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● Melbourne enter‘Peter Ford is tainer Debra Byrne a blah blah has taken a swipe at journalist’ 3AW showbiz reporter Peter Ford for com- breakfast program hosted by Ross Stevenson and John ments he made Burns. about her this week.

“Peter Ford is a TV blah Ford spoke on radio of Byrne’s fund-raising on Facebook to pay for a trip to Thailand for she, her daughter Lucille, and two grandchildren.

Ford reported that Byrne had used the hashtag “pay back a legend” in social media messages that included giving her back account details for fans to deposit funds.

Byrne swung back at Ford who broadcasts on the 3AW

blah journalist in Australia. I have no regard for him and what he says,” Byrne said this week.

“If anyone is concerned about what he has spoken about regarding myself on 3AW, please ignore him and anything he says. I am not upset or concerned.”

Byrne, who suffers from anxiety, had a warning for the showbiz journalist.

“When you go on air speaking about anyone, be careful what your acid fuelled tongue says and the consequences of your words.

“You never know the state of your targets. You never know when the barb you shoot might be the final blow to a frail and fragile mind.

“You never know when you are the one who pushed someone over the edge. Your journalism is worthless.”

Byrne told Ford: “It does nothing to enhance or enlighten ourcommunity.Icouldeasily,without much thought, write a far better paragraph, or on radio or TV I could easily out shine (your) wit and out dramatise any of your senseless banter.”

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● 3AW breakfast program cohost John Burns says he cannot remember what comments he made about Richmond footballer Bachar Houli.

There are claims that Burns called Houli a “terrorist”.

“I don’t recall what I said.

“If I said something that is offensive then that is mortifying.

“I can’t remember what the comment was, I don’t remember making it,” said the former lawyer, who denied being drunk.

MORMON SHOW SOON

● The hit US stage show Book of Mormon is coming to Melbourne, and will open at the Princess Theatre in January 2017.

The musical was written by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and Avenue Q co-creator Robert Lopez. A ticket waitlist has already been established by promoters, the Gordon Frost Organisation.

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A new production of Cole Porter’s smash-hit musical comedy Anything Goes comes to the Princess Theatre, Melbourne, opening fr om May 27.

Winner of three Tony Awards, including Best Musical Revival and Choreography during its most recent Broadway revival, Anything Goes is a stunning nautical favourite.

Leading the all-star cast is Caroline O’Connor (Chicago) as evangelist turned nightclub singer Reno Sweeney.

Playing Lord Evelyn Oakleigh, the wealthy English fiancé of Hope, will be audienc e favourite Todd McKenney (The Boy From Oz). Wayne Scott Kermond (Singin’ In The Rain) plays Moonface Martin, a secondrate gangster who is “P ublic Enemy Number 13”. Billy Crocker, the young Wall Str eet broker in love with Hope is played by Ale x Rathgeber (The Drowsy Chaperone), and Claire Lyon (Phantom o f the Opera) is Hope Harcourt, an American debutante and the object of Billy's affection.

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Mould in rented premises Observer costly for Housing director In This 100-Page Edition

Showbiz: ‘The Last Five Queers’ ............ Page 6 The Barrel: Green Room Awards ............ Page 7 Long Shots: Vale Gary Day .................. Page 8 Melb. Confidential: Agent disqualified .... Page 9 Travel and Wine: David Ellis reports ...... Page 10 Victoria Pictorial: Nostalgic photos ...... Page 11 ANZAC photos: Masons remember ........ Page 12 West Hollywood: Gavin Wood reports .... Page 13 Outback Legend: Men of dignity .......... Page 14 TV Liftout - begins on Page 15 Showbiz section starts Page 35 Radio Confidential Local Theatre Top 10 Lists Movies and DVDs

Dreamgirls

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● Zenya Carmellotti, Anna Francesca Armenia and Sharon Wills in Dreamgirls.

Photo: Belinda Strodder ■ StageArt presents the Australian premiere Hair, Showboat); Gareth Jacobs as Jimmy; of Dreamgirls from May 29-June 14 at Chapel DjonAlexander as CC (Piragua Guy, In The Off Chapel.

Heights).

Dreamgirls tells the story of The Dreams, Supported by: Augustin Tchentcho (as an up and coming 1960s girl singing group - Marty), Sharon Wills (as Michelle), Joshua inspired by the career of Diana Ross and The Martin (In The Heights), Sarah Calsina (In Supremes – as they experience the triumphs The Heights), James Ao, Rhys Valesequez and tribulations that accompany their pursuit (Carrie The Musical), Tambo, Vanessa of fame and fortune in the tumultuous music Menjivar, Briana Walker, Iopu Auva’a (Hair industry.

Victorian tour) Manu Lavemai, Chenelle It all begins when three friends form The Brown and Emile Jae Fernandez.

Dreamettes and get their big break at an amaMusical direction is by Tyson Legg and teur competition, and begin singing backup choreography

by Darren Stack. vocals for a major star.

A seven-piece live band will also perform As their own fame grows, things begin to spin out of control when their agent’s business on stage.

Performance Season: May 29-June 14 manoeuvres trump their friendship, and forTimes: Tues – Sun at 8pm; Sat and Sun tune and success take them down a path of 2pm matinees. heartbreak and turmoil.

Venue: Chapel Off Chapel, 12 Little Chapel Directed by Terence O’Connell, the show features: Thando Sikwila as Effie (The Voice, St, Prahran.

Tickets: $59/$49/$45 Season 3, Team Kylie); Anna Francesca ArBookings: 8290 7000. www.chapeloff menia as Deena (Nina, In the Heights); Zenya Carmellotti as Lorelle (Hair, Victorian tour); chapel.com.au - Cheryl Threadgold Winston Hillyer as Curtis (The Lion King,

■ The Director of Housing has been ordered to $1172 to tenant Luul Aligas after the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal found mould had caused damage at rented premises at Ivanhoe.

Mrs Aligas, who had lived at the premises for six years with her husband and four children, claimed compensation for replacement clothing, replacement mattresses, inconvenience and loss of amenity.

A notice had been served last year on the Director of Housing to remove the mould throughtout the entire property and to indentofy its source and rectify.

A breach of duty notice was later served by Mrs Aligas to the Director of Housing as landlord.

Tribunal Member Robert Phillips heard that the “significant mould throughout” produced serious allergic reactions occurring among Mrs Aligas ande her children, the need to replace children’s mattresses every two months, a requirement for a cleaner once a month, and the necessity to purchase anti-allergenic creams and lotions.

Inspections of the rented premises were carried out by Consumer Affairs Victoria and Mould Lab. Counsel for the Director of Housing argued that the Tribunal should not hear an application for compensation, seeing that the original order only referred to relocating the Aligas family.

Evidence was given that there was leaking water at the property, some walls were dity and yellow, and the carpet was dirty.

Letters were tendered to the Tribunal from the Royal Children’s Hospital, Austin Health and the Waiora Road Medical Centre.

Landlord must pay $1542

■ Landlord Chris de Frage has been ordered to re-pay $1542 compensation to tenant Margaret Randall, 81, over premises considered “not fit for human habitation”.

Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal Member Lindsay Warren heard that Mrs Randall had been given a notice to vacate the rented premises after electrical wiring faiuled at the 70-year-old premises.

Mrs Randall began renting the premises in 2005. She acknowledged thatr the rent was “cheap” and below what would be the market rate due to the condition and age of the premises.

She enjoyed living in the premises; it was close to her friends, shops, her doctor and other places she visited in her daily life.

Mrs Randall said she knew

she would not be able to find a similar property for a similar rent in the area.

After being forced to leave the premises, Mrs Randall brought Tribunal proceedings with a claim for $8084 compensation, alleging that Mr de FRaga failed to maintan the rented premises and for general inconvenience.

She had five issues: the lights, general electrical faults, the garge, the television antenna, and a broken window.

The Tribunal heard that Mrs Randall used lamps to light rooms, and used a torch to go to the toilet at night.

Mrs Randall, using the Tenants’ Union of Victoria, said she was unable to cook in the premises.

Every time she tried to use the exhaust fan, the lights would go out.

If she cooked without using the exhaust fan, the smoke detector would activate.

The agent’s olution was to open the back door to the premises, or remove the battery from the smoke detector.

Mrs Randall said she did not move because she could not afford the cost of removals.

Electrical works quotes from provided from companies in Auburn and Armadale.

The Tribunal judged that Mr de Fraga breached his obligation under law to maintain the premises in reasonable condition.

Mrs Randall obtained a waiver from paying a Tribunal fee.

Latest News Flashes Around Victoria

1961 sex offences ■ Ralph Laurie, 74, of Maryborough, has received a suspened jail sentence after being charged with sexual assaults involving two female victims in Morwell in 1961.

Drunk’s $700 kick ■ Ryan Dodgshun was hoping to attend The Bluestone nightclub but he aggressively kicked in a door after finding the club was closed. The drunken encounter has resulted in a $350 fine plus $350 costs, reports The Ballarat Courier.

Footy coach sacked ■ Dean Warren has been sacked from the Morwell Football Netball Club after two rounds, to be replaced by Joel Soutar, reports the Latrobe Valley Express.

Car rolls 500m away ■ A Sunaru asedan stolen from a St Leonards home was spectacularly crashed by the thief, reports the Geelong Advertiser.

Arrests in paddock ■ Seven teenagers were arrested in a Devenish paddock after a dangerous joyride in an allegedly stolen car sparked a Police hunt around the north-east, reports the Wangaratta Chronicle.

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Logies

● Shelley Craft ■ The 57th TV Week Logie Awards will be broadcast live on Channel 9 on Sunday (May 3).

Shelley Craft and Jules Lund will front the red carpet presentation from Crown Melbourne from 7pm.

Links will be performed

by Hamish and Andy, Dave Hughes and Julia Morris, with music acts including Ricky Martin and Sam Smith.

Home & Away will be indicuted into the TV Week Hall of Fame, and there will be a special tribute to the late Richie Benaud of the Nine Network.

Animals

■ Animals will be invading the Dandenong Market on Sundays, from 11am-3pm.

Everything from crocodiles to alpacas, to mummy and baby rabbits Sunday, May 3: Cuddly creatures with Blue Sky Farm Sunday, May 10: Mother’s Day with Blue Sky Farm Sunday, May 17: Australia’s wildlife: Tooth and talons Sunday, May 24: Australia’s wildlife: amazing reptiles Sunday, May 31y: Blue Sky Farm: cow milking

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‘The Last Five Queers’

In Brief

■ The Australian Philharmonic Orchestra will combine with the Victorian Opera and Arts Centre Melbourne for a performance at 11.30am on Sunday, May 10. Operatic and stage performer David Hobson will star.

■ The Third Annual Learn To Love Comedy Gala will be held at the Thornbury Theatre, 859 High St, on Friday, May 29.

Artists include Adam Hills, Denise Scott, Dave Thornton, Ronny Cheng, Nick Cody, Aunty Donna and Demi Lardner.

‘More sightings than Elvis’

Moonfall ■ Forest Collectivepresents Moonfall on Thursday, May 6 at 6pm at The Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre.

Presented in partnership with Rubiks Collective and Melbourne Recital Centre for the Metropolis New Music Festival 2015, Moonfall draws from unfinished novels, computer games and film to present premiere performances.

In an exciting and diverse program, Evan Lawson shares his arrangement of the melancholic Moonfall.

To contrast, Swedish composer Marcus Fjellstrom's Odboy and Erordog draws from cartoons, computer games and nightmares in a three movement work for chamber ensemble, electronic music and film.

Forest Collective is a notfor-profit multi disciplinary arts organisation of creative, young professionals who strive to enrich audiences through innovative, collaborative, experimental and traditional art forms.

Composer and Artistic Director Evan Lawson says in Moonfall the meeting point is explored between film, electronics and chamber music.

“Rupert Holmes’s stunning song, Moonfall from the musical The Mystery Of Edwin Drood sets a dark and sultry mood,” he says.

“My new piece, Orpheus In The Cave creates an aural journey for the audience, as they join Orpheus’ journey down to Hades, and then return to the earth's surface.

This piece was strongly influenced by Jean Cocteau's film Orfée."

Performance: Thursday, May 6 at 6pm Venue: The Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre Tickets: $38/$28 Bookings: melbourne recital.com.au - Cheryl Threadgold

● Writer/producers and performers Adam Noviello and Madi Lee. ■ A new Australian work, Lee will traverse love, loss, The Last Five Queers – A Song loneliness and sexuality, obCycle, can be seen at The But- serving the personal and uniterfly Club tonight (Wed.) at versal stories inherent to the music.

8pm and Thursday (Apr. 30) This heart-warming produc■ Harbour Town Mel- at 9 pm. tion is filled with laughter and bourne’s Family Fun Days Enjoy the beautiful music of touching stories that will conare running both Saturdays Tony Award-winning com- nect with any audience memand Sundays until June 14. poser, lyricist and playwright ber who has played a lead charSat.-Sun. May 2-3.

Jason Robert Brown in a acter in their own love story.

World of Disney Jumping whole new light.

For two performances only.

Castle 11am – 4pm Featuring performances Bookings are highly recomSat.-Sun., May 9-10. from five of Australia’s tal- mended.

Balloon Modeller. ented emerging music theatre Performance Dates: TuesSat.-Sun., May 16-17. stars, the stunning music has day April 29 at 8pm; Thursday, SpongeBob Jumping Castle been reimagined to tell the in- April 30 at 9pm.

Sat.-Sun., May 23-24. tertwined lives of five characVenue: The Butterfly Club, Shaun the Sheep Meet and ters and their understanding of 5 Carson Place, Melbourne Greet 12 Noon – 3pm sexuality.

Tickets: $32-$25.

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Memories of Monash ■ Commemorating ANZAC and Gallipoli n this centenary year has meant many interesting concerts and performances, and there's a fascinating one coming next month.

At 3 pm on Sunday May 17, a new cantata, John Monash - From Melbourne to Gallipoli, will take to the stage of the Ian Roach Hall at Hawthorn's Scotch College.

It's the brainchild of Drs Kevin O'Flaherty and David Kram, and is being presented by the More Than Opera company.

Based on O’Flaherty's poem 1918, it explores Monash's leadership qualities and community mindedness, and salutes the Australians who contributed to ending World War 1 earlier than expected, and all those affected by the war at home and abroad.

This year marks 150 years since Monash's birth, on June 27, 1865, so the new work pays tribute to a great Australian.

The cantata is for choir, children's choir, soloists and orchestra. It features soprano LisaAnne Robinson, contralto Selena Pettifer, tenor

● Selena Pettifer James Penn and bass-baritone Tirki Onus. The choirs are drawn from Dr Jonathon Welch's The Choir, Melbourne Chamber Choir, Malvern and Port Melbourne Primary Schools while the Scotch College Symphony Orchestra will be conducted by David Kram.

You can book tickets at www.trybooking,com/ GUOI - Julie Houghton

● Steven Rooke plays Ned Kelly ■ The Queensland Theatre Company brings Kelly to the Hawthorn Arts Centre on Saturday, May 9 as part of a 39 venue national tour.

Kelly, the story of Australia’s most famous bushranger, Ned Kelly, and his brother Dan Kelly has travelled through regional Queensland and , and will show in 16 venues across Victoria, before going on to Tasmania and New South Wales.

The final performance will be presented in Ipswich, reportedly the final resting place of Dan Kelly.

History states that Dan Kelly perished in the Glenrowan Hotel fire, but Queensland playwright Matthew Ryan explores a brother’s betrayal, escape and plan for a new life in Queensland.

Although Ned Kelly’s legacy has continued to live on as a prominent part of Australia’s history, the play presents a fresh perspective of Australia’s greatest bushranger through a new lens.

Kelly is remembered for his loyalty to his family, his readiness to sacrifice himself for his mates and as Australia’s most famous bushranger.

However, perhaps family loyalty was not shared, as Matthew Ryan’s Kelly suggests Ned’s brother Dan escaped the siege at Glenrowan, leaving Ned for dead.

It was more than a century ago that Ned and his three gang members made their famous last stand at Glenrowan. On June 26, 1880, the boys held up the town in a two-day gun battle with the Victorian Police, and the showdown condemned Ned to the gallows, with Joe Byrne, Steve Hart and Dan Kelly all presumed dead.

In an interesting twist, for years and even decades later, Dan Kelly went on to be sighted more times than Elvis Presley.

Newspapers reporting Dan Kelly sightings around south-east Queensland in the 1930s gave credence to the legend of his survival.

Kelly premiered in 2012 as part of a Queensland Theatre Company’s mainstage program to critical acclaim.

Bringing the story to life are three of Brisbane’s finest actors: Kevin Spink, Anthony Standish and Matilda-award winning Steven Rooke who plays Ned Kelly.

Performance: Saturday, May 9 at 7.30pm Venue: Hawthorn Arts Centre, 360 Burwood Road, Hawthorn Tickets: $40 full $34 concession Bookings: www.hawthornartscentre.com.au/event/kelly - Cheryl Threadgold

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New children’s choir launch Briefs Arrest

■ Knox detectives have charged Abdul Jasarzada, 51, of Dandenong, following an alleged incident at a Knox playground this month. He was charged with indecent act in the presence of a child and was remanded in custody to face the Ringwood Magistrates’ Courtthis week.

Sacked

■ Melbourne has many fine children's choirs, but there's one that is starting up with a bit of a difference.

It's being launched by two sopranos with excellent international reputations - Annalisa Kerrigan and LisaAnne Robinson.

Annalisa is the original pocket dynamo who is never happier than when fitting in two days' work into one and has unbounded enthusiasm for instilling the joy of singing into anyone around her.

She also has several top selling CDs to her name, as well as multiple successful tours around Australia and overseas, and countless performances launching major events.

Lisa has enjoyed a great career as a soprano, with one of her notable achievements being to win the Herald Sun Aria Final in 2002 which led to moving to England and singing major roles with the Royal Opera House and many other companies.

She also holds a Diploma of Education and has taught widely both inAustralia and England.

So these ladies are well placed to create a rather special primary aged choir in the Bayside area.

What makes this choir a little different is that the students can also have individual voice lessons with these two fine teachers, as well as their choir participation.

One thing that is vitally important toAnnalisa in founding the Brighton Children's Choir is that it becomes ● Lisa Anne-Robinson something that children look forward to every week.

"We will have interesting programming that is rel- want to keep it small exclusive choir that will be top of evant to the childe - specially, an inclusive repertoire its class in the country.

Auditions are happening soon, so for more informathat will create and environment of enthusiasm, interest tion visit www.brightonchildrenschoir.org and fun," she said.

- Julie Houghton Numbers will be limited, as Annalisa and Lisa Anne

Bang your own drum ● Scott McIntyre ■ SBS has sacked sports reporter Scott McIntyre following controversial tweets, accusing “brave ANZACs” of “execution, widespread rape and theft” in Egypt, Palestine and Japan.

Boost

■ Burma refugees at Nhill have boosted the town’s economy by more than $40 million in the past five years, reports the Wimmera Mail-Times.

Some 70 jobs have been created in the western Victoria region, says the paper.

■ A most unusual show is coming to Melbourne with a cast of seven African performers and some amazing audience participation.

Drumstruck is a show that has played on Broadway and has been seen throughout the world.

Many famous people have been in the audience for this show including Nicole Kidman, Nelson Mandela, Elton John and Queen Elizabeth.

There is a drum on each seat in the theatre and the audience are taught how to play during the show.

Drumstruck can be seen at: ■ Wednesday, May 6. Frankston Arts Centre. Bookings: 9784 1060 ■ Thursday, May 7. Drum Theatre, Dandenong. Bookings: 9771 6666 ■ Friday, May 8. The Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne. Bookings: 9650 1500 Drumstruck is a compelling blend of soul stirring African rhythms, thrilling colourful dancing

● Drumstruck is at Frankston, Dandenong and the City and the world's most magnificent The delightful Tiny Modise from and uplifting voices. the cast of Drumstruck will be my Traditional dancing, ornate sets interview guest on Sunday (May 3) and artfully painted performers at 12 Noon during That's Entertainadorned in radiant costumes provide menton 96.5FM. a colourful and entertaining spectacle.

- Kevin Trask

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Accident funds halted ■ Mirianthi Chistodoulou has failed to have further funds made available from the Transport Accident Compensation for physiotherapy for injuries received in a head-on collision.

Ms Christodoulou took her claim to VCAT Senior Member Ian Proctor after the TAC said it would not continue to pay for physiotherapy.

The TAC had provided for 16 months’ care for the rehabilitation of the woman’s right ankle. A self-managed home exercise program supported by a three-month pool membership was appropriate, it said.

Evidence was called from a number of medical specialists.

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

Green Room mystery

● Maria Mercedes ■ Did someone forget to publicise the Green Room Awards, presented last week at the Comedy Theatre?

In past years, publicity has been in the capable hands of Melbourne publicist Michael Wilkie. What happened this year? They became Mebourne’s best kept secret.

Winners included: Cabaret Production. Eurosmash: Die Roten Punkte Artiste. Geraldine Quinn: All Out Of Pride and MDMA: Modern Day Maiden Aunt Writing: Ash Flanders: Special Victim Musical Direction: Jane Patterson: Ginger & Tonic’s Desperate & Dateless Original Songs: Andrew Strano and Loclan Mackenzie-Spencer: Nailed It! Outstanding Contribution to Cabaret: Ali McGregor: Ali McGregor’s Late-Nite Variety-Nite Night Contemporary and Experimental Performance Outstanding Work by an Emerging Artist: Fluvial: Matthias Schack-Arnott, Next Wave, Speak Percussion Outstanding Contemporary Circus: A Simple Space: Gravity and Other Myths, Darebin Arts’ Speakeasy Curatorial Contribution to Contemporary Performance: Going Nowhere: Arts House Outstanding Contemporary and Experimental Performance: Reach Out Touch Faith: Sarah Rodigari in collaboration with Joshua Sofaer, Going Nowhere, Arts House Geoffrey Milne Memorial Award: Margaret Cameron Dance Shirley McKechnie Award for Choreography: Shaun Parker: Am I (Shaun Parker & Company) Concept and Realisation: Lilian Steiner: Noise Quartet Meditation (Lilian Steiner) and James Batchelor: Island (James Batchelor) Ensemble: Cast of Patyegarang: Bangarra Dance Theatre Female Dancer: Lauren Langlois: Complexity of Belonging (Melbourne Theatre Company, Chunky Move) Male Dancer: Waangenga Blanco: Patyegarang (Bangarra Dance Theatre) Music, Sound Design and Performance: Alisdair Macindoe: Princess (Benjamin Hancock, Chunky Move) Visual Design: Jack Hancock (Costume) and Bosco Shaw (Lighting): Princess (Benjamin Hancock, Chunky Move) Independent Theatre Production: The Trouble With Harry: MKA, DarebinArts’ Speakeasy, Melbourne Festival Costume Design: Chloe Greaves: Body of work Director: Alyson Campbell: The Trouble With Harry (MKA, Darebin Arts’Speakeasy, Melbourne Festival) Turn To Page 43

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■ More than 200 mourners gathered at the Toorak Uniting Church for a memorial service to pay tribute to the life of Melbourne radio and TV pioneer Gary Day, who died at age 80.

Loving tributes were offered by his children Louisa and Tim, on behalf of the family including Gary’s wife of 56 years, Jill, and grandchildren Martha, Freddie and Harry.

Former GTV-9 General Manager Nigel Dick told of Gary’s involvement with the Packer family’s media interests including stints as 3AK General Manager, and as the Nine Network executive in Los Angeles.

Gary has been excellent student at Melbourne’s Scotch College, with distinguished achievements in sports including rowing and cricket.

Mourners at the memorial service included former GTV-9 boss Leon Hill, Peter and Jackie Smith, Brendan Sheedy, Philip Brady, Ray Kennedy, Gary and Joan Mac, former Nine director Ted Gregory, Bill Passick, and John Murphy.

Gary was an enthusiastic member of the Survivors group, whose twice-yearly meetings he enjoyed, until diabetes-related illness prevented his attendance.

● Gary Day, Nine Network executive

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■ Broadcaster Derryn Hinch, Herald Sun managing director Peter Blunden and Jayco boss Gerry Ryan attended a ‘Celebrate 5’ function at the Prince of Wales Hotel, St Kilda on Monday night (April 27).

They joined guests to hear Dr John Tickell to take a fresh look at five people who have survived cancer: Geoff Cox Derryn Hinch, Olivia Newton-John, Sam Newman and Kylie Minogue.

Dr Tickell, a brain cancer survivor, has committed to change one million lives over the next five years

Media firms go ■ The Australian Securtities and Investments Commission has applied to wind up publicly-listed company, Reeltime Media Limited and its wholly owned subsidiary companies: DE Digital Pty Ltd, DE Personnel Pty Ltd, Ocean Feather Pty Ltd , Paricia Pty Ltd and Zaramamma Pty Ltd. The application was made following ASIC's investigation into allegations of corporate governance failures by RMA over a number of years.

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Thought For The Week

■ “Your destiny is too great, your assignment too important, your time too valuable. Do not let your fear intimate you.”

- Joel Osteen

Observer Curmudgeon

■ “Digging wells is one of the few businesses where you can start at the top.”

- The Buloke Times

Text For The Week

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● Anything Goes ■ Melbourne’s media was yesterday (Tues.) yo a sneak preview of the magical Anything Goes tap dance sequence that will be performed in the show of the same name, which opens on Sunday, May 31, at the Princess Theatre.

Caroline O’Connor and ensemble performed the title song to an audience at Dance World Studios, South Melbourne. Other songs include You’re The Top and I Get A Kick Out Of You. The show also stars Todd McKenney, Alex Rathgeber, Claire Lyon, Wayne Scott Kermond, Carmen Duncan, Debora Krizak and Gerry Connolly.

Exhibition opens ■ Glen Eira Cheltenham Art Group will open its Art for All Seasons exhibition tomorrow (Thurs.) at the Glen Eira City Council Gallery. The event will be opened the Mayor, Cr Jim Magee.

Since its inception in 1963, the Glen Eira Cheltenham Art Group has nurtured established and emerging artists in the local community, providing tutelage by talented and highly regarded professional painters, as well as exhibiting opportunities.

Rook move ■ Daily Mail Australia has announced the appointment of Mason Rook to the newly created position of Commercial Director.

Rook started his media career with the Seven Network before a nine-year tenure with Ninemsn and Mi9 where he held various roles within the commercial team, most recently as Sydney Sales Director for Mi9.

Concrete cancer alert ■ Property owners and strata managers in Melbourne are being urged to double check their maintenance plans for 2015 following new warnings about ‘concrete cancer’ problems in older apartment blocks.

“It is absolutely vital that when maintenance plans are reviewed, plans for concrete cancer treatment are created or updated and implemented immediately,” said Stephen Raff, CEO of Ace Body Corporate Management.

Ring of light at Yea ■ Residents of Yea, 105-km north of Melbourne, spotted a right of light, equal to their view of the Moon, on Saturday night (Apr. 25). There was much local chatter about UFOs. The object was finally detected to be a weather balloon.

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Melbourne

Confidential Talk is cheap, gossip is priceless

Estate agent disqualified after rent money probe

Bitch Melbourne’s Secrets

Jamie Redfern’s brush with death

● Jamie Redfern ■ Melbourne entertainer Jamie Redfern and wife Judy are lucky to be alive after a horrifying car accident at the weekend.

“Judy and I were involved in a multi-car pile up on the way home from my teaching in Narre Warren,” Redfern explained.

“Both ends of our car were smashed up really badly, and the two impacts were incredible and very frightening “Police said it is amazing we somehow survived ..... thank God, he really looked after us tonight.”

Redfern was a n original member of the Australian TV show Young Talent Time, and is currently presents Jamie Redfern's Rascals, which can be viewed on Aurora TV. He is a director of the Australian Showbusiness Academy.

● Jamie Redfern (front centre) with Brian Naylor in Swallows Juniors

■ Melbourne real estate agent Baycrown Management Pty Ltd has been disqualified from holding a licence for five years, after disguising people¦s bonds payments as rent, to make a profit, in breach of Victorian rental laws.

Consumer Affairs Victoria¦s Acting Director Elizabeth Lanyon has warned that real estate agents who flout their legal obligations will face disciplinary action, after Baycrown had its licence cancelled and was disqualified from holding one for five years.

“While most estate agents are doing the right thing, ConsumerAffairs Victoria will pursue those who do not meet their legal obligations, as this case highlights.

“Interest earned from lodged bonds fund a number of initiatives that benefit all Victorians. In effect this estate agent took that money for themselves to the disadvantage of everyone else,” Dr Lanyon said.

ConsumerAffairs Victoria took action against Baycrown after a complaint that the company was taking rent in advance payments and using them as bond money, a breach of Victoria’s rental laws.

Bond money must be paid to the Residential Tenancies Bond Authority.

The investigation found Baycrown had committed numerous breaches, including: ■ h paying more than $240,000 of ‘rent in advance’ money into an interest-bearing account ■ failing to give rental bonds to the RTBA ■ failing to notify Consumer Affairs Victoria of the opening of a trust account ■ obtaining tenants’ signatures on blank bond claim forms.

Dr Lanyon said the case is a reminder to agents that any bond they

take from a tenant must be held by the Residential Tenancies Bond Authority for the length of the lease.

ConsumerAffairs Victoria has increased its compliance and monitoring program during the peak autumn sales period, focusing on trust accounts and inspections of office records.

Last month Suzanne Zvizdalo, Director of Boris Real Estate Pty Ltd in Deer Park, received a three month suspended jail term and was ordered to pay more than $46,000 in compensation, for offences including fraudulently handling trust account money.

Former Craigieburn estate agent Konstantinos Balasis was sentenced on appeal last year to a 12month jail term for trust account offences including deficiencies of more than $430,000, while former real estate agents representative Kian Meng ‘Dennis’ Ong received a suspended jail term for paying himself more than $52,000 in trust account money.

Numurkah estate agent Daniel McNamara was sentenced to 12 months' jail, with nine months suspended for two years.

Rumour Mill

Disability pension bid rejected ■ Gulsun Koden has lost her bid to have a disability support pension continued.

Mrs Koden has been on a disability support pension since 1989, but was told in 2013 that Federal Government was changing its rules regarding pension eligibility.

Mrs Koden took the matter to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal in Melbourne. Tribunal Member Mr C. Ermert heard that the woman suffered from a condition that caused her constant pain over the past 30 years.

Centrelink conducted a job capacity assessment which said that the women coulde partiocipate in 15-22 hours of light, less skilled employment.

Dr Polong of Centrelink assessed that she had 15 impairment points in a test. She requires 20 points to gain the pension under current rules.

The Tribunal affirmed the rulings of a Centrelink review officer and the Social Security Appeals Tribunal.

Mrs Koden represented herself at the Tribunal hearing, with the assistance of a Turkish interpreter.

Mrs Koden said she has problems with the toes on her right doot. She has continuous pain in her lower back and is fearful of becoming paralysed.

She is unable to sit for 20-30 minutes, needs rest breaks when she goes shopping, avoids heavy manual tasks such as vacuuming and mopping, and needs assistance to put on socks and shoes.

Mrs Koden says she goes for a walk in the garden and does homework, but no heavy chores.

She said she reads Turkish papers and watches television for about three to four hours daily.

Mr Ermert said that if Mrs Koden feels that her condition changes she is at liberty to submit a further application.

Whispers

To Court

■ St Francis Xavier College has requested a pre-hearing conference at Dandenong Magistrates’ Court tomorrow (Thurs.) where it is due to allege a civil claim for “services rendered” against Kevin La’brooy.

Up there

■ Community interests are putting together their fight against a 26-storey development at Ivanhoe. Caydon Properties have applied for a 258-apartment development at 443 Upper Heidelberg Rd.

Thirsty

Hear It Here First

Catholic College case ■ Catholic Regional College - Melton has requested a Registrars’ Hearing at Sunshine Magistrates’ Court at 21.5pm tomorrow (Thurs.) where it is due to allege a civil claim against Lisa Hartup for “monies due”

Economy at Fairfax ■ Presenters ... and the listening audience ... have become used to economy measure at the newly merged Fairfax-Macquarie Radio Network. But is this taking things a bit too far? According to The Age website (part of the Fairfax empire), Grubby and Dee Dee are bow hosting a 24-hour show on 3AW.

■ Ashley Williams, 21, of Wangaratta, says he cannot remember breaking in to a natural health centre, stealing cash, smashing windows of two cars, and waking up in a local park in just his underwear. The Wangaratta Chronicle reports that Williams had been drinking at a local hotel.

He has been placed on a 12-month corrections order, and must perform 150 hours of unpaid work.

Auction ● From The Age newspaper’s website

E-Mail: Confidential@MelbourneObserver.com.au

■ Banyule Homestead will be auctioned on May 16, and bidding is expected to be up to $5 million, says agent RT Edgar.

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Travellers’Good Buys

with David Ellis

Legend of the hanging judge ■ “Beware The Hanging Judge,” the folk of Wapping in London’s Docklands area will kindly warn the visitor, because although he died in 1689 they’ll point out that an encounter on a dark and lonely night with the ghost of England’s most notorious member of the judiciary, can prove a very unnerving experience indeed.

For those locals will tell you that the ghost of Judge George Jeffreys does wander their streets after dark – and many will swear they’ve been involved in eerie late-night encounters.

And the reason they say their ghost frequents their hamlet is because not only had George Jeffreys been aptly dubbed the Hanging Judge for the large numbers of unfortunate souls he sent to the gallows, he also had a most macabre habit: he would mingle at the Wapping gallows with the ghoulish crowds who gathered there – to watch the spectacle of the public deaths of those whom he himself had ordered hanged.

More bizarrely, he would do so after first taking a few casual ales at the nearby Prospect of Whitby pub – to which he would return after the hangings for a cleanser or three before casually heading off home…

George Jeffreys was born in Wales and moved to London where he entered the Bar in 1663, rising to Lord Chief Justice twenty years later. When James II took the throne as England’s last Catholic monarch, he named

● The Hanging Judge, George Jeffreys who suffered constant kidney pain, in full cantankerous flight berating a prisoner before him.

Melbourne

Observer Wines & Liqueurs

with David Ellis

Proud history of The Fergus ■ It is close to twenty years – nineteen in fact – since Tim Adams and wife Pam Goldsack made their first Tim Adams Fergus, a Grenachebased blend they named after neighbour Fergus Mahon who sold them some Grenache back in 1993 during a desperate shortage in the Clare Valley of Shiraz and Cabernet fruit.

Since that pioneering drop of 85% Grenache and 15% Cabernet in those desperate times, The Fergus has comprised Grenache with various other reds, the latest being the 2012 that’s 35% Grenache from the Mahon’s Fergus Vineyard, 35% Tempranillo from Tim’s Ladera Vineyard, and 30% from his Sheoak Vineyard at Watervale.

The result’s a wonderfully mouthfilling wine with Grenache spiciness to the fore, nice plum and red berry flavours, gentle tannins and beautiful floral aromas, all combining to achieve Tim’s aim of a corner-stone drop reflecting commitment to quality and traditional Clare Valley wine styles.

Remarkably it’s just $24, and if you can resist the temptation to get into it now (with, we’d suggest, Confit of Duck) it’ll reward beautifully over the next decade or more.

One to note ■ Abounding tropical fruit flavours and a wonderfully crisp acidity are highlights of an Estate Series 2014 Sauvignon Blanc from boutique Shottesbrooke Vineyards in the Adelaide Hills.

Winemaker Hamish Maguire also used fruit from McLaren Vale in this lip-smacker drop that’s got everything in it from those tropical fruits to a grassiness, suggestions of lemon citrus and a refreshing mouth-feel.

Sauvignon Blanc and seafood go hand-in-hand so make your choice from the seafood counter as to what to enjoy it with best, or equally offer it chilled on its own as guests arrive for that seafood lunch or dinner.

Nicely priced at $20.

Pictured ■ Corner-Stone blend to enjoy with Confit of Duck.

■ A winner with seafood, or chilled on its own as guests arrive.

Judge Jeffreys his Lord Chancellor in 1685 and also elevated him to the peerage as Baron Jeffreys of Wem. This royal patronage was not without reason: James knew he could rely on his Lord Chancellor to enforce royal policy from the bench – with bias if necessary – and when hundreds were rounded-up after the failed Monmouth Rebellion in 1685 that attempted to overthrow James (as a Catholic,) Judge Jeffreys ordered no less than 200 men to their deaths on the gallows – earning his sobriquet The Hanging Judge.

He also found that another 800 had played some part in the failed uprising against the King, and while not sufficiently enough to hang too, at least sufficient to be deported as convicts to the West Indies with their papers marked “Never to Return.”

The hangings of the unfortunate 200 provided Judge Jeffreys with proverbial field days, with often multiple side-by-side executions, the crowds jeering then cheering as each detainee plunged sickeningly to their deaths, kicking and twitching for minutes afterwards because nooses were deliberately short so they did not drop sufficiently far to instantly break their necks, and thus they slowly strangled…

And according to contemporary journals, from his vantage point The Hanging Judge would watch with a frightening smile playing across his lips, before wandering the 100 metres back to the Prospect of Whitby for a few more ales to wrap up his day.

Finally when supporters of William of Orange overthrew the Catholic James II in 1688, and installed their man as King William III, James fled to France – and knowing what would befall him for his support of the deposed King, Judge Jeffreys planned to flee too, disguised as a sailor aboard a collier bound for Hamburg.

But soon before sailing he acquired a thirst and went ashore to another favourite Wapping pub, The Red Cow (allegedly so-named after its ill-tempered, red-headed barmaid) for a final drink. Half-way through he was recognised, and an angry mob descended on the pub to mete out its justice on the man who’d had so many colleagues hanged or deported.

Judge Jeffreys was miraculously saved by the Army, and committed to the Tower of London where he died a few months later from kidney disease aged just 44. He was interred in the Tower, but in 1692 friends moved his remains to St Mary Aldermanbury Church in London’s Cheapside for reinternment there.

In 1941 the old 12th century church was totally destroyed during a German air raid, and despite extensive searching no trace ever found to this day of the tomb of The Hanging Judge.

The Red Cow is now named The Town of Ramsgate and is the oldest pub on the River Thames. Both it and the Prospect of Whitby welcome visitors, staff and locals readily regaling them with tales of their most famous patron… and his reputedly oft-wandering nocturnal spirit.

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Victoria Pictorial

Brighton.

Nostalgic Photos

● Bryant and May picnic at Brighton Swimming Pool. 1937.

● Aerial view of Melbourne Orphange, Brighton. Circa 1920s

● Brighton Beach School. 3rd Grade. 1924.

● Hotel, Brighton Beach

● Brighton Beach. 1880s.

● Brighton Baths. 1940s.

● Hearse parked outside St Cuthbert’s Presbyterian Church, Brighton.

● Brighton Beach, 1870-1880

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IntroFish: for those with special needs

● Paul Bennett and Uwe Lau

■ Lodge ofAustralia Felix No. 1, with a little help from the immediate past Maroondah District Co-Ordinator Graham Dines, has donated $400 to IntroFish.

Introfish provides fishing excursions for people with disabilities. The organisation is Victoria's only dedicated boat and land based fishing service for those with special needs.

It provides rehabilitation activities, working directly with carers, coordinators, therapists and parents using various methods of fishing to work with motor skills, including hand-eye co-ordination and muscle and reflex movements.

The donation was made after Paul Bennett, Founder and President of IntroFish, visited the Lodge and gave an inspiring talk about the rehabilitation and therapeutic benefits of sailing for those with an intellectual disability.

Paul talked about his journey, and that in 2002 his third child was born with Cerebral Palsy. He said that he was confident he could teach him fishing, as he had taught fishing for many years, but his son passed away several weeks later.

In a huge effort to turn this tragedy around, Paul developed IntroFish, which since its inception, has become

popular. The business came to a halt though when expansion became impossible without a good sized boat.

The only option at the time was to purchase a used boat and have it repaired to make it seaworthy.

No one would have ever expected Paul's turn of bad luck, but the vessel was stolen one evening when the boat repair shop was broken into. Paul's boat has never been seen since.

With the on-going support from community organisations and individuals, Paul Bennett has continued to run IntroFish, at $500 a trip, which includes the hire of a boat plus a barbecue lunch.

He is also finally in a position to purchase another boat, so as to continue to provide this much needed service to the public.

For more information about IntroFish visit: www.introfish.org

Freemasons Victoria remembers

■ As the rain moved across the city, so too did the crowd of more than 80,000 Melburnians who, in the early hours of Saturday morning, made their way to the Shrine of Remembrance to pay their respects to our fallen and fighting diggers.

Standing in darkness in complete silence, the dedicated crowd watched as MC Peter Meehan hosted the Dawn Service, the Shrine of Remembrance softly lit behind him.

Freemasons Victoria was there, represented by Grand Master Bro. Hillel Benedykt and Chrys Kypreos who withstood the low temperatures to remember those who have and are still serving, and to lay a wreath at the Shrine of Remembrance.

"I feel very proud to be a part of today's service," Hillel said. "It's great to see so many people have come here today to remember, and to pay their respects to our brave diggers.

“On this special day, April 25, 2015, we recognise the anniversary of the landing at Gallipoli. One hundred years ago, 8709 Australians were killed in Gallipoli, and today record numbers flocked to the perpetual flame to remember every one of them.

Royal Australian Artillery Lieutenant and Military Cross recipient Neville Clark spoke of duty over entitlement, and humour before complaint.

"How many great Australians are there today, still carrying on the great tradition of ANZAC?" he questioned.

Afghanistan veteran Colonel Kahlil Fegan said that he was trying to figure out what made our Aussie diggers different.

"What I've seen I can only describe as a manifestation of a 'spirit',”he said."The same spirit that drove the original ANZACs off the boats and onto the beaches at this time one hundred years ago."

Excerpts were read from soldier's diaries returned from the war; stories of love and misfortune, bravery and camaraderie, before crowds dispersed to lay a poppy in the Shrine of Remembrance Inner Sanctum.

Hillel Benedykt and Chrys Kypreos watched as the battle horses paraded the Shrine forecourt, before marching together to the Shrine, wreath in hand.

"Laying a wreath today is a privilege," Chrys said, "I feel honoured to represent Freemasons Victoria among other such distinguished community service dignitaries like RSL State President Maj. Gen. David McLachlan,” he said.

● Grand Master Hillel Benedykt and Chrys Kypreos join other community service dignitaries for the laying of the wreath at the Shrine of Remembrance

● Battle horses parade the Shrine of Remembrance Forecourt ensuring the sacrifice animals made during times of war is not forgotten.

● The Freemasons Victoria wreath: 'Lest we forget'.

● Chrys Kypreos, Colonel Jason Cooke of Victorian Naval and Military Lodge No 49, and Hillel Benedykt.

● Hillel Benedykt places a poppy in the wall at the Shrine of Remembrance on behalf of Freemasons Victoria.

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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West Hollywood

Amazing concerts in California

■ From my suite at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites comes this week's news.

Evening with Moody Blues

■ Timeless Flight - The Polydor Years Moody Blues last night launched a 25-city tour, which made a stop at City National Civic.

The band will be touring in relation to their new box set, The Polydor Years 1986-1992.

The Moody Blues have been at the forefront of the classic rock music scene for more than 40 years, with their multi-Platinum, Platinum and Gold albums and singles hitting Billboard at #1, Top 5, Top 10, Top 20 and Top 40.

Their illustrious roster of hits include Nights In White Satin, Tuesday Afternoon, Ride My See Saw, The Story In Your Eyes, Isn't Life Strange, Question, I'm Just A Singer (In A Rock And Roll Band) and Your Wildest Dreams, and many more.

● Robert Plant

Robert Plant, Space Shifters

■ Robert Plant and The Sensational Space Shifters, plus special guest JD McPherson will perform at the Santa Barbara Bowl on May 31, and the Greek Theatre, Los Angeles on June 2.

Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters have announced their 2015 tour. Special guest JD McPherson will join them.

Each ticket for this show will include a CD of the band's latest album, lullaby and …The Ceaseless Roar. The tour is in support of Robert Plant's lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar, which was released September last year on Nonesuch/Warner Bros.

Records.

The record was named one of the top 50 albums of the year by NPR, which said, "At 66, the singer is still a majestic rock presence, at peace with the legacy of his hard-rock-defining band Led Zeppelin, while remaining relentlessly creative in his solo work.”

Doobie Brothers

■ Great songs are continually rediscovered by new generations of music lovers. For more than four decades, The Doobie Brothers have delivered some of the most timeless songs in America's musical lexicon.

On Saturday, June 6 The Doobie Brothers will perform live at the Greek Theatre, LA with very special guest Don Felder.

The Doobie Brothers have been delivering mind-blowing, roots-based, harmony-laden, guitar-driven rock and roll for more than four decades, selling more than 48 million albums and winning four Grammy Awards.

Boasting one of the most loyal fan bases in music, the band continues to write and record new material and tour the world.

In 2011, the band marked a new chapter, filming a CMT Crossroads special with superstar Luke Bryan and appearing for the first time on the Grand Ole Opry.

Their relationship with Nashville continues to unfold with the release of their new album Southbound on Sony Music Nashville.

The album features collaborations with country music's top stars including Blake Shelton, Brad Paisley Hunter Hayes and Sara Evans.

Yes and Toto

■ Greek Theatre, Los Angeles. Sep 6. World-renowned recording artists, Yes and Toto, announced they will join forces this summer for a co-headlining North American tour making a stop at the iconic Greek Theatre, LA on September 9.

Among the world's most influential, ground-breaking, and respected progressive rock bands, Grammy Award winning Yes has sold nearly 40 million albums in a career that has so far spanned more than four decades.

Yes continues with its tradition of symphonic progressive rock that remains timelessly fresh and innovative.

With more than 35 years together and thousands of credits and accolades to their names, Toto remains one of the top selling touring and recording acts in the world.

They recently released their first new studio album in 10 years - Toto XIV which debuted last week Top 10 in nine countries around the world.

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Blondie and Melissa ■ Greek Theatre, LosAngeles. July 26. Debbie Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie have helped push punk onto the dance floor at the dawn of the new wave era and introduced a wider audience to hip-hop sounds, all the while building a catalog of enduring pop hits.

Blondie's most recent two-disc package of music Blondie 4(0) Ever, out now, includes Deluxe Redux: Greatest Hits, an album of brand new studio recordings of the band's biggest hits, and their 10th studio album of all-new songs, Ghosts Of Download.

Undeniably one of the most trailblazing and influential bands of our time, they have become and still remain a true national treasure.

Their chart-topping success, fearless spirit and rare longevity led to an induction into the Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame in 2006 and more than 40 million albums sold worldwide to date.

Multi-Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, Melissa Etheridge co-headlines for the first time with Blondie in support of her 12th collection of new material, This is M.E. For the vibrant collection she teamed with some of the most creative, inventive figures on the music scene: Jerrod Bettis (Adele, One Republic, Eric Hutchinson, Gavin DeGraw), Jon Levine (Nelly Furtado, K'Naan, Selena Gomez), Jerry Wonda (Grammy Award-winning producer of the Fugees, Mary J. Blige, Akon) and Roccstar (Usher, Chris Brown) at the forefront.

It was a very new way of doing things for the artist, who counts two Grammy Awards and 17 nominations, an Academy Award (for I Need to Wake Up from the Al Gore documentary An Inconvenient Truth) and a star on the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame among her many accolades.

Ratings dive for ‘Idol’ ■ Once a pop culture phenomenon, the series is a shell of its former self but the show still hasn't uttered the "c word" 'Cancellation' American Idol marked a series low last Wednesday night, dropping to a dismal 1.4 rating in the coveted 18-49 demographic and stayed in the ratings dungeon this week.

The long-running singing competition has continued to limp since Empire left the Wednesday night schedule, hitting series lows along the way.

That begs the question: How low can "Idol" go before being cancelled?

Idol Season 14 is running ahead of final season ratings of Fox's defunct X Factor, which is a reasonable comparison based on show format, but still takes into account rapidly changing viewing habits that contribute to broadcast networks dip in Nielsen same-day ratings.

As Idol continues to age, the costs need be reduced further.

Right now it's up to Fox to decide for how long the benefits will continue to outweigh those expenses.

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■ Ryan Gosling is in negotiations to star in Alcon Entertainment's sequel to Blade Runner, which is being directed by Denis Villeneuve ( Prisoners ) and executive produced by Ridley Scott.

Harrison Ford will co-star as Rick Deckard, the role he portrayed in the original film directed by Scott.

Principal photography is set to start later this year. Hampton Fancher (co-writer of the original) and Michael Green have written the original screenplay, based on an idea by Fancher and Scott.

The story takes place several decades after the conclusion of the 1982 original. Alcon is not revealing story details or Gosling's character.

● Ryan Gosling

Netflix earns big time

■ Early investors in streaming service stock Netflix just made a boatload of money, as shares reach $562. The Australian roll out is looking very solid.

Netflix shareholders woke up to a pretty good morning and they could have an even greater afternoon if they already cashed out.

Netflix stock closed up $86.59 per share on Thursday or 18.21 percent at a massive $562.05 apiece.

The stock previously closed at $475.46, following a somewhat down day.

Much of that initial momentum came in the after-hours markets, which saw the stock soar after the streaming giant revealed its first quarter 2015 earnings. Thursday's US market hours certainly didn't disappoint investors either.

That said, the stock might still be undervalued, according to analysts. Rich Greenfield of BTIG labelled Netflix as a "buy" rating up to a $600 price point way back on October 14.

Their upgraded expectations at the time predicted that we'd see that figure by fall 2015.

By 2020, Netflix will have 150 million global subscribers. The analysts at that investment house shrugged off the streaming company's earnings per share miss as mostly a foreign exchange currency issue.

In other words, no one is worried for Netflix.

Page 14 - Melbourne Observer - Wednesday, April 29, 2015

■ I first met Judith Durham in 1993 at a media call for The Seekers Silver Jubilee Reunion Tour where I recorded radio interviews with both Judith and Keith Potger.

I used to see her sister Beverley Sheehan perform at various jazz concerts and both sisters have been blessed with beautiful voices.

I have been a long time fan of The Seekers and I can remember watching them on television performing at their homecoming concert in the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in 1967.

The audience that attended that Sunday afternoon was estimated to be around 200,000.

We were all so proud of the success that The Seekers had achieved overseas.

Judith was born in Essendon in 1943 and in her teenage years studied classical piano at Melbourne University.

Judith also had vocal training and started singing with Frank Traynor's Jazz Band using the stage name of Judith Durham.

Whilst working at an advertising agency she met Athol Guy who asked her to join The Seekers, a folk singing group who performed on a Monday night at The Treble Clef coffee lounge in Toorak Road.

They became successful after releasing their first album Introducing The Seekers on the W & G label in 1963. The group consisted of Judith, Athol Guy, Keith Potger and Bruce Woodley.

In 1964 The Seekers travelled to the UK and

Whatever Happened To ...

Judith Durham

By Kevin Trask of 3AW and 96.5 Inner FM

were signed by The Grade Organisation which led to a spot on the television variety show Sunday Night at the London Palladium.

They met composer Tom Springfield and signed with Columbia Records where they recorded their first number one hit song I'll Never Find Another You. The hit songs continued with Someday One Day, Morningtown Ride and The Carnival Is Over.

The Seekers were in the hit parades in the UK, USA and Australia. They recorded Georgy Girl which was the title of a popular British film and the song was nominated for an Academy Award. In 1967 Judith had a huge solo hit song The Olive Tree.

● Judith Durham and Kevin Trask Judith married the brilliant British pianist Judith has received many awards which Ron Edgeworth in 1969 and they lived overseas have included the OAM, The Centenary Medal before setting in Queensland during the 1980s. and Officer of the Order of Australia.

In 1990 Judith was injured in a bad car crash I was at the launch of the 2013 Seekers tour on the Calder Hwy and shortly after that The and that day the late Tony Charlton made his Seekers reunited for their Silver Jubilee Reunion final public appearance speaking of his admiraTour. tion for this famous Australian singing group.

The public response was overwhelming for Judith suffered a brain haemorrhage at the a sell-out tour and I was in the audience in start of the tour and after a stay in hospital was Melbourne to see them. back on stage.

Sadly Ron Edgeworth passed away the folThank God, Judith is in good health - she is lowing year with his beloved Judith at his bed- a beautiful person. I am so privileged to have side. met her briefly at various functions over the In 2011 Simon Owens and I were talking to years. Judith Durham will be interviewed on Judith after an interview on 3AW and I men- Nightline on 3AW (Wed.) to talk with Bruce and tioned that there were plenty of Christmas songs Phil about her album Climb Every Mountain . around but very few Easter songs.

Kevin Trask We all discussed the topic and Judith went The Time Tunnel - with Bruce & Philhome to sit down and write a new song. She Sundays at 8.20pm on 3AW gave us a copy of the lyrics and at the top of the That's Entertainment - 96.5FM composition she had written "Inspired by Kevin Sundays at 12Noon Trask and Simon Owens".

96.5FM is streaming on the internet.

Simon and I agree that that is one of the most To listen, go to www.innerfm.org.au and wonderful events in our lifetime. follow the prompts.

Men of dignity, whose opinions are sought

■ Over the course of the years I have encountered many a lively and eccentric character.

Occasionally I have found them in the city, but generally they're in the bush.

I recall discussing one such gentleman, Old George from Lightning Ridge, with my city mates.

"If George lived in the city he'd be

just another old drunk of little account, of whom no one would take much notice.

“Out here, he's a character, a man of dignity, whose opinion and counsel are often sought".

I loved sitting with him, hour after hour, in front of his fire or at the Diggers Rest bar, listening to the tales of this highly intelligent adventurer and

As As You You Like It

● Tony Taylor, Gareth Davies and Zahra Newman in As You Like It. ■ Shakespeare’s romantic comedy Shakespeare drew a respectful attenAs You Like It is a story about falling tiveness from the audience as he dein love - often at first sight - mistaken livered the Seven Ages of Man (‘all identities and the resulting confusion the world’s a stage’).

The set design by Michael Hankin caused by the characters involved.

In the Bell Shakespeare produc- is brilliant with a simple backdrop of tion directed by Peter Evans at the plain white cloths and lighting by Paul Arts Centre, the plum role of Rosalind Jackson, music by Musical Director is taken by Zahra Newman.

Kelly Ryall, Sound, Nate Edmondson She attacks the role which is one combining to create magical scene of the more testing Shakespeare roles transformations and in particular for for an actress, with a hunger and the change from the Duke’s palace strong voice. into the Forest of Arden.

In contrast, Kelly Paterniti as Celia/ Peter Evans has cut much of the Amiana, delivers her lines in girly gig- Shakespeare text and some of the gly characterisations. characters which contributes to the Rosalind is banished from the confusion but the Bard’s words proCourt of her Uncle and Celia accom- vide the romance, comedy and origipanies her into exile. Before they nal confusion to work with and the leave, they watch a wrestling match cast is superb– and that’s arranged by Orlando’s brother Oliver, Shakespeare.

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Performances: Until May 10.

Rosalind falls in love with Or- Thursdays, Fridays, Saturday 7.30pm. lando, Charlie Garber. Courtier Tuesdays and Wednesdays 2pm and Phebe, Emily Eskell falls in love with 6.30pm. Matinees: Saturdays May 2 Gannymede who is really Rosalind and 9, 2pm. Sunday May 3 and 10, disguised as a boy.

4pm. Extra show Wednesday May 6, Pan-faced, Tony Taylor doubling 11am. as Courtier, Adam/Corin and Gareth Venue: The Fairfax Studio, Arts Davies as hyper-mad Jester Touch- Centre Melbourne, St Kilda Rd, stone, provide the comedy.

Melbourne.

Giving the play a breather and a Performance time: 2 hours 40 minmuch-needed lift in the confusing utes including a twenty minute interclosing scenes, Abi Tucker as Audrey val. Tickets: From $45 - $79. (Bookfalls for Touchstone and delivers the ing fees may apply). play’s songs in a terrific rock and roll Bookings: By phone: 1300 182 arrangement by Kelly Ryall.

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raconteur. And Outback bars and opal fields are awash with such characters.

They have often been the length and breadth of Australia, and have many tales to tell of their adventures.

They may have been looking for gold, digging for opals, shooting crocodiles or catching fish - they can all hold me in thrall.

And then there is Ozzzie, my mate from Alice Springs. He was born on the back of a truck out by the Rock, was in and out of orphanages all his youth, and never attended school.

But his general knowledge and his high intelligence, combined with his constant adventures in the bush, made him a jovial and affable companion.

An old timer - but he was five years younger than me.

■ But again, I never expected to encounter a genuine Aussie character in Red Hill, Victoria.

Some bearings in one of my opal cutting machines were due for replacing, and I needed an engineering workshop.

I recalled having known of one in Red Hill back in my days of the Rosebud Aquarium, so I rang my mate Squizzy to see if he knew if it was still in existence.

It had long gone, but Squizzy put me on to one of the ex-operators.

So I called him a few times to arrange taking my machine down for him to fix.

I wound my way along a dirt track through a forest on Arthur's Seat, found a couple of sheds, and was warmly greeted by this bushy-looking character, and his bubbly wife - the Chambers, Lee and Dot. I was squired in for coffee and their history.

And then I lugged my machine into his workshop.

Stuff everywhere - the typical workshop with engineering implements littering the benches.

Also noticed a few Stationary Engines, the type that would be around old homesteads in the bush in the fifties, generating electricity, grinding grain, running washing machines, operating pumps and milking machines.

Then into the next shed we trotted - there, 150 of them festooned all over the place.

"A hobby that became an obsession!"

Plus signs and machines and historic farmhouse stuff from yesteryear,

The Outback Legend

with Nick Le Souef Lightning Ridge Opals 175 Flinders Lane, Melbourne Phone 9654 4444 www.opals.net.au all over the place. I instantly wished my mate Keith McGowan was still around - he would have loved it.

And character indeed, my enginecollecting mate Lee. ■ I've got a friend, Leila, who's contemplating heading for Coober Pedy to do some mining.

She is visiting from France on a working holiday in Australia, and she's besotted with our national gemstone.

So I have suggested she pop up to Coober Pedy with her partner Eric, who is from the US. I have been somewhat encouraging, because I have been visiting and residing on opal fields for the past 50 years, and know the type of individual who fits in instantly, and who revels in this lifestyle.

One of my mates, similar to Leila, was visiting from Switzerland. He and his mate embarked on a backpacking tour around Australia, and Lightning Ridge was his second night out from Sydney. That was 40 years ago, and he's still there.

I'm planning to reopen my old mine, so they can busy themselves by

swinging a pick - we'll become partners, and who knows, maybe a million bucks the first week.

This is the same claim that Keith McGowan would often rib me about on the radio - "our claim" he called it, and was constantly demanding his share of the fortune which I was going to find.

■ People often ask me about Coober Pedy: "How come this town is in this particular spot - is this the only place where opal is found in this area?"

In actual fact it's not. It occurs all along the Stuart Highway, from Port Augusta through to the NT. When theWoomera Rocket Range was being built, opal was often struck while foundations for buildings were being dug. I've seen opal clay alongside the Highway from Port Augusta up to Renner Spring north of Tennant Creek.

It's just that you've got just as much chance of finding a fortune a mile away from the Coober Pedy Post Office, where there is also a pub and a supermarket, than hundreds of kilometres out in the middle of the desert.

■ "Can't be bothered with Facebook" is often the cry of my generation.

A few years ago I thought I'd give it a try - then it was mainly a vehicle for inane adolescent chatter.

Now, however, it seems that the youngies have wandered on elsewhere to places which I don't understand and have no interest in.

But it has enabled me to find a few of my old kindred spirits, to reunite with old schoolmates, and even organise a reunion and, most importantly, keep in touch with what's happening in my own industry.

All opal fields are, to a large extent, itinerant towns, with people coming and going all the time.

Very few people have regular jobs because, apart from a few motels and restaurants, there aren't many jobs there - most people are self employed, digging holes in the ground, so can come and go as they please, and usually do. Thus it's good to keep up with the news.

Further, successful miners are often posting photographs of their latest finds, so it's also good to see who's making a quid.

A bucketful of opal beats a sushi on a plate any day.

- Nick Le Souef

www.MelbourneObserver.com.au

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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)

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

Antiques Roadshow. (R) News.

7.30.

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.

2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 5.30

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.

NINE (CH9) 6.00 9.00 11.00 12.00 1.00 1.30 3.00 4.00 5.30

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 News.

7.00 A Current Affair.

7.30 The Block Triple Threat. (PG) Hosted by Scott Cam. 8.45 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.

9.45 Forever. (M) 10.45 The Mentalist. (M) (R) 11.45 Believe. (M) 12.45 Extra. (R) 1.15 Nine Presents. (R) 1.30 Danoz Direct.

2.30 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. (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 Parky’s Favourite Australians. (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

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.

(PG) 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. 4.40 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 Never Mind The Buzzcocks. 10.35 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. 11.20 The Real Hustle: New Recruits. 11.45 Seconds From Disaster. 12.35 Metal Evolution. 1.20 That ’70s Show. 1.40 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. 2.20 News Update. 2.25 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 Adventure Time. 7.00 The Big Bang Theory. 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 Adventure 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.

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. 11.15 Small Hands In A Big War. 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. 8.30 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 Movie: Agatha Christie’s Murder On The Orient Express.

(1974) Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman.

11.00 Spooks.

12.05 Secret Dealers.

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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Melbourne Observer TV Guide ABC1 (CH2) 6.00 9.00 10.00 10.30 11.00 11.30 12.00 1.00 2.00 2.30 3.30 5.00 5.30 6.00 6.55 7.00 7.30 8.00 8.30 9.30 10.25 10.55 11.10 12.00 12.30 12.55 1.25 2.15 3.15 4.00 5.00 5.30

Thursday, April 30

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) Last Tango In Halifax. (PG) (R) 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. Current affairs program.

The Checkout. (PG) An irreverent look at consumer affairs.

Our Girl. (M) Molly befriends an Afghan girl.

The Super-Rich And Us. Lateline. (R) The Business. (R) Miniseries: Kidnap And Ransom. (M) (R) Lowdown. (M) (R) The Librarians. (M) (R) Comic Book Heroes.

(MA15+) (R) The Jonathan Ross Show.

(M) (R) Our Girl. (M) (R) Miniseries: Kidnap And Ransom. (M) (R) The Super-Rich And Us. (R) Collectors. (R) Eggheads. (R)

6.00 News.

7.00 Home And Away. (PG) Matt goes on a retreat for his drinking problem.

8.00 My Ireland With Colin. Part 2 of 2. Dublin-born chef Colin Fassnidge visits the heartland of traditional Ireland, County Mayo, where he learns to control a flock of Atlantic Sea Spray lambs, and argues with the locals about how best to cook their famous lamb chops.

9.00 Downton Abbey. (M) Tensions between the families of the bride and the groom threaten Lady Rose’s big day.

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

11.30 Travel Unravelled. (M) (R) 12.00 Desperate Housewives.

(M) (R) 1.00 Home Shopping.

3.30 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: Silent Warnings. (M) (R) (2003) Stephen Baldwin.

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 4.00 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 Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May embark on a grand road trip across the Northern Territory.

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

10.40 Anger Management. (M) Martin hits a woman with his car.

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

1.30 Extra. (R) Entertainment news program.

2.00 Danoz Direct. Home shopping.

2.30 Global Shop. Home shopping.

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 Reef Doctors. (PG) (R) 12.00 Dr Phil.

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 12.00 12.30 1.00 1.30 1.45 2.00 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 Modern Family. (PG) (R) Having tricked Luke into attending dance class, Phil’s efforts backfire and land him in jail.

8.30 Law & Order: SVU. (M) (R) Benson and Stabler become frustrated when it seems a billionaire suspect may be able to buy his way out of a conviction.

10.30 Blue Bloods. (M) Danny and his boss disagree over a shooting.

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

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. (PG) (R) 6.30 World News.

7.30 Rachel Khoo’s Cosmopolitan Cook. Rachel visits Sweden’s capital.

8.00 Poh & Co. Poh and Jono start building a wood-fired pizza oven.

8.30 The First Masterchef: Michel Roux Jr. (New Series) Michel Roux Jr explores the life of Georges Auguste Escoffier.

9.30 Vikings. Paris goes into lockdown to prepare the defence.

10.25 World News.

11.00 The Final Member.

(MA15+) (R) 12.20 Movie: The Guard Post.

(AV15+) (R) (2008) Ho-Jin Chun.

2.35 Movie: The Princess Of Montpensier. (M) (R) (2010) Melanie Thierry.

5.00 Korean News.

5.35 Japanese News.

WorldWatch.

Arabic News.

Turkish News.

Living Black. (R) France 24 International News.

The Journal.

PBS NewsHour.

Al Jazeera News.

Fit To Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History. (PG) (R) 4.30 Murdoch. (PG) (R) 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R) Hosted by Richard Morecroft.

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. 12.55 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

1.40 News Update. 1.45 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 Pie In The Sky. 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 Lewis.

10.30 Blue Murder.

11.45 Bargain Hunt.

12.45 Man About The House.

1.15 Movie: Tall In The Saddle.

(1944) John Wayne.

3.00 The Martha Stewart Show. 4.00 Kingswood Country. 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 TMZ. 1.00 TMZ Live.

2.00 Community. 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 Adventure 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 Adventure 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 Kakadu Invasion.

11.00 International Fishing Series.

11.30 Car Torque. 12.00 NYC 22. 1.00 The Goodwin Games. 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 II: The Sequel. (1982) Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty.

10.50 Fast Forward.

11.50 Blokesworld. 12.20 The League.

12.50 Shopping. 2.20 RPM. 3.25 Fast Forward. 4.30 Football’s Greatest Managers. 5.00 Football’s Greatest Teams. 5.30 Wild Racers.

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: The Last Summer Of La Boyita. (2009) 3.20 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. 11.00 My Great Big Adventure. 11.20 Same But Different. 11.30 MY:24. 12.00 The Crust. 12.50 Blue Water High. 1.15 Stormworld. 1.40 Bindi’s Bootcamp.

2.00 Arthur. 2.25 Pearlie. 2.40 Hairy Legs. 2.50 Tashi. 3.05 SheZow. 3.15 The Day My Butt Went Psycho. 3.40 Almost Naked Animals. 3.50 Dragons: Riders Of Berk. 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. 6.45 Larva. 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. 8.30 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. 10.00 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 World’s Craziest Fools.

8.00 What Went Down.

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 South Beach Tow. 1.30 Pimp My Ride. 2.30 Motor Mate.

5.30 Shopping.

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: Billy Liar. (1963) 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 Tigers About The House.

8.30 New Tricks.

9.30 Blackadder The Third.

11.00 The Young Ones.

11.40 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 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 Rules Of Engagement.

9.30 Movie: In & Out. (1997) Kevin Kline, Joan Cusack.

11.30 Beauty And The Beast.

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.

5.30 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 Our Footprint. 10.30 The Other Side. 11.00 Awaken. 12.00 Lurujarri Dreaming. 12.30 Torres To The Thames. 1.30 The Quest Of Jimmy Pike. 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 The Other Side. 7.00 NITV News.

7.30 The Marngrook Footy Show. 9.00 Burned Bridge. 10.00 Hunting Aotearoa. 10.30 Mataku. 11.00 NITV News. 11.30 Around The Campfire. 12.00 Volumz.

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: Dead Men Walk. (1943) 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 Beyond The Divide. 9.30 Bumper 2 Bumper.

10.00 Outback Championship Wrestling. 11.00 Late Programs.

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SEVEN (CH7)

6.00 9.00 10.00 10.30 11.30 12.00 1.00 1.55 2.30

ABC News Breakfast.

ABC News Mornings.

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

Antiques Roadshow. (R) Kitchen Cabinet. (R) Last Tango In Halifax. (PG) (R) (Final) 3.30 Midsomer Murders. (PG) (R) 5.00 News: Early Edition.

5.30 The Drum.

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

7.00 News.

7.30 7.30. Current affairs program.

8.00 QI. (R) Host Stephen Fry and team captain Alan Davies are joined by guests for an “H”-inspired discussion about humans and humanity.

8.30 Midsomer Murders. (PG) (Final) Attendees of a party celebrating a sparkling wine launch are endangered when the glasses are laced with slug poison.

10.00 The Trip To Italy: Il Riccio, Capri. (PG) (Final) Steve and Rob visit Capri.

10.35 Lateline. (R) News analysis program.

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

11.20 Rage. (MA15+) Continuous music programming.

5.00 Rage. (PG) Continuous music programming.

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: Crimes Of Passion: Sleepwalker. (M) (R) (1997) Hilary Swank.

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.

6.00 News.

7.00 Better Homes And Gardens.

To begin the autumn season, Joh, Adam and Jason help a busy mum get her house ready for auction.

7.30 Football. AFL. Round 5. Carlton v Collingwood. From the MCG. 11.00 Movie: Backdraft. (M) (R) (1991) Two brothers track down an arsonist. Kurt Russell, William Baldwin.

1.50 Dual Suspects: Gainesville Ripper. (M) (R) Documents the investigation into a serial killer who plagued the university town of Gainesville, Florida. As the police focus their investigation on a moody student, a series of similar murders in a neighbouring state raises the possibility there could be two suspects.

Narrated by Jacqueline Bynon.

3.00 Home Shopping.

4.00 NBC Today.

Friday, May 1 NINE (CH9)

TEN (CH10)

SBS 1 (CH3)

6.00 Today. Presented by Karl Stefanovic and Lisa Wilkinson.

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 2 of 4.

3.00 News Now. 4.00 News.

5.30 Millionaire Hot Seat.

Hosted by Eddie McGuire.

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.

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 1.30 1.45 2.00 3.00 3.30 4.30

6.00 News.

7.00 A Current Affair.

7.30 The Big Bang Theory. (PG) (R) The guys take Howard to Las Vegas.

8.30 Movie: Love Happens. (M) (R) (2009) A widower turned self-help guru falls for a hotel florist. Jennifer Aniston, Aaron Eckhart, Dan Fogler.

10.40 Movie: Rachel Getting Married. (M) (2008) An addict attends her sister’s wedding.

Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt.

12.55 Movie: The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day. (AV15+) (2009) After discovering that their beloved priest has been killed by mob forces, the MacManus brothers return to Boston. Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus.

3.05 Spyforce. (PG) (R) 4.00 Global Shop.

4.30 Good Morning America.

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) Lifestyle program, hosted by Amanda Keller, with co-hosts Chris Brown, Barry Du Bois and Miguel Maestre.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show.

(M) Graham Norton chats with Julianne Moore, Cuba Gooding Jr, Michael Flatley, Bill Bailey, Gregory Porter and Laura Mvula.

9.30 NCIS. (M) (R) After being targeted by an assassin, FBI Agent Tobias Fornell asks the NCIS team for help investigating the incident.

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

11.30 The Project. (R) 12.30 The Late Show With David Letterman. (PG) 1.30 Home Shopping.

6.00 Heston’s In Search Of Perfection.

6.30 World News.

7.30 Twilight Of Civilisations: The End Of The Age Of Pyramids.

(R) Part 1 of 2. A look at the decline of previous human civilisations.

8.30 Buck. (PG) (R) Tells the life story of legendary horse whisperer Dan “Buck” Brannaman.

10.05 Grand Tours Of Scotland: Life At The End Of The Earth. (R) Presented by Paul Murton.

10.40 World News.

11.05 Brooklyn Nine-Nine. (PG) (R) 11.30 Brooklyn Nine-Nine. (PG) (R) 12.00 Movie: 35 Shots Of Rum. (M) (R) (2008) Alex Descas.

1.50 Movie: Incident At Loch Ness.

(M) (R) (2004) Werner Herzog.

3.30 Movie: Eastern Plays. (M) (R) (2009) Christo Christov.

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: Life Beyond The Edge.

(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. 10.15 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. 10.55 World’s Toughest Jobs. 11.55 The Undateables. 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 Better Homes And Gardens. 8.30 Escape To The Country. 9.30 House Wreck Rescue.

10.30 Make My Home Bigger. 11.00 Best Houses Australia. 11.30 Homes Under The Hammer. 12.30 Love Thy Neighbour. 1.00 House Wreck Rescue. 2.00 Escape To The Country.

3.00 The Martha Stewart Show. 4.00 Kingswood Country. 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. 2.00 Auction Hunters.

3.00 SpongeBob SquarePants. 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 Movie: Scooby-Doo. (2002) 8.30 Movie: Batman Begins. (2005) Christian Bale.

11.30 Gotham.

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 Quit Forest Rally Event Review Pt 2.

10.00 Liquid Gold. 11.00 Undercover Boss. 12.00 NYC 22. 1.00 The Goodwin Games. 1.30 The Goodwin Games. 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 Megastructures.

8.30 Cops: Adults Only.

9.30 Movie: Dragon Eyes. (2012) Cung Le, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Johnny Holmes.

11.30 Bellator MMA. 1.30 Shopping.

2.00 Cops: Adults Only.

3.00 Ross Kemp: In Search Of Pirates.

4.00 Sport Science.

6.00 Urdu News. 6.20 Indonesian News. 7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 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 If You Are The One. 7.30 Friday Feed.

8.00 Parks And Recreation.

8.30 Adam Looking For Eve. 9.20 Diary Of A Teenage Nudist.

10.25 Banana. 11.00 Cucumber. 11.55 Friday Feed. 12.25 The Story Of Film.

1.35 PopAsia. 3.40 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. 10.40 How Postmodernism Changed The World.

11.10 Conversations With Australian Artists. 11.30 Behind The News. 12.00 The Crust. 12.45 Round The Twist. 1.10 Stormworld. 1.35 Bindi’s Bootcamp.

2.00 Arthur. 2.25 Pearlie. 2.40 Hairy Legs. 2.50 Tashi. 3.05 SheZow. 3.15 The Day My Butt Went Psycho. 3.40 Almost Naked Animals. 3.50 Dragons: Riders Of Berk. 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.

6.35 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. 9.30 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 NFL Draft. From Auditorium Theatre, Chicago. 3.00 Inside West Coast Customs. 4.00 The Border. 5.00 How I Met Your Mother. 5.30 Footy Flashbacks.

7.00 AFL Pre-Game.

7.30 Movie: Pitch Perfect. (2012) Anna Kendrick, Brittany Snow.

9.45 Movie: 8 Mile. (2002) Eminem, Kim Basinger, Mekhi Phifer.

12.00 Movie: Bulletproof Monk.

(2003) Chow Yun-Fat, Seann William Scott.

2.00 Detroit Gang Squad.

3.00 Money Barn.

3.30 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: The Pure Hell Of St Trinian’s.

(1960) 2.00 Alive And Cooking.

2.30 Secret Dealers.

3.30 Tigers About The House.

4.30 Ellen.

5.30 Gilmore Girls.

6.30 Friends.

7.30 Rugby League. Trans-Tasman Test. Australia v New Zealand.

10.00 Footy Show Fight Night.

11.15 Movie: Bonnie And Clyde.

(1967) Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway.

1.30 GEM Presents.

1.40 Movie: The Servant. (1963) Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles.

3.50 Blackadder The Third.

5.00 Gideon’s Way.

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 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 American Idol.

9.30 Glee.

10.30 Snog, Marry, Avoid?

11.10 Movie Juice.

11.40 Milk Live At The Chapel.

12.10 Wonderland.

1.10 Judging Amy. 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 Around The Campfire. 10.30 The Other Side.

11.00 The Marngrook Footy Show. 12.30 Burned Bridge. 1.30 Trudell. 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 The Other Side. 7.00 NITV News. 7.30 Rose Against The Odds. 8.30 Rock Art And Yingana. 9.00 Go Girls. 10.00 Express Yourself. 11.00 NITV News. 11.30 The Medicine Line. 12.00 Late Programs.

CH31 (CH44)

6.00 ABC News Breakfast.

9.00 ABC News Mornings.

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 Newshour.

2.00 BBC World News.

2.30 7.30.

3.00 BBC World News.

3.30 BBC Focus On Africa.

4.00 Al Jazeera Newshour.

5.00 BBC World News.

5.30 Lateline.

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: Inner Sanctum. (1948) 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. 11.30 The Kink. 12.00 Late Programs.

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Saturday, May 2

ABC1 (CH2)

SEVEN (CH7)

NINE (CH9)

6.00 Rage. (PG) 11.30 Spicks And Specks. (PG) (R) Hosted by Josh Earl.

12.00 For The Love Of Cars. (PG) (R) 12.50 Antiques Roadshow. (R) 1.50 The Restaurant Inspector. (R) 2.35 Kitchen Cabinet. (R) 3.10 River Cottage Veg Every Day. (R) Hugh becomes a vegetarian.

4.00 Saturday Landline. (R) 4.30 Midsomer Murders. (PG) (R) (Final)

6.00 Saturday Disney. Includes children’s programs.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise. Latest news, sport and weather.

10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend.

(PG) Highlights from the past week.

12.00 Football. VFL. Round 3. Coburg v Frankston. From Piranha Park, Melbourne.

3.00 Football. AFL. Round 5.

Richmond v Geelong. From the MCG.

6.00 6.30 7.00 10.00 12.00 12.30

PAW Patrol. (R) Dora The Explorer. (R) Weekend Today: Saturday.

Mornings: Saturday. (PG) Recipes That Rock. (PG) Hot In Cleveland. (PG) (R) Elka and Mamie trick Joy. Big Families. (PG) (R) Movie: Little Big League. (PG) (R) (1994) Luke Edwards.

The Garden Gurus.

News.

Getaway. (PG)

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 Studio 10: Saturday. 10.00 Studio 10: Saturday Extra. (PG) 11.00 The Living Room. (PG) (R) 12.00 Tour The World.

12.30 Everyday Gourmet. (R) 1.00 Healthy Homes TV. (Final) 1.30 The Talk. (PG) 2.30 Huey’s Kitchen. (R) 3.00 Car Torque. (PG) 3.30 iFish. (R) 4.00 What’s Up Down Under. 4.30 Escape With ET. 5.00 Eyewitness News.

6.00 10.30 11.00 12.00 12.30 1.00 1.55 3.05 4.15 4.55

6.00 The Checkout. (PG) (R) An irreverent look at consumer affairs.

6.30 Gardening Australia.

7.00 News.

7.30 Father Brown. (PG) (Series return) Father Brown becomes embroiled with MI5.

8.20 DCI Banks. (PG) Banks and his team investigate a kidnapping.

However, the parents’ respective versions of events don’t match up.

9.05 Scott & Bailey. (M) (R) Rachel, distraught over her former lover’s demise, finds comfort in the arms of Sean, and agrees to marry him.

9.55 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. (M) (R) Hosted by Charlie Pickering.

10.25 Judith Lucy’s Spiritual Journey. (M) (R) Judith Lucy reminisces about the ’80s.

10.55 Rage. (MA15+) 5.00 Rage. (PG)

6.00 News.

6.30 AFL Pre-Game. Pre-game coverage of the match.

7.00 Football. AFL. Round 5. North Melbourne v Hawthorn. From Etihad Stadium, Melbourne.

10.30 Strip The City: Desert City – Dubai. Take a look beneath the city’s skin to discover what keeps Dubai’s buildings standing.

11.30 Hustling America: Texas. (PG) (R) British actor Alexis Conran puts his skills to the test by pulling off one of the hardest cons of all time.

12.30 Dual Suspects: Burning Betrayal. (M) (R) The remains of a popular university student are found in the basement of an abandoned home.

1.30 Movie: Butter. (AV15+) (R) (1998) Ernie Hudson.

3.30 It Is Written. (PG) 4.00 Home Shopping.

5.00 Dr Oz. (PG)

6.00 News.

7.00 Movie: She’s The Man. (PG) (R) (2006) A teen disguises herself as her brother. Amanda Bynes, Channing Tatum.

9.05 Movie: Dear John. (M) (R) (2010) A soldier falls in love with a university student while he is on leave. Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried, Richard Jenkins.

11.20 Movie: The Stepfather.

(AV15+) (R) (2009) A young man becomes suspicious of the motives of his helpful new stepfather. Penn Badgley, Dylan Walsh.

1.20 Movie: Excalibur. (M) (R) (1981) The rise and fall of Camelot. Nigel Terry, Helen Mirren.

4.00 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. (R) 4.30 Global Shop.

5.00 Extra. (R) 5.30 Wesley Impact.

6.00 Gold Coast Cops. (PG) (R) Police pull over an erratically driven car.

6.30 Jamie’s Food Fight Club.

7.30 Bondi Vet. (PG) Dr Chris treats an albino echidna.

8.30 Movie: Flight. (M) (2012) A seasoned airline pilot crashlands his plane after a mid-air catastrophe, saving nearly everyone on board. Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle, Nadine Velasquez.

11.15 Motor Racing. International V8 Supercars Championship. Super Sprint. Round 3. Highlights.

From Barbagallo Raceway, Western Australia.

12.15 48 Hours: Murder In Pinyon Pines. (M) (R) A look at the 2006 murder of a former sheriff and his family in Pinyon Pines, California.

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. (PG) Presented by Michael Portillo.

8.35 Movie: Monty Python And The Holy Grail. (PG) (R) (1975) Having recruited a bevy of lacklustre new knights, King Arthur sets off on a cut-price quest to find Holy Grail.

Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle.

10.10 Monty Python: Live At The Hollywood Bowl. (MA15+) (R) A look at a performance of the Monty Python troupe at the Hollywood Bowl in 1980.

11.40 Movie: Seraphine. (PG) (R) (2008) Yolande Moreau.

1.55 Movie: Incendies. (AV15+) (R) (2010) Lubna Azabal.

4.15 Countdown. (R) Presented by Jeff Stelling.

5.00 Korean News. News from Seoul.

5.35 Japanese News.

1.00 2.00 4.30 5.00 5.30

TEN (CH10)

SBS 1 (CH3) WorldWatch.

German News.

Spanish News.

Arabic News.

Turkish News.

PBS NewsHour.

Elvis Costello. (R) Art Of The Night. (PG) (R) The Magic Piano. (R) Smart Secrets Of Great Paintings.

5.30 Who Do You Think You Are? Colin Jackson. (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 Never Mind The Buzzcocks.

10.35 The Inbetweeners. 11.00 The Awesomes. 11.25 Portlandia. 11.45 True Stories. 2.10 News Update. 2.15 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 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping.

7.00 Saturday Disney. 9.00 Jessie.

9.30 Shake It Up. 10.00 Shopping.

11.00 Animal Academy. 11.30 Great South East. 12.00 Creek To Coast.

12.30 Sydney Weekender. 1.00 Qld Weekender. 1.30 WA Weekender.

2.00 Coxy’s Big Break. 2.30 Lyndey And Herbie’s Movable Feast. 3.00 Country Calendar. 3.30 The Food Truck. 4.00 The Kitchen Job. 5.00 Make My Home Bigger. 5.30 Four Rooms. 6.30 Escape To The Country.

7.30 Storage Hoarders. 8.30 Taggart.

10.00 Wire In The Blood. 12.00 Four Rooms. 1.00 Storage Hoarders. 2.00 Escape To The Country. 3.00 Animal Academy. 3.30 The Kitchen Job. 4.30 Country Calendar. 5.00 The Food Truck. 5.30 Lyndey And Herbie’s Movable Feast.

GO! (CH99)

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 Adventure 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! 3.30 Gumball. 4.30 Looney Tunes. 5.30 Scooby-Doo! 6.00 Movie: Fantastic Mr Fox. (2009) 7.45 Movie: Arthur And The Invisibles. (2006) Freddie Highmore.

9.45 Movie: Austin Powers: Goldmember. (2002) Mike Myers.

11.45 Movie: Rendition. (2007) 2.15 GO Surround Sound. 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 Wild Racers. 7.00 M*A*S*H. 8.00 Netball. ANZ Championship.

Round 9. West Coast Fever v Waikato Bay Of Plenty Magic. Replay. 10.00 International Fishing Series. 10.30 Big Fish, Small Boats. 11.00 4WD Touring Australia. 12.00 RPM. 1.00 Sport Science. 3.00 Megastructures. 4.00 Garage Gold. 4.30 Reel Action. 5.00 Freddie Flintoff: Lord Of The Fries. 6.00 Garage Gold. 6.30 Monster Jam. 7.30 Cops.

8.30 Motor Racing. International V8 Supercars Championship. Highlights.

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 NYC 22. 3.00 Cops. 4.00 RPM. 5.00 Motor Racing. Trans-Tasman Trophy.

Replay. 5.30 Motor Racing. Aussie Racing Cars. Replay.

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. Elimination Final.

Replay. 3.00 American Ninja Warrior.

4.00 Monster Moves. 5.00 Departures.

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: Love Crime. (2010) Ludivine Sagnier.

1.20 Movie: Ca$h. (2008) 3.10 CCTV News In English From Beijing. 5.20 Latin American News. 5.50 Urdu News.

ELEVEN (CH11)

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. 11.35 Lockie Leonard. 12.00 Mortified. 12.20 Shaun The Sheep. 12.30 Camp Lakebottom.

2.20 Spectacular Spider-Man. 2.45 Deadly 60. 3.15 Wacky World Beaters.

3.45 Studio 3. 3.50 You’re Skitting Me. 4.15 Iron Man: Armored Adventures.

4.35 Detentionaire. 5.00 Young Dracula. 5.30 Operation Ouch! 6.00 The Penguins Of Madagascar. 6.25 The Adventures Of Figaro Pho. 6.30 Mortified. 6.55 Pet Superstars. 7.00 Heartland. 7.45 The High Fructose Adventures Of Annoying Orange.

7.55 Good Game: SP. 8.20 Naruto.

8.45 Sword Art Online. 9.10 Deltora Quest. 9.30 Voltron: Defender Of The Universe. 9.55 Close.

6.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 7.00 A Football Life. 8.00 Shopping. 9.00 Shannon’s Legends Of Motorsport. 10.00 Motor Racing.

AHG Sprintcar Series. QUIT Krikke Boys Shootout. Final. 11.00 Zoom TV. 11.30 Timbersports. 2014 World Championships. Team relay event.

Highlights. 12.00 Money Barn. 1.00 North Woods Law. 2.00 Swamp Men. 3.00 Swamp People. 4.00 Swamp Men. 5.00 Turtleman. 6.30 Gator Boys.

7.30 Movie: Men In Black. (1997) Tommy Lee Jones.

9.30 Movie: After Earth. (2013) 11.30 Movie: Raw Deal. (1986) 1.30 1000 Ways To Die. 2.30 Money Barn. 3.00 Motor Racing. AHG Sprintcar Series. Krikke Boys Shootout.

Final. 4.00 Zoom TV. 4.30 Legends Of Motorsport. 5.30 Shopping.

6.00 Movie: The Pure Hell Of St Trinian’s. (1960) 8.00 Danoz. 8.30 Secret Dealers. 9.30 Avengers.

10.30 Destination WA. 11.00 Movie: Make Mine A Million.

(1959) Arthur Askey.

12.45 Duncan’s Thai Kitchen.

1.15 Postcards.

1.45 Movie: Betrayed. (1954) Clark Gable.

4.00 Movie: Grand Prix. (1966) James Garner.

7.30 Antiques Roadshow.

8.30 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

10.30 Unforgettable.

11.20 Golden Boy. 12.20 Movie: Grand Prix. (1966) James Garner, Eva Marie Saint.

3.35 Movie: Betrayed. (1954) Clark Gable, Lana Turner.

5.30 Postcards.

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 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 The Other Side. 2.30 Surviving. 3.00 Desperate Measures. 3.30 Our Footprint. 4.00 Around The Campfire.

4.30 Unearthed. 5.00 Ngurra. 5.30 NITV News Week In Review. 6.00 Maori TV’s Native Affairs. 7.00 Custodians. 7.10 From The Vault. 7.15 Cash Money. 7.20 The Black Olive. 7.30 Roots Music. 8.30 NITV On The Road: Yabun. 9.30 Return To Goree. 11.30 Late Programs.

6.00 Toasted TV. 8.00 Totally Wild.

8.30 Scope. 9.05 The Loop.

11.35 Milk Live At The Chapel.

12.00 Diagnosis Murder.

2.00 Brady Bunch.

3.00 Becker.

3.30 Raymond.

4.00 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.

10.10 Sex And The City.

10.50 Empire.

11.50 The Loop.

2.25 Raymond.

3.00 Diagnosis Murder.

5.00 Shopping.

5.30 Mass.

CH31 (CH44)

6.00 Aust Story. 6.25 Aust Story. 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. 11.00 News.

11.30 Australia Wide. 12.00 News.

12.30 Big Ideas. 1.00 Press Club. 2.00 News. 2.30 The Mix. 3.00 News. 3.30 Saturday Landline. 4.00 News. 4.30 World This Week. 5.00 News. 5.30 One Plus One. 6.00 News. 6.30 Foreign Corre. 7.00 News. 7.30 The Mix. 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 Big Ideas. 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 Drive It! 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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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-

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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Observer Classic Books From Page 20 thought you would like to have a yarn with Dick.

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.

In a former chapter I had occasion to notice a great fact, namely, that the course of each

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 29 “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

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.”

“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 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

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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. An instinct of delicacy prompted me to pause, and let the Siamese twins pass in peace; but, unfortunately, I happened to be straight in the way, and just as I started to creep aside, one of the horses extended his neck, and, with a low, protracted snore, touched me on the back with the coarse velvet of his nose. Then followed two quick snorts of alarm; the horses shied simultaneously outward, while down on the ground between them came two souls with but a single thud, two hearts that squelched as one. In spite of the compunction and sympathy I felt, modesty compelled me to glide unobstrusively away, leaving the souls to disentangle themselves and catch their horses the best way they could.

By this time, the buggy lamps had approached within fifty yards. Knowing how dense the outside darkness would appear to anyone in the vehicle, I made a circuit, and got round to the rear.

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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.

1.30 The Mix. (R) 2.00 Dr Sarmast’s Music School. (R) 2.30 Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel. (R) 4.00 Restoration Home. (R) 5.00 Father Brown. (PG) (R)

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 Man Up! (PG) (R) 12.00 The Amazing Race. (PG) (R) 1.00 Footy Flashbacks. Features profiles and highlights.

2.30 AFL Pre-Game Show.

3.00 Football. AFL. Round 5.

St Kilda v Essendon. From Etihad Stadium, Melbourne.

6.00 6.30 7.00 10.00 11.00

6.00 The Book Club. (PG) (Series return) Hosted by Jennifer Byrne.

6.30 Compass: The Moral Compass. Hosted by Geraldine Doogue.

7.00 News.

7.40 Animal Super Senses: Sight. Examines animals’ extraordinary sense of sight.

8.35 Poldark. (M) Ross and Demelza’s marriage shocks Trenwith. However, Charles’ amusement at the union brings on a fatal heart attack.

9.35 Fortitude. (M) (Final) The truth about the murders is revealed.

10.25 Foyle’s War. (M) (R) 11.55 Junior Doctors: Your Life In Their Hands. (M) (R) 12.55 Movie: Marnie. (M) (R) (1964) Tippi Hedren.

3.00 Poldark. (M) (R) 4.00 Fortitude. (M) (R) (Final) 5.00 Collectors. (R) 5.30 Eggheads. (R)

6.00 News.

7.00 My Kitchen Rules. (PG) The teams placed second and third battle in the ultimate instant restaurant round for one final sudden death cook-off.

8.30 Sunday Night. Current affairs program. Hosted by Chris Bath.

9.30 Castle. (M) Castle and Beckett decide to seek answers about the two-month period when he went missing.

11.30 Cougar Town. (PG) Jules agrees to stop drinking wine during Laurie’s pregnancy.

However, the rest of the gang doesn’t agree.

12.00 To Be Advised.

2.20 Home Shopping.

3.00 NBC Today. News and current affairs.

4.00 NBC Meet The Press.

Hosted by David Gregory.

5.00 Sunrise Extra. Highlights of Sunrise.

5.30 Early News.

6.00 News.

7.00 57th Annual TV WEEK Logie Awards: Red Carpet Arrivals.

(PG) Hosted by Jules Lund and Shelley Craft.

7.30 57th Annual TV WEEK Logie Awards. (PG) The Australian television industry comes together to honour excellence in various categories.

11.00 Kings Of Comedy. (PG) (R) A compilation of classic TV moments.

12.00 Anger Management. (M) (R) Kate becomes jealous of Jennifer.

12.30 The Strip. (M) (R) 1.30 Impractical Jokers. (M) 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.

12.30 3.00 5.00 5.30

PAW Patrol. (R) Dora The Explorer. (R) Weekend Today.

Wide World Of Sports.

The AFL Sunday Footy Show.

Comprehensive coverage and analysis of the AFL. The Block Triple Threat.

(PG) (R) Movie: Serving Sara. (PG) (R) (2002) Matthew Perry.

Postcards.

News.

TEN (CH10)

SBS 1 (CH3)

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 Good Chef Bad Chef. (R) 8.30 Studio 10: Sunday. 10.00 The Bolt Report. 11.00 All 4 Adventure. (PG) (R) 12.00 The Talk. (PG) 1.00 Let’s Do Coffee. (New Series) 1.30 Huey’s Kitchen. (R) 2.00 iFish. (R) 3.00 The Bolt Report. (R) 4.00 RPM. 5.00 Eyewitness News.

6.00 12.30 1.00 2.00 4.00

6.00 Family Feud: Sunday.

6.30 Modern Family. (PG) 7.30 Shark Tank. (PG) Hosted by Sarah Harris.

8.30 NCIS: New Orleans. LaSalle’s brother turns to the team for help when he finds his girlfriend’s body in the trunk of his car.

9.30 NCIS. (M) (R) The team follows a trail of money.

10.30 Empire.

11.30 Motor Racing. International V8 Supercars Championship. Super Sprint. Round 3. Highlights.

From Barbagallo Raceway, Western Australia.

12.30 48 Hours: Death At The Parsonage. (M) (R) An apparent suicide in a Pennsylvania church exposes the secrets of a twice-widowed pastor.

1.30 Shopping.

4.00 James Robison. (PG) 4.30 CBS Morning.

6.30 World News.

7.35 China’s Great Wall. (PG) (R) Part 1 of 2.

8.30 She Wolves: England’s Early Queens: Matilda And Eleanor.

(R) Part 1 of 3. Historian Helen Castor explores the stories of seven queens who challenged patriarchal dominance.

9.35 Sex, Death And The Meaning Of Life: Sin. (M) (R) Part 2 of 3.

Hosted by Richard Dawkins.

10.30 Movie: Bang-Bang Wedding!

(PG) (R) (2008) Two familes arrive on the island of Crete for a wedding. Alex Dimitriades.

12.05 The Wrestlers: Fighting With My Family. (M) (R) 1.00 Jews And Money.

2.00 Death Unexplained. (M) (R) 2.50 The Circus.

3.00 First Australians. (PG) (R) 3.55 First Australians. (R) (Final) 4.50 The Date. (PG) 5.00 Korean News.

5.35 Japanese News.

WorldWatch.

Turkish News.

The World Game.

Speedweek.

Motorcycle Racing. Superbike World Championship. Round Four. Highlights. From Assen, Netherlands.

4.30 UEFA Champions League Magazine.

5.00 World Of Cycling.

5.30 Inside The Cuban Missile Crisis. (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. 3.30 Play School. 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. 4.10 Pingu. 4.20 Mister Maker Comes To Town. 4.40 The Furchester Hotel. 5.00 A Franklin And Friends Adventure.

5.40 Peppa Pig. 5.50 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. 7.40 Seconds From Disaster. 8.30 Movie: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2. (2012) 10.15 Tattoo Tales. 10.45 Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends. 11.35 Catfish: The TV Show. 12.15 Battle For Brooklyn. 1.50 The Real Hustle: New Recruits. 2.20 News Update. 2.25 Close. 5.00 This Is Scarlett And Isaiah.

5.05 Tilly And Friends. 5.15 Waybuloo.

5.35 The Magic Roundabout. 5.50 Humf.

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 Life Inside The Markets. 4.00 Neighbours At War. 4.30 Four Rooms.

5.30 Mighty Ships.

6.30 Bargain Hunt.

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 The Travel Bug. 2.00 Best Houses Australia. 2.30 Travel Oz. 4.00 Downsize My Pet. 4.30 Neighbours At War. 5.00 Original Features.

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 Adventure Time. 10.00 Young Justice. 10.30 The Batman. 11.00 Rabbids. 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: Spaceballs. (1987) 8.30 The Big Bang Theory.

9.30 Movie: Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. (1981) Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence.

11.30 Two And A Half Men. 12.00 Nikita. 2.00 Darren Sanders.

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 Wild Racers. 8.00 Sport Science. 9.00 Escape With ET. 9.30 4WD Touring Australia. 10.30 Reel Action. 11.00 Sport Science.

12.00 Netball. ANZ Championship.

Round 10. NSW Swifts v Melbourne Vixens. 2.00 Car Torque. 2.30 World Class Bartender Of The Year 2014.

3.30 4x4 Adventures. 4.30 Fishing.

5.00 What’s Up Downunder? 5.30 iFish. 6.00 Family Feud: Sunday.

6.30 M*A*S*H. 7.30 To Be Advised.

8.00 Last Man Standing. 8.30 Motor Racing. International V8 Supercars Championship. Super Sprint. Round 3.

Highlights. 9.30 Motorcycle Racing.

MotoGP. Spanish Grand Prix. Race 4.

11.00 Sons Of Anarchy. 12.00 RPM. 1.00 Fast Forward. 2.00 NYC 22. 4.00 48 Hours. 5.00 Late Programs.

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 Bunk.

3.35 Eurovision Quiz Contest. 4.10 Bunk. 4.40 19 Reasons To Love If You Are The One: Bitesize. 4.45 The Pitch.

6.35 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 Movie: The Dinner Guest. (2007) 3.05 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. 11.35 Lockie Leonard. 12.00 Mortified. 12.20 Shaun The Sheep.

12.30 The Next Step. 2.20 Spectacular Spider-Man. 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. 7.00 Heartland. 7.45 The High Fructose Adventures Of Annoying Orange. 7.55 The Adventures Of Figaro Pho. 8.00 Degrassi – The Next Generation. 8.30 Total Drama Action: The Aftermath.

8.50 Total Drama Action. 9.15 Iron Man: Armored Adventures. 9.35 Rage.

2.05 Close.

6.00 Home Shopping.

6.30 Hook, Line And Sinker.

7.30 Home Shopping.

9.30 Hook, Line And Sinker.

10.30 T.J. Hooker.

11.30 Fifth Gear.

12.30 The Border.

2.30 Bid America!

4.00 American Chainsaw.

5.00 Seinfeld.

6.00 Seinfeld.

7.00 Movie: Iron Man 3. (2013) Robert Downey Jr, Gwyneth Paltrow, Guy Pearce.

9.45 Movie: Contraband. (2012) Mark Wahlberg, Ben Foster, Kate Beckinsale.

12.00 Locked Up Abroad.

2.30 The Border.

4.30 Fifth Gear.

5.30 Hook, Line And Sinker.

NITV (CH34)

6.00 TV Shop. 6.30 Movie: Billy Liar.

(1963) 8.30 TV Shop. 9.30 Antiques.

10.30 Movie: Folly To Be Wise. (1953) 12.30 Garden Gurus. 1.00 Getaway.

1.30 NRL Sunday Footy Show. 3.30 Rugby League. City v Country.

6.00 Customs.

6.30 River Cottage: Spring Collection.

7.30 Richard Hammond’s Invisible Worlds.

8.30 Movie: High Crimes. (2002) Ashley Judd, Morgan Freeman, Jim Caviezel.

11.00 Cold Case.

12.00 Getaway.

12.30 Garden Gurus.

1.00 Seaway.

2.00 Danoz.

2.30 Global Shop. 4.30 Joyce Meyer.

5.00 Seaway.

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. First elimination final. 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. 4.50 The Black Olive. 5.00 Te Kaea 2014. 5.30 NITV News Week In Review. 6.00 Awaken. 7.00 Native Planet. 8.00 Seaman Dan And Friends. 8.30 Fonko. 9.30 Movie: The Orator. (2011) 11.30 Rock Art And Yingana. 12.00 Volumz.

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: Me, Myself & Irene.

(2000) Jim Carrey, Renée Zellweger, Robert Forster.

10.55 Californication.

11.35 ST: Next Gen. 1.30 Brady Bunch.

2.30 TMNT. 3.30 Mork & Mindy.

4.00 ST: Next Gen. 5.00 Shopping.

CH31 (CH44)

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 Australia Wide. 5.00 Al Jazeera. 5.30 One Plus One.

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: Scobie Malone. 10.30 At Home With The Baccalas. 11.00 3SSR. 11.30 The CEC Report. 12.00 Late Programs.

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Monday, May 4

SEVEN (CH7)

ABC News Breakfast.

ABC News Mornings.

Landline. (R) Compass. (R) Eggheads. (R) News.

Antiques Roadshow. (R) Animal Super Senses: Sight. (R) Kitchen Cabinet. (PG) (R) Midsomer Murders. (PG) (R) News: Early Edition.

The Drum.

6.00 Antiques Roadshow. (R) Fiona Bruce and the team visit Swindon.

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 Enigma Man: A Stone Age Mystery. (M) (R) 12.20 Movie: Drive, He Said. (M) (R) (1971) William Tepper.

1.50 Movie: High, Wide And Handsome. (PG) (R) (1937) Irene Dunne.

3.50 The Making Of Modern Australia. (PG) (R) 5.00 Collectors. (R) 5.30 Eggheads. (R)

6.00 9.00 11.30 12.00 1.30 3.00 4.00 5.00 5.30

Sunrise.

The Morning Show. (PG) Morning News.

To Be Advised.

The Daily Edition. The hottest issues from the day’s news.

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 Home And Away. (PG) Leah makes amends with VJ and Zac. 7.30 My Kitchen Rules. (PG) (Final) The final two teams head into the kitchen headquarters to create a five-course meal for a packed restaurant.

9.50 Revenge. (M) Jack is torn between Emily and the new woman in his life. Nolan and Louise bring Southern charm to East Hampton.

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

11.40 Cougar Town. (PG) Bobby considers a job opportunity.

12.15 Talking Footy. (PG) (R) Hosted by Luke Darcy.

1.30 Home Shopping.

3.00 Sons And Daughters. (PG) (R) Wayne drops a bombshell at Woombai.

3.30 NBC Today.

5.00 Sunrise Extra.

5.30 Early News.

NINE (CH9) 6.00 9.00 11.00 12.00 1.00

3.00 4.00 5.30

Today.

Mornings. (PG) News.

The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

(PG) Variety show.

Movie: Born Romantic. (M) (2000) Three men chase three women across London. Craig Ferguson, Ian Hart.

News Now. News.

Millionaire Hot Seat.

Hosted by Eddie McGuire.

6.00 News.

7.00 A Current Affair.

7.30 The Big Bang Theory. (PG) Raj asks Leonard for help with a new project from NASA aimed at contacting aliens.

10.00 Footy Classified. (M) A team of footy experts tackles the AFL’s burning issues. Hosted by Garry Lyon and Craig Hutchison.

11.00 Person Of Interest. (M) Reese tries to protect a bounty hunter who refuses to let a potential threat to her life deter her.

12.30 Impractical Jokers. (M) The guys revive some classic jokes.

1.00 The Avengers. (PG) (R) Steed’s old friend reappears.

2.00 Danoz Direct. Home shopping.

2.30 Global Shop.

3.00 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo.

(R) Clancy becomes lost in the park.

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. 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 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 Eyewitness News.

6.00 WorldWatch.

12.30 Turkish News.

1.00 Andre Rieu: Magic Of The Violin.

2.35 Saturday Girls. (PG) (R) 2.50 Poh & Co. Bitesize.

3.00 Al Jazeera News.

3.30 Exploring China: A Culinary Adventure. (R) 4.30 The Dales With Ade Edmondson.

5.00 Living Black.

5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R)

6.00 Family Feud. Two families try to win big prizes by guessing the most popular responses to a survey of the public.

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

7.30 To Be Advised.

8.30 Law & Order: SVU. (M) Detective Amaro is put in an uncomfortable situation when his estranged father is accused of striking his bride.

9.30 Elementary. (M) Watson joins Holmes and Kitty to search for a missing nurse she used to work with.

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.

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

6.00 Food Safari. (PG) (R) 6.30 World News.

7.30 Michael Mosley: Trust Me, I’m A Doctor. Part 1 of 3.

8.30 Tea And Coffee Trails With Simon Reeve: The Coffee Trail.

(PG) (R) Part 2 of 2.

9.35 Strip The Cosmos: Hunting A Comet. Explores the origins of comets.

10.30 World News.

11.00 Playing God. A look at recent breakthroughs in genetic engineering.

12.05 Movie: Nightmare Detective.

(AV15+) (R) (2006) Ryuhei Matsuda.

2.05 GGG. (M) 2.10 Thin Air. (PG) 2.20 Hellfjord. (AV15+) (R) 2.55 Hellfjord. (AV15+) (R) 3.25 Hellfjord. (MA15+) (R) (Final) 4.00 One Born Every Minute: What Happened Next? (M) (R) (Final) 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)

6.00 Children’s Programs. 4.10 Pingu.

4.20 Mister Maker Comes To Town.

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. 6.40 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 2. (2012) 12.50 Kids Behind Bars. 1.45 That ’70s Show.

2.10 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. 2.50 News Update. 2.55 Close.

5.00 This Is Scarlett And Isaiah. 5.05 Tilly And Friends. 5.15 Waybuloo. 5.35 The Magic Roundabout. 5.50 Humf.

6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping. 7.00 Flushed. 7.30 Teenage Fairytale Dropouts. 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 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 Cities Of The Underworld.

8.30 A Touch Of Frost.

10.45 Waking The Dead.

12.00 Bargain Hunt.

1.00 Taggart.

4.00 Love Thy Neighbour.

4.30 The Martha Stewart Show.

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 Magical Tales. 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 SquarePants.

3.30 Thunderbirds Are Go! 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 Adventure Time. 7.00 Big Bang. 7.30 Car SOS. 8.30 Top Gear: Ambitious But Rubbish.

9.30 Movie: Blade II. (2002) 12.00 Secret Mountain Fort Awesome. 12.30 Adventure 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 Late Programs.

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: The Overlanders. (1946) 1.50 GEM Presents. 2.00 Alive And Cooking. 2.30 Richard Hammond’s Invisible Worlds. 3.30 River Cottage: Spring Collection. 4.30 Ellen. 5.30 Gilmore Girls.

6.30 Friends.

7.30 Monarch Of The Glen.

8.40 Midsomer Murders.

10.50 Cold Case.

11.50 The Big C. 12.30 Supernanny USA. 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. 11.00 First Footprints.

12.00 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. 3.15 The Day My Butt Went Psycho. 3.40 Almost Naked Animals. 3.50 Dragons: Riders Of Berk. 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 Bushwhacked!

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. 8.30 Total Drama Action.

9.15 Iron Man: Armored Adventures.

9.35 Rage. 10.35 Close.

NITV (CH34)

6.00 Home Shopping.

6.30 Home 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 Meet The Press.

11.00 Star Wars Rebels.

12.00 Star Wars Rebels.

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 Scare Tactics.

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 Seaman Dan And Friends. 12.30 Living Black. 1.00 Fonko. 2.00 Rock Art And Yingana. 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 Mataku. 11.00 NITV News. 11.30 Surviving. 12.00 Volumz.

ONE (CH1) 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 M*A*S*H. 9.00 Megastructures. 10.00 The Maori Guides. 11.00 RPM. 12.00 NYC 22.

1.00 The Goodwin Games. 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 Undercover Boss.

9.30 Movie: Scarface. (1983) Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer.

12.45 Shopping.

2.15 Awake.

3.20 Blokesworld.

3.55 Motorcycle Racing. MotoGP. Spanish Grand Prix. Race 4. Replay.

5.30 Football’s Greatest Managers.

CH31 (CH44)

SBS 2 (CH32) 6.00 WorldWatch. 8.00 Latin American 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 Soccer.

A-League. Second elimination final.

Replay. 6.00 Never Ever Do This At Home. 6.35 If You Are The One. 7.30 The Feed. 8.00 30 Rock. 8.30 Movie: From Dusk Till Dawn. (1996) George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, Harvey Keitel. 10.30 Movie: We Are The Night.

(2010) 12.15 @midnight. 12.45 The Feed. 1.15 Live At The Electric. 1.50 Movie: Boudu. (2005) 3.40 RT News In English From Moscow. 5.00 French News. 5.50 Urdu News.

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 Shirley Temple: The Little Princess. 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 Piano Talk. 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 Worldwide Gaming. 11.30 FASX. 12.30 Late Programs.

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Melbourne Observer TV Guide ABC1 (CH2) 6.00 9.00 10.00 10.45 11.00 11.30 12.00 1.00 2.00 2.55 3.30 5.00 5.30 6.00 7.00 7.30 8.00 8.30

9.20 10.05 10.35 11.05 11.25 12.55 2.55 4.00 5.00 5.30

SEVEN (CH7)

ABC News Breakfast.

ABC News Mornings.

Four Corners. (R) Media Watch. (PG) (R) Boomtown. (R) Eggheads. (R) News.

Antiques Roadshow. (R) Rake. (M) (R) Kitchen Cabinet. (R) Midsomer Murders. (PG) (R) News: Early Edition.

The Drum.

6.00 9.00 11.30 12.00

Antiques Roadshow. (R) News.

7.30. Current affairs program.

Foreign Correspondent.

Stories from international correspondents.

Slow Train Through Africa With Griff Rhys Jones.

(New Series) Griff Rhys Jones travels across Africa.

Kevin McCloud’s Man Made Home. (PG) (R) Part 2 of 4.

Family Confidential: Robertson Lette. (PG) (R) A look at an unlikely couple.

Lateline. (R) The Business. (R) Wallander. (M) (R) Movie: Imitation Of Life. (PG) (R) (1959) Lana Turner.

Movie: Beauty For The Asking. (R) (1939) Lucille Ball.

Slow Train Through Africa With Griff Rhys Jones. (R) Collectors. (R) Australia’s Remote Islands. (R)

6.00 News.

7.00 Home And Away. (PG) Brax is filled in on Gunno’s threats to his family.

7.30 House Rules. (PG) (Series return) Team Victoria hand over the keys to their homes and allow their competition to transform every room in their house.

9.00 Ramsay’s Costa Del Nightmares. (M) In Gaucin, La Granada Divino has only been open for eight weeks, but is already heading for disaster.

10.00 Grey’s Anatomy. (M) When a plane crash in Seattle causes multiple casualties, it brings back horrible memories for Meredith and Arizona.

12.00 Smash. (M) (R) Julia’s fears are on the rise.

1.00 Home Shopping.

3.00 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: My Family’s Secret.

(M) (2010) Nicholle Tom. 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.

Tuesday, May 5 NINE (CH9)

TEN (CH10)

SBS 1 (CH3)

6.00 Today. Presented by Karl Stefanovic and Lisa Wilkinson.

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.

(M) (R) Part 3 of 4.

3.00 News Now. 4.00 News.

5.30 Millionaire Hot Seat.

Hosted by Eddie McGuire.

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 Gold Coast Cops. (PG) (R) 11.30 Bondi Rescue.

(R) 12.00 Dr Phil. (M) 1.00 Everyday Gourmet. (R) 1.30 Entertainment Tonight. 2.00 The Doctors. (PG) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG) 3.30 Ben’s Menu. (R) 4.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 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 News.

7.00 A Current Affair.

7.30 Reno Rumble. (PG) (New Series) Renovators transform homes for deserving people.

8.40 Love Child. (M) (Series return) Joan’s new career as a doctor is threatened after she helps a pregnant teen. Viv’s estranged mother tries to take control of her life.

9.40 Footy Classified. (M) Hosted by Garry Lyon.

10.40 2 Broke Girls. (M) (R) 11.10 Mike & Molly. (M) (R) Molly decides to pursue a new hobby.

11.40 20/20.

12.30 Anger Management. (PG) (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.

6.00 Family Feud. Two families try to win big prizes by guessing the most popular responses to a survey of the public.

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

7.30 To Be Advised.

8.30 NCIS. (M) DiNozzo is partnered with his girlfriend, ATF Special Agent Zoé Keates, after it’s discovered they share a case.

9.30 NCIS: Los Angeles. (M) The team investigates when a missile test is hijacked and the missile is sent off course.

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.

4.00 Life Today With James Robison. (PG) Religious program.

4.30 CBS This Morning.

6.00 Food Safari. (R) Hosted by Maeve O’Meara.

6.30 World News.

7.30 Queen Victoria’s Children: The Best Laid Plans… (PG) (R) Part 1 of 3.

8.30 Insight. Australian current affairs forum program.

Presented by Jenny Brockie.

9.30 Dateline. International current affairs.

10.00 World News.

10.30 Kurt Wallander. (M) A young student reports her mother missing.

12.15 Movie: Caramel. (M) (R) (2007) Follows five women at a Beirut beauty salon. Nadine Labaki.

1.55 Churchill’s Desert War. (M) (R) 3.35 Free Kick. (M) 3.50 Along The Road. (PG) (R) 4.00 Pagans And Pilgrims: Shrines.

(PG) 4.30 Soccer. UEFA Champions League. Matchday 11.

WorldWatch.

Spanish News.

Arabic News.

Turkish News.

Massive Moves. (R) Poh & Co. Bitesize.

France 24 International News.

The Journal.

PBS NewsHour.

Al Jazeera News.

Crash Test Dummies. (PG) Owl’s Odyssey.

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)

6.00 Children’s Programs. 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. 4.10 Pingu. 4.20 Mister Maker Comes To Town. 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 Unsafe Sex In The City. 10.35 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

11.15 Alan Carr: Chatty Man. 12.00 Build A New Life In The Country. 12.45 That ’70s Show. 1.10 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 Humf.

6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping. 7.00 Flushed. 7.30 In Your Dreams. 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 Cities Of The Underworld. 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.

12.45 Bargain Hunt.

1.45 Taggart. 4.00 Kingswood Country. 4.30 The Martha Stewart Show. 5.30 Shortland Street.

ABC3 (CH23)

7MATE (CH73)

6.00 Children’s Programs. 10.00 Behind The News. 10.25 What Makes Me Me? 10.30 Young Legal Eagles.

11.30 Starting Out In Business. 11.45 Nile. 12.00 The Crust. 12.45 Round The Twist. 1.10 Stormworld. 1.35 Bindi’s Bootcamp. 2.00 Arthur. 2.25 Pearlie. 2.40 Hairy Legs. 2.50 Tashi.

3.05 SheZow. 3.15 The Day My Butt Went Psycho. 3.40 Almost Naked Animals. 3.50 Dragons: Riders Of Berk.

4.15 The Penguins Of Madagascar.

4.40 News On 3. 4.45 Studio 3. 4.50 Camp Lakebottom. 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 Blue Water High. 8.00 Degrassi – The Next Generation. 8.30 Total Drama Action. 9.15 Iron Man: Armored Adventures. 9.35 Rage.

10.35 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: Van Helsing. (2004) Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Roxburgh.

11.15 Locked Up Abroad.

12.30 WWE Afterburn.

1.30 All Worked Up. 2.30 Pimp My Ride.

3.30 Motor Mate.

GO! (CH99) 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 Magical Tales. 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 TMZ. 1.00 TMZ Live. 2.00 Top Gear: Ambitious But Rubbish. 3.00 SpongeBob. 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 Adventure Time. 7.00 The Big Bang Theory. 8.00 Top Gear. 9.30 Movie: Gangster Squad. (2013) 12.00 MAD. 12.30 Adventure 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.

ONE (CH1) 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 M*A*S*H. 9.00 Monster Jam. 10.00 Pushing The Limits. 11.00 Sport Science. 12.00 NYC 22. 1.00 Common Law. 2.00 The Living Room. 3.00 Totally Wild. 4.00 Reel Action. 4.30 Wild Racers.

5.00 Fishing Edge.

5.30 iFish.

6.00 Family Feud.

6.30 M*A*S*H. 7.30 Hidden Kingdoms With Stephen Fry. 9.30 Shark Tank.

10.30 Movie Juice.

11.00 Aussie Millions Poker Championship.

12.00 Super Rugby Extra Time.

1.00 Shopping.

2.00 Tyrant.

3.00 Bellator MMA. 5.00 Sport Science.

SBS 2 (CH32) 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 Unplanned America. 9.00 Unplanned America.

9.30 Orphan Black. 10.20 Graffiti Wars.

11.20 South Park. 11.50 @midnight.

12.20 The Feed. 12.50 Live At The Electric. 1.25 Movie: The Cost Of Living. (2003) 3.20 France 24 News In English From Paris. 5.00 French News.

5.50 Urdu News.

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: The Lady Killers. (1955) 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 Agatha Christie’s Poirot.

8.40 Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple.

10.45 Prime Suspect.

11.40 Friends.

12.10 Footy Classified.

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: Mallrats. (1995) Shannen Doherty, Jason Lee. 11.30 Emily Owens M.D. 12.30 Frasier.

1.00 Judging Amy. 2.00 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 Morning Programs. 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 Colour Theory. 11.30 All Our Relations. 12.00 The Brush Sings.

12.35 JM’s Healthy Tips. 12.40 Custodians. 1.00 Innocence Betrayed. 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 Kriol Kitchen. 7.00 NITV News. 7.30 Yorta Yorta Youth. 8.10 Cash Money. 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: My Dear Secretary. (1949) 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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Wednesday, May 6

SEVEN (CH7)

ABC News Breakfast.

ABC News Mornings.

Q&A. (R) Kevin McCloud’s Man Made Home. (PG) (R) News.

National Press Club Address.

The Book Club. (PG) (R) Rake. (M) (R) Kitchen Cabinet. (R) Midsomer Murders. (PG) (R) News: Early Edition.

The Drum.

6.00 Antiques Roadshow. (R) Fiona Bruce and the team pay a return visit to Brighton College.

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) Hosted by Charlie Pickering.

9.00 The Agony Of… (M) Narrated

by Adam Zwar.

9.30 8MMM. (M) Jake is invited to a traditional ceremony.

10.00 Comedy Up Late. (MA15+) 10.30 Lateline. (R) 11.00 The Business. (R) Hosted by Ticky Fullerton.

11.20 Trigger Point. (MA15+) (R) 12.20 Four Corners. (R) 1.05 Media Watch. (PG) (R) 1.20 Movie: Playmates. (R) (1941) Kay Kyser.

2.55 Movie: The Four Feathers.

(PG) (R) (1939) John Clements.

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

6.00 9.00 11.30 12.00 1.30 3.00 4.00 5.00 5.30

Sunrise.

The Morning Show. (PG) Morning News.

To Be Advised.

The Daily Edition. The hottest issues from the day’s news.

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 Home And Away. (PG) Ash finds a way for Billie to stay in the Bay. 7.30 House Rules. (PG) The teams struggle against each other and the clock in the Victoria transformation.

8.45 Criminal Minds. (M) The team investigates the murders of several young men. However, they are unable to establish any pattern in the victims.

10.40 Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. (M) Skye meets an enigmatic Inhuman.

11.35 Men At Work. (PG) (Series return) Milo asks Gibbs to be his mentor.

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.

NINE (CH9) 6.00 9.00 11.00 12.00 1.00 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.30 6.00 7.00 7.30 8.40

9.40 10.40 11.40 12.30 1.00 1.30 2.30 3.00 3.30 5.00 5.30

TEN (CH10)

Today.

Mornings. (PG) News.

The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

(PG) Variety show.

To Be Advised.

Reno Rumble. (PG) (R) Renovators transform homes for deserving people.

News Now. News.

Millionaire Hot Seat.

Hosted by Eddie McGuire.

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 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 Eyewitness News.

News.

A Current Affair.

Reno Rumble. (PG) 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 the OJ Simpson trial, the 40th anniversary of Australian television, the debut of the sitcom Friends, Ellen comes out to Oprah, and the horror of the Port Arthur massacre.

Forever. (M) The Mentalist. (M) (R) Believe. (M) Ground Floor. (M) (R) 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 To Be Advised.

8.30 Wonderland. (M) Miranda discovers a secret that could destroy any chance of a reunion between Sasha and Tom. 9.30 The Good Wife. Following her husband’s corruption scandal and incarceration, a woman returns to work as a lawyer.

10.30 Hawaii Five-0. (M) A neurosurgeon is assassinated.

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

12.30 Movie Juice. (R) A look into the world of movies.

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

2.00 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 11.

Continued.

7.00 WorldWatch.

1.00 Dateline. (R) 1.30 WorldWatch.

2.00 PBS NewsHour.

3.00 Al Jazeera News.

3.30 Insight. (R) 4.30 Survivors: Nature’s Indestructible Creatures.

(PG) (R) 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R) 6.00 Food Safari. (R) 6.30 World News.

7.30 Sacred Wonders Of Britain.

Part 2 of 3. Presented by Neil Oliver.

8.30 Struggle Street. (MA15+) Part 1 of 3. A glimpse into life in under-resourced Australian communities.

9.30 The Legacy. (M) Signe wants to reach a compromise with her siblings about the heritage of the house.

10.35 World News.

11.05 Adam Looking For Eve. (MA15+) (R) A couple go on naked dates.

11.55 Movie: The Girl By The Lake.

(M) (R) (2007) Toni Servillo.

1.40 Movie: Burn. (M) (R) (2009) Lamia Boussekine.

3.30 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia. (R) 4.00 Pagans And Pilgrims.

4.30 Soccer. UEFA Champions League. Matchday 11.

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 Pingu. 4.20 Mister Maker Comes To Town. 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. 8.30 World’s Toughest Jobs. 9.30 Tattoo Tales.

10.00 Never Mind The Buzzcocks.

10.30 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. 11.15 The Real Hustle: New Recruits. 11.45 Seconds From Disaster. 12.30 Metal Evolution. 1.15 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 Humf.

6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping.

7.00 Flushed. 7.30 In Your Dreams.

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.

2.15 I Shouldn’t Be Alive. 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. 1.00 Kingswood Country. 1.30 Love Thy Neighbour.

2.00 Shopping. 3.00 Sons And Daughters. 3.30 Harry’s Practice. 4.00 Kingswood Country. 4.30 The Martha Stewart Show. 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 Magical Tales. 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 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 Adventure Time.

7.00 The Big Bang Theory.

8.30 The Last Ship.

9.30 Movie: Blood Diamond. (2006) Leonardo DiCaprio.

12.30 Adventure 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 4WD Touring Australia. 10.00 The Longest Day. 11.00 Movie Juice. 11.30 Garage Gold. 12.00 NYC 22. 1.00 Common Law. 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.

11.00 Aussie Millions Poker Championship.

12.00 The Glades.

1.00 Shopping.

2.00 Common Law. 3.00 Maxim TV. 3.30 Cops. 4.30 Football’s Greatest Teams. 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. 6.35 If You Are The One. 7.30 The Feed. 8.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine. 8.30 Movie: ReAnimator. (1985) Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton. 10.30 Soccer. UEFA Champions League.

Matchday 11. 12.00 @midnight.

12.30 The Feed. 1.00 Movie: Jacquou Le Croquant. (2007) 3.35 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. 11.00 Lest We Forget What? Shorts. 11.05 Small Hands In A Big War. 11.30 Harriet’s Army. 12.00 The Crust. 12.45 Round The Twist. 1.10 Stormworld. 1.35 Bindi’s Bootcamp. 2.00 Arthur. 2.25 Pearlie. 2.40 Hairy Legs. 2.50 Tashi.

3.05 SheZow. 3.15 The Day My Butt Went Psycho. 3.40 Almost Naked Animals. 3.50 Dragons: Riders Of Berk.

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 Blue Water High. 7.55 The Adventures Of Figaro Pho. 8.00 Degrassi – The Next Generation. 8.30 Total Drama Action.

9.15 Iron Man: Armored Adventures.

9.35 Rage. 10.35 Close.

6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping.

7.00 Handy Manny. 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.

12.00 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 Mudcats.

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. 5.00 Gadget Geeks.

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: Derby Day. (1952) 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 Movie: Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. (1974) Oliver Reed, Richard Attenborough, Elke Sommer.

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 Everybody Loves 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 Kriol Kitchen.

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 Kriol Kitchen. 7.00 NITV News.

7.30 Collum Calling Canberra. 8.30 Yudum. 9.30 Awaken. 10.30 Flying Boomerangs. 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 Piano Talk. 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: His Girl Friday. (1940) 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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Chloe at The Sumner

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ALL THAT JAZZ

By CHERYL THREADGOLD

● Chloe Leong ■ Sydney Dance Company presents the double-bill of William Forsythe’s Quintett and Rafael Bonachela’s Frame Of Mind from May 6-16 at the Southbank Theatre.

After recently joining the Company, Chloe Leong has a coveted role in Forsythe’s masterpiece Quintett.

Dancing was an enjoyable childhood hobby for Chloe, who started classes aged six at Sydney’s Brent studios.

At 16, Chloe decided to attempt a dance career and studied full-time at the Ecole Ballet and Dance Theatre, while continuing school studies by correspondence Chloe achieved a place at London’s Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance at 17. Her mother accompanied her to London for the first two weeks, but on reflection, Chloe says she doesn’t know who took it harder when she had to leave.

“My mum would definitely say it was her!”

Although initially homesick and adjusting to new independence, Chloe believes if having maturity and the right mindset, ‘age is just a number.’

Chloe definitely recommends studying in London and Europe for other dedicated young dancers.

“Of course places in Australia offer just as much training as those in Europe, but for me personally, it was not until moving to London that I feel my dance education started.

“One advantage is accessibility to watch dance performances from companies all round Europe, as everything is in such close proximity compared to Australia.”

In her final year, Chloe performed professionally in A Linha Curva by Itzik Galili on a UK tour with the Rambert Company.

In 2012 she moved to Barcelona to join the junior contemporary company IT Dansa, under the direction of Catherine Allard.

Chloe says moving to Barcelona was harder than moving to London, with a completely foreign culture and language.

In hindsight, Chloe says she now appreciates being thrown into the deep end.

“After finishing my two years with IT Dansa, I had grown an incredible amount as a dancer and person,” says Chloe.

Always a huge fan of Rafael Bonachela’s work, Chloe knew she would love to work for Sydney Dance Company.

“So being able to perform Naked Thoughts, which he had previously created for IT Dansa, only increased my hope of working for him and Sydney Dance Company.”

In Quintett Chloe feels individually there is no specific role being portrayed..

“At the time Forsythe was creating the work his wife was terminally ill and I feel that the impact it had on Forsythe and his relationship with his wife, and the moments throughout that final journey together, are illustrated in the choreography.” ● Turn to Page 37

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Radio: Southern FM’s new studios ........................ Page 36 Theatre: Rain Fuller in Pretty Good Friends ........... Page 37 Country Music: Rob Foenander reports ....................... Page 36 Jim and Aar on: Top 10 lists, movies, DVDs ........................ Page 38 Aaron: Cheryl Threadgold: Local theatre, shows, auditions .......... Page 39 OVATT”S MEGA CRO PL US THE LLO PLUS CROSSSWORD

● Saxophonist Joe Lovano. Photo: Jimmy Katz ■ American saxophonist Joe Lovano is participating in several events in the forthcoming Melbourne International Jazz Festival.

One event is an extraordinary international collaboration featuring four heavyweights of modern jazz on June 4 and 5 at 7.30pm at Bennetts Lane.

For more than 30 years, Grammy Award-winning saxophonist Joe Lovano has been redefining the boundaries of modern jazz.

A relentless explorer, his wide-ranging sound is by turns mercurial, fierce and reflective, absorbing a range of styles from impressionistic free jazz through to visceral searing bebop.

Drawing on the past, always in the present and looking toward the future, Lovano has been hailed as “one of the greatest musicians in jazz history”.

Revisiting a creative bond formed more than a decade ago, he is joined by heavyweights of the Australian music scene, Paul Grabowsky, Philip Rex and Dave Beck for a special reunion not to be missed.

Dates: June 4, 6 at 7.30pm Venue: Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, 25 Bennetts Lane, Melbourne.

Tickets: $55/$49. ★★★ Joe Lovano will also be Artist-in-Residence at Monash University, rehearsing and working alongside students and staff from the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music.

The culmination of a series of intensive rehearsals, this event sees Australia’s next generation of jazz musicians take to the stage alongside a modern master of jazz in a celebration of improvised musicianship.

Date: Tuesday, June 2 at 6.00pm Venue: Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre, Cnr Southbank Blvd and Sturt St, Southbank.

Tickets: $25/$20. ★★★ Joe Lovano will also conduct an Artists’Workshop on Wednesday, June 3 at 11.00am at the Monash University Music Auditorium, Clayton.

Witness the fascinating process of Festival headliners workshopping with the rising generation of jazz musicians during these free two-hour workshops Date: Wednesday, June 3 at 11am Venue: Monash University Music Auditorium, 55 Scenic Blvd., Monash University, Clayton. Admission: Free. ★★★ An In Conversation session with Joe Lovano will also be held on Friday, June 5 at 4pm at Bennetts Lane Jazz Club. Admission is free.

Joe Lovano shares his journey through jazz, on and off stage.

Date: Friday, June 5 at 4.00pm Venue: Bennetts Lane Jazz Club Admission: Free Bookings for all Melbourne International Jazz Festival events: 1300 182 183 Information: melbournejazz.com

Refugees join circus

● Circus Oz Soul Mate, Kon Karapanagiotidis Photo: Rob Blackburn ■ Circus Oz in partnership with the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre presents Boundless Plains to Share, a celebratory night of hope, humanity and hilarity, for one night only on Friday (May 1) at 7/30pm at the Collingwood Town Hall.

Inspired by the call in the Australian national anthem to courageously combine together to advance Australia fair, the whole Circus Oz world-class ensemble will share the stage with special guest performers from the ASRC community.

Boundless Plains to Share will bring together all parts of the community – from First Australians to the most recently arrived asylum seekers – with the audience witnessing the human stories of those who have risked everything to contribute to the future of Australia.

This collaboration is just the beginning of the next phase of a deeper and multilayered relationship for Circus Oz, who are committed to providing ongoing funding support to ASRC through donations, greater community engagement, pro bono show tickets, workshops, performance collaborations and developing professional skills of potential circus artists. ● Turn to Page 37

Showbiz Briefs ■ Former director and owner of The Media Counsel, Glenda Wynyard, has been sentenced to home detention after being convicted in an Auckland court of 11 counts of fraud.

■ The Federal Court has rejected radio station 2GB licence holders’ claims the media watchdog exceeded its power in launching two investigations into statements made by DJ Alan Jones.

■ Entertainer Marcie Jones is launching her George And Charlie books at Blackburn this Sunday (May 3).

■ Seven News presenter Peter Mitchell will be an instudio guest on the Sugar And Spice program hosted by Bob and Judy Phillips on RPP-FM at 9am Thursday.

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Rob Foenander

Spur Award for Donna

■ Victorian Donna Fisk has won the 2015 Frank Ifield International SpurAward.

The encouragement award is presented by Frank each year as his choice for the best new independent Australian country music performer.

The criteria for selection is simply based on the strength of a recording judged by Frank to be of a high standard and indicating further potential as determined by him.

Donna is the daughter of radio legend and Aussie country music great Gene Bradley Fisk.

Sweet Rebecca

■ Beccy Cole has released her new work. Sweet Rebecca is described as her most daring and genuine album yet with an engaging mix of heart-on-sleeve acoustic ballads, coupled with a dash of her trademark humour.

Beccy is a nine-time Golden Guitar winner and has been at the forefront of the Australian country music landscape for the past 20 years says Nicole Stringer, ABC National Promotions Manager.

Artist of the year

■ The Koroit Irish Festival has announced singer-songwriter Maria Forde as its 2015 Artist of the Year.

Maria has been performing at the festival for the past 15 years and is based in central Victoria.

The award will be presented during the festival which takes place this weekend of (May 1-3). \ Established stars Damien Leith and Mike Brady will headline the festival along with a number of local acts.

Our kinda country

■ Saturday (May 2) promises to be a big night for the Gippsland-based Our Kinda Country club.

Local balladeer Evan Platschinda will be joined by South Australian contemporary country music artist and popular singer Allan Webster for an evening of great entertainment The night will commence at 7.30pm at the Our Kinda Country clubrooms, Crinigan Rd, Morwell. $15 entry. More information: contact 0412 161 419.

- Rob Foenander

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Wednesday Thursday April 30 April 29

■ American jazz musician Duke Ellington (Edward Ellington) was born in Washington DC in 1899. He died aged 75 in 1974.

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld is 61 today.

American actress Michelle Pfeiffer was born in 1958 (57).

Tennis star André Agassi is 45 (1970).

Radio Confidential News from stations from around Victoria

Southern FM’s new studios

Country Crossroads Big Breakfast Show. Southern FM 88.3.

Tues. 6am-9am.

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■ Al Lewis (Grandpa in The Munsters) was born in 1910. He died aged 94 in 2006.

Singer Willie Nelson was born in Texas in 1933 (82).

Singer Max Merritt was born in New Zealand in 1941 (74).

Australian actress Judith McGrath was born on this day in Brisbane.

■ Community radio station 88.3 Southern FM has moved from Mentone to new premises at 2 Parliament Place, Brighton.

Renovation work is continuing on the interior of the former infant welfare centre building, which has been refurbished by skilled volunteers to create radio broadcasting studios, a kitchen and other areas.

In the meantime, the show goes on and 88.3 Southern FM programs are continuing uninterrupted.

On Tuesdays following Rob Foenander’s Big Breakfast Show, Pauline O’Brien’s Community Capers program can be heard from 9am- 10am.

For 88.3 Southern FM’s full program guide details, visit www.southernfm.com.au

Magic still in limbo

■ Macquarie-Fairfax Radio Network National Content Director Clark Forbes has written to the Melbourne radio group staf, slamming “ill-informed gossip”.

He said final arrangements for Magic 1278 were yet to be finalised.

Jane Holmes has returned from holidays, and joined relieving presenter John Blackman on the breakfast program.

Dave Ferguson will take over the Drive program, which has been in the hands of 3AW presenters Mike Brady and Dee Dee Dunleavy.

Earlier this month, Macquarie Radio Network Chief Operating Officer Adam Lang announced that four presenters were no longer employed, effective immediately.

The presenters axed were Kevin John, Peter O’Callaghan, Rick Ditchburn and Peter Van. Music programmer Darelle Kearns was also “let go”.

Magic rated 4.0 per cent in the latest ratings survey.

● Radio play director Judy Sullivan (left) and producer Terri Adams were guests last week on presenter Pauline O’Brien’s Community Capers program at 88.3 Southern FM’s new studios.

Mal moves

■ Gold 104.3 Melbourne Content Director Mal Lewis has resigned from the Australian Radio Network station.

ARN Group Content Director Duncan Campbell last week told the Radio Today website: “To say that we’re happy with the (ratings) results would be untrue/ “We are not happy with the KIIS results and I think Gold should be stronger than it is at the moment.”

The revamped KIIS (formerly Mix 101.1) station lost one ratings point in the second survey for the year.

On board

■ Helen Nash has joined the Southern Cross Media Group as a non-executive independent Director.

Helen has more than 20 years’ experience in brands and marketing, including three years in publishing at IPC Media.

Helen held a variety of senior executive roles at McDonald's Australia Ltd. Helen is currently a non executive Director of Blackmores limited.

“I am delighted to be joining the Board of such an innovative and entertaining business.”

● Simon Owens and Mike Brady in the Magic 1278 studios at Docklands. Photo: Facebook

At lunch

■ Radio Confidential hears that Ric Ditchburn and Peter Van, formerly of Magic 1278, were spotted at a radio veterans’ lunch at Geelong on Friday.

Radio Briefs

■ Shares in Pacific Star Network - owners of the 1116 SEN and MyMP radio station licences in Melbourne - have had elevated purchase prices in the past month or two.

■ Jon Faine, Daniel Zifferand Andy Burns, 774 ABC Melbourne have won a gong at the Victorian Legal ReportingAwards.

■ Greg Scealy, Group Direct Sales Manager at 1116 SEN is seeking to appoint an Account Manager.

■ Every person who subscribes or renews their subscription to fine music station 3MBS this month goes ina draw to win a doubleA Reserve pass to see the Australian World Orchestra in their final performance on this tour.

■ Justin Smith, ex-3AW, broadcast from Gallipoli last Saturday.

Melbourne

Observer

Friday May 1

Saturday May 2

■ Canadian actor Glenn Ford was born in 1916. He died in 2006, aged 90.

Australian actor John Meillon was born in Sydney in 1934. He died aged 55 in 1989.

US singer Judy Collins is 76.

Actress Rita Coolidge was born in 1944 (71).

■ Author Alan Marshall (I Can Jump Puddles) was born in Noorat in 1902.

He died aged 81 in 1984.

Actor Ray Barrett was born in Brisbane in 1927.

He died aged 82 in 2009.

Soccer player David Beckham was born in London, England, in 1975 (40).

Sunday May 3 ■ Crooner Bing Crosby was born in 1903. He died aged 74 in 1977.

Folk singer Pete Seeger was born in New York in 1919.

Lead singer with the Four Seasons, Frankie Valli, was born in 1937.

Cricketer David Hookes was born in 1955. He died aged 48.

Monday May 4

■ British comedian Eric Sykes was born in Lancashire in 1923.

Belgium-born Hollywood actress Audrey Hepburn was born in 1929. She died aged 63 in 1993.

Oldest of the brothers, Jackie Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana in 1951 (64). He frequently visits Australia,

Tuesday May 5 ■ American actress Alice Faye was born in New York in 1915. She died aged 83 in 1998.

Australian runner Cliff Young was born in Victoria in 1922. He died aged 81 in 2003.

American actress Ann B Davis was born in 1928.

Michael Palin was born in 1943 (72).

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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Reugees join Circus Oz Continued from Page 35 ■ Brought together by Circus Oz Guest Directors David Joseph and Debra Batton, thiscelebration of all that is possible will feature big circus acts, cranking live music, vivacious hula hooping, joyous juggling, booty-shaking hip-hop and dare-devil acrobatics.

Boundless Plains to Share is a once-only show that will not only raise the roof of the beautifully restored Collingwood Town Hall, but importantly will also explore the human voices of some of Australia’s most vulnerable community members – newly arrived asylum seekers.

Uniting the audience in an inspiring and inclusive community event, all the profits raised from Boundless Plains to Share will be donated to the ASRC to continue its work for all communities.

Since 2002, Circus Oz has not only donated thousands of tickets to the ASRC community, but Melbourne audiences have donated more than $250,000 to the ASRC through the Circus Oz Red Bucket Appeal held at the end of each Circus Oz Big Top performance.

As a mark of recognition and mutual respect, in 2013 Circus Oz named the ASRC as a humanitarian partner and ASRC Chief Executive Officer, Kon Karapanagiotidis was formally acknowledged as a Circus Oz Soul Mate.

With this new and innovative collaboration, Circus Oz and the ASRC are excited to be taking the relationship to the next level.

The development and creation of Boundless Plains to Share is a month-long project comprising daily lunchtime workshops by the Circus Oz ensemble for the ASRC community – the project has already unearthed potential circus artists who will feature on stage in the once-only May performance at Collingwood Town Hall.

Performance Date: Friday, May 1 Time: 7.30pm (doors open at 7pm) Location: Collingwood Town Hall, 140 Hoddle St, Abbotsford Tickets: $48 Bookings: ticketmaster.com.au - Cheryl Threadgold

Semaphore ■ Arts House and Kate Neal present a compelling and intriguing multimedia exploration of signaling, communication and miscommunication in Semaphore, being presented May 27-31.

Using physical, visual and aural encoding systems – Semaphore, Morse code, pennants, lights and binary code – three dancers and eight musicians synchronize in a complex coordinated choreography of bodies, music and illumination, to generate an immersive display of sound and vision.

Laura Sheedy’s direction, Timothy Walsh's choreography, Sal Cooper’s animations, and archival recordings of World War II signalmen further augment Semaphore’s rich visual and aural composition.

Regimented physical formations, outbreaks of cascading melody, intricate interplays of light and sound; Semaphore is an ingenious visual and sonic experience.

Semaphore is composed by Kate Neal, with choreography by Timothy Walsh, directed by Laura Sheedy, with animation by Sal Cooper.

Dancers include Briarna Longville, Timothy Walsh and James Welsby.

Performance Season: May 27 – 31 Times: Wed – Sat 7.30pm, Sat 2pm, Sun 5pm Venue: Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall, 521 Queensberry St, North Melbourne Duration: 1 hour, no interval Tickets: Full $30 / Conc $20 / Student $15 Bookings: www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/ ArtsHouse/Program/Pages/Semaphore.aspx or call 9322 3713 Warning: Adult concepts, strobe effects, smoke.

Suitable for ages 14+ - Cheryl Threadgold

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Pretty Good Friends

● Rain Fuller (Sam) and Jenni Townsend (Jules) in the mumblecore film Pretty Good Friends.

■ Melbourne-made award winning Australian film in the Going Green Film indie Pretty Good Friends has been se- Festival (Los Angeles), screening lected to screen as part of Classic and throughout April via VOD service Roku, Cameo Cinemas Australian Film Focus available to over eight million viewers. series, with special Q&A screenings The film tells the story of Jules (Jenni scheduled for May 7 and 9.

Townsend), who moves home to Pretty Good Friends has been dubbed Melbourne with the hopes of re-inventAustralia’s first mumblecore film, the ing herself in time for her 25th birthday. unique film subgenre that shot Lena DunShe moves in with her childhood ham (HBO’s Girls) to fame. friend, Sam (Rain Fuller), and Sam’s The term was first coined in 2005 at long-term boyfriend Alex (Nathan America’s South by Southwest Film Barillaro). J Festival, and is classified by low buduggling the rekindling of an old friendgets, unpolished, ‘real’ sounding dia- ship while an exciting new one emerges, logue, real places and a departure from tests the boundaries of friendship and simplistic plot structures common to puts Jules in a dangerous position. movies designed for mass appeal.

A combination of comedy, romance Emerging writer and director Sophie and drama, Pretty Good Friends conTownsend was inspired to create a fronts the idea of the ‘emotional affair’ Melbourne mumblecore film using a and how human connection can inspire small cast and crew and an even smaller and ignite unknown truths within us, for budget. better or worse.

“I wanted to create a story that capSet against a real representation of tured Melbourne on screen in a way I Melbourne, the film provides an intimate had not seen before, utilising some of it's and raw portrayal of three young people less explored nooks and crannies,” says on a journey of self-definition.

Sophie.

Dates: Thursday, May 7 at 7pm at “We wanted our actors to have a major Classic Cinemas, 9 Gordon St, input in creating their characters. Impro- Elsternwick. Saturday, May 9 at 7pm at vised dialogue and blocking was encour- Cameo Cinemas, 1628 Burwood Highaged, and we even sought their input in way, Belgrave. costume design.”

Bookings: Tickets are available on Pretty Good Friends recently won the Classic Cinemas and Cameo CinBest International Feature at the StarLite emas websites.

Film Festival (Florida), and is the only - Cheryl Threadgold

Road To Woodstock ■ A near capacity crowd gathered at Chapel Off Chapel for the opening night of Joan Baez – The Road to Woodstock.

For many, Joan Baez was the voice of her generation.

With the backdrop of the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement, Baez sang songs of peace and protest that still resonate 50 years on.

She was a friend of Martin Luther King, Bob Dylan’s lover and a passionate and outspoken peace activist.

Her early life must have been interesting and exciting but, unfortunately, playwright Neil Cole failed to capture this.

The show seemed quite rambling and lacked cohesion.

The narrative, delivered entirely by the Joan Baez character, was lacklustre and uninspiring.

We did hear many iconic songs from the 60s including Blowin’ In The Wind, The Times They Are A-Changin’ and Joe Hill but they were often too long and repetitive.

The final song, where the audience was invited to join in many, many verses of We Shall Overcome, made for a very flat ending to the evening.

The pivotal role of Joan Baez was played by Petra Elliot.

While Ms Elliot has a very pleasant voice, it lacks the power and clarity of Baez’s voice. On opening night her monologues were tentative and patchy.

Peter Seeger and Bob Dylan were played by Paul Watson, who was also Director and Musical Director for the show.

He sang a handful of songs but was sadly underutilised.

After sitting in the dark for 50 minutes, Bekki O’Connor emerged to give us the star turn of the night as a ravaged Janis Joplin singing Bobby Magee at Woodstock.

There was also an excellent, but disappointingly uncredited, accompanying guitarist.

Performances: Until May 3 Venue: Chapel off Chapel, 12 Little Chapel St., Prahran Bookings:www.chapel offchapel.com.au - Barbara Hughes

The Exonerated

● Artistic Director of Sol III Company, Andrei Schiller-Chan ■ Sol III Company presents The Exonerated from May 20-June 7 at Chapel Off Chapel.

Written by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, The Exonerated is a visceral drama illuminating the true stories of six survivors of death row.

Unapologetic in its approach, The Exonerated portrays a world of brutality coinciding with human triumph and transcendence.

Going from the darkest abyss of human degradation to surviving a violent system, these six people give us hope for a brighter future.

Witness a raw and delicate surrounding into a world just outside ours … it may be closer to home than you think.

The Sol III Company is a theatrical company founded due to its affiliation with Rubin Hurricane Carter and his work with wrongfully convicted prisoners and prisoner rehabilitation initiatives.

The company uses the medium to raise awareness and much needed funds for programs in prisons in the USA and Australia, and also aids with the legal costs of exoneration of the wrongfully convicted – most notably David McCallum III who was exonerated after wrongfully incarcerated for 29 years Company proceeds are donated to Innocence International and Liberation Prison Yoga Venue: Chapel Off Chapel The Loft, 12 Little Chapel St., Prahran Dates: May 20-June 7 Times: 8pm Tues-Fri, 2pm and 8pm Sat (excluding May 23), 5pm Sun (May 24, 31) 4pm (June 7) Tickets: $37.50 Full, $32.50 Conc, $30 Group (min 10), $29.50 Bookings: 8290 7000 For more information visit: chapeloffchapel.com. au - Cheryl Threadgold

Chloe Leong Continued from Page 35 ■ “Even though we were given artistic license to interpret the work individually, I believe the challenging physicality and intricacy of the movement and the playful and absolute risk-taking interactions between the five dancers, create an open narrative for the audience to interpret.”

Chloe says it is amazing to be back home with family and friends, rather than communicating on a computer screen.

“Also to be working in one of my dream companies, along with such inspiring dancers, in my home country … It may not get any better than this!”

Performance Season: May 6 -16 Venue: Southbank Theatre, The Sumner, 40 Southbank Boulevard, Southbank Duration: 60 minutes Bookings: www.mtc.com.au - Cheryl Threadgold

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Movies, DVDs With Jim Sherlock and Aaron Rourke

What’s Hot and What’s Not in Blu-Rays and DVDs

● The gang from Horrible Bosses are back in this brisk, wacky and piercingly funny caper comedy of twisted dreams that tickles the funny bone with wicked delight.

FILM: HORRIBLE BOSSES 2: Genre: Comedy/Crime.

Cast: Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Charlie Day, Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Spacey, Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz.

Year: 2014.

Rating: MA15+.

Length: 108 Minutes Stars: ***½ Verdict: The boys from the 2011 hit "Horrible Bosses" are back, and this time Dale, Kurt and Nick decide to start their own business but things don't go as planned, prompting our bumbling trio to pull off a harebrained kidnapping scheme. Similar in theme to the 1980 hit "Nine To Five," which actually gets a mention, this sequel delivers a good strong dose of adult humour and crazy situations that will keep you chuckling with delight from beginning to end. Art it isn't, but from our bumbling protagonists (or Three Stooges), to Christoph Waltz as the conniving Billionaire and Jennifer Aniston as the sex addicted dentist, "Horrible Bosses 2" is a tight, brisk, perverse and piercingly funny caper comedy of twisted dreams that pushes the boundaries and tickles the funny bone with wicked delight.

FILM: PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR: Genre: Animated/Adventure/Comedy.

Cast: Tom McGrath, John Malkovich, Benedict Cumberbatch.

Details: 2014.

Rating: PG. Length: 92 Minutes.

Stars: *** Verdict: Delightfully manic romp with those crazy penguins Skipper, Kowalski, Private and now Rico from the "Madagascar" series of feature films and TV Series who jump back on to the big screen to join forces with an undercover organization to stop a villain from destroying the world as we know it. From the opening frame to the last we are thrown into a whirlwind of adventure filled with madcap energy and brimming with striking animation, quirky characters and hilarious dialogue and side-splitting moments, more than enough to entertain both children and adults. It's only fault being that they have crammed too much into one movie, and by the end of it all, it feels quite exhausting, but it's good fun nonetheless, and the most enjoyable of the series!

FILM: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO - The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films: Genre: Documentary.

Cast: Franco Nero, Bo Derek, Chuck Norris, Robert Forster, Elliott Gould, Tobe Hooper.

Directed by: Mark Hartley (also Writer and Co-Editor).

Year: 2014.

Rating: M .

Length: 107 Minutes Stars: ***½ Verdict: A delightfully entertaining and informative documentary about Israeli producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, two movie-obsessed cousins who invaded Hollywood and whose passion for cinema changed the way movies were made and marketed, and how this passion ultimately led to the demise of the company, Cannon Films, that they built together. Brisk, well constructed and wildly informative, there's a feast of story after story after story of the most least loved studio and two company heads that dominated 80s cinema with a uniquely low brand approach, style and marketing strategy filled with ninjas, nudity, botched plots and unintentional humour, and where and when quality was a total accident.

Aaron Rourke’s movie reviews

Top 10 Lists THE AUSTRALIAN BOX OFFICE TOP TEN: 1. FAST AND FURIOUS 7.

2. CINDERELLA. 3. HOME. 4. PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2.

5. THE LONGEST RIDE. 6. SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS: SPONGE OUT OF WATER. 7. SHAUN THE SHEEP. 8. THE AGE OF ADELINE. 9. INSURGENT. 10. THE DUFF. NEW RELEASES AND COMING SOON TO CINEMAS AROUND AUSTRALIA: APRIL 23: BANKSY DOES NEW YORK, TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, THE AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON. APRIL 30: KUMIKO, THE TREASURE HUNTER, TRACERS, UNFRIENDED.

● Paddington Bear takes London by storm in the charming family film Paddington.

Paddington ■ (G). 91 minutes. Available Now on DVD and Blu-Ray. The classic children's book character comes to the big screen, and this worldwide hit delivers gentle, sweetnatured entertainment.

The simple story sees the young bear travelling from his home in the Peruvian jungle to the streets of London, where he meets the slightly dysfunctional-but-friendly Brown family.

Mrs Brown (Sally Hawkins) openly invites Paddington into their home, while Mr Brown (Hugh Bonneville) is less enthusiastic about having a wild creature in his carefully co-ordinated life.

The rest of the Brown clan is made up of Grandma (Julie Walters), son Jonathan (Samuel Joslin), and teenage daughter Judy (Madeleine Harris).

Problems arise when evil museum curator Millicent (Nicole Kidman) wants to add the furry visitor to her extensive collection of stuffed animals.

Paddington does contain plenty of charm and should please today's children, while putting a smile on the face of adults who remember Michael Bond's delightful books when they were young.

Bonneville (Downton Abbey / The Monuments Men) and Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky / Godzilla / Blue Jasmine) are both terrific, with solid support from Walters (Educating Rita / Billy Elliott) and Jim Broadbent (Iris / Gangs Of New York).

Kidman's character, as written and played, offers surprisingly little fun or humour, and Peter Capaldi (The Thick Of It TV series / In The Loop) is somewhat wasted as the Brown's nosy neighbour.

Paddington himself is an impressive creation, and convincingly interacts with his live-action cast.

He is also well-voiced by Ben Winshaw (Skyfall).

My main problem is when screenwriter/director Paul King (Bunny And The Bull / The Mighty Boosh TV series) allows the film to fall into Home Alone-style antics, with slapstick scenes of property destruction and

personal injury jarring with the picture's otherwise genial tone.

Overall however, Paddington is the kind of movie the whole family can enjoy, and generally keeps the spirit of this friendly bear alive and well.

RATING - ***.

The Tale Of The Princess Kaguya

■ (PG). 137 minutes. Available Now on DVD and Blu-Ray. The incredible track record of famed animation house Studio Ghibli continues with the extraordinary The Tale Of The Princess Kaguya.

Superbly crafted in a painterly, pastel fashion reminiscent of a traditional children's book, this is truly enchanting viewing.

While working in the woods one day, an old bamboo cutter discovers a tiny girl encased in a shining stalk of bamboo.

Thinking of it as a sign from the gods, the cutter takes the girl home, surprising his elderly wife.

To their surprise, the girl rapidly matures into a young lady, and is named Kaguya.

As she tries to find her place in the world, Kaguya's magical transformation and heavenly beauty attracts the rich and powerful, and this will also cloud the bamboo cutter's own views on what is best for his innocent, adopted daughter.

The film is helmed by Isao Takahata (a co-founder of Studio Ghibli), and it is his first directorial effort for quite some time.

His most famous feature is the highly-acclaimed, emotionally draining Grave Of The Fireflies, and if you have not seen this 1988 masterpiece, then please race out and do so.

The Tale Of The Princess Kaguya is both beautiful and magical, and its blend of detailed drama and gorgeous hand-drawn animation, guided by a true master, makes this an unforgettable experience.

RATING - ****½ - Aaron Rourke

THE DVD AND BLU-RAY TOP RENTALS & SALES: 1. INTERSTELLAR [Sci-Fi/Adventure/Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Chastain].

2. HORRIBLE BOSSES 2 [Comedy/Jason Bateman, Jennifer Anistion, Jamie Foxx].

3. ANNIE [Family/Musical/Jamie Foxx, Rose Byrne, Cameron Diaz].

4. PADDINGTON [Family/Comedy/ Adventure/Hugh Bonneville, Nicole Kidman].

5. NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 3 Secret of the Tomb [Adventure/ Ben Stiller, Robin Williams].

6. THE DROP [Drama/Thriller/Tom Hardy, James Gandolfini, Noomi Rapace].

7. ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY [Family].

8. THE HOBBIT: The Battle of the Five Armies [Adventure/Fantasy/ Martin Freeman].

9. EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS [Action/Drama/Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton].

10. THE HUNGER GAMES: The Mockingjay - Part 1 [Adventure/ Jennifer Lawrence].

Also: NIGHTCRAWLER, THE WATER DIVINER, GONE GIRL, BIG HERO 6, BOYHOOD, WHIPLASH, GET ON UP, MY OLD LADY, LEFT BEHIND, THE JUDGE. NEW RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS ON DVD THIS WEEK: ST. VINCENT [Comedy/Drama/Bill Murray, Naomi Watts, Melissa McCarthy].

PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR [Animated/Family/Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Miller].

NEW RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS ON BLURAY THIS WEEK: ST. VINCENT [Comedy/Drama/Bill Murray, Naomi Watts, Melissa McCarthy].

PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR [Animated/Family/Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Miller].

PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR 3D + Blu-Ray [Animated/Family/ Benedict Cumberbatch].

HOMELAND: Season 4.

GRIMM: Season 3.

DOWNTON ABBEY: Season 5.

NEW RELEASE TELEVISION, DOCUMENTARY AND MUSIC DVD HIGHLIGHTS: DOWNTON ABBEY: Season 5.

HOMELAND: Season 4.

GRIMM: Season 3 DOCTOR BLAKE MYSTERIES: Season 3.

HIDING. THE GAME.

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Local Theatre With Cheryl Threadgold

‘A Few Good Men’ at Geelong Elevate My Love

● Brett Poliness, Bryan Colechin, Hugo Race and Michelangelo Russo have released their first single in seven years.

■ Legendary Melbourne psychedelic four-piece rock band Hugo Race and the True Spirit have announced the release of the band’s first single in seven years, Elevate My Love, with an album The Spirit to follow in July this year, accompanied by live performances.

Launching in Berlin in the 80s, The True Spirit is a loose freewheeling fraternity of like-minded free spirits who share a love of psychedelic rock and roots music.

Their irreverent experimentalism has fleshed out Hugo Race's music onstage and in studio for more than 20 years.

Releasing their first album Rue Morgue Blues as the wall fell in Berlin, so began two decades based in Europe and the production of 14 True Spirit albums.

The band is renowned for their urban dreamscapes, elegant trip-hop, ambient noise psychedelia, raw cosmic blues, live garage rock, cinematic melancholia, new wave nostalgia, essential song-writing and post-rock minimalism.

Produced by Hugo Race over a period of three years in his hometown of Melbourne with the original line-up, Michelangelo Russo – electronics, Bryan Colechin – bass, Brett Poliness – drums and percussion, Nico Mansy – keys, The Spirit is fuelled by high-energy rhythmic drive and Race’s darkly humorous lyrics, with the band wielding space and sonic suggestion as instruments in their own right.

Race says they built a studio in a surreal house out on the city’s edge to slowly develop the songs at their own speed with no pressure.

“We’d never had the luxury before of playing new songs live before recording them,” he says.

“When we felt the time was right, we taped a lot of the final album with Idge at his Soundpark studio, capturing our sound with ambient mics and vintage processors.

“But the vibe of that house and the all-night recording sessions with the background buzz of cicadas and the homemade instruments in the tool shed, it’s all still there.

“We wanted to create a definitive album for The True Spirit and took our sweet time about it. This record is it.”

Hugo Race and The True Spirit will tour Australia in August and September, then embark on an autumn European tour.

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, 1113 Yertchuk St., Ashwood. Directors: Michaela Smith; Laura Bradley; Nathan Jones. Audition enquiries and bookings:auditions@hartwellplayers.org.au ■ Strathmore Theatrical Arts Group (STAG): The Wisdom of Eve (by Mary Orr) May 23 at 12.00noon and May 24 at 6.00pm at the Strathmore Community Theatre, cnr Loeman and Napier Sts., Strathmore. Director: Robert Harsley. Audition bookings and enquiries: robertharsley47@gmail.com ■ 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

Melbourne

Observer MARY POPPINS

SHOWS ■ 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 ■ 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 ■ 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) Until May 9, Sunday matinee 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) Until May 9 at Williamstown Little Theatre, 2 Albert St., Williamstown. Director: Brett Turner. Tickets: $25/$22. Bookings: 9885 9678 www.wlt.org.au ■ Malvern Theatre Company: The Crucible (by Arthur Miller) Until 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 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) Until 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.

■ Adelphi Players Theatre Company: The Peacocks Must Go (by Dennis Driscoll) Until May 3 at the Booran Rd. Hall, 264 Booran Rd., Ormond. Director: Michael Mace. Tickets: $15/ $12. Bookings: 9690 1593.

■ Peridot Theatre Inc: One Act Play Season 2015 Until 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) Until May 3. www.lamama.com.au ■ La Mama: Bright Shiny and Green Night Until 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.

■ Chapel off Chapel: On a Humorous Note! May 8, 9 (Hilary Henshaw with special guest Will Conyers) at Chapel off Chapel, 12 Little Chapel St., Prahran. Bookings: 8290 7000 www.chapeloffchapel.com.au ■ Nova Music Theatre: Evita May 8 - 23 at the Whitehorse Centre, Whitehorse Rd., Nunawading. Director: Noel Brown; Musical Director: Phil Osborne; Choreographer: Wayne Robinson.

Bookings: 1300 304 433.

■ CLOC Musical Theatre: Mary Poppins May 15 - 30 at the National Theatre, 20 Carlisle St., St Kilda. Directors: Chris White and Lynette White; Musical Director: Danny Forward. Tickets: $55/$50/$38. Bookings: www.cloc.org.au ■ Playhouse Players Inc: Rusty Bugles (by Sumner Locke Elliott) May 16 - 30 at the Richmond Theatrette, 415 Church St., Richmond. Director: John Gauci. Tickets: $25/$22. Bookings: Email admin@playhouseplayers.org.au or call 0468 917 450 www.playhouseplayers.org.au ■ The Owl and Cat: Breed (by Lou Ramsden) May 19 - 30 at 34 Swan St., Richmond. Director: James Ness. Bookings: www.owlandcat.com.au 9421 3020.

● Back row, from left, Ivy Ingles (ensemble), Molly Dale (ensemble), Joshua Vass (Michael) and Mackensie Young (Jane). Front row: Caleb Waterworth (Michael), Alexandra Denovan (Jane), Britni Leslie (Mrs Corry), Jack Moeller (ensemble); Photo: Richard Crompton ■ WhenCLOC Musical Theatre’sproduction ofMary Poppins opens on May 15, Melbourne audiences will delight in seeing this musical adaptation of the tale of the magical nanny with her umbrella and bag of tricks come alive at the National Theatre, St Kilda.

Amongst the cast of 38 are seven talented, confident and excited young performers, aged between 10-12, who were selected from 80 children who auditioned for this show.

These future stars of the musical stage include Mackensie Young and Alexandra Denovan (sharing the role of Jane Banks), Joshua Vass and Caleb Waterworth (sharing the role of Michael Banks), and Molly Dale, Ivy Ingles and Jack Moeller, who are appearing as part of the ensemble.

Coming from all parts of Melbourne, these seven young performers enthusiastically manage to fulfil their rehearsal commitments on top of school, sport, family and other extracurricular activities.

This is of course no mean feat, especially for the supportive mums and dads who have had driving duties as well as ongoing family commitments for these seven as well as their (in total) sixteen siblings.

All seven youngsters say their efforts have been well worth it as they excitedly count down to opening night.

After some discussion, they all agree that their biggest challenge and achievement has been learning to spell that pesky “supercali...etc:” word, complete with hand signals – and fast!

Mary Poppins runs from May 15-30 at the National Theatre in St Kilda for 12 performances, including three matinees.

For more information or to purchase tickets, go to the CLOC website www.cloc.org.au or call 1300 362 547.

CLOC is also on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ CLOCMusical

AUDITIONS ■ 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 Until April 29 in St Kilda. Director: Pip Mushin.. Enquiries: 0405 619 219 or email shari@jymtheatre.com.au ■ 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 ■ Playhouse Players Inc: Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (by Ray Lawler) May 3 from 2.00pm and May 5 from 7.30pm.

Director: Susan Rundle. Director: Susan Rundle. Audition bookings: Call Susan 0416 298 136 or visit www.playhouseplayers.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.

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Down 1. Nightclub 2. Belonging to whom?

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222. Happen repeatedly 224. Motives 225. Allowed 226. Travelling stagehands 229. ... & hearty 232. Distribute, ... out 235. Tendency to fantasise 236. Iron 237. Tied 241. Explain in detail 242. Grand Canyon state 244. Tenor, ... Domingo 245. Imprecise 248. Panics 249. Ireland (poetic) 251. Residence 252. Lent to 253. Frisks 254. Paris landmark, ... Triomphe (3,2) 255. Fulfils (demand) 259. Delegate 260. Religious statues 261. Veils 262. Hitler's ... Kampf 264. Serpents 265. Grow weary 267. Donkey/horse cross

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Sport Extra

Meet the new GRV board ■ Greyhound racing participants will have an opportunity to meet the new GRV Board when member forums are staged throughout Victoria in coming weeks.

The new board, comprising Ray Gunston (Chair), Ken Lay and Judith Bornstein - which replaced the one that stood down in the wake of the live baiting scandal - will attend four meetings statewide.

Confirmed forum dates are: The Meadows, Monday April 27 from 6pm to 8pm, and at Warragul on Friday May 15 from 4pm to 6pm.

Two other forums will be held at Ballarat and Shepparton with dates to be confirmed.

The forums provide an opportunity for members and greyhound racing participants to provide their thoughts and feedback to the new board.

Those who would like to raise issues with the board members more privately will be able to fill in a feedback form on the night, which will be passed on to the board and acted upon individually.

“We as a board realise that the most knowledge about greyhound racing is with the members and as such we need to consult widely with the industry to ensure we make the best decisions for the code going forward," GRV Chairman Ray Gunston said.

New survey ■ Meanwhile, Greyhound Racing Victoria have commissioned a survey to uncover the thoughts of industry participants on issues relating to animal welfare.

In an email sent to participants last

Greyhounds

with Kyle Galley week, GRV Chairman Ray Gunston said: "The last few weeks have been very difficult for all involved in greyhound racing but the time has come now for us to look ahead and set about ensuring our sport has a prosperous future in this state."

"A critically important step towards that future is the implementation of a Definition of Roles and Property Census.

“It is vital that we gain a fuller understanding of the role each of you play in this industry, in particular the role you play in the education and development of our most important stakeholder - the greyhound."

The five-minute survey seeks to better define the requirements of, and expectations for, all industry participants who play such important roles across all facets of a greyhound's life.

Results gained from the survey will assist with the reviewing of the strategic direction of the sport in Victoria.

Carnival latest ■ Warrnambool's feature carnival

kicked off last week with heats of the Warrnambool Classic.

Shared Equity ran close to the track record in winning a heat, one of 19 conducted across two days of racing.

Semi-Finals of the Classic series, being held for the 25th time in 2015, are run tonight, Wednesday April 29, with heats of the Warrnambool Cup also highlighting that program.

The carnival concludes on Wednesday, May 6 with Finals of both the Classic and Cup events.

Top Qld win

■ Victorian chaser Dyna Villa collected the feature Queensland Derby at Brisbane's Albion Park track last Thursday night.

In his third Group race win of his career, Dyna Villa completely outclassed his rivals, after landing on the lead from box two.

Dyna Villa, trained by Jenny Hunt, started an odds-on favourite and his win took his stake earnings over the $700,000 mark. The Derby win was his 23rd from just 42 race starts.

Among Dyna Villa's other feature race successes were the 2014 Melbourne Cup and 2015 Paws of Thunder races.

Date change ■ Traralgon's reopening has been pushed back by a few weeks - at this stage it looks likely that racing will commence on Saturday night, June 6.

The club intends to trial for several weeks to allow the track to settle i n

● Ray Gunston

At nearby Newcastle, the Friday afbefore racing commences. There had been some minor issues with place- ternoon program at The Gardens ment of lights, and the weather has track also fell victim to the big wet. held up some works but the project is almost complete.

Washed out

■ The big wet in New South Wales played havoc with gallops and harness racing meetings, with many washed out over the last week, but greyhound racing was largely able to continue on.

Unfortunately the Maitland meeting last Thursday (April 23) in the Hunter Valley was washed out owing to the heavy rain which washed away much of the track surface.

Club staff have worked to ensure the parts of the track and infrastructure affected can be returned to a safe condition.

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: Shepparton (T), The Meadows (N); Sunday: Lang Lang (D), Sandown Park (D), Healesville (D), Ballarat (T), Sale (T); Monday: Ballarat (D), Geelong (T), Shepparton (N); Tuesday: Horsham (T), Warragul (N).

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Accolades missing ■ Newly retired top galloper, Dissident, didn't get the accolades he thoroughly deserved.

The star son of Classic winner, Sebring, went out with a bang after a magnificent ride by leading jockey Jimmy Cassidy in the All Aged Stakes on a soft track at Randwick.

Dissident's trainer, Peter Moody, has always maintained that Dissident was very much underrated, despite winning several Group One races, especially over his pet distance of 1400 metres.

Dissident, a $210,000 purchase from the draft of Widden Stud at the 2012 Magic Millions Yearling Sale, confirmed his favourtism to be crowned Australian Horse of the Year with another big win at racing's elite level.

Dissident beat one of the best-ever fields to contest the All Aged Stakes.

These included Chautauqua, Australian Guineas winner, Wandjina, Caulfield Guineas winner, Shooting To Win, the smart Sydney galloper, Terra Vista, and Scissor Kick, just to mention several of his classy opponents.

It was a sad Peter Moody, who was interviewed on RSN's racing program the following morning.

He openly stated the horse always gave 100 per cent, and was sad to lose yet another top galloper from his stable.

Having put the polish on two great mares, Typhoon Tracey, and the immortal Black Caviar, undefeated in her 25 race starts, Peter may have unearthed another two top-notchers in Hi World and Pasadena.

Back to Dissident for a moment, the entire started 21 times seven wins and eight placings with earnings of $2 million, and five of his seven wins were at Group One level.

Dissident will stand at Newgate Farm in the Hunter Valley, he his sire and dam, all stakes performers, were all sold at the Gold Coast Yearling Sales.

Hi World, by High Chaparral from

Ted Ryan

● Dissident Photo by SLICKPIX, phone 9354 5754

his third straight Sydney race for Slade Bloodstock when he stormed to victory in the Group three Frank Packer Plate, after practically leading all the way, beating a very smart field.

Carrying the familiar colours of the Slade Blood stock Group, made famous by the mighty galloper, Alinghi, Hi World dashed away from his rivals in the straight to beat the fast finishing W ine Tales and Merion.

The win was another feature for Peter Moody, with wins by Dissident and Hi World, and earlier the top filly, Pasadena.

Hi World has now won four of his seven starts earnings a total of more than $286,000.

He is one of three stakes performers for his dam, Beauty World - stakes winner, Loveyamadly and stakes performer, American Crew, are the other two.

Rob Slade is one of the best blokes in racing and pours a lot of money in the industry with his Bloodstock team and deserves all the success he and his team get.

Moody was over the moon earlier in the day when his very smart filly, the pintsized galloper, Pasadena Girl, won the Champagne Stakes.

With her Group One success, Pasadena Girl made it three wins from four starts, just missing a place, running fourth before her big win in the Champagne.

Peter may have lost

Dissident, but I wouldn't mind Hi World and Pasadena Girl in the stables.

Top of the pops ■ The Vinery Stud has announced its 2015 service fees with 11 stallions on their roster headed by former champion twoyear old sire, More Than Ready.

Renowned the world over, More Than Ready averaged $320,000 at the recent Inglis Easter Sales with yearlings selling to Shadai, Spendthrift, Shadwell, Sun International, the China Horse Club, HKJC,Team Hawkes and Gai Waterhouse etc.

Sire of Golden Slipper winner, and Magic Millions Classic winners and the sire of five individual Australian bred two-

year old winners this season, More Than Ready, remains at $66,000 including GST. All Too Hard has had a brilliant start to his career covering more than 350 mares in his first two books including 40 Group One winning or producing mares.

These include three times Melbourne Cup winner, Makybe Diva, Polar Success, Sacred Choice, Samaready, Snitzerland and the dams of Chautauqua, Mossfun, Hucklebuck, Zoustar, Happy

● Peter Moody Photo by SLICKPIX, phone 9354 5754

● Pasadena Girl Photo by SLICKPIX, phone 9354 5754 Trails and Savabeel. year and has already Mares in foal to him sired an Australian averaged $352,000 at champion. the 2014 Magic MilAn all-round lions National Sale. proven producer with All Too Hard will over 70 per centw/r stand at $ 55,000 in- from his first two cluding GST, this sea- crops, Casino Prince, son with his first crop is fast becoming one weanlings to enter the of the country's most sale ring this year. prolific stallions.

Progeny of everCasino Prince's green sire, Mossman, progeny broke through have continued their the 100 wins barrier sire's amazing suc- for the season at Eascess. ter, and is the sire of The champion Hooked, a winner of a Australian two-year- Group 2 event at old sire of last year Moonee Valley, and with Golden Slipper the grey Phrases, a winner, Mossfun, winner of a listed race Mossman has already recently, this season. notched another Casino Prince Group One win this stands the bargain season with Plucky price of $ 13,200 inBelle in the Coolmore cluding GST Classic and remains at A great outcross, $27,500, including Husson's star is cerGST. tainly rising with the Testa Rossa, has undefeated Group had a great year, and One winner siring a the ever-reliable sire Group One winner in of 51 stakes winners, his first crop son, Testa Rossa was al- Lucky Hussler. ways a popular choice One of the best with buyers selling to value stallions in the $280,000 (Inglis Eas- Hunter Valley, with ter), and $220,000 yearlings who aver(Magic Millions). aged $282,500 at the A prolific producer Inglis Easter sales of winners with a phe- and has sold yearlings nomenal 73 per cent for $325,000, w/r strike rate, Testa $ 2 0 0 , 0 0 0 , Rossa will stand at $180,000,$170,000, only $19,800, includ- and $160,000. ing GST. A Group One proBy a champion sire, ducer, Husson, will Casino Prince was stand at $ 13,200, for Australian champion 2015. first-season sire of his -Ted Ryan

Showbiz Extra ■ From Page 7

Green Room Awards Ensemble: Cast of I Heart John McEnroe: Clare Watson, Uninvited Guests, Theatre Works Female Performer: Maria Mercedes: Master Class (Left Bauer Productions, fortyfivedownstairs) Male Performer: Angus Cerini: Resplendence (Angus Cerini/Doubltap, Neon Festival of Independent Theatre) Lighting Design: Lisa Mibus: My Lovers’ Bones (Brown Cab Productions, Footscray CommunityArts Centre, Melbourne Festival) Sound Design and Composition: Jesse Cox, Luke Mynott and Joff Bush:Wael Zuaiter: Unknown (Theatre Works, Next Wave) Writing: Marcel Dorney: Prehistoric (Elbow Room, Darebin Arts’ Speakeasy, Melbourne Fringe) Music Theatre Actor In A Leading Role: Hayden Tee: Les Misérables (Cameron Mackintosh) and Tom Parsons: Once (Barbara Broccoli, John N. Hart Jr, Patrick Milling Smith, Frederick Zollo, Brian Carmody, Michael G. Wilson, Orin Wolf, John Frost, New York Theatre Workshop, Melbourne Theatre Company) Actress In A Leading Role: Madeleine Jones: Once (Barbara Broccoli, John N. Hart Jr, Patrick Milling Smith, Frederick Zollo, Brian Carmody, Michael G. Wilson, Orin Wolf, John Frost, New York Theatre Workshop, Melbourne Theatre Company) Actor In A Supporting Role: Adrian Li Donni: Pacific Overtures (Watch This, Auspicious Projects, Theatre Works) Actress InA Supporting Role: Yong Ying Woo: The King And I (John Frost, Opera Australia) Ensemble: The cast of Once (Barbara Broccoli, John N. Hart Jr, Patrick Milling Smith, Frederick Zollo, Brian Carmody, Michael G. Wilson, Orin Wolf, John Frost, New York Theatre Workshop, Melbourne Theatre Company) Direction: John Tiffany: Once (Barbara Broccoli, John N. Hart Jr, Patrick Milling Smith, Frederick Zollo, Brian Carmody, Michael G. Wilson, Orin Wolf, John Frost, New York Theatre Workshop, Melbourne Theatre Company) Betty Pounder Award for Choreography: Jerome Robbins and Susan Kikuchi: The King And I (John Frost, Opera Australia) Musical Direction: Martin Lowe and Kellie Dickerson: Once (Barbara Broccoli, John N. Hart Jr, Patrick Milling Smith, Frederick Zollo, Brian Carmody, Michael G. Wilson, Orin Wolf, John Frost, New York Theatre Workshop, Melbourne Theatre Company) Sound Design: Clive Goodwin: Once (Barbara Broccoli, John N. Hart Jr, Patrick Milling Smith, Frederick Zollo, Brian Carmody, Michael G. Wilson, Orin Wolf, John Frost, New York Theatre Workshop, Melbourne Theatre Company) Costume and Set Design: Roger Kirk (Costume) and Brian Thomson (Set): The King And I (John Frost, Opera Australia) Lighting Design: Natasha Katz: Once (Barbara Broccoli, John N. Hart Jr, Patrick Milling Smith, Frederick Zollo, Brian Carmody, Michael G. Wilson, Orin Wolf, John Frost, New York Theatre Workshop, Melbourne Theatre Company) Production: Once (Barbara Broccoli, John N. Hart Jr, Patrick Milling Smith, Frederick Zollo, Brian Carmody, Michael G. Wilson, Orin Wolf, John Frost, New York Theatre Workshop, Melbourne Theatre Company) Opera Direction: Kasper Holten: Eugene Onegin (OperaAustralia) Production: Eugene Onegin: Opera Australia Conductor: Guillaume Tourniaire: Eugene Onegin (Opera Australia) Female Lead: Nicole Car: ‘Tatyana’Eugene Onegin (Opera Australia) Female In A Supporting Role: Dominica Matthews: ‘Madame Larina’ Eugene Onegin (OperaAustralia) Male Lead: Barry Ryan: ‘Scully’ The Riders (Victorian Opera, Malthouse Theatre) Male InASupporting Role: Daniel Sumegi: ‘Sparafucile’Rigoletto (Opera Australia)

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Racing Briefs

In front at M’borough ■ At Maryborough on Thursday, Alan and Amy Tubbs were again winners, when Milliondollar Wave greeted the judge in the Crameri Export Quality Chaff 3-Y-0 Pace over 2190 metres in a rate of 2-00.9.

A most consistent gelding by Million Dollar Cam from Im Making Waves, Milliondollar Wave starting from gate three on the second line was sent forward shortly after the start to park outside the pacemaker Spirit Of Miranda where Amy dictated the terms of the race.

Surging clear in the last lap, Milliondollar Wave had 2.9 metres to spare at the finish, defeating Bisping which trailed the leader, with Soho Berlin (one/three) third.

Winners from West ■ The Western part of Victoria and South East South Australia provided every winner of the seven event card at Hamilton trots on Wednesday April 22.

Cudgee trainer/driver John Meade loves the squaregaiter and landed the Allbenz Park Trotters Handicp for T0 or better class over 2160 metres with lightly raced 5-Y-0 Village Jasper/Glory Girl gelding Glorious Finale.

Raced by John and father-in-law Len Fahey who turned 80 a month or so back, Glorious Finale having start number four was given a sweet passage from barrier three trailing the pacemaker New Divide who started outside him.

Easing into the clear on turning, Glorious Finale finished full of running to record a 3.6 metre victory in a rate of 2-06.7 over the leader, with The Final Cut third after following the pair.

Burned across field ■ Terang's Darren Cole combined with John Caldow to snare the McKellar Family Pace for C0 class over 1660 metres with improving 5-Y-0 Western Edition/Berry Promising gelding Promising Edition in a rate of 1-57.4.

Burning across the face of the field from outside the front line to lead, Promising Edition ran his rivals ragged, scoring by 8.3 metres in advance of Never Let Me Go (one/one) and Coccinella which trailed the winner.

Scorched to the lead ■ Kerryn Manning's former Kiwi mare Shes JustA Delight made it two from two in Aus by taking the Bandicoot Motel Pace for C1 class over 2160 metres.

Taking a mares concession, the 4-Y-0 daughter of Bettors Delight and Love The Look was sent forward from gate four to assume control on the first turn and was never headed, winning by 5.9 metres from So Demanding (one/two - three wide last lap) and Our Supreme Guy which followed the winner after scorching to the lead from outside the front row as the mobile pulled away. The mile rate 2-01.2.

Ran home best ■ Terang mother and son - Marg & Jason Lee were successful with smart 4-Y-0 Grinfromeartoear/ Inasafeplace gelding Keayang Storm in the Prestonholme Nursery Pace C2 & C3 class over 1660 metres.

Given a beaut trip from gate five trailing the running poleline leader Manningham Park, Keayang Storm ran home best to blouse Manningham Park over the concluding stages by a neck in a brilliant 154.4. Kyms Boy (one/one) finished third.

Greeted the judge ■ Heywood's Rebecca East combined withArarat's Michael Bellman to capture the Graeme & Maureen Wood 3-Y-o Pace over 1660 metres with Jeremes Jet/Summer Fairytale colt Hes The One in a rate of 1-56. Leading out from gate four, Hes The One always looked the winner in the run and had three metres up his sleeve on greeting the judge from Mygirljo which raced in the open from the bell, with Vincent Van Oro third after trailing the winner.

Big day out for Tubbs duo ■ Bacchus Marsh father and daughter - Alan and Amy Tubbs enjoyed a great day at the Geelong fixture held on Monday April 20, winning three races on the program, Alan training two and Amy driving the trio.

Extremely talented Artistic Fella/Marilyn Macray gelding Macterra Lad was first to greet the judge, taking out the Corio Waste Management Pace for C1 class over 2100 metres.

Taken back to last from outside the front row, Macterra Lad commenced a forward move three wide solo in the final circuit to outstay his rivals in defeating a death-seating Blackwarrior and the pacemaker Blacks A Beauty in a mile rate of 200.9.

Last start Shepparton winner Drunken Maniac continued on his winning way when successful in the Geelong Trots Trotters Mobile for T1 & T2 class over 2100 metres.

Settling in the one/one position from gate two, Amy not happy with the tempo vacated the prime spot to park outside the leader and favourite Kyvalley Vice racing for the bell.

Showing great tenacity, Drunken Maniac a four year old gelded son of Bacardi Lindy and Hiona Mountain raced by Paul and Brian Dobson, Frank (Mickey) Spillane and Pat Camm, proved too strong over the concluding stages for Kyvalley Vice to register a neck victory in a rate of 2-04, with Monica My Dear (one/one last lap) third.

Baker’s Delight

Harness Racing

This Week’s Meetings

■ Wednesday - Horsham/Kilmore, Thursday Maryborough/Ballarat, Friday - Shepparton, Saturday - Melton, Sunday - Elmore @ Bendigo, Monday - Warragul, Tuesday - Terang.

Horses To Follow

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Conroy's 4-Y-0 Tennotrump/Glory Lass gelding No Trumps No Glory finally broke his maiden status at start number 28 by taking the Lara Lions 24th May Trotters Mobile for T0 class over 2100 metres.

Settling at the tail of the field from the extreme draw, No Trumps No Glory raced three wide solo for the last lap to defeat a death-seating Ruby Victory which crossed to lead in the final circuit.

Miss Cosmos (three back the markers) finished third. The mile rate 2-05.2.

Heathbern Star. Having his first outing since August last year, Heathbern Star was driven with plenty of aggression from gate three on the second line to go forward and arrest the lead away from Clontarf Guy. Travelling kindly, Heathbern Star showed no signs of stopping to register a 8 metre victory in advance of Tarleton Joe (three back the markers) and Tooram Lad which raced in the open. The mile rate 2-00.2.

Forward

■ The Northern Shoes Celebrating 85 Years ■ Shrewd Kialla Pace for C2 & C3 class (Shepparton) trainer Dave over 2240 metres went the Farrar produced a nice way of in-form ex-Kiwi 5juvenile by the name of A Y-0 Sutter Hanover/Im A Shade Bettor to land The Star gelding Fernco Bobby Northern Shoe Store G for Strathfieldsaye Mildura 2-Y-0 Pace over trainer Julie Douglas with 1750 metres at the Nyah husband Glenn in the HRC fixture held at Swan sulky.

Hill on Wednesday when Spending most of the making his race debut. race from gate four on the Driven by Mark Pitt, A second line with only Ona Shade Bettor was eased Rocky Beach behind him, from gate four at the start Fernco Bobby G comto possie five back along menced a forward move the markers, with Smooth in the last lap, being ac■ Five year old Bettors Felicity leading from gate commodated by Dobop Delight/Saabette mare three before surrendering (one/two) coming out Lierre Noir trained by to Maddys Miracle (gate ahead of him.

Amy, landed the Geelong six) shortly after the start.

Easing four wide on Advertiser Pace for C5 & Angling to be one/one rac- the home turn, Fernco C6 class over 2100 metres ing for the bell after Bobby G sprinted brilin a rate of 1-58.7.

Comicopera (four back liantly on straightening to Showing plenty of the markers) eased away have the race in his keepspeed from gate four to im- from the markers, A Shade ing in the twinkle of an mediately lob outside the Bettor followed eye, scoring by 7.1 metres poleline leader Discrimi- Comicopera which untouched from Dobop nation, Leirre Noir ended dashed clear approaching and Kimcandash along up three back in the run- the final bend into the the sprint lane off the back ning line as both Angus T straight, before running of the front runner. The Jones and Another Safari home stylishly to record a mile rate 2-00.2. made forward moves.

1.9 metre victory in 2-00.9 Eased three wide in the over Dallas Nikolay from back straight on the final last, with Comicopera occasion, Lierre Noir close up in third place.

■ Veteran Meltonian when asked for a supreme Graeme Lang and son effort on turning, ran home Gavin snared the Talbot strongly to gain the day by Bowling Club Trotters a nose over Balance Point ■ Strathfieldsaye trainer/ Mobile for T1 class over along the sprint lane after driver Glenn Douglas has 2190 metres at following Discrimination enjoyed plenty of success Maryborough with honest who ended up third 2.4 at both Nyah and Swan 4-Y-0 Malhana Gindin/ metres away.

Hill and landed The North- Wagonette mare ern Shoe Store Swan Hill Maybelina.

Pace for C0 class over Maybelina ran home 2240 metres with 4-Y-0 solidly to blouse the leader ■ K o r w e i n g u b o o r a G r i n f r o m e a r t o e a r / Secret Kiss in the shadtrainer/driver Eddie Coverde gelding ows of the post by a head.

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■ Mar Nien, Heza Warhorse, A Nip Will Do, Cardon Merger, Manningham Park, Jialiner, Comicopera, Roll With It, Citysneak, Dallas Nikolay, One Golden Day, inittowinit.

Joy for border pair

■ Mount Gambier border hoppers Adams Express and Major Cruiser both won their respective races.

Adams Express a 6-Y-0 gelded son of Life Sign and Waratah Way trained by Ken Dihm snared the Hannah Kearney Vicbred Pace for C1 class over 1660 metres with Kerryn Manning in the sulky.

Given a lovely passage one/one from gate two on the second line with Case Forty Seven (gate two) leading, Adams Express prevailed over Sign Of Oro which charged home late from three back the markers to go down by 6.9 metres and Ima Little Tycoon from last in a mile rate of 1-55.6.

Four year old Major In Art/Sancerre gelding Major Cruiser trained by Des Glynn and driven by Greg Sugars, enjoyed a cosy trip from the pole in the Barry Pollock Plastamasta Pace for C0 class over 2160 metres following the Warrnambool hope Zermanion (gate four).

Easing to the outside on turning, Major Cruiser ran home stylishly to record an easy 8.8 metre victory over Zermanion in 1-57.8. Nelsondale (one/ one) finished third after moving outside the pacemaker on the final bend.

Slugging finish

■ Stawell trainer Owen Martin was victorious with 5-Y-0 Armbro Operative/Maori Emm Emm Dee gelding Bee Arr Dee in the Evie & Harry Jennings Trotters Handicap for T0 or better class over 2240 metres, at the Nyah meeting at Swan Hill on Wednesday, returning a pedestrian mile rate of 2-07.5.

With Nathan Jack in the sulky, Bee Arr Dee making his 15th appearance at the races settled three back the markers from barrier five, before moving to park in the open at the bell.

In a slugging finish, Bee Arr Dee prevailed by a half neck over Cudgee Boy along the sprint lane from three back the markers at the bell, with the pacemaker Majestic Flash a neck away in third place.

The odds-on favourite The Majestic (30 metres) was tailed off after making an error running into the first turn.

Solo second line

■ Local Woorinen trainer Joe Costa's professional five year old Dream Away/Royal Beach Girl gelding Beachstar chalked up his 6th victory on the Swan Hill circuit and 10th overall, when victorious in the Jennings Northern Shoe Stores Pace for C5 or better class over 2240 metres at the Nyah HRC meeting on Wednesday.

Raced by the Costa family, Beachstar with regular reinsman Michael Bellman in the sulky was quickly away from a solo second line draw to follow both the Boort Cup winner Gollahman and Life Of Ted (a stablemate of the winner) in the moving line, with Shepparton speedster Diamond Ace leading from gate two.

Moving three wide approaching the home turn, Beachstar ran to the wire strongly to defeat the inform Mildura hope Givsirabone along the sprint lane after trailing the pacemaker, with Gangster Boy (four back the markers) third. The mile rate 1-58.3.

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