuire.

6.00 News.

7.00 A Current Affair.

7.30 The Block Triple Threat. (PG) After ten weeks of renovating, the teams move out of The Block.

8.50 The Big Bang Theory. (PG) (R) Taking Bernadette’s comments about Sheldon to heart, Howard asks him to join him on a trip to NASA. 10.20 2 Broke Girls. (M) Max and Caroline take second jobs.

11.15 Mike & Molly. (M) (R) Molly and Peggy plan Mike’s birthday.

11.40 20/20. News and current affairs program.

12.30 Anger Management. (M) (R) 1.00 Extra. (R) 1.30 Danoz Direct.

2.30 Global Shop.

3.00 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo.

(R) 3.30 Good Morning America.

5.00 News.

5.30 Today.

TEN (CH10)

SBS 1 (CH3)

6.00 Ent. Tonight. (R) 6.30 Good Chef Bad Chef. (R) 7.00 Huey’s Kitchen.

(R) 7.30 The Bold And The Beautiful.

(R) 8.00 Family Feud. (R) 8.30 Studio 10. (PG) 11.00 Gold Coast Cops.

(PG) (R) 11.30 Bondi Rescue. (PG) (R) 12.00 Dr Phil. (PG) 1.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R) 1.30 Entertainment Tonight. 2.00 Wonderland. (M) (R) 3.00 Judge Judy.

(PG) 3.30 Ben’s Menu. (R) 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 Eyewitness News.

6.00 11.00 12.00 12.30 1.00 1.25 1.30 1.45 2.00 3.00 3.30 4.30 5.30

6.00 Family Feud.

6.30 The Project. A look at the day’s news.

7.30 Gold Coast Cops. (PG) A gang member passes out on Cavill Avenue.

8.00 Bondi Rescue. A man dislocates his hip.

8.30 NCIS. (M) A petty officer’s murder produces a lead in a 40-year-old airport bombing cold case.

9.30 NCIS: Los Angeles. (M) The team investigate after three FBI agents are killed in an explosion, following a successful undercover sting operation.

10.30 NCIS: Los Angeles. (MA15+) (R) 11.30 The Project. (R) 12.30 The Late Show With David Letterman. (PG) 1.30 Home Shopping.

4.00 James Robison. (PG) 4.30 CBS Morning.

6.00 Food Safari. (R) Maeve explores Lebanese cuisine.

6.30 World News.

7.30 Russia’s Lost Princesses: The World Turned Upside Down.

(PG) Part 2 of 2. A look at Tsar Nicholas II’s daughters.

8.30 Insight. Current affairs forum program, presented by Jenny Brockie.

9.30 Dateline. International current affairs.

10.00 World News.

10.30 Kurt Wallander. (MA15+) A girl disappears on her way to school.

12.15 Movie: Hunting And Gathering. (M) (R) (2007) Audrey Tautou.

1.55 Movie: Lovesickness. (M) (R) (2007) Luis Guzmán.

3.25 Movie: Shifty. (M) (R) (2008) A young man tangles with a rival drug dealer. Riz Ahmed.

5.00 Korean News.

5.35 Japanese News.

WorldWatch.

Spanish News.

Arabic News.

Turkish News.

Massive Moves. (R) Poh & Co. Bitesize.

France 24 International News.

The Journal.

PBS NewsHour.

Al Jazeera News.

Out Of Control. (M) (R) Expedition Wolf. (PG) (R) Letters And Numbers. (R)

Classifications: (P) Preschoolers (C) Children (G) General (PG) Parental Guidance (M) Mature Audiences (MA15+) Mature Audiences Only (AV15+) Extreme Adult Violence (R) Repeat.

Please note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to change by networks.

ABC2 (CH22)

7TWO (CH72)

GO! (CH99)

ONE (CH1)

SBS 2 (CH32)

6.00 Children’s Programs. 4.40 The Furchester Hotel. 5.00 Sarah And Duck. 5.10 The Hive. 5.25 Peppa Pig. 5.30 Olivia. 5.45 Ben And Holly’s Little Kingdom. 6.00 Peter Rabbit. 6.15 Tree Fu Tom. 6.35 Octonauts. 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. 7.00 Spicks And Specks. 7.30 Doctor Who. 8.15 That ’70s Show. 8.35 Good Game. 9.05 The Checkout. 9.35 Never Mind The Buzzcocks. 10.05 The Awesomes.

10.30 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. 11.10 Alan Carr: Chatty Man. 11.55 Build A New Life In The Country. 12.45 That ’70s Show. 1.05 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. 1.50 News Update. 1.55 Close.

5.00 This Is Scarlett And Isaiah. 5.05 Tilly And Friends. 5.15 Waybuloo. 5.35 The Magic Roundabout. 5.50 Bert And Ernie’s Great Adventures.

6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping. 7.00 Flushed. 7.30 Spit It Out. 8.00 Jay’s Jungle. 8.30 Man About The House.

9.00 Home And Away. 9.30 Shortland Street. 10.00 Homes Under The Hammer. 11.00 Kingswood Country.

12.00 Taggart. 3.00 Man About The House. 3.30 The Martha Stewart Show. 4.30 60 Minute Makeover. 5.30 Homes Under The Hammer.

6.30 Bargain Hunt.

7.30 The Vicar Of Dibley.

8.00 Keeping Up Appearances.

8.30 Endeavour.

10.30 Waking The Dead.

11.45 I Shouldn’t Be Alive. 1.00 Bargain Hunt. 2.00 Love Thy Neighbour. 2.30 Waking The Dead.

3.30 The Martha Stewart Show. 4.30 Kingswood Country. 5.30 Shortland Street.

6.00 Robocar Poli. 6.30 PAW Patrol.

7.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! 7.30 Kitchen Whiz.

8.00 Move It. 8.30 Rabbids. 9.00 Surprises. 9.30 SpongeBob. 10.00 Green Lantern. 10.30 Teen Titans Go! 11.00 Power Rangers. 11.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. 12.00 Extra. 12.30 The Middle.

2.00 James May’s Cars Of The People.

3.00 SpongeBob. 4.00 Kids’ WB. 4.05 Looney Tunes. 4.30 Scooby-Doo! 5.00 Ben 10. 5.30 Teen Titans Go! 6.00 Regular Show. 6.30 Adv Time. 7.00 Big Bang.

8.00 Top Gear.

9.30 Movie: Loaded Weapon 1.

(1993) Emilio Estevez.

11.20 Movie: Spies Like Us. (1985) 1.30 Rabbids. 2.00 TMZ Live. 3.00 TMZ. 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! 4.00 PAW Patrol.

4.30 Robocar Poli. 4.50 Thunderbirds.

5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic.

6.00 Shopping. 8.00 M*A*S*H. 9.00 Monster Jam. 10.00 Tiger, Tiger. 11.00 Bondi Boys, Outback Adventure. 12.00 NYC 22. 1.00 1600 Penn. 1.30 1600 Penn. 2.00 The Living Room. 3.00 Totally Wild. 4.00 Fishing.

4.30 Wild Racers.

5.00 Fishing Edge.

5.30 iFish.

6.00 Family Feud.

6.30 M*A*S*H. 7.30 Dolphins: Spy In The Pod. 9.30 Shark Tank.

10.30 Movie Juice.

11.00 Super Rugby Extra Time.

12.00 Tyrant.

1.00 Shopping.

2.00 Bellator MMA. 4.00 Blokesworld.

4.30 Maxim TV. 5.00 Fit ‘N’ Flexed.

6.00 WorldWatch. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 Ukrainian News. 8.30 Macedonian News. 9.05 Croatian News. 9.40 Serbian News. 10.20 Portuguese News. 11.05 Japanese News. 11.40 Hong Kong News. 12.00 Hindi News. 12.30 Dutch News. 1.00 Italian News. 1.35 German News. 2.05 Spanish News. 3.05 Greek News From Cyprus. 4.00 Iron Chef. 4.45 Vs Arashi.

5.40 American Ninja Warrior. 6.30 If You Are The One. 7.30 The Feed. 8.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine. 8.30 Hipsters.

9.00 Baz’s Extreme Worlds. 9.30 Orphan Black. 10.25 Autopsy: Life And Death. 11.20 South Park. 11.50 @ midnight. 12.20 The Feed. 12.50 The Story Of Film. 2.00 Movie: Black Ice. (2007) 3.50 France 24 News In English From Paris. 5.00 French News. 5.50 Urdu News.

ABC3 (CH23)

7MATE (CH73)

GEM (CH90)

ELEVEN (CH11)

ABC24 (CH24)

6.00 Friends. 6.30 Skippy. 7.00 TV Shop. 7.30 Danoz. 8.00 Gilmore Girls.

9.00 TV Shop. 9.30 Danoz. 10.30 Alive And Cooking. 11.00 Friends. 11.30 Friends. 12.00 Movie: Up Pompeii.

(1971) 1.50 Alive And Cooking. 2.20 Supernanny USA. 3.20 Monarch Of The Glen. 4.30 Ellen. 5.30 Gilmore Girls.

6.30 Friends.

7.30 Poirot.

8.40 Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple.

10.45 Prime Suspect.

11.40 Friends.

12.10 Supernanny USA. 1.00 Dangerman.

2.00 Danoz.

2.30 Global Shop.

4.00 Danoz.

4.30 Joyce Meyer.

5.00 Dangerman.

6.00 Toasted TV. 8.00 Totally Wild.

8.30 Toasted TV. 9.30 Wurrawhy.

10.00 Touched By An Angel. 11.00 Raymond. 11.30 Taxi. 12.00 Charmed.

1.00 JAG. 2.00 Judging Amy. 3.00 Frasier. 3.30 Cheers. 4.00 King Of Queens. 4.30 Laverne & Shirley. 5.00 Mork & Mindy. 5.30 Becker.

6.00 Family Feud.

6.30 Neighbours.

7.00 Raymond.

7.30 Rules Of Engagement.

8.30 Tattoos After Dark.

9.30 Movie: American Dreamz.

(2006) Dennis Quaid, Mandy Moore.

11.45 Emily Owens M.D. 12.45 Judging Amy. 1.50 Touched By An Angel.

2.55 Charmed.

4.00 JAG. 5.00 Shopping.

6.00 News. 9.00 ABC News. 11.55 ABC Open. 12.00 News. 1.00 Capital Hill.

1.30 News.

5.55 ABC Open.

6.00 News.

6.30 The Drum.

7.00 News.

9.30 Lateline.

10.00 The World.

11.00 News.

11.30 7.30.

12.00 News.

12.30 The Drum.

1.00 Al Jazeera.

2.00 BBC Global.

2.30 7.30.

3.00 Outside Source.

3.30 BBC Africa.

4.00 Al Jazeera.

5.00 BBC World.

5.30 Lateline.

6.00 Children’s Programs. 12.45 Blue Water High. 1.10 Stormworld.

1.35 Bindi’s Bootcamp. 2.00 Arthur.

2.25 Pearlie. 2.40 Hairy Legs. 2.50 Tashi. 3.05 SheZow. 3.20 The Day My Butt Went Psycho. 3.40 The Dukes Of Broxstonia. 3.50 Vic The Viking.

4.00 Tashi. 4.15 The Penguins Of Madagascar. 4.40 News On 3. 4.45 Studio 3. 4.50 Camp Lakebottom.

5.10 Handball Heroes. 5.20 Roy. 5.50 The Next Step. 6.15 Total Drama Action. 6.40 Kobushi. 6.50 News On 3.

7.00 Deadly 60. 7.30 Worst Year Of My Life, Again. 7.55 The Adventures Of Figaro Pho. 8.00 Degrassi – The Next Generation. 8.25 Good Game: Pocket Edition. 8.30 Total Drama Action: The Aftermath. 8.50 Total Drama Action.

9.15 Star Wars: The Clone Wars. 9.40 Rage. 10.40 Close.

NITV (CH34)

6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping. 7.00 Sheriff Callie’s Wild West. 7.30 Jake And The Never Land Pirates. 8.00 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. 8.30 Art Attack. 9.00 NBC Today. 11.00 Motor Mate. 1.00 Charlie’s Angels.

3.00 Starsky & Hutch.

4.00 How I Met Your Mother.

4.30 Pimp My Ride.

5.30 Wipeout USA. 6.30 MythBusters.

8.30 Movie: The Chronicles Of Riddick. (2004) Vin Diesel, Colm Feore, Judi Dench.

10.50 Movie: Team America: World Police. (2004) Trey Parker, Matt Stone.

1.00 WWE Afterburn.

2.00 All Worked Up. 3.00 Pimp My Ride.

4.00 Motor Mate.

6.00 Welcome To Wapos Bay. 6.30 Bizou. 7.00 Move It Mob Style. 7.30 Mysterious Cities Of Gold. 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Waabiny Time. 9.00 Go Lingo. 9.30 Bushwhacked! 10.00 Surviving. 10.30 The Other Side. 11.00 Colour Theory. 11.30 All Our Relations. 12.00 NITV On The Road: Laura Festival. 1.00 Black Music: An American (R)evolution. 2.00 Sheltered. 2.30 Mugu Kids. 3.00 Bizou. 3.30 Bushwhacked! 4.00 Go Lingo. 4.30 Move It Mob Style. 5.00 Mysterious Cities Of Gold. 5.30 NITV News. 6.00 Desperate Measures. 6.30 The Other Side. 7.00 NITV News. 7.30 Let’s Talk Sovereignty. 8.30 On The Edge. 9.00 Living Black. 9.30 Australian Biography. 10.00 Football. NEAFL. 12.15 Late Programs.

CH31 (CH44)

6.00 Your 4x4. 6.30 That’s Fishing. 7.00 Pulse Geelong. 7.30 The Mortgage Busters Show. 8.00 Euromaxx. 8.30 Move It Or Lose It. 9.00 Magical Fresh Ideas. 9.30 Light And Life. 10.00 Movie: The Young Land. (1959) 12.00 Journal. 12.30 Tomorrow Today. 1.00 Russian News Time. 1.30 Buone Notizie. 2.00 Entre Todos. 2.30 Chinese Weekly TV. 3.00 Regional Italian Cuisine. 3.30 Coffee Break. 4.00 Nu Country TV. 4.30 EPTV. 5.00 1700. 6.00 Pet’s Practice With Dr Kevin. 6.30 Futsal Town Show. 7.00 Sacred Spaces. 7.15 Giant Steps. 7.30 Your 4x4. 8.00 Australian Fishing Network. 8.30 Talking Fishing. 9.30 Catch And Cook.

10.00 Savage Seas Adventures. 10.30 KO Boxing. 11.00 Late Programs.

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Melbourne Observer TV Guide ABC1 (CH2) 6.00 9.00 10.00 11.10 12.00 12.30 1.30 2.00 2.30 3.30 5.00 5.30 6.00 7.00 7.30 8.00 8.30 9.00 9.30 10.00 10.30 11.00 11.20 12.20 1.05 1.20 2.40 3.25 4.10 5.00 5.30

Wednesday, April 29

SEVEN (CH7)

NINE (CH9)

ABC News Breakfast.

ABC News Mornings.

Q&A. (R) Kevin McCloud’s Man Made Home. (PG) (R) News.

National Press Club Address.

Devil Island. (R) Kitchen Cabinet. (R) Last Tango In Halifax. (PG) (R) Midsomer Murders. (PG) (R) News: Early Edition.

The Drum.

6.00 9.00 11.30 12.00

Sunrise.

The Morning Show. (PG) Morning News.

Movie: Secrets Of An Undercover Wife. (M) (2006) Shawnee Smith.

The Daily Edition.

The Chase. (R) News At 4.

Deal Or No Deal. (R) Hosted by Andrew O’Keefe.

Million Dollar Minute. Hosted

by Simon Reeve.

6.00 9.00 11.00 12.00

Antiques Roadshow. (R) News.

7.30. Current affairs program.

QI. (PG) The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. (M) Hosted by Charlie Pickering.

The Agony Of… (M) 8MMM. (M) (New Series) An indigenous radio station hires a new training manager.

Comedy Up Late. (MA15+) Lateline. (R) The Business. (R) Trigger Point. (M) (R) Four Corners. (R) Media Watch. (PG) (R) Movie: The Bigamist. (PG) (R) (1953) Joan Fontaine.

Paul Merton’s Adventures.

(PG) (R) Paul Merton’s Adventures. (R) (Final) The First Interview. (R) Collectors. (R) Eggheads. (R)

6.00 News.

7.00 Home And Away. (PG) 7.30 My Ireland With Colin. Part 1 of 2. Dublin-born chef Colin Fassnidge returns home to discover the changing face of food in Ireland. He tours his childhood haunts before heading off on a culinary tour of some of Ireland’s most beautiful food-producing areas.

8.30 Mrs Brown’s Boys. (M) With Christmas fast approaching, Agnes mistakingly learns a secret about Cathy.

10.00 Criminal Minds. (AV15+) (R) The unit travels to Montana.

11.00 Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. (M) 12.00 Vicious. (PG) (R) 1.00 Home Shopping.

3.00 Sons And Daughters. (PG) (R) 3.30 Harry’s Practice. (R) 4.00 NBC Today.

5.00 Sunrise Extra.

5.30 Early News.

6.00 7.00 7.30 9.00

2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 5.30

1.00 1.30 3.00 4.15 5.30

10.00 11.00 12.00 1.00 1.30 2.30 3.00 3.30 5.00 5.30

TEN (CH10)

SBS 1 (CH3)

Today.

Mornings. (PG) News.

The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

(PG) Variety show.

Extra. Entertainment news program.

The Block Triple Threat. (PG) (R) The teams move out of The Block.

News Now. News.

Millionaire Hot Seat.

6.00 Entertainment Tonight. (R) 6.30 Good Chef Bad Chef. (R) 7.00 Huey’s Kitchen. (R) 7.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (R) 8.00 Family Feud. (R) 8.30 Studio 10. (PG) 11.00 Bondi Vet. (PG) (R) 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R) 1.30 Entertainment Tonight. 2.00 Wonderland. (M) (R) 3.00 Judge Judy.

(PG) 3.30 Ben’s Menu. (R) 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef.

4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful.

5.00 Eyewitness News.

6.00 12.00 12.30 1.00 1.30 1.45 2.00 3.00 3.30 4.30

News.

A Current Affair.

To Be Advised.

The Amazing ’90s. (M) Take a look back at all the big events and personalities of the ’90s from Australia and around the world. Continues with a look at sex scandals in the White House, Bananas in Pyjamas, Naughtiest Home Videos, Silverchair, the Gulf War and the recession we had to have.

Forever. (M) Henry and Jo explore the world of cyberhacking.

The Mentalist. (M) (R) Believe. (M) Extra. (R) Danoz Direct.

Skippy The Bush Kangaroo.

(R) Global Shop.

Good Morning America.

News.

Today.

6.00 Family Feud. Hosted by Grant Denyer.

6.30 The Project. A look at the day’s news.

7.30 Parky’s Favourite Australians.

Part 2 of 2. Sir Michael Parkinson presents highlights from the interviews he has conducted with Australians.

8.30 Wonderland. (M) In the lead up to Tom and Sasha’s wedding, an innocent night out with friends leads to fights, a steamy affair and betrayal.

9.30 The Good Wife.

10.30 Hawaii Five-0. (M) Kono and Chen investigate the black market.

11.30 The Project. (R) 12.30 Movie Juice. (R) 1.00 The Late Show With David Letterman. (PG) 2.00 Home Shopping.

4.00 Life Today With James Robison. (PG) 4.30 CBS This Morning.

6.00 Food Safari. (R) Maeve explores Mexican recipes.

6.30 World News.

7.30 Sacred Wonders Of Britain.

(R) Part 1 of 3. Presented by Neil Oliver.

8.30 London’s Super Tunnel: Platforms And Plague Pits. (R) Part 3 of 3. A look at the construction of a new underground railway in London called Crossrail concludes.

9.30 The Legacy. (M) Signe confronts her parents about her past.

10.35 World News.

11.05 Adam Looking For Eve. (MA15+) (R) 12.00 Movie: The Song Of Sparrows.

(PG) (R) (2008) Reza Najie.

1.45 Movie: Ben X. (M) (R) (2007) Greg Timmermans.

3.25 Movie: Swing. (PG) (R) (2002) Oscar Copp.

5.00 Korean News.

5.35 Japanese News.

WorldWatch.

Arabic News.

Turkish News.

Dateline. (R) France 24 International News.

The Journal.

PBS NewsHour.

Al Jazeera News.

Insight. (R) Survivors: Nature’s Indestructible Creatures: The Great Dying. (R) 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R)

Classifications: (P) Preschoolers (C) Children (G) General (PG) Parental Guidance (M) Mature Audiences (MA15+) Mature Audiences Only (AV15+) Extreme Adult Violence (R) Repeat.

Please note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to change by networks.

ABC2 (CH22)

7TWO (CH72)

GO! (CH99)

ONE (CH1)

SBS 2 (CH32)

6.00 Children’s Programs. 4.25 Joe & Jack. 4.30 Let’s Go Pocoyo. 4.40 The Furchester Hotel. 5.00 Sarah And Duck. 5.10 The Hive. 5.25 Peppa Pig. 5.30 Olivia. 5.45 Ben And Holly’s Little Kingdom. 6.00 Peter Rabbit. 6.15 Tree Fu Tom. 6.35 Octonauts. 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. 7.00 Spicks And Specks. 7.30 Doctor Who. 8.15 That ’70s Show. 8.35 World’s Toughest Jobs. 9.35 Tattoo Tales. 10.05 The Real Hustle: New Recruits. 10.35 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

11.15 Seconds From Disaster. 12.05 Metal Evolution. 12.50 That ’70s Show.

1.10 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. 1.55 News Update. 2.00 Close.

5.00 This Is Scarlett And Isaiah. 5.05 Tilly And Friends. 5.15 Waybuloo. 5.35 The Magic Roundabout. 5.50 Bert And Ernie’s Great Adventures.

6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping. 7.00 Flushed. 7.30 Spit It Out. 8.00 Jay’s Jungle. 8.30 Man About The House.

9.00 Home And Away. 9.30 Shortland Street. 10.00 Homes Under The Hammer. 11.00 Kingswood Country.

12.00 Taggart. 3.00 Man About The House. 3.30 The Martha Stewart Show. 4.30 60 Minute Makeover. 5.30 Homes Under The Hammer.

6.30 Bargain Hunt.

7.30 Pie In The Sky. 8.30 Inspector Morse.

10.45 Suspects.

11.45 Bargain Hunt.

12.45 The Martha Stewart Show.

2.00 Shopping.

3.00 Sons And Daughters. 3.30 Harry’s Practice. 4.00 Love Thy Neighbour.

4.30 Kingswood Country. 5.30 Shortland Street.

6.00 Robocar Poli. 6.30 PAW Patrol.

7.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! 7.30 Kitchen Whiz.

8.00 Move It. 8.30 Rabbids. 9.00 Surprises. 9.30 SpongeBob. 10.30 Teen Titans Go! 11.00 Power Rangers.

11.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. 12.00 Extra.

12.30 TMZ Live. 1.30 Top Gear. 3.00 SpongeBob. 3.30 Rabbids. 4.00 Kids’ WB. 4.05 Looney Tunes. 4.30 Tom And Jerry. 5.00 Ben 10. 5.30 Teen Titans Go! 6.00 Regular Show. 6.30 Adv Time. 7.00 Big Bang.

8.30 The Last Ship.

9.30 Movie: Payback. (1999) 11.30 Two And A Half Men. 12.00 Supernatural: The Animated Series.

12.30 Adv Time. 1.00 Regular Show.

1.30 Rabbids. 2.00 TMZ Live. 3.00 TMZ. 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! 4.00 PAW Patrol.

4.30 Robocar Poli. 4.50 Thunderbirds.

5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic.

6.00 Shopping. 8.00 M*A*S*H. 9.00 Sport Science. 10.00 Orang-utans: People Of The Forest. 11.00 Movie Juice. 11.30 Garage Gold. 12.00 NYC 22. 1.00 1600 Penn. 1.30 The Goodwin Games. 2.00 The Living Room. 3.00 Totally Wild. 4.00 Super Rugby Extra Time. 5.00 Fishing Edge.

5.30 iFish.

6.00 Family Feud.

6.30 M*A*S*H. 7.30 Cops.

8.30 Hawaii Five-0.

9.30 Sons Of Anarchy.

10.35 The Glades.

11.30 Cops.

12.00 Shopping.

2.00 Quit Forest Rally Event Review Pt 2. 3.00 Cops. 3.30 Ross Kemp: Afghanistan. 4.30 Wild Racers. 5.00 Fit ‘N’ Flexed.

6.00 Urdu News. 6.20 Indonesian News. 7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 Ukrainian News. 8.30 Macedonian News. 9.05 Croatian News. 9.40 Serbian News. 10.20 Portuguese News. 11.05 Japanese News. 11.40 Hong Kong News. 12.00 Hindi News. 12.30 Dutch News. 1.00 Italian News. 1.35 German News. 2.05 Spanish News. 3.05 Greek News From Cyprus. 4.00 Iron Chef. 4.45 Vs Arashi.

5.40 American Ninja Warrior. 6.30 If You Are The One. 7.30 The Feed. 8.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

8.30 Movie: Savages. (2012) Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively.

11.00 Movie: Sleepless Night. (2011) 12.50 @midnight. 1.20 The Feed.

1.50 The Story Of Film. 3.00 DW News In English From Berlin. 5.00 French News. 5.50 Urdu News.

ABC3 (CH23)

7MATE (CH73)

GEM (CH90)

ELEVEN (CH11)

ABC24 (CH24)

6.00 Children’s Programs. 11.40 Harriet’s Army. 12.10 The Haunting Hour. 12.55 Blue Water High. 1.20 Stormworld. 1.40 Bindi’s Bootcamp.

2.05 Arthur. 2.30 Pearlie. 2.40 Hairy Legs. 2.55 Tashi. 3.05 SheZow. 3.20 The Day My Butt Went Psycho. 3.40 The Dukes Of Broxstonia. 3.50 Vic The Viking. 4.00 Tashi. 4.15 The Penguins Of Madagascar. 4.40 News On 3. 4.45 Studio 3. 4.50 Camp Lakebottom.

5.10 Endangered Species. 5.50 The Next Step. 6.15 Good Game: SP. 6.40 Canimals. 6.50 News On 3. 7.00 Deadly 60. 7.30 Worst Year Of My Life, Again. 7.55 The Adventures Of Figaro Pho. 8.00 Degrassi – The Next Generation. 8.25 Good Game: Pocket Edition. 8.30 Total Drama Action. 9.15 Iron Man: Armored Adventures. 9.40 Rage. 10.40 Close.

6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping. 7.00 Sheriff Callie’s Wild West. 7.30 Jake And The Never Land Pirates. 8.00 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. 8.30 Art Attack. 9.00 NBC Today. 11.00 Motor Mate. 1.00 Charlie’s Angels. 3.00 Starsky & Hutch. 4.00 How I Met Your Mother. 4.30 Pimp My Ride. 5.30 Wipeout USA. 6.30 MythBusters.

7.30 Beverly Hills Pawn.

8.30 Hardcore Pawn: Behind The Deal.

9.00 Hardcore Pawn.

9.30 Baggage Battles.

10.30 Pawn Stars.

11.30 Rude Tube.

12.00 Warehouse 13.

1.00 Repo Games. 2.00 Shopping.

3.00 Sons And Daughters. 3.30 Harry’s Practice. 4.00 Motor Mate.

6.00 Friends. 6.30 Skippy. 7.00 TV Shop. 7.30 Danoz. 8.00 Gilmore Girls.

9.00 TV Shop. 9.30 Danoz. 10.30 Alive And Cooking. 11.00 Friends. 12.00 Movie: Tonight’s The Night. (1954) 1.45 Tasty Conversations. 1.50 Alive And Cooking. 2.20 Secret Dealers.

3.20 Poirot.

4.30 Ellen.

5.30 Gilmore Girls.

6.30 Friends.

7.30 New Tricks.

8.30 Spooks.

10.40 Luther.

11.50 Secret Dealers.

12.50 GEM Presents.

1.00 Gideon’s Way. 2.00 Danoz.

2.30 Global Shop.

4.30 Joyce Meyer.

5.00 Dangerman.

6.00 Toasted TV. 8.00 Totally Wild.

8.30 Toasted TV. 9.30 Wurrawhy.

10.00 Touched By An Angel. 11.00 Raymond. 11.30 Taxi. 12.00 Charmed.

1.00 JAG. 2.00 Judging Amy. 3.00 Frasier. 3.30 Cheers. 4.00 King Of Queens. 4.30 Laverne & Shirley. 5.00 Mork & Mindy. 5.30 Becker. 6.00 Family Feud. 6.30 Neighbours.

7.00 Raymond.

7.30 The Simpsons.

8.00 Futurama.

8.30 The Simpsons.

9.00 Futurama.

9.30 The Simpsons.

10.00 Cleveland.

10.30 Bob’s Burgers. 11.00 Tattoos After Dark. 12.00 Raymond. 12.30 Frasier. 1.00 Judging Amy. 2.00 Touched By An Angel. 3.00 Charmed.

4.00 JAG. 5.00 Shopping.

6.00 News. 9.00 ABC News. 11.55 ABC Open. 12.00 News. 12.30 Press Club.

1.30 Capital Hill. 2.00 News.

5.55 ABC Open.

6.00 News.

6.30 The Drum.

7.00 News.

9.30 Lateline.

10.00 The World.

11.00 News.

11.30 7.30.

12.00 News.

12.30 The Drum.

1.00 Al Jazeera.

2.00 BBC Global.

2.30 7.30.

3.00 Outside Source.

3.30 BBC Africa.

4.00 Al Jazeera.

5.00 BBC World.

5.30 Lateline.

NITV (CH34)

6.00 Welcome To Wapos Bay. 6.30 Bizou. 7.00 Move It Mob Style. 7.30 Mysterious Cities Of Gold. 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Waabiny Time. 9.00 Go Lingo. 9.30 Bushwhacked! 10.00 Desperate Measures. 10.30 The Other Side.

11.00 On The Edge. 11.30 Living Black. 12.00 Football. NEAFL. 2.15 Cash Money. 2.20 Custodians.

2.30 Mugu Kids. 3.00 Bizou. 3.30 Bushwhacked! 4.00 Go Lingo. 4.30 Move It Mob Style. 5.00 Mysterious Cities Of Gold. 5.30 NITV News. 6.00 Our Footprint. 6.30 The Other Side. 7.00 NITV News.

7.30 Torres To The Thames. 8.30 The Quest Of Jimmy Pike. 9.30 Awaken. 10.30 Lurujarri Dreaming.

11.00 NITV News. 11.30 Our Footprint. 12.00 Volumz.

CH31 (CH44)

6.00 Bumper 2 Bumper. 6.30 Oz Fish TV. 7.00 Futsal Town Show. 7.30 Nu Country TV. 8.00 Euromaxx. 8.30 Move It Or Lose It. 9.00 Jumping Jellybeans. 9.15 Penguin TV. 9.30 Little Explorers. 10.00 Movie: A Christmas Without Snow. (1980) 12.00 Journal. 12.30 China Forbidden News. 1.00 Sri Lanka Today. 1.30 The Shtick. 2.00 ATVAA. 2.30 Dollars With Sense. 3.00 LawHelp Australia. 3.30 Our Time. 4.00 Rotunda In The West. 4.30 Arkabahce. 5.00 1700. 6.00 Chinese Weekly TV. 6.30 The Flying Show. 7.00 Mr Sink Show. 7.30 Vasili’s Garden To Kitchen. 8.30 Pet’s Practice With Dr Kevin. 9.00 Yappy Hour TV. 9.30 In Pit Lane. 10.00 Guitar Gods And Masterpieces. 10.30 Speaker TV. 11.00 Late Programs.

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RUSTY BUGLES Melba Magic

By CHERYL THREADGOLD

● Dame Nellie Melba Opera Trust Scholar Daniel Carison joins Jade Moffat and Zoe Drummond in Melba Magic on June 19 at the Royal Brighton Yacht Club.

■ The Royal Brighton Yacht Club Cruising Group presents Melba Magic on Friday, June 19 at 7pm at 253 The Esplanade, Middle Brighton.

Melba Magic features three talented current scholars with the Dame Nellie Melba Opera Trust, Daniel Carison, Jade Moffat and Zoe Drummond, who will perform a range of arias, operettas and songs from well-known musicals.

All music will be accompanied by associate artist Stefan Cassomenos, the current associate repetiteur for the Melba Trust.

Bass baritone Daniel Carison is currently working for Victorian Opera and Opera Australia. He can be seen this year in Pirates of Penzance with Savoy Opera Company (May 22 and 23) at the Alexander Theatre, in Don Carlos at Arts Centre Melbourne (May 20-29), and Sweeney Todd at Arts Centre Melbourne (July 18-25).

Mezzo soprano Jade Moffat is working for Opera Australia and will commence her studies at Guild Hall later this year.

Soprano Zoe Drummond is a member of the Seven Sopranos and has toured the world singing with this group.

Jade and Zoe both reside in Sydney, so their careers demand quite a lot of travel.

Daniel and accompanist Stefan work together regularly and are preparing for the premiere of a new work by Stefan Cassomenos titled The Requiem for the End of Time , to be performed at the Deakin Edge with Daniel as soloist and Plexus the chamber orchestra.

Tickets to see Melba Magic cost $100 each and include a three-course dinner.

Dress is black tie. For bookings please call Mandy on 9592 3092.

- Cheryl Threadgold

● In rehearsal for Rusty Bugles, Private Carson (Sean Collins), Sergeant Bill Henry (John Jones) and Private Des Nolan (Louis Bocallini) complete a charge report.

■ Playhouse Players Inc. presents Rusty Bugles from May 16 – 30 at the Richmond Theatrette in recognition of the 100-year anniversary of ANZAC. This iconic play by Sumner Locke Elliott returns to the stage some 65 years after it was written and first performed, before the NSW Chief Secretary (Attorney General) banned it for offensive language and blasphemous expressions.

Directed by John Gauci, Rusty Bugles is one of the few full length plays depicting Australian soldiers serving on home soil during World War II. Beginning as a reading at the Independent Theatre, Sydney on July 4, 1948, it was recorded as “unladylike, however beautifully lusty, and one hundred percent Orstalian”, while being a “classic of compassionate, realist writing, vividly recording the Australian character in all its variety, drawing upon camaraderie, frustration and stoic humour”.

Rusty Bugles depicts the drama of Army life in an isolated Ordnance Depot south of Katherine in the Northern Territory in 1944.

Elliott wrote at the time that “the characters are all drawn from life – they all existed and I knew and loved them well. The events in their lives whilst they were cut off from home, family and normal life are authentic and no one event is fictional.”

The play’s last Melbourne season was at the Russell Street, Kings Theatre in 1950 and Playhouse Players are reviving the show with the support of the RSL and the City of Yarra.

Performance Season: May 16 – 30 Venue: Richmond Theatrette, 415 Church St, Richmond Tickets: $25/$22 For full details of weekday matinees and evening performances visit www.playhouseplayers.org.au Bookings: email admin@playhouseplayers.org.au , phone 0468 917 450 or visit the website.

Grossed Out Game Show ■ ‘Professional lunatic’ is how Matty Grey describes himself and he isn't far off the mark.

Entertaining kids is fraught and he certainly got his fair share of hecklers, upstagers and spoilers.

But as the rules for Grossed Out Game Show attest, audience participation, having fun and laughing are mandatory, so he really has himself to blame.

The format for this interactive game show is simple - two guest celebrity comedians captain two teams each made up of half the audience.

On this occasion Tahir captained the yellow team and George Kapiniaris the blue team.

The two captains, with plenty of help

Comedy Festival comes to a close from the audience - kids and grown-ups, competed with vigour and determination, in a series of crazy and madcap challenges.

If you’ve ever wondered how many marshmallows a grown human can stick in their mouth without gagging, this is a show for you.

Losing a challenge increased the number of litres of slime that would be tipped over each captain at the end of the game.

over each captain at the end of the game.

Grossed Out Game Show was an unruly and raucous fun fest.

There were plenty of silly antics from Matty Grey’s assistants Professor Kit eKat and Dr Cool but the Mad Hattered Matty Grey was the real clown in this circus.

It’s no surprise the show won Best Kids Show at the Sydney Fringe in 2013 and enjoyed a sell-out season in the Melbourne Comedy Festival in 2014.

This is 90 minutesof ridiculous fun for kids, and mums and dads.

The Northcote Town Hall hosted Grossed Out Game Show for two performances only earlier this month.

- Review by Beth Klein

Warrandyte Group closes ... for now

● Allan Spencer performs in a Warrandyte ’55 Plus’ Variety Group show.

■ The Warrandyte ’55 Plus’ Variety Group, which for many years brought much joy and entertainment to audiences with their wonderful annual concerts, has closed for the foreseeable future.

Producer/performer Allan Spencer says the group has suffered a gradual loss of membership for several years, owing to deaths and age-related medical problems, and finding new members willing and happy to put in the required time to rehearse the shows has proven to be difficult.

Allan says the group had a ‘farewell’ luncheon at a local restaurant and invited ex-members from recent years.

“So we ended it in fine style, recounting many happy times spent together,” says Allan, a company member for more than 10 years.

“Our final show was very successful, so it was a good note to finish on.”

Allan also expresses his thanks to the Melbourne Observer and Editor Ash Long, for support in promoting the company’s shows over the years.

My husband Malcolm and I join hundreds of others who will miss visiting the Warrandyte ’55 Plus’Variety Group’s beaut annual concerts and seeing familiar faces.

Their vaudevillian-style shows have always been filled with talent and goodwill, and presented in a happy environment to very appreciative audiences.

On a positive note, Allan says: “I would like to hope the group would re-form again in the not too distant future, to help cater for the needs of the many people who still appreciate the style of entertainment that has stood the test of time."

- Cheryl Threadgold

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Arena tour cancelled ■ The Spirit of the ANZACs arena spectacular that was due to tour Australia has been cancelled due to poor tickets sales.

Promoter Michael Chugg confirmed the details.

The show featured country music star Lee Kernaghan, Lisa McCune, Jack Jones, Harrison Craig and John Schumann.

Australian acting legend Jack Thompson was to narrate the program.

Jemma’s new single ■ Melbourne country artist Jemma Rowlands has been busy writing her upcoming debut album.

The single April's Fool will be officially released tomorrow (Thurs., Apr. 23) at the Gasometer Hotel in Collingwood with her band The Clifton Hillbillies.

A companion video clip will screen on the same night.

Emma says April's Fool is about taking a chance and making a decision, even if you're a fool to do it.

More info: www.jemmacliftonhillbillies.com

Engelbert at the Palais ■ International music legend, Engelbert Humperdinck will perform at the Palais Theatre St Kilda on Thurs day, October 29.

Described as the king of romance, Engelbert has released almost 80 albums of cherished ballads and sold more than 150 million albums worldwide, earning 64 with Gold and 24 with Platinum status according to his publicist.

- Rob Foenander

Radio Briefs

■ Fill-in presenters at Magic 1278 have included Mike Brady, Dee Dee Dunleavy and John Blackman.

■ Melbourne community radio station 3CR is presenting We Weren’t Born Yesterday, a series of four hour-long episodes focusing on the voices of gay-lesbian-bisexualtransgender-intersex-queer people from Vietnamese, Chinese, Arabic and Hindi speaking backgrounds.

■ Jonathan Brown, former Brisbane Lions captain, will join Nova 100's Meshel and Tommy's Melbourne breakfast show.

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News from stations from around Victoria

■ Listeners to Magic 1278 have been forthright with their criticism of the music station sacking presenters Jane Holmes, Kevin John, Peter O’Callaghan, Peter Van and Rick Ditchburn.

“How disrespectful to the presenters and the listeners to not be given the chance to say goodbye,” said listener Elizabeth Kane.

“I will be changing my music station. I don't like it anymore. Not the same at all.

Won't come back until you rehire them. Goodbye," commented Christine Gnanamuttu on Facebook.

"Bring back the old Magic1278," said Norm Christensen.

Listener Jeanette Pearson said: “Pity you have sacked all those great presenters. I don't mind Alan Pearsall and Mike Brady though as at least they talk but the morning program from 9 till 2 is dreadful with someone there and not saying anything at all. Must be a puppet.

“I am hoping that they didn't get rid of Ward (Everaadt) as I love his Sunday morning program but he has probably gone.

“The music has been changing gradually over the last few months. I hope that the Sunday night program will still be on as I loved that program.” “"Disgusting performance by the management," said Joan Norgate. “I have gone to Smooth FM, I'm enjoying the music there: if I can't have the announcers I know and love, I won't have any as smooth stick to their motto of "more music and less talk."

Elizabeth Hidebrand said: “I thought (naively) that they were on holidays. Now that I have found out what happened, I'm changing radio stations.

Goodbye Magic 1278.

“I am so sorry to lose Kevin and Jane in the morning, Ric Ditchburn in the afternoon and all the lovely presenters and shows.”.

On This Day Friday Wednesday Thursday April 23 April 24 April 22 ■ Actor Eddie Albert (Heimberger) was born in 1906. He died aged 99 in 2005. He starred in Green Acres.

Producer Aaron Spelling was born in 1923. He died aged 83 English actor George Cole, who played Arthur Daley in Minder, was born in London in 1925.

Radio Confidential

Magic listeners tell of anger

Country Crossroads Big Breakfast Show. Southern FM 88.3.

Tues. 6am-9am.

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■ William Shakespeare was born at Stratfordupon-Avon in 1564. He died at the age of 52.

Actress Shirley Temple was born in 1928.

Singer-songwriter Roy Orbison was born in 1936.

He died aged 52 The famed American actress Sandra Dee was born in 1942. She died in 2005

■ American actress Shirley Maclaine was born in 1934 (81).

Actress, singer, director Barbra Streisand was born in New York in 1942 (73).

UK TV producer Paula Yates was born in Wales in 1960. She died in 2000.

Singer Kelly Clarkson is 33 today.

● Jane Holmes “Why have all announcers been sacked? Do you not care what the people want? Very very sad news,” said Linda Ferguson.

“You think you will ever have the same audience after you sacked all your presenters this is one person you have lost,” Julie Salden told the station.

Peter John: “Discusted with the sacking of all staff. No longer listen and have unfriended this unfriendly rabble.”

Karelyn Jones: “Shame on you Magic. Not happy with one sacking but you sack the team.

Listened from the beginning when it was Magic 693.

Goodbye Magic. Hello Smooth FM.” Wayne Kelly: “What the hell do Fairfax management think of are doing to what was a great station with great people Don't tell me we are now a suburb of south-west Sydney."

Susan Hamilton: “So, you've lopped presenters again? Did you not learn anything at all when you treated Ann Gilding and Andrew McLaren so discourteously all those years ago? When they went you lost a pair of brilliant, witty and cerebral performers.

Replaced them with a bland enough pair who eventually 'kinda/sorta' filled a gap ... though not a real patch on their predecessors. S o I guess it's 'goodbye from me. You started out with SO much promise as Magic 693 .... you just made one too many poor decisions too often.”

● Gary Hammond ■ Melbourne musician Gary Hammond’s new album A Secret Life is now available through his website www.garyhammond.com.au or can be downloaded from iTunes.

Gary’s thoughtful, contemplative lyrics combined with his relaxed country/folk style, make for interesting and enjoyable listening.

As well as writing the 12 tracks on the album, Gary also presents all vocals, instruments and programming.

Beautifully packaged, the album cover has a rustic theme, with photography by Marion Hammond.

Most of Gary’s songs are personal and observational, and inside the album are some pertinent, introductory thoughtprovoking words listed under each track, giving listeners a preview opportunity to ponder the message of each song.

There are no doubt human stories behind the songs, and the title track A Secret Life, refers to anxiety and depression affecting the life of even the bravest people. “We are not what we seem …”

With winter not too far away, A Secret Life would be the ideal music companion when cosily settled in front of the fire with a nice warm drink, or a glass of red.

Congratulations to Gary on his new, all-Australian produced album.

Gary can be seen performing live in the duo Hammond and Unitt at the Beaumaris RSL Club, every second Friday evening from May 1.

- Cheryl Threadgold Melbourne

Observer

Saturday April 25 ■ ANZAC Day. US actor Al Pacino was born in New York, 75 years ago.

Guglielmo Marconi, developer of wireless telegraphy, was born in Italy in 1874. He died aged 53 in 1937.

English singer Tony Christie (Anthony Fitzgerald) was born in Yorkshire in 1944 (67).

Sunday April 26 ■ Entertainer Carol Burnett was born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1933 (82).

Bobby Rydell (Ridarelli) was born in Philadelhia in 1942 (73).

Australian fashion designer Prue Acton is 72.

Comedian Trevor Marmalade (Jason Van De Velde).

Monday April 27 ■ The late US actor Jack Klug-man was born in Philadelphia in 1922.

US radio announcer Casey Kasem (Kemal Amin Kasem) was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1932.

Scottish singer Sheena Easton was born in 1959 (56).

Comedienne Judy Carne is 76.

Tuesday April 28 ■ Swedish-born US actress Ann-Margret was born in 1941.

US comedian and TV show host Jay Leno was born in 1950 (65).

Australian rock singer Jimmy Barnes was born in Scotland in 1956 (59).

Spanish actress Penelope Cruz was born in Madrid in 1974.

Thanks to GREG NEWMAN of Jocks Journal for assistance with birthday and anniversary dates.

Jocks Journal is Australia’s longest running radio industry publication.

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Melbourne Observer - Wednesday, April 22, 2015 - Page 33

Observer Showbiz

Climate Festival

● ‘Climarte’ Ambassadors Professor Peter C Doherty and Maudie Palmer, with CEO Guy Abrahams.

Photo: Heather Lighton ■ At the Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne University, a major Festival was presaged, which features events and exhibitions by the art world of Victoria highlighting our changing climate.

The Deputy Secretary of Creative Victoria, Andrew Abbott, launched the ambitious program of lectures, events, film showings, as well as 25 exhibitions in galleries, design schools and venues throughout Victoria, which will bring to the people of this state a wealth of information and visual imagery to underline the work of the scientific community and the current state of the environment.

The aim of the Festival is to stress that individually and collectively we must take notice and start to act now to save the environment and restrict the looming consequences of Climate Change.

Nobel Laureate, Dr Peter Doherty, opened the proceedings with reference to the work of the Sciences and emphasised how important it is to have creative, innovative people involved to illustrate, inform and influence the community in general.

Professor Maudie Palmer thanked the organisers and many, many artists, galleries, schools of art, universities, organisations and individuals who have contributed to the huge task of developing and implementing the program, which will run from April until May 17.

The initiative and major impetus for the Festival has been through the Climarte Board, established by CEO Guy Abrahams and Executive Director, Bronwyn Johnson, and their Principal Partner, David Leece, of Billard Leece Partnership, Architects.

Both Guy Abrahams and David Leece spoke passionately about their commitment to the success of the Festival, and the achievement of its major goal – to raise the profile and emphasise the importance of Climate Change in Australia generally, and alert – maybe alarm – the community to the future of the planet.

Art+Climate=Change 2015 festival events run until May 17.

Information about the full program is available on line at artclimatechange.org - Review by Geraldine Colson

ABSINTHE ■ The producer of the hit Las Vegas show Absinthe announced last week that the Melbourne season, which is currently playing under the spiegeltent on the rooftop at Crown, has been extended until May 17.

The Gazillionaire said: “The season extension has nothing to do with the show’s unrivalled popularity or the rave reviews.

“The male acrobats in my horny troupe from Poland, Belarus and Ukraine actually pleaded with me to bring the show to Melbourne so that they could each find their own real housewife of Melbourne.

“Marrying them off would certainly help with some of the immigration visa issues we’ve been having.

“And as none of the poor lads have been successful in finding a Melbourne girlfriend yet, I have agreed to keep the show here a little longer if they promise to show even more flesh on stage."

Tickets for the three new and final weeks of shows in May are on sale now through Ticketek.

- Cheryl Threadgold

TV, Radio, Theatre Latest Melbourne show business news - without fear or favour

Peacocks must go

● The cast of The Peacocks Must Go: Alan Dilnot (front left) on sofa with Ash Richter, Eileen Nelson (back left), Joan Krutli; Paula Rockman and Kirsten Page rehearse for opening night on April 26.

Photo: Ash Richter The Brocklebank fam- Krutli, Ash Richter and ■ The Adelphi Players present The Peacocks ily is about to encounter a Kirsten Page.

Must Go from April 26- family crisis with the visit Performance Season: May 3 at the Booran Road of an old aunt, Emma, the April 26 - May 3 stingy head of the family Hall, Ormond.

Venue: Booran Road Dennis Driscoll’s light funds.

Hall, 264 Booran Rd, The Peacocks Must Go Ormond. comedy tells of Christmas generally being for is directed by Michael Tickets: $15/$12 nostalgia and reunions, Mace, and features Eileen Bookings essential: but it doesn’t always work Nelson, Alan Dilnot, 9690 1593.

Paula Rockman, Joan like that.

- Cheryl Threadgold

Visiting Mr Green ■ Williamstown Little Theatre is presenting its second season for 2015 – the enchanting Visiting Mr Green by Jeff Baron.

The story tells of Ross, a young up-and-coming account executive with American Express being involved in a car accident and ordered by the court to do community service for the victim, Mr Green, a retired dry cleaner.

At their first meeting tensions rise, but Ross is determined to win Mr Green over, and every Thursday over the course of three months, he arrives with food and companionship.

Slowly tensions abate, secrets are revealed and a close bond begins to form between two people who have more in common than either of them would have thought on that first meeting.

Directed by Brett Turner, the experienced and talented cast includes Trevor Hanna (Mr Green) and Kieran Tracey (Ross).

Performance Season: April 23 – May 9 Times: Tuesday – Saturday at 8.15pm, Sundays at 5pm.

Bookings: wlt.org.au or 9885 9678.

- Cheryl Threadgold

Swan Lake returns

● The St Petersburg Ballet will perform Swan Lake in Melbourne in June..

■ In response to demand for tickets to see the internationally acclaimed St Petersburg Ballet, an extra two shows have been added to their Melbourne season of Swan Lake.

The short season will now run from Friday June 19 to Monday June 22.

Tickets for the two additional shows on June 19 and 21 are now on sale through Ticketmaster.

The upcoming season of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake marks the first time The St Petersburg Ballet will perform in Melbourne, making this a rare opportunity for local audiences to experience a fulllength, classic production of the world’s most loved ballet.

Performance Season: June 19 – 22 Venue: Plenary., Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, 1 Convention Centre Place, South Wharf, Melbourne Tickets: $89 - $199 Bookings: Ticketmaster www.st-petersburgballet.com

Observer Star Watch

■ Actress Paula Duncan has spoken to Craig Bennett (Studio 10) about dealing with depression and marriage breakdown.

■ Chrissie Swan has signed with Hit 101.9 Fox radio to appear on the Fifi And Dave breakfast radio program.

■ Former 3XY and EON presenter Joe Miller has retired after spending nine years with Territory FM in the Northern Territory.

Sleeping Beauty

● Trevor Hanna (Mr Green) and Kieran Tracey (Ross Gardiner) in Williamstown Little Theatre’s Visiting Mr Green.

Photo: Nigel Annison

Showbiz Briefs ■ Brett ‘Nozz’ Nossiter is joining ARN in May as Content Director for iHeartRadio. He has previously worked for Foxtel, Nova Entertainment and Authentic Entertainment.

■ One in four Australians are tuning into community radio each week, according to the latest Community Radio National Listener Survey.

■ Last week’s Melbourne Observer ‘Radio Bloodbath’ front-page story has featured on the www.radioinfo.com.au website

PHOTO: NADYA PYASTOLOVA

● Ekaterine Shalyapina and Sergey Kuptsov ■ Moscow Ballet La Classique will return to Melbourne to perform the masterpiece and ballet's loved fairytale, Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty at the Frankston Arts Centre on Friday, May 1, and the Palais Theatre, St Kilda on Saturday, May 2.

Artistic director Elik Melikov was the founder of Moscow Ballet La Classique in 1990 and drew from many leading artists at the Bolshoi Theatre.

The ballet company, direct from the USSR, has toured the world and fifty people are involved in this production of Sleeping Beauty.

- Kevin Trask

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Local Theatre With Cheryl Threadgold

‘Killing Jeremy’ at 1812 Forever City

● Mieke Dodd in Forever City.

Photo: Sarah Walker ■ Riot Stage Youth Theatre presented Forever City last week at La Mama Courthouse, featuring students from the Moreland area.

Written by Morgan Rose and directed by Katrina Cornwell, this contemporary dark comedy explores the students’ ideas about their future and the end of the world.

A dinosaur is asked “What was it like at the very end?” and, pointedly “Could you have stopped it?”

Reflecting on references to environmental issues, the audience realises that perhaps we too could eventually become extinct.

The effective opening scene features performers as university graduates, announcing they are the future, but questioning what they do next. Perhaps get a job, fall pregnant, incur debt, travel to Greece, stay up late or sleep in?

It is terrific to see young people using performance to work through expressing concerns and uncertainties. References are included to pop culture, historical fads and religion, combined with personal stories and ideas.

Ellen Campion (18), Kate Dunn (16), Mieke Dodd (16), Daisy Kocher (16), Alanna Marshall (17), Amelia Newman (18), Kes Daniel Doney (15), Jack Zapsalis (18), Yash Jagtani (15), and Marie Mokbel (15), all did good work in their roles.

Particularly strong were Kate Dunn , Jack Zapsalis, Alanna Marshall and Yash Jagtani.

Critically speaking, not every performer clearly articulated the dialogue. Naturalistic conversational style is great, but we need to hear and understand the words. Also, increase volume when talking over loud sound effects or music, and props positioned on the floor directly in front of the audience can’t be seen by those sitting towards the back.

Congratulations to Suze Smith and Liam Barton for their respective lighting and sound designs.

Forever City aims to examine the way society romanticizes the end of the world, while ignoring the real life environmental and humanitarian crises around us.

Hopefully these ten thoughtful, talented young people will enjoy happy and productive futures … and more stage performances.

AUDITIONS

■ Cardinia Performing Arts Company (CPAC): The Addams Family At the CPAC rooms rear of the Pakenham Sports Club, Henry St., Pakenham. Auditions: May 1 6.30pm - 8.30pm, May 2 10.00am - 12.00noon and Sunday, May 3 from 1.00pm. Same venue. Director: Lee Geraghty; Choreographer: Robert Mulholland. Enquiries: rrene70@hotmail.com.au www.cardiniaperformingarts.com/ ■ Williamstown Little Theatre: Time Stands Still (by Donald Magulies) April 26 from 1.00pm, April 27 from 7.30pm at 2 Albert St., Williamstown. Director: Ellis Ebell. Audition bookings: 0417 393 296.

■ Williamstown Musical Theatre Company: Disney's Little Mermaid Jr. April 29,30 from 7.30pm at the MDX Dance Studios, Unit 2/1 Akuna Drive, Williamstown. Director/Musical Director: Ang Cuy; Choreographer: Stuart Dodge: Ass't. Musical Director: Declan McGavin. Audition bookings: 1300 881 545.

■ JYM Theatre Co: Merrily We Roll Along April 26 - 29 in St Kilda. Director: Pip Mushin.. Enquiries: 0405 619 219 or email shari@jymtheatre.com.au

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SHOWS ■ The 1812 Theatre: Killing Jeremy (by Bridgette Burton) Until May 2 at Bakery 1812, 3-5 Rose St., Upper Ferntree Gully.

Tickets: $27/$20, Bookings: 9759 3964. www.1812theatre.com.au ■ Geelong Repertory Theatre Company: A Few Good Men (by Aaron Sorkin) Until May 2 at Woodbin Theatre, 15 Coronation St., West Geelong. Director: Greg Shawcross. Tickets: $26/$24/ $19. Bookings: 5225 1200 www.geelongrep.com ■ Sunshine Community Theatre: C U Next Tuesday (by Stephen Andrews) Until April - 25 at Dempster Park Hall, 82 Phoenix St., North Sunshine. Director: Alan Barrett. Tickets: $18/ $15. Bookings: 0407 802 165 ■ Gemco Players: While Their Names Are Still Spoken (by Ken Purdham) April 24, 25 at 8.00pm at the Gem Community Arts Centre, 19 Kilvington Drive, Emerald. Directors: Evie Housham and Ken Purdy. Tickets: $25/$22/$18stud. Bookings: www.gemcoplayers.org ■ Wangaratta Players: The One Day of the Year (by Alan Seymour) Until April 25. Director: Lorraine Monshing. Booking details: www.wangarattaplayers.com.au ■ FAMDA (Foster Amateur Music and Drama Association: Waratah the Musical (Written and directed by Chris Dickens) Until May 2 at the Foster War Memorial Arts Centre, 79 Main St., Foster. Tickets: $28/$22/$15. Bookings: 0435 535 867 or 5 682 2077.

■ Mordialloc Theatre Company: A Month of Sundays (by Bob Larbey) April 24 - May 9, Sunday matinees April 26 and May 3 at the Shirley Burke Theatre, 64 Parkers Rd., Parkdale. Director: Martin Gibbs. Tickets: $25/$22. Bookings: 9587 5141 or www.mordialloctheatre.com.

■ Williamstown Little Theatre: Visiting Mr Green (by Jeff Baron) April 23 - May 9 at Williamstown Little Theatre, 2 Albert St., Williamstown. Director: Brett Turner. Tickets: $25/$22. Bookings: 9885 9678 www.wlt.org.au ■ Studio Sorrento Players: Travelling North (by David Williamson) April 23 - 26 at the Sorrento Activities Centre, Cnr. Melbourne and Queens Rds., Sorrento. Director: Ngaire Johansen. Tickets: $25 inc. refreshments. Bookings: 5984 5176.

■ Malvern Theatre Company: The Crucible (by Arthur Miller) April 24 - May 9 at Malvern Theatre, 29 Burke Rd., Malvern.

Director: Geoff Hickey. Tickets: $20/$18. (Gala Night extra $5 per person).

Bookings: 1300 131 552 www.malverntheatre.com.au ■ Arts Events Australia: Nine Simone Black Diva Power April 24, 26, May 1,2,3 at Chapel off Chapel, 12 Little Chapel St., Prahran. Bookings: 8290 7000 www.chapeloffchapel.com.au ■ Dizzy Productions: Vectura (by Mark Lucas) April 24 - May 2 at the Victoria Star Hotel, 91 Gavan St., Bright. Director: Gavan Dwyer. Tickets: $40 (incl. two-course meal and two plays). Bookings: 03 5755 1277.

■ La Mama Theatre: Since the Death of Sarah Kane until April 26 at La Mama Theatre, 205 Faraday St., Carlton. www.lamama.com.au ■ Adelphi Players Theatre Company: The Peacocks Must Go (by Dennis Driscoll) April 26 - May 3 at the Booran Rd. Hall, 264 Booran Rd., Ormond. Director: Michael Mace. Tickets: $15/$12.

Bookings: 9690 1593.

■ La Mama Theatre: Sounds From Planet Sol (written and performed by Charlotte Roberts) Until April 26 at La Mama Theatre, 205 Faraday St., Carlton/ www.lamama.com.au ■ Peridot Theatre Inc: One Act Play Season 2015 April 30 May 3 at The Unicorn Theatre, Mt Waverley Secondary College, Lechte Rd., Mt Waverley. Directors: Horrie Leek, David Lawson-smith, Lauren Bradley. All tix: $15. Bookings: 1300 138 645 (10.00am - 3.00pm Mon-Fri) www.peridot.com.au ■ La Mama Theatre: The Colloquy of JG and the Girl (cowritten and created by Nikki Rydon and Vanessa Chapple) April 29 - May 3. www.lamama.com.au ■ La Mama: Bright Shiny and Green Night April 30 - May 10 at La Mama Courthouse. (written by Kit Lazaroo) Director: Jane Woollard. www.lamama.com.au ■ Heidelberg Theatre Company: The Three Sisters (by Anton Chekhov, translated by Julius West) May 1 - 16 at 36 Turnham Ave., Rosanna. Director: Joan Moriarty. Bookings: 9457 4117 www.htc.org.au ■ Have You Seen It Productions: One Slight Hitch (by Lewis Black) May 8 - 23 at Stageworx, Factory3, 21 Stud Rd., Bayswater.

Tickets: $25/$22.. Bookings: 9729 8368 www.trybooking.com ■ The Owl and Cat: Aaist (by Duncan McLean) May 4 - 17 at 34 Swan St., Richmond. Director: David Collins. Bookings: www.owlandcat.com.au 9421 3020.

■ Williamstown Musical Theatre Company: The Witches of Eastwick May 8, 9, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23 at 8.00 pm and May 10, 17 at 2.00pm at the Williamstown Mechanics Institute, Cnr. Melbourne Rd. and Electra St., Williamstown. Director: Karl McNamara; Musical Director: Jonty Smith; Choreographer: Steve Rostron. Bookings: www.wmtc.org.au or 1300 881 545.

● Ben Prendergast, Ngaire Dawn Fair and Kevin Hofbauer in The Flick.

■ Red Stitch Actors Theatre presents The Flick from April 28-May 23 at the Red Stitch Theatre in St Kilda.

Written by Annie Baker and directed by Nadia Tass, Red Stitch brings this prize-winning drama back to their home theatre with the original cast and creative team.

Set in a run-down Massachusetts movie theatre, The Flick follows the heartbreaks, loneliness and battles of three underpaid employees as they sweep up popcorn, mop the floors, play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon and tend to one of the last 35 millimetre film projectors in the state.

Annie Baker explores the changing landscape of cinema through the hilarious and heartbreaking confessions of these employees as they confront their future in the empty aisles.

Performance Season: May 1-23 Times: Wed – Sat at 8pm, Sun 6.30pm, Matinees Sat at 3pm Bookings: 9533 8083 or www.redstitch.net Tickets: $20-$39 Venue: Red Stitch Actors Theatre, Rear 2 Chapel St, St Kilda

AUDITIONS ■ Sunshine Community Theatre: Ruben Guthrie (by Brendan Cowell) April 28 at 7.30pm at 82 Phoenix St., North Sunshine. Director: Rachael Holt. Enquiries: sctmail@zoho.com ■ MLOC Productions: Jesus Christ Superstar (Nov production) Director, musical director and choreographer required.

Applications until April 30. www.mloc.org.au or 9589 4912.

■ Malvern Theatre: The Mystery of Edwin Drood May 2 from 1.00pm, May 3 from 7.00pm, May 9 from 1.00pm at Malvern Theatre, 29 Burke Rd., Malvern. Director: Alan Burrows; Musical Director: Shirley White. Audition bookings: aburrows@bigpond.net.au ■ Waterdale Players: Urinetown May 4, 6, 9. Director: Daniel Cooper; Musical Director: Ian Nisbet; Choreographer: Narada Edgar. Audition bookings: www.waterdale.org.au/ auditions ■ Heidelberg Theatre Company: The Cripple of an Irishmaan (by Martin McDonagh) May 3, 4 from 7.00pm at 36 Turnham Ave., Rosanna. Director: Bruce Akers. Audition bookings: bwakers27@hotmail.com ■ Hartwell Players: Three One Act Plays May 3 from 10.00am - 12.45pm at the BDC Dance Studios, 11-13 Yertchuk St., Ashwood. Directors: Michaela Smith; Laura Bradley; Nathan Jones. Audition enquiries and bookings: :auditions@hartwellplayers.org.au ■ Peridot Theatre: Lend Me a Tenor May 10 from 6.30pm, May 11 from 7.30pm at the Unicorn Theatre, Lechte Rd., Mt Waverley. Director: Loretta Bishop. Audition bookings: 0447 716 911.

■ Cheryl Threadgold and her team of reviewers all contribute their reports on an honorary basis for the enjoyment of Melbourne Observer readers. Keep this honest support of Victorian theatre vibrant by placing a weekly order for the Observer with your local newsagent.

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Melbourne Observer - Wednesday, April 22, 2015 - Page 35

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Local Theatre With Cheryl Threadgold

‘Killing Jeremy’ at 1812 Forever City

● Mieke Dodd in Forever City.

Photo: Sarah Walker ■ Riot Stage Youth Theatre presented Forever City last week at La Mama Courthouse, featuring students from the Moreland area.

Written by Morgan Rose and directed by Katrina Cornwell, this contemporary dark comedy explores the students’ ideas about their future and the end of the world.

A dinosaur is asked “What was it like at the very end?” and, pointedly “Could you have stopped it?”

Reflecting on references to environmental issues, the audience realises that perhaps we too could eventually become extinct.

The effective opening scene features performers as university graduates, announcing they are the future, but questioning what they do next. Perhaps get a job, fall pregnant, incur debt, travel to Greece, stay up late or sleep in?

It is terrific to see young people using performance to work through expressing concerns and uncertainties. References are included to pop culture, historical fads and religion, combined with personal stories and ideas.

Ellen Campion (18), Kate Dunn (16), Mieke Dodd (16), Daisy Kocher (16), Alanna Marshall (17), Amelia Newman (18), Kes Daniel Doney (15), Jack Zapsalis (18), Yash Jagtani (15), and Marie Mokbel (15), all did good work in their roles.

Particularly strong were Kate Dunn , Jack Zapsalis, Alanna Marshall and Yash Jagtani.

Critically speaking, not every performer clearly articulated the dialogue. Naturalistic conversational style is great, but we need to hear and understand the words. Also, increase volume when talking over loud sound effects or music, and props positioned on the floor directly in front of the audience can’t be seen by those sitting towards the back.

Congratulations to Suze Smith and Liam Barton for their respective lighting and sound designs.

Forever City aims to examine the way society romanticizes the end of the world, while ignoring the real life environmental and humanitarian crises around us.

Hopefully these ten thoughtful, talented young people will enjoy happy and productive futures … and more stage performances.

AUDITIONS

■ Cardinia Performing Arts Company (CPAC): The Addams Family At the CPAC rooms rear of the Pakenham Sports Club, Henry St., Pakenham. Auditions: May 1 6.30pm - 8.30pm, May 2 10.00am - 12.00noon and Sunday, May 3 from 1.00pm. Same venue. Director: Lee Geraghty; Choreographer: Robert Mulholland. Enquiries: rrene70@hotmail.com.au www.cardiniaperformingarts.com/ ■ Williamstown Little Theatre: Time Stands Still (by Donald Magulies) April 26 from 1.00pm, April 27 from 7.30pm at 2 Albert St., Williamstown. Director: Ellis Ebell. Audition bookings: 0417 393 296.

■ Williamstown Musical Theatre Company: Disney's Little Mermaid Jr. April 29,30 from 7.30pm at the MDX Dance Studios, Unit 2/1 Akuna Drive, Williamstown. Director/Musical Director: Ang Cuy; Choreographer: Stuart Dodge: Ass't. Musical Director: Declan McGavin. Audition bookings: 1300 881 545.

■ JYM Theatre Co: Merrily We Roll Along April 26 - 29 in St Kilda. Director: Pip Mushin.. Enquiries: 0405 619 219 or email shari@jymtheatre.com.au

Melbourne

Observer THE FLICK

SHOWS ■ The 1812 Theatre: Killing Jeremy (by Bridgette Burton) Until May 2 at Bakery 1812, 3-5 Rose St., Upper Ferntree Gully.

Tickets: $27/$20, Bookings: 9759 3964. www.1812theatre.com.au ■ Geelong Repertory Theatre Company: A Few Good Men (by Aaron Sorkin) Until May 2 at Woodbin Theatre, 15 Coronation St., West Geelong. Director: Greg Shawcross. Tickets: $26/$24/ $19. Bookings: 5225 1200 www.geelongrep.com ■ Sunshine Community Theatre: C U Next Tuesday (by Stephen Andrews) Until April - 25 at Dempster Park Hall, 82 Phoenix St., North Sunshine. Director: Alan Barrett. Tickets: $18/ $15. Bookings: 0407 802 165 ■ Gemco Players: While Their Names Are Still Spoken (by Ken Purdham) April 24, 25 at 8.00pm at the Gem Community Arts Centre, 19 Kilvington Drive, Emerald. Directors: Evie Housham and Ken Purdy. Tickets: $25/$22/$18stud. Bookings: www.gemcoplayers.org ■ Wangaratta Players: The One Day of the Year (by Alan Seymour) Until April 25. Director: Lorraine Monshing. Booking details: www.wangarattaplayers.com.au ■ FAMDA (Foster Amateur Music and Drama Association: Waratah the Musical (Written and directed by Chris Dickens) Until May 2 at the Foster War Memorial Arts Centre, 79 Main St., Foster. Tickets: $28/$22/$15. Bookings: 0435 535 867 or 5 682 2077.

■ Mordialloc Theatre Company: A Month of Sundays (by Bob Larbey) April 24 - May 9, Sunday matinees April 26 and May 3 at the Shirley Burke Theatre, 64 Parkers Rd., Parkdale. Director: Martin Gibbs. Tickets: $25/$22. Bookings: 9587 5141 or www.mordialloctheatre.com.

■ Williamstown Little Theatre: Visiting Mr Green (by Jeff Baron) April 23 - May 9 at Williamstown Little Theatre, 2 Albert St., Williamstown. Director: Brett Turner. Tickets: $25/$22. Bookings: 9885 9678 www.wlt.org.au ■ Studio Sorrento Players: Travelling North (by David Williamson) April 23 - 26 at the Sorrento Activities Centre, Cnr. Melbourne and Queens Rds., Sorrento. Director: Ngaire Johansen. Tickets: $25 inc. refreshments. Bookings: 5984 5176.

■ Malvern Theatre Company: The Crucible (by Arthur Miller) April 24 - May 9 at Malvern Theatre, 29 Burke Rd., Malvern.

Director: Geoff Hickey. Tickets: $20/$18. (Gala Night extra $5 per person).

Bookings: 1300 131 552 www.malverntheatre.com.au ■ Arts Events Australia: Nine Simone Black Diva Power April 24, 26, May 1,2,3 at Chapel off Chapel, 12 Little Chapel St., Prahran. Bookings: 8290 7000 www.chapeloffchapel.com.au ■ Dizzy Productions: Vectura (by Mark Lucas) April 24 - May 2 at the Victoria Star Hotel, 91 Gavan St., Bright. Director: Gavan Dwyer. Tickets: $40 (incl. two-course meal and two plays). Bookings: 03 5755 1277.

■ La Mama Theatre: Since the Death of Sarah Kane until April 26 at La Mama Theatre, 205 Faraday St., Carlton. www.lamama.com.au ■ Adelphi Players Theatre Company: The Peacocks Must Go (by Dennis Driscoll) April 26 - May 3 at the Booran Rd. Hall, 264 Booran Rd., Ormond. Director: Michael Mace. Tickets: $15/$12.

Bookings: 9690 1593.

■ La Mama Theatre: Sounds From Planet Sol (written and performed by Charlotte Roberts) Until April 26 at La Mama Theatre, 205 Faraday St., Carlton/ www.lamama.com.au ■ Peridot Theatre Inc: One Act Play Season 2015 April 30 May 3 at The Unicorn Theatre, Mt Waverley Secondary College, Lechte Rd., Mt Waverley. Directors: Horrie Leek, David Lawson-smith, Lauren Bradley. All tix: $15. Bookings: 1300 138 645 (10.00am - 3.00pm Mon-Fri) www.peridot.com.au ■ La Mama Theatre: The Colloquy of JG and the Girl (cowritten and created by Nikki Rydon and Vanessa Chapple) April 29 - May 3. www.lamama.com.au ■ La Mama: Bright Shiny and Green Night April 30 - May 10 at La Mama Courthouse. (written by Kit Lazaroo) Director: Jane Woollard. www.lamama.com.au ■ Heidelberg Theatre Company: The Three Sisters (by Anton Chekhov, translated by Julius West) May 1 - 16 at 36 Turnham Ave., Rosanna. Director: Joan Moriarty. Bookings: 9457 4117 www.htc.org.au ■ Have You Seen It Productions: One Slight Hitch (by Lewis Black) May 8 - 23 at Stageworx, Factory3, 21 Stud Rd., Bayswater.

Tickets: $25/$22.. Bookings: 9729 8368 www.trybooking.com ■ The Owl and Cat: Aaist (by Duncan McLean) May 4 - 17 at 34 Swan St., Richmond. Director: David Collins. Bookings: www.owlandcat.com.au 9421 3020.

■ Williamstown Musical Theatre Company: The Witches of Eastwick May 8, 9, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23 at 8.00 pm and May 10, 17 at 2.00pm at the Williamstown Mechanics Institute, Cnr. Melbourne Rd. and Electra St., Williamstown. Director: Karl McNamara; Musical Director: Jonty Smith; Choreographer: Steve Rostron. Bookings: www.wmtc.org.au or 1300 881 545.

● Ben Prendergast, Ngaire Dawn Fair and Kevin Hofbauer in The Flick.

■ Red Stitch Actors Theatre presents The Flick from April 28-May 23 at the Red Stitch Theatre in St Kilda.

Written by Annie Baker and directed by Nadia Tass, Red Stitch brings this prize-winning drama back to their home theatre with the original cast and creative team.

Set in a run-down Massachusetts movie theatre, The Flick follows the heartbreaks, loneliness and battles of three underpaid employees as they sweep up popcorn, mop the floors, play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon and tend to one of the last 35 millimetre film projectors in the state.

Annie Baker explores the changing landscape of cinema through the hilarious and heartbreaking confessions of these employees as they confront their future in the empty aisles.

Performance Season: May 1-23 Times: Wed – Sat at 8pm, Sun 6.30pm, Matinees Sat at 3pm Bookings: 9533 8083 or www.redstitch.net Tickets: $20-$39 Venue: Red Stitch Actors Theatre, Rear 2 Chapel St, St Kilda

AUDITIONS ■ Sunshine Community Theatre: Ruben Guthrie (by Brendan Cowell) April 28 at 7.30pm at 82 Phoenix St., North Sunshine. Director: Rachael Holt. Enquiries: sctmail@zoho.com ■ MLOC Productions: Jesus Christ Superstar (Nov production) Director, musical director and choreographer required.

Applications until April 30. www.mloc.org.au or 9589 4912.

■ Malvern Theatre: The Mystery of Edwin Drood May 2 from 1.00pm, May 3 from 7.00pm, May 9 from 1.00pm at Malvern Theatre, 29 Burke Rd., Malvern. Director: Alan Burrows; Musical Director: Shirley White. Audition bookings: aburrows@bigpond.net.au ■ Waterdale Players: Urinetown May 4, 6, 9. Director: Daniel Cooper; Musical Director: Ian Nisbet; Choreographer: Narada Edgar. Audition bookings: www.waterdale.org.au/ auditions ■ Heidelberg Theatre Company: The Cripple of an Irishmaan (by Martin McDonagh) May 3, 4 from 7.00pm at 36 Turnham Ave., Rosanna. Director: Bruce Akers. Audition bookings: bwakers27@hotmail.com ■ Hartwell Players: Three One Act Plays May 3 from 10.00am - 12.45pm at the BDC Dance Studios, 11-13 Yertchuk St., Ashwood. Directors: Michaela Smith; Laura Bradley; Nathan Jones. Audition enquiries and bookings: :auditions@hartwellplayers.org.au ■ Peridot Theatre: Lend Me a Tenor May 10 from 6.30pm, May 11 from 7.30pm at the Unicorn Theatre, Lechte Rd., Mt Waverley. Director: Loretta Bishop. Audition bookings: 0447 716 911.

■ Cheryl Threadgold and her team of reviewers all contribute their reports on an honorary basis for the enjoyment of Melbourne Observer readers. Keep this honest support of Victorian theatre vibrant by placing a weekly order for the Observer with your local newsagent.

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Travellers’Good Buys

with David Ellis

Elvis stayed here, soon you can too ■ We have hinted at it before, and just six months ago even wrote bravely that it would finally happen, but every time our predictions have been stymied by factors as diverse as local government infighting, dithering developers, land rights activists, economic downturns and anti-development dinosaurs.

But now we can tell you that it definitely will happen, because last month the Planning Commission on Hawaii’s Garden Island Kauai, together with the now-owners of one of the most famous resorts of all time, and Hyatt Hotels agreed that Hyatt will manage and operate the legendary Coco Palms Resort that’s lain in idle decay for 23 years following a trashing by Hurricane Iniki in 1992.

Originally opened in the early 1950s with just 24 rooms, Coco Palms had a mere two guests on its first night.

But over the years it grew to a sprawling 400 hotel rooms and freestanding bungalows amid over 18 acres (8ha) of coconut groves, gardens of tropical orchids, ferns, shrubs and a lagoon, on a site once owned by Hawaii’s last monarch, Queen Deborah Kapule Kekaiha’akulou who died in 1853.

And while it achieved fame through an emphasis on Hawaii’s rich culture, history and legendary story-telling – and the creation of such faux-Hawaii “traditions” as the colourful dinnertime “Call to Feast” torch-lighting ceremony that was held every evening

● Elvis Presley arrives at Coco Palms in 1961 for the filming of Blue Hawaii

Melbourne

Observer Wines & Liqueurs

with David Ellis

Rosé makes for perfect picnic ■ For those of us with a passion for Rosé it was great news to learn that a drop from one of the largest and most prestigious wineries in France’s Provence region is now available on shelves here.

Maison Saint AIX that was founded in the early 1900s on a one-time truffle farm has long been hailed as producing amongst the most popular Rosés in France, a not-bad accolade in a country where Rosé consumption easily outstrips that of white wine.

A blend of organically grown Grenache, Syrah and Cinsault, the 2013 that’s just been released here is a slightly dry wine with vibrant apple and citrus to the fore and secondary rich spicy notes.

There’s also a nice crisp acidity, and as Rosé buffs we liked the creamy finish that puts this one up there with the best for enjoyment with a range of foods, or simply on its own as an aperitif.

Priced at $29.95 we’d suggest matching the 2013 AIX Rosé with a shellfish lunch or dinner, or take it on a picnic with cold chicken or turkey and salads – or even simply with easy multi-grain sandwiches or crispy rolls with these as fillings on that picnic.

One to note ■ The Canberra District’s Shaw Vineyard Estate has been producing some cracker wines for a decade now, and a newly-released 2014 Isabella Riesling lives up well to the company’s reputation despite coming from a vintage that suffered some minor frosts in the growing period, and was then subjected to extreme summer heat in the leadup to harvest.

Located higher than most of its neighbouring vineyards at Murrumbateman 25 minutes north of Canberra, the company has earned a deserved reputation for fresh, crisp and balanced Rieslings, with their 2014 Shaw Vineyard Estate Isabella a lovely Germanic style whose apricot, apple, pear, sweet honey-like and citrus flavours make it great to enjoy with – and tame-down – the heat of Thai and Mexican dishes.

At $30 it’s good buying.

Pictured ■ Take this one on a picnic with cold chicken, turkey and salads, or simply sandwiches and crispy bread rolls with these as fillings.

■ Enjoy with Thai and Mexican dishes whose heat will be tamed by the lovely fruit flavours.

for 40 years until Hurricane Iniki – it was management’s willingness to have the resort used by Hollywood that cemented its place in the minds of holidaymakers worldwide yearning for the ultimate Pacific island escape…

The first movie made at Coco Palms was Pagan Love Song with Esther Williams and Howard Keel in 1950, followed by Bird of Paradise starring Debra Paget and Louis Jourdan in 1951, Rita Hayworth’s Miss Sadie Thompson in 1953, and parts of South Pacific five years later.

But it was Elvis Presley who made the biggest impact of all with the 1961 block-buster Blue Hawaii, and in particular the scenes of he and his sweetheart, played by Joan Blackman, being paddled aboard a double-hulled canoe down the lagoon – Presley crooning the Hawaiian Wedding Song along the way, and their marriage that followed in a picturesque Wedding Chapel.

The film’s soundtrack topped American charts for 20 consecutive weeks and 3,000,000 records were sold in the following 12 months.

As well, the resort was inundated with enough of the star-struck to have it scheduling 500 weddings annually for years after Blue Hawaii was released… most in the Wedding Chapel that Paramount Films donated to Coco Palms after Blue Hawaii (and which it had actually built for the earlier Miss Sadie Thompson.)

But everything came to a shuddering halt with Iniki in September 1992: winds gusting around 300kmh – and one an incredible 365kmh (227mph) – ripped every door and window off the resort and flung them with hotel furnishings into the coconut grove and up to a kilometre away.

Torrential rain poured through shattered roofs and windows to flood every building, and the once show-piece gardens resembled a mulching depot.

The resort never re-opened and despite numerous owners and plans in the 23 years since, it was not until a local consortium headed by businessmen Chad Waters and Tyler Greene signed last month’s agreement with the Kauai Planning Commission and Hyatt Hotels, that something concrete has finally been agreed-upon.

And rather than demolish the shattered remains of the old Coco Palms, plans are to redevelop it largely as it was, including the main block with 331 guest rooms, restaurants, bars, lounges and pools, and with the 32 original bungalows refurbished virtually as they were but with 21st century mod-cons… plus the lagoon, wedding canoe and wedding chapel all resurrected into use as well.

The US$100-million new-look Coco Palms will re-open in early 2017 and already Hyatt’s been inundated with enquiries and bookings… in particular for the renovated 2-bedroom bungalow #56 that Elvis Presley shared not with some gorgeous starlet or crew member while making Blue Hawaii, but with a burly bodyguard.

And locals have begun lobbying for Hawaii’s most famous music historian and their “Living Treasure of Music,” a-now 85-years-young Larry Rivera to be given a gig in one of the new-look resort’s lounges – where he delighted guests with his ukulele and traditional Hawaiian songs nightly for forty years until Hurricane Iniki.

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Victoria Pictorial

Footscray Historic Photo Collection

● Staff at Footscray Railway Station. 1926.

● Bunbury St Tunnel. South Kensington to West Footscray. 1927.

● Footscray Town Hall. 1930s.

● Footscray Motors. 71 Hopkins St. Circa 1940

● Powder magazine, Footscray. 1944.

● New buildings at Middle Footscray Station. 1927.

● Footscray Football Club.

● Rockmans Variety Store, Footscray. 1959.

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Free betting vouchers at ‘Bool

■ Warrnambool becomes the focus of Victorian greyhound racing over the coming weeks with their May racing carnival.

Racing meetings over the next couple of weeks will culminate in a gala night on Wednesday, May 6, featuring the $45,000 Warrnambool Cup and the $75,000 Warrnambool Classic.

As well as the on track action, the Warrnambool Greyhound Racing Club are pulling out all stops to ensure they draw a big crowd to the local Showgrounds circuit.

The Club has booked the Australian INXS Show to appear on the night.

The group brings the halcyon days of INXS and Michael Hutchence back to life, and will perform twice on Cup night.

They will appear for 50 minutes before the first race, while also playing for another 25 minutes between races three and four.

Free $5 betting vouchers will be given away to patrons who sign up to the Warrnambool Club newsletter on course, and the first 1000 people through the gates will also receive a free drink coupon.

The big night falls during the famous May jumps racing carnival, and a courtesy bus will ferry patrons across town from the gallops to the greyhounds in time for the first race.

Thousands of visitors venture to Warrnambool for the gallops races, and the racing week generates huge income for the local economy each year.

Greyhounds

with Kyle Galley

Best of the lot ■ Anakie's Dailly kennels have produced some outstanding dogs in their time - but current star Fernando Bale might be the best of them according to kennel representative George Dailly.

As reported in last week's column, Fernando Bale took all before him in winning the recent Golden Easter Egg in Sydney.

Back on home soil at Sandown Park last Thursday night, April 16, Fernando Bale contested a run of the mill race, but his performance really made the greyhound world sit up and take notice.

The white and brindle dog landed straight on the lead from box six, and cleared away to win easily in a time of 29.10 seconds - the fastest run at Sandown Park this year and the sixth fastest time ever clocked at the course.

“He’s probably the best race dog I’ve ever had,” George Dailly said.

“It’s quite amazing really, he’s got that speed early and strength at the end. It’s a wonderful combination, you

don’t get them like that very often.”

“I had a bloke come up to me in Sydney saying that he’d been in the game for 65 years and he told me that he is the best dog since Zoom Top. People are quick to use the tag ‘champion,’ but in my view a champion is a dog that does things others can’t do.

They can produce things that you think just can’t be done."

Connections elected to miss the Queensland Derby (fortunately for those trainers up north) and instead will focus on $150,000 on offer in suitable races at Sandown Park in coming weeks.

Fernando Bale has recorded 15 wins from only 19 starts, and is just over two years of age so has plenty of time on his side.

He has won over $404,000 in stakes, a figure that will surely climb much higher before too long.

The Autumn Carnival kicks off on Thursday, April 30 and runs until Sandown Cup night on May 21.

Overall $800,000 in prizemoney will be given away, with the Sandown Cup the major highlight for the stayers.

Break-ins ■ Victorian greyhound trainers have been reminded to ensure their vehicles and trailers are locked when at race meetings and trials.

Greyhound Racing Victoria made the announcement on their website after several cars were broken into at a recent race meeting.

● George Dailly

Flashback ■ Wintry weather conditions were part of an eventful night at the Cranbourne greyhound meeting on August 2, 1975.

Rain fell during the night, turning an already wet track into an extremely heavy surface.

The long distance race over 735 metres was run in a time nearly five seconds outside the track record.

The Vice-President's Free For All event was cancelled due to a mechanical fault.

Stewards vetted all starters with a view to re-running the race, however they found the dogs were in a distressed state owing to the heavy nature of the track.

This incident led to the following race running 24 minutes late.

Upcoming race meetings ■ Wednesday: The Meadows (Day), Bendigo (Twilight), Cranbourne (Night), Warrnambool (N); Thursday: Warragul (D), Shepparton (T), Sandown Park (N), Ballarat (N); Friday: Bendigo (T), Geelong (N), Saturday: Cranbourne (T), The Meadows (N); Sunday: Benalla (D), Sandown Park (D), Healesville (D), Warrnambool (T), Sale (T); Monday: Ballarat (D), Geelong (T), Shepparton (N); Tuesday: Horsham (T), Warrnambool (N).

- Kyle Galley

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Showbiz Extra

Melbourne

Observer Victorian Sport

■ From Page 34

Top 10 Lists

Craig, one of the very best

■ Victorian jockey, Craig Williams, simply doesn't get the plaudits he should receive, as not only one of the best riders in Australia, but the world.

His ride on the David Hayes-Tom Dabernig-trained Criterion was a beauty to win the Queen Elizabeth Stakes on a rain sodden track at Randwick.

Craig is one of the most accomplished riders in the world, and is one of the best advocates for those in the riding ranks.

Always the gentleman, with a great personality, Craig, a good family man, a nondrinker and smoker, he is not only one of the best mathematicians, but he studies every mount he has with the eye of an Einstein.

I can recall when interviewed on Channel 7, at last year's Melbourne Cup Day, he impressed "Mr. Knowledge", Bruce Mc Avaney, with the homework he puts in with all his rides.

He had diagrams of all the 24 runners in the Melbourne Cup, and where he envisaged them being in the run over the 3200 metres of the Melbourne Cup. In winning on Criterion for his old boss, David Hayes, it brought back memories of them as an unbeatable team with the mighty mare, Miss Finland, who won just about everything but the Melbourne to Warrnambool bike race.

Something happened later on and they split, but now it appears all in bright in the camp.

Hayes said he will run Criterion in the 2000 metres QEII Cup at Sha Tin this Sunday on route to Royal Ascot.

David is looking at the 1600 metres of the QueenAnne Stakes or the 2000 metre trip of the Prince of Wales Stakes.

He adds that Craig will ride him in Sha Tin, but the English ride is yet to be confirmed.

Knowing Craig, he will be camped at the stable door at Euroa, waiting for David to wake up.

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■ Leading trainer, Robbie Laing, who has tasted Group One success before with his Victoria Derby winner, Polanski, was a bit stiff not to have made it another big day when his top sprinter, Lord of the Sky, just missed in the T.J.Smith Classic at Randwick.

Reverting back to Polanksi for a moment, the colt who won the Derby in great fashion was catapulted into favortism for the Melbourne Cup only to sustain a bad injury and was retired.

He was by the in-

ternational sire, Rakti, who was considered a bit of a rogue, but Polanski proved everybody wrong.

Then cast your mind back only to the last Caulfield Cup winner, the ill-fated Admire Rakti, who collapsed during the running of the Melbourne Cup, and was later diagnosed with heart failure.

Not bad for a rogue stallion, a Derby winner and a Caulfield Cup winner.

Back to Lord of the Sky, the top sprinter had them all beaten in the T.J.Smith, including Lankan Rupee, once the highest rated sprinter in the world.

It also relegated another top rated sprinter, Terra Vista; into third spot.

Lord of the Sky went down officially by a nose, by one of the best in the world in, Chautauqua, from the Hawkes camp.

Chautauqua's connections took home a cheque for

● Craig Williams Photo by SLICKPIX, phone 9354 5754 $1.4 million, while the colt go at around the owners of Lord of the 200 metre mark in the Sky won $450,000. centre to win in brilThe money came liant fashion. for Lord of the Sky Kermadecs's after the abandonment trainer, Chris Waller, of the big meeting on was full of praise for Saturday to Easter the likeable jockey afMonday. ter the race.

He worked brilIt was only liantly, and Robbie Kermadec's seventh Laing felt he was at his run in a race, having very best after treat- won two with three ment for asthma, placings and has been which was diagnosed. extremely unlucky in A great bloke, most of his placed and Robbie Laing as usual unplaced runs. took on the chin sayWaller has a big ing, "That's Racing". opinion of Kermadec Lord of the Sky is and likewise, Glen part-owned by the Boss.

Laing family.

Haven't we all.

Well done Glen.

The boss

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■ It was great to see top jockey, Glen Boss, back to his very best after a lean season, when he booted home top three-year old, Kermadec, to win the time honoured, Doncaster Handicap, over 1600 metres on a soft track at Randwick.

It was the popular jockey's sixth win in the Classic, a record.

It was a great ride having to get the youngster out of the barrier cleanly, as he has a history of missing the start.

Starting from barrier 17, Glen had him in a winning position all the way and let the

Cup on Sunday ■ The first Pakenham Cup to be run at their new track at Tynong is sure to attract a top class field for the inaugural event on Sunday.

Trainers, jockeys, owners, the media, racegoers, and officials agreed the new track at Tynong is a ripper.

Jockeys were full of praise as to the track itself, and all agreed it was a pleasure to ride on.

The Bruce Clough Mazda Pakenham Cup is worth $100,000.

■ Strathfieldsaye's Julie Douglas has done well in her first season of training and added another winner to her tally, when ex-Kiwi 5-Y-0 gelding Fernco Bobby G scored in the Wednesday & Friday Bingo @ Trackside Pacers Handicap for C2 or better class over 2150 metres at Kilmore on Thursday.

With Mick Bellman in the sulky, Fernco Bobby G settled four back in the moving line from 10 metres, with Cheshire Cat (barrier five) piloting the field.

Gaining a lovely trail home at the expense of Hollys Miss Molly ahead of him, Fernco Bobby G ran home stylishly to record a runaway 8.4 metre victory over Hollys Miss Molly and Vanderley which missed away off 20 metres. The mile rate 2-02.6.

■ At Yarra Valley on Monday April 13, Rockbank trainer/driver Ian McMahon's 5Y-0 Courage Under Fire/Motion mare Simoncelli landed the Harness Breeders (Vic) Pace for C0 class over 2150 metres.

Starting from the pole, Simoncelli was given the run of the race trailing the pacemaker Artistic Star, before using the sprint lane to score by 3.4 metres in advance of Temporal Join from mid-field and Feel The Rhythm (one/three) in a rate of 2-01.9.

■ Avenel trainer Wayne Potter and former Kilmore resident Jack Knight are having a ball at present with several winners in recent weeks and 4-Y-0 Live Or Die/Virginia Khan gelding Koora Khan continued their run when successful in the Joan Windham's 70th Year Celebration Pace for C2 class over 2150 metres at Yarra Valley on Monday April 13.

Driven by Nathan Jack, Koora Khan starting solo on the second line was given a sweet trip trailing the pole line pacemaker Our Maddys Star, before making full use of the sprint lane to gain the day over her, with My Middle Boy third from mid-field in the running line.

■ Bacchus Marsh trainer Alan Tubbs combined with future son-in-law Greg Sugars to land the Central Tyre Service Trotters Handicap for T0 or better class over 2190 metres at Shepparton on Wednesday with Bacardi Lindy/Hiona Mountain gelding Drunken Maniac.

Slowly away from the pole, Drunken Maniac was allowed to regain his composure, settling three back in the moving line, with Cudgee Boy leading.

Easing wide on straightening, Drunken Maniac produced an electrifying finish to blouse Kains Boy along the sprint lane after trailing the leader by a head in a thrilling finish.

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■ Riddell duo Nicole and Dean Molander were successful at Shepparton on Wednesday with recent stable addition Vox Populi in the Neatline Homes Pace for C2 & C3 class over 2190 metres.

Driven by Chris Alford, Vox Populi a 4-Y-0 Mach Three/Village Guest gelding settled mid-field in the running line from gate five on the second line, with Big Spook driven with aggression to lead.

Still well back approaching the final bend, Vox Populi came with a sweeping finish out wide to score impressively by 1.1 metres in 1-56.9 over Big Spook and Master Mach Manus, suggesting further wins will come his way.

Outstayed rivals ■ Monegeetta reinsman David Miles was successful aboard visiting Tasmanian trainer Roger Brown's 5-Y-0 Modern Art/Flamingo Rose gelding Springfield Tattoo in the Phoenix Designs Claiming Pace over 2180 metres at Kilmore on Thursday.

Eased from outside the front line to settle four back in the moving line with The Numbers Man leading from gate two, Springfield Tattoo was sent forward three wide solo at the bell and sustained a long run to outstay his rivals, defeating Christian Torado which followed him all of the way, with Classic Icon (one/two) third. The mile rate 2-01.6.

Win for father, son ■ Glen Park father and son - Bassie and Zac Steenhuis were victorious with four year old Great Success/Calder Image mare Racewaycalder in the Lew & Olive Welsh Memorial Trotters Mobile for T0 & T1 class over 2180 metres at Terang on Tuesday.

Driven to perfection by Zac, Racewaycalder led out from gate four, before being eased to follow the speedy Dora Pepperell which was sent forward from four on the second line to assume control.

Using the sprint lane, Racewaycalder gained the day by 1.6 metres over Majestic Mirage (one/three four wide home turn) and Dora Pepperell in a mile rate of 2-04.

Led from the bell ■ Burrumbeet's Michael Stanley scored a gigantic victory with ex-Kiwi Bettors Delight/Kurahaupo Charm 4-Y-0 gelding Kurahaupo Gambler at Terang, taking the Ken Pocock Memorial Pace for C2 & C3 class over 2180 metres in a rate of 1-57.9.

Unbeaten in three Australian outings going into the race, Kurahaupo Gambler starting from gate four was given a torrid time after an unsuccessful bid for the lead, having to race in the open for most of the trip.

Surging to the front approaching the final bend, Kurahaupo Gambler was much too strong for Okelhero Lad which led from the bell, winning by 4 metres on the wire, with early leader Keayang Storm 8.1 metres away after trailing the runner up.

‘Drive of the day’ ■ Bolinda trainer/driver Chris Alford was responsible for the "drive of the day" at Yarra Valley after winning the 4th Heat of the VSTA Trotters Cup for T1 or better class over 2150 metres with 4-Y-0 Yankee Spider/Apollo Ann mare Celtic Rose.

Unusually slowly away from barrier three as the tapes released with Slancio beginning brilliantly from outside the front row to lead, Celtic Rose once balanced was sent forward to assume control.

Rated to perfection, Celtic Rose left her rivals standing on the home turn to record a 22 metre victory in a rate of 2-03.4 over Slancio which tried hard to no avail, with Sunnyvale Comet 1.9 metres away in third place. ● Thursday night racing was at Kilmore and Gillieston trainer Russ Thomson's smart Skyvalley/Pinevale Ellason filly Ruby Pinevale notched up her 3rd victory in 10 outings by taking the Kelly Sports 3-Y-0 Trotters Handicap over 2150 metres.

Ranges celebrates Oaks win ■ The Macedon Ranges would have been ‘rocking and rollin’" over the weekend following Saturday night's Tabcorp Park meeting, as Bolinda trainer Kari Males and husband Paul captured the $150,000 (Group 1) Nevele R Stud Victoria Oaks for Three Year Old Filles over 2240 metres with Niki No No, an ultra consistent daughter of Sportswriter and Benelise raced by Tabcorp Park MC Rob Auber and partners.

Starting from gate two, Niki No No was given a perfect passage by regular reinsman Greg Sugars trailing Sydneysider Makes Every Scents which flew away with a wing on every foot from gate six to lead running into the first turn.

Travelling beautifully all through the race, Niki No No in quarters of 31.7, 30.5, 27.5 and 28.9 for the final 1609 metres, used the sprint lane to register a 2.8 metre margin over the pacemaker, with Glenferrie Bronte a game third after circling the field to race in the open.

It was Niki No No's 9th victory in 16 outings and by winning, took her stake earnings to $228,288.

Neighbour Brent Lilley snared the $30,505 (Group 2) E.B. Cochran Trotters Cup for TMO or better class over 2240 metres with much improved fully American bred 7-Y-0 Chocolatier/Duo Val Car entire Kyvalley Blur in a rate of 1-59.8.

Driven by Anthony Butt, Kyvalley Blur despite racing wide from the bell, ran home stylishly to score by 1.5 metres in advance of The Boss Man and Our Overanova.

Chris Alford's in-form Yankee Spider/Apollo Ann mare Celtic Rose led throughout from barrier two to claim the $10,505 VSTA Trotters Cup Final over 2240 metres from stablemate Miracle which shadowed her from the bell in a rate of 2-06.3.

Lazy Sunday (three back the markers finished third).

The Bite ■ Seven year old Jet Laag/Ella Jane gelding Australian Bite certainly put the bite on his rivals after landing a sensation plunge when successful in the Cobden AB Pace for C1 class over 2180 metres at Terang on Tuesday.

Trained at Portland by Gloria Council, Australian Bite taking a concession for Terang's Tim McLean was backed on the fixed odds market from around $36 to offi-

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Starting from gate two, Australian Bite settled mid-field in the running line, with Doyouseewhatisee holding the lead from the pole.

Shuffled back in the last lap, Australian Bite when extricated into the clear approaching the home turn, rattled home to register a 2.1 metre victory in 1-59.4 over Sassy Man (three wide home turn) and Shipstern which followed the winner.

So sweet ■ In what was a great night for the Terang area, local Paul Bailey combined with Matt Craven to land the Wheatsheaf Hotel Pace for C0 class over 1680 metres with five year old Artiscape/Aleutian gelding Amaury.

Having his second outing since August 2013, Amaury from gate two enjoyed a sweet trip trailing the short priced favourite pacemaker Hannas Beach Girl (gate five), before using the sprint lane to gain the day by 3.7 metres in advance of Mac Department (one/ two) and Four Starzzz Fella (threeback the markers) in a rate of 200.2.

Joined ■ Scotts Creek trainer Anthony (Xavier) O'Connor joined forces with Hamilton reinsman Caleb Lewis to snare the Dick & Anne Box Pace Final for C0 class over 2180 metres with Dreamsndesires, a four year old Our Sir Vancelot/ Spangled Lace gelding which had easily won his heat at Mount Gambier on April 6.

Crossed from gate three at the start by Ohoka Illinois next door, Lewis immediately moved Dreamsndesires around the leader to assume control and was never headed, scoring by a huge 35.3 metre margin over Showem Shifty (three

back the markers) and Vegas Prince in a mile rate of 1-59.2.

Red hot ■ Mount Gambier (Allendale) trainer David Kemp's most consistent P Forty Seven/Just Moonstrike gelding Arr En Special chalked up his 10th victory (2 this season) in 86 outings, when greeting the judge in the Reicha Stores Terang & Cobden Pace for C4 & C5 class over 1680 metres.

Driven by Jason Lee, Arr En Special settling mid-field from gate five was suited by the red-hot tempo in the early stages as Fremarks Ceejay Manningham Park and Reeds May all vied for the front running, with Fremarks Ceejay winning out.

Sent forward three wide in the final circuit, Arr En Special was too strong at the finish for a game Fremarks Ceejay in a slick 1-55.8, winning by 2 metres, with Manningham Park (one/ one) third.

Tenancity ■ Jeremes Jet/Frostyana colt Frostyflyer brought up two wins in succession by taking the 1st heat of the Terang Co-Op Vicbred Platinum Country Series N for Three Year Olds over 2180 metres.

Trained at Hamilton by David Lewis, Frostyflyer driven by John Caldow was sent forward from gate four to head off Bellas Delight inside him hitting the back straight on the first occasion and was never headed, showing plenty of tenacity to hold off Bellas Jet by a neck in 1-59.2, with Ricimer 7.5 metres away in third place after racing in the open for the last lap.

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Laurels at Y. Valley ■ Pipers Creek (Kyneton) trainer/driver Tony Xiriha landed the St Thomas's Retirement Village Trotters Mobile for T0 class over 2150 metres at Yarra Valley on Monday April 13 with honest 4-Y0 Yankee Paco/Riegle Anne gelding Riegle Deception.

Showing his speed from gate four, Riegle Deception led throughout, just lasting by a head to account for No Trumps No Glory who's effort was full of merit after galloping away and racing wide for the final circuit. New Divide finished third after following the winner. The mile rate 2-05.1.

Like lightning ■ Croydon trainer Mario Stella's Precious Buney/ Reethra 5-Y-0 gelding Greenough was s deserved winner of the United Petroleum Pace for C1 class over 1650 metres at Yarra Valley.

In what was again a classic exhibition from Alford, Greenough starting outside the front line settled closer to last than first in the running line, with Blacks A Beauty striding clear from gate three.

Producing a lightning turn of speed three wide racing for the bell, Greenough caught the leader napping and led for the remainder of the race, scoring by 3.4 metres at Supertab odds of $30.70 from Blacks A Beauty and Fifty Shades (three back the markers) in a rate of 1-59.8.

Showcase for GV ■ At Charlton on Wednesday, there were five winners from the Goulburn Valley and Bendigo area including another two from the Turnbull/Jack stable.

Those being Mammals Rockstar in the Charlton & District Community Bank 2-Y-0 Pace over 1609 metres and Copper Coast the DJA DJA Wurrung Cup for C3 & C4 class over 2100 metres.

Mammals Rockstar a Four Starzzz Shark/Mammals Rocket filly led all of the way from gate six to account for first starters Hellbewright which raced outside her and Urella Fella which trailed the winner. The mile rate 1-57.9.

Four year old Modern Art/Katasopos gelding Copper Coast peeled off a one/one passage to blouse the leader Tallulah Bay by a nose in 1-59.3.

Jaccka Art finished third after trailing the pacemaker.

Nathan Jack had a field day, also winning aboard Times A Bonus for Rochester's Mark Thompson in the Binmi (Ground) Spirit) Pace for C0 class over 2100 metres and the John Hallam (Kialla) trained Indianna Angel in the Emma Curr Pacers Handicap for C1 class over 2100 metres.

Bendigo's Keith Pratt and son Rodney snared the C0 class Kam-Kam (Horse) Pace Final over 2100 metres with 4-Y-0 Four Starzzz Shark/ Supertoy gelding Superlenny in a rate of 2-01.

Moving from four back the markers to face the breeze mid-race, Superlenny raced clear in the last lap to register a 13.5 metre margin over Waterboy (one/one) and Operation Emerald which trailed the weakening leader Clontarf Guy.

Cosy trip from gate ■ At Maryborough on Thursday, Inglewood trainer Neil Cole was successful with Dawn Ofa New Day/ Lace Nation gelding Reeling in the Peter Egan BiRite Electrical 3-Y-0 Pace over 1690metres.

With NeilMcCallumin the sulky, Reeling enjoyed a cosy trip one/one from gate five and finished best to score from Captain Mordecai which trailed the leader and third placegetter Safina. The mile rate 2-00.2.

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