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A LEGACY LOST Who was Bill Ferguson, and why have we forgotten?

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7 DAYS

DEBATE

PEOPLE

PUZZLES

The week’s news from around the region

John Williamson on our national symbol

Michael Milton living life in the fast lane

Including our full page Big Weekender Crossword

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FROM THE EDITOR

Friday 23.01.2015 to Sunday 25.01.2015 Local memorial

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Remembering Lateesha – ten years on

Jen Cowley editor@dubboweekender.com.au facebook.com/WeekenderDubbo Twitter @DubboWeekender

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A legacy lost Who was Bill Ferguson, and why have we forgotten?

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Drawing the line Yvette Aubusson Foley looks at the power and relevance of satire as a tool of political and social commentary.

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Michael Milton

PEOPLE

Natalie Holmes talked to this inspiring man about love, limbs and life in the fast lane.

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Janine Perrett

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Meet the influential player throughout the Australian business community for close to 30 years PAGE 38

In the Kitchen

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Scrumptious recipes from well know local Virginia Carter PAGE 50

In Review Natalie Holmes speaks on Russell Crowe's new flick, the Water Diviner PAGE 58

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No surprises when the warm fuzzies go cold W ELL, that didn’t last long.

No, not the break from work (although they usually tend to pull up a bit short one end).

The whole peace on earth and goodwill to all men thing – remember that? Me neither.

My festive benevolence began to wobble somewhere around the 27th round of washing up; fell to its knees during an ill-advised schlepp through the post-Christmas sales and was finally killed off last week by the dentally-deficient charmer with three snotty urchins in tow who, after an accidental bump with my supermarket trolley, demanded to know “what the f**k” was my problem (oh, honey, where exactly would you like me to start?).

So if maintaining harmony in my own little patch of the first world was a challenge, it was overly ambitious to hope for amity on a national, let alone global scale.

We rode the hashtag-induced rainbow of magnanimity most of the way to the new year, and for a while there it seemed 2015 might see us all sitting around in a circle holding hands and singing Kumbaya.

Then things went pear shaped.

Many of those who vowed – one hand on heart, the other on the keyboard – to “ride with” the vulnerable, apparently bailed out at the first stop.

The Martin Place siege and its awful, heart-breaking outcome set off a tsunami of solidarity – the victims were heroes; the survivors equally courageous; the cops our bullet-proof protectors.

Until a legion of keyboard warriors, having apparently gained their law degrees and training in tactical response and negotiation over the Chrissy break, decided they knew much better how the siege, and its aftermath, shoulda, woulda, coulda played out.

The police were at first lauded for their bravery – for keeping what could have been a much higher head-count of the dead to two, as ghastly as even that number is. But soon, that wasn’t enough. “Why didn’t they go in all guns blazing earlier? When they had the shot, why didn’t they take it?” Hollywood has a lot to answer for.

“Why didn’t they take up the apparent offers from Islamic “leaders” to negotiate with the man? Why didn’t they just give him his ISIS flag?” Sure thing – let untrained religious wannabes take control of a lethally unpredictably situation with 20 lives hanging in the balance. Yeah, that’ll work.

Then came the news that one of the innocent victims had been killed by shrapnel from a police issue bullet. Cue the cop bashing.

I’m reliably informed that each of those officers took their first steps into the Lindt Café fully believing they were about to die for the greater good. I’m equally reliably informed they’re all struggling with the posttrauma fall-out from that night. Imagine how helpful it is to have the thug that is public opinion lobbing grenades over the social media parapet. Courage under fire took on a whole nasty new meaning.

Not that we don’t have a right, a duty even, to question and challenge – but the criticism has taken on a vicious edge so at odds with the initial warm fuzzy philosophy as to be almost laughable. Almost.

Those who escaped with their lives were at first the subject of our quick and sympathetic embrace – at least for a while.

Then the Reverend Fred Nile weighed in with a blindingly hypocritical but deeply telling display of pretense, grabbing headlines by suggesting “the only man” in that café was the Islamic extremist gunman. The other men, he reckoned – the ones who either simply went to work that morning or dropped in for a quick coffee; the ones who were held hostage at gunpoint; the ones who almost certainly believed they would die that day for no reason other than being in the wrong place at the wrong time – those men should be condemned, the Reverend Fred says, because they didn’t do anything to save the womenfolk.

Then a self-righteous, clueless public, frothing at the mouth with anticipation of the survivors telling their stories, decided those same people – the ones who just a minute ago were the objects of our fervent support – shouldn’t be paid for sharing their experience with the national media.

Really? Why not? We’re not talking Chopper Read or Schapelle Corby here – these are people who, through no fault of their own, found themselves staring down the barrel of their mortality at the hands of a man intent on murder. And survived to tell the tale – a tale we ALL want to hear.

“Blood money”, squealed the detractors from their perch on cyberspace’s moral high ground. As if, placed in that hideous situation, they wouldn’t do exactly the same.

Why wouldn’t these people ask for payment from media outlets that will no doubt make considerable profit from their subjects’ suffering?

So much for the power of hashtag slacktivism. Can anyone spell “hypocrisy”?

Ah – the more things change, the more they stay the same. Happy New Year.

HEY say a change is as good as a holiday – and I’m taking two bites at that cherry this week.

By the time you read this, I’ll be in Cambodia – and hoping from afar that you all enjoy the big changes we’ve made to your Weekender. We’ve been busily beavering away to make your weekend read bigger, bolder, better – and I think you’ll agree that our work is worth the two bucks. Head on in and you’ll find all the favourites you know and love – and you’ll be pleased to see some old faces returning to the fold, and a whole long weekend’s worth of quality local content to inform, entertain and inspire you.

We’re keen for your feedback, so off you go and enjoy and I’ll see you when I get back. You’ll be in capable hands while I’m gone – and if you’re very good (and the technology gods are kind) I might even send you a postcard.

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Ring road needed to bypass tragedy Trucking expert calls on Dubbo City Council to act now

BY JOHN RYAN N JOURNALIST

AFTER another horror weekend on the Newell Highway on Dubbo’s outskirts, the city’s leading freight expert has called on Dubbo City Council (DCC) to start aggressively planning for a truck bypass sooner rather than later.

Dubbo has a huge amount of light vehicle traffic and if trucks weren’t in the mix, the chances of these types of fatal collisions would be vastly reduced, according to John Morris.

Since beginning his career as a truckie decades ago, Morris has advised state and federal governments on road strategies to manage heavy vehicles and currently sits on the Newell Highway Taskforce and Dubbo City Council’s traffic committee.

He says the establishment of a bypass is the most basic common sense to reduce the risk.

“I think DCC doesn’t see it as a high enough priority – getting the design, applying for funding”, Mr Morris told Dubbo Weekender.

“It took us four years just to get funding to finish the Brocklehurst intersection and that was less than a million dollars, so we should be pushing hard now to get things rolling.

“It can’t wait decades, we need a bypass sooner than that.”

He wants a strategic plan drawn up to give the city a second high level crossing to prevent the traffic chaos that occurred during the last floods when the two-lane L.H. Ford Bridge had to cater for all traffic transiting the city.

And he believes talk of a lowlevel Tamworth Street bridge or duplicating the L.H. Ford Bridge won’t cut it. These, he says, would create major congestion issues without addressing the problems facing truck drivers and the motorists who share the roads with them.

Dic Dubbo mayor Mathew Dick-

erson says a 2012 transportation strategy identified a “freightway ring road” to be built over the next 30 years, and that pre-construction work was earmarked for the city by mid-2016.

“In a bid to efficiently and effectively divert heavy vehicles away from the city, a northern freightway ring is planned to incorporate Richardson Road and Purvis Lane between the Newell and Mitchell highways.

The plan is for a complete ring of truck routes to carry trucks to the warehousing, freight and distribution centres to the north and west of Dubbo.”

He says it’s “fortunate” that the city’s existing four-lane thoroughfare through built-up areas is “well capable of handling” the more than 1500 trucks that use it each day.

“There is no pressing need for a full-blown bypass road.

Dubbo is more akin to Bathurst and Lithgow where the highway skirts the CBD. Nevertheless, plans are being made now to begin implementation of the northern freightway ring road so that as traffic volumes grow, heavy vehicle traffic can, over time, be directed away from the city centre.”

ORANGE City Council lobbied hard for funding and was suc-

` It can’t wait decades, we need a bypas bypass sooner than that.”

– Newell Highway Taskforce member and long-time trucking advocate, John Morris advocate

cessful in building a northern distributor road which has taken most of the heavy vehicle traffic out of what was one of the region’s most congested CBDs. Since then, Finemores Transport has opened a huge freight depot on the bypass and a shopping centre has also been built to take advantage of the passing traffic.

Orange City Council says the project was so successful plans are underway to build a southern link which will create a ring road encircling the city.

Mayor John Davis told Dubbo Weekender livestock transports have vanished from the city centre, with virtually the only truck movements in the CBD those delivering to local businesses, the council using a signage strategy promoting a “heavy vehicle” bypass to get trucks onto the ring road but keep tourists and passing motorists shopping in the city.

“It’s been fantastic – a huge success,” Cr Davis said.

“Dubbo has far more truck movements and commercial traffic so that city would have much more to gain than Orange, and it’s been wonderful for us.

“It also means locals who want to get from one side of the city to the other can now bypass the main street and get there in half the time, so everyone wins.”

Work on the southern bypass section began last Tuesday and aims to link up a new suburb being built around Orange’s massive hospital development, where more than 1500 new

Above: A semi-trailer makes the downhill run into Dubbo, past the Newell Highway-Blackbutt Rd intersection that was the scene of a tragic accident on Saturday afternoon. Left: Orange City mayor John Davis. MAIN PHOTO: DUBBO WEEKENDER/STEVE COWLEY

blocks have come online.

Anyone who’s spent time lined up behind 10 or 20 BDoubles at the west Dubbo roundabout will be pleased to hear there could be a short-cut to end years of bottleneck pain.

Member for Dubbo and Deputy Premier Troy Grant says if the Coalition retains power at the March state election, $3.9 billion of the $6 billion earmarked for regional infrastructure from revenue garnered from the leasing of the poles and wires will go towards country roads – of that, half a billion will be dedicated to the Newell Highway.

And, he says, establishing freight bypasses around Dubbo and other centres is front of mind, with the city the junction of the Melbourne/Brisbane and Sydney/Adelaide routes as well as the Golden Highway to Newcastle.

“There are no specific projects but we will have the funding capacity to actually plan and make the best decisions, to address the issue,” Mr Grant said. “We’ve repeatedly identified the Newell as one of the main transport corridors, this fund will enable us to accelerate development to get the solutions we need.

“Whether a ring road or a bypass is found to be the ideal solution, we’ll be able to bring forward plans that were 20 and 30 years in the future and deliver on them.”

Dubbo’s ALP candidate Stephen Lawrence is against privatising the poles and wires, even in a long term lease, to fund infrastructure – he believes it’s false economy.

“The state loses a billion and a half of revenue each year if it privatises the poles and wires, so it’s a bit like a short term sugar hit,” Mr Lawrence said. “I support a Dubbo truck bypass in principle and I’ve seen them work well in other places.

“The ALP will be announcing infrastructure projects and strategies, and how we’ll fund them, in the lead-up to the election.”

In a week when Fletchers International began using their own brand new locomotives to ship commodities from its Dubbo rail freight interchange, the message from Roger Fletcher couldn’t be simpler.

“It’s got to be there – they’re doing it in other towns,” he said.

Disclaimer: John Ryan owns land south of Dubbo on the Newell Highway and lives in Tamworth St.

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New group to champion Wellington arts

BY KIM V. GOLDSMITH MITH JOURNALIST HE cultural life of Wellington is due to take a higher profile this year through an injection of energy, coordination and hopefully funding, for a newly formed arts group in the town.

Wellington Arts is taking shape under the direction of its inaugural committee led by local business owner, community volunteer and Wellington Council’s regional arts board representative, Danielle Anderson.

Anderson says the new peak arts organisation structure will apply a business model to the support it plans to offer artists and cultural organisations in Wellington.

“We want to help artists and arts groups to grow and expand their creative businesses and ideas, working collaboratively as well.

“We aim to link local artists, performers and arts organisations to regional networks, such as the regional arts boards and other relevant organisations, as well as communicating what’s happening to the broader community,” she explains.

A launch is being planned for later in February, with Wellington Arts committee members now anxiously awaiting a Wellington Council meeting on Tuesday, at which they’re hoping to see their detailed submission for funding discussed.

Wellington Council’s director of strategic and planning services, Peter Harlow confirms a submission has come to council for consideration at the next ordinary meeting on January 28.

However, councillors have yet to look at it.

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Wellington Arts committee members Danielle Anderson, Therese Woldhuis, Zoe Taylor and Marlene Jones. PHOTO: LOUISE AUSTIN

He says council would be happy to work with an arts group if the group meets its desired criteria.

“Last year council managed a tender process, which among other requirements, requested a program of activities to be funded from $30,000 of council support.

“There was also some consideration that this funding would be renewed for a number of years to support a professionally delivered program of arts and cultural activities to meet some objectives in our community strategic plan.

“We were unable to attract a high quality submission and are still considering the best way to achieve that outcome for the Wellington region.”

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Remembering Late

BY JEN COWLEY EDITOR

ITH the river gums humming above in the hot early January morning, the native birds singing and the river flowing quietly past, it wasn’t hard to imagine the spirit of Lateesha Nolan close by.

On January 4 – ten years since her disappearance – people from all walks of life gathered to watch and remember as a fitting memorial to the young murder victim was unveiled at Sandy Beach, on the banks of the Macquarie on Dubbo’s outskirts.

People from all walks of life made up the sombre crowd – including a number of high profile bigwigs, from NSW Acting Premier and local member Troy Grant, to Assistant Police Commissioner Geoff McKechnie to head of NSW Homicide Detective Superintendent Michael Willing.

But it wasn’t about the top brass or the dignitaries. It was about a young mum, cruelly ripped from her family and her four young children by a man she trusted – her cousin Malcolm Naden – a decade ago.

The story of her disappearance and murder, and the murder of her cousin Kristy Scholes which sparked the most high profile manhunt this nation has ever seen, was a saga already well known to locals, but which for the duration of its eight years, also captured the imagination of a nation.

Naden evaded arrest for eight years, finally being captured in March 2012 and sentenced in 2013 to life behind bars for the murder of his two cousins.

However, this month’s unveiling of a permanent memorial to Lateesha was as much a celebration of her life as a commemoration of her disappearance.

The memorial, which is made from robust metal and concrete with an elegant black marble plaque, is the work of emerging young local artist Dylan Goolagong, whose design was chosen for its representation of the soil, the land, the river and the stars and sky – all the elements of the land of which Lateesha was, and will remain, a part.

Sandy Beach was chosen because it was there, just 100m from the site where the memorial now stands, that Lateesha’s abandoned car was found on January 4, 2005, and from where she disappeared.

But the Sandy Beach site, according to Detective Senior Constable Sue-Ellen Scott – who, along with Detective Sergeant Mark Meredith, was instrumental in arranging the

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memorial – is also a place of more gentle reminiscence for the family than the Butler’s Falls area where, according to the man responsible for her murder, the grim end to this young mother’s life came.

Both Scott and Meredith, who have been involved with

the case throughout its entirety, have remained close to the Nolan family and to Lateesha’s four children. Detective Superintendent Michael “Mick” Willing, who was Orana Local Area Crime Manager when Lateesha disappeared and, as fate would have it, was head of the NSW

Homicide Squad when Naden was captured, has remained inextricably linked with the case and the family. Willing made the pilgrimage to Dubbo for the memorial service, and to be with the Nolan family, his colleagues and the community he still calls “home”.

The picturesque site, with its towering gums and view of the Macquarie River bending in its bed, is also a place of much public activity, and Scott says the memorial will serve as a reminder for many locals and visitors alike, of Lateesha’s life.

“It’s great that so many peo-

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eesha – ten years on

PHOTOS: ELLA MCMILLAN

This memorial is for the family to remember Lateesha, and for a reminder for the community. But for us, it’s also a reminder to never give up.” – Detective Senior Constable Sue-Ellen Scott

ple will be able to share in her memory – and that will serve to ensure that it’s her legacy, rather than the awful story of how she was lost, that will be remembered,” says Scott. “The focus is her – not her murderer.”

During the ceremony, Scott read a letter penned for the occasion by Lateesha’s heartbroken mother Joan Nolan, who has never recovered from the shock.

Through Scott, she told of “the most agonising day” of her life – “one that changed me forever”.

Losing her daughter through murder, she said, was “unfair, unjust and unnatural; unexpected and the most painful experience”.

Lateesha’s uncle, Ted Lancaster – who has often been spokesperson for the grieving family – thanked police involved with the case, in particular Scott, Meredith and Willing, for their unshakeable determination to find the answers the family so desperately sought and seeks.

“They have become part of our family,” he said.

During the memorial, Acting Premier and Member for

Dubbo Troy Grant – himself a serving police officer at the time of Lateesha’s disappearance – presented his three former colleagues with the NSW Parliament’s Dubbo Electorate award for Contribution to the Community.

In a move Sue-Ellen Scott says touched her as much as receiving the prestigious accolade, Grant asked Lateesha’s mother Joan to present the awards.

“It was an honour to receive the award,” she said. “But for Joan to present it to us was really special. Mick and Mero and I feel very honoured and privileged to be taken into Lateesha’s family’s life.

Lateesha’s remains have never been recovered, and in addressing the gathering, Willing spoke as much as a local boy as boss of NSW Homicide when he said he will not consider the case closed until that final piece of the puzzle is found.

Sue-Ellen Scott echoes the sentiment.

“This memorial is for the family to remember Lateesha, and for a reminder for the community. But for us, it’s also a reminder to never give up.”

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Seven Days

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The week’s top stories from around the region Compiled by NATALIE HOLMES

Dark days on the road for year’s beginning A SERIES of vehicle accidents across the Central West have resulted in several of fatalities, casting a dark shadow over New Year on the region’s roads.

A 73-year-old woman was killed last Saturday after the car in which she was a passenger collided with a truck on the Newell Highway near Dubbo.

The 76-year-old male driver of the car suffered a number of injuries and was taken to Dubbo Base Hospital for treatment but died the following day.

The male truck driver was not injured but also taken to Dubbo Base Hospital for mandatory blood and urine testing.

Police are now investigating the circumstances surrounding the crash and will prepare a report for the information of the Coroner.

A man also died following an off-road trail bike crash near Orange last Sunday.

The 43-year-old had been trail bike riding through the Mullion Range State Forest with a 13-year-old female pillion passenger who suffered minor injuries in the crash.

A seven-year-old boy was killed near Walgett after a quad bike rolled on top of him at a property on Pian Creek Road, also on Sunday.

Another man died on Sunday afternoon following a crash between a motorbike and a 4WD on Bathurst’s Mount Panorama. The 43-year-old was riding a motorbike with a 14-year-old female pillion passenger when it collided with a Toyota Prado on a section of the mountain known as ‘The Esses’.

The rider died at the scene of the crash while his 14-year-old passenger suffered a number of injuries and was airlifted to Westmead Hospital.

The 4WD driver and passenger did not suffer any injuries.

Injuries caused by exploding drum A 41-YEAR-OLD man was also seriously injured in Orange after the explosion of a 44-gallon drum he was cutting with a plasma cutter. The accident occurred at a plumbing business and resulted in serious fractures to the man’s head and upper body. The accident prompted WorkCover’s Peter Dunphy to issue a warning to anyone undertaking work of

Newell Highway traffic was being diverted around the crash scene on the outskirts of Dubbo late Sunday Saturdayafternoon. afternoon.

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this nature.

“This is an extremely dangerous activity which has resulted in a number of workers being killed or seriously injured in recent years, including a 41-yearold worker who was injured when the 44 gallon drum he was cutting exploded at a business at Bomen, north of Wagga Wagga in January 2013.”

Dunphy said hot work which may cause an explosion should never be conducted near items that contain chemical residue, especially solvents. The man remains in an induced coma as a result of his injuries.

Coal seam gas the hot topic LABOR candidate Stephen Lawrence (pictured below) has hosted the first of a series of public forums intendntended to inform the community in the lead-up ead-up to the State election on in March. The topic of the day was coal seam gas fracking and Sally Forrstrom of the Gas Field Free Dubbo Region group atm tended the forum er. as a guest speaker.

A diverse group of rs, supporters, farmers, st s env i ron menta l ist

and others attended to hear both Forrstrom and Lawrence speak.

“I think community concern around CSG will be a prominent issue in the upcoming state election across the Dubbo electorate,” Lawrence said.

“The reality is we can’t afford to be complacent just because recent CSG applications in the region were not granted.”

“Drought-proof” water plan on display IN order to continue to meet best-practice water management, the city’s Demand Management Plan and Drought Management Plan will be revised by Dubbo City Council staff, following a period of public display.

Counci Council’s technical services director Stewart McLeod said the draft draf plans outline how Council aims a to achieve efficient w water use within the community.

They also outcomm line initiatives which will ensure the city does en not run out of water n during prolonged dry periods.

“Water security is an “W element of the iimportant im po Dubbo 2036 Community Dubb Strategic Plan which aims Strat a high standto achieve a ard of living through the

provision of a superior water supply and long term options to ‘drought proof’ the City,” he said.

The Water Entitlement Management and Trading Strategy is also now on public display in key locations.

Future doctors in the making THERE’S been a brand new intake of medical professionals in the city with the commencement of seven interns at Dubbo Base Hospital.

During their one-year internship, the graduates will complete compulsory terms in the specialties of medicine, surgery and emergency.

This training is incredibly challenging but plays a pivotal role in ensuring patients are provided with high-class, quality and specialised health care well into the future.

New home building laws NEW home building laws came into effect in NSW on January 15, offering greater protection from shoddy construction work.

Dubbo MP and Deputy Premier Troy Grant welcomed the new laws which will protect consumers.

“Anyone who continues to

carry out unlicensed construction work or don’t have the necessary insurance now faces up to a year behind bars,” he said.

“Licence eligibility has been tightened to stamp out illegal ‘phoenixing’, which is where a company closes down leaving large unpaid debts, only to resurface as a different company trading under a different name.”

Minor residential work worth under $5000 can now be carried out without a licence to reduce red tape for consumers who want to get minor work done around their property.

Specialist work such as plumbing, electrical and air conditioning will still need a licence regardless of the cost of work.

The change brings NSW in line with other states such as Victoria, WA and Tasmania.

Thieves target rare gem POLICE have charged two men following a break and enter where a rare opal was stolen from a rural property near Gunnedah last month.

The missing opal was later discovered by detectives in a car parked at a motel in Lightning Ridge, along with two large knives.

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Chief Executive of the Western NSW Local Health District, Scott McLachlan (left), speaks to the media during yesterday’s hospital funding announcement, watched by Member for Dubbo Troy Grant, and NSW Minister of Health, Jillian Skinner. PHOTO: DUBBO WEEKENDER/KAITLYN RENNIE

with property suspected of being the proceeds of crime, attempting to dispose of stolen property and possession of a knife in a public place.

Assault charge for Cumnock man A MAN will face court over alleged assault, dangerous driving and high-range drink driving offences near Molong this week.

After reports of an assault at a home in Cumnock, it is alleged that the 39-year-old used his vehicle to ram a police car.

He was arrested and taken to Orange Police Station where he underwent a breath test, which allegedly returned a positive result of 0.181.

The 39-year-old man was charged with two counts of common assault, high range

PCA, and two counts of menacing/furious driving and was refused bail prior to his court appearance.

Drugs seized in Wellington A SEARCH on a Wellington home has uncovered cannabis, a bow and arrow, a firearm scope, cash, along with power tools, jewellery, whitegoods and clothing, all suspected of being stolen.

Two men – aged 41 and 25 – were spoken to at the house.

Inquiries are continuing and charges are expected to be laid.

Arts projects funded across the Orana region NINE projects from across the Orana region have received their share of $19,405 as part of the Country Arts Support Pro-

gram (CASP).

CASP provides support to artists in locally initiated arts and cultural projects. The aim is to provide access to arts activities for regional communities; to encourage communities to work together on cultural projects; to foster cultural diversity in the region and to ensure that regional and rural areas have an artistic voice.

Across the Orana region, there was a huge demand for the annual small grants program in 2015, with 13 different community organisations requesting more than $37,000 in funds.

The successful recipients were: Warrumbungle Shire Council, Coonabarabran ($1500), Ngarru Mayin Elders Aboriginal Corporation, Narromine

Local Land Services board meets for strategic planning TEAM leaders and board members of the Central West Local Land Services met for a strategic planning day this week.

Their plan was to develop local strategies to meet lo-

cal needs, set goals and key performance indicators, develop marketing, communication and engagement plans and identify priorities and set direction for the organisation.

Pictured are Director Jenny Bradley, Chairman Tom Gavel with facilitator Rod Griffith at the recent LLS board meeting.

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THE Dubbo Base Hospital redevelopment will receive a further a $150 million from State coffers if the coalition is re-elected at the upcoming election. That was the message from health minister Jillian Skinner who was in town yesterday (Thursday, January 22) to announce the next stage of development, which she said would be funded and delivered if the NSW Liberals and Nationals were re-elected.

The next stages of Dubbo Hospital’s much-needed redevelopment will mean the realisation of a dream for clinicians and the local community.

Once completed the Stage

Three and Four Dubbo Hospital upgrade will deliver a new emergency department, imaging facilities, ambulatory care centre and cardiac catheterisation lab in a new three storey building, as well as a new medical impatient ward which completes the northern wing of the Stage One and Two Clinical Services Building.

Upgrades to oncology, cardiovascular and stroke units will also form part of the next stage to allow the intensive care unit to expand and meet the growing demand.

Deputy Premier and Dubbo MP, Troy Grant, joined Skinner on a brief visit to the hospital.

This image was captured at the 2014 Cementa workshop – Hack to the Future. Cementa Incorporated has successfully secured funding again for 2015 as part of the Country Arts Support Program (CASP).

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($1838), Macquarie Regional Library, Dubbo ($1975), Mudgee Performing Arts Society, Mudgee, Kandos, Gulgong ($2000), Apollo House, Dubbo ($2000), Binnaway Progress Association Inc, Binnaway ($2032), Cementa Incorporated, Kandos ($2060), Harmony Singers, Dubbo ($3000), Baradine Central School P&C, Baradine, ($3000).

Orana Arts executive officer Alicia Leggett said the projects range from art workshops for children and introductory comic drawing lessons to an ANZAC mural and Wiradjuri culture classes.

“These nine projects show the diversity of arts in the Orana region and each one presents an exciting opportunity to our communities, art makers and audiences,” she said.

CASP is an Arts NSW funding program administered by Regional Arts NSW and local Regional Arts Boards on behalf of the NSW Government.

A panel of industry and community representatives assess applications locally.

Warning of scammers on the prowl DUBBO MP Troy Grant has warned constituents of consumer scams taking place in the local area.

“Scammers often cold-call or email victims claiming they are from a computer software or anti-virus company such as Microsoft,” he said.

“Scammers pose as representatives from software and technology companies and concoct reasons, like a fake virus, to lure victims into visiting websites that instigate the automatic download of malicious software.

“Once the software has been downloaded, the victim’s computers or devices are locked by the scammers. Often victims are left with no option but to pay scammers to restore use of their computer or device.’’

Grant urged locals to treat any cold calls or unsolicited emails of this nature with great caution.

“Before taking any action, look up the company or agency’s contact details and get in touch with them directly to see if the claims are genuine. In many cases they won’t be.”

A similar scam surfaced in late 2014, with people receiving bogus speeding fines via email purporting to be from the NSW Office of State Revenue. Similar scams have used the Australian Taxation Office as a cover for dodgy dealings, offering the promise of a tax refund to lure unsuspecting victims.

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tennis career. Rafter seems to think his young protege has the maturity and composure to go far and there’s nothing we like more than supporting our talented stars.

Prayers for William

WITH NATALIE BRAMBLE BUSINESSWOMAN

Why, 2K? THANKFULLY the world now knows there are two important Ks and it isn’t Kim Kardashian! Proud Aussies can now lay claim to two of the world’s brightest new stars – tennis stars that is. Thanasi Kokkinakis and Nick Kyrgios have been playing hard this week at the Australian Open and unfortunately for fans their games were on the same time but in two different courts, prompting mad dashes between courts for journalists and Davis Cup team captain Pat Rafter.

Seems 18 year old Kokkinakis has been tagged by media as the golden boy given he’s already had two front page stories. Let’s just hope early fame doesn’t detract from

THE search for toddler William Tyrell, who disappeared from the front yard of his grandmother’s home last year may be drawing to a tragic close. But while I’m sure most Weekender readers, being avid news consumers, would have kept little William in their consciousness throughout the past months, it seems a lot of Aussies quickly forgot – moving on to the next big story. Many, during a search of their Facebook news feed were surprised to find the youngster was still missing.

Fortunately, the hard working police have never stopped looking – and this week, their efforts have resulted in the first firm leads in the case.

Unfortunately for the “person of interest”, his name and his business moniker have now become synonymous with suspicious behaviour which, if he is innocent, will affect him for the rest of his life.

With fans like these...

ONE does wonder how a fan

could get so emotionally invested in a celebrity as to post public comments threatening to kill the object of their obsession – which is what happened with the case of a model who appeared in a scripted ad alongside what turned out to be a possessively deranged fan’s idol. This certainly isn’t a new thing for high profile people – they’ve been battling similar situations for years but at least in the Beatles’ day, girls they posed with in ads weren’t faced with public demonstrations of hate for simply doing their jobs.

But then we are talking about Justin Bieber fans and from what I can gather, they’re slightly more prone to hyperventilation. I can only say that Lara Stone, the model appearing next to Bieber (or should I say over and under Bieber) in his latest underwear ads is taking it in her stride and being very classy by simply ignoring the Twitter trolls.

I’m sure Calvin Klein is perversely impressed with the amount of press the recent ad staring Bieber and Stone is garnering – after all, awareness leads to revenue. In this case, however, they may be less than impressed for being called out about allegedly exaggerating some of Beiber’s... ahem... assets.

Campaigning bringing home the message IT is a sad fact of life that the current hot topics with media backing are the ones that garner wide support and interest.

This is something savvy charity marketers know well.

They know the shock and awe value of campaigns is really what gets peoples attention – even if it is only for five minutes, that’s five minutes of precious air-time in a world where our attention spans are shrinking to fewer than three minutes.

There’s been some great campaigns lately that draw us into a “story”. There’s the Canadian puppy-swapping campaign where you can swap your older dog for a new puppy and the 12 year old Norweigan child bride campaign.

These are ads that are supported with websites and blogs making it look as though the campaigns are actually true.

Advocacy campaigns like this are really important to demonstrate the reality of these situations to a short-attention spanned community because this is what really happens and they need to be able to cut through to get noticed. At least these campaigns stay true to their advocacy messages... unlike the ice bucket campaign.

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A LEGACY LOST Who was Bill Ferguson, and why have we forgotten?

Buried in a humble grave in Dubbo’s old cemetery is a man who devoted his life to fighting for Aboriginal rights back at a time when the notion of rights for indigenous Australians was unheard of. So why has his legacy been all but lost since his death more than 60 years ago? WORDS Jen Cowley PHOTOGRAPHY Steve Cowley AT black storm clouds crowding the late afternoon horizon make for an appropriate backdrop as we make our way between the headstones of Dubbo’s old cemetery.

They say a town’s history is best told through its graveyard, and that’s true here – row after row of aging markers silently speak so many familiar names.

Names woven intricately throughout generations into the social, political and economic fabric of this community and region; names still mentioned in dispatches, past and present.

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But one grave – the object of our visit today – speaks volumes about the sadly selective nature of history’s recording. Like most of the people with whom he now shares a final resting place, this man was a son, a father, a friend; a loved and missed family member. But like the lettering on his headstone, the memory of William “Bill” Ferguson’s legacy has been all but worn away by the passage of time.

Ferguson’s remains have been lying here in our midst for more than 60 years – and it’s time to ask why so few know of, or acknowledge his legacy.

E’RE familiar with the efforts of so many Aboriginal leaders who have fought for equality for Australia’s indigenous people – names like Charles Perkins, Noel Pearson, Neville Bonner – and we justifiably share pride in the achievements of so many of our accomplished Aboriginal countrymen and women.

But Bill Ferguson’s place in the history books as a champion of and active campaigner for Aboriginal rights and freedoms is equally worthy. So why is his

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There is much to be learned from the leaders of yesterday. Those who drink at the well shouldn’t forget who dug it.” – “Riverbank” Frank Doolan (pictured) legacy largely absent from local consciousness?

Born to an Aboriginal mother and Scottish father in 1882, Ferguson grew up in the shearing sheds of the Riverina, and later became an organiser for the Australian Workers’ Union. He and his young family settled in Gulargambone in 1916, where Ferguson resurrected the local branch of the Australian Labor Party, before moving permanently to Dubbo with his wife and 12 children in 1933.

Since the early 1920s, he had been acutely aware – although he could easily have passed as a “white-

fella” – of the vice-like control of Aboriginal people by the state’s Aborigines Protection Board (APB), which advocated and in many cases sought to enforce, “assimilation” – and when parliament sought, in 1936, to expand the board’s power, the young “half caste” took a stand.

He launched the Aborigines’ Progressive Association (APA) in Dubbo in June 1937, later extending the organisation to outlying “missions” and reserves.

In November of that year, he bore witness at the NSW Legislative Assembly’s inquiry into the admin-

istration of the APB but was sorely disappointed with the lack of genuine will for change and the absence of reform. So he and two fellow Aboriginal leaders – William Cooper and John Patten – organised a “Day of Mourning”, held on Australia Day 1938 in Dubbo. Together with Patten, he petitioned then Prime Minister Joseph Lyons to institute a national Aboriginal policy, and continued to extend the reach of the APA across the state and the nation.

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Bill Ferguson’s granddaughter, Gloria Matthews, is now 87, but clearly remembers her grandfather as a man “you couldn’t help but listen to”.

“We’d sit there when there was a meeting, in town or out in the open air, and all we kids would listen and take notice of the things he used to talk about. He really did try to make things easier and better for Aboriginal people.

“He used to talk about employment – but then, all the men in those days had jobs. Not like now,” says a reflective Matthews, who mourns the loss of culture among young people.

“Our kids are growing up and they’re not learning any culture.

Their culture is TV and all this other stuff – the iPads, and the Facebook and all that, that’s their culture now. Thirty years ago, even white kids at school used to want to learn Aboriginal culture, but now, neither black nor white now worry much about it.”

William Ferguson

O why has the legacy of this pioneering Aboriginal man been all but relegated to the periphery of local history?

“Riverbank” Frank Doolan says the simple facts of Aboriginal life are partly to blame.

“People are busy trying to survive – many great things happen in the aboriginal community and unfortunately, much of the time there’s no-one documenting it because there are so many day-today challenges to overcome, so it can get lost with the passing of time.”

He’s adamant the best lessons for indigenous Australians of the future lie with understanding of those who have gone before.

“The more the aboriginal movement evolves, the more it throws up “leaders”, the more we can look back in time to leaders like Ferguson.

“He was working for change way back in the 30s and we’re still talking about the same kinds of issues.

If you look at what blokes like him were proposing way back then, you’d see that each successive government has tried to reinvent the wheel, and there’s no need.”

Programs, Doolan says, have been “done to death with Aboriginal people”.

“And yet the program that really speaks to the spirit of a man is one that enables real employment. You only have to look at the life of Bill Ferguson – he was a working man.

He didn’t believe in having a free ride or asking for an easier go because of his Aboriginality. He was prepared to work. And he saw that it was going to take a lot of hard work. There’s a great lesson in his life, and the lesson for Aboriginal Australia is that nothing good comes easily.”

Isabel Kent is similarly disappointed that, despite the efforts of men like her father, there is still so much work to do to address the gap between Aboriginal and nonAboriginal Australians.

“It’s getting worse,” she says. “I don’t think people know what that early struggle was all about. For instance, my father fought for the right of Aboriginal women to have their money paid to them, rath-

S representatives were elected to the board of the Welfare Board (formerly the Protection Board) – one of whom was Bill Ferguson. He served for five years from 1944-49, travelling extensively, hearing, investigating and reporting many cases of hardship, discrimination and inequality.

During that time, in 1946, Ferguson approached the Chifley Labor federal government asking for a number of administrative reforms, but was ignored. Furious, Ferguson resolved to resign from the ALP and run as an independent candidate for state parliament in Lawson, which was then the electorate that took in his home town of Dubbo. It’s said his policy of civil rights for all people was inspired by the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, a worthy motivator, but he garnered a mere 388 votes during the December 1949 poll and he went to his grave – in the Old Dubbo Cemetery, where we stand today in the late afternoon heat almost 65 years to the day after he collapsed following his final speech and died in Dubbo Base Hospital of heart disease on January 4, 1950.

Biographer Jack Horner, in his 1974 account of Bill Ferguson’s life said he was a man who “habitually checked his facts with reserve residents before attacking official policies on land, housing and control” and who “inspired young Aborigines to take up politics”.

The reforms mooted by the APA, said Horner, were largely the work of Ferguson – a man “ahead of his time”.

T’S a view shared by another local indigenous man, “Riverbank” Frank Doolan, who describes himself as having once been “and angry young Aboriginal” but who now takes a more measured and conciliatory approach to his nonetheless passionate advocacy for the indigenous community.

It’s Doolan who has brought me here today, and as a casual student of history, I’m ashamed to confess I’ve not heard of the pioneering efforts of the man at whose aging graveside I stand.

I’m not alone, says Doolan. And it’s something by which he’s both deeply saddened and passionately determined to right.

“Bill Ferguson was a man with a passion for his people – he didn’t have a blueprint to work from, and he certainly didn’t have the slogans and the excuses of the 1960s and 70s – he didn’t come with the sense of entitlement, or

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the “you owe me” idea.

“He simply asked the question, “What about my people?

“I’m disappointed that the story of his legacy has been lost to this region’s community,” says Doolan, absent mindedly stroking the headstone’s worn lettering. “What I say to the people of Dubbo is that we had someone in this city who was a fair dinkum Australian hero, and nobody acknowledges him. He lies at rest here in the Dubbo cemetery so the story is still here – and it’s time to acknowledge the man and his contribution.”

NLY three of Ferguson’s 12 children are still alive, one of whom is Gold Coast resident and spritely 89 year old Isabel Kent, who says it would mean the world to see her father’s efforts formally acknowledged before she joins him.

“To us, he was a very famous man, of course.

But he really was. He fought for Aboriginal rights all his life. He could have gone through as a white man, but he didn’t because he could see that there were others who needed a voice.

“He was a young lad of 14 when he first noticed the inequality, in the shearing sheds. He asked my grandfather, who was Scottish, why he was being paid more than the Aboriginal boys of his same age. And my grandfather simply said, “Well, Aboriginal people don’t have rights.” My father knew that wasn’t right, and he wanted to know why it was so,” says Kent.

“He was apparently a good man, my grandfather, so he stood up and supported his son.

So that was the start of my father’s interest in Aboriginal rights. And that was before the turn of the century. Can you imagine how hard that would have been back then? Times would have been hard enough, but imagine how much worse it was if you were Aboriginal.”

Kent herself took up the baton for Aboriginal rights, helping to reform the Aborigines’ Progressive Association in the 1960s, but says the ground work laid by her father should be publicly acknowledged, particularly in the town – now the city – in which he lived for much of his life.

“He devoted his life to achieving genuine empowerment and reconciliation, and it makes me a bit sad that his efforts have been forgotten by most people to a large extent. Even a lot of Aboriginal people have forgotten – they don’t understand the struggle it was, and how hard he fought.”

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He devoted his life to achieving genuine empowerment and reconciliation, and it makes me a bit sad that his efforts have been forgotten by most people to a large extent.” – Isabel Kent, Ferguson’s now 89 year old daughter.

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er than to a store where they had to just buy whatever that store was selling. Now, whether that’s turned out to be a good thing or a bad thing... You see, people don’t understand why he fought for things like that, and the welfare has created its own set of issues because of that (lack of understanding).”

N the eve of Australia Day, both Isabel Kent and Gloria Matthews see the occasion through saddened eyes.

“It’s sad because of what was done to Aboriginal people way back when Cook arrived,” says Marshall, while Kent says she well remembers that initial “Day of Mourning” in Dubbo on Australia Day in 1938.

“I was just a girl at Dubbo High School back then, and I still remember it. I remember we’d walk through the playground and the kids would call us names and spit on us, and my brother John would just say, “Keep walking, Sis – don’t get into a fight over it.” But it was awful.

So I still wish we could at least mention the Day of Mourning, because I feel that it would acknowledge that Aborigines were just nothing to the British who landed. Nothing.”

Doolan, for all his youthful protest and anger, says he has absolutely no problem with Australia Day. “Some people are stuck on whether we should call it Invasion Day, Survival Day or whatever. But that’s an argument about semantics. It’s our national day. We can turn it into a drunken orgy of redneck nationalism, or we can just be quietly reflective of who we are and of all the many different roads we’ve come down and of the fact that it takes so many of us to make this place home.

I look forward to the day when we look on ourselves as one people.”

It’s this genuine reconciliation, he says, that’s one of the things Ferguson wanted in his heart of hearts.

“He didn’t talk about division or establishing a separate state. He was talking about human rights and decency; the great Australian belief that we supposedly pride ourselves on – a fair go. He was a practical man – a bushie. And that was reflected in the approach he took to trying to get a fair go for Aboriginal people – it wasn’t about entitlement, it was about practical equality.”

Doolan says he will continue to advocate for the establishment of some kind of permanent public acknowledgement of the contribution Bill Ferguson made not only to Aboriginal Australia, but to the community of Dubbo and the region.

“If nothing else, for the Ferguson family, to have William’s legacy acknowledged would be wonderful and I hope that can formally happen.

“But make no bones about it, William Ferguson was the real deal.

What he did, he did with quiet dignity. It’s alright to wave the flag and be an activist and spot a fault from four hundred paces – he was an activist but he had dignity and kindness.

“There is much to be learned from the leaders of yesterday. Those who drink at the well shouldn’t forget who dug it.”

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(SOURCE: AUSTRALIAN DICTIONARY OF BIOGRAPHY – JACK HORNER, AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, 1981.)

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The slaughter of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo staff in Paris resonated around the world as an attack on freedom of speech and expression, resulting in a global swell of support for those democratic principles. YVETTE AUBUSSON FOLEY looks at the power and relevance of satire as a tool of political and social commentary.

N the wake of the satirical Charlie Hebdo magazine slayings and ensuing rallies of support for the attack’s ultimate victims – the freedom of speech and expression – the spotlight has also turned to the power and relevance of satire.

As a literary device it is a centuries-old tradition in France, so little wonder it drew millions from their homes to stand in solidarity against a threat to the core belief freedom of speech is a right.

“There were rallies everywhere in France. I joined the one in Paris where I live. It was important to make the point that we as French refuse to be bullied or hushed or change our way of living,” says Fayrouz Tawfik, a bilingual radio anchor for a daily morning show in Paris.

“Freedom of speech, whether it’s by word or picture is tolerated here and that will not change. I think we made the point with the number of people in the rallies. The last time rallies went like that was during the WWII.” Patrick Cook, satirist, commentator and one of Australia’s most renowned cartoonists, was visiting Paris at the time and spoke to Weekender soon after, saying of the rallies: “There were millions of people including, obviously, millions who had not previously heard of Charlie Hebdo or read it; or read it and agreed with it. This represented support for a fundamental freedom in any democratic society, which we can take for granted, and must not.”

By increasing its survivor’s edition circulation by well over 4.5 million copies, Charlie Hebdo, will certainly reach new audiences perhaps unprepared for just how far the magazine is willing to go.

There is any number of examples of newspapers and magazines in the democratic world, which have refused to republish Charlie Hebdo’s satirical cartoons, deemed too offensive for mainstream media and its audiences, but the act of buying a copy shows resounding support for the right to produce it.

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Humour and laughter is necessary.

Killjoys like Muslim fanatics can’t change that, not in a million years.

They should lighten up; we’ll never be like them.” – Fayrouz Tawfik, Parisbased radio anchor quickly was “absolutely necessary and courageous”.

T’S important to defend the right to publish what we believe is right within the confines of the law,” says Paul Dorin, Australian cartoonist.

Even in societies where freedom of speech is expected, it can take courage to speak out against the status quo and satirical cartoonists walk fine lines even within their own cultural parameters and laws.

“Predominantly most of my cartoons are about amusement but there will be cartoons that might be controversial and there will be advocates and opponents, that’s the nature of the business being a satirical cartoonist,” says Dorin, who has just joined the Dubbo Weekender team.

“You can never gauge people’s reactions or opinions on a topic and on the odd occasion you know that a particular cartoon could upset a few people, you know to expect a few complaints.”

Not one to worry about public reaction to his cartoons, Cook views them as expression of opinion.

“Opinions may attract agreement or disagreement.

Cartoons I like do set out to offend, but not to abuse.

They are arguments, not invective,” he told Weekender.

“One cartoon of mine was the subject of a lawsuit (against the publisher). I expressed my distaste for the

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Fayrouz Tawfik, a Paris radio anchor.

“Charlie Hebdo represents a French secular tradition of satire which targets the absurdities of any organized religion.

This goes back to the French Revolution, which was not least aimed at the French Catholic Church. Now Charlie Hebdo stands worldwide as a symbol of free speech, of free expression, the free press, the free media,” says Cook, adding that reopening their office

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If people mock my thoughts and beliefs l have to accept that because that’s part of living in a free country.”

– Paul Dorin, cartoonist

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work of an architect. The NSW Supreme Court found that cartoons are a legitimate expression of opinion. I hope this has become a useful precedent.”

Unprecedented in the history of satire is the immediacy of information, which can instantly globalise a piece of commentary meant for one audience but which extends to others.

Out of context it can become a very different beast.

“Every country, every culture has its personal way of making jokes, pranks and cartoons. Humour and laughter is necessary. Killjoys like Muslim fanatics can’t change that, not in a million years. They should lighten up; we’ll never be like them,” says Tawfik.

Dorin says that what people think is funny varies from person to person. “Cartoon humour is meant to amuse, be clever and to make people laugh, it’s the fundamental goal for a cartoonist.

“I wouldn’t want readers to view my cartoons as insulting or repugnant. My style of humour isn’t too confrontational as l am not a confrontational person.”

Charlie Hebdo cartoonists on the other hand are, but they march to the tune of a cultural identity defined by a revolution fought in the name of equality, brotherhood and freedom, or death.

Indeed death found them. Ironically if the gunmen’s wish was to erase them altogether their actions had the opposite effect, making the victims and their publication martyrs for the cause of freedom.

“I didn’t know these particular cartoonists,” says Cook. “But I do know newsrooms and this could have been any newsroom. Peaceful, defenceless; people doing what they ought to be doing. This was an attack on cartoonists, which makes it personal, but we must remember that others were killed, simply for their association with freedom of expression.”

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N a French context however, was it more than that?

Do the staff at Charlie Hebdo go too far by inciting religious intolerance in a country where almost

eight per cent of the population is Muslim? Taking into account that in some Muslim traditions pictures of Mohammed are forbidden, is it an infringement on freedom to respect that? Is causing offence for the sake of offending, freedom of speech?

Here is the quandry for satire. To be effective it must treat everyone equally. Making concessions to protect someone’s feelings is self censorship and a failure then, to uphold a free society’s values.

Dubai-based stand up comedian and Muslim, Lamya Tawfik believes comedy and satire do need to have red lines.

“I love clean comedy because it’s actually the most challenging and also respectful of society,” she says.

“I, personally, never make sexual or religious jokes.

I’m not comfortable with it but also even if the audience laughs there will be someone who will surely feel uncomfortable. I want people to smile, laugh and not feel uncomfortable.”

Living free does not mean being free from offensive ideas or opinions. The freedom to protest is there however, by using legal channels, writing letters to an editor, having a whinge with friends, turning the page or boycotting a publication.

“If people mock my thoughts and beliefs l have to accept that because that’s part of living in a free country,” says Dorin. “Cartoons can embarrass, they can ridicule, especially our politicians. Sometimes a cartoon isn’t meant to be satirical and will put in perspec-

It’s important that we do not put our fingers in our ears, or close our eyes, or shut our mouths from fear.”

– Cartoonist and satirist, Patrick Cook

tive a serious issue.

Cook says there can be no democracy without an opposition.

“It’s your right as well as mine, or anyone else’s. The freedom for others to disagree with you openly is as important as your freedom to openly disagree with them.

“Everyone has limits, but these must proceed from individual conscience, not from legislation, and not at gunpoint.”

How then to engage in conversation a gun wielding opposition? Satirists, obliged to hold a mirror up to the absurd, will continually be sharpening their pencils.

“I have always thought that the pen is mightier than the sword,” says Dorin. “l feel it depends on the person holding the pen and the person holding the sword.

I have heard from different discussions on this topic that the pen is nothing without the sword, that the sword has no power without people willing to raise it.

“I feel that for innocent people to have been murdered because they hold a pen, the pen must have a lot of might. To me the pen holds the true power in the relationship. In saying that, I would rather a satirical cartoon at my head than a sword!”

Cook agrees.

“When cartoonists are targeted by totalitarian and authoritarian governments, this will be part of a wider suppression of journalists and the media. Hitler had David Low on his hit list, should Britain be defeated, for example, along with every other British journalist opposed to him.

“It’s important that we do not put our fingers in our ears, or close our eyes, or shut our mouths from fear.

People who oppose our freedoms, whether by violence or legislation or by appeal to political correctness, should be called out and presented with a loud raspberry. Always.”

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Flagging a change Each year as Australia Day approaches and the nation festoons itself with our national symbol, the question arises as to what exactly it represents, whether it truly reflects our national identity and if it’s time for a change. Weekender sought the opinions of two Aussies who hold very different views on the issue.

John Williamson – Entertainer Y song, A Flag of Our Own, came about because I wanted an “all Aussie” backdrop for my shows and I decided to use a big Aussie flag.

But when you spread it out over a whole backdrop, it becomes obvious what it is – a symbol of Britain’s occupation of the Southern Hemisphere with the Union Jack and the Southern Cross – and that wasn’t how I felt about our country. So I started to develop all sorts of alternate flags and eventually I came up with one called The Spirit of the Land.

When we win a gold or silver medal and our flag goes up, to most of the world we must still look like a colony.

The New Zealand flag goes up and it’s hardly any different. Can’t we go the way the Canadians did and have a symbol we’re really proud of?

My flag (pictured) has a kangaroo,

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and I have a number of reasons for that.

The kangaroo is a descendant of the dinosaur which was here for millions of years before any humans.

We are proud of the kangaroo on the QANTAS planes; we’re proud that a kangaroo sits on parliament house with an emu, and it sits on the “baggy green”.

We have sports teams called Wallabies, Kangaroos, Socceroos; we’ve been using the boxing kangaroo at the Olympics, because basically our current flag doesn’t distinctly represent us overseas.

So why don’t we give the kangaroo the dignity it deserves and have it on our

flag as by far the most recognisable symbol of our unique ancient land? And it’s not attached to religion or anything else like the Union Jack, with the red cross that goes back to the crusaders.

My flag has a gold kangaroo on the red ochre background, which represents the indigenous people as well.

And it also has the Southern Cross because it represents our history and our colonial heritage, which I’m not trying to deny. It represents Captain Cook who used it to navigate to find Australia – it represents white man or Europeans coming to the country.

Our flag should be about how we feel about ourselves now as Australians. I understand that it’s a pride thing and while ever the current flag is our national symbol, I’d never deny it but I just think it doesn’t really represent who we are now. And it certainly doesn’t represent indigenous people.

People argue that the ANZACS fought under that flag, but they didn’t fight for England, they fought for Australia and it’s a shame they didn’t fight under something that was truly Australian. The ANZACS were obviously very proud Australians, but the current flag was the red ensign and that’s what they fought under. I’ve had letters from ANZACS over the years that said we didn’t fight for England, we fought for Australia and that we didn’t fight for the flag, we fought for freedom and all the rest of it.

If we stick with things just because that’s the way they are, we’ll never become as proud as we could be. It’s the same with the Republic. What scares people about that is that they think we’re going to become like America. But I don’t see that. I don’t see why we can’t just have a Governor General at the top, elected by both sides of Parliament – not representing the Queen, but representing Australia only and keep everything as it is. I think that’s the only way to go. If Parliament selects the Governor General – as it does now – you’ll always get a statesman; someone who is intelligent enough to handle the job and not someone who just has a lot of money, like Clive Palmer, to run for “president”.

Is Australia ready for a change? The the biggest problem with changing the flag is that there can be so many ideas and so many arguments over the design that we’ll never come to a decision.

Canada apparently went “bang” and just brought the new maple leaf flag out without having a vote on it at all. I’ve sold thousands of my flags, so they’re in homes all over the country and they

Our flag should be about how we feel about ourselves now as Australians.

know exactly what it represents to them and given the number I’ve sold, it obviously hasn’t offended too many people in my audience. It represents “true blue”, and true blue is something that refers to fair dinkum Aussies and people whose word is their bond.

It would be nice if the national flag represented things like that and not the crusaders.

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Jai Martinkovits – Executive Director of Australians for a Constitutional Monarchy F there is one thing that unites Australians young and old, it’s a love of their flag and all that it represents.

In fact, in a recent poll, Roy Morgan Research put support among the youngest age group, 14 to 17, as high as 80 per cent, with 7 per cent undecided.

And support across all age brackets was found to be 69 per cent, with 5 per cent undecided.

This weekend, Aussies right across the country are celebrating our national birthday – Australia Day. As well as appreciating a good excuse for a holiday, Aussies will take a moment to reflect on our glorious way of life, which so many of our forebears fought and died to protect.

It has been said that the success of any nation – or, shall we say, its way of life – is dependent upon the quality of its institutions. And it’s those very institutions and values which have so clearly allowed our nation to prosper, that are encapsulated in our national flag of “stars and crosses”.

It’s truly the people’s flag; proudly adopted in 1901 following the results of a public competition which attracted more than 32,000 entries.

The three crosses, St. George, St. Andrew and St. Patrick serve to represent the institutions we inherited and which we have ourselves built upon; including the rule of law, the English Language, our Judeo-Christian values, and leadership beyond politics in the Crown.

The constellation of the Southern Cross indicates our geographical location in the southern hemisphere. The constellation of stars suggests the various indigenous legends and serves to remind us of our rich Aboriginal and Torres Strait heritage.

Despite this, republicans have long sought to shred our beautiful symbol of national unity, offering a plethora of meaningless beach towel designs to replace it.

In fact, in the mid 90s, the Australian Republican Movement sponsored an exhibition, Flagging the Republic, which showcased a range of potential flag

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Queen. But more fundamentally, we are attracted to a system which offers leadership beyond politics. Instinctively we know that the Crown is important not so much for the power it has itself, but the power it denies others.

So while republicans will undoubtedly set out on yet another opportunistic and divisive campaign to divide the nation on our day of national unity, chuck another snag on the barbie and enjoy the one symbol which most brings us all together – our flag. And remember, that any worthwhile change to further empower the people (as opposed to the political class) can be achieved through incremental change to our constitution.

Jai Martinkovits is co-author with David Flint of Give Us Back Our Country.

Republicans have long sought to shred our beautiful symbol of national unity, offering meaningless beach towel designs to replace it.

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designs, including the very tasteful words “F*** Off Back to Fag Land” on a plain dismal background.

Perhaps reluctantly recognising the tremendous support the flag enjoys, the Australian Republican Movement now tells us the flag is a separate issue. But a leopard can’t change its spots. Australians can rest assured that as sure as night follows day, a politicians’ republic will bring with it a change of flag.

What is curious is that republicans – in contrast to the great majority of Australians – seem to constantly battle with their sense of identity.

Most recently, under the banner of “Our Identity”, the Australian Republican Movement has undertaken yet another quasi-rebranding, with the view to starting a “new conversation” about our national identity.

This has proved nothing more than a desperate attempt to keep a dead issue alive.

The fact is, Australia is already a form of republic – a republic under the Crown, or a Crowned Republic. The only other form of republic is a politicians’ republic. And in the 1999 referendum, Australians made it perfectly clear, in 100 per cent of states and in 73 per cent of Federal electorates, that they won’t have a bar of that.

Australians have a range of reasons for supporting our constitutional arrangements. Most share a healthy respect for the

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‘It’s only a leg’ One of Dubbo’s adopted sons, Michael Milton, is also a highly accomplished elite athlete and Paralympian who is as capable of smashing whatever comes along as a freight train with no brakes. He prefers to say he’s at the “sane end of crazy”. NATALIE HOLMES talked to this inspiring man about love, limbs and life in the fast lane.

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Michael Milton competes in the Men's Super G - Standing during Day Three of the Turin 2006 Winter Paralympic Games in Sestriere Borgata, Italy. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES/LARS BARON/BONGARTS

N his website, Michael Milton has recorded a quote from legendary baseball player Babe Ruth: “Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.”

And, if there’s one way of describing the elite athlete and motivational speaker, it would be as a ‘go-getter.’

Highly ambitious and with a fierce determination and a competitive nature, there is very little (if any-

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thing) that will ever stand in his way.

That has included defeating cancer twice, smashing world records in multiple sports and winning an impressive 11 medals at five Paralympic Winter Games and the same number from World Championships. Simultaneously he is a skier, cyclist, trekker, triathlete, marathon runner, world and Australian record holder, Paralympian and Olympian.

He holds the Australian Open Speed Skiing Record, held the world record for four consecutive years and has previously been named ACT Australian of the Year, the Laureus World Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability and recipient of the Dawn Fraser Award bestowed by the Australian Sports Awards.

Last year, he was also honoured with inclusion in the Sports Australia Hall of Fame. He also became the

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Australian skier Michael Milton holds his Laureus World Sportsman of the Year with a Disability award in Monte Carlo in 2003. The Laureus Sports awards celebrate sporting excellence across all disciplines and all continents. PHOTO: REUTERS/PASCAL DESCHAMPS

Guinness World Record holder for Fastest Marathon on Crutches, after competing in the Gold Coast Airport Marathon.

What’s even more remarkable about Milton’s achievements is that he only has one leg. His left leg was amputated following his first experience of cancer, aged nine.

Although he is happy to acknowledge the fact that he has a disability, Milton is keen not to let it define him.

“I don’t like words like ‘brave’, ‘courageous’ and phrases like ‘overcoming obstacles’ in connection with my disability. Having one leg is not an obstacle – it’s no big deal, it’s just part of who I am. It’s only a leg.

“Having a disability is not about not doing it, it’s about working out how you can do it.”

For the record, Milton points out that he can both open a door and climb stairs on his own.

PART from his wife and two young children, Milton’s first love is skiing and the passion he has for sport stems back to a time when his parents first took him to the ski slopes as a three-year-old.

“It’s been a lifelong passion, or an addiction,” he says.

“There is just something so special that attracts a lot of people to spend their time, money and effort, something that goes beyond the cold, wet and yukky.

“Throughout my life, skiing has always been the big motivator, the love and passion I have for it. For me, skiing is familiar and easy.”

Milton also loves the magical natural beauty, the extreme cold and tough conditions, the rawness and exposure you can only feel at the top of a snow-covered peak and the freedom and exhilaration of propelling yourself full throttle down the slope.

There’s also a certain amount of personal achievement involved.

“Skiing levelled the playing field for me.

I could be on par with my peers for the first time.”

Although Milton possesses a recognised natural ability, it does take time to excel and he spent years training and working hard to achieve as much as he has in the sport.

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“To me, the key to being good at what you do in everything is about having the same mentality you have for the things you love.”

Milton’s ascent to the heights of success occurred in 2002 when he won four of Australia’s six gold medals at the Salt Lake Paralympics in the Men’s Downhill, Slalom, Giant Slalom and Super-G events. It was to be Australia’s most successful Winter Games in terms of gold medals to date and shot Milton to fame even though it was his fourth Winter Games and he’d already represented the nation and won medals at previous Paralympics in France, Norway and Japan. His medal tally at Salt Lake both endeared him to sports-loving Australians and earned him the title of most successful male Australian Paralympic Winter Games athlete.

The following year, Milton turned his attention to speed skiing, initially clocking a time of more than 193km/hr, smashing a 16 year world record and becoming the fastest skier with a disability.

Each year after, he bettered his own world record until, in April 2006, he clocked a staggering 213.65km/hr to also become the fastest Australian skier ever. That record remains unbeaten.

Most people have never been that fast in a motorised vehicle let alone hurtling down the mountainside on a single ski.

“It does require a couple of screws loose,” he admits, adding with a laugh: “But I’m at the sane end of crazy.”

N a more serious note, Milton says a lot of skill, practice and natural ability measure into the mix.

As for what it’s actually like to go that fast down a ski slope, it’s many things at once according to Milton.

“It’s scary at first, and it happens very quickly. You have to stay very focused because it has the potential to hurt you but it’s an exhilarating, amazing feeling.”

Holding the Australian record is also an exciting acknowledgement.

“It’s not like I wake up every morning and think about it,” he says. “But it’s very satisfying to achieve your goals.”

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Having a disability is not about not doing it, it’s about working out how you can do it.

improving on past performances each time after mastering the art of skiing with one leg as a youngster.

“It’s a natural evolution. You get better, you continue to improve, your natural competitiveness kicks in and you want to be better than everyone else.

“I think there’s a natural competitive spirit within myself, and perhaps the environment that I grew up in – learning to live with one leg, wanting to be competitive with my able-bodied peers.”

In 2006, Milton turned away from competitive skiing and took up cycling professionally. Reflecting on that time though, he said there are a lot of standout memories – of medal tallies and podium finishes around the world.

But it’s where his ski career began that has really stuck in Milton’s mind.

“Turning at Thredbo,” he said. “It’s just really special there, I get a totally different feeling when I ski there.”

As with everything in life, Milton threw himself into cycling wholeheartedly.

“My ski bum lifestyle was over,” he laughs.

“I love riding bikes and I was asked by the coach of the Paralympic cycling team to train in Adelaide.”

Milton needed to adjust to the different requirements of his new sport, but took to them like a fish to water.

“Ski racing is more about technique and the mental and technical preparation whereas cycling is more physical and I had to adapt to that.”

After six months of intense training, he not only won a gold medal in the 3000m Individual Pursuit at the Australian Track Cycling Championships in February 2007, but also broke the Australian record.

His dream to make the Australian team and compete at the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games was sidelined when he was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in July 2007. He then made an amazing comeback from this serious illness to record times at the 2008 Australian Track Cycling Championships comparable to his results in the same events 12 months earlier.

In June 2008, Milton was named as one of 18 athletes in the Paralympic Cycling Team to compete in Beijing.

His sixth Paralympic Games and his first as a summer athlete, he arrived in Beijing less than 12 months since chemotherapy radiotherapy and major surgery. In many ways, he’d already won.

Milton competed in three events: the 1km time trial, the 300m individual pursuit and the 60.5km road race.

Since then, Milton has not slowed down at all. Next he took up triathlons. He also loves mountain biking.

“I was looking for new challenges,” he points out.

He has competed in two World Paratriathlon Championships in 2012 in Auckland, New Zealand and in Beijing, where he finished fourth.

Milton has raced in the Mark Webber Challenge, a five-day adventure race in Tasmania and in the 293km long Coast to Coast Kokoda Challenge. He has climbed Mt Kilimanjaro and walked Kokoda twice. This year, he is looking forward to doing the Variety Cycle from Sydney to Hobart and the Evocities mountain biking event in Dubbo, along with a four

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He also recently completed his first-ever marathon with the aim of breaking the existing Guinness World Record for Fastest Marathon on Crutches (one leg) which stood at 6 hours, 42:47. He did it in five hours, 23:50.

Doing a 42km marathon with one leg actually equates to running double that distance.

“Running a marathon on crutches doubles the energy burn, turning it into a 84km run.”

But Milton didn’t complain. Although sore afterwards, he was determined to finish and did so tearfully and triumphantly with the help of his amazing support team.

“It was a natural challenge for any weekend warrior.

And it could have been tougher but that environment was created to support me.”

ILTON has now turned his attentions to motivational speaking, and is giving it a red hot go, talking to corporate and community groups with the same amount of gusto as he used to attack downhill ski racing and competitive cycling.

He adds an element of seriousness to his talks combined with a good dose of humour. People leave his seminars feeling more positive, inspired and determined to give their own lives more depth and meaning.

“It’s an amazing job to have. It gives me the opportunity to work with different companies and groups and go into different environments. It’s nice work when you can get it,” Milton says with his usual dry wit.

He describes how the daughter of a friend changed her planned course of study from nursing to medicine after realising she could set her sights higher.

“To be able to lift someone’s cultural limits is great.

Any influence I can have on someone’s life...I do what I do for selfish reasons so if other people can get something out of that, then that’s wonderful.”

Reflecting on what has passed and his hopes for the future, Milton says there’s plenty more in store.

“I’ve had some health challenges and my body

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doesn’t always do what I want it to but I don’t function well if I’m not feeling fit. I can’t give myself new goals to achieve.”

He is enjoying married life with his Dubbo-bred wife Penni (nee Lewer) and raising their kids in Canberra and is looking forward to attempting new challenges and to seeing more athletes with disabilities not only

being treated equally but being recognised for their achievements.

“The really important things in life are family, friends and having fun. None of those things have anything to do with how many legs you have.

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Lucy and Alan Taylor Lucy Taylor’s grandfather Alan taught her all she knows about recreational shooting. The young nursing student is now proudly carrying on the family tradition.

AS TOLD TO Natalie Holmes PHOTOGRAPHY Ella McMillan Alan Taylor: STARTED shooting when I was growing up in Wellington. I’d shoot rabbits – go out and strap the rifle onto my pushbike and then I’d sell them to the freezing works. There was a lot of rabbits around at the time and they’d sell the meat and use the fur for making Akubras and things like that.

There weren’t many ways of making money – that was back in the 1940s – but I’d get two bob a pair. I enjoyed the shooting, but it was all about making money or I’d take them home to eat them.

I was 10 years old at the time and using a.22; I would have had an air rifle at some stage. In the 1960s, I joined my first rifle club in Moree. We used to shoot every Saturday afternoon with a.303. Rifle ranges were mainly put in by the government to train people to shoot, mainly during wartime. The.303 was the rifle the army used to use when they were overseas fighting so that was the rifle we had to use. It was preferred that everyone used the same and the government used to supply ammunition and rifles. It was good; you enjoyed a day out and won a few trophies at inter-town competitions.

Each year, the Queen’s Shoot was the state-wide competition if you wanted to go in it. I still go to various shoots; you get to know a lot of people over the years. I was never keen on shooting animals other than feral foxes, wild cats and the odd goat. To be a good marksman, you need good eyes and a steady hand. The wind has a lot to do with it too.

With firearms in general, it’s different these days. You can’t just throw them on the backseat of the car. Safety is a big thing. It’s pretty important and there’s a lot of idiots about. In the good old days, it didn’t seem to worry anybody, but nowadays, it’s not like that at all. You can’t just go around shooting, you’d be thrown in gaol! People shouldn’t be scared of guns or shooting – it’s pretty well-controlled.

Teaching my kids and grandkids to shoot, they either liked it or they didn’t.

If they liked me taking them shooting, I would take them out to the range and show them properly. It’s pleasing to see them take an interest.

Lucy mainly shoots smaller calibres such as.22. I mainly shoot big bore.

She was 14 when she learned, although she observed from a much younger age, maybe five or six. When she got her junior licence at 14, she was pretty good right from the word go. We mainly shoot different grades but when we shoot small bore, we go together, and she always beats me. She’s very good and I’m always proud of her.

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Lucy Taylor: ROWING up was mostly (watching) on the big bore range and getting aluminium cans and shooting them when I was a bit older.

The prize shoot days are always fun.

When I was younger, Dad and Poppy would be shooting and we would be preparing afternoon tea with Mum. At the rifle range, I was happy to hang

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out with the ladies at first selling raffle tickets at the clubhouse and stuff like that. Then I would go up to the range when I got older – I wanted to be near the action (laughs).

Our whole family would go camping and we would combine shooting with family holidays. We’d have barbecues with other families too. You get to know a lot of other people through the club. When I was 14, Dad suggested that I try shooting and I would do target practice. My interest progressed from there. Shooting is just like driving

a car. Once you know how to do it, you don’t forget.

In Dubbo, I won a few grades. I’m now 21, and better than I was. I haven’t been shooting for a while so I will try to get into some big bore with Poppy.

But when we compete, it’s always about safety and security.

As a woman, I’m in the minority at the range. Probably, 10 per cent of shooters are women who seem to be good shots but don’t go out shooting.

For Poppy and me, it’s a shared interest. It gives us more to talk about, so

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Janine Perrett: I have been incredibly lucky Renowned journalist and business commentator Janine Perrett has travelled the globe throughout her lengthy career – interviewing some of the world’s most fascinating people and covering the kinds of stories others in the industry could only dream of.

But she admits to a gap in her experience when it comes to regional NSW, and spoke with Weekender of her excitement about her visit Dubbo this weekend as its 2015 Australia Day ambassador. AS TOLD TO Jen Cowley I’m one of those boring people who always wanted to be a journalist. I was good at English and in those days, journalism meant newspapers. I was lucky enough to get a cadetship and I went into the profession straight from school.

I’ve just been very lucky and had great opportunities. And I got in years ago when it was an expanding industry.

I miss it the travelling part of being a foreign correspondent – it’s the best thing in the world. But to be honest after a few years of doing it you think, now I just want to come home. My first stint was in the US and I must say I really miss New York. I always thought I’d end up going back there.

Australia is home and I appreciate it and love it, but I love to travel. Having lived in America where they don’t travel enough outside their own country – probably don’t travel enough inside their country – has made me a real believer in going to all kinds of different places.

I hate being asked what my career highlight is – it’s too hard! – but over the years, I’ve done interviews with some fascinating people. I did a big story in the Middle East once and I interviewed Netanyahu in his first term; Shimon Peres, the Nobel Prize winner; I’ve interviewed, I guess, every Australian Prime Minister since Fraser. I’ve met Bill Gates a few times. I’ve covered the odd civil war.

I was in Haiti when the Duvaliers fled; I’ve covered Panama and Chile when Pinochet stepped down. I covered the Bougainville conflict… so I’ve had a lot of excitement and met a lot of interesting people. But honestly, I’m having a lot of fun with the little show I do now on Sky’s business channel. I get to talk to a lot of people and talk about things I like.

Being a foreign correspondent does mean there are things you give up in

your personal life. I don’t know how people do it and have a family as well – I’m in awe of a lot of my friends who have these jobs and raise a family as well. I don’t really complain about the personal cost – I just think I have been incredibly lucky with all my opportunities.

There’s a lot of pessimism from Australia about the changes in the media industry, but I try not to get too depressed about it. It’s actually an interesting and exciting time to be in media.

It’s fun being at Sky – there’s a lot of innovation and it’s different and really dynamic, but I do fear for the industry sometimes.

I love the young people coming through and I love sharing knowledge but I worry that the pressures these days are so much. They don’t have the luxury of thinking things through as much – it’s kind of a “do now, think later” kind of thing. As a business report-

er, I’m concerned about the influence of “press release journalism” – it adds to people just firing off things and not taking the time to question.

The luxury I have on my show is that I can question things. I think it’s a benefit of getting older that you have the experience and the knowledge to say, “Hang on a minute…” or “I remember when…” But I fear we won’t have that anymore with so many people leaving the industry – we will lose a lot of that corporate memory.

Access to the 24 hour news cycle has made it harder in the media, but it also represents great opportunity. I was talking about this the other day – every technological innovation has journalists complaining that quality will go.

I remember when we went on strike over the introduction of computers they were going to ruin things! I’ve watched it over the years and we aren’t great adapters. Yes, there is pressure for peo-

ple to have to file and “tweet”, but I have to laugh even if you’re not made to tweet most journalists love to get their voice out there and tweet anyway!

I’m not a great user of Twitter – it’s time consuming and I get into trouble a lot of the time! It’s not my thing – but I read it, enjoy it and understand it and I’m staggered at the people who use it.

I see the pressure but I also see the opportunity. It’s another evolution. We are losing jobs in newspapers which I hate but there are other opportunities with us all reading the news online. I think you have to embrace it. I’ve just been at an Australian-American Leadership Dialogue conference in Silicon Valley (in the US) that’s looking at innovation and where Australia goes – and I can’t lecture that business has to become innovative when journalists don’t.

I’m from Victoria originally so I’ve seen a lot of country Australia. When I was growing up, we didn’t go on overseas trips or even interstate ones, we would get in the car and drive. But I’ve never been to much of country New South Wales so I always say to people things like “What’s Dubbo like?” You hear about it and I really want to see what it’s like!

I really wanted to be an ambassador for somewhere in regional Australia and I specifically asked for Dubbo because I’ve never been there but I’ve heard a lot about it. Whenever Dubbo is mentioned, it’s always about Taronga Western Plains Zoo and I’m sure it’s fantastic because I’ve heard nothing but great things, but I’m sure there’s more to Dubbo than just the zoo. I’m not a huge fan of zoos but whenever I say that to people they always say Dubbo is different.

I had no idea how big Australia day has become and I just love the way regional Australia celebrates, which is why I specifically wanted to come to a regional area. I would often go out on the harbour in Sydney – I used to buy every flag, tea towel and table cloth for Australia day parties at my house.

I loved it. I don’t have a problem with nationalism!

I have to confess, though, I didn’t know about the whole sausage sizzle thing that goes on around country towns!

I discovered it when I went to Young last year. I loved it – we just sat there and watched everyone; it’s corny and a cliché but it made me feel proud to be Australian. When I was living in the US I saw how they were with Independence Day and they had the parties and the barbecues and the fireworks. But I kind of like that we are not over the top – we have the casual laid back Aussie way about Australia day. And I hope Dubbo is having a sausage sizzle!

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Tony Webber Australia Day gimmicks giving a foreign flavour to a dinky di day Tony Webber is an Australian citizen who bears neither Bambi nor Bishop Tutu any grudge.

HO, except possibly monarchists and Hansonites, will sing the anthem at midday on Australia Day? The Australia Day Council is urging us to belt out it out at noon across the nation but I can’t see it happening.

I can see why they’re trying – the Oz Day committee needs to report back with fresh ideas each year.

“Okay, so all in favour of just getting tanked and sunburnt again?”

But a national sing-along would still be a bit naff even if our anthem wasn’t the sort of music that could extract confessions.

That it coincides with a choreographed display of militarism in Sydney that would make the politburo blush gives a decidedly foreign flair to our national day, which does kinda defeat the purpose somewhat.

Australia Day doesn’t need gimmicks, not unlike, say Christmas, which desperately does.

I had a crack at Christmas here once and it didn’t go well.

Readers reacted as if I had called for Bambi and Desmond Tutu to have a knife fight.

I’m not down on Christmas - it’s a good time, and if I had a personal coat of arms it would be two men standing either side of a yuletide crest, one with a monstrous gut eating a whole chicken, the other urinating behind it, cross-eyed and holding aloft a foam-topped tankard.

In short, drunken gluttony is my understanding of the mean-

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ing of life and if your idea of a Boxing Day hangover cure isn’t breakfast beers then you and I can part ways now.

I’m just saying, as the only holiday for which we actually count down the days in anticipation, Christmas just lacks something substantial to justify the hype.

It needs a focal point, like New Year’s fireworks, Halloween’s trick or treat, or the piñata at kids’ birthdays, although beating a donkey in effigy sends an odd message to those children not considering a future in horse-racing.

And, yes, ignoring the spiritual/religious significance of Christmas could be the root of my dissatisfaction.

But is it sufficiently reverent to commemorate the earthly arrival the human incarnation of the Supreme Being that created the universe – who decides whether we luxuriate in a euphoric afterlife or languish tormented in hell for eternity – with a hasty church service followed by a needlessly large serving of ham and potato salad?

The Aztecs sacrificed humans on towering pyramid altars to appease their gods: we give ourselves gifts, get stonkered and have an afternoon sleep. (Outraged correspondents, your time starts now).

In contrast too much try-hard nationalism and Australia Day risks looking like a parody of itself: a national day adorned with themes, activities and imagery uncharacteristic of our society.

A long weekend in summer would still be enjoyable for that reason, even if you called it Herpes Weekend and held it in a bog.

Who sings the bloody national anthem at the best of times, let alone in unison like brow-beaten totalitarian subjects, pre-conditioned to weep with joy at news the Great Leader has run a twominute mile.

We don’t enjoy Australia Day because it is a unique, special, moving celebration.

We enjoy it because it’s time off work relaxing with the people we prefer, instead of time at work with people chosen by the recruitment process.

A long weekend in summer would still be enjoyable for that reason, even if you called it Herpes Weekend and held it in a bog.

It’s when we start congratulating ourselves on being us and living here, as air force jets fly over-

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Silly as it might sound, Australia Day, and reflecting on the society we have created, for better and worse, should be a personal thing, not more contrived conformity, not drowned out by the machinery of warfare and singing marching songs from the 1800s.

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By his own admission, Greg Smart was born 40 years old and is in training to be a cranky old man. He spends his time avoiding commercial television and bad coffee.

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Time for a good hard look at ourselves, fair dinkum USTRALIA DAY is upon us, and some people will be celebrating the public holiday with nationalistic fervour, some will be marking Invasion Day, and others will be going about their business as usual.

The media will be filled with images of the Lucky Country – green and gold, barbecues and cricket. People will attend ceremonies to welcome new citizens, while others will overdo the liquid courage and end up in the news for harassing “foreigners”.

Phrases like “Australian values” and “the Australian way of life” will be trotted out by elected officials and journalists.

But what is the Australian way of life, and what are Australian values?

The traditional response is built around the concept of a “fair go” – the notion that individual merit counts for more than class and background, that fair and equal opportunities exist for all in our lucky country. We cheer on the underdog and decry tall poppies, those who are “up themselves” and get too big for their boots. We rally around our mates and those who need a leg up. We are laid back but quick to point out injustice when it occurs.

Factor in the ANZAC spirit – endurance, courage, larrikinism and distain for the British upper classes – and the image of the quintessential Aussie is plain to see.

This served us well during the post war period. Land was plentiful, jobs

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were for life and traditional families thrived. Church on Sunday and a new Holden in the garage was the norm.

Our allegiance was to the Queen and Commonwealth.

But times change.

We don’t live in a country of quarter acre blocks with the lemon tree in the backyard anymore. Holidays to the cousin’s farm are rare. Australian-made cars are in their death throes. Church is for weddings and funerals. The Queen’s grandchildren are tabloid fodder.

Post war immigration led us to broaden our horizons. We became friends with the “New Australians” down the road. Diets changed and we became less English.

More than half the population had a parent born overseas or were born overseas themselves. We released the apron strings of Mother England and accepted that multiculturalism could provide everyone with a fair go.

In this new century we’ve shifted course again as a nation. Far from continuing the concepts of a fair go, we have adopted an “us and them” philosophy.

After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush told us “you are either with us or against

us”. Prime Minister John Howard dutifully agreed. Asylum seekers became political footballs used to talk up the threat to national security and create an image of strong government (remember Tampa and the children overboard affair?).

Fast forward to 2015 and the essential fixtures of a fair and equitable society – public health, social welfare and education for all – are under attack, labelled unsustainable.

Reforms to the National School Curriculum are being reviewed with the aim of pivoting the curriculum towards Australia’s “Judeo-Christian” heritage.

Racial discrimination laws could be watered down. Journalists may be forced to reveal their sources where whistleblowers speak out against corruption and graft. Laws increasing the collection of surveillance data have many advocates in high places.

There are still indigenous settlements in the red centre without running water and sanitation. In the 21st century.

Welfare “cheats” are targeted by the very same media outlets that evade and minimise tax via creative accountancy.

Evening television is dominated by programs about suspicious foreigners

Far from continuing the concepts of a fair go, we have adopted an “us and them” philosophy.

trying to get past border security, and reality shows focus on coming out a winner.

We are turning inward to our own gardens and media rooms.

The rise of terrorism has given us licence to go even further and declare those against us as Un-Australian.

Anyone slightly different from the accepted definition of a “fair dinkum” Aussie – be they racial, cultural or religious differences – now has the added stigma of not playing for Team Australia.

News reports are peppered with words like “radicalisation” and “death cults”, often by our illustrious leaders, those who should be moderating their language rather than ramping up the rhetoric.

If you asked the beautiful young lady wearing a hijab and working at a local store what Australia Day means to her you may find it is the freedom to express her religious belief, attend school and live in a safe community.

If you asked the sour old Aussie woman who refused to be served by that same young lady because she was wearing a hijab, you would get a different answer. One that should have no place in modern Australia.

English author Samuel Johnson once said “patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel”. The scoundrels may be out in force on Australia Day, but so will be the “true blue” Aussies who embrace all cultures and by respecting difference find the common humanity in us all.

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Weekender regular Sally Bryant was born with her nose in a book and if no book is available, she finds herself reading Cornflakes packets, road signs and instruction manuals for microwaves. All that information has to go somewhere...

In my book, one man’s trash can stay at his place ELL, that went quickly.

One minute we were rolling out the holly and stuffing a goose, then before you know it we’re back at the coalface and it’s almost as though we’d never had a party. Well, aside from the hole in the bank balance and the bulge over my belt. One moment it’s all Bing Crosby; nekkminnit? You’re back doing serious stories and people are expecting some proper output.

I don’t subscribe to this foreshortened festive season myself. I’m more of the school of thought that Christmas excess can happily last until Australia Day without becoming a health problem. And, let’s face it, ‘tis only a short period of time until Easter so we could reasonably be eating ham and shortbread right through until it’s time to buy the remaindered chocolate eggs and bunnies.

How funny is it that supermarkets now have Christmas chocolates? I love it. Nothing like the post-festive bargain you can get when Christmas Eve’s must-have Santa chocolates turn into the embarrassing New Year’s Day stock that needs to be marked down with a savage red pen. And we’re not talking about ordinary chocolate here. This is the shiny-arsed chocolate; the chocolate from a company with a foreign name. With the soft centres and the serious addiction issues.

So, that’s another date on the festive calendar that creates post event sale chocolate. It’s always been the case for Easter that you’d go back to the supermarket and pick up the remaindered eggs for a bargain price.

Not the homebrand ones, because they’re made of a blend of cardboard and cooking copha. Instead you need to target the flash choccies in that post event oblivion. Bargain city.

So, right after Easter you can find me indulging in marked down upmarket chocolate confection facsimiles of chickens and bunnies and the ilk. And then post-Halloween, I’ve taken to scoffing softcentred broomsticks and pumpkins and black cats and cauldrons. And in the overblown rosy glow of early New Year? Now I’m wrapping my lips around foreign Christmas bells, elves and reindeer replete with nuts and liqueur fillings.

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Then there’s the panettone and the panforte (basically Italian cake and Italian shortbready things).

They’ve been added to festive fare by the local supermarkets and it was simply marvellous how many of them failed to sell by the end of the Christmas period. And there they were – just waiting for me to grab them at knockdown prices.

Ah! Heady days. It brings to mind the great Spatchcock Bargain of mid-2014. That was shortly before the big Spatchcock Debacle of 2014.

One of my greater moments of glory in the bargain game. Or, the bargain game game, to be accurate.

The post-Christmas food forage has been my only foray into the Christmas sale period this year. It was quite disconcerting to find, just before Christmas, that many stores had already started their Boxing Day sales. In fact many were well into the sales before the Christmas event had even started, which seems a bit at odds with how the world is normally run.

And it could be a good thing, because I’ve made some changes to the way I regulate my consumerism.

Now I’m living ‘on acreage’; now I’m out of town and off the town garbage truck’s visitor list, I’ve had to sit down and do a bit of a rethink... about stuff.

There’s all sorts of stuff I need to consider in this mix. There’s the stuff I like and the stuff I want, the stuff I think I need and the stuff I know I cannot live without. And there’s the stuff that I can afford and the stuff I cannot afford but buy anyway.

And, amongst all of this, there’s the stuff it’s all packaged in. Some is wrapped in plastic, some is packaged in paper and cardboard. Some of the packaging is stuff you can use again, some is packaging you can

recycle, and some is packaging you could use to start a fire in winter.

But then there’s the stuff you bring home and have to dispose of and can’t put it in your compost, or in your fire, or feed it to someone’s chooks. You can’t even wrap someone’s Christmas present in it next year.

And that’s the stuff you have to pay to dispose of when you are no longer getting a weekly visit from the garbage man. You have to put it in a bag and take it to the tip and you have to pay the man for him to get rid of it.

Who knew? I’ve been willing enough to spend my hard earned on consumer goods that don’t really live up to the description of “good”; I’ve been sufficiently well brainwashed to just accept that it’s all part of the dance of life. But I’m a big enough tight-arse (as opposed to shiny-arse) to object to having to pay to get rid of the dross.

So, I’m now playing a new game of bargain hunting. My new mission is to spend as little as possible on disposing of rubbish. (I could say I’m recycling and eschewing plastic packaging and generally saving the planet and being morally superior to nearly all of you, but that would make me insufferable and a bit of a tool, so I’m happier to say I’m niggardly and calculating and I’ll be damned if I will spend a cent I don’t have to on putting toxic garbage in landfill.)

And before you report me to council, I assure you, my answer is not to dump rubbish in the landscape. My answer is to make sure I don’t take anything home that I wouldn’t want to keep there. I’m bringing home no trash.

Which, on reflection would have to be a good mantra

There’s all sorts of stuff I need to consider in this mix. There’s the stuff I like and the stuff I want, the stuff I think I need and the stuff I know I cannot live without.

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OUT OF AFRICA Rams Mabote is a former journalist who moonlights as a lobbyist and media advisor for private clients. He has a place in his heart for the NSW central west after a visit as part of a Rotary study exchange group.

Rams Mabote Urgency: a foreign concept in Africa S I was saying the last time we spoke...

Oh, you can’t remember? Well I can’t blame you. I have been quiet for slightly more than a while, right?

I hope you now appreciate the concept of African time. You see, here in Africa the word “now” has taken the theory of relativity to new heights. For instance, “I will see you now” can mean “now”, or “in a few minutes”, “in a day or two”, “a month”, “a year” or even “never”.

But rather than nit-pick, I think it calls for a celebration that I am back writing for this award-winning journal from the southernmost part of the African continent.

And for those of you who are new readers of Dubbo Weekender, I am happy to make your acquaintance and I hope this time I will stay long enough.

I would have loved to start on a lighter note, but if I do not write about Nigeria and what is happening in this most populous country in Africa, it would be criminal.

Literally days after gunmen mowed down 15 journalists at Charlie Hebdo in France, the world received news that about 2000 people were killed in Baga, north Nigeria.

In the literal sense of defining what makes news, the events in Nigeria

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should have dominated world news and even relegated the Paris story to middle pages.

But it was not so. The world joined the loud chorus of “Je suis Charlie” and silently said “Je ne sais pas Nigeria”.

On social media and in mainstream media a debate was subsequently sparked: is one life more important than another? People were asking why it is that the world came to a standstill over 15 deaths and looked disinterested at 2000 others just a few thousand miles away.

There are objective and subjective reasons as to why this is so. In Paris it was journalists that were killed and it was no surprise that fellow journalists all over the world would join in solidarity to mark the deaths of their own.

In Nigeria, however, the deaths happened in a remote area where not even the Nigerian media has offices. As a result, reports came through accounts from eye witnesses and survivors. No one was on the ground to cover the story.

But sadly, and dare I say this, even though this was the biggest massacre in one attack, the truth is Nigeria is a country at war and literally each day there are reports of deaths, kidnappings, bombs and such like atrocities.

News reporters and consumers alike can be forgiven for developing some disaster fatigue.

What is astounding, however, and perhaps nauseating is how African leaders were all too ready to condemn the Charlie Hebdo attack and were conspicuously quiet or slow to react to the events on their own doorstep.

Nigeria’s own president Goodluck Jonathan was quick to send condolences to his French counterpart, while his own people were reeling from attacks and literally picking up the pieces of their loved ones to try and give them decent burials.

Reality of the matter is that Africa is an expendable continent under attack from all sorts of enemies.

To the north and west, Africa has been under attack for the past four centuries from colonisers who plundered and looted it while exploiting and enslaving her people. In the Middle East it has made friends with militants that have flared religious wars and armed militias to fight their own governments.

In the Far East numerous African governments have found a sponsor in China that has kept them in power through patronage. This has come at a price, though. China is the latter day coloniser of Africa, although not through the bar-

rel of the gun, and this time disguised as a friend.

Truth is, China is in Africa for selfinterest. For its manufacturing boom, it also needs natural resources like platinum, iron chrome and copper and Africa still has large deposits of these underground.

China also needs food and with vast tracts of unfarmed land, Africa is literally fertile land for China’s needs.

And then right here on African soil, Africa faces the enemy within. On the one hand is the bevy of dictators who rule without intention to leave office.

And on the other are leaders who are themselves looting from their own people and couldn’t be bothered to use the continent’s wealth for the uplifting of people.

It is no wonder therefore that even tragedies happening here disappear into insignificance because no one here or anywhere in the world is really concerned about the African continent.

And tragically (and sometimes laughably) in many summits to address its problems, African leaders always commit to do something “now” to heal this continent. But as you know, now is relative.

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The contact sport of back to school shopping AST week in Dubbo, as I contemplated crash tackling a mother of four children in a department store to prevent her from buying the last pair of size five Clark’s Mary Jane black school shoes before I could get to them, provided the perfect example of “January-itis”.

January-itis haunts me every year in ever-worsening doses.

It is best described as an offshoot of Murphy’s Law, whereby the more you need something (ie: school shoes), the greater the likelihood it’s not available.

I took two of my three children to Dubbo (a 400km round trip) last week to buy school shoes, sports shoes, a school bag and all the other bits and bobs they need (desperately) to start the school year.

Perhaps I was the last person in Western NSW to do my back to school shopping – or maybe my kids are blessed with particularly common feet – but I visited three shops before I could find one which had shoes still in stock in their size.

With school not due to start for another fortnight at least, I was sure there would be a truckload of stock arriving

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Comment by ABIGAIL MCLAUGHLIN Abigail McLaughlin is a journalist and former editor whose credits include some of Australia’s most renowned regional and agricultural publications.

She now fits her love of writing in around the responsibilities of parenthood and helping to run a mixed cropping operation in Western NSW.

soon, but for me I needed those shoes on that day – because I really couldn’t manage another trip.

The sales assistants looked exhausted after three solid weeks of squatting on the floor to measure and fit, and must have felt like screaming when they returned from their 50th trek out to the storeroom only to find no stock, or something in a dreadful colour they knew they wouldn’t be able to sell – even to a mother suffering advanced January-itis.

My nine year old daughter had firm ideas about what colour her sports shoes would be. Unfortunately anything left was either white, grey or black. We

looked high and low and eventually, thank goodness, found some pink and purple numbers which sort of fitted the bill (albeit slightly 2014).

January-itis struck again with the school bag shopping. We couldn’t find anything big enough, bright enough or that would last past the first week.

Ditto lunch boxes, pencil cases and – the worst of all – book covering materials.

My husband nearly expired from January-itis last year trying to buy book covering in a large Sydney shopping centre.

My daughter wanted furry contact. After searching through six floors of shopping centre he lost his temper and bought wrapping paper and sticky tape.

I thought I’d save him the effort this year by buying early – but to no avail.

Every roll of the stuff in Dubbo had been purchased on the day I was looking.

I asked one parent for advice on book coverings, and she said she routinely drives 350km to another town to buy the furry stuff because it doesn’t get bubbles in it when she covers her daughter’s books. Such effort did made me wonder why we need book covering at all. Surely book manufacturers can

make school books that don’t need contact stuck on the outside? Is it some sort of ploy to drive parents crazy every January? “Here are the books, but we have put crap covers on them, so go buy coverings.....haha good luck with that too, especially if you want fur...”

If the market realised how competitive little girls were about the coverings on their school books there would be pop-up shops on every corner selling materials, and contact book coverers (no bubbles guaranteed) hawking their services right about now.

I then drove across Dubbo in search of a thumb drive (have these gone by the way of the CD-Rom?) with all the usual outlets no longer stocking them. Miss Nine had ideas about what this should look like too, but short of importing one from Hong Kong I wasn’t going to find one.

So after much hunting I did finally sort Miss Nine (except the book coverings) but I still have Miss 12 to sort.

I’m already feeling exhausted and overwhelmed – and terrified every shop will be a barren wasteland by the time I finally get time to make the trip.

January-itis may soon totally overwhelm me.

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Why heroes need heroes to help save lives ORLD PEACE may well begin at home. Saving the world may well happen by saving one person at a time, and what is useless for one may well be useful for another.

The notion of health can range from the individual to a global scale. We all have unique genomes that similar to family members, and each national community has a different healthcare system. Mortality however is the ultimate unifier of the world’s population, as is the need to recover when we get sick or injured.

Fortunately for Australians, most of us have access to public healthcare and advanced medical technology, but much of the world’s population lacks what should be available to all humans.

Fortunately for those who lack ambulance and rescue equipment, a Tasmanian based charity, Heroes Need Heroes (HNH), is working to provide such lifesaving goods.

HNH’s mission is: “To serve the needs of International Ambulance and Rescue Personnel in South East Asia and other neighbouring countries around Australia.”

Paramedic, Michael Fawcett, established the non-profit organisation two years ago.

Fawcett was deeply moved when in Thailand he helped paramedics treat a young girl who had been hit by a car.

Tragically, the girl died. However, Fawcett said: “I know that her life was not lost in vain.”

This young girl’s life, and many others daily around the world, could have been saved if even basic, let alone cutting-edge, equipment had been available for use by medical teams.

Since this experience in Thailand,

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Comment by GEORGE BAKER Born and raised in the central west, George Baker is busy adding to his diverse skill base while he prepares to fly south of the border to pursue his interests in media and psychology at university.

Fawcett and HNH have organised a shipping container load of decommissioned Australian ambulance and rescue equipment, including a defibrillator and gear for a rescue vehicle.

The equipment was donated with the support of PT Hydraulics, The Australian Embassy in Thailand, and Ferno Australia.

HNH Vice President, and Masters of Nursing student and trained paramedic, Trent Ramsay, also serves to prevent the wastage of vital apparatus designed for the most important of purposes.

Ramsay recently told the North Shore Times: “The majority of our ambulance and rescue equipment, including lifesaving defibrillators, are destroyed when Australian standards say they are

at the end of their working life.”

The level of care in a place like Thailand isn’t at the same level as here in Australia, he said. That’s why along with the donated equipment, HNH and the Embassy conducted a “train the trainer” program. Eight Thai staff and volunteers became certified CPR and emergency first aid teachers. More than 1000 people in regional Thailand have been trained in these skills in the past two years, including ambulance personnel, park rangers, and schoolchildren.

HNH’s work hasn’t been limited to Thailand. The organisation’s most recent effort was focused on the main island of Fiji, where Fawcett again noticed the lack of top quality equipment and training holding Fijian paramedic practices back.

Just last month, Ramsay spent more than a week establishing an HNH chapter in Suva, handing over donated equipment worth more than $10 000 to VERT Rescue, and even trained 120 Fijian tourism staff in CPR and First Aid. VERT Rescue is based in Suva, but having access to helicopters through commercial operators means emergency medical care can be provided to remote Fijian villages. Fiji is made up of more than 330 islands, with many areas being inaccessible to road ambulance, so provision of helicopters and equip-

In the relatively safer and more service-rich country of Australia, people are at risk of becoming complacent and apathetic to the needs of others.

ment is necessary for medical help to reach many Fijian people.

The donated equipment has already been put to good use in Fiji. Earlier this month, the 2iC of VERT Rescue, Lemeki Lenoa, wrote to Fawcett to report that the donated gear had been used to free a trapped person in a seven-vehicle accident in Suva City. This is just one example of the equipment’s use.

It is these stories and these efforts that are worthy of mention and praise, but also worth being supported and emulated. In the relatively safer and more service-rich country of Australia, especially in urban and larger regional centres, people are at risk of becoming complacent and apathetic to the needs of others.

However, eyes of compassion, hands of practicality and a can-do attitude has already meant that a little of our financial, technological, and educational wealth has been shared and subsequently multiplied with fellow people, either on isolated Oceanic islands, or in poorer regional areas of Thailand.

If you wish more positive action could occur in your community and in your world, don’t wish for change. Gandhi and an “unknown 11th century monk” both said “be the change you wish to see in the world”. But is it such a change if we choose to act more compassionately towards our fellow people?

Rather than change, it might just be an adjustment; a rechanneling of habits, attitudes, and behaviours that will save or change the world. HNH is a vibrant addition to non-profit organisations working to make a positive difference in the world, and is easy to find on Facebook, or at www.heroesneedheroes.com.au.

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Dubbo Weekender 2015 I and welcome to a special Marketing Minute from Panscott Media, the locally-owned publisher of Dubbo Weekender and Dubbo Photo News. This one coincides with the “relaunch” of Dubbo Weekender, which has gone on sale for the first time today (Friday, January 23).

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Weekender 2015 People walk past a graffiti tag reading “I Am Charlie” as they take part in a solidarity march (Marche Republicaine) in the streets of Paris on January 11. PHOTO: REUTERS/ERIC GAILLARD

Marching a fine line between freedom and hate UCH has been discussed and dissected since the attack earlier this month on the offices of Parisian satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo.

While the attack was genuinely frightening and impossible to rationalise, the resulting dialogue around freedom of speech in the west has had some interesting outcomes.

The first question that came to mind for me was, if Charlie Hebdo was in Australia, could it actually be published under our anti-discrimination laws? And if so, should it?

There is a fine line between freedom of speech and hate speech and, unlike France and The United States, Australia is the only democratic country in the west that does not have either a constitutional or federal legislative bill of rights. As such the government regulates gun laws so people don’t go around shooting each other. They regulate the banks so the big end of town doesn’t get too big. And more recently, it’s regulated the drinking laws so people don’t get roaring drunk and king hit someone on a Saturday night out in Kings Cross.

Is this because we are a nation of petulant teenagers that can’t be trusted to look after ourselves? Or do these regulations protect us from high school massacres? Cushion the blow from the recent Global Financial Crisis? And does the Racial Discrimination Act protect vulnerable minorities from inflammatory content in our nation’s media?

In France, they staged a revolution to overthrow the monarchy and install liberal, democratic principles into their constitution (with freedom of speech and secularism being two of the main pillars of French democracy). It makes sense that the iconic phrase, “I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll

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Comment by MADELEINE ALLEN Regional ex-pat Madeleine Allen has a background in media and communications. Her passions are pop culture, politics and ideas, some of which she shares here.

defend to the death your right to say it” has been attributed to Voltaire, one of the great philosophical heavyweights and satirists who inspired the masses to storm of the Bastille.

The French intelligentsia still seems to be built on this democratic framework. Its current day manifestation can be seen in the works of Charlie Hebdo: anti-religious, anti-establishment and very left-wing. It is this disdain for the status quo and organised religion which makes the spectacle of the recent marches through the streets of Paris even more surreal. As heads of states from several well-known draconian nations linked arms and played nice for the global media, one can’t help but think it’s quite disingenuous to align themselves with the kinds of western ideals they don’t actually uphold at home.

The Paris attacks have reignited the debate, which is always worth revisiting in a healthy democracy. But you can’t look at one side of the debate without questioning the other: that is, are western democracies still upholding the ideologies behind their inception? Or are they simply using these concepts to differentiate between “us” and “them”; to justify and maintain the status quo and justify their past, current and possibly future actions on foreign soil?

FOR four and a half years, Dubbo Weekender was a free-to-pick-up newspaper, just like its sister publication Dubbo Photo News.

More than 12 months ago we contemplated putting a cover charge on Weekender, but for various reasons didn’t go ahead at that time. Twelve months later, as the end of 2014 approached and with the benefit of further research during the year, we decided to go ahead with it.

Why? Every media outlet relies on dollars to do what we do. Even the ABC needs money, albeit government money.

Here in the commercial world, newspapers, radio and TV all rely on various revenue streams to run their operations. In our case, until the end of last year we relied solely on advertising revenue to bring you Dubbo Weekender each week. By adding a cover price of $2, it opens up a new revenue stream and that means we can do more.

We can also do better. As the only locally-owned media outlet, we argue that we take our responsibility to record and report on what’s happening in this region far more personally than the other corporate-owned media outlets.

Our owner and top management all live here in Dubbo. That’s not the case with any other local media operation.

We make all our decisions here. They don’t. Simple as that.

So as they contract and/or reduce their operations, using more national (not local) programming, and moving key positions away from Dubbo to others centres (in some cases production work is now being done overseas), we want to ensure we’re in the solid position to increase and improve our coverage.

We’re committed to becoming even more valued and respected in the Dubbo and Western region.

To meet the commitment and challenge we’ve set ourselves, we decided to up the ante and transform Dubbo Weekender into a paid publication.

Now you’re seeing the first paid edition, we’re sure the first thing you’ve noticed is “bigger, better, bolder”!

It’s all about valuing what you want MOST people who truly appreciate what Dubbo Weekender is doing, value it. When we threw the idea of charging for Weekender open for public feedback towards the end of last year, we did receive a handful (literally just a handful) of negative reactions. We accept that and respect that opinion. Yes, we even

expected it. Of course there are going to be some objections in a marketplace where you are used to getting something great for nothing.

But there were far more who encouraged us and told us that they do value Dubbo Weekender so much that they’d be quite happy paying $2 for it. To all those people, thank you – we respect your opinion, too!

Ads for shoe (and golf) lovers SELF-CONFESSED shoe-lover and Panscott Media sales consultant, Alexandria Kelly, spotted this print ad for MasterCard.

“Excuse the pun, but MasterCard has certainly tee’d up a clever and cute ad for the Women’s golf tournament! Using one of their better known slogans – ‘priceless’ – they’ve created a simple but attention-grabbing print ad with the fun use of imagery, meaning clients are bound to take a second look! That, and let’s be honest, a good shoe is bound to get a lady’s attention.”

Marketing trends for 2015 WITH the start of the new year, people with an interest in marketing are looking ahead to the trends that are likely to evolve in 2015.

A client sent an interesting article from Australian advertising magazine B&T last week that quoted David Chenu, who is general manager marketing services at Horticulture Australia. David believes “the next year or two will not be about technology change, although he says that will still occur... It will be more about style, substance and the essence of what is communicated.”

It’s a great comment. We encourage you to take it to heart, and add your comments by replying to this Minute.

It ended as hoped...

IN the news this morning, police in Ohio, USA say a chase with a suspect who refused to pull over ended when the man drove into a prison parking lot.

The man crashed through a grate into the parking lot of the prison, then drove around the perimeter of the building until he drove over a set of stop strips and punctured all four tyres.

– Until next time, remember your goals and you’ll get to where you’re aiming to get, and market well!

“Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.” – businessman Anthony Volodkin

Are western democracies still upholding the ideologies behind their inception?

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Regional: What’s in a name?

BY FELICITY TAYLOR-EDWARDS THE DUBBO-BASED CEO OF REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AUSTRALIA (ORANA).

OR the past five years Australia and NSW has had a Minister dedicated to regional development; but what that means in practice isn’t always understood, and the true definition of regional development is often confused with the political.

This can lead to skewed perceptions of regional issues; does the need for a regional development Minister mean the regions need more help, that we’re in decline? Does “regional” mean the poor cousins; areas slow to change and lacking innovative or entrepreneurial spirit? I’ve often noticed the word used in this way – almost as a “nice” way of describing lesser beings as “regional”.

The answer to all these questions is, of course, no.

In Australia, “regional” is defined as areas with low population growth (hence why the whole of South Australia is considered regional... sorry Adelaide).

Yet while less populated, the regions are marked by high productivity. In fact, 67 per cent of all Australian exports come from its regions.

In a more pure form, regions simply refer to geographically linked areas with economic and cultural similarities. For example, the European Union has 28 participating countries, but its Committee of Regions has 353 members. The role of these members is to ensure local and regional points ints of view are heard in EU policy. Collaboration ation at this level strengthens the individual dual parts as well as the whole. Something thing this regional development agencyy continues to work on.

By this example, we start to o see that Regional Development does not have to be a matter of City versus Country, but a way of understanding how ow the different pieces fit together into o the whole.

That’s why collaboration with h government agencies, local government nment and industry forms much of regional development work. As Stephen Covey says “strength liess in differences, not similarities”.

So what is this region we call

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Fund offers potential boost to local industry DISCUSSION of how best for the Orana region to take advantage of the Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) were on the agenda when various government stakeholder authorities gathered for talks in Dubbo this week.

Representatives from the Department of Environment, AusIndustry, Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development, Department of Industry and NSW Trade and Investment attended the talks, with Regional Development Australia (Orana) CEO Felicity Taylor-Edwards, saying the ERF presents a great opportu-

the Orana?

Geographically the Orana covers 25 per cent of the state; it spans from Bourke to Mudgee, Cobar to Walgett and everything in-between, including Dubbo, our major city.

We may first look to Sydney and Newcastle for business and export opportunities, but that’s not to say our businesses don’t have a national or global footprint.

Not without its challenges, economically the region is incredibly strong. Per worker, our contribution to Gross Domestic Product is higher than the state average, and with a strong economic background of agriculture, mining and government services, our Gross Regional Product sits around $7 billion annually. The region supports almost 44 000 jobs, and gets to boast Australia’s number one tourist attraction, Taronga Western Plains Zoo in Dubbo, the regional capital of NSW. by our relationship We’re also defined de Dubbo, as the major across locations; locatio centre, contributes 40 per service cen cent of the GRP and gives all of us who live outside the city great access ou to services services, shopping and amenity.

But it would not be the regional city it is today without the satellite locations with and major regional industries that supreg port it. Mining Minin and agriculture for example, by definition, can’t happen in the th middle of the city, but the city supports and is supported strongly by these po operations. op This symbiotic relationship sh is incredibly important

nity for innovative businesses to take steps to reduce their carbon emissions and access asecondary income stream while still focusing on their primary business.

“Under the ERF, additional carbon savings can be measured by the tonne, and sold as Carbon Credits to the Australian Government for a price. This means that any businesses that modify their practice to be more “green”, could be rewarded for this activity as a business transaction. It’s a business decision, as well as an environmental one.”

Taylor-Edwards said the fact that the ERF is not limited to any one industry is one of its greatest strengths, and of potential benefit to local businesses.

“The opportunity is equal whether you’re a farmer, a transport operator, machinery hire business, manufacturer or mine.”

RDA Orana will be collating a range of emissions reductions projects aimed at achieving the scale needed to bid into the ERF, in what is being called the Orana Carbon Project.

to our economy and identity, which makes it important when we start to link the word ‘regional’ to that other word, ‘development’.

Clearly there are many kinds of development: social, community, economic. My personal philosophy is this: cultural and social richness are very important in creating communities where people want to work and live, however only a strong economy can guarantee the attraction of resources and infrastructure that make this possible. Look after the economy first, build the businesses and support industry, which create jobs, attracts skilled workers, get the infrastructure and services and the rest will follow.

I’ve already stated how the regions often outperform major metropolitan areas in terms of productivity per worker, contribution to exports etc. We need to stand up for our region, make these facts known and argue the case that, just because there are less people here, doesn’t mean we are less productive (the opposite is the case) or less entitled to infrastructure and services. In fact it should be the opposite. Support and leverage the productivity, and growth will result and broader development and lifestyle will occur.

Slowly, the equation for policy and investment of funds is shifting from populationbased decisions to those of increasing broader regional productivity. This will in itself bring investment and lifestyle opportunities, and with it greater populations and growth.

But looking to Government isn’t the only answer. Economic growth and development must be shaped and led by industry and business. We are fortunate that we have strong and recognisable industry and business leaders across the region, but I would challenge them to call to arms those other emerging leaders who will assist in driving growth into the future. There is still plenty to do in bridging the gaps.

The Orana is an area of opportunity, endless possibilities, the home of a can-do attitude and big heartedness. At some point we shifted from being a country area where it was assumed we did without, to a regional powerhouse, with all the benefits of products and services that a metropolitan area can bring, without the down sides of the city.

No matter how you define it, that is regional development in action.

The Orana Carbon Project has been developed from the ground up as a broad based, community supported project led by RDA Orana, M2100, Carbon Farmers of Australia and Renewed Carbon.

Alkane announces drilling results MULTI commodity mining operation Alkane Resources Ltd, this week released results from drilling activity in the central west – results it says are “encouraging” in terms of copper concentrations on the Kaiser Project, which lies at the northern extent of the Molong Volcanic Belt, within the larger Bodangora Project area.

A statement released by Alkane said that in the “Duke” component of Kaiser, porphyry mineralisation occurs within a large area, 400m by 200m, which has three zones, but that new mineralisation is best represented in the central zone where there are several higher grades of mineralisation.

In the statement released to

the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) the company says it has the right to earn a 100 per cent interest in Kaiser following expenditure of $500,000 on exploration prior to late December 2015.

Alkane is a multi-commodity company focused in the central west region, and currently has two advanced projects – the Tomingley Gold Operations (TGO) and the nearby Dubbo Zirconia Project (DZP).

Tomingley commenced production early 2014. Cash flow from the TGO will provide the funding to maintain the project development pipeline and will assist with the pre-construction development of the DZP. The DZP Environmental Impact Statement has been completed and a development decision is anticipated during the coming year. According to Alkane, financing is in progress and the project will make the company “a strategic and significant world producer of zirconium products and heavy rare earths” when it commences production in 2016.

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Q&A | WITH...

As a long time business journalist and commentator, Janine Perrett has been an influential player throughout the Australian business community for close to 30 years. She is the anchor of Sky News Business’ The Perrett Report, and spent nine years at the helm of Nine’s The Small Business Show, along with distinguished stints as both a foreign correspondent and a business editor and commentator for metropolitan, national and international press and electronic media. She took time out from a conference for the Australian-American Leadership Dialogue in San Diego’s Silicon Valley to speak with Weekender.

AS TOLD TO JEN COWLEY What do you see as the challenges facing small business in this current economic and political climate?

I don’t deal much with small businesses now, but I did for 12 years and still take an interest. I don’t think the challenges have changed all that much. With small business it’s always the same thing that’s hard and I think it’s harder than anyone thinks. People used to say to me, “I bet you want to start your own business now” and I would just think don’t be ridiculous – I’ve seen how hard it is and how hard those people work!

It takes a certain kind of person. I think it’s become even harder but this is where innovation and technology can help. A lot of small businesses are too slow to adapt. For instance, I love the tap-and-go, “pay wave” cards but so many small business say “Oh no, we don’t have that – it’s too hard.” But they should go with it – work out the prices and work it out because customers want it.

On that point about adapting with technology, do you think the online shopping phenomenon is a genuine threat to retail?

I’ve been hearing that for years, and can I just tell you that a 20 per cent drop in the dollar is going to ease that trend way back. For instance, it’s affecting everyone I know who buys books on Amazon and those kind of sites. This drop in the dollar is a massive opportunity for Australian retailers. Online sales is an overhyped threat to bricks and mortar – it’s a very small percentage; fewer than 10 per cent of purchases are made online. The most important thing in the world is service – service, service, service.

Do you think Australians don’t really “do” customer service very well?

Some do it fantastically. I’ll buy things just because people are nice! I think restaurants are getting better, but retail is a little lacking and that’s why we’ve had this retail crisis.

With regard to big business, how do you see the Coles/Woolworths monopoly playing out in future?

I rant on this about once a week! I’ve been talking about business for 30 years and (the current Australian Consumer and Competition (ACCC) Inquiry) must be about the 30th inquiry into supermarket monopolies and nothing changes.

It’s probably not popular, but I have an important point to make on this. I don’t like (the big supermarket chains) using their power to hit small suppliers, and I’ve been covering that for years. On the other hand, with global tech companies ripping us off on tax, I always point out that Coles and Woolies not only pay a lot of tax but they are Australian owned companies,

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tax payers and huge employers and that’s not a bad thing. I would rather them than a foreign owned company that’s not paying the tax and contributing to the economy as it should. I think Coles and Woolies actually do a lot of good. I’m not embarrassed to support them as well.

On the question of the mining boom, has it really burst?

It’s moved into a new phase; it’s not as exuberant as it was but there’s billions of dollars of projects still ongoing. Yes, it’s winding down and there are going to be layoffs, but the mining industry will still be there.

We’ve been through this before. The challenge is to get our economy to a point where it’s not so reliant on mining and to pick up the slack in other areas. But the end of the world has not come yet.

How do you see our economic situation at the moment? And if you had the keys to The Lodge, what would be your focus to bring about the diversification our economy needs?

For years I’ve been saying the state of the economy hasn’t been as bad as has been portrayed. It’s been used as a political football which is dangerous because it hits consumer confidence. I don’t think at this moment our economy is as bad as some people say. However, it is at a turning point and on a downward trajectory. If we don’t make some plans and some changes we’ll be in a really serious position and it won’t take long.

We are yet to have that vision I’ve talked about. We are a boom and bust economy; we can’t keep relying on mining and selling oil to China. We have so much innovation and so much good education that makes us competitive in a first world economy and we should be utilising that. Honestly? Our best resource is our people; our brain power that gives us this advantage

We are a boom and bust economy; we can’t keep relying on mining and selling oil to China. We have so much innovation and so much good education that makes us competitive in a first world economy and we should be utilising that.

RURAL BUSINESS IN BRIEF

BY NATALIE HOLMES

R

AINFALL in early 2015 has done little to ease dry conditions in western

NSW, while summer cropping has shrunk to suit the season according to agronomist Justin Lewis.

Lewis, whose area covers the Macquarie Valley, described current conditions as a “very dry season with minimal cropping”.

“A lot of growers are restricted by low water allocations and minimal precipitation.

“Cropping in the Macquarie Valley this year is 8000 hectares. In a full water year, it’s 40,000 hectares.”

The main crop this season in

– that’s what we should be focusing on and that starts in school.

I’m really worried about the lack of training and teachers and emphasis on science, technology, maths, computer science and so on, because in all those areas we are going backwards. We’re not going to be able to compete, even with second world economies. So I guess if I had the keys to The Lodge, that would be my focus – it’s about innovation and vision for the country that we want to be. Where we want to go.

Do you think emerging economies like India and China took us a little by surprise?

Some people would say yes. I don’t think anyone ever sees anything coming. I don’t think anyone saw the oil price collapse as long as six months ago. Noone saw that the Americans would have a whole revolution in energy even five years ago. I’m always very cynical about economists and analysts and people who predict, which is why I’m very reluctant to do it. So few get it right. Sometimes you don’t see things coming but you can learn from what has been done and try and learn from your own mistakes which I see we sometimes do.

Free trade agreements – are you comfortable with these?

I’ve always been a fan of free trade, I’m more of an advocate for multilateral agreements – big ones that include everyone rather than all these side deals, but anything that promotes free trade is good. I’m slightly worried though, because although the Japanese and South Korea deal is great, the Chinese one was rushed.

It’s terrific in principle, but we have yet to see the fine print. It will be a challenge to the government to sell the benefits of free trade to the broader community.

However it’s important and it should be supported.

One final question – should there be an increase in the GST? If we keep going on the way we are, losing tax revenues from companies, we’ll be in trouble. I’m not into (the approach of) simply cutting spending and not increasing revenue – I think we need to do both. So whenever we have a government mindset of “let’s always cut spending and never ever increase revenue” we will have a problem.

So yes at some point we’ll have to increase GST. Personally, as a start I’d like to see it broadened. I’m not sure about putting GST on food – I’d do that last – but I’d broaden it to financial services. That’s the first thing I would do; then maybe health and education but allowing for low income earners to be exempt.

I think we need to have the option to raise it. There’s no excuse to not have it for financial services; we have a quite robust financial sector.

the area west of Dubbo is cotton, while mung beans, sweet corn and some sorghum is also being grown.

According to Lewis, widespread January rainfall (which ranged from 90mm in Dubbo to 26.6mm in Trangie where he is based) has done little to alter the subsoil profile ahead of autumn, when winter crops will be sown.

“It’s barely scratched the surface,” he said.

However, as far as livestock is concerned, any additional fod-

der will aid their marketability. “(Rainfall) will certainly help the pasture growth for lucerne and therefore have an impact, resulting in better prices.”

Weatherzone senior meteorologist Brett Dutschke said the forecast for the rest of summer was for warmer and drier than average temperatures across NSW. “We’re entering a dry spell again,” he warned.

The patchy rainfall across the state has been described as a flash in the pan.

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Business in changing times with Phil Comerford, Scolari Comerford Dubbo

Avoid these common pitfalls when setting prices P RICING is critical to the bottom line of a company and yet some managers pay little attention to the substantial considerations that should go into setting prices.

When your business is setting prices for its goods or services, be sure to avoid these five common errors: 1. Using cost plus pricing; 2. Failing to take advantage of customer segmentation; 3. Treating price-setting as an afterthought; 4. Decentralising the process; and 5. Ignoring what the competition charges.

Strike a balance ONE surprisingly common mistake is cost plus pricing. This method combines the variable costs of a good or service with a portion of fixed operating costs to calculate a price. This may raise several problems.

First, if a company is unable to accurately determine costs, there can be a large gap between actual and estimated costs. If the costs can’t be recovered by prices, profits decline or don’t rise as much as they could.

In addition, cost plus pricing requires that profits rise with costs. If a company fails to control costs, customers may pay inflated prices. Conversely, if customers are willing to pay more than the price dictated by the cost plus formula, the business potentially loses profits.

Cost plus pricing does not take into account the willingness of consumers to pay. Price is a benchmark against which buyers assess their willingness to pay for a product or service. The challenge is to bring together price and willingness to pay in a way that benefits both sides. If the price is too high, customers won’t buy. If the price is too low, buyers benefit at the expense of your business.

As one example, imagine that your business applies a fixed margin to the cost of inputs. Then one month, suppliers provide a huge discount, lowering the cost base. Because the same fixed margin is going to be applied, your business hands over all the benefits of the discount to the consumers.

Take advantage of customer groupings CUSTOMER segmentation is everywhere. A common example is found in the airline industry. Customers who buy airline tickets at the last minute typically pay more than those who bought their tickets months in advance.

Airlines exploit the fact that travellers who must be somewhere on the spur of the moment and quickly, say to attend

a business meeting, have a much higher willingness to pay than holiday travellers who have the time to decide when and where they travel.

Different consumer groups have varying degrees of willingness to pay. Customers can be divided into segments based on similarities such as age, gender, interest and spending habits. These variations help to formulate effective marketing and pricing strategies. But tread carefully. There is often a fine line between pricing based on customer segmentation and anti-competitive behaviour that is prohibited by the Competition and Consumer Act 2010.

Another error replicated is to view pricing as an issue that doesn’t need discussion until after a product is developed and ready to be distributed. That cuts it too close.

Management doesn’t have sufficient time to perform proper market research and due deliberation of pricing issues.

Bear in mind that the initial price influences the first impression customers get of the item. As there are no second chances, the pricing has to be right the first time.

`If the price is too high, customers won’t buy. If the price is too low, buyers benefit at the expense of your business... a Keep pricing centralised if you want to make the most of what your company sells. When pricing decisions are not centralised, the company risks inconsistencies in the valuation of its goods and services and that gives customers a basis for negotiating lower prices or ignoring the product or service altogether.

In a world of online shopping and low shipping costs, this is risky business.

Many shoppers scour the Web to find the lowest prices. Centralising pricing to remain consistent across product lines and regions helps alleviate the discrepancies and keep consumers buying what your business is offering.

And finally, watch the competition.

A business that doesn’t pay attention to competitive pricing is not really in the game. If for some reason your company is unable to track both the prices and market share of its rivals, perform a cost-benefit analysis to see if it is worthwhile to pay a third party for the information.

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THE BIG PICTURE.

Entertainers dressed in outfits shaped like tennis balls walk around the Rod Laver Arena at the Australian Open 2015 tennis tournament in Melbourne on Wednesday. PHOTO: REUTERS/THOMAS PETER

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The shock of your

BY LISA SALMON MOST public buildings and even large houses have a fire extinguisher, which is sensible, considering that about 250 people die in fires in Australia every year.

Yet, almost 9300 die from sudden cardiac arrest – and many of them could be saved, if they collapsed close to a defibrillator. But how many public access defibrillators (PADs) have you seen in a public building?

Probably not enough.

While CPR alone (chest compressions and rescue breaths) saves around 9 per cent of people who suffer from a sudden cardiac arrest, CPR and using an automated external defibrillator (AED) increases the chance of survival five-fold to 50 per cent.

The computerised machines, which give an electric shock to the heart to return it to normal rhythm, are a crucial life-saving tool after sudden cardiac arrest.

This isn't the same as a heart attack, although a heart attack can lead to a cardiac arrest.

WHAT IS A CARDIAC ARREST? MOST heart attacks are caused by coronary heart disease leading to blocked arteries, which starve the heart muscle of blood, and damage it. A cardiac arrest occurs when the heart stops pumping blood around the body, causing unconsciousness and breathing to stop. Its most common cause is the abnormal heart rhythm ventricular fibrillation (VF), which heart'ss electrioccurs when the heart cal activity becomes so chaotic, it stops pumping and quivers, or 'fi-

brillates', instead.

There are various causes of VF, including heart health problems, lack of oxygen – for example, if you're choking – the use of recreational drugs like cocaine, or losing a lot of blood.

LET'S PUMP UP OUR DEFIB SUPPLIES In the UK, the Resuscitation Council says 30,000 people a year in that country have cardiac arrests outside hospital, and warns: "With each minute that passes in cardiac arrest before defibrillation, chances of survival are reduced by about 10 per cent."

That has led to a number of initiatives that are currently trying to dramatically increase the number of defibrillators available in public areas in England – and the same should be happening in Australia.

Defibs Save Lives, run by English heart rhythm charity Arrhythmia Alliance, is running two public access defibrillator campaigns – Hearts & Goals and the Bernard Gallacher Defibrillator Campaign.

The Gallacher campaign, which supports the placement of public access defibrillators at UK golf clubs, was established after former Ryder Cup captain Bernard Gallacher collapsed during a dinner at a Scottish hotel in 2013.

He'd suffered a sudden cardiac arrest, but the hotel had a defibrillator and immediate shocks, coupled with CPR, saved his life.

The Hearts & Goals initiative began after Bolton Wanderers footballer Fabrice Muamba had a cardiac arrest and collapsed during an FA Cup quarter-final match in Mar March 2012.

Mua Muamba was treated on the pitch with multiple shocks and CPR, and although his heart stoppe stopped beating for 78 minutes, the prompt pr treatment saved his life. The T former footballer now helps the Arrhythmia Alliance place life-saving AEDs across the countr country.

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British soccer star Fabrice Muamba had a cardiac arrest and collapsed during an FA Cup quarter-final match in March 2012. He's pictured with one of the AEDs he now actively campaigns for.

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TRUD TRUDIE LOBBAN, founder of the Arrhythmia Alliance, says: "Defibrillators "D present a vital, ta life-saving addition to an any community, school or business. When used alongside busi CPR, tthey massively increase the chance of someone surviving sudca den cardiac arrest from 5 per cent to 50 p per cent or more."

The charity works alongside

What's on the fitness horizon for the year ahead? Abi Jackson has the shortlist. :: Variety – forget sticking to one or two forms of exercise.

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Golfer Bernard Gallacher, right, with an AED and English TV presenter Bruce Forsyth. Gallacher collapsed during a dinner at a Scottish hotel in 2013.

ambulance services to support schemes to provide public access defibrillators, and ensure the best outcomes after sudden cardiac arrests.

Paramedic Matt Heward says: "Increasing the number of defibrillators in public areas would make a huge difference. Having access to an AED gives the patient a far greater chance of survival.

"The more that can be done for the patient prior to the arrival of a skilled paramedic, the greater chance they have of living."

ANYONE CAN HELP SAVE A LIFE HEWARD explains that AEDs are designed to be used by people with no knowledge or experience, as the device talks them clearly through the process, and all decisions as to whether or not to shock the patient's heart are taken by the machine. Also, after ringing the emergency phone number, a call centre operator will talk rescuers through how to use the AED. Many UK ambulance services are supporting the campaign AEDdonate, which aims to increase the number of defibrillators available in public areas around the country by encouraging businesses to buy an AED for their premises, and also donate one to a local public area.

The idea is that, as well as the

for youngsters and families.

Les Mills recently launched BORN TO MOVE classes, catering for 2-16-year-olds. :: Outdoor training – getting outdoors to exercise means vitamin D top-ups, fresh air in your lungs and an extra sharp endorphin rush if it's cool, plus best of all, if you simply don a pair of trainers, it's entirely free. :: Make a splash – swimming is one of our most popular

business helping save lives in their local community, they will get good PR from the arrangement, because their name will be emblazoned above the donated defibrillator.

Jamie Richards, a former firefighter who runs AEDdonate, says: "The most important thing is to get more of the machines out there – lives are being lost. It's all about time – you've only got minutes to have a chance of survival."

He stresses that the first thing a bystander should do if someone suddenly collapses is call 000.

The AED systems that AEDdonate promote will talk to the person who opens the box, telling them what to do, and even counting how many times the rescuer needs to do CPR. Ambulance staff on the phone will also give advice.

WHAT IS BEING DONE THE Victorian Ambulance Cardiac Arrest Registry conducted a study of the impact of AED use by bystanders in Victoria. Of 2270 out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) cases who arrested in a public place between 2002 and 2013, 2117 (93.4 per cent) were first defibrillated by emergency medical services (EMS) while only 153 (6.7 per cent) were first defibrillated by a bystander using a public AED. The study found that use of public AEDs is improving in Vic-

sports, in terms of participation. It's a fantastic, low-impact, whole-body workout and even more of us are expected to take the plunge in 2015. :: Tech me as I am – apps, gizmos and gadgets galore now play a key role in our fitness habits, and in 2015, it looks likely that tech will continue to help us monitor progress and smash those goals. :: Regeneration – a growing

buzzword, that token 60-second warm-down won't cut it in 2015; anybody worth their moisture-wicking threads knows that helping those muscles heal is just as vital as how many reps you managed.

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Right: A Les Mills virtual workout. PHOTO: PA/LAURA MCSTAY

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H E A LT H | F R O M T H E P R O F E S S I O N A L S

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More than mere “meds”

BY ROCHELLE BAILLE PHARMACIST LTHOUGH I have called Dubbo home for 15 years, I hail from the small town of Hillston – 1,000 different characters and a few hundred close knit families and friends that were my life. There was one supermarket, two corner stores, the newsagency, two pubs, a small but highly functional local hospital where my mum worked, one doctor, one ambo... and one pharmacy with the same pharmacist, Chris Still, my whole childhood.

He introduced me to the world of pharmacy as a profession, but until I began writing this article, I hadn’t really realised that Chris had actually been an important part of my whole life. He had been available six days a week, every week for the whole town when we were ill and sometimes there just was no doctor.

He had supplied important advice and medicines to my grandparents, my teachers, my friends’ parents. He had the nicest giftware.

He knew each of us from the day we were either born or moved to town. He was so very important to us all although I don’t know that we appreciated, in that isolated community, just HOW important.

With the ever-expanding “ranges” available in supermarkets I want to bring your attention back to YOUR community pharmacy. We are still here!

Pharmacy has grown since 30 years ago, and there are now many services available to you of which you may not be aware and of which you should definitely be taking advantage. We are accessible and we are here to assist our communities to have better health. Yes, we of course dispense your prescriptions and give trained health advice and pharmacies stock a evices for wide range of health products and devices customers. But on top of this we can choose to provide so much more. sWe provide screening and risk assessment as well as disease state man-agement programs for problematic health areas including blood pressure, Type II diabetes, smoking ces-sation and weight management. Thiss is not just a quick reading on the BP his machine or jumping on the scales. This d is a more in-depth health check and is tailored to your individual needs.

Keep an eye out for your pharma-

A toria, increasing almost 11fold between 2002/2003 and 2012/2013, from 1.7 to 18.5 per cent.

The Heart Foundation in Australia is working in collaboration with the Australian Resuscitation Council and St John Ambulance Australia. Together they have developed the joint statement, Early Access to Defibrillation. It says the aim is to: "Increase the number of AEDs that are accessible in places where large amounts of people frequent, such as train stations, casinos, sporting arenas, shopping centres, fitness centres, schools etc. and develop first responder programs which support their use.

In Australia, there are various Public Access Defibrillator programs and initiatives that have been developed to support

a rapid response to cardiac arrest within the community.

These programs generally provide assistance to a community organisation or public locations in acquiring an AED, along with training and familiarisation of the device with relevant staff/community members, The Heart Foundation says.

For more information on some of these programs, go to: l St John Ambulance Victoria www.defibssavelives.com.au l Red Cross www.projectdefib.com.au l 'Defib your club, for life' www.defibforlife.org.au l Australia Wide First Aid’s Heart Starter Campaign – heartstarter.australiawidefirstaid.com.au – ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY TOM HARRIS

cy’s next health promotion. It may be a clinic within the pharmacy that might interest you (it can’t hurt to know your numbers, can it?) or it may focus on providing information about a “hot” health topic of which we should all be aware.

You should know also that we are trained.

Our staff is trained. If your pharmacy is accredited under the Quality Care Pharmacy Program it is required to undergo regular audits to ensure it remains as such. Pharmacists have to meet very stringent training requirements to remain registered. Some, like me, have become consultant pharmacists. We can provide in-home services such as home medication reviews – an in-depth look at your medicines to enable the best possible medication plan to be reached for you with your GP. Pharmacies can also provide a similar version in the pharmacy called a Medication Management Review. This may be part of our after-hospital care program including home delivery and blister packs to help you manage your medicine and stay in your own home longer.

With the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), if you are getting about 60 or more prescriptions per calendar year between those in your family (typically all those listed on your medicare card) you may reach what is called the “saftey net”. Once reached, it can greatly reduce how much you pay for prescriptions.

There are rules and some scripts will not go towards it, so talk to your pharmacist if you think you may reach your safety net each year so your scripts are dispensed correctly under this scheme, ensuring you benefit from it.

Like Hillston, pharmacy has grown for the better and there’s more available to the customer today than ever before. I hope one day someone looks back on me and thinks of the part I’ve played in their family’s life, beccause ca use I feel very priv privileged to be inv lved in our community vo commu volved in this way.

Next time you are in your pharmacy, discover more by asking your Pharmacist. *The information informat contained in this article is intended inte as general advice only. If you have health concerns or need in individual advice, please cconsult your personal health profession sional or pharmacist.

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Country Romance Proudly sponsored by Orana Mall Photography by Alexandria Kelly Hair by Paul Stubbs, Javo Hairstyling, Orana Mall Make up by Gemma Saurine at Javo Hairstyling, Orana Mall Styling by Amy Whiteley Shot on location at Dundullimal Homestead with thanks to Suzi and Tim Gratton Models: Sarah Dunlop, Ben Dunlop, Jessica McWilliam, Simone Sing and Dion Comerford

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Simone wears: Billabong lover bikini top $42.99 from Urban Beach, Lee Cooper racer back tapeyarn tank $25 from Big W, Saturday short $34.95 from Cotton On, Gold cut out patterned cuff $9.95 from Colette.

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Jessica wears: Lacie off the shoulder crop $10 from Cotton On, The dungaree denim overalls $49.95 from Jay Jays, Dress sandal ruby white $44.99 from Payless Shoes.

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Simone wears: Kellie muscle midi $24.95 from Cotton On, Lisa longline cardi $49.95 from Cotton On, Enamel V cut out necklace $14.99 from Lovisa, Corelli sunshine white sandals $59.99 from Williams.

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Sarah wears: Lee Cooper sleeveless lace panel tank $29 from Big W, Skinny jeans $39.95 from Jay Jays, Dress sandals ruby white $44.99 from Payless Shoes.

Ben wears: Navy collared shirt $29.95 from Jay Jays, Skinny pant $39.95 from Jay Jays, Windsor Smith Princeton boot $119.95 from Williams.

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Jessica wears: Peter Morrissey jumpsuit $39 from Big W, Boat life long box chain necklace $14.95 from Colette, Basic oval clutch $49.95 from Colette Simone wears: Yazmin gypsy crop blouse $19.95 from Cotton On, Lee Cooper roll hem boyfriend jean $20 from Big W, Gold cut out patterned cuff $9.95 from Colette.

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Well known for her larger than life laugh and a gift for the gab, Virginia “VC” Carter is also a dab hand in the kitchen, a life-long pastime she finds therapeutic, fun and a great way to “share” with family and friends.

’VE loved cooking since I was a child. Now, as an adult – and I’ve been an adult for a long time! – I find it very relaxing. It’s a creative outlet. If I need to think things through, I find I can do it better while I cook. You know, when you’re feeling a bit snarly, get the pots and pans out and get into it, and before you know it, you’ve created something and you feel better.

I grew up in an old bush family at Nyngan and no-one ever came into the kitchen without being offered a cuppa and a fresh home-cooked cake or a meal. There’s such a social element to food – it’s for sharing. I love cooking for other people – presenting something nice that others enjoy.

As a cook, I’m lazy and laidback and casual. I throw everything in together, and I take the attitude that if it’s savoury and doesn’t look too good, tip gravy on it! And if it’s sweet and it’s not looking too flash, whack a bit of custard on it! Someone will eat it and if they don’t, well the dogs will be very happy.

It annoys me when people say, “Oh, I can’t cook”, because if you can read you can cook.

I’ll have a go at anything – even all the modern stuff, and I do like to keep up with new trends.

I must say I giggle a little at the fad for “paleo” food and whatnot. All it is is just plain, unprocessed food – steamed veggies, fresh fruit and meat... it’s just how we used to eat!

Everything old is new again.

Getting back to basics, eating more nuts and fresh fruit and vegetables and avoiding processed food – well, that just makes sense and it does taste good.

It doesn’t cost a lot of money to eat well – particularly if you cook from scratch, you can really save money. For instance, I buy the cheaper cuts of meat, and if you cook them slowly, they’re fantastic. And look at the fad for lamb shanks – we used to feed them to the dogs!

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cooked well, they’re out of this world.

My top cooking tip? Just have a go.

Nine times out of ten, it’ll work out – and if it doesn’t, go to Plan B – the gravy or the custard! Or stop me in the street and ask me – I’ll give you the tip!

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Roast Pumpkin Hummus CHICK PEAS are so cheap, good for us and crammed with vitamin B and iron; it’s a wonder we don’t incorporate them in almost every meal. They’re good in salads, casseroles and soups. Pumpkin is loaded with anti-oxidants, fibre and

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USTRALIA DAY means so much to so many.

From backyard cricket and thong throwing comps to dress ups and official ceremo-

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calcium. This recipe, combining the two vegetables, has everything going for it, plus it’s SO easy.

Ingredients: 250g peeled pumpkin 400g tin chick peas, drained and rinsed 2 tblspns Tahini 1 tblspn lemon juice

nies, the first long weekend of the year brings out all versions of the true-blue Aussie. And who could forget about the food? Specifically, as Sam Kekovich has been advocating via somewhat controversial and always hilarious TV ads since 2005 (and has now handed the battle to cricketing ricketing icon Richie Benaud), enaud), it’s all about the he lamb. ’t Since I didn’t get an invite to o the barbecue at Richie’s house ou this year (if you his haven’t seen this ia year’s Australia be Day ad, Youtube kit – it’s a cracker!), I thought I’d whip up something

1 teaspoon ground cumin 1 crushed garlic clove 2 tblspns fresh coriander, chopped.

Big grind of black pepper Method: 1. Cut pumpkin into small pieces, place on a tray lined with baking paper.

2. Spray with olive oil or any cooking oil.

Roast at 180deg C for 25 minutes or until

a little special. My macadamia-crusted Aussie lamb rack and baked sweet potato with steamed beans and broccoli looks a little bit fancy, but it’s super simple to make. Not to mention that it combines two of Australia’s best-known exports – lamb and macadap mias, each of which is packed with nutritional benefits.

La Lamb is a great sour source of Omega-3, ga- Vitamins A an E, and conand jugated linoleic ju a acid (CLA) – a good fat that can help prevent cancer.

Vitamins A and E are great for skin and

eyes, and Omega-3 can help reduce the risk of heart disease, arthritis, allergies, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia and asthma. These properties are even more plentiful in grass-fed lamb compared with grain-fed lamb.

The humble macadamia also packs a nutritional punch. It’s among the fattiest of nuts, but – and this may shock some – that’s not such a bad thing! The monounsaturated fat in macadamias is beneficial for cardiovascular health and macadamias are an excellent source of B-complex vitamins, calcium (which is perfect if you can’t tolerate dairy), iron, magnesium, manganese, selenium and zinc.

But enough about all that – let’s get to the good stuff!

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Impossible Sticky Chocolate Cake WE’VE all seen or made a savoury Impossible Pie, well, here’s its rich, chocolatey cousin Impossible Sticky Chocolate Cake. This freezes well and with a bit of supervision, the kids could do most of this.

Set oven at 220 deg C. Grease and line a 20 cm cake tin.

Ingredients: 1 cup raw or brown sugar 1 ½ cups wholemeal flour 3 tblspns Cocoa pwd 1 heaped teaspoon baking pwd 1 level teaspoon bi-carb soda ½ teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon vanilla essence 1 tblspn White vinegar 5 tablespoons melted butter 1 cup lukewarm water Method: Combine all ingredients in a bowl, beat with electric beater on medium until well mixed.

Pour into cake tin and cook for 30 minutes. Test if cake is cooked with a toothpick or skewer then, once cooked, turn out onto a cooler.

Now for the icing, once cake is cooled: Ingredients: 125g softened butter 2 ½ cups icing sugar 3 tablspns Cocoa powder 3 tblspns hot water Method: 1. Beat butter until creamy. Blend the cocoa and hot water together until smooth. Add icing sugar and cocoa mixture alternately to butter until a smooth, spreading consistency.

NB. This cake uses both baking powder and bi- carb soda.

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3. Place chickpeas, pumpkin, garlic, tahini, lemon juice, pepper and cumin in food processor.

4. Process until smooth. Stir in coriander.

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Macadamiacrusted Aussie lamb rack and baked sweet potato with steamed beans and broccoli Ingredients: 1 lamb rack 2 ½ tablespoons of macadamia oil ¾ cup macadamia nuts, crushed 1 clove garlic crushed ½ teaspoon cracked pepper 1 teaspoon thyme ½ tablespoon Dijon mustard 1 egg 1 large sweet potato, peeled ½ head of broccoli, chopped into small florets 2 handfuls of green beans Method: 1. Preheat oven to 200 degrees.

ter crackers or veggie sticks such as carrot, celery or cucumber.

Slices of apple are also yummy to dip.

This is an excellent spread in sandwiches with cold roast lamb or chicken.

2. Chop the sweet potato into two inch chunks and place on a baking tray drizzled with 1 tablespoon of macadamia oil.

Place in the oven and leave to bake (they’ll take about 20 minutes at this heat and end up quite crisp, but you’ll eventually turn down the heat down when the lamb goes in the oven, so just continue with the following steps and the timing will work out for you).

3. In a small bowl, combine macadamias, garlic, pepper and thyme. Transfer to a plate.

4. In a medium bowl, combine the Dijon mustard, ½ tablespoon of macadamia oil and egg.

5. Heat a tablespoon of macadamia oil in a non-stick frypan over medium heat. Place the lamb, presentation side down, in the frypan and cook until browned. Turn the lamb on its side and seal (you will have

to hold the lamb in place so it doesn’t fall) and do the same with the other side. Transfer the lamb to a plate.

6. Coat the lamb in the Dijon mixture and press in the nut mixture to form a crust. Place the lamb on an oiled baking tray and place in oven with potato.

Turn heat down to 150 degrees and cook for 30-45 minutes.

7. About 15 minutes before the lamb is due to come out of the oven, steam the beans and broccoli over a saucepan of boiling water until cooked to your liking (I prefer mine on the crunchy side, so will cook my beans and broccoli for about 3-4 minutes). Remove from the steamer and set aside.

8. Remove the lamb and sweet potatoes from the oven. Plate up the vegetables but allow the lamb to sit for about five minutes before carving and plating up.

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Hola, Mexico!

Prue Burgun wasn’t sure what to expect when she recently took her family, her sarong and her tastebuds on a tour of coastal Mexico.

HERE were two reactions when people heard of my forthcoming family trip to Mexico. Some were excited and intrigued. Others were cautious – concerned about my return.

I had only one thing in mind – lying on a white-sanded beach, sipping margaritas and getting the occasional massage.

Did Mexico deliver? Why yes, it did.

Our destination, Playa Del Carmen – nestled along the shores of the Caribbean in the country’s east – was spellbinding. From the balcony of my hotel I overlooked a pristine white sandy beach, lapped by turquoise waves and framed by a brilliant blue sky.

This was not the Mexico I’d seen described on the news.

Imagine Mexico and many will envisage dirty food stalls, beggars, wandering dogs, corn-cob carts and shoe shiners. While this might be a reality elsewhere in the country, it’s far from the vista of Playa del Carmen. I fell in love with the mariachi bands with their

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sombreros and suits, walking the streets playing traditional music with violins, trumpets and guitars.

The vibrant colours of the town and broad smiles on the locals’ faces came as no surprise to me. They were more than welcoming including one particular amigo at a local bar called Big Al and Redneck Steve’s, which became our favourite spot on the trip. We watched the sun go down over Playa Del Carmen as our attentive barman put on Australian music and brought us jugs of Corona and frozen margaritas. Pure heaven.

Home for our stay was El Faro Condos, a world-class oceanfront resort where the feel was cool and clean with its white cream façade. These types of condos are perfect for families – providing the coziness of a home but the convenience of a luxury hotel.

It had everything a traveller could want – 24 hour security, a pool surrounded by palm trees and bordered by cushioned lounge chairs; a beau-

ty spa and a restaurant for the nights when we didn’t feel like cooking in our condo’s kitchen.

We didn’t have to walk far on the beach to find exactly what we were looking for. Whether this was a massage, a diving instructor, shopping or even a bar to find the perfect margarita. The reefs just outside our resort and along the beach were excellent, with a huge variety of coral along with rays, sea turtles, moray eels and lots of fish.

The seabed was bejewelled with flashes of blue, green and purple from the different sea fans intertwined throughout the coral.

As a self-confessed foodie, I was more than eager to try authentic Mexican food. All I had to do was walk down any street and I was struck by the delicious aromas from different street shops offering the best food I could taste in Mexico for a cheap price. Here’s a hint: if the locals are eating it, chances are it’s the best.

I soon discovered that in Australia what they call ‘Mexican food’ is not at all. Forget heavy, cheese-laden dishes – instead, think fresh beans, tomatoes, pork, guacamole and fish livened by lime and plenty of chilli. A plate of shrimp tacos

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with guacamole sauce, chilli salsa and fresh limes will fuel hours of sightseeing and shopping.

trip out on a catamaran – an adventure with something of an unusual beginning.

Although not widely known for its authentic Mexican food, Fusion Hotel Beach Bar and Grill was definitely one of our family’s favourites. With tables right on the sand the casual beachfront restaurant has a beautiful view overlooking the Caribbean. At night rustic oil lanterns light the restaurant and to complete the mood there was always live music in the background. The fusion of international cuisines included salad, pasta, hamburgers and traditional Mexican specialties.

On one of our outings to Walmart, we managed to lose Mum for what felt like hours. Fed up and hot we were about to leave her there to find her own way home when she emerged with a grin like the cat that ate the cream. She’d met a ‘travel agent’ outside Walmart who had talked her into a snorkeling trip in Cancun – and we wondered what she was getting us into. Who would book a trip with someone who hangs out at a supermarket? But, as is mostly the case, Mum was right.

The highlight of the holiday for me was a snorkeling

The hotel arranged a transfer for the short trip to

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and from Cancun, from where Mum’s “friend’s” outfit, Cancun Sailing, has been operating in Cancun for more than 14 years and has eight catamarans in its fleet. We had around 20 other tourists aboard and although we didn’t know it at the time, we were soon to become a very close-knit group.

The barman had me at “free Tequila Sunrises and Coronas all day”. It took us less than an hour to get to the El Farito marine park, where we dropped anchor and one by one jumped in the pristine warm water, so clear we could nearly see straight to the bottom.

We didn’t have to go far to see the kaleidoscopic fish

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hanging about coral reefs. For those not particularly confident with water there were plenty of floating devices to go around and an attentive guide keeping watch.

We made our way to Villa Vera for lunch, which was included in the tour. The buffet lunch on the private beach included a salad bar, fish, chicken fajitas, BBQ ribs, rice and fruit salad. The beach was a hidden gem in a most beautiful stretch of the Caribbean Sea. Looking into the sea from where I stood brought a whole new meaning to the shades I had previously considered ‘blue’. It was definitely a post card moment and something I will always remember.

Before we made our way back to Cancun we had another stop at an island called Isla Mujeres for some shopping, and in order to see all we wanted in a short space of time, we hired a golf cart to get around the island. The crushed coral beach with calm turquoise blue water looked inviting from every spot on the island. Although it was a whirlwind visit, Isla Mujeres is a destination in its own right for a traveller who wants a quiet and more affordable experience of Mexico.

When you’ve had enough of lounging around on a beach sipping margaritas (a sentence I never thought I’d say), a day trip to Cozumel is a must.

Cozumel is an island in the Caribbean Sea directly opposite Playa del Carmen. All it takes to get there is an hour-long ferry ride. The best way to see the island is to rent a car or scooter and in our case we did both. The coastal roads lead to small Mayan ruins, a marine park and captivating scenery along the unforgettable windswept shore. The big beaches along the way each had a restaurant, bar and offered snorkel hire. A family holiday wouldn’t be the same without something going wrong and for us it was one of our scooters breaking down on the side of the road. All it took was a phone call from inside a nearby hotel and a small wait and we were back on the road with a new scooter.

We had a beautiful lunch at Kinta Mexican Bistro, which is one of the best restaurants on the island.

The chic bistro put a gourmet twist on the Mexican classics. My favourite was the grilled scallops and shrimp with tomato corn salsa and cilantro pesto.

Kinta also exhibits unique pieces of art created by the locals so you’re able to immerse yourself in the island’s culture while treating your tastebuds to a similar cultural adventure.

There will always be reasons not to travel to certain countries but the world is there to be explored.

From my experience, I think Mexico is simply misunderstood – it offers an amazing travel experience for those who are prepared to take the chance on it.

I can assure you the only things you’ll bring back to Australia are a dose of sunburn and some memories to last a lifetime.

And maybe a sombrero.

Although my Mum denied everything, we all knew the reason she wanted to go back to Big Al & Redneck Steve’s

Mexico is simply misunderstood – it offers an amazing travel experience for those who are prepared to take the chance on it.

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Let your heart sing REVIEW BY NATALIE HOLMES THE WATER DIVINER, 2014

HIS is a great movie – just don’t watch the last two minutes.

For me, the ending spoiled what was otherwise a beautifully told story set mainly in postWorld War I Turkey.

The narrative follows the path of Joshua Connor, a water diviner and struggling farmer who travels from the Australian bush to the Dardanelles in eastern Europe seeking closure following the loss of his three sons, missing in action and presumed dead following the ANZACs’ bloody defeat at Gallipoli.

Played by Russell Crowe, who also makes his directorial debut on this film, Connor’s character is typical of what you’d expect. He’s an Aussie battler who’s taken on the pain of his loss and uses it to seek answers and closure. Some of the shots are so established in visualising this as to be almost comical when Rusty takes an outback shower sans shirt and digs a well with a crowbar.

Yet we also see a softer side emerge upon arrival in Turkey and his interaction with the son of a struggling B&B owner, Oliver, who must remind him of his own offspring when they were

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The young Turk is played by 11-year-old Jaeden Lieberher, who shows promise in his first feature film. Connor is also endeared by the child’s mother Ayshe, played by former Bond girl, Olga Kurylenko. They are the first people he meets in Constantinople and their story has many parallels with his own in terms of loss and grief.

Although we see a stronger character emerge, Ayshe is very much the damsel in distress who clearly requires rescue. Although the side story of the friendship between Ayshe and Connor is lame and predictable at best, the main story itself is powerful.

Post-war Gallipoli four years on remains a house of horrors, with memories of the bloodbath that took place here fresh in the minds of those who spend their days documenting gravesites and matching the thousands of skeletons with their final resting place.

This is also a World War I we Australians have never seen before, told from the perspective of the Turks whose homeland was invaded, with their natural duty being to defend their native soil.

Interwoven with the main storyline is their battle against the invading Greeks on the Western Front, the occupation of Constan-

tinople and their push for independence and I believe the country’s largest city would have been a much uglier, angrier place than portrayed in the movie.

In cinematic terms, this film is spot-on and the fast pace combined with other elements of cinematography dazzle the viewer.

From the trenches of Gallipoli to the maze of the Grand Bazaar, for someone who has trod those same paths, it felt as though I was actually there again.

The mise-en-scene is beautiful, particularly the street scenes and landscape shots.

Sound is a very major part of

ONE TO WATCH

Jones, Mara to audition for 'Star Wars' spin-off

DiCaprio in first photos from 'The Revenant' Leonardo DiCaprio stars in the first photos from The Revenant (above).

The 40-year-old actor portrays Hugh Glass, a real-life fur trapper robbed and left for dead after a bear attack in the 1800s. Deserted and defenceless, the frontiersman survives the ordeal and sets out to take revenge. The Revenant is based on the Michael Plunke novel of the same name, and directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Babel, Birdman). Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson and Will Poulter also star. A release date is yet to be set.

Felicity Jones, Rooney Mara and Tatiana Maslany are being considered for a Star Wars spin-off. The actresses are auditioning for the female lead in the first of two standalone movies, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Jones may have a scheduling conflict with The Da Vinci Code sequel Inferno, but Mara and Maslany will test this week.

Banderas will 'always love' Melanie Griffith Nearly six months after Melanie Griffith filed for divorce from Antonio Banderas, the Spanish actor is still declaring his love for the woman who was his wife for almost 18 years. Banderas, 54, opened up about their split during a recent interview on the Spanish television show El Hormiguero, and admitted he had a "hard year."

this movie – from the keening wail of soldiers gunned down in battle to the rattle of gunfire and the whistle of the steam train as it heads into yet another war zone.

Cem Yilmaz and Jai Courtney put in notable performances as Turkish and Australian military officers respectively and hats off to Dan Wyllie and Michael Dorman whose portrayal of the stiff Brits is a far cry from their roles in local soap opera Puberty Blues and Wonderland.

Jacqueline McKenzie’s short onscreen appearance with Crowe is also a long way from their Romp-

FILM IN BRIEF

Depp 'sickened' by actors who become musicians Johnny Depp has no love for actors who use their fame to get into the music industry. While speaking to reporters before the Berlin premiere of his new film Mortdecai, the 51-year-old actor said: "That whole idea for me is a sickening thing, it's always just made me sick.

I've been very lucky to play on friends' records.. Music is still part of my life. But you won't be hearing The Johnny Depp Band. That won't ever exist," he said.

AMERICAN SNIPER (MA 15+) Thriller/Action/Romance.

Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Kyle Gallner. Director: Clint Eastwood.

Heroes come in many shapes and sizes. Born and raised in Odessa, Texas, Chris Kyle became a professional rodeo rider until injury forced him to reassess his priorities. He enlisted with the military and his keen eye - nurtured by his father who taught him to hunt at an early age - set Kyle apart as a sniper.

During four tours of duty in Iraq, he gained the reputation as the most lethal sniper in American military history, with 160 confirmed kills to his name. When Kyle eventually returned home, deeply scarred by clashes with insurgents and the deaths of his brothers in arms, he gradually regained his humanity and reconnected with his family.

SWEARING :: SEX :: VIOLENCE :: RATING: 7/10

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er Stomper days together.

All in all, there are moments when your heart sings with the patriotism of both the Turks and the Aussies, and fills with the pain of the story being played out.

There’s some comical relief and a few cringe-worthy moments too. This has been a box office hit since its Boxing Day release and Crowe has done a good job in his directorial debut.

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Friday, January 23 World’s Most Dangerous Roads SBS ONE, 7.30pm South America is notorious for its deadly roads, which are often just narrow, gravelly paths curling round mountain sides with terrifyingly steep drops. Tonight, funny men Phill Jupitus and Marcus Brigstocke head to Bolivia for a high-altitude road trip that promises plenty of adrenalin, hilarity and drop-dead beautiful scenery. The brave duo first have to survive the infamous Death Road outside La Paz, before visiting the spectacularly beautiful salt lake Salar de Uyuni, and tackling the tiny roads and crazy drivers to reach the ancient mountain city of Potosi, which is one of the highest in the world, sitting at 5000m above sea level.

ABC

MOVIE: Jackie Brown

Catfish: The TV Show

SBS ONE, 8.30pm, MA15+ (1997)

ABC2, 9.30pm

Quentin Tarantino’s follow-up to Pulp Fiction is a slick, mature adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s novel Rum Punch.

Tarantino’s mastery of weaving many characters and plot strands into a coherent whole suits Leonard’s multihued characters and intricate plots like a .45 suits a holster. Pam Grier (star of classic ’70s blaxploitation films such as Foxy Brown) is Jackie Brown, a flight attendant who becomes involved with a friendly bail bondsman (Robert Forster) when she is busted by authorities for conspiring with a gunrunner (Samuel L. Jackson). Spot-on performances all around, especially from Bridget Fonda as a beach babe and Robert De Niro as a seedy ex-con.

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Lauren knows that Derek is the man of her dreams and she can’t wait to take the next step with him. But will he d be all she has imagined and e more? Judging by the name of the show, probably not.

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6.00 ABC News Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 ABC News Mornings. (CC) 10.00 Gardening Australia.

(R, CC) 10.30 One Plus One. (CC) 11.00 Compass. (R, CC) 11.30 Eggheads. (R, CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 1.00 Soccer. (CC) AFC Asian Cup. Quarter final.

Australia v China. Replay.

3.30 Midsomer Murders.

(PG, R, CC) 5.00 News: Early Edition. (CC) 5.30 The Drum. (CC) Hosted by Steve Cannane.

5.55 Eggheads. (CC) Quiz show which pits a team of former game-show champions against all contenders.

6.00 Sunrise. (CC) 9.00 Australian Open: Highlights. (CC) A review of all the action from last night and yesterday’s s at the Australian Open.

10.30 Australian Open: Preview Show. (CC) A preview of the Australian Open.

11.00 Tennis. (CC) Australian Open. Day 5. From Melbourne Park.

Commentary from Bruce McAvaney, Jim Courier, Todd Woodbridge, John Newcombe, John Fitzgerald, Roger Rasheed, Sam Smith, Rennae Stubbs, Alicia Molik, Nicole Bradtke and Henri Leconte.

6.00 Today. (CC) Hosted by Karl Stefanovi and Lisa Wilkinson.

9.00 Mornings: Summer.

(PG, CC) Hosts Sonia Kruger and David Campbell present highlights of 2014 in review.

11.00 News. (CC) 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. (R, CC) 1.00 Extra. (CC) Entertainment news program from The Grove in Los Angeles.

Hosted by Mario Lopez and Maria Menounos.

1.30 Cricket. (CC) One Day International. Australia v England. Game 4.

Afternoon session. From Blundstone Arena, Hobart.

6.00 Ent. Tonight. (R, CC) 6.30 GCBC. (R, CC) 7.00 Huey. (R, CC) 7.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (R, CC) 8.00 Family Feud. (R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10. (CC) 11.00 The Living Room.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 Dr Phil. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, CC) 1.30 Entertainment Tonight. (CC) 2.00 The Doctors. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG, CC) 3.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, CC) 4.00 Ben’s Menu. (R, CC) 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (CC) 5.00 Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 Japanese News. 6.10 Hong Kong News. 6.30 Chinese News.

7.00 Hindi News. 7.25 Italian News. 8.05 Filipino News. 8.40 French News. 9.30 Greek News.

10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News. 12.00 Arabic News.

12.30 Turkish News. 1.00 Madhur Jaffrey’s Curry Nation. (R, CC) 1.30 Inspector Rex. (PG, R) 2.25 Silvia Colloca: Made In Italy Bitesize. (CC) 2.30 NITV News Week In Review.

3.00 France 24 International News. (CC) 3.30 Al Jazeera News. (CC) 4.00 The Journal. (CC) 4.30 PBS NewsHour. (CC) 5.30 Global Village: The Taste Of Australia Pt 1. (CC)

6.30 The Checkout. (PG, R, CC) Discover why financial advisors are a nightmare and a focused look at the cost of glasses.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 7.30 Summer. (CC) Local, national and international events.

8.00 QI. (PG, R, CC) Guests Rob Brydon, Tim Vine and Julia Zemiro join Stephen Fry for a “J”-inspired discussion.

8.30 Midsomer Murders.

(M, R, CC) After a wealthy farmer is covered in truffle oil, tied to a tree and mauled to death by a wild boar, the investigation leads to a restaurant run by a tyrannical celebrity chef. It is not long before secrets from the past bubble to the surface and the killer strikes once again.

10.00 Whitechapel. (M, R, CC) DI Chandler and DS Miles investigate the discovery of human remains on display in an art gallery.

10.50 News: Late Edition. (CC) 11.00 Asian Cup: Australia.

(CC) Round-up of third and fourth quarter-finals of the AFC Asian Cup. Hosted by Stephanie Brantz.

11.30 Rage. (MA15+)

6.00 PRIME7 News. (CC) 6.30 News. (CC) 7.00 Tennis. (CC) Australian Open. Night 5. From Melbourne Park.

Commentary from Bruce McAvaney, Jim Courier, Todd Woodbridge, John Newcombe, John Fitzgerald, Roger Rasheed, Sam Smith, Rennae Stubbs, Alicia Molik, Nicole Bradtke and Henri Leconte. With the addition of Margaret Court Arena as a third retractable-roof stadium at Melbourne Park, the Australian Open becomes the only Grand Slam in the world with three retractable-roof venues, making it a truly weatherproof tournament.

It’s a vast change from the first Australian Open in 1905 which was held at Warehouseman’s Cricket Ground in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda and administered by the Melbourne Cricket Club.

6.00 News. (CC) 6.10 WIN News. (CC) 6.30 Cricket. (CC) One Day International. Australia v England. Game 4. Evening session. From Blundstone Arena, Hobart.

10.00 Cycling. (CC) Tour Down Under. Stage 4. Glenelg to Mt Barker. Highlights. From South Australia.

11.00 MOVIE: Fire Down Below. (M, R, CC) (1997) A government agent goes undercover in a small, mountain community after one of his colleagues is murdered. He discovers the locals are living in fear of a ruthless mining company and its thugs, who are determined to cover up the fact they are dumping toxic waste into old mine shafts.

Steven Seagal, Marg Helgenberger, Harry Dean Stanton.

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

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

7.30 The Living Room.

(PG, R, CC) Tips and ideas on how to renovate a bedroom.

8.30 NCIS. (M, R, CC) A photographer disappears prior to providing testimony at an army court-martial.

9.30 NCIS: Los Angeles.

(M, R, CC) The team uncovers a cartel’s plan to transport drugs from Colombia into the US, using a submarine.

However, to foil the illicit enterprise, they must first locate the missing vessel the smugglers have hijacked. In the wake of the Afghanistan mission, Hetty finds herself in the spotlight.

10.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, R, CC) Celebrity guests include actors Hugh Jackman, Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy.

11.30 The Project. (R, CC)

6.00 Rick Stein’s Taste Of The Italian Opera. (CC) Rick Stein takes a light-hearted look at the role that food played in the creation of Italian opera, explaining how music and food are intrinsically linked in the country, as he travels the trattorias of northern Italy.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 World’s Most Dangerous Roads: Bolivia. (PG, CC) Part 3 of 3. Comedians Phill Jupitus and Marcus Brigstocke embark on a road trip through Bolivia.

8.30 MOVIE: Jackie Brown.

(MA15+, R, CC) (1997) A bored stewardess supplements her income by smuggling cash into the US for a gunrunner.

However, after she is busted at the airport and threatened with prison, she hatches a plan to play the sides off against each other. Samuel L. Jackson, Robert De Niro, Pam Grier.

11.10 World News. (CC) 11.40 MOVIE: Gigola.

(MA15+, R) (2010) A lesbian escort, living the high life in Paris, is surprised to find herself falling in love with one of her colleagues.

Lou Doillon, Marie Kremer, Eduardo Noriega.

12.30 Property Ladder. (R, CC) Host Sarah Beeny has a fiery encounter with two sets of experienced property developers, both of whom are hoping to make a small fortune in Northampton and Clevedon.

1.30 Home Shopping.

1.05 WIN’s All Australian News. (CC) 2.05 MOVIE: Enter The Dragon. (AV15+, R, CC) (1973) A martial artist enters a tournament.

Bruce Lee. 4.00 Extra. (R, CC) 4.30 Good Morning America.

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12.30 The Late Show With David Letterman. (PG, CC) Join David Letterman and special guests for his Top 10 and more.

1.30 Infomercials. (PG) 2.30 Home Shopping.

1.35 Adriana Lecouvreur.

(R) A performance of Adriana Lecouvreur, by the Royal Opera Company at London’s Covent Garden.

4.15 Countdown. (R, CC) Presented by Jeff Stelling.

5.00 Korean News. News from Seoul.

5.35 Japanese News.

5.00 Rage. (PG) Continuous music programming.

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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6.25pm The Heat (2013) Comedy. Sandra Bullock. Two very different officers must put their differences aside to bring down a ruthless drug lord.

(MA15+) Premiere

6.30pm Bargain Hunt.

Contestants compete at an antiques auction. (G) LifeStyle

7.00pm Street Genius. (PG) National Geographic

9.00am Cricket. One Day International. New Zealand v Sri Lanka. Game 5. Morning session. Fox Sports 2

8.30pm Last Vegas (2014) Comedy. Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman. (M) Premiere 8.35pm The English Patient (1996) Drama. Ralph Fiennes.

The life of a severely injured Englishman is revealed in flashback as he is cared for by a young nurse.(M) Masterpiece

7.30pm Pretty Little Liars.

(M) FOX8 8.30pm Drop Dead Diva.

Despite her efforts to avoid him at work, Jane (Brooke Elliott, right) is paired with Owen to represent Nick Jenson, a 17-year-old high school athlete accused of cheating on his university entrance exams. (M) SoHo

7.30pm Hugh Laurie: Live On The Queen Mary. Hugh Laurie plays a tribute to his musical inspiration, Professor Longhair.

(PG) Biography 9.00pm Rufus Wainwright: Live In London. Backed by a full orchestra on stage at the London Palladium, Rufus Wainwright performs songs from Judy Garland’s celebrated 1961 Carnegie Hall concert.

(PG) Biography

11.00am Basketball.

Big Ten Conference.

Ohio State v Northwestern.

ESPN 1.00pm Cricket. One-Day International. New Zealand v Sri Lanka. Game 5. Afternoon session. Fox Sports 2

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(CC) 4.40 Tinga Tinga Tales. (R, CC) 5.00 Fireman Sam. (R, CC) 5.10 Ben And Holly. (R, CC) 5.25 Dinosaur Train. 5.40 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.45 Octonauts. (R, CC) 6.00 Grandpa In My Pocket. (R, CC) 6.15 Charlie And Lola. (R, CC) 6.25 Maya The Bee. (R, CC) 6.35 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R, CC) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 That ’70s Show. (PG, R, CC) 7.50 Jimmy Fallon. (PG, CC) 8.40 Playing It Straight. (M, R, CC) 9.30 Catfish: The TV Show. (M, CC) 10.20 Red Dwarf. (R, CC) 10.50 Jimmy Fallon.

(PG, R, CC) 11.30 That ’70s Show.

(PG, R, CC) 11.55 The Hoarder Next Door. (PG, R, CC) 12.45 Pineapple Dance Studios: Launch. (PG, R, CC) 1.10 Red Dwarf. (R, CC) 1.35 News Update. (R) 1.40 Close. 5.00 Louie.

(R, CC) 5.05 Joe & Jack. (R, CC) 5.15 64 Zoo Lane. (R, CC) 5.25 Fifi And The Flowertots. (R, CC) 5.35 The Magic Roundabout. (R, CC) 5.50 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 6.40 I Got A Rocket. (R, CC) 6.50 Dennis The Menace And Gnasher. (R, CC) 7.20 Rated A For Awesome. (R, CC) 7.30 Nerds And Monsters. (R, CC) (Final) 7.45 Grojband. (R, CC) 8.10 Numb Chucks. (R, CC) 8.25 Kobushi. (R, CC) 8.45 Slugterra.

(R, CC) 9.10 Strange Hill High.

(R, CC) 9.30 Riders Of Berk. (R, CC) 9.55 Camp Lakebottom.

(R, CC) 10.05 Sorry, I’ve Got No Head. (R, CC) 10.35 WAC. (R, CC) 11.00 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 11.30 Horrible Histories. (R, CC) 12.00 Endangered Species. (PG, R, CC) 12.10 Endangered Species. (R, CC) (Final) 1.25 Camp Lakebottom. (R, CC) 3.55 Vic The Viking. (CC) 4.05 The Jungle Bunch. 4.20 Wacky World Beaters. (R, CC) 4.45 Studio 3. 4.50 ABC3 Smackdown Games!

(R, CC) 5.05 Numb Chucks. (R, CC) 5.20 The Aquabats Super Show!

(R, CC) 5.50 Leonardo. (PG, R, CC) 6.25 Slugterra. (R, CC) 6.50 The Jungle Bunch. (R) 7.00 Operation Ouch! (R, CC) 7.30 The Adventures Of Merlin. (PG, R, CC) 8.15 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 8.40 Astro Boy. (R, CC) 9.00 Lanfeust Quest. (PG, R, CC) 9.25 Deltora Quest. (R, CC) 9.45 Voltron. (R, CC) 10.10 Close.

7TWO 6.00 Home Shopping. 7.00 It’s Academic. (C, CC) 7.30 Sally Bollywood: Super Detective. (C, R, CC) 8.00 Jay’s Jungle. (P, CC) 8.30 Harry’s Practice. (R, CC) 9.00 Australian Open: Highlights. (CC) 10.30 Australian Open: Preview Show. (CC) 11.00 Tennis. Australian Open. Day 5. From Melbourne Park.

6.00 Tennis. Australian Open.

Night 5. From Melbourne Park.

11.00 Air Crash Investigations: Deadly Reputation.

(PG, R, CC) A look at the crash of TAM Airlines Flight 3054.

12.00 Harry’s Practice. (R, CC) Harry treats a dog with an ironing board phobia.

12.30 Tennis. 2003 Australian Open. Round 4. Justine Henin v Lindsay Davenport.

Replay. From Melbourne Park.

4.00 Adventure Golf. (R) Ian travels to Japan.

4.30 RSPCA Animal Rescue.

(R, CC) 5.00 Motorway Patrol.

(PG, R, CC) 5.30 Home Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 Shopping. 7.00 Art Attack.

(R, CC) 7.30 Handy Manny. (R) 8.00 Henry Hugglemonster. (R) 8.30 Jake And The Never Land Pirates. (R, CC) 9.00 NBC Today.

(R, CC) 11.00 Motor Mate. (R) 1.00 Dream Car Garage. (R) 1.30 Phineas And Ferb. (R, CC) 2.30 So Random! (R, CC) 3.30 Ultimate Spider-Man. (R) 4.30 Gravity Falls.

(R, CC) 5.00 Kickin’ It. (R, CC) 6.00 Tennis. (CC) Australian Open. Day 5.

7.00 Seinfeld. (PG, R, CC) Jerry’s dentist converts.

7.30 MOVIE: G-Force.

(PG, R, CC) (2009) Government-trained guinea pigs battle evil. Will Arnett, Zach Galifianakis.

9.30 MOVIE: The Big Hit. (AV15+, R) (1998) Hit men kidnap their boss’ goddaughter.

Mark Wahlberg, Lou Diamond Phillips.

11.30 MOVIE: Insidious.

(MA15+, R) (2010) Patrick Wilson.

1.30 Scare Tactics. (M, R) 2.30 Fifth Gear. (PG, R) 3.30 Dream Car Garage. (R) 4.00 Motor Mate. (R)

GO! 6.00 Tom And Jerry. (R) 6.30 Robocar Poli. (R) 7.00 Magical Tales. (P, R, CC) 7.30 Kitchen Whiz.

(C, R, CC) 8.00 Move It. (C, R, CC) 8.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 9.00 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 9.30 Max Steel.

(PG, R) 10.00 Power Rangers. (PG, R) 10.30 Ben 10. (PG, R) 11.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. 11.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 12.00 Power Rangers. (PG, R) 1.00 Suburgatory. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Auction Hunters. (PG, R) 3.00 Extra. (CC) 3.30 Power Rangers.

(PG, R) 4.00 Looney Tunes. 4.30 Tom And Jerry. 5.00 Ben 10. (PG, R) 5.30 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 6.00 MOVIE: All-Star Superman. (PG) (2011) 7.30 MOVIE: Innerspace.

(PG, R, CC) (1987) A miniature vessel is injected into a cashier.

Dennis Quaid.

10.00 MOVIE: S1m0ne.

(PG, R, CC) (2002) 12.30 Adventure Time. (PG, R) 1.00 Regular Show. (PG, R) 1.30 MAD. (M, R) 2.00 TMZ Live. 3.00 TMZ. 3.30 Extra. (R, CC) 4.00 Power Rangers Megaforce. (PG, R) 4.30 Robocar Poli. (R) 4.50 Ben 10: Omniverse. (PG, R) 5.10 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. (R)

GEM 6.00 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Skippy. (R) 7.00 Antiques. (R) 8.00 Human Planet. (PG, R, CC) 9.00 Shopping. (R) 10.30 Alive And Cooking. (R, CC) 11.00 Friends.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 Hot In Cleveland.

(PG, R, CC) 1.00 Supernanny USA. (PG, R) 2.00 Cycling. (CC) Tour Down Under. Stage 4. Glenelg to Mt Barker. 4.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Hot In Cleveland. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Friends. (PG, R, CC) Rachel reveals a titillating secret.

7.30 Border Force. (PG, R, CC) The enforcement team stages a raid.

8.30 MOVIE: Licence To Kill.

(M, R, CC) (1989) James Bond leaves MI6 and goes after a drug dealer who destroyed the life of his best friend. Timothy Dalton, Carey Lowell, Robert Davi.

11.15 MOVIE: Cahill U.S. Marshal. (M, R, CC) (1973) John Wayne.

1.15 MOVIE: Twisted Nerve.

(M, R) (1968) 3.30 MOVIE: The Day The Earth Caught Fire. (PG, R, CC) (1961) Edward Judd, Janet Munro. 5.30 Friends. (PG, R, CC)

ONE 6.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 8.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 9.00 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 10.00 Cricket. (CC) T20 Big Bash League. Game 32.

Sydney Sixers v Sydney Thunder.

Replay. 1.30 MasterChef Aust.

(R, CC) 2.30 Liquid Gold. (R, CC) 3.30 Totally Wild. (R, CC) 4.00 Get Smart. (PG, R) 4.30 Reel Rock. (PG, R) 5.00 Adv Angler. (R) 5.30 iFish Summer Series.

6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 Megafactories: Boeing 747. (R) A tour of the Boeing factory.

8.30 Cops: Adults Only: Coast To Coast. (M, R) Join dedicated police officers as they patrol the streets of the US. 9.30 Basketball. NBL. Round 16.

Wollongong Hawks v Adelaide 36ers. From WIN Entertainment Centre, New South Wales.

11.30 48 Hours: End Of The Trail. (M, R) 12.30 Cops: Adults Only. (M, R) 1.30 Python Hunters. (PG, R) 2.30 Cricket. (CC) T20 Big Bash League.

Game 32. Sydney Sixers v Sydney Thunder. Replay. From the SCG.

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 8.00 Vic The Viking. (C, R, CC) 8.30 Toasted TV. 9.30 Wurrawhy. (P, R, CC) 10.00 90210. (PG, R) 11.00 Raymond.

(PG, R, CC) 11.30 Frasier. (PG, R) 12.00 Charmed. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 JAG. (PG, R) 2.00 Clueless. (PG, R) 2.30 Brady Bunch. (R) 3.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 3.30 Cheers.

(PG, R) 4.00 King Of Queens. (PG, R) 4.30 Laverne & Shirley. (PG, R) 5.00 Mork & Mindy. (R) 5.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.30 Neighbours. (CC) 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 American Idol. Hosted by Ryan Seacrest.

9.30 Snog, Marry, Avoid?

(PG, R) A group of people undergoes makeunders.

10.50 Movie Juice. (PG, R) 11.20 The King Of Queens.

(PG, R) 11.50 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 12.25 Frasier. (PG, R) 1.00 Clueless. (PG, R) 1.30 Taxi.

(PG, R) 2.00 Beverly Hills 90210.

(PG, R) 3.00 Charmed. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 JAG. (PG, R) 5.00 Home Shopping. (R)

SBS2 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 Chinese News.

12.30 Dutch News. 1.00 Italian News. 1.35 German News. 2.05 Spanish News. 3.05 Greek News.

4.05 Iron Chef. (R, CC) 4.55 Knife Fight. (PG) 5.20 The Office. (PG, R) 6.10 Community. (PG, R) 6.35 MythBusters. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 If You Are The One. (R) 8.30 Ali G: Remixed.

(M) Interviews with unsuspecting people.

8.55 Nathan For You. (PG) Nathan proposes a new weight-loss program.

9.20 Sex In The World’s Cities: Beirut. (M) Explores the nature of sexuality in Beirut.

10.20 @midnight. (M) 10.50 The Pirelli Calendar Saga.

(M, R, CC) 11.55 Aqua Teen Hunger Force. (MA15+, R) 12.35 PopAsia.

(PG) 2.35 NHK World News In English From Tokyo. 5.00 French News. 5.50 Urdu News.

ABC NEWS 6.00 News. (CC) 9.00 ABC News Mornings. (CC) 11.55 ABC Open.

(R) 12.00 News. (CC) 5.55 ABC Open. (R) 6.00 News. (CC) 8.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) Weekly interview program, hosted by Jane Hutcheon.

9.00 News. (CC) 9.30 The Drum. (R, CC) A panel of journalists and commentators discuss and debate the events of the day.

10.00 The World. (CC) National and international news.

10.30 #TalkAboutIt. (R) Hosted by Del Irani.

11.00 News.

11.30 7.30 Summer. (R, CC) Local, national and international events.

12.00 News.

12.30 Big Ideas. (R) 1.00 BBC Impact. Hosted by Mishal Husain.

1.30 The Drum. (R, CC) 2.00 Al Jazeera Newshour.

3.00 BBC World News.

3.30 7.30 Summer. (R, CC) 4.00 BBC World News.

4.30 BBC Focus On Africa.

5.00 Al Jazeera Newshour.

6.00 Morning Programs. 7.30 Mysterious Cities Of Gold. 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Waabiny Time. 9.00 Go Lingo. 9.30 Bushwhacked! 10.00 Outback Cafe. 10.30 Around The Campfire. 11.00 Football. NEAFL. 1.00 Watchers Of The North. 1.30 Jesse Owens. (PG) 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 Outback Cafe. 6.30 Move It Mob Style. 7.00 NITV News. 7.30 Lightning In A Bottle. (PG) 9.30 Blackstone. (MA15+) 10.30 The Boondocks. (MA15+) 11.00 NITV News. 11.30 Move It Mob Style. 12.00 Rugby League. Queensland Murri Carnival. 1.00 Rugby League. Koori Knockout. 2.00 Away From Country. (PG) 3.00 The 42nd Koori Knockout: The Documentary. 4.00 Fusion With Casey Donovan. (CC) 5.00 NITV On The Road: Boomerang Festival.

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Saturday, January 24 MOVIE: The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader ELEVEN, 7.30pm, PG (2010) Younger Pevensie children Lucy (Georgie Henley) and Edmund (Skandar Keynes) return to Narnia along with whining cousin Eustace (Will Poulter) in this third film in the franchise. Whisked on board The Dawn Treader with Prince Caspian (Ben Barnes), first mate (Gary Sweet) and feisty talking mouse Reepicheep (voiced by Simon Pegg), the kids embark on a mission to rid Narnia of an unseen evil, visiting a host of strange and wonderful islands before reaching the end of the world.

A fun fantasy flick directed by Michael Apted.

ABC

If You Are The One

Cricket: Big Bash League

SBS2, 8.05pm

TEN, 7pm

Dating shows are never high-brow entertainment, and if you like extracheesy viewing, then this Chinese version will be right up your alley. Its format is loosely based on the UK show Take Me Out, where a brave lone male suitor has to impress a panel of 24 single women, who can then register their interest or lack there of through the use of their podium lights. Sounds cringeworthy?

Maybe it’s popular host Meng Fei who keeps people glued to their TV sets. With more than 50 million tuning in to each episode, it’s obviously doing something right. But is it possible for true love be found?

Tune in to judge for yourself.

It’s summer time and the sun is shining,, beers are flowing and our cricket sportsmen are poised, ready to impress the nation, and indeed the world, with the Cricket World Cup just around the corner. As a warmup for viewers, the KFC T20 Big Bash League is here, with some impressive international stars playing alongside Australia’s best home grown talent.

There’s a lot at stake tonight, with a place in the big final up for grabs, so grab a beer and join commentators Mel McLaughlin, Ricky Ponting, Adam Gilchrist (pictured right with Ponting) and Damien Fleming on your couch to soak in the intense atmosphere of the game.

PRIME7

WIN

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6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 10.30 Rage Retro Month.

(PG, CC) 11.30 Eggheads. (R, CC) 12.00 Time Team: Henham’s Lost Mansions. (R, CC) 1.00 Asian Cup: Australia.

(R, CC) 1.30 MOVIE: The Boy With Green Hair. (R, CC) (1948) Dean Stockwell.

3.00 Basketball. (CC) WNBL. Round 14. Melbourne Boomers v Canberra Capitals. From State Basketball Centre, Melbourne.

5.00 Inspector George Gently. (PG, R, CC) A young nightclub-goer is killed.

6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) Join Andrew O’Keefe and Monique Wright for all the latest news, sport and weather.

10.00 Australian Open: Preview Show. (CC) A preview of the Grand Slam of Asia-Pacific.

11.00 Tennis. (CC) Australian Open. Day 6. From Melbourne Park.

Commentary from Bruce McAvaney, Jim Courier, Todd Woodbridge, John Newcombe, John Fitzgerald, Roger Rasheed, Sam Smith, Rennae Stubbs, Alicia Molik, Nicole Bradtke and Henri Leconte.

6.00 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 6.30 Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) Dora tries to save Atlantis.

7.00 Weekend Today: Saturday. (CC) News, current affairs and entertainment.

10.00 Mornings: Summer.

(PG, CC) Highlights of 2014 in review.

11.30 Cycling. (CC) Tour Down Under. Stage 5. McLaren Vale to Willunga Hill. From South Australia.

4.00 Explore Ireland. (PG, CC) Trevor and Kim explore Ireland.

5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Customs. (PG, R, CC) Suitcases are found filled with cigarettes.

6.00 A Taste Of Travel. (R, CC) 7.00 GCBC. (R, CC) 7.30 Places We Go. (R, CC) 8.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10: Saturday. (CC) 10.00 Studio 10: Saturday Extra. (PG, CC) 11.00 The Living Room.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 The Talk. (PG, CC) 1.00 Healthy Homes TV. (CC) (New Series) 1.30 Weekend Feast. (CC) 2.30 Huey’s Kitchen. (R, CC) 3.00 iFish Summer Series.

(R, CC) 4.00 What’s Up! Downunder. (CC) 4.30 Escape With ET. (CC) 5.00 Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 Japanese News. 6.10 Hong Kong News. 6.30 Chinese News.

7.00 Hindi News. 7.25 Italian News. 8.05 Filipino News. 8.40 French News. 9.30 Greek News.

10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News.

12.00 Arabic News.

12.30 Turkish News.

1.00 Bjork Biophilia Live. (CC) 2.50 Hopper Stories.

3.00 Film And Its Era: One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. (PG, CC) 4.00 A Season At The Juilliard School New York: Artist In The City.

(PG, R, CC) 4.30 PBS NewsHour. (CC) 5.30 Forbidden Tomb Of Genghis Khan. (PG, CC)

6.30 Attitude. (PG, CC) Stories about people with disabilities, including a man dealing with PTSD. 7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 Death In Paradise.

(PG, R, CC) DI Goodman and the team investigate the murder of a stand-in on the set of a zombie horror movie.

8.30 Call The Midwife.

(PG, R, CC) Cynthia tends to a diabetic bully. A visit from Annie’s son helps boost her spirits and gives her the confidence to begin turning her life around. Fred teaches the midwives how to ride a scooter.

9.30 The Darkside. (M, CC) A collection of poignant, sad, funny and absurd ghost tales from across Australia, brought to life by director Warwick Thornton with the help of some of Australia’s prominent actors as the storytellers.

11.05 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. (R, CC) UK-based panel show featuring Adam Hills taking an off-beat look at events of the week.

11.50 Rage Retro Month.

(MA15+) Continuous music programming.

6.00 News. (CC) 6.30 Tennis. (CC) Australian Open. Night 6. From Melbourne Park.

Commentary from Bruce McAvaney, Jim Courier, Todd Woodbridge, John Newcombe, John Fitzgerald, Roger Rasheed, Sam Smith, Rennae Stubbs, Alicia Molik, Nicole Bradtke and Henri Leconte. With the addition of Margaret Court Arena as a third retractable-roof stadium at Melbourne Park, the Australian Open becomes the only Grand Slam in the world with three retractable-roof venues, making it a truly weatherproof tournament.

It’s a vast change from the first Australian Open in 1905 which was held at Warehouseman’s Cricket Ground in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda and administered by the Melbourne Cricket Club.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone. (PG, R, CC) (2001) Having grown up under the care of his mean-spirited uncle and aunt, a young orphan is sent to a special school to train to become a wizard after learning of his magical family background on his 11th birthday. Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson.

10.10 Two And A Half Men. (M, R, CC) Walden and Alan secure dates with two ideal women, but Lyndsey’s jealousy throws a spanner in the works. After a curious Alan quizzes Jenny about being a lesbian, she shares her first experience with him.

10.40 Two And A Half Men. (M, R, CC) After a private investigator mistakenly claims Walden has been having an affair with Lyndsey, he must rely on Rose’s help to avoid an assassin he suspects a furious Larry has hired to kill him.

11.10 Cycling. (CC) Tour Down Under. Stage 5. McLaren Vale to Willunga Hill.

Highlights. From South Australia.

6.00 Miguel’s Feasts. (CC) Miguel visits Chile where he compares his grandma’s recipe for Spanish empanada with the local offering.

6.30 Modern Family. (R, CC) Mitchell is upset after Manny crashes a traditional father-son tradition, of watching meteor showers, with Jay. Hayley tricks her mother into helping her prepare for a fundraiser.

Gloria and Cameron spend some quality time together after an awkward misunderstanding.

7.00 Cricket. (CC) T20 Big Bash League. First semi-final.

Commentary from Mel McLaughlin, Ricky Ponting, Adam Gilchrist and Damien Fleming.

10.30 MOVIE: Dinner For Schmucks. (M, R, CC) (2010) After he finds out his superiors have been hosting dinners celebrating the idiocy of their guests, a rising executive begins to question the practice following an invitation to attend. His moral stance is put to the test by the discovery of the “perfect” stooge for the big night.

Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Stephanie Szostak.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Great Continental Railway Journeys: London To Monte Carlo.

(PG, CC) Part 1 of 5. Host Michael Portillo embarks on a nostalgic railway adventure guided by Bradshaw’s Continental Railway Guide, which takes him across the heart of Europe. He heads from London to Paris, before ending his journey at the gaming tables of Monte Carlo.

8.30 MOVIE: Misery. (M, R, CC) (1990) A bestselling novelist is rescued by his self-proclaimed, number one fan after he is involved in a car crash.

The woman takes it upon herself to nurse him back to health, however, after she reads one of his latest manuscripts, their reluctant relationship takes a terrifying twist.

Kathy Bates, James Caan, Richard Farnsworth.

10.30 MOVIE: Phantom Pain.

(M, R) (2009) A dedicated cyclist searches for new meaning in life after he loses his leg in a hitand-run accident. Til Schweiger, Jana Pallaske, Stipe Erceg.

5.00 Rage. (PG) Continuous music programming.

12.30 Property Ladder. (R, CC) Host Sarah Beeny deals with two sets of amateur developers who are convinced there is easy money to be had in doing up property, one in Ewell and the other in Aylesbury.

1.30 Home Shopping.

12.10 MOVIE: Body Snatchers.

(M, R, CC) (1993) Terry Kinney.

1.45 MOVIE: Hoffman.

(M, R, CC) (1970) 3.50 WIN Presents. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Impractical Jokers. (M, R, CC) 4.30 Extra. (R, CC) 5.00 The Middle. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. (R)

12.50 48 Hours: The Girl Next Door. (M, R) A man’s murder is investigated.

2.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.30 Home Shopping.

4.30 It Is Written. (PG) Religious program.

5.00 Hour Of Power. Religious program.

12.15 The Green Room With Paul Provenza. (M, CC) 12.50 Valentino: The Last Emperor. (PG, R, CC) 2.40 MOVIE: Captive.

(MA15+, R) (2008) Vyacheslav Krikunov.

4.10 Eddie Izzard’s Marathons For Mandela. (M, R, CC) 5.00 Korean News. 5.35 Japanese News.

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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6.40pm Non-Stop (2014) Thriller. Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore. A US Air Marshal receives a series of cryptic text messages demanding he instruct the airline he is on to transfer $150 million into an off-shore account. (M) Premiere

6.40pm Grey’s Anatomy. The residents return for another year. (M) SoHo

7.30pm Killing Lincoln. The story of Abraham Lincoln, the president who ended slavery in America and died for his cause.

(M) National Geographic

5.00pm Soccer.

A-League. Adelaide United v Newcastle Jets.

Fox Sports 4

6.40pm The Wrestler (2008) Drama. Mickey Rourke. A faded pro-wrestler is forced to retire.

(MA15+) Masterpiece

8.30pm Police Ten 7. An inside look at the dramatic working lives of New Zealand’s police force. (MA15+) FOX8

8.30pm Inspector George Gently. A lonely, old man is murdered. Stars Martin Shaw (right). UKTV

10.15pm Runner Runner (2013) Thriller. (MA15+) Premiere

7.30pm Winston Churchill: Walking With Destiny.

Highlights Churchill’s years in the political wilderness, his early opposition to Adolf Hitler and his support for Jews under threat by the Nazi regime. (M) History

7.30pm Soccer.

A-League. Central Coast Mariners v Sydney FC. Fox Sports 4 8.00pm Golf. European PGA Tour. Qatar Masters.

Final Round. Fox Sports 3

7.30pm Treehouse Masters.

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ABC2 6.00 Children’s Programs. 1.15 Q Pootle 5. (R, CC) 1.30 Kioka. (R, CC) 1.40 Boj. (R, CC) 1.55 Pingu.

(R) 2.00 LazyTown. (R, CC) 2.25 Mister Maker Around The World.

(R, CC) 2.50 Tree Fu Tom. (R, CC) 3.15 Peg + Cat. (R, CC) 3.30 Play School. (R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.10 Hoopla. (R, CC) 4.25 Wiggle. (CC) 4.40 Tinga Tinga Tales. (R, CC) 5.00 Olivia. (R, CC) 5.20 Olivia And The Treasure Hunt. (R, CC) 5.45 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.55 Octonauts. (R, CC) 6.05 Pingu. (R, CC) 6.15 Charlie And Lola. (R, CC) 6.25 Maya The Bee. (R, CC) 6.35 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R, CC) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Winter Wipeout. (PG, CC) 8.30 Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow. (M, R, CC) (Final) 9.15 Funny As. (M, CC) 10.35 The Inbetweeners. (M, R) 11.00 Plebs.

(M, R, CC) 11.25 Siblings. (M, R, CC) 11.55 Hustle. (PG, R, CC) 12.55 Grandma’s House. (M, R, CC) 2.25 News Update. (R) 2.30 Close. 5.00 Louie. (R, CC) 5.05 Joe & Jack. (R, CC) 5.15 64 Zoo Lane. (R, CC) 5.25 Fifi And The Flowertots. (R, CC) 5.35 The Magic Roundabout. (R, CC) 5.50 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 8.15 Endangered Species. (R, CC) 8.30 Riders Of Berk. (R, CC) 9.00 ABC3 Smackdown Games! (R, CC) 9.25 Total Drama World Tour. (R, CC) 9.50 Annoying Orange. (R, CC) 10.05 The Aquabats Super Show!

(PG, R, CC) 10.35 Sorry, I’ve Got No Head. (R, CC) 11.00 Almost Naked Animals. (R, CC) 11.25 Canimals. (R) 11.35 Worst Year Of My Life, Again. (R, CC) 12.00 Life With Boys. (R, CC) 12.20 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 12.30 Nerds And Monsters. (R, CC) 1.30 Numb Chucks. (R, CC) 2.30 Slugterra. (R, CC) 2.50 Blue Zoo. (R, CC) 3.20 Kobushi. (R, CC) 3.25 WAC. (R, CC) 3.50 Studio 3. 3.55 The Aquabats Super Show! (R, CC) 4.15 Iron Man: Armored Adventures. (R, CC) 4.40 Detentionaire. (R, CC) 5.00 Nowhere Boys. (R, CC) 5.30 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 6.00 Riders Of Berk. (R, CC) 6.25 Figaro Pho. (R, CC) 6.30 The Haunting Hour. (PG, CC) 6.55 Wizards Vs Aliens. (R, CC) 7.25 Wolfblood. (R, CC) 7.50 The Aquabats Super Show! (R, CC) 8.10 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 8.40 Astro Boy. (R, CC) 9.00 Lanfeust Quest.

(R, CC) 9.25 Deltora Quest. (R, CC) 9.45 Voltron. (R, CC) 10.10 Close.

7TWO 6.00 Home Shopping. (PG, R) 7.00 Saturday Disney. (R, CC) Hosted by Teigan Nash, Candice Dixon and Nathan Morgan.

9.00 Good Luck Charlie. (R, CC) 9.30 Shake It Up. (R, CC) Rocky’s dad returns from overseas.

10.00 Home Shopping.

11.00 Tennis. Australian Open.

Day 6. From Melbourne Park.

6.00 Tennis. Australian Open.

Night 6. From Melbourne Park.

11.00 Air Crash Investigations: Deadly Crossroads.

(M, R, CC) Examines why collision avoidance systems broke down and caused a cargo jet to collide with a passenger jet.

12.00 Tennis. 2000 Australian Open. Men’s Semi-final.

Andre Agassi v Pete Sampras. Replay. From Melbourne Park.

3.30 Tennis. 2004 Australian Open. Women’s Final.

Justine Henin v Kim Clijsters. Replay. From Melbourne Park.

7MATE 6.00 Dream Car Garage. (R) 7.00 Dubai Racecourse. (R) 8.00 Shopping. 9.00 Man Made Marvels. (R) 10.00 Toughest Carrier Jobs. (PG, R) 11.00 Fifth Gear. (PG, R) 12.00 Ultimate Factories. (PG, R) 1.00 Hawaii Air Rescue. (PG, R, CC) 1.30 Swamp Men. (PG, R) 2.30 American Stuffers. (PG, R) 3.30 Gator Boys.

(PG, R) 4.30 Turtleman. (PG, R) 5.30 Billy The Exterminator. (PG) 6.00 Tennis. (CC) Australian Open. Day 6.

6.30 Catching Hell. (PG) 7.30 Big Shrimpin’. (PG) The end of the Texas Open draws near.

8.30 MOVIE: Four Brothers.

(M, R) (2005) Brothers take revenge for their mother’s death. Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson.

10.30 MOVIE: Two Hands.

(AV15+, R) (1999) Heath Ledger.

12.30 Dubai Racecourse. (R) 1.30 Ultimate Factories. (PG, R) 2.30 Toughest Carrier Jobs. (PG, R) 3.30 Hawaii Air Rescue. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Dream Car Garage. (R) 4.30 Swamp Men. (PG, R) 5.30 Home Shopping.

GO! 6.00 Thunderbirds. (R) 7.00 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 7.30 Dogstar. (C, R, CC) 8.00 Green Lantern. (PG, R) 8.30 Tom And Jerry. (R) 9.00 Looney Tunes. (R) 9.30 Adv Time.

(PG, R) 10.00 Digimon Fusion.

(PG, R) 11.00 Buzz Bumble. (C, R, CC) 11.30 Move It. (C, R, CC) 12.00 Kitchen Whiz. (C, R, CC) 12.30 Tenkai Knights. (PG, R) 1.00 Green Lantern. (PG, R) 1.30 Danoz. (R) 2.00 Suburgatory. (PG, R, CC) 2.30 Search4hurt. (PG, CC) 3.00 The Crew. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Adv Time.

(PG, R) 5.30 America’s Got Talent.

(PG, CC) 7.30 MOVIE: Letters To Juliet. (PG, R, CC) (2010) An American girl finds an unanswered letter. Amanda Seyfried, Christopher Egan.

9.40 MOVIE: I Don’t Know How She Does It. (PG, R, CC) (2011) A woman juggles her home and work lives. Sarah Jessica Parker, Pierce Brosnan.

11.40 MOVIE: The Talented Mr Ripley. (M, R, CC) (1999) 2.30 The Bachelor. (PG, R) 4.50 Robocar Poli. (R) 5.10 Green Lantern: The Animated Series. (PG, R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. (R)

GEM 6.00 MOVIE: Raising The Wind.

(R, CC) (1961) 8.00 Shopping. (R) 9.30 GEM Presents. (CC) 9.35 MOVIE: Carry On Cabby. (PG, R, CC) (1963) 11.30 MOVIE: Brighton Rock. (PG, R, CC) (1947) 1.30 MOVIE: The Anniversary. (PG, R) (1968) 3.30 MOVIE: Auntie Mame.

(R, CC) (1958) Rosalind Russell.

6.30 Sun, Sea And Bargain Spotting. Hosted by Angela Rippon.

7.30 Antiques Roadshow.

(R) The team returns to Lulworth Castle.

8.30 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. (M, R, CC) A blackout cripples the city and forces the team to revert to old-school methods to solve the case of a missing child.

9.30 CSI: NY. (M, R, CC) A store manager is murdered.

10.30 Cold Case. (M, R, CC) 11.20 Marshal Law: Texas.

(M, R, CC) 12.20 MOVIE: Auntie Mame.

(R, CC) (1958) 3.00 MOVIE: The Anniversary.

(PG, R) (1968) Bette Davis, Sheila Hancock. 5.00 Gideon’s Way. (PG, R)

ONE 6.00 Basketball. NBL. Round 15.

Perth Wildcats v Adelaide 36ers.

Replay. 8.00 Basketball. (CC) NBL. Round 15. Adelaide 36ers v Wollongong Hawks. Replay.

10.00 Reel Rock. (PG, R) 12.30 My Surf TV. (R) 1.00 Motor Racing.

World Series Sprintcars. Replay.

2.00 Megafactories. (R) 3.00 The Offroad Adventure Show. (R, CC) 3.30 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 4.30 Adventure Angler. (R) 5.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 6.00 Get Smart. (PG, R) Max trains a team of convicts.

6.30 The Biggest Loser USA. (PG) (Final) 8.30 MOVIE: The Firm.

(M, R, CC) (1993) A brilliant, yet naive, young lawyer uncovers a conspiracy after landing his first job with an aggressive legal firm. Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman.

11.40 Touch. (M, R, CC) 1.40 Blokesworld. (MA15+, R) 2.10 Sport Science. (PG, R) 3.10 Monster Jam. (R) 4.10 Blokesworld: SA Sand Drags & Paul Adams. (M) 4.30 Python Hunters.

(PG, R) 5.30 Reel Rock. (PG, R)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 8.00 Totally Wild. (C, R, CC) 8.30 Scope. (C, R, CC) 9.05 The Loop. (PG) 11.35 King Of Queens. (PG, R) 12.00 Charmed.

(PG, R, CC) 1.00 Taxi. (PG, R) 1.30 Cheers. (PG, R) 2.00 The Brady Bunch. (R) 3.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 3.30 Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 90210. (PG) 5.00 Mork & Mindy.

(R) 5.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) Robert has to choose between three women.

7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) 7.30 MOVIE: The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader.

(PG, R, CC) (2010) A brother and sister return to Narnia.

Georgie Henley.

9.45 Sex And The City.

(MA15+, R) The girls adjust to Miranda’s new life.

11.00 The Loop. (PG, R) 1.30 Everybody Loves Raymond.

(PG, R, CC) 2.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) 2.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Charmed. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 The Brady Bunch. (R) 5.00 Home Shopping. (R) 5.30 Mass For You At Home. (CC)

SBS2 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 Chinese News.

12.30 Dutch News. 1.00 The Witch Doctor Will See You Now. (PG, R) 2.00 Toughest Place To Be A… (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Arctic With Bruce Parry. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Departures.

(PG, R) 5.00 Years Of Living Dangerously. (PG, R, CC) 6.00 MOVIE: Asterix At The Olympic Games. (PG, R) (2008) Gérard Depardieu.

8.05 If You Are The One. Hosted by Meng Fei. 9.05 Don’t Tell My Mother I’m In… Somalia. (PG) Diego Bunuel travels to Somalia.

10.00 No Limit. (M, R) 11.00 MOVIE: City Of God. (AV15+, R) (2002) 1.10 Toughest Place To Be A… (M, R, CC) 2.15 MOVIE: Zatoichi.

(AV15+, R) (2003) Beat Takeshi, Tadanobu Asano, Michiyo Ookusu.

4.15 CCTV News In English From Beijing. 5.20 Latin American News.

5.50 Urdu News.

ABC NEWS 6.00 Big Ideas. (R, CC) 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 11.00 News. (CC) 11.30 State To State.

(R, CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 12.30 Big Ideas. (R) 1.00 Press Club. (R, CC) 2.00 News. (CC) 2.30 AusBiz Asia.

(R) 3.00 News. (CC) 3.30 Save Your Life Tonight. (R, CC) (Final) 4.00 News. (CC) 4.30 World This Week. (R) 5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 6.00 News.

(CC) 6.30 Foreign Correspondent.

(R, CC) 7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 The Mix: Remixed. (CC) 8.00 Four Corners. (R, CC) 8.45 The Quarters. (R) A series of segments profiling topical subjects.

9.00 News. (CC) 9.30 State To State Summer.

(R, CC) A look at stories from all corners of Australia.

10.00 News. (CC) 10.30 Landline. (R, CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 AusBiz Asia. (R) 12.00 Big Ideas. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 BBC World. 1.30 The Mix: Remixed. (R, CC) 2.00 Al Jazeera. 3.00 BBC World News. 3.30 State To State.

(R, CC) 4.00 Big Ideas. (R) 4.30 #TalkAboutIt. (R) 5.00 Al Jazeera.

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: Boomerang Festival. 12.00 NITV News Week In Review. 12.30 The Mary G Cooking Show. 1.00 Outback Cafe. 1.30 Torres To The Thames. (PG) 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 Summer. 7.00 Unearthed. 7.30 Guardians: Evolution. (PG) 8.00 Cultural Flows. 8.30 Fusion With Casey Donovan. (CC) 9.30 Jazz. (PG) 10.30 A Bit Of Black Business. (M) 12.00 Volumz. (PG) 2401

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Sunday, January 25 Doomsday Preppers

MOVIE: Super 8

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7TWO, 8.30pm

Whether they believe in the potential destruction from global warming or a zombie apocalypse, there are plenty of people out there who truly believe the world will come to an end during their lifetime. And when it does, well, at least they’ll be prepared. Tonight we meet the Coy family, who live in the shadow of Washington’s Mount St Helens and consider it crucial to be ready for an eruption. There’s also a man who has spent the past six years creating the perfect bunker: his sailboat. Whether or not you also fear a doomsday scenario, you have to admire their enthusiasm.

Set in 1979, Super 8 brims with nostalgia both in its content – which features all of the late-’70s pop culture you’d expect – and the way it is delivered. The film, directed by J.J. Abrams (Lost, Alias), clearly takes its cues from the likes of those directed by Steven Spielberg in that era, such as ET and Gremlins. It follows a group of kids after they witness a train crash while trying to make their own zombie film, but something more serious is afoot as the military descends on the town to keep control. The kids are the real heart of this film and the adventure seen through their eyes is a nice change of pace from the rest of the flashy fare rolled out of Hollywood.

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6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 10.00 Cane Toads: The Conquest. (PG, R, CC) 11.30 Songs Of Praise. (R, CC) 12.00 Best Of Landline. (R, CC) 1.00 The Mix. (R, CC) 1.30 Autopsy On A Dream.

(PG, R, CC) The story of the Sydney Opera House.

3.00 Girt By Sea. (R, CC) A journey around the Australian coastline.

4.00 Myf Warhurst’s Nice: And Classy. (PG, R, CC) (Final) Myf Warhurst explores “stuff”.

4.30 Midsomer Murders. (PG, R, CC) A troublemaking womaniser is murdered.

6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) 10.00 Australian Open: Preview Show. (CC) A preview of the Australian Open, where the world’s top tennis players have converged on Melbourne Park to vie for a record prize pool of $30 million.

11.00 Tennis. (CC) Australian Open. Day 7. From Melbourne Park.

Commentary from Bruce McAvaney, Jim Courier, Todd Woodbridge, John Newcombe, John Fitzgerald, Roger Rasheed, Sam Smith, Rennae Stubbs, Alicia Molik, Nicole Bradtke and Henri Leconte.

6.00 6.30 7.00 10.00

6.00 Australian Of The Year. (CC) 7.00 News. (CC) 7.40 Antiques Roadshow.

(CC) Fiona Bruce and the team head to Newstead Abbey, in Nottinghamshire, where they examine all manner of curios. From a medal for bravery awarded to a pigeon in World War II to a prize presented to DH Lawrence.

8.40 Sherlock. (M, R, CC) Fearing the possibility of blackmail, Sherlock is asked by his brother Mycroft to recover a smartphone containing incriminating images of a female member of the royal family with a dominatrix.

10.15 Miniseries: Labyrinth.

(MA15+, CC) Part 2 of 2.

Having uncovered the truth about Marie-Cecile’s role in funding the archaeological dig, Alice accepts her destiny to protect the secret of the Grail.

11.50 Crossfire Hurricane.

(M, R, CC) Part 1 of 2.

Charts The Rolling Stones’ journey from bluesobsessed teenagers to rock ‘n’ roll legends.

6.00 News. (CC) 6.30 Tennis. (CC) Australian Open. Night 7. From Melbourne Park.

Commentary from Bruce McAvaney, Jim Courier, Todd Woodbridge, John Newcombe, John Fitzgerald, Roger Rasheed, Sam Smith, Rennae Stubbs, Alicia Molik, Nicole Bradtke and Henri Leconte. With the addition of Margaret Court Arena as a third retractable-roof stadium at Melbourne Park, the Australian Open becomes the only Grand Slam in the world with three retractable-roof venues, making it a truly weatherproof tournament.

It’s a vast change from the first Australian Open in 1905 which was held at Warehouseman’s Cricket Ground in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda and administered by the Melbourne Cricket Club.

12.50 MOVIE: The Magnificent Seven. (M, R, CC) (1960) A village hires gunmen for protection. Yul Brynner.

2.55 Sherlock. (M, R, CC) Sherlock tackles a blackmail case.

4.30 A Quiet Word… With Rhys Darby. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Big Ideas. (R, CC)

12.30 Home Shopping.

5.30 Early News. (CC) Local, national and overseas news, including sport and the latest weather.

PAW Patrol. (R, CC) Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) Weekend Today. (CC) Animal Emergency.

(R, CC) Wildlife Adventure With David Ireland: Giant Moray Eel. (R, CC) Ironman. (CC) Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain Series. Round 3.

Loop. From Surfers Paradise, Queensland.

Cycling. (CC) Tour Down Under. Stage 6. Adelaide to Adelaide. From South Australia.

Hot Property. (PG, R, CC) Hosted by Michael Caton.

News. (CC) RBT. (PG, R, CC) Follows the activities of police units.

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SBS ONE

6.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. (CC) 6.30 Hillsong. (CC) 7.00 Mass For You At Home.

7.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, CC) 8.00 Good Chef Bad Chef.

(R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10: Sunday. (CC) 10.00 Studio 10: Sunday Extra.

(PG, CC) 11.00 Weekend Feast. (R, CC) 12.00 The Talk. (PG, CC) 1.00 The Offroad Adventure Show. (CC) 1.30 iFish. (R, CC) 2.00 Basketball. (CC) NBL. Round 16. Sydney Kings v Adelaide 36ers.

4.00 Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 Japanese News. 6.10 Hong Kong News. 6.30 Chinese News.

7.00 Hindi News. 7.25 Italian News. 8.05 Filipino News. 8.40 French News. 9.30 Greek News.

10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News.

12.00 Arabic News.

12.30 Turkish News.

1.00 Al Jazeera News. (CC) 1.30 Costa’s Garden Odyssey.

(R, CC) 2.00 Speedweek. (CC) 4.00 Football Asia. (CC) 4.30 Massive Moves: Cliff Collapse. (R, CC) 5.00 Climbing Great Buildings. (R, CC) 5.30 Warwick Davis And The Seven Dwarves Of Auschwitz. (PG, CC)

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 RBT. (PG, R, CC) Follows police units that operate random breath-test patrols around Australia.

8.00 60 Minutes. (CC) Current affairs program.

Discover how despite the doctors prognosis, a 15-year-old who was paralysed on the footy field walked out of hospital.

Take a look at the glaciers of Patagonia as they break up and fall away into the water. Meet the world’s biggest family.

9.00 MOVIE: Unknown.

(M, R, CC) (2011) A man awakens from a coma, only to discover someone has taken on his identity and that no one, not even his wife, believes him.

Determined to reclaim his life, he sets out to discover the truth about what happened with the help of a young woman and a former Stasi agent. Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones.

11.15 Cycling. (CC) Tour Down Under. Stage 6.

Adelaide to Adelaide.

Highlights. From South Australia.

6.00 Gold Coast Cops.

(PG, R, CC) Two officers stake out a caravan park waiting for a drug deal to go down.

6.30 Modern Family. (R, CC) A gossip-hungry Cameron becomes fascinated with conversations he is hearing over a baby monitor.

7.00 Cricket. (CC) T20 Big Bash League. Second semi-final.

Commentary from Mark Howard, Adam Gilchrist, Mark Waugh and Damien Fleming.

10.30 NCIS: New Orleans.

(M, R, CC) With New Orleans decorated for Halloween, the team investigates the murder of a US Navy lawyer found in a cemetery dressed in a Victorian costume, with vampiric puncture wounds on her neck.

11.30 NCIS: New Orleans.

(M, R, CC) The team investigates the murder of a US Navy officer, with the highest level top security clearance, who was recently assigned as a technical liaison to a private developer. Pride transforms the carport into a garage as he works on the first car he ever gave his wife.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Raider Ron And The Lost Ark. (PG, CC) Tells the story of amateur archaeologist Ron Wyatt who spent years searching for proof of biblical events. In 1982, after conducting an excavation in Jerusalem, he claimed to have found the Ark of the Covenant but he had no witnesses to back his controversial claim.

8.30 George Harrison: Living In A Material World.

(M, R, CC) Part 1 of 2.

Director Martin Scorsese traces George Harrison’s life from his beginnings in Liverpool through to his time as a musician, seeker, philanthropist and filmmaker. Includes interviews with Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, Tom Petty, Phil Spector and Jackie Stewart.

10.10 Mad Men. (M, CC) Megan tells Don she wants to give up her job at the firm so she can pursue an acting career in the theatre.

11.05 MOVIE: Sister Smile.

(PG, R) (2009) A Belgian nun becomes a singing star. Cécile De France, Sandrine Blancke.

12.15 Dallas. (M, CC) 1.10 Nightline Prime.

(PG, R, CC) News and current affairs.

2.00 20/20. (CC) 3.00 Spyforce. (PG, R) 4.00 Good Morning America: Sunday. (CC) 5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Today. (CC)

12.30 Home Shopping.

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

4.30 CBS This Morning. (CC) Morning news and talk show. Hosted by Charlie Rose, Gayle King and Norah O’Donnell.

1.15 MOVIE: Love Is All. (M, R) (2007) Amsterdam residents search for love.

Wendy Van Dijk.

3.25 Graffiti Wars. (M, R) A look at the world of graffiti.

4.15 Countdown. (R, CC) 5.00 Korean News.

5.35 Japanese News.

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(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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6.35pm We’re The Millers (2013) Comedy. Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis.

(MA15+) Premiere

6.30pm The Doors: Live At The Bowl 1968. The Doors played at the Hollywood Bowl in 1968, a concert that is considered to be the band’s finest. (PG) Studio

6.30pm The Hunt For HMAS Sydney. Follows the search for HMAS Sydney which disappeared after a battle off the Western Australian coast in 1941. (PG) History

8.00am Golf. USPGA. Humana Challenge.

Round 3. Fox Sports 3

6.40pm Scandal. Young lawyer Quinn Perkins is offered a job with the crisis management firm Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington, right) and Associates. (M) SoHo

6.30pm Gold Rush. Parker fights with his crew over running at night. Tony twists a vital steel frame on the dredge.

(PG) Discovery

8.30pm Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) Action. Chris Evans. Captain America joins forces with the Black Widow and The Falcon to confront a new formidable enemy terrorising the country.

(M) Premiere 8.35pm Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) Drama. (M) Masterpiece

7.00pm Passion For Fashion.

(M) Arena

9.30pm Tanked Unfiltered.

(PG) Animal Planet

9.00am Cricket. One Day International. New Zealand v Sri Lanka.

Game 6. Fox Sports 2 11.00pm Cricket.

One Day International.

South Africa v West Indies.

Game 4. Fox Sports 2

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(R, CC) 2.50 Tree Fu Tom. (R, CC) 3.15 Peg + Cat. (R, CC) 3.30 Play School. (R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.10 Hoopla. (R, CC) 4.25 Wiggle. (CC) 4.40 Tinga Tinga Tales. (R, CC) 5.00 Rabbit And Squirrel Adv. (R) 5.20 Timmy’s Seaside Rescue. (R, CC) 5.45 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.55 Octonauts. (R, CC) 6.05 Pingu. (R, CC) 6.15 Charlie And Lola. (R, CC) 6.25 Maya The Bee. (R, CC) 6.35 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R, CC) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Stan Lee’s Superhumans.

(PG, CC) 8.15 Swamp Brothers. (PG, CC) 8.40 Superstorm USA: Caught On Camera. (PG, CC) 9.40 The Miracle Hunter. (M, R, CC) 10.25 Catfish: The TV Show. (M, R, CC) 11.10 Playing It Straight. (M, R, CC) 12.00 If A Tree Falls: A Story Of The Earth Liberation Front. (M, R, CC) 1.25 The Real Hustle: Celebrity Scammers. (PG, R, CC) 1.50 News Update. (R) 1.55 Close. 5.00 Louie.

(R, CC) 5.05 Joe & Jack. (R, CC) 5.15 64 Zoo Lane. (R, CC) 5.25 Fifi And The Flowertots. (R, CC) 5.35 The Magic Roundabout. (R, CC) 5.50 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 7.25 The Flamin’ Thongs. (R, CC) 7.40 Camp Lakebottom. (R, CC) 8.00 YooHoo & Friends. (R, CC) 8.15 Endangered Species. (R, CC) 8.30 Riders Of Berk. (R, CC) 9.00 Bushwhacked! (R, CC) 9.25 Total Drama World Tour. (R, CC) 9.50 Annoying Orange. (R, CC) 10.05 The Aquabats Super Show! (PG, R, CC) 10.35 Sorry, I’ve Got No Head. (R, CC) 11.00 Almost Naked Animals. (R, CC) 11.25 Canimals. (R) 11.35 Worst Year Of My Life, Again.

(R, CC) 12.00 Life With Boys. (R, CC) 12.20 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 12.30 Leonardo. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 Leonardo. (R, CC) 1.55 Leonardo.

(PG, R, CC) 2.50 Blue Zoo. (R, CC) 3.20 Kobushi. (R, CC) 3.25 WAC. (R, CC) 3.55 Studio 3. 4.00 Sorry, I’ve Got No Head. (R, CC) 4.30 Roy. (R, CC) 5.00 Studio 3. 5.05 Life With Boys. (R, CC) 5.30 Horrible Histories. (R, CC) 6.00 Riders Of Berk. (R, CC) 6.20 Figaro Pho. (R, CC) 6.30 Nowhere Boys. (PG, CC) 6.55 Wizards Vs Aliens. (R, CC) 7.25 Wolfblood. (R, CC) 7.55 Move It Mob Style. (R, CC) 8.20 Horrible Histories. (PG, R, CC) 9.00 Stoked.

(R, CC) 9.30 Rage. (PG, R) 2.00 Close.

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. 7.00 Tomorrow’s World. (PG) 7.30 Leading The Way. (PG) 8.00 David Jeremiah.

(PG) 8.30 Shopping. 9.30 Harry’s Practice. (R, CC) 10.00 Downsize Me. (PG, R) 12.00 Bazaar. (R) 12.30 Treks In A Wild World. (PG, R) 1.30 Travel Oz. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 The Hook & The Cook. (PG, R) 3.30 Country Calendar. (R) 4.00 Life After People. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Command Center. (PG) 6.00 Tennis. (CC) Australian Open. Day 7.

6.30 Fawlty Towers. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 Keeping Up Appearances. (PG, R, CC) A woman’s father has an accident.

7.30 Escape To The Country.

(R) Jules Hudson visits West Wales.

8.30 Escape To The Country.

Jonnie Irwin heads to West Sussex.

9.30 Nick Knowles’ Original Features. (PG) 10.30 Secret Location. (PG, R) 11.30 Alaska Wing Men. (PG) 12.30 Bazaar. (R) 1.00 Tennis. 1992 Australian Open. Round 4. John McEnroe v Emilio Sanchez.

Replay.

7MATE 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Motor Mate. (R) 7.30 Shopping. 9.30 Construction Zone. (PG, R) 10.00 Fifth Gear. (PG, R) 11.00 Lights Out. (PG, CC) 11.30 Plane Xtreme.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 Take It All. (R) 1.00 Mighty Structures. (PG) 2.00 Auction Packed. (PG) (New Series) 3.00 NFL Game Day. (PG) 3.30 Engineering Connections. (PG, R) 4.30 Seinfeld. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Doomsday Preppers: A Fortress At Sea. (PG) 7.30 Outback Truckers. (PG, R) Dennis battles to stay ahead of a storm.

8.30 MOVIE: Beverly Hills Cop. (M, R, CC) (1984) A Detroit cop investigates a friend’s murder in Beverly Hills, shocking the local authorities with his behaviour. Eddie Murphy, Lisa Eilbacher, Judge Reinhold.

10.45 MOVIE: Doom. (AV15+, R) (2005) Karl Urban.

1.00 Mighty Structures. (PG, R) 2.00 Engineering Connections.

(PG, R) 3.00 Lights Out. (PG, R, CC) 3.30 Plane Xtreme. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Fifth Gear. (PG, R) 5.00 Motor Mate. (R)

GO! 6.00 Thunderbirds. (R) 7.00 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 7.30 Dennis & Gnasher. (C, R, CC) 8.00 Green Lantern. (PG, R) 8.30 Tom And Jerry. (R) 9.00 Looney Tunes. (R) 9.30 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 10.00 Digimon Fusion. (PG, R) 11.00 Power Rangers. (PG, R) 12.00 Tenkai Knights. (PG, R) 1.00 Green Lantern. (PG, R) 1.30 Danoz. 2.00 Suburgatory. (PG, R, CC) 2.30 Extra. (R, CC) 3.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 4.00 Max Steel. (PG, R) 5.00 Adv Time. (PG, R) 5.30 ScoobyDoo! (PG, R) 6.30 MOVIE: The In-Laws. (PG, R, CC) (2003) Michael Douglas, Albert Brooks.

8.30 The Big Bang Theory.

(PG, R, CC) 9.30 MOVIE: Death At A Funeral. (M, R, CC) (2010) 11.30 Arrow. (M, R, CC) 12.30 MOVIE: Dolores Claiborne.

(MA15+, R, CC) (1995) Kathy Bates.

3.10 GO Surround Sound. (R, CC) 3.20 GO Surround Sound. (PG, R, CC) 3.30 GO Surround Sound. (M, R, CC) 3.50 GO Surround Sound.

(PG, R, CC) 4.00 Regular Show.

(M, R) 4.20 Adv Time. (PG, R) 4.50 Green Lantern. (PG, R) 5.10 Yu-GiOh! (PG, R) 5.30 Thunderbirds. (R, CC)

GEM 6.00 Skippy. (R) 6.30 GEM Presents. (R, CC) 6.35 MOVIE: I’ve Gotta Horse. (R, CC) (1966) 8.30 Shopping. (R) 10.00 Rainbow Country. (PG, R) 10.30 MOVIE: Eureka Stockade. (R, CC) (1949) 12.45 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 1.45 MOVIE: We Of The Never Never.

(R, CC) (1982) 4.30 MOVIE: Season Of Passion. (PG, R) (1961) Ernest Borgnine.

6.30 River Cottage Everyday.

(PG) Presented by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.

7.30 The Great British Bake Off. (CC) The bakers make traybakes and tuiles.

8.45 MOVIE: I Am Sam. (M, R, CC) (2001) A mentally disabled man fights for custody of his seven-yearold daughter. Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dakota Fanning.

11.30 Person Of Interest.

(M, R, CC) 12.30 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 1.30 Adventures In Rainbow Country. (PG, R) 2.00 Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 Enjoying Everyday Life With Joyce Meyer. (PG) 5.00 Seaway.

(PG, R, CC)

ONE 6.00 Sport Science. (PG, R) 7.00 Healthy Homes TV. (R, CC) 7.30 Sporting Greats. (R) 8.00 Monster Jam. (R) 9.00 Escape With ET. (R, CC) 9.30 Adv Angler. (R) 10.00 Cricket. (CC) T20 Big Bash League.

First semi-final. Replay. 1.30 Football’s Greatest Teams. (R) 2.00 World Class Bartender Of The Year 2014. (PG, R) 3.00 Sport Science.

(PG, R) 4.00 My Surf TV. (Final) 4.30 Reel Rock. (PG, R) 5.00 What’s Up Down Under. (R, CC) 5.30 Get Smart. (PG, R) 6.00 Cops. (PG, R, CC) Officers patrol the streets of the US. 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 Robson’s Extreme Fishing Challenge. (PG, R) 8.30 MOVIE: Scarface.

(M, R, CC) (1983) An exiled Cuban rises to the top of Florida’s criminal underworld during the ’80s. Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer.

11.45 48 Hours. (M, R, CC) 12.45 Cops. (PG, R, CC) 1.15 Football’s Greatest Teams.

(PG, R) 1.45 Football’s Greatest Managers. (R) 2.15 Cricket. (CC) T20 Big Bash League. First semifinal. Replay.

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 9.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 9.30 TMNT. (R) 10.00 Vic The Viking. (C, R, CC) 10.30 Brady Bunch. (R) 11.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 ST: Next Gen. (PG, R) 2.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.30 Neighbours. (R, CC) 5.00 90210. (PG) 6.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) Competition between the brothers reaches an alltime high.

7.00 The Simpsons. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Futurama. (PG, R, CC) 8.00 The Simpsons. (R, CC) The Simpsons dream they are biblical characters.

8.30 MOVIE: Super 8. (M, R) (2011) A group of friends witnesses a train crash.

Elle Fanning, AJ Michalka.

10.50 The King Of Queens.

(PG, R) 11.25 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) 12.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation. (PG, R) 2.00 The Brady Bunch. (R) 3.00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. (R) 4.00 Everybody Loves Raymond.

(R, CC) 4.30 The King Of Queens.

(PG, R) 5.00 Home Shopping.

SBS2 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. (PG) 11.00 Portuguese News. 11.30 Croatian News. 12.00 Serbian News. 12.30 Dutch News.

1.00 Kung Fu Kitchen. (CC) 2.00 Foodie Planet. (PG, R) 3.00 Jimmy And The Giant Supermarket. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Rhod Gilbert’s Work Experience. (PG, R) 4.35 The Pitch.

(PG, R) 5.25 Bollywood Star. (PG, R, CC) 6.25 India’s Dancing Superstar. (CC) (Final) 8.30 South Park. (M, R) Jersey residents move to South Park.

9.00 South Park. (MA15+, R) Stan undergoes experimental “sleep” therapy.

9.30 Danger 5. (MA15+) Pierre’s faith is put to the test.

10.00 A-League Extra Time.

11.00 In Her Skin. (M) 11.55 Free Radio. (PG, R) 12.20 24 Hours In Emergency. (M, R, CC) 1.15 MOVIE: An Empress And The Warriors.

(AV15+, R) (2008) 3.00 CCTV News In English From Beijing. 5.00 French News. 5.50 Urdu News.

ABC NEWS 6.00 Big Ideas Arts. (R, CC) 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 11.00 News. (CC) 11.30 Economy 2017.

(R, CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 12.30 Big Ideas. (R) 1.00 News. (CC) 1.30 #TalkAboutIt. (R) 2.00 News.

(CC) 2.30 State To State. (R, CC) 3.00 News. (CC) 3.30 Inside Edge.

(R, CC) 4.00 News. (CC) 4.30 Compass. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 News.

(CC) 5.30 The Mix: Remixed. (R, CC) 6.00 Australian Of The Year.

(CC) 7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 Kitchen Cabinet. (R, CC) 8.00 A Country Road: The Nationals. (R, CC) Part 1 of 3.

9.00 News. (CC) 9.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) Hosted by Jane Hutcheon.

10.00 News. (CC) 10.30 The Mix: Remixed. (R, CC) 11.00 News.

11.30 Big Ideas. (R) 12.00 Best Of Landline. (R, CC) 1.00 BBC World News. 1.30 State To State Summer. (R, CC) 2.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 3.00 BBC World News. 3.30 Economy 2017.

(R, CC) 4.00 Big Ideas. (R, CC) 5.00 Al Jazeera Newshour.

6.00 Morning Programs. 7.30 Bizou. 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Go Lingo. 9.00 Bushwhacked! 9.30 Move It Mob Style. 10.00 Barefoot Sunday. 12.00 NITV News Week In Review. 12.30 Guardians: Evolution. (PG) 1.00 Away From Country. (PG) 2.00 Rugby League. Queensland Murri Carnival. 3.00 Rugby League. Koori Knockout. 4.30 Not Just Cricket. (PG) 5.00 Te Kaea 2014. 5.30 NITV News Week In Review. 6.00 Awaken. (CC) 7.00 Ngurra. 7.30 I Heart My People. 8.00 The Will And The Skill. 8.30 The Medicine Line. 9.00 Inside Out: Indigenous Imprisonment. 9.30 MOVIE: Coffy. (1973) 11.00 Life Giving Dance And Music. 12.00 Volumz. (PG)

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Up and coming young watercolour artists

BY KAITLYN RENNIE YOUNG artists between the ages of 10 and 17 had the opportunity on Saturday, January 17, to create their own masterpiece using watercolours, guided by the talented Alicia O’Connor, owner of Purely Enchanted.

The event was held at Robin’s Nest Coffee Shop and Art Gallery, where the team hopes to hold similar events more frequently in the coming months. Coming up is an adult class, and they are hoping to hold a class throughout the school term for passionate art lovers.

Avanna, Jaslyn and Riley Dennise

Lorraine Grace and Maddison Grace-Keough

Ayla and Dusty Picton

Hayley Carolan working hard

Art students with their teacher, Alicia O’Connor

GET YOUR REPRINTS HERE Reprints of most photos you see in Weekender are available to buy. Call 6885 4433 during office hours, or call in to our office at 89 Wingewarra Street Dubbo

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A day at the zoo

BY KAITLYN RENNIE VISITORS and locals have been able to enjoy Taronga Western Plains since February 1977, with the more recent renovations encouraging more locals to attend the magnificent premises.

Many families were enjoying the zoo on Wednesday, February 21, with many of them having a picnic lunch in the play area for the kids. Others chose to have lunch at Bakhita’s CafÊ in the cool air conditioning.

The 300 hectare, open-range zoo replaced a World War II camp, with the plans for the zoo beginning in 1960.

The zoo has grown since 1977. Today, you can see over 1000 animals from five continents, compared to just 35 animals from six countries when it opened.

Lila and Eva Powell

Victoria Hanlon, Annette Brown and Lilah Hanlon

Hunter and Malayah Hurst

Bayley Binks

Bradley Binks

Jacob, Luke and Nathan Sheldon visiting from Queensland

Corey Binks

Bianka and Sharon Neave

Isla Lane having fun in the unique play area

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Beat the drums

BY KAITLYN RENNIE UNITING CARE BURNSIDE (Communities for Children) has held many holiday activities in recent weeks, with the latest one being a drumming workshop taught by Dale Freeman from the Macquarie Conservatorium.

The free workshop was held for children between the ages of eight and 12, to keep them busy throughout the holidays. The children sat in a circle in the Uniting Church Community Hall while listening to and watching Dale perfect the technique of drumming.

More workshops will be held in the coming holidays for those who missed out this time around.

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Holiday fun at Old Dubbo Gaol

BY ELLA MCMILLAN TOURISTS explored the Old Dubbo Gaol through a self-guided tour on Wednesday, January 21, and were treated to characters in costume comical wardens and prisoners.

“The Old Dubbo Gaol is completely restored and home to a large display of animatronics and holographic displays which provide a realistic and fascinating insight into a bygone era of barbaric prison life,” a gaol spokesperson and attendant said.

“Wandering around this unique collection of 19th century buildings and artefacts, learning the stories of prison life, and spending a moment in the pitch black of the solitary confinement cell, will be certain to send a chill up your spine.”

Montanna and Amber McDonald, Isaac Darlington

Briohny, Phil, Matthew and Jack Levy

Performer Josh Ronan as the Warden entertaining crowds at the Old Dubbo Gaol

Performer Chris Anemaat as ‘Billy’ the prisoner entertaining crowds at the Old Dubbo Gaol

Rebecca, Sophie and Lachlan Rathbone

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Hawkins’ girl in peril makes a psychological thriller

O BOOK OF THE WEEK The Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins LIKE many commuters, every day Rachel distracts herself on her journey to and from work by indulging in fantasies about the lives of the people whose houses she peers into from the safety of the train.

Unlike most commuters though, Rachel develops a morbid obsession with a couple she passes every day, a couple who just happen to live a few houses down from where she used to enjoy domestic bliss with her ex-husband Tom. Fuelled by many gin-andtonics, our protagonist revels in fantasising about the couple’s perfect life, until one day she notices something untoward. When the perfect wife is reported missing a few days later, Rachel feels compelled to get involved, with predictably sticky consequences.

This is a fast-paced clever thriller which grapples expertly with the reality of alcoholism and loneliness, a cut above the current crop of psychological thrillers featuring girls in peril.

9/10. Review by Anita Chaudhuri

FICTION The Winter War by Philip Tier FIRST-TIME novelist Philip Tier comes from the same ancient community of Swedishspeaking Finns as illustrator Tove Jansson, best known for the Moomin books.

But though some of the

Moomin characters make a brief and troubling appearance in The Winter War – they are the star attractions of an imaginatively sterile children’s show on board a Baltic ferry – the two writers couldn’t be more different.

The luminous northern light of tradition has been banished to the margins of this funny, sharply observed and very readable tale of a middle-class Helsinki family going slightly mad during one of Finland’s long, ferocious winters.

The book’s cover blurb suggests that it will blast away our preconceptions of Scandinavian society. But since the protagonist is a university academic who wrote an often-quoted study of Finnish sexual habits, and since one of the factors in the slow collapse of his marriage is a proposed kitchen redesign – really, not so much.

8/10. Review by Liz Ryan The Silent Sister by Diane Chamberlain A NEW mystery from the pen of international bestselling novelist Diane Chamberlain.

High school counsellor Riley MacPherson has a lot on her plate. Out of town to settle her late father’s estate, she accidentally uncovers a deep dark family secret that is linked to her sister, Lisa, who committed suicide when Riley was just a toddler.

As the will is read, Riley finds out that her father knew more about things than he let on, leading her to ask questions about her childhood to war veteran brother Danny and tenants on her father’s RV park.

Born and brought up in Zimbabwe, Paula Hawkins moved to London in 1989 and has lived there ever since. The Girl on the Train is her first thriller.

What happened all that time ago? Does anyone know the truth? Riley pulls out all the stops to find out what happened to the sister that she never knew.

Diane Chamberlain has weaved a tale spanning two generations full of twists, turns and surprises. One thing

is certain: Riley and Danny’s lives will never be the same again.

7/10. Review by Rachel Howdle Runaway by Peter May IN 1965, 17-year-old wannabe pop star Jack Mackay gets expelled from school in Glasgow, and persuades four of his friends to run away to London in search of musical stardom.

They soon find, however, that the streets of London are paved with delusion rather than gold.

A series of shocking events pushes their friendships to the limits, and within a month, three of them have returned home.

Now 67, Jack is looking back on a

life of failure and regret when news of a murder forces the three friends to go back to London and confront the truth they’ve been running away from for 50 years.

The clever dual narrative highlights the contrasts between the Sixties and now, Glasgow and London, youth and old age, but this is not vintage May. It’s a poignant study of the fragility and fickleness of friendship, but works less well as a crime thriller.

6/10. Review by Catherine Small O NON-FICTION Why You? 101 Interview Questions You’ll Never Fear Again

by James Reed HERE’S a sobering thought: we spend a third of our adult lives working, according to James Reed – chairman of Reed Group recruitment agen-

BOOKS.

Dubbo Weekender | Friday 23.01.2015 to Sunday 25.01.2015 cy and author of Why You? So, securing a job which gives you immense personal satisfaction is crucial.

Having used feedback from employers to the Reed Group network of consultants on what questions they are most likely to ask in an interview, this book offers more than just a compilation of potential banana skins for the interviewee.

Each entry is broken down into sections such as ‘The Real Question’, explaining what is the motive behind an enquiry, and ‘Top-line Tactic’, a concise and straightforward sentence on a recommended approach for your response.

There are no quick-fix answers – indeed, Reed warns to avoid ‘canned answers’ – but questions do come with broad illustrative responses to help you down the path of tailoring replies to your needs, while there is also advice on the mindset you should apply when going

for a job.

Reed takes an extremely affable approach, managing to take what can be a dry, stressinducing subject and lifting it with a light, easy-to-follow touch.

8/10. Review by Gary Gilliland The Power Of Negative Emotion: How Anger, Guilt And Self-Doubt Are Essential To Success And Fulfilment by Todd B Kashdan and Robert Biswas-Diener IN this entertaining and informative ‘negative emotion’ manifesto, two American psychologists argue that the modern pursuits of comfort and happiness are doing us more harm than good.

We’ve got so comfortable in 21st century life with our air-conditioning and memory-foam mattresses that we’ve developed discomfort intolerance: we don’t want to feel negative emotions like guilt, anger, and sadness, so we push them away – causing all kinds of trouble.

Instead, we

Australia Day B ILL BRYSON’S book “Notes From a Big Country” has a chapter titled “The Best American Holiday” relating the significance of Thanksgiving Day. He notes that the Mayflower Pilgrims held a feast in 1621 to thank the local Indians for helping them get them through their first year. For the next 242 years Thanksgiving was an event hardly noted – it wasn’t until 1863 that President Abraham Lincoln arbitrarily moved to recognise it on the last Thursday of November.

We follow the selection of January 26 to commemorate the founding of our country.

Bryson also wrote “Down Under” which records his visit to Australia travelling by car right around the country. As a foreigner, it is an interesting observation, citing so much of our character as a nation.

On arriving on the North Queensland coastline he is confronted with the perception of how Australians accept the perils of nature. Crocodiles, deadly jelly fish, and numerous poisonous snakes are just some of the challenges locals accept as part of life.

Travelling down the West Australian coast he arrives at a town where he observes the whole population accumulated around the shores of the bay.

Out to sea is a fishing boat towing a smaller boat – the tense message is that a father and son experienced a horrifying ordeal out at sea and the other vessel was trying to rescue them.

While watching, it became ap-

O CHILDREN’S

BOOK

OF THE WEEK

Vendetta by Catherine Doyle SHAKESPEARE’S Romeo and Juliet has inspired countless works of literature, and now one more can be added to the list with Vendetta.

Set in a Chicago, it’s a tale of revenge complicated by love as 17-year-old Sophie Gracewell falls for new bad boy in town Nicoli, not realising that their families are engaged in a secret and deadly war.

But this Young Adult novel, the first in a trilogy, can’t simply be labelled as a pastiche of the infamous story about star-crossed lovers.

Young debut author Catherine Doyle has constructed an immersive and tightly woven story, with a series of explosive twists and turns that ensure readers are kept constantly on the edge of their seat.

Featuring a dynamic cast of entertaining char-

need to see such emotions as useful information: what is this telling me about myself and the world I’m in? How can it help me become a better, stronger, wiser person?

The authors make one mistake. They misrepresent their ideas as radically different from mindfulness. By oversimplifying the mindfulness phenomenon, they get to claim that ‘their’ idea – paying attention to difficult emotions – leads to much-prized ‘psychological flexibility’.

Unfortunately, mindfulness training programmes have been doing this all along.

Great ideas, nicely presented – but disingenuous marketing.

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parent that the two boats were going to make it to shore – the whole community erupted with cheers to encourage them.

Bryson uses this as an example demonstrating the Australian spirit, where people unite as a community to support and encourage each other when lives are challenged.

Comparing our attitudes to his home country, Bryson uses an example of him arriving in the Port Phillip Bay area where Prime Minister Holt went missing. Locals had built a swimming pool as a memorial to Harold Holt; the background details provided by the swimming pool manager told how he went swimming in the bay and was lost, presumably drowned.

Bryson was amazed, commenting that in America they had done a lot of things to their presidents – assassinated them, impeached them, dismissed them – but they had never lost one.

Thomas Keneally has now completed three volumes in his “History of Australia” series. These, along with countless other books written about

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by Dave Pankhurst The Book Connection specific efforts of our nation’s people, in cities, in the country, as service personnel overseas, detail the continuing contributions by our population.

A WWII returned serviceman related to me the quality reference by Paul Ham who wrote “Kokoda” as well as “Gallipoli” and “Vietnam: The Australian War” – each being an excellent record of those who served and protected our country.

Dubbo has constant recall about one of NSW’s early governors, Lachlan Macquarie, with the Macquarie River and Macquarie Street present on a daily basis. A recent Penguin publication from author Luke Slattery, “The First Dismissal”, relates how Governor Macquarie imagined an idea for an Australia that had been “invented by convicts and which Britain tried to tear down”.

` At a time when violent revolution and social upheaval rocked Europe, in distant NSW, Macquarie was sowing the seeds for the Australian idea of a ‘fair go’...a

At a time when violent revolution and social upheaval rocked Europe, in distant NSW, Macquarie was sowing the seeds for the Australian idea of a ‘fair go’.

He was a reformer and emancipator. He believed that a person’s worth – be they gentry, infantry or convict – lay in what they were capable of doing, not just what they had done in the past.

One example is shown by freeing the convict Francis Greenaway and appointing him as Government Architect for the buildings that would shape the nation. But to the Tory British government in 1820, that unconventional alliance threatened the legitimacy of Sydney as a penal colony.

Slattery’s book reveals the procedures of Australia’s first political dismissal. On page 33, Macquarie is quoted, “I found a colony barely emerging from infantile imbecility and suffering from various privations and disabilities; the country impenetrable beyond 40 miles from Sydney, agriculture yet in a languishing state, commerce in its early dawn, revenue unknown, threatened by famine, public buildings in a state of dilapidation and mouldering to decay... no public credit nor private confidence, the morals of the great mass of the population in the

acters, some of whom occasionally border on the cliche, this isn’t by any means a realistic story, but it’s a wonderfully entertaining and original YA romantic crime thriller.

7/10. Review by Alison Potter

lowest state of debasement, and religious worship almost totally neglected.”

You would recall that the previous governor, Bligh, was helped out of his job by the Rum Corps who in turn wanted to rule the economy. That makes one wonder what has changed in government.

In Macquarie’s term, Bathurst was established, Oxley ventured down the Lachlan and Macquarie Rivers, the latter’s expeditions well detailed in John Whitehead’s texts “Tracking & Mapping the Explorers” – Volumes 1 and 2.

On his visit to Sydney, Charles Darwin is quoted, “On the whole, as a place of punishment, the object is scarcely gained, but as a means of making men outwardly honest, of convincing vagabonds, most useless in one hemisphere into active citizens in another and thus giving birth to a new and splendid country – a Grand Centre of Civilization – it has succeeded to a degree perhaps unparalleled in history.”

So unimpressed with Macquarie were the British hierarchy that they organised for a commissioner, John Thomas Bigge, to travel to the Colony and tell Macquarie that his job was finished.

The eventual transition to our independence is an example of how the Australian attitude sets us apart when, over time, great things have been done to achieve outstanding progress.

Australia Day motivates us to think about the challenges now emerging in society, aiming to change the quality of life created for us by our ancestors.

Enjoy your browsing, Dave Pankhurst.

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T H E R E G I O N AT A GLANCE

hear Shake it up THE good folk at the DRTCC are already living up to their 2015 mantra, and “shaking it up” for patrons with an exciting line-up of shows stretched out across the year. For music aficionados, The Australian Tenors will take the stage, accompanied by the Southern Cross Orchestra.

This internationally renowned production has been thrilling audiences around the world – and now it’s our turn as they bring their Songs from the Heart tour to Dubvegas.

Emily Garth, one of Australia’s most acclaimed sopranos joins the tour, and the program includes popular tunes from the “golden age” of song – oldies like Some Enchanted Evening, Granada, The Donkey Serenade and The Prayer.

Don’t miss it.

Tickets available through the box office or online.

McClymonts kickin’ it up

2015 Forever Begins Tonight tour.

They’ll be playing hits spanning their career including Kick It Up, Wrapped Up Good and Shotgun as well as new tracks Going Under (Didn’t Have To), Here’s To You and I and the brand new hit single Forever Begins Tonight.

Catch their breathtaking harmonies live and backed by their electric band in a show not to be missed at Dubbo RSL Club from 8pm on Saturday, February 7.

BROOKE, Sam & Mollie roll on in support of their ARIA Award nominated, #1 album Here’s To You and I with the

“Elvis” in the building

er’s journey, allowing you to experience the process and act of design. Resolved features 12 Australian designers and will examine the many ways to define success.

The exhibition is a collaboration with Object and Workshopped, which has discovered, nurtured and launched the careers of some of Australia’s most talented designers. Resolved highlights the stories and inspiration that motivates each designer’s work and more broadly explores creative collaboration, sustainable design, experimental use of materials and production, and innovation within emerging technologies.

At Western Plains Cultural Centre un-

til January 27.

DON’T let your experience of the King

of Rock ‘n’ Roll end with the annual festival in Parkes.

Come and relive and celebrate all of Elvis Presley’s big hits in a two-hour concert experience starring Mark Anthony, who recreates the essence of Elvis and all of the songs that inspired and rocked the world.

Anthony has been officially rated in the top five Elvis tribute artists in the world and is officially sanctioned by Elvis Presley Enterprises USA. Appearing at Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre, 8pm, on Friday, February 13.

see Waste not, want not IT’S that time of year again – when you get the chance to be blown away by how clever and crafty some people are.

The Waste To Art exhibition showcases the creative re-use of discarded recycled stuff, and this year’s display of works will open at the WPCC on Saturday, February 7. Entrants come from all walks of life, and if you’ve seen past exhibitions, you’ll know it’s one not to be missed. It will run at the WPCC until mid-April.

Resolved RESOLVED will take you on the design-

Peter Milling Yearling Thoroughbred Sale IF you’re into horse flesh… hang on, let’s rephrase that… if you’re a fan of everything equine and you’re looking for something to do on this long weekend Sunday (January 25), get on up to the Dubbo Showground from 12 noon, where you’ll see some of the best horses from across Australia go under the hammer of veteran auctioneer Peter Milling.

The annual Peter Milling Yearling Thoroughbred Sale is one of the most renowned on the equine enthusiast’s

calendar – entry is free and it’s well worth a look. Just keep your hands in your pockets!

Flix in the Stix MARK this one in the diary! Flix in the Stix returns to Dubbo on Friday, February 20, providing an unforgettable night out under the stars along with screening of award-winning international short films, ARIA Award winners My Friend the Chocolate Cake, music comedy sensations Tripod.

Music, comedy, film, plus yummy food and drinks available. At Lazy River Estate from 6pm onwards.

do Watercolour art classes

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IF your New Year’s resolution was to get in touch with your artistic side, then look no further! Artist Alicia O’Connor is hosting an adult art class from 11am to 1pm on Saturday, January 24 (yes, that’s today folks).

All materials will be provided along with light refreshments and participants will produce their very own watercolour artwork to take home.

Classes are limited to a maximum of eight people.

BACHELOR BOYS is back and bigger than ever in 2015.

Dubbo Photo News and Sporties Dubbo join forces for what promises to be an exciting competition for the single men of the city.

Nominate a bachelor (or yourself) for the opportunity to win $1000 in prizemoney with the winner to be announced on what promises to be one of the hottest nights of the year on Saturday, February 21.

Nominate by calling 6885 4433 or emailing photos@dubbophotonews. com.au. Like the Dubbo Photo News Bachelor Boys Facebook page to stay tuned.

Summer lovin’… speed dating AND while we’re on the subject of ahem… romance, here’s one for all you singles out there.

The Summer Lovin’ Speed Dating evening is on again, to be held on Fe-

burary 14 (of course – it’s Valentine’s Day!) at the Castlereagh Hotel.

For a mere $20, you could meet the love of your life … or just have a great night out!

There will be two sessions – one for the under 35s, one for the “overs” – and your ticket (which is by pre-sale through either the Castlereagh or the Dubbo Photo News office in Wingewarra St) includes a drink and canapes.

Summer Lovin’… happens so fast (so don’t miss out!).

etc.

Screenprinting and fabric art workshop EVER wanted to tell your story through art? Or just how to create beautiful screen printing art and fabrics? Well, have we got news for you!

A one-off opportunity to learn at the hands of a master is available to locals right here in Dubbo with a four day workshop with renowned artist Nina

Angelo being held at Apollo House from February 10-13, 10am-2pm each day.

Lunch will be provided and while it’s free, numbers are strictly limited and you must be able to attend for all four days. Sounds like fun?

Contact Apollo House on 6881 8756 for more information or to register.

U3A Open Days THE University of the Third Age (U3A),

Dubbo will be holding their annual open days at Western Plains Cultural Centre on Friday, January 30, and Monday, February 2, between 10am and 12 noon daily.

A LARGE range of courses are on offer again this year, so if you are a senior living in Dubbo or the surrounding areas and want to add something new to your retirement, why not come along and join in. For further information, phone

Col Jones on 6887 8245.

Monday meditations A THREE-WEEK Buddhist Meditation Course for healing body and mind starts on Monday, February 2, at the Dubbo Neighbourhood Centre from 1pm to 2pm, and everyone is welcome.

Cost by donation. Presented by Wellington Buddhist Centre. Call 6845 4661 for details.

To add your event to HSDE, email whatson@dubboweekender.com.au

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OPEN WEEKENDER COFFEE & MEALS

ĚĞůŝĐĂƚĞƐƐĞŶ͕ ĨƌƵŝƚ ĂŶĚ ǀĞŐĞƚĂďůĞƐ͕ grocery items 95 Tamworth St, 6882 2029

OLD BANK RESTAURANT KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϭϮ Ɵů ůĂƚĞ 'ŽŽĚ ĨŽŽ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ŵƵƐŝĐ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ƟŵĞƐ Ψϭϱ ůƵŶĐŚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ 232 Macquarie Street, 6884 7728

DMC MEAT AND SEAFOOD Open Saturday 6am to 3pm ,ƵŐĞ ǀĂƌŝĞƚLJ͕ ďƵůŬ ďƵLJƐ ĂŶĚ ƌĞĚ ŚŽƚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ǁĞĞŬůLJ͘ 55 Wheelers Lane, 6882 1504

TED’S TAKEAWAY Open Saturday and Sunday 8.30am-8pm dŚĞ ďŝŐ ǀĂůƵĞ ŝŶ ƚĂŬĞĂǁĂLJ ĨŽŽĚ͘ 'ƌĞĂƚ ǁĞĞŬůLJ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ͘ 26 Victoria St, 6882 7899

IGA WEST DUBBO Open Saturday and Sunday 7.30am to 6pm. 'ƌĞĂƚ ǁĞĞŬůLJ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ĂŶĚ ĨƌŝĞŶĚůLJ ƐĞƌǀŝĐĞ͘ 38-40 Victoria Street, 6882 3466

VILLAGE BAKERY CAFE Open Saturday and Sunday 6am to 5.30pm.

Gourmet pies DŽƵƚŚͲǁĂƚĞƌŝŶŐ ĐĂŬĞƐ ĞůŝĐŝŽƵƐ ƉĂƐƚƌŝĞƐ 'ŽƵƌŵĞƚ &ƌĞŶĐŚ ŐĂƌĚĞŶ ƐĂůĂĚ ďĂŐƵĞƩĞƐ ĂŶĚ ƐĂůĂĚƐ͘ WĞƌĨĞĐƚ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ ĂŶĚ ďƌƵŶĐŚ 113 Darling Street (adjacent to the railway crossing), 6884 5454

CLUBS & PUBS PASTORAL HOTEL Open Saturday 10am to 4am, Sunday 10am to 9pm.

ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨŽƌ ůƵŶĐŚ ĂŶĚ ĚŝŶŶĞƌ͘ ůů ĚĞƐƐĞƌƚƐ ŚŽŵĞ ŵĂĚĞ͘ Open Saturday and Sunday ĂůĐŽŶLJ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ͛Ɛ ĨƌŽŵ 8am - 11.30am ^ĞƌǀŝŶŐ ŝůů͛Ɛ ĞĂŶƐ ŽīĞĞ 110 Talbragar St, 6882 4219

DUBBO RSL CLUB RESORT Open Saturday 8am to 1am Sunday 8am to 10pm.

YƵĂůŝƚLJ ĞŶƚĞƌƚĂŝŶŵĞŶƚ͕ ďůĂĐŬďŽĂƌĚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ďŝƐƚƌŽ͘ Cnr Brisbane and Wingewarra Streets, 6882 4411

CLUB DUBBO Open Saturday and Sunday from 9am.

ZŝǀĞƌǀŝĞǁ ŝƐƚƌŽ ϭϮƉŵ ƚŽ ϮƉŵ ĂŶĚ 6pm to 9pm.

ZĞůĂdžĞĚ ĂŶĚ ĨƌŝĞŶĚůLJ ĂƚŵŽƐƉŚĞƌĞ͘ Whylandra St, 6884 2396

AMAROO Open Saturday and Sunday from 10am ŝƐƚƌŽ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ĞǀĞƌLJĚĂLJ ĨŽƌ ůƵŶĐŚ ĂŶĚ dinner.

EŝŐŚƚ ĐůƵď 81 Macquarie St, 6882 3533

COMMERCIAL HOTEL Restaurant open 12-2pm and 6-9pm &ƌĞĞ ĨƵŶĐƟŽŶ ƌŽŽŵ ŚŝƌĞ <ŝĚƐ ƉůĂLJŐƌŽƵŶĚ >ĂƌŐĞ ƐĐƌĞĞŶ ďƌŽĂĚĐĂƐƟŶŐ Ăůů ŵĂũŽƌ ƐƉŽƌƟŶŐ ĞǀĞŶƚƐ 161 Brisbane Street, 6882 4488

SPORTIES Open Saturday and Sunday from 9am Restaurant open from 11.45am-2pm

THINGS TO DO WESTERN PLAINS CULTURAL CENTRE and 5.45-9pm.

101 - 103 Erskine Street, 6884 2044

MACQUARIE INN Open 10am-1pm on Saturday and 10am-10pm on Sunday Restaurant open 12-3pm and 6-9pm Birch Avenue, 6884 1955

GYMS RSL AQUATIC & HEALTH CLUB Open Saturday 7.30am-5pm Open Sunday 8.30am-3pm Gym /ŶĚŽŽƌ ƉŽŽů Sauna Steam room ^ƋƵĂƐŚ ĐŽƵƌƚƐ Cnr Brisbane and Wingewarra Streets, 6884 1777

SHOPPING THE BOOK CONNECTION Open Saturday 8.30am to 4pm.

Sunday 10am to 2pm.

EĞǁ ĂŶĚ ƵƐĞĚ ďŽŽŬƐ KǀĞƌ ϲϬ͕ϬϬϬ ŬƐ ŝŶ ƐƚŽƌĞ͘ 178 Macquarie St, 6882 3311

QUINN’S MYALL ST NEWSAGENCY Saturday and Sunday from 5am- 1pm.

EĞǁƐƉĂƉĞƌƐ͕ ŵĂŐĂnjŝŶĞƐ͕ ƐƚĂƟŽŶĞƌLJ ƐƵƉƉůŝĞƐ͘ 272 Myall St, 6882 0688

THE SWISH GALLERY Open Saturday 9am to 12pm. ŝƐƟŶĐƟǀĞ ũĞǁĞůůĞƌLJ͕ ĐƌĞĂƟǀĞ ĐŽŶƚĞŵƉŽƌĂƌLJ ĚĞĐŽƌ ĨŽƌ LJŽƵƌ ŚŽŵĞ ĂŶĚ ƐƚLJůŝƐŚ ŐŝŌƐ͘ 29 Talbragar St, 6882 9528

BRENNAN’S MITRE 10

&Žƌ Ăůů LJŽƵƌ /z ƉƌŽũĞĐƚƐ͕ ŚĂƌĚǁĂƌĞ͕ ƚŽŽůƐ ĂŶĚ ŐĂƌĚĞŶ ƉƌŽĚƵĐƚƐ ^ĞĞ ƵƐ ŝŶ ƐƚŽƌĞ ĨŽƌ ŐƌĞĂƚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ Saturday 8am-4pm Sunday 9am-4pm 64-70 Macquarie Street, 6882 6133

ORANA MALL SHOPPING CENTRE ϱϮ ^ƉĞĐŝĂůƚLJ ^ƚŽƌĞƐ͕ ŝŐ t͕ tŽŽůǁŽƌƚŚƐ ĂŶĚ ĞƌŶĂƌĚŝ͛Ɛ ^hW /' ͘ ĂƐLJ WĂƌŬŝŶŐ͕ ŶŽǁ ĂůƐŽ ǁŝƚŚ ĂƉƉƌŽdž͘ ϭϲϬ ƵŶĚĞƌĐŽǀĞƌ͘ &ŽŽĚ ŽƵƌƚ Saturday 9.00am – 5.00pm Sunday 10.00am – 4.00pm ǁǁǁ͘ŽƌĂŶĂŵĂůů͘ĐŽŵ͘ĂƵ Cnr Mitchell Highway & Wheelers Lane, 6882 7766

THE PARTY STOP Open Saturday 9am-4pm WĂƌƚLJ ŽƐƚƵŵĞƐ ĞĐŽƌĂƟŽŶƐ ĂůůŽŽŶƐ 'ŝŌƐ ĨŽƌ ŵŝůĞƐƚŽŶĞ ĞǀĞŶƚƐ dŚĞŵĞĚ ƉĂƌƟĞƐ 142 Darling Street, 6885 6188

DUBBO GROVE PHARMACY KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵĂŵ Ɵů ϭϮ ŶŽŽŶ 'ŝŌǁĂƌĞ :ĞǁĞůůĞƌLJ ,ŽŵĞǁĂƌĞƐ 59A Boundary Road, 6882 3723

THE ATHLETES FOOT KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵĂŵ Ɵů ϮƉŵ ǀĞƌLJƚŚŝŶŐ LJŽƵ ŶĞĞĚ ĨŽƌ ƚŚĞ ƉĞƌĨĞĐƚ Įƚ for your foot 176 Macquarie Street, 6881 8400

GROCERIES CARLO’S IGA SOUTH DUBBO Saturday 7am-8pm Sunday 8am-8am tĞĞŬůLJ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ͕ ĨƌŝĞŶĚůLJ ƐĞƌǀŝĐĞ͕

TO HAVE YOUR BUSINESS FEATURED, CALL 6885 4433

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They spell out the alternative theme of the puzzle.

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ARIES (MAR 21–APR 20) This is a dynamic week when everything seems to go at a fast pace. Some quick decisions may be needed although results can be slow in coming. Have patience. What is worth having is worth waiting for. You feel lucky but most of that luck is due to efforts that you have made in the past. Someone who has had to take a back seat recently, maybe because you have been so busy, should now be given attention. You will remember their worth to you and treasure it.

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LEO (JUL 23–AUG 23) A romance that requires a lot of travelling or other effort may fall by the wayside. If you really wanted this relationship to happen you would make sure of it but there seems to be some doubt. It may be better to concentrate on work and finances this week while the aspects are good. Friends and family who enjoyed your company over the holiday will not suddenly forget you. Keep social contacts running by emails, phone calls and casual meet-ups.

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TAURUS (APR 21–MAY 21) With a

sharp mind and spot-on instincts, this week has much to offer. Having gone through a period when you were offered the chance to sort out your finances, this week should be spent tying up loose ends in this area. Hold on to that cash! Demands that you make on the business front may be met, but don’t make the mistake of being too ‘bullish!’ Be at your best and be prepared, this weekend, to show someone how much they mean to you.

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GEMINI (MAY 22–JUN 21) Suc-

cess in small matters should not be ignored as this can be a build-up to bigger things. Prepare yourself this week for a lot of effort to move things forward. This is true of both your work and home life. Keeping promises made during the holiday is important as your reputation is at stake. Home DIY may be tedious but will be appreciated. Create a warm atmosphere, not by turning up the thermostat, but by giving loved ones more of your time.

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Unexpected developments follow a temporary lull at the beginning of this week. Just when you thought you could relax, you need to be ‘on the ball’ again! Looking around you it may seem like your surroundings no longer suit your personality. What fun it can be to change things, though. Your partner comes up with some interesting ideas. There are some things in your life that you will not want to continue with. Be they large or small, make a list now that can be ongoing.

DEC 21) Your experience that

everything changes with time makes you look forward to the future with enthusiasm. You know that change is usually for the good. This week you want to concentrate on improving your home and surroundings. You may not always agree with your partner but there is a lot to be said for compromise!

Communications, both one-to-one and over public media, bring excitement and changes.

VIRGO (AUG 24–SEP 23) As everyone is in the mood for change and innovation, so you would like to be a part of it. Spending extra time with colleagues and maybe even starting a course of learning brings back the enthusiasm. A lull in your ambitions over the holiday now seems to have reversed with a vengeance! Being a little subtler in the way you ask for things, especially at home, seems to work. No one doubts that you know what you want but there are different ways of going about getting it. love and life running at full pace recently, you could see this week as a time to slow down a bit and think. It is tempting to let others tell you what to do, and a certain amount of lethargy does not help. However, stick to your principles, even if it is in a subtle way.

No one can accuse you of being either hotheaded or unkind. Quiet times spent with a loved one this week make for long-term memories.

CANCER (JUN 22–JUL 22) This can be a lucky and loving time. Keep in touch with your feelings and be honest about them, especially to yourself! See the difference between what you think you should do and what you really want to do. If cracks are starting to show in a relationship, decide if you need to spend more or less time with that person. Still fussing about finances? It is probably possible to live in a more basic way for a while. This would be better than running up bills.

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20) Continuing this week on the money front, some loose ends still need your attention. You have this time to consolidate and make sense of it all.

Your partner will no doubt have an opinion. It will be worth listening to as it gives you an insight into their current thinking. It is worth giving a loved one more responsibility. Not only will this help you but it will also serve to build their confidence.

AQUARIUS (JAN 21–FEB 19)

An open-ended arrangement may now need tweaking to keep it working. Aim to make someone else think that it was their idea. Remember that you are not the only one who has pride to be hurt! Partners are as eager for change as you are, so don’t worry about broaching the subject. Loving sparks fly at the weekend. Taking someone for granted is both poor behaviour and counter-productive but we all do it from time to time.

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week you are given the chance to try something new. There seems to be everything to gain, including some fun. On any front, don’t delay what you can do right now, even if it takes some effort. There are times when you underestimate your talents and resilience. Yes, you will be able to do much more with a little practice and time. It is a slow week when it comes to romance but sometimes we just need to be patient.

Friday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! You share your birthday with Princess Caroline of Monaco (below), born in 1957. You have this way of bouncing back from any situation, Aquarius. There is not much to throw you in the months ahead but do stay one step ahead. In business, look to new ways of communicating to make life easier.

Saturday’s Birthday Luck: There are some fast-moving situations in the year ahead, Aquarius. It could be a case of ‘blink and you miss it’ when it comes to chances to succeed. Keeping yourself healthy and smart will make all the difference. You may even enjoy it!

Sunday’s Birthday Luck: Maybe you still do not realise that effort can be its own reward, Aquarius. Although you are a sensitive soul, you should aim not to give up too easily. Step back from a situation for a while rather than give up on it.

Monday’s Birthday Luck: Home and love life may dominate the months ahead, Aquarius, but you will also make great strides in your work. All that you need to remember is that anything worth having takes some effort. Some weeks take much more work than others.

Tuesday’s Birthday Luck: The resilience of Aquarius is legend but you also have your soft side. Aim to keep business and home separate in the year ahead. In fact, a simpler way of life would seem to suit your current situation. What you gain is peace of mind.

Wednesday’s Birthday Luck: In a year of growth and general expansion, Aquarius, you also choose to change your image. Accepting help in this brings a fresh eye to the situation. Can we ever see ourselves as others see us? Work and play hard for success.

Thursday’s Birthday Luck: At times it seems that a long road is ahead of you before success comes again. To get along that road, though, there are many methods that you can use. Engage your imagination, Aquarius, and anything seems possible.

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Find the Words solution 835 Experts at their jobs ••• DUAL CROSSWORD No. 18,920 CRYPTIC SOLUTIONS Across: 1 Easternmost; 9 Car; 10 Nightmare; 11 Racks; 13 Exactor; 14 Donkey; 16 Depict; 18 Trouper; 19 Steer; 20 Fortunate; 21 See; 22 Needle match.

Down: 2 Air; 3 Tinos; 4 Ragged; 5 Methane; 6 Slantwise; 7 Scared stiff; 8 Secretaries; 12 Concourse; 15 Expound; 17 Crease; 19 Siena; 21 Sac. QUICK SOLUTIONS Across: 1 Air disaster; 9 Icy; 10 Formation; 11 Adder; 13 Tactics; 14 Target; 16 Byname; 18 Receive; 19 Scent; 20 Primitive; 21 Via; 22 Independent.

Down: 2 Ivy; 3 Defer; 4 Strata; 5 Starchy; 6 Eliminate; 7 Misanthrope; 8 Inessential; 12 Direction; 15 Edifice; 17 Decide; 19 Speed; 21 Van. CryptoQuote

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In a horrible music decision, the beautiful song was turned into a disco dance number by Viola Wills in 1980. 6. Not of sound mind 7.

The Honourable Reverend John Mason 8. Joey 9. 5955km per second 10. Pine Valley, Pennsylvania 11.

Eric Clapton, in 1974. 12. “Just When I Needed You Most,” by Randy VanWarmer, 1979. VanWarmer wrote the song after a breakup and knew it was good, but the recording company wasn’t especially impressed, wanting to make it the B-side to another single. Instead the song shot to the top of the adult contemporary charts, hit No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and made a respectable showing on even the country chart.

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